Rubinstein’s expression is so effortless it’s as he is composing it right on the spot instead of just “interpreting” it. A lot of other pianists play Chopin very consciously and carefully and you can tell, but Rubinstein sounds like he’s just playing it without thinking at all and I think that’s why his Chopin is so spectacular.
This song is the story of being so honest, and pure, and innocent in a world of uncertainty and conquest, only to learn of the ultimate truth of reality over time, through loss, through love, through fatigue, through realizations. And then taking that emotional understanding and transcending such a predicament into sounds that express the deepest emotions with such clarity.. such depth that i think of this as the song of life. For i have never had such an array of emotions felt towards a single musical piece. Chopin... you WILL live forever.
Imagine this piece being played in a lone space station in the middle of nowhere. The year is fifty billion years ahead of us. Some music will last forever.
+emlmm88 I like the idea that somewhere along the line we'll learn to control gravitational fields and energy to the point where we can artificially produce then. Also can it be accelerating considering it's already expanding at the speed of pure energy?
+Casey Harrington Well regardless of whether it's comforting or not, the idea is astronomically improbable at best, and downright delusional at worst. 50 billion years is massive! Like so long that we as feeble humans can't even comprehend that kind of time scale. Even if some remnant of the biological systems that we associate with the word "human" now are still in existence by that time, they are going to be completely unrecognizable as humans. Music as we hear it might not even mean anything to a descendant of humanity that far down the line. It might just be incoherent noise. I deleted my previous comment because I realized I got my timeline wrong. Although the Stelliferous era will end within the next 9 billion years, and the net entropy of the universe will be coming into full swing (which, by the way, means that all waveforms will eventually become so low energy as to not allow for music anyway), the dark age, as in the age where the cosmic expansion is so great as to prohibit _any_ interaction will take place after 1 x 10^98 years, which is a ridiculous amount of time longer. Honestly it's just going to be numbers to us anyway; we're not built to even conceive of such values.
Apologize for resurrecting a super old comment, but this is definitely one of the easier nocturnes to play- as far as the notes are concerned. On the other hand- as far as playing it with the right expression, feeling, musicality, etc.- that's the hard part about this and there's limitless potential to continue to improve on that aspect of it.
This is not hard. I have been playing piano for 1 year and my techaer said that i could play it with a practice. Yeah, it yet sound like shit but is something.
Adam Anwar I think that he means it moves, like no ridiculous crescendos and ritard, etc. you don't need to go full Wagner on it The interpretation is moving forward, not dragging in tempo,even though it has an element of reminiscence in it, it feels like "here I am now...isn't it funny how it's all happened?" and however expressive it is, it isn't longing, or really dragging, or begging, just...like someone walking on. but I mean, it can be interpreted in a number of ways of course.
Everything in the piece seems so... real. Like every single emotion that has been felt by a human is in it. Loneliness to fears. Happiness to live. reality becomes a fantasy in this piece like it was made for that reason. I cannot even! Chopin you amaze the heck out of me like the 10 year old I was.
Because every emotion was/is real, everything you feel when listening to music. It's so lovely, when I listen to almost any classical piece of music it's as if the music is speaking to me, a painting is being painted in my head, a book is being written, you know what i mean? It really is something special.
ZoddGuts WHAT DID HE SAY? THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME Ayaka Ari Ikr. When I play this song on my piano I feel the same way. It's like sorrow and happiness at the same time.
For some reason, this song makes me think of all the good times I have had and will continue to have with my mother until one of us passes. She has a beautiful soul
What a work of beauty, im a seventh grader playing the piano and i would adore this piece if i ever had a chance to play it, this piece hits me in the feels and makes me just want to think about my life from the past when i was smaller, made me cry the first time i ever heard it
My mother played this, and my grandmother and I would meditate on its beauty, and how much we loved her for the moment we shared. It is so beautiful... even the tricky parts for her were so beautiful...❤
Chopin's music touches my heart in such a special way. I've been listening classical music for so long now, and this is still one of my favourites. Whenever I listen to this, I feel like everything is just fine, no worries....everything is just so perfectly fine....
When I hear this peace, I feel the strings in my soul resonate to it. This is so uplifting, so calming, so breathtaking. It makes me proud to be a human being when human beings can create such beauty. Hats of to the great Chopin and to the great Rubinstein as well.
Maybe it's not very important for you all but he was polish so his name is Artur, not arthur. He played amazingly and i'm proud of that I went to Artur Rubinstein primary school in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Peace
xCopy xCat Yeah, sure. Just like the 3,500,000 other Jewish people who lived and prospered in Poland at the time. Somehow they gravitated to this "anti-semitic" country that harbored them for centuries when no other nation would take them in.
Imagine This Year: 788,916,038 AD Location: Small Quiet Space Station about 4,000 Lightyears from earth A young astronaut views the nearest star outside of a window while this song plays throughout the station. The soothing music reminds him of how peaceful space can be.
Bach: The guy that inspired classical music Mozart: The most famous Child prodigy Beethoven: One of the most famous composer and inspiring Chopin: The most despair and sadness in his life and is the most melodic composer Liszt: The virtuoso of his time, even of all time Rachmaninoff: The most dramatic and loudest composer Debussy: The most imaginative composer with the talent to compose music as a painting Satie: Has the music and flow of France and Paris in his music Strauss Jr: Revolutionised the waltz and made the music his own What has music become? The simplecity of the baroque, the revolution of music in the classical, the romance and melodies of the romantic, and the paintings of music in the 1880-1905's. Where has it all gone? I wish one day, the greatness of classical music once emerges into the world once more and give the earth some peace and most important of all, music!
@@donquesewilliamswilliams3497 classical referring to the entire genre of music . I know that its romantic. But I chose to use classical instead as, this is the piece of music that opened my eyes to the whole genre. Please don't be nitpicky
2:03 In this part, Major "IV"(fourth) chord changes to the parallel Minor "iv"(fourth) chord (It's called modulation/modal interchange), and it sounds dramatic, heart-broking, melancholic and absolutely beautiful..
This is one of the first pieces to bring tears to my eyes through simply the music. A simple piano that expresses such emotion and speaks of peace, hope, and exploration. It's beautiful.
Y es aquí cuando todos como hermanos que somos, nos unimos por amor a las música. And this is where we're all like brothers , we are united by love of music.
I'm a very young boy but when hearing this beautiful piece of music it makes me feel old and wise the song itself puts so many different emotions in just one piece of paper and every note feels like its telling a story. This song has made me think of sad memories and happy ones I can finally understand why I should be thankful I'm a human because if I wasn't I wouldn't be able to hear this beautiful song and I got sad when it came to the end this truly is a masterpiece
I wonder what Frederic Chopin would say if he knew his music was more popular today than when he wrote it nearly 169 years ago. Beautiful music like this will never die.
this is too beautiful for words to describe. CHOPIN really nailed it with this incredible piece. I can only imagine how flabbergasted Brahms, Listz, Schumann, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and all the great composers who are contemporaries of CHOPIN must have been when they heard this jaw dropping piece. Too beautiful....
An emotional and harmonic melody, it is so peaceful it sparks the mind of emotions to contemplate many aspects of life. A simply wonderful captivating musical treasure. A theme left by Chopin for eternity to be appreciated by future generations.
Truly amazing how a piece like this can simultaneously evoke so many lovely and heart wrenching emotions without a single word. To vividly see all the wonderful parts of life play out while listening to this with eyes closed..that is music/art.
I heard this in a horror movie called Hunger and for the life of me, I couldn't figure out the name of it. I searched high and low and asked around (because obviously I had no lyrics to look up), but I finally found the name of it and I'm so happy. I love this song so much. So much elegance and grace put into such a beautiful pattern of music-- I love it. Another great piece by the infamous Chopin!(:
This piece is amazing! It's so calming, I can't imagine anyone not feeling a sense of peacefulness because of this piece. I'm sad that not many people appreciate pieces like this, I really hope that classical music will be popular again in the industry of music someday.
There's something so special about his music, it really defies all logic, helps me put my guard down. Sometimes we forget what life is really about and let our anxieties fester.... its music's job to remind us
This piece, this beautiful fucking piece motivates me to play piano, and just focus on the joyful things in life rather than be stressed over exams and people
Qué belleza!! Ese hombre fue uno de los genios de la música! Siguiendo el pentagrama, parece algo tan simple... pero es todo lo contrario. Chopin fue la especialidad de Rubinstein, no cualquiera tiene o tuvo esa expresividad. Es magnífico escuchar ese PPP logrado como pocos. Toca los trinos, mordentes o lo que sea, tan usados por Chopin y por Mozart, como si nada, como quien tamborilea la mesa, jaja! Genial... Sublime...
estoy de acuerdo contigo en que chopin fue un genio musical con esa expresividad que tu dices , agregándole nostálgica en lo particular , pero creo que al ver el pentagrama como tu lo llamas, que realmente eso que se ve en la imagen son dos pentagramas uno con clave de sol y otro con clave de fa , a uno solo se le llama pentagrama y a los en conjunto se les denomina sistema , y creo que con solo ver la partitura se ve que es una pieza difícil ya que tiene figuras complicada y lleva acordes muy separados entre si , y también estoy de acuerdo contigo en que nunca habrá nadie como el y es magnifico.
This is not difficult to play as a beginner even though I was very intimidated at first. It should not take longer than 3 months! A stunning masterpiece that is totally worth it!!
исполнение классика. ....... Не зря как оказывается Рубинштейн считается лучшим исполнителем Шопена. Предельно ясно и благородно исполнено во всей полноте всех смыслов. Полная гармония. Спасибо что выложено на видео такое исполнение. В хорошем качестве. И с нотным текстом. От души благодарю. 4 минуты такой музыки снимают с души все печали и боль.
This version by Aurther is by far the best. I just bought this on Google Play and its so text book...this version here is played with emotion and passion...listen for yourself.
This is the best interpretation that I've heard. Many that I heave heard seem to try to play it too fast which kinds of ruins the nuances of tempo changes and dynamics. This captures the essence of this piece. Thank you, Rubinstein.
Whenever I listen to a Chopin piece I always try to associate them with an emotion or feeling which, in this nocturne's case, is pure bliss or serenity in my opinion
Honestly... If the feeling of being so overwhelmingly happy that you start to cry was a sound, it would sound like this. Slow, pretty little notes hanging in the air as it makes you slow down and really look around you. I think it was the point
For me, it's longing, and always being just a step away from what's happening; observing the world, the people and its events and recognising their beauty but not quite feeling part of it. It also ends with an unexpected resolution of acceptance.
When you listen to Chopin, you are feasting with the gods. Not the horrible gods of war and terror, but the gods of reason and civilisation, the gods of compassion and love, the gods all should worship if only they could escape the necessity of their impoverished existence.
This reminds me of the beautiful memories I had with the person I love. I hate it, it makes me cry. Certainly one of the most beautiful pieces I ever heard...
This is one of the most beautiful peices if music ever written. And I'm really getting sick and tired of all these people coming on here and comparing chopin to modern day musicians. First of all why are you even here if you don't like this music? like go away.... and also why are you even comparing modern music to classical music? Sure I love some awesome modern beats and songs but why would you compare it to this. Like that just seems like a really far off comparison to me..... so yea if you love modern music that much why are you even here? to ruin these songs? If you don't like it leave. Like literally did you come here just come here to say smething bad about these works? These peices are far more complicated and expressive than almost all modern music. But like I said modern and classical are both cool, I just don't see how one could compare them :/ you like classical music because its classical music and you like modern because its modern.
"You like classical because it's classical and modern because it's modern." I don't get that at all. Music is music; modern music and older music aren't completely separate entities. The exist in the same realm of art, and you can like both old and new music equally. If you want to talk complexity, try some jazz, prog metal, and newer "classical" music. You could find stuff in all three of those categories that have Chopin beat on a complexity level. Now, I do really, very truly love Chopin, and this is probably my favorite piece for piano ever. But, don't try to put old composers on a pedestal just because they're the musical geniuses of old. Just because pop music is mostly bad doesn't mean that music has degraded in any way since back when, because it's just as strong as ever if you're looking in the right places. And by the way, this was not the pop music back in the day. Pop music before the age of records and radio is not much more fulfilling than stuff on the radio today. But anyways, this piece is a beautiful, masterfully crafted work, and Chopin was an amazing composer for any time period. Just don't let your opinion of one type of music cloud your judgement and not allow you to appreciate other musical styles and genres from any time period.
This song always had a nostalgic impression on me. As if it were a recollection of my childhood and was put into this single piece. The soothing sound of those piano keys, especially when it hits that first note. It honestly feels like you're flying up above. Life is peaceful and you're in utter bliss. Quite amazing, Chopin is a genius.
@@idkwhatname3939 Practice each hand separately and play it slowly at first. I recommend separating the piece into sections. Ex) bar 1-5, bar 5- 11, 12-13 etc…. If you feel like you can handle more, you should make the section bigger. Keep practicing the sections (separate hand) until you feel comfortable (don’t have to be fast). After you feel comfortable with one section, try it with both hands. After getting a certain section playable with both hands, move on to next section and repeat the process. This piece have a lot of similar bars, so it should not be hard after getting the first bars done. Left hand looks easy, but it is not so it is important to get used to it.
@@idkwhatname3939 For technical side, this song should not be on the same tempo. It should be as if you are on a wave. At the first note many people prefer to play the left “E flat” in between the right “B flat” and “G” *should sound like B flat - E flat (LH) - G You should not play the left hand too loud compared to the right hand. I usually try to keep my left hand about 1/4 of right hand (depends on people) For the part that begins at 1:50, you should not rush it. You can even slow down (not too much) if you want it to sound “romantic”. For the 2:04 practice this a lot because it’s hard to get the right hand to fit into the left hand
@@APotatoWT thank you so much! this really helped. I have one question abt the pedal tho. I have no idea how to step on it smoothly or make it sound natural if that makes sense. when I play the notes and step on the pedal, the note sounds bad. how can I make it better?
@@idkwhatname3939 If you feel like you are bad at pedaling for this piece only, it is probably because you just started playing this piece. You should get used to playing before pedaling. Even if you get used to pedaling, you should also practice without the pedal so you don’t rely too much on it. One good pedaling skill to learn is partial pedaling. Don’t press onto the pedal fully if you feel like it sounds bad with pedal. Also make sure to completely raise your foot away from the pedal if you don’t want the sound to carry over and overlap. *some piano is harder to press the pedal so be careful when performing outside your “usual” piano. It is also important to listen to your own music. I usually record myself playing on my phone and listen to it. It helps me understand my weakness as well as pedaling issues. BTW I use soft pedal (una corda) from 3:01 to 3:25 to help it sound soft.
Ironically, I found this piece thanks to real international politics! (It played in the credits of a non-commercial documentary called, Semantics: The Rise and Fall of Muammar al Gaddafi).
I begged my piano teacher to let me play this after seeing Austria play it and that actually started me being able to play much more difficult classical pieces from what I was on! (From Bach's Two-Part Invention to Debussy's Clair de Lune)
