Your playing left me breathless man! Way to go brother. Thank you for continuing to create these videos for us, they are really informative and always splendid to watch.
Weeping pretty hard as I finish this luminous, marvelous, beautiful video. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. I played this piece a long time ago, and your interpretation is spot on. Chapeau!
This is my favorite Chopin piece, and you play it so beautifully. And your analysis helped me appreciate it more. It was great to watch your hands as you played and follow the music. Thank you for this video! For me, the piece has moments of such a beautiful, sunny, love....for life really. That's how I feel it. Sometimes relaxed and open, sometimes an ecstatic outpouring of love. And the darker moments add such depth and richness. I love the rhythm, and the shifting harmonies which are so emotionally rich and gorgeous, and the melodies and inner voices are so stirring and beautiful. I imagine Chopin touched something transcendent within him when he composed this piece.
This may be my favorite piece of music period. It is the one piece that I hope one day I can play. As I watch this you have 7.77K subscribers, so maybe that's a sign haha
I genuinely enjoyed listening to your unusually well-constructed and expressive performance. Your analysis and insights about Chopin's state of mind indeed permeate the performance! Truly exquisite!
Absolutely stoked to see this piece covered on your channel! I was told that when I was around two years old, I used to sit down by the CD player and listen to the entire piece whenever it played. The opening melody in the left hand feels like something I've known forever - older than my oldest memories. Interesting and insightful video as always!
What detailed and wonderful guidance you provide, Cole, on the interpretation and performance of this exquisite 'Barcarolle'. In so many ways, this masterpiece really sees Chopin reach the highest plateau of his creative achievement and I can understand why you feel this work is so revealing of the inner essence and pure romanticism of the man. Although many piano works with this title can be invariably simple in design and texture, and often just a straightforward transfer from the operatic genre, Chopin’s monumental work, with its complex formal organization, strikes as quite unlike anything else in piano music at the time, and the piece remains just as extraordinary and stunning for today’s audience. The music's texture is filled with such sophisticated harmonies, including beautiful and lengthy chromatic modulations that are seemingly without a clear tonal goal, and his use of alluring dissonance extends well beyond classical sensibilities. More pertinently, your virtuoso performance is just exquisite, Cole, and you become our gondolier, carrying the gentle swaying lyricism of the Venetian songster as we are serenaded through to the powerfully climactic perorations of the music’s final stages. B R A V O !
Also I agree with your assessment of the repeat of the gondolier theme being the hardest part of the piece - for some reason some people think the coda is the hardest part of the piece, but that left hand is really awkward as you say.
I've been struggling with the left hand there. I havn't yet figured out a technique for those rapidly changing hand positions. Some are easy, yet others that are only simple sequences of inversions of the triad prove very awkward for some incomprehensible reason. You sound like a pianist yourself. Do you have any suggestions. I must admit that my self-teaching is such that I only recently learned to consciously practice using my wrists more than elbows for fast octaves.☺️ It was a game-changer piece of awareness
Thank you so much! I asked if you were going make a video on this piece when you put up Chopin Berceuse Op. 57 and you said yes and now here it is. I just finished memorizing this piece and now look forward to polishing it for many years and your video will really help! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BMvCC6jowZI.html
