Greg love the way you perform all these Master Pieces and love the way you explain them and talk about the history of Pianists specially about Chopin my favorite Pianist, thanks for all you do and thanks for sharing, God Bless You my Friend🙏🏼🌹😘Greetings from Spain
Absolutely fantastic! It seems you were especially touched by the sounds you were creating (maybe because you loved the sound of this instrument so much), so you took time to absorb them and let them guide you into building up a cohesive masterpiece. The result is evidently magical. This is my new favorite video performance of this Ballade!
WOW... breathtaking! Thank you, Greg. I'm thinking how Ballade no. 4 will sound on this magic Fazioli! 😍 I'm sure it would fly you and the audience to another galaxy...
Such a gifted phenomenon you are! Lucky us! This has been a wonderful journey, in your appreciation of nature, life and music, you really do celebrate every day and give everything of yourself and are much beloved. Thank you! 💐🌺🌸🎹
Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous ! This piece has so much respect ! It’s just incredible and beautiful and gets people speechless! The Fazioli gave it so much justice the sound was delicious !!!
Amazing! Probably the best interpetation of ballade no1 that i have ever heard! Its so sweet and unrushed. I can hear every note perfectly amazing thank you!
SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS, MAESTRO!!!!! Thank you for my beloved Chopin's Ballade and for an excellent performance, I've added this great video to my public playlists called "My Favourite Classical Music" and "Mr.Grzegorz Niemczuk", again my best regards, have a nice Sunday. Joanna
Greg, this was a unique performance. I am currently learning this song and I find it super demanding while it is soooo beautiful. I have heard many different performance of it, and I sincerely thank you for your beautiful interpretation of this song. It was absolutely magical. I don’t know when I will play this entire song, but to bring out the emotions , is a different ball game. You are the best and I am sure you know it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@gregniemczuk I have been watching most of your performances of Chopin , and you do put more than all your love into it. You put all your passion , your heart , your breath,,,,and more into every Chopin performance. I almost can here your passion,,, it is very loud…indeed. I know all this is a life time of work and perseverance but you were showered and injected with talent when you were born, that is a beautiful gift to you, and it is so lovely that you enjoy it,appreciate it and share it with the whole world. Thank you so much.
Dear Greg! I have been playing the piano since ten years now & it‘s my biggest passion! My piano teacher plays a lot Chopin with me and in that case I just wanted to ask you, if you may upload the Chopin Mazurka Op. 63, Nr. 2 on your channel, so that I can listen to it. I really love, how you interpret Chopin. Thank you & greetings from Austria!!
Very nice. I always prefer pieces that most closely match the tempo and style intended by the composer. In the case of Ballade No1, I have found a wide variety of interpretations, but I think yours is probably very accurate. I really like Evgeny Kissin's piano works of Chopin, though I think his Ballade No1 is a bit faster than perhaps Chopin intended. This Ballade No1 is my current "work in progress" and I suspect it will take some months to learn and ultimately memorize.
Very nice! Do you still find the coda to be very challenging? I remember when I tried to play it I still couldn't play the coda confidently after a year 😅
@@robertdepiano Hi Robert, nie jestem zawodowcem, ale w przypadku Chopina (i tej ballady) korzystam z nut PWM "Paderewski Edition" (moja była P.Profesor polecała to wydawnictwo), p.Niemczuk nie odpisał, bo pewnie b.zajęty, jak zawsze serdeczne pozdrowienia. Joanna
Greg I feel like the measures starting at 2:48 are best played as if Chopin had marked them agitato as like Rachmaninoff did the first movement of his second piano sonata.
Greg, having listened to well over 100 different interpretations of this ballade, I feel like the central question facing the pianist is how you balance the three appearances of the second theme. My preference is for the first to be tender and contemplative, the second to be passionate and exultant to the point of almost seeming out of control and for the third to be confident and mature. What tonal pictures are you trying to capture and why?
I'd say that the second is grandioso and powerful and the third is passionate. I think generally pianists are playing the first half of the Ballade way too fast
@@gregniemczuk I believe that is because of the obsession that has developed around the codas, rather than focusing on the emotional journeys presented through the contrast in the themes as they develop. I believe that Chopin sent an important message in the F Major ballade by not ending it with the coda.
Doskonała interpretacja, Panie Grzegorzu! Na stronie NIFC, przeczytałem kiedyś, że Fryderyk Chopin mógł się trochę inspirować Konradem Wallenrodem, Adama Mickiewicza i moim zdaniem obrazy z tej lektury opisał Pan, swoją muzyką, wybornie! Chciałbym też zaprosić Pana jak i Państwa do wysłuchania interpretacji Garricka Ohlssona, która wyróżnia się na tle wielu interpretacji. Życzę miłego słuchania😊 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8YC6jqk-CRY.html
Jest to i moja najukochańsza interpretacja tej ballady... Ale chyba będę jej słuchać na zmianę z Pańską. Tak bardzo słychać Pana zrozumienie dla każdej nuty. I dziękuję że Pan tak wspaniale daje czas słuchaczowi, szczególnie pod koniec
