I’ve been practicing this piece since May and have watched many, many tutorials on YT-this is the only one that addresses key technical difficulties and explains them in a professional, concise manner. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this. Thank you!
I think that this is the best RU-vid tutorial on the 3rd movement in the moonlight sonata. You make me so much more confident about starting this pice. Thank you so much!
the instruction for the pedal, this is a good argument for the use of period instruments (fortepiano). As seen on some YT vids, the older pianos of LVB's days sounded much different, with less reverberation and a completely different character. Played truly with pedal all the way as instructed, it has a ghostly, magical sound quality.
This Beethoven sonata is my favorite!When I was a high school student,I played it in my piano teacher”s concert,however,after a few years,I found it is heard to play it.Thank you for your interpretation for me to try to start play it!
This is a really helpful tutorial - not just suggesting interpretive thoughts (which are also helpful) but also addressing ways to improve the fingerings and pedal. That is very practical to someone playing this movement. Another is addressing some of the trills and turns - making them work at speed. But he is also correct about this movement - it is not technically difficult, but honestly, it is SO long…LOL
I am learning this piece in this moment. I have just finished the reading part, ready to get to the "heavier" work of developing technique. However my piano teacher never told me the things you have. Brillant! Thank you. 🤗
Thank you so much for your tuturial. I tried to play it by myself, and it didnt sound proffesinsl. After listening to your tuturial and applying your advices, wow! What a difference!! Im extremey happy!
Excellent tutorial Clive, many thanks. I'm an opera singer who can't work at the moment due to CV crisis, so have plenty of time to practice a piece I've always been meaning to tackle! Your tips are jolly helpful and I'm determined to make a good fist of this movement. I learned piano with Philip Fowke for a short while, what a chap. Best wishes
This is a great lesson, very helpful. I have also been working on a couple of Rachmaninoff preludes this summer, one of which is the Op.23 no 3, which begins with almost exactly the same chords (just a half step higher) as the chords that end the tremolo section in the Beethoven. I might never have noticed the connection, but when you focused on those chords in your lesson, how they relieve the tension built up in the previous section, I realized something was very familiar there...
This masterpiece is really too horribly challenging in every way. But I love it so much and have been practicing it for months. Thank you very much for your explanations!
Man, you play this piece awesomly. I hope to get to the same level you are someday. How long have you been playing? And do you have a tutorial of the 1st. movement? Way to go, dude.
Thank you for your great lecture. I found the part at 14:13 quite technical demanding and it is easy for me to hit the wrong keys. Do you have any suggestion on the way to play it?
Thank you for your valuable advice. I'm learning this song at the moment, but I can't play the first scale as a whole, you can really hear the thumb passage, would you have some advices about it ?
Hi Dany, could you be more specific about where and how you are having problems? Are you talking about the broken chords? (If you are, make sure you play each thumb quietly and without landing on it with an accent. Then think of rolling or scrolling the hand up to the fifth finger, where the beat is, keeping the hand relaxed. Practice slowly and softly, without accents, until the hand is comfortable and familiar with the passagework).
