My famous teachers disagreed about Chopin - Cortot, Kapell, Steuermann (ft. Jerome Lowenthal) 

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wow - at around <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="265">4:25</a> - the agitato but dolente - opens up a whole new emotional landscape ! much wider - takes the 'etude feeling' out it and makes it intensely human - love it !

I enjoyed this very much 😊 Thank you, Mr Lowenthal and tonebase!

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OK now I feel super inspired to listen to William Kapell’s recordings. Thanks guys.

I really love these videos. They are so inspiring.

Great interview!! Pity you missed the subtitles here, sometimes it's hard to get what Lowenthal is saying.

We're lucky there are audio tapes of Cortot talking about Beethoven and films of many great instrumentalists from the 40's and 50'steaching.There should be something from old Julliard ,Curtis,Indiana Peabody etc.Rosina and the countless others. I'm amazed that when the Great pianists came out and later many dvds and video they didn't either know or have access to the dozens of film I now find on youtube. Josef Lhevinne walking onto stage at HollywoodBowl, Kapell really shocked me on American t.v. Our record is not as great as Russian and eastern block countries,British,French t.v. There's so much out there Im continually blessed !

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After seeing that Stokowski rehearsal with Lowenthal, it's absolutely a fact that Mr Lowenthal was a true technician in the highest regard

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He was taught by Cortot and Kappell? "Speedball" I think is the term.

You dont need this. Just play european keyboard music starting around 1720 through 1917, then move to American jazz starting around 1923. Keyboard music moves in groups of two's and three's. See the groups, give them shape and motion. Read the Neuhaus Art of Piano Playing book. Listen to Horowitz to understand the possibilities a piano offers. Have fun! I agree that pianists don't understand agitato. They see agitato and play con fuoco. Fill your tub. Let it achieve calmado. Then brush your hand in the water. Agitato Now imagine the Pacific Ocean during a bad storm. Con fuoco.

Agitato dolente....makes sense.

In a similar vein, my teacher had me collect every published edition of the complete works of Chopin ( although my library is now depleted) and study them intently, but then to say that ultimately, the best edition would be (or should be) my own. I think there is something profound in that, how it speaks to one's individuality as a creative entity; even to how one perceives even perfection if such a thing exists. Lowenthal: "That's me as I understood Kappell" and later: "I had many teachers" - I feel here that Mr. Lowenthal is saying much the same thing - yes? Yet is it also a fair thing to suggest that Music itself - more specifically Counterpoint - comes to prove the greatest of all our teachers. How could it not be! It certainly proved to be mine. Cortot, he was mainstay followed by Dinu Lipatti. I need now to immerse myself in the energy of Kapell, who much to my shame, I have not paid all that much attention to, but that unintended oversight on my part is about to change!

Piano artistry is indeed challenging to communicate, especially on modern-day platforms. But I do enjoy the American perspective and your way of doing/analysing/explaining things.

His french is excellent😳

may i ask what is the name of the first piece?

(<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="292">4:52</a>. Perfect example of not necessarily maturity in, but differences in sounds of trebels/ "troubles" vs sorrow vs excitement vs exentuations, etc(??)(.))

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Where's your video about Oscar Levant?

Humans are different every day and music should be also.

I didn't know Moses played the piano

I studied under the famous Ruboneoff.

Well, my teacher lineage goes back through Liszt, Czerny, and Beethoven himself. So, there. LOL

Too long an introduction, but the (too few) minutes left were good.

Agitato!

Please, add subtitles for non-English speakers!

Interesting but the problem with Classical music is all different interpretations..No one heard Chopin play..Also it was a different piano..Pleyel with narrower keys they say.. Well read up a lot.. Watch performances and play soulfully and convincingly...

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="305">5:05</a>. Very GOOD, Italiano(?) lookers. (ie your(!) commitment; your specific history)

But why these teachers and pianists? Could there be viable interpretations and teachers that are not from your pianistic lineage?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="146">2:26</a> to skip the unnecessary

I have this fantasy, wherein Chopin, and other great composers, couldn't actually _play_ their own music. They wrote it down for the sole purpose of annoying future students as more of a hoax than anything else. Until sound recording became a viable medium. At which point, those who lived to see the transition had to learn to play their own music. It's a lovely fantasy that got me through more than a few difficult pieces.

I agree with you in part - here are the first of my 24 preludes (inspired by Chopin): ru-vid.com/group/PLYUhuuvIrJm1_v9DsIl9Zzrtm4GHp4IZ3 My Gnessin teacher came from Liberman, Nikolaev Lechitizky Czerny - Beethoven line.

Rachmaninoff told Clara Haskil (who had a scholarship with Cortot) don't pay any mind to Cortot. He doesn't know anything.

How boring they are!

Sad fact: I'm an ordinary teenager, I shoot good music content, or rather I play the piano. but no one is watching me, God bless those who have read this)

Interpretation isn't technique.

By <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="269">4:29</a> in THIS VIDEO, very GOOD. I still think your first is really GOOD BEFORE sorrow and should EASILY be considered as GREATNESS-- for movie and feelings' built up in them movies and or songs, ie climaxes(??)(....)(.)

such a crap understanding of chopin this hollywood style playing.