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Chopin's 1st Ballade in G minor has a special place in the hearts of many pianists and piano lovers. It has many characters who all speak directly and poignantly, and Chopin lets them evolve organically within the Ballade. It's a story without any explicit drama, but with intense dramatic content nevertheless. And it's especially one chord that sets the tone. With pianist Henrik Kilhamn.
▶ Part 1 Analysis: • Chopin's UNMATCHED Bal...
0:00 2nd Theme
7:09 1st Theme Return
8:51 2nd Theme Return ff
13:05 Velocity transition
15:03 Scherzando
18:20 2nd Theme Return again
22:37 1st theme Return again
24:01 Coda
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Music: Frédéric Chopin: Ballade no. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
📄 Score: Schirmer edition, 1894, editor: Carl Mikuli, imslp.org
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@ahauntinglybeautifulmelody Год назад

i rarely comment on youtube in general, but i must say here, your channel and videos are truly amazing. Aside from the incredible musical knowledge and insightful analysis, it is the passion that you sir, let shine through these videos. We can feel your love and deep respect for these incredible works of music, the same one that brought us to your channel as we wanted to dive more deeper into these eternal melodies. It is truly great to see, on this platform, such teachers and such passionated musicians like you Henrik !

@SonataSecrets Год назад

Thanks so much for your kind words. It's my pleasure!

@kasiphia Год назад

@@SonataSecrets Hello, I am also a huge fan of your channel. I was wondering if you could possibly cover some Scriabin Preludes (I saw your Prelude 15 video), in particular No.24. It is less then a minute in length (usually), so hopefully it wouldn't be too much of an ask. There are some very interesting technical, rhythmic, and musical challenges with the piece though that definitely make it worth analyzing and I would love to hear your insights as I embark on my final step of finishing this set.

@PianoScenesMoviesandSeries Год назад

I cannot comprehend how someone actually composed something this beautiful. And your analysis of the piece is flawless, as always.

@peev2 Год назад

That’s my favourite Chopin piece.

@awsomeman5646 Год назад

This is how analysis should be! You strike up the perfect balance of commentary and playing, but in an easy to understand manner. Plus, the way you describe the emotions is superb.

@SonataSecrets Год назад

I'm glad you like it! :)

@aleksey6151 Год назад

I would love for you to analyze Chopin’s Ballade No.4!

@kgm1965 Год назад

Like Mehdi said a couple of days ago, I also rarely comment on RU-vid videos, but I have to thank you for doing this wonderful pair of videos analysing Chopin's masterpiece. A friend lent me Mr Rusbridger's book shortly after I took up the piano a few years ago. I knew the piece quite well to listen to, but had no idea how difficult it, or any other piece by Chopin, was. I quickly became absorbed in the book and almost obsessed with the piece, in part thanks to the author's hyperbole in describing its difficulties - the "trapeze artist leaps" you mentioned. I love your channel. I love the way you pick apart these wonderful pieces with great knowledge and humour ("double octave sprinkles" 😂), but the way you play the piece and pick out the chordal structure, the melodies, the third hand, etc., makes it hit home all the more. When I saw you were picking apart the Ballade, I knew it would be a good one, and I was not disappointed. I look forward to your 10-part series on the Rach 3 😁

@SonataSecrets Год назад

Thank you for the kind words. It's my pleasure! Hehe Rach 3 is not in my repertoire yet but you never know...

@Henri.d.Olivoir Год назад

I love your channel so much! Your analyses always open my interpretation a lot!

@brooklynriet7615 Год назад

Would love to see a performance on this one!

@danwilliams7354 Год назад

Your channel is amazing - there are very few people who could teach this so well - but to be able to play like you do… And the production quality too! We are not worthy

@Seeker_forever Год назад

This piece paraphrases my life...such a hauntingly beautiful piece 🥺😍

@dwdei8815 2 месяца назад

Bravo! I've been re-learning this piece and it makes my hair stand on end! There is so much in it, so much music and message.

@NathanShipley-xz9yc 9 месяцев назад

You are seriously the best piano analyst I have ever watched thank you so much for this please don’t stop making these

@Passageredenotes Год назад

La façon dont vous expliquez les compositions, Monsieur, est fascinante. Merci ! 🤩👏👏👏

@lindyl9486 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for the 2nd part. I was inspired by Alan Rusbridger’s PLAY IT AGAIN. With similar piano learning journey like Alan, with my high tech job I didn’t think I could recover after 3+ decades. But your teaching and analysis opened my minds and paved the way for me to practice systematically 🙏

@hoosas5998 Год назад

Cant believe he uploaded this literally on the same day I started learning this piece. Starting on the coda… it is indeed hell to learn but worth it!

@flawlessyt_7080 Год назад

Thank you so much for both parts of this, you really gave me an insight into this, even deeper than I had before!!

@bofwgktaz6618 Год назад

23:23 best description of this coda I've ever heard haha

@margarethansen7480 Год назад

Thanks!! It’s beautiful seeing this marvelous piece analised with so much passion and comprehension! Extremelly well played, even interrupting for the rare explanations for the melody and harmony!! Great work, Henrik!👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤

@hdholl9696 6 месяцев назад

A splendid tutorial for this devilish Ballad n° 1. Not only the suggestions for interpretation, but also the remarks about the structure (with the 'guitar chords' added) are very helpful. I have read 'Play it Again' by Alan Rusbridger myself: now I 'only' have to learn to play the ballad. Also all your other videos about other pieces (eg. a Brahms waltz) are top quality. You are a great help for all those many thousands of pianists 'out there'.

@rajx82 Год назад

This is one of the best things I’ve seen on RU-vid. Thank you for this amazing analysis! Learning this piece and this is a huge help!

@angiepearl9675 Год назад

Thank you for all the work and passion in making this great video. A pure pleasure to watch!

@shochre6497 Год назад

Always happy to see notifications from your channel!

@galibbashirov1526 Год назад

Great work Henrik! Phenomenal. One thing I love about your original analysis is when you show, in some instances, how the progression of the piece could have been different (perhaps more banal for lack of a better work), but Chopin decided to go a different route, making the end result truly magical (like at 11:50). I think more emphasis on this aspect and further analysis would be fantastic in future Chopin pieces.

@victorevelyn3934 Год назад

Thanks for the helpful analysis of this beautiful composition. I am only an amateur pianist, but am now fired up relearning to perform it despite increasing age and declining health. I found the harmonic and structural analyses especially helpful.

@johnleahy5853 Год назад

I am also of advancing age with some health issues & even though only at a quite early intermediate level, I found this video most interesting and very well presented, although at a level above me. Like many of the other classical composers, Chopin was ahead of his time. Full marks to Sonata Secrets for this. Thankyou.

@choihoiyin4208 Год назад

Keep up with your playing. I have the same desire like you.

@jacobhoover4393 Год назад

You can do it! It’s really not as bad as it looks. There are about 4 actually challenging sections, and with practice the coda becomes the only real issue. The coda is pretty easy to learn but hard perform. If you set aside about 2 months you can play this ballade (albeit at a slow tempo). Watch Paul Barton’s tutorial for this piece for extra help You got this!

@zerozok Год назад

Delightful! Great skill and engaging commentary. Thank you for this video, Henrik. I'll stick around for the ride.

@casualcadaver Год назад

Love your videos, I dont understand much of what your talking about but its nice to see someone play and breakdown such an amazing piece.

@michaelacord228 Год назад

Such a brilliant analysis! I love this piece but have never attempted to learn it. I learned so much from your analysis of the work! You always break it down so even amateur pianists can understand it. Thank you!!!

@jenskluge7188 4 месяца назад

That is so brilliantly explained. Thanks

@ruthtalley242 10 месяцев назад

Fabulous interpretation of this detailed piece, including all the subtle complexities of Chopin's music. And thanks for admitting that some passages take time, patience, and work even for skilled artists like yourself.

@stevenbeer6005 11 месяцев назад

That was great analysis, great playing, ad great sounding piano! Cheers!

@stevehunt2125 5 месяцев назад

Wonderful analysis. I can play this (badly) and you shine a lot of light on the structure. Thanks.

@manuel2atack 7 месяцев назад

You're amazing. I am a classical trained flutist and I really enjoy your videos and analysis of piano music

@jeremystephenson5990 Год назад

Beautiful performance and analysis. Really cannot thank you enough

@Rivse Год назад

You are so inspiring. Thank you. Du er utroligt inspirerende - tusind tak💗

@svrfan Год назад

what a piece! and what a great video!!

@ethanbrownpiano Год назад

These are really helpful for composing!

@TheNendja 10 месяцев назад

So great and spontaneous explaining.Not to mention effortless playing 😊

@ronl7131 7 месяцев назад

Genius Chopin, from one page Prelude to monumental Masterpiece Ballades, Sonatas, Scherzos, etc

@mathematician1681 11 месяцев назад

Amazingly brilliant analysis!

@choihoiyin4208 Год назад

Thank you for your teaching! Very GOOD!

@-DSet Год назад

Lovely interpretation, one of the best I've heard! Any chance you could upload a full performance?

@EnriqueGiliOrtiz Год назад

Thank you for sharing! Best regards.

@ddjjuull Год назад

Wonderful, thanks !

@larakuerten 9 месяцев назад

Love it❤❤

@pos_itronium Год назад

by the way, the Neapolitan chord noted in the coda is the same as the Neapolitan chord in the very beginning. thanks for the video! i like videos dedicated to the analysis of pieces, that's very interesting!

@skysstillblue1123 Год назад

1:41 even the left hand pattern already sounds beautiful🥰

@antiiczzz5671 Год назад

Thanks for your work man this is helpfull 👏👏👏

@floring67 11 месяцев назад

I've always felt like in the coda, Chopin was kinda evoking the last part of Beethoven's "Appassionata". I was playing both pieces at some point.

@500king2 Год назад

This is my favourite piece

@zeru1175 Год назад

Yessss been waiting for the second part, really good stuff :) I wanted to ask if you have played Scriabin's poeme op 32 no 1, I would love to see your take on that piece

@SonataSecrets Год назад

I haven't played it, should check it out.

@STERNWAERTS Год назад

such a wonderful video of a most breathtaking piece. once again it is clear that music is the greatest of all arts and the piano the greatest of all instruments. as i said, breathtaking.

@jimjohn2652 Год назад

"Beethoven angry" I am going to steal this

@PedroCristian 3 месяца назад

28:50 G minor melodic not D 😅 I'm playing close attention. Thank you for all those insight. My journey on this monumental piece is midway.

@pianoman8642 2 месяца назад

If I split my piano practice hours between bars 130-133 of this and every other piece ever the two would be about equal. Seriously how can a run be THAT difficult??!?

@Jounas1123 Год назад

Isn't there a little bit of the same contour in the coda's right hand lower voice at the beginning?

@nezkeys79 11 месяцев назад

14:13 sounds a jazz diminished scale lol (whole half whole half etc)

@Hjominbonrun Год назад

ey man, if only we could have your advice in the ear while we are trying to learn these extreme pieces, Everyone would be able to play the piano well.

@ataru4646 Год назад

I havent learned piano yet. This is my dream piece to play. Your analysis has honestly made me see things in this piece I haven't ever noticed. It's even more genius than I thought. Thank you for breaking this down

@nezkeys79 11 месяцев назад

The emotes are quality 😅❤

@magdakos4690 Год назад

Hiya, that was a fantastic analysis. Thank you so much for posting this, I've really learned a lot about one of my favorite piano pieces. Instant like and subscription from me. Are you planning to make a similar interpretation of a Ballade in F minor, too?

@hotharvey2 Год назад

8:02 my favourite part

@user-uz8cb8yj1p Год назад

27:58 wait I think I heard simillar melody in the piece by beethoven... that sounds so familiar

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji 2 месяца назад

The introduction to the first movement of the Pathetique sonata.

@MrMaximilianno Год назад

👏👏👏🎶🎵💓💖

@RaptorT1V Год назад

4:54 Why do you claim that in late Chopin we won't hear such works where the harmony doesn't change, where there is complete relaxation? I can give you one example of a late Chopin piece that will shatter your assertion. It's his Berceuse in D-flat major, Op.57

@LazlosPlane 3 месяца назад

You basically just "inch-wormed" your way through the piece: first comes this, then this, then he does this!!! Oh, then that...." You have said precious little about the WHY this such a special piece. Sorry. I'm sue you're a fine pianist but analytically, in terms of serious criticism,, there is precious little here.