Bravo, bravo! Thank you for this video. A master pianist giving her thoughts on tone, interpretation and phrasing while playing. I need to listen again, but this time taking notes on your ideas. Beautiful! Thank you.
what a gorgeous sentiment that a note played on a piano dies away, and beautiful articulation of your process and the movement of your sound! I loved this episode so much. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for some helpful tips on playing this beautiful piece, especially the one about practicing using repeated melody notes, to shape the dynamics and timing more closely to what we’d like to create the impression of.
"🎹♥🌹Thank You once again Dr Lee. Your lessons are always Creative and insightful. Always leave us with a deeper purpose to create a more beautiful sonic pallet. I think you are creating with in your self and those like us who try to absorb the lesson an Artist Pianist who is a Master of a well crafted tone with a Soul. Now that is Beautiful. Thank You!"
My yearly goal this year is 5 preludes from this opus. I came to love piano too late for university. Can you recommend what preludes would be best to focus on for this opus? I started 1,4,5 so far. This video was lovely and I really appreciate you sharing your training with me!
My recommendation is to leave out your least favorite ones and try to have include a variety of affects. In any case, I would leave out #9 - sounds like it will take a whole year to learn. haha
This is great. I'm going to try your ideas for getting that sense of line. When the melody moves primarily to the RH thumb under the triplets, how are you getting the projection? Especially when the LH starts overlapping at the B minor moment? I find it particularly hard to project the thumb and maintain the line here. It's a deceptively difficult piece but if it sounds like it's difficult, you're doing it wrong. Thanks again.
" I would not lock in the triplets of the RH with the duple of the LH. That would sound unnatural." 8:18- I'm not sure what you could possibly mean with that statement. He composed sesquialtera and he means sesquialtera. Do you mean inaccurately ("not lock") played? Rubato is quite another matter. Further, you DO play the sesquialtera accurately! BTW, you play this beautifully.
Hello, Thank you for your comment. I could have been clearer. What I wanted was to prevent any kind of unnatural/mathematically measured alignment of the triplet against the duple. I.E thinking about how each note fits into the other line is less musical then letting each line carry itself within the bigger pulse. I hope this clarifies it!
18:18 Дорогая Lee, учу сейчас эту прекраснейшую прелюдию. Посмотрел множество исполнений. И обнаружил, что в подавляющем большинстве играют размеренно левую руку, в ней пропадает триольный акцент, а правая рука с мелодией подстраивается под левую. В результате мелодия становится более размеренной, в ней пропадает развитие к первой доли в трехчетвертях как в джазе за счет подчеркивания слабых долей в триолях левой руки. Идеальное исполнение маэстро Михаила Плетнева. У него как раз совершенно другой ритм и из-за этого идет динамика. А также можно дослушать окончания фраз и спокойно начать следующую так как нет равномерности аккомпонимента левой руки, он подстраивается триолями под мелодию в правой. Как вы считаете?
Dear Jewoon ..thank You sooo much for Your so very informative tutorial...and Your so very lovely playing of this wonderful masterpiece. Can You please recommend a publisher who offers the piano notes of this piece with fingering advices and pedal markings? ...which difficult grade ..do You think..is this piece between a range from 1 - 10? Thank You very much for this tutorial .all the best to You is sending to You Wolfgang from Germany PS:..You are very wonderful looking lady. And a very wonderful playing pianist :-)
Hello Wolfgang, thank you so much for your kind words. I use the Schirmer edition. I have not compared other editions, but fingerings and pedal markings are marked minimally in Rachmaninoff's music. In terms of the level, I would say this is about 6-7 and most intermediate-advanced piano students can learn the notes. Being able to play it beautifully with full expression, however, is an achievement by those with many years of serious piano studies. Thank you again!
@@JeewonLeepiano ...Dear Jeewon Lee...thank You very much for Your kind and detailed answer...i will subscribe to Your channel ..looking forward ti many other videos btw. tutorioals.. With best regards and lovely greetings to You Wolfgang from Germany :-)
I've been wondering about measure 16, the first chord in the treble clef. I've been watching lots of different pianists play this on RU-vid. Those with large hands can play the lower C♯ with the thumb an D with finger 2, 4 on A and 5 on upper C♯. Those who can't do this simply leave out either the lower C♯or the lower D. My hand is average size, but I cannot reach the chord. I do think this chord is so beautiful that all notes should be played together. My current solution us to treat the LH octave E's as two separate grace notes (rising, pedaled of course and still somewhat powerful) and catch the treble-clef lower C♯ with with the LH finger 2 or 3, immediately thereafter returning the LH to the B mid-triplet. Because this is somewhat a point of arrival, it still sounds natural. What do you think?
I have a small hand and I use my bent thumb on the C# and D. The knuckle playing the C# and the left side of the top of my thumb on the D. Leaving out the C# spoils the chord and it’s such a lovely one that’s a pity. Took me a while to get the movement fluid but it wasn’t as hard as I’d first thought. It’s such a complex piece isn’t it. On the second page I’m having trouble getting the tune to be heard while keeping the arpeggios rippling above. I don’t have trouble when the tune is \played with the 4th and 5 fingers of the right hand (ie second movement of the Pathetique, Beethovan Sonata 8) however in this piece it’s your thumb and 2,3 fingers, which I’ve not come across before. Thanks for a very interesting video. You play beautifully.
My yearly goal this year is 5 preludes from this opus. I came to love piano too late for university. Can you recommend what preludes would be best to focus on for this opus? I started 1,4,5 so far. This video was lovely and I really appreciate you sharing your training with me!
