Schubert's achingly beautiful melody

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Schubert's Impromptu Op.90 No.3 in Gb Major.
I've never really found this piece all that interesting when I was younger but with time, the apparent simplicity of this piece revealed itself as something much more profound than I had originally thought.
The opening bars could hardly be simpler but it's exactly that which makes it almost surprising to the listener, the Eb minor chord colouring the same note differently after three iterations of the same Gb major chord.
Of course, Schubert is a master of melodies and his supporting harmonies take surprising turns in different tonalities while always maintaining a careful and perfectly balanced discourse.
Recording (Horowitz): • Vladimir Horowitz - ...
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@davidmfoxe 4 месяца назад

Ebb and flow

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

Underrated comment

@mymatemartin 4 месяца назад

@@skylarlimex Yes, it did fall rather flat.

@MikehMike01 4 месяца назад

this video was really boring

@walturwhit 4 месяца назад

@@MikehMike01 no one asked

@andytinganyang4706 4 месяца назад

@@MikehMike01you’ll get it

@StoneChords 4 месяца назад

My father (doctor by profession) taught himself to play this , and was quite good. He taught it to me when I was a young man. He wooed my stepmother with it in their courtship days. 40 years later, I played it during his long decline in health, and finally, on his piano at home during home hospice, when he could no longer communicate, but would conduct his fingers as I played. And then I played it as his funeral. When he was alive, and could still communicate, this would be the piece that could bring him into sharpest emotional focus (he would weep throughout, and tell me afterward it's impossible not to, because it's so F-ing gorgeous). This perfect composition has touched the lives of millions; this is how it touched my family and me.

@Fire-jk8ye 4 месяца назад

What a wonderful day to be able to read, thank you for sharing

@luigipirandello5919 4 месяца назад

Beautiful words. Thank you.

@analogman9697 4 месяца назад

We should all be as fortunate as you to have that close a bond with our Dads.

@Beth-yb2kv 4 месяца назад

What a beautiful story. And such lovely music. I’m sorry for the loss of your beloved father.

@e.conboy4286 4 месяца назад

You must

@TheRealJoseramirez 4 месяца назад

One of my favourite composers. And died at 31 years of age. We can only wonder at what he would have achieved had he lived another 20 years.

@spanishpeaches2930 3 месяца назад

If hadn't been shagging around..and caught syphillis...he'd have bewn around a lot longer.

@sandrapaton3787 3 месяца назад

Apparently God took him because he had already done his Best!

@blazingchris5048 3 месяца назад

@@sandrapaton3787Well, I'm not sure about God. Franz had syphilis and died of thyphoïd fever...

@sandrapaton3787 2 месяца назад

@@blazingchris5048 oops! Quite right God didn’t have a hand in that mess!

@commontater8630 2 месяца назад

@@sandrapaton3787 You're being ironic, I hope.

@TeslasMoustache419 4 месяца назад

That Ebb note is magical.

@MrAzureJames 4 месяца назад

what would it be microtonally?

@DavM310 4 месяца назад

It's not microtonal

@aldeayeah 4 месяца назад

@@MrAzureJames E𝄳𝄳𝄳𝄳

@felixclm 4 месяца назад

@@MrAzureJamesno, just 2 half steps from E (D)

@MrAzureJames 4 месяца назад

@@felixclm if it were on an antique microtonal organ it would just be D?

@JIM-ot4ws 4 месяца назад

One of the most exquisite bitter-sweet pieces ever, I used to play it many years ago. It is one of those pieces that just grabs you!

@parrotlover9035 4 месяца назад

I couldn't agree more. The tears flow every time.

@amadeus5889 4 месяца назад

This will forever be one of my favorite piano pieces. If there’s an afterlife, this is what it sounds like to glimpse it.

@analogman9697 4 месяца назад

There is a Heaven, and the music there will make this sound like a squeaky wheel.

@amadeus5889 4 месяца назад

@@analogman9697 I don’t personally believe that, but if you do, I’m happy for you.

@MsDormy 3 месяца назад

I believe in heaven, and am happy to believe that this impromptu is a glimpse …. God bless Schubert.

@user-sg4ov7ng4h 3 месяца назад

@@analogman9697why are we trashing good musicians tho and comparing it to smth youve never heard yet

@valerietaylor9615 3 месяца назад

If there is a Heaven, I hope I’ll be able to meet all the great composers and hear them play their own music, as it sounded originally. 🎼

@404NotFoundLambSauce 4 месяца назад

The two sets of impromptues written by Schubert are in my opinion the most beautiful piano work ever created.

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

It's even more incredible on some accounts on how fast he wrote them! I read somewhere that he'd written this particular one in a day!

@gmnotyet 4 месяца назад

@@skylarlimex OMG

@cblse 4 месяца назад

Is music created.... or discovered?

@user-sg4ov7ng4h 3 месяца назад

@@cblseis that a philosophical question? whats your answer?

@cblse 3 месяца назад

@@user-sg4ov7ng4h I suppose it is a philosophical question. I don't have a ready answer just an intuitive leaning. It seems to me that beauty exists in the world and geniuses reveal it to us.

@mustafaweewees 3 месяца назад

Beautiful ... I can hear strains from Schubert's own ' Ave Maria '

@feraudyh 4 месяца назад

I remember a concert at a friend's place where this was played. Some people cried .

@Capochin950 4 месяца назад

Schubert was a creative genius.Not of this world but from a heavenly place.

@greghill7759 4 месяца назад

As a twelve-year old, my first introduction to Schubert was "The Trout". I found it so dull and stilted that I never bothered to listen to another piece from him. Years later, his "Impromptu" shocked me with its sensitivity, and I then went on to discover his "Serenade", which in my opinion is one of the most elegant, soulful, and erotic compositions ever written.

@VisiblyJacked 3 месяца назад

I loved the ""Trout" when I heard it at around the same age. I often wonder why we have certain reactions hardwired into us at a young age.

@greghill7759 3 месяца назад

@@VisiblyJacked Well, whenever I hear "The Trout", I want to run away, so it may possibly be part of our individual survival instincts!

@valerietaylor9615 3 месяца назад

I first heard “ The Trout” ( “ Die Forelle”, in German) when I was seventeen, and loved it. I love all of Schubert’s songs, but one of my favorites is “An Die Musik” ( “To Music”). In that song, the singer thanks the art of music for transporting him/her to a better world ( the words are by Schubert’s friend, Franz von Schober.) I also adore the song cycle, “Die Schöne Müllerin“ ( „The Miller‘s Beautiful Daughter.“)

@julianbrelsford 3 месяца назад

There are a lot of reasons why a kid might love or hate "the trout" or any other piece of music, but the context in which it is performed and the quality of performance are pretty darn important.

@joeballog6566 3 месяца назад

The Trout is such a lovely, joyous piece of music. And so unhurried. When he gets to the end, he does the whole thing again, note for note, in a different key! It's like floating down the river in a punt on a relaxing afternoon. You are really selling it short by allowing your 12-year-old self to have the final word on it.

@jimcoughlin4057 4 месяца назад

I discovered this piece too late in life, I have played it now for years but it never ceases to grip my soul and bring me to tears. It is simple, yet requires such skill!

@parrotlover9035 4 месяца назад

The first time I heard this Impromptu, its beauty hooked me for life. I especially love Horowitz's interpretation.

@KarlRKaiser 4 месяца назад

Chopin's first Etude in Op.25, in a-flat, also starts with a repeated "so", first five times, followed by "la" and then "so" five more times. It is also accompanied by an undulating left-hand line to create motion under the stillness.

@johnchessant3012 4 месяца назад

Schubert is so awesome

@SMtWalkerS 4 месяца назад

I know nothing about classical music. I find this enchanting.

@stillbill6408 3 месяца назад

Welcome to the most beautiful of all music; a wonderful adventure awaits you. Embrace it.

@Kodexj 3 месяца назад

You dont have to know anything, just enjoy it. Honestly the only thing stopping people from loving all genres is preconceptio s

@pegasus5287 3 месяца назад

Listen to clair de lune

@paullewis2413 3 месяца назад

The famous Russian composer Rachmaninov very accurately said - “ Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music”. Couldn’t agree more.

@deedeechur 2 месяца назад

If you find this enchanting you know just enough ✨☺️

@nicolasgoosen5142 4 месяца назад

I've never had such a good music appreciation lesson - thank you!

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

Ahh that's very kind of you! Thanks for the comment

@stillnessflowing9480 4 месяца назад

Schubert's Impromptus are all beautiful. No 2 has a section with triplets where the first note of each triplet forms the most beautiful melody inside a beautiful melody of triplets. They're all quite subtle, and complex compositions.

@luuktorn 4 месяца назад

One of my favourite pieces by Schubert. It's so beautiful ❤️

@Jean-rg4sp 4 месяца назад

I never studied music so I have no understanding of all the writing but I can appreciate the melody on this piano and I wished to hear more.

@jasoncoleman3611 3 месяца назад

I learned a few instruments. Piano was my first. It's it a very advanced key and the Melodie is so subtle it is the equivalent of triple purified water. Pure perfection and beauty. My guess is only older souls could interpret this piece properly.

@commontater8630 2 месяца назад

This piece is from Schubert's Opus 90, a set of four impromptus. That set was followed by another set of four, Opus 142 (D. 899 and D. 935 respectively). Look them up, you won't be sorry.

@johntyjp 4 месяца назад

I have Schubert s Unfinished on a set of 78s, conducted by Sir Henry Wood that I still love to play! I must get them transferred to a DVD🧐

@pauldrapiewski6761 4 месяца назад

There is other composer in the history of music who created so much music, of the most astounding quality, at such an early age. He died at 32! Most composers, if they had died at that point, even Beethoven, would not be nearly so famous. Just imagine if he had lived decades more. Perhaps he would have been declared the greatest of all time. Interesting that the three great composers who died at a very early age Schubert, Chopin and Mozart, are also the ones who had a body of work worthy of a very long lifetime. This Impromptu always brings tears to my eyes Is there anything more beautiful?

@eyuin5716 4 месяца назад

He was actually only 31 when he died.

@taniacummings9207 4 месяца назад

@@eyuin5716Then he had lived 32 years.

@eyuin5716 4 месяца назад

@@taniacummings9207 He lived from 1797 - 1828. Did you flunk out of basic math?

@janiidekock 3 месяца назад

add the months from birth to death and you will probably then discover he lived more than 31 years .. which I think is what the '32' was alluding to. 😊

@morphicmusic 4 месяца назад

Thank you for making this! I enjoy this kind of content!

@margarethansen7480 4 месяца назад

Great analysis!! Thanks❤👏👏

@ellybargmusic 4 месяца назад

I haven't heard this piece before but this really is stunning! I feel like Schubert is so underrated and it's always great to find new pieces that are pretty but reasonably simple to play. Thanks for sharing this gem ♥

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

Schubert is grossly underrated really...

@vibey8558 4 месяца назад

@@skylarlimex agreed! Had Schubert lived longer, I reckon he might have reached the likes of Mozart and Beethoven

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

@@vibey8558 I think he might have even surpassed them considering what he had already achieved by such a young age

@castheeuwes1085 4 месяца назад

@@skylarlimex Yep. At their ends, Beethoven was on a dead end, and Mozart was pretty much finished, same Bach. Schubert was still rolling!

@daftheck1439 4 месяца назад

i want to forget this piece just to discover it again you lucky 😁

@ejvindgeckler4951 4 месяца назад

Very beautifully played. Thank you.

@hermeticinstrumentalist6804 4 месяца назад

Very pretty. Thank you.

@jamesshanahan7867 3 месяца назад

awesome--would love to see more videos like this,. Very nice work.

@user-wu3ly6cl3b 4 месяца назад

I first heard this around 5 years ago when I watched Michael haneke’s film Amour and it has truly stuck with me since. I think it is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written… thank you for your video.

@mortonbaychestnut4072 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much!

@andrewmildinhall8210 3 месяца назад

Schubert is the only composer who frequently reduces me to tears. There is often so much pain but joy as as well of course. Which is how life is and perhaps that's the point. More than any other composer Schubert' s music is essentially about the human condition. Its brutally honest and therein lies it's greatness.

@terencemeikle534 2 месяца назад

That slow movement of the String Quintet, in particular. It has a similar effect upon me to the slow movement of Rachmaninoff's second concerto. They reduce me to a wreck. I can cry simply by hearing them in my head.

@sharonevelynmclaren6274 4 месяца назад

Beautiful piece from long ago. ❤❤❤

@johnrobinsoniii4028 4 месяца назад

This Piano masterpiece has lots of emotional involvement.

@Firebrand55 4 месяца назад

Excellent analysis...beautiful music written on paper brought to life!

@brucejackson4219 4 месяца назад

A sublime composition.

@MrPienaarza 2 месяца назад

Soothing for the soul, thank you!

@danutahull9319 3 месяца назад

A beautiful brilliant Schubert composition ⭐️

@jospenner9503 3 месяца назад

Wonderful analysis. I would enjoy a full performance, bitte.

@user-rs2nb6ng8h 2 месяца назад

Absolutely beautiful! I look forward to learning how to play this piece!

@sammyr713 4 месяца назад

I started playing this piece as the flawless recordings make it sound relatively easy and 'flowy'. Imagine my shock when I realised how difficult it actually was to retain the melody notes and make them stand out.

@anled.composition 4 месяца назад

Great analysis again, well done !

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

Thanks as always!

@malicant123 4 месяца назад

This is instantly calming.

@josephhenry4725 Месяц назад

It is just beautiful.

@herambaanjaneya2041 4 месяца назад

Lovely! Absolutely lovely!❤

@ireneyoung8696 4 месяца назад

Beautiful.

@wicksp335 4 месяца назад

That is beautiful.

@Ukepa Месяц назад

so soothing... good video!!!

@cecilgriffiths6399 Месяц назад

Beautifully played 🙏❤️

@josephdunlap6747 3 месяца назад

Melodically beautiful! Bravo! 🙏🙏❤️

@barcarolleenjoyer 4 месяца назад

Also: note that Horowitz modifies the score at 0:22, instead of going directly from I-vi, he goes I-V7-vi (V7 is dominant seventh, idk music theory well enough to know what the correct term for it is)

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

Interesting because I didn't hear that in other interpretations

@gahlol7069 4 месяца назад

Yup I suspect it’s a Horowitz thing but a very good addition to this repeated phrase where it continues to the vi.

@barcarolleenjoyer 4 месяца назад

@@skylarlimex yeah Horowitz loves playing with the score and making his improvements

@jamesandrewes9640 4 месяца назад

The modification comes originally from Liszt, who edited Schubert's Impromptus in the late 1860s, in an edition published by Cotta. In addition to this harmonic change, Liszt - more significantly - develops the return to the A section by putting it up the octave, with rolling arpeggios in the left hand. Horowitz is not playing the Liszt version, but he must have liked that small harmonic change enough to add it into his own performance of Schubert's original.

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

@@jamesandrewes9640 thanks for that very interesting side note! I definitely wouldn't have known that

@cyruschang9430 4 месяца назад

Amazing piece! Btw it kinda reminds me of Liebestraum no.3

@thorstambaugh1520 4 месяца назад

To tease the resolution so masterfully

@secrets7301 3 месяца назад

I adore this piece, especially this interpretation by Horowitz. It's heart breaking.

@lionelalberts2650 3 месяца назад

Such a sad beautiful serene melody.

@gsm2424 3 месяца назад

I didn't know this piece. Thank you, it is beautiful beyond words...

@51saphire 3 месяца назад

Beautiful!

@barrymcguinness2087 3 месяца назад

It's beautiful

@Zerpentsa6598 4 месяца назад

Yes. One of my favourite piano pieces.

@scronx 4 месяца назад

Sensitive playing.

@xenopis7862 3 месяца назад

This piece is currently in my repertoire, and I have to say this is one of the most beautiful piano pieces I have ever heard. And, surprisingly challenging in some ways. My piano is terrible at the moment so the voicing is quite difficult to achieve at the moment but still, whenever I get to play this piece on my teachers piano, it is an absolute treat.

@Max-du9oj 3 месяца назад

It’s incredible because on RU-vid videos I’ve seen, nobody seems to realize that Horowitz, who’s the interpret here, does a stunning re-harmonization of the original score at 0:23 🔥

@albertperson4013 4 месяца назад

I love Schubert for his ability to mimic other very famous composers yet compose original themes.

@ankavoskuilen1725 4 месяца назад

Very nice way to explain the music! Thank you very much!

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

Thank you for watching!

@user-vl6ot6oo4e 4 месяца назад

It's beautiful...I heard it quite a while back but didn't make a note of the title...Thanks

@horationelson57 4 месяца назад

Achingly beautiful. Indeed. And a wonderful tonic, a refuge for only a few, gentle souls who care to take the time to listen

@justusmache8814 4 месяца назад

Such a lovely piece! I always feel that the second phrase starting bar 9 is picked up by Schumann in "Dichterliebe"s first song "Im wunderschlnen Monat Mai" where this phrase is combined with the text "Da ist in meinem Herzenen, die iebe aufgegangen / In my heart, love has risen". Which for me also perfectly matches the feel I get when hearing this phrase in the Schubert impromptu!

@mateojames3231 4 месяца назад

I sung Im wunderschonen. I didn’t realize that until you pointed it out. Im wunderschonen was an emotional roller coaster of a piece for my Senior Recital. The use of the dominant never finding a resolution. Beautiful.

@cjams115 4 месяца назад

I came here to comment the same thing

@pjesf Месяц назад

This man’s music was a gift to the world ❤

@marieclaude5360 3 месяца назад

Très belle interprétation, toute en nuance, toute en retenue. Merci !

@johnb3289 3 месяца назад

Thank you for your wonderful analysis. Sing several of his lieder, and mourn the shortness of his life.

@eoarwyn 3 месяца назад

I loved this so much as a student I had to write lyrics to it ❤️ So charming yet bittersweet

@shailen824 4 месяца назад

oh! This video is wonderful thank you so much. It's one of my favorites to play. I think my favorite note in this section is the C natural in the measure at 1:37.

@patriciap6519 3 месяца назад

SCHUBERT WROTE MUSIC FROM HIS HEART AND SOUL. Every one of these Impromptus have a special place in mine.

@loveonly000 2 месяца назад

Only a beautiful mind can create such beauty ❤

@LukeFaulkner 2 месяца назад

In Horowitz's hands every note and harmony makes sense. True mastery!

@gahlol7069 4 месяца назад

You should cover the no. 1 of this op 90 too. It’s magical and emotional. A big adventure

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

Definitely one of my favourites!

@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd 4 месяца назад

Exquisite

@conradnelson5283 Месяц назад

Nice tune

@charlessomerset9754 3 месяца назад

I wouldnt go so far as to say achingly. Barber's Adagio is achingly beautiful. This is more like pleasantly pretty.

@extanegautham8950 Месяц назад

i saw ur title and immediately thought, no, said out loud, "which one!..." great analysis

@MuhDog 4 месяца назад

You should do the first movement of Saint Saens Bassoon sonata. The first restatement of the main theme in the tonic is one of my favorite moments in music.

@C_Domnick_Fair 4 месяца назад

never heard of consequent or antecedent so thanks for teaching me that

@user-kx3pq6mf6u 3 месяца назад

Virtually everything that Schubert composed was perfection. Shame we don't have composers like this today.

@caesarsen5944 3 месяца назад

Thanks. I have compiled my own requeim to be played on my last journey, along with this piece there are other pieces, e. g. Saint Saens "Dying Swan" and Brahms's 1st movement of "A German Requeim" and some other Baroque pieces by Albinoni et al.

@markneedham752 4 месяца назад

I saw a Professor explain why a certain person, their personality denied them, from ever finding a partner. A million words to say, "the person is not nice." Now, Mr. Schubert..."That was beautiful."

@agucci 4 месяца назад

Schubert was a good composer. ❤

@nseim27 4 месяца назад

I just played this last year! A wonderful piece, a ton of fun to learn and play. I didn't do much in-depth analysis of the theory though; this would've helped me a bit with my interpretation lol. Regardless, it's one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever played.

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

You can try playing it again and see how much it changes!

@BobK5 4 месяца назад

Raw genius, Schubert 😎

@celiagoldstein1806 4 месяца назад

fun fact i have sobbed to this song

@jaypeej7830 4 месяца назад

This Impromptu is probably Mendelssohn's inspiration for "Songs Without Words"

@dennysmith7862 3 месяца назад

Arlna Hartshorne introduced me to Classical music... A group of us would pay R2.50 each (or less) to listen to full Cape Town Philharmonic orchestra on a Sunday evening at Cape Town City Hall... She once played a solo Wagnerian operetta for a week and advising not to attend as Wagner was depressing... Hope wherever she is she's doing well...

@whocares_bear 3 месяца назад

"You are so beautiful to me...."

@tiesergrote 3 месяца назад

Beautiful piece. At 0:24 we hear a different bass note and harmoniy than the written one, I think it's the 3rd of V/vi.

@cyninbend 4 месяца назад

That's true for a lot of us.

@sarahk.7302 4 месяца назад

My favorite Schubert piece is ‘Fantasie in F Minor’ for two hands piano💛

@skylarlimex 4 месяца назад

A classic!

@carryfreak5059 4 месяца назад

I have played that one

@sweetsoftlow 4 месяца назад

Have you read the manga Blame by Tsutomu Nihei? I used this piece in a playlist I made for it!

@hisukserjeant5204 4 месяца назад

I adore schubert❤❤❤❤

@ClosingTheCircle 2 месяца назад

I love your channel ! Please do you use any particular software to edit those beautiful colored videos ?

@skylarlimex 2 месяца назад

Just final cut

@LeonoraBassisty104 29 дней назад

I don't know why but Keys with over 4 Flats tend to sound very Ethereal to me (I have perfect pitch). Keys have such a distinctive feeling to my ears, which makes transposing a source of significant change in character. Even if a piece doesn't portray a particular feeling to me, the Key will. For instance, "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" from the Gondoliers. It's a simple operetta song yet, due to being in Eb Major it feels like something different than that. This Schubert's piece is very impactful in its own way, but the fact it is in Eb Major really spices things up. I am curious if other people have the same approach regarding keys as me, and if you do, please tell me which keys to you prefer (here are mines) F Minor F# Minor D Minor Eb Major Db Major Eb Major