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Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, 3rd mov.
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Clive Swansbourne tackles the stormy finale of this famous sonata.
Interpreting Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, 2nd mov. (tutorial)
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Clive Swansbourne discusses this short and sweet light allegretto.
Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, movs. 1 and 2
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Pianist Clive Swansbourne performs the first two movements of this famous sonata.
Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata, 1st movement
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Clive Swansbourne performs the first movement off this iconic masterpiece.
Rachmaninov: Prelude in G# minor, op 32 no 12
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Clive Swansbourne performs one of Rachmaninov's most powerfully evocative miniatures.
Practicing 3 vs 2 in Debussy's First Arabesque (Smart Practice tutorial)
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Solving 3 against 2 in Debussy's First Arabesque, by starting with an incorrect rhythm, gaining fluency and then smoothing it out.
Brahms: Intermezzo in A, op 118 no 2
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Clive Swansbourne performs this graceful, autumnal masterpiece.
Interpreting Schubert: Impromptu in A flat op 90 no 4 (tutorial)
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Clive Swansbourne discusses technical and interpretive challenges in this shimmering, occasionally troubled, work.
Interpreting Mozart: Sonata in C, K.330, Ist mov. (tutorial)
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Clive Swansbourne makes suggestions about how to bring out Mozart's style in this subtle gem.
Interpreting Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, 3rd mov. (tutorial)
Просмотров 22 тыс.5 лет назад
Clive Swansbourne discusses technical and interpretive issues in this stormy movement.
Interpreting Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata, 3rd mov. (tutorial)
Просмотров 19 тыс.5 лет назад
Clive Swansbourne discusses the technical and interpretive problems in this lively Rondo.
Schubert: Impromptu in G flat, op 90 no 3
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Clive Swansbourne performs one of his favorite piano pieces.
Interpreting Rachmaninov: Prelude in G# minor, op 32 no 12 (tutorial)
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Clive Swansbourne discusses ways to bring out the soulfulness of this beautiful prelude.
Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata, 3rd mov.
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Clive Swansbourne performs this lively rondo.
Interpreting Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata 2nd mov. (tutorial)
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Interpreting Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata 2nd mov. (tutorial)
Schubert: Moment musical no.4 in C sharp minor.
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Schubert: Moment musical no.4 in C sharp minor.
Interpreting Brahms: Intermezzo in A, op 118 no 2 (tutorial)
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Interpreting Brahms: Intermezzo in A, op 118 no 2 (tutorial)
Rachmaninov: Prelude in C minor, op 23 no 7
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Rachmaninov: Prelude in C minor, op 23 no 7
Practicing scales in 'clumps' for fast results (Smart Practice tutorial)
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Practicing scales in 'clumps' for fast results (Smart Practice tutorial)
Schubert: Impromptu in E flat, op 90 no 2
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Schubert: Impromptu in E flat, op 90 no 2
Interpreting Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata,1st mov. (part 2) Allegro (tutorial)
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Interpreting Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata,1st mov. (part 2) Allegro (tutorial)
Interpreting Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata,1st mov. (part 1) Grave (tutorial)
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Interpreting Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata,1st mov. (part 1) Grave (tutorial)
Brahms: Intermezzo in B flat minor, op 117 no 2
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Brahms: Intermezzo in B flat minor, op 117 no 2
Interpreting Debussy: Clair de lune (tutorial)
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Interpreting Debussy: Clair de lune (tutorial)
Mozart: Sonata in C, K 330 (cpte)
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Mozart: Sonata in C, K 330 (cpte)
Rachmaninov: Prelude in G, op 32 no 5
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Rachmaninov: Prelude in G, op 32 no 5
Interpreting Schubert: Impromptu in G flat op 90 no 3 (tutorial)
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Interpreting Schubert: Impromptu in G flat op 90 no 3 (tutorial)
Schubert: Moment musical no. 3 in F min. ("Russian Dance")
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Schubert: Moment musical no. 3 in F min. ("Russian Dance")
Bach: Partita no.1 in B flat
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Bach: Partita no.1 in B flat

Комментарии

  • @jwilliams8210
    @jwilliams8210 2 дня назад

    Excellent analysis/tutorial and is also my favorite SVR prelude!!! I am sometimes lukewarm about some of SVRs recordings and interpretations of his own music (EDIT: Though, I am thrilled to have recordings of SVR in the first place and I should not be so spoiled!). However, his recording of Op32 #12 is the best interpretation and phrasing I've ever heard!!! I wanted to ask for clarification RE: the Opus 19 Cello melody ( @ 03:30 in your video): You weren't speaking about the slower 3rd movement, were you? The second movement does have some really long and beautiful Cello lines interspersed within the more energetic passages. But the 3rd movement Cello part also has a very long beautiful melody it carries. I love BOTH!! I very much enjoyed this video, Thank you!

  • @Maibrapiano
    @Maibrapiano 4 дня назад

    I got it just speeding it up now ❤

  • @johnnovello1315
    @johnnovello1315 6 дней назад

    What about the left hand fingering in measures 9-13 esp is you have a small hand

  • @tchorn2026
    @tchorn2026 21 день назад

    Thanks for your wonderful job. Just signed for your channel. Odessa, Ukraine

  • @daveatano
    @daveatano 29 дней назад

    Fantastic tips. Been playing this piece as an amateur on and off for nearly 50 years and never had insights this good. Thanks 😊

  • @davidaronson9475
    @davidaronson9475 Месяц назад

    Nice video. Unless I'm missing something, T R L R L R is not a palindrome. You'd have to stick a T on the end, but that is the start of the next sequence.

  • @vynderma
    @vynderma Месяц назад

    Very nice. This will motivate me to 16:38 go back playing this. I’ve always loved Brahms. There’s a story behind this. I started taking lessons at the age of 55, after being a hack on the keyboard for years. I tutor calculus. A man, about my age, came for lessons. He was quite eccentric and wanted to study engineering for an unfathomable reason. His name was Billy Brahms. He claimed that his 90 year old mother was the daughter (or granddaughter ) of Brahms’ sister. He never explained why his mother kept the last name. After his mother died, Billy just disappeared. This was circa 2005 on Long Island. Struck by the coincidence, since I was singing his Requiem with my chorus at the time I met him, I decided to try to memorize this piece. I did - but have hardly touched the piano for the last 2 years. Listening to this will make me go back to the piano. Thank you.

  • @verandahpoly4773
    @verandahpoly4773 Месяц назад

    You can hear exactly what Debussy thought. Listen to his piano roll that he claimed was a perfect reproduction. It’s available. People now play it very differently.

  • @nta1902
    @nta1902 Месяц назад

    Thank you so much for sharing this. I’m currently learning this piece and stumbled across this. Cheers from Dallas Texas.

  • @brendahunt4125
    @brendahunt4125 Месяц назад

    Thanks so much, finally understand what I’m doing wrong now that I see you play it

  • @tetianakirbaba7768
    @tetianakirbaba7768 2 месяца назад

    Thank you!!! Very helpful 🙂😃

  • @paules3437
    @paules3437 2 месяца назад

    Perhaps the best thing he ever wrote, but I have never heard a recording of it that I really like! Boris Giltberg is close. Any recommendations?

  • @annabella3349
    @annabella3349 2 месяца назад

    GREAT teacher, my compliments. Anna from Rome, Italy.

  • @isoeel430
    @isoeel430 2 месяца назад

    This video is awesome, the interpretation really helps alot, very thorough! Thanks alot!❤

  • @paulvannessspianoworld1724
    @paulvannessspianoworld1724 2 месяца назад

    F shatp MINOR? An idiot, methinks. Thos guy knows nothing!

    • @paulvannessspianoworld1724
      @paulvannessspianoworld1724 2 месяца назад

      I am too harsh, as usual, but please tune and vouce your damn piano. Ugly. Then wr can discuss details. Right?

  • @adelefigaro5262
    @adelefigaro5262 2 месяца назад

    I love your interpretation. I’m actually playing this piece for my first diploma, and I find your advice extremely helpful. I can play the melody well but the ornament were very muffled. I understand to keep my fingers very close to the keys for the ornaments. I will go through all your advice, it’s like à piano master class on line. Thanks so much. I don’t think it’s hard to memorise though.

  • @foljamb
    @foljamb 2 месяца назад

    maestro, i love your dark scenario with the husband grumbling about the wife always moping and then he wanders off to his own more important business, and the wife wonders about her lover, and is consoled--all the more need for the plot of marriage of figaro--seriously, clive, great stuff for pianists who work on this piece

  • @foljamb
    @foljamb 2 месяца назад

    very very glad to have found this swansbourne channel--this video on the schubert gb impromptu a wonderful lecture-demo, so smoothly, conversationally presented--and he didn't disturb the swan disguised as a duck napping in his studio

    • @swansbourne
      @swansbourne 2 месяца назад

      Thank you. Actually he’s a pelican from Bali. With an impossibly erect swimming posture for his bill weight but a fine bird nonetheless!

    • @foljamb
      @foljamb 2 месяца назад

      @@swansbourne ah, i see my mistake--i took the sculpture less literally than i should have: that IS an enormous beak and a fantastically capacious neck, both of which are beautifully engineered to get large meals down and packed away in a hurry, nothing a swan could do, or even want to do

  • @sanchopansa1950
    @sanchopansa1950 3 месяца назад

    your piano needs a brush-up.

  • @jimmennell8525
    @jimmennell8525 3 месяца назад

    This is such a great tutorial, I keep coming back to it as I progress through the piece. There is some ambiguity in the score at times, particularly in terms of dynamics, which you clarify / interpret very well.

  • @solea59
    @solea59 3 месяца назад

    Thank you so much for this. I don't play myself. I seem to remember hearing this when I was very young ,maybe it was a teacher practising in my junior school. Then a huge gap of years before I heard it several years ago. It's so beautiful. For me Horowitz playing it in Vienna was amazing, he hardly moved his fingers.

  • @falstaff63
    @falstaff63 3 месяца назад

    Excellent analysis!! Thank you so much!!

  • @davidmurphy9351
    @davidmurphy9351 3 месяца назад

    I've worked on this truly gorgeous piece for about 12 months now. But listening to your video gives me so many other interesting ideas to think about. And all presented in such a clear and calm manner. Thanks so much 👍

  • @johnbell913
    @johnbell913 3 месяца назад

    You mentioned C major? would that be C sharp?

  • @eduardomoran7757
    @eduardomoran7757 3 месяца назад

    Now make a new video and play the whole piece without interruptions please please please !!! Thank you very much, sir. By the way thanks for the good pedal tutorial.

  • @stephenpettecrew4781
    @stephenpettecrew4781 3 месяца назад

    This was great. Currently learning the piece. Some good insights. 👍

  • @hamzadlm6625
    @hamzadlm6625 4 месяца назад

    i love the story telling at the beginning

  • @dougdumbrill7234
    @dougdumbrill7234 4 месяца назад

    I hear Piazzolla on the 3d set of arpeggios at the beginning. Why? (In fact I think P quotes this exactly in some piece I can’t quite come up with.) 🤔

  • @CistiC0987
    @CistiC0987 4 месяца назад

    I can't even play piano neither can I read music and I am still loving this!

  • @redsoil5821
    @redsoil5821 4 месяца назад

    You do the best teaching technic on youtube because it gets to those who know very lityle about piano and to those who know much more.

  • @cdvorpiano
    @cdvorpiano 4 месяца назад

    Excellent tutorial, Clive! I worked on this piece about 50 years ago! It's such a joy to revisit it now and you're suggestions and examples for absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much!

  • @robertallen5210
    @robertallen5210 5 месяцев назад

    Some wonderful insights. I do think you're playing it too fast. It sounds rushed to me - particularly the f#m section.

  • @back-seat-driver1355
    @back-seat-driver1355 5 месяцев назад

    do not like your playing at all - too loud, too fast and unclear!

  • @saltburner2
    @saltburner2 5 месяцев назад

    Beethoven felt his own lack of skill in counterpoint, and embarked on an intensive study of Bach and Handel in his last years. This shows in the last Symphony, the Missa Solemnis, the Diabelli Variations the last piano sonatas and the music for 'The Consecration of the House'. The syncopated passage in Op.111 is almost lifted from The Art of Fugue, second movement.

  • @VictorIgboatuegwu
    @VictorIgboatuegwu 5 месяцев назад

    This piece is so lovely

  • @pauldavies5611
    @pauldavies5611 5 месяцев назад

    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!

  • @paulbridges5797
    @paulbridges5797 5 месяцев назад

    Bingo! I've been struggling with this passage but within minutes of seeing this video finally nailed it. Thank you

  • @markbutcher4100
    @markbutcher4100 5 месяцев назад

    It amazes me that as composers made a living from selling sheet music there must have been many people who could play this music. How many could afford a piano? Excellent analysis

    • @saltburner2
      @saltburner2 5 месяцев назад

      Schubert never owned a piano, and only ever had one at his disposal - which is why all the piano duets are for piano, four hands.

  • @republiccooper
    @republiccooper 6 месяцев назад

    I have played this but I must admit that I forgot how beautiful it is. Your insights have brought it all back to me in a fresh way. Thank you. It is indeed, from my perspective, one of Chopin's greatest works.

  • @jbishoprwc
    @jbishoprwc 6 месяцев назад

    That’s a really great tutorial for me. I am learning this piece, and this was extremely useful.

  • @Hkluck
    @Hkluck 6 месяцев назад

    Such an insightful and hearty teaching. Fully enjoy it. I wish you were my teacher 30+ year back 😂.Thanks for your kindness ❤

  • @michaelbrown192
    @michaelbrown192 6 месяцев назад

    You have absolutely huge hands. I wonder how one is supposed to play those broken cords in the left hand starting at roughly 12:07, playing them in one movement with like 1 2 3 5 or 1 2 4 5 seems impossible with my hand, I was experimenting with 2 1 2 5 but doing it in speed seems really hard, maybe 1 2 1 5 is that plausible?

  • @markoszouganelis5755
    @markoszouganelis5755 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you very much! 🌈

  • @FlyingGold
    @FlyingGold 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this wonderful insight on this piece. I'm trying to learn it right now.

  • @ironmonger100
    @ironmonger100 7 месяцев назад

    A brilliant analysis, beautifully delivered, with much sympathy for the music. Glad to have discovered your channel - thank you.

  • @ataagh
    @ataagh 7 месяцев назад

    Thanks! Happy New Year!

  • @60yoself-taught
    @60yoself-taught 7 месяцев назад

    I am very glad to have found this video. It'll give me a lot of ideas how to improve my playing of this piece. Many thanks! ruclips.net/video/JF_Mj_oJvvE/видео.htmlfeature=shared

  • @edwinsianturi2336
    @edwinsianturi2336 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you for the insights & tips. But I have to ask you this: Why do you have cardboards and a thick book on the cast iron plate of your piano 😅 ?

  • @olufjakobsen6208
    @olufjakobsen6208 7 месяцев назад

    ❤ how funderful to here you play

  • @jasonchen8059
    @jasonchen8059 7 месяцев назад

    My friend playes this song and I love this song so I listen to it every day.❤🎉😊