Thank you for this great analysis! You were able to put words on things I felt, but couldn't articulate properly while listening to this fantastic piece (the meaning of the very first note, the motivic links of the intro with the rest of the piece, etc). I've watched a couple of your Chopin analysis, and I must say your deep understanding of theses pieces is quite remarkable. I haven't stumbled upon a content like this on RUclips since Andras Schiff's lectures on the Beethoven's sonatas. Keep on doing these videos, you are bound to reach a lot more people! Greetings from Quebec
It's an honor for me to receive such a comment from the beautiful Quebec! Well, the pandemic made me start this project and now I'm not going to stop until I'll make all the Chopin's music! Thank you so much for your support!!
I too have loved listening to all of Greg's analyses, it has opened a world of music for me that I didn't even know existed. After seeing all his content with Chopin music, I tried to see if someone had done something similar with the Beethoven sonatas. I hadn't been able to find much of anything, but thanks to your comment, I was able to find all of the Andras Schiff lectures. Thank you for your comment that indirectly helped me!
@francisdufresne4407 Il semble que soyions tous deux d'accord sur l'expertise musicale de Greg de même que sur le don exceptionnel qu'il démontre pour traduire des notions musicales complexes dans un langage accessible aux passionné/e/s de musique classique sans études musicales formelles telle que moi. Et, comme vous, je suis québécoise et je rêve de le voir en spectacle au Québec. Je suis persuadée qu'il serait accueilli chez nous, les bras ouverts.
Bravo and thank you for sharing your knowledge. I've been listening to this piece on repeat for many years now (on and off) and I learned many new analyses/interpretations because of how you explained it.
Thank you for offering so much insight into this wonderful Polonaise. I live in Canada from Polish ancestry. Naturally, I love to play Chopin and by listening to you it inspires me to want to learn this Polonaise . I enjoy all your lectures on Chopin pieces.
Impressive! I've been "tackling" this masterpiece for over one year and a half, and was trying to import myself on how to play it better. I've read a lot and seen a lot of videos on the subject, but I have to say that your analysis is by far the best of all! This video you made should be in every music school, and even in history classes (whether one is a musician or not). Indeed, the links you point out between Chopin's masterpiece, the historical context and the resilience of the Polish people (which could serve as an example to many other peoples) appear obvious and enlightening, and wonderfully help pianists to better interpret F. Chopin's score. Your explanations and pianistic interpretation often gave me goose bumps, and I even shed a tear even though I'm a man. Greg, you too are a Pole like Chopin, and I'm sure you feel what Chopin must have felt playing this piece, and you demonstrate it remarkably well. As a Frenchman, I would have liked F. Chopin to have felt French too, but he kept his Polish soul, and so much the better! Very humbly: thank you!
Thank you so much! I deeply appreciate your comment. But Chopin's father was French and he loved his father deeply. I am sure he also felt a bit French inside. But the fact that he was raised in Poland and spent there 20 years is the main reason for his feelings. Good for us - his music came from all that!
You are so inspiring and so good. Thank you. What a privilege for young pianists to have all this. Thank you! Thank you very much. This interpretation sent shivers down my spine❤ Will listen to it many times more❤
5:55 Start of analysis 6:14 6:28 is the Intro connected to rest of piece 6:39 Intro played 7:58 It is connected - here is how 8:13 8:24 First theme 9:13 Two notes - suspension - tension released 10:30 Back to Intro Starts with one note 10:54 then a chord going up
This is one of my favorite pieces and all I can say is thank you for unveiling some of its mysteries and making me reflect deeper about it! I appreciate so much all your hard work as I'm sure all your viewers do as well! Please keep going! Your passion I felt so clearly and encourages me so much as a musician! Wishing you all things wonderful in this life!
Akurat celuje w mojej drodze nauki gry na fortepianie w nauke gry poloneza as dur op 53. Bardzo dobrze jest zapoznac sie z tym utworem tak dokladnie z Pana pomocą. Świetnie pouczajace. Pozdrawiam z Polski.
I really enjoy your thoughts on this music! I have always been puzzled by the lyrical section on this piece as well. I feel it has the mood of a mazurka, but without the typical rhythm...
Thank you for your generosity and for the powerful vibes, I really loved this video and everything you say here is so fascinating, it brings our interpretation to the next level! There is a lot of deepness to what you say, I had countless music teachers and many of them just teach students to read the scores and press keys, understanding the core of the music we play is so essential but it looks like often it is not given to everyone.
Thank you so much! You have no idea how happy you've made me with this comment. Absolutely!!!! I agree with you! I love teaching and inspire people. I love music and I love sharing my passion to it with the world. I made analyses of all Chopin pieces during COVID-19 times. You are invited to watch them all! You can find them on playlists on my channel. Thank you again and all the best!!
@@gregniemczukWe can feel your passion in the video, it is very uplifting! It will certainly push many of us here to work harder :) and I look forward to watching all the other videos! Thanks again for the inspiration!
Thank you very much for your video ! In enjoyed your deep analysis, enthousiastic style, and well-thought interpretation of this marvelous piece. And the same compliment applies to your other videos on Chopin’s masterpieces !
@@gregniemczuk Happy New Year to you too, dear Grzegorza ! Let 2022 be filled with music & your inspiration to make more videos - I hope that many more people will discover them here & enjoy them !
Wow! Your lecture was so exciting! This was the first time I heard an analysis of this familiar and famous polonaise. learned a lot! Thank you 🙏, your passion for music has always inspired me and of course your playing. I was lucky enough to find you on the Internet, an outstanding Polish pianist. I have always liked Eastern European music, folk melodies with singing and dancing... I just heard a Chinese music critic last night talking about a Chinese piano concerto called "Yellow River" created by China's "collective composers" during the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. This play is adapted from the oratorio "Yellow River" created in 1930 when Japan occupied the birthplace of Chinese civilization. She said this concerto was deeply influenced by Chopin. After listening to your lecture today, I really understood what she was talking about. Yes, the familiar Polonaise waves of the Yellow River. Merry Christmas ！
thank you for ALL of these videos, my dad loves this piece and i want to see if i can learn it for him, could you tell me what's the most technically demanding part?, i always test a piece by trying to play well the hardest section of it, and if i'm able to, i have a shot at learning the piece
I’m 66 and have lost much of the dexterity that I once had. Having said that, this piece was never attainable for me. Despite that, I have decided to torture myself (and everyone else in hearing distance) by giving it my best shot. I’m hoping you can give me some advice. In the past, the way that I learned pieces was to first get all of the notes and fingering in my hands and then worry about voicing. Based on your video, I’m rethinking this. Perhaps I need to learn the voicing as I’m learning the notes and fingering. For instance, I wouldn’t have thought to learn the first difficult bits that you describe with the lower voice in the right hand playing staccato while the upper voice is legato. I could see this being difficult to unlearn later. Can you advise me on how you would recommend I approach this? One more question, if I may take more of your time, do you have a recommendation for how to approach the descending octaves if you can barely reach a 9th? Thank you so much for your most excellent tutorials. I’m grateful.
Oh God , sorry!!!! I wanted my voice to be louder maybe that's the reason ☹️. Hopefully other videos are better. There's nothing I can do with this video now. Thanks for watching!
The most difficult part for me (a 4th year player) is the very beginning. Those close parallels. They seem to be hard on my long spindly fingers. Plus, it's a jarring start. Like going from 0-60 mph. Crack your knuckles first?
Great tutorial thanks a lot !!! I noted that you are not repeating the first "mi" of mi mi trill ré mi la in the main theme, as written in the text .... any reason ? Thanks a lot
Hi! Yes, the reason comes straight from Chopin's suggestions. In his piano methods he wrote (or also was saying to his students) that when there is a small note written before the trill, which is the same note as the trill note, it DOESN'T mean to repeat the note, but it means that the trill should START from this written small note. Otherwise, without this note we would start it from the upper note.
Ależ oczywiście, przecież to nie jest nagranie koncertowe ani studyjne...... To analiza, granie jest tu na dalszym planie. To nie ma wielkiego znaczenia na całego wykładu.
@@gregniemczuk Bardzo przepraszam Pana za ośmielenie z mojej strony zwrócenia uwagi. Pierwszy raz to zrobiłem i już na pewno nie powtórzę. Mam wielki zaszczyt ze odpowiedział Pan w ogóle na ten watek, właściwie dla usprawiedliwienia tego wpisu to naprawdę myślałem ze Pan nigdy nie będzie tego czytał a ja po prostu chciałem się pochwalić przed innymi "dobrym słuchem"...ale teraz widzę ze inni będą to czytać z pobłażaniem wiec jest mi teraz wstyd. Jeszcze raz przepraszam i podziwiam Pański talent ...Kochem Chopina , od dzieciństwa słuchałem, bo ciotka (Krystyna Jastrzębska) była Chopenistka.
@@eduardo-v5b2t nic się nie stało. Ja się nie gniewam. Staram się czytać komentarze, bo dostaję powiadomienia o każdym. I staram się w miarę możliwości odpowiadać. Oczywiście gratuluję super słuchu, natomiast musiałem się wytłumaczyć - gdybym w tych filmach kierował się perfekcjonizmem, tobym ich pewnie nigdy nie nagrał... Pozdrawiam serdecznie!
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Illuminating analysis of perhaps Chopin's best-known piece. You helped me discover a lot of new nuances about it, THANKS!
Thank you;
Perfect execution of Chopin' s masterpiece.
Exact timinig for this peace as Chopin wanted.
Great great Greg! Thanks
so much.
Wow! I bow to you and appreciate your words!!!
Thank you for this great analysis! You were able to put words on things I felt, but couldn't articulate properly while listening to this fantastic piece (the meaning of the very first note, the motivic links of the intro with the rest of the piece, etc). I've watched a couple of your Chopin analysis, and I must say your deep understanding of theses pieces is quite remarkable. I haven't stumbled upon a content like this on RUclips since Andras Schiff's lectures on the Beethoven's sonatas. Keep on doing these videos, you are bound to reach a lot more people! Greetings from Quebec
It's an honor for me to receive such a comment from the beautiful Quebec! Well, the pandemic made me start this project and now I'm not going to stop until I'll make all the Chopin's music! Thank you so much for your support!!
I too have loved listening to all of Greg's analyses, it has opened a world of music for me that I didn't even know existed. After seeing all his content with Chopin music, I tried to see if someone had done something similar with the Beethoven sonatas. I hadn't been able to find much of anything, but thanks to your comment, I was able to find all of the Andras Schiff lectures. Thank you for your comment that indirectly helped me!
@francisdufresne4407
Il semble que soyions tous deux d'accord sur l'expertise musicale de Greg de même que sur le don exceptionnel qu'il démontre pour traduire des notions musicales complexes dans un langage accessible aux passionné/e/s de musique classique sans études musicales formelles telle que moi. Et, comme vous, je suis québécoise et je rêve de le voir en spectacle au Québec. Je suis persuadée qu'il serait accueilli chez nous, les bras ouverts.
Bravo and thank you for sharing your knowledge. I've been listening to this piece on repeat for many years now (on and off) and I learned many new analyses/interpretations because of how you explained it.
Thank you for offering so much insight into this wonderful Polonaise. I live in Canada from Polish ancestry. Naturally, I love to play Chopin and by listening to you it inspires me to want to learn this Polonaise .
I enjoy all your lectures on Chopin pieces.
Thank you very much! Nice to meet you and see you here. All the best!
I'm so grateful to you for giving us deep insights, thank you love from India! 🙏
Wonderful!!! Welcome to my musical world!
Ehi Greg, it would be very interesting an analysis of the harmony of the pieces - details of chords, changing, modulations etc...
You are a really fascinating man, thanks for these videos 😁
Thank you! Share when you can please!
Thinking about listening the Mr C. actually play, his own AND others pieces, too, blows my mind.
Impressive!
I've been "tackling" this masterpiece for over one year and a half, and was trying to import myself on how to play it better. I've read a lot and seen a lot of videos on the subject, but I have to say that your analysis is by far the best of all! This video you made should be in every music school, and even in history classes (whether one is a musician or not). Indeed, the links you point out between Chopin's masterpiece, the historical context and the resilience of the Polish people (which could serve as an example to many other peoples) appear obvious and enlightening, and wonderfully help pianists to better interpret F. Chopin's score.
Your explanations and pianistic interpretation often gave me goose bumps, and I even shed a tear even though I'm a man.
Greg, you too are a Pole like Chopin, and I'm sure you feel what Chopin must have felt playing this piece, and you demonstrate it remarkably well.
As a Frenchman, I would have liked F. Chopin to have felt French too, but he kept his Polish soul, and so much the better!
Very humbly: thank you!
Thank you so much! I deeply appreciate your comment. But Chopin's father was French and he loved his father deeply. I am sure he also felt a bit French inside. But the fact that he was raised in Poland and spent there 20 years is the main reason for his feelings. Good for us - his music came from all that!
You are so inspiring and so good. Thank you. What a privilege for young pianists to have all this. Thank you! Thank you very much. This interpretation sent shivers down my spine❤ Will listen to it many times more❤
Thank you so much for your comment!
... and mine as well❣️
5:55 Start of analysis
6:14
6:28 is the Intro connected to rest of piece
6:39 Intro played
7:58 It is connected - here is how
8:13
8:24 First theme
9:13 Two notes - suspension - tension released
10:30 Back to Intro
Starts with one note
10:54 then a chord going up
I am practising this masterpiece thesedays. Your analysis definately help me understand the music better!
I'm so happy to hear that! Good luck!
My blood is now boiling, thanks for that amazing and passionate analysis!
This is one of my favorite pieces and all I can say is thank you for unveiling some of its mysteries and making me reflect deeper about it! I appreciate so much all your hard work as I'm sure all your viewers do as well! Please keep going! Your passion I felt so clearly and encourages me so much as a musician! Wishing you all things wonderful in this life!
Akurat celuje w mojej drodze nauki gry na fortepianie w nauke gry poloneza as dur op 53. Bardzo dobrze jest zapoznac sie z tym utworem tak dokladnie z Pana pomocą. Świetnie pouczajace. Pozdrawiam z Polski.
Również serdecznie pozdrawiam i życzę powodzenia! To gigantyczne wyzwanie ale i piękna motywacja!
Thank you for this!
I love your devotion.
I teachers in my country were Iike you.
Thanks.
You matter to me ❤️🎼❤️
It means a lot. Thank you!
I really enjoy your thoughts on this music! I have always been puzzled by the lyrical section on this piece as well. I feel it has the mood of a mazurka, but without the typical rhythm...
Thank you!! Yes, it might be some kind of longing for his mother land...
Thank you for your generosity and for the powerful vibes, I really loved this video and everything you say here is so fascinating, it brings our interpretation to the next level! There is a lot of deepness to what you say, I had countless music teachers and many of them just teach students to read the scores and press keys, understanding the core of the music we play is so essential but it looks like often it is not given to everyone.
Thank you so much! You have no idea how happy you've made me with this comment. Absolutely!!!! I agree with you! I love teaching and inspire people. I love music and I love sharing my passion to it with the world. I made analyses of all Chopin pieces during COVID-19 times. You are invited to watch them all! You can find them on playlists on my channel. Thank you again and all the best!!
@@gregniemczukWe can feel your passion in the video, it is very uplifting! It will certainly push many of us here to work harder :) and I look forward to watching all the other videos! Thanks again for the inspiration!
Great video!! Congratulations!
Best regards, Georgios Marinakis, Istanbul, Turkey :)
Thank you so much!
Bravo! This was both an inspiring lecture and an uplifting interpretation. Thank you very much! Mike Minihane from Massachusetts, USA.
Thank you very much! All the best!
Amazing video!! I really enjoyed it 😁
Thanks!
Thank you very much for your video ! In enjoyed your deep analysis, enthousiastic style, and well-thought interpretation of this marvelous piece. And the same compliment applies to your other videos on Chopin’s masterpieces !
Thank you so much dear Winfried. I appreciate your comment. Have a happy New Year!!
@@gregniemczuk Happy New Year to you too, dear Grzegorza ! Let 2022 be filled with music & your inspiration to make more videos - I hope that many more people will discover them here & enjoy them !
Ahoj Greg :).Your video tutorials are amazing, full of emotions and enthusiasm. I truly enjoy watching your piano channel.
Thank you dear Anicka!
Wonderful! Thank you.
I wish I could give you more than one like!
that part in g major at 35:55 is so calming and satisfying
Thanks!
Thank you Maria! I appreciate it!
Fantastic analysis
Thank you!
You welcome
Wow! Your lecture was so exciting! This was the first time I heard an analysis of this familiar and famous polonaise. learned a lot! Thank you 🙏, your passion for music has always inspired me and of course your playing. I was lucky enough to find you on the Internet, an outstanding Polish pianist. I have always liked Eastern European music, folk melodies with singing and dancing...
I just heard a Chinese music critic last night talking about a Chinese piano concerto called "Yellow River" created by China's "collective composers" during the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. This play is adapted from the oratorio "Yellow River" created in 1930 when Japan occupied the birthplace of Chinese civilization. She said this concerto was deeply influenced by Chopin. After listening to your lecture today, I really understood what she was talking about. Yes, the familiar Polonaise waves of the Yellow River.
Merry Christmas ！
Thank you so much! I'm happy to hear that
@@gregniemczuk Can you kindly recommend some books about Chopin’s music story or life?
@@yoyichen4470 I strongly recommend Alan Walker's biography!
@@gregniemczuk great， I will get it.
15:54 saving this timestamp for my own purposes
thank you for ALL of these videos, my dad loves this piece and i want to see if i can learn it for him, could you tell me what's the most technically demanding part?, i always test a piece by trying to play well the hardest section of it, and if i'm able to, i have a shot at learning the piece
Wonderful! Definitely the middle part with octaves in the left hand. Start from that! It's a great strategy!
@@gregniemczuk thxxxx :D
I’m 66 and have lost much of the dexterity that I once had. Having said that, this piece was never attainable for me. Despite that, I have decided to torture myself (and everyone else in hearing distance) by giving it my best shot. I’m hoping you can give me some advice. In the past, the way that I learned pieces was to first get all of the notes and fingering in my hands and then worry about voicing. Based on your video, I’m rethinking this. Perhaps I need to learn the voicing as I’m learning the notes and fingering. For instance, I wouldn’t have thought to learn the first difficult bits that you describe with the lower voice in the right hand playing staccato while the upper voice is legato. I could see this being difficult to unlearn later. Can you advise me on how you would recommend I approach this? One more question, if I may take more of your time, do you have a recommendation for how to approach the descending octaves if you can barely reach a 9th? Thank you so much for your most excellent tutorials. I’m grateful.
Merci!
🌷🥰🌷🥰🌷
Thank you!
@@gregniemczuk You deserve so much more.
Great analysis, however the buzzing from the audio is very distracting. Regardless, thanks for sharing!
Oh God , sorry!!!! I wanted my voice to be louder maybe that's the reason ☹️. Hopefully other videos are better. There's nothing I can do with this video now. Thanks for watching!
I know what was the problem. I put the recorder on my piano! And it absorbed some sounds from the piano. That was a mistake which later I changed.
@@gregniemczuk just finished watching, no need for apologies. This video was a delight, beautiful performance at the end! Looking forward to more!
58:05 BRAVO! CLAP CLAP
The most difficult part for me (a 4th year player) is the very beginning. Those close parallels. They seem to be hard on my long spindly fingers. Plus, it's a jarring start. Like going from 0-60 mph. Crack your knuckles first?
I understand you. I recorded a tutorial on this piece. Try to find it on RUclips. I hope it will be helpful for you.
Maybe don't play it legato?
Great tutorial thanks a lot !!! I noted that you are not repeating the first "mi" of mi mi trill ré mi la in the main theme, as written in the text .... any reason ? Thanks a lot
Hi! Yes, the reason comes straight from Chopin's suggestions. In his piano methods he wrote (or also was saying to his students) that when there is a small note written before the trill, which is the same note as the trill note, it DOESN'T mean to repeat the note, but it means that the trill should START from this written small note. Otherwise, without this note we would start it from the upper note.
@@gregniemczuk crystal clear !!! Thanks a lot Greg
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czy 51.17 jest wszystko ok?
Na 53.52 poslizgnal sie panu panec...
Ależ oczywiście, przecież to nie jest nagranie koncertowe ani studyjne...... To analiza, granie jest tu na dalszym planie. To nie ma wielkiego znaczenia na całego wykładu.
@@gregniemczuk Bardzo przepraszam Pana za ośmielenie z mojej strony zwrócenia uwagi. Pierwszy raz to zrobiłem i już na pewno nie powtórzę. Mam wielki zaszczyt ze odpowiedział Pan w ogóle na ten watek, właściwie dla usprawiedliwienia tego wpisu to naprawdę myślałem ze Pan nigdy nie będzie tego czytał a ja po prostu chciałem się pochwalić przed innymi "dobrym słuchem"...ale teraz widzę ze inni będą to czytać z pobłażaniem wiec jest mi teraz wstyd. Jeszcze raz przepraszam i podziwiam Pański talent ...Kochem Chopina , od dzieciństwa słuchałem, bo ciotka (Krystyna Jastrzębska) była Chopenistka.
@@eduardo-v5b2t nic się nie stało. Ja się nie gniewam. Staram się czytać komentarze, bo dostaję powiadomienia o każdym. I staram się w miarę możliwości odpowiadać. Oczywiście gratuluję super słuchu, natomiast musiałem się wytłumaczyć - gdybym w tych filmach kierował się perfekcjonizmem, tobym ich pewnie nigdy nie nagrał...
Pozdrawiam serdecznie!
heard once Lang Lang playing .....too fast....hopeless
Yes ....
@@gregniemczuk Lang lang wa in the hurry to get Taxi, beznadziejne to bylo...a jeszcze go chwalili ze mloda gwardia, itd...
@@eduardo-v5b2t 🤦🤷