I was recently invited to host the National Chopin Competition livestreams from Miami this January. I said yes, on one condition: that I partner with the Chopin Foundation of the United States to create an multipart series digging deep into Chopin's music and approaching it from different angles with Garrick Ohlsson and a host of other guests. I'm honored that they agreed to my proposal! You're watching the beginning of what will be an ongoing collaboration through the fall, in anticipation of the big Chopin year in 2025 - as the best young Chopin pianists seek entry into the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where they will compete for the ultimate prize in arguably the biggest classical music event in the world. Go ahead and subscribe to the US Chopin Foundation's RUclips channel, where the livestreams will be aired in January: www.youtube.com/@chopinfoundationoftheunite8079 To learn more about the Foundation, and the US National Chopin Competition, check out their website: chopin.org For more on The Chopin Podcast, visit chopinpodcast.com The podcast is currently up on Spotify, Amazon/Audible, and Deezer, and will eventually appear on Apple Music (they just take their time, for whatever reason).
Your previous interview with Garrick where you talked about Chopin has got to be one of the coziest videos on this entire website for pianists, and now we're getting an entire podcast about ALL of Chopin's works?! Thank you Ben and Garrick!
I'm massively fanboying right now (is that a word?) Garrick Ohlsson and Ben Laude collaborating to talk about Chopin? I'm going to be in piano nerd heaven. Can't wait!
Can't wait. Chopin is one of my favourite composers. I love playing the piano. Garrick Ohlsson is a great communicator. This Chopin podcast will be a gift from Chopin's kingdom!
I am sooooooo excited about this series! Chopin has recently become my second favorite. 😍 and I recently fell wildly in love with Garrick’s 1st Ballade. 🖤🎹
Hearing Mr. Ohlsson live is something else. I heard him in NYC in a program filled with Liszt and a Busoni transcription of a Liszt work for organ called "Fantasie & Fuge über den Choral 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam'." Unforgettable! He can produce a really massive, yet rounded sounded from the piano like very few can.
Dearest Ben Laude, It is Friday Sept. 6th. 2024 and 14.30 hrs. You may go ahead and post as many podcasts as you like and I shall watch them all, until it is after midnight and I have to go to sleep. Thank you Ben. 🌷🌷🌷
Each new video notification from your channel always makes me a bit happier, especially if this is gonna be a series. About CHOPIN. I hope you enjoy learning about it as much as we do ❤
It's great to see someone like you putting so much effort into creating content about the music I listen to everyday and which I adore with all of my heart!! You sir, have a new subscriber!! 🔥 😊
Thank you so much for this brilliant podcast (and that it's not an audio only podcast)! I will be glued to each episode! Thank you again and all the best!
But October's a month away!! I want to binge this today!! But good thing is that the wait gives me some time to re-visit some of the nocturnes, waltzes, preludes and mazurkas I played in the past so that they will be fresh in my mind and fingers when the corresponding episodes drop. Very excited
I’m playing Chopin’s 3rd Ballade for the first round of MTNA at the end of October; please tell me that you’re episode about the Chopin Ballades will be out by then! 🥲
The video should be called "The greatest pianist who ever composed", Although Chopin is a composer who truly revolutionised the piano, but he didn't write anything that is as beautiful as his contemporaries, like Schumann, Mendelssohn and Beethoven. He wrote for the piano, but he didn't write for music.
Greatest piano music ever composed? Haven't you heard of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert? And Bach who didn't even have a piano? Believe me, after 60 years of listening to music Chopin quickly becomes tiresome.
I think it’s difficult to deny that Chopin is the most pianistic composer who ever lived, in terms of his writing and innovation for the instrument. Whether or not you find it boring is another matter
I was recently invited to host the National Chopin Competition livestreams from Miami this January. I said yes, on one condition: that I partner with the Chopin Foundation of the United States to create an multipart series digging deep into Chopin's music and approaching it from different angles with Garrick Ohlsson and a host of other guests. I'm honored that they agreed to my proposal! You're watching the beginning of what will be an ongoing collaboration through the fall, in anticipation of the big Chopin year in 2025 - as the best young Chopin pianists seek entry into the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where they will compete for the ultimate prize in arguably the biggest classical music event in the world.
Go ahead and subscribe to the US Chopin Foundation's RUclips channel, where the livestreams will be aired in January: www.youtube.com/@chopinfoundationoftheunite8079
To learn more about the Foundation, and the US National Chopin Competition, check out their website: chopin.org
For more on The Chopin Podcast, visit chopinpodcast.com
The podcast is currently up on Spotify, Amazon/Audible, and Deezer, and will eventually appear on Apple Music (they just take their time, for whatever reason).
😍😍😍😍😍💘💘💘💚💙
Your previous interview with Garrick where you talked about Chopin has got to be one of the coziest videos on this entire website for pianists, and now we're getting an entire podcast about ALL of Chopin's works?! Thank you Ben and Garrick!
I'm massively fanboying right now (is that a word?) Garrick Ohlsson and Ben Laude collaborating to talk about Chopin? I'm going to be in piano nerd heaven. Can't wait!
“Someone not far from you is sitting at the piano playing the music of Chopin.”
Me: “Well of course I know him, he’s me”
@@jackschieferdecker4656 same
So accurate!
not joking, i was just finishing up the c-minor prelude when he said that. ruined the ending with laughing
@@nojohns1748 haha whoops that’s like laughing during a funeral
Exactly, I'm playing one of his preludes too!
I love Chopin...his music expresses all human emotions....It is mesmerizing, dreamy, sad, joyful, hopeful....it has it all!❤
Soooo excited for this! Your piano content is so consistently interesting, I hope this new branch is a success for you 🎹
I am in and super stoked! Your content is always top shelf and highly anticipated. Thank you, Ben.
Can't wait. Chopin is one of my favourite composers. I love playing the piano. Garrick Ohlsson is a great communicator. This Chopin podcast will be a gift from Chopin's kingdom!
I love Chopin he was my gateway drug into the world of Classical music, can’t wait for this podcast!
I am sooooooo excited about this series! Chopin has recently become my second favorite. 😍 and I recently fell wildly in love with Garrick’s 1st Ballade. 🖤🎹
Hearing Mr. Ohlsson live is something else. I heard him in NYC in a program filled with Liszt and a Busoni transcription of a Liszt work for organ called "Fantasie & Fuge über den Choral 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam'." Unforgettable! He can produce a really massive, yet rounded sounded from the piano like very few can.
Who doesn't love Chopin... impossible not to fall in love with his music...
Glenn G. ;)
@@benlawdy😮😮😅🤣🫨🤯
@@benlawdy He was just pretending 😄
Dearest Ben Laude, It is Friday Sept. 6th. 2024 and 14.30 hrs. You may go ahead and post as many podcasts as you like and I shall watch them all, until it is after midnight and I have to go to sleep. Thank you Ben. 🌷🌷🌷
The research you have done with top pianists is admirable.
Each new video notification from your channel always makes me a bit happier, especially if this is gonna be a series. About CHOPIN. I hope you enjoy learning about it as much as we do ❤
Can’t wait! Already subscribed Ben!
It's great to see someone like you putting so much effort into creating content about the music I listen to everyday and which I adore with all of my heart!! You sir, have a new subscriber!! 🔥 😊
So Excited! This is going to be awesome.
Awesome!! So looking forward to this!!
Thanks Ben. I know this will be great!
Thank you so much for this brilliant podcast (and that it's not an audio only podcast)! I will be glued to each episode! Thank you again and all the best!
This is so nice!!! I love your video’s, Ben.
Thank you for doing this.
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Wonderful. Thank you for doing this!! 😊
Can't wait for the podcast
SOO excited for this ❤
I cant wait!
Chopin is the ONE TRUE MASTER of piano. Even his smaller works like Nocturne 48/I or Mazurka 17/4 have unfathomable depths to them.
Very excited about this one!
can't wait for it. Thank you Ben.
But October's a month away!! I want to binge this today!! But good thing is that the wait gives me some time to re-visit some of the nocturnes, waltzes, preludes and mazurkas I played in the past so that they will be fresh in my mind and fingers when the corresponding episodes drop. Very excited
Chopin's music is the best!
can't wait!
So excited!
Chopin is the best composer for the piano
Great idea!
I’m playing Chopin’s 3rd Ballade for the first round of MTNA at the end of October; please tell me that you’re episode about the Chopin Ballades will be out by then! 🥲
@@Elijah24553 you’re in luck www.chopinpodcast.com/episodes
@@benlawdy Gasp, hooray! Thank you. 😃
Sounds great :)
The caption in 1:21 ends with a period which really changes the meaning! Chopin did not play badly!
Ha good catch
nice!!
Yeeesssssss 🙏
Can you please one day take a dive into Glenn Gould’s Chopin 3rd sonata? It would be perfect for this podcast.
This is the exciting :)
Can you also do a podcast on the other "Greatest Piano Music Ever Composed", namely Robert Schumann?
You misspelled Alexander Scriabin
i see he recorded on hyperion. so did demidenko who i used to know in London.
Where did you buy the shirt?
I expect an entire episode on Chopin’s Fugue 😁
Or maybe dedicating the whole series just to the First Sonata…
What is the name of the book that is standing up on the small table behind you? Thank you.
@@gjtube37 it’s a collection of Chopin’s letters, published by Dover
@@benlawdy Thank you!
New video!
What about his Shartzos?
@@Daniel_Zalman you’re thinking of a different show…pan podcast
@@benlawdy Lawdy, lawdy! You right, Mr. Laude. Fred Showpan wrote dem Shartzos.
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The picture of chopin is from 1847
Thanks for the correction!
"Chopin is the greatest of them all, for with the piano alone he discovered everything."
- Claude Debussy
Ben, why must you torture us so? Release a preview, but no 1st episode until a month...?
@@purpleowl2075there will be something this weekend that should tide you over
@@benlawdy Blessed be the content creators 🙏 thank you so much Ben
Hi folks, a big fan of Ben here. Anyone knows if he is still with tonebase? Or not anymore?
Not anymore
I love Bach,Chopin,Debussy and Ravel.Thats all i need.Hate Beethoven and Mozart.
"The Greatest Piano Music ever Composed" was not composed by Chopin.
@@PatjMcGee it’s a a value judgment of course, so it can’t be verified. Chopin certainly has a claim to the title. What’s your favorite piano music?
The video should be called "The greatest pianist who ever composed", Although Chopin is a composer who truly revolutionised the piano, but he didn't write anything that is as beautiful as his contemporaries, like Schumann, Mendelssohn and Beethoven. He wrote for the piano, but he didn't write for music.
Scriabin might disagree ;)
Greatest piano music ever composed? Haven't you heard of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert? And Bach who didn't even have a piano? Believe me, after 60 years of listening to music Chopin quickly becomes tiresome.
I think it’s difficult to deny that Chopin is the most pianistic composer who ever lived, in terms of his writing and innovation for the instrument. Whether or not you find it boring is another matter
I descended the comments to find someone complaining about the title; I was not disappointed.
@@km10is I love doing that! I crave the controversy. Lol
I'm amazed after 60 years your desert island phonograph is still working on coconut juice.