You are awesome!!! It’s a privilege to hear a wonderful performer like you articulate in words what the music is about…. This session explained so much what I felt but couldn’t put in words. Also the pedalling! I always thought I was doing it wrong as I’d use the pedal intuitively and realised it was not as marked in the score!! I recently acquired my “dream” piano and it is able to do a lot of that sort of pedalling without sounding muddled! I also realised from your description why I always feel emotional exhausted after playing the Moonlight. It’s gorgeous but not something I can play too often!! Thank you 🙏
This is amazing. Hereafter my appreciation of this Sonata will be completely on a different level. Thank so much for your changing the moonlight perception of this.
Love your masterclass and interpretation of this piece. You put into words my feelings on what this music is about and how to play. I interpret it in a similar way. I like the reference to an "echo". I hadn't conciously thought of it in that way. You made me cry with your descriptions and presentation of the piece in full.
This was the greatest masterclass ever! Thank so much to go deeper and deeper in the details. The no. 14 was my first piano sonata learned, and with your lesson i've just felt more soul to it then never before!
Excellent masterclass. I like the views on the various editions too. I agree full with your phrasing and I play it in the same way. Personally I never understood this piece properly until I had learnt the much more difficult third movement. That put everything into much clearer perspective. I've tried several editions myself, including an early Forster, but for performance of the entire three part sonata, Henle is my go to even though I don't always agree with the fingering.
this is great. I feel the same way as Yulia for many parts. There is one part I feel somewhat different, which is I'd feel Beethoven wouldn't ask for help, but rather, stuck in his pride that he is a genius and why is he treated that way by the nobleman, asking him to play in front of them, yet see him low and not worthy of marrying his daughter. This translate into some kind of sorrow and despair, and disappointment is human race. Also some parts of this piece I'd play it slowly, because I feel I am in the sorrow, and sorrow to me is slow, agonizing, so it cannot be going fast. It is like he went back to the place he lived, and feeling sad, and it is a torturing feeling, and it just went on and on, so it is a slow painful process
The melody switch to natural "d" in the latter half of bar 39 usually fills me with horror, in a fantastic way! If sostenuto is added rightly, it leaves this tritone-ish background behind the melody, floating thru the gloomy atmosphere.
Thank you for the nice explanations. Personally, I hate classical music, because I was forced to play the piano when I was young. Now, as an old man, I like to play rock and love songs with the guitar. But I also like to play the moonlight sonata together with the piano, as the sustain on the piano is much easier to achieve then on the guitar. In this way much room for different interpretations are possible 🤓 😋.
thank you so much for your comment - i am so happy people find it helpful and am so happy you enjoy different interpretations - probably very beautiful with the guitar
My best masterclass on this first movement would be to strongly advise people who simply aren't ready not to play it. Until you have around 10 or so classical sonatas under your belt, you have no way to even begin playing this piece sensibly. You should already know the finer points of pedaling, this is simply not the piece to learn pedaling. You should be well past the stage of basic insecurities about your technique. Lastly, there are three movements to this sonata and you should play all three and exercise care and attention to every passage that they are all of uniform quality and can be played with confidence. Do all that first and maybe we can have a masterclass.
And here I am. I began playing last year and this is the song I asked my teacher to teach me. 😂 I’m half way done learning, though you are absolutely correct. I am not satisfied with my peddling and spend 2-3 hours a day practicing.
That famous dotted eigth/sixteenth figue starting in the fifth measure : why do most pianists play the sixteenth not too slow, and also hesitate slightly after that note before playing the first note of the next measure ? Almost like they are playing it like a triplet rather than dotted eigth/sixteenth ? Instead of DAH..deDAH , they play it more DAH..DAHDAH. One pianist who playes it better to the spirit of dotted eigth/sixteenth, more in the "chopin funeral march " style, is Wilhlm Kempff : ruclips.net/video/_ZdMxFiUf9Q/видео.html . Would you like to comment on that, Yulia ? ( by the way, you play wonderfully ! )
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Such a pleasure to have done this project! Please let me know if you have any questions!!Would be delighted to connect.
You are awesome!!! It’s a privilege to hear a wonderful performer like you articulate in words what the music is about…. This session explained so much what I felt but couldn’t put in words. Also the pedalling! I always thought I was doing it wrong as I’d use the pedal intuitively and realised it was not as marked in the score!! I recently acquired my “dream” piano and it is able to do a lot of that sort of pedalling without sounding muddled! I also realised from your description why I always feel emotional exhausted after playing the Moonlight. It’s gorgeous but not something I can play too often!! Thank you 🙏
Now my little grand daughter wants to learn and these clips have really helped. I just can't thank you enough.
My right ear really enjoyed this
Your wearing your headphones backwards.
The sustain on that piano is insane!
it's a phenomenal piano indeed
It is a Bosendorfer after all!:)
This is amazing. Hereafter my appreciation of this Sonata will be completely on a different level. Thank so much for your changing the moonlight perception of this.
Love your masterclass and interpretation of this piece. You put into words my feelings on what this music is about and how to play. I interpret it in a similar way. I like the reference to an "echo". I hadn't conciously thought of it in that way. You made me cry with your descriptions and presentation of the piece in full.
A beautiful masterclass with the clair de lune from Beethoven. Lots of questions with humanity. THANKS a lot. And a Merry Christmas to you.
Beautiful interpretation and impressions.
Thank you for your interpretation and love the pedalling explaination
Thank you for this awesome lesson! ❤️
This was the greatest masterclass ever! Thank so much to go deeper and deeper in the details. The no. 14 was my first piano sonata learned, and with your lesson i've just felt more soul to it then never before!
Extraordinary, the best interpretation of this piece ever.
Thank you! Learning this now
Your insights are very helpful.😊
Beautiful playing and delivery. You have gave ideas on improving my playing of this piece.
it is so wonderful to hear from you - i am very glad it was helpful!
What a wonderful masterclass. Thank you very much for these insights, your lovely presentation and playing.
Thank you so much for your kind words!!
that's so kind, so glad you enjoyed it!
Very beautiful, great sound, very emotional. Thank you from California.
Mesmerizing; Thank you 🥰
Excellent masterclass. I like the views on the various editions too. I agree full with your phrasing and I play it in the same way. Personally I never understood this piece properly until I had learnt the much more difficult third movement. That put everything into much clearer perspective. I've tried several editions myself, including an early Forster, but for performance of the entire three part sonata, Henle is my go to even though I don't always agree with the fingering.
And wonderful interpretation thank you♥️
thank you !!
Love the piano. and the playing too....
Enhorabuena por el tutorial, una maravilla en lo didáctico y artístico. 👏👏👏👏
Wonderful. Thank you very much
this is great. I feel the same way as Yulia for many parts. There is one part I feel somewhat different, which is I'd feel Beethoven wouldn't ask for help, but rather, stuck in his pride that he is a genius and why is he treated that way by the nobleman, asking him to play in front of them, yet see him low and not worthy of marrying his daughter. This translate into some kind of sorrow and despair, and disappointment is human race. Also some parts of this piece I'd play it slowly, because I feel I am in the sorrow, and sorrow to me is slow, agonizing, so it cannot be going fast. It is like he went back to the place he lived, and feeling sad, and it is a torturing feeling, and it just went on and on, so it is a slow painful process
Great lesson 🤍
The melody switch to natural "d" in the latter half of bar 39 usually fills me with horror, in a fantastic way! If sostenuto is added rightly, it leaves this tritone-ish background behind the melody, floating thru the gloomy atmosphere.
lindo e preciosas dicas.
Love your comparison to the 4th Concerto. Like the Orchestra and piano are having 2 different conversations...
Nice!
thank you!!
Does music make you cry with its beauty?
can you write the name of the two books... trying to find it on Amazon but can't... maybe I didn't get the spelling right
This poem from Dahlberg is so useful. Would you mind to share it here in written and give some references (Book, poem title,etc.)?
I have a book called the joy of beethoven. I want the mozart and chopin versions too.
Skip the first 9 minutes.
You could have offered technical insight about how to voice the melody, many students have trouble with it
Like you technical idea
Playing without finger
thank you! that was also suggested in Henle's edition
Is this a 280vc?
Thank you for the nice explanations. Personally, I hate classical music, because I was forced to play the piano when I was young. Now, as an old man, I like to play rock and love songs with the guitar. But I also like to play the moonlight sonata together with the piano, as the sustain on the piano is much easier to achieve then on the guitar. In this way much room for different interpretations are possible 🤓 😋.
thank you so much for your comment - i am so happy people find it helpful and am so happy you enjoy different interpretations - probably very beautiful with the guitar
Too slow. Try it at 70 bpm.
My best masterclass on this first movement would be to strongly advise people who simply aren't ready not to play it. Until you have around 10 or so classical sonatas under your belt, you have no way to even begin playing this piece sensibly. You should already know the finer points of pedaling, this is simply not the piece to learn pedaling. You should be well past the stage of basic insecurities about your technique. Lastly, there are three movements to this sonata and you should play all three and exercise care and attention to every passage that they are all of uniform quality and can be played with confidence. Do all that first and maybe we can have a masterclass.
Play Beethoven's op 10 or op 14 instead.
And here I am. I began playing last year and this is the song I asked my teacher to teach me. 😂 I’m half way done learning, though you are absolutely correct. I am not satisfied with my peddling and spend 2-3 hours a day practicing.
Takes her forever to get started teaching…useless.
That famous dotted eigth/sixteenth figue starting in the fifth measure : why do most pianists play the sixteenth not too slow, and also hesitate slightly after that note before playing the first note of the next measure ? Almost like they are playing it like a triplet rather than dotted eigth/sixteenth ? Instead of DAH..deDAH , they play it more DAH..DAHDAH. One pianist who playes it better to the spirit of dotted eigth/sixteenth, more in the "chopin funeral march " style, is Wilhlm Kempff : ruclips.net/video/_ZdMxFiUf9Q/видео.html . Would you like to comment on that, Yulia ? ( by the way, you play wonderfully ! )
i hear you voice only on the left site........... that's a pity .