F. Chopin - Prelude no. 24 in D minor Op. 28 no. 24 - analysis. Greg Niemczuk's lecture
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2021
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the left hand deserves more analysis. It is a unique form for Chopin, both in its unwavering shape and its repetition. Much more than just the background to what is happening in the foreground, it is its own story, a relentless, unstoppable force that eats away at anything that is going on in the right hand, finally consuming the superficial emotions of the lightweight in those dread three notes, drowning them, even, as they are played below the level of the 5-note arpeggio. Those 5 notes create a special effect, completely the opposite of Chopin's normal arpeggios, which delight in opening the hand and experimenting with every possible musical harmony. The effect combines the menace he wishes to portray precisely because it is not completed with a 6th, like an engine that doesn't start but is constantly tried, or a mastiff barking but that doesn't bite.
Thank you for enriching this video with your precious comment.
Fabulous interpretation and execution! I never had such a musical experience with this prelude. Thank you so much. I can't wait for your recordings and I'd love to hear you in a live concert in Milan.
I hope it will be possible soon. Thank you so much!
These type of analysis’ make the music that much more interesting. Thank you, the history is just as important as the music we are listening to. That’s because it wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the stories that lie between the notes and silence. Thank you again, for such a wonderful translation and explanation!
Thank you so much for watching and for your words!
When you read the diary it made me tear up a lot, i almost cried l. Same when i listen to this music now. When you said "and this should be the end of the analysis" when you finished the piece, it hit me hard, and i agree. Great video!!! Your analysis are not just of the structure but there of the emotion the history, the composer, and the pure music wich the composer intended. You and these videos inspire very much!!! I love your genuine enthusiasm for the music, i have this enthusiasm as well but i have no one around me that share's this enthusiasm sadly. Even my music teachers don't. I live in a middle of nowhere culturally dead place, but i just wish i could talk to someone with the same enthusiasm as you and i, i wish i could have a teacher like you!!! Thank you for these video's, they help and inspire me so much!!! I have learnt so much from these videos!!! I cant wait for the next!!
Ohhh, I feel for you!
I'm also teaching online via WhatsApp or Skype, if you like sometimes we can have an inspiring lesson.
Yes, I'm totally crazy about Chopin and music in general. Thank you for your sincere comment which came straight to my heart!
Thank you, it means so much to me. I could barely hear you playing because I was crying so hard. I can’t wait to learn this piece.
Thank you for this sincere comment. Good luck,!
I misread the title and until you played the piece thought you were talking about op 28 no 4. Imagine my surprise when you started playing. It was my first time hearing this prelude and I very much enjoyed it. Hearing you talk about the music always makes the listening experience very emotional. Cheers
Wow!!! Hahahahah, I can't even imagine the shock! You're invited to watch other videos as well!! Best wishes, Greg
Thank you so much for your passion and dedication and bravo! I was just brushing up on prelude no 24 and definitely your lecture helps me a lot! Will incorporate your ideas.
Also I had not learned no 23 and was exploring that trill left hand knowing it is a difficulty of that piece. After watching your lecture on no 23, everything clicked and I will perform 23-24 as a set now. I agree with you such concentrated poetry, playing all the 24 preludes as a set may be too much, but they are very effective in groups.
Good luck with continuation of your project!
Thank you so much! Good luck with the whole opus. It's always a challenge!
Wow when you open the prelude there, your left hand is amazing I have no words at your execution
Thank you! I appreciate it
Oh my god you're so good 😍 thank you for taking the time to do this
I am so impressed by watching this video. The sight that I listen this prelude or other chopin's songs is changed when I watch your analysis. Thank you for changing my skill how to listen classical music and how to interpret composer's intention in the work.
Thank you so much. I enjoy all your short lectures on the backgrounds! I try to use your thoughts for my own playing of this prelude. Your current etudes series is a wonderful new year gift!
Thank you!!!
grand merci pour ce que vous avez fait.
SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS, MAESTRO!!!!! Thank you for my favourite Chopin's Prelude known as "Burza" in an excellent rendition and for your analysis/tutorial, this great video will be helpful for many pianists, again my best regards, have a nice evening. Joanna
That is incredible ❤️🥺
Thank you
Phenomenal series on the Preludes, Greg. I really enjoyed your perspective on the pieces, as well as the historical background that you provide.
Thank you very much! You're invited to watch also other videos. Best wishes!
Wonderful video man really felt touched with one ❤
Thank you!
Thank you Greg!
I have been really looking forward to Greg's analysis of this piece ever since I first encountered it during the summer of 2021. It really blew me away the first time I heard it. Greg's analysis was very insightful and in-depth on this amazing piece of music, offering much to think about. Thank you Greg ! I like Greg's interpretation of the piece but he gave me a little surprise at the end with his interpretation of the dynamics of the last few bars. This was because I got used to listening to Ivo Pogorelich's version, where his final crescendo is very subtle, in fact I am wondering if Ivo even paid attention to the crescendo indication. Also with Grigory Sokolov, he plays the final few bar with only a slight crescendo relative to the start. Since Chopin did not specify an absolute indication f, or ff or fff etc, I guess there is much room for interpretation.
what a class Greg. Thank you
Thanks!
Perfect!
I dont know why , this prelude reminds me the scriabin Etude op 8 no 12. The tragic sound. Thanks for your work Greg you're the best !
:p I always had in my mind that preludes were supposed to warm the hands for the specific key, but then again there are many modulations going on in such a short amount of time...
Thank you again for such a great series! You have boosted my interest in Chopin's music, which was already high to begin with!
Regarding the debate of whether the Op.28 is a cycle, I recently learned that there is a book by Anatole Leikin (2015) titled The Mystery of Chopin's Preludes, entirely dedicated to discussing the Op.28, including a discussion about the hypothesis of a cohesive cycle. I have not read it yet, but the reviews I found speak highly of it. Perhaps you know about that book? In any case, I look forward to listening to your recordings!
Greatest song by Greg Niemczuk's pianist
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Great video. Thank you. I looked this up as i just started learning this fantastic piece of music. I was looking keenly for your timing of the right hand A melodic minor scale against the potential left hand collision. My music shows the right hand waiting until the left hand is out of the way. I don't think that was intended by Chopin. I prefer the way you play the hands together (same as most other recordings i have listened to). Thanks for your help clarifying this!!
I always thought the repeated low D notes at the end were bells tolling for relatives/friends he was concerned may have perished.
It looks so easy when you playing this prelude…and it is skill level 9
Thank you!!! Well, I'm a concert pianist and I started playing piano at the age of 7. It must work like that 😊
It is like Alfredo perl.
Listening to this piece does not make me feel sad. Perhaps I tune in more to the heroic or stoic aspect, and just admire the noble solemn beauty. We all eventually die, so a minor chord at the end is fitting. Perhaps the song is a metaphor for the journey through life. We start off in full vigor, energy and health and as we grow older, we become physically less robust, but gaining in wisdom, empathy and appreciation of life until eventually we die.
Beautiful words. Thank you so much!
Congratulations for the series! Any plans to review the #25 from the op. 45?
Yes! On Sunday!
@@gregniemczuk excellent! Thank you! You need to rest of all these hardwork!
May I ask what your favourite prelude is? Mine is this
B-major and F-major
We are still combatting misinformation about Chopin leaving Poland. The Oxford Companion to Music, from one of the most prestigious universities, claims that: "Although he clearly drew much of his inspiration from a private, idealized image of Poland, Chopin found his way of life in Paris congenial and soon put to the back of his mind any thoughts of returning to his homeland." This theory was also being perpetuated by the spokesman of the Chopin Institute, Aleksander Laskowski. This is clearly false considering the Stuttgart diary. The sources of this entry also look really bad, all the sources used were by the author of the entry himself, except for one source about Chopin's sex life. I was at a masterclass with a Russian pianist who almost refused to admit that Chopin was from Poland. He said: "This is the most Beethovenesque piece that Chopin has ever written. But Chopin isn't Beethoven; he was half French, half----Eastern European." There was a very long pause before he finally said "Eastern European." He had to eventually admit that Chopin is Polish when he made an attempt to prove that Chopin did not believe in God. Maybe the breakout of the Ukrainian Conflict with Russia will open the eyes of the West to the atrocities of Russia. Chopin's piano was destroyed by the Muscovites after he left Poland.
Thank you for these important words. Yes I made this series of all Chopin's music also for that. To fight with misinformation and to tell the truth!!!
Hi maestro, recently I came across maestro Fou Ts'ong's master class about whole set of Chopin's preludes. For this prelude, he mentioned the appearance of fifth D-A-F-D-A and it is connected with how the first prelude starts with C-G-E-C-G and I realised that the rhythm is quite similar to the rhythm of the beginning left hand part of prelude in d minor. This is interesting in my opinion and maybe it is another evidence that Chopin thought the prelude as a whole.
Yes, it's very interesting and very possible!
the notes you cited were written in 1831, and the preludes were created from 1835-1839. I don't think it has a direct connection. Perhaps as a memory of those tragic times...
Yes, you're of course right but we have no proof that this Prelude was written exactly in those years.... He could have this theme in his head already earlier.. who knows ..... It's very powerful anyways
@@gregniemczuk I'm agree. If it weren't for this dark page of Chopin's life, we might never have heard this masterpiece.
I think it is interesting that this is the only piece published non-posthumously by Chopin in D minor. I wonder if he just didn't like it or there is some other reason why it was reserved for this piece?
Definitely very interesting!!
Indeed he seemed not to like this key. Nobody knows why.
das Wollen ist da, nur das Können fehlt ..
This piece ... I can't help thinking of Ukraine. History is always repeating itself. That's the feeling of ... homeland is on fire. 🙁
Yes...... When I was recording this, the world was different.....
What a sad Prelude to analyse Maestro. Must be even harder because you are Polish. The Nationalistic pain can be felt.
Yes indeed!