Pollini plays Chopin Sonata No.2 in B flat Minor, Op.35 - 1. Grave - Doppio movimento
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- One of the most beautiful pearls in the history of music.
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Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin)
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Frédéric Chopin composed his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 mainly in 1839 at Nohant near Chateauroux in France, although the third movement, which comprises the funeral march had been composed as early as 1837.
The sonata consists of four movements.
1. Grave; Doppio movimento
2. Scherzo
3. Marche funèbre: Lento
4. Finale: Presto
The first movement features a stormy opening theme and a gently lyrical second theme. The second movement is a virtuoso scherzo with a more relaxed melodic central section. The third movement begins and ends with the celebrated funeral march in B flat minor which gives the sonata its nickname, but has a calm interlude in D flat major. The finale contains a whirlwind of unison notes with unremitting (not a single rest or chord until the final bars) unvarying tempo or dynamics (changes of volume); James Huneker, in his introduction to the American version of Mikuli edition of the Sonatas, quotes Chopin as saying "The left hand unisono with the right hand are gossiping after the March". Others[weasel words] have remarked that the fourth movement is "wind howling around the gravestones".[citation needed]
The Sonata confused contemporary critics who found it lacked cohesion. Robert Schumann suggested that Chopin had in this sonata "simply bound together four of his most unruly children." (See Schirmer's modern reprint of the Mikuli edition)
5:02 to 5:22 is so full of tension and fury, and yet so beautiful: it's my favorite part of the entire movement, and for me also the most "important" in Chopin's mind.
To me it's the Mind (thirds of right hand) fighting desperately against the realisation of the incoming of Death (octaves of left hand), which affirms imperatively and firmly its unavoidability.
If you look at the lowest octaves of the left hand, you can see that it alludes to the measure that opens the piece; sheer genius on Chopin's part!
@@SubscribersWithoutAVideo-or9jt yeah the counterpoint really is amazing, though you can hear it more clearly in seong jin chos interpretation, which is probably one of the reasons i love it so much.
This Part is also very difficult to play
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@@AnoNym-fz9me the intro is more difficult actually
one of the best chopin´s gifts for humanity
Maurizio Pollini: uno dei più grandi pianisti di ogni tempo ❤❤❤❤❤❤Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962
This may sound a bit personal, but since i'm (despite the name) anonymus, i leave this here: This exact recording of this piece, among a few others, literally saved my life, or at least my sanity, when i was about 12 or 13 years old. And the great thing is: Stumbling on this randomly doesn't even affect me significantly. It's just an amazing piece of music.
Chopin's music is one of the few things that were able to save my life too, indeed - in particular, from a depression that lasted more or less two years.
Pollini's performance of Opus 35 is pure genius. A tug of war between speed and restraint, loudness and restraint - extreme passion - this is not only just what Chopin wanted - it's what he forcefully demanded. Nobody can touch this Pollini interpretation.
Grazie maestro per averci lasciato questa interpretazione divina ❤
1:16 this melody is so beautiful
Its nice to find a song that has 75 likes and no dislikes. That really shows how great the songs are.
PIECE
For real tho
piece*
@@ludwig4029 *violin
@@meme-ky5qf ?
I can see the cold and deep forests of Poland, and I can feel the continental wind.
This music is immortal.
Spectacular - absolutely love this piece and Pollini is truly a genius.
Its so classic Chopin, only he can pull off such mad modulations and chord progressions!
never seen a better version of it. Pollini is outstanding
the scope of chopin's genius is fully seen in this work. he tears through harmonic worlds at the speed of light...
Utterly brilliant!
Only a pianist can really realise the technical difficulties of this piece.
+thrippleton And the emotional... ;)
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever to have been penned - a true marvel in it's entirety.
Thank you for allowing me to read along with this marvelous Pianist!
Wonderful sonata...great performance of Pollini! The best interpreter of Chopin's works in my opinion!
omg it's really One of the most beautiful pearls in the history of music.
I think this is my favourite interpretation I've heard so far... beautiful.
OpinionatedLove I know right? Its perfect!
+OpinionatedLove If you like this, listen to Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli... Old recording, but still just as fantastic.
Honestly, just makes me swoon.
Andrea Brew Chopin tends to do that. :)
Pollini recorded this sonata more recently in which he repeats the exposition returning to the Grave. I think it has become accepted that Chopin intended this. I also heard a live Pollini performance of this work from the Royal Festival Hall (London)in which Pollini I believe reached new heights of expression and with darker colour. It was magnificent and even better than the later recording, though the later recording was close. The central section of the March: smiling throgh tears. Bravo.
Repeat of the Grave is controversial.
I am having a chopingasm
I'm having a eargasm.
That is not a real word
@@sebtruscott-cooper458 he just said the word, so its very much real
@@sebtruscott-cooper458 😏😏😏
Had never heard this and its pretty fantastic.
Now you can consider your musical voyage complete. If you listen to Chopin sonata in B flat, everything after that is just superfluous!
Stunning, this piece is one of the most beautiful pearls in the history of music.
The best interpretation!
Tnanks! I love Pollini so much. P.S. Its nice idea with scores :)
Maybe one of the darkest but also most magnificent pieces in hostory of music!
Unico! Meraviglioso Pollini!
Thanks for splitting the score into sections! Very useful for analysis.
That was strikingly beautiful.
Immortal masterpiece
Wow, I just learned that Pollini passed away on March 23. RIP.
A tensão inicial conduz à suave melodia. No todo é uma obra caracterizada pelo furor romântico.
I love the pearl reference to Baroque music which also means pearl (albeit a misshapen pearl, which is clearly not the case in this composition.)
This is **so** magificent.
One of the most beautiful pearls in the history of music.
Yes.
Magic song
Absolutely incredible piece.
Holy shit, this is amazing!
Jerry Y Hehe
+Jerry Y this is the Internet, sweetie
Chopin can be so incredibly heartbreaking.....
Absolutely!
took only 7:17 with repeat. crazy speed but polini played perfectly.i can't find any technical mistakes
That's the point: it's technically perfect!
I think Pollini is second to Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli for technical accuracy!
@@MaScalo4508 yeah i agree with that. Pollini is great technician!
やっぱりポリーニは一流のピアニストの中でも頭一つ抜けている感じがする。兎に角良い。最後まで聞いてしまうんだよなあ。
Una delle più belle interpretazioni secondo me.
true - apparently added in by the first publisher, not by chopin: too bad no one has the courage to perform it this way!
speaking of textual issues, not sure what edition the score used here is but bar 151-2 shows g natural but pollini plays g flat which is what my henle edition has.
A wonderful performance! (BTW the repeat sign at "Doppio movimento" originated with the engraver of the German first edition--in other words, the exposition should be repeated from "Grave.")
I thought the autograph is lost.
Pollini does that the right way in the 2008 recording
Fantástico!!! Genial interpretação!!!
Magnificent.
Why is your name NEWFranzFerenczLiszt!?!? Am I being replaced?!?!
How the fuck did we go from this to Nicki Minaj?
Meravigliosa!!!
How would you play if you had no fingers?
my favourite remix from dj Chop
In the development of this movement, the left hand plays in 6/4 for a time while the right hand continues along in 2/2. Does anybody know what is the FIRST example of a split time signature (be it between hands or instruments in an ensemble/orchestral setting) written by a MAJOR composer? The only example I can think of pre-Beethoven is the B minor episode of the Mozart K 456 Concerto (Rondo)
CaradhrasAiguo49 It's not split time signatures. It's just divisions. That section is written in 4/4, just the left hand is broken into 6 quarters. Plenty on composers did this before Chopin, I can at least think of Beethoven's pathetique 3rd movement.
CaradhrasAiguo49 what youre referring to in the left hand is a hemiola i think. It's when a phrase of music notated in one type of meter but accented as though it were being played in another meter. The classic hemiola is a phrase of triple meter (in this case 3/4) accented as though it were written in duple (2/4) meter. Hemiolas are often used to give the illusion of accelerando or ritardando.
CaradhrasAiguo49 may not be the first... But Bach :) cantata 147. Both chorale movements. It may not be monumental but its definitely interesting, he uses 9/8 at the same time he uses 3/4.
+Alkalilee Actually, I think it is written in cut time; that's at least what my edition has.
What did he wrote!!!!!! LOVE IT!!
Brilliant.
Which sheet music edition did you use? In the original autograph all the sections in 6/4 were written as crotchet triplets.
I just searched all editions available on IMSLP and still couldn't find one that matched this edition. That is an extremely rare event.
10 people thought they were hitting the like button.
at the beginning of doppio movimento, what does this "2" next to "p" means? Piano squared? :D
that 2 refers to the fingering of the note "f" below it actually :)
Jack Levinson oh, now i see, thanks :)
i am very like this..
@MohoBiechiz i would actually pay twice that much in three installments to be able to play this piece this well.
2:05-2:11 Is there another piece by Chopin with that melody or a very similiar one? I could swear I heard a piece years ago where it was a little slower and more intense. Maybe my memory is not serving me correctly though. I would be glad if somebody has an idea.
Trois Nouvelles Études (B. 130), No. 2 in A-flat major, the first thing that comes to my mind.
1:17
it is not hard to play technically. It is hard to play musically!
It's quite interesting how Pollini does not follow the score dynamics.
It's genre is not sonata. It should be 'Chopin sonata'. Except for basic structure, it is totally creative.
is it only me, or could the others feel whiff of Mozart's 40th symphony somewhere?
Merci, mon mexicain. Je t'amais.
I've not heard the sonatas before. It sounds like silent film music. ;)
The repeat triggers me and Rosen.
When you hear it performed with the repeat at the very beginning, it sounds terrible.
this and marche funebre
I played this from A to B I thought it was easy compared to moonlight
4:53 5:40
@afertyus1000 i would give my fingers to be able to play this
now I know were rachmaninoff got his insparation....
for Ingrid Bergman abd for me
@Arfat what about it?
5:02 :)
nice wikipedia quote...
omfg why does nobody do the whole repeat?!
Pollini does in his 2008 recording
Maybe they don't because it sound unbalanced!
@@MaScalo4508 No it doesn't, you fool, repeating the entire thing is crucial because of the cadenza
It sounds unbalanced in my opinion because interrupting "abruptly" the doppio movimento and starting again from the grave feels awkward!
Didn't mama taught good manners?
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Schumann used to comment the whole sonata as a bad one, I can see why. However, I do love the 3rd movement
Why? This is definitely one his best works... At least for me
@AvidHobbyist
XD
@ItsNowWarfare
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Beethoven tempest sonata
Sorry Pollini, but Ivo Pogorelich owns this piece.
+otonanoC Fortunately, Deutsche Grammophon did not agree with you when they issued the Chopin complete edition.
ha!ha!ha!
And someone who also calls music in piano literature a "song" is pretty idiotic in my opinion.
Why? It really is a song if you think about it. A song has lyrics. You can clearly hear the singing of the melodic line.
@@ShuckleDoesGaming i hope youre being ironic
I'm an 'idiot' who dislike the begin of this song, since I hate Pollini's play in the first seconds. And then he plays it very well. He plays very clear. But I have to say, someone who dislike a song in the piano literature, isn't an idiot, understand?
An idiot is someone who calls a classical piece a “song“. It’s good to use this word for Schubert, Brahms, Schumann(…) lieders, it’s good for Selena Gomez or Eminem or Elvis Presley, not good for piano music.
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