I had studied the whole "Annees de Pereinage Part 1". I already mastered the difficult "Orage" (Thunderstorm), but the "Au bord d'une source"---is almost like another concert study of sorts by Liszt in that aforementioned collection. This piece, if it were a concert etude, covers these pianistic areas: 1. Bursts of short, yet fast, crossovers. 2. Clearness and clarity in the sixteenth-note arpeggios and runs. 3. Phrasing of the short two-note motives in eighth notes. 4. Mastery of the several cadenzas on the V7 chord of Eb major (though this piece focuses on the Ab major center). Bonus: It also covers the mastery of uneven and syncopated rhythms in the upward "sighing" motives.
Hello Joshua, thank you for your very kind and appreciated words about my dedication to teaching! I do love teaching, and sharing my passion and insights about this amazing music. You are correct that this Au bord d’une source tutorial is one of the longest videos. As of June 2021, there are, however, two other tutorials that are longer: Chopin Etude in E Major (1:45:14) uploaded Feb. 6, 2021, and Rachmaninoff Prelude in C# minor (1:34:32) uploaded Nov. 17, 2020. Since first uploading tutorials in 2012, they have become progressively longer and more comprehensive. With all best wishes to you!
Dear Sally, SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS!!!!! Thank you for my favourite Liszt's masterpiece, for an excellent performance and for your tutorial, your video will be helpful for many people, (for me this piece is too difficult), my English is not good yet and I turned on the subtitles, such a very interesting amazing story, I hope I will try to learn this masterpiece in the future. Btw. today already my second comment on your channel (perhaps too often?), as every day all the best from Poland to San Francisco, have a happy new week. Joanna
Hello Joanna, thank you for your enthusiastic and much appreciated words about this performance and tutorial! I am very happy that you were able to use your settings for Polish subtitles as you watched the lesson and followed the story behind this landmark piece. I do hope this lesson will be helpful for people, and that one day you might also play this piece. Your comments are always appreciated, and I wish you a very happy Summer Solstice today on this day, June 21, 2021! :-)
Hello Sokwon, thank you for your kind and enthusiastic words about this video and the playing! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. Best wishes to you. 🎶
Dear Sally, you give so much joy with your art. Liszt would be very happy to hear you (maybe he does). Absolutely fantastic, technically and musically. It is a pleasure! Your piano playing is full of life. Liebe Grüße aus Belin, Leon.
Hello Leon, thank you so much for your beautiful comment! What a lovely thing to say that "Liszt would be happy to hear me play." In the preparations for this lesson, chart, and performance, I felt as if Liszt had become a personal friend. I also deeply bonded with Au bord d'une source with it's joyful play of the waters! It has become one of my favorite pieces to play. I wish you all the best, und danke für Ihre lieben Worte der Anerkennung!
@@SallyChristianMusic Now I understand. Many good pianists play this piece very nicely. But your performance touches the soul. I hear and see this play of the waters. I can listen to you forever. I love Liszt very much and you play this music as it sounds inside me. That means: simply perfect :)
Good morning, Lady Sally 🥀. Whenever I see that there is a new video, I am very excited because I know that there are going to be great experiences for the senses and soul. A great performance. Thank you very much and best regards 😁🥀😁🥀
Hello Robert, thank you for your beautiful comment. Your kind words about the performance and for anticipating a "great experience for the senses and soul is so very wonderful to hear! With all best wishes to you. :-)
Hello Sally! Greetings from a rainy and bitterly cold São Paulo, Brazil! Just wanted to thank you for this absolutely amazing and impeccable performance. Your tutorials are real masterclasses, and I feel so grateful for your generosity and kindness to make piano lessons accessible to people around the world by uploading your insightful and detailed tutorial videos. Thank you so much for doing what you do best and with so much passion and love. That's living a life with meaning and purpose, and the way you play the piano and explain a certain masterpiece conveys the love, the beauty and the creativity that lie within your soul. Wishing you all the positivity and infinite blessings from the Universe. Kindest regards to you!
Hello Rodrigo, wow, thank you for your stunning tribute which expresses in a few sentences what I believe is my life's mission and purpose. I so very much appreciate hearing your responses to the tutorials, performance videos, and charts. These are truly labors of love for me. From the age of 8, I knew this would be my path, and I have dedicated my life to learning the art form. As an elder, I am now deeply committed to passing on my knowledge, love, and passion. We each do our unique part as links in the chain, from teacher to student and from generation to generation. The charts I make and use in the lessons show a new way to learn, comprehend, and memorize the music. If I can help one person to more easily understand this process and also shine a light on the magnificence of the minds behind the music, I feel I will have done my part. Thank you for your acknowledgements which are a treasured gift for me. With humility and gratitude, I wish you as well "infinite blessings from the Universe.”
@@SallyChristianMusic Hello Sally! What a delight to receive your kind heartfelt message. You just sound like my former piano teacher, who also knew since she was 6 that she would become a pianist as she grew up seeing her mother teaching piano at home. She studied at one of the most renowned conservatories here in São Paulo, met her now ex husband in the Symphonic Orchestra of the Municipal Theater in her teen ages, then got married and, after a few years, they settled in Switzerland for a few years, where they built their musical career (he played the cello). After they came back to Brazil, they got divorced and she decided not to perform publicly anymore. Instead, she decided to teach piano only, with the goal of passing her knowledge and experience as a pianist to her students. I had classes with her for only four years. Back in mid-August 2015, she decided to no longer teach piano (and I haven’t had piano lessons since then, regrettably, though I still play the songs that I studied with her at that time to keep practicing and enhancing the quality of sound). Not a day goes by that I don't think of her or miss having piano lessons with her. Like my former teacher, you are an illuminated spirit who came down to this planet with a mission and purpose: to teach people who are earnestly committed to studying piano and share with them not only knowledge and technique, but also the sensibility to feel music and express our feelings through the sounds produced at the tip of our fingers on the piano keyboard. I truly and sincerely hope, wish and pray that you live long to continue to fulfil your goals and leave your legacy of a life wholeheartedly committed to helping other people better understand the masterpieces in the piano literature, as well as how to explore them at all levels, from technique to transcending our heart and soul toward the art of piano. Thank you so very much for your brilliant and passionate labor of love! Wishing you plenty of health, success, joy and blessings, always. Kindest regards from the bottom of my heart to you, dear Sally! ❣
@@rodrigosouza8723 Dear Rodrigo, thank you for your articulate and eloquent words about music! You have such a gift for writing, and have beautifully expressed how uplifting and transcendent this art form can be. I'm sure many people will resonate and be inspired by your insights. Your teacher sounds like a great and generous person. You were fortunate to have studied with her for the years that you did. She is surely a kindred spirit! Thank you for your wonderful words about my teaching, and for your well wishes for good health and a fulfilled and long life! With many and all blessings to you!
Y aquí es donde me gustaría saber inglés, me encanta tu forma de tocar, me ayuda a relajarme; pues estoy atorado en mi quinto de seis ciclos de piano en el instituto solo por escoger obras que me terminaron agotando,no sé si rendirme o seguir buscando.
Hola Richard, entiendo tu frustración. Sería muy útil si tuvieras un profesor que pudiera guiarte y ayudarte a elegir las piezas que sean apropiadas para tu nivel. Siempre les pregunto a mis alumnos qué piezas les encantaría tocar y seleccionamos una de ellas a su nivel. Realmente debes amar la pieza para quedarte con ella y los meses que tardarás en aprender. Espero que esto te ayude y te deseo lo mejor en tus estudios de piano.
Hello Lauren, thank you so much for your beautiful comment! I am very touched by your thoughtful and meaningful words. 🙏 With all best wishes to you and with your playing. 🦋
Fantastic tutorial. I love this piece even more now after being shown the different elements ...a whole tone scale! I'm ordering this. I've found the analysis so helpful in learning pieces. those colored boxes are a life saver. Gina
Hi Gina! wow, thank you for your wonderful and very appreciated words! I'm thrilled to hear that the CSA showing the elements and colored boxes of the sections is so helpful. As you know, it takes months (and years) to make these. When I finally see this "map of the piece" emerge in color and with the labels I give, I can see the mind of Liszt at work. It makes me even more in awe of this masterpiece, and how every note seamlessly and imaginatively flows and fits together! I know you will love playing this piece!
Hello LisztAddict, thank you for your kind and warm words about this video! As far as the difficulty of this piece compared to other works of Liszt, it is moderately difficult. It is not as technically challenging as the Transcendental Etudes, but easier than the Consolations. While playing the notes is relatively manageable, to play it seamlessly and with elegance makes it an advanced piece.
@@SallyChristianMusic I just love this piece so much, would you ever consider doing one of these tutorials + performances on a Liszt reminiscences? Like Norma or Lucrezia Borgia maybe? 😊
@@Medtszkowski Thank you for your request for one of the Liszt Reminiscences. At this point in time, I am recording repertoire I have already learned. Alas, these pieces are not in my hands. I am, however, working on another wonderful Liszt piece that I hope to record in the coming year. There is so much work and time involved in engraving the chart and making the combo videos. These are truly labors of love. 🌺
I had studied the whole "Annees de Pereinage Part 1". I already mastered the difficult "Orage" (Thunderstorm), but the "Au bord d'une source"---is almost like another concert study of sorts by Liszt in that aforementioned collection.
This piece, if it were a concert etude, covers these pianistic areas:
1. Bursts of short, yet fast, crossovers.
2. Clearness and clarity in the sixteenth-note arpeggios and runs.
3. Phrasing of the short two-note motives in eighth notes.
4. Mastery of the several cadenzas on the V7 chord of Eb major (though this piece focuses on the Ab major center).
Bonus: It also covers the mastery of uneven and syncopated rhythms in the upward "sighing" motives.
I believe this may be one of the longest videos you've uploaded! Thank you for your dedication to teaching! 💜
Hello Joshua, thank you for your very kind and appreciated words about my dedication to teaching! I do love teaching, and sharing my passion and insights about this amazing music. You are correct that this Au bord d’une source tutorial is one of the longest videos. As of June 2021, there are, however, two other tutorials that are longer: Chopin Etude in E Major (1:45:14) uploaded Feb. 6, 2021, and Rachmaninoff Prelude in C# minor (1:34:32) uploaded Nov. 17, 2020. Since first uploading tutorials in 2012, they have become progressively longer and more comprehensive. With all best wishes to you!
Dear Sally, SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS!!!!! Thank you for my favourite Liszt's masterpiece, for an excellent performance and for your tutorial, your video will be helpful for many people, (for me this piece is too difficult), my English is not good yet and I turned on the subtitles, such a very interesting amazing story, I hope I will try to learn this masterpiece in the future. Btw. today already my second comment on your channel (perhaps too often?), as every day all the best from Poland to San Francisco, have a happy new week. Joanna
Hello Joanna, thank you for your enthusiastic and much appreciated words about this performance and tutorial! I am very happy that you were able to use your settings for Polish subtitles as you watched the lesson and followed the story behind this landmark piece. I do hope this lesson will be helpful for people, and that one day you might also play this piece. Your comments are always appreciated, and I wish you a very happy Summer Solstice today on this day, June 21, 2021! :-)
Hi, Sally. Wow! You're very excellent! Thank you for your video and playing the music! Best wishes to you! ❤
Hello Sokwon, thank you for your kind and enthusiastic words about this video and the playing! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. Best wishes to you. 🎶
Dear Sally, you give so much joy with your art. Liszt would be very happy to hear you (maybe he does). Absolutely fantastic, technically and musically. It is a pleasure! Your piano playing is full of life. Liebe Grüße aus Belin, Leon.
Hello Leon, thank you so much for your beautiful comment! What a lovely thing to say that "Liszt would be happy to hear me play." In the preparations for this lesson, chart, and performance, I felt as if Liszt had become a personal friend. I also deeply bonded with Au bord d'une source with it's joyful play of the waters! It has become one of my favorite pieces to play. I wish you all the best, und danke für Ihre lieben Worte der Anerkennung!
@@SallyChristianMusic Now I understand. Many good pianists play this piece very nicely. But your performance touches the soul. I hear and see this play of the waters. I can listen to you forever. I love Liszt very much and you play this music as it sounds inside me. That means: simply perfect :)
@@Querdenker-Traumgefaehrte Oh, thank you Leon for your stunningly beautiful, thoughtful, and meaningful words! You inspire me to play more Liszt!
Good morning, Lady Sally 🥀. Whenever I see that there is a new video, I am very excited because I know that there are going to be great experiences for the senses and soul. A great performance. Thank you very much and best regards 😁🥀😁🥀
Hello Robert, thank you for your beautiful comment. Your kind words about the performance and for anticipating a "great experience for the senses and soul is so very wonderful to hear! With all best wishes to you. :-)
@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you 🥀😁
@@robertdepiano Hello Robert, such a beautiful comment, as always my best wishes! Joanna
@@joannawronska4100 Hello Joanna. Thank you. Have a nice day 🥀😁
Wow! that was an excellent performance!
Hello David, thank you for your beautiful and much appreciated words! All best wishes to you. :-)
Hello Sally! Greetings from a rainy and bitterly cold São Paulo, Brazil! Just wanted to thank you for this absolutely amazing and impeccable performance. Your tutorials are real masterclasses, and I feel so grateful for your generosity and kindness to make piano lessons accessible to people around the world by uploading your insightful and detailed tutorial videos. Thank you so much for doing what you do best and with so much passion and love. That's living a life with meaning and purpose, and the way you play the piano and explain a certain masterpiece conveys the love, the beauty and the creativity that lie within your soul. Wishing you all the positivity and infinite blessings from the Universe. Kindest regards to you!
Hello, such a wonderful comment, my best regards from Poland to Brazil! Joanna
Hello Rodrigo, wow, thank you for your stunning tribute which expresses in a few sentences what I believe is my life's mission and purpose. I so very much appreciate hearing your responses to the tutorials, performance videos, and charts. These are truly labors of love for me. From the age of 8, I knew this would be my path, and I have dedicated my life to learning the art form. As an elder, I am now deeply committed to passing on my knowledge, love, and passion. We each do our unique part as links in the chain, from teacher to student and from generation to generation. The charts I make and use in the lessons show a new way to learn, comprehend, and memorize the music. If I can help one person to more easily understand this process and also shine a light on the magnificence of the minds behind the music, I feel I will have done my part. Thank you for your acknowledgements which are a treasured gift for me. With humility and gratitude, I wish you as well "infinite blessings from the Universe.”
@@SallyChristianMusic Hello Sally! What a delight to receive your kind heartfelt message. You just sound like my former piano teacher, who also knew since she was 6 that she would become a pianist as she grew up seeing her mother teaching piano at home. She studied at one of the most renowned conservatories here in São Paulo, met her now ex husband in the Symphonic Orchestra of the Municipal Theater in her teen ages, then got married and, after a few years, they settled in Switzerland for a few years, where they built their musical career (he played the cello). After they came back to Brazil, they got divorced and she decided not to perform publicly anymore. Instead, she decided to teach piano only, with the goal of passing her knowledge and experience as a pianist to her students. I had classes with her for only four years. Back in mid-August 2015, she decided to no longer teach piano (and I haven’t had piano lessons since then, regrettably, though I still play the songs that I studied with her at that time to keep practicing and enhancing the quality of sound). Not a day goes by that I don't think of her or miss having piano lessons with her. Like my former teacher, you are an illuminated spirit who came down to this planet with a mission and purpose: to teach people who are earnestly committed to studying piano and share with them not only knowledge and technique, but also the sensibility to feel music and express our feelings through the sounds produced at the tip of our fingers on the piano keyboard. I truly and sincerely hope, wish and pray that you live long to continue to fulfil your goals and leave your legacy of a life wholeheartedly committed to helping other people better understand the masterpieces in the piano literature, as well as how to explore them at all levels, from technique to transcending our heart and soul toward the art of piano. Thank you so very much for your brilliant and passionate labor of love! Wishing you plenty of health, success, joy and blessings, always. Kindest regards from the bottom of my heart to you, dear Sally! ❣
@@rodrigosouza8723 Dear Rodrigo, thank you for your articulate and eloquent words about music! You have such a gift for writing, and have beautifully expressed how uplifting and transcendent this art form can be. I'm sure many people will resonate and be inspired by your insights. Your teacher sounds like a great and generous person. You were fortunate to have studied with her for the years that you did. She is surely a kindred spirit! Thank you for your wonderful words about my teaching, and for your well wishes for good health and a fulfilled and long life! With many and all blessings to you!
Amazing as always Sally
Hello Leandro, thank you so much for your generous, kind, and much appreciated words! With all best wishes to you.
Y aquí es donde me gustaría saber inglés, me encanta tu forma de tocar, me ayuda a relajarme; pues estoy atorado en mi quinto de seis ciclos de piano en el instituto solo por escoger obras que me terminaron agotando,no sé si rendirme o seguir buscando.
Hola Richard, entiendo tu frustración. Sería muy útil si tuvieras un profesor que pudiera guiarte y ayudarte a elegir las piezas que sean apropiadas para tu nivel. Siempre les pregunto a mis alumnos qué piezas les encantaría tocar y seleccionamos una de ellas a su nivel. Realmente debes amar la pieza para quedarte con ella y los meses que tardarás en aprender. Espero que esto te ayude y te deseo lo mejor en tus estudios de piano.
Stunning playing😮, I hear your passion and understanding
Hello Lauren, thank you so much for your beautiful comment! I am very touched by your thoughtful and meaningful words. 🙏 With all best wishes to you and with your playing. 🦋
Fantastic tutorial. I love this piece even more now after being shown the different elements ...a whole tone scale! I'm ordering this. I've found the analysis so helpful in learning pieces. those colored boxes are a life saver. Gina
Hi Gina! wow, thank you for your wonderful and very appreciated words! I'm thrilled to hear that the CSA showing the elements and colored boxes of the sections is so helpful. As you know, it takes months (and years) to make these. When I finally see this "map of the piece" emerge in color and with the labels I give, I can see the mind of Liszt at work. It makes me even more in awe of this masterpiece, and how every note seamlessly and imaginatively flows and fits together! I know you will love playing this piece!
I’m new to the channel, I love it here!!!
Hello Abel, thank you so much for your wonderful and enthusiastic words! I'm very happy you found my channel! 🎵
All best wishes to you.
I loved this video. Is this piece very hard?
Hello LisztAddict, thank you for your kind and warm words about this video! As far as the difficulty of this piece compared to other works of Liszt, it is moderately difficult. It is not as technically challenging as the Transcendental Etudes, but easier than the Consolations. While playing the notes is relatively manageable, to play it seamlessly and with elegance makes it an advanced piece.
@@SallyChristianMusic I just love this piece so much, would you ever consider doing one of these tutorials + performances on a Liszt reminiscences? Like Norma or Lucrezia Borgia maybe? 😊
@@Medtszkowski Thank you for your request for one of the Liszt Reminiscences. At this point in time, I am recording repertoire I have already learned. Alas, these pieces are not in my hands. I am, however, working on another wonderful Liszt piece that I hope to record in the coming year. There is so much work and time involved in engraving the chart and making the combo videos. These are truly labors of love. 🌺
@@SallyChristianMusic they pay off very nicely!! I can’t wait! (Would you reveal the piece, or is it a secret?)
@@Medtszkowski Thank you for your lovely and very appreciated words! I'd like for the Liszt piece to be a surprise! 🌟🎵