I can't think of anybody better to kick off their Creator in Residence role. I think there are so many people who are learning about and appreciating music of all kinds because of your work. Yay!!
I can't think of anyone better suited to fill this role, showing off the Elbphilharmonie. It takes a very special person. You've hit the ground running, as everyone expected. Perfect. BTW ... that room .... nice digs if you can get it. 😀
Thank you. Hearing Pärt again felt like a great reminder of something that I had almost forgotten. There's this certain purity and unwavering clarity in his music that is so hard to put into words. Eternity even. I used to sing in a choir many years ago, and we sang his piece called Magnificat. It left a huge impression on me. Will never forget.
Hey..... Gen Hirano's transcription and performance of the piece for piano is the ultimate for me!!!!!!!!! And considering Gen Hirano was a bodybuilder who performed the piece in a tank top.... it was just DEVASTATING!!!!!
I'm so excited for this new series! You're such a passionate and articulate explainer/explorer of music. With more people like you acting as an informed but approachable interface to classical music for the masses, classical music adoption might just become a lot more widespread :)
these are my guesses: 1- happiness/joy 2- panic 3- sadness/dissapointment 4- extreme joy/great accomplishment 5- enormous pressure/fear 6- calmness/excitement 7- grief 8- confusion/depression 9- empty calmness/slight sense of a bad omen 10- extreme confusion/trauma/hopelessness. like if you are forced to do something atrocious you don't want to do in any sense.
I am in near total alignment with your interpretations of the emotions induced by these 10 pieces of music Appalachian Spring for me is hope -and it also invokes a strong sense of personal freedom to explore the youthful horizons. Visually I imagine the Appalachian Blue Ridge Mountains as they pour from the western flanks to the seemingly endless flatland desert seen in your video. Thank you Nahre and to all your supporters who offer grist for the mill wheel ❤
In the chaconne there is also deep conviction, determination, and faith. There are 13 variations that resolve to the major before returning to the minor. Menuhin once wrote that when he played it he felt he could eradicate all evil in the world.
I find Daniel Brown's label for the prevalent emotion in Bach's music spot on: "To talk about nonstandard chords in Bach is to talk, in the main, about dissonance. It's hard to overstate the importance of dissonance in Bach's harmony: more than a feature of it, it's the climate of it. But this climate isn't the stormy one you might expect. Bach rarely uses dissonance for dramatic effect; it permeates, more than punctuates, his writing, yielding not heightened moments of sorrow or pain so much as a sustained profundity."
Oh man, Fratres! I discovered this piece while picking out CDs somewhat randomly from the library. Tried to listen to it in the car but it was like, too emotional to drive to?? It made me think of how unique and precious it is to be alive but also made me achingly aware of being without those who’ve died.
For me, the piece that I hear the most complex emotion in is Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess. It’s like the feeling of observing the memory of something that once was happy, but now is long gone.
Nice video and also a good demonstration of how much our own character affects how we hear music. To me, Barber's Adagio is not something sad but the ultimate form of beauty through observation, where each second more you spend looking at something increases your appreciation for it.
The bach chaconne kind of represents the feeling of feeling empty after grieving for a long time for me. When you are still sad but you don't feel it sharply any more. There is the part in major, where everything seems heavenly. That makes me feel like the moment, where you have been in pain for so long that you just have to let lose and just out of exhaustion come to some kind of peace.
I would like to point out that it is surmised, that Bach wrote the Chaconne in the aftermath of the death of his first wife, Maria Barbara Bach. She had died suddenly and unexpectedly when he was away with his employer, and was shocked to find out she was dead and buried when he returned. She was the mother of 7 of his children, 3 of whom died in infancy. This was a man who had known grief intimately, and grieve, he did. What emerged from that grief is a testament to the intensity of the experience of _any _ human emotion, not just agony, which is basically unrivalled since. This is a theory proposed by Professor Helga Thoene, though it is a controversial claim. But if it is true, then the greatest Western composer to have lived wrote the greatest tombeau to have ever been written. If he intended it to be this way or not, is unknown. But there certainly was something powerful which drove him to create this. It's part of a larger Partita for violin, and if the whole partita is played end-to-end, the Chaconne takes up as much space as the rest of the four movements put together and forms the latter half the partita by itself.
To receive the emotion expressed by both the composer and performer of a musical work and then to interpret it in the context of one's own human experience is one of life's greatest joys. But then what a challenge it is to re-express those emotions into words
To me Satie's Gnossiene No. 1 is like a sudden awareness of the passage of time. It calls out from the late 19th Century, to me in the early 21st Century, but it's still moving away, toward a future none of us will see. It's not even really about mortality in a personal sense, somehow. It makes me melancholy, but I love it so much. I love hearing it played on the piano, but also on the cello, Schrello Classic did a phenomenal version here on RUclips.
When I hear the Arvo Pärt piece, I see always see the raw power of cyclical nature, like a cold winter/early spring pine tree forest with its slowly melting ice revealing the nature that has been long sleeping but ready to emerge for a new life. After all, this is how I imagine spring in Estonia where he lived.
The Satie....has me imagining someone who has lost a loved one, and reminiscing causes a painful oscillation between inwardly smiling at some wonderful memory then weeping as the wonderful memory is succeeded by an inner voice saying "gone...gone...gone."
So articulate and finely tuned are your observations and associations. And congratulations for your gig there, you deserve it and best wishes for greatest success!
A video with Copland's, Part's and Satie's music? I feel like a kid on Christmas morning. Anyways, Fratres always felt like eternity, mysticism, and introspection to me. Whenever I listen to it, I always think of what it would be like to die and become pure consciousness and having my identity washed away and being able to see things from a completely removed and detached perspective. A lot of Part's music feels like that to me.
Barber's Adagio: Some time ago, I discovered a recording of this piece by Berlin Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra. It's atypical in that it's a very small string ensemble and the players use much less vibrato than usual. The sound is almost transparent. It's much more subdued emotion. Even at the peak (climax), it's a strong longing rather than devastation. That was an Eureka moment to me. Before that, I thought the music was a bit too melodramatic. In this Konzerthaus rendition, the music sounds like the last part of the last movement of Sibelus's 6th symphony. It's more longing than sadness. It's a sunset in high latitudes.
When I was a kid I always wondered why summer sounded so scary and sad, until I learned that summer in the south of Italy has a lot of thunderstorms. In that context it makes alot of sense!
I watch any of your videos and I feel pure joy and excitement how you manage with piano and analyze music! Wow! You're awesome! Keep doing what you do! ❤❤❤
I love you!!!!! As an instructor, this is so helpful to explain emotions and the importance of theory (even simple theory) behind expressing deep (sometimes unexplained) emotions. You’re helping blossom my love for classical, to share with the younger generation. Thank you!
I loved listening through this but it goes to show the subjectivity of music. Even #2 Vivaldi has always given me a great sense of not anger but passionate delight.
Vivaldi's Summer conveys escalating overwhelming heat, both emotional and literal heat. Thus Spoke Zarathustra radiates grandiosity. I can add the feeling of some nostalgia remembering sweet memories on top of hope and awe in Copland's piece. Gnosienne makes me think of the mystical unknown and throws me into existential angst. I agree with you on the rest of the pieces, and I haven't got a clue on how to feel about Avro Part's piece 😂
Great list and I look forward to your residency and its fruits. Have you guys heard Samuel Barbers adagio for strings in its original form for string quartet? Well if you haven’t you’re welcome, I was a lover of this piece for two decades before hearing it on the radio (pbs) while driving and had to pull over to listen to it. Some how the agony of which you speak of is intensified to an even greater degree which I thought wasn’t possible for that piece
I think you’re underestimating the complexity of the emotions you consider less complex. The simplest of emotions and lines can be played with enough nuance to feel as complex as needed.
all topics are forms of craving and suffering. it is what we all presently learn. they are states of mental grasping that keep us deluded. we must embrace the reality of impermanence and interdependence with calm and serenity. we must accept that we are alive in the present moment for it is only in a present moment that we are alive. no past, no future, only now. I actually quite like the executive. their fashions amuse this life to tears.
Thank you, Nahre. While I don't have a simple emotion for Part-Fratres, it feels like to me that one is seeing parts of a much larger universe than one knew existed.
Beautiful. I agree with everything you said, and I am familiar with all the wonderful music you presented as examples. The only thing I would add is that, first, the listener is LIVING, quite literally LIVING, within the music. It’s not just an external entertainment. The listener devotes his or her time of being alive, for the duration of the piece, to existing 90% or 95% or perhaps very close to 100% within the piece. The music IS literally the listener’s life for that duration. Then, all the emotions you describe take place. It’s an amazing phenomenon. The same is true of watching movies or plays or reading a book. But for me, listening to music is the most complete form of immersion. Thanks for your video!
“ Appalachian Spring” by Aaron Copland reminds me of homesickness… The soft, melodic passages have a sense of nostalgia with memories of home, whereas the intense passages are the pangs of being homesick.
Everybody seems to feel sadness with most of Chopin's works. I ask myself, why then do I experience so much joyfulness underneath, inner calmness? Can sadness be joyful? Being sad, could I write such music? Is it not just another inner space that goes far beyond obvious outer emotions hard to put in words? I am not as clear in attributing emotions as you do to these pieces. I really love your channel for years ❤.
I've always found Chopin to be very yearning music, which, if you yearn too much in your life, will make you sad, but if your life is lacking yearning, will make you feel focussed and purposeful.
in dostoyevky's notes from underground, there's a part that explores the joy of suffering, or how you can feel pleasure in pain. chopin's music reminds me of that.
@@crumzy8 Pain comes with experiencing loss, or physical pain. Depending on how emotionally grownup we are, maybe there is an underlying distance to that pain which gives such inner peace, even joy. When I play the Etude 10-3, later titled "Tristesse", where is the pain, or the darkness, the tristesse? The middle part is full of tensions, dissonances, yes, but Chopin resolves them into beautiful melodies. Even the nocturnes -- are they not love songs for the ladies sitting around, or gentle expressions of a late evening? Chopin's music is so rich, for me it is beyond pain, sorrow, ... mostly at least.. even if he suffered sickness, being homesick or at loss in the outer world. His music transcends the obvious, and the great composers and interpreters all did and do this -- that makes them be artists. Rationalization does not live up to art itself. And really good music is not psychological, but touches deeper levels of our being which cannot be explained in such terms -- provided that the listener has such an antenna.
I've noticed something about myself. I do experience emotion in music but primarily I just like the way something sounds without an emotional corollary. I have friends who I would say are more into music than most and they have all kinds of subjective experiences I don't have but certain textures or rhythms or progressions just turn me on. It's frequently that simple for me.
I love what you’ve done here. Let me offer a neuroscience perspective. (I’m also a composer). Our hard wired emotions are mad, glad, sad, scared, surprised, and disgusted. If fully expressed, they dissipate in 5 minutes. A movie begins with music that sets a MOOD. A mood blankets us and can last hours or even months. A third of the way through a movie the music changes mood as the conflict intensifies. A third further in the movie music is more peaceful as the conflict or drama starts to resolve. I may have the time frames wrong. A sudden change like a tiger running toward the camera elicits the emotion of fear Most of what you described are moods-powerful, anxious, hopeful. There are more than 100 moods. Numb is the absence of emotion. It is “feeling nothing” and that arises from the freeze response. I agree that emotion is the key in the arts. We cannot predict how or what people will feel, and art can evoke different emotions and moods in different people. There are a lot of musicians who strive to play very fast. They often don’t pay attention to the emotion. A great singer can saturate every syllable with emotion. I’m glad (happy emotion) that I found you today!
I once said much the same thing to my favorite music teacher, the music was all about emotions. He stopped me and said you don't want to put limits on what music is about or what it will mean to any individual listener. Food for thought.
Chopin's emotional expression of the piano is (in my opinion) unmatched. However I'm still young and bold, and I'm willing to learn more of other's opinions
Another great example would be Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky. For me it resembles emotions of conflict. Between peace and chaos. Good and bad. Light and dark. On a deeper level swan lake beautifully uses subtle unsettling hints in peaceful part, and also subtle calm moments during the second chaotic part. Exactly like yin and yang fishes with the eyes of opposite colour. Truly an unprecedented masterpiece.
Of course you are spot on. I agree fully. I think not everyone gets it but only those with a fully developed musical/emotional vocabulary. It is nearly impossible to describe musical emotions. They're not so simplistic as to lend themselves to being reduced to words.
It just goes to show how subjective impressions are when it comes to music! I would never have associated anger with Vivaldi! That piece is like a mad rush around the supermarket just before it closes!
Congratulations on your new position. Great to see your well earned progression. I found the music very emotional but struggled to match most of your suggested themes. I guess I need to listen more and deeper. Best wishes iain
I feel differently about Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor; if you want a Chopin piece that just represents “sadness,” preludes 4 and 6 are closer. That nocturne, for me, is not sad but isolated - and isolation does not have to be sad. The piece depicts for me, as best as I can explain it, an aimless, wandering nomad reflecting on their past and wailing at their present. I don’t really feel like we have sufficient words in any spoken language to “translate” Chopin into emotions - yet, at least.
Yes, I definitely think that Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor should be listed as one of the more complex pieces in terms of emotions. For me, the nocturne is like wandering through the night alone, whilst gazing upon the moonlit landscape and reminiscing in a bittersweet way. I would say, that your description comes the closest to how I personally experience the piece.
yes, exactly - sadness is gross oversimplification. Chopin is much, much more than one word description. This particular piece is special because it brings you into your past, wondering if it is all what future has for you. Isolation is indeed to the point, in some sense.
Congratulations on your new gig, young woman. You are exceptionally talented and I have always admired your perspicacity and commentary. You remind me why I compose music...thanks again.....
Bach's Chaconne has all 10 emotions!! Did you even finish listening the entire Chaconne or stopped after 10 measures thinking it's that opening mood throughout??
Hi Nahre, I love your videos and feel true admiration for your work, I wish I was so talented and knowledgable like you, I can see your passion and years of hard work and dedication, looking forward to seeing your next videos!
I started learning piano and music 2 years ago, and I know your channel since first start looking on piano on youtube, this video is the best you made a mini piano encyclopedia in 10 minutes, I liked this heavily much, keep on, greetings, 45 Cairo, Egypt ❤
It's remarkable how powerful music can be in bringing about distinct yet complex emotions that could hold a certain meaning to you, perhaps even something profound. One composer that comes to mind is Claude Debussy - “Clair de lune”. Fabulous video!!
Loved this list and loved your descriptions of each piece. Your videos always challenge my views and make me excited to learn more… I would’ve loved to see Beethoven featured somehow in this list as he almost single-handedly made emotion practically an official requirement in music, and he made freedom of emotional expression in music to be widely accepted, embraced and imitated. His body of work covers also a vast range of emotions from the most basic ones such as joy and anger to the most complex that are difficult to describe (as in his late piano sonatas, or even the 2nd movement of his 7th symphony.) It wouldn’t be hard to find an outstanding example of each emotion in this list using only music by Beethoven alone (and also add many more emotions like passion, empathy, grief, compassion, disappointment, and so on). That said, I still appreciate the list as I learn more about other composers too! Thank you and congratulations for the new gig! Well deserved!!
I can't think of anybody better to kick off their Creator in Residence role. I think there are so many people who are learning about and appreciating music of all kinds because of your work. Yay!!
I can't think of anyone better suited to fill this role, showing off the Elbphilharmonie. It takes a very special person. You've hit the ground running, as everyone expected. Perfect. BTW ... that room .... nice digs if you can get it. 😀
Thank you. Hearing Pärt again felt like a great reminder of something that I had almost forgotten. There's this certain purity and unwavering clarity in his music that is so hard to put into words. Eternity even. I used to sing in a choir many years ago, and we sang his piece called Magnificat. It left a huge impression on me. Will never forget.
Thank you, Nahre! Love the bite-sized videos about classical music, love your passion - greetings from Poland!
Joplin-Entertainer: Playful
Vivaldi-Summer: Anxious
Chopin-Nocturne: Longing
Strauss-Zarathustra: Revelation
Schubert-Erlkonig: Tension
Copeland-Appalachian: Hope
Bach-Chaccone: Agony
Barber-Adagio: Grief
Satie-Gnossiene: Curiosity
Part-Fratres: Conviction
Exactly... You described it better
I like these better
anxious??? intense heat and energetic not anxious lol
bach chaconne- piety
@@bergkampdennis5673 I hear anxiety. Only heavy metal can depict aggression.
Studied for years, through college, and had to discover these methods on my own. You are a more effective teacher than any I have studied with.
I can't listen to Barber's adagio without crying. Such a powerful piece.
Same here. Devastation indeed.
Apt choice for the movie ‘platoon’
Hey..... Gen Hirano's transcription and performance of the piece for piano is the ultimate for me!!!!!!!!! And considering Gen Hirano was a bodybuilder who performed the piece in a tank top.... it was just DEVASTATING!!!!!
Congrats on the opportunity to work with the Elbphilharmonie.
I couldn't agree more on the Barber Adagio. It sounds like devastation to me as well, and I have been there emotionally.
I'm so excited for this new series! You're such a passionate and articulate explainer/explorer of music. With more people like you acting as an informed but approachable interface to classical music for the masses, classical music adoption might just become a lot more widespread :)
these are my guesses:
1- happiness/joy
2- panic
3- sadness/dissapointment
4- extreme joy/great accomplishment
5- enormous pressure/fear
6- calmness/excitement
7- grief
8- confusion/depression
9- empty calmness/slight sense of a bad omen
10- extreme confusion/trauma/hopelessness. like if you are forced to do something atrocious you don't want to do in any sense.
Adagio for Strings is my favorite piece to play on the organ.
I am in near total alignment with your interpretations of the emotions induced by these 10 pieces of music
Appalachian Spring for me is hope -and it also invokes a strong sense of personal freedom to explore the youthful horizons. Visually I imagine the Appalachian Blue Ridge Mountains as they pour from the western flanks to the seemingly endless flatland desert seen in your video.
Thank you Nahre and to all your supporters who offer grist for the mill wheel ❤
Creator in residence! That's so awesome!
In the chaconne there is also deep conviction, determination, and faith. There are 13 variations that resolve to the major before returning to the minor. Menuhin once wrote that when he played it he felt he could eradicate all evil in the world.
I find Daniel Brown's label for the prevalent emotion in Bach's music spot on:
"To talk about nonstandard chords in Bach is to talk, in the main, about dissonance. It's hard to overstate the importance of dissonance in Bach's harmony: more than a feature of it, it's the climate of it. But this climate isn't the stormy one you might expect. Bach rarely uses dissonance for dramatic effect; it permeates, more than punctuates, his writing, yielding not heightened moments of sorrow or pain so much as a sustained profundity."
Oh man, Fratres! I discovered this piece while picking out CDs somewhat randomly from the library. Tried to listen to it in the car but it was like, too emotional to drive to?? It made me think of how unique and precious it is to be alive but also made me achingly aware of being without those who’ve died.
Both the hope and devastation pieces made me want to cry just in the short previews you played. I guess those speak to me the most
Haha, I’m from germany and so glad to see you having a residency here. I love that concept.
For me, the piece that I hear the most complex emotion in is Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess. It’s like the feeling of observing the memory of something that once was happy, but now is long gone.
And the first first note of that is tied over, as in Barber's Adagio, giving that same sense of drifting in grief or loss.
Conviction, at 1st I wasn't sure but on the 2nd time through, it absolutely works
Nice video and also a good demonstration of how much our own character affects how we hear music. To me, Barber's Adagio is not something sad but the ultimate form of beauty through observation, where each second more you spend looking at something increases your appreciation for it.
Ravel - Scarbo (Gaspard de la nuit) ANXIETY!
Wow, your pallet of feelings is so rich.
The Adagio strikes me as demonstrating transcendence. Takes me to the clouds.🎉❤❤
For me Satie is Melancholia as Victor Hugo defines it: The hapiness of being sad.
The bach chaconne kind of represents the feeling of feeling empty after grieving for a long time for me. When you are still sad but you don't feel it sharply any more. There is the part in major, where everything seems heavenly. That makes me feel like the moment, where you have been in pain for so long that you just have to let lose and just out of exhaustion come to some kind of peace.
I would like to point out that it is surmised, that Bach wrote the Chaconne in the aftermath of the death of his first wife, Maria Barbara Bach. She had died suddenly and unexpectedly when he was away with his employer, and was shocked to find out she was dead and buried when he returned. She was the mother of 7 of his children, 3 of whom died in infancy. This was a man who had known grief intimately, and grieve, he did. What emerged from that grief is a testament to the intensity of the experience of _any _ human emotion, not just agony, which is basically unrivalled since.
This is a theory proposed by Professor Helga Thoene, though it is a controversial claim. But if it is true, then the greatest Western composer to have lived wrote the greatest tombeau to have ever been written. If he intended it to be this way or not, is unknown. But there certainly was something powerful which drove him to create this. It's part of a larger Partita for violin, and if the whole partita is played end-to-end, the Chaconne takes up as much space as the rest of the four movements put together and forms the latter half the partita by itself.
Buah, nice view!! I think you deserve this place at the Elbphilharmonie very much! Enjoy!!
To receive the emotion expressed by both the composer and performer of a musical work and then to interpret it in the context of one's own human experience is one of life's greatest joys. But then what a challenge it is to re-express those emotions into words
To me Satie's Gnossiene No. 1 is like a sudden awareness of the passage of time. It calls out from the late 19th Century, to me in the early 21st Century, but it's still moving away, toward a future none of us will see. It's not even really about mortality in a personal sense, somehow. It makes me melancholy, but I love it so much. I love hearing it played on the piano, but also on the cello, Schrello Classic did a phenomenal version here on RUclips.
Check out Patricia Escudero’s Satie record - very different
Anyway I agree
When I hear the Arvo Pärt piece, I see always see the raw power of cyclical nature, like a cold winter/early spring pine tree forest with its slowly melting ice revealing the nature that has been long sleeping but ready to emerge for a new life. After all, this is how I imagine spring in Estonia where he lived.
The Satie....has me imagining someone who has lost a loved one, and reminiscing causes a painful oscillation between inwardly smiling at some wonderful memory then weeping as the wonderful memory is succeeded by an inner voice saying "gone...gone...gone."
So articulate and finely tuned are your observations and associations. And congratulations for your gig there, you deserve it and best wishes for greatest success!
The Barber is an emotionally searing piece. He encapsulated both the pathos and rage of loss.
Thank you, Nahre Sol.
You're one of my saviors guiding me to the music world.
I'm so happy to watch this.
Nahre is the perfect person for the "Creator in Residence" role at the Elbphilharmonie. Nahre's hair length and styling in the video is on-point.
Thank you Nahre and Congratulations!
A video with Copland's, Part's and Satie's music? I feel like a kid on Christmas morning.
Anyways, Fratres always felt like eternity, mysticism, and introspection to me. Whenever I listen to it, I always think of what it would be like to die and become pure consciousness and having my identity washed away and being able to see things from a completely removed and detached perspective. A lot of Part's music feels like that to me.
Barber's Adagio: Some time ago, I discovered a recording of this piece by Berlin Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra. It's atypical in that it's a very small string ensemble and the players use much less vibrato than usual. The sound is almost transparent. It's much more subdued emotion. Even at the peak (climax), it's a strong longing rather than devastation. That was an Eureka moment to me. Before that, I thought the music was a bit too melodramatic. In this Konzerthaus rendition, the music sounds like the last part of the last movement of Sibelus's 6th symphony. It's more longing than sadness. It's a sunset in high latitudes.
When I was a kid I always wondered why summer sounded so scary and sad, until I learned that summer in the south of Italy has a lot of thunderstorms. In that context it makes alot of sense!
I know you dont like me Nahre, but I love you! And value your videos
I watch any of your videos and I feel pure joy and excitement how you manage with piano and analyze music! Wow! You're awesome! Keep doing what you do! ❤❤❤
Nahre, you have expanded and deepened my understanding and appreciation of music more than I ever knew. Thank you for this gift!
I love you!!!!! As an instructor, this is so helpful to explain emotions and the importance of theory (even simple theory) behind expressing deep (sometimes unexplained) emotions. You’re helping blossom my love for classical, to share with the younger generation. Thank you!
I loved listening through this but it goes to show the subjectivity of music. Even #2 Vivaldi has always given me a great sense of not anger but passionate delight.
Vivaldi's Summer conveys escalating overwhelming heat, both emotional and literal heat. Thus Spoke Zarathustra radiates grandiosity. I can add the feeling of some nostalgia remembering sweet memories on top of hope and awe in Copland's piece. Gnosienne makes me think of the mystical unknown and throws me into existential angst. I agree with you on the rest of the pieces, and I haven't got a clue on how to feel about Avro Part's piece 😂
Brilliant as always! 🎶🫶
All the best for your new job in Hamburg! I lived there for some years. Hope you can cope with the weather ;)
Great list and I look forward to your residency and its fruits. Have you guys heard Samuel Barbers adagio for strings in its original form for string quartet? Well if you haven’t you’re welcome, I was a lover of this piece for two decades before hearing it on the radio (pbs) while driving and had to pull over to listen to it. Some how the agony of which you speak of is intensified to an even greater degree which I thought wasn’t possible for that piece
What a special video from start to finish!
I think you’re underestimating the complexity of the emotions you consider less complex. The simplest of emotions and lines can be played with enough nuance to feel as complex as needed.
all topics are forms of craving and suffering. it is what we all presently learn. they are states of mental grasping that keep us deluded. we must embrace the reality of impermanence and interdependence with calm and serenity. we must accept that we are alive in the present moment for it is only in a present moment that we are alive. no past, no future, only now.
I actually quite like the executive. their fashions amuse this life to tears.
adaggio for strings always gets me. this peace is really hard core..
I really like these videos dealing with different composers and their aproaches.
One's Bach started I couldn't stop crying for the rest of the video. What a jorney
Thank you, Nahre. While I don't have a simple emotion for Part-Fratres, it feels like to me that one is seeing parts of a much larger universe than one knew existed.
This is the best thing I've seen in RUclips..
Thank you. This is so great..
Please make more videos like this🙏🙏🙏
Nahre Sol is one of my absolute heroes ❤❤❤❤
Nice Composers analysis by emotion - that's why we still hear and play these classical pieces after all these years
Great job with this video !! Amazing descriptions and music choices.. no. 10 as "fragile yet powerful conviction" just took the words out of my mouth
Titan Mahler has all the emotions in one.
Triumph at the end.
Triumph from a strong struggle.
Prophetic music !
Beautiful. I agree with everything you said, and I am familiar with all the wonderful music you presented as examples. The only thing I would add is that, first, the listener is LIVING, quite literally LIVING, within the music. It’s not just an external entertainment. The listener devotes his or her time of being alive, for the duration of the piece, to existing 90% or 95% or perhaps very close to 100% within the piece. The music IS literally the listener’s life for that duration. Then, all the emotions you describe take place. It’s an amazing phenomenon. The same is true of watching movies or plays or reading a book. But for me, listening to music is the most complete form of immersion. Thanks for your video!
“ Appalachian Spring” by Aaron Copland reminds me of homesickness… The soft, melodic passages have a sense of nostalgia with memories of home, whereas the intense passages are the pangs of being homesick.
Luv it when Nahre showcases her skills which are top!
Everybody seems to feel sadness with most of Chopin's works. I ask myself, why then do I experience so much joyfulness underneath, inner calmness? Can sadness be joyful? Being sad, could I write such music? Is it not just another inner space that goes far beyond obvious outer emotions hard to put in words? I am not as clear in attributing emotions as you do to these pieces.
I really love your channel for years ❤.
I've always found Chopin to be very yearning music, which, if you yearn too much in your life, will make you sad, but if your life is lacking yearning, will make you feel focussed and purposeful.
in dostoyevky's notes from underground, there's a part that explores the joy of suffering, or how you can feel pleasure in pain. chopin's music reminds me of that.
@@crumzy8 Pain comes with experiencing loss, or physical pain. Depending on how emotionally grownup we are, maybe there is an underlying distance to that pain which gives such inner peace, even joy. When I play the Etude 10-3, later titled "Tristesse", where is the pain, or the darkness, the tristesse? The middle part is full of tensions, dissonances, yes, but Chopin resolves them into beautiful melodies. Even the nocturnes -- are they not love songs for the ladies sitting around, or gentle expressions of a late evening? Chopin's music is so rich, for me it is beyond pain, sorrow, ... mostly at least.. even if he suffered sickness, being homesick or at loss in the outer world. His music transcends the obvious, and the great composers and interpreters all did and do this -- that makes them be artists. Rationalization does not live up to art itself. And really good music is not psychological, but touches deeper levels of our being which cannot be explained in such terms -- provided that the listener has such an antenna.
I've noticed something about myself. I do experience emotion in music but primarily I just like the way something sounds without an emotional corollary. I have friends who I would say are more into music than most and they have all kinds of subjective experiences I don't have but certain textures or rhythms or progressions just turn me on. It's frequently that simple for me.
I love what you’ve done here. Let me offer a neuroscience perspective. (I’m also a composer). Our hard wired emotions are mad, glad, sad, scared, surprised, and disgusted. If fully expressed, they dissipate in 5 minutes. A movie begins with music that sets a MOOD. A mood blankets us and can last hours or even months. A third of the way through a movie the music changes mood as the conflict intensifies. A third further in the movie music is more peaceful as the conflict or drama starts to resolve. I may have the time frames wrong. A sudden change like a tiger running toward the camera elicits the emotion of fear Most of what you described are moods-powerful, anxious, hopeful. There are more than 100 moods. Numb is the absence of emotion. It is “feeling nothing” and that arises from the freeze response. I agree that emotion is the key in the arts. We cannot predict how or what people will feel, and art can evoke different emotions and moods in different people. There are a lot of musicians who strive to play very fast. They often don’t pay attention to the emotion. A great singer can saturate every syllable with emotion. I’m glad (happy emotion) that I found you today!
I once said much the same thing to my favorite music teacher, the music was all about emotions. He stopped me and said you don't want to put limits on what music is about or what it will mean to any individual listener. Food for thought.
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Chopin's emotional expression of the piano is (in my opinion) unmatched. However I'm still young and bold, and I'm willing to learn more of other's opinions
I am 64, a huge Chopin fan, and couldn't agree more with your words!
Another great example would be Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky. For me it resembles emotions of conflict. Between peace and chaos. Good and bad. Light and dark. On a deeper level swan lake beautifully uses subtle unsettling hints in peaceful part, and also subtle calm moments during the second chaotic part. Exactly like yin and yang fishes with the eyes of opposite colour. Truly an unprecedented masterpiece.
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That was amazing!
shoshty 5, III is my goat of complex emotions in music. honourable mention to antônio carlos jobim's music
Of course you are spot on. I agree fully. I think not everyone gets it but only those with a fully developed musical/emotional vocabulary. It is nearly impossible to describe musical emotions. They're not so simplistic as to lend themselves to being reduced to words.
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Interesting choices, and not the obvious ones.
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It just goes to show how subjective impressions are when it comes to music!
I would never have associated anger with Vivaldi! That piece is like a mad rush
around the supermarket just before it closes!
Congratulations on your new position. Great to see your well earned progression.
I found the music very emotional but struggled to match most of your suggested themes. I guess I need to listen more and deeper.
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Thank you.
Fury and mystery are also good descriptions
Thanks so much for the tip about the #4 ! very nice flavour indeed!
I feel differently about Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor; if you want a Chopin piece that just represents “sadness,” preludes 4 and 6 are closer. That nocturne, for me, is not sad but isolated - and isolation does not have to be sad. The piece depicts for me, as best as I can explain it, an aimless, wandering nomad reflecting on their past and wailing at their present. I don’t really feel like we have sufficient words in any spoken language to “translate” Chopin into emotions - yet, at least.
Yes, I definitely think that Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor should be listed as one of the more complex pieces in terms of emotions. For me, the nocturne is like wandering through the night alone, whilst gazing upon the moonlit landscape and reminiscing in a bittersweet way. I would say, that your description comes the closest to how I personally experience the piece.
Yes for me too: retrospection, introspection, confession
@@laurelmentor404actually i feel that the nocturne op 48 no 1 in c-minor expresses all you described much better
yes, exactly - sadness is gross oversimplification. Chopin is much, much more than one word description. This particular piece is special because it brings you into your past, wondering if it is all what future has for you. Isolation is indeed to the point, in some sense.
Congratulations on your new gig, young woman. You are exceptionally talented and I have always admired your perspicacity and commentary. You remind me why I compose music...thanks again.....
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Bach's Chaconne has all 10 emotions!! Did you even finish listening the entire Chaconne or stopped after 10 measures thinking it's that opening mood throughout??
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It's remarkable how powerful music can be in bringing about distinct yet complex emotions that could hold a certain meaning to you, perhaps even something profound. One composer that comes to mind is Claude Debussy - “Clair de lune”.
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Loved this list and loved your descriptions of each piece. Your videos always challenge my views and make me excited to learn more… I would’ve loved to see Beethoven featured somehow in this list as he almost single-handedly made emotion practically an official requirement in music, and he made freedom of emotional expression in music to be widely accepted, embraced and imitated. His body of work covers also a vast range of emotions from the most basic ones such as joy and anger to the most complex that are difficult to describe (as in his late piano sonatas, or even the 2nd movement of his 7th symphony.) It wouldn’t be hard to find an outstanding example of each emotion in this list using only music by Beethoven alone (and also add many more emotions like passion, empathy, grief, compassion, disappointment, and so on). That said, I still appreciate the list as I learn more about other composers too! Thank you and congratulations for the new gig! Well deserved!!
I absolutely agree...for every emotion mentioned, there is at least 1 piece by Beethoven that encapsulated it
Your narrative is a perfect musical transcription for each emotion.
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