This channel is a diamond 💎 of the piano world. Genuine lectures that we couldn't find in somewhere else, not even in most of the masterclasses. The completeness of analysis that covers the whole piece of the etude. This is just extraordinary, Greg. You are lifting the level of many pianists and music lovers to an unexpected level. My piano playing has been improving since RUclips suggested your videos the other day. Thank you once again and please keep this amazing project of Chopin's music going. Above all, your knowledge, energy, passion and discipline to make this project happen are amazing. Cheers, Vivien ❤️
Oh, thank you so much!! Such comments are my fuel, my food and my genuine prize for this hard work. It's incredible that it's so useful to you. Wonderful! And I'm going to publish tutorials with practicing hints as well!
@@gregniemczuk How wonderful this is Greg! I'm so glad to have discovered your channel. I couldn't catch up to watch your videos during weekdays. But I've planned to watch at least a few hours of your lectures during the weekends from now on. Thanks a million for creating this channel and bringing joy to the learning and understanding of music. Cheers!
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial. How did I miss it?? And what a beautiful étude, you bring us straight into the heart of Chopin. Many thanks. I must listen again. ❤
SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS, MAESTRO!!!!! Thank you for one of my favourite Chopin's Etudes in an excellent rendition and for your great analysis/tutorial, again my best regards, have a nice Sunday/happy new week. Joanna
This is amazing. Your interpretation made me understand the music on a much deeper level. Now I can play this piece and tell a story from my heart. You inspire me.
Left hand is similar to the final d minor prelude-which is even harder with the right hand co-ordination.I thank you for these interesting and useful lectures
30:37 when you mentioned preludes this etude has the same character as the prelude no 24 in D minor op. 28. Some of the phrasing reminds me of it. Keep up the videos the whole chopin series is great!!!
I felt in love with the melody that I decided to pick up this Etude. I thought it is an easy one to the contrary. Your passion, earnest, and superb tutorial are indeed inspiring. Thank you very much!!
Wow! This was amazing. Sometimes, I would hear so much more from this etude when someone played it, sometimes I would hear nothing much at all. But, when you play it and explain it, I understand it totally. Now, my hope is to be able to express that too. This was my first of your videos I've seen. Thank you so much. You are amazing. 💕
Bardzo, bardzo dziękuję, Maestro! This analysis helped me a lot with understanding the problematics of the Etude! I will surely look at your next videos!
This was the first video through which I found your amazing lectures, dear Greg, and I haven't been able to leave this (rich) channel ever since! As of my first experience with your lectures, I found your video deep, dynamic, and mesmerizing and the experience is total nurturing of sailing with you on your ship of Chopin's journey every time I watch! I always recommend them and keep coming back, especially to this particular one, and refill myself with the dramatic joy, dynamic storms, floods of his unique emotional honesty, and the weight of complexity! (although I'm a big fan of all your analysis videos and I'm nourishing myself continuously!) I'm a music teacher myself (though not in Western music) and I understand and appreciate what a weighty task you do in such an exciting, smart, narrative, and communicative way. Very motivating indeed, and Great job! Believe it or not, I consider myself a student of yours (through this channel) and I'm thankful for the knowledge and passion that you transmit so genuinely. In a way, what Chopin is communicating here (in such a short piece) is that of a self-wounding or self-daggering hero (Could I be dramatic enough to say it even reminds me of Hamlet's self-monologues--or dialogue with his philosophical self--in the climax of his restless moments!), with all that philosophical and emotional questions and struggles, and the echo phrases just wound and dagger me (as the listener) with no effort through only a moaning breeze (echoee response you call it) from that extreme struggle shaped in the fading dynamic of that precise phrase coming after all the breathlessness opening part. And all this is only one angle to explore his hidden genius touch of creativity in this... The mutual listening and analysis experience is so multi-level and multi-layered, both at the piano and beyond. And I hope that our transition engaged through your rich interpretation does justice to the blessed gem of "Chopin-listening". Thank you for bringing all the unappreciated interpretations and non-addressed blinking stars into our Chopin universe!
Dear Nasim.. I don't know what to say... It's such a beautiful and rich comment. I want to thank you for being here! I'm so happy that such an open heart and soul found my channel and this huge work of mine is so much appreciated. Thank you for all the enriching comments! All of them are so important for me! Greetings from Poland!
@@gregniemczuk Very kind of you, dear Greg! Thanks very much for your dedicated time and attention for reading the comments (especially my long ones!). It truly means a lot to me, too! Very huge work and project indeed and so influential and motivating, too. It's a treasure for learning and deep listening and yet will remain in time to be rediscovered by many, from different fields of music, various levels of music understanding, and listening dimensions; as forever this treasured music lives on. Always looking forward to following more of your inspiring works, performances, lectures, and teachings! Best wishes, and greetings from a Persian in Canada! 🌹
The first time I heard this etude, I immediately thought of that exact imaginary picture that you emphasized in the video. The piece's whole essence and poetic aesthetic is very evolutionary, well, in the piano world. Chopin was a master at engaging the listeners mind as well as the pianist's body, in conjunction with their souls to experience music in its truest form. I am very grateful Greg!!! We are learning A lot from you, As "Chopinists",...
Thank you so much for a super interpretation! Like the dream (or nightmare) and the loneliness analogy, the echoes. God, why all this evil? I love this etude, but it can be (is) a nightmare to master too. :) I've been working on it for roughly a month now and managed to get tendonitis inflammation in left hand. Not very serious, but need to take it a little slower and get my wrist motion better. Went to physio today. 😀 Thanks again for a great analysis!
This is actually the second etude I'm currently learning, after 25-12. Second day in and my left pinky is constantly numb 😅 Too hard, but there's hope since it's not hard enough for the contest!
Great analysis! I really like your analysis videos and interpretations of these pieces. Will you ever analyse Waltz in A minor B.150? Thank you for your incredible videos!
This channel is a diamond 💎 of the piano world. Genuine lectures that we couldn't find in somewhere else, not even in most of the masterclasses. The completeness of analysis that covers the whole piece of the etude. This is just extraordinary, Greg. You are lifting the level of many pianists and music lovers to an unexpected level. My piano playing has been improving since RUclips suggested your videos the other day. Thank you once again and please keep this amazing project of Chopin's music going. Above all, your knowledge, energy, passion and discipline to make this project happen are amazing. Cheers, Vivien ❤️
Oh, thank you so much!! Such comments are my fuel, my food and my genuine prize for this hard work. It's incredible that it's so useful to you. Wonderful! And I'm going to publish tutorials with practicing hints as well!
@@gregniemczuk How wonderful this is Greg! I'm so glad to have discovered your channel. I couldn't catch up to watch your videos during weekdays. But I've planned to watch at least a few hours of your lectures during the weekends from now on. Thanks a million for creating this channel and bringing joy to the learning and understanding of music. Cheers!
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial. How did I miss it?? And what a beautiful étude, you bring us straight into the heart of Chopin. Many thanks. I must listen again. ❤
SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS, MAESTRO!!!!! Thank you for one of my favourite Chopin's Etudes in an excellent rendition and for your great analysis/tutorial, again my best regards, have a nice Sunday/happy new week. Joanna
Thank you!!! I was not present because I was recording new episodes!!!
This is amazing. Your interpretation made me understand the music on a much deeper level. Now I can play this piece and tell a story from my heart. You inspire me.
Ahhhh, it's a dream came true reading your comments. Good luck!!
Hahaha you're such an emotional and passionate teacher
Like your demonstration, subscribed!
What a great interpretation and anaylsis! Full of drama and imaginations!! Thank you very much!
Thank you for watching!!
Brilliant emotional description of this dramatic étude. Thank you for this work, Grzegorz !! 😌
Thank you!!!!
Excellent interpretation. I love your improvisations and discourse, thank you for giving us so much to think about and play with🙏
So few people give this etude the time and energy it deserves. Thank you for sharing your love of this music with us. Pozdrawiam.
Thank you! I agree with you, and I think it's sad
Left hand is similar to the final d minor prelude-which is even harder with the right hand co-ordination.I thank you for these interesting and useful lectures
Yes it is!! I forgot to mention it.
30:37 when you mentioned preludes this etude has the same character as the prelude no 24 in D minor op. 28. Some of the phrasing reminds me of it. Keep up the videos the whole chopin series is great!!!
Great lecture Greg. Thank you.
Thanks!
Thank you so much! ❤️
I felt in love with the melody that I decided to pick up this Etude. I thought it is an easy one to the contrary. Your passion, earnest, and superb tutorial are indeed inspiring. Thank you very much!!
Wow! This was amazing. Sometimes, I would hear so much more from this etude when someone played it, sometimes I would hear nothing much at all. But, when you play it and explain it, I understand it totally. Now, my hope is to be able to express that too. This was my first of your videos I've seen. Thank you so much. You are amazing. 💕
Thank you Barbara!
Huge pasion!, you're a real
Love your explanation on how to interpratate this wonderful piece. Thank you so much!
Bardzo, bardzo dziękuję, Maestro! This analysis helped me a lot with understanding the problematics of the Etude! I will surely look at your next videos!
I'm so happy to hear that!
This was the first video through which I found your amazing lectures, dear Greg, and I haven't been able to leave this (rich) channel ever since! As of my first experience with your lectures, I found your video deep, dynamic, and mesmerizing and the experience is total nurturing of sailing with you on your ship of Chopin's journey every time I watch! I always recommend them and keep coming back, especially to this particular one, and refill myself with the dramatic joy, dynamic storms, floods of his unique emotional honesty, and the weight of complexity! (although I'm a big fan of all your analysis videos and I'm nourishing myself continuously!) I'm a music teacher myself (though not in Western music) and I understand and appreciate what a weighty task you do in such an exciting, smart, narrative, and communicative way. Very motivating indeed, and Great job! Believe it or not, I consider myself a student of yours (through this channel) and I'm thankful for the knowledge and passion that you transmit so genuinely.
In a way, what Chopin is communicating here (in such a short piece) is that of a self-wounding or self-daggering hero (Could I be dramatic enough to say it even reminds me of Hamlet's self-monologues--or dialogue with his philosophical self--in the climax of his restless moments!), with all that philosophical and emotional questions and struggles, and the echo phrases just wound and dagger me (as the listener) with no effort through only a moaning breeze (echoee response you call it) from that extreme struggle shaped in the fading dynamic of that precise phrase coming after all the breathlessness opening part. And all this is only one angle to explore his hidden genius touch of creativity in this...
The mutual listening and analysis experience is so multi-level and multi-layered, both at the piano and beyond. And I hope that our transition engaged through your rich interpretation does justice to the blessed gem of "Chopin-listening". Thank you for bringing all the unappreciated interpretations and non-addressed blinking stars into our Chopin universe!
Dear Nasim.. I don't know what to say... It's such a beautiful and rich comment. I want to thank you for being here! I'm so happy that such an open heart and soul found my channel and this huge work of mine is so much appreciated. Thank you for all the enriching comments! All of them are so important for me!
Greetings from Poland!
@@gregniemczuk Very kind of you, dear Greg! Thanks very much for your dedicated time and attention for reading the comments (especially my long ones!). It truly means a lot to me, too!
Very huge work and project indeed and so influential and motivating, too. It's a treasure for learning and deep listening and yet will remain in time to be rediscovered by many, from different fields of music, various levels of music understanding, and listening dimensions; as forever this treasured music lives on.
Always looking forward to following more of your inspiring works, performances, lectures, and teachings!
Best wishes, and greetings from a Persian in Canada!
🌹
The first time I heard this etude, I immediately thought of that exact imaginary picture that you emphasized in the video. The piece's whole essence and poetic aesthetic is very evolutionary, well, in the piano world. Chopin was a master at engaging the listeners mind as well as the pianist's body, in conjunction with their souls to experience music in its truest form. I am very grateful Greg!!! We are learning A lot from you, As "Chopinists",...
Thank you so much!
Simplesmente maravilhoso
Darling professor Grieg , um bom dia para voce aqui do Brasil!
Que aula imperdivel, maravilhosa . Abraço
Thank you so much for a super interpretation! Like the dream (or nightmare) and the loneliness analogy, the echoes. God, why all this evil? I love this etude, but it can be (is) a nightmare to master too. :) I've been working on it for roughly a month now and managed to get tendonitis inflammation in left hand. Not very serious, but need to take it a little slower and get my wrist motion better. Went to physio today. 😀
Thanks again for a great analysis!
Seconds.... seconds... seconds. Could be a prelude, says I. "Could be a prelude" says Greg! Gotcha!!!! Splendid video!
Thanks!!!!
Good work,thanks
Thanks for watching!
This is actually the second etude I'm currently learning, after 25-12. Second day in and my left pinky is constantly numb 😅 Too hard, but there's hope since it's not hard enough for the contest!
Great analysis! I really like your analysis videos and interpretations of these pieces. Will you ever analyse Waltz in A minor B.150?
Thank you for your incredible videos!
I will! Maybe in February
@@gregniemczuk oh okay! Hope you have a splendid day
EXCELENTE , EXCELENTE, EXCELENTE !!!!!!!
Obrigado
This guy is adorable 😊
Thanks !
Дякую! Чудово пояснено,як працювати над інтонуванням.Всі переймаються лівою рукою,а ви пропонуєте концептуальне прочитання !
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Just because the difficulty is lower does not mean the piece is not as good.
Hi Greg, just here to tell you that Op 25 no 4,5,6 and 8 are not in the etude's playlist.
Thank you!! I fix it!