I'm learning this piece, and this is the best analysis I've watched on YT so far. I love your playing and your interpretation. It really resonates with me. Thank you so much for this video. You are a beautiful musician.

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I love this piece and your beautiful piano playing . Just lovely

You could also enter this music into a notation program like Sibelius or Musescore, add accents to the beginning of each RH triplet, and then you would hear a mechanical version with the triplet RH accentuated. But in real life I think alla breve means just put more emphasis on the 1st and 7th notes in RH -- which is how Greg actually plays his RH when he demonstrates at 15:35.

Interesting, and something I have wondered about. BUT, at tempo you can't hear a difference. Even your example of "badly" then "correctly" at 12:55 mark sounds the same!

I don't think I've seen truly Mozart's genius until I watched this. The way you talked about dynamics in his music and how it's not just dynamics, he's telling you the way to play. Then hearing you play it. My eyes grew wide and then I started remembering Chopin's quote about simplicity. With so little writing on each page, yet each bar of music is a gift from god. his music is truly a testament of human intelligence and emotion.

Yes how to practice this piece would be very interesting. Might make my piano teacher of 9 years roll over in her grave!

Just completely absorbing. Thank you so much for this video and the learning. On the reference to Szpilman and the pianist at the end, Natalia Karp is said to have played the same piece for the sadistic murderer Amon Goth at Plaskow, saving not only her life but her sister's as well.

Such wonderful music and so well discussed

First year student here. I am surprised at how much more difficult it is to play the exercises with only one hand at a time than it is to play them with both hands simultaneously. Playing with both hands is so much easier.

watching this while painting :D

The monotonous rhythm of the octaves sound more like a machine eg a steam engine in a locomotive.

23:02 the word you are looking for is probably anticipation.

Thank you very much for that. I'm a student at the Victorian college of the Arts and I'm preparing this Scherzo for my LMusA diploma. Your analysis is great.

All you need now is $250,000

Your analysis has helped me a lot to learn this piece. thank you

I always imagine that in the introduction, Chopin is sitting at the piano in a damp and cold attic in Paris. As the melody in the right hand begins, his thoughts drift to his lost homeland; he envisions familiar landscapes, but it’s a country torn apart by war and uprisings. The dance-like section reminds me more of a Mazurka than a waltz, which makes me think he’s transported to memories of rural village dances. The elegant part evokes the image of the nobility from which he came-first, a certain splendor is heard in the melancholy, but then it transitions into a sense of decline.

Barbara your music is solid gold, thank you for sharing your art.❤

Patriotką absolutnie nie jestem ale ciarki miałam. Przepięknie. 😊

While this piece is not technically difficult, I have a hard time playing it nicely. The piece is so subtle and full of melancholy. Thanks 👍

Hello!

😇 . Still the best piece❣️

Dobry wieczór! Rozumiem, że ta sonanata będzie grana we wrześniu w Poznaniu, a dzisiaj taki trening 👍

Tą wersję z wariacjami wykonuje pięknie Alice Sara Ott.

Chopin ist nicht tot, er lebt. Mega 👍

Das kann man nicht besser machen. Chapeau und Gruß 👍

Eine grandiose Darstellung. The Best 👍👍👍

Lucyna Żbikowska Jak nie rozmyślać czy sens ma cierpienie nadludzkie dla życia wszak ono nie daje nam żyć jak nie rozmyślać gdy ziemia pada pod ciężarem bluźnierstwa i pychy zbryzgana bratnią krwią samowoli człowieka jak nie rozmyślać marzeniem o niebiańskich ogrodach o ramionach Boga obejmujących jednego sprawiedliwego wszak Ziemia zbyt słaba nie udźwignie Dobra westchnieniu tragicznemu wtórował Nokturn Chopina lecz nie dał odpowiedzi Inspiracja Nokturnem g -moll op.15 nr 3 w wykonaniu Maestro Grzegorza Niemczuka 2021r

Grandios. So geht Piano Unterricht 👍👍👍

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Hello Greg, Can you please do a analysis of Schubert's Impromptu Op 142 No 3, I saw that you played it. If so Thank You very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can anyone imagine Chopin being in love with one woman, grieving over the marriage of this woman, but exploiting another woman in every way for years...?

George być może powiedziała do Fryderyka "próbuj podnosić się z łóżka i wstawać"i Chopin to czynił choć ciężko Mu było😢😢

Love the breath between phrases ,and with much poetry and expression, but why do you rush in a few places towards the end so much at the expense of technical control especially the left hand leaps in the coda which caused a few splashes ? A shame as this spoiled the overall enjoyment for me.

I like you ❤

13:49 🤣🤣

So moving and your performance is really precious

"Dwa jest lepsze niż jeden! " - Grzegorz Niemczuk. Tak z całego serca Tak!

Greg Niemczuk, congratulations on the analysis you do on this Etude , you are the only one that shows the real importance of achieving this etude with the correct technique and phrasing , impossible to play this etude well if you don't do what you say, " the left hand notes have to be very legato and you can't listen to them, they have to be almost imperceptible,...great ,you are a great pianist...love your passion saying everything.......I bet you must have somebody who loves you very passionately, It couldn't' be different..you radiate a heart full of love..

Czy istnieje nagranie, ktore pokazuje jak gral naprawde Chopin ? Rzekomo jeden z jego uczniow zostal nagrany, ale ktory i gdzie ?

Panie Grzegorzu, Po polsku by się przydało jeszcze 😊 Bo po angielsku ani w Ząb Znaczy się mówię o sobie 🫣

Richard Clayderman ‘s style 🤦🏻‍♂️

A czy nie każdy utwór powinien pochodzić z duszy con anima?🤔

For me I feel like the ending of the nocturne represents acceptance, or again self-comforting after his loss. It's like he's trying to tell himself "it's ok... it's ok..."

Love your stuff! But is your C# in the 14th bar a little flat?

I remember Greg launching his channel on analysis. At the time, he would even answer each any of the comment postes there. Few years later, i heard him in Zurich, and it seems he s now having a very nice int career start. What pleases me most, is that he is not, i think, a technical monster with a crazy show off attitude. Yet, he feels his pieces and it is so much more appreciable for a listener to attend one of his representation rather than most piano superstar. This part is my fav from the piece. I hope someday îll play it

No idea what you are saying but you are a wonderful teacher and divine pianist. ❤

I agree 100% with you that this piece is the most underrated Chopin's piece, AND must be played slower.

Had I not heard of Chopin's Nocturne in C Minor opus 48 number 1 before this sonata, I would not have known about the idea of partraying the battle of two concepts in piano music.

Anytime I read the word etude.. I get scared and run away from my piano. lol