Fantastic tips. Been playing this piece as an amateur on and off for nearly 50 years and never had insights this good. Thanks 😊

Nice video. Unless I'm missing something, T R L R L R is not a palindrome. You'd have to stick a T on the end, but that is the start of the next sequence.

Very nice. This will motivate me to 16:38 go back playing this. I’ve always loved Brahms. There’s a story behind this. I started taking lessons at the age of 55, after being a hack on the keyboard for years. I tutor calculus. A man, about my age, came for lessons. He was quite eccentric and wanted to study engineering for an unfathomable reason. His name was Billy Brahms. He claimed that his 90 year old mother was the daughter (or granddaughter ) of Brahms’ sister. He never explained why his mother kept the last name. After his mother died, Billy just disappeared. This was circa 2005 on Long Island. Struck by the coincidence, since I was singing his Requiem with my chorus at the time I met him, I decided to try to memorize this piece. I did - but have hardly touched the piano for the last 2 years. Listening to this will make me go back to the piano. Thank you.

You can hear exactly what Debussy thought. Listen to his piano roll that he claimed was a perfect reproduction. It’s available. People now play it very differently.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I’m currently learning this piece and stumbled across this. Cheers from Dallas Texas.

Thanks so much, finally understand what I’m doing wrong now that I see you play it

Thank you!!! Very helpful 🙂😃

Perhaps the best thing he ever wrote, but I have never heard a recording of it that I really like! Boris Giltberg is close. Any recommendations?

GREAT teacher, my compliments. Anna from Rome, Italy.

This video is awesome, the interpretation really helps alot, very thorough! Thanks alot!❤

F shatp MINOR? An idiot, methinks. Thos guy knows nothing!

I love your interpretation. I’m actually playing this piece for my first diploma, and I find your advice extremely helpful. I can play the melody well but the ornament were very muffled. I understand to keep my fingers very close to the keys for the ornaments. I will go through all your advice, it’s like à piano master class on line. Thanks so much. I don’t think it’s hard to memorise though.

maestro, i love your dark scenario with the husband grumbling about the wife always moping and then he wanders off to his own more important business, and the wife wonders about her lover, and is consoled--all the more need for the plot of marriage of figaro--seriously, clive, great stuff for pianists who work on this piece

very very glad to have found this swansbourne channel--this video on the schubert gb impromptu a wonderful lecture-demo, so smoothly, conversationally presented--and he didn't disturb the swan disguised as a duck napping in his studio

your piano needs a brush-up.

This is such a great tutorial, I keep coming back to it as I progress through the piece. There is some ambiguity in the score at times, particularly in terms of dynamics, which you clarify / interpret very well.

Thank you so much for this. I don't play myself. I seem to remember hearing this when I was very young ,maybe it was a teacher practising in my junior school. Then a huge gap of years before I heard it several years ago. It's so beautiful. For me Horowitz playing it in Vienna was amazing, he hardly moved his fingers.

Excellent analysis!! Thank you so much!!

I've worked on this truly gorgeous piece for about 12 months now. But listening to your video gives me so many other interesting ideas to think about. And all presented in such a clear and calm manner. Thanks so much 👍

You mentioned C major? would that be C sharp?

Now make a new video and play the whole piece without interruptions please please please !!! Thank you very much, sir. By the way thanks for the good pedal tutorial.

This was great. Currently learning the piece. Some good insights. 👍

i love the story telling at the beginning

I hear Piazzolla on the 3d set of arpeggios at the beginning. Why? (In fact I think P quotes this exactly in some piece I can’t quite come up with.) 🤔

I can't even play piano neither can I read music and I am still loving this!

You do the best teaching technic on youtube because it gets to those who know very lityle about piano and to those who know much more.

Excellent tutorial, Clive! I worked on this piece about 50 years ago! It's such a joy to revisit it now and you're suggestions and examples for absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much!

Some wonderful insights. I do think you're playing it too fast. It sounds rushed to me - particularly the f#m section.

do not like your playing at all - too loud, too fast and unclear!

Beethoven felt his own lack of skill in counterpoint, and embarked on an intensive study of Bach and Handel in his last years. This shows in the last Symphony, the Missa Solemnis, the Diabelli Variations the last piano sonatas and the music for 'The Consecration of the House'. The syncopated passage in Op.111 is almost lifted from The Art of Fugue, second movement.

This piece is so lovely

I’ve been practicing this piece since May and have watched many, many tutorials on YT-this is the only one that addresses key technical difficulties and explains them in a professional, concise manner. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this. Thank you!

Bingo! I've been struggling with this passage but within minutes of seeing this video finally nailed it. Thank you

It amazes me that as composers made a living from selling sheet music there must have been many people who could play this music. How many could afford a piano? Excellent analysis

I have played this but I must admit that I forgot how beautiful it is. Your insights have brought it all back to me in a fresh way. Thank you. It is indeed, from my perspective, one of Chopin's greatest works.

That’s a really great tutorial for me. I am learning this piece, and this was extremely useful.

Such an insightful and hearty teaching. Fully enjoy it. I wish you were my teacher 30+ year back 😂.Thanks for your kindness ❤

You have absolutely huge hands. I wonder how one is supposed to play those broken cords in the left hand starting at roughly 12:07, playing them in one movement with like 1 2 3 5 or 1 2 4 5 seems impossible with my hand, I was experimenting with 2 1 2 5 but doing it in speed seems really hard, maybe 1 2 1 5 is that plausible?

Thank you very much! 🌈

Thank you for this wonderful insight on this piece. I'm trying to learn it right now.

A brilliant analysis, beautifully delivered, with much sympathy for the music. Glad to have discovered your channel - thank you.

Thanks! Happy New Year!

I am very glad to have found this video. It'll give me a lot of ideas how to improve my playing of this piece. Many thanks! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHfCfp2VpK-prKcfeature=shared

Thank you for the insights & tips. But I have to ask you this: Why do you have cardboards and a thick book on the cast iron plate of your piano 😅 ?

❤ how funderful to here you play

My friend playes this song and I love this song so I listen to it every day.❤🎉😊

Excellent interpretation and super helpful ideas for learning the piece in “chunks”. Of course just speaking for myself!

Amazing rendition

Very good tutorial! Thank you for detailing so much every phrase. I'm taking back this piece after 25 years and your comments inspired me much.

OMG! I feel that absolutely great! Many thanks!!