Excellent information that I need, thank you very much!!!

felling proud of myself, because I usually to do most of these techniques! Btw love the Proud and Prejudice piano theme ❤ the urge to play it rn haha

0:25 - Liszt - Paraphrase de concert sur Rigoletto💕😍 Also I'm thankful for sharing tips about technics❤🤩🫡

Thanks danke obrigada❤😊

Truer words were never spoken. I'll be coming back to this video often. Merci

My piano teacher used to tell me to make the note sing.

What is that piece

The ocean and the voice.

Really enjoy watching your video. Your sharing has helped improve my practice 😊

what model of yamaha piano is that? Sounds lovely. Great playing.

It is not dissimilar to the work of Julian Fontana, Chopin's friend & copyist. Fontana was also chosen by Chopin's family to go through his work with a view to them being published posthumously, which has always seemed rather like a betrayal to me as it goes completely against Chopin's wishes. Fontana also lived in New York for a number of years & it is known that several copies of Chopin's compositions written out by Fontana have been erroneously displayed as original Chopin manuscripts in America. The signature isn't in Chopin's handwriting but it is not unlike Fontana's, the way the manuscript is written would have much to do with how the school determined it should be & Fontana & Chopin were at school together. Fontana's manuscripts are very similar in appearance to Chopin's (but neater with few erasures), so although it would be wonderful to have a new Chopin composition to enjoy, there needs to be a lot more investigation & less wishful thinking done yet.

The only mystery I see is it being called a Waltz. It sounds like a Mazurka to me and I do think it is Chopin

Looking back on 12 years ago, how satisfied are you of the path you took, Charlie?

Many good points. I studied and taught both singing and piano in college . He is not the first teacher or performer to recommend instrumentalists take singing lessons. Yes it so much about the vocal line which singing focusses on, and indeed has the mechanism to be able to express itself in ways that cover all the dynamics, articulation, phrasing and changing tone colour where that changing tone colour is beneficial.

Chopin sometimes gave miniatures to friends as a gift, hence miniature

At the end of the day, playing music, in general terms, has to be an act of simple expression. As such, one must be always completely natural, and that's what a lot of pianists lack, because of technical difficulties, awareness of their own sound, and myriad of other aspects that have to do with lack of emotional connection and/or poor concentration. Playing something with a unaffected musical sense is not something that can be explained, but only pointed to as a sign or a metaphor.🙏🏼

I think Chopin wrote down this musical idea but someone other than Chopin gained possession of the manuscript and wrote "Valse" on the page as well as Chopin's name, because it sounds definitely like a fragment of a mazurka that was left incomplete.

At 0:52 at bar 22 you change the harmony by playing a b-flat in the left hand instead of the b natural that is in the manuscript. I actually think the b-flat sounds better!

Chopin was a perfectionist. He published only the works he was fully satisfied with. Other works of his waited for Chopin to get back to them and work on them some more. There were brief sketches and short ideas amongst them, and this *beginning* of a waltz looks like one of them.

Did you remark the note a after the repeat in a non-ending measure? Did he want to continue the walz so that it is an unfinished walz?

When the world will discover that this sketch is only a required piece composed for Lang Lang' s advertisement work around himself... And moreover: when you will remember that even the " good" Fontana made a non required gift to the Composer...publishing all those works that the Great Master didn' t want to be published ...

He most likely didn't want to publish it because the part (noise) at 0:37 and 1:03 is a total fail. It's like a 'what was I thinking?!' moment. The rest of it is ok.

It starts as a Schertzo, transforms into a Mazurka and ends like a Valse. Chopin's name on top, triple Forte, Have you ever seen Chopin's sketches before? They full over strike throughs and corrections. Too much happening here to indicate that this is an AI generated work.

It is not Chopin!

Nice B flat at the end :)

I really don’t get all this enthusiasm about it, in stead, pick a ballade recording and listen to it and don’t waste your time after gossips.

Thank you very much especially for the background story of the manuscript ❤ Greetings from Leipzig 😊

this was probably a rough draft he just didn't bother completing for some reason or another....

The name of the piece may actually be "Chopin", but not composed by him.

Sounds like Chopin to me. It even echoes some of his familiar melodies and cliches. Chopin used to improvise stuff and then spent a lot of time trying to recall what he played, so he could write it down. This alone explains a lot of questions surrounding its discovery.

This is why Artur Rubinstein is the best Chopin interpreter that ever lived

one interesting thing i've found is that the sustain pedal is really nice for creating a sense of rhythm, which is really nice for giving a performance expression it occurred to me when someone explained the use of a drum kit's hi-hats to me. the hi-hats have a pedal that you use to press them together, muting the sound, or to keep open, letting the sound ring out. it was explained to me that it's important when you decide to "close" the hi-hat letting the sound end, because when you hear an open hi-hat, you're waiting for the moment it closes. you're waiting for that moment that it ends. sustain pedals very much feel like this to me, a held sustain pedal "wants" to be let go. so when i improv, a lot of times (as long as there isn't too much dissonance in my note choice), in moments of high anticipation, maybe i'm trying to be rhythmically ambitious or the harmony is in a really unstable place, i'll be more liberal with the sustain pedal's use, letting the noise build up for a more it doesn't always sound good, but as a pianist i really crave for ways to be expressive (because i'm to lazy to be expressive in technically challenging ways)

You managed to drastically improve my piano playing in just 5 minutes. What a great instructor!

Thank you. This was very helpful and well explained .

Anyone recognize the score at 1:39? For some reason it looks familiar to me like it's in my repertoire, but might just be my brain playing tricks on me...

I love the songs without words at the intro

Kayaking on the river influenced my playing. Feeling the river underneath me, all the crosscurents. When I feel the piano keys under my hands like the river, I think I play better. Ironically, I guess, the water moves the boat but my hands move the keys, but the sensation is the same.

I think Van Cliburn's (pianist) mother always taught him to sing the melody of any piece he was learning to give it that singing tone. It seems to have worked. Obviously it wasn't such a success with Glenn Gould.

My music teacher often times explains to me that I should imagine playing a short passage like a violinist would so that I don't just "throw it out of my hand". This is also a great insight!

And for all the tonsil jocks struggling with keyboard skills, it will help you hear and understand the music soooooo much more holisitically. I still strive to be a better musician; not singer.

As an oft maligned tonsil jock, hat tip! Well said and i cant do what i do without y'all. True collaborative co-creation. ❤🎉

Yes indeed. Cantabile!

Very useful, thanks for posting. I'm usually unable to transcend the piano's mechanics

thank you ❤

The answer to that question is the metronome, it never left his piano

Great piano advice. By the way, you said this advice would be another string in your bow. I'm a violinist. Bows have horse hair, not strings. ❤

per ben suonare bisogna ben cantare…

I took opera/voice lessons along with my piano lessons for YEARS when I was a teenager - helped me IMMENSELY when I started playing with the Columbus Symphony and then singing in the Columbus Opera chorus!! Your advice is absolutely SPOT ON!

Explains why it sounds like so many of his pieces sound like someone singing!

Great video. I know when I play jazz ballads you try and do the same ie bring out the melody like a singer, over the complex harmonies. You end up playing the melody with mostly 3rd, 4th and 5th fingers in the right hand. Can you recommend some exercises/techniques so strengthen those fingers to bring out the melody?