Chopin: Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... but your kids are gonna love it

So the most influential of all composers has been... influenced!

Why did he write Eb instead of D# halfway through bar 2? It is clearly a B7 chord.

I find Hans Zimmer's scores unbearably overblown and vapid. To me just a bit of solo voice, occasional traditional percussion and a bit of a drone now and again would have been so much more effective than this empty bombast. Thanks for revealing the musical content!

Loki looks like he's a good boy

The most fantastic jazz version of this song is from Jagodzinski. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIXEo4ypjsuojpY&pp=ygUSSmFnb2R6aW5za3kgY2hvcGlu

Bru the 1971 Death In Venice film by Luchino Visconti was enough after what Bjorn Andreson went through😭

I think people forget the wonderful Parry anthem ('I was glad') in the coronation service and the amazing daylight on the 3rd sung note ('glad') - so simple and yet so stunning!

If I was a reviewer 200 years ago, Chopin's preludes would have amazed me. He would have glowing reviews from me. The e minor prelude is my favourite of all of them.

This Prelude was my ABRSM Grade 7 C list exam piece--I had loved Ravel on CD for some years by then (I was 12) but sadly I couldn't quite "get" the modernism and whimsicality of the piece at that age when it came to executing it myself. Examiner gave me failing marks for that one because I played it "mechanical". Not now, so many years later, but this was the only song I ever failed in my ABRSM "career" so it sticks with me haha

What I enjoyed most about your exposition as a pianist was how you were able to just SKETCH out pieces with like top note and bottom note and/or points of interest where relevant, just the artistry of a pencil line without needing full shading etc

Music critics never change. Back then it’s obvious those critics had never heard of jazz. Chopin was only a hundred or so years ahead of them.

After listening to the whole video and listening to this piece again, I can actually understand now just how weird this piece is, but also how cool it is.

I learnt much more about this sonata than I was prepared to.

beginning of first movement, played by amateur players? Perhaps. But do they play the notes, or the music? I did play the notes and it was clunky, mechanical. Playing this piece requires a lot of experience I would say.

the sonata nr 14 in c-sharp minor has three movements which create the entire piece. I think it should be viewed as such, not just with a focus on the first movement.

16:20 JAZZ MENTIONED👆👆💯💯✅️✅️💯✅️👌👌👆💯🤦‍♂️✅️✅️✅️✅️💯💯💯!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥💀💀 edit: id call it a #9 for spelling matters

Yeah, ok. Subb'd.

as someone who improvises a LOT (probably too much) I can confirm that when I write down what I improvise it is often less enigmatic than the original improvisation, and it is a memory issue. I find actually recording my improvisations to write down later works much better 😆

Re: Improvisation and notation... We're really lucky to have the tools today that we have... I'd love to go back in time and give Chopin a recording/playback device

When you refer to Chopin's prelude do you say, "b-moll" or "B flat Minor"? And what does Loki say about it?

Shocking to ever hear someone at any time or place refer to Chopin as an 'artistical non-entity'.

I watched the movie "Impromptu" in the theater and fell completely in love with his music.

In case you are interested in something new to explore… try. Messiaen: L'Ascension • hr-Sinfonieorchester • Hugh Wolff. It is highly dissonant harmonies without being frenetic.

Bravo.

The historical reviews were apparently read from Nicolas Slonimsky’s fabulous book (one of many), “Lexicon of Musical Invective - Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven’s Time", available in paperback from W. W. Norton & Company. Highly recommended, especially to anyone who ever got a negative review. Until you have been raked over the coals, you have not walked among the great ones.

Like what you're saying, too long before playing. Js.

thank you.

I'd like to think he's sitting somewhere infinite trading licks with Fats Waller and Sun Ra.

When the first advert interjected, I was so interested I watched it all.