Chopin: Sonata No.2 in B-flat Minor, Op.35 (Zimerman)

[@솜-f3u]

It's amazing that such a gorgeous melody can be realized with just one piano.... and this is the reason that I like Chopin

[@1947laurence]

The piano is the only instrument that allows extraordinary wonders to be performed

[@carlkulzer5982]

Chopins music plumbs the depths of the soul. One of the great works played beautifully by Zimmerman. Thanks for making this available.

[@ilovecats581]

A great piece, very difficult but with a beautiful melody all thru it.. Zimmerman at his best....marvellous!!!.

[@FrostDirt]

Such a shame that Zimerman was taken aback by negative press coverage that he abandoned his project on Szymanowski and Chopin Sonatas back in the 2010's. It would be a marvellous recording were it finished.

[@fryderykchopin1381]

Where did you hear about the bad press?

[@kuba550]

What project? Can you say more about it?

[@FrostDirt]

@@kuba550 in 2010-2012 Zimerman was working on his series of recordings of works by Polish composers (Chopin, Szymanowski, and one undisclosed composer [Bacewicz, perhaps?]). But around that time, he was allegedly attacked by two Polish newspapers and such incident "poisoned the atmosphere" that Zimerman withdrew from the project.

[@kuba550]

@@FrostDirt thanks, didn't know that

[@PeterFamiko-lw8ue]

Why did they attacked him?

[@b.hermann2520]

The best interpretation I have heard. Consistent, holds tension amazingly in the first movement, that breaks open so nicely with the arpeggiated chords in bar ~181. It is absolutely a goosebumps inducing moment, also the ending is so nicely kept together, he doesn't rush it, it is fast but so precise. I can't get enough of these, absolutely fantastic!

[@cunite9263]

What makes Chopin's music outstanding are those unique melody themes, octaves, overlapping harmonies and constant change of tempos including the Rubato❤

[@surferriness]

17:17 that one kid with their CASIO watch

[@Hqy22]

dam, u have godly hearing

[@aleksagrbusic7067]

Naaaah thats some godly hearing

[@Ben-kh2rh]

insane

[@mariusdoespiano-e2t]

I don't get it

[@Santo-atao]

bi bi

[@tancreddehauteville764]

One of the most amazing pieces of music I have ever heard. When I heard it for the first time it was one of life's 'peak moments' for me. Pure genius.

[@kimthevirtuoso]

3:59 such an overwhelming melody

[@fredericauguste]

Incredibly great sound quality. Thanks for sharing this great recording!

[@PatriziaPalmisani-ks8je]

SPETTACOLARE !!! MERAVIGLIA DELLE MERAVIGLIE ....GRANDE ZIMERMAN

[@Dylonely_9274]

The third movement is one of the greatest achievements by Chopin.

[@davidantiguedadclassicalgu4259]

His sense of form in the Marche Funèbre is astonishing… What an incredible performance!

[@szilike_10]

So happy now we have a scored version of this, it gets taken down all the time.

[@tucody8497]

Fun fact: the repeat sign in this version is actually incorrect, due to the double bar line written after bar 4 being misread as a repeat sign in the original manuscript. The correct version has it repeating from bar 1, resolving the A-flat dominant chord to the beginning note of D-flat.

[@schubertuk]

Well - it is a fact that is contested - but the evidence is not conclusive - particularly as so many variant versions of Chopin's works existed - many clearly originating with Chopin himself - who continually tinkered with many of his major pieces. Never-the-less I think that the piece is either better without the repeat - or as you assert, including the Grave.

[@1947laurence]

french : Le signe de reprise dans cette version est en fait incorrect, en raison de la double barre de mesure écrite après la mesure 4 qui a été mal interprétée comme un signe de reprise dans le manuscrit original. La version correcte le fait répéter à partir de la mesure 1, en résolvant l’accord de dominante en la bémol jusqu’à la première note de ré bémol.

[@1947laurence]

@@schubertuk french : Eh bien, c’est un fait qui est contesté, mais les preuves ne sont pas concluantes, d’autant plus qu’il existait de nombreuses versions variantes des œuvres de Chopin - dont beaucoup provenaient clairement de Chopin lui-même - qui a continuellement bricolé nombre de ses pièces majeures. Néanmoins, je pense que la pièce est soi meilleure sans la répétition - ou, comme vous l’affirmez, y compris la Grave.

[@schubertuk]

@@1947laurence are you trying to show off? Your reply implies you are responding to my 'English' post, but you have chosen to not respond in kind? I'd love to understand your reply, but I'll leave that to you.

[@1947laurence]

@@schubertuk I have only translated your comment into French

[@dimitrissdrolias3568]

Μaybe the best interpretation of this sonata ever! And live!

[@bernardparret3191]

No, no, and no !!!!

[@ImXR93]

Chopin is The master of movement, 🔥🔥🌡️

[@مهدیمرادی-ج9ج]

Thank you for sharing this performance

[@CAG2]

Anyone else notice how he connects the last note of the funeral march and the first note of the finale?

[@richardcarnes2834]

The repeat of the exposition in the first movement begins from the Grave, not m. 5. The double dots at “Doppio movimento” (an instruction that Zimerman ignores) are spurious - they were added by the editor of the first German edition.

[@marikotada8849]

ほぼ50年後のツアーを聴いてからの…。マエストロの素晴らしい演奏に、目も眩みそうたが、各ムーブメントごと、それぞれ１つの小品として成立する、革新的な構成のソナタであると、認識する、完璧な演奏である。27歳のマエストロらしい、力強く陰影を表現し、ショパンの時代・世界へと、心をわしすかみにして、連れて行く。昨年９月まだ未解決です、とコメントされていたが、一番シンプルな型をオーソライズした、50年後の演奏でした。是非とも、1984年も令和５年も、両方CD録音を残して下さい。最近、バラード１番をバイオリン🎻ソナタに編曲して、演奏されていましたが、このソナタも、当初期待されていた、個性の表現を競うソナタとして、世界にひろがり、マエストロの芸術家としての評価の証明となります。職人魂で解決した楽譜解釈、ブラームス、ラフマニノフなど、ピアノ表現の可能性を楽器そのものまで拡げた功績は、明確です。60周年記念を楽しみにしています。

[@benharmonics]

Your channel should be called ZimermanScores

[@franciskurkdjian6728]

I love your videos! I hope you post more Looking forward to it!😍

[@luizeduardodomingues8492]

👏 não há palavras para expressar

[@yoshi_drinks_tea]

5:07 This part would easily fit in a Tim Burton movie

[@antoineroche2073]

Incredible !!!

[@bernardparret3191]

Yes, incredibly brutal ! What's the point in breaking a keyboard to pieces ?

[@KohyaSuechika1104]

Incredible! Bravo! I hope we post more. Looking forward to it. 💚✨ #Kohya Suechika #Music

[@novellmusicmedia6895]

The first time a recording makes sense

[@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa]

it's nutso how he captures the feeling after the funeral lol. you process all your feelings with everyone, you're making awful miserable sense of things, you're carrying everyone through, you're being strong, you said the right words, you held up your friends, you mostly held it together, they held you together, you get home, you close the door, and they're still gone and nothing makes sense and you live in crazy land for a really long time. Those days are the worst, where the next logical step is to go back to real life and your heart is just taking a big step on a broken leg and it's just a really stupid idea

[@happyaccident2398]

I❤chopin. Thank U😊

[@ThePainist]

Very unpopular opinion but I think the first 2 movements of this sonata are a great example of how to write without inspiration. And it would make sense because this sonata was written around the funeral march (the march was composed about 2 years prior to the rest) i.e. on "order" with the rest.

[@pablobear4241]

Maybe the playing is what makes you think this. Neuhaus said this piece was about a hero the birth of the hero is the first movement, the second his triumphs, the third the death, and the fourth is the wind blowing over his grave. KZ plays this like a Czerny etude

[@ThePainist]

@@pablobear4241 Lizst, in his book on Chopin, says his sonatas (and concerti) are more a work of effort than inspiration. Being Chopin, he naturally made these movements very well finished, but I'm saying that it's written like an artist drawing painting with technique rather than with creativity

[@alainspiteri502]

mvt 1 w: revolt against the death , 2 the hope , 3 funeral march 4 out of our planet , somewhere in the universe . This first sonata in the world of piano was written ten years before the death of Frederick ( Baleares ) ; it's what j think when j listen this colossal sonata , the first sonata in the history of the piano , more important than Lizst Sonata by expression in front the death : Philosophy sonata j don't known an other sonata for make a comparison .

[@pablobear4241]

@@alainspiteri502 very nice, I like it

[@briansunday7099]

Personally, I always found the last movement brilliant but weak, in the sense that seems out of step with the rest of the movements. It’s not my favourite - that, for me, would be the third.

[@OuaghlaniAlaa]

5:43 Zimerman totally neglects the dynamics

[@MrHullU]

The dynamics in some editions are different in this area. I suspect Zimerman used the Paderewski edition because it has a crescendo marking instead of piano and decresendo.

[@WEEBLLOM]

Based

[@Bruce.-Wayne]

Zimmerman sound great as always but i dont know much about him as far listening to his works....this Sonata has been a benchmark for many Great pianists....Horowizt and Arthur Rubinstein version of this Sonata are Legendary

[@marshall62020]

Bravo!!!

[@marksmith3947]

Because KZbin doesn't have enough of Zimmerman playing Chopin 😂.

[@anosmianAcrimony]

NEVER ENOUGH

[@葛川倫子]

上手ですね🐒🥺

[@erika6651]

Is there anything in musical literature proceeding this piece that compares to the finale? I suppose it could be thought of as an etude. It is not atonal, but almost appears that way as it is such a blurred rush - what if chords became wind. It just seems so unique.

[@ShaunakDesaiPiano]

Which came first? Chopin’s so-called Hades prelude (Op 28 No 16) or this sonata? Because the eight bars of both of the pieces’ main themes have an identical chord progression and identical rhythm in (respectively) the left and right hands. It’s why I feel that the Hades prelude would make a great alternative finale to the 2nd sonata.

[@danissimo9852]

There is also some similarity with his prelude op 28 no 14 and 4th part of this sonata.

[@ShaunakDesaiPiano]

@@danissimo9852 yes, the E flat minor prelude that only lasts some forty seconds right?

[@EggMCMUFFIN-e4l]

Why is the first movement always played so fast???? It’s marked GRAVE! Even slower than largo. Doppio movimento would be in the largo/andante range… .75x speed is where it’s at

[@АлексейМартышкин-э8с]

Цимерман игнорирует тихие нюансы, но мне это нравится. Мне тоже эти места хочется играть громко.

[@benzandpour]

FUNERAL MARCH at 15:00

[@高橋かづ江]

ピアノ始めて平均何年で、とりあえず弾けるようになるんですか？

[@johnmar1622]

10/10

[@michaelcollins234]

The coughing 😭

[@BG-yj9pr]

Beginning sounded like a sequel to fantaisie impromptu

[@wellingtonsoaresdacosta5635]

❤❤❤

[@ТатьянаГончарова-щ2ь]

Класс 😮😮🎉🎉😂❤😂😮😊😊😊😅😮😢🎉🎉😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂🎉🎉😢😢😮😮😅😅😅😊😊😊😊😊😊😅😅😅😅😅😮😮😮😮😮😢😢😢😢😢🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

[@Brad4Ellis]

I’ll have to check out other recordings of this piece. Is the final movement usually played so fast? Without the notation, I would be completely disoriented in the blizzard of notes. Even WITH notation, I find it difficult to place myself within the beat, and get a coherent sense of harmonic rhythm.

[@MrHullU]

I think with the 4th movement, it's not really about the beat or harmonic structure/rhythm, but instead a sound that describes the image of the piece. To me, it sounds like the howling winds of a graveyard ;)

[@Egbert_Souse]

It was written for unequal temperment as opposed to equal temperment used since the mid to late 19th century. There's an interesting comparison of the last 2 mvmts played both ways. Check it out. To me it was revelatory with the last mvmt finally making sense. Here's the you tube link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npikYmB_arKZhLssi=hUw35a157DmhnUYk

[@angreagach]

It seems to me that the fourth movement is a brilliant depiction of entropy!

[@eel9]

It's great!! Fantastic!! Can you do Michelangi ?? it's even better 😅😆

[@MrHullU]

Do you mean Michelangeli? He has multiple versions posted on youtube. The one he performed in London 59 has to be my favorite ;D Theres something about the performance that creates a story, almost spooky-like. To me, it really reminds me of death, the sadness, and a funeral!

[@alainspiteri502]

For me 1) Rachmaninov ( 1930 original not piano-roll ) also Aschkenazy , true history of the man in front of the death .

[@MrHullU]

Rachmaninoffs recording of chopin sonata 2 is amazing, the raging 3rd movement and the voicings of the 4th movement. Absolute gold recording of a great pianist!

[@alainspiteri502]

​@@MrHullU about philosophy op35-2 is the first in historical-piano : revolt hope funeral q view after death ; it's no only musicality with op35-2 but above beautiful piano , j don't see similar sonata ( for me )

[@Dylonely_9274]

17:07

[@nathanaelthomas3786]

13:25

[@majorcproductions]

Prelude not nocturne

[@benjaminravail5028]

such a shame that most of the audience was just there to say "I was at that concert".......without appreciating the pure soud and technic and profound investment Zimerman put in his rendition... Poor world we're living in that's for sure

[@ilovecats581]

How do you know that??

[@benjaminravail5028]

@@ilovecats581 unfortunately we live in a world of « showing » don’t need any proof

[@WEEBLLOM]

What?

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

I think you're complaining about the coughs and I understand that.

[@benjaminravail5028]

@@ilovecats581 because I happen to experience it unfortunately…..

[@PeterFamiko-lw8ue]

Chopin should write this in A minor. Five b is too much for reading

[@7HPDH]

You could have it transposed by MuseScore

[@Bruce.-Wayne]

I prefer 5 Bs than 5 #s....😅

[@user-tl1wt7mp8e]

05:06