F. Chopin - Prelude no. 16 in B-flat minor Op. 28 no. 16 - analysis. Greg Niemczuk's lecture

[@teresalapidrodriguez5566]

Thanks for sharing your technique for speed playing and a way to memorize the piece. So valuable for whatever level skill is there.

[@seansmart2756]

Just incredible. Your playing at the beginning was truly awesome and thank you again for your detailed analysis. Gold!

[@smichelin19]

19:00 , its moving to the relative major(Db) instead of Bb minor via a Ab7 instead of F7 And at 19:58, there is also a passing modulation to A minor as the bass plays an E natural

[@joannawronska4100]

SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS!!!!! Thank you for my favourite Chopin's Prelude known as "Hades" in an excellent rendition and for your analysis/tutorial, your great video will be helpful for many pianists, but this masterpiece is beyond my abilities, as every day my best regards, have a nice evening. Joanna

[@Filipinoability]

Thank you very much for an interesting lesson movie

[@PedroStreicher]

I love this piece, thinking of a short, fast, rage, and a virtuoso piece maybe it is my favourite, so simple and objective, but at the same time so expressive.

[@gregniemczuk]

I agree! I've never played it before but now I just love it so much!

[@gregniemczuk]

I always thought it's too hard for me to play

[@FelipeJunqueiraMusicista]

@@gregniemczuk You are brilhant! How do you manage learning all these pieces so fast? You should give us a video about how you developed yourself, your process of learning and methods, with general tips for the daily routine, right? It would be amazing! You are already an authority in the art of piano playing for many of us, giving us so much already, and therefore you have more than a permission for such. Actually, I really want this. I think you have the best content in this plataform among all contets about piano I know, and I think you are a great pianist. Watching you is a real privillege for me. Thank you a lot for your lectures in uvres complètes de Chopin, I can see all the effort and matter. So I really apreciate and admire you for everything: your passion, talent, etc. Just wanna say thank you... please don't you ever think about giving up with this series, it means so much! I hope your are rewarded someday, somehow!👏🙌🙂

[@gregniemczuk]

@@FelipeJunqueiraMusicista wow, thank you so much!! Ok, I'll think about such a video when I finish the whole Chopin's series. That's a good idea!

[@charlessmith263]

Measures 8 and 9---that right hand syncopation in the 16ths is something like a prelude to barrelhouse piano style--and an intro to ragtime music in the 1900s. This also happens in measures 24 and 25 in that prelude--a ragtime-like style again.

[@gregniemczuk]

Good point! 👍

[@inigodiazderabago9254]

Greg, I know that you don't think the preludes are supposed to be played as a set, but I really believe this one to be the continuation of the "Raindrop" prelude. The explosive chords in the relative minor key just after the fading away of prelude 15 in seem to explosively liberate the tension caused by the repeated note in the Dflat Major. Anyway it is just my opinion, but the first time I heard this prelude was just after listening to the previous, and they seem to complete each other

[@gregniemczuk]

You know what? Chopin made me change my mind ! You'll see that when I'll be taking about Prelude no. 23 😀😀😀

[@inigodiazderabago9254]

@@gregniemczuk of course, the "calm between the storms"

[@s.n.b5511]

I went wow, when you put on the eyemask :)....thank you for the turorial. Even though this prelude is far advanced for my ability, I learn a lot from you. Wonder if this is like attending your Masterclass.

[@gregniemczuk]

Can be!!

[@pompasduris]

You didn't mention anything about the opening measure, but I don't understand the opening measure can have 4 beats with 6 quarter notes. Can you explain that? It does not appear to be anacrusis.

[@izabellamardo1074]

Darling professor amo as suas preciosas aulas bjs

[@Seleuce]

HA! After "mastering" 28/7 this is a piece of cake! :D:D:D Seriously, maybe, in the future, when genetic bioengineering makes it possible to grow a 3rd hand, I can play this! :P I love watching you teach, though. Most of all the music that I will never be able to play in my current life!

[@gregniemczuk]

Hahahahahahahah

[@giannilazzeri31]

The g#minor is really. Difficult I agree with you

[@yahyamhirsi]

Great lecture, Greg! When I heard this prelude for the first time in my life, I couldn't believe it was composed by Chopin. Even after playing it, I still feel like it was some sort of "hommage" to Alkan. It reminds me a lot of his "le chemin de fer". kzbin.info/www/bejne/o164kHZ_Z6xshMk

[@gregniemczuk]

Thank you very much!

[@ricardo_casas_cine_piano]

VERY GREAT. tHANK YOU. COULD YOU MAKE AS WELL A HARMONIC ANALYSIS? ESPECIALLY OF PÀRTS B, RIGHT HAND, ALL THESE "STRANGE SCALES", NOT PURE MELODIC MINORs NOR HALF-DIMINISHED...? THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[@gregniemczuk]

Hi! Well, that would be a completely different project which I might do one day, but I need a lot of time for that which now I don't have unfortunately

[@zehuazhen9747]

Hello Greg. Do you think the first 6 chords resemble the laughter of devils. You know, in the movies or cartoons, devils laugh like “Ahahahaha”.

[@gregniemczuk]

Oh wow! I didn't think about that but it makes so much sense!

[@zehuazhen9747]

@@gregniemczuk yeah, I got this inspiration when I was watching Tom and Jerry. There is one episode in which Tom went to heaven and the guardian played a video about a dog in the hell for him. And the dog just laughed in a way like these chords.

[@zehuazhen9747]

@@gregniemczuk yeah, I got this inspiration when I was watching Tom and Jerry. There is one episode in which Tom went to heaven and the guardian played a video about a dog in the hell for him. And the dog just laughed in a way like these chords.

[@steladragulin1847]

Unacceptable performance!

[@gregniemczuk]

This video is the analysis, not a showing off performance. Thanks for watching anyways.

[@gregniemczuk]

You wouldn't write that knowing that for 1,5 year I must make analyses of ALL Chopin's music, and not all of the pieces I had in my repertoire... So that's almost impossible to do. This performance was the maximum I could do in such a short time. Next year I'll record complete Chopin music and than you can judge it.

[@MyPianoArchives]

@@gregniemczuk they’re telling a POLISH pianist that they aren’t playing Chopin correctly 😂 you can feel his music in your soul. I can understand how difficult it is to execute this like Ashkenazy or Kissin.. but as you said, you learned all 24 in 1.5 years. HIGHLY impressive. Can’t wait to hear the full performances in their grand glory!

[@BurningSky9]

@My Piano Archives As far as I know, the lady telling him that was actually the teacher of a world renowned pianist, Mihaela Ursuleasa.

[@mvanbaarsen]

Hi Greg, thank you for this most interesting analysis. You deserve a big compliment for daring to make yourself vulnerable. Your entire project is a huge accomplishment. 🥰