Why is it so difficult? The technique of Chopin Etude Op.25 No.1

[@heartofthekeys]

Which etudes did you already play? Did you also play this one? Tell me in the comments!

[@voltageytgames461]

uhmmm I think youtube is drunk idk why but youtube is drunk cause this comment is 4 hrs ago and the video is 2 minutes ago

[@jb8866]

Oohhh of all Chopin's Etudes, Aeolian Harp is my very first piece which I seriously studied😃 I have played that 🎶 I really need to learn more about this piece🤩 sooo informative!

[@gabyl2326]

well I'm not experienced enough for studying a Chopin etude but one day I will and I will remember all of your advices on this one !

[@rgsold4624]

Op 10 4-12

[@karolzajac8139]

I'm into 20th century music such as jazz and the only one thing that keeps me by earlier music are chopin's studies, right now Im working on op. 10 no 1 and 2.

[@yanasedlak]

I would love to see this as a serie, with all of the Chopin Études. By the way good luck with your final exams and study! 😊

[@alexkliever4659]

So would I! Since you’re studying all of them. That was be so awesome and helpful to others who are studying either all of the Études or individual ones. And good luck indeed with your final exams/study!

[@lastbornrelic3430]

Yup

[@dehlazzarini]

Yassssssss please!

[@shuasaladbar]

Yall know that's what she's doing right?

[@RUT812]

Me, too!

[@claradiaz-acevedo3051]

a guy at my school played this the other day, i was breathless

[@davesaunders7457]

One minute in, and with the title, I knew I'd like it, so I put a like. However, as it evolved, I was blown away by the excellent explanation of concept and technique, but I couldn't add any more likes and there is no such thing as a like multiplier. When you finally started playing the piece, it was really easy to analyse the technique. And as always, you play so beautifully. So here are some spare likes 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@davesaunders7457]

I still think Chopin could beat Bruce Lee in a street fight. He sure could move those hands

[@ronb6182]

I just put one like in for you. I could never play these etudes I been struggling with the ocean etude. Which is easier than most of the other etudes. I will stick with the preludes. Much more my level.

[@user-we5mi6zl2s]

Wonderful playing of this etude. Bravo.

[@sissi7746]

Though not a pianist myself I grew up with Chopin’s music thanks to my much older brother’s piano. He used to sit the 2-year old I was then up on the top of his upward piano to play pieces of composers from the classical era. Among his favourites were Beethoven and Chopin. As I was growing up I developed a deep attachment to both composers, especially Chopin. His Polonaises in A major Op. 40, No 1 “Military” and in A-Flat major Op. 53, “Heroic” I continued to enjoy all through my life. Later when pregnant I would put Chopin on the record player and listen to the music while attempting to rest. The baby I was carrying then is today a 46 year old man who enjoys Chopin more than any other composers. As for me, at 71 now, Chopin still brings me back the awe of watching my brothers’ fingers make enchanting music just for me. However I don’t remember having heard him ever play this Etude. Yet the first time I nocticed its delightful notes, I stopped writing (I always write with Chopin’s music in the background). I couldn’t stop listening to it again and again. So imagine my joy when, quite by chance, you appeared in my KZbin feed with this video of yours explaining all about the history and the challenges of playing Chopin’s Etude Op 25, No 1 “Aeolian Harp”. At the end, you played it so wonderfully I couldn’t help but cry, so moved I was by the music. Indeed, your love of Chopin and this Etude in particular reminded me of the time my beloved brother was enchanting my eyes and my ears with Chopin’s wondrous notes. Thanks to you, for a short while there, I wasn’t old anymore but back to the times in my early childhood when I was watching with delight a passionate pianist playing Chopin’s wondrous music all over again.

[@kestrel3509]

Thnxx for a good comment.

[@MichaelAlexander1967]

That’s a wonderful and beautiful story ❤😊. Chopin certainly has that effect on people.

[@killer408cid]

Some people wish they could go back and live their life over so they could right some wrong, catch some opportunity, or generally make the right choices. I would go back so I could learn to play like this. Starting piano at 53. It's going to be a long road. I hope. Your playing is inspirational.

[@gixelz]

you can do it man. practice practice and don't forget to practice. you can be a great pianist for a big chunk of your life yet.

[@killer408cid]

​@@johnpiettro4644 I merely meant I regret not knowing at a younger age, when I had the opportunity, that I would want to play piano so badly now. I was a professional musician for many years. My main instrument was a 6-string fretless bass, so I know my way around a clef or two. I've got musical theory covered. I just simply never felt the bite to play piano until recently (HoTK is one of the reasons, Rousseau being the other). I think my biggest challenge is that I'm used to a guitar, where the fingers generally move up in pitch as you go from index to pinky, piano does the opposite. And you can play scales all in the same position. So "rolls" and such are going to be fun. Don't count me out on the more complex pieces. Marc Hamelin's got nothing to worry about, but I'm working on some slightly more accessible pieces like Dubussy's Arabesque first. I practice scales and fingering exercises, but intellectually I'd lose my mind if I had to do the "hot crossed buns" thing at my experience level.

[@gabyl2326]

that was really interesting, I didn't know there was all this techinque behind this etude. Nice playing and good luck for your final exams !

[@cschlums2235]

antario member

[@gabyl2326]

@@cschlums2235 Yooooooo an antario member too ?

[@lavigeriemathieu1294]

Just finishing this one. As I always do while learning a piece I listen to many different renditions to find the voicing I like. I must say yours is right up there among my favourites. Thank you once again for helping and inspiring mere mortals such as me :)

[@Nicole-kc7py]

After more than 20 years, I've started playing this piece again so I loved your input. Thank you. It's my favourite etude.

[@27jegs]

Lovely dynamics. Nice to hear feeling and not just technique.

[@tryinganna9883]

Dynamics is technique

[@oller7113]

My mother was an accomplished pianist and she of course loved Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert etc, On the left side of her concert Steinway piano she had the one meter stack of sheet music that she had gathered in her life time. Unfortunately I don´t remember this one but of course the beautiful impromptus by Brahms et al that impressed me in my early age. Lately, I have been able to relive some of these pieces by the recordings by Horowitz that I have found here on Internet. I have to say, though that listening to your description and subsequent performance gave me an unexpected dejá vu of listening to and looking at my mother. I saw the same happiness, understood the movements of the hands and the arms while playing (that I frankly sometimes saw as kind of acting, but now no more). I am a man of 83 so this took place many years ago. Thank you!

[@DaleHubbard]

What a joy. I played this in my younger years - I call it 'Chopin's Poem'. You play impeccably. Best wishes to you!

[@mafm]

Please make this a regular type of video. As a student it was both inspiring and educational. I’m going to approach my next piece the same way

[@aknightofcamelot]

Learning this piece now. Makes me cry after practicing because of how beautiful it is.

[@pianohero1838]

Just listened to it again - wonderful and clear sound, incredible

[@scottishfold9276]

Amazing technique and explanations Annique! More of Chopin's etudes please🙏🏼

[@patrickwells4014]

For once I got to see an excellent demonstration of technique in one of Chopin's most difficult and most beautiful piece "Aeolian Harp." Not only did I see some extraordinary playing but wonderful musicality in the artist's interpretation. Excellent. I would like to see more of this artist. I am looking forward to the next video.

[@GodTierComments]

This is like low to mid-range Chopin difficulty

[@jlole9460]

"One of chopins most difficult pieces"

[@richardherbert3519]

I’m no pianist, i can’t even read music, but love Chopin, and found your video very interesting.

[@pianohero1838]

Excellent explanation, wrist and elbow for dynamics, and the melody voice is so clear, just great, love it!

[@jpm3616]

I've played this one for more than 20 years, but nowhere near as beautifully as you do... I really learned a lot from this video. Your interpretation is faster throughout most of it than I normally hear it played, and I really like it. Beautiful legato but with no "muddiness". Makes for an amazing effect, aurally and visually. I'm an amateur pianist, I should add, but have heard the etudes through dozens of other great performers. Admirable work!

[@jorgerivas1424]

I'm so glad you said, "many many years..." I've been working on some of these etudes for decades and they're still not the way I'd like to hear them. I was beginning to think that I was of diminished potentiality & mentally challenged. The "Aeolian" is one of my favorite pieces and can spend all day playing it, along with Troisieme Ballade. I had no idea there was a very simple technique behind it to make it sound so sublime & ineffable. Thank you for sharing!

[@HandelJ]

We follow Annique, Annique follows technique, technique follows music...

[@patriciagraham2287]

You play the piano beautifully, such a lovely touch, Chopin would be proud! Don't stop!

[@marcelolobo3031]

Wowwww! I’m impressed. Almost cried. Congratulations. You rock! Thank you.

[@01.ahumadaherrerajuansebas86]

I’m not a professional pianist at all. In fact, I just started playing piano some months ago. However, watching your videos inspires me to be (one day) as good as you are no matter how long it takes. I really appreciate every single piece of your content and all the effort behind it. All I have to say is thanks and congratulations for being that good and inspiring! :)

[@Alexander-kh2rc]

Omg this channel is pure gold. You get the insights of a master given just like that. Whereas it would take years to just think about some of this stuff such as the importance of elbow moving

[@thomandy]

Fantastic video! I will never play like this, but still very inspiring!

[@nano_sweet]

I've heard many interpretations of this piece. You're the first that made me tear up. It is so beautiful. Thank you.

[@wooziethelock2738]

THAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUU ! For the past few days since I watched this video, I've made a lot of progress on this piece and for the first time in a loooooong time I'm like : " Oh shit maybe I can actually play not terribly ". I'm having fun and it Feels good, Thank you ! :)

[@scottderrick8166]

Great video and beautiful playing. Thanks for sharing the technique in the arms and wrists....easy to forget under pressure.

[@epalleja]

Much more than a technical explanation ... You are great! The best interpretation I have ever heard of this piece. Thank you for your music!

[@andhisband]

My eyes glaze over when I see sheet music like this. You explained this etude beautifully, and likewise played it beautifully. Thank you.

[@elainewells7322]

Amazing & awesome. Thanks so much for revealing the mechanics of this heart-rending piece.

[@alejandrodmsosa]

i ve just discovered you today. im in complete awe cause your such a delicate, refined sensitivity. your touching and phrasing. your calm tempos. so rare to find

[@johnnyt5054]

My absolute favorite piano piece. Thank you so much for this video!

[@ricardomichela9560]

Hello! I am a pianist too, and besides Scriabin that I am convinced is the next level of Chopin, he is my favorite too. I loved your charm and clarity of the history, music intention and technique explanation, and all your set up and all the care you had for making this video. Great work and thank you thank you for sharing your experience. Good luck with your exams. Indeed, the full list of etudes will make your forearm to grow :). No pain no gain no? I wish we could have some time to share piano experiences and different techniques approaches. I don't have the time for doing what you did, I mean producing such a wonderful video, editing, mixing, etc. I really appreciated what you did. You made probably my day today. Liked it and subscribed. I will be following up your shares from now. You were my wind harp today. Cheers. Love.

[@JamesMiller-s3e]

I am playing this right now on my own. I am so happy you made this video!!!! This piece is seriously one of my favorites

[@hweeeing]

Have listened this piece for many years and very liked it, but I couldn’t play this piece for many years…But after I have watched your lesson and tip, I could play this piece and nowadays I’m practicing this piece almost everyday to master it. Really appreciate it!

[@MichaelAlexander1967]

That is so beautiful. I'm going to start to work on this piece. Thank you so much for posting your analysis.

[@spencerplouzek2126]

i cannot tell you how much this helped me. not just with this piece, but with everything

[@peonieflwr7929]

Wow this is amazing 🤩 thanks for explaining this technique.. I will definitely incorporate it into my practice!

[@gavinli2443]

This might be one of my favorite videos that you've made. I don't even play piano and found the way you broke down the score with the rivers and nice big circles very satisfying. The technique breakdown was also great. My fav part though was listening at the end 😃

[@sherrajah]

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to post this. Enjoyable and insightful and a pleasure to watch your playing.

[@oller7113]

I have to add some more comments, if you allow me. I really see my mother playing: the same movements in the body, the same slightly backward tilting and the free flow of the arms and hands. It is absolutely irresistible!

[@socioecohistorywordpress5268]

Thank you for very good visual explanation of technique!

[@benbunnik71]

Wonderful played with so much sensetivity.

[@visualexpert6538]

Thank you so much for giving me the strength to learn all of my favorite pianist F. Chopin.

[@thatnicekid04]

This was a fantastic presentation, and you play very well!! 👏 I haven't played all of them yet but you've inspired me. I played the complete Scriabin Etudes op.8 for my final DMA recital at Manhattan School of Music.

[@glennnorrgard4412]

I am a novice piano player and listening to this video sharing your technique and talent is wonderful. Thank you.

[@ging3rw3e]

You explained it so clearly. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed watching this video.

[@ryguyyt630]

I tried playing with just my fingers without the wrist and elbow action as described. I got through around 1 and a half pages before my forearms started making it unplayable. I'm SO happy I found this video!!!

[@lucidviolin1298]

Yes I’m in a dream with tears in my eyes.. I love your channel so much. Thank you for these very valuable tips and insights for much more advance léveles.. comes in handy for someone who has never been able to afford lessons… I have never given up on learning for 15 years… love this music too much

[@robertkukuczka9469]

I love Chopin Etiude so much. Great works.

[@lucacorona6681]

Sometimes you can't tell why you love something or someone, but thanks to you now I do know why I love my man Chopin! And your emphasis while playing...wow! This interpretation was great.

[@chrisr4220]

TECHNIQUE!!!!! Really really appreciate the technique, especially the left hand - most have a tendency to have a heavy left hand in this piece.

[@manabukatoo]

Beautiful❤ I’m a very amateur pianist, but your instruction is very informative. めちゃくちゃためになりました。

[@ricardomichela9560]

3 (tristesse), 7, 12 (revolutionario) op.10 - op 25 ,1 (this one, with a slightly different technique, with a mix of fingers (30%?) and wrist rotations 60%, instead of elbows 10%), 2 (great for high fingers technique, better than any Hanon) and the the first of the 3 posthumous ones. Working now on number 4 and always wished to play the last one, #12. op 25 that's a diabolic one. The Impromptu took me out of this earth. I love that one very much. Then I moved to Scriabin...and I stayed there for years, until I came back to Chopin recently. Glad to share with you. Good luck!

[@Jay_Bacal]

History, technique, and a lovely performance! More videos like this one please.

[@Scrap_and_build_ourselves]

I love this etude. It sounds incredible when played by a harp, despite it's a piano piece, it's dream like when a harp plays it. I love it deeply, like most of Chopin's music. He's my favorite composer of all time.

[@annabade6030]

Du spielst unglaublich schön. Ich kann es garnicht beschreiben.. aber da liegt so viel Liebe und Gefühl in deinem Spiel.. Habe ich sehr selten so gesehen... bin gerührt.

[@j.m.b.8628]

What phenomenal fingers! I've been studying Op. 10 N°2 for fifteen hundred years, it gives me a lot of work, I'm doing additional exercises and it improves millimeter by millimeter hahaha. You have spectacular hands! Greetings from Argentina, Buenos Aires.

[@chuckfuery3276]

Wonderful analysis and your playing is warm and expressive. Thank you!

[@isabelledetaillefer2726]

My favourite, favourite Chopin Etude...beautifully used in the movie Turning Point for a ballet solo. I grew up in the African rural outback, with my piano being my sole friend, entertainment & passion. No internet those days, so getting sheet music was a battle, yet somehow I always got my hands on what I wanted to play, no matter how long it took. Having your classes on KZbin available would have made such a difference, especiallt with this piece!

[@declarkson]

Yes please please please do one for each of the etudes and then do more!!!!!!! You're so generous with your knowledge - I learned so much today! 5 STARS!!!

[@lulinasser]

Not only you are an amazing pianist, but you are also amazing at explaining things. Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video. Best of luck with your studies!

[@amiracal74]

I knew I was not losing my mind. (New subscriber) I only had one music apriciation class. I cried because I ❤️ 🎶. I watch some of your videos watching you is like watching the flow of tia chi your fingers are lethal weapons the energy flowing from them can only come from the gods of the elements. In class when I heard Valvaldi I heard the rain. And I cried. Now I'll go back to to looking and listening.

[@tarjena]

I like it, like it, like it this type of analysis of pieces! Please do it a series🙏🙏🙏

[@BrianBeker]

You play so beautifully. Thank you.

[@groaman]

Beautiful interpretation, and I especially appreciate your articulation of a sort of "sub melody" at 9 :26 - 9:32 that many pianists may not notice because of robotic practice. Very enjoyable!

[@MrNidnan]

Brava! Thank you very much for this lovely play. I love this piece. And your playing is so beautiful!! Lots of people nowadays plays this too fast and the nuances and the aerial spirit is somewhat lost.

[@vrendus522]

Wow, beautiful. I can see how you need the technique of floating above the keys, in order to mimic the sounds of a harp-like constituency to Chopin's piano piece. Excellent, well played. Thank you.

[@kmyase1]

Started to practice this and I've also got a hold of "Rubinstein" and "Rosanna Rolton"

[@davidceredig-evans8772]

Really glad to have found this channel. I'm into Op 10 at the moment - but looking forward to Op 25 maybe next year!! Thanks so much for your input.

[@malliendk]

Your playing hits me deeper than Pollini's version of this étude.... I just started practicing it, it's a giant leap in my career as a pianist. I hope one day I can play it as brilliant as you do...

[@gerardocardenas6591]

I think F. Chopin would fall in love with you if he listened to your way of reciting the top line as well as the inner melodies. Thx, Annique! Good luck with your graduation exam.

[@weiguo528]

If I were Chopin , I would concur but you know that man was hard to please as a pupil....... 😅

[@p4j5n]

I'm learning this at the moment so I've listened to every version in the World. Yours is the best. Well done mate!

[@the4663]

You're amazing! Very informative and your techniques are superb

[@5213alexis]

Toujours un plaisir de vous voir jouer du piano

[@marioli5596]

Very nice playing, so beautiful!

[@pattieharley1563]

excellent performance! I love your comment about music and technique.

[@melanymiskatonic8699]

Your just wonderful. Thank you for your channel 💖

[@iremgoktas556]

Oh my😮 While you playing I felt like there she is and her fingers which have started to flying on keys right now 🤭 Your talent,beauty and all of hardworking just speecless🥰💐 Thanks for these amazing videos that you’ve been made for us💜 Mind blowing🤩 Danke für alles 😍

[@beckywallenborn8307]

I have just recently discovered your series and am blown away and energized by your gorgeous talent and detailed explanations. Thank you for inspiring me!❤

[@jenning1953]

Thank you so much am really impressed by both how you bring out those essential details and your interpretation!

[@nicolarosiello2011]

The video was very interesting and the final performance wonderful. Thank you for sharing!

[@Valgreenmusic]

I hope you keep up this serie about Chopin studies!! I am also trying to play them all. This video was useful!! 💚🍀💚🍀

[@archlyn1]

Wow. What a brilliant explanation of the technique behind this beautiful piece. I loved the tutorial/performance! I don't play piano (a little guitar), but the understanding you bring to this piece further enhances my enjoyment of it. Thanks a bunch!

[@andre.vaz.pereira]

Great video. At 4:17 the left hand has bigger notes in 1st beat (as you mentioned) AND 2nd beat. Be very carefull with all the big notes of left hand because there are more than just the first beat in the beginning of the etude. They are a voice of their own. You play it magically and the technical aproach is spot on, i have a small hand and the elbow action was all that i needed to have the sensation of having a "bigger hand". The rotation motion is all we need to relax and also align our bones (hand and forearm) with the keys and you explain it very well!

[@larslisaandersson]

So impressed by your video. Both the way you describe your workflow and the fantastic perfomance wich you showed in the well made vide recording. Nice done. Keep on the good work.🥰🎹

[@RandiAndika_]

what a quality content! thank you so much

[@alicjakuszel6594]

Thank you very much for this video! I’m currently studying this etude and this is very helpful. Also, beautiful playing ❤️

[@sonmair2953]

I love how you explain the musical structure of the piece first! (Because obviously it can't be neglected in order to be played at a high level and it does provide great insight for the rest of the video) However, these are etudes after all, so wouldn't the technical challenges of the etude be the main focus first? I mean, it is not possible to play these etudes with emotion or "expression" without having the technique required to play them musically? It just seems to me that when it comes to Chopin's music and especially his etudes that first and foremost the player's technical foundation must be mastered. But it is certainly more important to know the piece so that we as performers have something to say in regards to his music. Just some food for thought! Maybe it's a really bad take 😅 Thanks for a great video as always!

[@grandpatzer]

Fantastic teacher. I hope you get students lining up for miles to learn from you

[@electronyoon]

im a huge fan of this song and but a piano beginner though im so impressed by your passion and love toward music i could know and feel it even though i couldnt catch a finger of yours wow you nailed it

[@ricktheexplorer]

Thank you for this video. I watched a girl play Chopin once, and it took up both sides of the keyboard. My acumen on piano isn't great, but I do know that music is complicated. Aeolian Scale going on, and another scale going on? Brilliant. I am a musician in a band. I know scales. I know many instruments, more than normal. Wow, watching this, learning so much. That elbow/wrist thing; you're on such a different level than me - so much further along on the path. It was a pleasure watching you work. I enjoyed every moment of this. I'll send you a link to my music on a old video soon; I think you may like it, and I hope it's not too archaic for your taste.

[@yvonneeshi]

Looking forward on your Etude covers! Patiently waiting for Op 25 no 5 💖

[@hirochannelpiano]

Very very beautiful 🥰💕love it ❤️❤️

[@sirdankarbin6726]

Sie spielt sooooo schön

[@gfsrow]

Thank you! Very insightful.

[@33heavens]

My favorite piece from the etude series.❤