F. Chopin - Nocturne in E-major Op. 62 no. 2 - analysis - Greg Niemczuk's lecture

[@seansmart2756]

What an incredible amount of knowledgeable content and performances you have gifted us here on KZbin. Just incredible. Thank you very much.

[@gregniemczuk]

Enjoy and share!!! This is the best reward for me! Thank you for your comment

[@seansmart2756]

@@gregniemczuk Much enjoyment. I personally don’t know anyone who is interested in similar music so these are a treat. I’ve some catching up to do!

[@elias7748]

I can't believe we're already done with all of the 18 nocturnes. What a journey! And I can't wait for the rest.

[@vincyfung]

I always love Chopin’s music because of the beautiful melodic lines. Your analysis of listening to different voices has opened my mind and has changed the way I play/practice Nocturnes in the future. Thank you!!!!

[@francescpousbergada6795]

In this utlimate pieces of Chopin one can feel the solitude, nostalgia and sadness of much things that will never come to his life (Poland, George Sand, his father…) but what makes this last pieces special is that one can feel the strange and special mix of anxiety for not coming into Poland, George Sand and his family any more but the relaxation of knowing the end is so close and with it all his suffering is ending too. Very touching when you think on the music we could have if him was living 10 years more, totally true and totally depressing… He is one of the best artists of the history and humanity.

[@francescpousbergada6795]

Thanks for this super content, I coincide with almost everything you say!!

[@gregniemczuk]

How beautifully written! Thank you;

[@kakhigiorgadze8487]

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY GENIUS WORK OF ART! ONE OF THE GREATEST IN HISTORY! the way Chopin changes major to minor, minor to major and never stops the melody is just astonishing to me! Wagner, Liszt, Mendelssohn great composers who boasted about their revolutionizing achievements, while Chopin was doing all of that in his much shorter life spam! (mind you with very little musical education) only reason why musical world doesn't recognize Chopin as a great innovator is because he never advertised his music as such. I adore the polyphony in this piece, I can personally hear three subjects here. Chopin was one of Bachs many great pupils! one of the greatest!

[@gregniemczuk]

Thank you so much for these words Kakhi! You're absolutely right! I have the same thoughts in my head. 😘😘😘😘

[@batuhankaya5837]

Greeting from Turkey🇹🇷.You are the best sir👌👏

[@gregniemczuk]

I'll try to make Turkish subtitles available in every single video from the past!! Thank you!

[@batuhankaya5837]

@@gregniemczuk I'm so glad to hear that sir.I'm so happy that good news❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@T-J-S]

I still didn't watch any of the analyses of the other nocturnes, I'll make sure to watch them. I really love your videos, they're amazing!

[@gregniemczuk]

Thank you so much!!!

[@getswiley]

I love this series and I love your analyses 💜

[@gregniemczuk]

Thank you very much!

[@elisamartini1694]

I just love this way of playing the piano. It is soberly (sobriété). Thank you so much dear Greg.

[@NikhilGupta-sx5dj]

Love your interpretations! Funny enough, I always imagined the first section of this nocturne as two singers -- each sentence alternating between the singers in a duet.

[@A_Random_Pianist]

Thankyou sooooo much! Cant believe I just finished this series. Thanks for all the effort you put into the resesrch! The analysis made me appreciate chopin even more!

[@A_Random_Pianist]

Also I was wondering, will you ever analyze Chopin polish songs op. 74?

[@gregniemczuk]

Well... That's an interesting idea!

[@mark80mark80]

Thanks so much for making me be able to hear this nocturne well enough to start learning it. The comparisons and the ideas contained in your analysis are straight bulleyes into the heart of what you do great. Thanks also for passing your knowledge, it brings life and motivation.

[@gregniemczuk]

Good luck! Thank you for watching and for your feelings!

[@mediumsizedgrape]

Your insight is much much appreciated!

[@violinousa]

Thank you very much We can hear your emotional but beautiful performance. Wonderful!

[@TheChianello]

Thank You! This was most illuminating!

[@opticalmixing23]

I like the way you play!

[@beepingtay]

Thank you for your teaching, love it

[@ewa5880]

odszukuję pana analizy utworów Chopina ,dziękuję Panu za te wspaniałe lekcje rozumienia Chopina. Jego tworzenie pokrywa się z jego ŻYCIEM ...Był popularny za granicą i jego geniusz był zauważony ,zapraszano go na koncerty ale źle się czuł w ogromnym skupisku ludzi i tak grał jak przeżywał wszelkie nastroje...Jest Pan JEDYNYM pianistą , który wykonał tak poważną pracę ....najniższe pokłony...pozdrawiam serdecznie

[@gregniemczuk]

Dzień dobry. Dziękuję bardzo! Poniżej zamieszczam link do miejsca w którym są wszystkie filmy (bez mazurków): kzbin.info/aero/PLXV2RLvTljMi7S-ROylaKFqyzUmn3o5in

[@gregniemczuk]

A tutaj Mazurki: kzbin.info/aero/PLXV2RLvTljMjECtXQAXwpB2Lbo5cq4cPi

[@gregniemczuk]

To, co Pani tu znalazła, to wersja angielska. Ja wysłałem linki do wersji polskiej. Serdecznie pozdrawiam!

[@quimicaporsergiobegonja4165]

Extraordinaria composición, música del futuro, quizá del camino que el hubiera seguido. Gran merito al esfuerzo y pereseverancia con la que no negociaba jamás la calidad de una obra.

[@MimiPham-mr9ur]

Thank you for this video. I love this Nocturne, and I learn a lot from your lecture.

[@gregniemczuk]

I'm happy to hear that!

[@alexandery8508]

Though I am not a pianist anymore or have not came to that stage of playing any piece of chopin I still want to understand and hear his music. I think you are doing a great job and I love the way you are building up a story behind each piece. Do you consider doing it on other famous classicist also? Like Bach

[@gregniemczuk]

Hi. Thank you so much and welcome to my musical world! Yes, I do!!! But Mozart will be the next! I just need time, because I'm also a concert pianist. All those videos I made during the pandemic when I had literally no concerts and a lot of time!

[@junkobaker]

I just heard you saying that the accompaniments to many of the Nocturnes, like a funeral March. And, I realized why I love the Nocturnes, it’s just because of that underlying sadness. My preference for the kind of music is usually melancholic and sad. That seems to be very much of Japanese psyche(I was born and raised in Japan, although I live in the US now). I do enjoy the cheerful music, but, tend to be drawn to the slow and sad tones. Thank you for your hard work to explain all the analysis of the beautiful music.

[@lottie9919]

Thank you very much!

[@MoiAussi18]

Analysis at Wikipedia: “The Nocturne in E major is another reflective and contrapuntally engaging piece. The nocturne's thematic structure (ABCAB) consists of a slow primary theme in E major, followed by a more quickly moving secondary melodic theme with climbing bass runs. This leads to the agitated and contrapuntal third section in C# minor, which has melodic interplay between the left and the right hand top 3 fingers, with the right thumb and first fingers largely playing accompaniment. A dissonant arpeggio ushers in the reprise of the first theme. This then gives way to the rolling bass a second time, which leads into the coda. In their reprisal, these two melodic themes are accompanied by slightly differing harmonies with modified embellishment in the right hand. The nocturne ends with a coda re-affirming the tonic key, which is a technique seen in several other nocturnes including Op. 62 No. 1 and Op. 9 No. 2. This was the very last nocturne that Chopin composed in his lifetime, although three more were published posthumously.” Brilliant lecture, as usual, but there is so much explanation and digression that I find that the music tends to get lost. Your mileage, as they say, might well vary, but that’s my honest opinion. Probably down to my lack of musical ability, but there it is. When that happens I listen to this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/goO9m52HrayUj7M Incidentally, that coda is so very moving that it literally brings tears to my eyes.

[@kumlooncheah1039]

I hope you get more and more subscribers. Grateful for your help and analysis! Will you be doing videos on posthumous published nocturnes as well?

[@gregniemczuk]

Next year! Thanks! I hope so too! So please share my videos if you can. All the best!

[@clarkedhaldane]

Love your comments on this one of my favourite noctournes...I was hoping that you were going to commented on that part at the end where he changes colour at 51:22...its possibly the most beautiful parts of this piece and unexpected when i first heard it. What do you think about it?

[@gregniemczuk]

Yes, you're correct! It's simply magic... Well too much to say... Impossible to talk about everything. But thank you for this comment!

[@zehuazhen9747]

Hello Greg. I‘am practicing this nocturne and suddenly find that the left hand （even the structure）of 44 bars is just the same as the Etude Op10 No3 Tristesse.

[@gregniemczuk]

Wow, yes!!!!

[@renepoppen2676]

Dear Grzegorz, Thanks you very much for your inspiring work on Chopin! Please keep up the good work. Please can you tell something about the editions you use? I love the ‘Cortot Editions de travail’, but also study from the Henle, Paderewski and Peters (and also for the Etudes the Debussy Editions which has -for me- very practical fingerings). Have you any advise on this? And I adore your Chopin buste on the piano, where can this be purchased? All the best!

[@gregniemczuk]

Welcome! I'm using the new National Jan Ekier edition, simply because I prefer urtext, to see exactly what Chopin wrote himself. But I'm not very strict with that. I feel that every edition is good as long as it's helpful and we respect what's written there. But I recommend the new Ekier edition because there are many versions of fingering and performance commentary as well. Chopin's statue is very special- it's a gift from one of my fans who fall in love with my videos about all Mazurkas!! Can you imagine? So I got it by post. I don't know where to buy that! All the best to you!

[@renepoppen2676]

@@gregniemczuk Thank you very much Grzegorz, I do appreciate that you took the time to answer me. I just ordered the Etudes and Préludes from the Jan Ekier Edition, I am very curious about this edition! Thank you for the advice! Giving you this gorgeous statue is very nice, and what a beautiful gift, and for sure I can imagine a fan sends it to you as a token of gratitude. All the best, and please keeping continuing your Chopin crusade and inspire us all!

[@davisatdavis1]

I turn into an emotional wreck when listening to this nocturne and his cello sonata and thinking about what music we could have if he had at least another 10 years...or even a year.

[@gregniemczuk]

Yeah........

[@zihaohuang662]

Dear Greg, could you do series of Bach’s music?

[@gregniemczuk]

Oh wow... It's a dream!! Who knows? But it of course takes time to learn this.

[@chopinfanclub6672]

The light At the end of the tunnel. I can’t see it yet. It is there, I hope.

[@craggyisland8770]

bow tie and glasses ✅👌

[@dancohenhemsi163]

For me, those 2 Nocturnes equals to Brahms monumental op. 117. This is like a conclusion of his life, and preparing to the death, saying goodbye to the world.

[@gregniemczuk]

Wonderful. I totally agree

[@elwynhofmann901]

Will you be analyzing Nocturne Op. 72 No. 1 in E minor?

[@gregniemczuk]

Hi. This project is only about pieces which Chopin published during his life. This Nocturne is a posthumously published piece. But I will surely make analysis of it, maybe at the beginning of the next year!

[@elwynhofmann901]

@@gregniemczuk Sounds good, thanks! From what I've read it was written very early in Chopin's life (around 19 years old) as a dedication to his sister after her passing. Not sure how true the story is though.

[@brianneison8696]

I’m only grade six piano. Do you not think in the minor key, nothing but pain? And this piece you’re playing now in Eb major, would you not think it gives him a little beauty and release from all the pain he suffered in his life!!! 🍌👍😊

[@gregniemczuk]

Of course it's also possible! Actually I'm just describing minor as a painful key to teach non-musicians how to listen deeper to the world of music!

[@brianneison8696]

Thank you. Stay safe! ❤️🍌👍😊

[@alifarrokhian4493]

please op 72 no 1 after this

[@gregniemczuk]

Maybe next year Because this year only pieces published during Chopin's life.