Moszkowski Étincelles ("Sparks") Op.36 No.6 Tutorial

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This 47-minute video lesson explores an in-depth look at Moszkowski's Étincelles ("Sparks") Op.36 No.6. Areas of focus include techniques for playing faster, developing a lighter touch, fingering suggestions, how to reduce tension in fast chordal passages, how to develop clarity in quick scalar passages, shaping, interpretation, dynamic variety, and more to help you become as efficient as possible in your practice sessions.
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[@AverageTypicalMale]

Just started piano this year, watching your videos inspire me to work hard so im able to play a piece like this one day.

[@mcrettable]

Discipline is everything. Just sit at the piano and play!!

[@AverageTypicalMale]

NickB You’re 100% correct.

[@prokastinatore]

Pretty nice and well done tutorial. The secret is to keep it simple because the music that comes out is pretty simple as well....."sparks". I recommand to rehears Schuman "Symphonic Etudes" (Var. IX) . It's the same talking to the chords as well. The main problem is the abuse of this little and simple piece of beautiful music: too much "pianists" are not willing to become musicians. It's not about "I can play it way faster than anybody else!" . It's not a competition. But that's unfortunately the result of young pianists who are not going for the quite simple spirits inside this little piece. And it's not about "wrong" notes. Like Josh mentioned, we 're all aware of that Moscow concert , performed by Horowitz. Like almost everybody among his generation of phantasmic musicians, the goal was not to avoid "wrong" notes. And Horowitz played a large amount of "wrong" notes...Like Rubinstein did (Chopin Etudes, op. 25, nr. 11 in a-minor): his goal was to work out the chords dominating the "scales" and its ups and downs....Facing the "sparks" it's about fun and joy. And it's not about fingering. You can't see anything observing the fingers. Gould and Horowitz stretched always their fingers and it worked. But to copy them makes no sense. Moszkowski offers a lot of fun, joy and a sense of humor. That should become the goal!

[@TheSIGHTREADINGProject]

It’s fantastic to see you tutor in the steps to begin to tackle this piece Josh. You bring a lot of clarity in your discussions and with your examples how ‘not to’ as well

[@Starritt_Piano]

Please keep these kinds of videos up, it helps discover other elements in the repertoire that you won’t get just from hearing recordings ❤️🎶

[@JG_1998]

Very random question for josh, what is your opinion on Marc Andre Hamelin? I don't think I've heard you mention him and he's considered to be one of the greatest virtuosos of all time, and he's still playing concerts. He also writes his own pieces and does transcriptions too. I see everyone saying that his technique is the best of anyone alive, and from my humble perspective as an amateur it seems like he does. Just wondering because I've heard you talk about a lot of other pianists. Hamelin really seems to be a in a league of his own. Especially with some of the esoteric pieces he picks. He Also plays some of the fastest and smoothest octaves I can find on the internet. Truly amazing that a supervirtouso like him is alive today and still working.

[@leonardmartin6048]

Horowitz has had the best interpretation of this for sure. So light and so funny somehow..

[@lucasm4299]

Reminds me of Liszt’s Gnomenreigen. Check it out! 😁

[@dramione5559]

Josh, is there any sheet music?

[@ssmith9745]

It might be more helpful If he could resist showing us over and over how fast he can play portions of the piece and spent more time demonstrating the steps he went through to get to that point.

[@dhruvsawant9234]

This is only one part of the 47 minute long tutorial. I'm sure he goes into it later on. Also, many of the things that he said are important, like clarity and lightness, are focused on in different tutorials, where he gives tips on how to play more lightly and give more clarity in general, which will help for essentially every piece.

[@Ramlow777]

Have you played gupak

[@Kindoxinda]

I’m sure this is op 35....

[@EdmundHeng80]

It is Op 36 No 6. =)

[@tanakafupa4255]

1:10 that's what she said