Sergei Prokofiev - 4 Etudes Op. 2 (audio + sheet music)

[@OneConcertante]

0:15 Etude No.1 in D minor 2:40 Etude No.2 in E minor 5:37 Etude No.3 in C minor 9:30 Etude No.4 in C minor

[@paumasabad1449]

Thanks

[@PieInTheSky9]

@@paumasabad1449 No. 2 is at 2:25

[@sneddypie]

PieInTheSky incorrect

[@СергейШиндин-ф2о]

90я

[@55mayakeren55]

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[@benrolfe8490]

Prokofiev is a phenomenal example of someone who was faced with the monster of the piano, and not only tamed its known technical behemoths, but made it his trusted partner through all of his sonic fuckery, while also creating entirely original technical fuckery in the process.

[@TomCL-vb6xc]

Prokofiev wrote some beautifully monstrous music. Truly a master composer.

[@musisavante6036]

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[@chezbe]

Thank you

[@Reiko11788]

yes definitely especially when you listen to his concerto no.2

[@朱梓彦]

i love chiu

[@itsthejews1]

No.1 is such an exquisite work. One of his finest short form piano composition imo. Dramatic toccata enery but with some light almost touching moments (the tranquillo theme).

[@PianoGuy954]

I love it. The harmony in the "quiet" theme reminds me of Scriabin in his middle period (Sonata no.4 and other works around op 20 to 40)

[@김진우-i2e]

I'm obsessed with nr.2. It's so beautiful omg..

[@calebhu6383]

1:57, 8:44

[@bardha5056]

I don't hear anyone talking about how fantastically eerie and sporadic the fourth etude is. That's what makes it my favorite of the etudes. It just has a whole entire different tone about it. Relating to the caption, I feel as though the comment "talented but immature" rings quite true for this one. Its just a crazy movement, and its all over the place, but that's what makes it a mood.

[@pornhubxuxx]

Yea

[@LukeFaulkner]

0:15 Whilst I love the Dm etude, I've never felt brave enough to attempt it. It's like the dance of the Devil...

[@giacomopistono2092]

You're everywhere 😂

[@arcana830]

Like your conjuring up the devil

[@brynbstn]

Don’t be a wuss. Just practice the first 3 measures

[@pianorob5880]

Bryo Jafa lol

[@Luke0193]

This etude is really difficult to play for real, the bassline jumps over 2octaves in 8th notes and just memorizing your right hand fingers movement is a lot of work but daaamn this piece is just wonderful

[@essencejoyclairv]

There's something hair-raisingly alive about Prokofiev's choice of rhythms, harmonies and melodic lines. Even the very loud passages get away with it as sounding full of excitement and organic content rather than mere loud notes thrown together.

[@TomKotarba]

What a great tableau, no. 2 is still my personal favorite. How he weaves that secondary melody in so simply is gorgeous but of course like all of Prokofiev's piano music, crazy difficult to actually play.

[@Harry-gc8kb]

it is not difficult if you learn the technique to play it, as is the point of a etudes. It is otherwise very pianistic writing

[@npelletier89]

Finally sat and properly listened to no.2 .... whoa ya. The inner melody comes in, then the movement picks up, and it's like "what else can he add in?", suddenly grace notes overtop all of it. So good!

[@operamiser]

​@@tobiedavis8841 chill logic man

[@Cheesep_]

I like no 1 or no 4

[@Phantastically]

im learning this right now and while it's technically not all that hard, it's insanely difficult to wrap your head around the polyrhythms and make them accurate yet sound natural and musically good

[@hghan]

bravissimo...

[@НастяБледная-с8щ]

7:34 7:46

[@FlosMatricariae]

The third one is just badass sick

[@le_jaivan]

The best prokofiev's D minor etude i have ever listened to in my life. What an amount of ideas and colors, such control of the sound is astounding... Marvelous!

[@ytyt3922]

Le Jaivan disagree. There used to be an audio (with score) on KZbin of Freddy Kempf playing it. It’s vastly superior to this performer. His left hand octaves are transcendent.

[@le_jaivan]

@@ytyt3922 in fact, i first ever heard this piece in that Freddy Kempf's recording. That was my reference. I understand you. But i do not compare the performers, but my experiences, and with this actual recording I should state what i stated.

[@chezbe]

Like d minor etude by Rachmaninov from op 33

[@rravvia]

Frederick Chiu is a fantastic pianist.

[@talastra]

Andrei Andreev's version from 2016 is awfully good too.

[@HowardTse]

Simply piano after a week: *able to play etude no. 3* (5:37 - 5:44)

[@davidloveday8473]

10:32 how on earth does he get the sound of a heavy pizzicato violin chord out of this piano. Twice! Incredible playing throughout.

[@Sujkhgfrwqqnvf]

2:17 prokofiev second piano concerto after cadenza in first movement

[@peterkovacs9951]

For me no. 1 has this very ominous apocalyptic atmosphere to it like the world is going to be over in those 2 minutes

[@jinwoobae7555]

Chiu is wonderful Prokofiev player

[@PianistKimHanul]

agree

[@ValzainLumivix]

Ja

[@seiteom]

Mesmerising, genius music, crazy difficult to play.

[@ericwang9686]

This has to be one of the best recordings of these masterpieces! Keep up the good work!

[@Luke0193]

D Minor one is just insane. Currently learning it and it's mjndbreaking 😅

[@arciducafufi474]

Try n.3

[@ciararespect4296]

They're not too bad

[@slowloris4346]

Bro the 3rds section on the 2nd-3rd page is fucking impossible to consistently play correctly. The rest is pretty manageable.

[@whaijorhujishkomunyk]

​@@slowloris4346i found a finfering that makes it easier in a forum

[@theunknownrepertoire2425]

1. 0:16 2. 2:40 3. 5:37 4. 9:31

[@ИванПопов-ц8и5г]

красивые этюды. 2 и 3 просто космос

[@AAKlavier]

Etude 3 sounds like a test run to his Toccata in Dm

[@Sebin_0]

쉬시킨 박력보고 풀버전 들으러 왔다.......

[@PieInTheSky9]

Second etude has been one of my favorite not so well known pieces by prokofiev. I attempted it, but it felt like I needed three hands to pull it off.

[@thenameisgsarci]

If so, then the third etude must be quite a terror for you, that one's got three staffs on it. XD

[@edge3220]

I haven't listened to these in a long time. I forgot just how amazing they are.

[@jakubrihacek8615]

Played the 3rd as a part of my program this year, was a hell of a ride to pull off

[@fogonpr]

Can you tell me your fingering?

[@ivanblanc2880]

gonna take this one for my autumn technique exam, i played the 4th before and it was frickin amazing

[@flyingpenandpaper6119]

0:11 thought it was going to read Chopin :(

[@agatakomanova732]

Me too

[@thenameisgsarci]

If so, his contemporaries must be in for a shock of their lifetime.

[@parityviolation968]

@@thenameisgsarci carefully but well worded :-) ... Chopin would've been down with prokofiev's music... and probably thrilled to not be alone on the planet, let alone meet even crazier composers than himself... There is a reason why I love Chopin, Rachmanninow and prokofiev the most... The letter just build upon those parts of chopin I enjoyed the most and went on to take it to full metal jacket... I'm not even sure, what that phrase is supposed to mean xD

[@musisavante6036]

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[@MsrAlaindeFerrier]

Love Frederick's interpretation of Prokofiev, I bought the staggering box set of the complete works for solo piano by Prokofiev, which the 4 études are taken from. I bought them the day before I went on the two week holiday to Spain. It was quite an outlay for the box set but I thought fuck it, I'm mad for it. Went away and completely emersed myself with my magnificent purchase and was so inspired that I managed to aquire the études from Moscow conservatory press and studied them to death till I could play them well. Love the video thank you X

[@mobilephil244]

Never heard these before. Superb - and a great performance. Shame they are not more widely played - but then, I guess it's not difficult to see why they aren't :)

[@Ar1osssa]

Actually to 4th isn't difficult comparing to the 3rd one for example

[@lelandthorne314]

Fast parts in third etude remainds me Prokofiev's Toccata

[@wiktorialatos1157]

Same lol

[@emrahkorkmaz87]

Excellent.

[@sibemol17]

Cadence Fantastique by his teacher Nikolaï Tcherepnin

[@giorgiociomei5030]

Complimenti!!

[@r0mmm]

The first one is amazing

[@snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454]

Thanks for uploading!

[@germanbikbaev3406]

No.2 ❤️

[@SamiShah2004]

I'm a pianist and it hurts my hands just looking at the sheet music.

[@seanz1115]

Sami Shah I literally made the same comment just moments ago 🤣

[@Sello_Hunter]

100%, this looks so difficult.. 😅

[@AlejandroSanAntonio]

Relax your wrists and practice slow and without any kind of tension.

[@AlejandroSanAntonio]

@@gabindupuy6036 I know.

[@justadude641]

The first isn't that difficult...

[@NickHollis21]

this and freddy kempfts performance is amazing

[@joshscores3360]

I love the new style intro

[@238assante]

A vorcha would yell "BIG MACHIIIINES!!" . Prokofiev was fascinated by them. Those etudes are hard , but not as hard as Bartok's 3 etudes op 18. I'm having fight sessions with both . Chiu masters the 4 .

[@MagnusBaumgartl]

Dam DAAAAAM

[@andrewracer7861]

no.3 reminds me of his toccata

[@robert-skibelo]

Is the five-note RH chord F-A-C-E-G (at about 1:43, last bar in top staff) actually playable? I can't hear if the performer actually plays all five notes.

[@mazeppa1231]

Fantastic etudes!

[@musisavante6036]

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[@789armstrong]

totally awesome!

[@thisisjnv]

I love Frederick Chiupon.

[@accipiterignitus5123]

Who f* is Chiupon

[@ytyt3922]

Accipiter Ignitus *whoosh*

[@accipiterignitus5123]

@@ytyt3922 it's not a joke and no one is misunderstanding him

[@chriskelly2556]

I love lamp

[@neo-eclesiastul9386]

The e minor etude resembles a drunk Skriabin with a romantic contrapunctal Bach.

[@samcollins8330]

Its actually called contrapuntal I believe

[@neo-eclesiastul9386]

Chi Shiki my bad. You're right

[@scriabinismydog2439]

You mean early Scriabin right?

[@coolusername9412]

The very first notes of second etude reminds me of Chopins Waltz in Ab major op. 64 no. 3

[@TheSummoner]

0:46 tho

[@slowloris4346]

It's near impossible to play for me that part. I can play it fine correctly at the right tempo when I practise but when you add performance anxiety - not siezing or making a catastrophic error is damn difficult . This is one of those pieces I can play from beginning to end but would be to scared to perform. Hopefully if I relearn it in a few years it won't pose as much of a challenge.

[@andrea.lonigro]

❤

[@OdinLimaye]

Does anybody else hear Take the A Train in the first etude?

[@acevaptsarov8410]

lol

[@mr.scottpowell]

I hear this etude in Take the A Train

[@aidanm.1683]

Etude 3 is so much like op 11

[@petrouchka2011]

The beginning of the first one has some Philip Glass flavours.

[@jeanlobrot]

I love Frederic Chiu.

[@A_Few_Thoughts]

Well hell, this looks easy enough to play!

[@HowardTse]

To play on KZbin!

[@gingersonny74]

круто.

[@NegarGz1382]

The 3rd etude is so hard...

[@christapoulet363]

It actually sounded like some Prokofiev already ;)

[@felixp7]

if and whenever I learn this piece, I will play it in the manner of Evgeny Kissin. His version hits hard!!

[@baiyaowen9154]

It made me crazy

[@Oak13766]

genius..

Good upload.

[@동진-l1t]

Why was this video removed from youtube? I missed it

[@Ar1osssa]

Me too

[@ronl7131]

Op 2.!

[@김진우-i2e]

No.3 is fucking horribly impossible...

[@John-mz8rj]

It's like Vincent writing down an expression for a painting.

[@kedwerduza8181]

You should play Chopin etudes to improve ur technique. You should play Liszt etudes to play Liszt etudes. You should play Prokofiev etudes.

[@dropkickmonk3y]

Now I know where Basil Poledouris got inspiration...

[@j.vonhogen9650]

Which of his soundtracks are you thinking of?

[@j.thomas1420]

"Andante Semplice" ahah yes... until Prokofiev got wild.

[@vnwa7390]

Hell yeah

[@sonic141]

Etude 1 inspirated by mephisto waltz n.4 liszt

[@kofiLjunggren]

Yes, the key changes

[@Bozzigmupp]

The first etude (maybe 4th) is hitherto the only piece I could find myself enjoy listening to

[@edoardoterranova6366]

giggi d alessio

[@leandrofalconitangari]

The beginning of the first etude reminds me Philip Glass..

[@ChristianJiang]

7:46 It says “Tempo I”, why is it still so fast?

[@accipiterignitus5123]

Also 8:04 accelerando assai al Presto, it's already presto how can he accelerate?

[@sneddypie]

Accipiter Ignitus you can always accelerate with proky boi

[@johnkiunke4508]

my god that d minor

[@timothyj.bowlby5524]

Does anyone here know if Prokofiev's performing repertoire included the Goldberg Variations? Any thoughts on this? Leads on where to look? Suggestions?

[@daph0307]

Why the question, if I may ask?

[@timothyj.bowlby5524]

@@daph0307 I have seen passages in SP's piano repertoire that resemble the GVs.

[@daph0307]

@@timothyj.bowlby5524 including here?

[@daph0307]

@@timothyj.bowlby5524 which?

[@daph0307]

@@timothyj.bowlby5524 hm. Which?

[@히히-u1x5t]

서울대 때문에 떡상 한 영상

[@kevinchen8325]

The third one just reminds me of Shostakovich

[@roberacevedo8232]

That's because Shostakovich was inspired by Prokofiev.

[@kyaume21]

Shows how misguided those early judgements are. In these etudes we can already detect very clearly the same memes and Proko-styles of his later (more mature?) works.

[@jstatham5814]

I think technically this is not as difficult as it sounds

[@nnhnh0717]

More difficult

[@PianoGuy954]

Late Liszt and Mid-period Scriabin would have been proud of No.1. Well actually maybe Scriabin was aware of it since he was still alive.

[@이상우-j5h]

이런건 어찌 연습을 해야하는겨

[@Neung_2__]

처음부터 치다가 중간에 손가락에 쥐나는거 아녀?

[@davidbarton4584]

😆

[@adyrsebastiaoferreira5572]

17 surdos ou analfabetos em música deram deslike!

[@GUILLOM]

No

[@woyeshinibaba]

"talented but immature", what a joke!

[@tobiolopainto]

Sparse pedal markings in the music. Much pedal in the performances.

[@rynabuns]

God forbid artists add their own interpretations lest every performance sound different

[@maakmakmak]

This shows how much you don’t know about piano. Do you even play piano?

[@tobiolopainto]

@@rynabuns A composer, presumably, knows best how the piece should go. To indicate his (Prokofiev's) ideas, he makes marks in the score, staccato, legato, loud, soft, faster, slower, etc. Performers are supposed to be faithful, to a degree, to the composer's intentions, as indicated in the score. If a performer, wants to diverge from the score, he or she must make a case for it. For example in "Pictures at an Exhibition," in the section, "Cattle," Richter started pianissimo, whereas the original score said fortissimo. Since then, pianists can choose whether to follow Richter or Mussorgsky. There is general agreement that Richter made his case. To ignore the composer's markings wholesale is to court anarchy, as any study of the history of performance shows. If a pianist ignores a staccato, why not ignore a note? If you value the performer's interpretation over the composer's intention, the performer can do anything; no holds barred. The problem in interpretative music is to follow the composers' markings with enough individuality to bring a personal response to the score. Plenty of people can do this. While it might be true that many interpretations sound somewhat alike, there are enough players out there who make the music their own, that this system of composer's markings continues to be the best system for transmitting ideas about music.

[@tobiolopainto]

@Marquis De Sade We're talking about Prokofiev, not Bach and Beethoven. One of the etudes was well marked vis-a-vis score direction, one wasn't (the slow one). At issue here is the fact that the performance was awash in pedal. This strikes me as a contemporary problem in piano, not much else. Older pianists, including Prokofiev, judging from his recordings, used much less pedal. As it is I don't know what edition of the piece was used for the video. The edition matters, as you well know.

[@nicb4589]

In this recording Chiu obeys all explicitly marked pedal markings. Where there are no pedal markings, that almost never means no pedal. I’m not sure if you’re a pianist, but we understand that pedal is often expected in passages where there aren’t markings. As long as it doesn’t take away from what’s written on the score. Pedaling should not be the same from pianist to pianist either, really. Except for something like Chopin, where we can all agree where the explicit pedal markings are.

[@TheMightyFork_]

This is child play compared to kissins performance of the thirds ..

[@neo-eclesiastul9386]

you mean the third etude?

[@neo-eclesiastul9386]

though Kissin is amazing, the Chiu's interpretation is a little more expresive. It is not as fast as Kissin's, but speed is not everything

[@neo-eclesiastul9386]

@Jordan Schlansky Chiu's recording was so amazing to me that I instantly looked up for the etudes and started few minutes after to work. I mean it depends on taste. It is though unfair to call someone's intepreting a child play just because he tooks it a little slower or maybe less ferocious. Kissin plays like Kissin and no one can replicate him, also Chiu plays like Chiu and no one (Kissin included) can replicate him.

[@bravulo]

No wonder it's not considered a central part of the composer's repertoire

[@dacoconutnut9503]

I mean, these are early etudes, ofc these wouldn't make to Prok's staple repertoire

[@crescenzoverde-vlog]

hey! what kind of intro writing was that eh?! that was awful!!! it's like when typing for an intro to a murdering documentary.

[@thenameisgsarci]

I dunno, unless you got other ideas, I'm sticking to what it is now. XD

[@laertesdd]

Beware, detective! It's the murdering documentary...

[@j.vonhogen9650]

@@thenameisgsarci - I think the intro titles are perfectly fine. Please keep it like that.