Tchaikovsky: October - AUTUMN SONG (from The Seasons) - Analysis

[@efe9446]

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[@SonataSecrets]

Thanks Efe!

[@efe9446]

Sonata Secrets your welcome. You play passionately

[@ethanhood5304]

Learning this in August so once October comes around I can play it nicely :)

[@AG-fl3kl]

“It’s not as easy as it sounds” thank you!! Your explanations are so thorough and helpful.

[@veronicabarrientos9693]

Somewhere in a third world country, there are a girl trying to understand why she loves this song so much, while is eating a sweet mango and take a rest, found this video and now she is satisfied, thank for such a beautiful analysis.

[@leonardotomesilveira8153]

Somewhere else, in another third world country, I once met a girl who loved this piece too. And she was the reason why I started playing the piano, although afterwards we went in different directions in life.

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The whole world got third place by objective non-trivial standards.

[@irenelarsen5121]

your thoughtful analysis of both the technical and emotional components of this and other pieces is SO helpful to this struggling pianist. Thank you for all you do.

[@Любовь-х4я6ъ]

Спасибо!Играю Осеннюю Песнь.Очень нравится!

[@AbnormaalTsi]

Your analysis make me look at the pieces differently, and perhaps even more approachable. I'm playing the piano for almost 2 years, and I'm ready to advance up :)

[@SonataSecrets]

That's very nice to hear! :) Go for it!!

[@Passageredenotes]

N'ai découvert cette pièce que très récemment et voulant en savoir plus, suis tombée sur votre page. Merci beaucoup pour cette très sensible et intéressante explication. 👋👍

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[@DressedForDrowning]

Wow! Your playing is so compelling, can't get off of it.

[@DressedForDrowning]

You also get the tempo right. It's an Andante, not an Adagio nor an Largo.

[@amandapaezmoreno408]

Muy sensible e inteligente análisis de esta amorosa y melancólica creación del MAESTRO P. I. Tchaikovski

[@Whosnegarin]

You really helped me to understand this piece. thank you

[@pottedrodenttube]

Beautiful

[@mohannamoallem9992]

That was a very professional analysis, I appreciate it a lot. Thank you!

[@waltersantiani8400]

Thank you , your analysis helped me a lot.

[@sebastiaoedsonmacedo7950]

Very illuminating. Thanks!

[@kimonopiano]

Thank you for making this video! I’m practicing this music now. Truly appreciated it😃🙏🏻

[@sophieraczkowski9600]

Thank you for the great vid!

[@davidtan3353]

Thanks, this help me to interpolate better during practice this piece.

[@sophiesophie4496]

I listen for the second time... because it's in English and I'm french ! I can understand a lot of things and it's very interesting, but I don't understand all of things ! Thank you for playing small piece by small piece, I try to play this music so beautiful...

[@pghagen]

Thank you very much for analizing this wonderful piece. I am studying this piece myself and I am still trying to find out the left hand fingering.🎹🙏

[@salisuladze5995]

So nice, I would like to listen your whole pièce interpretation

[@SonataSecrets]

Thnks, I have a music video here :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/inyanHh8bsmqgbc

[@archiyaker64]

Thanks

[@caterscarrots3407]

The first time I heard this piece, I didn't think it was that melancholic, but I did see beauty in it. Tchaikovsky is like "The Russian Mozart". His melodies and harmonic changes seem so effortless, like those written by Mozart. In fact there is a Mozart piece I know of that feels emotionally similar to this piece and happens to be in the same key. No it isn't the Requiem. That feels deeper in emotion than this Tchaikovsky piece(not to say the emotion isn't deep in the Tchaikovsky piece). No, there is a different Mozart piece that I think gets closer, emotionally speaking to this Tchaikovsky piece. That would be his Fantasia in D minor. Yes, it has that D major ending, but if you just listen to the minor key section, it feels emotionally similar. If I were to attribute a seasonal experience to this D minor Fantasia, I would say the minor key section is more about the death of certain plants and the leaves falling off the trees and the D major ending would be like someone saying "Yay it's snowing, I love how beautiful it is in the winter" kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3POi2uZnp2SoZY 2 different composers from 2 different eras and countries, 2 clearly different styles, one being more like Chopin and the other relying on melodic interaction between 2 or more simple to play melodies and a simple bass, almost 100 years apart(Fantasia in D minor was composed in 1782), and yet they converge on the same emotion and very similar ideas(Melodic lamentation, moving up to a suspension note and then resolving it, Sparse bass compared to melody, Dialogue between left and right hands). Is it possible that Tchaikovsky borrowed the basic ideas of the Mozart Fantasia which I outlined above, and then was like "Okay, I need to make this my own, I will get rid of the Presto sections and the D major ending. And I will make the melody more virtuosic and the bass even more sparse than it is in the Mozart Fantasia" while he was writing October for his The Seasons piece, given his positive views on Mozart(I have heard of Tchaikovsky describing Mozart as a musical god)?

[@tetyanachorna8139]

Thanks ❤️❤️❤️

[@raphaelneves7666]

Could you please analyse December?

[@tancreddehauteville764]

Funny that October is a gloomy month in Russia while in the UK it's still quite warm and sunny. The gloomy month here is December.

[@juliecaron7569]

loved this, thank you! Which pianist's version with link would you recommend?

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[@mabelfg6574]

Is pedalling crucial in this piece? Should we use pedal all through the piece?

[@SonataSecrets]

Yes, I think I use pedal throughout the piece. Need to be careful sometimes not to blur the sound when the harmony changes though.

[@SonataSecrets]

Separate music video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/inyanHh8bsmqgbc

[@tienhiep7961]

please Making Nocturne Bb minor

[@cysterforever1861]

7:23 I can’t understand how all the pianists playing this piece do that thing there in the left hand!! I’m just playing it like the notes say, so I play all the notes at one time, but it sounds horrible compared to when you play it, I don’t understand!😭😭

[@cysterforever1861]

I learned this whole piece because it sounded so beautiful when I heard other people playing it, and I can play every note and have practiced for a whole year, but it sound so bad, I hate playing it now😔😔

[@SonataSecrets]

I'm sorry you feel this way! I can say a couple of things about that place that hopefully can be helpful. 1. You can see in my score I take the top note of the chord in the middle register with RH, just because it's so hard to get it to sound good if all the notes should be played with LH. 2. That makes it easier to balance the chord so that the top note is louder than the lower chord notes 3. Also pedalling, I think I use a kind of half-pedalling to save the bass in the pedal but change the rest, which might be a somewhat advanced feature. This is place really is much harder than it sounds, I had to practice a lot to get used to all this different balance of the voices between the hands - and then the result is that it just sounds so natural and easy...that's a paradox of playing piano in a way.

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[@ddacaro3625]

I think Tchaikovsky's tempo is too fast for this piece, it's feels like he's Russian ! 😅

[@iratfarm]

Too fast(