Why We Love Schumann's Music - Rehearsal with cellist Jan Vogler | Tiffany Vlogs

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Hi! I loved editing this video for you all because neither of us had the intention of doing anything for the camera. This is the most natural look at our first rehearsal of these Schumann pieces. Hope you'll join us at our concert! ❤ Tickets: www.tiffanypoon.com/next-concert​ Please Use Dreamcode SCHUMANN to sponsor tickets to giveaway. To enter giveaway: dreamstage.pgtb.me/893kP2

[@seancloser]

Wonder how u ll play this when u grow old.

[@christopherso4438]

When ever she says “where”, it’s so relatable when I’m trying play with others.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

😆 I had no idea I said this so many times during rehearsal 🙈

[@Adrian-cg7jc]

The ‘are you just testing something? Or do you want me to play’ is the single most relatable thing ever.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

😅

[@bronnythebard5459]

Omg that was funny.

[@gavrielsolomons]

I love this kind of more intimate, rustic video of relatively unedited practice - it's more genuine and gives a great insight into how you practice/play ensemble pieces!

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

That was my intention. Thank you!

[@manishs6479]

This is so unbelievable, the fact that KZbin allows us to watch such amazing talent at work, FOR FREE, is amazing.

[@richardg1550]

Jan's cello, compressed by KZbin and through my tablet still sounds amazing! I cannot imagine what it sounds like in your apartment. The Steinway either for that matter. I can't wait to hear on Dreamstage!

[@MrPianoMinion]

I can feel the amount of dedication & hardwork being put into this collaboration!!! 😊

[@kaclark9696]

My two favorite instruments

[@Kimmobiino]

Just less than 5 seconds into that theme and I am moved like I haven't for many months.. Knowledge + skill + emotion + years of experience + a story to tell = absolutely amazing..

[@jokinco]

Still crazy after all these years. Ensemble work is the best work. Ty

[@ThatBoomerDude56]

The natural video with text commentary works very well. Thank you! (Also: I think I'll go hunt up more Schumann to listen to.)

[@karimbsaleh]

The dialogue between the piano and cello is amazing. You are amazing as always. Well done Tiffany 👏

[@slvewaksvik6767]

3rd movement is so beautiful

[@barryjohnson7707]

Just beautiful. So good to see you and Jan together playing this lovely music! My duo partner and I played the 5 pieces in Folk Style on our last pre-Covid concert I really wish I had heard this first! Two great artists playing great music. I love the exchange when you ask he Jan wants to "talk about it" and he says something to the effect "no, it's too early...."

[@oldbird4601]

I’d like to thank you so much. Recently I’ve almost doubled the amount of practice I do and it all started from watching your vlogs and performances and... almost everything you have on this channel 😅. I’ve been inspired to try and give it my all because I know I will regret not going for a job in music regardless of how risky it may be. I’m 16 if I’m able to get a job in music I owe it to you 🙃

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Awww you should give yourself credit! You're following your passion for music and I'm happy for you. Wishing you lots of good luck 🤗🎶

[@matthewmccarthy9293]

Same here, I used to practice as little as an hour a week. After finding your vlogs I've really quickly found an immense love for music and the amount of time I spend at the keyboard has grown immensely.

[@hernana6689]

I had that LP 4:33 when I was young (I am 77) and I heard it once and again, it was very related to my personal love story... I remember Casals singing and snorting in his version, it was so delightful...! I love your version here, and without making any comparison between both, yes, definitely I love it.

[@rinardman]

The Stradivarius is in the house!! Or apartment, but at least it's with Jan, and we get to hear it again. That Stradivarius guy certainly knew how to make'em. 😁 BTW, if you enjoyed hearing Tiffany & Jan in this short 12 minute practice video, just imagine what it will be like listening to Tiffany, Jan, Arnaud, & Matthew for probably at least an hour & a half on Dreamstage on March 21st. Only $19.99! It would be a bargain at twice the price. 😉

[@GoodxLad]

This will be my first Dreamstage viewing. Cant wait!

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Welcome!! Thank you 🤗

[@arggal]

I have never watched a vlog so many times right after it was posted! Ι think the next dreamstage concert will be even more impressive!

[@Zestartic]

Schumann's music is the most unique kind of music I've heard so far.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Indeed!

[@specialperson335]

for me it is prokofiev.

[@kopanoblessingmoeti3277]

Thank you, Tiffany

[@brattingprincess]

Amazing!!!! The best part of chamber music! Playing and rehearsing together.

[@mottokittokatto]

1:42 So cute!! 😊 I'm sure many people can relate to "booster seat" memories (also at dinner table & barber shop) 😊

[@garriemcneill6021]

Thank you for sharing your rehearsal. I love all the repertoire you are playing. I really want to play my cello with a Pianist again. You have really inspired me…🙌👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@PianoParkway]

Inspiring music❤️

[@blayze9136]

Wow. I really enjoyed this video Ms. Tiffany. Bravo bravo

[@haleymiller9142]

I am so excited about this concert! The dynamic between you and Jan is so beautiful.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Thank you 😊

[@ichirofakename]

This is both superb music and fascinating interaction. Thanks for posting.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Thank you for listening!

[@DISRUPTOR40]

8:25 Fairies and tinker bells '' weeee'' LOL Yan: ''Ahh yes !'' so funny

[@dusharidesilva2953]

you inspire me every single day.

[@funnyviews4933]

I love it soooo much

[@thomaslee3966]

I really like this fun and light-hearted as-is video. Thanks to you I've become a convert to romanticism in music. I've been listening to hours and hours of Schumann with increasing appreciation of his genius ,though interspersed with Wagner as I need a bombast fix from time to time. Looking forward to seeing you and Jan and company in two weeks.

[@kurniasetyaa5162]

Oh yeah ... So that was what my parent heard when i'm parcticing my ensmble piece alone ? But i hear the otherparts in my head so i didnt think thats sounds weird 😅

[@abdelkrimabounouar6588]

Lovely 💐

[@thanhhuyentran386]

Thank you Tiffany

[@cbrock21]

This is amazing. So cool to see the collaboration unfolding in real time, and the music changing before our ears. A lot of layers there.

[@luciaemiliozzipiano]

Just beautifull! I could listen/watch you and Jan playing for hours ♡ bravo!

[@medraymedray5139]

Wow! that 3rd movement is incredibly moving and oddly devastating at the same time! Cant wait for the concert!!!

[@CHAN-wt2yi]

Great video. Dare we hope for a practice session video with the viola and violin as well?

[@mottokittokatto]

0:33 I find the piano part (by itself) very enjoyable! 😃

[@465painkiller465]

Wonderful to get to wittness your talent from this perspective. And beautiful music.

[@rimaobeid.d7982]

Interesting collaboration and the music is exceptional💕🎶🎵👍

[@paolagimenez473]

This Is beautiful. Thank you both very much!

[@bartonjahn]

Two very likable people at the top of their game.

[@kustomcreates3873]

AHHH I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!

[@Dannerooo]

Great video - thanks for sharing :)

[@kaclark9696]

I enjoyed watching your interaction! Absolutely a work in progress, but so much fun to watch!

[@James_Bowie]

That was simply enchanting. Thank you. 👍 (And nice to see you with a pony tail again.)

[@armandoobando1140]

It is because of you that I started listening to his Piano Quartet and immediately fell in love with it. Thank you Tiffany, looking forward to the concert 😊

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

I'm so happy! Schumann's music deserves to be heard and appreciated 🤗❤

[@lewismackenzie7484]

Listen to Schumann's string quartets, they're also amazing

[@davidw6936]

The piano quintet is my favorite of Schumann.

[@worshiptogetherwt]

This is beautiful! Thank you two^^

[@PianoMan333]

Thanks for these videos, they really motivate me to practice more :)

[@pigo657]

so exciting!

[@777rogerf]

Inasmuch as I owe my love of fine music to hearing to the amazing recording of Novaes' and Schumann (Carnival) as a teen (ages ago), this is a real treat!

[@duannehaughton4893]

I really enjoy all the text and sheet music images Tiffany adds to her videos. Strangely it helps me to focus on her (and Jan’s) sound.

[@Barbapippo]

Wonderful little pieces.

[@akshatverma4166]

this heavenly music helps a lot in final exams.

[@misfitbxscuit]

nice to see you guys figuring things out together! you guys seem to be a good pair of musicians :)

[@christophermair3349]

Someone always wants to play lead. As soon as Ms.Poon can be such a presence then she can lead. (I think she has all the qualifications to do so.) Tact Determination and Skills.

[@bernardgerardin7584]

MERVEILLEUX, COURAGEUX, EXTRAORDINAIRE 💎 !

[@siddharth-gandhi]

I usually try to watch the entire video before commenting, but wow I just couldn't watch the video when the cello started on 1:05. I was so mesmerized, that I couldn't even focus on the text on the screen. Simply stellar! 😲 Also the sitting setup is interesting to say the least. Day 12 of telling Tiffany (& Jan too!) her (their?) uploads are appreciated! Okay, I'll watch the whole thing now 😁

[@hhoward14]

Brilliant....

[@PracticalPianoTips]

Love it! You play so expressively! Fun piece!

[@RolandHuettmann]

Thanks so much. I will really reserve the time (this time in March, soon...) to attend. I do not know too many people who developed understanding and feeling for this kind of intimate playing chamber music. I think it requires some learning -- and such "lessons" from you. It could even go a bit further to actually replay the melodies and show different "personalities" appearing in these pieces to make listeners start hearing them as well. Educating listeners is the key.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Thank you for reserving your time to join our concert! I hope I can educate even better in future vlogs

[@neovxr]

@@TiffanyPoonpianist this was the best so far!

[@DavidBigandt]

Cool to see you play a piece I'm so familiar with.

[@zavierfabijan4055]

the concert starts at 2:30am here! Seriously contemplating it it sounds so beautiful!

[@mottokittokatto]

Dreamstage ticket price includes on-demand re-play for 48 hours after the live event. So if you buy a ticket, you can watch & re-watch the show as much as you want for 2 days afterwards! (You don't have to get up at 2:30 AM to watch when it happens live) 😉

[@abrakadaniel5908]

Thank you so much for posting this! You two are an amazing duo and it sounds so good! :) As a pianist I hope I will find a string player to play together just like you. :)

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

I hope you will! 🤗

[@WoutDC]

Interesting little video :) For me, personally, I've always like late(r) Schumann the most, for example Kreisleriana and the Humoreske, but also the real late stuff like the E-flat major variations, but recently I've read a short story by Murakami about how he had a friendship with a woman where they just listened to tons of Carnaval recordings and treasured that work as their desert-island-disk, which got me listening to Carnaval again seriously, and I think I'm starting to love early Schumann now too...

[@wisdomtoknowthedifference]

This makes me wanna buy a ticket. ❤🙁

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

😉

[@vad-pro123]

I love you 💖

[@TheRoadandtheSky]

Al’s got rhythm!

[@danielmozes9200]

Wishing the next online concert will be chopin

[@funnyviews4933]

I love it

[@andresgunther]

Lovely! I am looking forward to the Livestream concert in 2 weeks!

[@alexwentoutside6843]

Who else thinks that the piano solo part is super cool and fancies immediately to go to play the piano??????

[@dusharidesilva2953]

me imagining playing this with a cellist infront of a large audience

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Haha I was terrified the first time I played with him in front of 1000 audiences in Italy 😳

[@dusharidesilva2953]

@@TiffanyPoonpianist dont get terrified . you are an experienced before performing infront of large audiences . you can do it

[@j_go.]

I didn't think I would see classical music become popular enough to be a topic for argument among younger generations. Say, "Be kind."

[@pianogabb]

😍😍😍

[@bronnythebard5459]

I don't mind Schumann. My top three are Beethoven, Debussy, and Clementi, Schumann would be forth on my list of fav composers.

[@kaleidoscopio5]

The most important thing: where is the revolving chair, Tif? We need it, we claim for it and we demand it 🧐......🤭🤭🤭

[@willdrunkenstein5367]

I highly recommend Kapustin piano concerto 2

[@nataliecu1310]

For me personally, I would prefer to play music with others more, you can hear the passion out of everyone’s playing. It somehow unites us in a way.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

I can understand this, though it depends on who I play with... I only feel this way when I get to play with someone like Jan

[@nataliecu1310]

I can understand how people feel this way since everyone does have different ways of how they play.Jan is an amazing musician and we are excited for you to perform with him as well with others on your Dreamstage Schumann performance! Thank you for your opinion, Tiffany.

[@neovxr]

@@TiffanyPoonpianist yes he is wonderful.

[@bronnythebard5459]

As a violinist and a pianist the struggle with intonation is real. I chuckled when I saw the cellist not satisfied with intonation comment lol.

[@hopesonmakokha5217]

This is so interesting to watch you two. Learning more about the music because of how you break things down. Also how do you manage pedaling with a barefoot?! I hate that feeling, and always feel blood doesn't flow properly in my foot and it's very uncomfortable

[@andymilstenmusic8520]

2:36 “Everyone is vain” sounds like me😂😂

[@haroldchristianbuliganbeno2767]

you should really consider buying another piano bench hahaha. Amazing vids btw.

[@chrisdimenna648]

after re-watching the opening of this Video many times & wondering why that simple melody was triggering a memory , I figured it out ... It's the basic formula of most early-70s soft-rock hit's ( think Bread,America,Barry Manilow,etc. )

[@he4rt5]

omg the face at 1:18

[@torontodave5736]

Your Steinway still have socks on *cute*

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Just one 😅

[@XMickyMouseX]

Vanitas vanitatis. I d'ont speak german. Its latin. 😂🤣😁Its near enough to english vanity of vanities.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

I just wasn't listening 😂 Found quite a few dumb moments while editing...

[@DrJulianNewmansChannel]

_vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas_ - "Vanity of vanities! all is vanity!", the opening of King Solomon's great lecture, as recorded in _Ecclesiastes,_ on the all-pervasive futility that God has built into this world in such a manner that it pervades all the activity and affairs of life on this earth! "That is my life, basically" - yep, Solomon concurs. (I find it quite interesting that Solomon never appears to comment explicitly on _why_ God has chosen to build this vanity into the world; but Paul of Tarsus seems to provide an explanation -- albeit rather mysterious and enigmatic -- in _Romans_ 8꞉20-21.) [PS. Apologies for trying to post multiple times; each time previously, I included links and, as a result, YT automatically deleted the comment.]

[@acrosscanada.]

[@lastbornrelic3430]

I'm a beginner please spare me some tips😟

[@Dremmler01]

Tiffany, why are you not sitting face to face? Is it only for the recording that he is facing away from you? Seems difficult.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

That's just how it is in concerts. Can be tricky, but it's all about listening and only occasionally visual cues

[@chanelw9408]

The reason you guys love schumann is the reason I don't like him haha. Loved the more rustic practice session. Really great.

[@stjevena]

Hi Tiffany!!!!!

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Hi!

[@BlackHermit]

"Vanitas vanitatum" actually means "Vanity of vanities", not "everything is vain"...

[@AnonYmous-ry2jn]

As I write this I see there are “106” comments (sorry for ruining it! - but you’re going to get many hundreds anyway eventually!), which is one of piano music’s most illustrious numbers, the opus # of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier of course. As a fan of piano music, like Tiffany I’m perpetually fascinated by Schumann, as a kind of paragon of “romantic” era culture, uniquely personifying the ideas and perspectives of the post-classical/post-enlightenment period. Schumann was very devoted to and a master of piano music composition, but what may be most distinctive is his literary approach to music, blurring genres as it were. (It’s not surprising that an anthology of structuralist literary theorist Roland Barthes on the book jacket pictures him holding Schumann biography). But I’m prompted to write this comment because I saw “106” and thought I’d say something unusual about Schumann and opus numbers: Virtually every other composer, particularly ones with the most canonical piano works, have their piano output distributed throughout the career so their whole range of piano works (especially most important ones) will have early, middle, & late opus numbers like the composer’s other genres. Schumann’s opus numbers go up to 148 (a Requiem, funeral mass) but basically between op.7 to about op. 27 or 22, Schumann has written pretty much all his piano masterpieces. Op. 26 is kind of an exception, “Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Jest from Vienna)” which while not on the same level of the earlier masterpieces, is like a last “jesting”hurrah or capstone to the period in his piano writing career. What may be strange about this is that going back to Beethoven, with whom Schumann was obsessed, op. 26 is Beethoven’s “Funeral March” Sonata! What may be even stranger in this Beethoven opus number coincidence vein is that Schumann writes virtually *no* solo piano pieces for the rest of his career (the range from op. 27-148, basically the final 80%!!!), with the following 2 exceptions: op. 111 and op. 126!!!! Everybody who knows Beethoven knows the LvB wrote with op. 111 (final titanic piano sonata) and 126 (his towering collection of shorter works, “Bagatelles” which in German would have been called “stucke”, what Schumann’s final piano works are called, uniquely along his oeuvre) his own capstone piano compositions. (And there’s that “26” in 126 again btw.) I wonder if this was planned out by whoever did the final cataloging/opus number assignment of Schumann’s works, or it is a coincidence. Probably the former, because if it is a coincidence, it would be too weird not to call “uncanny” or verging on supernatural. But this brings my comment back to my original remark about what’s distinctive about Schumann: so quintessentially “romantic” and “literary”; a nocturnal spirit uniquely among composers drawn into the world of dreams and spiritual mystery, the secrets glossed over by modern rationality and empiricism and science. He’s a musical counterpart to his contemporary Edgar Allan Poe in this respect, unflinching investigator of the darker mysteries of the human heart. Do these opus numbers reveal him to be a kind of musical doppelgänger to Beethoven? A chronologically overlapping “reincarnation” of his spirit? No need to go absolutely weird and off the wall with these speculations, but raising the coincidences and layers of mystery and uncanniness may hint at what makes Schumann so special. He, with a unique musical language and craftsmanship personifies all the mystery and literariness of the romantic “movement”, challenging classical pieties about worldly order, rationality and intelligibility. Schumann’s implicit motto is to go deep beyond the surface appearances and embrace the underlying mystery. As in Poe: proceed if you dare! You find beauty but also ugliness, joy and despair, the whole range including what we in the quotidian day-to-day do the utmost to suppress (or “repress” in the Freudian understanding/idiom)....

[@AnonYmous-ry2jn]

By the way, a big part of this unusual trailing off of major piano solo composition about 20% into Schumann’s composing career is obviously his famous self-inflicted hand injury, or that compounded by syphilis (sorry to take this to an “R” rating; but we might as well take the cautionary message: don’t do unsafe music-career-jeopardizing “romantic” practices, no matter your gravitation to this style of music! Schumann of course famously messed up his hand by a contraption he devised to improve his strength, obviously backfiring. No shortcuts!

[@wbiro]

First, you're getting some big ads, so here's to continued financial security (though there may be ups and downs), and to ever-heightened art (though there will be ups and downs there, too or, as I like to view it, there will be a vast struggling desert landscape of fare with only occasional spires of heightened work here and there where everything comes together in a piece or performance... but even then the struggle can be the work, (you call it 'striving') as in 'that was an exemplary display of striving' (and struggle leads to those rare spires in our desert landscape) (and no, you never know when you've created a spire or just more desert landscape) (speaking from artistic experience and painful reflective analysis)... speaking of reflective, I like your reflective asides in the video (they show where your mind is - which is not where it should be as an artist, as a pianist perhaps, but not as an artist (yet - keep striving)... I liked the elbow bump... Edit - I like your improvised piano bench (for height I sit on thick songbook white pages covered with a duck towel)... Edit - 2:10 It looks like 'Fun Stuff for the Folks, with humor'... Edit - 2:07 'Vanitas Vanitatum' "I don't speak German' 'It's Latin'. Hahahahaha... well, it's Latin with a German accent... so the piece should be played with exaggerated vanity... good one, Schumann! 3:23 'Third time's a charm' (how true)... Edit - Your videos are works of art (just to mention that) - people enjoy your enjoying them (your enjoying them with creativity, even)... so you are a dual-artist... (and an actual pianist, wooooooo)...

[@maplewoods1986]

Do u want colaboration wth me? 😊😊😊😊😊 opss.....I am hallucinating...😬😬😬..

[@williamgreen1512]

Hmm , bit confused about who the master is Clara Schumann , or Shcumann . Obvious i suppose . Anyway , what a pedagogue for the peddle this is .

[@antekketna7080]

Tiffany is trying to match Jan's rhythm, but it doesn't work yet. In fact, Jan should match Tiffany's rhythm, because she is right and he is too slow and heavy on syncopations. Also, Jan is not very careful with the intonation. Sometimes it is out of tune. eg. 6'15 '' "c" to flat ... 7'53 '' - e to flat and lots of little notes not quite right. It doesn't mean that he can't play in tune. He is just not very careful. He is an excellent cellist anyway.

[@euomu]

You don't know what you're talking about