Excellent analysis and thank you for introducing the world of Faure’s music to us!! All the best Henrik!!

Always loved the harmonic ideas of Faure. A true master of the language.

As a classical singer and frustrated pianist, I've listened to this nocturne many times on my car stereo which I especially enjoy for the surround sound effect in my car. Beautiful scenic views, of course, enhance the experience since I live on the northern coast of California. Thanks for reminding me of beauty of this fine piece of literature.

great video as always, its a pleasure to see some Faure's analysis!

Do you think you can make a video about Rachmaninoffs 2nd Piano Sonata? One of my absolute favorites. Thank you for your high quality analysis of this relatively unknown Nocturne!👌🏽

Très belle présentation, à tout point de vue, merci !

Excellent analysis,Henrik,thank you for the upload.

Great program!

yeah...that is one I like most about Faure's works, and I ever told my crush the one I love the most, this piece is pretty much like her.

C’est BEAUCOUP BEAUCOUP TROP VITE! Contresens sur Fauré.

Speaking of nocturnes, I'm working on polishing Chopin's nocturne Op 27 no 2, would love to see an analysis of this one as well. Awesome video as usual 😍

The requiem of Fauré is one of my favorite! It is plaid every year in the Madeleine church in Paris,

Hello Henrik! Great music, and love the new set up you’ve got going!

The insane chromatic mediant between A and C with the major 6ths in the C sections intro is so strikingly godtier. I suppose you could also think of them as minor 7ths and I love to use chromatic mediants with minor 7ths. I had no idea there was a Db Bø D Ab11(omitted 9th) Am(with the #11) to B7 in there towards the beginning of the piece the first time I heard it. There's so many reasons why that's genius. First of all Faure is the first composer before Schoenberg I've found who uses the slide transformation (I thought parallel 5ths were frowned upon for the longest time in traditional western practice?? That's probably why), which is embedded between the Db and Bø and obviously also in the Ab and Am, since the Bø has an embedded Dm it also creates a picardy third going to the D, the third of the D is a common tone to the 7th of the Ab11 and also D and Ab major chords are a T6 transformation which is one of the godliest triadic chord progressions ever, so much so that the composer couldn't help but write it for the moment where Morgan Freeman tells Bruce he's God in Bruce Almighty, Having a #11 in a minor chord is such a wonderfully ugly sound, it also opens Hannes Grossmann's brilliant masterpiece song The Radial Covenant which is why I lovingly refer to it as "The Radial Covenant Chord" and of course even with the Am as the predominant iv to finally returning towards the tonal center of E major going to B7 then E, that relationship between iv and V on its own, and sometimes playing them in reverse order, is fascinating to me even despite its omnipresence in harmonic and melodic minor pieces. Because, at the end of the day, the major V always was a borrowed chord that was never in one of the "natural" minor modes like dorian or aeolian, obviously to get that leading tone. But in isolation it can be brilliant in other contexts. Thank you so much for this breakdown thats such a godly progression. He somehow manages to make all the intense modulations sound so smooth and natural, whereas when I compose I prefer them to be dramatic and blatant more like the C section's intro. If anyone is reading this (doubt it) and can recommend me any music in any genre that strings together things like slide transformations, picardy thirds, major tritone transformations, and V going to iv instead of the other way around (although it doesn't have to be in a "functional harmony" context) Id be indebted to you forever. IN LAYMANS TERMS music that constantly modulates in powerful and unexpected to the ear ways where its dramatic but you can never tell what the next chord is, while still being rooted primarily in triadic harmony. I CONSTANTLY seek out this kind of music and Im such a nerd about it and I feel so lonely a lot of the time to not be able to have these conversations with others :( :( :(

Fauré’s Nocturnes are often overlooked and are some of the most beautiful. Fantastic analysis. Thank you for putting this video together. Also, if I may ask, what is the make/model of the piano you’re playing here? I’m in the market for one and learning. There’s a pleasant clarity and color to the tone in yours.

tres grand merci pour cette video je vais pouvoir me lancer dans la partition

I feel it needs to be slower to reflect the "Adagio" indication.

Merci pour fauré

Thx for your inspiring analysis. An analysis of César Franck: Prélude, Choral et Fugue for piano would be great💥💫👌

Very nice piece! Would you mind making a video analysing the prelude in g sharp minor from the second well tempered clavier by Bach? :)

Hi, can you confirm where in the piece the rhythm dotted crotchet quaver matches the triplet figures and where it stands alone as dotted crotchet over the triplet figure, please? Many thanks

Wrong note at 33:15. It's B sharp in the 4th chord,, not B-natural. The B-sharp is the accidental written in the beginning of the measure, and is only canceled by B-natural in the 5th chord at the end of the measure.

Thank you

8:22 i was expecting so hard the resolution of the chord haha

You're doing an awesome work. My sincere thanks and love. ( A video request, if you can please do a video on Beethoven's sonata in E minor, no 27, op 90)

You are almost as good a musician as Cardi B or even Nicki Minaj! Vlado Perlemuter was the first performer I heard play this. I always loved Pascal Rogès Faure pianism but he never recorded this to my knowledge. Beautiful playing. I would love to hear your recording of it! Wonderful channel. I’m here to stay. So tragic music is where it is today. Fierce evidence we are devolving and astonishingly rapidly.

Can you analyse Liszt soiress italiennes please 🙏❤️ Great video ⚡⚡

Nocturne No.7 is even better and there's a nice piano roll of Faure himself playing it, recorded in 1910. Lots of valuable information, however the roll is not reproducing the rhythm correctly, speeding up over time. He also recorded No.3 in the same way.

you're awesome

Very nice interpretation. I must lean more toward Chopin for his intricicies and modal use of the native key. Quite beautiful, however.

I can hear Brahms ballade...in the first section.

Apparently the Irish man John Field coined the word nocturne for his piano pieces first

I can hear angry polish people in the comments muttering something like Chopin jest Polakiem, kurwa!

Why the metronome mark is not followed? Its supposed to be Adagio but it feels very animato.

Too fast for the beginning section. It needs to be more relaxed, less pushed.

Weird piece tbh. Feels like it never really goes anywhere 😕