2:08 I LOVE this mood change. How he suddenly goes from the blissful, dreamy feel to an absolutely funeral-like, dark, almost necromantic vibe. I've never heard a piano piece with such a sudden, but masterfully done mood swing like this (although I am still a beginner in the classical music realm lol).

Chopin composed this piece in Mallorca, where I live! I can assure you storms here have this melody...

You don't listen to Chopin, you *feel* Chopin

I love how you interpret the grace notes similarly to how Lang Lang does in his piano book. I would kill for your technique. I’ve been working on the piece for a month and a half and only the second page has really come together. Even on the second page I don’t think I’m playing it loud enough yet, but any louder and I could miss the keys. It’s been a tough recovery for me, since I suffered tendon damage in my left arm and I have horrible tremors, but I love the piano so much that I’m going to keep working through it. Keep up the great work! Listening to great pianists like Daniel Barenboim, Lang Lang, etc. make me want to pour out my soul into the piano, and having people like you, Rosseau, and others who show their hands help steer me in the right direction in regards to fingerings.

might be one of chopin’s greatest works

It is always a treat WATCHING you play. Thank you for the score you put on the top; it would help me to learn this piece. ps. love the way you cast the light on the piano; I can see exactly which keys you are playing. I can appreciate this seemingly small, but very significant detail from your photography/art background.

There is so much language in this! I love it. It is innocent, it is strong, it in angry, it is just full of emotion. Tragedy, I told you so's. Very powerful.

Wow, you actually took your time on this. Every note felt, one by one.

Ever since I heard this at a piano performance, I have been in love with the sound and atmosphere it gives off. That repeating A-Flat is really soothing

Brawo! I am infatuated with this version. You keep the tempo moving and the sound is so crisp and rewarding.

Full body chills. You brought to life some melodies in this I’ve never considered. Thank you for posting

Could listen to this all day!

Best interpretation I’ve listened to.

Wunderschönes Prelude von Chopin. Sehr gefühlvoll gespielt

That voicing. Consistently tremendous and conscientious voicing in literally every piece you post sir. Beautiful.

So beautiful. Well done Paul. Another great performance. X

As always Paul your work is clean and precise! Your video's are a great help to many pianist's and enthusiasts alike. I'm also learning this piece now and watching this is so helpful. Thank you.

You play all my favorites and appreciate so much.

Excellent! So powerful.

Magnifique interprétation. Merci M. Barton

Absolutely beautiful.

Stunning. Thank you once again.

I love your interpretation!

I just started working on this piece and decided to listen to some interpretations on YT. First one, they seemed too strict with the tempo and it came off as too rigid for my tatse. Found yours and it just felt perfect. Even where I felt to speed up a bit and slow back down, you did in the same spots. I've only played through to after the first section of the key change. Your playing is beautiful and your musical interpretation just feels spot on for this piece to me. Thank you for sharing. Very inspiring.

This might be one of the best interpretation of a song by pianist i have seen. I mean it look so perfect in my eyes. Well done !

Your videos are incredibly helpful as learning aides and teaching tools! :)

thanks for not rushing this piece

Oh my GOODNESS!!!!!!!! To be able to SEE your FINGERING is PRICELESS!!!!!!!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!!! 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝

Beautiful!

Very useful and helpful guide to mastering this piece. Thank you Paul.

Very nice Paul. Delicately done

Following a few piano lessons in childhood, and some choral singing, now at retirement I have decided to devote my time to learning as much as I am able at the piano. My current challenge is a bog-standard Easy Piano Classics book. The contents have been rendered in their simplest form. Often nothing more than the melody and the essentials of the harmony. At first, I thought, well this is one step along the way to the real stuff. In fact like many other things, when reduced to the bare bones, simplicity has its own rewards. The versions of some of Bachs pieces have come to convey the beauty of the original piece in a very satisfying manner losing nothing of their musicality. I actually believe JS would nod approvingly.

Essa música é muito linda! É tão expressiva e tão rica. Obrigada por compartilhar sua interpretação.

Rather than relaxing, i always found this piece dark and sinister because i first heard it in the trailer for battle royale. Great interpretation as always paul!

Thank you for show how to play this beautiful song.

Chopin,sentimental, beauty😍🍁🌹

Such a beautiful piece literally heart breaking it’s so scary interpretation of such a beautiful piece ❤️

the best I've ever heard. Thank you

Very nice playing as always Paul. For those looking for this particular score on the IMSLP page, I think it is the Mikuli edition (1895). It is public domain and available on the link provided by Paul Barton, but there are quite a few scores on that page and different editions, so use Control + F 'Mikuli' to find this particular one.

If my heart could loudly applaude, it would! Thank you for this most delightful rendering of suffering and its ending. :)+

Bonsoir Monsieur Barton, magnifiquement bien interprété, et j'avoue que j'aime beaucoup voir la partition défiler car ainsi je peux lire en même temps que vous, et ensuite me corriger, ; mon piano est à côté de moi ce qui me permet de mettre sur pose et ainsi "prendre un magistral cours", quel bonheur de vous avoir découvert ! Je suis une arrière grand-mère qui pratique toujours mon merveilleux ami ... le piano ! la musique et la nature sont si belles, l'une ne va pas sans l'autre. Un grand merci.

I looove your interpretation! I used to play this piece, but i think now I was playing it the wrong way, when I hear you, the piece take all its meaning

that was so beautiful 😢

The most Beautiful that my ears have hear 😍🎵💞🎶😙

Bravo!

Magnificent.

Part of me felt like you were speeding up and slowing down at times and there were no notations in the score to do so (that I saw). Another part of me is reminded of how much I hate the master pianists when they play Chopin way too fast and vigorous when there is so much poetry and beauty in it. So, I love the delicacy and touch you give chopins music. It gives it the expressiveness it deserves.

Wow Paul you play this soooo beautifully!

Notice how Paul plays with the rhythm of the piece in the parts of the hairpins, where one would expect a crescendo. Fascinating how the hairpin in the romantic era got a different meaning

Så vakkert 💙

Que bellezas.... cuanta precisión. . .un gusto poder deleitarse

Such a fabulous piece which illustrates a great imagination of a cloudy sky . Little raindrops at first and strong thunderstorms in the middle reveals the truth about rain , anger and piece at the same time . It was like a poem

Favorita desde siempre. Bello.

That key signature change coming up like dark clouds on the horizon.

*You are Greattttt*

Learning this piece and it never occurred to me to play the E with my right hand 😂

Como é bom saber e poder tocar um instrumento!!!!

Powerfull!!

I'm sitting on my porch as I watch this and it's raining. Perfect. Well done 💖

2:48 during the crescendo I kind of lost my crap. I think that might be one of my favorite parts, but this entire song is a masterpiece so it is difficult picking which part I like best. That part was the thunderstorm of the RAINDROP prelude.

Questa creazione, secondo.me, descrive perfettamente lo stato d' animo di una persona che torna a visitare la casa - una casa con grande giardino annesso - in cui era bambino...dapprima una melodia dolce e leggera..ma poi la parte centrale che irrompe, pesante e lacerante...come la malinconia ed anche il rimorso e la percezione di un lungo periodo di tempo trascorso....solo per riprendersi alla fine del pezzo.

perfect

Hey Paul, could you play Chopin Nocturne op. 27 No.1 for us? It is one of my favourite Nocturnes.

The thunderstorm packs a serious punch!

What a beautiful piece, definitely different from his many other pieces. Any more like this? (Slow and mesmerizing)

I plan to buy a piano or even grand piano in the coming years and I think because they sponsor you, it might very well be a Feurich.

Amoooooo esta canción Dios miooo

Это гениально!

New subscriber for SURE!!!!!!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗

“Believe”

This piece was used in “Kurosawa’s Dreams”

You don’t listen to Chopin,you feel Chopin.

Believe.

Great playing i love your videos Paul. Small tip i got from my teacher 0:46 u can play f with ur right hand 😊

Coisa maís linda meu Deus ...

Моя любимая прелюдия Шопена.Капли Дождя, так она звучит.

I've been playing this too fast. This is much better!

Chopin

Hi Paul, can you play m. moszkowski etude op 72 no. 14? Or any other of this op.

i've always wondered if late 1800's composers had staff with c#major and minor already printed on them

я как будто усдышала игру самого Шопена...через века

🎶🎶🎶👌

I haven’t played piano in years but I so badly want to learn this piece so I might but I keyboard and just do it

Please make a tutorial on debussy's La plus que Lente, i'm having some trouble with it

❤️❤️

Believe

Woahhh 7 mins. Guess I've been playing it a little too fast.

I like the fact you used the slower tempo, Paul, but I feel the major theme lacked a little grace and on the minor part the harmonic pedal kind of “overcharged” given that the melody line is soo low-pitched. It was awesome you posted this all the same, I still love you as a pianist 😄😊

Preludio que me recuerda el fallecimiento de mi esposa a la edad de 40 años. Vivir con carencias luego intensamente y llegar al final de la vida con mucho sufrimiento. Adiós Lolita.

Will you please do same for requests? I need fingering TERRIBLY for pieces from the score to The Piano: Big My Secret and Main Theme

Is the one in the video found on imslp or is that an arrangement with fingerings

Hi Paul, thank you so very much for this video. Is this story about Chopin's friends going into the forest and getting lost for so many days that Chopin believed his friends had died. It was raining when Chopin sat at His piano, thinking about his friends in what he thought was their demise and also listening to the raindrops, Chopin composed this piece. While completing this piece Chopin's friends made it back though sick and soaking wet they were alive!

Which edition of the sheet music is this please? I find it clearer and more readable in the sections (like at 4:44) where the repeated G# is in the bass clef as in the edition in the video, rather than in ledgers under the treble clef mixed in with the RH chords (as in all the editions I'm finding).

I can't figure out to get the sheet music from your link. Please help.

Just finished mozarts sonata no 16 can i attempt this?

This piece is not about a raindrop at all... something more darker and sinister than modern audiences would percieve...

At the end of the middle section g#-c#-e-a# is too far for my right hand. On the left hand it would be no problem.

Hello I am learning this now but why no one plays bar 15 as is written.. including here at minute 1.31… can please someone explain? Just a common mistake or is there a reason??

gg

The melody starting around 4:25 sounds straight out of the first movement of Beethoven's 14th "Moonlight" Sonata (That section is also in the same key). If Fantaisie-Impromptu is based on/inspired by the third movement, is something similar going on here?