What an absolute gem this video is.

What a great start into the new year! I wish you a happy new year 2022! :-). Thank you very much for starting your analysis series about the chopin etudes! I am looking forward to all episodes :-). It would be really great if you could do a video about practicing in general. It could be a part of an piece of music where you show how to approach it and how to take care of more difficult measures and passages. Thank you in advance!

Thank you for taking the first ten minutes to explain the importance of this genre and how Chopin distinguished "Etudes" from other composers.

Wonderful explanations, I feel as if I had new sensitivity to listening this Etude, with more pleasure. Thank you from France !

Thanks a lot for the journey through this etude! Helps me practice and understand it much better.

Thank you very much for starting your analysis series about the chopin etudes!

Thank you so much, maestro! Your videos have always given me happiness, and have given me insight into the trickiness and nuances of so many pieces. I might not be a concert pianist, but I am a grateful amateur piano fan who is deeply grateful for all you have done. Chopin is indeed timeless, and with your help his music will live on forever. Thank you so much! Sean

Mr. Greg, I watched your lesson and your performance was expressive!

Beautiful sound! Also very interesting video all the way. Thank you soo much for all information and all historical apsects!

Happy New Year, Greg. I thoroughly enjoy how introspective , yet down to earth your thoughts are on Chopin's pieces; they can never be described well under 20 minutes. This particular piece includes stunning scales. I will never stop feeling amazed with how many mystical emotions Chopin effectively expressed through his compositions.

I am very much interested in seeing your techniques for practicing. There really isn't too many good tutorials on these etudes.

Oh, Maestro, I am so interested in techniques for practicing the wonderful etudes. I am obsessed with Chopin. I can't imagine my life without his music.

Please please please make tutorials for Chopin! I'm learning his etudes and I love the way you explain his music!

Thank you

Love the analyses! I’ve only just come across this channel, but I think there needs to be more of this type of content for piano pieces.

Thankful & greetings from Toronto. I understood that “the lion lying beside a lamb” well. I am learning this Etude for 2 years & still keeping practice this. Enjoy your talk very much.

Thank you very much for starting this great project, Greg. I had some difficulty playing this etude with small hands, but after trying the exercise you had shown at 20:00, I could manage to play it very smoothly. It's amazing! You are such a great teacher! I am so impressed and excited! Dziękuję💖

Hello, I'm a Chopin music lover from Korea. I've really enjoyed your video! From all 4 Ballades to the etudes, your analysis and Polish references are something I can't find anywhere else. I genuinely love Chopin's works. It's like a non-illegal drug for me. They bring so much joy and sorrow that resonate in my mind. I remember listening to Chopin's Ballade No. 4, and during the coda, tears just flowed from my eyes, and I got goosebumps that I had never experienced before. Your analysis has helped me appreciate Chopin's work even more. Now, I'm practicing Etude Op. 10 No. 1, and your references to what Chopin said to his students have been a great help! I plan to practice it slowly. Thank you so much!

Excited to see this!

SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS, MAESTRO!!!!! Thank you for one of my favourite Chopin's Etudes in an excellent rendition and for your analysis/tutorial, again my best regards, have a Happy New Year 2022. Joanna

This is a great tutorial of this wonderful work! Well done Greg! I love all the things you say about it. So inspirational! Thank you!!!

Greg, Happy New Year! Thanks for your valuable insights into Chopin's pieces. If you upload tutorials of these pieces, your channel will definitely grow. I'm looking forward to your analyses of 10-5, 25-1, 25-9, and 25-12. Wishing you much success in 2022!

Brilliant video !! So much wonderful information and inspiration!! Keep up the great work my friend! You inspire me.

Well, you are a perfect, clear and enjoyable music communicator!👍 I'm spending hours in listening to your leasons.

Excellent tutorial Greg! I’m trying to do this Etude omg it’s a huge job

I would like to see practicing techniques too, for the nocturnes and etudes.

Very interesting to hear the connection to JSB's prelude. Often when practicing Chopin 10-1, I often default to play WTC 1-1 before or after and even in between. Both affect each other, even this simple prelude helps with technique for the etude.

Great! Great! Great! Chopin would press LIKE endlessly, no doubt about it. 🎼👍🎵🎹🎶

Thanks Grzegorz for the video! I do not think you need to worry for being too explicit or for explaining Chopin in straight words. I guess there is no harm in saying Chopin would like his music to be brought to as many people as possible. Not all of them being educated musicians for that matter. So a great job Grzegorz, many thanks ! Keep on, your effort is definitely worth each and a every doubt a professional musician might have. Thanks again.

We love it.

Thank you for your hard work, Please make tutorials of how to practice.

you're a fucking legend, thanks for that the history and, the theoretical analysis, may I ask you, if you could make a video explaining how to practice it avoiding tension? Once again thanks.

Great work. You are able to present the essence of things without using the hermetic jargon of musicologists. I have nothing against musicologists, but if the message is to be valuable and at the same time understandable for a wide audience it has to avoid jargon. You manage to do that. All the best in the new year.

Greg has anyone done an analysis regarding a relationship between the Chopin Etudes and the etudes that developed into Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes? Of course Liszt never finished the project completing only 12, but as he composed them, I would think that he would have given some thought to whether he was building on the skills Chopin was trying to encourage or to supplement them.

I’d love practicing tips for not just the etudes byte for challenging sections of other Chopin’s work. Such as maybe the heroic polonaise or the coda in Chopin’s first ballade.

Hey there Greg what’s your opinion on Vladimir De Pachmann’s 1911 recording? It’s beautiful but do you find it contrary to proper interpretation?

Greg, was it understood in the 1820's how important the Well-Tempered Clavier is from a compositional theory perspective? I think it can be argued that the developments in piano music from Mozart and Beethoven in some ways distracted from the enormous benefits of appreciating what Bach had laid down. Had the even-tempered tuning standard been adopted in Poland by the time that Chopin was studying at conservatory?

Moscheles studies were quite expressive and musical not mere finger exercises. Even some of Cramer's studies have amazing harmonies. But Cramer's studies lack a overall programmatic structure.

Would absolutely love to get an insight of how to practice/ your techniques on these etudes! 🤞🏻

It would be great if you did some tutorials after January! Maybe once you’ve finished analysing all the Beethoven sonatas? 😜

I prepared my practice of this studies with my raincoat cap elastic it stretched my fingers lightly in all directions. :D no, i really did ! There are some missing notes in this demonstration, with sometimes only the pivot notes fillling the space but only if you practice this study will you notice. And it's ok because he is playing at tempo which is extremely difficult without conditioning the hand beforehand. I do not blame him, just keeping it real.

I would be interested in 'tutorials'/performance notes. Like approaching the Con Bravura section of Etude 10 No 3. Finding those sorts of hints is difficult. Suggested hand movements, memory tips, etc

We’re you at the 2021 Chopin Competition in Warsaw?

Which etude would you personally consider the most difficult. A colleague claims it is this one.

I am allready playing another instrument and studied music so I have good music knowlidge

I want to know if I can play the Etudes

I as well am very very interested in a viable legit method of learning before i teach myself really bad habits.

I want to know if it is to late with 35 years old but I have bachelor with music with another kind of instrument called oud

Thanks Greg, I am completely hooked on your videos! As an amateur pianist I am interested in the story behind each piece, the history, the poetry, the practice techniques, and the music theory. This is the only way to do it justice, as we all need to interpret his intentions. These etudes in particular have a gauntlet one must overcome and master in order to unlock the beauty and poetry. And that is the reward after a long study. Thanks again for opening my eyes, ears and my heart to Chopin. P.S Here's an early Pachmann recording of this etude which captures the choral nature and Bach influence as you mentioned kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i92okquSv7XRaGQ.html

Can I ask is it too latein age of 35 to play chopin Etudes