F. Chopin - Mazurka Op. 17 no.4 - Analysis. Greg Niemczuk's lecture

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Polish concert pianist Greg Niemczuk explains and plays the complete cycle of Chopin's Mazurkas.
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@mayukomiyata1839 3 жыл бұрын

beaaautiful channel!! I'm gonna check more Mazurkas in your channel. Thank you. And yes, we japanese people are very connected with Chopin´s heart❤️

@gregniemczuk 3 жыл бұрын

I miss Japan!!!! Yes, welcome! I'm now doing videos about All the Chopin's pieces!

@mayukomiyata1839 3 жыл бұрын

@@gregniemczuk wow, amazing!!! Looking very much forward to it and I'll keep following your updates🙏🏻

@PhilHarrison762 Жыл бұрын

@@mayukomiyata1839 Sorita... Kobayashi... Shindo...... Yamagata...... How right you are!

@markeeledge 3 ай бұрын

Love this piece, one of my top favourite Chopin pieces. Still trying to learn it properly. 💓

@lukesaucier1980 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful mazurka. Intimate. Well constructed. Filled with pathos. And your presentation, your enthusiasm are both charming and engaging. Thank you.

@gregniemczuk 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Luke. Nice to have you here watching! I invite you to watch my other videos as well!

@JD-io2ct Жыл бұрын

Today I decided to watch every YT video on this mazurka. So grateful that I found this channel. The comment about the jazz improvisation made me shout an enthusiastic YES! How did he do that almost a century ahead of its time? And the last section could only have been written by someone familiar with death, even seeing one's own on the horizon. That high A always gets me. I'll look for your Japanese performance of this piece. So happy I found your channel.

@gregniemczuk Жыл бұрын

Hi!!!!! I'm so happy to see that super enthusiastic comment of yours! Nice to meet you! You will find more than 170 videos like this one, about every single Chopin's piece!! Enjoy!

@JD-io2ct Жыл бұрын

@@gregniemczuk Looking forward to all of them. Deep in my lessons on this one right now though I am focussed on it. Your analysis touched my heart as my impression of this mazurka is that it's about reminiscing an entire lifetime with a view towards the end of it. Much love!.

@km6206 9 ай бұрын

A lot of jazz style and harmony are coming from Chopin, Debussy, and Ravel.

@finnianreilly1831 3 жыл бұрын

After first discovering this channel I came back to check if Greg had anything to say on another of my favorite Chopin mazurkas, and I was not disappointed. A really fantastic exposition and I love Greg's interpretation. Thank you Greg for sharing your knowledge and insights. You certainly have a pedagogical gift!

@gregniemczuk 3 жыл бұрын

You made me so happy and thankful by writing this here! Thank you!

@loveispatient0808 2 ай бұрын

@@gregniemczukyou are such a lovely person, if only you can be my teacher in person! Appreciate you so much, God bless 🙏✝️ P/a I feel we are soulmates musically as all your musical expressions I can feel and agree with you instantly!😅

@darrentobia1180 4 жыл бұрын

This is such a great opus. Greg, your storytelling ability really shines with this piece.

@gregniemczuk 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@alvinloh9068 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Greg for explaining this piece. This mazurka and the waltz in op64 no 2 in c# minor is my favorite pieces from Chopin. It's incredibly beautiful and intimate.

@gregniemczuk 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Indeed they're extremely beautiful! I plan to record videos about waltzes as well!!

@sampeng5216 3 жыл бұрын

I fell in love with this mazurka when I first heard Horowitz played it. My reaction then was how can anyone compose such a beautiful and touching music. Your in depth analysis is just simply amazing! Thank you.

@gregniemczuk 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, Horowitz's interpretation is very touching!

@paolafuchs2050 Жыл бұрын

Me, too☺️

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite Chopin Mazurka (my second favourite Mazurka being the one dedicated to Emile Gaillard)!

@mikolajochocki2810 2 жыл бұрын

Probably the best interpretation video I've seen so far

@MrsSedley 3 жыл бұрын

This was the Mazurka I turned to first in your series, as I feel it the most deeply. Your obvious love of the music and also the way you play it are inspiring. Looking forward to more.

@per174 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic interpretation and analysis of this beautiful mazurka, Greg! Its emotional sadness. Really like how you explain the middle section, like a dream coming from far away, then suddenly interrupted, back to sorrow. Thank you so much! 🙏

@gregniemczuk 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Per!

@BrookeKnight561 Ай бұрын

I absolutely love your channel. Thank you so much for this!!!

@1NBLOG 4 жыл бұрын

Fabuloso!me encanta que describas todo lo que hay detrás de la pieza 🤓

@lauramariapace5675 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful explanation and playing. Thank you for your work!

@gregniemczuk Жыл бұрын

Thank you Laura!

@roberteigen4499 2 жыл бұрын

wonderful playing and explaination!

@philiprobinson7332 3 жыл бұрын

Such a helpful channel. Thank you for your insights!

@gregniemczuk 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@benjamincourtois2204 9 ай бұрын

I love your playing it's very sensible, congratulations

@gregniemczuk 9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@lipinxiao4090 Жыл бұрын

It was the first lecture I started to know about you, so great and wonderful explanation for this nice piece, Greg, I was deeply touched by the music and your illustrations... Thank you so much for all your working on Chopin since the last 2 years...

@gregniemczuk Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this comment! Enjoy all the other videos. It was such a hard work for me.... Greetings!

@juliannaw5712 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, this helped a lot!

@gregniemczuk 3 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to hear that!

@joeisonyoutube 2 жыл бұрын

Learning this piece for my Grade 8 but didn't appreciate it's signicance, sadness or beauty until watching this video. Thank you 💙

@gregniemczuk 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm so happy to read that! Good luck!

@mavygiustwilliamson969 2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love how you present pieces.. Awesome!! I'm playing this mazurka next week!!

@gregniemczuk 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!! Good luck! I'm glad I inspired you!

@user-fg8mw6cu5p 8 ай бұрын

I heard this mazurka in Ingmar Bergman’s “Cries and Whispers”, since then I’m obsessed with this one, so thank you for such a great piece of analysis.

@konradnowak3688 2 жыл бұрын

great. I practice this masterpiece right now, a lot of "tips" heard.... thanks!

@grahammeintjes3313 2 жыл бұрын

Dziękuję Grzegorzu. To jest cudowne! (I'm not fluent in Polish but the language appeals to my ear. This is one of my favourite mazurkas by Chopin and your analysis helped me appreciate this composition all the more.)

@gregniemczuk 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!! Welcome to my musical world!

@katesimms2942 2 жыл бұрын

wow this is fantastic! thankyou for this :)

@gregniemczuk 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@oiva.siltamaki. 5 ай бұрын

THANKS MAESTRO💯❤🙋‍♂️

@fanfan2977 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I just started learning this ABRSM grade 8 piece and found this channel. How wonderful! I am from Hong Kong 🙂

@gregniemczuk Жыл бұрын

Fantastic!! I have online students from Hong Kong! Good luck!! And sometimes you can watch my other videos as well!!!

@lucascury5028 2 жыл бұрын

my favorite mazurka!

@CzarDodon 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this lecture it's so beautiful to hear a musician's insight. A thing that always amazes me in this Mazurka, I think it is what you mean as in the mist/fog at the beginning, we don't really know we are in a minor until we get to the end of the first full statement of the melody, does the sadness come from this feeling of not knowing where "home" is?

@gregniemczuk 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, definitely yes! It's so fascinating and so deep. Thanks for watching!

@shumiatcher 24 күн бұрын

Merci

@davisatdavis1 5 ай бұрын

When I listen to all the mazurkas, this is the one that makes me tear up. This one and the very last ones that were not published. I have a tear in my eye just from hearing it in your analysis. I had no idea this was thought to be composed when Chopin was 14. I too believe it's impossible. I only hear a sick old man in this, who has experienced every form of sadness in life.

@gregniemczuk 5 ай бұрын

Yes!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for your comment

@micheltoscano5880 Жыл бұрын

Chopin is my favourite artist ALL Arts combined. Italia never had a sensitive Maestro exactly like Chopin. Never! It's unique. Poland is so lucky to have had such an Artist!

@gregniemczuk Жыл бұрын

But you have many fantastic Opera composers!!!

@micheltoscano5880 Жыл бұрын

True! But Chopin many melodies can make the female opera voice sublime. Imagine if Chopin had been healthier, motivated and lived 5, 10, 15, 25 + more years. What other masterpieces would he have composed? Perhaps opera? We don't know. 🙏

@gregniemczuk Жыл бұрын

@@micheltoscano5880 I think so too!!! If he had power to compose the opera, it would be sooooo great!!!

@user-iz8nr5cx7t 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for another great analysis of this beautiful mazurka. Now that you have played in Tokyo please plan to come to the US, specifically the Kennedy Center here in Washington. We wait for you. Soon!!

@gregniemczuk 4 ай бұрын

I'd love to. I just need a good lawyer to organize a visa to perform there .

@militaryandemergencyservic3286 2 жыл бұрын

i like it! I do this one

@Fryderyk_Franciszek 9 ай бұрын

Your series about Chopin's Mazurkas is outstanding, superb, and very impressive. It's quite hard to believe that a 14-year-old Chopin composed this piece as its sadness and melancholy are out of range. But, honestly, if a 14-year-old composer can do it, is Chopin. Be that as it may, congrats once again.

@gregniemczuk 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@Fryderyk_Franciszek 9 ай бұрын

@@gregniemczuk My pleasure.

@deanronson6331 Жыл бұрын

One doesn't have to know anything about Chopin's private life and historical circumstances to understand the beauty and crystallized depth of melancholy of this piece's main theme. Sometimes just thinking about it or or trying to revive the melody in my head makes me tear up. To paraphrase Joni Mitchell, "The most beautiful tunes are the sad ones."

@gregniemczuk Жыл бұрын

Yes, you're absolutely correct

@thomaswenas-bobbiefet5805 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for these videos. Theyre amezing! Do you also take requests?

@gregniemczuk 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Tell me! But now I'm all into the Chopin's project.

@thomaswenas-bobbiefet5805 3 жыл бұрын

@@gregniemczuk Alright no hurries! :) But id love to see Scriabins Poeme Op 32, F-sharp maj in the future!

@bazcuda 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thank you. The printed music I've seen for this says "crotchet = 152" but nobody ever plays it anywhere near that speed - it is always significantly slower than that. Would you please explain why that is.

@user-rd6vf7xk1x 2 жыл бұрын

A beautiful analysis punctuated by awful Simply Piano advertisements.. The contrast couldn’t be stronger! Thanks for this beautiful insight and analysis. My favourite Chopin piece alongside ballade 1

@gregniemczuk 2 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha!! Well, I'm not responsible for the ad ! :). Thanks for watching!!

@melefth Жыл бұрын

Use an ad blocker!

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji 2 жыл бұрын

My humble interpretation of Chopin's intentions- while the middle voice in the opening that goes B-C-D represent melancholy, the other voice-that goes A,F-A,F-A,F (F major- not considered to show sadness) and so on... attempts to prove how Chopin desperately wanted his joyous times in Poland, back (if he had written this in France), I mean, he could have written something like the 4th Prelude, that is still of the same nature as this piece, but he wrote a Mazurka to anchor his Polish roots to his mind very resolutely! What a genius!

@gregniemczuk 2 жыл бұрын

YES! Thank you for that comment

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji 2 жыл бұрын

The middle voice becomes the melody as sadness dominates happiness (or longing for happiness, just as he adds some C major chords in the last measures end ends the piece with an e minor chord in the 4th prelude, just for a comparison).

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji 2 жыл бұрын

@@gregniemczuk you're welcome!

@renatoparonidecastro6498 Жыл бұрын

In fact the dance is very very simple technically speaking and rarely ballet tricks, turns, high legs are displayed. Your analysis would certainly help dancers who have to perform this piece!

@sayonara6301 7 ай бұрын

Bar 9 what chord is it thank u

@concettasolombrino2688 7 ай бұрын

😊

@SSAENS-yj3jw 8 ай бұрын

I'm having trouble with the pedaling of the first bars. It sounds too marked, I don't like it. Do you have any suggestion? 😢😢

@sayonara6301 7 ай бұрын

Did the song modulate to another key ? Thank u

@gregniemczuk 7 ай бұрын

No, why?

@sayonara6301 7 ай бұрын

@@gregniemczuk would be great to have the chords analysed 😀

@shufangyang3916 3 ай бұрын

What speed should we play for this piece sir ? Exam says 152 crotchets beat per min but it’s lento

@gregniemczuk 3 ай бұрын

152 is definitely too fast to make it beautiful. Maybe in the middle section you can go faster and reach 152.

@PhilHarrison762 Жыл бұрын

From about min 6.00..... an irresistable reminder of Op28 #4....What do you think? Loving this series on Op 17 😀😀

@gregniemczuk Жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed!!!

@user-pq1np6jm2c 2 жыл бұрын

I read all your articles in japan magazine Chopin. the Japanese techer cannot explain like Greg. They say that it is written on score.

@gregniemczuk 2 жыл бұрын

Wow!! Thank you so much! It means a lot to me.

@finnianreilly1831 3 жыл бұрын

Wow it says "Polish concert pianist Greg Niemczuk". I mistook him for an Italian because of his accent.

@gregniemczuk 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I'm Polish 🙂

@loveispatient0808 2 ай бұрын

His name is definitely Polish not even Italian!😅

@renatoparonidecastro6498 Жыл бұрын

And I would recommend the interpretation of Makarova and Barishnikov. No one can dance like this today honestly...here is the whole performance. The video is old but worth watching. I am immensely thankful to your lecture. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrGJiKShntTcnZc.html

@infundomaris Күн бұрын

The coda is truly disturbing with its tritones and falling chromatism. It could be the perfect soundtrack to a Jewish massacre in an eerie Polish forest during World War II. Chopin's sound world is very often dark and deeply mournful.

@barbaracatania7563 2 жыл бұрын

I do not see how it is not possible that Chopin has not been "able" or quite mature to composing this Mazurka at an early age. Mahler, for an instance, composed his Quartetto for piano when he was only a student at Wien Conservatory...

@gregniemczuk 2 жыл бұрын

Very good example. But I meant only this deep sadness, which Chopin didn't feel when he was in Poland.