I would LOVE to have you record Chopin in slow tempo.!

Greg, thank you very much for this touching and tender analysis. You help me to put into words subtle sensations that only Chopin’s late works are capable of expressing. Hope you are doing well with your current projects. Abraços!

Major/minor alternation is typical Slavic. You can hear this also in Slovak and Eastern Moravian folk songs, I am thinking specifically of those of the Myjava region in West Slovakia and Kyjov, Horňácko and Valášsko regions in Eastern Moravia. Also Romanian songs from Transylvania. Thank you for your analysis, very astute and well researched. I studied this piece and analyzed the heck out of it in my first year of college. Op. 59 is the Gold Standard of Chopin's Mazurkas. Contrast these 3 with the youthful Opuses 6, 7 and 17, also masterpieces but of a much younger genius. In my opinion Op. 59 even surpasses Op. 63. "Op. 63: Been there, done that, phoning it in." Thank you for posting.

Love this lecture!

That was fascinating! I have always loved Chopin best, but it was his waltzes then nocturnes, polonaises, and ballades that captured me. I didn't really know quite what to make of the Mazurkas because of the mixes in moods. Now I get it and can't wait to explore them further. I have all of them in sheet music. Thank you so much!

It's so amazing that the same keys can express so many feelings and that is what makes a pianist an artist (individual interpretation showing what artist feels versus just technical part) just like expression and mime make a dancer an artist and there is such difference between the two..

This mazurka is so strange, but so beautiful.

Wow so beautiful and touching masterpiece ! I would like to play this mazurka! Thank a lot, maestro Greg🌹🌹👏

Well! You said I would find the answer (Motif in the tenor voice) and I did!!😀😀😀. And, no, I hadn't watched your Op 59 Videos! So I'm feeling very happy with THIS video!! I think these tenor motifs are unbelievably beautiful...

I think playing in both major and minor expresses different feelings, after all our feelings change, we remember something sad from the past and we feel sad, however no memories are always sad, there were happy events in our lives and our mood changes. And I am sure Chopin had those mixed feelings and expressed them in different ways in the same melody.

Yes! DO IT!!

It's amazing how flowingly Chopin transitions from a-minor to g-sharp minor in bars starting 76 etc. BTW, Op 59 No 1 is #36, not #37. Good job on this one, Greg!

Te analizy w wersjii polskiej można prosić?Czy nie są opracowane?Nie mam dzieł z numeru59.Będzie mi żal,pozdrawiam pięknie Mistrza Grzesia🎉❤🎉

This is a great analysis, and I love how you play! I have maybe a silly question - Sometimes it sounds like Chopin is suggesting a Polonez. Do you agree?