Thank you so much for putting this together. I am not a pianist, I do not typically listen to this genre of music, but one day I happened to hear this and I cannot stop listening to it. I feel like this is the single most beautiful piece of music ever created. I’ve listened to every performance I can find and I cannot get enough. I listen to my favorite version every night on repeat and it’s not even remotely wearing thin or ruining it. I know “favorite” or “best” is as arbitrary as favorite food or favorite color… but this - to me - transcends every “best” and “favorite” of every sense I possess. Thank you, sincerely for breaking this down as you did. It was great to see you smile and look at the camera during your favorite parts, as they’re mine as well, goosebumps and all. It was wonderful.

Perhaps the most profound movement ever penned. Thanks so much!

I’m so glad this channel exists! Your presentation, repertoire selection, insights, and playing are all fantastic!

I think this piece might be the most remarkable piano work that has been ever written!! Thanks to your analysis!

This sonata is crazy. It's avant-garded matched only by Hammerklaver and lyricism only by two Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia (and maybe the third movement of Waldstein). -At least the- Especially the second movement. I praise Beethoven The Angry and wish if he could listen to this masterpiece (by a pair of healthy ears) for once, maybe he wouldn't be such angry. Of course, thank you for the thoughtful analysis and lively interpretation of yours.

I love the first mvt of 111 but did not get the 2nd mvt until hearing it a 3rd time. Now, it’s my favorite mvt of all sonatas. Thank you for this instructive, valuable, and amazing video.

Your passion is heartfelt and this piece is sublime!

My favorite piano piece ever written. Pure beauty and genius. Thank you so much for your great analysis. You play so well, reminds me the phrasing of the great Alfred Brendel, Exactly the same feeling and groove. I think you heard it a lot too! ☺️ Again thank you so much man, this is gold !

Years of rehearsal, years of teaching. Thankfully you've shared the fruit of your life. Amen.

Excellent analysis and performance. I really enjoy all your videos.

It’s an extraordinarily broad and deep piece! I love those off beats in the bass line in the first variation, and those relentless long trills in the treble line in the last variation!

Excellent analysis and playing! I ran through all of this in one go. Great.

Hats off to Beethoven, hats off to your analysis and performance! Absolutely beautiful.... yes it is possible with years of practice!! Thank you very much!!

Thanks! This is a fantastic tutorial, and a very insightful analysis. You are a great teacher, and your enthusiasm for music and Beethoven really shows. I, too, think it is one of the best pieces of (piano) music ever written! :)

I played this sonata -my favorite - and handled it well until the end. I was utterly undone by the task of trilling with my 4th and 5th fingers. Brutal!

Outstanding analysis Henrik! Just LOVE your channel, your insights and your charming style of communication. Grateful for this one especially... along with the Hammerklavier and sonata 30 and 31, the pinnacle of keyboard music!

Thomas Mann has a marvelous discussion of this piece in Dr. Faustus.

The way you talk about music is like music itself. Bravo!

Thank you for your channel which I recently discovered with much joy!

the lesson: theme the school work: var. 1 the homework: var. 2 the test: var. 3

Thank you for this video. I really had problems understanding this piece and your explanation might help me.

It reminds me of the GOLDBERG VARIATIONS in its profundity. It is the perfect fusion of variation and development, of melodic line and rhythmic line, of harmony and counterpoint. (ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS!!)

Bravo,Ii am really impressed!

how come YT did not recommend me this video earlier? This Arietta, music at its best.

Divine music❤Thanks, Henrik!!👏👏👏

Thanks!

I would love to see how you analyse the third movement of his 17th Sonata. I always loved this movement. Great video 👍🏻

This is my favourite Sonata and in my opinion the greatest ever pieace of beauty on piano. But I think it would be more beautiful in the slow pace. Thank you for the video and performance

Well done!

Thank you

I love as you are describing the chords and keys in the modulation part 24:30 Music score definitely needs to write chords above the notes, to gelp understanding the chords progression (like in jazz)! I dream of such a score for Beethoven sonatas !

i'm only 15, i think i'm too young to understand this sonata, this 2nd is (for me) the beautiful parallel world of life where nothing happen and nothing will happen

Wunderbar!

Beauuuutifully explaines, thank you👍👏

19:15 reminds me of the 2nd movement of van Beethoven's 9th symphony.

in variation 4 he returns back to 1822 after time travelling

To me this is Beethoven's saddest work. it's almost entirely major yet it's got that yearning and agony.

I took the trouble to review my Italian word order. "Molto" is an exception to the general rule that the adjective follows the noun it modifies. If the intention was to say "very slow" it would be "Molto Adagio". So at least in a grammatical sense you're correct that "molto" modifies "semplice e cantabile"

Ah Edward Snowden again , how are you my friend , making wonderful videos and I see you missed your medication again. Just wonderful , thank you and a merry Christmas

I would really enjoy a video on chopins nocturne no 14, op. 48 no. 2

What's that book of Beethoven on the background? On your shelf? Thx for the analysis

This is weird - as you were playing the section around 27:00 I was saying to myself "I get goose bumps each time I listen to this" - then seconds later (about 27:45) - you said the same thing about yourself.

Can you do samuel barbers adagio for strings

Awesome! 13:00 I would like to “count” put variation 3, to fully understand it: ant tips for counting out these 32nd and 64th notes?(they don’t seem to add up to 12 beats in the measures, btw...)

Hello Henrikk, me again. I agree absolutely bliss. Have sent your channel link to a friend. In China. You should get over 100m hits soon. Do you know there are 140 million piano players in China ? Also. I see. You have shaven ! So no more Edward Snowden side profile. Is. That because of my. Joke comment ?

Yin yang

I am not an musician but how this is a Sonata in C minor and it begins in C major and then relative minor and so on...classical composers were not THAT ambiguous I think...