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.
@vaclavmiller80324 жыл бұрын
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!
@SonataSecrets3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, it's my pleasure!
@Andate20032 жыл бұрын
I think this piece might be the most remarkable piano work that has been ever written!! Thanks to your analysis!
@acwatercolors8 ай бұрын
Absolutely agreed !
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
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.
@fredericko92 ай бұрын
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.
@djtomt10 ай бұрын
Your passion is heartfelt and this piece is sublime!
@acwatercolors8 ай бұрын
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 !
@dankennedy82667 ай бұрын
Years of rehearsal, years of teaching. Thankfully you've shared the fruit of your life. Amen.
@dalvarrb3 жыл бұрын
Excellent analysis and performance. I really enjoy all your videos.
@SonataSecrets3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@MehdiD.Ardebili3 жыл бұрын
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!
@itamaraib13 жыл бұрын
Excellent analysis and playing! I ran through all of this in one go. Great.
@MusicLover-oe3ig3 жыл бұрын
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!!
@kieranleemarshall1623 Жыл бұрын
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! :)
@true_west47043 жыл бұрын
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!
@acwatercolors8 ай бұрын
This is a crazy skill to have
@DAVID-kd3qy3 ай бұрын
I actually winced when you mentioned the trilling with the 4th and 5th fingers! I compose piano pieces which are designed to accommodate my arthritic fingers and wrists. I had to give up learning the works of the major composers as it was disastrous for my hands. But, I love to compose and play my own works. And I still love to listen to those who can play.
@true_west47043 ай бұрын
I don’t know how anyone does it.
@konradfernandez2922 Жыл бұрын
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!
@bifeldman Жыл бұрын
Thomas Mann has a marvelous discussion of this piece in Dr. Faustus.
@Boylieboyle Жыл бұрын
The way you talk about music is like music itself. Bravo!
@AnOpera4u Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your channel which I recently discovered with much joy!
@internetuser_033 жыл бұрын
the lesson: theme the school work: var. 1 the homework: var. 2 the test: var. 3
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
Impossible, the test could not be that beautiful.
@Ivan_17914 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video. I really had problems understanding this piece and your explanation might help me.
@SonataSecrets4 жыл бұрын
That's great to hear! The problrm is that it points in so many directions...
@Ivan_17914 жыл бұрын
@@SonataSecrets I know. I had problems because sometimes we tend to consider complexity=quality and this second movement isn't that complex yet great and trascendental.
@DAVID-kd3qy3 ай бұрын
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!!)
@user-ec2pc8kj5w4 ай бұрын
Bravo,Ii am really impressed!
@arnaud.lancelot Жыл бұрын
how come YT did not recommend me this video earlier? This Arietta, music at its best.
@margarethansen74807 ай бұрын
Divine music❤Thanks, Henrik!!👏👏👏
@Waterloohill Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@mrbeschissen6690 Жыл бұрын
I would love to see how you analyse the third movement of his 17th Sonata. I always loved this movement. Great video 👍🏻
@somardibeh6437 Жыл бұрын
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
@acwatercolors8 ай бұрын
Same, I think it's top of piano writing ever. I love the tempo here, pretty much the same as Alfred Brendel who played the best version -imo- of that fantastic piece !
@migs32214 жыл бұрын
Well done!
@vanessahawarden90284 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@acwatercolors8 ай бұрын
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 !
@thepians77553 жыл бұрын
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
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
@@KevinR3i "...you need life experience to understand last three sonatas" Not actually, just an open personality and a ton of time procrastinating, learning music theory.
@bodyguard213 жыл бұрын
I don't think that you need a certain age or a certain amount of life experience in order to understand this music. I rather think that nobody can understand this music perfectly, but every person on earth can have an imagination what's Beethoven's philosophy with this piece and his last three sonatas. Everybody has a different approach to music and this piece so everybody understands this piece a little bit different. Beethoven's music resembles humanity and every part of this so well that every single part of life can be experienced in his music. Yes life experience helps you, but in the end everybody can understand at least a little bit of this music's philosphy and meaning.
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
@@bodyguard21 True
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
@@KevinR3i Many thanks.
@stevej0610692 жыл бұрын
As long as there are kids like you wanting to listen to as well as understand this music, there will be hope for the future.
@juergenfoerster2 жыл бұрын
Wunderbar!
@ppff54613 жыл бұрын
Beauuuutifully explaines, thank you👍👏
@DJKLProductions3 жыл бұрын
19:15 reminds me of the 2nd movement of van Beethoven's 9th symphony.
@DynastieArtistique3 жыл бұрын
Kind of because its in d minor and shares the same upward 3-note pattern starting on c sharp
@DJKLProductions3 жыл бұрын
@@DynastieArtistique Yes, exactly.
@Roadman3235 Жыл бұрын
in variation 4 he returns back to 1822 after time travelling
@Roescoe5 ай бұрын
To me this is Beethoven's saddest work. it's almost entirely major yet it's got that yearning and agony.
@Roescoe5 ай бұрын
Appassionata's second movement is the happiest movement, though I do hear similarities in the ending of this one.
@brianbuch19 ай бұрын
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"
@LondonarabS3 жыл бұрын
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
@SonataSecrets3 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas!
@lasse14364 жыл бұрын
I would really enjoy a video on chopins nocturne no 14, op. 48 no. 2
@Dany-hu7bj3 жыл бұрын
What's that book of Beethoven on the background? On your shelf? Thx for the analysis
@SonataSecrets3 жыл бұрын
It's a big biography in Swedish by Åke Holmqvist.
@jimpyrzynski78802 ай бұрын
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.
@s1anamations8754 жыл бұрын
Can you do samuel barbers adagio for strings
@unclejohnthezef3 жыл бұрын
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...)
@SonataSecrets3 жыл бұрын
Yes, the 32nd and 64th notes don't add up if you count them exactly like that. But the idea is that you count them as triplet groups, so in Var. 3 it's four 64th triplets per beat, and each triplet is always one 32nd and one 64th (the swing feel). Then four triplets per big beat is equal to four 16th notes, and three of those big beats per bar makes it 12. This is so confusing because Beethoven doesn't say they are triplets, but I think it's the only way it makes sense.
@peev29 ай бұрын
@@SonataSecrets Actually just like you can see in the beginning of the 2rd var that a couple of a a 16th with a 32nd in the right hand = a 16th in the left hand so the right hand plays triplets. The same goes true for var3 where one 32nd with a 64th counts as a 32ndnote. So it's indeed 12/32, just the triplet sign is missing.
@LondonarabS4 жыл бұрын
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 ?
@SonataSecrets4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing my channel Matt! Hehe, I actually only have beard in the first 5 or so videos one year ago, it's been shaved ever since.
@weizhongxianfumariobeans77883 жыл бұрын
Yin yang
@P00TANARA10 ай бұрын
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...
@noob_32903 ай бұрын
The first movement starts in c minor and the second movement starts in c major, read the title correctly next time