I couldn't agree more! It frustrates me that some performers attempt to avoid monotony by rushing the piece, whereas bringing this kind of fragility to a performance draws out the piece's true emotion. Bravo Khatia

Absolutely true

Your neighbor must be really sad by now 😥😢😂

The problem is to play a Cello Melody on a piano

exactly

Agreed. Just got done playing it and then I watched her and I realized that if I could learn to do it with my eyes closed maybe, just maybe I could be in the same ballpark as she is. I can get a little into it then I have to peel and it kills the emotion!

Music is just some mystery. Valentina Lisitsa played Für Elise as an encore(you find it here on YT). The audience started to laugh then they stopped. I'd never heard it so beautifully played before though it's a very easy piece for those great pianists. Then I realized how hard even the most simple pieces can be!

Agreed. Any piano player can learn Chopin. But can you play it like Chopin.

​@@jozsefnemedi8472the audience always highers the bar. If the performance is lower that the bar, they are mocking/angry

Reminds me of the song "Macaroni Time" by Chief Keef.

Such a sad moving piece beautifully played

he requested that requiem of mozart be played.

It was indeed played at his funeral, along with a couple of his other compositions. But Chopin himself only requested Mozart's Requiem.

Maybe because he suffered from tuberculosis and this piece is also called suffocation.

Knew he was dying and you can feel the sadness.

nicely put

I have a different interpretation. Her interpretation is not to my liking - for me, there is no rush of uneasy or dark emotion that drives it forward. I like to play it slower, with very different dynamics and accents, letting each chord in my left hand have its own identity. To move forward decisively, yet be at peace.

@@ashirogimuuto6257 I think lots of interpretations r equally valid. and enjoyable.. i as a complete beginner am learning this. it seems a difficult one to interpret. I hope that when I have learned it...which is months away I will discover my way ....

Ashirogi Muuto lets hear it plz

I would advise yo auto get the Henle Vertag version of the score (Urtext). I have just bought it and the fingering is at first a bit odd, but I think they have worked it out to make the left hand more adaptable to it than at first it seems - the numbering appears odd until you move on between chords.

Hello Such a beautiful tribute Chopin was the greatest; he gets me each and every time i listen. X

I think the repeated chord patterns mark the inexorable march of time to the end, and the right hand sounds like sighs to me. I think this was played at Chopin's funeral, and (since I'm getting up in age), I've specified that it be played at mine too.

beautifully put.

​@MPT yes, except it's not a "song"

_“There are no words that can complement it.”_ Which, ironically, didn’t prevent you from speaking. Next time you’re thinking about making a KZfaq comment, remember this moment, and say nothing. Good lord. Who even talks like that? And who are you performing for?!?

Соглашусь. Как правило так говорят люди, которые мало в чем разбираются. Есть ощущение, что те же самые люди говорят, что импрессионизм, кубизм и т.д. не искусство, потому что это нарисовать легко. А искусство - это не только про ремесло и "сложно/легко", но ещё и про эмоции и душу. В искусстве не всегда важно ЧТО, важно КАК

I understand what you mean But this piece could be played way better than that .....

@@user-je5io4jo7e I had to use google translate. I agree. I thought this performance was exquisite. I play this, but I sound like I'm using a chainsaw.

you are schizophrenic i dont see any skill involved hehehehehhe😝 (i retract my statement this was pretty rude by me lol)

Yes, Yes, and Yes! You hit on all the right cords.

meg a csöcse is nagy

Yes indeed!

this is probably my favorite comment on this piece ever. well put

How beautifully worded by yourself. You described what we all feel with perfection x💚

By the way Chopin himself wanted this piece to be played at his funeral. Truly one of his saddest pieces

"dissolving" the chord ?"

She has obviously listened to Horowitz recordings of this piece.

és jó csöcsök

Just like life.

@nadya that’s deep

@@28-nadyahendriawan71 I wanted to say that

I just watched it twice! Problem solved....

No it's mainly she played it too fast, Chopin wrote "Lento"

That's a great metaphor for this music.

thx for using the word syncopation. I sort of knew what it meant but after seeing her do this I really know and will apply it to my playing.

I love this description! Well said and I agree ❤

I think you mean synchronization. Syncopation means playing an accented note in an unaccented beat, as in ragtime. This piece is not syncopated at all. The long notes in the melody all land on the first beat of each measure. She does, however, play with a lovely balance between the melody on top and the chords below. It sings above but does not overpower them. Even though there is only one long note on top playing against three on the bottom - being repeated three times no less - you can still feel that one long note. The effect is melancholy but not maudlin; the sound seems to just appear out of nowhere. It’s as if She’s not really playing it so much as just allowing it to happen.

@@gatesurfer I did mean (micro) syncopation because it's consistent. But I understand and accept your view as well.

I'm sorry please, i won't again.

@@georgescancan7503 fuck off

And most concerts the loudness will drown out the coughing In any large group of people there's always a few people coughing it's just that this piece is so soft you could hear it

At least he waited to the last note being played

I've performed there. Great concert venue. Unusual to hear it mentioned on here 😜

Minaya Jafarova I love both of her postures.

Harry Wakatipu 😂😂😂

Yitzhak Finnegan lollll 😂😂

Harry Wakatipu what do you mean both she only has one posture

You really do??????

Song...? 😖

Siya Nomtshongwana this is one of the easiest Chopin pieces. If you start playing now you'll be playing this within a month or two.

Runda Björn not at all......no.6 is a lot easier. The middle part of no.4 is absolutely not easy for the left hand. And to play it in a month or two means you are a prodigy....hahaha

nonsense - this is a simple (and so quite demanding to play well) grade five piece. From scratch you'd need a couple of years at least, unless you are exceptional. The coughers should be identified and banned from concert halls for a year.

A few bits in the middle are are hard. But I learned in a couple of months, self taught. Just finished learning Chopin prelude in a minor as well. Bach prelude C major - c minor next.

@@markrevelle1 I've been learning piano for a week and can play this song

Try listening to others too. Each one tells a story.

Yeah it goes beyond music and transports you into somekind of dimension of majesty and power all about feeling and not listening.

Too many 'players' forget it's a Largo! She nails it....

Thanks to the version of Jimmy Page on guitar i listen to Chopin prelude no 4 Thks for posting awesome sutile

Bien dicho! Gracias! Aun viven los sentimientos en nuestros tiempos, epoca solitaria y mecanica del ordenado.

Yea... Fucking "brutes" Santimonius

Finished - relearned by ear & eye 👁

+Desiderio Reyso Bella, bella! Khatia, Khatia! Bravo, bravo! The deeper the neckline of the pianist, the better the sound of Chopin..!

+Georges Cancan Sexy Khatia? No! too much vodka and potatoes!

+Mario DiSarli Sexy, sexy, Sir! icknamed "crumpet with a piano" !!!

ENVY Boys??? JAJAJA! Poor little ones without mama!!!

Es verdad, no solo por la musica pero tambien por las antiguas canciones y las peliculas magnificas que ya nunca mas tendran actuacion ni corazon similar.

"Brava", wenn ich bitten darf

Thought I recognised that - love the Astrud Gilberto version of that song - love this too

I didn't know ... Thanks Nikola.