I would love love love to see your idea of a video about how to practice this piece. That would be absolutely amazing!

All of your videos are amazing! I love them and I learn a lot from them. I deeply admire your effort preparing, playing and recording all of that! I'll certainly appreciate a lot a "how to practice" video! Thank you very much for this channel!!!

As a Chopin music lover, I really enjoy learning about his music through your analysis and explanations. Thank you very much for that! My favorite interpretor of Chopin's music, and in general, is still Alexei Sultanov. I like him very much as a great great pianist and a great great human being! Greetings from Croatia!

Thank You for an incredibly beautiful video and please for another one - how to practis this amazing piece! 💗

WOW - THIS was so fascinating to compare with the Moscheles! Thank you!

Yes I would like a video on how to practice this.

What a wonderfull and deep explanation of this fantastic Chopin' s masterpiece. Thank you very much dear friend of mine. I' m proud to listen to your lesson. Bravo!

Awesome, thank you Greg. A very nice piece to play, although I tend to stumble over the transition from bar 7 to 8, where the left hand has to make a jump whereas the right hand is rushing to the reprise. Obviously a good excercise for the brain ;-)

Fantastic analysis! Thank you

This is Magic!

Absolutely wonderful !

I agree that hearing your study and practice ideas would be fantastic.

Thank you for your dedication. Chopin wins!

Gracias

Fascinating! Thank you so much!

thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Yes … I will look for video on how to practice ! Thank you so much

Thank you so much for your teaching!

Thanks Greg! I am playing this for my friends next week and I have got some inspiration. Great😊

Great video 😊 Saluti from Italy 🇮🇹

Love this analysis so much, Greg. This is again so useful to me. I'm going to book an online lesson!

Fantastic!!! Bravo!!! I never, never had heard anything about that. Your sensibility is beautiful. Thank you so much!.

Thanks amazing tutorial ! 🎹🎶🌈🎬👏

I wish I had a teacher like you....

Enjoyed your explanation about this piece, really a new discovery.

Thanks for translate in English.

Thank you very much, I enjoy listening to these Analysis videos, especially the Nocturne in B-major Op. 9 no. 3 video which I think is my favorite

I really enjoy watching your videos. I'd appreciate it if you can also touch on the use of pedals as I always have doubts on when to release the soft pedal. Thanks!

You demonstrated this music so beautifully, I wonder if you have any live performance video of this piece

I LOVE UUUUYY

This guy on his head is actually Chopin.

Thank you so much! I’ve been working on this piece for quite a while now. And I would love to watch a video about how to efficiently practice this piece! I hope you keep continue making these kind of videos! I really enjoy them especially the Ballad in G. And by the way you, are you also going to make an analysis video about Chopin etudes?

I think he wrote this after he heard the other composers, impromptu, and knew he could do so much better, which, of course he has. they are not in the same class at all

Chopin's use of asymmetrical rhythms...3 in the left hand against 4 in the right hand...is both intriguing and ingenious! But he obviously did this intentionally, because he could have easily used a straightforward symmetrical rhythm of 4 against 4 in both hands. So, in many ways this "Impromptu" is in essence a rhythmic "Etude". Compare this piece to the First Impromptu in Ab Major, Op. 29, where the rhythm is a simple 3 against 3 in both hands. Another Chopin piece that uses asymmetrical rhythms is Prelude No. 8 in F# Minor, Op. 28, where a very similar Etude-like problem exists with 3 in the left hand against 4 in the right hand. Thank you for doing such a fine analysis, Greg!

It occurred to me when I heard the first version by Mocheles, that it was kind of silly and very much sounded like circus or carnival music. I thought Chopin might have heard that and thought “oh jeez, I’m going to fix that” and gave us something with character, but who knows what the truth is. I spent a lot of time trying to learn this one and gave it up maybe not forever but for a while because the left hand was always open and stretched out and it aggravated my carpal tunnel syndrome and my fingers got all numb. That’s my excuse. 😝

I love your video , it's fantastic ! thank you!

Hi professor Niemcruzk, could you please let me know how i use the pedaling from bar 13 -24? Pedal Every beat because of the melody? Would like to hear from you🙏 thank you

Hi Greg, Chopin competition was over. And I have more time to start watching your lecture videos again. Well, I have been watching your videos in an unorganized fashion ... having watched anything it came up on my laptop screen "next". Is there any order(s) you recommend for a beginner like me to watch your videos? Or, it doesn't matter?

I'm a little sad you didn't discuss the 1835 version any more than a (very) brief mention of it at the beginning... having heard many recordings of 1834 and Rubinstein's recordings of 1835 (which are the only ones I know of) and having read through both, and even having note by note, marking by marking compared the two, I have to say I'm immensely disappointed that 1834 became wildly popular and 1835 was almost unanimously ignored when Rubinstein came into possession of it. There are so many significant differences between the two, to the point that I actually grew to dislike 1834 significantly but still love 1835. I have no problem with people who have listened to both extensively ending up preferring 1834 over 1835 but the complete lack of anyone talking about it, let alone actually playing 1835 is just saddening to me. My personal opinion is that 1835 sounds vastly more finished and more musically cohesive to me, but even if some 90+% of people disagree with me it should be reasonable to at least consider both when looking at the piece. Edit: having proofread this one last time after posting it, I realized that my tone might seem very negative. I want to clarify that I really enjoyed watching your analyses of Chopin's works so far and have, although not having consistently agreed with your interpretation (which is probably a good thing, imagine if everyone thought of music in the same exact way!), have found new and interesting details in pieces I love that I never noticed before thanks to your videos.

Isnt the main riff oddly similar to one of the last measures of beethoven moonlight sonata mvmt 3?

Emotions and impressions are too different. They give so different impressions of feelings. They give different messages. Meaning, feelings and messages make any music piece different than others. And Chopin's fantasy has much more beautiy and depth but the other one is superficial and childishlike playfulness