Chopin Nocturne C minor Op. 48 no. 1 - Analysis: DEMONS and DESPAIR

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Pianist Henrik Kilhamn goes through Chopin's heaviest and most dramatic Nocturne - the one in C minor. The lonely notes in the melody is haunted by a demon and blows up in the recapulation when it's just too much to handle.
0:00 Analysis
6:37 Middle section
10:21 Return
14:16 Performance
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Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 no. 1 (1841)
📄 SCORE: Schirmer, 1894, reissue 1934, editor Carl Mikuli, imslp.org
Emoji artwork provided by JoyPixels, joypixels.com

Пікірлер: 159

@27jegs 3 жыл бұрын

My very favorite of all the Nocturnes.

@arlettehellemans2117 Жыл бұрын

The same for me! It's like a description of a period in my life.

@f.p.5235 9 ай бұрын

Same, that struggle is breath taking.

@rxboy 2 жыл бұрын

"it's too much to handle, really" You summed it up quite well.

@ZKLofiTone Жыл бұрын

timestamps?

@Velnox 4 ай бұрын

I'm in awe. The more I learn about Chopin's work, the more I realise the gap that stands between this man and the rest of the world. I'm in tears everytime I listen to my favorite composer, I feel like I could never understand his sentimental and deep understanding of human's heart. This nocturne is the best piece I've ever listened, nothing but pure emotions, truly the work of a prodigy ❤

@zildagorresio6019 3 ай бұрын

A progigy relly.

@dhio9615 4 жыл бұрын

I love how you made a story out of this piece. I think a competent movie maker could probably make a movie with the story that this piece is telling.

@SonataSecrets 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dhia. Yeah, there's so much drama in the music...

@dhio9615 4 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets I think that is what Chopin excel at compared to other pianist of his era and pianist that adore him like Rachmaninoff and Debussy also have this ability of squeezing emotion from air vibrations.

@mm_you_tube 3 жыл бұрын

YOU ARE GENIUS, HENRIK! I love playing this nocture and I was just searching for some orchestral arrangements here on YT when I found YOUR VIDEO and... I am shocked how well you described this masterpiece. I appreciate how natural you are and how good is your storytelling, not to mention your piano playing which is obviously perfect. I am overwhelmed. Just spent an hour at night watching this video back and forth :) THANK YOU, Man. Greetings from Wrocław, Poland.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Matt, it's my pleasure!

@PorscheGT-yj2me 3 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I was looking for to help me add more emotion into the piece thank you!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

@walterw9829 2 жыл бұрын

My ex emailed me during your performance and your performance was the soundtrack for it. Chopin knew heartache for sure.

@SonataSecrets 2 жыл бұрын

❤

@thePraddagee 2 ай бұрын

The climax of this piece makes me teary eyes. Every time. I’m usually emotionally in control but something about this piece…

@amj.composer 3 жыл бұрын

The end of the b section is so extra, I love it

@lucaszimmer6967 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love your analyses, really gets me loving the pieces much more. You also got me to play Ravel's Pavane!

@SonataSecrets 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! :)

@hunterchikar5108 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing analysis, you really helped me understand the piece, this makes it a lot easier to connect and interpret the piece. I now feel more emotionally connected to the piece while playing, thank you!!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Happy it was helpful :)

@michael88keys66 2 жыл бұрын

Definatly the best and saddest nocturne. I love your interpretation of it Thanks

@baltazarbitran2947 4 жыл бұрын

I was having trouble finding meaning in the contrasting middle section and this really helped. Great analysis!

@SonataSecrets 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Baltazar!

@AkinduDasanayake 3 жыл бұрын

Everything you described makes this piece seen like the story of a breakup. Excellent analysis!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Why not!

@cbrock21 3 жыл бұрын

Breakup? The tragedy here is monumental. The bottom is falling out. And it ends hopelessly. Some of the darkest Chopin.

@fabz1509 Жыл бұрын

Addicted to listening to this Nocturne & thanks for the informative & entertaining analysis. I truly think the recap. section was composed at many later sessions simply because it's just too devine & so beautifully crafted. Also I very much applaude him for the abrupt ending as it leaves you wanting to listen to it again & again.

@jisyang8781 Жыл бұрын

at 9:13 and 9:24 your right hand top notes deviate from score. At 9:13 it should be A and 9:24 it should be B. It's basically the same chorale 8 bars before if you remove octaves.

@tyler-qr5jn 3 жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to this video because I'm absolutely in love with how you play

@tk21them 3 жыл бұрын

hi i am 15 and play the piano 11 years i recently finished chopin nocturne op 55 no 1 and your video really helped me understand the piece .I played it on a competition and i was 2 .Now i wanted to play a more tragic and beutifull piece and i picked this nocturne .I just finished your video and i am hyped to play this oustanising piece.Very good analysis keep it uppppp!!!!!

@tk21them 3 жыл бұрын

@Gísiu Wolf yes and i played this piece in my exams and went really good.Now i am going to learn chopin etude op 25 no 2

@tk21them 3 жыл бұрын

@Gísiu Wolf i hope so but i see all the prodieges around the word and i dont think i can succeed

@michaelsmith697 5 ай бұрын

Awesome that you can play this. It’s a magical work!

@KingShumilov 4 жыл бұрын

I've been looking for an analysis of this piece on youtube for a while, really enjoyed listening to that and especially the description of the ground disappearing and the feeling of taking flight

@SonataSecrets 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :)

@azloii9781 5 ай бұрын

The ending makes me cry so hard

@siuchristina 2 жыл бұрын

Discovered your channel by accident - just love it! I've only started playing the piano again after a very long break and am delighted to discover Simple Solutions which is exactly what I need! Thank you so much and look forward to more videos and simpler arrangements :)

@SonataSecrets 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy to hear that. I hope you enjoy the arrangements!

@joaobarros6744 2 ай бұрын

Loved your analysis of one of my favorite chopin pieces!! I thought it interesting your idea that his outburst after the demon (9:47) is happy and outcoming! I've always interpreted differently though. I think as if he was telling a story of great loss after a long battle, and in the end the demon comes and disrupts it all, and that is the las straw, he breaks and enters a state of dramatic chaos, lamenting and feeling it all... (which is the next part after the great descending octaves resolution)

@michaelardner7859 Жыл бұрын

i love your passion you play with and explain it all I have the same passion this is why Chopin is my favorite you can really hear the sorrow in his music along with all the other emotions he loves to express thru his music thank you sir

@Jon77Levy 3 жыл бұрын

This channel has helped me to understand the music better. Listening to these same pieces gives me much more enjoyment now. Thank you, Henrik.

@nomsodka 3 жыл бұрын

this is sooooo helpful! i’ve been struggling for two weeks and then i found your video. it makes me understand the emotions and can play it better. thank you so much

@michaelillingworth6433 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. I particularly liked how you include clips of tutors showing how you overcame some of the issues you had.

@tyler-qr5jn 3 жыл бұрын

Favourite Nocturne, thanks for the analysis. Helped me improve how I play this piece.

@work2traveltheworld 2 жыл бұрын

Really love your channel. Enjoyed how you explain the piece, with the story in the background. Thank you for sharing.

@Sirlene-et9ut 5 күн бұрын

My favorite Chopin nocturne!

@deborahrosen3324 3 жыл бұрын

Just beautiful! One of my favorite pieces by Chopin for sure 👌😁🤩

@bradyredding1964 2 жыл бұрын

I love These analysis videos I watch them every time before I learn a piece because it just makes it so much easier, thank you!!!!

@box1702 3 жыл бұрын

Great analysis I loved it, and the emoticons very well chosen, your work is excellent, very original, keep going

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

@fgattorno 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite Nocturne; love your analysis. Thank you very much

@hilow64imp 3 жыл бұрын

A true insight into the sheer genius that was Chopin. Absolutely beautiful and job well done.

@8413Lucas 3 жыл бұрын

I recently discovered your channel and the content is so useful and interesting! I really like the little emojis here and there! By the way you need more recognition, your channel is so underrated

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Lucas, welcome to the channel!

@gazzamuso 2 жыл бұрын

Such a wonderful piece. Thanks for this great analysis 💖

@caraher Жыл бұрын

Great walk through of the whole piece & I enjoyed the performance at the end. Your technique on the 3rd section is a goal of many-even pacing with a soft touch & pronounced melody. Bravo!

@chrisye3974 3 жыл бұрын

This is such a great video! Keep it up, and I enjoyed every second of it! Thank you :)

@GH_WH_SIN 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir for the wonderful explanation of the piece!

@MildSatire 4 жыл бұрын

Bravo! I can tell you're very passionate about this piece just like me, this helped me get some new ideas for the dynamics. Thank you!

@SonataSecrets 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad it was helpful! :)

@bluepearl4806 5 ай бұрын

You play beautifuly !!! Thank you very much for your valuable analyses I love them thank you!!!!🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐💐💐🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺💕💕

@alisongray6786 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful! This is the Chopin piece I most yearn to play, am still building my technique experience before I tackle it properly, but when I’m ready I'll definitively revisit this excellent tutorial. Very glad I discovered your channel which has many other excellent tutorials on pieces I want to play, thank you ❤

@adrianaaraujo4888 2 жыл бұрын

Bravo!!! Que vídeo maravilhoso. Excelente explicação e belíssima interpretação. ❤️

@michaelsmith697 5 ай бұрын

This is a wonderful work! I hope I can do it!!

@kayexu7039 10 ай бұрын

I am learning this piece now. Thank you for the wonderful analysis 😊

@stephenhobbs948 11 ай бұрын

Great use of emojiins to explain what you mean and where in the score you're explaining yourself.

@margarethansen7480 Жыл бұрын

I’m sad to discover your channel few weeks ago, but I’m trying to see all “old” vídeos degustating it how it deserves It’s too didatic in terms of feelings that we’d always had listening that, but we should not learn or see in any other channel Congratulations!! Great job!!👏👏👏👏

@joshtt3240 4 ай бұрын

I find it so hard not to tear up listening to this piece, it perfectly captures grief and loss but in the most perfect beautiful way, seriously what did Chopin go through to compose this masterpiece? Amazing playing btw matey

@danielnunez3206 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video, thank you so much

@debbieprzybylski4855 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I found this totally inspiring.

@raphaelneves7666 3 жыл бұрын

This channel is awesome! Thank you

@maximradchik3420 4 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant!!

@SonataSecrets 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Maxim!

@kayexu7039 10 ай бұрын

Henrik, you are as eloquent with your words as you are with your music 😊

@waimusic3559 3 жыл бұрын

Life be a greater joy playing the piano like you. Music can be so powerful in emotion communication across time, space, human races and culture. Thank you. Wish more music lovers could see this footage...

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Wai. I agree, music really is a powerful source of human connection, and I'm happy to be able to share it!

@stephenpalmer-zh9dq 5 ай бұрын

when playing the opening a very dark time arises in mind

@pascalxus Жыл бұрын

this one's been on my list for some time now. really looking forward to it. first i gotta finish opus 72 no 1.

@LeoVDove 3 жыл бұрын

Love your content

@stephenowesney5173 3 ай бұрын

I think his Op. 27 no. 1 is of the darkest of the nocturnes and it has some really interesting compositional elements. I would love to hear your take on it!

@tetyanachorna8139 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ❤️❤️❤️

@Maja-uq5uw 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this! Very beautiful performance 😊

@SonataSecrets 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :)

@rooron3152 9 ай бұрын

My fav nocturne forever

@Yourbrothergoods 3 жыл бұрын

this channel so useful and great!!! with love from vietnam

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Vietnam! :)

@Jantsenpr777 Жыл бұрын

Exquisite!

@catalansimp 2 жыл бұрын

Just amazing

@beegyoshiofficial8518 3 жыл бұрын

love your videos. Just recently discovered your channel and I've been binge watching all your vids. Will you be making a vid on the D flat nocturn? Thanks for all the great content! You've immensely talented.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! If I come back to the Nocturnes the D flat is at the top of the list, but I have some other repertoire planned before that...

@lillypad0205 3 жыл бұрын

your interpretation of this was really refreshing lol especially the emojis and little drawings on the sheets music

@hdholl9696 9 ай бұрын

Great graphics. Very funny, yet a sublime mnemotechnic aid. A very good 'tutorial'.

@liltick102 5 ай бұрын

Been looking for a channel that does these sorts of analyses - can’t wait to check out your video’s on Satie and Ravel This is also my favourite of his Nocturnes - Argerich’s interpretation in particular (albeit ik she plays it a bit faster than the piece calls for) I play this every day - one of the first classical pieces I fell hard for as a kid.

@jamessutton9169 3 жыл бұрын

Prof Kilhamn, How does playing this piece make you feel? Is it difficult, emotionally, to play? Do you ever think, "Oh, no. I don't want to play that now, it's too dark and foreboding"? Or does playing it have the opposite effect?

@JackBHolt 2 жыл бұрын

To me, this piece represents helplessness. Like as if you lost someone you loved and it was all your fault. Sad, then reminiscing, then angry at yourself.

@sanguinemvento2411 3 жыл бұрын

I love this chanel

@TheLys7 3 жыл бұрын

Gracias

@metalscholarsreact666 10 ай бұрын

I love the use of emojis in the analysis

@benr7882 Жыл бұрын

The middle section sounds like the awe and the majesty of a church organ. Like Chopin is pressing his ear against the doors of the narthex listening to the music of church then he is tormented by a demon. Chopin tormented rushes out of the church into the gloom of a rainy Parisien day. Chopin was known to be tormented by demon and having mental illness. This is what I feel. Remember, art is subjective.

@waggawaggaful 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant analysis. This is such a delirious and surreal piece and I feel tired just looking at the sheet music. I tried this piece in college and it just felt too massive. And the way you describe it is scary but accurate. I feel like it is not the right piece to play in a setting like a hospital or old folk's home. I'm not sure where or how it would really be appropriate to play it.

@utekarg3281 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Henrik for your great work! KZfaq is full of piano tutorials where you can see which notes to play and what fingers to use, we don’t need more like that. That’s why I’m sooo thankful I discovered your channel. You talk about feelings in music and how they are created. And why music lovers like me make exactly the same emoji faces when listening or playing pieces like this gorgeous nocturne which is my favorite. I absolutely love the part with the guy flying over the melody. And of course the end of the doppio with that „almost“ resolution into a gorgeous chord which I cannot identify. Can you tell me what chord that is? Based on c, but more dramatic. Tack så mycket.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ute, I'm so happy to hear that! :) Oh right, I don't say what chord it is here - it's a deceptive cadence to Ab7 (with the 7th Gb in the bass), that then goes on to Db - G7 - Cm for the final resolution.

@utekarg3281 3 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets ... thanks for the answer Henrik, this part gives me goosebumps every time ... Greetings from the German Baltic coast ... which is almost Sweden, right? Tack så mycket

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Sure, it's close enough!

@alicialoveschopin6774 3 жыл бұрын

I recently learnt op 32 no2, op 55 no1 and op 62 no2 with the help of your videos. I wish you were my piano teacher! I’m gonna try this op48 no1, it seems so difficult though. Next I’m gonna try the polonaises. Am I aiming too high? (I stopped practicing for 20 years) Please do some videos of Chopin polonaises. Love from Hong Kong. Thanks a million.

@15ironreaver Жыл бұрын

This and Op. 27 No. 2 I believe stand above the rest as clear S tier nocturns

@davidherthnek6212 Жыл бұрын

Suverän analys! Håller med om känslorna som frammanas, även om man kan undra hur universellt det upplevs så. Tyvärr fixar jag bara första delen. Hinner inte bryta upp de stora ackorden i c dur...

@radoslavdragnev8797 Жыл бұрын

what is this piano it sounds amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!

@rojavida 2 жыл бұрын

Really great analysis of one of my favourite Chopin nocturnes. My teacher side would like you to sit slightly lower on the bench ;-)

@emreoztimur7216 3 жыл бұрын

the "ohh" on 5:51 is like a test. If you are not feeling that every time when you listen to (or play) this part, you are dead inside!

@Fritz_Maisenbacher Жыл бұрын

Pianissimo doesn't mean soft, it is not loud. Something can be very agitated and not loud.

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji 4 ай бұрын

The ending is so brutal, so desperate, with agitated triplet accompaniment, achingly nostalgic major 7th chords etc. and it reminds me of early Scriabin. While the overall impression the piece may leave is that of a cynical person, the ending is probably the music that runs in one's head when they're thinking of commiting suicide. It's that brutal!

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji 4 ай бұрын

13:40 this passage is so ominous.

@keithkunikida1222 3 жыл бұрын

This song was rejected too because of the transition to the Doppio Movimento section, my family said that this song had zero relation and doesn’t evoke night

@keithkunikida1222 3 жыл бұрын

Also my family hates anything that’s forte or louder, having huge contrast or overly sad/angry. I might be able to list at least 10 songs that I enjoyed that my family disapproved

@keithkunikida1222 3 жыл бұрын

1. Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement 2. Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement 3. Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. posth 4. Prelude in E minor Op. 28 No. 4 5. Prelude in C minor Op. 28 No. 20 6. Octaves Etude in B minor Op. 25 No. 10 7. Winter Wind Etude in A minor Op. 25 No. 11 8. Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1 9. Nocturne in F major Op. 15 No. 1 10. Revolutionary Etude in C minor Op. 10 No. 12

@Ezekiel_Pianist 3 жыл бұрын

@@keithkunikida1222 that’s a shame your family is like this does it actually affect your ability to enjoy these pieces or is it just a slight annoyance

@TheMusicalKnokcers 3 жыл бұрын

pls secretly learn revolutionary etude like separate hands so it's not loud and then just blast the fuck out of them with this glorious piece. Also you might consider purchasing a cheap keyboard in order to be able to play with headphones so that only you choses what you can play.

@keithkunikida1222 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ezekiel_Pianist it doesn't, Im just annoyed that they think its too loud, along with that list. I enjoy all of these pieces and I wont stop

@Deibler666 Жыл бұрын

Greatly explained! But the final part is not a march!

@LupusSolitus 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Henrik. Thanks for your insightful analysis of this heart-wrenching nocturne. Apologies for pointing out a mistake: at 5:24 and 15:30 Chopin uses the more unyielding G instead of B-natural in the base. (I made the same mistake when learning the piece.)

@jagp135 2 жыл бұрын

Actually some versions of the score have a b natural in both sections, I believe Chopin changed it in a revision.

@mattmilford8106 Жыл бұрын

He seems to change a lot of notes. Look at the way he just crosses out the inconvenient ones in the score. Most jarring to me is 17:30 and 17:38. I had to grab my copy to make sure I was remembering right. The chords at the end of measure 41 and 43 are supposed to be wider, but he lowers the top (melody) note for some reason and I just cannot abide it.

@alexis_accurseds3639 3 жыл бұрын

Epic

@box1702 3 жыл бұрын

Hey friend, your fingers are very long, as many as my arms and you have taken very good advantage of them, congratulations

@Ingefurly 11 ай бұрын

A very dramatic effect is obtained in the Coda of the piece (six bars to the end), whereas we first land on a octave-doubled bass Gb, that is the 7th minor of a chord containing the C min harmony (a sort of false and rich of tension landing on the 7th), and in the subsequent bar we land on a tripled natural B, that is the 7th of C harmony. Finally, we land in the C min harmony, after two false landings that create tension to the final chord of C min. All this creates a suspended ending, rich of emotional strenght with a very dramatic effect, in my opinion. Let me ask a question: why, ini the doppio movimento, at 12:34 , 12:46 and so on, you don't mantain regular the ascending chromes of the theme, instead of adapting the triplets to them?

@israasamir2342 3 жыл бұрын

Great analysis loved it Can you make an analysis to chopin nocturne op27 no 2 Will be great thanks

@Meewee466 2 жыл бұрын

Would you say Chopin was “talking” in this piece more than singing in something like nocturne op.9? Especially on the part you called “flying” I heard it as him trying to tell something to someone but being always interrupted by doubts and overthinking etc. until eventually letting it out on the “flying” part.

@markd2797 3 жыл бұрын

Who knew Edward Snowden played piano

@harryzarick5826 2 жыл бұрын

This is the most sad and angry at the same time to me :D

@user-is5qd7dy9n Ай бұрын

Was this the one he wrote right after the tragedy of his sister’s death? Or am I confusing that with another piece?

@Youssef-iu8dn 3 жыл бұрын

4:10 oops

@panda3651 3 жыл бұрын

are there similar kinds of video for the flute?. long master classes, analysis videos?. Plz recommend some for me.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

I son't know of any flute channels I'm afraid... For symphonic music I can reccomend Inside the Score who gives very accessible presentations of classical music, even more generally than here.

@panda3651 3 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets thank you, I'll take a look. my mother has been learning the flute for 2 years now. due to where she's living there isn't really a good flute teacher, or any flute teachers for that matter. I'm trying to find and translate some of the videos for her to watch to hopefully make her a better flute player :)