I think it is more nuanced than what you said. I would say that the piano leans towards percussion without any possibility of controlling the release of the notes. So on a violin you can express the melody fully using dynamics rather than pressing on piano keys. I would also say that the earliest records we have in music history are that of the gregorian chants so we know that the first instrument we (humans) discovered is our own voice, so melodies always were sung with dynamism and expressivness using our own voice. SO in a a way the piano is kind of an unnatrual instrument if it were used solely for melodies because of its limitations. The "uuninetersting" adjective you used i say is correct because when you hit a note on the piano the sound wave immediately decays and drops whereas if someone is singing or playing the violin they can sustain the note and express it in a fuller kind of way. So when you press the pedal, it sustains and prolongs all the note/soundwaves which creates this cacophony of singing sound waves that our ears enjoys. All this to say that the melody is also beautiful

The melody is purely genius!

I think a lot of the genius behind music like this is how the composer will use, harmonic progression to create a sense of direction and not just a mood. Harmony is almost heard on a subconscious level and is what I often find tugging at my heart.

@@TheTeeProd I’ve been a guitarist for 40 plus years. Never played piano nor do I know much about classical music. I also don’t know music theory. Although I get the basic gist of your reply, I’m afraid I don’t have the musical wisdom you do, so I’m only going to thank you for the response without trying to pretend I know what you’re talking about. LoL. I do know, however, that lately I have been discovering classical music, and I am quickly falling in love with it.

​@@TheTeeProdGregorian chants are most definitely not the first music we have records of

It's not really valid to call Chopin a partial contemporary of Beethoven when only one of his opus-numbered pieces was published before Beethoven wrote his last piece. Chopin was only 17 when Beethoven died and he had only composed a few things before that point

@@quarkonium3795 Hence "partial".

but that’s exactly what he was lol what harmonies did he use that would have even made Ludwig squirm?

Give me some examples of those harmonies. Just curious

@@jonathan130see the coda of his 4th ballade and the 4th movement of his 2nd sonata which both border on atonality

One of my favourites too. Definitely the best Nocturne out of the set.

@@JacobDTulio 37 no1 takes cake for me

I agree, unbeaten!

More staccato, scales, and trills

Which Nocturne is this please?

W take

L take imo, sounds like someone who recently graduated from gen z and stumbled upon piano thinking the flashy ones with fast tempo are the best cause they have the patience of me waiting in front of the microwave.

@@WasiulWahid-ot7cj I mean Liszt has a lot of flashy pieces but Chopin and Rach have a very wide variety of pieces ranging from flashy to romantic pieces, slow, sad, upbeat, so I wouldn't say that Chopin rach and Liszt are only flashy pieces

​@@WasiulWahid-ot7cj You think Liszt only has fast and flashy pieces? You're the one who only knows those famous flashy pieces lol. I can name at least 10 slow and quiet Liszt pieces.

Have u heard him attacking Prokofiev 3? Rach 3?

That’s unfair 😂 He was playing like a plonker on purpose

@@JohnSmith-oe5kx he was.

Bach is fire wdym?!?

@@cjadventures8840 Are you referring to my Bach-Vivaldi Short videos? If so, by "Fire Edition" I simply mean crazily fast fff, as opposed to a scholarly Baroque approach! 🙃

Sheer magic

What?

@@solstice871 with their often pompous intimidating and uninviting atmosphere. And the fact that compared to say, producers, they use way too many superlatives and generally use a lot of a words but end up saying nothing of any meaning other than their opinion

@@avivchotzen1300 That is a very old fashioned view. Classical musicians of the newer generations are much less elitist and that notion is very misinformed in the first place. There are always sour apples but the majority is very welcoming. As for their “superlatives” and words, it may seem extra but there is usually a lot of truth to it. I don’t get what you mean with producers either since they also have their own slew of jargon and terms that the average person wouldn’t understand..

@@solstice871 can only attest to those I met. And as for the jargon. Even for musicians it means nothing to say something is "magic"

@@avivchotzen1300 It makes sense in this context. You can distinctly hear the difference between his joke Mozart version of the piece and the way Chopin wrote it. He says magic because that’s where the beauty of the piece is, in the specific way Chopin composed the piece.

I disagree, I almost can't listen to his music.

in your opinion of course. personally, i find the statement extremely influriating.

@@WasiulWahid-ot7cj I don't care about your opinion either. Absolutamente Insignificante.

@@trancosomarcus Legendary reply.

It would have sounded better if he wanted to play it well.

@@pjbpiano That's something I was thinking about, too. I'm also not big on the fact that he suggests the "Haydn/Mozart" version is inherently bad.