This is so entertaining, encouraging, brilliant, inspiring, flawless perfection!!! Had never heard the whole thing! My favorite song is in the middle! 🎶🎶

It seems that the overall trend here is to offset the inherent verticallity of music (which occurs by the nature of strong/weak beats naturally alternating in a forward trajectory) by simply under-emphasizing the strong beats. In other words, on notes/beats that have an inherent "arrival" to them, you actually underemphasize those arrival moments. This feels very Russian to me.

rubato- the piece requires it or it will sound very bland and 'robotic'. this is a very good point Denis.

Very informative. It will be nice to have chapters in the video to make sections easier to find.b

The way the coda is timed perfectly with the subscribe bell at 2:07 gets me! 😂 Thank you for the tips!

11:01 sneaky sneaky🤫

And we are glad to have you back with us!

Thanks for the theory lesson.

I started to play piano really late (16 y old), and since I was so bad in reading music, I had to use extensively all these types of memory. I remember when I was bored at school, I used to write the score I was studying on the desk by heart. Now after 20 years, I improved a lot in reading (and sight-reading) but all the other memory types declined totally. Unfortunately now I'm completely unable to memorize simple pieces, but only difficult sections...and this sucks.

Congratulations: a very good performance!

Great. For me this sounds more like a Etude.

I decided to go back to this beautiful piece and rework some of the tricky parts. I found this particular tutorial particularly helpful. A good artist/teacher always brings something to the table, for example how to move the wrist in a particular passage or a different way to bring out dynamics in another section. I listen to a particular passage and emulate it right away at the keyboard. Super helpful. It’s wonderful to look at an old piece with a fresh perspective. Thank you Denis.

It will vary some among individuals but your guiding technical light is "Efficiency." That says it all. There is no other ultimate quest.

Giftedness to some degree. The really great ones usually don't make good teachers because they don't really know how they do what they do; they just did it. Prodigious memory or coordination, reading or not so good, .... You are in that rare category who can both play like a dreamboat but also get the teaching elements over to the flock very effectively. Shows a lot of special sauce.

Love your tutorials always so useful keep doing these pls never stop

Any tips for tremolo?

great great video thanks a lot for the time

Very nice Scarlatti 😊

I was looking for the fingering for chromatic thirds, and only you included written music with fingerings. Thanks. We all wish you great success.

Thanks for a great observation and analysis of Martha Argerich. Other great pianist active at that level today? You’re excellent explaining clear techniques 👍👏🏼🫶🏼

I recently bought this Hanon course and it was not an impulse purchase. Years ago I had a French teacher who put me on Czerny. To her credit she didn’t bad mouth Hanon, it was not in her sphere of reference. I had read through the years many unflattering articles about the Hanon exercises. I then read and saw a video by a concert artist (unnamed!) that I greatly respect. I liked his approach and his reasoning. I started working on Hanon and then I saw Denis’s excellent video. Super interesting and with a musical element to it. I think it’s fine for concert artists to look down on Hanon- they don’t need it. I believe that for us amateur pianists it definitely holds value and we don’t need to practice them for hours a day😊

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL 😍😊👏🏻👏🏻

05:15 beautiful voicing 💯💯

This guy has a personal dislike of Horowitz. Awful video.

Who played the Rachmaninoff sonata No 2 better than Horowitz did? And in his 70s!

Argerich rarely plays a solo recital. Horowitz played overwhelmingly solo recitals. Concerti are easy by comparison.

Awesome❤

The light of my phone woke me up at an ungodly hour to read that Denis does offer this Mendelssohn piece in a detailed invaluable lesson. I resisted the impulse of getting up right then and there. This morning I purchased the piece and it is well worth it. The way this great teacher tells us to use our bodies has served me well. Even though this particular piece does not fall in the technically difficult repertoire it’s a piece, in my opinion, as an amateur pianist that requires the obvious basic technique and beyond that a decent amount of musicality to bring out the rocking, haunting romantic element of this piece. The way to approach the trill is excellent. Fortunately, so far I haven’t done anything crazy starting to learn this piece but this lesson is super invaluable for anyone learning this piece. Thank you Denis from across the Atlantic.

As in England, they say, "Brilliant."

Prodigious musical expressing through the piano. Bravo!

Excellent explanation of how to approach trills. I am now working on Mendelssohn’s Venetian Boat song opus 30 no 6 and there are some pretty long trills. I have played trills before but never such long ones as written by the composer. Thank you Denis. You are a concert artist and years of experience playing and teaching has allowed you to break concepts in little segments. Thank you!

i don't find left hand difficult in passages here, i've played Liszt first Etudes and left hand works even more, ijust find a bit difficult the right hands chords to memorize them with the left despite are even simple secondary dominant and mostly domaninat and tonic

Dear Denis, oh boy, am I happy I found your channel. The way you teach, reflect and share your thoughts on how the melody should sound and the piano should be played is so in line with my own thoughts. Like being a soul mate of me, really, I don't know how I should describe it in other words. Thank you so much Denis!

I guess everyone has to have a way to make some money, but an amateur physiologist dissecting the technique of a 35-year-dead pianist (who was arguably the best pianist in the world for 50 years) is maybe a bit doubtful. In truth everyone’s physiology is different. What works for one pianist may not work for another. And the truth is, Horowitz was raised in an era of flat-fingered technique and light action pianos. And who doesn’t shrink a repertoire after 65? Horowitz suffered with depression his entire life. According to biographers, he tried to avoid medication. He did give up and allowed medication in Japan. Why this guy shades that with innuendo is beyond me. Maybe he should look to his own technique, which clearly can’t produce a true legato in the left hand.

Hello Denis, I played the piano for 8 years in my childhood. I stopped playing in grade 8. After almost 20 years of not playing, during COVID, I bought an old Baldwin and now I am practicing every day. Right I am learning Chopin' s famous nocturne in C- sharp Minor and I am having troubles with the second embellishment at the end of the nocturne. Do you have any suggestions on how to achieve this vertiginous speed. I would really appreciate if you make a video on the Nocturne C-sharp Minor embellishments. Thanks.

Thanks!

i watched frederick viner's video and i was just too moved from this slow interpretation! this sounds perfect to me. great job!

Thank you very much!

So pretty! Congratulations!

Wow, your awesome tutorial gives me hope, I might be able to tackle this piece in due time, so much valuable knowledge here

Wonderful playing! Thank you! I had to experience myself that they sound easy but are not at all...

Денис, удивительно что ничего не сказано про повторяющуюся последовательность Es-терция Des-f в правой руке перед главной темой, а это самое сложное что есть во всем этом вступлении, ибо слабый 4 палец играет вперемешку с терцией. думается 100% пытающихся это сыграть, из смотрящих это видео именно как туториал, не смогут этого. тут требуется специальная тренировка.

great

I found that if you play/imagine the music in your head already from start to finish. It will help so much in developing motor memory/fingerings as well. I do listen to musics that I play regularly and so much so that in an extreme way it can be called brainwashing, but I enjoy it and it can be done when I am not in front of the piano.

Great mastery over the different moods and characters. Not to mention the amazing phrasing and voicings all throughout. Schumman would be proud. Love it!

Splendid performance Denis! I especially liked your take on no.11! 🙏

Tremendous playing. Always expressive, always accurate and true to the score,,, and with a search beyond !!!! Congratulations, Denis !!

The only comment I have is how beautifully you play... you are a very accomplished pianist 🎉

That was beautiful . My fingers got exhausted just watching yours, they need a well deserved rest 😍 .