SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS, MAESTRO!!!!! Thank you for my favourite Chopin's Ballade and for an excellent performance👏👏👏🎶🎶🎶🌹🌹🌹🎉🎉🎉💖💖💖✨✨✨😍😍😍, congratulations for over 34000 subscribers to your great channel, you deserve more and more..., I've added this video to my old public playlists called "My Favourite Classical Music" and "Mr Grzegorz Niemczuk", again my best regards, have a happy week, Joanna.
You have such a deep respect for Chopin, and give attention to the whole piece rather than just the coda like many performers today. It's really refreshing to see someone playing a piece for its music and story rather than just any other performance piece. Your interpretation inspired me to pick up this piece again, so keep up the good work :)
Piękna interpretacja! Lubię słychać tych nieco mniej ogranych utworów mistrza Fryderyka, bo po latach szkół muzycznych... no, niektórych znieść juz nie mogę;). Pozdrawiam i życzę dalszych muzycznych (i nie tylko) sukcesów😊.
Wow!!! Fantastic!!! So good to read this comment! Of course every performance is different but there are some general ideas which are similar. Maybe that's a good idea not to listen!!!!
Greg, I do not like this interpretation at all. 1) I think there needs to be more contrast between the two statements in the introduction, even if it interferes with articulation of the dueling crescendo and diminuendo; 2) It is just not clear at all to me from the dynamic modulation and rubato what the emotional evolution you are trying to capture is from the five appearances of the first theme; and 3) if you are going to slow down the bridge, there needs to be more dynamic modulation and rubato to give it more emotional impact as I do not think that by "in tempo" Chopin was saying "no variation in speed.". Listening a few more times.
Thank you very much! The interpretation of this piece is a long process and I will surely take your words into consideration. I am aware of the fact that in this very piece my playing and interpretation is drastically different from what we are used to in other recordings. This is my biggest challenge that I see in the score completely different Chopin's ideas than anybody else. Maybe I'm wrong, and there will be an evolution of interpretation. We will see. I'm definitely searching. So I haven't recorded this on my CD project yet. But one thing is sure for now - I don't want to play faster the places where Chopin doesn't say it, only because everybody does .....
@@gregniemczuk Finding a way to attach distinct emotional colors to the five appearances is far more difficult than in Ballades No. 1 and 3 where there are only 3. The ballades to me are emotional journeys so there always must be progression within the music even if you end up, as in Ballade No. 2 at an earlier point.
@sunareekaewnat8837 yes, I totally agree. I'll still work on that, and every performance for sure will be different. For me the first theme here is like a schizophrenic person....
@@sunareekaewnat8837 first - it's a presentation of the person in the story. Second - this person gets a little inquiet and unsure about the future. Third - something bad happens at the bottom of his soul (Lowe voice) which ends in the first, little drama. The fourth - is actually 4 personalities in one person (polyphony), the 5th - he gets panicking because of realizing th as t he's mentally sick. Than the second theme brings us to the climax and drama.
SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS, MAESTRO!!!!! Thank you for my favourite Chopin's Ballade and for an excellent performance👏👏👏🎶🎶🎶🌹🌹🌹🎉🎉🎉💖💖💖✨✨✨😍😍😍, congratulations for over 34000 subscribers to your great channel, you deserve more and more..., I've added this video to my old public playlists called "My Favourite Classical Music" and "Mr Grzegorz Niemczuk", again my best regards, have a happy week, Joanna.
SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS, MAESTRO!!!!! Thank you for my favourite Chopin's Ballade and for an excellent performance👏👏👏🎶🎶🎶🌹🌹🌹🎉🎉🎉💖💖💖✨✨✨😍😍😍, congratulations for over 34000 subscribers to your great channel, you deserve more and more..., I've added this video to my old public playlists called "My Favourite Classical Music" and "Mr Grzegorz Niemczuk", again my best regards, have a happy week, Joanna.
Absolutely beautiful, your connection to Chopin's music is truly special.
Thank you so much!
You have such a deep respect for Chopin, and give attention to the whole piece rather than just the coda like many performers today. It's really refreshing to see someone playing a piece for its music and story rather than just any other performance piece. Your interpretation inspired me to pick up this piece again, so keep up the good work :)
*Drops gorgeous piece*
*Refuses to elaborate*
*Leaves*
Absolute Madlad
I mean, he has an hour long yap session about the piece on his channel, I think that counts as elaboration. 😅
wow such a great and unique performance I really like the tempo
very beautiful tempo, Greg. and great playing as always...
Genialne dzieło, wspaniałe wykonanie!!!
Thank you for also emotionally translating Chopin’s genius. Another powerful performance.
You played the coda with so much passion, amazing performance you are an inspiration !
Dziękuję bardzo z Kazachstanu❤
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻bravoooo
What a fantastic piece. Full of polyphony. Thank you. 😇
Genialne wykonanie jednego z najbardziej poruszających utworów w repertuarze fortepianowym
Dziękuję bardzo;!!!
Piękna interpretacja! Lubię słychać tych nieco mniej ogranych utworów mistrza Fryderyka, bo po latach szkół muzycznych... no, niektórych znieść juz nie mogę;). Pozdrawiam i życzę dalszych muzycznych (i nie tylko) sukcesów😊.
Recapitulation with counterpoint at 3:45 is my favorite moment of any classical piece 😁 great playing as always
How beautiful!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Such perfection! 💞
I like it. I also like the speed.
My favorite ballade! Bravo! This is furu egg! Crazy it's one of the best sounding model D in an egg factory!!
Also mine!!!
This is my first ever recording of it. It will be more in the future for sure
Bravo!!
Bravo, Greg!
Greg, have you been playing this piece for a long while? So beautiful!
It's very difficult and complex ... Yes, for quite a long time but with many breaks in between
❤
The thumbnail 😂
Hahahahha
Just like the op 10 no 4 lecture thumbnail
I will intentionally not listen to this video because I will hear it live in Prague, but maybe I won’t be patient and play it in the next few days😂
Wow!!! Fantastic!!! So good to read this comment!
Of course every performance is different but there are some general ideas which are similar. Maybe that's a good idea not to listen!!!!
@so looking forward on 3rd of December
is this your first recording of this ballade? sounds magical
I've been waiting for this recording for a long time, you play this moment after the 'fugue-part' so amazingly
Yes! My first ever! Surely not the last!
@@gregniemczukyou rise always to the occasion!
Ma Pan w planach nagrać analizę poloneza Chopina b-moll op. posth?
Tak!
@@gregniemczuk dziękuję za odpowiedź, czekam więc z niecierpliwością 😁
I plan to come to Poland to visit (maybe watch the Chopin competition) but Polish is so hard to learn.
Greg, I do not like this interpretation at all. 1) I think there needs to be more contrast between the two statements in the introduction, even if it interferes with articulation of the dueling crescendo and diminuendo; 2) It is just not clear at all to me from the dynamic modulation and rubato what the emotional evolution you are trying to capture is from the five appearances of the first theme; and 3) if you are going to slow down the bridge, there needs to be more dynamic modulation and rubato to give it more emotional impact as I do not think that by "in tempo" Chopin was saying "no variation in speed.". Listening a few more times.
Thank you very much!
The interpretation of this piece is a long process and I will surely take your words into consideration.
I am aware of the fact that in this very piece my playing and interpretation is drastically different from what we are used to in other recordings. This is my biggest challenge that I see in the score completely different Chopin's ideas than anybody else. Maybe I'm wrong, and there will be an evolution of interpretation. We will see.
I'm definitely searching. So I haven't recorded this on my CD project yet.
But one thing is sure for now - I don't want to play faster the places where Chopin doesn't say it, only because everybody does .....
@@gregniemczuk How would you describe the emotional nuance you want to attach to each of the 5 appearances of the first theme?
@@gregniemczuk Finding a way to attach distinct emotional colors to the five appearances is far more difficult than in Ballades No. 1 and 3 where there are only 3. The ballades to me are emotional journeys so there always must be progression within the music even if you end up, as in Ballade No. 2 at an earlier point.
@sunareekaewnat8837 yes, I totally agree. I'll still work on that, and every performance for sure will be different.
For me the first theme here is like a schizophrenic person....
@@sunareekaewnat8837 first - it's a presentation of the person in the story. Second - this person gets a little inquiet and unsure about the future.
Third - something bad happens at the bottom of his soul (Lowe voice) which ends in the first, little drama. The fourth - is actually 4 personalities in one person (polyphony), the 5th - he gets panicking because of realizing th as t he's mentally sick. Than the second theme brings us to the climax and drama.
SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS, MAESTRO!!!!! Thank you for my favourite Chopin's Ballade and for an excellent performance👏👏👏🎶🎶🎶🌹🌹🌹🎉🎉🎉💖💖💖✨✨✨😍😍😍, congratulations for over 34000 subscribers to your great channel, you deserve more and more..., I've added this video to my old public playlists called "My Favourite Classical Music" and "Mr Grzegorz Niemczuk", again my best regards, have a happy week, Joanna.