I like this a lot. Thanks for posting. Cziffra is special. His clarity and balance, for me, add a new dimension to this old chestnut. His chords resonate so evenly yet with melodic lines in the inner voices projecting with a kind of subtle freshness, if that makes any sense. While some of his tempi might be considered a bit eccentric, to me it adds a certain cohesion to the movements. He seems unhindered by the technical challenges, witness the blistering final movement which can sound like wildly modern music. Cziffra makes sense of it, makes it belong to Chopin. He never bangs or forces and while I wouldn't call Cziffra careful I sense enormous respect for the music and all it's ethos. He belongs in the pantheon of the great pianists.
Good point on the 2nd bar. I'm thinking maybe Chopin went to the key of C# Major with a natural 3rd (E), with D flat major and C# Major sharing the same notes... thoughts?
Not sure about this. Usually enharmonic chords are pivotal chords that allow modulation to remote keys. The first two bars are harmonically ambivalent and tonic key is prepared and resolved in the next two bars. There's a lot going on those first 4 bars, and actually I think there is an enharmonic modulation in progress, then it turns back on itself. Now I'm all confused! and I've listened to this masterpiece thousands of times, lol!
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I like this a lot. Thanks for posting.
Cziffra is special. His clarity and balance, for me, add a new dimension to this old chestnut. His chords resonate so evenly yet with melodic lines in the inner voices projecting with a kind of subtle freshness, if that makes any sense. While some of his tempi might be considered a bit eccentric, to me it adds a certain cohesion to the movements. He seems unhindered by the technical challenges, witness the blistering final movement which can sound like wildly modern music. Cziffra makes sense of it, makes it belong to Chopin. He never bangs or forces and while I wouldn't call Cziffra careful I sense enormous respect for the music and all it's ethos. He belongs in the pantheon of the great pianists.
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All 4 of his sonatas are so complex
@@Dylan_1344 Chopin wrote just 3 Piano Sonatas. Or did you include his "Cello" Sonata?
Good point on the 2nd bar. I'm thinking maybe Chopin went to the key of C# Major with a natural 3rd (E), with D flat major and C# Major sharing the same notes... thoughts?
Not sure about this. Usually enharmonic chords are pivotal chords that allow modulation to remote keys. The first two bars are harmonically ambivalent and tonic key is prepared and resolved in the next two bars. There's a lot going on those first 4 bars, and actually I think there is an enharmonic modulation in progress, then it turns back on itself. Now I'm all confused! and I've listened to this masterpiece thousands of times, lol!
Why are there C#'s and G#'s in the second bar when the key signature has Db's and Ab's?
because it’s forming a C# minor chord over that low E natural in the bass
@evaviolinistbut why couldn’t he write it as fb and change the C#minor chord to dflat minor?
@evaviolinist Ahh I see how it works
@Lawyer_Morty honestly i have no fucking clue romantic composers love to modulate to weird keys for no apparent reason
@evaviolinist That might be because Chopin didn't want to write an F-Natural next to an F-Flat, according to my understanding.