Hope you enjoyed this unusual vlog inspired by my love for Schumann and literary/philosophical interest in German Romanticism 🖤 If you would like to read the Schumann Letters I quoted: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012153913
Best way to view this is to run it two times: - Once to read Tiffany's comments - And again to appreciate the the music without trying to read the words. Because the music itself is special.
Your comment about “ I know I made mistakes but my intention was to understand why Schumann loved this Schubert rondo” was powerful. I think ultimately this vlog was important for you to make for yourself more than anything, but I was glad for the opportunity to see into a private aspect of your music making. In all reality, that’s more special than all the other vlogs (not that they aren’t all amazing and great content in their own way) but between the mistakes and the human thoughts and emotions, we got to peek into your soul space and see another layer of what your music means to you. That’s special. Thanks for sharing, Tiffany.
I feel very connected to both Schubert and Schumann. Both composers had to keep striving in their own ways - Schumann had to fight against pressure to drop musical ambitions and also had to study piano incredibly hard to get to a level where he could express his ideas. Schubert was often ridiculed and dismissed as being nothing more than somebody churning out melodies with no meaning. After their deaths people have grown to understand them, their music and their struggle perhaps more than at the time. I think both Schubert and Schumann were in many ways quite ahead of their time.
This vlog is great because it incorporates your thoughts and exerts from writers of the musical period trying to understand the piece at hand. I've always felt Schubert's music provides lyrical surprises no matter how often one listen's to a composition. Please play more Schubert.
To me this is right up there amongst Tiffany's best videos. I appreciate her candour in showing her sight-reading, which appears to be unedited. There's something magical about her intense gaze at the device bearing music from 200 years ago, drawing it out as it were, into today. See for e.g. 5:45. Polished performances are all very well of course - one cannot do without them. But this approach brings the intimacy of trial and error into the viewer's realm, which also happens to suit the music well.
An IMPRESSIVE job, from performing beautifully "with yourself" to the quoting of Schumann's letter and your own thoughts, to the complex video editing! Congrats, Tiffany!! This Rondo is very "Mozartian", in my appreciation. Schubert's piano music in general is an odd mix of Austrian Easygoing Joie de Vivre with an underlying sorrow element (which is probably what Schumann noticed). He incorporated many folk music elements of his native, then fledgling Austrian-Hungarian Empire: from country folk dances to Roma (Gypsy) music; and took his inspiration from his predecessors Haydn and Mozart, and his hero Ludwig van Beethoven. What makes it so difficult is that usually it goes on, and on, and on, and on... as if the composer had the feeling that "the more add-ons, going in circles, and repeat an idea, the better and 'gooder'!" - this Rondo is one of my *very few* Schubert piano favorites (I prefer his Lieder and Chamber Music, to be honest). The *contemporary* interpreters of Schubert's work I *personally* like most are Inon Barnatan, Boris Giltburg, and Khatia Buniatishvili. Alfred Brendel set a benchmark, of course.
I’ve never understood Schuberts music from my experience either, its such a free flowing style that I have absolutely no idea where his pieces are headed to. But this video made me understand him now, Thank you Tiffany :) (Thanks to Schumann too ❤️)
I've just started to like Schumann. So far I like "Vogel als Prophet" the best. There's much more to explore and understand. Thank you for your video insights. You're my guide to classical music.
Thank you very much! I love Schubert ( he Is my second favourite composer After rachmaninoff) and White i dont find Schumann nearly as much captivating i have to admit he did a Great job describing the wholesomeness of schubert's rondo. Keep It up Tiffany!
@@andresgunther Andres, you probably remember Tiffany expressing her concern over staying ahead of other UA-camrs, and coming up with new ideas for her videos (that others would most likely copy :)? The other UA-camrs wanting to copy her now: "OMG!! She raised the bar so high, I'll need binoculars to see it!!!" 😂
Tiffany got me curious about Schumann’s music many months ago. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and Schubert’s relaxing music. I look forward to seeing Tiffany share more Schumann and Schubert🙂
I love Paul Lewis's and Alfred Brendel's playing especially for Schubert and they both talk very interestingly about him I find. Both very thoughtful performers, whose recordings helped me find a way into Schubert late last year :)
Hi Tiffany. Well I don't understand music as intensely as you but I found the piece you played, to be relaxing and happy. You played it beautifully and I loved it. Such a lighthearted piece!
i loved this experimental vlog woaaaah i was in awe the whole time!! from your playing and the composition to the letters and your annotations and editing. well done, tiffany!! 🥺🥺
I'll need to watch this multiple times to appreciate everything in the video. What came through clearly during the first watch is your love for Schumann and German Romanticism. A wonderful concept vid Tiffany!
Schubert holds a special place in my heart. His music is often unuasually introverted and intimate for a man of his time, something I rarely see in Mozart, Haydn or Beethoven. He never knew great succes but worked very hard, his only supporters were his friends and pupils. His music feels like that, like it should be played in the warmth of a home, and it tells stories about life in its own quiet manner.
What a creative approach - whow whow whow!! I mean both the editing and the content! Thanks so much, Tiffany, for taking us with you on your journey from Schumann to Schubert - and thank you (!!!) also for putting in so many editing hours! It is so special, so thoughtful, so smart and played so well!! Most of us probably wouldn't have noticed any mistake if you hadn't mentioned them, so absolutely no reason to excuse yourself! What a precious piece this is - but I am not surprised I like it so much, as Schubert is my favourite composer. Yes, he is somewhat repetitive, but - OMG - it's just pure musical beauty in my ears! And I don't need to understand it to love it....
sometimes i just like to play your videos in the background, while i work house chores :> I remember the sweet times I could race on a piano... One day in old germany the next day in modernist France. It's soft, melancholic, yet clear.
Thank you for this insightful video essay! I really enjoyed the quotations from the letters, your annotations and the little whoops since this is a vlog. Also the editing is well done 🙌🏼🥺
This is the most beautiful vlog you have done. I’m biased because I feel a very deep connection with Schubert. I still don’t know Schumann yet, but I know you will be not only a guide but also a motivation through your passion. Thank you ❤️
that is amazing to get to learn about the piece and your ideas while listening it. Its like watching a brainstorm with some facts. Especially as a person who haven't tend to learn more on Schubert, although his symphonies are perfect, that was so enlightening for me and hopefully will be a gate to his piano compositions. Loved it and thank you:):)
Well I must say, this vlog of yours makes a heck of a point about the many facets of the compositional style of Schubert, as admired by Schumann. Great stuff here, and I like the genuine feel of a not-entirely-polished read-through. Also, welcome to multi-track, multi-camera music production and video editing! Really good job with that as well! :)
Wow Tiffany! Such a great concept - double journeys! Your journey to understand Schumann’s love for Schbert. And our journey to understand how a great artist like you grow and be better. I’m a fan of Schumann & Schubert. And a big big fan of you. Thank you so much for sharing your journey and insights! Just great!
I’m not a musician, but this format helped me to better understand what you discover and enjoy when you play a work. ( I’ve expressed my thoughts poorly, just know I enjoyed this video immensely). Be well. Thank you. Salut
I didn't practice this piece, just played it through 3 times before because camera failed while trying to film. Took 8 hours to edit...after brainstorming for 2 weeks..🙏 I just love Schumann ❤
The easy way to play a four hand piece is to use a player/recorder system like the Steinway Spirio R, if one is available. You record the second part and then play the first part while the piano accompanies you. This also works for playing concertos if two pianos are available.
How on earth you managed to do all this by yourself with no help from anyone else is extraordinary in itself! I am quite a lover of both Schubert and Schumann's music and to really see you exploring both the composers is a joy to see. Absolutely fantastic! 😁😁
Hi Tiffany, again thank you for this. Ditto other comments that this is very creative and you must have put a lot of time into it! I have always enjoyed Schubert’s impromptus and must admit don’t know much his other works. Rarely do I listen to 4 hands pieces but thanks to this work you posted I will explore more. This is a very pleasant and somewhat reserved piece. Will keep coming back to listen again. I really find being in a quiet place helps me appreciate this more. Thanks again for sharing. Great work!
Schubert is a composer of the soul. His music is always pointing to the transcendent, the final reconciliation. His later works are so dense and the development at times extremely violent. He was aware of death always.
You studying philosophy & music Tiffany I noticed gives you a better idea on the feeling of the music Schubert wrote. Love how you shared Schumann insight of this piece. The vary emotions displayed & themes repeated or played with higher harmonies as accompaniment. This was lovely to see & thanks for sharing your love for Schumann with us!
I have to say, Tiffany, that when I saw the link and story to this video on Instagram, and noticing your heightened and perhaps revisited interest in Schumann, it honestly makes me feel less alone. I know there are a lot of people that delve deep into a subject and those that don’t care to, but musically (or rather, artistically) it was always important for me to find out more, esp how a composer or songwriter or painter’s personal and public life added color and reference to whatever they were doing. The idea of taking in someone’s art and wanting to gain so much more from getting to know them personally is a concept that means a lot to me. Some would call it ‘geeky’ or ‘learned’ but to me it just gives everything the extra dimension it already has. I hope that makes sense. I think you seem sentimental and thoughtful enough of a person to understand. Anyway, thanks again for everything and best of luck to you.
What a joy this piece was to see and listen to! Thank you for all the effort to put this together. This was my final musical treat before bedtime.... perfect. Tiffany and that Steinway... wow!
Thank you for this innovative way to take us with you on your trip through the mind and Music of Schubert and Schumann. Greetings from the Netherlands!
Love this vlog, learned a lot about Schubert and Schumann, thanks Tiffany! How could you play something so beautifully in such a short time? I'm replaying this video again and again..
When I saw a brief bit of this posted on Facebook it looked like you had grown two extra hands! Thanks for posting, it sounds superb as usual and you capture this piece of music so well.
Wow i think this might be one of my favorite videos... The descriptions + letter + your thoughts on the right were so helpful in increasing my understanding of Schubert! Also the editing to make it look like it was actually 4 hands at the same time was really cool!
Great vlog! Very interesting with the letter by Schumann and your own thoughts togheter with the music! I personally think that that's what unites Schumann's and Schubert's music: the inner world, both musically on the page and in what you hear/feel when hearing it.
I appreciate how much technical, musical and emotional work went into this. A real treat. Bravo! I think I'll play this again to calm my nerves during Perseverance's landing on Mars later today :-)
Thank you for this vlog. I enjoy furthering my understanding of music through the lens of the artist. Thank you for fundraising for future generations of artists.
And after all those thoughts and the storm in the piece, the last few notes and the "last breath" of Schubert's madness disapperead, leaving me speechless.. Thank you!😍
Wow, this had me mermized! I love this new approaching of music you present to us. 😍💞 I loved it so much, Tiffany. Tysm for taking the time to make this vid. Very appreciated it. 🎹
Really beautiful Tiffany! My personal favourite Schubert piece is either his Fantasy in F-Minor or his Ständchen (The Liszt Arrangement for piano to be exact). Anyways, I hope you have a great day :)
I consider Schubert dying at 32 to be an even bigger loss to music than Mozart's death at 36. Mozart at least had reached perfection and maturity about 10 years earlier. Schubert had only just managed to reach his full potential about 2 years prior. What music we have missed... It is also worth noting that Schubert would often write his 4-hand pieces for female pupils he was in love with. So it was his awkward way of opening up his heart to them.
Listening for the second time now. Thank you! It's a very creative video. I enjoy the Q&As, the walks in the park, and the GRWM and all the others, but I get a special sense here that you were creating something beautiful as an impulse, even though it obviously took a lot of work. It adds an extra depth of satisfaction, at least for my ears. Also, cute title annotation.
I loved this piece so much and I saw the shadow of this piece in quite a lot of Schumann’s works. I always tried to find the relationship between this piece with Schumann. Previously I just know Op. 107 is mentioned in Schumann's letter but never know that is exactly D.951. And your video is just so great to inform me of this and beyond! Please let me know any specific quotations if you find in Schumann's works! So far, among many of the surprising similarities, are those many little decorative ending of the phrase like 2:30, maybe it also transforms into the looping madness I guess. Schumann just loved to use similar figurations when he wants to quote important msg for Clara like at the end of Arabeske, the middle session of No.1 Novellette, or the end of Kinderszenen. I bet he played this Op. 107 with Clara before. Well, I know that decoration can be seen in many places but still fascinating to see how these msgs along with Schubert's expressed unparalleled tranquility. Back to the musical expression, I think what you have posted is right, Schumann just loves how Schubert explores the soul states and that is all Schumann goes for in his entire piano output. You may also want to check the German dances (e.g., Op. 9 D. 365, D.790) from Schubert and they have a lot to tell about Schumann's miniatures especially Carnaval Op. 9 (See that Opus #). And boy, when I listen more about Schubert's German dances, I just cannot stop. BTW, the distant sweetness is the most fabulous thing in Schubert's works. I think that should be an expression of loneliness. Thanks for this wonderful journey! I just love to see more about what is behind the music! And please more Schumann lol!
This is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! It is so insightful and it really does justice to the topic at hand! The extra effort was absolutely worth it! P.S. It was nice to see two of you playing 😅♥️
WOW..... its a briliant idea tiffany... thank you for all efforts you put in it. Its breath taking... and a different perspective of underatanding the music both schubert and schuman... now you make me love schumann even more... You are trully inspiring ❤❤❤❤
Just subbed after seeing your vogue video! I'm a student actor and I was struggling with the interpretation of some of my lines. Your dedication to carrying out the message of the musicians you play has helped me in my journey! Wishing you plenty of success!!
Stellar job of editing and synchronizing everything Tiffany! Very well made! Schubert's Erlkönig is one of the most fascinating (and heart-breaking) pieces I've heard. It's amazing how well you can tell a story using just music alone (even when it's only played on the violin - by Hilary Hahn). Would highly recommend anyone who has not heard of it to check it out. Day 9 of telling Tiffany her uploads are appreciated.
When you put the letter on your insta story I searched for this piece and I kinda fell in love. I wondered it would be amazing if you could play it with someone. But now you did it by yourself, and it made it even more special, and I couldn't be happier. ❤️
Thank you. Your commentary on the music was further helpful and insightful. Have put both on back burners despite hearing from many, as now yourself, they are premier. Anyway will follow your journey here with interest, and it is a journey we too sadly get to share with artists.
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Hope you enjoyed this unusual vlog inspired by my love for Schumann and literary/philosophical interest in German Romanticism 🖤 If you would like to read the Schumann Letters I quoted: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012153913
Thank you so much for the video and the letters Tiffany! Saludos desde colombia, muchas gracias :)
What was the red thing in ur ear?
I see double beauty 😊
Earbuds
Also amazing video keep it up😁
Best way to view this is to run it two times:
- Once to read Tiffany's comments
- And again to appreciate the the music without trying to read the words. Because the music itself is special.
even better to watch it more than 2 times! ☺️
@@mottokittokatto
🤔 lets say 🖐️+✌️ times, at least.
Yes, absolutely! (Too bad that addtn'l views from the same subscriber seemingly are not counted by the algorithm)
Your comment about “ I know I made mistakes but my intention was to understand why Schumann loved this Schubert rondo” was powerful. I think ultimately this vlog was important for you to make for yourself more than anything, but I was glad for the opportunity to see into a private aspect of your music making. In all reality, that’s more special than all the other vlogs (not that they aren’t all amazing and great content in their own way) but between the mistakes and the human thoughts and emotions, we got to peek into your soul space and see another layer of what your music means to you. That’s special. Thanks for sharing, Tiffany.
❤️🙏❤️
A wrong note isn't necessarily a mistake, from my point of view :)
I feel very connected to both Schubert and Schumann. Both composers had to keep striving in their own ways - Schumann had to fight against pressure to drop musical ambitions and also had to study piano incredibly hard to get to a level where he could express his ideas. Schubert was often ridiculed and dismissed as being nothing more than somebody churning out melodies with no meaning. After their deaths people have grown to understand them, their music and their struggle perhaps more than at the time. I think both Schubert and Schumann were in many ways quite ahead of their time.
This vlog is great because it incorporates your thoughts and exerts from writers of the musical period trying to understand the piece at hand. I've always felt Schubert's music provides lyrical surprises no matter how often one listen's to a composition. Please play more Schubert.
To me this is right up there amongst Tiffany's best videos. I appreciate her candour in showing her sight-reading, which appears to be unedited. There's something magical about her intense gaze at the device bearing music from 200 years ago, drawing it out as it were, into today. See for e.g. 5:45. Polished performances are all very well of course - one cannot do without them. But this approach brings the intimacy of trial and error into the viewer's realm, which also happens to suit the music well.
An IMPRESSIVE job, from performing beautifully "with yourself" to the quoting of Schumann's letter and your own thoughts, to the complex video editing! Congrats, Tiffany!!
This Rondo is very "Mozartian", in my appreciation. Schubert's piano music in general is an odd mix of Austrian Easygoing Joie de Vivre with an underlying sorrow element (which is probably what Schumann noticed). He incorporated many folk music elements of his native, then fledgling Austrian-Hungarian Empire: from country folk dances to Roma (Gypsy) music; and took his inspiration from his predecessors Haydn and Mozart, and his hero Ludwig van Beethoven.
What makes it so difficult is that usually it goes on, and on, and on, and on... as if the composer had the feeling that "the more add-ons, going in circles, and repeat an idea, the better and 'gooder'!" - this Rondo is one of my *very few* Schubert piano favorites (I prefer his Lieder and Chamber Music, to be honest).
The *contemporary* interpreters of Schubert's work I *personally* like most are Inon Barnatan, Boris Giltburg, and Khatia Buniatishvili. Alfred Brendel set a benchmark, of course.
I’ve never understood Schuberts music from my experience either, its such a free flowing style that I have absolutely no idea where his pieces are headed to. But this video made me understand him now, Thank you Tiffany :) (Thanks to Schumann too ❤️)
I'm glad!
You are the best pianist ever
Poor old Schumann and Schubert - and most of us - seeking that abiding comfort of a heart at home.
Excellent and hard won vlog Tiffany, thankyou x x
Loved this 😊
I've just started to like Schumann. So far I like "Vogel als Prophet" the best. There's much more to explore and understand. Thank you for your video insights. You're my guide to classical music.
great video, i used to play this all the time with my grandmother, tiy actually play some parts the way she used to :)
Thank you very much! I love Schubert ( he Is my second favourite composer After rachmaninoff) and White i dont find Schumann nearly as much captivating i have to admit he did a Great job describing the wholesomeness of schubert's rondo. Keep It up Tiffany!
Amazing. Especially at evening.
Once again, Tiffany is on the...no, she IS the cutting edge of UA-cam classical music videos.
A piano playing pioneer! 😉
Absolutely. A candidate for "Classical Music Vlog of the Year" nomination!
@@andresgunther Andres, you probably remember Tiffany expressing her concern over staying ahead of other UA-camrs, and coming up with new ideas for her videos (that others would most likely copy :)?
The other UA-camrs wanting to copy her now: "OMG!! She raised the bar so high, I'll need binoculars to see it!!!" 😂
@@rinardman ☺
I also really liked 2 Tiffany's playing the piano!
Nice duo by one person. Well done Tiffany!
Such a well edited video and what a nice piece of music this Rondo is! Can't wait for more Schumann in the future!
Ok - you playing both parts overlapping was WAY cool.
Tiffany got me curious about Schumann’s music many months ago. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and Schubert’s relaxing music. I look forward to seeing Tiffany share more Schumann and Schubert🙂
I love Paul Lewis's and Alfred Brendel's playing especially for Schubert and they both talk very interestingly about him I find. Both very thoughtful performers, whose recordings helped me find a way into Schubert late last year :)
Really cool idea for a video! Now I’m more curious about both of them.
Hi Tiffany. Well I don't understand music as intensely as you but I found the piece you played, to be relaxing and happy. You played it beautifully and I loved it. Such a lighthearted piece!
Tiffany, wonderful. I could listen to Schubert for hours. Greetings from Germany.
Congratulations Tiffany! Very interesting vlog but I need to rewatch it, perhaps not only once, to completely understand.
i loved this experimental vlog woaaaah i was in awe the whole time!! from your playing and the composition to the letters and your annotations and editing. well done, tiffany!! 🥺🥺
Thank you 🥺❤️ I'm so personally invested in this video and all videos related to Schumann...it means a lot 🎶🙏
This is fantastic. You put the videos together because no one told you couldn't. It is a great idea.
I very much enjoyed this vlog. I learned a lot.
This was fantastic Tiffany! Schubert’s music somehow manages to move me more than almost anything else.
You’re actually so talented Tiffany 💙
I'll need to watch this multiple times to appreciate everything in the video. What came through clearly during the first watch is your love for Schumann and German Romanticism. A wonderful concept vid Tiffany!
Thank you. I really put my heart into this and tried to convey exactly that
The way that your subtitles came up in rhythm with the music is really impressive!! Well done
Very nice! Schubert is wonderful!
Crazy good!!
Your talent and Steinway are a match made in heaven...
Schubert holds a special place in my heart. His music is often unuasually introverted and intimate for a man of his time, something I rarely see in Mozart, Haydn or Beethoven.
He never knew great succes but worked very hard, his only supporters were his friends and pupils. His music feels like that, like it should be played in the warmth of a home, and it tells stories about life in its own quiet manner.
Super, wunderbar, Danke Tiffanny, Grüße aus Deutschland
What a creative approach - whow whow whow!!
I mean both the editing and the content! Thanks so much, Tiffany, for taking us with you on your journey from Schumann to Schubert - and thank you (!!!) also for putting in so many editing hours! It is so special, so thoughtful, so smart and played so well!! Most of us probably wouldn't have noticed any mistake if you hadn't mentioned them, so absolutely no reason to excuse yourself! What a precious piece this is - but I am not surprised I like it so much, as Schubert is my favourite composer. Yes, he is somewhat repetitive, but - OMG - it's just pure musical beauty in my ears! And I don't need to understand it to love it....
Beautifully played Tiffany. Nice to have you do this with technology. Two extra arms and the brains to operate them are not always available !
sometimes i just like to play your videos in the background, while i work house chores :> I remember the sweet times I could race on a piano... One day in old germany the next day in modernist France. It's soft, melancholic, yet clear.
Thank you for this insightful video essay! I really enjoyed the quotations from the letters, your annotations and the little whoops since this is a vlog. Also the editing is well done 🙌🏼🥺
Who wouldn't love this piece? It's perfect!
This is the most beautiful vlog you have done. I’m biased because I feel a very deep connection with Schubert. I still don’t know Schumann yet, but I know you will be not only a guide but also a motivation through your passion. Thank you ❤️
🥺❤️🎶 Thank you!! I try... I just love Schumann so much...
This video itself is a work of art!
Beautifully played and narrated! Would love to hear more of this stuff in the future, Stay safe and keep striving!
Brava, Tiffany! Like a Ted Talk! Love the editing and the thoughtful exploration of the piece! Def try this again, please 🤗🙏🤗👍
Incredible, J'Adore❤🤗😘. Now I'm going to watch the whole video!
Hope you like the whole video!
This is really a great work by Tiffany - no matter how many times you view it. JRH
that is amazing to get to learn about the piece and your ideas while listening it. Its like watching a brainstorm with some facts. Especially as a person who haven't tend to learn more on Schubert, although his symphonies are perfect, that was so enlightening for me and hopefully will be a gate to his piano compositions. Loved it and thank you:):)
Well I must say, this vlog of yours makes a heck of a point about the many facets of the compositional style of Schubert, as admired by Schumann. Great stuff here, and I like the genuine feel of a not-entirely-polished read-through. Also, welcome to multi-track, multi-camera music production and video editing! Really good job with that as well! :)
Wow Tiffany! Such a great concept - double journeys! Your journey to understand Schumann’s love for Schbert. And our journey to understand how a great artist like you grow and be better. I’m a fan of Schumann & Schubert. And a big big fan of you. Thank you so much for sharing your journey and insights! Just great!
I’m not a musician, but this format helped me to better understand what you discover and enjoy when you play a work. ( I’ve expressed my thoughts poorly, just know I enjoyed this video immensely). Be well. Thank you. Salut
This must taken a lot of time to practice and editing! You are the best!!! Happy Lunar new year! 恭禧发财
I didn't practice this piece, just played it through 3 times before because camera failed while trying to film. Took 8 hours to edit...after brainstorming for 2 weeks..🙏 I just love Schumann ❤
The easy way to play a four hand piece is to use a player/recorder system like the Steinway Spirio R, if one is available. You record the second part and then play the first part while the piano accompanies you. This also works for playing concertos if two pianos are available.
How on earth you managed to do all this by yourself with no help from anyone else is extraordinary in itself! I am quite a lover of both Schubert and Schumann's music and to really see you exploring both the composers is a joy to see. Absolutely fantastic! 😁😁
It's just similar to her career, she just made it happen through her
you wouldn't be angling for a heart from Tiffany, would you?
Hi Tiffany, again thank you for this. Ditto other comments that this is very creative and you must have put a lot of time into it! I have always enjoyed Schubert’s impromptus and must admit don’t know much his other works. Rarely do I listen to 4 hands pieces but thanks to this work you posted I will explore more. This is a very pleasant and somewhat reserved piece. Will keep coming back to listen again. I really find being in a quiet place helps me appreciate this more. Thanks again for sharing. Great work!
Schubert is a composer of the soul. His music is always pointing to the transcendent, the final reconciliation. His later works are so dense and the development at times extremely violent. He was aware of death always.
You studying philosophy & music Tiffany I noticed gives you a better idea on the feeling of the music Schubert wrote. Love how you shared Schumann insight of this piece.
The vary emotions displayed & themes repeated or played with higher harmonies as accompaniment.
This was lovely to see & thanks for sharing your love for Schumann with us!
I prettly like the camera angles that shows the inside of the piano. Love you Tiffany!
Such an interesting and informative vlog! 🎼💕
Very cleveer editing and mixing. thanks. A great talent.
The editing was very nice too 😉🥰
1:30 Excellent editing adding the Primo & Secondo together! 👀🙌🙌🤩
Love this kind of educational content!♥️
Tiffany , you are a Treasure, Plain & Simple ----- So much Thought & Work to produce and explain this !
Your performance with yourself is very elegant indeed. Thanks for sharing it
I have to say, Tiffany, that when I saw the link and story to this video on Instagram, and noticing your heightened and perhaps revisited interest in Schumann, it honestly makes me feel less alone. I know there are a lot of people that delve deep into a subject and those that don’t care to, but musically (or rather, artistically) it was always important for me to find out more, esp how a composer or songwriter or painter’s personal and public life added color and reference to whatever they were doing. The idea of taking in someone’s art and wanting to gain so much more from getting to know them personally is a concept that means a lot to me. Some would call it ‘geeky’ or ‘learned’ but to me it just gives everything the extra dimension it already has.
I hope that makes sense. I think you seem sentimental and thoughtful enough of a person to understand. Anyway, thanks again for everything and best of luck to you.
You're not alone!! ❤️🎶 I'm a Romanticism nerd... 🤓
Hi! Fellow "Romantiker" here 😊
This was a wonderful departure, thank you for the hard work, it is very appreciated.
What a joy this piece was to see and listen to! Thank you for all the effort to put this together. This was my final musical treat before bedtime.... perfect. Tiffany and that Steinway... wow!
Thank you for this innovative way to take us with you on your trip through the mind and Music of Schubert and Schumann. Greetings from the Netherlands!
This is SOOOOO FABULOUS!!!! Thanks for sharing!! I don't know how I managed to miss this!!!
Wow， thank you for sharing the beautiful piece and your amazing play/demonstration^^
Love this vlog, learned a lot about Schubert and Schumann, thanks Tiffany! How could you play something so beautifully in such a short time? I'm replaying this video again and again..
When I saw a brief bit of this posted on Facebook it looked like you had grown two extra hands! Thanks for posting, it sounds superb as usual and you capture this piece of music so well.
Wow i think this might be one of my favorite videos...
The descriptions + letter + your thoughts on the right were so helpful in increasing my understanding of Schubert!
Also the editing to make it look like it was actually 4 hands at the same time was really cool!
You did a great job with this vlog, I loved how you really analyzed Schumann's letter and connected it to the 4-Hand Rondo!
Great vlog! Very interesting with the letter by Schumann and your own thoughts togheter with the music!
I personally think that that's what unites Schumann's and Schubert's music: the inner world, both musically on the page and in what you hear/feel when hearing it.
I appreciate how much technical, musical and emotional work went into this. A real treat. Bravo! I think I'll play this again to calm my nerves during Perseverance's landing on Mars later today :-)
Thank you for this vlog. I enjoy furthering my understanding of music through the lens of the artist. Thank you for fundraising for future generations of artists.
Gracias Tiffany, tus videos me inspiran a seguir practicando cada vez más duro.
Saludos desde Chile, Sudamérica ✌🏻
And after all those thoughts and the storm in the piece, the last few notes and the "last breath" of Schubert's madness disapperead, leaving me speechless.. Thank you!😍
Wow, this had me mermized! I love this new approaching of music you present to us. 😍💞 I loved it so much, Tiffany. Tysm for taking the time to make this vid. Very appreciated it. 🎹
Really beautiful Tiffany! My personal favourite Schubert piece is either his Fantasy in F-Minor or his Ständchen (The Liszt Arrangement for piano to be exact). Anyways, I hope you have a great day :)
The love you put in to the music is really shown through your playing thank you for beautiful music 😊👍
I consider Schubert dying at 32 to be an even bigger loss to music than Mozart's death at 36. Mozart at least had reached perfection and maturity about 10 years earlier. Schubert had only just managed to reach his full potential about 2 years prior.
What music we have missed...
It is also worth noting that Schubert would often write his 4-hand pieces for female pupils he was in love with. So it was his awkward way of opening up his heart to them.
Amazing work Tyffany! This piece is so beutiful...
Listening for the second time now. Thank you! It's a very creative video. I enjoy the Q&As, the walks in the park, and the GRWM and all the others, but I get a special sense here that you were creating something beautiful as an impulse, even though it obviously took a lot of work. It adds an extra depth of satisfaction, at least for my ears. Also, cute title annotation.
I have difficulty understanding Schubert too, lately I started to delve in his music. I'm liking it.
I loved this piece so much and I saw the shadow of this piece in quite a lot of Schumann’s works. I always tried to find the relationship between this piece with Schumann. Previously I just know Op. 107 is mentioned in Schumann's letter but never know that is exactly D.951. And your video is just so great to inform me of this and beyond! Please let me know any specific quotations if you find in Schumann's works!
So far, among many of the surprising similarities, are those many little decorative ending of the phrase like 2:30, maybe it also transforms into the looping madness I guess. Schumann just loved to use similar figurations when he wants to quote important msg for Clara like at the end of Arabeske, the middle session of No.1 Novellette, or the end of Kinderszenen. I bet he played this Op. 107 with Clara before. Well, I know that decoration can be seen in many places but still fascinating to see how these msgs along with Schubert's expressed unparalleled tranquility.
Back to the musical expression, I think what you have posted is right, Schumann just loves how Schubert explores the soul states and that is all Schumann goes for in his entire piano output. You may also want to check the German dances (e.g., Op. 9 D. 365, D.790) from Schubert and they have a lot to tell about Schumann's miniatures especially Carnaval Op. 9 (See that Opus #). And boy, when I listen more about Schubert's German dances, I just cannot stop. BTW, the distant sweetness is the most fabulous thing in Schubert's works. I think that should be an expression of loneliness.
Thanks for this wonderful journey! I just love to see more about what is behind the music! And please more Schumann lol!
Masterfully done, The playing was a joy to my ears and the video editing was outstanding. Bravo😎💖💘 Thank You Tiffany
I wish I could play this, but I lack four hands :(
All I can say is WOW. Thank you for sharing.
This is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! It is so insightful and it really does justice to the topic at hand! The extra effort was absolutely worth it!
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It was nice to see two of you playing 😅♥️
Thank you for this. It is gem. I will listen to this again and again until I 'get it' too!
This is so cool Tiffany!! You should do more of these!!! I request that you learn the Petite Suite by Debussy!!!👏👏👏👏👏
WOW..... its a briliant idea tiffany... thank you for all efforts you put in it. Its breath taking... and a different perspective of underatanding the music both schubert and schuman... now you make me love schumann even more...
You are trully inspiring ❤❤❤❤
Just subbed after seeing your vogue video! I'm a student actor and I was struggling with the interpretation of some of my lines. Your dedication to carrying out the message of the musicians you play has helped me in my journey! Wishing you plenty of success!!
Thank you! Welcome to my channel 😊
Stellar job of editing and synchronizing everything Tiffany! Very well made!
Schubert's Erlkönig is one of the most fascinating (and heart-breaking) pieces I've heard. It's amazing how well you can tell a story using just music alone (even when it's only played on the violin - by Hilary Hahn). Would highly recommend anyone who has not heard of it to check it out.
Day 9 of telling Tiffany her uploads are appreciated.
good thing you have four hands 😁 beautiful melody
When you put the letter on your insta story I searched for this piece and I kinda fell in love. I wondered it would be amazing if you could play it with someone. But now you did it by yourself, and it made it even more special, and I couldn't be happier. ❤️
Thank you. Your commentary on the music was further helpful and insightful. Have put both on back burners despite hearing from many, as now yourself, they are premier. Anyway will follow your journey here with interest, and it is a journey we too sadly get to share with artists.