I love your analysis , i get so inspired to write my own music when you break down Rachs and Scriabins music. Please make more analysis on Scriabin and Rach ❤️

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

Both are in the pipeline actually!

@IEEMAZ_Convoluted_14.2.8.5

Жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets can you please do one on the entire Rachmaninoff second sonata?

How can a so highly valuable and informative channel be so criminal under-subscribed? It's just devastating.

The first concert I ever went to was Rachmaninoffs 3rd piano concerto and she played this as an encore. I had learned some of his preludes before but I had never heard this one. I’ve since developed a much deeper appreciation for this piece

I like how the dramatic middle section makes the theme go lower when it returns, it's so menacing !

You make it look so easy. But I know it's not. Another five years practice required. That lovely big Em chord near the end sends a shiver down my spine every time!

Thank you for this video. Words lack the essence needed to capture the beauty of this piece...

wow! very intresting, i love the new idea of filming the keyboard, very usefull!

Your analysis helps me understand why I love Rachmaninoff's music so much.

Thank you for this analysis series! Please keep going!

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

I will do a couple of more preludes! :)

I could watch your videos all day. Would LOVE to see you delve into some of Rach's Etudes Tableaux. I feel you've elucidated things that have evaded my perception, even though I've listened to these pieces hundreds of times.

Wonderful analysis and performance! I'm polishing this piece and you really inspired me! Thank you so much!

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad to hear it!

Well said. Like the human condition excitement on the surface but not much progression. The inner voices make the interest. So well dissected and played. Thank you

So good! Thank you for the analysis! Do you think you’ll ever do some Bortkiewicz like his prelude op. 33 no. 8?

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

I was not familiar with Bortkiewicz before so thanks for bringing him to my attention. Sounds lovely!

This was really enjoyable and thanks for making such a well thought out video...very enjoyable and educational as well! I love this prelude and now I understand it more🎵🙏

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it :)

Interesting comment about shimmering waters. Always made me think of the path of a leaf in the wind considering how it starts quiet and picks up for a moment only to settle again.

Happened upon your channel. Extremely informative. Now I subscribe to all of your content. Thank you!

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear it, welcome to the channel!

Great analysis and video as always. Keep it up!

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I think this is my favorite piece of his, it sounds like a struggle or maybe it's the zany qualities it possesses or maybe it's the shimmering RH over the sad LH melody. Very good rendition at the end.

Thank you for sharing!!

Wonderful video! Inspiring for some composition ideas too! ❤Thank you!

Great channel! I played this piece for years. Just watch the note on 5:50, it should still be f double sharp (g) rather than f sharp in that chord. A common mistake because it also sounds good, but Rachmaninoff makes it more dramatic with the f double sharp

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

hehe you're right it should be fx! Someone else commented on this as well, I was too careless in my learning there.

Love it! But I think there is still an F double sharp at 5:58 making it B augmented!

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

Ouch, this is embarassing, you are absolutely right it should be Fx! I just learned it too quickly... (it's still a mediant at root at least though)

@bassgoatmusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets no worries at all, and I really enjoyed your interpretation!

@jimbrady3538

3 жыл бұрын

Impressive ears!

Very good playing ✅

very nice analysis on this haunting, melancholic and poignant (which fits rachmaninoff's temperament nicely) prelude, i would love to see analysis on the op 32 no 4 or the last of the op32 in dflat major. BTW i think there is an error in the title (should be no 12 not 2...?)

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

Oops, corrected, thanks for noticing! I haven't played those two preludes unfortunately, but will do no 10 from op 32 at least!

You have an amazing channel.

Thank you again Henrik! Your selection of pieces really does it for me. By the way, is this Rach piece doable with small-ish hands? (a bit more than an octave)

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

Then you have very good taste ;) In general Rachmaninoff can be hard on small hands, I feel myself it would be easier to play certain passages with hands in Rachmaninoff's own size (he could apparently reach C-G), and I have 'only' comfortable C-E. But I suppose this prelude is not that impossible. A lot of the big chords you should roll anyway. The "fanfare" is the hardest part I think, for the downward 16th movement in LH, so maybe look at that before deciding.

I have messed with this prelude for decades. As soon as I master Granados' "El Pelele" I'm gonna tackle Rach again.

Amazing sounds coming from that piano.. do you play any concerts in Sweden? Would really like to see a live performance of these great pieces you play here.

Kind of irrelevant, but I liked your analysis of Chopin's Prelude in E minor. I love that piece, it was the first piece by Chopin that I had learned

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! It's one of the best performing videos on the channel actually.

Me parece explendido!lástima que la traducción al Español no me funciona.Gran pianista, y magnífica la explicación sobre el analisis de la obra..

Hi good morning. I think what this prelude can be compared to the initial approach of the concert study by Liszt Waldesrauschen (Forest Murmurs).

I really like this video, can You make an analysis of Rachmaninov Vespers? 😊

I meant to add that I have yet to find a recording of this that I like. Any recommendations?

I have a question, the arpeggio in both hands starting from 12:28: you seem to be playing the E with the left hand at the exactly same time as the first note of the right hand. Is this correct? I always thought that you need to play all the notes in this arpeggio in succession...

I’m new here! I love the music 🎶 🎵

@SonataSecrets

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel!

@pianoforteyt

3 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets Thanks

Could you do an analysis about chopin's nocturne in g minor op.37 no.1?

Please make analysis on Leos Janacek y Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Which piano it is?

@SonataSecrets

2 жыл бұрын

It's an old German Rönisch!

@user-uu6ne9ce5b

2 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets thanks

Some spanish influence here?

MAN, you skipped the analyse of the hardest progression modulations, why? and just giving the name to chords is not a harmonic hanalyse. you should analyse progressions modulation in the deep with perns chords etc... this can be done even for a 5 years kid. and that is not a modulastion to B major..its a III of G shrp still a grade most common use to create variations the the 4+4 sentence part. You understand few things of this prelude.. 7:44 man some scales? that is a hell Hard progression.. lol