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BYRON JANIS IS HUMAN? IAM NOT SURE. The E minor waltz interpretation is not from our planet, just like CORTOT. I'm sure...

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Wonderful 2 documentaries. Thanks for sharing, as I never heard these before!

Thank you for sharing. Found this link on the internet - hope it is the same documentary....... Best wishes

23:45 This excercise is really great.

Such a great history -‐---thankyou greatly

Chopin lives on ---many thanks.

His performance of the E flat waltz is superbly witty.

Mazurki Fryderyka Chopina to kwintesencja polskości. Fryderyku będziemy Pana kochać aż do końca świata ❤️❤❤

Wspaniałe i ponadczasowe. Muzyka Fryderyka Chopina będzie zachwycać wiecznie. Dzieło stuleci i symbol naszego narodu polskiego ❤

I think a lot of the tragedy and pathos of Chopin's music reflects the mentality of Parisians from the generation of his parents (but not them) that witnessed some of the most horrific mass executions and violence just a few decade earlier called the "French revolution" which was a massive nationwide genocide in France that spared neither innocent children nor women. Followed by the Napoleonic wars, survivors (and perpetrators) of that generation who ran the society Chopin lived in were extremely deep and serious they had seen the abysses of human cruelty en masses and the struggle of social classes. This is why the specter of death was a frequent theme among artists in Chopin's days. For example Berlioz a contemporary, friend of Chopin wrote the fantastic symphony with one movement is the march of a convicted to the guillotine and ends with a musical representation of his beheading. Liszt wrote the dance of the dead Totentanz, Schubert wrote many songs for voice with death lurking "The erlkonig" where a child hears the voice of death but his father says no it's just the wind, but the child insists. The song ends with death taking the child. And so Chopin also wrote similar music that today we wrongly associate to his own personality but is really as much a reflection of the society of his times. For example his Sonata in Bb minor funeral march and the last movement where the spirit of the dead flies around separated from its body for a few minutes until coming to a stop, could be seen as evoking what happens after death. Yet people wrongly think it has something to do with Chopin's own life. Yet Chopin experienced the death of his teenage younger sister who apparently was very much artistically inclined like him and closest to him. Something that i personally connect to the composition of one specific nocturnes. I forgot if both his parents outlived him, i think his mother departed before he did. But Chopin is complex. He knew his whole making a living was the piano, and some of his letters lament that he wished he had chosen a more stable occupation he even mentioned selling wood timber would have suited him for some reason. In his later years he must have felt that pressure of being productive at the piano while having no fortune, no family heritage nothing and he was dependent on the charity of Friends like Dudevant which is hard to not guess must have looked him down, as wealth was everything for status even when you are one of the most amazing composer that lived. Chopin's sickness and him being expatriated away from family, unable to get married probably due to his lack of fortune. Life is harsh.

The A minor valse heard at the beginning of this documentary was Chopin's very own favorite composition according to a letter.

He did compose Casta Diva in 1831.

知ってる曲なのに全然違う。それなのに大事なポイントは外さずに新しいメロディーに。凄いっていうのはこういう事なんだ、、、

I heard a composition from his seventh year and I could hardly believe my ears. His teachers were right. He hardly needed to learn basic stuff despite his young age.

Could I be lucky and get the version of chopin waltz op. 18 no. 1 he's talking about by any chance?

Merci de ce partage. Merveille

Monumental, le jeu de Bill Evans me touche profondément, toujours sur le fil ténu de la nuance et de la subtilité, en équilibre.

I'm just now studying the marvelous Chopin, and I love this documentary.

凄い。とても有名な曲で原曲の色が強いにも関わらず、ちゃんとビル・エバンスらしさが凄く出てる。特徴的な優しくて軽快なタッチと大胆に崩したメロディと不意に現れる三拍子に心がきゅんと掴まれる… あっという間に聞き終えてしまった

Divino. Documento unico. Grazie di cuore

The first 40 seconds or so is some of the most heartbreaking notes I've ever heard. Absolutely gorgeous

Brawissimo !

It’s funny that, as much as Chopin loved singing and the opera, he never composed even a song, nothing! I often think of him and a very different but amazing melodist, Frank Schubert, who produced so much more music than Chopin, and died at only _31 years of age!_ Such tragedies!

Mesmerizing. As for the playing, instead of abusing tempo rubato Janis subtly varies dynamics and highlights harmony. Though he’s known for bow wow pyrotechnics in Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, Janis always seemed to identify , mystically as we learn here, with Chopin, and a rather classical Chopin, which may be why the French prize him. Don’t miss his much later EMI recordings and a remarkable live recital in Salt Lake City (on CZcams) that includes one of the all-time great performances of Chopin’s B minor sonata.

Oh me vengo

Nothing to see here, but otherworldliness. Mozart would approve.

Version in french ?!?😳🙄🤔

I gotta agree with you. So many great pianists, but Bill Evans was special; like only a few giants were so special.

God is in his musical innovations...

Very good documentary. But, sad regarding his life in Mallorca, and that his piano there was not properly tuned (maintained?) at the time this documentary was made.

The piano appeared not to be the one he composed on. It proved to be a fraud. But the atmosphere there is amazing, so inspiring!

Cantabile piano/pianissimo is the outstanding quality of his playing.

エバンスはいいね。

Best documentary I've ever seen on Chopin. Thanks so much for posting.

I am very interested in his times with Vladimir Horowitz.as I understand Vladimir for better or worse had a profound impact on him....just recently I found out that Byron is married to Gary Cooper's daughter...that has to be exciting in itself but I believe they married after Gary passed.

Thank you so much for this. Janis became known as a Horowitz protege playing Rachmaninov and Prokofiev but clearly his heart was with his father’s countryman, Chopin, and though Janis recorded relatively little in his prime of the bigger pieces he surveys all the repertory here, fleetingly but magnificently. Great, heroic men, both of them.

Thank God for music This stopped me in my tracks

3:37 to 3:50 My Future girlfriend is listening to this

Exquisite! Thank you so much for uploading this!

Prob the worst documentary on Chopin. It is very staticy and drained out

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What a horror story. Thank you Byron for you deep insights into the life of Chopin.

Very fascinating! Thank you !!

Wow !! I found the segment about the Grande Valse brillante ' very interesting ! What a great documentary! I really enjoyed it !!

When people actually understood what good music was...

this is Kyoto

Audio not clear @ 26:35... Can someone tell what she replied when asked to marry Chopin??

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