Interpretation coming to Life: Chopin - Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
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- čas přidán 6. 05. 2020
- In Search of Poetic Understanding :
A study of the interpretation approach and methods of Pnina Salzman and Alfred Cortot
/ Inbar Rothschild © / The Royal Academy of Music, London, 2020
Case Study: Frédéric François Chopin - Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Analysis and Interpretation according to the notes of Pnina Salzman and Alfred Cortot:
Yellow - Frederic Chopin's first edition highlights ;
Blue - Alfred Cortot's comments from his study edition;
Red - Pnina Salzman's comments from scores of pupils;
Black - Inbar Rothschild's analysis comments.
Many thanks to my dear friends and fellow pupils - Yoni Farhi, Efi Hackmey and Eyal Zaliouk for sharing their annotated scores, to the wonderful Oliver Glynn for sound-editing my original recording, and to my fantastic supervisor, Dr. Sarah Callis, for her valuable advice and continued support.
Chopin was the first composer to write an entirely instrumental Ballade, a "Ballade without words" portraying a poetic story where emotions, actions and words speak by sounds alone and develop from the seeds of the opening to their inevitable ending by pure musical means.
Chopin's four ballades were supposedly inspired by the literary ballads of his fellow countryman Adam Mickiewicz (according to Robert Schumann), and express the tales of the composer's beloved homeland in a discreet form to which any listener could relate.
This final ballade, composed in 1842 and dedicated to the Baroness de Rothschild, demonstrates Chopin's lyrical and refined style, his exquisitely innovative and ingenious developments in counterpoint, structure, texture and harmony (especially towards the end of his life), as well as his incredible imaginative, expressive and poetic qualities, which, altogether, sweep the listener along to a fantastic journey within the music.
For me, it speaks the most intimate of human emotions, searching our path, pleading to the universe, fighting impossible battles, reaching brief moments of peace, and forever longing for love.
Inbar Rothschild - Hudba
This has to one of the most distinctive interpretations of this ballad. I'm learning ballad no2 at the moment, i have totally underestimated how difficult it is to play a technically difficult piece with such beautiful interpretation.
You managed to express so many elegant and emotional details, which I cannot even describe. Not to mention the wonderful information that you also provided, which not only helped me to understand your interpretation, but to understand Chopin's music better. What an incredible inspiration!
Thank you so much:)
7:47 - I never understood those two bars at the top of the second page until you played it. ♥️
Outstanding technique and beautiful interpretation
Thank you very much❤
Well, Chopin played like that is fantastic.
Beautiful and so interesting! Thank you Inbar!!
Thank you for the detailed remarks and the great performance
Thank you, with pleasure:)
Very beautiful!
thank you :) this helps me to appreciate the extent of chopin's emotional aspects as well as the musical analysis aspects of things :))
Thank you, but I do not mean to attest to Chopin's own thoughts. While Cortot and Salzman saw a great significance in researching the background to the piece and the circumstances surrounding its composition in order to try and get closer to its original intentions in service of the music and the composer, ultimately - these images, which came up in their process of interpretation, are personal. However, they do hold strong associations with the nature of the music, its movement, direction, texture, and development. Essentially, what I am trying to convey is not a specific idea, but an attempt to explore the ways through which the music speaks to us, examining the causes and effects of this poetic, expressive and metaphorical translation.
@@InbarRothschildPianist thank you so much :)
thanks you so much. This is so helpful for me!
Helpful and inspiring!
superb! amazing playing and detailed notes!
Thank you ❤
I have really enjoyed your interpretation, the piano is singing with your hands:)
Thank you ❤
This video helped a lot with learning this piece. Thanks!
Glad to read this:)
Great
Beautifully done! Really expressive and thoroughly researched. Brava!
Ps: was this Ballade dedicated to your family member, Ms. Rothschild? =D
Thank you:) and I have no idea... never researched my family history.
Absolutely enthralling; thank you. (BTW, is that a Fazioli you played on?)
Thank you! The piano is a Steinway:)
This is the original recording:
czcams.com/video/8apLkC8juDY/video.html
@@InbarRothschildPianist Thank you kindly for that link Inbar; I am eager to listen to it.
Impressive technique, but imo some parts are too fast, for example at 6:25.
Playing this piece rn, awesome performance, but way too fast if you compare with other interpretations, its normally 12 min long. Some passages just feel too rushed in my opinion
Thank you for your thoughts. I suppose there are slower performances/recordings, but there are also others who played in similar tempi or even faster, and they are some of my personal favourites: Cortot, Sofronitsky, Moiseiwitch, Tagliaferro, Francois, Hofmann, Rubinstein, Horowitz and Argerich, to name a few... :)
Which transcription of sheet music is she using because mines don’t have any of the markings I have to interpreted it and I need this sheet please
The basic score I used is the first edition by Maurice Shlesinger (Paris, 1843). Additional notes were taken from Cortot's study edition (marked in blue) and my teacher's hand-written comments on pupils' scores (marked in red), as well as my own analysis (marked in black).
Are you preparing for the next Chopin competition ?
No, I'm writing a Ph.D. at the Royal Academy of Music, and playing:)
@@InbarRothschildPianist Good luck! I'm watching the competition. czcams.com/video/5TdKHCvHa70/video.html
@@Dan1418
Thank you! Enjoy:)
Wait...has she competed in one before? If so, then...she has certainly been the winner before, yes? She is easily the most exquisite interpreter of Chopin in the world, possibly the best ever. In fact, it's possible that even Chopin might prefer some of her renditions. If she has entered such a competition and NOT won, then there is something rotten in the state of Chopinland.
Are you a descendent of the dedicatee? I mean you have the same last name!
in fact... I don't know of such a connection;) but I feel related to the piece❤
you do follow your teachers advice really well... BUT you also make it your own... and very personally stated... we can get tooooo caught up in others folks perspectives... that dosen't seem to be the case here...
Thank you, I appreciate your thoughts. I had the privilege of learning from a great musical/pianistic tradition, but their ultimate goal (and mine) is to express the meaning beyond the notes, as we capture it, and pass it on to the listeners. I'm happy you felt it came through:)