Rare Chopin documentary with Byron Janis Pt. 2
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2015
- Despite the quality I need to share this amazing and rare Chopin documentary with you. If anyone knows where I can order a DVD or high quality version (Europe) please reply :)
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I'm just now studying the marvelous Chopin, and I love this documentary.
Mazurki Fryderyka Chopina to kwintesencja polskości. Fryderyku będziemy Pana kochać aż do końca świata ❤️❤❤
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.
Excellent documentary. Thanks for sharing.
Best documentary I've ever seen on Chopin. Thanks so much for posting.
Wspaniałe i ponadczasowe. Muzyka Fryderyka Chopina będzie zachwycać wiecznie. Dzieło stuleci i symbol naszego narodu polskiego ❤
Very fascinating! Thank you !!
Such a great history -‐---thankyou greatly
What a horror story. Thank you Byron for you deep insights into the life of Chopin.
It could have been horror...had his life not ended in triumph 🎆🌹👑
The man was a genius artist who died in the state of grace - a saint.
@@rmp7400He was certainly no saint, but it's good if he died in a state of grace.
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 photos of Sand are wonderful to see
22:44
She was a feminist before the hour, she was more of a man like matron than a graceful feminine woman, she wasn't suited to Chopin at all she was more of a administrator and power hungry woman. Chopin was complex and only that might explain why they were a couple but it couldn't last.
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.
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whats the 2nd piece?
Chopin Scherzo No.3, Op. 39.
Audio not clear @ 26:35... Can someone tell what she replied when asked to marry Chopin??
I too would like to know for sure. The piano started just as he was saying Solange's reply. It sounded like, "What? Marry that sick old fool?" I think Solange may have said it just to put off her mother. The wonderful book Chopin's Funeral describes mostly a warm, affectionate, and respectful bond between Solange and Chopin, along with a lot of friction and resentment between Solange and her mother almost from the time Solange was born. Chopin considered Solange quite gifted musically. I think he and Solange might have been more suited to each emotionally, although Solange certainly wasn't equipped to take care of Chopin the way Georges did. She probably picked up the negativity toward Chopin from the way Georges belittled him in their last years together.
@@geatorella A divorced woman with another man's children is always a pitfall for any single man. No matter how well he'll get along and the affair functional, divorced women should be avoided by single men. But for Chopin, money was probably the main unspoken reason, it was practical. Life is cruel, his health was the reason he wasn't able to marry and maybe also limited what he could have done in life.
@@geatorella "What marry that sick old, what a folly ?" , not "fool". Chopin was never a fool, he had aristocrat manners and when he became playful in close company was at appropriate times. He could be of very happy and light humor when he was younger as illustrated by some of the light hearted waltzes and some etudes. But of course, sickness made that difficult in later year but he remained gentle and always in good manners. Apparently he lacked reciprocity of generosity, but i assume it's because he gave his all to music composition and got little in return. He had not much left to give.
15:30 Johnny Depp’s inspiration for Edward Scissor hands.
Who is Johnny Depp?
16:03. 19:39 - 20:30. 21:08- 25:55-
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!
Not the actual one...but not far from the actual one!
@@rmp7400 Instruments can be very different, even if the serial number is 1 digit different;)