Seymour Bernstein teaches Chopin's Prelude in E minor

Seymour Bernstein teaches Chopin's Prelude in E minor

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0:00 Seymour has a surprise for you

1:34 Performance of Chopin E minor Prelude

4:16 Finding your own interpretive ideas

5:24 Chopin knew he was dying

6:33 Preliminary swing stroke

8:40 How to play two-note slurs

10:21 “All piano playing is a series of illusions”

12:05 Controlling repeated chords

14:58 ‘Alla breve’ does not mean ‘faster’

16:25 How not to play the Moonlight Sonata

18:44 Romantic hairpins are not what you think

21:16 How to play hairpins in a Brahms Intermezzo

22:40 More proof from Fanny Mendelssohn

24:36 Irrefutable evidence from Chopin’s G minor Ballade

26:36 “Rob Peter, but don’t pay Paul.”

28:35 Crescendo means ‘get softer’!

31:47 What Chopin learned from Bach

33:44 How to voice chords on the piano

38:08 How does a piano produce dynamics?

39:34 How not to bang out a crescendo

41:58 The most profound chord in the E minor Prelude

43:32 How practicing music translates to life

Join Seymour Bernstein as he re-introduces you to one of Chopin's most popular and tragic works, the E Minor Prelude, Op. 28 No. 4. 

In this in-depth lesson, Bernstein not only demonstrates the physical mechanics necessary to realize your expressive intentions in this work, he reveals how the Prelude contains information crucial to your general development as a pianist and a person.

Recorded February 2020

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