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  • the mood is pretty dark for a nocturne.

  • This is so beautiful! Great interpretation!

  • PURA TRISTEZA..............FAZ COM QUE VOLTEMOS PARA DENTRO DE NÓS MESMOS...

    FORÇA, SUAVIDADE, FORÇA............ BELÍSSIMO!

    CLARA

  • For anyone who played WoW, Matt Uelmenn took this piece as an inspiration for the music that plays in especially Honor Hold but also for many other Alliance bases located in Outland. Check for Outland General Music 1 on Youtube, you'll see the similarity.

  • good..

    

  • why does this sound so familiar?

  • very beautiful piece!

  • Yo no conocía la música clásica como la estoy conociendo ahora, pero estoy comprendiendo que escuchar esta maravilla de música es viajar.

  • man!! this piece has attitude everywhere!! this isn't the hardest or the fastest piece of chopin but its one of the most emotional piece. I thought Chopin was crying when he wrote this...

  • @ernestincubus2 but he's not gay :/

  • @ZPotch

    Correct. George Sand is actually a woman. Although she did wear pants and smoked like a chimney, she definitely was female.

  • Holy shit this is beutiful

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    I just posted my interpretation of Nocturne opus 9 ,No.2. I would appreciate your comments. Please click on my video shown just above this comment (im the guy with black t-shirt)

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  • how many fingers does he have! lol

  • @lakerat1996 You think that's hard? Check out any of Rachmaninoff's pieces

  • @bananaphone951

    I won't go back to see who you are replying too, but "hard" does not mean fastest or most complex. Chopin was a master of emotion. The "hard" part about this piece (along with any of his other's) is not hitting the correct keys, but instilling in the listener a moving emotional experience. Chopin was a master at this. This is not, nor can never be, questioned.

  • @gamminggod303 Perhaps I should have used the term "technically complex?" That's what I meant; perhaps the greatest piano player in the world could make heart and soul more moving than a lesser player playing this piece, but this piece would still be more "technically complex" than heart and soul.

  • @bananaphone951 ahah this afternoon I just decided to leave (sob) the 4th moment musical of Rach for this...I love them both, I adore them...but yet Rach is too difficolt for my poor hands. And I did others Nocturnes of Chopin, finding them in armony with my touch and soul I decided for this wonderful one.

  • The first time I heard this, I had just moved far away from the home I grew up in. The majority of the piece had me longing for home, knowing I could never go back. The end part ended up finally taking me back there, evoking memories of my room, the trees, the grass glowing in the sunlight, the rainy days indoors, the snow, and just the magic of that place, the last image being of the last time I saw it. I can not only see it, but feel it, and even now it never fails to put tears in my eyes.

  • beautiful

  • Very Nice :) Classic Chopin 

  • i love this piece sooo much

  • @AirRaj i love it so much too now.... i kind of regret spending so much time on op 27 no 2 LOL i totally underestimated op 27 no 1!!! so much sorrow, sight reading through it i was nearly brought to tears toward the end of the first page in my edition!!

  • @bummy33 soooo beautiful. I'm at a loss for words to describe what I feel/think every time I hear this.

  • @bummy33 all chopin nocturnes are wonderful

    "understimated"... do you know op.15 no.3? they all always play the first one! op.55 no.2? it's much more beautiful than op.55 no.1

  • @newFranzFerencLiszt :D i'll have to take a look at the sheet music for those two as i'm not familiar with them yet! although i do love the op 15 no 1!

  • @bummy33 the same for op.37/2 in g major, which has a lyric and sad major part in the b section. try Lympany for this

  • big shit

  • @closeup782

    Big shit indeed, quite an amazing piece of music. 

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    I just posted my interpretation of Nocturne opus 9 ,No.2. I would appreciate your comments. Please click on my link 'alfonsopablo'

    next to this comment to listen.

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  • How is it posible to exist such beautty in the music?

  • heroic ramparts song?

  • @Chalax92 Yes, it is :) Hellfire Peninsula on Alliance Bases.

  • Listen from 00:44 and compare to the Alliance Outland theme in TBC in WoW. It is uncanny, I couldn't believe it when I realized where I heard this before. Sadly Youtube won't let me link it in the comment.

  • @ganima22 I'm not saying that it's copied, just that the WoW composers obviously have good taste. :)

  • I haven't played piano in years and I'm trying to learn this piece. What's throwing me off is that each measure doesn't begin with the lowest note in the left hand. It's as if the entire left hand is shifted 1 beat forward in time.

  • what level would you say this piece is? I would really like to play it, but i'm not certain whether it's worth even asking my teacher for. I don't want to seem stupid to ask for such a piece in case it's out of my level 8 reach

  • @Dunderhead36 these works cannot conform the the flatness of grade and level. They are only as good as you can make them. :)

  • @Pianoguy32 i understand that, but reasonably what kind of experience would be needed? Since school started, I've been pretty busy, and I don't want to jump into something absolutely difficult and committing.

  • @Dunderhead36 I'm not sure which "Level 8" you're going by (I'm from the USA). In Canada this piece is considered ARCT or Diploma-Level 1, but it's not as difficult as many other Chopin pieces on that level (Fantasie-Impromptu, the etudes, Heroic Polonaise, or even the Berceuse).

    Of course the best thing to do might be just to ask your teacher and see what he/she recommends. But if you want my opinion, if you think you can learn this piece it's certainly worth a try.

  • I played this for a recital and competition! :) This music piece has really taken me a looong way :) lol!

  • Whenever I listen to this piece, I imagine myself sleeping in a boat in the middle of the ocean...the dark waters rocking me back and forth until a great wave swallows me whole and I slowly drift into the depths...

  • I saw Mr Rubenstein twice in concert, 1949 and 1953. What a privilege it was to see and hear this great man .... the greatest pianist in my lifetime.

  • Chopin (1810-1849) wrote during a very revolutionary period in European History. That saw the birth of nationalism and industrial revolution. Do not disconnect the musician from his social context. But this particular work starts in adagio man facing a problem the crescendo in the middle stirs the soul. I think this ultimately is the purpose of great music to stir the soul. But Why these particular notes instead of others? Ask yourself that. Poetry with musical notes not words.

  • @MultiJosefus

    What's a soul ?

  • My theory: If you do a lot of research into the composer and his work you can shed some light into the music. The true piano had just been invented. Chopin was composing in an experimental mode on a brand new instrument. It is very hard to visualize internal workings of psyche when you listen to this opus. But the human emotions evoked by particular adagios are clearly represented. Listen to his etudes. The man was a genius of musical drama . He wrote during the romantic period very tumultuous

  • lots of talk, why can't you simply enjoy the music? this is music not a talk with the shrink you can't "analyse" it at all! I mean, does anybody know what he felt, what he thought... Do you need any words, let the meaning of it be what this song awakes in you.

  • @amadalimma

    For me, analyzing is is synonymous with enjoying it. If I were to just sit and listen to it, it would carry with it the same substance and depth that other musics do.

  • @mahler151, Analyzing it "Musically" is possible and ok, NOT "psychologically", he is not a patient, this is not a talk session who knows about the EGO, ID or whatever relations in this song I never even heard about psychoanalysis on a song. If I'm mistaken please paste me the article, or the name of the person who wrote that theory.Trying to analyse Chopin is VERY pretentious and if one was to do it serious would be NOT on YOUTUBE...

  • Continuing....My only statement is that psychology, psychoanalysis is something serious and when you want to do such work with people, dead or not, you shall Never expose them this way, if you want to study these relations there is a proper place and way to do it. This ethical inadequacy is not compatible with the kind of decorum necessary for this "work", and the simple lack of sources and material to make this assumptions make it anti-ethical by definition, not possible to be taken serious

  • oh my god. the beginning of the second page,,,oh my god. the kind of sadness u can't express in words.

  • i think everyone can have there own interpretation of this piece, becauce we will never know what Chopin's thoughts were..

  • Wow, some of you guys have some really overcomplicated interpretations of this music.

    I just think its about a guy jacking off, trying hard to battle 'wankers remorse'. Hes depressed at first and starts jacking it, he keeps going and going, slowly but surely he forgets about his guilt, at 3:21 he cums, immediately after the extreme guilt and shame returns. Hes lays there wallowing in his pity, until 4:45 where he tells himself to stop being a pussy and then goes about his daily business

  • @sharky168 You deserve a fucking medal for that comment, that's all I'm saying.

  • To use the two Freudian terms you would have to also include the third term, the super-ego. The three are not about good and evil. They are about instinctual desires, organization and realism, and finally morality or judgment. You also leave out the final beautiful harmony of both hands at 4:42 through to the end.

  • to powerful! 

  • @beakyboo no

  • Music is subjective. It can mean different things to everyone. I just close my eyes and let it take me on its journey.

  • Yeah, it's either all that Id and Ego bullshit, or it's just a really nice sounding composition.

  • @itsdavideo Just because you have no interest in a closer analysis (for instance, one that makes us of a hermeneutic to explain structural tension) doesn't mean no one else should be allowed to.

    Enjoying it because "it's a really nice sounding composition" doesn't rule that out.

  • Chopin used to swoon, rock torso up down almost putting ear to keyboard only to lean back head high eyes closed .The parissienne ladies were so moved they fainted. More than mere musician he was a showman. Passionate music always executed with bdramatism accentuate high notes banging fingers on keyboard producing rich sound dramatic effect. Lots of pedal for echo. Sound of piano indoors creates resonance effect capable of disturbing soul. Frederic knew his instrument like his hand. (part2) end.

  • Where did you get all this musical psychology? Wrong it is not about psyche alone it is physical body struggling with all life throws at us.Unrequited love passion pathos catharsis the ominous storm cloud approaches usual contrast of bass versus treble notes high vs low register leading to appasionato sostenuto middle crescendo pianissimo fortissimo struggle passion great romance shattered by reality ends in relative calm life's ups and downs. Correct me if I am wrong. (part1 )

  • @PoeticIsDead Yup. I hate when people try to overlay a story on top of a piece that is fine by itself.

  • @PoeticIsDead Poor and middle class people are starved for culture, but youtube is helping with that by making this music accessible. I think that's wonderful.

  • @PoeticIsDead You psychoanalyze him for psychoanalyzing the song, and then race-bait. Grow up.

  • What's with the racist comments? I just want to hear Chopin...

  • @PoeticIsDead Wow, you're dark. Just cill out and let all people enjoy the music. If there are people on here who only listen to this to make themselves feel more intellectual than they really are, that's fine. It won't hurt you.

  • I really like this piece! Chopin was a very good composer ( :

  • @shinobi1984 Dude everything is racist!!!

  • @PlainCometDust You Minority Fucks!

  • Fucking White people...you never waste a chance to claim superiority over everyone!

  • I agree with tokyouniverse07 except i wouldn't have said the things @ white people since I am white and so was Chopin - but really! just enjoy instead of having to analyse something to death!!! Your ego and id stuff is meaningless anyway.

  • Fucking white people shut the fuck up and enjoy the song...white people always trying to explain everything..

  • @tokyouniverse07 This is not about explaining or analyzing, it is about imagining.

  • @tokyouniverse07 DUDE THAT WAS SO RACIST we all humans try to explain everything its our nature its part of what makes us evolve, so are you telling me only white people evolve?

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  • I was lost untill I took a Music Appreciation class. Once I heard Chopin's music I felt as if I had been reborn. No disrespect to the many other great composers , but Chopin's music soothes my soul.

  • @rsalinas956 Not trying to make a stab at you, but I always found Music Appreciation classes funny. Should you really have to take classes to appreciate music?

  • @Slide2671 good point man, tbh I would love to teach those course in College

  • @Slide2671 It was a choice between Art App or Music App, glad I chose the latter. No disrespect to the artists of the world.

  • @rsalinas956 It's understandable.

  • This piece of music represents a true gift. Enough said.

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  • That's interesting. That score doesn't match the one I've got, nor the ones I find elsewhere on the internet and download. In this vid, in the tenth measure, the top note in the second arpeggio is an F#. In every other score I can find, it's an A. And Rubinstein is clearly playing an A there.

    I wonder what's up with that.

  • Just sit back and enjoy the poet of the piano. Chopin was the master of the nocturne and Rubinstein was one of the great pianist of our day. Put it together and you have something to sooth the soul.

  • @Edou467 I agree with you on trying to 'speculate' things and I think human intellect would be nowhere without the ability of speculations.

    But hey, to put it bluntly I felt piss too when you saw the phrase "this piece represents..." I'm not saying you're at fault. I don't think anyone beside Chopin could say what the piece is about. We can speculate and our speculation may even be better than his, but i think we should reserve the phrase "this piece represents..." for him, in his honour.

  • 20 people have no sense.

  • This is the most lyrical and somber ode to the possiblity of gay marriage I have ever heard

  • Chopin pieces always seems to soothe me even though I am stressed, thank you Chopin :D

  • I think the "ego" comment is interesting. I would have given it a thumbs up, if it wasn't said in such a declarative way. Personally, I think that this music is completely beyond expression in words. It is too complex, too mysterious, and too spiritual. It truly moves me, and trying to express this piece in any other way than playing it, just seems like an injustice to its beauty...Well, that's my opinion! :P

  • @monobrow638 - you are completely right. Edou467's conjectures are possibly mildly entertaining and they are egotistical and self serving. But what Chopin expresses here with this magical and spiritual work trivializes them completely. Music is far beyond words and theories. It expresses the inexpressible. Within a few years we'll have new theories to replace egos and ids - but Chopin's music is timeless.

  • @davidzen011 I am sorry but I don't understand how my conjectures are egotistical. As if getting zero or one thousand "likes" will make my life any better. I agree that music is magical but it does not mean it shouldn't be reduced to words. Chopin probably transposed his music to other elements of life, either concrete or fictional. I am not trying to impose a theory behind this chef-d'oeuvre. Just trying to imagine something that fits the music.

  • @davidzen011

    and yet there you are objectifying it, while saying it is not categorical. amusing.

  • @pita3451

    Absolutely true

  • @davidzen011 You both know so much about this kind of music, i've only began listening to classical, although i've listend to soundtracks for years. Its fascinating to see there is so much yet to be 'understood' about this genre of music :)

  • The only ego on display here is that of Edou467 attempting to dominate proceedings with a special brand of bullshit.

  • Oh, Rubinstein, nobody plays Chopin like you did. Sorry, Horowitz, you rocked the romantics overall, but Rubinstein's Chopin gets me right in the heart.

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  • Exquisitely sad

  • ooOOOo so haunting;D

  • he knows what i like

  • Nagyon jóóó. :))

    

  • When you go against the grain or form of the work you are not interpreting but willfully distorting the work -you may call it interpretation but the composer would

    be furious and let you know "that's not the way I wrote it !" and tell you it is wrong .

    Chopin was known to have said this about Liszt playing some of his works with the

    added "play it as I wrote it or leave it alone " At the 5th. bar this performer begins to

    contradict the written score so" interpretation" is wrong .

  • The interpretation is wrong due to the faulty phrasing .

  • @dziady1 Interpretations can't be wrong. You can dislike them, but interpretations are something of someone own. If for him it's right, it's right, but you can still dislike it.

  • Eternal Sonata,may Chopin's music forever live on.

  • I get arrested to this music

  • i smoke weed with chopin

  • at around 2:20 it starts to sound like beethoven's moonlight sonata a little bit...

    love this song though<3

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  • @Edou467 I think you should say "the big Ego" or "the superego", because the Id its diferent. The Ego controls the Id an the Libido for "his" satisfaction, not necessarily sexual, on the other hand, the Superego controls the moral, but, I think your'e right in the emotional an the human aspects.

  • @BananaCereza The Ego does not control the Id. The Id is independent and has no contact with reality. It is only trying to satisfy desires such as hunger, thirst, sex. The superego "controls" the Id by trying to satisfy desires through morally acceptable ways. For example, if you want to eat, the Superego will help satisfy the need by "telling" the person to buy food instead of eating another person, which is what the Id would do without external control from the Ego and the Superego.

  • @Edou467 Except that the concept of the Id and the Ego were not developed until 70 years after Chopin died.

  • @h2oeddownazn Does not mean it wasn't already there. ;)

  • @h2oeddownazn Yes, so ? It's fiction, man. Just imagine and feel !

  • @Edou467 i never thought that there are people as highly intelligent as you are!!!!

    i m sure that you are living a happy life, and i m very grateful for this..

  • @Edou467 that was genius!

  • @Edou467

    Wonderful comments for this video

    Let us try to keep it visible

  • @Edou467 mind-blowing idea. the musician just thought it sounded cool.

  • @Edou467 right, because freud was born before chopin died.

  • @Edou467 Chopin was in his grave before Freud was even born. I don't think you can ascribe Freud's psychology to Chopin's work.

  • @jdepps13 Maybe it is acting as a testament to his genius. It shows how incredibly superior Chopin's mind was to the late generations of minds.

  • @Edou467

    yes, well before Freud described any of these parts of the conscious and unconscious mind

  • @Edou467 that is, if ego exists...but what if it doesn't? Truly, what is the ego? What if, carefully observed, the ego is but mumbo jumbo of memories, feeling, perception, and thought (which is resulted from the previous three)? That's my opinion, but the idea was taken from someone else's.

  • @Edou467 you got all that from a song? Very imaginative dude.

  • @Edou467 too bad Freudian "ego" and "id" malarky wasn't around when Chopin composed this

    I feel bad for someone that interprets music in and with such idiotic terms

  • @Edou467 Why the fuck is this thumbed up so much? Are people really this stupid?

  • @Edou467 That's you talking, not the music.

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  • @Edou467 How depressing.....

  • @Edou467 wtf, i thought it was just a nice piece but mmkay.

  • @Edou467 Firstly, I think you mean the Superego, and secondly, there's about 100 years of difference between this song and Freud's theory of the Id, Ego and Superego. I don't think this piece is really representative of it, maybe it reminds you of it... but it's certainly not what it represents...

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  • you can find free piano sheet music @ sheetsearch . com

  • Please remove beaver from these comments! Embrace this music of human existence both pain and pleasure as felt by Chopin many years ago.

  • @BieberBabyBopper lol are you trolling with this?

  • @BieberBabyBopper What the hell it's wrong with u that's why i hate bieber's fans u think that u stupid bieber it's the best when hi's not talent at all chopin it's brilliant it's a masterpiece and there's nothing satanic in his music seriously if u like destroy your brain with justin bieber's musci do it just don't come to mess up with the real music

  • @jessnk7 Are you familiar with verbal irony?

  • @BieberBabyBopper dude....that's just 6/8 time :P

  • @BieberBabyBopper you're a complete idiot? if anything mr bieber is "the devil" with his mass-produced souless music...

  • @BieberBabyBopper

    umm.

    Are you being serious, or are you trolling?

  • @BieberBabyBopper Are you kidding me? Chopin is one of the masters of music and his music will never die and what does your "tactics that modern heavy metal bands use" have to do with the beauty of classical music? Shut up and listen instead of putting down lies.

  • @BieberBabyBopper are you retarded? Better yet, has Beiber caused such brain damaged that you think that this classical masterpiece is Satanic? You really are a fool

  • @BieberBabyBopper Are you effing kidding me ? REally now? You are the most stupid person I have ever heard of in my whole life. You're saying that Chopin is bad for your brain? Look at Bieber, that's more damaging your brain. You didn't turn out smart because you listen to fucking bieber, okay? So stfu & gtfo.

  • @BieberBabyBopper mind if i call my piano teacher? i bet she would smack you to the ground :)

  • Rubinstein has you holding your breath before every measure, absolutely superb!

  • The very notes themselves are like tears of agony.

  • if only this piece could be put into words....

  • @ReedDollaz15 thats one of the great things about music. it allows you to express your innermost emotions in a much deeper way than words can express.

  • SUPERB..

  • @FREDDYHEAD20092010 I'll even give my self a thumbs down ugh that was retarded

  • Very relaxing:D

  • The first part of this song is used in World Of Warcraft in Outlands in the aliance bases. Neato!

  • i like the notation as a supplement to the music. It really helps in visualizing the construction of the piece

  • beautiful. i dont wanna argue about time signatures or 16th notes or anything. i just wanna be able to listen to this piece. it's simply magnificent <3

  • why is there 12 eighth notes on the bottom line in the peice is in 4/4?

  • @helio231 they are not eighths...look harder..the sheet is not that clear :P

  • @helio231 they're sextuplets

  • This music brings me back home to myself, reminds me what it is to be human, to have a soul... So easy to forget.

  • who would dislike this?

  • @ultraviolent29 Absolutely, rubinstein made​here a realy beautiful interpretation. Although I prefer the nocturnes by Claudio Arrau, who is more sensible, suffering and tender than Rubinstein... in one word, is more expressive.

  • C# <3

    

  • Good to see people recognizing REAL music.... (8

    wanna ask you somthing..

    do you play any instrument ?

    do you know how to perfome/read a sheet?

  • @NatRmrz yes :)

  • @robicool hahahha i just saw your profile picture xD it's more than obvious you play an instrumen :P

  • meraviglioso

  • Hi there,thank you for most magnificent  notes.cheers!!!

  • watch in the sky full of stars and listen this on your mp3!

  • I'm almost sad I never heard this gorgeous nocturne before. Chopin was such a unique, imaginative innovator of harmony. He was the true father of impressionism even before the word existed.