freddy kempf - chopin, etude op. 10 no. 6

[lolapple99]

it sounds like shit. . .

[yosoyleonislas]

I find myself at a point in my life where I want to restart it, yet the future of taking this decision or not seems as obscure as this etude...

[NahaleGuitar]

I find it hysterical when people try to treat classical music as if it was metal or rock. they dont rock. It's a glorious piece of work that required an incredible amount of consideration to do so. Frederick chopin, your time of pianists were and is the best time of music.

[NahaleGuitar]

@1Thompsonmusic I know more than you think... So don't criticise by what I say... What I meant was that I read a comment saying something relative to "CHOPIN ROCKS"... that is the incorrect term to talk about classical... what I'm getting at is that he's in the wrong genre to be saying that. It settles as "uneasy".

[NahaleGuitar]

@1Thompsonmusic Alright, thank you for understanding. Its a little belittling how one can be... @rodrigo09031994

[cedricrlongreen]

This is the most mysterious of the etudes

[kringelgirl]

this is too beautiful ....

[highlanderdurp]

stupid question here but is he any relation to wilheim kemf???

[mpoulin]

@highlanderdurp yes, his grandson

[WiccaNx44]

Sin duda lo mejor de Chopin. There's no doubt Chopin is the best.

[wagneristhebest]

people really don't realise how powerful this work it is. Chopin had never wrote, and never did write after this, a piece so experimental in it's use of harmony - symbolized by the sliding augmented fourths at the beginning of the etude. To me, this is the most tortured and despairing of Chopin's works, there is nothing more heart-wrenching or more horror-struck than the opening to this work.

[molossuspiano]

best interpretation ever !  , my favorite song so far .

[acbry1208]

happy b-day chopy:)

[DafniElissa]

@acbry1208 chopy hahahah

[lePistolero]

This is the right tempo, my heart told me it is...

[jcthejazzmaster]

absolutely gorgeous. this man is a master.

[slave2piano]

it depends on your level of composition, but to do something like chopin does? waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aay easier to play any piece

[Moon0Royalty]

Subtle, flowing, dark; it is a work of a genius!

Another comment: Would it be more difficult to compose a piece or play one?

[AllGenreMusic]

@Moon0Royalty Of course composing is much more difficult. Composers are incomparable to those who merely play instruments. Plus if you think about it, composers have to play their own pieces on top of writing it. Nothing to take away from great musicians, but the type of talent and inspiration it takes to create a magnificent piece is totally different and only a handful of people every generation or so ever possesses the talent to create those worthy and lasting pieces.

[MegaDrProfessor]

Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting.

[2002FREDERICK]

freddy genious

[saulsleeper]

Passage starting around 1:45 is genius level composition. Well interpreted here.

[ColeEckhoffMusic]

@pyroprince78 I hear people always talk pieces being the instumental and the song being the words with it, but Mendelssohn's "Song Without Words," groupings.

[pyroprince78]

@ColeEckhoffMusic mendelssohn's songs without words are instrumental pieces. and you're right... a 'piece' is an instrumental composition. a song is when a singer sings words along with the music. :)

[pyroprince78]

PEOPLE THIS IS NOT A SONG!!!! LEARN TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN INSTRUMENTAL PIECES AND VOCAL SONGS!

[KyUx2]

@pyroprince78

Take your tiny little mind out of the presence of the Earth please.

[pyroprince78]

@KyUx2 you are content to lie like cheap carpet. how very very dare you.

[KyUx2]

@pyroprince78 You, sir, are wrong. My contentual absence to said action goes against the perpetual belief that tasteless and absent-minded bourgeois such as yourself have no place in this world.

[btjohnson96]

@KyUx2 There is a time and place to use large words, but when you're using them on youtube in order to make yourself look intelligent, then you just look like a fool.

[anonymousQ45]

wat a cool video. i swear this music made for theatrics. not too many ppl get it if they dont have a visual. one of the great things about chopin is how vivid the tones are. its like living in a sound world. the music IS the substance. anybody understand wat im trying to explain?

[Wolvenblaze]

Best use of the picardy 3rd I've ever heard.

[carodrig]

This is why I love Chopin so much. There's an strange lovely feeling of introspection when I listen to this... Without a doubt this is my favourite Étude of him.

[RCA11DESIGN]

Quanta tolice nesses comentários...!

Um Pianista quando atinge um nivel altíssimo como este, com certeza não esta interessado nesse tipo de crítica...

[blueberr1]

wow the scene was absolutely perfect for the song... I think it would add emotion if the curtains were billowing just a little as the camera zooms in... anyway... awesome!

[Likeafoxow]

lol yeah.

[marston5000]

Freddy Kempf, you are excellent!! I feel the music when you perform.

Keep up the excellent work, Freddy.

[MrFreddyKempf]

marston5000, Thank you. Thank you very much.

jk!

I love it too. I'm NOT Freddy, but I wish I played like him.

[rodrigo09031994]

chopin is just a genius! I fell like I couldn't breath when I listen to this etude! CHOPIN ROCKS!

[ChopinFanatic19]

@rodrigo09031994 YESSS!!! He does!

[smortep3]

@rodrigo09031994 had to open the window too, room's full of chopin's immortality

[molossuspiano]

@rodrigo09031994 YEAH , exactly .

[kaisersjoachim]

It is not magic.

[lifeemusicelife]

i love this whole etude but that last note... i kinda hate it... i mean.. i love chopin so i can't really hate it.. but... yea it kind of destroys it for me a bit... should have just stayed minor

[6lamborghini]

Chopin's clever like that, he probably wrote it to piss you off.

[horekar]

Ahahah xD That comment made my day! XD

[6lamborghini]

Pisses me off? No, haha, NEVER!

I love Chopin, my comment was in reference to someone else.

:[)

[Agomongo1235]

@6lamborghini Lol I am paying the easy version and it's pissing me off! XD

[VinnyTN]

it's a bit like walking through a dark tunnel and then finally reaching the end.

Thats how i imagine it anyway

[benfio3]

spooky and sorrowful. you can feel and see the angst in both kempf's hand's and chopin's heart. the sorrow just came flowing right out of him. the dark lighting also helps to create the mood. a wonderful performance! btw is that his house? he must be really rich! i wish i could live in a house like that!

[IrenkaKaspar]

Oh - oh it breaks my heart! Chopin! What's wrong, my darling? I wish you didn't have to be so sad all the time - and yet I love you when you're sad!

[Darkboy2525]

What a wonderfull speech ^^

[hammer29106]

well, i can undestand that. some find some things easier that others

[pcpiratepete]

The last note is the happiest. I have just completed a 3 hour search or this piece... going thru all of th etudes...why? Because of the last note.... Thats why! Theres a few more dark reasons not applicable to you here... now.

xD

[penguinpuss]

I love the emo blue background, matches the piece perfectly!

[1antero]

@penguinpuss fuck off whith ur emo comments

[cloudftw93]

hehe im watching it at 41000 veiws exactly : )

[tharhodyhomieKdollaz]

i love the last note of this etude

[Minoru73]

Kempf is an expert for making musicality in a song.. =)

[shakaama]

this is the exact tempo i play this at, i don't like it fast nor slow, this is just right. the piece is supposed to be andante, i see so many videos of people playing this vivace or lento. I just don't get it.

[skryabyn]

Very artistic. The entire aura of music and setting combined create an inexplicable reaction in the viewer/listener. Quite the production, in my opinion.

[PianoGirl555]

Oh, thanks :)

[PianoGirl555]

Whats with the light??? its soo dark...

why is this called an etude its so slow

[NickThePianist]

Etudes don't need to be fast. The point of an etude is to improve technique.

[FranzofL]

This is one of the hardest etudes!

Have you ever tried it? It is nearly impossible to sound just right... The bizarre chromatics and harmonics are dreadfully difficult to sound. It takes magic to make it not make it sound like a jumble of random notes. It takes no special technique, but takes incredible musicality.

It really is impossibly and inffinatley difficult!

[freshechidna]

what's so hard about it? i think it's pretty easy

[LongDriveChamp03]

it's not exactly a technical etude. it's more of an etude in rhythm and finger independence. Aside from that, it's in e-flat minor and switches to c-sharp minor in the middle and then back again, this makes it somewhat difficult to read but with patience it's not too bad.

[arika002]

and phrasing too.

[hammer29106]

f.y.i. every etude is hard in some way. it doesent have to be fast. some etudes like this one focus on musicality. if each voice in this etude was played in the same dynamic, it woud sound terrible.

[freshechidna]

all I was saying was that it's not difficult for me. of course it might be difficult for others, though. i find it easy to bring out the melody, but others might not have as much practice with that technique, naturally.

[ulsbolde89]

I will set this example as my goal.

[Scale52]

Vraiment magnifique..

[vladdegs]

I think it works at this speed but only just!  SIng, sing, sing --- location, location, location, education, education, erm ..... medication, medication, medication ...if you catch my drift. Great piece, nicely played with a powerful cantabile, and deep yearning.

[beryllium2]

wow... I was about to post that exact same word... then I saw somebody had already beaten me too it... it is indeed sublime.

[rptatbud]

to see this peace performed with so much constrained emotion signifies it to be even more heartbreaking. Truly beautiful. Thank you.

[pola88]

i think is too cool. he s the best in the whole world. he plays this etude like no one else. i Love Kempf =)

[max140280]

Chopin wrote "andante", not "adagio"

[freshechidna]

you couldn't walk at this pace?

[PianoMan8912]

Etudes were truly exercises before they were romanticized in the 19th century by people like Chopin, Paganini, and Liszt.

They then became incredible nuggets of musical exercise, as well as a normal technical exercise.

[gasparmc]

great interpretation.

[laurion69]

Che pezzo meraviglioso!

Che pezzo meraviglioso!

Che pezzo meraviglioso!

[Lucithen]

this is probably the most disturbing, haunting etude of Chopin's...it sounds like some silent agony, desperation...an infinite, yet silent snowstorm...

it reminds me somehow of Liszt's chasse neige.

[prestomoltoagitato]

thats almost Exactly how i feel about this piece, its for closed drapes. some chords he chose in this etude are so beautiful. whats weird is that i see snow also when i hear chasse neige.

[callenishss]

its so technically easy y is it an etude

[xxh3llfir3xx]

trust me it is not that easy, Chopin did not completely mean for his etudes to be technically easily. He did what most people did not do: and that is make it alot about musicality as well. This etude is probably a mix of the both, because you are training your distinction between melody and accompaniment while using your musical judgement to correctly play out the song in your own interpretation.

[gjwr]

NICELY put

[ilwmb]

i wonder why its called an etude..i havent played it yet but is it really an etude in its original scence?

[carlosq]

Really, you could call it an etude too as each of Chopin's etude challenges different skill of the pianist. However is not a conventional etude.

[namarcil]

this etude teaches teh pianist how to play melody and accompaniment in the same hand, it works teh third fourth and fifth fingers of teh right hand more so, very very very useful, esp when plaing his other works and tat of liszt

[Engeldwh]

I love you Freddy Kempf~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[0barrylloyd]

Where is he from/live?

[remyrem12]

He is from England, but last I heard he lives in Berlin now.

[pincheruso]

You guys are kidding,arent you?

[lovelesspierrot]

hauntingly beautiful

[classicguitar19990]

io l'ho visto live.... MOLTO bravo davvero :-)

[raticida123456]

stormless

[mrusnislava]

This version is the perfect version for me!! \

Bravo!

[ckcclinton]

so sad T_T

[helene1889]

absolutlely perfect. Nothing to add. It's really wonderfull.

[albert1675]

bravo

[davisville17]

Wow ttag thanks for uploading all of these Kempf videos, MUCH appreciated, I'll subscribe to keep updated on any other classical piano vids

[hisflamingrace]

i'm playing this piece as apart of an hour long recital on Sunday. i'm really looking forward to it.

[chopinscoffeebuddy]

I saw him walking down the street yesterday! Should've said hi... but he looked in a hurry, he had a concert that night.

[TheTradge]

Fantastic! Kempf really knows his Chopin, this is simply beautiful! It's just a shame there's only 7 videos of Freddy on YouTube

[Maelstrom000]

I know of eleven. Two of them are not tagged properly. Try search playlists for Freddy Kempf. You'll find mine.

[Havenscope]

Absolutely wonderful ability to sustain the notes without overdoing it! That is exactly why this etude is so hard (As is op. 10, nr. 3)

[digitxlbxth]

I saw Freddy playing Rachmaninoff last weekend...he's got such a beautifully romantic presence to him, and it really comes out in his pieces; especially in the more 'light handed' ones.

[monobrow638]

which rachmaninof piece was it? cuz i saw him playing grieg the once (he was awsome)

[ABNERMASTER]

es una de mis interpretaciones favoritas y mi estudio favorito de chopin

[kpunkt]

adorable

[lestatsoulstar]

amazing! does anyone has the sheetmusic of this song?

[Blappymp]

Very delicate.

[LVB1770]

A very unique and wonderful interpretation! Nice separation of voices between the hands and nothing is over done or under done. Beautiful camera work too. Kempf is already great but I look forward to hearing him 10 years from now.