Seymour Bernstein teaches Chopin’s Prelude in E minor

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