One of the things I really like with this age is that everybody can be creative, and that so many creative voices are heard. One example is this youtube channel:
She is a relatively ordinary pianist who primarily works as a teacher. But for this endeavor, she has taken onto herself to create a large amount of videos on various topics that are useful for beginners and intermediates in piano playing. With a positive mind and focused and consistent work there is a market for any message, and so also for this one: there are many potential listeners to her videos. In the video above, she goes through all of the different types of pieces by Chopin, and discusses them in terms of level of difficulty. The 4 ballades - which I will play as my main programme on concerts this autumn - are rated as some of the most difficult pieces he ever wrote, and all of them they have the highest or next-to-highest rating of difficulty.
Apart from this, she also did another overview of the Chopin pieces - this time identifying her favorites. Again the 4 ballades appear, and about the 4th one she says: "If I would choose one piece that encapsulates the entire romantic era, I would chose this one". The 4th ballade is, together with the 1st one, also my own personal favorite. As so often, those two are also the two most difficult ones.
If you want to hear me play and go through all of the 4 ballades, the first and next opportunity is outside of Linköping in beautiful Bjärka Säby, on August 10, at 16.00.
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