Chopin Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante Op. 22 - Thomas Schwan, piano

Linda interpretação!!! Einfach glaenzend!!!

As a Chopin aficionado myself your playing is absolutely rapturously stunningly sublime and beautiful!!!! Many thanks for your posting. It makes my heart very happy to listen while you play!!!!!

Keep it up.playing with the silence is the highest level of music.

Brillint performance

Perfect, sensitive Chopin.
Thank you for such a precious performance.

Beautiful performance. So natural, and a pleasure to watch how you play the instrument, so elegantly. Experienced plenty of goosebumps. Bravo! 👏👏👏👏

Many years ago I told Rafal Blechacz was a superb rare pianist. Without any doubt I can said the same of you, Thomas!. Superb renditions!!!

👏👏👏 great! 👍

Underrated channel, as a whole and in every part. I sense that you have been about the "real stuff" for a long time, and that the documentation is catching up. And you are young, which is to say, keep plugging. You are obviously deep enough to understand what accolades are worth, however, keep doing what you are doing, and at least from time to time give an eye to keeping body and soul together as it were. You will bring more people much joy.
Cheers,
---NJ.

Che stile! Bravissimo!!

Excellent as always, perfect rendering of all elements! Chopin would be smiling...

Really good ❤

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Thomas, amazing as always. This is my favorite piece currently in my mind of all time. Maybe because I have listened to it from so many other performers. You play this so very well really, just wow. But I have to say, every time, I hear someone play this song, I hear so many new things, and I feel I am actually starting to hear Chopin thinking. I'm sorry to pivot to Chopin now but he is so talented and takes us all on an incredible harmonic journey I am amazed. You again, show us these things. Power, then softness, then technical prowess, then quiet arpeggios...it is all so much emotion if you think about it. Isn't it just like LIFE? The ups and down, the pain, then happiness, hardness, softness, intermediate....the journey. Your technical prowess on the piano is on another level from your peers.

Just about the most perfect Chopin playing I can imagine. The kind of outwardly relaxed technique (in itself a marvel of digital independence and perfect support) that can appear almost "detached", and yet, intense control and concentration that makes everything appear to be effortless, while imparting a huge range of emotion and expression are all immediately apparent here. The descriptions I have read of Chopin's own playing indicate what must have been a similar result: maximum effect with minimal strain. Unmatched passion in the midst of an almost otherworldly restraint. As a fellow keyboard player, I find that just watching Thomas's videos is a musical and technical education in itself. Of course, it is all at the service of the composer and the music and it shows one thing I have always felt: that there is an underlying universal keyboard technique that informs great artistry, regardless of the instrument. It could apply to the harpsichord, the clavichord and the organ, or to any iteration of the piano from Cristofori through to Fazioli; the underlying technical principles: perfect hand formation /finger position, perfectly balanced support and flexibility from wrist, arm and shoulder and, from a purely musical perspective, the sublime truth that music grows out of silence. You put together all of those elements and you have perfect playing, as we can hear with this present performance. The technical and musical assurance requires vast amounts of practice; but, underlying all of this is a deep "knowing" And that is the preserve of a vanishingly small number of artists. I have striven my entire career to achieve this, and, here it is, all perfectly laid out by a master pianist..