Brahms - Michelangeli, Ballade Op.10 No. 1 in D minor
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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (January 5, 1920 June 12, 1995) was an Italian classical pianist. He has been regarded as among the most commanding and individual piano virtuosos of the 20th century, among names such as Horowitz and Richter. Along with Ferruccio Busoni, he is often considered the most important Italian pianist.
Born in Brescia, Italy, he began music lessons at the age of three, initially with the violin, but quickly switched to the piano. At ten he entered the Milan Conservatory. In 1938, at age eighteen, he began his international career by entering the Ysaÿe International Festival in Brussels, Belgium, where he placed seventh (a brief account of this competition, at which Emil Gilels took first prize, is given by Arthur Rubinstein, who was one of the judges. According to Rubinstein, Michelangeli gave "an unsatisfactory performance, but already showed his impeccable technique"). A year later he earned first prize in the Geneva International Competition where he was acclaimed as "a new Liszt" by pianist Alfred Cortot, a member of the judging panel, which was presided by Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
Michelangeli was known for his note-perfect performances. The music critic Harold Schonberg wrote of him: "His fingers can no more hit a wrong note or smudge a passage than a bullet can be veered off course once it has been fired...The puzzling part about Michelangeli is that in many pieces of the romantic repertoire he seems unsure of himself emotionally, and his otherwise direct playing is then laden with expressive devices that disturb the musical flow."[1] The teacher and commentator David Dubal adds that he was best in the earlier works of Beethoven and seemed insecure in Chopin, but that he was "demonic" in such works as the Bach-Busoni Chaconne and the Brahms Paganini Variations.
His repertoire was strikingly small for a concert pianist of such stature. Owing to his obsessive perfectionism relatively few recordings were officially released during Michelangeli's lifetime, but these are augmented by numerous bootleg recordings of live performances. Discographical highlights include the (authorized) live performances in London of Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, Chopin's Sonata No. 2 and Robert Schumann's Carnaval, Op. 9 and Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26. The Gaspard, as well as his playing of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G set standards for those works and his reading of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4 is comparable to that of Rachmaninoff himself. His Claude Debussy series for DG is something of a benchmark, if it is sometimes accused of being a little unatmospheric ("swimming in cool water," in Dubal's words). Several DVDs of live performances, and a master class, are also available.
As a composer, Michelangeli wrote 19 Folksongs a cappella for the SAT men's chorus from Trent (Italy).
Michelangeli was something of a hypochondriac, famous for last-minute cancellations of his concert recitals. His last concert took place on May 7, 1993 in Hamburg, Germany. After an extended illness he died in Lugano, Switzerland.
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A 0:00- B 0:47 - A 1:08 - B' (inversion) 1:44 - B+C 2:13 - A 3:46
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this is how Brahms ballades should sound. So true, so deep.
It's incredible how one person on the crowd applaud to make the video end... I love this kind of superpowers
+Santiago Morales applaud, jajaja, I mean, clap, I suspect that "applaud" doesn't exist
Santiago Morales I think applaud IS a word though 👍
what do you mean?
I had a spiritual awakening trying to read this comment
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melhor interpretação que ja vi de brahms , Emil Gilels é fantatisco mas o Michalangeli tem uma força exatamente NO TEMPO CERTO! EXCEPCIONAL DAQUI A 30 ANOS AINDA IREI OUVIR esse VIDEO , isso é imortal
Maravilhosa interpretação! Impecável!
One of the best interpretations of "Edward" I've heard. I don't necessarily agree with everything in Michelangeli's performance, but he makes his statement convincingly. This is beautiful playing by someone who truly understands Brahms.
Played this song back in undergrad. It's a good one :)
Definitive Brahms.... superb
Beautiful interpretation! I hope I can be as good as him one day
That hair!
@1401JSC Have you ever played this piece or looked at the score? I have, and can assure you he is playing it as written.
Me too ! You are right 😉
Superb playing. TY S for sharing.
Magnificent, wonderful, sublime
It's beautiful... ❤️
His interpretation is wonderful. Brahms himself... 🎹
Me too I play this music 🎶
But i don't play this splendid piece as well as Mi
ichelangelli !
Brahms is dark, autumnal. Michelangeli brings this forward.
you may be thinking of the piece, you should hear brahms op 118 no 2
Michelangeli - Muito bom impecavel
This is very nice ballade. :)
@rva25 ABM & Gilels are really both great on this piece. They both have to decide which way they want to play. So we have two great versions.
That's the story, he's telling:
A mother questions her son about the blood on his sword. He puts her off with claims that it is his hawk, his horse, but finally admits that is his father, whom he has killed. He declares that he is leaving and will never return, and various creatures (wife, children, livestock) will have to fare without him. His mother then asks what she will get from his departure. He answers "a curse from hell" and implicates his mother in the murder.
See Edwart Ballad
3ounder
He sounds like an asshole, to be nice about it.
Thank you so much.
@3ounder Excellent summation of the poem. Thank you.
whoa!!
great pianist..
grazie per questo !
@rva25 i can't say he's better then Gilels. They have different tempers but both are very convincing in their interpretation. maybe i also like Michelangeli more in some moments. but they both give strong expression to the audience, show the face of the author, both are real Brahms
I heard Michelangeli play these pieces live on stage and it was tremendous... Never heard Gilels doing the Ballades, but what I heard from him was also tremendous... Beethoven Sonatas, Eroica Variations, my God! So, let's say the truth: both are great! These days, who could attempt this repertoire, along with so many other pieces by Brahms or Schumann? Like these giants, nobody!
Great interpretation, I love this. He plays this much better than Gilels. This is a real Brahms!
ABM Never strikes a wrong note!
Absolutely love this piece!
Lovely.
melhor que todas interpretações; não pode haver melhor! JPRO
I will learn
Es mi maestro control poder conocimiento amor
Deep sound ABM
Quhy dois zour brand sae drop wi' bluid, Edward, Edward?
He looks like brahms
❤️👌
Um then why would they just randomly happen to come across Brahm's Ballade in D minor?
Do you think, if you tell your theories this way to the world, is it useful?
d minor?
32henrychinese yes
we don't hear a wrong note from ABM! 1 take only
Concert etiquette? >.>
4:07
I'm not deaf; the right hand often sounds before the left hand notes.
ABM used to do that, to tone down some harmonics and allow for a more detailed perception of notes
@AnastasiyaJurbina Все таки здесь на мой взгляд превосходство Микелянджели сомнения не вызывает.. вообще в этой балладе он неповторим, Гилельс же скучноват и академичен... а вот в четвертой балладе мне кажется уже поинтересней Гилельс.. в общем matter of taste)
Search: Cross rhythms.
The piano has a strange sound. I wish it was brighter. mire like a violine.
it actually depends on the scale he's using and he's using a sad one
I prefer a more mellow over bright sound
I hope someone who says this is not good performance plays better than him.
That's a stupid thing to say... there's nothing wrong with subjective criticism
DrRock "one mustn't be a film director to be a film critic"
If there's an old geezer that's teaching a kid how to ride a bike, and that old geezer is now too old to ride anymore, but he used to be a cross-country biking champion, should the old geezer not give any tips to the kid, simply because the old geezer can no longer ride a bike?
@DrRock wrong
Hello skrill
it's better than gould. Sure
deaf or not, he's playing what Brahms wrote, don't worry. While one hand is playing a regular rythm, the other one is doing triplets
That’s called polyrhythm. Just a fancy word for that.
@CesarBourguet oh get a life.
aren't/weren't those technical whizzkids such as Benedetti ever through with playing the same sheet music stuff all over and over? No wonder he was depressive with such doom and gloom in d-minor. A shot of swing and ragtime would have done him much good.
All that twitching must take effort :|
Note-perfect?
His hands are not even together in chords!
As someone who is learning this piece and is looking at the sheet music, he is playing this correctly.
Playing the left and right hands slightly out of sync is an old-fashioned mannerism that is frowned upon today. But at one time it was very common as an "expressive" gesture, and it's not unlikely Brahms himself played that way.