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Brahms - Michelangeli, Ballade Op.10 No 2 in D major
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- čas přidán 15. 12. 2008
- (Lugano, 1981)
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.
(Wikipedia)
He can play light and he play dark. And his presence is so strong that it's almost intimidating! He makes you hear the silence between the notes. I think only michelangeli could do that.
Glenn Gould has got something to say about that last claim but I'll agree this is an exceptional recording :)
😢❤ just pulls at my heart… I have always wanted to play Brahms but have not found a piece within my skill level until this piece! I am working hard to learn it and play it with as much emotion as he did in this performance!!
Many of the intermezzi are at a similar level of technical difficulty. Incredibly rich and rewarding music. Keep working hard and I'm sure you will play it wonderfully!
You can master this, and I have a feeling you can find a new idea in it, and bring a fresh gaze to its realization.
absolument extraordinaire et insurpassable
When I see bad comments on what I truly love, I feel really sad... It is definitely one of the best performance...!! Sound, polyphonic, harmonic, rhythmic sense... Bravissimo!!
What a wonderful performance, such a master.
ho i brividi ,commovente, grazie ABM e grazie Brahms
This performance feels like a certain polished moment that was born and lost in the late 19th century--and could only result from an idea peculiar to Romanticism, and requiring a lifetime of devotion to one composer, one instrument, even one work and definitely one goal--to seek and to realize sublimity.
La perfezione esiste❤
I remember seeing this on the large screen at Symphony Space. Afterwards I came up to Garrick, Ohlsson, who had been in the audience and asked him what he thought. He rolled his eyes in ecstasy.
Ethereal, spine-chilling music and a lovely, refined, and winsome performance by the great Michelangeli!
When I played this pieces, I absolutely fall in love !
one of the most ethereal composition in hystory played by the king of the pianists.
Thanks Arturo!
Love the mellow sound of that piano/recording.
Thank you! Thank you!
This performance is absolutely magical.
Incantevole!
Straordinario!
wonderful!!!!!!
Bravíssima interpretação !!!
how beautiful michelangeli plays brahms.the sound is is so amazing because he has got such a tremendous control in touch and creating an adequate tone for this ballade.some people say that brahms must always sound heavy and inelegantly,but here we can listen to the contrary,brahms espressivo by elegance.
mamma mia che fenomeno!!!!!!!
Divino
So beautiful, but like so much of Brahms, beyond my understanding.
How so? I often wonder why some people don't "get" or like Brahms. He seems transcendental to me.
In much of his music, I can grasp the structure, directions and the emotions - the four symphonies, the Academic Festival and Tragic Overtures, for example. But this piece baffles me. (Btw, I'm 63, and my piano lessons started in 1961; but I have no degree in music and I've never been a professional musician. I'm truly an amateur.)
I know little about music on a technical basis and recognize that you're way ahead of me despite your disclaimers. I listen intuitively and get carried away to the moon. But do you mean the abrupt juxtaposition from the gentle, rocking lyricism of the early section to the martial hammering of the middle, etc.?
@@noblerkinThere are no amateurs among those who love art and handle it seriously. We are all agents of expression!
@@princeandreyI personally resist those moments of Sturm und Drang in Brahms. Sometimes I wonder if he felt obligated to assuage the Wagner crowd to create those contrasting sections, and thus they can feel abrupt, abrasive, inorganic or even inauthentic. I wish I didn't react that way! And many times they integrate themselves, eventually, into my love of a work.
Bravo!
This is a beautiful rendition. I particularly like Gould's rendition as well.
So many echoes of Schumann
Michelangeli ha proposto in pubblico un repertorio limitato ma ognuno dei brani eseguiti rappresenta un punto di riferimento ineludibile e comunque inarrivabile.
Come lui nessuno.
Not True! ABM was the Cyborg Human machine! ABM played the second-rated piano concertos like Mozart no 13 Liszt no 1 Haydn G Major! ABM never played the best piano concertos like Mozart 24 Brahms 1-2 Chopin 1-2 Prokofiev 1-3 Rachmaninov 1-3 Saint-Saens no 2! Tchaikovsky no 1 JS Bach 1052! The greatest pianist are Really=Artur Rubinstein( The God!) Sviatoslav Richter( The Genius!) Emil Gilels( The King Pianist!) Wilhelm Kempff( The most beautiful piano sound!) Radu Lupu( The most colorful piano sound!) Solomon Cutner( Best structure for music!) ABM was only boring Cyborg Human machine!!
@@RaineriHakkarainenmi dispiace per te. Non conosci Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. O non sai ascoltare.
@redkeithh beautifully stated.
1:55 banger
Just to make perfectly clear, I admire Michelangeli's artistry a lot. But it must be said that Gilels (also uploaded by this poster) hands down plays this piece with more colour and imagination.
???
Gilels ??!
This is not F# Major. It is D Major.
However, absolutely magical. Thanks Maestro.
👌♥️👌
Who is here because of the last samurai?
with way more talent ;)
michelangeli was a god
? ? ?
at 1:03 there is a mistake
Anyhow, mistake or not, Michelangeli plays exactly what Brahms has written
A douche ? You mean: a shower ?
;-)
No singing tone, no lyrism, only a boring performance.
Using such a fingertechn. cannot produce a warm, singing tone.
Didn't the older Benedetti know this ??
And then the middle section: did anyone ever perform this in a more unmusical way ?!
Only notes...
Listen to the great Gilels: what a difference!!
Geert Dehoux, pianist.
Belgian King's Prize Winner, 1980.
Well, Michelangeli is known everywhere even if he only play notes. You not.
@@kaleidoscopio5 bum
I see you don't understand a thing about the first three ballads of the op. 10. They're highly dramatic, so they have to be played 'strongly', let's say, with the sound that Michelangeli uses.
"Inspiration" ???
There is NO inspiration in this performance!
Listen to the great Gilels and you'll hear the difference!
Geert Dehoux, pianist.
Geert Dehoux l'invidia e la mediocrità sono una brutta bestia ;)