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One would NEVER identify such playing as J.Hofmann...😢

You have shown exactly the problem with modern pianists. Their playing is unimaginative and crude compared with hofmann. Thanks for the video. May I suggest doing one with hofmann playing Chopin's berceuse?

Brilliant technical virtuosity, but the whole thing seemed to lack poetry. Quiet passages played loud and everything seemed rushed. I’m really disappointed.

Totally fresh and inspiring music making !

Absolutely unique! Waldstein sonata, a precursor to Boogie Woogie. Someone ought to create a boogie woogie version of the Waldstein.

I prefer Arthur Rubinstein.

I’ve never seen a pianist with such absolute control over his playing. Mr. Hofmann is truly on a different level.

Beethoven als schnelle Etüde? 😂

Silly comparison, but the differences are quite obvious. Hofmann always showed more "mercury", more freedom, and the way he used his body was truly natural and one with the piano. That was a more dangerous approach (see the occasional wrong notes), but he didn't care.

No one should attempt to play this since Hofmann's performance- out of respect for art.

Vieeeeeelen Dank für das Recital des großen Pianisten: Makelloses Klavierspiel, voll von musikalischen Eiinfällen, die man so von Anderen nicht hört. Ganz wunderbar dieser apollinische Zugriff auf die Waldsteinsonate, ich liebe es, so wie er spielt, meisterhaft und authentisch.

Simply overwhelming.

I don’t understand how this kind of playing is possible

Great capture of music performance history

Incredible recital, absolutely love it

Imagine if pianists had played Beethoven this way 😍😍.

A wonderful treasure, thank you!!

Wow, how amazing!

Imagine having Hofmann as artistic director and actively trying to force him out.

One of the three or four greatest piano recitals ever recorded-amazing job on this video!

Phenomenal technically. Not effective musically. I'm sure it was very different on the stage w/o having to cram it into 4 and a half minutes.

The description is absolutely heartbreaking. So much lost potential...

based hofmann!!!

i love how when it was written ff it never scared hofmann.

What do you think about the waldstein performance? For me it never gets old.

It is incredible that this WHOLE concert is preserved forever!

Actually you can’t do score vid for met because chromaticon score isn’t found right😅😅

The holy grail of piano recitals

Josef, it says Allegro con brio, not Presto possibile 😂 but he could pull it off and he knew it. Love the subtle rubato and changes of tempo to suit the mood of each section.

Omg thank you for this!

Hofmann in the Ballade 4 is incredibly Battistini-pilled.

Based

Its your peak video i believe.

Golden Jubilee next?👀

Bruh, this is so pretentious, stop please, the fact that your minds cant stand that the music can be also a visual art, with facial expressions or whatever, shows how intolerant and how many problems the classicalworld has, to many conservative people, I saw the description amd even tho I DONT LIKE YUJA, LANG LANG AND MOST OF THE YOUNGS, i know how to appreciate that they have a visual and showmanship meaning too, and you may not like it, but cmon, you all sound so corny trying to make yuja look bad, for me, as an architect, pianist, baskebtall player, cloth maker, ive had contact with many ways of appreciate anesthetics, textural, visual, and auditive arts, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM, you create the problem, there's many interpreters that follows the rules we like, but leave these persons please, you're such crybabies claiming to be superior bc look at me i like the oldies, if we as musicians have more tolerance with the others, classical music wouldn't be looked as the gross ugly and conservative boring old people

Arrau and Rubinstein did not like Hofmann and Godowsky. Close eyes and listen carefully, we can find the truth. Rach said Hofmann was the greatest of his time.

That's Just Like Your Opinion Man

Lol you want to denigrate her artistry to the point that you’re comparing her to literally a list of the greatest pianists who ever lived. That’s more of a compliment.

Hofmannscores, your writing suggests to me that you are a failed pianist technically,trying to putting down great contemporary pianists so you can appear better than you actually are.

I dont think Yuja is good enough to compared to legendary pianist.

I would love to hear Yuja Wang's response to this video. I personally was impressed with Wang's ability to hit the notes, but was deeply moved by the others' music.

"Old school" invented music where the composer asked for none. By "old school" I mean those between about 1920-1955. Then what you call the "modern" set went back and worked out what the composers actually intended, and purposefully removed a lot of the melodrama that the "old school" relied upon. What you end up with then is a less dramatic but more mature and arguably ness naive attitude towards classical composers. The "old school" are of their time, but they established a lot of modern repertoire and laid the foundation for more considered interpretations. Interpretations, it has to be said, which were partly designed to be listened to repeatedly, with the increased ease of recording. The "newbies" on the block are now moving beyond technique to inject additional subtlety in the more technical passages, simply because their base technique is way about those of their forebears. Ben Grosvenor's rendition of Gaspard de la Nuit is a revelation. But their renditions of the Beethoven have not yet moved past their direct forbears. Some are even moving backwards. Listening to Lang Lang play Chopin is odd, because he somehow removes the Polishness from the music. The general changes in style over the last 100 years are likely more a reflection of the changing demands of the audience, not to mention the mode of transmission (recordings vs live-only concerts) than anything else.

Can you transcribe hoffman’s version of Chopin/Liszt my darling ? Would be much appreciated.

Damn, what a voice.

The precision of Petri's playing as he briskly knocks off such an exceptionally difficult transcription is amazing. His technical abilities are still shocking, even today. Same with Backhaus. They met as children, incidentally. At that time Petri was still intent on being a violinist like his dad!

Yeah right. Zimerman is a horrible pianist 😂😂😂 You're not automatically a more "alive" musician just because the sound quality sucks and you play some wrong notes here and there you know

Stumbling upon this video was like accidentally finding myself at some antivaxxer conference, hoo boy what an experience Also weird choice of video for a Hoffmann fan, he’s pretty mediocre in this

The attack of the movement with Hofmann is not so good , for example. Sorry but not a good way to do a comparison

Fantastic video!!!

You're a legend! Please make more videos like this!