There is not one single bar of music ever composed by Beethoven that could even remotely be described as "trivial". And this performance by Rudolf Serkin is a testament to that fact.
One of the greatest pianists and one terrific human being, too. What a legacy he left all of us. Thank you for posting this remarkable video, a real gift to ones like myself who needed a refresher on Maestro Serkin's supreme artistry and presence.
Performance extraordinaire d'un pianiste de plus de 80 ans. Son interprétation est profonde, très bien nuancée. Son tempo est juste. Que dire de plus: Merveilleux.
When I was a child, Serkin was the touring pianist I heard more than any other. I am so thankful for being able to hear him and the lofty standard he always played on. Playing like this at age 84 is a great blessing.
Sono davvero molto felice di rivedere questo grande artista,uno dei miei preferiti,persona squisita,di una gentilezza rara, l'ho incontrato due volte a Torino,magnifici concerti...Grazie!
Mr Serkin in great form, and thoroughly engrossed in his work, Wonderful how we can see and hear such a performance in such detail. I have watched this over and over.
Schubert also wrote a genius triptych of last Sonatas. But the master is the master… thank you Ludwig, and thank you Mr. Serkin. It’s worth to be alive only for this
For the general public, perhaps, but not among real musicians. He wasn’t flamboyant like Rubenstein or a spectacular virtuoso like Horowitz, and didn’t play much Chopin or Liszt, but when it came to the classical Viennese music, he was tops.
I'm so grateful the whole concert has been uploaded uninterrupted...my favourite late Beethoven pianist...he doesn't bother with all the formalities but instead faces each sonata head on.
I've seen "the best recording of XX ever" a lot on other occasions, feeling it cliche until now I've never written one, but on this live performance of Beethoven's 3 last sonatas by Serkin, to me, I've at last found my chance to declare it the best, and confident that a lot of others will agree with me.
strong rh at the end of each, ringing out the melody to take it home, esp rh 5 (pinky) --- not always the case, oddly could be even more of that, though, esp 111
Without question, the most beautiful performance of these 3 sonatas. Serkin understood Beethoven’s language and intentions. They both left this world and now we are left alone.
L'un des majors du piano, que notre génération a tendance à oublier un peu trop, et c'est fort regrettable. Excellente vidéo. Je l'avais vu à Paris, au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées en 1966...
Genuinely food for the soul ! It was the merit of Serkin for sure, I dare say so because you simply couldn't get the same beauty and insight from other pianists, old or young. I think only the Arietta of op.111 by Arrau in the 50's is comparable or on the same par.
I love how Serkin removes any hint of sentimentality from his playing and removes all the ogling and rubatos that seem to be in fashion. This is playing on another level.
14:54 I do not really share his tempo or his intonations, but the man is in love with this music. He adores it, this is really pure love, and it saves everything.
He is one of my favorite pianists in the Austro/German repertoire. I am very fortunate to have heard him perform Beethoven's E-flat Piano Concerto in Chicago in the mid-1980s.
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Thank you, Vladivostok 1969, for the upload. Wonderful. Mr Serkin was a mentor to András Schiff, and I hear Serkin often in the musicianship and pianism of Sir András. I don’t think it is my imagination!
Matthew Steele : Thank you for replying. I feel the same! Have just bought his two recently released DVDs of Well-Tempered Clavier, so I can listen and watch to my heart’s content.
Oudtshoornify I just received those last week also. Schiff is just phenomenal. His playing also is centered towards the composer and not the pianist’s ego. When people listen to Gould they sometimes focus on Gould and not Bach, the composer.
@@Steele8771 : I agree. Gould was a magnet for personal attention - young, attractive and definitely a showman, with that rickety chair and all the singing. And of course his recordings were edited so much by him that they eventually became bits and pieces spliced together. The results were phenomenal, but not quite honest.
Intimate and revelatory; dare I say precursor Romantic in its searchingness. It shows us: “all art aspires to the constant condition of music.” Directly imbibbed: “I ask only that you listen!”
Ce son chauffé à blanc, et cette puissance superieurement interrogative du texte, comme heurté par quelqu'un qui frappe à la porte, sont reconnaissables entre tous - et ne sont qu'à Serkin. La musique ne chante pas seulement : elle parle, elle questionne avec insistance, n'accepte pas la réponse, et questionne encore, et proteste avec véhémence, combat, écoute et pardonne. Il n'y a pas beaucoup de moments aussi immenses dans toute l'histoire de la musique - et probablement pas dans toute celle de la musique enregistrée.
Brilliant, a steadier tempo than most in the opening Movt of opus 111 but just as dramatic and Beethoven’s music isn’t all about speed, the music comes first and foremost
Daría lo que fuera con tal de solo ver las manos de Serkin cómo digita y se mueve por el piano 🥺 Es que las necesito para yo también tocarla y no confundirme en la digitación. 🤣 Saludos.
Este pianista tiene un manejo de gestos en su rostro. Hace mover todos los músculos de su cara como si fueran las notas del pentagrama.medellin Colombia 18:01
haha I knew I had owned this recording before on DG - it has some spectacular mistakes in the Arietta of Op 111 which i recognise here - Igor Levit is the man to hear in that sonata, it's as good as the old Pollini recording from the 70s
Ce n'est pas le téléchargeur de la vidéo qui est responsable de la publicité et du choix de l'endroit où elle est placée. C'est quelque chose qui dépend totalement de UA-cam. Je n'ai pas le pouvoir de supprimer les publicités.
There is not one single bar of music ever composed by Beethoven that could even remotely be described as "trivial". And this performance by Rudolf Serkin is a testament to that fact.
OMG ! Serkin was here 84 years old...and play the three last Sonatas by Beethoven SUPREME
One of the greatest pianists and one terrific human being, too. What a legacy he left all of us. Thank you for posting this remarkable video, a real gift to ones like myself who needed a refresher on Maestro Serkin's supreme artistry and presence.
Performance extraordinaire d'un pianiste de plus de 80 ans. Son interprétation est profonde, très bien nuancée. Son tempo est juste. Que dire de plus: Merveilleux.
tout à fait exact comme critique ! Serkin au panthéon des grands pianistes du 20 ème
The 30th is such a beautiful piece that even the pianist is reduced to tears by the end.
When I was a child, Serkin was the touring pianist I heard more than any other. I am so thankful for being able to hear him and the lofty standard he always played on. Playing like this at age 84 is a great blessing.
Sono davvero molto felice di rivedere questo grande artista,uno dei miei preferiti,persona squisita,di una gentilezza rara, l'ho incontrato due volte a Torino,magnifici concerti...Grazie!
Jkk mi in
Un suono luminosissimo per il grande Serkin! Un grande Beethoven il suo!
何と慈しみ深い演奏なのか！ 思わず、涙してしまった。
Mr Serkin in great form, and thoroughly engrossed in his work, Wonderful how we can see and hear such a performance in such detail. I have watched this over and over.
I am watching for a second time. Will continue watching again and again, probably for a couple of years
Unbelievable master of Beethoven and incredible that at 83 years of age the sound of the master is still wunderlich.
84, I think
My God. The fidelity of this recording is superb. How do we thank Serkin?
Grande version des trois dernières sonates par un très grand pianiste qu'est Rudolf Serkin ! Magnifique !
かっちりとした構成感を持ちながら、音の一つ一つや小さなフレーズも非常に表情豊かで説得力があります。聞き終えて満足感で一杯です。
Extraordinary performances of the late Beethoven sonatas by this great pianist Rudolf Serkin!!
I love this generation of pianists no silly distracting movements.
なぜだか、すごく感動した。
「挑戦」という言葉が、ふと心に浮かんだ。
ベートーベンという人間と、
ゼルキンという人間とのエネルギーを感じた。
Schubert also wrote a genius triptych of last Sonatas. But the master is the master… thank you Ludwig, and thank you Mr. Serkin. It’s worth to be alive only for this
Indeed, to be alive for this is a privilege
I love his tempos! It's not rushed and you can actually listen to the music. The fugue of No. 31 is wonderful.
I heard him play the same program in Boston that year. One of the best concerts I've attended.
Great upload. Serkin is possibly the least known/most underrated of the great classical pianists. This live performance is sublime.
For the general public, perhaps, but not among real musicians. He wasn’t flamboyant like Rubenstein or a spectacular virtuoso like Horowitz, and didn’t play much Chopin or Liszt, but when it came to the classical Viennese music, he was tops.
I'm so grateful the whole concert has been uploaded uninterrupted...my favourite late Beethoven pianist...he doesn't bother with all the formalities but instead faces each sonata head on.
too bad they decided to interrupt after you had the pleasure of seeing it pristine.
Beethoven seems to be putting his hands on Serkin's shoulders! Impressed itself!
Has always been my favorite interpretation. Serkin is sublime.
I've seen "the best recording of XX ever" a lot on other occasions, feeling it cliche until now I've never written one, but on this live performance of Beethoven's 3 last sonatas by Serkin, to me, I've at last found my chance to declare it the best, and confident that a lot of others will agree with me.
Yep, love that finale of Op. 109 and the first mvt of Op. 111
absolutely!! the same for me
You might v much enjoy the Kovacevich (then Bishop) first round, from the 1960s
strong rh at the end of each, ringing out the melody to take it home, esp rh 5 (pinky) --- not always the case, oddly
could be even more of that, though, esp 111
@@wolfgangklofat594 no big deal, it’s only my subjective feeling on a particular performance :-)
When I heard that, I thought of a blizzard.
Standing in the middle of a never-ending blizzard
scrub
No coat or umbrella
neither light nor darkness
once started
I have work to do until I die
Tell me
When I read the old diary, I think of everything
didn't like to read
because it is heavy
'cause I can't start
I don't want to stop going deep
never seen eternity
forever beautiful and forever believing
to love forever
It's scary
All diaries become old diaries
told the little man
A person who grew up without guidance
You have to be your own guide.
I've never done it
after saying
I'll try
nobody
saw little people
The only thing to write and the only thing to write
all remain
then like that
I am your eternal guide
.
Without question, the most beautiful performance of these 3 sonatas. Serkin understood Beethoven’s language and intentions. They both left this world and now we are left alone.
Considering there are 7 billion here, that's a bit dramatic, to say the least.
@@needtoknowbasis3499not another Beethoven. Not another Serkin.
La sua 110 è stata ed è ancora il mio faro. Inarrivabile. Grazie, Maestro Serkin! 🌹
Some 25 years ago, I stumbled across a double CD of Rudolf Serkin's 3 last Beethoven sonatas. To this day, I regard them as unsurpassed
I saw him in 1987 in Munich playing these 3 Sonatas and it was so touching ❤️ thanks for posting this, so inspiring & uplifting 🙏
And I attended his Miami concert around that time, again the same program. Fantastic.
Just looking ti heaven and saying ❤
L'un des majors du piano, que notre génération a tendance à oublier un peu trop, et c'est fort regrettable. Excellente vidéo. Je l'avais vu à Paris, au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées en 1966...
Genuinely food for the soul ! It was the merit of Serkin for sure, I dare say so because you simply couldn't get the same beauty and insight from other pianists, old or young. I think only the Arietta of op.111 by Arrau in the 50's is comparable or on the same par.
I love how Serkin removes any hint of sentimentality from his playing and removes all the ogling and rubatos that seem to be in fashion. This is playing on another level.
@@santorinischnabel Beginning at 46:37-47:05 this fughetta -the pianissimo is exquisite yet every voice is so transparent, and the trills!!!!!
14:54 I do not really share his tempo or his intonations, but the man is in love with this music.
He adores it, this is really pure love, and it saves everything.
Peut-être le meilleur concert de Serkin ! Merci infiniment !
Sommo Serkin! Impareggiabile interprete totale di B.
Thank you for disponibilize this recording. There is a lot to learn with this great pianist.
He is one of my favorite pianists in the Austro/German repertoire. I am very fortunate to have heard him perform Beethoven's E-flat Piano Concerto in Chicago in the mid-1980s.
Bravissimo! Absolutely fantastic! All young player should listen to this! Thank you very much and all best wishes!
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@Ishaan Skyler Instablaster :)
the sound is perfect thank you!
ルドルフゼルキンの映像、初めて見た。
しかも後期三大ソナタ。
素晴らしすぎる。
深々とした丁寧なお辞儀。
東海林太郎を思い出した。
놀랍습니다!!!! 정말 감동적입니다.
素晴らしいですね。特に、３２番は、傑作だと思います。ゼルキンさんも、懐かしいですね。
ThankQ kindly for this video. It’s astounding that we can watch such a performance like this.
Soul touching.
Bravo! Simply wonderful to watch. His composure and elegance are really something.
Serkin dans ses oeuvres...
Thank you for posting this outstanding event.
Such clarity and sterness. Very strong and masterly. Great performance!
Thank you, Vladivostok 1969, for the upload. Wonderful. Mr Serkin was a mentor to András Schiff, and I hear Serkin often in the musicianship and pianism of Sir András. I don’t think it is my imagination!
Oudtshoornify Two incredible pianists! I’m forever in debt to Sir András Schiff for his Bach recordings. Monumental.
Matthew Steele : Thank you for replying. I feel the same! Have just bought his two recently released DVDs of Well-Tempered Clavier, so I can listen and watch to my heart’s content.
Oudtshoornify I just received those last week also. Schiff is just phenomenal. His playing also is centered towards the composer and not the pianist’s ego. When people listen to Gould they sometimes focus on Gould and not Bach, the composer.
Efim Bronfman studied with him too
@@Steele8771 : I agree. Gould was a magnet for personal attention - young, attractive and definitely a showman, with that rickety chair and all the singing. And of course his recordings were edited so much by him that they eventually became bits and pieces spliced together. The results were phenomenal, but not quite honest.
Intimate and revelatory; dare I say precursor Romantic in its searchingness. It shows us: “all art aspires to the constant condition of music.” Directly imbibbed: “I ask only that you listen!”
Все восторгаются исполнителем и забывают о ВЕЛИЧАЙШЕМ БЕТХОВЕНЕ ❤
One of the best!
Ce son chauffé à blanc, et cette puissance superieurement interrogative du texte, comme heurté par quelqu'un qui frappe à la porte, sont reconnaissables entre tous - et ne sont qu'à Serkin. La musique ne chante pas seulement : elle parle, elle questionne avec insistance, n'accepte pas la réponse, et questionne encore, et proteste avec véhémence, combat, écoute et pardonne. Il n'y a pas beaucoup de moments aussi immenses dans toute l'histoire de la musique - et probablement pas dans toute celle de la musique enregistrée.
Yes, Matthew Steele. Soul touching. And more. Indescribable.
Brilliant, a steadier tempo than most in the opening Movt of opus 111 but just as dramatic and Beethoven’s music isn’t all about speed, the music comes first and foremost
Daría lo que fuera con tal de solo ver las manos de Serkin cómo digita y se mueve por el piano 🥺
Es que las necesito para yo también tocarla y no confundirme en la digitación. 🤣
Saludos.
実直で堅実、骨太のベートーヴェンという印象。
映像を初めて見ましたが、好印象でした。
Ahhhhh. ! como este pianista pocos!!! Divino!!
17:26 the spirit of Adolf Busch, Serkin playing suddenly three or four voices together
Beethoven is reincarnated in Serkin... this is fabulous....
Bravo!!! Hermosa interpretación.
Браво, маэстро Сёркин!
The audience is merely listening to a conversation between Serkin and Beethoven
Yes. at what a great conversation! Absolutely sublime playing.
coughing. the audience is coughing.
And what Mr. Serkin has to say ....
Perfectly said!
Bravo!
0:45 наконец я узнаю кто такой Серкин!❤ 1:13
Este pianista tiene un manejo de gestos en su rostro. Hace mover todos los músculos de su cara como si fueran las notas del pentagrama.medellin Colombia 18:01
Insuperable, absolutamente insuperable
Una cascata di suoni tipica del Romanticismo estremo.
Conmovedor. Gran maestro
0:30 is start of this recital
4:24
40:53
haha I knew I had owned this recording before on DG - it has some spectacular mistakes in the Arietta of Op 111 which i recognise here - Igor Levit is the man to hear in that sonata, it's as good as the old Pollini recording from the 70s
see Kovacevich comment above
Bravo pou les pubs ! même si je reconnais que vous avez essayé de les caser entre deux mouvements… Malheureux !
Ce n'est pas le téléchargeur de la vidéo qui est responsable de la publicité et du choix de l'endroit où elle est placée. C'est quelque chose qui dépend totalement de UA-cam. Je n'ai pas le pouvoir de supprimer les publicités.
Très bien, merci. Hélas !@@Vladivostok1969
8:30
sein Spielen - eine Offenbarung
50:15 arietta
37:27
Me.
Coconut oil for hearing.
If Beethoven said Innigsten, then why play it in such a declamatory way?
Whether you like his style or not, that's Serkin style.
I can always teach you how to speak to men.
It's obvious that it's very hard for him to overcome the technical difficulties of these sonatas at that age
Пон украли
Osteochondrosis was so beautiful when you no longer care about other peoples opinion. Boo.
Extraordinary performances of the late Beethoven sonatas by this great pianist Rudolf Serkin!!