Murray Perahia - Felix Mendelssohn, Fantasy in F#- ("Scottish Sonata") Op.28
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Murray (Moshe) Perahia was born in the Bronx borough of New York City to a family of Sephardi Jewish origin. According to the biography on his Mozart piano sonatas CD, his first language was Ladino. The family came from Thessaloniki. His father moved to the United States in 1935; many family members perished in the Holocaust a few years later.
Perahia began studying the piano at age four with a teacher he says was "very limiting" because she made him play a single piece until it was perfect. He says his musical interests blossomed at age fifteen for reasons he can't explain, and he began to practice seriously. At seventeen, Perahia attended Mannes College, where he studied keyboard, conducting, and composition with his teacher and mentor Mieczysław Horszowski. During the summer, he also attended Marlboro, where he studied with musicians Rudolf Serkin, Alexander Schneider, and Pablo Casals, among others. He played duets for piano four hands with Serkin, who later made Perahia his assistant at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, a position he held for over a year.
In 1965 Perahia won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In 1972, he was the first North American to win first prize at the Leeds Piano Competition, helping to cement its reputation for advancing the careers of young pianistic talent. Dr. Fanny Waterman recalls anecdotally (in Wendy Thompson's book Piano Competition: The Story of the Leeds) that Horszowski had phoned her prior to the competition, announcing that he would be the winner. Other American contestants had apparently withdrawn their applications upon hearing that Perahia would be competing.
Perahia resides in London.
]Music career
In 1973 he worked with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears at the Aldeburgh Festival, and with fellow pianist Radu Lupu. He was co-artistic director of the Festival from 1981 to 1989.
In the 1980s, Perahia was invited to work with Vladimir Horowitz, an admirer of his art. Perahia says this had a defining influence on his pianism.
Perahia's first major recording project was the complete piano concertos by Mozart, conducted from the keyboard with the English Chamber Orchestra. In the 1980s, he also recorded all the Beethoven piano concertos, with Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
[edit]Hand injury
In 1990, Perahia suffered a cut to his right thumb, which became septic. He took antibiotics for this condition, but they affected his health. In 1992, his career was threatened by a bone abnormality in his hand causing inflammation requiring several years away from the keyboard, and a series of operations. During that time, he says, he found solace through studying the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. After being given the all-clear, he produced in the late 1990s a series of award-winning recordings of Bach's keyboard works, most notably a cornerstone rendition of the Goldberg Variations.
(Wikipedia)
Tremendous.....BIG fan of Murray. He is definitely one of the top tier pianists of this generation. We are so blessed to have him with us.
You are correct. I am also grateful for him.
나는 광해대왕을 뫼옵던 장렬경휘정성명숙현신정순왕비(章烈敬徽貞聖明淑顯愼貞順王妃-광해군비 문성군부인 류씨)니라. 대체 이 반정이 종묘와 사직을 위한 것이더냐 부귀와 영화를 도모하기위한 것이더냐. 대답해보라!!!
Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way. We deserve Hell because we've sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him.
John 3:16
Romans 3:23❤😊❤😊
I went throuh a 5-month depression earlier this year, and nothing can encapsulate the bouts of depression, confusion, and raging bitterness I went through more than the 1st movement of this piece. What a powerful piece to listen to and play.
Soul music !!
Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way. We deserve Hell because we've sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him.
John 3:16
Romans 3:23❤😊❤❤
4:45 II
6:38 III
Thanks
A definitive performance of Mendelssohn's rarely played unique treasure of pianistic invention. What an imaginative world he inhabited in which Music was more expressive that any verbal eloquence.
needs remaster. clarity totally gone from distortions.
Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way. We deserve Hell because we've sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him.
John 3:16
Romans 3:23❤😊❤❤
Absolutely mind-blowing! I did not expect this at all. Mendelssohn is played far too rarely.
Jesus is the only way. We have all sinned and deserve Hell. Sins that may seem small in our eyes are big in God's and are worthy of Hell, such as lying lusting and stealing. But if we repent and trust only in Jesus, he is faithful and will save us from Hell and give us eternal life in Heaven. Trust in Jesus!
John 3:16
Romans 6:23
Jesus is the only way. We have all sinned and deserve Hell. Sins that may seem small in our eyes are big in God's and are worthy of Hell, such as lying lusting and stealing. But if we repent and trust only in Jesus, he is faithful and will save us from Hell and give us eternal life in Heaven. Trust in Jesus!
John 3:16
Romans 6:23
Genius. Moving interpretation of the Mendelssohn Fantasy. Those who have been fortunate to hear and see him in perform in person are of the same accord . . . virtuoso.
Jesus is the only way. We have all sinned and deserve Hell. Sins that may seem small in our eyes are big in God's and are worthy of Hell, such as lying lusting and stealing. But if we repent and trust only in Jesus, he is faithful and will save us from Hell and give us eternal life in Heaven. Trust in Jesus!
John 3:16
Romans 6:23
Thank Perahia! You are one of the greatest pianists.
Listening to this on Mendelssohn's birthday and I completely forgot what a beautiful piece this is that no one touches! Mendelssohn needs more stage time. And Perahia? WOW! almost 6am and I think I need a drink after listening to this. The perfect definition of brilliance from both composer and performer.
Oh, so great performance. Emotional and beautiful. Thank you. Lovely pianist.
What a great piece! I tend to forget Mendelssohn as a master of piano. You have Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Chopin, Liszt in mind, but hear at this great virtuoso piece. And don't forget the greatness of Perahia. You never think the piece is hard - which shows the mastership of him! (Be sure: The Fantasy is hard...) Great treasure, thanks for sharing!
I thought it sounded pretty hard
While breezing through the San Francisco newspaper in 1973 I saw an announcement for a recital at the Legion of Honor, by a pianist I never had heard of. "He might be good" I told myself. So I went. By the time he had finished the first half, I told myself, "I will never see a greater pianist in my lifetime." And I haven't, although I would tie him with Chick Corea, who I saw 2 years later. I still feel that way, I suppose that LangLang is up there. Oh, the pianist I saw that night was Murray P.
what a passionate performance
The methods of Murray's father were definitely effective - BEAUTIFUL!!! Thanks for sharing
I never get tired of watching this performance
I owe this fellow a huge apology. I was somehow not impressed at the Leeds , silly me. He has now introduced me to HIS music. I now understand what the judges and everyone else experienced at that competition. Every note he plays is just perfect. The Schumann Sonata, a new work for me is just out of this world as is his Schubert withe Radu LUPU.
wonderful, elegant and polite performance.
I wish the video didn't skip in a few places, but Perahia plays this amazing piece beautifully. Now if only the third movement weren't so hard...
he is so good in so many different styles and composers. big fan!
I am breathless!
Moved as always by Sir Murray's gifted playing.
Perahia was also the pianist playing Beethoven’s music for the soundtrack for Immortal Beloved, with George Solti conducting. It performed was in the 1990’s, which must have been after his recuperation from his hand injury. What an amazing pianist!
Nice to hear a musician sensitive to the beauties of Mendelssohn.
Yep, I have liked his playing for many years, and still do. Thank you for posting it.
This is exactly what one of my profs at the university told us. That is why we had a "Mendelssohn class" where we took a closer look since he is mostly called "not so interesting" because in music literature and history he was always seen as "too flat". But if you really get into it you can often see a much deeper motivation in his songs and pieces.
A great Master!
Ah...so EMOTIONALLY RICH rendition! Rich in EVERYTHING!
Wonderful! Thank you Maestro!
A music critic I read long ago sneered that FM was a poor composer because he was "the Victorians' favorite composer!" I guess that automatically puts him in the critical trash can, but I am discovering his greatness via utube.
Thank you very much for the information about Perahia,though I read his biography and almost everything I could find about him on the net. :-)
What a REMARKABLE pianist :-)
Thanks for the post !
really could feel the passion in his playing, bravo!
Grande Perahia , sempre molto intenso.
master piece played by a master :)
Beautiful mr Perhaia@!!!
.. and thank you also so much for the notes on Murray Perahia, lovely to read he had an auspicious WIN here in Leeds.... all those years ago....
xxxx a current Leeds resident...
It's a great pity that Perahia doesn't authorize some of his live performances officially. They are so good! Better than studio recordings.
Love the piece and this interpretation. A pity there some cuts in the video.
저 이곡으로 콩쿨나가서 1등했는데 아마도 이분 음악을 계속 반복해서들어서
좋은결과나온것같아요~~♡♡
Mendelssohn so much underrated
Très belle interprétation
wow the 39 people who clicked dislike must be very talented at piano
Maybe because of the skip in the video.
Absolutely nothing against the playing, but the video editing is almost a crime...
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Superbly played by IMO the greatest living male pianist.
There's a greater female pianist? Who?
@@noblerkin I'd suspect Argerich or Pirez. I like Pirez more than Argerich, but I think Argerich is seen as one of the best pianists of all time by many. I just can't keep my attention on Argerich's playing. Pirez is just amazing in my opinion, she can play extremely delicate, which is something that is often missing when big dudes sit behind the piano
Thank you for this! I didn't know this piece, but I do now. The 2nd mvt. is very Beethovenian. Wish Perahia would record this with the three Scottish Capriccios. He's great. Thanks
While the inclusion of Maestro Perahia’s biography in the description is interesting, I would have much preferred to know where and when this recital took place. His artistry is always astonishing in the best possible sense!
This was in Japan
@@skylermccloud6230 When?? What year? Where?
@@pianoredux7516tokyo 1998
Incredible !
juste magnifique
Not by me. He's up there with the best of the best.
I DIDN´T KNOW THIS SONATA, IT IS NEVER PLAYED BY GREAT PIANSTS, FIRST TIME I HEAR IT.
Indeed, some music historians may argue that by the time he was sixteen Mendelssohn had accomplished more than Mozart by the time he was respectively sixteen, not by the sheer amount of compositions, however, but by the degree of musical innovation in them.
Yes hes is geater than mozart
Bravo!!!!!!! 3 part very brilliant!!!!
Heavenly, pristine interpretation. Another 'wow' performance from a musician, not a dazzling showman. He, M Perahia, R Lupu, G Sokolov, A Brendel, A Schiff, A Volodos are the giants, living legends of the piano, Most others, like S Hough, M Uchida, M Pletnev, M Argerich, Emmanuel Ax, D Trifonov, Y Li, Lang Lang, L O Adnes, Y Bronfman, H Grimaud, V Lisitsa, M Pollini, I Pogorelich, E Kissin, N Goerner,, G Ohlsson, F Kempff, make up the elite
It's a very intriguing comment you have made. Would you please provide some links as evidence to your argument.
Not only is it intriguing. I find to be quite accurate as a pianist myself who has delighted in the performance of all of these pianist my entire life! I would like to add to the list though Cuban pianist Jorge Luis Prats
Gus Zdanovich You have forgotten Horowitz, is the biggest of the giants
Edoardo Del Monte and rubinstein
I think you mean F Kempf, surely not the truly great W Krmpff?
Thanks for uploading this.
awesome!!
Geez! It's great!!! I'm 14 and I play it currently. Wish me good luck!:))
you should now be about 26...how did it come out? congratulations on choosing this beautiful piece which I am hearing for the first time as are so many of those who have been listening since it was posted and you commented.
Impecable....
The second part in insanely good.
schlaget they both are
MENDELSSOHN WAS A VERY TALENTED MUSICIAN, ALTHOUGH HIS MUSIC LACKS THE DRAMATIC TOUCH OF ROMANTICISM THAT CHOPIN, SCHUBERT AND OTHERS HAD, SINCE HE HAD AN EASY LIFE. I LOVE HIS FIRST CONCERTO (VERY DIFFICULT) AND ALSO HIS SYMPHONIC WORKS. UNFORTUNATELY HE ALSO DIED YOUNG LIKE SCHUBERT AND CHOPIN.
Bravo!!
He grabbed the notes out of the wider universe - they're not forever his.. He released them to us, we interpreters are the new lions! We've heard (know) so much more than Beethoven et. al! and hopefully you'll trust us to express what they thought about AND so much more, because we fully fathom and respect the extended math of music! We don't stop at Mendelssohn or even Beethoven.
Does he leave some stuff out at 9:43-9:45? In most editions I’ve seen there’s another several bars there, not an immediate deceptive cadence.
you re right, mine is longer.
Bravissimo
AH! Mr. Perahia is that “Ultra-zone” piano virtuoso! PWG. (This is a new piece for me).
Wow🎶🎵🎼
Precioso!!!
Awesome
He makes the music sings, such God given gifts....sadly, only to the selected few.
so cool
amazing
Very civilized i dare say🍁
Great !!! After this, whoever listens to Mendelssohn and dares to call him "a second degree composer" deserves to be disemboweled with a wooden spoon !
Very nice playing.
Nice playing
Why doesn't this imaginative "Sonata" feature regularly in recital programmes by virtuosi pianists? Is it too demanding of subtle insight? Scottish is a misnomer, merely the place of conception. It served as an inspiration to the later Russian keyboard composers, I guess.
+Colin Lang It's certainly not too demanding in terms of technique. There is way more difficult pieces to master for that aspect out there. It is a very wonderful piece, inspired by Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy. It deserves the same attention of the latter, but I think it's just that Mendelssohn piano pieces in general, except for his "Songs without words", are quite ignored for no good reason. I much prefer his compositions for piano then those by Brahms, even though they were both quite classical.
An interesting question you raise, Colin and Sebastien. There is no simple answer. One aspect (raised many years ago by Ernest Hutcheson) is that there's a chasm between Mendelssohn's best work and 'the rest.' This unevenness -- divine inspiration on one hand, flashy but facile and sometimes shallow on the other -- is sometimes found BETWEEN works, but sometimes even within ONE work. This requires performers to be selective, and over the years they have become TOO selective. Another aspect is that Mendelssohn hasn't always had champions to promote his piano work. I read somewhere that his First Piano Concerto was underplayed for years, until a star of the stature of Rudolf Serkin revived it, and now it is a staple of the repertoire. There are probably other aspects as well.
My answer to that is many pianists and even competitions seemingly support this notion of finding validation in something they can tangibly compare. Everyone wants to play the warhorse compositions because they are performed by everyone... it is allegedly what everyone wants to hear because it is technically flashy and it can be easily pinned on a gauge to other pianists who have played them to satisfy this "who played it better" kind of mentality.
Not saying that this is entirely the case, and i certainly do not believe for a minuet that all audiences what to hear is Liszt La campanella and prokofiev 7th sonata... but it does come across potently that way. What i miss is the unique voice that "Je ne sais qua" pianists should bring to a composition regardless of it's composition.
Audiences should be drawn to a realm of discovery be it interpretation of an overly performed work, work of a lesser known composer or hardly performed composition. Perahia is a case in point. Pianists like this causes audience members to change their perspective of a composer or a composition in a positive light.
Their fire leaves one wanting to search for the music and learn it.. want to hear more... make more discoveries. That is the type of pianist I in turn want to be.
my grandfather heard Mendelssohn play this
Brian Bernstein was it good?
Brian Bernstein was it good?
Commander Mango What kind of question is that?
Niccolo Paganini a good one
@@mimipie How could he know that, if his grandfather lived in the 1820s/30s?
Mendelssohn class.....Mannes New School by any chance?
I've already played the first three sides, but then it's getting difficult ;-)
Excellent, as almost everyone is saying. BUT -- besides that I agree with Ann Singer about the occasional rushing, the first portion of the last movement (i.e. up to the 'double bar') isn't up to his usual standard -- including a couple of places where the left hand briefly gives up, a misreading of the score or maybe memory lapse at 7:13 (clearly not due to yet another tech glitch), and a probable memory lapse at 7:33 (can't rule out tech glitch here but unlikely to be that) -- all unlike his usual self. He makes up for it with a brilliant finishing half of the movement. I did hear him play this 'live,' and it was much better.
Pretty sure 7:33 is a tech glitch
.....yes!!! Upon second listen, you're right!
A supreme musician whose playing is sui generis.
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@acbulgin2 That's a good critique of what I blurted out (within these character constraints), and you must know a good critique is exceedingly rare in UA-cam comments.. I'm emotionally involved in this issue! The idea that someone can't look at a score and perform a work in a new manner, with a new approach, -- with our modern worldview, just gripes me. How do we know what the primitively-minded composer wanted? What did he SEE into the future of music?, were we there?
my son plays this
cool story
I play this now
It's so interesting
@acbulgin2 Fascinating stuff, isn't it? Are you familiar with the historical development and acceptance of intervals? I'm convinced that so many more people would enjoy serious music if they only were taught the derivations of overtones and intervals from Nature. Simple arithmetic, but it's so pure and direct for explaining our natural affinity for music, from Byrd and JSB to LvB and Brahms, Ravel and even Schoenberg (but Berg then retained the lyrical appeal offered by the harmonic series)
I don't think people are 'sad' when they under-rate Mendelssohn, merely deaf. Odd thing is that his music tends to disturb the workings of my brain, in the same way that the manic Schumann does. Unlike Mozart and Schubert and Rachmaninov .
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@acbulgin2 I never mentioned interpretations, because I want to hear all interpretations, no matter how much they deviate from the 'traditional' unsupported thinking about the 'style' of the composer, no matter what the score indicates, and no matter how much they grate upon small-minded listeners.
Does anyone know what concert this was from and if it is available on DVD? The writing appears to be Japanese so i am assuming the concert was held in Japan. There are other pieces in this concert also Bach, Beethoven,Chopin, Schubert.
It was part of his japanese concert he also played moonlight sonata here
You can watch the full concert part 1 and part 2 for free here m.bilibili.com/video/av11032463.html
@normthedoorman A friendly variance of opinion: Rach. scuffs up a little from time to time. I just heard his do so today on the Telarc "Window of Time" CD. I honestly feel that Perahia is every bit of Rachmaninoff, certainly of Horowitz. All splendid, and not a one of them quite the talent of Glenn Gould as a player -- none. But we really do split hairs.
What happened at 0:34?
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@framaulo wouldn't he still have been Mendelssohn ?
Mendelssohn borrows from the Hammerklavier, third movement.
You're right. The Op. 106 is a boring hash of the Hammerklavier.
and i hear allusions to Liszt B minor and Dante Sonatas
I would say that it's not top Mendelssohn, but not boring if well played. The opening movement makes clear reference to the Hammerklavier right from the outset, and that's why Mendelssohn gave it that opus no. though he had actually written the piece earlier than the opus no. would suggest. The movements after the first one are pure Mendelssohn, nothing to do with the Hammerklavier Sonata.
Both Liszt pieces were composed after Mendelssohn's death.
Actually, all the great composers "borrowed" from each other.
what's happening at 0:35?
Tsang Dacro and 5:15
+Tsang Dacro The video has recording laps... I wish I could find a better video
@Neotonalguy There is.
shame this gets thousands of views while justin bieber baby baby crap and call me maybe and other crap gets millions modern society has no sense of music at all
Lol what world do you live in
Mendelssohn is sadly underrated.
Not at all! That means, when's playing some great Pianist,you can see more clearly Mendelson's Geniuses!
2:07
Totally Beethoven
William Sterndale Bennett versucht den Meister in Worte zu fassen:
"Ich kann nicht beschreiben, was ich meine, doch wenn Mendelssohn einen
Raum betrat, hielt jeder inne und alles erschien in einem anderen
Licht." Er beobachtete, wie selbst Robert Schumann Mendelssohn
gegenüber unbewusst eine Haltung stiller Ehrbietung einnahm."
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@acbulgin2 Yes, I have a foolproof method for ranking pianists. You hear my playing and you know Perahia's playing. You explain who ranks higher and why. But this can't be done at the world class level, except by experienced and nitpicking critics according to their own personal likes and dislikes. What don't you understand?