Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 | Olli Mustonen

11.3.2021, Turku Concert Hall
Olli Mustonen, piano (Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of TPO)
Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
Arietta: Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

[@swedishorganist]

This guy has great talent. Unusual style with short staccatos in Beethoven.

[@angelob.1089]

I'd love for this to be released in an album... playing of the highest order.

[@angelob.1089]

He is an amazing pianist. Irregular style of playing, but it's the type of playing that demonstrates that lifting the key is just as important as depressing it. His technique is flawless.

[@genis_piano]

from 09:25 and so he is creating a mindblowing sound

[@foodforthought4546]

In a few minutes of listening I found a number of points where I would take issue with his reading, starting with his oblivion to B's pedaling on page 1. His most prominent idiosyncracy seems to be his love of staccato, where it is not indicated in the score, and this is evident in several recordings of his. His technique is great though.

[@centeravenue]

QUIRKY! ICONOCLASTIC - by design.

[@romeobortolani1907]

5:00

[@richardvolpe7664]

Now I ask you - - have you EVER seen such extreme head shaking and rwitching? Is it some sort of medical condition, or does he simply feel that these ghastly mannerisms add dramatic "punctuations" or something? And if that weren't distracting enough, there's the constant "tourette's Syndrone"-like high-rising arm thrusts. He should be made to watch videos of his stage displays. To the "just-close-your-eyes-and-listen" crowd, I say that these videos, for heaven's sake, are MEANT to be watched, aren't they?
These visual quirks are, for me, at least, sufficiently distracting as to 'take me away' from the music, thereby discouraging any assessment of his playing. I've never seen anything quite like this - - he's really unwatchable.

[@marcoatef8669]

So clearly you haven't played an instrument before i have played the piano although not nearly as well😂 but these twitching and mannerisms are the result of two things pure joy from the music and more importantly it is like an inner clock and metronome like for example the sudden hand lifting is a standard technique pianist employ to improve timing otherwise you wouldn't see literally every other professional pianst doing it,and yes you are only suppose to listen to the music this is not a performance

[@richardvolpe7664]

@@marcoatef8669 I highly doubt that many viewers could possibly agree with your utterly absurd "explanation" pf this pianist's hopelessly distracting mannerisms (including his never-to-be-encouraged 'hand lifting' which serves no purpose). If it means anything at ALL to you, I've taught music for 32 years, and have performed 14 concertos with orchestras.

[@foodforthought4546]

@@richardvolpe7664 In a few minutes of listening I found a number of points where I would take issue with his reading, starting with his oblivion to B's pedaling on page 1. Regarding his mannerisms I have seen some other pianists with odd mannerisms (eg LangLang) as well as dress and they are distracting for some people. I would like to separate the two things, personally.