Arthur Rubinstein - Live in Moscow, 1964 - Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Villa-Lobos
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2016
- Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Frédéric Chopin
00:00 Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op.44
10:58 Impromptu in G-flat major, Op.51
16:11 Nocturne in D-flat major, Op.27 No.2
Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.35
22:30 I. Grave - Doppio movimento
27:49 II. Scherzo
34:43 III. Marche funèbre. Lento - attacca:
43:01 IV. Finale. Presto
45:30 Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op.60
54:56 Étude in A-flat major, Op.25 No.1
57:30 Étude in G-flat major, Op.10 No.5
59:11 Étude in E minor, Op.25 No.5
01:02:13 Étude in C-sharp minor, Op.10 No.4
01:04:54 Waltz in A minor, Op.34 No.2
01:10:37 Polonaise in A-flat major, Op.53 "Héroïque"
Encores:
Robert Schumann
from "Fantasiestücke, Op.12":
01:19:23 Des Abends
Frédéric Chopin
01:23:45 Waltz in A-flat major, Op.34, No.1
Claude Debussy
from "Préludes, Livre II":
01:28:14 Ondine
Heitor Villa-Lobos
from "Prole do bebê No.1":
01:32:29 O Polichinello
Filmed live at the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, 1 October 1964
It was such a huge event in Russia (the Soviet Union at that time) when Rubinstein came to play at the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory. It was absolutely impossible to get tickets. Fortunately, I was able to watch the concert on TV, and remember sobbing when he played Funeral March from sonata No.2. And now, 53 years later, I have a chance to hear it again. Thank you so much for sharing.
wow. what a gorgeous post.
nleytman a
amazing comment. I too hope to be making a similar comment decades from now, on whatever futuristic, inter-gallactic platform we have then
nleytman thank you for sharing this memory of yours with us
I doubt if the trio section of the Funeral March has ever been played before or since with such heartrending lyricism.
О том, что это невероятный гений пишут все. И это точно так и есть! А мне хочется сказать о его неисправимой молодости. Ему же здесь 77 лет! Как он щедро дарит энергией, как вынослив! А еще благодарю всех кто записал концерт и тех, кто бережно реставрировал. Чувствую, с какой любовью это сделано. Благодарю за крупные планы, за совмещение изображений, за бережную реставрацию звука. Благодарю ...благодарю.
77 year old that year... speechless.
He looked 90 at 70 and 70 at 90!
Daniel Lee 8bhb
Listen to him play the Grieg concerto at 90!
Look how vigorous he looks at the end of the regular program, walking on and off and back on the stage. I saw him perform 12 years later at age 89. The concert included that C# minor etude, the Waldstein, a Chopin Ballade, etc. Never forget it.
YUP!
Rubinstein is to Chopin what Gould is to Bach. I find it interesting. One stayed in the concert hall. The other went to the recording studio. Mr. Rubinstein, thank you for playing to beating hearts 💕. You were indeed a piano poet! Your presentations, your piano posture, your polish patriotism, your faithfulness to each composers compositions and your talent given to you through grace which you gave back to the listener is beyond compare. The earth 🌏 was a better place when you were on it!!!
First LP ever in my life ,Chopin polonaise by Rubinstein .In 1970 .I was so happy ! i didn't know he was a genious , but I enjoyed it hours and hours .
And I still do.
Forse il più grande pianista di tutti i tempi.
Que emoción escuchar y ver este concierto!
Wow that polonaise ... so much power
wonderful and powerful performance
This is an ideal pianist. Only the Music. A great artist.
I have ALL his Chopin recordings, first on LP, then on CD, now on iTunes. He was god's gift to humans; could listen to him play the piano all day.....and pretty much have! :)
Still one of my all time favorites. I'm overcome seeing and hearing this!
Just, the best.
Great artist, great human being!
Wow! Pure virtuosity with a great musicality!
A 77 years old man playing such remarkable pieces of piano music!
Un genio como Chopin en manos de otro genio Rubinstein. No se puede creer tanta belleza !!
One of the best Polish pianists ,probably no one could interpret Chopin like he did.
His playing was every bit as monumental as the occasion it celebrated! Yes, he threw caution to the wind, but as a consequence, he achieved playing of unparalleled boldness, audacity, passion and heroic grandeur, inspired playing that is thrilling to behold.
Superbly - and accurately put. The 'Romantic' gesture was part of Rubinstein's DNA. This cannot be taught.
Слушала в те годы лучших, замечательных исполнителей - Э. Гилельса, С. Рихтера, а с Артуром Рубинштейном знакомлюсь впервые сейчас благодаря Вам. Огромное спасибо!
GENIUS
What a priceless video!!!! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you!
I ussualy don't listen to classics, but the performance is so pure, it is like he really wants you get the picture he sees. Thank you maestro.
Wow love it! The master
From another world.....flawless.
Необыкновенно прекрасный вечер с великим пианистом сегодня провела.
That magnificent 34/2 waltz. I've give up a year of my life to play it half so well.
ショパン 色々聴くけど
結局この方の演奏をに戻りますかな
この時期、特に安心しますわ
His piano presence is unmatched. Arthur Rubinstein IMHO is the gold standard of which all concert pianists should ascribe.
Brawo nasz Mistrzu! Zawsze pięknie.....
After listening to countless pianists my whole life, there is only one word for Rubinstein -- GENIUS!
MAGNIFICENT! Gorgeous Chopin, so tender and delicate, played with such special feeling! Wonderful concert to cherish and of 1964!
His Chopin performance touched the deepest of my soul!
Because his heart was more polish than jewish
The way Rubinstein “sits” a piano is perfection! I can’t help but believe his posture is responsible for his sound!
@ Janet Smith. I think his ears, brain, heart, and fingers
had much more to do with his sound than his posture. Indeed, if posture were the important factor, every yogi would be a great pianist.
@@temperedwell6295 actually he's very right... of course the posture is what we see as a result, but it's a necessary cornerstone of his sound. Rubinstein knew what he was doing, this posture allowed him to be really free and use his body efficiently, apart from looking great, which was also VERY important to Rubinstein
Rubinstein in has absolute prime! Amazing playing!!!
Rubinstein in top form. Lots of edge of your seat risk taking which is the hallmark of true genius.
Gracias por este tremendo regalo, un Maestro ¡¡¡¡
In my eyes the best pianist to ever live and certainly the best at playing and incapsulating Chopins beautiful emotions.
...for dilettantes like me seeing and hearing AR playing, it looks as if I could sit down at my piano and play it like he did. It looks/sounds so simple. However it is practically impossible. True mastership appears facile, easy. It never was, it never will be.
RIP
My goodness!!! The polonaise in f minor, no one plays it like this, this has to be the greatest interpretation ever.
i agree 100% all the other versions just sound like robots or smth
To everyone who keep pointing out all those mistakes he made,
I would like to see you try and perform an 1+ hour concert like Artur did, when you're old as he was, had sight problems as he did, with such quality and virtuosity.
I'd like to see one recording - let alone a live performance - without multiple deviations from the score. Music nerds can get too focused on accuracy. This guy plays melodies like no one else.
I don't see anyone pointing out the mistakes
@@Matt-gp9gc Wow!
o shit gotta watch an 1 an a half hour video paying attention to every mistake
Why exactly does one have to be able to play better than X in order to criticise him?
Chopin and Rubinstein: The perfect musical marriage!
@@ciao-cj5in wonder why
Yes you have the reason
@@ciao-cj5in yes you have the reason too...this was the problem😓😓
@@thelittleowl2484 did Chopin hate Jews?
@just a name I love Chopin, but there is no doubt that he was a racist, bastard, and an ungrateful bitch, but yeah, he suffered all his life due to several deceases and later passed away at painfully young age at 39.
Honestly, i forgive him. He had not done any crime.
Oh, the utter beauty!
Arthur Rubinstein, no matter how widely known and dramatic the nature of the music he's playing, always achieves, without compromising the intent of the compositions, a personal feeling that should reach even some of the coldest hearts listening.
I can only imagine what Rubinstein's reaction would be if he could watch this and have to endure periodic interruptions for inane advertisements.
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I really discovered Chopin's music through Rubinstein in high school (1960s). Our library had a multi-LP set of most of Chopin's piano works played by Rubinstein. I took it out so often the librarian finally wouldn't let me renew it for awhile. She said others might want to borrow it. Those recordings gave me such an appreciation and love for Chopin.
For me in Holland it was about the same story, but the secret is that he plays alike the psalms of David, isnt it? Touching our feelings but our deepest knowing too. Always i listened like you to the nocturnes, one LP, before going to my office. It's so beautiful to see him again.. Blessings from Holland.
🎹🤗
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He is one of the greatest treasures of humanity. I love the fact that the audience is dressed up properly . Nowadays people don't care. I think out of respect for the performer, the tradition has to go on.
Rubinstein was a genius
太美好了。音乐、鲁宾斯坦、和懂得欣赏美好的听众。
The most respected Pianist in the world ever !! Thanks for sharing.
What fantastic phrasing and nobility! I never got to see him live...the performance of O Polichinello is so fast you can't see his hands move, remarkable for a 77-yr old!!!
If you love Rubinstein, read his autobiography. Wonderfully touching and funny at the same time. You'll appreciate his playing all the more.
I did it and yes, is great!
Pianiste merveilleux, personne charismatique, cet homme est un trésor. Dire qu'il se disait paresseux…
So many wonderful comments here. As someone who heard him numerous times in concert, watched him rehearse and was fortunate enough to share a cigar with him at an after-party. (Havana, of course!) I just wanted to say that he was equally as grand a human being as he was a pianist. Does anyone imagine that this concert in Moscow was just another concert for him? (Just think of the history of Russia/Poland in the 19th and 20th century) You can be sure he was as human as you or I. The difference was his soul of a poet, imbued musicality and hard, hard work.
So wonderful to hear a recital by Rubenstein. The poet of the piano.
Watching him you can see he is one who enjoys playing-what a blessing to be able to play!
The barcarolle sounds like his farewell to the word. A genius among genius.
Not quite yet. He was still like a bull at 88 when I went to see him.
Splendid.
MR
This is a truly heroic Chopin recital whereby Rubinstein gives his all by throwing caution to the winds. There are some uneasy moments such as the near disastrous memory lapse in the scherzo from the sonata; yet has the Funeral March from the same work ever been played with such heartbreaking emotional force?!. The Barcarolle is simply ravishing, and of the chosen Etudes one wonders why he never recorded both sets given the abundance of technical mastery evident here.
Predictably he ends with a blistering (albeit splashy) account of the A flat polonaise. Rubinstein once said ''One has to give a little blood in a meaningful recital'' metaphorically speaking. He certainly lived up to that description in this historic recital.
Creo que nadie lo superò. Fue un genio de la música.
Always the best interpretations with real musical feeling and not corny, overly dramatic tempo changes, etc in lieu of real feeling. A maestro.
Exactly
And without the crazy unnecessary moving and facial expressions
@@JuanSantos-yq1jn Chopin was a big fan of the metronome, meaning he didn't use rubato as much as people intepret. Pianists use too much rubato when playing Chopin nowadays.
@@afriendlymusician3829 that alone doesn't mean anything. "Metrum" doesn't equal "tempo". And Rachmaninov? So many pianists over-rubato his pieces, while his recordings are often so dry, straight, and tbh maybe I like both but I prefer Rachmaninov's style of his own pieces. Of course he had light-hearted pieces, but pianists just often make him too sentimental, which makes it rather comic...
Incredible. The Nocturne and the Valse are so amazing.
Emocionante ver o grande mestre Rubistein terminando seu recital com o nosso mestre maior Heitor Villa-lobos. Que orgulho do povo brasileiro 🇧🇷
I know - I live in France, and so did Chopin and Debussy 2x1 :-)
It's so important to have these representation of Rubinstein in concert. Although several of his recordings are classics, he was much more exciting live, as this concert illustrates. It also features an epic save after a serious memory lapse during the Scherzo in the Chopin Bb minor Sonata.
Hi was famous in one period of his life for "memory lapses" and brilliant saves after...
@bill Bloggs He was also suffering from serious sight problems at that time. Couple that with the serious interruption to his concentration (that inappropriate applause at the end of the previous movement), and you have a recipe for errors.
I am always mesmerized by those exquisite hands floating so effortlessly above the keys. Rubinstein has such grace in his playing style; he seems to conjure the music from the piano- a Maestro indeed.
Impeccable presentation, and beautiful technique. Most of all, absolutely no energy wasted on histrionics. Nobody today plays as well as Rubinstein did in the 1960's. That performance puts people like Lang Lang to shame, despite any imperfections. 90 minutes, playing from memory, without a mistake is nigh impossible to achieve. Moreover, a flawless performance, as in edited studio recordings, is dead in some ways.
Wondrous ! xxxxxxx
I was privileged and blessed to hear him in recital in Dallas in the early 70s. I heard many great pianists of that era, and what stands out the most about Rubinstein's playing was his truly extraordinary lightness and delicacy of tone. I have never heard anything like it--before or since. Shalom, Mr. Rubinstein.
Mr T, so few of us left! What struck you most about his playing?
Mr T, I saw Rubinstein in 1972 at SMU in Dallas where I was studying piano with a grad student. His performance was the talk of the campus. BTW, the piano he and the other visiting pianists of the era used was a rental from a local music store. A few years later, I rented the very same piano for a recital!
The piano is a mechanical device, but listening to Rubinstein, especially with Chopin, one gets the impression he's not striking the keys, but making it sing - the notes don't come from the piano, they float above it.
The prefect match between Chopin and Rubinstein 😍
just a genius with a very pleasant smile
He was not a large man but he had enormous hands capable of spanning a twelfth. He obviously loved performing in public. He looks almost regal as he plays, erect postures and hardly any unnecessary motion. I notice he’s careful not to break his hands in the Nocturne like some pianists do. Beautiful!!
Simply sublime. Thank you.
this is music history ,and we can watch and listen thanks to youtube and the godly internet
Rubinstein saved Chopin from being relegated to the realm of overly-sentimental, "romantic" composer (prevalent in interpretations during the late nineteenth/early 20th centuries) with his deep understanding of Chopin's music. His conservative and judicious use of pedal and rubato uncovered the true beauty and power of this music. I doubt whether there will ever be another pianist with such an organic connection to Chopin. I was so fortunate that my mother (a professional singer) took me to hear him every time he came to Washington, D.C. - always a transformative experience. Thank you Vladivostok for this amazing video!
Thank you for sharing your vision. For me, Arthur Rubinstein represents a way of living that I honor. Blessings, Robert.
I have always admired Mr Rubinstein's piano playing. He always reached the very core of the music he played without affectations. A very literal yet free approach. Also, his joie de vivre and self confidence are more than evident.
Arthur Rubinstein: Simply splendid in his performance.
I was privileged to sit on seats in the late 1970s on the stage at the Theatre Royal Newcastle to hear this wonderful man entertain us royally. The memory has never left me. And of the friends who were with me and now departed.
I think you'll find it was the City Hall. 😊
I was there also and remember surprisingly the attendance was not great.
The more I watch this, the more I'm just crazy about the pedal work. It's incredible. And it goes without saying, but what an insanely amazing Chopin master he is. Baracolle was just absolutely, indescribably fantastic to see. What a treat! And he chose Aeolian Harp as well! Ugh, incredible. I guess there's a reason they say Rubenstein will always be a genius..
words fail me....It was just magnificent. What a pianist, imcomparable!!
安心感と安定感の塊です。
un lujo escucharle
The music across the time. History of music, simply. Great ever. Thanks a lot.
I cried when I first heard this, the sound quality is great, how was this achieved? It is like this concert happened last year or something. Read some comments about mistakes etc. Well I can tell you as a performer of classical voice and more recently piano and organ that you do forget stuff and the older you get, the worse it gets. However with age you can also realise the important things more and 'navigate' your way around problems. I am sure Rubinstein enjoyed making music in Moscow here, it is a triumphant exposition of Chopin, of life, of history, of beauty and of truth.
I heard him in recital in Dallas in the early 1970s, and his virtuosity was stunning. Most of all, I remember his extraordinary delicacy of tone; I have never heard anything like it before or since.
He performed in Hong Kong the following year in 1965.My piano teacher was absolutely excited by his coming.
Minimal gestures, a dignified manner. How they enhanced the mood that he created. Hoomeyow!!
Totally overwhelmingly moving !!
Quelle classe ! j'adore son attitude au piano, pas de gestes faussement séducteurs, et inutiles... rien que le piano. Et quelle sensibilité dans le jeu ! Un modèle !
Il joue sur quel instrument ? Un C.Bechstein, non ? Non, c'est un Steinway !
Genius ,! Unique !! Love his talent,his playing ,his books ...
it's no small feat for an eighty-two year old to be sitting there straight up all night and striking all those notes with such solid tones full of spirit without showing signs of fatigue or anything routine, you have to remeber that he has been playing these music nearly 70 years by then, how do you keep your playing fresh and still touches people? that part amazes me. Many pianists show technical deterioration, slowness, slacking in tone quality, by that age, but not he, and he still maintains demonstrative posture that shows us how to aquire longevity in your playing career.
Yefim Bronfman spoke of watching this on TV as a 7 year old and the huge impact it had on him. His playing too has amazing gravitas and spiritual power.
James Mc Donnell Yefim brought me here too and I am ever so grateful 😍😍 Shivers and tears!!
Rubenstein (playing Rachmaninoff) is the first musician that made a huge impression on me as a child. I started playing piano at three.
I’m so delighted in hearing this great master playing! I agree, he was the biggest pianist of the XX century and perhaps of every time!
Thanks for this registration, I heard an older version but the sound here is so neat!
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C'est un pianiste auquel on voudrait ressembler quelle merveille
I love his touch, so profound.
Magnificent ! A great pleasure to listen ...💓
Thank you for uploading this Great video. Finally, it is available with great sound and video quality. A Master Class in music making, sound and "healthy" tension. Even the memory lapse on the 2nd mov of the Sonata is a memorable moment and a great lesson in making music no matter what.
Magnificent! I saw Rubinstein in Dallas many years ago, and what I remember most was his extraordinary, almost ethereal tone.
extraordinario
Grande Pianista, di una classe infinita...