As I listened to this brilliant recording, at times I found myself feeling that I was listening to Beethoven playing. I’ve only experienced this highly subjective feeling as I listened to Ashkenazy playing practically anything Beethoven composed….I’ve not listened to Maestro Lupu as much as I have VA, but I now love both!
Grazie maestro Radu Lupu per le tante meravigliose serate che mi hai donato, tra Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann e Brahms. Ricordi indelebili, tra le cose più sublimi che io abbia mai ascoltato. La terra ti sia lieve.
Great. We can see Beethoven's inner lines. Love the volume modulations in the lines of repeated notes. So clear that the third movement is connected to the first and second and the latter is a scale. Also love the Lupu-Perahia Brahms Haydn Variations.
Are you serious??? No great pianist would ever _consider_ following this very dilettantish “dictum,” even if they did value it as much as you seem to. Can you even imagine Horowitz or Rubinstein saying, “Oh, no no no….I’m only 75! I won’t be playing the Waldstein until I’m ready to retire, because, as everyone knows, once I’ve played that I’ll have reached the pinnacle of music and need never aspire to anything else!” Absolute rubbish!
Excelente Radu. Me pregunto La escribio su corazón o su maravillosa inteligencia. El retorno de su amigo y protector a su hogar está descripto q a mi me emociona mucho.
Why would anyone want to do that, and cheat themselves out of so many fabulous performances by so many different but equally incredible pianists??? After an artist reaches the peak of utter mastery, there is only their own understanding of every piece they play. Even though I’m a psychologist as well as a classically trained musician, I’ll never understand that way of thinking! It’s like saying there is only one rose worth anything, or one bird of prey, or any other kind of masterpiece of nature, with its own wonderful variations!! Thank God I can hear and appreciate the difference between amazing artists,and I can listen to appreciate each, not to criticize.
No-one, not even Brendel, Lewis, Perahia, Levitt etal . have approached the slow movement in the way Lupu did. The wave after wave of emotion washing over is like an orgasm. RIP Radu.
i love it. everything s executed immaculatedly. l it even seems to happen as he plays it, lupu s beethoven is with the exception of the 2nd mvt to moderate. i am missing a personal drama, imo conflict. on occasion, i listen to the recording, for consolation.
if anything, Lupu's approach is too tame and polished for a Waldstein. Compared to almost anyone else, Lupu has more control over the sound and general delivery than any other interpretor - it s just divinely clean. But Beethoven is not tame, polished and clean. i guess this is the oxymoron we will never get - Lupu perfection and Horowitz musical vulgarity in one performance. ah well ^^
In that case you should listen to Rudolf Serkin. I don't if his recordings of it are good, but when he played it live he owned the piece. He licked his thumbs to enable him to play the octave glissandi in the last movement!
@@philipkuttner7945 If we are talking about the 1952 recording then I couldn't agree with you more. Fantastic rendition of one of my favourite LvB sonatas. For a stereo recording then Dubravka Tomsic is worth a listen as well.
Serkin The cold RAW rough piano sound! Serkin The second-rated player! Serkin his Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 is so awful! Dimitri Bashkirov Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 a class of his own playing Mendelssohn! Serkin his Brahms piano concerto no 1 is so mechanical Boring stiff! Lupu Brahms piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video UA-cam! Lupu a class of his own playing Brahms piano concerto no 1
@@philipkuttner7945 I have a LIVE recording of Serkin playing the Waldstein... there's NOTHING like it....... anywhere... He also plays the Reger Bach Variation on the same recording... UNREAL...!!!!!!
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Radu Lupu was the finest pianists ever- I like his gentle touch!
As I listened to this brilliant recording, at times I found myself feeling that I was listening to Beethoven playing. I’ve only experienced this highly subjective feeling as I listened to Ashkenazy playing practically anything Beethoven composed….I’ve not listened to Maestro Lupu as much as I have VA, but I now love both!
For me, THIS will always be the definitive rendition of the Waldstein.
For me too. Rest easy Maestro and thank you for being such a wonderful pianist and human being. We have lost a great artist. Goodbye and thank you.
agree
It's so beautiful.✨
There are other pianists I like, but his playing is one of a kind☝️
Grazie maestro Radu Lupu per le tante meravigliose serate che mi hai donato, tra Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann e Brahms. Ricordi indelebili, tra le cose più sublimi che io abbia mai ascoltato. La terra ti sia lieve.
Addio e grazie Maestro Lupu.
Grazie al cielo abbiamo le sue registrazioni.
Radu Lupu is a great pianist. The big Rumanian has the power, but my goodness delicacy of touch as well. This is a superb recording.
Romanian …
Intoxicating
Thank you for sharing beauty
Thanks for post. Performance fantastic! Genius.
Great. We can see Beethoven's inner lines. Love the volume modulations in the lines of repeated notes. So clear that the third movement is connected to the first and second and the latter is a scale. Also love the Lupu-Perahia Brahms Haydn Variations.
I grew up with this album and played it constantly. His performance of the development in the last movement is the best I've ever heard it.
Agree. It was my favorite too
RIP maestro
Eccezionale. Un vero artista!
Splendid and majestic ! He was one of a kind
Rest In Peace Maestro.
Amin 🙏
Thanks for post. Terrific, difficult piece beautifully, passionately played.
Any pianist that can play this sonata has reached the pinnacle of music and need not aspire to anything else.
Are you serious??? No great pianist would ever _consider_ following this very dilettantish “dictum,” even if they did value it as much as you seem to. Can you even imagine Horowitz or Rubinstein saying, “Oh, no no no….I’m only 75! I won’t be playing the Waldstein until I’m ready to retire, because, as everyone knows, once I’ve played that I’ll have reached the pinnacle of music and need never aspire to anything else!” Absolute rubbish!
Una vera rivelazione. Mai sentita questa sonata eseguita così.
Concordo
Suggerisco l'ascolto della Sonata n. 3 di Brahms. Interpretazione insuperabile, magica.C'è su YT.
Vero !! E anche le Sonate di Schubert
Vero ! Anche le Sonate di Schubert
Incredibile esecuzione
Nailed the tempi. Right on to me. Never heard of him until today. Bravo!!
Really beautiful performance, hadn't heard it til now.
extraordinary pianist!!!
Großartige Einspielung!
RIP Radu.
Rest in peace !
Performance fantástica. Genial.
Волшебство!
Grand artiste, peu connu dans mon pays, malheureusement...bien que d''origine roumaine, pays-voisin du mien!
Superbe! Fantastique!
Beautiful RIP
R.I.P.
Amazing performance
Excelente Radu. Me pregunto La escribio su corazón o su maravillosa inteligencia. El retorno de su amigo y protector a su hogar está descripto q a mi me emociona mucho.
들어본 발트슈타인중 가장 낭만적이당..
Forget everybody else -- just listen to Great Radu !!!
Why would anyone want to do that, and cheat themselves out of so many fabulous performances by so many different but equally incredible pianists??? After an artist reaches the peak of utter mastery, there is only their own understanding of every piece they play. Even though I’m a psychologist as well as a classically trained musician, I’ll never understand that way of thinking! It’s like saying there is only one rose worth anything, or one bird of prey, or any other kind of masterpiece of nature, with its own wonderful variations!! Thank God I can hear and appreciate the difference between amazing artists,and I can listen to appreciate each, not to criticize.
@@voraciousreader3341 ....equally incredible pianists??? shanking nertz !!!!!
No-one, not even Brendel, Lewis, Perahia, Levitt etal . have approached the slow movement in the way Lupu did. The wave after wave of emotion washing over is like an orgasm.
RIP Radu.
excellent.....
Beginning at 20:42 is the greatest ever!
22:52 onwards. You need 100 fingers to play them !
i love it. everything s executed immaculatedly. l
it even seems to happen as he plays it, lupu s beethoven is with the exception of the 2nd mvt to moderate. i am missing a personal drama, imo conflict. on occasion, i listen to the recording, for consolation.
Il migliore
Phenomenal
maravillosa!
radu lupu you are the best romanian pianist..wow ❤💚💜
Best pianist
too nice for its own good
Superior!
한겨레 신문에서 별세 소식을 보았습니다. 삼가 고인의 명복을 빕니다~! 🙏
Miraculeux.RIP.
Who can tell us what brand the piano is?
💗
Bello. Di che anno è la registrazione ? e in che città ?
Recorded in West Hampstead in 1975
@@guts2special Grazie
Gentle version
the greatest interpretation. the other are too slow and too mild.
Gilles, Gilels, Gilels...no one like him on Beethoven. "Live", the more so...
You've heard Gilels! his Beethoven!
How lucky you are...
Epochal...
B must have been on fire when he wrote this
if anything, Lupu's approach is too tame and polished for a Waldstein. Compared to almost anyone else, Lupu has more control over the sound and general delivery than any other interpretor - it s just divinely clean. But Beethoven is not tame, polished and clean. i guess this is the oxymoron we will never get - Lupu perfection and Horowitz musical vulgarity in one performance. ah well ^^
In that case you should listen to Rudolf Serkin. I don't if his recordings of it are good, but when he played it live he owned the piece. He licked his thumbs to enable him to play the octave glissandi in the last movement!
@@philipkuttner7945 If we are talking about the 1952 recording then I couldn't agree with you more. Fantastic rendition of one of my favourite LvB sonatas. For a stereo recording then Dubravka Tomsic is worth a listen as well.
Serkin The cold RAW rough piano sound! Serkin The second-rated player! Serkin his Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 is so awful! Dimitri Bashkirov Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 a class of his own playing Mendelssohn! Serkin his Brahms piano concerto no 1 is so mechanical Boring stiff! Lupu Brahms piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video UA-cam! Lupu a class of his own playing Brahms piano concerto no 1
@@philipkuttner7945 I have a LIVE recording of Serkin playing the Waldstein... there's NOTHING like it....... anywhere... He also plays the Reger Bach Variation on the same recording... UNREAL...!!!!!!
Agree. Lupu for Schubert, Gilels for Beethoven. I think Gilels combines delicacy with the power Beethoven needs.
쓸데 없이 쳐지고 흐름이 끊기네요 그래서 에밀 길렐스가 훨 낫다는 것
I also love Gilels' Beethoven sonatas too! Especially Op.106.