This is madness beyond comprehension. The first time I heard it I was 14, and I screamed and screamed, and it was beyond my control. I could only hear myself scream; I managed to reach for something to stifle it so no-one else would hear. In some aspects, this is Beethoven at His greatest.
chopin is good but the only contender is Bach he is the father of music. There is a musical trinity Bach- father Beethoven- son Mozart- holy spirit. Ive recently been searching musically and Beethoven is my favorurite composer but i know Bach is the best.
+physicks I have to agree. I'm old school with classical music. I think some of the works from the early romantic can compare but only some of it. Chopin and Mendelssohn in particular. I generally don't appreciate the later romantic. Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others just don't do it for me. They may have had technical skill but in composition they didn't have what Beethoven, Bach, or Mozart had.
How can anyone even use words to comment upon this... this thing we call a "performance"? Oh God, if only we all had a bit of Barenboim in us!! Oh God, if anything in the world is sublime, it is this, it is this, it is this.
I played this piece many years ago, so it has a lot of meaning for me. Everything about this performance is absolutely astounding. It doesn't even matter that he flubs a few notes towards the end or doesn't take the dreaded repeat; Barenboim is one of the few pros who can actually capture and deliver the emotional madness that Beethoven put on paper. In my opinion, the profuse sweating, contorted facial expressions and dramatic movements are what make this performance so amazing.
I think nobody plays this piece like Barenboim- the sheer intensity of this performance is on another level compared to any other. His flubs are probably because he wanted to play the piece the way he wanted to- and unfortunately some compromises were made trying to bring the speed and intensity up that high at the end. However, I prefer this over a more subdued, technically perfect ending to be honest. Unfortunately with just how difficult this piece is (probably one of the most difficult movements in Beethoven's repertoire) it is almost impossible to be both mechanically perfect and follow Beethoven's insane tempo and musical expression unless you are a piano god.
The proof that age matters a lot in piano at this level.Barenboim before 20 years plays the same with too much emotion in many parts,Barenboin 2010 polished his emotional skills and plays softer when it should. Piano needs emotional intelligence as much as musical and fingers.
i admire his passion and his phrasing and his intensity and delicacy, counterpoint and balance. this piece of music, there's just something so desperate and fragile about it, something fragile but extremely powerful. fucking conflicted emotions great performance. :)
Time and again, time AND again, I keep comparing Barenboim to the others (when it comes to a rendition of the Appassionata)-Pollini, Richter, Lang Lang, and all the rest-and eventually I always realise that there is no surpassing Barenboim: the true alte Meister.
@@LuluBodhi It's very, very different from all the others I've listened to. Technically sound, I might say, but it sounds kind of robotic to me, to use a loose word. As far as I remember, it seems to go at the same level of feeling throughout-which one might or might not like or appreciate.
@@wolfenmann1 I get what you mean. Thing is Lisitsa has posted two performances on her channel (and will soon post a third). The newer one with more views is indeed very dry and ugly, I don't like it at all. But the older one, from about 11 years ago is fantastic and the most energetic performance of this I've ever heard, definitely give it a try
@@todorstojanov3100 Mr Stojanov, I was referring to the 2009 version :-( Anyway, like Elizabeth says, to each his own :-) BTW, I listened to your performance of the first movement. Of course there's lots of room for improvement, especially the balance between and coordination of the hands, but from someone who tried playing and can't play for nuts-a heartfelt word of congratulations and encouragement. Please persist in your endeavours. Godspeed!
@@wolfenmann1 Ah well okay, to each his own of course. I just wanted to make sure you listened to that one and not the other one. Thank you very much btw! I'm not a serious pianist nor am I trying to be but I most definitely will persist playing.
The bloodthirstiness of the third movement all but overshadows its sublimity. It's as though Beethoven, not content with beheading the enemy, pauses and systematically stomps upon its head until the skull cracks open. The wonder is, while the metaphor is in the basest realms of carnality, the music is in the highest regions of sublimity. And, God knows, Barenboim is the perfect messenger.
@@handhdhd6522 It’s not clear if that’s sarcastic, but seriously: It’s easy to see that there are at least three points before the actual end that the movement has the opportunity to end gracefully. I don’t know any musical terminology, so... in this performance, it could have ended at 4:33-or even at 4:40. What happens between 4:40 and 5:01 is-as I see it-really a systematic, almost carnal repetition of a theme that serves only to drive home a point. And it could end there, too, but no: It *has* to be completely done with, hence the crescendo in the last 10 seconds :-)
You just got to love performers who give their audiences everything. Who do not hide and play safe, but go out there and give everything. So wonderful to see that. The sweat on his brow says it all.
I watched Valentina first and was immediately struck by how mechanical she is. Even to my untrained ear she reminded me of someone technically perfect but without a true artistic ear. This is so nuanced and emotive. I can hear all the different tunes interweaving. With her it felt like it was how quickly can i play this piece and no rise and fall. This was stunning!
Barenboim has mastered all of Beethoven’s works. He is able to perform each one of them with the utmost certainty. He is not just the ‘best Beethoven performer’, he simply is Beethoven
It gives him a like. Holding ALT does not do anything to prevent the like button from giving him a like. A trap doesn't necessarily have to inconvenience the one caught in it, but it does typically benefit the one who set it.
IMO this is the probably the best Beethoven sonata. at least top 3. Pieces such as this is, are pinnacles of classical music in my mind. the romantic works (minus the early) Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others just don't do it for me. Not that they're bad, they are incredibly technical. but compositionally it just doesn't compare to this.
I would recommend you Rachmaninov's second Sonata or Liszt's B-minor Sonata. Both pieces are incredible in their construction, especially the Sonata from Rachmaninov, since its compositional features are so tightly contructed that one might merely think it is just a whole mess of notes where in reality, almost everything is well-thought through. For analysis I recommend you to watch the video uploaded by Ashish Xiangyi Kumar (analysis in the description). As for the second movement I would prefer to listen to Lugansky's interpretation and the other two movements are well played by Kocsis in my opinion. I hope I could change your view on both composers!
OOPS on 4:28 !^^ I prefer Valentina Lisitsa's interpretation on the whole, but some little details were better in the Barenboims's version (decrescendo accentuated...) on my opinion. There is no better interpreter, only in our hearts.
Guys you know? It was the final in his Berlin piano recital after he had been already playing four Beethoven sonatas and ended with this sonata op.23 "Appassionata" ......
a critic once said that the closing strains of the 27" ,moonlight, "Rushed to their Doom" I contend the closing of the appassionata, TAKE YOU WITH THEM......Long Live Beethoven
Richter's performance was great in that he managed to maintain a stable and clean interpretation despite the apocalyptic tempo (contrary to Beethoven's own directions Allegro MA NON TROPPO). Much of Beethoven's "passionate" appeal was lost however due to the furious speed at which it was played.
Barenboim's performances of this work are my favorites, over those of Horowitz, Schabel, Rubinstein, Arrau, Casadeseus, Kempff, and even Valentina Lisitsa. I even still occasionally listen to his 1955 recording of it (and the Hammerklavier as well).
@@DLxFC I didn't notice that. To be fair I've never played this sonata. But I do play piano and it's fair to say a layman listener would not notice such a thing.
I hadn't encountered Barenboim until recently. He is a genuine master, and seems to have a real understanding of the music he plays. He's a damned good conductor, too. Elsewhere on UA-cam there's a clip of him playing the Choral Fantasie (Op 80), conducting from the piano. Excellent.
if you think liszt never put any emotion into his music you should listen to totentanz for the piano, it is in my opinion the most beautiful and emotional piece i have ever come to listen to.
I agree. He developed his ideas, he was sincere and he was innovative, but while I think Liszt was a much finer composer than some people here are giving him credit for, something like the Totentanz, as beautiful as it is, comes off looking just a little superficial next to works like Bach's Die Kunst Der Fuge or Beethoven's C # minor String Quartet. And as far as irony and devilishness are concerned, I don't think it gets much better than Berlioz.
I swear it - i was just waiting for the piano to give up on life and commit suicide! Sir Daniel performed this so great, he set a standard on how to perform this!
Lisitsa is, no doubt, one of the greatest pianists ever. But she uses to play very fast and loud, and this music isn't supposed to be that way. Mr Barenboim did some pretty good work here.
Ofcourse he's way better than Lisitsa, she's way to heavy for Beethoven, he wrote this piece around 1804, so it's between the classical and the romantic period, you have to play smooth and gentle like it's your kid. Lisitsa is way better in heavy romantic music like Chopin, Rachmaninoff... Don't forget that Barenboim memorised al the Beethoven sonatas at the age of 17! Whole his life he was busy with understanding Beethoven and I think he's the best performer of Beethovens Piano works.
no es que no me guste el enfoque de barenboim, lo encuentro parecido al de schnabel, pero schnabel aun con pifias disponia de un mecanismo superior. y concuerdo, aqui ganan richter, gilels, arrau, el propio schnabel
Listen to Lang Lang's live performance in Vienna...despite his many critics you may be surprised!! He attended Barenboim's Master Class on this Sonata, but I think he delivered a better performance especially in the Coda which was delivered with greater stability and clarity. Ignore his "over the top" eccentricities such as his theatrical mannerisms and antics and focus on the sound (and his fingers).
I some what like this interpretation EXCEPT at the end. Vladamir Horowitz does a better job, in fact, the BEST job at that piece & Beethoven in general. Rachmaninoff himself admitted Horowitz played his pieces better than the composer himself.
I liked it overall, but the end was way too fast for my taste. Arrau´s interpretation allows us to appreciate far more the contrast between the last compass and the rest of the sonata. Barenboim's interpration, as good as it is, just glosses over that fantastic and final irony. That said, it's a good rendition and an intriguing interpretation, just not my favourite one.
maybe it's just me, but the 3rd movement of #14 was harder (for me) to learn...taking nothing away from this, however...i love to listen to db play the mozart sonatas...
Please, please ! Pity ! No composer is comparable to another one ! The only goal of music is to give pleasure to the public. If I have pleasure to listen to Czerny exercices, I can say I love his music, but I can't say he's the best ! I was gonna forgot it : I took so much pleasure listening to this sonata ! Thank you Beethoven, thank you Barenboim. A really beautiful team work !
Interessant interpretation, it's a shame that there is some mistakes :(... That's why Pollini's ine is much better !! But nervetheless, this part of the Appassionata is done by Bernboim with a great emotion :) !! And I like it :) !!
Madness, sheer madness, all about emotion at its peak, its Beethoven baby! Barenboinm is exhausted and everyone playing it will be picking his head.
This is madness beyond comprehension. The first time I heard it I was 14, and I screamed and screamed, and it was beyond my control. I could only hear myself scream; I managed to reach for something to stifle it so no-one else would hear. In some aspects, this is Beethoven at His greatest.
Dat Nguyen
How does one man come up with such a masterpiece? Will anybody ever be able to match the extraordinary talent that is Beethoven? Is it even possible?
its surreal to think it came from a mans mind.
How bout Chopin
chopin is good but the only contender is Bach he is the father of music. There is a musical trinity Bach- father Beethoven- son Mozart- holy spirit. Ive recently been searching musically and Beethoven is my favorurite composer but i know Bach is the best.
Dvorak wrote much better pieces imo.
+physicks
I have to agree. I'm old school with classical music. I think some of the works from the early romantic can compare but only some of it.
Chopin and Mendelssohn in particular. I generally don't appreciate the later romantic. Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others just don't do it for me. They may have had technical skill but in composition they didn't have what Beethoven, Bach, or Mozart had.
How can anyone even use words to comment upon this... this thing we call a "performance"?
Oh God, if only we all had a bit of Barenboim in us!! Oh God, if anything in the world is sublime, it is this, it is this, it is this.
Man Anthony Hopkins sure knows how to play piano!
dror he actually really does
I think more Jack Nicholson!
Q
**TOO FUNNY!!**
That is Daniel Barenboim
I played this piece many years ago, so it has a lot of meaning for me. Everything about this performance is absolutely astounding. It doesn't even matter that he flubs a few notes towards the end or doesn't take the dreaded repeat; Barenboim is one of the few pros who can actually capture and deliver the emotional madness that Beethoven put on paper. In my opinion, the profuse sweating, contorted facial expressions and dramatic movements are what make this performance so amazing.
I think nobody plays this piece like Barenboim- the sheer intensity of this performance is on another level compared to any other. His flubs are probably because he wanted to play the piece the way he wanted to- and unfortunately some compromises were made trying to bring the speed and intensity up that high at the end. However, I prefer this over a more subdued, technically perfect ending to be honest. Unfortunately with just how difficult this piece is (probably one of the most difficult movements in Beethoven's repertoire) it is almost impossible to be both mechanically perfect and follow Beethoven's insane tempo and musical expression unless you are a piano god.
Why is the repeat 'dreaded'?
@@ganjamozart1435 Well it does repeat over half the piece basically and extends its time by almost double.
I feel like he plays it as Beethoven willed it
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The proof that age matters a lot in piano at this level.Barenboim before 20 years plays the same with too much emotion in many parts,Barenboin 2010 polished his emotional skills and plays softer when it should.
Piano needs emotional intelligence as much as musical and fingers.
He knows he makes some mistakes here and there, but for a live performance is a masterclass, bravo!
i admire his passion and his phrasing and his intensity and delicacy, counterpoint and balance. this piece of music, there's just something so desperate and fragile about it, something fragile but extremely powerful. fucking conflicted emotions
great performance. :)
Bravo - a truly exciting experience
Time and again, time AND again, I keep comparing Barenboim to the others (when it comes to a rendition of the Appassionata)-Pollini, Richter, Lang Lang, and all the rest-and eventually I always realise that there is no surpassing Barenboim: the true alte Meister.
@@LuluBodhi It's very, very different from all the others I've listened to. Technically sound, I might say, but it sounds kind of robotic to me, to use a loose word. As far as I remember, it seems to go at the same level of feeling throughout-which one might or might not like or appreciate.
@@LuluBodhi :-)
@@wolfenmann1 I get what you mean. Thing is Lisitsa has posted two performances on her channel (and will soon post a third). The newer one with more views is indeed very dry and ugly, I don't like it at all. But the older one, from about 11 years ago is fantastic and the most energetic performance of this I've ever heard, definitely give it a try
@@todorstojanov3100 Mr Stojanov, I was referring to the 2009 version :-( Anyway, like Elizabeth says, to each his own :-) BTW, I listened to your performance of the first movement. Of course there's lots of room for improvement, especially the balance between and coordination of the hands, but from someone who tried playing and can't play for nuts-a heartfelt word of congratulations and encouragement. Please persist in your endeavours. Godspeed!
@@wolfenmann1 Ah well okay, to each his own of course. I just wanted to make sure you listened to that one and not the other one. Thank you very much btw! I'm not a serious pianist nor am I trying to be but I most definitely will persist playing.
3:31 was the pleasurement
hold my beer... for a year or 50 :S
I heard so many variation, this is a Genius Performance
it's a masterpiece only just done by this old man ....
The bloodthirstiness of the third movement all but overshadows its sublimity. It's as though Beethoven, not content with beheading the enemy, pauses and systematically stomps upon its head until the skull cracks open. The wonder is, while the metaphor is in the basest realms of carnality, the music is in the highest regions of sublimity. And, God knows, Barenboim is the perfect messenger.
Very interesting interpretation
@@handhdhd6522 It’s not clear if that’s sarcastic, but seriously: It’s easy to see that there are at least three points before the actual end that the movement has the opportunity to end gracefully. I don’t know any musical terminology, so... in this performance, it could have ended at 4:33-or even at 4:40. What happens between 4:40 and 5:01 is-as I see it-really a systematic, almost carnal repetition of a theme that serves only to drive home a point. And it could end there, too, but no: It *has* to be completely done with, hence the crescendo in the last 10 seconds :-)
@@wolfenmann1 I’m not sarcastic, I never thought about it like that
@@handhdhd6522 :-)
I'm sorry,, but Valentina Lisitsa's performance can't hold a candle to this. Bravo Mr Barenboim
Barenboim, best Beethoven pianist in my eyes
+Lucas Gottfried Piano I agree. He is one of the greatest musicians in the world and understands Beethoven like few others can
Matthew Moreland yes, valentina isn' t good, she plays fast, only this
Exactly
Lisitsa is good, very good. And plays fast. Too fast in my opinion. Personally, I prefer Barenboim.
Davvero un'interpretazione eccellente, emozionante, geniale, da brivido.
Grande Barenboim!
You just got to love performers who give their audiences everything. Who do not hide and play safe, but go out there and give everything. So wonderful to see that. The sweat on his brow says it all.
Should call him Mr. Daniel "The Natural" Barenboim for his perfect touch with the nature of music.
Adoro este movimento da Apassionata
1:13 Chopin obviously had some Beethoven inspiration (Ballade no.1)
Do not watch Daniel and his expressions. Just listen to his performance. - Sviatoslav Richter
This performance has no rival
Bravo Barenboim!!!!!! Genio!!!
He plays the coda really fast and that's what i like,other pianists canT play as fast as he does
I watched Valentina first and was immediately struck by how mechanical she is. Even to my untrained ear she reminded me of someone technically perfect but without a true artistic ear. This is so nuanced and emotive. I can hear all the different tunes interweaving. With her it felt like it was how quickly can i play this piece and no rise and fall. This was stunning!
Barenboim is absolutely phenomenal. Probably the best Beethoven performer!
Certainly, not probably.
GREGORY ANTONOPOULOS no the best Beethoven performer is wilhelm kempff
Valentina lisitsa is the best performer and interpret
Claudio Arrau
Barenboim has mastered all of Beethoven’s works. He is able to perform each one of them with the utmost certainty. He is not just the ‘best Beethoven performer’, he simply is Beethoven
That's beethoven, no Chopin!
It gives him a like. Holding ALT does not do anything to prevent the like button from giving him a like. A trap doesn't necessarily have to inconvenience the one caught in it, but it does typically benefit the one who set it.
IMO this is the probably the best Beethoven sonata. at least top 3.
Pieces such as this is, are pinnacles of classical music in my mind. the romantic works (minus the early) Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others just don't do it for me. Not that they're bad, they are incredibly technical. but compositionally it just doesn't compare to this.
I would recommend you Rachmaninov's second Sonata or Liszt's B-minor Sonata. Both pieces are incredible in their construction, especially the Sonata from Rachmaninov, since its compositional features are so tightly contructed that one might merely think it is just a whole mess of notes where in reality, almost everything is well-thought through. For analysis I recommend you to watch the video uploaded by Ashish Xiangyi Kumar (analysis in the description). As for the second movement I would prefer to listen to Lugansky's interpretation and the other two movements are well played by Kocsis in my opinion. I hope I could change your view on both composers!
The coda is quite tough
It is indeed
Daniel, you are a sheer honor your nation. How skillfull.
OOPS on 4:28 !^^
I prefer Valentina Lisitsa's interpretation on the whole, but some little details were better in the Barenboims's version (decrescendo accentuated...) on my opinion. There is no better interpreter, only in our hearts.
Minuto 4.40 velocidad extrema jjajaj
Wonderful rendition! Dynamics were spectacular.
Du Grand Barenboim, Du GRAND Beethoven.....
Merci pour ce Partage
Bonjour Karen
Beethoven is GRAND, but DB stinks. (See above note)...
Best version of this piece. Approved my Chopin.
@foxyjohnuk You'd think Chopin would know that lol... smh
I love him so much.
good playing and perfect camera leading
4:38...very nice !!!
Rubinstein is also good.
The ending is like getting whipped up in a tornado!
I love this performance. But if tornadoes are what you’re looking for, listen to Lang Lang play this. It’s utterly insane.
young students these days, play better than this
que Genio el Maestro Barenboim!! orgullo Nacional junto con Marta Argerich, brillante interpretación. es admirable este tipo.
Absolutely incredible performance. The coda is breathtaking. I've heard nothing like it. Thank you Maestro Barenboim
Guys you know? It was the final in his Berlin piano recital after he had been already playing four Beethoven sonatas and ended with this sonata op.23 "Appassionata" ......
a critic once said that the closing strains of the 27" ,moonlight, "Rushed to their Doom" I contend the closing of the appassionata, TAKE YOU WITH THEM......Long Live Beethoven
He was born to play Beethoven. He is Beethoven.
Oh g-d, I've finally found someone whose thoughts about Barenboim echo mine! Absolutely. Barenboim was made for Beethoven.
DANİEL BARENBOİM 👏👏👏
Incredible
4:40 - 4:58 wow
Whos here after watching Berserk?
Barenboim is surely one of the world's greatest pianists. That is an absolutely super performance.
Richter's performance was great in that he managed to maintain a stable and clean interpretation despite the apocalyptic tempo (contrary to Beethoven's own directions Allegro MA NON TROPPO). Much of Beethoven's "passionate" appeal was lost however due to the furious speed at which it was played.
didn't know that hannibal lector can play like this
Camera has focused on player and lost song's feeling
Songs have words.
Barenboim's performances of this work are my favorites, over those of Horowitz, Schabel, Rubinstein, Arrau, Casadeseus, Kempff, and even Valentina Lisitsa. I even still occasionally listen to his 1955 recording of it (and the Hammerklavier as well).
Magnifique! !!!!!
Nothing in life is beter for a pianist to play on a piano like this one. Especialy for beethoven sonatas like the 14 "moonlight" and this one
Superbe, mais encore plus extraordinaire est l'interprétation hallucinante de Maurizio Pollini...ua-cam.com/video/1yCiFZvjfuU/v-deo.html
Inmensa composición, gran interpretación.
Playing the repeated chords section at 4:37 at the speed he has chosen is damn hard.
raftom which is why he skipped on one of the notes so he could do it faster, makes it sound empty in my opinion
@@DLxFC I didn't notice that. To be fair I've never played this sonata. But I do play piano and it's fair to say a layman listener would not notice such a thing.
Wow. May this guy live - and play - forever.
лучшее, что я слышал
I hadn't encountered Barenboim until recently. He is a genuine master, and seems to have a real understanding of the music he plays. He's a damned good conductor, too. Elsewhere on UA-cam there's a clip of him playing the Choral Fantasie (Op 80), conducting from the piano. Excellent.
I swear the left hand part at 1:03 is the hardest left hand part I've ever had to learn.
Try a left hand concerto. Paul Wittgenstein had a bunch written for him but he hated most of them
Thanks Daniel!! Viva Argentina!
2:57 must be the heat...
if you think liszt never put any emotion into his music you should listen to totentanz for the piano, it is in my opinion the most beautiful and emotional piece i have ever come to listen to.
Changing speeds remind me of recordings of Prokofiev playing his own pieces!
Beethoven dejó un desafío difícil a todos los pianistas para tocar sus obras de piano. El era un gran pianista
awesome awesome and awesome
@mynameishanjoo well, he's not Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli afterall, so u may want to accept every pianist does live mistakes in performance.
Still the best after more than five decades and only Vladimir Ashkenazy comes close.
I didn't know Jack Nicholson plays the piano!
some would view the emotion as exaggerated; to me it sounds inspired
BRAVO MAESTRO!! that sent shivers all over me!!
I cant decide if this is my favorite version or murray perahia its between barenboim and him
search this "Fazıl Say "Appassionata" 3rd Movement Variations" this is the best!
His is terrible
@@theshitheads9419 he extremely good
4:40-4:58 those octaves........ so fast...... OMG Barenboim is over the top on this masterpiece
Somewhat similar to A. Hopkins.
Excellent
I agree. He developed his ideas, he was sincere and he was innovative, but while I think Liszt was a much finer composer than some people here are giving him credit for, something like the Totentanz, as beautiful as it is, comes off looking just a little superficial next to works like Bach's Die Kunst Der Fuge or Beethoven's C # minor String Quartet.
And as far as irony and devilishness are concerned, I don't think it gets much better than Berlioz.
Maîtrise et émotion. Un très grand Monsieur. Profonds respects. Merci.
Ah, un français. Es tu venu à l'Inde?
@@ashaydwivedi420 et toi?
Daniel Barenboim sur piano me laisse sans mots ...
The coda is so good ❤
Coda is everything.
I swear it - i was just waiting for the piano to give up on life and commit suicide! Sir Daniel performed this so great, he set a standard on how to perform this!
The last part of the piece!!! I almost lost my breath
Lisitsa is, no doubt, one of the greatest pianists ever. But she uses to play very fast and loud, and this music isn't supposed to be that way. Mr Barenboim did some pretty good work here.
Both!
Ofcourse he's way better than Lisitsa, she's way to heavy for Beethoven, he wrote this piece around 1804, so it's between the classical and the romantic period, you have to play smooth and gentle like it's your kid. Lisitsa is way better in heavy romantic music like Chopin, Rachmaninoff... Don't forget that Barenboim memorised al the Beethoven sonatas at the age of 17! Whole his life he was busy with understanding Beethoven and I think he's the best performer of Beethovens Piano works.
no es que no me guste el enfoque de barenboim, lo encuentro parecido al de schnabel, pero schnabel aun con pifias disponia de un mecanismo superior. y concuerdo, aqui ganan richter, gilels, arrau, el propio schnabel
Listen to Lang Lang's live performance in Vienna...despite his many critics you may be surprised!! He attended Barenboim's Master Class on this Sonata, but I think he delivered a better performance especially in the Coda which was delivered with greater stability and clarity. Ignore his "over the top" eccentricities such as his theatrical mannerisms and antics and focus on the sound (and his fingers).
I some what like this interpretation EXCEPT at the end. Vladamir Horowitz does a better job, in fact, the BEST job at that piece & Beethoven in general. Rachmaninoff himself admitted Horowitz played his pieces better than the composer himself.
All you haters who disliked this: show me what you got. I DARE you to play better than this.
I liked it overall, but the end was way too fast for my taste. Arrau´s interpretation allows us to appreciate far more the contrast between the last compass and the rest of the sonata. Barenboim's interpration, as good as it is, just glosses over that fantastic and final irony. That said, it's a good rendition and an intriguing interpretation, just not my favourite one.
5:20 face : Fuck yeah
maybe it's just me, but the 3rd movement of #14 was harder (for me) to learn...taking nothing away from this, however...i love to listen to db play the mozart sonatas...
John Hopkin moonlight sonata?
Please, please ! Pity ! No composer is comparable to another one ! The only goal of music is to give pleasure to the public. If I have pleasure to listen to Czerny exercices, I can say I love his music, but I can't say he's the best !
I was gonna forgot it : I took so much pleasure listening to this sonata ! Thank you Beethoven, thank you Barenboim. A really beautiful team work !
He annihilates it every bit. I think he is better than Lasista !!!
"Annihilate" is THE word. Bravo!
Interessant interpretation, it's a shame that there is some mistakes :(... That's why Pollini's ine is much better !! But nervetheless, this part of the Appassionata is done by Bernboim with a great emotion :) !! And I like it :) !!