I suffer from Parkinson's disease and frequently go without sleep for days. Without music and the availability of it on UA-cam I could not cope with my life. Pieces like this have often brought me great strength and tremendous joy when everything else around seems to mean absolutely nothing . Life without music would not be worth living and I'm totally convinced that great composers who also suffered much in their lives knew that they were in some way responsible for leaving behind them the means by which others could survive and take shelter from the storm. From the mists of time they reach out,, pat our heads and whisper in our ears that everything's going to be alright. How fortunate we are to have those heroes who went before.
A remark by Haydn late in his life which confirms your conviction: "Often, when struggling against obstacles of every sort which oppose my labors: often, when the powers of mind and body weakened, and it was difficult to continue the course I had entered on; -- a secret voice whispered to me: "there are so few happy and contented peoples here below; grief and sorrow are always their lot; perhaps your labors will once be a source from which the care-worn, or the man burdened with affairs, can derive a few moments rest and refreshment." This was indeed a powerful motive to press onwards, and this is why I now look back with cheerful satisfaction on the labors expended on this art, to which I have devoted so many long years of uninterrupted effort and exertion."
I am an insomniac, so I often woke up in unholy morning time and simply can’t find my rest. In those time I like to listen music. When I first heard this beautiful piece, it was around four a.m. and I had headphones, because I didn’t wanted to woke up my beloved. Whole time I listened to each note, I was looking at her beautiful sleeping face and feeling how I am falling in love with her again. It was the most beautiful morning in my life.
careful now, dont be falling in love now, thats your whole life out the window if it goes to shit, and it will go to shit, trust me. otherwise cool story, just be careful ok.
@@khalnetherfields7263 well I have really bad memories and scars about how I fall in love in wrong time and with wrong people. Trust me that I am really carefull. My beloved is someone different. She bring me from my darkness and depression and teached me how to life again (I had to took antidepressants for eight years, now I am free from it)
@@LeozVinci it's wonderful that you're off medication and i'm happy for you since i know how it feels when you're alone with your racing thoughts at night and it's nice you found the same strategy to escape. also, i hope you can enjoy every moment with your beloved and let me say, your thankfulness is beautiful. but please don't forget that the credit for bringing you to life again not only belongs to her - it is first and foremost yours. you decided, at a point, that it was worth living, learning and growing again, and obviously you didn't leave this path until now. she surely did a lot for you, maybe without even trying, but it is you who climbed out of the mud. i wish you can carry on with peace inside, all the best.
@@krinilotta Thank you for kind words. I know some credits are mine, but my beloved was there when everybody said that I am lost forever and I won't be able to live normal life again. She was there even when my family left me alone (I don't blame them. I have still vivid imagine of my mother when she tried to conviced me that I should live and not die from inside... but it was hard). In those times, my beloved was with me. She was so kind and tender. In those days I decided that I want to live and she was there and helped me. It will be two years when I am off medication and I am enjoyng life as never before.
Every year at Thanksgiving, my dad and grandpa play this piece. I've grown up listening to it once a year, and I have so many fond memories associated with it.
When your grandpa goes, you're going to have to take his place. And when your dad goes, your kid's going to take his place! If you can't play, then get started! Sounds like an awesome tradition. :)
It is an awesome tradition! :) And I've been playing piano since I was six (I'm twenty now), and fully plan on carrying on the tradition when my grandpa is no longer around.
+PigPenguin91 I also hope others will enjoy this piece of masterpiece and remember all the memories they had. This piece is my favorite duet and favorite piece composed by Schubert.
Considering the way the west is going, this is like the fall of Greece and Rome on repeat. Years from now we'll look at those artists like we look at Greek art or Greek tragedies today, talking about a European "miracle" etc.
@@sophiaperennis2360 History has never been a linear march towards progress. Whoever believes this were possible is bound to be disappointed. No right-wing politics or converting back to catholicism is going to save you from this fact.
Schubert wrote this piece for the sole purpose of playing it alongside Karoline Esterhazy, a young girl from the Austrian nobility, who received musical tuition from Schubert. Schubert was very fond of her and often commented on her wonderful playing. He loved spending time with her more than anyone else in his life.
I suffer from chronic diarrhea; the classics of Nineteenth century’s piano music provided by UA-cam are my only company and relielf in long and noisy hours on the bowl.
This is one of Schubert's most inspired pieces. it is absolutely extraordinary to see how much the composer is able to maintain an absolute musical tension throughout the piece, starting from the splendid opening melody.
I remember a day where I was sitting inside my house with this music playing. It was raining outside and the sky was a dark grey almost like nighttime had already arrived. The subtlety of the beginning of this piece was so powerful. Even though I hadn’t lent my ears to the piece it fit the occasion so perfectly that I couldn’t help but concentrate on it. The sky outside changed throughout the piece. At certain moments it felt like the sky was weeping, other times tears of joy. Before I knew it the whole piece finished playing and I found myself staring out the window into the wet rainy street. This piece made me feel so calm and assured that a rainy day isn’t so bad. After all music like this becomes strangely powerful when the time of day or the climate is in set to a specific mood.
I too hated rainy, gloomy days. It was thanks to music like this (particularly Schubert and Chopin) that helped me appreciate the beauty in melancholy.
Listen at midnight, close your eyes and feel the despair mysteriously turn to love in your heart. The beauty this man possessed deep inside his soul will never cease to amaze me. Four hands sing together in perfect harmony. Astonishing.
14:40 breaks my heart every time. This strong motif, repeated throughout the piece, doesn't continue strongly, as it always has. It just says "never mind" and moves on. Like a person.
I've played piano for 10 years, and i taught one of my best friend to play. He's a fast learner, now we're able to play the 5 first pages of that fantasy (he plays secondo). We really need to get back to it and play the whole piece.
Notice that, as in the Wanderer Fantasy, the movements are played without pause, and are compressed. The opening movement only gets as far as the end of the exposition before giving way to the slow movement, which is simple A-B-A form and very terse (for Schubert). This leads directly to the fully realized Scherzo-Trio-Scherzo (with all the usual repeats). The brief transition then returns to the very opening theme; this flows into a long, elaborate, and powerful fugue, which climaxes on a discord followed by a long rest, and then the opening returns, weary, hesitant, and finally ending with a series of the most amazing chords ever penned by Schubert, or anyone else. This work dates from 1828, the composer's thirty-second year. He also put the finishing touches on the great" C major symphony, wrote the two piano trios, the Schwanengesang, and Auf dem Strom,; and in September completed the C major string quintet and the last three piano sonatas. In October he wrote The Shepherd on the Rock for soprano, clarinet and piano, and a choral Benedictus. On November 19th he died. Like many of the others who commented here I have fond memories of playing this piece, in public and private. Most of those I played it with are gone now. Hearing this beautiful performance is a reminder: Carpe diem. Thanks for the upload. As I write nearly a third of a million people have shared the experience. Update, June, 2019: over 3 million people. There is hope for mankind.
Schubert is the great one who never experienced the great public success but was nevertheless one of the most prominent composers ever. Wonderful piece of music.
Maria João Pires. One of the best pianists in the world. Love her job with Chopin's Nocturnes and Schubert's Impromptus. And now this. And lest we not forget Ricardo Castro, very very talented. Incredible duo. Very proud to be Portuguese at the moment and everytime I hear them play ^_^
A stunningly beautiful piece, with subtle contrasts of light and shade, played with subtlety, delicacy and grace, and near perfect synergy between two superb artists. Lovely.
Thie Piece immediately caught my heart the first time I heard it. I've been coming back to hear this version again and again since then. This interpretation brings a gentleness to it which melts my heart every time the theme comes back in a new modulation. I don't even identify where the modulations go to. Still, I can rest assured that wherever we are, we will find the original theme in its full sweetness and simplicity. Heaven on Earth. 💕
Apart from the transcendent beauty of the melodies, the genius of this duo is in the effortless and mysterious shifts from minor to major , from melancholy to joy, - a characteristic of Mozart.
This is a beautiful performance, but I think it has the same issue most modern performances of classical music have. Today, it's classical music to us. Back then, it was popular music. There were no recordings, you heard it because the best two pianists at the party sat down and played it while you drank and listened. Many of these musical ideas were new and exciting and modern at the time. There would've been a lively, crowd-pleasing atmosphere, the pianists would've played up the dramatic moments in the music even more than this. We're a little deaf to classical music today because it's no longer our cultural moment. For example, the melodic theme in this music, with its grace notes and percussive repetitions, was actually pretty exotic and ornamental and mysterious. And listen to what Schubert wrote at 12:51. This was entertainment, this was drama, this was what people had instead of a television. We're a much more passive audience to this music today than Schubert's audience was then, and the disposition of the audience shapes the posture of the performance.
Kevin Mathewson--What an interesting discussion. But I still hear and respond to beauty even if it's not of our age. There's no way to recreate the zeitgeist and adapt our ears to another period in history; nevertheless, classical music is timeless. Will they still be listening to Beyonce in 300 years? I don't know if you have a Classical Revolution chapter in your city, but they might put together a string quartet or a piano quintet playing in a coffee shop or bar with all the normal noise and discussion of patrons around it. Of course the audience is more participatory, responsive and enthuiastic, and that is one interesting way to hear music, but I vastly prefer the concert hall with its respectful silence.
this was not "popular" music , if you were rich ,famous or a royalty this was your entertainment but if you were poor (as most people at the time) then you were stuck with church music and some chants here and there , and that was it we're in better situation since we're able to enjoy music of all sorts and from all corners of the world yet we still enjoy classical music , but we are much more stimulated than they were , thats why classical music could sound some what dull or boring to some people because its a music that takes its time to view its exotic and interesting bits
Bloody hell man. I was just looking at that picture and fell in love with it. Wanted to know who painted it . Maybe get myself a cheap poster or something. So thanks to you I now know who it is by. I think it's the colours? ??
Schubert was in his last year of life when he composed this amazing piece. The painting we see is pretty much what Schubert was at the time: still standing but stripped of vitality and facing an inevitable end.
As usual, can’t sleep. 1,00 am, hit on this and now definitely can’t sleep as listening to this wonderful performance. So, insomnia has its rewards as my appreciation of classical music grows.
Sounds about right, my love for music grows daily due to trawling through tonnes of songs in the wee hours, changing genres to my heart's content. Classical music has many fond memories from my youth attached to it, only just started taking up music again and jazz and classical were old favourites. Sorry for the lengthy nonsense, insomnia got the best of me and I realised id not make it to today's lectures without staying up all night so I'm a tad deprived haha.
I'm from CANADA. In 1971 I went to Spain and signed up at the conservatory in Sevilla. I was petrified when the teacher told me I'd be playing this with a large man with a very heavy touch. We had to practice in our apartment so the whole building had the pleasure of hearing it over and over, as did my 3 sisters. They really got to hate it which kind of ruined it for me. When I hear it now 45 years later I remember every note and am proud and relieved that we made it through 😜👍
@Kelly Fischer Not so fast. *YOU YOURSELF* are the one who is blatantly obvious, in your thirsting to drag somebody (*ANYBODY!*) down to your level, with your delusional statements about feminism. You figure that by "picking a fight" you might get the attention you crave beyond all else. And so, Holly, please ignore this *GOOFUS*. (That's what he dreads the most...)
This piece is another example of why Franz Schubert is in terms of talent relative to age one of the three greatest composers of all time, the others being J.S. Bach and Mozart. Schubert died at the age of 31. If you compare Schubert's works to the works any other composers, including Beethoven, written when they were 31 or younger you can appreciate the enormity of Schubert's talent. Also, this is a wonderful performance, because it is so easy to wreck the piece with a pounding and ponderous rendition of the many octave passages.
I first heard this piece played by Lucas and Arthur Jussen on UA-cam and became addicted to it. This version is even better and Maria João Pires was one of their teachers! And the brothers went on to play with Ricardo Castro as well. The artistic lineages in music and the other arts are one of the best and most important aspects of all the fields.
I like several versions and listen in rotation. But what drew me to this piece originally was a review way back in 2017, when I read that this piece became a rite of passgae especially for children being taught to play by a parent. To play this piece at 9, 11, 13, 15 with a parent and maybe switch parts later in that sequence was a common link among Piano playing families. I was reading the poetry of the Russian poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak who both had piano virtuoso mothers who taught them from an early age. Both of their mothers had studied under the same teachers at the same Moscow Conservatory. So both Mairna and Boris had the experience of playing this with their mothers before they were 10. They also had the experience of accompanying singers in their family or that they knew on the Song Series "Wintereise" by Schubert.
I woke up this morning with the lovely and haunting opening theme running through my head. I am in awe at the genius of Schubert, his ability to touch us, in sleep as well as when awake.
Such a beautiful and sensitive performance! The pianists must have a mind-link to coordinate this well in both timing and interpretation. A special treat for listeners to hold in their hearts forever.
I have loved Schubert's music, particularly his music for a very few performers, chamber, solo piano, and four hands, most of my adult life. I never ever tire of the beauty of his work.
This is so beautiful... Schubert is my favourite piano composer of all the time... I can really feel the feeling he put in these songs. Even if basically he's not the best out of them, I really resonate with his masterpieces.
It is rapturing, soft and rigourous, sweet and lively!! schubert is a master in segmenting his works in pieces of different rythms combined together to give the earer a fascinating sens of brillant move and standstill quietness.
Xavier, you must be a musician, artist, to have understood so well this wonderful, so lovely, soulful piece of Schubert. thank you, i learned from you to perceive more of all these kinds of beautiful sounds. It can be a tool for meditation.
Depuis que je suis toute petite, j'adore le piano et (en plus, avec le temps, je me suis mise à adorer les mains de pianiste). Les 2 sont "magiques". Il y a une telle grâce dans le geste.......... C'est juste, un art pour moi, comme regarder un tableau de maître !!!!!!!!!!!!
Quatre mains, ce n'est pas trop pour interpréter ce bijou d'artisanat élaboré par Schubert. Les deux pianistes restituent les gracieux élans de l'âme de l'auteur tout en sachant revenir à une sereine et calme interprétation de la partition, le moment venu.
@@blasecorrea8350 Four hands, that's not too much to interpret this craft's jewel (ndt idk why craft) elaborated by Shubert. The two pianists restore the gracefulls author's surges of soul, knowing return to a calm and serene interpretation of the music sheet, when the time comes.
I have been playing the piano for nearly 10 years, but NEVER in that time had i actually felt anything so powerful and wholesome. It's like universe coming to a peaceful, defined state, like we can finally know where it ends. After hearing this piece, I have fallen even more in love with piano. Thank you for this, the painting goes beautifully with piece.
I find this master piece so sublime, from up to down, it manage to build such a dramatic story around it, i can feel the passion but also the dramatic feeling on it 💕
I am preparing the my lecture named Human and Music. I think this music is great enough to introduce to my student as an one of masterpiece among Romantic music. Performance is so great and touches my heart.
If you're reading this message, I want you to know that you're not alone. The universe wants you to know that better days are coming, and you have the power to make them happen. Believe in yourself, be kind to yourself, and keep moving forward. Stay positive, and go with the flow. Remember, whatever you are fighting, you've got this. The human body possesses the ability to heal itself. Cherish the present as if there is no tomorrow. Don't overthink.
6:31 perfection from Schubert - my favourite composer. The melodies are sophisticated but at the same time have a certain perfect simplicity. He really sings and tells a story with every of his pieces.
Who would have thought that listening to this hauntingly beautiful music could lead to me finding Sunshine. Life without Schubert would be distinctly dull.
The first time I heard this caused me not to be able to work until I'd finished listening to it. I had to find ways to appear busy because I just couldn't stop focusing on the music.
LOVE. Music has both female and male aspects. There is no specific gender in music to be found. There is no discrimination in music, no prejudice, no hate, only love, and truth. Like here. Thanks for sharing, it helps so many people
I often find myself lost in my own thoughts at night, trying not to suffer from anxiety I discovered that listening to Schubert and reading Schopenhauer makes me feel better
@@rodnokz I know, more people told me. I think it's just me. It makes me feel understood. I mean I can see myself on what he wrote. (not always but generally)
Ive tried all kinds d of music from classical to modern ..loving a great listener..I'm aware of such great classical composers An Always will appreciate beautiful pianist...My family does not reach out to such music like this ..I dont know what it like to have grown up w a family that does this every holiday's.
The expressive power of the sound architecture breaks with any form of transcription of the real to attach itself to the expression of an serene universe. Colors and rhythm of these compositions are a language that gives life to the listener’s exaltation !
He felt himself underrated..but he was convinced it was true! The shadow of composers like Beethoven and Haydn upon him (I'm not justifying this 'underrating', he was and still is great). Nontheless, I think, and this is quite personal, that kind of insecurity, that tender way of showing how humble (in the great sense of the term) he was on passages that are so delicate (mostly the themes in F minor shows it (from my point of view)), delicate and strong at the same time! As if he was saying "I've got something to say aswell! If you have time please listen, you won't be deceived!" Tenderness and sensitivity are what ,personaly, define Schubert best. Danke Franz
First, dear Edward, my heart ❤️ and prayers go to you in your suffering.And your comment is so beautiful and profound!! It moved me deeply!!.you are a great soul!!and beautiful spirit.!! May you bear further your condition! I also have health problems, elderly and the music sustains me and gives me strength to continue.
Curiosa manera en la que encontré esto; recomendaciones de UA-cam mientras estoy dormido. Un día, a las 4 a.m. me levanté, perplejo, por escuchar esto. Simplemente no podía dormir escuchando tal obra. Tenía que apreciarla. Esto es tan lindo que me levantó. Impresionante.
I read all these comments on how people dig down their feelings listening to these pieces and I think to myself, man we are lucky to live in this era that we can listen to EVERYTHING that's out there. We weren't around to hear them play in person, but this awesome gift that is the internet is perhaps better in a different way.
... VERY WELL PLAYED ... I WAS HEARING - LISTENING it , NOT in FRONT of the COMPUTER ... THOUGHT - FELT : HOW WONDERFUL ARE THESE MUSICIANS ... SO MUCH SENSIBILY , SUCH a SENSIBLE TOUCH , SO MUCH RESPECT , all THESE COLOURS and SHADES ... so MUCH SCHUBERT ...
the Red Tree 1908 Piet Mondriaan (1872 - 1944) Mondrian Netherlands Dutch A lovely choice.. Piet saw rhythm in light as we hear it in music. He loved his Rhythms.
Я тоже услышала впервые эту фантазию в исполнении братьев Юссен. Но там такая молодая энергия, просто плещет с экрана! А здесь - нежность и изящество, невероятная красота и любовь! Мария Пиреш, на мой взгляд, лучший исполнитель Шуберта, особенно я люблю экспромт D. 935 op. 142, моё сердце просто тает от нежности, которую Мария вкладывает в эту музыку....❤
There are several very fine recordings of this justly famous work. I'd not heard this particular recording before and it is very fine. Joao Pires is excellent. Thanks
¡ Oh ! con que frescura y efervescencia romántica nos empalaga este genio creador. Dador de esencia eterna y fluir dadivoso que desprende una gota lacrimal en el ojo singular del oyente.
@@dougr.2245 Of course...but music (like this one) does transport us to a spiritual level that our lives (working day and in day out) can distract or numb us
@@dougr.2245 you are right... I just was taken away by the beauty of this music...I love my live and people....I said that inspired by the music "muses" (your comment is well taken)
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I suffer from Parkinson's disease and frequently go without sleep for days. Without music and the availability of it on UA-cam I could not cope with my life. Pieces like this have often brought me great strength and tremendous joy when everything else around seems to mean absolutely nothing . Life without music would not be worth living and I'm totally convinced that great composers who also suffered much in their lives knew that they were in some way responsible for leaving behind them the means by which others could survive and take shelter from the storm. From the mists of time they reach out,, pat our heads and whisper in our ears that everything's going to be alright. How fortunate we are to have those heroes who went before.
good music is one those rare glimpses of perfection mankind can hope for
I am so glad music brings you comfort and joy, it does the same thing for me. Music is a great gift to all of us, but sadly, many never open the gift.
A remark by Haydn late in his life which confirms your conviction: "Often, when struggling against obstacles of every sort which oppose my labors: often, when the powers of mind and body weakened, and it was difficult to continue the course I had entered on; -- a secret voice whispered to me: "there are so few happy and contented peoples here below; grief and sorrow are always their lot; perhaps your labors will once be a source from which the care-worn, or the man burdened with affairs, can derive a few moments rest and refreshment." This was indeed a powerful motive to press onwards, and this is why I now look back with cheerful satisfaction on the labors expended on this art, to which I have devoted so many long years of uninterrupted effort and exertion."
AMEN
Just out of curiosity what other pieces speak to you this way?
I am an insomniac, so I often woke up in unholy morning time and simply can’t find my rest. In those time I like to listen music. When I first heard this beautiful piece, it was around four a.m. and I had headphones, because I didn’t wanted to woke up my beloved. Whole time I listened to each note, I was looking at her beautiful sleeping face and feeling how I am falling in love with her again. It was the most beautiful morning in my life.
careful now, dont be falling in love now, thats your whole life out the window if it goes to shit, and it will go to shit, trust me. otherwise cool story, just be careful ok.
@@khalnetherfields7263 What a downer, man. He fell in love with his own wife. Leave him alone.
@@khalnetherfields7263 well I have really bad memories and scars about how I fall in love in wrong time and with wrong people. Trust me that I am really carefull. My beloved is someone different. She bring me from my darkness and depression and teached me how to life again (I had to took antidepressants for eight years, now I am free from it)
@@LeozVinci it's wonderful that you're off medication and i'm happy for you since i know how it feels when you're alone with your racing thoughts at night and it's nice you found the same strategy to escape. also, i hope you can enjoy every moment with your beloved and let me say, your thankfulness is beautiful. but please don't forget that the credit for bringing you to life again not only belongs to her - it is first and foremost yours. you decided, at a point, that it was worth living, learning and growing again, and obviously you didn't leave this path until now. she surely did a lot for you, maybe without even trying, but it is you who climbed out of the mud. i wish you can carry on with peace inside, all the best.
@@krinilotta Thank you for kind words. I know some credits are mine, but my beloved was there when everybody said that I am lost forever and I won't be able to live normal life again. She was there even when my family left me alone (I don't blame them. I have still vivid imagine of my mother when she tried to conviced me that I should live and not die from inside... but it was hard). In those times, my beloved was with me. She was so kind and tender. In those days I decided that I want to live and she was there and helped me. It will be two years when I am off medication and I am enjoyng life as never before.
Every year at Thanksgiving, my dad and grandpa play this piece. I've grown up listening to it once a year, and I have so many fond memories associated with it.
When your grandpa goes, you're going to have to take his place. And when your dad goes, your kid's going to take his place! If you can't play, then get started! Sounds like an awesome tradition. :)
It is an awesome tradition! :) And I've been playing piano since I was six (I'm twenty now), and fully plan on carrying on the tradition when my grandpa is no longer around.
PigPenguin91, it is a beautiful experience that you mentioned, thanks for sharing!!
No problem! It's one of my favorite experiences every year, so I'm happy to share it and am glad other people are enjoying it, too.
+PigPenguin91 I also hope others will enjoy this piece of masterpiece and remember all the memories they had. This piece is my favorite duet and favorite piece composed by Schubert.
These old composers left an everlasting legacy for the world to enjoy
to me, this is achieving true immortality.
Not old, timeless.
Considering the way the west is going, this is like the fall of Greece and Rome on repeat. Years from now we'll look at those artists like we look at Greek art or Greek tragedies today, talking about a European "miracle" etc.
@@sophiaperennis2360 History has never been a linear march towards progress. Whoever believes this were possible is bound to be disappointed. No right-wing politics or converting back to catholicism is going to save you from this fact.
indeed they did...
Schubert wrote this piece for the sole purpose of playing it alongside Karoline Esterhazy, a young girl from the Austrian nobility, who received musical tuition from Schubert. Schubert was very fond of her and often commented on her wonderful playing. He loved spending time with her more than anyone else in his life.
I suffer from chronic diarrhea; the classics of Nineteenth century’s piano music provided by UA-cam are my only company and relielf in long and noisy hours on the bowl.
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not surprised you full of it !
This is one of Schubert's most inspired pieces. it is absolutely extraordinary to see how much the composer is able to maintain an absolute musical tension throughout the piece, starting from the splendid opening melody.
Another marvelous Schubert Is The Trout quintet on YT by Vienna philharmonic.
I hear a strong Mozart influence in this one.
I remember a day where I was sitting inside my house with this music playing. It was raining outside and the sky was a dark grey almost like nighttime had already arrived. The subtlety of the beginning of this piece was so powerful. Even though I hadn’t lent my ears to the piece it fit the occasion so perfectly that I couldn’t help but concentrate on it. The sky outside changed throughout the piece. At certain moments it felt like the sky was weeping, other times tears of joy. Before I knew it the whole piece finished playing and I found myself staring out the window into the wet rainy street. This piece made me feel so calm and assured that a rainy day isn’t so bad. After all music like this becomes strangely powerful when the time of day or the climate is in set to a specific mood.
I too hated rainy, gloomy days. It was thanks to music like this (particularly Schubert and Chopin) that helped me appreciate the beauty in melancholy.
Listen at midnight, close your eyes and feel the despair mysteriously turn to love in your heart. The beauty this man possessed deep inside his soul will never cease to amaze me. Four hands sing together in perfect harmony. Astonishing.
Yes, this is a very beautiful comment and does justice to the music.
Sheer rapture!
Very nice words John, thank you
14:40 breaks my heart every time. This strong motif, repeated throughout the piece, doesn't continue strongly, as it always has. It just says "never mind" and moves on. Like a person.
You mean 17:40 ? Because that is more how I percieve it
+Clems0067 Nope, 14:40.
Antimony, sorry to hear that, hope that you feel differently somehow ... perhaps when listening again to this beautiful music, in another light.
+Solely Reminiscence Both places were great and sank into my heart.
Clems0067 it starts at 14:40 then the nevermind part is at 17:40. So you're both right!Beautiful piece!
I've played piano for 10 years, and i taught one of my best friend to play. He's a fast learner, now we're able to play the 5 first pages of that fantasy (he plays secondo). We really need to get back to it and play the whole piece.
1. Allegro Molto Moderato
2. Largo 4:51
3. Scherzo. Allegro Vivace 7:26
4. Finale. Allegro Molto Moderato 13:08
+automatofix thanks so much for adding that to the video ...
Solely Reminiscence You're welcome!
Notice that, as in the Wanderer Fantasy, the movements are played without pause, and are compressed. The opening movement only gets as far as the end of the exposition before giving way to the slow movement, which is simple A-B-A form and very terse (for Schubert). This leads directly to the fully realized Scherzo-Trio-Scherzo (with all the usual repeats). The brief transition then returns to the very opening theme; this flows into a long, elaborate, and powerful fugue, which climaxes on a discord followed by a long rest, and then the opening returns, weary, hesitant, and finally ending with a series of the most amazing chords ever penned by Schubert, or anyone else.
This work dates from 1828, the composer's thirty-second year. He also put the finishing touches on the great" C major symphony, wrote the two piano trios, the Schwanengesang, and Auf dem Strom,; and in September completed the C major string quintet and the last three piano sonatas. In October he wrote The Shepherd on the Rock for soprano, clarinet and piano, and a choral Benedictus. On November 19th he died.
Like many of the others who commented here I have fond memories of playing this piece, in public and private. Most of those I played it with are gone now. Hearing this beautiful performance is a reminder: Carpe diem.
Thanks for the upload. As I write nearly a third of a million people have shared the experience. Update, June, 2019: over 3 million people. There is hope for mankind.
Thank you kind sir
Thank you!
Schubert is the great one who never experienced the great public success but was nevertheless one of the most prominent composers ever. Wonderful piece of music.
One of the most beautiful piano pieces ever written
... or the most?
@@bruce_c_in_nz I'm tending to agree - big claim! ;-)
Really? Who says so?
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@@hamletsmill258 everyone has ears to hear
Maria João Pires. One of the best pianists in the world. Love her job with Chopin's Nocturnes and Schubert's Impromptus. And now this.
And lest we not forget Ricardo Castro, very very talented. Incredible duo. Very proud to be Portuguese at the moment and everytime I hear them play ^_^
A stunningly beautiful piece, with subtle contrasts of light and shade, played with subtlety, delicacy and grace, and near perfect synergy between two superb artists. Lovely.
Thie Piece immediately caught my heart the first time I heard it. I've been coming back to hear this version again and again since then. This interpretation brings a gentleness to it which melts my heart every time the theme comes back in a new modulation. I don't even identify where the modulations go to. Still, I can rest assured that wherever we are, we will find the original theme in its full sweetness and simplicity. Heaven on Earth. 💕
Apart from the transcendent beauty of the melodies, the genius of this duo is in the effortless and mysterious shifts from minor to major , from melancholy to joy, - a characteristic of Mozart.
@silverbud It happens regularly in Schubert and Mozart but I wouldn't say its a world mystery. It needs genius to pull it off well, though.
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This is a beautiful performance, but I think it has the same issue most modern performances of classical music have. Today, it's classical music to us. Back then, it was popular music. There were no recordings, you heard it because the best two pianists at the party sat down and played it while you drank and listened. Many of these musical ideas were new and exciting and modern at the time. There would've been a lively, crowd-pleasing atmosphere, the pianists would've played up the dramatic moments in the music even more than this.
We're a little deaf to classical music today because it's no longer our cultural moment. For example, the melodic theme in this music, with its grace notes and percussive repetitions, was actually pretty exotic and ornamental and mysterious. And listen to what Schubert wrote at 12:51. This was entertainment, this was drama, this was what people had instead of a television. We're a much more passive audience to this music today than Schubert's audience was then, and the disposition of the audience shapes the posture of the performance.
"the best two pianists at the party sat down and played it while you drank and listened", that's how I still listen it :)
Kevin Mathewson--What an interesting discussion. But I still hear and respond to beauty even if it's not of our age. There's no way to recreate the zeitgeist and adapt our ears to another period in history; nevertheless, classical music is timeless. Will they still be listening to Beyonce in 300 years? I don't know if you have a Classical Revolution chapter in your city, but they might put together a string quartet or a piano quintet playing in a coffee shop or bar with all the normal noise and discussion of patrons around it. Of course the audience is more participatory, responsive and enthuiastic, and that is one interesting way to hear music, but I vastly prefer the concert hall with its respectful silence.
i think the problem is more in perfection intead of musicaly try to understand
this was not "popular" music , if you were rich ,famous or a royalty this was your entertainment but if you were poor (as most people at the time) then you were stuck with church music and some chants here and there , and that was it
we're in better situation since we're able to enjoy music of all sorts and from all corners of the world yet we still enjoy classical music , but we are much more stimulated than they were , thats why classical music could sound some what dull or boring to some people because its a music that takes its time to view its exotic and interesting bits
MoJo A. Well we talk about 1800 and past not 1600 there’s a little difference
The picture is the red tree by Mondrian
@Panis Angelicus
This is Postimpressionism, don't insult impressionism
@Adûnâi read Hegel, plebian
Bloody hell man. I was just looking at that picture and fell in love with it. Wanted to know who painted it . Maybe get myself a cheap poster or something. So thanks to you I now know who it is by. I think it's the colours? ??
As a simple country boy from South Africa I just see it as a very pretty painting. Nothing less, nothing more. Still hunting down a cheap poster.
i dont understand why that guy would call the painting anti-art
Schubert was in his last year of life when he composed this amazing piece. The painting we see is pretty much what Schubert was at the time: still standing but stripped of vitality and facing an inevitable end.
the vitality obviously remained in his music...how wonderful!
Well put
Highly poetic
As usual, can’t sleep. 1,00 am, hit on this and now definitely can’t sleep as listening to this wonderful performance. So, insomnia has its rewards as my appreciation of classical music grows.
a short summary of my entire existence
Sounds about right, my love for music grows daily due to trawling through tonnes of songs in the wee hours, changing genres to my heart's content. Classical music has many fond memories from my youth attached to it, only just started taking up music again and jazz and classical were old favourites. Sorry for the lengthy nonsense, insomnia got the best of me and I realised id not make it to today's lectures without staying up all night so I'm a tad deprived haha.
3am ditto
Yeah same 1:09am
Well the only good thing insomnia has brought me is classical music like this too sounds about right
I'm from CANADA. In 1971 I went to Spain and signed up at the conservatory in Sevilla. I was petrified when the teacher told me I'd be playing this with a large man with a very heavy touch. We had to practice in our apartment so the whole building had the pleasure of hearing it over and over, as did my 3 sisters. They really got to hate it which kind of ruined it for me. When I hear it now 45 years later I remember every note and am proud and relieved that we made it through 😜👍
@Kelly Fischer How is this in any way sexist?
@Kelly Fischer I still don't see how this has anything to do with sexism
@Kelly Fischer Not so fast. *YOU YOURSELF* are the one who is blatantly obvious, in your thirsting to drag somebody (*ANYBODY!*) down to your level, with your delusional statements about feminism. You figure that by "picking a fight" you might get the attention you crave beyond all else. And so, Holly, please ignore this *GOOFUS*. (That's what he dreads the most...)
uh.. can we just appreciate the music, please?
This piece is another example of why Franz Schubert is in terms of talent relative to age one of the three greatest composers of all time, the others being J.S. Bach and Mozart. Schubert died at the age of 31. If you compare Schubert's works to the works any other composers, including Beethoven, written when they were 31 or younger you can appreciate the enormity of Schubert's talent. Also, this is a wonderful performance, because it is so easy to wreck the piece with a pounding and ponderous rendition of the many octave passages.
the more I listen to shubert, the more I think I'm in love with him
Absolutely. Every piece by Schubert is an absolute masterpiece. The more I listen to him to more I fall in love with his music.
Same here. These days I am nearly listening nothing but Schubert.
Too bad nobody loved him
What an apt way to think of Schubert! Exactly!
Me too. My favorite composer
A marvelous piece. So many moods and colors. The more I hear Schubert the more I love life.Thank you for posting.
Lovely, lovely, incomparably lovely. Beautifully played! And so nice that 41,000 other people agree!
Maria Joāo Pires e Ricardo Castro! Realmente orgulhoso de isso ser uma performance brasileira.
Luso-brasileira, para ser mais correto
I first heard this piece played by Lucas and Arthur Jussen on UA-cam and became addicted to it. This version is even better and Maria João Pires was one of their teachers! And the brothers went on to play with Ricardo Castro as well. The artistic lineages in music and the other arts are one of the best and most important aspects of all the fields.
I like several versions and listen in rotation. But what drew me to this piece originally was a review way back in 2017, when I read that this piece became a rite of passgae especially for children being taught to play by a parent. To play this piece at 9, 11, 13, 15 with a parent and maybe switch parts later in that sequence was a common link among Piano playing families.
I was reading the poetry of the Russian poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak who both had piano virtuoso mothers who taught them from an early age. Both of their mothers had studied under the same teachers at the same Moscow Conservatory. So both Mairna and Boris had the experience of playing this with their mothers before they were 10. They also had the experience of accompanying singers in their family or that they knew on the Song Series "Wintereise" by Schubert.
So beautiful - it takes one to a secret place where the soul is renewed. A real privilege to listen to it.
I woke up this morning with the lovely and haunting opening theme running through my head. I am in awe at the genius of Schubert, his ability to touch us, in sleep as well as when awake.
Such a beautiful and sensitive performance! The pianists must have a mind-link to coordinate this well in both timing and interpretation. A special treat for listeners to hold in their hearts forever.
I totally LOVE Schubert...he has the best components in structure and melody of classicism and the nostalgia and sensitivity of the romanticism
Francisco Walker oh yeah
Effectively.....Schubert was already marking the way for the romantic area of music....what a genius.....my favorite composer and always will....
I have always loved Schubert.
One of many delightful, wonderful creations of Franz Schubert. So beautifully interpreted by these two pianists. My congratulations!
Thank you, I like this music very much.
This is so lovely. First time ever hearing this piece. So happy to have come across it. ❤️
Merveilleux moment musical. Shubert exprime toute sa sensibilité dans cette oeuvre. Merci pour ce partage.
Sunshine Film Magnifique music
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I have loved Schubert's music, particularly his music for a very few performers, chamber, solo piano, and four hands, most of my adult life. I never ever tire of the beauty of his work.
This brought tears to my eyes the first time i heard it and still does today. Such a heartwrenching piece and i hope i find someone to play it with
I will confess that the first time I heard this I shed a tear. One single tear flowed down my face.
I loved this 40 years ago, I was 12. I lost it. It was offered to me this year by YT. Thank you thank you
So melancholy and deep. Incredible.
ist solo lovely
😂
This is so beautiful... Schubert is my favourite piano composer of all the time... I can really feel the feeling he put in these songs. Even if basically he's not the best out of them, I really resonate with his masterpieces.
Feels like he's interpreting my life through music. this guy was on another level.
Thank you Franz. God bless your heart.
It is rapturing, soft and rigourous, sweet and lively!! schubert is a master in segmenting his works in pieces of different rythms combined together to give the earer a fascinating sens of brillant move and standstill quietness.
Xavier, you must be a musician, artist, to have understood so well this wonderful, so lovely, soulful piece of Schubert.
thank you, i learned from you to perceive more of all these kinds of beautiful sounds. It can be a tool for meditation.
Depuis que je suis toute petite, j'adore le piano et (en plus, avec le temps, je me suis mise à adorer les mains de pianiste). Les 2 sont "magiques". Il y a une telle grâce dans le geste.......... C'est juste, un art pour moi, comme regarder un tableau de maître !!!!!!!!!!!!
This is one of the best things i've ever listened to... I should appreciate Schubert more
I love this wonderful piece of music....it is full of beauty and passion
Quatre mains, ce n'est pas trop pour interpréter ce bijou d'artisanat élaboré par Schubert. Les deux pianistes restituent les gracieux élans de l'âme de l'auteur tout en sachant revenir à une sereine et calme interprétation de la partition, le moment venu.
Idk what you said but it sounds beautiful because it’s in french
@@blasecorrea8350 Four hands, that's not too much to interpret this craft's jewel (ndt idk why craft) elaborated by Shubert. The two pianists restore the gracefulls author's surges of soul, knowing return to a calm and serene interpretation of the music sheet, when the time comes.
I have been playing the piano for nearly 10 years, but NEVER in that time had i actually felt anything so powerful and wholesome. It's like universe coming to a peaceful, defined state, like we can finally know where it ends. After hearing this piece, I have fallen even more in love with piano. Thank you for this, the painting goes beautifully with piece.
I find this master piece so sublime, from up to down, it manage to build such a dramatic story around it, i can feel the passion but also the dramatic feeling on it 💕
I am preparing the my lecture named Human and Music. I think this music is great enough to introduce to my student as an one of masterpiece among Romantic music. Performance is so great and touches my heart.
Parabéns Maria João Pires por mais esta interpretação maravilhosa.
The most lyrical and beautiful version. My favorite.
Music has a power to heal and calm... soul and body. I wish you the best 💐
If you're reading this message, I want you to know that you're not alone. The universe wants you to know that better days are coming, and you have the power to make them happen. Believe in yourself, be kind to yourself, and keep moving forward. Stay positive, and go with the flow. Remember, whatever you are fighting, you've got this. The human body possesses the ability to heal itself. Cherish the present as if there is no tomorrow. Don't overthink.
6:31 perfection from Schubert - my favourite composer. The melodies are sophisticated but at the same time have a certain perfect simplicity. He really sings and tells a story with every of his pieces.
Playing this with a friend after having it suggested by our music teacher. It's such a beautiful piece! I can't wait to perform it :D
+Jason Parker Wish you having a successful performance ...
Solely Reminiscence Thank you!
Who would have thought that listening to this hauntingly beautiful music could lead to me finding Sunshine. Life without Schubert would be distinctly dull.
The depth of beauty is a depth of suffering and sadness - true with all the arts
What an emotional passage it is. Many sorrows and sadness of human being is in here, this music.
The first time I heard this caused me not to be able to work until I'd finished listening to it. I had to find ways to appear busy because I just couldn't stop focusing on the music.
LOVE. Music has both female and male aspects. There is no specific gender in music to be found. There is no discrimination in music, no prejudice, no hate, only love, and truth. Like here. Thanks for sharing, it helps so many people
Beautifully said, my friend
I often find myself lost in my own thoughts at night, trying not to suffer from anxiety I discovered that listening to Schubert and reading Schopenhauer makes me feel better
SATANSRIB Reading Schopenhauer when you’re anxious is deadly.
@@rodnokz I know, more people told me. I think it's just me. It makes me feel understood. I mean I can see myself on what he wrote. (not always but generally)
@@Flantilla I understand you
Ive tried all kinds d of music from classical to modern ..loving a great listener..I'm aware of such great classical composers An Always will appreciate beautiful pianist...My family does not reach out to such music like this ..I dont know what it like to have grown up w a family that does this every holiday's.
Thank you for this. I was brought here by "And Then You're Gone."
The expressive power of the sound architecture breaks with any form of transcription of the real to attach itself to the expression of an serene universe. Colors and rhythm of these compositions are a language that gives life to the listener’s exaltation !
Absolutely amazing , Schubert is very underrating !!!
"underrated" (Schubert is no longer alive to do any underrating!)
@@spellinggrammarenforcement9488 yes it is a very good grammar checking !
Schubert is not underrated among musicians.
He felt himself underrated..but he was convinced it was true! The shadow of composers like Beethoven and Haydn upon him (I'm not justifying this 'underrating', he was and still is great). Nontheless, I think, and this is quite personal, that kind of insecurity, that tender way of showing how humble (in the great sense of the term) he was on passages that are so delicate (mostly the themes in F minor shows it (from my point of view)), delicate and strong at the same time! As if he was saying "I've got something to say aswell! If you have time please listen, you won't be deceived!" Tenderness and sensitivity are what ,personaly, define Schubert best.
Danke Franz
@@MrHermes17 Well said!
First, dear Edward, my heart ❤️ and prayers go to you in your suffering.And your comment is so beautiful and profound!! It moved me deeply!!.you are a great soul!!and beautiful spirit.!! May you bear further your condition!
I also have health problems, elderly and the music sustains me and gives me strength to continue.
So relaxing and inspiring at the same time! Thank you for sharing!
Bitte, das ist ein sehr besonderes Lieblingsstück, das mich zutiefst ergreift. Wer kann solche Musik begreifen? Leider kenne ich NIEMAND.
I love this interpretation, I can hear the inner voice of Schubert , without any exaggeration .
Lovely and beautiful music. It's so lovely and wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
Just watched Another Round😂... And came looking for this masterpiece 💖
Klasse! Ich höre sie unter anderem oft vor dem Einschlafen ------ Lieben Dank Franz Schubert!
Beautiful music and performance,
Impossible to put in words this master peace! Genius! Nothing more!
Curiosa manera en la que encontré esto; recomendaciones de UA-cam mientras estoy dormido. Un día, a las 4 a.m. me levanté, perplejo, por escuchar esto. Simplemente no podía dormir escuchando tal obra. Tenía que apreciarla. Esto es tan lindo que me levantó. Impresionante.
STUNNING performance of one of the greatest masterpieces ever conceived.
si frais, si vrai, dénué de tout artifice et cela va droit au coeur
I was always for Schubert and Mondriaan, nice painting !...........💢💃🐓
I read all these comments on how people dig down their feelings listening to these pieces and I think to myself, man we are lucky to live in this era that we can listen to EVERYTHING that's out there. We weren't around to hear them play in person, but this awesome gift that is the internet is perhaps better in a different way.
Amazing. Sounds like cold you feel when winter is here.
I just realized a few weeks ago, Schubert was one of the awesome composers for the soul.
... VERY WELL PLAYED ... I WAS HEARING - LISTENING it , NOT in FRONT of the COMPUTER ... THOUGHT - FELT : HOW WONDERFUL ARE THESE MUSICIANS ... SO MUCH SENSIBILY , SUCH a SENSIBLE TOUCH , SO MUCH RESPECT , all THESE COLOURS and SHADES ... so MUCH SCHUBERT ...
CONGRATULATIONS !
... the ' passage ' 13:13 ... and FOWARD ... is SIMPLY DIVINE ! PERFECT ! it is a REAL BREATH ...
great , the one at the left ... the grave ... !
Thanks, Druk(Another Round).
@fruityeden. One of the best films of 2020.
Un beso del pasado, me enseño que Bach es más que cuatro letras.....
What a lovely piece. Brilliant performance as well. I also love the painting you've chosen to go along with it.
+Bharlie Ladd thank you.
I do too!!
the Red Tree 1908 Piet Mondriaan (1872 - 1944) Mondrian Netherlands Dutch
A lovely choice.. Piet saw rhythm in light as we hear it in music. He loved his Rhythms.
Я тоже услышала впервые эту фантазию в исполнении братьев Юссен. Но там такая молодая энергия, просто плещет с экрана! А здесь - нежность и изящество, невероятная красота и любовь! Мария Пиреш, на мой взгляд, лучший исполнитель Шуберта, особенно я люблю экспромт D. 935 op. 142, моё сердце просто тает от нежности, которую Мария вкладывает в эту музыку....❤
There are several very fine recordings of this justly famous work. I'd not heard this particular recording before and it is very fine. Joao Pires is excellent. Thanks
with pleasure !
¡ Oh ! con que frescura y efervescencia romántica nos empalaga este genio creador. Dador de esencia eterna y fluir dadivoso que desprende una gota lacrimal en el ojo singular del oyente.
Melancolía profunda
El árbol rojo con sus follaje de invierno grafica los sonidos talentosa cual
Gracias por compartir video
This compostion brings me such peace.
Es bellisimo, esta composicion llega al alma .. Feliz de haberla encontrado .. el piano es super
super, glad that you have enjoyed the music!
It's so beautiful !! Thank you very much for this moment of serenity. Good luck for the continuation !
thank you ...
bellezza e serenita' rispecchia il tuo animo
What a music!! thanks for such a rendition...being perfectly played makes us feel that life is worth living. thanks for posting it
Francisco, God bless you. I hope your life will be worth living for many more reasons than this one beautiful piece of music
@@dougr.2245 Of course...but music (like this one) does transport us to a spiritual level that our lives (working day and in day out) can distract or numb us
@@dougr.2245 you are right... I just was taken away by the beauty of this music...I love my live and people....I said that inspired by the music "muses" (your comment is well taken)
😃😃😃😃Love Music Schubert
This song was introduced to me by the most wonderful pianist, Thomas Lauderdale! You're the BEST!
beautiful ....
Susan LaMancusa
*piece
Very beautiful indeed
Did they name the fort in Florida after him?...lol
wonderful composition ~ nice rendition ~ beautiful image ... thank you :o)
tellement beau , ressourcant , interpretation d une grande finesse et sensibilté ; je remercie !