Alfred Cortot - Chopin Berceuse op.57 (1957)

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  • @r.i.p.volodya
    @r.i.p.volodya Рік тому +7

    Majestic playing. Fantastic ability to give the melody just enough freedom to sing sing sing.

  • @sam-np4ol
    @sam-np4ol 3 роки тому +15

    Man, when I listen to Cortot I always rerealize what free and spontaneous and soft and natural and original playing sounds like ♥️

  • @georgiannanyman
    @georgiannanyman 13 років тому +21

    For me CORTOT stands alone in artistry and sensitivity and selfless immersion into the composer's intention. A marvelous gift to music and to us.

  • @SpontaneityJD
    @SpontaneityJD 7 місяців тому +3

    Wow… the immaculate balance among the several voices in this piece. Magical.

  • @carlolamberti1
    @carlolamberti1 13 років тому +10

    chi non conosce la berceuse di chopin, si potrebbe dire...ma, il diteggio interpretativo di cortot è pura realizzazione dell'anima romantica, evocativa e nostalgica di un compositore unico nel suo genere...
    bellissima esecuzione!
    carlo lamberti

  • @ydraki
    @ydraki 10 років тому +27

    So many excellent pianists and yet none like Cortot. He dares the impossible and the result is impossible to match.

  • @angelaacuna240
    @angelaacuna240 Рік тому +4

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤Always remember ❤❤❤

  • @carlolamberti1
    @carlolamberti1 12 років тому +8

    un poeta, sensibilità, un' anima che fa rivivere chopin con un grande sentimento, quasi fosse stato lui la reincarnazione del compositore polacco !
    carlo lamberti

  • @CarmenReyes-em9np
    @CarmenReyes-em9np 11 місяців тому +1

    Siempre fue importante ,en las biografiás de los grandes autores del tiempo de Lizst y Chopin. ❤

  • @juanvizcarra3621
    @juanvizcarra3621 6 місяців тому +1

    Wonderful playing! Holding the opening Db bass note with sostenuto pedal is a great idea.

  • @donthuis
    @donthuis 12 років тому +9

    Incredible that at an age where Cortot is close to meeting Chopin in heaven (when it exists), he makes us share the sentiment we should all experience when coming close to eternal truths

  • @pianomaly9859
    @pianomaly9859 4 роки тому +3

    Thank you for posting this. Not on any CD that I know of. Even at the end of his career when his control had unraveled to a great extent, he was still capable of great beauty and insight. Ditto for his 1954 Chopin Tarantelle, the '52 Fantaisie Op.49,............can make other pianists sound like they are in a Nyquil fog.

  • @angelavimercati21
    @angelavimercati21 5 років тому +3

    musicista straordinario immenso. chopin lo avrebbe ammirato credo...

  • @miguelleiton3645
    @miguelleiton3645 5 років тому +2

    Digo que es pura expresión de la musica,, maravillosa expresión.......

  • @genomos90
    @genomos90 14 років тому +5

    c'est incroyable, un génie..!!

  • @04jpb
    @04jpb 12 років тому +13

    Je découvre Cortot.je ne joue pas du piano ni d'aucun instrument.le coté technique ne m'intéresse pas;seuls la beauté et le ressenti comptent.Quel choc ! quel délicatesse ! que de bébés heureux à écouter cette interprétation ! l' émotion vous prend l'ame.Mercid'avoir posté cette vidéo.

    • @alainspiteri502
      @alainspiteri502 6 років тому +1

      c'est un vieux piano qui parle , chante avec douceur une berceuse à un bébé qui s'endort , un piano qui parle

  • @ancientone22
    @ancientone22 14 років тому +7

    A true POET ..... BRAVO !

  • @thomgeo8073
    @thomgeo8073 4 роки тому +1

    CORTOT IS GENIUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Mouet01
    @Mouet01 13 років тому +4

    Superbe.

  • @angelaacuna240
    @angelaacuna240 Рік тому +1

    Perfect ❤

  • @xujia1001
    @xujia1001 14 років тому +4

    Il n'y a que lui-même qui peut jouer mieux. Moins de brillance, or, la présence poétique ici est énorme.

  • @jameshandaja1536
    @jameshandaja1536 11 років тому +7

    Chopin is alive through Cortot...this one surpassed his other recordings...

    • @MrKlemps
      @MrKlemps 10 днів тому

      Agree. At all stages of his career but especially after World War II, Cortot's dexterity (though never his "command") could be highly erratic, even from day to day. This recording and some other short works made in the mid-1950's captures him at his miraculous best in every regard. His three recordings of this work ('26, '49, and '57) are in order increasingly subtle and improvisatory, this one somehow sounding as though he were making the piece up as he goes along. And his touch on the instrument and pedaling make it seem as though he were playing some Platonic "eidos"--or ideal--of the piano rather than a particular instrument of manufacture. Cortot, at least in Chopin, had something no other pianist even came close to.

  • @elliottpower2931
    @elliottpower2931 8 років тому +23

    I like Rubinstein and others... but there's something about Cortot's playing of Chopin that the others don't seem to grasp.

    • @luisademar8986
      @luisademar8986 5 років тому +2

      Es sind seine echten Empfindungen. Das ist ganz einfach.

    • @theohyxe5237
      @theohyxe5237 5 років тому +1

      You're a funny guy

    • @luisademar8986
      @luisademar8986 5 років тому +3

      @@theohyxe5237 ich bin erstens eine Frau und kein Kerl und zweitens ist das Alles nicht lustig, sondern teilweise sehr ernst. Aber das scheinen Sie nicht verstehen zu können.
      Im Übrigen bin ich eine Konzertpianistin und weiss sehr wohl über das Bescheid, was ich da schreibe.

    • @DJStefandeJong
      @DJStefandeJong 4 роки тому +5

      Cortot didn't give a flying rats ass about making mistakes, he was all about the tone. This is something most modern pianists don't get either.

    • @abdo5554
      @abdo5554 3 роки тому +3

      No wonder. He studied under george mathias and emile decombes, both Chopin' pupils

  • @kevasman
    @kevasman 13 років тому +9

    I loved this performance. Late Cortot can be pretty messy but not this. Absolutely indredible.

    • @liuhuiviola
      @liuhuiviola 4 роки тому +6

      Imperfections make it perfect

  • @inazuma3gou
    @inazuma3gou 11 років тому +2

    Very delightful.

  • @luisademar8986
    @luisademar8986 5 років тому +6

    Alfred Cortot unterscheidet sich von fast allem seinen auch grossen Kollegen, indem er das, was er da spielend "sagt", einfach ist, direkt empfindet.
    Es ist wahr und echt erlebt. Er "macht" nicht Etwas. - Das, obschon er von den Werken sehr genaue Vorstellungen hatte und nichts dem Zufall überliess. - Eine einmalige Gabe.

  • @ydraki
    @ydraki 10 років тому +11

    Cortot' physiognomy spells out genius.

  • @muzicaltel
    @muzicaltel 3 роки тому +2

    Je connais beaucoup de pianistes qui aimeraient avoir les prétendues "difficultés digitales" de Cortot!..
    Quant à son âge, bien peu d'artistes prennent leur "retraite" à cinquante-cinq ans, et c'est tant mieux... (Horowitz, Rubinstein, Kempff, Arrau, pour ne citer que quelques pianistes et non des moindres, ont joué à un âge avancé et avec une vigueur que bien des jeunes peuvent leur envier.)

    • @andreahighsmith636
      @andreahighsmith636 Рік тому +1

      Piano players get better as they get older, as long as they don't have physical or mental problems which can happen with aging. I agree with you, muzicaltel, that interpreters like Horowitz, Claudio Arrau, Rubinstein, and (for me) Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli among others they offer the best of their "savoir faire" as they get older.

  • @CarmenReyes-em9np
    @CarmenReyes-em9np 6 місяців тому

    Muy cercano a Chopin y Lizst. 🎶🎶🎶🎶👆

  • @andreahighsmith636
    @andreahighsmith636 Рік тому

    Cortot said once speaking about Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli that "a new Liszt has born". When I listen the Benedetti Michelangeli Chopin Berceuse performance I can hear some of the Cortot Berceuse interpretation. Am I wrong?

  • @furiousfox3000
    @furiousfox3000 9 років тому +3

    Exactly what i think

  • @jinwoobae7555
    @jinwoobae7555 6 років тому +3

    Oh my

  • @RemovdSande11
    @RemovdSande11 13 років тому +2

    god I wish I had a Steinway D. Very sensitive playing like we are used from Cortot btw :)

  • @johnscoville8868
    @johnscoville8868 10 років тому +9

    !wrong note (melody) at about 0:33/0:34! hah, don't get me wrong--this is a fantastic recording! Everybody makes mistakes, even Cortot.

    • @Palestrina-us8sv
      @Palestrina-us8sv 9 років тому +10

      John Scoville older era pianists used to make lots of mistakes and did not particularly bother about it. And still I prefer them to today's pianists.

    • @jamesorr6537
      @jamesorr6537 8 років тому +2

      Modern pianists practice to the point where a mistake in the music becomes impossible, as does life.

    • @Wkkbooks
      @Wkkbooks 6 років тому +1

      Cortot was famous, even beloved, for his mistakes,

    • @iianneill6013
      @iianneill6013 5 років тому +3

      @@Palestrina-us8sv The difference between modern pianism and Romantic pianism is the difference between an Old Master work of art and a slavish imitation.

    • @Cayres18
      @Cayres18 3 роки тому +1

      80 years in this recording...

  • @CarmenReyes-em9np
    @CarmenReyes-em9np 6 місяців тому

    Le puso la dijitacion a Chopin y Lizs

  • @fulviozanoni8450
    @fulviozanoni8450 4 роки тому +2

    fulvio zanoni...

  • @ewaldsteyn469
    @ewaldsteyn469 6 років тому +7

    A berceuse is a lullaby, but Cortot is playing it like he is waking up someone, instead of putting them to bed.

    • @charlesnicholls8602
      @charlesnicholls8602 2 роки тому +1

      The publisher gave it the title "Berceuse". I believe Chopin called it something like 'Theme & Variations'...

  • @Rahhh._
    @Rahhh._ 2 роки тому

    Anyone from Tea Time video ?

  • @Lillars
    @Lillars 10 років тому +3

    "Malgré son âge et ses difficultés digitales" ??? Répugnant !

  • @rei161
    @rei161 12 років тому +7

    Horowitz cant even come close to this

  • @ewaldsteyn469
    @ewaldsteyn469 6 років тому +1

    Sorry, but I don't agree with this interpretation. Just too fast.

    • @alainspiteri502
      @alainspiteri502 6 років тому +1

      Just a piano who speaks no more since 60 years and since 85 Y with his recording Études op10 and 25 .

    • @alainspiteri502
      @alainspiteri502 4 роки тому +1

      Ewald Steyn : j'm stupid what j say but Valentina Lisista play " la berceuse " de Chopin in 3 minutes 47" ! J repeat and forget this please it's very stupid j say !

  • @MariaMaria-oo3kj
    @MariaMaria-oo3kj Рік тому

    Too sharp and shrilly! Chaotic. Its lullaby!!! Pease listen to E Kissin and Kate Liu!!!!

    • @sagar1992
      @sagar1992 Рік тому

      Shut up

    • @Ariadne-cg4cq
      @Ariadne-cg4cq Рік тому +1

      MariaMaria-oo3kj. Chopin did not give the piece the title “lullaby”. He called it theme and variations. It was the publisher who gave it the name berceuse.

    • @MariaMaria-oo3kj
      @MariaMaria-oo3kj Рік тому

      @@Ariadne-cg4cq but he wrote it for a little girl visiting Nohant that summer with an idea of it being a lullaby ,
      whatever he named it musically. A Sharp rendition means that pianists sometimes don't know about a life of the composer.

    • @Seleuce
      @Seleuce 10 місяців тому +2

      @@MariaMaria-oo3kj Erm... Alfred Cortot was a student of Karol Mikuli, who was again a student of Chopin. Cortot could literally ask Mikuli how Chopin himself played this piece and what instructions the master had given him because Cortots teacher actually had been sitting with Frédéric Chopin himself side by side at the piano!! I think I prefer Cortots interpretations, it's the closest we get to hearing Chopin himself play.