Schumann began his F-sharp minor sonata at age 23 in 1833, nearly completing it the following year. During this time he co-founded the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, an exponent for unabashed romanticism in composition informed but unrestricted by classical modes, and became engaged to Ernestine von Fricken, the daughter of a wealthy baron. But the composer introduced a theme by the 15-year old Clara Weick (at the opening of the Allegro vivace) in his stunning creation and dedicated the work to her when he published it in 1836. Written in four movements, the sonata is remarkable for its contrasts in mood, its leaping chords and the radical swings of feeling expressed by Schumann's alter egos, the dashing Florestan and the delicately expressive Eusebius. These contrasting voices of his inner feelings, along with the startling dynamics, provide expression easy to associate with an ambitious young man conflicted by uncertainties in his career and love life, but eager to forge a new sound, replete with dissonance, striking chromaticism, galloping rhythms, and the blend of passion and tenderness that would come to characterize his best work.
This Schumann first sonata played by Gilels was fantastic. He really managed to express Schumann 's feeling, his deepest love to Clara. It's really hard to play out the composer's heart, naturally the performers will express their own feeling but Gilels did great on express Robert Schumann 's neurotic and naive heart.
@@Sim-mj3ni : If you do some reading about Schumann, particularly his and Clara’s letters/diaries, you will find out a great deal of what he thought and felt. But he was not pure and naïve, as some think he was. He loved music and his wife dearly, but was also an opportunist, hypocrite and anti-Semite. Read, please!
@@quaver1239 Ok, sure we can learn much about Schumann´s character, feelings, relationships and so on from the letters and historical documents and we can try to get an authentic picture of the personality and historical figure. I would just suggest not to fall into the trap to think that the music is just feelings. Great, ingenious music is always more than the composers feelings, it always has a spiritual, extensive dimension, which is more than the personality of a composer can represent. For this reason a characterization of an interpretation that says `he expressed his feelings´ is for me a little bit too simple.
@@quaver1239 "Read, please". When you write that he "was also an opportunist, hypocrite and anti-Semite", you are bound to give precise references. We are waiting.
На мой взгляд,бессмысленно иногда давать комментарий игре великого музыканта.А Гилельс им был и остался! Для Караяна он был пианистом номер один и не только для него. Я хочу поблагодарить фотографа за чудесную фотографию на которой Эмилю Григорьевичу всего 43 года .Он хорош собой,полон достоинства, сосредоточен перед выходом на сцену.
Spannende live Aufführung dieser romantischen Klaviersonate im inspirierenden Tempo mit gut artikuliertem Anschlag und völlig effektiver Dynamik. Echt unvergleichlicher Virtuoso!
This .. WAS A GREAT PIANIST ! I love his sense of drama. .....Perhaps for my taste the loud passages are very " loud". . He gets such a rich quality from, the piano.and doesn't miss a nuance I don't know a great deal about him. But I like his playing which can be so exciting and so very gentle and romantic, as well. .....................
Difficult, isn’t it, to decide which rendition we like best, with so many great pianists playing it! I do love this performance, but think I prefer Perahia. On the other hand.....Kissin, Schiff, Sokolov, Arrau.....we are supremely lucky in being able to hear all of them and more.
These Gilels London recording are great. I also heard Gilels performing the Weber Sonata No. 2 in A flat and enjoyed that recording as well; he was a great pianist!
Remember everything is relative - i.e., Gilels is great performing certain composers, but not all. e.g., Glen Gould was a great Bach interpreter, but I may not care much for his Schumann (if he did any Schumann?!)
The second movement is one the most beautiful declarations of love ever composed, and if Gilels's rendition doesn't give you wet eyes and goosebumps you need medical help. His tiny rubati are just mesmerizing, making the music breathe. Check out 11:38 for one of these millisecond delays that are pure magic. The 3 or 4 seconds around this are enough to know that you're listening to one of the greatest pianists ever. Seriously, how many other pianists could do this?
Absolutely agree with one caveat: there are so many of these pure magical moments in this movement! And in the entire Sonata. And, actually, in every Gilels's recording. He is unparalleled!
I don't prefer this interpretation but this is my favorite work by Schumann and it contains my favorite single movement from a sonata which is the third movement. But as a whole my favorite sonata is Chopin's Op.35.
The Aria is really very beautiful. The introduction, two minutes of great sadness, is fantastic. I love Kissin' s rendition. Listen to Schumann's Fantasia , for me is the most beautiful romantic piece.
A impressão q passa é q Schumann está tentando dar continuidade ao caminho trilhado por Beethoven em suas últimas sonatas para piano. E ao q parece conseguiu grande êxito. É uma grande obra, muito bem interpretada por Gilels. É só uma pena não ser tão divulgada.
Even for pianists today it is quite a difficult work to completely understand and put together. It does not follow the same kind of logic as a Beethoven or Mozart sonata.
Recomiendo escuchar esta misma sonata pero tocada por Volker Banfield. He escuchado muchas versiones de esta obra maestra y me parece muy difícil encontrar mi favorita. Richter, Pollini, Gilels, Kissin... Sé que mas de uno se animará a hacer la comparación y seguramente enriquecerá su conocimiento. La diferencia en la interpretación de cada uno de los mencionados es muy fácil de percibir. Ya me dirán si coinciden conmigo
Emil Gilels=THE.KING OF ALL PIANISTS! Grigory Sokolov=THE TITAN OF THE PIANO THE GIANT OF THE PIANO! Artur Rubinstein=THE GOD! Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli not The greatest Best Ever! ABM THE CYBORG HUMAN MACHINE KING ROBOT PIANIST EVER! ABM played The second-rated concertos like Mozart piano concerto no 15! Haydn concerto G major! Liszt piano concerto no 1! ABM never played The Best piano concertos like Mozart 24 Brahms 1-2 Chopin 1-2 Prokoviev 1-3 Rachmaninov 1-3 Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! JS Bach Piano Concerto no 1 ( concerto 1052) ABM knew that The Best plays The best piano concertos then ABM My art is empty trash awful low art! SO THE CYBORG HUMAN MACHINE KING ROBOT PIANIST EVER ABM i am going to bash distroy Grieg concerto With brutal accent after brutal accent! The piano Proffesor Malinin Said that Mozart playing is The most difficult! The Best greatest Mozart piano concertos players Are really=Mozart 17 Dezo Ranki Mozart 18 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 19 Radu Lupu Mozart 20 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 21 Radu Lupu ( The others The Good=Artur Rubinstein Murray Perahia Maurizio Pollini Vladimir Ashkenazy Stanislav Bunin) Mozart 22 Laura Mikkola Natalia Trull Jörg Demus Robert Casadesus Mozart 23 Solomon Cutner ( The others The Good=Wilhelm Kempff Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Vladimir Ashkenazy Murray Perahia Stanislav Bunin Vladimir Horowitz Radu Lupu) Mozart 24 Grigory Sokolov Maria Grinberg ( The Good=Wilhelm Kempff Mikhail Pletnev Gina Bachauer) Mozart 25 Murray Perahia Mozart 27 Alexei Lubimov ( The others The Good=Emil Gilels Vladimir Ashkenazy Murray Perahia Stanislav Bunin Natalia Trull).
Arrau´s sublime interpretation is actually superior to Gilels IMO because he conveys more romantic atmosphere, and the dark side of the listener´s imagination is activated at once and more played 'Mit einigem Pomp' as Schumann would say.
Personally I would prefer perhas Arrau's performance but this one is also wonderful and has its own unique merits; I'd even say that the Gilels is more inspired.
Bravo bravo bravo brilliance music
Schumann always has so many unique ideas for beautiful melodies.
Great sonata. Great performance . Gilles the Best pianist of XX cen. So sense and tragik, as Schumann's love.
Listent Pollini
Schumann began his F-sharp minor sonata at age 23 in 1833, nearly completing it the following year. During this time he co-founded the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, an exponent for unabashed romanticism in composition informed but unrestricted by classical modes, and became engaged to Ernestine von Fricken, the daughter of a wealthy baron. But the composer introduced a theme by the 15-year old Clara Weick (at the opening of the Allegro vivace) in his stunning creation and dedicated the work to her when he published it in 1836. Written in four movements, the sonata is remarkable for its contrasts in mood, its leaping chords and the radical swings of feeling expressed by Schumann's alter egos, the dashing Florestan and the delicately expressive Eusebius. These contrasting voices of his inner feelings, along with the startling dynamics, provide expression easy to associate with an ambitious young man conflicted by uncertainties in his career and love life, but eager to forge a new sound, replete with dissonance, striking chromaticism, galloping rhythms, and the blend of passion and tenderness that would come to characterize his best work.
This Schumann first sonata played by Gilels was fantastic. He really managed to express Schumann 's feeling, his deepest love to Clara. It's really hard to play out the composer's heart, naturally the performers will express their own feeling but Gilels did great on express Robert Schumann 's neurotic and naive heart.
From where do you know what Schumann felt??
Sca1, through a seance
@@Sim-mj3ni : If you do some reading about Schumann, particularly his and Clara’s letters/diaries, you will find out a great deal of what he thought and felt. But he was not pure and naïve, as some think he was. He loved music and his wife dearly, but was also an opportunist, hypocrite and anti-Semite. Read, please!
@@quaver1239 Ok, sure we can learn much about Schumann´s character, feelings, relationships and so on from the letters and historical documents and we can try to get an authentic picture of the personality and historical figure. I would just suggest not to fall into the trap to think that the music is just feelings. Great, ingenious music is always more than the composers feelings, it always has a spiritual, extensive dimension, which is more than the personality of a composer can represent. For this reason a characterization of an interpretation that says `he expressed his feelings´ is for me a little bit too simple.
@@quaver1239 "Read, please". When you write that he "was also an opportunist, hypocrite and anti-Semite", you are bound to give precise references. We are waiting.
This sonata is a unique composition and Gilels renders an extraordinary interpretation with all the force and tempo he was able to express himself
Beautiful piece of music.
На мой взгляд,бессмысленно иногда давать комментарий игре великого музыканта.А Гилельс им был и остался! Для Караяна он был пианистом номер один и не только для него. Я хочу поблагодарить фотографа за чудесную фотографию на которой Эмилю Григорьевичу всего 43 года .Он хорош собой,полон достоинства, сосредоточен перед выходом на сцену.
Spannende live Aufführung dieser romantischen Klaviersonate im inspirierenden Tempo mit gut artikuliertem Anschlag und völlig effektiver Dynamik. Echt unvergleichlicher Virtuoso!
GILELS magnífico! Como em todas as suas interpretações de Schumann!
I like this Introduction so much! The live recordings in Moscow and Leningrad are too fast, but there it's perfect. Great, great Schumann player!!!
I don't like it because it's almost a pastiche of Chopin's Nocturne.
Maravilhoso pianista! Amo!
Em também uma das mais majestosas obras do Schumann!
This .. WAS A GREAT PIANIST ! I love his sense of drama. .....Perhaps for my taste the loud passages are very " loud". . He gets such a rich quality from, the piano.and doesn't miss a nuance I don't know a great deal about him. But I like his playing which can be so exciting and so very gentle and romantic, as well. .....................
beautiful
A fantastic performance that enhances the rich architectural form and the innermost nuances of this wonderful sonata!
Listent also Pollini
C'est d'une modernité ! Gilels retranscrit bien l'âme torturée du maître.
This is so incredible and wonderful. Thank you for posting
Incrível o toque desse monstro. Viva ele❤️💖💗!
The best rendition of this sonata, IMHO...!!
Difficult, isn’t it, to decide which rendition we like best, with so many great pianists playing it! I do love this performance, but think I prefer Perahia. On the other hand.....Kissin, Schiff, Sokolov, Arrau.....we are supremely lucky in being able to hear all of them and more.
@@quaver1239 agree...👍👋
Evgeny Kissin The ice cold piano sound pianist!
Very beautiful and intense. Such a heartfelt composition...
These Gilels London recording are great. I also heard Gilels performing the Weber Sonata No. 2 in A flat and enjoyed that recording as well; he was a great pianist!
***** He is still living ???
oneginee No.
+Pano Pouroullis you should be ashamed!! 👺👺👺😤
+Pano Pouroullis you should be ashamed once more! How dare you to insult such great treasure as gilels? You mock him? Disgusting.
Remember everything is relative - i.e., Gilels is great performing certain composers, but not all. e.g., Glen Gould was a great Bach interpreter, but I may not care much for his Schumann (if he did any Schumann?!)
Beautiful! Thanks for posting!
A top notch performance, evoking of true feeling and passion!!
Amo esse pianista.
The second movement is one the most beautiful declarations of love ever composed, and if Gilels's rendition doesn't give you wet eyes and goosebumps you need medical help. His tiny rubati are just mesmerizing, making the music breathe. Check out 11:38 for one of these millisecond delays that are pure magic. The 3 or 4 seconds around this are enough to know that you're listening to one of the greatest pianists ever. Seriously, how many other pianists could do this?
Absolutely agree with one caveat: there are so many of these pure magical moments in this movement! And in the entire Sonata. And, actually, in every Gilels's recording. He is unparalleled!
Kissin once said that he listens to 30 minutes of Gilels everyday, it's part of his daily routine like others practice scales.
I don't prefer this interpretation but this is my favorite work by Schumann and it contains my favorite single movement from a sonata which is the third movement. But as a whole my favorite sonata is Chopin's Op.35.
The Aria is really very beautiful. The introduction, two minutes of great sadness, is fantastic. I love Kissin' s rendition. Listen to Schumann's Fantasia , for me is the most beautiful romantic piece.
Alistair Crane procofiev 6,8
@@norahdealmeida5847
Когда играет один пианист ,не хвалите другого,это неприлично!
Maurizio Pollini is the best ..but great performance of Guiles
Listent Pollini
Meraviglioso 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Ειναι τέλειος!!!👏👏👏
In Schumann's music Gilels and Biret are my two favourites.
The best song
A impressão q passa é q Schumann está tentando dar continuidade ao caminho trilhado por Beethoven em suas últimas sonatas para piano.
E ao q parece conseguiu grande êxito.
É uma grande obra, muito bem interpretada por Gilels. É só uma pena não ser tão divulgada.
Eine spannende Interpretation!
Великий музыкант!
2:15, Allegro vivace, Fandango
The beginning reminds a sort of Chopin, who lost it's colors. Exactly the posthumous Nocturne.
written for clara, she didn't really uderstand the work on first sightreading it
Even for pianists today it is quite a difficult work to completely understand and put together. It does not follow the same kind of logic as a Beethoven or Mozart sonata.
19:22
I also love the Berman and Arrau versions.
And Pollini..so majestic
Listent Pollini
Recomiendo escuchar esta misma sonata pero tocada por Volker Banfield. He escuchado muchas versiones de esta obra maestra y me parece muy difícil encontrar mi favorita. Richter, Pollini, Gilels, Kissin... Sé que mas de uno se animará a hacer la comparación y seguramente enriquecerá su conocimiento. La diferencia en la interpretación de cada uno de los mencionados es muy fácil de percibir. Ya me dirán si coinciden conmigo
FFnopal Ashkenazy?
Evgeny Kissin The ice cold piano sound pianist Ever!
Bravooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
There are pianists, and there is Gilels. Only ABM was on a higher plane
Emil Gilels=THE.KING OF ALL PIANISTS! Grigory Sokolov=THE TITAN OF THE PIANO THE GIANT OF THE PIANO! Artur Rubinstein=THE GOD! Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli not The greatest Best Ever! ABM THE CYBORG HUMAN MACHINE KING ROBOT PIANIST EVER! ABM played The second-rated concertos like Mozart piano concerto no 15! Haydn concerto G major! Liszt piano concerto no 1! ABM never played The Best piano concertos like Mozart 24 Brahms 1-2 Chopin 1-2 Prokoviev 1-3 Rachmaninov 1-3 Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! JS Bach Piano Concerto no 1 ( concerto 1052) ABM knew that The Best plays The best piano concertos then ABM My art is empty trash awful low art! SO THE CYBORG HUMAN MACHINE KING ROBOT PIANIST EVER ABM i am going to bash distroy Grieg concerto With brutal accent after brutal accent! The piano Proffesor Malinin Said that Mozart playing is The most difficult! The Best greatest Mozart piano concertos players Are really=Mozart 17 Dezo Ranki Mozart 18 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 19 Radu Lupu Mozart 20 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 21 Radu Lupu ( The others The Good=Artur Rubinstein Murray Perahia Maurizio Pollini Vladimir Ashkenazy Stanislav Bunin) Mozart 22 Laura Mikkola Natalia Trull Jörg Demus Robert Casadesus Mozart 23 Solomon Cutner ( The others The Good=Wilhelm Kempff Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Vladimir Ashkenazy Murray Perahia Stanislav Bunin Vladimir Horowitz Radu Lupu) Mozart 24 Grigory Sokolov Maria Grinberg ( The Good=Wilhelm Kempff Mikhail Pletnev Gina Bachauer) Mozart 25 Murray Perahia Mozart 27 Alexei Lubimov ( The others The Good=Emil Gilels Vladimir Ashkenazy Murray Perahia Stanislav Bunin Natalia Trull).
Arrau´s sublime interpretation is actually superior to Gilels IMO because he conveys more romantic atmosphere, and the dark side of the listener´s imagination is activated at once and more played 'Mit einigem Pomp' as Schumann would say.
Personally I would prefer perhas Arrau's performance but this one is also wonderful and has its own unique merits; I'd even say that the Gilels is more inspired.
@@yossipeles7864 way better than Arrau. Gilels was on another level, and Arrau was close to the top of the tree, but not comparable
No ..sorry ..the best is Maurizio Pollini
komponiert in 1835
Really. The Tie will never fit. Should be a neud Papillon... anyway, Schumann's best compositions are op 56 and 133.
Only the contemporary world would insert filth between the movements.
for listening for free though
I just say Pollini.
Если б «пулемёт» убрать и немного души добавить, было бы гениально
Извините, а в чём выражается "пулемёт"? С душой здесь всё в порядке.
возможно он хотел сказать чтобы из комнаты вынесли пулемёт@@светланаавласович-ш1я
Это Гилельсу-то надо души добавить?! Побойтесь бога!
Great pianist and wonderful musician, but some very unnatural rubatos in this sonata......
Genius is always "unnatural" to us, mortals, you know...