Andsnes give one of the finest performances of the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor you will ever hear. The only other performances in this league (imho) are by Artur Rubinstein and Murray Perahia.
While everyone is lauding praise over Lang Lang and Yuja Wang's super human technique which are no doubt great celebrity pianists here we have probably the greatest living pianist of them all. He has everything, a probing intellect in to the mind of the composer, phenomenal technique, a beautiful tone and poetic mastery to match. He can turn to any the great composers and bring a performance of immense depth and vision to it. A fantastic performance and much praise must be given to the Conductor and Orchestra too.
Para @The great. Wang y L.Lang tendrán técnica pero con eso no basta. además de su exhibicionismo. Éste hombre no hace alarde y posee un amplio repertorio tanto sinfónico como de cámara. Sencillamente está integrando la camada de pianistas "músicos" como Y.Li; Trifonov; Pletnev; el propio Tsujii o los hermanos Jussen a nivel dúos, por nombrar algunos
This all-Norwegian rendition of this magnificent concert by Grieg made me want to listen to it live somewhere in Norway! Beautiful performance by both the pianist and the orchestra! It is powerful, lyrical and overwhelming with beauty! 😍
100% right. When I visited Norway very young in 1976 I've known this concerto only about 5 years before the 1st time and I knew it nearly by heart. And when I was in Norway I recalled this music in my head going through Geiranger Fjord or looking down to another Fjord. I made a SUper8 movie in 1976 and of course I used this music - what else - for this movie. Many years later I got to know the very sympathic Andsnes personally before a concert in Vienna (working for an austrian paino manufacturer) and - he plays how he is and so sympathic like so many people from Norway. Grieg, orchestra and Andsness - a perfect combination
@@stefanradschiner1539 lucky you to have known the man behind the performing artist! He looks like a very, very down-to-earth person without all this artificial artistic aura about him!
This is a brilliant world class performance by both an extremely fine pianist and a first class orchestra and conductor! I am so impressed by the refined and elegant performance approach taken here to a very demanding concerto. This whole performance is a very polished and musical performance of Grieg's composition! What a professional team of musicians to perform with a truly great pianist who so masterfully approaches this whole concerto! I hope more listeners find this fabulous performance and leave comments it is so deserving of!!
An outstanding performance both sensitve and refreching.This great masterpiece is perormed by a virtuoso pianist a great conductor and an excellent orchestra..The perfect and harmonious dialogue between the pianist and the orchestra is impressive and moving.J.L.
the adagio is as if i am sitting in a norwegian valley.....absolutely gorgeous, emotional, perfection as is the entire concerto.....Andsnes is just breath taking to listen....
Brilliant, moving, powerful. It is wonderful that one of the finest works of a Norwegian composer is performed so well by a Norwegian orchestra and soloist.
This piano concerto was played in the Grieg Hall in Bergen by the Bergen Philharmonic orchestra with Leif Ove Andness as piano soloist and Ole Kristian Ruud as conductor. Edvard Grieg was born and lived in Bergen. He was the chief conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1880-1882. So this orchestra is in a way his orchestra. The performance was held in the Grieg Hall in Bergen named after Grieg. Andnes is from Karmøy not far from Bergen and currently lives in Bergen. His wife is playing in the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The conductor Ole Kristian Ruud has conducted many Grieg pieces and won several prized for these performances. So you can't get anything closer to Grieg himself than this performance. I think it helps a bit being Norwegian when performing a national treasure like Grieg's piano concerto. Most Norwegian classical musicians have a special relation to Grieg.
Just discovered this gem. Now I'll listen to it obsessively till it wilts. Which I think it never will. Absolutely an emotional upheaval for an untrained listener like me. Makes me feel things
I don’t know if it is The Norwegian connection that makes this such a brilliant performance but definitely my favourite performance and performer of this piece
Listening on Grieg's birthday. No other performance will ever surpass Leif Ove Andsnes and this fine orchestra! It's like they were born to play this music.
Das ist meines Erachtens die beste Darbietung, die es von diesem Konzert gibt, einzigartig, ein großer Pianist ohne Show oder Allueren bescheiden, souverän...... Ganz große Klasse.
A glorious live performance of moving simplicity and elegant refinement. The scandalously unlisted conductor is OLE KRISTIAN RUUD. There would have been no performance without him. Honestly...
Amazing, just amazing! Spent thirty minutes watching this masterpiece and just started all over again. Everything about this is perfect. Thank you Grieg and thank you Leif Ove Andsnes.
ive heard hundreds of hours of many grieg klavierkonzert in A minor and i can confidently say, this is among the best (if not THE best) rendition of the piece. As a native norwegian, Grieg's soul truly lives in Andsnes body.
I have been listening to this piece for over 50 years and I believe that is now my favourite performance of the piece. It is how I imagine Grieg himself might have hoped it would be played.
Heard this while playing CIV 5. Was never into classical music, but the music swell while playing a game, the piano going while I ate cinnamon toast crunch, violins as the sunlight came into the room. That moment moved me like no other and stays with me as a reminder of a calm during young adulthood.
Thank you for sharing this stunning performance. It brought tears to my eyes. I'm watching an interview with Leif recently recorded and he speaks of preparing the Grieg Piano Concerto which he hadn't performed in ten years... this may be the performance he was referring to... in his home country playing this gorgeous piece composed by a fellow countryman. I'm not from that country though all my ancestors were. Perhaps that is why this piece has always moved me so deeply. This performance is brilliant. I've also been becoming familiar with this orchestra from a relatively small city in Norway. They deliver wonderful performances I've been enjoying on UA-cam during the pandemic. Check them out folks, under the direction of Edward Gardner.
"Relatively small city in Norway"? Bergen is the second-largest city in the country, so even though it is a relatively small city globally, here in Norway it is one of the largest ones, only beaten by the capitol Oslo. 🙂
Extraordinaire version du concerto de Grieg ! Un immense merci☀ L'unique bémol à cette vidéo est le décalage du son et de l'image - peut-être dû à mon navigateur.
I've been lucky to enjoy this pianist perform this very concerto at Amsterdam Concertgebouw one day. This recording reminds me of how heavenly that was! Thanks for sharing!
What an absolutely stunning performance of this gorgeous Concerto. Bravo to the whole ensemble, including the video graphic and audio techs. But especially to Ove Andsnes for his loving this war horse of a piece enough to give it such a deliciously fresh reading. THANK YOU!
Never liked Grieg much … no idea why, and here I am discovering him aged 50! Incredible … the second movement gets me every time. He wrote it in Denmark interestingly, aged 24!!! Just married and a new dad. Love love love it.
I remember hearing the introduction of this masterpiece during TV ad soundtracks. All I remember is the piano entrance and it’s striking brilliance. Now I know it as a glorious staple of the repertory and rightly so. This pianist really digs into it’s poetic breath and depths. Ole Grieg produced a “sure fire winner” of a thoroughfare warhorse. PWG. P.S. The pianist makes the middle movement sound like the softly bucolic rocking chair of cerebral poetic license(heart and soul).
Excellent! By fare the best version of my favorite piano concerto! Congratulations to Leif Ove Andsnes and each and everyone else who participated - including film and sound recording. Excellent, simply excellent !
A good performance is like a fine haut cuisine meal: you can see and taste all the ingredients individually yet it is delicious as a whole. Good soloist, good orchestra, and good hall, good recording! What else can you ask for?! I can't help to wonder what Rachmaninov could have done with the material during the cadenza instead of just playing the same theme in the same key as the exposition!
A wonderfully epic piece of music - they could have used it for Lord of The Rings, for one of those totally triumphant scenes with lots of dead Orcs lying around!
This performance is stunning. I carefully watched the first movement cadenza and tried to find a difference between Leif and Rubeistein. I rate it even. If anything, an advantage to Leif. Of course, Rubinstein was 90 years old and blind.
Beautiful performance but, from a production point of view, the camera should have spent more time on his hands and less on his face. No disrespect here, but the purpose should be to show how the music has been created. I marvel at how a great pianist works on the keyboard.
Since so many people are picking up on the organic relations in this performance, it's perhaps also a little extra magical that the piano soloist and principal horn player are husband and wife - plenty of handover moments between them -
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1. Allegro molto moderato 00:41
2. Adagio 13:50
3. Allegro moderato, molto marcato 19:58
0:40 ;
1.Satz/1.daļa:
0:43 Einleitung/ievads, 1:06 Hauptsatz/galv.part., 1.Element, 1:19 2.Element, 1:44 Solo 1.Element, 1:57 Solo 2.Element, 2:22 Ueberleitung/saist.part.,
( 3:01 ) -> 3:06 Seitensatz/blakuspart., 3:28 Solo, 4:31 Schlussgruppe/noslēg.part.;
5:05 Durchfuehrung/izstrādājums, 6:27 Reprise, 9:30 ( 9:34 ) Cadenza/solista kadence, 12:43 Coda/koda;
2.Satz/2.daļa:
13:50 Thema/pamattēma ( 15:30 Violoncello solo, 15:49 Corno/Horn/mežraga solo),
16:00 Mittelteil/vidusposms, Piano solo, 17:39 Reprise, 19:45 Uebergang/pāreja (attacca)
3.Satz/3.daļa:
19:58 Einleitung/ievads, 20:08 ( 20:10 ) Refraine/refrēns,
22:38 Zweite(Zentral-)episode/2.,centr.epiz., Flauto, 23:12 Solo, 24:35 lyrisch, ( 28:06 -> 28:25 -> ) -> 28:37 Coda, ( 29:15 ) !
Andsnes give one of the finest performances of the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor you will ever hear. The only other performances in this league (imho) are by Artur Rubinstein and Murray Perahia.
While everyone is lauding praise over Lang Lang and Yuja Wang's super human technique which are no doubt great celebrity pianists here we have probably the greatest living pianist of them all. He has everything, a probing intellect in to the mind of the composer, phenomenal technique, a beautiful tone and poetic mastery to match. He can turn to any the great composers and bring a performance of immense depth and vision to it. A fantastic performance and much praise must be given to the Conductor and Orchestra too.
Parabéns pela sua Performance,senti todas as Notas ,tocadas de maneira profunda,perfeito ,concheço bem a obra ,vem tocar n Brasil
Para @The great. Wang y L.Lang tendrán técnica pero con eso no basta. además de su exhibicionismo. Éste hombre no hace alarde y posee un amplio repertorio tanto sinfónico como de cámara. Sencillamente está integrando la camada de pianistas "músicos" como Y.Li; Trifonov; Pletnev; el propio Tsujii o los hermanos Jussen a nivel dúos, por nombrar algunos
Otro buenísimo es Lugansky
Hay otro ruso, cuyo nombre me cuesta recordar. Creo se llama Mijail, su Brahms es bárbaro
This all-Norwegian rendition of this magnificent concert by Grieg made me want to listen to it live somewhere in Norway! Beautiful performance by both the pianist and the orchestra! It is powerful, lyrical and overwhelming with beauty! 😍
100% right. When I visited Norway very young in 1976 I've known this concerto only about 5 years before the 1st time and I knew it nearly by heart. And when I was in Norway I recalled this music in my head going through Geiranger Fjord or looking down to another Fjord. I made a SUper8 movie in 1976 and of course I used this music - what else - for this movie. Many years later I got to know the very sympathic Andsnes personally before a concert in Vienna (working for an austrian paino manufacturer) and - he plays how he is and so sympathic like so many people from Norway. Grieg, orchestra and Andsness - a perfect combination
@@stefanradschiner1539 lucky you to have known the man behind the performing artist! He looks like a very, very down-to-earth person without all this artificial artistic aura about him!
@@Qumak13 that's it
Andsnes’ performance is unrivaled by any other performances
This is a brilliant world class performance by both an extremely fine pianist and a first class orchestra and conductor! I am so impressed by the refined and elegant performance approach taken here to a very demanding concerto. This whole performance is a very polished and musical performance of Grieg's composition! What a professional team of musicians to perform with a truly great pianist who so masterfully approaches this whole concerto! I hope more listeners find this fabulous performance and leave comments it is so deserving of!!
Thank you
An outstanding performance both sensitve and refreching.This great masterpiece is perormed by a virtuoso pianist a great conductor and an excellent orchestra..The perfect and harmonious dialogue between the pianist and the orchestra is impressive and moving.J.L.
Superb in every way deserving a standing ovation !!!!!
" ... comments which it so deserves!" is a more elegant expression (with no dangling preposition) for very elegant performance.
I absolutely agree! This is now my favorite rendition.
the adagio is as if i am sitting in a norwegian valley.....absolutely gorgeous, emotional, perfection as is the entire concerto.....Andsnes is just breath taking to listen....
Brilliant, moving, powerful. It is wonderful that one of the finest works of a Norwegian composer is performed so well by a Norwegian orchestra and soloist.
This piano concerto was played in the Grieg Hall in Bergen by the Bergen Philharmonic orchestra with Leif Ove Andness as piano soloist and Ole Kristian Ruud as conductor.
Edvard Grieg was born and lived in Bergen. He was the chief conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1880-1882. So this orchestra is in a way his orchestra. The performance was held in the Grieg Hall in Bergen named after Grieg. Andnes is from Karmøy not far from Bergen and currently lives in Bergen. His wife is playing in the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The conductor Ole Kristian Ruud has conducted many Grieg pieces and won several prized for these performances.
So you can't get anything closer to Grieg himself than this performance. I think it helps a bit being Norwegian when performing a national treasure like Grieg's piano concerto. Most Norwegian classical musicians have a special relation to Grieg.
The best piano concerto in the world. In my humble opinion.
It is it even rivals Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff !!!!!
@@scottmiller6495 a little trivia for you Rachs first piano concerto was a tribute to this one.
@@Ace-dv5ce Could be.
@@scottmiller6495 Well technically it was a tribute to Siloti. Also the Grieg concerto was one of Rachmaninoffs vaforite pieces
@@Ace-dv5ce I believe you I'm in love with it and play every u tube performance there is as often as I can!!!!!
Andsnes est un pianiste extraordinaire, magnifique version du concerto de Grieg
Just discovered this gem. Now I'll listen to it obsessively till it wilts. Which I think it never will. Absolutely an emotional upheaval for an untrained listener like me. Makes me feel things
Glad you found it. I’ve listened to many renditions of it for almost 50 years and never tire of it. You might also like Rachmaninov’s Concerto #2.
I do listen to Rachmaninov #2. Richter's rendering.
E Grieg wrote this beautiful concerto in a summer holiday in Denmark , some 25 years old (1865)
Some holiday!
I don’t know if it is The Norwegian connection that makes this such a brilliant performance but definitely my favourite performance and performer of this piece
Nope. Cliburn-Ormandy and it's not even close unless tempo and rubato mean nothing to you.
Listening on Grieg's birthday. No other performance will ever surpass Leif Ove Andsnes and this fine orchestra! It's like they were born to play this music.
Yes , I agree 😀😀😀😀😀😀
Phantastic performance - great depth and emotion; best rendition I have ever heard of this piece - giving me goose-bumps 👍👍👍👍
24:37 Pure bliss! So very thankful to be alive, to have heard this magnificent performance! Bravo!
The marvellous orchestra and the wonderful pianist (and the glorious composer of course) got me into another, totally beautiful world. Magic! ❤️🌹😍
Y el maestro con su adecuada y magistral batuta.
Das ist meines Erachtens die beste Darbietung, die es von diesem Konzert gibt, einzigartig, ein großer Pianist ohne Show oder Allueren
bescheiden, souverän...... Ganz große Klasse.
A Norwegian composer and a Norwegian pianist! It doesn't get much better than that 😊
A glorious live performance of moving simplicity and elegant refinement. The scandalously unlisted conductor is OLE KRISTIAN RUUD. There would have been no performance without him. Honestly...
Thanks a million for mentioning the conductor's name! 😘
Btw, which orchestra is playing the piece here????
Thank you for the conductor's name!
Amazing, just amazing! Spent thirty minutes watching this masterpiece and just started all over again. Everything about this is perfect. Thank you Grieg and thank you Leif Ove Andsnes.
ive heard hundreds of hours of many grieg klavierkonzert in A minor and i can confidently say, this is among the best (if not THE best) rendition of the piece.
As a native norwegian, Grieg's soul truly lives in Andsnes body.
Superb Performance of one of the greatest Piano Concertos of all time Absolutely !!!!!
I have been listening to this piece for over 50 years and I believe that is now my favourite performance of the piece. It is how I imagine Grieg himself might have hoped it would be played.
Holy crap. I was frozen during the whole play, catching all the details on the stage and in the notes. This was incredible
This is hands down the best performance of this piece that I’ve ever heard! Pure perfection. Bravo!
Unusual performance, full of emotion, musical and mental strength.
Heard this while playing CIV 5.
Was never into classical music, but the music swell while playing a game, the piano going while I ate cinnamon toast crunch, violins as the sunlight came into the room. That moment moved me like no other and stays with me as a reminder of a calm during young adulthood.
Conmovedor momento con el piano, los violines, y la luz del sol accediendo a la escena.
Heavenly! very uplifting, soothing to the soul , and a roller coaster. Superb and excellent performance. Bravo!
Thank you. A stunning performance from years ago, 2012. The new album “Edward Grieg :Leif Ove Andsnes and Lise Davidsen” released in 2022.
Thank you for sharing this stunning performance. It brought tears to my eyes. I'm watching an interview with Leif recently recorded and he speaks of preparing the Grieg Piano Concerto which he hadn't performed in ten years... this may be the performance he was referring to... in his home country playing this gorgeous piece composed by a fellow countryman. I'm not from that country though all my ancestors were. Perhaps that is why this piece has always moved me so deeply. This performance is brilliant. I've also been becoming familiar with this orchestra from a relatively small city in Norway. They deliver wonderful performances I've been enjoying on UA-cam during the pandemic. Check them out folks, under the direction of Edward Gardner.
"Relatively small city in Norway"? Bergen is the second-largest city in the country, so even though it is a relatively small city globally, here in Norway it is one of the largest ones, only beaten by the capitol Oslo. 🙂
His wonderful performance is impeccable
Bear in mind❗
Extraordinaire version du concerto de Grieg ! Un immense merci☀
L'unique bémol à cette vidéo est le décalage du son et de l'image - peut-être dû à mon navigateur.
Just amazing. The connection, the chemistry, the atmosphere, the mood. All was there. Thank you 😭😭😭😭😭😭
It was a very touching performances 😢😢😢
Blown away by Adagio! ❤
Excellent! This is my old favorite classical music.
One of my favourites, haven't heard him play it before. He's good! I LOVE to see a musician enjoying playing! 😍🎶
I've been lucky to enjoy this pianist perform this very concerto at Amsterdam Concertgebouw one day. This recording reminds me of how heavenly that was!
Thanks for sharing!
What an absolutely stunning performance of this gorgeous Concerto. Bravo to the whole ensemble, including the video graphic and audio techs. But especially to Ove Andsnes for his loving this war horse of a piece enough to give it such a deliciously fresh reading. THANK YOU!
Rachmaninov himself considered this "war horse" the greatest piano concerto.
Well, no concerto that is anything less than great has ever been played enough times to be considered a warhorse...@@duggiefresh8170
Never liked Grieg much … no idea why, and here I am discovering him aged 50! Incredible … the second movement gets me every time. He wrote it in Denmark interestingly, aged 24!!! Just married and a new dad. Love love love it.
Unparalleled performance.
Stunning performance! Thank you, Leif Ove!
So polished, exceptional in every aspect!
Excellent ! I like Leif Ove Andsnes play very compelling concerto
Just pure world class playing
Excellente interprétation, merci😁
I remember hearing the introduction of this masterpiece during TV ad soundtracks. All I remember is the piano entrance and it’s striking brilliance. Now I know it as a glorious staple of the repertory and rightly so. This pianist really digs into it’s poetic breath and depths. Ole Grieg produced a “sure fire winner” of a thoroughfare warhorse. PWG. P.S. The pianist makes the middle movement sound like the softly bucolic rocking chair of cerebral poetic license(heart and soul).
Excellent! By fare the best version of my favorite piano concerto! Congratulations to Leif Ove Andsnes and each and everyone else who participated - including film and sound recording. Excellent, simply excellent !
Лейф Андснесс - найкращий!!! Тільки норвежець може так зіграти Ґріґа...
Окремий респект симфонічному оркестру!
Неймовірно!!!
What a magnificent performance!
WOW! This is truly a masterful rendition both by the orchestra and the pianist.
Formidable!! Gracias por compartir esta composición e interpretación geniales!!
Spectacular performance! One of the best ever! J.
Love the mid concert ad break
FANTASTIC!!!!!
와우! 그리그 피협은 안스네스 이 분이 최고네요❤❤❤ 좋은 영상 감사합니다
Well, I think it takes Norwegians to perform Grieg with the passion he deserves! Stunning performance!
감동적이네요. 좋은 영상 올려주셔서 고맙습니다.
Bravo bravo bravo bravo bravo brilliance fantastic grandiose genial music concerto pianist super super super wow wow wow
Absolutely superb!
It's a comfortable performance to listen to♬
Perfection!
Absolutely fantastic!
Leif Ove Andsnes Plays Grieg Piano Concerto - Perfecto!
Amazing, i think he is in top 5 in the world. Wonderful
나는 2025년 4월 프라하에서 이 위대한 피아니스트가 체코 필 하모닉과 협연하는 그리그 피아노 협주곡을 들을 것이다. 어제 티켓을 사고 나니 너무 행복하다.
Superlativo.
Excellent performance. Excellent recording.
You are magnificent Leif. Makes me feel like a non-person
Thank you for this video.
A good performance is like a fine haut cuisine meal: you can see and taste all the ingredients individually yet it is delicious as a whole. Good soloist, good orchestra, and good hall, good recording! What else can you ask for?! I can't help to wonder what Rachmaninov could have done with the material during the cadenza instead of just playing the same theme in the same key as the exposition!
Rach had the same idea so he decided to write his second piano Concerto 😏
어제 Kbs classic fm 명연주명음반에서 안스네스의 연주를 들었습니다. Great Player. Classicjoa.
What orchestra accompanies this wonderful piano performance by Leif Ove Andsnes? The Conductor is Kristian Ruud.
SUPERLATIVO!
A wonderfully epic piece of music - they could have used it for Lord of The Rings, for one of those totally triumphant scenes with lots of dead Orcs lying around!
Magnificent!
This performance is stunning. I carefully watched the first movement cadenza and tried to find a difference between Leif and Rubeistein. I rate it even. If anything, an advantage to Leif. Of course, Rubinstein was 90 years old and blind.
What year c. 2004? The quintessential performance of the Great Norwegian composer's masterpiece by a Great Norwegian pianist.
Leif Ove Andsnes is the best ❤❤❤
Bravo ❤️❤️
28:38 em diante é um dos trechos mais emocionantes do repertório para piano e orquestra
The very best
like like gut awesome 🙌🏼👍🏼❤️
I listened to various pianists, but...
He was the first to be attracted☝️❤
Тільки справжній вікінг може виконати партію фортепіано, яку Гріг розробив на 4 руки!
Бравіссімо!!!
18.40 is why I'm here ❤❤❤
the best.
Muy bueno
Ecellent
Er det Bergen Filharmoniske orkester som spiller med Ole Kristan Ruud som dirigent?
Even the great Artur Rubinstein didn't get this good an orchestra, and this soloist misses not a single detail.
It’s stunning
Beautiful performance but, from a production point of view, the camera should have spent more time on his hands and less on his face. No disrespect here, but the purpose should be to show how the music has been created. I marvel at how a great pianist works on the keyboard.
Close your eyes and listen. That's all.
Какой эмоциональный рай на эемле
Beautiful...
It seems that the drummer got carried away in the end.... 🤣
Life!!
Is the orchestra for this performance the Bergen Philharmonic?
Since so many people are picking up on the organic relations in this performance, it's perhaps also a little extra magical that the piano soloist and principal horn player are husband and wife - plenty of handover moments between them -
Yes!!!
No social distancing in Bergen? Great performance regardless.
It is an old performance, way before the pandemic. Leif Ove looks younger, may be a decade younger than today.
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Did Grieg steal his 2nd movement from Mozart's piano concerto no. 24 K491, 2nd movement?
No