I was asked to pay for a friend’s wedding out of town and was stunned to discover that I would be playing a Bösendorfer! I will never forget the amazing experience.

The best piano I have ever performed on is the Bosendorfer Imperial. It is the greatest piano ever made, bar none. Nothing else comes close to the tone, responsiveness, subtlety, and resonance. Bosendorfer is the Platonic Ideal of the piano.

THE ROLLS ROYCE OF PIANOS.

If it wasn't for Tori Amos, I probably never would have even heard of Bösendorfer; but thankfully, I've had the privilege of listening to a couple of them live in concert a couple dozen times. Happy, happy times.

Oh, if you look at the artistry and craftsmanship going into this piano's construction it is no wonder to me that the piano has a soul. For sure, the craftsman inserted a piece of their soul into each work of art. It would not surprise me that there are generations of craftsmen making these pianos year after year.

It's great to learn history and how they make Bosendorfer pianos. Thank you for sharing.

I have played one of these fantastic pianos at Exeter Cathedral for a Christmas concert. Absolutely amazing

Jus' LUUURVE playing Bösendorfer grand pianos - in every musical context!!!! Such a joy!

I love watching great craftsmen at work, producing something fantastic. Like watching a great pianist :)

Fascinating to watch how something is made.

Beautiful sound and amazing skill and craftsmanship.

Bösendorfer reminds me of our favorite old car, a 1983 Mercedes Benz 300SD Turbo, silver with black leather interior....was a dream to drive, wherever we went people would stop and stare and ask, what kind of car is that? It's simply beautiful...and it was!!

Amazing to see how these masterpieces are made. I don’t play piano but would love to.

wonderful. thank you

Bosendorfer makes many different pianos and I can't speak for the action in all of them, but the flagship 290 Imperial (9'6" full 8 octave keyboard) has a much lighter action or touch than the Steinway Concert D. It's like night and day different.

I loved this video!

A very outstanding human and machine work of skill and effort.

As a classical pianist, my favorite piano is and will always be a Bosendorfer. I love the richness, the deep bass, and the beautiful sound it produces. Knowing that they are handmade in Austria adds to the majestic quality. In college, I practiced with a Yamaha (which is a really good piano) and performed on a Bosendorfer. That's why I fancy Romantic Era music, like Schumann, Chopin, and LIszt. The Bosendorfer makes their music shine.

the highlight of our trip to Musikmesse, Frankfurt.... the Bosendorfer stand!!!

Obviously Steinway seems to hog the limelight and I do adore the make but once I attended a concert at the Royal Northern college of music in Manchester. I had free reign to wonder about the place before the start of the opera. I came upon a room where there was a massive piano with the cover on it. I lifted the leather cover and opened the lid and there before me was a completely stunning Bosendorfer concert grand piano. I played Chopin #1 the 1st mvt on it and connected with it instantly. It's action was absolutely sublime and the tone, oh my god, it was just out of this world gorgeous. Aparently the college had taken delivery of 2 of them at £140.000 each. My friend came and found me at the piano he'd heard my playing from down the hall. I told him that I was going to come back later and do a ram raid to adopt the bosendorfer and take it home! I fell so in love with it instantly. I hope one day to be able to buy one and fulfill my dream love affair with this in my opinion in a different league to any steinway I've ever played

Have had the opportunity to play one in Atherton CA .... amazing instrument...

It is excellent that Bösendorfer has chosen JAZZ for this demonstration in part. Piano music comes in a great variety of styles, and all of them deserve respect. Pianos are not made only for classical music. Classical music is one genre of music. I can remember the great Oscar Peterson playing on a Bösendorfer piano, but there´s many better audio clips available than the one presented here, which the sound doesn´t do justice to the piano nor to Oscar Peterson.

And she plays it so well! A match made in heaven, a great piano being played by one of the world's most talented pianists.

Pretty incredible

I live on them. Have done so for decades!!!!! XOXO...

THIS VIDEO SHOWS THAT THE big B. can take on even the best jazz pianists AS WELL as the Heavenly CLASSICS (MY FAVORITES !)........Ah one can only dream of owning one of these babies. When the lottery kicks in I'll be buying myself one of these. alas.dream on. & on & on..............................still dreaming whaaaa I so want one........

It´s the first time I discover this piano!

Whenever I see a Bösendorfer I never feel worthy enough to play on it ;-;

What an immaculate instrument !!!

I bet this is the best piano in the world....

Einfach wunderbar!

@AlejandroSanAntonio ~ YES! During a summer holiday with my future in-laws (many moons ago) I did have the chance to play on their Boesendorfer. An experience which is carved in my mind for ever more. Now I have a digital Yamaha, due to lack of space (and money ;o) ~ feeling lucky to have a piano at all. greetings from Canada!

I am sorry but Rolls Royce are the Bosendorfer of cars !! BEAUTIFUL !!!

Not to be at all irreverent to magnificent piano-manufacturing artistry, but the image of Tori Amos sitting astride that piano bench is just spectacular!

Bosendofer logo looks palatial. Sounds great for Jazz and many classical pieces.

i love you Tori!

This instrument rings in your ear like nothing else. The resonance and rich overtone is absolutely otherworldly.

Sencillamente extraordinario

I gave my Junior recital on a bosendorfer. It was awesome! But now years later own a 7 foot Yamaha because I love the clarity, the grandiosity of the bass .... & the price!!!! Mine is worth $40K. Couldn’t afford $120K for a bosendorfer. Come on get real! I’d love a bosendorfer but it’s not affordable. Damn , shoulda been a banker!

Would be nice to hear some Schubert, Schumann or even Beethoven. One dimension I like about the Bösendorfer is the depth in the tonality and playing big chords in the deeper range softly and steady really touches you deep within the base of your body. Bösendorfer is more within my taste than Steinway. I was never a huge fan of Steinway. ;)

All this talk about the Capital of Classical Music and then all of a sudden it's this jazz soundtrack?

Very nicely done! Wonderful wide-ranging look at the instrument and it's many varied admirers. All the way to Tori Amos's deeply felt relationship with the instrument. And if you get a chance to hear Valentina Lisitsa on one you're in for a treat!

When she comments about the outer rim being hand forced around the inner rim showing the few guys doing it and then stating that's something that accounts for the high quality of the Bosendorfer sound, what a crock! Steinway does the same thing, it's simply bending that outer rim and that fastening it with a caul. It's the INNER rim that's different.

If only this was part 1 of 200. More!! More!! More!!

El sonido de este gran piano es mágico e inagulable !!!

Wow.

Wish it were that simple. I think the best advise is "whatever piano sounds best to your own ears." Also, no one seems to mention the extra effort to bring a Steinway or Bosendorfer to it's full potential. They are both more temperamental than a Yamaha, since they need a great piano tuner to bring out their best, and they need tuning at least every other month, compared to a Yamaha which sounds great right out of the box and only needs tuning every 6-12 months.

I don't understand how these sublime pianos are presented here with such a horrid music!

I was priviledged to see the factory back in the summer of '79 and was quite impressed. At the time Kimball owned Bosendorfer and a hybrid piano that was around at the time was the Viennese edition Kimball grand. The narrator failed to mention that the tonal quality of this make is in no small way influenced by the outer rim constructed of spruce. And the inner rim has a "brick wall" kind of construction which is unique but not associated the tonal property.

I wish to work here.

Yes, what a big beautiful piano. Bosendorfer is one of my top three favorite pianos. If your in the Seattle, Portland, Or Eastern Washington area Call me up to tune your Bosendorfer. Mathisen Fine Tuning

Just wondering if Bosendorfer have ever considered building pianos with glass (!) sounding boards. A new piano builder in the Netherlands does, and they sound marvelous!

You mean that at 7:32 the guy picks up the light-weight red plastic/wood prototype part and places it on the desk on top of a CAD drawing of the internals of the piano? The video talks about product development at that point.

I'd never even heard of Bösendorfer before today.

Amazing! If only the Gibson Guitar Company took the same care truly made their guitars by hand.....then, they would really have a great instrument.

The best piano ever made!!! :-)

When Oscar speaks ,everyone listen This is like a dream ,thank you for posting. Maybe santa will put one besides the tree.

When I get one of them - exactly like this one ,290 Imperial model -the History of Music never will be the same.YAN AYRTON “Quando eu tiver um - exatamente como este (modelo 290) a historia da Musica jamais sera a mesma.” YAN AYRTON

Me too!!

I will take the V-Piano Grand and no problems with humidity and easy to transport to my performance.

Valentina Lisitsa selection of pianos! That is saying much!

Bosendorfer is the best piano!!!

Bösendorfer is quiet perfect.

Indeed, the Börsendorfer Piano is equivalent to Rolls Royce vehicle. 👍👍👍

Wien, the centre of world classical music; Please play some

Cant you find better and more inspiring music for the first section of this video?

My professor actually preforms and records baroque and classical era music on a yamaha because of it's brightness and precision. Fazioli is a great piano, if you have a liking to very intricate and treble-heavy music, it's very good in baroque sequences. Steinway has a very good overall sound, but Bosendorfer takes the cake in a full, rich sound. It's kind of like comparing a 6 string guitar to a 12-string guitar. Then again, i'm a romantic era player, so i have a bosendorfer bias.

I WANT TO PLAY THE Bösendorfer !!!!!!!!!!!!

This must be an old documentary as now Bosendorfer is 100% own by Yamaha, which is not mentioned in the footage.

Oscar P. pronounces it (after a slip of the tongue) wright at 10.50; Bösendorfer.

I got to play a Bosendorfer 225 yesterday and a Yamaha CFX. Both are great sounding pianos. I'm not sure which one to buy, since the CFX (really a DCFX) is $150K and the Bosend. 225 is $90K. The Bosend. 225 seems to go up in value every year. Maybe a better investment.

"now owned by a group of banks" expect a consistent reduction in quality as the suits now try to streamline costs and maximize profits.

Looks like a lot of machinery used, I can't help but think the OLD versions of these pianos and much more HAND MADE and sound better as well.

Nice presentation of my most favorite piano. However, I would have liked a little bit of Classical Music as a 'sound-sample' for demonstration. Franz Schubert for instance, sounds 'out of this world' on a Boesendorfer :o)

as much as I like Jaques Lussier ... and as much as I am aware, that jazz musicians like to play on it ... but, to demonstrate the utter beauty of the Boesendorfer 'sound' ... a Mozart or Beethoven Sonata would, in my opinion, have done the piano much more justice!

Does anybody know where I'd be able to find a recording of the jazz composition being played at 2:51?

Wow :)

I love the beautiful round tone of Bosendorfer pianos. There's nohing quite like it. I've never had an opportunity to actually play one so I wonder if the action is as tough as a Steinway. Yamaha has an easier action but a much brighter tone I don't like as much. I know when I've played a Steinway concert grand I was amazed how wonderful even the simplest composition sounds. The tone is so rich and the resonance so big. *sigh* One day I'll get an amazing piano . . .

bosendorfir to me is the blend of steinway and fazioli which makes it to the best piano in the world. its worth the price. if i every get rich enought ill buy one

He also plays in Baldwin.

Am sure that I read where Bosendorfer make only around 5 piano`s a year. If Leonid Hambro , Victor Borge and Valentina Lisista all have/used a Bosendorfer in preference to the other three great pianos on the market

Haha, this is great. I just came back here after some months. I was obviously being sarcastic, and actually own a Kawaii myself *giggles* There's also a Hindsberg in the living room, a model which is 100% copy of Steinway B. Even though every piano brand copied Steinway of course, some Danish brothers who've worked at the Steinway factories took it to a whole new level.. ^^ But I might sell the Kawaii sometime and aquire a Bösie, there's just something unique about Bösie sound...

@Sword1479 SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT COMPOSERS WHO LIVED IN VIENNA. Chopin didn't live in Vienna.

If the Bosendorfer is the 'Rolls Royce" of pianos*(as stated by the late Victor Borge), the Fazioli is the "Lamborghini." But I wonder how many others posting here really know of the Fazioli anyway.

whats the song at the end

Pretty sure background music (jazz versions of pieces by J S Bach) is performed by Jaques Loussier's trio.

3-D-print this!

I am not bothered by the jazz background sound very much, but it is obviously too loud.

soooooon in Colombia.. sooon

13:26 now specializing in "Hi - Fee" LOL

what is the music at 4m42sec?

7:30 How do you continuously improve perfection . . ?

And why not? Eminent jazz pianists love Bosendorfer too.

@pinintra you mean steinway?

Well it's like me being American, and not really fancying Steinways. Bösendorfer will always be number 1 to me.

has the quality of yamaha jumped since acquiring bosendorfer? and has the quality of bosendorfer stayed the same?

affair with your piano? Like sloping off to Brighton at Easter

whats the rolls royce of guitar then?

@AlejandroSanAntonio ~ it sure is!!! If you have ever played on one ~ you would not want to play on anything else ;o)

8:46 Then Yamaha acquired Bösendorfer in 2008.