Beethoven Choral Fantasy - Alfred Brendel/New York Philharmonic (1991)

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Alfred Brendel performs Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by James Levine. This performance formed part of the Carnegie Hall Centennial Gala Concert, which took place in 1991.

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@robertdeland3390 2 жыл бұрын

Brendel's playing is almost always understated which is why I prefer his version of everything, including this. His technique is unassailable. His understated emotional content is for me overpowering!

@MrKlemps 2 жыл бұрын

Don't you mean "emotionally neutral"?

@renaudpontier Жыл бұрын

Dans cette œuvre , il y a une puissance d'entrainement, une force irrésistible, tout à fait caractéristique de Beethoven. C'est magnifique.

@TheTmackey Ай бұрын

When I see Levine conduct I feel a deep sadness. So great and yet …

@brianswanson9881 2 жыл бұрын

Alfred Brendel, my favorite Pianist. Well done Alfred.

@catherinehees1625 2 жыл бұрын

Music from heaven! Brendel’s playing is crystal clear and awe inspiring. I have heard very few pianists that could compare. Thank you for a delightful, joyous concert!

@srothbardt 2 жыл бұрын

As an opera conductor, Levine handles the choral part better than anyone else.

@aaronjorgefridman5662 2 жыл бұрын

Una obra GRANDIOSA magnificamente interpretada por dos GRANDES. Un verdadero placer

@VladVexler 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this. A mature reading from Alfred here. There is, so often, a lack of clear vision among pianists about how to handle the improvisatory piano introduction.

@ChristophersMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Interesting point about the introduction.

@FABrendel 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Read Beethoven himself improvised in the premier. Brendel's hierarchy and experience with singers show as well. The accompaniment! So precise!

@jackiepike1466 2 жыл бұрын

Interpretation: the best Pianist: the best Conductor: the best Music: a masterpiece

@maxchristianesteffan2321 2 жыл бұрын

@@jackiepike1466 my favorite is Alice Sara Ott. But to each his own. :-) For sure best music piece of all.

@jackiepike1466 2 жыл бұрын

@@maxchristianesteffan2321 I will check her out, thank you! 🙂

@clairdelune4387 2 жыл бұрын

Merci beaucoup ! c'est magnifique ..

@elenabogni2426 2 жыл бұрын

Maestro,Pianista e Coro eccezzionali con la loro formidabile Orchestra. Riproduzione non classificabile.Grazie.

@alanwitton5980 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@reginaldsawyer2945 Жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday Beethoven.

@benvaneert4586 7 ай бұрын

Beste pianist allertijde

@WowikusUA Жыл бұрын

Good!

@mauriciogomes1466 2 жыл бұрын

Kissin and Abbado to me it is best!

@martinstremlow2997 2 жыл бұрын

I prefer Homero Francesch with Leonard Bernstein and Wiener Philharmoniker

@nicolasantoro4049 6 күн бұрын

Ozawa - Argerich the best

@l1mmg0t 2 жыл бұрын

if you don't appreciate Beethoven's music, you waste your life.

@roberts932 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but only if you understood Mozart beforehand.

@davidhughes3260 2 жыл бұрын

Back in the 90s you could still miss notes and it was ok.

@tedward4658 2 жыл бұрын

For me, the most powerful player of the sonatas. Great to see an up tempo number. Anyone got Piano Concerto 3 by Brendel?

@tedward4658 2 жыл бұрын

And a great horn section....

@VladVexler 2 жыл бұрын

Search for a video of Alfred with Claudio Abbasid playing the 3rd. It’s better than any of the disc recordings he made.

@denizovecoglu6759 2 жыл бұрын

Chicago Symp. under the direction of James Levine. Grand performance.

@scrivener6450 Жыл бұрын

I agree, His recording of Op. 111 in his first set (on Vox) has never been equaled.

@jamesbrennan6022 2 жыл бұрын

There is another KZfaq performance with Martha Argerich and Ozawa, who simply forget all the issues and constraints and play. They could be improvising it into existence. And it works - both as a piece and an occasion, which is what Beethoven wanted.

@MrKlemps 2 жыл бұрын

In the final years of career as his health gave out, Ozawa conducted some excellent performances--on a level that had eluded him throughout his glamorous, jet-setting career. The one you mention is very moving as is his work in rehearsal with a group of student string orchestra players on the slow movement of Beethoven's Op.135.

@user-ci9vb7gw4p 29 күн бұрын

紐約愛樂的管樂真的很強

@mariaazzan8625 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding performance there is another with kissin and claudio aboudo berlin phil which is just as outstanding if not better

@user-ci9vb7gw4p 29 күн бұрын

不知道是不是錄音品質影響，弦樂似乎被吃掉了不少，可惜了。

@user-go8yl3nu9d 2 жыл бұрын

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@craigmumm2150 2 жыл бұрын

Fine performance but the piano tuner didn’t do a good job. The instrument is out of tune.

@kennethpiters6231 2 жыл бұрын

Correct. Not sure why no one else is noticing. The piano is a bit of a dog. Lower registers are ponderous. He deserved a better instrument.

@mbsztulman 9 ай бұрын

???????

@rorygarner9427 5 күн бұрын

Or it's the poor audio quality that muting the sound.

@daviddemers9093 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but Maestro Rudolf Serkin owned this piece.

@remomazzetti8757 2 жыл бұрын

Nobody owns any piece of music.

@lukedaniell 2 жыл бұрын

I was always partial to Otto Klemperer, with a young Daniel Barenboim on the piano.

@hemiolaguy 2 жыл бұрын

I had the privilege of singing in the chorus of this piece at Tanglewood in the mid-80's. Rudolf Serkin played. Thrilling!

@MrKlemps Жыл бұрын

R Serkin's reording with L Bernstein conducting the NYP puts the Brendel / Levine performance in the shade. Worth noting: how positively UNfestive both of them looked afterward. They seemed temperamentally at odds throughout , and only their resolute professionalism got them throughout it.

@daviddemers9093 Жыл бұрын

@@remomazzetti8757 by "own", I only mean in my humble opinion the Serkin performances of this piece were beyond compare. Sorry!

@robertoa.m.3984 2 жыл бұрын

Pity the bad quality recording and reproduction

@remotoadamotroppovelocelaf868 2 жыл бұрын

Bravi ma l'interpretazione di riferimento è Klemperer-Baremboim

@NealBrenard 2 жыл бұрын

I'm no one to criticize Beethoven, but this one is oddly wooden, desperate, and schematic. Isn't it? Even for Beethoven? Finding a fragment of a tune, cutting it off, romping off in a different direction, endless trills. The piano player is there for sound effects. Sounds like he composed it with a gun to his head. I liked this a lot better fifty years ago when we sang it with more gusto. And more of a sense of humor.