Beethoven Moonlight Sonata on a Conrad Graf Piano - hear this piece like you never have before!

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Жыл бұрын

Penny Crawford’s Instrument Collection
Ann Arbor, Michigan
12/12/22
iPhone recording made when I played this for her and her husband, Richard.

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@karlthomas2360 7 сағат бұрын

Rollin'! Thank you.

@philstevens-8389 6 ай бұрын

This is a revelation. 73 years on the planet and I have heard a real piano for the first time. So much more shade and emotion. Wonderful.

@christianweatherbroadcasting 4 ай бұрын

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@eboone 4 ай бұрын

@@christianweatherbroadcastinggo somewhere else with that lmao

@rickyanthony 4 ай бұрын

You heard a really out of tune piano for the 1000th time.

@75Chopin 3 ай бұрын

There is a kettle boiling sound?

@eintroll8792 3 ай бұрын

Then you have never heard any serious pianists in those 73 years.

@yosserc Жыл бұрын

So lovely, with wonderfully subtle rubato in the first movement. Nice to hear such an old piano sing so musically.

@hymnodyhands 5 ай бұрын

This sounds like the ancient piano I inherited from my grandmother... and my favorite thing to play was the Moonlight Sonata... this brings back so many memories, for indeed, pianos no longer sound like this...

@christianweatherbroadcasting 4 ай бұрын

@dicktracy762 3 ай бұрын

Just another jerk trying to force his beliefs onto someone else like he hsa all of the answers.@@christianweatherbroadcasting

@tomolavson1834 3 ай бұрын

Thank goodness they don't... This is like one of those nightmare instruments that you find walking on stage that someone switched after a previous rehearsal.... out of tune, bad soundboard, dysfunctional hammers, no resonance due to improper overtone balance... just brutal... Nice try though.. some people like sand in their shoes

@DanielPMBA Жыл бұрын

Nice! Probably amazing to be in front of this piano. Great playing

@philippajoy4300 6 ай бұрын

Thank you. Pitch and resonance sounds remarkably like my great aunts ancient parlour piano in the 70s.

@christianweatherbroadcasting 4 ай бұрын

@HARIKRISHNA-pw1vg 2 ай бұрын

Im blessed to hear this. love the 3rd movement. as a 16 year old i confirm i feel millenial people and i am one of them now. wierd to say but i will allow myself.

@oldmanjoel1946 6 ай бұрын

I've heard the short and light action can really help with dynamics and articulation. This really proves how much that can help! Truly beautiful. (also at 2:02 there's a extraordinarily rude teapot)

@andreabest6862 6 ай бұрын

😂😂

@profsjp 6 ай бұрын

Technique and musicality both superb. Brava!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@christianweatherbroadcasting 4 ай бұрын

@400YearsUNLeashed 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful interpretation.

@klassiknatur4611 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for not playing so excruciating slowly like many of your collegues did and do (mvt. 1).

@PatrickN. 4 ай бұрын

I prefer it slower. First 2 mvts. Claudia was the best at this.

@aphremdanha5158 5 ай бұрын

Completely different sound, from the first touch of the first note. As if i have never heard a piano before. Thank you.

@michaelt7916 Ай бұрын

This should have way more views! Spectacular performance!!!

@sincerelyyours7538 2 ай бұрын

Been playing the Moonlight Sonata 1st movement for 45 years. Never heard the 2nd and 3rd movements completely until today, and to hear them played on such a wonderful old piano is a revelation. I wish I could play all three movements like that.

@charityshopguitar8790 2 ай бұрын

So great to hear this.

@jktekkerz8735 6 ай бұрын

Wow! Just wow!

@paltieri11 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant!

@jhaduvala 5 ай бұрын

Spectacular!

@GattoriSancho 6 ай бұрын

She is amazing its like she is massaging my brain.

@lluisrafalessole-classical5068 3 ай бұрын

This is very beautiful performance 🎹

@roadbrothersmotogrupo-guar6993 11 ай бұрын

So beautiful ! Im brazilian. Lindo !

@josephliu874 Жыл бұрын

So moving

@luizpinheiro-sr4nn 4 ай бұрын

Interpretação magistral!!! Parabéns! 👏👏

@sergiokibizer8317 4 ай бұрын

Una meraviglia di musicalità e sonorità. Nessuno può sapere il tipo di sonorità che Beethoven avesse nella sua testa ma io escluderei il prepotente Steinway. Mi piacerebbe sapere se è intonato 440hz o più basso perché sento il suono molto morbido. Grazie alla brava interprete che è riuscita, con modesti mezzi tecnici, a darmi un grande godimento musicale.

@robhaskins 7 ай бұрын

Brava

@kinli3316 2 ай бұрын

Bravo 🎉

@BertFlanders 2 ай бұрын

Inispiring! Thanks.

@Mohammed-pn3km 5 ай бұрын

Standing ovation

@marcobertoli5805 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, right. As if no one had ever heard a fortepiano before.

@Maisiewuppp 2 ай бұрын

Unnecessary comment.

@CBarrowMusic 6 ай бұрын

Is it just me, or does it just sound better hearing it on this piano?

@andrewtrovato1828 6 ай бұрын

I like it much better on this piano also, each note has its own special timbre and expressive quality, like an orchestra which the pianist can balance as she wishes, holding of the pedal doesnt produce a muddy sound, soo nice!

@andrewtrovato1828 6 ай бұрын

Also I feel like this is the first time Ive really understood how amazing the second movement is due to this, modern pianos erase those color and timbral qualities which make the juxtaposition between first, second, and third move so special and compositionally important

@PatrickN. 4 ай бұрын

She played it very well. Not many can play this piece that well. I think it was more her than the piano. Listen to Claudia play it. He was the best at this piece in my opinion.

@JC-dt7jv 4 ай бұрын

It's literally written for a very similar piano.

@nicolasborsini7118 4 күн бұрын

I found this interpretation brilliant (and the sound, of course), but why it's not played from memory? I mean, it's a little bit ankward when you have to pass the sheet to play an arpeggio (like the end, for example). I think the execution can improves a lot with that detail, just that :)

@grigorpetrov8006 3 ай бұрын

Nice playing. Be sure to "connect" aurally your LH bass notes with the RH melody. Meaning, when the LH moves to a point, harmonically where it's actually anticipating the harmonic change, make sure we really hear that connection to the RH when it happens. This is a "timing" thing as much as a voicing thing.

@andrewtrovato1828 6 ай бұрын

Great job, I feel very lucky to hear this work on this instrument! I hate modern pianos (or should I say the Steinway cartel) more and more these days! Also, very funny to see an Ipad and this piano together

@andreabest6862 6 ай бұрын

Vintage says hello to modern. How far we’ve come.😊

@cambridgeport90 3 ай бұрын

You wonder just how old this piano is...sounds like at least early 1900's, maybe late 1800's. And LOL...that teapot in the background...how'd you not get thrown off by that? Gods, but that would have majorly distracted me.

@RenaissanceEarCandy 2 ай бұрын

It's a Conrad Graf piano, so it would have been made in the early 1800s. Is Cambridge in your username because that's where you are?

@cambridgeport90 2 ай бұрын

@@RenaissanceEarCandy It's where I tend to frequent, so I needed a user name that would last, and that sounded unique but not silly, like my previous one did, so I took it from being stuck in traffic on time on the Mass Pike, otherwise known as interstate 90.

@alvinchuasg 4 ай бұрын

Boots ❤❤

@militaryandemergencyservic3286 6 ай бұрын

nice;y done. I play this too/

@RachelleLeigh-tk5oc 2 ай бұрын

2:10 was that a kettle?

@neo-frame9369 2 ай бұрын

Is this piano tuned on 432 hz?

@75Chopin 3 ай бұрын

Original Graf? Very rare!

@PatrickN. 4 ай бұрын

Almost the best I've heard this classic played. Played impeccable but still falls just short of the way Claudia played it. So congrats! I love this song and have listened to literally hundreds of people play it. This is is a close second to Claudia. Also, I know that's a special piano, but I prefer a more traditional grand piano, preferably Steinway. And better mic placement for recording.