This is the greatest interpretation of this concerto I've ever heard. This is the full emotional depth of Brahms brilliantly and artistically displayed.

The gift of the DG Box set of both the Brahms Concertos with Gilels and Jochum as a Christmas present from my mother in December 1972 started me collecting records and led to me becoming a classical LP dealer 20 years later. It was, is and will always remain special.

The heroic comfort of this wonderful performance is irreplaceable , and incomparable

I really love this performance. It is interesting to quote that in an interview Jochum declared that his recordings of the Brahms piano concerti with Gilels were his most beloved works in the studio!

This recording is a force of nature!

This is a grandiose and ingenious performance of the piano concerto by the great Johann Brahms, no other pianist had such an amazing, individual depth of readings, embodiment of the composer idea. . .The skill of Emil Gilels impeccable, amazing sophistication of taste, stylistic perfection, a wonderful sense of harmony, absolutely incredible, bright and emotional manner of interpretation is delightful. . .

Unsurpassed and sublime.

First time I've heard it ; just speechless .Extra terrestrial !

La migliore interpretazione in assoluto!

I love Brahms...I love Gilels...I love Orchestra and conductor...I love this beautiful MUSIC...P h e n o m e n a l performance

La mia registrazione preferita di questo concerto.Esecuzione e registrazione semplicemente straordinari ! Complimenti per il post

jochum et gilels sont deux monuments de la musique et des brahmssiens comme il en existe bien trop peu ,, brahms me fascine ,, il m'a fallu du temps , mais je ne regrette rien , au contraire les joies inouies que m'apporte brahms se comparent au bonheur , à la passion , enfin il est quasi impossible de décrire les sentiments que génère ce compositeur si mystérieux mais qui exige des interprètes des qualités qu'ils ne montrent que trop rarement ,, brahms quand il composait avouait se sentir inondé par une force supérieure céleste dont il ne savait pas l'origine , divine peut être , son exigence lui imposait de reprendre et recommencer ses oeuvres et parfois les détruire pour les recomposer différemment il travailla près de 20 à la composition de son fabuleux requiem , et attendit des années avant de s'attaquer à la composition symphonique ,, mais le sommet de brahms selon moi réside dans une musique de chambre que très peu parvinrent à égaler ,, je ne vois que mozart beethoven schubert pour la musique de chambre pour se mettre en face de brahms même si yohannes demeure mon préféré , peut être cette exigence l'empêcha de s(attaquer à l'opéra ou mozart paraît être seul ,, tant ses opéras me fascinent , puccini chez les italiens reste bien au dessus d'un verdi , d'un donizetti , d'un bellini , ,,, il faudra attendre le wozzeck d'alban berg pour retrouver un opéra digne de mozart ,, wagner devient vite ennuyeux , sauf dans les wesendonck lieder comme richard strauss dans les vier letze lieder somptueux de grâce ,, élégiaque ,, en écoutant gilels je regrette de n'avoir pas étudié plus tôt les grands musiciens soviétiques compositeurs et interprètent ils subirent eux aussi l'ignominie de la guerre froide ,, et pas seulement en musique , combien de nobel leur furent dérobés par l'otan l'onu les usa ,, je rêve que l'afrique connaisse enfin son heure de gloire artistique scientifique ect mais il faudra lutter bien longtemps encore pour que justice soit faite ,, alea jacta est

Thank you for this beautiful performance and recording of my favorite pianist and the orchestra just outstanding.

un des plus beaux concerti de tous les temps , par des interprètes au sommet de leur art ,

For me this recording by Gilels, together with the recording Backhaus made in the early 1950's with Bohm and the Vienna Philharmonic, are the 2 greatest recordings ever made of this concerto. These 2 pianists differ quite in tempo, but both are different but magnificent readings. No one else built the tension up so well AND keep it there throughout. All the other great recordings I've heard (Serkin, Fleisher, Curzon) cannot keep the tension so effectively right throughout as Gilels and Backhaus does. For me, that is what sets them apart from the rest.

Eugen Jochum - unfortunately totally underrated - is easily as good as Schuricht, Barbirolli, Kempe, Fricsay, Cluytens, Böhm, Walter and Klemperer. Emil Gilels is simply fantastic, what a treat to listen to this unsurpassed masterpiece, one of my favourite records, sublime and divine!

Agree that this is the best performance that I heard first in 1976. I have not heard anything that comes close to the majesty of this performance.

Outstanding performance! Thank you for uploading:)

I bought this boxed set of the two piano concerti by Brahms over 45 Years ago. I have never regretted the purchase. The #1 is wonderful and the second movement is beyond compare. The beautiful restraint of both orchestra under Jochum and piano under the hands of Gilels is so lyrical but with a tightly held tension that eventually can't be contained and explodes without any sense of menace or destruction. The climbing out towards the end over the prolonged pedal note of the orchestra is so well controlled. Just the very best recording there is by a long way.

what a great wonderful fantastic performance!

This is one of the greatest recordings of - to me - the greatest pianoconcert ever. Some 25 years ago I bought the Rubinstein/Reiner recording without knowing how lucky I was. It still is the goldstandard to me but Gilels/Jochum here could be even better. As you can´t compare youtube quality to an anlog LP I will have to wait until I find the anlog-disc of this. By the way in the 2. Brahmsconcert my Goldstandard is Gilels/Reiner!

Insurpassable, inégalable, Gilels nous laisse entrevoir le merveilleux pays de Brahms…

Лучшее исполнение, брависсимо!

00:01 - 1 - Maestoso 24:11 - 2 - Adagio 39:00 - 3 - Rondo, Allegro non troppo

With exactly 24 minutes the maestoso is even longer than on Arraus later recordings. Yet Gilels maintains the tension over the whole timespan. Gilels (in the Maestoso of 1. Brahmsconcert) confirms Arraus opinion that intensity has to be reached by monumental force not by velocity. (Compare Arrau/Kubelik 1964).

The maturity of this concerto is equal to Beethoven no.3 already, how amazing that Brahms is already a grown up in his op.1. Very rare even amongst the greats !

Bravo! best of best version.

Outstanding

Still the one and only for me!

Beautiful! Thank you for posting!

Colosal!......Me ha dejado sin palabras

Monumentale!!

Soaring performance Soaring soul I hope and pray (maybe the same thing…) that next generations will listen and feel Thank you with all my romantic heart!

Still wonderful

Thanks,It's really great performance!

The first movement is the perfect tempo. Any slower and it just becomes fossil like. Any faster, and it’s superficial.

unsurpassable. yes

Феноменально!

This magnificiant interpretation is just the best in terms of dramatism and beauty of the different instrumental sections of the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by an inspired director in the name of Jochum really. Gilels is dynamic and perfectly adapted to this repertoire.

Arrau y Gilels son mis preferidos!

gilels mérite son étoile sur le fame of walk des grands interprètes ,, il resta humble conscient de son talent , passionné par son art

magnificent!!

圧倒的音響。力強いピアノの響きでありながら、心に共鳴する哀愁もある。ヨッフム、ベルリンフィル、ギレリス氏の三位一体の凄まじい演奏です。

Gilels: interprete grandioso di molti capolavori e ingiustamente negletto in taluni casi, ad esempio nella proletaria cultura musicale italiana.

love this beautiful

Thank you for the lovely video montage to accompany this music!

Conductor, orchestra and solist, they are playing steadily this concerto in a body with a slow tempo. This performance sounds very comfotable to me. Thank you!

je ne vois personne au 21 ème siècle capable de surpasser cette version que seuls approchent , au siècle passé curzon et szell , le vrai génie est si rare , les médias voient des génies partout quand un interprète est sous les feux de la rampe le monde se courbe tel ylang ylang et d'autres que je ne citerai mais ylang est tout sauf un génie , richter , kempf arrau , gilels , lipatti , rubinstein , michelangeli , serkin , gould , brendel sont des génies j'en oublie horowitz et d'autres mais ils ne sont pas si nombreux , la vraie beauté est rare , gilels est de ceux là ,avec backhaus , curzon , haskil , yudina , kraus , et je ne parle des violonistes , pour la rélève pianistique je la vois chez les femmes russes ukrainiennes quelques anglais et les austro germaniques bien sûr , mais il faudrait une thèse pour expliquer les raisons d'une telle domination qui n'a rien de commun avec un excès de nostalgie

Divine

I adore Gilels, he was incomparable. Do check Maria Grinberg plying this concerto. They were friends!!!!

너무 좋습니다.👏👏👏

After the premiere, Brahms played the piano, just one Person clapped. What a shame.

The first movement seems king in this concerto, particularly the entrance of the piano (at 4:09) , but without the long wait for it and the symphonic introduction, it wouldn't come across so beautiful in contrast from what has already been stated so emphatically by the orchestra in all it's intensity. The piano is the individual in some sense here, but allows itself to collaborate once it's independence is clearly stated, and not seemingly for virtuosic purposes. Only late does it seem to try to compete with the orchestra in demonstrating what it can do in terms of its "theatricality."

Mitico. Imperdibile.

Just watched the Thielemann/Pollini version. Dire. So tepid. I think Pollini fell asleep during the first movement. Thielemann appeared to be taking part in an egg-and-spoon race at the local special schoo.

44:23 begins one of the best sections of the third movement. The orchestration combined with a developing idea, fugue like....

I 00:00 II 24:09 III 39:55

É como navegar pelo cosmos.

Pretty good. Like a slower, less fiery version of Rudolf Serkin / Cleveland Orchestra / Georg Szell

❤️👏👏❤️

A titanic performance of a titanic masterpiece.

Orginal DGG 1970's recording.

comment choisir entre szell curzon ,, et gilels jochum ,, ne pas choisir ét apprécier simplement deux versions magistrales géniales inoubliables ,, mille fois mr gilels ,, j'aurais tant aimer visiter l'union soviétique pour écouter gilels , maria yudina , david oistrakh , quel bonheur ,, et goûter une bonne vodka en regardant les femmes russes si jolies

In the 40 years I 've heard interpretations of this concerto only that of alfred brendel almost matches this. The rest is silence.

Jochum is an underestimated Meister, he is as good as Karl Boehm at least, and even better, just because of his conducting of the Bruckner Symphonies, magnificent and grand, a dynamic balance is there, a rare achiement amongst the conductors. And this conducting of Brahms is his masterwork, because with Gilels, Jochum expresses not only his classicism proper but also an inspired romanticim, which is a must for Johannes Brahms, therefore, this version has no equal until now, the best pianist + the first class conductor + the first class orchestra. Bravo , Brahms Grandeur and Glory !

協奏曲、独奏曲、歌曲を問わず、全ブラームス作品の録音の中でも屈指だと思う。むろん、この曲においては右に出る演奏などちょっと考えられない。

Photos of Brahms, supposedly- actually of Vladimyr Rebikov, same as photos of Satie; some of the latter, of Rebikov's father...Neither composer left any photos for posterity...

Are the swoopy visuals really necessary?

40:28

gilels el mejor?

Weergaloos

The best versions of this concerto are all recorded live; Joseph Moog, Arrau in Moscow with Rozhdestvensky, (also with Horenstein,) Moravec in Dallas with Mata, and Maria Grinberg (which can be heard on KZfaq with Victor Dubrovsky.)

When the video is interrupted by advertisements, it makes me hate the product.

24:11

Nelson Frere and Ricardo Chailly:among the best Brahms piano concertos ever recorded!

Why would maestro Jochum's recordings be so under-represented? This collaboration, though more deliberate than that by Leon Fleischer and Szell/Cleveland is as great -with sound to match!

31:50 47:57 50:04

吉利爾斯無疑是二十世紀最偉大的鋼琴家，他的貝多芬鋼琴奏鳴曲，在俄國無出其右，在雄渾與力度上，瑪利亞格林堡不及，在音色之光采上，瑪利亞尤金娜不及，在境界上，乃師諾伊豪斯乃師弟李希特皆不及。德奧系鋼琴家巴克豪斯之力度不足，肯普夫的錄音較差，境界有得此，阿勞沒聽過，別人就不用談了。所以他穩執牛耳。他的強在於精神境界之致廣大而盡精微，極高明而道中庸。唯一可以和他一比的是兩位俄國女士尤金娜和格林堡以及一位德國女武士艾莉奈，可惜情緻或許有更細微高妙處，然畢竟是布拉姆斯德意志雄獅，還是吉利爾斯雄渾取勝。

Höchste Klavierkonzert mit Meisterpianist! Brahms Klavierkonzert Nr.1 Klavierspiel-Emil Gilels Dirigent-Eugen Jochum *Berlinske Filharmonie 피아니스트 거인과 함께 최고의 피아노협주곡!브람스 피아노협주곡1번 나의 견해로 브람스 피아노협주곡1&2번 가장 우수한 연주평가!강력추천

Best parts 4:10 23:00 30:10 33:40 46:50

Words fail! Though I wish the "hifi" were a bit higher--not to look a gift horse in the mouth!

Whoever designed the intensely irritating visuals for this should be boiled in oil.

Dit geloof je niet. Bocabierto

Selig, selig- sie benuetzte langsamer Tempo...

Stodgy, metronomic, and much too cautious. Performers know that recordings carry wrong notes (gasp!) into eternity, and listeners who don't know Brahms from Braum's do indeed keep count of "errors." The result is a sterile performance with little passion or drive. Ho-hum...