Beautiful ❤. This is one of my favorites. It is played slowed enough to let us feel the deeper tones 🕊️

Es arte puro, no es posible explicar como esta melodia tan melancólica puede ser tan adictiva y hermosa. Al escucharla reviven en mi recuerdos de aquellas personas que ya no están en este mundo, amor, tristeza mezclados en la más bella melodía.

Simplemente perfecto ❤😍🎶

It is Beautiful

This is how I play this piece and of course I stink but this version is my goal

Agreed.

You can feel it?

Tremendo pianista el mejor maestro 👏✨don Claudio Arrau

It is Beethoven himself playing...

My take is Horowitz, Kempf, Poon are the best measure of this song

Essa versão é simplesmente perfeita. Adentra a alma, calma, lenta,dolorida.. no fim, aquele toque de luz que abre ao coração.... indescritível sentimento.

Magistraaaal !!! ... maestro, fuiste un angel 😢😇😇😇

i just came from a video from mr Wilhelm Kempff, saying that he played it the best way i have ever heard. But, i have to change that opinion. This tempo is how it should be played in my opinion. Nevertheless, mr Kempff's version is in my opinion a second First.

La mejor interpretación. Da tiempo para emocionarse nota a nota.....sin prisas...

Maestro Cheers Thank you very much indeed Kind regards

Music that speaks to the soul

Очень чуткое глубокое проникновенное выразительное исполнение, великолепно!!!

Claudio Arraw 🙏

Дуже прошу, будь ласка, перекладить цьому Генію! Ти, найліпший, Чоловіче! Я в свої 61! Не чув більш геніального виконання! Чуєш! Жоден з визнанних у Світі виконавців не рвав на шматки моє сердце, як ТИ... Я, люблячий Бетховена все своє життя... не чув до тебе... не відчував... що він приніс Світові! Дякую тобі, Claudio! Вельми дякую, Майстере! Довгі літа!!!

love this interpretation especially the strength on the low notes and tempo variations at the end. I'm stealing that thank you

i see the picture so clear now!

feel like almost crying. soaked by too much emotion…what happened to him at that day 😢

I saw Arrau perform a Beethoven Concerto once.

He just pounds at your soul. Subtle pauses rip my heart out . Whoever you are you should be humbled by this

Penso que Cláudio Arrau é um dos únicos intérpretes que sabe como o compositor se sentia nos momentos da composição!!!👏👏👏👏

Claudio Arrau

Simply beautiful, actually more than beautiful!!

Along with Gilels and Barenboim, my favorite version. “The sad part is that I played it to a friend of mine (who used to play classical piano as a kid, not a pro) and absolutely trashed it. He said that is way too slow and the fact he doesn’t stick and honours the score’s time signatures is an absolute disgrace! If I played it like that in front of my piano teacher she would absolutely throw me out of the classroom. You HAVE TO PLAY IT AS IT IS WRITTEN NY BEETHOVEN AND NOT COLOR IT YOUR WAY!!” - his quote. Personally I am not a pianist so I can’t counter argue his point but I love this version and Barenboim’s. I find them so dreamy, so expressive and soulful. I am not saying the faster versions are bad but not to my liking. Is it sacrilege to like something that does not stick to the original Score?

I want this to be played in my funeral !

straight from the soul. beautiful interpretation. not too fast and not too slow.

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I’m speechless,this is amazing!!

Perfect for falling asleep

Holy Moses😮 The tempo is perfect and I’ve never heard better voicing. I think Arrau wrings every nuance possible out of this iconic piece. Certainly influences my performance of it. So impressive!

Perfection

Thank you ❤❤❤

Кто вообще случает эту грустную музыку? Это ужас!

Crying at the beauty of the performance and the piece. Bravo!

Soppy story, but my parents divorced when I was young, about 8. My parents would fight- really, really, nasty- nothing physical, but screaming and swipes at the air. And some nights, after a fight- late, late at night, my dad would sit down and play this song. And one night, I’d snuck out of bed and was snuggling my mom on the couch in the living room, listening to my dad playing in the other room, and she said, “I’ don’t know how anything so beautiful can come out of someone so hateful”. I’m not sure she should have said that to me, but she was hurting, and it’s always stuck with me, and given this song a special poignancy. My father is unreachably far from guiltless, but at least sympathetic in that he’s always been trapped as a very stubborn, complicated, emotionally quiet man, and I always felt like him playing this was his way of trying to apologize. The meaning has evolved as we’ve all aged (my siblings and I) and played it for each other over the years, in new contexts, and happier places, and it’s a truly beloved piece of the family. And this rendition is just our style- honestly, chef’s kiss So rare to see it played with such feeling and at such a gentle tempo

Magistrale.....

The only version that made me cry. So full of emotion, you can almost feel what Beethoven must have felt when he was composing this piece. ❤

Came here since there’s no sound on the full one

The metric is absolutely wrong :/

One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, and the late great Arrau presented one of the greatest performances ever recorded. I so much wish I could have played this at my mother's funeral - she herself was so gifted at the piano, but taken so young; I was only eight at the time. But sadly, I still could not perform to anything compared to this magnificent artistry even today.

The BEST most soulful version. I love it

Me emociona mucho esta interpretación y me enorgullece ser coterráneo (chillanense) de este maestro eterno

Way too slow it pisses men off I could play a much better moonlight sonata. The piece doesn’t flow like a story

Chile rompiendo en el siglo pasado

Maravillosa interpretación. Han surgido en estos tiempos unos intérpretes, "atletas del piano", que tocan las notas con una destreza insólita pero sin alma.

Wo.