😮 im just a dude learning about sonatas because they have always attracted my attention. That was a roller coaster of emotion. They it started and ended with beauty and relief as expected. Cool. Onto the journey then. ❤
It's such a pleasure to hear such fine musicians playing the music of the great master Widor. It's a travesty that his other compositions are so largely ignored by performers today.
Wonderful to hear the guts of the flute spilling all over the floor an then rising to holy heights....thanks musicians and the composer...HOFMEYER ECHOES
I'm not passionate about anything in life as much as this person is about this piece. Resisted coughing for the whole performance thinking I'd ruin it.
Wow Ben. So excited to have found this! As a bit of a Schumann nut I've been on a bit of a search for the ideal Kreisleriana and after having listened to about 20 or so recordings on RU-vid I can honestly that you are in my favourite three (along with Micheal Demarey and Vlado Perlemuter)
Honestly, I've never heard a Haydn sonata I didn't like, and I've never heard a Mozart sonata I did like (except maybe the F major (No 11 or 12 or something (can't remember))).
Haydn always seems to be too underestimated for some reasons. Mozart is lucky to have that gifted talent, but no one really see that his music is just a different version of Haydn’s and that mostly he learnt from Haydn.
32:00. Bravo. Ben 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💐👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
While as a listener I do appreciate the thick and pounding sonorities of romantic music (i.e. Liszt et al.), it takes a special touch (every listener envisions his ideal sound for the composers he likes) and a certain kind of phrasing and articulation (I imagine use of the pedal as well) on the piano for Baroque and Classical period music. Mr. Schoeman has this touch and he brings out the crystalline character of composers like Bach and Haydn and here, Scarlatti. The greatness of any composition is neither in the number of notes or length of the composition, but rather in arrangement of the units of melody, harmony and rhythm and the performer here masterfully brings out the pathos in this exquisite little diamond by Scarlatti.
What a sparkling performance as if the performer's hands had been dipped in champagne! Every phrase, from the exuberant major-key melodies to the "storm-and-stress" bursts in the minor and the long singing middle-movement lines - love those very subtle staccato-like touches - and the last bubbly movement. What comes across is a narrative woven together by shaping the individual musical phrases from within (dynamically and through a coloratura articulation) rather than just from one phrase to the next through contrast. The result: musical sculpture where the notes burst forth like strings of glistening jewels. Mr. Schoeman makes himself the channel for Haydn who comes through in unfiltered (i.e. by any distracting musical or or performance gestures) purity.
Professor Alexandre, while listening 🎧 I could feel the goose 🦆 bumps, is he playing the piano, or is he typing the 💌 letters 🔠 of Divine, on the 🎸 instrument, my goodness, the ecstasy, the dissolution of mind, the joy of 🎴 playing, where every student, should be given an opportunity to display this 📷 video , the art 🎭 of becoming one 🕜 one with one's vocation, May God bless him
@@BenSchoeman595 Dear Mr. Schoeman, Please keep posting. The comment below is from scholar and very dear friend (like a brother) Dr. Ramachandra Babu from India (I am from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and I sent him this link as a musical example that captures the spirit of a great Indian poet he just finished his superb P.hd thesis on: K.V. Raghupathi. I'm delighted he loved your becoming one with Bach as I did. If you'd like to read K.V. Raghupathi's poetry, I would be glad to send you PDF files (my email is: peplicus1@gmail.com). Raghupathi is one poet lovers of literature should not miss. Thank you for your music! Best
@@vrcbabu29 Absolutely, Dr. Ramachandra! This is transcendence in musical form! I'm delighted you loved it and loved your feedback. I have heard many versions of this, but I would put this up there in the top one or two (alongside Glen Gould). Same with the goosebumps 😊! Artists must receive our input. Best
“The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.” -- Franz Liszt
An engaging composition by Hendrik Hofmeyer played with understanding and sensitivity by both Ben Schoeman and Dawid Venter. Carries one into sublime dimensions. Thanks for sharing
