Matthias Manasi is an outstanding conductor! One could point out his energy, the celerity of his movements, his memorization skills, his true feelings for music, just to mention a few. Never saw a conductor whose body and face were as deeply expressive as Manasi.
Matthias Manasi is an outstanding conductor! One could point out his energy, the celerity of his movements, his memorization skills, his true feelings for music, just to mention a few. Never saw a conductor whose body and face were as deeply expressive as Manasi.
Matthias Manasi is an outstanding conductor! One could point out his energy, the celerity of his movements, his memorization skills, his true feelings for music, just to mention a few. Never saw a conductor whose body and face were as deeply expressive as Manasi.
First time I ever heard of this piece. I would have appreciated more musicological back ground info. Sounds much more like Mozart than the older Beethoven with his first published Opus number piano concerto.
Beethoven composed this at the age of 14. He never called it "Piano Concerto #0" , which is ridiculous. It wasn't discovered until 1890, but the orchestral score was never found, only Beethoven's piano part. Musicologist Willy Hess reconstructed the orchestral accompaniment between 1934 and 1943. I doubt if Beethoven's own orchestral part was as elaborate as this. Pianist Howard Shelley has recorded his own orchestration.
A very good performance of a great piece. Personally I like the Classicism that might be misinterpreted as a lack of 'emotion'.This music is restrained but powerful and full of exuberance, invention and a touch of mystery.
Personally speaking so much of Stravinsky's music fails to emotionally engage which is why Britten and Tippett are the greater composers -their's is music that comes from the heart to the heart,
And this is why music and art are so subjective. Stravinsky's music has a huge emotional impact on me, whereas other famous pieces may be nice but leave me cold. We all react so differently to different external stimuli. I enjoy Britten and Tippett but they don't give me goosebumps like Stravinsky.
