I never cease to be amazed at how utterly charming Beethoven's music can be, despite the seriousness of his more well known works, even after decades of listening and enjoying. Thanks András Schiff for your ever masterful renditions. Makes me want to try playing it again.
Underrated sonata in my opinion. Deserves to be as famous as the one right before it. Also want to point out that I like Schiff’s tempo for Mvt II. It is Andante, not Larghississississimo.
Ooo good for you all 😂 pls stand in your circle of excellence lest u veer off and bump into a nobody, because you know, you can't see straight ahead with your noses pointed on high 🎉 congrats on your sense of rarified air
A wonderful performance of the one of the most beautiful of the sonatas. Especially heartbreaking is that passionate noble unrestrainable ferocious conclusion which emerges from an ostensible leisureliness, from what appears to b a lazy ambling. Many thanks. Most grateful.
The development section at 5:12 is just incredible and at 5:30 to 5:45 I found it hard to control myself and not explode to the max while playing lol. Truly epic music!!
Absolutely amazing, that entire section ending at 6:12. So many "Beethovenian moments". I think his used this as a kind of laboratory, experimentation for his symphonies and perhaps even some of his late sonatas.
Schiff's brings out voices I don't hear other pianists highlight, giving new life to this divine music. For example, the very last two chords in the video: most pianists play the highest line as the melody, G F#. While a very unusual and unique way to end a sonata, it still lacks the power of the full authentic cadence we expect. Schiff emphasizes the C# moving up to D, giving us the very ending we want. The G and F# sound almost like overtones. He has separated the strings from flutes just using very precise voice control!!!
Besides the usual crisp. clean performance by M. Schiff, I am astounded by the excellent sound quality (what are those things beneath the piano? Are those a special speaker system?) and the entire visual presentation. Does anyone know more about this recording? Anyhow...thanks SW.
I'm so relieved to hear that others can't play this pp too😅or don't want to! Because this piece is full of pp sections... and you just can't follow this instrucion, because the music makes you so euphoric!🤗
I forget why I clicked on this, something to do the technical playing to bottom lf they keys...saw this, and listened for a couple of minutes. And I teared up hard, not sure why, but this grabbed deep inside me just now. Sitting here crying. I'm embarrassed. I do play piano with a good teacher, and a music major, but this got me. BTW 1:44 minutes in and didn't realized that I was too deep now to stop.
