Arthur Rubinstein - The Last Recital for Israel, 1975 (Beethoven, Schumann, Debussy, Chopin) 

Didn't realize a copy of the concert was still in existence. As a young video production engineer I helped record Rubinstein's concert that night. He had given orders there was to be no recording, and requested the light level be kept low, as it affected his equilibrium. Well, both requests were ignored per directions from his personal manager. The powers that be knew it was probably the last opportunity to record Rubinstein in a production facility that had the capabilities. So we hid the cameras in black cloth with Velcro tabs. The lighting director was already upset over the situation, as he knew of Rubinstein's request, yet we were doing it anyway! When the concert ended and Arthur stood, big wigs burst into the control booth and ordered, "Lights UP!" Herbert Armstrong presented Rubinstein with a gift and over the next few weeks the concert was edited for release. At the time I understood that never happened because of copyright laws, etc. Anyway, we recorded most all the world's great musicians in that auditorium. A few months before the Rubinstein concert we had the Vienna Symphony for 3 nights of recording for the Inaugural Concert, at the auditorium opening, spring of 1974. Had lots of fun working with the editing crew for release on KCET Los Angeles. That was 47 years ago, but seems like yesterday!

I was at his last ever concert, at Wigmore Hall the following year. By then he was almost blind and there were lots of wrong notes. He apologised, and a lady cried out "We love you". He got a standing ovation. We knew he would never play again in public. I heard him 5 times between 1960 and 76, He was the greatest pianist I ever heard live. Sadly, I missed Horowitz. They were my twin idols.

As someone once said: God loved Rubinstein a little bit more.

In the last Recital, Mr Rubinstein was 87 years old when performing this concert.

no need comments....he was one of the greatest pianist ever, for sure

87 years old but he plays us a young boy, incredible force of the wilde..

His performance of Chopin Etude Op.10 No.4 was breath-taking. Wrong notes did not hinder his presentation of music. A true miracle.

The greatest pianist in the world

Imagin an 87-year-old man plays "Appassionata" with Appassionata! I am moved by every note.

This Sir is present from God for us, with love from New Jersey, USA

I was a naive up-front member of the Armstrong octopus in those days and his friendship with Golda Meir, Artur Rubinstein and others seemed miraculous. Armstrong had offered to transport any piano from anywhere in the world for this recital but I forget whether or not the maestro used one of AC's two Steinway D pianos (German made, of course, not USA) or had his own brought in; whatever, this concert became part of church legend. Stanley Rader was a gouging insincere bastard who took full advantage of the trust he enjoyed, regarding, by his own admission, AC and the Worldwide Church of God as his personal cash cow. How are the mighty fallen, discredited and forgotten!

For some reason, I've had his interpretation of Chopin's Scherzo No. 3 humming in my head for the past couple of days, so I had the watch the recital even though I haven't watched it for over a decade. The day I've heard Rubinstein play for the first time on a record is marked forever in my memory. I only had access to his interviews years later, when RU-vid became big enough. He completely transformed how I had been perceiving what piano was about, he shaped my understanding of music not in words, only through his music notes, as though he spoke another language to me. And our lifetimes never crossed, he passed away way before I was born. I've had teachers praise me for my interpretations, or how I was destined to win competitions, and students' parents in the most ordinary music school doing standing ovations and asking for encores, which wasn't a thing you would do there. And mostly, I could never show enough gratitude to Rubinstein for all the life lessons I learned through his music.

remember that he was 87 years old and blind.!!!

Bravo !! Eternal Rubinstein !!

That first sonata...this bring put more then I have ever heard in this piece.

Breathtaking ...❤ so beautiful ! A Geniuss ❤👏

I would do anything to be in that concert

Brilliant! I saw Runbinstein's final recital in San Francisco in 1976, and he also played Schumann's Fantasiestücke. It was phenomenal! Listening to him play the piece here, I was transported back in time to my youth, sitting in the recital hall totally enraptured with this fabulous musician. Thank you so much for sharing this! ♥

Thanks to you Vladivostok 1969 for this very nice publication. It is a historical musicale jewel !! Yes, Sublime concert for ever!!

Those 24 with thumbs down don't know what is the meaning of the word artistry!

Special. He was 25 when Ondine was written!

The Debussy section of this performance is wonderful.

maravilloso siempre

A great pianist we’ll miss.

Absolute world class!

Il Grandissimo .

89 años y tocaba así...fue el mas grande de todo el siglo.

This is great! Love it!

Incredible energy for the 90 year old Maestro Rubinstein.

Here was the youthful 87 year old Rubinstein playing with the fire, poetry and panache of a person half his age. The man had such eloquence and style, not just as a pianist but as a man of the world, he was a fascinating raconteur and an ambassador for everything in art that expresses beauty and truth. A memorable historical document.

I had the privilege of hearing Mr. Rubinstein's rendition of the Beethoven Emperor Concerto in Los Angeles in 1971. He was a unique and virtuosic genius who, along with Horowitz was one of the great pianistic talents of the 20th century.

Esta musica la teve en disco 🎹🎶🎶🎵🎵 Merida Mexico 🙏💐

El zscherzo de Chopin ,cuando era chica me enamore de esta piesa y cuando creci la toque en una audicion. 🇮🇷🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵

Danke 🙏

Magician from music and present from God for all of us for 100th years ahead. We are lucky , we have his records, just love him, from New Jersey, USA.

Having goosebumps throughout the whole performance

Un GRAND monsieur 😍😍

this is sublime - love debussy especially

88 años... increible

genial

Utter brilliance.

maravilloso

89 yrs old

Superb interpretation , it blew me away !

Que. calidez. con el cariño y admiración que le tenía a Chpiin es incomparable su i interprtacion. Por ser ambos Polacos. .

I'll assume whoever clicked the "dislike" just had their screen upside down

UNA SELECCIÓN PARA DISFRUTAR

Magnífico!

Debbusy. La niña de los cabellos de lino. Merida Mexico 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Greatest pianist of all time who was a real celebrity at the time not like pianists today. Wish i could have been able to meet wasnt even born until he was dead already.

The only video of Rubinstein. RU-vid already disproves this. Anyway its Rubinstein so tumbs up!

MAESTRO.

I always thought to myself, why would God even bother to create us? Rubinstein is one of the answers. By creating a genius like Rubinstein, (see Psalm 139) He has the pleasure of listening to one of His creations play his heart out and to feel the emotion of His child. It may be good to hear yourself play, but it is WONDERFUL to hear one of your children produce emotions that circle the sphere of Romantic Music and bring tears to your own eyes. Rubinstein does that quite well. And for a long, long era.

Don't know if I shared this little detail? The tall fellow in the center with the dark glasses, during the presentation at the close of the concert, was Stanley Rader. Now I wouldn't state this as 100% fact, as he did not tell me this directly, but Stan was the lawyer for the corporation, and liked to do a little writing on the side. Sort of a hobby I guess. So the story at the time, which was spread far and wide and commonly known, is that Stan had this script that he'd written, inspired I suppose somewhat by his name (Rader). So he had apparently entitled his treatise, "Raiders of the Ark," or something similar. In any case, he had friends in Hollywood and had reportedly shared his script with them. Shortly thereafter came the movie, "The Raiders of the Lost Ark!" Stan, being an international lawyer, reportedly spent considerable time during the last years of his life in court battles over what he considered a steal of his writ. Long time ago now, and in one sense, who cares? But for whatever it's worth, this little saga about the "Raiders" script was widely accepted as truth by those of us who worked there at the time. So just one more mysterious addition to the story of Arthur Rubinstein and "The Last Recital for Israel."

I wish I could listen to this masterpiece without constant advertising 😢.

This is Remarkable playing

Bravooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo por siempre y para siempre mi viejo.

La exelencia en todo el mundo

The master!!!

❤️❤️❤️

Legend

23:40 Robert Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12

رائع

はぁ…、 ルービンシュタインの熱情を聴いて涙が湧いてくる私は病んでいるのかな…。。。

is this recital was the last public piano playing? including recordings

king

In 'A life in music' Barenboim refered.

Прикольно он бас удвоил, надо так же сделать

6:20. 1:04:05. 1:04:41. 1:04:49

Great polish pianist.

moment

Mexico 🇮🇷🏆🆗. 🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🎹

It's not true that this is the only Rubinstein recital ever documented on videotape...

27:40

EXQUISITO

时间带走了许多，除了经典。

L'ultimo concerto non è questo ma è quello di Londra alla Wigmore hall nel maggio del 1976.

very good performance but the sound its so bad

a ridiculous pianist highly overrated the fact that all the audience is so quickly applauding is a demonstration that they were not at all moved by serenity and real music

Its crazy how both Rubinstein and Horowitz being Jewish yet they are so ignorant towards a composer that deserves attention, Charles Valentin Alkan one of the greatest that had Jewish heritage... yet both of them didn't record and i bet played a single note that Alkan wrote....

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