I had the rare privilege of hearing him live in 1966, still the greatest concert I ever attended. 1st half all Chopin, 2d half Beethoven Opus 111. At the end there was silence in the hall for what seemed like a full minute, then cheering that would not stop...
My father had the same privilege to be in his concert dated 30. 5. 1957 in Prague. What a coincidence, he told me that after Ballade op. 23 ended, there was silence in the hall. Then cheering... unstoppable... I understand why. You are lucky man, Mr. Karl.
Damn. Mostly I prefer CDs but the opportunity to have been there. I am incredibly envious. I can't think of a word 'more' than envious. But that's what I mean :)
Sentite la delicatezza del tocco. Benedetti Michelangeli sembra sfiorare la tastiera, anche nei brani più impegnativi, più virtuosistici, le dita volano e si posano senza peso sui tasti. Credo che, se Chopin l'avesse ascoltato, l'avrebbe abbracciato. Sei unico, Benedetti Michelangeli!
@@EmptyVee00000 Non esageriamo... Ti ricordo che Chopin suonava le sue ballate distrutto dalla tisi, col finale della prima in sol minore tutto in pp anziché ff, episodio famoso, dovresti conoscerlo... Ma resta il fatto che ABM rimarrà per sempre il miglior pianista della storia. Fine.
Still to this day, people are dumbfounded at how he managed to play like this. It silences any criticism, for it is a level of playing the keyboard that remains unequalled.
How can anybody dare to click "don't like" on a performance like this ?? Of course you may not agree on every single musical choice of Michelangeli, I also don't agree here and there, but even if we just look at the technical rendition this performance is simply jaw-dropping...
only 1757 views for this great artist .I bet if his name was woo ,cho, lee ,liu,kwo or chooey lie he could possibly hope for more.Better luck next time Arturo!!! YOU get 10 likes from me!
Divino! Stupendo! La nuova generazione di pianisti dovrebbe imparare dai grandi come Benedetti Michelangeli che la velocità non è virtuosità. A volte penso che qualcuno fa la gara per vedere chi suona più veloce pezzi difficili, dimenticando una cosa fondamentale: l'interpretazione. E vedo tanti talenti sprecati in questo modo. Peccato! Benedetti Michelangeli forever!
coloro che hanno messo "non mi piace" sono sicuramente gli stessi che ci ritroviamo nelle commissioni di molti concorsi pianistici........ormai l'interpretazione non è più premiata! vanno avanti solo i pianisti "polli da batteria".
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli played The second-rated concertos like Mozart piano concerto no 15 Haydn concerto G major Liszt piano concerto no 1! ABM never played The Best piano concertos like Mozart 24 JS Bach 1052! Prokoviev 1-3 Chopin 1-2 Brahms 1-2 Rachmaninov 1-3 Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! ABM i am going to bash distroy Grieg concerto With brutal accent after brutal accent after brutal accent! The Best greatest pianists of All Time Are really=Artur Rubinstein ( The GOD) Grigory Sokolov (.The Titan of The piano The Giant of The piano) Emil Gilels ( The King) Wilhelm Kempff (.The most beautiful piano sound Ever) Sviatoslav Richter Mikhail Pletnev ( The most Powerful Ever) Vladimir Ashkenazy (.The.most colorful volcanic piano sound Ever) Solomon Cutner (. The most perfect structure of music) Alexei Lubimov (. The Genius no 1 Mozart piano concerto no 27!.) Maurizio Pollini (.The.Genius no 2)
@@RaineriHakkarainen Su opinión es respetable, desde luego. Pero la expone usted como si fuera la única válida e indiscutible. Por otra parte, creo que sólo tendría derecho a opinar con esa contundencia alguien que fuera un igual, en técnica y conocimientos, de esos que usted nombra. ¿Lo es usted?
Please enjoy this, as long as it is available, as I got a message from you tube about copyright... Of course, I don't own this clip. I only love both Chopin and Michelangeli!
@@EmptyVee00000 I see that you are actually not disappointed and that you revere the recording. Your comment creates the opposite impression in people, not to mention that you like women with very fat legs.
There were quite a few pianists of the previous generation who could play the most amazing "leggeiro," including such greats as Benno Moiseiwitsch (have listen to the Mendelssohn-Rach Scherzo, or his Ravel!), Horowitz and Josef Hofmann. Interestingly, the pianist whose technique is most like Michelangeli is Glenn Gould. Like Gould, there is a reluctance to use much arm rotation which results in some problems of clarity in chordal passages. Comparing this performance with that of Hofmann (even though past his prime in 1937) will show what I mean..
Notice how he rests his thumb on the keyslip (the piece of wood that covers the lower half of a key). This is something my own teacher used to do - she was a student of Bela Bartok. I never looked at my own hands so much until I began watching all these wonderful clips of Michelangeli !! It's wonderful stuff, Thanks for uploading it.
@@enricocifalino2325 ,su ABM,come su altre centinaia di stelle, non mi permetto di dire alcunché. Riferisco solo una frase di Michelangelo Buonarroti:"Il Genio è una lunga pazienza".
NOT TRUE!! Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli not The Greatest Best pianist!! The.Greatest Best Pianist Are really=Artur Rubinstein (The GOD!) Grigory Sokolov (THE TITAN OF THE PIANO!!THE GIANT OF THE PIANO!!) Emil Gilels (!The KING!) Wilhelm Kempff ( the Best most beautiful piano sound Ever!!) Sviatoslav Richter Mikhail Pletnev ( The Most Powerful Ever!) Maurizio ( The Genius no 2!) Alexei Lubimov=The Genius!! Ma
@@RaineriHakkarainen De nuevo nos arroja usted su opinión personal como si fuera Dios (para los que crean en en él). ¿No se da cuenta de que expresándose así nunca conseguirá que alguien la acepte?
Absolutely STUNNING. Never was nuts about this piece until now... He makes it look so easy, and his sound is in complete control. Thanks so much for posting this.
Many seemed to have forgetten the polonaise as a narrative. Chopin here spoke in landscapes and reminiscence. I wonder if any other instrument could attempt to speak these toungues as the piano does so instinctively. It would likely take a lifetime to answer this inquiry.. En passant...
ABM was not greatest., never was.Better ones beautiful piano sound players! like A.Rubinstein E.Gilels W.Kempff R.Lupu. The Titans Geniuses of piano better than ABM V.Horowitz G.Sokolov M.Pletnev D.Lipatti and so on
@@RaineriHakkarainen That was just my opinion..I haven't found any other pianist create the sound and magic he does, and I love most of the ones you are mentioning..
@@RaineriHakkarainen Kempff could only dream of ABM's technical prowess. Rubinstein and Horowitz were sloppy compared to ABM. Lipatti was waaaay too staccato.
I have been thinking a lot of Chopin's genius lately. Not just him but how many of the great talents in history: Chopin, Beethoven, Van Gogh, Li Bai, Lennon, Kahlo, Dickinson, Poe, Louis Carroll, David Foster Wallace, Joel Peter-Witkin, Woody Allen, the list goes on... None of them had a truly happy life. Happiness exist in their work but so is suffering which further enhanced their work. It's obvious that ignorance is bliss; true genius and artistic talent tend to bring about a deep understanding of the human experience that is neither condusive or practical towards a long happy life. How thin is that line between Genius and Madness?
il più grande pianista italiano....se non del mondo mai esistito....bellissima interpretazione....peccato che oggi giorno non sia conosciuto da tutti questo stupendo pezzo....ci dovrebbe essere maggiore diffusione per far capire a tanti che non vogliono capire, la bellezza della musica classica e romantica......;)
@fredericfranc II - "Spianato" is an indication of expression in the way of playing: in Italian, the language of music, "un andamento melodico di ampio respiro": something between the "andante" and the "adagio"; sorry, I don't know how to render the Italkian expression in English..The present piece is considered the most typical example of it. ABM is, in my opinion, the top pianist of the XX C.
Great to read Karl's comment below about hearing this great pianist live. I really wish I had heard him too. Just come here from Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's 1969 performance of Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto, recorded in Helsinki. Best Beethoven's 5th I have ever heard I think. Michelangeli came from a well-to-do Italian family and his parents pushed him hard with his music practice from an early age, meaning that he had little chance to mix with other children. He was a pilot during WW2 and at one point was captured by German soldiers and imprisoned. When they discovered he was a pianist, they beat his hands. Luckily his hands recovered and he forged a great career, even though he did not perform as often as some pianists. He would practise for eight to ten hours a day, ensuring technical perfection first and then working for hours too on interpretation and always trying to respect the composer's score. I find his playing simply incredible: technical perfection, lightness of touch, power when needed, clarity of each note, the feeling that he is somehow getting very close indeed to how the composer himself might have sounded when playing the piece originally.
Wordless!! È impossibile esprimere con parole un commento adeguato alla profondità di sentimento, di perfezione stilistica e tecnica. Postura di aristocratico. Solo...sentire ad occhi chiusi e dimenticare il quotidiano per salire al divino.
Did you know when they recorded this music at the italian state television (after two days in which the Maestro did not feel the right conditon to play, so they had to delay), the time arrived to stop recording, but the Maestro continued to play. Recording technicians then looked their coordinator to ask him what to do. He told them just to let him play alone and go home. Nobody told him nothing, and Maestro Benedetti Michelangeli remained in the studio other 4 hours until midnight, continuing to play and play, and then left. There was only one person remained just to shut the lights off and close the studio. So we lost 4 hours of probably marvellous interpretations by the Maestro. Such a shame!
musicista freddo???????????????????????''cosaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ahahahahhahah e chi sarebbe questo idiotaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.ma fatemi il piacere ma avete sentito che suono riesce ad ottenere dal piano sfido chiunque ,puo' essere attuto forse in velocita' da tutti questi pianistucci meccanici di oggi ma nessuno di quelli contemporanei si avvicina all intrepretazione e ad al suono che riesce e tirare fuori michelangeli...michelangeli for ever e' celestiale divino inimitabile
il modo che ha di approcciare questo pezzo è incredibile...l'accompagnamento con la sinistra è leggerissimo, vellutato...la destra canta in maniera incredibile, ma senza mai sforzare....la tecnica è follemente alta ma lo fa sembrare un pezzo facile...una esecuzione così non l'avevo mai sentita. penso che questo, mazeppa suonato da cziffra e bach suonato da gould sono state le scoperte youtubbiane più incredibili fino ad ora per me
Un Être extraordinaire! Mon pianiste préféré! Grâce à son toucher sa technique époustouflante ,on entend Chopin ainsi que tout autre compositeur à la perfection.
A beautiful and sensitive performance of this piece. Michelangeli's touch is miraculous, simply perfect, each note clearly defined. We shall not see his like again.
Did he perform the Polonaise-Fantasie? I think his approach would suit that piece very well. In general I don't find his Chopin convincing. I was just reading that other famous pianists said the same thing.
@@marksmith3947 personally I find his interpretations of Chopin head and shoulders above any other pianist, included Rubinstein and Horowitz (although Horowitz had a very original and unique way of playing Chopin, and probably he could let the piano "sing" better than Michelangeli could). The tempo is simply perfect, the clarity of the most difficult passages is unmatched, f is forte and p is piano, i think if Chopin could play his music himself, it would be not far from Michelangeli's interpretation.
la testimonianza di Dio e la musica....poi i suoi profetti sono questi grandi legendi como Benedetti Michelangeli e tanti altri!!! la lista e interminabile!!!! Grazie Dio per Chopin ......!!!!
Sì, ma ricordiamoci che Michelangeli non aveva il problema di dover rallentare... Solo perché lui è impassibile quando suona non vuol dire che usi velocità ridotte, anzi. Tra l'altro è proprio questa la cosa che lo rende tecnicamente inarrivabile, il non aver mai dovuto scegliere tra velocità, precisione e qualità del suono.
immenso...penso che oltre a riuscire ad ottenere un suono trascendentale inimitabile unici sia anche un dio di tecnica i pianosti di oggi asitici e non sono solo meccanici virtuosi non significA ESSERE SUPER VELOCI E RENDERE IL PEZZO VIVO E REALE MICHELANGELI PENSO CHE POSSA STRACCIARE TUTTI ANCH IN VELOCITA' MA SE NON ECCEDE E' SOLO PER MANTENERE IL PEZZO NELLA SUA CHIAREZZA ORIGINALE,SOLO CZIFFRA RIUSCIVA NELL ESTREMA VELOCITA'E CHIAREZZ QUEST DUE PIANISTI SONO RECORDMAN DI PIANO FORTE
è propio così oggi si vedono pianisti che potrebbero anche scrivere a macchina per i miei gusti....Benedetti Michelangeli suonava senza fronzoli con una calma quasi spettrale,come se non stesse facendo niente di eccezionale,eppure faceva cantare il pianoforte....
