Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major, Op. 81a, "Les Adieux" Piano: Maurizio Pollini 0:26 - Das Lebewohl: Adagio - Allegro 7:17 - Abwesenheit: Andante espressivo 10:14 - Das Wiedersehen: Vivacissimamente
Les Adieux... la Perfection de Pollini. Il brillera toujours. Quelle splendeur quand il joue. Merci éternel. Il a rejoint ceux dont il a joué les œuvres, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin... galaxies d'étoiles.
J'ai fait écouter ce lien cette Sonate à mes élèves; merci beaucoup pour ce lien merveilleux et fantastique !!! Au revoir Grand Maître. Je préfère même les Sonates de Beethoven avec Mauricio que les études de Chopin que j'ai écoutées pendant ma jeunesse.
Petite anecdote sur Pollini. J'ai séjourné dans la même magnifique maison à Seregno, à côté de Milan, tenue par deux jumelles âgées qui avaient reçu Mauricio quand il avait gagné le Concours Pozzoli, son premier Concours International remporté. J'y ai vu un signe et en fait je ne suis pas allé au second tour, alors que c'est le seul Concours International où j'aurais mérité d'y aller, selon l'accordeur du concours. ( Pozzoli 2003 je crois) Pollini m'a fasciné depuis les études de Chopin quand j'ai découvert ce disque en 1990, il est meilleur encore sur Beethoven je pense. Merci Maurizio pour ton oeuvre au piano !! Bravo à une des grandes légendes du siècle passé et en ce début de siècle.
Ich denke beim Hören dieser Sonate immer über die Umstände der Entstehung nach und über Beethovens Zeit im Allgemeinen. 20 Jahre zuvor französische Revolution, bei dieser Sonate Napoleons Rowdytum. Die große Freundschaft mit dem Erzherzog, seinem Schüler und Förderer, der später Bischof werden sollte......
Bee Chillin I believe Liszt considered it the most difficult in the cannon if my memory serves me correctly. That's pretty astonishing considering for example the final movements of the Hammerklavier Sonata
まんほらー Beethoven give us the strength to love all humanity with this sonata. We need pain and nostalgia to love, and we need to love to live, and we need to live if our parents decided for they love, or suprise them for their momentanious love. So love make life and life must be a manifestation of love. We really are loving beings. We love us. The ones who hate are not complete. The sin is our enemy. Love is not all we need, love is all we have.
If you listen to it on 0.75x speed, you can hear that Pollini actually played very precise and a lot of (hidden) nuances. Also, it doesnt sound too bad. Crazy speeding :)
The instrumental mastery is pretty stunning. I've played this sonata myself for many decades and am well acquainted with how difficult it is. Someone not having struggled with this great work would never know it from watching and listening to this performance. But it is what he does with that stupendous technique that bothers me. Too often, Pollini's playing sounds to me like someone speaking in an expressionless monotone. Not always. I heard him in Paris 15 years ago or so and while some of the program had that phoned-in quality, he played several Chopin Nocturnes that were simply exquisite. This sonata is a work that conveys great sadness, longing and then unmitigated joy and I think Pollini utterly fails to convey this. Instead, we get all the notes perfectly played, on auto-pilot. Contrast with Schnabel or Barenboim.
Everyone sees something different, you can’t play all the angles at once. For me, Pollini is balance of sound, and drive. There is a certain degree of remove. But that’s beautiful, Beethoven’s depths can’t be plumbed by any one interpreter. Maybe tomorrow night I’ll listen to Grinberg.
The thing that Pollini is known for is following the exact instructions, trying to play it as closely as possible to how the composer originally intended.
@@christianvennemann9008 Maybe. I know Pollini for playing everything very fast. I really dont think, that Beethoven had this tempo in mind. Maybe you can look up and share your information?
Not true! Arrau one of the best! Arrau not the greatest! Wilhelm Kempff and Emil Gilels had more colorful beautiful piano sound for Beethoven than Arrau! Radu Lupu his Brahms piano concerto no 1 with the Finnish Radio Symphony video youtube from 1996! Radu Lupu had the most colorful piano sound for Brahms concerto no 1! Radu Lupu more colorful sound than Arrau's Brahms concerto no 1! Radu Lupu more relax than Arrau! The best Brahms piano concerto no 2 are Really=Sviatoslav Richter! Richter more monumental and genius than Arrau! Grigory Sokolov his Brahms concerto no 2 had the best piano sound better than Arrau's sound! Sokolov his rhythmic vitalness is unbeatable! Sokolov more Titanic than Arrau!!
Pollini pianiste prosaïque convient bien à la plus directe,la plus vulgaire-pas dans son expression,mais dans son manque de"entre les lignes"- des oeuvres de Beethoven.
Breathtaking performance! Small tip: Lower that chord in 11:34 by one octave After (G1 arpeggio) how about a full octave arpeggio of similar pattern, but from Eb1? (After that similar one for F1) Very few do this but i feel it will make the music more 'continuous'
yes he sits quite low, but seat-hight is really very personal. I always sit a little higher than "the ideal" but I also know some pianists who sit much lower.
