Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major | Daniel Barenboim 

Quite ironic that that salutation should be to Barenboim of all people.

@@williamshakespeare1775 Hahaha. Spot on.

25:36 -27:09 is clearly czerny music or at least influenced by czerny . ( also sweat drips at 25:36)

​@@greenjay4086 Beethoven's fourth piano sonata was written during 1796-97. Carl Czerny was born in 1791: he would have been but five years of age when this was composed. In any event, Czerny only started composing at age seven and his Op.1 was published in 1805. Czerny was much more influenced than Beethoven than Beethoven was by he (if at all). You are, however, correct about Barenboim's sweat drops. I'll give you that.

@@williamshakespeare1775idk, he was born to Jewish parents, had a Jewish wedding, he’s fluent in Hebrew and he’s an Israeli citizen. (Sure, a Palestinian citizen, too, and I see what you’re trying to say, but, I mean, it’s not totally out of place)

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Very helpful, thank you.

0:00 - 30:57 = best part

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And the coda omg

So was the Scherzo/Minuet and Trio. (Not sure which one it is considered)

Joe Blow in the sheet music it just says allegro. I think the movement is a mix of both a minuet and scherzo.

@@runeleichtlund1438 I always thought of it as (and played it as) a scherzo. It calls for playfulness.

@@JoeBlow-ro9fz It's a Scherzo and Trio according to the wikipedia page on the sonata.

ED Cuber a

same lol

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Гениально прочитана соната!!!

You mean that statement the other way around, no?😉

Wahrscheinlich weil es Beethoven ist.

Karl Børre Reite Because he wrote it in three flats? 😆 very funny!

@@CalebCarman Nice pun

@@bryangan3629 Victor Borge

Same! This is one of my favourite sonatas by B. but I just can't get the sense of the second movement

Do you mean the Largo? It is so expressive! In my opinion this is one of the greatest pearls of early Beethoven. Listen to it again and again, sometimes it needs time to understand him. He was totally beyond human ability. Music is often somehow predictable. If you hear something, you can forecast the next few notes. And you feel good when the expected actually happens. But here it is different. I guess Beethoven knew it. He did not want to be that simple, so he often makes something unexpected. This can seem/sound weird at first glance. But it is not, it is ingenious.

@@powermod6772 Ya, I think we can't understand music without playing it (especially in classical world - where composer is also pianist). Maybe I will try it someday.

@@ImaginysLight That's understandable! I think it would help if we close our eyes and really try to let the music penetrate our mind. To me the 2nd mvt is expressing sorrow, melancholy, and even more so, regret and wistfulness. It is like looking back at childhood or adolescence and thinking "If only I would have taken advantage of this particular opportunity! Or this other one! Man, I wish I could go back! Now I can only travel back in my mind, and I still have vivid memories of those places and people, but it is all in my mind only, which makes me really sad."

I think I can catch the rhythm now, in the 10th time I hear it. But for 'Largo' and 'early Beethoven' I still prefer Piano Sonata no 7.

Are you sure ?

I do not think that you are like Maestro Barenboim or Mr Korstick. This requires lots of skill to play. If you can played, prove it

Are you joking right? 😂

@@morganmartinez8420 no

Jordan Westfield According to the Henle Verlag Publishing house, this piece is rated an 8/9 in difficulty. So, no, this piece is not simple to play.

Steffen W. Sloppy?! Wow, you’re a harsh critic. Considering he’s playing the whole sonata from memory, and with so much soul and passion, I think it’s astonishing. I’ve played piano for 29 years and can only dream of playing this “sloppily”.

I don't hear sloppy. I hear reverb and rubato. And I'm saying this as a percussionist...

Please post your impeccable interpretation of this piece! We'd all love to hear it.

​@@dgromanis "Wow you can play this entire piece without looking at the score memorized!!?? You look so passionate when you are playing with this piece!!!" is what usually I get from an unprofessional audience member after a performance. If you have been playing the piano for 29 years, shouldn't you already realise that Barenboim played this piece with a highly unstable tempo, way too explosive for early Beethoven, lack of precise cut in between definitions and textures of different characters....I can't name enough

@@systemafunk ummm all these rubatos and sudden accelerandos in his music are definitely not for early Beethoven....not even for late Debussy or Prokofiev or whatever....how is that not sloppy He played this piece as if he just got the score yesterday and was probably improvising his integrities on it