Beethoven Piano sonata No.21 in C major Op.53 Radu Lupu 1. Allegro con brio 0:00 2. Introduzione. Molt Adagio 10:56 3. Rondo. Allegro moderato - Prestissimo 15:35
Grazie maestro Radu Lupu per le tante meravigliose serate che mi hai donato, tra Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann e Brahms. Ricordi indelebili, tra le cose più sublimi che io abbia mai ascoltato. La terra ti sia lieve.
Great. We can see Beethoven's inner lines. Love the volume modulations in the lines of repeated notes. So clear that the third movement is connected to the first and second and the latter is a scale. Also love the Lupu-Perahia Brahms Haydn Variations.
As I listened to this brilliant recording, at times I found myself feeling that I was listening to Beethoven playing. I’ve only experienced this highly subjective feeling as I listened to Ashkenazy playing practically anything Beethoven composed….I’ve not listened to Maestro Lupu as much as I have VA, but I now love both!
No-one, not even Brendel, Lewis, Perahia, Levitt etal . have approached the slow movement in the way Lupu did. The wave after wave of emotion washing over is like an orgasm. RIP Radu.
Why would anyone want to do that, and cheat themselves out of so many fabulous performances by so many different but equally incredible pianists??? After an artist reaches the peak of utter mastery, there is only their own understanding of every piece they play. Even though I’m a psychologist as well as a classically trained musician, I’ll never understand that way of thinking! It’s like saying there is only one rose worth anything, or one bird of prey, or any other kind of masterpiece of nature, with its own wonderful variations!! Thank God I can hear and appreciate the difference between amazing artists,and I can listen to appreciate each, not to criticize.
i love it. everything s executed immaculatedly. l it even seems to happen as he plays it, lupu s beethoven is with the exception of the 2nd mvt to moderate. i am missing a personal drama, imo conflict. on occasion, i listen to the recording, for consolation.
Excelente Radu. Me pregunto La escribio su corazón o su maravillosa inteligencia. El retorno de su amigo y protector a su hogar está descripto q a mi me emociona mucho.
if anything, Lupu's approach is too tame and polished for a Waldstein. Compared to almost anyone else, Lupu has more control over the sound and general delivery than any other interpretor - it s just divinely clean. But Beethoven is not tame, polished and clean. i guess this is the oxymoron we will never get - Lupu perfection and Horowitz musical vulgarity in one performance. ah well ^^
In that case you should listen to Rudolf Serkin. I don't if his recordings of it are good, but when he played it live he owned the piece. He licked his thumbs to enable him to play the octave glissandi in the last movement!
@@philipkuttner7945 If we are talking about the 1952 recording then I couldn't agree with you more. Fantastic rendition of one of my favourite LvB sonatas. For a stereo recording then Dubravka Tomsic is worth a listen as well.
Serkin The cold RAW rough piano sound! Serkin The second-rated player! Serkin his Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 is so awful! Dimitri Bashkirov Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 a class of his own playing Mendelssohn! Serkin his Brahms piano concerto no 1 is so mechanical Boring stiff! Lupu Brahms piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video RU-vid! Lupu a class of his own playing Brahms piano concerto no 1
@@philipkuttner7945 I have a LIVE recording of Serkin playing the Waldstein... there's NOTHING like it....... anywhere... He also plays the Reger Bach Variation on the same recording... UNREAL...!!!!!!
