I Have Heard This Concerto all of my Life , But Never Like This !! This Performance Was A REVELATION of This Great Concerto !! Brahms , Celibidache , Barenboim, a match made in Heaven !!!....
Es increíble el talento y la capacidad de Barenboim, uno de los músicos más geniales de los últimos 50 años. Y junto al gran Celibidache, se hace aún más gigante.
I am so grateful for having this truly immortal performance. Too bad today's young conductors don't feel the need to learn from the old masters. Magnificent performance. THANK YOU!
I first encountered Celibidache by way of his Bruckner performances, but I am glad to see that he does a wonderful job with Brahms as well. This is my absolute favorite piano concerto.
Celibidache, con su tempo siempre un poco más demorado que los demás directores, permite disfrutar la música hasta lo más profundo de su esencia. Para ello hay que tener su dominio, su sensibilidad y un instrumento tan perfecto como la Filarmónica de Munich. Y Barenboim es un magnífico cómplice. Dos genios.
Brahms' no.2 concerto is said to be one of the most difficult piano pieces.First performance was in Nov.9,1881. Brahms himself played the piano with great success. Later, Hans von Bülow conducted. Barenboim and Celibidache are philosopher of music.
I totally agree. This performance is magisterial. Brahms' wistfulness and romantic nostalgia is there together with perfectly clear fraseggio. Bravo maestro Barenboim. Celibidache is one of the unsung heroes of conducting in the past century.
I really enjoy this performance because Barenboim works for every note, and he makes every note count. Giant impact. Fantastic drama. Brahms almost never just falls under your hands as does music from other composers. He wanted what he wanted, and if that makes the music inconvenient to play, tough. The first movement of this piece is ten feet tall, and Barenboim delivers.
I was pleasantly surprised that (notwithstanding some earlier comments) this was not the foot-dragging performance I was expecting from S.C., but a beautifully paced, balanced, and articulate one which had real soul. Nice to see smiles at the end of II: they knew they had pulled it off.
Celibidache conducts the orchestra with such an impulse and with such an intelligent musical phrasing that it transcends music of Brahms. Celibidache takes literally Barenboim in a piano “fougue”. The force and the tempi in this concerto are remarkable and give the “impression” to follow the music like the brush stokes of a painter. Expression, tensions and expressionistic cumulating points, this concert has it all. Thank you for posting this amazing document. “La musique n'est pas de nature statique ; elle n'existe pas comme un état d'être défini. Elle est toujours un devenir, sans jamais accéder à une forme d'existence.” S. Celibidache
Dear Olli: thank you for your comments which are diligently interesting and challenging. Usually, I do not like to make connections between visual arts and music with some rare exceptions (Debussy, Stravinsky & few others), Celibidache... The main difference between the two disciplines are: music is interpretation after something that has been written and does not exist without musicians. Painting is perhaps a "purest" creative process since it does not include interpretation or a re-creative process. But most important are the “needs” which apply in all sort of creations defined by Husserl. I hope you do not mind this comment. . Thank you again for your response..
+demalexandru e atat de jenant, stimate domn, sa te-arunci cu genul asta de comentarii de lumea a 3-a. care ar fi relevanta faptului ca celibidache a fost roman? geniul e universal, nu are nationalitate.
Awesome Daniel Barenboim ! He is citizen of the World ! 4 nationalities !!! Born in 1942 in Argentina, he is one of the most famous pianist & conductor in world. He is Argentinian and Israeli in first (he is of Russian Jewish descent) ; in 2002 he obtained Spanish nationality ! And since 2008 he is carrying a Palestinian passport !... His first wife was the great British violoncellist Jacqueline Du Pré. Actually he is the conductor of the ' Scala de Milano'. ( 2011 to 2016)
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J'aime le talent de cet homme et son ouverture d'esprit. La Musique rassemble. Merci LAMIRAL45
Great performance. Wonderful orchestral sounds. Especially the second movement. Great writing for horn by Brahms. I hope youtube continues to provide all this music. I'll gladly pay for it.
These two priceless seconds from 38:28-38:30 I think explain it all! It started at 38:21, but the expression on the conductor's face at those two minutes gives it all away. Celestial!
Brahms ranks among the world's greatest composers for his mastery of orchestration and form. I am a composer who has been awed by the wide range emotions in his works ranging from thunderous climaxes to quiet contemplation.
I am listening,watching this concert with using new Samsung ear phone , I tell you sounds are really spectacular and it's like they play this concerto in front of you !! Please enjoy with it !!!
No, the first Brahms' piano concerto is a bit longer than this one. And the longest piano concerto lasts more or less than 70 minutes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ohPzurDZzZ4.html
I saw this concert for the first time in 1997 on K7 tape. I didn't know Brahms. The first audition was passionate. I consider it the most intense reading of the work.
Barenboim,s performance is incomparable . This song is unrelated to the forgetting of the years . It continues to impress our hearts beyond the times . From Tokyo in Japan .
jjustie lucchesi Your smile that I just shed gives amusement and a feeling of happiness to me. Would you like to come to Japan overflowing in surprise and an impression❓ You will encounter unimaginable surprise and impression. We wait for you who are luscious. Greetings from Japan . Sayonara！
It brings tears to my eyes every time I hear such beautiful stirring music. Superb performance! And believe me underneath that smart tuxedo he is sweat soaked, this is incredibly hard work and very draining. (Years ago I saw maestro Leonard Bernstein in concert and after 7 curtain calls they were swaying with fatigue. What a night.) As for the orchestra....all these people coming together for the love of music, who says humans can't work together for good?.
Every time I see/hear Berenboim, I can't help thinking about the enormous gap in time since he lost Jackie. How promising her career was; how long and fulfilling his has been.
This one by far! I believe there were many years between their respective compositions. This has everything: exquisite calm and tranquillity, subtle delicacy, melodic accessibility, towering virtuosity, intellectual maturity, power and grandiloquence, narrative coherence and it’s hewn from bedrock of unimpeachable pedigree. This is my favourite piece of orchestral music. (Can you tell?)
Oi, mãe. Tudo bem? O programa do Reinaldo Azevedo, colunista da Veja, pode ser ouvido aqui em Guará e em São Paulo, a partir da 18h, pela Jovem Pan, 1080 Mhz. Diz o "site" da JP que ele é transmitido em rede nacional. Chama-se "Os pingos nos is". Estou tentando verificar se ele é também transmitido para o Rio de Janeiro e em qual faixa. Vale a pena ouvir para ficar informado de tudo, tudo mesmo o que está se passando nesse governo agonizante do PT e para dar umas boas risadas também. Assim que eu descobrir algo, eu informo você. Beijo!
I always find myself rooting for Barenboim in whatever he tries to do. His playing is always grounded in excellent style and rhythm, and goes a little out of bounds in terms of expression and tone, which can't really be held against him in this great literature. Bravo!
Extraordinary performance, Celibedache in his perfect mature conduction and Barenboim in his sumit of piano interpretation , both of them the perfectc combination .In such a tempo anyone can appreciate all the Orchestra interpretation and the solo and fabuolus chords of the piano and the geniality of BRAHMS.Thanks for posting this wonderfull piano concert mastepiece.
For all the earnestness, the furrowed brow of concentration, the exaggerated flourishes of hands leaving the keyboard- not least the reputation of so formidable and accomplished a musician, and the pressure that brings- while applauding moments of beautifully interpreted and delivered play, and some not, there is an overriding sense of tension, unease, an inability to relax, and you often feel it in his fingers, hard on the keys, as though he's being driven to some goal he is not comfortable with or sure about, an anxiety about meeting expectation perhaps, when he of all should not have to.
I thought Richter "owned" the Brahms 2nd until I heard Barenboim's rendition. It might lack a bit of Richter's amazing technical skill, but it makes up for it in the lovely interpretation which he sustains throughout this long and varied work. The connection between the pianist and the orchestra is never compromised here. It is not a soloist and an orchestra, but one continuous river of music, a delight from start to finish!
Brahms' orchestration is such a master piece that I don't think Barenboim dares to conduct while playing piano, as what he's done to many other concertos.
By the way, it has been just by chance that I am listening to this just a day after the 100th anniversary of maestro Celebidache. R. I. P. and God bless him.
Tout est clarté, autant dans le jeu pianistique de Barenboim que dans la direction de l'immense Celibidache. c'est une des plus grandes version de ce grand oeuvre de Brahms. Chef-d'oeuvre d'ouverture sur la magie du monde.
absolutely amazing.He plays those runs and trills like they're nothing! I'm still finding it difficult to keep my fingers tucked in and this guy plays like its a breeze. A true pro, loves it!!!
Unul din marii noștri dirijori și un om de o căldură sufletească pe măsura staturii sale muzicale (după cum spun cei care l-au cunoscut și au lucrat cu el). Venirile d-sale la București de după 1990 și spectacolele date la Ateneu au fost unul din lucrurile extraordinare și minunate care s-au intâmplat in anii aceia cu atât de multe speranțe și cu atât de puține realizări ulterioare.
Barenboim captures all the subtle beauty and radiance of the first movement, shimmering...thoughtful...exquisite musicality and poetic beauty. What a gifted pianist! He reminds me of Rubenstein's Rachmaninov: no excess...just lustrous, vibrant music to relish.
Un concierto excepcional de un autor magistral interpretado en forma realmente sensacional. Todo un festival para los sentidos estèticos-musicales de aquellos que somos amantes de la mùsica de Brahms !!!!!!!
Obra de gran belleza, hace que se recree el alma a través de los sentidos, en un viaje, por paisajes naturales y una brisa calma. El concierto para piano n.º 2 en si bemol mayor, Op. 83, de Johannes Brahms se separa en alrededor de veinte años de su Primer concierto para piano. Brahms inició su composición en 1878 y la completó sólo tres años más tarde, en 1881, en Pressbaum, en las cercanías de Viena. Es considerado por muchos pianistas y entendidos como una de las piezas de mayor dificultad técnica dentro de la literatura pianística universal. A diferencia del primer concierto para piano, éste cuenta con cuatro movimientos: Allegro non troppo, Allegro appassionato, Andante y Allegretto grazioso Brahms representa el racionalismo, la antítesis del romanticismo wagneriano. Para Brahms el desarrollo musical era la consecuencia del trabajo casi matemático en los intervalos. Las obras de Brahms corresponden a procedimientos racionales. Es frecuente que la música Brahms se asocie con emociones como la melancolía o la nostalgia, y también se ha dicho que su música tiene un carácter otoñal. Todo ello se ha explicado tanto por su carácter como por el hecho de que pertenezca a la última etapa del Romanticismo. ,El estilo pianístico de Brahms es muy característico, con un uso generalizado de toda la amplitud del teclado y una utilización muy expresiva de las notas graves. Es frecuente que la melodía se encuentre en voces medias, y suelen encontrarse en algunas obras esquemas rítmicos distintos para cada mano, lo que da lugar a superposiciones muy originales. Fuente: wkipedia
(38:21) It always hits me hard when the cello comes in on the last part of the Andante 3rd Movement. I think of Maggie Bella, who was the principal cellist with the San Antonio Symphony. Our grade school attended concerts on field trips and from an early age I always focused on her playing up on that stage. I was immediately drawn to her and finally met her as a young adult after college.
Hermosa interpretación de este gran concierto. En los ya lejanos días de mí adolescencia, nos reuníamos a estudiar en casa de un amigo y siempre escuchábamos está maravillosa pieza. Me trae muchos recuerdos de mi juventud.
Incredible: composer, conductor and pianist are masters of technique and expression. And Brahms fits the playing style of conductor and pianist too. One of the most amazing things I ever heard. Thanks for upload
DaCapo2010.....Spot on! The wonder of Brahms is the way he wraps his great and profound ocean of mood and feeling within the unlikely confines of Sonata form...thus helping to shape it, master it, enhance its dramatic impact and make it more accessible to us lesser mortals.
