El piano, Beethoven y Arrau, fundidos en un solo ser, representan la maravillosa capacidad de la humanidad, desde su origen, para capturar y compartir la Belleza que existe en el universo. Esre don, que para algunos es Dios manifestamdose en el mundo, es un misterio, pues ven en la mùsica la mas valiosa, o, virtuosa, de las artes, incluso por sobre la poesìa, ya que no haay palabras que nos permitan nos lleven a su esencia. Arrau fue regalo precioso, de eaquellos que no llegan ni se "crean" con fecuecia a la humanidad. Aunque soy chileno, no puedo ni quiero afirmar si es el mejor piaista del s xx, o quejarme porque en nuestros dias no hayan algunos como èl. No es justo para los artistas de ayer y hioy. Que fue uno de los maximos interpretes no cave la menor duda, y lo mejor es agradecer por su existencia, junto a todos los creadores que el Aete y las Musas, han brindado para goce del espiritu humano.
Le plus grand pianiste classique,le plus virtuose,le plus passionné,le plus sensible et délicat...un géant parmi les géants...inoubliable claudio arrau
This cultured , always gentle but confident and sure of what he knew had so much fire , passion and for Beethoven and Schumann, wit,violence and musical purpose .
I have the absolutely incredible privilege of having listened Maestro Arrau playing this sonata at Teatro Colón, Bogotá, Colombia in 1962. The rest of the program was also Beethoven. And he closed the recital with an "Appasionata" which made a explosión of applause and "Bravos" to madness. I remember as if it had been yesterday. Again : BRAVISSIMO MAESTRO ARRAU!!!
Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! I just put it on as background while I did some serious work on the computer. I had not even paid attention to what it was. After a few minutes, I started thinking, "I had not realized that God recorded piano music." I find it hard to believe that a mortal human being could play that well. This is incredible!
The one thing I like about this performance is how humble it is. Arrau is not trying to impress anyone, he's just playing his heart out on a piece that he knows way too well. It's like he is playing the piece for his master, like if he returned to his childhood. The emotion he puts on the playing is more than enough to be considered among the greatest ever. His renditions of Liszt, Chopin and Beethoven are all full of emotion and deep understanding.
Dios... qué genio. No me cansaré nunca de decirlo. Que su legado no muera. Esta generación está muerta culturalmente pero aún se puede salvar. Compartan, muéstrenle al mundo la verdadera música, a los verdaderos genios de la música.
¿Dónde estaba yo que me había perdido esta versión magistral? Escuché Rubinstein, Horowitz, Richter, Brendel, Zimerman, ... Pero ésta excede a todas, imagino que así la interpretó su autor.... Descubro en el maestro Claudio Arrau un fraseo, una fuerza en cada nota que no escuché en los otros pianistas. Chapeau!!!
I happened upon this song via Fargo the TV Series. This is exquisite. I expected as much as I have Chopin's Nocturnes by Claudio Arrau. Nothing need be added. Exquisite.
Incroyable interprétation parcourant des reliefs parfois toumentes, avec souplesse. Une sonorité merveilleuse ou chaque note se détache et pourtant fait partie de la grande salade... euh euh sonate. chacune est une petite unité vivante qui conduit cette musique expressive. merveilleux.
Cette vidéo est passionnante. En plus de la beauté de cette sonate, on a la vision du jeu d'Arrau, son extraordinaire articulation qui lui permet de faire entendre chaque note et de graduer les voix de sorte que son interprétation a un relief extraordinaire. Son tempo sur chaque mouvement est parfait.
With his mother’s death in 1959, his piano style changed both in tempi and interpretation; further open to the details of each musical phrase, he lingered longer, allowing the listener to expansively open the musicality and emotion of each piece. Never boastful, technically a virtuoso since age 4, he began to read music before words, and by age 6 performed in front of Chilean governmental and congressional officials, who so inspired by his technique, one describing seeing the child perform, as the opening of the gates of Divinity, promptly sent him to Germany to study music for 10 years. Upon his mentor’s passing, he never took another formal lesson.
fun fact, his teacher's teacher was Lizst, who was taught by one of Beethoven's students, so this is probably the most accurate playing when it comes to Beethoven's technique.
When I was 15, I was impressed by this movement, played by Ashkenazy. But today I hear that Arrau´s playing is another dimension, another world of piano playing. He´s unique, uncomparable.
Many years ago, I visited Beethoven's birthplace in Bonn - if I ever get to Chile, I'd like to visit Mr. Arrau's place of birth - as he was a truly exceptional artist.
Coming down from the pupil lineage of Maestro Beethoven himself. What an incredible pianist, what an honour and privilege it must have been to listen to him live!
It's beautiful! It's beautiful! It's beautiful! Magnificent interpretation with nuance and delicacy: a true understanding of Bééthoven's work: perfectly romantic. Thank you! C'est beau! C'est beau! C'est beau! Magnifique interprétation toute en nuance et en délicatesse: une vraie compréhension de l'oeuvre de Bééthoven: parfaitement romantique. Merci!
Best execution ever. All key misses are forgiven as the interpretation is perfect. For me it seems that he understands this piece better than everyone else. Genius.
I haven’t seen a single modern pianist ever come close to the level of interpretation, passion and perfomance of the appassionata as this man. Claudio arrau was a true master.
How wonderful to hear a performance of this work that is really PASSIONATE...not simply loud and fast. His final movement was even better - it was loud, very fast and passionate all at the same time. Claudio, you remain one of the greats. Thanks to Farookhq17 for this beauty.
Estupendo... Sem arrogância. Forte como um trovão e suave como uma pluma. Isto é realmente Beethoven. Bravo, bravissimo querido Arrau. Espero que esteja ao lado de Beethoven!
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Arrau makes you feel every single note. One of the greatest ever.... That slow movement- so incredibly noble and hopeful. I must also say, that this is beautifully filmed.
Words fail me I only dreamed of hearing this performed as only conceived by the composer. I’ve played it in public 3 times & have only hoped of accomplishing half as this thank you for finally hearing this marvelous performance
Timing perfection. So patient, and made to look so easy. To any aspiring or seasoned pianist out there I can assure you this piece is far from easy to play much less preform
Não perdia uma interpretação do Arrau pela rádio Jornal do Brasil FM do Rio de Janeiro (década de 1980). Tinha a programação antecipada dos clássicos e já sabia a que horas o ouviria. Brilhante pianista que foi. Me emocionei em ouvi-lo e ao ler quase todos os comentários. Obrigado pelo privilégio, a nós todos dado. 🙏
I have often heard this piece but never with such fire in every note. Now I know what makes this name Arrau so famous. And I feel what Beethoven might have driven. Just fantastic, wow!
Of all the great pianists of the last century, and there were many, Arrau touches my spirit beyond all others. Oh , what magic to have been present at a live performance. Thankful to youtube and the generosity of the people who share the beauty of their passions.
For me the best expression of appasionata .... Barenboim is also a great option but arrau’s interpretations is simply perfect .... an artist par excellence
my favourite sonata.....just too beautiful ....the melancholy is mesmerising .....the greatest composer to ever grace this planet interpreted to perfection by Arrau...its as though the piano has a voice of its own...
but not always… there’s moments in the Waldstein that feel like you’re in the clouds, moments in à Thérèse that feel like you’re experiencing love for the first time, and moments in the Pathétique’s Adagio that feel like you’re being held in a warm embrace. Beethoven’s range of emotional expression is arguably the primary factor behind his status as the man who was greatest earthly creator of sound we’ve ever known.
El bálsamo perfecto para soportar los avatares de una existencia difícil, gracias Dios por permitirnos a través de estos maestros disfrutar de tu mas bella creación la música clásica, sublime e incomparable.
I came here thanks to Anne Rice, her character Sybil played this obsessively and I can see why. She passed away yesterday and my heart is broken. The Appassionata plays in my home today for the mother of the vampires...
Marstro Arrau and Richter always spoke so heartily with their sounds. This a sublime masterful performance which I don't think has been superseded on film. He live on forever.
Откуда вы все-то знаете, что аппассионата именно такая?! Вы что - Бетховен? И все знаете больше Бетховена про аппасионату-не сомневаюсь даже. Ваша экзальтация смешна.
Este confinamiento, a propósito del COVID, a mi me ha dado a mucha fortuna la posibilidad de escuchar al Gran Maestro Claudio Arrau, no lo había apreciado su magia !! Gigante !!!!
It's been many years since I've heard Claudio Arrau, this was a good reminder how great he was.To my knowledge he practice about 10 hours a day even in his older years according to himself in a television I watched one time.As far as I know studies classical piano in Germany when he was a young boy.Fantastic pianist and great video to watch and listen thanks.
Es un privilegio ver. Escuchar al maestro Arrau. Tu excecional y depurada técnica permite una interpretación superior de lo que compuso el genio, Beethoven, Nos transporta a Dios.
Arrau, el mejor interprete de Beethoven......tempo, fraseo, nada de excentricidades, técnica sublime y calidad interpretativa, pffff....el más grande pianista del siglo xx
@@vijinanadu1962 Richter, Horowitz, Rachmaninov, Busoni, Hofmann, Hess, Friedman, Schnabel, Lipatti, Cortot, Rubinstein, Gould... just to mention some of them.
For Beethoven, Richter is sometimes good, not always. Gilels, Grinberg is more stable, always above the average. I for got Walter Gieseking, he is always good in Mozart and Beethoven.
Grande Claudio Arrau, el mejor pianista del siglo 20 en el mundo, Chile está y siempre estará orgullloso de tener a un gran personaje como Claudio Arrau , nunca olvidó de donde venía y nunca olvidó de donde nació, por eso todos los chilenos , en especial los chillanejos ,lo admiramos y reconocemos enormemente llenos de gratitud. Viva Chile, Viva Claudio Arrau
Jamais vu une interprétation aussi juste de cette oeuvre si représentative de notre condition humaine Merci à Beethoven pour son extraordinaire sensibilité, toute sa bonté, sa compassion, son élan rempli de vie Merci à Arrau d'épouser cette oeuvre avec tant de justesse
we live in an era of technical pianists that don't understand the story they're telling. arrau is leagues ahead of everyone when playing movement 3. I can imagine Beethoven saying - "yes! This man gets it"
I absolutely agree with your thoughts on this. Sensitivity is key. You can be technically perfect but without sensitivity it becomes just another piece of music.
Well not really.. You can be as sensitive as you want in the end you are playing a piece of music that you simply don't understand. I'm a beginner with the piano but I have been having thoughts of investing all my time into this to become very good at playing for example Beethovens pieces but then lately I started watching all of these great pianists and I started to realise that all of them are someone who tried to play Beethovens or Chopins or Mozart pieces very well and did succeed in doing it but once we dig even deeper we start to realise that some of these pieces are very personal and more complicated than just a feeling or perfect technique while raising the eyebrows for that perfect feeling. For example take Beethoven, do some of these pianists even know what he was going through? Fine, they maybe have went though similar situations in their personal lifes but lets be real we can dig even deeper once we come to a point where you simply cant imitate or re-create these feelings. All in all, do we want to become pianists and live trying to imitate our whole life? Live of Beethovens, Chopins or Mozarts works? This does tell quite alot about the pianist himself in my opinion. I bet that Beethovens, Chopin or Mozart could play eachothers pieces for fun but I don't think that they would try to imitate so hard and try to create these feelings that they simply didnt feel. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8Uc2vtj7vvs.html - Here you have an example from a movie that I think can be transfered to the pianists all over the world, 0:40 Liszt is trying to understand the piece while playing Etude no 12 op 10 Etude Revolutionnaire while Chopin is watching. Now Chopin knows the story and he gets emotional because who wouldn't, Liszt does play it good. But does Liszt understand what Chopin went though? Answer is quite simple, no. Call me mad but I love the piano, I love classical music and I would more than anything want to be able to play all of the big pieces instead of only listening to them on my phone but for me personally I fell in love with the piano because my pathetic life led me into a corner where I feel like I want to express what I feel, the anger, the anxiety, the feelings that I cant scream out because everyone would call me mad and not understand and that are so sweet at the same time yet bloody. I want to show people feelings that are insanely strong and I want to show people that Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart are not the only ones who can create these emotions. I want to show people that living our life in a different way that everyone wants us to live is not wrong. I want to show people that they cannot understand my work and that they never will because they will never get the chance to live the pathetic life of mine. I want to scream for all the people that are having a hard time. I want to scream for all the people that are crying loudly inside, screaming. I want to show people that to be a Legend is not to be an imitator. I want to show people that what they actually want to become, this legend is the opposite, its hell and darkness. I want to compose and I know that it will become just as good or even better than these pieces. Life has already proven to me that I'm capable of doing it. Now the question is, how long time will it take before I can dedicate myself to this and give up the rest of my life. It's been one year already since I started thinking about this but I'm still scared.
@@fallenangel5268 Ok, but just passion is not nearly enough to play those pieces or to compose. One must be dedicated to work every day for hours on end. There are times when it gets really hard and you just have enough of everything no mater how much passion you have. And I really doubt that someone will compose as good as Beethoven again... It just seems impossible. There are many factors to it. One is that Beethoven was really one of a kind, a revolutionary, creative genius. He has done what no one has done ever before him. And it all came from his hearth and not because he wanted to compose differently. Another reason is that todays world just sucks and very few paople care about music... Because all that shit that exists nowdays is not music, its something very nasty. And i really think that people can understand music and interpret it succesfully without really going through what composer has gone through. I say that because no one really knows what Beethoven felt while composing and no one will, and because i am a pianist so music, is something i deal every day with... Actually I live with it... And it cant be torn avay from me, even if something really bad strikes me... I actally agree that 20th century pianists were much better, and that the way they played was mutch more creative and sensitive than it is nowdays. Because they cared for the sound and music mutch more. Today 90% of pianists just polish the technique and then they just press the keys without really knowing what music really is...
I am brought to tears and that was already in the first movement: Such passion such expression, such freedom to breathe and interpret making it his own and Beethoven comes alive. Masterful, moving . Thank you for sharing this gift to all humanity for ever.
how many pianists now a days can you say play such a beautiful masterpiece with so much passion, so much emotion that makes the song come alive. only other great pianist i know is arthur rubinistein
