Piano Sonata No.3 in C major, Op. 2, No.3 I. Allegro con brio II. Adagio III. Scherzo: Allegro IV. Allegro assai Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Claudio Arrau (1903-1991)
Arrau es la perfección y la musicalidad absoluta. La grabación de las 32 sonatas de Beethoven es un monumento patrimonio de la humanidad. Su Listz es sublime. Brahms, increible.
Nuestro gran Claudio Arrau, insigne pianista chileno, orgullo nacional. Tras su fallecimiento quedó catalogado entre los mejores panistas de todos los tiempos. Viva en la gloria del Señor Padre que nos lo envió para nutrir y enriquecer nuestros espíritus. Gracias Claudio Arrau.
Tuve la gran fortuna de escucharle la Apassionata en el teatro Colón de Bogotá. Fue una pianista excepcionalidad con un don musical increible. Bravo Claudio.
Transcendentally Sublime. !!!! Beethoven at his best.....a supreme work of Art .!! .Thank you. Beethoven in this 250 year Celebration of your life ....!!! Thank you Claudio Arrau for an amazing interpretation. !!
Maestro Claudio is in my opinion the greatest pianist of all time. I treasure the CD's (14 in all) I have of his concerts And wish I could find more. His playing brings such joy to my everyday and helps when the news is depressing I adore classical music and thank the lord for talents such as Mr. Claudio Arrau.
So firm and light at the same time. Everytime I hear this man play I think of an elephant swimming or flying. Not many pianist can be recognised so easily without image..
What a treat just to hear this rarely performed sonata - a very great work. Why it's underrated I'll never know. It's technically very demanding on the performer. Maybe that's why players tend to avoid it, who knows? Arrau's performance is splendid -- especially the second movement which he played all the loving care and attention to fine detail and expressive nuance calls for an impish whimsical sense of play and youthful vitality. Wonderful that man in his seventies could capture that impetuous, daredevil spirit so well.
his most intimate piece is piano concerto no 5 beethoven movement 2 its the most maternal and delicate. stuff that makes grown men cry, makes you think what if, if only, how so now. Its apex is overwhelming. talking of the subject of underrated his quasi una fantasia the first one sonata 13 is amazing too but its the other one with the same name (moonlight sonata) that gets praise. good day.
Hearing and seeing Claudio Arrau touch I can not avoid passing through my mind pictures of your hometown Chillan, he has left something of what was in those years when he lived there. Regarding this sonata, my luck was to record it by chance on a cassette from a station in Santiago "El Conquistador" way back in 1985. It was my companion long nights while I studying Marine Biology in the city Coquimbo; since then that not leaves my mind. Thanks to whoever posted.
Funny how these things all go in epidemics. When I was a student, EVETYONE played this piece. Beethoven op. 1 thru 7 was absolute Pflicht with my teacher. Rather the Liszt Sonate twice in row than Beethoven op.2 No. 3, or op.10 No.3, not even to mention the miserably difficult op. 7. I've been doing this for almost 60 years, and I am convinced: if you can play the Beethoven Sonates, you can play anything. The entire technic of Liszt, Brahms and even Rachmaninov is contained here. But that is just my own personal opinion. Anyone who disagrees...God bless! But please, no nasty comments. P.S. When I was a kid listening to his recitals, I used to think Claudio Arrau was a god. Now I'm convinced, he is God.
+assindiastignani The Chopin Etudes count as equally indispensable for higher comprehensive facility don't you think and would agree with your dictum. Best.
+culturehorse I couldn't do anything but agree with someone who has a picture of Guiomar Novaes (my all-time favorite pianist) beside his/her youtube name.
Superb and sublime. Arrau's affinity for Beethoven has such depth and authority. It's irresistible. No one approaches his rendering of the beautiful second movement.
I agree with you regarding the Op 111 Sonata also. Arrau is in a class by himself. Once one listens and follows along with the score, it's almost impossible to listen to any other artists.
I often sit and wonder how Beethoven would react if he were at this festival (with hearing intact) to listen to someone play all of his sonatas from memory and on a modern instrument. And then, for him to play for us! Arrau is amazing, with the vitality of a much younger man. I can easily listen and watch an artist play all of the Beethoven sonatas in one session, if not for the needs of human nature interrupting! Thank you for uploading this fine series.
Qué excelente panista fue don Claudio Arrau, sin embargo, durante las más de diez años que viví en Chile nunca pude verlo en vivo. Ahora, a muchos años e distancia, puedo apreciar su forma de interpretar a Beethoven y agradezco por ello.
Magnífico. Ver interpretaciones como esta te hace ver de una manera la musica clasica, y más ésta, compuesta por Beethoven. Me hace ver esta pieza como algo tan exquisitamente natural y simple. Admiro a todos los pianistas, soy flautista y la música clàsica me apasiona en todos los instrumentos que se puedan interpretar. ¡Viva la música! Bravísimo.
sonata #3 para piano es una de mis favoritas, cuando era estudiante (1988) tenia un casette grabado desde la radio El Conquistador de Santiago con esta obra, interpretada por Alfred Brendell, luego hace unos años busqué el cd pero nadie conocía esta pieza, afortunadamente fue subida y ahora la puedo disfrutar en las manos de Claudio Arrau. Gracias.
Great! Listening to Arrau, has a more complete idea of the sense of Beethoven. Thank you, dear Farookhq17, thank you very much for high video quality, from the bottom of our heart.
Que bueno que lo hallas descubierto, siempre se nos abren estas oportunidades, pero no todos las aprovechan. Este tipo de música y sus cultores no están de moda, no son fashion ni "in"....pero siempre están llenos de significados y mensajes que cada cual recibe a su manera, por eso esta música es universal.
An excellent energetic performance of a demanding Sonata. Played with confidence, declamation. and sensitivity, especially in the 2nd movement. Happily the piano sound belies its age.Bravo1
grande Arrau!!!, mi ídolo desde peque, y aun lo sigue siendo, y estoy orgullosa de ser una de las pocas personas de 16 años que le agrada ver y admirar a semejante talento :DDD
Esta sonata del genio de Beethoven es de una gran variedad melódica y la interpretación del Maestro Claudio Arrau es magistral. Gracias por la oportunidad de escucharla nuevamente.
listen to it a few times and you're going to hear that Beethoven was, even at a young age, far beyond Mozart. the first time you listen to the opus 2 they superficially sound like Mozart but they're not, not even close.
If you put yourself in the piece and give it all you can with soul,no matter what mistakes you may make you will take the audience with you even make the audience breathe in the same rate as you because you will have made them feel like you are feeling up there on the piano. As Arrau has done you see there is no sound whatsoever during his playing..they are mostly all feeling what he is. That it what a great pianist needs to do play like a musician with soul.
Once he gets into it, he is exemplary. By following each note to its natural conclusion, he has to also respect the symphony of silences which Beethoven So eloquently suggests in all of his piano works. Arrau very much in top form.
Con los músicos como Arrau, es posible darse cuenta que ellos mismos son una extensión de su instrumento, o el instrumento es la extensión de ellos. Una fusión total y armónica. Da la impresión que Arrau entra en trance cada que que interpretaba alguna obra. Es un poder de concentración único y transmite paz.
A fine balance. I've been doing it for over 40 years, with reasonable succes. Gould - a tremendous artist - had other problems which eventually got the upper hand in his life, bad focal dystonia among other things, which made him very hesitant to commit to public performances. I never feel my audiences "don't understand," they just don't see know it as I do. And why should they? If they did, they wouldn't need me. But I think we are talking abt. different things - I do this for a living.
I am answering Henry Xu from below. Beethoven was a transition composer between the classical and the romantic periods. He did what many transition composers did back then. He sometimes composed music that sounds romantic and sometimes composed music that sounds classical. He even mixed the two styles within a single piece. This piano sonata is a good example. The first movement sounds a lot like Haydn while the second movement sounds romantic: something that Haydn would never have written. People who strictly classify composers of Beethoven's time as only classical or only romantic will more often then not make a mistaken generalization.
I wonder what Haydn thought of this new "romantic" music. I believe these first 3 sonatas were dedicated to him. I've heard he didn't like the way Beethoven wrote the dedication to him though.
colin crothers The main themes that Beethoven used in the first in the first movement are very much in a style that Haydn used. Yes some of Beethoven's developments of the themes are unique to Beethoven's style. No composer wrote music in a vacuum. Beethoven was greatly influenced by other preceding composers such as Haydn, Clementi, and Mozart. Thus we see a strong classical period influence in this sonata.
@rigo berriatua Why would you think that? Longing for a return of Franco? Religion has nothing to do with piano playing ability. I'm a big fan of Larrocha. BTW You need to work on your English.
