L. van Beethoven, Fantasia Corale op.80 in Do minore 

FANTASTICA ESECUZIONE... QUESTO è BEETHOVEN!

Remember watching this live, what a wonderful performance!

best version of this great piece

That was exciting. Kissin brought real force to the music. Ludwig would have been proud.

This is a very special piece for Beethoven lovers--and not only because the choral finale prefigures the 9th symphony. During Beethoven's entire career as a pianist he was renowned for his improvisations, which were, by their very nature, not written down and thus lost to us. But certain of Beethoven's compositions give us a clue to what they might have sounded like: the first movement of the "Moonlight" sonata; the Fantasy opus 77; and the unaccompanied piano introduction of this piece--and Kissin is outstanding here, his timbre and musicality brilliantly suggesting a Beethovenian cragginess along with a convincing improvisatory ethos.

Non ci sono parole..!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eccezionale chiarezza e fraseggio del discorso musicale. Un’opera che adoro!

Truly beautiful. Brings back memories of when I saw Kissin perform in recital in SF in 1993

Hace mas de dos años escuchè esta versiòn en la emisora de la Universidad Javeriana de Bogotà y desde entonces la he buscado por internet pero no la habìa encontrado hasta esta noche. He escuchado muchas otras versiones (Baremboim, Bernstein, Argerich, etc) pero indudablemente esta interpretaciòn de Claudio Abbado es inigualable.

Mi abuelo estudió dirección, intento inculcarme sin éxito la música y lo cierto es que aunque nunca me gustó estudiarla, me llegó a mi una forma muy concreta de escucharla y disfrutarla. Para mí la versión de Baremboim es genial, hasta ahora mi versión favorita era la de Bernstein, pero hoy escuchando la versión de Claudia Abbado, es con esta con la que me quedo. El Piano es ligero como la seda, sus dedos se desplazan muy suaves. Es increíble. La diferencia que veo con las otras versiones es la nitidez de sus notas y parece como si hubiese tiempo entre las notas para escuchar la siguiente. Es la primera vez que escucho y me da esta sensación, el trio coral principal dan las notas exactas y me gusta recalcar lo bien definidas que están las notas en conjunción con cada palabra. El instrumental, marca la diferencia en la definición de la cuerda y la fuerza de los instrumentos en percusión y viento, algo que en anteriores versiones no he escuchado y pese a que encuentre mucho mejor definido el sonido orquestal y lo oiga más fuerte, no hace desentonar el equilibrio entre instrumentos vocal y viento. Gracias por subir este vídeo. Es una delicia musical.

Well-recorded (you can actually hear the piano part in the coda); well-directed; and ofcourse, well-performed, instantly my favorite. Thank you.

Cheryl Studer's voice is phenomenal here. I'm overwhelmed with emotion.

Truly this performance is of the best performances of Beethoven's Choral Phantasy by late Maestro Abbado and then 19-year old Kissin.

When I was first discovering classical music back in 1991 I recorded this on VHS from a PBS broadcast. It included the Overture and Incident music to Egmont as well. What a fantastic introduction to both monumental compositions!

Why is it so seldom, that this masterpiece will be performed life.....wonderful performance....this is definitely one of the best performances beside Daniel Barenboim's fantasia 2 years or so ago.....

Excelente versión, la mejor, con este joven pianista.....gracias mil por compartirla, el pianista da ciertos matices que no los escucha uno en otras versiones. Felicidades KISSIN !!!!!!

I love this video and often return to it. When I was young and studying piano, I heard this piece of music with Rudolf Serkin and immediately fell in love with it. I look at Beethoven as a philosopher and I love all the great things his music says to me.

Splendid!

Cada vez que la escucho o veo, esta obra maravillosa, con esta versión, me llega al alma.Gracias por compartirla

El mejor homenaje al genio de Beethoven en su 250 aniversario, la magnífica interpretación de Abbado-Kissin-Filarmónica de Berlín, el coro y los extraordinarios solistas. La fantasia coral, sin duda, es una obra impresionante antecedente a la colosal 9 Sinfonía. Gloria a la memoria de Ludwig van Beethoven y gratitud a sus geniales intérpretes.

I really like the piano part in this recording. Sound is very clear and you can easily grasp all the notes. When I see such blurry image, I'm afraid it could affect the recording, but this one is of good quality. Kissin made it sound powerful and the piano leads the orchestra when they play together.

Y ese majestuoso sonido en el acorde final nunca lo he vuelto a oir en ninguna otra versión de la obra. Impresionante

Straordinario

Great music. Ilisten on a weekly basis. It's just too damn good :)

Bello, ¡Bravo! Genial, trascendente, eterno, poderoso, ¡gracias!

Abbado at 02:48 and 03:07, enjoying the subtheme of the initial improvisation. one of the greatest conductors

I remember well the night this was on PBS. I was blown away with the playing and singing. Just amazing. I have the recording on DG and treasure it. This is the sine qua non of Choral Fanstasies, in my opinion. The rest of the concert was magnificent. The chorus is sublime. And this hall is so fine. Abbado and the BPO and company played their hearts out for these mostly former East Berliners, who needed a beautiful moment as they were going through a hard time recovering from the Communist nightmare.

Emociona hasta las lágrimas. Una obra colosal. Una interpretación grandiosa

La más bella interpretación de esta FANTASÍA CORAL orquesta y coros y el magnífico pianista EVGENY KISSIN !!!

Se remece entero uno con esta bellísima obra de arte.

Suberb footage as well

You should list the other important participants that contributed to the splendid success of this performance: Cheryl Studer, soprano Kristina Clemenz, soprano Camille Capasso, mezzo-soprano John Aler, tenor Hiroshi Oshima, tenor Friedrich Molsberger, bass And last but not least, the RIAS Chorus

Gustave Mahler on the timpani!!

Genial !!!

Yo cante está obra en los años ochenta que delicia cantarla y escucharla, siento que Beethoven está presente cada recinto del mundo cuando hay una obra de Beethoven el está ahí porque ese fue su propósito pasar sus obras en generación en generación Beethoven está vivo siempre

Magnifica lnterpresentaciø de del Mestre Abbado i del pianista Evgeni Kissin amb 20 anys

This should be on disk. Probably one the best performances.

que puede uno decir. Nada. que agregar al placer de escuchar y ver esta monumental obra?

Me encanta como Abbado acompaña con movimientos de cabeza a Kissin 03:30 mientras interpreta.👏👏

Comparable a la Novena, y precursora de ella. Genial!!!

Múltiples orgasmos musicales en esta fantástica obra, wwoooooww.

One word … brilliant

bello

Musik trifft Vorstellung; genial!

Depois da Nona Sinfonia, a Fantasia Coral é, para mim, a obra que dá prazer em ouvir, repetidas vezes...

Bravo!

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Where did you get hold of this visual recording? I have this CD and would really like to see the rest of the program.

3:13 That's why i love C Minor...

That's a young Kissin. He's now 46. Performance date ?

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comentar una maravilla .....que injusto para la maravilla..!!

La perfezione esiste ed è qui

Kissin estáta potentoso el coro portentoso i el maestro abado maravilloso😅❤❤❤😮😮😮

The pianist is great though a bit rushing in some parts for me, the orchestra really good in t soloist parts of some sections; but not as fluid, coesa and powerful as it should be from min 13 on...the final is perfect alltogether, voices and choir fantastic

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È un’opera di Beethoven “ immediata” nel senso che porta abbastanza velocemente alla conclusione del pensiero musicale!! Quindi una concentrazione non eccessivamente prolungata. È la di può gustare anche in ritagli di tempo.

What IS she wearing?

最後人聲加入後，鋼琴的琴聲似乎被淹沒了，可能是錄音距離的影響，鋼琴琴聲不夠清澈，可惜了！

Meno male che non è finita in arancia meccanica come la nona sinfonia

Phenomenal! What year was this recorded in?

Breaking this ingenious Music with advertising is perverse - pure cultural fascism, pure contempt of human beings - an insult to Beethoven and all creative people.

15:28

Dios Existe

Very camera work, cutting heads of the players of the Symphony. Clarity was poor.. Put this one in the "Old" vault.

a disney ad in the middle of this?!?!?! you're fucking joking right?

Fucking EPIC!

sorry, but I thought this was rather a disappointing perfoemance