E. Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 그리그 피아노 협주곡 피아노 : 안스네스(Leif Ove Andsnes) with Bergen Philharmonic Live at the Grieg Hall in Bergen 1. Allegro molto moderato 00:41 2. Adagio 13:50 3. Allegro moderato, molto marcato 19:58
This is a brilliant world class performance by both an extremely fine pianist and a first class orchestra and conductor! I am so impressed by the refined and elegant performance approach taken here to a very demanding concerto. This whole performance is a very polished and musical performance of Grieg's composition! What a professional team of musicians to perform with a truly great pianist who so masterfully approaches this whole concerto! I hope more listeners find this fabulous performance and leave comments it is so deserving of!!
An outstanding performance both sensitve and refreching.This great masterpiece is perormed by a virtuoso pianist a great conductor and an excellent orchestra..The perfect and harmonious dialogue between the pianist and the orchestra is impressive and moving.J.L.
While everyone is lauding praise over Lang Lang and Yuja Wang's super human technique which are no doubt great celebrity pianists here we have probably the greatest living pianist of them all. He has everything, a probing intellect in to the mind of the composer, phenomenal technique, a beautiful tone and poetic mastery to match. He can turn to any the great composers and bring a performance of immense depth and vision to it. A fantastic performance and much praise must be given to the Conductor and Orchestra too.
Beautiful performance but, from a production point of view, the camera should have spent more time on his hands and less on his face. No disrespect here, but the purpose should be to show how the music has been created. I marvel at how a great pianist works on the keyboard.
Brilliant, moving, powerful. It is wonderful that one of the finest works of a Norwegian composer is performed so well by a Norwegian orchestra and soloist.
This piano concerto was played in the Grieg Hall in Bergen by the Bergen Philharmonic orchestra with Leif Ove Andness as piano soloist and Ole Kristian Ruud as conductor. Edvard Grieg was born and lived in Bergen. He was the chief conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1880-1882. So this orchestra is in a way his orchestra. The performance was held in the Grieg Hall in Bergen named after Grieg. Andnes is from Karmøy not far from Bergen and currently lives in Bergen. His wife is playing in the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The conductor Ole Kristian Ruud has conducted many Grieg pieces and won several prized for these performances. So you can't get anything closer to Grieg himself than this performance. I think it helps a bit being Norwegian when performing a national treasure like Grieg's piano concerto. Most Norwegian classical musicians have a special relation to Grieg.
Andsnes give one of the finest performances of the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor you will ever hear. The only other performances in this league (imho) are by Artur Rubinstein and Murray Perahia.
I don’t know if it is The Norwegian connection that makes this such a brilliant performance but definitely my favourite performance and performer of this piece
A glorious live performance of moving simplicity and elegant refinement. The scandalously unlisted conductor is OLE KRISTIAN RUUD. There would have been no performance without him. Honestly...
Never liked Grieg much … no idea why, and here I am discovering him aged 50! Incredible … the second movement gets me every time. He wrote it in Denmark interestingly, aged 24!!! Just married and a new dad. Love love love it.
Just discovered this gem. Now I'll listen to it obsessively till it wilts. Which I think it never will. Absolutely an emotional upheaval for an untrained listener like me. Makes me feel things
This all-Norwegian rendition of this magnificent concert by Grieg made me want to listen to it live somewhere in Norway! Beautiful performance by both the pianist and the orchestra! It is powerful, lyrical and overwhelming with beauty! 😍
100% right. When I visited Norway very young in 1976 I've known this concerto only about 5 years before the 1st time and I knew it nearly by heart. And when I was in Norway I recalled this music in my head going through Geiranger Fjord or looking down to another Fjord. I made a SUper8 movie in 1976 and of course I used this music - what else - for this movie. Many years later I got to know the very sympathic Andsnes personally before a concert in Vienna (working for an austrian paino manufacturer) and - he plays how he is and so sympathic like so many people from Norway. Grieg, orchestra and Andsness - a perfect combination
@@stefanradschiner1539 lucky you to have known the man behind the performing artist! He looks like a very, very down-to-earth person without all this artificial artistic aura about him!
Amazing, just amazing! Spent thirty minutes watching this masterpiece and just started all over again. Everything about this is perfect. Thank you Grieg and thank you Leif Ove Andsnes.
Thank you for sharing this stunning performance. It brought tears to my eyes. I'm watching an interview with Leif recently recorded and he speaks of preparing the Grieg Piano Concerto which he hadn't performed in ten years... this may be the performance he was referring to... in his home country playing this gorgeous piece composed by a fellow countryman. I'm not from that country though all my ancestors were. Perhaps that is why this piece has always moved me so deeply. This performance is brilliant. I've also been becoming familiar with this orchestra from a relatively small city in Norway. They deliver wonderful performances I've been enjoying on RU-vid during the pandemic. Check them out folks, under the direction of Edward Gardner.
"Relatively small city in Norway"? Bergen is the second-largest city in the country, so even though it is a relatively small city globally, here in Norway it is one of the largest ones, only beaten by the capitol Oslo. 🙂
A wonderfully epic piece of music - they could have used it for Lord of The Rings, for one of those totally triumphant scenes with lots of dead Orcs lying around!
the adagio is as if i am sitting in a norwegian valley.....absolutely gorgeous, emotional, perfection as is the entire concerto.....Andsnes is just breath taking to listen....
Das ist meines Erachtens die beste Darbietung, die es von diesem Konzert gibt, einzigartig, ein großer Pianist ohne Show oder Allueren bescheiden, souverän...... Ganz große Klasse.
Listening on Grieg's birthday. No other performance will ever surpass Leif Ove Andsnes and this fine orchestra! It's like they were born to play this music.
What an absolutely stunning performance of this gorgeous Concerto. Bravo to the whole ensemble, including the video graphic and audio techs. But especially to Ove Andsnes for his loving this war horse of a piece enough to give it such a deliciously fresh reading. THANK YOU!
I've been lucky to enjoy this pianist perform this very concerto at Amsterdam Concertgebouw one day. This recording reminds me of how heavenly that was! Thanks for sharing!
Extraordinaire version du concerto de Grieg ! Un immense merci☀ L'unique bémol à cette vidéo est le décalage du son et de l'image - peut-être dû à mon navigateur.
ive heard hundreds of hours of many grieg klavierkonzert in A minor and i can confidently say, this is among the best (if not THE best) rendition of the piece. As a native norwegian, Grieg's soul truly lives in Andsnes body.
Heard this while playing CIV 5. Was never into classical music, but the music swell while playing a game, the piano going while I ate cinnamon toast crunch, violins as the sunlight came into the room. That moment moved me like no other and stays with me as a reminder of a calm during young adulthood.
Interpretation I guess but right hand plays too fast in the important first two piano sections of the second movement. You miss a lot of the lyrics by going too fast there. Compare with the Hannes Minnaar version for example. Slower is better in 9 out of 10 cases.
Excellent! By fare the best version of my favorite piano concerto! Congratulations to Leif Ove Andsnes and each and everyone else who participated - including film and sound recording. Excellent, simply excellent !
This performance is stunning. I carefully watched the first movement cadenza and tried to find a difference between Leif and Rubeistein. I rate it even. If anything, an advantage to Leif. Of course, Rubinstein was 90 years old and blind.
I remember hearing the introduction of this masterpiece during TV ad soundtracks. All I remember is the piano entrance and it’s striking brilliance. Now I know it as a glorious staple of the repertory and rightly so. This pianist really digs into it’s poetic breath and depths. Ole Grieg produced a “sure fire winner” of a thoroughfare warhorse. PWG. P.S. The pianist makes the middle movement sound like the softly bucolic rocking chair of cerebral poetic license(heart and soul).
I have been listening to this piece for over 50 years and I believe that is now my favourite performance of the piece. It is how I imagine Grieg himself might have hoped it would be played.
Since so many people are picking up on the organic relations in this performance, it's perhaps also a little extra magical that the piano soloist and principal horn player are husband and wife - plenty of handover moments between them -
A good performance is like a fine haut cuisine meal: you can see and taste all the ingredients individually yet it is delicious as a whole. Good soloist, good orchestra, and good hall, good recording! What else can you ask for?! I can't help to wonder what Rachmaninov could have done with the material during the cadenza instead of just playing the same theme in the same key as the exposition!
Mr. Edward Gardner, next Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (from season 2021-2022). Since 2015 at the desk of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
