This video was one of the earliest I produced for tonebase Piano, and part of a 5-hour (!) series I directed over two days in Leon Fleisher's home in Baltimore just a few months before he passed away. I had posted the performance and lesson segments separately to this channel before, but wanted to bring them together in the same video. Every minute of the series is worth watching, and you can find the remaining content in the tonebase Piano library (along with hundreds of other videos with great artists): tonebase.co/piano Here are the video listings for the full Leon Fleisher series on tonebase: LEON FLEISHER MASTER CLASSES (2.5 hours) Beethoven Pathetique Sonata, Mvt 1 (Ben Laude, piano) Beethoven Waldstein Sonata, Mvt (Ben Laude, piano) Beethoven Concert No. 4, opening (Ben Laude, piano) Schubert G major Sonata, D. 894 Mvt 1 (Rachel Naomi Kudo, piano) Brahms Concerto No. 1, exposition (Rachel Naomi Kudo, piano) Brahms Concerto No. 2, opening cadenza (Rachel Naomi Kudo, piano) LEON FLEISHER EXTENDED INTERVIEWS (2.5 hours) "Reminiscences" Parts 1 & 2 Interview about Arthur Schnabel
It's always fascinating when the teacher becomes student. I don't think non-musicians appreciate how much courage it takes to do this. The shift in power can be a terrifying transition, and it takes genuine humility and grace.
Wow, Ben. You’re a remarkable communicator and make wonderful videos. But I had not quite realised how intelligent a pianist you are. Such vivid colours and storytelling.
I learned to read music - The Patetiquie was the first music I ever learned to read.Ludvig Van Beethoven has a lasting impresion on me. I have a great love for the apassionata. There are great composersers - non with the fire and passion of Beethoven. Alegro non tropo.
Hi Ben. Who is your favourite composer? Although my teacher comes from the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky line, mine is neither. My favourite is called Benjamin Laude. Only joking - mine is Schubert.
When I heard Fleisher's Beethoven Concerto in G on the radio (in the 70ies) I thought this must be a historical recording, no living pianist is playing like this any more. Boy was I wrong!
I very much enjoyed a (Prefssor of Music) work. Massive respect and love. It would be Interesting to have him teach me. Yeah I do understand humility ofcouse I would. THe highest regard. All day long. I can be Humble. Yeah I have custom desighned my Own AI to Prevent Thermo Nuclear war & I was planningfor Peace on Earth.War was slowing Human kind so I put an end to all war on Earth. I like Peace.
@@andrewzhang8512 Good question. If Sonata Appasionata should be played with Appasionata, and Moonlight sonata should sound like Moonlight, then shouldn't Sonata Pathetique be played pathetically? I would ask that question in a master class.
@@andrewzhang8512 Don't think it means sad here. It's more like people who don't do their job right, and you have to argue to get it right. And in that 1st movement, you can hear the arguments back and forth that keep escalating. And the 2nd movement is like "It's so pathetic here, I'm going to go somewhere else." It's more disappointed than sad. The 3rd movement is like getting another person doing it that's still pathetic, but no longer argumentative. It's like "Oh well, whatever" kind of feeling.
