@@leo32190 yes, Rachmaninoff's piano concerto nr. 2 starts out with piano intro. I just said only 'most of concertos', hence not 'all concertos'. Again I can be sure enough to say most classical concertos are written with very long introduction. Chopin's piano concerto follows this tradition though, albeit it is a Romantic piece.
My god, what a nightmare scenario. The fact that she was able to 'just play the other one' from memory, and perfectly, while being under such stress, truly tells you on just what level she is.
That has nothing to do with „level“. Some geniuses played ONLY 2 concertos a year….BECAUSE their standard and goal was to give THEIR MAXIMUM every time, see..
@@leonardoiglesias2394 Yes it has, being able to play that well with no specific practice and by surprise is one of the things that talks about ones level What other pianists do have nothing to do with what she did
@@leonardoiglesias2394 That has absolutely everything to do with "a level". :) If "a genius" who is only willing to play 2 concertos a year runs away in this situation, that is not a good sign of a professional. She did the best she could. She did not betray the audience or other performers, swallowed all her negative emotions, pride and fears and tried to use all her memory available. Only true professionals focused on things that matter can do that.
Kindness? I beg to differ… he was only thinking about himself. He was in a very comfortable position to ask a musician to perform an completely different concerto on the spot. This is every musician worst nightmare. She had all the right to stop the performance, but because she was that talented they could continue.
He believed in her absolutely, and he brought her to believe in herself in that moment. All due to mutual respect and trust. Incredible leadership and talent on display
My eyes are watering watching M. Pires fighting back her terror, trying to maintain her composure. God, that would be any musician's worst nightmare. And I feel Maestro Chailly did *exactly* the right thing, even if it was incredibly risky. Had he stopped with her, it would have been a humiliation far more for M. Pires than for him. Stopping would've been the easy way out, but he took the harder road relying on his knowing her as the great musician that *she* is. Frankly, they're both great musicians...nothing "safe" happened on that stage that afternoon, and they clawed their way out of it together. Just amazing, hair-raising. My respect for both of them -- already high -- has grown ever more tonight.
Wonderful explanation...so much psychology required in music performance of which the audience has no clue. It is actually a form of acting...one becomes the composer ( the performer's conception ) playing the composition! Perez made a genius transformation, not just the perfect recall of the notes !
It is hard to fully appreciate this feat if one is not a performer oneself. She would have spent the entire day thinking about the piece she expected to play. She would have warmed up with that piece in mind, practiced the difficult passages to make sure she had them in her fingers, and repeatedly gone over and over the arc of the piece in her head, right up until sitting down at the keyboard. To shift gears to a different concerto, while sitting in front of an audience, with no chance to even practice is beyond impressive. I'm sure her mind was going a mile a minute, trying to review the entire concerto in the short time of the orchestral introduction. I sing opera, and for me that would be like expecting to sing Magic Flute, going out on stage, and hearing the opening bars of La Traviata. Yes, I know both operas very well, but talk about panic! Kudos to her. That's how professionals do.
@Gregory Schmidt Why did Chailly do that ? He seems like a great guy. She looked upset at the time. How did it work out between them after this ? It sounded like he managed to produce quite solemn results. Is this what he intended ? Does the concerto require this ? Please respond. I would be very interested in your opinion.
I don't think he showed much understanding! She was in a panic and he only said: "I am sure you can do it really well, you know it so well." That wouldn't have helped me a lot had I been in her shoes!
Maria is a phenomenal pianist and her composure in this situation has created its own legend. Then again, she has been playing Mozart concertos since she was seven. Nonetheless she is worthy of our admiration.
She was expecting a different concerto but she is a seasoned concert pianist who specialises in Mozart (having performed Mozart concertos in public since age 7), she had played it the previous season, it is one of his most iconic concertos and she had performed it hundreds of times throughout her career. Chailly knew she would be able to pull it off.
As a classical musician I dreamt about this last night, happening to me. A true nightmare. It woke me up with a raised heartbeat. Couldn’t sleep sleep for hours. Bravo madam!!
How captivating to see her raise from such a predicament in a matter of 2 minutes and 28 seconds. All while her body is going to fight or flight mode. "Like an electric shock," her pounding heart-pumping adrenaline to her extremities. Probably making it harder to play delicately, nevertheless, she was able to put her body's defense mechanism on idle mode and play by memory a piece she played last year, all while battling shame, embarrassment, fear, and anxiety. 2:41 You can see her exhale from momentary relief of all the pressure at 3:17. And then she continues to play beautifully. I was captivated by the piece and stunned at her ability to play flawlessly under the circumstances, especially considering the probabilities of success: play a piece on the spot, live, you have a minute go. How fitting to the concerto! Just such an inspirational moment for me, next time I'm feeling defeated with an impossible challenge, I will remember you, Maria Joao Pires.
This is astonishing how few views this have. How AMAZING that she could remember the piece completely, and she could start on that solo in complete silence, directly in the same style. You would never know if it weren't told to you.
Yes indeed! The typical nightmare of artists. In the years when I was an active classical solo soprano, I often dreamed before performances that I wouldn't know which piece I was the soloist in until the start of the concert. Or the audience is already there and I still don't know what to wear, etc. And this pianist actually experienced it! And managed it!
@@leonardoiglesias2394 This was the recital, but it was in front of a packed audience. At the professional level, you're expected to show up already knowing (possibly even memorized) all of your music.
BRAVA, DIVA MARIA!!!!! Not only was she expecting to play another concerto, but SHE WAS A SUB, so she didn't even have normal preparation for ANY piano concerto. She was called the night before to sub, and only had a few hours to prepare. That's already a very difficult thing to do, but then to try to switch at the very last minute to something else??? I don't care how experienced of a professional you are, that is something WAY above and beyond what you could be expected to do, and that's what makes her a true diva!
I get what she's feeling with that electric shock and nausea when you realise you've made a terrible mistake. But as usual her performance and professionalism was suberb! Amazing talent.
This is an amazing story and an amazing outcome. Both the conductor Ricardo and pianist Maria could manage to work together without stopping the performance. Things like this do happen in life but in a few minutes they pulled it through together. I find memory works mysteriously or automatically and follow the path. I appreciate what Ricardo did by encouraging Maria and Maria didn't give up. What a history and success! Thank you for uploading this remarkable story and video.
Do you want to make the world know that you are wonderful at classical piano? Because this is how you make the world know so. Kudos to the concuctor, who talked her into playing.
So important that Conductors and Performers know each other's history. He told her she knew it well and could do it. She knew she could too, but had to trust him. Trust...a great word in any sphere!
Quelle pureté merveilleuse, quel talent! Voila ce qu'est une véritable artiste!!! Pianiste jusqu'à la moëlle, la perfection absoule. Et je sais de quoi je parle, maman était pianiste...
Siempre me hace llorar como un bebé este video , es como ver a un soldado vencer a un dragón con un lápiz , me hace sentir la desesperación y como lo imposible se vuelve posible
Que pianista! Sobrellevar semejante impacto...eso solo paralizaría a cualquiera...pero no a esta gran concertista. Aunque paso hace años ya merece un BRAVO!
02:47 Это фантастически красиво, звук, который она извлекает из инструмента просто волшебный!!! Как она это делает? Как она прикасается к клавишам? Это нереальный космос!!!!
Has there been an interview conducted with her about the situation? In dying to hear from her first hand the thoughts that went through her mind and how she dealt with it!
Aqui podemos ver um exemplo real de como a Aceitação é importante, mesmo para alguém com a genialidade musical da Maria João Pires!... Após uns momentos de pânico, o seu trabalho de Aceitação por aquele momento imprevisto, permitiu-lhe centrar-se no seu Ser e aceder ao prazer de se partilhar tocando maravilhosamente todo concerto KV466 de Mozart em vez do KV488 que tinha preparado há 11 meses... Aplaudo o seu talento e reconheço a sua Luz!.
For anyone who didn’t catch it from Maria’s recent interview: this wasn’t the performance but a rehearsal with the full-orchestra. Apparently there was a large audience allowed to attend the rehearsal as well-this still would have been extremely embarrassing had she not been able to play. But it’s also why the conductor is not wearing formal attire and talking to her so jovially and unconcerned. He gave her a chance to remember and his orchestra would have needed to rehearse anyway so without her they would have kept going. That’s also why there’s no full recording: if it was a rehearsal there would have been a lot of stops anyway. Still a great save! That they don’t show the full video adds to the mythology!
Thanks, I was wondering what the situation was. Would be bizarre for the soloist to sit down and play a concert with zero rehearsal. I'm also wondering why this is topical now.
No, there wouldn’t have been any stops. It was a general rehearsal/ dress rehearsal so they were performing the program not practicing. In general rehearsals there’s often audience, like in this case so it was like a concert
@@slnaseli Sure there would have been stops, if the conductor wanted there to be. A rehearsal --- even a general rehearsal --- doesn't mean you play the whole program through without stopping and then go backwards to sections where the conductor felt there needed to be work. He's not actively taking notes. And by a bunch of stops I mean, probably stop 3 or 4 times: not continually. But still no guarantees that they simply play the whole thing through: the only time you _need_ to do that is at the performance itself.
Perhaps if they’re lucky and have the piano solo on site, they could bring it between movements, but it wouldn’t really make a difference. The feat here isn’t the memory but the musicality and performance created only after reviewing in her head for a minute
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zCjxsq3DBa8.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Pe5okO-eoi0.html These are all I know. Perhaps you can find the finale on that channel
That was amazing. Maria Joao Pires is incredible. so is the conductor for being so cool and calm and supportive! #OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #OdedInformation
Chuck Norris once showed up at a concert expecting to play a Mozart piano concerto. He walked out onto the stage and the orchestra began the Schoenberg violin concerto. Norris went backstage to borrow a violin from someone who wasn’t playing on that piece and learned the instrument on the spot while performing the Schoenberg concerto. To this day the conductor is shocked that Chuck Norris forgot to bring his violin onto the stage.
This is a reminder that even the most talented, versatile, successful people are still just people, plagued with the same fears, insecurities, and anxieties as everybody else. Sometimes they’re able to rise magnificently to the occasion, but sometimes they stumble and fall. It all depends on the moment, the person, and the circumstance, but it’s never the end of the world. You’ll be okay.
There is another video of a guy in a CONTEST who had the wrong concerto thrown at him. He only had a couple of seconds to make the adjustment. Fortunately, he had been preparing to play the piece in a later round, so he had it memorized. But the look on his face when he heard the opening was priceless. Then I was at another contest, where the pianists were to play some solo works, and the wrong program was announced. They said one guy would play Chopin’s harp étude, but that was on a list that he had submitted early and later revised. He managed to get through it OK. A difficult thing for Maria here is that she had probably not been working on this piece at all for some time, so she would have been working totally from memory, and didn’t even have muscle memory to help her out. The only thing in her favor is that Mozart did not write any other piano concertos in D minor, so it is a piece that a touring concert pianist would be familiar with. A pianist and musician of Maria’s caliber, in fact, could probably even improvise some thing that would sound similar to Mozart’s original, but that is not what the audience would have been expecting. But I am also asking “ hello? Anybody check the program here?” Was there no rehearsal? When a pianist agrees to perform a concert, usually the program is established well ahead of time.
this is such a nightmare scenario we've all had this thought when preparing for something important, what if I get there and it's something completely different to have it come true like this must've been mortifying
The same thing happened to An Tianxu a few years ago in Tchaikovsky competition, except he had 0.5 seconds to respond! He was expecting Tchaikovsky 1 and got Paganini Rhapsody (which had an octave right at the beginning). He nailed the concerto at the end and got fourth place.
The technical description is odd. It identifies the music as, quote, "I. Allegro" by Peter Lang, close quote. The title states "in Amsterdam" whereas the poster suggest Vienna. All of which is irrelevant given the matter at hand, but it would be nice to clarify.
+Nosiluminadimenso In case you haven't come across the answer in the meantime, it's RU-vid's content ID system which analyses music in every video and, when it has found a match in its database of published recordings, puts these lovely annotations in the description. As you'd expect, it works perfectly like rubbish for piano pieces and surely must upset the pianists who've uploaded their own videos.
I get it. Kind of worse than nothing, as all misleadings are worse than nothing. I have a similar problem with speech transcription software, which cannot yet "recognise" different types of accents, intonations, etc.. and instead creates all sorts of crap more difficult to catch and correct than if I didn't use it at all. Anyhow> thanks for the info, I had no idea!
bravo maria joao je ne sais pas si le chef d orchestre a fait cela exprès pour sa propre publicité jusqu a te faire pleurer ce qui est une réaction normale je crois que j aurais pleuré aussi ou plutôt me serais mis en colère tu es trop gentille pour cela c est du passé les vrais mélomanes savent très bien que tu es capable de jouer pa5r coeur tous les concertos de mozart je trouve qu' on devrait enlever cette vidéo qui amène des commentaires méchants de la part de personnes qui apparemment ne connaissent rien à la musique
