For me number one is the most moving performance of the most moving piece of music I know. I've heard Lupu in concert twice, and he did Beethoven concerti both times, and it was wonderful but this-this. Transcendent.
I love Radu Lupu he is tops for me. The big Romanian has immense power but also unbelievable tenderness. His artistic temperament is, for me, unmatched.
You must be an American to say so, Elly Ney, Emil Gilels, Maria Grinberg, Maria Yudina, Arturo Michelangeli , Glenn Gould are all superior in rendition of Brahms to Julius Katchen
@@vijinanadu1962 Gould's Brahms was stunningly good, so you're correct on Gould, but on balance, Katchen's Brahms was superior to Michelangeli's (quite gaudy) and the balance of the artists you list, so you are emphatically wrong on that point. The above comment you refute was clearly stated as an opinion (subjective as such, as is yours btw). Now here is mine (more 'objective'), and I am an unapologetic German American: Lupu's Brahms is nearly equal to Gould's; Lupu was/is drastically underrated by pseudo experts - he was a tremendous pianist and interpreter. Simple conclusion: RD3D (above) is closer to long-standing well accepted musical reality than you.
Radu Lupu consigue una transmisión poética y emotiva del mensaje brahmsiano usando un tempi y una sonoridad maravillosa. Es una interpretación cautivadora y absolutament espiritual como pocas veces se escucha.
So wonderfully thoughtful, deeply felt, tenderhearted, and otherworldly! A dear and beautiful soul confiding his inmost feelings to us. What a PRIVILEGE it is to hear him!
You got it. And he hardly gave concerts. It's spiritual. One can't explain what it is, that extra thing that elevates your soul that very few really have. Just the exact right touch, not too much emotion yet so much of it. A magician.
He must be the finest interpreter of Brahms ever. He IS Brahms in this music. It;s a fabulous performance and recording. I can;t believe his absolute fine judgement.
l'interprétation de radu lupu est admirable il sent la musique et devine les tempo adéquates , radu nous plonge dans un ravissement artistique que brahms hisse vers les cimes de la pensée et du coeur ,, quelle poésie ,, brahms l'unique ,le poète , l'homme errant ous les soleils d'une merd du nord dont les lumières ineffables nourrissaient son génie ,, merci yohannes
Pour ce qui est de la mer du Nord, il ne faut pas, je pense, trop en rajouter. Brahms était viennois depuis longtemps. ce sont des tableaux de l'âme plutôt que des évocations naturalistes.
The first Intermezzo of Opus 117 has a challenger with Glenn Gould playing his version. I dare say this interpretation is a little better. More tenderness and almost in the spirit of Satie. Beautiful music.
Wat raak je overtuigd van een hogere macht, een Platonische wereld, bij het beluisteren van deze muziek. Johannes Brahms, Radu Lupu, voor altijd in mijn hart.
Brahms redivivo a me sembra, anche per l'aspetto. Comunque sia impressionante il livello di introspezione musicale che raggiunge Radu Lupu con questi intermezzi.
Сравните с интепретацией Соколов. Несмотря на то, что и Соколов играет второе интермеццо хорошо, темпы не те, а это определяет всё. Раду играет божественно.
Remembering Radu Lupu I am listening to your last encore. The door has opened and once more you step across the stage, the piano waiting like a beast uncaged and primed for your beguilement. You slowly sit and close your eyes your fingers moving gently as you rest your arms and then we hear it, Brahms - a lifetime passing in a hundred breaths; the boy, the man, the youthful love and aged reflection, an image opening in your hands on that vast stage. No rage, just a thousand ways to love and touch the sun, and then it's over, and you've gone. (Stephen Estall, Portobello, NZ. 26/04/22)
what means this shit "is it brahms" ? you know him personally ? you had some lessons with him ? im so fed up with this ridiculous arguments. At least you like it, means you are on a good way...
@@cbenbaruk Do not be so upset. If anything, my response was nothing less than a tribute to Radu Lupu's genius. And by the way, there are some rolls of original recordings by Brahms playing his music available for your listening pleasure. If you care to listen to them you'd perhaps understand what I was trying to say in my original comment. Cheers!
Theses Brahms recordings were Brahms playing for the Jewish merchant Thomas Edison, not serious ones, he has to played along with the Jews around him, but his true thoughts are just like what the Romanian geniuses: Haskil, Martzy, Celibidache, now Lupu have shown us: the Jesus Spirit
These intermezzi - especially the first one - seem rather simple to play. This is wrong. It is difficult to transmit the Brahmsian soul through these pages, even if the notes fall rather easily under the fingers. Believe ma, it is really difficult.
The Brahmsian soul is a devotional soul, devoted to God, as His son, His musical Messiah, we can hear that from Johanna Martzy's Brahms Violin Concerto 2nd movement and Maria Grinberg's rendering of Brahms' Piano Concerto no 1, and Richter's rendering of Brahms' Piano Concerto no 2
@@vijinanadu1962 Brahms always claimed that he didn't believe in God neither in soul"s immortalty. Seefoe instance Jose Bruye('s biography among many others.
je l'ai appris par les medias,qui signalaient aussi la disparition de Nicolas Angelich à 51 ans ,et d'un compositeur anglais réputé..... Le fait est assez rare me semble-t-il : d'habitude les medias ne s'occupent pas de cette nécrologie....Mais rassurez-vous,il reste de nombreux pianistes fameux dont on ne parle guère....(je ne vais pas vous les énumérer ici)
@@antoinezygfryd vu que je n'ai pas l'œil rivé sur les médias,je ne l'ai su que par RU-vid !C'est bien,alors à quand les hommages?Ce sont des talentueux personnages, qui ont brillé dans le domaine de la musique et on ne leur donne jamais assez la place qu'ils méritent, du moins dans les médias et qui disparaissent toujours trop tôt!Merci à vous pour cette petite rectification!
sovereign, but just a little poky; gould is sovereign in his own way ... uh, listening now years later and finding that to be very seldom the case age, maybe, in other words
