I am an insomniac, so I often woke up in unholy morning time and simply can’t find my rest. In those time I like to listen music. When I first heard this beautiful piece, it was around four a.m. and I had headphones, because I didn’t wanted to woke up my beloved. Whole time I listened to each note, I was looking at her beautiful sleeping face and feeling how I am falling in love with her again. It was the most beautiful morning in my life.
careful now, dont be falling in love now, thats your whole life out the window if it goes to shit, and it will go to shit, trust me. otherwise cool story, just be careful ok.
@@khalnetherfields7263 well I have really bad memories and scars about how I fall in love in wrong time and with wrong people. Trust me that I am really carefull. My beloved is someone different. She bring me from my darkness and depression and teached me how to life again (I had to took antidepressants for eight years, now I am free from it)
@@LeozVinci it's wonderful that you're off medication and i'm happy for you since i know how it feels when you're alone with your racing thoughts at night and it's nice you found the same strategy to escape. also, i hope you can enjoy every moment with your beloved and let me say, your thankfulness is beautiful. but please don't forget that the credit for bringing you to life again not only belongs to her - it is first and foremost yours. you decided, at a point, that it was worth living, learning and growing again, and obviously you didn't leave this path until now. she surely did a lot for you, maybe without even trying, but it is you who climbed out of the mud. i wish you can carry on with peace inside, all the best.
@@krinilotta Thank you for kind words. I know some credits are mine, but my beloved was there when everybody said that I am lost forever and I won't be able to live normal life again. She was there even when my family left me alone (I don't blame them. I have still vivid imagine of my mother when she tried to conviced me that I should live and not die from inside... but it was hard). In those times, my beloved was with me. She was so kind and tender. In those days I decided that I want to live and she was there and helped me. It will be two years when I am off medication and I am enjoyng life as never before.
Every year at Thanksgiving, my dad and grandpa play this piece. I've grown up listening to it once a year, and I have so many fond memories associated with it.
When your grandpa goes, you're going to have to take his place. And when your dad goes, your kid's going to take his place! If you can't play, then get started! Sounds like an awesome tradition. :)
It is an awesome tradition! :) And I've been playing piano since I was six (I'm twenty now), and fully plan on carrying on the tradition when my grandpa is no longer around.
+PigPenguin91 I also hope others will enjoy this piece of masterpiece and remember all the memories they had. This piece is my favorite duet and favorite piece composed by Schubert.
This is one of Schubert's most inspired pieces. it is absolutely extraordinary to see how much the composer is able to maintain an absolute musical tension throughout the piece, starting from the splendid opening melody.
Listen at midnight, close your eyes and feel the despair mysteriously turn to love in your heart. The beauty this man possessed deep inside his soul will never cease to amaze me. Four hands sing together in perfect harmony. Astonishing.
I've played piano for 10 years, and i taught one of my best friend to play. He's a fast learner, now we're able to play the 5 first pages of that fantasy (he plays secondo). We really need to get back to it and play the whole piece.
I suffer from Parkinson's disease and frequently go without sleep for days. Without music and the availability of it on RU-vid I could not cope with my life. Pieces like this have often brought me great strength and tremendous joy when everything else around seems to mean absolutely nothing . Life without music would not be worth living and I'm totally convinced that great composers who also suffered much in their lives knew that they were in some way responsible for leaving behind them the means by which others could survive and take shelter from the storm. From the mists of time they reach out,, pat our heads and whisper in our ears that everything's going to be alright. How fortunate we are to have those heroes who went before.
A remark by Haydn late in his life which confirms your conviction: "Often, when struggling against obstacles of every sort which oppose my labors: often, when the powers of mind and body weakened, and it was difficult to continue the course I had entered on; -- a secret voice whispered to me: "there are so few happy and contented peoples here below; grief and sorrow are always their lot; perhaps your labors will once be a source from which the care-worn, or the man burdened with affairs, can derive a few moments rest and refreshment." This was indeed a powerful motive to press onwards, and this is why I now look back with cheerful satisfaction on the labors expended on this art, to which I have devoted so many long years of uninterrupted effort and exertion."
Schubert was in his last year of life when he composed this amazing piece. The painting we see is pretty much what Schubert was at the time: still standing but stripped of vitality and facing an inevitable end.
14:40 breaks my heart every time. This strong motif, repeated throughout the piece, doesn't continue strongly, as it always has. It just says "never mind" and moves on. Like a person.
The first time I heard this caused me not to be able to work until I'd finished listening to it. I had to find ways to appear busy because I just couldn't stop focusing on the music.
This is a beautiful performance, but I think it has the same issue most modern performances of classical music have. Today, it's classical music to us. Back then, it was popular music. There were no recordings, you heard it because the best two pianists at the party sat down and played it while you drank and listened. Many of these musical ideas were new and exciting and modern at the time. There would've been a lively, crowd-pleasing atmosphere, the pianists would've played up the dramatic moments in the music even more than this. We're a little deaf to classical music today because it's no longer our cultural moment. For example, the melodic theme in this music, with its grace notes and percussive repetitions, was actually pretty exotic and ornamental and mysterious. And listen to what Schubert wrote at 12:51. This was entertainment, this was drama, this was what people had instead of a television. We're a much more passive audience to this music today than Schubert's audience was then, and the disposition of the audience shapes the posture of the performance.
Kevin Mathewson--What an interesting discussion. But I still hear and respond to beauty even if it's not of our age. There's no way to recreate the zeitgeist and adapt our ears to another period in history; nevertheless, classical music is timeless. Will they still be listening to Beyonce in 300 years? I don't know if you have a Classical Revolution chapter in your city, but they might put together a string quartet or a piano quintet playing in a coffee shop or bar with all the normal noise and discussion of patrons around it. Of course the audience is more participatory, responsive and enthuiastic, and that is one interesting way to hear music, but I vastly prefer the concert hall with its respectful silence.
this was not "popular" music , if you were rich ,famous or a royalty this was your entertainment but if you were poor (as most people at the time) then you were stuck with church music and some chants here and there , and that was it we're in better situation since we're able to enjoy music of all sorts and from all corners of the world yet we still enjoy classical music , but we are much more stimulated than they were , thats why classical music could sound some what dull or boring to some people because its a music that takes its time to view its exotic and interesting bits
I first heard this piece played by Lucas and Arthur Jussen on RU-vid and became addicted to it. This version is even better and Maria João Pires was one of their teachers! And the brothers went on to play with Ricardo Castro as well. The artistic lineages in music and the other arts are one of the best and most important aspects of all the fields.
I like several versions and listen in rotation. But what drew me to this piece originally was a review way back in 2017, when I read that this piece became a rite of passgae especially for children being taught to play by a parent. To play this piece at 9, 11, 13, 15 with a parent and maybe switch parts later in that sequence was a common link among Piano playing families. I was reading the poetry of the Russian poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak who both had piano virtuoso mothers who taught them from an early age. They both studied at the same Moscow Conservatory. And they both had the experience of playing this with their mothers before they were 10. They also had the experience of accompanying singers in their family or that they knew on the Song Series "Wintereis" by Schubert.
I often find myself lost in my own thoughts at night, trying not to suffer from anxiety I discovered that listening to Schubert and reading Schopenhauer makes me feel better
@@rodnokz I know, more people told me. I think it's just me. It makes me feel understood. I mean I can see myself on what he wrote. (not always but generally)
Quatre mains, ce n'est pas trop pour interpréter ce bijou d'artisanat élaboré par Schubert. Les deux pianistes restituent les gracieux élans de l'âme de l'auteur tout en sachant revenir à une sereine et calme interprétation de la partition, le moment venu.
@@blasecorrea8350 Four hands, that's not too much to interpret this craft's jewel (ndt idk why craft) elaborated by Shubert. The two pianists restore the gracefulls author's surges of soul, knowing return to a calm and serene interpretation of the music sheet, when the time comes.
I am preparing the my lecture named Human and Music. I think this music is great enough to introduce to my student as an one of masterpiece among Romantic music. Performance is so great and touches my heart.
Who would have thought that listening to this hauntingly beautiful music could lead to me finding Sunshine. Life without Schubert would be distinctly dull.
The expressive power of the sound architecture breaks with any form of transcription of the real to attach itself to the expression of an serene universe. Colors and rhythm of these compositions are a language that gives life to the listener’s exaltation !
the Red Tree 1908 Piet Mondriaan (1872 - 1944) Mondrian Netherlands Dutch A lovely choice.. Piet saw rhythm in light as we hear it in music. He loved his Rhythms.
Dear Solely Reminiscense, the name of the pianist playing with Maria Joāo Pires is Ricardo (and not Richard) Castro. The Brazilian pianist won the first prize in the prestigious "Leeds International Piano Competition" in 1993 and is a member of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2003, he began a piano duo with Maria João Pires. Together they gave a series of recitals in the major concert halls of Europe, among which the Viena Konzerthaus, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Tonhalle Zurich. In 2005 was released a CD of the duo, Resonance de l'Originaire by Deutsche Grammophon, with works by Franz Schubert solo and four hands. This is, probably, the recording you took the Schubert Fantasy from. Thank you for uploading it.
Thank you for letting me know my typo (I corrected it now)... Indeed I uploaded this beautiful music from the CD "Résonance de l'Originaire", a truly beautiful recording of moving music of Schubert!
Yes, Maria Joao Pires is a wonderful pianist, i heard her play a Mozart piano concerto, loved her right away. As a pianist, also as a very charismatic beautiful woman. Thanks for all the info.
@@georgemulford2910 well, once the music even just begins I feel transported to a rainy, melancholy forest thanks to the song's beautiful imagery which lasts throughout. In each note there seems like a quiet hint of magic which seems to pervade the atmosphere. It is difficult to explain but listening to this song creates a world and a story within my mind that I never have found equaled by another song
Выдающееся исполнение выдающегося произведения. И это исполнение должно встать на своё значимое место в истории музыкальной культуры так же, как произведение Ф. Шуберта, которое по праву занимает там одну из восхитительных вершин.
¡ Oh ! con que frescura y efervescencia romántica nos empalaga este genio creador. Dador de esencia eterna y fluir dadivoso que desprende una gota lacrimal en el ojo singular del oyente.
Last Night i had a Dream where i followed a person through a city. Somehow i ended up in a cafe, still searching for that person. But then I hear the beginning of this masterpiece, I turn around and see two people sitting at a piano and playing. Such a weird dream but it made me realize how stuck in my head this melody is.
La grandezza di M. J. Pires è incommensurabile a dispetto di qualunque "modalità e prassi esecutivo-interpretativa moderna", della quale modernità non sappiamo proprio cosa farcene!,
I love the choice of painting. Mondrian is among my best painters, for his later abstract work. But this early painting represents so beautifully this piece.
If you're reading this message, I want you to know that you're not alone. The universe wants you to know that better days are coming, and you have the power to make them happen. Believe in yourself, be kind to yourself, and keep moving forward. Stay positive, and go with the flow. Remember, whatever you are fighting, you've got this. The human body possesses the ability to heal itself. Cherish the present as if there is no tomorrow. Don't overthink.
There are only a handful of masterpieces for 1-piano/4 hands and this is one of them. Others include Rachmaninoff's 6 Morceaux op. 11, Debussy's Petite Suite and Faure's Dolly Suite Op. 56. Enjoy!
Hearing so many stories of people from Musical families who play Beethoven/Schubert/etc. together for special occasions. Makes me wish I had a musical family ;P. I play the piano, and my little sister plays the flute, but that's all. We're the only 2 musicians :(. And we, unfortunately, don't play music on occasions like Christmas, I wish we would though. But even between my little sister (she's 9 btw) and I, there's such a difference in taste of music. She prefers modern music, which is understandable given her age. I'm 17. Age doesn't really matter, but I've been listening to Classical music since birth and have been brought up with it since my grandmother (my grandfather prefers the more rock and roll type of music and 60/70's music) listened to it a lot back in the day. But apart from my Grandmother, I'm the only one who likes Classical music so it's gonna be hard for me to play anything (other than something everyone knows like Für Elise) for my family. Such a shame
I'm trying, but if there's no interest then it's impossible. My mom has an interest in it, and she loves watching me progress so I can tell her about the beauty that is Classical music. For the rest of my family, not so much
It is one of the earlier paintings by Mondrian, and this is why it seems more like a post impressionist painting, but he's famous for being an abstractist painter. His paintings inspired Rietveld, a great designer, to do the red and blue chair.
I haven't listened to a lot of Schubert (other than his 'Unfinished Symphony' and 'The Trout'), but judging by this fantastic piece of music, I need to rectify that situation right away. :)
How are you going to credit the painter with first and last name and lifespan as well as the performers but only mention the composer's last name? Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Cuando no puedo escribir un poema, y no sale una palabra, esta melodia viene a decirme: hay luz detras de la lluvia, y fuego detras de la niebla. Y escribo. Con Schubert en piano.
This popped up and if I had not seen the title, I would have thought it was one piano. No bombast. It would be a great to know why he wrote it for two pianos. Maybe someone has already done such a study!
@Arsenio Petrus No, how could I be sure of such a fact? A musicologist told me that according to newer research Schubert didn't know Bach's work. He certainly knew that a composer with that name existed, but has apparently never seen a score.
