Vladimir Ashkenazy: Beethoven - Piano Sonata in C minor Opus 111 

The sonata to end all sonatas. The sublime end of a life long journey by Beethoven. The Master played by a Master of the piano

A meeting of giants. A lonely prince of a realm of spirits, isolated by deafness and a pianistic genius. A privilege to hear

Ashkenazy makes us cry. The message, the “sermon” Beethoven wanted to leave for the human being was totally conveyed by this marvelous pianist. I am moved.

Fantastic performance of one of Beethoven’s greatest piano sonatas

The best interpretation and execution ever of this piece. His dynamic range is remarkable. I wish I could have been in this audience. Beethoven's epic sonata points to the early rhythms of jazz. One of my top 10 of all piano works.

Beautiful musique au piano .Thank you Vladimir Ashkénazy .🧑‍🎤

Spettacolare !! Grandissimo veramente !!

I love the late Beethoven piano sonatas, they take us on a spiritual journey and you listen and seem to reach a higher state of consciousness. Was just listening to Benedetti Michelangeli's 1964 version of the same sonata, and this performance from Vladimir Ashkenazy is great too. He's a pianist that I did hear live on several occasions in the late 1980s to 1990 period. One of those pianists that never disappoints. Beethoven's achievements are remarkable when you think what struggles he had in life: a neglected abused child, mood swings, functionally deaf around the age of just 30, giving up on love in order to pursue his music, piano prodigy himself, and he left his brain to science. Here we are in 2023 and scientists in Vienna are going to examine the skull fragments left behind. They've already been looking at his DNA too.

I believe this is my favorite version of this sublime sonata

una interpretacion muyyyyyy buena

Who - in the 1st movement - is able to hear a reminiscence of the Hammerklavier's last movement..? There are still flats in the key...🎼

A GIANT ARTIST BY ALL MEANS.....!

weird audio doubling at 3:30.

like it. nice trills..

judging by the performances it receives the Arietta must simply be one of the most difficult pieces in the entire repertoire to play: very few pianists get the galloping quality of the central fast section even remotely correct (it's two and a half pages of that 3=2+1 rhythm in every part of the texture and Ashkenazy, despite his skill, still flattens it out into almost regularity which to my ear spoils what Beethoven is doing here: it's the same proportions as the rhythmic grid that operates previously in the movement, just subdivided further and further until it's effectively triplets of triplets of triplets). only Pollini and Levit fully clarify this.

Stratosferica Sonata!! Dopo dj essa tutti si son divertiti. Bravo come Pollini. Brava anche Katia MHan

Vous venez de me faire aimer le compositeur Beethoven à le jouer au piano .🎹 Very Nice

Esta sonata es un viaje hacia el Alma de Beethoven. Es volver a vivir desde su interior ese transcurso de su difícil existencia. Es sentir esa entrega hacia el mundo desde lo más recóndito de su ser. Qué inconmensurable legado nos ha dejado, no sólo por esta tremenda Sonata, sino por toda su obra.

BBC radio’s Room with a View 2023 brought me here. I had to find out why it sounded like American Ragtime all of a sudden!

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus brought me here

Belle interprétation et beaucoup de climats différents de

19:15 9th Scherzo?

THE BEST BEETHOVEN SONATA OP 111 IS PWRFORMED BY MARIA YUDINA SPECTACULAR!!!! TYPE IN GOOGLE HER NAME AND SONATA THERE IS ANOTHER PERFORMANCE IN 1954 COMBINATION OF DIFFERENT COMPOSERS!!! LENA

21:32

Al confine tratta la vita

i wonder why he didnt write a third movement to this? why are there only two?

It’s so difficult to play this sonata and not make it sound like crap. Touché, Ashkenazy, touché.

A prodigy renders an homage to a genius. One listens to this music and the only explanation is, God.

obviously on a very high level but lots of odd accents and dynamic changes that aren't in the score (which don't seem to work), and he often doesn't observe those that are in it (also don't seem to work)

Like many other pianist:far too slow.The beginning note is a demisemiquaver(32nd note).Should be played quicker and the tempo is Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato...far from it.Arrau,Barenboim..Buchbinderplay the same.Boring!!!Only Richter plays is correctly.

His playing is really awful. He rushes constantly, voice leading is terrible. Has many parts in which he speeds up or slows down which is very disruptive. His trills are disgusting......harsh and cold. Really bad playing......has no business playing such a masterpiece and making it sound like a old ship being hacked to death by rough seas.......