Mendelssohn surely deserves more appreciation. He is one of my favorite composers. Thank you so much for giving him a chance to shine in the spotlight!
He’s one of the most famous composers of the Romantic era. How much more appreciation can he receive? Okay he’s not quite as highly regarded as Chopin, but Chopin revolutionized piano music.
I see your point, but I think people are reflecting on the fact that Mendelssohn's reputation was marred by Nazi defamation and suppression, Wagner's own statements, etc., such that Mendelssohn's rep had to be restored in the late 20th century. Viewed objectively, Mendelssohn's work is superb. Not only did he write idiomaticlly and brilliantly for the piano, but his orchestral work is top notch. Therefore statements such as those by other commenters bare being repeated.
@@Jack-l5f6e He is underrated because he led a rather protected life. He loved writing tempestuous music and did it wonderfully but he was something as rare as a modest gentleman of a genius, not a suffering freak as Schubert or a choleric "titan" as Beethoven. Nor was he a scheming egomaniac as Wagner. He knew darkness but preferred not to dwell in it, he was a virtuoso and could write very advanced scores but saw no reason to brag and preferred simplicity. A bit like Haydn, he was the natural genius, following his star without overwhelming emotional disharmonies or exhibitionistic cravings for attention. To me, the difficulty to correctly INTERPRET his music might be what's most underrated. Maybe because it sounds "good enough" any which way you play it, but to make his genius justice one must really feel the breathing and the temperament of the scores. Since this has seldom been done, his reputation has suffered. (Obviously centuries of antisemitism have obviously preferred this diminishing view of him as a "second rate" master.)
This has got to be one of the greatest piano performances of all time! And the Orchestra as well! Absolutely superb all around - I cannot get enough of Mendelssohn especially when played like this! Bravo Bravo Bravo
He accomplished so much for a man who didn't even live to see his 40th birthday. This piece, along with his string quartets and 2nd violin concerto are masterpieces of their respective genres. This particular piece was written when he was only 22 years old, but you wouldn't think its author was so young upon hearing it. The fact he had the courage and ambition to even attempt a string quartet after Beethoven had so firmly left his mark on the genre is admirable. Schubert said it best when upon hearing a performance of Beethoven's Op. 131. declared "After this, what is left for us to write?". I think I actually prefer Mendelssohn's quartets over Beethoven's to a large extent, though.
What I love about this concerto is that it never loses it's meaning. Constantly shifting between techniques and minor to major, keeping the audience invested through it all. There is always something happening in the music
@@patricknyman727 I wish I could disbelief it… but this is Liszt we’re talking about. That’s absolutely incredible, especially with such a quick tempo for the first movement
Some of my favorites 0:24 -> When the left hand octaves kick in, so fiery! 0:42 -> Orchestra's entry is so gorgeous 3:46 -> Another awesome orchestra moment 5:12 -> Such a nice virtuosic passage to the end of the 1st mov 16:26 -> Drums! 17:29 -> Gotta love those upcoming octaves 18:15 -> Very fun ending for a very fine masterpiece
Mendelssohn's musical contrast is unmatched. An awesome, thrilling 1st and 3rd movement in between the sweet and sensual 2nd which literally made me cry.
mendelssohn is low-key one of my favorites. By my lights, he doesn't have as many hits as schubert or chopin, but some of the songs without words I'll take over almost anything, and op 117 is just pure rock and roll. And then there are works like this. never heard it before; already love it.
Mendelssohn has a mad penchant for the catchiest, and I mean catchy in every sense of the word. Catchy, earwormish, whichever word you choose. Take for example this piano concerto, the violin concertos, i don’t know how many songs without words, and of course midsummer night’s dream. Oh, and in the spirit of the festive season right now, Mendelssohn wrote the original cantata whose melody someone else put the words of Hark The Herald Angels Sing to 😄.
@@ShaunakDesaiPiano did he really write that melody? Do you have a link? You're right though. He seems to go back and forth between dense bach-type music where it's all runs and chord progressions... and pop music. I just love it.
@@tomswiftyphilo2504 th-cam.com/video/DfKAdJ7o0hw/w-d-xo.html the original Mendelssohn cantata edit: remember, Mendelssohn was one of the composes instrumental, pun intended, in the 19th century Bach revival, so that definitely explains Mendelssohn’s Bachian (?) influences.
Its nice reading all these overwhelmingly positive comments. It shows that the old prejudice against Mendelssohn, that was so powerful in the 20th century, is now dead, and the new generations can enjoy his genius for what it was.
This is a huge amount of "motion" for the right hand. I think it is very important to "hold back" on the volume of it to protect your hands. Yuja does this. It is not necessary to play all of the passagework at a high volume. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
cziffra performance of this particular piece is clearly inferior to this one i don't know what you're talking about unless it's a different recording on yt
Mendelssohn is vastly underrated and practically ignored concerning air/play -time did it to himself though...….. Mendelssohn is the one who discovered Bach
Mendelssohn did not discover Bach. Czerny was transcribing Bach pieces and publishing them way before him. Mozart knew Bach as well. The episode of the St Matthew Passion is only the climax which brought Bach's popularity to the top.
It's a wonderful work and I love it. But you also have to protect your hands due to the passagework. Yuja deliberately plays it at a lower volume to protect her hands and wrists. She is smart to do that. The Ravel Concerto for the L hand is also somewhat dangerous due to the possibility of repetitive injury. I love that work too. But it has more glissandi than are really necessary. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA) Retired surgeon
es ist eine unglaubliche Performance, der Pianist ist unglaublich schnell, intensiv, mitreißend, ohne Worte ....; das Gewandhausorchester ist der einzig passende Part, um dieses Konzert in dieser Perfektion vorzutragen. Ich kenne keine bessere Interpretation. Wer das noch nicht gehört hat, sollte es in einer ruhigen Stunde auf einer guten Musikanlage tun. Es ist einfach ein Genuss, den man mindestens zweifach erleben sollte. Wer es einmal hört, kann gar nicht anders, als dieses unglaubliche Ende mindestens noch einmal zu hören- und dann am Besten immer wieder.... Ich habe mir die CD dazu besorgt, auf langen Autofahrten ist es genial.
Thank you for posting this fine, exciting performance of this great concerto. Mendelssohn was simply one of the great composers- and left us such a magnificent legacy. He is one of the Immortals!
We're going to play the Presto in our youth orchestra next week... we're going to have 5 days to practice this piece as well as 6 others that most of us have never played before and then we'll have a concert, wish us luck!
This concerto makes me cry, makes me happy, put me in sad moud, makes me laugh, makes me feel victorious .... All feelings are in all peices of Mendelssohn ! Original soundtracks of feelings in my all life ! Ps : sorry for my poor english
Thank you so much for this! The piece doesn't seem so unapproachable when the notes are there to follow along. It's always been mythical to me but with this score and perhaps a couple hundred views, I feel as though I might be able to tame it and understand how something like this, so profound for expressing such an inimitable depth of beauty and passion, could be created by a man who had to eat, sleep, and relieve himself like the rest of us.
素晴らしい演奏に、スコアを付けてくれて、感謝しています。曲に対する見方、感じ方が随分違う。 I appreciate it for giving a score to the wonderful performance. Viewing and feeling for songs are quite different.
Great recording as always you just find absolute treasures! Definitely going to buy this one. Thanks and keep up your work on your precious channel. You are a blessing for the classical music community :)
Yuja Wang is typewriter! The Best Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 player is Dimitri Bashkirov! Bashkirov with the Finnish Radio Symphony video from 1989 TH-cam! Bashkirov had the best piano sound! Best tempos! Melodies rolling the best way!! Bashkirov a class of his own!
The great unappreciated concerto. It fits pianist hands like gloves. Yet it contrasts the minor tragic themes with those of romance, then with a wit that wins out. It is a great concerto full of charisma, and ready to go from minor to major in ways Mozart, Beethoven would not explore in such few measures. Mendelssohn, master of tragi- comedy. Given here a magnificent performance.
Great comments! It is the first concerto teachers give to their students because (yes), it is difficult, but playable. It does "fit the pianist's hands like a glove." It is a great introduction to two piano music. It is an inspiration to keep going onto Beethoven, etc. Thank you Lev Shorr (San Francisco pianist) and know that I will always remember your two years of my development!!!
It’s a nice concerto with some very nice sections. Nice thing is: it’s learnable. Virtuosi need not only apply! Wish he would have lived 15-20 years longer. Schumann wouldn’t have entered into a drastic state of depression after his death and he could have worked a bit more with him and Brahms in late romanticism. Could have been any even more exciting era of music. Oh yeah, Chopin could have lived another 10-15 as well to have added to this juicy nugget dream I’m having.
Surely the composer who should have lived longer is first and foremost Schubert. I think had he lived 10 more years he’d be top dog among pre-modern classical composers, out-ranking Beethoven and Mozart.
An inner struggle between two Dionysian forces, passionate love and youthful enthusiasm. The "Pathos" is at the heart of his thoughts, as it will be for Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Destiny will always catch up with us, we are all equal face to death. The hole piece seems to be a fight between the "Pathos" and Mendelssohn himself (the piano) Here the young Mendelssohn is seeking for a work out of time, "metaphysics". He tries to create an absolute and continuous unity throughout the musical discourse. It evokes a great nostalgia both classic and unknown, a "ruin of the future".
Mendelssohn was certainly a musical genius! He was so gifted in composing as well as in drawing extraordinary canvases of art. I do though hear a lot of Beethoven's influence here. And the pianist 'nailed it'!
It reads like a well-worn erotic paperback passed around in middle school. "The first movement throbs with tension..." "exuberance that gets you up and and doesn't let you off until the very end...." "breathlessly high-spirited, cunningly disguised as an ending..." "impressively delicate pianissimos, vivacious and full-bodied..."
I’m fixing to do serious harm to the music critic of the Dallas News who had the nerve to diss this wonderful concerto. I heard it performed live for the first time tonight and I’m still in awe. Love ❤️
Este concierto es muy infravalorado es endiabladamente difícil lograr el touche. Trabaja muchas habilidades técnicas y parece infinito cuando se estudia 😂 Es una maravilla de alto valor. Escuchar y estudiar
Thibaudet is so well suited to this piece. Thank you as ever for this posting and for so concise and elegant an explanation; it matches Mendelssohn's achievement here. There is a particular reason that induced me to leave this comment, however: your deft use of punctuation. I admire anyone who can construct sentences that use both colons and semicolons correctly.
The Leipzig Gewandhaus was also a favourite of mine in the seventies and eighties when I listened to symphony concerts on the radio in the evenings when I was at high school and at varsity. I thought Leizig would forever be out of bounds and yet it also was liberated later. East Germany has a fascinating charm and that is also where my name and forebears come from. Eckstein from Thuringen in the highlands of Germany. Changed to Eksteen in South Africa. The language is called Afrikaans. So strange to think that. And Bach of Eisenach, Arnstadt, Mühlhausen, Weimar, Köthen, and Leipzig.
currently obsessed with this piece and am convinced it is the greatest piano concerto of the 19th century, probably excepting beethoven 4 and 5. also think this recording is absolutely flawless and the breakneck speed is absolute appropriate.
00:00 - Movement 1: Molto Allegro Con Fuoco
6:50 - Movement 2: Andante
13:33 - Movement 3: Presto
Hero
THANK YOU ILY
Mendelssohn surely deserves more appreciation. He is one of my favorite composers. Thank you so much for giving him a chance to shine in the spotlight!
You are correct. His piano music and in particular his concerti are simply stupendous!
You're right! I also love Mendelssohn, I play Rondo Capriccioso by him and I absolutely adore it!
His "Variations Sérieuses" are so great, his "Romances sans paroles" also known as "Songs without words" are pure musical poetry.
He’s one of the most famous composers of the Romantic era. How much more appreciation can he receive? Okay he’s not quite as highly regarded as Chopin, but Chopin revolutionized piano music.
I see your point, but I think people are reflecting on the fact that Mendelssohn's reputation was marred by Nazi defamation and suppression, Wagner's own statements, etc., such that Mendelssohn's rep had to be restored in the late 20th century. Viewed objectively, Mendelssohn's work is superb. Not only did he write idiomaticlly and brilliantly for the piano, but his orchestral work is top notch. Therefore statements such as those by other commenters bare being repeated.
Mendelsohhn is so underrated. He deserves more attention and respect
One of those most respected and appreciated composers of all time, what do you mean underrated?
How is mendelssohn underrated?
@@Jack-l5f6e
He is underrated because he led a rather protected life. He loved writing tempestuous music and did it wonderfully but he was something as rare as a modest gentleman of a genius, not a suffering freak as Schubert or a choleric "titan" as Beethoven. Nor was he a scheming egomaniac as Wagner. He knew darkness but preferred not to dwell in it, he was a virtuoso and could write very advanced scores but saw no reason to brag and preferred simplicity. A bit like Haydn, he was the natural genius, following his star without overwhelming emotional disharmonies or exhibitionistic cravings for attention.
To me, the difficulty to correctly INTERPRET his music might be what's most underrated. Maybe because it sounds "good enough" any which way you play it, but to make his genius justice one must really feel the breathing and the temperament of the scores. Since this has seldom been done, his reputation has suffered. (Obviously centuries of antisemitism have obviously preferred this diminishing view of him as a "second rate" master.)
@@gunnarrundblad6846I get u but how was wagner an egomaniac and what does antisemitism got to do with this?
@@gunnarrundblad6846im also sure more ppl listen to mendelssohn than wagner
This has got to be one of the greatest piano performances of all time! And the Orchestra as well! Absolutely superb all around - I cannot get enough of Mendelssohn especially when played like this! Bravo Bravo Bravo
me pretending im the one playing this and impressing everyone
That’s amazing! Good job.👍
You spoke out my thoughts 😅😅😅
He accomplished so much for a man who didn't even live to see his 40th birthday. This piece, along with his string quartets and 2nd violin concerto are masterpieces of their respective genres. This particular piece was written when he was only 22 years old, but you wouldn't think its author was so young upon hearing it. The fact he had the courage and ambition to even attempt a string quartet after Beethoven had so firmly left his mark on the genre is admirable. Schubert said it best when upon hearing a performance of Beethoven's Op. 131. declared "After this, what is left for us to write?". I think I actually prefer Mendelssohn's quartets over Beethoven's to a large extent, though.
Blasphemy!
Agreed 👍
That's how I feel after listening to Rachmaninoff concertos like "man, I don't know how to write music."
he died tht young yet composed this?! damn
2nd violin concerto 🤔
@@confuoco5283 yes the famous violin concerto is the 2nd 1st was not published in his lifetime
One of the greatest piano concertos ever written
What I love about this concerto is that it never loses it's meaning. Constantly shifting between techniques and minor to major, keeping the audience invested through it all. There is always something happening in the music
This is one of the concertos Liszt played at first sight perfectly!
Source?
@@kofiLjunggren Alan Walker’s biography of Liszt.
@@patricknyman727 I wish I could disbelief it… but this is Liszt we’re talking about. That’s absolutely incredible, especially with such a quick tempo for the first movement
As well as the grieg
Notice how no one asked
Some of my favorites
0:24 -> When the left hand octaves kick in, so fiery!
0:42 -> Orchestra's entry is so gorgeous
3:46 -> Another awesome orchestra moment
5:12 -> Such a nice virtuosic passage to the end of the 1st mov
16:26 -> Drums!
17:29 -> Gotta love those upcoming octaves
18:15 -> Very fun ending for a very fine masterpiece
Second movement deserves some love too!
An underplayed gem. The Presto (13:33) reminds me a bit of Beethoven 5.
The eighth note rest at 7:38 is the most beautiful thing I've heard all week.
This music is beautiful, am enjoying listening to it while eating a piece of blueberry pie I baked this afternoon
Sounds like a perfect match!😋
Mendelssohn's musical contrast is unmatched. An awesome, thrilling 1st and 3rd movement in between the sweet and sensual 2nd which literally made me cry.
Fax
mendelssohn is low-key one of my favorites. By my lights, he doesn't have as many hits as schubert or chopin, but some of the songs without words I'll take over almost anything, and op 117 is just pure rock and roll. And then there are works like this. never heard it before; already love it.
Mendelssohn ‘s music flies above you without wings.. Yet so sweet melodious and in this heavy tempo on his 1$t piano concerto of a great composer.
His 2nd movement is heavenly soothing!
Mendelssohn has a mad penchant for the catchiest, and I mean catchy in every sense of the word. Catchy, earwormish, whichever word you choose. Take for example this piano concerto, the violin concertos, i don’t know how many songs without words, and of course midsummer night’s dream. Oh, and in the spirit of the festive season right now, Mendelssohn wrote the original cantata whose melody someone else put the words of Hark The Herald Angels Sing to 😄.
@@ShaunakDesaiPiano did he really write that melody? Do you have a link? You're right though. He seems to go back and forth between dense bach-type music where it's all runs and chord progressions... and pop music. I just love it.
@@tomswiftyphilo2504 th-cam.com/video/DfKAdJ7o0hw/w-d-xo.html the original Mendelssohn cantata
edit: remember, Mendelssohn was one of the composes instrumental, pun intended, in the 19th century Bach revival, so that definitely explains Mendelssohn’s Bachian (?) influences.
A great concerto - all 3 parts is great. Master Mendelssohn at his best.
Its nice reading all these overwhelmingly positive comments. It shows that the old prejudice against Mendelssohn, that was so powerful in the 20th century, is now dead, and the new generations can enjoy his genius for what it was.
First piano concerto I studied and performed in public. I fell in love with his works!
This is a huge amount of "motion" for the right hand. I think it is very important to "hold back" on the volume of it to protect your hands. Yuja does this. It is not necessary to play all of the passagework at a high volume.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
I've listened to this maybe 100 times since you posted it.
Same! I fell in love with Mendelssohn since I played venetianisches gondellied for the first time. Are you a pianist too?
@@ArianaAbedini I am, but just a hobbyist.
cziffra performance of this particular piece is clearly inferior to this one i don't know what you're talking about unless it's a different recording on yt
Download it:)
Alexandra Dovgan
The 1st movement is probably one of my favourites out of all piano concertos
draven player listening to mendelssohn never thought i would see the day
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@@me-iu1qc lol yeah W draven players
It makes me feel dyspnea. I cannot even breathe while listening to it. Perfect concerto I've ever heard.
Mendelssohn is vastly underrated and practically ignored concerning air/play -time
did it to himself though...…..
Mendelssohn is the one who discovered Bach
How did he do it to himself?
@@arnee13 Bro.
Hell yeah.
most kids my age learn this piece...
Mendelssohn did not discover Bach. Czerny was transcribing Bach pieces and publishing them way before him. Mozart knew Bach as well. The episode of the St Matthew Passion is only the climax which brought Bach's popularity to the top.
13:33 You know shit's about to get real upon hearing this part.
It kinda sounds like Beethoven's 5th Symphony.
Well, it is Presto though.
And the transition at 18:10
@Shostacovid LMAO. I love your name. 💀💀💀💀
@@LJMadrigalMusiccause of the fate motif
I listened to this for the first time and almost had to stop it and take a step back it was so good.
One of the best piano concertos ever written, so much underrated. It’s a shame that concerto is not more known
It's a wonderful work and I love it. But you also have to protect your hands due to the passagework. Yuja deliberately plays it at a lower volume to protect her hands and wrists. She is smart to do that.
The Ravel Concerto for the L hand is also somewhat dangerous due to the possibility of repetitive injury. I love that work too. But it has more glissandi than are really necessary.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
Retired surgeon
@@sanjosemike3137 You must have been a hand surgeon.
Listening to the Presto, (third movement) I said to myself, "Sounds like Rossini got something from here" . Love this work , and, Thank You !!!
I have an old friend from school who is a world-class pianist, and this is one of his favorites!
Amazing!
your friends have exceptional musical taste, and if they also recognize Alkan’s works, it’s just respectful
es ist eine unglaubliche Performance, der Pianist ist unglaublich schnell, intensiv, mitreißend, ohne Worte ....; das Gewandhausorchester ist der einzig passende Part, um dieses Konzert in dieser Perfektion vorzutragen. Ich kenne keine bessere Interpretation. Wer das noch nicht gehört hat, sollte es in einer ruhigen Stunde auf einer guten Musikanlage tun. Es ist einfach ein Genuss, den man mindestens zweifach erleben sollte. Wer es einmal hört, kann gar nicht anders, als dieses unglaubliche Ende mindestens noch einmal zu hören- und dann am Besten immer wieder.... Ich habe mir die CD dazu besorgt, auf langen Autofahrten ist es genial.
Vor einige Monate gab es dieses Konzert auch von Marc André Hamelin in TH-cam. Das war auch sehr schoen.
A breathless first movement, sensitively performed here. The whole was so entertaining, I love Mendelssohn's music. Thanks for this.
Got the passage that starts at 10:00 brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to this.
Thank you for posting this fine, exciting performance of this great concerto. Mendelssohn was simply one of the great composers- and left us such a magnificent legacy. He is one of the Immortals!
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this and for the time-stamps, analysis, and information.
9:13 incredible
We're going to play the Presto in our youth orchestra next week... we're going to have 5 days to practice this piece as well as 6 others that most of us have never played before and then we'll have a concert, wish us luck!
How'd it go?
I would love to wish you luck, but it's a bit too late now! I have only played solo, never in an orchestra! How did it go?
Wait... how old are you ?
I always forget how epic Mendelssohn is. Always forget.
Excellent post, thanks highlighting this prodigious gem off the beaten path!!
This concerto makes me cry, makes me happy, put me in sad moud, makes me laugh, makes me feel victorious .... All feelings are in all peices of Mendelssohn ! Original soundtracks of feelings in my all life !
Ps : sorry for my poor english
Zai Phyr , you said it perfectly. Thank you. I feel like you do.
Thank you so much for this! The piece doesn't seem so unapproachable when the notes are there to follow along. It's always been mythical to me but with this score and perhaps a couple hundred views, I feel as though I might be able to tame it and understand how something like this, so profound for expressing such an inimitable depth of beauty and passion, could be created by a man who had to eat, sleep, and relieve himself like the rest of us.
Have you tamed it now?
Give me another decade.
Underrated concerto. I love the last movement!
This performance is nothing short of brilliant.
素晴らしい演奏に、スコアを付けてくれて、感謝しています。曲に対する見方、感じ方が随分違う。
I appreciate it for giving a score to the wonderful performance. Viewing and feeling for songs are quite different.
Great recording as always you just find absolute treasures! Definitely going to buy this one. Thanks and keep up your work on your precious channel. You are a blessing for the classical music community :)
I think Yuja Wang plays this concerto the best still, her explosiveness is unmatched
I disagree.
I agree.
Yuja Wang is typewriter! The Best Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 player is Dimitri Bashkirov! Bashkirov with the Finnish Radio Symphony video from 1989 TH-cam! Bashkirov had the best piano sound! Best tempos! Melodies rolling the best way!! Bashkirov a class of his own!
As a lifelong fan of the pianistic genius of Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Godowsky, I say don't sleep on Mendelssohn!
Totally agree!
Man do I love to someone who likes godowsky
That third movement is so flowery and happy. I love it. 😊
Love the way he starts off big right away.
The great unappreciated concerto.
It fits pianist hands like gloves.
Yet it contrasts the minor tragic themes with those of romance, then with a wit that wins out.
It is a great concerto full of charisma, and ready to go from minor to major in ways Mozart, Beethoven would not explore in such few measures.
Mendelssohn, master of tragi- comedy. Given here a magnificent performance.
He is like Mozart+Beethoven+himself
A true prodigy
Great comments!
It is the first concerto teachers give to their students because (yes), it is difficult, but playable.
It does "fit the pianist's hands like a glove." It is a great introduction to two piano music.
It is an inspiration to keep going onto Beethoven, etc.
Thank you Lev Shorr (San Francisco pianist) and know that I will always remember your two years of my development!!!
It’s a nice concerto with some very nice sections. Nice thing is: it’s learnable. Virtuosi need not only apply! Wish he would have lived 15-20 years longer. Schumann wouldn’t have entered into a drastic state of depression after his death and he could have worked a bit more with him and Brahms in late romanticism. Could have been any even more exciting era of music. Oh yeah, Chopin could have lived another 10-15 as well to have added to this juicy nugget dream I’m having.
msurocks1973 I really want to learn this but I have so many other pieces I’m learning rn
Yes, Chopin lived 39 years... Omg, what he could accomplish if he could live 70 years..
Learnable by whom? I think its difficult.
Surely the composer who should have lived longer is first and foremost Schubert. I think had he lived 10 more years he’d be top dog among pre-modern classical composers, out-ranking Beethoven and Mozart.
Honestly speaking, it's fairly idiomatic in terms of piano writing - spend enough time with the keyboard and it will come along in a matter of days.
this was before piano concertos became 10 hours long. I appreciate that
An inner struggle between two Dionysian forces, passionate love and youthful enthusiasm.
The "Pathos" is at the heart of his thoughts, as it will be for Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Destiny will always catch up with us, we are all equal face to death. The hole piece seems to be a fight between the "Pathos" and Mendelssohn himself (the piano)
Here the young Mendelssohn is seeking for a work out of time, "metaphysics". He tries to create an absolute and continuous unity throughout the musical discourse. It evokes a great nostalgia both classic and unknown, a "ruin of the future".
Such a beautiful piece.It passes an amazing energy.👌🏻👌🏻
First time I've heard this, and I listen to a lot of Classical music. Thanks for posting this!
Mendelssohn was certainly a musical genius! He was so gifted in composing as well as in drawing extraordinary canvases of art. I do though hear a lot of Beethoven's influence here. And the pianist 'nailed it'!
Magnificent!
I wish every classical music video would have a description like this one, amazing
What a brilliant piano concerto!
Love this so much! Your channels is one of the best things that’s happened to me! That way I can study the score while listening to the sound💜💕
I really appreciate your notes guiding me through the sections of the concerto. Thank you.
easily one of the best piano concertos ive ever heard
Whoever wrote this description has an amazing ability with the English language
It reads like a well-worn erotic paperback passed around in middle school. "The first movement throbs with tension..." "exuberance that gets you up and and doesn't let you off until the very end...." "breathlessly high-spirited, cunningly disguised as an ending..." "impressively delicate pianissimos, vivacious and full-bodied..."
wow, such an underplayed concerto!
Tell that to an intermediate, sophomore piano student.
I’m fixing to do serious harm to the music critic of the Dallas News who had the nerve to diss this wonderful concerto. I heard it performed live for the first time tonight and I’m still in awe. Love ❤️
Quite superb. Dazzling playing by Thibaudet.
Brilliant performance
Lovely. I'd play this concerto almost exactly like this.
Great concerto! A little bit underappreciated in my opinion. Also, great performance. Thanks for sharing, as usual!
A very good piano concerto. Mendelssohn's a great composer!!! His compositions are so balanced.
This has got to be my favourite recording of this piece, miles ahead of all others!
Such wonderful music.
Third movement is beauty
16:11 I don't know why, but I love this part ✨❤️✨
The first time listening I was a mere 8 bars in and loved it.
Such a beautiful piece and absolutely fantastic performance 😍❤
Este concierto es muy infravalorado es endiabladamente difícil lograr el touche. Trabaja muchas habilidades técnicas y parece infinito cuando se estudia 😂
Es una maravilla de alto valor. Escuchar y estudiar
My favorite Classical song of all time. Bravo on the performance!
Such a delightful piece!
Thibaudet is so well suited to this piece. Thank you as ever for this posting and for so concise and elegant an explanation; it matches Mendelssohn's achievement here. There is a particular reason that induced me to leave this comment, however: your deft use of punctuation. I admire anyone who can construct sentences that use both colons and semicolons correctly.
The Leipzig Gewandhaus was also a favourite of mine in the seventies and eighties when I listened to symphony concerts on the radio in the evenings when I was at high school and at varsity. I thought Leizig would forever be out of bounds and yet it also was liberated later. East Germany has a fascinating charm and that is also where my name and forebears come from. Eckstein from Thuringen in the highlands of Germany. Changed to Eksteen in South Africa. The language is called Afrikaans. So strange to think that. And Bach of Eisenach, Arnstadt, Mühlhausen, Weimar, Köthen, and Leipzig.
A GOOD EXAMPLE OF VIRTUOSITY
Mendelssohn composed this concerto in his early 20's but he already had the technical demand for such work as early as age 7 !
What a satisfying piece! Thanks for the information in the description)
Excelente explicación! Como muy pocos videos de este mismo interés... muchísimas gracias por tu gran aporte!
I know nothing about music or playing it. But I do very much enjoy it's beauty. As displayed here...
I’ve always thought this was total 🔥
One of my favourites :)
The conductor and orchestra is Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
What an amazing pianist!!!
love this piece sm, idk why it brings me so much joyful
My favorite piece ...❤️
the pianism is astounding
16:36 most perfect and clearly passage i've ever heard in my life
A very very good concerto by Mendelssohn
currently obsessed with this piece and am convinced it is the greatest piano concerto of the 19th century, probably excepting beethoven 4 and 5. also think this recording is absolutely flawless and the breakneck speed is absolute appropriate.
T'exagères un peu.
@@christopheleclair5367 whatever, nuance is for wankers
Este sin duda es mi concierto favorito.
Love that final movement!!!!!
Stunning ! Perfectly played too 👏 ❤
YEEEES AN UPLOAD, YOUR ANALYSIS GIVES ME LIFE
7:03 Mendelssohn is amazing.
Yeah
Bravo au pianiste !!!!
i feel like this what Beethoven would've composed if he was alive during the Romantic era