The sheer majesty and supernatural ability of Beethoven transcend into this masterful composition. How on earth could anyone compose such glory without hearing the notes??? I believe he only heard less than a third of his compositions! Ludwig is and will remain the greatest musician in the history of the world...
First heard it when I was 16. Now at 73 it is still fresh and magical. Love it every time and time again. Life would not be half as beautiful without Beethoven. The fifth Symphony pleases the masses...the 5th concerto pleases the soul.
Wow...I loved this from the moment I accidentally (!) encountered the adagio on a film "Picnic at hanging Rock". I love Ashkenazy & Brendel..Who do u recommend? I wish you another 25 happy new years ! Regards, Nick
+Csaba Kertesz And both are soothing my soul, which I need right now! (Another favorite, just as great, IMO, is Chopin's Piano concerto no. 1, op. 11.)
Susan Rumens I've always loved Beethoven, even at 16. When I started playing piano at 23, I was determined to learn everything he wrote for piano. While self-taught, I caught the ear of a music professor who would train me to be a concert pianist. Fate stepped in with rheumatoid arthritis, but at 64, I still dream I'm playing that piano. I can still listen, though.
Small in stature but huge in intellect and musicality, Askenazy has been my lifelong greatest pianist. How wonderful now to see him perform close up, thanks to modern technology.
I was able to see him conduct about two years ago, then was fortunate enough to meet him backstage. Brilliant and compassionate. One of the highlights of my life. His rendition of the Emperor is without peer.
nebraskatpp : I understand the sentiment, but please don’t kill. Unwise, at best. Yes, Ashkenazy is a great musician and, what is more, he is a truly good, kind, family-conscious person as well. A rarity in the competitive world of classical music. Oh, and he also has a great sense of humour coupled with genuine humility.
I've a tendency to agree, although I have listened to amazingly talented pianists such a Franscois Du Toit, Leonard Penario, Barenboim, to name a few. who are miraculous performers among many others. We all have a favourite, but must listen to the performer of the moment with out comparison.
I first heard this when I was 18 in C 1971 when I went to the Hollywood Bowl with my great aunt and cousin! It is still good, now that I am 69, 51 years older! And watch the piano player! No sheet music! He has that all memorized. Wow!
Yes sir! Nothing like Ashkenazy for this concerto.. I've heard it from other greats, Rubinstein Braendel, etc but good old Ashkenazy is like the rock n roll version to me. He imprints it with so much energy and rebelliousness, and melancholy on the 2nd.., It's beyond words. BRAVO!!!
If i could only listen to one piece of music for the rest of my life,I think it would have to be this.I've loved it since i was in my baby crib - and i'm an oldie now.Such is the beauty,power and breadth of expertise in this one piece!
Always a complete performance, never seen him so animated, looked supremely confident in his performance, one of the greatest pieces of music of all time in my opinion! Mankind at its best.
This concerto is what they play in Heaven, especially the middle movement. And Ashknazy is playing it. I love this...so much better than some of the young pianists I've heard in the last few years. Just pure perfection.
As I started becoming a musician at age 18, I purchased what was essentially a "greatest hits" CD of each Mozart and Beethoven. After one or two listens I threw out the Mozart CD but returned over and over again to Beethoven. It had all the instantly recognizable "hits" like Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, Tempest & Ode to Joy, but my instant favorite was the 5th track entitled "Emporer" and was about 9 minutes long. That piece is the very beginning of the second movement from about 21:20 to 29:30 in this video. It is still to this day my favorite piece of music ever.
"...I threw out the Mozart CD..." Unbelievably sad statement. As for Ashkenazy in here, he recorded a set of the CD's with all Mozart's 27 piano concertos with LSO for Decca; try his Concerto for Flute and Harp or the Clarinet concerto - the heavenly sounds. Furthermore, regarding the influence he achieved during his lifetime, only to mention his The Magic Flute, which inspired Goethe himself for one of the sections in The Faust II. Later on Goethe wanted to commission a certain piece from Mozart for his future drama-play, however Mozart couldn't except the engagement. Not to mention a brilliance of the symphonies he composed during his 35 years long life. And just only little detail, Mozart's Fantasy in C minor K475 was 'beethovenian' before Beethoven, liberate in spirit and form and so ahead of his time. At last, Mozart was an inspiration for young Beethoven, he gave the basics to the music composed by the "children of Enlightenment", who Beethoven certainly was.
Ashkenazy is fully able to integrated the immense emotion of the N°5 concerto . none of other pianist reach the perfect blow of the kind melody which become a greate explosion of energy lalter with a marvelous rythm
Amazing interpretation and absolutely breathtaking piece of musical composition ... such master, such emotion, such passion ... God bless Beethoven, God bless all musicians ...
That Segue from the second movement into the third movement is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.... PERFECTLY phrased and ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. Ashkenazy is one of my favorite pianists and is hands down one of the top five pianists that ever lived. I know there is a God because we could not have music this transcendently beautiful if there weren't.
Ashkenazy's tempo on the 2nd movement of this Beethoven piano concerto is the best among many famous pianists. His delay on part of the section @23:06 before hitting the high note perfectly express the deep emotions of this piece. No one has ever expressed so perfectly. Simply brilliant.
@@kaykay865Logos is the use of facts, statistics, and reasoning to appeal to an audience's sense of logic. How this relates to Vladimir's genius is beyond me (and most other folk I imagine).
@rogerturner5504 it's definitely not your definition It's not my definition by the way 2500 years of others defining it Your personal definition doesn't sit within any of it
This has long been my favorite. I love videos directed so that ea. Instrument is on the screen when they are playing but this is really the pianist 's piece so I enjoy watching Ashkenazy's hands. Second movement is so lovely it just brings tears.
Glad that we can all live to see this: Beethoven + LPO + Ashkenazy + Haitink. The transcendental majesty of music at its best! Many thanks, from Canada.
A great performance and interpretation from a great musician. Bernard Haitink and orchestra also brilliant, as usual. Thank you for this perfect upload.
Haitink has long been one of my favourite conductors and until he retired from playing live piano and concentrating on conducting Ashkenazy was my favourite pianist from the 70s when i was a teenager. Thank you for this wonderful post of one of my favourite works as well.
The Best Greatest Beethoven piano concerto no 5 players Are really=1: Wilhelm Kempff ( The most beautiful piano sound Ever for Beethoven concerto no 5!) 2: Vladimir Ashkenazy ( The most colorful volcanic piano sound Ever for Beethoven concerto no 5!) 3: Grigory Sokolov ( The Best rhythmic vital beat! Unbeatable vitalness!) 4: Solomon Cutner ( The perfect structure of music! Solomon Cutner The highest IQ points!!) 5: Mikhail Pletnev ( The Most Powerful Ever! Pletnev The Best Crystal Bright Sharp Clear Perfect Beethoven piano concerto no 5!) 6: Maurizio Pollini ( The Genius playing Beethoven piano concerto no 5!) 7:Van Cliburn in Moscow! Why Van Cliburn?? Because Van Cliburn better than The stiff Claudio Arrau!! Van Cliburn better than The Mechanical Boring dull stiff machine player Ever Krystian Zimerman!! )
Sometimes it takes a while to get used to some kinds of music. For example, Bach used to leave me cold until a neighbor started playing Bach very loudly all the time. Now some of my favorite music, when I am down, lis Back. But Beethoven is still my favorite composerl
How beautifully he becomes one of the orchestra when necessary; there are no adequate words to describe his skill and musicianship when he commands the attention. He looks so much like Alan Rickman, I can't believe it!
This concert is part of my life. being very young, my father handed me a cassette with the tape cut, which I repaired with a tape, when I could listen to the music, I fell in love forever with this piece. Thanks for uploading it. I hear him happy again!
Exactly the same with me. I heard this first at the age of 8 and it has remained my favourite piece of music my entire life. I laid flowers on Beethoven’s grave 5 years ago in a token of appreciation for the joy his music has brought to me for decades. Immortal.
Ashkenazy came to play for the Louisville Orchestra about this time. I have never forgotten that performance -- through the years. His performance was so impressive. I do not remember what he played, just that he was wonderful.
Outstanding, beautiful interpretation: Haitink, great conductor and Ashkenazy who retired a few months ago; we thank him and wish him the best.!; thanks You Tube.
Long live Ashkenazy our new hero! I even have his DVD that I purchased from Amazon :) Very nice Rachmaninov interpretations in the end with explanations, I can highly recommend him :)
Bravooo! Having listened to Glen Gould's recit 1970of dare to say as if Vladimir had been offering a completely different piece of Beethoven. Excellent & professional that lasts unperishable.
I have been watching Vladimir Ashkenazy on television on and off since 1969. I have never been able to spot those famous small hands. My favourite pianist until Hélène Grimaud turned up. With full respect.
As I read through these comments, I was hoping to see one or two that mentioned Helene Grimaud and her interpretation of this piece. Thank you!! Her version is certainly right up there with this one by Ashkenazy. She is my favorite pianist also.
I like Ashkenazy in a pianist. I was born this video, so I'm very happy to see it now. I think that live performance is better for his music than for CD.
Ashkenazy would be over 80 now since he looked about 40 at the time of this performance;but it was a marvelous concert the best I've ever heard of this concerto.
Fue un Placer escuchar a Vladimir Ashkenasy tocar El Emperador de Beethoven .Hermosa Obra como todo lo que compuso .Ashkenasy uno de los Mejores intérpretes de Beethoven .Gracias por Compartir .👏👏👏👏🎹🎼🎶🎶⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘
Ashkenazy has it all to the highest degree: precision and passion, yes, and lots of other virtuosi have that too, but Ashkenazy is supremely tasteful and disciplined, every note, every phrase under the control of a profound understanding of the tradition.
Jasmine, thank you for posting. I listen every morning. I am actually writing an interpretation of what the second movement may be. I am not a music theorist, nor musician, but simply a lover of Ludwig, and especially this concerto, and even more so Ashkenazy's version. My title for the second and final movement is "The most beautiful dream".
This was probably also Haitink at his best, so exhilarating to watch let alone listening to the masterly play. Thanks so much for posting the whole piece, marvellous.
The amazing thing is, it is actually the same theme as the rather mysterious, flickery theme on the strings at 2:34, and again as the theme the horns play smoothed out at 2:49. It is hard to consciously spot these similarities, but they have the effect of making the movement feel like a natural whole to which all the parts properly belong, no doubt because the listener's mind half remembers the outline of the theme's pattern, even if in its new drress it creates a completely different emotional and aesthetic quality. The creative power of Beethoven to create from one simple "tune" such different soundscapes is scarcely believable.
Truly the mark of a great musician, and the mark of a great concerto performance. I get annoyed nowadays listening to a recording of a concerto when the soloist is rushing/forcing the orchestra to play "catch up" with their tempo changes (or vice versa). Great conductors and soloists deeply respect the music and strive to collaborate for maximum effect and cohesion. This is a perfect example of just that. Love this performance, and Ashkenazy is one of my all-time favorite pianists.
Brilliant ! A very beautiful Beethoven-style performance and an orchestra conducted by a master conductor Bernard Haitink and an elite pianist Vladimir Așkenazi.
Ashkenazy was always my favorite for the Beethoven concertos, he's fun to watch, he plays with such passion and clarity and phrases everything so well AND the tempo is perfect! He knows how to really bring Beethoven's music to life, and I've heard somewhere that he's not considered a great interpreter of Beethoven. Psshh Thank you so much for bringing us the complete concerto!! And doesn't he kinda look like a young Robert Deniro?
Beethoven was to music what Isaac Newton was to science, or Christopher Wren to architecture, or Michaelangelo to art. And ignoramuses like me who can hardly play four chords on a guitar and cannot wrap my head around four-part harmony still get to bask in the beauties he creates.
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The sheer majesty and supernatural ability of Beethoven transcend into this masterful composition. How on earth could anyone compose such glory without hearing the notes??? I believe he only heard less than a third of his compositions! Ludwig is and will remain the greatest musician in the history of the world...
First heard it when I was 16. Now at 73 it is still fresh and magical. Love it every time and time again. Life would not be half as beautiful without Beethoven. The fifth Symphony pleases the masses...the 5th concerto pleases the soul.
Wow...I loved this from the moment I accidentally (!) encountered the adagio on a film "Picnic at hanging Rock". I love Ashkenazy & Brendel..Who do u recommend? I wish you another 25 happy new years ! Regards, Nick
+Csaba Kertesz And both are soothing my soul, which I need right now! (Another favorite, just as great, IMO, is Chopin's Piano concerto no. 1, op. 11.)
Csaba Kertesz! Completely agree with you. And our time lines mesh absolutely! Do you think one's musical tastes mature with age?
+Csaba Kertesz You are too right about life would not be half as beautiful without Beethoven!!
Susan Rumens I've always loved Beethoven, even at 16. When I started playing piano at 23, I was determined to learn everything he wrote for piano. While self-taught, I caught the ear of a music professor who would train me to be a concert pianist. Fate stepped in with rheumatoid arthritis, but at 64, I still dream I'm playing that piano. I can still listen, though.
Beethoven born in 1770 died in 1827 left us such beautiful music.Thank you Beethoven
He never rushes or hurries. Never gets carried away. His mellow personality shows, yet very passionate. Wonderful experience!
😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 18:40 18:42
Small in stature but huge in intellect and musicality, Askenazy has been my lifelong greatest pianist. How wonderful now to see him perform close up, thanks to modern technology.
I was able to see him conduct about two years ago, then was fortunate enough to meet him backstage. Brilliant and compassionate. One of the highlights of my life. His rendition of the Emperor is without peer.
JOHN BONNARD 1974... not that modern...Is your name Rip van Winkle...?😉
One of the greatest pianists of all time.
Ashkenazy is a genius and a brilliant pianist. He is one of the greatest pianists who ever lived.
He is truly Absorbed in the piece.... just like the rest of us... but I would kill to be able to play this.
nebraskatpp : I understand the sentiment, but please don’t kill. Unwise, at best. Yes, Ashkenazy is a great musician and, what is more, he is a truly good, kind, family-conscious person as well. A rarity in the competitive world of classical music. Oh, and he also has a great sense of humour coupled with genuine humility.
A genius AND a brilliant pianist...🎼😂
Now that's what I call being greedy...!🎹😁
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I've a tendency to agree, although I have listened to amazingly talented pianists such a Franscois Du Toit, Leonard Penario, Barenboim, to name a few. who are miraculous performers among many others. We all have a favourite, but must listen to the performer of the moment with out comparison.
I first heard this when I was 18 in C 1971 when I went to the Hollywood Bowl with my great aunt and cousin! It is still good, now that I am 69, 51 years older! And watch the piano player! No sheet music! He has that all memorized. Wow!
@Deborah Ray : Have you seen and heard Alexander Malofeev (21)👍
one of the greatest pianists ever
Yes sir! Nothing like Ashkenazy for this concerto.. I've heard it from other greats, Rubinstein Braendel, etc but good old Ashkenazy is like the rock n roll version to me. He imprints it with so much energy and rebelliousness, and melancholy on the 2nd.., It's beyond words. BRAVO!!!
pastorius jaco and ABM??
pastorius jaco sure!
pastorius jaco Saw Emanuel Ax play this last year. Was pretty fantastic, gotta say!
ABM played it like a computer.
Adagio is my obsession!!!I would listen without stopping this magical beauty!Vladimir plays divinely!!!
If i could only listen to one piece of music for the rest of my life,I think it would have to be this.I've loved it since i was in my baby crib - and i'm an oldie now.Such is the beauty,power and breadth of expertise in this one piece!
In just three words: Totally amazing Ashkenazy!
Amazing sound quality from the 70s preserving this mastery performance by the greatest of all times.
The most beautiful concerto.Never fails to relax me. An amazing piece of music.
It's simply stunning !! I could watch this over and over till I drop.Bravo to Ashkenazy & Haitink.
Oh! I was just thinking - 'bravo'! --- bravo to all who were part of this supremely magnificent and beautiful music.
Always a complete performance, never seen him so animated, looked supremely confident in his performance, one of the greatest pieces of music of all time in my opinion! Mankind at its best.
This concerto is what they play in Heaven, especially the middle movement. And Ashknazy is playing it. I love this...so much better than some of the young pianists I've heard in the last few years. Just pure perfection.
One of my favorite pieces, whether he was already deaf or not: HE was a genius!
As I started becoming a musician at age 18, I purchased what was essentially a "greatest hits" CD of each Mozart and Beethoven. After one or two listens I threw out the Mozart CD but returned over and over again to Beethoven.
It had all the instantly recognizable "hits" like Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, Tempest & Ode to Joy, but my instant favorite was the 5th track entitled "Emporer" and was about 9 minutes long.
That piece is the very beginning of the second movement from about 21:20 to 29:30 in this video.
It is still to this day my favorite piece of music ever.
"...I threw out the Mozart CD..." Unbelievably sad statement. As for Ashkenazy in here, he recorded a set of the CD's with all Mozart's 27 piano concertos with LSO for Decca; try his Concerto for Flute and Harp or the Clarinet concerto - the heavenly sounds. Furthermore, regarding the influence he achieved during his lifetime, only to mention his The Magic Flute, which inspired Goethe himself for one of the sections in The Faust II. Later on Goethe wanted to commission a certain piece from Mozart for his future drama-play, however Mozart couldn't except the engagement. Not to mention a brilliance of the symphonies he composed during his 35 years long life. And just only little detail, Mozart's Fantasy in C minor K475 was 'beethovenian' before Beethoven, liberate in spirit and form and so ahead of his time. At last, Mozart was an inspiration for young Beethoven, he gave the basics to the music composed by the "children of Enlightenment", who Beethoven certainly was.
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Ashkenazy is fully able to integrated the immense emotion of the N°5 concerto . none of other pianist reach the perfect blow of the kind melody which become a greate explosion of energy lalter with a marvelous rythm
BRAVO BEETHOVEN !!! bravo , mersi Ashkenazy !!!!!!
Amazing interpretation and absolutely breathtaking piece of musical composition ... such master, such emotion, such passion ... God bless Beethoven, God bless all musicians ...
My favourite in the world. Beethoven and this performance.
Bravo Vladi!!!
Yes. A Great performance and marvellous to have this available on screen.Still good after 1974 as a 17 year old.
That Segue from the second movement into the third movement is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.... PERFECTLY phrased and ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. Ashkenazy is one of my favorite pianists and is hands down one of the top five pianists that ever lived. I know there is a God because we could not have music this transcendently beautiful if there weren't.
Ashkenazy's tempo on the 2nd movement of this Beethoven piano concerto is the best among many famous pianists. His delay on part of the section @23:06 before hitting the high note perfectly express the deep emotions of this piece. No one has ever expressed so perfectly. Simply brilliant.
He's so good.
Every one of those tens of thousands of key depressions live in his brain without reference to the dots. A staggering human performance.
It's called the logos
@@kaykay865Logos is the use of facts, statistics, and reasoning to appeal to an audience's sense of logic. How this relates to Vladimir's genius is beyond me (and most other folk I imagine).
@rogerturner5504 you obviously have no clue
But anyway.. keep talking lol
@@kaykay865Tell us what is your description of logos.
@rogerturner5504 it's definitely not your definition
It's not my definition by the way
2500 years of others defining it
Your personal definition doesn't sit within any of it
Absolutely fantastic!!! This music takes me to another space, that space in ones head!
This has long been my favorite. I love videos directed so that ea. Instrument is on the screen when they are playing but this is really the pianist 's piece so I enjoy watching Ashkenazy's hands. Second movement is so lovely it just brings tears.
Love to listen and watch him play!
Awesome interpretation by a genius pianist of this majestic concerto.
It is an endless piece of beautiful music!
Glad that we can all live to see this: Beethoven + LPO + Ashkenazy + Haitink. The transcendental majesty of music at its best! Many thanks, from Canada.
A great performance and interpretation from a great musician. Bernard Haitink and orchestra also brilliant, as usual. Thank you for this perfect upload.
Haitink has long been one of my favourite conductors and until he retired from playing live piano and concentrating on conducting Ashkenazy was my favourite pianist from the 70s when i was a teenager. Thank you for this wonderful post of one of my favourite works as well.
Ashkenazy et Pollini, deux merveilles du piano et de ce concerto.
The Best Greatest Beethoven piano concerto no 5 players Are really=1: Wilhelm Kempff ( The most beautiful piano sound Ever for Beethoven concerto no 5!) 2: Vladimir Ashkenazy ( The most colorful volcanic piano sound Ever for Beethoven concerto no 5!) 3: Grigory Sokolov ( The Best rhythmic vital beat! Unbeatable vitalness!) 4: Solomon Cutner ( The perfect structure of music! Solomon Cutner The highest IQ points!!) 5: Mikhail Pletnev ( The Most Powerful Ever! Pletnev The Best Crystal Bright Sharp Clear Perfect Beethoven piano concerto no 5!) 6: Maurizio Pollini ( The Genius playing Beethoven piano concerto no 5!) 7:Van Cliburn in Moscow! Why Van Cliburn?? Because Van Cliburn better than The stiff Claudio Arrau!! Van Cliburn better than The Mechanical Boring dull stiff machine player Ever Krystian Zimerman!! )
@@RaineriHakkarainen Also, Gilels played wonderful Beethoven, concertos and sonatas.
Ashkenazy is incredible! :)
simply amazing....
ashkenazy my favourite virtuoso...
Majestic, poignant, and a finale of sumptuous merriment. Add my favorite pianist and all is bliss.
I saw Ashkenazy play this with the Cleveland Orch with Lorin Maezel in like 74 I think it was. it has been one of my favorites since.
OH , it does not get any better than this. Thank you so much. (Dec. 2022 Holland) 🌷🌷🌷
Fifty four dislike this wonderful Concerto. Impossible to believe.
It might also be like theyre in pain or something, coming from a higher frequency :/
That's what reggaeton is doing to society
Sometimes it takes a while to get used to some kinds of music. For example, Bach used to leave me cold until a neighbor started playing Bach very loudly all the time. Now some of my favorite music, when I am down, lis Back. But Beethoven is still my favorite composerl
nah, they're just australian likes
I guess they came here after having listened to Glenn Gould's out-of-this-world genius interpretation of this very concerto. Just like myself.
I'm 63 and it's my favourite!
How beautifully he becomes one of the orchestra when necessary; there are no adequate words to describe his skill and musicianship when he commands the attention.
He looks so much like Alan Rickman, I can't believe it!
Qué Bárbaro!! Increíble interpretación... MAGISTRAL!!!
This concert is part of my life. being very young, my father handed me a cassette with the tape cut, which I repaired with a tape, when I could listen to the music, I fell in love forever with this piece. Thanks for uploading it. I hear him happy again!
Exactly the same with me. I heard this first at the age of 8 and it has remained my favourite piece of music my entire life. I laid flowers on Beethoven’s grave 5 years ago in a token of appreciation for the joy his music has brought to me for decades. Immortal.
I know almost nothing about music... except for what reaches me.... and this piece ROCKS ME SOLID... it is Extra-Ordinary..
You know everything that matters. It sounds good and you enjoy it.
i can´t believe im goint to interview such a legendary star...This version of a popular work is just impressive
operaperu so what was that like?
Maravilhosa execução, impecável Ashkenasy!!!!
Legends, all! Beethoven, Ashkenazy, Haitink and the London Philharmonic!
Outstanding version of my favorite piano concerto - wow!- thanks for posting.
Absolutely superb.
Excellent ! Savoureux ! Merveilleux !
Magnificent! Never fails in bringing tears to my eyes! Bravo...
That second movement kills anyone with a bit of a heart.. it’s just too much. Beethoven is from another world
Really appreciate viewing this splendid performance. I have the best seat in the house!
This, and Mozart's No. 20 in D minor. Beautiful, and thank you for posting.
Ashkenazy came to play for the Louisville Orchestra about this time. I have never forgotten that performance -- through the years. His performance was so impressive. I do not remember what he played, just that he was wonderful.
Ashkenazy, one of the all-time greats!
Pure heart
One of my favorite youtubes of Beethoven, of anything!
So beautiful.... it brings tears to your eyes!
Outstanding, beautiful interpretation: Haitink, great conductor and Ashkenazy who retired a few months ago; we thank him and wish him the best.!; thanks You Tube.
Long live Ashkenazy our new hero! I even have his DVD that I purchased from Amazon :) Very nice Rachmaninov interpretations in the end with explanations, I can highly recommend him :)
Bravooo! Having listened to Glen Gould's recit 1970of dare to say as if Vladimir had been offering a completely different piece of Beethoven. Excellent & professional that lasts unperishable.
Eu adoro este concerto desde pequeno. Nos leva a um plano superior, aos céus se assim deseja. Salve Beethoven e a boa Música!
I have been watching Vladimir Ashkenazy on television on and off since 1969. I have never been able to spot those famous small hands. My favourite pianist until Hélène Grimaud turned up. With full respect.
As I read through these comments, I was hoping to see one or two that mentioned Helene Grimaud and her interpretation of this piece. Thank you!! Her version is certainly right up there with this one by Ashkenazy. She is my favorite pianist also.
I like Ashkenazy in a pianist. I was born this video, so I'm very happy to see it now. I think that live performance is better for his music than for CD.
so gentle & beautiful ... it almost hurts
excelent interpretation, every single note was expressed
Good lord thank you for this.
I wholly concur. I adore Vladimir
Ashkenazy would be over 80 now since he looked about 40 at the time of this performance;but it was a marvelous concert the best I've ever heard of this concerto.
Born 6 July 6 1937, so 76.
77 in a few days.
I agree but Barenboim plays this beautifully also..
@@indaadams9912 Barenboim is boring.
Fue un Placer escuchar a Vladimir Ashkenasy tocar El Emperador de Beethoven .Hermosa Obra como todo lo que compuso .Ashkenasy uno de los Mejores intérpretes de Beethoven .Gracias por Compartir .👏👏👏👏🎹🎼🎶🎶⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘
Merveilleux. Merci mille fois.
Ashkenazy has it all to the highest degree: precision and passion, yes, and lots of other virtuosi have that too, but Ashkenazy is supremely tasteful and disciplined, every note, every phrase under the control of a profound understanding of the tradition.
I hope he can hear it now
Jasmine, thank you for posting. I listen every morning. I am actually writing an interpretation of what the second movement may be. I am not a music theorist, nor musician, but simply a lover of Ludwig, and especially this concerto, and even more so Ashkenazy's version. My title for the second and final movement is "The most beautiful dream".
How has your work been going?
This was probably also Haitink at his best, so exhilarating to watch let alone listening to the masterly play. Thanks so much for posting the whole piece, marvellous.
Sublime performance! Brilliant!
I love that fantasy-like theme at 6:01 (also restated at a later part) sooooo much
Sergio Mendoza So do I. You almost expect to see tiny fairies & butterflies dancing through the air...
The amazing thing is, it is actually the same theme as the rather mysterious, flickery theme on the strings at 2:34, and again as the theme the horns play smoothed out at 2:49. It is hard to consciously spot these similarities, but they have the effect of making the movement feel like a natural whole to which all the parts properly belong, no doubt because the listener's mind half remembers the outline of the theme's pattern, even if in its new drress it creates a completely different emotional and aesthetic quality. The creative power of Beethoven to create from one simple "tune" such different soundscapes is scarcely believable.
Even though this was a piano concerto, he interacted with the orchestra. It's as if they are only one. Very cohesive.
Truly the mark of a great musician, and the mark of a great concerto performance. I get annoyed nowadays listening to a recording of a concerto when the soloist is rushing/forcing the orchestra to play "catch up" with their tempo changes (or vice versa). Great conductors and soloists deeply respect the music and strive to collaborate for maximum effect and cohesion. This is a perfect example of just that. Love this performance, and Ashkenazy is one of my all-time favorite pianists.
Beethoven you are the greatest.
33:29 made me feel so many emotions, I never knew classical music had this effect. I’m going down a rabbit hole.
legend!!!!
Brilliant ! A very beautiful Beethoven-style performance and an orchestra conducted by a master conductor Bernard Haitink and an elite pianist Vladimir Așkenazi.
OK, but Haitink is a boring spiritless conductor. I never liked him and do not collect any of his recordings.
Pure power.
Wow~!!! BRAVO!!
thank you!!!!!!
Superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ashkenazy was always my favorite for the Beethoven concertos, he's fun to watch, he plays with such passion and clarity and phrases everything so well AND the tempo is perfect! He knows how to really bring Beethoven's music to life, and I've heard somewhere that he's not considered a great interpreter of Beethoven. Psshh
Thank you so much for bringing us the complete concerto!!
And doesn't he kinda look like a young Robert Deniro?
MrStrangeSensation : No. He looks exactly like who he is: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Beethoven was to music what Isaac Newton was to science, or Christopher Wren to architecture, or Michaelangelo to art. And ignoramuses like me who can hardly play four chords on a guitar and cannot wrap my head around four-part harmony still get to bask in the beauties he creates.
I have a cd of Ashkenazy playing the piano/cello sonatas. He's amazing!
~passion coma~ Beethoven 'was totally there' to think all this up so brilliantly
Geduld - so heist es, Sie muß ich nun zur führerin wählen, ich habe es
o yes & no & guess I say a
jawohl folderol & park
I jew up herr wit
deutschesnark
in Kant sauce afterall
o wann - o Wann o Gottheit - kann ich im Tempel der Natur und der Menschen ihn wider fühlen - Nie? - nein - o es wäre zu hart
Patience - it is said that I must now choose for my guide, I have done so
and how that worked out?
o u i know u Noh mi o & how
sum tink it’s Allah bow wow wow to mi mi mi now Allah time & they be maybe rye to Drip N’ Dred it’s tme
Wile E. Coyote drop-in dime bag all that Whiz Kid s’tuffin
Turkey dinner in Osaka w/
Suntory Wiz...
key Torii rime....
Open Sasemi!
Yuki koalas with
pinteresque panjandrums
of the lo and behold!
An Oz trail, now lost?
But nothing’s lost
Alles fond & fun & font & aloof
Das Otto von Autobahn?
Fire of Berne-und-Mann?
Valse the Heil is Dasz? well go
Ask Haägen, he
Noh Sapporo & ja jawohl
ja ja & Wagner too &
Trudat Jew Hussein
Now sane that Richard W.
(hoo nu? hoo ju?) was
Hoo-ro Tu (tu sais déjà)
unrote hiss ouverture
ja ja ja « Das Rheingold » ja ja
In E-flat Maggiore
For the vairy same
Stare Miasto
That Beet-Oven cooked up
his Imp-Arrière Hier in
an heir-apparent bid
to E-flat’s Goldin Green
As if Beethoven had an in
On some offtrack & Irish
Infernal machine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiligenstadt_Testament
Jasmine, thankyou so much for putting this moving and enthralling recording online !
Brillante
Wow !!! Beethoven 5th Symphony! masterful and brilliant interpretation by Vladimir Ashkenazy played with passion and talent!!!
Fanny Arciniegas The Fifth Piano Concert, did you mean?
@@SuperbBleu *concerto
What a wonderful pianist!
Aah I love him so much 😍
Too beautiful...🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵.
Excelente pianista.Bravo,!!!!
Ashkenazi looks like what I imagine Beethoven would look like playing. He is like a living embodiment of his spirit