Album available // Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 by Arthur Rubinstein ***Listen to our mastering update (2022)*** : bit.ly/3vMIaWN 🎧 Qobuz (Hi-Res) cutt.ly/5ebZczsa Tidal (Hi-Res) cutt.ly/HebZcHr9 🎧 Deezer (Hi-Fi) cutt.ly/VebZc6gH Amazon Music (Hi-Res) cutt.ly/RebZvOwZ 🎧 Spotify (mp3) cutt.ly/8ebZbqUK TH-cam Music (mp4) cutt.ly/4ebZbWsh 🎧 SoundCloud (aac) cutt.ly/RebZbHjV 🔊 Download high-fidelity classical music: classicalmusicreference.com/ Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849) - Piano Concertos No.1 & 2 / Remastered 2022 *Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation* (00:00-02:52) Piano Concerto #1 In E Minor, Op. 11, B 53 1. Allegro Maestoso (00:00) 2. Romance: Larghetto (19:43) 3. Rondo: Vivace (30:26) Arthur Rubinstein New Symphony Orchestra of London Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Recorded in 1961 Piano Concerto #2 In F Minor, Op. 21, B 43 1. Maestoso (40:37) 2. Larghetto (53:56) 3. Allegro Vivace (1:02:34) Arthur Rubinstein Symphony of the Air Alfred Wallenstein Recorded in 1958 🔊 FOLLOW US on SPOTIFY (Profil: CMRR) : spoti.fi/3016eVr 🔊 Download CMRR's recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ) : bit.ly/2M1Eop2 ❤️ If you like CM//RR content, please consider membership at our Patreon page. Thank you :) www.patreon.com/cmrr Le concerto de Chopin connu sous le nom de n°2 a été en fait le premier à être composé, entre l'automne 1829 et le début de 1830. Le n°1 a été écrit entre avril et août 1830 et publié en 1833, tandis que le "fa mineur", en raison de retards dans la préparation des parties orchestrales, n'a été imprimé qu'en 1836. Il contient des éléments qui devaient rester caractéristiques de Chopin, par exemple le type de figure rythmique pointée qui ouvre le Maestoso et que l'on retrouve tout au long de son œuvre ultérieure. Ce premier thème est en effet mémorable, et le passage orchestral initial prépare bien l'entrée dramatique du soliste. Habituellement, le rôle de l'orchestre est subsidiaire, les responsabilités du piano presque continues et souvent élaborées sont presque autosuffisantes. Il n'y a pas de véritable développement de la forme sonate, car c'est plutôt la partie de clavier qui élabore et commente les thèmes du mouvement avec fantaisie et invention constante. Le Larghetto, le mouvement lent de Chopin est le cœur de ce concerto, et il est peut-être significatif qu'il ait été achevé en premier. Une grande intensité lyrique est transmise, et l'écriture au piano est encore plus originale, surtout dans la section déclamatoire centrale, une sorte de récitatif instrumental. La musique folklorique polonaise a sa place dans le finale de ce concerto, un Allegro vivace. Il s'agit d'un rondo à grande échelle avec des épisodes aux contrastes piquants et une partie solo plus ouvertement athlétique que dans les mouvements précédents. Le résultat reste cependant à la fois pittoresque et expressif. Le Concerto en mi mineur suit un chemin similaire, mais de manière plus décisive. Il a été composé alors que Chopin et ses compatriotes espéraient l'indépendance de la Pologne. Les Russes ont dûment écrasé l'insurrection en septembre 1831, mais l'esprit héroïque de l'Allegro maestoso ne fait aucun doute. Comme son équivalent dans le Concerto en fa mineur, il n'est guère un chef-d'œuvre de structure formelle, et le fait que Chopin s'en tienne à la tonique pour les deux premiers sujets est très inhabituel. Il est vrai que lorsque le premier sujet réapparaît en do majeur au début du développement, l'effet est saisissant. Et les faiblesses de la forme et de l'orchestration semblent relativement peu importantes par rapport à la poésie et à l'éclat de la partie soliste. Comme dans le concerto en fa mineur, le Larghetto central, que Chopin a intitulé "Romance" en l'occurrence, est une explosion de mélodie passionnée. Pièce calme et mélancolique, elle est suivie d'un rondo, dirigé Vivace, qui est en mi majeur comme le mouvement lent, bien qu'il commence dans le relatif mineur. Il tire une partie de son caractère de la "krakowiak", une danse de la région de Cracovie en Pologne, à temps double rapide et réputée pour ses rythmes syncopés. Album available // Chopin: 4 Scherzos & 4 Ballades by Arthur Rubinstein Qobuz (Hi-Res) cutt.ly/ww4bW2WK Tidal (Hi-Res) cutt.ly/4w4bEg11 Deezer (Hi-Fi) cutt.ly/zw4bEAPQ Amazon Music (Hi-Res) amzn.to/3JwcEDj Spotify (mp3) spoti.fi/3Ub9Mll TH-cam Music (mp4) cutt.ly/nw4bTHLm Apple Music (off), Napster, Pandora, Anghami, Soundcloud, QQ音乐, LineMusic 日本… Chopin by Arthur Rubinstein - 51 Mazurkas / New Mastering + Presentation (recording of the Century) : th-cam.com/video/r92pHa9VGzk/w-d-xo.html Frédéric François Chopin PLAYLIST (reference recordings) : th-cam.com/video/xKmtJlEDxDw/w-d-xo.html
Perfect choice for a reference recording, which I'd call a definitive performance. Rubinstein had a way with Chopin: he seemed to capture every bit of poetry and magic held in the music.
Listening to classical music is like a journey through history. It's incredible to think that the compositions we hear today have been cherished for centuries.
1969 was the year I discovered the great Rubinstein. These days I’ve become so sentimental that I tear up! Friends with whom I shared this love have passed on .😢
Born six months after Liszt died, Brahms was alive until Arthur was 9, knew Ravel & Saint-Saens, and many of us remember him so very clearly. I thought of him as this is what a piano player is. Lived long enough with full faculties to make his aristocratic presence known on 60 Minutes & the Tonight Show.
I'm still here!! Got to see Rubenstein in concert in Wash DC in 1971, I believe. Very lucky to have a piano teacher who arranged such outings. I remember most his sweetness as a person.
Still the greatest pianist of all time, and listen how beautifully the orchestra plays for him. They adored this man. The end of an era of greatness never again to be heard or seen. 1887-1982. Chopin himself could not play his works so beautifully with such a golden sound, his signature genius and with such unbelievable clarity, like a painting fashioned of pure sunlight. And hear how he follows each soloist, gracing their interpretation with his own. The rubato in these timeless recordings will never be surpassed. Bravo for posting this treasure!
This is my favorite piece of music ever, there is such hope coming out around 16:20 and I'm never fed up listening again and again. Thank million times❤
The first live piano concert I attended was in Barcelona Palau de la Musica in 1969 and the pianist was Rubinstein, in spite of his age he was so full of energy, at the end of the concert I had tears in my eyes because I knew that I had been very lucky to see one of the best pianists of all times, a true legend, and ever since I have attended, and I still do, some unforgetable piano concerts with the best pianists!!!
I heard Perlman at the Palao in '85. I don't know that you're an American, but I'm a native coastal Californian and yours is the first mention i have ever seen or heard of the Palao. What a great music hall.
Chopin e Rubinstein: due maestri, due epoche, un'unica voce immortale nel panorama della musica classica. Chopin, con le sue composizioni, parla direttamente all'anima, tessendo emozioni che trasformano il silenzio in poesia. Rubinstein, attraverso la sua interpretazione, incarna quelle emozioni, trasformando le note scritte in un palpito che vive e respira. Insieme, in un dialogo attraverso il tempo, ci ricordano che la vera arte nasce dal cuore e parla all'eternità.
Rubinstein talks to and caresses our heart when he plays Chopin. Those who say perfection does not exist in music making should listen to this recording.
In the green room of Symphony Hall in San Diego in the mid-1990s after a performance of Bruckner's 4th with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conducting the San Diego Symphony, I mentioned to the Maestro that one of my treasured recordings was the one he made with Rubinstein of the Chopin 1st. He lit up and said, "Ah, Artur; we had such fun making that record!" It remains my desert island recording of that work. (Incidentally, the recording engineer was the legendary Kenneth E. Wilkinson.)
Hello there. Sadly, no; I am merely a listener with a collection of recordings, and who was fortunate to have attended some extraordinary performances over the years (including two concerts by Rubinstein, Wallenstein and the Symphony of the Air in the winter of 1968-69 in New York City, one at Carnegie Hall, the other at [then] Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, that included the Chopin 2nd concerto and Grand Fantasy on Polish Airs, the Franck Symphonic Variations and the Grieg A-minor, Schumann A-minor and Saint-Saëns 2nd concertos - both concerts with encores!). Please forgive my remiss in failing to thank you in my original comment, above, for posting this superb transfer. Cheers!
If there is perfection, this is it! Artur Rubinstein's recordings of Chopin Piano Concertos 1 & 2 presented here are the best I have ever heard. Since I grew up listening to my dad's old classical LPs, I never had an appreciation until I left home for college and began listening to these recordings again. As Chopin Piano Concerto #1 became my all-time favorite piano concerto, I began listening to ALL other recordings, collecting LPs and CDs, attending live performances, and now TH-cam (including competition playing too). This also included the multiple records made by Rubinstein (#1 in 1937 w/Sir John Barbirolli-London Phil, 1953 w/Wallenstein-LA Phil, 1947 live w/Walter-NY Phil, etc). You can't get any better than this. As such, after 1,000's of listening pleasure over 4 decades, Rubinstein's playing (particularly in this recording) still ranks the top of the heap by far! It's his (famed "golden tone") playing combined with the masterpiece itself. I consider the touch, phrasing, tempo, subtle dynamics, and musicality that contributed to his superb playing. Lucky for us, this recording was a gift from heaven to mankind! (This also holds true of his RCA recordings on Chopin's Ballads, Scherzos, Polonaises, Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Impromptus, Sonatas, and miscellaneous works - notice I didn't include his waltzes here; not his absolute best). I could go on and on but that will be another blog...
My listening experience to Rubinstein was similar to yours. I had the fortune of seeing him in concert--I think '68--and even as a kid I knew that I was witnessing something very special that would stay with me. I remember the whole audience standing for his Polonaise encore. The span of his career, and breadth of repertoire were an incredible gift to us.
@@bobgold57 Agreed! I haven't begun my appreciation for his superb interpretations of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Schuman, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Faure, Tchaikovsky, (his pal) Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Spanish repertoire (remember his was adopted as the Godson of Spain), and everything he touched that was written for the keyboard. Yes he was that extraordinary!
@@hkbruin3900 The Brahms late piano works are tremendous, in the late 50's versions, and the more autumnal versions that came later. And the concertos of course. The Schumann--the same teaching lineage as the Brahms. His Schubert is among the best I've heard. Also some great Beethoven performances. Wish he had recorded more Spanish works! And then there's the live concert recordings--usually thin in recording quality, but so rich in interpretation. Its a lifetime of music, so I come back to it in cycles.
Das erste Konzert ist eine wunderschöne Aufführung dieses romantischen Meisterwerks mit brillantem Klang des Soloklaviers und gut harmonisierten Töne anderer Instrumente. Der erfahrene Maestro dirigiert das ausgezeichnete Orchester im lebhaften Tempo mit perfekt kontrollierter Dynamik. Das zweite Konzert ist auch eine wunderschöne Aufführung dieses lyrischen Meisterwerks mit klarem Klang des Soloklaviers und perfekt synchronisierten Töne anderer Instrumente. Der geniale Maestro leitet das perfekt trainierte Orchester im gut phrasierten Tempo mit effektiv kontrollierter Dynamik. Echt unvergleichlicher Pianist!
Jakże cudowną wyobraźnię i wrażliwość musieli mieć kompozytorzy w dawnych epokach począwszy od Bacha... Mozart, Chopin, Czajkowski czy Rachmaninow... akurat tu wymieniłem moich ulubionych kompozytorów, ale lista przecież jest długa. Wagner? Potęga i moc, Musorgski - który uczył się grać jako dorosły facet? O... dziś młodzi w większości wolą bzdety i elektronikę. Wychowujemy pokolenie odwrażliwione na piękno. To naturalne, czyste w formie. Pozostaje kicz , disko polo i ... dopiszcie sami.
I agree with you. His subtlety, delicacy are amazing and ever present in all that he plays (and not only Chopin). His interpretation are always full of humaneness, even when Chopin's works are devilishly difficult !
Frederic wrote the music for Artur to play. They shared Polish air. Polish childhoods. Polish blood. They shared a close tie we are the blessed to hear.
A very small detail -:)... Arthur Rubinstein was "little bit" a Jew.. Please stop call Rubinstein, Horowitz, Milstein etc, etc. as anything but Jewish people/ By the way- the father of Chopin was a French.. Anatol
@@anatolrabinkin6383 another small detail, F.C. was born in Żelazowa Wola and his mother was Justyna Krzyżanowska, also he grow up in Poland... and it's not a hidden story that his music is conected with his Motherland...., "When died in France at the early age of thirty-nine his famous deathbed was that his should be cut out from his body and sent to Poland"
L'interprétation de Rubinstein dans ces deux concertos est remarquable; lumineuse, sans mièvrerie, élégante et souple. Je ne vois que Martha Argerich qui puisse lui être comparée. En plus sa vitalité, qui se ressent dans son jeu, est exceptionnelle. Je crois qu'il a joué jusqu'à 80 ans passés.
C'est à dire tant qu'il a pu le faire. Ne plus jouer pour lui c'était comme cesser d'être. Quand l'art et l'homme ne forme qu'une même et unique entité, c'est vivre par excellence pour l'excellence.
Que divino!!! Divindades como Chopin e Rubinstein permanecem intactos ao longo do tempo! É como um sopro de vida esbanjando arte e beleza por todos os portos! Deus abençoe ambos onde quer que estejam!!!
I was lucky enough to have first heard the 2nd movement of this for the first time having just moved into a farmhouse with a beautiful woman I'd fallen deeply in live with less than a week before. Her laughter (28:22-29:05) is captured herein perfectly. Life is good....
Esa expresión única y prístina en las manos y mente musical del Maestro Rubistein , única con esos acentos en cada dedo de sus manos como si cada uno tuviese su propia mente . Precioso e inmortal.
The concert for piano and orchestra No. 1, composed in 1830 and consists of 3 parts. It is one of the great works of the composer and one of two for a complete orchestra. ♫ Chopin composed the Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1830, at the age of 20, with the first presentation on March 17 of that year, with the same soloist, in Warsaw. Issued after Piano Concerto No. 1, and was named No. 2, although it composed it before 1. It consists of 3 parts, characteristic of the Romantic period. The 2nd part, Larghetto, is a pure pleasure for your ears, an absolute example of the Romantic period.
There's an excellent live performance of the E minor Concerto from February 9, 1947, with Rubinstein and Bruno Walter that is more exciting than any of his studio recordings. And great as he was, there are many outstanding Chopin recordings by other artists such as Cortot, Horszowski, Novaes, Francois, Lipatti, and others too numerous to mention.
Arthur, jamás dejo de escucharte día tras día, tus manos sobre el piano son bendiciones para la vida, ya que una y otra vez traes de regreso a la vida a Chopin y tantos otros.... Ellos viven eternamente a través tuyo Arthur, y dónde hoy estés agradezco tu existencia, tu genialidad y tú humildad
I think Arthur Rubinstein is one of the greatest interpreters of Chopin,alongside Vladmir Ashkenazy and another great pianist of mine in the world of Chopin`s music is Tamas Vasary,both of these concertos here beautifully performed here by Arthur Rubinstein,originally released on the RCA Red Seal label,is definately one of my all-time favourite is Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor,Op.11,is the second movement and reminds the wind breeze in the spring evening,and so beautifully the piano and the strings blended with the woodwind,and I still like the piece so much.
Que extraordinario escuchar el larghetto del concierto Nro. 1 por Rubinstein y Skrowaczewski de junio de1961. con un nuevo sonido, y divisar atrás la colección de discos vinilo 33 1/3, que están volviendo en gloria y majestad sonoras.- Gracias por esta puesta.
My teacher of classic piano was Lydia Alimonda . She was assistent of Rubinstein. Once he said her that a pianist must prepare himself 150 % in order to execute 90 % of the total preparation.... Important words!!!
Thank you so much for posting this, Skrowaczewski is possibly my favourite conductor. Just like Sviatoslav Richter and Rubinstein himself, he focused on the music and just the music. None of that disgusting, glamorous attitude that divas such as Karajan were famous for exhibiting.
Rubinstein is a Jehovah Polish Jew with the Prince of Steinway piano Kingdom Polish Patriotic National poet Chopin...One of the exponents and experts of Chopin in professional interpretation....The 1970 legendary recording cut by Orthodox philosophical Chilean German trained Claudio Arrau and Jehovah Israelite Iliahu Inbal with the London Philharmonic Philips label is also a beautiful historical paradigm of classical music repertoire...The 1979 DG label recording by Krystian Zimmerman with Roman Catholic Maria Giulini and the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra is excellent...Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado in 1968 also done a superb recording of Chopin piano concerto in E minor with DG label and a later version with Charles Dutoit in1990's...
IMHO the gold standard for the two Chopin piano concertos! A long time I thought there will NEVER be any pianist playing Chopin as well as the great Artur Rubinstein! (This was even in the beginning of the 1970s!) When I first listened in a concert to the 22 years old Krystian Zimerman in 1979 and told everybody (whether they wanted to hear it or not) that I just listened to the best pianist ever! (I regard his 1999 recording of the two Chopin piano concertos as the best. Even showing you can play both concertos on one evening - despite Rubinstein's saying: "You cannot play the two Chopin piano concertos on one evening - too similar!" xD )
Thank you 'Lady in the Van' for introducing me to the 1st concerto (2 & 3 movements). As for the 2nd concerto, I got to know the 2nd movement many years ago when it was part of the Pamela Howard ballet school's programme for the end of school year display at Questors Theatre in Ealing
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Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849) - Piano Concertos No.1 & 2 / Remastered 2022
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Piano Concerto #1 In E Minor, Op. 11, B 53
1. Allegro Maestoso (00:00)
2. Romance: Larghetto (19:43)
3. Rondo: Vivace (30:26)
Arthur Rubinstein
New Symphony Orchestra of London
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Recorded in 1961
Piano Concerto #2 In F Minor, Op. 21, B 43
1. Maestoso (40:37) 2. Larghetto (53:56)
3. Allegro Vivace (1:02:34)
Arthur Rubinstein
Symphony of the Air
Alfred Wallenstein
Recorded in 1958
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Le concerto de Chopin connu sous le nom de n°2 a été en fait le premier à être composé, entre l'automne 1829 et le début de 1830. Le n°1 a été écrit entre avril et août 1830 et publié en 1833, tandis que le "fa mineur", en raison de retards dans la préparation des parties orchestrales, n'a été imprimé qu'en 1836. Il contient des éléments qui devaient rester caractéristiques de Chopin, par exemple le type de figure rythmique pointée qui ouvre le Maestoso et que l'on retrouve tout au long de son œuvre ultérieure. Ce premier thème est en effet mémorable, et le passage orchestral initial prépare bien l'entrée dramatique du soliste.
Habituellement, le rôle de l'orchestre est subsidiaire, les responsabilités du piano presque continues et souvent élaborées sont presque autosuffisantes. Il n'y a pas de véritable développement de la forme sonate, car c'est plutôt la partie de clavier qui élabore et commente les thèmes du mouvement avec fantaisie et invention constante.
Le Larghetto, le mouvement lent de Chopin est le cœur de ce concerto, et il est peut-être significatif qu'il ait été achevé en premier. Une grande intensité lyrique est transmise, et l'écriture au piano est encore plus originale, surtout dans la section déclamatoire centrale, une sorte de récitatif instrumental.
La musique folklorique polonaise a sa place dans le finale de ce concerto, un Allegro vivace. Il s'agit d'un rondo à grande échelle avec des épisodes aux contrastes piquants et une partie solo plus ouvertement athlétique que dans les mouvements précédents. Le résultat reste cependant à la fois pittoresque et expressif.
Le Concerto en mi mineur suit un chemin similaire, mais de manière plus décisive. Il a été composé alors que Chopin et ses compatriotes espéraient l'indépendance de la Pologne. Les Russes ont dûment écrasé l'insurrection en septembre 1831, mais l'esprit héroïque de l'Allegro maestoso ne fait aucun doute.
Comme son équivalent dans le Concerto en fa mineur, il n'est guère un chef-d'œuvre de structure formelle, et le fait que Chopin s'en tienne à la tonique pour les deux premiers sujets est très inhabituel. Il est vrai que lorsque le premier sujet réapparaît en do majeur au début du développement, l'effet est saisissant. Et les faiblesses de la forme et de l'orchestration semblent relativement peu importantes par rapport à la poésie et à l'éclat de la partie soliste.
Comme dans le concerto en fa mineur, le Larghetto central, que Chopin a intitulé "Romance" en l'occurrence, est une explosion de mélodie passionnée. Pièce calme et mélancolique, elle est suivie d'un rondo, dirigé Vivace, qui est en mi majeur comme le mouvement lent, bien qu'il commence dans le relatif mineur. Il tire une partie de son caractère de la "krakowiak", une danse de la région de Cracovie en Pologne, à temps double rapide et réputée pour ses rythmes syncopés.
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Perfect choice for a reference recording, which I'd call a definitive performance. Rubinstein had a way with Chopin: he seemed to capture every bit of poetry and magic held in the music.
Agree. He was a master of Chopin. Also love the way Argerich plays Chopin.
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Bello concierto que me tranquiliza el alma. Arthur un genio del piano.
Rubinstein is still one of my favorite classical piano player. No flashiness. Precision with passion.
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He is the best when it comes to Chopin, in my opinion.
How lucky we are to have these wonderful performances preserved for posterity!
Listening to classical music is like a journey through history. It's incredible to think that the compositions we hear today have been cherished for centuries.
Rubenstein plays masterfully. He lets each note come out beautifully.
1969 was the year I discovered the great Rubinstein. These days I’ve become so sentimental that I tear up! Friends with whom I shared this love have passed on .😢
Born six months after Liszt died, Brahms was alive until Arthur was 9, knew Ravel & Saint-Saens, and many of us remember him so very clearly. I thought of him as this is what a piano player is. Lived long enough with full faculties to make his aristocratic presence known on 60 Minutes & the Tonight Show.
I'm still here!! Got to see Rubenstein in concert in Wash DC in 1971, I believe. Very lucky to have a piano teacher who arranged such outings. I remember most his sweetness as a person.
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I share your
Love ! There must be many like us !
🖐️😀 🇮🇷 🎹 Es un ❤️ amor el o la que lo puso. Dios te bendig😂
Still the greatest pianist of all time, and listen how beautifully the orchestra plays for him. They adored this man. The end of an era of greatness never again to be heard or seen. 1887-1982. Chopin himself could not play his works so beautifully with such a golden sound, his signature genius and with such unbelievable clarity, like a painting fashioned of pure sunlight. And hear how he follows each soloist, gracing their interpretation with his own. The rubato in these timeless recordings will never be surpassed. Bravo for posting this treasure!
CHOPIN SE VA A LEVANTAR PARA ESCUCHAR ESTE MARAVILLOSO Pianista !!!
CON total naturalidafd
inolvidable!Incomparable! the greatest pianist! Y la musica,Chopin maravilloso!
Like a painting fashioned of sunlight
That’s really nice
Perhaps the finest Chopinist of the last century.
In crying feeling this Song ita wonderfullll i love It so much...I don't want , to cry, but my tears fall from my eyes...........,❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is my most favorite rendition of Chopin's concertos 1 and 2. Mr. Rubinstein is masterful!!!
So very true !!!
The melody is so beautiful in the first movement, I cannot keep the tears back
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서너시간 동안 계속 반복해서 듣고 있습니다. 그냥 계속 피아노 소리에 머무르고 싶네요. 말할 수 없는 기쁨과 감동으로 인생이 충만합니다. 좋은 것을 베풀어주신 쇼팽과 루빈스타인에게 감사합니다
I believe today is Rubinstein's birthday and was always part of my musical listening and learning!
Nothing mote beautiful and excelllent!! A Rubinstein is the one that knows and feels Chopin like no others!!! Thanks!!!
Chopin & Rubinstein!!! Great DUO since ever …….
This is my favorite piece of music ever, there is such hope coming out around 16:20 and I'm never fed up listening again and again. Thank million times❤
Superb,atunci cand geniul componistic se intalneste cu geniul interpretativ, Chopin si Rubinstein!! Multumim pentru postare,un regal! Silvia Baciu
Невероятно, но я уже в течении месяца слушаю эти записи по нескольку раз в день. Удивительно, не надоедает!
And now I can understand the 1st one and how Rubinstein is Great pianist. His version is my fav ever.
CUANDO LA EJECUCIÓN DE UNA COMPOSICIÓN DE CHOPÍN LO HACE RUBINSTEIN, UNO TIENE LA SENSACIÓN QUE LO ESTÁ EJECUTANDO EL MISMO CHOPIN, ES MARAVILLOSO.
The first live piano concert I attended was in Barcelona Palau de la Musica in 1969 and the pianist was Rubinstein, in spite of his age he was so full of energy, at the end of the concert I had tears in my eyes because I knew that I had been very lucky to see one of the best pianists of all times, a true legend, and ever since I have attended, and I still do, some unforgetable piano concerts with the best pianists!!!
I heard Perlman at the Palao in '85. I don't know that you're an American, but I'm a native coastal Californian and yours is the first mention i have ever seen or heard of the Palao. What a great music hall.
Que belleza! Gracias!
Chopin e Rubinstein: due maestri, due epoche, un'unica voce immortale nel panorama della musica classica.
Chopin, con le sue composizioni, parla direttamente all'anima, tessendo emozioni che trasformano il silenzio in poesia. Rubinstein, attraverso la sua interpretazione, incarna quelle emozioni, trasformando le note scritte in un palpito che vive e respira. Insieme, in un dialogo attraverso il tempo, ci ricordano che la vera arte nasce dal cuore e parla all'eternità.
What a recording! Thank you CM/RR.
Piękno muzyki Fryderyka Chopina to fenomen graniczący z cudem . Wielkość Chopina jest niezmierzona i poza wszelkimi schematami ❤️
Leider Er ist zu früh verstorben ist.
Rubinstein talks to and caresses our heart when he plays Chopin. Those who say perfection does not exist in music making should listen to this recording.
Perfection does not exist in music-making, Rubinstein or not.
In the green room of Symphony Hall in San Diego in the mid-1990s after a performance of Bruckner's 4th with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conducting the San Diego Symphony, I mentioned to the Maestro that one of my treasured recordings was the one he made with Rubinstein of the Chopin 1st. He lit up and said, "Ah, Artur; we had such fun making that record!" It remains my desert island recording of that work. (Incidentally, the recording engineer was the legendary Kenneth E. Wilkinson.)
Are you an instrumentalist?
Hello there.
Sadly, no; I am merely a listener with a collection of recordings, and who was fortunate to have attended some extraordinary performances over the years (including two concerts by Rubinstein, Wallenstein and the Symphony of the Air in the winter of 1968-69 in New York City, one at Carnegie Hall, the other at [then] Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, that included the Chopin 2nd concerto and Grand Fantasy on Polish Airs, the Franck Symphonic Variations and the Grieg A-minor, Schumann A-minor and Saint-Saëns 2nd concertos - both concerts with encores!).
Please forgive my remiss in failing to thank you in my original comment, above, for posting this superb transfer. Cheers!
Thanks :-)
Skrowaczewski's Bruckner is really something else!
Absolute perfection. Chopin and Rubinstein transport us to the realms of Heaven.
If there is perfection, this is it! Artur Rubinstein's recordings of Chopin Piano Concertos 1 & 2 presented here are the best I have ever heard. Since I grew up listening to my dad's old classical LPs, I never had an appreciation until I left home for college and began listening to these recordings again. As Chopin Piano Concerto #1 became my all-time favorite piano concerto, I began listening to ALL other recordings, collecting LPs and CDs, attending live performances, and now TH-cam (including competition playing too). This also included the multiple records made by Rubinstein (#1 in 1937 w/Sir John Barbirolli-London Phil, 1953 w/Wallenstein-LA Phil, 1947 live w/Walter-NY Phil, etc). You can't get any better than this. As such, after 1,000's of listening pleasure over 4 decades, Rubinstein's playing (particularly in this recording) still ranks the top of the heap by far! It's his (famed "golden tone") playing combined with the masterpiece itself. I consider the touch, phrasing, tempo, subtle dynamics, and musicality that contributed to his superb playing. Lucky for us, this recording was a gift from heaven to mankind! (This also holds true of his RCA recordings on Chopin's Ballads, Scherzos, Polonaises, Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Impromptus, Sonatas, and miscellaneous works - notice I didn't include his waltzes here; not his absolute best). I could go on and on but that will be another blog...
My listening experience to Rubinstein was similar to yours. I had the fortune of seeing him in concert--I think '68--and even as a kid I knew that I was witnessing something very special that would stay with me. I remember the whole audience standing for his Polonaise encore. The span of his career, and breadth of repertoire were an incredible gift to us.
@@bobgold57 Agreed! I haven't begun my appreciation for his superb interpretations of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Schuman, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Faure, Tchaikovsky, (his pal) Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Spanish repertoire (remember his was adopted as the Godson of Spain), and everything he touched that was written for the keyboard. Yes he was that extraordinary!
@@hkbruin3900 The Brahms late piano works are tremendous, in the late 50's versions, and the more autumnal versions that came later. And the concertos of course. The Schumann--the same teaching lineage as the Brahms. His Schubert is among the best I've heard. Also some great Beethoven performances. Wish he had recorded more Spanish works! And then there's the live concert recordings--usually thin in recording quality, but so rich in interpretation. Its a lifetime of music, so I come back to it in cycles.
The very difficult measures between 12:37 and 12:50 are exquisitely performed. Rubinstein is one of the greatest pianists of the last century.
아름다운 연주곡 잘 들었읍니다~감사합니다~🎵🎻🎹🌿🍀☘🌹🌹☘🍀🌿❤❤
This is a truly remarkable performance.
I grew up with this kind of music in the 60s this was what my father always played on the stereo so heavenly it was definitely Rubinstein ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Das erste Konzert ist eine wunderschöne Aufführung dieses romantischen Meisterwerks mit brillantem Klang des Soloklaviers und gut harmonisierten Töne anderer Instrumente. Der erfahrene Maestro dirigiert das ausgezeichnete Orchester im lebhaften Tempo mit perfekt kontrollierter Dynamik. Das zweite Konzert ist auch eine wunderschöne Aufführung dieses lyrischen Meisterwerks mit klarem Klang des Soloklaviers und perfekt synchronisierten Töne anderer Instrumente. Der geniale Maestro leitet das perfekt trainierte Orchester im gut phrasierten Tempo mit effektiv kontrollierter Dynamik. Echt unvergleichlicher Pianist!
Браво Артур Рубинштейн! Браво дирижор и оркестр! БРАВО компо
Une version de rêve...un enchantement de tous les instants. ❤
So beautiful and invigorating...Chopin and Rubinstein got soul!!!!
Le meilleur interprète de CHOPIN
Magnificent ,perfect . Thank you Classical Music .
Jakże cudowną wyobraźnię i wrażliwość musieli mieć kompozytorzy w dawnych epokach począwszy od Bacha... Mozart, Chopin, Czajkowski czy Rachmaninow... akurat tu wymieniłem moich ulubionych kompozytorów, ale lista przecież jest długa. Wagner? Potęga i moc, Musorgski - który uczył się grać jako dorosły facet? O... dziś młodzi w większości wolą bzdety i elektronikę. Wychowujemy pokolenie odwrażliwione na piękno. To naturalne, czyste w formie. Pozostaje kicz , disko polo i ... dopiszcie sami.
Élégant et souple chaque fois que je l' entends tendrement j'apprends un nouvel essai ..Adorable
1:00:25 to 1:02:30 absolutely amazing.... pure bliss for the soul
The greatest Chopin interpreter ever!
I agree with you. His subtlety, delicacy are amazing and ever present in all that he plays (and not only Chopin). His interpretation are always full of humaneness, even when Chopin's works are devilishly difficult !
Frederic wrote the music for Artur to play. They shared Polish air. Polish childhoods. Polish blood. They shared a close tie we are the blessed to hear.
A very small detail -:)... Arthur Rubinstein was "little bit" a Jew.. Please stop call Rubinstein, Horowitz, Milstein etc, etc. as anything but Jewish people/ By the way- the father of Chopin was a French.. Anatol
Arthur Rubinstein did have the Polish blood, please..
@@anatolrabinkin6383 some kind of true, A.R. just have Polish wife, most of Polish Jews were mixed blood, as his kids
@@anatolrabinkin6383 another small detail, F.C. was born in Żelazowa Wola and his mother was Justyna Krzyżanowska, also he grow up in Poland... and it's not a hidden story that his music is conected with his Motherland...., "When died in France at the early age of thirty-nine his famous deathbed was that his should be cut out from his body and sent to Poland"
L'interprétation de Rubinstein dans ces deux concertos est remarquable; lumineuse, sans mièvrerie, élégante et souple. Je ne vois que Martha Argerich qui puisse lui être comparée. En plus sa vitalité, qui se ressent dans son jeu, est exceptionnelle. Je crois qu'il a joué jusqu'à 80 ans passés.
Rubinstein touches my soul
C'est à dire tant qu'il a pu le faire. Ne plus jouer pour lui c'était comme cesser d'être. Quand l'art et l'homme ne forme qu'une même et unique entité, c'est vivre par excellence pour l'excellence.
Que divino!!! Divindades como Chopin e Rubinstein permanecem intactos ao longo do tempo! É como um sopro de vida esbanjando arte e beleza por todos os portos! Deus abençoe ambos onde quer que estejam!!!
J'aime trop Chopin il y'a une partie de cette note qui me fait pleurer et ébranle mon âme entière
1st movement
3:52 (theme 1) / 4:18 (theme 2)
5:12 [agitated & urgent]
6:27 [theme 3]
8:06 [quasi coda]
9:26 [orchestral intermezzo]
10:25 [theme 2 major variant]
11:38 [quasi coda]
13:29 [reprise - orchestra] / 14:08 [reprise - piano]
15:03 [reprise - agitated & urgent]
16:03 [reprise - theme 3]
17:52 [coda]
2nd movement
19:43
20:38
21:22
22:00
22:42 [thirds]
23:20
23:57
I was lucky enough to have first heard the 2nd movement of this for the first time having just moved into a farmhouse with a beautiful woman I'd fallen deeply in live with less than a week before. Her laughter (28:22-29:05) is captured herein perfectly.
Life is good....
Esa expresión única y prístina en las manos y mente musical del Maestro Rubistein , única con esos acentos en cada dedo de sus manos como si cada uno tuviese su propia mente . Precioso e inmortal.
The concert for piano and orchestra No. 1, composed in 1830 and consists of 3 parts.
It is one of the great works of the composer and one of two for a complete orchestra.
♫
Chopin composed the Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1830, at the age of 20, with the first presentation on March 17 of that year, with the same soloist, in Warsaw.
Issued after Piano Concerto No. 1, and was named No. 2, although it composed it before 1.
It consists of 3 parts, characteristic of the Romantic period.
The 2nd part, Larghetto, is a pure pleasure for your ears, an absolute example of the Romantic period.
Reitero lo ya expresado
Chopin+ Rubinstein = milagro de Dios
it is be in the heaven...unvergleichlich....graciassss Herr Rubinstein
There's an excellent live performance of the E minor Concerto from February 9, 1947, with Rubinstein and Bruno Walter that is more exciting than any of his studio recordings. And great as he was, there are many outstanding Chopin recordings by other artists such as Cortot, Horszowski, Novaes, Francois, Lipatti, and others too numerous to mention.
Where is possible to find this record?
Arthur, jamás dejo de escucharte día tras día, tus manos sobre el piano son bendiciones para la vida, ya que una y otra vez traes de regreso a la vida a Chopin y tantos otros.... Ellos viven eternamente a través tuyo Arthur, y dónde hoy estés agradezco tu existencia, tu genialidad y tú humildad
Yo tambien
¡Para siempre!
I think Arthur Rubinstein is one of the greatest interpreters of Chopin,alongside Vladmir Ashkenazy and another great pianist of mine in the world of Chopin`s music is Tamas Vasary,both of these concertos here beautifully performed here by Arthur Rubinstein,originally released on the RCA Red Seal label,is definately one of my all-time favourite is Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor,Op.11,is the second movement and reminds the wind breeze in the spring evening,and so beautifully the piano and the strings blended with the woodwind,and I still like the piece so much.
Также гениальным исполнителем ШОПЕНА является СУЛТАНОВ!
Chopin is where my soul rests
Aniversariante de hoje, parabéns à todos nós por você ter nascido querido CHOPIN. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
김영삼은국리민복을위하여서인욕의삼당합당을하여민주화의대부가되셧고정부가분노와증오의표적이되지않게사법정의구현을하시다가수천억을부정축재한노태우로부터배신자소리를들엇는데윤석열은의리의사나이가인
생관이니미래가어둡지요❤
Goosebumps, tears, joy!
Thank you, Lord.
Formidable Rubinstein
Музыка прекрасная и исполнение
Изумительное. Браво!
È semicemente stupendo.TI INNALZA L'ANIMA.GRAZIE
Que extraordinario escuchar el larghetto del concierto Nro. 1 por Rubinstein y Skrowaczewski de junio de1961. con un nuevo sonido, y divisar atrás la colección de discos vinilo 33 1/3, que están volviendo en gloria y majestad sonoras.- Gracias por esta puesta.
MAGISTRAL ❤❤❤
Magical performance.
Низкий поклон,
Друзья. Это превосходно. Могу
слушать бесконечно🙏🙏❤💖🔥🔥
My teacher of classic piano was Lydia Alimonda . She was assistent of Rubinstein. Once he said her that a pianist must prepare himself 150 % in order to execute 90 % of the total preparation.... Important words!!!
Thank you so much for posting this, Skrowaczewski is possibly my favourite conductor. Just like Sviatoslav Richter and Rubinstein himself, he focused on the music and just the music. None of that disgusting, glamorous attitude that divas such as Karajan were famous for exhibiting.
Браво Маэстро Рубинштейн!
So beautiful!!!!!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
The voicing beginning at 5:12, simply sublime, never heard it this clearly in a performance of this concerto before!
Just found out the most replayed feature. Nice work YT. Thanks.
In his day A Rubenstein was considered one of the most capable virtuoso pianists of his time. Wonderful we are able to still hear and see him perform.
unvergleichlich....Herr Rubistein...danke...graciasss
Fue un excelente pianista ❤
今、私は暇を見つけてはルービンシュタインの演奏を聴く様にしております。実は、私は現在、人生を賭けて、創作に取り組んでいる最中なのです。そんな私にとってルービンシュタインは心の師であり、憧れの芸術家で御座います。分野は違えど、私は少しでも彼に近づきたい、と毎日、祈る様に頑張っております。しかし本当に心から癒やされるルービンシュタインの演奏で御座います。私も芸術家のはしくれとして、改めて彼の素晴らしさを思わずにはいられません。ただただ有り難い事で御座います。
Questa musica e questa interpretazione sono una grazia di Dio
Very sensitive. Trés charmant
Sublime, merci.💝
Excellent!!
Sublime, thanks for sharing.
Greetings from Mexico.
Какое наслаждение!
Wonderful music !!! Wonderful interpretation by ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN !!! THANK YOU CLASSICAL MUSIC !!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Nadie como Rubinstein para interpretar a Chopin...
Rubinstein is a Jehovah Polish Jew with the Prince of Steinway piano Kingdom Polish Patriotic National poet Chopin...One of the exponents and experts of Chopin in professional interpretation....The 1970 legendary recording cut by Orthodox philosophical Chilean German trained Claudio Arrau and Jehovah Israelite Iliahu Inbal with the London Philharmonic Philips label is also a beautiful historical paradigm of classical music repertoire...The 1979 DG label recording by Krystian Zimmerman with Roman Catholic Maria Giulini and the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra is excellent...Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado in 1968 also done a superb recording of Chopin piano concerto in E minor with DG label and a later version with Charles Dutoit in1990's...
IMHO the gold standard for the two Chopin piano concertos! A long time I thought there will NEVER be any pianist playing Chopin as well as the great Artur Rubinstein! (This was even in the beginning of the 1970s!)
When I first listened in a concert to the 22 years old Krystian Zimerman in 1979 and told everybody (whether they wanted to hear it or not) that I just listened to the best pianist ever! (I regard his 1999 recording of the two Chopin piano concertos as the best. Even showing you can play both concertos on one evening - despite Rubinstein's saying: "You cannot play the two Chopin piano concertos on one evening - too similar!" xD )
Восторгаясь Рубинштейном, преклоняюсь перед СУЛТАНОВЫМ!
Браво!
Oh Good Lord! To be able to listen to such music memories such Beauty such Ethereal performances before I go, too... Thank You, oh Lord!
Il larghetto …. Incredibilmente meraviglioso 💙🎶🌈🕊🙏🏼🧚🏼
ありがとう・・・・・・・・from japan
Chopin por Rubinstein y/o Argerich es sublime.
Rubinstein is the best!!
Juan C. Gregor Don't forget Claudio Arrau. He also recorded the Chopin concertos wonderful.
Argerich near Rubinstein? Jesus safe me!!
Thank you 'Lady in the Van' for introducing me to the 1st concerto (2 & 3 movements). As for the 2nd concerto, I got to know the 2nd movement many years ago when it was part of the Pamela Howard ballet school's programme for the end of school year display at Questors Theatre in Ealing
Thank you for reminding me of ‘Lady in the Van’… I shall find it and cherish it.
Beautiful music.
Merci.👍👏❤
There’s something about when rubinstein play that I physically can’t turn it off I have to listen to all of it.
Este concierto me acompaña desde mi niñez.
Lo amo!
Cuando escucho esta MARAVILLA quedo extasiada GRACIAS
Absolut pure clear perfect😂Maestro😂
Браво!!❤
I like the "old piano" sound of the recording