Brendel's was the first Waldstein I have listened to. Such exquisite phrasing, such beautifully coloured tone, the amazing lightness of those arpeggios...
Happy 246th Birthday, Ludwig van! Brendel is still my fave Beethoven interpreter. I used to live near him (Alf, not Ludwig) and sometimes heard the sounds of practice as I passed. Lovely man.
Bereits als 4-jährige habe ich diese Sonate geliebt. Nun, mehr als 40 Jahre später, hörte ich unzählige Darbietungen, jedoch schaffte es keiner mich so zu verzaubern wie Herr Alfred Brendel! Ich liebe Perfektion und gebe mich äußerst ungern mit weniger zufrieden. Wie schön, daß es Sie gibt!!!
Shoot, I think it's a darn shame that more people haven't viewed this video. I consider it the best performance of the piece that I've heard here on TH-cam. Mr. Brendel just creates a very beautiful, mellow and serene tone unlike any of the other pianists I've heard. There are so many more adjectives I want to use, like his light and delicate touch in the opening creating such a wonderfully rounded and sonorous tone which played at the perfect tempo blend so nicely together. The music just flows off his fingers so to speak. The magnificent, deft touch and clarity of the individual notes as well as the phrasing and voicing of the melody is astonishing. I wish I could say more, but my words are so inadequate at expressing the brilliance of this amazing performance, which is clearly heard upon listening. It's played smooth and sweetly with great delicacy and grace where called for, and very clean and marked, with highly spirited energy and force when it's necessary. Just a great and inspired performance of Beethoven from a renowned master of his interpretation. I've very much enjoyed listening and can only hope more people will come and do the same. Thanks
+Queen Cure Sky Wish I could read your language. It looks like it might be some modified form of Chinese or some language that has borrowed Chinese characters for writing. If you ever read this, please let me know if my guess is out in left field or not.
I don't like Brendel's tone as much as I like Rubinstein's or Zimerman's tone! But I agree Brendel is a wonderful pianist. I also like his Beethoven as his Schubert. In general at Beethoven I prefer Solomon, Backhaus or Gulda. But at the Waldstein I also like Rubinstein, Zimerman and Brendel! :D
I have started to listen to a number of pianists playing this. I usually decide within a minute whether or not I want to continue listening. Some take an impressively fast tempo, which I find distracting rather than energizing. I think this is one of the more difficult Beethoven sonatas to bring off in performance. Brendel so far is bringing it off very well (I’m listening as I type). With Beethoven, I think one always has to bring out the dramatic structure as well as capturing the “mood” of the themes and transitions. That’s hard to do at an extreme tempo. Brendel’s tempo is just right for me. [Just finished listening to all of it. The last movement is amazing!]
yes I love this tempo. I don't know why some people rush the beginning so fast, then fail to keep up with their own tempo whenever a "harder' part comes.
@@dzunglong4034 it is so a tragedy that today's players seem to have no cues on what to perceived in this master piece.... Derelicrion and afflictions....
I think that Brendel's interpretation can be taken as a standard by which to judge others. In practically all sections of this composition and interpretative aspects his performance is superb.
I totally agree. I like to listen to the same piece from numerous pianists. I want them to be different than each other. I think, for Beethoven Sonatas, Brendel is like a benchmark and anyone who is studying Beethoven Sonatas can have some takeaways by listening to him. His interpretations are so natural. They just feel so right.
It's make or break for me, with this work, how the artist speaks the transition between the middle movement and the finale. Here, superb. December 16, 2018.
Oui je redécouvre Brendel. Dans les années 80 mon père avait un apriori très "plat" à son sujet (il avait le même de Barenboim, mais considérait Barenboim excellent pour les leaders allemand). Enfin bref avec toutes les excentricités de nos années actuelles, Brendel brille comme unn diamant.
Какое полное погружение! Душа, ум и сердце - на кончиках пальцев, умеющих петь и рассказывать о прекрасном! Спасибо! Это музыка горных долин! 🙏 😇 😍 🕊️ 🦉 🦋 🥀
I love to look at phrasing in music. Brendel always leaves us with the feeling that we are right near to him & to Beethoven. I don't know how he does it. Crisp Beethovenian phrasing is the only way that makes sense to me.
I can only again repeat what mydogskips2 had said two years ago: Shoot, I think it's a darn shame that more people haven't viewed this video. I consider it the best performance of the piece that I've heard here on TH-cam. Mr. Brendel just creates a very beautiful, mellow and serene tone unlike any of the other pianists I've heard. There are so many more adjectives I want to use, like his light and delicate touch in the opening creating such a wonderfully rounded and sonorous tone which played at the perfect tempo blend so nicely together. The music just flows off his fingers so to speak. The magnificent, deft touch and clarity of the individual notes as well as the phrasing and voicing of the melody is astonishing. I wish I could say more, but my words are so inadequate at expressing the brilliance of this amazing performance, which is clearly heard upon listening. It's played smooth and sweetly with great delicacy and grace where called for, and very clean and marked, with highly spirited energy and force when it's necessary. Just a great and inspired performance of Beethoven from a renowned master of his interpretation. I've very much enjoyed listening and can only hope more people will come and do the same.
Like Chameleon, he is a performer who finely changes his playing style and devises a performance that is most enjoyed by the audience at each moment. There is complexity that I cannot simply talk to with such a performer. Basically, he kept the teachings of master Fischer and Kempf's summer class until the beginning of the 21st century.
This is the best of all the interpretations! The tempo and pedaling its just perfect, i think this is how this song its supposed to be played how Beethoven would have played it
Which of Brendel's three recorded cycle is this sonata from, please? It sounds too modern to be the Vox, so is it the Philips analogue or digital? Thanks. Great posting.
Brendel's was the first Waldstein I have listened to. Such exquisite phrasing, such beautifully coloured tone, the amazing lightness of those arpeggios...
Happy 246th Birthday, Ludwig van!
Brendel is still my fave Beethoven interpreter. I used to live near him (Alf, not Ludwig) and sometimes heard the sounds of practice as I passed. Lovely man.
Really? OMG, it should've sound awesome :)
if you really wanted to be clear, you could've just replace "him" with "alfred" instead of writing parentheses
@@alexgu177 If you really wanted to be grammatically correct, you should've used "replaced" instead of replace.
@@davidlenox8200 i didn't want to be grammatically correct
@@alexgu177 well maybe he didn't want to be clear?
One of my favourite piano sonatas of all times. Melodic, focused on conveying a particular tone.
I love this version as Brendel played with the right tempo and not too fast. Moreover, each note is well defined and dynamics are equally excellent!
Bereits als 4-jährige habe ich diese Sonate geliebt. Nun, mehr als 40 Jahre später, hörte ich unzählige Darbietungen, jedoch schaffte es keiner mich so zu verzaubern wie Herr Alfred Brendel! Ich liebe Perfektion und gebe mich äußerst ungern mit weniger zufrieden. Wie schön, daß es Sie gibt!!!
Shoot, I think it's a darn shame that more people haven't viewed this video. I consider it the best performance of the piece that I've heard here on TH-cam.
Mr. Brendel just creates a very beautiful, mellow and serene tone unlike any of the other pianists I've heard. There are so many more adjectives I want to use, like his light and delicate touch in the opening creating such a wonderfully rounded and sonorous tone which played at the perfect tempo blend so nicely together. The music just flows off his fingers so to speak. The magnificent, deft touch and clarity of the individual notes as well as the phrasing and voicing of the melody is astonishing. I wish I could say more, but my words are so inadequate at expressing the brilliance of this amazing performance, which is clearly heard upon listening. It's played smooth and sweetly with great delicacy and grace where called for, and very clean and marked, with highly spirited energy and force when it's necessary.
Just a great and inspired performance of Beethoven from a renowned master of his interpretation.
I've very much enjoyed listening and can only hope more people will come and do the same.
Thanks
聞くたびに、勉強になります。great... ..Brendel !!
I like this one too, beside Claudio, everyone has it own style. I love their style.
+Queen Cure Sky
Wish I could read your language. It looks like it might be some modified form of Chinese or some language that has borrowed Chinese characters for writing. If you ever read this, please let me know if my guess is out in left field or not.
I don't like Brendel's tone as much as I like Rubinstein's or Zimerman's tone!
But I agree Brendel is a wonderful pianist. I also like his Beethoven as his Schubert.
In general at Beethoven I prefer Solomon, Backhaus or Gulda. But at the Waldstein I also like Rubinstein, Zimerman and Brendel! :D
MusikPiratCH, Zimerman's piano concertos are great, but his piano sonatas are not my cup of tea. Brendel is one of the best, if not the best.
I have started to listen to a number of pianists playing this. I usually decide within a minute whether or not I want to continue listening. Some take an impressively fast tempo, which I find distracting rather than energizing. I think this is one of the more difficult Beethoven sonatas to bring off in performance. Brendel so far is bringing it off very well (I’m listening as I type). With Beethoven, I think one always has to bring out the dramatic structure as well as capturing the “mood” of the themes and transitions. That’s hard to do at an extreme tempo. Brendel’s tempo is just right for me. [Just finished listening to all of it. The last movement is amazing!]
yes I love this tempo. I don't know why some people rush the beginning so fast, then fail to keep up with their own tempo whenever a "harder' part comes.
@@dzunglong4034 it is so a tragedy that today's players seem to have no cues on what to perceived in this master piece.... Derelicrion and afflictions....
0:02 Allegro con brio
11:22 Introduzione: Adagio molto
15:10 Rondo: Allrgretto moderato - Prestissimo
I think that Brendel's interpretation can be taken as a standard by which to judge others. In practically all sections of this composition and interpretative aspects his performance is superb.
I totally agree. I like to listen to the same piece from numerous pianists. I want them to be different than each other. I think, for Beethoven Sonatas, Brendel is like a benchmark and anyone who is studying Beethoven Sonatas can have some takeaways by listening to him. His interpretations are so natural. They just feel so right.
Absolutely agree: for me he will always be the benchmark for Beethoven, particularly the sonatas.
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My favorite Interpretation of the sonata. Exquisite!
It's make or break for me, with this work, how the artist speaks the transition between the middle movement and the finale. Here, superb.
December 16, 2018.
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I really like the balance between the lightness and the pedaling, it sounds so different from others renditions.
Merveilleuse interprétation, de très loin la meilleure que je connaisse. Je l'ai déjà écoutée des dizaines de fois et je ne m'en lasse pas
Oui je redécouvre Brendel. Dans les années 80 mon père avait un apriori très "plat" à son sujet (il avait le même de Barenboim, mais considérait Barenboim excellent pour les leaders allemand). Enfin bref avec toutes les excentricités de nos années actuelles, Brendel brille comme unn diamant.
Absolument! Pour moi aussi, la meilleure version de ces trente derniere années.
Probably the best performance.
Какое полное погружение! Душа, ум и сердце - на кончиках пальцев, умеющих петь и рассказывать о прекрасном! Спасибо! Это музыка горных долин! 🙏 😇 😍 🕊️ 🦉 🦋 🥀
Weird. You're the only channel to post a complete recording of the Waldstein by Brendel. Thank you.
Solid gift of interpretation, Brendal is an impressionist painter of music.
I agree, Brendel's version is the standard by which others may be measured.
In tears. IN TEARS.
Romantic Waldstein. Amazing !!
Romantic and... strange doesn't it?
I love to look at phrasing in music. Brendel always leaves us with the feeling that we are right near to him & to Beethoven. I don't know how he does it. Crisp Beethovenian phrasing is the only way that makes sense to me.
Excellent interpretation. And this brings back a lot of childhood memories. Where has the time gone?!
another beautiful Waldstein Brendel, from his third cycle.
Ashkenazy for the concertos, but nothing comes close to Brendel for the Sonatas. This is World class...
I can only again repeat what mydogskips2 had said two years ago:
Shoot, I think it's a darn shame that more people haven't viewed this
video. I consider it the best performance of the piece that I've heard
here on TH-cam.
Mr. Brendel just creates a very beautiful, mellow and serene tone unlike
any of the other pianists I've heard. There are so many more adjectives
I want to use, like his light and delicate touch in the opening
creating such a wonderfully rounded and sonorous tone which played at
the perfect tempo blend so nicely together. The music just flows off his
fingers so to speak. The magnificent, deft touch and clarity of the
individual notes as well as the phrasing and voicing of the melody is
astonishing. I wish I could say more, but my words are so inadequate at
expressing the brilliance of this amazing performance, which is clearly
heard upon listening. It's played smooth and sweetly with great delicacy
and grace where called for, and very clean and marked, with highly
spirited energy and force when it's necessary.
Just a great and inspired performance of Beethoven from a renowned
master of his interpretation.
I've very much enjoyed listening and can only hope more people will come
and do the same.
this IS Beethoven
Инструмент поёт, душа Альфреда или пальцы пианиста так могут передавать авторскую мысль,? Но это волшебство! Небесная гармония! 🙏 😇 😍 🕊️ 🦉 🦋 🥀
Exquisite!
FOUR BEETHOVEN,GILELS AND BRENDEL, THE BEST.
Excellent.
Brilliant!
I forgot how beautifoul Is this sonata. Not heared on months
Like Chameleon, he is a performer who finely changes his playing style and devises a performance that is most enjoyed by the audience at each moment. There is complexity that I cannot simply talk to with such a performer. Basically, he kept the teachings of master Fischer and Kempf's summer class until the beginning of the 21st century.
Superb. Thank you.
Learning this now!
So? Did you get it satisfying? Not an easy one hey!
Я забываю о земном и пребываю в небе! Благодарю! Храни вас Господь! 🙏 😇 😍 🕊️ 🦉 🦋 🥀
Perfect.
The third movement is spectacular.
Yes so much dynamics and economic of ranges!
This is the best of all the interpretations! The tempo and pedaling its just perfect, i think this is how this song its supposed to be played how Beethoven would have played it
I would love to hear Beethoven's version... Oh so much dreams in this field!
Congratulations. This is enourmous.
They put and advert between the Introduzione and the Rondo! There aren't adequate expletives..
The entire point of the 2nd mvt is to build tension for the Rondo...my condolences to you.
Explosives
No pianist has the sense of overarching structural line that Brendel conceives and projects.
Brendel is excellent. The only other pianist to equal him would be Kempff IMHO
For actual living pianist I would say Barenboim for sure.
1st 00:03 00:03
2nd 11:23 11:23
Wow
when it comes to Beethoven, theres noone close
Despite its major tonality, it might be one of the strangest sonata of the whole romantic répertoire
Which of Brendel's three recorded cycle is this sonata from, please? It sounds too modern to be the Vox, so is it the Philips analogue or digital? Thanks. Great posting.
Vilebrequin69 Brendel's global third cycle. Philips' second. 90's recording.
The secret is 1/2, or even 1/4 pedaling;)
Watch out for the octave glissandi in the last movement. You might break your 5th fingers.
19:54
Exciring
hier werbungen `reinzusetzen ist an unsensibilität kaum mehr zu überbieten. wahnsinn...
Nadie como Brendel para Beethoven, soberbio...
Domini extraordinari dels pedals. Suau, intim i contundent. Musicalitat fenomenal que fa dringar el cor. Musicien extraordinaire. Joana.
22:32. 여기 뭐야 완전 소름 ㅜㅜ
Ads in this should be a crime
not it. Ido not hear different voices talking. still solid.nice unfolding of the musical themes. to little feel of improvisation, though.
I stick to the score but I tend to agree with him
Really?! You don't hear different voices? For me, the hallmark of Brendel, here and elsewhere, is his ability to bring out musical voices.
Haha, 12 people can't play octave glissandos!
Dislike because ads during the video.
I agree, this is criminal!
Best version, not too slow, not too fast