I love how clean his playing is during the repeated chord section at the beginning during the repeat of the main theme, you don't hear that often.. totally inspiring!!
Cliburn plays with some sort of aristocratic grandeur and fire--and cleanly executed. You don't find any of that in most pianists these days. Notice how Tchai. builds on the tension of the breathtaking opening melody and grand chords by having the the pianist come back playing his triplet chords--(2:30)-master of drama.
One of the interesting things about this piece is how poorly it was originally received. Tchaikovsky's pianist of choice told him that it was unplayable and didn't make any sense. It is an oddly constructed piece, to be sure, but it's great. I recommend that anyone who wants a clean copy go grab the Living Stereo reissue on SACD (hybrid so it does have a CD layer, too). It's good stuff! I was just listening to it and wanted to find a video of Cliburn playing and wound up here :)
@AlisionIsUnreal yes! Tchaikovsky's pianist of choice - it was Nikolay Rubinstein - founder of the Moscow Conservatory and probably best pianist in Moscow at those time!!
will someone like me who started to play piano 3 years ago ever be even near this level of virtuosity? his musical level will , in my opinion, never be reached again
Laudan & firemirer: I'm not sure how funny you realize your discussion is! Does "He's Russian" refers to the piano (masculine in Russian, despite the soft sound sign at the end, which usually designates the feminine) or the piano player (a man, but also gay and therefore probably slightly feminine, but not necessarily as he was a practicing Baptist his whole life)? So the answers are, for the piano: Russian; for the best American pianist alive: Texan! So you're both right!
If you don't realize just how big of a deal this was, the judges had to get special permission from Kruschev to award Van the top prize. Kruschev simply asked the judges, "Was he the best?" When the replied yes, he replied, the give him the prize. They then got special permission fof the conductor to accompany Van to the U.S. for a concert tour. This was a big thing in 1958. Some of us still remember, it was the year of Sputnik.
The video recording cant quite keep up with the speed of his hands. Technology wasnt quite there. Though i am very impressed that they could record the sound so well and clearly. sounds stunning (understatement of the year there)
@waffleboy7 again, m comment wasn´t meat to be offensive. really sorry if i actually offended someone by saying theyre nation is talented...no but for real, it wasn´t meant to be offensive, seriously.
@Pau9pau I agree. Cliburn found the right balance. I compare his amazing version to a record by Nikita Magaloff that I found very close to Cliburn performance.
I have spent many wonderful times with Van. He used to sent my wife and I tickets to all his concerts in the NY, NJ area. One time we snuck out after a concert and went to an Italian restaurant for a quiet dinner only to realize that it was full of patrons of the concert. He called me at work one day and we spent the day in NYC. When I arrived at his apt, talked to his mom and we listened to him practicing this, then we spent the day in the city. Such wonderful memories of a great friend.
I spent many incredible times with Van. He would send my wife and me tickets to all his concerts in the NY, NJ area. We would go to parties with he an his mom Rhilda Bee. ONe night after a concert in NJ the 4 of us sneaked out and went to a local Italian restaurant for a quiet dinner, only to find that a good part of the audience was there. I spent a number of days in NYC with Van, he would call me at work and ask if I could come in and spend the day. I sat listening to him practice this .
I heard Van Cliburn with my girl scout troop play at the University of Rochester"s Eastman Theatre, Rochester New York in the 1950's. Yes no one plays it better than Van Cliburn....Awesome!!!!
If classical music is so good, why do you only hear it in elevators? Hank Jr can play piano better than this guy, and when he's done, he'd beat the crap outta the clown waving his arms around
I heard this concert for the first time back around 1958. My father purchased our first stereo record player and bought two classical records truly out of nowhere. He didn't like "long-haired" music, as he called it. The other was Rachmaninoff' 's Concert #2 for piano/orchestra. I played them so often, still do, that I know them by heart!!
Young Van Clibern performing Piotr Chaikovsky's Concerto 1that the composer created at the start of his career, when he was young and full of hopes, his happiest of creations.
@korglove do you have "a" perfect pitch, or perfect pitch? Do you even know what that means, or that it's not even the proper term for what you're trying to describe?
the only classical pianist to have ticker tape parade when he he returned to nyc after winnining in moscow and im proud to say he was my teacher for one summer at interlochen national music camp in michigan in 1975 i was only 14 years old
That's why, even though you play the this piece and "know every single note", you're sitting at your comp writing negative comments while he was sitting there playing for many people as a world famous pianist.
@MikeyIV i know every single note of that concerto and i have a perfect pitch, so why don't you shut your stinkin' hole and learn how to play guitar the right way, LOL.
@korglove You don't even understand what I'm saying lol. The fact that you watch Cilburn put his heart and emotion into every note. You watch this beautiful, moving performance of one of the greatest concertos ever written. And you say "wrong note at 7:48." I don't care if you have perfect pitch and I'm sure many people can play this concerto "hitting all the right notes." I'm saying you lack musicality if that's all you had to say.
LIstening to the SACD remastering of the Wall of Sound recording of this. It's really good. Tchaikovsky had a lot of pent up emotions that come exploding out in the first passage... it's such a strange piece.
This has got to be my favorite piano piece. I play the violin and my favorite composer is Tchaikovsky but this piece is amazing. I Love the beginning .......it's so passionate! And the orchestra in the background just adds to the melody!
Van Cliburn, winner of the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 held in Moscow. It says a lot for his playing that the Russians gave it to him, considering that the Cold War was in full swing then.
This one has so much emotion in it, it always makes me cry....somehow its sad....I dont know why.....so maybe I do. Tchaikovsky is my favourite composer, not just because he was gay....but because he was able to express emotions in such a beautifull and unexpected way....
When I was 17 my father gave me the Van Cliburn recording of this presentation. I remember that gift to this day and I am now 65. I love this piece. I just listened to the Lang Lang play this piece at the New Year's 2011 Lincoln Center concert. .Although wonderful and excellent, it does not compare with the experience that I remember and will always carry with me.
Music has always been, and might always be, the one of the few media which links cultures and countries together. Even in modern times music transcends any language or barriers to communication. As a musician myself, I always find that I can strike up and hold an oftentimes lengthy conversation with those of other nationalities and cultures simply by bringing up music and discussing its attributes.
Van Cliburn !!! 1958 ?? The Cold War ?? Playing Tchaikovsky ?? In Russia ?? And playing the music composed by a Russian Composer ??? 24 years old ??? And comes home to a ticker tape parade in New Your City ??? Brave and against adversity ??? He is Amazing !!!!
Es maravillosa.!!!!!, adoro este concierto para piano.. no lo había escuchado en esta versión y hoy alguien me contó su historia, lo que agregó valor agregado a esta increible obra,compuesta por Tchaikovsky
I was privileged to attend a concert in Providence, RI, when I was young. 10? 11? 12? unsure. But I remember being amazed at how long his fingers were and it was my first classical concert. I loved it!
Quel plaisir de pouvoir voir ce grand artiste interpréter cette oeuvre que j'ai en vinyl et que j'écoutais en boucle ... il y a une quarantaine d'années. Je découvre avec beaucoup d'émotion. Grand merci
Now that's what I call playing the piano!! ... and I've waited a long time for itLOL!
You try Howowitz ... you try Gould, Rubinstein, Zimmerman, Cortet, Lang Lang, Ashkernazy, Argerich, etc - the lot of them, then finally, you hit a pianist who nails it!!
@bratupir I understand that he is seen as 'the Bible', but from what I've heard of him, the question is whether he could carry the feeling and passion of this level of music
@thurin68 Yes indeedy, despite all the chaos in the world to-day, there is much beauty all around you, If you look for it. I can read the New York Times in about ten minutes unless I find something of interest. Keep looking and enjoying and you'll live longer.
I think this is by far the best version you will ever see and hear .
It was composed by the famous Russian composer Tchaikovsky.
The American Van Cliburn won the 1958 Tchaikovsky prize playing this music.which was the first time an American had won this prize and despite the ''Cold War'' of the time ,the Russian people took him to their hearts and loved him and his playing . In his own way he brought the 2 hostile Nations together a little ,joined in their love of music .
Please dont be too hard on your own county after all it produced perhaps the finest composer ever ''Tchaikovsky''
The Russian people I have met have been ok and politics all over the world are in a mess. Politicians never listen to their own people and always look after themselves and their own agenda !!
What incredible technique! And what amazing hands Van Cliburn has! I never saw him play before, maybe the most authoritative piano playing I've ever seen - greater even than Rubenstei - in sheer mastery of the instrument! Perhaps somewhat lesser sensitivity that Horowitz, but great . . . superb!
No other performance of this piece comes even relatively close to this. I really just can't stand listening to any other interpretation after knowing just how good it can be.
Культура и искусство вне политики ! ! ! Не надо делать "винегрет": мешать высокое искусство с политикой ! Это уже осталось в прошлом. You Tube - не политический канал в истинном его смысле ! Блестящее высокотехничное исполнение с глубочайшей внутренней выразительностью. До настоящего времени только Ван Клиберн (американец !) смог выразить истинный русский дух, заложенный Чайковским в этом произведении. Эталон для подражания в исполнении. Низкий поклон этому пианисту ! ! !
The first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 was an event designed to demonstrate Soviet cultural superiority during the Cold War, on the heels of their technological victory with the Sputnik launch in October 1957. Cliburn's performance at the competition finale of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 earned him a standing ovation lasting eight minutes.
Always my favorite interpreter of the Tchaikovsky No 1! He performs with incredible passion, totally attuned to the concerto. Incredible, astonishing, one of the greats of all time!
Still my favorite performance of this concerto. Van Cliburn's playing is always full of raw power and grace, but never overly sentimental. And I'm love with those hands (0:57)!!
jajaja ...pues la verdad ,lo puse por eso,es muy de" impacto",pero es un licor de orujo"licor hijoputa" mi nombre estaba okupado de todas las maneras y le puse el nombre del licor.
OMG! Liszt played this once? It must have been great! Go Liszt! *pardon me, once I heard his Liebestraum, I just had quite some respect for the Hungarian man.*
Yeah, exactly. But it's not a big deal. It happens all the time. You need to pay attention to the overall performance and consider it in its entirety. And in this case it's a very good one, not orgasmic though :)
Nonsense, Tchaikovsky was a composer first& foremost for orchestra, and only a mediocre piano player, never a virtuoso,so never played his concertos as soloist. Liszt cannot be "better" than Chopin, either as pianist or composer, or the reverse. They are as different as they are both valuable.
In your little debate - I have to say I agree that Liszt was the better pianist.
Liszt is considered to be one of the very few "natural" pianists - He arranged ALL Beethoven's sumphonies for piano!
Also, when Grieg first wrote his piano concerto in A minor - Liszt went to see Grieg and sight read it without a mistake as though he were performing it with the orchestra to a paying audience.
There's no "better" in such cases.Otto Singer also arranged ALL Beethoven symphonies for piano,does that make him great?Grieg visited LIszt,(not the other way round!),and while it's true Liszt had genius for everything musical,score-reading at sight is a largely mechanical function,(not a sign of"greatness"),employed by many capable,,ordinary repetiteurs.........
Anyway,that's just to show that comparisons are not so exact as one might think!
@imrich6 or all chinese piansits....
MadamDoolally 1 week ago
My heroooo :) 10/5 stars
edgelee84 1 week ago
2:28 ....ahhhhhh!
BnkWrATMt1ts 2 weeks ago
It doesn't feel right looking at his face. It's almost like it should be private.
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I love how clean his playing is during the repeated chord section at the beginning during the repeat of the main theme, you don't hear that often.. totally inspiring!!
ocsound1 2 weeks ago
Wonderful pianist
Thanks dear friend
Juanita
8Romantica 3 weeks ago
Cliburn plays with some sort of aristocratic grandeur and fire--and cleanly executed. You don't find any of that in most pianists these days. Notice how Tchai. builds on the tension of the breathtaking opening melody and grand chords by having the the pianist come back playing his triplet chords--(2:30)-master of drama.
windstorm1000 3 weeks ago
One of the interesting things about this piece is how poorly it was originally received. Tchaikovsky's pianist of choice told him that it was unplayable and didn't make any sense. It is an oddly constructed piece, to be sure, but it's great. I recommend that anyone who wants a clean copy go grab the Living Stereo reissue on SACD (hybrid so it does have a CD layer, too). It's good stuff! I was just listening to it and wanted to find a video of Cliburn playing and wound up here :)
AlisionIsUnreal 4 weeks ago
@AlisionIsUnreal yes! Tchaikovsky's pianist of choice - it was Nikolay Rubinstein - founder of the Moscow Conservatory and probably best pianist in Moscow at those time!!
chigsrOck 3 weeks ago
A performance for the ages, never equalled.
baldeagle21b 1 month ago
Beautiful!
frankchu2020 1 month ago
en 58 on trouvait sont enregistrement (extrait) sur 45 tours il faisait un triomphe merité
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will someone like me who started to play piano 3 years ago ever be even near this level of virtuosity? his musical level will , in my opinion, never be reached again
just beatiful
xXAzNBa0Xx 2 months ago
@xXAzNBa0Xx 3 years? He's probably been knowing this one piece for decades ;)
Galoot5 3 weeks ago
Fabulous! Thanks for uploading this. Where did you find this video in the first place?
friedie1jeff 2 months ago
it's one great music...give it another 100 years...people will still be playing..listening...lovin' it...
coolstatics1 3 months ago 2
Laudan & firemirer: I'm not sure how funny you realize your discussion is! Does "He's Russian" refers to the piano (masculine in Russian, despite the soft sound sign at the end, which usually designates the feminine) or the piano player (a man, but also gay and therefore probably slightly feminine, but not necessarily as he was a practicing Baptist his whole life)? So the answers are, for the piano: Russian; for the best American pianist alive: Texan! So you're both right!
1966PIK 4 months ago
If you don't realize just how big of a deal this was, the judges had to get special permission from Kruschev to award Van the top prize. Kruschev simply asked the judges, "Was he the best?" When the replied yes, he replied, the give him the prize. They then got special permission fof the conductor to accompany Van to the U.S. for a concert tour. This was a big thing in 1958. Some of us still remember, it was the year of Sputnik.
WMJCPA 4 months ago 3
This is excellent. It works for me!
marcelkonings60 5 months ago
beautiful peice. just beautiful.
RabbitLitvyak 5 months ago
God.
MssFlautista 5 months ago
Does anybody know the story behind this piece by Tchaikovsky?
lifevorce 5 months ago
Wasn't this song used in a Bugs Bunny cartoon?
bassbabe411 5 months ago
@bassbabe411 no, the piece used was liszt's hungarian rhapsody no 2
fatcat22able 5 months ago
@bassbabe411 You're thinking of a Tom & Jerry masterpiece called "The Cat Concerto". Have a search for it on this website, it's hilarious!
1984ekul 4 months ago
American pianist and American piano. He had to win...
Laudan08 6 months ago
@Laudan08 its not american piano lmao^^
Cooller1993 5 months ago
@Laudan08 He's Russian... -.-
firemirer 5 months ago
@firemirer No, he's a Texan
WMJCPA 4 months ago
@Laudan08 That is a Hamburg Steinway... not American
Ithinkyoureramazing 1 month ago
The video recording cant quite keep up with the speed of his hands. Technology wasnt quite there. Though i am very impressed that they could record the sound so well and clearly. sounds stunning (understatement of the year there)
lukethegreat101 6 months ago
I can't even...I just have no words. Too much awesome in one video!
ValeriyaAviva 6 months ago
even his hands show the emotion he feels. Breathtaking!
yooperlooper 6 months ago
yeeee texas representttttt
jklolugetit 7 months ago
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qwtrerry 6 months ago
This....is what happens when two gifted people and a group of talented people get together : )
TOproFORthis 7 months ago
@TOproFORthis nope, this is what happens when ur jewish, lol
qwtrerry 6 months ago
@qwtrerry what's that supposed to mean? trying to be funny or what?
kleineschutter 6 months ago
@kleineschutter not at all, im just putting it out there, van cliburn was jewish, and jews have a great talent in music.
qwtrerry 6 months ago
@qwtrerry revolting
waffleboy7 6 months ago
@waffleboy7 again, m comment wasn´t meat to be offensive. really sorry if i actually offended someone by saying theyre nation is talented...no but for real, it wasn´t meant to be offensive, seriously.
qwtrerry 6 months ago
@qwtrerry Word.
ValeriyaAviva 6 months ago
The best performance of this piece. Most other performances seem too slow or too fast as if the performers want to finish it right away.
Pau9pau 7 months ago
@Pau9pau I agree. Cliburn found the right balance. I compare his amazing version to a record by Nikita Magaloff that I found very close to Cliburn performance.
Zeusdattilo 7 months ago
The best performance of this piece.
Pau9pau 7 months ago 24
@Pau9pau
I totally agree !!
adobes2 7 months ago
Великолепно!
Ksardas1990 7 months ago
How could someone dislike this?
strknightt 7 months ago
I have spent many wonderful times with Van. He used to sent my wife and I tickets to all his concerts in the NY, NJ area. One time we snuck out after a concert and went to an Italian restaurant for a quiet dinner only to realize that it was full of patrons of the concert. He called me at work one day and we spent the day in NYC. When I arrived at his apt, talked to his mom and we listened to him practicing this, then we spent the day in the city. Such wonderful memories of a great friend.
dickshouse1 8 months ago
@dickshouse1 with that nickname you got all I can say you probably just want the heads up vote to feed your ego.
javilack 7 months ago 3
I spent many incredible times with Van. He would send my wife and me tickets to all his concerts in the NY, NJ area. We would go to parties with he an his mom Rhilda Bee. ONe night after a concert in NJ the 4 of us sneaked out and went to a local Italian restaurant for a quiet dinner, only to find that a good part of the audience was there. I spent a number of days in NYC with Van, he would call me at work and ask if I could come in and spend the day. I sat listening to him practice this .
dickshouse1 8 months ago
En español va esto, simple y sencillamente H E R M O S O ..........
JGRAMON1 8 months ago
omg piano !!!!!!!
TheJCJexe 8 months ago
I heard Van Cliburn with my girl scout troop play at the University of Rochester"s Eastman Theatre, Rochester New York in the 1950's. Yes no one plays it better than Van Cliburn....Awesome!!!!
Bachenfly 8 months ago
Although I admire Argerich's version, this one has much more bite into the intro. I absolutely love it!
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If classical music is so good, why do you only hear it in elevators? Hank Jr can play piano better than this guy, and when he's done, he'd beat the crap outta the clown waving his arms around
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roodyhoo 9 months ago
No one has played it better than Van Cliburn
Pau9pau 9 months ago
I heard this concert for the first time back around 1958. My father purchased our first stereo record player and bought two classical records truly out of nowhere. He didn't like "long-haired" music, as he called it. The other was Rachmaninoff' 's Concert #2 for piano/orchestra. I played them so often, still do, that I know them by heart!!
The Skulker (AHS '62)
usranger12 10 months ago
Young Van Clibern performing Piotr Chaikovsky's Concerto 1that the composer created at the start of his career, when he was young and full of hopes, his happiest of creations.
karapturam 10 months ago
great !
jpbager 10 months ago
perhaps the best performance ever on this piece
a1fr3 10 months ago
o moskva
rouzbehazshab 10 months ago
Again, too beautiful for words
pamtime04 10 months ago 2
This piece of music is so beautiful, it makes me cry...
lillllbit 10 months ago 3
This certainly not the place for nasty and unclever comments.
Just listen to such a marvel.
geraldrim 10 months ago
@korglove do you have "a" perfect pitch, or perfect pitch? Do you even know what that means, or that it's not even the proper term for what you're trying to describe?
strukhoff 11 months ago
since ca. 3:50 new instrument has taken part: coughing
vino122 11 months ago
the only classical pianist to have ticker tape parade when he he returned to nyc after winnining in moscow and im proud to say he was my teacher for one summer at interlochen national music camp in michigan in 1975 i was only 14 years old
MrEction100 11 months ago
Quite possibly the best this composition has ever been performed. So much passion!!!!
congressman92maxwell 11 months ago
That's why, even though you play the this piece and "know every single note", you're sitting at your comp writing negative comments while he was sitting there playing for many people as a world famous pianist.
MikeyIV 11 months ago 47
At 1:50 I was like Holy **** he is good.
TheGreenGrunt1 3 months ago
Have A Nice Day, Grab Some Butter & Bacon, Then EveryThing Will Be Okay
Msbozobozo 2 months ago 2
@MikeyIV Not to mention playing at a historically significant concert in the middle of the cold war in Russia!
Reebsify 4 weeks ago
@MikeyIV Yes, exactly...
1981Grigorian 3 weeks ago
I could watch his hands all day
SykoAzn26 11 months ago
wrong note at 7: 48.
korglove 11 months ago
@korglove you're an unmusical idiot lol
MikeyIV 11 months ago
@MikeyIV i know every single note of that concerto and i have a perfect pitch, so why don't you shut your stinkin' hole and learn how to play guitar the right way, LOL.
korglove 11 months ago
@korglove You don't even understand what I'm saying lol. The fact that you watch Cilburn put his heart and emotion into every note. You watch this beautiful, moving performance of one of the greatest concertos ever written. And you say "wrong note at 7:48." I don't care if you have perfect pitch and I'm sure many people can play this concerto "hitting all the right notes." I'm saying you lack musicality if that's all you had to say.
MikeyIV 11 months ago
@korglove
Can we please see you playing your improved version on youtube soon ?
lovemetu 10 months ago
LIstening to the SACD remastering of the Wall of Sound recording of this. It's really good. Tchaikovsky had a lot of pent up emotions that come exploding out in the first passage... it's such a strange piece.
EpicureMammon 11 months ago
@EpicureMammon Err I meant Living Stereo.
EpicureMammon 11 months ago
This has got to be my favorite piano piece. I play the violin and my favorite composer is Tchaikovsky but this piece is amazing. I Love the beginning .......it's so passionate! And the orchestra in the background just adds to the melody!
BlueSkies910 1 year ago
i wish i played the piano!! :P
BlueSkies910 1 year ago 3
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aeknorren 1 year ago
@BlueSkies910
me to
I love it
aeknorren 1 year ago
I can't imagine this performance ever being bettered. Cliburn seems a man
possessed. Wow!
michaels7 1 year ago
Van Cliburn, winner of the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 held in Moscow. It says a lot for his playing that the Russians gave it to him, considering that the Cold War was in full swing then.
youtubister 1 year ago
I go to see Olga Kern play this on 3/25 and I prey she is as good as he.What a performance
shangrila38mm2 1 year ago
This one has so much emotion in it, it always makes me cry....somehow its sad....I dont know why.....so maybe I do. Tchaikovsky is my favourite composer, not just because he was gay....but because he was able to express emotions in such a beautifull and unexpected way....
rxlaudanum 1 year ago
When I was 17 my father gave me the Van Cliburn recording of this presentation. I remember that gift to this day and I am now 65. I love this piece. I just listened to the Lang Lang play this piece at the New Year's 2011 Lincoln Center concert. .Although wonderful and excellent, it does not compare with the experience that I remember and will always carry with me.
1bazzaar1 1 year ago 3
PERFECTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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OrangeSodaKing 1 year ago
Music has always been, and might always be, the one of the few media which links cultures and countries together. Even in modern times music transcends any language or barriers to communication. As a musician myself, I always find that I can strike up and hold an oftentimes lengthy conversation with those of other nationalities and cultures simply by bringing up music and discussing its attributes.
radtech2005 1 year ago
this is epic!
AliceP0930 1 year ago
This is a completely celestial orgasm...ñ
cirecsc 1 year ago
5 80 year olds think Liberace is better
EMPERORMIKI 1 year ago
Amazing
Jhh1771 1 year ago
I trust that those 4 dislikes were only mistakes.
93pianogirl 1 year ago
Van Cliburn !!! 1958 ?? The Cold War ?? Playing Tchaikovsky ?? In Russia ?? And playing the music composed by a Russian Composer ??? 24 years old ??? And comes home to a ticker tape parade in New Your City ??? Brave and against adversity ??? He is Amazing !!!!
PeteTheSnowDog1 1 year ago 16
For a long time, I have despised this concerto, but this may be a turning point for me!
OrangeSodaKing 1 year ago
Es maravillosa.!!!!!, adoro este concierto para piano.. no lo había escuchado en esta versión y hoy alguien me contó su historia, lo que agregó valor agregado a esta increible obra,compuesta por Tchaikovsky
MAGALYDECHILE 1 year ago
Music to my muthafuckin ears.
VladimirFedorov 1 year ago
Wow, this version is by far my favourite recording! Perfect!
FuzzyConstant 1 year ago
I love this, I live for this! The passion is moving!
sergei1873 1 year ago
I was privileged to attend a concert in Providence, RI, when I was young. 10? 11? 12? unsure. But I remember being amazed at how long his fingers were and it was my first classical concert. I loved it!
Sharona4ever 1 year ago
Quel plaisir de pouvoir voir ce grand artiste interpréter cette oeuvre que j'ai en vinyl et que j'écoutais en boucle ... il y a une quarantaine d'années. Je découvre avec beaucoup d'émotion. Grand merci
tramina50 1 year ago
Van Cliburn, enough said!!
markmarshall39 1 year ago
Now that's what I call playing the piano!! ... and I've waited a long time for itLOL!
You try Howowitz ... you try Gould, Rubinstein, Zimmerman, Cortet, Lang Lang, Ashkernazy, Argerich, etc - the lot of them, then finally, you hit a pianist who nails it!!
denidowi 1 year ago
@denidowi you must try Richter.
bratupir 1 year ago
@bratupir I understand that he is seen as 'the Bible', but from what I've heard of him, the question is whether he could carry the feeling and passion of this level of music
denidowi 1 year ago
@denidowi Gould nails it too :P
CSPlayerDamon 1 year ago
I wanna cry this is so beautiful..It almost gives me goosebumps...This can be such an awesome world sometimes...Anyone agree?
thurin68 1 year ago 2
@thurin68 Yes indeedy, despite all the chaos in the world to-day, there is much beauty all around you, If you look for it. I can read the New York Times in about ten minutes unless I find something of interest. Keep looking and enjoying and you'll live longer.
pascal1530 1 year ago
@thurin68
pascal1530 1 year ago
@thurin68 I so agree with you. My mother loved this particular recording since she was a teenager; she passed her love for this on to me. Beautiful.
chislehurstbat 1 year ago
i think it was played a bit slower than other versions..
sumimimi0 1 year ago
@sumimimi0
I think this is by far the best version you will ever see and hear .
It was composed by the famous Russian composer Tchaikovsky.
The American Van Cliburn won the 1958 Tchaikovsky prize playing this music.which was the first time an American had won this prize and despite the ''Cold War'' of the time ,the Russian people took him to their hearts and loved him and his playing . In his own way he brought the 2 hostile Nations together a little ,joined in their love of music .
lovemetu 1 year ago 48
@lovemetu true, but we suck anyway.....always did and will keep sucking when Putin comes to power again.....
DeniskaFromRussia 5 months ago
@DeniskaFromRussia
Nice video of you riding your honda !!
Please dont be too hard on your own county after all it produced perhaps the finest composer ever ''Tchaikovsky''
The Russian people I have met have been ok and politics all over the world are in a mess. Politicians never listen to their own people and always look after themselves and their own agenda !!
lovemetu 5 months ago
@DeniskaFromRussia russia does not suck. no country does-- only their pathetic 'leadership' :(
plinqth 4 months ago
thats what i call MUSIC
InferniaBeta 1 year ago
What incredible technique! And what amazing hands Van Cliburn has! I never saw him play before, maybe the most authoritative piano playing I've ever seen - greater even than Rubenstei - in sheer mastery of the instrument! Perhaps somewhat lesser sensitivity that Horowitz, but great . . . superb!
MySerpentine 1 year ago
Who disliked this?
logman135 1 year ago
@logman135 probably 4 rap artists
TheMagicofCurtis 1 year ago
No one can beat Van Cliburn in this piece!!!
Pau9pau 1 year ago
Excellent performance on all points. Best that I've heard so far.
9samten 1 year ago
van cliburn and kondrashin as well as the orcestre.good team with van cliburn exeptional!!!is it ok that way???
cuccv 1 year ago
@cuccv yes, I didn't understand you the first time ;-)
pianomaster272 1 year ago
by far the best team of all times
cuccv 1 year ago
@cuccv team?
pianomaster272 1 year ago
This is my favorite of all the video's for this song! Thank you so much for putting it up for us all to enjoy!!! Sounds LIVE (from the past). = - )
notellyearight1 1 year ago
i love tchaikowsky´s harmony, so unique!!
raulisable 1 year ago 2
One of the greatest romantic pianists of all time.
TONYTHEARTIST1 1 year ago
Incredible....just incredible....
madandbugged 1 year ago
No other performance of this piece comes even relatively close to this. I really just can't stand listening to any other interpretation after knowing just how good it can be.
snowballz 1 year ago 2
strelkuz 1 year ago 2
第一屆國際柴可夫斯基大賽 1958年的一項活動，意旨在展示蘇聯的文化優勢，在冷戰期間，接踵而至的勝利與他們的技術發射人造地球衛星 1957年10月。 克萊本的表現在比賽壓軸的柴可夫斯基的第一鋼琴協奏曲和拉赫曼尼諾夫的鋼琴協奏曲第3號為他贏得了全場起立鼓掌持續 8分鐘
ethannahlee 1 year ago
This is priceless footage, thank you for uploading!
Might I suggest Gary Graffman and George Szell, from 1969:
watch?v=JYnlaxmD2Mw
classicvinylbiz 1 year ago
lol "kirill kondrashin"="kim kardashian"
pianomaster272 1 year ago 2
@pianomaster272
so awkward but so true XD
violinfreak93 1 year ago
@violinfreak93 yup :-) and I wasn't looking for a way to fit a kardashian into a tchaikovsky concerto xD
pianomaster272 1 year ago
@pianomaster272
the weirdest/most disturbing things are the ones you randomly stumble upon... ^^
violinfreak93 1 year ago
The movement of his hands doesn't look real.
handleofhappiness 1 year ago
wow i love his unique style - that pianist. cliburn. NICE!
rhonin93 1 year ago
Hands-down the best version of this conceto ever made! Love it!
rkwittem 1 year ago
A quote from wiki:
The first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 was an event designed to demonstrate Soviet cultural superiority during the Cold War, on the heels of their technological victory with the Sputnik launch in October 1957. Cliburn's performance at the competition finale of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 earned him a standing ovation lasting eight minutes.
Teekoness 1 year ago
incantato, ogni volta di più
albmari 1 year ago
Always my favorite interpreter of the Tchaikovsky No 1! He performs with incredible passion, totally attuned to the concerto. Incredible, astonishing, one of the greats of all time!
Bret6464 1 year ago 2
although this video is very old but the sound is so wonderful.
I love the pianist!!!
linhpiano 1 year ago 170
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lovesarahchang 1 year ago
Still my favorite performance of this concerto. Van Cliburn's playing is always full of raw power and grace, but never overly sentimental. And I'm love with those hands (0:57)!!
tannerboi 1 year ago 3
Great!
stefanbathory1975 2 years ago
lastima ke no este en mejor calidad visual y sonora. Para mi es el ke mejor interpreta a Tchaikovsky....
hijoputa77 2 years ago 2
Para ti y para muchos, jeje.
Por cierto, curiosida variedad musical me encontré en tu canal, hijoputa, está curioso!
Stunt2one 2 years ago
jajaja ...pues la verdad ,lo puse por eso,es muy de" impacto",pero es un licor de orujo"licor hijoputa" mi nombre estaba okupado de todas las maneras y le puse el nombre del licor.
hijoputa77 2 years ago
Jajaj, sí señor, buen licor ese! Yo me hice uno de madroños con él.
Saludotes ;)
Stunt2one 2 years ago
without a doubt
bran0217 2 years ago 2
Amanda Palmer is about to rock this. Oh yes she is.
curlymynci 2 years ago 5
@curlymynci fuck YES! I can't wait till tomorrow night!
Sammydoodle14 2 years ago
@Sammydoodle14 so luckkky!! i wish i was there- there better be footage:)
Pollllypocket 2 years ago
@Pollllypocket haha, If I get any, I'll put it on the tube. She's already requested ppl to youtube a lot of the show
Sammydoodle14 2 years ago
@curlymynci
No modern day music can possibly "rock" music like this.
If that's what you're talking about... I have no idea who Amanda Palmer is, lol.
Ragtime44Films 1 year ago
Who the hell knows who was a better piano player? Unfortunately, there are no recordings of both Chopin and Liszt, so we will never know.
Rachmaninoff on the other hand...
beaverteeth92 2 years ago
OMG! Liszt played this once? It must have been great! Go Liszt! *pardon me, once I heard his Liebestraum, I just had quite some respect for the Hungarian man.*
Alchrat 2 years ago
yeah :D
im not saying anything bad about him
i ve watched this link 20-40 times now :D
so i enjoy it
BrianMayRedSpecial 2 years ago
is it just me or does he hit a wrong key at 1:14
otherwise nicely done.
BrianMayRedSpecial 2 years ago
Yeah, exactly. But it's not a big deal. It happens all the time. You need to pay attention to the overall performance and consider it in its entirety. And in this case it's a very good one, not orgasmic though :)
kubu79 2 years ago
There are a few. Adds 'flavor', no? This was not a competiton...just a performance. And in my opinion, one of the best ever...especially mvt 3
lynndelano 2 years ago
only tschaikovsky could play it better i think....or maybe not. a good composer doest has to be a good pianist...
liszt was a better pianist than chopin....some people say it....
i know nothing...BUT this version is soo epic
princenosiatajansen 2 years ago
Nonsense, Tchaikovsky was a composer first& foremost for orchestra, and only a mediocre piano player, never a virtuoso,so never played his concertos as soloist. Liszt cannot be "better" than Chopin, either as pianist or composer, or the reverse. They are as different as they are both valuable.
NOSEhow2LIV 2 years ago
In your little debate - I have to say I agree that Liszt was the better pianist.
Liszt is considered to be one of the very few "natural" pianists - He arranged ALL Beethoven's sumphonies for piano!
Also, when Grieg first wrote his piano concerto in A minor - Liszt went to see Grieg and sight read it without a mistake as though he were performing it with the orchestra to a paying audience.
Natural Pianist
Robzie123 2 years ago 3
There's no "better" in such cases.Otto Singer also arranged ALL Beethoven symphonies for piano,does that make him great?Grieg visited LIszt,(not the other way round!),and while it's true Liszt had genius for everything musical,score-reading at sight is a largely mechanical function,(not a sign of"greatness"),employed by many capable,,ordinary repetiteurs.........
Anyway,that's just to show that comparisons are not so exact as one might think!
NOSEhow2LIV 2 years ago
So you are saying that the ordinary repetiteur has the same sight reading ability as Liszt?
Robzie123 2 years ago