Brendel playing the last part of an Haydn's Sonata

[delsiemeineke]

nice show

[bontempo01]

Truly outstanding performance. He does play it much more delicately - in the score Haydn marks "forte" for a few more sections than it is apparent in Brendel's version - but it serves a point. Bravo!

[Refamire30]

Oh my god. This is so fantastic. Brendel has a wonderful humour and intelligence to discover Haydn's jokes and present them witch such nonchalance

[PetervonBelvedere]

Some years ago I heard a phenomenal piano recital by Rudolf Serkin in Los Angeles. Some wonderful elderly ladies behind me tried to pay the ultimate complement " Nicht seit dem Schnabel". That certainly applies to this performance as well.

[pichuchika]

I do love how he finishes, so simply.

Great carreer for a great man , BRENDEL .

[tchebinai71]

0.48 hehe cuuuute !!!

[pianist12]

the orchestra should have played something else in all that applause.....

[rontomcol]

Haydn's Piano Sonata in C HXVI No 50. 3rd movement - Allegro molto - just in case anyone is interested! This is masterful playing... complete control AND freedom of expression. What a beautiful choice of encore. Very witty too.

[adolfhitler7]

he's a masterpeace

[Sanrus]

indimenticabile maestro Brendel!

[virtuoso1873]

Wow, it's amazing how the orchestra won't stand up when he asks them at the end...it's like he's pulling teeth to get them to stand and receive the applause!

[Discerninator]

your right, the orchestra can't follow a simple instruction like that, you wonder how they follow his conducting... Abaddo's that is

[davecotuit]

you guys have it all wrong. the orchestra is perfectly capable of following instructiions. it s just that they don t think they deserve the applause and that ALL the applause should be for maestro abbado. it is a great sign of respect for abbado.

[Discerninator]

Ah, good point, I didn't think of that. Different strokes for different folks I guess.... However, wouldn't it have been more respectful to follow his wishes and stand when he (Abbado) asked him to stand, as in most other cultures?

[Discerninator]

I meant them to stand, not him to stand.

[hellomate639]

Well, I'm going to see this guy in Gateshead, England on the 20th.

He's my favorite. Alfred Brendel.

[ytpiano7]

I AM WRITING THIS HERE, BECAUSE i am already blocked in the "100 years aniversary of Carnegie Hall"..

Even "Raphael" an spaniard popular an hysteric singer was invited to sing at Carnegie Hall. Music is a thing . Music busiines is a different thing. In NY where i lived for 6 years are many very goo music connoiseurs, but also a lot of snobs who adore Serkin (Rudolf) and Brendel, So they pay money to go to recitals and concerts. That´s money .....

ytpiano7....

[ytpiano7]

Hello "vladvezler" good question...

Well beggining with Sachnabel the maniac of changing tempo every minute... for his subjetive reasons. Cortot was a great musical who belong to the kind of "Labil" or "Low hormonla" playing. It doesn´t mean bad, but is out of my line of "Musical apretiation", Kempff form those trhee is that what i like most of them. He was a begginig of make a kind of parameter for some specific music, especially Beethoven. Of course he had not the dimension ..continune...

[jakehohsfield]

If you had another brain, it would be lonely.

[ytpiano7]

To all people who write comments in you tube: Go to the Cecil Licad links and jut post something against her, and you´ll realized next day you will be blocked , but not only that: The worst : They erased you previous comments. If that is not manipulation, what it is?

Ytpiano7

[pianista32]

What sonata's number is it?

Please, answer me

thanks

[GeniusHaydn]

Its-Franz Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonata No. 60 in C major, Finale: Allegro molto...

[mziel53]

I regret to inform you, that the sonata, which is played in this video have number 50 :)

[GeniusHaydn]

Hey Kid, your refering to (Hob.XVI:50), the old numbering system. It is No. 60 in C major if you don't believe me, verify it with John McCabe's complete Haydn Piano Sonatas CD Box Set. I am absolutely sure it is correct.

[mziel53]

So there are two correct numbering systems.

[KennYWooD2]

You're actually both right about the number. "60" comes from the "Wiener Urtext" edition and "50" is the Hoboken number. It simply depends on which numbering system you find more reliable (and it's really inconsequential), but most pianists do, in fact, use the Hoboken number (and it's not considered "old", kid).

[clasesdepiano]

Completamente maravilloso. Bravo, Ed.

[tarnashun]

that last part is actually kind of scary. those poor musicians.

[wol4fram]

Brendel actually plays Chopin for himself. He just doesn't seem to be comfortable or confident performing these composers in front of others. There's a documentary on youtube about him in which he plays a Chopin prelude (No. 4 in E minor)

[chrish12345]

he played chopin when very young, and decided to drop it then cos he felt he would need to specialize in it

[lecomptedelalune]

That was actually a recording of Cortot playing the prelude - I heard from a reliable source that he played the 3rd sonata along with Gaspard de la Nuit at Bridgewater Hall Manchester a few years back

[OnGuardForPeace]

I wish Brendel would play some Chopin and Rachmaninov, too. He's so gifted, but he's boxed himself into the German School almost exclusively.

[zigeunerlieder]

He played Chopin 30 or 40 years ago. But now he only plays Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, that´s it. I read he doesn´t like Rachmaninov at all.

[cfeeney2]

Perhaps he enjoys the music of the Classical era more than the Romantic era. Every pianist has his/her favorites. Some pianists enjoy listening to some composers but would prefer not to play them.

[gspaulsson]

Brendel is famously a Schubert specialist. That's his shtik, and he does it very well. Like Gould played Bach and a zillion people play Chopin almost exclusively. Somebody or other did Scriabin ... What's wrong with being a specialist?

[ytpiano7]

It´s wrong . The word specialist is assigned mostly ..or created by people who managed the musical bussines. Normally it is asigned to a pianists with limitations as Brendel. as an example: People assigned to a Rubintein as a Chopin specialist, but he always rejected it, and he did nice becuase he was abñe to play any music. Of ciourse some better than other, but he is capable. Did you listen Brendel Prokofieff recordings? haha i listened. He just have a very narrow capacity.. to continue..

[ytpiano7]

continuing... to play music different than his viennese repertoire and so boring (in his way of playing).

The term specialist in most cases is an excuse to justify mediocrity. Regarding "Claps" that´s very relative, here you can realize the claps finally are given to abbado.

ytpiano7

[chrish12345]

the only german composers he plays are beethoven and bach - how is that 'boxing himself in'?

[chrish12345]

the only german composers he plays are beethoven and bach, how is that 'boxing himself in'?

[Perkeno]

He was having lots of fun; it's great to see.

Which orchestra was that?

The violinist in the middle is cute :-)

[mingweicello]

gosh, it's abbado afterward. Where did you take this video? It looks like a concert with Mahler Youth Orchestra. the final applauses remind me the concert we played under Eschenbach in Hamburg and Berlin.

[cfeeney2]

I have never heard applause like this before! It's funny. Is it a German thing?

[gspaulsson]

It's synchronized clapping - the audience wants Brendel to come out. Also you hear "bis!" - they want an encore. But this clearly was an encore - he must have played a concerto with the orchestra before this.

[chrish12345]

how come its still so revolutionary to see people smiling

[chai35]

Anyone could post a concerto performance before this encore?  :)

[lovesGenet]

he is sooo greta but what a disservice this nasty recorded sound is. U have to use your imaination just to hear  his color! rather not have than to sound so bad. His tempi were interesting about all i could hear of his individ

[JackYBHV]

he is good, big up