Ashkenazy plays Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 1/3

[dgontar]

Anyone interested in hearing Ashkenazy's performance of this on cd should get the Vienna Philharmonic performance with Zubin Mehta from 1983. From what I have heard it's Ashkenazy's best performance of it.

[nevskixx]

It's lovely to see Ashkenazy in his prime. Meticulous preparation by him and very sympathetic conducting from Haitink. After many years of listening to music, I can now re-evaluate. Ashkenazy's trills are wonderfully measured and everything about his playing is so under control.And that is also a problem now for me. May be he was nervous and fought nervousness by keeping focused. But some spontaneity is lost. Yet plenty still subsists and there's much to enjoy.

[oyajiken]

素晴らしい演奏だと思います。

[ALBIBISBIS]

Which orchestra is playing?

[CYTL1960]

@ALBIBISBIS It's London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink

[f1f1s]

He looks much younger than his 37 here.

Oh, he looks like a shaggy and mad genius or professor! I love his hairstyle - in Russia we call it 'Macaroni factory exploding'!

Those two woodwind @ 6:06-6:12 have purely 1970s Londonish aristocratic hairstyle, like those men from Monthy Python...

[filippeo85]

I cut it because the whole movement was 17 min and I didn't want to cut his playing on two.I know that is little bit stupid.Sorry

[dgontar]

@filippeo85 You should upload it again in the complete form.

[cholapat]

thanks but why not the whole performance?? did you cut the orchestra expo? or do you not have it?

[cattleman6420012000]

This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing this.