Barenboim Bax Hammerklavier Masterclass II

[gerardbedecarter]

Excellent!

[A8opi]

daniel loves the pianist haha, his expression in 1:22 is aweesome

[PrincessUnicorn69]

Emil Gilels has the best interpretation of this piece I've ever heard. Brendel and Pollini are two and three.

[Sonolumino8939]

@PrincessUnicorn69 My thoughts exactly!

[Ninjagangster92]

@PrincessUnicorn69 I agree with you 100%

[Justino111]

@madlovba2 excuse me...."really one of the best Hammerklaviers"??????

you've got to be kidding...

i mean, seriously, he can play it, but if you could be a little less hyperbolic maybe your comment would be more relevant.

Btw, Barenboim does not have the fingers to play this piece as well as Brendel and others. This does not mean Barenboim is not great, it's just that this piece is something else.

[madlovba2]

@Justino111 Okay, okay I got carried away :) I should have been somewhat more accurate: I find his tempo and style very good, but his pedalling is incorrect in some places. Some fortes are not powerful enough and sound quality is not really HQ, but I think that's the sound engineer's work, not the pianist's. Of course you're right: he's neither Brendel nor Lisitsa nor Richter, but I've enjoyed this performance (much better than Barenboim's, I have to say). I hope I was less hyperbolic this time.

[OrangeSodaKing]

Bax is the real deal! I've met him and played in a master class with him on two separate occations, and he had great things to say! He's a phenominal performer and I hope his career keeps growing!

[haruncenani]

1:22 shows and says it all :-)))

[shiadani]

this is an artist

[skalkmusix]

This man understood the piece....and maestro Barenboim is definitelly enjoying:)))

5 stars from me

[fdaltrey]

Whoa. Impressive. Can't believe this is a live performance.

[shiadani]

i really love bax!!!

[Grigor99]

Barenboim was WAY into this!

[luxvoix]

barenboim's expression at 1:22 , priceless!!

[intthis]

seriously. if you can get barenboim that into your performance, you know you're really doing something right.

[alejita1679]

@luxvoix yes, that smile!!!

[seandunx]

@luxvoix The price is years of never ending devotion to your craft and art

[Credos2]

Just, hammerklavier is designate to late in the 19th century German piano

[Credos2]

My miss! It's late in the 18th century

[iamthebirdman888]

haha wow the audience looks completely uninterested in what is going on.

[imaoldkidnow]

umm.. not really, he was playing the beautiful lyrical passage, and they are still sticking their necks out to watch lol... just saying, i thought he could have a bit more excitement to it... more pedal?

[TMLaine]

you can't even play this of notes because your mind won't be able to read them as fast as your hands move. you need to study it by heart first and maybe then use notes just as reminder.

[thegoddescomposer]

beethoven when he was 11 he can play the whole book 1 , that is just amazing, beethoven really is the best composer of all time

[imaoldkidnow]

lol so thats why the Russians make their elementary school piano students complete book I also i guess

[triplecross123]

WOW

O_o

[HoratioParker]

I love these Barenboim videos, and I'm grateful they're up here, but really they're edited in the most ham-fisted way imaginable.

Someone needs to develop a basic editing sense.

[MARIANOHUNG]

i would love to have that too. do you know how to get it? I'm from Argentina, like Barenboim

[moonscore]

Oh, the Hammeklavier.. A magnificent piece that, for a moment, gives us a glimpse of God Himself. I just ordered the complete Beethoven sonata DVD masterclass and performance from barenboim and the waiting is killing me.

[lovesGenet]

Amazing that Barenboim had the brains and musical nderstanding to play all 32 not just a few inpublic as a child. this is infinitely more difficult thanall he godowskis and Rachman pieces . Uchida knows Schoenberg requires real thinking when it is being played .the control of perimeters asopposed to just body,weights and beautiful tones .

[paolohudson]

Actually, Barenboim learned all 32 sonatas by the age of 17, which is absolutely incomprehensible.

[guitarike]

and he played all of them within 5 evenings, I believe in Israel.

Random fact: Saint Saens played all sonatas by age 12, and would offer any of them as encores during a recital, leaving the choice to the crowd.

[munkybrain]

no, by the time he was 12. it says so in this sleeve note of an EMI recording i have right here

[whatsmylogin]

I read that Dimitris Sgouros could play all 32 Beethoven sonatas by age 14 or 15.

[ProkofievRules]

I believe Barenboim recorded all 32 when he was 15.

Rachmaninoff graduated from the conservatory at age 19 conversely. Horowitz at age 17. Interesting.

[mariarita1943]

Beautiful sound!