Beethoven Hammerklavier - 4th Mvnt

[Kuplungmaster]

No one ever came close to this kind of mastery and perfection except Bach! Wouldn't it be something if those two met and worked together .... wow! :)

[edushreds]

I love Herr Beethoven, but the audio quality sucks, please improve it if you are able to.

[Huddiethegreat]

Notes are flying everywhere

[deathbuster34]

This sounds like Perfection...

[DavePerry2012]

This sounds like a forte piano..

[leporello56]

@DavePerry2012 no, its a pianoforte. but yeah it sounds a little bit like a fortepiano sometimes....

[DavePerry2012]

@leporello56 Ah, I think I see---you're saying it's a modern piano. It sounds old to me, though. Kind of clunky and percussive sounding. Could just be the sound of that specific piano.

[DavePerry2012]

@DavePerry2012 Is there a difference or did I just get the name wrong?

[Alban165]

Beethoven s music was in advance of the age im which he lived.

[Adagietto66]

who is this? Solomon???

c'est magnifique!

[foljamb]

zapor: i came back and listened again--he is truly wonderful--he needs to be able to stop and die at m239...then resurrect... even so, the technic is amazing and the musicality so warm and human that one (in audience) can forget technic--so who is this boy, what is he recording

[lecheparavaka]

I just heard an incredible performance by Valentina Lisitsa here in Monterrey Mexico, its beautiful and hard to play too!

[hammer29106]

This piece is hard, but one of my favorites

[denlesy]

the image at 06:15 is really spooky and cool lol

[flippert0]

@denlesy 3:28 is scarier.

[spinoza1111]

Wait a minute..."zaporyzhye" shows in a series of otherwise unremarkable slides a bombed house with a satellite dish, looks like Bosnia.

But: Beethoven prefigured the suffering of Rotterdam, and Moscow. He could not produce this after these events.

It's "hard" because a generation of musicians was destroyed on the Somme alone.

The angel of history looks backward but the music saw it coming. By one hundred years.

[spinoza1111]

"The only thing harder".

And I had a dream...Beethoven arose from as it were the sea,

And he said, hard, what do you mean, hard

It was hard to make a living

What with publishers and having to give lessons

Composing zis ztuff vus easy.

The problem is you learn you're nothing

Like mein Vater told me and he was a trunk

Go out every night and get vasted.

[99Lundinator99]

The only thing harder than playing this would be composing it.

[enarev23]

hallucinant !!!!!!!!!!!!

[sai221]

hi. I'm a little.. like... how to say it? I don't have much experience in this kind of music, but it is INCREDIBLY awesome!

[Sammeroo]

Excellent.

[TONICOSWORTH]

J'admire que l'on puisse jouer HK;

Mais arriver, avec ce bagage technique, à quelquechose d'aussi plat et scolaire est désolant. Pas 1" de musique en 10'30"; le pire exemple de piano mécanique que je connaisse.

[civilbb]

This is a very good interpretation...however I don't really like this sonata much - comparing to Pathetique & Moonlight & Waldstein & Appassionata.

[Eggs101]

I used to think the same, but this sonata has grown on me a lot, especially the 3rd and 4th movement.

[civilbb]

Oh, I like the 1st movement the most. The 3rd movement is sometimes a bit boring to me, and the 4th movement is a bit too noisy IMHO.

[foljamb]

i listen again and again to this performance--it's astounding but utterly artistic and convincing in technic and intelligence from largo to m238: a beautiful and individual virtuoso--at m240 the dolce cantabile has the inattention of youth (in an older pianist it is impatience)--so i believe the performer is a woman in middle-old age who lost a career to inattention; i do not believe this is a child-prodigy: the lh drop trills are not possible for a child and are typical of a certain old school

[zaporozhye]

Close. It's actually a performance by a male in his 20's. Thank you for listening

[VikingBerserker]

Hilarious.

[hellomate639]

Most wouldn't after 50.

Depends on your skill. I don't plan on attempting this any time soon.

[mathistle]

I personally think that this is the greatest piece of music ever written. If you like this you should really listen to Beethoven's Grosse Fugue!

[stacatto83]

Who is the interpeter of this? I loved this version.

[t3hwasabi]

Yeah this thing changes key signatures like 20 times (literally)

[nico22059]

One of the greatest sonatas ever, if not the greatest.

[Funkypotat0]

You don't even want to know how many times the piece changes it's key signature. It's scary. O_O

I give you mad props for playing this, or for at least uploading the video.

[rachmaninovian92]

you played this?

[fdsajklj]

I do suggest you pedal more at 2:10, it might help, but light pedaling. If you played a bit more lyrical it would be better.

[maestroanth]

y do ppl make doofy comments like these? record and do it right.....that's the only objective way you can come across.

[fdsajklj]

I think you played it quite well, do you have a recording of you playing the whole sonata?

[gpensinger]

Once there was a man who was condemned to live on the moon. He knew the punishment was

just, because he hated his father and such a sin deserves an extreme pemalty. Nonetheless

his isolation was terrible and there were times when he thought his heart would break,

just because he could never hear a human voice again.

[gpensinger]

Once, however, he sat down and made a message about his own lonliness, telling how it feels to be separated from humanity by 250,000 miles of Dead Silence.

He called it the Hammerklavier Sonata. --Robert Anton Wilson--  R.I.P.