Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 1st Movement Previn Part 1

[adv20]

Magnificent <3

[payneb95]

nice video...thanks for sharing..keep it up!

[weyrz]

is there another piano concerto when mozart repeats the bit at 7:20 - 7:23 but with the piano answering? I know I've heard it some place else

[1990osu]

The texture is so fluid, the form beautifully handled, the transitions between sections perfect. This perfect organicism is why Mozart is still the greatest composer the world has ever seen.

[shoyunkaku]

this is damn freakin awesome. i was brought flying with the rhythm.

[AllieGorical]

What an astonishing piece of music. Sometimes just hearing a Mozart piece can give me chills. This one make me shiver with pure satisfaction. I love the second movement too. Mozart never ceases to astonish me. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven,bread, water, air: what else does one need to live :-)

[violinsrockdude]

Love his glasses.

[VinylRescueMusic1]

Absolute perfection in every way! Respectful to the score yet full of soul. A great cadenza too. There is more to playing piano than just being a great technician, and many of today's virtuosos miss that mark.  Previn's work is underrated these days.

[peachmelba16]

one of Mozart's rare minor pieces...when he chose to write in the minor it was seriously ominous

[MetroDuroc]

Is there a more beautiful entree than at 3:17 in any piano concerto?

[Mozartmostly]

what is mozart saying with this movement ? What is the dialog ? I have my interpertation, but is yours ? I'd like to hear it.

[Spyes23]

What an amazing masterpiece! Not surprising considering who wrote it! ;) My dad used to play in the philharmonic and as a kid I used to go to rehearsals and shows, and I remember hearing them play this and being blown away!

And yes, like @dhoulkarnain said, it's *so* amazing to see an actual conversation here! Thumbs up to you all!

[cheries5]

Learning this Concerto now, relearning 1st movement. Amazing to me that someone can conduct and perform as well. I will probably only be able to perform with a taped orchestra, but the drama in the piece, the emotion, is well worth the effort. Bravo to all of you,

[kristinevaksa]

Kick-ass glasses! 

[Johannes999999999]

I do not think Mozart gets enough credit for being an adventurous composer. The opening theme involves all 12 cromatic tones. Pure genius.

[123daddysgirl]

good job

[wsmith68]

I love it when the horns kick in just after 1:22

[Hayden0117]

Yes, Haydn was a lot more influential than most music lovers know. On the subject of our love of classical music, he called me a Mozart man and himself a Haydn man :P

Plus... He has an awesome name ;)

[dhwani182]

beautiful ..

[SPACETIMEBEAUTY]

BRAVO A TOUS !!!

[misharivman]

amazing

[TheClassicalTodd]

This piece is so wonderful. It is a joy to post with like-minded individuals that love this classical music genre. I just wish that I had friends to share with but thank God for the net!!!

[Xe054]

amazing

[TheLucianaamaral]

this is beautifull!!!

[rematpac]

Mozart's greatest works were for piano and orchertra.This work may well be the greatest composition he ever wrote,as with Haydn he was at his best writing in the rare minor key of the early classical period,this one eclipsing his one other minor piano concerto in d minor.It is unfathomable that when he debuted both these works in one of his last subsciption concerts,no one in Vienna signed up for them,his 2 greatest compositions.This is a testament as to how well his jealous enemies destoyed him

[PowerofTrueInsight]

Andre Previn proves more than effective conducting while performing. Anton Nel never formally assumes the posture of a conductor, but just as well conducts while playing concertos over the keyboard. Both highly enjoyable.

[whatsmylogin]

Re the Haydn-Mozart-Beethoven thing below: It seems like Beethoven borrowed melody fragments from Bach and Mozart. Beethoven's 1st piano sonata final movt was based on a theme from Mozart 40. The main themes in the pathetique sonata were developments of fragments in Bach's c-minor partita and the slow movement theme comes from a passage out of Mozart's c-minor sonata. Can people name similar things taken from Haydn?

[Mozartmostly]

has anyone here herd of Robert Newman and his Mozart research ?

[jorgeoscar1000]

My favorite Mozart piano concerto !!

[beethovenlovedmozart]

THere was nobody more prolific and full of imaginative, creative ideas than Mozart..When you consider his time period, nobody even comes close to his genius,

[moodood1]

With all due respect to Mozart, Eminem is much much better.

...Just Kidding

[NihilTico]

This is, in my opinion, the most tempestuous of Mozart's piano concertos.

[26highstreet]

Andre previn owns a whole miniature orchestra that he keeps in his pocket

He,s got the minature violinist, minature cellist, minature conductor and the star of his minature orchestra is his 12 inch pianist....

[ShinatoKawasaki]

When I first listened to this on the radio, I had no idea it was a Classical piece. It sounds so emotional. What a wonderful piece.

[1987jkilla]

andre = dirigent + pianist.

that is truly amazing

[thethikboy]

For all its deceptive simplicity - Viennese classicism is the most demanding - Just playing Mozart's Sonata #4 with its obvious references to Bach in octave leaps and canonic counterpoint - is in some ways far more difficult than Beethoven.

[lovesGenet]

M knew J.C. Bach as a child and their music has really many similarities. Mozart knew J.s. B & Handel only much later in life from Baron von Sweiten.J.S. was pretty much amusic only specialists were concerned with.Leopold seems to have ignored him too. I wonder if h ever heard any Spanish music or Scarlatti. Italians were everwhere so their influence was not just in opera . Look it up we have much info about the period.

[dannyboy4314]

oh wow, that lady playing the oboe was in "Yanni Live at the Acropolis"

[otherjoe1234]

brilliant. i learned this a few years ago as just a piano student. now, as an older college music student, i'm taking another, more serious look at it.

[pepecris]

Here Mozart sees into the future. Full with chromatic passages, the main cell isnt a melody but a theme playing in tutto by the orchestra, resembling so much those of Beethoven. The harmony and not the counterpoint or a continuous bass rythm, is underpinning all the musical framework, once more Beethoven, or even Wagner music are based upon this. Here we have the product of the musical research from the late XVIII century.

[Nativety]

Let's not forget about CPE Bach, I think Mozart's galant style can be directly traced back to this great (but somewhat neglected) composer!

[dogface1123]

Perfection! You really CAN hear the voice of God in this music, as Salieri observed in "Amadeus". Beauty this absolute is almost too painful to listen to. It makes the soul weep, because this light is so rare in such a dark world.

[bersa888]

Beethoven did say - after playing this concerto - something along the lines of "what else can be done now...?" :-)

[zeawesomebassplayer]

amazing

[dhoulkarnain]

You people don't know how satisfactory it is to, for once, read a civilized conversation here.

[doublealufwaffe]

@dhoulkarnain, upon reading your comment, I was attempted to destroy the serenity of these correpondi with an inflamatory obscenity. But, I have decided not to do that and instead comment on the music.

[blackplastic7]

@dhoulkarnain Do you realize how much of a douchebag this comment makes you look like?

[HolyMotherofGrid]

@dhoulkarnain You said it!! Nobody with their nose in the air declaring that this or that artist was "the greatest", or wondering whether or not he or she deliberately played a B natural instead of a B flat in bar 117, lol!!

[Benjefwil]

@dhoulkarnain Lol so true. 

[IliaNadyrbayev]

@dhoulkarnain I do, and the answer is strictly speaking IMO, much more than just satisfactory.

[mjlexus24]

@dhoulkarnain

AGREED!!!

[davidrockstheworld]

amazing

[salazarich]

very good

[chimptest]

With respect to Haydn, here is a quote from Beethoven " I've learned nothing from Haydn, all form Mozart". Having just written this, I saw a Haydn cello concerto and the music was fantastic; and this was coupled with Beethoven's 3rd symphony. Don't know why Beethoven said the above comment, I know he was moody and it had something to do with Haydn insisting Beethove write " a pupil of Haydn " on one of his manuscripts. It is funny though..... Dueling composers...

[Sage80]

@chimptest When did he ever say he learned all from Mozart? If anything, Beethoven credited Handel more than anyone.

[vanderbilt887]

@chimptest

Beethoven also said to a friend while listening as a young man to this very concerto:

"Kramer! Kramer! We will never be able to do something like that!"

At the end of his life, Beethoven remarked:

"I have always counted myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart and shall remain so until my last breath"

Taken as a whole, the Mozart piano concertos are the greatest set of concertos ever composed. That is not a subjective statement, it's a fact.

[erezgoor]

@chimptest

my dear, i am just learning this material in collage

beethoven was for sure haydn's student and you can hear this in many of his works

these quotes than run around may not all be true

[bachmaninoff]

@chimptest

Maybe Beethoven said that, I don't know. Regardless, Haydn's influence on Beethoven's music is absolutely undeniable.

[batfly]

This is the only redeeming quality of humanity.

[julienbencze]

Guys... When you tribute to Mozart and Beethoven in the future, try to get a tiny little thought to daddy Haydn, the musical father of both composers. For the "daddy" inspiration of these respective 24th and 3rd piano concertos, please refer to 1st movement of Haydn's 78th symphony. This is only one example among MANY... Of course, Mozart and Beethoven are the greatests, but once should remember the decisive influence of Haydn on their music, especially in 2009.

[jamarsano]

And Gluck, don't forget Gluck's influence on Mozart (in Opera) - Mozart called him "papa" - which is really quite sweet!

[WilliamofMunich]

@jamarsano

Haydn was the one he called "Papa".

Mozart learned from Gluck while he was a boy but easily surpassed him in talent while he was still just a teen.

From what I have read he and Gluck were little more than acquaintances and never formed a strong friendship like he did with Haydn.

Mozart's greatest influence, in my opinion, was Bach.

[Fernando31611]

@WilliamofMunich Mozart's greatest influence, in my opinion, was Bach.

That is partially true. Mozart did study Bach's music in von Swieten library.

IMO Mozart greatest inluence was his father

[chopinandliszt]

true,, I want to listen to Haydn symphony in C minor, but I can't find one here.

Actually, the symphony influenced Mozart, but Beethoven modelled his after Mozart's. But, it could be said Haydn was the most "senior" of them all.

[Sim882]

I'm not denying Hadyn's significance or influence. But from what I have heard, Haydn's music is too happy for my tastes. Is there any darker, more spirited minor key works of his I should try?

[justicewithasword]

@Sim882

Haydn had a style of composition that he referred to as 'storm and stress' (although I am not entirely sure if he coined the term, Ive done no research).

A dark piece would be Symphony no. 45 the first movement in particular.

[datboitico]

@Sim882 have you tried his symphony in Fminor: La Passione? i mean that's dark and slow at least his Adagio, but check out the Allegro from that symphony i think it's what you're looking for... also his String Quartet in D minor: Fifths

[datboitico]

@Sim882 idk if the comment worked but like i said his Symphony in Fminor the Allegro, i mean the entire piece is pure genius, also String Quartet in Dminor

[bachmaninoff]

@Sim882

Haydn's music is not always happy. In my opinion, it is often misinterpreted, and is sometimes victimized by the misconception that Haydn intended everything to be"playful," which is not necessarily true. Check out his 33rd keyboard sonata for example Hob. XVI no.20 in c minor. Or sonata no.58, Hob. XVI. no 48. It is in c major, but the first movement is very profound, serious, esoteric, and is surely not "playful" or "happy."

[bachmaninoff]

@Sim882 Let us also not forget that the majority of Mozart's music was written in major keys (especially the piano music). For example, he only wrote 2 sonatas and 2 concerti for piano in minor keys. In other words, 4/46 of his major piano works were in minor keys.

[arindo]

@julienbencze thank you for the perspective.

[Superstarrockmetal]

Haydn was definitely one of the greatest, nobody won't forget that. His influence on Mozart/Beethoven was enormous.

[julienbencze]

Guys... When you give tribute to Mozart and Beethoven in the future , do not forget to have a tiny little thought to daddy Haydn, the musical father of both composers. For the "daddy" inspiration of their respective piano concertos 24th and 3rd), please refer to Haydn's first movement of the 78th symphony. This is only one exemple among many others... Of course Mozart and Beethoven are the greatests, but once should recognise the decisive influence of Haydn on their music, especially in 2009.

[A1dth010]

ABSOLUTE GREATNESS! I must have listened to this piece of music forty times, literally.

[A1dth010]

ABSOLUTE GREATNESS! I must have listened to this piece of music forty times, literally.

[Qumak13]

Both Mozart's minor concertos (20 & 24) show how much Beethoven was inspired by Mozart when writing his 3rd piano concerto. That's also why I like them so much!

[PianoMan4567]

pure freaking genius..Say no more

[faleru]

he may have written more works in minor keys had he lived more, he would be head to head with beethoven xD!

[BarbaraPloyer333]

Sturm und Drung's amazing!

[chopinandliszt]

there is a transcription of this piece for solo piano. (By Hummel) You can download it from imslp

[JHJennings]

if you can appreciate Mozart, you're smart enough!

[patrickbateman7]

great comment :) !

[thesir27]

that little part at 4:07 sounds almost jazzy, woah!...this is clearly a work that was far ahead of its time

[ensimon]

Mozart could have written more compositions in minor keys... They are real masterpieces, better than that in major...

[mjc412792]

is it true that Mozart enhances your mind and can acually make you smarter or more intelligent?

[overedperson]

hey,that's not true.

learning a instrument is more help

[comic4relief]

Let the the music carry you on a river of sound, engage various aspects of your mind, psyche or whatever, and when it all comes together, see if your wits are not a bit sharper. It does seem to clear one's head, align one's synapses, or synchronize one's brainwave patterns or...

[eddiemperor]

Is called the Mozart Effect and it has great effect on those who possess Perfect Pitch :)

[wsmith68]

How great an effect? What is Perfect Pitch? is this just an urban legend?

[silverskin119]

can u tell me more about that? Like what effect etc.?

[chopin8585]

Listening to this music you can think only he is a genius...I used the present to underline he lives till in his music, so he can transfer to you a bit of his perfection...Even thought you never would be able to be as him. No one can.

[geisterbahn1]

studies say YES! GIVE IT A TRY.

[BarbaraPloyer333]

Nah- that's a lie.

Apparently you're supposed to listen to a slow piece, followed by something more lively (like the 3rd movement of Mozart's K448). This is was proceeded by 5 minutes of complete silence. According to a 1993 study (or something like that) this is supposed to raise you IQ 8-9 points for 10-15 minutes.

If you want to be smarter, listening to Mozart doesn't help. Yes, it's quite enjoyable and most people do love his impressive music.

[winkandrun]

I guess you learn that Mozart's a genius and your not, so that could be an affect...

[SonofDostojevskij]

Absolutly stunning, mozarts piano concertos Beethovens symphonies and Wagners operas is the gretest musicall works ever written.

[kangoos2000]

I recommend Jeno Jando's version on Naxos CD

[TJFNYC212]

@kangoos2000 I recommend the recording of Robert Casadesus. Awesome and the cadenzas are so much fun!

[kajohada]

thats the difference of the beginning of both concertos in c minor:beethoven--->simple triard harmony,mozart--->ingenious triard harmony.he was a true genious indeed!

[chopinandliszt]

kajohada, explain to us more about the difference. It's interesting.

[MCarey0608]

The 24th is the only Mozart concerto I like -- or should I say love.

[chopinandliszt]

I like the 20th in D minor better

[IQ40000]

I like No.20 in D minor better, but I'm getting fond of this too.

[Blahshua]

great recording! I Also like Herbert von Karajan recording alot.

[Ly1212]

he fantastic at playing it, but the problem is that in trying to conduct it from the piano, he ends up cutting off his own phrases to get to the orchestra

[sicnarf25]

That's so hard that one can play piano in a concerto that embodies the sole of mankind and rivials natures balance, that showcases the prolific Mozart's music...and compose it at the same time.

[pachero4711]

es ist alles so EINFACH - Mozart war nicht abgelenkt - & hat etwas für Generationen geschaffen

[benroo89]

he conducts and plays the main part at once!

[BrieVerdemont]

you know, it's a pity I'm finding this so hard to get on an album...If I could've it would be on my iPod fast as possible...

[laug66]

It is not available on cd but you really should get the dvd 'Mozart on Tour' Vienna & Prague. Previn wrote the wonderful cadenzas and I agree, this should be available on cd or itunes.

[beethomozart]

long live mozart

[bboydaduke]

Any time I hear 4:51, I feel like I'm going to cry.

Mozart was really amazing, it's a shame I'm one of three people I know under twenty who know about this music.

[DiVeronica]

i'm 17 and I love it :)

[BrieVerdemont]

I'm 15 and i love it (enough to write my own stuff)

[baldwalrus7]

I love it. And I'm 18! I admit to being quite an outsider in liking classical music, at any rate though!

[benroo89]

i'm 18 and i think that mozart was the greatest musical man ever to live.

[Cherodar]

I'm 18 too! I guess I'm a bit more a disciple of Beethoven than of Mozart, but of course Mozart is amazing as well.

[jimmbo13]

Im late to this, but Im 18 too! Id put Wagner as my favorite overall, but none outrank Mozart

[lilly763]

I'm 16 and I love Mozart. My life would be different without his music.

[wmk500]

my favourite concerto! excellent camera work in this video too. enjoyed this a lot, thanks :)

[saintreven]

Previn's introduction of the second theme on the piano was slightly sloppy, and I don't care much for his conducting style. The orchestra, however, is phenomenal.

[bigname6]

Excellent.

My favorite is Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, with Istomin, but this is actually very much similar.

[megabopp]

I wish Andre would have made more classical piano albums throughout the years...as for the goggles, he was scuba divig and didn't have much time to change into his tux!!!

[megabopp]

Why hasn't Andre made more classical piano recordings?...as for the goggles he was scuba diving and didn't have much time to change into his tuxedo !!!

[KCL310]

Thanks for posting! I've always had a thing for Mozart's minor-key concertos...

[GuilleBrache]

There's only two of them, anyway.

[duchable]

best mozart ever

[KCL310]

This is a great interpretation of a powerful, beautiful piece.  Thanks for posting!

[aramian21]

Was looking long for this piece, thanks for posting.

[MisfitFromReno]

You're probably thinking of Alfred Brendel... also, if Previn's glasses were any bigger a strong wind would knock him over.

[amirmot]

lol

[negrooptico]

Why ratings is disabled? This is the best performance ever! Thanks.

[galilee34]

this rule and yeah why is the rating disabled? but anyway is this alfred I dont remember his last name andantekit

[pianobopp]

This is Andre Previn

[grandadles]

or Andrew Preview, as someone once called him