Part of me thinks that what Maria Joao Pires is saying cannot be taught. To play with music coming from deep inside your soul is an awakening that I feel pianists must come to on their own. Some find it, and some never do.
@chobeethaninov Which is why she can't teach....She's trying to teach something that can't be taught in a masterclass???? Are you joking? She is a horrible instructor.
@MozartFong really it's something that cannot be taught at all... To play with emotion coming from deep down inside of you is pure genius. Anyone, if they practice enough, can have oodles of technique but to play deep and profoundly, to really BE the music takes a deeply talented person. Again, as I said. Some find it earlier than others and some NEVER do.
It's funny how she says to do that motion in a "very organic way", yet doesn't realize that by commanding and forcing her pupils to do it *exactly* how she says it, it is no longer organic.
"We have to believe that the miracle can happen. And this you don't do with your mind. Believe that miracles can happen. And they happen more and more you believe"
So beautiful, real, and organic. It's not in the realm of the mind, it's on the realm of the heart. That's why she teaches that way. She is if far beyong the concerns of the student. She tries to make the student ride out of that, let the mind on one side and really play the piano.
"We have to believe that the miracle can happen, and this you dont do with your mind. Believe that miracles can happen; and they happen more and more you believe"
It's beyong the mind, organic, so real that can make you cry of happiness
"We have to believe that the miracle can happen, and this you dont do with your mind. Believe that miracles can happen; and they happen more and more you believe"
It's beyong the mind, organic, so real that can make you cry of happiness
"We have to believe that the miracle can happen, and this you dont do with your mind. Believe that miracles can happen; and they happen more and more you believe"
It's beyong the mind, organic, so real that can make you cry of happiness
"we have to believe that the miracle can happen, and this you dont do with your mind. Believe that miracles can happen; and they happen more and more you believe"
It's beyong the mind, organic, so real that can make you cry of happiness
In my opinion, I would not be able to study under her because i would get frustrated. She such an understanding of the music that when she plays, and when she listens to people play, she knows all the ways the piece can be played and all the ways it shouldn't be played. When she is trying to put a student in the right place it can be frustrating for the student to take the direction. But, when someone is able to break through that, and allow her to mold them, they will be able to do anything.
you guys, i can play realy well, i've read those first comments,and belive me,those masterclass teachers can't teach you how to play "right", there is NO such thing! You just have to FEEL and PlAY that's all! (thumbs up if you agree)
She is trying to impart something which evades words. She is clearly a gifted musician, who's true aim could be to enlighten and not dominate her students. We can't judge her abilities by what is shown here, because we are witnessing an intimate moment when something crucial and subtle needs to be imparted. Most are too thin skinned to benefit from this type of honest commentary, which is why we plead for protection of the students "individuality". The point is - they need yet to uncover it.
Ya know the Night at the Museum's Einsteins? "I'm a bobblehead, dumkopf, and that's the way, uh-huh-uh-huh, we like it!" ? That REALLY clicks with this situation. L.O.L. !!!
@david213redmond It involves no thinking. Just feeling. You can't create/recreate music unless you have soul....she hasn't calculated her playing...she's just saying what she feels when she hears it. A great musician is not made by studying technique and theory alone.. SOUL. That's what she is saying.
MJP is without doubt one of today's better pianists and her playing at 2:22 is fascinating, indeed. First, I was quite surprised about the way she taught the blond guy but later on I assumed that it had to do with his somewhat presumptuous attitude... By the way: the two other ladies received great support - and at 6:07 we are rewarded with some very touching and intense Schubert! Bravo to this young lady!
Thanks Dex. I didn't think I had a recording of that piece. Turns out I do but just haven't listened to it much. I definitely will now. And here's the best part...the artist is MJP !
@dmcII You are welcome! I suppose we all have undiscovered treasuries in our music collections... D. 784 is maybe the most difficult of all Schubert sonatas from an interpretative point of view and I must always think of Richter (Tokyo 1979).
Maria Joao Pires is a good teacher, she has passion and feeling. But I don't like some of her critisms to that blond boy, 'cause she sounded proud. (" What's the difference between my playing and yours?" etc.)
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what a stupid biach omg.. pathetic way of playing piano if i ever see anyone acting up behind the piano INSTANT HEADSHOT! blam!
what is the difference betwwen my playing and yours... well time is sensical thing to say but otherwise the reaching towards air with your eyes and open mouth is so fucking annoying stupid music is a miracle.. LOL stupid bitch omg
It would be better if people with no experience in playing the piano, or even little exp. shut the fuck up!!! It is important that you ignorants out there know that playing the damn piano is about what the composer writes down. Beyond that - I'll say it again and again - it's a matter of talent, experience and taste. THE END, and sorry about being rude. take it back..!
and you wonder why art can bring you to tears. a piano is a weapon, for the sound of it will land on the softest part of the heart, this is the beauty that one's heart could die for.
Body expression must be espontaneus, its the way you fell the music, if the pianist stay quiet, the music must sound the same that when he moves... moving the body does not change the sonund, the hands do that.. you cant teach that, If you like to move when you play, its ok, if not, its also Ok.
This messed up woman can go burn in a ditch and die. Shes all awkward, forcing people to look up. WEll what IF the performer feels much more into the music without looking up. I wish she would stop saying "be free" bla bla bla shit. play some real music stupid woman. Play something with structure and a melodic line and harmony and stop going bach to the middle ages when music was just a flaoty chant for God.
Respect someone in her position. This does not mean you take everything she has to say with a passion; much of what she is saying, I disagree. Her philosophies are her own; her teaching her own; her music is her own. If you can have the "right" to say what you did, then you--yourself--do not deserve to criticize. Many people probably hate and probably love your 'way' of music, and the same for me, and the same for everyone else.
Just think before you judge. And,yes,I've been in Master Classes.
You take a master class to get the teacher's perspective on music. You are not forced to do it their (her) way after the class; but to be encouraged strongly during class gives you new and different experiences to cultivate your own style. In other words: why take her class unless you want to absorb exactly what she's saying. You dont have to adopt, but just try it and then make your own personal adjustments. ^_^
Instead of always critisizing this and that,you should extract what is useful and leave the rest! do you think there is one teacher that makes everything corectly?! never! the more teachers you listen to the more you can learn about the way of playing and the technique! surely not by saying this teacher is the best that one is crap! learn to use everything you
Beethoven will get her one day. I have never seen any masterclass that doesn't use the score. Now, Beethoven isn't Chopin or other romantic composer. Each thing Beethoven wrote should be treated with respect and deep understanding instead of merely personal feeling.
That's not the point, don't you see she's trying to illuminate an important point to her students! To sense freedom in music and feel it deeply in ones soul is more important than stiffly follow the notes. To breath and give life to an otherwise lifeless score. Music is an expression of one's soul. Music allows miracle to happen and that miracle is the soul within each of us.
I'm pretty good for 2mo playing and I don't even care about learning songs right now. I know a bit of this and a bit of that from learning the learning process.. I do my Hanon, scales, progressions, ornamentation, etc.. but I play around whenever I feel like it (which is most of the time). I think it's the way to go for now. Like I will sit down to work on scales and get stuck in a cool sound for an hour and it flies by, I'm like "wtf, oops" ^_^
@nkda113 "To sense freedom in music and feel it deeply in ones soul...Music allows miracle to happen and that miracle is the soul within each of us."...Maya Angelou, is that you?
@nkda113 Wow, that's so specific to what the student needs. The bottom line: she's so emotional and abstract, no one understands her and the student is left guessing.
Lang Lang doesn't play the piano, he bashes it. The exercise with the heads was a freeing exercise for this mechanistic player and the music, not a Lang Lang type mechanistic phoney 'feeling', phoney 'suffering for his Art'. It's us who are suffering when he Clang Clangs away..
Better than Pires? Big joke.
She's a great teacher, a really great teacher, too.
Oh the ignorance - how catastrophic. Lang Lang bashes the piano during fff parts, using the 'full range of the instrument' which may not be comfortable for some, but then composers aren't always aiming for audial comfort. Listen to Lang Lang's version of Liszt's Liebestraum (third movement particularly). It is played beautifully and is an example of how very wrong you are.
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Lang Lang would make her an exellent student with his looking up all the time, only he plays the piano better than her! I really think she should start some therapist group for people frustated in life, but you can't consider these classes any helpfull from pianistic and musical point of view.
she does still do it but its not like anyone can go people are picked or sent from conservatory,but befor i went to a conservatory i used to do a summer corse in the chopin academy in poland you will wern alot more there i think ,there are alos meny other master classes and summer schools like this around russia and europe,but the best ones i no off are in russia or poland,and thay are really cheap
What music is she teaching. It is beautiful when she speaks French and really go with the music and atmosphere. Not many female pianists can play as good as and as passionate as her
lmao..why does she have to keep telling the guy to look up? I mean my teacher says to do what feels natural but keep a good posture. I don't think its right to tell someone how to move. Otherwise this was very good.
She wont even let him play through half a measure without commenting! She puts him in awkward situations- and doensnt explain things well! She is a good pianist herself, but I dont think her message is getting accross
Thanks! She is so BEAUTIFUL! Only people who hate freedom could hate her! (I bet they want a sergeant shouting at them even at the piano.) She left Belgais last year because of a SEVERE illness! (heart-attack maybe.)I read somewhere that she now lives in Brazil! (I don't know for sure. Somebody out there who knows?) Joao - doesn't it mean "joy" in Portuguese?
Yep, João means John (that simple) and in the combination Maria João it is a female name which is not uncommon. There is a famous portuguese jazz singer, her name is Maria João as well (she uses no surname though).
I'm learning a lot just watching this. I've tried playing with more freedom, to escape the tyranny of the barline as she says. It makes all the difference in the world. Suddenly the music has breath, life, space. It's surprising how many pianists today don't seem to understand that. Instead they just want to see how many notes they can play per second.
Of course, needless to say you must have the technical foundation first. But that's never enough by itself.
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What did you say?? She is only interested in MONEY, MONEY and MONEY. The rest is not important for her. She isn't loyal at all and lies to verybody. I admired her for some time, but when I met her I realized what kind of person she is. Nevertheless, she is very special playing piano (as long as her personal tuner has spent a whole day tuning her piano).
She has done nothing productive or solid in Belgais. How can the Portuguese Goverment rely on her?
It is all about the SENSE OF MUSIC, if you know WHY are you playing this piece, if you have SOMETHING TO SAY, you can play it having all the technical problems in the world and nobody will notice them. Maria is not from the earth, her "musical seeing" is absolutely cosmical, she feels and hears the music "in the space". I was very lucky to play for her once and I would give a million to be there and play for her again... Thank you very much for posting! Do you have more of her masterclass?
You (666) still insisting on your strange and disrespectful argumentation. I already bocked your account... sorry, but I have no patience nor time to read demented "ideas".
hey, there is 6000000000 people on this world, and there is also a couple of different ways of feeling and expressing music. leave her be! i don't think she wants her students to copy her behaviour - she just want them know her way of interpretation. of course, she still looks a bit crazy:D
Well, if someone says that the body isn't important to play piano... than he/she don't play piano or is deph.Besides, it's deeply involved with interpretation.Caio Pagano is my teacher and I have never heard a comment about the fact of feeling the music, wich is observable in my body.
about the multi-lingual aspect: in portugal almost everyone is multi-lingual!! here we have english lessons in school since you're children and we also have french.and unlike spain,germany and france, we watch every film in it's original language.portuguese language is a very complete language in termos of phonethics.we have all sounds,unlike english.english people can't say a lot of portuguese words!
Watch Jorge Bolet's 1000-part masterclass on Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto and then watch this one. I've personally been in them, and i think they're a big waste of time. The pianist is going to play the music the way HE/SHE wants to, not the way Joao Pires or Bolet tell's him. That's what makes for "garden variety!" Ain't it great?
A person can play very well and be loony, but not as she plays. A person that plays like MJP can't be it; in other words - she has not the playing of loony people.
She drove the stage hands nuts one night at Lincoln Center because she said she decided that the stage must look like a living room. The stage hands had to drag out sofas, stuffed chairs, coffee tables and so on. And she was not playing any unusual repertoire.
And do you think that is loony? I think that is just a small idea, a small step to make people feel and understand that art is a normal thing. She said once that a concert is not a staging but a sharing and a public expression of the daily.
And this is very truth and very good to world because, if all artists assume it, people would get more open-minded to tradition and ones who think classical music is a boring thing would feel themselves more at home to discover that it is a kind of music very humane and very truthful that we all need sometimes as human-beings and that have a strong and precise connection/effect in our souls,spirits,minds.
I'm not entering this but I certainly agree with you that Art is transcendent.Why? Essentially because it is of the spirit and anything which is a manifestation of the human spirit must transcend above the reality that is a religion,politics, a nation or even a life. That which we cannot see is eternal. Artists are perhaps the same as everyone else, but moreso...
Beethoven's 32 Variations on an original theme in C minor, WoO 80 :)
I highly recommend Emil Gilels in this piece. He often played it in his recitals. Apart from the lvie recordings, he also did a studio recording for EMI. (but I like his live version on Melodiya best).
But that is just my opinion, there are many fine recordings by other great pianists out there, e.g. Annie Fischer.
Oh...or do you mean the beautiful slow piece at the end? That is the Largo movement of Chopin's Third Piano Sonata in B-minor. (the movement itself is in B-major)
She is no longer personally involved with Belgais anymore. She left Portugal in 2006 and moved permanent residence to Brazil. She said in an interview:
"I had to leave Portugal. It was impossible to survive. I was crucified in the newspapers. They told lies about me, terrible lies... I had no strength to continue. I lost almost everything. I'm not attached to money and stuff like that, but now I'm obliged to sell my house. I'm starting my life from zero."
She is right. I hope she could make possible her grate project somewhere. In portugal is impossible. Here people are blind and hypnotized by rich and by american life's consumer ideals.
It is stupid how Portugal trample this project, that could have been made into a unique attraction centre for all musicians from around the world... judge for yourselves.
Cumprimentos aos portugueses que partilham a minha opinião.
Lieve A, jij bent alles. a...l...l...e...s.
Gradyahk 2 months ago
whats the name of the music at 00:54 ?*_*
Vegnagun96 3 months ago
@Vegnagun96 they're playing Beethoven's 32 Variations in C minor - WoO. 80
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Is she teaching pianoplaying or teaching faked emotions?
tasteism 5 months ago
Part of me thinks that what Maria Joao Pires is saying cannot be taught. To play with music coming from deep inside your soul is an awakening that I feel pianists must come to on their own. Some find it, and some never do.
chobeethaninov 6 months ago
@chobeethaninov Which is why she can't teach....She's trying to teach something that can't be taught in a masterclass???? Are you joking? She is a horrible instructor.
MozartFong 6 months ago
@MozartFong really it's something that cannot be taught at all... To play with emotion coming from deep down inside of you is pure genius. Anyone, if they practice enough, can have oodles of technique but to play deep and profoundly, to really BE the music takes a deeply talented person. Again, as I said. Some find it earlier than others and some NEVER do.
chobeethaninov 5 months ago
i don't think she should try to force her way of playing on the other people. They will just end up sounding like they are copying her.
pandpinjapan 7 months ago
@pandpinjapan You dont understand anything my friend.
temax 7 months ago
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pandpinjapan 7 months ago
What is she playing at 2:21
legalsilk 7 months ago
@legalsilk Beethoven's 32 Variations in C Minor
chobeethaninov 6 months ago
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legalsilk 7 months ago
Muy facilidar a mano este mujer muy bien.
patyguitarboy 8 months ago
@johnmccowell It's one of the most beautiful Schubert's sonata: D784 in A minor. You can find it played by Maria Joao Pires on Youtube.
Look, also Radu Lupu interpretation is wonderful.
bauladu 9 months ago
@bauladu I first played that piece when I was 12. It was beautiful.
chobeethaninov 6 months ago
For me, Pires is one of the greatest pianists and teachers of our time.
PhillipLWilcher 10 months ago
Que cansina es esta pava madre mia xd.
AlenBeats 10 months ago
It's funny how she says to do that motion in a "very organic way", yet doesn't realize that by commanding and forcing her pupils to do it *exactly* how she says it, it is no longer organic.
Ugh.
mmoynan 11 months ago
What's the piece at 6:07 Please let me know. It's beautiful. I know it's Schubert, but which one?
johnmccowell 11 months ago
I didn't know the Beethoven 32 variations was in her repertoire. Has she recorded it?
UGTownsend 1 year ago
@ToNiMT84: it's the largo movt of the Chopin 3rd piano sonata. I must admit i do like MJP in Chopin.MJP :)
UGTownsend 1 year ago
What is the name of the last piece?
Thanks!
ToNiMT84 1 year ago
"We have to believe that the miracle can happen. And this you don't do with your mind. Believe that miracles can happen. And they happen more and more you believe"
So beautiful, real, and organic. It's not in the realm of the mind, it's on the realm of the heart. That's why she teaches that way. She is if far beyong the concerns of the student. She tries to make the student ride out of that, let the mind on one side and really play the piano.
Thank you for this video!
ToNiMT84 1 year ago
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"We have to believe that the miracle can happen, and this you dont do with your mind. Believe that miracles can happen; and they happen more and more you believe"
It's beyong the mind, organic, so real that can make you cry of happiness
ToNiMT84 1 year ago
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"We have to believe that the miracle can happen, and this you dont do with your mind. Believe that miracles can happen; and they happen more and more you believe"
It's beyong the mind, organic, so real that can make you cry of happiness
ToNiMT84 1 year ago
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"We have to believe that the miracle can happen, and this you dont do with your mind. Believe that miracles can happen; and they happen more and more you believe"
It's beyong the mind, organic, so real that can make you cry of happiness
ToNiMT84 1 year ago
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"we have to believe that the miracle can happen, and this you dont do with your mind. Believe that miracles can happen; and they happen more and more you believe"
It's beyong the mind, organic, so real that can make you cry of happiness
ToNiMT84 1 year ago
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ToNiMT84 1 year ago
Teaching these elite classical musicians how to play like jazz guys always did!
Albigatnz 1 year ago
In my opinion, I would not be able to study under her because i would get frustrated. She such an understanding of the music that when she plays, and when she listens to people play, she knows all the ways the piece can be played and all the ways it shouldn't be played. When she is trying to put a student in the right place it can be frustrating for the student to take the direction. But, when someone is able to break through that, and allow her to mold them, they will be able to do anything.
jmbarbou 1 year ago
Magic!
ASAngelo 1 year ago
you guys, i can play realy well, i've read those first comments,and belive me,those masterclass teachers can't teach you how to play "right", there is NO such thing! You just have to FEEL and PlAY that's all! (thumbs up if you agree)
levakz 1 year ago
it's so ironic how you first have to learn strict time and then break free from it's logic
metalheadlass 1 year ago 3
Here's the best tip..
Stop looking to external sources for your music all the time..
Sit down, close your eyes, and feel your way to heaven.. Just try to remember the cool shit you do that's the hard part =p
IloveJesusYesId0 1 year ago
This is so relaxing to watch. I would love to be taught by her, - that is, if I was remotely talented.
FILIGREE1 1 year ago
Grande mulher. Existe mesmo?
minacity2 1 year ago
She is good but she has so many black thoughts...
predoje 1 year ago
Enjoyed tese two clips very much. Will you be posting more of this masterclass series?
Thanks for uploading.
eyh5 1 year ago
She is trying to impart something which evades words. She is clearly a gifted musician, who's true aim could be to enlighten and not dominate her students. We can't judge her abilities by what is shown here, because we are witnessing an intimate moment when something crucial and subtle needs to be imparted. Most are too thin skinned to benefit from this type of honest commentary, which is why we plead for protection of the students "individuality". The point is - they need yet to uncover it.
hermease 1 year ago
To everyone that is comparing Argerich to Pires, that is a ridiculous comparison. That's like comparing Glenn Gould to Artur Schnabel.
Both can coexist in the world, and each are amazing in their own special way.
MrStrav81 1 year ago 2
What a WOMAN. she is a genious human being. in every aspect, I believe.
levanter3 1 year ago
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Tastengirl 2 years ago
Argerich is not even a comparison because she is in a class by herself.
nestorar 2 years ago 2
When she taught him how to lift his head, surprisingly I bobbed my head too. :))) Lol
hearttune98 2 years ago 3
I think everyone did haha. Even the people in the back
Lappith 2 years ago 4
Ya know the Night at the Museum's Einsteins? "I'm a bobblehead, dumkopf, and that's the way, uh-huh-uh-huh, we like it!" ? That REALLY clicks with this situation. L.O.L. !!!
hearttune98 2 years ago
Schubert Sonate in Am
Tunico1977 2 years ago
whats the song at 56 sec?? *.*
Vegnagun96 2 years ago
It's the variation VI from Beethoven's 32 Variations in C-moll for Piano.
FelipeBellani2 2 years ago
i feel like music playing like she said, involves so much abstract thinking
david213redmond 2 years ago 8
@david213redmond It involves no thinking. Just feeling. You can't create/recreate music unless you have soul....she hasn't calculated her playing...she's just saying what she feels when she hears it. A great musician is not made by studying technique and theory alone.. SOUL. That's what she is saying.
codymurp 3 weeks ago
MJP is without doubt one of today's better pianists and her playing at 2:22 is fascinating, indeed. First, I was quite surprised about the way she taught the blond guy but later on I assumed that it had to do with his somewhat presumptuous attitude... By the way: the two other ladies received great support - and at 6:07 we are rewarded with some very touching and intense Schubert! Bravo to this young lady!
dexterityhunter 2 years ago 6
What was the Schubert piece she was playing ? It was wonderful !
dmcII 2 years ago
My question was kind of vague. I was responding to dexterityhunter's comment about the Schubert at 6:07. What piece is that ?
dmcII 2 years ago
@dmcII It is the end of the exposition of the first movement of the Sonata in a minor D. 784.
dexterityhunter 2 years ago
Thanks Dex. I didn't think I had a recording of that piece. Turns out I do but just haven't listened to it much. I definitely will now. And here's the best part...the artist is MJP !
dmcII 2 years ago
@dmcII You are welcome! I suppose we all have undiscovered treasuries in our music collections... D. 784 is maybe the most difficult of all Schubert sonatas from an interpretative point of view and I must always think of Richter (Tokyo 1979).
dexterityhunter 2 years ago
The blond boy at 0.29 still looked a little unnatural. Of course, this needs practise too.
hearttune98 2 years ago
Maria Joao Pires is a good teacher, she has passion and feeling. But I don't like some of her critisms to that blond boy, 'cause she sounded proud. (" What's the difference between my playing and yours?" etc.)
hearttune98 2 years ago
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what a stupid biach omg.. pathetic way of playing piano if i ever see anyone acting up behind the piano INSTANT HEADSHOT! blam!
what is the difference betwwen my playing and yours... well time is sensical thing to say but otherwise the reaching towards air with your eyes and open mouth is so fucking annoying stupid music is a miracle.. LOL stupid bitch omg
ziggaza 2 years ago
I think she understood all about music...
StefanoGuarascio 2 years ago
What is the name of the piece she is playing around 2:30?
vizion24 2 years ago
One of the variations they're working on (Beethoven - Variations in c minor or so)
w3sp 2 years ago
same! beethoven variations in C minor
zurzica51 2 years ago
/he is wearing a watch when he is playing piano
Desmonddd2002 2 years ago
It would be better if people with no experience in playing the piano, or even little exp. shut the fuck up!!! It is important that you ignorants out there know that playing the damn piano is about what the composer writes down. Beyond that - I'll say it again and again - it's a matter of talent, experience and taste. THE END, and sorry about being rude. take it back..!
may17june04 2 years ago
and you wonder why art can bring you to tears. a piano is a weapon, for the sound of it will land on the softest part of the heart, this is the beauty that one's heart could die for.
queenofallmonkeys 2 years ago 4
elle a tout compris à la musique,c'est un miracle,si on y croit pas on avance pas,cela devient une évidence
saudadedefados 2 years ago
stupid.
lim1308 2 years ago
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Cavaradossi1981 2 years ago
Does anyone know how I could get the entire documentary? Is it online, is it possible to buy it?
Hvordanda 3 years ago
hello!
Did you find the hole documentary of Maria Joaos´masterclass? I would love to see it to!
Solfrid
solfridmolland 2 years ago
No, I didn't find it :/ Norsk?
Hvordanda 2 years ago
Im not agree at all...
Body expression must be espontaneus, its the way you fell the music, if the pianist stay quiet, the music must sound the same that when he moves... moving the body does not change the sonund, the hands do that.. you cant teach that, If you like to move when you play, its ok, if not, its also Ok.
CxC2007 3 years ago 7
I think that to learn how to use the body when you play takes a life.
Not also because of the physical act of moving or not but also because of the image that you create inside your mind when you do that.
jpedrocp 3 years ago 2
I agree. it can' t be teached.
CxC2007 3 years ago
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This messed up woman can go burn in a ditch and die. Shes all awkward, forcing people to look up. WEll what IF the performer feels much more into the music without looking up. I wish she would stop saying "be free" bla bla bla shit. play some real music stupid woman. Play something with structure and a melodic line and harmony and stop going bach to the middle ages when music was just a flaoty chant for God.
jojopooo 3 years ago
Respect someone in her position. This does not mean you take everything she has to say with a passion; much of what she is saying, I disagree. Her philosophies are her own; her teaching her own; her music is her own. If you can have the "right" to say what you did, then you--yourself--do not deserve to criticize. Many people probably hate and probably love your 'way' of music, and the same for me, and the same for everyone else.
Just think before you judge. And,yes,I've been in Master Classes.
skg1991 3 years ago 4
You take a master class to get the teacher's perspective on music. You are not forced to do it their (her) way after the class; but to be encouraged strongly during class gives you new and different experiences to cultivate your own style. In other words: why take her class unless you want to absorb exactly what she's saying. You dont have to adopt, but just try it and then make your own personal adjustments. ^_^
twelvehorsemen 2 years ago 3
Instead of always critisizing this and that,you should extract what is useful and leave the rest! do you think there is one teacher that makes everything corectly?! never! the more teachers you listen to the more you can learn about the way of playing and the technique! surely not by saying this teacher is the best that one is crap! learn to use everything you
hear!
gyseegy 3 years ago 6
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omg 'music is a sign of a miracle' ofcourse .. haha .. NOT .. they played fucking Wagner in Ausschwitz.. hatit when ppl exsaturate shizzle
lntc5 3 years ago
you are crass
nkda113 3 years ago
Beethoven will get her one day. I have never seen any masterclass that doesn't use the score. Now, Beethoven isn't Chopin or other romantic composer. Each thing Beethoven wrote should be treated with respect and deep understanding instead of merely personal feeling.
treegoner 3 years ago
That's not the point, don't you see she's trying to illuminate an important point to her students! To sense freedom in music and feel it deeply in ones soul is more important than stiffly follow the notes. To breath and give life to an otherwise lifeless score. Music is an expression of one's soul. Music allows miracle to happen and that miracle is the soul within each of us.
nkda113 3 years ago 19
I'm pretty good for 2mo playing and I don't even care about learning songs right now. I know a bit of this and a bit of that from learning the learning process.. I do my Hanon, scales, progressions, ornamentation, etc.. but I play around whenever I feel like it (which is most of the time). I think it's the way to go for now. Like I will sit down to work on scales and get stuck in a cool sound for an hour and it flies by, I'm like "wtf, oops" ^_^
But I practice 3-4 hours a day because it's fun
IloveJesusYesId0 1 year ago
@nkda113 "To sense freedom in music and feel it deeply in ones soul...Music allows miracle to happen and that miracle is the soul within each of us."...Maya Angelou, is that you?
jdawgmcdawg 7 months ago
@nkda113 Wow, that's so specific to what the student needs. The bottom line: she's so emotional and abstract, no one understands her and the student is left guessing.
MozartFong 6 months ago
LL is certainly an excellent pianist, but she's the greatest, she's above....
just listen to her Nocturnes even better that Rubinstein's.
SyraxB 3 years ago 4
Lang Lang doesn't play the piano, he bashes it. The exercise with the heads was a freeing exercise for this mechanistic player and the music, not a Lang Lang type mechanistic phoney 'feeling', phoney 'suffering for his Art'. It's us who are suffering when he Clang Clangs away..
Better than Pires? Big joke.
She's a great teacher, a really great teacher, too.
jabberwock01 3 years ago 2
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i do agree. i still definately would kill her for free.. just cause i know i wouldnt be able to stand such a teacher ...
lntc5 3 years ago
Oh the ignorance - how catastrophic. Lang Lang bashes the piano during fff parts, using the 'full range of the instrument' which may not be comfortable for some, but then composers aren't always aiming for audial comfort. Listen to Lang Lang's version of Liszt's Liebestraum (third movement particularly). It is played beautifully and is an example of how very wrong you are.
tomdl89 2 years ago
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Lang Lang would make her an exellent student with his looking up all the time, only he plays the piano better than her! I really think she should start some therapist group for people frustated in life, but you can't consider these classes any helpfull from pianistic and musical point of view.
Starwalker6978 3 years ago
LL's better than Pires?? U really think so?
LL should REALLY attend her classes in order 2 know what's the nature of the music, what a pianist should do.
HEINWITZ 3 years ago 4
which piece is at 7:00 min ????????? the one with sudden
neapolitan 6th chord ????
manishbabu 3 years ago
Does anyone know if she still has this summer school? IS there a website?
alp635 3 years ago
she does still do it but its not like anyone can go people are picked or sent from conservatory,but befor i went to a conservatory i used to do a summer corse in the chopin academy in poland you will wern alot more there i think ,there are alos meny other master classes and summer schools like this around russia and europe,but the best ones i no off are in russia or poland,and thay are really cheap
schumannetudes 3 years ago
Beethoven, Variations en domineur. great work
ymasmas 3 years ago
What music is she teaching. It is beautiful when she speaks French and really go with the music and atmosphere. Not many female pianists can play as good as and as passionate as her
alice20762076 3 years ago 4
It's Schubert's Sonate d784
HEINWITZ 3 years ago 2
she's the best female pianist. argerich is not even a comparison. Maria Joao Pires is far more musical than technique machines.
caricama 2 years ago 2
comparing this hack to Martha Argerich is insulting.
bw2082 2 years ago
What is piece is that man playing?
dvirkup 3 years ago
lmao..why does she have to keep telling the guy to look up? I mean my teacher says to do what feels natural but keep a good posture. I don't think its right to tell someone how to move. Otherwise this was very good.
Grace4evermusic 3 years ago
MJP makes me cry, everytime I hear her. Thank you MJP
abfabmale 3 years ago 5
She wont even let him play through half a measure without commenting! She puts him in awkward situations- and doensnt explain things well! She is a good pianist herself, but I dont think her message is getting accross
skryabyn 3 years ago 3
Thanks! She is so BEAUTIFUL! Only people who hate freedom could hate her! (I bet they want a sergeant shouting at them even at the piano.) She left Belgais last year because of a SEVERE illness! (heart-attack maybe.)I read somewhere that she now lives in Brazil! (I don't know for sure. Somebody out there who knows?) Joao - doesn't it mean "joy" in Portuguese?
ellandelachapelle 3 years ago
No, Joao doesn't mean joy in Portuguese; it's only a name.
zappingzeppelin 3 years ago 2
Yep, João means John (that simple) and in the combination Maria João it is a female name which is not uncommon. There is a famous portuguese jazz singer, her name is Maria João as well (she uses no surname though).
aihoschema 3 years ago
PLEASE can we have more, many more of these videos here? I learn a lot from these lessons. Thank You.
Nosiluminadimenso 3 years ago 4
She plays exceptionally well, but most of all, I admire her humility; always a good quality for a musician to possess.
GeorgeMaxwellDuPre 3 years ago 5
What's the name of the song that the first girl played please?!
ericsteph 3 years ago
Schubert sonata in A minor, D 784 (1st mov.)
;)
jpedrocp 3 years ago
Sorry, I've verified, it's not this, are you sure, about the number of the sonata???
ericsteph 3 years ago
Yes I am.
You have to hear the hole movement to find the excerpts she plays.
jpedrocp 3 years ago
I'm learning a lot just watching this. I've tried playing with more freedom, to escape the tyranny of the barline as she says. It makes all the difference in the world. Suddenly the music has breath, life, space. It's surprising how many pianists today don't seem to understand that. Instead they just want to see how many notes they can play per second.
Of course, needless to say you must have the technical foundation first. But that's never enough by itself.
slobone 3 years ago 12
@slobone How was it surprising when you were one of them ?
IloveJesusYesId0 1 year ago
What is the name of the exactly name of song that the first boy played, please?!
ericsteph 3 years ago
lol, what "song"...
Lemonizm 3 years ago
2:45 "We have to believe that the miracle can happen" What would music be without the miracles, the mystery and the magic?!
kpunkt 3 years ago 3
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What did you say?? She is only interested in MONEY, MONEY and MONEY. The rest is not important for her. She isn't loyal at all and lies to verybody. I admired her for some time, but when I met her I realized what kind of person she is. Nevertheless, she is very special playing piano (as long as her personal tuner has spent a whole day tuning her piano).
She has done nothing productive or solid in Belgais. How can the Portuguese Goverment rely on her?
mariauxilia 3 years ago
It is all about the SENSE OF MUSIC, if you know WHY are you playing this piece, if you have SOMETHING TO SAY, you can play it having all the technical problems in the world and nobody will notice them. Maria is not from the earth, her "musical seeing" is absolutely cosmical, she feels and hears the music "in the space". I was very lucky to play for her once and I would give a million to be there and play for her again... Thank you very much for posting! Do you have more of her masterclass?
Realmusician1 3 years ago 4
You (666) still insisting on your strange and disrespectful argumentation. I already bocked your account... sorry, but I have no patience nor time to read demented "ideas".
Have a great life.
jpedrocp 3 years ago 3
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with all respect, but this pianistical terrorcamp is freaking me the fuck out.
and dont call me a hater i know how good she is.
HooksGambit 3 years ago
hey, there is 6000000000 people on this world, and there is also a couple of different ways of feeling and expressing music. leave her be! i don't think she wants her students to copy her behaviour - she just want them know her way of interpretation. of course, she still looks a bit crazy:D
9sibra 3 years ago
Well, if someone says that the body isn't important to play piano... than he/she don't play piano or is deph.Besides, it's deeply involved with interpretation.Caio Pagano is my teacher and I have never heard a comment about the fact of feeling the music, wich is observable in my body.
gaitadefoles 3 years ago 3
Una interpretación notable la de la chica que toca a Shubert en el minuto 6:03
cieloprofundo 3 years ago
The Schubert at 6:03 is played beautifully.
jmbmartins 3 years ago
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Hvordanda 3 years ago
I'm FASCINATED!
christoperfect 3 years ago
Yes. It's so engaging. You forget where you are watching this.
FILIGREE1 3 years ago 2
Wow do you also have the other documentary of her??? I have been looking for it like crazy...! can you please post it, too ??? Thanks.
hellokittysnoopy 3 years ago
this woman is a magician
sabibu 4 years ago 2
Does she take bookings for children's parties?
FILIGREE1 4 years ago
about the multi-lingual aspect: in portugal almost everyone is multi-lingual!! here we have english lessons in school since you're children and we also have french.and unlike spain,germany and france, we watch every film in it's original language.portuguese language is a very complete language in termos of phonethics.we have all sounds,unlike english.english people can't say a lot of portuguese words!
mmpalha 4 years ago
what is the piece being played in the beginning of this video?
vocalpianist 4 years ago
Beethoven's 32 variations in C minor :)
Elfinsafety 4 years ago
thank you :) it is quite beautiful
vocalpianist 4 years ago
Please, somebody knows the name of the music that starts at 06:06? It sounds beautiful!
StefanoGuarascio 4 years ago
That is the Schubert piano sonata in A minor, D784. (Specifically, the first movement).
:)
Elfinsafety 4 years ago
Thank you really much! I'm going to study it! :)
StefanoGuarascio 4 years ago
Watch Jorge Bolet's 1000-part masterclass on Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto and then watch this one. I've personally been in them, and i think they're a big waste of time. The pianist is going to play the music the way HE/SHE wants to, not the way Joao Pires or Bolet tell's him. That's what makes for "garden variety!" Ain't it great?
PrinceRostislav 4 years ago
The documentary is made by Dutch filmmaker Roel van Dalen. I think he made another documentary of her too. Anyone has footage?
bsloet 4 years ago
Yes he did. I have that other documentary too :)
Elfinsafety 4 years ago
She's a great pianist but she's affected to the extreme and loony as they come.
PrinceRostislav 4 years ago
I don't think so...
A person can play very well and be loony, but not as she plays. A person that plays like MJP can't be it; in other words - she has not the playing of loony people.
jpedrocp 4 years ago
She drove the stage hands nuts one night at Lincoln Center because she said she decided that the stage must look like a living room. The stage hands had to drag out sofas, stuffed chairs, coffee tables and so on. And she was not playing any unusual repertoire.
PrinceRostislav 4 years ago
And do you think that is loony? I think that is just a small idea, a small step to make people feel and understand that art is a normal thing. She said once that a concert is not a staging but a sharing and a public expression of the daily.
jpedrocp 4 years ago
And this is very truth and very good to world because, if all artists assume it, people would get more open-minded to tradition and ones who think classical music is a boring thing would feel themselves more at home to discover that it is a kind of music very humane and very truthful that we all need sometimes as human-beings and that have a strong and precise connection/effect in our souls,spirits,minds.
jpedrocp 4 years ago 2
OK, OK. I surrender. Yet, I must say one more thing. Art IS NOT a normal thing. It is transcendent and of the very heavens themselves.
PrinceRostislav 4 years ago
lol
yes is not a normal thing, I wanted to say that artists are normal people and not what I rote... Of course art is something that transcend us :)
jpedrocp 4 years ago
lol are you from america??
morriz11 4 years ago
I'm not entering this but I certainly agree with you that Art is transcendent.Why? Essentially because it is of the spirit and anything which is a manifestation of the human spirit must transcend above the reality that is a religion,politics, a nation or even a life. That which we cannot see is eternal. Artists are perhaps the same as everyone else, but moreso...
Phillip Wilcher
PhillipLWilcher 4 years ago 3
She's no longer in Portugal ?
Unbelievable~But the truth is really terrible. I'm wondering why she doesn't release new record for years?
I wait with ipatience her new appearence in DG classics
HEINWITZ 4 years ago
WAHHHH Elle parle francais!!!
J'suis toujour fidele a son interpretation
HEINWITZ 4 years ago
what piece is this?? I love it!
vocalpianist 4 years ago
Beethoven's 32 Variations on an original theme in C minor, WoO 80 :)
I highly recommend Emil Gilels in this piece. He often played it in his recitals. Apart from the lvie recordings, he also did a studio recording for EMI. (but I like his live version on Melodiya best).
But that is just my opinion, there are many fine recordings by other great pianists out there, e.g. Annie Fischer.
Elfinsafety 4 years ago
Oh...or do you mean the beautiful slow piece at the end? That is the Largo movement of Chopin's Third Piano Sonata in B-minor. (the movement itself is in B-major)
Elfinsafety 4 years ago
Lovely. The more videos of Maria Joao the better.
jankoehoorn 4 years ago
oh God she's amazing! please smb tell me she is teaching somewhere!
aureliavisovan 4 years ago
belgais, portugal ;)
jpedrocp 4 years ago
are you sure? I checked the Belgais site and I can't really understand what they do...
aureliavisovan 4 years ago
She is no longer personally involved with Belgais anymore. She left Portugal in 2006 and moved permanent residence to Brazil. She said in an interview:
"I had to leave Portugal. It was impossible to survive. I was crucified in the newspapers. They told lies about me, terrible lies... I had no strength to continue. I lost almost everything. I'm not attached to money and stuff like that, but now I'm obliged to sell my house. I'm starting my life from zero."
Sounded awful for her :(
Elfinsafety 4 years ago
I am curious, really: where did you ear that interview?
I read in the Portuguese newspapers belgais staff saying that she will participate in piano masterclass activities this year.
It is strange to know she will not give any more lessons in belgais... are you sure?
jpedrocp 4 years ago
I found the interview.
She is right. I hope she could make possible her grate project somewhere. In portugal is impossible. Here people are blind and hypnotized by rich and by american life's consumer ideals.
It is stupid how Portugal trample this project, that could have been made into a unique attraction centre for all musicians from around the world... judge for yourselves.
Cumprimentos aos portugueses que partilham a minha opinião.
jpedrocp 4 years ago
Well thanks for the informations anyway...Maybe she will do smth in Brazil also,it's a pitty that it is soooo far from europe...:(
aureliavisovan 4 years ago