Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9, 2nd Mvt, Part 1 Mitsuko Uchida

[dianat81]

me cae mal las caras que hace....me parece más un acto de histrionismo y no de sensibilidad, pero bueno, cuestión de gustos...

[4174j]

Mitsuko plays with such precision and passion, it is what more than words can describe. A true feast to our senses. Bravo!

[whodee411]

where's the other 1/2 ?

[chobeethaninov]

This is so beautiful that words cannot describe it. A heavenly, ethereal moment to be sure...

[smirnov452]

the opening of this piece is magical, heavenly even.

[KIMORID]

FANTÁSTICO!



[quilliry]

guh~

[britishpolitics1]

We were Dancing around the kitchen to this music.

Real party music.

[bringinsmexxiback101]

u can't say it any better than that.

[6038497]

Este es un bello concierto que me une mas a Dios

[darnmat]

My little heaven.... 3.19-3.29...

[mikeee32]

great piece, great rendition by the orchestra and it is played absolutely fantastically by Uchida

[geisterbahn1]

@mikeee32 thats MASTERPIECE! not great piece . Wolfgang is the Genius of the musical world

[Lawrencelovespiano]

Wonderful movement.

[forced2dothis]

This movement made me incredibly happy. She is definitely into what she is doing. And I respect that 100%. La musique a la vie !

[italik13]

Boob!!! i just said boob but it shouldn't matter, you should be too entranced by this beautiful music to notice.

Good day sir! : )

[Kapojos]

why always these exagerated facial expressions!

its too much

[muskndusk]

@Kapojos The difference between a competent musician and a great musician is feeling. That's why they always seem to be pulling faces.

[harrynking777]

@muskndusk Feeling is possible without pulling faces.

[muskndusk]

@harrynking777 Now you're splitting hairs! Okay, if feeling is possible without physical expression, why do all men look like they're in agony when at the peak of pleasure? IMHO only an android can control bodily expression of feeling - because they have none. This has become mixed up, but you know what I mean ;)

[kwastormayt]

@harrynking777 but its usually with pulling faces and you cannot blame someone for ignoring a posibility

[Montyleeny14]

Does the conductor have a disability? It looks like it..

[Dyenkura]

@Montyleeny14 jeffrey Tate was born with "spina bifida", a congenital desease. Despite that, he became one of the most famous conductors of the U.K. God bless his parents for their courage and determination. Greetings from Spain.

[ButtercupQT1]

I <3 u UCHIDA!!!!

[3e3c3c]

That woman behind the piano really lives the music. (if you now what i mean)

[Dusoodoo]

3 dislikes? You have to be demented to dislike this. goodness me.

[PeaceAndGloryMB]

Is it not disgraceful when people talk and praise mostly the mere performers, who although skilled are only repeaters. Soon computers will be able to do the same job but the genius of the composer is remains unreachable and frightening to the common man. If Einstein wasn't born another would have shortly done the same but Beethoven and Mozart are unique.

[aquaden]

@PeaceAndGloryMB I think the fact that these musicians are playing the piece over two hundred years after his death is some praise. Each musician plays their interpretation of the piece, and playing well, live, with every possibility of human error is beautiful! Comparing science and art is kind of silly don't you think? If Mozart hadn't existed we would miss out on some beautiful music, if Einstein hadn't existed the world could potentially be a very different place.

[afertyus1000]

@PeaceAndGloryMB yes i so much agree when reading millions of youtube comments about this or that pianist, and hardly mention the original composer,it is a great disservice

[lovesGenet]

on a pianoforte her beautiful shapes are impossible. This is some of the most expressive deeply connected Mozart I 've ever heard. I want to hear her Beetth sonatas . Her Berg is a wonder as are her Debussy etudes. I would give the rest ofmy life so her playing would never be lost -she has so much to tell us. Mozart is not what I thought in this mov before. c minor early in his life. OH !we are so lucky to have her!

[ilovescarlatti]

2 tempo dei concerti di Mozart sono straordinari; profondità abissale, malinconici, struggenti ...!!!!

altro che allegria...............

[mlankaod]

I have to agree with dunavuk. The music here is just too amazing for words!  Simply amazing...

[putramandala]

beyond believe!!!...page after page...!!! THIS IS TRULY THE VOICE OF GOD. Greetings to all Mozart lovers from Puerto Vallarta Mexico.

[dondokodokodon]

Face speaks everything!

[ZamatoElite]

This is one of my favorites by Mozart.

[Biloutemag]

Mozart was 21 years old when he composed that "chef d'oeuvre" !

[fujicity]

内田さん、マジいいっす。

[cranberryjuiceeXx]

she looks like she's having an orgasm.

EARGASM

[xiuje87]

her expressions are for real, listen to her playing.

[darnmat]

That 3.19 to 3.29 felt so forever.... really really beautiful! no words to express this beauty i'm feeling....

[Lawrencelovespiano]

She has so much passion for classical music, that is why she is my role model! Great playing!

[ruuthliimabarboza]

Maravilhosoooooo !!!!!!!

[Ypipable]

mm passionate...

I adore Mitsuko Uchida's piano

Thanks for posting.

[tembeckchigan]

i absolutely love mitsuko uchida. and this video serves both her and Mozart very well

[OriginalBasaliskos]

Her facial expressions amuse me. :3

[RaiderEleven]

Mitsuko Uchida playing Mozart's "jeunehomme" with Jeffrey Tate conducting the Mozarteum Orchestra. One of the world's greatest pianists playing a fantastic composition by a master with superb support. Doesn't get any better than this. Close your eyes and enjoy!!!!

[gzaenker]

Raider11: it took me a while to find Mifsuko Uchida. It is not possible to surpass her skill and insight. From now on, I adore her

[CAPGEMS]

she's just expressing herself, just like Lang Lang

[Grindcoach]

Chaman-se loucos os não compreendidos... Mas na verdade, quem são os verdadeiros loucos? Um antigo "chavão" paradoxal...

[thomasam4]

Everyone's a critic! I think her performance is wonderful and the music is lifting my day.

[dunavuk]

It is one of the downsides of the You Tube that it allows too many words on something that is just too beautiful for words.

Mitzuko is absolutely wonderful here, the expression is in the music not just the face..

[gzaenker]

dunavuk: maybe we should ask YouTube to change their software so that it accomodates only those responses that are in accordance with the Japanese syntax for poems: 11 syllables, as I recall. But I may be wrong

[geisterbahn1]

@dunavuk I wonder if Wofgang wanted that expressive voice or could he have had another sound in mind.After all, its about what Wolfgang heard inside his mind then put out through his fingertips ,can it be translated ?or is every art form a weak image of the real thing.

[harrynking777]

@geisterbahn1 No. For example, listen to the performances of Rachmaninoff playing his own works then compare with Horowitz. Sometimes, the performance can be better than the original conception.



[doducu]

Nu exista o opera mai desavarsita decat asta!

[marcocito]

lokopiano : Qué malo eres. Un dia pagaras por eso.Fuera, porqué tu alma es negra!

[lokopiano]

Such a weird coouple.

She moves like a ezchizofrenic and him like a frog.

lokopiano

[ctang5200]

People check on the performers only when they do not understand what they are doing

[heartyfelt]

Why do u guys care about the facial expressions so much? Even if you think her gestures seem exaggerating , be thankful that she is not moving about like those in a rock band, playing heavy metal and shaking their bodies madly. I can't imagine an orchestra doing like that if they want to express music through gestures =X

[ponte34]

i love her she touches the souls magnificant

[040010551]

wunderbar!

[gwynand81]

maybe she's just nuts

[psyduck90]

she may be nuts but undeniably she plays really good

[bobon47]

She`s great. I can`t add anything.

[TolerantBrit]

Did you see how she used her eyes to direct from the keyboard just then?

Music is ALL about using the (non-verbal) sensory equipment to communicate with others.

[Polydactyl13]

You guys should lay off the facial expression. Everyone interpret their emotion through music differently. Believe me, she can not be acting and play with such emotion and in tune with the orchestra all at the same time. She REALLY feels it. Just listen...lovely expression. Brilliant interpretation.

[IwroteTHEbasicTEXT]

is this the rolling stones?

[JanJiska]

No - THIS IS SPARTA!

[Vakrian]

thats a she!?

[polymath7]

Are you a he?

Quite likely you are balding and pudgy, which of course would be directly germane to whatever musical gifts yo may possess and in any assessment of a performance you might give could not go unremarked.

[abubakr19]

Yes her facial gestures are funny at times. But I think she is consumed by the emotion the music confers. Like Gulda explained that in one performance he felt the strange impression that he was the instument and the piece is using him as a rendering medium.

Mozart wrote this piece after his mother died I think his personal experience went into his pen as he laid the notes down on paper. Each of Mozart concerto we are blessed with a gift passage like here at 5:00. Same in concerto 20, 21, 23

[awesomerepublican]

Yes, that's what I heard as well.

It's extremely economical in it's phrases to communicate sad feelings, but it's incredibly beautiful too! Easily one of my favorite pieces by Mozart.

[baldwalrus7]

Total pianistic perfection, but I don't like her exaggerated gestures e.g. at 3:20. It distracts from the music and makes it more performance art. :)

[mohsen789]

lol. maybe shes just realy into it.: )

[baldwalrus7]

Yeah, probably. :)

[awesomerepublican]

I know what your saying about "distractions" but I'd have to argue that, in the end, art is a communication with the audience. If the sound is the only thing that we value as a medium to communicate with the audience, why does the orchestra bother dressing up fancy for us? Why bow at the end of the piece? The visuals helps communicate with the audience as well. Sometimes the music is so soft, we look to the player's hand gestures to know that, yes, they are playing, but it's too soft to hear.

[baldwalrus7]

I agree with your comments, and some pianistic gestures or movements that help to communicate the music are a good thing; but I think that her movements in this video seem contrived, as if she's predecided that she'll be put in ecstasy at 3:20 (if you know what I mean).

[tastibasti]

she´s an artist...she IS the music!

[sdingeswho]

I think it's very interesting that she "sings along" with the piece as she plays it, something she has in common with Glenn Gould.

[Jenale80]

hehe her facial expressions are funny, she looks like she always about to sneeze lol.

[beethomozart]

long live mozart and one of his most outstanding concerts

[KarlAmade]

Oh, why in romantic style? this is much better with period pitch, style and instruments....

[scottturner1994]

I love listening to her interpretations of Mozart, particularly her rendition of this concerto movement. I've never heard such a sound come from a Steinway like this(many recordings have a sharp, tinny sound), yet she manages to capture all the versatility of the instrument and channel it into her playing.

Amazing.

[UnDerCovErPr0sTiTute]

z666z666z, you are a complete dumbass

[rustywires]

She's off the charts in terms of her unerring concentration and ability to sustain the momentum without ever descending into routine. Not a moment of autopilot right through all 3 movts, I might add. Oh, and technique that would reduce most other pianists to tears.

[scottturner1994]

One thing that refuses to clear out of my mind is the fact that Ms. Uchida will always be the relaxed and simple pianist. I keep on waiting for her to bloom to her full potential, waiting for her to catch everyone's attention with the Rach 3 or Ravel's Gaspard. I want you to mature for the greater good, Mitsuko!

[minirausch]

who says playing token virtuoso pieces is a sign of 'maturity'? any hotshot conservatory graduate can play rachmaninov, but no one can play mozart like her. i'd say that's enough. (let alone that hammerklavier, the symphonic etudes, schuberg D960, etc. are not exactly simple.)

besides, she's nearly 60, i think she's 'mature' by now.

[sirtmx]

beauty is more that a pair of boobs and a killer butt, This girl plays like an angel, so sweet, so perfect, it's divine!

[z666z666z]

Uhmmmmm SIRTMX frist seh is not a girl but a pretty old woman and very ugly.

Second: Nobody knows how the angels play.

666

[sirtmx]

and do you know how a demon plays?

[z666z666z]

Sorry sirtmx. I dind´t speak about beauty, but about "AGE"

She is not a girl.

Concerning a demon............i know it .....bacause i am.............

And a demon speciallist in put down myths.

She is just a good pianist. Good prhasings, good pedals, etc. but nothing great or special.

666

[sirtmx]

great, I allways wanted to hear what does a demon sounds like, do you have any video on u tube?

[z666z666z]

yes dear sirtmx. unfrotunately my privacy doens´t allow you know who i am.

666

[ncmathsadist]

Agreed. Uchida's musical skill is superb. Her elegance as a woman is undeniable.

[termy]

I actually think she's quite pretty. Despite what you say, she also happens to be an amazing pianist, a wonderful interpreter, and an outstanding artist--which is my opinion, but it is shared with many others. I also think her expressions are moving and correlate nicely with the mood.

[z666z666z]

Ohh...yeah.... Waht a moment......... I respect your opinion "termy" I really consider her just a very correct pianist with a lack of self control, like most aver acting oriental pianists.

666

[termy]

I'd say she has more control with her expressions than perhaps Gould, and he isn't "oriental".

[z666z666z]

Interesting your clever observation...BUT the differnce is big. Gould really had a lot of pathologies. he was sick in some degree, BUT he was an authentic genious. All gestures he made were authentic. Anyway even from him i don´t like what he made with his "Body language" sometimes he behave as a mandril, BUT what a mandril. Who play on the earth the Goldberg Variations (any of the 4 versions he recorded)as he did?

So Gould and Uchida are like the water and the gasoline.

666

[termy]

So then it is sickness that preludes genius?(Which I guess historically makes sense, but frankly I'd say Uchida is pretty obsessive/devoted to her work) Sadly, my high opinions of Uchida still remain.

[z666z666z]

I usually spent from 3 to 4 months yearly in Japan. Her apprently "Caracter", "Obsesion" , etc. is the typicall "Japanese overacting" when they love too much something, but they don´t have the "Inner" understanding of that. Try to observe "NO" (the japanese traditional acting art) and you will realize it.

All her "Caracterizations" are pure acting. The god thing is: She had the enough decency to don´t go far than it, like the deplorable lang lang.

666

[termy]

Nothing this beautiful can possibly be an act ;) And I say that with consideration of both her expressions and her ability to play and /feel/ the music along with its emotion.

[z666z666z]

Not exactly "termy". I meant sometimes (Very few) some carzy people are authentic genious, as Schumann was. Schumann died completely crazy in a sanatorium. Two years before his death he tried to suicide trowing himself to the river. BUT that kind of real genious among crazy people are only the exceptions. Uchida is just artificial. She thinks she is "doing" the right thing. Good for her and for her fans. I couls be wrong, but my perception is that.

666

[ytpiano7]

Is really weird to look at that couple.

ytpiano7

[guillote75]

I have even heard the title "Jeunehomme" translated in other languages, and so in one text in Spanish I read it was literally translated to "The young one" concert!

This andantino is beautiful. Mozart wrote it when he was 21, quite before he went to Paris and then to Vienna. It is an early example of the depths in Mozartian music. The pathos flows here completely unrestrained.

[iamaudreyandur]

I wish I could play on a stage like that...I've been playing for 8 years since I was three and its such a beautiful form of expression.

[4444matthew4444]

omg a minor slow movement in a mozart concerto i am in love o_O

[pianogirl98]

Bravo!!!

[randomlyric]

Just one last kiss before raising hell...beyond the pale.

[the80sdumpster]

i usually don't like classical music, but this is AWESOME! I'm listening to classical music from now on!

[acteon00]

I think mitsuko had too much of chinese opera

[bluetazeyes]

watching others on this site helps a novice like myself

the music is in you

thank you !!

[paminaase]

I think she is the best Mozart player=)

[Musicloversweetheart]

Soooooo amazing. She is truly God's blessing to everyone listening <3

[FellmanBaines]

"The Cult of the Amateur. How today's internet is Killing Our Culture." by Andrew Keen. A must read for all classical music enthusiasts.

[masterofcorruption]

beautiful beautiful piano playing. The piano is a percussive instrument made from wood and iron etc. Violinists, singers, brass and wind instruments have a greater sense of expression. Although the piano is a wonderful instrument, to be a great pianist, one has to understand the pianos' strenghths and weaknesses.

[masterofcorruption]

Miss Uchida trancends the limitations of her instrument through such an incredible understanding of its strengths and weaknesses. Very rarely does one hear such expressive playing in slower movements. This is more difficult to achieve than the faster movements. Great artistry and integrity. A Rarity in these times where everyone is hijacked by just seeing fast fingers - Kissin and Lang Lang.

[allstarIII]

All is very true; but, we must give Lang Lang credit for producing marvelous sound - one may argue the interpretation. The Essential-quality of his touch is powerful and very clear.

[doublearejazz]

why nobody improvise mozarts music ? mozart done it !! classical interpretation is absolutely overestimated. a point : "Do not follow the old masters´steps, but seek what they were seeking... " Basho (1644-1694) : japanese haiku - master :-) ! ..you wonna see/hear something realy innovative - how to improvise classical music ?! look for video : "bach sarabande jazz guitar" or visite renatorozic dot com ..you ll be nicely surprised .. :-)

[allstarIII]

Ms. Uchida has such a warm tone - one can tell the piano is made of wood.

[MCrafaledu92]

DIVIN

[puppybaby]

ja.. she's amazing,

[judahbenkenobi]

beautiful just beautiful

[Markobonv]

Good advice, we should be listening, not watching.  I'll try harder to *listen*.

[YGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYG]

I gave her roses 3 times, and took pictures with her, and she autographed my Mozart music book. She's awesome, and I know people who try to copy her style; including moi. LOL

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[YGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYG]

Too bad it didn't finish. Mitsuko plays so beautifully, and is so expressive. I remember telling her how I love to watch her as well as listen, and she said, "You should be listening, not watching." lol

[nfaifa]

The whole concerto is on Youtube but the second movement is in two parts. Search for "Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 Mitsuko Uchida" to find all 4 videos

[YGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYG]

nfaifa - OKay, I will. THANK YOU!

(^o^)

[youichi25]

amazing