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  • 5 'dislikes' are either trolls or scumbag steves.

  • Classic music will stand the test of time whereas modern will not.

  • The comment above sumps it up: BS 4 million, A Brendel less than 50,000 views.

    Sad state of the musical taste in the 21st century ...say no more....and yet the BBC Proms command huge audiences. Not sure if there is an answer...get Britney Spears to say that classical music is cool?

  • @RODOLFITO2241 Don't be sad about of our musical taste, we are making a certain developement. And if half a billion likers would press the button for Brendel, I would get doubts about him. Listen what he has to tell at 5.09

  • I read that he was self taught. Incredible.

  • And before anyone writes anything I know Taubman's not a he. Typo.. Nothing against her and her teachings, as I have no direct experience of them But the whole thing simply isn't that straightforward. Everything about Brendel is individualistic including his technical approach. It's worked marvellously well for him to date, and he's 80.

  • Possibly that is what he means. But they're not. Who says so?

  • His Schubert is unsurpassed (in my opinion)

  • I love Brendel's playing.

  • who is the conductor

  • @muyy1 Sir Simon Rattle

  • No one can find any words about his piano, about his intelligence. Thank you for posting..

  • Brendel is my hero! Hes such a sensible artist!

  • what's that piece he is

    playing in the beginning?

  • @jakehohsfield Schubert Impromptu D899 No.3... Great piece, isn't it?!

  • Not Eastern European.. where's that accent from?

  • @BenUriyahMay

    "...his parents are a mixture of german, austrian, italian and slav..." at min 7:45

  • Most interesting!

  • brendel has faulty technique. there must be a lot of stuff he cant play. 1:46 thats "individual-finger-force technique" leads to poor execution of passages, and ultimately hand injury. research TAUBMAN method for more information

  • @callenishss 4:31 what the hell. MOVE THE ENTIRE HAND. ROTATE THE ARM. DONT play the clawing game. faulty faulty faulty faulty

  • @callenishss has anyone got a textbook technique? Even something such as posture we all have our variations. Standing and walking is probably the most common thing to all of us, yet we could probably correct a large percentage of the population. Something intricate as piano is bound to have all sorts of variations.

  • @jabeoo1 all professionals go by "drop whole arm and rotate wrist". there are no variations in them trying to attain the same result, but minor differences in how much the momentarily unplaying fingers lift to avoid striking unwanted notes. any other minor differences are trivial.

  • @callenishss

    I've read some pretty silly comments on youtube over the years, but this takes somes beating. Are you really serious? Brendel played concerts from, what was it, 1948 until 2008 of a more or less consistently amazing standard. His technique barely, if ever, let him down in all that time. And who was "Taubman" exactly? Yes, I know who he was, but you get what I mean... Possibly time for a little re-think?

  • @Eichenwald144 i think what callenishss means is that all techniques are based on the fundamental concepts of drop arm and rotate arm enough so that there is no tension but there are tiny variations and that alfred brendel is on the less safe side. oh well...

  • he sounds so humble, I really love him. =)

  • I remember watching this when it was broadcast on french/german TV channel arte back in 2003-it was my TV highlight of the year-you not always want or need to know much about perfomers private life or person in the classic industry,but Brendel is different in many ways-very nice to watch this-the man-not just the pianist. Grateful to have this released by Opus arte on DVD. A legacy in lifetime.

  • TwelfthRoot2:

    Just imagine how it was 100 years ago. One could only hear this wonderful music if you went to a concert. Then recordings came along and made this music available to just about everybody. Now with the internet there is a second revolution. Now we are able to find all the background information we want. Being able to watch documentaries like this one is just so great...

  • from 7:08 you hear folk music, what reminds me very much of : Sutartinės , folk music from Lituania, where two or more groups of singers sing not in thirds but in seconds !

  • It does sound like that. But I think he mentions it's from the island of Krk, which is in Croatia - I might have misheard.

  • What's being played beginning at 5:45? When it transitions to the orchestra?

  • Beethoven piano concert 2 o 3

  • Its the third Concerto- If I'm not mistaken

  • it is beethvoven, 3rd piano concert, 3rd movement

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  • Schubert: Impromptu D899, op. 90 nº 3

  • LOL thanks alot!! I know i said Listz but my second guess was Schubert...

  • Schubert's impromptu D899 No. 3

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  • omg .... what was the scary song the end of video , I thought as if Brendel and some women would sing that song .

  • Alfred Brendel is phenomenal. There is somethings unique and distinctive about his playing.

  • concerto35! BRAVO!

  • Thanks. I was thinking of his performance of "The Dante Sonata" by Liszt.

  • I am captivated by every one of his performances! The fact that he is so modest and humble makes me enjoy the spirit of his playing all the more. He makes heart smile and my soul dance :O)

  • Fantástico

  • 0:37 - 0:42 ditto.

  • @Schamschi:

    Go back where you came from!

  • Im not saying his Schubert is bad I just think hes playing it a bit too rushed. Horowitz in Vienna playing that impromptu is the most beautiful version Ive ever heard but thats my opinion

  • Sorry, the opening Schubert made me crying. I don't know why. Sorry, silly comment besides wrong English.

  • well, its international language. i love him ,too. its a beautiful feeling person and you hear it in his music.Good luck to you

  • I love the way he says "Im completly at a loss to explain why I made it" :D I dont like his Schubert though but his Beethoven Sonatas are the best Ive ever heard

  • How can you not like his Schubert? WHAT WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!??!

  • My comment was meant as a reaction to al1960 and to domino1329, as conversation thread.

  • that's somthing by schubert at the beginning, right? what exactly is it?

    thought it might be nice to watch this as i just started reading a volume of his essays

  • Schubert Impromptu Op.90 no.3

  • Schubert Impromptu in G flat, Op. 90 no. 3, D. 899

  • the fact that this video has 20 000 views and a stupid Britney Spears has over 4 millions, says a lot about the society we live in and about people in general . that aside, Mr. Alfred Brendel is undoubtedly one of the greatest minds and talents we have had the privilege to admire.

    Thank you for posting this documentary!

  • Their loss our gain!

  • But it's being very difficult for me to live surrounded by [their?] garbage. In everything, from food to clothes' fabrics, plastic shoes, the packaging of cereals and shampoo, the trashing of landscape & architecture, the cheap interior materials etc etc. etc. More than surrounded: - the pangarbage invades my life, especially the more I share it with others. But I am so, so, so gregarious! I am therefore in dis-ease. My loss, not my gain...

  • i see what you mean, and i agree, but its a bit unfair...brendel has chosen to stay out of the limelite, britney (who i can't stand) has done opposite, she does her career simply to get recoqnision and fame. so thats why she has so many more views, everyone already knows about her, becuase shes always on the news!. but i know what you mean, and i agree.

  • I just think that there is not enough exposure to classical music and the world's greatest musicians like Brendel. What I know about classical music, composers, and musicians, I've had to go out and look for.

  • True. Its a pity that classical music is much less appreciated that it could. I mean, it has pretty much every thing, It covers the entire range of human emotion...from Bach to Stravinsky. I used to listen to classic rock and many other forms of music, but once I got into classical realized that it has EVERYTHING. Yet people go listen to elevator music like Yanni or Andre Rieu.

    What is needed is innovative marketing and passiion. Benjamin Zander is showing us the way.

  • @domino1329

    This is because the true beauty is always experienced by the minority!

    Cheers!

  • alte wein!

  • z666z666 is a rude ignorant person. Lets just ignore him and his clones.

  • My god there's a lot of shit written on this page. Just for brass tacks - Brendel is unique, insightful and a great performer

  • he certainly is unique - you can't deny that

  • hey 666 ....ve a look at "alfred brendel shreds beethoven"...hehehe.. probably u will stop ur nasty comments about the great and u will discover the serious artist finally! ;))))

  • i love brendel's Au Bord d'une Source

  • And .........who fuck is Brendel to think he "Has" the correct reading and the inner intention concerning the will of the composer?? Just boring excuses to justify his lack of "Color" and "Creativity".

    666

  • Wow! you pretend to be in possesion of some basic knowledge but you make this kind of dumb, cheap and unrespectful corky jokes.

    Then, you say you are not the hated "hacker" ytpiano7 yet you keep on being the same stupid guy.

    Wow, just wow.

    I´m sure that you have no woman near you, therefore the ludicrous amount of time you spend here.

  • Ahhhh concerning woman ...i not would say the lies you said before ....concerning you are around to a dozen of beautiful women....LOL

    I have my wife .......and........ i am not a "Fanfarrón".

    666

  • Of course, i will continue to "appear" as long as this kind of ignorance persists.

    Meaning, i will also comment against stupid people who have no respect for great artists in general.

    The thing is, i like Brendel, so i watch Brendel´s videos. Therefore i hardly comment against the ignorants in, for example, Pollini´s videos.

    That was because ytpiano7 insulted me at first. I don´t create weird account tales; i take full responsibility for my language.

    I´m realistic, "ningun fanfarron".

  • Reread the comments on Schubert´s video. You´ll see. You insulted me and "friendlyfinch" (or something like that) first.

    No... i was speaking about you (ironic face) WTF!

    You should begin writing constructive comments, not stupid ones.

    You are showing just ignorance but you claim to know something at the same time. So, why are you letting the others think you are stupid? Why don´t you try to be the wise guy?

  • haha when he said, "I have no idea how I made it" I reply, "yeah, I don't know either..."

  • I absolutely adore him when he said at 00:38, "I am completely at loss to explain why I made it.." so very humble yet a great giant within..sort of reminds me of someone I know..hmmm.

    I am not a pianist but that touch of his at 4:30 is just out of this world. *sigh*

  • He plays the part at 4:33 so beautifully and so much with ease, it's among the nicest moments in the documentary along with the introduction at 6:24, his smile at 0:42, the funny expression at 5:44, the Liszt piece at the begging in part V, the Matthias Goerne singing and the Chopin prelude no.4 in part VI, the excerpt from Brahms piano concerto no.1, the picture of him wearing the white pom pom beanie hat, and his closing comment about Mozart which evokes tears.

  • thank you. I've only gone through part III. I will check them out.

  • So funny Brendel. I thonk he needs a "Glicerine" supp....

    666

  • my career is a typical........lol ....bla bla.

    All boring excuses given to his admirers lol.

  • He's a highly reliable pianist. His playing is a very good example for piano students. Always brilliant and clear passages.

  • Brendel is always poetic.

  • Yes nelecr Brendel is always pathetic.

    666

  • it's poetic, not pathetic

  • Ohh yeahhh..is pathetic.

    666

  • When he laughs, he remembers me ... Michael Caine. He has very pleasant manners.

  • OMG this is cool. Like a personal masterclass! The moment where they cut to the orchestra... so perfect. Brendel says the most amazing things about music. "The masterpiece tells the performer what he should do", I love this.

  • continuing.....great could be, also make some mistakes on some things..even in the same notes he wrote sometimes. If this is possibel , is obviously twice possible to change dynamics and tempo indications to RE-CREATE the written score. After many years of playing i become really tired of the "Standard" (which finally nobody knows clearly what it is),so....that´s the real resons for the existence of the INTERPRETER.

    ..to continue...

  • continuing....Of course i am speaking this into some parmeters who make you don´t go to far to deformate the musical work. That´s is a different story. BUT,,,but...in some cases like the "Pictures on a exhibition" in Horowitz arrangment (year 1942) of it, by far is better than the original, and i am pretty sure if Moussorgsky would be alive to listen it he wouyld be very happy. Of course in that music you have more flexibility to make things. In Schubert less, but not inpossible at all. continu

  • Why is it that every single video i watch of Brendel has a comment from you, then a "-6" next to it??

    Don't answer, it's ok.

    It's because you suck.

  • frateramadeus.

  • Very easy answer "jakehosfgielsd".....becuase i want a -20.

    bye nerd.

    666

  • ytpiano7: before you shoot back an insult, the least you can do it to have it make sense (both grammatically and logically). Yet, you're downright pathetic.

    Keep embarrassing yourself if you like (or enjoying it in some Freudian, attention-seeking, low self-esteem manner). It's your own tragedy after all.

  • Actually, my only argument previously is more of a non-musical nature, declaring the great waste of skin that is you (concluded through your viciousness instead of musical opinion).

  • ytpiano7 is a shame to humanity.

  • Hello yuntaoufa..your mom what?

    ytpiano7

  • ?? Is that your comeback ?? Hahaha, thanks for the laugh.

  • PS. don't expect any further reply from me (not even with your undecipherable insult to my mother). After all, who is pathetic enough to spend so much time writing youtube comments all day? Oh wait...

  • What a pair of jerks--- ya tatata  ya tatata.

    Like most figuretti people.

    ytpiano7

  • Hey ytpiano7 hang yourself please, we beg you...nobody gives a shit for your comment's, y dejame decirte algo pedazo de idiota, si no sabés nada acerca de América Latin mejor cerrá esa boca de mierda, acomplejado de mierda. Andate para la verga.

  • I don´t care for nobody poce of crap. I care for the real ones. haha what a retarded you are cheap argentinian (of course all argentinian are not like you, you maybe live in the BOCA neighborhood) i realized that owed to your poor spanish. Learn your own language first.

    Oye so pedazo de cagado. Ni tienes idea de donde soy . To continue......

  • continuing....Al igual que los rosquetes maricones y afeminados de tus amigos FABrendel y Ernesto (la misma persona con diferente seudónimo) hablas tu propio idioma hasta las huevas. No se escribe "Cerrá" so pedazo de ignorante. Se escribe "Cierra" jaja. No se dice "Andate" sino ándate, o sea con acento so tarado. Se mas de América latina que tu, ya que todos los años toco en varios países

  • continuing...de Latino América desde Chile hasta México imbécil y además tengo familia en Chile y en Argentina..hermoso país solo que a veces cagado por imbéciles como tu. Acomplejado será el maricón que te engendró so pedazo de concha tu madre. A ver ....¿te gustó? no me "Digás...(jaja) que no? he usado tu propio estilo de callejón del BOCA.......jaja. A ver si así "Aprendés" a moderar tu hocico, ya que boca no tienes infeliz......

    El que no te engendró ...por suerte...

    ytpiano7

  • ytpiano es el ciego que quiere guiar al tuerto en materias de gramática! Qué divertido...

  • Hola Ernesto....em materias idiomáticas y/o linguísticas concernientes al idioma Castellano o Italino no soy el tuerto, sino el ambi-visual. Los hablo mas que correctamente...modestia aparte. :-) Mi escritura en al computadora -como ya te lo expliqué anteriormente- es un desastre..sin ir muy lejos me acabo de dar cuenta que ya cometí es¡n este párrafo, ni mas ni menos que cinco errores en mi propio idioma...imagínate que me queda para cuando escribo en inglés.....plop....

  • Pues, ytpiano, que importa? Lo fundamental es darse a entender, y eso lo consigues de manera muy definitiva(!!) Tambien es bueno cuando tomamos nota nuestros errores. Gracias por añadir colorido a tantas opiniones musicales que se vuelven desabridas.

    Ernesto

  • you continue to plague us with your presence in every classical chanel we view. please, take heed to gerardoximenez's words.

  • Thank's and you are right, this ytpiano7 is a plague as you said, please YOUTUBE: fire out and forever ytpiano7.

  • But, latino, what is the problem? Can't you always skip over the posts you don't like? You don't support personal freedoms?

  • I was watching carefully at the (obviously) prepared meeting between these two and i was laughing at Brendel´s acting and his head movements trying to be an "Inspired" artist. The problem is when you don´t know what is passion and your manager try to do you make some "passionate things". Well, for people similar to him (very german not austrian...i know he is Chek)) maybe it could have some effect, but... to continue..

  • continuing...not for people who every normal day have a life plenety of COLOR, despite that day is good or not..... which is the ingredient he has not in his playing and maybe in his pseudo intellectual life.

    A real intellectual 1st: try to fix his phrasing mistakes, and some others....

    ytpiano7

  • Well, to any other people different than "ernesto" and FABrendel" who BTW are the same person with a different nickname, It looks they cannot live without me. A pair of stupid guys....or stupid guy...meybe. Any of my comments will be addressed of course to anybody but not to those two, unless they are the "Owners" of this virtual space.....

    ytpiano7

  • I think, ytpiano7, that you are one of the greatest things in youtube. Who else can we argue with and correct

    with the certainty always of being absolutely right?

  • I have never heard him live, so maby I shouldn´t post my opinions, but his recordings make me think that his not very briliant player. That´s all. I´m 29 ( Neptunekid ), I have a wife, I can drive, and I´m a pianist also.

  • The modesty of the man shows his integrity, professionalism and rare musical gift, no showmanship just great musicianship, the sign of a truly great musician

  • He cannot be any less than modest, because his pianism and musicianship is so modest.......or maybe to be precise: POOR.

    ytpiano7

  • He really looks like a nice man, so pitty that his pianism does not reach by far his nice behavior.

    ytpiano7

  • To be clear: I said HE LOOKS . I am not sure if he is or not.

    ytpiano7

  • Are you right in the head? Alfred Brendel a poor pianist???I presume you are joking, not very funny though

  • I am completely rigth in the head and in any place.

    he is a POOR pianist . First of all. Not completely bad ¡, but mediocre technique. poor musicality, his playing is plain and boring. he can´t make any polyphonic distintion in passages really need, etc. And his frogy faces are a disaster, and distract people than the real musical fact. maybe that is his strategy.

    ytpiano7

  • AHH. Despite the low level, ordinary, vulgar and stupid comments of some sick people here in you tube, is not problem to continue making own opinions.

    In music discussions, the virtual forums are not to make "Happy people", or to agree with the idol of some retarded. Critics are critics.

    ytpiano7

  • And a funny thing, he pretended to give more importance to a liszt piano work. He was really unconsciuos when he made that decision? To do that you need the technical background of Sandor, czsyfra, Argerich, etc, but not the Brendel technical background. Thos world is crazy

    ytpiano7

  • You are obviously very young? Maybe 15 or 16? Anywone with a bit of maturity can see Brendel's artistry.

  • Continuing...but i believe is too many people who don´t know nothing about piano playing and make a big opinions and plenty of "low everything", and me as my friend who was writing here before me (frateramadeus), believe we cna make some contribution to make some peolpe more objetive about facts. continue....

  • Unfortunatedly maybe the 75% of people who write here is very ignorant concerning muusic, and among the other 25% are differente levels, from good ones to bad ones. From highly educated, to pigs. For that reason this is to me a kind of knowledge how is people who clap us. This experience is very rich to me. In some week or two i have to quit, because i have to play again, and i will have not time to write, and BTW is enough.

  • "This experience is very rich to me"...

    I have no doubts, ytpiano7. You are learning from us a lot of truths about yourself.

  • No "polyphonic distinction", ytpiano7?

    The only way for a pianist not to make polyphony is to .... play with a single finger!