Vintage Artur Rubinstein Home Movie 1939

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

whooooo! look at all those women with cigarettes lol they may look classy in a video.... but smell like dog doo

[christophleipzig]

Nice piece. Veeeery seldom to have colored moving pictures from that time. Look at the clothes. Look at the makeup. Lock at the facial expressions.

Lack of sound almost is not important here...

[Timmytimtimtm]

this Michangelii ?????

[puchalaka]

No, its Arthur Rubenstein, a very prominent pianist of the 20th century.

[Bruce88keys]

I am 60 yrs old and saw Rubinstein in the 1960's many, many, times- he was a musical hero to many artists........This is for people who have seen Rubinstein, or love his records, he was a great human being and any record we have of him is a treasure-sound or not.

[hygrass]

lol :D

[rachmaninov4373]

Hello

Can someone who plays very well tell which pieces is he playing? And someone who can read lips who's he saying? ^^

Thanks

[lsbrother]

What's he saying? Perhaps something along the lines: "hey darling, would you like to play on my big piano"

[vlotjah]

Does she say, at 1:20 "Please, play it yourself"? That might mean that AR says something like: "I'm not shure I'm going to play...". It looks like it. But we long for a professional lip-reader to find out what he is saying...

[Boldstrummer]

Was there supposed to be sound with this?

I don't hear a thing. . .

[puchalaka]

i did

[guarrho]

creepy

[Chopin389]

Ok, you guys. Rubenstein was a great pianist, regardless of how much sex he had or how much he practiced. My teacher heard him live, and said he never heard a more beautiful tone. I guess that means the sex helped!

[mishima1974]

He WAS boring.

[gonzalojosevb]

He was born in 1887 so if he is 50 years old in the video 1939 is ok (¿?), very strange in color maybe remasterized, he died in 1982, 95 yo. Great pianist!

[bigcity233]

I doubt it was re-mastered. They had real color home movie film in the 1930's (Kodak - 8mm and also 16mm for the pros). After 70 years, the color seems to darken - also it could be that when it was filmed, the photographer may not have used enough lighting. You had to have special lighting to do indoor movies in those days (like Klieg lights, which were hot).

[Vlasta4444]

the women were soooo elegant!

[mishima1974]

He shacked up with the one in the blue dress sitting in front of him.

Oh, Artur!

Too bad. He might have been a great pianist if he hadn't had sex with so many women.

[rubinsteinway]

He was great BECAUSE he had so much sex. Otherwise who knows whether he could play Chopin that well...

[mishima1974]

Its the other way around.

Rubinstein was lazy and didn't practice enough. His perpetual satisfaction didn't help him with the great masterworks, either. The great gomposers had very difficult lives.

The element of suffering is conspicuously absent in Rubinstein's playing.

He was a BORE!

[ellenol1014]

yes, suffering is part of the music, yet he is the only that is able to bring bare, simple happiness, comforts and ease in music. among all the masters of piano, the only one.

and nowadays, we had so many sufferings in real life, we need him.

[kalduglun]

There were some really hot ladies in the room!

[heroicpolonaise]

WTF !!!!! color in 1939!!!!!!!!!

wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

the first time in my life that i see rubinstein more young in color !!!!

AWESOME!!!

[vbogdan22]

I like Horowitz's social style more than Artur's

[7111317]

leider kein ton!!!

[vint22]

golden era

[gspaulsson]

Can anyone make out what he's playing?

[Valkyrie91a]

How much his son John resembles him is really evident in this video.

[SELG88]

i can´t heard anything

[corgihound]

Of coure you can't hear anything! Dr. Karol Liszniewkski was a deaf mute and all of his guests acted accordingly! They even pulled the strings out of the piano...! Home movies, unless you had Hollywood-caliber equipment, did NOT have sound, even up to the 1970's!

(Too bad! It would have been fun to hear the party "banter" and all - especially with Rubinstein the ranconteur holding court at the piano!!! Arf,ARF!

[LaLenteEnmascarada]

very nice video!

[satra0]

What the hell?! I can't hear A THING! AGHHHHH!

[tranquilasadove]

He played much too quietly here.

[1singlet]

Yes, fascinating. That was my parent's era. Thanks.

[fuckthepain]

Damn! I rebooted just to hear the notes.

[gurucow]

yes it works... i hear the music now, after rebooting.

[mrbean1970]

I'm Beethoven, so I can only watch his fingers because I couldn't hear anything...

[waytoocool]

Wrong notes?? LMAO.. well u should be complaining @ least u got to hear ANY notes!

[dgaranin]

I've heard a bunch of wrong notes here..

[emtube]

These and the other home movies are fascinating documents of a bygone age. Even comparing the party dresses of the 20s from the Horowitz film with the gowns of 1939 in this film is interesting! So tantalizing, that these are silent films!

[bigcity233]

Emtube - I agree - documents as opposed to a Hollywood production. A rare glimpse of an actual event during a more elegant time. Rubinstein was only 52 in '39 and had many productive years ahead of him. WWII had just begun and many Americans were hoping we would stay out of it. My parents remember many regular folks listened to classical music on the radio then - Milton Cross and Met Opera on Saturday afternoons, Bell Telephone Hour etc.