Chopin - Heroic Polonaise Op. 53 - Arthur Rubinstein

[missfroggyy]

greattttt ı love chopin!

[NYYfangirl]

It makes me so proud to have the same birthday as my favorite pianist. Happy birthday Mr. Rubinstein!!

[spartan1081990]

@rsalinas956 2012, yes , sorry

[suitabledude]

I love how there are all these people speaking all these different languages but we all come here to appreciate a truly wonderful masterpiece. I can only imagine what you guys are saying. Thank God & man for the internet.

[CryInTheAttic]

@suitabledude They are all saying the same uninteresting, unoriginal things.

[jeffrockr]

argerich's version is better .. in my opinion

[oreonyams]

damn. Santa. i want those hands for chirstmas. please?

[oreonyams]

damn. Santa. i want those hands for chirstmas. please?

[10032John]

Did you see how far his hands come off the keys?

[murfnik]

@10032John hands, heck...see how far his butt comes off the bench. ;) Fabulous. Too bad the sound quality is so off.

[TheAldona9]

follow this...

that's it...

[chitic94]

26 dislikes...ho could possible do that????....

[kirinlager49]

@chitic94 Congratulations on your stock standard comment

[retrogamerdave]

@chitic94 people who don't even know what music or a piano is, much less a good musician

[TheSeaKodiak]

Plaudites Cives !

[RunningWithRitalin]

I use Arthur Rubenstein's name in place of Chuck Norris in my jokes.

[thecoolguy010]

@RunningWithRitalin Well played, sir.

[Kinjutsuu]

26 people... oh wait, these jokes aren't funny.

[xXEisteeholikerXx]

What movie is this?

[mocmooc]

*speechless*

[chazster41]

26 amateur pianist detected...

[thesatana12]

wall hack



[MARIAHELENA606]

A 26 persone NON piace ! Non li capisco proprio.

[MARIAHELENA606]

Credo che lo stesso Chopin applaudirebbe !

[b13me]

My Best-Friend can play this(:

He played this at church for me to make me feel bettter:D

He's a mad piano player....HAHAHA

[liurodger]

great separation between passages...lots of breathing room for development.

a beautiful interpretation indeed

[emma41093]

Beautiful, just beautiful, Wonderful to see the master at work :)

[anirudh1998able]

This is the only video I have seen where Rubinstein is showing some expressions

[wreszcie]

Jest niesamowity! Cale szczescie, ze Byl! Arthur Rubinstein!

[VasilisSocratous]

what a performance! !

[AdamKuczynski]

I like Delacroix' portrait of Chopin in the background. I've heard better recordings of this piece, though (including at least one by Rubinstein himself). Too much strange rubato in this one for my liking.

[fevimaster]

I saw my piano professor perform this live today at my school :DD

Never heard it before, but fell in love with it immediately <33333333333

[HiroLegito]

I wish they had high quality sound recording back then.

[DjtechnoWinstrol]

0:15 Error, no pedal there, sounds really bad =/

[monifa79]

in 3:45 he looks like a puppet

[monifa79]

in 3:47 he looks like a puppet

[VIRIATO1942]

This Polonaise has always made deep emotions inside me come up to the surface . I have sort of ciiosn of the valiant Polish people fighting against invasions from all sides, for centuries, and still manging to survive and be independent. This Polonaise expresses in its great beauty that tough endeavor and whoelese could play it more beuatifully than a native son. Long live Poland and its people.

[Chateaubriand26]

Héroisme noble et courtois, raffiné et aristocratique. Voilà les mots qui me viennent à l'esprit lorsque j'entends cette interprètation.

[sp5sjt]

Sztuka ZAŚPIEWANIA na fortepianie tego poloneza udaje się nielicznym. Można pięknie zagrać, ale do śpiewu bywa daleko. A tu - cóż, Rubinstein był arcymistrzem fortepianu i pięknie wybrnął z tego trudnego zadania, grając tego niełatwego poloneza. Aż zatańczyć chciałem...

[mgrtps]

Breathtaking..

[chenickcimetto]

ammirazione immensa per chi l'ha eseguita, ma sopratutto per chi, una cosa del genere, l'ha composta..

Grandi Rubinstein e Chopin. Sicuramente adesso sarete sulla stessa nuvoletta a ridere e scherzare insieme

[ukartist]

I'm sick of coming across these titans of music and find comments from obscure people pointing out that he missed a trill or god knows what. We are extremely lucky that there are some recordings of them so we can hear the real mastery. We have a handful of real masters such as Rubinstein, Horowitz, Heifetz etc and if you got nothing nice to say about them then don't say anything. Trying to cricize them is pointless. Be happy u can hear them, that school is dead. Now we got music factories...

[AviFriedman94]

missed a few lovely trils :( amazing comtrol on the left hand in section B though :)

[rsalinas956]

I wish someone would come around and compose a masterpiece that would rival Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven,etc.. Am I asking for too much?

[lukeagex]

@rsalinas956 From the people of today's society, definitely.

[reanueax724]

@rsalinas956 that's an awful subjective thing to say, I feel like some of Albeniz's work would stand up to any of those guys.

[sackwhacker]

@reanueax724

or maybe you're not looking at the bigger picture? :/

[sunamiassault]

@rsalinas956 yes you are.

[fadigia]

@rsalinas956 you're asking for imposible...that kind of genious time are gone...now it's different....not worst, just different

[YetHaterLover]

@rsalinas956 I'm coming baby!!!

[retrogamerdave]

@rsalinas956 if you're asking for a composer to write a tonal masterpiece in the 21st century, then yes, you are asking too much. Maybe I'm more liberal when it comes to my musical tastes, but there are a lot of gems in the contemporary compositions of the last 50-75 years. Sometimes I think that atonal music ends up being more deeply expressive and meaningful than tonal music. Sometimes. It is much harder to understand, though. It took me 4 years of music classes as an undergrad to believe that

[cggage]

@rsalinas956 Sadly, yes, apparently.

[CryInTheAttic]

@rsalinas956 You're out of touch. Or perhaps a bit touched.

[FelipeGR0105]

@rsalinas956 the actual education model, dont cares about art anymore, they care about money, thats why we dont have this kind of masterpieces anymore, and sorry about my English.

[DTthe4th]

@rsalinas956 Well actually, yeah you kind of are.

[urs2030]

@rsalinas956 first step. we need to find an austrian or polish. someone?

[amantedipiano]

i love this composation

[VivaRenata]

Please let no one who loves music bring the sad discourse of World War II into the appreciation of Chopin or the incomparable interpretations of Rubinstein. Could not all of us take another step forward and approach humanity, speaking with Beethoven? For my part, I have no political opinions, I only listen to Beethoven (and Rubinstein - the only interpreter of Chopin that counts).

[kportjewboy]

@SuperJane99 Thank you for your compliment, I believe you have very good taste in classical music and the human spirit.

[Cleareye10]

A true classic piano that everyone enjoys. I was lucky enough to see him play this in the 60s.

[lessal001]

gosh, i need to press the "love so much" option, sad that doesn´t exist

[dhoulkarnain]

thank you so much

[rhetoricalwishh]

i feel like this is the best interpretation i have ever heard of this piece.

i listened to brian ganz playing it at the strathmore center not so long ago and it was not NEARLY as passionate or interesting as this one...

[kportjewboy]

Long live Poland!

[SuperJane99]

@kportjewboy What a lovely thing to say. I agree. It is the passion with which Rubinstein played here and him saying that the composition was the closest to his heart, which is so moving.

[Allexandru011]

Very beautifull...i'd listen it all dayy......

[KhalDrogo76]

Amazing!

[jacobsimon]

No one plays Chopin like Rubenstein. Every note is right.

[uUUu314]

Rubinstein just made this piece one of the closest to my heart.

[amantedipiano]

he had an incredible skill

[luckykevinful]

*crying* i wish  i'm polish

[MisterJesse]

and @ 3:17 the hand shift blew my mind when I noticed.

[MisterJesse]

i realized i was breathing differently right after it ended. lol I really appreciate when a musician can let us in on why a piece is so special as Rubinstein did here.

[chik0infa]

que pieza tan hermosa...

[omerockill]

that is classical music at is best

[DafniElissa]

@omerockill Omg and where do you leave the Nocturnes?? ahah :) Chopin <3

[KayKayz94]

he plays it muchh better than horowitz

[NaughtGinger]

@KayKayz94 I agree to disagree completely-Horowitz's is clean and crisp-this one is bogged down, sad and most of all I hate his pedal work-soggy and sunken to me-

[steinwaygrande1]

one of the best pianists of the 20th century

[LoloGalller]

Thank you



[Anderuth]

Amazing work. However, the recording is not nice, due to technology that time, I guess.

[TheTheAndreiasantos]

He's an artist.

[oitotheworld23]

wow. just wow. what goes through someone's mind when they're playing something like that? unbelievable.

[FingerMyFinger]

those people dont know how lucky they are to stand and listen to this live

[VivaRenata]

@FingerMyFinger Hopefully they do. I grew up in Chicago in the 1960's and '70's and more than once got last minute tickets which allowed me to sit on stage in Orchestra Hall, really close to Rubinstein, since they were all sold out. In my teens I was a Rubinstein groupie and it didn't end until I was a grad. student at Princeton and travelled to Philadelphia for the last (about 14th) time to hear him. I knew how lucky I was and I will never forget that sound.

[IaxobusJames]

@FingerMyFinger Maybe they did know how lucky they were. How would you know? :)

[grabit1]

@FingerMyFinger I heard it live in his last concert in LA, on November 8, 1975, at Dorothy Chandler, when he was 88. I still have the ticket. And there are some commenters below who were apparently born with their ears in their bungholes.

And yes, you are right. They didn't know how lucky they were to be in that scene.

[VivaRenata]

The only one! Den enda! Den eneste! Der Einzige! L'unico!. I can not recall how many times Rubinstein played the Op. 53 as an encore in Orchestra Hall in Chicago. I am so happy to be old enough to have experienced this - many thanks once again. (from one who was shouting herself hoarse at the time).

[edufrena]

23 people can't play this music and are shame to say how much arthur humiliates them.

[VivaRenata]

Det finns ingen jämförelse. Från en som var "Rubinstein groupie" i sin ungdom och har förblivit en sådan hela livet.Thank you for the music !!!

[colourfulwithaU]

3:18

He does it so gracefully! The hands on this man! I can't even!

[musicmindedclaire62]

WOW NA WOW. No words to express my feelings with regards to Rubinstein's performance. If he said this is one piece closed to his heart, the manner he played it, showed.

[ndrwplussine]

go boston celtics!!!!

[twphilosopher]

usually, im a horowitz fan. for this piece though, rubinstein's interpretation is unsurpassed.

[winseeeee]

wow...

[canicreateafuckinacc]

IMO Mr Rubinstein is the best by far in this piece...

[pdxandrew]

@canicreateafuckinacc Really? Why in this piece?

[canicreateafuckinacc]

@pdxandrew IMO its the way it should be played :) Everything is perfect for me.

[legendbach]

Estic totalment d'acord amb tu! Fantàstica!

[pianorichter]

La millor interpretació de totes. No sé per què als meus amics no els agrada la música clàssica. És tan bona que mai et canses d'escoltar-la una i altra vegada. No és com l'actual de la Katy Perry o la Lady Gaga que fa mal d'orelles.

[edufrena]

it is, in fact, one of the most beautiful and powerful versions of this composition I've ever seen.

Perhaps too fast sometimes, but is the best in my opinion.

[adelesaung]

his so great!!! >.<

[guillermoarambula]

The best interpretation i know is from A. Rubinstein, simply amazing and perfect.

[JanissarialGuard]

only 403, 505 views? shit, why the hell is it that Rebecca Black's shitty Friday get more views than this?

[Aug9nblick]

Wow. Brilliant!

[oargun]

Marvellous, thanks for posting.

[LastPlacePianoPlayer]

Awesome.

[SaintTail91]

wow i want to learn this so bad. sigh.

[paulostroff99]

TY spexter 1337 for posting.As good as it can and does get played-now..

[zipper179]

All Polish jokes stop, right here, and, at Monte Cassino.. Anyone who gave the world this, and fought so valiantly, is no 'dumb polack'..!

[GnuSkool]

Legendary (Polish)composition, legendary (Polish)composer, legendary (Polish)performer -- It all results in a fantastic musical performance!! Go Poland!

[JanissarialGuard]

Hitler was too stupid to realize that he was wrong that the Poles were inferior peoples, if he ever watched this, he will shit on Himmlers dick.

[zipper179]

@JanissarialGuard As I just posted, if you're a Pole, and gave this to the world, and fought your asses off at Monte Cassino, you can't be saluted enough..! The world ain't even through thanking you..

[JanissarialGuard]

@zipper179 Im not a Pole, Im an asian, but I mean really, its extremely simple that talent can come from any race or background, I mean look at Einstein, he's a Jew, Chopin made the entire of europe jack off from him while being a pole, simple idea which Hitler couldn't realize because he was assfucking horses.

[zipper179]

@JanissarialGuard Very sorry.. It was my small way of saluting a great people..

[JanissarialGuard]

@zipper179 no worries, it was on no ones part

[canicreateafuckinacc]

@JanissarialGuard Hitler never said that... In fact Hitler wasnt worse than Roosevelt... he even said Japanese people had greater history than the german...Hitler was against the masons, the comunism, New world order, secret societies, etc. Most people are brainwashed at school about Hitler... I invite you to listen to his speeches about freemasonry, why the war against USA, etc. And then speak.

[longlittlewaiter]

@JanissarialGuard  Watch your language moron.

[buzigems]

@longlittlewaiter It's the internet -- who gives a flying fuck?

[davinou26]

@JanissarialGuard

In secret Hitler listen others pianists. investigators say that he loved listening Rachmaninov ..

[decemberbenjamin]

@JanissarialGuard Hitler was an idiot.

[TheDoucheChanel]

@decemberbenjamin no.He was a genius.No idiot can organize a whole world war..But he was crazy...

[cannabisabuser]

@JanissarialGuard I'm sure Hitler was very familiar with Chopin's work and admired it, as he was a lover of anything cultural and artistic, but just because one artist who isn't all that Polish comes from Poland, will not stop him from getting to us as we held majority of Jewish population in Europe at the time.

[An0niempje]

@JanissarialGuard Are you happy now? Because of your hate, the name you despise so much, is under this magnificent pierce of music. Good job.

Also, Hitler was more insane then stupid. Stupid people might hurt a few, but cannot motivate and lead milions help them change the course of history.

[DonDragonJr]

Espectacular esta pieza. El ingenio de Chopin para componer cosas tan hermosas.

[CARMELIRI]

this music it is the most beautiful.i love it and i remember when i was child to listen wiht my grand mother.

[szpanter]

Ahh! Music played with POLISH mastery and soul ! 

[colliecandle]

Ahh! Music played with JEWISH mastery and soul ! B"H !

[crazyghetto978818]

Just looking at how he plays and comparing it to lang lang, Zimmerman, or any other recent pianist.. he looks like he has A LOT more control.. movement while playing isn't always "pleasing" in music

[musicfanBRA]

What a priviledge to be there listening to Rubinstein and even watching his fingers even better than the people who were actually there. Many thanks to the poster!

[pianofreak1997]

@snatchingthepiano I thought Rubinstein prefer a Bluthner cuz of its singing tone.

I have a Bluther to and it's a very good piano :)

[arczi68]

polish ppl FTW

[Garcian]

the section from 3:13 is superb... what style is this? what other compositions use it

[Crazycrisps]

@Garcian Instrumental ballade

[sauvagetbeau]

Quel talent Artur Rubinstein ! merci pour cette plonaise héroique !!!

[katiush65]

so charming accent, "clozest to my heart"... ;-)

[pirates406]

amazing...

[boreale19]

Does anyone know what brand this piano was made by?

[snatchingthepiano]

@boreale19 I would wager it's probably a Steinway.

[iLOVEmusicAH]

@snatchingthepiano it is

[bilou1955]

His Best interpretation !

[Weng393]

I feel so grateful to have the opportunity to hear this

[Alanpini]

one of the greatest Chopin performers of all times. My favorite polonaise played by my favorite Chopinist...Im in heaven

[kornbelt]

love it

[NjallPiano]

16 people don't believe in perfection.

[Emulu]

なんて軽やかなタッチなんだろう・・こういう風に弾けたらと思わ­ず思ってしまいますね。

[RobnLV]

A much better rendition compared to Horowitz's rendition!

[73555]

un adevarat maestru acest pianist ,totdeauna mia facut placere sa ascult aceasta piesa minunata, titanic interpretata de Artur Rubinstein

[tim60s321]

I can only play "god save the queen" (uk) by ear one fingered but i love piano music-it seems to tickle in my brain and this is one of my favourites=in my experience and despite the poor technical quality Artur's is the finest playing of this piece=i give him 10/10

[czekersPL]

makes me proud

[spikeapu]

epic!

[supajoo11]

nobody plays it quite like arthur. the best chopinist of the century, truly

[LAWSAREFORIDIOTS]

This is just perfect

[JihyeKimRoma]

just fall in love!!

[seoreb]

the greatest!!!!

if only the recoding had better sound.

[IoNonEsistoGiuro]

i love it!

[tizfrreecharm]

Ah, finally, the origin of the riff in 'Hyacinth House'!

What a treat, great music played by a great pianist in a great clip. Thanks

[swissman95]

Lol

[LaughLoveLiveLearn]

This is one of my favorites of Chopin's astounding compositions! I only wish he had lived longer to write more and more inspiring music!

[cwtiong1]

@LaughLoveLiveLearn I have the same wish!

[JanissarialGuard]

@LaughLoveLiveLearn We can only dream, but hey, lets hope another virtuoso will rise to give another gift to the world :D

[pdxandrew]

@JanissarialGuard I believe they always will. At least, that hope is part of what keeps me going... =)

[colourfulwithaU]

@LaughLoveLiveLearn

And if only Rubinstein had loved longer to play more inspiring music. Today's pianists are nothing compared to him, Gilels, Richter, etc.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

"and now I will play a composition which is the closest to my heart"...

i love him

[kb27787]

it sounds so heroic! so grand! beautiful!

[pianistavirtuosa88]

amazing!

[VIRIATO1942]

Music like this elevates Man's spirit to the Creator.

It is so moving and beautifull and I cannot help but to think that with this divine piece of classic piano Frederic chopin has imortalized Poland and its patriotic people.

[TJFNYC212]

I attended a Rubinstein all Chopin recital years ago in Constitution Hall He played this polonaise and I wanted to jump onto the stage and dance. He played it in much more inspired fashion than he does in this recording. He was then already well into his nineties. I think it was in 1973

[szopq]

Blessed be independent Poland!

[MrRafal88888888]

Magnificent... What we can say else?

[Seetheskyabouttorain]

LOL at 3:44. Do you think he can lift his hand any higher off the keyboard?

[Eileen4007]

all I can say: MAGNIFICENT!! thank you for posting it.