Alice Sara Ott - Appassionata 3rd movement

[15grga]

allegro,ma NON troppo...the fast rhythm and ''swallowed notes,but in general,very good preformance! Well done! :))

[Abraeumer83]

she swallows down some notes...

[MrSerpico87]

mistake 00:23 / 00:24

[AeneasMeier]

@MrSerpico87 wow... i mean WOW, you are right! i think NOONE else would have noticed it. you are a genius, thanks for posting this.

[rosestful]

この演奏は憧れ！

[bio1229]

This is one of the (NOT MANY) good performances of beethovens appassionata!

[adjani8]

Merci pour une performance très splendide☆

[armor175]

I find this piecer not very difficult..same with la campanella...but i find it passionate and powerful :D....imolny 12 years old lol :)

[Zuukarimoto]

@armor175 it is actually very difficult an la campanella is even much more difficult especially as you hands have to jump octaves an play many difficult chords one after the other octaves apart and an semi quavers. you should google the sheet music an check it out appasionata is 4 flats and la campanella is 5 sharps

[lasalista1000]

Awesome! very difficult piece but an equally outstanding performance!

[shorttnguyen]

A difficult piece well played. Still, Abbas Abboud has a far more interesting interpretation. Barenboim also plays this brilliantly.

[armor175]

VERY GOOD! :D

[ajhendrick]

Personally, I find the technical requirements of the Appassionata to be far greater than the Moonlight. I find her interpretation very traditional, in terms of choice of tempo and dynamics, baring perhaps the generous use of rubato. However, a few passages have very fresh approaches.She maintains a sense of the beat in most of the passage work, which I very much like. You see it most in the coda - compare hers to Rubenstein's, for example. All in all, very good indeed.

[a0067328]

良さが分からん。

まあ美人だとは思わなくもないけど。

[peixotoraul]

she doens't play the repetition... Beethoven wrote!!! It is really important... in the autograph he wrote "la seconda parte due volte"

[MrKenchobi]

サイコー

[lovewatermelon1]

@StAmalthea that is so true! however, it's like that with all new pianist: first, you have to prove your talent and virtuosity by playing the hardest and/or most famous pieces (like this) and THEN after you've gained recognition and success you may play what you want to play.

[Totennebel]

@lovewatermelon1

I totally agree. It's sad but true. You can't start a carreer as pianist with Album für die Jugend or Bach's Inventions. People judge you by your Beethoven or Liszt recordings.

[xerexius]

Definitely the best, if not one of the best performances on youtube. Don't know what's with all the negative comments.

[happehaha]

@xerexius Her La Campanella is very impressive but personally, I don't think there's anything special about this performance: she plays well enough but the character doesn't seem very well-defined to me and there's no real inner intensity that I can hear (for me, this piece needs a lot of that). I think it's a very, very tricky piece to bring off. I never heard a performance of it I thought really captured it, to be honest.

[eksxlife]

I loved the playing but I didn't like the physical & emothional expressions AT ALL as at the begining I thought it was kind of a joke or a canded camera .... well ... to say the TRUTH she is very TALENTED , beautiful , brilliant and she knows exactly what to do ,,, but hope she can work MORE on her facial expressions and BODY of course !!

[jegspillerpiano]

@eksxlife Quite! The way she looks has obviously done wonders for her career. Therefore she should look happy instead of as if piano performing is a miserable painful experience! Askenazy was the male equivalent of her : playing like he was gonna have an enema at any moment (speaking of which I'd love to give Alice Sara one)

[synvisc]

beautiful n perfect...bravo!

[TheAline245]

J 'adore !!!!

[plelvis12345]

i love the sound of steinways grand pianos. I want to have one too :(

[Jorfapigo]

Damn Presto aggitato, why does it have to be sooooo hard? :s

[aloofistpain]

not bad

and not so good

[Ray0X0]

La versión de Alice Sara Ott no es mala pero no es brillante. Curiosamente ninguno de los comentarios acerca de los excelsos intérpretes de la Apassionata de Beethoven mencionan quizás al más fiel beethoveniano de todos los tiempos, que fue Claudio Arrau.

Pienso que el piano de Arrau logra la más perfecta representación del espíritu del genio alemán.

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Neat, well-regulated playing & interpretation, as befits a very good student. I miss any depth of character,(dark colors, menacing....). To omit the repeat is a poor decision, a bad mistake. The coda lacks any sense of fury, and the chords are hardly voiced at all. No wonder the audience needed a few seconds to wake up and applaud, a bit.

[lizardpoison]

Are you an internationally renowned pianist with 2 CDs and numerous live performances to your name? I thought not. Instead you are a twat who thinks up an imaginative comment to show that you know nothing about music. Unless you are Daniel Barenboim in disguise you should shut your mouth and stop trying to impress people with your psuedo-knowledge of music. If I am wrong, please send me the link to your performance so I can compare... after all, perhaps you are better than she is.

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Not really worth the borether of a reponse, but quite amusing that you so deserve your name. You are obviously someone easily fooled. Never mind, by the time you get some listening experience, i'll probably be in the next world..............

[seremerow]

她把這曲子完全內化到自己的世界中了!!

她用技巧性創造出情感，雖然部分人會批評她沒有適度遵照"貝多芬­格式"，但我還是很欣賞她的演奏！by the way,魯賓斯坦雖屆高齡但演出此曲，但他把熱情的格局做的完美­無瑕！整體觀之下，途中技巧上的小瑕疵都已"無關重大"。這也是­她可參考之處。總之，這演奏很不賴！^^

[gabychwan]

impresionante :)

[Coriolan1989]

It fairly often seems that she attempts to seize a tempo which is too fast for her skill at actual moment.

All the 3rd part of the Sonata is composed of many "lines" of semiquavers, these lines must be played in the exact tempo, even if this tempo isn't very fast. Horowitz, Lisitsa and many others knew about it.

But this woman often plays aforesaid lines with some ritardandos in the most unsuitable places. Therewith, an unskillful pedal...It deteriorates best impressions.

So, only 4 stars.

[tianobrothers]

needs pedaling more. otherwise great romantic interpretation

[MysteryWriter]

thank's for making me feel alive for 5:35min. :-)

[Vicarious1aj]

Greater than Horowitz.

[tfman15]

Horowitz is great...but not with this piece. I agree she does a better job on this piece than him.

[tfman15]

One of the best performances of this movement on YouTube I'd say. I'm learning this piece and like listening to different inerpretations of it. I think I may use a little more pedal in some places, but other than that....very very nice.

[Vicarious1aj]

She uses less pedal than any other version I've heard, but she makes it work. It's more traditional to use pedal, I say be daring and make it sound just as good without all the pedal! But you know... it's up to you :P

[brentbanaagbaab]

i thought monnlight mvt. 3 was beethoven's hardest, but this one's MUCH HARDER!

[brentbanaagbaab]

anyways, i'm still learning monnlight

mvt. 3. if that one was hard, this one's worse!

[optisamit]

@brentbanaagbaab To my mind moonlight 3rd mvt. is harder, but this is very impressive too (I mean not only technique)

[MrSerpico87]

@brentbanaagbaab i thought the same

[benjamindimeglio]

phenomenal performance and interpretation of this master piece. Her technique is amazing and is one of my favorites that I have discovered amongst the world wide web.

[figarofirst]

Becuse your hearing ability is retarded.

[langliszt]

The execution its okay. I encourage you to hear Maria Joao Pires recording. Best performance ever!

By the way, what a curious public, it led the loud final silence several seconds, thats very pleasant for a musician.

[JPNpatriot]

Chopin's complete nocturnes recording by Maria Joao Pires is my favorite one. I like her Mozart and Chopin, but I don't know her Beethoven piano sonatas.

[jiririji]

@JPNpatriot Is better claudio arrau the nocturnes completes

[oldpangloss]

The intense dramatic melody is not captured. You are not listening.

[mariavandermerwe]

Really great colourful and emotional performance!

I love the red dress pared with the black steinway :-)

[rerere123465]

上手いなー

この人のピアノ聴くの初めてだけど、プロはやっぱり音色が綺麗だ­ね、、、

[variousweetie]

What I love best is the life you put into the music, I thiink that's also how Beethoven stands out from other the most. Thank you.

[MysteryWriter]

never heard a better performance of this beethoven piano sonata...

[MrZerick]

THen you need to listen to Valentina Latsita (sp). she is phenomenal..both are awesome...both are better than Horowitz on this piece anyway

[JPNpatriot]

Sure I know her. I dropped my teeth watching her great performance in Chopin etude series.

[anonymousQ45]

@JPNpatriot do you have any of her Chopin etude performances?? are the recordings available??

[zzhhaannggddii]

@JPNpatriot hah~~~~ i think that's why some of yr interpretations sound really like her~~

[MysteryWriter]

yea! Valentina kicks ass!!! :-D Which is wired because generally i prefer the Brendel and Kempff and Gulda recordings of the Beethoven sonatas... Horowitz had (in my opinion) his strength with other composers (Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff... etc.). What do you think?

[MrZerick]

I have not heard Brendel oor Gulda but I have heard Freddy Kempf...another passionate pianist... I unfortunately feel like Sallieri (sp) to their Mozart.. I have all the passion and appreciation but not the talent.

[funfor1life]

I totally agree with your comment..Horowitz was definitly at his best on Rach, Mozart, Chopin...definitely not while performing Beethoven (that does not mean he was bad of course), but let's not forget about his 1st movement on the moonlight, which is undeniably superb! (Up there with Kempff and Rubinstein for example :p)

[helian7]

Sviatoslav Richter to Murray Perahia:

"Why didn't you play the repeat?!"

[anonymousQ45]

why waste time to hear the same segment twice?

[helian7]

Then why waste time to hear it anyway?

[anonymousQ45]

barely any pedal from 0:50 to 1:00. shes so good. excellent preformance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lisalisa0926]

Beautiful pianist, and beautiful performance! Simply amazing!