Beethoven Piano Sonata #4 in E-flat major part 1

[nikkystyx]

Beethoven was really a genius. I love Leonard Bernstein's chats about Beethoven Sonatas. They are inspiring and he's right in saying that Beethoven always knew which note had to come next.

[Sviolinist]

This truly is the best sonata ever

[HSammyE]

I just searched for a random Beethoven Sonata-number, and I found this! Amazing! But really, why am I surprised?

[Rachman1337]

Only like the best Sonata EVER!

[Prestothemusic]

I don't get it though, Beethoven looks like a noble man, I can't understand why Beethoven never found a date!

It's because in the 1800's women only cared about how rich the man was!!!

Not by how smart or how much he's a genius.

Great song, one of my favorite sonatas.

[borrachoPerdido75]

@Prestothemusic Some things change, some stay the the same.

[colorfulssmile]

@Prestothemusic LOLOL i did my biography report on beethoven! i was amazed, too. he was such an awesomely genius person. but he was very temperamental and clingy XD

[A8opi]

I love this sonata, is sooo wonderful ! i cry every time i hear it

[pieerreon]

i dont like Ashkenazy. but this performance is very nice.

[pcma1970]

Wonderful

[SonofDostojevskij]

The more you listens to Beethovens piano sonatas the more you anderstand yeast how great masterpieces every singel one of them is.

[booy6451]

Thanks Nick!

[Rachmaninov12123]

Those Octaves are so easy to play .

[jambratz]

you're an idiot

[jambratz]

Great octaves. I always find the hardest part about this pieces is not sounding too stacatto in the octaves. Amazing performance of an underplayed sonata

[Sviolinist]

@jambratz If you've ever heard or played on a fortepiano then you would realize that it's almost impossible not to sound staccato on the octaves =) But, yes, Beethoven would have wanted it as legato as possible.

[parule]

Who plays this?

[ccamilotorres]

@parule vladimir ashkenazy

[johnharmer1953]

I really enjoyed this performance. I worried as it started so fast, but you pulled it off, and it is marked allegro molto after all. I enjoyed the way you made the piano grunt and bark in the sforzandi, and so delicate and light in the piano passages. Thanks so much.