ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI - CLAUDE DEBUSSY - CHILDREN´S CORNER

[Owliebear]

He makes it look so easy.. -_-

[geuros]

Michelangeli once had played to Ravel, and he played him Gaspard de la Nuit. Do you know, what Ravel said? "That's it! This is percisely the way I meant it!" Michelangeli was almost extraterrestrial.

[PaoloPacitti]

Che magia questa interpretazione di Benedetti Michelangeli.

[battlecafe]

Sorry for the vote... Do not count -1



[huddsskin]

The definitive interpretor of Debussy. I love Cortot but this guy takes the biscuit...simply magical...I have faith in humanity again after hearing him play. Such a joy!

[Chateaubriand26]

Michelangeli est définitivement le plus grand interprète de la musique de Debussy. Ils sont indissociables, et autant j'ai du mal quand il interprète les romantiques, autant les impressionnistes lui vont comme un gant.

[berlinzerberus]

Yes, but I heard both, the first prize winner Gilels and the seventh prize winner Benedetti Michelangeli more than once live in concert and that were facts! Fact is also that ABM earned the first prize in the Geneva Piano Competition only one year later, he was acclaimed by Cortot as a new Liszt.

I am also a huge fan of Emil Gilels and also of Moura Lympany of course, but comparing to Michelangeli...well that´s what i mean with perfection 'plus', things that can hardly be explained rationally.

[berlinzerberus]

Thank you for pointing that out, corrected!

[berlinzerberus]

Nein, die Preisverleihung in einem internationalen Wettbewerb sagt im allgemeinen recht wenig über die künstlerische Aura und die musikalische Potenz eines Pianisten aus, weil außermusikalische Dinge wie Durchhaltevermögen, sportives Athlentum und Nervenstärke so wichtig werden. Den Grad der künstlerischen Reife, des Charismas und der Persönlichkeitsbildung eines ABM haben weder Gilels noch Mme. Lympany jemals erreicht. Was ein Wettbewerb wert ist, zeigt der Chopin Compet.1980 u Ivo Pogorelich!

[TheShredworthy]

My favorite interpreter of Debussy's brilliancy 

[GiulioMa]

Immenso Michelangeli.



[marioguidoscappucci]

...E pensare che questa meraviglia non è che l'ombra, il "bianco e nero" dell'inesauribile arcobaleno creato dalla magia pianistica michelangeliana. Eppure questa immagine sonora tanto imperfetta e carente nel restituirci, conservandolo per sempre, un miracolo, ne perpetua in eterno la sua eco deflagrante nelle nostre coscienze.

Thank you king Arthur!

[Sarrussophone]

Magnifique, très belle version. Merci à vous.

[soami2u]

Fantastic video! Michelangeli, in a quiet and understated way, illuminates a masterpiece...should be seen and studied by all students of great piano playing.

[berlinzerberus]

..in fact, Soami!!

greetings

[paulprocopolis]

Marvellous pianistic control and colour, captured during the pianist's best years.

[The55555SSSSS]

MICHELANGELI  <---------------- GENIUS !

[Dankbarkeit1980]

Einmalig!

[berlinzerberus]

..yes,indeed!

there are many so called perfect pianists but, what a pity, boring and reduced to the technical aspects of the piano playing. Michelangeli was perfection p l u s, admittedly he practised 8 - 10 hours a day, but when he played in public, one could really think he played a certain composition for the first time, being in accordance with all musical and technical parameters. so he was in the proper meaning of the word 'perfect', we shall never meet such a phenomenon like him probably.