You'd think the comments here and interaction would be of a higher mind than over at the grunge or rock videos. Not true. Just as petty, rude, obnoxious, and infantile as anywhere on Youtube. I guess if you were never raised with manors or your life is so unfulfilling and you are so selfish as to care not for the negative effect on a fellow human beings, so be it.
valóban a kadencia kicsit beethovenes,de hát a két szerző közel áll egymáshoz,csak azok a zenei barbárok,vetik ezt a szemére ennek a zseninek,akik életükben nem zongoráztak,elméleti mocskok,,,
A pox on Youtube with their retarded and arbitrary time limits. Forcing the uploader of this amazing performance to chop into two parts is a crime. A classical piece is meant to be heard in its entirety!!! I thought Youtube would improve when Google bought them out... innocent me. Anyway, rant over...Thanks tguiot for sharing this remarkable concert.
no sé. tal vez sea que no conozco mucho de música ...pero esta melodía, para mí es lo mejor del mundo. en ella caben todos los instantes. la vida y todos los sueños....gracias Mozart..gracias :(
It is a fact that Mozart would reach out of his own Score and extemporize. Therefore surely to talk of any exact interpretation or definition in his piano concertos is meaningless?
He plays wrong at 2:54-2:55. To many parts changed when interpreted. However hardness is nice but does not seem like my imagination of Mozart playing it. It is more like Beethoven stile.
He plays wrong at 2:54-2:55. To many parts changed when interpreted. However hardness is nice but does not seem like my imagination of Mozart playing it. It is more like Beethoven stile.
@flyavian Yes, it is true that this may be slightly too far for Mozart's interpretation. However, do remember that the time when Mozart wrote this concerto was around the time when he was having conflict with his father, Leopold.it would therefore not be wrong for Gulda to play this concerto with a little more power in this case, as it is possible that Mozart could have been a little depressed at that time. Morever, it was Beethoven's cadenza that he was playing...
he plays and direct like i cook and watch tv! amazing musician playing one of the two greatest musical geniuses of all time (the other being Beethoven of couse)
Gulda's Mozart is very interesting! Where he is playing the concerto of him putting in tutti basso. He is also the ease of his playing piano and conducting a variety, this performance is very unique. I have to watch this play, I'm not just studying piano and conducting, I have also helped composition study.
@S0NNABEND this recording is not available on cd but only in dvd with the Coronation concert n. 26. But of this concert is available on Deustche Grammophon the recording Gulda/Abbado that is the best recording in the history of this minor concert .....
It's kind of interesting how the whole movement sounds so perfectly Mozart, then when it gets to the cadenza, I all of a sudden hear a late Beethoven sonata or something.
"tguiot, you inspired me to write!!!! You want to bla bla bla Gulda????? You are obviously a fucking idiot!!!!! Thank you! YOU make me feel much less insecure. Do you know why????? Cause you are a bitter bitch that has not an idea about music!!!!!! Otherwise you would give us a synopsis of this amazing musick..............Yea, Beethoven wrote the cadenza............why do you think he did that??? Hmmmmmmmmmmm?????????? NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!! "
@tguiot well spoken my friend...i play this concerto and actually beethoven did indeed write this cadenza as well as Brahms wrote one too for it..However I think the Brahms one is a little too far fetched in my opinion....but the beethoven isnt that bad though. we must remember that beethoven broke all the rules and kind of was into neo romanticism since he pretty much broke the classic era and took it to a different whole new level. these guys dont know crap about music.
@filopaa1990 Cadenza begins at 3:08. You can recognize it by the orchestra ending on a dominant chord and by the long solo piano that follows. Also, the end of the cadenza is the moment the orchestra comes back, usually for a short moment, for the conclusion.
@tguiot3:18 . i believe it is not the dominant but the tonica, as a quart-sixth accord, which sounds similarly "incomplete" but someone please correct me if I am wrong. and many thanks for uploading this awesome piece. grooves as hell.
@lopper12345 yes you're right. I was focused on the dominant bass (A) but it is indeed a tonica chord on 2nd position (we can here a F played by the flutes). Plus, a half cadence is almost always what precedes the cadenza, but here is an exception.
@filopaa1990 the word "cadenza" comes from the italian, meaning "cadence". The cadence is a progression of chords that concludes a musical phrase. In this case, the cadence opening the cadenza is a half cadence (ending on V (dominant))
Oh, so many people have this conception of Mozart as this classical period, fragile, perfectly-formed, brittle, porcelain statue - or an especially elegant house of cards, where if you hit one note in the slightest wrong way, the whole thing collapses. Come on, this man was made of flesh and blood -- it's nice to hear a Mozart concerto (D MINOR, no less) that's played with a little fire!
Back when Mozart wrote this concerto, pianists used to improvise their own cadenza to show off their virtuoso qualities. Young Ludwig van Beethoven was considered such an incomparable performer of this Concerto that eventually HIS cadenza became the standard one when interpreting this Concerto. Hats off to Beethoven, as one often forgets what an incredible pianist he was.
Specifically, his improvisations on the piano were supposed to be the greatest display of his incredible talent. It gives us a little insight into part of Beethoven's musical career that we have very little access to, in the context of an already fantastic piece.
As for the missed note: 1. When you can memorize and perform the other 9,000 notes in this piece like he did, and not miss one, then you can criticize. 2. I actually like how the wrong note sounded... you can tell from his body language it was a mistake, but it worked for me harmonically!
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Gulda should really stop performing and just contribute his musical genius to his conducting skills. I have much respect but as a fellow concert pianist who has preformed with some of the greats, he lacks more and more heart each time I see him and it shows in his playing. There is such a lack of human presence in his interprutation through the piano. Genius still... He really should just conduct and leave the playing to the rest of us.
@glatas8891 when this piece needed power, he gave us power... and this piece is more about energy and force.. so for me, he did a good job; anyway i don't think piano is more important than the orchestra and I don't think piano should be played like Chopin all the time (if that's what you mean with the heart stuff you said)
@flaughter lol!! Yes! That's what I love about this perticular piece. He's not in a stuffy tux, he kinda looks like someone's crazy uncle. All the better, like he's a real person.
This is indeed VERY beautyful. Unlike most classical pianists he's not afraid to use the dynamics of the instruments. He's got a very wide dynamic spectra and the soft tone is just excellent. Everything is precicly calculated and thought through.
Also, the timing is excellent, you can tell he's been into jazz music. He's indeed one of the best during 20:th century.
I would have preferred perhaps a bit more restraint in the end of the cadenza - perhaps I'm just too use to the soloist playing those final notes more slowly to build suspense for the grand climax.
This is easily my fav Mozart piece as I prefer the post Beethoven Concerto/Symphony 3 era. I feel this pieces is as emotionally charged and dramatic as that era
@snattack, if I read all those comments I've been asking to myself: "Hey, what's wrong with Gulda? If they aren't able to hear how brilliant he performes as a child of his time....- WHO all those writers are?" - Can they do it "less agressive" or "with more emotions"? Why don't YOU show that you play it much more better and addicted to the score? Didn't conductors like Karajan, Bernstein, Abbado or Klemperer wan't you that you didn't get the publicity Gulda had? Why are YOU feel so sad?
One of the best versions of the K466 I have ever heard. I am astonished. Nonstandard, maybe, but music is there to be rediscovered in new ways. Thank you, Gulda.
To call this person a clown, because he doesn't sound like a robot. He hit a wrong key; forgive him for being a human being! That's exactly why I don't care as much in following the classical music field anymore, because people are so self righteous.
Please name me one person living that can assure me that Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, or Brahms never played a wrong note on the piano. I love classical music, but I hate the pompous competitivness amongst us musicians today.
@das1029 totally agree, people are like "oh, that note is supposed to be played staccato-ed, but he didnt, he's crab", I got so aggravated every time hearing this, especially when the person is playing like crab as well. I don't mean we have to possess the ability before we can criticize, but that just bugs me a lot. Music should be free, and all the articulations or dynamics should be derived from everyone's heart, and that's how music unifies people, rather than restricting people.
I'm always surprised of such comments. One may not like Gulda's playing for personal taste, but calling him a "clown "and his performance "garbage" shows nothing less than deep musical ignorance and a pretentious attitude. And considering 2:55 like the biggest catastrophy ever though it's a mere missed key shows you can't hear the music.
I really don't like arrogant people, especially when they have nothing interesting to say...
I discovered this piece when someone posted a link on the Philadelphia Craigslist ,list rants and raves. Now, we don't usually get such exposure on the site, but I am grateful to the person posting it. Kudos to you for taking time out of your life to post these masterpieces on youtube for all to share. Avante!
@tguiot lmao who knew you were so creative with words to tell someone off :) it's wrong to call any performance weak or "garbage" i agree. My opinion is to just leave the ones that haven't had the privilege to truly feel the music created by these composers, alone. To not be able to apreciate this video must be despairing.
Only a deeply frustrated person can give such an aggressive comment. It is true that this piano performance has a unique jazzy-style.Once you should listen to the same concerto performed by Abbado-Gulda-Weiner philhar and you will realise how great this "clown" was.
It is certainly not the most emotive performance i've ever heard, but it is hardly "garbage". It is this kind of elitism that miseducates the beginner who has come here to learn. That's a fine example of how not to talk about music. The real soul of this work lies in the mind and heart of Mozart. It annoys me how people get so tied up in talking about the interpretation. Oh well, perhaps you could demonstrate for us how to perform that passage while simultaneously conducting a live performance
А эта часть концерта развеивает миф о Моцарте, как о "легком" композиторе. Жизнь его была очень трагичной, музыка говорит сама за себя.Сильное произведение.
Of course Beethoven wrote the cadenza! He became a rock star of a pianist in 1790s Vienna playing this and other Mozart concertos before he was well known as a composer!
Also, people are asking about Beethoven, and how he ties in to this piece. t3hwasabi is correct- Mozart left the Cadenza open, for the most part, as a way for the pianist to improvise. However, due to the fact that hardly anyone is as classically-trained as necessary to full represent Mozart, most pianists use Beethoven's written Cadenza as a basis for their works in this piece.
5:38 Black Widow by Children of Bodom.
HeX4869 4 days ago
Yes yes yes !!!
tototamuz 2 weeks ago
Génial, sublime, transcendant.
Une des plus belles musiques de l'histoire de l'humanité.
Chantal
ChantalPlayPiano 3 weeks ago
ARRRRRGGHHHHHH MINUTE 5.33 JAJAJA
IT´S AMAZING
virtuososevilla 1 month ago
4:35 beast.
bazookars 1 month ago
Very good. Who's his guy anyways?
Andressda26 2 months ago
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sounds like you guys had a funny conversation here:D just to drop the bomb, i think alkans cadenza fits better...
agniky 2 months ago
A 7 engendros de la naturaleza no les gustó este video, están locos!!!
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At least one of the most amazing KV 466 performance ever!
stochausen 4 months ago
At least one of the most amazing KV 466 performance ever!
stochausen 4 months ago
igen tele van zenekritikussal az oldal,én éppen azt szeretem guldában,amit ők kritizálnak
lesliefoy49 4 months ago
GRANDIOSO!!!!!!!! KE CADENZA FINALE MERAVIGLIOSA!!!!!!
emilytransex 5 months ago
7 people who disliked this are retarded...
ahmadokor 5 months ago in playlist mozart piano concerto's 2
Whoever disliked this video should be shot!
MrGoNzObeAtZ 6 months ago
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lol, how can they?! it's impossible to dislike it
mattrwsmith 1 month ago
valóban a kadencia kicsit beethovenes,de hát a két szerző közel áll egymáshoz,csak azok a zenei barbárok,vetik ezt a szemére ennek a zseninek,akik életükben nem zongoráztak,elméleti mocskok,,,
lesliefoy49 6 months ago
@lesliefoy49 Mindenben egyetértek veled. A kadenciáról csak annyit, hogy azért beethovenes, mert maga Beethoven írta ehhez a zongoraversenyhez!
Üdv.
vakareden2345 6 months ago
BRAVO!
intelplatoon 6 months ago
Podría jurar que Beethoven se baso en esta obra maestra para crear la suya: "Fantasía Coral Opus 80".
ElNegoLeal 6 months ago
the best ever mozart you are great and this is the most amazing song i have heard oh
really amazing
TheSammadan 7 months ago
Wow. All i have to say is wow.
Currently learning this. Im 14. Got into laguardia hs!
dandulche 7 months ago
MOZART !
dePossessed 9 months ago
A pox on Youtube with their retarded and arbitrary time limits. Forcing the uploader of this amazing performance to chop into two parts is a crime. A classical piece is meant to be heard in its entirety!!! I thought Youtube would improve when Google bought them out... innocent me. Anyway, rant over...Thanks tguiot for sharing this remarkable concert.
superinfojunkie 9 months ago
no sé. tal vez sea que no conozco mucho de música ...pero esta melodía, para mí es lo mejor del mundo. en ella caben todos los instantes. la vida y todos los sueños....gracias Mozart..gracias :(
oscar11147 9 months ago
I LOVE Gulda!
sirenadellopera 10 months ago
It is a fact that Mozart would reach out of his own Score and extemporize. Therefore surely to talk of any exact interpretation or definition in his piano concertos is meaningless?
saxcoburg 10 months ago
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He plays wrong at 2:54-2:55. To many parts changed when interpreted. However hardness is nice but does not seem like my imagination of Mozart playing it. It is more like Beethoven stile.
flyavian 10 months ago
He plays wrong at 2:54-2:55. To many parts changed when interpreted. However hardness is nice but does not seem like my imagination of Mozart playing it. It is more like Beethoven stile.
flyavian 10 months ago
@flyavian Yes, it is true that this may be slightly too far for Mozart's interpretation. However, do remember that the time when Mozart wrote this concerto was around the time when he was having conflict with his father, Leopold.it would therefore not be wrong for Gulda to play this concerto with a little more power in this case, as it is possible that Mozart could have been a little depressed at that time. Morever, it was Beethoven's cadenza that he was playing...
whneo97 10 months ago
lol larry david is conducting :P
weeno310 11 months ago
I don't think I would feel helped by that kind of conducting tbh.
elroi92 11 months ago
he plays and direct like i cook and watch tv! amazing musician playing one of the two greatest musical geniuses of all time (the other being Beethoven of couse)
hernannews 11 months ago
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intermender 11 months ago
that was truly amazing. the last bit really got me good.
fuckingchaka 1 year ago
I feel a great respect for artists such as Friedrich Gulda
armandoechenique 1 year ago
fabulous
britishpolitics1 1 year ago
the best best gulda ever
123fili123 1 year ago 2
Este concerto faz qualquer um se sentir extremamente humilde diante de uma mente como a de Mozart. Gulda sem dúvida a interpretou como um mestre.
TheNickMS 1 year ago
He makes it look so easy :-)
AlcoholLevel 1 year ago 3
Mozart is my very favorite composer and this Allegro movement is my all time favorite as well! BRAVO!!!
tennismom0416 1 year ago
i heard beethoven and liszt in the cadenza. cool. xD
fortissimo61094 1 year ago
RIP Gulda you were a fuckin beast
motharchodar 1 year ago 5
Gulda's Mozart is very interesting! Where he is playing the concerto of him putting in tutti basso. He is also the ease of his playing piano and conducting a variety, this performance is very unique. I have to watch this play, I'm not just studying piano and conducting, I have also helped composition study.
pianofortegermany 1 year ago
i dont have teh solo part before the end. FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
tehmadbeserker 1 year ago
2:17 fuckin shredd
tehmadbeserker 1 year ago
@ly8606 the cadenza is written by beethoven, so good call!
irenehoogveld 1 year ago
Wow! This ist much more better than the recording with NDR SO. Does anybody know, which recording this is and is avaiable on CD?
S0NNABEND 1 year ago
@S0NNABEND this recording is not available on cd but only in dvd with the Coronation concert n. 26. But of this concert is available on Deustche Grammophon the recording Gulda/Abbado that is the best recording in the history of this minor concert .....
guldalex 1 year ago
it's interesting that I'm playing piano for 14 years and I really disliked Mozart untill i start to learn this concert. I'm in love with this part!!
TheLindamons 1 year ago
How does he manage to play and direct the others at the same time?? He's pretty awesome...
DarkBrute 1 year ago
Brilliant, Mozart.... his genius........ i can feel it, hear it..... amazing!
grotsza 1 year ago 2
un ejemplo entre tantos de por qué Mozart es el mayor genio de la historia. Grande Gulda
carlosLor 1 year ago
wer stöhnt denn da bei 1:44 !? :-)
violinplayer26 1 year ago
It's kind of interesting how the whole movement sounds so perfectly Mozart, then when it gets to the cadenza, I all of a sudden hear a late Beethoven sonata or something.
jojopooo 1 year ago
@jojopooo yeah, he was the best performer of this concerto at a young age and he eventually wrote his own cadenza for it!
alejandrothefader 1 year ago
in de candenza, how he plays those chords, so smoothly from his wrist.. isnt that amazing??
artje123 1 year ago
one of the best interpretation, for one of the best concert composed by Mozart.
jonathan44854 1 year ago
I love the way in which he tells them to be quiet :D
VinciLit 1 year ago
A jazz conductor playing classically. I love it.
evifnoskcaj 1 year ago 3
at least now, everyone will be able to appreciate his great ability to engage a rational conversation with logic and relevant arguments.
tguiot 1 year ago 14
@tguiot what?
cromerbeach 7 months ago
and the best one. beachcomber4141 said:
"tguiot, you inspired me to write!!!! You want to bla bla bla Gulda????? You are obviously a fucking idiot!!!!! Thank you! YOU make me feel much less insecure. Do you know why????? Cause you are a bitter bitch that has not an idea about music!!!!!! Otherwise you would give us a synopsis of this amazing musick..............Yea, Beethoven wrote the cadenza............why do you think he did that??? Hmmmmmmmmmmm?????????? NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!! "
tguiot 1 year ago 11
@tguiot ....what the hell are you talking about? XD
plagueofangels666 1 year ago
@tguiot what did he say to upset you like that? (and what's with beethoven's cadenza???)
plagueofangels666 1 year ago
@tguiot
I can even imagine this guy talking to you face to face :) There's no need for visual proof, actually. Words are quite sufficient :D
VinciLit 1 year ago
@tguiot well spoken my friend...i play this concerto and actually beethoven did indeed write this cadenza as well as Brahms wrote one too for it..However I think the Brahms one is a little too far fetched in my opinion....but the beethoven isnt that bad though. we must remember that beethoven broke all the rules and kind of was into neo romanticism since he pretty much broke the classic era and took it to a different whole new level. these guys dont know crap about music.
benjianubis 2 weeks ago
beachcomber4141 said:
"Let you geniuses figure it out................I have read not a clue."
tguiot 1 year ago 8
To all the youtubers, our dear friend beachcomber4141 has deleted his own comments. But I would like to share his thoughts:
"Morons.......did you not get the beauty of the pain???? And the exact absolution that the pain matters NOT?!!!!"
tguiot 1 year ago 6
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beachcomber4141 1 year ago
Tguio you have something to wrangle with!!!! What are you daring to compare to this???????
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beachcomber4141 1 year ago
forgive my ignorance but i want to learn, when does the cadenza begin? how can i distinguish that from other parts?
filopaa1990 1 year ago
@filopaa1990 Cadenza begins at 3:08. You can recognize it by the orchestra ending on a dominant chord and by the long solo piano that follows. Also, the end of the cadenza is the moment the orchestra comes back, usually for a short moment, for the conclusion.
tguiot 1 year ago
@tguiot 3:18 . i believe it is not the dominant but the tonica, as a quart-sixth accord, which sounds similarly "incomplete" but someone please correct me if I am wrong. and many thanks for uploading this awesome piece. grooves as hell.
lopper12345 1 year ago
@lopper12345 yes you're right. I was focused on the dominant bass (A) but it is indeed a tonica chord on 2nd position (we can here a F played by the flutes). Plus, a half cadence is almost always what precedes the cadenza, but here is an exception.
tguiot 1 year ago
@filopaa1990 the word "cadenza" comes from the italian, meaning "cadence". The cadence is a progression of chords that concludes a musical phrase. In this case, the cadence opening the cadenza is a half cadence (ending on V (dominant))
tguiot 1 year ago
fucking awesome. he got an error at 2:55, but who cares? just beautiful.
Laudan08 1 year ago
@Laudan08 and you don't need to point out his wrong key, just listen ok ??
gcaee 1 year ago
beautiful playing and i find it strange that he conducts as he plays whenever he has hands free. alltogether great.
also, why does he wear that hat thing?
cutechocobos 1 year ago
Oh, so many people have this conception of Mozart as this classical period, fragile, perfectly-formed, brittle, porcelain statue - or an especially elegant house of cards, where if you hit one note in the slightest wrong way, the whole thing collapses. Come on, this man was made of flesh and blood -- it's nice to hear a Mozart concerto (D MINOR, no less) that's played with a little fire!
despina41 1 year ago 4
ooooooooh Mozart!!!!
camposi 1 year ago
more and more I think "MOZART IS THE THING!
camposi 1 year ago
bravo maestro
gugunchik 1 year ago
why don't all just focus on the music?
littlesalvo000 1 year ago
Back when Mozart wrote this concerto, pianists used to improvise their own cadenza to show off their virtuoso qualities. Young Ludwig van Beethoven was considered such an incomparable performer of this Concerto that eventually HIS cadenza became the standard one when interpreting this Concerto. Hats off to Beethoven, as one often forgets what an incredible pianist he was.
Allegro11Maestoso 1 year ago
@Allegro11Maestoso
Specifically, his improvisations on the piano were supposed to be the greatest display of his incredible talent. It gives us a little insight into part of Beethoven's musical career that we have very little access to, in the context of an already fantastic piece.
FruitMeate 1 year ago
As for the missed note: 1. When you can memorize and perform the other 9,000 notes in this piece like he did, and not miss one, then you can criticize. 2. I actually like how the wrong note sounded... you can tell from his body language it was a mistake, but it worked for me harmonically!
beakt 1 year ago 2
@beakt haha i thought i was the only one who actually liked sound of that "wrong" note. Its kinda refreshing and unexpected :))
miabg 1 year ago
Such powerfull majestic music. Horrible, scary and breathtaking!
HerrWarja 1 year ago
Yeah , and that's a live performance, and a very lively one :D
alentoure 1 year ago
Brawo Gulda
farhadkaj 1 year ago
I didn't know Larry David could play the piano.
PorroFirst 1 year ago
He is now conducting and playing for God's delight only, in His heavens...
sauxenoy 2 years ago 3
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Gulda should really stop performing and just contribute his musical genius to his conducting skills. I have much respect but as a fellow concert pianist who has preformed with some of the greats, he lacks more and more heart each time I see him and it shows in his playing. There is such a lack of human presence in his interprutation through the piano. Genius still... He really should just conduct and leave the playing to the rest of us.
glatas8891 2 years ago
@glatas8891 Idiot.
MrChofee 2 years ago
@glatas8891 when this piece needed power, he gave us power... and this piece is more about energy and force.. so for me, he did a good job; anyway i don't think piano is more important than the orchestra and I don't think piano should be played like Chopin all the time (if that's what you mean with the heart stuff you said)
DiazdelVivar 1 year ago
awesome
BuchaBe 2 years ago
On of the best classical pieces ever!
Long live Mozart!
KarlNerman 2 years ago 32
@KarlNerman and Long live Beethoven too!
Allegro11Maestoso 1 year ago
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Aggree... just listen to Andras Schiff video of the mtv 3...
adriathan1994 2 years ago
He is the best of best,,bravo Gulda
farhadkaj 2 years ago 3
SUBLIME
justicewithasword 2 years ago
The chord at 2:54 doesn't sound right or is it me?
lucancherby 2 years ago
great version,,,Gulda ,,,He's indeed one of the best during 20:th century.
farhadkaj 2 years ago 3
great version, gulda kinda looks like larry david which makes it a little better still
flaughter 2 years ago 3
@flaughter lol!! Yes! That's what I love about this perticular piece. He's not in a stuffy tux, he kinda looks like someone's crazy uncle. All the better, like he's a real person.
duffshot81 2 years ago 2
brawo Gulda,,Brawo this is the Best
farhadkaj 2 years ago 3
"if you want it done right, you've got to do it yourself!!"
DW282828 2 years ago 31
Thank you! What a nice playing Mozazrt concerto!
iranuma 2 years ago
was macht der da? hahaha
kwastormayt 2 years ago
this is a very aggressive reading of Mozart 20, and the sound of his right hand is at times harsh.
It's not as "beautiful" as some readings, but overall, is very compelling and powerful
Sim882 2 years ago 3
This is indeed VERY beautyful. Unlike most classical pianists he's not afraid to use the dynamics of the instruments. He's got a very wide dynamic spectra and the soft tone is just excellent. Everything is precicly calculated and thought through.
Also, the timing is excellent, you can tell he's been into jazz music. He's indeed one of the best during 20:th century.
snattack 2 years ago 7
I would have preferred perhaps a bit more restraint in the end of the cadenza - perhaps I'm just too use to the soloist playing those final notes more slowly to build suspense for the grand climax.
This is easily my fav Mozart piece as I prefer the post Beethoven Concerto/Symphony 3 era. I feel this pieces is as emotionally charged and dramatic as that era
Sim882 2 years ago
@snattack, if I read all those comments I've been asking to myself: "Hey, what's wrong with Gulda? If they aren't able to hear how brilliant he performes as a child of his time....- WHO all those writers are?" - Can they do it "less agressive" or "with more emotions"? Why don't YOU show that you play it much more better and addicted to the score? Didn't conductors like Karajan, Bernstein, Abbado or Klemperer wan't you that you didn't get the publicity Gulda had? Why are YOU feel so sad?
1hakon 2 years ago
orchestra phenominal
Gulda epic!
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The problem with Guida's interpretation is that he is tense almost every note, like someone always anxiety ridden and possibly on drugs.
freeqwerqwer 2 years ago
Gulda utiliza en este cooncierto la cadencia de L v Beethoven ^^ bravo Gulda ^^
gijondani 2 years ago
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This is MOZART? Sounds more like Prokofieff. All hammer & tongs. Poor piano. Poor Mozart.
StephenChin1 2 years ago
Cierto que machaca el piano, no obstante, la interpretación es excelente.
gijondani 2 years ago
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You are stupid... YOU are POOR, in your heart.
RonaiHenrik 2 years ago
Can anyone tell me what happens at 2:51? Does he mess up?
felipedjg 2 years ago
Could be :)
But such things happens to every pro
ClaptonDennis 2 years ago
definitely, but it grooves as hell
lopper12345 2 years ago
wow this guy is really flawless on the piano.. what a marvelous composition by mozart... i wish i could have met him
dunngar 2 years ago 3
I just can't belive how indescribable this piece is ...
immph 2 years ago 4
A wonderful performance of No. 20.
Gulda here can be directly contrasted with Karl Bohm and Pollini's Mozart Piano Concerti.
Both are wonderful, but Gulda's the drama, the nuances, while Pollini's the balance and the fluidity.
Cissy97 2 years ago
f. gulda was one of the best ( in the best) interpetor of Mozart and Bach piano music.
pianomarian 2 years ago 3
Great! You can listen to it when you 're matured in a musical way....
1hakon 2 years ago
One of the best versions of the K466 I have ever heard. I am astonished. Nonstandard, maybe, but music is there to be rediscovered in new ways. Thank you, Gulda.
calinaress 2 years ago
Oh Mozart...
no more works...
alevulgare 2 years ago
I don't really know much about classical music, but I love this piece, and as you said, who cares if he made a mistake?
HpFellow 3 years ago
To call this person a clown, because he doesn't sound like a robot. He hit a wrong key; forgive him for being a human being! That's exactly why I don't care as much in following the classical music field anymore, because people are so self righteous.
Please name me one person living that can assure me that Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, or Brahms never played a wrong note on the piano. I love classical music, but I hate the pompous competitivness amongst us musicians today.
das1029 3 years ago 45
@ das1029
You're absolutely right!
1hakon 2 years ago
@das1029 totally agree, people are like "oh, that note is supposed to be played staccato-ed, but he didnt, he's crab", I got so aggravated every time hearing this, especially when the person is playing like crab as well. I don't mean we have to possess the ability before we can criticize, but that just bugs me a lot. Music should be free, and all the articulations or dynamics should be derived from everyone's heart, and that's how music unifies people, rather than restricting people.
lch830lcc 1 year ago
@das1029
I Concur, I like music with a soul, with human essence; what people think as a wrong note to the person might be his soul speaking through the piece!
WarriorZen 1 year ago
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B14cKL0g1C 3 years ago
and i was the first one to click thumb-down.
I'm always surprised of such comments. One may not like Gulda's playing for personal taste, but calling him a "clown "and his performance "garbage" shows nothing less than deep musical ignorance and a pretentious attitude. And considering 2:55 like the biggest catastrophy ever though it's a mere missed key shows you can't hear the music.
I really don't like arrogant people, especially when they have nothing interesting to say...
tguiot 3 years ago 22
I discovered this piece when someone posted a link on the Philadelphia Craigslist ,list rants and raves. Now, we don't usually get such exposure on the site, but I am grateful to the person posting it. Kudos to you for taking time out of your life to post these masterpieces on youtube for all to share. Avante!
godbluffvdgg 2 years ago
@tguiot lmao who knew you were so creative with words to tell someone off :) it's wrong to call any performance weak or "garbage" i agree. My opinion is to just leave the ones that haven't had the privilege to truly feel the music created by these composers, alone. To not be able to apreciate this video must be despairing.
xWatChYouRHeaDx 1 year ago
Only a deeply frustrated person can give such an aggressive comment. It is true that this piano performance has a unique jazzy-style.Once you should listen to the same concerto performed by Abbado-Gulda-Weiner philhar and you will realise how great this "clown" was.
vakareden2345 3 years ago
It is certainly not the most emotive performance i've ever heard, but it is hardly "garbage". It is this kind of elitism that miseducates the beginner who has come here to learn. That's a fine example of how not to talk about music. The real soul of this work lies in the mind and heart of Mozart. It annoys me how people get so tied up in talking about the interpretation. Oh well, perhaps you could demonstrate for us how to perform that passage while simultaneously conducting a live performance
clevernickname70 3 years ago 5
yeah, mesmerizing, too.
mouneeray 3 years ago
A harsh mistake in 2:55, but still a great performance
erunilmo 3 years ago
WHOOOOAAAW...... What a f*cking piece of nice mistake finder we have here.... Bravo to you..!!
erunilmo - Gulda : 0 - 1
Do you have some other comment interesting like this??
If not... Thank you...
dusanholy 3 years ago
Только самые виртуозные музыканты могут исполнить произведение Моцарта, конечно, Браво, Брависсимо! А музыка -нет слов. Пробирает до слез.
nat4778 3 years ago
Bravo.
bassisthank 3 years ago 3
Моцарт-мой любимый композитор!
А эта часть концерта развеивает миф о Моцарте, как о "легком" композиторе. Жизнь его была очень трагичной, музыка говорит сама за себя.Сильное произведение.
Tane4ka77 3 years ago 2
da. I think so too Tane4ka77.
His music does indeed mirror his life.
TheEricist 3 years ago 2
Absolutely :)
immph 3 years ago
Très belle interprétation, mais je note une petite "erreur" d'accord entre 2"55 et 2"57.
mmemusquin 3 years ago
Yeah, and I remember now that Mozart did NOT write a cadenza for this one, as well as a lot of his later concertos
t3hwasabi 3 years ago
Of course Beethoven wrote the cadenza! He became a rock star of a pianist in 1790s Vienna playing this and other Mozart concertos before he was well known as a composer!
InterlochenFan 3 years ago 3
man this is so funny this guy looks like larry david i keep picturing larry from curb ur enthusiasm performing this
requiemaeternam7 3 years ago
mozart für immer (for ever)
physikphilosoph 3 years ago 3
love it long live mozart
beethomozart 3 years ago
It's amazing what he can do, but I do believe his phrase endings are often harsh.
murpheeplaysflute 3 years ago 4
mozart is more modern than any nowadays composer. I mean rythm, harmony and picture of melody
tapuchiko 3 years ago 6
The first time I ever attempted suicide, I was listening to this piece.
Markohoppis 3 years ago
lol if that was a joke.. i liked it.. and u said piece!.. if not.. well im sorry to hear that.
misotoma 3 years ago
The worst thing you can do is buy a bottle of whiskey, a 45., and Mozart's Requiem Mass.
That's a recipe for suicide if I've ever seen one. Of course, it wouldn't hurt if your girlfriend or boyfriend cheated on you the day prior.
Markohoppis 3 years ago
I thought The Doors' "The End" fit in there somewhere......
HumbleAntagonist 3 years ago
how? can you please explain? im a big doors fan, and im just curious by what you meant by that statement...
heartlz555 3 years ago
Sorry, I meant that as a response to Markohoppis
Also, people are asking about Beethoven, and how he ties in to this piece. t3hwasabi is correct- Mozart left the Cadenza open, for the most part, as a way for the pianist to improvise. However, due to the fact that hardly anyone is as classically-trained as necessary to full represent Mozart, most pianists use Beethoven's written Cadenza as a basis for their works in this piece.
HumbleAntagonist 3 years ago
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In all seriousness though, that's interesting, I'd never heard about that before.
Maphysto 3 years ago
Wonderful!!!I love it!!!
albymarchi87 3 years ago
interesting cadenza...
Appassionata90 3 years ago
that's the most famous cadenza ever written ya dick. written by the man after whom you're named (appassionata) BEETHOVEN.
requiemaeternam7 3 years ago 2