Beethoven - Trio op.1 - Kempff, Szeryng, Hölscher - PART 3

[grab1piece]

Why sound like first year students' rehearsal?

[buxter]

Weird surroundings... and Szeryng hacks. Sorry, but it's true.

[chrish12345]

@buxter Agreed, also listen to how bad Kempf is - please tell me why people rate him as a great pianist?

[ipmoic]

Thanks for your note mikejr1387--but you misunderstood my remark. Haydn DID admire this work but advised Beethoven against publication because he felt the audiences would not understand it. Remember this was Beethoven's first work with opus number.

Haydn was just giving a sage man's advice. No surprise that Beethoven didn't take it!

[ipmoic]

All the tempi here are on the slow side. This early, yet musically mature, work of Beethoven, (much admired by Haydn) would seem to call for a brisker, livelier approach throughout.

Good music making but certainly on the stodgy side--not only lack of speed but lack of vibrant urgency.

[swanningaround]

I think it is just wonderful. The slower style, as you say, give the work a more pensive and introsepective quality.

[claude69mama]

swanningaround go to other videos and fight with kids and children trying to listen to christmas music.. go check out maruah carey silent night and joy to the world.

[swanningaround]

@claude69mama Fight with kids? I merely said that Mariah Carey is not for me the greatest human being that ever walked the planet. I stand by that.

[niintuli]

I'm surprised you think this. Tovey says somewhere that when B. writes prestissimo it is important not to take it fast - this absolutely applies here. For an Opus 1 this piece is remarkably more than an adolescent romp, with many aspects of elegance and even a sort of nostalgia, all of which could easily get lost if it is rushed.

[oatboy]

Good call. The musicianship is really top notch, but the approach is very old school and not very historically informed.

[mikejr41387]

Wasn't it this trio that Haydn advised Beethoven not to publish, stirring a feud between them that caused Beethoven to abandon his studies w/ Haydn? Yes, i think you have your facts mixed up, sorry!

[paulostroff99]

Gorgeous! Bravo! TY.

[galapz]

Superb. Thank you

[Alucinoria]

I just have to stop doing any other things to watch and listen!! Thanks so much for uploading the video!!

[tituscaesar]

thank you so much for uploading this wonderful work! may i make an interesting point though:

part 1 views: 10,838

part 2 6,910

part 3 5,703

what can we infer from the above? the short attention span of your average youtube viewer. it's a trend I have often noticed with other classical music videos if they have more than one part...hehe

[swanningaround]

tituscaesar. I love them all, and have favorited them all. The trio are all master practioners. Szeryng is a personal favorite of mine. I don't know much about Hölscher, but am definitely impressed. Naturally Kempff's name appeared in nearly every DG recording in the 70s.

[violinist102]

What movement is played at the beginning of this part?

[holzfaellen]

This is terrible. Nobody would like their playing, if they wouldn't know, that Kempff and co. are the interpreters.

[narrog7]

lol go home

[kundalini76]

Please enlighten me as to how it is, in your opinion 'terrible'. Your comments are worthless and foolish if you cannot qualify them. Say something itelligent or else be silent!

[holzfaellen]

Ach, ich weiß gar nicht, womit ich überhaupt beginnen sollte. Vielleicht damit, dass Beethoven den Satz mit "Prestissimo" überschrieb und vorallem damit, dass sich Kempff gleich zu Beginn völlig verspielt und nichtmal die richtigen Töne trifft? Wie wäre es damit? Im übrigen habe ich eine Version dieses Satzes hochgeladen, den ich für w e s e n t l i c h gelungener halte.

[elias12186]

Wtf? This is what they interpret to be prestissimo?

[classicmusic08]

love them all.

[musicdivinemusic]

SergeiReiter-many tx for this trio, but perhaps you could post the 3 movements in a single video? You can hear the entire 7th Symphony in a single video here in YouTube (33 minutes), so maybe? This trio is so beautiful, it's a shame to interrupt it abruptly at the end of each movement.

[macpaz]

Add them to your playlist or favorites and simply click on auto play. That way the unterruption won't be too irritating.

[ipmoic]

Wasn't it Haydn who said that the public would understand the first 2 trios of Opus I, but were not yet ready for the Trio performed here??

[musicdivinemusic]

Marvellous! Many tx for this series of 3 videos with the complete trio. I'm enjoying this one enormously!

[musikgeni]

I love Kempff

[Pianoman1770]

SAME HERE! KEMPFF ROX!