Songs Without Words Op19 1 Felix Mendelssohn

[TeachingCallOfDuty]

Magic Piano App made me love this.

[swimadidas]

@TeachingCallOfDuty Me too. It's so beautiful.

[PASM0I]

@TeachingCallOfDuty I know, right? Ha!

[LedZeppQueenBeatles]

We play this in my orchestra! I love when the violas have melody

[saltburner2]

This is surely Livia Rev [b. 1916, and still playing in her 90s]. Her name should be up there in the headine credits. Her Hyperion set of the complete Songs without Words has been re-issued on their bargain Dyad label, and should be in every piano collection.

[LadyMagnolia90]

Beautiful! I may be mistaken, but I think i've heard this recording before and it was played by Werner Haas... But it was years ago so I'm not sure...

[zanymusicgirl13]

Wow wonderful! I love this piece! It's beautiful!

[OGPromusica]

could you say who is the pianist playing this piece?

[balinausten]

thumbs up if nodame cantabile bought you here <3

[saunsnaen]

wonderful playing

[julienbencze]

Mendelssohn

Songs without Words

LÍVIA RÉV (piano)

Hyperion records

Recording: April 1986

Release date: March 1997



[romm28]

I'm pretty sure that is Murray Perahia.

[ippy65angel70]

I fell in love with Livia Rev's performance of these pieces about 25 years ago, wrote to her and visited with her in the South of France, even played piano for her. She's magnificent. If this is she, it's just as I remember it. I'm still playing these pieces but

I about 10 leagues removed from her.

ellen

[N3H3C]

Excellent phrasing and tempo in this version ... whoever the pianist is has great style and technique

[alexandros967]

i like it !!!!!!

[demarezmichel]

Un autre beau morceau de Mendelssohn que nous avons adapté pour duo

Michel et Jean

[LDNisILuvCorndogs]

I love this song. It's taken me about three months to get the first 3 pages (of 17) to half that speed. Got to love Mendelssohn!

[jennybean12000]

Oh my goodness, how BEAUTIFUL!!

[RemovdSande11]

timeless...

[julienbencze]

It's Livia Rév playing

[Krono45]

Great song. I heard it on public radio and then looked it up here.

[jewish1972]

a bit too quickly, slower sounds better

[Nightshading]

é svete om numansk dir om liate

xx

[bernieholland775]

Did you know that in the 1840s the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel held special music soirees at his house in Kensington, London - and one of his regular guests was Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy who would play his latest compositions on the piano - what a time that must have been !

[ObliviousIkuto]

Beautiful nothing else describes it just beautiful.. simple and complex at the same time... If the pianist play with emotion its complex but if he/she plays it out of a book with no feelings is a simple piece

[paulostroff99]

Lovely playing!

[colourfulwithaU]

Yo, Felix, sweet song. Come back to life and write more music.

[danedaworld]

wheres fanny? come back to life and write more music for colourfulwithaU

[LuisCangueiroMusic]

Check out my new symphony on my channel, if you like classical music this one will probably a very interesting piece, I believe.

[brianbela]

@colourfulwithaU You should check out this guy named Brian McCarthy---He wrotes some pretty sweet music.

[colourfulwithaU]

@brianbela

Clever spam, but it's still spam.

[brianbela]

@colourfulwithaU Well,go check him out and you'll see that its true.

[MyMoonLitDreams]

@colourfulwithaU I'm sure if Felix heard a yo he would die of confusion once he came back to life. So use proper language.

[colourfulwithaU]

@MyMoonLitDreams

For someone who gripes and whines about the proper use of language, you sure are deaf to language development. Don't be an ass. 'Yo' wasn't a greeting in the 19th century, but it is now. Deal with it, and grow the fuck up.

[saulboyjt]

Such Beauty from Mendelssohn the world's greatest composer ever.

[rawautube]

World's greatest composer? I don't think in music you can say that this composer was greater than this one,Iit's extremely relative to me.

[shunnehling]

I agree. It's like saying the world's greatest food. It's different for everybody. For example, I would say that the greatest composer would be Joe Hisaishi since his music contains so much raw emotion.

[wbfulton]

This was the opening piece on the first "real" recital I ever went to. I was only fourteen, but after hearing the first few phrases, I knew my life would never be the same again.

[yiyiku]

such is the power of music. your statement reminds me of a quote i recently found:

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) American novelist and journalist.

[Ciampolo86]

....Capocchia...ogni volta che ascolto questa canzone.......ti amo...

[EnigmaWalk]

@22reepicheep we are doing that song in band :P :P

[mrhappyman23]

such an amazing peace of music

[philippemadec]

Im doin this for grade 5 alsol:-)

Its sooo nice and its not that hard:-)

[williamvirkis]

This is really really nice!!

[Ggirl91]

this is on for 2009 pianoforte grade 5 Royal Irish Academy of Music.....i'm playing it if i can get my fingers to stretch....hopefully with the pedal i'll get away with the fact that my fingers cant stretch more than an octave.

[chloelovescats]

ha ha, keep going! I hope you will succeed!

[agustinmorante]

chevere

[stan724]

It is written somewhere, I don't recall where, that Chopin admired t his piece very much.

[jarledes]

I wish you knew where! I would love to read what Chopin said about it.

[1sun1moon1]

According to Halle [Life and Letters of Sir Charles Halle Being an Autobiography (1819-1860) with Correspondence and Diaries, London, Smith & Elder, 1896] Chopin called this piece

a song of the purest virginal beauty and I certainly can not deny this claim!

Cheers

[wirwe]

i can play this too^^ but i can't do it so fast, that's so difficult.

but this pianist interpreted it very well. i llike the dynamic and the tempo rubato^^

and sorry i don't unterstand why people who don't like classic listen to it and think they have to comment it. ...

[felicienne38]

did you find the name of the pianist who´s playing ? I like it :-)

[stan724]

It's played beautifully, but by whom?

[leasticoulddo]

Might be András Schiff playing, but I am not sure. Either way his interpretation is really good tempo wise.

[22reepicheep]

I wondered the same thing...also wondered who played in the video response, which is a clearer version...

[PescadoDelBaston]

Oh, I always thought only people that aren't intolerant or dumb would listen to classical music, because they give a shit on what others think about that genre. Thanks to naruto00000000imgonnawritemuch­more0000000 I know better now. Thank you.

But just one thing: You are no person, who should talk about ape-intelligence comments, because - to use your words - you seem to be a monkey, too .-.

Er, well, in my eyes Mendelssohn is one of the best composers ever, happy 200., Felix :D

[janinchen1992]

sorry: composer not compositor...xD

[janinchen1992]

oh it is so beautiful and i would never call such a great compositor or a melody like this one "trash" or "shit"...

[emoshadowspast]

If there were more people like

Naruto00000000, the world would be a sad place indeed. Why look up/listen to a song if you hate it and think it's bullshit? It's a perfectly nice song.

[papenfussanator]

what a nice conversation for such a peaceful song haha

[SamuriOfWar]

Dude shut up... your aggressiveness at a simple question is far more embarrassing to musicians such as myself

[maimrozek]

Excellent. Thank you so much for sharing!

[ILoveTobin]

He was my favorite to play, also this song - fantastic!

And listening to him is as enjoying as playing.

[kylepepper7]

im playing him in a play

hes amazing

[painlesshorror]

I'm playing this at the moment, and every time I do it takes my breath away!

This is such an elegant performance of this. I hate it when it's performed to fast, because you loose the harmonic beauty.

Perfect!

[Rephrat]

Well,i still prefer the Heifetz arrangement and his performance,to watch on this great YouTube !!!!!

[invention13]

Wish I knew who this is playing. Whoever it is, is tasteful, technically very proficient and not the least bit interested in showing off. It reminds me a bit of Murray Perahia.

Beautiful!

[saulboyjt]

So beautiful.

I used to play this work, one of my fav songs without of words by Mendelssohn.

I consider him the greatest composer ever.

[the1337fleet]

Did you just reply to yourself?

[gmlch]

sublime

[sabibu]

are you sure it's Nishizaki??? I thought she is a violinist...

[bgdreamer]

u are correct, i am wrong. appologies. i guess my source is incomplete

[bgdreamer]

u are correct, i am wrong. appologies. i guess my source is incomplete

[sabibu]

I wish I knew who is playing...

[irontoad123]

A human

10 fingers

2.8*100billion neurons

[sabibu]

ok thanks. now I know what to refer to when I search for it in amazon ;)

[julienbencze]

@sabibu

it's Livia Rév playing

[MrJanis1964]

@sabibu Looks like playing Lívia Rév

[pianistlover2008]

who plays? he or she plays fantastic!

[bgdreamer]

Takako Nishizaki

[svenno0007]

@bgdreamer so she?