Beethoven Sonata Op. 81 A Les Adieux 1st mvt

[grocheo1]

un vero signore

[brandonscherrer]

Awesome! I love this sonata and you played it beautifully!

[ellinaaaxo]

This makes me want to learn to play the piano.

I love Beethoven

[bpapao]

@ellinaaaxo follow your dreams! or... be a fool living in ilusion

[ellinaaaxo]

I agree, this must be one of the more difficult sonatas but you played it BRILLIANTLY

[INFINITYWAY]

Loved to much.......wonderfoul

[javiertw89]

This is one of my favourite Beethoven sonatas.

[ciliaspippi]

ahh, the first allegro theme is so beautiful

[Edbrye2008]

Sensitive playing...#5.

[ciliaspippi]

And he's playing a Steinway!

[ynnek12pd]

i think the appasionata is harder

[shadishadyshadi]

i like the 3rd movement better

[ettml]

and who cares???

[ciliaspippi]

I can't believe your being a classico nazi! I love the music of both Chopin AND Beethoven. Chopins Ballades and this Sonata are both on the hardest syllabus of examinations for piano. So they are both hard. And anyway, even playing, in one of the lower grades, a beethoven sonata op 10 no 2, 'Beethoven Technique" is needed. His pieces don't look or sound hard, but w3hen you play them, you realise so much fine control is needed. So stop it!

[platmosic]

Ok lets get out of the Nazi thing, they two don't even know who hitler is. When discussing the difficulty of a piece, there are two sides of it. One is the technique, while the other is the interpretation. We all know how technically demanding Beethoven's Sonatas are, but what makes a more appealling (note: there isn't really a "better" one in those levels imo) version would be the player him/herself. The audio here doesn't work very well, but I believe the playing is great.

[egrantsouth]

that was a gorgeous interpretation. thanks for posting that!

[fuckedupdevilangel]

lovely performance!

a little more facial expression perhaps? =)

[Velenore]

1:30-1:38 My favorite moment!

[RedRiverUnderTheMoon]

Same here:)

[Phantapia]

great! I love your playing this so difficult sonata!!!

[ciliaspippi]

yes, they say this is one of beethoven's most difficult

[esmeraldieva]

beautiful and so sad, like the sonata is it

[anaperezventura]

Congratulations!

[organman52]

This is beautiful, poised playing. Mr. Gallagher plays with superb understanding of the music. He has a lovely piano sound. He clearly loves what he is doing and works very hard to meet Beethoven's high standards. Bravo. I wonder why he didn't take the repeat of the exposition - it's not that lengthy.

[mariusfelix]

@organman52 When Brahms himself was conducting his own Symphony, he was asked, why he didn't take the repeat of he exposition, and answered: Don't you know it yet? Reported by Celibidache

[organman52]

@mariusfelix What on earth does a lengthy Brahms symphony exposition have to do with the Beethoven op. 81a?

[h4x3dby1337]

I am falling in love with that opening.

[schunkeone]

I admire this young pianist's playing of this difficult work. As I mentioned in the video of the 2nd and 3rd movements, the opening Adagio should NOT be identical in tempo to the faster 2nd movement Andante.

[ioiomusic15]

les adieux means goodbye(forever)....in romania it means adio......

[AmelieP85]

Magnifique ! Une très grande maîtrise et un calme remarquable pour cette sonate qui ne tombe pas du tout sous les doigts ! Bravo !

[ioanapiano]

you can actually feel him saying good-bye...the battle with your inside when you say good-bye....you are saying the words but you don't feel them...beautiful

[pianomaven321]

This mvt. has moments of emotional detatchment, where Beethoven suddenly takes a step back from the painful "Goodbye", and quitely sees the world from a distance, and finds consolation this way (in the middle and at the end of the mvt.). I feel Mr. Gallagher captured these visionary and philosophical moments quite admirably.

[pianomaven321]

Miecyslaw, you hear glib, shallow and unemotional. I hear one of the finest young talents of his generation. Here is depth and understanding, but also patriarchal assurance beyond his years, a quality rare among younger pianists these days, and which I suspect is what you are mistaking for "bloodless". Here, I feel, is playing of supreme control, coupled with penetrating beauty.

[semprelegato]

wow great interpretation. you are very musical and you have a very sensitive ear. just like me! haha! may i ask you you study with and what college you attend? i am in high school and i am going to major in piano but i don't know a whole lot of great teachers out there. thanks!

[semprelegato]

woah nevermind you went to Rice University and Julliard. no wonder you're good! :]

[ciliaspippi]

a conservatory is also pretty good, fiy uo want to study music performance

[Philistine79]

Yeah, I agree with Nashville. The octaves should be played with more power.But overall that was well-played ! Great !

[semprelegato]

yeah you have a beautiful tone too! Awesome.

[skg1991]

Comments left on 2nd and 3rd Mov. video

[nashvillepianoman]

A great performance! A little on the conservative side. I'd like to see him let loose and get a little closer to "the edge." There is never a true fortissimo, although the pianissimos are well controlled. There is not enough to make me want to listen to it more than once or twice. What is missing is the excitement and EXUBERANCE of "The GOODBYE!" -- it's more like the, "ok, see ya later -- sometime".

[jjp009]

I would love to see your interpretation of this masterpiece, Nashville, but I don't see it posted on this site. Is it somewhere else I could see it? That way we could all see all of the things this young man did wrong. How does the old saying go? "Those who can't....teach".

[Miecyslaw]

What you would really love to hear is Solomon's recording of Les Adieux. Everything lacking here is present there in triple measure. Solomon was a consummate master of the keyboard who played with CHARACTER, PASSION and INSIGHT.

This young man has the BASIS for a superb performance, but only if he gets connected to great depth of feeling embodied in the work.

[Miecyslaw]

You're correct in your observations, Nashville. This is an excellent rendition of a very difficult piece------a fine student performance------but it is shallow, glib and unemotional------essentially bloodless. It's all much too matter of fact.

[niuchao86]

what is the title?

what is "Les adieux "means?

i could hear a litte form you play,