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  • Magnífico !!

  • Joachim Kaiser beschreibt es treffend: "Eben noch hat Hendryk Szerings Geige die Frühlingssonaten-Melodie gesungen, da setzt mit hinreissender, dennoch nicht forcierter Beschwingtheit das Klavier ein - und entmündigt die Violine. Höchst beklommen wandert Szering sodann an Rubinsteins Hand durch Beethovens Sonatenland."

    Poetischer kann dieses musikalische Erlebnis nicht ausgedrückt werden!

  • It captures me all...

  • Beethoven's Fifth Violin Sonata really is my favorite sonata. :3 It's almost like a romanticized Mozart sonata. :) But,of course,it stays true to itself sufficiently to distinguish it as a genuine Beethoven Sonata.I love it more especially because of this rendition - two masters of their respective instruments producing a collaboration in which a truly great piece comes alive like the Spring Sonata it is.

  • Two genius together!

  • Felíz cumpleaños mi muy querido amigo Beethoven, gracias por acompañarme todos los días...

  • Es fantastico escuchar a estos dos grandes maestros en la sonata No. 5 Op. 24 en Fa en el primer movimiento (Allegro). "Spring"

    Con un poco de imaginacion, cerrando los ojos se puede escuchar el canto de los pajaros en un dia primaveral. Gracias por compartir este video.

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  • 8 deaf 

  • This piece, even though Szeryng's interpretation is more romantic, but for the first time, this "crossing concept" I may call works miraculously well. This is maybe the closest to my ideal "Spring" sonata of Beethoven. Fragile, strong, diaphanous, opaque, dance then jump, pull then push, and an ideal tempo for the season of SPRING. What a lovely "Spring"~

  • hey, im working on this with my friend, me on piano and her on violin, i was wondering if there were any tips on practicing this piece, for me and anyone else who may need some suggestions on how to practice it.

  • No it doesn't sound like Mozart at all. Beethoven my friend. And yes Beethoven learned from Mozart as he did from Bach. Mozart actually gave Beethoven some private lessons. Beethoven had his own passion he would have done it all without Mozart it wouldn't have made any difference the music might just be different.

  • @MrEriugena The melody of the that theme in the scherzo is quite haydnesque, but there is something that tells you it is beethoven, even in the first measures-although I can´t put my finger on it, perhaps it is that the notes are quite high. The opening of the 3 piano sonata..., only the first few measures resemble Haydn particularly, and not as strongly as the scherzo.

  • SICK TUNE BLAD

  • Listening this sonata makes me happy! I love it.

  • @MrEriugena

    Beethoven's early compositions are classical yes. His first piano concerto and first symphony as well. Perhaps what I should have said is that Haydn didn't influence him particularly, that is, more than other classical composers. I can't recall any Haydnesque themes although the first theme in his first sonata is a quote from Mozart's symphony in G minor (although the development of the theme is very Beethoven).

  • @lupuspglh Mozart's symphony #25 in G minor, sorry

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  • @MrEriugena Beethoven was a student of Haydn, but the influences of Haydn´s style are few even in his early works.

  • 春~ 但是找不到Heifetz的版本 :(

    他的版本像開跑車一樣, 衝的很快, 硬是比其他人快兩分鐘~

  • huta pata aniomos. alejhn kzarv. esimos que?

  • I love this piece since I first time hear it . I enjoy and like it very much.

  • Beautiful

  • ¿Porque nadie habla de Szeryng, el gran maestro polaco-mexicano?

    Yo toque para el cuando tenia 10 años....

  • Beautiful piece!

    I heard this piece at a concert yesterday, and I loved it.

    I have a feeling that I've heard it before though.

    Was it ever used in Bugs Bunny?

  • 3:30-3:50 <3

  • So beautiful sounds like honey. lordnifield thank you for posting.

  • The earliest , tamest Beethoven never sounds like mozart. Even in this sonata Beethoven has less emphatic ,fiery moments but they are his .Hadyn by this time was outgrown too. The playing of Rubinstein is so thoughtful .He was a good Beethoven player . there is a sweetness to the phrasing that makes sense for a classicist which Beet in this sonata is still but he is interested in going places development wise. Listen to the cello sonatas too !

  • @lovesGenet What a strange delusion it is to apply ideaologies like evolution to art. I've always found it weird that art scholars follow the same methods of inquiry that are applied to human histories. I don't think you can outgrow Haydn, or Mozart. Come to think of it maybe we really don't understand what is important about life with our simple chronology based logic. Go figure.

  • beautiful pianist!

  • excelent performance! i´ve never heard rubinstein on this piece....thans lorfnifield.

    i´ve got grumiax/haskill, perlman/ashkenazy.

  • Rubinstein the best!

  • Very pleasing.

  • Obviously some of beethoven's sonatas would sound like mozart's... I mean, come on, do some reading. Both beethoven and mozart are from the same musical era, the classical era. FYI, for those who dunno, there is the baroque era, the classical, the romantic era.

    Beethoven's from late classical to early romantic.

    So here, we can here the typical homophonic texture in this piece which is a strong feature of the classical era's music. Hence, we think mozart's sonatas.

  • @oyster1992 i agree. but some music of beethoven is very rebellious. there are times that we could hear very loud parts, and some times very soft. he made the piano a percusiion instrument. that's what i think. but then, beethoven is really great.

  • beautiful and very simple performance of one of the great violin sonatas

  • every musucians have thier own unique beauty to expresss, that is why thier is appriciation

  • jejeje, si verdad ?..como este par..jejje

  • Szeryng es un gran violinista y tuvimos la suerte de tenerlo en Lima ¡Qué buenos conciertos teníamos en el Teatro Municipal!

  • a nice piece

  • Is it blasphemous to say thet the piece is entirely stolen from Mozart?

  • No. But that's not true. Mozart never wrote anything like it.

  • it is very blasphemous because mozart did not write anything like this. Not to say that he was a bad composer, but this is nothing like his style.

  • I can't help hearing a Mozart violin sonata all over this piece. Molded into a different form, maybe, but the fundaments sound very similar to me. That's not to say that it isn't a great piece (or performance, for that matter). Maybe the expression "to steal" was an incorrect one, on the other hand musicians do it all the time, don't they? "On the shoulders of giants" etc.

  • send me a link of anything played by mozart that sounds remotely like this. Otherwise I still think it's blasphemous.

  • You probably wouldn't hear the Biber in Bach (or vice versa) either.

  • Beethoven bridged the Classical and Romantic periods, which is maybe why I like Szeryng's more romantic interpretation of this very classical piece - his liberality with tempo, vibrato, and bow stroke makes the recording quite a bit more exciting. As for blasphemy... the word does not exist in my dictionary :-)

  • @lordnifield Blasphemy= Noun, an idea which is too advanced to be recognized for the genius it is.

  • @voxhunden Beethoven once sought instruction from Mozard as a young adult, so it's clear that Beethoven had great respect for the elder musician. So it's not surprising at all that some of Beethoven's (earlier) works would have elements similar to that of Mozart.

  • @brainwasher9876 I was in a Beethoven-hostile mood when I started all that. Not because of himself, but because the attitude of some of his fans (mostly towards MY Bach:). Like Heifetz fans: there's our idol, and everything else is crap. But things have settled down, and all respect to Ludwig now, as far as I'm concerned.

  • @voxhunden Possibly because it is very early beethoven

  • @problembox In almost all the composers I've heard the pattern is more or less the same: in their early works they resemble composers they admired, and then they develop a style of their own, but with their influences still being visible.

  • um...what? . . .

  • "Beautiful"

  • i know how to play this song xD

  • Me to!! ME TOO!!! I want the song IN MY PHONE!! =D Somebody please tell us!! Ty ;D

  • i fall in love with the song!

  • it's a great piece! so reffer to it as a piece.

    and yes its just amazingly beautiful.

    :)

  • che sogno!!!

  • Who knows of a song with angry, or mischievous, or deviant emotions? Happy stuff, for some reason, doesn't spark my creative abilities as much.

  • ANYTHING BY CRADLE OF FILTH

  • jhoanna Newsom. can't get more mischieveous, eerie, deviant or whimsical as She.

  • Herman's Hermits : No Milk Today

  • You are an incomplete being.

  • @DaBrowNukkaTre Try the Kreutzer Sonata instead.

  • Mozart99900-Flesch was the teacher of many great violinists,and a very great violinist himself. So glad that you enjoyed one of my all time favourite recordings.

  • The violinist is great and clearly understands the essence of the piece. For the piano part, I would have preferred Ilya Itin and this duo wouod have been utmost perfection.

  • This is soooo nice......by closing my eyes I feel like i'm in a cloud of music ....

  • IMHO-the best ever recorded!

  • I agree with you completely. Szeryng's musicality is above any violinist I've heard playing this piece. Modern violinists can't understand the beauty and innocence of this piece. They play it totally mechanically, and if I may use the expression, they are a sacrilage to Beethoven. He would have liked it closer to Szeryng and Rubinstein's interpretation.

  • classical1700s- For 40-50 years now I still play this regularly. After hearing pretty well all the other great ones. None tot this,or even come close. Rubinstein played so well with him in this superb collaboration.

  • Excellent!

  • Lo mejor que mis oidos han podido escuchar.

  • hi ! spring is the peace music to our head it is smooth and relax,But! i'm sure that peace of art or piano by its tone and adante,presto and specially adagio hve more quality for fartismo more countrure have intellect and power to make that peice.when you are playing exrpess youre feeling.More people curmedetikum (french word) have sences and love like Cornelias first greatest artist have frokudelich (austria) in there heart.

  • While the notes and tempo are relatively easy to play, perfecting the tone and various techniques/shift positions that aid the tone is difficult.

    Once the violinist has perfected the tone, he needs to also be in sync with the pianist; a brilliant piece for sure, but a difficult one to master.

  • I'm looking for a female virtuoso to nail this piece with me.

  • a virtuoso on piano...or violin?

  • Sure you're not looking for a piece of female virtuoso to nail?

  • lol lordnifield...u're funny.

  • @lordnifield LOL

  • @lordnifield lol!

  • Chciałoby się zobaczyć pianistę....

    Brak dialogu wykonawców z dziełem

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  • actually even that is not as hard as it sounds. Call me stuck up but it wasn't that difficult to get the same tonal quality and emotions as this piece. There isn't much, actually, when you listen to it. It's supposed to be very smooth and pleasant to the ear.

  • What lovely playings

  • it's very good

    but the grumiaux + haskil version is also awesome

  • romantic concerto or not, it give me thrills , i just love this piece

  • sorry i said the same thing twice

    i was trying to reply to someone else :)

  • Best version that I have ever heard. A truly magnificent rendition from these two awesome artists in their prime. Bravo! TY.

  • Beautiful!!!! I was reading a play called "Prohibido Suicidarse en primavera" or "Suicide is Prohibited In Spring" and at the end of it the book said: ( From the back Beethoven's new hymn to Spring can be heard) so I checked it out. It really goes well with the scene I was reading ^_^.

  • played nicely

  • Eccellente

  • I remember my violin teacher tried to teach me this song a little after my first year of learning. I seriously think she overestimated my skill @_@

    Needless to say, I didn't finish the piece.

  • Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!!!!!

  • I just love this piece! It's a diploma piece u know! it's hard to believe!

  • ive done my 5th grade on conservatory, will i be able to play this

  • Nope!

  • no, it's a grade 9 piece conservatory

    i know cause i'm doing my grade 9 conservatory right now and i'm doing this for my exam

  • I don't know man. I'm not quite sure how hard grade 9 is, but it sounds pretty hard, and I learnt this when I was still suzuki book 4. Years later, looking back, this piece isn't that hard. The shifting is very reasonable compared to stuff like the bach chaconne and the tempo is very pleasant and manageable.

  • ahh that sounds confusing. I meant grade 9 sounds hard, not this piece sounds hard.

  • Is there a Grade 9? I thought the grades only went up to 8- I hope they do. I did my grade 8 two days ago...I thought all my grades were finished- obviously not :-(

  • They go up to grade 8, but then there's diplomas, it depends how serious you are :p

  • It doesn't get any better than this! This is a gorgeous performance of Beethoven at his most joyous.

  • i am crying. but i feel such joy listening to this. i want to be able to play this piece someday. :)

  • Just beautiful...the best performance of this I have heard

  • best version i have heard so far xD

  • hi.. where could i find free violin sheet for this peice?.. ahhh it almost made me cry... tears!!!

  • Hi, you can find most of Beethoven scores free on the imslp web page

    h t t p : / / i m s l p . o r g

  • awesome!

  • Jolly jolly good!

  • such a refreshing composition and performance!

  • Stunning! I owned it on an L.P.and it is still my very favourite version! Bravo! TY.

  • I have performed this work with a violinist friend of mine, and I was sitting in a theatre waiting for Igor Oistrakh and his wife to start their recital, without a programme, not knowing what was coming. When they opened with this work, I felt as if I had died and gone to heaven. How incrediby privileged we are to be able to listen to such great artists as Rubenstein and Szeryng performing long before most of us were even alive yet. Gifts from the gods.

  • Well said,and I fully agree.This is one of my all time favoutite recordings from two great artists in such great harmony.

  • This recording was made in late December of 1958.

    Rubinstein and Szeryng also recorded the Beethoven sonatas 8 and 9, and the three Brahms sonatas.  Cellist Pierre Fourier joined them to record several trios.

  • i admire his g string, as for it is very deep, and emotive. what kind is it? anyone know? =]

  • Can anyone post a video of the same piece (Violin & Piano Concerto # 5, Opus 24, "Spring") by V. Ashkenatzy and I. Perlman?

    Thanks in advance

  • This is not a Concerto.

    But a Violon and Piano Sonata!

  • Noble of you to set the record straight. Now that you have done it, would it possible to meet my request? Thanks in advance.

  • What is your request zezefaro?

    I don't see any other message

    of yours on that page!!

  • Hi Jean1938. Two noms de plume, same person (work computer, home).

    My request is for the Sonata played by Ashkenatzy and Perlman. You may be as fast getting it as you were spotting the mistake.

  • Sorry for spotting the mistake -as you say!!

    You may continue to call the Sonata

    a Concerto if you will... :)

    I don't have the ASHKENAZY / Perlman video.

  • I thank you for spotting it, and setting the record comme il faut. In the meantime, if I get the A&P interpretation, I will post it. Cheers!

    PS: living in a country that has very long winters (and this last one with lots of snow)some of us greet Spring as it is - God's gift!

  • i love this piece but is wired coming from beethoven, so sweet.

  • beethoven being unpredictable is not wired tho

  • Does anybody know where I can find the piano-sheet for this piece (online&free)?

  • mutopia

  • Genialne wykonanie!

  • you do know, that if you're really serious, you should get the urtext which were arranged from profesionals?

    Especially if it's Beethoven. The differences in the fingering from amateur&free publications to professionels like Bärenreiter Urtexte were enourmous...

    Besides if you can spend money on a piano or a violin you shouldn't be so stingy and just get the urtext. And they aren't even expensive. I got mine for like $2. Believe me, you'll save yourself a lot of time.

  • oops, i thought i pressed reply to the guy below me... sorry.

  • You bought a Barenreiter edition for $2? Where are you buying your music? That's ungodly cheap for a Barenreiter! I recently paid $110 for the complete violin sonatas from Henle (hardbound) and just one of the Barenreiter Bach keyboard concerti will set you back at least $30.

  • Gosh, I really want to do this duet with my friend! Has anyone here learnt the piece? How difficult would you rate it? Could high school students manage it? (This is generalizing hugely, I'm sorry, but I don't know how else to word it!)

  • relatively straight-forward in 1st movement

  • "average"

    All technical challenges in the first movement are really rudimentary.

  • ya ive done it

    its gr. 9 rcm piece (thats like gr. 11/ 12 school level)

  • doing this for a recital in about a month, fun piece.

  • This or Mutter's? George steiner in his essay 'Real Presences' wrote that "all value judgments about works of art are unprovable and arbitrary... anything can be said about anything, and nothing can be said about nothing." sd goh (malaysia)

  • Two Polish-Jewish music legends doing what they know best - playing this beautiful sonata that outranks even the one by Menuhin and Kempff. Still it's a question of taste. sd goh (malaysia)

  • My teacher studied with Szeryng.Now I am teaching my grade 10 student on this work.Beautiful work and all my students love it so much.

  • What the fuck is anne-sophie mutter trying to play? I watched this version of rubinstein and szeryng playing and come on!!!...do I need to say more? Just 1,000,000 times better

  • There is no need to be tooo personal.

  • ahhh...so wonderful...superb..

  • This is amazing! What a great combination of musicians.

  • This is just perfect! love it!

  • Really beautiful. I love this version, I don´t like Mutter´s one.

    This one is a perfect Beethoven´s sonata´s performance.

  • There are slight tempo changes in this piece, I think they work well with the song. This is probably the best version of this song I've heard on Youtube.

  • Personally, I like this version much better than Anne-Sophie Mutter's version. I must agree that the technique is both at an extraordinary standard, the interpretation gives this piece -more- of a 'Spring' feel, rather than a 'Oh my God, this Spring brings out so much intense emotion.'

    I wish I could capture Szeryng's tone.

  • I agree that this version is quite emotional, which just proves to me that it isn't necessary to play classical pieces like romantic concertos. For a more refined interpretation I like the one of Oistrakh's we have on here.

  • Why would one play anything but a romantic concerto like a romantic concerto?

  • I disagree that this is played "like a romantic concerto"

  • I agree completely with you. This is probably the best version on youtube. It sounds just perfect.

  • Beautiful.

  • My favourite artists collaborate on this awesome sonata! TY.

  • I'm currently learning this song for (piano part) while my friend learns the violin part! its hhaarrdd!!! :D

  • does anyone know where i can get just the audio for this? i cant find it anywhere!

  • I'm playing this piece right now, its wonderful, I love it!

  • One of the greatest performances I heard. I love Szeryng's silver tone which sounds still contemporary and not old-fashioned to me. His playing is impeccable, accurate and disciplined without being too academic. In my opinion he is one of the best for the typical classical repertoire such as Mozart, Schubert or Beethoven.

  • Water murmuring in little streams,

    Yellow flowers blooming all over the green grass carpet,

    Cool breeze,

    Blue sky,

    Floating white clouds,

    Spring!

  • Divine

  • truly wonderful. i wonder where can i find the abridged version, the Nodame Cantabile version

  • lol I wouldn't have known of this song if I hadn't watched Nodame Cantabile. I liked how it was in there. :)

  • same here

  • Um.. there is no abridged version... it was shortened on Nodame Cantabile for the purpose of the show.

  • Well it is not so difficult nor long for both the piano and violin ;) So you will not need an abridged version.

    The Nodame Cantabile version is shortened, but not abridged.

  • i would like to know how to find the false version ( not abridged ) as it performed in nodame cantabile.

    Slight false in the movie make this movement really interesting ( `hade!`)

  • find it in the Nodame Cantabile Best 100 Collection CD 1

  • Would you happen to have Parts 2 and 3 of this work? Can't seem to find it other than the Anne versions.

  • As requested, uploaded the rest of the sonata. Sorry bout the wait.

  • For an equally great prfm.(or even slightly better in my opinion - but in the end it's a question of taste really!) of this sonata check out Menuhin with Kempff. sd goh (malaysia)

  • I agree, Menuhin and Kempff also made a wonderful recording of this sonata, and I also find it is slightly better. Although Szeryng plays technically more perfect here, I feel Menuhi