Ravel, Piano Concerto in Sol - 2 (Adagio Assai) - Michelangeli

[marcap1000]

ça dépend des goûts.....

[jeanpierrefillon]

Michelangeli est un des plus grands pianistes. Son jeu est d'une pureté cristalline. L'extra terrestre du piano  ! (entendu dans une émission de France Musique).

[10ROU]

Beautiful beautiful beautiful and indefinable sad.

[10ROU]

今まで聴いた中で一番いいです。ユンデ・リもよかったけど。

[gulleymusic]

Like Helene Grimaud's version better. More passion.

[TheEntity91]

A human wrote this, a mere mortal like you and me wrote this immortal piece of beauty. I wonder what it meant to him.

[Gouiverneur]

@TheEntity91 Ravel worked intensely a full week polishing this movement, yet Charles Dutoit has called it 'elevator music'; Jean Yves Thibaudet in person with Paavo Jarvi and Cincinnati excelled, but the Thibaudet/Dotoit CD stinks. This Adagio is the movement I judge all pianists by, and can identify each of them. This one is good, but Helene Grimaud is better.

[douddy21]

Monumentale.....magnifique...ç­a touche au sublime

[tuberobotto]

I have never heard Michelangeli on a French composer before this is the first time and forgive me if I seem jaded but I think I would prefer a French artist to play this concerto, he lacks a certain Frenchness or Basquean taste for this piece. This is no longer a matter for technique or virtuosity to cover but more on personal perception of what should go on in the music and how to execute it. I think i'll go now and listen to Pascal Roge. Thanks for the post, btw. At least i learned something.

[Paters1234]

@tuberobotto I agree with you, try Monique Haas. She is following much more the music, putting in less emotion or personality. Still I love this one from mr. Michelangeli too.

[Gouiverneur]

@tuberobotto A high point of my life was on a Paris business trip when my SNECMA host talked about Ravel, I opined that only a French pianist played him perfectly (without mentioning Samson Francois by name). He replied that he used to turn pages for him, and kept him from falling off the bench, so I knew that we were talking of the same person - Francois was a notorious drunkard and doper, who died a few weeks after collapsing on stage. Listen to the Francois/Youtube Adagio.

[eneduoc]

Deux géants !

[zhangensprachen]

8:45

What exactly happened?

[AntonioUras]

@zhangensprachen

Cellos were probably playing too loud...

[Paters1234]

@zhangensprachen: somebody in the audiance coughing

[TheWalterit]

irrepetible..

[outsider950]

michelangeli è praticamente perfetto

[massimiliano123123]

@outsider950 Senza "praticamente". Michelangeli È PERFETTO!! eheh

[QcMori7]

@kwkm5628 Never call this a "tune" again.

[timothy3316]

@QcMori7 y not

[lookhowhighijump]

the conductor looks pissed haha

[nvccpiano]

makes my heart cry...

[atrebil71]

Ecco un pianista con cui celi andava d'accordo..

[NovaScotiaChick]

Feeling stressed? Play this clip, close your eyes, and unwind. Works every time. Awesome piece.