Daniel Barenboim - Pathétique - 1º movement

[mkat205]

its always been a dream of mine to be able to play this whole movement. ive only been able to learn the first page and some of the second! these movements are such masterpieces. one day i will be on a stage playing this piece. but im not old or Asian so its gonna take a junk load of time and effort.

[MrWainir]

Beethoven un genio y el interprete perfecto conocedor del mismo. Las 25 personas que no les guste el video estan en su derecho, los ignorantes viven felices asique mejor ignorarlos y que sigan felices en su mundo.

[maxito2929]

es increible, beethoven era un genio!

!

[MrSerpico87]

best interpretation :) but there's a little mistake at 0:35: he doesn't play accord (sol e Mib)

[MrSerpico87]

@MrSerpico87 sorry, it's a 3:35

[King21973]

@MrSerpico87 There is no chord in the score at that point, it is a single E flat. He played it exactly as written.

[King21973]

The exact same thing happens in the repeat at 5:20.

[MrSerpico87]

@King21973 i don't remember if it's a chord or a single note, but one of the two is a chord, i dont remember if it's the first one or not. Anyway, he doesn't touch well cause sound is not clean at that point

[snj2lola]

His technique is perfect, never crooking his wrists or overextending. He must be able to play for hours without a break.

[Joonhful]

Dios soy su fan! :DD



[galiamilka]

C'est le souffle de la vie!

[Diofalcone]

la parte 3:15 - 3:40 siempre me lleva en extasis^^

[TheWinXPTutorials]

Very well played! Respect! :)

[TheManosjay]

lady gaga send me here

[pdataque]

Lady Gaga aproveitou-se bem

[voldekim]

he plays sooooo good piano i can´t describe it.

:)

[Jetstar3000]

give me 70 year, than i will play as good as you :)

[AlexSanchezEspana]

No. Ahora son 23! Una de las mejores sonatas para piano de uno de los mejores compositores de la historia tocada por, probablemente, el mejor músico de la actualidad. En fin....

[matheusbarrel]

this is a kind of music that if you dont witnessed u cant play

a few people can play it with your real feeling

not felt it for Barenboim

[feyzmusic]

He is the Al Pacino of the classical music arena !

[maluelilla]

maravillosa.....Beethoven es imperecedero....

[Kangarikua]

23 personas aún no descubren que la música y la melodía son eternas, independientemente con qué se toquen, cómo se canten, cómo se disfruten...

[ThePaulinoContreras]

barenboim is obviously great, but i prefer pariah when it comes to beethoven.

[christopher19894]

It always looks like Barenboim is playing with his knuckles or something. His hands look small and stubby. He probably had trouble as a kid, at first, reaching octaves.

[NCONiall]

@christopher19894 Yeah I noticed that too, but I can play tenths and I can't play nearly as well as him.

[CuchikiByakuya]

22 personas son unos idiotas ignorantes!!! y poco culturales

[DavePlays4Jesus]

@CuchikiByakuya si! idiotas sin cerebro, malditos!

[villanuevaleandro]

@CuchikiByakuya si con mucha razon

[DavePlays4Jesus]

beethoven is still alive !!! he was so clever to tell me his present last name... Barenboim...

[tangledaddicted]

how exactly could i wrap Beethoven's sadness and madness around me???

[Andrew777801]

@tangledaddicted By listening to this song when you get sad and mad, of course ;) .

[tangledaddicted]

i hate it when everyone could play the main notes clearly but me.

[Rachman1337]

Barenboim inspired me to play a lot of Beethoven.

I learned Sonatas 1, 3-6 and 8 this summer.

[Pizarro2194]

Wonderful! Listen to 1:41 this little phrase is so fantastic!

[handycappo]

the 2.37 part is so slow... this guy is good but he shouldnt be playin this piece... ive this on cd and theres no mistakes.. he hasnt hit a wrong note yet but his timing is realy off... and not just different to another player but off as in not the way it was writen

[Haaggus]

@handycappo I honestly haven't heard that part played much faster by any other pianists, you think he plays it slow?

[handycappo]

@Haaggus the song tempo is grand.. i mean one part where he uses his right hand on the left of his left

[handycappo]

@Haaggus its not the tempo of the song.. just that part he plays a bit shakely...cause he has to move his right hand over his left.. ye the tempo is grand i didnt mean that.. cheers

[handycappo]

@Haaggus woops i couldnt see the other coment so i repeated myself to make sure.. but listen to krystian zimmermans version to the right.. he plays it more accurately.. tell me what u think

[21CenturyRevolution]

@handycappo well i think another part of it is that he is very experimental with rubato, and being a pianist myself, I don't think its as much that he is playing it shakely, but purposely using that rubato so he gets the sound he wants

[handycappo]

@21CenturyRevolution rubato? if u say so, i play aswell but ive never had a lesson, i used synthesia for a while.. but i dont know anything about rubato.do u not hear what i mean, the part where he crosses his right hand over is played so wierd it nearly upsets the tempo.. i wish i knew what phrase or bar or whatever it is so i could pin point the exact bit... just to me it sounds wrong.

[21CenturyRevolution]

@handycappo yea, rubato is the term translating to "rob" where you slow down one part and speed up another. its a style thats very often used in romantic style pieces. yes i do know where you are talking about, i play this piece myself, im just saying maybe he's slowing down purposely and "robbing" those notes of value, as a purposeful effect, not a lack of practice or skill.

[duhhh86]

wow. everything here seems so well-thought and perfect. the phrasing, the dynamics, the pedalling, the rubato....

[nicecoolstuff13579]

@goatsultan IDK

[zoranrosendahl]

You are drawn into his piano playing

[marymroe]

Last night what playing this with one side of my brain I solved a problem using static reduction from linear algebra. I don't know what plases me more, dusting off a piece of music from so long ago or dusting off a piece of algebra that I never thought I would use.

[Fernando31611]

@marymroe

It is curious, last night I was studing Deutsch for an exam, and while repeating some words i started to play in an imaginary piano with my right hand and realized y was doing one thing wrong with my thumb in the beginning of te Eb minor section...

It is strange how our mind works....

[marymroe]

@Fernando31611 Yes! Last night I accompanied my elderly neighbor to the emergency room and caught myself listening to the piece in my head, moving my fingers on an imaginary keyboard, while I watched the tenderness of a couple in their 90's who still kiss good night.

[davidet3107]

Barenboim and Wilhelm Kempff my preferred Beethoven players

[arinpamukcu]

it doesn't get better than this

[bakerdeb1]

WOW



[s7749105]

they suck. if they thumbs-down

[AristidesLuis]

I'm sure those thumbs-down people are actually hipsters

[craftsandmachines]

You can say it is Beethoven himself playing. Barenboim is the best performer of Beethoven recorded so far.

[xbataux]

@craftsandmachines well i suppose you did not listen to Wilhelm Kempff.

[ediporck]

que orgullo que hay vivido aca, COMO ME LLENA EL ALMA!

[nicecoolstuff13579]

@Rotebuehl1,

Yes, I think that's a better way of saying it. :)

[joelski11NCFC]

18 people have got to play this in a music final soon!

[HppyFce]

This beautiful. I've never really listened to Beethoven before, but I like this. A lot.

[suzysgrandma]

Wonderful!  His control of the instrument is magnificently executed throughtout the piece.

[DafniElissa]

I don't go crazy for his interpratations, but he's a great player. And his surname makes me laugh a bit.

[hennebry27]

Barenboim is certainly a great technician. However as an artist he is for me at best spasmodic...occasional...inadv­ertent ...mostly he is pedestrian. He does not create, captivate and inspire like Arrau or Gilels and the other greats. His phrasing and melodic expression is stiff and engineered, rather than natural and emotive. If he has a burning passion, it doesn't show through.

[VasilisSocratous]

It's the best performance of Beethoven's Pathetique I have seen. Well done. 

[veguixor]

baremboim

[victorsianus]

what a high class technique in a great repertoir

[PiaNISTII]

awful pianist and even worse musician

[BlazeKenny]

@PiaNISTII you suck

[kiaragre]

@PiaNISTII

...awful auditory apparatus and even worse brain..

[PiaNISTII]

@kiaragre its very interesting that you make these remarks about me, having absolutely no information on which to base your thoughts...

[kiaragre]

@kiaragre taste is taste...but Barenboim ...worse than awful as a musician...is too much.

[morresi2011]

Absolutely amazing!!

[amaranta117]

insuperabile maestro...

[jadamercedes]

Nothing short of amazing!!!

[SilverAspen1]

I have listen to most of the interpretations of Pathetique (I mean played by "the big ones") and for some reason Barenboim's strikes me the most... it's exactly what musicohl said a week ago..... I have no idea how Beethoven was playing it but my heart tells me that this rendition is the closest....

[eels821]

It's a pity they don't make music like this anymore...Beethoven was a pure genius

[SuperBlindKid]

Video quality aside, I really enjoy his interpretation of the song.

How old was this video? :P

[musicohl]

God, he makes it look so easy!! What a fantastic musician.

[drkathyday]

He has a perfect combination of fabulous technique and musicality! It is as if I could hear Beethoven speaking, telling me exactly what he wanted his music to say. His Appassionata is the same, speaking for the long dead composer in his own language to all of us in our own languages.

[sevcik2]

Heavenly beautiful!!!!!

[Hardrada88]

13 dislikes-they must truly be 'pathetique' ;-) hehe

[qdawa]

@Hardrada88 as you are.. sad, it truly is..

[CyaInTheHell]

oh my god, thank you beethoven this is wonderfull, makes me cry 3:07 to 2:26 BEAUTIFULL !!!! BRAVOOO !! ITS THE BEST PART.

[Yuyaiyako]

Baremboim is such a musician, a great human person and a wonderful pianist !!

[mattecarini]

HOW COME JUST 140000 views? c'mon people.....

[adriasansa]

I don't want to se his face, I want to se his hands !!

[brianbernsteintv]

The reason I love this piece so much is because you can feel Beethoven's desperation, his sleepless anger, torturing him, within the notes of this work. One of the greatest masterpieces ever written by anyone, ever.

[CyaInTheHell]

One day... i'll play this song..

[Metroidhunter07]

@CyaInTheHell piece.

[nicecoolstuff13579]

hehe

[DIVARGENTINA1]

Bravo Maestro!

[nicecoolstuff13579]

That's right. Some people might just be new to piano, or they may just be peeking around. People have free judgment. :)

[tyreaswebb]

awesome

[libetta]

yes! this is the kind of playing i've been wanting for so long in this work. all the fire, pauses, attacks and dramatic phrasing are evident throughout. bravo barenboim!

[77edster]

Particularly brilliant.

[sstupefy]

oh dear lord, i love this man so much. Beautiful.

[froehlicherelter]

HappyWandy457,  here we see a perfectionist in person! All melisms are played coming from heart and brain as well, as it were Beethoven himself playing! Though his technike is mainly against the instrument which

incidentally requires more energy due to arms involvement, his resources are nearly unlimited. An example of a hard worker!

Hans Fröhlich - Germany

[pianodudette]

awesome :) this is the first recording of this I've found that is both accurate and emotional. Although at 2.40 (3rd page of sheet music) I prefer the grace notes to be an upbeat rather than a triplet. Other than that everythings pretty much perfect!

[mertfs]

barenboim is a god

[ryaoli]

thumbs up if u think barenboim is the best beethoven player

[arwen29skywalker]

@ryaoli Well, have you ever listened sth by Arrau?! Actually his works are valuable, he's so a good player of Beethoven, too ..

[ticionee]

@ryaoli The best beethoven player, after he himself, is clearly Wilhelm Kempff

[Sim882]

@ryaoli he'd be up there - Freddy's version of this is very different but also great

[ICHBINLILITH91]

@ryaoli he is!!! 

[goatsultan]

@ryaoli VS Arrau's

[Will84ABA]

Herr Barenboim ich verneige mich vor Ihnen!!



[Will84ABA]

listen the left hand at 7:48 -7:58!! very expressive!

[maxyroo]

he is superman #2

second only to freddy kampf

[hardrockalejo]

gracias maestro ¡¡

[ramiyovell]

דניאל ברנבוים, אינני יודע איך להודות לך על הנגינה הקדושה. אפילו בטהובן היה מתפעל. בעצם כל ביצוע הוא כתיבה-מחדש וזה לא בלתי אפשרי שהבצוע יעלה על היצירה המקורית.

[albariccio1995]

la patetica è veramente favolosa!

[MRmusiczs]

The three sonatas of Phatetique and Moonlight are the most beautiful songs Beethoven composed....there are lots more but these are masterpieces and my favourites

[nicecoolstuff13579]

The eleven people who made a thumbs down sign don't understand classical music.

[lllllllllllllll88]

@nicecoolstuff13579 - I couldn't agree with you more. This is the absolute best on YouTube (IMHO). I know I feature Kempf on my channel because he's cuter that's all. lolz  Freddy's is second best; again, my opinion. To each his own. But Bareboim is the Beethoven KING! And then there's Freddy Prince. lolz

[narulovehina]

@nicecoolstuff13579 those were probably his students...

[DarkGreenMagician]

@nicecoolstuff13579 But... I think it isn't classical. From my point of view, this is early romanticism

[250Yogi]

@DarkGreenMagician no. classical (with a lower case c) = anything from renaissance to impressionism.

Classical (with a capital C) = anything composed between 1750 and 1820

[10fantasmas]

@nicecoolstuff13579 you don't need to understand it, you just can like it or not

[rudyeres]

@nicecoolstuff13579 I think that those people who made their thumbs down are nazis.. that's all.

[etamarL]

@nicecoolstuff13579 ... or just don't like this specific interpretation :-)

[keetner]

@nicecoolstuff13579

Actually, I wonder why even YouTube chose thumbs up/down...a check mark or X would have sufficed, I think.

[tampax2009]

@nicecoolstuff13579 of course!

[pavlovick]

@nicecoolstuff13579 you meant ... don't understand anything about music!

[Rotebuehl1]

@nicecoolstuff13579 Now it's about 18 people disliking this! Maybe they're piano players who just happen not to like the interpretation, how 'bout dat? Cheers

[goatsultan]

@nicecoolstuff13579 who gives a shit

[StradAmatiViolin]

@goatsultan 82 people+ about 3 mil. lol idk

[santoReska]

@nicecoolstuff13579 not only classical music!

[apdoshi70]

@nicecoolstuff13579

they dont understand any type of music

[discobizzz]

J'adore la douceur de l'interprétation de Daniel Barenboim. C'Est délicieux!

[marcazzansara]

fantastica interpretazione!

[duhhh86]

this sonata (and many other of beethoven's works) really make me wonder if beethoven had bipolar tendencies.

[BassicStorm]

@duhhh86 whats that mean?

[TheR3volutionary]

@duhhh86 Grave, then all jolly :)

[maydengarNSBHS]

someone help!

how do you play the tremolos without tensing

i've practised for months..

[utubuser10]

@maydengarNSBHS try practicing slowly and firmly but with relaxed wrists. slight ly accentimg the bottom notes to mark out the rhythm will also help.

[pianolover0107]

As to the 1st movement, I like barenboim's version. It's deeply full of "pathetique".

[mortalfrog007]

barenboim is the master of contraversial interpretations... not especially referring to this vid but listen to moonlight sonata 3rd movement! very extraordinary, love that!

[duhhh86]

@mortalfrog007 haha...controversial interpretation...maybe that's why he married jacqueline du pre...perhaps both of them saw that special something in each other...

[Ray0X0]

Barenboim is a great, great Beethoven's interpreter but still behind Claudio Arrau (see my channel)

[mmbmbmbmb]

What is it that makes me think that Ludwig van Beethoven would have completely identified with Mr. Baremboims playing.

Kraftvoll und gefuehlvoll zugleich. Ein Hochgenuss dies zu hoeren.

[thunder1909]

A true master of Beethoven. This is some very fine interpretation.

[ozachar]

I like better the feel of Barenboim here than Gould's recordings.

[jehops]

I love the min.  1:00

[cliomoxie]

that being said, I am listening to the rest and am almost in tears. Beautiful.

[cliomoxie]

i worked longer on this piece of music than any other and always loved barenboim's rendition. I found it soulful . I am realizing now that I think the opening bars in the first movement need to be completely over the top. they always sound so trite.And don't you think they should sound intimidating?! this is not a comment putting anyone down; just a thought about the nature of the piece.

Even played by Barenboim.

[jehops]

Me  encanta, simplemente tremendo

[MsMagj]

Exelente interpretación muy emotiva

[MrOskarthebest]

He is my Idol.. (=

[GandalfDaBlack]

5:00 - 6:30 send me to another planet. beautiful.

[EthnHayabusa]

I really like his articulation. Not too forceful, but assertive.

[LawrenceSLNg]

Great Work!!!!!!!

I love how he plays Beethoven.

[filopaa1990]

i prefer kempf...

[Alexx1879]

@filopaa1990 why?

[themusicdr]

masterful painist conductor and individual

[Madflyhalf]

migliore esecuzione presente su youtube.

Barenboim... un genio! Basta sentirlo parlare per rendersene conto!

[BenMcCormack91]

Good tempos.

[h0652507]

brilliant !!!

but i prefer freddy kempfs interpretation

[sprund2009]

LucerneWorker - hahaha!

[justmakeitalready]

beautiful, this really sparks the mind. Amazing talent.

[SEBAHANDBALL]

They are tastes "katong1953"

[grashiano]

lo vuelvo a escuchar y me sigue pareciendo igual de grande Baremboim,inmenso!

[shaxnerd418]

What makes this so good is that Barenboim gets the speed required of the piece without sacrificing the nuance of each note. The only person who does it better is Glen Gould, and he's almost impossible to top.

[froehlicherelter]

HappyWanda457,  when a master - as Barenboim certainly is - chooses a tempo, there is little room to discuss: It is the result of deep developtment confronting dynamics - public response - an particular moment feeling. There is no use to compare it to other interpreters: They all breathe the same music but with other temperaments!

Hans Fröhlich - Germany

[IamBthvn24]

I don't hear ALLEGRO CON BRIO which means fast with fire. More like adagio if you ask me lol...

[ILoveThePiano1]

IamBthvn24, I agree. I don't hear it either like I do with Freddy Kempf's. That was the first thing I noticed with this piece and another one Bareboim played. Perhaps he's preserving his energy for the rest of the movements. Don't want to run out - Sonatas are long. lol

[kinkokonko]

Allegro con brio is not Allegro Assai.

Same as piano is not forte.

On Freddy Kempf, I do not rate his interpretation. I have also watched his Chopin Etude and I believe he has not the ability to handle this piece.

Having seen Kissin live playing Chopin it is virtually impossible to beat.

[kinkokonko]

The tempo is spot on. Much faster an its loses alot of the dynamics and becomes a joke. Listen to Glenn Goulds interpretation, although interesting hardly Beethoven

[MDesigner]

@kinkokonko Agreed, Glenn Gould is overrated. I found his interpretation of the Pathetique..well.. pathetic. ;)

[kinkokonko]

Glenn Gould is the master on contrapuntal sound. It seems if this doesnt exist then a piece does not interest him and for the same reason, when it does, as in Bach it is sublime.

On this piece Glenn bangs out a lot of the left hand dynamics, as with his Mozart sonatas (k330), with mixed success. His interpretation is too fast

[genomos90]

glenn gould actually hated beethovens music....listen to his moonlight sonata interpreation, it is awful as well...

[afertyus1000]

well gould was great but a bit of a weirdo if you ask me

[Sogoku8]

maybe you overrated yourself..hahahah.

[LucerneWorker]

Who cares?

[katong1953]

I LOVE DANIEL BAREMBOIM!!! but his allegro section could have been faster :/