Beethoven - concerto n°3 2nd mvt part I (zimerman)

[lrtubeyou]

Love Zimmerman

[al1936ful]

Are the cadenzas by Beethoven, or did Zimerman write them?

[Jitpring]

If Mozart is the musical Christ, Beethoven is his number one Apostle. Hail!

[danielrou09]

Sublime!!!



[Zyghnwyr]

Sublime music making

[NerrissCullen]

y does the audience sit so still??

[WealthThroughVideo]

@NerrissCullen

They are tranquilized to avoid coughing during the performance. Insurance policy.

[stickitupyapipe]

@WealthThroughVideo

LOL

Zimerman is absolutely sublime. A bit of a showman, but what the hell, I´ll fogive him that as he´s a genius when it comes to tickling the ivory.

[tonystone666]

I love this concert so much. I heard it the first time when I was about 13 years old. Today I'm studying the concert and I hope I can play it as good as Zimerman does.

[Jitpring]

I keep coming back to this again and again and again.....

[Jitpring]

Yes, this is just some of the most heart-melting music ever written. If Beethoven had only written this, he'd have been immortal. Yet the list of heart-melting pieces he wrote goes on and on and on and on and on.... Hail Beethoven! Hail Beethoven!! Hail Beethoven!!! 

[ianmaree]

Completely enchanting.

[llyranor]

Love 1:10

[Gummel88]

3:53 flötist LoL :)

[exel00736]

irgendwas:)

[Jangle2007]

This is almost unbearably beautiful.

The way the cellos join at 1:41 gives me chills.

[peakman2006]

This performance is unutterrably magnifiscent.

After experiencing this, it's hard to know whether there is any greater pairing than Zimerman and Bernstein.

[BowToYourHighness]

Absolutely breathtaking. I'm reduced to tears.

[seelanne]

oh my god: what a tremendous intensity, the phrasing ist unbelievable, great, great great.

[timsanity8]

what sensitivity!

[Ridensocleen]

he's good and has a heck of skill to back it up! what a complete package...

[gaetanosol]

Zimerman è veramente grandioso!

[HappyRick]

The dramatic C minor scales as the piano introduces the main theme also appear later in the movement to great effect.

- Jane Jaffe

[HappyRick]

In most Classic concertos once the soloist had played the cadenza, the orchestra typically concluded the movement. Here Beethoven features the soloist in the coda, perhaps following the rare example of Mozart's C minor Piano Concerto, K. 491. The start of Beethoven's coda is also striking for its use of the timpani in one its earliest important assignments—playing the leaping motive from the first theme.  —©Jane Vial Jaffe

[HappyRick]

The Largo, one of Beethoven's most highly decorated, constitutes one of the most fully developed slow movements in any of his concertos. He used a key (E major) that might have shocked early audiences, since a certain note of the new key (G-sharp) particularly clashes with a certain note (G-natural) of the previous.

[HappyRick]

Beethoven delights in pointing out this clash again at the outset of the merry finale. He carries his fondness for this key relationship into one of the rondo refrains, in addition to introducing other harmonic surprises. Further striking features of the finale include Beethoven's treatment of the refrain in overlapping voices (fugato) and the piano's fascinating transformation of the theme in the major mode, which brings about the brilliant Presto conclusion. —©Jane Vial Jaffe

[phread1972]

this is my favorite of all of beethoven's concertos. i will be so fortunate to see Andreas Haefliger perform in july at the aspen music festival. waiting until the day of the concert will be like a 6 year old child trying to sleep the night before he/she is going to disneyland. yes, i am that excited!

[HappyRick]

Hi Phread1972:

Beethoven's PC No 3 is also my favorite with the Largo 2nd mvmnt being my favorite piece. It is so intensely powerful in the range of emotions that it elicits. I remember when I first heard Murray Pariah play it; I was so moved by the emotional force of the music. Bernstein is so masterful & Krystian Zimerman's playing is exquisite.

[HappyRick]

Hi phread1972 (continued)

Have you read Jane Vial Jaffe's program notes regarding concerto no 3? They are excellent, very informative & entertaining.

GO to

aspenmusicfestival/dot/com

then click on July 27 on calendar

scroll down to 6:00 pm and click on Aspen Chamber Symphony

click on Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3

And read the excellent program notes by Jane Vial Jaffe

[joeybourke07]

amazing player and bernstein ur a legend!!

[bassthrills]

Bernstein is one of the greatest. Love this performance more for him than Zimerman, although I think he is great too.

[Bl00DN00B]

@joeybourke07 screw you.