Arturo Michelangeli - Chopin Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49

[azdbio]

Je n'ai point reconnu Chopin.

Le pianist sait-il maîtriser les tempi? En effet, c'est plus facile de jouer comme un métronome.

[ocksford]

touched

[twgirl1]

Everybody good this wonderful music really pleasant to hear performance's attagirl

[vurria123]

Era un'opera moderna. Armonie complesse. Un'altro esempio della cima del pianoforte, Maestro Michelangeli. Nobody and I mean nobody played like this. He was the culmination of 150 years of this art form.

[Ultrazone91]

@vurria123 Esatto! E Michelangeli ne cura tutti i dettagli alla perfezione. Veramente un'interpretazione "enorme"

[SoulTamborineMan]

13 minutes 34 second of pure bliss. This piece of music on strict loop has been helping me with my psychology assignment for the last 3 weeks and has kept me sane so if not only for that reason, thank you!!!!

[stoklund]

THE absolute perfect interpretation !!!!! Warm and strong emotions, and with the most beautiful feeling and the final conclusion around 12:27 , has never been played better! LOVE Michelangeli!!!!!!!

[cciemail]

Michelangeli added rubato in places where it's not needed, and added those really long delays, so it broke up some of the melodies. He clearly mastered the technical parts, but seems to have misinterpreted some of the musical ideas.

[kutthroat84]

seventh time now... wow... this doesn't get old..

[fredericfranc]

When he was young, Mr.Michelangeli was invited to join the jury of one of those Warsaw competitions, and when he showed up in Warsaw, the other jury members started freaking out, the man was so chilled. Hearing an interpretation this cool I generally start craving Arturo's ass, begin to worry like am I gay or something. But we have here an above average piece of ass, would be wasted on women, takes a guy to appreciate it.

[preppychrisbou]

3 people only hear reggaeton

[IAmAwesomisity]

Gotta go learn this to try get into college.......should be fun :|

[unclegeemus]

I agree, relaxed. Difficult to hear on my mac pro laptop at full volume.

[NuovoCurioso]

The absolute perfection!!!

[blackbird721]

WHAT A WONDERFUL INTERPRETATION OF THIS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC OF CHOPIN!!!

[ilovescarlatti]

Divino Chopin. Divino Michelangeli.

[pynus80]

i love this fantasia

[untestudio]

this one, with zimerman are my favorites implementation of Chopin F minor fantasie ..

bravo!!

[Iamrunescapemember]

So beautiful and so hard to play

[Iamrunescapemember]

1:20 is beautiful

[armusik]

whata sound!!!

[deadheadchemist]

Beautiful! Arturo plays entirely without ego, quite unlike many other pianists. No ridiculous face pulling or hand waving. I love him for that.

[jojobanjo]

@deadheadchemist Real musicianship comes through in the sound, I say. :) I rarely watch the musicians anyways, it's not ballet! ;)

[bookguy12000]

@meesbroersen that's actually reasonable. he's a perfectionist. Never missed a key during his lifetime, and he wasn't about to ruin his track record by accepting a less than ideal london piano. I think that's understandable :P

[bersa888]

@meesbroersen : I wouldn't call it egoism by a long shot... ABM was extremely hard on himself and his art. Playing on a lesser instrument would have meant not offering his best and rob the music as well as the public. I love his playing, but I prefer A. Rubinstein's less "troubled" approach to making music. It's a short life after all.... :-)))

[brianCIM]

@meesbroersen But when Royal Festival Hall threatened to sue him, he agreed to play on their piano under one condition. That all the proceeds would be given to a local children's hospital. He also taught legions of students for free(Argerich and Pollini included) let them live on his estate, prepared their meals, and gave them lessons in cooking and wine-tasting. he was also a trained surgeon, fighter pilot in WW2, champion race car driver and expert skier. I have 38 characters remaining so....

[meesbroersen]

@brianCIM ool. never knew that! i only heard this story over and over... but you're right. he's awesome. I'm sorry mr michelangeli!

[BlazeKenny]

@deadheadchemist Usually young people play extremely virtuoso, and as pianists get older, they start to play more music instead being cool technicians. Michelangeli just became adult quicker than other pianists

[retrogamerdave]

@BlazeKenny yeah, I get the impression that Michelangeli was born an adult, haha. I mean that in a good way. He's one of a kind. In a good way. :D

[stoklund]

12:28 !!!! ;) So Beautiful!

[stefantonio]

I call this "Aristocrazìa vera"

[Tatuzumaki]

look at the finger technique, ahh very clever..

[pianomed]

the recording is excellent to have been made in the early sixties, isn´t it? I love the way Michelangeli makes the piano sing

[ViicVN]

how difficult is this piece if you compare with chopins heroic and ciss moll polonaise no.1? :)

[rodolforagionieri]

It is much more difficult, at least a level up!

[Overlapse1000]

A mature and complete mastery of...confident and subtle musical phrasing. A very pleasant playing.

[zicekanelo]

sublime!

[jimjoyce25]

I have a question regarding the score: In the version I have, the first march section, 124-142, has both hands marked as staccato. In contrast, in the second march section, 292-309, only the left hand is marked as staccato.

Is this correct? Or a typo?

[sweetnshai]

in the first half, both should be played as staccato where marked

[jimjoyce25]

Love the voicing on that piano

[mckinnis93]

Absolutely fantastic recording...

[callenishss]

agreed

[edtskyline12]

How I can upload a video larger than 10 minutes???

[paulostroff99]

As good as any ever recorded. Bravo maestro!

[soundsilenced]

I'm learning this piece right now... anyone have any suggestions? (in terms of pedal, style, phrasing, etc.)

[mckinnis93]

For a truly successful performance, take your suggestions from this video! If you do that, you will definitely play this piece well.

[KufrAkbar]

Mozart wrote two fantasias for organ, both in F minor. Perhaps Chopin had them in mind. He was a great admirer of Mozart.

[frederickfrederikfre]

Che Equilibrio,tocco,fraseggio....­..............

[jazzflutist]

My favourite. Not just plonking the keys. He thinks when he plays, and feels.

[KufrAkbar]

A real musician, this man. Not just another expert piano player. Strong, too. Makes it look easy.

[XemnasD]

@KufrAkbar Oh really? And you can decide who is a real musician and who is not?

I'd say that he puts too little emotion in when playing, when saying this i'm comparing with whatever other musicians i have listened to and he didn't captivate me like some others have.

...and i don't like his mustache...

[junk3ma1l]

I love how he nonchalantly reaches for his handkerchief upon finishing. What a badass.

[streek23]

He's such a great performer. He can play very convincingly Chopin, Ravel, and Beethoven. His Chopin interpretations, however, are among the best examples of this man's pure genius and sensitivity.

[Gothic1982]

Perfect. A wonderful interpretation of one of Chopin's finest pieces.

[rva25]

well, he plays the fantasia his own way... very interesting..

[ardarico]

Pollini is absolutely cold, in the sense that he is unable to transmit any feeling. Michelangeli's interpretation is always rich of nuances... I also like Zimermann, Rubinstein, and Cortot, but I think Michelangeli is the perfection. Search youtube for ABM performing Chopin's Ballades.. I could not stop hearing it.

[Paulo78180]

I disagree, Pollini is absolutely NOT cold. He respects perfectly the composer and sure that you are not susceptible to his art.

[Waldszenen]

I love it how he makes it look so easy...

[chazinko]

Love the beginning- excellent tempo, subtle rubatos and distinction of tone between each idea.

[ilovescarlatti]

vero, me ne ero dimenticato. vi è anche la toccata in re (edizi 1949 se non sbaglio).Rispondevio a Silbar facendo presente che bach è pure magnificamente suonato da molti altri (Fisher, Gieseking Gould, Gulda, Richter ecc). Pertanto, pur ammirando e amando ABM in sommo grado, non diemnntico affatto gli altri inetrpreti. Non sono musicista per cui non so esprimere valutazioni così nette.

[schwarzkavalier]

In particolare trovo eccellente il Bach di Richter.Possiedo 2 CD che non smetterei mai di ascoltare!

[framaulo]

idem! il WTC è sempre nel mio Ipod!

[ilovescarlatti]

Caro Silbar, l'amore per Michelangeli non ci deve portare a pensare che sia stato l'unico a interpretare bach...Peraltro, se non sbaglio, di ABM vi è solo la Ciaccona e la Toccata in Re min. O sbaglio? Un po poco per quello che lei dice... o no ? un saluto

[frederickfrederikfre]

Di ABM c`è anche il Concerto italiano di Bach,molto bello tra l`altro

[ilovescarlatti]

IL sommo dei sommi.... Sbaglio??

[silbaar]

meraviglioso. è l'unico ad essere riuscito a portare davvero bach sul pianoforte.

[ilovescarlatti]

Fantastic....Perfect.... I love it.. good bless ABM --- ever in our hearth....

[liclican]

i cant hear T_T

[cziffra1980]

His alteration to the left over the last few arpeggios is very interesting.

[camaysar222]

Indeed. He switches to quarter-note triplets for the last 2 measures of the final passage. He seems to have been concerned about the build-up of sound during the diminuendo, so he lightened the bass load. A pretty good idea!

[cziffra1980]

Yeah, indeed. It's almost impossible to get it to sound convincing as written.

[jjp009]

Man, he looks so relaxed and so in control of that keyboard. Makes this masterpiece look almost easy!

[fabio0077]

@jjp009 That's right!.... "modern" pianists must show us their phisic wellness jumping and acting and doing stupid faces in their interpretation.... as someone wrote here: THIS IS TRUE ARISTOCRATIC...

[abmsghost]

Phenomenal!

[esdac]

great performance

[piccolapiuma]

eccezionale

[Nika666666666]

respect

[globehunter2]

Talent like this took years to perfect! but the finished product results in playing that

touches your very Soul. Superb

[billyguns2]

One of my three favorite compositions by Chopin, magnificently played by one of the greatest of all pianists; the other two are Barcarolle and Polonaise-Fantaisie.

[xiangyik]

Haha great choices. Took me some time to find people who particularly liked those too.

[esdac]

totally agree with you, this one and barcarolle op. 60 are my favourite chopin compositions

[adrienhhunter]

WOW

[pelegrino791]

Génialissime comme toujours avec Michelangeli. La partie central est à vous tirer des larmes de avant tant de nostalgie et de beauté.

[paulostroff99]

superb! Bravo! TY.