I can look to myself through this music...the only music and the only interpretation of this in the whole world. Thanks Maurice Ravel, Thanks mr. Bernstein.
absolutely wonderful ! what a wonderful soul and complex mind of Ravel and a lot of emotions in in Bernstein's feelings and performance... Thank you for sharing this !
This is my first time hearing this concerto. It's one of those wide-eyed, open-mouthed moments where you just think "wow, what an amazing mind Ravel must have had."
Please stop criticizing petty things like tempo. Mr Bernstein felt it should be at this tempo. His interpretation is not your place to impose your opinions. Reality is subjective. If you don't like it, find another recording.
One who is able to perform while conducting at such level has the right to alter the tempo a bit! The music is so beautiful that the tempo doesn't matter that much any more.....
Devi leggerla. Uno volta cominciata non torni indietro. Una bambina di 10 anni è stata rapita e ? nel 1945. Il suo corpo non fu trovato fino al 1947. Poi un ragazzo la settimana scorsa lesse questo messaggio e non copiò e passo questo messaggio. La ragazza morta è apparsa nella sua camera ossessionata da lui e lo uccise. Se non copi e passi questo in 10 video in 30 min la ragazza morta apparirà nella tua camera stanotte e ti ossessionerà e ti ucciderà.
oh ! sooo biutiful ,like the movie, this piano concerto ! lenny bernstein, i have seen him one time in my live in the concerthall in Amsterdam,luky my
when i watch great musicians that have reached a certain age, like Bernstein in this video or Horowitz playing a Bach choral and of course Kempf w/ the moonlight sonata, there's something heartbreaking and moving going on in me. I always think of them looking back to their lives, having accepted their fate, and awaiting for their time with serenity...
Esta version esta mucho mejor que la de Michelangeli , ademas aqui como en el Adaggieto de la 5ta de Mahler se demuestra la genialidad de Bernstein , los sutiles movimientos , la insinuacion del tempo ... genial!!!
Lenny had so much. He does a mavelous job with this work. The opening Andante mvt. was most impressive. He just seems to be able to climb into the composer's head and become that person when he performed. We are all the poorer for his passing.
What else after such a masterpiece ?? This is just impressive, and my big regret is that Ravel had such a short life. I wish he could have written much more pieces like that...
@expantube he didn't die young. He lived for over 60 years, don't remember exactly. Compared to Schubert who died at age 31, Ravel was ok from that perspective, although he suffered from some kind of disease that didn't allow him to compose until the time of his death
@johndega I think yes. In my life I've only heard two pieces approaching this, namely Intemerata Dei Mater by Ockeghem and a canzona by Philipoctus de Caserta.
something about g it just kinda grabs me, hits right on the ear, coming from a person who doesn't know anything about piano and just sat down today and began playing. its about the most mind calming things ever.
Nobody like lenny peforms this song the best. You cant say that a mastero like him can peform and conduct a piano concerto. He even gives great face jestures while he performs. Im honestly gonna say i wish lenny was still living. I would love to perform under his leadership.
It's amazing to watch how he seems to conduct himself, even! To watch him use the same set of gestures he uses with an orchestra of 100 players even when only two hands are at work... Tremendous.
Wow this is amazing! I looked for it before, but never seemed to find it, thanks for posting! Well, I have been a fan of Argerich, I have loved her interpretations of this concert for a long time, but this one brought tears in my cheeks the first time I listened to it. There is a level of expertise and grandeur in all this interpreters that they really lie beyond comparison to each other. We should enjoy them all!
I have hope that with Bernstein, the intrepretation would have been approaching Arturo B. Michelangeli's one. I am deceived. Bernstein is deceiving.
I hope I did not deceive madamebutterfly and I hop now she is fully dead.
So many great artists have been killed by the mafia of the musical critics who were obeying to some financial interests that now, with youtube, any one can express his idea. I prefer thousands ideas even some against each others than the former mafia of critics
This is amazing, and I think that I've already commented on this one, I just need to know if there are any pieces that are similar to this one, in style and in beauty? I am really trying to find something close to this. Can anyone help? Thank you all
how do you die a little ? is it the brain ? is it the heart ? Is it the blood system ?
me, I think it is the opposite. Youtube is a free plateform where everybody can say what he wants.
Someone wrote that Pierre Sancan is better than X .. with this Concerto .. I followed the advice, and really I say thank you to this "expertise" .. Do you know Sancan ? go and try ..
To finish, it is not a critic disparaging another artist to prove expertise which is not good .. it is what you do with it.
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too much ego, not enough music. listen to argerich instead. next to her bernstein sounds like a high school student sight reading the piece for the first time
The great Maestro, Arturo Toscanini, asked Bernstein to guest conduct The NBC Symphony Orchestra twice. One of those performances included this concerto, which he performed as a soloist as well. Even the Maestro respected him. Bravo.
In my opinion this is the best performance of this concerto and the second part especially. It is so emotional and it is obvious that Bernstein put his heart in this amazing interpretation. I am a big fan of his and I am very fond of the fact that he not only plays but also conducts and thus the orchestral part and the part of the piano become one whole. Oh God, what heavenly music! Big thanks to the uploader.
The sheer beauty of this piece could never be denied, no matter who the pianist is. But Leonard Bernstein is the type of person who reveals all the expressive power of Ravel's beautiful music.
To play note perfect from memory while conducting is possible only for a truly great musician. Lenny, you were a great artist and teacher. We did not deserve you.
So beautiful. I love Bernstein with all my heart,what a personality! Am moved to tears knowing that he is gone,but still I can see him playing!!! Thank you so much for this video.
Le concerto de Ravel a une âme. SOn âme est dans cet adagio, c´est magnifique. Il faut plus qu´une sensibilité pour jouer cette musique. Il faut un coeur, un esprit... un corps. Tes larmes essuient l´imperfection du monde ô poète, tes larmes sont le pied du géant sur l´injustice du monde et l´aurore qui s´éveille à un temps nouveau.
@roflmao9999 he really did mate. Check it out! There's the really famous "West Side Story" that never gets old but there are other cool works like Symphony Number 2 - The Age of Anxiety - it has a really beautiful piano moment towards the start.
@kamojamo you are right he really did but he is so famous because of west side story that i forgot to see other compositions from him. but remember that west side story isn't a symphony :P!
even though i know he is conducting them, ive never heard an orchestra so together with the soloist EVER!!! and this is really beautifully and tenderly played :]
It's like that extra slow tempo Glenn Gould Brahm's First Piano concerto that he conducts and comments on....the one that is often replayed on radio. It's really sublime. Thank you for posting it.
Lenny had a way of controlling slower tempi in a way that brought out undiscovered richness in so much of his beloved repetoire. See his interpretation of Mozart's "Requiem" for further example, among so many other works which he handles at speeds of heart-breaking slowness.
like bernstein, i have played piano for more than half a century. he was a pianist of great talent who didn't play much, a composer who let time slip past him (hear 'jeremiah'), a conductor who only knew what he wanted when it was beyond his reach... as a child, i disliked him because he didn't do enough, and i thought he didn't care. now i know he did: i heard his heart breaking in these notes, and he broke mine, as well. ah, lenny, i misjudged you--may i do half as well, ever... thank you.
I know what you mean. This movement always brings tears to my eyes. When the orchestra comes in it breaks my heart. I've liked his conducting and he's written some excellent show tunes but this is the first time I've heard him play and conduct a piano concerto. Kudos
I think what you wrote was beautiful and totally honest, and I applaud you. I, too, discounted Lenny to a certain extent at one point in my life, but I now thing he's going to be an icon of American classical music in the years to come. For a man man of his wide interests (Composition, conducting, Broadway, teaching) and abilities, the only sad thing is that he didn't have enough years.
It's absolutely ridiculous to describe this superb performance as kitsch. It's clearly based on a rigorous research of an inner sense of the score: Bernstein was so great not to "accomplish his task" but to search for a sense. Not the only one of course: Benedetti Michelangeli's choice is totally different, digging into an opposite colour of the text.
Bernstein is outstanding as well: he's able like none else to point out the jazz nuances of this piece, expecially of course in the 3rd movement.
The fact that this man once gave his soul to share this piece with us.
All of us who, as you see if you read comments around the page, appreciate Bernstein as a great musician. You may not like him, but that´s it. I respect that. Just don´t insult.
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who's insulting? you call me an asshole while I'm just looking at the fact that Bernstein was only corrupting Mahler and Ravel, he made it into kitsch, quite possibly you are able to hear this yourself
saying he turned sublime pieces into pure rubish is an insult. i like his way. The worst u can be is a purist. For example some say that helene grimaud doesn´t know how to play Bach because she is romantic. and franckly i haven´t seen anyone else playing that piece as her. the fact that a composer lived during baroque, or impresionistic, or whatever, doesn´t make him rigidly stuck to that period. Music can be interpreted in so many ways. that´s a great point and bernstein knew how to do it
This Is the best version of Ravels Piano concerto ever! Here again Bernstein Chooses the right tempo. I love the emotinal Way he always choose in a slow performance. This Here is so Beautiful and felt. He was such an emence Personality , a very special Musician put Here to show how it could be done. I love this music. This version is just flawless. Thats Music. all pianists and conductors should listen to this masterful Version.
Esta es una de esas piezas que me dejan una hermosa sensación de intemporalidad. Sentmientos profundos y cotidianos. Bernstein era una persona que verdaderamente amaba la música y que sin duda me da motivos para amarla cada día más.
escuché algunas variadas versiones de este concierto, y creo que Bernstein es quien más escucha a la orquesta,creando un todo con el piano, es increíble, todo muy claro y compacto,una verdadera obra de arte! creo que Bernstein tiene más mérito aún al dirigir...sabe perfectamente lo que hace...y me retracto sobre el comentario que hice del minuto 6:58, en el que esperaba mayor protagonismo del CORNO inglés que el del piano, pero escuchando las demás versiones, es ésta la más fidedigna
I can look to myself through this music...the only music and the only interpretation of this in the whole world. Thanks Maurice Ravel, Thanks mr. Bernstein.
aeqvvs 1 month ago
This is a "ratty" video. =p
timothymanzella 1 month ago
In the kingdom of blind people, a one eye person is a king
Berdjum 1 month ago 11
@Berdjum what does that have to do with any of this?
TaiMaiShu0k 1 week ago
This video is popular on Bishkek
beverlybradley210 2 months ago
I played that English Horn solo. He is not the greatest. Winded and not really in tune.
wendyskola 2 months ago
@franklywright um... is it too slow for you?
effilc38 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
absolutely wonderful ! what a wonderful soul and complex mind of Ravel and a lot of emotions in in Bernstein's feelings and performance... Thank you for sharing this !
samirafterone 2 months ago
Sorry, girls. He is married.
agustgudmundsson 3 months ago
@agustgudmundsson not to mention gay
PrincessZerlina 2 months ago
@PrincessZerlina bisexual*
TaiMaiShu0k 1 week ago
This is my first time hearing this concerto. It's one of those wide-eyed, open-mouthed moments where you just think "wow, what an amazing mind Ravel must have had."
LilDrummerBoy74 3 months ago
Please stop criticizing petty things like tempo. Mr Bernstein felt it should be at this tempo. His interpretation is not your place to impose your opinions. Reality is subjective. If you don't like it, find another recording.
LilDrummerBoy74 3 months ago
One who is able to perform while conducting at such level has the right to alter the tempo a bit! The music is so beautiful that the tempo doesn't matter that much any more.....
Strawbelissimo 3 months ago
i have never heard anything more beautiful.
uttermercyless 3 months ago
This song brings me to tears everytime.
TheSeance18 3 months ago
If only Ravel had lived to hear Bernstein's exquisite interpretation of this masterpiece.
Josquinquin 3 months ago
@franklywrightbitches yes! thats ravel :P ravel = bolero belle France! :)
roflmao9999 3 months ago
These words above could be mine. This is the best second movement of this concert...
SuzeteGarcia51 4 months ago
relax... everyone... and just listen to this wonderful interpretation of this movement... I love Bernstein's interp :)
jinseng072 4 months ago in playlist Ravel Piano Concerto 1
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Devi leggerla. Uno volta cominciata non torni indietro. Una bambina di 10 anni è stata rapita e ? nel 1945. Il suo corpo non fu trovato fino al 1947. Poi un ragazzo la settimana scorsa lesse questo messaggio e non copiò e passo questo messaggio. La ragazza morta è apparsa nella sua camera ossessionata da lui e lo uccise. Se non copi e passi questo in 10 video in 30 min la ragazza morta apparirà nella tua camera stanotte e ti ossessionerà e ti ucciderà.
buooooooooo 4 months ago
anyone knows where to buy an actual recording of this performance?
possibly not an MP3. I'd rather have an actual, high quality record.
what year was the performance made?
saemola 5 months ago
@saemola it was 20th september 1975
arkticheskiy 3 months ago
The perfect version! i`ve been listening all of them, all the others, and now i can say that`s the best!
aeqvvs 6 months ago
meraviglioso....bravissimo...
gio240179 6 months ago 4
It is my belief of great strength that no human being can withhold tears listening to this, tears not of sorrow, nor joy, but of being human.
arsviatticae 6 months ago 3
Ο ΘΕΟΣ ΝΑ ΑΝΑΠΑΥΣΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΨΥΧΟΥΛΑ ΣΟΥ.
MrANTONIOS383 6 months ago
oh ! sooo biutiful ,like the movie, this piano concerto ! lenny bernstein, i have seen him one time in my live in the concerthall in Amsterdam,luky my
doslagos3 6 months ago
@doslagos3 yes lucky!
effilc38 2 months ago
At 9:46 it is no longer possible to hold back the tears
TheManThatClothesMe 6 months ago
@TheManThatClothesMe began choking up at 5:45.
effilc38 2 months ago
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TheManThatClothesMe 6 months ago
you wassup! d'you know u can't spell ravel without spelling RAVE???!
sirjayoh 7 months ago in playlist classical14
Biutiful
shioncherry 7 months ago
Could I possibly find the sheet music for the piano part anywhere???
jlaceyisgod 7 months ago
when i watch great musicians that have reached a certain age, like Bernstein in this video or Horowitz playing a Bach choral and of course Kempf w/ the moonlight sonata, there's something heartbreaking and moving going on in me. I always think of them looking back to their lives, having accepted their fate, and awaiting for their time with serenity...
minasgekos 7 months ago
When I First heard this song... I wanted to cry... It reminded me of my grandparents... everything thats happened to my family
DigitalBath 8 months ago
Incredible
nickie2011 8 months ago
what year was this?
calmtides 8 months ago
@calmtides 20th septembre 1975 in Champs Elysées Theater in Paris
arkticheskiy 3 months ago
revisiting this concerto (and this particular performance) again....nearly shed a tear...
fledgehog 8 months ago
Esta version esta mucho mejor que la de Michelangeli , ademas aqui como en el Adaggieto de la 5ta de Mahler se demuestra la genialidad de Bernstein , los sutiles movimientos , la insinuacion del tempo ... genial!!!
juanpeople 8 months ago
Boring...Boooooring...Thanks, Michelangeli!
vonspre 8 months ago
a perfect political human being playing a perfectly divine song. what would someone expect? thanks, Bernstein!
wintceas 9 months ago
Lenny had so much. He does a mavelous job with this work. The opening Andante mvt. was most impressive. He just seems to be able to climb into the composer's head and become that person when he performed. We are all the poorer for his passing.
flylooper 9 months ago
Když se sejdou dva géniové - Ravel a Bernstein, jak to může být jiné, než nádherné a noblesní.
A Bernstein je takovou osobností, že orchestr hraje snad jen podle pohybu očí - jistě to byla i pro hráče čest.
MsBarkal 9 months ago
What else after such a masterpiece ?? This is just impressive, and my big regret is that Ravel had such a short life. I wish he could have written much more pieces like that...
expantube 9 months ago
@expantube he didn't die young. He lived for over 60 years, don't remember exactly. Compared to Schubert who died at age 31, Ravel was ok from that perspective, although he suffered from some kind of disease that didn't allow him to compose until the time of his death
minasgekos 7 months ago
@minasgekos so he was finally able to compose again at the time of his death?
TaiMaiShu0k 6 months ago
@TaiMaiShu0k he eventually composed some masterpieces after his death :))
minasgekos 6 months ago
this is so beautiful, it makes me cry
KinderquatschMitEmil 9 months ago
BERNSTEIN NOT ONLY BRINGS HIS EXPERIENCE OF PERFORMER AND
CONDUCTOR TO THIS PIECE; BUT ALSO HIS PROFOUND UNDERSTANDING
AS AN ACCOMPLISHED FELLOW COMPOSER. THIS IS PROBABLY THE MOST
PERSONAL OF ALL RAVEL'S MUSIC. IT IS A LATE COMPOSITION, AFTER HE HAS DONE SO MUCH BRAVADO ORCHESTRATING; AND NOW HE PULLS
ASIDE THE CURTAIN AND SHOWS US HIS HEART. MUSIC DOESN'T GET
ANY BETTER THAN THIS.
johndega 10 months ago
@johndega I think yes. In my life I've only heard two pieces approaching this, namely Intemerata Dei Mater by Ockeghem and a canzona by Philipoctus de Caserta.
arsviatticae 6 months ago
something about g it just kinda grabs me, hits right on the ear, coming from a person who doesn't know anything about piano and just sat down today and began playing. its about the most mind calming things ever.
kittygobark1 10 months ago
This would be the soundtrack of my life!
clockwork111orange 10 months ago
Holy shit this is amazing.
hymnofashes 10 months ago 2
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Celinancc1701 10 months ago
On Biutiful soundtrack, while credits run.
kaltk653 11 months ago
masterpiece
FaunsAfternoon 11 months ago
3:36- one of my favorite resolutions of all time
fledgehog 11 months ago
typical bernstien walkin threw the park look giving that nice smile at 5:20
Cw5110 11 months ago
Nobody like lenny peforms this song the best. You cant say that a mastero like him can peform and conduct a piano concerto. He even gives great face jestures while he performs. Im honestly gonna say i wish lenny was still living. I would love to perform under his leadership.
Cw5110 11 months ago
It's amazing to watch how he seems to conduct himself, even! To watch him use the same set of gestures he uses with an orchestra of 100 players even when only two hands are at work... Tremendous.
FrEricT 1 year ago
7 dislikes. what does this imply about some humans?
StanleyYelnatsVideo 1 year ago
@StanleyYelnatsVideo Fans of other pianists. Nitpickers. Morons. Trolls.
hymnofashes 10 months ago
So beautiful!
Pimpoink000 1 year ago
Wow this is amazing! I looked for it before, but never seemed to find it, thanks for posting! Well, I have been a fan of Argerich, I have loved her interpretations of this concert for a long time, but this one brought tears in my cheeks the first time I listened to it. There is a level of expertise and grandeur in all this interpreters that they really lie beyond comparison to each other. We should enjoy them all!
rastaban22 1 year ago
That cor anglais gets me every time.
OriginalBasaliskos 1 year ago
I have hope that with Bernstein, the intrepretation would have been approaching Arturo B. Michelangeli's one. I am deceived. Bernstein is deceiving.
I hope I did not deceive madamebutterfly and I hop now she is fully dead.
So many great artists have been killed by the mafia of the musical critics who were obeying to some financial interests that now, with youtube, any one can express his idea. I prefer thousands ideas even some against each others than the former mafia of critics
April1915 1 year ago
my heart aches while listening to this
Sphinx0414 1 year ago 2
@Sphinx0414
n mine dies slowly
WIKDEZOEP 11 months ago
This is amazing, and I think that I've already commented on this one, I just need to know if there are any pieces that are similar to this one, in style and in beauty? I am really trying to find something close to this. Can anyone help? Thank you all
koooraman 1 year ago
@koooraman
Listen to the Symphonie Concertante pour orchestre et piano (op.82) by Florent Schmitt
lejul75 1 year ago
@koooraman Try Satie - Gymnopedie perhaps?
heyj79 1 year ago
@koooraman My suggestions, as I mentioned before are Intemerata by Ockeghem and
Philipoctus de Caserta: De ma dolour ne puis trouver confort ...)
but Ravel is Ravel.
arsviatticae 6 months ago
Every time a critic or fan disparages another artist to prove some "expertise" I die a little.
madamebetterfly 1 year ago 23
how do you die a little ? is it the brain ? is it the heart ? Is it the blood system ?
me, I think it is the opposite. Youtube is a free plateform where everybody can say what he wants.
Someone wrote that Pierre Sancan is better than X .. with this Concerto .. I followed the advice, and really I say thank you to this "expertise" .. Do you know Sancan ? go and try ..
To finish, it is not a critic disparaging another artist to prove expertise which is not good .. it is what you do with it.
April1915 1 year ago
Lenny plays Ravel the best
Ashley3366 1 year ago
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too much ego, not enough music. listen to argerich instead. next to her bernstein sounds like a high school student sight reading the piece for the first time
digaben3 1 year ago
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too much ego, not enough music. listen to argerich instead
digaben3 1 year ago
that chord at 4:10. Master of harmony and melody.
ronandelisle 1 year ago
omg this song can make me cry, its so beautifull, does any know where i can get the sheet music?
bonitaclao 1 year ago
Incredibly sensitive yet solid... Sublime!!
aopletscher 1 year ago 3
Incredibly sensitive yet solid... Sublime!!
aopletscher 1 year ago
The great Maestro, Arturo Toscanini, asked Bernstein to guest conduct The NBC Symphony Orchestra twice. One of those performances included this concerto, which he performed as a soloist as well. Even the Maestro respected him. Bravo.
madamebetterfly 1 year ago
In my opinion this is the best performance of this concerto and the second part especially. It is so emotional and it is obvious that Bernstein put his heart in this amazing interpretation. I am a big fan of his and I am very fond of the fact that he not only plays but also conducts and thus the orchestral part and the part of the piano become one whole. Oh God, what heavenly music! Big thanks to the uploader.
svetlomirzlatkov 1 year ago 8
5*****
GilvanGouveaMerola 1 year ago
The sheer beauty of this piece could never be denied, no matter who the pianist is. But Leonard Bernstein is the type of person who reveals all the expressive power of Ravel's beautiful music.
workingmansblues 1 year ago 4
To play note perfect from memory while conducting is possible only for a truly great musician. Lenny, you were a great artist and teacher. We did not deserve you.
Baddogphil 1 year ago
It is so peaceful and sometimes gives pain in my heart. I like him. He is one of the best.
TheNona78 1 year ago
I love this man. A lot.
gigglegirlnoel 1 year ago
I love this.Peace
brett
brett1051 1 year ago 2
Need a LOVE button.
SecretariatRocks 1 year ago 7
So beautiful. I love Bernstein with all my heart,what a personality! Am moved to tears knowing that he is gone,but still I can see him playing!!! Thank you so much for this video.
1950Wanda 1 year ago 2
Le concerto de Ravel a une âme. SOn âme est dans cet adagio, c´est magnifique. Il faut plus qu´une sensibilité pour jouer cette musique. Il faut un coeur, un esprit... un corps. Tes larmes essuient l´imperfection du monde ô poète, tes larmes sont le pied du géant sur l´injustice du monde et l´aurore qui s´éveille à un temps nouveau.
Ne sous-estime pas ta force ô mon aimé.
GeorgeSand1976 1 year ago
A stunning interpretation. Flawless and passionate. If this doesn't affect you, check your pulse..
youvebeensmoked 1 year ago 4
La mia attenzione per la musica classica nacque tempo fa da qui.
Ho inteso comprenderne superandomi con essa delle mie, sue intenzioni.
GnagnoeGnagna 1 year ago
im glad my heart is broken from hearing this piece
StoptheIgnorants22 1 year ago
beautiful!
h4x3dby1337 1 year ago
Does anyone else notice that without a cover on the piano, it looks somehow...... larger? Or is that just me?
nmitchell076 1 year ago
esta melodía me parte totalmente...
Mrgrooviefilm 1 year ago
It broke my heart!
bernalrd 1 year ago
Amazing! Ravel was so great..
rafaelito1981 1 year ago
great playing also from the enlgish horn player and flautist!
fortissimo25 2 years ago
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darnmat 2 years ago
what's wrong with this according to your taste?
licoricestic 2 years ago
actually, nothing wrong with it. i actually enjoyed it...
darnmat 2 years ago
how long has it been since a piece like this has been written. seriously.
mixmasterlees 2 years ago 59
@mixmasterlees
There are many wonderful composers, many unknown-still alive. I aspire to write beautiful music.
rezmogm 1 year ago
@mixmasterlees John Ireland Concerto in E Flat. I thought it WAS Ravel when I first heard it and I am a Ravel nut.
powertube5671 1 year ago
@powertube5671 thx friend!
mixmasterlees 1 year ago
@mixmasterlees This guy, Bernstein, wrote some pretty intensely awesome music! Like symphones etc
kamojamo 5 months ago
@kamojamo no he didnt...
roflmao9999 4 months ago
@roflmao9999 he really did mate. Check it out! There's the really famous "West Side Story" that never gets old but there are other cool works like Symphony Number 2 - The Age of Anxiety - it has a really beautiful piano moment towards the start.
kamojamo 4 months ago
@kamojamo you are right he really did but he is so famous because of west side story that i forgot to see other compositions from him. but remember that west side story isn't a symphony :P!
roflmao9999 4 months ago
@roflmao9999 respect at your graciousness :)
kamojamo 4 months ago
even though i know he is conducting them, ive never heard an orchestra so together with the soloist EVER!!! and this is really beautifully and tenderly played :]
fortissimo25 2 years ago 5
6:50
PINKFLOYDPIG2 2 years ago
6:57 is heavenly...
seabright1226 2 years ago 2
Hi Maestro, how about a beer?
schenkmore0 2 years ago
Good old Ravel and Lenny
malma1 2 years ago 3
My heart is melting.
doctorkozi 2 years ago 8
wow
TheJuVeMaNiA 2 years ago
It's like that extra slow tempo Glenn Gould Brahm's First Piano concerto that he conducts and comments on....the one that is often replayed on radio. It's really sublime. Thank you for posting it.
Luchino 2 years ago 2
Lenny had a way of controlling slower tempi in a way that brought out undiscovered richness in so much of his beloved repetoire. See his interpretation of Mozart's "Requiem" for further example, among so many other works which he handles at speeds of heart-breaking slowness.
FrEricT 2 years ago 2
@FrEricT or Nimrod by Elgar :)
arkticheskiy 1 year ago
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too slow...
vonspre 2 years ago
Simplemente.... GENIAL !!!!!
Esucharlo es tocar el Cielo.
frani26 2 years ago 3
extraordinary playing .
superb.
kempff95 2 years ago 2
This is the best of the 2nd movement I have listened to.
I prefer this Bernsteins rather than Michelangelli.
kotaro1976 2 years ago
even it is beauftiful, Michelangeli plays it smoothier and more precise and emotional... Another world.
MINDisc 2 years ago 4
he is my hero. Brett"Kevin Dixon"Wilcots he is our 3 Bs. Bernstein, Bacharcah, and the Beatles
brett1051 2 years ago
like bernstein, i have played piano for more than half a century. he was a pianist of great talent who didn't play much, a composer who let time slip past him (hear 'jeremiah'), a conductor who only knew what he wanted when it was beyond his reach... as a child, i disliked him because he didn't do enough, and i thought he didn't care. now i know he did: i heard his heart breaking in these notes, and he broke mine, as well. ah, lenny, i misjudged you--may i do half as well, ever... thank you.
musicathena 2 years ago 97
@musicathena
I know what you mean. This movement always brings tears to my eyes. When the orchestra comes in it breaks my heart. I've liked his conducting and he's written some excellent show tunes but this is the first time I've heard him play and conduct a piano concerto. Kudos
rezmogm 1 year ago
@musicathena
I think what you wrote was beautiful and totally honest, and I applaud you. I, too, discounted Lenny to a certain extent at one point in my life, but I now thing he's going to be an icon of American classical music in the years to come. For a man man of his wide interests (Composition, conducting, Broadway, teaching) and abilities, the only sad thing is that he didn't have enough years.
flylooper 1 year ago
It's absolutely ridiculous to describe this superb performance as kitsch. It's clearly based on a rigorous research of an inner sense of the score: Bernstein was so great not to "accomplish his task" but to search for a sense. Not the only one of course: Benedetti Michelangeli's choice is totally different, digging into an opposite colour of the text.
Bernstein is outstanding as well: he's able like none else to point out the jazz nuances of this piece, expecially of course in the 3rd movement.
arouet67 2 years ago 2
you find it's jazz nuances in this piece !!!
fanny0820 2 years ago
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bernstein had a great talent to turn the most sublime pieces of classical music into pure rubish, pure kitsch
bommeldebommel 2 years ago
and you must have always had a great talent to talk shit. A bit of respect, asshole
javierleonenriquez 2 years ago
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respect for what? for narcistic entertainment?
bommeldebommel 2 years ago
Respect
The fact that this man once gave his soul to share this piece with us.
All of us who, as you see if you read comments around the page, appreciate Bernstein as a great musician. You may not like him, but that´s it. I respect that. Just don´t insult.
javierleonenriquez 2 years ago 3
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who's insulting? you call me an asshole while I'm just looking at the fact that Bernstein was only corrupting Mahler and Ravel, he made it into kitsch, quite possibly you are able to hear this yourself
bommeldebommel 2 years ago
saying he turned sublime pieces into pure rubish is an insult. i like his way. The worst u can be is a purist. For example some say that helene grimaud doesn´t know how to play Bach because she is romantic. and franckly i haven´t seen anyone else playing that piece as her. the fact that a composer lived during baroque, or impresionistic, or whatever, doesn´t make him rigidly stuck to that period. Music can be interpreted in so many ways. that´s a great point and bernstein knew how to do it
javierleonenriquez 2 years ago
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Music can be interpreted making it rubish, listen to Bernstein
bommeldebommel 2 years ago
Hope to see you doing it better ;)
javierleonenriquez 2 years ago
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first you get some ears
bommeldebommel 2 years ago
first you cure yours from that cancer you must have :)
javierleonenriquez 2 years ago
i'm sorry i reacted to a totall retard as you, my apologogies
bommeldebommel 2 years ago
Then just stop reacting and shut up, please xd
javierleonenriquez 2 years ago
you're still yet to mention why bernstein's interpretations are so bad, so maybe you could back it up with some specific Mahler symphonies?
ewhguitarist 2 years ago
Musica.
giulispace 2 years ago
Perfect.
JazzManEric 2 years ago
Thank you so much Lenny! Finally, a true adagio tempo as it was meant.
lanrev841 2 years ago 6
This Is the best version of Ravels Piano concerto ever! Here again Bernstein Chooses the right tempo. I love the emotinal Way he always choose in a slow performance. This Here is so Beautiful and felt. He was such an emence Personality , a very special Musician put Here to show how it could be done. I love this music. This version is just flawless. Thats Music. all pianists and conductors should listen to this masterful Version.
Dionysosable 2 years ago 3
sempre............meraviglioso!!!!!!
roby130359 2 years ago 2
Fantastic!!! it's a very beautyful piece. and when he drives the orchestra whith a hand in the piano? it´s crazy, but beautyful!
serfuencos 2 years ago 2
tears are dripping from my eyes....
So touching
frozinfire 2 years ago 2
An atmosphere is created from the first second here. What a magical opening....
quadrant0127 2 years ago 3
Leonard bernstein is absolutely brilliant!
And what a stunning english horn solo at 6:57!
empresspip 2 years ago
anybody know where i can get the music sheet?
victorcolosio 2 years ago
1932 Edition Durand Editions Musicales
ISMN M-044-07681-9
Adagio extrait du - Concerto en sol pour piano
transcription par Gustave Samazeuilh
rlk50atl 2 years ago
Most beautiful
Decomposingcomposer 2 years ago
Ah BERSTEIN comme on t'aime ! je viens de m'aperçevoir que la musique du beau film "le Messager" est inspirée de Ravel !
AlainLeboeuf 2 years ago
First time I've ever heard this. It makes me appreciate music in a whole new way. It tells such a story. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes frightening.
But when those descending lines come in at 7:00 and onward, I just wanna fall to my knees and give it all up.
ludwigvan17 2 years ago 3
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martaconcha 2 years ago
What an awesome performance for one of the best pieces of music.
Cumul0Nimbus 2 years ago
i think ravel was thinking about his mother when he wrote this movement
licoricestic 2 years ago
Esta es una de esas piezas que me dejan una hermosa sensación de intemporalidad. Sentmientos profundos y cotidianos. Bernstein era una persona que verdaderamente amaba la música y que sin duda me da motivos para amarla cada día más.
padrenatas 2 years ago
Is there anything more achingly beautiful than this movement?
Selmarg 2 years ago 4
How about Schubert Promptu #3? What do you think?
KohnanTB 2 years ago
escuché algunas variadas versiones de este concierto, y creo que Bernstein es quien más escucha a la orquesta,creando un todo con el piano, es increíble, todo muy claro y compacto,una verdadera obra de arte! creo que Bernstein tiene más mérito aún al dirigir...sabe perfectamente lo que hace...y me retracto sobre el comentario que hice del minuto 6:58, en el que esperaba mayor protagonismo del CORNO inglés que el del piano, pero escuchando las demás versiones, es ésta la más fidedigna
camileludwig 2 years ago