*Thank you* for posting this. Certainly one of the best renditions I've heard, and such an interesting confluence of impossibilities, meeting and submitting to the sublime beauty of the composition. I'd give a year of my life to have been in the audience.
очень тонкая филировка звука, немного Шопеновский звук - романтично, но главное что Cliburn имеет индивидуальность, что отсутствует у современных пианистов..
pure emotion. I never saw him playing. I discovered the Emperor with his disc with Fritz Reiner. I remember and recognize every inflexion, perfect breath, interiority...
Too much pression on his shoulders, during the cold war; Still alive, he stopped playing so many years ago...Great, great artist.
One of the most beautiful classical music pieces ever written for piano,played by perhaps the best classical pianist of modern times ,the incomparable Van Cliburn !!
It is amazing how after 200 years this piece of sheer beauty still inspires passion and discussion. Beethoven is truly a giant among us... and Cliburn... no words can adequately describe his talent.
@beeve2000 this was not written by a man, this has always existed, ever since the beginning of the universe. Beethoven was virtuall deaf when he wrote this, so the obvious explanation is that he was given it by a higher power.
@beastinblack That is not the "obvious explanation." A person can hear music in his or herhead while not being able to physically hear. Beethoven was not born deaf, and as such, was able to compose music in his head despite his infirmity.
I think that there are none more sublime moments in music than the opening strains of the piano solo in this concerto/movement (1:37 - 2:43), and Van Cliburn does it with heart-stopping beauty. This video is such a gem. Thanks for posting.
anelidok1, it's best to keep with the music and the genius here, just as you wouldn't want comments on your personal life posted here. Listen and watch and somehow see how irrelevant your comments are if they do not address this beauty.
ohhhhhhhhh and I forgot someone called Van Cliburn !! I first heard this piece played in the great film ''immortal beloved'' ,with Gary Oldman playing Beethoven . It is only recently that I have started looking at youtube and I rate Van Cliburn as the best I have heard and seen .His touch and interpretation is superb .He lives the music body and soul . Just love this !!
I love him not just because he is great pianist, but he is very close to my country Russia(spiritually) . He respect Russia and even loves. And we Russians loves him too.
Damn. How many conshitties did he play ovah dere. Chikovsky,den da Rock 2&3 now dis Baytovan too. Or was dis a spechal conserz afta da big shabang. dont dey d o inny recituls fo dis compa tit ?
Cliburn should write a book on his technique, please don't leave the world without it! Some of the best piano playing i had ever seen (and or heard;)).
I had the pleasure of playing in an orchestra for this piece a few years back. I must say, Van Cliburn's interpretation is the best I have ever heard--I honestly have never heard that much emotion being put into a piano. absolute perfection!
that's why he has a competition named after him, he was last of the true greats in my opinion... the hair says it all ;)
I mean when you look at the guy, the first thing i would say is PIANIST! When you look at Einstein, you would say Wizard, scientist of some sort.. God gives people the right ingredients to become legends... You have good people, talented people, geniuses (a lot of those if you know what i mean) then you have LEGENDS...
"By examining and planning every emotional detail [in music], we risk becoming interesting at the expense of spontaneity, humor, and fun. This tragic irony leads far too many music lovers to conclude that there is a choice to be made between spontaneity and care. The one group
may play beautifully with a tendency towards shallowness. The other group
may be subtle and refined, but with a tendency toward pedantry and humorlessness."
(Claude Mottier, great-grandson of Artur and Therese Schnabel)
@techlawson There is so much verbal nonsense written about Beethoven, I hate to add anything more. Wanting to get you to read what I consider one of the most informative books, J.W.N. Sullivan's Beethoven: His Spiritual Development, I'll say: In my "view", Van Cliburn provides us with a mountaintop from which to even be able to define either group. Van Cliburn, for me, embodies the "spirit" of Beethoven, the balance between "classic" musical structure and emotional improvisation.
@techlawson That said, if this were a game, I'd say that Beethoven had done shallow hack work, i.e., Wellington's Victory, and had occasionally lost his balance and slid into mud, i.e,.parts of the oratorios. Thank you, techlawson, for the question.
@runupahill1 O. I quite like Wellington's Victory and Christ on the Mount of Olives is one of my faves. Does that make me one of those "sliding in the mud"?
@SugarTomAppleRoger Of course not! You are free to love any piece of music. Your ears may hear an infinite number of different things than mine. I judge according to my acquired knowledge and taste and experience, which are always changing. But I also judge Beethoven's works in comparison with his more outstanding and miraculous compositions, which are, for me, beyond any words to adequately describe or to convey. Thasnk you for your response.
@runupahill1 Thank you. From what you said, I would say we would think in much the same way. My taste is always changing also, and I often think I know very little. I would just like to say that Beethoven did write some stuff which may be inferior to his best work. However, I'm glad he wrote the "inferior" works aso, as I like to listen to everything he wrote.
@SugarTomAppleRoger We do agree. Beethoven's "hack" work was that of a superior craftsman, who, like Bach or Mozart, could write good work even when their heart wasn't totally into it. For me, at my age, I only want to spend time with works with heart and musical profundity, like this second movement of Beethoven's 5th PC. Thank you for your warm response, SugarTomAppleRoger.
Wow!!! You definitely got me there you anal attentive cunt. Do the world a favor and stop being a douche every time you see someone screw up just one article.
Thank you, mainlymuzik! It was said best by B.H.Haggin:
"Cliburn...exhibits complete naturalness and rightness in the shaping of the music with his unfailing sense for note-to-note continuity of tone, tension, and outline, in performances characteristic in their simply, subtly achieved grandeur."
Watch the Thirteenth Van Cliburn Competition live starting May 22 through June 7 at the Cliburn website. The webcast will feature live streaming of the performances, online voting, commentary, backstage access, all chamber music rehearsals with the Takacs Quartet and orchestral rehearsals with James Conlon, and more. Its free and open to everyone.
I have been a musician now for 10 years and what a joy it was to come home from the San Francisco symphony orchestra and listen to this concerto and find out that I was going to be a dad from my fiancee. I now have dedicated this concerto in honor of my baby girl.
i discovered this music thanks to a manga animation about apocalypse. since that day, this masterpiece appears to me like the perfect sound for the end of our damn world...
This piece, is a masterpiece on its own. i heard this in a diff version thats what brought me here.there is something personal and feminine about ths piece. mad as you think i am my past brought me here.
This is Beethoven. There is a reason why Beethoven's music is considered the the culmination of Western Art.
I just respectfully remind you that a significant portion of the World wants to return us all to the 13th Century....and will try to kill themselves and us until we go there.
A world where Beethoven doesn't exist.
I don't know about you, but I cannot imagine living in a world like that.
I appreciate your correction. Khomeini banned all Western music, including all Western classical music. The Muslim world is so antithetical to the West that it is hard to imagine a rapproachment between the two.
I don't know about you, but I cannot imagine a world without Beethoven. Yet, that is the direction we are now moving to. What gets me is that most people in the West simply don't get it.
It's not just a fight for our lives. It's a fight for our culture.
The Islamic ideology is not only hostile to music - that's why there is no Muslim Beethoven or Mozart - but also to any form of pictorial or representational art - that's why there is no Muslim Michelangelo or Rembrandt.
The Western world is sleep-walking into oblivion. Read "While Europe Slept" by Bruce Bawer and "America Alone" by Mark Steyn.
The only question is: will Islamic conquest occur peacefully or will it meet some
That is certainly true, but it is the fanatics - those who advocate a "pure" form of Islam - who are steadily gaining the upper hand in the Muslim world. In Western countries, it is the radicals who are gaining in power and influence, while the so-called "moderates" remain silent and inert.
But at the same time, I can agree with you as well. While it's difficult to judge others, it is also much more difficult to improve ourselves I think. . .But at least we're trying, right?
resistance? At the moment, with treason, cowardice and appeasement predominating at every level, it seems the former scenario is more likely than the second.
It is not only European culture that is menaced with extinction. European countries will cease to exist as nations (they've already abandoned much of their sovereignty to the EU and the UN) and Europeans are dying out as ethnic groups, thanks to low
I suspect one of the first things the Islamists will do when they take over is ban classical music - in particular Christian composers like Bach and Handel. It will become a crime to listen to Bach - as it was a crime (punishable by death) to listen to Chopin in Poland under the Nazis.
Although I feel there is more room for emotion at just a slightly slower tempo, this is amazing. Look at that human! Listen to the beautiful orchestrations supporting this miracle!
Absolutely beautiful!! As a young piano student, my instructor would rave about van Cliburn. I see precisely why.
Now, as an adult, I've discovered van Cliburn was the first guest artist for the organization I work for. I wish I could thank him personally for the inspiration he has given me.
Kinda stiff early on despite the appearance of absorbing the music. For me, the tempo has to be slower in spots in this piece. Accenting is everything here, God knows.
Come to our channel for some more sweet instrumental sounds:Bohemianmememusic
Please forgive the misspelling of hoping. I mean hoping and not hopeing. When I am sad, I listen to this. When I am happy, I listen to this. Thanks for helping me find Van CLiburn.
Mainlymuzik, please tell us more of this video is coming in the future as you did with the Cliburn Tchaikovsky 1 & 2nd movements. If so I will believe you, you kept your word on the 1 & 2!!
Here we witness a man who knows how to get to core of the music. Left hand accompaniment soft, right hand singing over it, he backs off and becomes the accompanist and lets the orchestra speak when it needs to. This kind of playing is rare these days. Aimi Kobayashi and
George Li are two young pianists I love. Search you tube for their performances.
His touch is so perfect in this performance, it's unbelievable. I've never heard better. It's so delicate and so refined. I don't think Beethoven could have even imagined such care and quality
I have just finished a variation for this movement. I have also added some lyrics in spanish. I would like your opinions before recording it. Just click on my name above (alfonsopablo), then click on the song entitled "Ausencia". Thanks!
Great Cello bass staccato in the intro. Van Cliburn has always been a pianist who knows how to bring emotion into the music. I especially like his Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano concerto!
Cliburn gets the accolades but one should not overlook the orchestra. Those old Soviet-era orchestra wern't very well known in the West but they were truly oustanding as were many of their conductors despite their relative anonymity. These historical film excerts help preserve them for us; too bad the entire performance wasn't available.
Most beautiful music ever composed...Ludwig van was so brilliant and only put out amazing music. Check out his Violin Concerto and the other 4 piano and all 9 symphonies..
Van Cliburn is a great pianist, but I wouldn't be sure if he is the greatest in the world. His interpretation is perceived differently by everyone. Although he performed this concerto masterfully.
magnífica pieza ;)
moviesDSvideo 2 months ago
Love it =)
elizagraziani 2 months ago
*Thank you* for posting this. Certainly one of the best renditions I've heard, and such an interesting confluence of impossibilities, meeting and submitting to the sublime beauty of the composition. I'd give a year of my life to have been in the audience.
TealBlueSea 2 months ago
Best Piano concerto (all three movements) ever written. Period. And that comes from a Mozart fan.
beastinblack 5 months ago
the best playing I've heard of this movement. Van Cliburn Rocks!
Also the sensitivity of the conductor has much to do with this being the best EVER!
joyfullbunny 7 months ago
the best playing I've heard of this movement. Van Cliburn Rocks!
joyfullbunny 7 months ago
An enigma of a pianist. TY for posting.
paulostroff99 7 months ago
This is how you play this piece, as if you are just finding the notes on the piano just then, but that is how it should sound, as you find it.
eannatone 10 months ago
This is how you play this piece, as if you are just finding the notes on the piano just then, but that is how it should sound, as you find it.
eannatone 10 months ago
mainlymuzik : Thank you so much for the clip. Where are the other movements? Could you please post them too?
surena1374 10 months ago
theres an air of that heavenly genius one gets with mozart in this concert.
this makes me gasp every time i hear it. so very beautiful.
chrism216 10 months ago
очень тонкая филировка звука, немного Шопеновский звук - романтично, но главное что Cliburn имеет индивидуальность, что отсутствует у современных пианистов..
одни кости механики.
AGNELLIVS 1 year ago 2
A most beautiful interpretation of a most beautiful music. Self-disciplined, authentic, Van Cliburn. An ageless jewell. Beethoven = Art at its best.
9samten 1 year ago 6
I've watched this video for times.It's so amazing.Time obvioysly can't do anything to destroy the immortant music with the great composer.
linhpiano 1 year ago
just beautiful.
simplerachel11 1 year ago
Wish society was still classy.
winecoffin12 1 year ago 6
@winecoffin12
so do i, but it ain't.
j.
djrbfm 1 year ago
Greatest second movement ever. THIS is what a good Christian romanticist sounds lke.
Lassannn 1 year ago
This music causes me to ponder the meaning of my life; where I came from & my whole life from beginning to now.
cellestialX 1 year ago
Just......beautiful. Utterly spellbinding
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It's the most beautiful movement of all time !!!
SuperZerf 1 year ago
It is the most beautiful movement of all time !!!
SuperZerf 1 year ago
pure emotion. I never saw him playing. I discovered the Emperor with his disc with Fritz Reiner. I remember and recognize every inflexion, perfect breath, interiority...
Too much pression on his shoulders, during the cold war; Still alive, he stopped playing so many years ago...Great, great artist.
Florestan22 1 year ago 2
Van Cliburn plays this as if he is in a trance of pure joy,amazing that for many parts he is not even looking at the keyboard !!
lovemetu 1 year ago 18
@lovemetu maybe the keyboards are in his heart!
linhpiano 1 year ago
@linhpiano
As they are also in your heart !
lovemetu 1 year ago
One of the most beautiful classical music pieces ever written for piano,played by perhaps the best classical pianist of modern times ,the incomparable Van Cliburn !!
Music does not come much better than this !!
lovemetu 1 year ago 6
Beethoven was among the best musicians of all times.
duffault05 1 year ago
The most beautiful movement ever written.
kyzrsze 1 year ago
my cat molly loves this movement..........
drumcatf8 1 year ago
Beethoven...All the love, beauty, sadness, pain and consolation that the world has to offer.
MetroDuroc 1 year ago 2
It is amazing how after 200 years this piece of sheer beauty still inspires passion and discussion. Beethoven is truly a giant among us... and Cliburn... no words can adequately describe his talent.
weichenxi 1 year ago
Superb! Thank you for posting this. So proud of him.
ThePatricianbelle 1 year ago
I've always thought this was one of the very most beautiful middle movements (or any movement for that matter) ever written by man.
beeve2000 1 year ago 38
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beastinblack 5 months ago
@beeve2000 this was not written by a man, this has always existed, ever since the beginning of the universe. Beethoven was virtuall deaf when he wrote this, so the obvious explanation is that he was given it by a higher power.
beastinblack 5 months ago
@beastinblack That is not the "obvious explanation." A person can hear music in his or herhead while not being able to physically hear. Beethoven was not born deaf, and as such, was able to compose music in his head despite his infirmity.
thechernmaster 5 months ago
I think that there are none more sublime moments in music than the opening strains of the piano solo in this concerto/movement (1:37 - 2:43), and Van Cliburn does it with heart-stopping beauty. This video is such a gem. Thanks for posting.
tannerboi 1 year ago
GOD THANK THOU FOR THIS VIDEO
joydivision19842 1 year ago
Now we know why the Russian's cried out "Gold Medal! Gold Medal" at the Tchaikovsky Competition......grace and power!!
floydrharper 2 years ago
7:27 - Look at the size of his hand!
anelidok1 2 years ago
It's Huge!
Pollkiri 2 years ago
Hi!, Somebody knows where is the first movement?
danveldor 2 years ago
ohhhhhhhhhh so sorry ,I am so used to watching him play I got muddled up,wrong composer !!!! heheeh !!
Please forgive me !! Anyway ever seen Sarah Chang my favourite Violinist !! wonderfull entertainer !!
lovemetu 2 years ago
excelente video, por favor subir otros videos de Van Cliburn,,,,
miguelgutierrez1000 2 years ago 3
I really emulated Mr. Cliburn in the late 60 's - I actually wanted to be him! A girlfriend at the time, Laura, however brought me back to reality.
rachmaninovpc3dminor 2 years ago
@ rachmaninovpc3dminor
Well for a start if you wanted to be him ,well no girlfriends ...........?
lovemetu 2 years ago
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anelidok1 2 years ago
anelidok1, it's best to keep with the music and the genius here, just as you wouldn't want comments on your personal life posted here. Listen and watch and somehow see how irrelevant your comments are if they do not address this beauty.
SeerTrulth 2 years ago
@SeerTrulth : I fully agree with you. I have removed my earlier comment. Thank you for calling me out on the inappropriateness of my comment.
anelidok1 1 year ago
@anelidok1 That took character and class, and stands as a shining example to others on YouTube! Bravo! Your brave humility is inspiring.
Isn't this music just beyond Earthly descripition?
SeerTrulth 1 year ago
Music of 3 men of genius,Beethoven,Kondrashin,
ohhhhhhhhh and I forgot someone called Van Cliburn !! I first heard this piece played in the great film ''immortal beloved'' ,with Gary Oldman playing Beethoven . It is only recently that I have started looking at youtube and I rate Van Cliburn as the best I have heard and seen .His touch and interpretation is superb .He lives the music body and soul . Just love this !!
lovemetu 2 years ago
Where are the other three movements by van Cliburn? He is the best.
randtheloving 2 years ago
The man is a Genius ,nothing to add !!
lovemetu 2 years ago 3
atemberaubend! Very cool Kondrashin and Cliburn. Sagenhaft!
gzaenker 2 years ago
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conmuymalaleche 2 years ago
he allows the music to enter his soul,simply beautiful. thanks for posting this.
in4freedom 2 years ago
Well put,nobody can play like Van Cliburn !!
lovemetu 2 years ago
the best music and the best performance ever
lessbink 2 years ago 2
wonderful.. thank you for this video... let's hope it music won't disappear...
tubolic 2 years ago
I love him not just because he is great pianist, but he is very close to my country Russia(spiritually) . He respect Russia and even loves. And we Russians loves him too.
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Damn. How many conshitties did he play ovah dere. Chikovsky,den da Rock 2&3 now dis Baytovan too. Or was dis a spechal conserz afta da big shabang. dont dey d o inny recituls fo dis compa tit ?
lovesGenet 2 years ago
Cliburn should write a book on his technique, please don't leave the world without it! Some of the best piano playing i had ever seen (and or heard;)).
MoronPianist 2 years ago
Hi:
This made my day! Thank you so much for sharing.
-Ciao, AA
AriannaAyers 2 years ago
Endless thanks for post!
cicerone63 2 years ago
great! please upload the next movement
grandmagicianmike 2 years ago
This is my favourite version. And my favourite piece of classical music. I love it.
briank59 2 years ago
I had the pleasure of playing in an orchestra for this piece a few years back. I must say, Van Cliburn's interpretation is the best I have ever heard--I honestly have never heard that much emotion being put into a piano. absolute perfection!
Aubstopper 2 years ago
that's why he has a competition named after him, he was last of the true greats in my opinion... the hair says it all ;)
I mean when you look at the guy, the first thing i would say is PIANIST! When you look at Einstein, you would say Wizard, scientist of some sort.. God gives people the right ingredients to become legends... You have good people, talented people, geniuses (a lot of those if you know what i mean) then you have LEGENDS...
MoronPianist 2 years ago
love it. Does anyone know where i can get the sheet or see a tutorial for the piano part?
McGreysAnatomyFan 2 years ago 2
IMSLP
requiemaeturnum 2 years ago
"By examining and planning every emotional detail [in music], we risk becoming interesting at the expense of spontaneity, humor, and fun. This tragic irony leads far too many music lovers to conclude that there is a choice to be made between spontaneity and care. The one group
may play beautifully with a tendency towards shallowness. The other group
may be subtle and refined, but with a tendency toward pedantry and humorlessness."
(Claude Mottier, great-grandson of Artur and Therese Schnabel)
runupahill1 2 years ago 6
@runupahill1 which group do you think Beethoven would be in?
techlawson 1 year ago
@techlawson There is so much verbal nonsense written about Beethoven, I hate to add anything more. Wanting to get you to read what I consider one of the most informative books, J.W.N. Sullivan's Beethoven: His Spiritual Development, I'll say: In my "view", Van Cliburn provides us with a mountaintop from which to even be able to define either group. Van Cliburn, for me, embodies the "spirit" of Beethoven, the balance between "classic" musical structure and emotional improvisation.
runupahill1 1 year ago
@techlawson That said, if this were a game, I'd say that Beethoven had done shallow hack work, i.e., Wellington's Victory, and had occasionally lost his balance and slid into mud, i.e,.parts of the oratorios. Thank you, techlawson, for the question.
runupahill1 1 year ago
@runupahill1 O. I quite like Wellington's Victory and Christ on the Mount of Olives is one of my faves. Does that make me one of those "sliding in the mud"?
SugarTomAppleRoger 1 year ago
@SugarTomAppleRoger Of course not! You are free to love any piece of music. Your ears may hear an infinite number of different things than mine. I judge according to my acquired knowledge and taste and experience, which are always changing. But I also judge Beethoven's works in comparison with his more outstanding and miraculous compositions, which are, for me, beyond any words to adequately describe or to convey. Thasnk you for your response.
runupahill1 1 year ago
@runupahill1 Thank you. From what you said, I would say we would think in much the same way. My taste is always changing also, and I often think I know very little. I would just like to say that Beethoven did write some stuff which may be inferior to his best work. However, I'm glad he wrote the "inferior" works aso, as I like to listen to everything he wrote.
SugarTomAppleRoger 1 year ago
@SugarTomAppleRoger We do agree. Beethoven's "hack" work was that of a superior craftsman, who, like Bach or Mozart, could write good work even when their heart wasn't totally into it. For me, at my age, I only want to spend time with works with heart and musical profundity, like this second movement of Beethoven's 5th PC. Thank you for your warm response, SugarTomAppleRoger.
runupahill1 1 year ago
I met him accidentally at a Albertsons when I was 5. I stepped on him foot on accident.
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socceraddict435 2 years ago
Wow!!! You definitely got me there you anal attentive cunt. Do the world a favor and stop being a douche every time you see someone screw up just one article.
pjfislord 2 years ago
Thank you, mainlymuzik! It was said best by B.H.Haggin:
"Cliburn...exhibits complete naturalness and rightness in the shaping of the music with his unfailing sense for note-to-note continuity of tone, tension, and outline, in performances characteristic in their simply, subtly achieved grandeur."
runupahill1 2 years ago
Stupendo.......
GBV1961 2 years ago 2
My favorite playing of this movement, of all the very many that I have heard.
cellestialX 2 years ago 4
Yes! mine too!
NicPassions6 2 years ago 2
Beautiful.
Huddiethegreat 2 years ago 5
Beautiful!
jjrcz021 2 years ago 4
Beautiful cantabile tone quality. A very moving performance. Great pianist at his best.
piano345 2 years ago 6
Better heard than seen.
silverstartrucker 2 years ago
es mejor que una anestesia
conmuymalaleche 2 years ago 2
The movement is also known as the Emperor Suite.
Pilgrim812 2 years ago
...Well done clever clogs :P Morever it's actually called the Emperor Concerto :D
CROMPZ65 2 years ago 2
Tremendous! Beautiful music!
dsbrown3000 2 years ago
just perfect!
soulmach 2 years ago
amazing! The sound is so beautiful!
fyipwang 2 years ago
Agree,,,BEETHOVEN MASTER OF MASTERS! You will always be remember ed as the man that God used to make music. Superb!
jfda81 2 years ago
Compare this movement with Mozart´s second number 17... Mozart rules
sosamuera 2 years ago
sorry, disagreed!
aramian21 2 years ago
BEETHOVEN = Greatest of All Time.
asianhugh 2 years ago 4
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Be quiet, Beethoven can not be compared with Bach and the number one: Mozart
sosamuera 2 years ago
Stunning. It transports you into another world. Thank you Monsieurs Cliburn and Beethoven!!
Dollytxno1 2 years ago
Anyone has the sheet music for piano pls??
iluvhopndballet 2 years ago
I'm looking for it too! plz, tell me when you get it! thnx!
RaDeGam 2 years ago
Watch the Thirteenth Van Cliburn Competition live starting May 22 through June 7 at the Cliburn website. The webcast will feature live streaming of the performances, online voting, commentary, backstage access, all chamber music rehearsals with the Takacs Quartet and orchestral rehearsals with James Conlon, and more. Its free and open to everyone.
VanCliburnFoundation 2 years ago
this song is so beautiful. it brings tears 2 mi eyes. i wish it'd never stop...^_*
mileyluv707 2 years ago 2
simply beautiful
XxsimplymariaxX 2 years ago
This is so beautiful it's heartbreaking. Thank you for posting this wonderful video.
Morgana0x 2 years ago 3
I have been a musician now for 10 years and what a joy it was to come home from the San Francisco symphony orchestra and listen to this concerto and find out that I was going to be a dad from my fiancee. I now have dedicated this concerto in honor of my baby girl.
8vaharke 2 years ago 2
i discovered this music thanks to a manga animation about apocalypse. since that day, this masterpiece appears to me like the perfect sound for the end of our damn world...
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goggyli 2 years ago
this fantastic!!!
jatziri10 2 years ago
Unbelievable . As if one of El gGrecos figure cold sitdown to play.
dereczynski 2 years ago
True That
People think they are so much better than people on Youtube.
When in real life, they cant do crap, but click buttons
SlaveOfGod1993 3 years ago 3
I agree with you on that! This is true. . .
beattific89 2 years ago
wow...
tubolic 3 years ago
this is such an amazing video. always a favorite!
adeekus 3 years ago
There is certainly something special about people with "van" in their names...
Cherodar 3 years ago
Do you have video of movement 1 or 3?
bw219007 3 years ago
Boska muzyka!!!
CONNERY1963 3 years ago
we always think of the Richter's and the Goulds, but Cliburn in my opinion at his best was most definitely one of the best
vcupiano 3 years ago
This piece, is a masterpiece on its own. i heard this in a diff version thats what brought me here.there is something personal and feminine about ths piece. mad as you think i am my past brought me here.
sumner105 3 years ago
OF COURSE IT'S INCREDIBLY MOVING...
This is Beethoven. There is a reason why Beethoven's music is considered the the culmination of Western Art.
I just respectfully remind you that a significant portion of the World wants to return us all to the 13th Century....and will try to kill themselves and us until we go there.
A world where Beethoven doesn't exist.
I don't know about you, but I cannot imagine living in a world like that.
sanjosemike
sanjosemike 3 years ago 7
Actually, its the 8th century of Arab desert tribes that they want to return us to.
And with the multicultural enthusiasts in the West who promote them and their barbarous religion and culture, they are likely to succeed.
manalone999 3 years ago
I appreciate your correction. Khomeini banned all Western music, including all Western classical music. The Muslim world is so antithetical to the West that it is hard to imagine a rapproachment between the two.
I don't know about you, but I cannot imagine a world without Beethoven. Yet, that is the direction we are now moving to. What gets me is that most people in the West simply don't get it.
It's not just a fight for our lives. It's a fight for our culture.
sanjosemike
sanjosemike 3 years ago
The Islamic ideology is not only hostile to music - that's why there is no Muslim Beethoven or Mozart - but also to any form of pictorial or representational art - that's why there is no Muslim Michelangelo or Rembrandt.
The Western world is sleep-walking into oblivion. Read "While Europe Slept" by Bruce Bawer and "America Alone" by Mark Steyn.
The only question is: will Islamic conquest occur peacefully or will it meet some
manalone999 3 years ago
actually not all muslims shun music or art, it is the variety that comes from more strict sects that does that.
ahriman2000 3 years ago
That is certainly true, but it is the fanatics - those who advocate a "pure" form of Islam - who are steadily gaining the upper hand in the Muslim world. In Western countries, it is the radicals who are gaining in power and influence, while the so-called "moderates" remain silent and inert.
manalone999 3 years ago
let's not judge others. but only try to improve ourselves.
haruwan21 3 years ago 7
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Don't give me that "We must not be judgemental" crap. That's what's killing us and our civilisation, you halfwit.
manalone999 3 years ago
may God bless you and everybody else with true love and wisdom.
haruwan21 3 years ago
But at the same time, I can agree with you as well. While it's difficult to judge others, it is also much more difficult to improve ourselves I think. . .But at least we're trying, right?
beattific89 2 years ago
resistance? At the moment, with treason, cowardice and appeasement predominating at every level, it seems the former scenario is more likely than the second.
It is not only European culture that is menaced with extinction. European countries will cease to exist as nations (they've already abandoned much of their sovereignty to the EU and the UN) and Europeans are dying out as ethnic groups, thanks to low
manalone999 3 years ago
birth-rates. They are being outbred by the Muslim immigrant populations.
Thus Europeans are facing total extinction -culturally, ethnically, politically, and existentially.
manalone999 3 years ago
I suspect one of the first things the Islamists will do when they take over is ban classical music - in particular Christian composers like Bach and Handel. It will become a crime to listen to Bach - as it was a crime (punishable by death) to listen to Chopin in Poland under the Nazis.
manalone999 3 years ago
Although I feel there is more room for emotion at just a slightly slower tempo, this is amazing. Look at that human! Listen to the beautiful orchestrations supporting this miracle!
whitejs 3 years ago 3
This is simply breath taking! Awesome performance and emotion are intertwined in the performance.
loonsrgr8 3 years ago 2
music to die for............
tryagaintony 3 years ago 10
I never knew how beautiful music could sound.
mrkenjisan 3 years ago 8
Absolutely beautiful!! As a young piano student, my instructor would rave about van Cliburn. I see precisely why.
Now, as an adult, I've discovered van Cliburn was the first guest artist for the organization I work for. I wish I could thank him personally for the inspiration he has given me.
ltm353 3 years ago 2
Van Cliburn was a hottie!! Very awesomely played.
lionessmaiden86 3 years ago 2
simply the best... my favorite version
smarialuisait 3 years ago
Wow!!!
sarangosa 3 years ago
Kinda stiff early on despite the appearance of absorbing the music. For me, the tempo has to be slower in spots in this piece. Accenting is everything here, God knows.
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BohemianMemeMusic 3 years ago
absoooolutely beautiiiful!! oh, my gooodddd!
so deeeeeep!
this man is great! barviisimooo!
sujimsusana 3 years ago
It would be fantastic to get even the mouv. III played by Van Cliburn. Thanks in advance. sesostri 2005
sesostri2005 3 years ago
where are the other movements from this concert?
gramor7 3 years ago
Pure genius, what a pianoplayer, what a great performance. I often cry to this part of the Emperor, it´s so very beautiful
Matten1961 3 years ago
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Hes a pianist not a piano player.
seektheforce 3 years ago
Yes, sorry, my mistake. What a pianist :-)
Matten1961 3 years ago
Please forgive the misspelling of hoping. I mean hoping and not hopeing. When I am sad, I listen to this. When I am happy, I listen to this. Thanks for helping me find Van CLiburn.
Anita
omybeethoven 3 years ago
No one but Beethoven could play this any better than Van Cliburn. THank you soooo much. This is what I was hopeing to hear. He has a magic touch.
omybeethoven 3 years ago
this music comes from the future guys. thanks ludwig
aLfR3dd 3 years ago 2
So utterly beautiful and moving! Thank you!
nooowaaay1 3 years ago 2
so utterly beautiful and moving, i love this!Thank you!
nooowaaay1 3 years ago
Mainlymuzik, please tell us more of this video is coming in the future as you did with the Cliburn Tchaikovsky 1 & 2nd movements. If so I will believe you, you kept your word on the 1 & 2!!
Thank you for this treat!
hilocomtoot 3 years ago 2
This is one of my favourite music-pieces.
banaaaane 3 years ago 3
Here we witness a man who knows how to get to core of the music. Left hand accompaniment soft, right hand singing over it, he backs off and becomes the accompanist and lets the orchestra speak when it needs to. This kind of playing is rare these days. Aimi Kobayashi and
George Li are two young pianists I love. Search you tube for their performances.
LVB1770 3 years ago 2
His touch is so perfect in this performance, it's unbelievable. I've never heard better. It's so delicate and so refined. I don't think Beethoven could have even imagined such care and quality
cchamp27 3 years ago 5
It's incredibly moving to watch someone play with such passion and intensity.
jesic 3 years ago 6
He looks, acts and plays like a true master. He was a true master!
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alfonsopablo 3 years ago
Great Cello bass staccato in the intro. Van Cliburn has always been a pianist who knows how to bring emotion into the music. I especially like his Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano concerto!
LVB1770 3 years ago
Thanks for this video! It's really very nice to see how Van Cliburn played this concerto more than 40 years ago!
musiclover83 3 years ago
Such a great perfomer, unbelievable van Cliburn playing with so much sensity and in a heart-warming way. Wonderful.
And what a great piece of music, composed by greatest musician of all time, thanks Beethoven.
Greatest music ever been composed.
The 4th and the 5th piano concerto are amazing, just amazing and so good, that your eyes are filled with tears when you hear that sound.
ttuConSpirito 3 years ago 8
you couldn't have said that any truer, its sure" fills your cup "
diggindis 3 years ago
Such a beautiful Concerto, Played with sensitivity that would have pleased Beethoven.
sccadu 3 years ago
So young and playing so beautifully.
MockingbirdLedger 3 years ago 3
I always bought season tickets when Cliburn was on the list of performers. I wish that he would come out of retirement just one more time.
Gmapolly 3 years ago
do you know why he retired? was it that he was getting old?
if you know, would you let me know.
thanks
cainsfury 3 years ago
this is such a great and heartwarming performance!!!i love it =)
leonhart2103 3 years ago
Cliburn gets the accolades but one should not overlook the orchestra. Those old Soviet-era orchestra wern't very well known in the West but they were truly oustanding as were many of their conductors despite their relative anonymity. These historical film excerts help preserve them for us; too bad the entire performance wasn't available.
zv03 3 years ago 3
I second that you raise a great point.
What a wonderful sound.
politicalslave 3 years ago
Heavenly!
julsbabe 3 years ago
This is simply great. Bravo!
Young pianists should listen to and learn.
fan44music 3 years ago
Most beautiful music ever composed...Ludwig van was so brilliant and only put out amazing music. Check out his Violin Concerto and the other 4 piano and all 9 symphonies..
mulzinnati 4 years ago 4
I
agree
carlogervasi 3 years ago
Van Cliburn is a great pianist, but I wouldn't be sure if he is the greatest in the world. His interpretation is perceived differently by everyone. Although he performed this concerto masterfully.
JunsukAhn2 4 years ago