Amir Katz plays Schumann Piano concerto op.54 a minor part 1

[treedeblue]

he played a bit to loud for Schumann's delicate liking's .. yet, still great 

[MusicalMinded96]

My friend once played this concerto in a concert... It was awesome!

[qwertyismymom]

this is my favorite piano concerto ever, and to see it played that well is amazing!

[poatenamchef]

so,from here besame mucho was born...

[lovethepiano]

One of my favorite piano concerts! Schumann is great...

[vernaongyiqi1998]

This music is so wonderful. I would have managed to enjoy it more if it hadn't been hw. haha

[KyvannShrike]

I only wish there was a higher quality available. 280p just kinda sucks.

I absolutely love this performance, and I watched it all the way through.

[MsNichelino]

Buonanotte

[ThePianosarah]

I'm not sure if this question was already asked, I do it again, sorry ;)

Do you know if this concerto was the only one Schumann composed?

[cullivoebhoy]

@ThePianosarah asked: "Do you know if this concerto was the only one Schumann composed?"

Yes Sarah, this is the one and only Piano Concerto that Robert Schumann wrote - this is my favourite, isn't it beautiful?

Schumann composed lots of great music, especially for the piano, but he did not like to perform in public, so his wife Clara played his music in concerts all over Europe.

Have you also listened to Edvard Greig's Piano Concerto in A Minor? - it is also very good - try it and see!

[ThePianosarah]

@cullivoebhoy Thank you, so I was right :)

I listened to it as well, it's really beautiful!

[careinn10]

@cullivoebhoy that's all true, except for the fact that he did not like to perform in public. he didn't perform because his little finger on his left hand was permanently injured.

[bochwawa]

@ThePianosarah It is the only full piano concerto he did. But he did many "Träumereien" for example.

[calisuni]

Beautiful. I was given the Oboe II part for this for an unknown reason. I'm begging for the Oboe I part

[almixchel]

Es de esas melodias que te hacen llorar...

[JoeTownley]

I wish today's composers would write in this Romantic style. I tried to in my "Symphonic Variations After a Theme of Cesar Franck" for piano & orchestra available on YT but I'm the only one I know. Most all composers today rely on a computer to reproduce these bizarre scores that look like an electrician's building schematic rather than a music score, and the stuff that comes out sounds like something from outer space. No wonder it gets played just once and then is forgotten.

[GGbreizh]

@JoeTownley Have you listened to John Williams' music ?

Even though his concerto are more modern than romantic, his other pieces are romantic.

[JoeTownley]

@GGbreizh No, I haven't. He hasn't written a concerto for piano. There is one concerto for tuba on Youtube, but....of all instruments to write a concerto for.....!!!!

[GGbreizh]

@JoeTownley There is one mouvement of his trumpet concerto, and his essay for strings on YouTube.

And I wish he will compose a piano concerto.

[JoeTownley]

@GGbreizh So do I.

[Paganel75]

@JoeTownley : Many people say that Francis Poulenc was the very last classical composer. He died in 1963, I think. His piano concerto (then optimistically named "n°1 piano concerto", I do not know if there ever was a second) is excellent too, especially in in its interpretation by the Orchestre des concerts du Conservatoire directed by Georges Prêtre. A masterpiece.

[JoeTownley]

@Paganel75 Yes, I first became familiar with this concerto via the Angel/Melodya recording by Gabriel Tacchino made back in the 60's--can't remember the conductor; maybe it was Pretre. Haunting opening theme in unison c-minor by the piano ala Rach's Third Concerto has stuck with me even though it's been a good 40 years since I last heard it, it's that memorable.

[marzio54]

Esecuzione maestosa.Interpretazione di grande respiro...la definirei IMPERIALE!

[fionablau]

Happy Birthday Schumann!

[LawrenceSLNg]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!

[JameFent7]

I'm playing this with my school orchestra, but as 2nd viola I have very little scope to mess it up!

[refaful]

tres bon interprète merci,pour si beau moment avec monsieur schumann ,j adore

[AmTropf37]

Schuhmann is year 2010. In Düsseldof are wonderful concerts. Look at these concerts.

[odisap]

Haha, I guess I'm just paranoid...

[MrKennyBones]

Isn't this often compared to Griegs piano concerto in a-minor?

[odisap]

Yes.

In fact, Grieg was inspired to write a piano concerto after Schumann's.

Note the flourishing introduction, thats what Grieg implemented in his own piano concerto - the extremely famous opening. The key - A Minor - is the same as Schumann's, and the style is very similar.

Sorry I am not good at writing... but I am good at classical music :).

[garvan]

@odisap What are you talking about 'not good at writing'? Most people are inept at using punctuation, but you did very well.

[1980NewWave]

@odisap - true, but only for the first movement. The second and third movements of the Schumann and Grieg concertos are very different from eachother.

[thejoshuashieh]

@odisap you can also say that only the first concerto of schmann did grieg use. since he only wrote ONE concerto! and also, no offence, but schumann and grieg are in the romantic period

[victusAiterum]

Aside from the face, the hands are the most expressive devices of mankind.

[sairamnagarajan]

What finely sculpted hands!

[TryingYourLuck9]

tout simplement sublime !!

[southdakotaboy]

That pianist is AWESOMELEY GOOD!!!!!!

I play piano too, and that is amazing!

[CanadaPisces]

An excellent pianist! TY!

[bernard1422]

Amir Katz is magnificent for his young age. May he delight many more audiences with his great talent

[davydyyz]

i agree... besame mucho...

[chansygirl]

besame mucho

[n64321]

wow, I've never noticed the similarity

[chansygirl]

hahaha :P

[rsoeyadi]

This piece is not easy. I am learning this for a competition and am only on page 21! LOL

[BarbaraPloyer333]

How pages are there????

[rsoeyadi]

34 lol

[BarbaraPloyer333]

Aaaaah!!! That's SCARY, dude!

I play the piano- and heck, that ought to mean some SERIOUS practice time!

[rsoeyadi]

You wanna hear more. 71 pages for the whole piece!!!

[BarbaraPloyer333]

Eeek!! Bet you the sheet music's got some pretty puny notes!

At least it's very pretty... but still scary when it comes to playing it.

[ConcertPianist]

It's actually not that hard. I will admit there are tricky parts to the cadenza. It poses a small threat between: one measure you are performing; the other, you are accompanying an oboe, clarinet, etc. Just slow practice with a metronome—and it can be accomplished rather quickly. :)

[baliasuncrest27]

when i'm listening at this concerto, I always thinking that the guy will do the same thing that the girl in the movie Vier minuten (4 minutes)

[LuvnJCandJB]

beautiful! :)

[hunterjumper63]

were playing this song in orchestra, our senior piano player is amazing. its such a great song, the piano is great, i love listening to the solos while im playing in class.

[BoratBrother]

Really? Have you heard of a guy named Richter? His 1975 recording is outstanding, so delicately sculpted...

[bloodySunday77]

...one of his two most favourite piano pieces of all time.

[smallNazn]

Is there any classical lover that hasn't heard of Richter? I doubt it.

[fsharpmajor]

For pure pianistic virtuosity no one to touch Martha Argerich

[Redwizard918]

You mean the diva who plays without a hint of emotion? That Argerich?

[xkont]

Redwizard918 : thank you! for ages i thought i was the only one who believes that ms Martha Argerich is killing all poor Robert's emotions (for witch I love him)....

instead of waves of passion you get arpegios... yak...

[jonnotantan]

Aah... It's so nice to hear someone not blasting his way through the opening bars of this piece... Learning it in preperation for our school concert this summer, and getting thoroughly sick of listening to Naxos' pet pianist Jeno Jando loosing consistency before the first few notes have even ended... Amir Katz plays it so much better and with more feeling!

[jonnotantan]

Excuse me?

[Nanil106]

Hallo! Danke für das Video! Ist echt toll, dass du das reingestellt hast, denn jetzt höre ich endlich, wie es sich wirklich anhören soll!

Meine Schule spielt das nämlich bald vor und dann sollte man schon wissen,wie es sich anhört.

Super-Version von dem Konzert!

[drjekyll66]

In my opinion, there only exist two really brilliant interpretation of this romantic concert: Fleisher and Katz. The others are romantic in overdose. Dinu lipati`interpretation is brilliant otherwise..........Greetings

[mrsherman109]

i love this. its interesting how the conductor doesn't use a baton. i've never seen that before.

[pobz100]

I performed this without a conductor. A good orchestra doesn't need a conductor!

[raphaelbouhnik]

Maybe a garage band doesn't need a conductor, a Philharmonic with dozens of string and air instruments and a few solos can't perform this whiteout a conductor.

And by the way, i don't believe that you performed this piece.

[alexmad2007]

Furhermore from that curiousity, have you realized what a ridiculous pocket orchestra score uses that director to follow the music? Its amazing and gorgeous. Is it possible to read a so extensive ammount of notes from that stand position in a live performance?

[sixteenforty]

I doubt if he's really 'reading' the score, it'll just be an aide memoire

[raphaelbouhnik]

This piece still hold my favorite Concerto!

Just a tiny bit fast at the intro in my taste.

I love the way the philharmonic synchronize at the dynamics!

[SuperShingiIslandx3]

Our symphony played this for our recent concert... Beautiful. The pianist was wonderful and the whole symphony was great! But I was playing so I was focusing on the notes so I couldn't really focus on the beauty of the piano itself... It's beautiful and I'm so glad that this is up!

[mihogo]

The third movement is also awesome. If I'm not wrong this movement is called Allegro Affetuoso right?

[TheRachmaninoffFan]

BEAUTIFUL :) I love this song so much. Schumann always has very interesting and beautiful harmonies and melodies in his songs. Amir Katz does a wonderful job of this song :) I would have to say this is my favourite movement. It is just outstanding. ^_^

[inturtaner]

Schumann always writes his piano music to be difficult technically- i wonder how this peice stacks up to his other peices as far as technicallity. any thots?

[ergon133]

well at the moment im learning it and to me its pretty difficult, the third movement is by far the hardest, in contrast teh second movement is much easier. The first movement is pretty difficult.

thats me being a not very good pianist though, my teachers and friends tell me that it is a comparitively easy piano concerto (compared to things like the rachmaninoff piano concerti and the beethoven piano concerti). heres how they stack up with other composers pieces =P

[inturtaner]

thanks for the input! i played a schumann peice at my last recital, and it was wasn't that difficult, but it was a technical distaster on my part- my technique is awful. I really appreciate the response though, thanks again!

[WWuffii]

one of the most poetic performances I have heard of this concerto. Amazing! Who is this guy?

[otterhouse]

Family of the pianist Mindru Katz (1925-78)? He is a bit of a "buzz word" on the internet at the moment...

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[WWuffii]

If I am not wrong he is the grandson of Mindru Katz.

[jhmusician]

how beautiful!

a FANTASTIC CONCERTO played by a superb pianist and orchestra!

WONDERFUL!

[csutilla]

well shaped motivs and musical phrases

[weetabixharry]

@csutilla I see things like this written a lot on YouTube. Could you explain what this means? What is a motiv/musical phrase and how can I identify their shape in this context?

[masymasmusic]

simply love it!...im learning this...and this vid is extreme motivation!

[mUsr001]

Iv'e been there!

[HEIYAO]

I love it! Just one critique (cause I'm really picky about detail) is that he should use more shoulders to signal to the conductor and orchestra at 0:40-0:42. It's hard to do, in my experience but it's very rewarding :)

[spikeelduro]

Marvelous! I'm an Amir Katz fan now :D

[MrsPyjama]

A beautiful performance of one of my very favourite pieces of music.  Thank you for posting!

[rick730nj]

This is a wonderfully played piece and along with the Rachmaninoff 2nd, is my favorite piano concerto. I love youtube because it lets me hear musicians with whom heretofore I was not familiar. Excellent interpretation Amir.

[lagbaring]

I hadn't listened the second and third movements of this concerto yet. I already liked the first movement a lot, but now, after listening the entire work, I loved it, especially the second movement, because of its wonderful melody. I like the interpretation a lot, too. Congratulations.

[HEIYAO]

Ach! Er ist Deutscher! Ich hab' etwas anders gedacht. Es tut mir leid, Herr Katz.

Dein Konzert gefällt mir sehr!

[lalobaloo]

this is lovely. :) I've played the cello part with a concerto competition winner before, and I'm currently learning this piece myself. :) Love your interpretation and how graceful your fingers move. :) It's rather difficult with my small hands. :( But I cope. :)

[aznsarub0y]

very nice interpretations this helped me improve mine thanks!

[NexMMA]

This is so amazing!

[almax84]

i can't believe this video has been watched only 1,378 times. I mean, this is probably the best composition of Schumann ever. I cry when is see the views of those stupid pop singers, and then see how enriched i am after just listening to some of this. owell...good job again. viva l'italia

[Waldstein19]

yes he is

[almax84]

hey crescendi...are you Amir Katz?

[almax84]

just great

[JaredIsrael]

Bravo! Please, if you can, post more. :-)