Bernstein Plays Ravel's Concerto in G

[ogelioholde921r]

This is a "pushy" video. =p

[indseytate718l]

This video went viral on Rabat

[mlr2107]

With regards to 1:01...I didn't know Ravel played horn!

[baseballrocks76]

@mlr2107 ikr wtf



[Orfeusmusica]

ya solo tocar la parte del piano sería dificil. pero tocar y dirigir... un locura. wow.

[gatomjp]

WOW! The energy!

[duffault05]

the musician at 1:01 looks like Maurice Ravel !

[TaiMaiShu0k]

holy hell. amazing.

[arco227]

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[pellypates]

3:30 he decided to just straight up paw that keyboard like a kitty cat dawg

[v8nk7bty]

beautiful 素晴らしい！

[jjg7]

i think he has similar speed with that of Argerich

[ExploreEgypt]

Do I need to promote Egypt?

[sadi0019]

14 people obvious don`t know what is the meaning of the music! Bernstein is UNIQ!

[duffault05]

WOW !

[clytemnestre1]

magnificent !!!!

[newfreshreview]

Who else thinks the clarinet shriek at 0:17 sounds like something John Williams would write for a pursuit theme in Indiana Jones?

[yusukeundisolde]

運動会

[SCQTV]

the man again!!! so inspiring!!

[jsbach777]

so Ravel himself decided to play the french horn part himself - evident at 1:01 !!

[organboi]

so many wrong notes. yikes. and it's too too too fast. the whole orchestra was buried. Ravel would never have wanted his piece hacked to death like this. AND bernstein took it upon himself to re-write the ending by making an octave passage when there isn't one. just awful. and he's so into himself. Ravel is no where to be found.

[OrangeSodaKing]

@organboi I think other recordings exist of him playing it better, but they're not uploaded onto YouTube.

[jumponthebandwagon]

@organboi

Martha Argerich must be smiling.

[bene951]

@organboi you're so gay. yikes. you're too too too gay. your gayness is not buried. ravel would not want you gayness like this. AND your gayness took it upon itself to gay up this comment board. just gay. and you're so gay. you gayness is everywhere to be found.

[drongovids]

@bene951 i'm crying with laughter

[alexthesmart]

@organboi Dumbass. I bet YOU couldn't play this.

[KearneyPiano]

@organboi the octave passage at the end is very commonly used by pianists includin alicia de larrocha AND marguerite long used it that same octave passage in her recording of this concerto, with ravel conducting, that is likely to be where people got the idea to use that octave passage as it much more effective than what is written

[organboi]

He missed more notes than he got right ones in the first few measures. he was so busy trying to conduct when he didn't really even have to.

[tcgamezm]

This is the best pianist i've ever seen in my life!, there´s nothing more I can say! What a beautiful music!

[Nijmegen1955]

I miss this man !

What a genius...

Thanx so much s006221 for uploading this masterpiece !!

5* for U and 5* for Leonard Bernstein !!!

[NMC21887]

Who's the string player that jumped the gun at 0:05?!?!

[DanielMcDrtcomposer]

Yeah, he really could do anything and everything; Bach or Boogie

[artdecolv]

What an example of joie de vivre!

[lePistolero]

How many notes to learn??? That's not human...

[DJPsionix]

ravel is fucking kickass

[duffault05]

Unbelievable performance.

[12345qazx1]

marvelous!!!

[Mamasan41]

Holy Toledo!!! Ravel would have LOVED this!!!!!!!!

[tulakahaka]

Incredible performance yet having SUPERFUN while doing it.

Incredible Bernstein again....more like him please!!!!

[MadaraKalnina1]

Perfect! Perfect! Brilliant!! I love this performance!!!

[GourouxPete]

My first ever recording of the Ravel in G was with Bernstein playing and conducting. He made it an immense tour de force. No wonder the audience went wild...I think we all would. Great to see it live - and bravo to the bassoon also! Lenny - my hero in many many ways!

[MyMusic0201]

The energy. Unbelievable. Goosebumps and tears. Beauty in its purest form.

[dragmio]

The crowd went mad. :) And if there are technical difficulties, he hides them so well. At least for amateur's ears.

[willie2639]

Great Performance of the Ravel. Wish I could have been there is person to see it.

[alexdelarge95]

damn Bernstein Beast of a pianist

[lambicframbroise]

Why is he so gifted in so many things? bu gong ping

[itadakimasu2666]

...Look at his crazy hands...

[1988U0327]

これが弾き振りってやつですかー

[ksj818]

It's amazing that the orchestra follows so well... From the pianistic point of view there are more than just a few inaccuracies ;-) Ok.... But try to play (well) and conduct a Mozart concerto and you will get an idea what it means to do the same thing with Ravel.

[alancorday]

there is no doubt that Bernstein was on of the greatest pianists of 20th century

[katkula]

Maybe there is Martha Argerich and someone else who devotes his/her life to piano who can play this as it should be played. Lenny needs a little technical drill:D Great man anyways!!

[manidonno10]

Well said.

[carcassette]

Blindingly good

[manidonno10]

I know this will be voted down, and I love Lenny as much as the next guy, but just imagine for a moment if anyone else performed this movement at this tempo, and with the technical issues throughout...we would be calling for his/her head!

[fionasapple]

i gave it a thumbs up :D

I thought this movement was played very hastily/clumsily. 3 stars at best.

[JoshySmoshy56]

What. A. Bad ass.

[goliardesapienze]

mi fa venire.

[hedones]

L'incarnation de la générosité musicale.

[Realarthas]

por lo loco parece mas como piazzola

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

I wish he recorded more solo piano stuff....

[jeff2sabbag]

Maurice smile in Haven !!! Superb interpretation "!!

Tnks milion for post !!

[deepkeel65]

I feel so priviledged to have grown up watching Lenny and his concerts for kids on our "new" black & white tv. He had a deep and lasting impact on my ever-growing interest in music.

[NEC02102Justin]

I wanna buy the DVD!!!!!! AMAZING!!!!

[grailmastah]

really really groovy,,,,i needed this just now, wow, yeah, life isn't so fucking bad afterall!!!

[kenpachihitsugaya]

The bassoon at 1:56 is just beyond me. I don't get how anyone could play that so cleanly.

But then, this entire performance is beyond me. Go all of them.

[imsleepyanddead]

makes you think. maybe later printed editions of this concerto had tempo markings written as, "quarter note = leonard bernstein's fingers"

[kenpachihitsugaya]

Hahaha! I fear for the sixteenth notes if the quarter note is equal to Leonard Bernstein's fingers...

[zilvinas1980]

@kenpachihitsugaya : the musician is playing French system (Buffet system) bassoon and this instrument sounds somewhat "cleaner" and more precise in such passages. Needless to say, the bassoonist is also a real virtuoso and is able to play both bassoon parts alone. Respect!

[imsleepyanddead]

bernstein is my new chuck norris.

[Marlene55M]

LOL!

[CliffX]

When Leonard Bernstein celebrates the Sabbath, the sun waits for him to get home before setting so he can light the candles.

[kandinskaya]

@imsleepyanddead AHAHAHAHHAA I AGEE WITH U!!

[stevie1815]

@imsleepyanddead chuck noris could play that with his cock

[therabbitsfoot]

Bernstein is THE man.

[otherjoe1234]

love those brass effects

[pingkai]

Holy....I don't think there is anyone who could play this piece as Jazzy as him.

[Marlene55M]

Nobody was like him. He was the best! :-)

[dennislambert]

After seeing this, I'm putting a sign on my piano..."Das piano is nicht fur gefingerpoken. Keepen du hands in du pocketz.

[SJMoscol]

what baffles me is how he can play with that ring on!

[Harnoncourt66]

Grandios! Absolut genial!

[GreggaryPeccary]

I didn't know he was THAT proficient on the piano

[demosj]

Neither did I. When he was studying at the Curtis Institute of Music, he was in the same piano class as Gary Graffman.

[Kurtyoungblood]

Holy bassoon.

[kate7smith]

holy crap!

do you have the second movement, s006221??

[zafireh]

Wahnsinn!!!! Ich wusste gar nicht, dass Bernstein so ein fantastischer Pianist war!!!

[3cplantin]

Stimmt! Er war ausgezeichneter Dirigent, Pianist, Componist -- und sogar konnte er ziemlich gut singen! Und er tanzt beim dirigieren! Und er war mehrspraechic. Seltsamer Mensch.

[atticuspunx]

HOLY SHITT,he's just amazing, a god of music!

[Farnik01]

I wholeheartedly agree.

[kenpachihitsugaya]

He makes it look so easy. Truly this man was a god among pianists.

[chocolattee]

he seems to have had a lot of fun!

amazing.

[multibulss6666]

This is very amazing and cool.

[EttasFavourites]

Reading the comments it is obvious we are all completely Mastered by Bernstein in this performance of being a Piano Master and a conductor Master as well.

Unique.

I sincerely hope that this video stays on tube, because there was one with the Maestro as the Pianist and the Conductor in Rhapsody in Blue, and it disappeared from tube.

That felt /feels as a huge loss.

So, copy it, those who can, to upload it when it disappears!!

Please.....??

Bravo, Mister Bernstein, I love you, you are brilliant!

[Finners1551]

oh. my. days. how does anyone do that?? conduct and play? sick

[Classicalguy12]

WOW!

Another great master performance from the hands of the master, Leonard Bernstein.

Seriously, is there anything this man can't do? I think not.

[pianolitguy]

THIS IS AMAZING!

[jcg1227]

Woah, Bernstein =O

That was amazing. *applauds*

[williamholzman]

Lenny needs no music.

[williamholzman]

lenny doesn't need music. It would get in the way.

[ajamesu]

Leonard Bernstein is a god.

[jfrankley55]

LENNY LIVES!!!!

[creolo3]

....che spettacolo!!!! un miracolo della natura!!!!!

[minasgekos]

this is to the one who fave me a -1 : he does mistakes even if you are a deaf and you don't hear them

[minasgekos]

he makes mistakes with the piano, but who cares, the energy of this version is amazing...

[777mrpiano777]

good god. he is one lucky man. amazing.

[gromoglas77]

Феерическое исполнение! Какой пульс! Браво!

[workart2008]

браво!!!!!

[Sonnedude]

Holy............shit!

[red425]

I wouldn't classify classical music arpeggios as "shredding" seeing as piano is such a more difficult and complicated instrument than guitar. I play both with moderate skill so don't argue with me.

[stevekresena]

its a colloquialism...don't be an an ass..shredding has nothing to do with guitar...its a statement of satisfactory accomplishment...im a creative writing major who also plays guitar with skill...dont argue with me

[tresdave33]

he fuckin shreds piano

[Randommelon]

That poor piano...

[divvy1400yam600]

Sounds to me like a cantata for a discontented cat.

[lundijuno106]

haha I agree with you

[Sinfoniette]

And maybe its a good thing...

[divvy1400yam600]

Wots a good thing? I only arsk since you replied to me.

An intellectuall tour de force of both writing and interpretation maybe.

A pleasent musical experience NO NO NO.

I think my "discontented cat cantata" comment was spot on but I now realise that the cat is being chased by a sleek greyhound who will probably catch it and an overweight bulldog who is gasping for breath and never will.

[lightrays]

This is real piano playing. If he missed some notes, they didn't need to be there.

[beethovenite]

LENNY...

I know you can't see this, but I just want to tell you once again...

I FUCKING LOVE YOU MAN.

[imsleepyanddead]

1:56, the craziest bassoon playing i've ever heard, blows my mind just as much as the piano playing. they should put that in for orchestral auditions at that tempo =PPP

[imsleepyanddead]

a pianist who's played this would say he missed notes (which he did) but gave the piece the energy it deserves. i've yet to find a recording that's got this vibe. you can tell bernstein loves this piece a lot, lots of jazz!

[riveRBear16]

I was feeling little down because the biggest rip-off in my memory. Sorry The wall street bailout Now after leasing to George Gershwin Rhapsody with Bernstein's directing and playing I am ready for more bad news may be McCain and tingle bell win the election.

[1224luca]

so happy!!!

[ipcvc]

wheeeee!

[gdathomson]

His hands ARE the gift of god

[jhmusician]

bernstein is simply just the best !

[dak4321]

Not a patch on Argerich.

[realpetrolium]

Why compare when you can enjoy each performer's interpretation? Argerich's finess is always refreshing, and her subtlety is more touching to me. Bernstein's tempo and ferocity made me smile uncontrollably like an idiot

[MICHELMUSIK123]

Génial, vivant à l'extrème, magnifique,

Ah ce Grand Bernstein!!

[kalaresh]

It's a little too fast and a bit out of control, but that's a good thing; no sense playing it safe with this piece. What's so fascinating about this performance is that it's evident that Bernstein's ego is all invested in his conducting, not his piano playing. As a result he feels free to take risks no career virtuoso would think of taking. The musicianship is rock-solid; he approaches this piece as only a composer would. I imagine that this performance resembles the way Ravel himself played it.

[p0lyph0ny]

He looks like he's having so much fun with this. Great!

[S2O7R5A9]

指輪つけたままあんなに素敵なピアノ弾けるなんて...

すごいです!!

[clymnestre]

I remain facinated by Bernstein interpretation even played much more fast that Michelangeli does...

But done as Bernstein does, is amazing and fabulous!

[Rinhos]

Bernstein.....what a genius!!!!

[ellenol1014]

how can he be a wonderful conductor and a great pianist at the same time？？？？？？！！！！！

[gxfu0127]

you rehearse, rehearse, and rehearse. a conductor basically makes the orchestra. he worries about his part and makes sure no renegade player straggles behind. by performance these people will have worked with each other enough so that all bernstein has to do is nod his head at each section to cue. i clearly remember one video i saw when karajan was conducting beethoven's 9 with the bpo - nobody was playing with any music!

[Isidroprada]

Cool.

[vladhorowitz]

el ficha de la trompeta riendose a los 23 seg..

[oboistCONDUCTOR]

Amanzingly well fast and fantastique

[Mamasan41]

Ravel would have LOVED this!!!

[Mamasan41]

YEAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Saxopwnerer]

Bernstein was such a baller. Amazing conductor, pianist, and composer.

[anitamoreno]

AMAZING...

[ginochua15]

woah... its great...

[DiesIrae48]

A bit too fast for my taste. That's his style though.

[fadinoraan]

professional!! no other words...

[antoniodcz]

Bravo Bernstein! Is there anything this man cannot do? To anyone who doesn't know this concerto check out the 2nd movement- it's beautiful.

[parule]

Awesome musician!

[Timmytimtimtm]

let me listen to it again

[morcillo]

5/5

[wismarer]

masterpiece ! nothing to comment !

[blackbird721]

I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY

SUPERB!!!!!!

[beckerpwnsyou]

ummm....i don't have anything to say.

bernstein = awesomeness.

[pianodan10]

I usually don't compare musicians, but as great as the Michelangeli version is (especially his playing of course; Perfect!), the orchestra seems more rhythmically secure at times on this one (though a trumpet just came in late as I was saying that). I suppose it is simply more unity of pianist and orchestra; quite remarkable, considering the conducter is, well, a little busy playing the hell out of that piano.

Just observations, incredible music/musicmaking!

[Wildkat67]

Here's an interesting tid-bit towards the history of this fantastic composition~

Maurice Ravel composed this awesome concerto in tribute to another composer he admired...

George Gershwin! Gershwin was popular among European composers who celebrated his use of jazz in his symphonic pieces.Ravel, who was a reserved man for the most part, admired Gershwin not only for this but his humility of character and his pianistic approach : )

[Atuss]

Well done, but, I prefer he conducting.

[leroyosmon]

Amazing!

[JasonERAU]

Bernstein is faster than Argerich with this piece. If you know Argerich, you know it's basically impossible to play ANYTHING faster than Argerich.

[dasteufelhund]

Damn...this is fast. It is true that you simply just can't play faster than Argerich, but I believe this just proved that statement is wrong.

[paganviodio]

he was for me one of the greatest conductor,if not the greatest...it is strange for me but,he seems to be also a great pianist. i know this concerto,it is NOT a piece written for PUPILS,but virtuosos...

[suzettegm]

He does two great jobs.

[Moo0z0r]

Oh my fucking god :O

[marti807]

Unbelievable piano technique - Bernstein was a genius!

[fwm1985]

where are the other two movements???? Thanx 4 posting BTW great

[fwm1985]

sorry, found them.........

[Wderganc]

Great video. Leonard Bernstein looks a little like Ron Paul. What do you think?

[ArturoAlejandroS]

hahahahaha!!!Is funny to see him concducting,and amazing to hear.

[mh540]

IMHO Belero is fantastic, this is fanatsic. Indeed, I haven't come across a piece by Ravel which isn't anything but fantastic. The man was an absolute LEGEND! peace

[Impactmoon]

Boy someone is going to need a cig after that.. pHEWW.. lol

[orderlypianist]

It always astonishes me that someone could listen to this and manage to complain about a missed note here or there. Are you kidding me?? This is ELECTRIFYING playing, almost unparalled really. If you can only examine something by how it 'looks while he plays' or by raw note accuracy, you're missing the point completely ...

[jakd34]

Saw the Halle play this the other night at the Bridgewater hall. Was amazing!

[zoltai9]

Absolutely Electric and wonderful!

Despite my taste mostly catered for by the great Russian composers, I adore Ravel. It is music designed to swell your sense of well being into rapture! I find it hard to believe that Bolero is still seen as his masterpiece. It is the dullest thing he ever wrote, and to call it actual music is not technically true, in my opinion. Everything else he composed, though, is delicious!

[ghoulsI]

But Bolero IS his masterpiece and always will be. NOTHING in classial music before it or after it commands the listener with such hypnotic, sensuously melodic power. Everything else Bolero compose comes AFTER his Bolero. Sorry.

[zoltai9]

nah, you're right about its hypnotic effect, but it just sends me to sleep. His other works make me happy; just personal taste. I agree it is a masterpiece, though.

[spartaskitty]

I'll go with that. I got 'hooked' on Bolero when I was 4. It grabbed me, and leonard Bernstein said long ago that Bolero was about the most magnificent music created. Yes, you're right--it does come down to personal taste.

[zoltai9]

What a nice change. People usually misunderstand my viewpoints and jump on the defensive. Actually, you could call me a little hypocritical; Shostakovich 7th sym is my favourite, but the 1st movement has a march that repeats the theme no less than 14 times, with variations of course. So there you go. Down to taste again, I suppose.

[visionesfugitivas]

dont be ignorant, the bolero wasnt his masterpice it was just his best hit! if you listen his string quartet or even this piano concerto carefully you wouldnt say such thing