Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful videos!!! In Chinese, we have an old saying that "painting a dragon is all about pointing the eyes (which make it alive or just another paint...)." You guys certainly have worked hard enough to get the dragon alive in this piece!!!!
Javier did his first years at the same music school as I did. I used to attend his first auditions and concerts.I'm really proud of him. It's specially admirable that he is the son of a miner and a housewife. Great performers are usually born into middle-upper class families or musicians families but he proves that genius can emerge everywhere.
@ZachClooney Yes, many pianists get some form of Repetitive Strain Injury. Schnabel, Rachmaninoff and Gould were known to have considerable problems, and Leon Fleisher had a condition in his right hand (dystonia) which prevented him from using that hand at all, until he had it operated. Playing the piano is an extremely strenuous and high-repetition activity which can be potentially harmful without sufficient freedom or support from the rest of the body.
Thank you very much for these videos!! I think Barenboim is simply awesome!! How can he explain such subtile thigs with so good examples and images?? lol
Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful videos!!! In Chinese, we have an old saying that "painting a dragon is all about pointing the eyes (which make it alive or just another paint...)." You guys certainly have worked hard enough to get the dragon alive in this piece!!!!
jiafei08 1 year ago
"The silence must be louder than the sound". That's poetry.
PaulSimpsonAcoustic 1 year ago
Genius at work here.
Grigor99 1 year ago
How is the Sonata called that he is practising here?
pinchaszukerm 2 years ago
@pinchaszukerm 31st sonata, opus 110
brozors 1 year ago
barenboim is a brilliant teacher
0marcus 2 years ago 6
Javier did his first years at the same music school as I did. I used to attend his first auditions and concerts.I'm really proud of him. It's specially admirable that he is the son of a miner and a housewife. Great performers are usually born into middle-upper class families or musicians families but he proves that genius can emerge everywhere.
casiopea2020 3 years ago 10
Love your points here. Do pianists get Repetitive Strain Injuries? I'm not a pianist. Do please enlighten me.
ZachClooney 1 year ago
@ZachClooney Yes, many pianists get some form of Repetitive Strain Injury. Schnabel, Rachmaninoff and Gould were known to have considerable problems, and Leon Fleisher had a condition in his right hand (dystonia) which prevented him from using that hand at all, until he had it operated. Playing the piano is an extremely strenuous and high-repetition activity which can be potentially harmful without sufficient freedom or support from the rest of the body.
kusuna7 1 year ago
@kusuna7 Thanks for that detailed response. One rarely appreciates the price that the hands pay in becoming a good pianist.
ZachClooney 1 year ago
really brilliant. I can´t talk about this, I can only learn with it.
mekarapiano 3 years ago 2
Can you please post the rest?
DreamflyPianoGirl 3 years ago
Thank you very much for these videos!! I think Barenboim is simply awesome!! How can he explain such subtile thigs with so good examples and images?? lol
natashkk 3 years ago 14
Brilliant. It's wonderful that he can, it makes him an excellent teacher.
myriadwhims 3 years ago 3