Wilhelm Backhaus plays Beethoven Concerto No4

Wilhelm Backhaus plays Beethoven Concerto No4. Without a doubt the very best peformance of the concerto to date. It shows one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters performing with the Vienna Symphony and Carl Bohm

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Music

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• Beethoven
• Concerto
• Backhaus
• Bohm
• Vienna
• Bosendorfer

[miaomiaojo1]

thanks but the quality of the tape's...really frustrating

[PianoProductions]

I know! But it is finally out on DVD in full resolution.

[prodesica]

Backhaus, una leggenda!!! E come suona!!! Tecnica sicura e chiarissima, concentrazione totale, sobrietà!!! Altro che i clown che girano adesso (su tutti Lang Lang)

[usc23cal9]

The bad news: you'd be hard-pressed to find a handful out of that 20 million who make music from their hearts the way these old-timers did.

[uhartchristian]

when I heard Backhaus live it was my first recital I went to, for Backhaus it was his last one.... he died one of the following days. The recording of this recital exist. Was done in Ossiach . These Beethoven Concertos I remeber have watched on television. I think they were live recordings too but am not sure.

[animatetime]

It makes the oldest feel young again. That swirling mix of melancholia and joy, but at least alive...

[Askade1]

This concerto with Backhaus on record - the best version ever! (I own it :-) - with Clemens Kraus and the Wiener Philharmoniker).

[AL3CBACKH4US]

i think im related to him i have the same lastname [:

[TheHanslick]

The recording was made by Unitel in 1967

[ararmaya]

Beautiful.

[kjw163]

Are you saying that LL is a great pianist? Just wondering.

[Mkamalid]

i think this is the deliberate stupidity horatiodreamt was talking about you :)

Music transcends culture/time and place.

you mentioning it shows who's who

[bartje11]

The good news: you'd be hard-pressed to speak in the name of these people you know nothing about. Lang Lang played in Shanghai Chopin for a crowd of 5,000. You could hear a pin drop. Try that in our culture with the attention span of a fruit fly.