Amazing ❤

Ive never found a room full of autism that made me feel so acknowledged and respected. Thank you for this lecture. ❤

This guy in my class

It is videos like this that make me attach my digital piano to Pianoteq and play the early pianos

This was a great lecture.

Please help me to find the actual place, where Leopold Mozart says that a legato slur means diminuendo. (?)

I would also struggle to tell apart little known Mozart works from minor masters' works. There are pieces where he just seems to be earning his daily bread or early pieces that were modelled on other composer's works.

God yes! Thank you!

Amazing Masterclass!👏

Much of this is common sense. If you understand the “gestalt” of a piece then it will go a long way in terms of interpreting a score (not simply giving a transcribed performance). Great talk. Thanks!

I don't agree. To me, the magic is to make this character difference happen in the same tempo, at least ALMOST. The incredible power and tension gets lost when you play expressive gestures more slowly. It's like deflating a balloon.

brilliant

I got too stoned and ate tombstone pizzas and got here.

This is so right. I never could understand the idea that Chopin was rubato-ing all over the place, but the composers before him played like music boxes. It just doesn't make sense. The funny thing is, in the earliest recordings you get lots of variable tempi... but the next generation decreed they'd got it all wrong ☹️ Except singers - imagine singing an opera with metronomic tempo. It'd sound as if all the characters were replaced by robots...

What a joke. Neo Marxist's suggesting their twisted view of America defines America! A Perfect example of how America haters use propaganda. Starting in the 1960s the Ivy League began destroying higher education with their post modernist nonsense, until today when students can call for the genocide of Jews and college staff praise them. It's all connected. The staff members at this university are clueless about America. Keep your dollars far from them.

Kämmerling used to speak of "inner motion" ("innere Bewegung") in order to enliven such a monotonous piano figure with not even rubato but a tiny sense of flexibility. This notion really got hold in my brain. To me, it is a key to Schubert which transforms every even motion into "the brook", something lively and organic.

Thank you. 😊 This is so good. Highly instructive.

Dear Mr. Bilson, About 30 years ago I regularly listened to your fortepiano playing on CD. But I must say, you played too fast for my taste at that time. Your tempi were so fast that the expression of the music suffered. In this video you talk about taste and expressing the musical details clearly. We are both 30 years older now. I suspect that you are now playing with less speed. So your taste might have changed as you got older. By the way, I really like this video. You give good advice to me and other musicians. Taste is a wonderful thing. We musicians can't live without it.

Wonderfully thought-provoking. Thank you for posting!

3:14 Over the recent years András Schiff has recorded quite a few works on period pianos, among those are the following: Beethoven: Diabelli Variations Op. 120 Schubert: Piano Sonata in G D. 894 Schubert: Piano Sonata in Bb D. 960 Schubert: Moments musicaux D. 780 Schubert: Impromptus D. 935 Brahms: Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2 The irony...

3:02 J. C. Bach - Sonata In G, Op . 5/1: I. Allegro ; Mozart - Sonata in B♭, K. 333: I. Allegro 7:08 Schumann - Waldszenen, Op. 82: III. Einsame Blumen 10:02 Schubert - Sonata in B, D. 575: II. Andante 13:58 Chopin - Mazurka in B♭, Op. 17/1 19:48 Haydn - Sonata in E♭, Hob. 53: I. Allegro

27:09 is proto romantic.

Thank you

Edwin Beunk has a wonderful series of videos on KZbin with a variety of restored antique pianos well worth watching.

With all do respect to Malcolm Bilson, Steinway wasthe first to Patent cross strung pianos, but two separate French piano manufacturers invented cross-stringing in the 1820s (variously credited to eiether Alpheus Babcock or Jean-Henri Pape) and manufactured cross strung pianos decades before Steinway's 1859 Patent.

cornell used ot be a serious school..now its disney land? Embarrassing

マルコム・ビルソンさんについては早まった評価をして間違いを犯してしまったようです。残念ですが高い評価をこの演奏全体に与えることはできないようです。部分的には良いところもありますので残念です。とにかくはっきり言えることは録音状態が酷くわるいということです。それにしてもビルソンさんってこういう演奏を普段からしておられる方なのですか？時々唖然となるような部分があります。

video is fuzzy

Very inspiring man and musician.

lovely -- the music speaks for itself!

Certainly the piano sounds like a period instrument from the time of Mozart. Gives a good impression how the concert has sounded in he 18th century. It is a fully wooden instrument, before the time a cast iron frame was invented and the piano could be enlarged for bigger sound. All the strings are parallel instead of crossed in a modern piano. This means also the the soundboard reacts different, giving a more open sound. As you can hear, also the sustain is much shorter ,so you can play without the need of a pedal

He's saying it all out loud....!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I truly believe in american power, american achievement, but these "moon landings" events are not any of them, pure bullshit. Even listening to this good man, with what clearly is just his passion and love for his chilhood memories, sounds strange, and if one detaches from any childhood connection, it becomes just a film on tv, pretending to be in the Moon. All of a sudden Radiation, does not exist. Heat on the lunar floor exists even less. A cardboard "module" withstood the power of space vaccum. Color tv camera ( back in 1969) inside the lander, black and white outside? Plus hundreds of anomalies...scientific ones. Pure Bullshit.

A haven for CCP plants.

I took all the performance seminars that I could with Malcolm Bilson when I was a doctoral student there some years ago. They were among the most enlightened and enlightening lectures I have ever attended. And performing for Bilson changed my perspective on everything I thought I knew about myself as a musician. I am forever grateful to him.

Oh, how I miss my many Eastman seminars with Malcolm Bilson!

Glenn Altschuler is a disgusting old creep. He is less than trash and I wouldn’t trust him around young women. F him

Probably changed my way of seeing scores and music, especially since I am getting more into Schubert and Mozart, I find a new way of reading music, and try to find new ways of playing it, a truly moving speech, as most would say, but more of a new, or old, perspective to music

I always find these discussions very interesting. I would like to add the observation that composers who wrote for the late 19th century romantic piano (after the 1870s) didn't suddenly decide that only legato/long line writing was possible. On the contrary, it's very clear that composers like Rachmaninoff, etc., expected a full range of articulation in the service of musical character. Composers continued to write "character pieces" in the broadest sense of that term. Listening to historical recordings, it's very clear that many more varieties of non-legato playing were used. This is also documented in the historical piano "piano method" of Alberto Jonas, where a great variety of touches are explored. The fault surely lies with post-world war II musical culture, and piano regulation? Many modern pianists today seem to have a problem playing "scherzando," etc., whereas pianists like Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Moiseiwitsch, Hofmann, Godowsky had real mastery of touch. Anyone who's heard Moiseiwitsch in good form (the Mendelssohn- Rachmaninoff Scherzo for example) or the Godowsky recording of the Greig Ballade in G minor will see what I mean..so maybe we shouldn't blame the instrument but rather the players and piano technicians?:)

This lecture should be required viewing for all music students, especially those in conservatories and university schools of music. This is a revelation to me, and I have been a practicing pianist for nearly sixty years. Anyone's playing can be transformed by learning what Bilson has to offer here.

what a FANTASTIC sounding piano

For the vast majority, the undisputed master of music, on the whole, is Mozart. Some J.S. Bach admirers resent this fact. They even rage against Mozart and attempt to discredit his music with the most outlandish arguments. Having said this, no one would ever question the supreme abilities for fugues and counterpoint Bach possesses. Bach's mathematical approach of music is second-to-none. The thing is, music is much more than math. It's a delicate balance between form and passion, the performer and the listener, message and interpretation of such. In this regard, no one surpasses Mozart either. Great video maestro, gracias!

To complet with Robert Levin lectures. And Charles Rosen . So linked !

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I can't believe I found this in youtube...so helpful for me...thank you for sharing

will there be courses on dog torturing and live organ harvesting without anaesthesia?

Thank you Native European peoples for this massive contribution to humanity.

Just these tiny expositions of his thinking open up worlds!

Thank you, Cornell, for taking the time to re-mix the recorded excerpts in on top of the lecture audio instead of simply letting the room recording of the playback fly alone.