Amazing interpretation. Going to play it on my final exam

Name of piece?

Brought me to tears...Thank you!!!

Cant u get the mic closer to you hard to heat what you say

I too play this sometimes, very deep and comforting piece

Thank you for your video, i'm self-taught struggling with this piece. I often heard that you need pratice very slow but in some parts it doesn't really work for me

So beautifully played, thank you!

I’m not a music buff but I know that the music needs to match my mood for me to really enjoy it. I remember my first experiencing the grosse fugue Op 133- it clicked! For some reason it made real sense to me, something I was not expecting. ( this is as listener not performer of course)

Can't get in to the HK. I've been playing and listening to Beethoven for over 50 years and this one just leaves me cold. Beethoven wanted to make it "unplayable" by putting a super fast metronome number on it, but for me it's also "unlistenable". It always sounded like one composer wrote a few pages, then mailed it to a friend who picked up the thread and wrote some, then mailed it to a 3rd friend who again picked up on what had been done and wrote his ideas for a few pages, and so on until it was finished. I totally cannot appreciate what he was trying to say and I'm sure the fault is mine but so be it.

I find Scriabin an extremely fascinating composer - even when I don’t quite understand what I’m listening to.

Interesting. I would much rather hear Liszt on his piano. Why Beethoven? I really don't like Beethoven's piano works, though maybe all those horrible thick chords in the bass sound less dreadful on such a tinny piano. These old pianos actually sound pretty bad. I hope they sounded better when they were new!

Really well done Joshua. Surprised more people haven’t had an opportunity to enjoy hearing your Beethoven.

When you hear this piano is when Beethoven original metronome markings make sense. It should sound very nice in this piano at such pace

Your adagio sostenuto is very appassionato and is with molto sentimento!

Beautiful interpretation, gorgeous piano, and it must feel amazing knowing that you got to play on what is essentially the instrument of a god.

Well played.

It's amazing to play on them isn't it

Nice performance! As regards tempo, Hans von Bülow (student of Liszt) would have approved - in his 1871 (same year as the piano) edition of Beethoven, he says this in his note about the Hammerklavier first movement (his metronome mark is half-note = 112): "With the metronomization, which essentially reflects the character of the main motif, the editor finds himself in a considerable contradiction to Carl Czerny's ... Czerny's tempo half-note = 138 [in fact Beethoven’s, but von Bulow obviously did not know that], which is so unsuitable for the powerful energy of the theme and seems too quick even for the sections of this movement that are capable of greater acceleration, perhaps finds a kind of justification in the lower sonority of the Viennese pianos of the time. On a concert grand piano of the highest quality today, and such a piano (certainly an orchestral surrogate) is required to adequately execute this sonata, Czerny's tempo would appear confusing and blurring." Note his assumption that Beethoven was writing a sonata that could only be played adequately on a piano of 50 years in Beethoven's future!

Oh my goodness, it's the fearful Scarbo!!! I admire so deeply anyone who can play Gaspard, which to me is on another piano planet!!! Ondine is in my top three solo classical piano pieces ever!!! And you play this with great atmosphere and building terror, I feel like hiding under my bed!!! Bravo, my friend!!! 🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🙂🙂🙂🤗🤗

Incredible performance ❤

Love it ❤🎉

Sounds beautiful ❤

My favourite recording so far is Paul Badura Skoda’s, but this one is even more charming !

Would be fun to hear my Sonata Militaire on it. My mother told me it (the piano) was in her family until confiscated by the Nazis during WWII. No confirmation whatsoever on that although my (late?)uncle was a conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and concert pianist. My mother actually had a picture of him standing at the podium with his arms crossed holding the baton.

Thank you so much. So beautiful ...

Well, I made it through three minutes of my most hated Beethoven Sonata, so that's a compliment. If I die and go to hell, this sonata will be playing non-stop.

what microphone was used?

this sonata is even harder than it looks, especially the fugue. props to anyone who even attempts to play it. mastering this sonata is lifetime of challenge.

It sounds awful! Perhaps some new hammers, a tuning or two! lol not a blended sound at all. The miking does not help.

There's no good documentation of the interior of Sondershausen Castle.

The headline certainly caught my attention. Wonderful sound, and a beautiful rendition. Subscribed 🎶

Thank you from s fellow pianist. I have a 7 foot bechstein

I am a pianist Juilliard trained. I studied with Ania Dorfmann . This performance is beautiful. Get away from the speed freaks of today and the half dressed cocktail waitress pianists . I’m not impressed with them. We must get back to real music making. An art long gone

I love the Hammerklavier, and it's awesome I'm about to hear you play it on such a legendary piano!! Subscribed!!! Ooh you are sounding great already!!!! 🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🙂🙂🙂🤗

1.5x speed playback is fantastic 😉

Awful music ... what can we expect from a deaf composer !!! Modern pianos sound much better abd fuller !!!

It is said that this piece was considered impossible to play at tempo until Liszt gave a convincing account of it !

is it a Viennese action Bösendorfer?

On the tempo, the American pianist William Mason tells us how Liszt played the Hammerklavier. This is in an anecdote about a young man who wanted to play the sonata to Liszt and his students (including William Mason). He writes of the pianist: "He sat down and began to play in a conveniently slow tempo the bold chords with which the sonata opens. He had not progressed more than half a page when Liszt stopped him, and seating himself at the piano, played in the correct tempo, which was much faster, to show him how the work should be interpreted. "It's nonsense for you to go through this sonata in that fashion," said Liszt, as he rose from the piano and left the room. The pianist, of course, was very much disconcerted. Finally he said, as if to console himself: "Well, he can't play it through like that, and that's why he stopped after half a page." This sonata is the only one which the composer himself metronomized, and his direction is M.M. half note = 138. A less rapid tempo, half note = 100 or thereabouts, would seem to be more nearly correct, but the pianist took it at a much slower rate than even this. When the young man left I went out with him, partly because I felt sorry for him, he had made such a fiasco, and partly because I wished to impress upon him the fact that Liszt could play the whole movement in the tempo in which he began it." Note that William Mason states that Liszt played "at the correct tempo" and later gives an approximate value for a "correct" tempo. www.hellenicaworld.com/Music/Literature/WilliamMason/en/MemoriesOfAMusicalLife.html#page_103

Beautiful playing! 👏 I recommend buying a tuning hammer and touch up the unisons a little before recording... 🫣😀

Far from the metronome marking again...

What a beautiful interpretation. However, the quality of the recording is not that good...

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Merci beaucoup.

Wowee! Beethoven's Hammerklaver and Fugue on FRANZ LISZT'S own piano?!?! So lucky and talented to be such as you!

Amazing playing. How did you manage to get to play on Liszt's piano?

The audio is thin but the playing is top-notch.

I love the Op.11 set - 2 of them are on my channel too. They are so short aswell so they never are too annoying too learn

Well done! I subscribed

Well done 🎉 I have subscribed. I love Scriabin a lot, actually my most recent upload is Scriabin too 😅