Alicia de Larrocha plays Granados - Quejas, o la Maja y el Ruiseñor (2001 Live)

GRANADOS (1867-1916)
Goyescas
- Quejas, o la Maja y el Ruiseñor
(Complaint, or the Maiden and the Nightingale)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA, piano
Live from University of Lleida (UdL), Spain; 14-May-2001.
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[@vincentmancini6279]

How wonderful to have her recordings and videos, no drama, no hands flying in the air, no eyes rolling, just beautiful expression of inner God given talent to share with us. Good bless her soul.

[@AndrewRance-y3c]

Alicia was the most beautiful female pianist of her age. Just exceptional!

[@jlestebanruiz]

She was 78 years old when this recording was made. And while she could hardly walk and her voice sounded tired, she could still play piano like an angel. Very few pianists have made me cry with their performances and Alicia de Larrocha is one of them. Once she started playing you could only listen and watch mesmerized. She sang with her little hands. Unforgettable.

[@MoroFullmetal]

For the first time, seeing her hands as she plays, it looked like to me that she was weaving a song with those hands; guiding, caressing, loving it along. Beautiful.

[@Menelanto]

impressionante

[@724fingers]

Jose Luis Esteban Ruiz What I like about all pianist of her generation, and a little bit earlier, (Horowitz, Rubinstein), there is very little body movement to distract from the performance. There are no head bobs, body gyrations, and definetly no loud annoying singing or humming (Sorry Glen Gould fans.) to distract from the music.

[@nancyhuoth5628]

Check out Michi North. You would enjoy her as much!

[@davidferrara1105]

@@724fingers Glenn was autistic, give him a fuckin' break

[@torbj487]

Just when she's played you into an absolutely sublime otherworldly feeling, the producer decides to go full surrealist on you and fades to a pensive man with a bright yellow lamp shade on his head.

[@jaylenterry278]

This has to be the comment of the year! HILARIOUS! 😆 (And I was thinking the exact same thing.)

[@eduardomoreraserna8653]

That yellow hat means that he is the Dean of the Medical School at University of Lleida. The weird attire worn by the people at the front of the hall, including Alicia de Larrocha, is that of the claustrus members. The claustrus is the government booard of each University in Spain. Most likely Alicia de Larrocha was being awarded an Honoris Causa Doctorate at the university when she played the piece and the Claustrus was obviously present at the event. Since we have universities dating back to the 13th century, you may guess how old these traditions are. Although definitively weird, i find them lovely.

[@booksmusic5595]

I had the privilege of seeing her live while in college in the 80s and I brought my 70 year old grandmother along with me. Later she saw a CD I had of one of her albums and declared her a “great lady.” A great lady, indeed. When she first walked out she appeared to be a small woman, someone’s grandmother dressed up in black approaching this large piano. Her size was deceiving and I was blown away by the beauty and power she displayed. I will always remember that concert, her, and my grandmother with much love. Thank you for posting this and thank you Alicia de Larrocha.

[@ericwent4931]

I had the honor of hearing her live just once, in the late 1980s. She was already a longtime favorite of mine, and remains so to this day. It's a luminous memory that will (I hope!) live with me to my last day. Bravissima!

[@MOV1983]

Algo que hay que agradecer a Alicia de La Rocha es que hizo mucho por promover por todo el mundo la música de muchos compositores de España.

[@Poeme340]

Some of the most romantic, moonlit music ever composed rendered by La Maestra.👌

[@joseruizelcoro8472]

!Qué manera de tocar...! Enriquece cada frase...! Maravillosa!

[@cycler8]

My princess of Spanish music and this is the prime juel - the very heart of Granados. Thank you for this rare recording

[@knkgyo562]

この曲、いろんな人が弾いてるKZbinありますが、このかたの演奏が一番です。ホントに美しい

[@flylooper]

She made it all seem so easy. Her hands are so relaxed. Granados' music is not easy to play.

[@peter5.056]

his works are about as demanding as Chopin's, some quite more!

[@gabrielgabriel8096]

¡Qué manera de hacer Cantar y Hablar el Piano...!! Podian aprender muchísimos hoy, que apenas nadie es capaz de hacer cantar un instrumento (ni siquiera se piensa en ello). Como si sólo hiciera falta hacer las notas... Y por lo que hace a la música de Granados, sencillamente una Maravilla. Uno de los más grandes y refinados poetas del Piano universal, junto a Schumann, Chopin y sólo unos pocos más.

[@davidbacon123]

Absolutely superb playing.

[@Andrew279144]

What a wonderful pianist. Greatest female pianist ever! xxx

[@bachopinbee5991]

There are so many female pianists

[@baraskparas9559]

Granados, Albeniz and a few others made Spain the greatest nation on Earth in classical piano and guitar music. Beautiful interpretation!

[@djmotise]

Greatest in classical piano? Not quite.

[@baraskparas9559]

@@djmotise The equal of anyone. Better than Greece where I was born or Australia where I live.

[@ordeedjc]

Gracias por darnos tanta arte. Gracias

[@MrDonaldmaddog]

Absolutely wonderful playing of this piece, the inspiration for "Besame Mucho".

[@carlosgarcialeos3434]

Es absolutamente cierto, no me había percatado de eso, verdaderamente Consuelito velázquez tomó una parte del tema para su Bésame mucho.

[@theuniversity1234]

Heard this for the first time today at mh house concert. I had no sense of the song of this piece, the structure, but here it is and yes, Besame Mucho is all ober it. Beautiful.

[@emilgilels]

I never knew that! :-)

[@djmotise]

I don't think so.

[@juliettegoddard5446]

Wonderful

[@Jerry-ey9gu]

Dio la benedica grandissima artista!!!

[@rose-mariejougla1785]

sublime, merci Madame pour cette magnifique interprétation: beaucoup d'inspiration pour ma conception

[@avolodos6122]

God bless her

[@maurabonnarens6089]

AdL channel, muchisimas gracias. enjoying her legacy every day.

[@ChaceArrowz]

She plays this piece with such passion! I would love to learn and record this.

[@lisilisin]

She's saying that she's going to play "La Maja y el ruiseñor" by Granados. and that this piece is very calm, peaceful, and very characterized.

[@booksmusic5595]

Thank you.

[@marinapino480]

@@booksmusic5595 She is using the catalan language

[@llcamus249]

Just so beautiful.

[@neilburton100]

I play this piece and when looking for inspiration, this is as good as it gets

[@PatriciaGoodsonpianist]

Thank you!! She was the best of the best.

[@republiccooper]

How can I like this a thousand times over?

[@joannasoh8633]

alt accounts maybe?

[@republiccooper]

@@joannasoh8633 😂😂

[@flylooper]

De Larrocha was one of my great Spanish Music muses. I have a bunch of recordings of her Albeniz, Grandos and Falla music. She was just so beautiful in the way she played and in her feeling for the music of her country. I never got to see her live. Shame on me!

[@martinbrener6466]

Great playing by a great artist of supreme music

[@Evan77779999]

GRACIAS ALICIA de Larrocha...

[@GUSTAVOMARZANO]

mil gracias !!!! Maravilloso !!!

[@philmiska7295]

Read that she was only 4’9” but no one can play this like her

[@FerranLopezCarrasquerPianist]

Superb playing!!

[@msotil]

She is at the University of Lleida in Barcelona speaking in her native Catalan language. The gentleman with the strange outfit (someone here thinks he is a lampshade) is probably one of the provosts conferring an honorary degree.

[@HJBHalloween]

Quite right. Spanish formal academic garb is different from the Anglo-American version.

[@beth_levin_piano]

Exquisite!

[@julienvermierdt7132]

Very nice

[@kodreaming]

Gorgeous piece !

[@ioehmichen]

Une pure merveille!

[@vartviolin]

she is an angel ok.

[@TiffanyCHoyt]

my gawd, what a romantic piece of music. I like her interpretation. Do compare it with José Iturbi's.

[@fannyjemwong]

HERMOSO

[@nicolassantossantos3468]

FANNY JE

[@jdiwkall]

magical

[@四月是你的謊言-w3z]

「西班牙」葛雷那多斯 Enrique Granados (1867-1916) 鋼琴套曲《哥耶斯卡斯》Goyescas (1911), “The Maiden and the Nightingale”

[@Tramlijn14]

oooooohhhhh soooo beautiful!!

[@user-ql3mm2to2y]

heavenly

[@92mondejar]

Los que han indicado pulgar hacia abajo en el video, ¿saben hacerlo mejor?

[@raphinyo]

Hasta que te he leído no me he percatado de los pulgares hacia abajo, a mí también me sorprende que haya a quien ponga en duda la calidad de esta gran artista.

[@huguesmarias3368]

Quelle intelligence! Quelle beauté !

[@marioargentieri1778]

Ecco da dove viene ..Besame mucho !!!

[@abemud]

in 2001 we have 144p quality video?

[@lsbrother]

2:17 who's the guy wearing a lampshade? - why's he wearing a lampshade?

[@adrianmaciascatalina1040]

This is a university and he is wearing the typical cap and gown that are common in universities in southern Europe, something that comes from the Roman tradition. He is probably a professor or provost.

[@camilosesto133]

Granados muere en en el naufragio en la mancha en 1916 y Alicia nace en 1923. Quien dice que fue su alumna?. Otra cosa es que ella sea la gran reviksora de su obra y su mejor interprete.

[@lisilisin]

¿Quién dice que fue su alumna? Fue alumna de Frank Marshall, alumno de Granados. La madre y la tía de AdL, también fueron alumnas de Granados.

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

I don't know if she knew it, but in the 1970s, sometime, she started playing Mozart concertos instead of her Spanish repertoire, and it was such a disappointment. However fine her Mozart was, no one else toured with Spanish repertoire.

[@Vantheman91]

Can someone translate what she is saying in the beginning?

[@benflint]

Oh, Catalan. I went to Barcelona and spent a whole semester taking advance spanish before going. Then found out they don't speak Spanish there.

[@marinapino480]

Yes, we do, against the taliban regime of the (false, masonic, marxist globalists)politicians.

[@jeffsmith1798]

The maiden’s sadness overtaken by the nightingale.

[@djmotise]

Spanish title would have been nice to have been included. Not just English.

[@aegeanbo]

Thank you. No disrespect to Alicia de Larrocha, but does anyone have a recording of this piece played by Coccolini? I would love to hear it again. It is in a LP. It is very special and I heard it only once. once.

[@barbaralcharles]

Do you mean Aldo Ciccolini? There is a complete recording of Ciccolini playing Goyescas on KZbin.

[@yuehchopin]

danke

[@faustianliszt]

Who's the goofball dressed as a lampshade?

[@TJFNYC212]

ha ha I think that is a common cap for PH.Ds in Spain.....

[@238assante]

who is that Philistine who starts talking to his neighbor as she starts playing. how rude. ;)

[@minish1]

the guys listening are stupefied. Are they Nestorian monks or something?

[@iXNomad]

2012: no 2013: no 2014: no 2015: no 2016: no 2017: no 2018: no 2019: no 2020: no 2021: KZbin RECOMMENDATIONS YEEEAH

[@Вай-м2д]

Babushka playing.

[@adriancook7078]

A lot of boring banging all over the place. Is it going anywhere ?

[@djmotise]

YOU are going nowhere. Not the masterpiece.

[@micka3219]

No expression

[@BurningSky9]

Oh, please. Can you not only hear, but also fucking listen??