Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Chopin - Andante Spianato, Grande Polanaise Brillante Op.22.mp4

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli playing Chopin
Simply beautiful!

[@karlbemesderfer3799]

I had the rare privilege of hearing him live in 1966, still the greatest concert I ever attended. 1st half all Chopin, 2d half Beethoven Opus 111. At the end there was silence in the hall for what seemed like a full minute, then cheering that would not stop...

[@musicaperpianoforte]

Are you sure about that? Which concert venue?

[@czror]

My father had the same privilege to be in his concert dated 30. 5. 1957 in Prague. What a coincidence, he told me that after Ballade op. 23 ended, there was silence in the hall. Then cheering... unstoppable... I understand why. You are lucky man, Mr. Karl.

[@123meanderer]

Damn. Mostly I prefer CDs but the opportunity to have been there. I am incredibly envious. I can't think of a word 'more' than envious. But that's what I mean :)

[@alel.1546]

Il timbro, l'esecuzione, la chiarezza e coerenza in tutte le note.. la più bella interpretazione

[@surianonicola]

Nessuno ha il tocco leggero come lui, io credo che sia il più grande interprete di Chopin che ho avuto modo di ascoltare

[@enricogandolfini80]

Sentite la delicatezza del tocco. Benedetti Michelangeli sembra sfiorare la tastiera, anche nei brani più impegnativi, più virtuosistici, le dita volano e si posano senza peso sui tasti. Credo che, se Chopin l'avesse ascoltato, l'avrebbe abbracciato. Sei unico, Benedetti Michelangeli!

[@mariagarbato1198]

Enrico Gandolfini

[@EmptyVee00000]

Chopin sarebbe stato mortificato.

[@luigimusico6116]

Enrico Gandolfini ,premesso che non so neanche scrivere la parola "Conservatorio ", le dita del Mo fulminano pure un ignorante come me

[@salvorizzo8671]

@@EmptyVee00000 Non esageriamo... Ti ricordo che Chopin suonava le sue ballate distrutto dalla tisi, col finale della prima in sol minore tutto in pp anziché ff, episodio famoso, dovresti conoscerlo... Ma resta il fatto che ABM rimarrà per sempre il miglior pianista della storia. Fine.

[@EmptyVee00000]

@@salvorizzo8671 Non concordo; per me Rachmaninoff, poi Ashkenazy (musicisti, non solo pianisti come ABM).

[@iguarni]

Sono orgoglioso di essere un suo connazionale. Maestro manchi tanto alla musica e a tutti noi!!!!!

[@valentina6429]

Già….!!❤

[@alessandrodelmonte5765]

Wordless!! È impossibile esprimere con parole un commento adeguato alla profondità di sentimento, di perfezione stilistica e tecnica. Postura di aristocratico. Solo...sentire ad occhi chiusi e dimenticare il quotidiano per salire al divino.

[@gustovero]

How can anybody dare to click "don't like" on a performance like this ?? Of course you may not agree on every single musical choice of Michelangeli, I also don't agree here and there, but even if we just look at the technical rendition this performance is simply jaw-dropping...

[@user-rv2vr1lu3k]

내가누름 ㅋ

[@fmusumeci316]

Grazie ad Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli credo in un Dio supremo. E lui ne è la testimonianza più sublime. Grazie Maestro dei Maestri.

[@gg5488]

...e' una frase, che pronuncio quando osservo una Donna di rara bellezza. Ma non hai torto neanche Tu...

[@edoardopesce9226]

Il Maestro sarebbe stato molto contento di questo bel commento

[@marialuisadimarzio8667]

Una magnifica danza sulla tastiera...un volo tuffato nell' aria...da fermo. E noi, attraverso gli occhi, le orecchie e il cuore tuffati in questo stesso volo.... a vertiginose altezze...

[@joedevenroe]

Still to this day, people are dumbfounded at how he managed to play like this. It silences any criticism, for it is a level of playing the keyboard that remains unequalled.

[@kanekokazuko7034]

初めて聴きました。冒頭から涙が止まりません。繊細で美しく、ピアノがうたっています。

[@jakobhedman836]

The fast runs are incredibly clean, how can he play those at x2 speed compared to most pianists while maintaining that level of clarity?

[@qahl2000]

Never a player plays piano like Michelangeli. True legend

[@piergiorgiotrillo3164]

Just a butterfly on the keyboard. Nobody else has/had his lightness together with a perfect technique.

[@ProfDrislane]

There were quite a few pianists of the previous generation who could play the most amazing "leggeiro," including such greats as Benno Moiseiwitsch (have listen to the Mendelssohn-Rach Scherzo, or his Ravel!), Horowitz and Josef Hofmann. Interestingly, the pianist whose technique is most like Michelangeli is Glenn Gould. Like Gould, there is a reluctance to use much arm rotation which results in some problems of clarity in chordal passages. Comparing this performance with that of Hofmann (even though past his prime in 1937) will show what I mean..

[@leonardolucchesifilmmusic]

il più grande pianista italiano....se non del mondo mai esistito....bellissima interpretazione....peccato che oggi giorno non sia conosciuto da tutti questo stupendo pezzo....ci dovrebbe essere maggiore diffusione per far capire a tanti che non vogliono capire, la bellezza della musica classica e romantica......;)

[@reginao5120]

Greatest pianist of all times and all times to come

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

ABM was not greatest., never was.Better ones beautiful piano sound players! like A.Rubinstein E.Gilels W.Kempff R.Lupu. The Titans Geniuses of piano better than ABM V.Horowitz G.Sokolov M.Pletnev D.Lipatti and so on

[@reginao5120]

@@RaineriHakkarainen That was just my opinion..I haven't found any other pianist create the sound and magic he does, and I love most of the ones you are mentioning..

[@maetes54]

@@RaineriHakkarainen don't judge what you don't understand.

[@goktugblack]

@@RaineriHakkarainen Kempff could only dream of ABM's technical prowess. Rubinstein and Horowitz were sloppy compared to ABM. Lipatti was waaaay too staccato.

[@homonovus6]

Michelangeli al massimo splendore, insuperabile per i secoli a venire.

[@4711Bellewood]

Incredible artistry. Legato, superb. Inner voices, astounding. What a touch!

[@phantomflyer81]

Notice how he rests his thumb on the keyslip (the piece of wood that covers the lower half of a key). This is something my own teacher used to do - she was a student of Bela Bartok. I never looked at my own hands so much until I began watching all these wonderful clips of Michelangeli !! It's wonderful stuff, Thanks for uploading it.

[@illumite]

こんなに美しい動きでピアノ弾く人みたことない

[@user-zd1pt8gy9l]

Marvelous Polonaise, with a very emotional and expressive line. . .

[@hannastaszak1684]

Chopin to najpiękniejsza spuścizna dla ludzkości ❤️

[@pescatorew]

compositore genio + interprete genio = perfezione assoluta. La sublimazione dell'arte.

[@gg5488]

+Lavoro sanguinoso

[@enricocifalino2325]

@@gg5488 interprete

[@gg5488]

@@enricocifalino2325 ,su ABM,come su altre centinaia di stelle, non mi permetto di dire alcunché. Riferisco solo una frase di Michelangelo Buonarroti:"Il Genio è una lunga pazienza".

[@joedevenroe]

Michelangeli here dwells alone in a realm that is supra-human.

[@user-ru8vy1uz7c]

Bravo bravo bravo bravo brilliance fantastic genial grandiose music polonaise super

[@athmso]

We need more views of this exceptional performance. More views for this legend!!!

[@yusukekomura3553]

10:51 that double trill.......unbelievable.....

[@MatteoBiagiotti]

Oh man..... i think i'll get to hell and back to achieve that mad stuff.

[@geoaspide]

Divino! Stupendo! La nuova generazione di pianisti dovrebbe imparare dai grandi come Benedetti Michelangeli che la velocità non è virtuosità. A volte penso che qualcuno fa la gara per vedere chi suona più veloce pezzi difficili, dimenticando una cosa fondamentale: l'interpretazione. E vedo tanti talenti sprecati in questo modo. Peccato! Benedetti Michelangeli forever!

[@istvanbracz]

Absolutely STUNNING. Never was nuts about this piece until now... He makes it look so easy, and his sound is in complete control. Thanks so much for posting this.

[@chrismontis]

The sound of Michelangeli is as very beautiful as even old recording.

[@CesaTiroCesa]

A. B. Michelangeli era l'unico artista al mondo, che ti motivava a cercare la perfezione in ogni singolo gesto !!!

[@AlfieProducer]

unreal. the clarity and whimsy are unmatched. amazing rubatos too

[@sgut1947]

Just gorgeous! Every phrase going somewhere; every note meaning something! Sorry to gush, but this is exceptional.

[@EmptyVee00000]

Amazing playing, but the phrases and the notes are devoid of any direction or meaning; I am so disappointed.

[@weekeeyuu836]

@@EmptyVee00000 I see that you are actually not disappointed and that you revere the recording. Your comment creates the opposite impression in people, not to mention that you like women with very fat legs.

[@EmptyVee00000]

@Wee KeeYuu Nothing like a bit of humor to cheer yourself up!

[@francescofrustagli6437]

@@EmptyVee00000 Hi

[@cmvb]

My favorite pianist for CHopin's music... Rubinstein, RIchter, Kissin, Argerich, among others are good too, but MIchelangeli was born to play CHopin!

[@fmusumeci316]

Il suo virtuosismo è un grande gioco, gioco di perfezione, di acqua cadente dal cielo, il divino s'incontra col terreno ed esce fuori Michelangeli.

[@guidocorso7956]

Great' Guido Corso

[@CDA101252]

lacrime agli occhi,quanta bellezza!

[@honzapopp]

That concentration with lightness often makes me cry...

[@Cedericoco]

J'en ai les larmes aux yeux.. Du très grand Chopin. Chapeau bas!

[@ancamg]

I am so happy you enjoy this! His playing is out of this world. He sounds divine! That happens when Chopin meet Michelangeli!

[@Cedericoco]

Quelle performance époustouflante!!! Mille fois bravo!!!

[@autumnleaves2766]

Great to read Karl's comment below about hearing this great pianist live. I really wish I had heard him too. Just come here from Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's 1969 performance of Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto, recorded in Helsinki. Best Beethoven's 5th I have ever heard I think. Michelangeli came from a well-to-do Italian family and his parents pushed him hard with his music practice from an early age, meaning that he had little chance to mix with other children. He was a pilot during WW2 and at one point was captured by German soldiers and imprisoned. When they discovered he was a pianist, they beat his hands. Luckily his hands recovered and he forged a great career, even though he did not perform as often as some pianists. He would practise for eight to ten hours a day, ensuring technical perfection first and then working for hours too on interpretation and always trying to respect the composer's score. I find his playing simply incredible: technical perfection, lightness of touch, power when needed, clarity of each note, the feeling that he is somehow getting very close indeed to how the composer himself might have sounded when playing the piece originally.

[@michelleregis6181]

perfect, such attention to the smallest detail, of this great piece.

[@jean-mariedethier5495]

Absolument paradisiaque...

[@angelosalluzzi1516]

Semplicemente irripetibile....insuperabile.....unico

[@ghislainecasaburi5537]

Un Être extraordinaire! Mon pianiste préféré! Grâce à son toucher sa technique époustouflante ,on entend Chopin ainsi que tout autre compositeur à la perfection.

[@opale1572]

Era perfecto en todo lo que tocaba. También es mi preferido, junto con Richter, Gieseking y Katchen.

[@syourke3]

The most sensitive, nuanced playing I’ve ever heard.,

[@bigcalamaro]

il modo che ha di approcciare questo pezzo è incredibile...l'accompagnamento con la sinistra è leggerissimo, vellutato...la destra canta in maniera incredibile, ma senza mai sforzare....la tecnica è follemente alta ma lo fa sembrare un pezzo facile...una esecuzione così non l'avevo mai sentita. penso che questo, mazeppa suonato da cziffra e bach suonato da gould sono state le scoperte youtubbiane più incredibili fino ad ora per me

[@nadiadesimone9853]

bigcalamaro Analisi attentissima.Complimenti 😊😚

[@magbag70]

ne farà molte altre... ne sono certo

[@carloslijoicarcano]

la testimonianza di Dio e la musica....poi i suoi profetti sono questi grandi legendi como Benedetti Michelangeli e tanti altri!!! la lista e interminabile!!!! Grazie Dio per Chopin ......!!!!

[@TheKevPal]

Absolutely brilliant. Composition and performance.

[@josephdiao8149]

michelangeli is truly one of the greats there's no doubt now.

[@kontrapunkti]

Thank god For Poland for giving us Chopin!

[@cedericocosantorini8013]

Thanks France for giving us Chopin!

[@cedericocosantorini8013]

@Mikołaj Gogolewski He was both, you know it, we all know it, why bother?

[@cedericocosantorini8013]

@Mikołaj Gogolewski Seems like you are a desperate case. Good luck.

[@domenicodanna6581]

Basterebbe questa esecuzione a farne il più grande pianista mai esistito.

[@alessandrodelmonte5765]

Tocco " romantico - classico" .È il mio Mito !

[@Paolo00ism]

Orgoglioso di essere Bresciano come era Lui è passeggiare e vivere la città dove Lui frequentava e studiava e ho studiato, Conservatorio Venturi prima e adesso Luca Marenzio., e dava concerti al Teatro Grande. Peccato non averlo conosciuto. Ma ora la fortuna di poterlo ascoltare attraverso questi strumenti tecnologici. Infinitamente grazie.

[@thomgeo8073]

I love MICHELANGELI he spiritualizes any composer

[@remonannetti4122]

A beautiful and sensitive performance of this piece. Michelangeli's touch is miraculous, simply perfect, each note clearly defined. We shall not see his like again.

[@marksmith3947]

Did he perform the Polonaise-Fantasie? I think his approach would suit that piece very well. In general I don't find his Chopin convincing. I was just reading that other famous pianists said the same thing.

[@alexandros789]

@@marksmith3947 personally I find his interpretations of Chopin head and shoulders above any other pianist, included Rubinstein and Horowitz (although Horowitz had a very original and unique way of playing Chopin, and probably he could let the piano "sing" better than Michelangeli could). The tempo is simply perfect, the clarity of the most difficult passages is unmatched, f is forte and p is piano, i think if Chopin could play his music himself, it would be not far from Michelangeli's interpretation.

[@Bellarmino1]

L'impareggiabile grazia, delicatezza e naturalezza dell'esecuzione, la perfetta simbiosi con lo strumento, unitamente all'eterea ispirazione divina che suscita la sua interpretazione fanno di Benedetti Michelangeli il più grande pianista degli ultimi tempi.

[@granluce7943]

Quando cerco il divino, torno a te. Maestro.

[@mosematterazzo1375]

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli degli Angeli del cielo sei caduto come un manto di velluto nelle anime di noi tutti per portarci le gioie di Chopin

[@eugenialaurabaudinelli14]

Sublime interpretazione di uno dei miei brani preferiti

[@Angelinthesky79]

coloro che hanno messo "non mi piace" sono sicuramente gli stessi che ci ritroviamo nelle commissioni di molti concorsi pianistici........ormai l'interpretazione non è più premiata! vanno avanti solo i pianisti "polli da batteria".

[@EmptyVee00000]

A me non piace, musicalmente, anche se si tratta di un'esecuzione tecnicamente impeccabile.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli played The second-rated concertos like Mozart piano concerto no 15 Haydn concerto G major Liszt piano concerto no 1! ABM never played The Best piano concertos like Mozart 24 JS Bach 1052! Prokoviev 1-3 Chopin 1-2 Brahms 1-2 Rachmaninov 1-3 Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! ABM i am going to bash distroy Grieg concerto With brutal accent after brutal accent after brutal accent! The Best greatest pianists of All Time Are really=Artur Rubinstein ( The GOD) Grigory Sokolov (.The Titan of The piano The Giant of The piano) Emil Gilels ( The King) Wilhelm Kempff (.The most beautiful piano sound Ever) Sviatoslav Richter Mikhail Pletnev ( The most Powerful Ever) Vladimir Ashkenazy (.The.most colorful volcanic piano sound Ever) Solomon Cutner (. The most perfect structure of music) Alexei Lubimov (. The Genius no 1 Mozart piano concerto no 27!.) Maurizio Pollini (.The.Genius no 2)

[@opale1572]

@@RaineriHakkarainen Su opinión es respetable, desde luego. Pero la expone usted como si fuera la única válida e indiscutible. Por otra parte, creo que sólo tendría derecho a opinar con esa contundencia alguien que fuera un igual, en técnica y conocimientos, de esos que usted nombra. ¿Lo es usted?

[@darioditrana57]

Superbo ed unico degno interprete di Chopin

[@tragelafos]

only 1757 views for this great artist .I bet if his name was woo ,cho, lee ,liu,kwo or chooey lie he could possibly hope for more.Better luck next time Arturo!!! YOU get 10 likes from me!

[@wangyao91010]

When he began to paly, I can't help myself from crying....so beautiful....

[@melaniasordini3555]

interpretazione grandiosa e sublime

[@butu808]

I have been thinking a lot of Chopin's genius lately. Not just him but how many of the great talents in history: Chopin, Beethoven, Van Gogh, Li Bai, Lennon, Kahlo, Dickinson, Poe, Louis Carroll, David Foster Wallace, Joel Peter-Witkin, Woody Allen, the list goes on... None of them had a truly happy life. Happiness exist in their work but so is suffering which further enhanced their work. It's obvious that ignorance is bliss; true genius and artistic talent tend to bring about a deep understanding of the human experience that is neither condusive or practical towards a long happy life. How thin is that line between Genius and Madness?

[@cruscante]

Please add: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei,

[@LazlosPlane]

How many PEOPLE do you know that have truly "happy" lives?

[@giuliacalia9695]

Leonardo da Vinci

[@opale1572]

@@cruscante Hala! Ahora, a hacer cada cual su lista personal.

[@luciamaruccocraviolini6539]

o miracoloso e sfuggente. Il più grande interprete di tutti i tempi.

[@colin_rose]

WOW! THE smoothest andante spianato i have EVER heard! michelangeli was truly a genius!

[@davidhenning568]

Colin Rose listen to Hoffman ‘s live recording

[@syourke3]

A pianist of genius!

[@SELMER1947]

La perfection n'est pas de ce monde...à une exception près : Arturo B Michelangeli

[@hannastaszak1684]

Piękno muzyki Fryderyka Chopina to fenomen graniczący z cudem ❤️

[@gerardbegni2806]

From the very first measures, we understand that we are going to hear an ooutstanding version.

[@luciaguidi1775]

Absolutely sublime

[@cziffra-eg9st]

After all these years this is still one of the best

[@rudyb137]

Senza parole

[@L4AH4N1889]

Just WOW ! Is Chopin alive !!! Only Chopin himself would play like that !

[@aikiminomori2261]

I just finished listening to the same piece by yundi li. What a difference! Not that yundi played poorly, of course. It's just that it sounds so very different. Not just the sound but the whole entire atmosphere. The whole energy. I feel so relieved with this performance. Brilliant.

[@lucamatranga]

Did you know when they recorded this music at the italian state television (after two days in which the Maestro did not feel the right conditon to play, so they had to delay), the time arrived to stop recording, but the Maestro continued to play. Recording technicians then looked their coordinator to ask him what to do. He told them just to let him play alone and go home. Nobody told him nothing, and Maestro Benedetti Michelangeli remained in the studio other 4 hours until midnight, continuing to play and play, and then left. There was only one person remained just to shut the lights off and close the studio. So we lost 4 hours of probably marvellous interpretations by the Maestro. Such a shame!

[@vKarl71]

What level of stupidity does it take to not continue recording? Yeah, go home and have dinner, nothing interesting going on here...

[@Spanuse]

Impressionante sta storia

[@RuggeroPilla]

Se è vero, io emigro da questo paese per sempre. If this is true, I'll leave Italy forever

[@abbastanzafebo]

Le chiederei Da dove proviene questo aneddoto.

[@lucamatranga]

@@abbastanzafebo Da testimonianze di tecnici Rai.

[@corradoroda940]

Anche la persona più lontana dal mondo pianistico intuisce che Michelangeli è la perfezione; nessuno meglio di lui, è così

[@kontrapunkti]

Brilliant!!So smooth and Clear at the same time!Chopin would have liked this very much!

[@ardarico]

Inarrivabile

[@dpkaiser]

Ogni volta che sento la Coda - da 12:00 circa in poi - sono impressionato: mi pare esegua un accelerando con una freddezza meravigliosa e trascinante.

[@orthoschnapp5565]

Grazie maestro

[@mattia144]

🎼

[@cedericocosantorini8013]

La perfection...

[@ancamg]

Please enjoy this, as long as it is available, as I got a message from you tube about copyright... Of course, I don't own this clip. I only love both Chopin and Michelangeli!

[@almavie6786]

Thank you so much for sharing ! Should be a recording for RAI(Italian TV national broadcast). Almost live, no remakes

[@MatteoBiagiotti]

Glad they didn't delete this :)

[@paulo3564]

Wonderful! Magic!

[@FerranLopezCarrasquerPianist]

Simply wonderful! Thanks for posting this gem!

[@casual_human]

Truly virtuoso! 👍👍👍

[@phus2001]

beyond fantastic and sublime

[@dinamoabc]

Just perfect!!!

[@armandogabbrielli4572]

really the best

[@MisyeDiVre]

Many seemed to have forgetten the polonaise as a narrative. Chopin here spoke in landscapes and reminiscence. I wonder if any other instrument could attempt to speak these toungues as the piano does so instinctively. It would likely take a lifetime to answer this inquiry.. En passant...

[@giuseppe76761]

immenso...penso che oltre a riuscire ad ottenere un suono trascendentale inimitabile unici sia anche un dio di tecnica i pianosti di oggi asitici e non sono solo meccanici virtuosi non significA ESSERE SUPER VELOCI E RENDERE IL PEZZO VIVO E REALE MICHELANGELI PENSO CHE POSSA STRACCIARE TUTTI ANCH IN VELOCITA' MA SE NON ECCEDE E' SOLO PER MANTENERE IL PEZZO NELLA SUA CHIAREZZA ORIGINALE,SOLO CZIFFRA RIUSCIVA NELL ESTREMA VELOCITA'E CHIAREZZ QUEST DUE PIANISTI SONO RECORDMAN DI PIANO FORTE

[@msotil]

Perfection!!

[@jaom181]

Brilliant playing ! Beautiful !

[@omfogmofmogm]

Absolutely amazing.

[@tinakurtidi7956]

Grandissimo

[@LordGreystoke]

Wish the volume were a little higher on this. But beautiful.

[@joseluispapalotziarenas109]

Fantástico fantástico!!!

[@michiko2562]

Quelle perfection et quelle finesse！！！