Askenazi. Pure respect. A pure intellectual. Not just music..... A holy person.
@G_C340 Жыл бұрын
Performances of this piece from that era didn’t take any prisoners.
@danielgloverpiano76937 ай бұрын
I know this is something perhaps only a pianist who has performed with orchestra would be aware of, but this piece is odd for the fact the entire string section doesn’t play a single note in the first movement. Having them sit so close to the pianist would make me very conscious that they are sitting there staring at me! I have played many concertos, but not this one (yet). I wonder if it bothers anyone else who has performed it? Ashkenazy is a real professional and is totally engaged in what he’s doing, so he seems oblivious to it. I heard him around this time playing Rachmaninoff Third in Cleveland and went backstage to get his autograph. He was very kind and seemed humble and almost shy. Thanks for uploading this stunning performance.
@Cosmic.Perspective6 ай бұрын
Interesting.. 🤔
@dmachine075 ай бұрын
The strings don't play in the 1st movement because it sets up a contrast with the second movement, where the winds rest.
@danielgloverpiano76935 ай бұрын
@@dmachine07 yeah, I know. It’s one of the coolest things about the piece and makes for interesting rehearsal setup. Half the orchestra can go home after rehearsing the last two movements first!! They like that.
@belialah Жыл бұрын
That's to have a good memory.
@nickhickson8738 Жыл бұрын
The greats from the past era. We must not forget them.
@syncopate50 Жыл бұрын
I LOVE his smile at the end of the 1st movement.
@petrouchka2011 Жыл бұрын
9:50
@danielgloverpiano76937 ай бұрын
It makes me wonder if perhaps they had issues during rehearsal and weren’t ending together. It’s very treacherous in that spot. It was exactly together.
@robhaskins10 ай бұрын
My hands are hurting as I watch this.
@bernardparret31919 ай бұрын
Personally, a tendinitis will be my lot if I keep watching this footage 😂
@whosaysitmatters2 ай бұрын
Enthusiastic applause from the audience in Auckland - Bartok 42 years ago in New Zealand - great music transcends
@aqmalputraalbani6571 Жыл бұрын
7:26 the girl on the background
@herobrine1847 Жыл бұрын
This is why people should sit on the left half of the auditorium
@thesimpilot2022 Жыл бұрын
She wasn’t even paying attention in the first half
@edopiano88 Жыл бұрын
Ashkenazy's wife
@pattelino9466 Жыл бұрын
@@edopiano88 I don't think so. But she looks a bit like her 😃
@PhilippeBrun-qy3st3 ай бұрын
@@edopiano88 moi j'ai pensé à Jacqueline Dupre la violoncelliste qui était alors la compagne de Barenboim.
@NamgyalFR19612 ай бұрын
At 23:07 the third movement starts with a bang and keeps moving with the highly energetic pianism of VA.
@ippolit23 Жыл бұрын
Bartok rulez. So does Ashkenazy.
@gilles735 Жыл бұрын
This concert took place the day after Bartok's wife died (Ditta Pasztory-Bartok, November 21, 1982) this is of course unrelated to the concert itself
@Xyriak Жыл бұрын
Legend
@Tizohip Жыл бұрын
Legendary
@AustroHungarianEmpire186711 ай бұрын
Simply Piano veteran
@慧椙山-o8b8 ай бұрын
his arm moves very fast!
@MrBohuslav8 ай бұрын
Three flutes?
@danielgloverpiano76937 ай бұрын
Three flutes is very common in music from the 20th Century and often one of them doubles with piccolo. If you want something strange, Franck’s Les Djinns has four bassoons, but otherwise a normal orchestra. That was written in the middle of the 1880s.
@MrBohuslav7 ай бұрын
Of course, there are already four bassoons in many works by Berlioz, forty or fifty years earlier. But the point is that Bartok's score requests only two flutes.
@danielgloverpiano76937 ай бұрын
@@MrBohuslav oh, I see. I have the score, but didn’t check. The unusual thing is that the strings are silent in the first movement. As a pianist, I would find it distracting to have them sitting over my shoulder for the whole movement, knowing they were watching me! I just checked the full score on imslp. Bartók 2 has three flutes with piccolo doubled.
@danielgloverpiano76937 ай бұрын
@@MrBohuslav by the way, I just looked up the full score on imslp, and Bartók 2 indeed has three flutes with doubling of piccolo.
@MrBohuslav7 ай бұрын
Thank you. I thought not necessary to check the score, as I was naïve enough to consider that Wikipedia was right (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._2_(Bart%C3%B3k)#Instrumentation)
@hadisadrosadat1913 Жыл бұрын
Audience are too close to the stage. Hard to focus.
@Jay-uv5xg8 ай бұрын
not true
@notarjoe8 ай бұрын
Is it just me or does the piano fall out of tune in the second movement?
@whosaysitmatters2 ай бұрын
agree - though he did give it a work out in the first movement - but it is disappointing. Now the NZSO has more women and uses better pianos - we call that progress.
@davidludwig5143Ай бұрын
Trop rapide à mon goût et les cuivres trop en retrait.
@EmptyVee00000Ай бұрын
@@davidludwig5143 Mvt I: MM 104 à la noir, puis MM 112; Mvt II: MM 184 à la noir (Presto); Mvt III: MM 150 à la noir.
@Twentythousandlps8 ай бұрын
I can't stand conductors who direct with both arms, it's very amateurish. For one thing it's harder to follow, which do you choose to go with? And it looks terrible.
@Jay-uv5xg8 ай бұрын
yea right!
@Jay-uv5xg8 ай бұрын
nice lie
@clydeblair962211 ай бұрын
Not very thoughtful.
@ajsfarm Жыл бұрын
The pianist and musicians are obviously very talented, but I do not like this composition at all. There is no beauty to it. It is a lot of notes just together with dissonance.
@Test-nj4fx Жыл бұрын
For me it is stunningly beautiful. Right on the edge to too dissonant.
@musicmasterplayer4532 Жыл бұрын
This is very lyrical and luminous concerto...you need to acclimatize to the idiom.
@clemleske14547 ай бұрын
Have a listen also to Sviatoslav Richter’s version; might change your mind. It’s a wonderful work