Barenboim plays Beethoven Sonata No. 25 in G Major, Op. 79, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Mov.

[@jennylea8687]

I love his light, delicate playing. He makes it sound so easy!

[@MrSrc08c]

The way he sculpts the transition at 1:34 and 1:53 and then changes the quality of his tone is pretty amazing. I think anybody who plays this piece would agree.

[@MichaelTLam]

Totally!

[@Mach-02]

Yes

[@rohanbansal2324]

Yup

[@youjunior7583]

I so agree!!!!!!!

[@pertimol]

Yes

[@alexbogdashin]

1st 0:08 2nd 4:52 3rd 7:36

[@yamilladner9668]

Thank you!

[@yingwagner9976]

I love the sonata it just has so mmuch emotion

[@chenrailing2106]

Phew thanks I finally found a comment for this.

[@lalaaslzr]

@@chenrailing2106 same

[@abriellerobare5465]

Absolutely beautiful! He's so transfixing as a pianist. And then there's me, who has never been able to figure out how to play triplets on sixteenths XD

[@Raed103]

The second movement is one of my classical favorites of all time

[@chaden9498]

Chill

[@tansy69]

@Chaden That person is chilling, don’t worry... 😝

[@ximenasotillo7821]

How beautiful is this sonata!! It made want to play every second the piano💜

[@JD-qd5zp]

That audience (when seen) never makes the slightest movement. I think they are a still photograph until he finished and they applaud. That would be my dream audience to play for.

[@andrewkennaugh1065]

JD Well,get yourself up to Barenboim's standard...!😊😋

[@tansy69]

@Andrew Kennaugh Yup! He’s GOT to do that! Great comment! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@vc8424]

Stop and think how sonata no. 24 and no. 25 are considered inferior to their preceding and proceeding sonatas no. 23 and no.26, and yet they are absolutely perfect pieces of art. What an amazing span of production from Beethoven, I could only imagine his muse at this point of his life.

[@Emmansui]

I can’t think b’cus I’m in a dream now and I don’t want to get out of it…

[@lauraev]

I love this sonata,i have to say that this is an amazing sonata which can show us the happy face of Beethoven. Good one Barenboim.

[@lmsthomas89]

Say "not very difficult" or "Alexander Hamilton"

[@Hyramess]

Anyone who has ever underestimated the difficulties in playing this work in a manner and spirit that brings it fully to life has not yet heard this performance. Over a sixty year period I have learned 28 of the 32 Beethoven sonatas -- nothing to boast about, but it's made for a most interesting and rewarding life, even so. I regret that because I could sight-read this piece at an early age, I neglected to give it the close attention it deserves.

[@mywetblanket]

In the days before KZbin and fast internet access, I tried to learn this piece without any idea of how it sounds. The notes were easy enough that I could sightread the piece right away, but the left hand tremolo chords sounded so terribly jarring to my ears that I actually hated the piece. Now a decade later with better musicianship (and a better piano makes a huge difference), I'm really appreciating the beauty of these simpler Beethoven sonatas.

[@christiepeng2661]

I love this piano sonata very much. I played it for 7 months.

[@mimsydew]

I WISH I HAD HIS DYNAMICS! THEY'RE AMAZING!!

[@mariawimmer4541]

Phänomenal. Was für Abstufungen in schnellen Dynamik- und Farbwechseln! Schaut so einfach aus und erfordert soviel feinste Anschlagskunst.

[@enville0715]

Such energy, such colors and expression and strength.

[@岩崎彰吾-i9v]

This performance is wonderful! I'm going to play this. I'll practice more!

[@dhirenfernando8159]

40hrs broo

[@tansy69]

@Dhiren Fernando LOL 😆

[@tansy69]

@Dhiren Fernando Ling Ling! Lmao 🤣

[@dhirenfernando8159]

@@tansy69 ah a fellow twoset fann

[@seankim9682]

@@dhirenfernando8159 Rly? I'm a pianist and I've been practicing pieces like this and they usually take 4 months. not to mention that I practice 2 hours a day...

[@chopinjierong]

i love this piece alot! some ppl called it the cuckoo sonata :D

[@katbeasley135]

wow !!!!! AMAZING!!!!!! I am playing this piece right now, and this is simply GORGEOUS!

[@williamricciardulli4006]

Solo veo comentarios en inglés, viva Barenboim. Aguante Argentina y sus célebres intérpretes!!!

[@dorisl6582]

Sublime interpretation!

[@volusicamara9690]

Um fina e bela interpretação. Ágil , macia e suave, essa Sonatina me desperta os mais sensiveis sentimentos. Claro! É Daniel Baremboim .

[@volkerf.sesselmann6783]

Man kommt an Barenboim, was Beethoven Klaviersonaten betrifft, nicht vorbei !

[@jorgefedericokahl8721]

MARAVILLOSO MAESTRO ARGENTINO !!!!!!!! Solista Director Genial !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@adamodell6282]

Actually, the thing about this piece that makes it tough is the fact that, in comparison to other Beethoven works, it's almost hyper tonal. One mistake and EVERYBODY knows it.

[@rohanbansal2324]

True lolol

[@paulwellings-longmore1012]

Daniel Barenboim has such small hands it is amazing that he can perform as a virtuoso pianist

[@buntafujiwara3289]

He makes it look easy

[@dhirenfernando8159]

Because it is 😂. No but in all seriousness, the piece is very technically easy. The interpretation, however, is interesting

[@buntafujiwara3289]

@@dhirenfernando8159 lol I was only in 6th grade when I wrote that comment

[@Dylan-zd6hn]

Stanley Wang it isn’t easy

[@buntafujiwara3289]

@@Dylan-zd6hn it was painful when I tried to learn it but it looks easy now when I watch it but that's probably because I already played it before. Also u know u haven't improved at piano when ur teacher recommends u the same song again years after u first played it. I'm now depressed

[@Dylan-zd6hn]

Stanley Wang awww ahahaha your teacher is just trying to get you to play it even better than the first, as hard as that may be :)

[@zwingyfy]

absolutely beautiful.

[@marcdeiana5888]

Immense chef d'orchestre et pianiste d'exception.

[@silverbbtxx4503]

4:53

[@Hyramess]

You have been listening to Schnabel's recording, haven't you? Down right manic it is, but thoroughly engaging even so. "If two do the same, it is not the same." ~ Cécile Staub Genhart There is never just ONE way to perform these great works. If there were, there'd be no need for so many different artists to present their unique interpretations, would there? We could program the scores into a computer, and listen forever after in smug complacency to to sterile perfection. What a nightmare!

[@briangriffin4515]

Good news from heaven. It's like Shakespeare - I catch on in the middle of the first movement / Act; after that, I'm hooked.

[@jseligmann]

Superb!

[@giorgio80]

L'andante è qualcosa di meraviglioso.

[@buntafujiwara3289]

Wow

[@rickelmonoggin]

It's odd: There doesn't seem to be any comments here informing me how Barenboim's performance is actually terrible and that if I was a real aficionado, I'd understand this. Strangely, those kind of comments seem more likely to appear on the performances of more well known pieces. (Moonlight, Pathetique etc)

[@enricocsg745]

Richard Hunter I've observed this too. It actually happens with everyone when they play the common pieces. This beethoven sonata isn't played too much by other pianists (the reason, I dont know).

[@buntafujiwara3289]

Why?

[@jiangx5]

Absolutely enchanting!

[@petersbrett]

absolutely beautiful...never knew Christopher Hitchens played piano...

[@awotnot]

the Blink 182 of the Beethoven catalogue

[@danielbaeg]

What a surprise ! XD

[@jonathanbarber8174]

This is Perfect!

[@Gruskinator]

What fingering do you guys use at 3:06? I've never thought of using 2 for the bottom note in the right hand, anyone have a good argument for this?

[@halvard1218]

For the right hand I’ve always used 3 1 5 2 4 1, it looks like he uses 2 and 4 the whole time, I’m not sure why, but it probably has to do with avoiding unnecessary accents in the lower notes

[@Gruskinator]

youre probably right, though i dont know if i would trade it off for the awkwardness. the lh doing jumps everywhere means rh has to play those bottom notes with the correct tone automatically..

[@monikad5758]

I hate the the section in the first movement with the crossing over of the hands - I mess that part up every time -_-

[@TheEpicGamers12345]

The final page always screws me up! The overlap at first was hard as well! I hope you do good playing this song!

[@SkyFoxTale]

that's the fun part

[@jiangx5]

The overlap was hard for me as well! Good luck!

[@vadimvanbouwel9452]

Me too it's hard but i practised it away 😋

[@sunnysun2516]

Play slow first, then speed up one notch at a time, that is, if you use a manual metronome.

[@BradsPitts.]

He's so good! I'm learning the 2nd movement :)

[@eddiezhi5190]

Me used to play this

[@marianijamil694]

0:08 0:47 0:27 0:33

[@vadimvanbouwel9452]

I'm going to learn this XD

[@vadimvanbouwel9452]

I can play the first movement slow with both hands XD

[@randompanda4325]

Vadim Van Bouwel nice! Im still learning

[@AM-lh9ip]

How is it going? Did you learn it?

[@penny0102]

i agree , he seems like the 2nd Beethoven , even while he is performing , very close to what we read in scores .

[@dcunited710]

I love Beethoven's obsessiveness to constantly return to the main theme lol

[@agapes.1386]

4:53 II

[@taeyongismine7108]

Goodness he is really good 👌👌👍👍

[@jcb561]

I used to play this piece in high school. Brings back memories.

[@leonhardbraunizer6496]

Sublime

[@ChristopherWood1619]

Why are there EMPTY SEATS at a Daniel Barenboim concert 3:21 ???????

[@vc8424]

Likely were reserved for recording equipment, this concert series was quite the production, both sound and audio, as you can see. I highly doubt 3 front row seats would be left empty with a seemingly full house.

[@JD-qd5zp]

It’s hard to believe that this is Beethoven’s easiest piano sonata , with the exception of the two very easy sonatas in two movements.

[@aprilzoppa4535]

I don’t think it’s the easiest of his sonatas

[@varunsathya1912]

@@aprilzoppa4535 it is

[@varunsathya1912]

@@aprilzoppa4535 with the exception of opus 19

[@bhugh]

@@varunsathya1912 I think you mean opus 49. There are two sonatas in Op. 49, which are Sonatas No. 19 & 20. They were written very early, around the time of his Op. 2 and Op. 7 sonata, but not published until later - thus the later opus number and Sonata numbers. Beethoven labelled them "Leichte Sonaten" ("Easy Sonatas" - or maybe "Sonatinas"). They're both nice little pieces but more short simple things for family, friends, students, etc to play. Beethoven probably would never have published them, but his brother shipped them off to a publisher behind his back. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonatas_Nos._19_and_20_(Beethoven). Anyway, yeah, this sonata (Op. 79) is usually considered the easiest after the two Op. 49 sonatas. Just for example, here is Hans von Bulow's ranked list of the Sonatas: www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/crwwkc/hans_von_bulow_ranks_the_difficulty_of_the/

[@Ray0X0]

I love this sonata... it is so beautiful !

[@박가영-y4c]

04:50

[@ВикторияКотляр-ъ3ю]

Моё произведение на гос экзаменах в училище

[@ankaij6980]

He looks like James Monroe

[@jossramosh1986]

que obra mas hermosa!!!! me encanta!

[@Rafy_y]

4:52 2nd movement :)

[@randompanda4325]

😍😍😍

[@mchlwng40]

Love the way he ends the first movement.

[@garyzhang169]

Who's watching in 2017?

[@iauerbeast]

me

[@phoebetuan7891]

Gary Zhang me

[@gustavogomesdesousa]

me, and I'm listening this because my teacher said to, so, I'm here

[@hoot2416]

2018 :) 👍

[@192khzstudio]

almost 2019 already

[@TipoQueTocaelPiano]

The third mov. of this sonata is really amusing

[@iauerbeast]

wow

[@pianoman1598]

Some people leave and come back it's like an all day sort of thing.

[@silvia7597]

Some of them left because of a Pez dispenser 😁

[@stiven_musico]

Tengo una pregunta... have a question... Estoy aprendiendo esta obra, en la parte que la mano izquierda va de lado a lado... 1st mov... En esa parte puedo hacerlo solo con la mano derecha o necesariamente debo hacerlo con las dos???. Porfavor respondamen, gracias.

[@adriamrodriguez7754]

Stiven Gallego depende de por donde la estés estudiando, si en la partitura que tienes sale digitacion hazlo como esta escrito, depende de la digitacion de la partituras si no tiene digitacion hazlo como se te haga mas sencillo

[@Ray0X0]

Baremboim plays in a remarkable and beautiful arraunian way ;)

[@bmann.01]

tis a great piece

[@Ion161057]

exceptional !

[@matepuskas2305]

Super it is great very good :)

[@phoebetuan7891]

The video is not available anymore😭😭

[@MrSrc08c]

Awesome.

[@НикитаНикитенко-х4в]

Maybe this sonata can be easy played for Barenboim or somebody else, who playing piano all his live, but not for usual homemade piano-player.

[@franciscopinto6394]

I think it is. I play for 1.5 years and Im learning this sonata as soon as I go home. I'm self taught and I can't read music, I'm also not extremely talented. I've got the whole tempest under my belt and people say this is easier, so I'll give it a try.

[@colincrothers4659]

Francisco Pinto if you can't read music and have been playing for 1.5 years there is no way you can play the tempest well.

[@franciscopinto6394]

colin crothers That's why people think I'm a prodigy, which I am objectively not. It's also why people believe in miracles. This is easy... I gave up on this and fortunately finished tempest pathetique and moonlight... Step 1 have a lot of motivation and will to defy rules Step 2: Understand that reading music is an useful, but ultimately, outdated methor. Use synthesia instead, easier, but slower, that I have to admit. Musch slower. Step 3: Play play play Now you know how it's possible for someone to play a difficult sonata without even learning technique or sight reading,.

[@colincrothers4659]

ok, ok but if i were you i would learn to read music and also work on technique if you want to amount to anything, good luck

[@TheEpicGamers12345]

Francisco Pinto :o im very suprised you are that good! I've been playing for 6 years and im trying to master this song right now. It's pretty amazing people like you can do! I hope you can get some piano lessons well only if you want! GOOD LUCK ON YOUR SONGS :)

[@russellthompson9271]

Some of the comments on here are annoying and patronizing.

[@buntafujiwara3289]

Anybody relize that the sound is lagging behind the video?

[@chrish12345]

is he wearing a jumper ?

[@anthonyt3872]

There are empty seats because the rest were watching Emil Gilels play...

[@colincrothers4659]

emil gilels is dead

[@anthonyt3872]

No he's immortal

[@DowAcademy4Game]

very good pianist

[@majerigabriella1659]

This sonata is not easy!!

[@spookychris1]

Der Meister!

[@majerigabriella1659]

EXCELLENT!!!

[@majerigabriella1659]

EXCEPTIONAL!!!

[@TepreHenc69]

Bit rushed😢

[@CdAb-bz9rj]

어쩜이렇게 부드럽게 치지?

[@kellycraigs298]

U an army

[@banemen27]

the third movement sounds like Chopin

[@user-nk8be7zi1h]

Indeed. For some reason, the beginning seems to resemble the beginning of Chopin's Op. 25 No. 9 Etude.

[@tormezquickpatience5148]

banemen27 Where is the third mov

[@dcunited710]

+Tórmez Quick Patience it starts at 7:37

[@fernandoserico77]

The beginning of the third movement is the same of the beginning of the Sonata op. 109

[@fernandoserico77]

Thing Whas how do you know that?

[@Prince_b901]

Apni free fire ki ID bhej do

[@КсенияКортьева-с6р]

Я его играю))

[@mishellelis5374]

я тоже)

[@cheeselordthe11th47]

Louder please! I can’t even hear

[@LANATORDI57]

eto igralaa,,,,,

[@yuwang449]

Some of the comments go blah blah yada yada. They dont ssybsnything

[@gdmoore]

Yu Wang ...ssybsnything ????? Hmmmmm...

[@majerigabriella1659]

This sonata is not easy!! For Barenboim is easy!! But not for you!! You are amateur!!!

[@qwertyuiop-ke7fs]

god Barenboim really is awful

[@catin5814]

0:14

[@bettina_9663]

0:09

[@williamricciardulli4006]

0:09

[@catin5814]

0:08

[@aoibhinbrophy7825]

4:53

[@jun7926]

0:09