Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 E♭ Emperor Alfred Brendel Kurt Masur

[@angelestebanfonseca4316]

Felíz cumpleaños 94 al gran maestro Alfred Brendel, quien ha sido uno de los grandes pianistas del género clásico aunque retirado desde hace décadas de la profesion. Su trayectoria y grabaciones son divinos tesoros de su gran obra pianistica interpretando a los grandes compositores clásicos. Felicidades Brendel y gracias por todas las emociones que nos has dado.

[@stevenmccarthy7039]

What passionate playing! Power, beauty, forcefulness, clarity... I have known dear Brendel's playing for more than 50 years. As commented below, IMO there is an honesty, an openness, a straightforwardness and boldness in his interpretations of Beethoven which I think one is hard-pressed to find nowadays. For me it is as if the great man himself were sitting there playing his own concerto. Thank you for making this wonderful recording available to us.

[@kinorspielmann4649]

Beethoven/Brendel ... the perfect match

[@johncoppola8105]

I was at this. I couldnt beleive how good it was then or now. It was a life changing thing.

[@GeorgReitlinger]

You are so lucky! I would be visit any concert from the past time. But unfortunately it’s impossible.

[@gglucs1799]

When was this?

[@johncoppola8105]

It was sometime around around 1999 - 2000, maybe 98.

[@davidatlanta629]

Which orchestra was Masur conducting?

[@johncoppola8105]

@ I dont remember

[@yigitliselotte5626]

Was für ein großartiger Pianist ist Alfred Brendel . Beethoven und Alfred Brendel soooo wunderbar!

[@lisamuse574]

alfred brendel is the greatest pianist alive! what a treat to be able to watch this! thank you!

[@johnvalentine4720]

Agreed.

[@petergroverd6626]

This blew me away. Fantastic performance by Brendel and Orchestra.

[@mecarmel-by-the-sea0076]

The most intense interpretation of the Fifth Concerto!

[@stevenvanstadenvanstaden4317]

This NY Steinway is particularly good (in my opinion of course). Brendel's playing is also so much more alive than on other occasions. Magnificent performance.

[@fajeartha]

I remember watching this Live from Lincoln Center telecast - almost 30 years ago. It is just as exceptional and exciting as the first time, Thank you for sharing this video.

[@L2Lacademy]

The audio recording of this particular brendel-massur concerto initiated me into the world of western classical music in 1988. Must have heard it's recording hundreds of time, then lost the cassette and the cassette player, and now reliving the experience of listening it some 35 years ago at UT Austin music library from where I copied it into my cassette

[@mahler71]

I saw Alfred Brendel when I as a teenager I'll never forget his playing. Marvellous

[@paulo3564]

Kurt Masur is THE CONDUCTOR!

[@helmutganen7988]

einfach große Klasse - schade dass Kurt Masur nicht mehr unter uns ist.

[@kleofaskunkori1867]

The most moving performance of this Concerto in my opinion (Brendel, Masur)

[@임경주-k4l]

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[@GeorgReitlinger]

I’m also agree with your comment. This playing is full emotions and expression.

[@torabora2025]

Absolute paramount this performance !!! ❤

[@МішаЧеркезов]

Великолепное исполнения, какая экспрессия, просто Бетховен если бы это услышал, я думаю был бы в восторге! Альфред Брендель, великолепный пианист!

[@gautamdeusa]

Many thanks for uploading this video. Watching Brendel & Masur live is a privilege of life!

[@Patriot41776]

What an outstanding performance. Masterfully done!

[@pascaltabota7679]

Glorious version !

[@GeorgReitlinger]

Das ist unzweifelhaft großartig. Diese Aufführung ist sehr expressiv und voller Emotionen. Das Orchester klingt einfach verrückt mächtig. Und natürlich hier gibt es Verknüpfung zwischen dem Orchester und Solist. Früher habe ich nie etwas Ähnliches gesehen. Vielen vielen Dank dem Inhaber des Kanals fürs Hochladen!

[@sdorr]

The Adagio is the best I've heard in a century....

[@joanblake5490]

I'm so glad you brought up the adagio, which I think is one of THE most beautiful, elevating pieces of music. And Brendel's playing of this movement takes us to another plane. We are made better by it, or so I think.

[@sdorr]

@@joanblake5490 Many thanks JB!

[@sdorr]

@@joanblake5490 You're civilized, JB. Are you on FB or twitter or deviantart, if I may ask? cheerios Sidney

[@sdorr]

All true, Joan! Decades ago I was able to play this movement, more or less, from the "music minus 1" score etc...@@joanblake5490

[@philippajoy4300]

What you get from this older type of performance is the directness, the sweep of the whole, that peculiar quality whereby Beethoven both simplified and thereby elaborated the pronunciation of the classical style. Perhaps we don't get the individual colours and moments Barenboim or Lang Lang can give us, but we are swept along, and I think that was Beethovens main desire.

[@InsightAndEnergy]

Well said. I had similar thoughts, the beautiful, energetic, inspiring sweep of the music...

[@lomfidi]

😢 No Superlative would be strong enough to describe this moving performance. Makes life most livable

[@gabrielefontana908]

Grandissimo!!!

[@jeanaborilova9161]

Magnificent!

[@sophiefaure6068]

BRAVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!

[@InsightAndEnergy]

It had been a couple of years since I heard this piece, and perhaps I am more open to it, and the performances by the pianist and orchestra excel, but my reaction was to be carried deeply into the music and its feelings. Intensity, intensity, intensity.

[@domenicoardizzone8808]

la più grande performance che ho ascoltato sul concerto n.5 di Bethoven.mi piacerebbe saper quando è stata registrata.

[@andreapetterini6527]

1996

[@polarbear1201]

Truly incomparable 🎉

[@lunchmind]

BRAVO!

[@seafoodcannibal]

This song makes me want to just melt

[@anabellacheong2261]

Couldn’t be better! Bravissimo!!

[@bertrandricard9735]

Cette soirée de vol magique va s achever...A bientôt. BR

[@rudyfu9734]

GREAT MEMORY FOR MUSIC.

[@JoseLuis-dz6lf]

Una muy buena versión.

[@michelranaivoson4376]

Il a une main gauche très forte. On dit souvent que les pianistes ont la main droite plus forte que la gauche. Brendel est très fort des deux mains. Surtout quand il fait des grilles avec sa gauche. Un très grand pianiste. Et toutes les notes sont bien détachées. Un grand.

[@michelranaivoson4376]

Des trilles.

[@flegiasman]

No conocía esta interpretación y, cuando la he visto y oído, he dado las gracias, porque he encontrado interpretado el Beethoven que suena, el que siempre sonará, en mi interior. Lamentablemente, KZbin me lo ha interrumpido en varias ocasiones con toda esa estúpida basura publicitaria con la que corrompen, a cada instante, las emociones y las mentes de las personas. Sin duda, una sensacional interpretación del Concierto número 5 para piano y orquesta de Beethoven.

[@dmytrokovalenko7361]

brilliant

[@bertrandricard9735]

Merci à Alfred Brendel...splendide! BR

[@rudyfu9734]

VERY GOOD!SPLENDID!

[@jyseoh]

Bombs of music exploded

[@jonsmith7718]

Adagio opening is one of my favs - exquisite :)

[@wolfgangklofat594]

Great! But you mustn´t forget other great performances e..g. like Gulda, Gilels - and(!) Daniil Trifonv (in Munich with Gergiev)... - Is it really the question whether what or who is "better" and "more right" than...? The music of Beethoven (and not only, of course) has endless characters, and one artist discovers and prefers this and the other one that of them - thanks to heaven!

[@bobjones-bt9bh]

I always have heard him humming like Gould, except not as loud....this is one of the better performances of this work out there...he lets it breathe and his tempo is so much like Gould's in some of the passages.

[@andrewemelchior]

Sweet.

[@bensolomon1872]

Performance date anyone? I'd guess mid 1990s.

[@maredart8158]

22:44 22:46 22:47

[@davidatlanta629]

Does anyone know which orchestra Kurt Masur is conducting? The KZbin notes don't say...

[@wolfgangklofat594]

Does anyone know the orchestra, the place and the time of this concert (is it Leipizig, Vienna, Munich, London, NewYork - in th eigthies)??

[@norminvienna1046]

Does anyone know when this was recorded?

[@vivatchavananand5075]

around 1995 - 1996 with New York Philharmonic

[@norminvienna1046]

@@vivatchavananand5075 Thanks a lot.

[@norminvienna1046]

@@vivatchavananand5075 Thank you!

[@choku_tn0618]

1996/04/01 Lincoln center new york philharmonic.

[@yishihara55527]

@@vivatchavananand5075 1995. I was at an event just before where Brendel and Masur sat down with an interviewer in front of an audience. There were a few funny moments because just about everything Masur said about Beethoven was destroyed by Brendel with strong evidence. All Masur could say is, "Well of course...totally agree" after just claiming the opposite. 😂🤣😂

[@maredart8158]

22:21

[@bellyung2560]

Sounds like two orchestras playing. NY Phil orch. and Brendel

[@lisamuse574]

the best comment!

[@yishihara55527]

NY Phil was only an orchestra under Bernstein.

[@jhyounyo]

The greatest Beethoven interpreter of our time. It is a great pity that he has retired.

[@bertrandricard9735]

Écoutez particulièrement les derniers mouvements...BR

[@hylssmusic5803]

22:26 😮😢 22:45

[@anjelybarger]

I wonder how long it took him to memorize this😊

[@isa.75]

Gute Aufnahme, doch zu viel Werbung dazwischen. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@C.Hawkshaw]

Is it really too much to tell us where and when this was recorded?! Sorry for taking it out on you, this is about the fifteenth concert video in a row without place/date. Now I’m angry! 👹

[@C.Hawkshaw]

April, 1996.

[@C.Hawkshaw]

Thank you! 😂

[@chrystalsalazar]

❤

[@jeroenvandenberg5750]

Nichts hinzu zu fügen 😊

[@paulo3564]

The pianist did not performan well, there were many mistakes.

[@timh8587]

The quality of a performance isn’t mentioned in the number of right or wrong notes but the character, emotional content, stylistic awareness - the things that really matter. Measuring it by wrong notes would damn performances by so many - Gilels, Schnabel, Cortot to mention just three.

[@stefanufer608]

What bloody awful acoustics

[@isa.75]

Gute Aufnahme, doch zu viel Werbung dazwischen. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@marceloverzoni6270]

Ich bezahle monatlich ein paar Groschen und habe daher keine Werbung. 😊