Beethoven Piano Sonata Op.53 Waldstein Radu Lupu

[@voraciousreader3341]

As I listened to this brilliant recording, at times I found myself feeling that I was listening to Beethoven playing. I’ve only experienced this highly subjective feeling as I listened to Ashkenazy playing practically anything Beethoven composed….I’ve not listened to Maestro Lupu as much as I have VA, but I now love both!

[@Keytaster]

For me, THIS will always be the definitive rendition of the Waldstein.

[@jenniferbattiglia4237]

For me too. Rest easy Maestro and thank you for being such a wonderful pianist and human being. We have lost a great artist. Goodbye and thank you.

[@4d1n4ch4y4]

agree

[@Topodiluna]

Grazie maestro Radu Lupu per le tante meravigliose serate che mi hai donato, tra Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann e Brahms. Ricordi indelebili, tra le cose più sublimi che io abbia mai ascoltato. La terra ti sia lieve.

[@jenniferbattiglia4237]

Addio e grazie Maestro Lupu.

[@jenniferbattiglia4237]

Grazie al cielo abbiamo le sue registrazioni.

[@MirjaRiihimaki]

Radu Lupu was the finest pianists ever- I like his gentle touch!

[@marcanthony7528]

RIP maestro

[@keiththomas795]

Radu Lupu is a great pianist. The big Rumanian has the power, but my goodness delicacy of touch as well. This is a superb recording.

[@johnchadwick3237]

Romanian …

[@sk-fk7om]

It's so beautiful.✨ There are other pianists I like, but his playing is one of a kind☝️

[@marychadwick4516]

The waves. The waves in the second movt. Unbelievable balm of calm and joy.

[@marcusvaldes]

Rest In Peace Maestro.

[@emilsandulescu5367]

Amin 🙏

[@mtarasios]

I grew up with this album and played it constantly. His performance of the development in the last movement is the best I've ever heard it.

[@marcanthony7528]

Agree. It was my favorite too

[@davidschestenger3366]

Intoxicating Thank you for sharing beauty

[@АндрейПопов-т1н]

Thanks for post. Performance fantastic! Genius.

[@giorgiocavallari8732]

Incredibile esecuzione

[@spacebanana5000]

Any pianist that can play this sonata has reached the pinnacle of music and need not aspire to anything else.

[@voraciousreader3341]

Are you serious??? No great pianist would ever _consider_ following this very dilettantish “dictum,” even if they did value it as much as you seem to. Can you even imagine Horowitz or Rubinstein saying, “Oh, no no no….I’m only 75! I won’t be playing the Waldstein until I’m ready to retire, because, as everyone knows, once I’ve played that I’ll have reached the pinnacle of music and need never aspire to anything else!” Absolute rubbish!

[@PJGRAND]

Beautiful RIP

[@albertodelbuono]

Una vera rivelazione. Mai sentita questa sonata eseguita così. Bisogna risalire a Schnabel quasi un secolo fa

[@massimolinarello179]

Concordo

[@rosannafara]

Suggerisco l'ascolto della Sonata n. 3 di Brahms. Interpretazione insuperabile, magica.C'è su YT.

[@rosannafara]

Vero !! E anche le Sonate di Schubert

[@rosannafara]

Vero ! Anche le Sonate di Schubert

[@davidallan8357]

Great. We can see Beethoven's inner lines. Love the volume modulations in the lines of repeated notes. So clear that the third movement is connected to the first and second and the latter is a scale. Also love the Lupu-Perahia Brahms Haydn Variations.

[@carmencornelianastase1240]

Rest in peace !

[@claudiocurtigialdino671]

Eccezionale. Un vero artista!

[@m.calloway2624]

Thanks for post. Terrific, difficult piece beautifully, passionately played.

[@Evagrius1]

Großartige Einspielung!

[@analoguru]

RIP Radu.

[@lorenschifman4772]

Splendid and majestic ! He was one of a kind

[@susannerydstedt3168]

extraordinary pianist!!!

[@josem.jimenez1586]

R.I.P.

[@johntravena119]

Really beautiful performance, hadn't heard it til now.

[@Edgard1315]

Nailed the tempi. Right on to me. Never heard of him until today. Bravo!!

[@ВаляАфанасьева-н1о]

Волшебство!

[@MarianBerinzon]

Amazing performance

[@marcosbrenga9173]

Performance fantástica. Genial.

[@johnchadwick3237]

No-one, not even Brendel, Lewis, Perahia, Levitt etal . have approached the slow movement in the way Lupu did. The wave after wave of emotion washing over is like an orgasm. RIP Radu.

[@mtarasios]

Beginning at 20:42 is the greatest ever!

[@canman5060]

22:52 onwards. You need 100 fingers to play them !

[@bojohinkov1]

Grand artiste, peu connu dans mon pays, malheureusement...bien que d''origine roumaine, pays-voisin du mien!

[@markgoretsky766]

Forget everybody else -- just listen to Great Radu !!!

[@voraciousreader3341]

Why would anyone want to do that, and cheat themselves out of so many fabulous performances by so many different but equally incredible pianists??? After an artist reaches the peak of utter mastery, there is only their own understanding of every piece they play. Even though I’m a psychologist as well as a classically trained musician, I’ll never understand that way of thinking! It’s like saying there is only one rose worth anything, or one bird of prey, or any other kind of masterpiece of nature, with its own wonderful variations!! Thank God I can hear and appreciate the difference between amazing artists,and I can listen to appreciate each, not to criticize.

[@alexanderreikreik]

@@voraciousreader3341 ....equally incredible pianists??? shanking nertz !!!!!

[@guidosasso7316]

l'insuperato maestro radu lupu

[@MrKatsino]

excellent.....

[@rauljesusgarcia6166]

Excelente Radu. Me pregunto La escribio su corazón o su maravillosa inteligencia. El retorno de su amigo y protector a su hogar está descripto q a mi me emociona mucho.

[@doGreatartistsgrowontrees]

Phenomenal

[@knudbalandis9757]

i love it. everything s executed immaculatedly. l it even seems to happen as he plays it, lupu s beethoven is with the exception of the 2nd mvt to moderate. i am missing a personal drama, imo conflict. on occasion, i listen to the recording, for consolation.

[@massimolinarello179]

Il migliore

[@wldudqhsk]

들어본 발트슈타인중 가장 낭만적이당..

[@PianoMeSasha]

maravillosa!

[@mirakor1]

Superbe! Fantastique!

[@inraid]

too nice for its own good

[@안윤홍균-i7w]

한겨레 신문에서 별세 소식을 보았습니다. 삼가 고인의 명복을 빕니다~! 🙏

[@mariaalicevolpe3648]

Superior!

[@cocosanel2627]

radu lupu you are the best romanian pianist..wow ❤💚💜

[@johnchadwick3237]

Best pianist

[@renzocalogero5528]

Miraculeux.RIP.

[@naraavakian1037]

💗

[@chingma4792]

Who can tell us what brand the piano is?

[@mottobel8502]

Gentle version

[@andreaiezzi5112]

Bello. Di che anno è la registrazione ? e in che città ?

[@guts2special]

Recorded in West Hampstead in 1975

[@andreaiezzi5112]

@@guts2special Grazie

[@pianogus]

Epochal...

[@LiDrLin]

the greatest interpretation. the other are too slow and too mild.

[@michelangelomulieri5134]

Gilles, Gilels, Gilels...no one like him on Beethoven. "Live", the more so...

[@guts2special]

You've heard Gilels! his Beethoven! How lucky you are...

[@h.astley2113]

B must have been on fire when he wrote this

[@phynesse2000]

if anything, Lupu's approach is too tame and polished for a Waldstein. Compared to almost anyone else, Lupu has more control over the sound and general delivery than any other interpretor - it s just divinely clean. But Beethoven is not tame, polished and clean. i guess this is the oxymoron we will never get - Lupu perfection and Horowitz musical vulgarity in one performance. ah well ^^

[@philipkuttner7945]

In that case you should listen to Rudolf Serkin. I don't if his recordings of it are good, but when he played it live he owned the piece. He licked his thumbs to enable him to play the octave glissandi in the last movement!

[@holden4th]

@@philipkuttner7945 If we are talking about the 1952 recording then I couldn't agree with you more. Fantastic rendition of one of my favourite LvB sonatas. For a stereo recording then Dubravka Tomsic is worth a listen as well.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Serkin The cold RAW rough piano sound! Serkin The second-rated player! Serkin his Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 is so awful! Dimitri Bashkirov Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 a class of his own playing Mendelssohn! Serkin his Brahms piano concerto no 1 is so mechanical Boring stiff! Lupu Brahms piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video KZbin! Lupu a class of his own playing Brahms piano concerto no 1

[@Highinsight7]

@@philipkuttner7945 I have a LIVE recording of Serkin playing the Waldstein... there's NOTHING like it....... anywhere... He also plays the Reger Bach Variation on the same recording... UNREAL...!!!!!!

[@helenlevann3120]

Agree. Lupu for Schubert, Gilels for Beethoven. I think Gilels combines delicacy with the power Beethoven needs.

[@ph7205]

쓸데 없이 쳐지고 흐름이 끊기네요 그래서 에밀 길렐스가 훨 낫다는 것

[@guts2special]

I also love Gilels' Beethoven sonatas too! Especially Op.106.