It's pieces like this that make Mendelssohn one of my favorite composers.
@jsky19407 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@varunsathya-composer14042 жыл бұрын
I can just imagine the audience freaking out on hearing the statement from the first movement in the 3rd mvmt when this piece was first premiered
@DavidAndersen847 жыл бұрын
Mendelssohn was in his 20's when he wrote this, right? I consider that impressive. When I was in my early 20's I was playing video games and getting high. The man was a genius! This concerto is beautiful. Don't care if it isn't as difficult as Liszt's work or if the pianist performed Rachmaninoff's no. 3 at the bar after the concert, for kicks. I am grateful. That is enough for me.
@perrymoskowitz55792 жыл бұрын
Mendelssohn was 13 when he wrote this.
@jacobrubanov49322 жыл бұрын
still very difficult honestly
@ThePianoman--2 жыл бұрын
It was written in 1830/31, so he was 21/22.
@peterpais35832 жыл бұрын
That ENERGY! Hamelin always delivers
@paulinocontreras559510 жыл бұрын
Even though this might not be the most difficult concerto ever, the craftsmanship by Mendelssohn is incredible. I was lucky enough to perform this.
@wefuntw7 жыл бұрын
absolute not most difficult , liszt and busoni concerto more difficult than this
@19aleful7 жыл бұрын
為元張 stfu
@gothmog79497 жыл бұрын
Did anyone actually read what Pauline Contreras wrote? This might NOT be the most difficult concerto. Key word is NOT.
@pauljmorton7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the comment was on the fact that it's a great composition, regardless of the difficulty.
@gothmog79497 жыл бұрын
I mean, if difficulty was the most important factor, Liszt would be the greatest composer ever. Which he's not.
@classicalbevo9 жыл бұрын
That second theme has to be one of the most beautiful and lyrical melodies out there! So serene and calming to me. I could just listen to it over and over!
@geoffandrews67719 жыл бұрын
classicalbevo The theme was stolen by the "composer" of the pop song "The Rose" who gave Mendellsohn no credit at all.
@djmotise7 жыл бұрын
Geoff Andrews CORRECT. I was looking for this exact comment. But you shouldn't use the word, "composer" for whomever the plagiarist is.
@DottoreSM7 жыл бұрын
this concert never ceases to amaze me every time i hear it absolutely mindblowing
8 жыл бұрын
My favorite performance of this concerto!
@flouz28 жыл бұрын
Kristian Oma Rønnes listen to Serkin's one recorded around 1980-85 !!! A jewel !!!! in my humble opinion...
@jsky19407 жыл бұрын
I love Marc-Andre' Hamelin's playing the piano concertos I have heard, and especially this one. It has a quality which seems lyrical at times which has caused me to listen to it three times today. Magnificent fingering on the runs.
@py48398 жыл бұрын
16:10~16:33 wonderful piano solo 16:34~16:49 conversation between piano and orchestra 18:21~18:49 and the soft ending!!! i love the last part of this music.
@adarkerlight11 жыл бұрын
Nearly at 4000. I have to admit, I *almost* went to a Bugs Bunny cartoon of the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 and came here instead, and now I'm looking for a recording of this piece (studio version, Hamelin). Glad I came here!
@sherer19577 жыл бұрын
the genius of Felix and the mastery of Marc-Andre= perfect cocktail!
@jsky19407 жыл бұрын
I loved it. For all who can perform this as good, I say bravo. For all of us left, it is to treat our bodies to the glorious music he plays.
@akhan36437 жыл бұрын
This concerto is played so well it's amazing!
@Miinu_km7 жыл бұрын
Truly the best performance of the piece I've ever heard.. Hamelin is just incredible
@RaineriHakkarainen3 жыл бұрын
Hamelin IS a cyborg The human machine! The Best Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 is Dimitri Bashkirov With The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video KZbin! Bashkirov The Best piano sound! The melodies Are rolling! The greatest pianists of All Time Are really Artur Rubinstein ( The God) Grigory Sokolov ( The Titan The Giant of The piano) Emil Gilels ( The King) Wilhelm Kempff Maurizio Pollini Sviatoslav Richter Vladimir Ashkenazy Mikhail Pletnev ( The most Powerful Prokoviev piano concerto no 1) Stanislav Igolinsky ( better than Lipatti) Solomon Cutner Maria Grinberg Natalia Trull Rosa Tamarkina Ekaterina Novitskaya Dimitri Bashkirov ( Mendelssohn piano concerto! ) Andrei Gavrilov ( Bach Piano concerto 1052)
@mojkana27719 жыл бұрын
The best piano concerto ever!
@karllieck9064 Жыл бұрын
No, no it's not. Lo!
@johnyringo689012 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely incredible. Genius. Thank-you so much for sharing this.
@zackwyvern25827 жыл бұрын
Much of the third movement's material is really quite cleverly derived from that of the first's; developed and echoed in creative ways. This is an impressive composition from Mendelssohn, regardless of deficiencies in form - Mendelssohn was a brilliant technical innovator.
@KarateAriel10 жыл бұрын
One of my favorites!
@Tenormind4 жыл бұрын
THIS GIVES ME LIFE!
@CanelonVegano8 жыл бұрын
What a masterpiece!
@KenNickels11 жыл бұрын
I never heard this before. It's lovely,
@maestroanth10 жыл бұрын
I don't why people use lovely and beautiful so much with classical music. I find it more intense than rock and roll!!!!!!!
@plantluver910 жыл бұрын
Anthony Walter very good point, me too!
@hb33937 жыл бұрын
What a great piece. The adagio really reminds me of his Organ Sonatas
@djmotise7 жыл бұрын
h bell Most people here don't even know Mendelssohn wrote all of those organ masterpieces. so thank you. :)
@madlovba312 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you liked it! Another thing you'll like will come soon ;)
@elisabethgabillot183510 жыл бұрын
super !!! entre chaque note au piano ... une respiration formidable
@davidconjefferson11 жыл бұрын
Astounding playing. This really makes me want to learn this.
@andrewbarrett15379 жыл бұрын
The parts at 3:05 and 3:38 REALLY remind me of Scott Joplin (the first one, specifically, like the opening to "Sugar Cane"), so I now know what Mr. Joplin must have been studying at the time!
@divvy1400yam6008 жыл бұрын
You tube is marvellous. i have loads of spare time and enjoy listening and posting and debunking and being controversial. I also come across gems like this. i did skim thru a bit to the last movement Especially the start of the 2nd theme. Marvellous. Creation of the piece inexplicable Execution pretty good. Thanks a lot for posting.
@themusicalgerbil19210 жыл бұрын
Forgotten how much I love this.
@dennispiano809412 жыл бұрын
Wow, I'm glad to watch him performing this concerto, curiously I was looking for some great live performance of it, and now I found!
@canman50608 жыл бұрын
Outstanding play.
@siracusaal378010 жыл бұрын
Awesome roller coaster.
@oniuqasaile8 жыл бұрын
18:02 *grooves to music* 18:35 *serious head-banging*
@hskay62157 жыл бұрын
I really like how he plays from 5:09 especially at 5:11. This part absolutely makes me tear up.
@atmplayspiano12 жыл бұрын
This is an amazing performance! I think this is the concerto I'm going to learn this year.
@lorenkim0310 жыл бұрын
If I played this piece, this would be the first piece I played by Mendelssohn. Literally.
@LiszteninLudwig7 жыл бұрын
If I hadnt known this to be Mendelssohn and if parts of it were played to me in isolation I would have bet my life its Beethoven. The similarities in style, compositional technique and soundscape is uncanny.
@bjrnrasmussen1611 жыл бұрын
For me is this concerto one of the best from this period.Brilliant played by Hamelin with feeling and strength.I love the third movement ,it is like a musical explosition .Orch. Is splendid ,who is the conductor ? Thank You sooooo much for uploading it.
@maestroanth9 жыл бұрын
Omg, how the bass suddenly comes through on the final sixteenth's all nice and moist and little heavy is soooo cool at 18:12'ish. (I think some orchestra doublings are happening there too) Does anyone else notice this? Such a great performance choice......
@jsky19407 жыл бұрын
He is a wonderful pianist. Everything I have heard he has played can be described except in superlatives.
@madlovba311 жыл бұрын
He did say this about the Waldstein ("it has been played to death", he argued), however he told me in person that he didn't know Rachmaninoff's 1st Sonata very much, had heard it only 1-2 times - so, let's hope. ;) But he has never played Sibelius, for instance.
@SeyranAliyev1945SmA8 жыл бұрын
Мендельсон - Бартольди Феликс (1809 - 1847) - выдающийся немецкий композитор, пианист, дирижер, педагог. С 9 лет выступал на концертной эстраде как пианист. К этому же времени относятся его первые сочинения. В 17 лет композитор создал одно из своих лучших произведений - увертюру к комедии Шекспира «Сон в летнюю ночь». В тот же период появилось большое количество других произведений - квартеты, симфонии, фортепианных пьесы. Особое место в наследии композитора занимает цикл фортепианных миниатюр «Песни без слов» - своего рода «инструментальные романсы». Мендельсон - автор более 20 камерно - инструментальных ансамблей, около 60 вокальных ансамблей, пьес для разных инструментов, свыше 80 песен для голоса с фортепиано, хоров и т. п. В историю немецкой музыки Мендельсон вошел как основатель первой в Германии консерватории (Лейпциг, 1843 г.), много лет он руководил симфоническими концертами Гевандхауза в Лейпциге, неоднократно выступал как дирижер во многих странах Европы. Для творчества Мендельсона характерно гармоничное сочетание романтических черт с традициями классики. Обязательная мелодичность, лиризм, совершенство формы неизменно привлекают к его творчеству симпатии многочисленных слушателей. (Цитаты взяты: Краткий Музыкальный Словарь для учащихся. "Музыка". Ленинградское отделение. 1977).
@lehi_503 Жыл бұрын
Q música más bestial,,,,,,,,,,, muy bonito escuchar al amanecer
@StMarysStuart7 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to this being played this Sunday at St Mary's!
@snowywhite888011 жыл бұрын
Its brilliant. Nothing more to say...
@theultimatereductionist75927 жыл бұрын
I played either first or second violin (I forget which) for this piece in Newark Symphony Orchestra 1983 to 1984.
@JacquesBPoirier11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that piece, a beautiful number to savor for after dinner coffee!
@madlovba311 жыл бұрын
I'm afraid you won't find a better quality recording than this one. This was a live radio broadcast, which I myself have in .mp3 only.
@alwatsonpianist11 жыл бұрын
Exquisite performance, masterful dynamic control and tonal colour with dazzling virtuosity!! Bravissimo!!
@glevito9 жыл бұрын
The real shame? Only 100,000+ views compared to the crap today with 800,000,000 views. This is incredible.
@maestroanth9 жыл бұрын
glevito what has 800,000,000 views?
@webstergilessmith69479 жыл бұрын
glevito ONLY TOO TRUE, UNFORTUNATELY!!! THE REAL "DUMBING DOWN" OF AMERICA AND THIS CRAPOLA WORLD WE LIVE IN TODAY, COMPOSED MAINLY OF HUMAN IDIOTS!!! CLASSICAL MUSIC R!U!L!E!S!!! I SHOULD KNOW, I HAVE A F$$KING MASTERS DEGREE IN PIANO, HARP, VOICE, AND COMPOSITION FROM MSM, YET I AM HOMELESS! GO F$$KING FIGURE! I HATE THESE PHILISTINES!!! ALL OF THEM!
@pangpengmaster9 жыл бұрын
glevito I'd choose to be happy with this. Let's say we are a special ~0.000125% of the KZbin population.
@Moiturette9 жыл бұрын
Webster Giles Smith You're right about the human idiots. They're everywhere.
@Orpheokim9 жыл бұрын
+pangpengmaster agreed!!!! hallelujah
@leibnitz63523 жыл бұрын
Incredible, , is he really a human …⁇?? Definitely the guinness record the dexterity and the velocity of 14:20- is.
@KEVIN-hh8oc7 жыл бұрын
1:17 sounds like Mazeppa
@madlovba311 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately he has not recorded this piece on CD. This live recording is splendid, anyway - my pleasure to welcome you here! :)
@windstorm10009 жыл бұрын
such fun to follow along if you can read music--and I do! its another language that opens another world. play the piano!
@andrewbarrett15379 жыл бұрын
Yep, Mr. Joplin definitely knew/studied this. Compare the ascending octave figure at 18:28 with the opening vamp to "The Ragtime Dance" (song version)
@williamdeng1870 Жыл бұрын
Excellent!
@Adamant_AF11 жыл бұрын
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AMAZING!!! OMG!
@cedricrlongreen11 жыл бұрын
You know what I've noticed...people who have played things way more difficult than this tend to express certain things better because they don't have to worry about the difficulty of the piece like in Hamelin's case.
@davidjgburnett9 жыл бұрын
Great performance. I believe Mendelssohn was quite young when he wrote this beautiful concerto, didn't live very long though. Packed a lot into his short life.
@felixmendelssohn9919 жыл бұрын
David Burnett: Yes, Mendelssohn was about 21 when he composed this concerto.
@davidjgburnett9 жыл бұрын
Thanks, are you related?
@laflamezz19079 жыл бұрын
+David Burnett lol ?
@keithfoester73268 жыл бұрын
6:55 play this intro in my wedding march of the munchkins... when i have them coming in before the actual ceremony... ya'know don't judge.
@hermannschneider73814 жыл бұрын
One explosion of a coda at 17:33
@Janaceks_Dad8 жыл бұрын
This is unmistakable as being Mendelssohn...and I like Concerto No. 2 even better...and they're wonderfully orchestrated as well. It's a pity that these works (esp #2) are not often played by the great pianists (Hamelin excepted)
@saikitng12958 жыл бұрын
I heard somewhere that Liszt played it so much that the piano broke. LOL
@djmotise7 жыл бұрын
Music Man yes it is played very often by great pianists.
@SaulGefen11 жыл бұрын
The closest version to what Mendelssohn Intended, this is the best recorded version so far.
@maestroanth10 жыл бұрын
***** Well, it gets to a point where you're arguing semantics and I don't know why people do that. :/
@AlchemyAtLarge10 жыл бұрын
Or maybe you could use his argument and say ' i know this isnt what the composer intended because the chances of modern day orchestras getting it exactly right are so small they are neglible.'
@AlchemyAtLarge10 жыл бұрын
Just having some gits and shiggles
@michaelcostello80079 жыл бұрын
WOW.
@MEpianist11 жыл бұрын
Very daring finale
@skylag370710 жыл бұрын
Awesome.
@AlchemyAtLarge10 жыл бұрын
At 2:09 onwards does anybody else hear raindrop prelude?
@g00gleh009 жыл бұрын
Kratos safado LOLOLOLOL
@adarkerlight11 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for confirming this; I spent 20 minutes searching the web and lists of his recordings for a studio recording. If he's so prolific, it makes perfect sense to me that he doesn't have time to do studio recordings. Is this live recording available anywhere? (I'd prefer a non-compressed version.)
@gregson9910 жыл бұрын
Just saw this performed april 1st by Lindsey Garritson. She is truly a remarkable pianist!
@BryanChiMusic8 жыл бұрын
what happened from 5:25- 5:33? It sounds like he puts in rests when there's none on the score
@rafaelquaresma_quaresmaraf27117 жыл бұрын
Bravo!!
@Manuel_Torralba8 жыл бұрын
from 0:05 to 0:12 what's the name of that progression?
@Manuel_Torralba8 жыл бұрын
the name of that armony. like crescendo and something? inst it?
@cbentler45288 жыл бұрын
There is a Crescendo (getting louder) but the progression is CHROMATIC. You can play a Chromatic scale by playing every single note on the piano in succession. There are also diatonic harmonies...
@karlpoppins8 жыл бұрын
It's a series of V-I cadences, or you can call it a sequence by fourths for the most part. There are other elements in it, though, such as the use of the augmented 6th chord by the end of the sequence to reach the dominant. There isn't any name for it, not that I know of, at least.
@professordeportugadoyt1138 жыл бұрын
lo manus Satanic Satan
@ShawnChang1910 жыл бұрын
A dance between the orchestra and the piano
@karllieck9064 Жыл бұрын
I feel like I'm being tickled to death in the last movement.
@antoniolosciale8 жыл бұрын
WOW!❤
@joaquindalessio11 жыл бұрын
11:36 - 12:50... Metaphysical
@atzenno11 жыл бұрын
brilliant
@theyoutubetroll66797 жыл бұрын
Awesome, though seems like the dude made a mistake at 18:32.
@gerardbegni28067 жыл бұрын
This concerto is interesting,written with great care, but I find it a bit superficial when compared to the other symphonic works of Mendelssohn.
@johndavid40077 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else think that the first movement is MUCH, MUCH too fast here? It's practically being played at a presto.
@larrykolber78774 жыл бұрын
I have performed this movement slower. I think if played too fast it looses some lyric s quality
@victor370811 жыл бұрын
bravo!!!
@madlovba312 жыл бұрын
Everything? Not yet, but he's apparently working on it ;) Yes, he is married (this is his second marriage, actually) but he doesn't have any children...
@WBensburg12 жыл бұрын
Bang Bang, 78K views. This: 332. There is no justice.
@SanctumZero11 жыл бұрын
Why must Hamelin be this awesome? o_o And why has he not recorded Liszt's transcendental etudes?
@nohohoii11 жыл бұрын
bravo!
@sirdicaudore7 жыл бұрын
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@jedrzejsteszewski66943 жыл бұрын
13.44 Hamelin is speeding up the game here 😉
@강지환-u4h7 жыл бұрын
나도 옛날에 이곡을 쳤는데 저도 오케스트라 많이한 피아니스트 에요
@AngaratoC9 жыл бұрын
Beethoven clearly inspired Mendelssohn at the last movement !
@ShawnChang198 жыл бұрын
+madlovba3 Love your vid, where did you get this sheet music?
@guillermolina27668 жыл бұрын
perfecto......:)
@javiertw8911 жыл бұрын
I think he once said he would never play Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata or Rachmaninov's first sonata.
@antoniofabi972110 жыл бұрын
Ebreo o cristiano, poco conta. Questo concerto, anche se meno noto di quelli di alcuni contemporanei, in primis Scgumann, è un superbo capodopera, che si inscrive degnamente nella sempre perfetta ed elegante produzione dell'Autore. Interpreti più che all'altezza..
@Yhiith9 жыл бұрын
+Antonio Fabi "ebreo o cristiano poco conta"? che cacchio significa?
@antoniofabi97218 жыл бұрын
+diego P Per me Lui potrebbe essere ateo o buddista. Ma sempre un genio
@lorenkim0310 жыл бұрын
I really liked how the music came with the sheet. But this piece sounds both fun and tiring. Well, all versions are different, after all...
@vettegaddia623410 жыл бұрын
Although Hamelin is an accomplished pianist, I far prefer Yuja Wang playing the Mendelssohn. She has better technique, she's cleaner, and more musical.
@uwuwuwu5259 жыл бұрын
the recording quality is not the same u noob
@mauricenahon74789 жыл бұрын
Vette gaddia
@geoffandrews67719 жыл бұрын
There is a song called "The Rose" which the composer claims to have written the music to. Its an exact copy of the second movement. No credit given to Mendellsohn at all.
@MattWeisherComposer9 жыл бұрын
Geoff Andrews If by exact copy of the second movement, you mean 8 notes. It was probably unintentional or subconscious. It's not like she pulled an "All By Myself."
@geoffandrews67719 жыл бұрын
It is to similar to be coincidence. The best that can be said of her is that she had a "George Harrison" moment and forgot she had heard it before.
@MattWeisherComposer9 жыл бұрын
So, unintentional or subconscious....
@geoffandrews67719 жыл бұрын
Id like to give her the benifit of the doubt but on the whole I think she plaigerised it.
@utubeVIPmember9 жыл бұрын
Geoff Andrews can you provide a reference? or maybe a link to the song you mentioned? thanks.
@karendeng606110 жыл бұрын
Watching this sheet makes me think that this piece is not as hard as it seems.......just a bit tiring
@ShawnChang1910 жыл бұрын
well it is hard as it looks, double3rd trills (if you play piano, you should know the difficulty), long scales that needs to at absolute perfection and etc. IT SHOULD SEEM HARD
@Thaumazo10 жыл бұрын
Shawn Chang Definitely, you need absolute rhythmic and notational precision in his concertos and that depends how mature your form and touch is.
@WKYanks10 жыл бұрын
This guy needs to learn what the "dot" means....
@tedpiano10 жыл бұрын
Shawn Chang Not Really....... For me it goes (in order of difficulty) : Bach Fugues, Mendelssohn Piano Concerto, then Chopin's "most cliche" Nocturnes.. ;)
@karendeng606110 жыл бұрын
haha, well, everyone has it's opinions.
@datruzepp12 жыл бұрын
6‘22, da DOC random improv?
@davidconjefferson11 жыл бұрын
From a fellow virtuoso classical pianist, I believe you're correct. See all these videos of famous artists performing famous works of the great classical composers on one piano? I can perform them all on two grand pianos simultaneously instead of one (2/4 pedals to deal with as well). I would imagine if I play this on two grand pianos simultaneously it's relatively harder... check out my 'double-piano fugue' on my channel for an example. KZbin should rerecord all their piano vids with 2 ;)
@keepsaek9 жыл бұрын
Would this be considered grade 10 or ARCT?
@kefka348 жыл бұрын
+Tal Dobrer This is not a very difficult piece.It was written for a young pianist and performed in a charity event.Nonetheless it is a beautiful concerto.
@zx-do9xp8 жыл бұрын
as well as Yuja Wang's
@bassodivo18 жыл бұрын
Hamelin actually sounds like a serious pianist instead of a typewriter here
@djmotise7 жыл бұрын
Novell A Dumb comment. If anything, it's this piece where he sounds more exact and typewriter-ish than anything else. And that's a good thing.
@djmotise7 жыл бұрын
Novell A And what an idiot you must be to dub him a non serious pianist. It says a lot about you.
@rkwittem7 жыл бұрын
Don't say something stupid if you don't want to back it up then.