Jan Lisiecki - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5: II. Adagio un poco mosso

[@deutschegrammophon]

This performance by Jan Lisiecki sets a milestone for the start of the Beethoven2020 year. What is your favourite Beethoven piece he ever performed?

[@djoupette78]

Beethoven piano concerto no 3.

[@yasminhabibti721]

Thank you so much for uploading. This is my favorite adagio by any composer, and Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto in E-flat Major is my favorite composition by him (where this adagio is from, as you know). Side note: I visited his grave years ago in Vienna. What an honor it was...

[@brightn40]

Concerto 5th 2.

[@harmageddon6182]

@@djoupette78 My absolute favourite.

[@jorgeluisromero8741]

3rd

[@reiniewessels6061]

Ik hoorde dit midden in een slapeloze nacht, aan het eind van een podcast van Mischa met Carel den Hertog….ontroerend mooi…. Voelde me getroost en kon slapen…dankjewel voor t delen van deze prachtige muziek…❤

[@yyng6701]

My tears flow for sheer joy at the beauty of this composition

[@esox67]

Mir geht es genauso

[@harridan.]

me, too

[@James-ll3jb]

Me too....

[@hanneloreleifeld2048]

Soooo wunderbar. Es geht unter die Haut! Ein begnadeter Pianist. Ich habe es gerade einer Freundin ins Krankenhaus geschickt.

[@mattjohn66]

This is a lovely version of the 5th. Beethoven's beauty and depth of feeling is ineffable.

[@larryprimeau5885]

the introduction of this movement is so stately and dignified.

[@FrankknarF0815]

So könnte sich der Himmel anhören.

[@dfgndfghdfghdfgh]

Beautiful and apt phrasing

[@ConnieBach]

I listened to Beethoven piano concerto No. 5 the whole album for a straight year in my car during my commute and whenever I was in the car. I mean for the whole year! It's my absolute favorite piano concerto. And, it was hard to put down his biography same year I read it! Fell in love with him all over again! Beethoven, my forever man as I have his signature tattooed on my wrist. I plan on visiting his birth place museum again in Bonn, Germany as it is now refurbished since I visited 4 years ago during my following steps of Beethoven's life in Europe. Being at his grave site in Vienna felt like meeting him in person. So looking forward to it!

[@harridan.]

i kept a good copy of the 9th in my truck, it was all i listened to for years.

[@James-ll3jb]

You must have really dug "Immortal Beloved," then...

[@SalznPfeffer658]

We all know Beethoven's tub-thumping club bangers so to hear this interpretation of no.5 - so delicate & gentle like dew drops off one's fingertips - is so beautiful, it's heartbreaking. But in a joyful way.

[@treeskates]

And those people who say that Beethoven is all tub thumping and violence have obviously never listened to his music.

[@annepowell2245]

I heard this on Picnic at hanging rock film and have loved it ever since. It's my go to peace and I'd like it played when I leave this world. It's beautiful.

[@wissen5779]

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[@elianarougier3721]

Es un Concierto perfecto,el piano y la oorquesta en total armonía.Toda la inspiracion de un genio.Bravo Beethoven!!!❤❤❤

[@nadiagutierrez9267]

My favorite piece of Bethoven and Jan did it beautifully! Excellent performance... ❤️🎹✨

[@yasminhabibti721]

Yes! Same!

[@AlessandraPagliari]

My favorite too

[@jeanphilippesturiale5648]

Me Too 🌟🙏

[@vtqh770]

Speaking as a complete novice, the audio quality is really exceptional, it's rare on KZbin to find classical music of such quality and just a top notch performance by all, Bravo folks

[@hectordelarocha10]

Is it normal that I cry to this, especially between 4:33 - 5:16 and ESPECIALLY on that change at 5:06?

[@Romancandle5929]

Yep. Been crying at 5:06 twenty years strong now :)

[@elenac.tratacovskigorkin4457]

Es joven es muy talentoso 🎵🌎♾️❤️

[@deliadinacaputo9937]

Faltan las palabras para expresar lo que siente el alma al escuchar y disfrutar de estas obras.... Qué riqueza para crear tanta belleza y menciono los que nos traen esta belleza al corazón..... Orquesta y solista!. Gracias!...

[@yyng6701]

My tears flow at the sheer beauty of this both the composer and pianist

[@segundogermansalazarnarvae4012]

La delicadeza de esta interpretación de Beethoven por Lisiechi me suena a una perfecta oración,que me ha hecho brotar lágrimas de agradecimiento a Dios el intérprete y el autor.

[@billymisfits]

this music is beyond beautiful

[@elenac.tratacovskigorkin4457]

La música clásica puede hacer milagros,socaba todo tu interior,aun en preocupaciones que provoca alto stress

[@teresadasilva4450]

Oh Lord, please continue blessing this young extraordinaey Talent thank ayou.

[@longhorngal9498]

I have listened to this whole recording so many times since I got it, so beautiful.

[@TabMorris]

What a wonderfully intimate performance. Bravo!

[@irina1760]

Боже, как играют - чисто и одухотворённо, как один живой организм с единым дыханием!!!! Браво! Брависсимо!!! Услада для души! Благодарю !

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

HUH?

[@ЛюбовьАнтонова-д8э]

Обожаю этот концерт, особенно 2 часть❤❤ Мир замирает...чтобы заново родиться...❤

[@ikarosbts9798]

Me saco la galera !!!! Perfección pura !! Si EL mundo escuchara este tipo de música otra cosa sería !!! Hasta la vestimenta el lenguaje todo !!!! ... y aparte esta partitura la e buscado tanto !!! Es uno de los temas principales de REGRESO AL EDÉN serie australiana busquenla! !! Soy alekey de Argentina !!!!!

[@JanosKmetyko]

fabelhaft so weiter .¨!!!!!!!!!

[@BULL.173]

My love for classical music can all be traced back to the second movement of Beethoven’e 5th. I first heard it in Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock and was floored by its beauty.

[@miriammachado487]

Maravilhosa interpretação! Impossível descrever essa emoção. Jan me encanta a cada nota tocada.Bravo!

[@hidan125]

This video should have over 1 mil views 😍🥰🥰🥰

[@migyoungyun5746]

Thank you for the great and peaceful music for my bliss of soul...

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

me doesnt haves soul. it falls out 1 year ago

[@bienespiano9598]

Beautiful harmony 🙏

[@ulrikekrasemann6782]

Incredable virtuos. Thank you!

[@giorgiobianchi4969]

MAESTOSA,ETEREA E FANTASTICA.

[@GordonStainforth]

Does music get any more beautiful than this? Lisiecki's understanding of Ludwig is total.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Come on Gordon! Jan Liciecki his Beethoven no 5 playing is dead art and boring! Liciecki has an ice cold dry thin piano sound! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Liciecki=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Liciecki=Solomon Cutner Maurizio Pollini Van Cliburn and so on! Dimitri Bashkirov her teacher Anastasia Virsaladze teach saying to Bashkirov the most important lesson is the love of beautiful colorful piano sound! This was already in 1930s! Really Shocking!

[@James-ll3jb]

Absolutely. He channels the Maestro here😅

[@James-ll3jb]

​@@RaineriHakkarainen(?!)

[@daniililmovnitsky256]

'Picnic at Hanging Rock' brought me here. This amazing piece added so much to the atmosphere and made me tear up by the end of the movie.

[@waynepolk4179]

This Beethoven piece is my own second all-time favorite classical music piece after Wagner's " Liebestod" and there are times when I think it is No. 1! Too magnificent for words!

[@James-ll3jb]

This always sends me to the tank.😢

[@danielhuang2488]

is anyone going to talk about the flute player and his majestic mustache and expressions?

[@kylebecker5083]

😂for real. We are just going to ignore the elephant in the room, huh?

[@blackcat3289]

Michael Cox! Legend

[@silviamorar3490]

I die of pleasure to listen to it!!! Splendid!

[@jasonmacleod7661]

Magnifico!

[@jeanmichelbottin5796]

Quelle délicatesse . Bravo

[@AntonioGArriaga33]

Excelente interpretación. Muchas gracias. Saludos desde México.

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

what mean? weird words makes brain hurty

[@abigailcruz4155]

@@snoochmangoosh5006 learn how to speak and write before you igorantally critizise. Its called Spanish or Castilian language and was written in perfect grammar.

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

soft ear sounds make snooch mangoosh's soul quiver

[@tomaxi007]

Genius plays Genius❤

[@amitjena8082]

Beethoven is indeed a gem

[@mariofederighi94]

This one is one of the many pieces Beethoven composed

[@judithblin9093]

So very lovely

[@lisztomani4c]

5:28 The most stylish moustache I've seen in a while.

[@greatday2641]

Know of him. He's a fantastic flute player

[@Humbersox]

Michael Cox

[@KeepingOnTheWatch]

That is quite a soup-strainer!

[@rjmalcolm8066]

I’m seeing him play Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto later this year here in Australia :)

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

me happy for this

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

also i have erectile dysfunction

[@rjmalcolm8066]

@@snoochmangoosh5006 hey man I’m really happy for you

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

@@rjmalcolm8066 HEy it's rude to make fun of someone's shortcomings. heh

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

@@rjmalcolm8066 also i have a micropenis

[@alicebui5285]

Jeune beau talentueux, je l’adore ♥️♥️♥️

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

huh? me doesnt not understands what ever is that

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

also i haves erectile dysfunction

[@johntetzeli7402]

Clear and true

[@mariainesandradealcantara9979]

VIVA BEETHOVEN! 2020 é só TEU e de mais NINGUÉM, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ericfebvre3271]

I like the end

[@James-ll3jb]

Its the opening theme of the next movement by allusion then jumps right into it.

[@MarciaRubiaCrivellari]

Lindo! Emocionante ❤

[@sotiriosrizos7101]

❤❤❤!!!

[@joszoet4003]

Great..!

[@stefanbalcerak]

Thank you :)

[@lingnguyen2623]

The movement reminds me of new world symphony and some of brahm's.

[@дре-т1о]

So goood

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

agrees

[@DavyP496]

Bonne session d'examen à vous ❤

[@DavyP496]

Phys bac 1💪

[@fannyjemwong]

💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

[@isabellegekdis9340]

💖❤💛💖

[@disneybudgetinn3752]

He looks like a young Paderewski.

[@ivanapaggetta9127]

Ecco questo pianista l ho già notato non l avevo mai visto ne sentito ma mi piacque subito per caso è Russo lo trovai molto bravo ed è anche molto bellino ho già fatto una play lista e siccome non ricordo mai I nomi la sua play lista l ho chiamata il bel biondino avanti cosi diventerai un grande anche tu ivana

[@kathadax]

He is Polish-Canadian.

[@jeanclaudevivier7126]

J'apprécie la performance mais...!!! désolé je ne peux pas oublier celle de Furtwangler et Edwin Fischer

[@clintondaseman5789]

Dus soos n sagte reen wat val op n warme dag...

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

urghh this is some very peculiar spelling. Do you have dyslexia or something?

[@hirokinote]

0:25 Adagio un poco moto

[@miquibarja8181]

what orchestra is this?

[@undisclosedmusic4969]

Quality moustache at 0:48

[@somenobody6346]

Very good performance by Lisiecki. The girl in the background looks boored though (@2:24). What's with the eye-rolling? Focus on the music, woman!

[@28102650]

She is one of the musicians. She’s just taking a moment to refocus.

[@brianmcdonagh8477]

Can a soloist also be a conductor?

[@ediccartman7252]

Yeah, you have a record of Ravel's G-dur concerto, where Bernstein is both conductor and soloist.

[@rexlebas2875]

The handful of dislikes are hard to please.

[@hpharridan]

they are not sane

[@TwistedSisterMister]

Hello, poster of this video. How about giving credit to the fine orchestra by not keeping them anonymous and unnamed? Your provided "go to the album" hyperlink is non-functional and in need of updating. Thank you.

[@blackcat3289]

Agree! I recognise two players as British - think this must be a British group?

[@blackcat3289]

Actually I’m pretty sure it’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields from players I recognise

[@janetmason2436]

Oo

[@tamararobertasilva-prolldo5590]

🤳🏻👏

[@almightykibax9879]

1:26

[@newbyzantiumpublications1298]

Who needs a conductor?

[@return2earthvideochannel]

On No! Listen at 1.29, the piano begins before the string section introduction has finished. Not good! There is only one 'gold standard' and that is the 'dream-team' performance combining The Vienna Philharmoniker conducted by Leonard Bernstein and Krystian Zimerman on piano. Find it on youtube, you won't be disappointed.

[@waltertheus3467]

Might I suggest that you might be slightly nuts. The entrance at 1:29 is perfect. I've listened to it multiple times and I simply do not see the problem. The Zimerman-Bernstein recording is terrific, but that is no reason for you to go in search of imagined errors in this beautiful interpretation.

[@uaebolt7480]

What are you talking about not good? Hahaha it’s perfect. Give your head a wobble

[@return2earthvideochannel]

@@waltertheus3467 I am a trained classical musician and any one with a musical ear will notice the first note on the piano is conflicting with the orchestra. Listen to Zimmerman/Bernstein at the same section which is perfect. I am correct... put your listening ears on.

[@waltertheus3467]

@@return2earthvideochannel Although I practice law for a living, I am also a trained classical musician. I also have perfect pitch. I went back and listened to it again. His "early" entrance that you are so exercised about is the right hand appoggiatura F#. It's a matter of style whether to play such "grace notes" on or before the beat. He plays it slightly before the beat. His left hand B is perfectly timed with the orchestral B major chord. The appoggiatura does not "conflict" with the orchestra in any way. Just watch Ashkenazy's right hand in the this recording, starting at 22:50. You will see that he plays the appoggiatura before the beat, just like Lisiecki. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGXTe6uXmcSUf5o

[@return2earthvideochannel]

@@waltertheus3467 OK, it's a matter of interpretation .... but Zimerman's Adagio is in a different class to many other concert pianists I have listened to. Zimerman makes a cleaner, 'uncluttered' entrance which to my ear is more natural and sympathetic to the piece. It could be that you have listened to the highly regarded Bernstein/Zimmerman/Vienna Phil performance and it wasn't to your taste, so be it - but many millions of musicians and music lovers would probably disagree with you.

[@snoochmangoosh5006]

me plagues this reply section.her hur dur. i's a covid

[@willemvandoesselare7959]

To fast for my taste . Maybe he has a train to catch ?

[@JaseBach]

Readers who play on an upright piano may not realize that the grand piano is a pianoforte, in effect, two instruments in one. The double action of the keys allow loud and soft playing with different sonorities. Mr Lisiecki touch was blunt and one dimensional. Although he played with feeling and every note was carefully weighted, he was not producing a singing line and there was no forward momentum. It didn't help that there was no conductor, which was a gimmick supposedly to show what an all round genius Mr Lisiecki is. A conductor of the calibre of Haitink or Rattle would have set the scene for the piano's ruminations. Alas, it is incredible, that this famous Adagio can be made so forgettable......

[@kathadax]

I believe the conductor fell ill and was hospitalised at the last moment, whereupon, in order not to cancel the concert, Jan and the orchestra agreed to go on with the scheduled performance, as they had rehearsed extensively already. (Jan has never claimed to be a conductor).

[@JaseBach]

The 'conductor' who fell ill was Murray Perahia, the famous pianist and director of the orchestra. Jan was enlisted at short notice to replace him. This Beethoven cycle is strictly for Lisiecki fans; there is not a single music critic that would prefer this over Perahia's legendary cycle with the Concertgebouw, superior in every respect.

[@otto15232]

What a superficial grumble. The orchestra provides excellent accompaniment, but Lisiecki plays at student level.

[@luismiguelacostabarros751]

Envy is very ugly.