STEREO STUDIO RECORDING MAY 1960 (NOT FROM THE 1964/1965 COMPLETE SET)
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@4gilbert710 жыл бұрын
Wilhelm Kempff is a pianist that will be listened to long time after his death (1991) because he can be considered as the very antidote to "fashionable performance" that plagues our contemporary musical practice. I wouldn't even dare to say that he is "better than ...." His style, definitely, doesn't invite me to look for such comparative conclusions. When he was teaching, he wasn't insisting that a student had to play like himself. But he would encourage him/her to try differently.
@jeffsmith17983 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment. A great pianist as well as teacher who encourages the student to find his or her own voice and helps them to do that must be a great teacher.
@lars9168 Жыл бұрын
i bet you, I'm 19, I'll listen to him in the deathbed
@eddiebeato55463 жыл бұрын
I can only listen to Wilhelm Kempff but with reverence, admiration and adoration...one is bound to admit that he is among the finest pianists who ever lived. His technique was pellucid like a lake reflecting the skies and clouds above, but beneath the fleeting ripples of joy and shudder of thrills..unfathomable depths!
@bachianm237527 күн бұрын
Beautifully said. I wholeheartedly agree.
@randykern18425 жыл бұрын
His lyricism in Beethoven is unmatched. Sublime
@LandOfJuncoville10 жыл бұрын
"If keep listening to it, I will never finish my homework." haha
@888Marco6 жыл бұрын
Did you ever finish that homework?
@autumngirl9516 жыл бұрын
Marc Lemand 😃😄
@LaurentLaborde5 жыл бұрын
@@888Marco i was going to ask ... :D
@mariakaczmarek47693 жыл бұрын
I've got the same problem
@hlodovvig10 ай бұрын
@@888Marcoit was a reference to the Lenin's quote.
@keithhulks70495 жыл бұрын
Having read all the comments published below I see no reason to change my mind. I still regard Kempff as one of the great Beethoven interpreters.
@PartySpock6 жыл бұрын
This was a pianist who understood ,Beethoven. Great great Pianist
@mairaleikarte435 жыл бұрын
And you understand that he understands Beethoven, which means you're awesome!🤣🕉️❤️
@ugurresulcan2707 жыл бұрын
Wilhelm Kempff best person who plays Beethoven's Music . Stunning and Marvellous
@racine16854 жыл бұрын
Wilhelm Backhaus?
@horatiodreamt4 жыл бұрын
@@racine1685 Him too.
@hugogosset9123 Жыл бұрын
@@racine1685 Wilhelm…………… Furtwängler ((with Werner Thärichen, among others))
@user-sw2ck1xl2t3 жыл бұрын
마음을 진정시키고 싶을때 찾게되는 베토벤. 위대하고 천재인 베토벤. 마음의 평화가 오네요. 오늘은 태풍으로 인해 비가 오락가락하는 날. 창밖으로 비가 왕창내리네요. 한강위로 쫙쫙! 베토벤 곡을 듣고 있음 행복을 느낌.
@user-vl8gn1kf8e5 жыл бұрын
So vividly alive but still calmly furious,exactly as the passion should be revealed.
@lars91686 жыл бұрын
Kempff = Legend
@terryp303411 жыл бұрын
Even better than Gould. Better than Brendel. Amazing combination of power and lyricism. Kempff is in complete command of the keyboard. Flawless!
@carloscarballo74952 жыл бұрын
what you say is true ... he is the most complete pianist. Maria Tipo is also very good.
@ryanchiang250911 ай бұрын
Gould's Beethoven is often far too unconventional for my taste
@stephenhall35155 ай бұрын
Gould? He only ever played Gould.........
@tacizettinkocabulluk3 ай бұрын
Comparing Kempff with g*uld? Lol😂😂
@fazec0ld8022 ай бұрын
Sorry that your replies got infiltrated by neckbeard Gould haters 😭
@carloscarballo74952 жыл бұрын
Wilhelm Kempff is the pianist to have as a reference for piano works in general.
@arturozeballos110 жыл бұрын
Que pianista impresionante, por dónde se lo mire. Sus versiones están cargadas de maestría, refinamiento, un toque o touche maravillosos que lo destaca del resto de los pianistas, un fraseo extremadamente pulcro y meticuloso. Grande WILHELM, contigo nací a esta Música cuando escuche esta sonata allá por 1973 a mis 10 años.
@MusicalMaryFly9 жыл бұрын
arturo zeballos great judgement ! Agree (Y)
@mehmetiksel30813 жыл бұрын
Beethoven is the only composer who from the first note in a piece, advances in the knowledge of the last. Like a great storyteller or orator, he brings in many protagonists in "quotes" It is drama in a language we all seem to understand well: that of great music. Kempff plays with a unique intuition of the transitions and silences which punctuate the score. As Bolet once wisely remarked : A composer spends a few weeks or months on a work, then is on to something else. We interpreters live with it for decades. It may sound presumptuous but one can say we know the works better than the composer himself. In the case of Kempff this is true of hundreds of works. It is a secondary form of genius. The other thing we must be clear about : We are each time speaking not of Beethoven but of a specific work he gave birth to, and which, in many ways, has had a greater life and career than the unwashed titan we would have dreaded to meet.
@raoultak11 жыл бұрын
I wish to believe that Kempff's rendition of the Appassionata is closest to Beethovens concept of interpretation. It sounds so natural...so like Beethoven.
@leonardoiglesias23944 жыл бұрын
Beethoven played it always faster and the phrasing was quiet different also.
@alanleoneldavid17873 жыл бұрын
@@leonardoiglesias2394 so you have like 200 years old
@zrytabania74603 жыл бұрын
@@alanleoneldavid1787 Nice age, preety impressive
@spiritsplice Жыл бұрын
@@leonardoiglesias2394 How would you know this?
@leonardoiglesias2394 Жыл бұрын
@@spiritsplice because Raoult says Kempff plays as beethoven would have liked it….so…it was parody…
@Villiago8 жыл бұрын
Absolutely sublime! I have listened to the interpretations of Wilhelm Kempff since my childhood, and yet I have yet to hear any which technically could be considered better or that capture better the tempestuousness of the composer's character. Many thanks for the upload. Best wishes, Villiago.
@shadowsmustfall17 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more. His interpretation captures Beethoven's spirit like no other pianist. I have listened to many others play this work and nobody interprets every single note as well as Kempff in this recording. I feel like I'm listening to it the way Beethoven intended.
@mitsospoulikakos18046 жыл бұрын
I'm pushing 76 now and i still remember when I first heard him play that same sonata (in Athens,Greece),when I was about 11-12!!!...I thought he was a miracle maker!!!!!
@Villiago6 жыл бұрын
Oh you heard a live performance! How lucky were you! Best wishes Villiago.
@brianrussel60124 жыл бұрын
@@shadowsmustfall1 (guest) Please seek the masterclass, here on You Tube , where the great Daniel Baremboim advises the amazing Lang-Lang on subtle improvements, which Lang-Lang immediately does and clearly adopts, as the true musician he is. I too love Wilhelm Kempff's interpretations. 🎼😊🇬🇧❤🎼
@christinajewell59818 жыл бұрын
Absolutely incredible
@juharmonie9 жыл бұрын
The best performance ever heard until now !
@yodigodoy25186 жыл бұрын
Lo mejor que pude escuchar en años//Emociona enormemente --Casi el mismísimo Beethoven en su mismo Espíritu --Una verdadera Joya para guardar ///Muchas gracias por este video .
@francelinepigoury60823 жыл бұрын
Kempff "est" la musique, son corps, ses mains virevoltant sur le piano me font entrer au coeur de cette sonate, vivante comme s'il la créait à ce moment-même. Merci !
@carloscarballo74952 жыл бұрын
tu as raison mon ami, Wilhelm Kempff est unique.
@andrewjohnthorpe14623 жыл бұрын
A wonderful performance. i saw Kempff play the Appassionata in 1974 in London and four more Beethoven sonatas in 1975.
@christopherczajasager90302 жыл бұрын
Hope you heard it, too
@bedenerexhepaj2938 жыл бұрын
Superb styling!!!! Thank you!!!
@MrGer22956 жыл бұрын
Awesome ! Thank you for posting :)
@tomazzlebnik51278 жыл бұрын
Kempff... who knows why? ... is Beethoven, full Beethoven... piano Beethoven.. thank You for this audio - video!
@marieroth39408 жыл бұрын
My favourite rendition of Beethoven's Appassionata.
@HectorMartinez-cw4ql6 жыл бұрын
Despues de escuchar muchas versiones de las sonatas de Beethoven,particularmente las mas populares como esta ,la 8 o la 32 uno concluye,como un diletante de la musica, que los entendidos tienen razon...sin lugar a dudas Kempff fue uno de los mejores interpretes de Beethoven del siglo 20.
@terryp30342 жыл бұрын
You may be un diletante, but you are right!
@terryp30342 жыл бұрын
You may be un diletante, but you are right!
@Otilia-by4nc9 жыл бұрын
The best performance. Thank you for posting!
@MusicalMaryFly9 жыл бұрын
Otilia 1246 expert !
@uzziadriano70179 жыл бұрын
MusicalMaryFly
@uzziadriano70179 жыл бұрын
Uzzi Adriano : best recording of 60's.
@Otilia-by4nc9 жыл бұрын
(y)
@FishHONtopBiz2 жыл бұрын
My only sorrow is thinking that with all the tech and artists and music of today, that many people will have lived on there lives. Never to hear the man Beethoven beyond fur Elise, Mozart beyond twinkle little star, Bach beyond the toccata fugue ringtone. To ever know great interpreters such as Kempff, Rubinstein, Barenboim etc. that spent there lives reproducing the most heartfelt music this world will ever know(classical music). Everyone deserves from time to time to stop there lives for 20 minutes and listen to a musical piece that takes them to a place far beyond the sound that comes out of a speaker. But many won’t anymore. This video has under 200k views in its DECADE of being here. :’( Must we be so fortunate? Thank-full at the least.
@jihyunkim59484 жыл бұрын
He is my favourite Beethoven pianist :)
@ramonchan97324 жыл бұрын
I believe he is the best Beethoven interpreter.
@saulebatalova781211 жыл бұрын
Превосходное исполнение! Brilliance!
@chrispiazza954410 жыл бұрын
the breathtaking.
@noapology885 жыл бұрын
I imagine Beethoven listening to this masterpiece played by W Kempff on a modern piano. I know, he lost his hearing, but even to be able to feel the vibrations would maybe been enough.
@innocenzobarrera15054 жыл бұрын
Un'esecuzione così puntuale, rarissimo ascoltarla ! ! !
@miguelmunoz3836 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing in the final movement!!! Like a tragic Bach
@ardarico3 жыл бұрын
The way he plays the 3rd movement is astonishing! Best rendition ever, I think.
@MusicalMaryFly9 жыл бұрын
what great interpretation !
@lars91683 жыл бұрын
You are 6 years older now
@michel611 жыл бұрын
I won't reconsider my comment, simply because I can not see a possible better version for this composition.
@tsaihengmao71976 жыл бұрын
Life in all its fullness
@arturozeballos110 жыл бұрын
Sobrio, Refinado y con una pasión que pocos pueden interpretar
@michel611 жыл бұрын
I completely agree. I use Kempff like my gold standard to evaluate any other person on Earth who dares do play anything regarding Beethoven. He is so sentimental, austere, germanic. It's hard to find words. Too bad he is not as famous as the more merchandised jewish pianists.
@michaeltraub36143 жыл бұрын
Did he collaborate with the Nazis?
@thebigstink74726 ай бұрын
@@michaeltraub3614I believe he played for them on occasion. Probably why he isn’t as popular. Never really heard too much fuss about it until recently.
@MalisandreFeline3 жыл бұрын
Immense ,génial sublime!
@sheldonbazinga39853 жыл бұрын
Wilhelm Kempff, me fait rêver. Malgré une prise de son qui peut faire friser les tympans par moments, il dépeint Beethoven (ou l'idée qu'on s'en fait) avant même de jouer sa musique. A l'entendre on n'a pas l'impression que ce soit un pianiste du XXe siècle qui est assis au piano, mais le compositeur lui-même...Il joue comme si c'était lui qui avait composé cette sonate. En même temps et encore une fois bénéficiait il de par sa situation géographique, de par sa naissance et son âge, de la juste et pas si ancienne tradition, ou d'un bouche-à-oreille avisé de personnes ayant connu Beethoven. Après tout, Beethoven décédant en 1827 et Kempff naissant en 1895...Le trait d'union entre eux deux n'est pas si lointain...En tous cas nombreux sont ceux qui ont pu lui transmettre le véritable goût et la manière du grand maître.
@carloscarballo74952 жыл бұрын
Besides being one of the best pianists of all time, he is a good composer and knows how to transcribe works, something that other pianists do not know.
@platform849 жыл бұрын
wtf!!!! this is amazing!!!!
@nikianddaphne93188 жыл бұрын
this old man happens to have been charachterised as the poet of piano .
@daniloogrisek82462 жыл бұрын
Eccezionale. Molto più granitico delle altre registrazioni
@adambennett78933 жыл бұрын
Wonderful
@naksatrabailung152011 жыл бұрын
Classics are the BEST
@olgashcherbakova87425 жыл бұрын
Great !!!!!
@RolandKarlBryce4 жыл бұрын
So, in 1948? The Columbia record launched into Vinyl LP records. Mr Kempff had already recorded the entire cycle of the piano sonatas on 78’s prior to this. We are hearing an older man’s hands here: by the time the Beethoven edition in 1970 released by DG? Much of Herr Kempff’s concert career had been achieved. He also composed his own very fine music, and conducted etc etc. So what if a few notes are touched on the way through a passionate phrase? Clarity of line, dynamic faithfulness, rhythmic impulse: its all in the Kempff recordings. The pinao never boasts and his staccato/detaché is wonderful.
@frankjaeger2272 жыл бұрын
Schöne Widmung auf der Postkarte: Für meine liebe Idil (Biret) …
@noapology885 жыл бұрын
I liked Artur Ruberstein's version... until I heard this. But this..this.
@Angela9706149 жыл бұрын
I love too much the second movement.
@1PapaElk9 жыл бұрын
Ang ela I love to hear the second movement too. Beethoven had strong and turbulent emotions,, lightning and thunder, and the storm, but then, a spiritual peace comes through that melts the heart and fixes your heart with the music.
@floppy3039 жыл бұрын
+1PapaElk This piece is brilliance--and also seemingly exposes Beethoven's inner workings. Would love to go back in time and ask Freud to analyze the man through this music.
@JoanTurull8 жыл бұрын
Música que surt de l'ànima i arriba a l'ànima!
@richardkell48886 ай бұрын
I just love that intro ...
@rudolfgolezpianist43225 жыл бұрын
Impassioned! Not passionate! He's not a millenial. He's a one in million!
@user-zr5pb9cm1pАй бұрын
No, mate. He is the one. There is no other one, just him.
@howies.254510 жыл бұрын
I enjoy the slower tempo in the 3rd movement, Allegro ma non troppo. The notes are very clear when the tempo is slightly on the slower side in my opinion.
@alexismandelias5 жыл бұрын
Agree, but at some points it is just too slow for the melody to sound nice
@TSK246924 жыл бұрын
@@alexismandelias I prefer the slow tempo... I guess I'm getting old. lol. I grew up listening to the DG Bicenntennial recordings of Beethoven's sonatas (performed by Kempff) and back then I thought he played them too slow. Now, the challenge for me is to find a recording with the slower tempo that I prefer! lol
@marieroth394011 жыл бұрын
I have had numerous CDs of his recording of Moonlight, Appassionata and Pathetique but they are jinxed they all get mysteriously damaged. I would love to get another undamaged CD could anyone tell me where?
@brianrussel60124 жыл бұрын
(guest) I've been comparing performances of the Appassionata recently, after seeing the fascinating Masterclass, Daniel Baremboim advising Lang-Lang : I can really recommended it, to understand nuances that make it more compelling / rewarding to listen to. One of my favourite works is : J. S. Bach's "Goldberg" Variations : over nearly 40 years of hearing many performances, Wilhelm Kempff remains my favourite, his interpretation prompted me to get the 🎼music 🎼and learn the 8 easier ones!😊! ..... Still seeking Martha Argerich and Mitsuko Uchida , and of course the amazing Lang-Lang... Endless interest in the sublime world of classical music... Many thanks for so much being available here on KZbin. 🎼😊🎼🇬🇧🎼😊🎼
@keithhulks70494 жыл бұрын
Lang-Lang is far too showy for my taste
@sophiecarolinaabend32842 жыл бұрын
9:46 15:38
@markswanson5498 жыл бұрын
Interesting 3rd movement.
@mangoelb10 жыл бұрын
divino!
@professorshermanpeabody12377 жыл бұрын
Most of my recordings are by Serkin but Kempf's interpretation of the D minor is staggering.
@rosinabragi11504 жыл бұрын
Best pleing.I cray.
@patty11278 жыл бұрын
very pretty
@noname-217511 ай бұрын
Ein poet am klavier...
@sciyoussef12 жыл бұрын
Do you know what Lenin said about Beethoven’s Appassionata? "If I keep listening to it I won’t finish the Revolution." Can anyone who has heard this music, I mean truly heard it, really be a bad person? ــــ The Lives of Others
@LouieBeethoven4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Hitler and Alex in Clockwork Orange, to name two.
@LiradeTerpsichore11 жыл бұрын
What a pity he didn't keep listening !!!!!!!
@donaldrichardson9132 Жыл бұрын
The piano action Beethoven composed this sonata could accomodate this tempo?
@user-sw2ck1xl2t5 жыл бұрын
베토벤과 빌헬름 켐프는 나의 삶에서 한 부분을 차지한다. 삶에서 자극을 받고싶고, 신선함을 느끼고 싶을때 베토벤곡을 듣는다. 아울러 시간이 되면 바흐곡도! 베토벤 곡을 들으면 머리가 천재라는 게 느껴지고, 고맙다. 열심히 살아주어서. 누군가 베토벤을 루저라 애기하던데 만약 루저라면 이러한 휼륭한 곡을 만들수 있나요! 난 베토벤은 행복을 느꼈고 인생에서 만족을 가졌다고 생각한다. 나에게 베토벤과의 만남은 행복 그 자체다!
@lars9168 Жыл бұрын
15:43 favorite part beginns
@LiradeTerpsichore11 жыл бұрын
Yes it is possible to like this & be a bad person. Or better said: to have turned bad, and do evil, have no compassion, etc We had learnt that from the Nazis... Or have the wrong spiritual ideas, by which GOOD SOCIAL IDEAS END UP IN CREATING THE REVERSE. I agree that it is the Go(o)d in a person which likes this. But that is not enough :) as we can see from the world which surrounds us. Beauty being indispensable & a stair to/from God from which Goodness comes, doesn't mean that it is enough.
@brianrussel60124 жыл бұрын
The year of this recording might be 1975? Written on the score... 44 years ago.... Beautiful music, amazing for the time Beethoven wrote it.... 🎼😊🎼😊🎼😊🎼🇬🇧❤.
@keithhulks70493 жыл бұрын
The recordig actually dates from 1960 when Kempff was 65
@LouieBeethoven4 жыл бұрын
Third movement is missing the OOOOOMPH. I'm not opposed to slowing the movement down. However, it's not passionate.
@jonathanpunla83124 жыл бұрын
Currently listening to various versions - which one do you recommend?
@leonardoiglesias23944 жыл бұрын
Thrills don woik
@s1earle11 жыл бұрын
O well perhaps you need to broaden your listening and interpretation techniques - yes, music performance is very personal and what one listener likes might be scorned by another: To me early Horowitz is good however his later performances disguised all by loudness with banging the keys...
@pchk111 жыл бұрын
Of course, Lenin himself.
@MusicalMaryFly9 жыл бұрын
(Y)
@daniloogrisek82462 жыл бұрын
Ma è lui?
@MrWilhelm769 жыл бұрын
Wilhelm Kempff said : well the nazies can paint as many swastikas in front of this Piece of Music as they want...they will never be able to play it !!!!!! THIS IS GERMANY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@DavidTheRoss9 жыл бұрын
True, he did :P Although he was referring to the Waldstein sonata (No. 21)
@carloscarballo74952 жыл бұрын
Wilhelm Kempff is on the piano what Andrés Segovia is on the guitar ... unique.
@TheOne777777777711 жыл бұрын
you have no idea what you are talking about....this is not the best appassionata's performance but, for moonlight and tempest sonata i would always go with him(especially the 3rd movement),for Pathetique i would go with Horowitz and for the Appassionata no one came close to Arrau(not even Richter,although i like his performance too)...Kempff is the most virtuosismo pianist i ever heard...there is no best performer for all the sonatas,maybe beethoven himself.
@s1earle11 жыл бұрын
Don't bother because I have listened to all; Kempff is the slackest of the many Beethoven sonata recordings available. Perhaps he never lacked the technique for virtuosity however his Schubert is exceptionally fine... His Liszt is lightweight against other titans providing compelling proof to my claim that he never excelled in virtuosic pieces.
@aachoocrony57546 жыл бұрын
seems generally speaking pianists don't appreciate Kempff's Beethoven as much as non-pianists.
@MrInterestingthings4 жыл бұрын
This is the one ! I've ignored Kempff too long and the younger English Freddy Kempf seems to have disappeared . AnnieFischer in this (too much nervosity not ideally balanced by rapture and logic as Kempff (she's too much fingers not enough music for me ) ,Backhaus,Arrau .Did dat crazyYudina ever record this . It's got her name on it .Her last Schubert Sonata should be broadcast from churches ! Need to hear Brendel in this . Lupu's op.53 is also the one . Pletnev .No! His early Bach was his purest moment put him in the open air box with Pogorelich . The American pianist Perahia in this ! Some not very very famous pianists also Roger that teacher from up north and da famous American Beethiovenian . I can't believe tinnytiny Maria Pletnev won a Beethoven contest ! She makes the earth stand still but can she summon demons like Volodos and Solomon in this ? Clifford Curzon !!!
@vivianleung520111 жыл бұрын
Have you watched Pollini's version. Go check and I think you may reconsider your comment.
@lars9168 Жыл бұрын
I feel like modern pianists play to impress the audience instead of trying to make the best interpretation they can... A shame
@Bruce88keys7 жыл бұрын
academic at best
@user-hj6oe8xg9i7 жыл бұрын
Очень нравится звук, но не хватает темпа и мощи. По сравнению с Рихтером или Мацуевым, или с Гилельсом - ну никак не заходит...
@tt-wz1ih7 жыл бұрын
Руслан It might be possible just to compare with Richter or Gilels in terms of performance class, but definitely not with Mazuev
@gingerdurbin14128 жыл бұрын
I don't understand why people(including my daughter) count this as one of their favorites. It goes nowhere.
@mitsoukoguerlain8497 жыл бұрын
What's your favourite?
@MusikPiratCH9 жыл бұрын
I don't like Kempff at Beethoven! For me he plays it rather strange. Just compare with Solomon's structural play of the Appassionata! Perhaps you realize what I'm trying to tell. Brendel, Fischer, Backhaus and Art(h)ur Rubinstein are also much better!
@MusikPiratCH9 жыл бұрын
With Friedrich Gulda I agree. I'm not convinced by Barenboim or Richter when it comes to Beethoven ... ;(
@MusikPiratCH9 жыл бұрын
I don't like both Barenboim and Richter for the Appassionata. The other pianists I mentioned I find much better. So everybody has his own taste.
@MusikPiratCH9 жыл бұрын
None of them, except Buchbinder!, Backhaus would be an alternative! Yes, tastes are very different.
@1PapaElk9 жыл бұрын
MusikPiratCH this is an interesting line of conversation. You think Brendel is better than Kempff eh? Everyone has their tastes. Not for me. I will have to listen to Solomon and Backhaus. Fischer is a good point. I like Rubinstein but more in Chopin.
@MusikPiratCH9 жыл бұрын
+1PapaElk Yes. for my taste Brendel is clearly better than Kempff. I really don't like Kempff at Beethoven (he is better at Schumann). You should really listen to Rubinstein's Appassionata - a true tresor! Brendel in his last years of concerting played all Beethoven Sonatas. Friedrich Gulda made one of the best complete recordings (because Solomon could not finish his)! *sad enough*
@inraid8 жыл бұрын
horrible and ridiculous!
@pianotreasures8 жыл бұрын
+inraid Sorry?
@monterano7 жыл бұрын
I don't know if you are......horrible but, definitively, you are ridiculous !!