Michelangeli - Ravel Piano Concerto - [3] Presto

A.B. Michelangeli playing the Adagio of Ravel's Piano Concerto. The orchestra is conducted by the famous Sergio Celibidache.

[@mtierra]

Every note, every nuance is exactly in place. The perfection of his playing is the excitement. The conductor and orchestra were exactly correct. This is a legendary performance.

[@4evaFanFuruba]

I watch this twice a day!I can't get the tune out of my head!It keeps playing in my mind...BRAVO to Michelangeli!!

[@worseto1]

Ravel has to be in my book one of the top 5 composers ever.He shows excellent abilities in every area of classical music.

[@cattleman6420012000]

Thanks so much for letting us see this video!! Absolutely fantastic!! I have his older recording of this work is superlative. I am so agreably surprised how lovely this performance was so many years later.With this style of music no one even comes close to him.

[@ea123]

An amazing performance, probably the best I know. Wonderful articulation of the complexity of this concerto. The second movement is divine.

[@OlmoLane]

I love the camerawork in this. Zipping around to everyone.

[@mfinatti]

I must say I envy for having been there. I watch this video every other week to remember.

[@veseli601]

Two musical collossi! The lovely music of G major concert of Ravel sunds like the music of 3rd concert of great Bulgarian composer Vesselin Stojanov

[@violonista]

Many thanks for post it!!!!!!!!!!!

[@violonista]

The greates conductor of the century. Bravo.

[@sagalat]

So, after all is said and commented...PURE GENIUS...pianist AND conductor....The Gold Standard...and Ravel used Prokofiev well, merci a Dieu

[@chileansauce]

superb, gracious, fierce, elegant, poetic and most of all punctual ;-)

[@cirosuperiore]

ABM is just fabulous . pure magic

[@anelacadillo]

This is total excitement! This really made my day...totally brilliant! =D

[@honeypianist]

tooooootally agree with you!! most of people think that he has no sensibility just because he doesn't move, that people is stupid!! just listen!! haha i agree is hard to think he is a human cause his sound is like an angel, the 2nd movement is absolute perfection i want to play this concerto this year!! and i'll listen this every day!! haha agree with u!! =D

[@idoshalom6422]

That's amazing!

[@GSnaker]

What I love most is the expression on Michelangelo's face after ending the concert, he does that every time - completely ingores the cameras (the audience?) :D:D:D

[@retrogamerdave362]

I agree. I just played this piece with an orchestra with Leon Bates as our soloist, and it was a lot more fun when it was faster.

[@burmecia11]

michelangeli exlente interprete de las partituras impresionistas para piano sus 10 dedos el complemento perfecto de la fuerza y suvidad pianistica

[@paulostroff99]

@haakonsb -Rubinstein is correct about Ravel's orchestrating abilities. Gershwin himself had asked Ravel to orchestrate one of his works.Ravel thinking so highly of the work as it was -that he told him that it need not be tampered with. Point was that Gershwin thought so highly of Ravel's orchestrating ability.

[@sirasy]

GRANDIÖS!

[@Pavlvs34]

@OriginalBasaliskos Ravel said himself that he was influenced by Liszt-this may not be immediately apparent in this Concerto, but Ravel's music is, on the whole, hard! I agree what you said about Scarbo, though.

[@GBV1961]

strepitoso!!!!

[@cattleman6420012000]

Please would someone please tell me, if they know where I could buy another copy of this video? It doesn't seem to be available with Amazon. It's lovely to watch him playing the concerto. He makes it look a lot easier than it is.

[@ikshields]

Well, after all, THEY didn't spend the last week or two preparing Ravel's G Major Concerto with him (and longer than that practicing the parts beforehand). They can stand to wait for his genuflection a little bit, I think.

[@simbanobel]

In the beginning, I notice some of stravinsky's work... :)

[@muslit]

i saw bernstein play and conduct this with the vienna phil. in paris in the 80's - wonderful was an understatement to describe the experience - there are countless better performances than the one caught on this video -

[@OriginalBasaliskos]

@davidjb100 I hear the Mozart and Gershwin, but certainly not the Liszt. Virtuosity doesn't mean inspiration was drawn from Liszt. Ravel wrote very hard pieces for the piano as well. It could be argued that Ravel's Scarbo is harder than anything Liszt ever wrote, even Mazeppa.

[@jmealonso]

kudos to the bassoonists!

[@philaufan6]

Michelangeli....another day at the office...no biggie.

[@OriginalBasaliskos]

@Pavlvs34 That's right. I forgot about Jeux D'eaux.

[@pianodan10]

word

[@ALBIBISBIS]

Who are the woodwind soloists?

[@randygeorge]

not fast enough! faster!

[@ElGladiateur]

From 0.40 to 0.43: GODZILLA'S THEME!!!

[@BB1951]

Why does this video look and sound like it was recorded from a ventilation duct? :(

[@stoklund]

The same concert in HD: /watch?v=-JAeUjg4zj8&hd=1

[@grandcru1]

The little face-wipe at the end was crowd-pleasing BS!

[@princeashtonsdad]

this guy looks like chopin

[@Rinhos]

ABM is certainly a wonderful player, but this last movement is pop music, is American music hall. They play it too seriously, as if it were serious music :D Only Bernstein has understood the real meaining of this piece.

[@katkula]

I agree but unfortunately Mr. Bernstein's technique was poor...

[@Leomerya12]

I agree. That was pretentious of him. But with a technique like that, he can get away with it...

[@filthysoap]

it sounds somewhere between allegro and presto