Brendel plays Beethoven Piano Sonata No.19, Op.49 No.1

[@RicoCobos]

I finally found it! I've been looking for this piece forever. I never knew the name of it. I heard it once as a child and could never get it out of my head. Thirty years later, here it is again.

[@MFNieto]

Wow! Nice story

[@00SNIVY00]

I love how music can do this. You'll hear something and it'll just be stored in the back of your mind for no reason, it grows on you, and then you finally find it after some time to enjoy it on your own.

[@xskate750]

M.F. Nieto

[@jessicachen369]

Great! Wish you luck on remembering the name! Beethoven Sonata No. 19 Opus 49 No. 1

[@dj-classical7266]

THE BEST PERFORMANCE I've ever heard for this piece.

[@aaaaaaaaaaaa808]

The amount of focus to perform this specific piece is absolutely high. Excellent sonata.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

aaaaaaaaaaaa808 Re: ‘Excellent sonata’ - You do know that Beethoven described the two Opus 49 sonatas as ‘...trivial’, ‘...unworthy of his name’, and said that ‘...they should not have been published’ (his brother sold them to a publisher secretly). Many of the top pianists do not include these two Opus 49 works in their complete sonata performance or recording cycles for very good reasons (along with the three juvenile sonatas WoO 47), and that no competent pianist would ever offer either as an audition or competition piece - they are in fact usually specifically disallowed. That said, this sonata is rather better than the facile and uncharacteristically empty No 2. You’re right about this performance, Brendel makes about as much of this sonata as any pianist could!

[@jameshandaja1536]

@@elaineblackhurst1509 Strangely, I count this and Op.49 no.2 among my favorite Beethoven sonatas to listen to, along with Op.53, Op.57, Op.81, Op.109-111

[@johnzhang2481]

This is amazing! I'm about to learn this.

[@tanks.6352]

This is the best performance I can find on youtube for this piece! :)

[@psalc1]

Arrau also.

[@nomoremrniceguy368]

Almis Peter Salcius definitely Arrau. This is very nice too.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

Tank S. We really shouldn’t get too worked up about ‘...best performance’ when it comes to such inconsequential works as these two sonatas Opus 49.

[@elisabethsteltzlen]

Toujours aussi Parfait et Fabuleux !!! Du "BRENDEL" absolument !!!

[@ad8696]

Learning this right now actually.

[@ЕрмаковичСветлана-ь3к]

Прекрасная соната в прекраснейшем исполнении!!!

[@michelleread6797]

I am learning this :D I have been playing for 3 years and piano is my first and favorite instrument ever

[@hopexayaveth6454]

Rly? Me too.

[@11studiosraf_the_eagle75]

Dude are you me? I also begun 3 years ago, and am learning this piece!!! :)

[@all1964]

Me too! i began 3 yeara ago and I'll playing this piece now. This is amazing 😆

[@willsun7145]

It could not have taken you three years to already be at this level 😂. But cheers if you have.

[@hujun7137]

Omg, me too! I started 3yrs ago and I'm learning this piece rn omg! It's as if we all twins!

[@siyichen9149]

🎉🎉🎉❤😊he has great shading and he had his shading so outstanding that it is beautiful.

[@hopexayaveth6454]

Beautiful!

[@sarapenaranda636]

Juste magnifique ...

[@bbsunsun]

Best 49! ❤

[@martinesavard1246]

lovely

[@tanamckaughan1772]

This is my favorite recording of this piece! The expression; phrasing & dynamics are wonderful!

[@easzy6925]

Agreed

[@dianeswanson8206]

Tana McKaughan Beautiful - inspires me to want to learn this piece!

[@timothythorne9464]

Diane Swanson this is called Beethoven's "easy" sonata, but it is a very moving, beautiful piece. The first movement has a lyrical beauty that even Mozart or Schubert couldn't surpass.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

Timothy Thorne An interesting comment as ever; apart from, as you correctly identify, that this as a ‘sonate facile’, I fundamentally and absolutely disagree with almost every other word in your comment! It’s always fascinating to read others’ considered views and then reflect on how a piece of music can be heard so very differently. For myself, Opus 49 along with the three juvenile sonatas of 1783 (WoO 47), should not be included in the canon of Beethoven’s sonatas; the remaining 30 are one of the greatest achievements in the history of western classical music, not an epithet I would apply to either of the Opus 49 pair which Beethoven himself described as ‘...trivial’, ‘...unworthy of my name’, and ‘...should not have been published’ (his brother sold them to a publisher without Beethoven’s knowledge).

[@timothythorne9464]

Elaine Blackhurst the two sonatas op. 49 shouldn't be categorised with the WoO 47 juvenalia of 1783. Opus 49 was written in 1796, about the same time as the powerful Grand Sonata Opus 7. I'm practicing this "sonata facile" as we speak! I love it for its poignant, melancholy first movement. Now it's clear Beethoven intended these op. 49 sonatinas as teaching pieces, as he had already completed magnificent, forward focussed works like the trios op. 1 and the sonatas op. 2 prior to composing these relatively trivial, classically inspired sonatinas. One can only imagine Beethoven's rage when his brother submitted them for publication--maybe that was the real inspiration for his rondo "Rage Over A Lost Penny"!

[@jessicachen369]

I'm learning movement 2 and I'm going to MAP this Saturday! wish me luck!

[@c1810-h6l]

Breathtaking!!!

[@lydiabrindley5117]

this wonderful piece is what I am practicing now 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

[@francescobacherini4965]

Incredibile interpretazione!!

[@chunchun1252]

love love love！！

[@ellenhuang7740]

Perfect!

[@SpontaneityJD]

spectacular.

[@prestonyoung1979]

Im so nervous. I have to play this in carnegie hall.

[@personthatexists92]

How did it go?

[@natechang772]

really great skill

[@fabricejoyeuse9030]

Magnifique

[@platform84]

Very good!!!

[@ssvemuri]

very very beautiful. a well known music conductor once said Beethoven couldn't write long melodies. I wonder if he heard this.

[@carloseduardozappilialbert2025]

Bravíssimo!!!

[@pierrejacquart3494]

Bon jeu, bon tempo

[@yacinelejmi1906]

Je suis un tunisien j'aime cette pièce j'ai commencé le piano depuis 3ans 😚🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

[@colinregenauer3698]

Mvt. 2 Starts at 4:30

[@ziwenjiao3391]

Mine is at 4:33

[@remypoulakis]

je suis française et je trouve sa très beau ! Je fait du piano depuis 4 ans 1/2 et j'adore cette sonate !!!Voila Héléna 10 ans

[@DO_SEBI]

Es gefällt mir sehr gut

[@barrygu2012]

i like it..

[@新生國中張靜如-r1k]

謝謝

[@ObeyTheMuse]

the move no the cheapness and the greatness

[@nguyenthuvan7063]

Excilent!!!

[@uyuu123]

super!

[@natg10738]

My student plays it too.

[@즐겜하는보연]

WOW

[@jenny24632]

Schlecht

[@Nate-ff3hy]

who's better Barenboim or Brendl?

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

Nate 21 Neither, it is a matter of personal preference. Technically and musically, the Opus 49 sonatas are almost useless in terms of assessing a pianist as they are facile, uncharacteristically empty and really only suitable material for early intermediate level pianists. That said, No 1 has rather more substance than No 2.

[@lorandviranyi1140]

In Beethoven sonatas Schnabel and Brendel are reference, you should know them. Barenboim plays in a much more modern style. I really like Barenboims recordings also. But start exploring beethoven with Schnabel and Brendel...

[@Acquiesce-xs9vm]

learning this at the moment

[@elianalimmen9629]

SianyLloyd same!!

[@kelvinrojas5547]

+eliαnα whoops same

[@11studiosraf_the_eagle75]

Same!!

[@psalc1]

same

[@samueleleuzzo2546]

me too

[@matiasserranoalvarado2845]

👏

[@YevgenyMorozov]

Second movement @4:32

[@not2tees]

That is a wonderful instrument played by one fully qualified to drive it.

[@ThuanaoThiBich]

4:30

[@ziwenjiao3391]

Wow I’m your 101 comment 😅

[@즐겜하는보연]

완전 잘침

[@colinregenauer3698]

Met 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWaTZmWJeLCpo9k

[@ObeyTheMuse]

I would for princess be like no kid no symphony mass!!!p

[@guidokorbach]

unvergleichlich seine Interpretation. Viele Interpretationen hören sich spröde an, doch die hier ist so lebendig und weich.

[@즐겜하는보연]

!!

[@ObeyTheMuse]

one kid could try sunshine scales up as a intervation bach like

[@volkerf.sesselmann6783]

schöne Tempi

[@리듬러브-b3p]

wow

[@ObeyTheMuse]

and not sonata unless you heart ache withs it

[@remypoulakis]

perfect !!!!! is biutifool !!! (je suis nul en anglais )

[@שמעון-ק2ח]

Better than Barenboim. But i interpret it still better. It seems childish to say so, but the opening bars should be emotional in the left hand. Famous pianist pros seem to be ashamed of playing with too much emotion and instead rush it to show that it's too babyish for them! (Like it's simply their duty to play "another Beethoven Sonata".)

[@UpNfamish2]

He almost gets it, but needs to be more urgent and stronger.

[@jessicachen369]

@@sunaechong2457 i agree

[@MariaWilliams-h7e]

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[@arthurding6991]

I play this hard all right

[@ObeyTheMuse]

but play that shit splash is up for awesome

[@즐겜하는보연]

나도 이거 치는데

[@alimazimi5155]

ich will das nicht :(

[@ccccoooooollll]

doch

[@timpolonyi]

richtiger scheiss amk

[@ccccoooooollll]

ich schwör hdf amk

[@magikarp1804]

was ist das für ein dreck das klingt wie scheiße

[@lentias2528]

+florian bruckner find i a

[@ccccoooooollll]

ihr seid scheisse

[@henrih3080]

magikarp Dann bist du wohl amusich! Das tut mir dann aber sehr leid für dich.