Ravel, Piano concerto in G - II Adagio assai (L. Bernstein)

Ravel, Piano concerto in G - mov. II Adagio assai (Leonard Bernstein)

[@James-ll3jb]

There is a casstte of this. When I first heard it in 1984 it brought me to tears. It is the most honest music I have ever heard.😢

[@S3NWO7]

Tout Ravel est là : un artisan anxieux de la perfection de son travail.

[@tia904]

Magnifique... Dommage que tant de sont concentrés sur le Boléro que Ravel a composé à toute vitesse et a lui même caractérisé comme une pièce qui n'est pas vraiment de la musique.

[@user-mk1ep7gr4j]

Plus que magnifique, indescriptible,,,, L'interprétation de Leonard Bernstein est incomparable.....

[@cellokeith]

One of the pieces of music that tracks my life. The break up with my first love in 1979. Still can’t listen to this without tears in my eyes........

[@dahnnyc]

Fully transcendent! With all the talk about Bradley Cooper and his nose, I think we are forgetting Lenny. One of the great geniuses of the 20th Century, here he is, with a television camera right up in his face, calmly playing and conducting at the same time. This is possibly the most beautiful piece of music ever written (Adagio assai from Ravel's piano concerto in G) and Lenny feels it to the depths of his soul. So exquisite, and so handsome. Bradley, you have a big nose AND big shoes to fill...

[@kamchonfai]

My favorite. I play it when I wake up from dream in tears.

[@chocnut]

The exact same thing has happened to me, too! The times that I've accidentally left the record playing, I would find myself waking up in tears--because of this 2nd movement!

[@MisterHansome]

Understand. But dream in love💋

[@mita3283]

上手いとか下手だとか考えさせず、ただただ深く感動させる演奏です。バーンスタインのこの動画の演奏をはじめて聴いた時はすっかり心を鷲掴みにされ、レコード店でこの時の演奏の音源はないかと聞きました。結局この時の演奏の音源はなく、これに近い時期に録音した音源はありますと店員さんに教えてもらいました。それも良いのですが、この演奏は特別感動させるのです。いつまでもKZbinに残しておいて欲しいと願っています。

[@Baddogphil]

To play note perfect from memory while conducting is possible only for a truly great musician. Lenny, you were a great artist and teacher. We did not deserve you.

[@morcillo]

Uno de las más hermosos Adagios de la historia. Gracias..!!!

[@georgehandel8907]

It makes me think of my mother too. Long departed. God bless Leonard Bernstein and Maurice Ravel. Played with such integrity and feeling.

[@workingmansblues]

The sheer beauty of this piece could never be denied, no matter who the pianist is. But Leonard Bernstein is the type of person who reveals all the expressive power of Ravel's beautiful music.

[@RyanPagels]

This is one of the few performances in of this mvt. in which the listener is enraptured and transcends reality into sheer bliss for a brief moment. Bernstein becomes the perfect medium for listeners to commune with such masterful beauty and pure emotion. Not to mention, Ravel's sense of simplicity that leaves one in awe of what music can be. Thank you, Bernstein, and thank you, Ravel.

[@spacedustpld]

un des plus beaux mouvements de concertos, un des plus émouvants.....

[@tia904]

Oui, sensationnel, lorsque je l'ai entendu la première fois, je ne pouvais pas arrêter de l'écouter et ai même acheté la partition...

[@Firefox-yo4tt]

This piece makes me feel like someone is opening a door into my soul

[@Maurizio9016]

Wonderful. No words can describe THIS supreme expression of musical art. Bernstein is divine.

[@SusanaWdeE]

DIVINE is the Word....YES! yet it's more than we know.....

[@tia904]

Ravel is divine... the creator.

[@thomasbyee]

Nothing is more astonishing than watching Bernstein conduct an orchestra from the piano as he plays this concerto. Only a true genius could play, conduct, and compose like this man did.

[@SusanaWdeE]

Thank you, YES TES and YES

[@tia904]

David Fray does it, and many others. it is more common than you think when recording for example... Just because LB had a huge PR support behind him...

[@eduardocesar9747]

The only music that can make me understand my mother.

[@eduardocesar9747]

Today, 21 March 2020 is completed the 30th day I saw and talked and listened to her for the last time. She passed in 22 February.

[@eduardocesar9747]

Suddenly, I miss my Mom again, now on 07 April 2020; Don't know why, it came out of the blue, and ... I'm here. It feels like where she lived all of her life. Thank you so much Mrs Ravel and Bernstein for somehow bringing me my mom back again.

[@eduardocesar9747]

07 May 2020. I'm here again.

[@eduardocesar9747]

03 June 2020. I'd like so much to see you mom, miss you so much, miss so much to talk to you, you used to be my best friend. But I'm fine, and doing well. Just wanna see you for a while.

[@eduardocesar9747]

11 June 2020. I've just got one million. Realized that there's no money to bring her back, one pound or a million, you're going to feel the same way, you're going to miss the beloved one the same.

[@Josquinquin]

If only Ravel had lived to hear Bernstein's exquisite interpretation of this masterpiece.

[@SusanaWdeE]

Exactly!

[@ivanhorvath]

Better yet, Helene Grimaud . . .

[@moniquethomas9819]

@@SusanaWdeE Better than all of them is Martha Argerich, ( And I love and admire Lenny but...)

[@ericwierzbinski4993]

Fortunately for Ravel he died before.Listen to Martha Argerich instead.

[@Josquinquin]

With Bernstein, every detail, every nuance, is addressed. He spins a web, and draws you into it. .. Sublime.

[@susanaweingarten5396]

I have LOVED this version for EVERRRRR..Lenny Is PASSION.............and He transmits this to us Breathless!

[@musicathena]

like bernstein, i have played piano for more than half a century. he was a pianist of great talent who didn't play much, a composer who let time slip past him (hear 'jeremiah'), a conductor who only knew what he wanted when it was beyond his reach... as a child, i disliked him because he didn't do enough, and i thought he didn't care. now i know he did: i heard his heart breaking in these notes, and he broke mine, as well. ah, lenny, i misjudged you--may i do half as well, ever... thank you.

[@Ferdinand314]

This is easily the stupidest comment about Bernstein I've ever seen. The only thing you have in common with him is how long you played the piano. He didn't care enough? He's a genius. What the hell is wrong with you?

[@davisatdavis1]

Really touching story. I hope all is going well with you. Its in our nature as humans to immediately think downly of someone when they do or say things that aren't in our taste. But remember, never judge a book by its cover. Everything we do is for a purpose whether we know it or not. Not everything we do may sit well with others. nothing we do will ever meet the satisfactory of others, but at the end of the day none of that matters as long as you and everyone else are playing their role of being respectful to others and that we're happy and content with ourselves. This also includes not judging people and being so quick to making assumptions based on their actions as you have no way of knowing why they do what they do.

[@tia904]

@@davisatdavis1 Lots of self righteous talk... In the end people like him eclipse thanks to their means other very talented artists and performers just like Mozart has placed so many excellent composers into the attic... Very sad. Media's fault indeed but it is helped along with financial resources. Wish humans were not such followers.

[@mariaalmeida189]

BRAVO BERNSTEIN: The pianist, the composer and maestro.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Me-lb8nd]

The part at and after 9:08 is so beautiful it makes me cry.

[@martingarve]

Goodness me, the wonderful sounds created in the 2nd half of this piece, only came across it on Classic fm, public requests, the other day.

[@vigwig]

The transition at 6.57 is perfection.

[@TaiMaiShu0k]

vigwig every other version I've heard of this, that's the part where most screw up. To call Lenny Bernstein a perfectionist would be an understatement.

[@philipboucherat113]

yes

[@Yohao88]

Feel the love!! I never listened to so much love!! Just look at how he repays the orchestra with just a few looks. I adore him.

[@williamrigby4898]

It can't be done any better. Perfection in pacing, it never fails to take me to a special place

[@camileludwig]

increible el manejo de las sonoridades en este movimiento por parte de bernstein, sensibilidad...me gusta mucho la version de argerich pero debo decir que Bernstein es un verdadero genio...mas encima dirige...notableee, mi ídolo

[@mimohernandezhernandez5499]

Busca la versión de Benedetti michalangeli ... Es sensacional y lejos la mejor

[@mariellegrant6248]

I juste cry and cry because I feel like in heaven!

[@scorchedgorse2649]

It's the piece that moves me in a way no words can convey adequately

[@samirafterone]

absolutely wonderful ! what a wonderful soul and complex mind of Ravel and a lot of emotions in in Bernstein's feelings and performance... Thank you for sharing this !

[@tia904]

It's the nature of the piece...

[@Firefox-yo4tt]

This piece takes me on a magic carpet ride through my childhood pure bliss and pure fear all rolled into one

[@padrenatas]

Esta es una de esas piezas que me dejan una hermosa sensación de intemporalidad. Sentmientos profundos y cotidianos. Bernstein era una persona que verdaderamente amaba la música y que sin duda me da motivos para amarla cada día más.

[@mimohernandezhernandez5499]

El conocía muy bien la vida de ravel por eso interpreta así su concierto .. leyó las cartas donde el comentaba como se debía interpretar el concierto

[@Luchino]

It's like that extra slow tempo Glenn Gould Brahm's First Piano concerto that he conducts and comments on....the one that is often replayed on radio. It's really sublime. Thank you for posting it.

[@tia904]

It's also too funny how they didn't get along at all.. They obviously admired one another's skills but one can sense the tension between them... Both strong personalities but very different approaches... G. Gould more non sense, straightforward, self effacing and LB with lots more frills, showmanship and PR.

[@somyod2u]

Leonard Bernstein must have been the last ever pianist/ conductor/composer - I can think of no-one else comparable.

[@Dionysosable]

THIS IS NOT TOO SLOW MAN. This is the correct tempo, and surtainly the most expressive version ever of this part!!!! No one darred to play it so slow and emotinal, cos that demand´s a darring that most musicians don´t have. You see Bernstein was the music itself as Christa Ludwig once said in an interview, and I agree a 100 %, and that shows here. He loves this piece og music. And that is the way it has to be, and regretingly not is the case most of the time. Unique music that is what this is.!!

[@tia904]

No one is questioning this, it is an Adagio... no news there.

[@irinairina6455]

Heavenly😢💔💘

[@mariaalmeida189]

I didn't knew Bernstein played piano. The love for this Ravel piece did that. ❤

[@chany16888]

For many years, I thought Bernstein belonged to the classic generation of musicians, I was ill-prepared or even want to secretly-admitted that he was one of the very best conductor and piano player of the time. With years passing, I truly believe now that he played the very best Ravel piece here, even compared with many of the best piano players there is now. I could not find a better interpretation and intensity of playing better than he did.

[@TobonDavid]

Simplemente sublime!

[@minasgekos]

when i watch great musicians that have reached a certain age, like Bernstein in this video or Horowitz playing a Bach choral and of course Kempf w/ the moonlight sonata, there's something heartbreaking and moving going on in me. I always think of them looking back to their lives, having accepted their fate, and awaiting for their time with serenity...

[@Cw5110]

Nobody like lenny peforms this song the best. You cant say that a mastero like him can peform and conduct a piano concerto. He even gives great face jestures while he performs. Im honestly gonna say i wish lenny was still living. I would love to perform under his leadership.

[@dennisdrud2078]

The best and most emotional version of this part of Ravels piano concerto. !! Bernstein was simply a master and a genius we will never see again !!

[@AndrewRudin]

Few people have understood so perfectly what Ravel was after in this astonishing adagio.

[@SusanaWdeE]

GORGEOUS! This is Heart/Soul playing...regardless of how much he payed...He touches Hearts...........

[@ortegasosthenesjr.3896]

incomparable genius....now I know what music is.

[@danielkaly-amusicaljournal4898]

The genius of Bernstein!!!!! No matter what he does or plays, he’s simply a genius.

[@emyrwyn604]

This has to be the highest form of human expression :)

[@SusanaWdeE]

Yes....Feel the LOVE that Master Lenny Pours into each individual who is listening, participating in his Art that it is all about LOVE.........Healing?Changing the Heart...DIVINE! if this is not Divine, what is? and for all those intellectual minds trying to find fault in the creations and doings of this Master, go and take a Deep Breath and Feel for once the Beauty and Delight of the conducting and playing of this master that was born to stay forever; HAPPY BORTHDAY MASTER LENNY!

[@doctorkozi]

My heart is melting.

[@colin_rose]

3:36- one of my favorite resolutions of all time

[@tonymiddlehurst8438]

Just exquisite, such emotion.

[@santiram2]

La belleza de la música nos hace humanos.

[@timhoffm]

first time seeing this...wow. no score...just him and ravel and the orchestra... breathtaking

[@joan.madrid]

Despues de haber escuchado este tema de nuevo sé que Ravel es mi compositor favorito.

[@mimohernandezhernandez5499]

Igual es mi compositor favorito, escucha el concierto para la mano izquierda es fascinante en especial la versión de una china o japonesa que es muy bella y excelente interprete

[@Odthean]

One of my all time favoritea

[@Dionysosable]

This Is the best version of Ravels Piano concerto ever! Here again Bernstein Chooses the right tempo. I love the emotinal Way he always choose in a slow performance. This Here is so Beautiful and felt. He was such an emence Personality , a very special Musician put Here to show how it could be done. I love this music. This version is just flawless. Thats Music. all pianists and conductors should listen to this masterful Version.

[@tia904]

It's the way it is supposed to be played... He didn't invent the tempo. Adagio, 60 beats, right? It's slow. He plays well but let's not attribute to him more than is due just because he got lots more public attention and opportunities than other very worthy musicians.

[@Chopin4321]

virile, tells a story, love it, you can feel the harmonies so much...chills....

[@jinseng072]

relax... everyone... and just listen to this wonderful interpretation of this movement... I love Bernstein's interp :)

[@ligayabarlow5077]

My fav. interp. of this. First heard on a friend's cassette in early '84. Mixes a sense of yen for belonging with a yearn for longing.

[@youngjoonyoon1559]

Thank you berstein. It was such a great luck to have this video for my first Ravel concerto 4-5 years ago. Respect your music

[@frani26]

Simplemente.... GENIAL !!!!! Esucharlo es tocar el Cielo.

[@jeffersoncaponigro1959]

Francisco Sevilla Talavera n

[@MillerMusicStudiosTV]

Beautiful.......

[@ikshields]

This is SO Bernstein! Ever try to EITHER conduct or play this particular piece? What's going on here is a technical tour-de-force from Lenny (not to mention from the highly-alert orchestra), even before you get to swoon at the beauty of it all. I think, with the conductor at the piano, the second movement suddenly becomes the most difficult. So much gauzy, floating time to hold together... the players staring into his eyes for every indication of what he wants... very very difficult. Bravo!

[@pierresinotte8447]

J'aime bien cette musique symphonique qui est relaxante et elle me rappelle des Grand Souvenir du passer

[@gigglegirlnoel]

I love this man. A lot.

[@ElEcodelTren]

what a masterpiece!!!!!!!!

[@miriamjoy2082]

Played this at my mums funeral when viewing her life photos....gorgeous

[@2Iryni]

oh god,this is so beautiful i can't even explain...

[@expantube]

What else after such a masterpiece ?? This is just impressive, and my big regret is that Ravel had such a short life. I wish he could have written much more pieces like that...

[@normanzurich2781]

Favoloso ❤❤❤

[@marcmatthys.pianist]

Lennie tells a story : breathtaking beautiful !

[@bernalrd]

It broke my heart!

[@GnagnoeGnagna]

La mia attenzione per la musica classica nacque tempo fa da qui. Ho inteso comprenderne superandomi con essa delle mie, sue intenzioni.

[@straycat316]

Just beautiful.

[@colin_rose]

revisiting this concerto (and this particular performance) again....nearly shed a tear...

[@camileludwig]

escuché algunas variadas versiones de este concierto, y creo que Bernstein es quien más escucha a la orquesta,creando un todo con el piano, es increíble, todo muy claro y compacto,una verdadera obra de arte! creo que Bernstein tiene más mérito aún al dirigir...sabe perfectamente lo que hace...y me retracto sobre el comentario que hice del minuto 6:58, en el que esperaba mayor protagonismo del CORNO inglés que el del piano, pero escuchando las demás versiones, es ésta la más fidedigna

[@Pimpoink000]

So beautiful!

[@roby130359]

sempre............meraviglioso!!!!!!

[@Cumul0Nimbus]

What an awesome performance for one of the best pieces of music.

[@danmessias]

4:33 marvellous dissonances

[@123clanger]

this is the standard that mortals are to be compared

[@bonitaclao]

this song is so beautifull. touches me

[@VegasNit]

Amazing! Ravel was so great..

[@susanaweingarten5396]

One word : Divine !

[@hymnofashes]

Holy shit this is amazing.

[@uttermercyless]

i have never heard anything more beautiful.

[@lanrev841]

Thank you so much Lenny! Finally, a true adagio tempo as it was meant.

[@k.lmoraaragon4936]

maravillosooooo!!!

[@Ricardogmail2]

Para entender la relevancia de la interpretación de Bernstein, habrá que leer la carta que Ravel escribió a Marguerite Long y que entregó junto con la partitura. Bernstein es el único que sigue las instrucciones de Ravel: "arrastra las notas del piano lo más que puedas, para que conjuguen algo muy parecido al canto de un ave"...

[@mimohernandezhernandez5499]

No sabia de la existencia de esa carta, donde la podre pillar.

[@Ricardogmail2]

@@mimohernandezhernandez5499 en el libro "The Concerto" por Michael Steinberg

[@fatcake19]

god this is spectacular...bernstein must know the score backwards and inside out...

[@MICHELMUSIK123]

Merci pour cette vidéo, j'y retrouve en plus mon maître et ami Guy Dangain clarinette solo.

[@JosephGlaser]

ahh... one of the most beautiful movements in all music

[@gio240179]

meraviglioso....bravissimo...

[@Strawbelissimo]

One who is able to perform while conducting at such level has the right to alter the tempo a bit! The music is so beautiful that the tempo doesn't matter that much any more.....

[@davisatdavis1]

Is no one gonna tall about that he's conducting the orchestra while playing this like a god

[@Selmarg]

Is there anything more achingly beautiful than this movement?

[@clockwork111orange]

This would be the soundtrack of my life!

[@jeanmichelpotel7344]

Un sublime adagio qui me fait penser à Mozart ,c est délicat, magnétique,d une beauté absolue , Bernstein y ajoute sa maestria,sublissime

[@katalinszatmari2469]

Mozart il me fait des démangésons, ils sont calculés, précis et pas de Surpriiise! On ne peut pas comparer avec Ravel!!!

[@ohyunkwon5008]

아름답다.