BRAVO! A pianist improvise in Classic Style, a rare jewel to the today's imprivusayion style. A second enlightenment for me
@akanecortich81976 жыл бұрын
we need more Alma Deutschers
@ml-ei3nz4 жыл бұрын
Claudia Monteiro, Ottavio Dantone, Nina Simone
@hoodroberts11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing! What talent! I first saw Robert Levin many years ago play the Mozart Piano Concerto 22 with the Boston Symphony when he substituted for an indisposed Murray Perahia. The piano does not play for the first 70 or so bars and I almost fell out of my chair when Professor Levin started playing piano continuo from the very beginning.
@patriciayeiser64054 жыл бұрын
Mozart would have conducted from the piano and would not have sat idly whilst waiting for the piano part to join the orchestra. He would have played right along.
@patriciayeiser6405 Жыл бұрын
Mozart, conducting from the piano, wouldn't have just sat and waited for the orchestra's entry . This is 18th century practice.
@italnsd9 ай бұрын
@@patriciayeiser6405I really doubt anyone would dare to do that today during a Mozart concerto in a stuffy environment as a symphony hall. My bet is that, even if one were to be Mozart reincarnated, one would be instantly looking for a new profession in the least possibly related field lol
@patriciayeiser64053 ай бұрын
That is what Mozart would have done, conducting from the fortepiano.
@Melchiorblade79 жыл бұрын
So he basically knows everything of Mozart's by memory!??!! Whaaat
@saltag8 жыл бұрын
Levin's brain is a library!
@patriciayeiser64054 жыл бұрын
He is wired differently than other pianists. And is a whiz at theory and composition.
@TehKaiser7 ай бұрын
Levin might have some intellectual merit, but his musical sense is utterly nonexistent.
@galek757 ай бұрын
@@TehKaiserits okay not every inprovisation has to be a gem 😂
@TehKaiser7 ай бұрын
@galek75 He thinks the so-called 7th violin concerto is Mozart when it is clearly a third rate unknown composer. He has no skill in composition; his attempt to embellish the 20th piano concerto is a mess. He is only useful for the academic points he makes.
@pavet6aj11 жыл бұрын
This was a wonderful night. Thank you, Robert and Faculty of Music!
@benjaminteaguemusic423511 жыл бұрын
Absolutely excellent!
@longhaulblue4 жыл бұрын
This is so exciting. To see and hear music being made.Not just notes but ideas.
@emfox62804 жыл бұрын
lol. jazz.
@ignacioclerici5341 Жыл бұрын
@@emfox6280 or classical music played by the composers. Sadly all the great composers are dead, but now we have Alma Deutscher!!!! The closest thing we'll get to a new Mozart, in the sense of genius and that she is a classical composer. Not that she imitates Mozart or anything like that.
@johnkiunke56179 жыл бұрын
Possibly the greatest musician alive.
@FoivosApostolou10 жыл бұрын
phenomenal!
@antonylikallio40215 жыл бұрын
Superb
@oscarbasza5 жыл бұрын
This was great and super helpful when I had to improvise some Mozart on my performance :)
@GaryNoland4 жыл бұрын
Excellent, Robert! Bravo!
@epictacowizard57786 жыл бұрын
Play Salieri
6 жыл бұрын
Now *that's!* a challenge
@angelaquino37305 жыл бұрын
lol
@mozartwon24105 жыл бұрын
LOL
@Ludwig16254 жыл бұрын
No you gotta say it in a really monotone voice!
@tunesmusic89293 жыл бұрын
Great stuff
@onaypetrof8 жыл бұрын
Genius !!
@olipippocinque11 жыл бұрын
Tres tres beau !
@lunar.60914 жыл бұрын
He is an inspiration
@etienneleuridan35472 жыл бұрын
Absolument convaincant ! Bravo . . .
@emanuel_soundtrack6 жыл бұрын
The most amazing caricature of someone i know.
@pjbpiano Жыл бұрын
Who?
@mrknesiah Жыл бұрын
Wow!
@randobravo43355 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Improvising on keyboard is exhilarating as shown here , Whether it be an electronic keyboard or a forte piano , improv is the best !
@patriciayeiser64053 ай бұрын
An electric keyboard is not a musical instrument.
@Silverlin21211 жыл бұрын
Fucking bravo!
@matecsenki29388 ай бұрын
That Is What I wanted..!
@giuseppedemaglie5 жыл бұрын
2:28 starts to play
@Cubanbearnyc4 жыл бұрын
...beyond words
@kingjensen80915 жыл бұрын
I greatly encourage anybody watching this to listen to the rest of the lecture: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZyplXSfnM-ggqM Probably the among the greatest musical lectures on this era that I've heard, on par with Andras Schff's Beethoven lectures. He's a wonderful speaker and an even better musician!
@marcoscorsolini88038 жыл бұрын
there must be a transcription somewhere...
@rogerlegends1663 жыл бұрын
Play Freebird
@josephlee79153 жыл бұрын
MAPEH MUSIC BRINGS ME HERE.. GRADES 9??????
@yakinthebox Жыл бұрын
Sounds like combination of mozart and beethoven
@pjbpiano Жыл бұрын
I’m beginning to think that people do not understand what improvisation is first of all and secondly, they actually do not understand the fundamental elements of what makes Mozart music sound the way it does. Such emphatic statements about these things that do not align with that is being played is quite baffling. I am very certain that is Mozart himself resurrected and came to a piano to improvise, there will be people here saying that Mozart does not sound like himself based on what they heard from sonatas he wrote.
@FrostDirt Жыл бұрын
This is a view I hold myself.
@FrostDirt Жыл бұрын
More broadly, I hold the view that "Such and such does not sound like [composer]" or "Do not tamper with [composer]'s music!" is a ridiculous statement.
@pjbpiano Жыл бұрын
@@FrostDirt I also agree with that. The composers of old themselves were known to have changed their compositions several times and tweaked them because they felt the pieces were not completely done or they simply got a better idea to replace it. But today, people treat these works like they are sacred texts. Change a note and burn in hell. 😂
@pneron20322 жыл бұрын
The improvisation itself is more Beethoven than Mozart. The structure in Mozart is always apparent; he isn't as "searching" as Beethoven. Very interesting though.
@MrLJeffery2 жыл бұрын
While I’m no expert I actually agree with you - the middle section especially seemed so reminiscent of Beethoven. Thinking 3:30-4:30.
@patriciayeiser64052 жыл бұрын
He can improvise Beethoven cadenzas as well. He is wired differently than most pianists.
@carolaenkelfrau70563 жыл бұрын
Play Liszt!
@mercedes9322 жыл бұрын
The title alone made me burst out laughing. This guy would make a great comedian!
@zvonimirtosic61713 жыл бұрын
This fantasie improvisation has more likeness to the piano music of Romanticism (Chopin) than of Mozart, but that's fine..
@nickn27943 жыл бұрын
Because Mozart apparently improvised "Chopin-like" cadenzas. Mozart's piano compositions like Fantasy in D minor (which could be an improvisation written down) were very influential for Chopin. Mozart was his favourite.
@ignacioclerici5341 Жыл бұрын
No, completely wrong. This improv sounds exactly like Mozart, in fact levin was playing Mozarts melodies, if you saw the video you would know. The techniques are pure classicism, all the techniques that Mozart used, in his sonatas, fantasies, preludes and fugues, variations, etc, other piano pieces. There's nothing here that is like romantic period piano music.
@zvonimirtosic6171 Жыл бұрын
@@ignacioclerici5341 No, it doesn't. But as I said above, it's fine. He is playing as Mozart would "at his 67 years of age". The Romanticist piano repertoire and its vocabulary is always more admired in the pompous western countries than the Classical repertoire and the vocabulary, because the Romanticism seems to be more "virtuosic" and extravagant. It is just heavy bias that those pianist's ears have. And their deaf audiences.
@audreywang30659 ай бұрын
@@zvonimirtosic6171Apparently you believe that you have better ears, knowledge and understanding than prof Levin.
@zvonimirtosic61719 ай бұрын
@@audreywang3065 Yes, I do. I can tell Classical improvisations from Romanticist improvisations.
@majormackenzie8344 жыл бұрын
Well . Too many notes
@balthasardenner52164 жыл бұрын
Cut a few and it will be perfect
@majormackenzie8344 жыл бұрын
BalthasarDenner “too many notes” means this is so Mozart , watch movie Amadeus
@balthasardenner52164 жыл бұрын
@@majormackenzie834 I literally replied with a quote from the Emporer from the movie Amadeus from the same scene you were quoting. Wow. You're special aren't you?
@majormackenzie8344 жыл бұрын
BalthasarDenner a, right. Hahah
@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy3 жыл бұрын
@@majormackenzie834 dumbass haha
@violinbuff3782 Жыл бұрын
So impressive with much feeling and great understanding of music! Eric Shumsky
@karenistalking57746 жыл бұрын
He knows a lot of chords and cadences by Mozart but, it doesn't sound like Mozart style, more like a hodgepodge of things.
@benjaminturk80304 жыл бұрын
First of all, it's an improvisation. Spending a year and trying to compose a piece like Mozart would already be incredibly difficult. He's doing it in real time while playing the right notes... Second, it was titled at the beginning of the video as a "Free Fantasy". It's not supposed to be a sonata or other fully structured work. It's something like a stand-alone cadenza.
@patriciayeiser64054 жыл бұрын
How do you define the "Mozart style," then? .
@karenistalking57744 жыл бұрын
Every composition piece in music literature has a form upon which to build on, bar none. Even in improvisation, there should be a form to follow. "Free fantasy" is an easy cop-out. How many compositions did Mozart compose as a free fantasy? None. Well, just one insignificant fantasia piece. I can tell from hearing Robert Levin that, besides his poor pianism (lack of technique), his improvisations are a hodgepodge of disconnect motifs but lacking in any Mozart logic or personality. He is not doing any long storytelling which is what Mozart is about, but just thrusting upon listeners common harmonic progressions and typical cadences, which, while important, are not the only things in a Mozart line of thought. Levin's multiple chord changes are quite abrupt, which disturbs the train of thought. A climax cannot be felt unless there is a development towards it. When one listens to a lot of Mozart, one gets acquainted with his compositional personality. Levin took a simple Mozart sonata and embellished it with incongruent sophisticated chord changes. It sounded like symphonic chord changes put into a simple sonata and it didn't make sense. Some of the chord changes didn't even sound typical Mozart. Also, his lack of piano technique didn't help.
@wilhelmbeck84984 жыл бұрын
So how do you think it would have sounded like, when Wolfgang was doing his daily warm-ups and entertainment-impros ? When a composition is constructed - the musician spends hours testing/trying all sorts of variations for the parts/sections - picking out those most suited to their vision/imagination. If Levin was asked to do a composition on the same premises (as in this video) within a week, a month or a year - he would probably create some very different - but all beautyfull pieces - Peace
@wilhelmbeck84984 жыл бұрын
@@patriciayeiser6405 / Rather complex....There's some software out there, which can do a somewhat semi-complete synthesis of how composers do/did their work. Musicians like Robert Levin and others are "simply" encouraging a dynamic-creative spirit/ revival in the classic domain. Being a complete musician, requires more than "just" reading notes. Fx. in the Indian tradition, every musician is a composer in their own right - as improvisation/imagination is encouraged from the start, when sound-production-tone/voice is being developed.
@wolfgangpowers7364 жыл бұрын
Doesn't sound like Mozart at all, perhaps in some parts, but good improvisation
@vorell39693 жыл бұрын
Sounds more like a fantasia -and this is the goal- wich is clearly different than mozart's compositionnal style, but yes copying mozart is such a challenge in my opinion
@nickn27943 жыл бұрын
It sounds similar to his fantasias which are probably improvisations written down.
@KeenBulldozer15 күн бұрын
Boring. Using Mozart-like superficialities and nothing more. It's like listening to AI-generated Mozart. In fact, I think I would prefer that.
@ProdigyImprovisation7 жыл бұрын
Levin's depth of improvisational development is more like Salieri trying to play like Mozart, not by talent as good as Mozart obviously! Those genius reaches of depth are only available for someone who is a genius, like Mozart himself! Clearly Levin is not a genius, but a good enthusiast & teacher! That's all.
@samilmansur6 жыл бұрын
ProdigyImprovisation Well, what do we got here? Someone watched Amadeus apparently.
@ProdigyImprovisation6 жыл бұрын
Mansur Şamil Güngör Not about Amadeus, it’s just an example to prove my point!
@samilmansur6 жыл бұрын
ProdigyImprovisation Sure sure, whatever. You seen Amadeus though, right?
@ProdigyImprovisation6 жыл бұрын
Mansur Şamil Güngör Last time I remember watching that film was about 5 years ago. Like I said it has nothing to do with the film, if you’re smart enough you would’ve already known that I’m just using that as an example to prove my point of how Robert Levin improvises in The style of Mozart
@brianbernstein38266 жыл бұрын
this guy never once said he was as great as Mozart or even implied it. you may as well find some painters on youtube showcasing the style of Michalengeo and tell them they're not as good as Michelangelo. yes, thank you so much for pointing out something incredibly obvious, just to knock the guy. absolutely no one who read your comment could tell that was your intent, there was no transparency there at all.
@michaeltheophilus52603 жыл бұрын
I appreciate Robert Levin's abilities but it seems they are wasted on Mozart because his music is no more than emotionally ambiguous porcelain decoration. It is the embodiment of being staid and unable to understand man and the world
@patriciayeiser64052 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about?
@matthewwhitehouse3012 жыл бұрын
I couldn’t agree less. I always failed to understand why people have this depiction of Mozart as being avoid of ‘true’ emotion. Mozart encompasses the ying and yang, the grit and grind and the grief and rejoice of the human experience while maintaining perplexing beauty and musical architecture. To improvise in such a style as Mozart (and done perfectly) is something that takes years of training and dedication to even come close to. To say that ‘it is wasted’ is edging on a bit ridiculous.
@jeromewesselman46532 жыл бұрын
Well now. Let's recall the study that compared Salieri with lesser-known Mozart themes. Most respondents preferred Salieri's music AND thought the Salieri themes were composed by Mozart! Mozart had a system, and as a consequence was more prolific. Electricians, scrap collectors, indeed every effective industrialist, all do likewise
@ignacioclerici5341 Жыл бұрын
Friend, no offense, but you have no idea of music. Classical music is not your thing, it seems. Usually people from the middle east don't understand it very well, you should stick to pop music.