Mendelssohn's Stunning Fantasy in F# Minor: Anton Kuerti's Thrilling Performance
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Welcome to this captivating music video showcasing Anton Kuerti's performance of Mendelssohn's "Fantasy in F# minor" for piano and score. Get ready for a mesmerizing musical journey! The Classical period, spanning from the mid-18th to early 19th century, was a time of elegance and refinement in music. Mendelssohn, a prominent composer of the Romantic era, had a profound appreciation for Classical traditions and incorporated them into his compositions.
Mendelssohn's "Fantasy in F# minor" is a brilliant representation of his lyrical and expressive style. The piece demands technical finesse, with its intricate melodic lines, rapid scale passages, and challenging hand coordination.
In this video, the renowned pianist Anton Kuerti brings this masterpiece to life with his exceptional skill and nuanced interpretation. Anton Kuerti is not only a brilliant pianist but also a respected composer and conductor.
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I feel like I'm learning how to read music all over again. Thank you for this! :)
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@@lowlightpiano7110what does your comment have anything to do with Mendelsohns piano Fantasy?
Pray tell, we are waiting with bated breath!
I had quite the intimate experience with Anton Kuerti when he came to Ottawa in 1998 or 1999 to perform in the Chamber Festival. I happened to be a “stage manager” volunteer whose #1 job was to take care of Mr. Kuerti - ya right! Anyhow we had a deep chat about the Beethoven Opus 7 sonata. Later he found me purchasing his box set of all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas. He said “anyone who knows the music as well as you do shouldn’t have to pay!” So he gave me the box set!! Even today I still feel I’m learning more every day about music. I’ll never forget that day.
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Stunning performance. Mendelssohn is an underrated composer for the piano.
He's rated in the highest. Just the piano works sound like sentimental schlock if not played in thr best way so he isn't programmed much . The symphonies,the 3 concerti sometrios.Those who kno know he is of the highest caliber. Richter in the Variation os da rum! Da bomb da crack.
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I played for Anton Kuerti once upon a time. Oddly enough, it was another "fantasy," the Fantasy in C minor by Mozart. I don't think he was too impressed, but I was only eighteen, I think. He had come to my college to give a recital, which included a scorching performance of the Liszt Sonata. It's really sad what happened to him a few years ago, especially when I remember him as a brilliant and vital man.
That must have been a great experience to play for him!
Well, judging by the fact that he said he didn’t think he was too impressed, it doesn’t sound like it was a great experience. Snooty musicians like that are annoying and unhelpful.
@@joeyblogsy I wouldn't say he was snooty, at all.
What happened to Kuerti a few years ago?
(Don't feel bad about his not being impressed by you. I have a friend who had a similar experience with him and he didn't seem impressed by Yuja Wang when he once gave her a master class. Maybe that's just his demeanour.)
Kuerti used to be obsessed with the weight of each key in the piano. He used to bring his own weights. A true master, but not necessarily a good teacher.
2:33 the harmonic progression from here on is stunning
Adds in the middle of a piece like this! How RIDICULOUS!
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Unforgivable.
Im a young pianist only 14 and i got this piece because i finished 5 grades of piano last year and now im in cycle spécial in france but i dont have to much time to study and looking at THISSS masterpiece i dont know how im going to finish this 😢😢😢
Take your time! You've got a whole lifetime to work up to this :) Let your teacher(s) know it's something you're thinking about, but seriously do not trouble yourself that this is a struggle - those fast sections are monumentally difficult.
Yooo bro i am doing the same were you at crr de paris
Just do it, you may not succeed today, but you gain a very important lesson. That you take it and let it ripen and in future you revisit the compasition you'll have the experience from years prior helping you.
Today's failure is the prelude for future endeavor.
Lord, RUclips interrupts this miraculous piece with advertising commercials. How ignorant and disrespectful.
I think fantasy is the right term for this piece. Beautiful. And nicely interpreted.
I am not remotely musical. But am always extremely impressed how pianists make these very complex loking sheets of music and turn them into sherr magic!!
It’s hard work and discipline. You can achieve it too!
This is so romantic celestial music of deep effect in my soul.
The title enticed me, and the music did not disappoint. Kuerti delivered an absolutely sensational performance of an incredibly well-written piece. Thank you for sharing this! God bless you and have a great day.
I am glad you enjoyed it!
13:14 Wow, what an explosive ending! I'm somewhat reminded of the ending to Chopin's b-minor scherzo.
Mendelsohn's "Fingal's Cave" orchestral tone poem was one of the first classical pieces I ever heard and one I still absolutely love -would love to visit that incredible granite columned sea cave off the coast of Scotland with that music in my ears.
Possibly the finest piece of descriptive music ever written. Very evocative of the Scottish atmosphere written by a German Jew.
@@leonardgibney2997 I am glad you love the orchestral poem as much as I do - it haunts me so much. It was the first piece of classical music to really grab me from the first time I heard it and I never tire of it - I even attempted an abstract kind of painting inspired by it. But the Italian symphony is wonderful too with its use of vigorous Italian folk dances like the saltarello.Although Mendelsohn was Jewish the family had converted to Christianity so his religious works are fine too especially the German language oratorio "Paulus" -the choruses are sublime and then there is the old warhorse "Hark the herald angels sing!" Mendelsohn died young (about 40) just imagine what he may have written had he lived to a ripe old age!
Ah. So true. However, the Devil's Causeway is formed of columnar basalt, and is not of plutonic origin. =>)
@@DCM8828 I meant to write "basalt!" - so effectively Fingal's Cave is an extension of the Devil's Causeway which is in northern Ireland?
As someone who's heard thousands upon thousands of compositions for the solo piano, this one seems to strike an almost unearthly feeling with the audience. The structure and tonality are so simple yet so genius, it's almost like a metaphor for what nature is. Truly a remarkable piece with the apt title of a Fantasy. Kuerti most certainly played this piece with grace and beauty, I'd stretch as far to say even Gould couldn't make a better interpretation than this.
@Gary Allen Well you mention beethoven but what about his contemporary pupil Johann Hummel? His works, including his Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor, S. 4, show a bridge between the Classical and Romantic periods, and it's truly quite a remarkable and underrated piece.
@Gary Allen Did Mendelsaohn actually start working on a piano arrangement of this concerto?
@itsshrimp91. Right...but i don't think Gould even considered performing this piece. Or any of Mendelssohn's works. ' Though he could have handled it easily. Mendelssohn's piano works prove difficulties most pianist shy away from. Perhaps it is his affinity for writing in sharp keys. Except for his two concerti. And the sonata in E minor. Which mirrors Beethoven's sonata. It is hard to play this guy. His writing is totally different from any of the other composers of his time, unique in style. He was a brilliant pianist.
The sonata is in E Major. ' just couldn't wrap my head around ' E ' as opposed to ' e ' minor.
@@arthurhogan3047 I mean I'm not trying to discredit Gould as he's an absolute master musician and pianist, but it's just that this pianist can play at such a level I'd say he surpasses masterful interpretation.
Wow, that Presto sounds like something Alkan would write!
Это шедевр! Люблю.Мендельсона ❤
Hearing this for the first time, it made me think of Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony (#3).
this piece needs more attention....
Yeah, I also played it. It‘s quite difficult, but it’s also very giving.
@@oskarsennert4075 there's mine: ruclips.net/video/uLrxH0Gv7XY/видео.html
@Gary Allen yeah, and of course e.g. in Germany, he got forbidden because of the nazis (somehow ironic because he changed his religion and got a christ) and one of my teachers always said: „if he didn‘t got forbidden, he would be as famous as Beethoven.“
@@oskarsennert4075 I call bs on that. Composers who had only had about 10 or 20 years to establish themselves in the classical world suffered greatly from the Nazi ban. Franz Schreker's music still hasn't quite recovered from it.
But Mendelssohn had 90 years in the repertoire before the Nazis came into power. No one forgot him. People just moved on to more interesting composers.
Bravo! Wonderful rendition, superb dynamics and such speed and agility. Immortal. Wishing Anton a full recovery. Cheers - Dave
Esto y el concierto en Gm de lo más re chimba de Mendelssohn
Viva Mendelssohn 🎉🎉
Eso mismo dijo Consuelito Velazquez
Wow, I didn't know that composition by Mendelssohn yet (it's wonderful to be able to constantly learn about something new in the realm of classical music, even as a professional!). I have to say, this is a remarkable piece of music. As always with Mendelssohn, it doesn't look very complex on the paper, but it's so rich in texture and structure and cross-connections and reference and consequence and instrumental technique. The form is intriguing and unique and so organic, but so difficult and hard to master--and master it he did, Mr. Anton Kuerti! It's astonishing how he managed to combine virtuosity and clarity. The tempo of the 6/8 is breathtaking, but you hear every note, and he is still able to add every nuance of phrasing and articulation. He knows the score, he has really studied it in depth and doesn't just deliver the right notes, but knows how to interpret them with purpose and respect for the composer's will and intend. I'm a fan! Bravo!
By the way: I wonder what Wim Winter's approach to this Fantasy would sound like ... It would perhaps be a solemn Adagio even with the ending part. To be honest: Anton Kuerti clearly shows that it's possible to play fast and articulate at the same time and that there is a musical meaning and a very distinct affect and character in haunted, breathless and fast music that would be missing hurtingly if Wim Winter's double beat theory were true and fast music wouldn't exist.
What a workout for the fingers! Wow.
I can almost hear the recital audience shifting in their seats at 5:36
🤔
That final movement sounds like Alkan.
PS: the runs starting at 10:31 are just immaculate
Never thought of that before, but you're absolutely right! Alkansohn
I was thinking the same; and then it hit me - it sounds like Op. 39 No. 3, "Scherzo diabolico".
yeah but mendelssohn has form, which alkan does not
@Gary Allen what?
Bravo!!
Thanks for introducing me to a bunch of new works
Yes, glad you appreciate it! Thank you.
I found this work more relaxing to perform compare to the Rondo a Capriccio op 14 composed when Mendelssohn was only 15 years old.
Splendid.
Personally I'm all about the Serious Variations in d minor---which encapsulate all the beauty Mendelssohn has on display.
Here they are! ruclips.net/video/ZIITKhGqrzE/видео.html
Amazing ❤
Just amazing 💜
5:52 - I generally love Mendelssohn but much of this piece has this aimless ‘virtuosity’ of 32nd note arpeggios and broken triads that remind me of a gr 8 conservatory exam. I’m hoping Felix himself - the prodigious genius that he was - was able to wince slightly over this thematically weak piece - as much as he may have swelled with pride over his Em violin concerto. All praise to the performer - less to the performed.
Anton Kuerti is one of the greatest pianists I've ever heard, and I've heard most of the great ones of the late 20th century. I'd urge anyone interested to check his website and get his live video of a discussion then live performance of the Beethoven Diabelli Variations. I heard him do the same thing live in concert at St. Mark's in Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario, Canada about 20 years ago. It was the greatest Diabelli Variations I've ever heard, whether live or on record. I also took a long 3-hour lesson with him in 2001 on the first program of a Beethoven Sonata cycle I did in Syracuse, NY from 2001-2003. He was magnificent and his understanding of Beethoven is comprehensive. He's also a wonderfully generous man and very warm hearted. I learned 20 lessons-worth in that 3 hours. I've heard him probably 15 times in recitals and concertos (Schumann Concerto, Beethoven Third Concerto both with Toronto Symphony; Beethoven Emperor with Syracuse Symphony), and chamber music. A truly great musician and wonderful man. His all-Schumann recital at Koerner Hall in Toronto about 15 years ago provided one of my greatest musical memories. A Fantaisie for the ages! And the first time I ever felt the story of the First Sonata made perfect sense. And a Toccata that remains unmatched in live performances I've ever heard.
Thanks very much for sharing this suggestion, I visited his site www.antonkuerti.com/achievements/. I think this is the page with lecture/discussion on the Beethoven Variations that you refer to. I am definitely going to watch the whole video!
Lol. The great pianists of the late 20th century.
Stunning!
Очень тонко здорово
*WOW!*
I listened to the whole thing thinking it was by Schumann! lol! Thought it sounded awfully Beethovian....
*MENDELSSOHN?!*
5:37 allegro con moto
7:51 presto
I enjoyed a lot.❤
Stunning performance ❤😂❤
it´s interesting how close this is to a chopin ballade
Brilliant, live feel to a piece Felix M. probably wrote because he had nothing better to do, when he might probably have waited for more inspiring melodies, such as he found in Midsummer Nights Dream.
bravo.
nice
Wow.
Fantastic artist, and Kuerti's Beethoven defines the sound one should produce when playing Beethoven. Definatve.
So many references to Beethoven's Moonlight!
Mendelssohn was a 'Beethovenian' at heart.
Conception - especially the relation between the 2nd and the 3rd part. And references to the "Hammerklaviersonate": 5:00 is nearly an exact copy of the last bars oft its adagio (from bar 177 on).
The video description mischaracterized the Romantic period as the Classical period. Also the performer uses a lot more rubato than seems fitting.
I hate the ads on this video
Sorry about that, unfortunately I have no influence on that, as it is not me monetizing this video but RUclips and the copyright owner of the music. I hope you can still enjoy the music part :-)
Where "Fantasys" frequently improvised back then or am I just thinking about a particular piece? What is the history of fantasy?" Have you heard some of Fernando Sol fantasy
Why does the intro slightly remind me of the Arpeggione (by Schubert)?
0:25 never gonna give you up
Never thought I’d get rickrolled by Mendelssohn
is it just me or is this recording like a half step up from the key signature?
12:43
how dare you put that many ads in the middle of the video!
Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it! RUclips decides on when/where/how many adds to place and shares the income from adds with the copyright owner of the music (who is not me :-) ). I hope you still enjoy the video!
I bit the bullet and pay RUclips ~$15 to eliminate ads. Worth every penny.
0:44 Mendelssohn rick rolling us
Came to the comments to see if anyone else heard it😅
Very painful for me to read the score and listen the performance at the same time in this video , the pitch in this video doesn’t match to the score as shown , it’s G minor to me not F sharp minor
Thanks for the ads at 4:30!
Tanta roba, tecnicamente molto più difficile della fantasia di Mozart....
"Tecnicamente molto più difficile della fantasia di Mozart" - questo è ovvio!!
In musica classica nulla è ovvio!!
i hope whoever puts adds in clasical music videos gets in hell
Makes-One 'Appreciate' MOZART So-Much 'More'!!!??? >(*U^)< *Wink*
Goes on a bit.
un jeu beacoup trop détaché! sur la partition il y a des liaisons! c'est tres laid...
yo, first of all why the ad break 20 seconds into perfomane, and second, why sell this music, that you have no right to? You already make money off of other peoples perfomances by uploading them, is that not enough?
Hi, thanks for sharing your concerns. Just to let you know that I don't get any money from these adds! This is copyrighted material but the owner of the music allows it to be used in RUclips Videos. The add revenue will automatically go to the copyright owner, not to me. And I have no option to turn off the adds, so I have zero control over the adds in this video.
The music is nice, great interpreter. But to me Chopin is far superior. Maybe it is a matter of musical taste, I'm not sure, but I'm inclined to think that as a greater pianist than Mendelssohn, Chopin knew the instrument and its possibilities better. Of course, when it comes to orchestral music, the roles are reversed.
Chopin wrote mainly for solo piano and no piece of his is without the piano included. He knew the piano intimately I guess you can say. His Fantasy in F minor is a masterpiece but Mendelssohn was still brilliant and a much better orchestrator than Chopin as you said.
mendelsshon was regarded as one of the greatest pianists of his day. He could play a composition by ear hearing it only once. His musical memory was unmatched by anyone. Chopin may have been his equal, not his superior.
Why all this rubato?
So we here the godlySchumann Fantasy,the Chopin Fantasie and not this. O would crawl threw a sewer to hear Schumanns 3 sections. This Mendelssohn fantasia never gets played. And that is as it should be.
Fantasy = Gedudel in German
I know why this composition is hardly played: problems w/ the composition.
booo
Poor Mendelssohn
boring
A normal human being cannot play this, this must be an AI 😅😅
Far from stunning. As romantic as a sponge.
Damn. So spongebob is a rizz god now or something?
Clearly you haven't taken a bubble bath with a sponge.
I have really tried hard with Mendelssohn, and I mean REALLY tried but I just cannot like his music. It just seems to contrived and academically contrived at that. No offence to Mendelssohn lovers. Perhaps someone can explain his music to me? I just do not get it at all.
For me it just does not have the same substance of say Wagner, Liszt, Beethoven, Schumann, Sterndale Bennett etc... Am I missing something?
If you don't like "Fingal's Cave" or the incidental music to Shakespeare's "Midsummer night's dream" with its incredible "Nocturne" or the universally loved "Wedding March" then there is no hope for you -your musical sensibility is seriously flawed. "Fingal's Cave" was probably the first classical piece I heard as a teenager and one that struck me instantly - how can you not like how atmospheric that piece is especially with that totally haunting clarinet solo that comes in halfway through and that sense of the ocean waves crashing into that sea cave. The piece is miraculous AND ONE OF THE GREATEST PIECES OF MUSIC OF ALL TIME. I also love the Italian symphony/ the Scottish symphony and the Hymn of Praise (The one to commemorate the invention of the printing press) -someone has said of the choral finale that hearing it was looking into the eyes of a Raphael madonna -and seeing there all of heaven. No wonder Mendelsohn was a favorite of queen Victoria and Albert who wrote songs in the Mendelsohn style. Mendelsohn often stayed in Buckingham palace when in London to conduct his famous oratorios like "Elijah." -another masterpiece.
Well...I am no expert but I'd say, from those you prefer, you like more..."virtuosistic" compositions, those which truly push the limits of the instrument...Schumann actually has some points in common with Mendelssohn, especially in his early pieces (Blumenstück...but also the Kinderszenen...). Mendelssohn tends to prioritize melody over anything else...much like Sschubert but in a more straight-forward way...I 'd say you either like that and get carried or don't and could feel something's misssing...
This piece though...I agree it's probably not one of Mendelssohn's best. Have you tried listening to his Sonata op. 105? I love it...but then, I favor Schubert over Liszt...
@@kaloarepo288ralph phillips.... Stop daydreaming! This cartoon had fingles cave as the music and I remember hearing it as a child and has always loved it since!
The pace is not maintained.
In the finale, fussiness and fuzzy rhythm. Dislike.
You are a damn hater
Sadly, I really do not rate this piece. It takes almost 14 mins to say almost nothing: it's a lot of fleering-about to no purpose! I wouldn't want to hear another work by Mendelssohn based on this.
Mendelssohn is one of the most overrated composers. His melodies are mostly lame and lacking creativities. He is mostly two or three trick pony. The only thing that saves him as a legit composer is perhaps his violin concerto, the Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, and maybe his piano trio, and that’s about it. All the other pieces are just lame as a brick.
U said your opinion, now sit down.
@@majdabdulaziz714 lol, no I don’t want to…I’m gonna stand up
@@PP-wp2bx There are lots who appreciate Mendelssohn's art, so if you are gonna just criticize him without any respect then no one needs to hear your complaining about it, have respect for others
@@majdabdulaziz714 no one told you to read my comment. This is RUclips, a platform for everyone to leave their opinions and comments freely. So if you don’t like my comment, then just scram. You have no right to tell me what to do. If you like some of Mendelssohn’s lame melodies, then go ahead and just enjoy.
@@PP-wp2bxI would like to see some of your pieces, sir.
„Stunning“? „Thrilling“? More fitting would be noisy and mediocre, and it would be of advantage to accept the score rather than to impovise in an amateurish way.
For me this is such a boring and empty piece of music.... Never understood why its played and loved by so many...
Methinks Felix must have had a wonderful promoter.
I can‘t understand you. I‘ve played this piece and already the structure is brilliant, and than the harmonies…
Some classical listeners prefer the works of mid to late romantic era composers, ones who followed their predecessors rather conventional approaches with vibrant new elements and harmonic textures.
@Gary Allen I agree
@garyallen8824 You mean Beethoven and Schubert? I must have misread.
Interesting composition! But played way too fast, too shallow. Sorry. With such a brilliant technique I ask for more depth, more countenance.
The phrasing was just incompetent.
A great show-off piece for ability/skill but the music...nope.
Meh. Only the glissandos impress me. The rest of the performance and composition do not. That is until the second scherzo. Then it become pretty good.
Must be an early work to be so banal…
Too many unresolved influences in his work. And his talent is thin.