Is there anything Mr Hough is incapable of transforming from the often hackneyed into an exciting, enlightening and gripping occasion. His double trills are scary, the passagework powerful and truly Brahmsian and revelatory. His ensemble with the other protagonists is truly that of a chamber musician but the piano truly holds its own. Memorable performance!
Great performance - It's the first I'm hearing this orchestra and it is impressive. Stephen Hough is a great pianist and a fine writer. I am currently reading his book "Rough Ideas" and it is so interesting to read his thoughts on all things music and performing. I love this concerto and this performance was wonderful.
Stephen Hough is the most over-rated pianist Ever!.The British critic writers (.no.talent low.IQ points Stupid). claiming that Hough.is The Best Rachmaninov piano concertos player Ever!.The.british crtiv writers Hough is the Best Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2 player Ever!. The British press telling big.lies of course because The no.talent low IQ points critic writers loves The second-rated players and their.trash Bad Art of course!! The most awful probanda brainwash trash crazy Norman Lebrecht! Norman Lebrecht wrote.how about.The Titan of The piano The Giant of The piano Grigory Sokolov his family roots?.Who were Sokolov grandmother? How about Sokolov his Wife?.The right good pure clean people.would Had Said and wrote! GO AND LISTEN GRIGORY SOKOLOV HIS.BRAHMS PIANO CONCERTO NO 2!. CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTO NO 2! After. Sokolov played These concertos then All The others pianists Are only The DUST ZEROS!!!!!!
Stephen Hough is a real artist: he is a painter and a writer, as you said, which is a great advantage already. Plus he plays with beautiful touch. His playing is always full of ideas and inspiration. I think he also became a great pianist thanks to his knowledge of other arts, as I said the painting and the writing, and composition too! This makes him a great pianist and an exquisite human being.
The cellist in the third movement is Sigurgeir Agnarsson. Mister Agnarsson has been with the orchestra for most of his professional career. He is in demand as a soloist, and he performs with chamber groups in Iceland.] The oboist is Julia Hantschel, who has been a member of various orchestras before coming to Iceland, and who also is in demand as a soloist.
As I studied the orchestral score at A-Level back in the day, it has forever been a part of me and therefore I can really appreciate the work that Stephen Hough has put into this fine performance. The technique is right on point and I love the way Stephen connects with this music, with both delicacy and vigour. 😄
Yes, it,s a joy to hear Mr. Hough once more. It is also a delight to hear and watch a conductor invest a beloved concerto with her own obvious enthusiasm and that something that elevates it to a new level Brava!
Thank you for posting this most recent thrilling presentation! Bravo Maestro Han-Na Chang, Iceland SO, and Stephen Hough--I will return here often to immerse in both the lush and invigorating sounds that abound in this performance. Raleigh NC welcomes Stephen to Meymandi Hall where he will be performing the Brahms this weekend - Fri Jan 24 & Sat Jan 25!!!
Thank you so much for making this available in this way in these dark days. It has brought tears to my eyes just being able to see and hear Stephen Hough playing this.
Conoscevamo Stephen Hough per le incisioni di pezzi poco noti. Adesso, con questo concerto di Brahms, si mette veramente in gioco, essendo confrontato con le esecuzioni dei grandi pianisti di ogni tempo
The Best Brahms concerto no 2 players are Really=Sviatoslav Richter with The Paris Orchestra from 1969 Richter the most monumental and Best structure for music! Grigory Sokolov his Brahms no 2 with Finnish Radio Symphony video from 1987 Sokolov had the Best piano sound! Sokolov his rhythmic vitalness is unbeatable! Sokolov the most Titanic Brahms no 2! Edwin Fischer from 1942 Fischer the big Genius!!
@@RaineriHakkarainen C’est vrai, il est impossible de classer les merveilleuses interprétations, parmi lesquelles celle de Gilels et, bien sûr, celle oubliée de Fisher. Toutes celles que vous nommez profondément étudiées, comprises et interprétées. Aujourd’hui, nous entendons beaucoup d’exécutions non interprétatives
I find it a very mildly perverse discomfort that Stephen Hough is so remarkable and that all I have is an above average IQ. If I could paint as well as Stephen Hough I'd be thrilled! I have 2 of his pictures framed on my wall, 'Frosty Morning' and 'Green Passage'. "People are happiest through enjoying the achievements of others, and through celebrating their work and achievements almost as if they had achieved and created them themselves." "For the vast superiority of another there is no remedy but love." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 - 1832 )
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Who gives a flying ‘eff about a horn slip? It’s a goddamn live performance. If you’re looking for imperfection you will always find it but what a stupid way to listen to music. And by the way, the horn is probably the most difficult and demanding brass instrument to play bar none. Try it sometime. If something like this bothers you then stick to studio recordings where digital editing covers up all sins. There’s nothing more electrifying than a live performance.
Overreact much? The original comment by ascv3246 can not in anyway be read as a criticism of the horn playing. Merely a fairly neutral observation that a minor mistake had been edited out. As it is, I agree with you, Lawrence Krupp, about the difficulties of playing the french horn, it requires a fine ear and demands embouchure and breathing control far and above any other wind instrument. This particular opening must require nerves of steel. I think that it is a shame if there was a slip and it was edited out (I couldn't tell, there was certainly no audible mistake in the horn opening and the horn player himself gave nothing away visually). Because I agree with you that live performance is exciting in a way that studio recordings can't be.
I didn't even notice...perhaps I'll pay more attention next time I play the video...Cause there's gonna be a next time, for sure..This performance deserves more than one encore..First time I hear this orchestra, and so far, just by the first movement, I'm at awe....Excellent!
Superbly recorded. But Hough, though a FANTASTIC pianist by any measure, is challenged by that truly wicked last movement. That last movement sounds like fun, but it's NOT. Brahms gives the pianist some runs in thirds--not in two hands--which is easy--but in one hand, up four octaves at lighting speed, which is seemingly impossible. Very few pianists actually play all the thirds in those runs, and Hough is no exception. The octave-playing is also a little disappointing: a tad loud where it should be quieter in certain places, and a little forced and heavy when it should be lighter and more whimsical. One poorly recorded but stunning interpretation of the last movement is by Volodos: he does all the impossible stuff with apparent ease, AND the playing is light and measured at all the difficult places.
No it's not you. It is slower than any I've heard. I didn't mind it at first. But after a while, it begins to sound a little stodgy. And then he plays Traumerai for his encore too fast!?! Try Bruno Leonardo Gelber and Nelson Freire for the Brahms. Neither is live. But each is spectacular!
The Best Brahms concerto no 2 players are Really=Sviatoslav Richter with The Paris Orchestra from 1969 Richter the most monumental and Best structure for music better than Hough or Gelber! Edwin Fischer from 1942 Fischer the big Genius better than genius than Hough or Gelber! Grigory Sokolov his Brahms no 2 with Finnish Radio Symphony video from 1987 had the Best piano sound! Sokolov his rhythmic vitalness is unbeatable! Sokolov the most Titanic Brahms no 2!!
By the time I got to 30:00 in the video, I knew that the conductor, who had impressed me in some earlier passages, missed the character of Brahms, the culture that his music reflected, and was delivering a palid version of this work. Both the pianist and the conductor were superficially good in this music, but ultimately not fit for it. I'd recommend Mrazek&Swarowsky, Richter-Haaser&Karajan, and Gieseking& Heger (the latter being incomplete). Each of those is great in different ways and should be heard. They're all at youtube.
Emmanuel Ax, Maurizio Pollini and Emil Gilels are up titanic in this work which needs more allegro than this conductor is giving it. I feel Stephen Hough is being held back here. Brahms needs more macho, please!
Stephen Hough is the over-rated pianist Ever,! The British press critic writers ( no talent low IQ stupid,) claiming that Hough.is The Best Rachmaninov piano concertos! Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! The British critic writers telling big.lies of course!! Stephen Hough Brahms piano concerto no 2 with a thin colorless cold icy piano sound Ever!! The BEST Brahms piano concerto no 2 players Are really 2: Grigory Sokolov With The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video RUclips from 1987! Sokolov The Best piano sound Ever!.Sokolov The most vital rhythmic Beat! Unbeatable vitalness) Sokolov The most Titanic Ever!!!) 2: Sviatoslav Richter with The Paris Orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel recording from 1969-1970! Sviatoslav Richter (The Big. Genius playing Brahms piano concerto no 2!!).3: Edwin Fischer from 1942!! 4:Van Cliburn in Moscow 1962!. Why Van Cliburn because Van Cliburn better than The stiff Claudio Arrau!! Van Cliburn his Brahms piano concerto no 2 playing is Better than The Mechanical Boring dull stiff machine player Ever Krystian Zimerman!!
Is there anything Mr Hough is incapable of transforming from the often hackneyed into an exciting, enlightening and gripping occasion. His double trills are scary, the passagework powerful and truly Brahmsian and revelatory. His ensemble with the other protagonists is truly that of a chamber musician but the piano truly holds its own. Memorable performance!
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Hackneyed? This concerto?
Levit calls it difficult but Hough makes it look easy...
Great, great, great great pianist. Open breath with Handel in mind. Impressive conduction. Fantastic high notes singing piano.
Yes, yes, to everything you said. Ahhh.
Great performance - It's the first I'm hearing this orchestra and it is impressive. Stephen Hough is a great pianist and a fine writer. I am currently reading his book "Rough Ideas" and it is so interesting to read his thoughts on all things music and performing. I love this concerto and this performance was wonderful.
Stephen Hough is the most over-rated pianist Ever!.The British critic writers (.no.talent low.IQ points Stupid). claiming that Hough.is The Best Rachmaninov piano concertos player Ever!.The.british crtiv writers Hough is the Best Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2 player Ever!. The British press telling big.lies of course because The no.talent low IQ points critic writers loves The second-rated players and their.trash Bad Art of course!! The most awful probanda brainwash trash crazy Norman Lebrecht! Norman Lebrecht wrote.how about.The Titan of The piano The Giant of The piano Grigory Sokolov his family roots?.Who were Sokolov grandmother? How about Sokolov his Wife?.The right good pure clean people.would Had Said and wrote! GO AND LISTEN GRIGORY SOKOLOV HIS.BRAHMS PIANO CONCERTO NO 2!. CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTO NO 2! After. Sokolov played These concertos then All The others pianists Are only The DUST ZEROS!!!!!!
Stephen Hough is a real artist: he is a painter and a writer, as you said, which is a great advantage already. Plus he plays with beautiful touch. His playing is always full of ideas and inspiration. I think he also became a great pianist thanks to his knowledge of other arts, as I said the painting and the writing, and composition too! This makes him a great pianist and an exquisite human being.
The cellist in the third movement is Sigurgeir Agnarsson. Mister Agnarsson has been with the orchestra for most of his professional career. He is in demand as a soloist, and he performs with chamber groups in Iceland.]
The oboist is Julia Hantschel, who has been a member of various orchestras before coming to Iceland, and who also is in demand as a soloist.
Wow Amazing....It's a wonderfull Clip.....Thank you
he plays brahms with such warm and rich tone！I just came out of his Mozart concertos！i just cannot believe it！
As I studied the orchestral score at A-Level back in the day, it has forever been a part of me and therefore I can really appreciate the work that Stephen Hough has put into this fine performance. The technique is right on point and I love the way Stephen connects with this music, with both delicacy and vigour. 😄
Yes, it,s a joy to hear Mr. Hough once more. It is also a delight to hear and watch a conductor invest a beloved concerto with her own obvious enthusiasm and that something that elevates it to a new level Brava!
Thank you for posting this most recent thrilling presentation! Bravo Maestro Han-Na Chang, Iceland SO, and Stephen Hough--I will return here often to immerse in both the lush and invigorating sounds that abound in this performance. Raleigh NC welcomes Stephen to Meymandi Hall where he will be performing the Brahms this weekend - Fri Jan 24 & Sat Jan 25!!!
Thank you so much for making this available in this way in these dark days. It has brought tears to my eyes just being able to see and hear Stephen Hough playing this.
Thank you. Loved Stephen Hough’s performance, and am always enchanted by the work of this conductor of the Icelandic orchestra. Truly a pleasure.
This is one of the most electric yet lyric performances of this concerto on RUclips!!! Wow!!
Brilliant! 🌟🎹🎵🎼🎶👏
Bravo Stephen Hough! 💐
Bravo Orchestra and Conductor! 💐
Thank you Iceland Symphony Orchestra! 💐
"I just have been writing a very, very little concerto with a delicious small scherzo" (J. Brahms.)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Excelente, magnífico. Muchas gracias por este regalo.
Conoscevamo Stephen Hough per le incisioni di pezzi poco noti. Adesso, con questo concerto di Brahms, si mette veramente in gioco, essendo confrontato con le esecuzioni dei grandi pianisti di ogni tempo
How beautiful ! Please come to Japan
Qué rico que suena ese Stainway...Especialmente en el tercer movimiento...Ese man Stephen Hough hace sonar a Brahms exquisito en ese piano...
Très très belle interprétation.
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Gilels Reiner; Gilels Jochum!!!!!! Mais c'était une extraordinaire interprétation, un Brahms diverse mais riche
The Best Brahms concerto no 2 players are Really=Sviatoslav Richter with The Paris Orchestra from 1969 Richter the most monumental and Best structure for music! Grigory Sokolov his Brahms no 2 with Finnish Radio Symphony video from 1987 Sokolov had the Best piano sound! Sokolov his rhythmic vitalness is unbeatable! Sokolov the most Titanic Brahms no 2! Edwin Fischer from 1942 Fischer the big Genius!!
@@RaineriHakkarainen C’est vrai, il est impossible de classer les merveilleuses interprétations, parmi lesquelles celle de Gilels et, bien sûr, celle oubliée de Fisher. Toutes celles que vous nommez profondément étudiées, comprises et interprétées. Aujourd’hui, nous entendons beaucoup d’exécutions non interprétatives
Amazing, bravo Maestro!!!
I find it a very mildly perverse discomfort that Stephen Hough is so remarkable and that all I have is an above average IQ.
If I could paint as well as Stephen Hough I'd be thrilled! I have 2 of his pictures framed on my wall, 'Frosty Morning' and 'Green Passage'.
"People are happiest through enjoying the achievements of others, and through celebrating their work and achievements almost as if they had achieved and created them themselves."
"For the vast superiority of another there is no remedy but love."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 - 1832 )
A NIMBLE AGILE PRODIGY..
HE WILL GO VERY FARRR!!
WATCH
LEGENDARY PIANIST OF UPMOST SUBLIME EXPRESSION..
ANDRE' WATTS
YOUR GREAT!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎹🎹🎹🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶👏👏👏👏🙏👏🙏🙏🎹🎹🎹🎶🎶🎵🎵
BRAVO!!👏👏👏❤️❤️💋❤️
SUZZAN C. WILSON❤❤👍👍
powerful
12:37...magic!
Is Han - Na Chang still playing the cello?? I hope . She was a wonderful cellist.
she is the conductor not the cellist.
Stephen hough♡
This shits actually fire
Does this differ from the video you posted on October 15th?
Первая часть слишком медленно и тяжеловато...
seems like the initial horn slip has been edited
Who gives a flying ‘eff about a horn slip? It’s a goddamn live performance. If you’re looking for imperfection you will always find it but what a stupid way to listen to music. And by the way, the horn is probably the most difficult and demanding brass instrument to play bar none. Try it sometime. If something like this bothers you then stick to studio recordings where digital editing covers up all sins. There’s nothing more electrifying than a live performance.
i think your venting at the wrong person - not my edit - im just thankful the video was uploaded
Overreact much? The original comment by ascv3246 can not in anyway be read as a criticism of the horn playing. Merely a fairly neutral observation that a minor mistake had been edited out.
As it is, I agree with you, Lawrence Krupp, about the difficulties of playing the french horn, it requires a fine ear and demands embouchure and breathing control far and above any other wind instrument. This particular opening must require nerves of steel.
I think that it is a shame if there was a slip and it was edited out (I couldn't tell, there was certainly no audible mistake in the horn opening and the horn player himself gave nothing away visually). Because I agree with you that live performance is exciting in a way that studio recordings can't be.
ascv3246 : So? Why does it matter to you? The music as a whole is glorious.
I didn't even notice...perhaps I'll pay more attention next time I play the video...Cause there's gonna be a next time, for sure..This performance deserves more than one encore..First time I hear this orchestra, and so far, just by the first movement, I'm at awe....Excellent!
Superbly recorded. But Hough, though a FANTASTIC pianist by any measure, is challenged by that truly wicked last movement. That last movement sounds like fun, but it's NOT. Brahms gives the pianist some runs in thirds--not in two hands--which is easy--but in one hand, up four octaves at lighting speed, which is seemingly impossible. Very few pianists actually play all the thirds in those runs, and Hough is no exception. The octave-playing is also a little disappointing: a tad loud where it should be quieter in certain places, and a little forced and heavy when it should be lighter and more whimsical. One poorly recorded but stunning interpretation of the last movement is by Volodos: he does all the impossible stuff with apparent ease, AND the playing is light and measured at all the difficult places.
Is it just me or is this version a bit slow...
No it's not you. It is slower than any I've heard. I didn't mind it at first. But after a while, it begins to sound a little stodgy. And then he plays Traumerai for his encore too fast!?! Try Bruno Leonardo Gelber and Nelson Freire for the Brahms. Neither is live. But each is spectacular!
The Best Brahms concerto no 2 players are Really=Sviatoslav Richter with The Paris Orchestra from 1969 Richter the most monumental and Best structure for music better than Hough or Gelber! Edwin Fischer from 1942 Fischer the big Genius better than genius than Hough or Gelber! Grigory Sokolov his Brahms no 2 with Finnish Radio Symphony video from 1987 had the Best piano sound! Sokolov his rhythmic vitalness is unbeatable! Sokolov the most Titanic Brahms no 2!!
Nope. I don't like it. This is not Brahms.
Definitely not Brahms; he seems bored out of mind, musically speaking, and the technical challenge takes absolute precedence.
By the time I got to 30:00 in the video, I knew that the conductor, who had impressed me in some earlier passages, missed the character of Brahms, the culture that his music reflected, and was delivering a palid version of this work. Both the pianist and the conductor were superficially good in this music, but ultimately not fit for it. I'd recommend Mrazek&Swarowsky, Richter-Haaser&Karajan, and Gieseking& Heger (the latter being incomplete). Each of those is great in different ways and should be heard. They're all at youtube.
Emmanuel Ax, Maurizio Pollini and Emil Gilels are up titanic in this work which needs more allegro than this conductor is giving it. I feel Stephen Hough is being held back here. Brahms needs more macho, please!
Stephen Hough is the over-rated pianist Ever,! The British press critic writers ( no talent low IQ stupid,) claiming that Hough.is The Best Rachmaninov piano concertos! Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! The British critic writers telling big.lies of course!! Stephen Hough Brahms piano concerto no 2 with a thin colorless cold icy piano sound Ever!! The BEST Brahms piano concerto no 2 players Are really 2: Grigory Sokolov With The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video RUclips from 1987! Sokolov The Best piano sound Ever!.Sokolov The most vital rhythmic Beat! Unbeatable vitalness) Sokolov The most Titanic Ever!!!) 2: Sviatoslav Richter with The Paris Orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel recording from 1969-1970! Sviatoslav Richter (The Big. Genius playing Brahms piano concerto no 2!!).3: Edwin Fischer from 1942!! 4:Van Cliburn in Moscow 1962!. Why Van Cliburn because Van Cliburn better than The stiff Claudio Arrau!! Van Cliburn his Brahms piano concerto no 2 playing is Better than The Mechanical Boring dull stiff machine player Ever Krystian Zimerman!!
41:34 Ooops Que pasó Stephen?
Please let us know where we can see your performance of this concert sans the oops
@@eternityinview you can't 🙂