The pupil of Anton Rubinstein, the favorite pianist of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and the predecessor to Vladimir Horowitz. That is Mr. Josef Hofmann, and here he is in all his glory, playing the Chopin F minor concerto better than anyone I’ve ever heard!
What can one say except that Josef Hofmann was one of the most prodigiously gifted pianists of all time...even after his prime his playing was spellbinding.
The Titan Grigory Sokolov his Chopin piano concerto no 2! Brahms piano concerto no 2! Mozart piano concerto no 24! After Sokolov played These concertos then All The others pianists Are only DUST ZEROS no value art! Sokolov versus Joseph Hofman 100-0!!!
@@hostlangr You the 'Ugly Loser Wanger' are wrong!! You are telling 'Wanger' stories! The Truth is that the Best Greatest Chopin piano.concerto players Are Really Grigory Sokolov! Artur Rubinstein the GOD of Chopin piano concerto with THE GOLDFN PIANO SOUND! Vladimir Ashkenazy the Most Colorful Volcanic piano Sound for Chopin piano concerto no 2! You The 'Ugly Loser Wanger' not going to listen Sokolov Ashkenazy Artur Rubinstein!!
"Que peut-on dire d’autre que Josef Hofmann était l’un des pianistes les plus prodigieusement doués de tous les temps... même après son apogée, son jeu était envoûtant" c'est là mot pour mot ce que je pense aussi.
Why would you expect millions liking this ? At this time there are about 23K views. very representative number of folks who hear the difference between alive and dead. moving and stale. That's normal.
Несмотря на шип, лишний раз убеждаюсь в том, что Иосиф Гофман величайший пианист, обладавший совершенным пианизмом, прекрасным чувством стиля и безупречным вкусом... Уникальная запись!!!
wonderful , great interpretation beautiful sound perfect legato and he really tells us a story, Chopins fairy tale. This is real music and not fabricated ununderstood music as we so often can hear. A real Masterinterpretation.
This the greatest performance that I have ever heard of this concerto; what privilege it must have been to have sat in Carnegie Hall in 1936 to witness this miracle of music making. Bravo Maestro!
The Best Chopin piano concerto no 2 players Are really Artur Rubinstein Grigory Sokolov ( The most Titanic! The vital rhythmic vitalness! Vladimir Ashkenazy The Best piano sound!
@@hostlangr THE TITAN GRIGORY SOKOLOV! Sokolov versus Joseph Hofman 100-0!!! Sokolov versus Horowitz 100-0!! Sokolov versus ABM 5000-0 ABN THE CYBORG HUMAN MACHINE! Sokolov versus Cliburn 100-0!!! Sokolov versus Rachmaninov 100-0!!!
@@samjoseph7846 of course it is competition! Jascha Heifetz his concert fee The money one concert he got was 6000$ in 1953! Today IT IS 65000$! Horowitz and Artur Rubinstein got 3000$ per concert in 1953! Now The highest paid classical violinits is The awful Bad Ann Sophie Mutter! Mutter( out of rhythmic balance all The Time!.Rough restless Bad thin violin sound!).My Backround is a poor hard working people! We do not Have money to buy 200 CD Sibelius violin concerto recordingd! We want The top 3 recordings! No Time for losers number 148th Best Sibelius violin concerto recording! The classical music players earn money and that IS The reason we Check How Good they really Are! It is wrong that Ann Sophie Mutter is The highest paid!
This is one of Jorge Bolet's "dessert Island" recordings according to an interview he gave. Hoffman didn't know it was being recorded during the time, the microphone was hidden in a light above the stage apparently.
You raise an interesting point regarding derivation of this recording. I believe that this concerto performance derives from one of the many Sunday afternoon concerts that Hofmann gave over the course of his professional career. The recording of this concert has been around for a while, but on the latest iteration, on the VAI /Marston label, the notes refer to the material of recording of the concerto deriving from radio transcription discs: I understand that it was fairly common for the radio network broadcasting the concert to make a recording for rebroadcast later; this is how we have so many live recordings of Hofmann, and others: surely the radio network would have required the permission of the artists involved before making a recording? It is widely said that Hofmann ‘s good friend, Rachmaninov refused permission for his concerted performances to be broadcast because he believed broadcast performances harmed box office receipts.
Because the master pianists of today are never concerned with with type of majesterial and soulful playing. The technique is above all else. Why is it that you still hear even Hofmann play a missed note every so often?? They never practiced with technique in mind. Every single note had to have musical meaning or it was garbage. How many pianists can you say that about today??
@@99Grigor Well, Hofmann and the pianists of his day had incredible technique to spare, the crucial difference I think is that they deployed variety of touch, color, polyphony of voices, and deep understanding of rhythm to get at the musical meaning of each phrase and gesture. The pianists of the deliberately anti-Romantic second half of the 20th century prized evenness of tone above all else, and applied one standard approach and sound to all music. Recordings prompted more careful attention to wrong notes and eventually the ability to eliminate them, which created an expectation of surface perfection among audiences that made performers take fewer risks. I am encouraged by younger pianists like Víkingur Ólafsson and Benjamin Grossvenor who seem to be reinvesting attention to musical meaning, soul, and variety of touch. Even Lang Lang, despite his clownish mugging and cheesy interpretations, plays with old-fashioned polyphonic brio and has helped moved things back in the direction of individual personality and risky performance.
@@CanAlternateLostTape what an insightful comment, as a novice to classical I can’t agree more with what you said, but you articulated it in a great way. What you said about Lang is something I’ve thought shyly for a long time, but, was not confident in my listening. Good to know other people think the same.
Both surviving Chopin concerti recorded by Hofmann in their entirety really showcase all of his best characteristics as a pianist, with few of the things that make me not like him so much. He is at his very best in them.
The greatest pianists of All Time Are really Artur Rubinstein ( The God) Grigory Sokolov ( The Titan The Giant of The piano) Emil Gilels ( The King) Wilhelm Kempff Maurizio Pollini Sviatoslav Richter Mikhail Pletnev Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky ( better than Lipatti) Radu Lupu Solomon Cutner Maria Grinberg Natalia Trull Rosa Tamarkina Ekaterina Novitskaya Dimitri Bashkirov Andrei Gavrilov Victor Eresko Lubov Timofeeva
Dec. 27, 1936 Carnegie Hall live broadcast. John Barbirolli conducting the NY Phil, over which he had just taken command for the first 10 weeks of the 1936-7 season.
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Truly one of the greatest. This is Barbirolli, New York Phil 1936
The pupil of Anton Rubinstein, the favorite pianist of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and the predecessor to Vladimir Horowitz. That is Mr. Josef Hofmann, and here he is in all his glory, playing the Chopin F minor concerto better than anyone I’ve ever heard!
Happy to be Pole, but happier more when I hear and understand the sounds of beautiful people
the flow, the phrasing, just incredible.
Le plus grand pianiste de tous les temps ! Un jeu ’’perlé’’ comme ça n’existe plus.
What can one say except that Josef Hofmann was one of the most prodigiously gifted pianists of all time...even after his prime his playing was spellbinding.
The Titan Grigory Sokolov his Chopin piano concerto no 2! Brahms piano concerto no 2! Mozart piano concerto no 24! After Sokolov played These concertos then All The others pianists Are only DUST ZEROS no value art! Sokolov versus Joseph Hofman 100-0!!!
@@RaineriHakkarainen, erzähl keinen Mist....
@@hostlangr You the 'Ugly Loser Wanger' are wrong!! You are telling 'Wanger' stories! The Truth is that the Best Greatest Chopin piano.concerto players Are Really Grigory Sokolov! Artur Rubinstein the GOD of Chopin piano concerto with THE GOLDFN PIANO SOUND! Vladimir Ashkenazy the Most Colorful Volcanic piano Sound for Chopin piano concerto no 2! You The 'Ugly Loser Wanger' not going to listen Sokolov Ashkenazy Artur Rubinstein!!
"Que peut-on dire d’autre que Josef Hofmann était l’un des pianistes les plus prodigieusement doués de tous les temps... même après son apogée, son jeu était envoûtant" c'est là mot pour mot ce que je pense aussi.
@@RaineriHakkarainenWhat is wrong with you??😮
Only 17k viewers, such music should have a million viewers. What's a miss
Why would you expect millions liking this ? At this time there are about 23K views. very representative number of folks who hear the difference between alive and dead. moving and stale. That's normal.
Миллионам такая пища не по зубам.
Hofmann recordings, even though some are cut, are great by todays standards, love the sound of the aged orchestra.
Absolutely fabulous and played with such energetic spirit and emotional depth! Wonderful performance.
Несмотря на шип, лишний раз убеждаюсь в том, что Иосиф Гофман величайший пианист, обладавший совершенным пианизмом, прекрасным чувством стиля и безупречным вкусом... Уникальная запись!!!
СлавамБ_гу, что не обработали звукозапись и не выложили в цифровом виде! А это не пианист, а совершенный Орфей, и нет ему равных! Удачи Вам!
@@dmitrikostov4803 Ne mogu ne soglasitsia s Vami !
wonderful , great interpretation beautiful sound perfect legato and he really tells us a story, Chopins fairy tale. This is real music and not fabricated ununderstood music as we so often can hear. A real Masterinterpretation.
Гениальный Рахманинов признал Гениального Гофмана ПЕРВЫМ среди пианистов своего столетия! Это Истина!
Makes you wish you were born earlier to hear him live.....
Amen
Fortunately, our new winner of Chopin Piano Competition - Bruce Liu plays in style of Hofmann.
@@jakowester8183 sure thing
Thanks for uploading. Hofmann is so great, creativity, perfection and MAGIC!
This the greatest performance that I have ever heard of this concerto; what privilege it must have been to have sat in Carnegie Hall in 1936 to witness this miracle of music making. Bravo Maestro!
The Best Chopin piano concerto no 2 players Are really Artur Rubinstein Grigory Sokolov ( The most Titanic! The vital rhythmic vitalness! Vladimir Ashkenazy The Best piano sound!
@@RaineriHakkarainen, statt einer Liste Pianisten füll besser einen Korb mit Obst!!
@@hostlangr THE TITAN GRIGORY SOKOLOV! Sokolov versus Joseph Hofman 100-0!!! Sokolov versus Horowitz 100-0!! Sokolov versus ABM 5000-0 ABN THE CYBORG HUMAN MACHINE! Sokolov versus Cliburn 100-0!!! Sokolov versus Rachmaninov 100-0!!!
@@RaineriHakkarainen Music isn't a competition. No need to gives scores!😂
@@samjoseph7846 of course it is competition! Jascha Heifetz his concert fee The money one concert he got was 6000$ in 1953! Today IT IS 65000$! Horowitz and Artur Rubinstein got 3000$ per concert in 1953! Now The highest paid classical violinits is The awful Bad Ann Sophie Mutter! Mutter( out of rhythmic balance all The Time!.Rough restless Bad thin violin sound!).My Backround is a poor hard working people! We do not Have money to buy 200 CD Sibelius violin concerto recordingd! We want The top 3 recordings! No Time for losers number 148th Best Sibelius violin concerto recording! The classical music players earn money and that IS The reason we Check How Good they really Are! It is wrong that Ann Sophie Mutter is The highest paid!
Outstanding! Thank you very much!
This is one of Jorge Bolet's "dessert Island" recordings according to an interview he gave. Hoffman didn't know it was being recorded during the time, the microphone was hidden in a light above the stage apparently.
Please...Hofmann!
You raise an interesting point regarding derivation of this recording. I believe that this concerto performance derives from one of the many Sunday afternoon concerts that Hofmann gave over the course of his professional career. The recording of this concert has been around for a while, but on the latest iteration, on the VAI /Marston label, the notes refer to the material of recording of the concerto deriving from radio transcription discs: I understand that it was fairly common for the radio network broadcasting the concert to make a recording for rebroadcast later; this is how we have so many live recordings of Hofmann, and others: surely the radio network would have required the permission of the artists involved before making a recording? It is widely said that Hofmann ‘s good friend, Rachmaninov refused permission for his concerted performances to be broadcast because he believed broadcast performances harmed box office receipts.
Magnificent!
Why can't music sound like this today?
Because Josef Hofmann died a long time ago unfortunately....he was a real genius. This playing is simply amazing, incredibly beautiful.
Because the master pianists of today are never concerned with with type of majesterial and soulful playing. The technique is above all else. Why is it that you still hear even Hofmann play a missed note every so often?? They never practiced with technique in mind. Every single note had to have musical meaning or it was garbage. How many pianists can you say that about today??
@@99Grigor Well, Hofmann and the pianists of his day had incredible technique to spare, the crucial difference I think is that they deployed variety of touch, color, polyphony of voices, and deep understanding of rhythm to get at the musical meaning of each phrase and gesture. The pianists of the deliberately anti-Romantic second half of the 20th century prized evenness of tone above all else, and applied one standard approach and sound to all music. Recordings prompted more careful attention to wrong notes and eventually the ability to eliminate them, which created an expectation of surface perfection among audiences that made performers take fewer risks. I am encouraged by younger pianists like Víkingur Ólafsson and Benjamin Grossvenor who seem to be reinvesting attention to musical meaning, soul, and variety of touch. Even Lang Lang, despite his clownish mugging and cheesy interpretations, plays with old-fashioned polyphonic brio and has helped moved things back in the direction of individual personality and risky performance.
@@CanAlternateLostTape Yes. I agree completely. Esp about Lang Lang.
@@CanAlternateLostTape what an insightful comment, as a novice to classical I can’t agree more with what you said, but you articulated it in a great way.
What you said about Lang is something I’ve thought shyly for a long time, but, was not confident in my listening. Good to know other people think the same.
beautiful
Beautiful! Thanks for posting!
Extraordinary 😢
Both surviving Chopin concerti recorded by Hofmann in their entirety really showcase all of his best characteristics as a pianist, with few of the things that make me not like him so much. He is at his very best in them.
A true God.
The greatest pianists of All Time Are really Artur Rubinstein ( The God) Grigory Sokolov ( The Titan The Giant of The piano) Emil Gilels ( The King) Wilhelm Kempff Maurizio Pollini Sviatoslav Richter Mikhail Pletnev Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky ( better than Lipatti) Radu Lupu Solomon Cutner Maria Grinberg Natalia Trull Rosa Tamarkina Ekaterina Novitskaya Dimitri Bashkirov Andrei Gavrilov Victor Eresko Lubov Timofeeva
@@RaineriHakkarainen, statt einer Liste Pianisten füll lieber einen Korb mit Obst!!
Does anyone know the orchestra, conductor or date and place of this incredible recording??
@Peter Rabbit Close. Another superb accompanist, John Barbirolli and the NYP.
would be interesting to know when this was recorded and which orchestra
Dec. 27, 1936 Carnegie Hall live broadcast. John Barbirolli conducting the NY Phil, over which he had just taken command for the first 10 weeks of the 1936-7 season.
BRAOVOVOVOVOOVOVOVVOVOVOOVOVOVV
辉煌 流畅 自然
good play
There isn't a phrase that is unmusical.