When you think you know this piece, after years listening to hundreds of versions, then comes a certain Mitsuko Uchida, sent from the gods, to show you that this 4th Concerto is simply INFINITE!
Yes,indeed. She is just a lovely lady in every way, almost spiritual, and seems to communicate with everyone instantly. There is nothing "prima donna" about her and she really lives her performances. This 4th is probably one of the best ever.. so poetic.
I´ve heard this same concert by Claudio Arrau and Murray Perrahia (with Bernard Haitink and the Amsterdam Concertgebow). And the interpretation of Miss Uchida is gorgeous. Very musical, delicate touch, and clear sound. Great understanding of the genius from Beethoven.
Mitsuko you are my goddess I bow before you . i have never seen such fundamental beauty ,a sense of belonging to her work. You know when you have made it when the Orchestra and Conductor and every one else Hangs off MITSUKO
Uchida's gift is her perfection, discipline to the point of madness. I noticed Uchida shaking some men's hands and i could see she had a really strong grip. Her four arms were quite extraordinary. Very slight arms but with a huge sinew / fast twitch muscle from her shoulders to her arms and fingers. When her fingers spark its like a lightening bolt, and, she can never get a tinny thing wrong. imagine the pressure. She is truly extraordinary Uchida
Very poetic and very apt & correct.Unlike, say, Martha Argerich who always plays without varying facial expression, Dame Mitsuko Uchuida's face is part & parcel of her musical and expressive abilities --enormous.
+Andrew Roberts >Her four arms were quite extraordinary. Surely you meant forearms, eh? Uchida doesn't have four arms, not being a Hindu deity. Whoops, I now notice Skippy Wagga pointed it out about a year ago. Having said that, her performance gives me an impression as if she had four forearms!
Maravilloso tener You Tube y poder disfrutar de este y toda la música, para todos los que no tenemos la fortuna de ver los conciertos en vivo. Uchida es un genio y el concierto bello y emocionante.
Thanks for the upload, Mitsuko Uchida is always a joy to listen to, I really, really should make the effort to see her perform live, that must be on another level if that's possible.
This IS Beethoven's Cadenza. every single note. He did write more than one, but this is played most often. You people are making comments for a lot of people to read. Stuff like this is not a matter of opinion, it's facts. Please get them right before you post something for millions of people to read.
Bonjour, Je fais aussi un peu de piano en amateur. Quand j'entends jouer cette merveilleuse pianiste, sans partition, interprétant à merveille ces classiques immortels, je me dis que j'ai encore beaucoup de chemin à faire pour l'égaler. Toutes mes félicitations. Michel Delesderrier, 1217 MEYRIN (CH).
Many many thanks for posting this! I really prefer Mitsuko in perhaps the most beautiful piano concerto of all times. Her three versions (with Mehta, Sanderling & Rattle) are all the more touching... Magical moments!
Uchida es, simlemente, Uchida; una intérprete elegante e intensamente musical que aporta un equilibrado balance de raciocinio y emoción a todo cuanto toca.
my repertoire and competition knowledge isn't great but just because someone wins a competition means that they're the best. You should surely know the typical story of hidden talent and so on. You must also bear in mind that each pianist is free to perform their own interpretation of their music. If there are more views for Mitsuko, then clearly people either enjoy her music and interpretations more or she is just more commonly heard of. If i have missed your point, please feel free to explain
It's the same cadenza I've heard in every performance I can think of, and I have to assume it's Beethoven's. Whoever's it is, it is a fantastic composition within an even more fantastic composition (my pick for greatest of all piano concertos, though number five sure is close).
Dan Joel Maybe one part of the reason I pick the fourth over the fifth is that to me there is a much wider gulf between the third and the fourth than there is between the fourth and the fifth, i.e., Beethoven did so many innovations in this piece. It's also a much less outgoing piece, which is a side of Beethoven we don't always see in his larger-scored works. But the fifth is hardly less great. Lots of Mozart's concertos could vie for the title of "best concerto" too, and Schumann's of course is also fantastic. (A pity he didn't write more than one.)
western journalits in internet arturo bedetti micheleangelis rachmaninov 4 piano concerto best in the history Second best was uchidas beethoven 3 piano concerto crazy journalitst to me two best concerto performance are grigory sokolov chopin 2 f minor titanic furios and sviastoslav richter brahms 2 with lorin maazel paris orchestra from 1971
Are you suggesting that Novitskaya deserves greater popularity than Uchida based on winning a competition 40+ years ago? Maybe I'm missing your point? If I'm not understanding you properly, forgive me.
uchida 10th place queen elisabeth competion 1969 good player elisabeth leonskaya was 9 prize winner. ekaterina novitskaya age 16 won that competion. uchida gets million hits in internet winner ekaterina novitskaya 16000 is there any justice in the world
It's not Beethoven's cadenza, unless he wrote a couple. It's strange since Beethoven purposely wrote them out since he felt that it was more organic, which made written out cadenzas the norm of the romantic period. It's kind of like saying "I love this concerto, Beethoven, but you're composition skills were not good enough for me to play what you wrote!"
Playing your own cadenza is in no way reprehensible. There is just the problem that you expose yourself to comparisons... Hers is quite OK. I heard Lang Lang play one of his invention that was simply terrible. But what do you expect of the guy?
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When you think you know this piece, after years listening to hundreds of versions, then comes a certain Mitsuko Uchida, sent from the gods, to show you that this 4th Concerto is simply INFINITE!
Yes,indeed. She is just a lovely lady in every way, almost spiritual, and seems to communicate with everyone instantly. There is nothing "prima donna" about her and she really lives her performances. This 4th is probably one of the best ever.. so poetic.
Love the tone and clarity of her playing. Really clear - one of the best performances of this that I've heard in many years.
Best Beethoven piano concerto. With no doubt.
I´ve heard this same concert by Claudio Arrau and Murray Perrahia (with Bernard Haitink and the Amsterdam Concertgebow). And the interpretation of Miss Uchida is gorgeous. Very musical, delicate touch, and clear sound. Great understanding of the genius from Beethoven.
Questa Donna suona in modo fantastico,trasmetta una carica di emozioni e di energia incredibile.
trasmette
When you are down in the abyss and look up you see stars...
Everything in this concert is just perfect. Mitsuko Uchida and Zubin Mehta collaborate in unison.
How amazing that we can actually hear and see this. Cannot thank enough!
Mitsuko you are my goddess I bow before you . i have never seen such fundamental beauty ,a sense of belonging to her work. You know when you have made it when the Orchestra and Conductor and every one else Hangs off MITSUKO
great composer, great concerto, great piano player, great conductor!
Beautiful interpretation with piano' magic touch of the Uchida
Uchida's gift is her perfection, discipline to the point of madness. I noticed Uchida shaking some men's hands and i could see she had a really strong grip. Her four arms were quite extraordinary. Very slight arms but with a huge sinew / fast twitch muscle from her shoulders to her arms and fingers. When her fingers spark its like a lightening bolt, and, she can never get a tinny thing wrong. imagine the pressure. She is truly extraordinary Uchida
+Andrew Roberts I completely agree. But if she had four arms,that would be amazing-but she has two . (forearms)
Very poetic and very apt & correct.Unlike, say, Martha Argerich who always plays without varying facial expression, Dame Mitsuko Uchuida's face is part & parcel of her musical and expressive abilities --enormous.
+Andrew Roberts
>Her four arms were quite extraordinary.
Surely you meant forearms, eh? Uchida doesn't have four arms, not being a Hindu deity. Whoops, I now notice Skippy Wagga pointed it out about a year ago. Having said that, her performance gives me an impression as if she had four forearms!
She and Ludwig - unbeatable - so much reason to smile broadly
Maravilloso tener You Tube y poder disfrutar de este y toda la música, para todos los que no tenemos la fortuna de ver los conciertos en vivo.
Uchida es un genio y el concierto bello y emocionante.
it´s the most a vant garde and romantic of the 5 piano concertos, agree with you, it´s my favorite.
Thanks for the upload, Mitsuko Uchida is always a joy to listen to, I really, really should make the effort to see her perform live, that must be on another level if that's possible.
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beautiful performance... and not a one wrong note, oh please mitsuko,show us you're human ... LOL thank you for sharing
This IS Beethoven's Cadenza. every single note. He did write more than one, but this is played most often. You people are making comments for a lot of people to read. Stuff like this is not a matter of opinion, it's facts. Please get them right before you post something for millions of people to read.
Bonjour, Je fais aussi un peu de piano en amateur. Quand j'entends jouer cette merveilleuse pianiste, sans partition, interprétant à merveille ces classiques immortels, je me dis que j'ai encore beaucoup de chemin à faire pour l'égaler. Toutes mes félicitations. Michel Delesderrier, 1217 MEYRIN (CH).
WOW!!!!! Somehow it's like hearing this for the first time again.
one can "speak" with Beethoven himself,as well as God himself in 09:43 ! Mitsuko Uchida does,and everyone can see her!
Notice how she makes the audience smile :)
Many many thanks for posting this! I really prefer Mitsuko in perhaps the most beautiful piano concerto of all times. Her three versions (with Mehta, Sanderling & Rattle) are all the more touching... Magical moments!
The expressivity is breathtaking.
BRAVO Señorita Uchida!!! Qué intensa!
Brilliant !!!
Que interpretacion tan magnifica tanto de la orquesta como de la pianista... Una buena manera de alegrarme el dia... Beethoven un grande sin dudas...
wonderful!
Pure ethereal beauty.
Uchida es, simlemente, Uchida; una intérprete elegante e intensamente musical que aporta un equilibrado balance de raciocinio y emoción a todo cuanto toca.
Hallucinant de beauté !
extraordinaria pianista que toco hace unos dias en mi pais, Argentina
Grande !
bonne interpretation sure et precise domine avec aisaince un orchestre remarquable avec un excellenr coducteur.
11:00 is absolute magic
Bravooooo
wow
He's also in every Beethoven.
my repertoire and competition knowledge isn't great but just because someone wins a competition means that they're the best. You should surely know the typical story of hidden talent and so on. You must also bear in mind that each pianist is free to perform their own interpretation of their music. If there are more views for Mitsuko, then clearly people either enjoy her music and interpretations more or she is just more commonly heard of. If i have missed your point, please feel free to explain
Beethoven plays it like this.
maybe this is the reason (other then increasing deafness) why this was the last piece Beethoven performed in public
It's the same cadenza I've heard in every performance I can think of, and I have to assume it's Beethoven's. Whoever's it is, it is a fantastic composition within an even more fantastic composition (my pick for greatest of all piano concertos, though number five sure is close).
the 4th is my favorite too--but only by a smidgen more that the 5th and Schumann's Piano concerto.
Dan Joel Maybe one part of the reason I pick the fourth over the fifth is that to me there is a much wider gulf between the third and the fourth than there is between the fourth and the fifth, i.e., Beethoven did so many innovations in this piece. It's also a much less outgoing piece, which is a side of Beethoven we don't always see in his larger-scored works. But the fifth is hardly less great. Lots of Mozart's concertos could vie for the title of "best concerto" too, and Schumann's of course is also fantastic. (A pity he didn't write more than one.)
The cadenza is just not of this world.... :-)
Other than the french horn at 2.00 perfect.......
Who's the first oboist? He's great! Can anyone tell me his name?
@Erik83474 is it the original cadenza?
western journalits in internet arturo bedetti micheleangelis rachmaninov 4 piano concerto best in the history Second best was uchidas beethoven 3 piano concerto crazy journalitst to me two best concerto performance are grigory sokolov chopin 2 f minor titanic furios and sviastoslav richter brahms 2 with lorin maazel paris orchestra from 1971
@MusicClassical1 dogs have very good ears, and sometimes highly musically critical I guess
Beethoven's music has many Mozart elements although Beethoven had a unique style you can listen to the mozartian influence
180 deg from Mozart.
Does anyone know whether that cadenza is created by herself ? Or is that one of the routines ?
Thank you nnamffohsaile
the only problem is that I got lost in the music
and the art
but not the applause
Don't forget about the orchestra!
There is a dog lying on the floor. He likes music!
when and where was this recorded?
Fantastic .... I think Beethoven cadenza,...but not sure
How is that a reason? Can you explain?
you think everything is improved?
Are you suggesting that Novitskaya deserves greater popularity than Uchida based on winning a competition 40+ years ago? Maybe I'm missing your point? If I'm not understanding you properly, forgive me.
Weird horn entry at 2:00?
just curious how others think she compares to pianists like Alfred Brendal
If nnamffohsaile u/l the 3 movements in one file, it would be ncie.
Beethoven/Uchida/Metha : la divine trinité ?
It IS a Beethoven cadenza...
uchida 10th place queen elisabeth competion 1969 good player elisabeth leonskaya was 9 prize winner. ekaterina novitskaya age 16 won that competion. uchida gets million hits in internet winner ekaterina novitskaya 16000 is there any justice in the world
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God is in every note. Or Beethoven is God.
9:38 she gives birth
By the way, could not the images and music have been - you know - synchronized? Would have done no harm, I assure you.
I think dog is guide dog for blind ....not sure tho
Uchida's own? Like she composed it? No Beethoven
Ps dog is guide dog for blind ...I think
Horn is usually weird and weird all the way through here...sigh
"Millions of people to read".
It is maybe a bit ambitious, but let's hope lol.
The camera work is jumping too much..
The opening solo chords are played way too stiff...
It's not Beethoven's cadenza, unless he wrote a couple. It's strange since Beethoven purposely wrote them out since he felt that it was more organic, which made written out cadenzas the norm of the romantic period. It's kind of like saying "I love this concerto, Beethoven, but you're composition skills were not good enough for me to play what you wrote!"
Playing your own cadenza is in no way reprehensible. There is just the problem that you expose yourself to comparisons... Hers is quite OK. I heard Lang Lang play one of his invention that was simply terrible. But what do you expect of the guy?