Claudio Arrau — Beethoven Sonata No. 32 — 2nd Mvmt. (2/2)
Ludwig Van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 2nd Movement Arietta — Adagio molto, semplice e cantabile performed by Claudio Arrau 1st Movement: www.youtube.com 2nd Movement (1/2): www.youtube.com
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By the way, I don’t think people really point this out much, compared to the “jazz variation”, but in this second half of the piece, Beethoven also pioneers ambience.
@TheJoyfulPianist It is hard to hold back tears when listening to or playing this.
2:33–2:44 oh my goodness so magical
6:54–7:08 once again, so magical
I wonder how much that room is vibrating from about 6:56 — 7:08.
@Gibson29 Coming back to this recording half a year later, I have to say that it now it surpasses the Ashkenazy recording I love so much. I don’t have my CD case here with me but I believe it was recorded sometime between 1974–1982 with the Decca Record Co.
The ending makes me so happy
no one plays it better.
A wonderful interpreter to play the greatest of all musics.
At 9:31 Beethoven closes a chapter in the development of piano pieces, and opens a page for the other composers.
@Anjro0
Beethoven or Claudio Arrau?
I wouldn’t want to meet Beethoven. it might spoil the magic to see that he was actually an ordinary man, small, nothing outstanding to behold. I would maybe love to be able to view him discreetly from a distance, but actually meet him ? No. let’s retain the spellbinding magic of this music for what it is. Superhuman, incapable of being penned by an ordinary mortal.
to play a piece like this must be almost too much for the heart. So extraordinary. I love you Beethoven.
@Anjro0 Claudio Arrau, or Beethoven?
Ist dies etwa der Tod?
M-A-E-S-T-R-O!! de mi chile lindo
!!
@ilkinond Hell yes.
@quarknugget Yes, it’s all about death, isn’t it?
@Anjro0 if you mean Beethoven, Ditto!
Also, starting around 5:30 or so, has got to be the greatest “outro” of any piece of music ever written.
Arrau has such beautiful piano hands, nice long thumbs and proportionate fingers.
Without a doubt, my most favorite movement out of all of Beethovens piano sonatas. As the last note fades out, there is an indescribable sense of mortality as if it is the conclusion of Beethovens life itself.
The best recording I have heard so far however, was done by Ashkenazy.
Arrau so gets Beethoven’s spirituality. Op.111 to me is Ludwig speaking to God. I wrote and produced a play, “Beethoven: Heaven’s Voice,” and it boggles my mind that Beethoven overcame so much to create his later works like this one: His deafness, his ill health, troubles with his nephew Karl, money issues. Beethoven, so many triumphs, but this is one of his greatest.
I want this to be the last song I ever hear.
@sjwright76 Nice thought, very nice.
The C-sharps at the 8:35 and 8:43 are Beethoven’s farewell kisses. Goodbye Beethoven! You’ve done more for the humanity than a million Popes and Scientists.