Beethoven — Vladimir Ashkenazy — Symphony No.9 Mvt.4 (1/3)
NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy. NHK Hall, Tokyo, 2005. Chorus : Tokyo Nikikai Opera Foundation Soprano : Maki Mori Mezzo-soprano : Charlotte Hellekant Tenor : Mika Pohjonen Baritone : Sergei Leiferkus
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Ⅱ International Tchaikovsky Competition (1962) Performance from the concerts of the Laureates. (Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 3rd mvmt )
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46 comments
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Jackie Chan in clarinet 0:41
Does it even matter? I can see there are plenty of comments made by apparent “experts” on this piece. I love every part of music.
What are you even talking about — that quotes is for players.
What do you mean? This guy has had a great career and I like it;_) “When you play, never mind who listens to you.”― Robert Schumann.
Yes I like Beethoven too but conductors are personal.
Love this piece! — Just started listening to Beethoven 9th properly and I love the work of the conductor and orchestra! :_) Bravo.
you skipped the best part
They are Japanese
I love this but find it hilarious that Ashkenazy blows his nose @3:00. Puts everybody in perspective.
This isn’t as dramatic and intense as it should be… but ok performance anyway.
Браво!
Wonderful conductor, thanks for this
This is magnificent. Ashkenazy is a wonderful conductor and an even better pianist. And I have nothing but endless love and respect for Beethoven and this masterpiece.
That being said…
Does anyone else find it hilarious to watch that little Chinese lady sing in operatic German? Something about opera singers always makes me chuckle, only because people just don’t look right when producing such a powerful sound. Add the Chinese/German factor and this is chucks.
SEE the guy at 8:43 .….… he was reading : “MADE IN CHINA”
Magneto became a conductor!!!!
he went for the high score beat the final boss on highest difficulty
@8:43 still can tune picolo.… BOSS
would be nice if that Baritone could speak German. “.… veerden… sanfta”?
Bitte… “alle Menschen werden Brüder wo dein sanfter Flügel weillt”
Beethoven was, in the best sense of the expression, *the* Drama Mama.
4:55 to finally get to the point… that’s what classical music is all about!
best pianist of late 20th centurye noone plays rach like him.
Why must I read about Lang Lang on every single piano concerto videos? Please, enough with this nonsensical monkey already.
I wholly agree, I heard him on more than one occasion during my music student years in London (1960s). Apart from his outstanding mastery of the instrument, I was impressed by the poetry and general expressiveness he brought to Chopin and other romantics and of course Rachmaninov. Having said that I recall a stunning Festival Hall performance of Prokofievs 2nd piano concerto around 1967 when he displayed dazzling virtuosity that served the music without false rhetoric.
My God what a hell of a tempo he chooses,his playing is every bit as virtuosic as Richters.
Incredible playing !!! the best !!!
Thanks for the upload! Do you have any footage of John Ogdon (the man who tied Ashkenazy for first place) from the 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition?
lang lang can never play, much less recorded even 10% of what Ashkenazy played and recorded
Spectacular performance! How lucky that such recordings have survived to this day and have made it on to youtube even (thanks so much for posting!). How I wish they would have done a close-up of his hands during the coda so that I could marvel at the sepia-toned blur =).
I like it! But Lang Lang would have won it if he was alive then!
miraculous performance!!! the best performance of this piece that i’ve ever seen. sharp, dynamic, elegant at the same time. thanks for sharing!!!
FAVORITE !!!. Thanks naiki9&youtube.
oggy oggy oggy! oi oi oi!
He had no choice but to enter it. The previous competition winner had been an American (Van Cliburn) and the Soviets wanted their own competition to be won by oneof their own. As it happened, he came joint first with John Ogdon!
BRAVO!!!! Ashkenazy — гений!!!
I’m not really sure why he even entered the competition–he was already famous at the time. I already had a couple of his albums then. I suppose the Soviet government made him enter. He has even said that he didn’t (doesn’t?) like the Tchaikowsky Concerto. I suppose they made him record that, too.
I’m glad they did–it’s a wonderful recording.
simply love his performance and of course, the chair –_– anyway, thanks so much for sharing this incredible clip. he deserves to be called legend.
that dude’s my grandfather
Bravo!!!
One of the best performances in Youtube…
you gotta love the picture of Tchaikovsky hanging on the wall
While I admit the tempo is quite a bit faster than what I prefer in this movement, Mr. Ashkenazy gives a brilliant account of this work. He is a marvelous pianist, not given to self display, but in full command of his craft.
Always sayng bad things over the great pianists he????????????
it’s lucky that we have youtube
Classical music critics who mostly give negative reviews are pitiful, frustrated, no talent wannabes who should consider themselves lucky to have a job pushing ink.
Ashkenazy is simply the best. All the negative comments here are from painfully jealous people who have no talent–so they slam one of the most gifted pianists of all time. The same goes for those who dissed Liberace. The ones who did were no talent snobs who only wished they had talent.
I worked under him as a conductor and also when he was soloist in two concertos in early 1973. He was an incredible pianist and a really good conductor. A very modest humble and delightful man. He has always been my true hero in life.