Still to this day, people are dumbfounded at how he managed to play like this. It silences any criticism, for it is a level of playing the keyboard that remains unequalled.

I had the rare privilege of hearing him live in 1966, still the greatest concert I ever attended. 1st half all Chopin, 2d half Beethoven Opus 111. At the end there was silence in the hall for what seemed like a full minute, then cheering that would not stop...

@musicaperpianoforte

5 жыл бұрын

Are you sure about that? Which concert venue?

@czror

3 жыл бұрын

My father had the same privilege to be in his concert dated 30. 5. 1957 in Prague. What a coincidence, he told me that after Ballade op. 23 ended, there was silence in the hall. Then cheering... unstoppable... I understand why. You are lucky man, Mr. Karl.

@123meanderer

3 жыл бұрын

Damn. Mostly I prefer CDs but the opportunity to have been there. I am incredibly envious. I can't think of a word 'more' than envious. But that's what I mean :)

Never a player plays piano like Michelangeli. True legend

Il timbro, l'esecuzione, la chiarezza e coerenza in tutte le note.. la più bella interpretazione

Nessuno ha il tocco leggero come lui, io credo che sia il più grande interprete di Chopin che ho avuto modo di ascoltare

The fast runs are incredibly clean, how can he play those at x2 speed compared to most pianists while maintaining that level of clarity?

Michelangeli here dwells alone in a realm that is supra-human.

How can anybody dare to click "don't like" on a performance like this ?? Of course you may not agree on every single musical choice of Michelangeli, I also don't agree here and there, but even if we just look at the technical rendition this performance is simply jaw-dropping...

@user-rv2vr1lu3k

11 ай бұрын

내가누름 ㅋ

Sono orgoglioso di essere un suo connazionale. Maestro manchi tanto alla musica e a tutti noi!!!!!

@valentina6429

11 ай бұрын

Già….!!❤

Sentite la delicatezza del tocco. Benedetti Michelangeli sembra sfiorare la tastiera, anche nei brani più impegnativi, più virtuosistici, le dita volano e si posano senza peso sui tasti. Credo che, se Chopin l'avesse ascoltato, l'avrebbe abbracciato. Sei unico, Benedetti Michelangeli!

@mariagarbato1198

6 жыл бұрын

Enrico Gandolfini

@EmptyVee00000

6 жыл бұрын

Chopin sarebbe stato mortificato.

@luigimusico6116

5 жыл бұрын

Enrico Gandolfini ,premesso che non so neanche scrivere la parola "Conservatorio ", le dita del Mo fulminano pure un ignorante come me

@salvorizzo8671

5 жыл бұрын

@@EmptyVee00000 Non esageriamo... Ti ricordo che Chopin suonava le sue ballate distrutto dalla tisi, col finale della prima in sol minore tutto in pp anziché ff, episodio famoso, dovresti conoscerlo... Ma resta il fatto che ABM rimarrà per sempre il miglior pianista della storia. Fine.

@EmptyVee00000

5 жыл бұрын

@@salvorizzo8671 Non concordo; per me Rachmaninoff, poi Ashkenazy (musicisti, non solo pianisti come ABM).

Greatest pianist of all times and all times to come

@RaineriHakkarainen

4 жыл бұрын

ABM was not greatest., never was.Better ones beautiful piano sound players! like A.Rubinstein E.Gilels W.Kempff R.Lupu. The Titans Geniuses of piano better than ABM V.Horowitz G.Sokolov M.Pletnev D.Lipatti and so on

@reginao5120

4 жыл бұрын

@@RaineriHakkarainen That was just my opinion..I haven't found any other pianist create the sound and magic he does, and I love most of the ones you are mentioning..

@maetes54

3 жыл бұрын

@@RaineriHakkarainen don't judge what you don't understand.

@goktugblack

Жыл бұрын

@@RaineriHakkarainen Kempff could only dream of ABM's technical prowess. Rubinstein and Horowitz were sloppy compared to ABM. Lipatti was waaaay too staccato.

Grazie ad Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli credo in un Dio supremo. E lui ne è la testimonianza più sublime. Grazie Maestro dei Maestri.

@gg5488

4 жыл бұрын

...e' una frase, che pronuncio quando osservo una Donna di rara bellezza. Ma non hai torto neanche Tu...

@edoardopesce9226

Жыл бұрын

Il Maestro sarebbe stato molto contento di questo bel commento

こんなに美しい動きでピアノ弾く人みたことない

Semplicemente irripetibile....insuperabile.....unico

Notice how he rests his thumb on the keyslip (the piece of wood that covers the lower half of a key). This is something my own teacher used to do - she was a student of Bela Bartok. I never looked at my own hands so much until I began watching all these wonderful clips of Michelangeli !! It's wonderful stuff, Thanks for uploading it.

michelangeli is truly one of the greats there's no doubt now.

The sound of Michelangeli is as very beautiful as even old recording.

Incredible artistry. Legato, superb. Inner voices, astounding. What a touch!

My favorite pianist for CHopin's music... Rubinstein, RIchter, Kissin, Argerich, among others are good too, but MIchelangeli was born to play CHopin!

compositore genio + interprete genio = perfezione assoluta. La sublimazione dell'arte.

@gg5488

4 жыл бұрын

+Lavoro sanguinoso

@enricocifalino2325

3 жыл бұрын

@@gg5488 interprete

@gg5488

3 жыл бұрын

@@enricocifalino2325 ,su ABM,come su altre centinaia di stelle, non mi permetto di dire alcunché. Riferisco solo una frase di Michelangelo Buonarroti:"Il Genio è una lunga pazienza".

Just a butterfly on the keyboard. Nobody else has/had his lightness together with a perfect technique.

@ProfDrislane

4 жыл бұрын

There were quite a few pianists of the previous generation who could play the most amazing "leggeiro," including such greats as Benno Moiseiwitsch (have listen to the Mendelssohn-Rach Scherzo, or his Ravel!), Horowitz and Josef Hofmann. Interestingly, the pianist whose technique is most like Michelangeli is Glenn Gould. Like Gould, there is a reluctance to use much arm rotation which results in some problems of clarity in chordal passages. Comparing this performance with that of Hofmann (even though past his prime in 1937) will show what I mean..

Chopin to najpiękniejsza spuścizna dla ludzkości ❤️

Thank god For Poland for giving us Chopin!

@cedericocosantorini8013

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks France for giving us Chopin!

@cedericocosantorini8013

3 жыл бұрын

@Mikołaj Gogolewski He was both, you know it, we all know it, why bother?

@cedericocosantorini8013

3 жыл бұрын

@Mikołaj Gogolewski Seems like you are a desperate case. Good luck.

Michelangeli al massimo splendore, insuperabile per i secoli a venire.

初めて聴きました。冒頭から涙が止まりません。繊細で美しく、ピアノがうたっています。

Bravo bravo bravo bravo brilliance fantastic genial grandiose music polonaise super

10:51 that double trill.......unbelievable.....

@MatteoBiagiotti

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man..... i think i'll get to hell and back to achieve that mad stuff.

Just gorgeous! Every phrase going somewhere; every note meaning something! Sorry to gush, but this is exceptional.

@EmptyVee00000

4 жыл бұрын

Amazing playing, but the phrases and the notes are devoid of any direction or meaning; I am so disappointed.

@weekeeyuu836

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmptyVee00000 I see that you are actually not disappointed and that you revere the recording. Your comment creates the opposite impression in people, not to mention that you like women with very fat legs.

@EmptyVee00000

2 жыл бұрын

@Wee KeeYuu Nothing like a bit of humor to cheer yourself up!

@francescofrustagli6437

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmptyVee00000 Hi

Superbo ed unico degno interprete di Chopin

Marvelous Polonaise, with a very emotional and expressive line. . .

Great to read Karl's comment below about hearing this great pianist live. I really wish I had heard him too. Just come here from Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's 1969 performance of Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto, recorded in Helsinki. Best Beethoven's 5th I have ever heard I think. Michelangeli came from a well-to-do Italian family and his parents pushed him hard with his music practice from an early age, meaning that he had little chance to mix with other children. He was a pilot during WW2 and at one point was captured by German soldiers and imprisoned. When they discovered he was a pianist, they beat his hands. Luckily his hands recovered and he forged a great career, even though he did not perform as often as some pianists. He would practise for eight to ten hours a day, ensuring technical perfection first and then working for hours too on interpretation and always trying to respect the composer's score. I find his playing simply incredible: technical perfection, lightness of touch, power when needed, clarity of each note, the feeling that he is somehow getting very close indeed to how the composer himself might have sounded when playing the piece originally.

The most sensitive, nuanced playing I’ve ever heard.,

Basterebbe questa esecuzione a farne il più grande pianista mai esistito.

We need more views of this exceptional performance. More views for this legend!!!

Quando cerco il divino, torno a te. Maestro.

I am so happy you enjoy this! His playing is out of this world. He sounds divine! That happens when Chopin meet Michelangeli!

Divino! Stupendo! La nuova generazione di pianisti dovrebbe imparare dai grandi come Benedetti Michelangeli che la velocità non è virtuosità. A volte penso che qualcuno fa la gara per vedere chi suona più veloce pezzi difficili, dimenticando una cosa fondamentale: l'interpretazione. E vedo tanti talenti sprecati in questo modo. Peccato! Benedetti Michelangeli forever!

A. B. Michelangeli era l'unico artista al mondo, che ti motivava a cercare la perfezione in ogni singolo gesto !!!

Il suo virtuosismo è un grande gioco, gioco di perfezione, di acqua cadente dal cielo, il divino s'incontra col terreno ed esce fuori Michelangeli.

@guidocorso7956

4 жыл бұрын

Great' Guido Corso

coloro che hanno messo "non mi piace" sono sicuramente gli stessi che ci ritroviamo nelle commissioni di molti concorsi pianistici........ormai l'interpretazione non è più premiata! vanno avanti solo i pianisti "polli da batteria".

@EmptyVee00000

2 жыл бұрын

A me non piace, musicalmente, anche se si tratta di un'esecuzione tecnicamente impeccabile.

@RaineriHakkarainen

2 жыл бұрын

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli played The second-rated concertos like Mozart piano concerto no 15 Haydn concerto G major Liszt piano concerto no 1! ABM never played The Best piano concertos like Mozart 24 JS Bach 1052! Prokoviev 1-3 Chopin 1-2 Brahms 1-2 Rachmaninov 1-3 Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! ABM i am going to bash distroy Grieg concerto With brutal accent after brutal accent after brutal accent! The Best greatest pianists of All Time Are really=Artur Rubinstein ( The GOD) Grigory Sokolov (.The Titan of The piano The Giant of The piano) Emil Gilels ( The King) Wilhelm Kempff (.The most beautiful piano sound Ever) Sviatoslav Richter Mikhail Pletnev ( The most Powerful Ever) Vladimir Ashkenazy (.The.most colorful volcanic piano sound Ever) Solomon Cutner (. The most perfect structure of music) Alexei Lubimov (. The Genius no 1 Mozart piano concerto no 27!.) Maurizio Pollini (.The.Genius no 2)

@opale1572

2 жыл бұрын

@@RaineriHakkarainen Su opinión es respetable, desde luego. Pero la expone usted como si fuera la única válida e indiscutible. Por otra parte, creo que sólo tendría derecho a opinar con esa contundencia alguien que fuera un igual, en técnica y conocimientos, de esos que usted nombra. ¿Lo es usted?

Absolutely brilliant. Composition and performance.

il più grande pianista italiano....se non del mondo mai esistito....bellissima interpretazione....peccato che oggi giorno non sia conosciuto da tutti questo stupendo pezzo....ci dovrebbe essere maggiore diffusione per far capire a tanti che non vogliono capire, la bellezza della musica classica e romantica......;)

Tocco " romantico - classico" .È il mio Mito !

La perfection n'est pas de ce monde...à une exception près : Arturo B Michelangeli

perfect, such attention to the smallest detail, of this great piece.

Orgoglioso di essere Bresciano come era Lui è passeggiare e vivere la città dove Lui frequentava e studiava e ho studiato, Conservatorio Venturi prima e adesso Luca Marenzio., e dava concerti al Teatro Grande. Peccato non averlo conosciuto. Ma ora la fortuna di poterlo ascoltare attraverso questi strumenti tecnologici. Infinitamente grazie.

la testimonianza di Dio e la musica....poi i suoi profetti sono questi grandi legendi como Benedetti Michelangeli e tanti altri!!! la lista e interminabile!!!! Grazie Dio per Chopin ......!!!!

When he began to paly, I can't help myself from crying....so beautiful....

From the very first measures, we understand that we are going to hear an ooutstanding version.

I love MICHELANGELI he spiritualizes any composer

Quelle performance époustouflante!!! Mille fois bravo!!!

unreal. the clarity and whimsy are unmatched. amazing rubatos too

only 1757 views for this great artist .I bet if his name was woo ,cho, lee ,liu,kwo or chooey lie he could possibly hope for more.Better luck next time Arturo!!! YOU get 10 likes from me!

L'impareggiabile grazia, delicatezza e naturalezza dell'esecuzione, la perfetta simbiosi con lo strumento, unitamente all'eterea ispirazione divina che suscita la sua interpretazione fanno di Benedetti Michelangeli il più grande pianista degli ultimi tempi.

Absolument paradisiaque...

Wordless!! È impossibile esprimere con parole un commento adeguato alla profondità di sentimento, di perfezione stilistica e tecnica. Postura di aristocratico. Solo...sentire ad occhi chiusi e dimenticare il quotidiano per salire al divino.

interpretazione grandiosa e sublime

After all these years this is still one of the best

Brilliant playing ! Beautiful !

Absolutely STUNNING. Never was nuts about this piece until now... He makes it look so easy, and his sound is in complete control. Thanks so much for posting this.

lacrime agli occhi,quanta bellezza!

Inarrivabile

That concentration with lightness often makes me cry...

A pianist of genius!

aristocratic poise and elegance

J'en ai les larmes aux yeux.. Du très grand Chopin. Chapeau bas!

Absolutely amazing.

Just WOW ! Is Chopin alive !!! Only Chopin himself would play like that !

Just perfect!!!

really the best

Perfection!!

Brilliant!!So smooth and Clear at the same time!Chopin would have liked this very much!

A beautiful and sensitive performance of this piece. Michelangeli's touch is miraculous, simply perfect, each note clearly defined. We shall not see his like again.

@marksmith3947

2 жыл бұрын

Did he perform the Polonaise-Fantasie? I think his approach would suit that piece very well. In general I don't find his Chopin convincing. I was just reading that other famous pianists said the same thing.

@alexandros789

Жыл бұрын

@@marksmith3947 personally I find his interpretations of Chopin head and shoulders above any other pianist, included Rubinstein and Horowitz (although Horowitz had a very original and unique way of playing Chopin, and probably he could let the piano "sing" better than Michelangeli could). The tempo is simply perfect, the clarity of the most difficult passages is unmatched, f is forte and p is piano, i think if Chopin could play his music himself, it would be not far from Michelangeli's interpretation.

Sublime interpretazione di uno dei miei brani preferiti

Senza parole

Wonderful! Magic!

Please enjoy this, as long as it is available, as I got a message from you tube about copyright... Of course, I don't own this clip. I only love both Chopin and Michelangeli!

@almavie6786

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing ! Should be a recording for RAI(Italian TV national broadcast). Almost live, no remakes

@MatteoBiagiotti

3 жыл бұрын

Glad they didn't delete this :)

beyond fantastic and sublime

Un Être extraordinaire! Mon pianiste préféré! Grâce à son toucher sa technique époustouflante ,on entend Chopin ainsi que tout autre compositeur à la perfection.

@opale1572

2 жыл бұрын

Era perfecto en todo lo que tocaba. También es mi preferido, junto con Richter, Gieseking y Katchen.

La perfection...

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli degli Angeli del cielo sei caduto come un manto di velluto nelle anime di noi tutti per portarci le gioie di Chopin

Ah lovely just lovely art its all this is

Magic ! Thanks

Lovely piece.

Truly virtuoso! 👍👍👍

Truly awesome!

I have been thinking a lot of Chopin's genius lately. Not just him but how many of the great talents in history: Chopin, Beethoven, Van Gogh, Li Bai, Lennon, Kahlo, Dickinson, Poe, Louis Carroll, David Foster Wallace, Joel Peter-Witkin, Woody Allen, the list goes on... None of them had a truly happy life. Happiness exist in their work but so is suffering which further enhanced their work. It's obvious that ignorance is bliss; true genius and artistic talent tend to bring about a deep understanding of the human experience that is neither condusive or practical towards a long happy life. How thin is that line between Genius and Madness?

@cruscante

9 жыл бұрын

Please add: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei,

@LazlosPlane

7 жыл бұрын

How many PEOPLE do you know that have truly "happy" lives?

@giuliacalia9695

6 жыл бұрын

Leonardo da Vinci

@opale1572

2 жыл бұрын

@@cruscante Hala! Ahora, a hacer cada cual su lista personal.

il modo che ha di approcciare questo pezzo è incredibile...l'accompagnamento con la sinistra è leggerissimo, vellutato...la destra canta in maniera incredibile, ma senza mai sforzare....la tecnica è follemente alta ma lo fa sembrare un pezzo facile...una esecuzione così non l'avevo mai sentita. penso che questo, mazeppa suonato da cziffra e bach suonato da gould sono state le scoperte youtubbiane più incredibili fino ad ora per me

@nadiadesimone9853

7 жыл бұрын

bigcalamaro Analisi attentissima.Complimenti 😊😚

@magbag70

6 жыл бұрын

ne farà molte altre... ne sono certo

Grazie maestro

@mattia144

3 жыл бұрын

🎼

Simply wonderful! Thanks for posting this gem!

Grandissimo

I just finished listening to the same piece by yundi li. What a difference! Not that yundi played poorly, of course. It's just that it sounds so very different. Not just the sound but the whole entire atmosphere. The whole energy. I feel so relieved with this performance. Brilliant.

Amazing!

Fantástico fantástico!!!

o miracoloso e sfuggente. Il più grande interprete di tutti i tempi.

WOW! THE smoothest andante spianato i have EVER heard! michelangeli was truly a genius!

@davidhenning568

6 жыл бұрын

Colin Rose listen to Hoffman ‘s live recording

What a master!

Stunning, wonderful rendition!😃

El magnifico

Piękno muzyki Fryderyka Chopina to fenomen graniczący z cudem ❤️