This is the greatest interpretation of this concerto I've ever heard. This is the full emotional depth of Brahms brilliantly and artistically displayed.

This is a grandiose and ingenious performance of the piano concerto by the great Johann Brahms, no other pianist had such an amazing, individual depth of readings, embodiment of the composer idea. . .The skill of Emil Gilels impeccable, amazing sophistication of taste, stylistic perfection, a wonderful sense of harmony, absolutely incredible, bright and emotional manner of interpretation is delightful. . .

I love Brahms...I love Gilels...I love Orchestra and conductor...I love this beautiful MUSIC...P h e n o m e n a l performance

The gift of the DG Box set of both the Brahms Concertos with Gilels and Jochum as a Christmas present from my mother in December 1972 started me collecting records and led to me becoming a classical LP dealer 20 years later. It was, is and will always remain special.

@MrRichygm

5 жыл бұрын

I have owned that set too, from that time.

@maelughran6981

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, my Mum introduced me to classical music via vinyl and tape casette - including the Brahms Concertos with Gilels! This piano concerto is up there with Beethoven's 5th and Rachmaninoff's Second. I cannot imagine a better interpretation than this one. It is indeed special. I love this music so much I'm going to buy the CD.

@strevwal

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful memory/story

00:01 - 1 - Maestoso 24:11 - 2 - Adagio 39:00 - 3 - Rondo, Allegro non troppo

This recording is a force of nature!

The heroic comfort of this wonderful performance is irreplaceable , and incomparable

Unsurpassed and sublime.

I really love this performance. It is interesting to quote that in an interview Jochum declared that his recordings of the Brahms piano concerti with Gilels were his most beloved works in the studio!

Eugen Jochum - unfortunately totally underrated - is easily as good as Schuricht, Barbirolli, Kempe, Fricsay, Cluytens, Böhm, Walter and Klemperer. Emil Gilels is simply fantastic, what a treat to listen to this unsurpassed masterpiece, one of my favourite records, sublime and divine!

@MD-md4th

10 ай бұрын

Jochum is universally considered a master of the Central European idiom, and more highly regarded than most of the names you listed.

@bernabefernandeztouceda7315

2 ай бұрын

​​@@MD-md4thnah, no more highly regarded nor better than Klemperer, Kempe or Barbirolli

@MD-md4th

Ай бұрын

@@bernabefernandeztouceda7315 More highly regarded than all except Klemperer and Walter.

La migliore interpretazione in assoluto!

First time I've heard it ; just speechless .Extra terrestrial !

圧倒的音響。力強いピアノの響きでありながら、心に共鳴する哀愁もある。ヨッフム、ベルリンフィル、ギレリス氏の三位一体の凄まじい演奏です。

jochum et gilels sont deux monuments de la musique et des brahmssiens comme il en existe bien trop peu ,, brahms me fascine ,, il m'a fallu du temps , mais je ne regrette rien , au contraire les joies inouies que m'apporte brahms se comparent au bonheur , à la passion , enfin il est quasi impossible de décrire les sentiments que génère ce compositeur si mystérieux mais qui exige des interprètes des qualités qu'ils ne montrent que trop rarement ,, brahms quand il composait avouait se sentir inondé par une force supérieure céleste dont il ne savait pas l'origine , divine peut être , son exigence lui imposait de reprendre et recommencer ses oeuvres et parfois les détruire pour les recomposer différemment il travailla près de 20 à la composition de son fabuleux requiem , et attendit des années avant de s'attaquer à la composition symphonique ,, mais le sommet de brahms selon moi réside dans une musique de chambre que très peu parvinrent à égaler ,, je ne vois que mozart beethoven schubert pour la musique de chambre pour se mettre en face de brahms même si yohannes demeure mon préféré , peut être cette exigence l'empêcha de s(attaquer à l'opéra ou mozart paraît être seul ,, tant ses opéras me fascinent , puccini chez les italiens reste bien au dessus d'un verdi , d'un donizetti , d'un bellini , ,,, il faudra attendre le wozzeck d'alban berg pour retrouver un opéra digne de mozart ,, wagner devient vite ennuyeux , sauf dans les wesendonck lieder comme richard strauss dans les vier letze lieder somptueux de grâce ,, élégiaque ,, en écoutant gilels je regrette de n'avoir pas étudié plus tôt les grands musiciens soviétiques compositeurs et interprètent ils subirent eux aussi l'ignominie de la guerre froide ,, et pas seulement en musique , combien de nobel leur furent dérobés par l'otan l'onu les usa ,, je rêve que l'afrique connaisse enfin son heure de gloire artistique scientifique ect mais il faudra lutter bien longtemps encore pour que justice soit faite ,, alea jacta est

@amaliachr8661

Күн бұрын

Συγχαρητήρια 👏👏👏καταπληκτική προσέγγιση!!! Ή τουλάχιστο έτσι μου φαίνεται εμενα γιατί συμφωνώ απόλυτα με αυτά που έγραψες!

For me this recording by Gilels, together with the recording Backhaus made in the early 1950's with Bohm and the Vienna Philharmonic, are the 2 greatest recordings ever made of this concerto. These 2 pianists differ quite in tempo, but both are different but magnificent readings. No one else built the tension up so well AND keep it there throughout. All the other great recordings I've heard (Serkin, Fleisher, Curzon) cannot keep the tension so effectively right throughout as Gilels and Backhaus does. For me, that is what sets them apart from the rest.

@elijaguy

3 жыл бұрын

You forgot Schnabel. He reveals some aspects of savage darkness that few if any others dare to touch, for it involves a huge risk.

@RaineriHakkarainen

2 жыл бұрын

The Best Brahms piano concerto no 1 players Are really Radu Lupu playing Brahms piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video KZread! Lupu The Best perfect piano sound Ever! Radu Lupu The relax! All The others Are stiff cold piano sound players like Arrau Serkin Backhaus! And More The Great Brahms piano concerto no 1 players Are really Witold Malcuzynski Maria Grinberg! Even Artur Rubinstein ( Rubinstein is My list because his piano sound! Bruno Leonardo Gelber his coda first mvt IS one of The Best! The weakest Brahms piano concerto no 1 is Krystian Zimerman with Bernstein! Zimerman a dull Boring stiff machine player! Zimerman so over-rated pianist! Zimerman his coda first mvt is so mechanical Boring stiff dull machine playing ever!!

@ewaldsteyn469

2 жыл бұрын

@@RaineriHakkarainen In the end it all comes down to a matter of taste. Pianists that you find cold (Arrau, Serkin and Backhaus) I feel exactly the opposite about. But that is allright, we will never all like the same things. You will enjoy Radu Lupu and I will enjoy Backhaus and Gilels just as much - and each of us will think the other one is missing out on the best recordings.

@ewaldsteyn469

2 жыл бұрын

@@RaineriHakkarainen Just listened to the Radu Lupu recording you mentioned. Stopped after 10 minutes. It bored me- he is stripping the concerto of all its inner tension and passion. If that is the way you like your Brahms 1st piano concerto then fine for you. But I prefer a much different approach like what Gilels and Backhaus are doing

un des plus beaux concerti de tous les temps , par des interprètes au sommet de leur art ,

Insurpassable, inégalable, Gilels nous laisse entrevoir le merveilleux pays de Brahms…

The maturity of this concerto is equal to Beethoven no.3 already, how amazing that Brahms is already a grown up in his op.1. Very rare even amongst the greats !

Soaring performance Soaring soul I hope and pray (maybe the same thing…) that next generations will listen and feel Thank you with all my romantic heart!

This is one of the greatest recordings of - to me - the greatest pianoconcert ever. Some 25 years ago I bought the Rubinstein/Reiner recording without knowing how lucky I was. It still is the goldstandard to me but Gilels/Jochum here could be even better. As you can´t compare youtube quality to an anlog LP I will have to wait until I find the anlog-disc of this. By the way in the 2. Brahmsconcert my Goldstandard is Gilels/Reiner!

@eppurs1muove

8 жыл бұрын

+Rainer Langlotz I once bought the original DGG double vinyl set - beware the awful Melodiya print on one single LP - in mint condition - the sound is fantastic. At least on a high quality equipment which gives justice to the dynamic range and depth of the sound and the subleties of the performance. I think this is one of the finest classical music recordings ever.

@eppurs1muove

8 жыл бұрын

+eppurs1muove Melodiya has sometimes extremely good record quality too - but this Brahms reissue from the DGG is not among them, I meant.

@c.nooteboom1942

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@zebeauv

3 жыл бұрын

Try Gelber 1966…

Monumentale!!

gilels mérite son étoile sur le fame of walk des grands interprètes ,, il resta humble conscient de son talent , passionné par son art

The first movement is the perfect tempo. Any slower and it just becomes fossil like. Any faster, and it’s superficial.

This magnificiant interpretation is just the best in terms of dramatism and beauty of the different instrumental sections of the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by an inspired director in the name of Jochum really. Gilels is dynamic and perfectly adapted to this repertoire.

With exactly 24 minutes the maestoso is even longer than on Arraus later recordings. Yet Gilels maintains the tension over the whole timespan. Gilels (in the Maestoso of 1. Brahmsconcert) confirms Arraus opinion that intensity has to be reached by monumental force not by velocity. (Compare Arrau/Kubelik 1964).

Agree that this is the best performance that I heard first in 1976. I have not heard anything that comes close to the majesty of this performance.

I bought this boxed set of the two piano concerti by Brahms over 45 Years ago. I have never regretted the purchase. The #1 is wonderful and the second movement is beyond compare. The beautiful restraint of both orchestra under Jochum and piano under the hands of Gilels is so lyrical but with a tightly held tension that eventually can't be contained and explodes without any sense of menace or destruction. The climbing out towards the end over the prolonged pedal note of the orchestra is so well controlled. Just the very best recording there is by a long way.

@stonefireice6058

10 ай бұрын

One excellent review ! You said it all for me. Thank you

Gilels: interprete grandioso di molti capolavori e ingiustamente negletto in taluni casi, ad esempio nella proletaria cultura musicale italiana.

@erikgardetemps9708

3 жыл бұрын

Quando dici proletaria cultura musicale italiana fai riferimento a Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Paganini, Vivaldi, Marcello... o semplicemente è uno dei tanti pregiudizi inutili e bassi che popolano la tua mente illuminata gettato a caso sul pavimento della pulsione commentatrice su internet? Grazie per non rispondere.

Лучшее исполнение, брависсимо!

what a great wonderful fantastic performance!

Outstanding performance! Thank you for uploading:)

Beautiful! Thank you for posting!

Thank you for this beautiful performance and recording of my favorite pianist and the orchestra just outstanding.

Bravo! best of best version.

Outstanding

Феноменально!

Colosal!......Me ha dejado sin palabras

unsurpassable. yes

Conductor, orchestra and solist, they are playing steadily this concerto in a body with a slow tempo. This performance sounds very comfotable to me. Thank you!

Thanks,It's really great performance!

La mia registrazione preferita di questo concerto.Esecuzione e registrazione semplicemente straordinari ! Complimenti per il post

Still wonderful

je ne vois personne au 21 ème siècle capable de surpasser cette version que seuls approchent , au siècle passé curzon et szell , le vrai génie est si rare , les médias voient des génies partout quand un interprète est sous les feux de la rampe le monde se courbe tel ylang ylang et d'autres que je ne citerai mais ylang est tout sauf un génie , richter , kempf arrau , gilels , lipatti , rubinstein , michelangeli , serkin , gould , brendel sont des génies j'en oublie horowitz et d'autres mais ils ne sont pas si nombreux , la vraie beauté est rare , gilels est de ceux là ,avec backhaus , curzon , haskil , yudina , kraus , et je ne parle des violonistes , pour la rélève pianistique je la vois chez les femmes russes ukrainiennes quelques anglais et les austro germaniques bien sûr , mais il faudrait une thèse pour expliquer les raisons d'une telle domination qui n'a rien de commun avec un excès de nostalgie

Thank you for the lovely video montage to accompany this music!

Arrau y Gilels son mis preferidos!

Still the one and only for me!

Divine

I adore Gilels, he was incomparable. Do check Maria Grinberg plying this concerto. They were friends!!!!

@adamchan6296

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this information of grinberg, i deemed her one of the gods amongst the great pianists of the 20th century. Though gilels is the greatest.

너무 좋습니다.👏👏👏

Jochum is an underestimated Meister, he is as good as Karl Boehm at least, and even better, just because of his conducting of the Bruckner Symphonies, magnificent and grand, a dynamic balance is there, a rare achiement amongst the conductors. And this conducting of Brahms is his masterwork, because with Gilels, Jochum expresses not only his classicism proper but also an inspired romanticim, which is a must for Johannes Brahms, therefore, this version has no equal until now, the best pianist + the first class conductor + the first class orchestra. Bravo , Brahms Grandeur and Glory !

magnificent!!

@c.nooteboom1942

3 жыл бұрын

Your reaction might be a bit slightly beside a point - i' d rather say: ¡OUTSTANDING!

After the premiere, Brahms played the piano, just one Person clapped. What a shame.

The first movement seems king in this concerto, particularly the entrance of the piano (at 4:09) , but without the long wait for it and the symphonic introduction, it wouldn't come across so beautiful in contrast from what has already been stated so emphatically by the orchestra in all it's intensity. The piano is the individual in some sense here, but allows itself to collaborate once it's independence is clearly stated, and not seemingly for virtuosic purposes. Only late does it seem to try to compete with the orchestra in demonstrating what it can do in terms of its "theatricality."

Mitico. Imperdibile.

love this beautiful

Just watched the Thielemann/Pollini version. Dire. So tepid. I think Pollini fell asleep during the first movement. Thielemann appeared to be taking part in an egg-and-spoon race at the local special schoo.

@taticoeur9285

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely agree

A titanic performance of a titanic masterpiece.

I 00:00 II 24:09 III 39:55

❤️👏👏❤️

44:23 begins one of the best sections of the third movement. The orchestration combined with a developing idea, fugue like....

Pretty good. Like a slower, less fiery version of Rudolf Serkin / Cleveland Orchestra / Georg Szell

comment choisir entre szell curzon ,, et gilels jochum ,, ne pas choisir ét apprécier simplement deux versions magistrales géniales inoubliables ,, mille fois mr gilels ,, j'aurais tant aimer visiter l'union soviétique pour écouter gilels , maria yudina , david oistrakh , quel bonheur ,, et goûter une bonne vodka en regardant les femmes russes si jolies

Nelson Frere and Ricardo Chailly:among the best Brahms piano concertos ever recorded!

In the 40 years I 've heard interpretations of this concerto only that of alfred brendel almost matches this. The rest is silence.

@barbaraglynn1531

4 ай бұрын

Have you listened to Helene Grimaud play this ? Her interpretation is close to Gilles.

Orginal DGG 1970's recording.

協奏曲、独奏曲、歌曲を問わず、全ブラームス作品の録音の中でも屈指だと思う。むろん、この曲においては右に出る演奏などちょっと考えられない。

The best versions of this concerto are all recorded live; Joseph Moog, Arrau in Moscow with Rozhdestvensky, (also with Horenstein,) Moravec in Dallas with Mata, and Maria Grinberg (which can be heard on KZread with Victor Dubrovsky.)

@stonefireice6058

10 ай бұрын

But this one in unsurpassed so far.

@RaineriHakkarainen

6 ай бұрын

Radu Lupu his Brahms piano concerto no 1 with the Finnish Radio Symphony video youtube from 1996! Radu Lupu had the most colorful piano sound for Brahms concerto no 1! Radu Lupu more relax player than Arrau!

@RaineriHakkarainen

3 ай бұрын

Radu Lupu with the Finnish Radio Symphony video from 1996 live! Radu Lupu had the most colorful piano sound for Brahms concerto no 1! Radu Lupu was More relax player than Arrau!! Maria Grinberg had most passion and fire and Best structure for Brahms no 1!!

É como navegar pelo cosmos.

吉利爾斯無疑是二十世紀最偉大的鋼琴家，他的貝多芬鋼琴奏鳴曲，在俄國無出其右，在雄渾與力度上，瑪利亞格林堡不及，在音色之光采上，瑪利亞尤金娜不及，在境界上，乃師諾伊豪斯乃師弟李希特皆不及。德奧系鋼琴家巴克豪斯之力度不足，肯普夫的錄音較差，境界有得此，阿勞沒聽過，別人就不用談了。所以他穩執牛耳。他的強在於精神境界之致廣大而盡精微，極高明而道中庸。唯一可以和他一比的是兩位俄國女士尤金娜和格林堡以及一位德國女武士艾莉奈，可惜情緻或許有更細微高妙處，然畢竟是布拉姆斯德意志雄獅，還是吉利爾斯雄渾取勝。

@shin-i-chikozima

2 жыл бұрын

漢字自体が美

Why would maestro Jochum's recordings be so under-represented? This collaboration, though more deliberate than that by Leon Fleischer and Szell/Cleveland is as great -with sound to match!

Photos of Brahms, supposedly- actually of Vladimyr Rebikov, same as photos of Satie; some of the latter, of Rebikov's father...Neither composer left any photos for posterity...

gilels el mejor?

Höchste Klavierkonzert mit Meisterpianist! Brahms Klavierkonzert Nr.1 Klavierspiel-Emil Gilels Dirigent-Eugen Jochum *Berlinske Filharmonie 피아니스트 거인과 함께 최고의 피아노협주곡!브람스 피아노협주곡1번 나의 견해로 브람스 피아노협주곡1&2번 가장 우수한 연주평가!강력추천

Are the swoopy visuals really necessary?

40:28

Weergaloos

Best parts 4:10 23:00 30:10 33:40 46:50

31:50 47:57 50:04

When the video is interrupted by advertisements, it makes me hate the product.

24:11

Words fail! Though I wish the "hifi" were a bit higher--not to look a gift horse in the mouth!

Dit geloof je niet. Bocabierto

Whoever designed the intensely irritating visuals for this should be boiled in oil.

Selig, selig- sie benuetzte langsamer Tempo...

Stodgy, metronomic, and much too cautious. Performers know that recordings carry wrong notes (gasp!) into eternity, and listeners who don't know Brahms from Braum's do indeed keep count of "errors." The result is a sterile performance with little passion or drive. Ho-hum...

@MRTincho23ify

7 жыл бұрын

Could you please suggest another performance of this concert that you are positive convince is better than this one? thanks in advance :)

@Caocao8888

7 жыл бұрын

juan rojo Vladimir Horowitz/Bruno Walter (1936)

@lobbdaniel

7 жыл бұрын

Gould/Bernstein, a very passionate performance.

@watutman

7 жыл бұрын

Rudolf Serkin with the Cleveland Orchestra/Goerge Szell.

@mauricioduron3193

6 жыл бұрын

+juan rojo More dramatic (idiomatic?): Leon Fleischer/George Szell/the Cleveland Orchestra.