More interviews by Marek Eben on this site: www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1093836883-na-plovarne/6286-episodes-in-english/

I admire the interviewers very eager and respectful attitude. The shy laughter obviously is a sign of admiration.

This is one of the many reasons that KZread is so much better than television.

@gordonramsey6738

3 жыл бұрын

Agree!!

@hemanroczko1799

3 жыл бұрын

This is actually a Czech TV programme.

@kf31paris

3 жыл бұрын

So true

@prager5046

3 жыл бұрын

That is why i canceled my cable...and news are much more updated online, so who needs cable...

I have watched this video about ten times tonight. Every word this woman produces is witty, I am overwhelmed by the beauty of her mind and how we are privileged to have her around this era. Helene's charm and beauty is an ongoing event, she is happening now and that is amazing. I can't dream of anything greatest than you, dear Helene.

@robertlabelle9343

7 жыл бұрын

I, too , have been enthralled many times by her playing . . . and not disappointed with the interview, either.

@Obaysch

6 жыл бұрын

Smilthy propose, already.

@baldkea

6 жыл бұрын

Understand. An interview one could never tire of rewatching

So well spoken a thoughtful massive beauty. Something that we are losing in these horrible times we live in

As I listen to her play I can start to hear her breathing. The room disappears; everything but her & the piano...then I become the piano. She becomes pure emotion when she plays, a beautiful spirit playing a beautiful composition & turning it into something extremely personal.

Humble and yet enormous intellect.

The Ravel concerto is a real gem, not least of all for its adagio. I was so pleased when she just started playing it out of nowhere.

Have no adequate words; the interviewer often seems overwhelmed. Pure, unselfconscious/modest/unpretentious beauty, musical sensibility and intelligence.

The sun grows dark in my eyes......after seeing Hélène Grimaud, and hearing her speak with such intelligence, wit and humility. A real beauty in every way.

Helene's "beauty" transcends her physical appearance: she radiates a somewhat hard-to-describe quality that is very appealing. 11/22/2017

@sanderson9515

5 жыл бұрын

Such sublime artistry and beauty in one person. Tres charmant.

@frankdsouza2425

3 жыл бұрын

Phew, what a scorcher!! Apart from that, hard to improve on what you RogerC and others in a similar vein, have written.

@gibbogle

3 жыл бұрын

Tiny flickers of expression on her face are so fascinating.

@valentinaarcila2288

3 жыл бұрын

ei, sweet strenght

@lubakeshyan1916

Жыл бұрын

I have been fascinated by stoic might in Bram’s second concerto and again she proved epic power under her fingertips to give piano ability to be some unreal medium between Bach and real organ in Chaconne today in 21 century! Any peace become revelation!!!❤

Let's review: A great artist and performer, beautiful, with a killer smile, intelligent, articulate, insightful, gentle, wildlife advocate, well -mannered and polite. Possibly an angel?

I'm captured by the grace of this woman

I am absolutely hypnotized

I think I ve just seen the most beautiful woman on the planet! Beauty onlysurpassed by her mind and talent. Could nt agree more about Bach being the top of all geniuses and loved the Ravel piano. What a great upload.. thanks to whoever did this

Words fall short in describing the light and joy that this wonderful artist, Helene Grimaud, projects. Truly a unique human being.

A musically erudite woman with an admirable mastery of English.

@paulquinn7282

2 жыл бұрын

I was allegedly fluent in French once . . .

A brilliant and beautiful soul. Fascinating, articulate interview, too, especially about 20 min in, from there, when she starts talking about musical architecture.

What shines forth is the sheer intelligence of this woman. She is so articulate, so aware.

See, now I'm conflicted: she is a profoundly gifted pianist and I want her to play, but now, having listened to her speak I don't want her to stop talking. She is bewitching.

@MrSA1829

3 жыл бұрын

Yes she was an amazing interview she is also a very gifted speaker.

@lonew2657

2 жыл бұрын

You know she can do both at the same time right.

@Orson2u

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. But her bone structure, those cheeks here - such standouts!

@beetoven8193

2 жыл бұрын

yeah... i'm fucked

@PsyCodeqz

Жыл бұрын

It's how most intelligent musicians talk, articulation skills mastered, because you can't talk to other musicians without knowing how to speak the hidden, somewhat "elven" language, that you learn in music college. The people that don't understand the language just focus on how beautiful someone looks or how sexy their voice sounds, go figure

Look at her hands! She is not just a beautiful woman, she has the most beautiful hands of any pianist anywhere in the world.

Never listened to someone from France who spoke sutch beautiful English.

Such a gifted artist. And a beautiful woman. And so philosophical and articulate about the role of the artist. And she started piano at age EIGHT! Her meteoric ascent during those early years must have absolutely astonished her parents!!

@rykehuss3435

2 жыл бұрын

Eight is pretty late for most virtuosos though

@BerndtNorten

Жыл бұрын

Like Yuja, a goddess.

@starsandnightvision

Жыл бұрын

@@rykehuss3435 You are proving his point.

What an all-round wonderful person she is; I find myself captivated by her interviews & her performances in equal measure.

@barbaraglynn1531

Жыл бұрын

And I as well, Gavin. I can listen all day to her play and give an interview. Both are equally intriguing!!

When Héleène Grimaud speaks, one is completely drawn into what she says, how she says it and her precise and highly intelligent way of expressing her thoughts and feelings. When she plays music, one cannot think of anything else other than the music and the wondrous performer;. She is (has) a rare and irresistible combination of intellect, talent, personality, and beauty. It's a true & great privilege to breathe the same air she breathes. Thanks for uploading the interview, and thanks to Marek Eben who brought out the very best of Ms. Grimaud.

@armani3234

3 жыл бұрын

That's your fantasy alone Mate. It's Best you keep to yourself.

@guillaumefloatin91

3 жыл бұрын

@@armani3234 It is called grace. When you have it in yourself you can recognize in others. AT least I can see you have none of that.

@armani3234

3 жыл бұрын

@@guillaumefloatin91 it's called hypocritical body moves and nonsensical face grimaces to scream and shout for attention. My guess she never got any attention from her parents and suffered from the nervous chicken syndrome ( terrified of everything). I can certainly say the same applies to your sorry arse.

@guillaumefloatin91

3 жыл бұрын

@@armani3234 Thank you for your kinds words. you should go consult a psychiatrist fast master.

@armani3234

3 жыл бұрын

@@guillaumefloatin91 shut up and learn a thing or two.

What a privilege, sitting there with Hélène, chatting about wolves and music and listening to her play! What a pure joy she is!

@valentinaarcila2288

3 жыл бұрын

in one word : class

Quelle femme merveilleuse ! Et puis ce regard...d'une rare intelligence...

The part about wolves and the wolf conservation center is giving me goosebumps. It's so touching.

Those Ravel bits just killed me. I have no word to describe this unbelievable beauty of a musical composition.

I gather from a bio that she learnt English in three months from watching TV and watching films!!

I'm very happy to see her. Thanks.

Excellent interview. She's so talented and exceptional bright.

Helene is my favorite pianist (there are so many good ones!) and she embodies everything I like about classical music, the only music that appeals to me anymore.

She is so elegant!

I love you Helene G. The piano is in my soul, and I feel you when you play and just love you.

Comme dans toutes ses interviews, cette femme, cette artiste d’exception est sublime et d’une intelligence juste magnifique; son expression et sa justesse de propos, vont avec sa grâce !

Hélène Grimaud is a gifted personality, able to give us a model of creativity, through her main commitment, Music. And her love of Wolves, avec tous les sens aigus.

I'm not hugely impressed by the interviewer's questions, but the responses are more than generous ... the interview succeeds on that basis in my view. It's remarkable that this interview is as recent as 2016, Ms Grimaud went through a period of very serious illness prior to that, thank God she has recovered so evidently. Some have complimented her beauty in the comment thread, I can think of stronger reasons to approve of her as an individual, certainly as a wonderful and inspired and really courageous artist, but indeed she is looking superb here. I wish her long life, and a continuing evolution as an artist to always keep track of.

She's an angel on earth. I could spend a lifetime watching over her.

So beautiful! both, the tunes and the pianist!

She is "just" absolutely marvellous!

she says she's not afraid to hit it. that is, she plays with emphasis when required. i call it banging away. it is what van cliburn did. he would almost leave his seat and fall with his whole body. banging away when needed defines the physical strength needed to play this and most instruments. she also draws the respect of conductor and orchestra. few do it. a most impressive individual and one who should not limit her accomplishment to music. the world needs more like her.

@tedl7538

4 жыл бұрын

"Banging away" would usually be perceived in a pejorative sense. Maybe you should find another metaphor.

@richardcondon3797

4 жыл бұрын

@@tedl7538 With great good power ?

@toscadonna

11 ай бұрын

My Mom is a pianist, and she calls it “dropping the weight into the keys.” ‘Banging away” is not what someone who does it right is doing. Most pianists aren’t doing it right and are hitting at the keys, and it doesn’t sound good.

Love her. Her Rach 2 is beyond sublime. It was how I discovered her on YT. An exquisite performance by all. And it’s great to see her here being so down to earth and accessible.

The interweaving of speech and piano playing is deeply moving, and Helene is a master of it.

I thank you Helene that you are willing to push your limits, and expand and take risks in your playing... It certainly seemed like you were really doing that, when you played Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, at the San Francisco Symphony Music Hall!... The way you played the 2nd movement just swept me away, my eyes full of tears, my heart singing... and I can tell you that I was not the only one in the audience who felt this way... even the door keeper told me that he had never experience such playing, in all the time he had been working for the Symphony! :)

She is a true artist. We are lucky to be alive to listen to such perfection she achieves. What an amazing woman.

Thank you too, to the interviewer. Did his job so well that we focus on Helene. One thing where she is not necessarily correct is at 25:02 . She refers to a connection between the world of the composer and the listener. In her interpretation of the Brahms PC1 she transcends that. Brahms has drawn a profound tenderness and put it to music. It seems to me that she and Brahms were both 'mediums' and she has felt (far beyond the notes on the page) this world of tender beauty and so that is what comes out and the listener is reduced to tears from a message that has passed through Brahms, the Conductor, Orchestra, and Helene.

Finally, an artist speaks of channeling. All the practice and all the hours are for nothing unless you can open your mind as a conduit for the flow of the music or whatever your artistic expression happens to be, always know that the music doesn't come from you but through you.

@gastonflatulenza1276

Жыл бұрын

Guitarist Michael Hedges said very much the same thing. He said, "I can't try to be good. I can only try to be present so that which speaks to me can speak through me."

Thanks for posting, she is amazing! What an inspiration!

what a lovely person, an elegant spokesperson for the beauty of music

Very very well spoken, very witty and displaying philosophical wisdom. Of course, your piano pieces are the most wonderful ones I love very much

Your music reflects who you are...I feel how much passion this artist has for the piano💕

She is like a demure lady but when she plays the piano she sends emotions through her playing that its really quite astounding!! Stirs up so much emotion. Truly gifted.

a truly talented artist. I enjoy her recordings. I would enjoy seeing her in a live concert.

@alexanderdupuis

2 жыл бұрын

I got to see her live once, in 2009 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It was a wonderful experience.

@barbaraglynn1531

Жыл бұрын

I have had the privilege of seeing Helene live three times in the last year. In December of 2022 at Carnegie Hall, April of 2023 in Disney Hall in Los Angeles and in July 2023 at Caramoor in Katonah NY. All three were beyond my wildest expectations. She was transcendent and time truly did stand still in her performances. She was uniquely at one with each audience and they responded with thunderous acclamation.

I am mesmerized at her beauty, personality and talent.

What an amazing woman! I just commented on her performance of Beethoven's 4th, and here now she's just taking me further into absolute amazement.

Thanks, Helen, you had shown and guided us through the depth of the Paino(All) music can reach! The BEAUTY of the music in 4D space. A super important and touching moment for music lovers! 🥰💖

SHE IS THE BEST

Grimaud is a wonder! The Ravel Concerto in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, M. 83: II. Adagio assai that she plays part of is a marvel!

What beautiful smile ! Transcendental beauty indeed ! And her playing ….. no words ……

She is very truthful. She says she is an interpreter, a medium between the composer and the listener. So she is very truthful also musically and strives to be a documentary player of traditional classically composed music. Since she is so trustworthy she should research little known and little played composers of the Baroque Era and play on their instrument of choice, the Harpsichord and the Organ and lift their obscurity up to recognition and inform the listeners with new musical enjoyment and knowledge and be a beacon of knowledge of that music which is relatively hidden from listeners.

@19Edurne

3 жыл бұрын

??! Why do you expect a pianist to do that, instead of trained harpischord and organ players?

What a wonderful artist and woman she is!

Helene your so beauriful..

It's a privilege to listen this beautiful interview. Thanks!

She is so clever and so beautiful... She plays the piano too!!! Easy to fall in love with her... Augh!

Loved how she said “Requisite Repertoire...”

Te Amo Hélène🤍 Magnifique!

SHe is really my idol, charming, she has a very good attention to detail and even the interviewer she listens carefully

She's Amazing

Simply beautiful

YOU are extraordinary!

Elle est stupéfiante d'intelligence dans son jeux et ses analyses, et pour ne rien gâcher, d'une grande beauté. Magique Hélène!

For all those wondering which Chopin piece she is playing: Chopin Trois Nouvelles Etudes No.1 f minor

@theMad_Artist

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chopin!!!!

@carlosastro21

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chopin!!!

So good. Thanks much for posting this.

@ednaconcepcion9407

8 жыл бұрын

It is great that we get to know a great pianist more in this interview. Thanks for posting. Love her concerts.

Wonderful interview. Very classy and talented musical artist....love to listen and watch Ms HG....both young and more mature...so good🙂..love her Brahms PCs ....it’s great that she shares her thoughts with us....we can appreciate her art and the genius of the composer she performs that much more.....

Gifted, musically and in charm and wit...

She reminds me of footage I've seen of Nadia Boulanger-- a kind of distinctively French ability to just lose oneself in music, a belief in un-self-conscious spiritual communion with the composer. But in a very feminine way. Intellect, emotions and physicality all in perfect harmony. She starts playing, and its as if no other act, physical or otherwise, could be more natural to her. And a complete transcendence of any tension between the spiritual and the physical -- all seamlessly united, and as if it's only in this activity that she achieves perfect wholeness, and perfect happiness. It's very French-feminine.

It’s as satisfying to hear her express herself in English as it is to hear her

@michaelbullington137

2 жыл бұрын

Express herself musically.

Thank you for posting this interview. It's very good. Very insightful.

What a wonderful beautiful and God gifted person!. Many thanks! Le gra!. Gérard lacey in Ireland. Xxx

She is amazing. I am a fan of yours! 멋져요.

She (Helene) speaks EXCELLENT English!!!

@071949

6 жыл бұрын

Yep. Better than many "native speakers"!

@andytinganyang4706

6 жыл бұрын

She did live in the U.S.

@plcustodian

6 жыл бұрын

Did not know that.

@lilyyroz3046

4 жыл бұрын

now she speaks French with an english accent so sad....

Beautiful articulate English as well.

Love to see more interviews with Hélène.

Helene is the greatest pianist all times !

@prager5046

3 жыл бұрын

you are an idiot. period

It's not fair! Fabulous musician, Drop Dead Gorgeous, smarter than the average bear.

@pa7957

3 жыл бұрын

so true .. I feel the same .. Astonishing ...Playing like that is ... No Words for it ...

@bozotheclown935

3 жыл бұрын

Forget all that stuff... When I come home from work and throw my hard hat across the room on a chair and scream "Hey Baby..What's for dinner". as I pull up my T-Shirt and scratch my stomach.. I have only only one concern.. "Can she cook"...??..??

@twangbarfly

3 жыл бұрын

@@bozotheclown935 LOL - you wear your moniker lightly :-)

@Orson2u

2 жыл бұрын

Heh - LIFE is so unfair!

Impressive woman! In many ways!

An extraordinary woman!

Fascinating lady.

love her

this lady is a musical spirit

well, if Helene can say that Bach is the greatest of all musical geniuses, I suppose I can feel justified in continuing to practice WTK Books 1 & 2 on a regular basis. Thanks Helene! No snark intended. Just sheer admiration and a touch of adulation.

Such a great interview! She is not only talented for playing the piano, but also for her speaking. The essense of her music might stem from her heartwaming, thoughtful mind.

Almost every commentator is in love with Mlle Grimaud, count me in too!

In my humble opinion Helene is by far the best Pianist in our modern time. Just watch just one of her performance Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58 (It was Sublime.)

je suis en amour, i'm in love!

a true example of an artist with high caliber, very elegant, she knows her taste, smart and eloquent.

I can't stop smiling 😁

Pure Scorpio, what a remarkable Woman

That is some seriously sparkling tone she is generating in the 11-12 minute range of the video. She has quite a touch!