This is why Mozart wrote such long introductions to his concerti. It gives the performer time to figure out which one to play.

@animemusic8

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

@penguinpenguin007

3 жыл бұрын

@User6497 No she came in exactly at the right point!

@DityaSangGita

3 жыл бұрын

@User6497 fyi, most piano concertos, and most of other instruments' concertos, are usually preceded by very long introduction.

@leo32190

3 жыл бұрын

@@DityaSangGita Rachmaninov ?

@DityaSangGita

3 жыл бұрын

@@leo32190 yes, Rachmaninoff's piano concerto nr. 2 starts out with piano intro. I just said only 'most of concertos', hence not 'all concertos'. Again I can be sure enough to say most classical concertos are written with very long introduction. Chopin's piano concerto follows this tradition though, albeit it is a Romantic piece.

My god, what a nightmare scenario. The fact that she was able to 'just play the other one' from memory, and perfectly, while being under such stress, truly tells you on just what level she is.

@leonardoiglesias2394

3 ай бұрын

That has nothing to do with „level“. Some geniuses played ONLY 2 concertos a year….BECAUSE their standard and goal was to give THEIR MAXIMUM every time, see..

@sla7889

3 ай бұрын

​​@@leonardoiglesias2394 Yes it has, being able to play that well with no specific practice and by surprise is one of the things that talks about ones level What other pianists do have nothing to do with what she did

@xannay

2 ай бұрын

@@leonardoiglesias2394 That has absolutely everything to do with "a level". :) If "a genius" who is only willing to play 2 concertos a year runs away in this situation, that is not a good sign of a professional. She did the best she could. She did not betray the audience or other performers, swallowed all her negative emotions, pride and fears and tried to use all her memory available. Only true professionals focused on things that matter can do that.

@iordanrobert3116

2 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@leonardoiglesias2394 Level doesn’t mean genius.

You can see all 5 stages of grief

@user-lo5zy8sx2k

8 ай бұрын

great comment

@jjgghhjk

Ай бұрын

lol

@haraldisdead

Ай бұрын

@@user-lo5zy8sx2k thanks

"I can try," she says-and then brilliantly succeeds.

@bigdreams5554

2 ай бұрын

"do or do not, there is no try". Extremely impressive she was able to play from memory and with no mistakes! Amazing.

My eyes are watering watching M. Pires fighting back her terror, trying to maintain her composure. God, that would be any musician's worst nightmare. And I feel Maestro Chailly did *exactly* the right thing, even if it was incredibly risky. Had he stopped with her, it would have been a humiliation far more for M. Pires than for him. Stopping would've been the easy way out, but he took the harder road relying on his knowing her as the great musician that *she* is. Frankly, they're both great musicians...nothing "safe" happened on that stage that afternoon, and they clawed their way out of it together. Just amazing, hair-raising. My respect for both of them -- already high -- has grown ever more tonight.

@paulogazola553

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah... I have goosebumps at 2:40, it's like a jump in the abyss to see how far we can get to.

@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful explanation...so much psychology required in music performance of which the audience has no clue. It is actually a form of acting...one becomes the composer ( the performer's conception ) playing the composition! Perez made a genius transformation, not just the perfect recall of the notes !

It is hard to fully appreciate this feat if one is not a performer oneself. She would have spent the entire day thinking about the piece she expected to play. She would have warmed up with that piece in mind, practiced the difficult passages to make sure she had them in her fingers, and repeatedly gone over and over the arc of the piece in her head, right up until sitting down at the keyboard. To shift gears to a different concerto, while sitting in front of an audience, with no chance to even practice is beyond impressive. I'm sure her mind was going a mile a minute, trying to review the entire concerto in the short time of the orchestral introduction. I sing opera, and for me that would be like expecting to sing Magic Flute, going out on stage, and hearing the opening bars of La Traviata. Yes, I know both operas very well, but talk about panic! Kudos to her. That's how professionals do.

@matthewsouthwell

5 жыл бұрын

Very well said

@dailyfunfacts973

4 жыл бұрын

We know it is impressive, now shut the fuck up!

@Sebastian_Thimm

4 жыл бұрын

@@dailyfunfacts973 maybe, just maybe, but you most certainly don't know how to behave yourself...

@eheper

4 жыл бұрын

@@dailyfunfacts973 roflmao

@truthlivingetc88

4 жыл бұрын

@Gregory Schmidt Why did Chailly do that ? He seems like a great guy. She looked upset at the time. How did it work out between them after this ? It sounded like he managed to produce quite solemn results. Is this what he intended ? Does the concerto require this ? Please respond. I would be very interested in your opinion.

the conductor encouraging her is the most genuine act of kindness and selflessness I've seen in a while

@thelucabrazzi

3 ай бұрын

do you understand what he is saying ???

@JoaoPedroBittencourt

3 ай бұрын

Kindness? I beg to differ… he was only thinking about himself. He was in a very comfortable position to ask a musician to perform an completely different concerto on the spot. This is every musician worst nightmare. She had all the right to stop the performance, but because she was that talented they could continue.

@AshPragasam

3 ай бұрын

He believed in her absolutely, and he brought her to believe in herself in that moment. All due to mutual respect and trust. Incredible leadership and talent on display

@organboi

3 ай бұрын

What's wrong with you? He refused to stop. Are you insane?

@organboi

3 ай бұрын

​@@AshPragasamNonsense.

Riccardo Chailly - the kind of conducter you need in such a moment: Fearless, positive, encouraging, confident.

@willemboone7912

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think he showed much understanding! She was in a panic and he only said: "I am sure you can do it really well, you know it so well." That wouldn't have helped me a lot had I been in her shoes!

@Kacsamajom

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, absolutely. Using the genuine italian spirit soul to soul.

@hansmemling7605

5 жыл бұрын

@Flávio Aguiar de Sousa double thumbs up!

@bishhsasspusi2904

4 жыл бұрын

@@willemboone7912 lol

@virtuosiproducoes2591

4 жыл бұрын

He was an asshole. He should have stopped the concert and given her the score.

She was expecting a different concerto but she is a seasoned concert pianist who specialises in Mozart (having performed Mozart concertos in public since age 7), she had played it the previous season, it is one of his most iconic concertos and she had performed it hundreds of times throughout her career. Chailly knew she would be able to pull it off.

As a classical musician I dreamt about this last night, happening to me. A true nightmare. It woke me up with a raised heartbeat. Couldn’t sleep sleep for hours. Bravo madam!!

This is still one of the most inspiring, breathtaking examples of music virtuosity that I’ve ever seen.

The conductor never doubts a second that she'll be able to make it.

At least the orchestra didn't start with a violin concerto...

@6infinity8

4 жыл бұрын

oh boy

@OnceUponLater

4 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@MikeSmith-ph9hb

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@shawnj8765

3 жыл бұрын

That would be much. The conductor and the whole orchestra is not that stupid haha

@aldebaran.carrasco.martinez

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha

The naked truth of a real artist, raising from weakness in strength. Ultimate Humanity.

Maria is a phenomenal pianist and her composure in this situation has created its own legend. Then again, she has been playing Mozart concertos since she was seven. Nonetheless she is worthy of our admiration.

@VoltaireMM

7 жыл бұрын

I know her since 1978 in Almada Concerts, Portugal

@JobvanderZwan

4 жыл бұрын

> Nonetheless Wouldn't you say "all the more reason"? That's dedication!

@DityaSangGita

2 жыл бұрын

I just hit that 400th like

@esthershin9690

2 ай бұрын

Eh. Not composed, I’d say falling apart….before getting herself together again. Like, life.

Massive shout out to the conductor for guiding her through that, giving her the confidence and calmness just to pull her through when she needed it.

Goosebumps when she starts playing...

The tentativeness with which she approached her entry really matched what the concerto required. Brava.

This is astonishing how few views this have. How AMAZING that she could remember the piece completely, and she could start on that solo in complete silence, directly in the same style. You would never know if it weren't told to you.

How captivating to see her raise from such a predicament in a matter of 2 minutes and 28 seconds. All while her body is going to fight or flight mode. "Like an electric shock," her pounding heart-pumping adrenaline to her extremities. Probably making it harder to play delicately, nevertheless, she was able to put her body's defense mechanism on idle mode and play by memory a piece she played last year, all while battling shame, embarrassment, fear, and anxiety. 2:41 You can see her exhale from momentary relief of all the pressure at 3:17. And then she continues to play beautifully. I was captivated by the piece and stunned at her ability to play flawlessly under the circumstances, especially considering the probabilities of success: play a piece on the spot, live, you have a minute go. How fitting to the concerto! Just such an inspirational moment for me, next time I'm feeling defeated with an impossible challenge, I will remember you, Maria Joao Pires.

One of the best moments in classical performance! She is brilliant!

im also quite impressed by the conductor-- so supportive and positive :D

This is an amazing story and an amazing outcome. Both the conductor Ricardo and pianist Maria could manage to work together without stopping the performance. Things like this do happen in life but in a few minutes they pulled it through together. I find memory works mysteriously or automatically and follow the path. I appreciate what Ricardo did by encouraging Maria and Maria didn't give up. What a history and success! Thank you for uploading this remarkable story and video.

BRAVA, DIVA MARIA!!!!! Not only was she expecting to play another concerto, but SHE WAS A SUB, so she didn't even have normal preparation for ANY piano concerto. She was called the night before to sub, and only had a few hours to prepare. That's already a very difficult thing to do, but then to try to switch at the very last minute to something else??? I don't care how experienced of a professional you are, that is something WAY above and beyond what you could be expected to do, and that's what makes her a true diva!

Here from sideways

@maryhadalamb3313

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@mirawenya

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, me too. Power on! The conductor and orchestra doesn’t care!

@aliburden1562

3 жыл бұрын

Ayyyyy!

@paulhuang2030

3 ай бұрын

What is sideways?

I get what she's feeling with that electric shock and nausea when you realise you've made a terrible mistake. But as usual her performance and professionalism was suberb! Amazing talent.

Her agitato matched that of the first movement.

it´s the stuff of nightmares!

@almameier9825

3 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed! The typical nightmare of artists. In the years when I was an active classical solo soprano, I often dreamed before performances that I wouldn't know which piece I was the soloist in until the start of the concert. Or the audience is already there and I still don't know what to wear, etc. And this pianist actually experienced it! And managed it!

@leonardoiglesias2394

3 жыл бұрын

No. They are all lies. You have rehearsals just before. Come on....

@cries_and_dies

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonardoiglesias2394 This was the recital, but it was in front of a packed audience. At the professional level, you're expected to show up already knowing (possibly even memorized) all of your music.

This is extra-ordinary. I am pianist and to tell me this, I'd die cuz of nerves. Hats off.

Treasure moment of live performance, send all of my respect to both of them!

I love Maria Joao Pires,an unforgettable interpreter of Mozart's piano concertos❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

if this were me....i would be in tears and gone blank and not knowing what to do at all...

That d minor provided the perfect tone for that moment. At least it wasn't Rachmaninoff or Tchaikovsky!!

@mjviolinista

4 жыл бұрын

Moxy Blackfiddle that is very true HAHAHAHAHA

@indigo5601

2 жыл бұрын

absolutely the right sound track for such a predicament

@thelucabrazzi

3 ай бұрын

What movement was this that she played ?

@mox9076

3 ай бұрын

@@thelucabrazzi movement 1

@BaroqueBach.

3 ай бұрын

​@@thelucabrazzi 1st movement of the d minor concerto

Totally class act performance. Not many artist can do that

She is a REAL Artist... Bravo

for someone with social anxiety like me, this is a true nightmare

She is one of the best pianists in the world

Good God what a legend. I cannot imagine the pure panic

The exact nightmare every stage artist has dreamed at least once at night. Not only is she able to JUST recall from memory, her "I try" is more than many others ever achieve.

Siempre me hace llorar como un bebé este video , es como ver a un soldado vencer a un dragón con un lápiz , me hace sentir la desesperación y como lo imposible se vuelve posible

awesome stunning performance , the face of the woman is unbeliveble.. but she remember all wirhout listen the notes

A musical miracle from a great musician who is also a great human being. 🙏🙏

Bravo Maria João Pires. Grande pianista.

She is a pianist. A real pianist, i mean. Mozart's ghost has been with her then.

This is the most stunning music related video here on youtube

Do you want to make the world know that you are wonderful at classical piano? Because this is how you make the world know so. Kudos to the concuctor, who talked her into playing.

@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401

2 жыл бұрын

So important that Conductors and Performers know each other's history. He told her she knew it well and could do it. She knew she could too, but had to trust him. Trust...a great word in any sphere!

02:47 Это фантастически красиво, звук, который она извлекает из инструмента просто волшебный!!! Как она это делает? Как она прикасается к клавишам? Это нереальный космос!!!!

This is heartbreaking :) Maria is simply awesome. !

Maybe the best preformance on google of concerto no 20, even with all the dispair of the wrong preparation... A pity not more is shown

Not horror on her face. ITS THE TERROR ! Mine Gott she ist so gutt and pulled it through !!

Has there been an interview conducted with her about the situation? In dying to hear from her first hand the thoughts that went through her mind and how she dealt with it!

@dogsidog0074

4 жыл бұрын

Haha did you come from Reddit?

@gnflame

4 жыл бұрын

@@dogsidog0074 I did, them probably also

@ggaloska

4 жыл бұрын

I’m actually the guy who posted it lol

@ztoob8898

4 жыл бұрын

Well, thanks for posting it! I came here from Reddit also.

@josephchennattu9174

4 жыл бұрын

Dude nice post oj reddit i too came from there

This is beyond phenomenal

Maria Joao Pires is such a true artist and the best interpreter of Mozart !!

does anyone have link to the full performance of that? please

@DityaSangGita

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/rHee2tWqY6eokZs.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/gplp0c2IXcjVmZM.html These are all I know. Perhaps you can find the finale on that channel

Wow, it made me cry. Amazing!

I had all kinds of anxiety just WATCHING this!

Important to remember this is obviously a rehearsal. This does not diminish the astounding performance of course.

Wow good job on the conductor part. Kept the morale up.

She is a genius. Bravo. Bravo. Bravissimo.

Seems more like a public rehearsel. A conductor in a t-shirt with a towel around his neck, is seldom seen at a gala-recital.

@HobbyOrganist

4 жыл бұрын

It was the first rehersal but it was in front of a crowded public lunchtime recital/event

@arrau08

4 жыл бұрын

@@HobbyOrganist Now I get the situation, thanks.

If it had been Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto this could have been really funny.

Quelle pureté merveilleuse, quel talent! Voila ce qu'est une véritable artiste!!! Pianiste jusqu'à la moëlle, la perfection absoule. Et je sais de quoi je parle, maman était pianiste...

Admirable. Tiene la música en su corazón y en la cabeza!

A masterclass legend!!!

Does anyone know where we can find the full recording of this concert ?

3:50 "modern harmony and shit..."

@leo32190

4 жыл бұрын

Rínzai Music lmao

The same thing happened to An Tianxu a few years ago in Tchaikovsky competition, except he had 0.5 seconds to respond! He was expecting Tchaikovsky 1 and got Paganini Rhapsody (which had an octave right at the beginning). He nailed the concerto at the end and got fourth place.

Grandissima persona e pianista❤

A truly superb musician who has the divine gift of convening the joy and beauty of the musical line without indulgence.

She just something, isn’t she? Marvellous.

Que pianista! Sobrellevar semejante impacto...eso solo paralizaría a cualquiera...pero no a esta gran concertista. Aunque paso hace años ya merece un BRAVO!

Wow I‘m so stunned!

This is a reminder that even the most talented, versatile, successful people are still just people, plagued with the same fears, insecurities, and anxieties as everybody else. Sometimes they’re able to rise magnificently to the occasion, but sometimes they stumble and fall. It all depends on the moment, the person, and the circumstance, but it’s never the end of the world. You’ll be okay.

That’s why rehearsals have been invented !

@OutOfWards

2 жыл бұрын

You're an idiot, you have no idea what is going on.

For anyone who didn’t catch it from Maria’s recent interview: this wasn’t the performance but a rehearsal with the full-orchestra. Apparently there was a large audience allowed to attend the rehearsal as well-this still would have been extremely embarrassing had she not been able to play. But it’s also why the conductor is not wearing formal attire and talking to her so jovially and unconcerned. He gave her a chance to remember and his orchestra would have needed to rehearse anyway so without her they would have kept going. That’s also why there’s no full recording: if it was a rehearsal there would have been a lot of stops anyway. Still a great save! That they don’t show the full video adds to the mythology!

@herbiecactus6687

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, I was wondering what the situation was. Would be bizarre for the soloist to sit down and play a concert with zero rehearsal. I'm also wondering why this is topical now.

@slnaseli

2 ай бұрын

No, there wouldn’t have been any stops. It was a general rehearsal/ dress rehearsal so they were performing the program not practicing. In general rehearsals there’s often audience, like in this case so it was like a concert

@heyyywhynot

2 ай бұрын

@@slnaseli Sure there would have been stops, if the conductor wanted there to be. A rehearsal --- even a general rehearsal --- doesn't mean you play the whole program through without stopping and then go backwards to sections where the conductor felt there needed to be work. He's not actively taking notes. And by a bunch of stops I mean, probably stop 3 or 4 times: not continually. But still no guarantees that they simply play the whole thing through: the only time you _need_ to do that is at the performance itself.

Distilled loneliness in that moment

She will be always remembered for this moment. But, should not have they practiced a night before?

espectacular como sempre !!!!!!!!!!

Aqui podemos ver um exemplo real de como a Aceitação é importante, mesmo para alguém com a genialidade musical da Maria João Pires!... Após uns momentos de pânico, o seu trabalho de Aceitação por aquele momento imprevisto, permitiu-lhe centrar-se no seu Ser e aceder ao prazer de se partilhar tocando maravilhosamente todo concerto KV466 de Mozart em vez do KV488 que tinha preparado há 11 meses... Aplaudo o seu talento e reconheço a sua Luz!.

The maestro didnt give a straight fuck

BRAVO!!!

sweet story... 🍓

Just beautiful.

@twinicebear775

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps if they’re lucky and have the piano solo on site, they could bring it between movements, but it wouldn’t really make a difference. The feat here isn’t the memory but the musicality and performance created only after reviewing in her head for a minute

It's really impressive . Where is the full version of this concert ?

They ain’t stopping girl so, go with the flow

As she said in an interview which can be found Here on YT: "when you are conscious about the fact that you are nothing and at the same time everything..." She really is conscious about that...

Admirável! Bravo! Bravíssimo!

a very good pianist :) BRAVO :)

That was amazing. Maria Joao Pires is incredible. so is the conductor for being so cool and calm and supportive! #OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #OdedInformation

There is another video of a guy in a CONTEST who had the wrong concerto thrown at him. He only had a couple of seconds to make the adjustment. Fortunately, he had been preparing to play the piece in a later round, so he had it memorized. But the look on his face when he heard the opening was priceless. Then I was at another contest, where the pianists were to play some solo works, and the wrong program was announced. They said one guy would play Chopin’s harp étude, but that was on a list that he had submitted early and later revised. He managed to get through it OK. A difficult thing for Maria here is that she had probably not been working on this piece at all for some time, so she would have been working totally from memory, and didn’t even have muscle memory to help her out. The only thing in her favor is that Mozart did not write any other piano concertos in D minor, so it is a piece that a touring concert pianist would be familiar with. A pianist and musician of Maria’s caliber, in fact, could probably even improvise some thing that would sound similar to Mozart’s original, but that is not what the audience would have been expecting. But I am also asking “ hello? Anybody check the program here?” Was there no rehearsal? When a pianist agrees to perform a concert, usually the program is established well ahead of time.

@emarekica

6 ай бұрын

You are wrong in that she didn't have the muscle memory to help her. She certainly did, that never goes away, thankfully.

@kael9664

3 ай бұрын

apparently she was called over the night before to perform over the phone and there was an acoustic misunderstanding

In Mozart’s day it was not common to play from memory, they always used the score. That would have ended this performance! Unless she happened to have it with her.

I don't know why this made me cry, second-hand stress?

@commontater8630

2 жыл бұрын

Empathy?

Where is the full video?? I really would love to watch and hear the whole thing...

This is like if a triathlon athlete thought he was going to a bike race but then it turned out to be a swim and he miraculously managed to swim and everyone clapped

i hv js gone through all the 5 stages of grief along with her

It's not the slip that counts, it's the reaction to fix it that does! Well done (brilliant), in what must have been a horribly difficult moment! Mozart's music has a fluency that may have helped a bit.

Fantastic 😮

this is such a nightmare scenario we've all had this thought when preparing for something important, what if I get there and it's something completely different to have it come true like this must've been mortifying

This can happen, during a performance the ladies of ABBA begin to sing a different song to the one the band began to play, unfortunately the performance had to be stopped but it does happen.

Wow, she's incredible.