This concerto is so good to hear that gives me chills.

Brilliant, passionate, filled with spirit and personality with a unique voice. Absolutely loved listening to this.

My favorite pianist.

In my book, the greatest living pianist. The piano does precisely what Mr. Hough wants it to. Cheers!

This is absolutely fantastic. Less and less people nowadays can play this extremely difficult concerto with such an emotion and precision. Thanks to have shared on youtube!

In Russia nobody says about Stephen Hough. But such musicians who can combine such amazing emotional qualities with an ingenious sense of proportion we haven't. In my personal opinion, Mr. Hough is the best pianist of the 21st century, the play of which I have ever enjoyed. I apologise for my language, if I wrote something wrong.

@robertjudge8626

4 жыл бұрын

I agree

@jeongjin1211

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with your comment. He is a total artist. Not only pianist, he also is composer, author, and painter. Because of that, his sound quality is somewhat extraordinary. His performance of Rachmaninov's Raphsody on a Theme of Paganini was superb.

@MrGunzoller

3 жыл бұрын

May be because we have our own great musicians?

@user-nd1kd8rz3r

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrGunzoller all our grate musicians уехали за бугор. Or dead after зэ перестройка.

@MrGunzoller

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-nd1kd8rz3r ммм... perestroika, может еще крепостное право вспомнить? Ушли старые, есть новые. Иван Бессонов, например, есть и совсем молоденькая Александра Довгань выступающая с концертами по всему миру. В 13 лет 1-й концерт Мендельсона. Может они недостаточно велики? Есть вообще критерий великости?

Your Mendelssohn CD collection remains one of my favourite CDs !

Electric! And riveting! Bravo!

Demands incredible flexibility to pull of those arpeggios so smoothly and at that tempo. Hough is one of our premiere pianists today, a guy who can play anything with ease and finess.

Simply a beautiful performance. No such thing as a perfect performance but this was darn close. Absolutely superb!

Sir Stephen Hough ♡

Stephen Hough is surely one of the greats. Intelligent, articulate, and of course his playing is top-notch.

@likie

Жыл бұрын

'It's probably not surprising that Stephen Hough has to prove that he's so perfectly tuned to these pieces. If you only choose to record one song, this would be a great first choice... '[Hough] runs at its best, and capable of incorporating jolly whims without disturbing the flow of thought, this performance... boasts an almost idealistic lightness, vibrancy and impact... 'Stephen Hough has the ideal qualities of a keen attention to rhythmic detail and perfect fluidity of lines and phrases.' observer) Thanks to hyperion records

Fantastisch gespeeld van de eerste tot de laatste noot. De Chris Maene straigth strung grand piano klinkt afgemeten en helder.

i love this concerto so much

The 3rd movement (starting at 12:48) always struck me as cartoon music. It has this element of humor and fun about it which would make it ideal for incorporating into a Bugs Bunny episode. :)

Simply breathtaking!

Lo sento per la prima volta...mi piace assai ! Grazie

The piano sounded unusually clear to me so I looked it up and found it to be a new straight strung design. Considering I knew nothing about this innovation, and considering I was motivated to look into it just from its sound, I'm thinking there might be something good in it. I wonder how Stephen H found it to play.

@johnbanach3875

2 жыл бұрын

@@MM-111 No, this is not Barenboim's piano, and it is not a modified Steinway. It is a Chris Maene Straight Strung Concert Grand.

Klare und zugleich lyrische Aufführung dieses romantischen Konzerts mit gut artikuliertem Klang des Soloklaviers und präzis entsprechenden Töne anderer Instrumente. Der geniale Maestro dirigiert das ausgezeichnete Orchester im gut phrasierten Tempo mit völlig effektiver Dynamik. Echt bewundernswert!

Thank you. Marvellous.

His rendition of the Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 1 in D is top-notch. Check out this undeservedly neglected concerto.

I. Molto allegro con fuoco 0:03 II. Andante 7:13 III. Presto 12:46

Just Great!

Maravilhoso pianista!!!

an underrated piece but it belongs to the great romantic piano concertos

For a pianist of Stephen Hough's stature this is an equivalent of a 5th grade piano student playing Mozart's Minuet.

Stephen Hough rivals Rudolf Serkin who championed this music. Marvelous playing.

_I want to hear more of this piano!_ 😁

@lawrencewerner4440

Жыл бұрын

Chris Maene straight strung grand piano

The Best Piano Concerto Ever.

@AhmedAllampiano

11 ай бұрын

I don't think so Mendelssohn It is great but not the greatest ever written 😢😮

Soooooo great！

I am impressed with the delicacy and cleverness that I can not express every much in words . Sadness and anxiety disappear, his performance has a tremendous power to act on my soul . From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun . Which national are you watching this video ？

@steveegallo3384

3 жыл бұрын

Shin-i-chi Kozima -- Yes....I agree with you completely. BRAVO from San Agustinillo, MEXICO !

Great interpretation🙌🏻🫶🏻❤

내일 임윤찬 피아니스트 직관 전에 예습으로 감상합니다~♡♡

Спасибо за запись.

18:26 I like some people smiles hearing the concerto, because i smile too! 😅

The "parallel strings" piano is magnificent - designed by the Belgian instrument maker Chris Maene, apparently with the collaboratio of Daniel Barenboim.

I'm guessing the orchestra is a Dutch orchestra. There must be at least fifty radio orchestras in Europe.

So, he was 21 when he wrote this masterpiece. At 21 I was still trying to figure out which end was up in my life...

Usually when people are coughing I manage to ignore it, but 6:57 is the first time I get very disgusted by the lack of respect the public is showing in such a delicate and sensible moment... And it goes on and on: 8:34 3:38 9:01 9:54

@JULIESIMONSOPRANO

2 жыл бұрын

obviously that was patient zero. Anyway love Stephen Hough, one of the best

Perpeckt played~powerfull & very beautifull sound!!

Stephen hough♡

He played this at the proms on Queen Victoria's old piano

Why do people who cough go to concerts?

@kitcarr4668

4 жыл бұрын

Attention seeking, perhaps? :-) :-) :-)

@duncanmacpherson2013

4 жыл бұрын

The famous pianst Rubenstein once complained that when he was young sick people went to the doctor but now they came to his concerts

@user-nd1kd8rz3r

4 жыл бұрын

Because these cockneys have 'cough' rhymes with 'Hough'

15:10 Why does that guy look like Brett?

6:55 OMG, hold that f****** cough! 😂

I have many of his excellent recordings. Just a bit surprised by the last two chords which are not in the score. For a youthful and very fresh performance check out Alexandra Dovgan!

Finally something I could perhaps play.

I've listened to Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto no 1 by a few performers, mostly by Alexandra Govdan... I will always dearly love her version and the deftness and energy displayed by the Sinfonica de Galicia. However, even after listening to the concerto probably a hundred times in recent weeks, Maestro Hough's playing easily passed the "made me cry" test! Like a baby, I was! Masterly! Bravo!

Hough non affronta questo concerto in maniera brillate come fanno molti altri ma coglie aspetti significativi se non drammatici della partitura

7:00 all the old people: aight imma cough both my lungs out

Superior!!

Most of the coughing, especially the coughing at very crucial and quiet moments, was in B flat major ! This could certainly be improved to a more major key !

@anthonyhazlewood5788

4 жыл бұрын

Why do they always seem to cough at the quiet parts.... The worst part of a concert is the audience.....

@steveegallo3384

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyhazlewood5788 -- That said, at least they PAY for tickets and ATTEND. We, on the other hand, are just Mooches and Parasites. How do you look yourself in the mirror, Anthony?

who coughed like that???

Does anybody know if this is actually the number 2 concerto, but in a different key?

@ducks5377

6 ай бұрын

no this is the first concerto mendelssohn composed

Why people always have to cough so loudly during the quietest moments ?! 😅

Legal

Seems like the audience had corona before it was cool

Great playing, though at times very rushed. Would have been so much better if the pianist had finished with his last chord and let the orchestra have the final phrase as it is written in the score (he was slightly early on the final chord which spoiled the climax). Thanks for sharing :)

If you have a cough please have the humility to stay home, it's not your show

The playing is great. But the constant coughing really ruins this. It's all throughout the performance, there isn't even a 5 second break between the coughs for the entire performance. Why do these people want to ruin the experience for other people?

Marvelous pianist but 6:46 creaking building coughing audience ruining the peaceful moment

15:25? :S

@brianj959

9 ай бұрын

Some inventive harmony ;)

@billevans5687

9 ай бұрын

@@brianj959 Out of this world :D! But still beautiful played 🌈

Tom Hanks?

@susanhawkins3890

4 жыл бұрын

This is truly a”one of a kind” performance...completely breathtaking and full of passion. M.mendelssohn would have given a standing ovation. M Hough is so humble with quiet emotion...the best!

15:23 ouch, and then 15:26 that cellist's facial expression is just golden

@brianj959

9 ай бұрын

Some inventive harmony ;)

this pianist is amazing, everybody plays very fast, I do not like that.

メンデルスゾーン ビアノ協奏曲賛 メンデルスゾーンに、ビアノ協奏曲があった事は、知らなかったのです。シューマンやショパンやリストは、知っていたのです。音楽の有名無名は、素人の私には、有り触れたことなのです、それに振り回されている、自分を思う事は、本当に詰まらない事なのです。そういう、ありのままの自分を思い乍ら、聴いていますと、それはそれで、分かったこともあると思ったのです。素人玄人の違いも又、一興であるのだからと、確信したのです。案外、素人の方が、本当ではないのかと深慮したのです。演奏の善し悪しよりも、作曲家の事を、よく知る事の方が、大切であると思慮したのです 擱 筆

Faster than Yuja , interesting

TOO FAST, with no subtility. Understanding of Mendelssohn music = 0.

@alexl4135

4 жыл бұрын

Last movement has become a bad joke, disappoiting

@martijnvromans

4 жыл бұрын

Since when is choice of tempo anything else then taste? "Understanding of Mendelssohn" is not tempo related. Besides that, this tempo seems highly appropriate, especially since the marking is Presto (which is around 172 quarter notes a minute).

@albertoaguiardacruz7047

3 жыл бұрын

@@martijnvromans ALBERTO AGUIAR DA CRUZ: ESTE BELO CONCERTO, CONTEM O FRESCOR DA INSPIRAÇÃO, DA JUVENTUDE EXUBERANTE DE MENDELSSOHN. POSSUI O FULGOR, O ENCANTO E A MAGIA DO GÊNIO MENDELSSOHNIANO. É UMA OBRA PARA JAMAIS SER ESQUECIDA.

@MM-111

3 жыл бұрын

Be sure that Stephen Hough know exatly how Mendelssohn should be interpreted.

@regisvoiclair

3 жыл бұрын

@@MM-111 LOL. The intellectual guy who dont listen his ears, his heart, and own feeling, but an argument of authority. The illusion of the mind...