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42:06 60 lat w sluzbie kultury narodowej i robotniczej Lodzi lol

Can anyone identify what piece the chords at 1:48 are from??

Actually pretty sure, Einstein was noted to have said that about Menuhin (not Rubinstein).

Such a priceless treasure...

For fans of Rubinstein, check out the following two films on RUclips (click MORE for the links): L'amour de la Vie (Academy Award Best Documentary 1969) ruclips.net/video/tncAsuemCRc/видео.html Rubinstein at home (1 hr. 15 min., ca. 1950, includes AR, Heifitz and Piatiorsky rehearsing a Schubert trio) (there's also an adorable moment when his 2 youngest kids join him, and John R. is only about 4!) ruclips.net/video/3ktr1SSlLjM/видео.html)

THANK YOU, bobhairgrove, for this wonderful little documentary, with excellent subtitles (even capturing the German "spinach" joke!) How fantastic it must have been to have Rubinstein give a impromptu recital and tell interesting tales, etc. WOW, his piano was dropped from a crane...it's hard to imagine the damage, not to mention that it was repaired so that it was better than before! Those Steinway technicians/craftspeople are true artists. AMAZING!

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Polish at heart; his roots and humanity makes him what he is. Although I am Georgian, this is all so close and poignantly beautiful. Thanks for uploading. მადლობა

Thanks for this wonderful performance and video

Rubinstein was an aristocrat of the piano. This comeback to his homeland is really moving, indeed.

Thank you

07:51 is an absolutely priceless document. Rubinstein possessed that rarest of romantic sensibilities, completely without affectation, where the beauty in the music is fundamental and not to be marvelled 'at' or appreciated from the outside looking in... it's impossible to put into words of course, but I have the feeling when listening to his Schubert that beauty, romanticism, emotion, become sublimated into something that is one simple truth.

I believe the piano was dropped by the Buildings and Grounds workers at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. I was a student there at the time and heard of the accident on the day of his recital. We were all afraid that he'd cancel the recital, but in the end he agreed to play on the concert grand in Finney Hall, and we were treated to an unforgettable concert, with many encores. The only time I ever heard him live, but it remains indelibly in my mind. He made time and space disappear for those two hours.

Artur Rubinstein, the great Polish pianist.

what exatraordinary artist and man !! had an heart full of nobilty! always in the memories of every pianist !

who can show me the name of the piêc he played at 1:11. many many thanks

Thank you! This video is a treasure.

Archingly beautiful!

Laura i Filon piekne wykonanie!!!

He’s 79 in this film. Unbelievable!

Hes name was ARTUR not ARTHUR........

I love Chopin

Thank you so much for posting this Bob!

A real bijou - thank you!

92 and performing?

My best player is Weissenberg ♡

Thanks for this

Żyd, ale polski Patriota. Szkoda że michniki i inne kanalie nie poszły jego drogą..

beautiful and magnificent♥♥♥♥♥♥

magnificent!!!!!♥♥♥♥♥

The Polish "folk group" (22:38) was a "Zespol Piesni i Tanca (Ansamble of Songs and Music) - Mazowsze", and the lady speaking to Arthur was Mira Ziemińska-Sygietyńska its director for nearly 40 years.

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humble and joyful. I can see how he's such a genius. This translates beautifully into how he plays.

Tremen Delirius, in 17.00h he was playing the centre of Scherzo no.1. Is a song of Christimas.

Geniusz.

Piękny historyczny film.

Kochany Pianista.

Thanks so much for sharing. Interesting that he did revisit Germany after the war (although not for concerts, I think), only the Frankfurter Buchmesse (to promote his autobiography), and this visit to Steinway Hamburg.

I think the last video of the Polonaise is over-played. Perhaps he was trying to out-do Horowitz! That is what it sounds like to me.

I attended an open rehearsal of the BSO under Ozawa with Weissenberg playing the Rachmaninov 3rd during the 1977-78 BSO season. An amazing performance. What could be better than Ozawa-BSO-Weissenberg in Symphony Hall. I subsequently recorded the radio broadcast of the live performance (Revox A77 with Teac AN-180 Dolby B, subsequently converted to CD, and still listen to it.) Along with the recorded live Ozawa-BSO Symphony Fantastique, which I also heard performed, it is a most cherished musical performance memory. Interesting that the LP was a 1/4 tone flat as I have read that the BSO at that time tuned a bit sharp for a brighter sound. True or not, I do not know. I obtained Maestro Ozawa's autograph on the sidewalk behind Symphony Hall after the rehearsal. Two of the greats, gone but still with us.

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Beautiful!!

If only modern Steinway concert grands sounded like this one, with its beautiful warm tone and great power and depth in the bass section. The majority of today's instruments lack these qualities -all sacrificed for brittleness and piercing 'carrying power'.

If the piano was damaged by its being dropped from a crane, it sounds as if the technicians at Steinway did a superb job of fixing it! Rubinstein inspired me from an early age, and the Steinway has been a source of incomparable pleasure and joy to me over the years. Thank you for this wonderful video.

Impeccable ! Thanks for sharing

Remarkable great man.

incredible tone quality. 4:44 echo of the motive. very good !!

Rubinstein was a legend, he knew at least 4 languages.

This film belies the claim made by Rubinstein that the Chopin etudes terrified him. He never recorded the complete etudes, evidently considering them to be too difficult for him to do justice to, but he demonstrates his fluency in at least parts of them.