I've found videos in which they upload some masterpiece allegedly performance by one of the great masters and it turns out to be a fake. Here I can absolutely tell you there's no fake at all. It's Pogo
I ask you - - could the tempo possibly be any slower? It should be said that even serenely beautiful, lyrical pieces such as this have the potential of sounding boring to the listener, testing his patience to the limit. The musical effect here would be just as rapturous and expressive in a subtly more flowing pace, thereby avoiding pretentiousness and by promoting more interest.
These musical works, compositions are "living entities" on a very high plane of existence. They inspire a virtuoso to play passages and interpret a composition quite differently than the run of the mill versions so prevalent in our concert going audiences and performers. The Ghandharvas are musical Devas in their own heavenly sphere of existence. ❤❤❤
What we see here is a phenomenon - not just performance. Below there is a reference to Horovitz.I was at the RFH in London for a concert with H. (As was the now King Charles III..). H was the concert. It was his presence. He could have played anything. He was the concert. And you knew it. The piano obeyed him. And the audience knew it. He knew it. It almost a though he walked onto the stage - looked at us with that smile - and then looked around, saw the piano almost saying - ah -there it is. And off he went. Phenomenon. You'll know it when you see a piano obeying it's master.
I'm sorry but this is shockingly bad, I knew him in the 80's and 90's when he was possibly the greatest pianist in the world. This is a total shambles - he cannot play anymore up to the standard of a concert. Look at Lisiecki, Kantorow, Levanon etc. If they were around in the 80's he would have been the master. Now it is very sad to see him try to play
Apparently he is dealing with Arthritis (notice his fingers in this video) which would explain why he slows down so dramatically on some parts... He also had to change a lot of fingerings so he'd be able to play. Even so, it's impressive he manages to play like this when he very likely is in constant pain.
@@joaomonteiro9619 I'm sorry to hear that but, if that is the case, he needs to stop playing, as these shocking performances are doing his remarkable legacy no justice. He is now a laughing stock. He was once the most remarkable pianist of the 20th century
@@petergolding5733 To a certain extent, I agree with you. But sometimes leaving behind such great legacy by giving up because a disease is affecting you isn't enough. I know I would feel conflicted about not playing again. and I'm sure a lot of people still feel happy about watching him perform given his state.
@@joaomonteiro9619 The problem for me is that his playing slid catastrophically long before the arthritis kicked in. After 2000 he was a shadow of his former self (due, in some part but certainly not all, to the death of his wife). But he kept soldiering on. It was pitiful to watch, after having seen him in the 80's and 90's when he was utterly astonishing. And I'm sorry but I disagree with your comment. If a disease is affecting your hands and people are paying very good money to hear you play brilliantly, then you are a fake to them and need to stop. If a man works a lathe and ends up with one arm, he leaves his job because he can't do it properly. Ivo is doing a JOB and, if he can't do it to his best ability (which he certainly can't now) he should retire
You are delusional. He played with perfect dynamics and control. If you like monkeys playing fast and jumping on the keys maybe he is not for you. "shockingly bad" get out lmao
One of the most remarkable pianists of the last century reduced to a shell of himself. In the 80's and 90's he was unsurpassed in his brilliance, technique and sheer magnetism. Since 1999 however..... and don't give me that 'Sad because of Alicia's death' crap - of course it played a part in his downfall but really THAT much? It does make me think that he ONLY listened to her and, when he was on his own, didn't know even how to practice
I keep coming back to listen to this video !!❤❤❤❤ Our generation should be consumately grateful to the powers that be that we can listen and have a documented videos and recordings of this superlative, steatospheric artist and virtuoso such as Pogo. These recordings are a legacy he is giving the new generation of young piano artist virtuosos to the study and meditate about musically and artistically. An Artist and virtuoso like Pogo are only once in a lifetime manifestation in any culture, civilization. There are always hundreds of equally virtuoso pianists, but coupling great musicality, great uniqueness is rare, and we should thank Pogo for all he has DONATED TO THE MUSICAL WORLD, through his incandescent musicality
In Pogorelichs youth, he was a "Warrior Virtuoso", then as time creeped up on him, he became a more "Meditative Virtoso".. and now in his senior years, he is manifesting the "Sage Virtuoso" in his playing and public performances. Does anyone really know if in his private study practice sessions where he is the ONLY ONE to actually hear the musical sounds coming out of the piano, if in fact they are just like those sounds, tempi, sonorities, speed the public hears when he is in recital. Perhaps Pogo deliberately plays these works differently now just for that very reason, to give the audience a different musical perspective, a different musical architectural landscape as heard in sound. Artists can play mentally with their audience also, especially if they have a deep-seated sense of humour and deliberately want to send those critics off into a tizzy and a whirlwind of NEW COMMENTARY that they otherwise would not have the opportunity for. The last laugh is he who laughs best !! Pogo is laughing at all the "unwashed, unmusical, unclean and retarded deaf listeners.
No matter all the ludicrous comments abounding like a storm of solid hail, We are lucky and fortunate to still have Pogorelich with us today, still playing these great classical opuses, still giving his unique interpretations and virtuosity to this generation to hear and study and even meditate on. Once Pogorelich is gone from this plane of manifestation, all that the critics will be able to do is go off to find a new victim to castigate, excoriate and belittle ad infinitum. ❤❤❤
All of the greatest artists have been very controvertial subject matter for critics, as well as being themselves, misunderstood simply because their gifts are, to some extent, not quite comprehensible to the ordinary, run of the mill humanity that do not have any comparable gifts...at all. These great artists are avatars, beings who have descended from spiritual planes and spheres outside of the range of mortal men, to teach us someting, leave humanity with a legacy, and create another step up, a higher platform for future generations to continue to evolve from. ❤❤❤
This particular recording is even more "dramatic" then Gyorgy Cziffras version, which can also be found on YT ! Great Pianists never die, they just keep on living in their musical recordings. It is their legacy to the rest of future humanity to let the world and its current humanity know that some great, advanced being took human form to show humanity what humans could be and could achieve.
Wanted to be the first boy on the block to be in possession of his recording of the Tchaikovsky First so I got on a plane a flew to London and was at Rose Records before the doors opened as they were the first to get the product from DG. For those that don’t, DG being a European distributor, distributes throughout Europe and then to USA. The doors opened at 10:00 and by 11:30, the shipment was sold out. Claudio Abbado led the London Symphony Orchestra. This is one of my most treasured recordings of my collection.
Many times i have wondered if Pogorelich is not the reincarnation of the great master Beethoven. Pogorelich has been so immersed in the SOUNDS of the music he is recreating by playing it as well as studying the compositions over so many years. Even Ivo has stated that one of the most important acts in studying musical works has to do with LISTENING. ..and we all know from history that the master LVBeethoven was totally deaf from his late thirties on until his death at age 57.
It is good to see them together in a picture for historical purposes .She defended hid "unique artistry" in the 1980 Chopin Competition when practically half the jury deliberately gave him low marks so that he would not "qualify" to go on to the Final round and be able to play with orchestra as a Finalist. So sad. History shows us how destructive humans are to each other, however Martha Argerich resigned from the competition jury right at that time as she felt he was a pianistic and musically unique artist. IVO pogorelich was only 22 years old at that competition in 1980. Right after that rejection by the competition jury after the competition was over, word got out that Argerich believed and publicly stated Pogorekich was a pianistic and musical genius, so Deutsch Grmmophone signed IVO To a lucrative recording contract and separate requests occurred for him to play with orchestras around the musical world.
