Great! Great! Great! One of the few pianists like Serkin (Rudolf and Peter or Markus Becker) who understood Reger sonetimes extremitely difficult music. Thank you very much.
What Mr Zanini lacks in this energetic performance is made up when it is used as a night piece good for falling asleep? There are many lively and much better performances on YT.
I have listened to all the performances of this piece that I could find on RU-vid; actually I like them all but this one is by several leagues the best. Right choice of tempo for each variation, respect for the melody, right style for each variation, constant sensitivity, perfect touch -- one hears Mozart himself playing. What a great pianist.
I once had dinner with Lazar Berman in Bern, Switzerland after a masterclass at the Conservatory. He was and remains my hero. He was extraordinarily funny and unpretentious. He indulged with kindness piano students who lacked the talent to study with him. Like Rubinstein, he possessed the ability to play with the entire weight of his body creating effortlessly a massive sound like an orchestra. But more impressive than his thundering chords where the long passages in which he made the piano speak as if in a soliloquy or prayer. This made his recording of Liszt's Années de Pélerinage on of the most important historical recordings in the literature.
¡Felicitaciones! Para el excelente pianista por su magnífica ejecución. Estos valses-capricho de G. Fauré son hermosos y de gran dificultad, más bien, son valses de concierto. Son valses poco comunes en las partituras de los grandes pianistas. ¡Gracias por compartirlos. Saludos desde México.
c'était l'époque où la médiatisation internet nexistait pas , en 2024 les labels font la promotion des Artistes , en 60' il y avait plus d'authenticité donc de meilleurs pianistes que en 2024 cest plus,superficiel sur le niveaux talent
One of my very favourite pianists. I've seen John Lill play Rach PC3 twice (30 years apart); his sound was magnificent - the most thrilling cadenza I've ever heard, Prok PC3 which was wonderful and also this concerto. Lill is one of these pianists who has staggering technique (he himself has said that "difficult" music doesn't seem to present a problem to him) and a very direct way of communicating. Fully deserved of the Gold Medal in this performance.
The greatest British pianist and possibly even the greatest in the world (ever) in so far as you can rank these things. His playing is aways crystal clear with supreme technical command, no matter the difficulty of the piece, which brings out the music to the full. And it is MUSIC that is the name of the game, a fact certain big names seem to forget! Not much point in crunching the piano or achieving breakneck tempo if the music gets lost, is there? IMO what the likes of Horovitz do at times is simply an "ugly" sound, so why do it?
