Gould has the audacity and ability to transform great composers' piano works into something greater that's his very own, gratifying his inner urge to be recognised as a genuine composer😅
This sonata is a masterpiece but this recording isn’t even one of the best to listen to. Medtner wrote this very beautiful sonata, but sadly he can’t play it properly. Medtner’s pianism seems to be meh. Rachmaninoff and Scriabin were better pianists, better interpretators of their own music.
I don't agree with you, Medtner was was in fact great pianist.This interpretation is quite good and his interpretation of his piano concertos are great too! Actually Scriabin's interpretation of his own pieces are practically terible...
I believe Medtner was a better skilled pianist (interpreter of other's pieces and own's) than Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Rachmaninoff was the most inspired of these 3, and the most composing-oriented of them. What to say of Scriabin... those left-hand octaves...
@@teodorb.p.composer actually we will never know what scriabins interpretations sounded like since his recordings are all piano rolls, which are not very accurate to how to composer actually played it
@@usurpationofmusic4596 well, that's true, still the piano rolls don't sound very naturally. But the age was different, the pianism was different, so we shouldn't judge!
I hear and hear again, and finally I discovered that Gould is the only to play also the left hand, and perhaps to make the left hand to prevail. So you hear the full Mozart. This sonata is impressive (here)... but it may be not (in other hands). I think Mozart wrote this piece in a tourbulent moment of his life, therefore the listener cannot pretend to adapt melody and phrases to his transitory emotional status.
may be this performance shows Mozart as a joke, but elevates Gould at absolute gotha of pianism. Superclear counterpunct techique and satanic passion expressed in the coda are exhibited at uncomparable level (see Argerich, Brendel, Richter, etc.)
What a great piece of art. It reminds me bwv 849 where a second theme comes out and moves together with the main theme after a while. Just discovered this work and my emotions are so intense recognizing once again the greatness of Shostakovich.
This guy doesn't sound like Artie Shaw to me. The real Artie didn't have to dip before starting the slur upwards. And, there's just too many slurs in the whole piece.😾
I sometimes view Gershwin as the bridge between classical and modern music and i believe this song, The Man I Love, is one of the most beautiful musical pieces ever written
The Ashkenazy recording of the famous Shostakovitch Piano Préludes is a Masterwork. Too intellectual or not, Ashkenazy shows enough sensitivity in his rendition. Perfectly recorded by the Decca label, as usual, it's a good display of Ash abilities. With the 5th and 7th simphonies, Shosta will always be remembered as the good, though for some, weird composer he was. 🤗❤️👍🏻😇🙏
