Chopin was and is, the greatest romantic composer and virtuoso pianist in history!! His music is not comparable to anything else, it's pure, deepest emotion and the genius of composition. The one and only, unique Polish sadness, the sadness of the Polish soul - that is what made Chopin...Chopin. His music is brilliant and unique exactly for this reason. Chopin, being Polish, was able to extract the essence of the Polish soul: the Polish complex, forsaken, cursed, brutal history, and at the same time, the nostalgic poetry of Polish lands, and put it into his musical composition.
Какое счастье, что мы имеем возможность запечатлеть, и слушать музыку великих композиторов и видеть игру таких величайших исполнителей. Люди, берегите, что имеем! Спасибо за прекрасную запись!
A tragedy that this is my first hearing of Pressler! Fantastico. Horowitz has been my favorite for a long time. I wonder how many other great artists have come and gone that I've missed [in the recording era...] The last was lovely in the minor keys, but didn't care for the major-key parts. That's a "me" issue, clearly.
These pianists of an older generation are still the greatest. Their reflective play beats the more virtuoso style of the younger pianists hands-down. Khatia Buniatishvili is one of the younger pianists who is in that first category. May there be more!
This is why we shouldn't eulogize the likes of Lang Lang, who turns the piano into flashes of lightning to dazzle listeners' eyes, but doesn't come within miles of their souls!
I had a piano instructor back in the 90s who was from Kiev and Horowitz went to the same Kiev Conservatory she went to, she told me how senior recitals are a big deal and they're done in front of a panel of professors who do not show any emotion after your performance. Zero. no clapping, no nodding, nothing. Horowitz finished, they jumped to their feet and applauded for a minute straight. He was that much of a force.
Any other instruments you can put some additional chords, notes, beats, whatever, and potentially make it cooler or richer or better, but not with this instrument. With this you play exactly how it is meant to be played, the only difference can be how much you put your heart into it, and how much control you have over your fingers. Basically your heart ressonates into people's soul and make them feel it as nothing else can. I hope you get what i'm trying to say here.
The greatness of the Western European civilization echoes so bravely in this astounding musical testiment to their abilities and intellect to create the greatest achievements of mankind ever. Bravo! Bravo!
El Don especial de Barú Ashem que llena que es bueno agradable y perfecto,soy un ser creado por un ser Divino y es una maravilla tener un aparato auditivo para disfrutar de este hermoso momento.❤
