La obra completa de Bach. El Clave bien Templado y todo el repertorio de Bach y. de varios de Los Grandes Compositores. La Campanela de Lizst divina. 🎼🎶🎶🎶♥️
beautiful - thanks for correcting my interpretation at the end of bar 22 that the b is melody - yours sings. Others I have heard had buried it like i did.
I may be late to the party, but hats off for your performance! Very clear voicing, beautifully played. It surpasses almost all other renditions I've heard. Very inspirational!
Whenever I listen to Rachmaninoff, I always listen for *voicing*. Those inner voices are key to Rach's music, and this pianist plays them masterfully, singing them out with exquisite control. Bravo. Great performance of a piece that is much more difficult than it sounds.
One of the world’s finest pianists, currently hiding under a rock at the University of Utah. Equally transcendental Liszt playing is of the Fountains of the Villa d’Este on his 2010 CD. Don’t expect carefully placed packets of “expression”: the expression lies in the entire form of the piece.
You're very talented man it's a pleasure to meet you and work at your home through rock solid concrete thank you for getting me the tickets I really enjoyed your performance years ago
Also das ist ganz großes Klavierspiel Unglaublich schöner, weicher Ton, blitzsauber, transparent gespielt, Einfach toll... Keine Schnörkel Nicht die Gewalt von Weissenberg oder Richter, aber genau so schön Das gleiche gilt auch für op23, 2 Bravo
This pianist makes this piece flow like warm waters near the equator. The melody is always clear with carefully executed embroidery especially upon the 2nd repeat of it. I prefer how Ashkenazy prepares well in advance for and ultimately gushes the climax. Richter is careful to avoid any sentimentality; Weissenberg is very aggressive; Sokolov builds nicely to climax but takes a number of liberties throughout the piece. I can't say I have a favorite artist performing this piece; I have to listen to different pianists to get different things I want. But it comes down to Mr. Vanhauwaert and Mr. Ashkenazy whom I would listen to over and over. A shame this rivetingly beautiful work is unknown by to many lovers of piano music!
yes, I Sooo agree, such wonderful and clear interpretation, no frills, earnest and honest, always keeping the piece together as a whole. It has kept me daily company while I am studyig this piece, now well over 4 months , still I am recovering little bits, chords, accents , rubato - I dont really understand how youtube works, this interpretation should be out there, amongst the best, Thank you again Steven""
The best performance of this piece on RU-vid. Click around and hear for yourself. Luganksy runs it close, but he lacks the long deep breaths which float us into a world of unearthly serenity. I didn’t know Rachmaninoff could do it.
Thank you for getting me to listen to Ashkenasy again. The integrity and depth of his playing is so impressive. My big objection to so much Rachmaninoff playing is the fake theatre of “inverted comma” big moments before the playing reverts to fin de siècle syrup. Ashkenasy will have none of that. But his seriousness makes him choose a speed far slower than Rachmaninoff’s crochet=60. Perhaps it comes across as ponderous or deliberately depressed. To my ears at least Steven achieves a quiet ecstasy I hadn’t thought possible.
Thanks for the suggestion. Sofronitsky is superb, the best of the romantic Russian interpreters. His rubato make you cling to each bar line as if your inner life depended on it. Vanhauwaert seems cold and detached by comparison - until you feel a beautiful sense of the piece as a whole. Your nose had been too close to the window pane to see the view. Perhaps it’s the notorious difference between romantic and classical art.
