Alexander Malofeev - 2019 China International Music Competition - Final Round - CONCERT (2019.5.17) Conductor: En Shao Orchestra: Orchestra Academia China Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Alexander plays Mozart just as beautifully as he plays Rachmaninoff, Medtner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Prokofiev...and any number of composers' masterpieces. I'm always in awe of his performances...he's a music genius!!
Aonde será que Alexander Malofev encontra tanta maturidade interpretativa e perfeição? Um talento nato, cuidadosamente desenvolvido sim, mas jóia rara, talento indiscutível! Deus o conserve assim?
É delicioso ouvir um rapaz tão novo e com tanta força interpretativa. Por mim, gostaria que aquela mão esquerda tivesse por vezes um pouco mais de presença. Porém, terá muito tempo para lá chegar. O recorte finíssimo de Richter e as notas mágicas de Arturo Benedetti Michelangelo estão igualmente ao seu alcance.
This is the first Mozart I have herd Alexander play. He does with Mozart what he does with every other composer he plays: he raises him from the dead. His flawless technique and deep understanding of the melodic line allows his listener to forget him and encounter the author. He is a truly humble virtuoso. He doesn’t have to prove himself, he lets himself go. And in this case, Morart soars.
He often plays composers I do not like much, like Rachmaninoff, but I listen anyway just for him. When he does play someone I love, like Mozart or Gershwin, it makes my day.
unfortunately such competitions are more about politics than talent. music shouldn’t be performed as part of a competition anyways. nobody can take it away from Alexander: he is one in a century.
In many decades of listening, this is by far the best performance of the Mozart Piano Concerto 20 I have ever heard. What a fantastical sense of musicality to have reached at such a young age. Bravo!
@@mcd1722 I can't say that's it's better, but it is certainly flawless. Phrasing is rounded perfectly, tapering to a "t". Articulation: super, every note is heard with absolute distinction. Musically, I don't hear how it could be improved. I always enjoy this concerto, no matter who is performing.
I am also mesmorized by the fact that he not only masters a very wide variety of music (Mozart, the Great Russians, Grieg, and Gershwin!!!) and with such deep understanding and personal interpretations! - AND still manages to keep such great contact with the orchestra, just look at the way he communicates with the conductor at all times! Maestro Malofeev is already one of the Greats!
He’s just what we need in this time of so much turmoil and sickness. He is a balm to my soul and calms me down and I’m able to have a respite from the worries of the day. What a passionate angel has come among us and given such a gift of beauty.
What can one say of this awesome talent! Malofeev is here to stay to give us Joy, Peace and Love through those amazing hands! The hands that have put in thousands of hours of practice and dedication! Another genius from Russia!
This and No. 26 are my absolute favourites of Mozart's piano concerti. Alex played his version the best I've ever heard it performed. Very supportive conductor and great young Chinese orchestra. Fantastic thank you.
Piano Concerto No 20 (along with 23, 24 & 25) is one of my most loved Mozart Piano Concertos - and this performance is one of my all time favourites. I listen to a younger Vladimir Ashkenazy playing this and I really struggle to tell the difference between you both!! You truly are an exceptionally talented young man. Please look after yourself - both mentally and physically - so that (after Covid) many audiences in countries throughout the world will have the opportunity to hear you perform in person for very many years to come. t charles, UK
Mozart is not a closed book. There is always more to come. Great musicians like Alexander Malofeev will always shine new light on the pages. We need to invite him to open the book - and shine, shine, shine! He does not disappoint the open ear of the open-minded.
Amadeus Mozart I remember a festival heralding the composer at Lincoln Center where I spent afternoons. Lyrical, Lush, Luminescent your playing a God given gift.
After hearing him play at 11 on here, now hearing him at 18 and he only gets better, if that is at all possible. What a Brilliant young pianist; and he still plays without a score in front of him! Again Alexander, Bravo!!!
It is normal practice to perform from memory. After learning the work we must commit to memory as the music score would only be a barrier between the music and the performer. He just knows the notes and has consciously memorised them.
Alexander Malofeev é perfeito , maravilhoso na interpretação e na técnica. Toca com a alma , sente nota por nota , compasso por compasso. Espetacular!!!!!
Wow what a passionate and consummate performance by Malofeev sadly let down by a soulless and mechanical orchestral accompaniment. This is how you’d envisage Mozart playing it with energy and liveliness. The performance is all the more remarkable coming from a boy still in his teens. He has an amazing career ahead of him as he adds depth and pathos to youthful passion and energy.
This young man has, in his short years accomplished more than most people do their whole lives! god bless Alexander, his parents & all his future endeavors. I know we're not nearly through hearing from the VERY talented virtuoso
I do not agree that Russia is “lucky” to have such great pianists and other musicians. Russia has long experience in recognising great talent in its first bloom, and then in allowing students to make the most of those talents. They have teaching skills on a very organised basis; these skills plus extremely hard work from teachers, institutions and young musicians lead to what we hear tonight. Not one inch of it is blind “luck.” Gilels, Ashkenazy, Horowitz, Kissin ... the list is endless, and all of it the product of hard work such as most of us never dream of.
Phenomenally musical teenager, exhuberant talent, nuanced subtlety in technique. Humble, unassuming, nigh on flawless, a servant of the music. Exquisite emerging performances, which we hope he has decades to interpret and reinterpret. Yes, he'll see greater depths in future, but it's in youth that we feel most deeply and passionately, wide eyed, before the reality of human misery and politics warps us and we become old and cynical enough to wear the hat of the carping critic.
You have brought so much joy during this dire time of the pandemic. Listening to you is so uplifting. Thank you for all your incomparable music making.
The performance seems re-incarnational - a youngster playing the eternal music of a composer who never grew old - with such freshness and energy - we know it's intention is Mozart's own.
Любовь к музыке, талант, работоспособность и замечательный педагог сотворили чудо: достояние нашей Республики! Огромное спасибо, здоровья вам, берегите себя.
If one listens to the wide range of dynamics , the intense emotionally diverse passages that Mozart wrote for the orchestra in this work, one realises what he intended for the soloist - an intention thwarted by the limitations of the harpsichord. These intentions can now be realised with the concert grand piano - and Alexander does just that. A truly 'Mozartian' performance of the highest calibre. I do not know what extraneous forces influenced the jury in this competition, but they certainly failed where Alexander succeeded.
So beautiful! This and his performance with the Moscow Conservatory Student orchestra are both wonderful. A side note, I'm so glad he's improved his posture in the past couple years. And his performances are better than ever, simply amazing.
It appears this prodigy, this genius, has memorized the entire piano repertoire. God bless him. May he rest, from time to time, and occasionally laugh. And may he have a very long life. I watch and listen to him every morning before getting out of bed. And my life has improved immeasurably since I started doing this.
Sehr überzeugend und sensibel gespielt und auch im klassischem Stil Mozarts ! Haltung an Glenn Gould erinnernd , aber noch schöner gespielt! Großes Bravo !
i've been following alexander before this competition, so i was watching this video biased. after watching this competition's winner's performance vs. his, i firmly and proudly remain as alexander's big fan :) for whatever reasons i'm not capable of articulating, his performance always calms, moves and mesmerizes me
e daniel: Alex,the playing of this concert proves a great diversity of possibilities that your talent possesses.Congratulations.Again this time you make us vibrate with your musical genius.
There are not words enough suitable to praise this Prodigiuos Pianist: he lives the beauty of the music he plays and I can see that great interpreters of great composers ought to have a very internal link with all that is trascendent. I do pray God to enlighten Alexander Malofeev and thanking Alexander: it is not possible not to realize our souls soar to the Upmost.
There is always a danger that Mozart can be 'standardised', become 'monochrome', and 'academic'. No danger of that here! It is clear that many of his critics resent the vivacity and colourful joie de vivre that Alexander brings to this piece, battling with the storm, and emerging joyfully into the sun. Mozart was a pandoras box of wonders to be opened and revelled in, not an examination where you have to tick all the right boxes - or you fail!
Just thought ... the orchestra is starting way to dull and without energy .... and then Alexander starts and it takes a different turn. Enjoyed it very much!
I do not wish to make an invidious comparison. However, I would remind those critics who are unable to stomach Alexander's place among the great pianists of the past because of his age, that Mozart's first documented composition, a Minuet and Trio in G major, is listed as KV 1 and was composed when he was just five years old. He had written 13 symphonies by the time he was 15. I merely mention this to indicate that evaluating Alexander's musical maturity and insights on the basis of his chronological age is simplistic and misguided. He is definitely 'up there' among the greats!
@@jose4877 As you will have read, I was not making a comparison with Mozart in any way, other than his age. I was simply saying that judging the potential of a genius by his age is foolish - thats all.
Oh please. Do we really need a Mozart cliché mini bio? I know you don't mean to make a comparison to Mozart, but this pianist has his critics for valid reasons. I doubt people are criticizing him just because of his age. I for one think he plays a lot of music way too fast, missing out on the musical expression and depth. And I'm quite sure that won't change any time soon.
I can t believe that the orchestra sound so bad ?!?! It s an international competition and they couldn't play better than that ????!!!!! What a shame! Poor pianist .... Of.course , for the young artist, there is no critics , he is amazing : a true pianist. I m not agree with some "fast" tempos but , it s always a great pleasure to hear such an Artist!
Нет слов...Огромная живительная энергия влилась в меня во время его исполнения Моцарта...Богатейшая нюансировка...Технику не замечаешь: пальцы парят над клавиатурой...Волшебно!)))))
This most dramatic and dark work of Mozart was so ahead of its time that the early pianos of the 1780's, Stein at al, could not possibly allow its realization. It was waiting for the modern concert grand, just as Bach's works are so much more expressive when not confined to the hopelessly inadequate harpsichord. This great and complex concerto was waiting for the insightful interpretation Aleksandr presents, hardly boring or stilted, like others! I especially enjoyed your imaginative and daring cadenza in the Allegro assai! You deserve every accolade the world can bestow! Competitions are so rarely fair as you have learned! You were without peer in Beijing! Bravo e Molto Grazie, Maestro Giovane!
Couldn't agree more. Mozart, Bach and Beethoven deserve a Steinway Grand. The purists can cry in their lattes. But the bass line let's this down. The upward arrppeggio of the orchestra needs much more oomph.
I hope this 17-year old phenom, Alexander Malofeev would keep maturing and improving himself to be one of the greatest legends in the classical piano world.
СЛАВА РОССИИ, КОТОРАЯ ВЫРАСТИЛА ТАКОЙ ПРЕКРАСНЫЙ БРИЛЛИАНТ ДЛЯ ВСЕЙ ПЛАНЕТЫ И ВСЕЙ ВСЕЛЕННОЙ. СПАСИБО, САШЕЧКА ДОРОГОЙ, АНГЕЛОЧЕК НАШ! ДАЙ БОГ ТЕБЕ И ДАЛЬШЕ УСЛАЖДАТЬ НАШИ ДУШИ БОЖЕСТВЕННЫМ ИСПОЛНЕНИЕМ! сПАСИБО! БЛАГОДАРНОСТЬ ВСЕМ, ТО ВЛОЖИЛ ТРУД В ЭТО ДИТЯ МИРА!!!
No one is property of their country. He is a human being of our planet, as I would hope that we all are. Mr. Malofeev belongs to himself. I enjoyed this Mozart 20 much more than expected. Bravo to Mr. Malofeev, he is truly one of the great young musicians living. I especially enjoyed his light, crisp touch on this Mozart. Wish the orchestra was better. Никто не является собственностью своей страны. Он человек нашей планеты, как я надеюсь, что все мы. Г-н Малофеев принадлежит самому себе. Мне этот Моцарт 20 понравился намного больше, чем ожидалось. Браво господину Малофееву, он действительно один из величайших молодых музыкантов в мире. Мне особенно понравилось его легкое, четкое прикосновение к Моцарту. Желаю, чтобы оркестр был лучше.
He said in the interview he can practice that long only if he doesn't have a concert or school. He has a busy schedule so cannot always practice the 8-10 or 12 hours.
Dit mooie pianoconcert n° 20 van Mozart gespeeld door een dromerige, fijnzinnige jonge pianist, finalist in deze internationale competitie! Dank voor deze schitterende prestatie !!!
Los pianistas sobresalientes y virtuosos para serlo deberán aprobar la exigente prueba de Mozart y este gran portento virtuoso Ruso sí que aprueba y sobresale. Felicitaciones.
