Andrei I hope you read this. This is the definitive version of this song. No one else has done it like this. Such passion is unmatched. Just listening to this through RU-vid is a sheer work of heaven.
Спасибо. Тонко для этого мира и прочно для того. Слишком нематериалистично наконец-то. Музыка, 🎶 гроздья высших миров, сорваны душой гениально. Пик мастерства.
This Piece in this Key is so perfect when I listen to it its like everything I have is in this song and for that 8-9 minute i am in complete solitude for I feel trapped by the elegance of this composition. Bravo Great Chopin, Bravo.
For a brief, but precious period, Andrei Gavrilov was the best pianist in the world. I will always regard myself as lucky and privileged to have heard him at his incredible, mind-boggling, heart-stopping best.
I've always felt that Andrei was be the best. I love how he is unpretentious, non-pyschotic, straight-forward, keeps actual time with Chopin, and brings no little poetry and delight to the music. Andrei is a Mere Master of the magnitude of a Super Nova over powering our Galaxy! ---- Eric Zolaski
СОВЕРШЕННОЕ ИСПОЛНЕНИЕ! ТЕМПЕРАМЕНТНО НЕВЕРОЯТНО! НАПОР БЕЗ ГРУБОСТИ. ИЗЫСКАННО И ОДНОВРЕМЕННО ПРОСТО! Техника безупречна.Очень жизнеутверждающе. И драматично!. КОНЕЦ- ШКВАЛ!!
This one sounds closest to the scene in The Pianist. I tried listening to the others on RU-vid but none came as close. This guy play it well. Full of emotion in it.
Just yesterday I laid my grandmother to rest. She joined the heavens to this song… it was her favorite; she would hum it nearly every day. It was played one last time for her before we encased her final resting place.
Probably the most underrated pianist in the world. Andrei Gavrilove's Rach piano concerto 2 is also the best version, but so weird that comments are not allowed on RU-vid.
I know i shouldn't but i cant help comparing all the interpretations of the final coda (7:15) , and i think gavrilov's one is by far the best he literally makes the piano cry I mean what's the purpose of that final coda if not tearing the listener up in half and making him lose his breath? I know the "best" pianists tend to make each time a quite "sober" version of it and it doesn't satisfy me
i rather like what Gavrilov does. His interpretations are somewhat more aggressive than certain other pianists,, but one must always remember that there are several good ways to interpret a single piece of music.
I completely disagree. His style is quite amazing and unique. Gavrilov always changes his tone and colouring, always changes moods etc. He's just so creative, listening to him is just always so interesting. Many people say that he empasizes the wrong notes, plays too loudly there, too stormy or sweetly there etc, but there is nothing wrong with Gavrilov's playing. Gavrilov is just a man of many characters, which reflects in his music.
I don'y think so.. compare the rhythm and yhe intensity of the scale 2,32 then the nuances in all the other parts of this Ballade. after all, I love them both
I like this version, but my favourite is the one of Pollini (an old record from 60s if i don't mistake). I think it's quite similar with this, but i prefer Pollini's one at the last part, i can hear Polish folk music in it.
Even as a cellist, your playing for instance. Then I also believe that not only cellist or pianist can be qualified to have a judgement. As to G's playing here , it is not as bad as in other videos here.
marcelmom... your obsession with the grand and unique Richter is well-known. I tend to think you're quite close with Gavrilov at some level... or member of the same g club :-) As to Pollini, don't insult him.
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It's the first time I hear G play Chopin and I must say I'm positively surpirsed. I was expecting a technically great finale and not expecting much from the rest. Instead I found a wonderful ballade, played with taste, control and ofcourse perfect technique. I didn't like much the finale because of the loud left hand and because the pauses in the ending were held for too long and I feel he lost the momentum and the build-up work he did up to then.
Believe me I am perfectly qualified to have a judgement about interpretations and also I can be critical concerning Gavrilov ' s perverted understanding of "art"...
I listened to his "Revolutionary" here on YT and compared it to a number of performances by a number of other pianists: I am convinced his interpretaion is a disaster (though technically he had achieved so much, the distorted queer spirit spoils everything)
P.S. I'd rather say that we can not exactly assess Gavrilov 's performance problem unless we actually do know his personality (yes). His style is "tormented" as he is and currently, this style has just become unnatural. It is a "plastic" musician. Therefore the "sweety", "schmaltz", sugary or angry / nervous destruction of Chopin ' s and other great composer 's idea. Compare this fake...to the greatest performances of the 20 century... Horrible.
Might be an instersting version, but for my taste too much overweighted with excessive compulsiveness, breathlessness and nerves. This is much more histery, than ballade.
О но... опять это произведение. Как вы мне все надоели с 19 веком. Дешевка. Cheap vulgar sentiment. Гаврилов великолепно изобразил свой застой и беспомощность в прогрессе. Дурак...
