0:00 Intro music - Chopin Polonaise Op 53 (Heroic) 0:08 Lev Oborin - Tchaikovsky The Seasons: October “Autumn Song” 0:29 Alexandre Uninsky - Chopin Etude Op 10 No 11 (Arpeggio) 0:48 Yakov Zak - Prokofiev Toccata 1:18 Bella Davidovich - Chopin Grande Valse Brillante Op 18 1:46 Halina Czerny-Stefanska - Chopin Mazurka Op 68 no 2 2:00 Adam Harasiewicz - Chopin Nocturne Op 15 no 2 2:37 Mauricio Pollini - Chopin Prelude Op 28 no 24 3:13 Martha Argerich - Chopin Scherzo 3 3:50 Garrick Ohlsson - Chopin Etude Op 10 No 1 (Waterfall) 4:22 Krystian Zimerman - Chopin Ballade 1 5:06 Dang Thai Son - Chopin Scherzo 2 5:57 Stanislav Bunin - Chopin Etude Op 10 No 12 (Revolutionary) 6:41 Kevin Kenner - Chopin Nocturne Op 27 No 2 7:08 Alexei Sultanov - Chopin Grande Valse Brillante Op 18 7:34 Philippe Giusiano - Chopin Mazurka Op 7 No 1 7:58 Yundi Li- Chopin Grande Polonaise Brillante 8:35 Rafal Blechacz - Chopin Prelude Op 28 no 8 9:09 Yulianna Avdeeva - Chopin Ballade 4 9:49 Seong-Jin Cho - Chopin Nocturne Op 48 no 1 10:29 Outro music - Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 Movement 2
@@pianosbloxworld4460 I don’t think the Prokofiev recording was from the Chopin competition. I’d imagine the uploader chose this clip specifically since they didn’t have any Chopin competition footage (it happened quite a while ago after all.)
@@benana_3 Or they didn't have footage of that specific person playing Chopin, many clips with Chopin's work in this video are not from Chopin competition.
I think to myself, "Damn, all of these people are insanely talented." Then I remember that all of these pieces were written buy one guy who didn't even live to be 40.
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He wasn't distracted by internet, (a)social networks and other garbage. He had plenty time to write and fully focus on music.
To be fair, there's "good" distractions when it comes to creativity in the arts. And by good, I mean tragedies, heartbreak and pain. Terrible for happiness, but great for artistic expression.
I'm guessing at this level they have equivalent technical ability, but it's more a matter of musicality and how they interpret the music that distinguishes the winners
@@20891the eliminate based off who has the best interpretation skills, mishaps in notes are unacceptable in the later stages of the competition, so that will eliminate people too.
Alexei Sultanov, even from the limited recordings we have of him, is one of my absolute favorite pianists! God I wish we could have seen him mature and developed. RIP
I was very lucky to see him at Chopin competition when he unjustly got a second prize 🙄… Nobody played like Sultanov … he was and always will be one of a kind…. R.I.P Alexei ….
I've never heard of the 1980's winner Dang Thai Son, but I surely enjoyed the short passage of him playing here. So relaxed and emphasizing notes that I usuaaly dont hear in this scherzo. He seems really good
His rendition of Prelude 24 is, in my opinion, the best. He was the pioneer of the fist hitting on the final 3 low Ds in that prelude and taught it to his student, Eric Lu. Kate Liu and Eric Lu are his students who both took prizes in the 2015 competition.
@@FrostDirt i think that this unawareness was caused by the presence of Ivo pogorelich at the same year. I'm not technical enough to hear the "looseness" in Ivo's following of the score. That's what got him out of the competition apparently, since there was no complaints about his technique
@@sergeirachmaninoff6397 Yes, Ivo indeed was causing a big controversy to the point that Argerich had to resign from the jury board. Pollini came second, by the way, you might know him.
@@FrostDirt pollini resignd too? Wow that's tough. Both of them, Argerich and Pollini are huge names in the classical world. I'm not classically trained, and not even a musician, but i would like to know how it is to hear the nunaces that they hear on the playing of someone like Ivo. For now I'm just focusing on understanding musical structure, such as sonata form and identifying themes and variations, for example. This gives me some sort of pleasure and I would really like to be able to follow an hour long symphony, grasping a little bit of the deapth that composers have to offer. I need to learn more though
Sultanov is a legend. A naturally gifted musician with boundless chops, great tone, huge dynamic range, an ear for the hidden melodies, and gave instinctive interpretations. Out of this incredible field he would be the one I'd pay to see perform, RIP.
@@jeffreyd700 they were about the different types of mazurkas and there characteristics this is actually a lost fact it’s not even in the Harvard dictionary of music
Unfortunately he had a habit of editing his video recordings. For instance, you can see the bench get swapped out in the middle of the first ballade from that same set: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o8oyb0fRUas.html.
@@jdmonaco2493 not his fault (some think that this is the reason his Ballades were taken down). Actually, he is a perfectionist that dislikes studio releases, for instance he recorded Liszt's Sonata in B Minor 76 times before he found anything of his standard. And he literally handpicked his orchestra members to record the Chopin Concerto.
@@jdmonaco2493 So that wasn't one take? I never noticed that. Seat keeps changing back and forth several times. Did a good job splicing the takes and matching the sound but could he actually play it that perfect in one take? Probably not.
Ashkenazy was probably disappointed in his 2nd prize in 1955. The videos from the 60s of him playing the first two Etudes from Op. 10 are as brilliant as anything by the winners though and his live Chopin Sonata No. 2 is also fantastic.
In fact Michelangeli was in the jury when Ashkenazy got 2nd place and refused to sifn me the pricze, stating "he should've been n. 1". History definitely shows who was right, between Michelangeli and the other judges.
@@AoichanpianoCho is excellent, no question. I was reacting to @kyungho_seong, who said Cho is "the best pianist throughout a century", a statement I very strongly view as false. When you say "there is no highest position," I see you agree with me.
He's still my favorite winner so far of the Chopin competition, maybe besides Kristian Zimmerman. His playing was phenomenal. He's not as good as he once was, unfortunately.
How could Alexei Sultanov not win first prize? He won the Van Cliburn competition. Sadly, he died at age 35. Interesting that early winners were old guys. How things have changed!
Alexey Sultanov won more then first prize. He won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people around the world!!! And every day there are more fans of the Brilliant Pianist Alexey Sultanov!
Because judges nowadays tend to pick hot young prodigies with flashy techniques that are easily marketable, rather than fully developed and mature rounded musicians. Yunchan Lim is an exception because his playing (and his personality) has the depth and wisdom of an old soul. There's basically no point in even thinking about winning a competition if you're older than early 20's... though it is good for exposure and for bios. It also helps if you have connections with the judges. Judges can't give scores to those who they've taught or had connections with but there is nothing stopping them from marking OTHER candidates down.
many first winners of this Competions very far from great pianists of 20Th Century , a few had a real carreer of international solists , it's a indisputable fact !
2010 was the year where it got overcrowded with geniuses, for me personally Bozhanov was the most breathtaking pianist, but I also admired Trifonov at that time (I’m not a fan of current Trifonov tho) and obviously Avdeeva and Wunder are both amazing too
@@ganjamozart1435 Bozhanov is a musical genius, IMHO, and completely dominated the others, but self-destructed in the concerto. Except for Martha, Pogo, and perhaps Pollini, he's the pianist from the competition I'd most like to hear play Live (and I've heard both the others many times).
at 0:53, Yakov Zak is playing Prokofievs Toccata. Is the video from the Chopin competition, I mean was it allowed back then to play music from other composers in the competition?
