Piano recital by Olga Jegunova - www.jegunova.com/ Bishopsgate Institute (London), October 2012. Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 31 Multimedia engineer - Boris Bizjak www.borisbizjak.com/#!hedone
I've just seen You playing Mozart and i started to Admire you and i said I'm not about to compare you to Horowitz "so" You are Perfect. Please Forgive me, You Don't need to be Compare to anyone. That was the 1st Video I've saw, now i realize all Musicians MUST Respect such a pianist like you. I'm not Good with English, its hard to Express, but i see you just like the way i see Horowitz. Inspiring...
I subscribed after hearing this Scherzo and the Schubert op. 90 Impromptu in G flat Major. So many pianists play it like a funeral march but not Olga, her feeling reminded me of the tempos that Schnabel and Lipatti used. Beautiful playing.
I'm at a loss for words at the performance: Fantastic, terrific job! Chopin pieces are especially difficult because of all the changing times, emotions expressed, and for the simple fact of not being limited to any single section of the keyboard. That being said you delivered an extraordinary play, I'm extremely grateful you performed and this is available to be enjoyed!!
Olga, that was beautiful. Brava!!! This Chopin scherzo was the piece that was played in the movie "Song To Remember" which was a biographical (I'm sure Hollywood-ized) story of Chopin. It starred Cornel Wilde and Merle Oberon. This scherzo was played in a darkened room before an aristocratic audience when Georges Sand (Merle Oberon) walked in the room carrying a candelabra which she placed on the piano to reveal that the person playing the piece was Chopin (Cornel Wilde) and not Franz Liszt as the audience was led to believe. It was said that this particular scene was what encouraged Liberace to use a candelabra during all his performances. You can see the video on RU-vid by accessing "Song To Remember" - Candelabra scene." This movie is what made me an avid Chopin fan. As I mentioned, it is a Hollywood version, but the music is plentiful and the stars do it justice. There is also a movie about Liszt which you may enjoy, titled "Song Without End" starring Dirk Bogarde and Capucine,
I love this performance and hear it again and again. In my opinion the greatest performance since the Philips Arrau recording from 1984 . Thank you so much.
Anyone who can play this scherzo is obviously a competent pianist. I toyed with it years ago at uni but never really stuck with it. Well done Olga!! Well played.
her olga san fingerings and recollections for chopin for sure genius. she wanted to be attended on by chopin and i want amadeus to compose guitar concerto. those two were my eternal music goal
It’s nice. It’s pleasant. It’s interesting. But, it doesn’t have the same effect on me as that Schubert impromptu. It feels more like a demonstration of complex, technical piano skills than a perfect expression of emotion or divinity. It just doesn’t captivate me in the same way as the Schubert. It doesn’t break into my subconsciousness as Schubert does. Olga is, however, beautiful as ever.
Eb Emerson (below) you're talking through your hat. This is a marvellous performance by a wonderfully gifted pianist. You probably don't even play. And since when is Mozart easy?
I think what happened is they edited a little mistake out, and through that part she made a mistake that lead to the "personal style". I quite like the articulation of that part though.
This is hardest part of music than she can play.Anything more difficult she can not play because she have limited technique.Because of that she play most Mozart.Mozart is not technique difficult.Rachmaninoff Alkan Liszt specially fast parts she can not play.Very limited below average piano player.Not Pianist.Also in this Chopin have many mishaps wrong keys.
***** Sounded great to me, so who gives a shit. Not everyone can play everything or be the ultimate in technical proficiency. She plays with feeling and soul, which is worth far more than how fast you can run through scales.
Someone who can only understand a performance in terms of 'technique' is no musician and never will be. Are you even a pianist at all? Even the greatest pianists are wary of touching Mozart because the music is so transparent - there's no special effects available to hide a poor technique.
4 years have passed, so Eb Emerson will most probably not read this. Actually it is not worth a reaction but I cannot help expressing my admiration for his courage (!) to publish one insult after another. Hardly a Christian attitude (his channel is named "Sons of God". - If you don't like a performance, why don't you keep silent and move on? Unless, of course, Emerson wrote that post on purpose, to make a fool of himself - in which case he succeeded! :-)
