Kissin is so incredibly skilled, he didn't even have to move at all for the entire duration of the three sonatas to produce masterful performances. Bravo!
I’ve listened to Kissin performing many times live, and to many of his recording. He is the finest of them all( his contemporaries) And this recording is also absolutely phenomenal. Firework of his incredible technical prowess and unmatched lyricism Thank you, Maestro!!
Une vraie tempête.... enfin. Quel interprète, quel génie. Il est le seul à nous faire entendre TOUTES les notes qu'il joue. Quel bonheur. Merci Maestro. Merci.
Kissin est plus qu'un virtuose ...chacune de ces interprétations est unique... claire...directe...profonde... et intimement reliée à leurs compositeurs par le fil de l'émotion et de la sincérité . Toujours bouleversant. Merci Maestro .
The second movement is to be played Adagio Cantabile, 66 bpm, not + - 85. Kissen is an excellent pianist. But, "accurate interpreter?" What's the rush, where's the feeling in this beautiful movement? I could only listen to my favorite part of this Beethoven piece for less than a minute!
@@jeremybeadleslefthand480 Hi Jeremy. Sorry about that, and you don't need to be "sorry" to ask. I was referring to "Pathetique." The 2nd movement is my favorite. When played Adagio Cantabile, for me, the piece is so beautifully romantic and eases stress and transcends me. A faster tempo is actually like nails on a caulk board and creates just the opposite feeling, so much that I turned it off. This not a critique on Kissen's command of the instrument, but just needed to hear this movement at the suggested tempo. For me, the much faster tempo was disturbing and I felt that Kissen was just playing the notes which voided the ease of a romantic movement after ending the 1st with gusto.
Three of Beethoven's best, all performed well, which is an understatement. No amount of hyperbole could properly describe the power and elegance of Kissin's playing.
Unbelievable. I love Beethoven, and Waldstein is my favorite piece and the only Beethoven sonata I can play from start to finish. I've listened this piece thousands of times (literally), in any possible version you can find. And this performance just shocks me. I'm sweating near the end. When you're so devoted into a piece, every time you listen to a good recording, you feel like you're playing it. When I heard the grunts starting from 51:09, I'm feeling sore in my arms, like I normally would when I play. This is how Beethoven would play it, I just know. But more. So Beethoven, yet so beautiful. And it saddens me knowing even though I'm sure I've spent much longer on this particular piece than Kissin, I'll never be able to play in that tempo like that. But thank you, Beethoven, Kissin and the uploader.
C'est tellement beau que j'ai pas pu écouter cette musique si bien interprétée sans verser de larmes. Et ce n'est pas â cause de mon âge bien que j'ai atteint ma 93eme année, mai plutôt parce que c'est tellement bien interprété que je croyais écouter Beethoven lui-même. C'est fantastique, formidable et malheureusement je ne trouve plus les mots pour témoigner mon admiration.
Des personnes se fient au portrait de Beethoven, à sa personnalité un peu misanthrope mais rien avoir avec le vrai Beethoven , qu'une déformation anticipée de sa musique ...
I can hear a lot of crystals and perls, playing in a cold river under a Light of a sunshine, reflecting an AMAZING colours!!!! ❤ BRAVO mister Kissin!!!!!
It surely was splendid, but in my personal opinion, the Tempest could use some more “grit.” Less traditional phrasing, and more sforzando. But then again, Kissin is an elite pianist, and he can do whatever he wishes.
Mr Kissin is certainly the young master of all he plays. His reading and performance of these sonatas is the best I have ever heard them. I tried to learn them sixty years' ago, but I needed to experience a great deal more of life, living and loss before I could really put anything into them.
Kissin is truly at his best here. No longer a child prodigy, he is so sublime, so refined, so accurate, and so mature in his interpretation. Bravo for a truly maestro-level interpretation of three of the most beautiful pieces ever written. Kudos Evgeny!
Yes. I found his interpretation very smooth, very refined, very powerful while also subtle, and just about enough emotions or showmanship. Among those got recommended to me on RU-vid like Lang Lang or Valentina, I found him to be the best. Lang Lang really enjoys showing off his skills, while it's very impressive but I don't enjoy it. While Valentina feels like she's too modest, not enough emotional.
How would you rate Appassionata then. I think its more beautiful than any of these three sonatas. Tempest is my favorite out of these 3 Kissin is playing
I was on his recital in Moscow where he played Beethoven’s 29th. Although I don’t like it as much as his other sonatas, it was an extraordinary performance, Evgeny is a Master.
Quasi tutti i pianisti di scuola russa hanno un approccio molto personalizzato verso il titanico sonatismo beethoveniano, divergente dal classicismo ( o winckelmaniano o hegeliano ) della scuola austro - tedesca. Essi sono piu' attenti al timbro ( in questa versione eccezionale l'equilibrio tra le note alte lucenti e le note basse molto scure) e nelle dinamiche, soprattutto quando porgono il fraseggio lirico in un tempo tra legato/staccato! Comunque, questa versione e' notevolissima ! Vige un controllo della tecnica fuori norma ed una sensibilità del sentire parecchio personalizzata !
Evgeny is playing some very good Beethoven sonatas. A big test for me is the fugue of the Hammerklavier, it's one way to know right away if someone really understands Beethoven. Kissin has performed the Hammerklavier in it's entirety several times in front on an audience and he's internalizing the work. His opus 111 is worth giving a listen to as well. In time, I hope he does all 32 and records them. He's been on a tear with music these days, new repertoire and some compositions of his own published by Henle. We're in for a treat these coming years. Kissin is going to make excellent music for a long time to come. Evgeny is very inspirational. Besides music Evgeny is helping to keep the Yiddish language alive by reading poetry. A true Renaissance man if there ever was one.
Somehow in all this lockdown, distancing, mask-wearing coronavirus disaster, I feel like we have slighted Ludwig van Beethoven. I mean how often does a guy turn 250? The music will remain for us to listen to, play and marvel at for centuries to come. And it’s not exactly like anyone forgot what an absolute musical genius you were. So, please forgive us for looking out for our worldwide health. We will certainly catch you later!
Wow thanks a lot for this upload! I was supposed to watch this show live but it got cancelled because of corona. Sadly Evgeny Kissin doesn't do much recording so I wondered if I'd ever get to hear his interpretations. I wish talents like Evgeny Kissin would spent more time recording, he's one of those that stands out even when among giants.
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Es uno de los misterios que me acompañaran hasta el día que muera: Dónde está el sortilegio,la belleza, el quid de la música en Beethoven. A mí nadie,que yo recuerde,me la acercó ni enseñó, la descubrí de grande. Es como que me produce un estado de amigarme con el mundo entero que ni ahí comprendo ya que me llevo bastante mal con el mundo tal como lo llevamos los humanos. Es de una perfección que escapa a mis entendimiento.
...NINGÚN MISTERIO! . los labradores hablan lenguaje de labranza ... los mecánicos hablan lenguaje de mecánica... los médicos de medicina... El Arte es expresión mediante una técnica ... La música es expresión del alma mediante la técnica del sonido. El espíritu se expresa mediante el lenguaje musical, y nos llega a todos, independiente de nuestro lenguaje de vocabulario... a un nivel mucho más profundo, DESDE un nivel mucho más profundo.... ...y el espíritu no acostumbra hablar de labranza, ni de mecánica... ni de medicina... EL ESPÍRITU HABLA DE AMOR Y EL AMOR ES EL IDIOMA MÁS UNIVERSAL ... por eso no te extrañes que te llegue a lugares de tu alma demasiado íntimos... o que te haga llorar sin que sepas exactamente por qué... Hay espíritus más evolucionados y otros menos.. y los grandes compositores SON DE LOS MÁS EVOLUCIONADOS intelectual y emocionalmente... afectivamente superiores... Beethoven me parece el más inmenso en sentimiento y pensamiento involucrado en su música, que es capaz de mejorar la vida de cualquiera porque produce una evolución interna que progresa en el tiempo y enel proceso de escucharlo más , en más de sus obras... Chopin... insuperable en ternura y profundidad de sentimientos... algunos músicos son mas simples... como Bach ... otros como Lizt, complicadísimos... o como Bartok insoportables... La razón porque te converso, es que comparto el amor y el pensamiento de Beethoven y Chopin a un grado que me permite sentirme tu hermano y amarte en la complicidad de compartir el placer de la música. Espero que recibas mi abrazo y mi pensamiento en la paz que quiero compartir contigo. Un abrazo. Libercapitum
23:43 OMGomgomg this is so fantastic, it's almost unbelievable. Great recording - definitely one of the best of these three sonatas, thX for the upload!
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une profonde rfconnaissance du compositeur , pour interprèter si bien son oeuvre. Quelques minutes pour sortir de la compréhension habituelle puis on ne peut qu'adhérer à cette vision et ce dévoilement.
Pollini playng the adagio of 23 concert really moved me.He is a great pianist he uses streght and sweetness inthe same time. I really love all playng such great technique and neatness .one of the best
Yes the man and his works live on and in a thousand years from now they will still speak of him. The words of his funeral oration rings truer than ever :"And you who have followed his escort to this place, hold your sorrow in sway. You have not lost him but won him. No living man enters the halls of immortality. The body must die before the gates are opened. He whom you mourn is now among the greatest men of all time, unassailable forever. Return to your homes, then, distressed but composed. And whenever, during your lives, the power of his works overwhelms you like a coming storm; when your rapture pours out in the midst of a generation yet unborn; then remember this hour and think: we were there when they buried him, and when he died we wept!"
Fantastic! This is by far the best performance of these sonatas that I have ever heard. Sensitive, powerful, and beautifully nuanced. The recording is perfect. While listening to it I lie on the floor between by Bower and Wilkin's speakers, and it feel as if I am under the piano
I appreciated his Pathetique; had a hard time paying attention during his Tempest; but I do absolutely love his Waldstein performance. It was just rock solid and consistent as he always is.... no mean feat, as the Waldstein is also the most difficult sonata of the three, especially in its third movement. Kissin sounded absolutely in control the whole time, making that luminous (but very demanding) third movement glow and resonate from within. I don't know how he achieves such a consistently even and burnished tone... it's as if technique is never an obstacle to his phrasing and articulation. In addition to his technique here, I am very jealous of his mastery of dynamics and touch (like most pianists are ;) Thanks for sharing this recording!
Your words "such a consistently even and burnished tone" very aptly describe what went through my mind listening to this recital - one incredible aspect of this phenomenal performance of Mr Kissin's - Beethoven must have had the prescience to foresee that the concert grand would supersede the forte piano !!
