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Kissin said: "There's something about Music which makes it go more directly into people's heart than all the other arts". " Music for me is the greatest mystery of life ,the sound and combinations of sounds affect people so deeply". It's beautiful to see how Music goes even more directly into Kissin's heart and affects him so much more deeply!
There is an acute precision in his thought proccesses that is transmitted into spoken language. Artur Rubinstein was another great exponent of language (he spoke 10 languages) although he was more lyrical than Evgeny. This is most unusual and rare. It has disappeared to a large extent in the English-speaking world none more so on the public stage than the arch mangler-in-chief of the English language who is about to depart the Oval Office. Good to see and hear Evgeny recite his own poetry in Yiddish.
Don't know if I agree with this. Logic has gotten in the way of many a musician. That's why LSD in the 60's, alongside THC, gave us some of the most sublime music to come from the likes of Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Janis, Beatles, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eagles, Santana etc. etc. To be able to think this logically and STILL produce the quality of spirit he can when he plays is what's truly remarkable.
+Maria Teresa Ribera Ovalle I really don't like when you say he is the "best". What is "being the best" ? Is there really a "best pianist" and a "worst pianist" ? What caracteristics are you using to compare him to other pianists and say he's "the best" ? It's not difficult to understand how Evgeny have all this skills, including when he was younger, after reading his biography... her mom was a piano teacher. At 2 years old, he was already playing piano, growing with discipline and education from her mother. At 6 years old, he was already in a big academy. This has maybe something to see with "a miracle", but mostly something about education, discipline and work to me. Anyway this doesn't explain why there should be a "best" and a "worst" pianist, we can't compare musician, everyone have his own way of playing, his own style.
Well he's a great pianist, there's no denying that, no one could take that away from him. But he's no Mozart, he's no Beethoven, he's no Chopin or Rachmaninoff. He merely plays back the compositions of the real artists, which is more of an unreal fingermechanical feat than it is an artistic achievement. The composers are the true gifts to humanity, they are immortalized by their compositions! When Kissin passes away, there will be another great pianist to take his place and he will largely be forgotten.
Because he's actively thinking about it and you aren't. I'm not criticising you. A native speaker is like a jazz musician: able to take the basis he knows so well and improvise creatively; it can sound messy, but also complicated and excellent. An L2 speaker is careful, as correct as possible and more like someone reading a score.
Kissin maybe from a certain country maybe from a certain culture yet he has enough music and love for it in his heart for the whole world and his playing is a holy ritual of unconditionally accepting his offerings of humility,love and peace we search for even if it is just for a few moments in time he elevates the goodness in us all. Xoxoxo
I love the way he talks , so quite, clear, deep, slowing down and getting me concentrated in every single word he says. Quite interesting man and great musician.
Holy shit this guy is on some real shit. He's a goddamn philosopher. I already loved this guy's performances and Chopin interpretations but now he's also an awesome person.
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I did subscribe and am looking forward to the two concerts next week. I didn't know about him until last year. His talent is astonishing and I watch for new videos with him on RU-vid quite often. Thank you so much for this!
Yes. His talent astounds me, his touch on the piano and the amount of music he has memorized! He played both of Chopin's concertos (1 and 2) from memory when he was twelve.
This man is beautiful♥️ I am not sure if he is better as a pianist than as a thinker/ Este hombre es hermoso♥️ no sé si es más genio como pianista o como pensador
0:56 ever pianist including myself wonder the same thing when i hear someone plays a piece i know it sounds more beautiful but when we play it we dont know how to "feel" the sounds and "combinations" genuinely in turn we try and try to make it sound beautiful/satifying for ourselves and thats how we learn... atleast thats how i see my way of playing
Can you tell me the name of the piece he was playing in the video? That was so beautiful, I was hugely inspired by it and by Kissin words with it, it matches profundly! Thanks
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I've often wondered why a music genius and his or her personality are so discrepant. As eloquent as Evgeny's answer is, I still wrestle with this question. Wagner's music still elevates man to the world of the sublime, yet still, he inspired the nazis to commit the worst atrocities in human history. I must accept, much like Evgeny does, that music is the greatest mystery of life.
I don’t mean to be rude, truly, but that statement is absurd. How do you know this, how can you prove it?? What definition are you using for “music”? If your statement is true, then why isn’t everybody affected by music? Because you’ve phrased it as a universal concept, when many people are _not_ interested in or affected positively by music, or they’re tone deaf, for example…..since a universal concept must be universal, the idea that music is the language of the conscious mind cannot be true! Many great musical minds don’t even consider it a universal language, either, because cultures all over the world have music specific to their culture, so therefore by definition, it cannot be a universal language! For me, it’s enough that the music I love speaks to _ME,_ and I’m very grateful for that, that’s enough for me!
He's correct. He doesn't know why but it's good that he has recognized this and is able to primitively convey his observation. Many don't even get near the fact that music is the most "direct to heart" than any other art. That Evgeny THINKS has made him now more attractive a person to me. A painting requires human value judgment before it can affect one's emotions - which is just our automatic response to values. For some unique reason, music requires no such judgement. It either affects you or it doesn't. That's why it is so perfectly poised to accompany a moving picture. Though it is in the background, it tugs at your strings like no other. That being said, over the years I have recognized another art-form that bypasses value-judgements before igniting emotions. Humour. It's either funny or it isn't. You don't even get to think that it's funny before you laugh. You laugh first, THEN you can iterate it's level of humour. Magic is a similar art but is just another form of humour - Surprise!
Very true. The ancient jewish chants were about invading, killing and defeating the enemies of the Jewish people, and about how supreme the Jewish "nation" and race is over the rest of people in the world. So, yes, that is another probe that music doesn't make people better...
@@voraciousreader3341 I was referring to the first 10 minutes of this 11 minutes and 20 seconds long video, during which subtitles appeared on screen even though he was speaking perfectly clear English. The subtitles were entirely unnecessary. Yes, I know that subtitles were necessary for the last minute and a half of the video during which he spoke Yiddish. But for the first 10 minutes why were subtitles used? That's the point I was making.
Evgeny Kissin.and I.have a couple things in common. 1)I believe he was born on Oct 10 71' and I was born Oct 10 68' 2)Russian Jewish decent and although I am an American I also have Russian Jewish roots. I just thought it was cool to at least have something in common with a great pianist because my piano skills are probably at a kindergarten level...even though I have been playing on and off for 40 years..the guitar I am much better at.
steve w I’m in a similar position, my parents are both descendants Russian jews who came to the United States just before the revolution. I play classical guitar professionally and can attest that music is very much a part of our shared culture not only as jews but as human beings.
To you! Setting my preferences as boundaries for everyone is something I never do, because I don’t expect that the music which moves me will move everyone else in the same way, to the same degree, or at all. In fact, much of Brahms’ music _doesn’t_ tremendously move me, though I’ve studied it and performed it. I’m incredibly moved by Bach’s fugues for organ and especially his “Art of Fugue,” but most musicians have never listened to them or could even sit through the work I named. Can’t it be enough that the music you love moves _YOU??__
Because he is a perfectionist, he is slow when speaking in order to pronounce the words correctly and compose appropriate sentences. He would've benefited a lot from some rehearsing.
With respect, I think you've missed the point. No rehearsal is needed. We hang on his every word for he speaks in fully formed, verbally modulated sentances that are precise, grammatically perfect and communicative. Few people have the ability to do so in their own mother tongue. If someone was to transcribe the words of his conversation and file the text with the news desk of a great newspaper, there would no need for a sub-editor to knock his news copy into shape.
It was not the Jews who made Mozart a man of god, he was, and all the nations who could cross him have found it, I do not understand why make a constant connection between music and Jews? all peoples have their music, and that of Mozart did not belong to the Jews
As many great classical musicians have said, some in this very documentary, if people blocked every composer who was antisemitic/racist from their repertoire (or interest), there would be very little music left to play or to listen to. German composers into the 20th century who were raised in the Lutheran faith had to consciously or subconsciously content with the fact that Martin Luther was a devout hater of Jewish people. Racism is the constant companion of every race known to humankind, of every generation, of every religion. There are intellectuals who assert that people who say they aren’t racist are in denial….it’s a deeply embedded human characteristic which each of us must fight overtly and within ourselves.
Qué manía tanto con politizar la música clásica como sacralizarla en forma de religión partidista. Yo dudo que los músicos compongan por ser partícipes de una religión determinada sino porque nacieron músicos, por algo divino, seguramente sí, pero no podemos dedicarnos por solo puro interés personal, en vender a los demás como tipo de demagogia que la música pertenece a una religión determinada. ¿Y ustedes qué saben? Tampoco saben lo que Mozart quiso decir, y lo digo después de haberlo estudiado mucho.
You do realize he’s a native Russian speaker, right?? And that he is expressing his deep feelings and thoughts by translating Russian into English as he’s speaking?? *Are people so ignorant that they can’t understand how eloquent he manages to be in a language so incredibly different from his own??* I DO know that his English is light years better than your Russian, without mentioning his musical eloquence! Think about that for a minute.
@@voraciousreader3341 I thought about it and you are right. I apologize for my short sightedness. Although I didn't mean to be nasty, I should have been more considered. Anyway, in my opinion Kissin is a true hero. Thank you. By the way, I'm not a native English speaker.
They cut the last stanza in the poem by Jacob Glatstein that Kissin recites; How poor and stingy - compared with Mozart's legacy - is the Sermon on the Mount. its a bit controversial, so probably a good idea.
The poem at the end seems to be divisive. At the very least in bad taste. Mozart himself was a Christian and the Jews have no particular claim over him or Western classical music. Christians, gentiles, none have crucified Mozart figuratively or otherwise. Feel free to enlighten me.
How silly....he’s not! We’re watching him translate Russian to English in his head! He’s got an incredible grasp of English grammar and vocabulary, but to express himself so wonderfully in English is obviously a big effort, which I’m sure you could understand if you tried to speak about any subject in Russian. And I’m a psychologist, so I know just a bit about the autism spectrum. So I will enlighten you: There is a world of difference between the musical child prodigy and what used to be called the “idiot savant,” and the difference is, the child prodigy plays with great emotion, while the savant plays note perfectly like a robot, without a shred of emotion. I don’t believe anyone can say with any credibility that Evgeny Kissin plays like a robot, and he never has! So I’d not try to psychologically diagnose anyone, since you could not recognize this basic and very obvious difference.
Never ceases to amaze me how much Bullshit people can make up on RU-vid. Kissin is a very good pianist - can't we just leave it at that without the overblown, nonsensical, rubbish which some seem to take such delight in inventing.
Just like the rivalry of Beethoven and Steibelt improvisation. I would of rivalled EvgnnyvKissin. If Kissin is going to say jews are a musical nation then i will do something similar. Sviatoslav richter was a great sight reader as was franz Liszt. Beethoven competed to be great. I wold have been great against you. But relax i have not the finger independence. You have escaped an awesome defeat like Steibelt.
