It’s so common to see pianists rush this song. The timing he puts into getting every measure of this perfectly in sync with the emotion it was intended to portray gives you goosebumps
Please don’t be angry if someone coughs. My name is Matt Davidson and I have been a professional cough artist for 50 years. I am employed by artist or their managers to cough during live performance so people like you do not get a perfect copy for free. If you want a perfect recording then you have to pay for it. I make an incredible living doing this round the world and I always comes in disguise. Disable, old , frail, male / female attire. You will have difficult spotting me. Enjoy this video and I made sure nobody get a cough free performance.
Cough artists are an underrated and underappreciated element of any claque worth it's salt. A thankless job, they dutifully provide a reminder that the music is in fact being performed live. Coughers, or Toussers as they were known in the old country, prompt the audience to remember they too are a part of a live musical performance, for indeed, what is a performance without an audience? If a tree falls... Without Les Toussers the audience might be liable to forget they are witnessing a one of a kind performance of which they play an important role as spectator.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o87rD29rl-4.html I wanted to thank you for your prodigious performance toward the end of this piece. It just isn't the same without your talents. I have a version without coughs on cd recorded in a studio, but I never listen to it. I find myself returning again and again to this definitive live performance. It's somehow impossibly more magical despite the ostensible "interruptions." I claim it's better because of the very fact that an "imperfection" intrudes on the music. It serves as a reminder of the perfection of the music. Without the coughs, there is no reference. We don't know light without dark, happiness without sadness, nor live musical perfection without a few coughs.
How about the infuriating woman who has to say 'merci' before he even lifts the pedal up all the way. The note wasn't done ringing you BIMBO *shakes fist at video*
It's easy to get angry at someone for something like that. I don't smoke. I'm only 20. But I have a problem where my mucous membrane is constantly dried out and the mucus keeps building up. I've consulted many doctors who still haven't really helped me find a cure. Yet, I also wish to take part in occasions such as a concert or theatre. What I'm trying to say is, sometimes it might be better to be a little less judgemental. Often times, you don't see the big picture and the person you're getting mad at might actually be suffering more than you are.
@@dominokos but in this case you don't go to a piano concert or to the theatre. If you know you will have to couch it is really selfish to go at such a concert, especially if the performance is recorded and will be seen by millions of people for years and years...
DAMN .... I agree this was awful. People has to learn that silence is part of music. Look at the pianist, he was forced to interrupt the last chord and cut harmonic resonance (whereas the piece was ending exactly with the building of those resonances). Disgusting !
Guitarra Channel the deliberate and tense exposition really highlight the confident flow of the middle passage before begrudgingly vanishing into a painful departure. You can feel the absence of what took so much intention to establish
Malte Hornstein There is a story (see at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prelude_in_C-sharp_minor_(Rachmaninoff)) that this piece is about someone who has been buried alive: « It starts (opening chords = church bells) with the slow (largo?) procession of a funeral march to the cemetery. The casket is interred. The fast (presto?) movement is then the desperate scratching of the person in the casket trying to get out! The next movement (moderato?) is the recession of the mourners heading back to town or going their separate ways. The final chords are the church bells again. Has anyone else read that or a more reliable version anyplace? I don't think that Rachmaninoff endorsed that interpretation but he didn't deny it, either. I think he said to people who asked about the meaning of his music that, "It can mean whatever you want it to mean." » It certainly gives you chills when you listen to it with that story in mind!
@@ei1882 What I read: the story goes that the inspiration behind the prelude was from a dream he had. The dream was set at a funeral (the A section “bells”), and there “center stage” was a coffin.
He did grow to hate it for that reason though. As Tchaikovsky did the 1812, which he wrote on commission, wrote in a few weeks, and considered it a rather brutal piece of music.
@@PointyTailofSatan as did Beethoven with the Moonlight Sonata. He said it wasn't anywhere near his best work and that it was way overplayed. On these two matters I agree with him, but I wouldn't say I hate it.
@Lennard Nellessen Dynamics and speed are EVERYTHING!! I must have listened to a dozen competent musicians' play this piece but I keep coming back to Evgeny. He sets this piece on fire!!
@Lennard Nellessen Ikr? It looks way harder than what It actually is. It's Pretty full of repetiotions and the hands don't have neither to "extend" themselves too much nor have they to learn strange fingerings. An easy but nice piece.
@@prometej Gilels is far ahead from this, only at the beginning of the piece, Evgeny smashes the keys of the piano, It's written triple pianissimo lol Then he plays with an irregular rhythm at the most beautiful part of the piece, speeding and then suddenly slowing down. Okay you can modify the tempo but that much...don't get me wrong, he has a powerful sound but that is a bit too much to me...Anyway, it's his own interpretation and I'll let it be
Viejotrueno There is a common (likely false, but still interesting) story behind the piece. It’s said that it depicts a dream Rachmaninoff had, where he was at a funeral. However, he sees the coffin and approaches it nervously, which corresponds to the agitato section of the piece, where it moves faster and builds tension. Then, he sees himself inside the coffin, which is the third section of the piece. In the end, he accepts his fate with the last lines of the piece being soft and concluding. Again, it’s more likely that Rachmaninoff wanted to make a quick buck off a piece, but it’s a fun story.
Piano is the ultimate instrument to deliver music to the ear. No other instrument in an orchestrated ensemble gets the attention and respect of the piano and rightfully so. Anyone who commits to mastering the piano to this level earns absolute boss status. I will stand by this high regard even as a trumpet and guitar player.
Wait, so he plays Rachmaninoff's epically awesome Second Piano Concerto and encores it with Rachmaninoff's epically awesome Second Prelude? What an epically awesome man.
It’s like the velocity of every single note matters so much as if lives depend on it. I love his seriousness and how much he seems to care about the details of every chord and every note. Seems like all his emotions went into it.
marvelous , absolutely marvelous , it's so rare to find someone with this amazing performance of this masterpiece Kissin is very close to Cliburn's way of playing Prelude #3 , i admire them both
That was breathtaking. I'm at a loss for words even. Thank you for sharing. There is truly beauty and perfection in the world, and this is a rare example of it. Gardis USA
This piece is amazing-I’ve learned it myself. Those three octaves at the very beginning sound like a clock tower striking three o’clock. Then you have the fast-paced agitato section, then the stormy tempo primo section. And yes, those low notes do sound like rumbles of thunder and violent winds. It’s very dramatic and intense for sure.
This was magnificent 👏 I played this piece on the competition and won 2nd but it is amazing to hear this level of playing he has everything musicality technique and he has interpreted the composer perfectly . Genius
I loved watching his fingers his technique is rare in our days , is fantastic thank you thank you so very much so lyrical and smooth even when the music strong !!
I love this so bad, is so so difficult to find ppl who okay this song right I’ve actually only listen to 2 people play this right in my whole life and he is one of them, everyone seem to play this song in such a hurry but him, he just magnificent brilliant
That lingering feeling after playing a certain piece. It's like the emotional residue you get upon waking up from a strange dream. Takes awhile to wear off.
Such an incredibly expressive and moody piece handled with perfection by one the greatest living pianists. Rachmaninoff really takes advantage of the piano's ability for so much expression- the softest notes can be barely heard, while the loudest notes can literally roar out of the instrument. I'll admit I'm biased, since i'm a retired piano tech, and I LOVE pieces like this, and that Steinway D is one very fine instrument, just listen to those powerful low notes, and beautiful balance of that thing! This piece shows off just how incredibly expressive a large grand piano can be. It can go from a booming chords down to a barely audible little tinkle.
