Moscow State Conservatory - Grand Hall - 1978 1)Allegro ma non tanto - 0:25 2)Intermezzo:Adagio - 18:40 3)Finale:Alla Breve - 30:27 Piano:Grigory Sokolov Conductor:Dmitrij Kitajenko
I've always admired Sokolov's performances. This is the first one I've seen with him being so young. That power and excitement is there. What a treat to see this great artist again. Thank you!
I saw Sokolov in Kansas City MO around 1971 (and my beloved Pink Floyd in KC Kansas same time, and A. Rubinstein). The Michelangeli Debussy on Dg came out then also. What a year!
Great rendition! Unparalleled the execution of the "cadenza", one of the most difficult pieces for piano ever written. Grigory Sokolov plays the piano with his whole being, like a man that gave all his life to music. Thanks, Grigory.
Настоящая радость - найти это редкое исполнение популярного концерта Рахманинова. Соколов действительно настоящий гений. Он дал новый свет и свежий ветер для концерта. Он действительно один из титанов инструмента.
He has such amazing technical facility which he uses to maintain incredible rhythmic clarity throughout. It makes the whole piece sound so wonderfully balanced and logical. Also so cool when he takes the tempo of the third mvt into his own hands when the conductor started too slow xD
It was really interesting watching this performance despite the far from ideal recording conditions. It proves that from early on Sokolov had few equals and no peers as pianist and the reasons he had to wait so long world fame remains an enigma.
At 17 or 18 he recorded the best Saint-Saens 3rd Concerto I've ever heard and one of the best Carnavals. He'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition. The Saint-Saens was conducted by Neemi Jarvi with one the oddest transliterative spellings I've seen.
My point of view about Rachmaninov totally changed when an old hungary pianiste told me : "Rachmaninov couldn't never go back in Russia, so, the principal theme of the heart of his music is : " The Return " !...
Siberbio , desde sus manos mariposas que revolotean sobre las teclas sin casi rozarlas, a cuando sacan sonidos contundentes y firmes ,a los arpegios limpios y netos. Un placer para los oídos y para el alma.
I am still in awe or better call it trance after watching and listening to such levels of beauty and mastery by GS the orchestra under a great master of conducting. A big Rusian played by russians. What else can we ask for.!!🎶🎶🎶
C’est parce que, pour tout morceau qu’il interprète, il a la faculté de devenir le compositeur lui-même et son âme, et nous offre ainsi le bonheur d’avoir une musique transcendante, réincarnée et vivante. Seul Sokolov est capable de cette métamorphose et réincarnation. De plus il est tellement humain, généreux, et modeste. Un don du Ciel pour nous tous.
Let me point out something extremely crucial here. Take a look at the moment when he finishes this concerto and look at the reaction from the audience. This was performed in one of the most tough and demanding conservatories in the world - Moscow Conservatory. When you don't see a standing ovation from the audience after such a monumental concerto performed by a GIANT like Sokolov - not even a "BRAVO" being yelled out all over the hall, you should know that the standard is extremely high. So high to the point that the audience KNOWS this concerto more than enough.
i hate that kind of audience....just because you're sittting in one of the greatest hall ever, people think they know enough to be so....how do you say ? untouched...jaded...whatever ! They just think they know.... Duchable stopped his carrier for a good reason after all
. @PMiss-gl8fy I said it somewhere that a professor siad it would take me 300- lifetimes to play like the great pianists and at my age of almost 87 I'd desire something else
If this world famous concerto is played just right with a powerful ending which is very rare today then the audience should give a standing ovation !!!!!
never heard of him prior to reading Gramophone's rave review of his cd of this work this month. Many thanks for this post. the acclaim is very well deserved.
If it weren't for playing Chopin (which is performed - in my opinion - too Rachmaninofflike), I would call him a god of piano. Anyway, I am happy he is still a man. A prodigy man.
why does he do 16th notes at the end instead of triplets, does someone know? 45:16 i mean, triplets are notated in the score, and every other performance i could hear plays triplets there...
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it's quite challenging though, and sounds good the contrast between first playing 16th's then triplets, but idk where does this idea come from
Great performance but the orchestra sound was less compelling than it should have been. The piano track dominated. Not that it worried me because I was interested to see how he played this impossible music.
Only Vladimir Horowitz revealed the splendour of this 3rd concerto just as Sviatoslav Richter, the 2nd! Sokolov’s performance here is stilted and self-conscious. Mere technique, however virtuosic isn’t enough! Enuf said. Next.
If you want to just listen, listen to a recording with far superior sound. The whole point of putting something on RU-vid is visual mated to sound. If you can't mate the two elements, don't waste our time.
I have to say that I find this a shockingly bad performance of this great concerto. There are no lines followed and he beats the piano into submission. There is absolutely no through-flow in the piece. I do feel that Sokolov is a very over-rated artist (not that he has got very far anyway, and I can see why here and on his video of the Rachmaninov 2)
@@jamesfrank5271 Thank you for your charming comment. As a concert pianist who has played this piece many times, I DO know what I'm talking about. Politeness costs nothing (from the untalented nobodies who reply to truthful comments on here)
@@petergolding5733 You are, in a word Insufferable. Perhaps you should link one of YOUR RU-vid performances so we all can glean wisdom from your performance. Bonus...if some, even a minuscule amount of your prodigious talent should rub off on us, wonderful.
@@IMAWriterRobJ Thank yo SO much for your kind comments. Why should I put my performances onto RU-vid as I am playing them live and have no wish for the totally stupid uneducated people like you who can't work out a good performance from a bad one to comment. Maybe if you come to one of my concerts, you'll appreciate. Until then, politeness costs nothing so f off
For my taste the tone is too Heavy, Lumbering and Forced!! His hands most of the time are positioned a Foot about the keyboard making pounding dives into the keys!! This might work in a few places where quadruple F is desired but he plays Most of the piece like this. To me he is literally Beating up the piano. I prefer more FINESS, Subtlety, Nuance and Refinement even in such Big, blockbuster pieces as this.
Wow. You seem to confuse his high position with pounding. You must not be really listening. "Beating up the piano", really? Fortunately, yours is distinctly a minority view...
HUNH?!?!? "Beating up the piano"?!?!? Do you not hear the freakin' amazingly profound tones this man is creating in this piece? He is FAR from banging. And that fact that you aren't hearing what colors this man is producing is astounding! There is on moment in the cadenza where it appears that he is coming down with banging force but the tone that comes out is absolutely gorgeous! You either have bad ears. Or you don't really know wtf you are talking about....
Sokolov's playing has a lot of nuance, subtlety, and refinement - just listen to how he plays the opening theme! Listen to how he subtly plays with the balance between the hands, how he sometimes plays the 8th notes unevenly or plays slightly ahead of or behind the beat, how he continually makes tiny adjustments in tempo, etc.
Use your ears, not your eyes - just because he lifts his hands high above the keys, that doesn't mean his tone will be harsh. It also depends on how rigid or loose his finger and wrist joints are.
