Exactly ! Mr. Pogorelich is out of this world. All of his Chopin's are marvelous ( and another composers too !! ). He is a great pianist. I saw him in México City, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, playing a recital and also a concert with orchestra, both were marvelous. He is a great artist.
Ivo Pogorelich was born in Belgrade in 1958 as son of a musician. He received his first piano lessons at the age of seven and went to Moscow at the age of twelve to study at the Central Special Music School and then at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory. In 1976 he began intensive studies with the renowned pianist and teacher Aliza Kezeradze, with whom he was married from 1980 until her untimely death in 1996. Mme. Kezeradze was able to transmit the spirit and matter of the school of Beethoven and Liszt, the tradition of the Liszt-Siloti school, originated in Vienna and than carried through to the Conservatory of St. Petersburg, flourishing towards the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th. Century. Pogorelich´s sound, concerts and recordings pay homage to this exceptionally refined, visionary, and truly revolutionary woman, who so lovingly made Pogorelich a unique artist of genius. Ivo Pogorelich won the first prize at the Alessandro Casagrande Competition at Terni (Italy) in 1978 and the first price at the Montreal International Music Competition in 1980. In October of the same year he entered the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw where, when prevented from participating in the final contest as a soloist with the orchestra, a fierce controversy resulted in the renowned argentinian pianist Martha Argerich, a member of the jury, protesting and leaving the competition, joined by other members of the jury panel, with the words “He is a genius”. The New York Times once wrote “He played each note exactly, with such a feeling, such expression, he was an entire orchestra- it was as if he played 200 years ahead of our time”. In this spirit Ivo Pogorelich is known today as a poet of the instrument. Ivo Pogorelich is not only an artist of the highest caliber, discipline and musicianship, but the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take. Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete. Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, love and compassion. -- Sound and Silence, Life and Death, Time and Space; collapse into the Eternal moment of Infinity. -- ----------------------- "you have to get into the phycological frame of mind in which composers wrote their works in order to discover its secrets. virtuosity comes from the greek origin virtue. original is finding the origin Gaudi said. rachmaninov had arthritis at the end of his life, he was so weak that his sound was very short, that is the reason he played fast, to fill the vacuum. if you have long sound you are in command to achieve clarity and the hypnotic sound between the notes. the problem was always the conflict and the difference between the absolute and the relative quality. beauty in music is like in diamonds, the purest diamond in the world is the Koh-i-Noor, it is the absolute beauty to which others with relative beauty are compared. work as hard as a galley slave. one should always try as much as possible to rediscover music as though one is hearing it for the first time, searching everywhere for new meanings and new depths. the highest function of the artist is to release the spirituality and the emotional immediacy that lie within the score. sound becomes metaphysical only when you have completely explored all physical possibilities. you should explore until reaching the absurd. music takes you to another universe of eternity that remains with you after the concert is finished." Ivo Pogorelich. ------------------------------------
I wonder how many extraordinary musicmakers do we lose every few years because they are idiosyncratic or have music so deep inside of them along with integrity . The judges are all the teachers and know the performers so when a performer sees something everyone should realize here is not "just another pianist" but someone who can make you reevaluate life etc. Pogorelich reevaluated everything too much .Hear his Tchaik and you think he 's found a way to muse jazz improvising and classcal music . It could have saved our music but the outcry was too much ! The scherzo here is a direct rough affair close to Willy Kapell . Who can say if the contrast with trio is too much ? The finale unforgettable !
@@MrInterestingthings Gary Graffman wouldn't allow his students Yuja Wang and Lang Lang to enter any competitions. He didn't like the idea of competiions in classical music. Horowitz felt the same way.
@@excelsior999 It's general consensus that Horowitz would likely have been eliminated early on, had he participated in any piano competition. It goes without saying that Glenn Gould would as well.
The greatest pianist that I ever saw perform (four times in San Francisco). Unique, unorthodox, difficult, moody, introspective, self-doubting. Genius.
This performance of Chopin's Sonata no. 2 is really awesome, I've heard a few other interpretations, but his is the best for me, he was totally fluent and in control, especially in the parts where other performers find real difficulty. He doesn't mess with it in terms of changing the tempo as I've heard others do, it's unpretentious, potent, technically and artistically brilliant, and totally absorbing.
It is amazing that we people always tend to look for things in someones performamce like dynamics, tempi etc. We tend to get occupied by,,technical"things and try to nit pick things we dont like but i have to say this. I am amazed by the emotions and life that each note has, its like a story of great magnitude that is told by expressing yourself through. It is sad that in this,, competition days" we forget this. Bravo Ivo for being yourself, thanks for sharing your story.
It's interesting and somewhat ironic that you should mention these "Competition Days" since Pogo was the only pianist to become famous for NOT winning the International Chopin Piano Competition. If you don't know the fascinating story you would do well to look it up.
When you express emotion, do you cry, do your face makes expression, do you voice change, do your body makes movement... dynamics and tempo are those things that carries emotion, without them, only God can know a man's emotion, and you are not God, none of us is.
Is not about Pogorelich, but Chopin. Interpreting is acting, if you want to remain "yourself", write your music. I admire Pogo, but frankly he doesn't give a shit about sheet and what Chopin dully noted. No surprise, the people who are unconditionally his fans are no performers at all, therefore they have no clue what is in the score, so its just about "emotion".
@@Paroles_et_Musique Not so, there is structural underpinning, FC wrote to be magnified and transformed, that is what he is - Romanticism was a cultural tsunami unique in the history of humankind -
Yes I as just listener (not prof musician) I feel that his each note has always a story to tell, their own story (not Ivo's, as many who don't like his performance often says) full of intense emotion. Inner integrity... so fascinating, transcendant, we are taken in total another universe.... He is not expressing 'his' individual interpretation, but for me he dive into the music itself and explore the hidden pontential. Maybe even beyond the composer had intended...it is IN the music itself. So actually I am very much looking forward to ask all the composers in heaven, what do they find of his rendition, when I am died and go to heaven. (hopefully to go the same place with them to be able to meet in spirit ^^)
Pogorelich honors Chopin´s music...resurrecting his soul, his spirit....like no one. "Chopin´s playing evoked all the sweet and sorrowful voices of the past. Chopin sang the tears of music...in a whole gamut of different forms and voices, from that of the warrior to those of children and angels..." Bohdan Zaleski, polish poet, personal diary 2 feb 1844. "Under the fingers of Chopins´s hand the piano became the voice of an archangel, an orchestra, an army, a raging ocean, a creation of the universe, the end of the world." Solange Clesinger
Chopin's music is an iron fist within a velvet glove. Robert Schumann said Chopin's music was "a cannon buried in flowers." Pogorelich is eccentric, sometimes too much so for my taste, yet he wins me over. I believe I'm hearing Franz Liszt play Chopin when I listen to this.
Pogorelich dedicated his artistic life to the Chopin..he is enjoying when he is a playing his opus..that's when I said that he is a Chopin..his soul belongs to the Chopin..I am from Croatia like Pogorelich..I saw his performance and I love it..
@@dabic3795 if that is so important than this is a fact: Pogorelić was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Pogorelić became a Croatian citizen.
Pogorelich somehow can feel the sound before he presses the key, mix the sound in his head and then put it on the piano. And his technical skills are so goood that he can control it all the times. It is the secret behind this beautiful sound. Sometimes he plays very slowly but his brain works really fast. He is a genius.
I am truly loving this performance. Beautiful tone in the March at the beginning. What a marvelous composition of Chopin. Unique as are all of his great works. The last movement is another example of how he followed the lead of his unparallelled Romantic imagination, which with the great compositional skill he possessed, resulted in the genius that we all know and love. This playing shows more seasoning and maturity than what Pogorelich displayed in the Chopin Competition years earlier, and his body movements are less distorted. In the gorgeous D flat major theme of the March, his playing was almost too quiet, here, almost too rich, for a theme marked pp and is like a memory from the past of the loved one who has died. Still, I really enejoyed both this performance and the one in the competition.
I've never really appreciated how haunting and solemnly beautiful the funeral march is until now. I think we're often too familiar with it in media to give it the credit it deserves.
I just can't stop crying when I listen to this, and it's those little tears...that take ages to roll out, it is simply mesmerising to be in this state when emotions are drawn out to the brim and sit there....and sit there... and sit there....making you almost choke with them, with the beauty, with the joy of being alive...and then when the heart cannot contain it any more this little tear rolls down....just one.
Awe-inspiring....and at the end of the Finale, Ivo's expression, upon hitting the last chord, resembling that of a person who just woke up from a sincere prayer....that gave me goosebumps
It's a shame the recording quality is so poor, this is a glorious rendition of this work. While traditionally that's a bit fast for the third movement it works so well (albeit more ominously) in this. With the relentlessness of the tempo it really creates an intensity you don't often hear.
@@bengunn99 I checked now indeed why? it's like in a same room... Gramophone? Is there maybe CD recording of this? This come so deep into the soul....amazing xxx all the praise to Ivo!
Amazing! I am in favor of traditional playing but I recognize that this interpretation is a valuable contribution to the experience of this Sonata. Novel, beautiful, emotional.
"Chopin´s playing evoked all the sweet and sorrowful voices of the past. Chopin sang the tears of music...in a whole gamut of different forms and voices, from that of the warrior to those of children and angels..." Bohdan Zaleski, polish poet, personal diary 2 feb 1844. "Under the fingers of Chopins´s hand the piano became the voice of an archangel, an orchestra, an army, a raging ocean, a creation of the universe, the end of the world." Solange Clesinger. Ivo is the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take. Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete. Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, redemption, love and compassion. Sound and Silence, Life and Death, Time and Space; collapse into the Eternal moment of Infinity.
This by far is one of the best interpretation on you tube, Argerich left the chopin competition (in the jury) because he didn't won; despite his last years of "crazyness" the approce of this sonata is magnificent, well done Ivo
@@themoroccanpianist8953 I'm not sure, to be fair he has always been a bit eccentric, but as far as I know in the mid 2000s he has already started leaning much more into that
His performance........inspires me. I have just recorded (Scherzo) the second movement of this sonata on my youtube channel. Ivo Pogorelich is without question the great interpereter of Chopin music.
I think this is the best recording of this piece. Even though others perform this awesomely such as Pollini and Richter, this one in particular always moves me to tears.
Ivo Pogorelich is without question the best interpereter of Copin in history. His playing is divinely accurate, sensitive and expressive to a point which seems to go beyond what is humanly possible. I do hope Mssr. Pogorelich will, someday, at the time of his choosing, bless his listeners with some of his own compositions. A soul this expressive must have something beautiful and rare to say musically for the 21st century and for the Eternal.
Dziś poniosłam bardzo bolesną stratę. W nocy zmarła nagle moja cioteczna siostra Danuta, z którą się razem wychowywałyśmy. To moja była moja ostatnia żyjąca krewna. Była córką pianistki, wychowana, podobnie jak ja, na muzyce Chopina. Kochała muzykę nade wszystko. Dlatego postanowiłam uczcić pamięć Danuty, tym mistrzowskim wykonaniem Ivo Pogorelicza Sonaty B-mol z Marszem pogrzebowym. Mam nadzieję, że powróciła duchem do naszego domu, nad naszą ukochaną rzekę i połączyła się z duszami drogich zmarłych.Wieczne odpoczywanie Racz Jej dać Panie, a światłość wiekuista niechaj Jej świeci. Będziesz zawsze w moim sercu!
Wyrazy głębokiego współczucia, składam na Twoje ręce droga Elżuniu, tak ogromna taka strata najbliższej i jedynej osoby, zostaniesz teraz sama, miejmy nadzieję, że Twoje życzenia połączenia tych dusz w pełni się spełnią, na pewno będzie tam na resztę swoich cierpliwie czekać przygotowując honorowe miejsce na ich przyjęcie, niestety życie musi dalej iść swoim torem. Pozostań jak najdłużej wśród nas. Dziękuję Ci, że jesteś Gosia.
9 лет назад
Kochana Moja. Dziękuję Ci za te dobre słowa pociechy. Tak życie jest twarde, a śmierć nieubłagana, czeka nas wszystkich bez żadnych wyjątków i to jest ta jedyna sprawiedliwość w naszym teraźniejszym bycie. Trzymam się jakoś, ale najwięcej żal mi syna Danuty, bo on, meżczyzna pod pięćdziesiątkę, stary kawaler, został zupełnie sam, gdyż rodzeństwa nie miał. Jest kompletnie załamany i niemal bezradny po śmierci Matki. Bardzo mu współczuję, ale cóż więcej można zrobić, nic! Raz jeszcze Ci dziękuję i z serca pozdrawiam.
Niechaj Twoja Krewna spoczywa w spokoju . Twoje piękne pożegnanie Sonatą i w wykonaniu Ivo to dar na który sobie zasłużyła . Szlachetna jesteś w działaniu .
Elżbieta Gizela Erban Kochana Elżbieto , przyjmij proszę , wyrazy współczucia. "Śmierc jest kresem życia ziemskiego.Czas jest miarą naszego zycia; w jego biegu zmieniamy się i starzejemy. Jak w przypadku wszystkich istot żyjacych na ziemi , śmierć jawi się jako normalny koniec zycia."
Polscy sluchacze i widzowie bardzo to przezyli.Martha Argerich,zasiadajaca wtedy w jury. na znak protestu opuscila jury,poniewaz uwazala "odrzucenie Pogorelicza " jako bardzo krzywdzace go i niesprawiedliewe. (jestem z Polski
This Hamburg Stein. sounds very good. You can not come across a New York sounding this good with this many variously contrasting timbres and colours ranging from the bottom register to the top. That crystal brilliance is just euphoric!!
I believe Steinway lost its status of top piano available a long time ago and not to just one brand. Still sounds great, but imo Bösendörfer Imperial and mainly Fazioli pianos are above. Playing F278 was really magical experience
IMO, those were the best years of Pogorelich's piano. From my particular POV, it's hard to find pianists comparable to that Pogo. Curiously enough, I know more videos than pure audios of that epoch. There are some video gems here in YT. Thanks for putting it here.👍
+André Uhres And also Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli but all three have their personal interpretations and for me, at least, it is difficult to select my favourite. All three are absolute MAGICIANS at the keyboard!
this performer is very different to the run of the mill concert pianists - i remember when Pogorelich came onto the scene some years ago - he was marketed up more for his movie star good looks ; I don't recall hearing him play too much back then - but now have acquainted myself happily with many of his performances - and my, what a great pianist !!!!
This is so amazing, the first movement has so much power, wonderful LH propulsion and then such a soulful rendition of the melodic parts. Amazing technical mastery with so much depth.
Prelepo....ne mogu zaboraviti njegova dva koncerta u Sava centru davne 1980.godine, jos uvek i posle toliko godina, secam se utiska koji je ostavio na mene.....
I suspect that Pogorelich can somehow feel the sound before he presses the key, then he mixes the sound in his head and after that he put it on the piano. And his technical skills are so good that he can control it all the times. It is the secret behind his beautiful piano sound. Sometimes he plays very slowly but his brain works incredibly fast, twice or three times faster then normal. He is a genius. Don't even try to imitate him. You will fail if you don't have a supersensitive supercomputer in your head and big warm heart in your body.
I am not a musician and have no musical education but after hearing this performance I 'know' now what genius is. Chopin, Pogorelich and I am sure many more not known to me have it. I am stricken and so grateful to be able to listen to the acheivement and the intellect of such artists. They live in another world to mine. Occasionally I catch a glimpse and this performance was just one such. (A stiff drink is definitely called for after that experience).
