IVO POGORELICH, RAVEL ONDINE, 1980, MONTREAL, CANADA. 

Unrepeatable. It transports us to the realm of the dream.

Great, thanks a lot!

Pogorelich is princely, king, soldier, warrior.. he can be infinitely tender.. angelic... and cruel, kind and tyrant, like music itself, that is why he is brilliant, genius.. the greatest after Horowitz. Ivo lives as he is, he plays as he is.., he knows he is a genius, like Beethoven, who liberated the artist.. but Ivo liberates sound... music itself.. Pogorelich is a genius like nobody else..-like no one.. not even Callas or Horowitz knew they were so great .. Ivo is much more confident than the small insecurities of Callas and Horowitz the greatest musicians ever... but Ivo goes on top, the rest are up and coming, he can be Angel and demon. The loving and powerful part of his music fascinates, the despotic and cruel part terrifies. He lives between heaven and hell, love and drama. Infinite mystery and energy. In the battle between good and evil the beauty of music wins. The eternal, powerful and beautiful Pogorelich´s silence after music prevails. Thank you Ivo, You are an honor to music.. to the music of the spheres.

"Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art." Chopin. ---- "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 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. Fight to achieve quality, go deeper... find the origin of the sound. --- You have to get into the phycological frame of mind in which composers wrote their works in order to discover its secrets. 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. A composition can only be performed well if it is entirely yours, not only every note from memory, but the notes have become you, and you have become the notes. Fight and find the substance, then go to the higher spheres. Music takes you to another universe of eternity that remains with you after the concert is finished. Ivo Pogorelich.

Thank you. Is the Prokofiev concerto here on RU-vid?

where did you find this recording? his ondine is the best, especially during 1980