Krystian Zimerman plays Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (Jan Krenz, Conductor) 

Yes he does.

Kyle Hamson My thoughts too!

yup!

OK...

A lot of Polish men look almost like each other.

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Yeah: yet I would still prefer Zimerman's 1999 rendition, with his custom Polish Festival Orchestra ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5BLU-CaKIt8.html

finally someone who heard it...

i mean it’s the main subject. pretty much everything besides the 2nd theme in e-major is connected directly to it. the rhythm is connected to that of the orchestral start. and the development is full of this motif. it’s truly beautiful

I agree

@@beedelightchannel I agree too. As a Polish Person:)

Listen to Kate Liu in the 2015 Chopin Competition - she obviously picked his interpretation as the model to follow. After listening to hers and Zimerman's interpretations, all other interpretations I find difficult to listen to!

@@paulkim1345 I'm totally agree with you, It happens to me with the two Chopin concertos and Rachmaninoff's 1 and 2. for me, the definitive versions

永遠のショパンコンチェルト再現ビデオになりますね☄️🗺️ 柔らかさ、せつなさ、情熱、品のよい甘美な世界を、骨格を明確にしながら繊細さを失うことのない恐るべき表現力が、ここに開花しました。ショパンの国のツィメルマン巨匠は、忘れ去られることはなく、語り継がれるべき芸術家です。

18-sto latka*

私が簡単にセンテンスを結びますと、Star intheworld！

私も同じなのです。Zimermanのショパンが目も眩むような素晴らしい演奏だと、最初に印象ずけた、その演奏だったと思います。

Jealous!!! That would have been so amazing!!

seriously, you were there! not many people get to watch the competitions, so envious....

maybe surpassed by the aged Zimmerman and his recent recordings

When he starts composing music like Chopin, then you can say that.

sounds so sad but yeah America as young as it is we don’t have much of a culture to be proud of.

Steve Richardson well that’s because modern culture is the manifestation of America. America became the world’s standard, so now people look at the role model a century ago and think “why is this country so generic?” although it was probably the most unique of its time

Oh God, is United States, not America if you are going to refer to that piece of land in North America with the blue and red flag. America is all the continent.

@@jugutierrez The US is the only part that matters anyway

I’d offer George Gershwin as one example of American culture and artistic identity. Definitely many others to be named as well. But I love your last sentence. Listening to Chopin, when performed this well, can definitely make you feel the Polish connection. Zimerman does that especially well.

My pleasure =)

yes! definitely standing out in the second movement

I love that I could hear the orchestra well in this version while in other versions the orchestra sounds too much in the background

​@Анна Фишер She is an amazing pianist, but I find Zimmerman's playing and timing much more ethereal and effortless.

The orchestration is really awful too slow and poorly put together shame for Zimerman .If you really want to here a very good interpretation go to Evgenny Kissin and the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Zubin mehta for the Chopin Piano Concerto no1.

When you compare his own performance here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S1Iv2JJc-Qc.html , you can notice how bad this orchestration is.

Do yourself a favor, listen to the 75th Anniversary Zubin Mehta with Evgeny Kissin. Magnificent! This is pathetic, my apologies to the wonderful musicians, but there is no comparison. Both pianists are wonderful, but here, Zimerman shines like a pearl stuck in the mud, but Kissin sparkles like the center diamond in a Queen's crown. The setting matters.

and me

There is no person without a gift. If you can appreciate this music its already a gift. Chopin's music is difficult to appreciate by people without specific sensitivity. It requires a lot of focus, also some intellectual attitude and a lot of carefulness. What is more, if You can enjoy this music, it says a lot about Yourself. Find out, WHY are You here, wathching this concerto, being enchanted to Chopin. You see some worth in His sounds and His world. It resonates in You, and You like it because of somenthing that You already have inside. If You hadn't, You'd rather do any other stuff online. What brings You to Chopin and this is Your first talend - inner ability to understand, appreciate this music . It's A talent. Or talents. Believe me, not too much people can listen to this and not get ignorant, bored or irritated quickly. They just don't have space inside for this kind of music, because it's difficult. Congratulate yourself:)

it doesn´t matter how "big" the talent is we got, it matters how many people we do make happy with it! If we misuse our talent to exalt ourselves our talent has been wasted. If we use it as a tool to make other people rich we honour the talent we got. I think Chopin was a genius of the latter kind. Moreover: If you are over 38 years old and still can walk steps you have more "talent" than Chopin had at that age. He had to be carried at that age already because of his devastating disease...

@@domidumdum4051 What a beautiful comment. These are the words why I still search the comment section of RU-vid. I wish someone inspired me in the same way, you inspired the person you replied to! :)

@@domidumdum4051 So well said. Thank you for your comment. I totally agree with you!

@@ankitabose2139

The piano or the recording sounds flat

W takim razie myślę, że ma pan rację, panie Knap

Sorry to say I'm not sure of either the date or location. If anyone knows, please let me know!

Warsaw

Warsaw, Poland in 1975

I’m not certain what year this performance is from which is why I didn’t put it in the description. If I had to guess, it would be around 1975 or 1976, in proximity to Zimerman winning the 9th International Chopin Competition.

Agree with your comment. Pollini version in 1960 was also great. Personally, the performance of this concerto from older gen of pianists like Dinu Lipatti, Josef Hofmann were also great. Hard to say which one is the best. All were great.

1975 shortly after won the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw