@Mookie Spindlehurst Sorry you don't understand. You don't need evidence proving nonexistence. What you really need is evidence proving existence (or at least suggesting existence). There is nothing scientific and repeatable that suggests there is a God. Let a lone the fact that God is completely different in different cultures, that contradict each other and clearly can't all be right. Here's an example: suppose I claim that there is a spaghetti monster lord that creates all your dreams and lives under your bed but is invisible and doesn't interact with you in any other way than giving you dreams. Can you prove it's non existence? No? then guess it must be true! YOU HAVE NOTHING!
Its the quintessential example of mistakes don't matter. His sound like the belong - if only we could all be so lucky. But yea - he nailed the characterization
(shoot... I didn't know he was gone... and I just found "him"... very sad... he plays the way I LOVE to hear the piano played... very few now adays....)
Alls I got to say is: "Damn!" How dare this young titan pass in an automobile accident. He had a better left hand than Horowitz and twice the heart. What a crying shame. However, Dear Nicolas, where ever you are, don't stop practicing and maybe someday you'll come back to us with some of your own great heart-felt compositions. Sent with love to that very place where you are.... CVD
Good to see the view count has jumped, but I have been watching this recording for years, probably a thousand of them are mine. It's pretty dumb how most folks have such a low capacity for complicated music, especially if it's of any duration greater than a few minutes.
Nicolas Economou ,musicista pianista appassionato ,non dimentichiamolo la sua esecuzioni della sonata di Listz è la più emozionante mai sentita .Un uomo un artista con straordinarie qualità. Profonda sensibilità è una grande mancanza nel mondo della musica ...grazie di tutto Nicolas 🌺
Highly Poetical, true FINE ART. A very different CHOPIN - Powerful and purely manly, and so wonderfully, deeply romantic.. Great musician, rare artist.
Impresionante! Valores técnicos soberbios y sensibilidad exquisita. Nicolas Economou fue un gran pianista nacido en Chipre en 1953. Estaba llamado a ser en uno de los que deberían ocupar los puestos más altos en su tiempo. Desgraciadamente murió en un accidente de automóvil, en su país en 1993, mientras conducía en una noche de espesa niebla. Una verdadera pena su muerte tan pronta.
Fine performance of a work that requires a great deal more than "superb virtuoso skill". This Economou has, and he also has poetry and drama. What he lacks is grandeur and a sense of tonal beauty.
A truly magnificent competition Bravo! Franz himself must be really proud to hear you superb Nicolas from infinity. He and his awesome musical legacy deserves so much! Go on semper. In the field of the precious discoveries for life, you should listen carefully to my award-winning composition "Awakening to life" 「生活に目覚め」 because it has the purest and only epic lisztian bravure concentrated in her single minute of expression.( full of intriguing pianistic impossibilities acording to the proeminent critics) Listen and you ll be touched deeply forever in your minds and hearts. >>> .ARS SEMPER.VITA PLENA. Yan Ayrton, young classical composer from XXI century > .ARS SEMPER.VITA PLENA. Yan Ayrton, young classical composer from XXI century
I adore Liszt's music. This sonata has had a profound influence in my life. Nonetheless, I must admit in all fairness that Brahms' piano sonata 3 (written and premiered when Brahms was 19!!) is a monumental and titanic work which easily overshadows Liszt's in terms of counterpoint, and melodic material.
Sorry, am I the only one hearing the minor slip ups in the octave passages especially? Emotional performance indeed, but the balance between emotion and the intellect is key, as always.
You must be one of those listeners that enjoys those perfect, robotic performances, if ALL you managed to hear out of this whole performance are the errors. This is not the place for you. Here it's about MUSICALITY and EXPRESSION
