I think there must be a broken string or problem with the action on that high E natural. He couldn't possibly have fudged the note that many times and you can see him look at it when he bows after the piece is over. But being a true performer, he dealt with it in a very professional manner. Bravo, Mr. Ohlsson!!
Thank you Marcia Martin of Reference Recordings for introducing me to this erudite musical scholar on the very special birthday of my eldest daughter Rhea Pearse, "adopted daughter" Denyse White-D7 and friend Susan David of world-famous Crosby's Music Centre in St. James, Trinidad - epicentre for Steelpan and Hosay Festivities!
+Göktuğ Kaya He copied it from Horowitz. :D and for the record, I think the alternating octaves may be easier than the chromatic scale in both hands. I go back and forth between the two when I play this one.
@@minkyukim0204 But is there any evidence that Liszt used this technique when playing Chopin? Horowitz is the first one to use this technique while playing Chopin in recorded history. So while the technique can be traced to Liszt as you've said, the specific application to this composition seems to have started with Horowitz.
@@minkyukim0204 Just to add to your point, I'm sure Chopin would have done the same thing, but at the time, the piano did not have enough key go to B7.
Whoa!!!!! I didn't even notice that he does the Horowitz coda (octaves at 8:53, and interlocking octaves on the chromatic scale)!!!!!!!!! SO AWESOME!!!! I played this piece yesterday and got a standing ovation (:P) but meh, still a lot of work before it's near this kind of shape.
BRAVO!! I've heard so many interpretations of this scherzo, and this is definitely the one. This guy is a very noble pianist with great taste. When I was a kid I had an LP of this guy playing all the scherzos, and unfortunately I never paid that much attention to it. I regret this. I want to find that LP now!
Love listening to him play this piece. Chopin was such an otherwordly composer. Can anyone imagine composing this? I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Mr. Ohlsson has the best sense of the architecture of the music. Add to that his obvious reverence for Chopin, his fearless technique and his complete lack of unnecessary mannerisms, and what we have is a master pianist/musician. And his human qualities are most endearing.
He also plays the 4th Scherzo brilliantly as well too!!! I mean the guy won the Chopin Competition in 1970 for Christs sake, you don't WIN that competition if your Chopin repertoire is weak lol!!! Plus Mr. Ohlsson is extremely knowledgeable and well informed on Mr. Chopin, his music and his life.
The expressiveness and interpretation is imaginative, fascinating, deeply personal, and dead bang on...all of the time. This...is the greatest interpreter of Chopin. The problem with that e is the same thing I had the other day just before recording for the Cliburn on You Tube. Got it fixed just in time. Small piece needed R&R in action.
Why is Ohlsson so underrated?!?!?!?!? I think he is easily the greatest Chopin interpreter of all time (of course there are exceptions for specific pieces, and plenty of them, but he recorded the complete works, for chrissakes, and 90% of it is pure gold!!!).
So often it can be Chopin vs whoever-is-playing. Thankfully there is no battle going on here. Mr. Ohlsson is in complete control of the music-making. And it is beautiful.
Did anyone notice that when he got to the heist note of the scherzo you hear the string pop. Then through out the scherzo when he hits the same note it is absent? Take notice when he completes the scherzo he reaches in the piano and pulls on the broken string. Strong player but kept on going were most people will stop. Glorious interpretation!
I really love that Beethoven Sonata Garrick's playing at Bass Hall Oct. 27. It's absolutely sublime. Number 13. I remember a movie about Glenn Gould. He unwraps his own brand new record in his hotel room and puts it on the phonograph for his first listen. He's listening to #13 when the maid comes in...have you seen it?
That key is clearly broken cause it happened again the note came out half dead in 7:04 and 8:10 and i know for a fact he didn't miss any of them... wow you can actually break a Steinway piano string.... AMAZING!!!!! i need to build more muscle...
It's pretty hard, because you have to switch from 5-1 very quickly, and also, the top A is between two black keys, so it's easy to hit a wrong note. For me, though, 7:37 is a bit harder...
That key is clearly broken cause it happened again the note came out half dead in 7:04 and 8:10 and i know for a fact he didn't miss any of them... wow you can actually break a Steinway piano string.... AMAZING!!!!! i need to build more muscle...EXTREMELY GREAT ENDING ILL DEFINITELY TAKE THAT ONE FOR MY PERFORMANCE!!!!
Esto de los comentarios, es muy subjetivo. No quiero eludir nada. El hombre y sus circunstancias.- Aquí platea el tema; lo desarrolla y lo termina brillantemente,.
The gruelling choice of tempo... while maintaining note and phrase clarity. God would bless me if I could even study with Garrick for a full year... sniff. All my life I ... TRULY AND DEEPLY... felt the music but could not connect to my own feelings because of FUCKING stupid addiction
Do you play the piece? And, of course, I don't mean that it's impossible or anything. But it's a note that one is quite liable to miss, and it's also pretty obvious when one does miss it, so it is fairly hard to play correctly. There are tons of much harder sections within the piece, not to even mention Liszt et al...
players like horowitz richter bunin pletnev julianna avdeev natalia trull are much better with this chopin scherzo than ohlsson.Ohlsson the best chopin player that is a joke. you in usa thinks rudolf serkin the best mozart player.We think better are lupu ashkenazy rubinstein horowitz sokolov
that key is clearly broken cause it happened again the note came out half dead in 7:04 and 8:10 and i know for a fact he didn't miss any of them... wow you can actually break a Steinway piano string.... AMAZING!!!!! i need to build more muscle...
that key is clearly broken cause it happened again the note came out half dead in 7:04 and 8:10 and i know for a fact he didn't miss any of them... wow you can actually break a Steinway piano string.... AMAZING!!!!! i need to build more muscle...
There is absolutely nothing in the quality of a 'Steinway' piano string that would make it any more or any less breakable than a string on any other piano. Strings are made by companies like Roslau or Paulello or a dozen others, and all piano makers get their strings from them. The string on this piano was weak for some reason and the likeliest place for that to happen is the place where the string bends 90 degrees to enter the tuning pin.
