Olga Scheps - 'Nocturne Des-Dur. OP. 27,2' (Frédéric Chopin) 

Exquisite and sublime to carry forever...never mind acoustics, brand of piano,etc.

i love her stockings

I was looking for a comment like yours, just to agree! Camerawork almost unbelievable - even in sync with the mood of the music! Wish I was as good :-)

I know, I'm two years late, but: you might mean, she played YOUR first concerto, aren't you?

No, the concerto was composed by Fryderyk Chopin - same surname, but Polish - not French - Christian name.

DrRock Why whould she? Anybody can produce noise.

vaaaamos.... no seas tonto... de verdad la pregunta?

Carl Hopkinson ... “She is the most photogenic of players: young, pretty, bare-footed; and, with her long dark hair and exquisite strapless dress of dazzling white, not only seemed to imply that sexuality itself can make you a profound musician, but was a perfect visual complement to the sleek monochrome of a concert grand... [but] there’s more to her than meets the eye.” The male reader is clearly expected to get a stiffie trying to imagine what that might be. To help his imagination along, the piece is accompanied by a photo of the young lady in question reclining on her instrument in a pre-coital position with an unmistakable ‘come and get it’ expression on her face. The ‘monochrome’ piano is actually bright-red, a colour usually found not in concert halls but in dens of iniquity. Nowhere does the review mention the fact obvious to anyone with any taste for musical performance: the girl is so bad that she should indeed be playing in a brothel, rather than on the concert platform. Can you, in the wildest flight of fancy, imagine a reviewer talking in such terms about sublime women artists of the past, such as Myra Hess, Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg, Clara Haskil, Marcelle Meyer, Marguerite Long, Kathleen Ferrier? Can you see any of them allowing themselves to be photographed in the style of “lads’ mags”? I can’t, which raises the inevitable question: what exactly has changed in the last say 70 years? The short answer is, just about everything. Concert organisers and impresarios, who used to be in the business because they loved music first and wanted to make a living second, now care about nothing but money. Critics, who used to have discernment and taste, now have nothing but greed and lust for popularity. The public… well, don’t get me started on that. The circle is vicious: because tasteless ignoramuses use every available medium to build up musical nonentities, nonentities is all we get. And because the musical nonentities have no artistic qualities to write about, the writing nonentities have to concentrate on the more jutting attractions, using a vocabulary typically found in “lads’ mags”. The adage “sex sells” used to be applied first to B-movies, then to B-novels, and now to real music. From “sex sells” it’s but a short distance to “only sex sells”. This distance has already been travelled - and we are all being sold short. ALEXANDER BOOT Author, critic, polemicist

i encourage you to listen to her interpretation of the gnossiennes of satie. i encourage you to find someone who can play them better than she can. i have not been able to. when i first saw an album cover of hers i thought as you, untill i listened to other people playing satie. she is the only person i have found who can actually feel satie. also, this video sounds like shit because that steinway is way out of tune, and they did a bad recording. stupid shitty sound engineers. i agree, she does not feel chopin. but really, listen to her satie album, and you will change your mind

I think your wrong, like this performance isn't the best, but also not the worst, and I love teh way she played Rachmaninov Prelude op. 23 No 5, I think it's the best recording of the piece, from the slow middle passage, to the thick, juisy and energetic theme, with great pedal juse, super dynamics and a feeling of what Rachs sounds like. But I agree with you, she can't interpret Chopin, her 1st Ballade is also to emotionless and fast, in my opinion

Tom Lane omg lol

But how would one dance to a Nocturne?

@@jutubjestzlem In the dark, where no one can see you

sokolov ?

@Olga Scheps (VIDEOS) cierto Olga... me olvidé de ese detalle. y es así. Los rusos de por sí, son de sentimiento mas duro.. por su idiosincrasia, educación, el clima tal vez... Gracias Olga por tu aclaración. un abrazo desde Argentina

@Olga Scheps (VIDEOS) escuchandote a ti , me encanta tu forma de ejecución. muy limpia, exquisita.

@@azulpiano Grigory Sokolov, naturalized Spanish pianist

Agree. The sound engineer should be shot, but of course not literally. Many sound engineers have zero concept of ambience. Everything has to be miked within four millimeters, for some ridiculous reason. The price paid for technical obsession over aesthetics.Of course the sound is also brutally compressed which ruins any natural dynamic variation.

Keep in mind that if you look at the decal, this is an older Steinway that is smaller and it's being played in a smaller venue. If you are expecting this to sound like a Steinway D in a concert hall, prepare for disappointment. This sounds just like my Steinway or even my old Kawai would sound in my living room (which is a good sound, but not the same as a larger piano and venue). Just my $0.02 as a piano tuner who has tuned and owned many different pianos.

Exactly!

David, I agree. Not a lively environment, with carpet and padded armchairs! I think the audio tech did pretty well - I wouldn’t call the sound brittle at all, I find it quite mellow, and the hammer noise is hardly there. (Retired audio tech, 40 plus years with studio, radio, tv and live)

It's difficult understood what is the balance from real recording and compression of the media (YT limitation). Where are the microphones and what type ? I didn't see any mics. Did use PZM on floor under the piano? Audio engineers are restricted by filmmaker avoid to view the microphones and its stands. Many people prefer to view the interpreters and camera ability than quality of sound and Music😢

Young Paderewski absolutely

except she is not a "package"

Léo Jaller Semantics