What a silly question "Who is the best? " They are all fantastic and absolutelly wonderful piano players af all time. Don´t compare! And above them all is a composer Sergej Vasilievich Rachmaninoff! This music never gets old and will live forever!! Howgh.
Another favorite of mine is Olga Kern's performance at 2001 Van Cliburn competition. She is not as famous as the other mentioned pianists, but her Rach3 rendition is absolutely phenomenal in my opinion. The most demonic ossia cad. I've ever heard, absolutely soul shattering performance, in a good sense lol. You can find the video here on YT btw.
Whatever anyone says, and we all have different views, Van Cliburn in 1958 video was amazing. Something I will never forget and created an online friendship with a fellow admirer in the USA which endures.🎹🙏❤️🇬🇧
Are u serious? yunchan lim played the regular cadenza bruh. And btw there are SO MANY more recordings that are better than him like yefim bronfman, volodos, argerich, danill trifonov,…
@@kieraasahi8240correct all musicians you have mentioned and as another commented above Andrei Gavrilov 1976 recording. I would add Alexander Gavrylyuk, Ukranian pianist's performance at the London Proms and Yefim Bronfam with Gergiev conducting or Essa Pekka Salonen who wrote a concerto for Bronfam, so I would think their rapport is excellent! Bronfam plays this so well with any conductor. Yuchan Lim was very good. I recently heard Yuchan Lim playing the Ossia - was good but not to be compared to the aforementioned and many not mentioned as Lukansy, well known to be one of the best interpretors of Rachmonioff. Comparisons are odious or Shakespeare's amusing version - comparisons are odorous. Yes they stink. Musicians work so hard to achieve these heights let's not make them a TV talent contest. That said, I enjoy listening to all the cadenzas but tire of comparisons, especially from those who don't understand the 18 yr old merits attention, but I am sure he does not appreciate the hyperbole. Let's place Yuchan Lim among great musicians and watch his development. That's already an incredible honor for the young gold medal winner. There is a danger if fans create impossible expectations for the young man, place him above the greatest who ever lived are living, the stress will get to him and could really hurt him. Let's hope not.
I realize I contradict myself by saying Yuchan's Ossai was not as spectacular as others like Yefim Bronfam, Gavrilov etc. So I myself am comparing which I say is very bad and unfair! I felt I should point out that other Rach 3's are simply played by mature musicians, cadenzas included, and that hyberbole about this very gifted no doubt a musical genius teen, can hurt him by creating expectations he'll feel he must live up to... who would want that kind of stress though some like being pushed?
@@larkspur77 it's difficult to say that Yunchan Lim's version (remastered) is really superior, in fact I prefer it too because I find that the quality of the recording of the piano but also of the orchestra is better than many other versions on youtube that I have heard. Good sound recording and mixing certainly influence the judgment.
I heard Martha Argerich playing this live in the early eighties. The cadenza was just unbelievable! Waves of sound reverberated through the Royal Festivall Hall with such power that they could throw with down!
Volodos is the best of this selection. Another standout, not included here, is Bronfman. My two favorites are Lazar Berman and (best of all) the first Gavrilov version, with Lazarev.
His performance of the Rach 3 at the van Cliburn competition this year was absolutely fantastic. Sean Bennett said he saw Yunchan Lim do 10 things that he never saw anybody do before!
Come on!! This student Yunchan Lim played colorless dry cold piano sound Rach concerto no 3 in the Cliburn Finals! Dimitri Bashkirov her teacher Anastasia Virsaladze teach saying to Bashkirov the most important lesson is the love of beautiful colorful piano sound! This was already in 1930s! Really Shocking! All the modern players are cold colorless dry piano sound players like Zimerman Kissin Pletnev Hamelin and so on! All the beautiful colorful sound players are gone dead like Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Wilhelm Kempff Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy! And now totally crazy deaf people claiming student Yunchan Lim is the greatest ever!!
@@kevinbrehmer7958 I was at the Lincoln Center when Yunchan Lim played with the New York Phil last May. It was unbelievable, totally out of this world! I know what Bennett meant by when he said those things that he never saw anybody do before. Yunchan plays with his whole heart, I could tell. I mean, I'm sure he practices by the books, but when he's playing on stage, I think he follows his heart. He played the Ossia, all 3 concerts that I attended, and he improvised, which he's quite known for, with his personal touch and that's why I had never heard anything like that before. It was fresh, of course, but most of all, it gave me goosebumps. I still remember the moment when I heard these gigantic thunderous vrooming sounds like that of a huge truck or racing car in the beginning of the Ossia. It gives me goosebumps whenever I think of the moment. WOW
Сыграть эту каденцию - одно из величайших достижений для любого пианиста! Третий концерт Рахманинова не даром считается одним из сложнейших и неповторимых произведений за всю историю!
A. Martha Argerich. B. It's unbelievable how many different sounds rachmaninov manages to get out of the piano. C. I prefer the regular the cadenza so much more than the ossia (D. Such a snob:)
@simonmeehan362 I agree with you, I vastly prefer the toccata-like 'regular' cadenza to the bombastic ossia. And you know my favorite performance of it is from a long time ago, by the late William Kapell who was only 25 or 26 when he performed this work with the Toronto Symphony. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4_Cb-xZd0Ac.html
I was always very partial to Volodos's Rach 3. In my opinion it's one of the most refined and overall complete performance out there. I think the "old guard" aka Horowitz and Rachmaninoff bring a lot of very interesting ideas to the table. In particular Rach's own rendition of his cadenza (normal, not ossia) I think is extremely poigniant.
My favorite is Rafael Orozco with the Royal Philarmonic. For my taste, he manages the perfect execution at increasing the levels of tension and energy up to the double chords section, which he plays with a beautiful texture of orchestral sonority.
Argerich is the best I’ve ever heard but you have to listen to the whole thing and that’s just me they are all beyond belief. It’s like cutting out squares out of Picasso painting and saying which bit do you like best?
Oh, Lang Lang. 😂 His meme look at the camera. 😮 Why is he even on this list? 😂 Martha is the GOAT here for me. She was in her prime, and played it much clearer and with a more fugue like sensibility. Of course there are multiple versions of this cadenza...
I heard Martha playing this in the eighties, and I tell you, it was just unbelievable. The people who know it only from the recordings available, have no idea how fantastic it all sounded, from beggining to end, and the Cadenza! No rubatos to make it come... just in tempo and getting faster and faster until we heard a wave of sound so powerfull that it seemde like the hall was coming down on us! Unforgetable, like Hearing Horowitz, Michelangelli, Gilels, Richter, Arrau, Rubinstein... like any of the greatest ever piano players!
Volodos, as much as I loved the refinement of Horowitz and Trifinov. It could be the sound of the recording, but I think it was the fore arm density that swayed me to Volodos. One must remember Horowitz and Rachmaninoff were friends and must have shared their ideas playing this work with each other. So, there's that. All the pianists brought something to this monumental work. I really liked Sokolov, as well. Let's face it. All these pianists are monsters at the instrument. We are truly blessed to have this many to play for us, as well as having the compositional genius who created this great work!
Lang Lang wins the best facial posture award by a mile. The rest are all so different, the Horowitz here wasn’t his best, I loved Danil’s dark tone but my favourite here is Argerich.
Horowitz, sin duda. Es "su" concierto, como reconoció el propio Rachmaninoff. De hecho, fue Horowitz quien hizo popular el concierto, si no apenas se tocaría. En esta grabación, con 75 años, evidentemente sus facultades físicas no son las mismas que las del resto de pianistas, mucho más jóvenes; aún así toca la cadenza con suprema calidad y sensibilidad. Y si consideramos las grabaciones existentes de Horowitz de los años 40 y 50 su superioridad es gigantesca, el resto son simples alumnos a años luz del maestro.
Say, who is the best? In my opinion, I think it is something subjective, they are all unique and musically valid, I do not think there is a better or worse one, since the composer of the work himself, when he interpreted this work, would transmit a significant touch to the public and in the same way, what could be said the same as the rest of the pianists.
Who is the best?I think that this question is inadequate and redudant,and that it is impossible to give a real answer!!For me ,the question is acceptable-Whose interpretation do you like the most-...In this case,I will single out the playing of Arkady Volods...
I think it is the composer Rachmaninoff himself. He ignores the common sense difference in time it takes for a finger to move from note to note on the keyboard.
While i still prefer Horowitz over any other pianist for the original cadenza, i think is a bit unfair to put this rendition at 75 years old while the others are in their mid 20's to late 30's or 40's at most His 1943 concert with Rodzinsky when he was 39-40 years old and at the peak of his demonic powers would've been a more fair "comparision"
lol...I liked your definition of Trifonov. I have him as my favorite. But in this interpretation at the festival in Switzerland it does not show the real devil playing how much his interpretation in Paris, there he is really diabolical…😂
Para mi the best es V. Horowitz... su interpretación es perfecta, le da total sentido a esas notas difíciles de tocar sin necesidad de hacer muecas... 😅
Van Cliburn in Moscow is amazing! So wish there were a way to go back in time with great recording equipment Cadenza is about the 12 - minute mark ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QZNfCiIlVok.html
