RACHMANINOV Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, op. 36 (1931) - Yekwon Sunwoo - Cliburn 2017 

I forgot to say something the right hand doesn’t sound hesitant like it’s supposed to, just empty. Lugansky’s interpretation way better

@angelob.1089 what do you mean "unbelievable that this is taken in a competition" Competition is a place where many lifetime performances are easy to come by, because the artist is still young, guided by many professors who have a pre-existing vision of the work and understand the work like its author. In addition, competition is a place of fierce competition to win a career that only a few of the best pianists are honored to receive, so young pianists will focus everything they have on it... later in their pianist career, it is easy to get lost because of the loss of guidance from professors, their vision is now easily limited by the unusual and difficult to integrate lifestyle of being a pianist born and raised as a bookworm, hold the piano everytime. Also suggest some goat performance that come from competition: Rafal Blechacz Chopin scherzo no4 - goat Rafal Blechacz Chopin piano concerto no1 - goat Yunchan Lim Rach3 - goat Gyehee Kim Tchaikovsky Valse-Scherzo - goat and a lot more

Lol RU-vid is truly an amazing place

It is great, but you can't compare much to Horowitz so simply.

I disagree

Of living pianists, I concur (he's tied with Martha Argerich). This gentleman reminds me of the late great Alexis Weissenberg - his playing is very conceptual, he disassembles and recomposes this sonata as though Scriabin wrote it. Brilliant, fiery performance!

More colorful beautiful piano sound than Yekwon Sunwoo and Argerich and Weisenberg=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin! More powerful louder than these=Mikhail Pletnev(Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest was Lazar Berman!

segundos después hay unos errores ene la ejecución bro... =/

​. I'll name one, myself: Yuncham Lim, the piano playing chameleon. Highly, highly overrated. Will be forgotten within a decade. This pianist here is the genuine article, but without the legion of hype-brainwashed acolytes.

​@@robertjones447why?

​@@user-fg5xk3ni4mAll show and no dough. Calculated performance, designed to wow, but not coming from the heart.

@@robertjones447 when someone’s extremely popular, there’s always a reason. in this case, it’s just that performances were amazing. His Rach 3 is much better than Yekwon Sunwoo’s to be honest. Both technically and musically.

​@@6894qboth are soulless

Beautiful. Thanks for the tip, Robert. He really is excellent and will only get better. Already interpretively miles ahead of some others I could mention. His Rach PC3 from this competition also is excellent.

@@leestamm3187 You're welcome! I was unaware he also had the Third in his repertoire. Thank you as well for the tip! I remember when I was a teenager in the 1970s and Rachmaninoff's Third was still the best-kept secret in classical music. I mean, people listened to it, but the 2nd Concerto and the Paganini Rhapsody were still much more popular. Now, the 4th holds best-kept secret status.

@@robertjones447 For 2 hours of listening pleasure, put "yekwon sunwoo beethovena recital" in the RU-vid search. (Be sure to include the "a" at the end of beethoven.)

why are you comparing, just enjoy his performance. don't base your criticism off the playing of another pianist.

@leenakaewnat7494 I guess you are another smart-a* with le grand savoir-faire of a loud mouth.