In the 1960s, I had a canary named Sylvester who absolutely loved this piece. Every time I'd sit down to play it, he'd burst into song all the way to the end of it. He didn't react that way to any other pieces. I love this memory.
I used to listen to this over and over again when I was pregnant 20 years ago. I would cry my eyes out every single time, and I'd instantly replay it and cry more. It still brings me to tears to this day ❤️
It is nice work, but I prefer Zimerman's rendition. Whether in the peaceful or tormented sections, Zimerman retains a smoothness that leta Schubert's genius shine through.
Chopin’s music is lightly sad, like that sadness of a dreamy adolescent. Schubert’s music is profoundly sad, like the sadness of a middle aged man who has gone through it all in life.
C'est la meilleure interprétation que j'ai entendue, la main droite est aérienne, la délicatesse est constante, le meilleur goût d'un bout à l'autre. Sans nul doute Schubert serait bouleversé en entendant ainsi sa musique.
I played first Schubert song at 12. Now I am 69 and still adore his musics and get great impressions with dignity of Romanticism. If he lived 20 years more, we have fortune to have much more heavenly songs. Yet, he composed almost 1000 works till he ended at age of 31. Isn't it amazing?
Beautiful, tender voicing of the melody that touches the heart. Sublime music that we need during this difficult time of Covid 19. Thank you, Mr. Kissin.
First time i head this piece was 1983. I was a piano student at the age of 15. A friend who was a gifted piano player played it. This reminds me of that day. I've played it hundreds of times since myself for friends.
mette holm I wish my children could say the same thing when they are grown up. I’m working on it around 1 year or so but I know it might take my life time to improve it. So aching and the same time beautiful....
mette holm it is a simple and yet difficult piece at the same time. To balance the finger strength when touching the keys requires ( at least for me) many many hours of repetition (and frustration). And to control that and the speed at which one plays throughout the piece is another challenge.
Rachel Holt, right after I wrote a comment to you about Mr.Kissin Chopin Nocturne, i somehow? wandered off to listen to this Schubert masterpiece and there you were with your comment...this piece is also so very lovely...
This song sounds like a 60 year old man watching rain drops trickle down a window pane as he wonders how his life would've been if he just had taken that chance.
I played this... once. Not anymore. But never could anything beat this performance. I think I might have to get back to playing it... because it's one of the most beautiful classical masterpieces in existence. Herr Shubert would be proud.
This masterpiece of a video is legitimately a visual representation of one Golden Age illustration. The calmness of the colors,the pianist's virtuous mannerisms and the big kiss on the forehead of the mortals,THE GOFDAM MUSIC. I want to take the caption of this performance and go out showing it to everyone because it's remedy for whatever this is that I'm feeling or a follow along of my good days just to increase all the goodness in it, and at the same time wanting it to stay just for me and the fellows who alredy encounted it.
This masterpiece is one of my favorite classic piano creation, when I play or hear it, it gives me an emotional feeling of life power, something divine which we cannot get it, sublime with a combination of harmonic arpeggios and dissonance (chromatic transitions), it feels both sadness and hopefulness like Schubert wanted to convey the soundtrack of his life in one piece...
I really like elements of this interpretation, like the very subtle rubatos. I’ve decided to relearn this piece and will try to recapture the nuances found here.
Tenderness is the word that better expresses Kissin's interpretation of Schubert's tender Impromptu in G-flat major, certainly one of his chefs-d'oeuvres.
This is the closest rendition to that of Horowitz that I have heard and it is wonderful that so young a pianist has reached this level of performance. Thank you for bringing such a joyful time to our ears.
@@olivemolyneux Sorry, I can't tell you but he was born in 1971 and this recording was put on here in 2016. He got a Grammy award in 2006 but not for a Schubert performance. If you look at this performance in 1997? he is obviously much younger looking then.
Horowitz’ performance of this oh so beautiful Impromptu #3 by Schubert, along with this one by Mr. Kissin are my two favorites with Horowitz beating Kissin by a whisper. But then, it was Horowitz after all. In defense of Mr. Kissin, except for M. Argerich who is now in her 80s, he is by far the greatest living pianist, period. One day, we will look upon his body of performances as some of the greatest and he as one of the top five pianists that ever played in a concert hall.
J'ai entendu ça en hall de TGV, bah.. j'ai pleuré... snif snif (bon.... personne s'en fout bien heureusement, mais je vous remercie de m'avoir lu) GRAZIE
I am absolutely in love with his interpretation... ♥️ Never have heard any better one... It's beautiful and sad like the life on it's own.. Wish to be played at the end of my life
