It is rare that I love to watch the man play, as much as listen to what he plays. So many are over-the-top pretentious, melodramatic posers, who overgesticulate with magnificent insincerity. Andrei is so honest, uncomplicated, sincere, and basic. So genuinely lost in sound, I feel i want to join him. This man has an emotional maturity beyond his years. Yet, he's not afraid to show that the piano can also be plain hard work. The keyboard can be a battlefield. All those emotions jumping out at him. Battle on, Andrei! Battle on! Attack! Hurrah!
This performance was masterly, but I also grew to understand that I was receiving a master-class in interpretive playing. The orchestra performed in sympathy with the pianist's genial stylistic nuances, which gave the whole performance a depth of character which I enjoyed very much.
exciting, then gloriously romantic, dreamy, then back to the excitement, with even more forward motion, impetus. fabulous piece of music and such execution! steely fingers!!
Over the last year I have listened to several very good performances of this concerto. Today I noticed how well orchestra is matching the soloist, sometimes the orchestra is too overwhelming it is so easy to overdo in the piece like this. A lot of energy, and the orchestra knows when to play down.
I think this is a wonderful performance. The conductor ran it a bit fast at times and that is hid fault, not Andrei's. His technique is first rate and very Russian with tons of power. Andrei is a lovely guy. Never seen anyone get of the stage so quickly.
Very fresh rendition, not too overloaded with too much knowledge of previous performances and interpretations, 21 century, Shostakovitch has always been for a younger generation. Your turn, Russians of 21 century! Glory to Mravinksi, Ostrach, Kogan, Richter? Youth go forward, forward!
Whoever put that 'ad for GRAMMERLY 2/3 of the way through that divine second movement, deserves to me made to lisen to cow bells clanging at he end of his Leningrad (7th) Symphony, for all eternity!!!
Actually, very much in line with the frantic interpretation of Shostakovich himself when he performed it as well as that of the composer's grandson when he performed it.
Agreed, to call this piece difficult would be charitable. And, agreed, the first movement breaks some sort of physical barrier but truly need not. The second and final movements make up for that; you can tell all on stage are by then truly "in sync," while the conductor almost dances towards the end. A very good camera angle on Andrei throughout; watch him lock himself into the rhythm of the moment. And let him beat a hasty escape, for the poor kid likely needed a very hot towel wrapped around him offstage...
Although imprinted with the Lenny performance, I found this most vivid (more so than Kopbrienikov's commercial recording with Kamu). Here is the perfect example of the unique virtue of the live concert.
Hello everyone, I wanted to ask you for a favor if it was not much to ask. I have to play the first movement of this Shostakovich concerto and I am struggling a lot writting the fingering so I wanted to ask you if you had ever played this concerto and if you would somehow share me your markings if possible, I swear this is the first time I do this. My apologies and thank you in advance. Keep up the good work everyone.❤️
What a beautiful work! What Maxim Shostakovich did wrong when he performed this piece at the All Union Competition of young pianists and landed only in some insignificant "honorable mentioned" sixth place (credit to his last name)?
Le jeune pianiste percussif quand il le faut, mais bien musical sans rubatto superflu dans le mouvement lent qui chante naturellement. Andrei Korobeinikov, jeune interprète inspiré et merveilleusement accompagné par l'orchestre des jeunes musiciens.
main thing one can clearly feel (if open-minded) the Soviet absurd and the 'mask' life in the 1st and 3rd movement. and rare Shostakovich's self-portrait without the mask - in the 2nd movement..
It is remarkable that great music can attract attention of even such simpleton like, you Adrei. On a broader scale it means that in great music everybody can find something for himself. And if you are young, you will learn, eventually, I also started like you.
Honestly, I feel that the 1st movement was too fast for my taste. Having played this myself, I feel that a tenuto approach to that Allegro movement would give it so much more body, however not forgetting the whimsical nature of the piece. Yes this was written to be played a fast pace, but if it is too fast, then one loses the integrity of the piece
OK, spoilt by Kissin, Maxim S, etc., but round 8:40, Anatoly Levin's rubato seems rather more an unnecessary affectation than legitimate interpretation. My inner metronome too demanding, maybe, but how does unnaturally lingering on notes increase expressiveness? He's the player, it's his reading, this isn't a balanced studio recording, it's more a mic up close, but it's heavy and inexact in the early staccato triplets, and stumbling to keep up in the final bars.
For me, the first movement was far too fast, losing a lot of the humour of the music. Again toward the end of the Finale much was lost because it was simply too frenetic. He's a very talented young man but just because he can play it so quickly doesn't mean he has to! I wish him well.
However, Shostakovich wrote the first movement to be played at a 160 the quarter note. This is further supported by his recordings in which he does take this tempo at its fullest.
Где здесь "юмор"? Музыка полна напряжения и драматизма в первой части. Светлая вторая и блистательный финал. Потрясающее, живое исполнение. Браво Андрей ! ! !
Guillermo del Prado You're right, of course. But I think Shostakovich's tempi don't bring out the good humor of the music either! I'm not sure we can always trust composers... and I speak as one myself :)
'humour' seems an odd choice of word for the first movement. I don't really know anything about music but I didn't get that impression; to me it seems... I suppose 'edgy'? Sort, of, a barely contained anger, frenetic, half mad
