SHURA CHERKASSKY RECITAL SCHUBERT, ANTON RUBINSTEIN, LISZT 1995 'live' 

SCHUBERT: 00:02 Impromptu op 90 n 2 04:35 Impromptu op 90 n 3 09:57 Impromptu op 90 n 4 RUBINSTEIN: 17:04 Barcarolle op 93 n 4 24:35 Melody op 3 n 1 LISZT: 28:51 Polonaise S 223 n 2 MANA ZUCCA: 38:01 The zoaves drill op 68

What an amazing artist! I saw him in Bristol (UK) when I was 14 - and he must have been around 47 then! Like Rubenstein, I think being able to play and share this, the most beautiful music ever written (in my view) brings one closer to immortality.

I love Argerich and Sokolov but noone gets this quality of tone and immersion in another vision . The two films we have of Hofmann don't really give us the sense even here . I need to hear his earlier recordings . His recordings at the last 2 decades are like Rosenthal ethereal in the ppp and pp level . There is a secret to handling the machine and having round focused tone at these levels . I would have crawled to have seen him in NewYork or London . I wonder that students from all over didn't stampede his recitals ! He really is the star in the firmament shining brightly from another century !

Small hands, gigantic pianism

His hands were not that small. I met him backstage in the 1980s and sized them up versus my own hands. I'd say they were medium-sized, about the size of mine. I can play ninths comfortably. Horowitz's hands were gigantic. I shook Horowitz's hand backstage in the 1970s.

One probably hears sonorities and colors in such magical playing for the first time, unexpectedly from a pianoforte 😅

I heard this programme live in 1995 and will never forget how he played the Rubinstein Melody in F, it was hauntingly beautiful... I still hear it in my mind and had to come to my senses when I was sitting in the tram back home!

Im not surprised at all that Wanda Horowitz wanted him, and just him, to play at a Horowitz memorial, as Cherkassky said in an interview also posted here on youtube!

He was a really great pianist with an astounding technique in spite of his small hands, wonderful musician!!!!!!

wonderfully musical. Love the way he plays the bubbling accompanying supporting passages in the g flat impromtu could almost be a dedication to the brook in Schone Mullerin song cycle

Thank you, piano 345 for such comprehensive coverage of Cherkassky's marvellous performances. The nineties were such tragic times for the piano and its devotees. We all lost so many great pianists.

Maravilhosa performance... fraseados perfeitos... sonoridade ímpar...

Im in love with this Rubinstein Barcarolle. Thank you for uploading all these Cherkassky videos. Havent heard from him before and his delicate sound.

What a wonderful pianist !!

What an amazing recital. Never heard this Mana Zucca piece before. His repertoire was immense! Was this recital in Japan? As it had Japanese subtitles...

You will never hear anyone be able to play these ppand ppp over a figure that is still heard in the Gb.Professionalpianists in the room must be shaking their heads his sauveness and delicacy are for most impossible.Melodies fly without being percussive and he can do this at any dynamic level nd can summon any tonal variety he wants! Incredible !

Beautiful!

Une authentique présence 🌹

I never heard him live but from his recordings sadly not at his best here, but he had a big and unique sound and knew instinctively how to extract the tone colours he wanted.

Es una maravilla

Agreed! I wonder why pianists generally with smaller hands and wide fingers produce such a sonorous tone quality.

24:34 Melody in F

Looks a bit ike the great Noel Coward esp.when he walks!?

Just wonderful.

Just as a marvellous, easy-flowing, effortless perfection, as Pavarotti's singing...❤

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I don't know much about anything...but as good as this piece may sound.....are you not concerned that if you went 2000 years into the future that it would still be the same...What I mean is that could not a pianist be so good that they could charge $25,000 per ticket.... .......No....and why not? Has the piano reached its limit...I guess we are still apes....We only use 1% of are brain...not 10%...your hopelessness is all the proof we need....go back to sleep....

a Shura este čúra..?.. prostata OK??

What a strange technique. He seems to have very small hands.

Mazeppa Listz

Nullissime dans Liszt. Quand on peut pas on fait pas