Shameful juries of the Tchaikovsky!!!!They did Sultanov dirty not ONCE, but TWICE in this time and in 1998!!!! Eternal shame to these pathetic juries. None of them could've ever matched Sultanov's genius SMH!🤦♂️
Considering it's a video from 1986, the editing is superb! I loved all the transitions throughout the video. Of different violinists/pianists playing the same piece spliced together, or this one in particular @19:27 of Alexei Sultanov practicing the Appasionata Sonata transitioning so seamlessly to the actual performance! Bravo editor!
Saw this back in 86-87, and since Glenn Gould was already dead, Barry Douglas became my favorite pianist. Have seen him multiple times with the Indianapolis Symphony & fellow irishman Raymond Leppart. The Pictures at an Exhibition was remarkable!
This is my new favorite video on youtube! Thank you so much for uploading it! Also, I think it's just hiliarious that Barry Douglas, the first prize pianist, "got eliminated in the first round 4 years ago, so he thought he'd just give it another go" and won the damn thing hahaha. (@17:03). But that performance was stunning.. both the concerto and the pictures at an exhibition. Truly well deserved!
I was a newly wed living in a Brooklyn apartment doing tye daily chores od living and this was going on in tye background. When Douglass played it was mag8cal and I stopped what I was doing because the hairs on my arms were standing up it was that riveting. I just stood there listening to him to the end and started clapping and crying. So beautiful!
Thanks so much for posting this. I remember seeing it years ago when it was first broadcast and feel that it very successfully humanizes the musicians; it shows us just how much work is involved in attaining a high degree of instrumental proficiency. It's also encouraging that many of those in this program went on to establish significant careers.
Brought back so many memories- I was taking my entrance exams to Moscow Conservatory while this Competition was taking place! I was terrified even more of my upcoming exams 😂😂😂
Nice to see Frank Almond here, who will be ending his 25-year tenure as concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony in summer 2020. He mentions this documentary in his performer's biography, and also mentions being one of two American prizewinners at this competition; I don't know if that other prizewinner is the pianist William Wolfram (who was a bronze medalist) but they have collaborated frequently over the years, and still do.
It's amazing that Russian citizens are open minded to Peter Donohoe in 1982 and also to Barry Douglas in 1986 and not only favoring Russian musicians! This is a great evidence of humanity! Me, I oppose communism at all but I respect this people who lived in the former Soviet Union.
Had the biggest crush on Jane Peters when this documentary first came out on TV but don’t recall her having been (surprisingly) placed third (!) Just goes to show how dirty these juries were or are…..
The Tchaik and Leeds Competition are signs of a sick, moribund culture. Music should not be about training performing monkeys for passive listeners gape at in awe - persons like Lang Lang and Yuja Wang, who practice obsessively the music of the past in order to give note-perfect renditions but who cannot create original music. In a healthy musical culture (as Glenn Gould, whom otherwise I disagree with and dislike, said), performance cannot be divorced from amateur participation and performance. The rot started with Beethoven but really took of with Liszt. A truly musical culture was like that in the 16-17th centuries when musical households had a chest of viols and would play consort music or would sing madrigals, or in 19th century Mittle-Europe wher families and friends would get together to play string quartets by Haydn or Mozart.
Given that "The Tchaik and Leeds Competition" are from white cultures, you managed to use Lang Lang and Yuja as examples of "performing monkeys" is straight up racist, to put it mildly. Have you ever been to Lang Lang or Yuja's concerts to actually witness their musicalities? Many composers during classical era died in poverty and did not get any proper recognization for their works. It was the later generations that immortalize and properly honor those great composers. Sure these competitions have their bad side effects, but the positive thing is they put music to the utmost prestige that rewards the best of the best. And why does that really mean amateur participation and performance are hindered? There are plenty of garage rock bands and countless of jazz live performance cafes around the world. Who gets to determine what the proper music culture is and the reason why?
Competitions are more difficult and stressful than anyone can imagine but many of the greats actually did win these competitions such as yunchan lim? Martha argerich and Zimmerman. Like it or not competitions provide an opportunity for real genius to shine through in this extremely competitive field.
@@denysdragan7063 Interesting to see him here, a few years before winning the Cliburn. Sloppy Appassionata finale? Sure. Too fast? Yes. Also found it pretty thrilling. RIP.
How pointless all this seems in the light of a Lassus motet, a Palestrina Mass, or Bach cantata. Poor Russians, to have a culture only going back to 1820!
Wtf? Are u disrespecting the culture that gave us Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Tchekov, Pushkin, etc, and Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky etc etc? Comparing that to a 4 voice Palestrina Mass is just ridiculous of you
