Vladimir Ashkenazy - The Vital Juices are Russian 

And an incredibly gracious and supportive wife!

Look at record covers from the seventies. Barenboim had a rather pretty face.

I think because the adult pianists obviously started as child prodigies, the ones who succeeded had to have had childhoods that were nurturing of their personalities _and_ their talents. I cannot even imaging parenting kids with such adult musical skills, because it’s fatal to forget that they’re _children,_ and that they’re so fragile because of those incomprehensible skills….perhaps that’s why the ones who make it have the most resilient personalities, and people with resilient personalities seem to be very positive, outgoing people! Look at Itzhak Perlman, so upbeat and cheerful, who had _polio,_ ffs….I can’t imagine the pain he experienced as a child, and then to be so very different from his friends because his legs were paralyzed and he was a musical phenom! Unbelievable!

ivanoe very strange comment? If you had said a brilliant pianist that would be normal but a shortass guy with a big konk and seems to be dribbling or have a nervous tic everytime he plays is hardly handsome?

Yes, actually he was really handsome

We love mr Ashkenazy.. fantastic pianist and lobely man .. his wife is so nice !!!

Yes. Modern London has become a dump.

Yes, that's Barenboim. Check out their playing Mozart's double concerto from 1966!! Gold

Feinberg was born in the late 1800s, before the Revolution, so he had studied music at a _very_ different kind of conservatory than Ashkenazy did, who wasn’t born until 1937. So of course Feinberg recorded Bach because he’d _studied_ Bach! If I’m not mistaken, he was dead by the time Ashkenazy was getting out of the Soviet Union. I sometimes think people either don’t know or forget that the Soviet Union was a totalitarian regime which exerted life-and-death power over everybody, and especially people of enormous talent, like Ashkenazy. Of course there were musicians who knew about and even privately played Western classical music, _but it was not TAUGHT when Ashkenazy was in the Moscow Conservatory._ He was forced to play in the second Tchaikovsky Competition, because the government had been embarrassed by Van Cliburn’s previous victory at the inaugural competition, and when Ashkenazy said that his hands were too small and that he wasn’t the best candidate, he was told that if he ever wanted to play the piano again, he would compete, and he would WIN. Thats’s the climate of things as he grew up.

@@voraciousreader3341 Thanks for your contribution.

Ashkenazy was talking about his time in the conservatory, and the kind of teaching he had. There were teachers who had been in the West and they knew about the music, but even the very best teachers and instrumentalists who had experience with western composers still had to be very careful to not get on the bad side of the government. Ashkenazy brought music scores and recording back the few times he traveled, and Richter always wanted to borrow them from him and anyone else coming back from Europe. They also heard recordings that other musicians brought back, they passed them around like it was the black market! Ashkenazy told the story of Glenn Gould playing his recitals in Moscow and because he was playing Bach, attendance at the first recital was kind of sparse, but as he played the word about his amazing playing spread like wildfire until at the end it was standing room only! It was really the totalitarian regime that tried to put the lid on anything from the West, but it didn’t completely succeed!

got it. it's the Presto mvmt of Beethoven's Bagatelles, Op. 126. The introduction passage that appears at the very beginning is also that piece.

It's Beethoven Bagatelles, Opus 126 No.4 in B Minor - "Presto" and I much prefer Gould's recording of 1975 for Columbia. But that's just me. The Bagatelles are just extraordinary and not heard often enough anymore...

It's from Beethoven's Bagatelles, op. 126; the fourth one (presto in B minor).

@@jacobras 😁 I managed to look it up on my own through Google listen, bcs I wasn't receiving any quick response fron anyone 😅 but still, thank you for the answer! Stay safe 🙂

Stravinsky's Rite of spring

Thank you so much, it has been going around in my head for quite a while now.

Beethoven's bagatelle op 126 no. 4

@@nicolasaubert4248 thank you so much!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pIJRm_hkTIc.html

Perhaps you found it, but there might be others wanting it in Spanish 😎

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor"

So true

Que buena q estaba la mujer!!

That’s asking a lot… In two days! What sections exactly?

Listen carefully and you may understand

@@cefinau Sorry about that. "Thanks" to covid, instead of playing piano i have to do homework. I was drowning in homeworks and wrote this. But you still can add subtitle for just in case another pandemi :D

I second this!

Beethoven Bagatelle Op. 126 No. 4

ChesterFanningChorno I think Ashkenazy Observed was a compilation of different videos, to highlight Vladimir Ashkenazy as person.

@BC - You’re crazy, it’s a very different documentary.

omg i just noticed- also hi ur in the raychen discord server

@@Queomyx oh lol hi olivia

@@vincenguyen7 hi lol xd

Wahhh mommyyy reading dah letters too hard for me😂😂😂

Do you know how to spell “fair”? Do you know anything about growing up in a totalitarian regime?? Ever heard of the Iron Curtain, or the Cold War, or Joseph Stalin and his purges, or the Cuban Missile Crisis?? That happened in 1962, the same year Ashkenazy won the Tchaikovsky Competition, tied with John Ogdon. Do you remember growing up in fear that the atomic bomb would be dropped on your city?? Yeah, probably “no” to all of the above. So, instead of taking 2 minutes to do a few internet searches, you condemn what Ashkenazy said. That wasn’t very smart, was it? Sounds like you’ve got some catching up to do!

Did you not know that the old Soviet Union was a totalitarian regime back in 1966, when this was filmed, and that it had been since 1917?? And that the dictators had closed the door on the West, irrevocably, after WWII?? Have you ever heard of the Iron Curtain, or Stalin’s purges?? Very little information got out from the old USSR, and very little from the West got in, and more than that, _anything_ from the West was considered bad enough to be sent to a gulag in Siberia! Ashkenazy himself withstood a great deal of pressure to be an informant on “artistic types” when he was studying at the Moscow Conservatory, and after Van Cliburn won the inaugural Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 and embarrassed the hell out of the government, Ashkenazy was ordered to play at the second. When he said he wouldn’t because he wasn’t the best candidate as his hands were too small to play the music, he was told that he would play and he would WIN or he’d never touch another piano for the rest of his life! Have you heard of the Cold War?? The Cuban Missile Crisis and threat of nuclear war in 1962?? That’s the very same year Ashkenazy won the Tchaikovsky, which he shared with John Ogden, ffs! Does that give you an idea of what Ashkenazy was talking about?? If something seems weird to you, please do a few internet searches before going nuts in comments sections….it is obvious you don’t know much history!

I believe Perlman has only had Toby!

@Stefan Ufer - What business is it of yours, to decide how Dody Ashkenazy felt about her life choices, ffs??? How insane is that?!? What do you even know about her?? Did you even look up her name?? No, obviously not, or you would know that she was a piano prodigy herself and that she met Ashkenazy when she went to study at the Moscow Conservatory for a semester. They got married, even though the totalitarian regime programmed Russian citizens to hate and distrust foreigners, and she was always watched wherever she went. Ashkenazy was forced to play in the second Tchaikovsky Competition in 1962 because an American had embarrassed the regime at the inaugural, and was told if he didn’t win he’d never play the piano again. Then, he was allowed out to give some concerts, but at the airport, Dody and their 1 year old son were not allowed to leave the country. No explanations. He tried to get them out of the USSR for months until they were finally allowed to leave, and they never returned. Dody was so traumatized that she refused to ever speak a word of Russian again….this was the beginning of their marriage. Why they decided to live their lives the way they did is nobody’s business. So do us all a favor and sthu!!

...this clearly has nothing to do with the best piano manufacturers....

Of the four by critics and audiences most admired and legendary living pianists, not a single one is non-Russian. I'm speaking of Sokolov, Volodos, Kissin and Trifonov. Of course there are many more to add to this list, many talented artists like Seong-Jin Cho, David Fray or even Alfred Brendel who are not from Russia at all. Still, the art of today's modern pianism wouldn't exist without Russian pianists. It wouldn't exist without Sokolov's intense atmosphere. It wouldn't exist without Volodos' art of tone. It wouldn't exist without Trifonov's technically and emotionally nearly perfect gift of performance... Even Scarlatti on piano is basically owned by Michail Pletnev as Rachmaninov logically is by Nikolai Lugansky, just to mention it. Sorry for the comment this long but the thing with the piano manufacturers really got me because it is a completely preposterous comparison.

Que buena persona debe de ser, su humildad al hablar y su sencillez. Es un magnífico pianista, gracias por poder ver este video en nov. 2020 desde Alicante. España.👌👌👌👌👌💗

He did not mean the compositions or the instruments.

@Ernesto7608 - You’re so IGNORANT!!!! Read up about what was going on between the USSR and the West in 1962, OK?? God, how can people be so uneducated???