He doesn't look like Chopin for gods sake and why would it be a good or bad thing to look like Chopin! I look like Yuri Egorov and I don't play the piano very well, so...
Not yet. Read the New Testament, none of us is in Heaven yet. There will be the return of Christ first, the dead ones will resurrect, some of them will go to Eternal life because of their repentance of their sins, and all the others, will go to the fire, definitely separated from the presence of God...it's their choice , not to love nor obey God and live as THEY want, never thinking to what GOD wanted whent He created them...follow Jesus and everything He said...not religions, not sects, only HIM
mAnu Chopin was sickly and severely underweight his entire life . He was 5 ft 7 in and only weighed 100 lb. He coughed up blood starting in his early twenties. He suffered from chronic sore throats and bronchitis. The last ten years of his life were hell with debilitating tb. There was no time in his life he looked anything as good as Zimmerman.
I bought a record with him when I was in Krakow in 1977. A small shop, I spoke german but when the two women who owned the shop understood that I was Swedish they changed their attitude completely and were very friendly. Such were the feelings against germans still in the 1970s.
It is just perfect in interpretation. And that's how a pianist grows up : by playing "easy" pieces without rushing to the famous hard ones. And after the mazurkas, Zimmerman becomes my favourite interpret of the Ballades Well done!
bill Bloggs yea nah he performed/recorded the first and second chopin piano concerto around the same age I’m pretty sure but I do agree with the above aswell
He has an incredible and wondeful Phrasing and this is a very great gift.Just listen to the 2 Chopin's concerts and you will understand perfectly what i mean. This is united to a very sweet ,round,tender sound and touch.K.Zimerman is an incredible perfectionist.I listened to the second Liszt's concert time ago ,in the second time he does absolutely wonderful things,pure magic.
It does not indicate the month of the competition in 1975 but he was born in December 1956 according to the Wikipedia chapter- so he is a mere 'not quite 20 years' old at the time of this film recording. He will be 55 in Dec 2011. What a geat talent at such an early age.
Cette mazurka est merveilleusement interprétée. Elle est comme la vie, gaie et triste, lente et rapide, douce et forte. Elle touche l'âme avec un subtil doigter.
What a stunningly handsome young man he was. That said, this is not piano playing. He is making love to the piano. There are no other words to describe it.
Playing music is not about hands doing the work, it has to come from the inner maturity and inner world. So if one works on playing style and relies only on that one misses the point. Playing a piece is telling a story. The notes are written but the story is your input and its unique. :-)
Every piece or concert i have with Zimerman ,Pollini and Argerich i prefer with Zimerman without any doubt.Sometimes like for Chopin concert Zimerman is superior of kilometers.
Totally agree ! They are the best "Chopinists" but they are still very different. For Mazurkas I would listen to Rubinstein for sure, more than anyone else. Holy Rubinstein
E' polacco e il concorso Chopin avviene in Polonia,sai com'e' :) Comunque di come abbia suonato quel giorno non mi importa una mazza,Zimerman ha dimostrato di essere uno dei piu' grandi pianisti di sempre con incisioni di altissimo livello e live incredibili come il concerto di Chopin no.1 suonato nel '79 in maniera divina.Karajan e Berstein lo amavano come un figlio e tutt'oggi fanno a cazzotti per andare a sentirlo suonare.
My heart is aching... with this endless harmony... always the right timing... I think it must simply be in Zimerman like this. I'd like to know how his youth was. If he put this on his family or learned it by the family. :o)
I am a 14 year old who plays this same piece...... but, I can't believe how perfect his rubato and playing style is...... while mine is very straight forward and I really cant play good in front of my teacher......1 thing I can say for sure.... his very motivated by Chopin a great Poland, cuz this guy is polish...... plus Chopin added in rubato the Left hand must be very strict in time and the right hand should be very free....., he Zimerman has mastered it......................................!
Adrienzo, you beat me to that comment. It's difficult not to imagine Chopin himself looking down from the Heavens with a most pleased smile upon his offspring (who has at least the musical inheritance, if not the physical DNA).
In my opinion there are 4 human beings since Chopin was actually breathing on this earth that have came the closest to interpreting Chopin...(in no particular order) 1. Martha Argerich 2. Arthur Rubinstein 3. Vladimir Horowitz 4. Krystian Zimerman ♡♡♡♡
@trzymalpy stary... malo kto potrafi zagrac tak dobrze ten mazurek... sztompka przychodzi mi do glowy, ale dawno go nie slyszalem. moim zdaniem krystian gra go swietnie.
i'm not reading too much into anything and i don't feel its somewhat.... Too many people are obsessed with the virtuosity of fingers and totally miss the point. My mother spent 2 years of aspirantura after graduating as a soloist pianist from concervatoir learning to channel the inner energy and project it through playing and my father spent his entire life doing the same but with an entire orchestra.
I regret that this is the only competition clip I have of Zimerman but I do have some videos from his younger days(without a beard), will upload more if I have the time.
I have a question. Was this the piece with which he won the competition? Is this recording the repitition of the winning piece after winning? Or were there several pieces played?
