Basta ascoltare Maurizio Pollini per capire la differenza, anche solo per la varietà di timbro nella indipendenza fra le voci ! Sono in tanti che eseguono Petrouchka di Stravinsky, ma esiste un abisso fra un bravo pianista e un genio dell'interpretazione !!!
This is the best interpretation on YT. I thought Natalia Trull's was the best but damn! The virtuosity is ridiculolous. And the colors that he produces are absolutely beautiful.
Sokolov should be a household name; he plays with technical mastery, but always in the service of the music. Just listen to the colors, shapes and phrasing here! I find the largely unmusical Pollini's fame hard to comprehend.
How true that is! There is also a market for circus performers, i.e., those pianists who weave about, roll their eyes, arch their eyebrows, etc. I am not among those; I guess I am satisfied only by greatness.
it is a sad world that is starved for example the Soviet forgotten pianists of an era , because of dictators , some of the greatest were neber known to us in the west. Example Ginsburg, Nasedkin
@billyguns2 Yes, Sokolov has a fiery intensity, no limits technically, and an iridescent sound with twenty shades of pianissimo. Pollino has a clear, powerful mechanism, but his sound is cold. Sokolov, magical and sublime, is driven by the search for transcendence that gives art meaning. Pollini trudges to the keyboard not to make paradise flow through his hands, but to open his tool box and hack out repairs. It is a monstrous injustice that the bovine herds worship Pollini and not Sokolov.
@MISHA1119 I have long suspected that there are other forces at work behind the scenes, choosing which performing musicians are awarded all the fame and perks. This is certainly true in the small "musical chairs" world of conductors, shutting out competition and recognition for all for a few; why not pianists and other instrumentalists? What decides whom is to be so favored? Certainly not talent!
@billyguns2 WHAT?!? Are you kidding me? Pollini is one of the most musical pianists out there... And although I didn't think this video sucked... but it certainly wasn't brilliant. The theatrics of this performance however made it rather hard to watch.
Sorry - but considering I've hear Sokolov BUTCHER Rachmaninoffs 3rd Piano concerto - I can honestly say - I'm not surprised why.
Best recording of this piece I have ever heard! Sokolov is brilliant (even if he did an A instead of a G at 1:09) and from 1:25 was absolutely beautiful
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impathesheikah. I heard Kissin play this piece brilliantly in Dublin a few years ago. Kissin was absolutely amazing. The audience went mad with their applause. He did an enormous amount of encores.
Pollini's recording is almost as embarassing at Misha Dichter's. I have no idea why it's so famous. Maybe because so few pianists have recorded it, but Pollini is brutal, has no sense of phrase or long line, frequently has terrible voicing due to the double notes in left hand in third movement, etc. His performance the several Sokolov (live!) bootlegs around aren't even on the same plane.
Cool I didn't know this recording existed. I'd buy it! For those of you too poor to buy it, why don't you call your local public radio station and get them to play more excerpts for you? Remember radio? Its free for the listener, but the artists still get paid.
There is wonderful recording by Maurizio Pollini from Deustsche Gramophon (old vinil records). I really recommend listen to it. Th quality of the perfomance and recording is A++.
This video is a great tease: where are the two outer movements? If they are available, PLEASE post them. Sokolov's Petrushka is not commercially available, so for many of us youtube is the only medium that can be used to hear it.
Come on, nothing in my comment implied that I was not grateful for the fragment that has been posted. If getting payment for a performance of Petrushka was Sokolov's main ambition, I am sure that he could release it. That said, I do not believe you are being honest if you cannot acknowledge a certain level of frustration over not seeing/hearing the outer movements.
Well, that's the main problem for these artists: it IS released in this new way, and I'm not sure that S. would approve artistically AND financially. One has to make a living, too.
And I didn't say that I WASN'T frustrated about the missing parts (if the playing is on the same level as this fragment, I am!)
impressionnant ! j'ai essayé d'étudier cette œuvre : j'ai abandonné, c'est difficile physiquement pour un amateur d'enchainer les trois mouvements de Pétrouchka.
Basta ascoltare Maurizio Pollini per capire la differenza, anche solo per la varietà di timbro nella indipendenza fra le voci ! Sono in tanti che eseguono Petrouchka di Stravinsky, ma esiste un abisso fra un bravo pianista e un genio dell'interpretazione !!!
darkblueangel1956 7 months ago
It's too bad that this great performance was recorded with poor video and poor audio
freeqwerqwer 2 years ago
This is the best interpretation on YT. I thought Natalia Trull's was the best but damn! The virtuosity is ridiculolous. And the colors that he produces are absolutely beautiful.
Hervinbalfour 2 years ago 2
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Excuse my musical illiteracy, but what do you mean by "colors" in this case? Would you know what the other guy meant by "shapes" ?
senna01 9 months ago
what i really like about this recording is the old sound touch
chopinist 3 years ago
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The 3 parts played by Alessandro Taverna available on you tube are at the same level as sokolov but with a different attack but special beauty.
nedlert 4 years ago
I heard Taverna's performance but I would not say it approaches to Sokolov's level.
dgaranin 3 years ago 2
Sokolov should be a household name; he plays with technical mastery, but always in the service of the music. Just listen to the colors, shapes and phrasing here! I find the largely unmusical Pollini's fame hard to comprehend.
billyguns2 4 years ago 9
I totally agree. But don t forget some pepl are easily satisfiedas their needs I guess aren t so great
chad410 3 years ago
How true that is! There is also a market for circus performers, i.e., those pianists who weave about, roll their eyes, arch their eyebrows, etc. I am not among those; I guess I am satisfied only by greatness.
billyguns2 3 years ago
it is a sad world that is starved for example the Soviet forgotten pianists of an era , because of dictators , some of the greatest were neber known to us in the west. Example Ginsburg, Nasedkin
chad410 3 years ago
@billyguns2 Yes, Sokolov has a fiery intensity, no limits technically, and an iridescent sound with twenty shades of pianissimo. Pollino has a clear, powerful mechanism, but his sound is cold. Sokolov, magical and sublime, is driven by the search for transcendence that gives art meaning. Pollini trudges to the keyboard not to make paradise flow through his hands, but to open his tool box and hack out repairs. It is a monstrous injustice that the bovine herds worship Pollini and not Sokolov.
MISHA1119 1 year ago
@MISHA1119 I have long suspected that there are other forces at work behind the scenes, choosing which performing musicians are awarded all the fame and perks. This is certainly true in the small "musical chairs" world of conductors, shutting out competition and recognition for all for a few; why not pianists and other instrumentalists? What decides whom is to be so favored? Certainly not talent!
billyguns 1 year ago
@billyguns2 WHAT?!? Are you kidding me? Pollini is one of the most musical pianists out there... And although I didn't think this video sucked... but it certainly wasn't brilliant. The theatrics of this performance however made it rather hard to watch.
Sorry - but considering I've hear Sokolov BUTCHER Rachmaninoffs 3rd Piano concerto - I can honestly say - I'm not surprised why.
MrPeterJohnston 4 months ago
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whoa i just noticesd hes not looking at a music sheet er whatever... so hes playing by memory ...holy cow
yojimbo256 4 years ago
fenominal
ibrahimvinogradov 4 years ago 3
this is an awsome piece
yojimbo256 4 years ago 3
More!!
koralgol5 4 years ago
Best recording of this piece I have ever heard! Sokolov is brilliant (even if he did an A instead of a G at 1:09) and from 1:25 was absolutely beautiful
SmallPorgies 4 years ago
What's the importance of one note in the middle of milions play so well??
Sokolov is the best pianist ever!!!
applebest 4 years ago 9
why did it have to stop! :(
IAMLISZT 4 years ago
I have heard Sokolov play this piece a couple a times live, - he can make it swing!
kaspergodowsky 4 years ago
amazing
him and kissin play this piece REAL GOOD
impathesheikah 4 years ago
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impathesheikah. I heard Kissin play this piece brilliantly in Dublin a few years ago. Kissin was absolutely amazing. The audience went mad with their applause. He did an enormous amount of encores.
cattleman6420012000 4 years ago
Aaa yes, Pollini is amazing. He does wonders with this piece on that old DG record.
dinoimeri 4 years ago
Pollini's recording is almost as embarassing at Misha Dichter's. I have no idea why it's so famous. Maybe because so few pianists have recorded it, but Pollini is brutal, has no sense of phrase or long line, frequently has terrible voicing due to the double notes in left hand in third movement, etc. His performance the several Sokolov (live!) bootlegs around aren't even on the same plane.
villiummord 4 years ago
Beyond incredible!!! Perfectly played....flawless!
VladtheEmailer 4 years ago
Cool I didn't know this recording existed. I'd buy it! For those of you too poor to buy it, why don't you call your local public radio station and get them to play more excerpts for you? Remember radio? Its free for the listener, but the artists still get paid.
andrewrobertsmith3 4 years ago
thankyou so much.he is my new favourite.I would love to get this recital? Jason
chad410 5 years ago
Thank you for this post. Never heard Petrouchka's arangement for the piano.
lytovcas 5 years ago
There is wonderful recording by Maurizio Pollini from Deustsche Gramophon (old vinil records). I really recommend listen to it. Th quality of the perfomance and recording is A++.
fquesada 4 years ago
Utterly superb and right inside the idiom, as well as unbelievable virtuosity. Thank you for posting this treasure.
smudgepots 5 years ago
Wonderful~what if I could hear the previously cut scene...
parkthoven 5 years ago
This is truly a magnificent rendition. So much in a class of its own and so right. Sokolov is a treasure.
nevskixx 5 years ago
This video is a great tease: where are the two outer movements? If they are available, PLEASE post them. Sokolov's Petrushka is not commercially available, so for many of us youtube is the only medium that can be used to hear it.
burnhamg 5 years ago
Come on, be grateful for this wonderful fragment! Thousands of people have watched Sokolov on this site, but does he get paid for it?
Pianowrestler 5 years ago
Come on, nothing in my comment implied that I was not grateful for the fragment that has been posted. If getting payment for a performance of Petrushka was Sokolov's main ambition, I am sure that he could release it. That said, I do not believe you are being honest if you cannot acknowledge a certain level of frustration over not seeing/hearing the outer movements.
burnhamg 5 years ago
Well, that's the main problem for these artists: it IS released in this new way, and I'm not sure that S. would approve artistically AND financially. One has to make a living, too.
And I didn't say that I WASN'T frustrated about the missing parts (if the playing is on the same level as this fragment, I am!)
Pianowrestler 5 years ago
impressionnant ! j'ai essayé d'étudier cette œuvre : j'ai abandonné, c'est difficile physiquement pour un amateur d'enchainer les trois mouvements de Pétrouchka.
jouachim 5 years ago
goldfingers!!!
gnomefou 5 years ago