Douglas Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1, end (1986)

[Albertmaximus1]

brilliant!

[1Thompsonmusic]

I come here for relief after watching the awful Miroslav Kultyshev.

[lmrs2]

Añadir, que impresiona, la rapidez , el dominio y maestrias de la manos en el piano....

[lmrs2]

Maravilloso !!!!

[cindarella1980]

Bravo!!

[klausknulp]

he did a very good job! great the way he tried to force the orchestra. wonderful!

[jorgeliebermann]

Es muy bueno.Nunca entendí como hizo para equivocar intencionalmente una nota o acorde en el Concierto Op.54 de Schumann,en la recordada película "Madame Souzatzka".

[kirk7524875248]

I could not disagree more with you. The conductor was brilliant, and moreover, he instilled a LOT of confidence in the pianist (when faltering at times)! He really brought it all together. Tchaikovsky would have been very pleased with his conducting.

[richardjohnraymond]

Thanks very much for posting this. I just discovered it after writing to you about the Mussorgsky about a year ago. The two clips are very special documents of this performer's playing.

[cruzer988]

Could somebody please upload this entire documentary of the competition?

[ssprokofiev]

A good performance, although the octave cadenza was unspectacular. On the basis of snippets I've seen here on YouTube, I'll opine that Natalia Trull should have won the Tchaikovsky that year, instead of finishing second to Douglas.

[medpiano]

I'm actually in agreement with you, *based on the snippets*, but obviously you're comparing 4 minutes of two entire piano concertos each. Also, for the finals, there's even more subjectivity about who has the better chance to showcase their win in their career afterwards. Douglas certainly didn't disappoint there.

The octaves weren't mind-blowing, but the purposely overly-delicate, glistening passages just before @1:20 were breathtaking. I'm sure there were many more throughout.

[cdpiano27]

Also, in Tchaikovsky Competition. The scoring of the jury at least in 1986: worked as the following:

0-25 points in all three rounds

with the points from the finals doubled

So it is possible that Douglas could have been somewhat ahead of Trull based on first and second rounds.

Also, the jury members sometimes knew how to manipulate the systme of points, as was alleged in 1998, at least, when Kempf only finished third.

[tsazar]

I liked the octave passagework here. I prefer some meat in the sound over speed or unexpressive bravura.

[Snufkin999]

Also, she mentions that Natalia Trull was a victim of her appearance, where the judges had some laughs joking that she looked like a witch in black, which they regretted after seeing her after the competition smiling in a nice dress. I like how this book shed light to how the result of competitions are not absolute, and judges are human too, both in a good and bad way.

[Snufkin999]

Yeah I agree too. In the book "Tchaikovsky competition" written by Hiroko Nakamura (one of the judges) she mentions how Douglas' truly inspiring rendition of picture's at an exhibition was what made Douglas the hero of the competition, and the final round seemed banal in comparison. However, he won in consideration of his future possibility, whereas Natalia Trull, in their opinion, gave her 120% at the competition, and seemed like she had reached her best already.

[Jirzy]

Great! Superb playing. Bravo.