Kissin -Rachmaninov piano concerto n.2, I. Moderato (part1)

[jimbokify]

Where can we find the rest of this video? anybody?

[lp4fred]

I'll always love this.

Especially the hauntingly beautiful strings!

[LYTT10I03]

check ou Valentina igoshina on Rachmaninov 1th piano concerto. Awesome, too! I love her

[xITSFLUFFEEx]

Don't lose Erza.

[aoihimek0]

@xITSFLUFFEEx jellal spotted

[angella302]

beautiful.....just beautiful....

[ophelius111]

2:40 - 2:50 looks like he cut too many onions.

[1Thompsonmusic]

No where near as good as Roberto Cominati in Leeds 1996.

[LestraJo]

My first love... he had 12 years ord when he played Concerto e-moll of Chopin...

[ZelosWilder431995]

Kissin is like the Reincarnation of Mozart

[BalzaClem]

Great music!!!!

[leblond991]

Super , génial !!! je vois que le compteur affiche 2 millions de vues pour ce pur génie que j' adore:Evgeny KISSIN. Merci.

[Thepeckinator]

This concerto always gives me a raging boner. Maybe the spirit of Rachmaninoff lives on through my cock?

[jeuxdeau2009]

@Thepeckinator hahaha most definitely

[sadizes]

@Thepeckinator BAHA...too much.

[MifuneBoBune]

Can't you idiots leave religion and politics out of this?! Good grief. If you can't, go to some dumbass site where you belong and have your little childish spats.

[rANDOM1NATiON]

OMG! best part! 0:00 - 5:10 !!

[jeh500]

Magnificent. His commitment to this piece is obvious.

Exceptional on every level. Thrilling. Thanks for posting. 

[kackalacke66]

Matt Bellamy should play this ... Space Demantia sounds a bit like this

[syrokal]

@kackalacke66 Well he's lifted entire Piano Segments from Rach before.

So why not again?

[mysterypolice]

@kackalacke66 i don't think he should butcher another great composer like he did with Chopin

[opium25]

the guy on piano looks like he has a hot poker up his ass

[akunsaya101]

Okay.... not my favorite though...... :(

[TheHayounny]

Kissin's playing is so gentle. I can feel this everytime i listen his bach and chopin.

[pnksk8r390]

Im a trombone player, yet I still hold Rach's piano concertos up there at some of my favorite pieces of art. BEAUTIFUL!

[blonde7000]

How great to hear this. I was watching University Challenge when i heard a part of this tune. The last time i heard this was when i was 7 and my dad played it. When it came up in an intro somehow i knew it was Rachmaninov but never knew the name of it. Listening to it now is the first time i have heard this since i was seven and thank you for putting it on. My Father died in January 2008

[sadizes]

@richardvergara bahahahahah omg...

[richardvergara]

It's awesome...I wonder who does his hair...

[888contessa]

восторг

[DafniElissa]

powerful.

[shenkeey]

Can someone please tell me how the notes in the intro work? I mean; I do know the real intro, with rachmaninoff-notes (so all the notes, although it stretches and hurts like fuck), but I mean the part after that when you get 17 notes in a 4/4-time signature? Do you play the last three notes in a triplet or something?

[EyMeng]

@shenkeey no, you get them even first, then add your own/the reasonable phrasing later

[yichuankoay83]

@shenkeey You just have to average all of them into same time values. For me, I don't mechanically calculate how each of the 17 notes last, just need to know that you have to play 17 notes in that period of time for a bar.

[shenkeey]

@yichuankoay83 Yeah, that's how I do it too now; but the perfectionist that I am (< horrible thing to be, really; nothing to be proud of haha) I really feel the need to have the exact timing as Rach did, which is a triplet at the end I believe :)

[gumiglorious]

Space Dementia :D

[Pianoguy32]

part 2 please

[Pianoguy32]

wish the sound quality was more crisp

[MightyPhilou]

Hi, I'm 1 year old, and I love this music. (F**ck you guys)

[19STU84]

Fuck me, imagine be able to play piano like that. I'm such an underachiever.

[lifeonmarssucks]

Fucking GOOSEBUMPS.

[avb20540]

Hey, how do you all think Kissin would do if he entered a Chopin or Liszt or any other formal piano competition? There are a lot of other good pianists but I noticed that Kissin's performances just sound so different from everyone else.........Like his technique is unattainable.

[MalaikaNina]

@avb20540 Because it's not technique...It's something more.

[Elmonator]

Anyone who is into metal should listen to "Fall Of Man" by "Cor Scorpii". They used the violin part starting at 0:35. Sounds really great. :)

[bolcheleo]

n'importe quoi.J'ai écris slave et non esclave

[bolcheleo]

C'est grand ,l'école Russe est impitoyable et les slaves sont de grands émotifs,ce concerto ainsi interprété nous va droit au coeur.

[EvilViolentAstewoids]

can't stop looking at Kissin's chin. it's alive! he is such an emotional player lol :)

[autocrat111]

THANK YOU LORD FOR THIS WONDERFUL MUSIC. ALL GLORY BE TO GOD FOR HIS GRACIOUS GIFTS OF REASON AND INTELLECT.

[ipromisenothing]

Who was the musician who said something like "Great music is made from just hitting the right note at the right time"? This is would be one of those moments, no?

[Fientjelientje]

I'm currently addicted to this concerto

[JohnyBgoodYeah]

This gift make me cry... Amazing...

[zhannasab]

@JohnyBgoodYeah

Same here. Gets me every time. Is there anything more beautiful and magical than this?

[gregapage]

what a weak, boring interpretation! booooo!!!!

[SCRUFFBET]

@gregapage gtfo. kissin is like russia's answer to chuck norris

[PIAN0life]

@gregapage moron! let's see you have a dick!

[EdolasMystogan]

Rakuen no Tou, search that :D

[romebonesify]

this is the kind of music that plays when the gates of heaven is opened for you :D

[monktrane325]

This is not imitation , this creativeness to the nth degree. This man explores the rhythm, harmony and yet does not escape the melody. Brilliant.

[LittleBird1432]

Hey, religious folk:

If you don't agree, keep to yourselves about it. Treat people how you'd like to be treated. And if you want them to force their own beliefs on you, go ahead. But don't ruin this fantastic piece for others by posting comments saying your beliefs are right just because you don't agree with them.

[AnimeAtomika]

people are talented. respect those who DONT believe in a god. you people who believe in god aren't the almighty chosen ones. we're all people and we're all equal. respect peoples right to opinion. and RESPECT THIS PIECE OF MAGNIFICENT ART!

[martimtavares]

"I'm only 14 years old and i totally love this" - this is the most stupid comment ever.

[fcg2367]

Bravo!!

[kuntscabanalfuk]

Protest the hero brought me here, Fuck muse they suck

[satyaceleste]

B E A U T I F U L <3

[jimbokify]

I don't care what anybody says, I love his look

[BPkuss]

Muse brought me here, another reason to love them <3

[InSaNoDaCloWn]

Nice hair, I didn't know any of the Osmonds were such great pianists

[FrozenFourthSeason]

The Russian spirit is defined here ! I love it

[MindfulPerson]

This music isn't a gift from God.

It's a gift from Rachmaninov.

:3

[menonfire12]

@MindfulPerson Well said.



[alexuniverse]

@MindfulPerson Everything is a gift from God. Rachmaninov was God's servant.

[nyko461]

@MindfulPerson ;

I DO NOT agree with you.

If it is not a gift and inspiration from GOD from who else is it?

Can it be from the Devil?

You said; It's gift from Rachmaninov; So who else gave him the inspiration to compose this wonderful song? Can it be from the Devil?

Remember, on the final day GOD will ask you why you wrote this words.

[MindfulPerson]

@nyko461 Then I guess you can say we humans have no real talent.

There will appear just a random person who will compose works greater than Rachmaninov..

And we can say that person's efforts were for nothing, because only God granted those gifts to him.

The people that work for months composing a song will have worked in vain.

It wasn't their work that made them this talented, it was only time until God decided to give him that accomplished work.

[PianoLvsPaul]

@nyko461 god doesn't exist, sorry to burst your bubble

[AlonaviolinGod]

@PianoLvsPaul we will see once....

[rds769]

@nyko461 Lol, god will be like "yo, thine youtube commandment hath unleashed my perfect wrath. Thou shaln't be invited to heaven with mine true sheep such as P. Diddy and Justin Bieber which hath payn me heed"

[gabsylv]

@nyko461 You can imagine only the 2 possibilities? GOD and the DEVIL, both are figments of the ancient imagination, like the Volcano Gods of Hawaii and the Greek Gods of Athens. Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus, too? Have ever traveled outside your tiny Bible Belt village in your mind? FAIL

[eskorbutin89]

@nyko461 dude, you can get inspiration from others than god and the devil. And how is that you even believe in the devil, isn't christianity supossed to be monotheistic?

[hkhannah99]

@eskorbutin89 the devil isn't considered a god, to say the very least... the definition of monotheistic is "the belief in the existence of one and only one god", and in the Christian religion the one god is, well, God.

[LIHS112]

@MindfulPerson How does this trash earn "top comments?" Oh that's right, the trash that browses youtube gave it the "honors."

Too bad you can't ask Rachmaninov if he agrees with you.

[MindfulPerson]

@LIHS112 Rachmaninov is a composer in the Romantic Era, which is a more secular form of expression... of human nature and human expression..

Which is totally different from the classical Greco-Roman artform...

So why would God endow this man with musical abilities that abstain away from his worship?

Why would God bless this man with what we consider is romantic music, something ungodly that shows: "often the more disturbing and darker passions" of the human creation?

[YetHaterLover]

@LIHS112 GOD THIS, GOD THAT. Shut up. This was the result of one man's effort and passion. Leave religion out of this. Thank and good-bye.

[carclamcc1]

@MindfulPerson Indeed. Rachmaninov is the gift of God.

[RelaxItsJustAFlare]

@MindfulPerson 'It's like it's not me that's coming, the music's coming through me'

[ChaliceGuard1]

@MindfulPerson - Hmmmm... and WHO do you think "GIFTED" Rachmaninov?

[worldsnap]

@ChaliceGuard1 God doesn't exist, dumbass

[calico992]

In truth, there is no such thing as 'Classical Music' Rachmaninoff lived 320 years after Bach. Prokofiev and Ralph Vaughn Williams sound nothing alike. Wagner would vomit if someone compared him to Ravel. Really, we must treat all of these genius's as individuals. People will say that it 'makes it simpler' to give it all a genre. in truth it DOESN'T If I want to turn someone on to a piece, I specify the exact artist, and piece, that empowers them.

[jezmuff]

@calico992 I think you can get off your horse. It's common knowledge that 'classical' music refers doubly to the actual classical period and to all art music. Classical music in the second denotation just means any music written for a serious purpose and for traditional instruments.

[pablofre]

you can hear a lot of Tchaikovski in that piano

[vasilisabelka]

Хотелось бы посмотреть на тех людей, кому не понравилось это видео!! Неужели такие, правда, существуют?!

[JoeTownley]

Who will write the concerto that supplants this as the world's most popular piano concerto?

[korovyovbehemoth]

There are actually only two composers, Rachmaninoff and everybody else

[dragonballov]

I feel like ive fallen in love with Rachmanioff all over again <3

[JoeTownley]

Without a doubt, "the" mot popular piano concerto ever written. More popular than the Tchaikovsky First. Better, too.

[PristineV]

Forest Gump.!!

[MegaMavric]

I wonder if he's good at kissing

[ggvidales]

@MegaMavric every artist is good at kissing

[7213258]

I can heard some Muse' part inside this : Space dementia

[0915boss]

Could kissin share his talents with me?

 "Hats off,a genuis"

Robert schumann

[nerdgirltotherescue]

This is absolutely gorgeous. How? How can Rebecca Black and THIS exist in the same category called "music"?!

[JoeTownley]

There is another Kissin video of this with Ozawa that is excellent. Unfortunately, a glich in the file transfer makes him shake like he's in heroin withdrawals so watching it is very uncomfortable. Just turn your monitor down and listen to pure genius.

Oh, and by the way please stop by my YouTube homepage to hear my own two piano concertos written in neo-romantic style like Rach's.

[KrivitskyM]

What year is this recording?

[KingCharlemagneI]

NODAME CANTABILE

[suitevictor]

Il piu grande!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 Rachmaninov!

[daichanislove]

Wow, this is amazing. I wish I knew how to play the piano.

[KingCharlemagneI]

@daichanislove

So do I!!!

WAIT, I already do and its easy to learn how to play!:)

[schmuckenheimer9]

Anybody else think this guy kind of looks like Billy Joel?

[CAFS28078]

@7iTabatha851

Your shaving problems are the result of too much testosterone (anybody who would post this crap here has balls), now wax yourself out of here...

[CAFS28078]

Great music, but I hate cut off recordings...

[luasi8]

Magnifico!

[moisesflamenko]

This is from hearth!

[seagullssuck2]

thats not his hair thats his brain all full up with musical knowledge

[moustikitos]

@seagullssuck2  haaaaahahaha

[SIROFNOBLERECORDS]

I listen to this everyday x15

[Dan474834]

Why is it that whenever I listen to this piece, it is at if it were the first time? The 10th time it meant them same, the 100th time it meant the same, the 1000th...

This music is eternal. It could be played and repeated for the rest of our lives, and one would never grow tired of it.

This music touches something in my spirit that not even love can bring out.

[ICWT83]

Rachmaninoff ROCKS!!!!

[Painerzero]

Heaven on earth !!! Rachmaninov was such a genius !!!

[kalumander]

The best interpretation is by Dr. Ivo Robotnik :)

[isabelle981]

i actually wanna play this.. doubt it :P

[SIROFNOBLERECORDS]

After listening to RACH play this - and then hearing this--he does a fantastic job! Bravo!

[apluspianist]

Kissin>>>>>>>>>>>>>Lang Lang

[naomilee156]

4:23 to 4:37. Best part. :P Otherwise 0:00 to 5:10 is the best!

[bill23u]

Amazing ,,,, I just can say it's amazing.

[popolynn2]

is face= hurrrrr durrrrr

[stobaksov]

Нет более ничего русского, чем данная композиция.!

[mssimpleone1]

Will Heaven hold anything as beautiful as this?

[iluvKH4eva]

I'm in love....

[mcwinsable]

Listening to this performance, very solemn and articulate, I wondered whether it had ever been transcribed just for piano, three strings, a flute, an oboe and clarinet. Great to hear all the beautiful melodic threads more clearly.

[PhillyB702]

@mcwinsable It has been transcribed for 2 pianos if that is what you mean.

[Lalagartitita]

EARGASM.

[MolotCCCP]

RACHMANINOV... BEUTEFUL RUSSIAN MUSIC

Today, Russian music is from "West Funky Shitt" suffocated, so that she has no chance to come up to your ear.

Your very much missed

But Russian music today is very much geared towards west, where Russian soul go?

Where Rachmaninoff or Chaikowski are from today?

[phxphillip]

When I was at Interloched the music camp......there was a 15 year old that played this with 10,000 people watching....trust me I felt worthing less.....I could even play this at 22 after 16 years of trying....LOL.

[HighROCOCOlings]

You are just a chitizen as hodling full human rights and free on freedums society .

Selgei Raffumaninov hoped to getting freedums to playing piano by hisself ways.

Keep his mind as against fashizm and removing humanrights with hoping to keeping hisown private life as escaping from much controls.

His playing art criated by his own as a peace keeper as shining and beautiful pure his spiritual piano keys with brilliants higher prouds on grand streaming with

world wide as his foots prints.

[Deuterium2H]

Great performance, but I'll take Ashkenazy or Argerich for Rachmaninoff over anyone else.

[dasym]

For those of you who are searching for Part II, here it is:

/watch?v=42aMCKX0k9Y

[legendarysannin65]

Cor Scorpii - Fall of Man used this peace. Great.

[BioProton]

As a 14 year old, I always wondered why I never liked the music my peers seem to love so much. Once I heard this, I knew why. There had to be some reason why this music has lasted centuries, while a modern song is "old" after 3 years.

Some scorn me for listening to "Classical Music" and refuse to open their minds to it. I am just happy that I have the rest of my life to enjoy this music, which is the only music I can truly love.

It has Power.

Passion.

Emotion.

It is truly a gift from God.

[wanniator]

@BioProton That was all really interesting until you made it about God.

[CAFS28078]

@wanniator What do you have against God???

[wanniator]

@CAFS28078 Nothing but his lack of existence.



[rawrgDX]

@wanniator "For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything." (Hebrews 3:4) Sometimes we need to look harder than a youtube video to see what God has done. Besides, who wouldn't want to believe in a God that loves us more than we can bare. He created us to be the subject of His love and adoration. Sorry to get all righteous on you, all I really wanted to do was listen to this concerto. XD

[Davidkracht]

@wanniator Took the words right out of my mouth.

[quinn244]

@BioProton I concur whole heartedly with this statement this to sums up my experience with the music my fellow peers like, I find it extremely difficult to try and enjoy their music. So I've stopped trying a long time ago. This music is truly divine, good has gave Rachmaninoff a talent that has bore much fruit. Classical music is elegant, beautiful and ethereal, It will transcend time and remain a prominent fixture in the life of humans in the future. It will never disappear.

[mkervelegan]

@BioProton you may look down on these ignorant folks suffering all the torments of lost hearing and souls and say, Leave them there...leave them there forever and ever and ever, while you go on to a glorious realm of exalted creativity.

[mousy2294]

@BioProton Very well said.

[UlfenDaddy]

@BioProton Yours is an ear for beauty in SOUND. I first stood in a public school classroom (teaching aide) when I was 15; I asked the students what are they into? For 35 years the answer never waved: #1, MUSIC. Tell me about this "music," I ask. Again and again, over and over the discussion then goes to: Wild Hair, Leather Jeans, SHOES, and most of all, the text. That's a matter of style and POETRY, not Music. (and trite, banal, BAD poetry at that.) MUSIC is something entirely different.

[RhaegarTargaryen1884]

@BioProton hmm the age always seems to be 14. Nobody gives a fuck how old you are.

[jezmuff]

@RhaegarTargaryen1884 That seems unnecessarily aggressive. More relevantly, I think, leave God out of it.

[hushmandres]

I wish to elaborate

I think you would find it more appropriate to savor the joy of music for yourselves then waving the fact that you reached it at your age for approval of the youtube audience

[xBellatrixLestrangex]

@BioProton Thank God we still have youth such as you =)

[afortaleza]

I don't want to see anything, I want to listen to the music.

[annnya56]

...слушаю музыку и мне кажется, что я - осенний листочек, подхваченный ветром жизни: то плавно парю в воздухе, то стремительно несусь в вечность...

[Axotrotl]

@annnya56 волшебно сказано!

[anthony13731]

music of such beauty is very rare. and thats a fact

[Somar21]

The camera man sucks, we don´t want to see his face, only his hands please!

[ofiterpunte]

Damn you, Evgeny! Every year I need to update my piano music collection because of you. Please, stop getting better and better, my wallet can't take 20 more years of this :)

Anyway, see you in September 2013 in Bucharest, I'll be in the front row.

[goknur1977]

@ofiterpunte ha ha ha! I love it :)

[123jsbach]

His hands speak a thousand words in one chord, but what about that lovely hair-cut! That's what I tuned in for!!!!

[Eoneryn]

watch?v=42aMCKX0k9Y part 2

[muse113bliss]

watch?v=42aMCKX0k9Y

for part 2

since it doesnt seem to appear in the sidebar

[philipsongs103]

Beginning sounds like muse's megalomania

[muse113bliss]

@philipsongs103

Matthew Bellamy actually takes a lot of influence from Rachmaninov

particularly during his live performances, he does this one little thing based off prelude in G minor, Op 23

[ConchanPiano]

meilleure interpretion que j'ai entendue.