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  • Magnifico grande maestro pollini

  • I heard this played by a girl that played at a piano recital and shes a junior in high school

    I don't care what you say thats f***ing amazing

  • @blackholeofmusic In Chicago?

  • I find his playing of this piece very beautiful and touching. Do all pianists must sound the same? same tempo, same dynamics, same colors ? Thank God not! it would make my listening quite boring and predictable. Music is written, but it only becomes alive when played with soul.

  • So Good Sound!!!

  • But how can you count the seconds!??! I listen to this piece and I feel the emotions.. the Heart of Chopin! It is not written anywhere that a piece has the seconds counted to be lived!

  • @Fabry555 Good point, Fabry. And every time his work is played is further proof that Chopin was an angel come to earth.

  • Maravilhoso !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • SUPER!!!!

  • She's not as famous but, has anyone heard Lilian Kallir play this piece? It's one of the most balanced in terms of speed, dynamics and expression that I've encountered.

  • i don't like the way he play this... some parts are played too fast as if it was something forceful, it totally changed the mood of a romantic song.

    I like Rubinstein's rendition. Can't find Ashkenazy's version of this piece, I'd probably like it more than Rubinstein.

  • Just sensational. I enjoyed it at the tempo that he played it. And his Dynamics I thought were very good indeed.

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  • Beautiful, a bit too fast to my feeling. You may like to hear it played by Fei Fei Dong during the Warsaw competition. Each note so dear...

  • He sits down and starts playing within 1.5 seconds! What confidence!

  • he butchers it. Did he drink a lil tooooo much coffee before the performance. Or maybe hes really gota go to the bathroom. Rubinstein is the master.

  • @intermezzo246

    It's terrible. A young girl who graduated from the Royal Academy of Music played a nocturne on the TV. 'Classical Star'. She's very gifted. He sounds like a cocktail lounge pianist!

  • Oh Mo. You are the best of the rest. You changed my whole life when I heard you play the "Appassionata" in LA. In the audience was another person I did not know.

    Got to know that person months later. We realized we were there at the same time when your playing made us all see pink & green feathers fly down from the sky. No, we were not drunk. It was the music.

    PS You did not write it, but you sure can play it.

  • is it just me or there's a pencil on the dislike bar?

  • @hieu198 old joke

  • I was wondering why people make such a big deal about Chopin. (Chuckle.)

  • this is one of the impossible things that i can't .. and will never do in the future........since i barely practice :(.........................thi­s sounds so smooth and emotional

  • But WHO can't love thiis ???????????

  • I actually think the speed of this piece was perfect. Most performances I listen to are slower and before I started analyzing the piece, I favored a slower performance. Now that I've done my analysis research paper on this piece, this recording is actually my favorite, because of the way Pollini speeds up tempos at sections that are leading up to something. LIke his chromatic figures. A great example of how Well Pollini does this is from 2:25 up 2:37 where he slows down to the resolution.

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  • Not Chopin like at all. Not when you listen to the likes of Krystian Zimerman. 

  • "This young man sounds better than all of us" (Arthur Rubinstein)

  • man that caused me anxiousness, why is he playing it that fast?this track is supposed to have a slow free rythm,this was like a metal solo

  • great pianist,great music!! 5*

  • Enjoy great European pianists like Pollini while you still can. Sweeping in behind them are a tsunami of soulless pianobots like Lang Lang.

  • @phewwhataloonie Indeed. I think its alot bout the teaching. Chinese and other asian countries are so strict when they learn. Sometimes its better to play free and let feeling decide how to move your fingers than a teacher that read and obey the note-paper. Notes are a way to find they music that a composer made, not to dictate and follow strictly.

  • Crikey that was terribly misinterpreted and rushed. Not like the sensitive Pollini of the 60's when he played this impeccably.

  • far too fast... couldn't even listen to the end. Took all the tranquillity out of it... which he momentarily realises at 1.40 ish before rushing off again!

  • Too fast. Lipatti played this better

  • he played too fast......

  • he is dying for a defecating

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  • I am normally a tremendous fan of Pollini, but this performance leaves me wanting for more. The lush harmonies, the complexities of the right hand as compared with the relative simplicity of the left hand, the climaxes, the accents, the vast dynamic changes and subtleties-by racing through this nocturne as he did, he obscured the inner beauty of this piece. So many of the intricacies of touch, tone, and indeed ornamentation are obliterated as a direct result of the very fast speed. It isn't a m

  • This man is a living legend

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  • I mean thats cool and all you guys can pick up his little flaws as in playing to fast, but personally I'd give my left testicle to play like this guy.

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  • To all the people defending the performance of Pollini. There's another youtube-clip of Pollini where he plays this piece: 'watch?v=tFVQx9yxMcE'

    Now WITHOUT listening you can easily identify that the other one lasted roughly 4:45 while in this video here pollini played from 0:10 to 4:25, making a playtime of 4:15...that's a total difference of 30 seconds. In words: thirty. Half a minute.

    Pollini played (too) fast even compared to himself!

  • @sleepingdogable I know this performance and for sure it is the fastest perfoemance of Pollini for this nocturne. I don't see the problem ! 30 seconds less or more aren't the problem, the only question to answer is whether it is a good interpretation or not. I think yes, and I prefer this one to the standard and "static" versions of this nocturne. This one is very ... romantic and full of emotion and passion. Great Maurizio, great Chopin

  • @sleepingdogable true enough...in shorter works 30 seconds is a lot..compare with rubinstein's which, though not necessarily among the "slow" versions - STILL gives far greater breathing and space than pollini..

  • it gives the impression of being played as a "showpiece" rather than the obvious suggestion in the title. a Nocturne...or at least something that , like any organism being alive -, also actually has to "take a breathe" -- which pollini seems determined NOT to allow. it's one of the strangest , yet unoriginal, interpretations of ANY romantic piece i have ever heard, frankly.

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  • @sleepingdogable um, or he chose a slightly different speed. the original sheet music doesn't have a specific metronome number, there's no "too fast" within a certain range, which he was clearly in

  • @sleepingdogable Maybe he had a date later that night

  • @sleepingdogable iam a noob when it comes to real Music, but cannot it be that he just play it faster as his interpretation?

  • @sleepingdogable

    You`re right.In my opinion Pollini plays it much too fast

  • @sleepingdogable 30seconds who gives a shit

  • @DEADxWOLVES Speed helps determine the emotion of the piece, it is important. Play altogether too fast and you get a hasty piece that sounds bad. Bolet has the best interpretations of Chopin in my opinion.

  • Meu DEUS que coisa ótima de se ouvir.Perfeito!

  • Pollini is a great master of Chopin. No one of his criticans can play like he can do.

    To play Chopin is not only a question of technice perfection. It's necessary to understand Chopin. And he did!

  • WHERE IS THE HD VERSION!!!!???

  • too fast too insecure

  • pollini is AMAZING!!!

  • From the side - Pollini kinda reminds me of Chopin.

  • Never fail to be amazed when I listen to this..

    Which brings me to the composer.. oh the Great Chopin, there'd never be an equal with you in this world.

  • Think he just woke up everyone...way to disregard the expression and the beauty of this nocturne.

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  • If you are going to be critical state what is bad about it not just saying two abstractions. It's totally fine to state your opinion if it is backed up. I actually agree though, not that I could compete, I feel that the piece would have been better if it had been more legato.

  • @thekgmorris I thought it was obvious, that he played entirely too fast.

  • @dasteufelhund fair enough

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  • @dasteufelhund

    he was rushing to a WC

    Not only fast! But also he has missed all music accents, all intonations. Like a priest in a church with a singsong voice

  • @KVDiveyev sei un anglosassone, non puoi capire di musica...

  • I found a piano instructor that turned out to be a world-class pianist and has a video of an encore performance of this piece. I feel his interpretation is even more masterful: youtube.com/watch?v=oigcGec9K_­Y

  • Some people just need to understand that amongst nearly 4000 people there's most likely at the very least 185 tone deaf douchebags and a couple of bastards and even misclicks..

  • What a pity a pianist with such abilities plays in such a cold way!

    Please, listen to the nearly 100 year old Horszowski performing this Nocturne and I hope you'll understand what I mean!

    Greetings,

    G. Dehoux, pianist.

  • how can you dislike this, i mean.. ermm nevermind

  • BEAUTIFUL!

  • he is just chasing through the notes: even could find some "note droppings"

    many many others play it better

  • Nobody plays Chopin's Nocturnes like Pollini, no one compares to him for those, not Zimmerman, not Kissin, no one.

  • Chopin wanted that his plays don't be play expessly on the way they were written, so each person plays the play of differents ways.

  • WHAT IS THE TYPE OF JACKET HE IS WEARING CALLED?

    I am sorry, but that has bothered me for ages.

    Amazing performance and amazing piece!

  • @DomenicJK Tailcoat

  • @DomenicJK he's wearing a tail coat, ''queue-de-pie'' in French.

  • With this composition Chopin brought a piece of heaven to earth. Brilliant as the stars...

  • I'm not an expert, but to me, that was flawless.

  • Giù il cappello signori!!!!!!!!! Siamo in presenza di uno tra i più illustri e illuminati pianisti del mondo,

    ogni nota è un MONDO ........

  • Why the fuck youtube is advising me a justn bieber video? God!

  • i can play with this speed too, just cannot decrease the rate of mistakes LOL

  • this is a truly beautiful piece!

  • aveva fretta di andarsene ?

  • Too fast for me, too fast for the spirit or mood of this piece. Just my opinion.

    Listen to the interpretation by Nobuyuki Tsujii, here on Youtube posted by avexnetwork (titles in Japanese): what a difference! That is divine.

  • @astronome9 Just type in Youtube Search box the following: avexnetwork Nobuyuki Tsujii. The first video that comes up, with a title in Japanese but you see in it the number 8, that's the one. Enjoy!

  • 180 people have not the faintest idea how to play Chopin!

  • I love this version. The rubato isn't exaggerate so the richness of the text is way more obvious. Pollini knows well Chopin !

  • yappari iina

    

  • Too fast, may i say!

  • i hate 179 people

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  • ahhh 240p, we meet again.

  • espectacular genial la interpretacion

  • It doesn't get any better than this!

  • Marvellous!!!!

  • exceptional playing.

  • magical.... enchanting

  • Very good plays me to love your channel

  • Estupendo!

  • an amazing song, played perfectly, gorgeous

  • mamma mia ragazzi

  • Funny. This is such a wonderful piece yet.....you people find something negative to say. How can you even think of negative things while you listen to this....

  • exquisito algo asi no deve permitirse uno no verlo es un deleite al oido y al alma musicalque tenemos todos dentro adoro a Chopin

  • Excellent performance, yet another reminder that even though Chopin passed away at just 39, he left the world with possibly the most beautiful music ever written for piano.

  • first prize for the most robotic performance of Chopin's Nocturne.

  • @caspiman - I suppose that is why in 2007, Pollini received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of Chopin nocturnes.

  • @caspiman

    "robotic performance"

    I am surprised by the comment. OK, in terms of color and voicing, there is little here that is different than recent Pollini Cds. But few pianists would dare do it this fast. The daring and originality here is in the timing, the nervous intensity of the rubatos, and the fercocious, sudden surges of speed (beginning at about 2:25 , for example, and again at 3:22) that elude more mundane artists. Hardly a robot could do this. It's unique to Pollini.

  • @caspiman that's not true...

  • youtube.com/watch?v=2mNQgKw2bb­Y

  • probbably one of the most flawless performances of all time. this guy makes music worth listening to.

  • it expresses me deeply this moment

  • maurizio riesce sempre a trasportarmi altrove

  • /watch?v=LUHZnFXq3Pg

    

  • Goolhue!, Para ti. Encuéntralo y abrázame así. Piel Canela

  • chopin DIVINO.

    

  • @Coeusful Its the best tempo he could chose actualy.

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  • i love how he played it but a little thing... i dont like how he didnt really take his time before he started... it was unexpected...

  • @Coeusful you're so right.

  • Shut the fuck up with the dislike jokes... God damn, you need to just stop. I find it on this??????? Come on... I dislike the dislike meter just as much but how about posting a positive comment about the actually footage... Besides that, I do not understand who could dislike this...

  • Maravilhoso. Tem passagens um pouco rápidas, pra quem acha o mesmo recomendo ouvir o Yundi Li.

  • The dislike bar represents Lady Gaga's penis - small and not supposed to be there.

  • @ImmortalSpecies

    You looked?

  • @keetner <.<

  • troppo veloce

  • Why can't people listen to these pieces on youtube without commenting on the technical aspects of the playing?

    No two people will play this piece in the same way, why not just enjoy the harmony and embrace this arrangement?

  • @StockholmSyndrome08 A music teach once said this to me. You never say the same thing twice. Now say it twice and you will understand what he meant by it.

    This without a doubt my favourite Chopin piece. It is absolutely lovely

  • @StockholmSyndrome08 What's so wrong with discussing technique? As long the discussion is done in a civil manner. Are you saying if one comment on the techniques, then he can't enjoy the piece? Or are you saying that people who watch this video MUST embrace this interpretation(not arrangement) no matter what? If music criticism and technique is bad, then how come all the master musician worry about technique and criticize their students all the time?

  • @StockholmSyndrome08

    Sorry, No technical comments about Pollini performance. Perfect on all sides!!!

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  • @1Thompsonmusic

    Really? Thanks I will check them out.

  • @StockholmSyndrome08 to allow you comments like this one

  • @StockholmSyndrome08 What? You are another of these people who want to censure comments? What is it to do with you what people write? The pianist has every right to comment on technical aspects. You do not have to read them.

  • @StockholmSyndrome08 How can this silly comment have the approval of 43 people?

  • @StockholmSyndrome08 I share you thoughts on just enjoying music but sadly, because this is the internet, the Armchair Army believes they can spout off.

  • Fantástico!!

    Chopin era inexplicável.

  • His playing has got perfect skill and wonderful fingering control. Undoubtedly, yet, it's sure that Chopin wants a slower and more emotional version, since he is watching the night. Anyway, great job.

  • Nice that a piano let me feel like that im sitting on a cloud on a sunny day and forgette all problems in this world.

  • روعه

  • I like Chopin's version of David Servilles' The Purple People Eater"

  • I love Chopin's nocturnes, they are all so beautiful and emotional

  • Way too fast!

  • @VitalijMargulis Actually no, he's still under the tempo marked by Chopin (dotted quarter=50). This piece isn't supposed to be a lull in D Major, it's supposed to move along and be a short but great explosion of emotion.

  • @willk326 Actually yes. Too fast, in places certainly. Composers are not invariably the best judges of tempi and this is one of the more glaring example where that holds. It is impossible to communicate this music at 50, as most performers will agree, I suspect and hope. I agree with you about explosion which I have yet to her from any performer, although Valentina builds the major episode well.

  • Isn't it played too fast ?

  • Marvelous performance! Touching...beautiful....

    Bravo!

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  • preciosa canción,maravillosa interpretación; una belleza y una caricia para el oído

  • smart

  • come mi sarebbe piaciuto saper suonare il pianoforte...

  • @nicolescarpellia impara non è mai troppo tardi

  • @Marko18 bloody people like you should be banned from earth, how you dare to even mention such people here?

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  • @Marok18

    As a fan of Gaga, I resent that. There's no reason people who listen to one genre can't listen to a different genre.

  • This is the only version I've heard at this faster tempo. I do like the relaxing feel of the slower tempo, but this is undeniably great as well.

  • Isn't it too fast?  :p

  • Muito legal essa interpretação, e é bom saber que a musica classica nunca morre....

  • Compared to this exquisite piece, Lady Ga Ga is like a buzzsaw trying to fell trees in a petrified forrest.

  • Véio foda meu. Belíssimo !!

  • que buen video

  • Chopin è in grado di regalare intense emozioni come pochi altri sanno fare.....

  • @tabata77 mozart e liszt sono nella lista ;)

  • That's true. Yundi Li, for example, plays it slower and it sounds really better for me. Generally I prefer Maurizio Pollini and I love the way he plays piano, but he took something out of this melody putting here that tempo.

    Anyway it's amazing to hear his emotions with every tempo and he's ending gently, soflty and that's what every man should be able to do even after acting with similar speed before :-)

  • Is just ... WONDERFUL  !! I love this !! ♥

  • Don't like it at this tempo.

    OMG I'M A LADY GAGA FAN.

  • @ProkofievRules Then just go to Gaga's videos and NEVER come to this area.

  • @arlongan Oh no, I came to this area again. Do you learn about sarcasm in ESL classes? Is that something they teach, or do they send you onto youtube to learn it the hard way?

  • Why does it matter how he plays this piece? There are so many things in life that are ugly and this is just one more thing that brings upon our better side regardless of temop or interpretation. If Einstein were around with the technology we have today; I'm sure he'd get countless emails saying how dumb E=MC squared is. Lol. Maybe the 167 accidentally clicked the wrong button and didn't notice. LoL.