How could anyone possibly dislike this?! I'm a 15 year old boy who likes Dubstep, girls, boobs, booze and boobs.And I FRICKING LOVE IT!!!! ITS JUST SO GOOD! I played percussion in it the other day :D IT WAS AWESOME!
What happened to the hunger for culture that made Europeans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries pay great premiums for an opportunity to hear musical works of such caliber as this? What happened to the attitude of preferring physical hunger over being deprived of the vision of the arts? What happened to culture to cause such glory to become abandoned by the majority for popular music? Why is this not our popular music, and why does it not define our popular culture?
@JoshuaH688 Excellent questions! I have wondered the same thing. It probably has something to do with the increasing narcissism in our culture. People want (no, demand) to be entertained and stimulated. Classical music requires some investment, some thought, some quietude and some intellect of the listener. Most folks in our culture seem not to want to work or think very hard to get their music. It's their loss, but also our culture's loss.
@loydsheryl Excellent reply, sums up the situation perfectly.
I sometimes think that in the next 100 years this "high culture" will have disappeared altogether, though we won't of course be around to find out!! Maybe that's a too pessimistic view but indications point that way.
We're all more/less anything in an infinity of ways and in an infinity of variations within each character.
Boys hurt animals, men, even hunking ones, don't. That's a first step.
Manly tear? Just humans infinitely variable, just as must be all life everywhere. The issue is only scapegoating and pacifying and arrogance vs. free, equal, b/s-hood.
Intensely scientific. To think that is anti-traditional religion could not possibly
per davvero!!! ....si fatica a trattenere l'emozione, ma se anche ci si lascia andare e ci ritrova con gli occhi bagnati non ci si sente affatto stupidi! Anzi...!!!
@jpugarte I cry, I fly, the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, i get goosebumps all over and i am blissfully happy, there is no other piece like it and 1:38 is so sublime shivers begin to overwhelm me. i ruined a cd of this i played it constantly
This is a flawless rendition. The rubato and speed are perfect. If you think it is too fast, listen to Sergei himself play his own music in the old recordings. He played blindingly fast. This is just right.
This is a flawless rendition. The rubato and speed are perfect. If you think it is too fast, listen to Sergei himself play his own music in the old recordings. He played blindingly fast. This is just right.
This is an excellent rendition. To those who feel that it is being played with too much rubato or too fast, just listen to Rachmaninoff play his own music on an old recording. He plays blindingly fast. To get the sense of some of the music, it has to go past the individual notes almost to a point of blending sounds. This is perfect. It's just impossible for all of us to play!
This is an excellent rendition. To those who feel that it is being played with too much rubato or too fast, just listen to Rachmaninov play his own music on an old recording. He plays blindingly fast. To get the sense of some of the music, it has to go past the individual notes almost to a point of blending sounds. This is perfect. It's just impossible for all of us to play!
@kovacsgpianist Does the "where" really matter? I think it's more important that the orchestra is the Berliner Philarmoniker, and the conductor Claudio Abbado, when he was their permanent director. A superb soloist, a just- as-superb conductor, and the best symphonic orchestra in the world, let's be happy with that and listen to the music
@Gheorgyi Those things really more important that you said, only I like to know the name and the location of so gorgeous and nice concert halls. So many...
One of my least favorite renditions of this piece, it was played with varying tempo, and in many parts, much too fast. It seemed as though the pianist was not enjoying the piece at all, and he rushed it to the point of insanity.
@dirigentkomponist No, any pianist worth his salt knows that you don't change the tempo constantly throughout the music, especially with an orchestra. This piece has fast parts but he still plays them much too fast.
@minigunman1234 It's called "interpretation". The value and worth of symphonic music lay, also, in the possibility of varying the "tempo" and other modalities of execution, don't they? Otherwise, where would be the possibility of building oneself a personal collection of LP's and CD's? One would be good for all purposes... I have an LP with the Rh. played by SR (author) himself. Sounds very much like this one. Now, could there be an "interpretation" more authentic than THAT one??!!! Cheers...
Everytime I watch and listen to this it gives me that wonderful feeling of joy and fullfillment. Pletnev is brilliant without being flashy. There is an elegant charm about his approach to this piece that really moves me. Thanks for the gift.
Accusations of child molestation are the equivalent of the old soviet accusations of insanity. If he was exonerated, and that's all you know, then there is nothing more to say about it.
Mark Twain said that a lie could get around the world before the truth had got its shoes on. He was discharged of any crime. Were he guilty I'd be among the first to shun him but, according to the best knowledge we all have available, he did not. It's a lovely performance and a very witty ending - Rachmaninov makes you think he's heading for a big finish then drops a fragment of main theme at you, pianissimo. Not many pianists capture this little joke.
The charge is dropped, but the press seems to forget to clear his name. So sad to see his name has been ruined this way. Anyway, glad he can continue playing great music to the world.
Pletnev, Abbado, and the Berlin Philharmonic gave this the intensity and focus of a world premiere. Pletnev makes Rachmaninov's technical demands seem like child's play.
And another thing... why are you taking the word of a... was it an underage gay prostitute, over that of someone who's not only accomplished something, but is tops in his field? Do you (who think Pletnev should be shunned, etc.,) also boycott anything involving Roman Polanski? He actually DID what he was accused of, even admitted it, then fled the country when he thought he might actually be facing the punishment he deserved. Why is it so easy to believe the worst of anyone? Is it jealousy?
I haven't heard every piece of music ever performed, let alone every piece ever written, but even so, I'd be willing to go out on a limb and describe this as the most beautiful piece of music there has ever been, or will ever be.
@jambratz I agree. I've been working on this piece and every other part of it seems achievable one day, but the RH jumping passes to an octave and a fifth SO FAST!!!!
@ueblondon I for one care. If he's guilty of the sex accuation, then it's really sad that someone so musically gifted would do something hurtful and inappropriate to a minor. I wouldn't want such a person giving my kid a music lesson.
@Gheorgyi Another one calling a human being ignorant based on calling " a piece of classical music" a "song." Last time I checked, a song and a piece of music were the same thing. Don't be such a jerk.
@WizKid2409 It all depends in what dictionary you found that sort of boloney,if you ever did check on one... A song is " a short musical composition of words and music", and the rhapsody (as all other symphonixc music) is neither short, nor does its music accompany words. Go get yourself another dictionary, that's a good boy... you could have written "don't be such a nitpick", for instance; but no, you are american, you are young and thus, you just HAD to resort to the offensive word.
@RodrigoCFD WHY? Something in the performance you can criticize? Be a little more specific, please. We are all, oh so interested in knowing what you think about it, and why.
I don't see why it matters who he is as a person. Caravaggio was a murderer and Wagner vehemently hated the Jews, but we still enjoy the art they created. Maybe Mikhail Pletnev did some things that we don't like, but that hardly makes the art he creates any less valuable.
Let's focus on what is important here: the music. In the end the artist as a person is irrelevant, good or bad it has no bearing on their art, that speaks for itself.
Tabloid-esque gossip, while fun, misses the point here.
@Loismustdie26 Do not worry, he is outstanding person. Genius in all - know 7 languages, can read books py PAGES in a second and so on. It is just too supreme, and have many of enviers in Russia. Somebody payed for a black PR, thats all.
@Loismustdie26 Do not worry, he is outstanding person. Genius in all - know 7 languages, can read books py PAGES in a second and so on. It is just too supreme, and have many of enviers here in Russia. Somebody payed for a black PR, thats all.
@Loismustdie26 Common misconception, Wagner didnt hate the jews, people often think this because Hitler and the Nazis were great admirers of his music. This was not necessarily a two way street...
wow you couldn't be more wrong there. "with all our speaking and writing in favour of the Jews' emancipation, we always felt instinctively repelled by any actual, operative contact with them."
@TheFatSpaniel Of course no one knows one way or another. Anti-semitism was commonplace at the time, more the norm than the exception, but it's impossible to speak exactly of someone who is dead's philosophy. However my point is that it doesn't matter, and what's more dwelling on it hurts the music. We need to stop fearing this music because it maybe may have had some sorted origins. If the music is beautiful love it for it. Fear does nothing but perpetuate fear and keep the music repressed.
@Loismustdie26 I agree to an extent. First, this is an amazing piece, and extremely well executed by a phenomenally talented individual.
But can you really overlook such a disgusting crime (If he is in fact guilty)? What I disagree with is what is "important here": it is NOT the music. There are many talented musicians and NO ROOM FOR SUCH A HEINOUS CRIME. It does devalue the art in my mind. This is not the opinion of all people, but can't understand how can it be overlooked.
@Kevinatmiis No one is debating, if he had actually done what he was accused of that is a bad thing. But assume for a moment that you didn't know who was playing, and you found it unquestioningly beautiful. Does it make you wrong because you didn't know that he was guilty of child molestation? Of course not, and that implies a distinct separation between the art that was created and the artist.
@Loismustdie26 for me personally, knowing what he did takes something away from my enjoyment of the piece.
Last clarifying point - I hold no judgment towards those who are able to make the separation. I just personally feel something is taken away from this listening o HIM play. :)
Will it make you feel better knowing that he wasn't actually charged with anything, only ACCUSED? These days if someone associates you with anything involving illegal acts with minors, it tarnishes your reputation for life, regardless of if you're innocent or guilty. The man wasn't found guilty. Don't lose your respect for him so easily.
@Kevinatmiis No matter what the person does: sports, art, politician, if they commit a crime they MUST be held to the same standard as anyone else. And if Pletnev ends up getting imprisoned for the rest of his life and never plays again, it is what it is. But this particular performance, on this particular recording is SPECTACULAR, and should be appreciated as such and without influence from his crime. IMHO
I know some people don't believe a separation is possible but I don't see how you can't.
@Loismustdie26 I am not disagreeing with the beauty of the piece of music, or his talents. This is - as I said before - a phenomenal work. All I am saying is that it does detract something from the music knowing what he did.
Another example is that I watch NFL football. Michael Vick is a man I used to enjoy watching, but knowing what he did takes away from my personal enjoyment of watching him play. He is still an amazing athlete, but there is just something that makes me sick seeing him
@Loismustdie26 I can see where you're coming from, but isn't art a direct expression of the self? Words can be so limiting, but art can explain and convey things that can't even be contained or defined by words. I find that artist's are their art. So if you're not living in a positive way, how could that not show through in one of the most personal and direct forms of expression? just my thoughts on the matter, not trying to provoke or argue.
@GDplanetrockGD Thats a good way of thinking about art, and a lot can be learned from it, especially in political works. But its definitely not the only way, and one thing art has really taught me is how to understand life in multiple ways. Nothing wrong without understanding it in that way, I guess I'm more in the let-the-work-stand-for-itself camp. good point though.
@Loismustdie26 Let's remember that he was never convicted of anything. The charges against him were dropped. I know that there's a school of thought believing that when a celebrity is charged in such a thing and then the charges are dropped it's because the fix is in. Such thinking leads us to believe that any celebrated person charged must be guilty. Pletnev was never charged before or since with such behaviour.
Ah, the difficulties that attend life in the public eye! How easy it is for anyone to be accused of wrong-doing, and especially for someone famous. Sadly, there are those who stand to gain from blackening his name. It seemed impossible for Michael Jackson to shake off the bad name in spite of being cleared in court. Please, let's not be hasty to condemn the man.
As for his genius at the piano, it's undeniable. His technique is impeccable, flawless. The real symphony is going on in his nervous system! Anyone who has ever played (or tried to play) Rachmaninoff's music on the piano can attest to the extremely high level of functioning required to play it even adequately. To play brilliantly, as Pletnev does, is nothing short of genius.
This man has absolutely every poetical phrase imaginable in his being. He is simply the most outstanding interpreter alive of this music, and as a conductor too.
@christophertinker Thank you SO MUCH for your comment! Honestly, everyday, for the past few weeks, I've been devastated... Your kind, wise words give me solace.
@MrIlvis Dido! This music exists only in a civilised world! Seriously, everyday, for the past few weeks, I'm very devastated... (and that Farrukh919 is annoying.)
Какой бы он не был гомосексуалист или педофил но слезы на глазах наворачиваются от его техники исполнения и манере преподнесения все это слушателю....Не забывайте Чайковский тоже был геем и это нескрытый факт..., но сколько он всего натворил в мире музыки и весь мир восхищается
Плетнев пианист высшего пилотажа.....дай бог ему выпутаться из этой не красивой ситуации чистеньким......А так в целом все творческие люди все со своими странностями.............................................пора бы к этому привыкнуть
You are sick..supporters of pletnev to speak for him...sick until you cannot distinguish right and wrong actions...boycott his performances! Pletnev is a despicable beast playing piano music!
@poiuy877 (Rhetorical question-) Were you there? The court of public opinion is WAY faster and more efficient than the courts of ... ugh... law. They can go from accusation to conviction in the time it takes to leap to a conclusion, without those annoying and time-consuming problems of evidence, procedure, or bothering to hear more than one side of a story, etc. Maybe we should just abolish all law courts, and let the People's Court decide everything. Think of the savings. :)
Without music, life would be a mistake. -Nietzsche
trickmastermonkey 4 days ago
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stomachpunch 1 week ago
Please somebody tell me what is the meaning of this song?
savo1r 1 week ago
beautiful performance! love it, but the pianist reminds me of a mouse......
warkitty250 1 week ago
this is amazing anyone who dislikes this is stupid
jesusbaby19 1 week ago
lovely :)
WindsAkihiko 1 week ago
That's amazing. An outstanding performance~~!!!
contagieux 2 weeks ago
29 dislikes? Morons! All of them!
MrSatch49 2 weeks ago
is the conductor Claudio Abbado?
stiga7852 1 month ago
@stiga7852 Yes..a great musician,,
DrMaxDragon 3 weeks ago
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I was just going to ask that. I believe so.
MrStrav81 2 weeks ago
Epic Glissando
dberry02jr 1 month ago 2
I didn't really enjoy this piece, except for the beginning of this third part... And of course, the end, which is awesome like all Rach's endings!
AlexPlautz1 1 month ago
Wow. One of my fav pieces. Plet did a incredible job here. And the back up so amazing. Cheers.
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How could anyone possibly dislike this?! I'm a 15 year old boy who likes Dubstep, girls, boobs, booze and boobs.And I FRICKING LOVE IT!!!! ITS JUST SO GOOD! I played percussion in it the other day :D IT WAS AWESOME!
owenrhysmagic 1 month ago
Button smash for the absolut pro's!
MrFavg 1 month ago
Absolutely f****** genius. Thanks so much. I love your DEEP concentration!!
Kevin
hypnotizednotes 2 months ago
I do not understand why there are dislikes. It a good performance by both pianist and orchestra.
CanadaPisces 2 months ago
brings me to tears when i hear the 18th variation. incredible
ETanner 3 months ago
一番好きだなぁ。
kumiKaren 3 months ago
A genius plays a genius!
sarsafaty 3 months ago
This has just got to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Wonderful, how anyone can fail to be moved by this is beyond me.!!!
chapter5music 3 months ago
What happened to the hunger for culture that made Europeans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries pay great premiums for an opportunity to hear musical works of such caliber as this? What happened to the attitude of preferring physical hunger over being deprived of the vision of the arts? What happened to culture to cause such glory to become abandoned by the majority for popular music? Why is this not our popular music, and why does it not define our popular culture?
JoshuaH688 3 months ago
@JoshuaH688 Excellent questions! I have wondered the same thing. It probably has something to do with the increasing narcissism in our culture. People want (no, demand) to be entertained and stimulated. Classical music requires some investment, some thought, some quietude and some intellect of the listener. Most folks in our culture seem not to want to work or think very hard to get their music. It's their loss, but also our culture's loss.
loydsheryl 2 months ago
@loydsheryl Excellent reply, sums up the situation perfectly.
I sometimes think that in the next 100 years this "high culture" will have disappeared altogether, though we won't of course be around to find out!! Maybe that's a too pessimistic view but indications point that way.
TheVaughan5 1 month ago
@TheVaughan5 Sadly, you may be right.
loydsheryl 1 month ago
PIANO BEAST IS BEAST
SirChenMan 4 months ago
Muito bom
estou sofrendo para aprender a tocar esta peça
rsrsrsrsrs
MultiNanotec 4 months ago
@5XxXS WOW... Thank you so much!!!
MonsieurDecent 4 months ago
Hey, why the "dislikes"?
robfuturemd 4 months ago
@robfuturemd There are people who just must dislike everything they watch on Youtube. I doubt they even really dislike it.
PianoMan6302 4 months ago
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went to see this at the BBC proms...it was beautiful.
xoHarriox 5 months ago
Excelso, no hay mas que decir, solo para virtuosos del piano.
bergerac0327 5 months ago
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Excellent interpretation!...Now look for the video Caprice 24 Venezuelan Folk Variations). Enjoy it!
juanchiviris 5 months ago
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tfjioo 6 months ago
7:09 "Fuck yeah ;[ "
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tfjioo 6 months ago
This is the first recording of this wonderful piece I've ever heard, and I keep coming back to this recording because I absolutely love it!
And only now I noticed that one of the trombonists is the father of one of my mother's piano pupils... can't believe it! :D
Rachoszsky 6 months ago 3
i love the beginning. its so pretty... :)
imrandomjen 6 months ago
6:08 Go go gadget octaves!
1984ekul 6 months ago 2
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tfjioo 6 months ago
full of sense from pletnev, berliner philharmoniker and the conductor claudio abbado...
bellenouva 6 months ago
Love this song..
MajesticMoments 6 months ago
the best has got to be when he gets up from his seat at 8:04. true passion and energy right there.
nascarnationunited 6 months ago 4
Stunningly beautiful. Breath-taking.
chevychase 7 months ago
28 people have no souls.
DumasForever53 7 months ago 7
Gänsehaut bei 1:37 :)
JPBerger71 7 months ago
jp...
shed a manly tear?
We're all more/less anything in an infinity of ways and in an infinity of variations within each character.
Boys hurt animals, men, even hunking ones, don't. That's a first step.
Manly tear? Just humans infinitely variable, just as must be all life everywhere. The issue is only scapegoating and pacifying and arrogance vs. free, equal, b/s-hood.
Intensely scientific. To think that is anti-traditional religion could not possibly
be more opposite from the truth.
LetItBeFormerlyX 7 months ago
per davvero!!! ....si fatica a trattenere l'emozione, ma se anche ci si lascia andare e ci ritrova con gli occhi bagnati non ci si sente affatto stupidi! Anzi...!!!
andreatube1962 7 months ago
What concentration!. He is totally focused on the performance.
newyork44m 7 months ago
i love the mad ending with the a major chords :]
dommboi69 7 months ago
What an ethereal performance. Amazing!
pianogus 7 months ago
Clear and precise! Simply good!
HilJai 7 months ago
Phil? Phil Connors?!
GeneralVariety 7 months ago
@GeneralVariety
GeneralVariety? GeneralVariety O'Brian?!
trentmuch1 7 months ago
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7:54 Dies irae button
Fredianel 8 months ago
Is that Abbado conducting?
kralyx 8 months ago
@kralyx I've seen a CD cover which says that this performance conducted by Libor Pesek and the orchestra is the Philharmonia Orchestra.
agreatgeat 8 months ago
at the end there I thought for sure Pletnev was going to go Jerry Lee Lewis on us and kick the stool out of the way.... great stuff!
dpgerman 8 months ago
This piece was so fun to play. The second horn part like all horn parts is pretty epic.....just because its a horn part
=)
idontcare556 8 months ago
O regente é Cláudio Abbado?
maumalina 8 months ago
I shed a manly tear at 1:38
jpugarte 9 months ago 78
@jpugarte I cry, I fly, the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, i get goosebumps all over and i am blissfully happy, there is no other piece like it and 1:38 is so sublime shivers begin to overwhelm me. i ruined a cd of this i played it constantly
mimiangelite 7 months ago
@jpugarte casi me muero - I nearly died!!!
marianoarenaza 6 months ago
@marianoarenaza Sería una excelente forma de morir
jpugarte 6 months ago
@jpugarte i know, i listened to this today and it was so beautiful i felt ashamed of wanting to cry
theK0OKS 1 month ago
Interesting interpretation. Love this piece a lot, one of my favourites. Rachmaninoff was a genius.
alexface211 9 months ago
7:54 Dies irae button
enriquem90 9 months ago 31
first time i ever heard this was in groundhog's day....jazz version pretty awesome
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This is a flawless rendition. The rubato and speed are perfect. If you think it is too fast, listen to Sergei himself play his own music in the old recordings. He played blindingly fast. This is just right.
dombuhala 9 months ago
This is a flawless rendition. The rubato and speed are perfect. If you think it is too fast, listen to Sergei himself play his own music in the old recordings. He played blindingly fast. This is just right.
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This is an excellent rendition. To those who feel that it is being played with too much rubato or too fast, just listen to Rachmaninoff play his own music on an old recording. He plays blindingly fast. To get the sense of some of the music, it has to go past the individual notes almost to a point of blending sounds. This is perfect. It's just impossible for all of us to play!
dombuhala 9 months ago
This is an excellent rendition. To those who feel that it is being played with too much rubato or too fast, just listen to Rachmaninov play his own music on an old recording. He plays blindingly fast. To get the sense of some of the music, it has to go past the individual notes almost to a point of blending sounds. This is perfect. It's just impossible for all of us to play!
dombuhala 9 months ago
he's perferct. no better word for it. can somebody tell me where is his playing on this video? what's the name off the concerthall...
kovacsgpianist 9 months ago 2
@kovacsgpianist Does the "where" really matter? I think it's more important that the orchestra is the Berliner Philarmoniker, and the conductor Claudio Abbado, when he was their permanent director. A superb soloist, a just- as-superb conductor, and the best symphonic orchestra in the world, let's be happy with that and listen to the music
Gheorgyi 9 months ago
@Gheorgyi Those things really more important that you said, only I like to know the name and the location of so gorgeous and nice concert halls. So many...
kovacsgpianist 9 months ago
Anyone else make it here from Dresden Codak?
Alucard96485 9 months ago
One of my least favorite renditions of this piece, it was played with varying tempo, and in many parts, much too fast. It seemed as though the pianist was not enjoying the piece at all, and he rushed it to the point of insanity.
minigunman1234 9 months ago
@minigunman1234 So then... you would rather the piece be played in a single tempo? Flexibility of tempo lies at the heart of this music.
dirigentkomponist 9 months ago
@dirigentkomponist No, any pianist worth his salt knows that you don't change the tempo constantly throughout the music, especially with an orchestra. This piece has fast parts but he still plays them much too fast.
minigunman1234 9 months ago
@minigunman1234 It's called "interpretation". The value and worth of symphonic music lay, also, in the possibility of varying the "tempo" and other modalities of execution, don't they? Otherwise, where would be the possibility of building oneself a personal collection of LP's and CD's? One would be good for all purposes... I have an LP with the Rh. played by SR (author) himself. Sounds very much like this one. Now, could there be an "interpretation" more authentic than THAT one??!!! Cheers...
Gheorgyi 8 months ago 2
8:04 - AWESOME!
brendangotch 9 months ago
so perfect after 3:10, I played this vid for hundreds of times!!
zeroevilz 10 months ago
Wow the Harry Potter flute player looks like a good player.
MrRaphaelBM 10 months ago 2
His touch is... inhuman. It's not the technical ability; it's something else. *scratches head* How does he touch the keys like that??
MrYou2ber 11 months ago 2
There are no other words to describe this but perfect.
verucasky 11 months ago 2
Superb playingTY ttag for posting.
paulostroff99 11 months ago
I just cannot stop playing this video. I love this so much!
Pletnev is a living miracle.
lovemusic4913 11 months ago 3
it's very difficult to learn this song
Moonw12 11 months ago
holy shit!!!
gwozdezzz 11 months ago
Dies Irae quotations?
jacobflaschen 11 months ago
This music makes me feel alive
Thanks
MsGreenmagic 11 months ago
Everytime I watch and listen to this it gives me that wonderful feeling of joy and fullfillment. Pletnev is brilliant without being flashy. There is an elegant charm about his approach to this piece that really moves me. Thanks for the gift.
phggclk 1 year ago 3
Accusations of child molestation are the equivalent of the old soviet accusations of insanity. If he was exonerated, and that's all you know, then there is nothing more to say about it.
bilanovitch 1 year ago
His performance is OUTSTANDING!!
BettyCope 1 year ago 2
So beautiful . . .
turxxx 1 year ago
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ongakunoki 1 year ago
BRAVO !!!
prahavltava 1 year ago
Mark Twain said that a lie could get around the world before the truth had got its shoes on. He was discharged of any crime. Were he guilty I'd be among the first to shun him but, according to the best knowledge we all have available, he did not. It's a lovely performance and a very witty ending - Rachmaninov makes you think he's heading for a big finish then drops a fragment of main theme at you, pianissimo. Not many pianists capture this little joke.
ComposerInUK 1 year ago 2
i cried
addyr100 1 year ago
@Loismustdie26 Amen
TheFatSpaniel 1 year ago
Rachmaninov, Abbado. Pletnev and the Berlin Philharmonic and 28 dislikes.
vegatrev 1 year ago
From what year is this performance from?
agreatgeat 1 year ago
@agreatgeat It was performed during 1997 Eve night concert
1donpizarro 1 year ago
The charge is dropped, but the press seems to forget to clear his name. So sad to see his name has been ruined this way. Anyway, glad he can continue playing great music to the world.
heyheyet 1 year ago 2
at 3:10 did the harp play the chord late?
I love the glissando getup at 8:05
MrJooniejoon 1 year ago
@MrJooniejoon So do I!
1donpizarro 10 months ago
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MrJooniejoon 1 year ago
Дело о Плетневе закрыли...недостаточно улик и слава богу
storozh587 1 year ago
@ mctous1 i'm not sure how abbado looks like but are you sure this isn't Libor Pesek + pletnev?
MrJooniejoon 1 year ago
@MrJooniejoon , absolutely Abbado, can't mistake his looks!!!
47viviane 1 year ago
Pletnev, Abbado, and the Berlin Philharmonic gave this the intensity and focus of a world premiere. Pletnev makes Rachmaninov's technical demands seem like child's play.
mctous1 1 year ago 2
OMG what an ending!!!!
MakQueenMaryJ 1 year ago 2
@MakQueenMaryJ exactly! love how he dealt with the ending!!
heyheyet 1 year ago
And another thing... why are you taking the word of a... was it an underage gay prostitute, over that of someone who's not only accomplished something, but is tops in his field? Do you (who think Pletnev should be shunned, etc.,) also boycott anything involving Roman Polanski? He actually DID what he was accused of, even admitted it, then fled the country when he thought he might actually be facing the punishment he deserved. Why is it so easy to believe the worst of anyone? Is it jealousy?
HalluxSinister 1 year ago
I haven't heard every piece of music ever performed, let alone every piece ever written, but even so, I'd be willing to go out on a limb and describe this as the most beautiful piece of music there has ever been, or will ever be.
HalluxSinister 1 year ago
BRAVO !!!
prahavltava 1 year ago
I have goosebumbs watching and hearing this, it's so beautiful ....and perfect..!!!
just beautiful.
mix2freeful 1 year ago
There is so much XY chromosones in this performance.
mlr2107 1 year ago
I'm a guy and I just realised so many men! Sexist much?? LOL
halomoe 1 year ago
19th variation 3:08 is my fav. reading over the sheet music now and trying to play it makes my hands feel small.
blaze3927 1 year ago
This is the most phenomenal display of accuracy and timing and execution of a piece I have ever seen! Its like he is not human! Beautifully done.
Kevinatmiis 1 year ago
in my opinion 7:10 is the hardest passage ever written
jambratz 1 year ago
@jambratz I agree. I've been working on this piece and every other part of it seems achievable one day, but the RH jumping passes to an octave and a fifth SO FAST!!!!
RedbeardNC 1 year ago
Fabulous playing. Who cares about his sex life. I love when he stands up for the glissando!
ueblondon 1 year ago 3
@ueblondon I for one care. If he's guilty of the sex accuation, then it's really sad that someone so musically gifted would do something hurtful and inappropriate to a minor. I wouldn't want such a person giving my kid a music lesson.
lijet000 1 year ago
I can't express how much I love this song
zeroevilz 1 year ago
@zeroevilz Another one calling "song" a piece of classical music... no borders, no limits for ignorance.
Gheorgyi 8 months ago
@Gheorgyi Another one calling a human being ignorant based on calling " a piece of classical music" a "song." Last time I checked, a song and a piece of music were the same thing. Don't be such a jerk.
WizKid2409 8 months ago
@WizKid2409 It all depends in what dictionary you found that sort of boloney,if you ever did check on one... A song is " a short musical composition of words and music", and the rhapsody (as all other symphonixc music) is neither short, nor does its music accompany words. Go get yourself another dictionary, that's a good boy... you could have written "don't be such a nitpick", for instance; but no, you are american, you are young and thus, you just HAD to resort to the offensive word.
Gheorgyi 8 months ago
@WizKid2409
song
[sawng, song]
–noun
1.
a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
there's no singing, therefore it's not a song.
smlwong 8 months ago 2
Who is the conductor? he looks familiar
Loismustdie26 1 year ago
@Loismustdie26
Conductor is Claudio Abbado
ueblondon 1 year ago
In the end of the song, among those last notes, I can hear Rachmaninoff laughing.
RodrigoCFD 1 year ago 10
@RodrigoCFD WHY? Something in the performance you can criticize? Be a little more specific, please. We are all, oh so interested in knowing what you think about it, and why.
Gheorgyi 9 months ago
Amazing feeling at 2:30 to 3:00
wenhurley 1 year ago
0:18 to 2:10 is my absolute favourite part of this <3
ninjatuna09 1 year ago
haha the ending makes me laugh every time. oh the irony.
purplekitteh 1 year ago
I don't see why it matters who he is as a person. Caravaggio was a murderer and Wagner vehemently hated the Jews, but we still enjoy the art they created. Maybe Mikhail Pletnev did some things that we don't like, but that hardly makes the art he creates any less valuable.
Let's focus on what is important here: the music. In the end the artist as a person is irrelevant, good or bad it has no bearing on their art, that speaks for itself.
Tabloid-esque gossip, while fun, misses the point here.
Loismustdie26 1 year ago 47
@Loismustdie26 Do not worry, he is outstanding person. Genius in all - know 7 languages, can read books py PAGES in a second and so on. It is just too supreme, and have many of enviers in Russia. Somebody payed for a black PR, thats all.
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@Loismustdie26 Do not worry, he is outstanding person. Genius in all - know 7 languages, can read books py PAGES in a second and so on. It is just too supreme, and have many of enviers here in Russia. Somebody payed for a black PR, thats all.
bodyguardik 1 year ago
@Loismustdie26
Agree, but personally - hard to believe to "some things", and anyway it's disgusting to read about it here... what are yellow pages for, ah?
captivecreator 1 year ago
@Loismustdie26 Common misconception, Wagner didnt hate the jews, people often think this because Hitler and the Nazis were great admirers of his music. This was not necessarily a two way street...
TheFatSpaniel 1 year ago
@TheFatSpaniel
wow you couldn't be more wrong there. "with all our speaking and writing in favour of the Jews' emancipation, we always felt instinctively repelled by any actual, operative contact with them."
--from the essay "Jewishness in Music"
paranoid711 1 year ago
@TheFatSpaniel Of course no one knows one way or another. Anti-semitism was commonplace at the time, more the norm than the exception, but it's impossible to speak exactly of someone who is dead's philosophy. However my point is that it doesn't matter, and what's more dwelling on it hurts the music. We need to stop fearing this music because it maybe may have had some sorted origins. If the music is beautiful love it for it. Fear does nothing but perpetuate fear and keep the music repressed.
Loismustdie26 1 year ago
@Loismustdie26 I agree to an extent. First, this is an amazing piece, and extremely well executed by a phenomenally talented individual.
But can you really overlook such a disgusting crime (If he is in fact guilty)? What I disagree with is what is "important here": it is NOT the music. There are many talented musicians and NO ROOM FOR SUCH A HEINOUS CRIME. It does devalue the art in my mind. This is not the opinion of all people, but can't understand how can it be overlooked.
Kevinatmiis 1 year ago
@Kevinatmiis No one is debating, if he had actually done what he was accused of that is a bad thing. But assume for a moment that you didn't know who was playing, and you found it unquestioningly beautiful. Does it make you wrong because you didn't know that he was guilty of child molestation? Of course not, and that implies a distinct separation between the art that was created and the artist.
Loismustdie26 1 year ago
@Loismustdie26 for me personally, knowing what he did takes something away from my enjoyment of the piece.
Last clarifying point - I hold no judgment towards those who are able to make the separation. I just personally feel something is taken away from this listening o HIM play. :)
Kevinatmiis 1 year ago
@Kevinatmiis
Will it make you feel better knowing that he wasn't actually charged with anything, only ACCUSED? These days if someone associates you with anything involving illegal acts with minors, it tarnishes your reputation for life, regardless of if you're innocent or guilty. The man wasn't found guilty. Don't lose your respect for him so easily.
chris110012 1 year ago
@Kevinatmiis No matter what the person does: sports, art, politician, if they commit a crime they MUST be held to the same standard as anyone else. And if Pletnev ends up getting imprisoned for the rest of his life and never plays again, it is what it is. But this particular performance, on this particular recording is SPECTACULAR, and should be appreciated as such and without influence from his crime. IMHO
I know some people don't believe a separation is possible but I don't see how you can't.
Loismustdie26 1 year ago
@Loismustdie26 I am not disagreeing with the beauty of the piece of music, or his talents. This is - as I said before - a phenomenal work. All I am saying is that it does detract something from the music knowing what he did.
Another example is that I watch NFL football. Michael Vick is a man I used to enjoy watching, but knowing what he did takes away from my personal enjoyment of watching him play. He is still an amazing athlete, but there is just something that makes me sick seeing him
Kevinatmiis 1 year ago
@Loismustdie26 As long as Pletnev doesn't do anything to the piano with his todger during concerts, it's all right as rain...
darpuzw 1 year ago
@Loismustdie26 I can see where you're coming from, but isn't art a direct expression of the self? Words can be so limiting, but art can explain and convey things that can't even be contained or defined by words. I find that artist's are their art. So if you're not living in a positive way, how could that not show through in one of the most personal and direct forms of expression? just my thoughts on the matter, not trying to provoke or argue.
GDplanetrockGD 1 year ago
@GDplanetrockGD Thats a good way of thinking about art, and a lot can be learned from it, especially in political works. But its definitely not the only way, and one thing art has really taught me is how to understand life in multiple ways. Nothing wrong without understanding it in that way, I guess I'm more in the let-the-work-stand-for-itself camp. good point though.
Loismustdie26 1 year ago
@Loismustdie26 Let's remember that he was never convicted of anything. The charges against him were dropped. I know that there's a school of thought believing that when a celebrity is charged in such a thing and then the charges are dropped it's because the fix is in. Such thinking leads us to believe that any celebrated person charged must be guilty. Pletnev was never charged before or since with such behaviour.
69Ellsworth 9 months ago
Ah, the difficulties that attend life in the public eye! How easy it is for anyone to be accused of wrong-doing, and especially for someone famous. Sadly, there are those who stand to gain from blackening his name. It seemed impossible for Michael Jackson to shake off the bad name in spite of being cleared in court. Please, let's not be hasty to condemn the man.
beauregardnmagnolia 1 year ago
As for his genius at the piano, it's undeniable. His technique is impeccable, flawless. The real symphony is going on in his nervous system! Anyone who has ever played (or tried to play) Rachmaninoff's music on the piano can attest to the extremely high level of functioning required to play it even adequately. To play brilliantly, as Pletnev does, is nothing short of genius.
beauregardnmagnolia 1 year ago 2
8:05 will the real Pletnev please stand up?
AltoSaxOlly 1 year ago 2
No puedo creer la frialdad del publico..
arb1612002 1 year ago
@arb1612002 - creelo, son europeos, es caso perdido...
lashmana108 1 year ago
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salroja 1 year ago
This man has absolutely every poetical phrase imaginable in his being. He is simply the most outstanding interpreter alive of this music, and as a conductor too.
christophertinker 1 year ago
@christophertinker Thank you SO MUCH for your comment! Honestly, everyday, for the past few weeks, I've been devastated... Your kind, wise words give me solace.
MonsieurDecent 1 year ago
I am crying. That beutiful music. Seriously, I am crying now on the screen of computer.
MrIlvis 1 year ago
@MrIlvis Hope we have to thank the composer and the whole orchestra - and try to do w/o this pervert
Farrukh919 1 year ago
@MrIlvis Dido! This music exists only in a civilised world! Seriously, everyday, for the past few weeks, I'm very devastated... (and that Farrukh919 is annoying.)
MonsieurDecent 1 year ago
Fantastico!!!!
ciayko 1 year ago 4
Magnífico!!!
MultiNanotec 1 year ago 10
What did he do?
1927edith 1 year ago
@1927edith Well he was exonerated, but he was accused of child molestation.
Loismustdie26 1 year ago
Потрясающе! Браво, Маэстро!
simpholistener 1 year ago 3
Какой бы он не был гомосексуалист или педофил но слезы на глазах наворачиваются от его техники исполнения и манере преподнесения все это слушателю....Не забывайте Чайковский тоже был геем и это нескрытый факт..., но сколько он всего натворил в мире музыки и весь мир восхищается
storozh587 1 year ago 3
Плетнев пианист высшего пилотажа.....дай бог ему выпутаться из этой не красивой ситуации чистеньким......А так в целом все творческие люди все со своими странностями.............................................пора бы к этому привыкнуть
storozh587 1 year ago 4
You are sick..supporters of pletnev to speak for him...sick until you cannot distinguish right and wrong actions...boycott his performances! Pletnev is a despicable beast playing piano music!
poiuy877 1 year ago
@poiuy877 (Rhetorical question-) Were you there? The court of public opinion is WAY faster and more efficient than the courts of ... ugh... law. They can go from accusation to conviction in the time it takes to leap to a conclusion, without those annoying and time-consuming problems of evidence, procedure, or bothering to hear more than one side of a story, etc. Maybe we should just abolish all law courts, and let the People's Court decide everything. Think of the savings. :)
HalluxSinister 1 year ago 2