Many people are saying the Promenade was too fast, but I like his tempo. Maybe the slow tempo would fit for the orchestrated version, however, I think the fast tempo fit greatly with the own sound of piano. Probably he had this kind of thought when he was understanding the song.
@RedSkull921 If you're talking about The Great Gate of Kiev, it's Allegro alla breve. Seems good to me. It's incredibly difficult to play at this speed, but I'd say it definitely matches what's written on the score. Some people are thrown off when it switches to 2/2, thinking it should slow down significantly. Nope. Crazy fast, and the page is marked sempre maestoso.
This is by far the best piece of music ever written, nothing contains more different timbres like mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition. Ravel don't had difficult work - it's amazing how easy it is to imagine how it could be played by an orchestra...
In contrast to other performers of Pictures, Kissin illuminates every note, chord, trill, and scale. Voicings and balance are always under control. In other performances, the Gates of Kiev often sound like a blur or blizzard of notes. Kissin makes sure you hear everything. We can reflect on the genius of the composition without the perfomer's interpretive ticks or deficiencies getting in the way. Bravo!
Arguing who the best pianist ever was is like arguing who the richest millionaire is: it doesn't matter, they're all rich, or in this case, really goddamn good piano players.
Great. Good old-fashioned piano playing, the way it used to be before people started worrying about irrelevant things. All the music toffs can go suck a lemon.
@cracanel1 it was perfect for me, just listen Muszorgszkij and enjoy the tunes. Don't listen like a teacher, just enjoy! Or play it better in front of hunders of people and upload it and show me that you can play it better than him. In that case I will believe it, but until your perfomance please don't write stupid comments. Thank you!
This performance reaches the limits of this particular instrument. I wonder which brand and type of piano could take the full force of this piece and whether it could be recorded with an electronic medium at all?
Even the material performance of the instrument is sacrificed. It doesn’t respond well. Force is neither emotion nor style, subtlety is. It's not beautifully performed. It's violent. I love this piece. I'm very sad. Thanks.
@MrTiagoCCosta I love this piece, too. And this is my favourite performance. I cannot agree with anything you said. This performance wasn't just force, listen closer. And while you are at it, read the sheet music, which in some parts even says "with full force". This rendition is beauty. I'm very happy. Thanks.
@MrTiagoCCosta I have to agree with you, his playing is quite tough. I don't understand why he would interpret it as such, but it are his emotions, I just hope he understands that this wasn't the definition of force, it was the definition of banging on a piano. (no offense to the performer at all.)
It shouldn't be about force. It doesn't need to be played with such a force. There's a subtle and absolute difference between force and grandiosity. I mean the magical amalgam between the subtle way you hit the keys and the tempo, this is expression, that is what piano is about. There are subtleties in rhythm that are not realized in this interpretation. It doesn't express the grandiosity and the emotion that the piece demands. It is not at all about hitting the keys with so much force.
i know nothing about pianist, but it looks to me this guy is the man, the best interpretation of this marvelous peace, i konw nothing about history of music but it looks like this is one of the most important pieces ever written...
You know, I listen to Ravel's transcription for full orchestra and think "How can this possibly get any better?" Then I listen to this...Holy freaking crap.
@pogmofoil I was introduced to this piece by Ravel's transcription... I got to hear the New York Philharmonic perform it live. Ever since then, I've been addicted to the orchestration. And when I hear the piano version, I can hear the orchestration in my mind behind it! It's so great!
@OrangeSodaKing You saw the NY Phil live? Lucky! The first time I ever heard this piece was Ravel's transcription too, when I went to see the Cleveland Orchestra. I was only 7 or 8 years old, but I truly think it changed my life.
I can't believe all that glorious sound is coming from one piano and 2 hands. This is the stuff that legends should be made of. This is my new favorite piano work. Beautiful!!!
this is absolutely amazing. i have goose bumps every time i hear/watch this suite performed by kissin. i am sure i would be crying had i been at this performance. i agree with the previous poster; this is utterly epic. so profound. so classy. so perfect.
Man, all i can think about when i hear this particular version of this piece is in early WWII when the Polish fought the Nazi tanks with just horses and cavalry, and when the Russians held off the Germans at Stalingrad with ROCKS...I just think of nothing but triumph and death when I hear this piece, sometimes it just makes me cry.
I used to play this piece on my piano about 32 years ago, but my alcoholism made it so I couldn't play anymore. I stopped drinking 26 years ago and am now picking up again. All alcohol ever really did for me is leave me with a broken heart. And yet, this Opus was composed by an alcoholic who died from this affliction shortly after he composed The Songs and Dances of Death. One of the arias in that tells a story of Death beseeching a drunk to lay down in the snow and fall asleep.
@Nguli34689 many artists (including myself) have horrendous struggles. but for some reason, these struggles, while debilitating to the sufferer, seem to bring out the greatest of masterpieces!
@classicalnut1 This is true. After reading your comment I thought of Johnny Cash and his rendition of a song called "Hurt". Cash understoon pain and when he sang about it, emotions began to stir.
@googolplex101 This is true. Johnny Cash didn't write "HURT" and that it was originally was composed by Trent Renzor in Nine Inch Nails. Johnny Cash's deep understanding of pain and other issues made his rendition of HURT stand out and stir emotions. Both artists have done a spectacular job and a job well done deserves some recognition in my book. As another viewer pointed out, many artists have debilitating and horrendous struggles, struggles through which great masterpieces come forth.
@Nguli34689 I do also enjoy Johnny Cash's cover, I think it's success over Trent Reznors lies mainly in his more main stream nature, NIN is a bit odd for most peoples tastes haha.
There is no other way to perform PIctures at an Exhibition besides on piano. No orchestration will ever be able to capture the true soul of this piece.
This, to me personally, is one of the greatest piano pieces ever written. It may not be the most famous, but when played this well my heart races. Absolutely brilliant.
I love this version. Concerning the orchestrated version, I've found an excellent one recently on Youtube: a live performance with E. P. Salonen and the Philharmonia at the Proms.
Only problem I can find here is that the applause doesn't last long enough ;) (It simply couldn't!) What a performance! I started saying "bravo" almost as soon as our dear Evgeny began playing, and didn't stop saying it throughout the whole piece. (Been playing piano for almost 40 years myself.) THANKS, THANKS, THANKS! FOR POSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whao!! Im learning this piece because of him! Kissin has major talent, to play this ALL (including the other pictures) by memory. If i ever get as good as him... i would probably be too old to play in concerts :D
We all have our strengths. His passion is piano~ therefore he has and wants to memorize all this because it's his life and it's what keeps him going and making him happy. If you feel the same way, you'll end up the same way. Keep at it :]
no you shut up and stop dissing people's comments. You have no place here if you constantly talk trash about people who are being good spirited. Get you and your negative self out of here...
ehhh! Ok so he's good. But I've heard better versions. I don't understand why some guys like to delay every note to the extreme. I guess that's what they call interpretation but it if you know what the melody is supposed to sound like bugs you. Ok you can all give me the thumbs down now.
the only thing that matches his playing is his expression, and the only thing that matches his expression is his enjoyment of the piece. and the only only thing that matches all three, of course, is his vicious and epic 'fro.
Its not even the size of the fro that makes it what it is. Its the menacing, yet majestic bobbing motion accentuating the more powerful parts of the piece that gives it its untold powers.
This was originally a piano piece before an orchestra piece, right? The orchestra version that I know of is by Ravel. So what do you all mean by piano versions/arrangements of this piece?
Various performers have put their own touches on the piece; changes to how it sounds, leaving out movements (usually a promenade), or other such changes. I have one where during the long held notes at the very very end (3:18 to end), the player tremlos the held notes instead of just holding them, presumably to compensate for the fact that the pianos' sustain doesn't compare to, say, an orchestra. Not sure if I like it or not, but there you go.
I must admit I haven't heard the Jukka-Pekka Saraste version though. The arrangement I like best is the piano version by Horowitz, which is also still is my favourite version of the piece, however Kissin has great moments too.
LostInHelvetti, Pictures At An Exhibition WAS originally composed for piano, the orchestral versions are the Arrangements, not the other way around.
Anyway, I must say I think the better-known Ravel arrangement is rather slick in comparison to the original Mussorgsky piano version, which is much rawer and to me also far more interesting.
I've listened carefully to this piece as performed at Carnegie Hall by Horowitz, Pollini, and others. I've performed it myself. (Sadly, not at Carnegie Hall. More like Gus's Ale House in Brooklyn!)
It is my opinion is that the orchestral version is far better suited to the musical content.
Do you think Chopin's B-Minor scherzo would sound better played on a Glockenspiel? Sometimes the medium is important.
Man I've listened to so many arrangements for piano that are orginally orhestrations. I've gotta say that this really works here but you are rigt, though, that it is really good if not far more better for orchestra, specially in the Jukka-Pekka Saraste version...
I don't think that's true. It works quite well for piano. I think maybe certain pictures sound better orchestrated (Gnomus definitely sounds more frightening and imposing orchestrated), but others sound better on piano. Pictures like Bydlo, Catacombae, Baba Yaga, and The Great Gate of Kiev that have heavy sounds on piano cannot possibly be interpreted, in my opinion, completely satisfactorily by orchestra. In fact, orchestrated versions of Bydlo often disappoint me, to be honest.
Interesting... I am a tremendous fan of both versions, but I think that the Great Gate of Kiev is one of the movements where the difference is most in favor of the *orchestra*, mostly because of the closing notes. The fact that the piano's notes decay and orchestral instruments almost all can hold their notes roughly indefinitely makes the ending (about 3:18 in this video to the end) of the piano version sound... empty... to me in comparison.
I agree with you Evan. This is the one part of the piece that needs the low brass and percussion hits (cymbal, bass drum, timpani) that the piano just can't produce. I have to agree with pianist927 about Bydlo though. Some of the pictures could go either way. I can't decide whether i like Baba-yaga on piano or orchestrated. Maybe somebody should arrange it for piano and orchestra! there's an idea for you..
That section is just a scale in Eb major. Use the regular fingering for both hands. It's one of the easiest sections of the Great Gate part. The section before it is harder.
Kissin is SO VERY AMAZING!!!!! And so was Mussorgsky, for we musn't forget, he wrote the piece! Every time I listen to/watch this (meaning the whole piece) I get so inspired to play better and to give my ALL while performing! The subito piano between 0:15 and 0:18 is absolutely breathtaking; almost makes me cry!
Playing Russian music requires at least some tempo variation...Kissin, a Russian, should understand this. I don't feel the grandeur that makes this piece so special.
beautifully performed. videography... not so much....
painfullyhonest 3 weeks ago
I played rachm prelude in 14 years. lol its easy
csportalcomua 2 months ago in playlist Evgeny Kissin - Pictures At An Exhibition
@csportalcomua yes its far easier
afertyus1000 1 month ago
Every time I listen to this, I want to go all the way to my own piano and play it myself. It's one of the most powerful pieces I've ever heard.
Alexjr1543 3 months ago
I find it incredibly difficult to take him seriously because of his outrageous hairdoo...
3Gsquared 4 months ago
@3Gsquared You clearly know nothing about music, then, for it is his hair that gives him his great power.
PakrerGM64 4 months ago 2
@3Gsquared
Psh.
keetner 3 months ago in playlist keetner's favourites
i hate to say this but "shit-ty applause", just my opinion:)
markmarshall39 5 months ago
Many people are saying the Promenade was too fast, but I like his tempo. Maybe the slow tempo would fit for the orchestrated version, however, I think the fast tempo fit greatly with the own sound of piano. Probably he had this kind of thought when he was understanding the song.
SpringInTheSchool 5 months ago
@RedSkull921 If you're talking about The Great Gate of Kiev, it's Allegro alla breve. Seems good to me. It's incredibly difficult to play at this speed, but I'd say it definitely matches what's written on the score. Some people are thrown off when it switches to 2/2, thinking it should slow down significantly. Nope. Crazy fast, and the page is marked sempre maestoso.
Dirte111 6 months ago
wow.
24DJF 6 months ago
@RedSkull921 I felt the same.
MrTiagoCCosta 6 months ago
I watched the whole performance! That was unbelievable!
Guitrdude 7 months ago
@Guitrdude it's the best!
FirstPublicChannel 7 months ago
I just had to write a paper on this piece! I can't believe I never heard it before then! It is sublime!
supernuke 9 months ago
where/when is this?
redlaxmi 9 months ago
This is by far the best piece of music ever written, nothing contains more different timbres like mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition. Ravel don't had difficult work - it's amazing how easy it is to imagine how it could be played by an orchestra...
JordanWay94 9 months ago
@JordanWay94
Wait, are you saying Ravel's works = easy? That's a bit of a hefty claim...
keetner 8 months ago
@keetner I mean it's easy to imagine wich instrument should play wich note, so Ravel could have done it an easy way, but he didn't...
JordanWay94 8 months ago
@JordanWay94
Aaah ok nevermind, sorry. I never realized Ravel had actually arranged an orchestral version!
keetner 8 months ago
@keetner Lol, haha, Ravel is a really good orchestrator.
maestroanth 7 months ago
answering to last 4 commentators
I tell you the end isnt brilliant.
Most pictures sounds rude.
and Hes not best pianist ever.
he is nothing
csportalcomua 9 months ago
@csportalcomua
Answering to csportalcomua
I tell you you are an idiot
Most of the pictures are great
Nobody said Kissin was the best
But he is damned good
I guess if you write in free verse then
You must think you're pretty smart.
ekrenek 9 months ago
In contrast to other performers of Pictures, Kissin illuminates every note, chord, trill, and scale. Voicings and balance are always under control. In other performances, the Gates of Kiev often sound like a blur or blizzard of notes. Kissin makes sure you hear everything. We can reflect on the genius of the composition without the perfomer's interpretive ticks or deficiencies getting in the way. Bravo!
ekrenek 9 months ago 5
I sometimes wonder whether kissin is the best pianist who ever lived. He's probably better than liszt. definately the tiger woods of piano.
CaseyRocky 9 months ago
@CaseyRocky
Alongside with performing, Liszt had also composed, transcribed, and taught!
keetner 9 months ago
@CaseyRocky
Arguing who the best pianist ever was is like arguing who the richest millionaire is: it doesn't matter, they're all rich, or in this case, really goddamn good piano players.
MastodonRockss 2 months ago
fantastic! i love his playing- amazing musician
hawaiianhonudiver 10 months ago
1:30 to the end is absolutely brilliant.
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Kostandinpiano 10 months ago
Great. Good old-fashioned piano playing, the way it used to be before people started worrying about irrelevant things. All the music toffs can go suck a lemon.
mozart9101 10 months ago 2
The tempo makes it feel like the Great Revolving Door of Kiev at times.
kcostell 10 months ago 3
It's almost like the volume is covering a lack of precision. idk.
MrDrewboggess 10 months ago
I KNOW CLASS WHEN I SEE IT. BITCHIN' AFRO. THUMBS UP.
RawkRaw 11 months ago
GREAT GATE OF KIEV?! :D
Vesivian 11 months ago
Wow, he's a very muscular pianist, one can give him that! At times it felt like he'll de-tune the piano banging so hard at it.
He also rushed needlessly the end of the second motive (at 0:49) as he was preparing for the next phrase.
There is no feeling in this interpretation, only physical prowess...
cracanel1 11 months ago
@cracanel1 it was perfect for me, just listen Muszorgszkij and enjoy the tunes. Don't listen like a teacher, just enjoy! Or play it better in front of hunders of people and upload it and show me that you can play it better than him. In that case I will believe it, but until your perfomance please don't write stupid comments. Thank you!
roberto1667 10 months ago
This performance reaches the limits of this particular instrument. I wonder which brand and type of piano could take the full force of this piece and whether it could be recorded with an electronic medium at all?
wolfkuehn 11 months ago
@Mattyb2001uk
Hay,
I would love to buy this DVD, could you please tell me the name of the DVD and where did you get it from?
Thankyou very much
albertbauli 11 months ago
good work
TheZdephinio 1 year ago
＠◇＠）キーシン凄過ぎる！
何度見ても目が釘付けになってしまいます。
ABCQEDIG 1 year ago
OMG!!! very impressive!!!!
semplicityme 1 year ago
Even the material performance of the instrument is sacrificed. It doesn’t respond well. Force is neither emotion nor style, subtlety is. It's not beautifully performed. It's violent. I love this piece. I'm very sad. Thanks.
MrTiagoCCosta 1 year ago
@MrTiagoCCosta I love this piece, too. And this is my favourite performance. I cannot agree with anything you said. This performance wasn't just force, listen closer. And while you are at it, read the sheet music, which in some parts even says "with full force". This rendition is beauty. I'm very happy. Thanks.
shanikuzai 1 year ago
@shanikuzai Full force in the score doesn't mean full force literally, according to what I said before. Empty virtuosity.
MrTiagoCCosta 1 year ago
@MrTiagoCCosta I have to agree with you, his playing is quite tough. I don't understand why he would interpret it as such, but it are his emotions, I just hope he understands that this wasn't the definition of force, it was the definition of banging on a piano. (no offense to the performer at all.)
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MrTiagoCCosta 1 year ago
It shouldn't be about force. It doesn't need to be played with such a force. There's a subtle and absolute difference between force and grandiosity. I mean the magical amalgam between the subtle way you hit the keys and the tempo, this is expression, that is what piano is about. There are subtleties in rhythm that are not realized in this interpretation. It doesn't express the grandiosity and the emotion that the piece demands. It is not at all about hitting the keys with so much force.
MrTiagoCCosta 1 year ago
this is such a better version than a version done by someone in my school. This is superb!!
HKpianogirl 1 year ago
i know nothing about pianist, but it looks to me this guy is the man, the best interpretation of this marvelous peace, i konw nothing about history of music but it looks like this is one of the most important pieces ever written...
serginho29 1 year ago
You know, I listen to Ravel's transcription for full orchestra and think "How can this possibly get any better?" Then I listen to this...Holy freaking crap.
pogmofoil 1 year ago
@pogmofoil I was introduced to this piece by Ravel's transcription... I got to hear the New York Philharmonic perform it live. Ever since then, I've been addicted to the orchestration. And when I hear the piano version, I can hear the orchestration in my mind behind it! It's so great!
OrangeSodaKing 1 year ago
@OrangeSodaKing You saw the NY Phil live? Lucky! The first time I ever heard this piece was Ravel's transcription too, when I went to see the Cleveland Orchestra. I was only 7 or 8 years old, but I truly think it changed my life.
pogmofoil 1 year ago
I can't believe all that glorious sound is coming from one piano and 2 hands. This is the stuff that legends should be made of. This is my new favorite piano work. Beautiful!!!
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xluigix 1 year ago
at 2:07 i cant explain what i feel...!!!
xluigix 1 year ago
exceptionnelle interpretation!!!!
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sergio39046 1 year ago
this is absolutely amazing. i have goose bumps every time i hear/watch this suite performed by kissin. i am sure i would be crying had i been at this performance. i agree with the previous poster; this is utterly epic. so profound. so classy. so perfect.
myfrees 1 year ago
a performance like that, if heard in person, would probably make start to cry from the sheer epicness and amazingness of it o:
MetroidMilkMan 1 year ago
I think if Ervin Nyiregyhazi had ever played that piece we would've seen it on a whole different level.
However, Kissins performance is flawless, powerful, emotional, just brilliant!
Keytaster 1 year ago
Man, all i can think about when i hear this particular version of this piece is in early WWII when the Polish fought the Nazi tanks with just horses and cavalry, and when the Russians held off the Germans at Stalingrad with ROCKS...I just think of nothing but triumph and death when I hear this piece, sometimes it just makes me cry.
ruskybalboa 1 year ago 23
2:05 Recap of Promenade-Best moment in this whole piece. (in my opinion)
bluefire13324 1 year ago
The best artists will always have some major affliction, and art is their best way out sometimes...
Shankovich 1 year ago 3
Who can't do that...? LOL
imaginator09 1 year ago
There is nothing else beyond this genius. I can t even think of Martha Argerich playing this master piece like him. I love him !!!!
elgatosucio 1 year ago
The run-down just left me gasping. amazing.
JackSafferyRowe 1 year ago
2: 20 to 2:30 is just wonderful
sebastianrc 1 year ago 4
Holy Russia!
axc19891 1 year ago 9
what about soviet union?
TK2008BEST 1 year ago
one of the best pianists in the world, if not the best of this time
richclayderman 2 years ago 8
i've never been a big fan of kissin, but the way he played this song was exceptionally brilliant. bravo!
xxanythingwilldoxx 2 years ago 4
I used to play this piece on my piano about 32 years ago, but my alcoholism made it so I couldn't play anymore. I stopped drinking 26 years ago and am now picking up again. All alcohol ever really did for me is leave me with a broken heart. And yet, this Opus was composed by an alcoholic who died from this affliction shortly after he composed The Songs and Dances of Death. One of the arias in that tells a story of Death beseeching a drunk to lay down in the snow and fall asleep.
Nguli34689 2 years ago 104
That story would have been better left untold
cody55909 2 years ago
True, but it is the darker side of life.
Nguli34689 2 years ago 6
That was really hard to read and really touching. Bravery.
sebastianrc 1 year ago
oh man, if you want a hard piece to read, look at Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor!
ruskybalboa 1 year ago 4
@Nguli34689 many artists (including myself) have horrendous struggles. but for some reason, these struggles, while debilitating to the sufferer, seem to bring out the greatest of masterpieces!
classicalnut1 1 year ago 2
@classicalnut1 This is true. After reading your comment I thought of Johnny Cash and his rendition of a song called "Hurt". Cash understoon pain and when he sang about it, emotions began to stir.
Nguli34689 1 year ago
@Nguli34689 He didn't write Hurt, he covered it. Originally it was by Trent Reznor in Nine Inch Nails.
googolplex101 1 year ago
@googolplex101 This is true. Johnny Cash didn't write "HURT" and that it was originally was composed by Trent Renzor in Nine Inch Nails. Johnny Cash's deep understanding of pain and other issues made his rendition of HURT stand out and stir emotions. Both artists have done a spectacular job and a job well done deserves some recognition in my book. As another viewer pointed out, many artists have debilitating and horrendous struggles, struggles through which great masterpieces come forth.
Nguli34689 1 year ago
@Nguli34689 I do also enjoy Johnny Cash's cover, I think it's success over Trent Reznors lies mainly in his more main stream nature, NIN is a bit odd for most peoples tastes haha.
googolplex101 1 year ago
I love this piece so much!
SofiaSwe94 2 years ago 7
I know class when I hear / see it, and this is it - superb.
lubahegre01 2 years ago 33
There is no other way to perform PIctures at an Exhibition besides on piano. No orchestration will ever be able to capture the true soul of this piece.
flicfan416 2 years ago 10
@flicfan416 never say never)) It all depends on personality and the level of genius.
834Sony 2 years ago
There is always that one man who just has to be the one to sneak in the first "Bravo" or "Brava!" :)
But what a great performance! Kissin always delivers.
KarrotKun1 2 years ago 7
This, to me personally, is one of the greatest piano pieces ever written. It may not be the most famous, but when played this well my heart races. Absolutely brilliant.
FreedomSkyliner 2 years ago 10
wow very very good
annchen432 2 years ago
where is this concert at?
TheMusic1ful 2 years ago
@ TheMusic1ful
In the ancient theatre of Orange
maretranquilty 2 years ago
un grande! Meraviglioooso!
:-))))
ilfasciociminaccia 2 years ago
god !
dn8986 2 years ago
I love this version. Concerning the orchestrated version, I've found an excellent one recently on Youtube: a live performance with E. P. Salonen and the Philharmonia at the Proms.
MarcusHK1 2 years ago 3
@MarcusHK1 Yeah, that one is off the hook!
kingofmilwaukee 1 year ago
god, i wish he would have spent more time on the final chords
Orpheus1356 2 years ago
couldn't agree more, the ending sounds a little muddy to me, otherwise absolutely fantastic.
dashizl 2 years ago
Que bonito!!!.Maravilloso.
atochus 2 years ago 3
Baba Yaga and la Grande Porte de Kiev are absolutely fantastic.
n10juan 2 years ago 5
The more I listen to it, the more I like the piano version better than the orchestrated one!
CONTESTAR 2 years ago 9
Piano version is surely the best :)
Not for case: it come directly from Mousorgskij mind
n10juan 2 years ago 5
Remember this was composed for piano... ;)
Stunt2one 2 years ago 3
Кто как не еврейская душа до донца поймёт и воплотит русского гения!?:))))))
straumeeee 2 years ago 2
WOW!!!
nanunan5 2 years ago 3
I LOVE KISSIN!!!!
IngridAtenea 2 years ago 5
Amo a Kissin!!!!
IngridAtenea 2 years ago 3
Only problem I can find here is that the applause doesn't last long enough ;) (It simply couldn't!) What a performance! I started saying "bravo" almost as soon as our dear Evgeny began playing, and didn't stop saying it throughout the whole piece. (Been playing piano for almost 40 years myself.) THANKS, THANKS, THANKS! FOR POSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FateAtTheGoethe 2 years ago 7
i love the great gate of kiev.
JOseyIzUrs89 2 years ago 3
out of every song in this peace I can only play promenade 3.
JOseyIzUrs89 2 years ago
Ich habe die CD. Gänsehaut pur ! An die Klasse von Kissin kommt so schnell keiner heran.
roggenrot 2 years ago
Whao!! Im learning this piece because of him! Kissin has major talent, to play this ALL (including the other pictures) by memory. If i ever get as good as him... i would probably be too old to play in concerts :D
If someone gives less than 5*****, tell me, why?
C ya
Adam
AdamR544 2 years ago 4
We all have our strengths. His passion is piano~ therefore he has and wants to memorize all this because it's his life and it's what keeps him going and making him happy. If you feel the same way, you'll end up the same way. Keep at it :]
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AdamR544 2 years ago
i hope to be good enough to play this some day. it's going to take a looong time, but i'm going to get there.
this is brilliant.
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no ur not u probably suck
bobbyprier 2 years ago
Shut up! You have no idea...He's probably better than you...
modelstatue 2 years ago
he is excellent !!
someones who criticized him please give me
a reason !!
gcaee 2 years ago
hey just shut up
bobbyprier 2 years ago
no you shut up and stop dissing people's comments. You have no place here if you constantly talk trash about people who are being good spirited. Get you and your negative self out of here...
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what's he chewing?
bastardino999 2 years ago
lol at his hair
BlackThunder1707 2 years ago 5
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ehhh! Ok so he's good. But I've heard better versions. I don't understand why some guys like to delay every note to the extreme. I guess that's what they call interpretation but it if you know what the melody is supposed to sound like bugs you. Ok you can all give me the thumbs down now.
jabberwock11 2 years ago
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Umby64 2 years ago
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Asswipe
jabberwock11 2 years ago
One of the great themes in all of classical music.
WAYSMEANS 2 years ago 2
Amazing. In the process of learning this piece from the beginning lol.
CVHMusic 2 years ago 2
the only thing that matches his playing is his expression, and the only thing that matches his expression is his enjoyment of the piece. and the only only thing that matches all three, of course, is his vicious and epic 'fro.
herbiehusker13 2 years ago 6
Its not even the size of the fro that makes it what it is. Its the menacing, yet majestic bobbing motion accentuating the more powerful parts of the piece that gives it its untold powers.
bowserb61 2 years ago
hahaha, your funny!!! Untold powers? xD
modelstatue 2 years ago
he looks crazy xD
but he plays piano realy good
Lauchilein 2 years ago 3
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organman52 2 years ago
he plays it toooooooo fast,i prefer the orchesrta version !
FRISCHFISCH93 2 years ago
comes of course.
jnsii 2 years ago
A strong performance, And from strong performances come strength.
jnsii 2 years ago 2
This was originally a piano piece before an orchestra piece, right? The orchestra version that I know of is by Ravel. So what do you all mean by piano versions/arrangements of this piece?
OrangeSodaKing 2 years ago
Various performers have put their own touches on the piece; changes to how it sounds, leaving out movements (usually a promenade), or other such changes. I have one where during the long held notes at the very very end (3:18 to end), the player tremlos the held notes instead of just holding them, presumably to compensate for the fact that the pianos' sustain doesn't compare to, say, an orchestra. Not sure if I like it or not, but there you go.
EvanED 2 years ago
BRAVO!!!
Epmonito 2 years ago 6
I must admit I haven't heard the Jukka-Pekka Saraste version though. The arrangement I like best is the piano version by Horowitz, which is also still is my favourite version of the piece, however Kissin has great moments too.
moonaa666 2 years ago
Please tell me your joking and know it Essa-Pekka Salonen you're talking about...? :o) it's on Youtube if you're interested, live at the Albert Hall.
MIXOLYDIAN123 2 years ago
he's not joking there is a Jukka-Pekka Saraste .
gera1262 2 years ago
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moonaa666 2 years ago
LostInHelvetti, Pictures At An Exhibition WAS originally composed for piano, the orchestral versions are the Arrangements, not the other way around.
Anyway, I must say I think the better-known Ravel arrangement is rather slick in comparison to the original Mussorgsky piano version, which is much rawer and to me also far more interesting.
moonaa666 2 years ago 3
this is one dramtic peice
mursskgosky is one composer
and i know i spelled his name wrong haha
i dont know some of the forgein names they have dont even know how to pronounce them
kazowa 2 years ago
It's wonderful to see an artist continue to evolve as he gets older. Terrific performance.
grdzelli 2 years ago
That's Glenn with two nns, #$%ch.
flat9sharp11flat7984 2 years ago
I think I have decided: Evengy is definately my favourite pianist (next to Glen Gould, of course). Marvelous!
BenGabbay 2 years ago
This incredible master musician should conduct every orchestra worth conducting. He could do it blindfolded.
organman52 3 years ago
Great performance. Thanks.
But I'm sorry, this just doesn't work nearly as well for the piano as it does for orchestra. Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov were right.
LazlosPlane 3 years ago
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Listen carefully! It really works.
LostInHelvetti 3 years ago
My dear (sir or lady),
I have listened carefully...
I've listened carefully to this piece as performed at Carnegie Hall by Horowitz, Pollini, and others. I've performed it myself. (Sadly, not at Carnegie Hall. More like Gus's Ale House in Brooklyn!)
It is my opinion is that the orchestral version is far better suited to the musical content.
Do you think Chopin's B-Minor scherzo would sound better played on a Glockenspiel? Sometimes the medium is important.
LazlosPlane 3 years ago
Man I've listened to so many arrangements for piano that are orginally orhestrations. I've gotta say that this really works here but you are rigt, though, that it is really good if not far more better for orchestra, specially in the Jukka-Pekka Saraste version...
LostInHelvetti 2 years ago
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LostInHelvetti 2 years ago
I don't think that's true. It works quite well for piano. I think maybe certain pictures sound better orchestrated (Gnomus definitely sounds more frightening and imposing orchestrated), but others sound better on piano. Pictures like Bydlo, Catacombae, Baba Yaga, and The Great Gate of Kiev that have heavy sounds on piano cannot possibly be interpreted, in my opinion, completely satisfactorily by orchestra. In fact, orchestrated versions of Bydlo often disappoint me, to be honest.
Pianist927 3 years ago
How nice.
LazlosPlane 3 years ago
Interesting... I am a tremendous fan of both versions, but I think that the Great Gate of Kiev is one of the movements where the difference is most in favor of the *orchestra*, mostly because of the closing notes. The fact that the piano's notes decay and orchestral instruments almost all can hold their notes roughly indefinitely makes the ending (about 3:18 in this video to the end) of the piano version sound... empty... to me in comparison.
EvanED 3 years ago
I agree with you Evan. This is the one part of the piece that needs the low brass and percussion hits (cymbal, bass drum, timpani) that the piano just can't produce. I have to agree with pianist927 about Bydlo though. Some of the pictures could go either way. I can't decide whether i like Baba-yaga on piano or orchestrated. Maybe somebody should arrange it for piano and orchestra! there's an idea for you..
backoffshesmine12 3 years ago
I really wish someone would post Richter playing Pictures at an Exhibition..
ahhreeyell 3 years ago
Seconded!
saxplayr07 3 years ago
it's there, you goose! try searching or it.
johnofdundee 3 years ago
it is on you tube - i have seen
mandyschulz 3 years ago
Bravo!
PianoMazter 3 years ago
perfect
200min 3 years ago
bravo!!!!!!
maplepear02 3 years ago
The piano run at 2:27-how does one play that?
petebj123 3 years ago
That section is just a scale in Eb major. Use the regular fingering for both hands. It's one of the easiest sections of the Great Gate part. The section before it is harder.
tking777 3 years ago
Nothing one can say will do justice to the genius and dedication that went into this performance.
Yevgeny Kissin is a beloved cultural treasure of enormous importance to all of mankind.
mc0558 3 years ago 3
WHEW!!! speechless.
foxtrotnow 3 years ago
beauty!
bastardino999 3 years ago
Oh my god! Expert expressed oneself...
igorek1982 3 years ago 2
whats he chewing?
petebj123 3 years ago
maybe he's kinda reminding things to himself or something... or is he like chewing Eclipse or somethin?
bastardino999 3 years ago 4
Memorable interpretation.
leomulder 3 years ago 2
Kissin is SO VERY AMAZING!!!!! And so was Mussorgsky, for we musn't forget, he wrote the piece! Every time I listen to/watch this (meaning the whole piece) I get so inspired to play better and to give my ALL while performing! The subito piano between 0:15 and 0:18 is absolutely breathtaking; almost makes me cry!
beethovenof08 3 years ago 4
Playing Russian music requires at least some tempo variation...Kissin, a Russian, should understand this. I don't feel the grandeur that makes this piece so special.
SlyFox616 3 years ago