Gubaidulina - Chaconne

[BaRToLoMaSi]

I wonder how she choose the notes...

[Musorgsky]

Everyone hears something different. Hendel, Rzewski, Boulez, Scriabin etc. Who's next? Stop, guys. This is Gubaidulina, one of the best composers ever.

[fredericfranc]

...with even the great Margaret Mead saying womens' brains are not wired for composing classical music, Miss Gubaidulina beat the odds by masculinizing herself radically by primate gonad transplants and steroid injections so that she had to shave three times a day, but she got the results, as this music shows...

[JonnyboyCalippo]

She's living in Appen, Germany & I'm living almost next to her :D Almost about 5 Kilometres

[PicodeGuy]

I just had a peak experience listening to this. It was like watching beautiful patterns emerge from the darkness, reaching ever newer, ever deeper, ever richer depths of experience. This might best be followed by a long silence.

[stevenrgerber]

mediocre music

[asianwhitenigger]

Ill never understand this piano music

[MegaJobba]

my god! really a human being wrote this? amazing and wonderful!!

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

I agree, the playing is very clean... sometimes too short for my taste and not forte enough at the FF parts. I was still able to enjoy the work.

[TheBasilio]

Muy tonal para la epoca... 

[Musicaliters]

I quite like her interpretation, it's a different approach to the piece than most other pianists. Personally I like Andreas Haefliger's interpretation a lot too.

[sparkypan1]

It doesn't seem to appeal to me.

[MeinKomponist]

She likes Händel very much .. 

[hanspellegrims]

Wow, this resembles Rzewski in everything, really everything

[MrOddy79]

What I love about this piece is that she will really elaborate on a particular motive and simultaneously have the courage to revel within it without being indulgent or verbose and therefore not only creating a rich tapestry of expressive forms but ultimately making the music completely direct and succinct (unlike this sentence).

[amatorynumber]

this is astonishingly amazing. This woman never fails to make me want to kiss her feet!!!!

[helenlinpiano]

Great job on interpretation!!! I love this piece!!!

[BSA2417666]

Try to listen to Vladimir Yurigin-klevke!

[Darklord12356]

I like Anna Vinnitskaya's recording myself ;) But this is pretty good too!

[iriverivyleague]

I'm 15, and i'm learning this piece for a competition in February and I must say, this piece is friggin difficult, but really fun to play :)

[ComedyFeine]

guys, come on. please. this is total bullshit.

[Keytaster]

It doesn't appeal to me... unfortunately

[xodn3300]

i completely agree with you Astathis, it irritates me so much to hear fortissimo played like mezzo forte! the pianist plays this like it was a mozart piece

[Aul1kki]

I have to agree with u that "softness." It sounds like it should be more aggressive and there is even ff mark, but it sounds like f or even mf. But great piece to discover!

[minasgekos]

veeeeeery very good.

[CookeAdrian]

Thanks for posting it - excellent piece of music (for too many reasons to comment here). Horowitz would not be a good interpreter, as much as I love him...This needs someone like Pierre-Laurent Aimard - he can do everything: his technical and musical skill is but a precursor to his profound and soulful interpretations. Argerich would be ideal (if it were 1970s, after she had made her name) - cf. Bach Partitas, or Gould (if he were around, would be interesting) or actually, Edwin Fischer...

[CookeAdrian]

Thanks for posting it - excellent piece of music (for too many reasons to comment here). Horowitz would not be a good interpreter, as much as I love him...This needs someone like Pierre-Laurent Aimard - he can do everything: his technical and

musical skill is but a precursor to his profound and soulful interpretations

[innhat11]

poor performance by the pianist indeed

[Haeronthegreat]

Busoni?

[junglejim66]

very interesting music. no one mentioned similarity with Szymanowski.

this composer should be better known. excellent in every way.

very well performed, also.

[velcor]

That middle section is. . . stunning.

[lovesGenet]

The germs are amazing the processes are every historical "rumination possible.fugato elements .She is amaster and the sound of it all hynotizes!

[rodrigodemarsillac]

Very good! great piece The composer can communicate her emotional intentions so directly and clearly! thanks for posting!

[elevatorsounds]

thanks for posting it along with the score. it mustve been quiet a procedure

[Werwolf2x]

ooh awesome! at many points i find that there's a certain resemblance to Kabalevsky and Prokofiev, but at the same time Gubaidulina still manages to keep a distinctive style of her own.

[velcor]

@Werwolf2x I think it sounded like Scriabin and Boulez! D:

[astrophel1]

I enjoyed this immensely--thanks for posting it!

[OceansBoulevard]

horowitz sarebbe fin troppo apprezzabile in questo pezzo

[Ltlevim]

where did you get the sheet music?

[agatr]

Brano bellissimo. Grazie Astathis.

[chaikovski]

I love it!

[sshuck]

ha, Mahler 5

[neiltassoni]

this is a gorgeous and stunning, rare piece--it deserves to be much better known. Thank you so much for posting it along with the score! Any more Sofia scores??

[Astathis]

I'll post another series of pieces asap! ;)

[samucito30]

asthatis ma che roba mi carichi :P

[sonarrat]

I like it a lot.. and I don't really see how it could be played much better. Who is the pianist?

[Astathis]

Beatrice Rauchs, I stated it at the beginning of the video.

[araujomateus]

c o i s a  l i n d a

[suboalaazotea]

Thanks Astathis!

XD

[shadowrun45]

I like the playing, but there`s a little too much reverb.