M.Pollini - Chopin - Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D Flat. Sostenuto (Raindrop)

[frankuaku]

I have to give the thanks to Don Luigi Giussani if I know this beautiful opera.

[MegaPanzers1]

i just started listening to this and all of a sudden it started to rain; i love rain; and i stood before my window listening to this "raindrop" composition while watching the rain dance with the music.... incredible

[kmaneke]

Thumbs up if "Halo: Believe" brought you here.

[laurentjutier]

All contrasts in this piece are very well expressed in this impressive performance.

[LaFayetteKiki1]

da brivido

[animomusic94]

Wonderful!!!!

[Pianopianoplay]

George Sand: "Such vivid impressions are created in this music that the ghosts of departed monks seem to rise and pass before the listener in solemn and gloomy funereal pomp."

[okcoolios]

doing my IGCSE revision here. this piece is great :) i love chopin

[MsDautie]

^_^

[LuisSain]

Brilliant... Chopin, a great..

[sevcik2]

Heavenly beautiful!!

Bravo!!

[gilsub]

What are you thinking? The middle section is what makes this such a deep piece. Chopin more than any romantic composer can carry you away in a middle section to the point where you forget yourself, and the reprise is like a return to childhood. I'll go beyond ape, I'll go all monkey on that if you leave it out.

Anyway, Pollini is jaw dropping intense here and on all the preludes.

[JazzKeyboardist1]

purists will go ape, but i always cut out the middle part when i play this for an audience

[splendora]

ca donne des frissons, surtout quand on pousse le volume des hauts-parleurs dans la première partie et que l'on se fait surprendre par ce qui arrive... magnifique.

[horsecrazi3]

beautiful

[FallingthrougFire26]

Just started to listen to this as part of my GCSE

and i absoloutley love it!!!!

amazing especially the second section.

[rokizifredi]

This very record is my #1 favourite version of 24 Preludes

Bravo Pollini

[momelock]

Lovely. I like this piece played at this tempo better verses the slower.

[airvarie]

I don't like him played this Prelude

[newindianajones1]

@airvarie I agree to an extent

[ROMAJAM]

;-)

[robertslistening]

I was wondering if part of Pollini's beautiful tone has to do either with the way his piano is tuned, or the piano he is playing. He always sounds so clear. I think there are some subtleties between how the various pianists have their instruments tuned aren't there??

I am sure most of it probably is just their technique, but I was wondering because I read somewhere about this. I am not talking about equal temperament. I am referring more to the way some string triplets are not equally pitched.

[mees04101993]

@robertslistening he has that tone on serveral instruments.. it's about the way he plays. He has used seven years of his live to improve his tone, without giving any concerts or recitals; because (age 18, when he won the Chopin concours) the judges said "he was even better than them" (one of the judges was Arthur Rubinstein), Pollini said he was "in the musical perspective not ready to perform" in those seven years he has reached this level of musicallity (he was technically high gifted already)

[MaestroTJS]

A wonderful interpretation of this beautiful piece.

[julian2s]

BELIEVE

[Nemodus]

Faen, Pollini er den beste!

[Ellinidara]

@Nemodus Listen the old Pogorelich'version,Martha A.Rafal Blechacz,Arrau...And perhaps you'll change opinion.

[rhiurayane]

Pff pollini qui joue neutre ... Je veux bien jouer de façon neutre alors !

[CxC2007]

your problem is....?

[sahandsesoot]

lol why i was so blind last time i commented...now i just love his style...

[FierceDeity08]

Believe

[nkbeach]

Du Chopin neutre?? on ne doit pas entendre la même chose !

[antoinezygfryd]

Du Chopin neutre,comme la Suisse!