Jorge Bolet Master Class-Rachmaninoff Piano Conc.#3-Pt.1

[juanbosco31]

Que pena no haber podido haber recibido alguna observacion del Maestro Bolet

[x3n0cr4735]

Demolish the mule with a 2x4, Bolet! 3:25

[arrau08]

Can somebody add more contents to Jorge Bolet in Wikipedia? There must be more to add there; it's still a "stub" for people like me who so admire him.

[cantanteporsiempre]

AND HE IS CUBAN!!! I FEEL VERY PROUD

[HotSo0P]

I'm so glad that treasures like this exist on Youtube :)

[JJKjaer]

Haha, a little bit of jazz around 7:51:-D Lol!

[gerardbedecarter]

Very interesting and helpful!!!!

[hd26R601]

A mule?!

[tommy9882]

Who is he teaching?

[MsLeewang]

Amazing video! I would love o get to know a teacher like that one day. But I guess is too late for me.

[malcuzynski]

It's never too late for anything - as long as the beat goes on......

[Chopianist3]

Why is it so many of these piano teachers are so boastful about the fact that their from some "Direct line of Decendants from blah blah blah,...." A name means nothing whereas the music means everything

[Mosotti]

I don't really know what are you talking about, it's not the "piano teacher" saying "direct line blabla"

[lc604]

I use to think of it as "boasting", until recently I also made references of my teacher this, my professor that, the conversation with this pianist etc...

This "boasting" is just a way of conveying the privilege and opportunity of being exposed of a subject. Example- Daniel Barenboim boasting about his Parents or Emily Bear about her Grandmother.

[blacktiger444]

"A name means nothing whereas the music means everything" - beautifully said.

[bagdad4]

omg i love you for saying that

[Jennuchan]

Jorge Bolet is my godfather; my father, Henry Lowinger, is also a Cuban-born pianist who studied under him for years. He died when I was 2, so I have no memory of him. It's very weird to see him alive and on film.

[fabrizzzio48]

Bolet had a deep understanding of the piece. He is trying to make the student CONSCIOUS of the different melodies and ideas that he is playing, not just playing them. If you don't MEAN those notes, you might as well, close the cover of the piano. As for the orchestra, only egotists don't consider the orchestra, then, play it alone!

The orchestra and conductor have as much worth as the soloist, and all must be considerate to all.

Alreich would have benefited from Bolet's real musical sense.

[marcxopoco]

Bolet has the mentality of a conductor.

This is a valuable video.

And he knows the piece inside out.

His pointing out the bass line at 5:02 is just one example.

Boy has he absorbed this piece.

[OorvakanSar]

he plays it like jazz, not that great

[Hexameron]

The young Ira Levin looks like Anton Chigurh (bad guy from movie "No Country for Old Men")

[gipfeli]

i dont know that anton guy, but i think he looks like the guy in the Apple advertisement...the "Hello, I'm a Mac"-guy....

[ae2506a]

ayazrafak, if you hate this masterclass, have you watched Joao Pires's masterclass (also on youtube? Bolet is an angel compared to that woman... :D She wouldn't let the poor student play one bar before interrupting! Personally, I found her own spontaneous demonstration often quite questionable themselves, but she obviously relish her impromptu demo passages. (i wonder if she does masterclasses for the power...)

[malcuzynski]

@ae2506a I couldn't agree more. Pires's masterclass is a vivid demonstration of the difference between teaching - having some concern for the student and trying to help them to achieve their own objectives - and egomania -'I'm better than you so why don't you just give up now?'. And the sad fact is that she wasn't even any good....

[ayazrafak]

I found this mastercalss absolutely useless! All pianists have already established a fixed idea about how to play Rach 3 and played it quite well, in their own ways. Why try pressuring them into Bolet's idea of it?

[danlo5]

I couldn't help but wonder how much more educational and entertaining this session would have been with, instead of students, actual renowned virtuosos.

Could you imagine a session with Bolet facilitating, but with pianists such as Martha Argerich, Zoltan Kocsis and Byron Janis participating?

It would be worth watching that just to see Argerich respond to Bolet's assertion that orchestras would have an extremely difficult time keeping up with her tempos.

[Pogouldiwitz]

...If his interpretations aren't what you prefer it doesn't mean that they're thoughtless. "To each his own."

[goodridgewinners]

I had to listen to this concerto about 10 times on the CD i bought to actually like it. I hated it to start with...all that hype and talk about how wonderful it is....well, luckily my appreciation for the music of Rachmaninoff changed...lol, now its up there amongst my most favourite concertos. I also love the cadenza.

Lol...a master class like this would be intimidating lol...i would be in tears.

[virtuoso691]

Has anyone seen Jorge Bolet's masterclass on the Rachmaninoff 2nd concerto?

[gnolti]

Good joke about the mule. Too bad everybody in the room is too wound up to laugh.

[borninparis]

The kid is a bit all over the place. papa Bolet put some order into it. Wonderful clip.

[odilsoum]

Ira Levin is the conductor of my city's orchestra I see him present everytime...

[radurak]

This is one of the few masterclasses where there really is a *master* who actually has something to say.

[danlo5]

Good point. I watched a master class led by Artur Rubinstein, when Rubinstein must have been 82 or 83 years old. It was difficult to understand what he was trying to convey, both when he spoke and when he attempted to play the piano. His technique had dissipated so much that he couldn't even play for his students portions of Chopin's First Ballade. It was very sad.

[Tiberius717]

I think you understood not much of that masterclass. Rubistein had still so lots of things to convey, that every word he says is worth gold. What's the matter if he can't play (and he just says at the end "For you, not for me, because I can't do anything anymore"...), when with only one word he conveys the experience of a full life? It was not sad: it was amazing.

[shela2]

A few words about the speaker on here...Robin Ray. Robin will always be remembered for his part in a popular T.V.prog. called "Face the Music" - chaired by Joseph Cooper. In this, Robin excelled for his wide knowledge of the Great Pianists, thus he became  very popular. His sudden loss left a big gap in the Entertainment world which he had shared with his father comedian Ted Wray.

[Hofmann1937]

It does not get much better than this. Rachmaninoff was Bolet's idol and he heard him perform this concerto several times in person. Few pianists today exhibit such total command and restraint. Discipline! Now that is impressive! (Far more than the Lang Lang circus act!)  Only miss seeing the last part: Bolet performing the concerto himself with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

[BrucknerEnthusiast]

Yes, Bolet's 1982 Decca recording of the Rachmaninov Third with the LSO is a 'darkness to light' epic journey which gives the concerto an intense seriousness of purpose, raising it far above the level of superficial showpiece. I recommend all my most advanced piano students to hear Bolet's Decca Rach 3. His control is awesome. By contrast, have you seen the antics in the stupid 'Lang Lang gone mad' video?

[Hofmann1937]

Bolet also did a marvelous live account in the 1970's with the student orchestra Indiana University which is worth tracking down. The sound is not a good but the level of exitement is worth the trade; Bolet was always better live.

[zkool5]

Oh Please! Lang Lang is in a class of his own... his total disservice to the arts puts Lang Lang in a class of his own. As Hofman1937 mentioned, he's nothing more than a circus act, and will continue to stay that way to impress listeners who have little to no knowledge in the vast depths of classical music.

[principecalaf]

I agree with you. Rachmaninov Third in Bolet's Decca recording is amazing. I suggest you if u still don't know it the Michail Pletnev version 2. Just to compare old and new school.

Regards

[omarfarahat]

His remarks are so good. I've been in such masterclasses in the past and honestly it is pretty intimidating when the teacher is a big master because they always come up with unexpected stuff that maybe not even your teacher had mentioned

[stxer]

I just finished watching all the videos in this series and want to thank you for uploading them. It was a wonderful experience. A bonus was getting to hear much of the piano's part that is usually covered up by the orchestra! Thanks again.

[misotoma]

Bolet doesnt teach them a lesson only for this piece or for the piano.. i feel like this man lived his life well enough to know what to say and when to say it. I bet these students will be inspired and learn alot from this man, something alot more valuable then the piece itself :p

[ivrykeys]

Thanks for this incredible upload!

I think this might be one of the best videos I've seen!

[jjp009]

Maestro Bolet's New York-made Steinway sounds much better than the student's piano...whatever that one is. A much bigger, brighter, bolder tone. I love New York Steinway's for this and all Rachmaninoff's concerti.

[Braprodalidvehutaci]

marvelous discussion of the inner voices in the concerto as well as of the tempo differences between the two pianists. Ales B.

[seanrcollins]

This is ridiculously good; incredibly insightful and practical advice for anyone studying this concerto

[Raquelly]

I feel completely moved and refreshed after this wonderful masterclass... Thank you!

Raquel Barbieri

[mexicomed]

OH. MY. GOD.

I had this entire video when I was a kid and I lost it. Bless you for posting this!!  What a wonderful recollection of the master at work. (I am a student of one of his students at IU)

[lauromc]

21 years Ira Levin, the young pianist you see here, is now an accomplished conductor who lives in Brazil. He was chief conductor of São Paulo Municipal Orchestra and has recently been nominated conductor of the Brasília Symphony Orchestra. He still has a career as a pianist and has just recorded a CD with his own piano transcriptions of works by Bach, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Villa-Lobos.

[speedstream001]

Many thanks for this excellent upload. It's interesting how sensitive he is about the inner voices taking over the main line. His own playing is very rich with inner tones coming out -- almost competing with the main line.

[davidf996]

THANKS!! THANKS!!  a lot!

A M A Z I N G ! !

[dlg111]

are you kidding me this is unreal stuff so amazingggggggggggggg