Maria Yudina plays Schubert Sonata in B flat major, D.960

[pianoreve]

her slow tempo in the dolce moments makes me feel crying...

[LukeK79]

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

[mdoub]

I like the sly bits of rubato, but I think at times it is overwrought and effuse

[sabadabaduz]

richter is quoted on wikipedia commenting on her: "...but Schubert's B flat major Sonata, while arresting as an interpretation, was the exact opposite of what it should have been:::"

[truecrypt]

What you missed in Richter's quote is that he considered this performance "arresting as an interpretation". For you it's "like she is dragging".

[sabadabaduz]

i dont like that she is dragging. alot of russians did that to schubert in her era.

[truecrypt]

Could you name a few among "alot of russians" who "did it to schubert"?

[AndreiKrakovsky]

Molto molto molto espressivo!!!

[Liszt1886]

Che audacia nei contrasti dinamici e quale originalità di fraseggio!

[pianistmusic]

out of the world.......wonderful...like a cosmic essay

[weikko79]

The pianissimo that opens this clip and especially the pianopianissimo at 3:05 are simply incredible, breathtaking playing: how anyone can achieve such a beautiful, heavenly, ethereal sound is beyond me.

[brolemca]

Maria Yudina, the pianist, is one of a very few Russians by whome the very existence of the Russian nation, if not the humanity itself, is justified.

[weikko79]

Rather the former than the latter, if you ask me ;-)

[ThomasJBromley]

Yes, Yudina is a pianist of the highest order, possibly the best I have ever heard...

[smithsherman]

Maria seems to be monumental in her recordings

BUT,she achieves it not in a cold mechanical

authoritatian,& objectivist manner.But as individual intimacy.

[brolemca]

Maria Yudina, the pianist, is one of a very few Russians by whome the very existence of the Russian nation, if not the humanity itself, is justified.

[pjioayncoe]

Now, that's subjectivism and individualism gone rabid.

[slaviikmad]

A human is not a function of justification of something. She has her own causal powers, while the nations and humanity itself is rather a fiction.