All of these "not the best interpretation I've ever heard" comments are simply people wanting to show that they've listened to so many renditions of the particular piece, that they are allowed to have an opinion and they assume it will be valued.
Everyone is allowed an opinion, but youtube is not the place to voice it (watch it fall on deaf ears) or an environment where it will be valued
c'est exactement pour ça que je considère le jeu de luganski très pertinent, y compris dans l'accélération centrale qui donne davantage de sincérité dans cette oeuvre de chopin. l'oevre est calme et tourmentée, selon le schéma type du nocturne romantique. Il est donc important de faire naître ces irrégularités dans le jeu , pour dégager une structure logique; à l'opposé de mozart dont la régularité extrême est "sentimentalisé" davantage par des nuances des reprises, des rythmes variés...
Left hand without any rhytmic tension partly due to the lack of observance of Chopins pedal markings that would create a minimal "hole" before each base rendering more biting. Generally some sort of sentimental all-round rubato losing the sense of fateful inevitability and effectively turning this masterpiece into salon music .
@ciliaspippi Valid point but i the places where Chopin performed were part of an intellectual scene , not "after work chill lounges ".Simply miss the tension between the feeling and the need to control it . As for the amount and " give " of the rubato it might probabl be influenced by language where the Polish is less flowing , more angular compared to the Russian . Anyway we can both rest assured that an artist of Luganskys status will have his career with or without my approval.
I agree with you completely on that count. Personally, I have found Lugansky to be a boring pianist. Brilliant, but everything I have heard him perform, from Beethoven to Chopin to Rachmaninov has been lacking that little bit of flair of sound. But I just keep opinions to myself. Perhaps youtube isn't the best place to discuss finer aspects of rubato interpretation. I personally wouldn't bother with fine critique anywhere on youtube, but best of luck to you in arguing your case.
@Zuxilbaja It is all subjective at this level but I personally prefer for example; Arrau , Rubinstein, Garrick Ohlsson , Maria Jao Pires to name jast a few. Several great pianists made more than one version ,for ex Rubinsteins earlier recordings are much more generous where rubato is concerned.
@DrDereczynski Okay... Thank you, I'll go listen to those versions. I am only a young amateur, but I really like this pianist, and the duo he makes with Vadim Repin. I first discovered them at a concert where they played a famous Cesar Franck sonata, and I fell in love with the three.
@Zuxilbaja 1. that one dislikes one performance does not mean that one cannot be bowled over by something else from the same artist . On this level there are no bad artists . Lugansky and Repin are great masters whatever one thinks of a particular interpretation. 2 I f You like something You should stick by it . Perhaps my small outpouring on Youtube made You listen to something else and like it too . If I only managed to diminish Your feelings for something i am just a bitter looser
I understand the difference between the judgment on a peculiar performance and the global work of an artist. You may not be convinced by this interpretation, I respect that, and I'm trying to understand the critics based upon subtle criteria.
@ldhmage what makes it not good? i've only recently started appreciating (or trying to) these piano pieces. why isn't it good? i know that i didn't feel what i've felt from other pieces, but that's all i've got. are you able to explain to a complete ignoramus why he is...er...sucking? i'd appreciate it.
@tracytracyotracy Don't read their comments. Google Chopin's ZAL - it's a melancolic elemement that defines a certain feeling which can't be described by words. In my opinion this is what his music should display, and lugansky interprets it perfectly.
Personally I cannot stand his playing He schmaltzes everything......... ugh. I heard him play the Rachmaninov 3 live here at the Hollywood Bowl and I hated it............. schmaltz.................. this nocturne belongs to Rubenstein and Guimar Novaes...... Myra Hess does a great job on it but AR and Novaes take the prize.
No applause at the end: sign of a perfect performance. Every member of that audience turned so deeply inward, so profoundly moved by this sublime 6-minute journey through Dante's 7 regions, that only silence could give the performance its proper honor. There is no applause loud and long enough to match that.
@36beachbum Have you never been to a live performance? It is quite normal not to applaud between every 'short' piece, usually a pianist plays a few etude/preludes in a row and at the end the audiences applaud.
@titusbeertsen Have attended hundreds of piano concerts. I was responding to someone who said "no applause at the end: sign of a perfect performance", and that is totally false. You are probably right, however, this performance did not merit much of an applause in any case.
Here is the most poignant Chopin's Nocturne ... He talks about this combination of calm and impetuosity that define the harmony of nature...I'm just crying with such simplicity and beauty
The third movement of this piece reminds me SO much of Rachmaninov. Rach loved to carry a baseline melody amidst another central theme. He must have been inspired by this piece :)
@TheKoenna1 Mein Klavierlehrer ist top :) ich bin echt dankbar, dass er sich vorallem mit solchen stücken bei mir zeit lässt. nebenbei spiel ich zwar auch jeweils ein anderes stück aber dieses ist erstmal im vordergrund :)
Chopin simply hit everything out of the ballpark. No other composer has, or will ever, write so exquisitely for the piano. Chopin was a piano. And Lugansky would make Chopin proud.
I don't like it when people play the last section so fast. It is marked to increase somewhat in speed, but when it's like this it just sounds messy and lacks the dynamics required. For example, 5:21 is marked pianissimo and here he's at least playing forte. Technically very accurate and brilliant, but just lacking some emotional interpretation for me.
@CaptainCouchman Well, it's doppio movimento, meaning double speed. :p I agree on the dynamics, though. It's real hard to pianissimo at that speed, to be fair to Lugansky.
@CaptainCouchman You're not being very fair. The last section is marked "doppio movimento" which means "twice as fast", and he's putting more effort into the crescendo by starting the section pianissimo and going up to a fortissimo.
He does not lose the melodic line at all. And believe me, it's easy to do so. The crescendo is impressive considering the difficulty of this section in particular.
Still, I can't disagree with your opinion on the "emotional interpretation", as that's subjective.
@MyExGirlf I think the solution is to play the first solution slower, not the third section faster... I guess that's the beauty of music; the musician gets to "interpret" the music and not just play "notes on the page".
I find it interesting how some people are more looking at the performence (hands) than the music. In my opinion, that is a major flaw. Listen to the music and judge from that!
However, I find this better than the Arthur Rubinstein's interpetation!
I think he's out of tempo. I'm not talking about what's written on the sheet but how you can feel the whole piece. Best ever is Rubinstein, in my humble opinion !
@tap3d3ck Don't think so. Maybe because I discovered Chopin with Rubinstein, but I really think that his nocturnes are the most sensible ever recorded. I'm not talking about all Chopin's works (he's not the best in certain waltzes, preludes or polonaises), only 'bout the nocturnes.
But it's all about personal tastes. I can't do anything about that ^^
@marcxopoco And who are you to say that it is not correctly played? I have met this pianist personally, and I am a close friend of his. I have heard him play this live. This is a perfectionist in piano. There is not one mistake in this recording, and for you to say that the 3 vs 4 rhythm is played wrong simply makes you look stupid.
@jlfnetto Cold? Why do you think? He gives there just right amount of emotions.... Well Rachmaninov fits him better, but definitely it's original and professional interpretation. One of the best what you can hear nowadays.
i completely disagree with you. He is one of the best pianist, our world has to offer. He is technically perfect and his musicianship is unique as well as professional, He does exactly what Chopin had intended in this piece. Play the beginning(or even the whole piece romantic) the middle section tranquil, and slowly climax to the doppio movmento, playing it agitato while having the melody in the 5th finger very clear. This is one of my favorite interpretations. Please check my channel for this
I have been taught to avoid imitation of another performer and seek a personal interpretation based only on my relationship with the scores of a piece (ie. various editions and their qualifications), but this performance I would gladly wish to call my own with one exception of the lack of a dynamic "subito piano" at measure 15, which is in every edition I know, and to obvious effect. Otherwise, this is the edition I wish to study; if not done already, hopefully, he will record completeNocturnes
Have you heard the Rubinstein (here on Youtube)? He's one of the reference Chopin interprets and he doesn't do a subito piano at measure 15. He's very subtle in the two previous bars and transitions smoothly. I must admit that's weird, when I read the score I thought it obvious as well.
I'm with you on the wierd/obvious when it comes to Rubenstein and Chopin, ie., if I weren't studying the score, just listening to R., I'd be enthralled. He is a great example of a pianist a highly gifted instinct for Chopin; Who knows? Chopin, a few years later, or even days after publication, may have deleted that subito piano...Rubenstein makes it work. Though, I must say, I milk that opportunity for all it's worth! So mysteriously, dramatically tender.
no choice but to break cords dude, i play it and there's no way you reach a 13th like Rach unless you're a freak. (some cord can be flush if you play 2 notes at same time with your thumb, cehck it out)
If you watch his hands, he arpeggiates the bottom two notes or so, and then hits the remaining notes in the chord. Watch from around 3:55 to see what I mean.
Also, you can do the same even though it's not written on your score. how else will you reach it?
This is the best performance and interpretation I have heard, regarding this piece of music. I completely agree with with ultmtsnwbrd3r - this is how Chopin intended this piece to be played.
I also recommend the Guoimar Novaes if you can get it it was published by Vox ages ago and it has been available of late on remastered CD' all her chopin work. Quite frankly I hated Lugansky in the Rach d minor but I understated my opinion as I am want to do on You Tube.....
I heard this pianist recently in the Rachmanivov Cm and I hated it. this nocturne is good but it does not compare to Hofmann, Rubinstein and that of G Novaes
Bravissimo Chopin and Bravo Luganskiy. It's was great!!
FrankyyBalboa 1 month ago
Lugansky est le meilleur joueur de piano au monde, meilleur interprète en tout cas !
Lekaratekadu59 1 month ago
All of these "not the best interpretation I've ever heard" comments are simply people wanting to show that they've listened to so many renditions of the particular piece, that they are allowed to have an opinion and they assume it will be valued.
Everyone is allowed an opinion, but youtube is not the place to voice it (watch it fall on deaf ears) or an environment where it will be valued
milesmossman 2 months ago 3
enfin quelqu'un qui vit la musique pour que celle-ci vive en lui !!
♥♥♥♥
babazertouille 3 months ago
Listen to Gilels and Argerich play this nocturne :-))
Bret6464 3 months ago
magnifique une interprétation impeccable qui m'a fait voyager
MrMusic1600 3 months ago
this music makes me forget all shit that happened in my life
lenrfrjyatnrfq 4 months ago
I'm sorry to say this, because I truly LOVE Luganskys Rachmaninoff interpretations, but Chopin.........really not his thing!
BugattiJoe 4 months ago 2
@BugattiJoe
c'est vrai que la partie rapide est vraiment accélérée
MrMusic1600 3 months ago
@MrMusic1600
c'est du chopin pas du mozart !!!
RUBATO
babazertouille 3 months ago
@babazertouille
???? on ne compare pas Mozart et Chopin 2 styles très différents et ils nous transmettent leur émotion différemment
MrMusic1600 3 months ago
c'est exactement pour ça que je considère le jeu de luganski très pertinent, y compris dans l'accélération centrale qui donne davantage de sincérité dans cette oeuvre de chopin. l'oevre est calme et tourmentée, selon le schéma type du nocturne romantique. Il est donc important de faire naître ces irrégularités dans le jeu , pour dégager une structure logique; à l'opposé de mozart dont la régularité extrême est "sentimentalisé" davantage par des nuances des reprises, des rythmes variés...
babazertouille 3 months ago
@babazertouille
ok ok --' mais pourquoi vous dites ça ???
MrMusic1600 3 months ago
donc nous sommes d'accord, et j'avais tort de voir une critique dans votre réponse à BugattiJoe
babazertouille 3 months ago
Zal is a polish word ... ^^
VoiDukkha 4 months ago
@VoiDukkha Yes, try explaining it in another language ;).
ImmortalSpecies 3 months ago
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pyracanthoi 5 months ago in playlist classics
なぜ一番いいところで手を写さないのか．．．
演奏はとても素晴らしい！
shinoikawa 6 months ago
Left hand without any rhytmic tension partly due to the lack of observance of Chopins pedal markings that would create a minimal "hole" before each base rendering more biting. Generally some sort of sentimental all-round rubato losing the sense of fateful inevitability and effectively turning this masterpiece into salon music .
DrDereczynski 6 months ago 9
@DrDereczynski
Although Chopin wrote it as a salon piece. He did most of his performing in salons.
ciliaspippi 3 months ago
@ciliaspippi Valid point but i the places where Chopin performed were part of an intellectual scene , not "after work chill lounges ".Simply miss the tension between the feeling and the need to control it . As for the amount and " give " of the rubato it might probabl be influenced by language where the Polish is less flowing , more angular compared to the Russian . Anyway we can both rest assured that an artist of Luganskys status will have his career with or without my approval.
DrDereczynski 3 months ago
@DrDereczynski
I agree with you completely on that count. Personally, I have found Lugansky to be a boring pianist. Brilliant, but everything I have heard him perform, from Beethoven to Chopin to Rachmaninov has been lacking that little bit of flair of sound. But I just keep opinions to myself. Perhaps youtube isn't the best place to discuss finer aspects of rubato interpretation. I personally wouldn't bother with fine critique anywhere on youtube, but best of luck to you in arguing your case.
ciliaspippi 3 months ago
@DrDereczynski I like it though :) that's how I play it too, there's more emotion in it I think
howtoplayitsa 1 month ago
@DrDereczynski Could you please suggest a better interpretation, at least in your opinion? I would very much like to hear the difference.
Zuxilbaja 3 weeks ago
@Zuxilbaja It is all subjective at this level but I personally prefer for example; Arrau , Rubinstein, Garrick Ohlsson , Maria Jao Pires to name jast a few. Several great pianists made more than one version ,for ex Rubinsteins earlier recordings are much more generous where rubato is concerned.
DrDereczynski 3 weeks ago
@DrDereczynski Okay... Thank you, I'll go listen to those versions. I am only a young amateur, but I really like this pianist, and the duo he makes with Vadim Repin. I first discovered them at a concert where they played a famous Cesar Franck sonata, and I fell in love with the three.
Zuxilbaja 3 weeks ago
@Zuxilbaja 1. that one dislikes one performance does not mean that one cannot be bowled over by something else from the same artist . On this level there are no bad artists . Lugansky and Repin are great masters whatever one thinks of a particular interpretation. 2 I f You like something You should stick by it . Perhaps my small outpouring on Youtube made You listen to something else and like it too . If I only managed to diminish Your feelings for something i am just a bitter looser
DrDereczynski 3 weeks ago
@DrDereczynski No, you're not a looser ;)
I understand the difference between the judgment on a peculiar performance and the global work of an artist. You may not be convinced by this interpretation, I respect that, and I'm trying to understand the critics based upon subtle criteria.
Zuxilbaja 3 weeks ago
INCREDIBILE!!!!!!! Mai sentita una eseguzione tanto elevata!
reflexpg 6 months ago
where are chopinVEVO??
carlangaz007 6 months ago
I prefer his interpretations of Rachmaninov. I don't know what he is doing to these poor pieces
herbigame 7 months ago
@herbigame He is killing these Chopin pieces. Poor playing, poor Chopin
ldhmage 6 months ago 3
@ldhmage what makes it not good? i've only recently started appreciating (or trying to) these piano pieces. why isn't it good? i know that i didn't feel what i've felt from other pieces, but that's all i've got. are you able to explain to a complete ignoramus why he is...er...sucking? i'd appreciate it.
tracytracyotracy 6 months ago
@tracytracyotracy Don't read their comments. Google Chopin's ZAL - it's a melancolic elemement that defines a certain feeling which can't be described by words. In my opinion this is what his music should display, and lugansky interprets it perfectly.
ImmortalSpecies 4 months ago
I'm two months old and I like chopin.
eXtoCrosyDGT 7 months ago 3
chopin understands me.
h3lv3te 7 months ago
What grade would you consider this piece?
korlock3000 7 months ago
this is the best nocturne of chopin
NEKODAMI 8 months ago
Personally I cannot stand his playing He schmaltzes everything......... ugh. I heard him play the Rachmaninov 3 live here at the Hollywood Bowl and I hated it............. schmaltz.................. this nocturne belongs to Rubenstein and Guimar Novaes...... Myra Hess does a great job on it but AR and Novaes take the prize.
TJFNYC212 8 months ago 7
@TJFNYC212 indeed sound a bit artificial and deliberate in my personal opinion
thomaskoo 8 months ago 33
@thomaskoo I'd like to see you doing it bettter.
davidwe 3 months ago
@TJFNYC212 You and me both, exactly how I feel about him..... why go see him?
89hedgehog 7 months ago
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ThinkingChristian29 8 months ago
Stunning.
monobrow638 8 months ago
No applause at the end: sign of a perfect performance. Every member of that audience turned so deeply inward, so profoundly moved by this sublime 6-minute journey through Dante's 7 regions, that only silence could give the performance its proper honor. There is no applause loud and long enough to match that.
briandonohue100 8 months ago 2
@briandonohue100 No applause means nobody liked the performance, even the Japanese who applaud just to be polite didn't like it, LOL
36beachbum 8 months ago
@36beachbum Have you never been to a live performance? It is quite normal not to applaud between every 'short' piece, usually a pianist plays a few etude/preludes in a row and at the end the audiences applaud.
titusbeertsen 7 months ago
@titusbeertsen Have attended hundreds of piano concerts. I was responding to someone who said "no applause at the end: sign of a perfect performance", and that is totally false. You are probably right, however, this performance did not merit much of an applause in any case.
36beachbum 7 months ago
No idea who this guy is but... me gusta.
justapersonlikeyou 9 months ago
Lugansky doit être béatifié! Quand je pense qu'il ya 17 idiots qui n'aiment pas cette musique!!!
Nganguenf 9 months ago
Lugansky doit être béatifié!
Nganguenf 9 months ago
Here is the most poignant Chopin's Nocturne ... He talks about this combination of calm and impetuosity that define the harmony of nature...I'm just crying with such simplicity and beauty
Nganguenf 9 months ago
Fantastic Lugansky! Absolutely fantastic Chopin!!!
MrGiannis1985 10 months ago
Gave me goose bumps throughout the whole piece
It's a miracle how someone can get that sound out of 88 keys
howtoplayitsa 10 months ago
@howtoplayitsa I do hope that the miracle sits a lot deeper than those 88 keys.
PiaChess 10 months ago
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howtoplayitsa 10 months ago
The third movement of this piece reminds me SO much of Rachmaninov. Rach loved to carry a baseline melody amidst another central theme. He must have been inspired by this piece :)
luke1841 10 months ago
@luke1841
I think you mean section, but yes, agreed. It's quite fantastic :D
keetner 10 months ago
preciosa la música, gran intérprete :)
Liviafull 11 months ago
¡Bravo!
Toughguysdontdance12 11 months ago
mein lieblingspart: 5:00 - 6:30
electro0n 11 months ago 2
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TheKoenna1 11 months ago
@TheKoenna1 Ich spiele dieses Stück schon die erste Seite und egal wie lang es dauert, ich werde es irgendwann können :)
electro0n 11 months ago
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TheKoenna1 11 months ago
@TheKoenna1 Mein Klavierlehrer ist top :) ich bin echt dankbar, dass er sich vorallem mit solchen stücken bei mir zeit lässt. nebenbei spiel ich zwar auch jeweils ein anderes stück aber dieses ist erstmal im vordergrund :)
electro0n 11 months ago
sexyyy. good job!! I'm leaning this song!
GreenPiano49 11 months ago
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polottus 1 year ago
Grand MERCI pour cette mise en oigne ineffable de beauté !
DIVIN
xanglat 1 year ago
Beautiful
ssj4hassan 1 year ago
amazing
underUG 1 year ago
Chopin simply hit everything out of the ballpark. No other composer has, or will ever, write so exquisitely for the piano. Chopin was a piano. And Lugansky would make Chopin proud.
cpanati 1 year ago
my favourite nocturne of chopin <3
Fientjelientje 1 year ago
I don't like it when people play the last section so fast. It is marked to increase somewhat in speed, but when it's like this it just sounds messy and lacks the dynamics required. For example, 5:21 is marked pianissimo and here he's at least playing forte. Technically very accurate and brilliant, but just lacking some emotional interpretation for me.
CaptainCouchman 1 year ago
@CaptainCouchman Well, it's doppio movimento, meaning double speed. :p I agree on the dynamics, though. It's real hard to pianissimo at that speed, to be fair to Lugansky.
MyExGirlf 1 year ago
@CaptainCouchman You're not being very fair. The last section is marked "doppio movimento" which means "twice as fast", and he's putting more effort into the crescendo by starting the section pianissimo and going up to a fortissimo.
He does not lose the melodic line at all. And believe me, it's easy to do so. The crescendo is impressive considering the difficulty of this section in particular.
Still, I can't disagree with your opinion on the "emotional interpretation", as that's subjective.
MyExGirlf 1 year ago
@MyExGirlf I think the solution is to play the first solution slower, not the third section faster... I guess that's the beauty of music; the musician gets to "interpret" the music and not just play "notes on the page".
CaptainCouchman 1 year ago
@CaptainCouchman that should read first "section" slower...
CaptainCouchman 1 year ago
@CaptainCouchman well. playing forte instead of pianissimo doesn't mean playing without emotions :)
zEXXXY 1 year ago
@zEXXXY yes haha I would say the opposite ;)
ModernPianoAble 1 year ago
Every time I watch this, I would like to marry him.
Inattuale 1 year ago 2
I prefer Thibaudet's account.
rectalspike 1 year ago
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MrRod355 1 year ago
Terrific!!!
MrRod355 1 year ago
He feels it.. He feels the soul of the piece... And I feel it too..
love4nana707 1 year ago
Check the Arrau performance.
shortestgiant 1 year ago
@shortestgiant
Arrau look likes (tempo, mind) lugansky but who is better for u ?
tylerdurden0005 1 year ago
Lang Lang is the clown of pianist; Nikolai Lugansky is the high class gentleman of pianist.
candoyja 1 year ago 4
Goood!
andreasnicolas1 1 year ago
Absolutely amazing...
descontrolador 1 year ago
I find it interesting how some people are more looking at the performence (hands) than the music. In my opinion, that is a major flaw. Listen to the music and judge from that!
However, I find this better than the Arthur Rubinstein's interpetation!
Cassyboy2 1 year ago
...this made me cry...and I never cry...
Mermanof83 1 year ago 10
@Mermanof83 wow!!!lol really?me too!!
angelwow10 1 year ago
I think he's out of tempo. I'm not talking about what's written on the sheet but how you can feel the whole piece. Best ever is Rubinstein, in my humble opinion !
Great pianist though :)
Romdirt 1 year ago
@Romdirt It's an interpretation but I think he's got it spot on. Lugansky understands better than Rubinstein what a nocturne is.
tap3d3ck 1 year ago
@tap3d3ck Don't think so. Maybe because I discovered Chopin with Rubinstein, but I really think that his nocturnes are the most sensible ever recorded. I'm not talking about all Chopin's works (he's not the best in certain waltzes, preludes or polonaises), only 'bout the nocturnes.
But it's all about personal tastes. I can't do anything about that ^^
Romdirt 1 year ago
very very greaaaaat!!! I love him! =D
MissElsa74 1 year ago
I have tried to play the piece. But, the last part always gives me fits. He really made it looked easy!
wongbwmagic 1 year ago 2
The 4 vs. 3 in the final section is not correctly played.
marcxopoco 1 year ago
@marcxopoco And who are you to say that it is not correctly played? I have met this pianist personally, and I am a close friend of his. I have heard him play this live. This is a perfectionist in piano. There is not one mistake in this recording, and for you to say that the 3 vs 4 rhythm is played wrong simply makes you look stupid.
Martel211996 1 year ago
@Martel211996 is clueless when it scomes to explaining how to play 3 vs 4.
Or will the clueless martel now explain to all of us how the 4 fits against the 3?
LOL
marcxopoco 1 year ago
@marcxopoco I can actually play this piece thank you very much. Look on my Chanel and you'll see it smartass
Martel211996 1 year ago
It is exact how he should play this nocturne!
ewaschmidt 1 year ago
il miglior doppo movimento mai sentito !! grande!
Fedinopiano 1 year ago
Huge Chopin fan here.
This is by far Chopin's most emotional piece. It's so sad, so tragic, so deep.
vizion24 1 year ago 4
Undoubtedly, Biret is the best on this work!!!
joaquindalessio 1 year ago
perfect comment
amilahad 1 year ago
The doppio movemento is technically fantastic! Very educational.
220392123 2 years ago
Beginning is too slow for me, too dry
Doppio is quite good, but not great for me
michal1810 1 year ago
aggreed!
koenigseggccr007 1 year ago
je ne peux que respecter la version de lugansky pour ce nocturne, ouaw.
lemecdupc 2 years ago
Absolutely love his Droppio (last section) of this piece.
CloudTT 2 years ago 3
He is too cold, i respect him as a profession, but not more. he is to boring
musicpiano14 2 years ago
@musicpiano14 Yeah... he is really cold. We have to feel the music when we are playing Chopin.
jlfnetto 2 years ago
@jlfnetto you probably should feel, not me. I feel it much more than you all here on youtube - idiots.
musicpiano14 2 years ago
@musicpiano14 wow, musicpiano, you're an ass
Spakmadur 1 year ago
@jlfnetto Cold? Why do you think? He gives there just right amount of emotions.... Well Rachmaninov fits him better, but definitely it's original and professional interpretation. One of the best what you can hear nowadays.
Freddran 1 year ago 2
i completely disagree with you. He is one of the best pianist, our world has to offer. He is technically perfect and his musicianship is unique as well as professional, He does exactly what Chopin had intended in this piece. Play the beginning(or even the whole piece romantic) the middle section tranquil, and slowly climax to the doppio movmento, playing it agitato while having the melody in the 5th finger very clear. This is one of my favorite interpretations. Please check my channel for this
Martel211996 1 year ago
I have been taught to avoid imitation of another performer and seek a personal interpretation based only on my relationship with the scores of a piece (ie. various editions and their qualifications), but this performance I would gladly wish to call my own with one exception of the lack of a dynamic "subito piano" at measure 15, which is in every edition I know, and to obvious effect. Otherwise, this is the edition I wish to study; if not done already, hopefully, he will record completeNocturnes
loosetea 2 years ago
Have you heard the Rubinstein (here on Youtube)? He's one of the reference Chopin interprets and he doesn't do a subito piano at measure 15. He's very subtle in the two previous bars and transitions smoothly. I must admit that's weird, when I read the score I thought it obvious as well.
DrAsik100 2 years ago
I'm with you on the wierd/obvious when it comes to Rubenstein and Chopin, ie., if I weren't studying the score, just listening to R., I'd be enthralled. He is a great example of a pianist a highly gifted instinct for Chopin; Who knows? Chopin, a few years later, or even days after publication, may have deleted that subito piano...Rubenstein makes it work. Though, I must say, I milk that opportunity for all it's worth! So mysteriously, dramatically tender.
loosetea 2 years ago
Wonderful, thank you!!
keepthemusicplaying0 2 years ago
no choice but to break cords dude, i play it and there's no way you reach a 13th like Rach unless you're a freak. (some cord can be flush if you play 2 notes at same time with your thumb, cehck it out)
Rachmanigod 2 years ago
Agreed, it's actually quite common to play 2 notes with your thumb.
Rachmaninoff sure had large hands, but consequently it was due to an illness, which caused easy bleeding on his part.
victusAiterum 2 years ago
В первой части леворучные аккорды прозвучали без стаккато. А в остальном, по-моему, всё чудесно! Мне нравится. Луганский рулит!
serjiusprimus 2 years ago
i cant reach the LH chords in the poco piu lento part. maybe it can be played in broken chords or something? =S
alphabastard 2 years ago
If you watch his hands, he arpeggiates the bottom two notes or so, and then hits the remaining notes in the chord. Watch from around 3:55 to see what I mean.
Also, you can do the same even though it's not written on your score. how else will you reach it?
WeAreL3gion 2 years ago
I know you're not supposed to clap in between the parts of an Opus, but I would anyway. A performance this beautiful warrants its own applause.
WeAreL3gion 2 years ago 2
if you listen closely, theres some guy like rapping in the background. is that just me? You can really hear it at the end... well a little...
CloudTT 2 years ago
I can't hear it. Maybe what you're hearing is the release of the sustain pedal's damper?
hypoxide 2 years ago
You have to listen very very closely especially on those last several notes... I know it isnt the pedal. I know im not crazy... at least I hope...
CloudTT 2 years ago
in my opinion, this is superior to Scriabin's op.8 no.12
chopinandliszt 2 years ago 4
Of course, there probably isn't a more spiritual composition than this. This and the third scherzo = Heaven.
shevansilva 2 years ago
Превосходно!
scharfsinnig 2 years ago
I hate how at the most intense part they don't show his hands -_- but this is amazing <3
weeinersauce 2 years ago 46
@weeinersauce apparently Japanese ppl dont care about the hand as much as the face
zhzhzh5 1 year ago
@weeinersauce yes - like starting from 5:03, the best part...
BrookHornblower 1 year ago 2
I find the hardest past is the middle part
MisterT006 1 year ago
i love this piece, truly one of the most deep and touching nocturnes i've heard. i never get bored hearing it. Lugansky performed beautifully.
joyfulboi1979 2 years ago 5
I know people might think im crazy if i say this but i used to not like chopin, liszt was my type, that changed after hearing this piece
theanguished1 2 years ago 13
@theanguished1 very honest, bravo!!!
PS if u dont like Mozart listen Requiem)) For not liking Bach Goldberg Variations or F minor concert)))
Just tell me whom dont u like from the GREATEST I will tell there masterpieces))
Arsen2488 11 months ago
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bitterappula 2 years ago
I loved the speed he took ... not running, but still not going too slow... Quite impressing. I'm taking him as an example to play it myself :D
aseticelite 2 years ago 2
he has a very very european look
fortissimo25 2 years ago
yes he does. the way his hair is, the color and the style. his facial featuers. and of course the way he plays. its the russian school of piano <3.
spike2133876 2 years ago
He expressed and felt this nocturne by his whole body... really awesome! Excellent !
kobepolonaise 2 years ago 6
i think it´s a bit too slow...later, after the cromatic it´s a great speed :)
552312 2 years ago 5
Thank you for posting. This is my favourite Chopin Nocturne and the most dramatic.
vegatrev 2 years ago 4
so deep..
great interpretation!
we love u Lugansky!
lagnyim 2 years ago 5
Lugansky look so, so, so, so, so, SO sexy in that pianist suit! He' s an excellent, amazing pianist. I love him!
pinkmemories 2 years ago 3
isn't it one of the few "symphonic" piano works by Chopin?
chopinandliszt 2 years ago
Je trouve la fin un peu trop précipitée, le reste est néanmoins excellent!
Paulo78180 2 years ago
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parece un mariquita cuando toca fuerte parece q le da un tiron jaja
salvika111 2 years ago
Sinceramente no sabes apreciar nada cierto? Ni siquiera una interpretación tan genial como esta
Hianndryv 2 years ago
Coincido plenamente. Esta interpretación es absolutamente genial. Está en mi agenda de cabecera de obras favoritas
danielyaz 2 years ago
Me parece, Salvika, que te equivocaste... lo tuyo es la cumbia villera, no el piano.
danielyaz 2 years ago
un mariquita deves ser tu
zurzica51 2 years ago
annoying the cameraman didnt show his hands on the agitato section i am learning it and it would've helped
afertyus1000 2 years ago
Yes, I actually saw him do that piece with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in August of 2008. It was wonderful.
mightyquincy109 2 years ago
puaggg, lugansky is eating anything
nuevopianista 2 years ago
This is definately one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, and excellently executed.
220392123 2 years ago 28
@220392123
execute a piece of music!?
ahsusmus 1 year ago
@ahsusmus Executed as in played?
MyExGirlf 1 year ago
Excellent & fantastic!!!
LordDarthVader35 2 years ago
This is the best performance and interpretation I have heard, regarding this piece of music. I completely agree with with ultmtsnwbrd3r - this is how Chopin intended this piece to be played.
Well done!
mbo0001 2 years ago 5
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mbo0001 2 years ago
bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Icarodefrancisco 2 years ago
Lovely
LiLeorre 2 years ago 3
I also recommend the Guoimar Novaes if you can get it it was published by Vox ages ago and it has been available of late on remastered CD' all her chopin work. Quite frankly I hated Lugansky in the Rach d minor but I understated my opinion as I am want to do on You Tube.....
TJFNYC212 2 years ago
I heard this pianist recently in the Rachmanivov Cm and I hated it. this nocturne is good but it does not compare to Hofmann, Rubinstein and that of G Novaes
TJFNYC212 2 years ago