3rd Chopin piano competition - fragments from the old documentaries - Yakov Zak, Rosa Tamarkina

[Noshirm]

Andre - what a treat to see Tamarkina playing! Thank you so much. (:-o)

[Dankbarkeit1980]

If I am not mistaken Tamarkina plays the mazurka Op.50 No.2 in A flat major. I would love to listen to Mazurkas by Tamarkina....

[MarschNZ]

This makes me so sad. All these great people destroy by war. They were wonderful wonderful people. I think Hitler should have been appeased. The world would have been a better place. 9/11 is the same. The world has become even worse since then.

[6022JP]

Oh~,what a precious film!!

Rosa Tamarkina was a first wife of Emil Gilels.

It is a pity that Tamarkina died only 30y.o. by cancer.

She was beautiful and talented woman.

[vstasov]

Magnificent archiving! Thank you for this fabulous footage. Thrilling.

[Bennie347]

I love Tamarkina's playing...so natural and her sound is glorious! Thank you so much!

[experimentalis]

many many thanks

[raanan17]

I have no words to express my wonder.

[chad410]

it sounds likle Zak at he beginning. playing the Polonaise

[sagalat]

All of the Above....Great Posting....Many thanks!

[gareththefireman]

My sister represented Britain in the 1965 Chopin Fellowship competition

[askdhg]

@gareththefireman Who was she? Maybe I now her...

By the way, truecrypt, where you´ve found this film? Maybe you can find more films like this?!

[truecrypt]

@askdhg

I hope gareththefireman will answer your question...

As for this clip, - I found it on one of Russian sites. Unfortunately there are very few video documents related to classical musicians. For example I haven't seen ANY video with Sofronitsky... and he was one of the greatest Russian pianists. Russian archives used to be huge but poorly maintained. We can expect some miracles...

[ermpp65]

@truecrypt

There is a video of H. Neuhaus playing Scriabin in iloveclassicalmusic channel... I got deeply impressed when I saw it the other day...

Truecrypt, please, DO the miracle and find a video of Sofronitsky playing! There must be one, somewhere, it is not possible that HE dissapeared forever!

[BachScholar]

Fascinating!

[MagicDonDino]

Wow this is very rare! a true treasure!!

[w3sp]

Thanks for posting this rare footage :)