Pogorelich Plays Scriabin

[miglage]

Qué gran pianista, y qué composición tan bonita, sobretodo Deux Poemes de Scriabin!!!

Scriabin es, aunque poco conocido, un genio musical.

[nobulle]

Such a control in the softness of his touch and the articulation... This is a truly wonderful music and pianist we have here.

[licricardososa]

What a beautiful music! What a beautiful playing! Each work is perfect. Thank you. Ricardo, from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[Frederikamusic]

such grace

[ferdsup]

Lindíssima interpretação. O romântico e o metafísico juntos e perfeitamente separados. Parabéns, bela leitura da obra e do mundo.

[ErnestoAnimation]

Que bueno que este tipo de obras no tengan VEVO. Por otro lado, el mundo se está olvidando de lo importante que es la Música Docta. Y llenan sus oidos de basura. ASi es, me refiero al pinche Reggaetoon.

[animumaurarium]

One died at 39, one at 42... What's the matter with these freakin geniuses?

[videoreff]

@animumaurarium it's only in recent years that people started living into their 70's, 80's 90's 100's so how about applause for modern medicine?

At the same time, look what some composers - like Rachmaninov - did in later years so yeah, imagine if Scriabin, Chopin, Mozart etc had lived into their 80's?

Probably best to enjoy their genius than to lament what might have been - what if they had died in infancy?

[alscai]

His body is so amazingly still, even during the louder passages. Great control

[Koalateeh]

this is easily my favorite rendition of the first poeme. i find that most other pianists play it much too fast and ruin the delicate atmosphere of the piece. pogorelich has incredible control of the dynamics - those ascending runs beginning at 3:09 almost sound harp-like. incredible.

[endorphin2468]

...the incredible mastery of the dynamics gives us a glimpse of an unfathomable depth in this marvellous interpretation

[dream87ps]

my favourite etude of scriabin played by my favourite pianist.

[endorphin2468]

humans like Pogorelich = demi-gods

[jamiebyrne77]

this kind of russian romanticism sends chills through me

[OktoPlasm]

that hair

[Gibson29]

@OktoPlasm Indeed. Pogorelich and Kissin have the best hair in music hehehe.

[KomentajaSeta]

@OktoPlasm Nothing wrong with the classic mullet. ROFL

[TheKeenanBoy]

im speechless.

[PhillipLWilcher]

@TheKeenanBoy Keenan : It's good to see you here. Have a listen to the clips from the Chopin Competition when you get a chance and also Gaspard de la Nuit.

[TheKeenanBoy]

@PhillipLWilcher

I have listened to both...he is incredible. Someone at my school is playing Gaspard de la Nuit right now. Shes equally good. 

[PhillipLWilcher]

@TheKeenanBoy She must be something then :)

There's a also a beautiful performance of the F# minor etude by Pogorelich.

[mellraizer]

sheer poetry & im in love with it. thankyou.

[djmolina47]

me encantan estas manos...Ivo Pogorelich, gracias...♥

[PrincessUnicorn69]

Best part is from :01 to 8:58

[TheKeenanBoy]

@PrincessUnicorn69

could you both not?

It wrecks the song when you glance down and read this.

[PrincessUnicorn69]

@TheKeenanBoy I didn't know that reading the comments influences the song in any way? Are you fucking retarded too? Fuck off cunt. :)

[TheKeenanBoy]

@PrincessUnicorn69

Way to end a statement with a question mark.

g It makes me laugh?

[PrincessUnicorn69]

@TheKeenanBoy I was trying to show the inflection, as in regular speech. Dear Christ, forgive me for my error! If we are going to nitpick though, what is that "g" doing before your last sentence? "g It makes me laugh?" - Fuck off fag. Quit trying to be the almighty peacekeeper/wannabe grammar nazi and shut the fuck up and enjoy the piece. Bitch.

[musiktraeumer]

Sehr schön....sehr interessant.....auch die Sonate Nr. 4 nach der Etüde......... Pogorelich ist ein großartiger Künstler...........hört euch die Sonate aber auch von Pervez Mody gespielt an........ein ebenso großartiger und ebenbürtiger Musiker mit tiefem Verständnis für Scriabin.....

[klavierflame]

I Want That Piano in my living room!!! Hamburg Steinway D!!

[CristiaanC]

I WANT THAT PIANO

[marginallymental]

Scriabin: there's not one of his etudes that isn't a knockout, is there?! What a genius.

[endorphin2468]

It is as if god has appeared for a few moments in all his glory.

Amazing grace!

[AristYdes]

this cant be more russian. tzarik room with player wearing a sovietik outfit and playing the weirdest music

[BuyBenco]

@AristYdes PERFECT analyzation! I admire our alike thinking...commie clothes, psychadelic, weird n creepy music n tzarik regal imperialist rooms!

[classicpiano7]

I could truly listen to this over and over again...the interpretation is absolutely sparkiling! One of my all time favorite Scriabin peformances!

[ThePianoPlayer93]

POGORELICH<3

[endorphin2468]

私に取ってこのピアニストは巨人です、他の人達は海の綱のよう

[ilovescarlatti]

I'm crazy for Scriabin !!! An absolute genius of the music.. Desperate soul, poethry, dreams, love, ..... How can a man wrote such music? On my opinion any other piano composers are bettere than him.!!!

[oelefante]

the most amazing interpretation of F-sharp poeme i have yet seen

[Finesse83]

Listen to interpretation by Vladimir Sofronitsky

[Lukecash12]

@Finesse83 Right, we can all agree with you that Sofronitsky is the master, but we don't need a reference to listen to him.

[Finesse83]

@Lukecash12 That's good that you admire the interpretations of Sofronitsky.... but my comment was meant for those who haven't heard of Sofronitsky, so that they can hear it for themselves.

[Lukecash12]

@Finesse83 Thank you for the clarification.

[nobulle]

I love his way to play the second piece: with sensitiveness and humility. This is real good music, and not just piano technique.

[StainofPiss69]

Such powerful and wonderful playing!

[milosc9]

love u, pogo-chan.

[cattleman6420012000]

Fabulous playing and amazing composer.

[thelord2000]

What an absolute Genius

[MsKatzo]

absolutely brilliant. amazing hands (and soul)

[demosj]

Color me impressed. He plays this piece as authoritatively as Horowitz plays the Op.8/No. 12.

[LordofAce]

wonderful! true wonderful!

[AltoSaxOlly]

this argument is incredibly flawed, it depends completely on what your personal definition of genius is, but i think we can all agree, this performance is bloody good.

[bubbaXzone]

@AltoSaxOlly stfu hes a GEENIOUS!!!

[obdeniye]

My favorite pianist .. ;__;

[jebsievers]

HAIR ZONE

[kkyy1972]

genius!!

[rvn10rvn17]

ivo pogorelich should win the chopin competition or at least in the top 3..

[loltheworld]

The contrast between the op. 32 poems is absolutely brilliant.

[Erge08]

Wow! Brilliant and breathtaking performance! Especially the interpretation of subtle scriabin-poeme op. 32, one of the most extraordinary works of late romantic piano music.

[billyguns2]

What a great piece of music, gorgeously performed by one of the last remaining geniuses of the piano!

[LivEssent]

@billyguns2

genius is tremendous creative ability not tremendous performance ability. great piano playing cannot make someone a genius anymore than great driving can

[billyguns2]

You don't think it requires geat creative ability to string notes, phrases and sounds together in a magnificently compelling way as opposed to an insensitive, banging, unmusical way? If that's not genius, I don't know what is! According to your definition, the creator of the piano is a genius while the man who plays it is a performer.

[LivEssent]

@billyguns2

The man is a virtuoso, not a genius. A genius brings something new into existence (i.e. Newton's laws, the Theory of relativity, Beethoven with his symphonies, etc.). This man takes something written by someone else and plays it brilliantly. I'm not denying his talent but 'genius' is the wrong word.

BTW, of course the creator of the piano was a genius. Imagine how much music we would have been deprived of without its existence

[billyguns2]

Ah, I take your point; Scriabin is the genius here, while Pogorelich is the extremely talented RE-creator of this genius. It is rare when we have such a talent as Pogorelich, surely one of the most talented re-creators of the past fifty years.

[thelord2000]

@billyguns2 I also love this re- creator. lol

[hl830127]

@ LivEssent

Laughable argument. Newton did not CREATE law of gravity, he merely discovered it (not a small feat in itself). No one plays this piece like Pogorelich, so he is indeed bringing something new into existence, and with such phenomenal intricacy, color, imagination, and technical aplomb, we can surely label this man a genius.

[vivacelife]

Great performance, great audio quality, clear video, great post!

Thank you!

[SebastienLoong]

when was this performed?

[gaaraabian]

he had it, he made a scale of the notes and the corresponding colors

beuatiful pieces, marvellous interpretation, very-very precious video, thank you!

[yourfreebieguide]

A very beautiful piece. Many thanks for uploading this.

@WarlordGabe

Scriabin's work is often said to be influenced by his synaesthesia. But it is unknown as to whether or not he had the condition.

[marcphilos]

The Scriabin Poeme has got to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.

[mountainharry]

@marcphilos in your opinion.

[WarlordGabe]

wow brilliant. amazing interpretation. and it still boggles my mind how amazing scriabin composed.

[1969GibsonL5]

Absolutely brilliant.

[eltachimetro]

este tio si qe tiene tenates para tocar el piano, y qe toca muy bien, me gustaron sus interpretaciones

[capetond]

simplemente es un genio del piano

[bewareofthecow]

amazing interpretation... I think it sounds better than what's written.

[Robotman42]

The marks on the page produce no sound on their own.

[sugarve]

Sempre straordinario!

[mrpossibilities]

Deux Poemes is pure beauty

[chacoteris]

Pogorelich is superb!

[LukeMD]

Forgive me ........ but are u agree to be happy and honored if u could play as he does ? If u could u will be really really famous in the world !!!

[OceansBoulevard]

i don't know if Sofronitsky plays the first piece better, it's outstanding

[Lukecash12]

He did the first piece almost as well as Sofrinitsky himself, and the others were in their own league, and that's really saying something.

[Nganguen]

No words!!!

[pianolord]

In my opinion Pogorelich has a better version of this etude than Horowitz. A musical genius like Pogorelich is not only shown in certain composers.

[Lukecash12]

@pianolord Right, I consider Pogorelich in a lot of the same light as Sofronitsky. That said, I still prefer Sofronitsky's work in basically every bit of repertoire he recorded.

[brtonsnowrider]

I heard my teacher play the first song and was amazed; by the way, at the beginning "Scriabin" is spelled "Scrjabin." Just for the record . . .

[jkpiano]

There are many ways of spelling Scriabin, Skrjabin, Skriabin, Scriabine. I have read that the composer himself would spell it Scriabine. Scriabin is the "English" version if you like.

[brtonsnowrider]

Good to know, so I don't go commenting all over YouTube that Scriabin's name is spelled wrong :-) Great rendtion anyways . . .

[Rani9000]

it's not called a "song" smart ass, there's no singing

[nenicamica]

the best pianist ever!!!

[drstanleytaub]

fabulous...

[muffle62]

I can't compare Scriabin even to Rachmaninov, but you need to be as delicate as Pogorelich to play it, not Lugamsky or Horowitz, they don't play, they just show off

[marinanarim]

Quite the opposite: Horowitz is the greatest Scriabin player, and Pogo is all about herself

[shapkamonomaha]

I found my favorite pianist!!!

This is Ivo Pogorelich!

[klausknulp]

he is really extraordinair!

[4mithrandir]

Emotion channeled into sound!!!

[Lukecash12]

It was fantastic all of it :) In my opinion Sofrinitsky has a more sensitive interpretation of the etude, but the rest is quite insightful. I admire that he prefers to not always take the occupation of piano banger, however much Horowitz intimately understands Scriabin(in my opinion more so than Pogorelich).

[maurofoil]

perfect!

[prandtastic]

He is pretty perfect

[awefaislfdas]

Such beautiful hands!

[y1g1tcn]

he can be the pianist who has got the biggest hands

[GrandPatzer]

Scriabin. This composer is so unique. I've never heard such a sound in my life. Is the music even in a set key?

[awefaislfdas]

Yeah it is, but Scriabin does what he wants haha. He's awesome. Both player and performer here are.

[framaulo]

Merveilleux

[rach3master]

3:04 His eye-rolling is a bit scary. Excellent playing regardless.

[Verityseo]

i agree but that very act was very Scriabin-ish, too!

[clupuz89]

Mi piacciono queste interpretazioni, le trovo molto appropriate, e lui è molto espressivo e quindi convincente. Ed è appropriato il suo "strisciare" con le dita sulla tastiera, in effetti è il modo più giusto per suonare Scriabin. Sicuramente questo ascolto influenzerà molto anche le mie esecuzioni!

[sofronitzky]

Quelle catastrophe que Pogorelitch ait fait une dépression...Mais est-ce bien cela ? Cette vieille momie satanique d'Horowitz a su se préserver au delà de 85 ans, malgré le suicide de sa fille, et il a toujours repris après ses dépressions. Pourquoi Pogorelitch annule-t-il toujours ses concerts ? Certains grands pianistes tombent dans la folie de la perfection et ne jouent plus en public.

[4mithrandir]

WOW!!!!

What a sound! What beautiful playing especially the 1st poeme.

[ChrisWatch]

Try puttin g &fmt=18 at the end of this videos url you should get great video quality. and the crop lines up with the screen if you have a wide screen or anything.

[MLFRRR]

Good pianist. His ideas are a little be slow in his phrasing.. he must continue the closing of cadences.. good tone.

[Lukecash12]

I just love Scriabin. Scriabin and Chopin have to be the two composers that cleared an entirely different realm of existence and thought that people just don't enter anymore. It's funny how the rest of us try frantically to write like that. To put that much emotion into music. There is no center tone, just waves of pure thought.

[cerzule]

Brilliant comment - I agree! Two of my favorite composers, both with so much musical invention and ecstasy in their works. Pure art.

[gnolti]

I confess I was unfamiliar with Pogorelich, so thanks for the video. This is superb stuff; I haven't heard a tone like that since Bolet.

[vincecharus]

Any idea what happened to Pogorelich recently? I've seen lots of reviews of him giving weired performances, but I've never heard him live myself. One recent live recording of Rach 2 was astonishingly slow!! Is there anything wrong with him? It would be incredibly sad if a genius of such caliber goes astray.

[voolare]

After the death of his wofe Alice Keseradze Pogorelich retired from the scenes for some years. Then he started playing some concerts proposing totally new readings of the classic repertoire. I attended to quite a few concerts of "the new" Pogorelich;I find his readings extremely interesting and I think they will open new doors to classical music interpretation.

[hsoenario]

Thank you. How does the "new" Pogorelich compare with the one from the Chopin Competition when Jury member Argerich walked out because Ivo did not make the next round? How did the auduence in gerneral react?

I just listened to his RachII on Youtube. Interesting and musical with his typical beautiful tone, but it was a bit removed from the Rachmaninoff as played by the composer, Horowitz, Richter etc. I suppose, it becomes a matter of taste? Interesting to say the least!

[gopogogo]

long live pogorelich and kezeradze!!!

[zhangensprachen]

fantastic polyphony in the 2 poems.

[ostrun]

QUTEQWWVE SSJ UAT hdgg gave him thusb pice

[dindan4]

Pogorelich has also sandess in his eyes , his genius is enigmatic and unique , his interpretation are a pure marvel !

[NOSEhow2LIV]

I've always loved Horowitz' way with Skriabin but this is wonderful in a different way: Etude & 1st poeme highest points, 2d poeme slitely less satisfying for me. Forget looks, LISTEN,eyes closde. Talking about "technik" in this context is irrelevent.

[antoinezygfryd]

Merci pour l'excès de pédale qui dissimule quelque peu la sentimentalité romantico-pornographique...gen­re David Hamilton...

[tonecolor]

one more thing, he has a beautiful sensuous face!!!!

[tonecolor]

Brilliant, thoughtful, expressive, flawless technique, divine touch, impeccable voicing, impeccable phrasing, id have to say hes the last GREAT PIANIST ive heard in a long long time. Martha certainly knew GENIUS when she heard it, i guess it takes one to know one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[filz76]

beautiful especially the first poème op. 32, but listen to horowitz playing the same pieces (étude and poème): the best interpretations I have ever listen to (and I know a lot of them)

[billyguns2]

Simply marvelous playing from one of the last truly gifted pianists; how I love the music of these two composers! I heard recently that Mr. P. had suffered a nervous breakdown and only uses music to play in public; can anyone confirm this unhappy news?

[amirmot]

what do u mean ?!only uses music to play in public!!??

[billyguns2]

he used to play everything from memory, but i heard he's using the sheet music during concerts now. i don't know if this is true or not. i could care less, because the man is a genius.

[amirmot]

well that is true ,i read a review about him playing in london,he used the score and the critic didnt write good things about his performance

[tjtheplay]

This is purely a divine experience of the hidden forces of the universe!

[ghmus7]

A great artist and a great performance!

[spv88]

Increible the First poem.

[chopingirll]

SO, so Beautifull

[cynic150]

He tends to beat around the bush slightly, for my taste. Very sensitive...

[danielito1979]

he still has hair in this one

[tjtheplay]

I haven't heard of any other interpretations and this is my first time hearing this piece...

I already think this is the BEST interpretation of this piece EVER!

[tjtheplay]

Whoops I mean these pieces. Not this piece. Excuse me for my grammar.

[swojnicz]

Absolutly amazing. Not normal, but wonderful.

[vince254000]

it's the world biggest.....damnit shit i've ever heard. just read scriabin notes,then liste to this digusting audio file...

[naninani84]

Pogorelich is the beginnin of the age of terrible interpreters on piano...

[jmealonso]

Wow, you are really out of the loop!

[SalQrazy]

hahaha

[marcelmombeek]

I think it is a very inspiring performance, let's forget for a while richter and other russian scriabin-player's, this performance is worth to hear and remember.

[francovarenna]

Scriabin divino !!!! divino !!!! immenso franco

[artie6666]

Sorry, I don't like my Scriabin to sound like neutered French salon music. Why did you have to die Sofronitsky?

[kiedrosky]

Ivo is almost the best living pianist.

[naninani84]

WHAT??????????

it's personal i think

[123eldest]

he said best pianist not best interpretor

[OorvakanSar]

Scriabin had to be crazy. All the notes he wrote are different and would take too much nerve to memorize.

[ljoekelsoey4]

great palying, but he looks like such a ponce

[thehissingstick]

He makes total sense of this etude; majestic, mournful, terrifying and gorgeous. I got shivers...

[vnsn72]

Ipnotic

[E111ManOWar]

It´s not scary, in fact also very beauty, but in the way Pogorelich plays it you can heard nothing and seems a mass of sound...

[painkiller81692]

Does anyone know why Scriabin decided to put that scary poem right after that nice beautiful poem. Not that i'm saying that the second poem isn't nice, it's just scary.

[terryregnar]

Contrast my friend, nothing greater in music

[mephisto66773]

great technique! but in my opinion he plays for himself and not for the music!

[ytpiano7]

You call that great technique?

ytpiano7

No offence, can you explain a bit what you think ?