Zimerman plays Chopin Barcarolle Op. 60

[k1avi3r]

I have played Chopin for 50 years as an amateur pianist. I believe Krystian is a perfectionist in the overall, however, his attention to loud and sudden loudness markings fall weak to my ears. Since Chopin's music was delicate in general for the most part, I believe the interpretation is allowable anyway. In any event you will be pressed to find a better take on this magnificent piano piece.

[PoorStudio]

I make all the same movements and similar emotions as him when I air play this masterpiece.

[gat1240]

There are emotions and visions summoned up in this piece that transcend the music. You can visualize the sweetest and most harrowing moments in life. So nobly expressed, so courageously sought after,to witness this is is to witness true greatness. Dedicating one's life to such an goal is what these musicians have sacrificed for us.THANK YOU.

[WASSUPFOOISH]

beautiful.

[Ixezed]

By far, the very very best performance of this masterpiece of Chopin. All the other recordings lack this little something that Zimerman adds, I don't know what it is, but it's there.

[uknget]

Buseett.. Keren amat..

[cbuhlayza]

My favorite moment: 7:26

*sigh*

[cgtjan11714]

a truly grand pianist

[a92abcd]

Kocham Barcarolle! Cudowne wykonanie.

[a92abcd]

I love Barcarolle, Love Chopin!

[zawa125]

この動画に低評価をつけた人は何を考えているのだろう。

これ以上の舟歌を聴いたことがないし、この先聴くことができない­だろう。

[zawa125]

People with a low rating for this video will have you thinking.

Barcarolle and never heard any more, this target would not be heard.

[Mathmusiciandlife]

Absolutely the most beautifully played that I have heard of this song. Zimmerman is as usual in his own league

Masterfully done

[GuyFawkes40]

Zimerman is absolutely incredible..!!!!!!!!

[tierzuchtZentral]

Where is this always in the same room? Let me guess, it's the recording room of Deutsche Grammophon? Haha very good!!!!  :o)

[apluspianist]

I also admire those great composers, how could think so complicated but deep and harmonic melodies and textures? I don't think nowadays there are any genius

composers. Thumbs up if you agree.

[Doug19752533]

@apluspianist Chopin was considered 'revolutionary' for some of the melodies he employed. his music then stood out completely and still does today. his teachers had said he had a very unique sense of harmony, and when he composed he would usually do it through imporvisation, and could compose very quickly, but when it came to writing it down, he would struggle and struggle to try to write it out exactly how he wanted to express his intentions.

[apluspianist]

ilovechopin11, I totally agree with you. 19th century was the world of music, unlike the medieval or Bach or Haydn's time, everyone could enjoy music, the villages and towns were filled with music, everyone could exchange music ideas, the world would not be so commercial...

I also remind you there were Schubert, Listz, Schumnann, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Rachmaninov... Wow! A world with music and peace.

[apluspianist]

To get start, go to 0:13

[Twombs87]

I love him! He gets absolutely absorbed into every piece he plays. He becomes the piece. One of the best of the century.

[wx3b]

I'd LOVE to be able to play like that!

[mauriciostarosta]

I think this version of Barcarolle is the best. Zimerman is probably the best interpreter of Chopin.

[istvanbracz]

my god this is so so beautiful...thanks so much for sharing this incredible heartfelt and genius performance.

[Hjominbonrun]

My Piano Lecturer felt he was one of the best around of all the living pianists. He does bring everything out of the sheet.

[BlazeKenny]

@Hjominbonrun Richter did bring even more than everything out of the sheet

[amanda92079988]

I just wonder if Zimerman is Chopin himself. It's so beautiful, absolutely glamorous

[gordonwilliamshaw]

I love youtube. I'm so glad this video has been shared.

[ilovechopin11]

Somtimes, I wish I was born in the 19th century, just to see Chopin play live. Sigh.

[vinicius238]

@ilovechopin11 Me too!!!

[victon1000]

@ilovechopin11 Just being born in the 19th century is no guarantee for seeing Chopin ;)

[ilovechopin11]

@victon1000 Very true... But I would hope to be alive around the same time he was, and, of course, live in France. Also, I guess I would have to be rich to attend a concert or something :)

[WASSUPFOOISH]

@ilovechopin11 i totally agree. And I would have loved to see Liszt play!

[marlonss]

Great performance of one of my all time favorite Chopin works. Barcarole origin is Italian, meaning folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers. Listening to this masterpiece, one can visualize being in a gondola in Venice, bobbing up in down the waterways past St. Mark's Basilica.

[dongjunh]

I remember a couple of years ago I had a dream of practising this piece for the right hand alone. This piece has such noble poise. The definite Masterpiece by Chopin.

[VVillowz]

Look at those fingers!

[PopCultureSucks]

...and this is why Chopin will always be my favorite classical composer! Complete brilliance and an unbounded sense of musicality rarely heard from any other artist!

[MrFerminleon]

The Barcarole in F sharp major, Op. 60 is a piece for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin, composed from the autumn of 1845 to the summer of 1846. Written in the barcarole form, it features a sweepingly romantic and slightly wistful tone. Most of the technical figures for the right hand are thirds and sixths, while the left features some very long reaches over an octave.(From Wikipedia)

[hbmp88]

i hope i die in peace while listening to chopin... his compositions have helped me experience emotions i never knew i had. though i am only 15, when i listen to his works i feel as if i have lived forever. i can die in peace now...

[llllShArPllll]

Our society is going majorly downhill concerning music.... "Musicians" today just don't put their heart into their music like Chopin and his contemporaries did. Makes me wish I lived then.

[hbmp88]

@llllShArPllll i feel like i was born during the wrong century. it kills me...

[llllShArPllll]

@hbmp88 I know exactly how you feel hahaha...

[PopCultureSucks]

@llllShArPllll honestly I would agree that the mainstream music has gone to hell but there are still great artists like Chopin that put their heart and soul into their music they are just not well known. Great art takes many forms, it never dies, it simply changes.

[SilverblueRain]

so great, so dreamy, my soul soars into heaven~

[BassicStorm]

opening is so freaking beautiful, Chopin why u wrote so freakin nice muse, OMG!!!

[Blade887]

best performance of this piece I could imagine... just wonderful playing, musically, so perfectly smooth phrases... it just makes sense

thanks for playing like that, Krystian Zimerman!!

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

I didn't remember this piece so beautiful...

[MasterAzunai]

Just gorgeous. There aren't really words to describe it. Just perfect.

[jaruales]

amazing. let's throw some Rachmaninoff in the mix

[MrRaphaelBM]

@jaruales

And some fingers of liszt and hmm a wind smell of debussy and some chopstiks of prokofiev !

[MrRaphaelBM]

You can't not love the leg move at 4:07

[mermodfreres]

Good lord I love this piece.....and Zimmerman plays it so well....I too would like him to do a complete Chopin recording compilation. His Ballades are amazing.

[Pianist46]

I like this interpretation even better than Martha's, which is a rarity indeed :)

[SirDeimosKnightoMars]

How can you all type so much after hearing something like this?

words fail.

[tdennison22]

From what I've read of Chopin, he was a perfectionist. I imagine he didn't like the way most pianists played his music. Had he been able to hear Zimerman play, he would have smiled. "Finally."

[geuros]

@tdennison22 And what could Chopin say if he had been able to hear Rafal Blechacz playing Barcarolle? "I can't play it better" maybe :D I like Blechacz a bit more than Zimmermann. On the other hand, I have never heard prettier Schubert Impromptus op. 90

[tdennison22]

@geuros I have 2 versions of Chopin's Barcarolle on my ipod, Blechacz is the other one. Agree 100% with your comment.

[Doug19752533]

@tdennison22 this is true, he had a rather low opinion of many pianists methods, perhaps because many were still of the 'old school' methods of Cramer and Clementi. He and Liszt represented an entirely new way of playing the piano. It would probably be just as disturbing to Beethoven to hear Mozart play his (Beethoven's) music, since Beethoven came from a newer style, and was composed for a newer type of piano then Mozart composed on (more keys, more dynamic capability)

[Doug19752533]

@tdennison22 Chopin did admire Liszt's playing (except for the liberties he would take with the music). he is on record saying "how i wish i could steal from him his way of playing my Etudes. He is playing them now, and transporting me into another world." he is also on record saying that if his Military Polonaise (A major Op 40 #1) were to be played the way he intended, there would not be a string left intact on the piano!

[T3hL337Sesshy]

@tdennison22 Zimerman's a perfectionist too. I hear he meticulously edits all of his recorded material, much like Chopin meticulously edited almost everything he wrote.

[PianoLvsPaul]

@tdennison22 You don't know that.

[tdennison22]

@PianoLvsPaul Oh but I do. He texted me the other day and told me. j/k - Of course I don't know that, it's just my opinion that I think Zimerman did a great job on this piece. No one knows for sure how Chopin himself played it, or wanted it played, other than what's written. The point I'm making is that Zimerman plays this so passionately and we know that Chopin was perhaps one of the most passionate composers ever and likely wanted this piece played that way.

[DWEComposer]

A pianistic masterpiece that is beyond comparison, and Zimerman plays it extremely well. This is the greatest interpretation of this piece that I've ever heard. 

[sidewinderxx]

man justin beiber looks old in this clip

[SepiaLatimanus]

@sidewinderxx It's his dad

[Tiggeruploads]

One of my favorite pianists! He plays the Barcarolle so clearly and proves that he's the best first prize winner of all of the Chopin International Competitions!!!!! He's just so good!

[LCH14]

Justin Bieber, Fréderic Chopin... They should not appear together in the same sentence... It is just ridiculous...

[HGomez767]

@LCH14 If I may point it out...you just did. ._.

[mariniaya]

Who is Justin Bieber?

[hbmp88]

@mariniaya what ever you do, do not look up his music. it is modern pop crap... avert your innocent ears!!! LOL

[felixberg27]

BEST BARCAROLLE ever - without any doubt, even better than Rubinstein

[arianeclaireemma]

"Chopin is the justin bieber of his generation". I never read such a ridiculous comment.

[moulinneuf2001]

theadventuresofwindy really KNOWS how to be the perfect TROLL ! :D

[SongsofInnocence]

ENOUGH OF JUSTIN BIEBER!!!

[basehead617]

this song is soooo ornamented, i think it's really when late Chopin reached the limit of what was possible as far as developing this style.. it's almost too much of a good thing..

[fredericfranc]

@basehead617 ...you want to distinguish between the "early" Chopin, when ornamentation was habitual for him, and the "late" Ch., when it was much more unusual and functionally deliberate, as here...he is putting all the trills and whatnot in, because he figures he needs it in there, it is a freaking Barcarolle, without that stuff in there it won't work, from his point of view...the next opus number, the 61 runs without ornamentation pretty much...

[mgt63us]

Brilliant performance

[tonycurti1]

Bieber's corpse will have rotten beyond recognition while Chopin's music will live forever. Bieiber's some little trivial Disney pop "star" gonna be right up there with what's their names by the time history has anything to say about it.............

[bjorn373]

SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT JUSTIN BIEBER HES A STUPID PEICE OF SHIT. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ENJOY HIM SHITTING INTO THE MIKE ARE 12 YEAR OLD GIRLS AND RETARDS

[CaramelMarshmallow]

@bjorn373 Nope.

[theadventuresofwindy]

Chopin is the justin bieber of his generation

[DrGeorgFreakyPianist]

@theadventuresofwindy don't you dare to say that again! that's an unforgiveable disgrace!

[SlowlyTheWorldTurns]

This is beautiful!

[maxwel411411411]

Excellent playing in 6 sharps then 3 sharps then back to 6 sharps. You are amazing!

[hanpasado]

Best rendition I have ever heard. Sitting here gasping & trying to get my breath back...

[TwilightYundili]

I wish Zimerman would record another set of recordings. I would love to hear his new interpretations on pieces after so many years have gone by, to hear his new thoughts. Zimerman. Wonderful pianist.

[hansonian81]

Double Trills in one hand?? That can't be easy...

[mmoynan]

Richter too dry, Gould too boring, Arrau too slow, Argerich too fast, Horowitz too undisciplined, Cortot too sloppy.

Zimerman too... perfect?

[linlynn20]

@mmoynan how about Lang lang and yundi lee ?



[mmoynan]

@linlynn20 Haha, do you mean their stereotypical flaws? If so, I suppose the classic label would be Lang Lang too theatrical and affected, of course! I don't know enough of/about Yundi to make any assumptions, though. :D

[linlynn20]

@mmoynan agree !!!!!!!



[EdwardianPiano]

Simply wonderful playing. One of my favourite Chopin compositions. Krystian Zimerman is brilliant.

[stabernz]

I can see Chopin putting his hand on Zimmerman's shoulder, and saying "Thank you for keeping this alive".

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@stabernz very nice! but write ZiMerman, with 1 m :D

[stabernz]

@newFranzFerencLiszt opps... I knew that ;P

[kikimagnolia]

The best interpretation of this piece i ever heard.

One of my lovest pieces of chopin's works.

[Balkyzag]

Oh man, he plays it with a fantastic expression. Maybe the end is slightly too fast, but I am never tired of listening to this performance. Thanks for uploading

[Chopin1974l]

@WorldCupSeoul: I have a suggestion for you. Please post your performance of this piece for us to laude over and praise. After all, you must be a great pianist to make comments the likes of which you wrote. You're a complete musical idiot! You know nothing of the concert hall, of symphonies or of concert soloists. Thank God, you are in the minority.

[Chopin1974l]

@Worlscupseoul: Seriously? Your comment is what is sickening. If music is to be heard and not seen, please explain what all the concert halls are doing with all those people in them WATCHING artists perform. Tails are de rigeur for concert pianists. The false expressions. I'm yet to see a pianist that does not emote through his face as an extension of his/her playing.

[gaohugh94]

He's like chuck norris of piano players

[ayidas]

This is such a beautiful, peaceful song. I never tire of it.

[polottus]

Sometimes I have a lot o doubts, and no anwers at all... and when I am about to go insane, I hear chopin and... things go clearly

[ZRMDMK]

@polottus feynman?

[Supermassivewhite]

Does anybody know where it is recordet? means what the location is?

[Tanoch96]

@Supermassivewhite i THINK (not so sure) that is zimerman´s house

[randomician]

Before you click the dislike button, at least watch 6:55 to 7:29.

[geminian7846]

@randomician I think that's the bit I like least

[geminian7846]

@randomician I think that's the bit I like least

[geminian7846]

@randomician I think that's the bit I like least

[geminian7846]

@randomician I think that's the bit I like least

[geminian7846]

@randomician I think that's the bit I like least

[B177W55H152]

このピアニストの披露しているピアノの技術は非常に高い。

ピアノの音がどんな強さの和音でも混濁しない。

安定度が高いので、なよなよとした印象を与えかねない。

何か一つの音楽のパラメーターを強調した方が表面的には凄く見え­る。

ところが、彼の技術はバランスが良いし、見通しも良いので・・・­。

おそらく彼は、過去の偉大なピアニスト達の仕事を録音で聴き比べ­ているだろう。

私見であるが、ショパンに関してはコルトーの仕事を完成させるこ­とであると思う。

表現主義的な破天荒な傷だらけの演奏が表わしている物を別の様式­で再現するのだ。

それは、分裂的でスケールが大きく詩的なので、熱演するだけでは­無理なのだ。

[sousique]

Rubinstein, Zimerman, Blechacz.

[Boldstrummer]

Check out the old master Artur Rubinstein playing the same piece.

[schmitty135]

Lacks depth and total understanding of the composition. Only one person could play this piece correctly. RUBINSTEIN!

[citsar1]

Some of it is good: that includes soft sound P-PP. Elegant sense of phrasing in softer passages and good pedalling.

However, the forte passages (chords especially) lack legato-they sound overly pounded. The final section especially lacks substance and singing quality; truly the ending is uninspiring.

Also some of his rubati are too overdrawn, and most of the time combined with an obnoxious little diminuendo that has the tendency to be more of a mannerism than a genuine expression.

[88washme]

a great sound,and i like this very classy & formal video along with the music very nice

[arlasman]

world cup .... close your eyes

[WorldCupSeoul]

The eyebrows are sickening. The wedding ring, the tails, the false expressions. Vile. Don't people know that music is to be heard and not seen?

[mogster11]

@WorldCupSeoul

Holy cow, that is ridiculous.

Although I will say that I saw him in concert about 6 years back, and he's cut back on the theatrics. And when all that flash is taken away, you're left with one of the best pianists out there.

[piojo1987]

The day he played this (he alse played the 4 ballades and who knows what other pieces...) he was utterly inspired.

[slave2piano]

lol @retrogamerdave "the best Polish pianist in the world" is just the best polish pianist, or the best pianist in poland. "in poland in the world" is kinda inferred lol

[piojo1987]

@slave2piano THAT is a deductive thought.

[koueiaheming]

この曲はショパンのなかショパンエチュード作品１０の１と並んで

弾きたい曲です。　

[hiddencamer]

amazing

[zhangensprachen]

6:56-7:20 is actually a REALLY DIFFICULT part to play because of the left hand. It's amazing how much control he has in this recording. In his recording for Deutsche Gramaphon he plays this section more prudently - at a slower speed. You can almost hear him place each chord on the left hand. Here, he's much freer.

[deepblueintel]

素晴らしい！

[dzialkovitz]

Zimerman had trouble at final years in the USA. he is travelling with his own Steinway grand piano which independently he did. But soon after assaults 11 of September 2001 r. his instrument was confiscated on the JFK airport in New York, where Zimerman was supposed to act in Carnegie Hall. Security services on the airport acknowledged that applied glue in the instrument strange smelt and not wanting to risk, they destroyed the grand piano. No comment.

[frontier5555]

@dzialkovitz: they've probably assumed that one of the greatest living pianists dream is to play Funeral March by Chopin and then detonate himself in front of an audience :)

[majark4]

@dzialkovitz how we can know this is true? is this history written in any newspaper or something in internet, I cannot believe it.

[dzialkovitz]

@majark4 This fact in Poland is known. The article on dishonour announced the portal Interia.pl

xxxx://fakty.interia.pl/news/p­olski-pianista-wywolal-skandal­-w-usa,1296835

[dzialkovitz]

@majark4 This fact in Poland is known. The article on dishonour announced the portal Interia.pl

fakty.interia.pl/news/polski-p­ianista-wywolal-skandal-w-usa,­1296835

[majark4]

@dzialkovitz thank you very much.

[retrogamerdave]

@dzialkovitz USA sucks

and I'm an american, lol

Zimerman got screwed over by our "security" measures and I don't blame him for not wanting to come back

idiots, thinking that the best Polish pianist in the world was trying to bring a piano bomb

[yukijapan888]

ほんとに素晴らしい!

一番大好きな演奏です!

[MyVelvetValentine]

He is the his beard of piano.

[girgiii]

Simply the best interpretation I've ever heard :)

[AlvaroBassSide]

Finally! I've finished the piece! ^^

The penultimate part (6:54) is incredible. It has got a REALLY difficult left hand, but it's wonderful to play, if you can do it!

[teccomin]

Why doesn't Zimerman record a complete set of Chopin : (. I want to hear so many pieces played by him... Preludes, Berceuse, Polonaise-Fantasie etc...

[gkopij]

@teccomin Once I read or listened to the interview with him, he hates recording.

[hggh93]

he is the justin bieber of piano

[jvonm618]

@hggh93 No, that's Lang Lang.

[retrogamerdave]

@jvonm618 maybe in style and technique, but Lang Lang doesn't have the beard!!

[lefaguais]

@jvonm618 you mean BANG BANG?

[siryousuckalot]

@hggh93 : Please don't compare "justin beieber" to anything that has to do with real music. Just the fact that you said that makes you such an idiot. Zimerman is a master, enough said. Bieber is just a here today, gone tomorrow Disney promoted piece of crap. Please keep your stupid 12 year old comments to yourself.

[AeronDylan]

@siryousuckalot your comment is good as the music itselfs ! my compliments haha (;

[Tanoch96]

@siryousuckalot please don´t talk obout him here please

[A8opi]

@hggh93 dammit shut your hell up, listen what you're saying ! omg good justien bieber is a douche, Zimerman is the god piano

[lamboaudi4]

@hggh93 get lost you don't belong in the world of fine classical music

[pianofortegermany]

He(Zimerman) play sounding cristal in double Trillers that no other pianist con not enjoy. He is very particular about how to play the accompaniment on the left, it conveys a direct to row a gondola in Venice with his play. He has playong measure 93th ff raised the tempo and played from that which Chopin felt like playing on the Seine river boat on gondola in Venis over. He was playing it because a driving force of a large ship floating in the ocean,

[Composerland]

wonderful.

[AnqingX]

My golie! Gosh! He play better than Yundi Li!!

When did he played piece?

[bucior1]

He is the Bruce Lee of piano.

[coloursnspice]

he is truly great. you can hear every single note played perfectly and accented just right. what a an awesome guy

[A8opi]

@coloursnspice yeah totally !

[AlvaroBassSide]

Dziękuję, Zimerman.

From Spain :D

[TheHarrytje1994]

Can someone please help me!

What is the structure of this song? I need this for a school essay. Please reply or send a direct message!

[Tibbls]

I am still trying to work out how he manages such economy of hand movement. Where my hands are at full stretch his seem almost bunched up!

[Robotman42]

I cannot believe it, but I think I found a Chopin piece I like better than Ballade no. 4. Maybe I'm just lacking some age.

[alyoshaproductions]

This was one of Debussy's favorite pieces.

[Ysengrin00]

Inoubliable interprétation. Les doubles trilles joués par Zimerman sont du métal précieux en fusion.

[fredericfranc]

As usual you get this amazing, patented, you might say, Zimerman indifference to the cantilena, the tone, the expressiveness, this is a song, it is supposed to sing, right?, he never bothers, his eyebrows are making all the moves, but that is how far it goes. Let me tell you, this is an amazing guy.

[Erenir7]

Ternura e magestade! Uma interpretação impecável, Zimerman conhece Chopin, vibra e sente como ele. Magnífico!

[DarknessL12]

This piece is very very difficult to play ....

[KearneyPiano]

derren brown

[genchan205]

割と好きな演奏

でももっと低音を伸びやかにして欲しいなぁ

[baaboy83]

its nice to see good looking pianist

1st maksim mrvica

2nd zimerman

who else ?