Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.1 Op.10 Movement 3 (Ashkenazy)

[randomprimate]

i can play the left hand at 1:17!

[qweuio]

love the quintuplet at 3:08

[radudeATL]

@qweuio Random face.

[boompa93]

Prokofiev wrote this in the middle of a tornado

[TheImpressionnant]

The best piece of music, ever.

[Ir0nman86]

you can find sheet music @ sheetsearch . com

[philsmithjr1]

I have always loved this concerto. It is so indicative of Prokofiev's genius,

[g22mp]

The fact that he wrote this when he was 18 proves reincarnation.

[twgirl1]

good i like i an twgirl1 taiwan

[TheDaveBloom]

Ashkenazy plays every note completely perfect, but to me he doesn't capture the youthful bombastic sound that I feel this concerto should have. Prokofiev wrote it when he was seventeen or eighteen for a concerto competition. Needless to say, he won.

[asdasdpokpok123]

flawless

[smotan1000]

Orgasmic!

[jositaJea]

how can these complex structures be imagined by a simple human being?

[depechemodevilla]

Good stuff! Amazing end.

[TheImpressionnant]

The parts before 2min,30 sec are quite plain but after that everything is amazing! :D

[TheDaveBloom]

@TheImpressionnant How is the cadenza plain?

[TheImpressionnant]

@TheDaveBloom Well, I just meant it wasn't as outstanding as the latter part. But now, a couple months later, I do appreciate the awesomeness of the rest :).

[Starbirdy9999]

The beginning sounds like a virtuoso pianist getting angry at the piano because he keeps stumbling on one upward passage...

[Remro88]

Its clear that all piano beguiners should start with this piece !! :d

[ziegfried666]

Prokofiev rules!

[xevanescencex4evax]

he is an amazing composer i must admit, although when ever i have listened to some of his pieces i always thinks old horror films like pycho or 10 rillington place, but i never said it was a bad thing i love listening to russian composers.

(:

[slateflash]

This is awesomely, epicly, insanely crazy. His 1st three piano concertos are like 1930s punk rock:D

[KATERINA4EVER5555]

prokofievs music is simply outrageous and amzing ! astonishing ! that wonderfulllllllll and quite lluring tonality ! he compared his ingenious madness with music and the result is simply amazing !!!!!!!!! <3 you prokofiev for ever !!!!! and all the prokofiev fans !

[firesoftheempyrean]

3:46 digital edit?

[DJNotNais]

ahahaha i remember hearing this theme on kusc radio.

[cattleman6420012000]

This is wonderfuly played by Ashkenazy. 

[slothvader]

@cattleman6420012000

he usually is. i've never heard anything by him less than A/A+.

[johnnynoirman]

Will you able to put up the rest of concerto with the score?

[Flutist11]

"This concerto can't possibly win our Anton Rubinstein Prize! It will promote harmful trends!" :D

[pizzachik22]

thanks so much for posting this with the sheet music!

[rvn10rvn17]

my fav concerto after gershwin's..

[chutdigadut]

ahhh this hurts my hands just watching this madness!

[v4liumfrance]

bravo bravo !!!

[Delaxakius]

speechless again. and again. finale is great!

[markopianist]

incredible performance!

[123eldest]

@cerzule

Yeh really makes your hairs stand on end

[cerzule]

3:09 to the end is pure exhilaration!

[enzo7sphere]

The greatest

[cattleman6420012000]

This is incredible playing.

[cafity]

The best finale i've ever heard!!!!! :,)

[cattleman6420012000]

This is amazing playing.

[soumeshp]

probably a few years ago, I would have agreed, but I was made to learn one of Prokofiev's sonatas. It was an arduous and trying experience, but having at least learned to play it, it was quite an amazing experience to play such outlandish music. There is a kind of subtle playfulness and sarcasm that his music brings, and that is what's cool about him. as for the technique, practice is all that's required

[titusbeertsen]

From 2:18 , why does he play the right hand octaves as if they were triplets?

[gustruj]

Usually, dotted eighths-sixteenth, when combined with written-out triplets (left hand), is understood to be a short-writing for real triplets (happens very often in Bach).

Then again, one may argue that the rhythmical displacement is intended. Actually, I can imagine Prokofieff really means this displacement, and Ashkenazy is just "making it easy" ;-) or making it clearer

Whichever way, I'm sure Ashkenazy has a very good and founded reason for his (amazing) interpretation.

[gustruj]

Listening carefully again, Ashkenazy does seem to have the tendency to play "triplety" all the way through.

And then again, in this speed... does it really makes a big difference?

[nostradamusguy]

Good observation. I assume it really makes it easier at such at that speed, with the triplets already in the left hand. I mean to clearly differentiate the two would be tedious and almost "too" precise for it to be Prokofiev's work— if that makes much sense.

[stagesix6]

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[Hervinbalfour]

I've heard many people play this cadenza but never have I ever heard play it the way Ashkenazy plays it. This is phenomenal!

[pljms]

When I started to get interested in what is commonly referred to as 'classical music' I was repeatedly being told by the music establishment via the media how great Bach, Beethoven & Mozart were, but these same people barely mentioned Prokofiev, whom I had to discover for myself. Since then all bets were off.

[lovelastsforever1000]

@pljms i hate bach and mozart :D these others like prokofiev are so much more interesting

[stagesix6]

@lovelastsforever1000 scriabin, debussy, prokofiev, shostakovich>>>>>>>bach, mozart...

[theartofstew]

@stagesix6

totally!

i don't know why debussy is only know for his clair de lune 

[SickForest]

@pljms me too! jeje... I find Tchaikovsky first after the Bach, Mozart recomendations, then Bruch, Mendelssohn... and then appear Prokofiev!... Such variety of pieces: Romeo & Juliet, precipitato, piano concertos, violin concertos...

[Physdelicdreaming]

@pljms I know this comment is a year old but I cannot agree more. I have since discovered literally hundreds of composers beyond the norm. Classical music is more than just Beethoven's 5th Symphony which has been played so much it's annoying. I love music, and Prokofiev is one of the many composers who I love, absolutely love.

[firstofthecouncil]

@Physdelicdreaming Whilst we're talking about overplayed music and overplayed classical tunes that many people assosciate it all with, I find things like 'Moonlight sonata' and Bach's 'toccata and fugue in d minor' far too often requested over the lesser known and equally good - if not better - composers. Ask a 16-year old (which I am) who Grieg is and the reply is 'uh what?' Education neglects classical music because it's apparently 'boring.' Things like this prove education wrong repeatedly.

[Physdelicdreaming]

@firstofthecouncil Exactly; I know what you mean completely. I remember at one school I was going to, my music teacher was kind enough to play Prokofiev for our music class (I loved that class), and half the kids didn't even know who he was, and it was the most beautiful piece of music...I was the only who said, 'That was beautiful', and everyone looked at me like I was some alien from planet XY78191. :D

[firstofthecouncil]

@Physdelicdreaming It gets worse when you sit there and play some of these things. You become the alien. Luckily I was able to spend my GCSE years with a class with a superb pianist, some amazing singers and people who loved a wide variety of music. It meant that our lessons were full of whatever we were currently listening to, or learning, so classical music was covered a bit, along with everything apart from rap - for which I'm eternally grateful. What's your opinion on people such as Einaudi?

[MNPaul47]

@pljms it is so true. The only thing i have ever heard from Prokofiev is "Peter and the Wolf" so this music really surprised me. I really think that Prokofiev was out-shined by other greats at the time like Rachmaninoff. Kind of like Salieri and Mozart.

[MrKlassicc]

@MNPaul47 Most certainly, you have heard Prokofiev`s Montagues and Capulets (Dance of the Knights) as well. It has been used frequently in films and tv. Too different to be compared to Rachmaninoff or Scriabin. However his conflict with Igor Stravinsky was very popular. Actually Prokofiev can be considered the father of the film music scores and had apparent influence over film music composers such as Basil Poleudoris (type Battle on the ice on youtube).

[thecr8tor]

@MNPaul47 Yeah, but Salieri sucked, Prokofiev ruled over Rachmaninoff.

[hoiszhdfoifh22]

@pljms Frankly, I hate the three of them. It was Rachmaninoff that did it for me - but Prokofiev - Jesus. I just can't believe someone who was so obviously and clearly a genius in the absolute hyperbolic sense of the word isn't a household name.

[huzzzzzzahh]

@pljms try ornstein sonata no 4 and if you like it spread the word. Its fantastic!

[mrbrianmccarthy]

@pljms Prokofiev,Bach,Beethoven,Mozar­t----all great.All of these composers had different strengths and weaknesses as well.Prokofiev obviously has an advantage in being born more recently.He got to not only study the other 3 composers mentioned but the ones that came after them as well.But that being said,there is still much to be learned from the older compsers.Mozart was a master of form and melody,Beethoven was a master of using dynamics and Bach was a master of polyphony and harmony.

[Tuck213]

@pljms Indeed, people always suggest listening to Bach, Mozart and Beethoven because their work is easiest to listen to. Prokofiev is so epic that his compositions might cause braindamage to people who barely have experience in listening to music.

[MrDigitalgenie]

@pljms I have to say I agree with you. Classical music is a very wide genre. For the general listener, classical music at the end of the 19th century - early 20th century is what people would like...

[azaquarium123]

@MrDigitalgenie totally agree a lot of the more popular music for general listeners of classical music is romantic, impressionist genres not really baroque, early classical.

[Vesivian]

@pljms cos prokofiev is contemporary

[holamen12]

Sincerly:

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?

[GangrenaD]

Geniousy of a Rebellious Composer

[cattleman6420012000]

I love Ashkenazy's playing of all the Prokofiev concertos. Both he and Andre Previn had great raport.

[smiller42]

This concerto is the shortest of Prokofiev, yet so BRILLIANT! I love the climatic ending.

-M.C. Miller

[Shoshas]

Agree. Make me fly....

[derek44344]

my mouth was literally open the WHOLE time

[SuperSenpaiMKZ]

oh god the notes scared me looks so hard to play 8O

[hongzai1993]

i went into the fairyland at 3:31

[johndo3]

i love that part too

[dojokonojo]

haha me too

[crapman999]

I love this concert! It takes time to learn it. Very good performed :)

[ICosmoI]

I loved it so much, I downloaded it on iTunes.

[markopianist]

2:18-3:10 and 3:31-4:05-my favourite parts.

[georgecziffra]

0:01 - 4:09 are MY favorite parts.

[Keverprins]

lol XD mine too!

[N8Shokr]

i think they recorded this from within the bells! lol. by the way this concerto isn't divided into movements, all the sections are attaca.

[Anders039]

Disney goes mad. Genious.

[queen306]

^_^GOOD

[echo11nike]

very nice :D

[DonFrankos]

wonderful!

[neuroscience05]

Merci rmannion.

[Werwolf2x]

Terrific! Awesome!

[ostrorawr]

Genial

[philaufan6]

totally sick

[Fallansig]

Prokofiev is addictive.

[dezxdestruction]

sick

[3cplantin]

But sick in the best possible neo-classical hyperactive way!

[dezxdestruction]

YUP!