Elena Kuschnerova - Chopin's "Revolutionary" Etude

[kingjepoy]

Yes, that's the way! Great delivery!

[cygneblanche]

OMG so dynamic..

[cuoylyf]

Just fantastic, it is also great to actually see the Artist perform.

[ThePianoguy89]

Love her technique! Amazing!

[mc0558]

This is absolutely superb! She as good as any of the performances on the web that I have heard. The woman has a phenomenal left had! Bravissima!!

[cfwpiano]

Oh my god... she rips thru this like no tomorrow! Fantastic performance.

[gianpaga11]

WUNDERBAR!

Mit anderen Pianisten zu vergleichen ist eine grosse Absurdität!

Tausend Dank!!!

[100110100]

What is that soccer ball?

[robertslistening]

This woman is a professor of music...and has won some serious awards. I don't think she needs your advice on sustain. I admire her, like I do all concert pianists. I haven't heard her Bach yet, but that was what she won a prestigious award for.

I thought her "Heroic" was excellent. Some of you are hung up on every little mistake. I listen more to the overall performance and the mood established. I think she is one of the better pianists in the world.

A better audio quality would have helped.

[lllllllllllllll88]

O-O

[givemetime123]

Pas mal du tout, mais il manque (juste un peu) le passion et la fougue que Richter, Gavrilov ou Cziffra ont su rendre dans leurs magnifiques interprétations de cette étude de Chopin.

[Deimosxsz]

i hate, this interpretation

[cfwpiano]

@Deimosxsz Why, other than you want to troll?

[NuovoCurioso]

Ottima pianista, ottima interpretazione....emozionante­...!!!

....Seppure un pò troppo veloce....

Brava comunque!

[kanonkulan89]

she is amaizing , but its little too fast for my taste.:)

[mrmolinodelahoz]

This is the first time I ever heard the savage beast lurking in this Chopin.

Elena is beyond words.

[TheLovelyPiano]

too fast. sorry.

[violinartist1]

yea.

[theNotSoDivineMsM]

Elena Kuschnerova is one of the premier female pianists. She is always a pleasure to listen to........

[saturne46]

Quel magnifique tempérament de pianiste. Elena Kuschnerova nous transporte ! Bravo

[davidgray2]

I think the acoustic and recording quality make this sound muddy and too fast, whereas if we could hear all the notes the way it was played it is probably hair raising.

[dgaranin]

This hall is a well, there is no ceiling. This is why the acoustics is like this. The camera was consumer-grade..

[horatiodreamt]

"There is no ONE tempo..." --V. Horowitz

[virtualetude]

true....

[CIACHciach]

That was good...

[AZazaxe]

The piece is in C MINOR, not c sharp minor

[einsteinlisztbach]

this is in C minor, i can hear it :P

[hevidt]

she's so energetic and exuberant. FABULOUS!!!!!

[callenishss]

holy shit this is powerful

[marrieter08]

russians are reallu on to something in classical music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SharolaidVideos]

LAWL, she does look like Madame Maxime

[PianoCriticsKiller]

WOW! What a performance! I loved the emotion she put into it.

EXCELLENT! I really enjoyed it, Ms. Kuschnerova!!

[razvanfor2007]

great ! she is good! verry good version! of  revolutionary

[givemetime123]

Belle version.

[werqf]

too fast tempo is strange for me.

but she plays enough good.

I feel shock of revolution.

so this is nice play,isn't it?

I like this elena kuschnerova's virsion.

[Emlomor]

Yes it's nice :)

[PianoCriticsKiller]

werqf, you say she plays too fast. Others who play it slower, people complain it's too slow. lol Can't satisfy everyone. Yes, she played this exceptionally well. WOW! What a performance, eh, m8?

[pianochick1]

Wow, that's super fast, yet I really like it!

[tdenusa]

My text has the speed at half note = 76 which is extremely fast. The only thing I find is that when it's played at that speed you lose some of the melodic intricacies of the piece.

[Solstasis]

Look out, it's Madame Maxime.

[Karkacool]

Its so fast that it's boring...

[marivi1989]

OK the recording is very bad, Yes she plays it really fast but is still excelent, besides Chopin wrote this studies with a purpose maybe he wanted the student to gain ability by playing the left hand very fast (in this particular study)

[NickithTheGreat]

He wrote it because Poland failed to defeat Russia during the revolution.

[kbelani]

.... what a shame for a composer a piece of music is just a number... op10 n12

[volcom2003]

Dgaranin is right, she is a professional pianist! Of course she isnt over pedaling its just that the recording is low quality etc. Maybe she plays it a tiny bit faster than usual, shes probably likes it like that, its her own interpretation after all.

[NickithTheGreat]

Just because she's a professional pianist doesn't mean she can't make mistakes or overpedal. Like I said there are also plenty of sloppy areas, wrong notes etc. Look at professional athletes.They mess up too sometimes. I don't question her ability to play. This was just a sloppy performance.

[dgaranin]

Check the same piece posted by ivrykeys, it has an immaculate sound..

[dgaranin]

Are you serious saying that a pianist of such a level would overpedal the piece? It is just the acoustics of he hall. Look up, there is no ceiling, it is like a well.

[NickithTheGreat]

That's why I said I want to hear it at a better sound quality.

[duneman551]

It's fast, but not at the expense of the phrases or dynamics. A very moving performance,

[pianochick1]

A bit fast for my liking, but I really like this pianist. She can definitely play very well.

[Goozalo]

that's right, this is the original tempo for this song, is very fast

[kasyapa]

seething passion, romantic imagination. outstanding.

[Zellig]

"WAAH WAAH WAAH, ITS LIKE, .00004 seconds too fast OMG."

She plays is fine, IMO. The music is all about providing your own interpretation of the piece. If I was looking for people to replicate the original performance I would just listen to the same version over and over again. This seems to base around a rift between those of us who approach performance as an art and those who approach it as a product.

[NickithTheGreat]

If that's the case then your essentially saying that I could go bang on the piano and call it Revolutionary Etude, and that would be correct. I'm just saying. I'd like to hear this performance with a better sound quality. It sounds drowned out by too much pedal. Not to mention, there are alot of wrong notes being played.

[BritKairi]

just ...gREAT! ^_^

[dgaranin]

Of course, this performance is fast but not rushed. All played notes are full weight, all accents are set. It has a torrential quality.

[dgaranin]

And Martha Argerich on youtube speeds up Scarlatti and everybody is happy.

[aldebussy]

That's a stylistic matter. you speed up repeats to create an echoing effect. You can't do that on a Chopin etude with NO repeats. but i enjoyed this performance anyways. GREAT. it's not sloppy. Just too much pedale. On the contrary, it's precise.

[dgaranin]

Richter on youtube plays this etude much faster and nobody complains.

[SuperSZ]

You mean. 'played' he is dead -_- lol ;)

[sacredcriminal]

I agree, its obviously a technically perfect performance but there's no way it's meant to go at that speed, Chopin put Marcato markings in the descending left hand passage for a purpose; to bring out the dischordal harmony, stressing the chord. to me this is a porr performance, the technique is there to have made it an excellent performance.

[Thebop3]

I dunno if it's the recording but.. I find it's obviously technically perfect but it really misses musicality ! It's very very cold.

[thunder1909]

Man, everybody who says she doesn't play this etude good is stupid. The speed is perfect and everything is quite extraoridnary.

[dawoodsta]

she ruined this etude because of the speed. There's no contrast at all.

[dgaranin]

That's a pity that Glenn Gould has not recorded this etude. Probably you could hear Chopin weeping in it..

[thepolonaise]

or bach trying to break thru XD

[kissis4music]

She has a lot of power. She is technical brilliant.

Does she can feel, what Chopin made to compose this?

This peace is full of range (against the czar, when

he occupied Poland in 1830). Full of love to his

homeland, what you should hear in the part before

the finish. It is possible to give expression and

heart to this. I could not hear Chopin weaping.

[IanGillanN1]

well said man

Totally agree with you

[NickithTheGreat]

Yeah it was too fast and a little muddy with the pedal, also a bit of a lack of expression in some areas. It was ok.

[JahKraZ]

wow that was FAST! never heard it played that fast before. nice though! i love her energy! nice vid!

[AngelinaTaylor]

It was indeed a bit fast. But brilliant!

[DKFlamez]

It's a difficult piece to play.

[ChopinMan1]

too much pedal .

some mistakes and stops .

[thepolonaise]

meaning you could do better?

[ChopinMan1]

yea.

I think i play it better .

Maybe it because the quality of the movie .

[dgaranin]

Then you are very good, indeed, because Elena Kuschnerova is a great pianist. Post your own videos!

[pandimonium1]

perfecto!

[lisalisa0926]

Very powerful, passionate, and so fast!!! I like her as a pianist.