ashkenazy rachmaninov piano concerto no.3 op.30

[1979Musicfan]

Great music!! My favorite definitve recording of the Rach 3 is Gutierrez's.

[xakoviski]

What about Rachmaninoff himself being the standard reference for the 3rd concerto. There is a recording from 1939. People forget about it? :d

[dlfunky1]

he plays like an angel- definative rach.

[CMA7412]

God I love this piece! It moves me to another sphere! Takes me to heaven....

[topolinik]

Spettacolare! Davvero una splendida esecuzione , grande ashkenazy!!!!

[kaimartucci]

2 dislikes? Were they listening to something else and then rated this by accident???

[josajpnide]

Ne serait-ce pas la version use in the movie "Shine"?

[shogl]

I strongly agree with doggtaggz and appreciate the detailed comments.

[sefard777]

@cattleman6420012000 you should hear him conducting the symphonic pieces. It's like he really gets inside this music, it's his.

Ashkenazy + Rachmaninov = WIN

[concerto35]

@sefard777 This is good

[kiaragre]

This is my favourite interpretation of the Rach 3. The point. The others are variations...even if excellently played...

[jcsorez]

I want to listen to this for all eternity.....

[poochy320]

I will be hated... but I think Ash's versions are more soulful then Rach's original recordings of his own music.

[opterios]

@poochy320 Well....I actually agree....! :P

[poochy320]

@opterios Great I'm not totally crazy. I told my friend the same thing, and she is a record deal concert pianist in Portland. She said that it's alright to think this, and in her opinion sometimes the music chooses certain people. Ok, then why was I chosen by Paganini and Daft Punk at the same time? Heh.

[davlak2]

between the modern interpreters, this one is my favourite rach3

[freeqwerqwer]

This recording brings back memories......decades ago, when I was in high school I used to listen to this very recording everyday and fell in teen love with a girl named Judy Ertel.

[AllegroDemolish]

ashkenazy is one of the most underrated pianist.

hes so great, but its sad tat ppl have so much prejudice.

[cattleman6420012000]

@AllegroDemolish If people underate Ashkenazy they are stupid ignorant fools. He is one of the geatest pianists ever. He actually recorded and performed practically the whole piano repertoire.His Rachmaninov is absolutely outstanding. I heard him play incredibly brilliantly live a number of times.

[dlfunky1]

@AllegroDemolish i wasnt aware he was underrated everyone knows he's one of the best.

[BrookHornblower]

I like Ashkenazy, too - despite the music snobs' prejudices

[doggtaggz]

I know everyone has their favourite Rach 3 rendition, but this one (Haitink/Ashkenazy?) is my favourite. For me this is like a reference performance of this great concerto. Ashkenazy is nothing short of incredible - effortless playing and good sense of line and proportion, and the closing 2-3 minutes of the work take my breath away each time I listen to it. The development in the 1st movement is for me also really exciting to listen to.

[mpakos18473]

I agree with you.

I have this CD. I bought it at 1993. Because the shops hadn't it I order it. 417239 was its code, I remember the code after all these years.

The reference performance on RACH 3 !

[JLFelixMendelssohnB]

@doggtaggz: Mine is Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn.

[wnxg4nd4lf]

@doggtaggz Well said! This is my favourite version too.

[UlfenDaddy]

@doggtaggz Very true, and very well-put! Some of the comments in YouTube utterly amaze me, with personal attacks and brutal language over a difference in appreciation of MUSIC! Haitink I enjoy thoroughly, Ashkenazy I've never cared for much; and my Rach 3 "reference" performance is actually Martha Argerich. That is rather odd even to me, as Horowitz was THE standard while I was a student. I even attended his Golden Jubilee concert.

[ThePro911]

This is very nice, but you should also watch Bronfman play it with the Viennese.

[jorgeliebermann]

tegan unos dìas de paciencia.Subirè un video de este concierto que creo que es no superado por Vladimir.Mùsica e imagen´Buenos Aires.

[cattleman6420012000]

Vladimir Ashkenazy plays all Rachmaninov fantastically and with deep understanding.

[cosmicjazzer]

This is very fine.. but, for me, Jorge Bolet's version is still unmatched!

[pleasantblue]

Ashkenazy and Rachmaninoff are just perfect match!

[bomberchicken]

which movement is this? btw THIS IS CLASS!

[johnalt16]

First movement.

[bomberchicken]

thatnk you very much.

(will the person who minused my comment please tell me why? that is if he/she sees this comment

[parkourjordz]

It was not me but i am guessing it was because you showed lack of experience when asking the question "which movement is this? ".

Jordan.

[pianonine]

Ashkenazy does it differently (not better) than anyone...but he owns this concerto.

[vova47]

No, he just borrowed it from Horowitz. ....

And Horowitz is pretty mad about it and wants it back!

[cattleman6420012000]

Vladimir is so special when playing Rachmaninov. He has achieved so much in his life. An enormous repertoire! I truly have so much respect for him.

[umegghju]

Ho questo su un CD, la prima versione completa di questo concerto che io ho ascoltato

[GIONMARO]

Maestro Ashkenazy, with all due respect, you should concentrate on either the piano or on conducting, but not both, in which you are strictly second rate.

[misscalendar]

Oi - Ashkenazy is amazing, thankyouverymuch.

[ghostpianist]

Only 2:45 mins???

[cattleman6420012000]

Vladimir Ashkenazy was always so special with Rachmaninov.

[MrRaphaelBM]

@cattleman6420012000

No he is not. Bronfman is the best with rach and specially with rach 3, now i know every one is goin to shout on me because its the page of ashkenazy but we all know the true - Bronfman is the best.

[pianofat]

you folks need to listen to horowitzs' 1951 recording with reiner it blows em all away argerich, watts, bronfam etc.

[pianonine]

Sorry Horowitz's messy and empty playing always leaves me cold. Richter, Hough and Hamelin are all super virtuosic and muscial perfection.

[vdj0077]

Horowitz empty playing?

[batigoallover]

why no full version?

[loveebara]

0:54 is poor:(

[alucoq]

agree pity..

[HiyaHolaHey]

I love this interpretation!

[Cavaradossi1981]

do you really like the way he plays at 0:32-0:39?

[dlfunky]

noone plays rach like vlad. this is the definitive version of this wonderful concerto.

a phenomenal pianist and genuis conductor is there nothing this great man cant do?

[Marcuys]

probably my favorite interpretation of this piece

[joaharu]

best present my mom ever gave me, was this CD/

Listened to is over 5000 times.

[JoeTownley]

Rubinstein and Horowitz--the two pianistic giants of our age and neither ever recorded the complete Chopin etudes. I wonder why?

[voolare]

I read on a book by musicologist Piero Rattalino that Horowitz was not satisfied with his own performance of some of the etudes, which were not at "Horowitz level" according to him; therefore he never played in public, nor recorded some of the etudes. About Rubi I don't know.

[vova47]

Because they felt they couldn´t do justice to all of them. Incidentally, that´s what Hoffman and Rachmaninoff also said. And they believed that nobody else could play them all equally well either.

[simsa21]

I thought Ashkenazy had direkted this concert according to the picture...(Haitink is similar to old Ashkenazy)

[cattleman6420012000]

No simsa21, this is definitely Ashkenazy playing in the very early 1970s. I personally love his playing of Rachmaninov.

[URAMESI41]

第一楽章の「カデンッア」が凄いんだけど！　まさに超絶技巧！

[minasgekos]

i don't get it, i have a cd with a different version, a lot slower. did he recorded the concerto twice?

[4ngry4nus]

yeap

[ArturoAlejandroS]

The Ashkenazy version of Rach3 with LSO under Previn is wonderful, specially the first movement, the most russian style.

If you can hear the Rach1 in same version, please hear, is too beautiful.

[joaharu]

UNder Previn was amazing. That Cd is the best CD i have ever. It is worth millions to me.

[ArturoAlejandroS]

Is really a marvel.Thanks to God I have.

Life is not the same withouth this CD.

[misscalendar]

I agree. I listen to it so much I'm practically married to it.

[nazhiitoxx]

I love the sound he makes with the piano, but I want to ask you something, TO ALL YOUTUBE USERS: Do you think his sound is forced?? ugly?? strepitoso?? with too strengh?? because many people say me that...

[4ngry4nus]

He did better on this one than the one that is most sold

[TheGreatRichter]

Ashkenazy is one of my favourite pianists for his poetic sensitivity in rachmaninov, there is no bravura playing as extravagant as Lang Lang here, the only slight weakness is in the big ossia cadenza where he seems to draw it out for too long but overall a good performance of the 3rd Concerto

[q8pianist]

there is so much things he add. :) and i like it.

[appassionatodipiano]

ashkenazy isn't like michelangeli but he's so great pianist specially regards about the touch and technique

[ArturoAlejandroS]

Better than Michelangeli.Like Horowitz.

[voolare]

michelangeli did not recor this as far as I know. He recorded n4 in a memorable way.

[ArturoAlejandroS]

Yes,his recording of rach4 is a marvel.I like very much Orozco too.

This recording is wonderful.Ashkenazy is a great pianist and conductor.He is also good as Horowitz was.

In number 3 I recomend you a recording not well known,but sure you will enjoy.Naum Grubert and

Rotterdam Phillarmonic under Valery Gergiev.

This recording is excellent.Greetings.

[cattleman6420012000]

Vladimir Ashkenazy is a man of wonderful musical taste. When I heard him live several times, he had wonderful musical flair, lovely touch, amazing enery and incredible technique.

[cattleman6420012000]

This is fantastic. I am such a big fan of Vladimir Ashkenazy.thank you so much for putting this on youtube.