Sugestion Diabolique from the film Andrei Gavrilov talks and plays Prokofiev ( with M.Bercly)

[Canbon271]

Fantastico!



[LondonNYLA]

I was in the audience when Gavrilov played this as an encore in 1999 in Toronto at the George Weston Recital Hall. I sat at the very back, but still felt the whole place tremble from the awesome power... digital audio can't capture this sensation... too bad :-/

[ingrichi]

O-O The man standing there suddenly appears at 2:29, and he appeared the pianist's glasses... maybe this song attracted that thing...

[wendy321]

HO HO HO HO HO WOOOAAHH

[ansonyeung825]

The best...

[MyLordLoke]

What a great explosion he makes at 0:11!

[MyLordLoke]

I really like hes glissando. Incredible.

[Merkavo]

Black Metal didn't start in the 80's

[CoolerFizz]

The best interpretation for this piece in my opinion! very true performance

[gonrolgonrol]

Lol, the end :)

Great video!

[Jwarrior53]

Who is the freakin ninja in the blue tie that sneaks up on him at the end there! As if this piece isn't haunting enough, I have to be surprised by ninja salesman in the leisure suit!

[Cornour]

Bests I've ever heard on this piece from Gavrilov and absolutely comparable with Richter's preformances: which is, INCREDIBLE.

[GreatJeca]

What a hero.

He manages to take all this sound from such an awful piano!

[Purtierun]

Wait, wait...he wears glasses at 2:29!!! How is it possible???

[Puchjok]

@Purtierun They just took last fraction of this recording from the conversation with M.Bercly and put it together with performance.

[classicalmusicbox]

@Purtierun ...by devilish magic...

[Lucas31991]

@Purtierun really demonical...

[wevil770]

That can't be healthy..

[keyboardmaster82]

the devil himself appeared out of thin air to congratulate him on a most diabolical performance

[tavanata]

What a glissando...spettacolo!!!

[bae215]

love how Will Ferrell appeared in the end ;D hahaha

[demosj]

Whoa, the guy just appeared suddenly at the end.

[fabio99999999]

must be the devil himself! ;)

[Puchjok]

Opening section in original written "Ad libitum" while it is a little caricature on Liszt B minor sonata and all "faustian horror sounds". Gavrilov dose exactly what Prokofiev intended with a lot of irony!

[coasterman16]

I find that a lot of the intensity in the beginning is lost due to a tasteless about of rubato. The piece is marked presto fantastico, not adagio e molto rubato. Richter's recording is the only performance that I have heard that upholds Prokofiev's tempo request form start to finish. That said, despite a dubious opening, Gavrilov does give an exciting rendition of this piece.

[ipublica]

No words to utter. He belongs to the pianistic Pantheon, to compare to a few like Rachmaninov, Paderewski, Gershwin, Tausig, Liszt, Busoni, Hoffmann.

[TheSilentSon]

@ipublica And Volodos.

[alexmanzo19]

Indescriptible!!!

[Belamus]

simply the most incredible interpretation of this piece that i've ever seen. i liked it even better than richter's demonic reading of the work.

[MiguelMataMatiya]

u think this is the best interpretation? try Valentin Bogolubov's version, with images of paintings by Dali... way better dude

[hatake16]

I love this piece.

[cattleman6420012000]

This is truly marvellous playing.