Gilels plays Rachmaninoff Prelude Op. 23 No. 5

[passthepancakes1]

Mr. Lugansky plays it very cleanly, however in my opinion, it sounds much better when played like how Gilels or Richter played it.

[Dardagan11]

other pianists and.....VLADIMIR HOROWITZ...

[Qatarsys]

Впервые услышал это произведение в х/ф "Старший сын", по пьесе Вампилова с Леоновым, Караченцевым и Боярским в главных ролях... С тех пор искал, искал, искал, но всё тщетно. И вот, случайно наткнулся на youtube. От радости, чуть кипятком не описался, что нашёл :)

[mademan39]

@Qatarsys prazadavlayu! Rachmaninov moy sami lubimi artist..sledushiye tchaikovsky, chopin, i brahms

[Qatarsys]

@mademan39 Спасибо большое! Мне, конечно, Рахманинов нравится, но первым композитором для меня является Галина Ивановна Уствольская youtube . com / watch?v=ynhdxHOrPm4 её музыка, для слушателя неподготовленного может показаться весьма своеобразной...

[1Whitetrashkid]

The first time I heard Rachmaninoff play it himself. Rachmaninoff plays with a more free (loose) tempo and is more free with the right hand that results in a crescendo/decrescendo cadenza effect to the short phrases that connot be put to paper. So, I prefer Rachmaninoff. But I love Gilel. He IS more precise. For my taste, Horowitz plays it too fast, too staccato, and is too sparing with the peddle. Well what do I know, I haven't posted any of my piano music.

[JOOP60606]

my dad used to play this when I was about 10, early in the morning and wake us all up. I hated it. I dont hate it anymore.

[coolpinkone]

Oops NOT muddled...felt authentic...

[coolpinkone]

Love....novice here... But this was my favorite performance of this today....expressive and ultra rich. Very clear...no muddled

[greenlego42]

how does a large skyrim conversation start on a piano video page?

[Datharion]

i get that skyrim reference there good stuff...i used to be an adventurer like you but then i took an arrow to the knee. Good stuff.

[Waytoosketch]

@muurtalo I used to play as good as Gilels...but then I took an arrow to the finger

[paulmcc11]

@Waytoosketch What do you mean arrow, ??



[MissLaraCats]

Love this version, have listened to many recordings of this piece but this is still my favourite. Love his passion and rhythm. No one else has that left hand.

[zipalooie]

@MissLaraCats I wish I could get a better recording of it from somewhere.

[halotwizted]

Really love this, not too fast but extremely expressive!

[UTHavoc]

I like the interpretation, overall but the tempo is too slow for my liking. Then again people like Lisitsa play it at a ridiculous finger breaking pace and end up hitting the wrong note occasionally.

However I must say this version is the most useful to me. I have been practising this piece for ~6 months (still on the 2nd page) and from all the interpretations I have heard the ones I got the most useful info from are this one and the lilya zilberstein's, which is really interesting

[MAF0400239]

I prefer Valentina Lisitsas version

[TheChopin37]

@MAF0400239 Lisitsa è un po' sporca però.

[TheChopin37]

Sinceramente preferisco la versione di Horowitz, ma questo è un gusto personale.

[vasilyec]

@TheChopin37 Adoro Horowitz, ma questa versione e' la mia preferita. Interessante che tutti i due sono ebrei nati in Russia. Cosa e' sucesso con questo paese? Dove gli altri genii?

[TheChopin37]

Il preludio che suono io! A chi suona il pianoforte consiglio di impararlo perchè è veramente bello e divertente.

[tkeitat]

christmas time is good time to listen classic

[archimoud]

By my opinion, the best interpretation of this piece! WONDERFUL!

[faithgreece]

gilels is a libra like me )

[faithgreece]

its perfect.when i learn to play it ill be the happiest person tn the world

[FatUglyNoLifeNerd]

Absolutely masterful rendition of an absolutely masterful composition. Just awesome.

[Peliace128]

Beautiful!!

[anodslam]

This is THE Ultimate Version of this piece. I don't think I'll ever hear an interpretation as perfect as this one.

[lightsword154]

Immaculate timing.

[insaneguitarfrettet]

@muurtalo Valentina lisitsa is way better

[dezoveelstemarc]

@insaneguitarfrettet If you ask me, she really doesn't understand the piece. She plays too fast (though this can be misunderstood for playing well), with wrong climaxes crescendo's and ritardando's. But hey, opinions vary

[ZotiSergey]

@insaneguitarfrettet

Comparing Valentina lisitsa to Emil Gilels is the same as a comparing skateboard to Mercedes.

[gaagification]

try lugansky.I like a lot how him interpreting this piece .This interpretation is also really good.By far one of the best .

[kzelmer]

@gaagification

Yep. Lugansky makes a good one too. Two amazing renditions both Gilels and Lugansky. Best ones by far

[marcuspianostar]

@insaneguitarfrettet  booooo

[muurtalo]

@insaneguitarfrettet are you her paid representative or you just were skipping your pills lately?

[3001st]

Nazis fled in terror when they heard this music.

[kmcsyp]

Thanks...

[R4YMI]

Really stunning ! Power, rhythm, drama --> wonderfull interpretation of Mr Gilels <3

[zipalooie]

@R4YMI I wish I had a better recording of this. This is my favorite interpretation of this song.

[BrettKeepin]

I wish this video was synced up with the sound correctly. Bit jarring trying to watch this and listen.

[wolve296]

OMFG i like how his hair is like bobbing up and down XD

[dcarlosbrx]

wonderful....magic...perfect!!­! the best interpretation I've ever heard of this piece, for sure!

[Diossvk]

Emil rocks !!! Nobody ever can not ever play like this maestro behind the piano. Maybe, Kempff, but he is a Beethoven guy :)

[JoeTownley]

I'll go with the only pianist Rachmaninoff himself every sanctioned to play his infamous Prelude: Mickey Mouse.

[JjMoessinger]

1:10 looks like he´s dankcing the thriller :'D

[JjMoessinger]

1:10 looks like he´s dancing to Thriller :'D

[easystreets70]

Popmusic

[ZotiSergey]

best piano playeer ever

[595ll27sa1]

chido



[Musicownz1997]

even evgeny kissin has to bow down to this interpretation

[Claymore2408]

this + skyrim = good time.

[Annino89]

@Claymore2408 Oh my God!!! I can't believe we had the same idea!!!

[Seanteeheeful]

@Claymore2408 

[tkeitat]

@Claymore2408 can u help me take out arrow from my knee

[muurtalo]

Oh yeah! Who the fuck is ever gonna play this better that Mr. Gilels?

[XxTheGXxX]

@muurtalo horowitz...

[TheDoucheChanel]

@muurtalo I.Thumbs up and ill make a video.

[Helliott10]

@muurtalo evgeny kissin

[Kinjutsuu]

@muurtalo

richter did

[RavenHairedMaiden]

@muurtalo

I don't know.... maybe.... Rachmaninoff?

[sttevenash]

Audio doesn't match visual....still a good piece though

[PietkaMS]

OP emotions.

[F0XD0NUT]

This has to be the best performance of this piece I've ever heard

[Prospectiveful]

this is the best performance I have ever heard..

[SamGHLR]

0:45 is so hardcord!!!! long to learn XD

[Teppichbodenman]

this is not bad but luganski plays this still (in my opinion) in the best way

[Bret6464]

@Teppichbodenman Gilels is considered the one disciple and successor to Rachmaninoff. This performance by Gilels is extraordinary - Lugansky's is not.

[KPJP1978]

This is incredibly great.

[gyuhankim]

I thought Evgeny Kissin performed this piece the best until I saw Gilels play it and I'm glad I came across this video, pun intended...

[aniflikgirl]

Its my opinion that all serious artists regard themselves far too highly. But the truly humble are both gifted with incredible talent and great beauty. Beethoven was a narcissit and a womanizer, but his life is the most tragic romance I've ever heard. It is also my opinion that a great number of the iconic members of the artistic word are more than a little broken at heart. In truth we all no nothing about anything, and are lying to ourselves and the world, myself included.

[franticfingerfrenzy]

My credibility as a musician lies in my ability to disregard whatever race or background or prior accolades the subject holds, and scrutinize the performance based on the performance itself.

[franticfingerfrenzy]

I do know you are not a musician. I can observe a lot of things from your response to this video. One is that music is not your profession. Another is that this particular recording of Opus 23 no 5 is the first you have ever listened to. Maybe you're just trying to change your online persona. Appear to be some refined muso after all that dodgy jailbreaking videos you were on about.

[tommytimiv]

@franticfingerfrenzy How can you possibly tell I am a musician or not, regardless if your profession is in music, it makes you no better in appreciating a piece. As it happens you are incorrect about the recording, the first one I listened to of this piece was Richters' recording of this piece. A word of advice to you is that never try to make out that you can analyse people by the way they type. Liking romantic music does not affect your online persona, nor does it reflect your intellect.

[paulmcc11]

the best player of this song,

[franticfingerfrenzy]

I reply only to musicians. Not to profane keyboard warriors who know not what they are listening to and only dare agree with the mainstream to seek approval.

[tommytimiv]

@franticfingerfrenzy The "mainstream" don't listen to this music if I was trying to seek praise I would be spamming all the popular artists youtube channels with comments like 'omg i liek ur muzic <3". Going back to your 'I only reply to musicians' is ridiculous because you are ignorant as to if I play an instrument or not. I do play an instrument as it happens and I am no way in Gilels league and I doubt I ever will. However you criticising a genius lowers your credibility as a musician.

[Achtelnote]

thats so unbelievable.

[Pianoworks1]

My favorite performance of this great work!

[mdawgjc]

wow.... hes not asian

[franticfingerfrenzy]

Who is this tommytimiv guy? does he even play piano? I played this piece for my LRSM freakin 15 years ago.

[tommytimiv]

@franticfingerfrenzy Don't be a little bitch either reply to me or don't speak, do not seek help from the youtube community because no one will rush to your aid. Frankly I do not care if you played this piece 15 years ago or at all, but the fact remains acting like a professional pianist and slagging of one of the piano masters in my view is the act of a pretentious fuckwit.

[89loque]

I cried when I heard the second part

[Leheno]

as a percussionist I can see the Lang Lang is the Travis Barker of piano, or at least thats how you guys refer to him.

[cheradinine8]

Gilels is god...

[schmuckenheimer9]

I just can't just listen to these pieces any more after having watched so many performances on youtube. I require seeing a person and a piano on a stage at this point.

[BiMetalAuPt]

Yes I have.. Try it on a Sauter.. Baby.. OK the high notes are fantastic.. One of the two best Pianos in the world..better high range then the Bechstein 9 ft(#1).. or (#10)Hamburg...concert grand!!

Gilels is going by the published work more then his presentation( in America) at the CH....

Just a thought,

BiMetalAuPt

[franticfingerfrenzy]

2.57 full of stuffups. betcha none of the 5,853 people who clicked the like tab ever played this piece or played it well.

[tommytimiv]

@franticfingerfrenzy nobody appreciates your comment, either watch and enjoy or find somewhere else to go because really we don't care about your opinion here.

[franticfingerfrenzy]

If you think this is great listen to the ashkenazy one. Gilel used too much pedal and had too many slips. not in lang lang's league.

[boxers7x5]

@franticfingerfrenzy

LOL, not in Lang Lang's league. You're right, because that would be bush league.

[XxbambambxX]

this is amazing piece played by an amazing man but the man who synced wasn't amazing =D

[BiMetalAuPt]

Black lorigine, With all due respect, Lang Lang interpretation is a copy of the record Rachmaninoff himself did. I do also love the Hamburg Steinway but my Sauter has a better sound and it is the baby... It is all in the dynamics..

Just a thought, BiMetalAuPt

[varo2471]

Look like the music stoned those people

[megasupersmurf]

scares me... so awesome!!!!



[ThunderDonkey]

Practicing this song. It's awesome to play :)

[alperloos]

Does anybody know when exactly he played this piece of heaven?

[fenderbender92]

@alperloos Sometime before 1985.

[FuguJikan]

@alperloos This was in 1978 and recorded (CD is called Gilels Live In Concert)

[willflanaganmus]

Wow, I heard this piece at a recital about 5 years ago. I remembered it recently, and I spent days searching for it, thinking it was part of his Etude-tableaux. When I went on a music-recognition software website and sifted through all the results, I finally found it-finally hearing it after all this time is an awesome reward!

[76oldboy]

speechless...

[toogoodbw]

wtf is wrong with his fingernails?

[paulmcc11]

@toogoodbw im not sure what its called. but i

think its when you have been playing piano for a long time they sorta adapt that way.

[toogoodbw]

@paulmcc11 I've been playing piano for almost 20 years I hope it doesn't happen to me. Of course, I don't play as much as Gilels.

[jigglypugz]

Gilels is my favorite Rachmaninov interpreter ever! I try to model my playing after his!

[Sawbonz]

Me thinks 600,000 of those views are me. I can't get enough of this piece and how masterful Gilels has played it.

[1979Musicfan]

Very nice playing.

[mastermat112]

lang lang gets owned by this video

[Aerovistae]

@mastermat112 shut the hell up youre so god damned fucking stupid

[mastermat112]

@Aerovistae

wowowo easy man

it's just only a joke

[sabi5]

So beautiful !!!!! wonderful plaing

[MPattersonable]

I'm new to " " Classical Music" " but one thing I noticed is that this piece sounds better with Gilels, like when I listen to Karajan...

[Zilanor]

I've a friend (18) who played this prelude incredible well - like Gilels :)

[Blacklorigine]

Fuck Lang Lang, he disliked this video 85 times oO

[MattStubbs1]

@Blacklorigine WELL SAID

[Aerovistae]

@Blacklorigine you're soooo god damned funny it's amazing.

[clashcityrocker1221]

that's some intense piano playing

[eagle3592]

Easily one of the best things to come out of communism

[SamGHLR]

started practicing it yesterday :]

[tehblintzor]

@simcha181818 Nobody's perfect :)

Also, I was talking to the other gentlemen and agreeing with you.

[asmmurray]

Wow.

[n64wilbert]

Hell yea!!!

[YifeiShi]

is it just me or is it tat the audio is a bit off from the video?

maybe i just have excessive lag

[RElKAx]

@YifeiShi For me, the video is lagging slower than the audio... /:

[wilty555]

This is my great uncle!

[zupei]

@wilty555 Hipster.



[decemberbenjamin]

ahh... the old soviet, so much memories.

[yosanti86]

beautiful song and a great performer

[skatty14]

If you can play this, bravo! If you can play it like Gilels, OMG!!!?

[301250]

Gilels had the "golden tone" ...he and Richter were the two titans of the keyboard from the school of Russian pianism and both were equally great in their own respective ways and simply inimitable.

[elraot09]

He sits there in front of this piano and lets his hands tell his story.

[davidsusu]

nuclear powerplant

[MrArchimarky]

Rachmaninov was a million times the composer that Liszt was (to compare two inspiringly gifted performers who turned to composition as well)

[innaokk]

Many people play virtuoso, but the sound that he took out FROM PIANO

rare and amazingly beautiful! GREAT MUSICIAN!!!

[zdevol7]

Úžasná virtuozita! Gilelsova interprtace Rachmaninova je fascinující. Díky.

[MrRrrrvvvv]

Richter is better.

[vshagoyan]

@MrRrrrvvvv Richter and Gilels are two of the best. No need to argue who is better.

[nerfmyaccount]

@MrRrrrvvvv yeah, on opposite day 

[decemberbenjamin]

Gilels .. I wished I was there to witness him play firsthand.

[dressrehearsalrags]

This piece is sheer madness. Love it.

[Iceskatergirl22]

haha my 11 year old friend is just starting this piece. can't believe it, but she is!

[mastermat112]

@pianistPT

yes you can say that again

you need to search on youtube "lang lang flight of the bumblebee" and click on the first video

he was playing the flight of the bumblebee on an IPAD!!

[Fuco1337]

Anyone know the name of the concert? I'd love to see the whole thing.

[MarietteClare]

this is my great uncle.

[anatolypaykin]

E.Gilels is my favorite pianist

[sugarve]

Fenomenale!

[tavanata]

Stupendamente suonato...

[MrLieblingsessen]

Yay! A classical master. Gotta love the Gilels.

[SeadogDriftwood]

As great as this is, the load parts sounds kinda banged - although that might just be the recording.

[pianistPT]

@SeadogDriftwood that may be because it is a BRAVURA passage supposed to sound like that. And it sounded so (((= that is the reason because he was always so sucessful playing this Rach. (((((=

[AudiABTr8]

Very great playing, and most parts were some of the best I've heard of this, however, I find that Valentina Lisista's is better for this particular piece.

[7mazenaHenrija8mog]

brilliant!

[CarapaxSPb]

I don't think Gilels is the best as for playing Rachmaninoff. But Gilels is greate...

[pianistPT]

@CarapaxSPb I do COMPLETELY agree

[pianistPT]

UNVERGLEICHBAR!!!! BRAVISSIMO!!!

[binzeg]

This button is for dislike, not for Download, DON'T CLICK!

[Karracks]

You cant simply jump into a piece of Rachmaninoff. There is more to his pieces than simple notes. To be able to play these deep pieces you need to know at how to play with intense precision and emotion, which Gilels so beautifully portrays here in this video. I would rather recommend some contemporary artist like Einaudi or Yann Tiersen

[Blackberryboy24]

85 people are deaf......

[ofer20]

amazing!!! you think it is possible to play this piece after 3 month of piano playing?? h

i can't tell if its a very complicated piece, and i dont want to spend hundreds of hours on that and than to find out that it is impossible for me .......

thank's