Grigory Sokolov plays Chopin Sonata #2, B-flat minor, Op. 35 (3/3)

[martikhora]

Really well performed, but I personaly like the most Lukas Geniusas peformance in choppin competition 2011. Its not on youtube.. Wait.. Type choppin competition in google

[Merrimac91]

A dignified suffering..A revolt against the mistery of Death...Beautiful!

[jsnauwaert]

So-Ko-lov blows your sock(s)-all-off.

[overkillll]

boy, they mean 'lento'

[pdorprimo]

Ma che accordatura dello strumento ha adoperato?!?!?

Intrerpretazione bellissima

[bratzko79]

everyone: look up when sokolov comes to your home town and buy the ticket now, cause you'll never forget what your are gonna hear........

[j0llygr33ng1ant]

Five people were playing air piano and mistakenly clicked the dislike button whilst doing so.

[mspripri831]

@j0llygr33ng1ant

make that six :)

[bakhtalo]

well it's great to hear this beautiful sounds - we buried all soviet leaders under this melody

[miker2001]

The last movement is the most otherwordly piece written. PERIOD. It is so modern, so timeless, so moving.

[gyth001]

This Sonata can be played differently of course. But better? I rather doubt that.

[bratzko79]

@gyth001 : good comment!!!!!!!!!!

[55mandreck]

everyones interpretation of music is different - I heard this piece recently on r.3 lunchtime concert , it was played by a woman.......and as for me I thought it was awesome , unlike this dissapointing effort.

Does anyone know who this was please ; I believe it was broadcast from Wales ,

[tashun4ik]

хммм а у нас только пару минут начала играют а она даже очень красивая и не такая мрачная

[mindovermattjr]

great work everybody

[MsPirotecnic]

О Господи, какая же она медленная! Но мелодия мне понравилась.

[carreno23]

Absolutely breathtaking! This brought tears to my eyes..... and chills. I must hear this man in a live performance some day!

[lovesGenet]

Sokolov takes everything and makes it something else musically divine.His Imagination serves a prodigious technique .Their must be a cult for him .Always a surprise. As exciting for me as when a boy i disc for myself Hofmann.Everything he touches!

[lutesz]

@lovesGenet do You know any link of Him playing nocturne C sharp minor op.27 nr 1?

[pandae80]

I have no words for describe my feelings. THE BEST PERFORMANCE OF THIS PIECE THAT I HAVE EVER HEARD!!! I prefer Benedetti Michelangeli for the first movement, but Sokolov' s performance of the Funeral March is incredible.

[Razsak]

I searched for this just as something to show my friend what the full version of the "Funeral March" sounds like; I wasn't expecting to come across the best performance of it I've ever heard. A live performance, too. Fantastic.

[espirito999]

At the moment it's hard to find anything better: Il y a Sokolov, et il y a les pianistes. (Le Figaro, Paris, November 2007)

[CeaserXIX]

For once Le Figaro is right.

[freeqwerqwer]

somber yes but this rendition is not too imaginative., ,t not too poetic either

[glopry2190]

this song makes me feel nostalgic.. and it sounds very somber. i like it! :)

[vysehrad]

Where is part IV?

[vysehrad]

Never mind, I see the last movement was tacked on to the end of this one.

[michelmans]

Raoul Pugno, student of George Mathias, pupil of Chopin. Ok, smithsherman, but has spent more than a century. I think we can be more generous with this magnificent interpretation of Sokolov. A very Great version.

[wujujufu]

...i think you talk crap...constipated bullshit

[Minchionstronz4]

Smithsherman, you have never listened to Sokolov live of course. Because if you did, you would NEVER dare to say something like that. You would still have chills running down your spine...

[CzarDodon]

I heard him live last year and he was sickening: over-sweet, sentimental posing in Chopin, and totally off the mark and insipid in Haydn.

[Perkeno]

With all due respect...You are so intensely full of sh*t.