Maurizio Pollini Chopin Prelude op.28 no.15 Raindrop

[donagrayful]

great but graphics are horrible its still wonderful

[yenhoho]

"Pollini is a pianist who plays live performances 10 times better than his own CD recordings." <--- This is damn right.

[cuoylyf]

GREAT!

[JazzKeyboardist1]

purist will go ape, but i always cut out the middle part when i play this for an audience

[solyomvary]

This version is way too stormy for me - I prefer it more ... rainy like Ivo Pogorelich does.

Solyomvary - (t'Werp City, Belgium)

[gorillabread]

Last Sunday, I saw him perform. But they forbid video cameras. I watched it at Carnegie Hall.

[XOBubba]

In a hurry to get home. Playing Union scale, I guess. Makes me want to type fast!

[Airplanek8]

One of my favorite pieces but it sucks at this pace.

[ripper0289]

This is why pianists should never get high on meth before a performance.

Slow the f down, Tex.

[margiebosco]

Thank you YouTube and Maurizio Pollini for helping learn this piece.

[scottyschumann18]

stupid tits commenting on this bin a 'halo' song, my god, chopin would have a heart attack

[andrew49247]

Don't be so pretentious, people can appreciate it any way they please.

[steph017087]

mr bean is cool yay teddy oui

[NicholasMirth]

Definitely very fast, but I agree with Ernesto. He is still able to bring in all the intensity of the piece. Listening a second time helped me to adjust to the tempo. I really love Pollini's Chopin and also his Stravinsky. Brilliant artist!

[m3ss1ah1991]

Far too fast for this piece, sostenuto should be way more relaxed than this, especially in the major section.

[LorianneRR]

Yes, now im confused about the tempo.

[LorianneRR]

It sounds to me more like a sonatina that fast

[SpaceMonkey15CMD]

Briil, luv that piece :)

[giraldilloitaliano]

peccato avevo voglia di sentire il GRANDISSIMO Pollini interpretando questa opera. peró l'audio é pessimo!!!!

[leo16676]

Il fatto (bello) dei commenti e' che ognuno dice la cazzata sua.

La mia e' questa.

[Headmaster85]

Baaad, waaayy to fast

[Ernesto7608]

Not bad at all! While in the hands of other pianists this tempo would be rather fast, Pollini has the skill to convey the full content of this piece at a peace that is his idea of Sostenuto. Typical Pollini, great interpreter of Chopin.

[fabixsk8]

this is a spot to halo 3..beautiful game..belive

[widlakwidlak]

I found another 'clean' version on youtube, but i think that this dirty, reverbed version sounds more realistic, more the way the composer wanted it, i think. :)

[SHINIGAMI1337]

At about 2:00 he chose to speed it up. I think it was a nice touch adding to the cresendo of the sonf. He later repeats this at 2:40, showing his intent. Very weel done!

[fbiberkopfklavier]

An enchanting performance! some of the "critics" here should do their homework. The real "raindrop" prelude is actually #6.

[retardd2]

#6 is "Tolling Bells"

[girgiii]

Actually no one can tell for sure which one is the real Raindrop prelude. Only Georges Sand knew which prelude Chopin wrote during that stormy night in Palma de Mallorca. But she's dead:(

My personal opinion is that it's #6

[BettyandGadji]

OMG THIS IS MY SONG!!!

haha i love this one <33

as soon as i am perfect at it i'll post it..

so yeh hehe nice to hear it :]

but i think its supposed to be played at a slower pace..it wud sound better...more dramatic ... btw there is a part at 1:27 -35 or smthng like that...that was wayyy too fast. seriously.

[minirausch]

just because he doesn't play it at the same speed as every twelve year old that plays this piece does not mean it's wrong. i rather like it, and don't think it's lacking in "sostenuto"--which is a stylistic, not metronomic, marking..

[IsaiahddUSC]

when it's played this fast you kind of miss the point the piece itself...then again that's my opinion, everyone hears things differently

[guitarbum37]

it loses the drama

[Oblomov18]

Boring..listen to horowitz or cortot..too fast. it's sostenuto not andante con moto!

[lasharul]

it's not a chopin's music!

[rey5000]

...yes it is...way too fast tho

[beethoven1806]

Pollini is the Chopin master !!! He won the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw when he was 18. I do have his records and he does not usually play it that fast. Also there some pretty mazing sounds for that little video recorder, that hall has some amazing acoustics for being that far away with such a little camera.

[BazzTheBoss]

waaaaay too fast

[Jamesyb0i]

1:58 gave me chills... reminds me of halo haha

[x23halo32x]

dude where do you think halo got it from???

[Jamesyb0i]

yeah but it brings halo to mind

[gangaglietti]

Chopin is the king of melancoly piano music.

Maurizio is just perfect for this Prelude.

[54spiritedwill54]

Rocking!!!!!

[zopqwe]

I like it a litle slower, but Martha and Kissin play it fast too. I don,t know.

[Jamesyb0i]

yeah me too like in halo 3 museum video its slower and cuts out the high notes

[ChinnyFreeRun]

hmmmm nice playing yet i think it is a tad to fast as it is marked as 'sostenuto' well it didnt sound very sustained 2 me :S

[jeroen1223]

love it

[jaycethepianist]

so true, he sped it up much too fast, its meant to be played like petit raindrops that devellops into a storm, then hushes back out to the rain.

[umegghju]

Everyone is good as criticist...

Dont' you hear everything is at its own place...

the result is that...

i played this piece, you can play in 1000 ways different

[judgementcatagory]

When I drew his attention to the sound of water which really did fall rhythmically onto the roof, he said he had not heard them. He was even angry that I interpreting it as a expression of imitative harmony. His composition from that evening was full of raindrops, bouncing with an echo off the monastery's resonat roof-tiles, but in his imagination and meldoy, they became, they became translated into tears falling fromthe sky onto his heart.-George Sand,1854.This wasnt ment to sound like raindops

[Iazin12192]

wtf is he on steroids? thats way to flipping fast.

[argyle5585]

why does everyone say he plays too fast? yeah we know the origional was slower, I'm betting he knows it too, I think part of his skill is that he plays it so well at that speed, then again it could be nerves (unlikely) or he could just have to take a leak so he's trying to get it over with faster... leave his playing alone, it's a fine piece one way or the other

[miles305678]

thats like the song off the halo add

[ReGrEtTlEsS]

yeah i got this song off saints row it just sed chopin no. 15 so i got it and searched it on youtube and i was like dam its halo!

[1MN1]

The Halo ad really annoys me. It is an awful representation of the piece as far as I am concerned.

However, the piece is possibly the fines piece of music ever composed.

[1MN1]

finest

[miles305678]

I know this is so nice and halo is evil

[lovesGenet]

this seems almost glib.fast tempo here makes sense bec of wht he does in strong contrasting c sh mid section.but i lmost never like this mans rec.i buy em all his 70's stuff is good but i can name 3 dozen others I prefer.Michelangeli seems way more interesting

[knotwrite]

I like how he made it his own by speeding it up, but it sure seems rushed and you don't get as immersed in the music when you fly through it. Oh well it was virtually flawless and I love this song.

[herma57]

i like Pollini-Man, He Kicks It.

[growek]

Many thanks. At the end of the video he starts the Ballade No.1, do you have a video of that?

[cholapat]

you are welcome.

it's a pity that the camera ran out of bat on the start of the 1st ballade.

[TomBarrister]

Pollini has had a tendency recently to play most slow works faster than they were probably intended to be played. He wasn't always this way, and why he does it is a mystery. However, it's his privilege to do so.

[sviatoslavberezovsky]

what was the programme?

[sayedi100]

to fast.

[Gonciustube]

PERFECT

[xiso]

to fast.. he is overrunnin it .. :/ it loose the athmosphere by playin this like a rock song. You need to feel every key..

[jackocurly0074]

defo too fast

[buymybronco]

CRAP

[cholapat]

take it easy, man...

even one doesn't like the musicality of this performance or doesn't like pollini personally, i don't think it sounds absolutely terrible to those ears, does it?

For me, I highly appreciate this performance.

[buymybronco]

Talent yes ... a good performance ... no ... a good rendition ... hell no. Of course the quality of the film (audio really) does affect things to a degree. I still stand beside my first statement. CRAP!

[yhy570]

y u watching this "crap" then?

[Uzumaki600]

I think it "excites" them... xD

[buymybronco]

trying to find a version where someone didnt try and make themself look awsome by speeding through the whole thing. It takes away the WHOLE feeling of the piece.

[1MN1]

Vladimir Ashkenazy plays it nearly perfectly in my opinion (Youtube A95rv-d7H2U). There is an even better recording than his that I have, but I don't know the source.

[argyle5585]

you're a tard, wouldnt know good music if it bit you in the ass the thing about a "solo" is that the only thing that matters is the oppinion of the soloist, he chooses the tempo and the power behind the keys, I personally think he did a great job, it's simply artistic liberty

[sockmonkeyzruleXD]

@cholapat don't worry, he's a happy troller. why else would he call this amazing work of art that hideous word that should be illegal to be associated with this piece?

[smithsherman]

He played it fast because he is scared of feeling...and also scared of the wrath of the great 20th century critics who declare that feeling through luxuriant phrasing is "disrespect to the composer"

Let's face it...this performer is scared.

[lourak]

Smithsherman - Finally, agreement! I'm a big Pollini fan when it comes to Beethoven and Schoenberg. This, however, is a disaster!!! Cold, lacking nuance, mechanical and just plain blahhh. I don't think that the man lacks genuine human sentiment however. I have seen and felt it many times. In his early years, it was more present.

[brazjol]

This guy butchered a beautiful piece of music.

Way too fast.. he even misses several notes because he's so eager to play through the whole thing instead of feeling the music.

[gshock15]

it loses the "raindrop" effect when it's played too slow and turns into a sleepy lullaby. no, this tempo is perfect.

[draculestat]

I think the tempo is perfect. Pollini is a great pianist.

[scottieGCM]

Trouble is on occasions like this pianists give their own interpretations of this and seemingly we do the same for the pianists...So, its a case of sit back and enjoy it, 'for what its worth'. My wife reckons I play it better than this, ah well, shes a good wife indeed!...

[momus1st]

Rocking!!!!!

[fighter79mi]

This is not fast,this is the right tempo used in the '800.

[thejugglenaut91]

too fast

[thegoddescomposer]

please not so fast . please you must play this with you feelings

[hermanzoon]

This is not a song.

[WelshPheonix]

No, he's missing entire notes out in places and playing it too fast. It doesn't sound as good at that speed, it needs to be slower, and with no notes missed out! It ruins the song otherwise.

[eligarf]

its one of those fast moving storms. those are disturbing! but the music is wonderful :)

[DannoHung]

No sir, I don't like it.

[torilion]

No, not like that!

[TomBarrister]

Pollini does have a habit of playing some of the Preludes a bit fast, but that's how he is, and it's his privilege to do so. The speed it's "supposed" to be played at is a matter of personal preference.

[eligarf]

great comment TomB. personal preference is often overlooked by pundits.

thanks for posting this great video of a great performer in what looks to be a beautiful hall! thank you for sharing.

~from japan, eLi G., pianowarist

[mskerjanc]

I agree with this comment 100%, I quite enjoyed hearing it at this speed. Slower is nice too, but I thought the tempo really brought out the creciendos

[vnsn72]

Pollini the best interpret by chopin, you listen the nocturne from Deutch Grammophon absolutley love it

[rezojorbenadze]

Without sense and feeling. And the sound is too cold and unexpressive for Chopin, the most romantic composer of all times.

[rezojorbenadze]

Without sense and feeling. And sound is cold enough for Chopin, the most romantic composer of all times.

[pianosig]

love Pollini's Chopin! perfect!

[smithsherman]

When one gets past the notes and the techniques,

"and most won't ever"...one has to wonder what

is being said here in human terms?The most

unfeeling interpretation of the world's most feeling

music was the goal of the 20th century.

I'd say judging by this performance...

we've made it.Oh yes,I know about...the "noble"

unsentimental sentiment.

[chad410]

I kind of know what you mean.the modern school of playing came about as a rebelion against any personalisation.However I feel people misinterpretted expression and interpretation for a self fulfilment.How wrong they were.Though i do quite like Pollini in 20 th century composers.

[smithw5]

It means so much to see this because I live in San Francisco and do not have the luxury of hearing Pollini in person. He almost came to San Francisco recently, but he cancelled at the last minute, very sad news. Wish he would come back to the west coast.

[LVB1770]

smithw5,

I saw Pollini perform all 24 Chopin preludes at Davis Hall in San Francisco but that was like 15 years ago. The Pollini cancellation sounds like my experience with Perahia. I have bought tickets to see him 3 times

and every single time he canceled. I get my chance again as he is coming to Davis Hall.

[894948]

cold and to much quick! but a beautiful sound!

[piotraap]

indeed, a good pianist maybe, but he's way to cold for chopin, one of the greatest romantics and componists in history.