Prokofiev:Concerto for piano and orchestra No.3 in C major-a

[Danzig987]

Byron Janis is great. And he's given great accompaniment by conductor Paul Paray. We don't have nearly enough documentation of these two wonderful artists on video. Thanks to French Television for digging into their vaults and releasing this super performance.

[SkippyLetterman]

Oh, how beautiful. I love that I can hear it played so beautifully.

[popeyethedoc]

To think, we have this piece of history. Imagine if we had this technology of getting these famouse composers 500 years ago? Imagine, finding out what Back, Mozart, Beethoven, Listz really intended on what their music wanted to sound like.

[zeedzeed0]

Fabulously played. This performance would have me shouting bravo to the max.

[luispaulovi]

Excelente, Byron Janis en toda su plenitud

[erica4477]

Wow, that guys is good.

[samdrophy]

This is pure genius.

[Pianojanna]

Such a brilliant pianist!!!

[gymnasticsgrl12]

Wow! The first time I've heard this piece. An incredibly beautiful performance! Thank you very much for posting it!

[logosthedestroyer]

What an absolutely beautiful sounding Piano he is playing, and an equally beautiful performance!

[Grigor1234]

I was fortunately enough to see Janis play the Rach. 3rd in person back in the early 80's when he was just starting to regain his ability to play. He looked somewhat stiff in the shoulders(probably from the arthritis)but sounded like he never heard of arthritis!

[saintansele]

I do have the Paganini Rhaps...it is on the same EMI DVD as this Prok.3rd. There is a fabulous Janis version (Prok.#3,3rd mvt only) on VAI (in color)..One of the best pianistic performances ever, IMO! I was able to see Janis play "live" years ago. Sublime/ultimate artist. Psoriatic arth. shortened his immortal career.

[stxer]

Hi. Can you please tell me what is VAI? I'd like to get this but don't know where to look for it. Thanks - Perhaps you can leave me a message here. Thanks.

[batmoocow]

Does anyone have a video of Janis playing the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini video?

[suzettegm]

captivating and colourful performance

[ssprokofiev]

It's good to have this Janis video. It's a fine performance, as was his LP (later released on CD). Janis was one of the greats from his generation.

[biegel88]

I have Byron's LP with Kondrashin--and the similar hallmarks are apparent here as well.

[ssprokofiev]

I have Janis's LP and CD with Kondrashin too, but the differences are more interesting: with Kondrashin, tempos were much faster. Here, with Paray, things are a bit less harried. In the end I think this may be the preferred performance.

[biegel88]

I agree for sure.

[theoshow2]

Thanks for uploading.

[luganskymichelangeli]

very very nice. i do enjoy the black & white picture. i usually do.