RUBINSTEIN - CHOPIN SCHERZO no.1 (1932) FIRST RECORDING

[lovesGenet]

The world is full of fantastic chopin players. U idiots would not know the difference between this and any conservatory graduate.What a holes love to pretend that they even know the finer points at this level.If u havent studied at the top level U azzes dont even know what u are hearing . blaah blaah.Impress yourselves little kids and adolescents who have read few stupid books.Learn to think for your cat brain selves!

[autoexradguy]

Beginner here. Always been frustrated by way radio hosts, who presumably have studied music, talk about it on air and, also, the way it is discussed at large. It is a very limited and uninformative vocabulary, a lot like the way we talk about food: adjectives and metaphors (the key sometimes), but nothing technical. I assume that anyone with even a slight background in music could absorb more than that what we are given. Just toss out one point that a pro might make about this performance. OOS.

[lovesGenet]

The similarities between this & the later recording are easy to notice the doppio movimento has more subtlety later ,the phrasing infinitely more shaped. Some things in the presto sections don't change at all . More exacting finger work in later traversal! Rubinstein's technique really was not a Backhaus or Bartok caliber in the early days. His Italian recs show this patently .

[arturon111]

thats an absurd statement,... gieseking was german, and payed french composers such as debussy and ravel better than most,....

[annebrackman]

whaha nice sound =p

[rwrsoares]

Muito bom! Muito completo. Grande expressão, técnica, interpretação etc. Por isto é um dos melhores de todos os tempos...

[EuphoricDan]

Emanuel Ax plays this better.

Just thought I would go there.

To everyone that hasn't heard Ax perform this piece that is going to tell me that I have to be crazy, or that it is a matter of preference.

Your wrong. Find his album, buy it. Then come back and agree.

[EdiEllerymissing]

JAJAJA! You don't have any idea...

[cziffra11]

I've always felt that Rubinstein had one of the great techniques. I find it surprising that in the interview he gave when he was 90 he claims to have "made it" without the superb technique of other pianists. He further states that "young people" today have a greater technique than he ever had. This I find incomprehensible (not to denigrate the great technicians out there) because Rubinstein in his middle years had a command of the keyboard few could imagine, much less attain.

[bandong1234567890]

well... great pianists in his time were so younger than him like horowitz and richter and pollini and arrau. those are the ones he meant by "young people" dont forget that Rubinstein is much older than them.

[robshelrobshel]

great recording, but you can hardly call a 46-year-old male a young one. His first recordings from 1910s are also remarkable (he was more than 30 years old on those). :)

[parule]

He was about 45 years old...is this young?

[themfromspace]

holy shi-- Full of power and passion! More proof that he was the Chopinist of the century.