Pollini plays Debussy feux d'artifices in Japan

[KANOKOV3]

画像と音のタイミングがずれているのが残念

[alexpilati]

It is so fuckingly out of sync !!! What a pity....

[papayas234]

HaT er da für seine Mittlere Tochter spielen müssen? Toll, Parenting Scarpa...

[moshisushi134]

forget the sync, its the sound that matter

[twgirl1]

veri good nice

[lilianaquijada]

ufff, desfasado sonido e imagen, qué lata :((((

[classicalmusicagent]

I agree: I profoundly prefer Giorgi Latsabidze's Interpretation for Debussy)))

[DebussyClassics]

Awful performance.. what's wrong with Pollini???!!! GUYS, You need to watch Giorgi Latsabidze's Preludes by Debussy... there are all here on You Tube...

[Barbapippo]

@DebussyClassics Nothing is wrong with Pollini: it's your ears and, above all, your brains that strongly need a thorough check up

[wagnerxpeng]

still gotta love the part with his hands at 3:00. its funny how theres like no sound when he glisses

[lalaona]

at first i thought its a duet

[nonnopirro52]

Hey, is that an autopiano?

[thedavilmarbiggsshow]

Great

[dahalomastafriend]

LOL i found the beginning to be ufnny. he just looks up to the light and this eerie sounding piece just starts playing

[Ringosfinger]

It's like that old Tom & Jerry when he stops playing but it keeps going

[Nationsnotregimes]

WHY ?

[freethinker923]

Sorry can't follow ya down this path, Debussy. When it stops being musical I stop listening.

[AntiProUltra]

@freethinker923 i'm sure the man is gutted that you don't have his six. when did music stop being musical for you? 1803?

[ernestO1259]

beautifull 0.0

[zeboink]

He wills the piano to play itself! A true master!

[mossaferoce]

Il mio pezzo di Debussy preferito, dopo "La Cathedrale engloutie".

Ottima interpretazione!

[ophelius111]

For those complaining about the sync, have you forgoten that you don't need your eyes to listen to music?

[fulhaminator]

@ophelius111

It's good to appreciate the performers extended techniques though - visually can be quite entrancing. (ussually)

[Scarbogn]

Phew it's out of sync, i thought there was somehing wrong with my brain!

[DJG44F]

Could be very good, but very bad synchronisation between the video image and sound

[Upum12]

Haha the piano starts playing before he does!!!! RRRROOOOMMMAAALLL

[Upum12]

LOL the sync makes it hilarious!! Haha sorry, geniuses like myself find this terribly funny!

[rvn10rvn17]

debussy's is totally not his forte..

[cyclone49187]

his really great!

[jfsangora]

not as good as Berman or Jablonski

[glamourmansk]

Horribly out of synch

[476892]

You're wrong. He played perfectly!! Don't forget that Pollini and Argerich both studied under the Great Michelangeli, and Michelangeli was a PERFECT and FLAWLESS musician!!! That is, during his performances, he never hit a wrong note, on the piano. Perceive him as a " God "!!!

[glamourmansk]

You got me wrong, sorry. I'm not questioning the musician skills, I'm saying that audio and video are not synchronised.

[geertdehoux]

What nonsense!

A 'God' and they studied with Michelangeli, so what ?!

[HectorCicero]

Well gieseking is known as best but... this comes out to be an "inner' taste just to be delightful.

[v4liumfrance]

no sync..

[Metalogicc]

at all

[mandyschulz]

doesn;t he feel pain by playing glissandi in his way?

[mukeshcuster]

you get used to it when the blood coagulates it forms a fluffy pillow :)

[AntiProUltra]

normally i'm ok with pollini but gieseking blows him out of the water when it comes to debussy

[genomos90]

lol this is really bad...we're in the 21 century...wake up man..!!still funny though...^^

[Grigor99]

This is one of the worst syncs I've ever seen! This is like reading yesterday's newspaper!!! Come on!

[Martel211996]

@Grigor99 right!! I was watching hsi 24th chopin prelude from this concerto, and when the sound was playing the aslt three low d notes, he was still playing the chromantic thirds!

[Alanp1992]

Its the right technique and the sound. Saw the piece played live at school.

[v4liumfrance]

It's not syncronized !!!! :( Music starts first...

[glezzery]

yeah, awesome! Did you experts notice the video is completely out of sync with the music? Morons!!

Yes, what you are hearing is amazing but folks here are lame

[killedbydog]

Pollini is so good! It isamazing how his fingers fly over the Piano! It is great!

[FerozaLaBonne]

Pollini's finger movements dont coincide with the music. I do believe the technicians have superimposed the sound of the correct piece ( Feaux artifice by Debussy ) onto the physical movements of a different piece! I would like to know why!

[punkpoetry]

lol, it's a bit out of sync, thats all. you may lay to rest the conspiracy theories

[Irenerz]

WOW quick fingers!

[bluedrop85]

His sound is amazing, completely unique.

[littleflorestano]

The music start before pianist is starting to play.

[llaprise1]

Two great genius : Debussy and Pollini !

Thank you for posting it :D

[liszt80]

Rubatos? Coronas? Nothing? Like Czerny Etude?

[tedly10027]

Pollini is truly one of the greatest technicians of piano playing. but what i have always wondered over the years of listening to him is a whether a remark by Artur Rubinstein as a jurist when pollini won the Chopin was also defining for all of pollini's career: "he is already better than ANY of us as a technician".......not much said about the things beyond that..his technical brilliance is truly exciting but i often feel "cold" after listening to him..

[geertdehoux]

I agree.

Pollini obviously played this piece more like a machine than with a lot of imagination.

The best performance of this piece I've ever heard is an old recording of the legendary Lode BACKX.

[tedly10027]

Hi..I've always been impressed with Pollini's technical accuracy..and often highly polished renditions. as some had said: "you can take musical dictation from his playing"...everything is "in place". and that is more than many of us can accomplish. His Chopin and anything of a "let the notes speak for themselves" approach or school of thought is always exemplary.,,,

[tedly10027]

but for that same reason...i sometimes find that I can't really want to listen to it more than a couple of times and find myself always wanting to seek a player that does not RESIST putting HIS personality a bit more into the music...right or wrong (which can be subjective anyway). after all - whats the point of playing for the millionth time unless you are willing to say OPENLY YOUR point of view? DRAW me IN to YOUR world of ideas with the "music". richter, horowitz, gould, sofronitsky..

[geertdehoux]

@tedly10027

Gilels, François, Cortot, Friedman, Berman...

[tedly10027]

many years ago - i had this russian teacher that in moscow was among the circles of Richter etc...and he told me after a session: "Thank you for the notes, everything is stylistically correct...we BOTH know what it IS...now, SHOW me the MUSIC and what you REALLY think and feel about it" it was the greatest lesson i ever had. ...beethoven was said to say: "after the student has reasonably managed the piece..encourage to show his/her OWN feelings about it, even with mistakes"

[geertdehoux]

@tedly10027

Very interesting, your comment.

I fully agree and I think the 'old masters' knew this truth better than the modern ones.

Cordially,

G. Dehoux.

[pennymusicMAma]

Fantastique, merci.

[Endeavour88]

e qui c'è tutto Pollini, tua la sua maestria, tecnica, suono, esperienza...bravo...sei un grande!

[singsinsing]

Amazing performance!

[gwizvideo]

Awesome double glissando! Would guess he refused some flowers at the end because he was coming back for more encores and could accept them then.

[realraven2000]

a bit rushed, a bit gluey. Listen to Livia Rev's version, that's breathes a lot more.

[cholapat]

thanks for the VDO... but it would be great if you re-upload it again... it is so much out of sync..

[GreggaryPeccary]

marvelous!

[musicdivinemusic]

I dont see what's wrong in commenting that this is an extremely difficult piece to play.

[geertdehoux]

It's not difficult to play it badly - or should I say: not very well - , what most pianists (even famous ones) actually do.

And why is it so difficult to play really well ?

Because it isn't written in a 'pianistic' way.

As it is - in the first place - REFINED music, putting deep pedals and making a lot of noise isn't the way it should sound.

At least, that's my view on it.

[xiangyik]

What out of syncro music

[gabsylv]

ni bu zhi dao shenme shi 'yinxiangzhuyi'de yinyue ma?

[xiangyik]

dang ran zhi dao la. But the vid would have been nicer properly synchronized.

[gabsylv]

ah, you meant the vid is out of sync. I thought you meant the music was a-rhythmical.

Sorry...

[jjp009]

Some parts of this kind of reminded me of Scriabin's "Vers la Flamme" Op. 72. No?

[JazzGuru17]

Unbelievable fluency right here fellows!!! The melody just seems to be alive, wonderful piece... Another masterwork by Pollini... Yup!

[arredifestivi]

fantastico.

[gianpaga11]

Grazie per il video.

Se potesse leggermi, vorrei esprimere al Maestro la mia grandissima ammirazione per ogni sua esecuzione al pianoforte. Sempre perfetto sia che si tratti di Mozart, di Webern o di Debussy. Dal profondo del cuore un sincero GRAZIE! Maestro Maurizio Pollini

[coaster1000]

How difficult is this piece?

[ijspegeltje]

'bout as difficult as it can get :/

[ijspegeltje]

what's ur problem dude?

I just said that this was extremely difficult to play, most people including me would never be able to play this.

for the record 80's music sux

[redraiderdude187]

80's music sucks big, fat BAWLS actually.

[lelilelu]

Boy, there's not only technic.

[flic71]

It's one of the most beautiful pieces of Claude Debussy... I love Debussy so much... Do you know Gieseking's execution of this Prelude? Wonderful...

[geertdehoux]

With all respect, I think Gieseking made a HORRIBLE recording of this piece!

[TheHanslick]

@flic71 Have, you guys, ever heard Gulda? Now, that IS something!!!!

[xiangyik]

amazing sensitivity of tone.

[ipmoic]

I understand Smithsherman's point of view. But don't you think you're picking on the wrong piece to indicate Pollini's mechanistic style. After all, "Fireworks" is a glitzy, dare I say, somewhat mechanical show piece.

[smithsherman]

It's a good thing that Pollini knows how to play

Debussy in a totally unsentimentalized mechanical

Arte Deco long-line:otherwise we might get the

impression that the Personal and Warm way which

Debussy played his music was appropriate & wise.

[aimard]

to old man,his time is gone.........kidding, is great!!

[sunahlee]

Good!!

[gabsylv]

THIS IS PHENOMENAL...thank you so much for posting!

It brought Debussy home to my heart!

[rolandonavarro]

Undoubtelly, one of the greatest pianists of the last 50 years

[sakurakisu]

o o o my god...T-T

[Burnsomatic]

Why is this so horribly out of sync?

[michaeljholme]

What can you say about this guy. Apart from Gould who played quite different repertoire (Second Viennese School, etc not included), he is the greatest pianist in my book.

[joeybettencourt]

extraordinary!

[vitesenzafine]

Debussy in black & white, I love it

[dsampa]

You should listen Zimerman playing the Complete Debussy Preludes --- it´s amazing!

[geertdehoux]

You're right, the best performance, as far as I know.

[etucker82]

Not the most impressionist Debussy. But few pianists can bring out or care to bring out why Debussy was such an innovator. This is awesome.

[adagiocantabile]

disapponting; sound is very poor of nuances

[cesarcui]

???

[lewood1204]

so post your version with all nuances, please teach us.

[adagiocantabile]

listen Sviatoslav Richter, please

[geertdehoux]

There are several recordings of Richter 'violating' this beautiful piece of music.

Which one(s) do you mean ?

[geertdehoux]

Have a sharp look at the score, first.

[teacherschoice2006]

wow...

[juliendalard]

c'est joli

[jouachim]

immense !