Either on the violin or in this arrangement for the piano by Busoni, The Chaconne sounds like the greatest Preludes for the organ (e.g. Passacaglia bwv 582, prelude e minor 548 or b minor 544) and everybody can see in this incredibly beautiful interpretation that for Evgeny Kissin, J.S. Bach is "the alpha and the omega"
Do you even know Bach's style of writing music? I don't understand why people are trying to point out Kissin's interpretation too much. Bach did not like writing down everything on the score. He didn't like babying the musicians. He wanted you to interpret his music in your OWN way, not the way everyone does.
@hlorus2 In fact, I went to his concert in the spring of 2009 to one of his world tours in Seoul. And I don't see what point you are trying to make here. I am not criticizing Kissin at all. I'm defending him, MASTER. Grow up.
It is ok. Kissin, no matter what the critics say, nobody is gonna take the pleasure of playing Bach away from you, I bet you can feel the presence of the master when you play his music, and at that moment...the rest of the world do not even exist...
@jerbiebarb, @crowdmaker : both your comments are interesting. Yet, we should not forget that he's not playing only Bach, but Busoni's point of view. When you make a transcription, you might loose some of Bach's spirit, as well as you add some your own. I'm working at my own one, and studied some others, and as a result I can say it's not Bach anymore. It's the same when you play. we are never "right" at 100%. I wish w could listen to Brahms' by Kissin just to compare how he'd deal with it... :)
Its funny how "experts" give their opinion about how "bad" some GREAT pianists are, when they are not worth videotaping interpreting anything. Keep criticising LOSERS, you will never make it.
@gusti1021 that old chestnut about criticism.... it's inevitable and a sign of the greatness of some artists that they polarise opinon so dramatically.
Perhaps only Richter is allowed to be dismissive of other pianists? - -which he does so in his notebooks....
@gusti1021 A great critic by definition would not play because if he knew he had the talent to play wonderfully himself, he would perform instead of being a critic. It's like Pollini's wife. Until she met him she was a pianist herself, but then she realized what what the use.
Kissin is my favorite pianist [not that i know many but still lol] and i really love his plays... this one is gourgeous as well.. i just think that Chaconne sounds better on violin... differently than La Campanella that for me sounds better in piano [im a violinist btw]
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Actually I am an expert. The chaconne is an absolute archetype of compositional simplicity, despite its apparent complexity the underlying structure of the piece is so incredibly simple that it is in this that its genius lies. Busoni has removed all sense of refinement and poise and thus the structural integrity is lost. Dont fix it if it aint broke.
so what do you are? an expert? give me a break! you should being doing something else instead of giving your opinion in a video that it is a great one. I think nobody cares what you think ok? get lost.
It's very well done, the piece and the playing. I would never call Busoni over the top; I never feel that way despite the fact that these are fingerbusters. Unlike some, I prefer this to the Brahms left-hand, because I never understood the purpose of transcribing a piece like the Chaconne literally.
I don't understand at all how someone could read this as Kissin being an empty virtuoso. I have never found that in his playing.
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Kissin is an incredible player but this is an horrific, pianistically over-indulgent arrangement of one of the greatest works ever conceived - it sounds like something you'd hear in the circus. yuk.
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Yes, I understand this.
Although my first comment was made somewhat rashly, my point was that I could hear almost no trace of Bach.
And I'll thank you not to condescend to me little boy, as I am by all odds vastly more intelligent than you or any three people you know combined.
Yes, I am, comparatively, a musical philistine.
What of it?
I've little doubt that if we were to discuss physics, cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, literature, art history or molecular biology, (cont.)
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pt.II
...your remarks would afford me plenty of ammunition for ridicule and disdain.
No one so foolhardy as to quarrel with me has yet maneged to avoid getting his ass rhetorically handed to him, nor do your sophomoric tone and formless prose give me any reason to suspect you are a likely candidate to set precedent to the contrary.
So just try me, little man; I could use a chuckle, and think I can spare a moment to dance as you drunkenly stumble and flail.
I've little doubt you're lacking in "intelligence," but in wisdom there is an extreme deficit. For someone who is a self-proclaimed polymath, you sure like to waste your time on such trivial affairs. Instead of being nothing more than a Youtube Sophist, reread some philosophy of which you know so much.
Ah, that would explain a lot. Is this then one of Bach's transcriptions of another composers work? If so, I would still say that it doesn't even sound baroque.
Ahh, the Bach-Busoni Chaccone. A perilous piece indeed. I don't think I've heard one live performance that did not contain multiple technical slip-ups. And this recording is no exception, although Evgeny recovers from them admirably. I just finished listening to Fazil Say play this, and it was horrendous. I think the audience applauded more out of pity than appreciation.
check out michelangeli's live recording from "The Warsaw Recital". i think its from the 1950's. it's flawless(maybe one glance of a wrong note) and his studio recording coupled with the Brahms-pagannini variations. it's the absolute summit of transcendent pianism.
well for me this is far too fast in many parts ,just played like a fast useless study,,only very few recordings are great of this chaconne,,indeed it s quite difficult.i agree Fazil Says chaconne is very ugly.
The recording Kissin did for RCA seems to be quite a bit more thoughtful than this effort. I agree though, it's difficult to find a great recording of this. Which ones do you like?
Well i prefer Michelangelis recording ,,it s a live recording,otherwise it s difficult to say,there s is a special but in some way marvellous recording from Maria Tipo and I like the one of de Larrocha,,an you ?
you should get the studio recording of michelangeli playing the chaconne and brahms-pagannini. there is nothing like it. its even better than the live recording. prepare to pick your jaw up off of the ground.
I have played the Chaconne, and Kissin's recording is the best of lot. I have listened to many great pianists play it. Kissin has a better technique and a better understanding of this piece than most of them. Listen to it on a CD, and not the crappy audio that comes with Youtube.
This is a transcription of the Chaconne from one of Bach's violin partitas, by Federic Busoni. It's actually more impressive to hear a violinist do it, IMHO. Busoni added a lot of "pianistic" things to it, which one would expect, but the violin work still covers the range of technical and emotional complexity of this remarkable piece.
Oh god. I love Kissin very much, but this is just... really bad. Sure, a chaconne is a serious of variations on a chord progression, but he plays each variation as if it were a separate movement. So have you the andante climax of the piece, the most majestic and celestial moment in probably all of western music, and the next moment he's racing away from it jauntily at an almost presto. Flabbergasting - I've never heard any pianist/violinist do this. A terrible shame...
@crowdmaker He's not playing it to please you. How would he know what your experience level is?
He's interpreting what's on the page, that's all there is. The recorded tradition about Busoni and Bach is just hearsay. All that reliably survives is the score.
I agree and disagree - I believe Mahler said the score contains everything you need to know about the music, except the essentials. Bach wrote to share music, Kissin plays for the same reason. Maybe not to please me, but he's aware that he's being evaluated by every listener. Even little old me. I think there are emotions you can't circle out in the score, but Bach intended to be there. I find these things missing in this performance only, and replaced by music I don't understand.
Kissin is almost able to convey something akin to emotion in the sustenuto/minore part, between the rag-time and campanella stunts (which can't be blamed on Busoni, really).
The piece, the notes, the performance, and the performer and "just that much". Anything else you add to it will come from the garbage in your mind. Learn to have experiences from a silent mind, and you'll enjoy the experience for what they are. If you want to criticize something, criticize the raw craving in your mind that makes you add something else to an experience. An experience is just the way it is, it just that much.
i normally like kissin's playing. but his Bach is less him. it donesn't sound like what Bach is supposed to be. i might be just too used to other pianists' Bach interpretation.
Zukerman, Stern, Perlman ,Menuhin , Heifetz , Horowitz , Askenazy , Baremboim , even Stefan Milenkovic had to take the Jude nationality to enter in there world of Top-elite musiscian!
Oh cut the crap, you're all deaf...It's a d-Minor, but he drops all the ancillary notes and SUSTAINS a d-octave. Or something. Who cares...It's just brilliant....though I'll DEFER to the respondent who claims to have actually had relations with Busoni in some Trastavere steamroom
Well I have followed this performance with the Breitkopf edition in front of me, and as a ball-park figure I reckon that he ignores about half of Maestro Busoni's very specific indications.His hand-positioning means that he cannot deliver the required sonority-that's why he bangs. The last chord should be D major-nothing else. I agree with you,allegrissimo.
I think you'll find That in Most editions it is D major. I have studied many scores and performed the work from a couple! This is in fact stylistically much more accurate..to end with a t de p. Not to mention the fact it brings a much better resolution to the work. Even allowing for a possible discrepancy in edition this was far from the tidiest performance ive heard of it and not the most inspired either.
The last chord should be D major (oophs!) Just goes to show even the big boys make mistakes! Still the best of a bad bunch of recordings of this piece represented here. Neil Crossland does a much better version than any of these - unfortunately No video that I know of - just a cd :-(
dude youre wrong. Kissin did NOT make a mistake at the last chord, he meant to play the chord in D minor. You wouldve known this if you had a look at the score even once. and personally i prefer the minor chord but most of the pianists play it in major, which makes me quite sick. so bravo for Kissin.
My score certainly has a major chord, although there is bare octave as an alternative (not what he plays- there is a clearly an F natural here). Perhaps major chords make you 'sick', but presumably you haven't noticed that Bach had an overwhelming tendency to finish all his minor key works in the major. The original partita may end on an indefinite D, but had Bach included a harmony, it's very unlikely that it would have been the minor.
The score that I have has the sharp in front of the F in parentheses, like so (#) - it's up to the pianist to play it as a major or minor. Personally, I choose to play an F natural there. Bach may have chosen to have a D major chord, but this is a Busoni piece.
Worthless. Absolutely no respect for the text, neither for the original, nor Busoni's. Only concerned about his own virtuosity, not about music. It's a big disgrace.
interresting....i have studied this on violin (which is what it is originally written for) and feel that his interpretation of it is very well executed.
I know the original and have played and studied the Busoni version quite a few times. Busoni transcribed it from an "organ tonal point of view", so it needs much more grandeur and not all these strong accents and pounding. We all know already he can bang the piano and play really fast, but I'm still waiting for him to let the music speak for itself...
Music doesn't speak for itself (if it did then midi files would be wonderful) That's why most performers sound so terrible- because they don't know how to MAKE the music speak. A piano doesn't capture the smooth sustained sound of an organ by itself, you know, not even in this piece.
Well, I know there's a pianist needed to "play this music" and that a piano is not an organ. I was just making a (perhaps poor) attempt to illustrate why I don't like his sound and (lack of) insights in this piece. Do you like this version?
God no! This is terrible. I certainly agree with you on that. Some interesting ideas at times, but his appalling tone production makes this unlistenable. I find the same with most of his performances.
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jobbergisch 1 month ago
키신 바흐가 제일내취향임 근데 앞부분 왜이렇게짤렸어
TheHayounny 2 months ago
He will be in Chicago April 22, 2012.
onehipdad 2 months ago
good but not his best
audreyhsux5727 4 months ago
Either on the violin or in this arrangement for the piano by Busoni, The Chaconne sounds like the greatest Preludes for the organ (e.g. Passacaglia bwv 582, prelude e minor 548 or b minor 544) and everybody can see in this incredibly beautiful interpretation that for Evgeny Kissin, J.S. Bach is "the alpha and the omega"
Ysengrin00 7 months ago
amazing!!!
nellyg72 11 months ago
my heart could just stop listening to him
TheStefoula 1 year ago
he plays like god
TheStefoula 1 year ago
Я плачу...
Marishanik16 1 year ago
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he played like a robot, not like human..
FightForFatih 1 year ago
@FightForFatih if you don't understand and get the emotions his playing gives don't watch him-he plays like GOD.
TheStefoula 1 year ago
@TheStefoula if you dont und. me you listen fazil say, by.
FightForFatih 1 year ago
@FightForFatih lets hear u play better
audreyhsux5727 4 months ago
Wonderful!
:)
gonrolgonrol 1 year ago
Do you even know Bach's style of writing music? I don't understand why people are trying to point out Kissin's interpretation too much. Bach did not like writing down everything on the score. He didn't like babying the musicians. He wanted you to interpret his music in your OWN way, not the way everyone does.
caricama 1 year ago 2
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hlorus2 1 year ago
@hlorus2 In fact, I went to his concert in the spring of 2009 to one of his world tours in Seoul. And I don't see what point you are trying to make here. I am not criticizing Kissin at all. I'm defending him, MASTER. Grow up.
caricama 1 year ago
@caricama indeed. this was common among baroque composers, and bach is the epitome of this, for me. baroque music was designed to be interpreted.
yanpan16 1 year ago
Нет слов...упоение звуками и зачарованность полетом золотых перстов...
SashaYurmalskiy 1 year ago
Many silly comments, man is genius
Doctor50120 1 year ago 4
He plays Bach like if it was Beethoven. He always does by the way. But still, he's one of the best.
minasgekos 1 year ago
Excuse me
LOLim2good4u 1 year ago
It is ok. Kissin, no matter what the critics say, nobody is gonna take the pleasure of playing Bach away from you, I bet you can feel the presence of the master when you play his music, and at that moment...the rest of the world do not even exist...
f15r18 1 year ago
this piece is originally written for solo violin right? O_o
BaRToLoMaSi 1 year ago
he plays so gentle...perfect...in deed...
eloria1965 2 years ago
I like this sound, i wish we had the first half!
LversusKira 2 years ago
@jerbiebarb, @crowdmaker : both your comments are interesting. Yet, we should not forget that he's not playing only Bach, but Busoni's point of view. When you make a transcription, you might loose some of Bach's spirit, as well as you add some your own. I'm working at my own one, and studied some others, and as a result I can say it's not Bach anymore. It's the same when you play. we are never "right" at 100%. I wish w could listen to Brahms' by Kissin just to compare how he'd deal with it... :)
leclavecisnistre 2 years ago
yikes!
wjf1950 2 years ago
the risonance with the hammerklaiver sonata
FilyInLove 2 years ago
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FilyInLove 2 years ago
mY FAVORITE PIANIST EVER!!!!
arielyom 2 years ago 3
Never get enough of him!!
PharmChristine 2 years ago 2
Too dry for me. Prefer Pletnev.
Haeronthegreat 2 years ago
Kissin is absolutely one of the best pianists there are.
varfordogjesus 2 years ago 3
@varfordogjesus not one of the best but the best.
TheStefoula 1 year ago
amazing painist :)
karazh 2 years ago
Its funny how "experts" give their opinion about how "bad" some GREAT pianists are, when they are not worth videotaping interpreting anything. Keep criticising LOSERS, you will never make it.
gusti1021 2 years ago 47
I fully agree with you.
josemiguel95 2 years ago
@gusti1021 that old chestnut about criticism.... it's inevitable and a sign of the greatness of some artists that they polarise opinon so dramatically.
Perhaps only Richter is allowed to be dismissive of other pianists? - -which he does so in his notebooks....
allegramente5000 1 year ago
@gusti1021 A great critic by definition would not play because if he knew he had the talent to play wonderfully himself, he would perform instead of being a critic. It's like Pollini's wife. Until she met him she was a pianist herself, but then she realized what what the use.
mc0558 1 year ago 2
incredible....no words for him....
505870 2 years ago 12
Kissin is my favorite pianist [not that i know many but still lol] and i really love his plays... this one is gourgeous as well.. i just think that Chaconne sounds better on violin... differently than La Campanella that for me sounds better in piano [im a violinist btw]
BaRToLoMaSi 2 years ago 2
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Actually I am an expert. The chaconne is an absolute archetype of compositional simplicity, despite its apparent complexity the underlying structure of the piece is so incredibly simple that it is in this that its genius lies. Busoni has removed all sense of refinement and poise and thus the structural integrity is lost. Dont fix it if it aint broke.
mikhailasanovic 2 years ago
so what do you are? an expert? give me a break! you should being doing something else instead of giving your opinion in a video that it is a great one. I think nobody cares what you think ok? get lost.
pavp 2 years ago
It's very well done, the piece and the playing. I would never call Busoni over the top; I never feel that way despite the fact that these are fingerbusters. Unlike some, I prefer this to the Brahms left-hand, because I never understood the purpose of transcribing a piece like the Chaconne literally.
I don't understand at all how someone could read this as Kissin being an empty virtuoso. I have never found that in his playing.
hophmi 3 years ago 3
he plays with love and passion unlike so many other pianists. he means wot he plays
I adore this man
wwwplaywithpassion 3 years ago 7
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Kissin is an incredible player but this is an horrific, pianistically over-indulgent arrangement of one of the greatest works ever conceived - it sounds like something you'd hear in the circus. yuk.
mikhailasanovic 3 years ago
bue,,,q pelotudo
tommyIglesias 2 years ago
Kissin is one without a second.
Bruce88keys 3 years ago 4
Fazil Say !!!
mesoxyz 3 years ago
fazil say is brilliant, but this is evgeny kissin...
benroo89 3 years ago 3
Sorry fazil say s chaconne is just horrible
nicoss007 3 years ago
Once you heard Michelangeli's version all the others are obsolete...
JohnThePetru 3 years ago
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Yes, I understand this.
Although my first comment was made somewhat rashly, my point was that I could hear almost no trace of Bach.
And I'll thank you not to condescend to me little boy, as I am by all odds vastly more intelligent than you or any three people you know combined.
Yes, I am, comparatively, a musical philistine.
What of it?
I've little doubt that if we were to discuss physics, cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, literature, art history or molecular biology, (cont.)
polymath7 3 years ago
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pt.II
...your remarks would afford me plenty of ammunition for ridicule and disdain.
No one so foolhardy as to quarrel with me has yet maneged to avoid getting his ass rhetorically handed to him, nor do your sophomoric tone and formless prose give me any reason to suspect you are a likely candidate to set precedent to the contrary.
So just try me, little man; I could use a chuckle, and think I can spare a moment to dance as you drunkenly stumble and flail.
polymath7 3 years ago
Then you can tell us what is bach right? Give us the right way to play bach.
Aul1kki 3 years ago
I've little doubt you're lacking in "intelligence," but in wisdom there is an extreme deficit. For someone who is a self-proclaimed polymath, you sure like to waste your time on such trivial affairs. Instead of being nothing more than a Youtube Sophist, reread some philosophy of which you know so much.
darkshadyfigure 3 years ago
@polymath7 Never read such arrogant, stupid, unripe comments like yours. Don't worry, I don't argue with an idiot. Over and out.
tasteism 1 year ago 2
Benedetti Michelangeli's rendition is my favourite one.
indigoblue555 3 years ago 2
I'm sorry, but the way he plays it, it doesn't sound like Bach at all.
polymath7 3 years ago
Could be because it technically isn't Bach - it's Bach/Busoni.
29622 3 years ago
Ah, that would explain a lot. Is this then one of Bach's transcriptions of another composers work? If so, I would still say that it doesn't even sound baroque.
polymath7 3 years ago
Seldom do you hear good quality music.
Timmytimtimtm 3 years ago
42 C%##@*&$
agentsoranges 3 years ago
Ahh, the Bach-Busoni Chaccone. A perilous piece indeed. I don't think I've heard one live performance that did not contain multiple technical slip-ups. And this recording is no exception, although Evgeny recovers from them admirably. I just finished listening to Fazil Say play this, and it was horrendous. I think the audience applauded more out of pity than appreciation.
evolve749 3 years ago
I heard Marc-Andre Hamelin play it live--it was pretty darn clean and intense!
guitarwizard6 3 years ago
check out michelangeli's live recording from "The Warsaw Recital". i think its from the 1950's. it's flawless(maybe one glance of a wrong note) and his studio recording coupled with the Brahms-pagannini variations. it's the absolute summit of transcendent pianism.
brianCIM 3 years ago
well for me this is far too fast in many parts ,just played like a fast useless study,,only very few recordings are great of this chaconne,,indeed it s quite difficult.i agree Fazil Says chaconne is very ugly.
nicoss007 3 years ago
The recording Kissin did for RCA seems to be quite a bit more thoughtful than this effort. I agree though, it's difficult to find a great recording of this. Which ones do you like?
evolve749 3 years ago
Well i prefer Michelangelis recording ,,it s a live recording,otherwise it s difficult to say,there s is a special but in some way marvellous recording from Maria Tipo and I like the one of de Larrocha,,an you ?
nicoss007 3 years ago
you should get the studio recording of michelangeli playing the chaconne and brahms-pagannini. there is nothing like it. its even better than the live recording. prepare to pick your jaw up off of the ground.
brianCIM 3 years ago
yes.
beautiful.
XINEOHP20 3 years ago
I prefer michelangeli in this piece
rachm06 3 years ago 2
In particular, like 6:17 or later.
XINEOHP20 3 years ago
Fantastic !!!!!... from 8.43 to 9.02 super super super super !!!!! Well done MR Kissin, Many thanks ... wishes from Italy
ilovescarlatti 3 years ago
I have played the Chaconne, and Kissin's recording is the best of lot. I have listened to many great pianists play it. Kissin has a better technique and a better understanding of this piece than most of them. Listen to it on a CD, and not the crappy audio that comes with Youtube.
maxscriptguru 3 years ago
guys do you know what is the name of that work of Bach???it' so amazing and Evgeny makes it more amazing!!!
syntheths 3 years ago
This is a transcription of the Chaconne from one of Bach's violin partitas, by Federic Busoni. It's actually more impressive to hear a violinist do it, IMHO. Busoni added a lot of "pianistic" things to it, which one would expect, but the violin work still covers the range of technical and emotional complexity of this remarkable piece.
gatesurfer 3 years ago
Oh god. I love Kissin very much, but this is just... really bad. Sure, a chaconne is a serious of variations on a chord progression, but he plays each variation as if it were a separate movement. So have you the andante climax of the piece, the most majestic and celestial moment in probably all of western music, and the next moment he's racing away from it jauntily at an almost presto. Flabbergasting - I've never heard any pianist/violinist do this. A terrible shame...
crowdmaker 3 years ago
@crowdmaker He's not playing it to please you. How would he know what your experience level is?
He's interpreting what's on the page, that's all there is. The recorded tradition about Busoni and Bach is just hearsay. All that reliably survives is the score.
jerbiebarb 2 years ago
I agree and disagree - I believe Mahler said the score contains everything you need to know about the music, except the essentials. Bach wrote to share music, Kissin plays for the same reason. Maybe not to please me, but he's aware that he's being evaluated by every listener. Even little old me. I think there are emotions you can't circle out in the score, but Bach intended to be there. I find these things missing in this performance only, and replaced by music I don't understand.
crowdmaker 2 years ago
Kissin is almost able to convey something akin to emotion in the sustenuto/minore part, between the rag-time and campanella stunts (which can't be blamed on Busoni, really).
jamtnas 4 years ago
The piece, the notes, the performance, and the performer and "just that much". Anything else you add to it will come from the garbage in your mind. Learn to have experiences from a silent mind, and you'll enjoy the experience for what they are. If you want to criticize something, criticize the raw craving in your mind that makes you add something else to an experience. An experience is just the way it is, it just that much.
sariputa 4 years ago
i normally like kissin's playing. but his Bach is less him. it donesn't sound like what Bach is supposed to be. i might be just too used to other pianists' Bach interpretation.
alba10a97 4 years ago
His left hand seems like a feather...technique may be perfect, but I'm not be satisfied with his Chaconne.
--because of shortage of profoundness?
Anyway, I feel disappointed.
f1Nazayu 4 years ago
try to find something beetwen them :
Zukerman, Stern, Perlman ,Menuhin , Heifetz , Horowitz , Askenazy , Baremboim , even Stefan Milenkovic had to take the Jude nationality to enter in there world of Top-elite musiscian!
flllutiste 4 years ago
try SunWook Kim's playing of this piece.. now that is playing !
brunotaddeo 4 years ago
Great Art
vnsn72 4 years ago
Wow!!!
allstarIII 4 years ago
wow!!!
only Busoni played it better (available on Welte - Mignon)
orpheus63 4 years ago
Oh cut the crap, you're all deaf...It's a d-Minor, but he drops all the ancillary notes and SUSTAINS a d-octave. Or something. Who cares...It's just brilliant....though I'll DEFER to the respondent who claims to have actually had relations with Busoni in some Trastavere steamroom
sagalat 4 years ago
Salagat-if it's me you refer to,I will paraphrase Bill Clinton and tell you-I did not have sex with that pianist!
ric55 4 years ago
That's incorrect. The final chord was simply a D octave, neither major nor minor.
29622 4 years ago
Bravoooooooo!!!Jevgenij! Thanks!
paganissimo 4 years ago
No respect to the text? Have you seen the music? He follows it accurately. Not sure what you are talking about.
29622 4 years ago
Well I have followed this performance with the Breitkopf edition in front of me, and as a ball-park figure I reckon that he ignores about half of Maestro Busoni's very specific indications.His hand-positioning means that he cannot deliver the required sonority-that's why he bangs. The last chord should be D major-nothing else. I agree with you,allegrissimo.
ric55 4 years ago
I think you'll find That in Most editions it is D major. I have studied many scores and performed the work from a couple! This is in fact stylistically much more accurate..to end with a t de p. Not to mention the fact it brings a much better resolution to the work. Even allowing for a possible discrepancy in edition this was far from the tidiest performance ive heard of it and not the most inspired either.
pianoboyo 5 years ago
Marvelous.
29622 5 years ago
The last chord should be D major (oophs!) Just goes to show even the big boys make mistakes! Still the best of a bad bunch of recordings of this piece represented here. Neil Crossland does a much better version than any of these - unfortunately No video that I know of - just a cd :-(
pianoboyo 5 years ago
dude youre wrong. Kissin did NOT make a mistake at the last chord, he meant to play the chord in D minor. You wouldve known this if you had a look at the score even once. and personally i prefer the minor chord but most of the pianists play it in major, which makes me quite sick. so bravo for Kissin.
leffondre 5 years ago
My score certainly has a major chord, although there is bare octave as an alternative (not what he plays- there is a clearly an F natural here). Perhaps major chords make you 'sick', but presumably you haven't noticed that Bach had an overwhelming tendency to finish all his minor key works in the major. The original partita may end on an indefinite D, but had Bach included a harmony, it's very unlikely that it would have been the minor.
cziffra1980 3 years ago
The score that I have has the sharp in front of the F in parentheses, like so (#) - it's up to the pianist to play it as a major or minor. Personally, I choose to play an F natural there. Bach may have chosen to have a D major chord, but this is a Busoni piece.
RussianIbanez 3 years ago
Worthless. Absolutely no respect for the text, neither for the original, nor Busoni's. Only concerned about his own virtuosity, not about music. It's a big disgrace.
allegrissimo 5 years ago
interresting....i have studied this on violin (which is what it is originally written for) and feel that his interpretation of it is very well executed.
mapleleafgal 4 years ago
I know the original and have played and studied the Busoni version quite a few times. Busoni transcribed it from an "organ tonal point of view", so it needs much more grandeur and not all these strong accents and pounding. We all know already he can bang the piano and play really fast, but I'm still waiting for him to let the music speak for itself...
allegrissimo 4 years ago
Music doesn't speak for itself (if it did then midi files would be wonderful) That's why most performers sound so terrible- because they don't know how to MAKE the music speak. A piano doesn't capture the smooth sustained sound of an organ by itself, you know, not even in this piece.
cziffra1980 3 years ago
Well, I know there's a pianist needed to "play this music" and that a piano is not an organ. I was just making a (perhaps poor) attempt to illustrate why I don't like his sound and (lack of) insights in this piece. Do you like this version?
allegrissimo 3 years ago
God no! This is terrible. I certainly agree with you on that. Some interesting ideas at times, but his appalling tone production makes this unlistenable. I find the same with most of his performances.
cziffra1980 3 years ago
do you have any performances on youtube?
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cziffra1980 3 years ago
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88Woland 1 year ago
The best pianist the last 40 years. Absolutely great!!!!
RIV2 5 years ago
tru
ches916 5 years ago
grand...
Antonowitsch 5 years ago