Prokofiev Concerto No. 2 Movement 1 (Part 2) Kissin live!

[alenazavadika]

Best recording of this piece i´ve ever heard is by Dagmar baloghova

[NuovoCurioso]

...Grande Kissin...

[surirach]

Wonderful performance! The Prokofiev cadenza is one of the most difficult to play technically and also get the right balace, tempo, and control. Very good job. The best recording of the cadenza, IMO, is Horacio Gutierrez's recording - the best ever on record.

[demosj]

He loses cohesion cohesion in the cadenza but regains control at about 2:58 I think.

[rwcrx]

This is excellent but for me, Yuja Wang's performance cannot be beaten - she must have super-human genes to play like she does.

[LJUser]

Сумбурно. Много грязи.

Тот же Ашкенази очень чисто и понятно играет.

Молодой еще Кисин.

[camaysar222]

We don't like to criticize a fine artist, but he sounds a bit "lost" here. The greatest challenge in this cadenza is to make each measure seem like an inevitable result of the preceding... to keep an intellectual grip while unleashing tremendous passion. Kissin seems to fail in this. It seems to be put together piecemeal.

[dtoro74]

In my experience, I've always found Prokofiev 2 one of the hardest cadenzas to play- not only because of its speed and furious depth, but because of its balance. Its nearly impossible to bring out the melody as a constant, let alone find it!. i think kissin does better approaching the second half of the cadenza where the arpeggios become present in the right hand and the melody is carried with the left. Still, the first half was almost to clustered. Leaway to the orchestra's entrance lacking.

[yaya12345r]

Do you know if this is the same recording as the one on his latest CD? (The Prokofiev Concertos 2&3)?

[psicodaliarocker]

Indeed it is not.

Bear this in mind: his interpretation on the latest CD is superior and I highly recommend it to any Prokofiev enthusiasts.

[trist105]

I agree with superstition. I'm a bit disapointed with his bad sense of timing, it's something I've noticed in many of his recordings. Nevertheless, he's still a fantastic pianist who knows what he's doing!

[superstition222]

Ashkenazy's recording is much better, although the arpeggios are handled very nicely. The phrasing, overall, is rather schizophrenic/fitful and it doesn't build into the tremendous climax (when the orchestra comes it).

[Bachlives2]

@superstition222 I think Ashkenazy does it best but I will say it is the greatest challenge one can come across to play this

[theoryjoe]

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