Rachmaninoff Rachmaninof Rachmaninov Sonata No.2 first mov.

[Vije4ka]

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[kuheng]

i can play this piece with my toes

[afertyus1000]

@kuheng lol remind me if i play after you to clean the keys!

[ykpatr]

Bardzo Pięknie 6******Bardzo Kocham Muzykę 6******

[pwthepro]

This is not the original 1913 version... :(

[lycadorian]

edward cullen, is that you?

[geoffangusmusic]

I thought that was brilliant. I've been listening to Ashkenazy play it... not quite as quick as this but both are good for their own reasons,

I'm learning the piece atm and don't recognize the second slow bit... anyone know if this is the revised version?

[pwthepro]

@geoffangusmusic I like the original version(1913) better.

[geertdehoux]

@pwthepro

I made a mixing of both versions, like Horowitz did (mine is not exactly the same).

[bekkasummer]

Does andybody know, where the notes of the piece are?

[mrmolinodelahoz]

Certainly he has technique and memory, and a very good tonal approach to the piano but there is no FIRE...............

no PASSION.......................

[geertdehoux]

@mrmolinodelahoz

I disagree with you.

[pianoira]

oh! and, for those who like to criticize, please...if you think you can really play this sonata better than him, post a video ! let us see you,guys, don't be scared :P

[Hervinbalfour]

If people don't want to be criticized then they shouldn't post their videos or better yet, diable the comments. Secondly just because someone can't play a work doesn't mean they don't have a right to an opinion. Sometimes people know how they like a work to be heard.

[pianoira]

Hey..it's great:) maybe the pianist wouldn't like to hear this, but his interpretation is very close to the way i like to play it ...Closer to me than many other very well known pianists playing this sonata... Very good job :)

[Hervinbalfour]

The definitive recording of this Sonata imo is Alexis Weisenberg's out of print interpretation. The colors he brought out were amazing.

This is a good interpretation. But he seems to rush through it. I don't agree that he is necessarily playing it too fast. However there is an "agitation" to much of Rachmaninoff's works that is missing here. But this work is a monster to learn. However I still think it's a shame that more pianist don't play his first sonata which is equally as beautiful.

[geertdehoux]

@Hervinbalfour

With all respect, I don't think Weissenberg's performance is the best one.

Have you heard the legendary Belgian pianist Bernard LEMMENS' recording of this Sonate ?!

Regards,

Geert Dehoux, pianist.

[babambar]

For some reason, even though I know those sections are supposed to be played that fast, I agree with some previous posters. I still prefer them played slower, with more definition.

[dashatsh]

who is the pianist?

[sonata012]

Kasparas Uinskas

[sanjosemike]

I disagree that this is too fast. Rachmaninov also played very fast. He intended the fast sections to be in CONTRAST with the singing sections, all of which is played quite beautifully here.

Rachmaninov complained that he felt this sonata too long...and that it had a hard time "holding together." That is the challenge for all pianists who decided to take on this gigantically difficult work.

sanjosemike

[hiyetty]

Absolutely Fantastic!!!

[plardqw]

Fast fingers. Nothing more. But that's what impresses most YouTube viewers, unfortunately. There is more to Rachmaninov's genius than this.

[geertdehoux]

@plardqw

Just to let you know I disagree with you.

Geert Dehoux, pianist (Belgium).

[nightwishxxld]

I just want to say thank you in a girl (Eirini) cause she was her who had said me to listen Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff was mastermind!

[ShawnGlory]

and i would like to thank her for introducing you to yet another talented composers work

[nightwishxxld]

I just want to say thank you in a girl (Eirini) cause she was her who had said me to listen Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff was mastermind!

[SergeiNickolai]

Very wonderful technique....

WAY TOO FAST FAST.Rachmaninoff was a crying, depressing man.The roaring chromaticism in this piece is part of his sort of wistful argument with himself,an internal war he's fighting...a nightmare which is chronic.This is not a fantasia,nor is it a scherzo.There needs to be agitation inside the melody,not the speed.

You tend to take everything like a cadenza, instead of what the music really means.However, incredible technique. Slowing it down will be much harder.

[yoki33]

Cool !

I like it. I've heard very good live preformance of Goran Filipec (he recorded it too you can get it by Gis records ) from croatia, on concert in switzerland. He can not be compared to this one of course but anyway very nice.--

[shangthebest]

really good the middle part should slow down a bit, but REALLY COOL otherwise.

[tenisbal]

Well rachmaninov said himself that this piece was as though a chorus was singing, by playing this piece way too fast and if I may be quite honest, a bit reckless, the player had not fully fullfilled what Rachmaninov desired to see people interperet, but honestly good job

[saipkutel]

great great. got blesss..

[Raiowyn]

keanu reeves o_O

[ijoan]

The "oriental" passages (harmonies) are beautifully finessed.

[richardre06]

It's a good but is very far from a very good interpretation. In a word look at Russan Sviridov or Fabio Bidini. These are very good interpreters, because everything is perfect. This pianis moves too much is body and is expressivity is very poor!!, he loose a lot of energy !! always and at the same time doesnt't provocates emotions. He has not articulation when serves!

I dont't want make a paragon with Horowitz because in this case I shoud say is tecnic is very poor!

[ACMarelli]

It was magnificently played....however some of the melodies could have been a bit more pronounced. It was amazing.

[llxie78]

hey, both of you--makarnakesme & acepilot815, watch your language!

[VikingBerserker]

It's weird, at least to me, that I had to listen to this sonata five times before I even liked it. At first I didn't like it all, but now I think it's awesome.

Was it like that for anyone else?

[daniel0212]

AMAZING!! AMAZING!!!!

i am GREATLY inspired!!!

ignore the bad criticizers, they donno

wat the f*ck they are babbling about!

[acepilot815]

And you do? Hey, no matter what we think, we still have to respect each other's opinions, you know.

[daniel0212]

the prob is, your comment on his performance does not deserve such respect. you only said that this performance has 'no feeling or expression' without even adding any explanation about HOW it misses such qualities. in that sense, yours wasn't even an opinion but just a nonsense babble by randomly adding the world's most renonwed pianist's to the subject. no feelings into this performance? LOL

[acepilot815]

If you read my remark after my own comment, you will see that I was making an honest opinion; I just did not start it with "I think". I do admit though that I definitely overexaggerated there, and I did not mean to sound so harsh. Also, I only mentioned Horowitz just to refer to my own preference, not that I want discourage yours or anyone elses favorites.

[daniel0212]

"That was way too fast. No feeling or expression. Horowitz plays this a thousand times better."

= where exactly in ur sentence am i able

to read your 'remark' so i can see that

you were making 'an honest opinion'? LOL

if you rate a performance as dynamic as this

as a complete SHIT, then you obviously

don't know anything about music.

[daniel0212]

you 'EXAGERRATED' criticising it badly? well, that's only a valid excuse if you mentioned slightest good aspects of this performance which you didn't. you only think horowitz is good because thousand others say that he is. LOL if he was an unknown pianist and you saw his video, you'd think hes a shit. now, why don't you simply make a brief analytical criticism on HOW this performance is without feeling and expression? convince me.

[daniel0212]

LOL what a chicken. He closed his account.

[tenisbal]

oh we dont make these kind of comments

[michieldpiano]

Beautiful

[acepilot815]

That was way too fast. No feeling or expression. Horowitz plays this a thousand times better.

[makarnakesme]

go fuck horowitz

[acepilot815]

go fuck yourself!

[skyscreaper27]

go fuck you ignorant

[Silkemaage]

you should'nt critisize someone who plays it as well as he does. just because you don't like his way of playing it doesn't allow you to say what you did. your not some allmighty expert.

[acepilot815]

You're right. I am not an "almighty expert", but the Comments & Responses are here to post opinions, not truths, which is exactly what I did. It's all a matter of taste, so you cannot criticize others for not appreciating the things you like.

[4444matthew4444]

nice voicing...seriously you have a very good sense of tone...

[rsfpiano]

Congratulations on a wonderful performance. You have an excellent sense of a singing melodic line and make a beautiful sound, conveying the emotion of this piece very well.

[smb12321]

This kind of playing transport you to another eera. It is near perfection - romantic, passionate and poetic. I've heard numberous performances of both versions but never one to match the van Cliburn in Moscow (live) at the height of his powers. The internal rhythms, melodies and phrasing of this, the hardest version, was incredible.

[DoomBass]

hmm

[pianopiano]

this is horrible!!!

no im just joking its actually quite good - few can grasp rachmaninoff like this

I prefer it to the horowitz performance actually (rumour has it he was drunk when he played it though)

[salexlindsay]

I'm guessing the fire extinguisher is there in case you set the piano on fire with your fingers- that was amazing!