pletnev - rachmaninov, rhapsody on a theme of paganini: i

[Hobott]

Add Claudio ABBADO - he's somebody here too!

[veronika1353]

amazing..

[schmuckenheimer9]

Damn, this gets better ever time I hear it

[dberry02jr]

Man... the 5 seconds of playing at 2:12 is just so beautiful...

[bfeyalcin]

Am I the only one who hears Totentanz ?

[npholla]

@bfeyalcin they both use the "Dies Irie" (sp.?) motif, you are correct

[theK0OKS]

SO PRETTY

[TheMicroMister]

0:29 EIENSTEIN!!!

[TheMicroMister]

YAAAY DUMBLEDORE!

[NeerajTheLegend]

Lol, I remember Latin lmao

[TheMicroMister]

@NeerajTheLegend BCOZ DUMBLEDORES ALIVE!!

[NeerajTheLegend]

Norbert, why are you on youtube commenting on this gay video?

[MeLoNhEadSeb]

@NeerajTheLegend Penis

[bfeyalcin]

Some part's sound like Dies Irae (or Totentanz), like : F-E-F-D-E-C-D

[IgorJonathca]

1:53... I love the pizzicato of violoncellist reflected on piano xD!

[Gidenkidenk]

flute was excellent, great performance

[anglofiles87]

its doug wilson!



[geminezmarie]

@MegaPhucket did you find this? i found your comment on google when i was searching for March Russe...funny thing is I've been looking for it for since (wow) 1998 when we played it in middle school :-) Anyway interesting a piece can stick with you like that. If you found it, I'd genuinely be thrilled if you let me know.

[gigatabatadze]

The most poor performance of paganini rhapsody ever heard...

Having heard this view of the piece, Rakhmaninoff would rather prefer die in early 1930th... without testament...

[herisauer]

@gigatabatadze what makes this so bad?

[BobDylan530]

Oh man, this is freaking great.

[angelooooooos]

Incredible Pletnov, he tunes the orchestra (giving the a) with the piano seat at  00:15!

[Goldadon]

@angelooooooos lol indeed it matches

[1donpizarro]

@angelooooooos That's pretty good !!!

[imrandomjen]

the original song is 22:30 i heard it on someones cd. its nice

[tinker19bell]

:'( this is what played at my uncle memoral :( rip uncle doug,it was this song and softly as i leave you-Matt Monro and Nessun Dorma-Russell Waston :( I miss him sooo much </3

[TheRightNeutrino]

why do you keep the stupid claps it ruins th whole video

[Lieder83]

L'eccellenza dell'eccellente eccellentissimo super meraviglioso!

[RunnerSean]

Can anyone tell me who the Principal Clarinetist is?

[1Thompsonmusic]

Seems a bit too hard and unnatural sounding to me. I don't get anything out of this perfomance at all.

[eddogar]

Fantastico Mikhail

[RunnerSean]

Anyone know the name of the Principal Clarinetist?

[billybloggins]

Quite. We're talking about countries where the rule of law, or an independent judiciary, are completely non-existent. So if the authorities take against you, you're toast, bro! You may not have done anything wrong, as such, just displeased someone. Perhaps you failed to pay a bribe or be sycophantic enough ...

[thierrytu]

Just amazing! <3

[ellze17]

Played this last night, first oboe. Such a wonderful piece, the whole thing. I don't think there's a single variation I don't like...

[averyms]

it's very good but they sort of sound like they're rushing through it....it was...or at least I feel...it was meant to be a little slower.

[rationalistx]

Pretty harpist @0.36...

[Woffle21jade]

Whoa!! What is that instrument that guy is playing at 3:52?! Looks so cool. Don't think I've ever seen it before...

[ahaili]

@Woffle21jade It's a bassoon! It has a very nice sound and is standard in orchestras.

[yusukeundisolde]

beautiful hands

[dom0s]

4:38 simon from the inbetweeners much?

[billybloggins]

Returning to the unhappy theme of charges of prostitution, such trumped-up charges are not unusual. Regimes where they don't allow criticism in any form (Pakistan, many Muslim and African countries, South Caucasus, etc) this is a well-known and effective way to muzzle you. The authorities use virtually any far-fetched charge simply to warn you off. You're dumped you in jail, which is good shock therapy. Then you have to buy your way out, but only if you agree to leave the country or shut up.

[Gheorgyi]

@billybloggins Or BOTH...

[ann03071874]

Awesome quality and awesome playing!

[WAYSMEANS]

I love how he begins playing as though a ditty on a toy piano instead of the masterwork of the piano repertoire that it is.

[barbarossa333]

@WAYSMEANS he begins and plays the same way all the way through :(((

[MazerrRackham]

where's the rest of it?

[bluetumbleweed96]

@MazerrRackham there is a part i, part ii, and part iii if you look.

[tcradical]

The pianist is truly making music!

[tragelafos]

0.36 is she real ? oh God i am in love!

[aftee]

@tragelafos LOL

[Elsid1111]

@tragelafos LOOL

[hellynaw]

the  best

[Rondoplease]

I didn't know harry potter played the flute. 1:30

[jessbear1979]

@Rondoplease HAHAHAHAHA! That really does look like him!!!! Fantastic! :-D

[jacobflaschen]

@Rondoplease He's pretty fucking good, too.

[s900203]

@Rondoplease It's magic.

[tusepagliacco]

@Rondoplease lololol Thank you.

[jimmymoomoojimmy]

@Rondoplease wowww!

[Gheorgyi]

@Rondoplease This one was a very sharp and significant comment...

[Gheorgyi]

@Rondoplease this one was a very sharp, penetrating and significant comment...

[MonsieurDecent]

@Rondoplease ...and Sheena Easton played the harp too!...?

[TheDarkMalkav]

@Rondoplease Ididn't know Rachmaninov was Harry Potter of composers :)

[12ParisDaisies]

More like James Potter

[NeerajTheLegend]

@Rondoplease Lol. You jokka

[ShadowDeath30]

@Rondoplease hes magical he can do anything.

[kaiseroda]

@Rondoplease he's emmanuel pauhd, the best flutist of all the times!

[azores81]

@Rondoplease  I didn't know Abe Lincoln played the violin! 0:15

[mgustafson11]

Think of the creative achievement went into this. The people who created language, writing, the materials for instruments, the instruments, the theory of notes, scales, the idea to harmonize instruments, the masterful organization of sounds to produce specific emotions, the idea of the theme and the style, the talent of the musicians, the management of the conductor, and the reverent appreciation of genius and respect for man’s mind that drives the entire process, and much much more!

[veraluciamorais]

@mgustafson11

and on the top of all this, Pahud has great new reading glasses! ;))

[sybo59]

@mgustafson11 Beautiful comment.

[antimatterXXXIII]

@mgustafson11 Sort of like the cell phone!

[hexonatapeloop]

@mgustafson11 and the invention of computing and the internet to get it on here...

[Kijjakarn]

The sound on 6:43 is awesome.

[helenlinpiano]

perfection!!!

[MrJooniejoon]

people actually clicked dislike? .... wow...

[spnitz]

@MrJooniejoon They'd rather listen to their Bieber's.

[edwinstar100]

trust me its good! Rachmaninov has a vast expressive sensibility, and understood the piano, the piano was an extension of himself. I don't think the pianist here is doing as much with it as say Rachmainov or someone modern like Takerov.

[syndeeknapp]

@edwinstar100 I agree!

[ueblondon]

Perfection

[JoeTownley]

Why don't composers write this kind of music anymore? I just finished a work for piano and orchestra in the romantic tradition, "Symphonic Variations After a Theme of Cesar Franck" for piano & orchestra that is here on YouTube, but I'm the only one I know that tries. Today's composers' music sounds like traffic jams and Boeing 747 mixed with jackhammers, If that's art good luck to them. If they want to hear what genius sounds like they should listen to real music like this Rhapsody.

[ChernovaMaria]

The Best!!!!!!!!!

[cslewis623]

This is a great piece. I don't see why kids like pop and rock these days. Compare the hardest rock song to the easiest piano concerto, the piano concerto is by far a lot harder.

[whiskeytangoET]

@cslewis623 That's a non sequitur. I agree this is better, but the level of difficulty and complexity of a piece are hardly the only determining factors of its appeal. Simply because a piece is complex doesn't mean it's good. And vice versa, just because a piece is relatively simple doesn't mean it's bad.

[BIGGERSPINKID]

@cslewis623 I listen to Rachmaninov, Chopin, Hendel, ect. all of the greats, but I agree with whiskeytangoET, I happen to listen to Deathcore also, which is a very simple and if I may say, brutal, form of Metal, I do understand that people like me who apprieciate both types of music is rare, but complexity does not always produce a great piece of music, same for simplicity, if it is very simple, that does not make it bad.

[speakeasyo11]

Was this filmed at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall?

Apologies to other posters if this question has come up before.

[agoia2000]

Thank you, maestro.

[ovsergeev]

Потрясающе! Как все кристально чисто, музыка струится у него из-под пальцев. Ни одного неестественного тона.

[EmptyVee00000]

He is known in the classical music community as "The Pervert". He has blackened his own reputation.

[alexanderpromyslov]

Играет божественно! А все интимные дела здесь ни-при-чем!

[bethanylovesdan]

a fing mazing i love this i want to play it!... but i only play the piano...

[MrYou2ber]

Stop talking about his charges. I won't believe he would rape a 14 year old kid. Read the news article. It's just a stupid charge that has so many holes.

And Pletnev is not an idiot. Even if he DID rape the kid, Pletnev's not stupid enough to rape the same kid for the SECOND TIME 6 MONTHS LATER. The accusation is such a bogus.

[tevez412]

auto-tune

[lingsy81]

love this! :)

[bodyguardik]

Synthetic Genius, i call him. Awesome master, awesome personality.

[kingtubenino]

this is soo amazing but its also soooooo o BORRRIIINNNGGGGGGG!!!!!!!! could it be any more subtle?

[emppolin]

Why these debates about the legal accusations? Pletnev's accuser is a clearly a crook, as Pletnev is obviously too frail to have raped anything any bigger than a rabbit. Accepting to open the case only is an embarrassing mistake of the Thai police. This story may not shed a nice light on Pletnev's private life, but that did not deserve all the attention it got. The media did not do their job of thinking twice either.

[Gulzt]

Thank you so much for uploading this. This piece and this performance has inspired me so much over the years, I never saw Pletnev play it (only have it on CD). Rachminanov was such a master, and my deepest respect to a pianist that understands the piece so well and express it so beautiful.

[NikitenkoArtyom]

По-моему, это одно из самых лучших исполнений рапсодии.

[777mrpiano777]

excellent pianist! :) i like this piece! good job Rachmaninov!

[tokitafurimmerth]

a mi el min 1:51 me emociona!!! :D

[watabango]

bravo

[hellynaw]

la merveille, спасибо Le Grand

[1206Jane]

What is the Symphony Orchestra??

[Sword1479]

@1206Jane I think it's New York's.

[FenAllo1]

@1206Jane

it is the berliner philharmoniker

[hellynaw]

bravo

[nirvgardengod]

innocent till proven guilty,,but you never know

[MrsDwightFrye]

It's extremly hard to believe Pletnev would do something as hideous as that.

I hope so much that it wasn't him and I wish people would stop calling him such disgusting things before we have more evidence. All of this is so terribly saddening.

[ivan96148]

shame, shame, shame ... What an irreplaceable loss for the world of classical music! Such a talented, unique brilliant! Musician got involved in a dirty filth. Very painfull loss! What a pity...

[hobomafonie]

@poiuy877 do you recommend a bonfire of the vanities for all his works? his many recording, sheet music, etc?

hate the man, but don't punish the art.

[arnoroch]

@poiuy877 Il est affligeant de voir ainsi confondre Art et vie privee supposee! Pletnev est 1 des plus grands pianistes de notre temps, alors ecoutons sa musique,et voyons les films de Polanski! et chez nous en France,un homme est presume innocent quand sa culpabilite est incertaine!!! Moi je continue à ecouter Pletnev, à lire Gide et vous dis indigne de la musique et de la pensee! Restez dans vos eglises fondamentalistes, vous ne meritez ni Musique ni Art! Amen

[BenMcCormack91]

@poiuy877 And Van Gogh was a damned loony, Wagner was a damned anti-Semite, Strauss was a damned Nazi collaborator, Oscar Wilde was a damned homo, and Shostakovich was a damned Commie. Seeing huge oeuvres of art through a pinhole is like painting a sunset with only one color. Curse Pletnev all you want, but don't tell me that his performances have nothing in them beyond pedophilia. For Christ's sake, no one's a total monster. Even Hitler was capable of civility from time to time.

[Sword1479]

@poiuy877 Everyone has a dark side to them.

[japanesesweet]

@ivan96148 hang on a moment-you're just going on speculation, as the case has barely begun. It isn't a loss to music because his recordings are just the same. He's a great pianist but i don't like what i've heard of his compositions.

[Melusineviolon]

Hier,il a été libéré sous caution mais doit attendre de recevoir une autorisation s’il souhaite quitter le pays.Sa comparution est prévue pour le 19/07.Il doit se présenter tous les12 jours devant les autorités locales.

[1donpizarro]

@Melusineviolon Derniers échos: début décombre 2010, la justice thaïlandaise a classé cette affaire sans suite, faute de preuves irréfutables contre Pletnev, et aussi du fait que son principal accusateur est loin d'être apte à donner des leçons de morale, au moins sur ce chapitre. Maintenant, quelles seront les suites, judiciaires mais aussi humaines?

[Melusineviolon]

Pletnev a été inculpé pour viols sur mineur de moins de15ans en Thaïlande.Il risque 20ans de prison.Il possède une villa à Pattaya,une station balnéaire connue pour être un haut lieu de la prostitution.Selon la police, plusieurs Thaïlandais interpellés pour pédophilie et production de pornographie impliquant des enfants avaient fourni des preuves contre lui.

[purplepeoplepurple]

@nimrod74741

Why blacken a man's reputation before we know the truth? Charges could be dropped, the court could find him not guilty, there could be dark reasons of self-interest for the charges. It's sad to see this message written here, smearing the man, at this very early stage of the story.

[MusicLoveClassic]

@purplepeoplepurple это все зависть..=(((

[Ahelphand]

@purplepeoplepurple The charges were dropped on 28 September, and he resumed his career two months later

[munkhshirley]

anybody help me? i really neet to find the sheet, i'm going to learn this piece. how can i find the sheet??? please help me!!!

[purplepeoplepurple]

@munkhshirley

It and nearly everything else you want is at the International Music Score Library Project

[richclayderman]

0:37 a musician that beautiful comes only once in a lifetime

[12345qazx1]

Very Top

[0915yunzhi]

i like Rachmaninoff...

[halomoe]

I lvoe this song. I use it to do my extension 2 maths studies. :D

[LordN3mrod]

That's what I call remix!

[Inattuale]

Rachmaninoff = God

[Vierne7037]

I spy Dies Irae at 5:55 :P

[FredilYupigo]

@Vierne7037

Indeed! I love all the incidences of Dies Irae throughout Rachmaninoff literature, mainly because I'm in love with that Dies Irae theme. :D

[ikilledabird39]

Which ensemble is this?

[yomommacello]

@ikilledabird39

it looks like berlin phil.

Look at the assistant concertmaster. Same person today

[Sapphira51496]

this is Op43 Var18 rite? makin sure...

[misspeckpeck]

he is overconfident -- his playing is wishy-washy...

[surrenderboy]

Only if you understand the music, develop your own interpretation and interact with the music and musician on stage will you, as an audience truly be able to appreciate the hard work put in for the performance. I feel that a strong reason why youths nowadays love to listen to pop and rock is because these music are so easy to relate to and so literal.

[raven1234]

Pops and rocks have engaging lyrics, heavy beats and sometime a repeating harmonic melody. It's easy to listen to, that's why. This is the very same reason for why pops and rocks do not require too much thinking to appreciate.

[FMA32197]

@surrenderboy sort of. but not all of them like me

[EliasCalabretta]

@surrenderboy

I agree with this statement

but at the same time, I feel that classical music can still relate to life just as much as all the modern music out there. I'll go to the step in saying that classical music is even more self expressive.

But this is only my opinion.

[CrazyMonkey124]

@surrenderboy Not all youths....I hate rap and pop. :P

[forashy616]

@surrenderboy Very true thought i probably count as a youth, but i listen to a varied selection of music =]/

[wrxjd]

check mine out

[turetskygambit]

Great pianinst and a fine conductor, but a very haughty person.

[piachmaninov]

Why?

[turetskygambit]

I saw an interview with him on Russian channel 1 and I noticed that he is very proud of himself, very self assured. He is a maestro, of course, but it is very well known that all really great people were very much down to earth, in the best sense of this word. Also, I don't like his idea that classical music is for the elite. I believe that it is the goal of intelligent people to share great art with the masses.

[piachmaninov]

Unfortunately, at least in Italy, we have not the opportunity to share classical music with ease. So it remains music for the elite. Most italians people do not like classical music, so at least for this, Pletnev is right.

[turetskygambit]

Why sharing Classical music was not a problem 50 years ago. What happened now?

[piachmaninov]

Probably because, as I said, most italians people do not like classical music. :(

[turetskygambit]

I'll tell You why most Italians, as well as the rest of Europeans and Americans "don't like" classical music. It's because they don't hear it anywhere; they don't have a chance to hear it anywhere. Radio and television are full of trash. Instead the media should be doing everything to make regular people more intelligent. That's how it was in the Soviet Union and that's why today Russian orchestras, conductors, and pianists are the best. :)

[misinai]

You are right, but educating most of the people to listen to classical music and like it is not easy. It is an art by itself. Most people just do not have the patience required and overcoming this obsacle is doable but you have to know how. This was one of the very few advantages fo the Soviet Union.

[turetskygambit]

You are absolutely right, but difficulties are created to be overcome )

[misinai]

This statement of yours is great, indepentdently of music.

[gerhold101]

Educating to listen! This sounds like a politico/cultural diktat! When I first heard Rakhmaninoff's 2nd PC I was enraptured - I didn't need to be educated to listen to it or love it. I was profoundly emotionally affected and I'm just as moved by Joni Mitchell or Brian Wilson. 'One hopes that the more easily accessible melodies lead to a widening interest but these elitist opinions prove a need within those who consider themselves superior to evidence it by the music they 'like'.

[ViktorDragmire]

I can't listen to anything but orchestrated music anymore, I move with the rhythm just as much as the artists themselves. There needs to be more artists...

[voxhunden]

We (in the West) live in a market economy, in which only that what people want sells. So following your reasoning, apparently the majority of people don't WANT to be educated. And it's their democratic right!

[HAMayoral]

I disagree. It´s not that they don´t want to be educated, they simply live in a lie and think they´re already educated.

[ciaobebbo050]

very well said. they live under the illusion that school gives culture. It doesn't, it just gives a very vague introduction to some very basic areas of culture.

[peterlunow]

and Abbado does a GREAT job here

[Deathyman]

The piano's tone is disgusting.