Repin and Lugansky Play Franck Sonata mov.4

[StarRadiance]

Give me chills every time I listen to it

[jin12345678]

amazing rapport and understanding between piano and violin!!! what a fantastic performance!!

[noolsy]

Ah, in this performance, I feel like I can begin to understand how something so delicate and sweet drove Proust to spout off 4000 pages about beauty and life and death.

[isolani]

Bien melifluente, un placer oir una y otra vez

[brahmsian1steve]

i fucking love this cant stop istenign to it...!!!!!!!!

[brahmsian1steve]

stunning...

[windstorm1000]

Lovely canon--the melody is so childlike--not easy to compose.

[violinoamore]

Beautiful but a bit too fast and hasty (especially piano)

[Zuxilbaja]

I'd like to use words to express my feelings, but they could bring no justice to this interpretation.

[lmfviolet78]

there's something so passionate and appealing about this movement! i love it! it goes perfectly with the color and smell of the daffodils next to me.

[Mezzotenor]

Noted that this is now on DG.  Thanks, fellow music fans!

[IVlr3vil]

Lugansky, what monstrous talent, he wasn't even looking at the music most of the time. Notice how he doesn't even respond to the page turner as she just turns it for him. I guess it's not surprising since he memorized a Rachmaninoff concerto in three days and performed much more technically difficult works before.

[pianistpedro]

I have to play it but...I'm not LUGANSKY!!! He is the best! And this Violin sonata is brillant!

[baiba6]

Saw Mr Repin playing live in ChCh - unbelieveably amazing

[Tjid7ske]

The entire sonata by Franck are breathtakingly beautiful played!!



[juliayclruss]

Mezzotenor---the recording is now available in UK, by DG (4778794)

[enma15ai]

the best

[violinoamore]

Very nice, but tiny bit too fast for me ... It loses its majesty a bit ...

[xujia1001]

The ending is so lovely! I just loved the way Lugansky sort of jumped!!!

[Pianista061292]

I love the 3:15 - 4:08 part.........it is simply strong, beautiful and lyric....this part dosen't have words or feelings to be explained...

[ConservatoryGuy]

What's that going on in the piano part at 4:54??

[tirolerhut79]

@ConservatoryGuy Lugansky slipped over a wrong note. I take it with Horowitz who said: its the good right of the genius to play some wrong notes.

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@tirolerhut79 "its the good right of the genius to play some wrong notes" Rather vain!

[tirolerhut79]

@th3wing3dpaint3r so whats your point? Lugansky is a great artist and has the right to behave like a great artist, compared to a note-perfect computer. (same sense in other words)

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@tirolerhut79 I was obviously referring to Horowitz's alleged quote. That's sort of why I wrote it between quotation marks...to clarify exactly which part I thought was vain.

[cakiefuti]

Excellent interplay between piano and violin, a true collaboration.

[powerpiano]

wow, Golden sound !!

[bramobali]

Amazing.

[sofronitsky80]

this is the best in youtube..

[danielito1979]

Repin is simply superb, but somebody needs to say here that the piano part is beyond difficult not only technically but also musically. Lugansky's musicianship is what I enjoyed the most. Bravo Maestri

[h4x3dby1337]

@danielito1979 indeed, the piano part is obscenely difficult. The violin gets the lines, the piano gets the notes.

[MoesTube1]

@h4x3dby1337 Yeah I always bowed then stepped back and applauded my pianist after playing this. I was lucky enough to play a lot of the big sonatas with the same pianist Franck, Brahms, Grieg, Faure, etc it's a joy to work with someone who can play these montrous piano parts and play them well.

[ThorgarManowar]

I love Repin's suond in this movement... both powerful and extremely expressive! Luganski also plays very well, the basses are well-defined, the phrasing is really easy to understand, though the music is not easy at all, like almost every French late-romantic composition... Wonderful!

[yoonjuli]

There's also a bit of child-like naiveness in Vadim Repin's sound in this particular movement. This is how it's supposed to sound like! Except for the pianist, i don't particularly like him...if not to say, I don't ..like him:)

[clem4705315]

no likey lugansky? this is actually one of the best piano part done i've ever heard. he reacts really well to the easy part of the violin. E-A-S-Y

[JEP177777]

Lugansky does a great job -- great dynamic contrast and ensemble, melodic. This is a very brisk interpretation!

[BeammeupSpotty]

I just listened to many of the postings of the Frank 4th movement by other performers and I like this one the most. It seems cleaner, better recorded, but most of all it's faster and is better articulated..... oh and the pianist can play too!!!

[marcin8942]

Very good violinist  ,interesting interpretation and wonderful sound of his instrument Great performance .Thank You Greetings Martin

[robynsalain]

merveilleuse sonate;merveilleusement exécutée !!

[Mezzotenor]

The "all's right with the world" sweetness at the start is just perfect; too bad that other violinists make this so strident. Later, when the music requires a bit more muscle, both players have it in abundance. All in all, a most artistic performance, and it PAINS me not to be able to find this recording to purchase online!

[chopin2815]

@Mezzotenor  Just released on Deutsche Grammophon. Hooray

[nvcaster]

@Mezzotenor ; Repin and Lugansky recorded this and other sonates with Deutsche Grammophon... I don't think the recording of the concert is available. It would interest me too... their interpretation of "Fratres" is wonderful!

[robinleems]

@Mezzotenor They have just recently recorded this sonata. You can happily purchase the CD now!

[Zuxilbaja]

@robinleems Oh, is that so ? I'll certainly go look for it.

[powerpiano]

really great...

[Masmorra84]

great great duo

[tonecolor]

Impeccable phrasing, gorgeous tone and the music spoke!!!

[Volodya1988]

Great, both.