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Gilels "owns" this concerto.... so many recordings by him of no. 4..... all of them leaps and bounds beyond anything else recorded since then....

Barenboim, even Richter--who never recorded or performed (guess why?)-- this concerto, have miles of emotional/intellectual territory to travel to ge...

Shost. best p&f combo, given here the BEST performance you'll ever hear. Similar phen. interpretation on a Phillips CD. Jarrett's great too, but not in the same league for this stuff. Mind you, listen to Jarrett's Handel Suites: perfection unmatched, to date, at least.

I'm a Bach guy now; but seriously, I know this piece very well, and I hear some pretty phenomenal technique by any measure. It's not Richter, but in time I can see the same talent evolving.

Gee this is the best version up so far. Beats the 500,000 ver with the big face!

Too fast, too choppy, too crude,... not his bag...

WOW... love that instrument...

There are SO many astonishing pianists out there these days, all competing for a bit of the limelight. It's hard. But this guy has one thing--no, make that 2 things--going for him that MOST out there don't: chops (Sviatoslav Richter-like), and interpretation/feeling/emotion/risk-taking.

So,...

The Hailun 218 is a piano phenomenon, but you would never know from this recording. Great playing, great piano, terrible recording equipment.

What mic(s) were used to make this recording? No 212 I've ever played had this kind of exquisite tone.

Beautiful, beautiful playing/interpretation. Hey... but some of the unisons on the (Steinway) D need tuning up!!!

Richter (S) certainly accomplishes the impossible with so much in Book 1, especially the difficult fugues! But can't really compare the Richter BOS, recorded at a distance, to a close-up and personal Gould recording on, well, an entirely different instrument!!

This prelude can, I suppose, be played in many, many different ways! The polyphony is, or can be, completely transparent at lower tempi. But after years of playing it, myself, I think it benefits from a relatively strict and "quick" tempo! Still, great to hear an emotional reading!

So weird, isn't it? That one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, recording of the greatest solo cello music ever created should get soooo little attention here at YouTube.....