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@djmatz07 This is the Leeds competition of 2006. Kozhukhin won 3rd prize. He should have won first prize but that ghastly conductor Mark Elder brough the orchestra into the alla marcia section (6.15) at a ridiculously slower tempo than DK. I followed the whole competition and there was no doubt i...

I first heard him at the Leeds competition 4 years ago and was spellbound by his playing. He should have won that competition but the conductor of the concerto (Rach2) messed him up during the finals. His Prok 2 at the QE competition was truly great. He plays Haydn beautifully and Chopin. He is a...

@AulicExclusiva Ah now I understand! It's OK to be "not together" if it's a BENEFIT performance with only an audience of ignorant, rich matron-patrons paying outrageous ticket prices. They wouldn't hear the difference between "TOGETHER" and "NOT TOGETHER" anyway would they? But I agree about Be...

@billyguns2 I totally agree. For me Moseiwitsch is unsurpassed. Only Rachmaninoff is more authoratitive in Rach than he! What a beautiful sound. What ability to bring out inner melodies without disturbing the principle melody. What extraordinary ability to balance chords. What sheer musicianship!...

Sadly Moura Lympany never had the respect as a musician that she deserved. Was it because she was a woman & wore jewels and gowns when she played? I heard her many times 'in the flesh' and found her playing so deeply musical and techically impeccable. Her reputation has perhaps increased since he...

I really enjoyed that. You play with great musicianship. In my time I've played the Busoni, Reger, Tausig, Cortot & the Friedman! I really don't think you need those tremolos in your transcription, they're not necessary to sustain the sound on a good piano & they tend to sound like a silent-movie...

I have known Tureck's Partita performances on record since the 1960s and have never heard performances to surpass them. Nicolaeva was not in the same class, neither is Hewitt. Gould was brilliant and provocative, always intriguing, But it's still Tureck for me. You mention clarity and lightness -...

Thank you. You have done wonders. This is so interesting. A collector's item.

Indeed it is, although there is very little difference - only a note here or there. In the world of commercial music there would be accusations of plagiarism! Having played the Kempff, the Hess and the Harold Bauer transcriptions, I still prefer the Hess.

This is a truly beautiful performance. I first heard him play it as an encore at a recital and was captivated. I have yet to hear anyone who plays it with more lyricism, charm and - as another poster pointed out - "bounce"

@hellboyreloaded "The best"? I just hope Lupu, Anderszewski, Pollini, Kocsis, Schiff, Perahia, Argerich et al. are good losers!

This documentary is wonderful. Thank you so much for posting.

Just curious to know at what stage of his career he recorded this! Thanks for the info and the recording

It's sad that no one plays this concerto anymore. It's beautifully written, highly inventive with some gorgeous melodies

A beautiful perfomance. Until today I have never heard of ANSORGE. Any biographical details, anyone?

This is very fast. Respighi's MM is 50. This performance is round about MM 66. OK, so this performance slows up and speeds up when necessary (I prefer a steadier tempo), but at this speed the middle section just becomes a scramble. In contrast, the performance by Ibrahimi on YouTube is slow and d...

It was her recording of this concerto with Fricsay, which I heard as a teenager back in the sixties, that started my love affair with Bartok's music and which confirmed my admiration for Annie Fischer's playing. She was a great artist and her Bartok playing was beautiful. Thanks for posting this ...

Solti - a wonderful musician but what a domineering monster of a man.

@Zyghnwyr O for goodness sake! It was probably the last encore in the 'live' recital. I can't count how many recitals I've been to when the pianist has given a 'fast fun' performance of a virtuosic piece as an encore. Sokolow plays Chopin prelude 16 (on Youtube) so fast it's over before it start...

First of all Thanks for posting. Extremely interesting but in the end I think the arrangement is horrible and does no service at all to the symphony. The piano writing often sounds more like Bath's Cornish Rhapsody or The Warsaw Concerto, sometimes it's simply meretricious. The piano & orchestra ...

Beautiful polyphonic playing. Great sense of rhythm and of colour. I loved the performance,

How styles of playing change! In this 1920 performance there's tons of rubato, lots of left hand before right and chords arpeggiated. Very different from Hough's Carnegie Hall performance. But both are of their time and both are beautiful performances.

A wonderful transcription - less 'pure' than Tausig or Busoni (but so what since the music is not of the greatest?). But this transcription/arrangement is so full of colour and life and Cziffra is splendid.

Ravel marked the tempo as 76, you're playing it at around 88. If you slow down a tad, you'll be able to make the melody more smooth and lyrical. Why don't you play the rest of the piece in the Samazeuilh transcription, you obviously have a 'feel' for the work.

Beautiful playing. I always feel that Eileen Joyce (like Moura Lympany) was underrated as a musician. She played with such a beautiful tone andwith such easy flowing musicianship. It is a joy to hear her play.

@godzooke Where can I hear Julius Drake in this song and who is he accompanying?

Very fast. Very messy (more wrong notes in the last movement than right ones). But very exciting especially as it's a live performance.

@fierydog You're a pianist. So was I. However I wonder if you're a succesful PROFESSIONAL pianist in sufficient demand to choose or suggest what you play. If Radu Lupu decides he wants to play the Medtner concertos, If Horowitz decided to play the Poulenc Concerto, there's no promoter who would ...