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One of the best performances of this piece on YouTube, perhaps the best (and that includes the old masters...) What a glorious rendition, drawing attention to every detail, color and phrasing in a most natural and therefore musical way. Nothing is getting lost or ignored, but every note is played...

Sokolov is the most magnificent musician of our time. Whether he's performing Stravinsky, Brahms or whomever, he is able to convey the deepest, darkest, most private, the most profound human emotions conceived by the composer using his brilliant technique for that sole purpose.

This live performance proves, once again, the magnificent musicianship and mastery of Grigori Sokolov. The music goes to the very core of human emotions, and Sokolov uses his brilliant technique, part of which, of course is the ability to create a superb color palette, for the sole purpose of con...

There's Sokolov, and then there are all the rest.

Grigori Sokolov is the most magnificent musician of our time. Along with only perhaps Krysztian Zimerman, he truly lets the the music speak and uses his formidable technique only to translate it to direct, powerful emotions. It is so amazingly wonderful...

This is a cult classic! It becomes amazingly awesome in its total absurdity! They are so innocent it's actually very touching.

Your explanation of breaking down the run is appreciated. However, it would be great if you kept the names of the notes in the key of B flat instead of calling a note e.g. C# when it's really Db and so on to stay faithful to the key in which you're forming the run.

One should not put Sokolov and Lang Lang even in the same sentence. Sokolov is the greatest musician of our time. Lang Lang is, at best, a showman. (See the grotesque video of LL playing this Prokofiev 3rd mvt at some world economics conference.)

Yes, Sokolov is the greatest musician of our time. Not only intellectually, but he knows how to channel warmth, tragedy, love, longing, playfulness and so forth in the most profound way, not to mention his fantastic technical ability, which is always in the service of music.

Yes, Sokolov is the greatest musician of our time. Not only intellectually, but he knows how to channel warmth, tragedy, love, longing, playfulness and so forth in the most profound way, not to mention his fantastic technical ability, which is always in the service of music.

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Hahahahahahahaha. Hilarious!!

Woo-hoo-hoo-hahahahaha. To laugh or cry, that is the question. Her "performance" sandwiched by the announcer and the audience cheering is just beyond belief. But, it inspired soooo many really funny comments. Thanks all!

Fabulous natural! Like Carlos Kleiber.

hahahahahahaha! pandemicflu.guff LOL