Stravinsky-Sokolov

i. stravinsky Petrouchka: chez petrouchka
g. sokolov

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• stravinsky
• petrushka
• sokolov

[billyguns2]

Sokolov should be a household name; he plays with technical mastery, but always in the service of the music. Just listen to the colors, shapes and phrasing here! I find the largely unmusical Pollini's fame hard to comprehend.

[applebest]

What's the importance of one note in the middle of milions play so well??

Sokolov is the best pianist ever!!!

[MrPeterJohnston]

@billyguns2 WHAT?!? Are you kidding me? Pollini is one of the most musical pianists out there... And although I didn't think this video sucked... but it certainly wasn't brilliant. The theatrics of this performance however made it rather hard to watch.

Sorry - but considering I've hear Sokolov BUTCHER Rachmaninoffs 3rd Piano concerto - I can honestly say - I'm not surprised why.

[darkblueangel1956]

Basta ascoltare Maurizio Pollini per capire la differenza, anche solo per la varietà di timbro nella indipendenza fra le voci ! Sono in tanti che eseguono Petrouchka di Stravinsky, ma esiste un abisso fra un bravo pianista e un genio dell'interpretazione !!!

[senna01]

@Hervinbalfour

Excuse my musical illiteracy, but what do you mean by "colors" in this case? Would you know what the other guy meant by "shapes" ?

[billyguns]

@MISHA1119 I have long suspected that there are other forces at work behind the scenes, choosing which performing musicians are awarded all the fame and perks. This is certainly true in the small "musical chairs" world of conductors, shutting out competition and recognition for all for a few; why not pianists and other instrumentalists? What decides whom is to be so favored? Certainly not talent!

[MISHA1119]

@billyguns2 Yes, Sokolov has a fiery intensity, no limits technically, and an iridescent sound with twenty shades of pianissimo. Pollino has a clear, powerful mechanism, but his sound is cold. Sokolov, magical and sublime, is driven by the search for transcendence that gives art meaning. Pollini trudges to the keyboard not to make paradise flow through his hands, but to open his tool box and hack out repairs. It is a monstrous injustice that the bovine herds worship Pollini and not Sokolov.

[freeqwerqwer]

It's too bad that this great performance was recorded with poor video and poor audio

[Hervinbalfour]

This is the best interpretation on YT. I thought Natalia Trull's was the best but damn! The virtuosity is ridiculolous. And the colors that he produces are absolutely beautiful.

[dgaranin]

I heard Taverna's performance but I would not say it approaches to Sokolov's level.

[chopinist]

what i really like about this recording is the old sound touch

[chad410]

it is a sad world that is starved for example the Soviet forgotten pianists of an era , because of dictators , some of the greatest were neber known to us in the west. Example Ginsburg, Nasedkin