(HQ) Transcendental Etude No.9, Ricordanza (Berezovsky)

Transcendental Etude No.9 in A-flat major, "Ricordanza"

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• ricordanza
• chopin

[maia1759]

Hey, people, of course he is sweating, he is a russian pianist.

Every temperature ober 0 C can get him to sweat!

I love his playing but not very much his taste for repertoire. He always choses very difficult pieces because if he plays that in a mechanic way no one would ever notice because everyone is distracted by the rapidly ascending and descending scales as well as by the massive chords.

True or not?

[celach]

@maia1759 Your opinion is neither true nor false.

[pierolivier111]

You mean you don't really know.

[celach]

@pierolivier111 Opinions are just that - opinions. There's no facts in them - there's nothing to not know.

[henseltetude]

awful.... Arrau is thousand times better... where is the "Cantabile" , Mr. Berezovsky? the first part is really bad... he just play softly.. but that is not enough...

[celach]

He does appear to be severely bored during the performance, but I wouldn't say that it's an awful one. He especially plays the ending passages very delicately.

Though I have never preferred this etude, so I suppose I couldn't judge.

[folopo2]

whoever called this guy (or his style) mechanical, has clearly no idea of what playing the piano actually is.

instead of giving attention to this, i stay with the music.

5 thousand stars...

[addeex1]

Omg it looks like he´s taken a bath with clothes! :O Anyway, incredible<3

[MastodonRockss]

He's sweating so much, but he makes it look so effortless. I wonder if by drinking his sweat I could play the piano better.

[CaptainColon]

@celach Perhaps he shares your opinion...I kind of felt like this particular piece was almost skippable as well and it's almost like he agrees.

[spartan1081990]

3:47 and up it's so magical, the transition is just unexpected

[skyd171]

@skyd171 e.g. 1:35

[skyd171]

A lot of people here comment on the sweating. They think the pianist is sweating because of overactive sweat glands. This is ridiculous. A quick glance at the audience, which is shown several times, reveals that many of them are fanning themselves furiously. Clearly there was an issue with temperature regulation, yet Berezovsky played through this technicality and shined regardless.

[PrincessDesert]

@maia1759 I think 4:11-4:31 proves what you're trying to say...to me it's the most important part of the etude, and he skims through it without enough attention, just to show he can be fundamentally fast yet not essentially focused

[Bochum96]

What's up with No. 10?

[liszt141]

@JazzAce340 Especially with, Preludio, Fuseetes, Paysage, Mazzepa, Feux Follets, Vision, Eroica, Wilde Jagd, Ricordanza, Appasionata, Harmonies Du Soir, and Chasse-neige :).