(Paleczny)Chopin Polonaise Op. 53

played by Piotr Paleczny after winning the second runner-up in the 1970 Competition. He was also the winner of the "Polonaise Prize."

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[davidgray2]

Is it just me who thinks this really harsh and explosive sound is very exciting and appropriate?!

[musicist001]

The sound is horrible, but the interpretation is fantastic!

[fredericfranc]

@rigel48 ...Paleczny I would not call a "natural chopinist" because of his dry tone, I was trying to make the point that this perf is compatible with the chopinesque maestoso-polonaise "solemn-reserve" conception that they beat into you in the "Polish School" training that he got. The much older Paleczny cranks back on the harshness, as might be expected, THAT perf is here too...

[rigel48]

@fredericfranc If it is that you call a natural chopinist, I can't see what you may reproach to Horowitz or Argerich. I have rarely heard the beginning played so harsh, and the left hand octaves without any care for Chopin marking p and SOTTO VOCE !

Horowitz is much more careful and majestic (and of course Rubinstein).

[fredericfranc]

@rigel48 ...Paleczny does not play it faster than Horowitz or Argerich, and one can argue that the spirit of the interpretation is definitely not con brio or con spirito, that it is extraordinarily reserved and solemn, which is what maestoso is all about, what is unusual is the ferocious, unforgiving sound, but that is Paleczny for you, and his Polish School bacground, in Poland, when playing Ch. you are supposed to kick ass...

[rigel48]

What is the tempo and spirit of this work ? Allegro con brio? Allegro con spirito ? Allegro con fuoco ? No. Chopin headed it "MAESTOSO".

I am not sure that it is what we can hear on this video. The sound is also awful !

[yoshitaka871]

気持ちわるい・・・

[MaxximusDecimus]

@musicist001

It's one of my favourites interpretation, first after Blechacz interpretation's

[fredericfranc]

@Hitherto90 ...a technical query...I am very fond of this recording, but...the earlier commentators have alleged that the sound might have been "electronically jiggered" (perhaps by the Polish counterpart of the KGB, this is a Communist-era recording after all, and the Communists did allegedly use music in their propaganda efforts)...i.e. do you really think this piano is "tuned differently" or it is "something else" going on here?...

[Hitherto90]

Piano is tuned differently than I've ever heard the Heroique played. Cool.

[fredericfranc]

@kasyapa ...I deliberately ignore the standard protocols of the Internet texting and use the caps in place of punctuation, because here you lose the effect of punctuation...I behave too much "like a musician"(?)...don't worry about the KGB...but the question is does it really sound like somebody "engineered the sound to increase the impact" because usually, if you try to do this, you decrease the impact, and here the music really "works"...you want to think...not an easy question to answer..

[kasyapa]

@fredericfranc so much YELLING.