Sultanov : Chopin Sonata #3 4th mov

recorded from 13th Chopin competition (1995)

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• Alexei
• Sultanov
• Chopin
• Sonata
• #3

[hlpianin]

only 2

[alexongcs]

The best i ever heard. Sultanov is one of the best!!!!!!

[bibinetanya]

wow, how many hands has he got?

[RareClassicalGuitars]

Sultanov could toy with the most difficult parts like no other ! A true artist with a extreme gift !

[fledgehog]

sultanov is the only player i've found who makes a big enough deal (imo) over the final entrance of the theme at 3:40. I've heard a whole variety of recordings of this piece thousands of times over, and yet every time i get to that cadenza at 3:23 in this recording, it has me sitting at the edge of my seat until the end.

[fredericfranc]

...generally agree with Mr.umdala that this interpretive bear of a movement is done here kind of gorgeous to great effect, and,as usual, Sultanov does it in the craziest way possible: he sounds like he is on drugs, and his technique sucks too, as usual, no matter...other renditions of this bizarre mov't worth checking: Lipatti (obviously!), Pogorelich, Bozhanov...tried to find Francois Duchable doing this here, no freaking luck...

[umdala]

The piece, almost more than any other, separates the men from the boys, so to speak: it's hard enough to play it well - I know first hand - but making each of the three reoccurences of the theme distinct while making it seem more intense than the last, is a feat, and the finale is like the sun coming through after a storm and is often lacking in glory. Sulttanov does this piece justice. Find Ducable's for the most amazing performance by someone almost no one seems to know about.

[fledgehog]

lol, people think there's too much rubato. umm...no. no need to play it absolutely metronoically. and if you want to hear "too much" rubato listen to samson francois (whos recording i adore, but he lays on the romanticism even more than sultanov)

[fredericfranc]

@steveaulie ...Brit commentators...like in the Grove...tend to be unkind to this movement...maybe I was too influenced...at fifteen, liked it the best of the four...but the older I got, the weirder it sounded...now I look for people who will say, hey, you got a point there...I always suspected it kinda sucked...but I guess you gotta be some kind of an overeducated musicologist to think like this, right?...they are kind of rare on the Tube...

[steveaulie]

@fredericfranc You're an idiot. This is a masterpiece.

[fredericfranc]

In my book, this movement is a near failure by the composer, like what software did he use to pull it together?, so for the pianist the challenge is to try to make it sound like it is not CGM, Computer Generated Music, so one has to say this pianist here makes a pretty valiant attempt at livening it up, does he not? Like you don't have to say, this kind of rubato is OK, this is Chopin. It is more than rubato, it is desperation.

[steveaulie]

How sad he had pressures like that from those idiotic critics (critics: failed musicians). Josef Hoffman and Gilels were pretty small guys, too. Chopin never weighed over 100 lbs. Maybe the critics made idiotic remarks about them, too. Jerks!