Prokofiev piano sonata no 7

First movement

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• Glenn
• Gould

[hoiszhdfoifh22]

@sacramushmygoat I think, on the contrary, sometimes Prokofiev surpasses Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff was definitely the master of late Romanticism, but there's emotions that are inaccessible to him because of his foundation in the romantic musical language that Prokofiev can pull off perfectly. Rachmaninoff could never have created a work containing the same emotions as Prokofiev's second concerto. But they're both more awesome than a robot dinosaur fighting a giant Gregory House.

[vincentizghra]

@sacramushmygoat I don't know, my chaotic mind praises prokofiev before rachmaninoff.

[1862Debussy]

@joboy1992jesto Right! XD

[joboy1992jesto]

@1862Debussy lol u used headphones right?? i heard it too

[1862Debussy]

Glenn Gould sings when he plays

[dialecticon]

What a fantastic interpretation!! Thank you so much for uploading!

[slateflash]

this movement is amazing. the 3rd movement in comparison to this is a tad disappointing but still enjoyable

[Cancrizans]

@hoiszhdfoifh22 well said...I think they are both great but different...I mean there is so much wonderful music that gets no attention because our general approach is to always look for "the greatest" or "the successful". It seems to me to be a weird situation where we can't really relate to the emotional(for lack of a better word) forces that create music so there is this overdeveloped academic pursuit that hypercategorizes music in a falsely historical context and we have ended

[Cancrizans]

up with the repercussions of this academic fantasy as the basis of how we listen to western so called classical music...that's how we ended up with the ridiculously academic "classical music" of the later half of the 20th century and the 21st...it makes no sense to consider it in the same breath as Bach Mozart or Beethoven because it is more of an academic study of what we call classical music than a genuine expression of the deep humanity that produced the music we call "classical".

[Cancrizans]

Anyway, I think Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Richard Strauss and perhaps Hindemith and people opf his generation were the last genuine classical composers. I can appreciate a lot of what falls under the modern classical category intellectually...but it really isn't the same thing, and I wish people would stop pretending it is.

[justmartha]

oh silly me. prokofiev did write it exactly half a bar missing just for that bar!! oh miracle lol

[justmartha]

I love this playing. But I'm quite sure he skipped time equivalent to half a bar at 0:34 . hehe

But strangely the effect sounds really good.