Lev Oborin plays Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23

Chopin - Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Recording 1950s

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• oborin
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• classical

[AdaPianoSchool]

It is the best performance of this composition!

Thank you very much.

[pjioayncoe]

After hearing so many versions of this ballade and then listening to this, it all of a sudden made sense. Oborin's "straightforwardness" is strangely haunting and immensely beautiful.

Thank you Truecrypt.

[bach5861]

Russian piano school is THE BEST!!!

[Bruce88keys]

I heard Lev Oborin at the newly opened Lincoln Center at what was then called 'Philharmonic Hall' he played a Beethoven Concerto with Bernstein & the NYPhil-

I guess alot other people heard him too-:)

[SkylarkUtopian]

Oborin is so awesome!

I feel sorry for that I cannot get so many CD he plays.

Usually, Chopin's music give me much pain or sorrow.

But Oborin's performance is different.

His performance just give me impression and something positive.

That is why I think Oborin is one of the outstanding greatest pianists.

[SkylarkUtopian]

super excellent performance!!!

it sounds so noble , pure, and positive...not so emotional.

i love works like this.

[SurvivingBear]

@themindandmusic

I used the term "control" to mean two different things: (a) "Chopin controlled the technique totally" = Chopin possessed all the necessary knowledge and technical competence; (b) ".... only the first is "controllable"..." = I meant that only the first parametre, that of improving technique competence, is really possible to practice effectively; while the other two parametres can be cultivated, but they cannot be "forced to happen".

[themindandmusic]

@SurvivingBear I agree with most of what you're saying. But when you talk about about control in your sentence - do you mean that it's impossible to be controlled by teachers, conservatories, external people? Or do you mean it's impossible to be controlled by one's own self, internally?

[SurvivingBear]

@acortot

Yes, I understand. I feel that Paderewski, Liszt, and Chopin were geniuses. They controlled technique totally, then they had a very strong intellect to conceive of musical meaning or rather of meaning in musical terms, and finally they possessed the gift to express this meaning through sound. Maybe, from these three parametres only the first is controllable to "reproduce" by training, the second can be cultivated, promoted, but not forced, and the third is even less in our control.

[acortot]

@SurvivingBear Yes it's not only technique. Today's teaching method is rooted in following rigid directives. You have the schools which are often more audible than the pianist..

what school did Paderewski belong to? How about Liszt or Chopin?

[SurvivingBear]

@acortot

Yes and no. I have been thinking about what you are saying. Good music is good music I agree, even if , to most of us, classical music requires more involvement as truecrypt writes below. However, I cannot agree that today's music education is only about technique. I think in any profession / vocation, if we radically separate content from form competence, we end up in flops. I guess there is bad and good music education like in all fields... .