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Uploaded by on Nov 18, 2008

Mendelssohn/Rachmaninov: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Evgeny Kissin, live at the Royal Albert Hall, August 5th 2002.

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  • the jews of europe would have made an INCREDIBLE contribution in nearly every field had the catholics not exterminated a great many of them. What a shame.

  • @thegreatestbak

    Go study, kiddo!

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  • Amazing how inspiration makes such a circuit. Shakespeare inspires Mendelssohn, who inspires Rachmaninoff, who inspires Kissin (all of whom happen to be geniuses), who inspires us all via youtube--400 years after Shakespear's lifetime, by a manner he could never could have imagined. Note the date & place... wish I could have been in London on that particular midsummer night to hear it live. Much thanks to Thetunr for posting it for us!

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  • @bontempo01 Just heard Costa's rendition, it is great, TY. I prefer Kissin's, and IMO the two a notch above all are Rach's and Jung Lin's on this, just listen to their tone it's beautiful.

  • @03mbk30 I think you may be overlooking the rendition of Sequeira Costa (here on Youtube)... a notch above Jung Lin's IMO (not that her performance isn't amazing too).

  • @hilocomtoot Rach does own this, the one other that's as good is Jung Lin's at the IKIF. Kissin's is brilliant technically.

  • @concerto35 You want more bloodshed and call that justice?

    Let us for once get rid of this medieval idea of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. You are obviously pro Jew/Israel. Fine, then let them show that they can make better choices than humanity has made in the past. Let their gesture be one of forgiving instead of more hatred.

    Why you'd make an issue of this on a video of a genius playing mendelssoh & rachmaninov is beyond me by the way.

  • @thegreatestbak : The Crucades, the Inquisition and WWII are a blotch on humanity. Someday, there will be retribution for this. This is the law of reciprocity - whatever a man soweth, so shall he reap.

    The Jews will finally come fully into their own, as they are the benefactors of an eternal covenant. All Israel will be saved!!!

  • Very good indeed ! Vladimir Askhenazy also has a nice version of it (I don't think it is on youtube) on a CD of Rachmaninoff's transcriptions that I recommend !

  • PERFECT!!

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