Chopin Etude op.25 no.11 "Winter Wind"

Winterwind Etude

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Music

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• Winter
• Wind
• Winterwind
• Chopin
• Etude
• 25
• 11

[MrMapleUniverse]

at 0:28

If you listen really carefully, a second playing starts before he plays. :3

[TripleRhu]

@brassmonkeyjew is music all about speed? CZIFFRA could have played this faster, but to make the piece more musically understandable and pleasant, he slowed down.

[chrish12345]

@MrMapleUniverse it proves he's miming

[1Thompsonmusic]

This is terrible. This is not Chopin. When these Russian fools play Chopin they mess around with it and it just doesn't have the same power as what it does when they just play it straight, as it's written.

[amitelk]

@MrMapleUniverse playback O:

[Pianoguy32]

@UrbanVivaldi true because val is a robot

[florian5193]

@UrbanVivaldi It sure is! Richter is a legend!

[UrbanVivaldi]

This is better than Valentina Lisitsa's version

[janvandoedelpuk]

@marcelmombeekpiano I can understand if you take someone like Cziffra as your guide in music, Richter must seem cold. With Cziffra you get overexposed to a syle of playing that is always trying to milk every phrase for every last drop of expression. You have developped a thick skin because of it. For me it is just to much if a pianist treats every single phrase like it is the ultimate orgasm. Expression is much wider in range then that.

[GodGiftedMusician]

@marcelmombeekpiano Well, how about leaving those kinds of negative comments to be made by people who have achieved the same level he has? Do you think that any of those that you named would have said the same? I know that pianists have been know to claim being the best, but I do not think the destroy one another... How then can we attempt to tear them down when we but very little experience in these areas which they are masters of?

[GodGiftedMusician]

@marcelmombeekpiano If you are being serious, than that's sad. First off, that you'd have the gall to insult a great pianist like that. Secondly, that you would be that disrespectful to someone who has undoubtedly excelled in an area of trade in which you are ignorant. Please be respectful to someone who has earned their place in greatness as a musician first, and secondly a pianist.

[GodGiftedMusician]

Does anyone else notice the high descending part starting before he ever gets there? Right at 0:27? Either Richter has powers that I didn't know about, or there is an audio overlap or something. Interesting sound!