Bolet - Chopin Sonata No. 3, 1st mvmt
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The episode at 3:33 is not a memory lapse, but the version offered by the 1845 Meissonier Edition.
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MY goodness! So rich!
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I love the way George played the music lines and showed the impressions of the componist
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my teacher's teacher :-)
this is a powerful performance.
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my teacher's teacher :-)
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Simply exemplary. The only performance on the same grandiose scale is Lipatti's... both are powerful and affecting, though they take rather different approaches.Beautiful Baldwin D as well -- not entirely unlike my own instrument!
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05:35 is quite remarkable. Few others highlight the change from the LH to RH in the way Bolet does. there is always a great variation in tiny details like that.
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@soami2u: I think, save for a time-limit, there is NO excuse to not do the repeat. That is what got Perahia into a conversation backstage with Richter at a concert.
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hahaha Bolet and a mistake? come on people this is Bolet! One of the best pianist with the best technique!!
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@AkaMouTinn Your assertion about how Chopin should be played is, again, unfounded. Haven't you heard that he angrily told Liszt to stop adding to his music when Liszt started modifying tempi and improvising? Chopin is not "feelings and improvisation". For Rubinstein, it was poise and elegance. Chopin played in a strict classical style too -- the style of beethoven -- where he refrained from any stylization. Also, please do not personally attack me -- it does not aid your argument.
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@AkaMouTinn That's ironic, because the most frequent criticism of Bolet (read early reviews) was his focus on virtuosic technique. If you judge technique better than a professional critic, maybe I'll believe you. And besides, this is not at all full of mistakes --it's been pointed out that this is a rare edition he is playing.
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Typical Bolet - a bit too clean and a bit too elegant and a bit too deliberate and a bit too self-conscious. Otherwise, an exemplary performance!
lourak 4 years ago
Too deliberate--much like your comment. Otherwise, an exemplary observation!
medpiano 4 years ago 12