Ivo Pogorelich Plays Chopin Prelude Op. 45

Ivo Pogorelich Plays Chopin Prelude Op. 45 on June 8th, 1983 in Japan. lo-fi

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• Pogorelich
• Chopin
• Prelude

[Lebowski53]

He's got hands like bigfoot.

[TheWhale88]

PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dalecampbl8]

i love this piece so much...endless yearning

[tschaikowski]

@fledgehog Pogorelich has gone a path of discovery that also has been a bit experimental. He is trying to extract " music" to the maximum capacity out of the written notes. By stretching the musical material, there are indeed some new things to be found in there, but It's up for debate if humanity wants or needs to listen to his foundings. Still, I don't think his artistic integrity has ever been tainted. You need to learn more about art, culture and music before calling anything/anyone a joke.

[davidhertzberg]

Exquisite playing. I just uploaded a mid-1960s recording of this work performed by Fou Ts'ong, who plays this piece considerably faster than Pogorelich. Its a beautiful performance but not nearly as introspective as that delivered by Pogorelich. (My upload of Ivo's 1981 DG recording of Op. 45 - which is almost identical to that above - is here: youtube*com/watch?v=PTIow3oi8f­w)

[hfleung100]

@Lebowski53 Who cares about his hands? As long as beautiful music comes out of them, then they are gorgeous hands! ;)

[1Thompsonmusic]

This is not Chopin.

[Bodi99991]

@0911926166 I think there were political reasons involved in him being eliminated. Not sure though. It doesn't matter if he won or not because what Argerich did made him real famous

[0911926166]

@Bodi99991 why jury eliminated him in this competition???

[darkblueangel1956]

Bella lettura ma, ha fatto meglio e con più originalità nello Scherzo in do # min. op.39, nello Studio in sol # min. N. 6 dell'op. 25 e nella Sonata op. 35 in si bem. min. In questo splendido Preludio è un pò manieristico, quasi più liberty e "fauve" che romantico ! Ma si ascolta con un certo piacere.

[lenzub]

@fledgehog You're a joke lol. Go and play 1% of how good he is.

[fledgehog]

i wonder if some of the people praising his playing in general, as a whole, have heard some of his recent "interpretations" (10 minute long Brahms 118/2, 40 minute long Rachmaninoff Sonata 2, 10 minute Ondine, 20 minute Liszt Mephisto 1). No doubt in his prime he *was* a genius pianist, but sadly that is no longer the case. There's good reason that he doesn't get much attention any more, and that's because his playing has become a bit of a joke.