Sergei Rachmaninoff -Concerto no.4 op.40 II -Tempo- Benedetti Michelangeli(1957)
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@CoolCurzon - Do not agree,...
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@moiAntonin --- DO NOT AGREE AT ALL,.... Michelangeli was a good pianist,... not a great one, in my opinion, and certainly NOT a great musician,... Arrau was greater in EVERY aspect, i.e. technically, musically, artistically and spiritually,... I cannot think of 1 single piece that Michellangeli plays better than Arrau
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@moiAntonin How true!
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I heard this recording when it came out in 1958. I thought then, and still do, that it was the best playing of rach I had ever heard. And yes, michelangeli was the greatest classical pianist of the 20th century and up to today. anyone who compares the clown Horowitz ,the show off Kissin or the flamboyant argerich with this man knows nothing about pianism. as for van cliburn, if he hadn't won a competition in russia during the cold war no one would ever have heard of him.
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fantastic
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This version is from 1941, and the recording is from 1958. Conductor: Ettore Gracis.
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@CoolCurzon Are you aware that you typed IMO after "widely considered to be the greatest performance of piano music ever recorded"? Did Horowitz's recording of the Rach 3 with Mehta, Argerich's recording of the Schumann concerto, Cliburn's with Tchaikovsky, Kissin's Rach 2, Michelangeli's first Liszt concerto, all those suddenly ceased to exist?
Not to dispute this recording's greatness, but misleading people like that is wrong.
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ABM's performance of the R4 is widely considered to be the greatest performance of piano music ever recorded. IMO, it is the musical equivalent of the Sistine Chapel. Everything about this performance is astonishing. The amazing virtuosity, the sublime artistic expression. No other pianist has ever reached the level ABM reached in this performance.
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Rachmaninoff ' melodies are so gorgeous! Wonderful and very sincere music with so much passion and emotion!i It comes from the heart and goes to heart ...
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suffused with magic, didn't know ABM could get carried away by the melifluous romanticism of this concert. Yet it is his very calculated restraint that makes him so effective, and his icy-secure technique. Plus he must have worked quite a bit on adjusting the keyboard before making this recording!
1926 is the year when Rachmaninoff completed this concert.
miliona1re 2 years ago