Grigory Sokolov Interview

Interview with Grigory Sokolov

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Pianist
• Russian
• Grigory
• Sokolov
• Chopin
• Tchaikovsky
• Haydn
• Mozart
• Franck

[lightsilverdust]

Oh, guys, sorry, I tried to post the translation, but the comment was way too long so I posted a few small pieces instead and I think some of them have dissapeared.

[bozotheda]

@lightsilverdust Thanks anyway for trying.

[tokamak116]

Thank you for this beautiful video! Does anyone know what Sokolov is playing from 7:06 to 7:36? please let me know

[bozotheda]

@tokamak116 Glad you like it. Not sure about the piece. Sounds like it might be something by Couperin.

[paolaalessandra12]

CAN ANYONE TRANSLATE IT,PLEASE???MANY OF US DON'T SPEAK THE RUSSIAN....

[uhfqacdfkml]

...I have to know exactly...I have to understand it as completly as possible, but maybe it´s interesting to understand me. Besides, I ´ve to choose the piano. Piano is an equal partner for me, it has own character, own habits und we have to find a way to understand each other.

2:37: I think a piano is similar to a humankind (livingthings). Unlike a violin, it can be ill, get old and finaly die, it´s very similar to people, one die in 20s, an another one in 40s, 50s, 60s and so on.

[titusbeertsen]

@uhfqacdfkml and @lightsilverdust , thank you so much for your translations. I had been wondering for a long time what Sokolov was saying here. Very interesting interview, and a giant musician. Thanks.

[uhfqacdfkml]

5:00:When I was 3-4 year old one realized that if I heard a musik somewhere I kept unmoved on a spot. We had a lot of musik record and as a child had a small chair and a stick and I directed all operas, ballets we had, than when I was about 4 yeas a musik teacher told to wait a year, thus I started to learn piano with 5 year. In the beginning I wanted to be a condactor, but than I only wanted to be a pianist.

[uhfqacdfkml]

4:20: A piano demands 20-21 degri. It´s like a child: you don´t know why it cries, what it hurts but you have to understand what it desturbs. Rarely you will find an instrument as widely in sound as simple in handling. The sportiest or "healthiest" pianos are not comfortable for me, they can not anything.

5:30: My parents weren´t professional musicians, my father played a violin a bit, but musik was always important in my family.

[uhfqacdfkml]

@paolaalessandra12

Ok, I can. He said:

0:30: In fact, we have a very strange profession, for we manage to understand thing which are theoretically not possible to understand and one´s also incapable to understand.

1:50: This day (the recital day) have to be without any events. Generaly I don´t like to have any "movements" on this day. Because of one simlpe reason: I have to investigate all possibilities of the piano, what it wants and what not. What I should tell to the technician to do.

[lightsilverdust]

Conductors, who truly love music are very very rare. I need a conductor who has a talent of accompaniment, because there is one interpretation in our relationship - it'smagic. And you know, the more a person has to say himself, the more interestingly he can accompany.