Ⅱ Int'l Tchaik : Vladimir Ashkenazy
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best pianist of late 20th centurye noone plays rach like him.
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Why must I read about Lang Lang on every single piano concerto videos? Please, enough with this nonsensical monkey already.
11 months ago 4
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@billyguns2 I wholly agree, I heard him on more than one occasion during my music student years in London (1960s). Apart from his outstanding mastery of the instrument, I was impressed by the poetry and general expressiveness he brought to Chopin and other romantics and of course Rachmaninov. Having said that I recall a stunning Festival Hall performance of Prokofievs 2nd piano concerto around 1967 when he displayed dazzling virtuosity that served the music without false rhetoric.
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My God what a hell of a tempo he chooses,his playing is every bit as virtuosic as Richters.
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Incredible playing !!! the best !!!
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Thanks for the upload! Do you have any footage of John Ogdon (the man who tied Ashkenazy for first place) from the 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition?
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lang lang can never play, much less recorded even 10% of what Ashkenazy played and recorded
1 year ago 2
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Spectacular performance! How lucky that such recordings have survived to this day and have made it on to youtube even (thanks so much for posting!). How I wish they would have done a close-up of his hands during the coda so that I could marvel at the sepia-toned blur =).
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miraculous performance!!! the best performance of this piece that i've ever seen. sharp, dynamic, elegant at the same time. thanks for sharing!!!
1 year ago 4
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The young Ashkenazy was a titan, one of the truly great pianists; grab every recording he made in the 1950s and 1960s before they go out of print. None of his later work is on the level of creative genius of his earlier years. His Rachmaninoff 2nd with Kondrashin and Rach 3rd with Fistoulari or Ormandy are great, as well as his first solo albums for EMI. How marvelous to see this historic, exciting performance; many thanks for sharing it.
billyguns2 3 years ago 14
Marvelous, at his youthful best, a phenomenal player and musician. Later, moved to the West, he consiously rejected a lot of his russian, and even his Jewish heritage,(disgusted by the Soviet regime), consequently losing much spontaneity and inner passion, a great shame, altho he remained one of the finest players ever, with fantastic clarity of touch and honesty of interpretation.
fartlestucks 3 years ago 8