Rachmaninoff Prelude in G Major, Opus 32 No. 5 - Svetlana Belsky

Performance by Dr. Svetlana Belsky, Coordinator of Piano Studies, The University of Chicago, www.svetlanabelsky.com, Produced using ImmersAV Technology. Combines Point of View Binaural Audio and HD 1080P 30fps Video, Produced by Robert B. Schulein, RBS Consultants-Schaumburg, Illinois, schulein@ameritech.net, ImmersAV Technology is a trademark of RBS Consultants

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[jamesnpiano]

I just loved your performance dear Svetlana. I'm working on this prelude right now and your rendition has inspired me greatly! This prelude is pure magic...one listens to it and becomes capable of traveling far, far away. :)

[chuannenglee]

@bartlettgiles Thank you for this insight.

[weirdywithabeardy]

I couldn't stop watching...

[bartlettgiles]

@enolte52 Everything needs context. She had worked a full day, then came and performed at a meeting of the Audio Engineering Society (where she performed brilliantly) until late, and then after that, when it was very late, she indulged the impromptu request of Bob Schulein to allow him to make a recording with his system. This performance was about Schulein's system. Had it been about her, this is not when the recording would have been made.

[enolte52]

She plays beautifully, but she trips and almost falls off the keyboard when the opening theme returns at measure 28. She gets lost, inserts a confused measure in which she starts to play the double notes that appear in the right hand at measure 37, then ambles back to the right place. Everybody makes mistakes in live performance, but in a recording she should take the time to give a rendition that is not so flawed. A teacher should set a better example for her students.

[whateveritsnoyes]

@shilloshillos

This I unfortunately agree with. I say unfortunately because her interpretation doesn't bother me much but it lacks the depth and character of Richter's and the faithfulness of performances like Horowitz's. Then again, this woman isn't Richter or Horowitz. It is unfair, in a sense, to compare her at all. But still, 'little sense of continuity and melodic direction' is spot on.

[whateveritsnoyes]

@shilloshillos

Not everyone can afford an acoustic piano. Why despite digital (electric) pianos? They clearly aren't real pianos but they sound decently similar to them and almost feel like them. And they are ESSENTIALLY the same thing.. A digital piano doesn't cease to be piano because it doesn't have strings. Sorry, it's your opinion and I respect it, I just don't understand or agree with it. It seems an unnecessary thing to despise.

[Wat3rm3lons]

so. hard. to. memorize. this. freaking. piece. :(

[FreddysHamster]

@shilloshillos I totally agree! Electric pianos are the devil and are such hideous disgusting things! You really aren't worth typing to.....

[shilloshillos]

@FreddysHamster One does not need to be a concert pianist to be able to criticize an interpretation. There are other qualifications that render such a criticism valid. And most of the time I praise people playing on youtube. Only on occasion I complain, and for the most part I don't even bother with amateurs. I listen to professional players. I have listened to your schumann interpretation. Only thing I will just say is that I despise electric pianos.