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I only wish I could hear this recording. I can't tell because its too soft for me to 'get it'.

Is there another more accessible recording of this wonderful piece?

That's all what you can say about this production ? You do not deserve to listening Pletnev !

I will try to fix it 😄

don't worry about the sync, no one can see him playing anyway. The sound is good and his interpretation is amazing. Thank you very much.

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He is ... his own equal, I should say. Only when you come to the point you are able to perform like this, then you can bring your own ideas like he did. Yes, he's amazing.

304712 L absolutely agree! 10 minutes that leave the listener speechless with a sort of inner calm. Never heard the last few pages with intricate trills executed this way. Usually the trills dominate and are too loud- and the climax of the movement comes off as a bit too 'showy'. Here, Maestro Pletnev reveals the main melodic line as cries of anguish rather than the usual generalised over Rachmaninoved - Rachmaninoff. Brilliant interpretation, and very moving.

So you like this sonata I guess? O:) such a marvellous piece ...

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I don't like the cut. I think Rachmaninov knew what he wanted, and there is still plenty of room for interpretation without resorting to cuts.

Rachmaninov himself made cuts to this piece because of complaints from the composers he showed it to about its length. Sadly, we don't have the original version and are stuck with the result of typically corrosive criticism. If I were to have a time machine I'd tell him one thing: "Never ask for anyone's opinion about your music, ever. If they give it and it's not completely favorable, ignore it." Personally, I think the 3rd movement becomes a bit tedious but I admit that I have a preference against third/final movements of pieces in general. It is rare that I like them much. For instance, I can completely live without every movement of the Prokofiev 2nd concerto following the first and, like Sofronitsky, am not keen on the second movement of the 2nd Scriabin sonata. There are exceptions, though, like Scriabin's practically faultless concerto which has a thoroughly satisfying final movement. I think performers should have tremendous latitude in terms of what movements they choose to play and how they play them. Performance is a living art. That is much different, though, than convincing a composer to butcher his work because you don't understand it, have inferior creativity, or lack patience.

Horrible cut, bad performance

He cuts from bar 313 to 361. IMO it works because Rachmaninoff wrote the theme at 361 to be grander than the first time (m. 137) and so to arrive at it more climatically really works. The frenetic material in between can take away from that power. That said I would personally perform it without cuts. But I think his decision makes good artistic sense

This is all moot though. It's virtually unlistenable recorded on rotten potato

I found the first two movements here to be highly satisfying, the second in particular. The third wasn't as much to my taste. Demonstrative.