Vladimir Ashkenazy - The Vital Juices are Russian
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His name is Ashkenazy: 31 years old, an artist, a traveller, and a Russian. He was born in Gorky, in the USSR, in 1937. He is the son of a professional light music pianist. He grew up in Moscow, where he started at the famous Ten Year Music School. But since 1963, he has lived in the West and is almost constantly on tour. A Russian with an Icelandic wife and a house in London, but no real home and still very much a Russian.
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I think he is the sweetest genius to ever bless us with his music. What a gorgeous, darling man he is!
What a beautiful film...I really enjoyed that. Ashkenazy was quite a handsome young man, but also very stylish and classy as well; well spoken, always well dressed. Actually everyone seemed to dress a lot better in those days and looked better presented! So grateful he is still amongst us today making great music!
And an incredibly gracious and supportive wife!
Hard to imagine that Ashkenazy and Perlman and Barenboim were ever that young.
Look at record covers from the seventies. Barenboim had a rather pretty face.
He is such a loveable person.
I was blessed to work in a place and one of the few allowed in where he practiced daily when he was in the city where I lived at the time. It was incredible, like a private concert everyday while I worked. Still a very cherished memory of a special place in time.
Why is it that pretty much every pianist I know of is such a charming person? Does that just come with talent or something?
I think because the adult pianists obviously started as child prodigies, the ones who succeeded had to have had childhoods that were nurturing of their personalities _and_ their talents. I cannot even imaging parenting kids with such adult musical skills, because it’s fatal to forget that they’re _children,_ and that they’re so fragile because of those incomprehensible skills….perhaps that’s why the ones who make it have the most resilient personalities, and people with resilient personalities seem to be very positive, outgoing people! Look at Itzhak Perlman, so upbeat and cheerful, who had _polio,_ ffs….I can’t imagine the pain he experienced as a child, and then to be so very different from his friends because his legs were paralyzed and he was a musical phenom! Unbelievable!
Ce film magnifique et intense montre un amour irrésistible de la musique et de la vie.❤
such a handsome young man
ivanoe very strange comment? If you had said a brilliant pianist that would be normal but a shortass guy with a big konk and seems to be dribbling or have a nervous tic everytime he plays is hardly handsome?
Yes, actually he was really handsome
We love mr Ashkenazy.. fantastic pianist and lobely man .. his wife is so nice !!!
That Chopin etude op 10 no 1 encore was out of hand; thumping bass, the alternating pedal then sec treatment of the arpeggios. I’m pretty familiar with his recorded version but this live version sounded even more exciting.
Very pleasant and interesting to realise how music can live in a soul and flow so “easily” in hands .. thank you. Humankind at its best.
Very nice footage....... Thanks for posting.
Absolutely priceless , thank you so much ! I have heard great Alexander Malofeev play Bach and Beethoven perfectly, but true, when he plays Russian music also 'his Vital Juice' starts burning . (Holland Dec. 2022)
Wow. This guy should make it! 😄 in those days, cultured people wanted to live here in London. How things have changed…sadly.
Yes. Modern London has become a dump.
Great. Thank you for posting.
Swagmaster 1.0, dude had it , top shelf all around
Very enjoyable. Thanks
I love their Icelandic sweaters
Wonderful to see Perlman as a very young man.
So I guess the one he's playing a piano duet with about 20 minutes in is Barenboim? If so, Barenboim's face here reminds me of Billy Joel. I just picture him hammering away those 32nd notes on C in the prelude to Angry Young Man. :-) And Ashkenazy reminds me a little of Edward Norton. :-)
Yes, that's Barenboim. Check out their playing Mozart's double concerto from 1966!! Gold
Amazing.
I used to own a russian record of Richter playing Beethoven in the sixties. I quess he must be considered an exception then. I love this documentary though!
Ashkenazy was talking about his time in the conservatory, and the kind of teaching he had. There were teachers who had been in the West and they knew about the music, but even the very best teachers and instrumentalists who had experience with western composers still had to be very careful to not get on the bad side of the government. Ashkenazy brought music scores and recording back the few times he traveled, and Richter always wanted to borrow them from him and anyone else coming back from Europe. They also heard recordings that other musicians brought back, they passed them around like it was the black market! Ashkenazy told the story of Glenn Gould playing his recitals in Moscow and because he was playing Bach, attendance at the first recital was kind of sparse, but as he played the word about his amazing playing spread like wildfire until at the end it was standing room only! It was really the totalitarian regime that tried to put the lid on anything from the West, but it didn’t completely succeed!
0.22 'sometimes it happens for just a few bars ' yes I know a few bars I get the notes right even if the tempo dynamics rhythm etc are still wrong lol
I wonder how can he said nobody in Russia could teach Bach, when there were titans like Samuel Feinberg......
Feinberg was born in the late 1800s, before the Revolution, so he had studied music at a _very_ different kind of conservatory than Ashkenazy did, who wasn’t born until 1937. So of course Feinberg recorded Bach because he’d _studied_ Bach! If I’m not mistaken, he was dead by the time Ashkenazy was getting out of the Soviet Union. I sometimes think people either don’t know or forget that the Soviet Union was a totalitarian regime which exerted life-and-death power over everybody, and especially people of enormous talent, like Ashkenazy. Of course there were musicians who knew about and even privately played Western classical music, _but it was not TAUGHT when Ashkenazy was in the Moscow Conservatory._ He was forced to play in the second Tchaikovsky Competition, because the government had been embarrassed by Van Cliburn’s previous victory at the inaugural competition, and when Ashkenazy said that his hands were too small and that he wasn’t the best candidate, he was told that if he ever wanted to play the piano again, he would compete, and he would WIN. Thats’s the climate of things as he grew up.
@@voraciousreader3341 Thanks for your contribution.
Van Cliburn won Leventritt prize in 1954! Lev Vlassenko won weak Liszt competition in 1956! Van Cliburn was favourite to win Tchaikovsky 1958! It was crisis of critic writers!
VA, great Artistry
Why would anybody want to call a new concert hall in a formerly bombarded city"de doelen" ("the targets")?
Is music the voice of God to us? There is no way to explain how it makes me better listening to this.
So this was filmed in 1968?
00:43 name??? Pleaseee
Beethoven's bagatelle op 126 no. 4
@@nicolasaubertpiano thank you so much!
21:00
So true
Que buena q estaba la mujer!!
'Vitamin C' traveller so called
He has purity ,I have Lp recordings which bought in n.y. you tube give me a chance to watch him and his family
Ashkenazy Observed (Documentary of 1987 about Vladimir Ashkenazy) contains the same content. Why 2 films using the same material? You got me.
ChesterFanningChorno I think Ashkenazy Observed was a compilation of different videos, to highlight Vladimir Ashkenazy as person.
@BC - You’re crazy, it’s a very different documentary.
42:00 What music?
It's Beethoven Bagatelles, Opus 126 No.4 in B Minor - "Presto" and I much prefer Gould's recording of 1975 for Columbia. But that's just me. The Bagatelles are just extraordinary and not heard often enough anymore...
Wow this is so lovely. Any one of you, please what's the name of the piece on 0:28
I second this!
Beethoven Bagatelle Op. 126 No. 4
Anybody knows what's the piece in the very beginning?
It's from Beethoven's Bagatelles, op. 126; the fourth one (presto in B minor).
@@jacobras 😁 I managed to look it up on my own through Google listen, bcs I wasn't receiving any quick response fron anyone 😅 but still, thank you for the answer! Stay safe 🙂
26:30
What's very last piece towards the end of the film?
got it. it's the Presto mvmt of Beethoven's Bagatelles, Op. 126. The introduction passage that appears at the very beginning is also that piece.
Tony Montana of the pianists
can someone add subtitle please? I have homework about Ashkenazy and i ve to give in 2 days and i am hardly understanding him because of his accent :(
That’s asking a lot… In two days! What sections exactly?
Listen carefully and you may understand
@@cefinau Sorry about that. "Thanks" to covid, instead of playing piano i have to do homework. I was drowning in homeworks and wrote this. But you still can add subtitle for just in case another pandemi :D
Actually, that's a young Ben Affleck at 44.30 😂
Lol, the guy at the bottom right in 44:55 looks like Shishkin
omg i just noticed-
also hi ur in the raychen discord server
@@Queomyx oh lol hi olivia
@@vincenguyen7 hi lol xd
No subtitles? I won't watch it.
Wahhh mommyyy reading dah letters too hard for me😂😂😂
Does anyone know what the piece is that he is practicing with Barenboim at 17:26? Thanks
Stravinsky's Rite of spring
Thank you so much, it has been going around in my head for quite a while now.
Alguien sabe dónde puedo encontrar este documental subtitulado al español?
ruclips.net/video/pIJRm_hkTIc/видео.html
Perhaps you found it, but there might be others wanting it in Spanish 😎
SEXY!!
My vital juices are not and have never been Russian.
Grear pianist. Some of his comments were not fare, or nice though...Hope, it was just at "THAT TIME".
Do you know how to spell “fair”? Do you know anything about growing up in a totalitarian regime?? Ever heard of the Iron Curtain, or the Cold War, or Joseph Stalin and his purges, or the Cuban Missile Crisis?? That happened in 1962, the same year Ashkenazy won the Tchaikovsky Competition, tied with John Ogdon. Do you remember growing up in fear that the atomic bomb would be dropped on your city?? Yeah, probably “no” to all of the above. So, instead of taking 2 minutes to do a few internet searches, you condemn what Ashkenazy said. That wasn’t very smart, was it? Sounds like you’ve got some catching up to do!
I am astonished and rather disguisted to hear about music being used in a rather racist way. I certainly hope this isn't the case anymore!!
If a russian were to play Beethoven, for example, in a different way - Why not welcome it?!
The heavy focus on his being russian is also annoying. As much as I appreciate this documentary - and I do! - as a viewer, I am more interested in his thoughts about music....
As a comparison, similar contemporary videos about, for example, Daniel Barenboim doesn't go on and on about his being Argentinian and expect him to understand only Argentinian, or Jewish, music and culture.
I do know that the Soviet Union was rather closed, but before that, Russia had close cultural connections to Europe for ages. 😜
Did you not know that the old Soviet Union was a totalitarian regime back in 1966, when this was filmed, and that it had been since 1917?? And that the dictators had closed the door on the West, irrevocably, after WWII?? Have you ever heard of the Iron Curtain, or Stalin’s purges?? Very little information got out from the old USSR, and very little from the West got in, and more than that, _anything_ from the West was considered bad enough to be sent to a gulag in Siberia! Ashkenazy himself withstood a great deal of pressure to be an informant on “artistic types” when he was studying at the Moscow Conservatory, and after Van Cliburn won the inaugural Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 and embarrassed the hell out of the government, Ashkenazy was ordered to play at the second. When he said he wouldn’t because he wasn’t the best candidate as his hands were too small to play the music, he was told that he would play and he would WIN or he’d never touch another piano for the rest of his life! Have you heard of the Cold War?? The Cuban Missile Crisis and threat of nuclear war in 1962?? That’s the very same year Ashkenazy won the Tchaikovsky, which he shared with John Ogden, ffs! Does that give you an idea of what Ashkenazy was talking about?? If something seems weird to you, please do a few internet searches before going nuts in comments sections….it is obvious you don’t know much history!
What a dedicated wife he has had all these years - what a God-damn bore, listening to your old man play the same pieces ad nauseum and hanging around backstage! As far as I know, he's the only top classical artist to have had only one wife!
I believe Perlman has only had Toby!
@Stefan Ufer - What business is it of yours, to decide how Dody Ashkenazy felt about her life choices, ffs??? How insane is that?!? What do you even know about her?? Did you even look up her name?? No, obviously not, or you would know that she was a piano prodigy herself and that she met Ashkenazy when she went to study at the Moscow Conservatory for a semester. They got married, even though the totalitarian regime programmed Russian citizens to hate and distrust foreigners, and she was always watched wherever she went. Ashkenazy was forced to play in the second Tchaikovsky Competition in 1962 because an American had embarrassed the regime at the inaugural, and was told if he didn’t win he’d never play the piano again. Then, he was allowed out to give some concerts, but at the airport, Dody and their 1 year old son were not allowed to leave the country. No explanations. He tried to get them out of the USSR for months until they were finally allowed to leave, and they never returned. Dody was so traumatized that she refused to ever speak a word of Russian again….this was the beginning of their marriage. Why they decided to live their lives the way they did is nobody’s business. So do us all a favor and sthu!!
Stupid nationalism. The vital juices of Russians are Russian. Others have their own. Most of the music in his repertoire is NOT Russian. Today more and more Asian pianists are the level of Westerners. Of the ten best piano manufacturers not a single one is Russian.
...this clearly has nothing to do with the best piano manufacturers....
Of the four by critics and audiences most admired and legendary living pianists, not a single one is non-Russian. I'm speaking of Sokolov, Volodos, Kissin and Trifonov. Of course there are many more to add to this list, many talented artists like Seong-Jin Cho, David Fray or even Alfred Brendel who are not from Russia at all. Still, the art of today's modern pianism wouldn't exist without Russian pianists. It wouldn't exist without Sokolov's intense atmosphere. It wouldn't exist without Volodos' art of tone. It wouldn't exist without Trifonov's technically and emotionally nearly perfect gift of performance... Even Scarlatti on piano is basically owned by Michail Pletnev as Rachmaninov logically is by Nikolai Lugansky, just to mention it. Sorry for the comment this long but the thing with the piano manufacturers really got me because it is a completely preposterous comparison.
Que buena persona debe de ser, su humildad al hablar y su sencillez. Es un magnífico pianista, gracias por poder ver este video en nov. 2020 desde Alicante. España.👌👌👌👌👌💗
He did not mean the compositions or the instruments.
@Ernesto7608 - You’re so IGNORANT!!!! Read up about what was going on between the USSR and the West in 1962, OK?? God, how can people be so uneducated???
33:24, what music?
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor"