RACHMANINOFF - Piano Sonata No.2 (Alexei Sultanov) 1996 LIVE
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873~1943)
Op.36 _ Piano Sonata No.2 (1913/1st version, 1931/2nd version)
00:01 Mov.1 Allegro agitato
08:55 Mov.2 Non allegro - Lento
14:30 Mov.3 Allegro molto
1913 & 1931 Mix Version
Piano : Alexei Sultanov
Rec : 1996.03.31 Kioi Hall, Tokyo, Japan / LIVE
■ Biography
Alexei Sultanov (Russian: Алексей Султанов; August 7, 1969 - June 30, 2005) was a Soviet and American (since 2004) classical pianist of Uzbek origin.
Alexei Sultanov was born to a family of musicians, his father a cellist, his mother a violinist, both music teachers. At the age of 6, he began piano lessons in Tashkent with Tamara Popovich and then with Lev Naumov at the Moscow Conservatory. At the age of thirteen he was a participant of the International Radio Competition for Young Musicians in Prague. He became famous after winning the Eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition on June 11, 1989, at the age of 19, the youngest contestant in that year's competition. Listeners were awed by his virtuosic technique, musicality, and dynamic range. After winning the Van Cliburn, he made appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman.
In October 1995, Sultanov won second prize at the XIII International Chopin Piano Competition; the grand prize was not awarded. He went on to perform in North America, Europe and Asia. During his lifetime Alexei Sultanov performed i.e. at New York's Carnegie Hall and Washington's Kennedy Center.
In 1996 he had his first stroke, and despite his refusal was convinced by his wife Dace Abele to visit Ed Kramer, a neurologist. Kramer checked on him and discovered some small black spots which proved to him that blood clots had formed in the brain. Despite the stroke he continued his performance in Tokyo, but there he experienced another stroke. After that the same neurologist diagnosed him with diastolic heart failure. In February 2001, he had another stroke. The strokes damaged everything except the cerebral cortex and he was able to continue performing while sitting in a wheelchair.
He became an American citizen in 2004.
On June 30, 2005, at 4:30 a.m., he suffocated following a stroke. He died at the age of 35 in Fort Worth.
The “pianissimo” at 12:32 works surprisingly well
I mean he’s gotta play loud at some point, the rest of the sonata is so soft-spoken.
@@manzoh2248 This is probably the loudest recording of one of the loudest sonatas in the romantic repertoire what do you mean
@@Jqh73o-l7vsorry guess it didn’t come across through text, but I was being sarcastic lol
Sorry for my misunderstanding
finally someone made a score video of this masterful performance
This is such a ridiculous and fun recording, i will definitely come back to it later
I thought that no one else besides Horowitz would ever convince me with this Rach sonata no.2, but Sultanov did it... He gets the mood of the piece, love it despite the fact that Sultanov is banging too much some parts, however this might be due to the way the piece is written, therefore an inevitable banging... Also, big respect for including some parts of the 1st version just like the way Horowitz did it.
Oh, and what a masterful voice leading, only Katsaris, Volodos, Sokolov and Horowitz could emphasize those contrapuntal voicings the way that Sultanov expresses them so masterfully (perhaps young Pogorelich and Gilels too)
Kocsis still reigns supreme in my opinion.
I. Allegro agitato - 0:00
II. Non allegro - Lento - 8:55
III. Allegro molto - 14:30
Спасибо большое! ❤️
Sultanov, like Horowitz, made a personal version of Rachmaninoff's Second Sonata, this is the score of the first (1913) edition, but he is not playing everything from the first edition, many passages are from the second (1931) one or even self composed.
Спасибо! Браво!
Lately I've been hearing vibes of Chopin's third sonata in this piece
1:38
3:28
5:22
6:18
8:54
9:19
10:43
11:43
12:30
12:48
14:00
14:29
15:18
15:52
17:10
18:01
18:40
19:35
8:33 why b flat minor in score ?
He thought it sounded nice? I didn’t mind it as much as all the p and pp’s especially the middle of the 2nd mvmt and start of the 3rd-movement and in general the whole piece being played louder than how people complain that I play too loudly.
Like a child with too much sugar and caffeine playing on a new playground for the first time.
Holy shit that ending
I wonder if Liszt would play this at first sight
Fearless
It's ok