if we forget for a second about Lugansky, the fact that THE PIANO takes all this and still be in one piece is something to mention. god bless the steinways I guess.
Lungasky is probably the best pianist of our time. There are others who come very very close, but there’s something about how he understands and expresses all the changes that never feel forced, rushed or drag. truly truly incredible musicianship
@@78625amginEexcept Lugansky actually is amazing in making solid, powerful sound. Yes their mic placement makes piano sound more present even /w orchestra but you gotta actually try go to his concerts. He’s really something.
@@78625amginE I hope one day you understand that the microphones in classical concerts are not for amplifying the sound but to record it for later uses.
Agreed. There’s emphasis on the harmony and figures of the left hand which are not heard in other interpretations and which provides the richness of the piece.
@@randomness7778 my favorite composers are Rachmaninoff, Brahms, and Mahler. The Brahms symphonies and concertos and sonatas and chamber music. (For all instruments) I mean he didn’t write anything bad. The same for Rachmaninoff coincidentally. And every Mahler symphony is amazing, my top three are 2, 6, and 5.
It’s just so hard to put into words the terror and wonder and beauty that you hear when listening to the cadenza build into the horn entrance in the first movement. I can only imagine that it’s the equivalent to watching a nuclear explosion. Listened to Wei Luo play this live just last night.
This is the best rendition of this piece. Gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it. A perfect balance between speed and lyrical depth, where each note is a brushstroke on the canvas of sonic emotion.❤🔥
Overwhelming and terrifying and passionate and petrifying, but no words can describe the feeling I get at the end of the 1st movement cadenza. Entire body in chills! Wow wow wow
Agreed. The 1st movement cadenza is a masterpiece of emotional build up and declaration ! To be crowned off with the joining in of the full orchestra into a monstrous culmination.
I just finished listening to this version by Lugansky and I was amazed. I listened to him more for his rachmaninovs... but I finished listening to this concert with a big smile, bravo!!!
Mind-bending work and performance. I had to look up a word to describe Prokofiev and this concerto and it's iconoclast. And what the hell at 11:20 like a monster swoops in. Stunning!
This is so powerful! Such a delightful statement in the beginning becomes a dramatic emotional surge towards the end of the first movement that is hard not to get drowned by Prokofiev feelings when he wrote this piece
Es una tempestad de emociones lo que provoca este concierto, intenso y dramático, casi absurdo, pero con un lirismo e intimidad desbordante. Bendito Prokofiev y Lugansky!!
Es ist diese Versöhnung (mit wem, sei dahingestellt), die Solist und Orchester hier, musikalisch-interpretatorisch wie -filmisch uns Wenig-Vieles nahelegen. "Ich will nix von dir, aber ich möchte von dir mehr wollen". Eine Grundeinstellung der Demut, vor allem in Gestik und Dirigat Letonjas, die der Musik einmal mehr erweist, dass wir im Grunde nichts wissen. Sehr schön und am Herzen liegend.
Luganskiy is russian pianist and he is playing russian composers better then anybody in the world what is the kind of feeling, it is awesome bravissimo he is real Master GREAT!!!!!!!
Damn, Prokofiev wrote some complicated music: technically and compositionally. Lugansky doesn't blink an eye in the middle of some of the most technically difficult music ever written and he plays them all: Rach 3rd, Prokofieff 3rd, etc. He is probably one of the best technicians out there and such a quiet demeanor.
If you lose your cool in the middle of them, you've screwed right? Russian pianism is so beautiful because there's just an immense level of control that you very rarely see outside of it (ex: Michelangeli). I love watching this amazing control of movements and tone... this is perfect pianism.
@@deathdragin7180 Russian artists are taken away from their family if they are prodigies and live at conservatories. While this seems mean, Russia fosters the arts and people adapt! I prefer to live in America where families are honored, but art is art is art . . . . .!
@@leoinsf I was told by my Ukrainian teacher that those who went through such thorough education over there may not always choose piano for the rest of their life, but if they want to the highest level of repertoire such as Rach 3 is an open door with their skillsets. It's incredible, and can't be any more different from over here in North America!
When I started listening to this, I wasn't sure I would like the slower tempo of the first three movements than other versions I've heard. But it allows Lugansky to really bring out the subtleties of the piece. Thanks for uploading!
Felicitaciones! Al gran pianista talentoso de Lugansky por su enorme virtuosismo en la ejecución de este magnífico y complejo concierto. Esta excelente composición de S. Prokofiev demuestra la grandiosa música de la vieja y zarista Rusia. Bendiciones desde México!!!
One of my all time favourite pieces. I can dive into it and find more and more depths. This time I took a speciel interest in the development from the first to the third movement. It's an internal dialogue between the 1st and 3rd, while the breathtakingly fast 2nd separates them like a brainstorm.
Amazing performance by Lugansky and the orchestra! Reminds me of the colosal recording of this piece by Ashkenazy, Previn and the LSO (also available on youtube)
I've never forget the joy of getting hold of the LP box set of John Browning playing all 5 of Prokofiev's wonderful piano concertos back in the 1970s. Also obtaining Aldo Ciccolini's LP box set of all 5 piano concertos of Saint-Saens. Happy days!
Well done! excellent tempo 1st movement. Very unfortunately: two ads during the last 4 minutes of the first movement - RUclips needs a lesson in classical music.
I know the Prokofjew concertos quite well, but Im really surprised. This is wonderful. the best record of the 2nd. The reduced tempi allow a new transparency and understanding of an offen-heard opus.
The 2nd is harder and more demanding than the 3rd imo, but they are both up there. The 2nd movement in this concerto is absolute hell to play, and the Cadenza is a beast as well.
Maintaining such a very strong power, even at such a distinct tempo, while making every possible line in that first movement cadenza play their part, especially for this concerto is not one of the things that you can simply master. It's the main reason why I listen to him.
Yes! The piano finally sounding as clear as it should in the most intense passages, which tend to physically limit other pianists, the result being that the music is not as effectively transmitted. Obviously piano keyboard sizes play its part. But this is an amazing reading!
if we forget for a second about Lugansky, the fact that THE PIANO takes all this and still be in one piece is something to mention. god bless the steinways I guess.
We can thank Beethoven and Liszt for beating the tar out of the manufacturers’ first offerings.
Lungasky is probably the best pianist of our time. There are others who come very very close, but there’s something about how he understands and expresses all the changes that never feel forced, rushed or drag.
truly truly incredible musicianship
I have to agree, this performance cements him there. Nobody plays this piece with as much feeling and articulation as Lugansky.
A masterclass on 'how to project your sound as a solo pianist on stage'
I hope one day you understand how microphones and their placement work.
@@78625amginEexcept Lugansky actually is amazing in making solid, powerful sound.
Yes their mic placement makes piano sound more present even /w orchestra but you gotta actually try go to his concerts. He’s really something.
A profound blessing to all who listen to his performances!!!
@@78625amginE I hope one day you understand that the microphones in classical concerts are not for amplifying the sound but to record it for later uses.
This is THE BEST performance of this composition that I have ever heard. Lugansky has studied and perfected his interpretation of this. Jaw-dropping.
Agreed. There’s emphasis on the harmony and figures of the left hand which are not heard in other interpretations and which provides the richness of the piece.
Yuja's interpretation is as good as this one I think. More instinctive maybe
More mad, or madder, and show-off-y, to my taste. She does bring out counter notes also.
Θαυμα
I honestly feel like this one isn’t as good as Yuja Wang’s or Toradze
I’ve listened to this 5 times in a day and god, it’s amazing! I can’t describe it.
There is other great music to enjoy. Try some Mahler.
@@markrubin9449 oh yes, Mahler’s amazing. 6th symphony is my my favorite.
@@coleb.t.6905 Prokofiev's 2nd piano concerto. Mahler 6. You have great taste.
@@randomness7778 my favorite composers are Rachmaninoff, Brahms, and Mahler.
The Brahms symphonies and concertos and sonatas and chamber music. (For all instruments) I mean he didn’t write anything bad. The same for Rachmaninoff coincidentally. And every Mahler symphony is amazing, my top three are 2, 6, and 5.
Listen to concert Rachmaninoff 3 :)
It’s just so hard to put into words the terror and wonder and beauty that you hear when listening to the cadenza build into the horn entrance in the first movement. I can only imagine that it’s the equivalent to watching a nuclear explosion. Listened to Wei Luo play this live just last night.
Build up is like startup ignition of doomsday machine
This is so amazing, I've recently fallen in love with Prokofiev's pieces. The sound is like no other, utterly unique.
he was an utter virtuoso from birth pretty much. his dissonance, his harmonies, all the works of a true madman
F. Chiu recorded (almost) everything Prokofiev wrote for piano. Check that out if you haven't already, there are so many amazing pieces.
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@@carlbrann5810 what would you recommend to a prokofiev beginner?
@@MrFunky10scherzo op 10 #12, first symphony, third piano sonata, second piano sonata, fifth symphony
A raw and expansive piece by the 19 year old Prokofiev . . unbelievable brilliance by Lugansky and the orchestra!
Not 19, he rewrote this piece later on (I believe in his late 20s)
This revised version is from 32-year old Prokofiev
He wrote it for the first time when he was 20 years old, but the notes were lost and he recreated it in 1932.
This version being bone-chilling,
can you imagine the original?
I would still have liked to hear it!
Oh, and Lugansky absolutely nails this piece. I really like his interpretations of the great russian composers.
He's a monster (in the good sense) crushing challenges like this with such a class
11:01
This is my first time ever hearing the end of this cadenza played in a way that’s actually intelligible/understandable to the listener… 🤯
Gutierrez is transcendent.
you've not heard gutierrez?
wow this is the best version of prokofiev piano concerto no.2 so much powerful and control just speechless
Enchanted Wanderer - - from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU
10:03 gives me chills every time
YES!
Moi aussi
@@Ferdinand3141
Unreal
when the horns come in the next minute it's absolutely tremendous
This is the best rendition of this piece. Gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it. A perfect balance between speed and lyrical depth, where each note is a brushstroke on the canvas of sonic emotion.❤🔥
Overwhelming and terrifying and passionate and petrifying, but no words can describe the feeling I get at the end of the 1st movement cadenza. Entire body in chills! Wow wow wow
You perfectly described exactly how I feel at the same place in the piece. Thank you.
Nuclear bomb
Agreed. The 1st movement cadenza is a masterpiece of emotional build up and declaration ! To be crowned off with the joining in of the full orchestra into a monstrous culmination.
I'm seriously in tears at how beautiful this is..
What a cadenza! Only Prokofiev could.
He was in a world all of his own.
No words. Lugansky is great 👍
Prokofiev, alluring you into his magic world of sound and dynamics - oustandingly performed, esp. the last movement!
Bravo maestro Prokofiev, maestro Lugansky and maestro Marko Letonja. What a calm Lugansky has.. even through this concerto. Marvellous playing.
Indescribable, jaw dropping, there are no words in any language to describe this breathtaking performance!!!
Эта музыка заставляет думать, погружаться в самые глубины души. Луганский браво! Передал все тонкости каждой нотки!
❤️ точнее и не скажешь
Bravo! Lugansky is my favourite pianist and I am always deeply touched by his playing.
I just finished listening to this version by Lugansky and I was amazed. I listened to him more for his rachmaninovs... but I finished listening to this concert with a big smile, bravo!!!
When Luganskiy play Chaikovskij it is awesome incredable
hello!! I will hear it.
Regards!!!
Mind-bending work and performance. I had to look up a word to describe Prokofiev and this concerto and it's iconoclast. And what the hell at 11:20 like a monster swoops in. Stunning!
there literally isn’t one occasion where lugansky plays poorly. once his fingers reach the keys he creates art, it’s unbelievable!
kinda lying man 26:51, overall though he play fantastical.
I found out that’s part of the piece damn you prof
@@balladin9200 no that is not poor playing at all. its human playing.
It’s amazing what the top of the world class brings us.
ahhahhhahhh i totally agree with you this man is absolutely magical
This is so powerful! Such a delightful statement in the beginning becomes a dramatic emotional surge towards the end of the first movement that is hard not to get drowned by Prokofiev feelings when he wrote this piece
Es una tempestad de emociones lo que provoca este concierto, intenso y dramático, casi absurdo, pero con un lirismo e intimidad desbordante. Bendito Prokofiev y Lugansky!!
Real
Prokofiev was a genius!!!!
Es ist diese Versöhnung (mit wem, sei dahingestellt), die Solist und Orchester hier, musikalisch-interpretatorisch wie -filmisch uns Wenig-Vieles nahelegen. "Ich will nix von dir, aber ich möchte von dir mehr wollen". Eine Grundeinstellung der Demut, vor allem in Gestik und Dirigat Letonjas, die der Musik einmal mehr erweist, dass wir im Grunde nichts wissen. Sehr schön und am Herzen liegend.
Талантливо исполнен Прокофьев!Огромное спасибо!❤❤❤
Impossible beauty, performed masterfully by both soloist and orchestra. Absolutely mesmerizing! Thank you 🙏
Luganskiy is russian pianist and he is playing russian composers better then anybody in the world what is the kind of feeling, it is awesome bravissimo he is real Master GREAT!!!!!!!
Check out his Mozart Nr. 20 d minor here on RUclips, marvellous as well. He owns not only russian repertoire perfectly.
I always think about the hand that composed this work. Hearing it interpreted so wonderfully here adds to both appreciation and awe...
Damn, Prokofiev wrote some complicated music: technically and compositionally.
Lugansky doesn't blink an eye in the middle of some of the most technically difficult music ever written
and he plays them all: Rach 3rd, Prokofieff 3rd, etc.
He is probably one of the best technicians out there and such a quiet demeanor.
If you lose your cool in the middle of them, you've screwed right? Russian pianism is so beautiful because there's just an immense level of control that you very rarely see outside of it (ex: Michelangeli). I love watching this amazing control of movements and tone... this is perfect pianism.
@@deathdragin7180 Russian artists are taken away from their family if they are prodigies and live at conservatories.
While this seems mean, Russia fosters the arts and people adapt!
I prefer to live in America where families are honored, but art is art is art . . . . .!
@@leoinsf I was told by my Ukrainian teacher that those who went through such thorough education over there may not always choose piano for the rest of their life, but if they want to the highest level of repertoire such as Rach 3 is an open door with their skillsets. It's incredible, and can't be any more different from over here in North America!
The playing on the cadenza is amazingly clear. Incredible.
When I started listening to this, I wasn't sure I would like the slower tempo of the first three movements than other versions I've heard. But it allows Lugansky to really bring out the subtleties of the piece. Thanks for uploading!
my piano teacher has played this before (i havent seen her personally) and so i looked it up.....
dam shes a lot better than i realized
This the best I've ever heard this, I am amazed!!!
Frighteningly beautiful.
Beyond incredible
The Perfect Storm.
Felicitaciones! Al gran pianista talentoso de Lugansky por su enorme virtuosismo en la ejecución de este magnífico y complejo concierto. Esta excelente composición de S. Prokofiev demuestra la grandiosa música de la vieja y zarista Rusia. Bendiciones desde México!!!
The phrase that begins at 30:16 is just so compelling. Lugansky!
24:20 even the camera is shaking. This bloke has some serious muscle
What a beast in that cadenza, geez
Thats powerfull
One of my all time favourite pieces. I can dive into it and find more and more depths. This time I took a speciel interest in the development from the first to the third movement. It's an internal dialogue between the 1st and 3rd, while the breathtakingly fast 2nd separates them like a brainstorm.
No doubt Lugansky is the best interpreter of Prokofiev of our time.
Hauntingly beautiful performance. Perfection.
He’s simply brilliant!!!
A revelation for those who enjoy Prokofiev's Piano Concertos.
What did you think of the second mvt? Sounded a bit out of sync the first half to me..
Amazing performance by Lugansky and the orchestra! Reminds me of the colosal recording of this piece by Ashkenazy, Previn and the LSO (also available on youtube)
I've never forget the joy of getting hold of the LP box set of John Browning playing all 5 of Prokofiev's wonderful piano concertos back in the 1970s. Also obtaining Aldo Ciccolini's LP box set of all 5 piano concertos of Saint-Saens. Happy days!
'Orgasmic' 1st movmt cadenza!!! Stunningly masterful performance!
I'd rather think of it as "apocalyptic".
hehe, "climactic"
In awe of this interpretation and its dynamics! I also love Lisiecki's. Prokofiev 2nd is for some reason addictive!
i love this piece, so many great moments
Beyond incredible... this is the piece that personifies the amazing reach and possibilitiy of the piano for me and shows off its beauty above all.
Мощно,страстно,полное погружение в музыку.Браво, Николай.
Well done! excellent tempo 1st movement. Very unfortunately: two ads during the last 4 minutes of the first movement - RUclips needs a lesson in classical music.
Beautiful Interpretation!!! BRAVO!!!!!
Lugansky majestuoso ❤❤❤
6:08 greatest piano concerto cadenza of all time
Agreed couldn't find any cadenza better than that one
Yes
Rach 3 is also great, be careful.
Rach 3 entered the chat
Any recommends for great cadenza other than this and rach3?
BAP brought me here. Enjoyed greatly!
Epic and beatiful piece!
Brouhhh chaire de poule, littéralement subjugué, quelle performance.
This has quickly become my favourite version especially the 1st movt.
Este distinguido pianista, uno de los mas grandes, domina un tremendo repertorio de obras.
Beginning of 1st mvt. YUM ~~~~~~~~ beginning of Finale ~ YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM!!!!! Love it
Wow!! Even better than the one given at the Proms long ago.
That cadenza....🤯
Another universe
Cadenza is colossal! Not virtuose! Love it!!!
In fact Prokofiev writes in the direction in the first movement 'colossale'...
@@roku401 Yep, I was gonna say the same. Just goes to show how COLOSSAL this piece is, that you can just HEAR the colosasal-ness to it.
rach 3,medtner 2 and this was the best concerto i've ever heard
So we should praise that fire
Best 1st movement ever
Impossível imaginar o mundo sem esses geniais compositores russos! 😍
11:20 Epic moment.
Fuck yes.
goosebumps every fucking time
This is one of best climaxes of all musical pieces!
Bravo! I think is the most difficult concerto for piano.
No check corrigliano's , feinberg , reger in f min , ginastera's ,lutoslavisky's or even rautavaara 2 but this is breathtaking
@@lucaslorentz yeah this is so good
Rachmaninoff 3
@@gdkabsbdkwkwm4187 even prok 2 is already harder then rach 3 y do people think rach 3 is the hardest
@@lucaslorentz It’s probably the most difficult concerto of those that are more mainstream, so many people think it’s the most difficult.
I know the Prokofjew concertos quite well, but Im really surprised. This is wonderful. the best record of the 2nd. The reduced tempi allow a new transparency and understanding of an offen-heard opus.
Beatiful performance!
It’s my go-to performance!
This and Prokofiev's 3rd concerto must be some of the most physically demanding concertos in the classic repertoire.
Concerto for solo piano Alkan, 5 concerto Prokofiev, 3 concerto Rachmaninov, 2 concerto Bramhs harder then your List
Unhappy boy than*, also who cares
The 2nd is harder and more demanding than the 3rd imo, but they are both up there. The 2nd movement in this concerto is absolute hell to play, and the Cadenza is a beast as well.
@@joshuahart153 I agree. The 2nd is harder than the 3rd
@@dallinfullmer3073 -- Wow! What does that even Mean??
Excellent piano-playing.
Perfect tempo
So powerful
Breathtaking ❤
I feel bad for the piano being played on! Excellent piece, orchestra, and soloist!
Piano is lucky... why do you feel bad for it?
Magnifique
mi ha consigliato questo pezzo un mio amico... grazie Danirockstar
Maintaining such a very strong power, even at such a distinct tempo, while making every possible line in that first movement cadenza play their part, especially for this concerto is not one of the things that you can simply master. It's the main reason why I listen to him.
Yes! The piano finally sounding as clear as it should in the most intense passages, which tend to physically limit other pianists, the result being that the music is not as effectively transmitted. Obviously piano keyboard sizes play its part. But this is an amazing reading!
Bravo. Shikarno, amazing. Molodetz diadia
That cadenza dropped harder than my grades
I personally prefer it this way
MAGNIFICO
Beaucoup trop fort
Indeed, The Perfect Storm!
Wow very very beautifull
Very
mesmerizing！
I love Prokofiev
Check out Harlow Robinson's biography.
The intense stare of the concertmaster 😂🥹🥹
Awesome!