A true master of tonal beauty and shading. I wish more of today's pianists would play like this rather than playing either in a monochrome way or worse still banging and making a metallic sound. Cherkassky captures the Russian melancholy of composers such as Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky perfectly.
Listening to Cherkassky gives me goosepimples! I really hope future pianists start playing again like he did. Whatever composition he touched, there was always beauty!
This is the first time I've heard this. I love Cherkassy's playing here. It's a different take, and I'm biased because Rachmaninoff's recording of his own transcription, which I've been listening to for at least 20 years, is so utterly gorgeous that it's hard for me to imagine hearing it another way.
I consider myself blessed for having been fortunate to have heard Cherkassy many times in concerto and recital in NYC. I also got to meet him when I worked at the Hotel Pierre. He was a delightful and unpretentious man. Believe it or not it was he that turned me on to Martha Argerich. He asked me one day who I liked and he told me he really liked Martha..... The big treat was hearing him play his piano grandfather's Concerto with the LA Phil the Rubinstein #4
I wholly agree. You express admirably exactly what feel about many contemporary pianists. Cherkassky was the last in a long line of 20th century master pianists whose priority was ''tonal beauty'' as you put it, imagination and subtle dynamic range. With one or two exceptions such qualities are sadly missing in many of todays keyboard whizzkids.
If there are any pianists I wish I could watch besides Jorge Bolet , Lhevinne I think I'd like most want to be at his back as he plays this . Everyone can move their fingers but how many can completely immerses you in another world or create the immaculate separation and heirarchies of tonal resource heard here ! This is so rare comparable to Godowsky in his Schubert 2 arrangements he recorded ! Unbelievable !
Sigh. This is not--repeat, *not*--the arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Lullaby by Rachmaninoff, though I can't blame the person who posted this clip for making that mistake, since it was made on the BBC Legends recording from which this cut is taken. This is the transcription of the Tchaikovsky Lullaby by *Paul (Pavel) Pabst*, which was made decades before Rachmaninoff's. Pabst's transcription is much closer to the original Tchaikovsky song. Rachmaninoff's (his last composition, BTW, in 1941) goes much farther afield harmonically. You can find the sheet music for the Pabst transcription online and easily verify that the piece above is Pabst's version, e.g., here: imslp.nl/imglnks/usimg/e/e7/IMSLP08907-Pabst_-_Op.misc_-_Transcription_of_Tchaikovsky_s_Berceuse_op.16a.pdf BTW, Tchaikovsky's original, and the transcriptions both by Rachmaninoff and by Pabst, are all in the unusual key of A-flat minor, which has 7 flats.
I have a lot of recordings by Cherkassky, but never heard this beautiful piece before. He was a real master on the piano.
A true master of tonal beauty and shading. I wish more of today's pianists would play like this rather than playing either in a monochrome way or worse still banging and making a metallic sound. Cherkassky captures the Russian melancholy of composers such as Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky perfectly.
Listening to Cherkassky gives me goosepimples! I really hope future pianists start playing again like he did. Whatever composition he touched, there was always beauty!
wow...my heart aches....cherkassy, tchaikovsky, pabst all geniuses
It is for me the most impressive piano recording of all times.
...of all times? Wow - what have you heard so far?
@@chriscologne8490 I've been listening to piano recordings for most of my life and it ranks in my Top 10.
Agree!!!!!
This is the first time I've heard this. I love Cherkassy's playing here. It's a different take, and I'm biased because Rachmaninoff's recording of his own transcription, which I've been listening to for at least 20 years, is so utterly gorgeous that it's hard for me to imagine hearing it another way.
Abbiamo un immenso bisogno di questo canto. Un immenso bisogno... 😢
A great delicacy here, in the playing.
Thank you for posting.
No words... ❤
I consider myself blessed for having been fortunate to have heard Cherkassy many times in concerto and recital in NYC. I also got to meet him when I worked at the Hotel Pierre. He was a delightful and unpretentious man. Believe it or not it was he that turned me on to Martha Argerich. He asked me one day who I liked and he told me he really liked Martha..... The big treat was hearing him play his piano grandfather's Concerto with the LA Phil the Rubinstein #4
Anton Rubinstein was his grandfather?
@@Saltan1908 I mean HIS PIANO GRANDFATHER Rubinstein taught Hofmann and Hofmann taught Cherkassky as far as I know
I wholly agree. You express admirably exactly what feel about many contemporary pianists. Cherkassky was the last in a long line of 20th century master pianists whose priority was ''tonal beauty'' as you put it, imagination and subtle dynamic range. With one or two exceptions such qualities are sadly missing in many of todays keyboard whizzkids.
If there are any pianists I wish I could watch besides Jorge Bolet , Lhevinne I think I'd like most want to be at his back as he plays this . Everyone can move their fingers but how many can completely immerses you in another world or create the immaculate separation and heirarchies of tonal resource heard here ! This is so rare comparable to Godowsky in his Schubert 2 arrangements he recorded ! Unbelievable !
Sigh. This is not--repeat, *not*--the arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Lullaby by Rachmaninoff, though I can't blame the person who posted this clip for making that mistake, since it was made on the BBC Legends recording from which this cut is taken. This is the transcription of the Tchaikovsky Lullaby by *Paul (Pavel) Pabst*, which was made decades before Rachmaninoff's. Pabst's transcription is much closer to the original Tchaikovsky song. Rachmaninoff's (his last composition, BTW, in 1941) goes much farther afield harmonically. You can find the sheet music for the Pabst transcription online and easily verify that the piece above is Pabst's version, e.g., here: imslp.nl/imglnks/usimg/e/e7/IMSLP08907-Pabst_-_Op.misc_-_Transcription_of_Tchaikovsky_s_Berceuse_op.16a.pdf
BTW, Tchaikovsky's original, and the transcriptions both by Rachmaninoff and by Pabst, are all in the unusual key of A-flat minor, which has 7 flats.
Wow - unbelieveably beautiful
Изумительное исполнение!
Le note ci sollevano dalle nostre infermità e voliamo alto nella luce del sole nascente
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@hilocomtoot rach wrote his own arrangement... this is an arrangement by pabst...
This recording took place at a November 1970 live performance in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Genius
Is this a rachmaninoff transcription?