Chopin - Piano sonata n°3 - Cortot 1933

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  • Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
  • Frédéric Chopin
    Piano sonata n°3 op.58
    I. Allegro maestoso 0:00
    II. Scherzo. Molto vivace 8:35
    III. Largo 11:09
    IV. Finale. Presto, ma non tanto 18:19
    Alfred Cortot
    Studio recording, London, 6.VII.1933
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  • @norahdealmeida5847
    @norahdealmeida5847 6 лет назад +34

    In 1933, Cortot was 56 years old. He only had wrong notes when he was much older. He wrote a very good book about piano technique. And well-known editions with special technical exercises.Then he had a ver good technique! And expressive ideas about phrasing.

    • @peteklat
      @peteklat 5 лет назад +5

      Indeed. I always used his edition of the Chopin Etudes, very helpful.

    • @remomazzetti8757
      @remomazzetti8757 4 года назад +6

      There are plenty of wrong notes in this performance but it's still one of the best.

    • @cvlen
      @cvlen 3 года назад +5

      @@remomazzetti8757 what is a wrong note? (It's a rethoric question!)

  • @The_Guy_Who_Asked_06
    @The_Guy_Who_Asked_06 Год назад +9

    Even in the first 4 measures he brings more passion and drama than most modern-day virtuosi. Bravo, Cortot!

    • @davidlasson2558
      @davidlasson2558 2 месяца назад

      He certainly grabs your attention in those four bars, that's for sure--and then you're hooked! And while I wouldn't recommend that a pianist of today break up the two final chords concluding the first movement, but when Cortot does it, it is electrifying.

  • @youexx
    @youexx 4 года назад +24

    Profound individualist, wasn't afraid to take chances and be different! Marvelous and fascinating - probably incredibly close to what Chopin may have realized

    • @goognamgoognw6637
      @goognamgoognw6637 2 года назад +4

      i think the pleyel design influence a certain way of playing due to its colorful registers and much more singing tone than Steinway, no cloudiness in the bass, and you cannot hide. I say this having had the chance to play a 1848 Pleyel piano like the one owned by Chopin. Pleyel kept part of that tradition alive into the early 20th century even though the piano technology had changed, they preserved immediacy of the touch and Cortot played Pleyel like Chopin, probably the last great pianist that did.

  • @donaldallen1771
    @donaldallen1771 6 лет назад +39

    This has long been my favorite performance of this great work. As others have said, Cortot's way with Chopin, when he was at his best, was absolutely unique. Here he *is* at his best, in great form technically (yes, there are some wrong notes, but as Rosina Lhevinne said of Rubinstein's, "what wrong notes!") and he delivers a performance for the ages. When he delays the ascent to the last B-major chord in the left hand at the very end, you just want to scream. Absolutely thrilling.

    • @themoroccanpianist8953
      @themoroccanpianist8953 3 года назад +1

      When he delays the ascent to the last B-major chord in the left hand at the very end, you just want to scream, could you precise to me where exactly I can hear this ( which minute )?

    • @AlexanderZlatkovski
      @AlexanderZlatkovski 2 года назад +1

      @@themoroccanpianist8953 23:06

  • @mondnacht-op.3926
    @mondnacht-op.3926 Год назад +4

    Die wunderbarste Technik! Ohne Zweifeln ist Cortot der adäquate Pianist, um Chopin zu spielen. Gründlich individualistisch, er hat nicht dafür befürchtet, sich auf sein eigenes musikalisches Selbstverständnis zu verlassen, somit Einzig zu sein. Man kann die Warmherzigkeit in jedem Ton spüren.

  • @brkahn
    @brkahn 6 лет назад +11

    J'ai appris beaucoup de choses sur cette sonate en écoutant cette version, si fluide et si précise à la fois.

  • @h.s.7734
    @h.s.7734 Год назад +5

    コルトーは素晴らしいピアニストだとは色々な本を読んで知っていたけど、ほとんど聞いて来なかった。CDの音があまりにも貧弱でノイズがバチバチいうので。だがこうして聞くと本当に素晴らしい。フルトヴェングラーの言う、「演奏はどれだけ上手いかではなく、どれだけ心に迫るかが大切だ」という言葉を思い出してしまった。
     Great performance! Touching straight my heart. Clear and superb sound quality. Merci beaucoup pour posting.

  • @duwir5959
    @duwir5959 4 года назад +17

    Lipati and Gilels played the 3rd sonate of Chopin also great.

    • @spfqr4977
      @spfqr4977 2 года назад

      Lipatti was a pupil of Cortot

  • @TheErnesto7608
    @TheErnesto7608 7 лет назад +11

    Ah.. another fascinating recording by Cortot. There is so much uniqueness in his interpretations. If recorded music could have come just thirty years earlier...

    • @brkahn
      @brkahn 6 лет назад +3

      It did. Welte-Mignon.

    • @wannabecat369
      @wannabecat369 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@brkahnThey probly meant "30yrs earlier than it did", i.e. around 1860.

  • @MrGer2295
    @MrGer2295 8 лет назад +5

    Beautiful! Thanks for posting!

  • @hannastaszak1684
    @hannastaszak1684 Год назад +1

    Chopin to najpiękniejsza spuścizna dla ludzkości. ❤️

  • @ganjamozart1435
    @ganjamozart1435 6 лет назад +16

    That left hand improv in the largo is magic!

    • @nicolasvanpoucke.pianist
      @nicolasvanpoucke.pianist 4 года назад +3

      15:35 ?

    • @brownosebear8956
      @brownosebear8956 Год назад +5

      I still can't believe he did that. No modern pianist would dream of being that loose with the score, I think. But it works. Magic indeed. This is my favorite largo...

    • @michaelboyd4233
      @michaelboyd4233 8 месяцев назад +2

      Agreed. For me, the best Largo I've ever heard. Gorgeous sound, a musical line that just floats, expressive yet tempered rubato and that decorative flight at around 16:55 .....so hard to achieve yet so effortless for him.

  • @71lupenzo710
    @71lupenzo710 2 года назад +4

    Magnificenza ❤️

  • @joelkatz8729
    @joelkatz8729 4 года назад +4

    Magnificent

  • @linxi3908
    @linxi3908 10 лет назад +14

    Unbelievable sound quality!

    • @ericastier1646
      @ericastier1646 Год назад +6

      analog microphone, analog recording. Digital is not all the great thing it is pretended to be.

  • @fredericchopin7538
    @fredericchopin7538 2 года назад +3

    Marvelous!

  • @noemiamaria1430
    @noemiamaria1430 2 года назад +3

    O extraordinário acontece com as performances de CORTOT

  • @noshirm6285
    @noshirm6285 3 года назад +15

    Hofmann’s recording of the first movement of this work is the finest I’ve ever heard.

  • @filippoungaretti7095
    @filippoungaretti7095 2 года назад +3

    Lettura straordinaria:interpretazione assoluta e mai raggiunta : genio musicale ineguagliabile nel quale si realizza il vero Chopin.

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 Год назад

      Oh….did you hear Chopin play?? How else could you know what he wanted, or how he played this?? “Absolute and never achieved interpretation”…..seriously? I didn’t realize that a God of Piano had ascended Olympus to proclaim absolutes to mere mortals! (I hope my sarcasm translates!)

  • @willlove8440
    @willlove8440 2 года назад +2

    Phantom of the opera

  • @albertorossi67
    @albertorossi67 11 месяцев назад +1

    Inarrivabile

  • @themusicalgerbil192
    @themusicalgerbil192 10 лет назад +9

    This recording has been cleaned up beautifully!

    • @oneginee
      @oneginee 9 лет назад +4

      +Gerbil Jim I don't think it was cleaned up. It was well recorded on the original. And it's Cortot at the keyboard on a Pleyel piano, that is all.

    • @papa_mia4495
      @papa_mia4495 8 лет назад +4

      I don't think a 33 recording could sound this good, untouched!

    • @ericastier1646
      @ericastier1646 Год назад +3

      This is not cleaned up, you young generation have no clue. I listened to many 33 and 45 and this is normal quality. For your information and this is scientific, the original 1847 daguerotype portrait of Chopin (which we do not have, we only have a photo of it, and if you don't know the difference then learn), has more resolution and captures more details than the large-format digital pro camera they sell today. And if you don't believe me you can check on wikipedia. If you think quality came in the last 40 years you are wrong.

  • @christiankircher369
    @christiankircher369 6 лет назад +7

    thanks to internet all the good recordings cortot did are easily available. when I studied in the 70ties it was very difficult to find them. and the picture of cortot was distorted as the last recordings often were not of that high standard . his golden time was around 1933 . The war did let come his career and productivity to an end which is a sad thing as he would have done much more recordings of best quality otherwise.

    • @ericastier1646
      @ericastier1646 Год назад +1

      In the 2000 it was relatively easy to find a CD recording of Cortot. The internet was not needed. It existed but was nothing more than text and had zero content

  • @meredith218461
    @meredith218461 6 лет назад +20

    It is obvious where Dinu Lipatti found his influence for his legendary 1947 recording. The similarity of interpretation between Cortot and his divinely gifted pupil is uncanny.
    Cortot obviously practised for this recording, his inclination towards muddy passage work and wrong notes is practically non - existent here. When everything came together the playing of Cortot had a compelling expressiveness and special magic.

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 Год назад +1

      Those errors happened in old age. *No one* could have achieved the level of adulation as he did by playing “muddy passage work and wrong note.” I should have thought that would be obvious.

    • @meredith218461
      @meredith218461 Год назад +2

      @@voraciousreader3341 Please don't misinterpret my personal appraisal of Cortot. He was a musician with a broad perceptive understanding of orchestral, chamber and operatic repertoire. He was a respected teacher conductor and of course a marvellous pianist. It was often intimated that his many artistic commitments prevented the necessary practice time required to technically polish as it were his undoubted pianistic skills. What he did possess and unfailingly communicated was the interior drama poetry and indeed sensuality of a composition. As Barenboim once said Cortot discovered the opium in music.
      Yes there were technical splashes and wrong notes at times throughout his distinguished career, yet such was the vision and intellectual rigour of the man these technical shortcomings became irrelevant.

    • @hellbooks3024
      @hellbooks3024 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@voraciousreader3341ever been to a concert?

    • @wannabecat369
      @wannabecat369 2 месяца назад

      @@voraciousreader3341 Considering that people respected even though he 1. often had technical messes and 2. was a Nazi, it is indeed VERY clear that he had the most incredible musicality, enough to make up for both of those faults! However that doesn't really change the fact that he, while theoretically possessing an excellent technique, was often quite unreliable at producing it.

  • @superpianofan6850
    @superpianofan6850 8 лет назад +35

    Best spontaneous performances: Cortot, Katsaris, Argerich.

    • @alanleoneldavid1787
      @alanleoneldavid1787 4 года назад +1

      S. Neuhaus too!

    • @remomazzetti8757
      @remomazzetti8757 4 года назад +3

      Try Heinrich Neuhaus and Dinu Lipatti.

    • @Scherzokinn
      @Scherzokinn 3 года назад +1

      I'll add Blechacz in too. My favorite are Argerich, Blechacz and Cortot.

    • @ninatichman7536
      @ninatichman7536 3 года назад +2

      @@Scherzokinn listen to the recent Argerich performance from Hamburg (without audience)

    • @jackatherton0111
      @jackatherton0111 2 года назад +1

      Glad you included Katsaris, often overlooked.

  • @Younghoonjin
    @Younghoonjin Год назад +1

    WOW!!

  • @Oak13766
    @Oak13766 2 года назад +2

    Genius

  • @themoroccanpianist8953
    @themoroccanpianist8953 3 года назад +4

    The 3rd movement is somewhat played a bit faster than usual, right?

  • @user-nj7hy5vy6p
    @user-nj7hy5vy6p 7 лет назад +2

    Самое гениальное исполнение этого шедевра Шопена.

    • @bach5861
      @bach5861 4 года назад +1

      Послушайте Дину Липатти.

    • @user-ld5hu9ev6c
      @user-ld5hu9ev6c Год назад

      Липатти ученик Корто

  • @carloseduardobarrosrodrigu6318
    @carloseduardobarrosrodrigu6318 2 года назад +3

    Sem a menor dúvida foi o melhor intérprete da obra de Chopin e ainda editou pelas Editions Salabert seus comentários dr como bem executar as obras de Chopin e Schumann.

  • @notaire2
    @notaire2 5 лет назад +1

    Klare und dynamische Interpretation dieses fein komponierten Meisterwerks im relativ freiwilligen Tempo mit vollig effektiver Dynamik. Die glänzenden Töne seines Klaviers ist immer noch unübertrefflich. Die Tonqualität ist auch erstaunlich hoch als eine Aufnahme von achtzig Jahre vor zur Zeit des Hochladens. Alles ist unvergleichlich!

  • @clintclint8809
    @clintclint8809 8 лет назад +2

    Wow

  • @user-fp7yf2zs9i
    @user-fp7yf2zs9i 2 года назад +2

    Cortot はやっぱり素晴らしいですね✨pianoの鳴りが美しいです🎵 コメント欄皆さんChopinのhardcoreなファンな方でしょう。私はBunin(H.Neuhaus's grandson) のChopinが好き💕です。彼のお父様、お祖父様の名前もあがってますね。嬉しいです🎵🙋⤴

  • @Palestrina-us8sv
    @Palestrina-us8sv 4 года назад +9

    Wait until you've heard Dinu Lipatti ;)

    • @blonda.bacoviana
      @blonda.bacoviana 3 года назад +6

      I love Lipatti's version. I listen to it almost every day. I feel a little sad when I have to pause his recordings for a few days just so I can discover other brilliant pianists, like Cortot is.

  • @farazhaiderpiano
    @farazhaiderpiano Год назад +8

    One of the most contrapuntal works of Chopin - of course, counterpoint is not the only thing that makes a composition great, there are many other things - but Chopin’s counterpoint here rivals Mozart, who famously wrote a fugue in the finale of his last symphony to prove he could write as excellent counterpoint as J.S. Bach.
    The voicing is played excellently by Cortot. I have yet to hear Novaes’s rendition, but I suspect it’ll be tough choosing between these two royalty Chopin-pianists.

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 Год назад

      “Counterpoint” is not what you think it is. Obviously. In music, “counterpoint” means that two or more melody lines are combined into a single harmonic entity in which every voice retains its individuality. Bach and other Baroque composers were masters at this style of composition, which did not carry into the Romantic era, except in occasional pieces. This piece has one melodic voice, which may very occasional change hands, but the rest of the music is accompaniment to that voice.

    • @farazhaiderpiano
      @farazhaiderpiano Год назад

      @@voraciousreader3341 I do know the definition of counterpoint, and I’m well aware of Bach’s overt use of independent thoughts for different lines. Chopin admired Bach greatly, and indeed embraced counterpoint from Op. 50 onwards, although not in the typical form we are used to seeing. I’m not the person you should be talking to about this though, I am by no means an expert. But there is, as well as I’m aware, alot of counterpoint in Chopin’s later works.

  • @christiankircher369
    @christiankircher369 6 лет назад +11

    cortot does not play chopin he was chopin when playing

  • @mateusrf12
    @mateusrf12 2 года назад +1

    0:00

  • @tatiponce8677
    @tatiponce8677 3 года назад +2

    Es el Padre de los concertustas.

  • @user-hi5gi2gt8b
    @user-hi5gi2gt8b 2 месяца назад

    Альфред Корто́ !
    Лондон ! 1933г. !

  • @mateusrf12
    @mateusrf12 2 года назад +1

    0:01

  • @alexduio7639
    @alexduio7639 Год назад +2

    c est la meilleure interpretation ... french agressive c ca !

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 Год назад

      So you’ve decided this for the rest of humanity, eh? You really need to incorporate the phrase, *”IN MY [humble] OPINION”* to your comments, or people will laugh derisively.

  • @CarmenReyes-em9np
    @CarmenReyes-em9np Год назад

    Quien mejor sabe cómo se interortada Chopinin ? Entre mis libros siempre hubo. un indicácion de Bolet ,pero dices quie fue su 3sposá ,se molestan

  • @themoroccanpianist8953
    @themoroccanpianist8953 3 года назад +2

    At 11:51 , should it be played like that ?

  • @tatiponce8677
    @tatiponce8677 3 года назад +1

    No fue de mi año que pena. Correría todo lo mal copiado de Chopin.

  • @davisatdavis1
    @davisatdavis1 6 месяцев назад +5

    I hate modern pianos.

  • @arro08107
    @arro08107 2 года назад +2

    ちょっと顔が怖すぎる

  • @alexduio7639
    @alexduio7639 Год назад +1

    c deja plus agressif ... k les pseudo joueurs d chopin ... serieux c une bataille cette sonate sinon vous avez pas compris

  • @gabriele6596
    @gabriele6596 3 года назад +2

    This sonata is all progressions and technique. The part very musical are very few.