I watched this video at age 12 after my professor recommended me to play it, then at age 15 came back to this video after this piece gave me the highest mark in competition and exam. Now at 20 I went to Applied Science, no longer playing piano competitively. However, on the bad days when I get so depressed that I cannot leave the bed, I would play this video and feel amazed of how far I have come in my life. Thank you Sokolov. Thank you Beethoven.
Tahnk you very much for uploading. a great performance, brilliant, a new reading of Beethoven's place at the beginnings of Romanticism. At some points I feel I can hear an old hapsichord still trying to express itself, but the pianoforte wins the battle. Great technique.
@doctordressen I agree Sokolov does sound superb doing Beethoven, but I would not dare calling beethoven's piano writing clumsy haha I'm not exactly sure what 'elegant and pianistic in the non-Gould sense' means??
@VladislavGomulka I'm saying its unreasonable for performers to have a sanctimonious attitude toward their paying supporters, and if there are dimensions to their playing inaccessible to this 'public' that is at least in part due to the fact that not everyone has the luxury of hundreds of hours of practice time to delve into the music and learn the things you can only learn by playing. Artistic discipline of any kind, perfected, requires a mass of dabbling amateurs to pay these specialists.
Sokolov is a human clockwork, arguably conceived by the great clockmaker himself. There is a respectable tradition of mechanical music, some built into music boxes, others into the heads of musicians. Of course, when a man puts such efforts into attaining technical perfection, he loses what makes us mere mortals vibrate: The natural burst into song. Beethoven certainly never lost sight of it to the bitter end. It's just that something which makes you want to sing along. Or that beckoning to dance in the sky. I'll go back to my beloved Kempff, thank you.
Really? Can't agree. I was actually thinking there was really more rubato than is warranted (it's very early Romantic - really classical). I think he gets away with it as it adds to the poetry. Some exquisite phrasing - never mannered. Perhaps you might like Lang Lang or Liberace
@@martingwinnutt3521 ladies& gentlemen---we have yet another record jacket educated CD " player" flexing his opinion ? Is do we even care? Great artist can interpret any way they chose-----unless said criticism can be verified by YOUR OWN WORTHY interpretation----save yr air.
I watched this video at age 12 after my professor recommended me to play it, then at age 15 came back to this video after this piece gave me the highest mark in competition and exam. Now at 20 I went to Applied Science, no longer playing piano competitively. However, on the bad days when I get so depressed that I cannot leave the bed, I would play this video and feel amazed of how far I have come in my life.
Thank you Sokolov. Thank you Beethoven.
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Michael Korstick - Maurizio Pollini - G. Sokolov - diese Aufnahmen sollte man kennen!
dymanics porportion,sound quality,how it can be!!!!
Bravo
Ravissante coupe de cheveux .... lol
J'adore son jeu, absolument magnifique !
¡La madre como toca!
Tahnk you very much for uploading. a great performance, brilliant, a new reading of Beethoven's place at the beginnings of Romanticism. At some points I feel I can hear an old hapsichord still trying to express itself, but the pianoforte wins the battle. Great technique.
Love your comment here!
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@kandutery You are a man of a high culture
@VladislavGomulka only sometimes
@doctordressen
I agree Sokolov does sound superb doing Beethoven, but I would not dare calling beethoven's piano writing clumsy haha
I'm not exactly sure what 'elegant and pianistic in the non-Gould sense' means??
@VladislavGomulka I'm saying its unreasonable for performers to have a sanctimonious attitude toward their paying supporters, and if there are dimensions to their playing inaccessible to this 'public' that is at least in part due to the fact that not everyone has the luxury of hundreds of hours of practice time to delve into the music and learn the things you can only learn by playing. Artistic discipline of any kind, perfected, requires a mass of dabbling amateurs to pay these specialists.
Sokolov is a human clockwork, arguably conceived by the great clockmaker himself. There is a respectable tradition of mechanical music, some built into music boxes, others into the heads of musicians. Of course, when a man puts such efforts into attaining technical perfection, he loses what makes us mere mortals vibrate:
The natural burst into song. Beethoven certainly never lost sight of it to the bitter end. It's just that something which makes you want to sing along. Or that beckoning to dance in the sky. I'll go back to my beloved Kempff, thank you.
Spoken like an armchair "expert"---NON -pianist. Go play better or shut -up!
You seem like a scholar in philosophy, literature and history. However, a nobody in music.
Really? Can't agree. I was actually thinking there was really more rubato than is warranted (it's very early Romantic - really classical). I think he gets away with it as it adds to the poetry. Some exquisite phrasing - never mannered.
Perhaps you might like Lang Lang or Liberace
@@martingwinnutt3521 ladies& gentlemen---we have yet another record jacket educated CD " player" flexing his opinion
? Is do we even care?
Great artist can interpret any way they chose-----unless said criticism can be verified by YOUR OWN WORTHY interpretation----save yr air.
@@tedallison6112 Which statement are you objecting to?
exasperating....