Ivo Pogorelich was born in Belgrade in 1958 as son of a musician. He received his first piano lessons at the age of seven and went to Moscow at the age of twelve to study at the Central Special Music School and then at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory. In 1976 he began intensive studies with the renowned pianist and teacher Aliza Kezeradze, with whom he was married from 1980 until her untimely death in 1996. Mme. Kezeradze was able to transmit the spirit and matter of the school of Beethoven and Liszt, the tradition of the Liszt-Siloti school, originated in Vienna and than carried through to the Conservatory of St. Petersburg, flourishing towards the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th. Century. Pogorelich´s sound, concerts and recordings pay homage to this exceptionally refined, visionary, and truly revolutionary woman, who so lovingly made Pogorelich a unique artist of genius. Ivo Pogorelich won the first prize at the Alessandro Casagrande Competition at Terni (Italy) in 1978 and the first price at the Montreal International Music Competition in 1980. In October of the same year he entered the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw where, when prevented from participating in the final contest as a soloist with the orchestra, a fierce controversy resulted in the renowned argentinian pianist Martha Argerich, a member of the jury, protesting and leaving the competition, joined by other members of the jury panel, with the words “He is a genius”. The New York Times once wrote “He played each note exactly, with such a feeling, such expression, he was an entire orchestra- it was as if he played 200 years ahead of our time”. In this spirit Ivo Pogorelich is known today as a poet of the instrument. Ivo Pogorelich is not only an artist of the highest caliber, discipline and musicianship, but the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take. Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete. Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, love and compassion. -- Sound and Silence, Life and Death, Time and Space; collapse into the Eternal moment of Infinity. -- ----------------------- "you have to get into the phycological frame of mind in which composers wrote their works in order to discover its secrets. virtuosity comes from the greek origin virtue. original is finding the origin Gaudi said. rachmaninov had arthritis at the end of his life, he was so weak that his sound was very short, that is the reason he played fast, to fill the vacuum. if you have long sound you are in command to achieve clarity and the hypnotic sound between the notes. the problem was always the conflict and the difference between the absolute and the relative quality. beauty in music is like in diamonds, the purest diamond in the world is the Koh-i-Noor, it is the absolute beauty to which others with relative beauty are compared. work as hard as a galley slave. one should always try as much as possible to rediscover music as though one is hearing it for the first time, searching everywhere for new meanings and new depths. the highest function of the artist is to release the spirituality and the emotional immediacy that lie within the score. sound becomes metaphysical only when you have completely explored all physical possibilities. you should explore until reaching the absurd. music takes you to another universe of eternity that remains with you after the concert is finished." Ivo Pogorelich. ------------------------------------
Exactly ! Mr. Pogorelich is out of this world. All of his Chopin's are marvelous ( and another composers too !! ). He is a great pianist. I saw him in México City, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, playing a recital and also a concert with orchestra, both were marvelous. He is a great artist.
The greatest pianist that I ever saw perform (four times in San Francisco). Unique, unorthodox, difficult, moody, introspective, self-doubting. Genius.
@@goktugblack how can you make a comparison, the approach is completely different both in sound and musical taste, you can make a comparison with aregerich and michelangeli, or zimerman and michekangeli, but michelangeki is a traditionalist, pogorelich clearly likes innovation, just how...
Pogorelich somehow can feel the sound before he presses the key, mix the sound in his head and then put it on the piano. And his technical skills are so goood that he can control it all the times. It is the secret behind this beautiful sound. Sometimes he plays very slowly but his brain works really fast. He is a genius.
This performance of Chopin's Sonata no. 2 is really awesome, I've heard a few other interpretations, but his is the best for me, he was totally fluent and in control, especially in the parts where other performers find real difficulty. He doesn't mess with it in terms of changing the tempo as I've heard others do, it's unpretentious, potent, technically and artistically brilliant, and totally absorbing.
It is amazing that we people always tend to look for things in someones performamce like dynamics, tempi etc. We tend to get occupied by,,technical"things and try to nit pick things we dont like but i have to say this. I am amazed by the emotions and life that each note has, its like a story of great magnitude that is told by expressing yourself through. It is sad that in this,, competition days" we forget this. Bravo Ivo for being yourself, thanks for sharing your story.
It's interesting and somewhat ironic that you should mention these "Competition Days" since Pogo was the only pianist to become famous for NOT winning the International Chopin Piano Competition. If you don't know the fascinating story you would do well to look it up.
When you express emotion, do you cry, do your face makes expression, do you voice change, do your body makes movement... dynamics and tempo are those things that carries emotion, without them, only God can know a man's emotion, and you are not God, none of us is.
Is not about Pogorelich, but Chopin. Interpreting is acting, if you want to remain "yourself", write your music. I admire Pogo, but frankly he doesn't give a shit about sheet and what Chopin dully noted. No surprise, the people who are unconditionally his fans are no performers at all, therefore they have no clue what is in the score, so its just about "emotion".
@@Paroles_et_Musique Not so, there is structural underpinning, FC wrote to be magnified and transformed, that is what he is - Romanticism was a cultural tsunami unique in the history of humankind -
Yes I as just listener (not prof musician) I feel that his each note has always a story to tell, their own story (not Ivo's, as many who don't like his performance often says) full of intense emotion. Inner integrity... so fascinating, transcendant, we are taken in total another universe.... He is not expressing 'his' individual interpretation, but for me he dive into the music itself and explore the hidden pontential. Maybe even beyond the composer had intended...it is IN the music itself. So actually I am very much looking forward to ask all the composers in heaven, what do they find of his rendition, when I am died and go to heaven. (hopefully to go the same place with them to be able to meet in spirit ^^)
Pogorelich honors Chopin´s music...resurrecting his soul, his spirit....like no one. "Chopin´s playing evoked all the sweet and sorrowful voices of the past. Chopin sang the tears of music...in a whole gamut of different forms and voices, from that of the warrior to those of children and angels..." Bohdan Zaleski, polish poet, personal diary 2 feb 1844. "Under the fingers of Chopins´s hand the piano became the voice of an archangel, an orchestra, an army, a raging ocean, a creation of the universe, the end of the world." Solange Clesinger
Chopin's music is an iron fist within a velvet glove. Robert Schumann said Chopin's music was "a cannon buried in flowers." Pogorelich is eccentric, sometimes too much so for my taste, yet he wins me over. I believe I'm hearing Franz Liszt play Chopin when I listen to this.
Погорелич --- один из величайших пианистов в истории, а Рихтер --- просто раскрученный сталинский любимец, как все эти Козловские, Максаковы и пр. Его можно слушать, только ничего не зная про Горовица, Черкасского, Уайлда, великих немцев, а также, конечно, Султанова, Коробейникова, Тонконогова, Гримо, Малофеева, Бакирова!!! Вот истинные вершины Гималаев, и Погорелич среди них, возможно, Джомолунгма (хотя это, конечно, вопрос вкуса, для меня, например, Бакиров). Рихтер тоже гора --- Народная на Урале (1900 метров). Это я пишу как человек, начинавший именно с Рихтера при советской пропаганде!
Astounding and other-worldly. The last moveent is such a knuckle-buster that it often sounds garbled, even when played by the best pianists. With Ivo, however, every note is distinct and remarkably clear. He truly is a consummate maestro of the pianoforte.
Awe-inspiring....and at the end of the Finale, Ivo's expression, upon hitting the last chord, resembling that of a person who just woke up from a sincere prayer....that gave me goosebumps
Pogorelich dedicated his artistic life to the Chopin..he is enjoying when he is a playing his opus..that's when I said that he is a Chopin..his soul belongs to the Chopin..I am from Croatia like Pogorelich..I saw his performance and I love it..
@@dabic3795 if that is so important than this is a fact: Pogorelić was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Pogorelić became a Croatian citizen.
His performance........inspires me. I have just recorded (Scherzo) the second movement of this sonata on my youtube channel. Ivo Pogorelich is without question the great interpereter of Chopin music.
I've never really appreciated how haunting and solemnly beautiful the funeral march is until now. I think we're often too familiar with it in media to give it the credit it deserves.
I just can't stop crying when I listen to this, and it's those little tears...that take ages to roll out, it is simply mesmerising to be in this state when emotions are drawn out to the brim and sit there....and sit there... and sit there....making you almost choke with them, with the beauty, with the joy of being alive...and then when the heart cannot contain it any more this little tear rolls down....just one.
I am truly loving this performance. Beautiful tone in the March at the beginning. What a marvelous composition of Chopin. Unique as are all of his great works. The last movement is another example of how he followed the lead of his unparallelled Romantic imagination, which with the great compositional skill he possessed, resulted in the genius that we all know and love. This playing shows more seasoning and maturity than what Pogorelich displayed in the Chopin Competition years earlier, and his body movements are less distorted. In the gorgeous D flat major theme of the March, his playing was almost too quiet, here, almost too rich, for a theme marked pp and is like a memory from the past of the loved one who has died. Still, I really enejoyed both this performance and the one in the competition.
Amazing! I am in favor of traditional playing but I recognize that this interpretation is a valuable contribution to the experience of this Sonata. Novel, beautiful, emotional.
Pogorelich is a genius. I don't know why they couldn't make it to the finals of the Chopin competition. Such resonance! They brought out the hidden serene sadness in the major key-so moving! It's the best interpretation I've ever heard, bringing tears to my eyes.
Ivo Pogorelich is without question the best interpereter of Copin in history. His playing is divinely accurate, sensitive and expressive to a point which seems to go beyond what is humanly possible. I do hope Mssr. Pogorelich will, someday, at the time of his choosing, bless his listeners with some of his own compositions. A soul this expressive must have something beautiful and rare to say musically for the 21st century and for the Eternal.
It's a shame the recording quality is so poor, this is a glorious rendition of this work. While traditionally that's a bit fast for the third movement it works so well (albeit more ominously) in this. With the relentlessness of the tempo it really creates an intensity you don't often hear.
@@bengunn99 I checked now indeed why? it's like in a same room... Gramophone? Is there maybe CD recording of this? This come so deep into the soul....amazing xxx all the praise to Ivo!
This by far is one of the best interpretation on you tube, Argerich left the chopin competition (in the jury) because he didn't won; despite his last years of "crazyness" the approce of this sonata is magnificent, well done Ivo
@@themoroccanpianist8953 I'm not sure, to be fair he has always been a bit eccentric, but as far as I know in the mid 2000s he has already started leaning much more into that
I think this is the best recording of this piece. Even though others perform this awesomely such as Pollini and Richter, this one in particular always moves me to tears.
I wonder how many extraordinary musicmakers do we lose every few years because they are idiosyncratic or have music so deep inside of them along with integrity . The judges are all the teachers and know the performers so when a performer sees something everyone should realize here is not "just another pianist" but someone who can make you reevaluate life etc. Pogorelich reevaluated everything too much .Hear his Tchaik and you think he 's found a way to muse jazz improvising and classcal music . It could have saved our music but the outcry was too much ! The scherzo here is a direct rough affair close to Willy Kapell . Who can say if the contrast with trio is too much ? The finale unforgettable !
@@MrInterestingthings Gary Graffman wouldn't allow his students Yuja Wang and Lang Lang to enter any competitions. He didn't like the idea of competiions in classical music. Horowitz felt the same way.
@@excelsior999 It's general consensus that Horowitz would likely have been eliminated early on, had he participated in any piano competition. It goes without saying that Glenn Gould would as well.
"Chopin´s playing evoked all the sweet and sorrowful voices of the past. Chopin sang the tears of music...in a whole gamut of different forms and voices, from that of the warrior to those of children and angels..." Bohdan Zaleski, polish poet, personal diary 2 feb 1844. "Under the fingers of Chopins´s hand the piano became the voice of an archangel, an orchestra, an army, a raging ocean, a creation of the universe, the end of the world." Solange Clesinger. Ivo is the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take. Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete. Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, redemption, love and compassion. Sound and Silence, Life and Death, Time and Space; collapse into the Eternal moment of Infinity.
Wow, just wow! What a magnificent, stupendous performance! Lyricism and passion, perfectly balanced.
9 лет назад+24
Dziś poniosłam bardzo bolesną stratę. W nocy zmarła nagle moja cioteczna siostra Danuta, z którą się razem wychowywałyśmy. To moja była moja ostatnia żyjąca krewna. Była córką pianistki, wychowana, podobnie jak ja, na muzyce Chopina. Kochała muzykę nade wszystko. Dlatego postanowiłam uczcić pamięć Danuty, tym mistrzowskim wykonaniem Ivo Pogorelicza Sonaty B-mol z Marszem pogrzebowym. Mam nadzieję, że powróciła duchem do naszego domu, nad naszą ukochaną rzekę i połączyła się z duszami drogich zmarłych.Wieczne odpoczywanie Racz Jej dać Panie, a światłość wiekuista niechaj Jej świeci. Będziesz zawsze w moim sercu!
Wyrazy głębokiego współczucia, składam na Twoje ręce droga Elżuniu, tak ogromna taka strata najbliższej i jedynej osoby, zostaniesz teraz sama, miejmy nadzieję, że Twoje życzenia połączenia tych dusz w pełni się spełnią, na pewno będzie tam na resztę swoich cierpliwie czekać przygotowując honorowe miejsce na ich przyjęcie, niestety życie musi dalej iść swoim torem. Pozostań jak najdłużej wśród nas. Dziękuję Ci, że jesteś Gosia.
9 лет назад
Kochana Moja. Dziękuję Ci za te dobre słowa pociechy. Tak życie jest twarde, a śmierć nieubłagana, czeka nas wszystkich bez żadnych wyjątków i to jest ta jedyna sprawiedliwość w naszym teraźniejszym bycie. Trzymam się jakoś, ale najwięcej żal mi syna Danuty, bo on, meżczyzna pod pięćdziesiątkę, stary kawaler, został zupełnie sam, gdyż rodzeństwa nie miał. Jest kompletnie załamany i niemal bezradny po śmierci Matki. Bardzo mu współczuję, ale cóż więcej można zrobić, nic! Raz jeszcze Ci dziękuję i z serca pozdrawiam.
Niechaj Twoja Krewna spoczywa w spokoju . Twoje piękne pożegnanie Sonatą i w wykonaniu Ivo to dar na który sobie zasłużyła . Szlachetna jesteś w działaniu .
Elżbieta Gizela Erban Kochana Elżbieto , przyjmij proszę , wyrazy współczucia. "Śmierc jest kresem życia ziemskiego.Czas jest miarą naszego zycia; w jego biegu zmieniamy się i starzejemy. Jak w przypadku wszystkich istot żyjacych na ziemi , śmierć jawi się jako normalny koniec zycia."
I‘ve listened to quite a few performances of this sonata now and so far, this reminds my favorite. Especially the Scherzo. I love the tempo and there‘s something about his touch in the right hand. The melody sounds incredibly beautiful.
+André Uhres And also Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli but all three have their personal interpretations and for me, at least, it is difficult to select my favourite. All three are absolute MAGICIANS at the keyboard!
This Hamburg Stein. sounds very good. You can not come across a New York sounding this good with this many variously contrasting timbres and colours ranging from the bottom register to the top. That crystal brilliance is just euphoric!!
I believe Steinway lost its status of top piano available a long time ago and not to just one brand. Still sounds great, but imo Bösendörfer Imperial and mainly Fazioli pianos are above. Playing F278 was really magical experience
I am not a musician and have no musical education but after hearing this performance I 'know' now what genius is. Chopin, Pogorelich and I am sure many more not known to me have it. I am stricken and so grateful to be able to listen to the acheivement and the intellect of such artists. They live in another world to mine. Occasionally I catch a glimpse and this performance was just one such. (A stiff drink is definitely called for after that experience).
this performer is very different to the run of the mill concert pianists - i remember when Pogorelich came onto the scene some years ago - he was marketed up more for his movie star good looks ; I don't recall hearing him play too much back then - but now have acquainted myself happily with many of his performances - and my, what a great pianist !!!!
ivo is way beyond sound, ...pogorelich has the most powerful and perfect union of form, harmony and melody, i have no doubt he is the best interpreter ever, surpassing maria callas and horowitz, and at the level of the greatest composers to whom he seems to play for.
Polscy sluchacze i widzowie bardzo to przezyli.Martha Argerich,zasiadajaca wtedy w jury. na znak protestu opuscila jury,poniewaz uwazala "odrzucenie Pogorelicza " jako bardzo krzywdzace go i niesprawiedliewe. (jestem z Polski
IMO, those were the best years of Pogorelich's piano. From my particular POV, it's hard to find pianists comparable to that Pogo. Curiously enough, I know more videos than pure audios of that epoch. There are some video gems here in YT. Thanks for putting it here.👍
Prelepo....ne mogu zaboraviti njegova dva koncerta u Sava centru davne 1980.godine, jos uvek i posle toliko godina, secam se utiska koji je ostavio na mene.....
This was the epoch where I believe IP was at another level over other pianists. The last years before his hiatus from concerts. There is a number of videos on dvd (more than audio albums), like this, where he performs in a superb, superd way. I am so grateful to who put that material in YT. It is a precious set of classical performances that could disappear forever. I dont know any version on cd or in streaming, of those "sacred" videos. Thanks!
This is so amazing, the first movement has so much power, wonderful LH propulsion and then such a soulful rendition of the melodic parts. Amazing technical mastery with so much depth.
Ivo Pogorelich was born in Belgrade in 1958 as son of a musician. He received his first piano lessons at the age of seven and went to Moscow at the age of twelve to study at the Central Special Music School and then at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory. In 1976 he began intensive studies with the renowned pianist and teacher Aliza Kezeradze, with whom he was married from 1980 until her untimely death in 1996.
Mme. Kezeradze was able to transmit the spirit and matter of the school of Beethoven and Liszt, the tradition of the Liszt-Siloti school, originated in Vienna and than carried through to the Conservatory of St. Petersburg, flourishing towards the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th. Century.
Pogorelich´s sound, concerts and recordings pay homage to this exceptionally refined, visionary, and truly revolutionary woman, who so lovingly made Pogorelich a unique artist of genius.
Ivo Pogorelich won the first prize at the Alessandro Casagrande Competition at Terni (Italy) in 1978 and the first price at the Montreal International Music Competition in 1980. In October of the same year he entered the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw where, when prevented from participating in the final contest as a soloist with the orchestra, a fierce controversy resulted in the renowned argentinian pianist Martha Argerich, a member of the jury, protesting and leaving the competition, joined by other members of the jury panel, with the words “He is a genius”.
The New York Times once wrote “He played each note exactly, with such a feeling, such expression, he was an entire orchestra- it was as if he played 200 years ahead of our time”. In this spirit Ivo Pogorelich is known today as a poet of the instrument.
Ivo Pogorelich is not only an artist of the highest caliber, discipline and musicianship, but the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take.
Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete.
Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, love and compassion.
-- Sound and Silence, Life and Death, Time and Space; collapse into the Eternal moment of Infinity. --
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"you have to get into the phycological frame of mind in which composers wrote their works in order to discover its secrets.
virtuosity comes from the greek origin virtue.
original is finding the origin Gaudi said.
rachmaninov had arthritis at the end of his life, he was so weak that his sound was very short, that is the reason he played fast, to fill the vacuum.
if you have long sound you are in command to achieve clarity and the hypnotic sound between the notes.
the problem was always the conflict and the difference between the absolute and the relative quality.
beauty in music is like in diamonds, the purest diamond in the world is the Koh-i-Noor, it is the absolute beauty to which others with relative beauty are compared.
work as hard as a galley slave.
one should always try as much as possible to rediscover music as though one is hearing it for the first time, searching everywhere for new meanings and new depths.
the highest function of the artist is to release the spirituality and the emotional immediacy that lie within the score.
sound becomes metaphysical only when you have completely explored all physical possibilities. you should explore until reaching the absurd.
music takes you to another universe of eternity that remains with you after the concert is finished."
Ivo Pogorelich.
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One of my very favorite piano performances of anything. Pogorelic brings something to this sonata that no one else can.
Harrison Steudlein that's the point
Exactly ! Mr. Pogorelich is out of this world. All of his Chopin's are marvelous ( and another composers too !! ). He is a great pianist. I saw him in México City, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, playing a recital and also a concert with orchestra, both were marvelous. He is a great artist.
Exactly!He is out of this world ,Just like N.TESLA ,DJOKOVIC, M.PUPIN ............
He brings a lot of banging.
ソナタ3番はショパン作品傑作といわれるが、2番もすばらしい…❤🌹ポゴレリチさんの映像もみられるなんて夢のよう
The greatest pianist that I ever saw perform (four times in San Francisco). Unique, unorthodox, difficult, moody, introspective, self-doubting. Genius.
ghostwriter11 you didn't see richter playing it at 3 meters ? be sure horowitz was a great between greats but a lot are also
His arms must be very long to play at three metres
genius!
@@ЕкатеринаАнтропова-ю7т .
@@ArnaudUpinsky_ .
Pianistów jest wielu, Ivo Pogorelich jest jeden 🎉
Nobody plays like Ivo. He brought a whole new level of feel to this piece, my favorite version by far!
Ivo Pogorelich is a great pianist!
@@goktugblack how can you make a comparison, the approach is completely different both in sound and musical taste, you can make a comparison with aregerich and michelangeli, or zimerman and michekangeli, but michelangeki is a traditionalist, pogorelich clearly likes innovation, just how...
God, what gorgeous music. Ivo Pogorelich is the best with this work. Clean, melodic as hell, original, full of passion.
We are blessed to still have pianists as competent and artistic as Ivo. I hope the tradition continues.
"competent and artistic" - says expert traditionalist.
@@QuocBinh-us7lb if he was a traditionalis he wouldn't have said one word of Praise for pogorelich don't you think?
A genius playing music written by a genius on a genius instrument. Mahhhhhvelous.
Pogorelich somehow can feel the sound before he presses the key, mix the sound in his head and then put it on the piano. And his technical skills are so goood that he can control it all the times. It is the secret behind this beautiful sound. Sometimes he plays very slowly but his brain works really fast. He is a genius.
This performance of Chopin's Sonata no. 2 is really awesome, I've heard a few other interpretations, but his is the best for me, he was totally fluent and in control, especially in the parts where other performers find real difficulty. He doesn't mess with it in terms of changing the tempo as I've heard others do, it's unpretentious, potent, technically and artistically brilliant, and totally absorbing.
Yes, really a Great interpretation
honorable mention, martha argerich also has a good one
Best performance of this piece I've found. The Marche Funebre actually works well with a real march like tempo.
It is amazing that we people always tend to look for things in someones performamce like dynamics, tempi etc. We tend to get occupied by,,technical"things and try to nit pick things we dont like but i have to say this. I am amazed by the emotions and life that each note has, its like a story of great magnitude that is told by expressing yourself through. It is sad that in this,, competition days" we forget this. Bravo Ivo for being yourself, thanks for sharing your story.
It's interesting and somewhat ironic that you should mention these "Competition Days" since Pogo was the only pianist to become famous for NOT winning the International Chopin Piano Competition. If you don't know the fascinating story you would do well to look it up.
When you express emotion, do you cry, do your face makes expression, do you voice change, do your body makes movement... dynamics and tempo are those things that carries emotion, without them, only God can know a man's emotion, and you are not God, none of us is.
Is not about Pogorelich, but Chopin. Interpreting is acting, if you want to remain "yourself", write your music. I admire Pogo, but frankly he doesn't give a shit about sheet and what Chopin dully noted. No surprise, the people who are unconditionally his fans are no performers at all, therefore they have no clue what is in the score, so its just about "emotion".
@@Paroles_et_Musique Not so, there is structural underpinning, FC wrote to be magnified and transformed, that is what he is - Romanticism was a cultural tsunami unique in the history of humankind -
Yes I as just listener (not prof musician) I feel that his each note has always a story to tell, their own story (not Ivo's, as many who don't like his performance often says) full of intense emotion. Inner integrity... so fascinating, transcendant, we are taken in total another universe.... He is not expressing 'his' individual interpretation, but for me he dive into the music itself and explore the hidden pontential. Maybe even beyond the composer had intended...it is IN the music itself. So actually I am very much looking forward to ask all the composers in heaven, what do they find of his rendition, when I am died and go to heaven. (hopefully to go the same place with them to be able to meet in spirit ^^)
Pogorelich honors Chopin´s music...resurrecting his soul, his spirit....like no one.
"Chopin´s playing evoked all the sweet and sorrowful voices of the past. Chopin sang the tears of music...in a whole gamut of different forms and voices, from that of the warrior to those of children and angels..."
Bohdan Zaleski, polish poet, personal diary 2 feb 1844.
"Under the fingers of Chopins´s hand the piano became the voice of an archangel, an orchestra, an army, a raging ocean, a creation of the universe, the end of the world."
Solange Clesinger
Chopin's music is an iron fist within a velvet glove. Robert Schumann said Chopin's music was "a cannon buried in flowers." Pogorelich is eccentric, sometimes too much so for my taste, yet he wins me over. I believe I'm hearing Franz Liszt play Chopin when I listen to this.
+David De Valera 👍
+David De Valera I agree with you.Bravo!
.....mknm
Aha. Do you know the early critic of Chopin, Huneker ?
Ivo Pogorelich is a great pianist!! One of the most admirable interpretation of Chopin Sonate #2.
Command, control, & voicing in a class of its own!!! Genius interpretation!!!
The more I listen Ivo Pogorelich, the more I love it !
Heaven on earth when Ivo plays!! One and only! Ivo Pogorelic!
I have never listened to his playing this piece without tears falling down on my face. Ivo is my favourite pianist along with Sviatoslav Richter.
That's true. his interpretation is wonderful.
Погорелич --- один из величайших пианистов в истории, а Рихтер --- просто раскрученный сталинский любимец, как все эти Козловские, Максаковы и пр. Его можно слушать, только ничего не зная про Горовица, Черкасского, Уайлда, великих немцев, а также, конечно, Султанова, Коробейникова, Тонконогова, Гримо, Малофеева, Бакирова!!! Вот истинные вершины Гималаев, и Погорелич среди них, возможно, Джомолунгма (хотя это, конечно, вопрос вкуса, для меня, например, Бакиров). Рихтер тоже гора --- Народная на Урале (1900 метров). Это я пишу как человек, начинавший именно с Рихтера при советской пропаганде!
Иво передает всю глубину этой Сонаты. Его исполнение яркое, значительное, лишённое сентиментальности, мне очень нравится! Ныне живущий Гений!
Astounding and other-worldly.
The last moveent is such a knuckle-buster that it often sounds garbled, even when played by the best pianists. With Ivo, however, every note is distinct and remarkably clear. He truly is a consummate maestro of the pianoforte.
Awe-inspiring....and at the end of the Finale, Ivo's expression, upon hitting the last chord, resembling that of a person who just woke up from a sincere prayer....that gave me goosebumps
Pogorelich dedicated his artistic life to the Chopin..he is enjoying when he is a playing his opus..that's when I said that he is a Chopin..his soul belongs to the Chopin..I am from Croatia like Pogorelich..I saw his performance and I love it..
Ivo is from Belgrade, not Croatia.
@@dabic3795 if that is so important than this is a fact: Pogorelić was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Pogorelić became a Croatian citizen.
His performance........inspires me. I have just recorded (Scherzo) the second movement of this sonata on my youtube channel. Ivo Pogorelich is without question the great interpereter of Chopin music.
I've never really appreciated how haunting and solemnly beautiful the funeral march is until now. I think we're often too familiar with it in media to give it the credit it deserves.
So many pianists have played this movement like a maudlin dirge. Pogo played it with the dignity that it deserves.
I just can't stop crying when I listen to this, and it's those little tears...that take ages to roll out, it is simply mesmerising to be in this state when emotions are drawn out to the brim and sit there....and sit there... and sit there....making you almost choke with them, with the beauty, with the joy of being alive...and then when the heart cannot contain it any more this little tear rolls down....just one.
Never hears this played so lyrically. Not rushed like some other performances.
I am truly loving this performance. Beautiful tone in the March at the beginning. What a marvelous composition of Chopin. Unique as are all of his great works. The last movement is another example of how he followed the lead of his unparallelled Romantic imagination, which with the great compositional skill he possessed, resulted in the genius that we all know and love. This playing shows more seasoning and maturity than what Pogorelich displayed in the Chopin Competition years earlier, and his body movements are less distorted. In the gorgeous D flat major theme of the March, his playing was almost too quiet, here, almost too rich, for a theme marked pp and is like a memory from the past of the loved one who has died. Still, I really enejoyed both this performance and the one in the competition.
Last movement is like the flash back before death!
Amazing! I am in favor of traditional playing but I recognize that this interpretation is a valuable contribution to the experience of this Sonata. Novel, beautiful, emotional.
Maravilloso, bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Pogorelich is a genius. I don't know why they couldn't make it to the finals of the Chopin competition. Such resonance! They brought out the hidden serene sadness in the major key-so moving! It's the best interpretation I've ever heard, bringing tears to my eyes.
Ещё прекрасно играет эту Сонату Владимир Горовец!
He is a gem! I love his sensibilities and the expressiveness he puts in his playing! Great pianist!
Ivo Pogorelich is without question the best interpereter of Copin in history. His playing is divinely accurate, sensitive and expressive to a point which seems to go beyond what is humanly possible. I do hope Mssr. Pogorelich will, someday, at the time of his choosing, bless his listeners with some of his own compositions.
A soul this expressive must have something beautiful and rare to say musically for the 21st century and for
the Eternal.
agreed, he is a definitely a creator, not just an interpreter...Ivo, are you a poet?
Really bad take
That's my cup of tea for this mysterious sonata.
for me the best and most beatiful rendition in this sonata.
It's a shame the recording quality is so poor, this is a glorious rendition of this work. While traditionally that's a bit fast for the third movement it works so well (albeit more ominously) in this. With the relentlessness of the tempo it really creates an intensity you don't often hear.
I think the recorded quality is remarkably good...the piano is notoriously difficult to record and it is done so here with remarkable vibrancy.
Terrible recording compared to him playing sonata no 3. Check it out and hear the difference.
RUclips audio dynamics™ The digital Laserdisc audio is phenomenal..
@@bengunn99 I checked now indeed why? it's like in a same room... Gramophone? Is there maybe CD recording of this? This come so deep into the soul....amazing xxx all the praise to Ivo!
Goosebumps at the opening octaves!
completely magical and gorgeous.
This by far is one of the best interpretation on you tube, Argerich left the chopin competition (in the jury) because he didn't won; despite his last years of "crazyness" the approce of this sonata is magnificent, well done Ivo
That is a fascinating story and it caused an international scandal in the music world. It also helped to get Ivo a recording contract with DG.
Who became crazy??
@@themoroccanpianist8953 Pogorelich, his current playing style is VERY polarizing and eccentric
@@thegreenpianist7683 yeah I noticed that ; when did he become like this?
@@themoroccanpianist8953 I'm not sure, to be fair he has always been a bit eccentric, but as far as I know in the mid 2000s he has already started leaning much more into that
A truly wonderful interpretation! Completely on the same level with Rubinstein and Zimerman. Gratulations to you, Ivo Pogorelich!
OMG! Such a divine interpretation! Chopin himself couldn't have conveyed his feelings any better than this.
Immense Maestro Pogorelich!
Beautiful. It seems as if he draws from the Sonata all the spiritual. Purity, nobility and formal beauty indeed.
I think this is the best recording of this piece. Even though others perform this awesomely such as Pollini and Richter, this one in particular always moves me to tears.
I don't usually go for such broad tempi, but for some reason Pogorelich's performances always captivate me.
Yes. Argerich disagreed with the judges ruling, declared him a genius, and walked out.
I wonder how many extraordinary musicmakers do we lose every few years because they are idiosyncratic or have music so deep inside of them along with integrity . The judges are all the teachers and know the performers so when a performer sees something everyone should realize here is not "just another pianist" but someone who can make you reevaluate life etc. Pogorelich reevaluated everything too much .Hear his Tchaik and you think he 's found a way to muse jazz improvising and classcal music . It could have saved our music but the outcry was too much ! The scherzo here is a direct rough affair close to Willy Kapell . Who can say if the contrast with trio is too much ? The finale unforgettable !
@@MrInterestingthings Gary Graffman wouldn't allow his students Yuja Wang and Lang Lang to enter any competitions. He didn't like the idea of competiions in classical music. Horowitz felt the same way.
@@excelsior999 and Bela Bartok to
They did that again, and without Argerich yet. ruclips.net/video/2a0B2IMj_Q8/видео.html
@@excelsior999 It's general consensus that Horowitz would likely have been eliminated early on, had he participated in any piano competition. It goes without saying that Glenn Gould would as well.
"Chopin´s playing evoked all the sweet and sorrowful voices of the past. Chopin sang the tears of music...in a whole gamut of different forms and voices, from that of the warrior to those of children and angels..."
Bohdan Zaleski, polish poet, personal diary 2 feb 1844.
"Under the fingers of Chopins´s hand the piano became the voice of an archangel, an orchestra, an army, a raging ocean, a creation of the universe, the end of the world."
Solange Clesinger.
Ivo is the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take.
Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete.
Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, redemption, love and compassion.
Sound and Silence, Life and Death, Time and Space; collapse into the Eternal moment of Infinity.
Wow, just wow! What a magnificent, stupendous performance! Lyricism and passion, perfectly balanced.
Dziś poniosłam bardzo bolesną stratę. W nocy zmarła nagle moja cioteczna siostra Danuta, z którą się razem wychowywałyśmy. To moja była moja ostatnia żyjąca krewna. Była córką pianistki, wychowana, podobnie jak ja, na muzyce Chopina. Kochała muzykę nade wszystko. Dlatego postanowiłam uczcić pamięć Danuty, tym mistrzowskim wykonaniem Ivo Pogorelicza Sonaty B-mol z Marszem pogrzebowym. Mam nadzieję, że powróciła duchem do naszego domu, nad naszą ukochaną rzekę i połączyła się z duszami drogich zmarłych.Wieczne odpoczywanie Racz Jej dać Panie, a światłość wiekuista niechaj Jej świeci. Będziesz zawsze w moim sercu!
Wyrazy głębokiego współczucia, składam na Twoje ręce droga Elżuniu, tak ogromna taka strata najbliższej i jedynej osoby, zostaniesz teraz sama, miejmy nadzieję, że Twoje życzenia połączenia tych dusz w
pełni się spełnią, na pewno będzie tam na resztę swoich cierpliwie czekać przygotowując honorowe miejsce na ich
przyjęcie, niestety życie musi dalej iść swoim torem. Pozostań jak najdłużej wśród nas. Dziękuję Ci, że jesteś Gosia.
Kochana Moja. Dziękuję Ci za te dobre słowa pociechy. Tak życie jest twarde, a śmierć nieubłagana, czeka nas wszystkich bez żadnych wyjątków i to jest ta jedyna sprawiedliwość w naszym teraźniejszym bycie. Trzymam się jakoś, ale najwięcej żal mi syna Danuty, bo on, meżczyzna pod pięćdziesiątkę, stary kawaler, został zupełnie sam, gdyż rodzeństwa nie miał. Jest kompletnie załamany i niemal bezradny po śmierci Matki. Bardzo mu współczuję, ale cóż więcej można zrobić, nic! Raz jeszcze Ci dziękuję i z serca pozdrawiam.
Niechaj Twoja Krewna spoczywa w spokoju . Twoje piękne pożegnanie Sonatą i w wykonaniu Ivo to dar na który sobie zasłużyła . Szlachetna jesteś w działaniu .
Bardzo dziękuję za te piękne słowa.
Elżbieta Gizela Erban Kochana Elżbieto , przyjmij proszę , wyrazy współczucia.
"Śmierc jest kresem życia ziemskiego.Czas jest miarą naszego zycia; w jego biegu zmieniamy się i starzejemy. Jak w przypadku wszystkich istot żyjacych na ziemi , śmierć jawi się jako normalny koniec zycia."
しっとりするような感じがします。🎶
うんうん、します‼️
I loved the 3rd movement
+RussianCommissar me 2
It's the third movement used in Mystery Case Files Series.
Amazing, awesome, thank you for sharing this!
I‘ve listened to quite a few performances of this sonata now and so far, this reminds my favorite. Especially the Scherzo. I love the tempo and there‘s something about his touch in the right hand. The melody sounds incredibly beautiful.
this is a mesmerizing performance!
Me fascina Chopin y las interpretaciones de Pogorelich me parecen magníficas. Ojalá viniera Ivo a México para poderlo ver y escuchar en vivo.
though are never around
Thank you for uploading this, it's my favourite piece by Chopin and the way Ivo plays it - it's just beyond anything I've ever heard. Love it!
artistry at the absolute highest level. there are no words to describe the crystalline perfection of his conception of this piece
searched all of youtube and i'm sorry to say Ivo OWNS this. Its not even close
100% agree, everyone else's is too slow or weak
Ignoramus it seems also difficult to me to match Yundi Li
+André Uhres And also Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli but all three have their personal interpretations and for me, at least, it is difficult to select my favourite. All three are absolute MAGICIANS at the keyboard!
Have you heard his Scarlatti album? (It's on YT.) His playing of K.8 and K.87 is enough to bring a grown man to tears.
Prelepo!!! Prosto izvlaci sav otrov iz mog mozga!!! Lekovito, sta jos reci
счастлив тот человек,который имеет возможность выразить свои мысли и чувства! это удалось Шопену,это удалось Погореличу!
Ещё как удалось ! Само совершенство !
I wish I could press that like button twice...
cbg1066 so do I
Just make more and more accounts
This Hamburg Stein. sounds very good. You can not come across a New York sounding this good with this many variously contrasting timbres and colours ranging from the bottom register to the top. That crystal brilliance is just euphoric!!
nothing close to a hamburg steinway D !!
I believe Steinway lost its status of top piano available a long time ago and not to just one brand. Still sounds great, but imo Bösendörfer Imperial and mainly Fazioli pianos are above. Playing F278 was really magical experience
I am not a musician and have no musical education but after hearing this performance I 'know' now what genius is. Chopin, Pogorelich and I am sure many more not known to me have it. I am stricken and so grateful to be able to listen to the acheivement and the intellect of such artists. They live in another world to mine. Occasionally I catch a glimpse and this performance was just one such. (A stiff drink is definitely called for after that experience).
Welcome to The Club. I'll have a Johnny Walker Black with one ice cube, thank you.
Wonderful. His performance is great as is the setting. Oh and I love his style of dress.
Agree
this performer is very different to the run of the mill concert pianists - i remember when Pogorelich came onto the scene some years ago - he was marketed up more for his movie star good looks ; I don't recall hearing him play too much back then - but now have acquainted myself happily with many of his performances - and my, what a great pianist !!!!
His recordings from the 80's and 90's are legendary.
Excellent playing!Bravo Pogorelić!I I am your fan.
This is gifted playing. Just wonderful, especially the first movement.
This is perfection
for me on a personal basis... Chopin and Pogorelich -particularly with this piece, that I so Love- are a Match made in Heaven
inimitabile pogorelich. Chopin é lì con lui ed ascolta, il genio suona per lui. soltanto.
His sound is the ultimate of human pianist.
He used to be.
@@excelsior999 he still is
stupendo, ricco e carico di passionalita', ti nutre l'animo, ti lascia veramente molto molto impressionato, ha un tocco fantastico e trascinante.
my favourite sonata and favourite pianist,so passional
Maestro Ivo i njegove naj interpretacije Chopina.Svaka čast gospodine!👍🏻
ivo is way beyond sound, ...pogorelich has the most powerful and perfect union of form, harmony and melody,
i have no doubt he is the best interpreter ever, surpassing maria callas and horowitz, and at the level of the greatest composers to whom he seems to play for.
I love that he has kept it the same since 1980 when they disqualified him. Best interpretation by FAR!!!!
Well, did not promote him to the Finals
Polscy sluchacze i widzowie bardzo to przezyli.Martha Argerich,zasiadajaca wtedy w jury. na znak protestu opuscila jury,poniewaz uwazala "odrzucenie Pogorelicza " jako bardzo krzywdzace go i niesprawiedliewe. (jestem z Polski
Thank you so much for uploading this! Pogo is the best of the best... and this is my favorite Chopin piece.
The most heartbreaking interpretation of this work. Every note holds me spellbound, his rendering wrenches the soul
Thank you for being so professional and showing that the song actually has 4 movements!! AHh, this is beautiful
Just great playing!
I don't think there is a more descriptive way to define pure love than what Chopin meant by this sonata.
IMO, those were the best years of Pogorelich's piano.
From my particular POV, it's hard to find pianists comparable to that Pogo.
Curiously enough, I know more videos than pure audios of that epoch. There are some video gems here in YT.
Thanks for putting it here.👍
Great Ivo ,
Thanks forever.
I am learning this piece because of his beautiful playing. Thank you, pogorelich!
That's true. his interpretation is wonderful..Really inspiring.
All props to the pianist
but lets not forget that Chopin is a genius making miracles out of his music!
Correct. "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
Thank you Tiszt! One of the best recordings! marvelous!!!
I thank God for Ivo, I never thought it would be possible for a man to equal the effect of a birdsong
He is the best piano performer! Thanks
Everyone has emotions. Few have the technique to bring those emotions to the surface.
The best no one else comes near
Pogorelic has a completly original style amount classical pianists
John Renehan i like his dry approach at the beginning it sounds cool
Prelepo....ne mogu zaboraviti njegova dva koncerta u Sava centru davne 1980.godine, jos uvek i posle toliko godina, secam se utiska koji je ostavio na mene.....
この力強さと迫力、テクニックすべてにおいて完璧といえる、しかしこれは
若い時の彼の演奏。現在の演奏を聴くと涙しかない。なぜ？の一言。
Bravissimo Ivo Pogorelich. Insuperable and immense
This was the epoch where I believe IP was at another level over other pianists. The last years before his hiatus from concerts.
There is a number of videos on dvd (more than audio albums), like this, where he performs in a superb, superd way.
I am so grateful to who put that material in YT. It is a precious set of classical performances that could disappear forever. I dont know any version on cd or in streaming, of those "sacred" videos.
Thanks!
amazing performance from the brilliant pianist
Genialne wykonanie, można słuchać i delektować się Szopenem. Dziękuję.
To Prawda. . Ivo Pogorelich wykonuje ten utwór wspaniale.
This is so amazing, the first movement has so much power, wonderful LH propulsion and then such a soulful rendition of the melodic parts. Amazing technical mastery with so much depth.
Superbe! Merci pour ce moment de plenitude.
IVO, THE Best!!
A perfect rendition of this wonderful piece.
I love how he takes his time and do not rush it. And yet it's a very powerfull performance!
On the other hand, his Funeral March is a bit faster than what I usually enjoy. :p
Молодой Иво - гениальный мастер!