Legendary pianist, one of the big ones of the great russian piano tradition. And also an iconic examble of the typical combination of big wide sound and lyrical expression.
Having listened to much of her repertoire, interviews, students, family, I now consider her my favorite pianist. What a brilliant and wonderful human being!
her interpretation of this whole concerto is slightly under tempo than what is usually heard in concert halls. But, Nikolayeva's phrasing is impeccable - she makes the concerto so interesting with her phrasing. I think this is the best version Ive heard of Tchaikovsky's great concerto
Brava!!! She was the very first pianist, whom I fell in love with one's music, when I was 4 years old. I am particularly fond of her Bach, but this one is also amazing.
Лауреат сталинской премии, была знакома и работала вместе с Шостаковичем, ее и при жизни ценили высоко, лауреат многих конкурсов, пелагог и композитор🙆♀️ столько талантов👍
Phrasing is so inspiring. As a fellow pianist , youngsters need to be made to sit down and understand. She has insight into this concerto likely to have been passed on direct decent from Tchaikovsky and his friends. Thank you so so much. I wish I heard this 50 years ago. Thank you .
Quelle chance d'avoir eu le bonheur de rencontrer cette immense artiste , il y a bien des années , à Bâle .... et quelle gentillesse , alors qu'elle jouait des oeuvres de Shostakovitch
"After the Second World War, Dmitri Shostakovich was Russia's most prominent composer. Although out of favour with the Soviet Communist Party, he was still sent abroad as a cultural ambassador. One such trip was to Leipzig in 1950 for a music festival marking the bicentennial of J. S. Bach's death. As part of the festival, Shostakovich was asked to sit on the judging panel for the first International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition. One of the entrants in the competition was the 26-year-old Tatiana Nikolayeva from Moscow. Though not required by competition regulations, she had come prepared to play any of the 48 preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier on request. She won the gold medal. Inspired by the competition and impressed by Nikolayeva's playing, Shostakovich returned to Moscow and started composing his own cycle of 24 preludes and fugues. Shostakovich worked fairly quickly, taking only three days on average to write each piece. As each was completed, he would ask Nikolayeva to come and visit him in his Moscow apartment where he would play her the latest piece. The complete work was written between 10 October 1950 and 25 February 1951. Once finished, Shostakovich dedicated the work to Nikolayeva, who undertook the public premiere in Leningrad on 23 December 1952. Shostakovich wrote out all the pieces without many corrections except the B♭ minor prelude, with which he was dissatisfied and replaced what he had begun initially."
Incredible, this energy is the outside the body, the age, her fingers are moving with her soul, not Arrau or Horowitz, played like that at that age. great performer, great pianist, one of the best rusian pianists.
Multieduardo1962 ...She was actually only 69 years old when she died!😚Arrau,Rubinstein and Horowitz all gave wonderful concerts well into their eighties...!😊😂
If ever there was a Grand Old Lady of piano playing it is Nikolayeva. A prime exponent of the Russian school, looking like everybody's favourite grandmother. Her playing is both awesome and touchingly human.
you know, we often say, 'is there anything new to add to this concerto?' seems the interpretive potential of this piece is inexhaustible! This time, first time to hear, Nikolayeva's interpretation... is new and different. Even if she's been playing the piece this way from behind the iron curtain for decades. Love it, especially her somehow giving arbitrary scale figurations a kind of melodic feel. Very different. Very nice!
Unbelievable! I am listening and watching to this great russian Lady of the piano playing for the first time. How greeeaaaaaaaaat, I am deeply impressed, thank you for posting this!!
We do what we do. We are only limited by other's opinions and our own minds. When you hear this music, you realize that our abilities are vast. Tatjana will always remain one of my favorite pianists, right along with Argerich and Gould. Valentina Lisitsa is another. And yes, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock also. "There's only two types of music - the good kind, and the other kind." That was Duke Ellington. He was right.
Emanuela Zucchi .....e neppure un gesto superfluo! compostezza e sonorità assolute! Brava Maestra.....lasci un ricordo indelebile in tutti noi amanti della tastiera. Come dimenticarTi.... Marco Rotondi
Tchaïkovski servi par une russe ! Quel panache , quelle énergie et intelligence de la musique ! La générosité transparaît à travers le jeu de cette artiste exceptionnelle qui me rappelle Argerich ... brava , Tatiana !
Just FANTASTIC! I really loved it. To see a stout old grandmother sit down and take over the room in such a grand manner is sheer delight. I love the way she handles certain passages others feel compelled to take at breakneck speeds. Instead she plays them HER WAY -- with intelligence and great musical insight. It's a CRIME that the second of these four parts has been blocked out. Petty tyranny, if you ask me. A wonderful performance!
@@Queeen7q А для меня она- ЖИВАЯ: С прекращением физической жизни духовная жизнь творцов не прекращается. Но благодарила я за эту запись автора этого канала. Будте здоровы и благополучны!
Una vitalidad envidiable...gran pianista sovietica.Congratulation. Y en esta pieza musical de Tchaikovsky demuestra la destreza de sus maravillosos dedos,,,,felicitaciones
The big fat chords at 5:40!!!!! WOW! This is stunning....Look at her stature compared to the first violinist...but most definitely the queen of this performance.
Umm Lawrence, no - Argerich does not play like that - she plays a whole lot BETTER!! But my comment is not to disparage this lady's playing (bloopers and all). She plays fantastically for her age (don't know what it was at this performance, but she died at 69). Argerich is still going strong at *75*, knocking out Prokofiev concertos as if they were Mozart (and she was 35!), and could probably record the Art of the Fugue if anyone asked her.
yes...very expressive playing,what is in the fact the goal of a russian piano school,tonal and expressive beauty surpasses all technical difficulties...Tcaikovsky is on of the most demanding composers to play on piano because he himself was not a pianist.He created such tremendous technical aspects,that are by the most of pianist descriebed as very unpleasent...That is why one should be concentrated on the inividual way of achieving performance level,dictated by individual shaping of the phrasing and knowing own musical goal...Even very experienced pianists put they hand away from this concerto...On the other hand it sounds so fluent,that one could think yes it is very easy to play...I take as a example and very good preparation for playing this concerto the cicle of the "Seasons" of Tcaikovsky...There are so complicated harmonical aspects in it,what implies listening of liturgical works...Tcaikovsky overall:the great tonal and melodic beauty and very difficult battle to get that to the performance level!
No, Tchaikovsky was a good pianist. For instance : in 1859 he played brilliantly Liszt's reminiscences of Lucia de Lamermoor, and in 1878 he played the piano part of his violin concerto arranged for violin and piano with violinist Iosif Kotek. But he was not a virtuoso like Chopin, Liszt or Rachmaninov. Anyway he did know how to compose for the piano, no offense to those who claim the opposite.
Tchaikovsky was NOT pianist. The fact that he played piano does not qualify him as a pianist, even then when he did play what he did in a very good way. How we can know how good he was? I can only judge of him as a composer, because that is available to us. Almost anyone who experienced playing Tchaikovsky knows about this unpleasent feeling in hands lerning Tchaikovsky. It sugests to the pianist the composer who did not know so much what is for the pianist the best way. Playing Tchaikovsky is not the same fluent experience like with Chopen. It does not qualify Tchaikovsky as a bad composer, in fact, he is brilliant,but his pianistic unexperience ist obvious...
I thought you meant that Tchaikovsky did not play the piano. Of course he was not a concert pianist and it is why he asked advice to virtuosos like Rubinstein (Nikolai), Taneyev or Siloti for the piano writing of his concertos.
Legendary pianist, one of the big ones of the great russian piano tradition. And also an iconic examble of the typical combination of big wide sound and lyrical expression.
Having listened to much of her repertoire, interviews, students, family, I now consider her my favorite pianist. What a brilliant and wonderful human being!
She plays with the young woman's energy but with the knowledge of the looong life. Incredible.
she plays with the energy of a young man!
⁰
and does it really make a difference?
Grandma Nikolayeva is playing like a boss!!!
Isn't that the truth?! I absolutely love this! :-)
Rest in Peace
EPIC like EPIC GAMES
She IS a boss !!!!!!
She was amazing!!!!!!! She is a legend!!!!
This piece will live forever. If you don't realize now, you will. Long live.... excellence. !!!!!
This is not playing, this is CHANNELING. You simply have to feel it in your bones.
🎉🎉🎉 🎉🎉🎉 🎉🎉🎉... Respect from Thailand... ขอบคุณจากประเทศไทย ครับ...
Самые лучшее исполнение этой части!, кем либо
her interpretation of this whole concerto is slightly under tempo than what is usually heard in concert halls. But, Nikolayeva's phrasing is impeccable - she makes the concerto so interesting with her phrasing. I think this is the best version Ive heard of Tchaikovsky's great concerto
Неожиданно , не только с большим вкусом , но и с молодой энергией. Сто раз БРАВО !
Brava!!! She was the very first pianist, whom I fell in love with one's music, when I was 4 years old. I am particularly fond of her Bach, but this one is also amazing.
well said; she is amazing, transfixing and spellbinding
Что за женщина! Талант невероятный. Какая энергетика бешеная. Чайковский думаю оценил бы именно ее исполнение по достоинству.
Лауреат сталинской премии, была знакома и работала вместе с Шостаковичем, ее и при жизни ценили высоко, лауреат многих конкурсов, пелагог и композитор🙆♀️ столько талантов👍
Pero el Director no tuvo la cortesía de bajar de su peldaño y agradecer a la Pianista .
How good are Russian people playing piano......OMG. A lot of respect, God bless them.
Thanks Madam :)
Only a russian lady can play this way.....incredible!!!!!!!!!
Aleko Aktar very incredible
What a wonderfully sonorous piano to unleash the true Russian fire of Nikolajeva! Great rendition, thanks for posting.
Such amazing passion and energy in her playing. I have no words to say how much I like her truly sensitive interpretation.
She’s a legend ♥️
You go girl.... THIS is all spot on... WHAT a talent... such energy and finesse... just BEAUTIFUL!.
L'ho scoperta solo adesso grazie a you tube. Una interprete straordinaria con una sensibilità e una energia da fare invidia a Sviatoslav Richter
Phrasing is so inspiring. As a fellow pianist , youngsters need to be made to sit down and understand. She has insight into this concerto likely to have been passed on direct decent from Tchaikovsky and his friends. Thank you so so much. I wish I heard this 50 years ago. Thank you .
I fell in love with her playing style - she is a miracle - perfect...
Quelle chance d'avoir eu le bonheur de rencontrer cette immense artiste , il y a bien des années , à Bâle .... et quelle gentillesse , alors qu'elle jouait des oeuvres de Shostakovitch
"After the Second World War, Dmitri Shostakovich was Russia's most prominent composer. Although out of favour with the Soviet Communist Party, he was still sent abroad as a cultural ambassador. One such trip was to Leipzig in 1950 for a music festival marking the bicentennial of J. S. Bach's death. As part of the festival, Shostakovich was asked to sit on the judging panel for the first International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition. One of the entrants in the competition was the 26-year-old Tatiana Nikolayeva from Moscow. Though not required by competition regulations, she had come prepared to play any of the 48 preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier on request. She won the gold medal.
Inspired by the competition and impressed by Nikolayeva's playing, Shostakovich returned to Moscow and started composing his own cycle of 24 preludes and fugues. Shostakovich worked fairly quickly, taking only three days on average to write each piece. As each was completed, he would ask Nikolayeva to come and visit him in his Moscow apartment where he would play her the latest piece. The complete work was written between 10 October 1950 and 25 February 1951. Once finished, Shostakovich dedicated the work to Nikolayeva, who undertook the public premiere in Leningrad on 23 December 1952. Shostakovich wrote out all the pieces without many corrections except the B♭ minor prelude, with which he was dissatisfied and replaced what he had begun initially."
Thank you 🙏
Waoooh. An amazing history
Maravillosa, la mejor versión que jamás haya oido de este concierto. Espectacular.
Grande Tatiana!!!!!!
Incredible, this energy is the outside the body, the age, her fingers are moving with her soul, not Arrau or Horowitz, played like that at that age. great performer, great pianist, one of the best rusian pianists.
Multieduardo1962 ...She was actually only 69 years old when she died!😚Arrau,Rubinstein and Horowitz all gave wonderful concerts well into their eighties...!😊😂
Радость видеть её!
Счастье слушать !
Татьяна Петровна,вы-
само СОВЕРШЕНСТВО!!!
Люблю,я,Вас!
28.06.2021.
where have you been all of my life...such brilliance such command such artistry...what more can I say...my heart is still racing...
If ever there was a Grand Old Lady of piano playing it is Nikolayeva. A prime exponent of the Russian school, looking like everybody's favourite grandmother. Her playing is both awesome and touchingly human.
when you catch the very essence of a great composer you are sitting on the lap of their affection!!! Bravo to the orchestra and the Grand maestra!!!
Your majesty.
She was a pupil of Goldenweiser at the Moscow Conservatoire (who also taught her mother!)
PHENOMENAL!
Bravo!!
Beautiful!
Congratulations.
Such a sound!such a knowledge! brava! I miss you Tatiana!
She is definitely high on the all time great list
I've always loved her Bach, but this is wonderful too!
grandma youre a star
Lol xD... She is history!!!
Grande Tatiana! Se esiste il paradiso tu sei li a suonare la colonna sonora ♥
you know, we often say, 'is there anything new to add to this concerto?' seems the interpretive potential of this piece is inexhaustible! This time, first time to hear, Nikolayeva's interpretation... is new and different. Even if she's been playing the piece this way from behind the iron curtain for decades. Love it, especially her somehow giving arbitrary scale figurations a kind of melodic feel. Very different. Very nice!
One of the great Russian pianists and interpreter!
This is absolutely magnific!!!
Unbelievable!
I am listening and watching to this great russian Lady of the piano playing for the first time. How greeeaaaaaaaaat, I am deeply impressed, thank you for posting this!!
We do what we do. We are only limited by other's opinions and our own minds. When you hear this music, you realize that our abilities are vast. Tatjana will always remain one of my favorite pianists, right along with Argerich and Gould. Valentina Lisitsa is another. And yes, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock also. "There's only two types of music - the good kind, and the other kind." That was Duke Ellington. He was right.
I cry…it is really difficult this but so fantastic
Absolutely magnificent and very enjoyable !
Quanta energia e libertà!
Una meraviglia...
Emanuela Zucchi
.....e neppure un gesto superfluo!
compostezza e sonorità assolute!
Brava Maestra.....lasci un ricordo indelebile in tutti noi amanti della tastiera.
Come dimenticarTi....
Marco Rotondi
Tchaïkovski servi par une russe ! Quel panache , quelle énergie et intelligence de la musique ! La générosité transparaît à travers le jeu de cette artiste exceptionnelle qui me rappelle Argerich ...
brava , Tatiana !
Wonderful performance. Amazing!
Just FANTASTIC! I really loved it. To see a stout old grandmother sit down and take over the room in such a grand manner is sheer delight. I love the way she handles certain passages others feel compelled to take at breakneck speeds. Instead she plays them HER WAY -- with intelligence and great musical insight. It's a CRIME that the second of these four parts has been blocked out. Petty tyranny, if you ask me. A wonderful performance!
she was greit. very pity that few her writes, as Skrjabin, her work been very good.
How did I never heard of this great pianist before? Magnanimous!
BRAVO!!!!!!
She is cool
Increadible!!! She is just great!!!! Never heard such Polyponie and raffinesse in this Concert...
Meravigliosa ! Che energia e precisione ! Un esecuzione fantastica !
Прекрасно....
She is magnificent performance, she is perfect to playing.
Wonderful. Amazing. Full of spirit. Wonderful inner strength.
superb,merci,felicitari!
Quintessential pianist. What an energy and passion...
Спасибо, вам! Я ещё раз
с большим удовольствием и наслаждением послушала и посмотрела
эту запись.
Всего, вам, доброго и
будте здоровы!
Странное пожелание человеку, почти 30 лет находящемуся на том свете...
@@Queeen7q
А для меня она-
ЖИВАЯ:
С прекращением физической жизни
духовная жизнь творцов
не прекращается.
Но благодарила я за эту
запись автора этого
канала.
Будте здоровы и благополучны!
Simplesmente maravilhosa 😍😍😍
This is TCHAIKOVSKY Thanks TATIANA
Una vitalidad envidiable...gran pianista sovietica.Congratulation. Y en esta pieza musical de Tchaikovsky demuestra la destreza de sus maravillosos dedos,,,,felicitaciones
Brilliant!
Love her! Fabulous!
Que maravilha, meu Deus 🙏!
Enérgico. que grande, que sonido.
Amazing!
So amazing
Stunning.
The big fat chords at 5:40!!!!! WOW! This is stunning....Look at her stature compared to the first violinist...but most definitely the queen of this performance.
Magistral interpretacion aplausosssssss de pie me encanto,. muchas gracias por compartir...saludos...
Fantastic!
Вершина исполнительского творчества. Непревзойдённо!
Ну если вы имеете ввиду ее возраст в кот она играла это,то может быть,но про непроневзойденность вы загнули
@@unkunk5784 Не обижайте мастера, не упоминайте о его возрасте.
Great artist !!!!
Awesome!!!
Sonido monumental.
Rainha 😍😍😍🌷🌷🌷
O mundo é cheio de surpresas.! Esse momento é uma vera sorpresa.!!🌹👏👏🇧🇷
fantastic , powerful , SALUTE
Wow !
force de la nature....
Speed is not important, but Gravity. Gravity is energy. She is impressiv. I agree.
Really amazing ❤❤❤
Она прекрасна
energia y sentimiento
Doubt if very many 66
year old grandma's were playing this concerto in concerts in Tchaikovsky's day!
wow è bellissimo
Recorded 1990 live .
Her command of the instrument is absolute. Not even Argerich plays like that.
Umm Lawrence, no - Argerich does not play like that - she plays a whole lot BETTER!! But my comment is not to disparage this lady's playing (bloopers and all). She plays fantastically for her age (don't know what it was at this performance, but she died at 69). Argerich is still going strong at *75*, knocking out Prokofiev concertos as if they were Mozart (and she was 35!), and could probably record the Art of the Fugue if anyone asked her.
yes...very expressive playing,what is in the fact the goal of a russian piano school,tonal and expressive beauty surpasses all technical difficulties...Tcaikovsky is on of the most demanding composers to play on piano because he himself was not a pianist.He created such tremendous technical aspects,that are by the most of pianist descriebed as very unpleasent...That is why one should be concentrated on the inividual way of achieving performance level,dictated by individual shaping of the phrasing and knowing own musical goal...Even very experienced pianists put they hand away from this concerto...On the other hand it sounds so fluent,that one could think yes it is very easy to play...I take as a example and very good preparation for playing this concerto the cicle of the "Seasons" of Tcaikovsky...There are so complicated harmonical aspects in it,what implies listening of liturgical works...Tcaikovsky overall:the great tonal and melodic beauty and very difficult battle to get that to the performance level!
No, Tchaikovsky was a good pianist. For instance : in 1859 he played brilliantly Liszt's reminiscences of Lucia de Lamermoor, and in 1878 he played the piano part of his violin concerto arranged for violin and piano with violinist Iosif Kotek. But he was not a virtuoso like Chopin, Liszt or Rachmaninov. Anyway he did know how to compose for the piano, no offense to those who claim the opposite.
Tchaikovsky was NOT pianist. The fact that he played piano does not qualify him as a pianist, even then when he did play what he did in a very good way. How we can know how good he was? I can only judge of him as a composer, because that is available to us. Almost anyone who experienced playing Tchaikovsky knows about this unpleasent feeling in hands lerning Tchaikovsky. It sugests to the pianist the composer who did not know so much what is for the pianist the best way. Playing Tchaikovsky is not the same fluent experience like with Chopen. It does not qualify Tchaikovsky as a bad composer, in fact, he is brilliant,but his pianistic unexperience ist obvious...
I thought you meant that Tchaikovsky did not play the piano. Of course he was not a concert pianist and it is why he asked advice to virtuosos like Rubinstein (Nikolai), Taneyev or Siloti for the piano writing of his concertos.
すごいなぁ。ニコライエワ。これは1980年代の録画ですか？86年日本でブーニンブームが起きてた頃日本に来ていました。家のスタインウェイで練習してたんです。その後人見に招待されて聴いたバッハは腰が抜けるかと思うくらいすごかった。お土産に石鹸とシャンプーどっさり持っていきました。
Wonderful performance!
Do you know when the concert was?
Great magnificent!!!!!
bravoooooooooooooooo
Brava!!!!!!!!!
Maravilhosa 😍😍😍😍😍
yes
One of the absolute greatest. Sad that the iron curtain kept her from for most of her resplendid career.
@Mookie Spindlehurst All you are stupid and ignorant Western pigs. Go to hell and burn there.!
Queste sono Pianiste!Artiste! Non quelle in reggicalze!!
Hail grandma!!!😍😍😍