0:00 Intro music - Chopin Polonaise Op 53 (Heroic) 0:08 Lev Oborin - Tchaikovsky The Seasons: October “Autumn Song” 0:29 Alexandre Uninsky - Chopin Etude Op 10 No 11 (Arpeggio) 0:48 Yakov Zak - Prokofiev Toccata 1:18 Bella Davidovich - Chopin Grande Valse Brillante Op 18 1:46 Halina Czerny-Stefanska - Chopin Mazurka Op 68 no 2 2:00 Adam Harasiewicz - Chopin Nocturne Op 15 no 2 2:37 Mauricio Pollini - Chopin Prelude Op 28 no 24 3:13 Martha Argerich - Chopin Scherzo 3 3:50 Garrick Ohlsson - Chopin Etude Op 10 No 1 (Waterfall) 4:22 Krystian Zimerman - Chopin Ballade 1 5:06 Dang Thai Son - Chopin Scherzo 2 5:57 Stanislav Bunin - Chopin Etude Op 10 No 12 (Revolutionary) 6:41 Kevin Kenner - Chopin Nocturne Op 27 No 2 7:08 Alexei Sultanov - Chopin Grande Valse Brillante Op 18 7:34 Philippe Giusiano - Chopin Mazurka Op 7 No 1 7:58 Yundi Li- Chopin Grande Polonaise Brillante 8:35 Rafal Blechacz - Chopin Prelude Op 28 no 8 9:09 Yulianna Avdeeva - Chopin Ballade 4 9:49 Seong-Jin Cho - Chopin Nocturne Op 48 no 1 10:29 Outro music - Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 Movement 2
@@pianosbloxworld4460 I don’t think the Prokofiev recording was from the Chopin competition. I’d imagine the uploader chose this clip specifically since they didn’t have any Chopin competition footage (it happened quite a while ago after all.)
@@benana_3 Or they didn't have footage of that specific person playing Chopin, many clips with Chopin's work in this video are not from Chopin competition.
I think to myself, "Damn, all of these people are insanely talented." Then I remember that all of these pieces were written buy one guy who didn't even live to be 40.
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He wasn't distracted by internet, (a)social networks and other garbage. He had plenty time to write and fully focus on music.
To be fair, there's "good" distractions when it comes to creativity in the arts. And by good, I mean tragedies, heartbreak and pain. Terrible for happiness, but great for artistic expression.
Alexei Sultanov, even from the limited recordings we have of him, is one of my absolute favorite pianists! God I wish we could have seen him mature and developed. RIP
I was very lucky to see him at Chopin competition when he unjustly got a second prize 🙄… Nobody played like Sultanov … he was and always will be one of a kind…. R.I.P Alexei ….
I'm guessing at this level they have equivalent technical ability, but it's more a matter of musicality and how they interpret the music that distinguishes the winners
@@20891the eliminate based off who has the best interpretation skills, mishaps in notes are unacceptable in the later stages of the competition, so that will eliminate people too.
I've never heard of the 1980's winner Dang Thai Son, but I surely enjoyed the short passage of him playing here. So relaxed and emphasizing notes that I usuaaly dont hear in this scherzo. He seems really good
His rendition of Prelude 24 is, in my opinion, the best. He was the pioneer of the fist hitting on the final 3 low Ds in that prelude and taught it to his student, Eric Lu. Kate Liu and Eric Lu are his students who both took prizes in the 2015 competition.
@@FrostDirt i think that this unawareness was caused by the presence of Ivo pogorelich at the same year. I'm not technical enough to hear the "looseness" in Ivo's following of the score. That's what got him out of the competition apparently, since there was no complaints about his technique
@@sergeirachmaninoff6397 Yes, Ivo indeed was causing a big controversy to the point that Argerich had to resign from the jury board. Pollini came second, by the way, you might know him.
@@FrostDirt pollini resignd too? Wow that's tough. Both of them, Argerich and Pollini are huge names in the classical world. I'm not classically trained, and not even a musician, but i would like to know how it is to hear the nunaces that they hear on the playing of someone like Ivo. For now I'm just focusing on understanding musical structure, such as sonata form and identifying themes and variations, for example. This gives me some sort of pleasure and I would really like to be able to follow an hour long symphony, grasping a little bit of the deapth that composers have to offer. I need to learn more though
Pollini More genius! Ashkenazy had volcano colorful piano sound better than Cho or Zimerman or Blechach! Stanislav Bunin the most talented better than Zimerman or Cho or Blechach!
Sultanov is a legend. A naturally gifted musician with boundless chops, great tone, huge dynamic range, an ear for the hidden melodies, and gave instinctive interpretations. Out of this incredible field he would be the one I'd pay to see perform, RIP.
@@jeffreyd700 they were about the different types of mazurkas and there characteristics this is actually a lost fact it’s not even in the Harvard dictionary of music
Unfortunately he had a habit of editing his video recordings. For instance, you can see the bench get swapped out in the middle of the first ballade from that same set: th-cam.com/video/o8oyb0fRUas/w-d-xo.html.
@@jdmonaco2493 not his fault (some think that this is the reason his Ballades were taken down). Actually, he is a perfectionist that dislikes studio releases, for instance he recorded Liszt's Sonata in B Minor 76 times before he found anything of his standard. And he literally handpicked his orchestra members to record the Chopin Concerto.
@@jdmonaco2493 So that wasn't one take? I never noticed that. Seat keeps changing back and forth several times. Did a good job splicing the takes and matching the sound but could he actually play it that perfect in one take? Probably not.
Ashkenazy was probably disappointed in his 2nd prize in 1955. The videos from the 60s of him playing the first two Etudes from Op. 10 are as brilliant as anything by the winners though and his live Chopin Sonata No. 2 is also fantastic.
In fact Michelangeli was in the jury when Ashkenazy got 2nd place and refused to sifn me the pricze, stating "he should've been n. 1". History definitely shows who was right, between Michelangeli and the other judges.
@@AoichanpianoCho is excellent, no question. I was reacting to @kyungho_seong, who said Cho is "the best pianist throughout a century", a statement I very strongly view as false. When you say "there is no highest position," I see you agree with me.
More colorful beautiful piano sound than Cho=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Cho=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg Murray Perahia Alexei Lubimov Dinu Lipatti Stanislav Igolinsky! More powerful louder than Cho=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman!, The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique better than Cho's! Cho is one of the weakest Chopin winners!
He's still my favorite winner so far of the Chopin competition, maybe besides Kristian Zimmerman. His playing was phenomenal. He's not as good as he once was, unfortunately.
Rafał Blechacz is quite young, he won everything in the contest of 2005 but somehow didn't want to be a TH-cam star. TH-cam people rarely mention him and many don't even know his name. Strange
Come on! Not True! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Horowitz=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg Murray Perahia Alexei Lubimov Dinu Lipatti Stanislav Igolinsky! More powerful louder than Horowitz=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi!
How could Alexei Sultanov not win first prize? He won the Van Cliburn competition. Sadly, he died at age 35. Interesting that early winners were old guys. How things have changed!
Alexey Sultanov won more then first prize. He won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people around the world!!! And every day there are more fans of the Brilliant Pianist Alexey Sultanov!
Because judges nowadays tend to pick hot young prodigies with flashy techniques that are easily marketable, rather than fully developed and mature rounded musicians. Yunchan Lim is an exception because his playing (and his personality) has the depth and wisdom of an old soul. There's basically no point in even thinking about winning a competition if you're older than early 20's... though it is good for exposure and for bios. It also helps if you have connections with the judges. Judges can't give scores to those who they've taught or had connections with but there is nothing stopping them from marking OTHER candidates down.
You are wrong about the age of older pianists. As contestants they were in their early twenties before the WWII. What you saw here was recorded in the middle of 1960's and 1970's, when advanced TV technology allowed to document their talents...
2010 was the year where it got overcrowded with geniuses, for me personally Bozhanov was the most breathtaking pianist, but I also admired Trifonov at that time (I’m not a fan of current Trifonov tho) and obviously Avdeeva and Wunder are both amazing too
@@ganjamozart1435 Bozhanov is a musical genius, IMHO, and completely dominated the others, but self-destructed in the concerto. Except for Martha, Pogo, and perhaps Pollini, he's the pianist from the competition I'd most like to hear play Live (and I've heard both the others many times).
many first winners of this Competions very far from great pianists of 20Th Century , a few had a real carreer of international solists , it's a indisputable fact !
Not True! In 1937 Yakov Zak Rosa Tamarkina Witold Malcuzynski was one of the Greatest piano competions ever! Cerny Stefanska her Chopin concerto no 1 was the greatest because people tough is was Lipatti! After these crazy folks find out that it is Cerny Stefanska not Lipatti then they stop claiming it is the greatest! Lev Oborin played Khachaturian piano concerto! Khacturian first have his concerto to Oborin!
at 0:53, Yakov Zak is playing Prokofievs Toccata. Is the video from the Chopin competition, I mean was it allowed back then to play music from other composers in the competition?
More colorful beautiful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg Murray Perahia Alexei Lubimov Dinu Lipatti Stanislav Igolinsky! More powerful louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique better than Argerich's technique!!
Come on! Pollini the biggest genius! Ashkenazy had the most colorful piano sound ever! Stanislav Bunin the most talented! 1937 Rosa Tamarkina most fierce and passion and fire!
0:00 Intro music - Chopin Polonaise Op 53 (Heroic)
0:08 Lev Oborin - Tchaikovsky The Seasons: October “Autumn Song”
0:29 Alexandre Uninsky - Chopin Etude Op 10 No 11 (Arpeggio)
0:48 Yakov Zak - Prokofiev Toccata
1:18 Bella Davidovich - Chopin Grande Valse Brillante Op 18
1:46 Halina Czerny-Stefanska - Chopin Mazurka Op 68 no 2
2:00 Adam Harasiewicz - Chopin Nocturne Op 15 no 2
2:37 Mauricio Pollini - Chopin Prelude Op 28 no 24
3:13 Martha Argerich - Chopin Scherzo 3
3:50 Garrick Ohlsson - Chopin Etude Op 10 No 1 (Waterfall)
4:22 Krystian Zimerman - Chopin Ballade 1
5:06 Dang Thai Son - Chopin Scherzo 2
5:57 Stanislav Bunin - Chopin Etude Op 10 No 12 (Revolutionary)
6:41 Kevin Kenner - Chopin Nocturne Op 27 No 2
7:08 Alexei Sultanov - Chopin Grande Valse Brillante Op 18
7:34 Philippe Giusiano - Chopin Mazurka Op 7 No 1
7:58 Yundi Li- Chopin Grande Polonaise Brillante
8:35 Rafal Blechacz - Chopin Prelude Op 28 no 8
9:09 Yulianna Avdeeva - Chopin Ballade 4
9:49 Seong-Jin Cho - Chopin Nocturne Op 48 no 1
10:29 Outro music - Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 Movement 2
Umm how can you play Prokofiev’s toccata in the Chopin competition is beyond me
@@pianosbloxworld4460 I don’t think the Prokofiev recording was from the Chopin competition. I’d imagine the uploader chose this clip specifically since they didn’t have any Chopin competition footage (it happened quite a while ago after all.)
@@benana_3 I guess.
@@benana_3 Or they didn't have footage of that specific person playing Chopin, many clips with Chopin's work in this video are not from Chopin competition.
wow thanks dude
I think to myself, "Damn, all of these people are insanely talented." Then I remember that all of these pieces were written buy one guy who didn't even live to be 40.
He wasn't distracted by internet, (a)social networks and other garbage. He had plenty time to write and fully focus on music.
@ Oh, so you mean that in the last 100 years there hasn't been another Chopin because of social media? Got it. Big brain thinking.
@@brotendo No. I did not mean that, mr. Big brainer..
@ Your brain is so small you actually think that there weren't any serious life distractions during Chopin's time.
To be fair, there's "good" distractions when it comes to creativity in the arts. And by good, I mean tragedies, heartbreak and pain. Terrible for happiness, but great for artistic expression.
Martha just glides. She is so amazing, and is still out there playing amazingly well!
Quite right to pick her out of the bunch! Outstanding.
Whether competitions are good for music in general or not, you gotta admit a lot of legends came out of this
Why wouldn’t they be good?
Some 2nd prize winners like Uchida and Ashkenazy are living greats. Some who didn't compete are Chopin specialists: Pires, Perahia etc...
so true
@@eugenelevin9809 maybe because turning art into a competition kinda ruins the concept
@@Ausrine336 but you do agree that competitions can create talented people? And the harsher the competition, the brighter the talent?
Seong-Jin Cho!!!👍
The Pollini clip speaks volumes. The black and white accompanied with the fast and emotional piece with the look on the crowds face is just so cool.
Alexei Sultanov, even from the limited recordings we have of him, is one of my absolute favorite pianists! God I wish we could have seen him mature and developed. RIP
I was very fortunate to see him in Texas when he won the Van Cliburn competition. A wonderful talent taken too young.
@@1922peter wow, very lucky you are
I was very lucky to see him at Chopin competition when he unjustly got a second prize 🙄… Nobody played like Sultanov … he was and always will be one of a kind…. R.I.P Alexei ….
Alexei, irraggiungibile.
How to even judge those pianists? They all seem just perfect to me xd
Luckily we're not the judges, but we still can enjoy the performance
I'm guessing at this level they have equivalent technical ability, but it's more a matter of musicality and how they interpret the music that distinguishes the winners
@@juice1837 no they need to eliminate someone and they all are good in different ways. It’s unfortunate but true
@@20891 yes and they eliminate based on their judgments
@@20891the eliminate based off who has the best interpretation skills, mishaps in notes are unacceptable in the later stages of the competition, so that will eliminate people too.
I've never heard of the 1980's winner Dang Thai Son, but I surely enjoyed the short passage of him playing here. So relaxed and emphasizing notes that I usuaaly dont hear in this scherzo. He seems really good
Dang Thai Son is considered one of the best winners, check him out for sure!
His rendition of Prelude 24 is, in my opinion, the best. He was the pioneer of the fist hitting on the final 3 low Ds in that prelude and taught it to his student, Eric Lu. Kate Liu and Eric Lu are his students who both took prizes in the 2015 competition.
@@FrostDirt i think that this unawareness was caused by the presence of Ivo pogorelich at the same year. I'm not technical enough to hear the "looseness" in Ivo's following of the score. That's what got him out of the competition apparently, since there was no complaints about his technique
@@sergeirachmaninoff6397 Yes, Ivo indeed was causing a big controversy to the point that Argerich had to resign from the jury board. Pollini came second, by the way, you might know him.
@@FrostDirt pollini resignd too? Wow that's tough. Both of them, Argerich and Pollini are huge names in the classical world. I'm not classically trained, and not even a musician, but i would like to know how it is to hear the nunaces that they hear on the playing of someone like Ivo. For now I'm just focusing on understanding musical structure, such as sonata form and identifying themes and variations, for example. This gives me some sort of pleasure and I would really like to be able to follow an hour long symphony, grasping a little bit of the deapth that composers have to offer. I need to learn more though
My favorites:
8:35 Rafal Blechacz
4:22 Krystian Zimerman
9:49 Seong-Jin Cho
5:06 Dang Thai Son
Blechacz was so fucking precise that he should have become a sniper LMFAOO
Pollini More genius! Ashkenazy had volcano colorful piano sound better than Cho or Zimerman or Blechach! Stanislav Bunin the most talented better than Zimerman or Cho or Blechach!
Sultanov is a legend. A naturally gifted musician with boundless chops, great tone, huge dynamic range, an ear for the hidden melodies, and gave instinctive interpretations. Out of this incredible field he would be the one I'd pay to see perform, RIP.
00:59 typing homework 1 hour before deadline.
Loolllllll, too relatable
So glad this is getting picked up by the algorithm. Beautiful video, thank you for sharing.
I think that's because the competition is currently running
@@FrostDirt Right ! 2k in one year, 86k in one month !
My teacher passed down the very notes he took as a young pianist at the masterclass of Halina the niece of Chopin
What did the notes say
@@jeffreyd700 they were about the different types of mazurkas and there characteristics this is actually a lost fact it’s not even in the Harvard dictionary of music
@@Vic9994546 Upload them!
How is it possible your teacher was at masterclass of the niece of Chopin when Chopin was born in the 1800s
you should upload them somewhere
Pollini's Prelude blew me away.
Same, so beautiful. I almost cried.
Brawo Rafał Blechacz. Genialny pianista i wielki mistrz.
Krystian Zimmerman - the best pianist ever. Just perfection 💓
Unfortunately he had a habit of editing his video recordings. For instance, you can see the bench get swapped out in the middle of the first ballade from that same set: th-cam.com/video/o8oyb0fRUas/w-d-xo.html.
@@jdmonaco2493 perfectionist, I think. It could be tiring ;)
@@jdmonaco2493 not his fault (some think that this is the reason his Ballades were taken down). Actually, he is a perfectionist that dislikes studio releases, for instance he recorded Liszt's Sonata in B Minor 76 times before he found anything of his standard. And he literally handpicked his orchestra members to record the Chopin Concerto.
@@jdmonaco2493 So that wasn't one take? I never noticed that. Seat keeps changing back and forth several times. Did a good job splicing the takes and matching the sound but could he actually play it that perfect in one take? Probably not.
@@vripiatbuzoi9188Of course he could, he won the most prestigious piano competition in the world.
Thanks a lot for this collection. They were fantastic.
Ashkenazy was probably disappointed in his 2nd prize in 1955. The videos from the 60s of him playing the first two Etudes from Op. 10 are as brilliant as anything by the winners though and his live Chopin Sonata No. 2 is also fantastic.
Ashkenazy's recordings of Chopin are a delight.
In fact Michelangeli was in the jury when Ashkenazy got 2nd place and refused to sifn me the pricze, stating "he should've been n. 1". History definitely shows who was right, between Michelangeli and the other judges.
I love how Garrick Ohlsson misses notes on that etude, showing in stark detail just how MADDENINGLY difficult it is!
2020's winner is Sars-CoV
I love your name
@@LkFia_ danke bro
These people are so utterly gifted!
Halina Czerny-Stefanska had magic in some of those early Chopin recordings.
Oh yeah, I heard her play the Op.68 no.2 mazurka,
the one I used way too much rubato for
Dang Thai Son's fingers creep me out wow
IS ALIVEEEE
Just pianist stuffs
I went to look at his performance after reading your comment and LOLed
Me too. Looked like a huntsman spider waving it's legs 😳
It was his FACE that creeped me out. Sad because it didn't help
sell tickets. Awesome talent though!
All good if you look at the professional careers after, Martha is outstanding in both artistic height and commercial success. She is a true genius.
It's incredible to think that Pollini, Argerich, Ohlsson, and Zimerman all won on consecutive competitions
big awards for big people
Argerich and Zimmerman are my favourites :)
1:00 when I play piano with my hands like that, it does not come out the same
@Cain Ahmad um... ur the same account. Both joined on March 6 2021? What a coincidence. Anyways no ones gonna buy into ur dumb scam/service
LMAO
Cho, the best pianist throughout a century!
Er... no. Maybe check out this guy, Richter? For starters.
@@fredfeinberg3995Cho is definitely one of the greatest, there is no highest position.
@@AoichanpianoCho is excellent, no question. I was reacting to @kyungho_seong, who said Cho is "the best pianist throughout a century", a statement I very strongly view as false. When you say "there is no highest position," I see you agree with me.
No, only no
More colorful beautiful piano sound than Cho=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Cho=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg Murray Perahia Alexei Lubimov Dinu Lipatti Stanislav Igolinsky! More powerful louder than Cho=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman!, The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique better than Cho's! Cho is one of the weakest Chopin winners!
I recognise that Pollini has a technique, but this pianist has never moved me in the slightest.
Agree. Too harsh.
Same here.
Makes no difference.
Same here. I am in awe of Pollini's masterful technique yet his playing never moves me at all.
Pollini improved a lot over the year. I also don’t like his early Chopin, but his mid 1970ies records are great, like the Preludes
Martha is legendary.
0:59 OMG!!
Wtf xD
Ahahah
Hahahaha that's the prokofiev toccata for ya
Yundi li's performance on the grande polonaise brillante op 22 is just astonishing.
Shame he's profession level doesn't develop in recent times
He's still my favorite winner so far of the Chopin competition, maybe besides Kristian Zimmerman. His playing was phenomenal. He's not as good as he once was, unfortunately.
XVlll - 2021 winner BRUCE (XIAOYU) LIU
So good to see many maestro's in one video... Awesome
it's crazy to see the progression of image capturing techonologies and camera
s
Thanks for this fantastic video!!!
6:05 is wrong, its opus 10 no 12 not 2
at 6:05 it is incorrectly titled. He is playing Op. 10 No. 12. Not Op. 10 No. 2.
That's correct. 10 - 2 is Chopin's version of the Bumblebee. You know it when you hear it.
@@Daniel-qx6bg it was written well before Bumblebee was written though
2020 winner: Covid-19
flippant but funny!
Yep, a wonderful interpretation simbolizing mass death, ignorance, and stupidity
A masterclass in society criticism
🤣🤣🤣
From 1927 forward the video quality somehow got worse until 1955 when it started improving again.
That's because the 1927 video isn't from the 1920s. The quality and fashion says it all
@@elias7748 great are recordings since 1925 not pianists here !
@@alainspiteri502 It's a later recording of him. I don't know when for sure but I'm guessing around the 1960s
Pollini's runs are insane!
In my opinion Chopin can be fully understood by a Polish soul.
Xiaoyu (Bruce) Liu is the latest winner... A young and outstanding pianist.
For me Garrik Ohlsson have played op.10 n° 1 so so so so special ,how never i have listened.
I didn't know John Lennon was such a talented pianist
Peter Parker, Spider-Man.
Dang Thai Son, spider hands. 05:08
For once in my life, I can't pick any mistakes in any if these pianists performances
Honorable mention: Ivo Pogorelich
I always dreamed of me winning the Chopin competition someday but the thing is I don't have a piano
Don’t worry: they’ll let you use theirs.
I mean I can't practice at home
@@全王さん oh boy
@@全王さん they were making a joke
Update: i have one now it arrived the other day
And then follows Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu
01:35 which piano is this? Sounds really good
estonia piano
And 2021, Bruce Xiaoyu Liu
Are you sure? Maybe Bruce Lee?
0:55 this took my breath away..
One of the rare pieces on this list that's not Chopin
@@pavlenikacevic4976 yeah it’s kinda weird for a Chopin competition lol
what legends they are!
5:07 The first asiatic pianist!!!
Thanks for posting this. I was curious about who won when, so I did a search and found this!
:)
It would be fun to watch the runners-up. Moreira Lima, Ashkenazy, Małcużyński, Tamarkina...
I have not heard anything about Moreira Lima since 1965. Ashkenazy turned into conducting and was very good in that. Małcużyński is a prewar pianist.
www.youtube.com/@InstitutoPianoBrasileiro/search?query=moreira%20lima
www.youtube.com/@InstitutoPianoBrasileiro/search?query=moreira%20lima
You should do a followup video of where the winners are: university positions, etc. Of course we know the major names: Argerich, etc.
5:06 someone tell me the name of the piece being played please, it sounds so beautiful
Scherzo no2, my favourite one of the four scherzos :)
@@ninjagrape2416 me too!!
I didnt knew that there werent awarded 1st prizes so often
The standards are pretty savage
Cho is definitely the best in the past 20 or so years
No way he's better than Blechacz, I also like Bruce way better.
@@김콩순-y2e Bruce>Cho
@@Thiago-px9ev Bruce is no where near Cho
@@TheDirtyLuke You're right, he's far above
@@Thiago-px9ev Then you got bad taste
This is wonderful to watch and introduces me to so many players I hadn’t known about - fantastic upload, ty
Favorite winner is Zimerman
The only one missing is Henryk Sztompka for the best Mazurka's. ( also a nice fact: Szostakovich got an honorary mention in 1927)
Rafał Blechacz is quite young, he won everything in the contest of 2005 but somehow didn't want to be a TH-cam star. TH-cam people rarely mention him and many don't even know his name. Strange
Politics. He performed extensively across the Europe, but never at Carnegie Hall and New Philharmonic.
@@johnfalstaff2270 uhm... Why more exactly?
@@umegghju. Politics. Especially in New York. I cannot explain it in detail. My comments would be deleted...
0:00 Vladimir Horowitz- Chopin Polonaise Op 53 (Heroic)
Best pianist ever, seriously
GENIUS PIANIST OF THE 20th CENTURY
Come on! Not True! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Horowitz=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg Murray Perahia Alexei Lubimov Dinu Lipatti Stanislav Igolinsky! More powerful louder than Horowitz=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi!
How could Alexei Sultanov not win first prize? He won the Van Cliburn competition. Sadly, he died at age 35. Interesting that early winners were old guys. How things have changed!
Alexey Sultanov won more then first prize. He won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people around the world!!!
And every day there are more fans of the Brilliant Pianist Alexey Sultanov!
Because judges nowadays tend to pick hot young prodigies with flashy techniques that are easily marketable, rather than fully developed and mature rounded musicians. Yunchan Lim is an exception because his playing (and his personality) has the depth and wisdom of an old soul.
There's basically no point in even thinking about winning a competition if you're older than early 20's... though it is good for exposure and for bios. It also helps if you have connections with the judges. Judges can't give scores to those who they've taught or had connections with but there is nothing stopping them from marking OTHER candidates down.
You are wrong about the age of older pianists. As contestants they were in their early twenties before the WWII. What you saw here was recorded in the middle of 1960's and 1970's, when advanced TV technology allowed to document their talents...
Yulianna Avdeeva (2010) is a lovely player, but Daniil Trifonov should have been here as the winner from that year.
I disagree, Trifonov wasn't at his best in the competition (he got better though!). I thought Ingolf Wunder should've won.
Bozhanov was phenomenal that year too.
2010 was the year where it got overcrowded with geniuses, for me personally Bozhanov was the most breathtaking pianist, but I also admired Trifonov at that time (I’m not a fan of current Trifonov tho) and obviously Avdeeva and Wunder are both amazing too
@@Viktorvelat95 Yes! Bozhanov had a tonal palette that exceeded everybody else!
@@ganjamozart1435 Bozhanov is a musical genius, IMHO, and completely dominated the others, but self-destructed in the concerto. Except for Martha, Pogo, and perhaps Pollini, he's the pianist from the competition I'd most like to hear play Live (and I've heard both the others many times).
that yakov zak prokofiev clip is very very cool
I have never heard of him. Strange...
The heroic polonaise part at the very front of the video is Vladimir Horowitz just so you guys know
Bruce Liu won the 2020
It was in 2021!
CHOPIN NAJPIEKNIEJSZA SPUŚCIZNA DLA LUDZKOŚCI. DZIĘKUJĘ !!!
many first winners of this Competions very far from great pianists of 20Th Century , a few had a real carreer of international solists , it's a indisputable fact !
Not True! In 1937 Yakov Zak Rosa Tamarkina Witold Malcuzynski was one of the Greatest piano competions ever! Cerny Stefanska her Chopin concerto no 1 was the greatest because people tough is was Lipatti! After these crazy folks find out that it is Cerny Stefanska not Lipatti then they stop claiming it is the greatest! Lev Oborin played Khachaturian piano concerto! Khacturian first have his concerto to Oborin!
CHOPIN NAJPIEKNIEJSZA SPUŚCIZNA DLA LUDZKOŚCI. DZIĘKUJĘ.
Pisz jak inni. Po angielsku... Inaczej pises z kulawa noga czyta twoje wpisy.
Where is kai ichinose?😚
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@@Yoshi-gz7hg nobody cares about that guy xddd
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Oborin and Sultanov are my favourite out of the enlisted.
Alexey Sultanov is GREAT
Sultanov was the best winner by far , maybe Grand Prize of All , Jury had made a
a fat mistake by giving him second when first was not awarded.
Definitely not. The judges knew what they were doing
@@sebastian-benedictflore I agree!
Those older pianos had an old west saloon quality sound.
that's due in no small part to the recording quality
at 0:53, Yakov Zak is playing Prokofievs Toccata. Is the video from the Chopin competition, I mean was it allowed back then to play music from other composers in the competition?
No, only Chopin's music was allowed, but that's the only video I found from him.
@@zestofpiano3509 oh, I see. But it is awesome how many old videos you found! Thank you so much for your effort!
That was AWESOME by ZAK! THE ENTIRE VIDEO IS ON THE
DENIS PCHOLINSKI
CHANNEL.
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With every year that goes the competitors just seem to get better and better. Each draws a bit more out of Chopin's original compositions.
I feel sorry for Ashkenazy. he came second in 1955
Competitions are like Beauty Contests. Very often I preferred girls who took third or even fifth place...
Why do a lot of them dead ass look like Chopin????
The facial expressions of past champions will not be as exaggerated as they are now.
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Perfect video 🙂🎵🇬🇷
Thanks !
4:22 Krystian Zimerman
God I’ve probably listened to his 4 ballades recording at least 100 times
@@zederick668 me too! his playing is just wonderful but it's a pity all of them got removed
@@someonethatyoumayknow9590 Ballade No. 2-4 is back
And now, we wait.....
Martha Argerich is the greatest pianist I have ever heard.
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Of course you're referring to Volodya's LISZT b minor sonata -- too bad he never recorded
*Chopin's* Op. 58....
I agree
Arthr Rubinstein for me, the fact that he have his own fucking world class competition named after him tells everything.
More colorful beautiful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg Murray Perahia Alexei Lubimov Dinu Lipatti Stanislav Igolinsky! More powerful louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique better than Argerich's technique!!
MAURIZIO POLLINI, THE LEGEND ♥
The etude at 6:10 is not op 10 o 2 right?
No it's op 10 no 12 aka revolutionary etude
it's revolutionary etude (op 10 no 12)
Probably a mistype
I would like to note only during the Second World War and by covid the competition was postponed.
All fantastic performers. Question - why wasn't 1st prize awarded a couple of times recently?
Some years they just decided there wasn't anyone they wanted to award a First Prize.
They thought no one deserved it. Similar case with why there was no second prize in 2005, no one was close to Blechacz.
Curious how some of these became famous, Zimerman, Argerich, Pollini and others disappeared!
Politics. I cannot explain that in deeper detail... You understand... Don't you?
Thanks for this video... bravo
Croyez moi, dans quelques années je ferais parti de ces finalistes 🎹🙏🏻
Quant à moi j apprends a jouer au clair de la lune et je compte y être des l an prochain. Mon nom? Toto le heros
Personally, Yulianna Avdeeva is my fav here and underrated, I like Zimerman too tho
I've personally preferred Zimerman, Dang Thai Son, Liu, and Blechacz in particular among the winners thus far.
Come on! Pollini the biggest genius! Ashkenazy had the most colorful piano sound ever! Stanislav Bunin the most talented! 1937 Rosa Tamarkina most fierce and passion and fire!
I'm here when the competition is already finish 4 months ago? I guess
And the winner is Bruce liu!!!
I disagree that he won.
@@girlbad6907 y
@@girlbad6907 he’s the best of the best, jus sit down buddy
Bruce Lee, you wanted to say...
1. zimmerman
2. cho
3. pollini
"Cho" lol besides Lev Oborin, Yakov Zak, or any other legend, he's just another little Asian student
@@Alix777. Can you please respect other's opinions? It's just different from people to people.
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@@Alix777. deaf