you know I have heard of St Matthew's Passion (Bach) being hailed as the absolute highest point of Western classical music....who can argue with that....Bach is nearly Godly to me....but this second piano concerto of Prokofiev ranks way up there for me
Magical ride right from the beginning! This is so emotional and full of wonderful imagination from Prokofiev as his pieces always tend to be. Great performance also!!!
I must say that I am impressed by Ashkenazy as a conductor: the orchestra is very powerful, yet leaves enough space to the pianist. Kissin's play is simply awesome as it remains clear at all times in spite of the rhythmic difficulties. He also manages a very fine balance between sentiment, percussive sound and furia when required. Quite a recording... Thanks for posting !
I think that's possible because Ashkenazy is a very good pianist too. He knows how the orchestra has to play if the pianist should have his space too. :)
As notable as Mr. Ashkenazy is as a pianist, his conducting actually seems to be where he shines even more. I, however, am innocent of being overqualified as a music critic, so I'll leave it at that.
not sure if you have an idea that Ashkenazy played this very concert himself earlier as pianist and now he is conducting it. Not like he was a very good pianist too, he's one of the best ever.
Bertrand Jacques Ashkenazy ayant lui-même interprété avec brio les 5 concertos de Prokofiev, sa conduite éclairée ne pouvait que favoriser cette communion géniale avec Kissin.
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There is no best way to play Prokofiev or any other composer for that matter. The whole joy in magnificent music such as this is to hear it played in so many different, great and meaningful ways.
This is one of the best piano concertos ever written, Prokofiev a great pianist himself has done a brilliant job by this concerto as a composer and himself as a performer. Very romantic while extremely modern. I never get tired of it and I have listened to it for more than 60 years with different pianists and this is one of the best.
Today, 70 years after the Master's death, listening again to this recording, it gives me the feeling, that this music predicts much more things yet to come. It's cold and in the same time compassionate. Fearless. Reasonable.
Prokofiev- the last of the great Slavic pianist-composers. These were people whose mastery of the instrument- and their talent for composition- were simply at another level.
The meeting of three great imaginations: Prokofiev's, Askenazy's and Kissin's wonderfully imaginative execution, to which I must add Joan Miró, since I kept experiencing animated visions of his paintings through the performance for some reason!
I can feel a very Rachmaninoffian Romantic influence in this piece, but it's also undeniably Prokofiev with its twisted and crushing darkness whilst never losing his trademark quirkiness... One of my friends said it's like gallows humor in musical form...
Ich höre gerade dieses Konzert zum Gedenken an die Opfer des Wiener Attentats vom 2.11.2020. Im Vergleich zum den vielen Aufnahmen geht mir diese Interpretation heute besonders nahe! R.I.P.
If you listen to Prokofiev playing his own compositions, you'll see that he did NOT play in the mechanical percussive manner people tend to play him in. He actually played his music with a rubato and musical touch, often much slower than usually performed. I think Kissin captures that very nicely.
+Echoherb I've listened to Prokofiev's own recording of his 3rd Piano Concerto and it is very acute and 'mechanical', more so even than say Argerich's, in fact I don't see how different Kissin is here. His whole style of composition is modernistic and deliberately abrupt and sharp. Listen to Richter's harsh performance of his 5th and tell me that it wasn't meant to be played that way, Prokofiev even had Richter premiere his 6th Sonata because he admired his performances of his scores and his renditions were some of the most aggressive.
Kissin plays as he plays not as Prokofiev played. He tends to keep the music well within the boundaries of regular interpretation, in that does do right to Prokofiev's ideas, but light is shed on other details.
This is wrong. Every account of people who listened to Prokofiev play described it as very mechanical, without any rubato, embellishments etc. It was more of a composer presenting his work in the most sober way possible than a pianist playing.
This is just perfect like no other to play Prokofiev 2/3 only Kissin captures the composer message of anger, agitation, sorrow, lamentation, helplesness and etc, He plays this just perfect to play Prokofiev. For me he is the outstanding pianist to play this music he is my preference.
Oh, I don't know, try Ashkenzy/Previn, Gutierrez/Jarvi, Trpceski/Petrenko, Toradze/Gergiev, or Kitaenko/Krainev. This doesn't even quite make my second tier, let alone my first.
The brilliant cadenza that everyone is talking about at 5:42-10:24 for goodness's sake is quite possibly the greatest, or at least most unique, cadenza in classical music history here. Kissin blows it, or us, out of the water, I can't tell which. They say all pianist temporarily resigned after hearing Kissin's interpretation (%
For me this cadenza depicts a greater struggle in the heart of the composer at the time. I believe this concerto was written in anger because Prokofiev lost a close friend or somebody he really cared about, if I recall. You can feel the resonating waves of deep internal frustration here, really, with the whole piece, which makes me like it even more because Prok is not limiting himself to the "rules" of classical music with this and many, many more of his works. He seems to have mastered the art of speaking his heart with the music he writes, as all artists should.
Most pianists (even supposedly great ones, see Ashkenazy's mess of the cadenza) can't even find the throughline. In the big muddy bits, Kissin is pretty lost, but at least he doesn't doesn't sound muddled. It's like Ginastera's third piano sonata, people just can't even get the gist, play the notes, and it doesn't sound convicing.
There is a stunning performance of Prokofiev's 2nd from decades ago by the then first-prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium Musique Concours -- Malcolm Frager, available only through an online archive service, but if you love the piece, and awesome performances of it, I heartily recommend that recording too.
Interesting how one of the finest recordings of this monumental work is the conductor, who now corroborates with a new artistic titan who quite possibly produces a finer/ cleaner rendition
An outstanding account of this frighteningly difficult work. Ashkenazy is of course heard here as conductor, however I recall an amazing perfomance he himself gave of this concerto as a briliiant young pianist at Londons RFH in 1966.
The 5 concertos by Askenazy (at the piano) are at this level too. (i have a photo with him - autographed in later occasion!-, and another with Evgeny :))) They are the best!
Zinnia - I couldn't agree more. I listened to around a dozen performances and this is by far the best... it is almost like he is meditating the music not playing it. The other amazing thing is that you have Ashkenazy who is one of the greatest performer of this piece as a conductor.
I don't really think someone can have listened to too many renditions of no. 2 and have this opinion. Ashkenazy's version is timid and typically confused in the cadenza, and Kissin no more knows his way around the impossible parts of the cadenza. Horacio Gutierrez gives a better accounting even if I could want more out of the orchestra.
Beautiful...Sounds like deep green sea water and bells ringing on a ship..and then on the shore. I wonder what Prokofiev visualised when composing this piece.
The Chopin Recordings by Mr. Kissin are also outstanding. In my youth I usually heard 'overdramatized' interpretations of Chopin, which led me to believe that his music was some sort of pompous and exalted emergency waltz. I have to admit to my own shame that I had to listen to Mr. Kissin playing the works of Chopin to fully appreciate what wonderful music it is. I hope we will hear many more good recordings from him. As a matter of fact, I think he just released another recording of Prokofiev Piano Concerto 1 & 3 with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Vladimir... I have only,dreams, painful now, of playing the piano with such mastery as you dear Sir. I'm not just referring to this particular gem of a piece either... Thank you so much ! : ) Beautiful... and amazing... Thank you to the rest of you as well, an amazing orchestra ! : )
Whilst I would agree that this is an amazing performance of a difficult work, I feel that Kissin was playing for safety and accuracy in this performance. The cadenza in the first movement, especially the ending, lacks the fire and fury of the Yuja Wang performance under Paavo Jarvi. A magnificent performance of my favourite work. Thank goodness that so many incredibly gifted pianists have tackled and recorded this music.
Why don't we all argue how this is supposed to be played, criticizing those who disagree, while not being able to play the piece ourselves...OR, if we can play it, lacking any sort of label who wants to hear us do so.
I feel the most, and envision scenes from personal experience - when I listen to this. But then, I can listen to Yuja Wang for astonishment and a certain sparkle of innocent genius. Both are extremely worthwhile in different ways.
Orville C. Wright, Jr. Could it be possible that Prokofiev had his own style of performance, somewhat idiomatic to say the least; though, by the same token, he could have encouraged a more percussive and mordant style in others who performed his works. I am particularly thinking of Sviatoslav Richter's stunning performances of Prokofiev's piano works.
I listened to ashkenazy, yuja, yundi, kissin. And i finally got that kissin's record was better than others. Well this is just my opinion. But i think fast and accurate is not the whole standard to judge artists. I think the feeling we get while listening to is most important than others. This is also my opinion and i think this pianist's record is most well-done than others'. By the way i am curious that why lang lang didn't recorded this.
Re-hearing the 1st movement cadenza just now (starting 5:42), I realized something I haven't acknowledged before: Kissin steadfastly honors the principle that no matter what degree of technical virtuosity is called for, there is no excuse for an ugly piano tone. I can't recall if he's always been this observant or if I'm hearing a new degree of artistic maturity. Probably the former.
and I dare to disagree. Especially that it's Prokofiev. Technical demands should never excuse you from making an ugly piano tone. However, the intent of creating ugly, terrifying, unlikeable tone definitely can. Before Prokofiev/Bartók, it was kind of forbidden, but Prokofiev really sometimes uses piano as percussive instrument, when his intentions were not to make beautiful music, but to scare the crap out of you. War Sonatas for example.
@Muniz F I don't mean the dissonances, but the nature of the music. Dance of Knights from the Romeo and Juliet ballet is beautiful music, yet the main theme sounds evil even though it's beautiful. I feel like it should display the hateful emotions of the two families towards each other and the meaner the conductor makes it sound, the more I like it.
The recording I have is Horicio Guiterrez, when I first heard it I thought it was way too fast, but now I've come to really like it. This is actually true for Rachmaninoff's concertos as well, I prefer them faster, they way he personally played them, and so I feel that this is played really well, but the tempo is too slow for my taste.
To add to this .... very few pianists have attempted the third piano concerto because of its unbelievable difficulty....even M Argerich hasn't played it . Kissin is amongst the brave....and I highly doubt if Yuja Wong could play it as well as the likes of Kissin and ...say Bronfman
@@maltehenrikgohr both of you are wrong. Argerich says herself she feels a connection to prokofiev. not only that but i think you mean this concerto, which is the second not the third. in your comment you said third- but argerich’s version is among the most famous recordings of that one. but not this one, the second one.
I don't know why, but i like Yuja Wang interpretation more. Her cadenza sounds good with the orchestra. I haven't seen others doing that unique sort of dinamics. Though i want some chords to play more painful... Kissin is good. He is not that type of people that are sitting on painful chords so much. But still sitting... Maybe it is right because of historical reason, but i xont really like it.
Lena McGinnis In the third piano Concerto by Prokofiev, I'm agree with you, but in the performance of the second, I prefer Kissin energy. This is only my opinion.
This piece is the perfect length for a round of League: Movement 1 - getting to lane, early CS, get ganked at the Cadenza Movement 2 - shit's hit the fan, you're running around, fights breaking out everywhere Movement 3 - you're now desensitized, the game's a complete mess, but you're hanging in there Movement 4 - the final battle at baron pit, you lose the fight, they're at your base and you give up. You somehow win one last fight, team goes silent, you think you have a chance, then they teleport into your base and win anyways.
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After listening to this, I don't want to go back to heavy metal anymore ._.
The third movement is pretty fucking metal. Liszt's totentanz too.
I didn't want to go back to heavy metal BEFORE listening to this!
Try both! Mekong Delta has a great rendition of Mussorgky's Pictures at an Exhibition, for example.
wut
YEEEEEEESS
Самое лучшее исполнение этого концерта, такая глубина и свобода, я послушал эту запись больше 100 раз..
MY FAVORITE PIANO CONCERTO FOR EVER.
Me too. Still your favourite?
Maybe my favorite as well. Definitely the scariest. Gets under my skin.
the cadenza in the first mov is simply orgasmic!!!
even more orgasmic than the cadenza is the awe-inspiring return of the almost apocalyptic-sounding brass section immediately after the cadenza
+Mazac Tal I thought it was an ad that came on haha
I genuinely consider that moment one of the best ones in the entire music history
you know I have heard of St Matthew's Passion (Bach) being hailed as the absolute highest point of Western classical music....who can argue with that....Bach is nearly Godly to me....but this second piano concerto of Prokofiev ranks way up there for me
And to think that on its first performance people walked out of the concert hall as it sounded too harsh and shocked their senses.....
Magical ride right from the beginning! This is so emotional and full of wonderful imagination from Prokofiev as his pieces always tend to be. Great performance also!!!
Beyond amazing. I am addicted to Prokofiev.
Yuval Ron Oh hey, I've seen you in Prog Snob. Cool that you like Prokofiev (prog as hell, by the way).
Same here from korea
Me too
ok
I must say that I am impressed by Ashkenazy as a conductor: the orchestra is very powerful, yet leaves enough space to the pianist. Kissin's play is simply awesome as it remains clear at all times in spite of the rhythmic difficulties. He also manages a very fine balance between sentiment, percussive sound and furia when required. Quite a recording... Thanks for posting !
I think that's possible because Ashkenazy is a very good pianist too. He knows how the orchestra has to play if the pianist should have his space too. :)
As notable as Mr. Ashkenazy is as a pianist, his conducting actually seems to be where he shines even more. I, however, am innocent of being overqualified as a music critic, so I'll leave it at that.
not sure if you have an idea that Ashkenazy played this very concert himself earlier as pianist and now he is conducting it. Not like he was a very good pianist too, he's one of the best ever.
Bertrand Jacques Ashkenazy ayant lui-même interprété avec brio les 5 concertos de Prokofiev, sa conduite éclairée ne pouvait que favoriser cette communion géniale avec Kissin.
Ххххх0хххх0 00000х0000х000и и ⁰с 999999не 00не 00не 999999999не 00не 0⁹099990999999⁰0а ⁰а 0а 0а ⁰9⁰⁰в ⁰а 0а ⁰в ⁰в ⁰0а 9в 09⁰9⁰9⁰99999999ⁿ999ⁿ99ⁿ9ⁿⁿⁿⁿⁿ в том что он был бы самым главным в истории человечества а также был создан и был построен на этом месте и с помощью него не ⁰9999⁰99999⁰9999999999ⁿ99999999ⁿ999999⁰99990999999⁰99999⁰999⁰99999999⁰999⁰99999ⁿ9999и ⁰99999999⁰99999999⁰9999999⁰999999999⁰9999999и ⁰9⁰9⁰99⁰9проппа
There is no best way to play Prokofiev or any other composer for that matter. The whole joy in magnificent music such as this is to hear it played in so many different, great and meaningful ways.
Well spoken
There may be no best way, but there are certainly some bad ways.
@@talastra Absolutely !
I keep loving more and more Prokofiev's works as I go listening new ones. One of my favourites composers for sure
Yes! Me too... I love his music... :)
This concerto by Kissin\Ashkenazy is probably the most amazing i've ever heard into classical music
Perfect perfomance of a unworldly composition .
the most beautiful music that exists.
Well, if Frederic Chopin sings the praises of Sergei Prokofiev, what is the world coming to?
Chopin: you should check out Shchedrin
I think you're overrated.
You are overrated ASF
he’s overrated but not me
This is one of the best piano concertos ever written, Prokofiev a great pianist himself has done a brilliant job by this concerto as a composer and himself as a performer. Very romantic while extremely modern. I never get tired of it and I have listened to it for more than 60 years with different pianists and this is one of the best.
The best performance of this concerto - ever! This is the standard that I don't think will ever be achieved for sometime- simply remarkable!
The man who conducts the orchestra gave an equally if not more amazing performance of this concerto as a pianist :)
Yes, he did, which enhanced the overall experience of Kissin's peformances.
One of the few works that Argerich would not touch when she was younger. Now I suspect it is too late. Bravo Kissin!
Totally agree...its pure bravery and confidence to tackle this piece
First time I hear a version I like as much as Askanezy (at the piano)! Thanks for posting!
Absolutely astounding.! Kissin has Prokofief in his soul. and with.Askkenazy conducting who also plays this exceptionly the two are perfection1.
Prokofiev...not human... magic from a human mind
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why not both?
Today, 70 years after the Master's death, listening again to this recording, it gives me the feeling, that this music predicts much more things yet to come. It's cold and in the same time compassionate. Fearless. Reasonable.
Prokofiev- the last of the great Slavic pianist-composers. These were people whose mastery of the instrument- and their talent for composition- were simply at another level.
No, that's Shostakovich, who lived until the 1970s.
The meeting of three great imaginations: Prokofiev's, Askenazy's and Kissin's wonderfully imaginative execution, to which I must add Joan Miró, since I kept experiencing animated visions of his paintings through the performance for some reason!
Breathtaking...😮
It takes a conductor who is also a great pianist to work with a talent like Kissin in bringing out the best in this wonderful piece! BRAVO!!
I can feel a very Rachmaninoffian Romantic influence in this piece, but it's also undeniably Prokofiev with its twisted and crushing darkness whilst never losing his trademark quirkiness... One of my friends said it's like gallows humor in musical form...
It’s all very macabre
Ich höre gerade dieses Konzert zum Gedenken an die Opfer des Wiener Attentats vom 2.11.2020. Im Vergleich zum den vielen Aufnahmen geht mir diese Interpretation heute besonders nahe! R.I.P.
This is an extraordinary (and probably incomparable) recording. The deliciously spiky third movement is a personal favourite.
Truly beautiful. Loved every second of it . Gifted orchestra, pianist, composer & conductor . A magnificent revelation .
Kissin s interpretations has most attracted me ,it s perfect!
Kissin owns this peace
I'm not a pianist, but I'd have to say this guy Kissin has an incredible touch. Every note is so precise. I bet he's great with Brahms, too.
You’re sooo right. His Brahms is great😂
If you listen to Prokofiev playing his own compositions, you'll see that he did NOT play in the mechanical percussive manner people tend to play him in. He actually played his music with a rubato and musical touch, often much slower than usually performed. I think Kissin captures that very nicely.
+Echoherb I've listened to Prokofiev's own recording of his 3rd Piano Concerto and it is very acute and 'mechanical', more so even than say Argerich's, in fact I don't see how different Kissin is here. His whole style of composition is modernistic and deliberately abrupt and sharp. Listen to Richter's harsh performance of his 5th and tell me that it wasn't meant to be played that way, Prokofiev even had Richter premiere his 6th Sonata because he admired his performances of his scores and his renditions were some of the most aggressive.
You are right!
+Man Beadle // Richter's 5th RULES the Prokofiev canon.....HUGE and UNCOMPROMISING! As for KIssin, I like this performance of the 2nd
Kissin plays as he plays not as Prokofiev played. He tends to keep the music well within the boundaries of regular interpretation, in that does do right to Prokofiev's ideas, but light is shed on other details.
This is wrong. Every account of people who listened to Prokofiev play described it as very mechanical, without any rubato, embellishments etc. It was more of a composer presenting his work in the most sober way possible than a pianist playing.
His music is magic!!!
dimitra dimitriu then what is my music?
Also magic; merely magic of a different flair. More elegant and flowing in its nature, yet equally beautiful.
Or at least that's my opinion.
Beatiful piece and performance!
Great, great , great composer! Great concert! Great pianist and conductor! Not to mention about orchestra :)
This is just perfect like no other to play Prokofiev 2/3 only Kissin captures the composer
message of anger, agitation, sorrow, lamentation, helplesness and etc, He plays this just perfect to play Prokofiev. For me he is the outstanding pianist to play this music he is my preference.
Indeed, you put the right words there.
Zinnia Milburn, that is exactly what I think !
Kissin is indeed a suitable landmark for Prokofiev's 2nd, however Argerich's execution of the 3rd is transcendental
Oh, I don't know, try Ashkenzy/Previn, Gutierrez/Jarvi, Trpceski/Petrenko, Toradze/Gergiev, or Kitaenko/Krainev. This doesn't even quite make my second tier, let alone my first.
The brilliant cadenza that everyone is talking about at 5:42-10:24 for goodness's sake is quite possibly the greatest, or at least most unique, cadenza in classical music history here. Kissin blows it, or us, out of the water, I can't tell which. They say all pianist temporarily resigned after hearing Kissin's interpretation (%
For me this cadenza depicts a greater struggle in the heart of the composer at the time. I believe this concerto was written in anger because Prokofiev lost a close friend or somebody he really cared about, if I recall. You can feel the resonating waves of deep internal frustration here, really, with the whole piece, which makes me like it even more because Prok is not limiting himself to the "rules" of classical music with this and many, many more of his works. He seems to have mastered the art of speaking his heart with the music he writes, as all artists should.
@@dspannplayspiano Well said.
Most pianists (even supposedly great ones, see Ashkenazy's mess of the cadenza) can't even find the throughline. In the big muddy bits, Kissin is pretty lost, but at least he doesn't doesn't sound muddled. It's like Ginastera's third piano sonata, people just can't even get the gist, play the notes, and it doesn't sound convicing.
There is a stunning performance of Prokofiev's 2nd from decades ago by the then first-prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium Musique Concours -- Malcolm Frager, available only through an online archive service, but if you love the piece, and awesome performances of it, I heartily recommend that recording too.
Interpretazione magistrale❤
His hair is almost under control!
hahaha
Shopped.
High speed camera lens.
そっち！！？ｗ
The best performance ! Thanks for sharing.
Nice antidote to pop culture👽
Wtf man lol
Esta es una de las mejores versiones de este conciert sin duda
Interesting how one of the finest recordings of this monumental work is the conductor, who now corroborates with a new artistic titan who quite possibly produces a finer/ cleaner rendition
The clarinet intro is sacred. That mellow sound is so beautiful.
You can really feel the pain and anxiety in that first cadenza!
Didnt a really good friend of Prokofiev die while he was writing it?
Best since Jorge Bolet and the Cincinnati -- and better. Fabulous achievement.
An outstanding account of this frighteningly difficult work. Ashkenazy is of course heard here as conductor, however I recall an amazing perfomance he himself gave of this concerto as a briliiant young pianist at Londons RFH in 1966.
Ok this is my favorite version alongside Krainev’s interpretation!
The 5 concertos by Askenazy (at the piano) are at this level too. (i have a photo with him - autographed in later occasion!-, and another with Evgeny :))) They are the best!
Great!Discoverd this new gem, so glad!THX
Τhis is superb -Though clearly impressionistic in its narrative parts ...
Excellent 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾
When I saw this, I suspected that there was a second pianist hiding under the stage or something.
Zinnia - I couldn't agree more. I listened to around a dozen performances and this is by far the best... it is almost like he is meditating the music not playing it. The other amazing thing is that you have Ashkenazy who is one of the greatest performer of this piece as a conductor.
I don't really think someone can have listened to too many renditions of no. 2 and have this opinion. Ashkenazy's version is timid and typically confused in the cadenza, and Kissin no more knows his way around the impossible parts of the cadenza. Horacio Gutierrez gives a better accounting even if I could want more out of the orchestra.
Thanks for uploading!
Most magical music I have heard!
one of the all-time classical shit-kickers
Breathtaking
Love this no. 2 concerto so very much
I did not find this one by Marta Argerich?!
Even so more the no. 1 or 3 are played.
Martha never played it.
Beautiful...Sounds like deep green sea water and bells ringing on a ship..and then on the shore. I wonder what Prokofiev visualised when composing this piece.
Magnífico. Maravilloso. Interpretación excelente de Evgeny Kissin.
this performance is superb
The Chopin Recordings by Mr. Kissin are also outstanding. In my youth I usually heard 'overdramatized' interpretations of Chopin, which led me to believe that his music was some sort of pompous and exalted emergency waltz. I have to admit to my own shame that I had to listen to Mr. Kissin playing the works of Chopin to fully appreciate what wonderful music it is. I hope we will hear many more good recordings from him. As a matter of fact, I think he just released another recording of Prokofiev Piano Concerto 1 & 3 with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
You should try some Yundi Li Chopin.
Vladimir... I have only,dreams, painful now, of playing the piano with such mastery as you dear Sir. I'm not just referring to this particular gem of a piece either...
Thank you so much ! : ) Beautiful... and amazing...
Thank you to the rest of you as well, an amazing orchestra ! : )
He is the conductor here , not the pianist
Le pianiste ( et les autres musiciens bien sur ) au service de l'oeuvre, tout simplement !
Whilst I would agree that this is an amazing performance of a difficult work, I feel that Kissin was playing for safety and accuracy in this performance. The cadenza in the first movement, especially the ending, lacks the fire and fury of the Yuja Wang performance under Paavo Jarvi. A magnificent performance of my favourite work. Thank goodness that so many incredibly gifted pianists have tackled and recorded this music.
Oh kissin never plays for safety
I like this tempo more for the cadenza personally
there is a live recording of kissin playing this with much more passion, although the recording quality isn't as good...
Awesome 2nd Concerto!
Excelente versión!
in Kissin's rendition, I was able to love this music. And I'm a musician, by the way ...
Bruh I don't want Lego masters ad's whilr in trying to fall asleep listening to masterpieces
@k h and all the screeching flutes?
Leyendo "Instrumental " de James Rhodes.
10:25 Epic moment.
Ashkenazy recorded the complete Prokofiev piano concertos as pianist in the early days of his career.
Yes. With Andre Previn, in '75. They were my introduction to the Prokofiev Concerti, so they will always hold a special place in my heart.
This is very heavy to listen to. But it's glorious!
You have to listen more often to it to understand half of the piece. It's just great!
Музыка завораживает. Это что то необьяснимое
Wow!
WOW 2 compadres!!!
This is the best version,,,,,,
Why don't we all argue how this is supposed to be played, criticizing those who disagree, while not being able to play the piece ourselves...OR, if we can play it, lacking any sort of label who wants to hear us do so.
+Christopher Morris // Yes....you are correct....as I always say, "Let's give War a chance!"
i cant have an opinion on something just because I spend my time with ...maybe different pieces?
I feel the most, and envision scenes from personal experience - when I listen to this. But then, I can listen to Yuja Wang for astonishment and a certain sparkle of innocent genius. Both are extremely worthwhile in different ways.
I saw Kissin play this live in 1999 Chicago and had front row seats. He destroyed that poor piano.
lucky bastard
i like it a lot
It's strange to not hear applause after performance.
Well it's not a live recording
Иногда, даже если живая запись, звукорежиссеры специально дописывают без аплодисментов.
The opening bars sound so oriental
I would give up all Mozart for this concert!
Orville C. Wright, Jr. Could it be possible that Prokofiev had his own style of performance, somewhat idiomatic to say the least; though, by the same token, he could have encouraged a more percussive and mordant style in others who performed his works. I am particularly thinking of Sviatoslav Richter's stunning performances of Prokofiev's piano works.
I listened to ashkenazy, yuja, yundi, kissin. And i finally got that kissin's record was better than others. Well this is just my opinion. But i think fast and accurate is not the whole standard to judge artists. I think the feeling we get while listening to is most important than others. This is also my opinion and i think this pianist's record is most well-done than others'. By the way i am curious that why lang lang didn't recorded this.
I believe you are correct in your assessment.
Unlike Martha, Lang Lang has technical limits. Anyone who majors piano might know that.
I totally agree, he is actually 'expressing' himself while interpreting the orignial notes. So poetic.
In music, unlike science, emotion is everything.
Perfecto
You should try the versions where Ashkenazy is behind the keyboard. Something else !
@14:21 Mafia Trace -Je plaide pour la rue brought me here :)
this is a superlative recording.
Re-hearing the 1st movement cadenza just now (starting 5:42), I realized something I haven't acknowledged before: Kissin steadfastly honors the principle that no matter what degree of technical virtuosity is called for, there is no excuse for an ugly piano tone. I can't recall if he's always been this observant or if I'm hearing a new degree of artistic maturity. Probably the former.
and I dare to disagree. Especially that it's Prokofiev. Technical demands should never excuse you from making an ugly piano tone. However, the intent of creating ugly, terrifying, unlikeable tone definitely can. Before Prokofiev/Bartók, it was kind of forbidden, but Prokofiev really sometimes uses piano as percussive instrument, when his intentions were not to make beautiful music, but to scare the crap out of you. War Sonatas for example.
@Muniz F I don't mean the dissonances, but the nature of the music. Dance of Knights from the Romeo and Juliet ballet is beautiful music, yet the main theme sounds evil even though it's beautiful. I feel like it should display the hateful emotions of the two families towards each other and the meaner the conductor makes it sound, the more I like it.
The recording I have is Horicio Guiterrez, when I first heard it I thought it was way too fast, but now I've come to really like it. This is actually true for Rachmaninoff's concertos as well, I prefer them faster, they way he personally played them, and so I feel that this is played really well, but the tempo is too slow for my taste.
+magetaaaaaa // Then you will NOT like Richter's slow huge majestic rendering of Rach 2....the Real Russian Soul
I really like Gutierrez' Rachmaninov PCs
@@TimothyReeves For me Earl Wilde is the gold standard for those concertos but I should definitely check that one out too.
Aucun mot n'est assez fort pour cette oeuvre.
To add to this .... very few pianists have attempted the third piano concerto because of its unbelievable difficulty....even M Argerich hasn't played it . Kissin is amongst the brave....and I highly doubt if Yuja Wong could play it as well as the likes of Kissin and ...say Bronfman
@@maltehenrikgohr both of you are wrong. Argerich says herself she feels a connection to prokofiev. not only that but i think you mean this concerto, which is the second not the third. in your comment you said third- but argerich’s version is among the most famous recordings of that one. but not this one, the second one.
I don't know why, but i like Yuja Wang interpretation more. Her cadenza sounds good with the orchestra. I haven't seen others doing that unique sort of dinamics. Though i want some chords to play more painful... Kissin is good. He is not that type of people that are sitting on painful chords so much. But still sitting... Maybe it is right because of historical reason, but i xont really like it.
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Yuja is THE BEST!!!!! The most spectacular performance by her.
Lena McGinnis In the third piano Concerto by Prokofiev, I'm agree with you, but in the performance of the second, I prefer Kissin energy. This is only my opinion.
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Final movement Egypt style ..
Should be " Adantino Mysterioso " .
Best version ever. Wang's version is a mess compared with this one ..
This piece is the perfect length for a round of League:
Movement 1 - getting to lane, early CS, get ganked at the Cadenza
Movement 2 - shit's hit the fan, you're running around, fights breaking out everywhere
Movement 3 - you're now desensitized, the game's a complete mess, but you're hanging in there
Movement 4 - the final battle at baron pit, you lose the fight, they're at your base and you give up. You somehow win one last fight, team goes silent, you think you have a chance, then they teleport into your base and win anyways.
Yuja got nothing on this guy.