Grigory Sokolov plays Chopin Etude Op.25 No.12 in C minor "Ocean" - Video 1987
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- Truly phenomenal playing from Sokolov. Words can’t describe how amazed I was - just watch it.
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Recorded on 11 November 1987 in Helsinki
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Григорий Соколов - Шопен Этюд Op.25 №12 до минор
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every concert pianist owns an etude and this one really belongs to Sokolov
Out of curiosity who do you think owns waterfall?
@@yorkzie7593 got to be seong-jin cho after his chopin competition
@@yorkzie7593 imo Cziffra by far
@@yorkzie7593 ashkenazy
@@AsrielKujo I agree
It sounds like a whole orchestra, simply amaizing
Only simply amazing??? Grigory Sokolov=THE TITAN OF THE PIANO!! THE GIANT OF THE PIANO!! Grigory Sokolov Chopin piano concerto no 2! Brahms piano concerto no 2! Mozart piano concerto no 24! Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2!! After Grigory Sokolov PLAYED THESE CONCERTOS THEN ALL THE OTHERS PIANISTS ARE REALLY ONLY THE DUST ZEROS!!!
@@RaineriHakkarainen SOKOLOV IS THE GOAT!!
Whole
I only hear piano with good phrasing 🤷🏻♂️
@@RaineriHakkarainen I suppose that you’ve never heard of Michelangeli
The way he attacked those keys were almost diabolical. The best recording of this Etude to PROBABLY ever have been published
@ArnaCaz Possible because of Czerny. Chopin was very inspired by his musical etudes. Look up "Etude ''Ocean Waves'' Op.692 №20", that one probably inspired Chopin to write this etude
He's a BIG dude! Those piano keys were begging for mercy!
Best coments here 😂. But yeah he attacked those piano keys pretty hard, fast and accurate on the same time.this grand piano passed the durability test as well : )
True beauty is not diabolic. It is euphoric, transcendent, even angelic.
@@Seenall That, in fact is not a fact until proven in Chopin's own statement. The earliest publication dates suggest it might as well have been the other way round.
Probably one of the best recordings ever made
Sick profile pic bro :)
@@conrad6226 Thanks a lot bro
*the best
Agreed, and this is live!!! Sokolov is mind-blowingly talented - one of the greatest to ever do it for sure
The best
One could disagree with his choices of tempo or sound, but this playing is actually unique. Personally, think Sokolov has a poetry of the highest level and excitingly original points of view. The greatest living pianist by far.
by a great great far I could add
Sokolov is amazing - one of the all time legendary pianists for sure
The tempo choice I think makes a lot of sense if you listen to the melody in the left hand
It’s the urtext tempo, so idk why someone would disagree
His tempo is actually very accurate to the score and he accentuates the correct notes. It’s really amazing
I’ll never understand how this has less views than Rousseau. This is a master performance
Wrong way. You have to figure out why this (and Rousseau) has less views than Shakira and stuff.
rousseau is a hack
@@Franzlassan Because popular music is popular, anything else like this is uncommon to hear and you wont hear it unless you go looking for it
Rousseau has the little bars to make it easier for people to see
perhaps people may be inclined away from the old video and audio quality unfortunately
I sent this to my piano teacher, and he said:
Some things in life are impossible, and this is one of them.
I was like: Wowwww🥶🥶🥶
Now we know how people felt when Liszt played.
Sokolov Versus Lazar Berman 325000-0!! Lazar Berman The Sledgehammer pianist Ever! Sokolov Versus Maurizio Pollini 100-0!! Sokolov Versus Van Cliburn 100-0!! Sokolov Versus Horowitz 100-0!! Sokolov Versus Aruturo Benedetti Michelangeli 75000-0!! ABM THE HUMAN MACHINE KING PIANIST EVER!! Sokolov Versus Marc Andre Hamelin 80000-0!! Marc Andre Hamelin THE CYBORG ROBOT KING PIANIST EVER!! Sokolov Versus Evgeny Kissin 175000-0!! Evgeny Kissin The ice cold piano sound Ever!! Sokolov Versus Mikhail Pletnev=(The most Powerful Ever Prokoviev piano concerto no 1)100-0!! Sokolov Versus Joseph Hofman 100-0!! Sokolov Versus Claudio Arrau 50000-0!! Sokolov Versus Rudolf Serkin 125000-0!! Sokolov Versus Daniel Barenboim 450000-0!! Barenboim The Most over-rated pianist Ever!!
yes! exactly!
it's chopin
@@CookieMasterRBLX he's referring to how magnificant a performer he is, just like Liszt was
@@mr.andrew_andrew + and his hair is like Liszt's.
Sokolow's interpretation of this study is different in the best possible way
bro really played the greatest interpretation of 25 no 12 after an hour of a concerto bruh
Sokolov played Brahms concerto no 2 and 3 encores Chopin prelude! Chopin etude The Ocean! Bach-Siloti prelude! Bach-Siloti missing because the tv time run out! The Finnish Broadcasting company had to show The News 8:30( 20:30)!
Brah
I almost forgot to watch this today.
(Yes, reposting the top comment from the original video haha)
Wait what, the original video was taken down? I remember that comment on there too
And this is why piano is the King of all instruments.
The orchestra look shell shocked at this insane out pouring of remarkable musical talent . Pure genius nothing more nothing less.
You can almost hear an orchestra in the background. AMAZING
3 things here.
1, The performance of this piece here is just total brilliance.
2, Chopin was able to compose 90% of compositions for Piano with great success.
3, He hated his pieces of music being named cheaply by the publishers. This piece was not an "Ocean" but an Etude. Chopin's Etudes are a total study of all types of playing styles for Piano just like Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues years before that.
It's simply an etude because it uses a constant line of "finger setting excises" always again and again. It's simply an simple excise, not less, not more. The player here shows us an dramatic visual inczenation.......what it not should be.....
@@karlheinzkirchmann6469there is a very clear difference between a Hanon or a Czerny etude and a Chopin etude. An etude like this might start as a finger excercise but it grows into something much bigger and beautiful.
@@karlheinzkirchmann6469 no, Chopin notably despised that sort of thinking.
By far the best interpretation of this piece; Sokolov’s performance is so amazing that listening to it has made it impossible for me to enjoy any other recording.
I like the one by Lisitsa.
Great ..........
@@patinho5589 Ditto, Lisitsa's is my favorite among the top videos for this piece.
Yes to the OP, no to Lisitsa.
The parts from the 2:00 mark are just pure beauty and I listen carefully to the left hand it sounds like an orchestra. So utterly gorgeous.
what the fuck, this performance blew my mind
It's like witnessing a part of nature that is huge, majestic and truly unpredictable, it's an honor for me to hear this play.
Absolutely agree ! 👏👏
The smoothness, evenness and the accuracy of his right hand is a revelation. Every single note can be heard!
The colors he makes in this tempo are so intense!
Easily one of the best uploads on TH-cam
Started learning this. I think I’m going to watch this video 4 million times while I do it. This is the best
Monumental ❤
Wow this is insane
The most exquisite Tsunami ever played before and afterr.
Grigory Sokolov=THE TITAN OF THE PIANO!! THE GIANT OF THE PIANO!! Grigory Sokolov his Chopin piano concerto no 2! Brahms piano concerto no 2!! Mozart piano concerto no 24! Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! AFTER Grigory Sokolov played These concertos then All The others pianists Are really ONLY THE DUST ZEROS!!
That speed is unreal
Actually, it is almost the tempo that chopin marked, 160 bpm.
Normally when you see this etude being performed it is in 120 bpm.
Daniel Silva oh wow so Chopin played at this speed
@@DanielSilva-gc4xz where the hell did you see that chopin marked this tempo. 160 is the max you can imagine for an allegro tempo .You seem to confuse allegro and presto. This is not the third mvt of moonlight sonata . Sokolov played it faster than necessary. But he managed somehow to turn it into an advantage.
@@Hk-uw8my The inscribed tempo IS 160 bpm for the crotchet. The speed is the real difficulty with this piece, playing it as 120 feels like a walk in the park when attempting the marked tempo by Chopin. Another exemple of piece no one plays by Chopin’s marking is op 10 no 3, which is marked with 100 and most pianists play it from 59 to 67.
Daniel, op 10 no 3, you shold mention 100 quvavers not crotchets.
I sometimes regret there was no TH-cam in my childhood and teens. I probably wouldn't have been so lazy at practicing. And this, yes, is a masterpiece.
Absolutely masterful. Frédéric Chopin is a genius, the genius of the piano...Chopin is the best, unbeatable...Chopin Forever ❤️❤️❤️
Cannot argue with that. Slavic soul=melody in the first place, even in etudes
@@blaht15Absolutely musical expression came first.And this is one of the keys to the genius that is the great Chopin.
I would never recommend any one else to ever attempt to play it like this... but... HOLY COW.... my goodness... just ASTONISHING....!!!!
Why not try to play this piece as Sokolov did? What is so wrong with how he played it?
@@MICKEYISLOWD I LOVED it... I play this work a lot... I hear it sooo differently... but still, how I LOVE his thoughts...
@@MICKEYISLOWD it's just that if your technique isn't good, you will end up with a lot of tension in your hands and a trip to the hospital
Edit: I'm not kidding about the hospital, if you ignore the pain and try to force playing it a lot, you can get carpal tunnel or some other condition
Brilliant! What a powerful Ocean Etude of music performed by this great powerful pianist! He lives the music with his whole being. Best presentation i have seen.
Been a fan of Sokolov for 30+ years and think his version of both sets of Chopin Etudes are the best - especially since they are recorded live.
I agree about the op.25s. Do not believe he has played live the full op.10s though
@@peterelliott5720 You are right. He has only played No.8 from the Op.10.
WOW! Could feel the power of the ocean coming through the piano! Awesome!!
have never heard this piece played so powerful
Absolutely unbelievable
This is astonishingly good!
Amazing power
Grigory Sokolov=THE TITAN OF THE PIANO!! THE GIANT OF THE PIANO!! Grigory Sokolov his Chopin piano concerto no 2!! Brahms piano concerto no 2! Mozart piano concerto no 24! Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! AFTER Grigory Sokolov PLAYED THESE CONCERTOS THEN ALL THE OTHERS PIANISTS ARE REALLY ONLY THE DUST ZEROS!!!
Mikhail Pletnev The most POWERFUL EVER! Prokoviev piano concerto no 1!! Lazar Berman The second loudest hardest hitter of The keyboard! Lazar Berman The second-rated player! Lazar Berman The Sledgehammer pianist Ever! Pletnev had his moments CPE Bach rondos and sonatas CD! Haydn concerto 11 The Best Ever ( not his recording but live concert Recording much stronger Brighter better piano sound than Pletnev's Studio recording CD) Grigory Sokolov played Haydn piano concerto no 11 in My home city in 1991! IT WAS THE REAL SHOCKER! Sokolov Haydn concerto 11 losses was The softest Ever! IT WAS AROUND! THE MOST SOFTEST! The White and Yellow gas risen from The piano! The piano sound was like a COTTON CANDY TONE SOUND! YOU COULD ALMOST EAT THAT SOUND! NO-ONE EVEN THE BEST PIANO SOUND PLAYERS GILELS KEMPFF RUBINSTEIN RADU LUPU THEY DO NOT GET THE COTTON CANDY TONE SOUND OUT OF THE PIANO! THAT CONCERT GOERS DID NOT LIKED SOKOLOV PLAYING THE SOFTEST EVER! i talked with 4 people after That concert! NO-ONE LIKED SOKOLOV's COTTON CANDY HAYDN! THEY ALL WANTED PLAYING LIKE ARGERICH PLETNEV ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI! THESE PEOPLE WHO I TALKED WANTED SOKOLOV HIS RHYTHMIC VITALNESS! SOME-ONE CLAIMING THAT SOKOLOV YOUR PIANO SOUND MORE COLORFUL THAN PLETNEV! SOKOLOV YOU MUST PLAY LIKE WE KNOW THE BEST RHYTHMIC VITAL BEAT WITH THE BEST PIANO SOUND!!
I love this so much i keep going back to thr beginning. I am a self taught in year and half revolutionary aztudy but never knee ocean existed or i woule have learnt that. I am 77 and want to learn it
Beautiful performance 🏆🏆🏆
Qué barbaridad'
And I am not even speaking about the technique.
👏👏😭👏👏🙀👏👏
Bravo, maestro!
Extraordinary!!!
The best intepretation ,clean ,fast just perfect !
He makes this sounds like a piano concerto…
Just watching this make my right thumb hurt.
Thanks for the re upload. I would have thought that it’s sped up if there weren’t the video and time stamp 😂
Thank you so much for re-uploading this! I wasn't able to find it along with a couple other recordings a few weeks ago.
The accuracy and brilliance in his touch is almost robotic, in the best way possible! I‘m absolutely stunned 😍
Wow che grande pianista!!!
Come on Alessandro Serra!! Only the Great Pianist Grigory Sokolov! Grigory Sokolov=THE TITAN OF THE PIANO!! THE GIANT OF THE PIANO!! Grigory Sokolov his Chopin piano concerto no 2! Brahms piano concerto no 2! Mozart piano concerto no 24! Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! AFTER GRIGORY SOKOLOV PLAYED THESE CONCERTOS THEN ALL THE OTHERS PIANISTS ARE REALLY ONLY THE DUST ZEROS!! ONLY Artur Rubinstein ( THE GOD!) Emil Gilels ( THE KING OF ALL THE PIANISTS!) Who is The Greatest! The God?? The King?.The Giant?? The Titan?? My vote goes to Grigory Sokolov!!
@@RaineriHakkarainenSometimes I think classical music can be dangerous for one's mind. This comment makes me think that, for instance. Please, sir, take a xanax and go back to yourself
simply amazing. I love the way how the bass melody is trade forward and the speed of the arpeggios
Thank you for this video.
His performances always sparkle!
Incredible! The best version I have ever heard, so far.
Браво!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
The tempo here is amazing. But even more amazing is the cantabile effect at this tempo.
I'd venture to say that I think even Chopin would be impressed.
I am in awe, thank you
Sokolov DEFINITLY owns this piece. Chopin and Liszt and are both smiling!
The last of the four numbers on the TCR on-screen display is actually the real time count of the notes.
Breathtaking.
Power!!! WOW he can do it
Come on youklassisk Power?? Grigory Sokolov not The Hardest Hitter Loudest pianists ever! Pletnev The Loudest pianists ever
Grigory Sokolov=THE TITAN OF THE PIANO!! THE GIANT OF THE PIANO!! Grigory Sokolov his Chopin piano concerto no 2! Brahms piano concerto no 2! Mozart piano concerto no 24! Saint-Saens piano concerto no 2! AFTER GRIGORY SOKOLOV PLAYED THESE CONCERTOS THEN ALL THE OTHERS PIANISTS ARE REALLY ONLY THE DUST ZEROS! Mikhail Pletnev THE MOST POWERFUL EVER ( PROKOVIEV PIANO CONCERTO NO 1!!) Pletnev had his moments CPE Bach rondos and sonatas CD! Haydn piano concerto no 11 by Pletnev is The Best! Lazar Berman The second loudest hardest hitter of The Keyboard! Lazar Berman The second-rated player! Lazar Berman The Sledgehammer pianist Ever!!
Non ho parole! Questa interpretazione è pienamente azzeccata! Accenti, pulizia, melodie rispettano la scrittura di Chopin alla perfezione. Bravo, anzi bravissimo!
That it sounds amazing on even a 40 year old recording is crazy to think about. I bet that piano went up 10 degrees during this.
Ocean...con tormenta... Que buena interpretacion
У меня слезы наворачиваются каждый раз от этой мощи. Я даже электропианино купила, чтобы выучить этот этюд, в медленном темпе немного получается
Incredible and fantastic!
One of the best performances i've ever seen
Stunning technique. Simply stunning.
Stupendous
So much power
Wow, the tempo really surprises me.
The best recording I could find in youtube is this, and also the traum.
such passion
I always thought it was impossible to play it with such force and speed all the way through... until now 🤯
Me: I can play this rather good
Me: listens to this guy
also me: **ragequits*
Merveilleux, génial, extraordinaire.... que des superlatifs !!!!!!! BRAVO, mille BRAVOS
I never saw such amazing skills
Doskonały! Wspaniały! Brawo!
Simply bravo.with such attack.i can hear the rushing of the ocean.hes mad!!!!!!
Can't stand it. I love it. So powerful!!!!
Bravo a thousand times over!!!
an overwhelming ocean
Just wow❤
Holy crap this is just awesome!
wow
Bravo!!!
Breathtaking.... !
A very angry ocean for sure... 😎 Amazing playing.
merci Maestro
Que maravilla como si fuera facil tocar esa pieza . FELICITACIONES .
Madonna che uomo forte!!!! Purtroppo Chopin non lo era: dolcissimo, delicato, molto malato, un genio gentile e pieno d'amore. Una persona da amare ❤❤❤
if you ever get the chance to watch this god in person you will realise how loud he plays it’s as loud as the whole fucking orchestra
For anyone complaining that Sokolov is playing it too fast, Chopin wrote "Allegro con fuoco, half note = 80" on the score. Sokolov struck the first note of bar 1 at 01:03:27:22, according to the original video's time stamp, and the first note of bar 83 at 01:05:37:17. So 82 bars in cut time means 164 half notes over 02:09:95, which yields an average tempo of 75.7 half notes per minute. So if anything, he played it too slow. 😁 If he played it at 80, he would have been done almost 7 seconds earlier.
Why would you do so much calculations of the speed? But thanks for reminding me (p.S. you’re good at maths 🧮
Thank you for the calculation. In general Sokolov plays relatively slowly, although his fans don't seem to notice or mind. For me the only point is that he isn't really a super virtuoso, based on speed. I enjoy this performance but the tone is absolutely brutal. Cziffra and Horowitz played this etude more beautifully
felixsuo, why do you ask? JoEbY-X tell us why: «For anyone complaining that Sokolov is playing it too fast….»
One of the greatest performances.
Epic
this is crazy. i’ve never heard of this guy but his technique and speed is unmatched. i’m more of a horowitz fan and i love the delicacy and i was going to be like “wow he is messing up chopin” but his didn’t miss a single note. this is lisztian for sure. virtuoso indeed.
Musically, he actually shines more when playing the more delicate pieces of the baroque and classical era, imo. He is the only one who made me tear up with Mozart, with his performance of the K310 A minor piano sonata.
Just legendary
So powerful 😩
É de arrepiar!... 👏👏👏👌Show! 🔥
Bravissimo
Браво !
Excepcional!!!!!!!¡¡