Cyprien Katsaris - TV live performance of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
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Recorded in the early 80s.
This video originated from a VHS copy.
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Never mind the diabolical technique maestro Katsaris possesses, the musicality, the coherence and intelligence brought to this piece is remarkable. Its beyond amazing.
I love the clear prashing in some areas. I also like that he sometimes chose to bring out completely different melodic phrases than 90% of the other performers.
Typical Katsaris, and he pulls it off as well, making it sound musically and structurally coherent. Love his playing.
The most difficult concert piano in the story no doubt
The ossia cadenza...you hear things you've maybe never heard from others...as his left hand is magic throughout. Bolet would (to a lesser extent) pointed out these beautifully counterpoints as well. I've had the pleasure of this performance several times...I always hear something new. One constant...the total command by this magnificent artist.
Bravooooo katsaris....One of the best recordings I have ever heard!
Incredibile come questo straordinario pianista possa essere così veloce con un'articolazione così ampia... Meraviglioso il suo movimento pianistico tra follia e accecante profondità. Veramente una bella interpretazione con un'orchestra viva. La cadenza poi... addirittura a tre voci! Complimenti.
E sopratutto come, alla luce della velocità accecante, mantenga il tocco precisissimo e cristallino.
that chef was just occasionally synchronized with you dear Cyprien, I wonder how come.Pianistically sensational!
Oh my gosh... it is like I heard a new concerto piece... How could you be this amazing.... what a colorful, clever, imaginative, just extremely complex and soul grabbing, another dimension taker.... You took me to the place way above... Merci Piano St. Cyprien, you are just spectacular, this is just amazing...
Just when I think I've heard all the best interpertations of Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto, along comes this one that blows me away. Bravo! Wow! Superb!!!
Amazing recording! Love the tempi and Katsaris way how he really plays with al the figures. He truly understands and shows Rachmaninovs passion.
Actually, Rachmaninoff plays his own concerti like he's bored. Katsaris, on the other hand, TEASES out details and nuances almost always overlooked. Just listen to his Chopin recital.....
It's incredible,totally different version!! Maestro Katsaris is a genius,he have a wonderfull and impressive technique,and above all,so smart and deeply expressive!!!
Jeu passionné et chantant du début jusqu'à la fin. Merveilleux et passionnant ! Merci pour communiquer tant de joie et de beauté ! Maria Saboya
Absolutely astonishing!!!! Bravo maestro
He is one of few pianists who plays effortlessly and without any unnecessary body nuances. I love it.
Bravo Maestro !!!
What a wonderful and outstanding interpretation!
Extraordinaria interpretación de este concierto tan complejo de Rachmaninof. Muchísimas gracias por compartirlo.
Stunning!
Beautiful.
Hair-raisingly beautiful! Very few pianists capture this concerto quite to this level of subtlety and sophistication ❤
I like to playfully imagine this piano concerto like a wild jungle animal and to play this beautifully the pianist has to capture that animal and tame it. Cyprien has captured it, tamed it and also taught it some manners. A truly masterful performance.
Katsaris knows what he is doing. His 2nd movement 'intermezzo' is in a class by itself.
Amazing performance.
the best ossia cadensa I ve ever heard !!!
Beyond superb.
Yeah it's almost kind of scary how great he is. A true musician.
so much distinctive in accent and phrasing. impressive indeed !
Grandissimo il maestro Katsaris nella musicalità , nella compattezza e la grande intuizione esibite in questo brano sono notevoli.
Una belleza total esto.
Bravo!
BRAVO MAESTRO.
Stunning. Bravo. Not sure about the dodgy camera fades
Genius Pianist !.....SOLID GOLD !!!!!!
Not only in his performances but also in his Improvisations. Uniquely talented!
a great performance.
Yes, remarkable technique, and he finds some unusual and usually pleasing ways of showing us alternative melodic expression. I could say more, 24:39, just a few seconds, but so emotional in his rhythmic manner, the left hand countermelody portrait like no one else... and the following "waltz" at the end of the 2nd movement is breathtaking, as is the last 3 pages of the last movement. This is Katsaris in a nutshell.
I would say that I actually like that little "waltz" section played a bit more like a waltz...a bit slower..but it WAS technically brilliant none-the -less.
Great great great performance, as always, Sir Katsaris! The pink outline on the finale 4th variation was kind of ... interesting!
I think it's the old VHS showing is age.
Une liberté de jeu fluide, quelque chose de très vivant pas trop technique j’ adore
כל יום כישרון פנומנלי חדש
So many music critics on TH-cam. All experts and professionals in music aesthetics and performance practice. Fascinating, really. Just listen and enjoy.
A revisit, and of course hear new and wondrous things. Still, a favorite is his pointing out those most important left hand melodies...like no one else, though Bolet did so, just not quite as aggressively.
20.03-20.50 one example you mean where the left hand melody is clearer9 than from some other players.
@@peterbrenton410 Exactly and more...the entire section from there another minute....
Maestro, I......
This guy is the god of voicing, I just learned about him and he's so underrated.
with this performance Katsaris just shows everyone that he could play this piece faster, more effortlessly and clearer. He is totally on a different level in the pantheon of pianists, the level of his own, shared with no one.
Totally agree with that
Have you listened to Yunchan Lim’s version btw? It’s truly incredible, but what remains is that Katsaris still possesses a technique on a different level to everyone else, as you say
@@jamesmayhew2538 tbh, I've had this question asked more than once here, and my answer is he's playing the piece like he's practicing Czerny exercises and it's not musical at all and it doesnt touch me at all.
@@lockjiang ok - personally I found myself rather touched by his performance. I think to say not musical at all is somewhat of an exaggeration - on the contrary, he seems to me to have an unbelievably deep sense of musicality. But if you don't feel it then that's fine.
@@jamesmayhew2538
Argerich and katsairs
Rest
(I don't really like Rachmaninoff's interpretation, due to the low quality and I wasn't interested in Horowitz either)
Прекрасно звучит!
I think this conductor was one of the greats, too. If I'm not mistaken we did a concert program together in Moscow when he was around 80. His wife and he were truly special people. That recording of his Mozart Requiem is on TH-cam today.
May I ask, what is his name?
@@bcarp he’s Armenian and I’m terrible with the spelling. Someone in this comment section spelled it though.
Лучший пианист среди всех, кого я слушала. ❤
Thank you for sharing this amazing performance! I've never met you, but I did get to study with a past winner of the Paris Conservatory first prize. And I see your influence on the greatest of the younger generation of pianists! Some of the difficult passages you execute better and with more brilliance than any other I've ever heard, while retaining the musical integrity of the work!
Love this performance!!!
Who is the conductor and what orchestra?
Tramlijn14 conductor Ohan Durian
Not worthy to be playing with Katsaris...pedestrian and common place, an impediment to enjoying the piece....
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@@christopherczajasager9030you must be either: a complete idiot or deaf!
pretty good
😍😍😍😍🤤🤤🤗
Why the 'cut' at 12':43"? That section is supposed to be played 3 times.
Ian McKinnon yes 12:48 ? Maybe he forgot ? Start again (:
@@dalcassian8351 I was afraid to post for fear of being wrong but I heard the same thing. Perhaps he was consciously trying to pare down the ossia as opposed to playing the simpler cadenza. Horowitz used to do lot of fiddling with this concerto, and Rach. apparently didn’t mind. (I don’t like at all the rolling of those magnificent chords right before the beginning of the coda.)
@@ransomcoates546 yes maybe? I'm. Not in a position to criticise really and only joking. The man has supernatural virtuosity combined with fantastic musicianship
15:26
Wonderful grandpa! amazing!! Someday I want to learn music and life from you 🇰🇷
Grandpa?! Are you blind?!
25:19 LOL
Ariel Rojas ??
Now tell me why I thought the conductor was about to JUMP on the piano at 00:09
What year was this? Katsaris appears to be a very young man. In the last movement, it's a little too fast. You can see and hear that his fingers run away, and he's not always together with the orchestra. It doesn't have to be that fast, thrilling though it is.
The sound is a little bit fuzzy, a little too much bass. A great performance nonetheless. This piece is a real knucklebreaker. Rachmaninoff said, "I wrote it for elephants!"
i was gonna comment the same thing lol
Wow, suena casi a lo Argerich!
I finally found a version as brilliant as Martha Argerich's
Started bad, accelerating and playing by himself, but then he played with the orchestra. I appreciate very much.
Cadenza: 10:33
The orchestra is often drowning out of his solo, nor are they working in harmony together.
3rd movement unfortunately is a totall hurry, it looks like a revenge from that chef that seems not to understand anything about communication
If only he didnt play it SO fast, it would have been even more amazing, to me the 1st movement feels rushed
The time is very close to the recording of Rachmaninoff himself
no.....at 23:55 .....it must be played with total Russian Rhapsodic feeling not "as fast as you can inventions" (listen to Van Cliburn's interpretation......magnificent !!). on a whole though....excellently played. YASSOU.... KYRIE KATSARIS ! ZITO !
Can we imagine Maurizio Pollini uploading videos and saying "my legendary performance..."??!!
I think he intended a meaning more akin to "archival performance". That's what I think, and I'm sticking to it.
Did he have any?
@@christopherczajasager9030 Pollini est quelqu'un de beaucoup trop modeste pour faire cela. Perfection et modestie !
Great concert pianists need Jesus too!
Who is the conductor? Looks a bit like Celibidache.
There the little resemblance ends.....
Very brilliant but maybe a little too much ! this kind of interpretation "Grand concerto d'exécution transcendante" where virtuosity is too highlighted and is almost an end in itself has a really aggressive and exhausting side (for the listener as well as for the pianist!). The choice of the "ossia" cadenza is significant : to stun the listener with a deluge of notes. Furthermore everything here seems to be played forte or fortissimo which adds to the sensation of sound aggression.
I like my Rach 3 like I like my women: forceful. I totally get where you're coming from, and my ear likely isn't as refined as yours, but Katsaris' interpretation has always sounded "right" to me.
Yep, he's playing over the orchestra not with it
Every popular Rach rendition in youtube mentions the choice of Ossia cadenza. It appears to be either the go-to choice for pianists of virtuosic level or significant enough to make the performances with it more popular than the alternative. I am not complaining, it is close to the best thing ever. :D
Muh Wu - Vladimir Horowitz, Byron Janis, Emil Gilels, Alexis Weissenberg, Martha Argerich, Yuja Wang, ...and Rachmaninov himself play the shorter cadanza, and concerning virtuosic level or popularity of their performances they are at the top. In fact the shorter cadanza combines better with the concerto especially when played with brisk tempi. Otherwise the ossia cadenza sounds too bombastic.
What really? I could have sworn Argerich and Wang played ossia. My bad then.
Les éternelles imprécisions de TH-cam : dommage que le nom du chef ne soit pas indiqué.... à moins que ne soit celle du soliste ? Er je n'aime pas du tout ce fond artificiellement coloré, anti naturel. Certes, sa virtuosité reste éblouissante, voire un peu trop, même !
I'm not very fond of the piece usually. This is very lyrical playing, maybe better than Bronfman, whom I have considered the best living exponent of this concerto
What about Argerich?
@@pianista-mediocre she's great
25:34 カツァリス最高に上手いのにオケの方映してるのカメラワークが下手すぎる
Oh my god:
I hate him, but this was world class.
Kudos!
er spielt mit sich selber um die Wette ,ich finde es zu schnell
12:13 interesting to bring out the left hand, but he probably should've changed the D to a C otherwise it sounds like a wrong note...
not bad
??? The question would actually be, who's is better.
horowitz, Rachmaninoff and anton and so on
ok
I disagree about Horowitz being better.
Rachmaninoffs own recording is so-so. The composer said so himself.
And Horowitz is a class of his own (which doesn't diminish Katsaris' merits).
believe in Jesus so you can be saved
you play really realy realy well but you will die one day and if you dont believe in Jesus
you wont be able to go to heaven and there is no music in hell no piano no fame
only forever burning fire i dont want you to go there and waste those amazing fingers
that God made for you wouldnt it be amazing if you could play the piano in heaven?
hope to see you there
hope to hear you play in the presence of the One who gave you the amazing talent
Keep your religion out of this, please.
@@nickhickson8738
Why do you say that? Jesus came to save us from our sins and give us eternal life. He did not come to promote 'religion' per se. There are many evil religions in the world.
(James 1:26) 'If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless.'
Why any sane person would need Jeezusc when one can have Mozart is beyond my understanding...
@@Pogouldangeliwitz
FYI Mozart believed in Jesus. There must be an awful lot of things beyond your understanding,
for you have revealed none.
@@nickhickson8738
Request denied. But you could alert the censors and try to goad them into action.
Now what do you mean by 'religion'? The Bible does not speak well of religion per se. It is mostly in reference to false religion that this condemnation appears:
(Romans 1:22) 'Professing to be wise, they became fools.'
Besides, there are many secular ideologies and pursuits (even Art itself) which function as 'religions' in certain social contexts. Would you like to discuss this further? I didn't think so.
It's pretty amusing, you know, when someone who is out to suppress contrary views feigns politeness. If you're ever in a position to impose your will, I wonder whether you would remain so polite.
Fast, but not loud and powerful enough.
Obviously the technical quality of this recording is mediocre and doesn't do Katsaris justice.
i love his technique but always reminds me of coco the clown and he plays with too much showmanship
Showmanship?! I wonder what you'll have to say about certain others...
This seems to me a quite sterile display of pianism.
Oy where do these morons come from?
Terrible. One big chaos. Today's young pianists play this concerto much much better.
lol
Today's young pianists are wooden performers, it seems to be all about the technical ability rather than the sound.
XDDD
i to rodak z takimi opiniami... no bez jaj, wg mnie koncert jest niesamowicie zagrany przez Pana Katsarisa
Andrzej Kutrasiński
Sorry, I can’t disagree enough on this!
Too much of pianism and not enough of music
what`s that supposed to mean ??? out of line