Il y a des pianistes avec le sens de la nuance ; il y a des pianistes à la technique impeccable ; il y a même des pianistes nuancés avec une technique impeccable. Et puis il y a Alfred Cortot. Cortot qui est dans l'émotion, dans la passion, dans la douleur, dans l'allégresse. Cortot au delà de la technique. Chopin est interprété de l'intérieur de la partition, comme spontanément, aussi vite ressenti et aussi vite joué. Magistral d'émotions ! Formidable Cortot, merci ! There are pianists with a sense of nuance; there are pianists with impeccable technique; there are even nuanced pianists with impeccable technique. And then there is Alfred Cortot. Cortot who is in emotion, in passion, in pain, in joy. Cortot beyond technique. Chopin is interpreted from within the score, as spontaneously, as quickly felt and as quickly played. Masterful of emotions! Great Cortot, thank you!
Bardanu : Cortot c'est au delà de ce que lon peut écrire , c'est un piano d'une sonorité magique qui va au-delà des notes : pour illustrer ce que j'écris il faut écouter son homologue Clara Haskil dans la Sonate D960 de Schubert ou les scènes de la Forêt de Schumann par Haskil ce sont deux pianistes qui ont la magie d'aller au delà du son il y a plus qu'une interprétation ; je prétends que Frédéric Chopin n'avait pas ce génie musicale , Cortot Haskil vont au delà de l'intention du Compositeur ; je n'ai jamais lu nulle part ce que j'écris toujours zst il que Debussy jouait moins bien ses propres compositions que Walter Gieseking les enregistrements sont là pour le prouver ; mise à part S Rachmaninov Cortot et Haskil donnaient un sens supérieur à Chopin ou Schumann qui n'auraient pu le faire ;; les Compositeurs peuvent être dépassés par Cortot -Haskil j'en suis persuadé !
Cortot never disappoints. His Chopin is sublime from the Waltzes to the Ballades.Great sound, ideas and rubato. Such piano playing should be tought again. I can't stand nowadays some people saying that this kind of playing is mannered or sloppy. This is the highest level playing one can expereince
I know this comment is years old know but I hope it would be nice for you to hear my piano teacher plays and teaches this style of playing which I am thankful for.
I believe Cortot's aesthetics are different from other pianists, even those of his own era. His interpretations of Chopin's Waltzes are jubilant and elevating. Cortot was unique and I feel privileged to listen to him play a century after the fact.
Cortots playing is very refreshing. It feels like he is equal to chopin, like he knew chopin so he gives himself freedom to play in such way. One of my favourite chopin player is lipatti. Listen to chopin sonata 3 and waltzes performed by lipatti. I never heard someone play chopin so natural like him. It feels like lipatti has no weakneses....pure genius!!!!
Cortot était un talent incroyable, un artiste pas comme beaucoup de techniciens sans sensibilité. Il était le seul à savoir et à connaître la subtile sensibilité de Chopin et il avait le meilleur toucher pour mettre en lumière la douleur et les joies du compositeur et ne ressemblait avec son toucher à personne d'autre. Vous nous manquez Alfred !!!
fantastic! the a minor and d-flat waltzes!!! A great pianist and above all a highly cultured, civilized. and intelligent one, capable of all feeling and vitality and the generosity to share it. The way he plays, each waltz is even more beautiful than the others! Thanks for posting, I listened and felt uplifted and restored.
I could'nt agree more, the playing truly speaks to the listener. Some listeners can become rather too concerned with little fluffs and inaccuracies without appreciating the bigger picture Cortot paints so vividly.
They are many very talented,good pianist these days ,but they will never equal Cortot ,he was an amazing talent ,an artist not technicians without sensibility , from today.He was the only one who knew what Chopin wanted and he had the best touch and sound like nobody else. RIP ,u are really missed .
Cortot was an incredible performer. The way he played Chopin none ever did. One feels the music as bubbly, full of energy and passion. His sound was fantastic. I listened to him accompanying a violinist in the Cesar Frank sonata, it was amazingly fabulous. The energy was incredible. You listen to performers playing today it looks like they are just playing exercises rather than performing. He misses notes here and there, but the interpretation was fantastic.
Con su "touchée" inolvidable, evoco la dicha de asistir en mi adolescencia a un recital Chopin-Schumann que Cortot ofreció en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires en 1952. Ya su presencia austera de sumo sacerdote del piano con que entraba al escenario, su actitud casi sacerdotal con que se concentraba ante el teclado como si estuvieran a solas él y esa música que manaba de sus manos, aquella cabeza poética que se alzaba como en diálogo con los compositores que tanto amaba y a los que había dedicado su vida. Es un imborrable recuerdo visual que se suma al absoluto deleite musical de sus ejecuciones sin par. ¿Había notas falsas? ¡Por cierto que sí! ¡Pero qué música total, y qué pureza absoluta de estilo!
I am fortunate to hear this interpretation for the first time, after having heard hundreds of other versions of Chopin's Waltzes. This is pure joy, away from any preoccupation with formalities. His expressiveness and especially his rubato fill me with a bunch of positive emotions. A way to judge a musical experience...
Haven't heard this for years. I bought the set (was it on Seraphim?), probably in 1970. I had forgotten the freedom of the playing, the creation of an entire sound world, the aplomb with which everything is 'tossed off,' and yes, a certain almost perverse strangeness--and quite a few wrong notes. Glorious playing, and the precise answer to people who insist that playing today is better than it used to be, for all the talk of a past Golden Age. Well, the level of mediocrity has never been higher. Everyone plays accurately and with workmanlike mimicry of pretty faultless musicianship. But the excitement of Cortot? The combustibility? The originality? I don't say we never hear them these days, but it is rare indeed. I would rank him among the three or four greatest of the last century.
Again, I'm seriously overwhelmed by how much all y'all know about all this grand stuff. So maybe I DO have all the piano sophistication of a 9-year-old in a candy factory and NEVER even heard of Alfred Cortot until an hour ago! All I know is I kinda know legit greatness when I hear it. Thanks so much for enduring my yokel self, yall!
Very astute comments, I would only hasten to add the names of Lipatti, Arrau, Rachmaninov, and about a dozen others to that list, including Michelangeli. There is something deeply personal when a great pianist takes on the music of Chopin, such that I wonder; Is there a right way to play his music? Perhaps, but it always seems to be with the heart.
The one and only! Whenever one hears a first class Piano sound that resonates to one’s ear, it’s got to be the King of all classical Piano music! Chopin is unreachable when comes to phenomenal sounds!
Delicious! Not a word I particularly like or use often, but with these exquisitly personal, elegant and highly refined miniatures, it seems to sum up Cortot's superbly idiomatic interpretations!
Since hearing Cortot a few times, he is now my favorite pianist. His exquisite sense of expression is beyond any other I have ever heard and he is now my favorite. Thank you guvenerozan for this greatest pleasure you have uploaded! His wrong notes sound simply divine to me.
I'm so glad I don't get uptight about a few wrong notes, so that I can enjoy this as much as I do. As far as whether Cortot is "good" or not, he's one of Brendel's favorites - that's good enough for me.
Modlitwa Czym jesteś Bogu wszechmogący , że koisz serce moje swą opoką . Dusza moja przynależna Tobie na czas życia ofiarowana , tutaj . Jestem cały Tobie oddany , myślą , mową i uczynkiem z Tobą . Moje myśli Tobie przynależne , czynem budzącym nowe świtanie . W pokorze klękam przed Twoim majestatem - kimkolwiek jesteś . Moje życie Tobie złożone od początku do końca tchnienia , oczu łzy. Dotknąć myślami i przemierzyć szlaki boskich otchłani , moje marzenie . Spełniam postanowienie obiecane , Razem polami pszenicznymi idziemy . Wzlatam Duszą ponad głowami przyziemnymi , rozkoszuję widokami oczy. Ponad teraźniejszością sięgam tu i ówdzie - pląsu ciała melodyjnego , Tobą ! Sprostam wyzwaniu i wartości ponadczasowe spełnię sobą - obiecałem ! Weźmy się za ręce pobiegnijmy w chmury odległe , splecione całunem . Wielu z Nas Tobą powołanych - niewielu kroczy pewnie i dumnie ku chwale. Przemożemy cierpkich doznań chwil różnakich , garściami plony sięgniemy . Pomnożymy zbiory Twoją ufnością Nam darowane , winy też zwykłe , ludzkie. Jesteś tą skarbnicą niedościgłą - naszego bytu wyzwolonego , oddamy stukrotnie ! Moc Boska , muśnięcie zaledwie - myśli skropionych trzciną delikatną - Jego ! Potoki dobrych uczynków wyzwalająca - ku chwale , na wieki wieków - Jemu ! Stukot opuszkami palców fortepianowej klawiatury Nim wyzwolonych dźwięków. Niebiańskich tutaj na Ziemi stąpanej boso w podzięce godności Nim , Jego dla Nas . Spisał Ryszard w Bogatyni 28 08 2022 w tle muzyka Chopina Waltz in A flat major ‚Farewell‘, Op. 69 no. 1
+Cristino Bermudez Salcines "...Music is the more abstract of all the art forms, it means something different for every listener and is even different for the same person in a different mood..." Thank you for posting a very sublime statement. The very purpose of any art, whether it be novelistic, musical or pictorial is to engage the reader, listener or viewer and permit him/her the ability to bring to the piece what he/she interprets it to be. (It stands or falls if it does or doesn't engage!) Every person's interpretation is equally valid and at the same time, unique. Again, thank you for pointing this out to the forum here.
Often ,when genius performs in society, that society does not recognize it.That is the case with Cortot. A genius like his registered after his death unfortunately. Thankfully, Alfred Brendel acknowledged Cortot’s genius.
Cortot's pianism is highly respected among pianists, but not so much in modern society, as you say. But not just for Brendel; Some famous pianists expressing their admiration for Cortot: Horowitz, Arrau, Kempff, Gieseking, de Larrocha, Heinrich Neuhaus, Stephen Hough, Perlemuter, Bolet, Argerich etc... According to all these pianists, Cortot was one of the greatest pianists.
@@OzanFabienGuvener Strange in that Brendel is very much a ‘come scritto’ pianist. Someone commented on his master class on the Liszt sonata that the idea of rhythm he was strictly imposing was unknown in the 19th century.
J'ai étudié avec Yvonne Hubert, élève d'Alfred Cortot, lui-même élève d'Émile Descombes, élève de Frédéric Chopin.... je reconnais la musique entre les notes...
Sir, would I be grossly mistaken if I said that I believe you collaborated with the great Victor Borge in a number involving playing Liszt Hungarian rhapsody for 4 hands. Your name sounds awfully familiar.
There is something about Cortot... He is totally free in his rhythm and expression but never gets sentimental, never shows of, never does something manieristic. Never ever. But he is always intense.
It is interesting to note that Cortot systematically underplays the left hand throughout the waltzes. The dynamic level of the right hand is almost invariably several degrees louder than the left hand.
I love these recordings however I wonder how the playing would be received today if the exact same performance came from the fingers of an average person making a UA-cam recording. The quaintness of the old recording and accompanying black and white photographs add something to the mystery and atmosphere of the music.
Pero Çortot corrijo todas las copias a MANO. (. no había imprenta. ). Los halagos son para Çortot. El sabio de esta época. ❣️🎶🎶🎶🎶 Y el mejor pianista. 💌 🖐️🖐️
Cortot's playing puzzles me, though I only listened to Valse, op 70 #2. I know it is practically anathema to criticize stellar pianists like Cortot or say, Schnabel. However, Chopin's exquisite f m valse seems very peculiarly rushed and ebbed all through to an extreme degree. I can appreciate many niceties in his performances, and I realize other great musicians have commented so favorably - H. Neuhaus, for one (apparently his favorite pianist) at a time there was such a plethora of pianistic greatness. A very willful pianist, to be sure.
Such freshness - one gets the impression of a musician always hearing in a new way, always finding a different approach from last time. I might compare Richter with him in that regard, as well as lovable weirdos like Gould, Pogorelich, and Natan Brand.
Af G I find Cortot's interpretation of the Waltzes more expressive than Lipatti's. Dinu is probably my all-time favorite pianist, but this particular 1934 recording is unparalelled.
Great questions. Like you said, given how old the recording is, I doubt it. That said, my ears aren't well trained enough to tell. This is just a prediction based on the age of the recording.
Just because ypu are a pupil of Cortot (e.g. Samson Francois) it does not follow that you are going to be as good as. or anywhere near, the master!!!!!
Many since the mid-20th century tried to achieve this art by dancing at the keyboard substituting body motion for more honest rubato. Indeed, there is a fear of deviating from a slavish adherence to the demands of the metronome in modern music that has stolen much of the magic from music making.
He was THE ONLY pianist that actually had the galant character of Chopin's music. Great masters like Rubinstein only achieved extremely nuanced performances, but the character was completely absent. I have a strong prejudice regarding Chopin: you need to be physically slender to play him right.
Il y a des pianistes avec le sens de la nuance ; il y a des pianistes à la technique impeccable ; il y a même des pianistes nuancés avec une technique impeccable.
Et puis il y a Alfred Cortot. Cortot qui est dans l'émotion, dans la passion, dans la douleur, dans l'allégresse. Cortot au delà de la technique. Chopin est interprété de l'intérieur de la partition, comme spontanément, aussi vite ressenti et aussi vite joué. Magistral d'émotions ! Formidable Cortot, merci !
There are pianists with a sense of nuance; there are pianists with impeccable technique; there are even nuanced pianists with impeccable technique.
And then there is Alfred Cortot. Cortot who is in emotion, in passion, in pain, in joy. Cortot beyond technique. Chopin is interpreted from within the score, as spontaneously, as quickly felt and as quickly played. Masterful of emotions! Great Cortot, thank you!
merci pour votre commentaire
Bardanu : Cortot c'est au delà de ce que lon peut écrire , c'est un piano d'une sonorité magique qui va au-delà des notes : pour illustrer ce que j'écris il faut écouter son homologue Clara Haskil dans la Sonate D960 de Schubert ou les scènes de la Forêt de Schumann par Haskil ce sont deux pianistes qui ont la magie d'aller au delà du son il y a plus qu'une interprétation ; je prétends que Frédéric Chopin n'avait pas ce génie musicale , Cortot Haskil vont au delà de l'intention du Compositeur ; je n'ai jamais lu nulle part ce que j'écris toujours zst il que Debussy jouait moins bien ses propres compositions que Walter Gieseking les enregistrements sont là pour le prouver ; mise à part S Rachmaninov Cortot et Haskil donnaient un sens supérieur à Chopin ou Schumann qui n'auraient pu le faire ;; les Compositeurs peuvent être dépassés par Cortot -Haskil j'en suis persuadé !
Bardamu : je vais au delà de ce que vous écrivez , lisez bien mon comment je peux y répondre
Un commentaire presque à la hauteur de la musique qu'il décrit. Merci beaucoup.
I see why Cortot is so highly regarded for his Chopin
Cortot never disappoints. His Chopin is sublime from the Waltzes to the Ballades.Great sound, ideas and rubato. Such piano playing should be tought again. I can't stand nowadays some people saying that this kind of playing is mannered or sloppy. This is the highest level playing one can expereince
+magbag70 Anyone who would complaint about Cortot's Chopiin is a pedant and a fool.
Yes, "AND."
AGREE
I'd rather hear the mistakes Cortot makes whilst playing with emotion and care for the actual music than technical perfection which is boring to me
I know this comment is years old know but I hope it would be nice for you to hear my piano teacher plays and teaches this style of playing which I am thankful for.
I believe Cortot's aesthetics are different from other pianists, even those of his own era. His interpretations of Chopin's Waltzes are jubilant and elevating. Cortot was unique and I feel privileged to listen to him play a century after the fact.
Cortot is truly a great pianist, of the old school. I love the way he played the waltzes.
They play freeely
Intimate, rapturous playing...the stuff of legends and dreams!!!
A treasure of treasures!!!
Cortots playing is very refreshing. It feels like he is equal to chopin, like he knew chopin so he gives himself freedom to play in such way. One of my favourite chopin player is lipatti. Listen to chopin sonata 3 and waltzes performed by lipatti. I never heard someone play chopin so natural like him. It feels like lipatti has no weakneses....pure genius!!!!
Th i s pianist can play in such a way that really entertains in a way that is satisfying to the utmost.
Cortot était un talent incroyable, un artiste pas comme beaucoup de techniciens sans sensibilité. Il était le seul à savoir et à connaître la subtile sensibilité de Chopin et il avait le meilleur toucher pour mettre en lumière la douleur et les joies du compositeur et ne ressemblait avec son toucher à personne d'autre. Vous nous manquez Alfred !!!
This is my first time listening to Cortot and it won't be the last. Absolutely love the way he plays, such great feeling and spontaneous spirit!!
Personalità classe interpretazione .. tutto ha questo fantastico musicista.
Peimamusicista , poi pianista.. incredibile...
私が生まれるずっと前に亡くなられた彼の演奏が聴けるなんて❗しかも見事としかいえません。何故か涙が出てなりません。嬉しいです🎵😍🎵有り難うございます。
fantastic! the a minor and d-flat waltzes!!! A great pianist and above all a highly cultured, civilized. and intelligent one, capable of all feeling and vitality and the generosity to share it. The way he plays, each waltz is even more beautiful than the others! Thanks for posting, I listened and felt uplifted and restored.
I could'nt agree more, the playing truly speaks to the listener. Some listeners can become rather too concerned with little fluffs and inaccuracies without appreciating the bigger picture Cortot paints so vividly.
They are many very talented,good pianist these days ,but they will never equal Cortot ,he was an amazing talent ,an artist not technicians without sensibility , from today.He was the only one who knew what Chopin wanted and he had the best touch and sound like nobody else. RIP ,u are really missed .
Lipatti
Cortot plays his piano with brilliance and authority that no one will achieve.
Well said. No one will achieve.
Cortot was an incredible performer. The way he played Chopin none ever did. One feels the music as bubbly, full of energy and passion. His sound was fantastic. I listened to him accompanying a violinist in the Cesar Frank sonata, it was amazingly fabulous. The energy was incredible. You listen to performers playing today it looks like they are just playing exercises rather than performing. He misses notes here and there, but the interpretation was fantastic.
Well...listen to one of his pupils : Dinu Lipatti playing Chopin and then you tell me...
@@coolmacho975 Dinu Lipatti was really something else.... he reached the pinnacle of artistry at such a young age
Con su "touchée" inolvidable, evoco la dicha de asistir en mi adolescencia a un recital Chopin-Schumann que Cortot ofreció en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires en 1952. Ya su presencia austera de sumo sacerdote del piano con que entraba al escenario, su actitud casi sacerdotal con que se concentraba ante el teclado como si estuvieran a solas él y esa música que manaba de sus manos, aquella cabeza poética que se alzaba como en diálogo con los compositores que tanto amaba y a los que había dedicado su vida. Es un imborrable recuerdo visual que se suma al absoluto deleite musical de sus ejecuciones sin par. ¿Había notas falsas? ¡Por cierto que sí! ¡Pero qué música total, y qué pureza absoluta de estilo!
I am fortunate to hear this interpretation for the first time, after having heard hundreds of other versions of Chopin's Waltzes.
This is pure joy, away from any preoccupation with formalities. His expressiveness and especially his rubato fill me with a bunch of positive emotions. A way to judge a musical experience...
Haven't heard this for years. I bought the set (was it on Seraphim?), probably in 1970. I had forgotten the freedom of the playing, the creation of an entire sound world, the aplomb with which everything is 'tossed off,' and yes, a certain almost perverse strangeness--and quite a few wrong notes.
Glorious playing, and the precise answer to people who insist that playing today is better than it used to be, for all the talk of a past Golden Age.
Well, the level of mediocrity has never been higher. Everyone plays accurately and with workmanlike mimicry of pretty faultless musicianship. But the excitement of Cortot? The combustibility? The originality?
I don't say we never hear them these days, but it is rare indeed.
I would rank him among the three or four greatest of the last century.
Again, I'm seriously overwhelmed by how much all y'all know about all this grand stuff. So maybe I DO have all the piano sophistication of a 9-year-old in a candy factory and NEVER even heard of Alfred Cortot until an hour ago! All I know is I kinda know legit greatness when I hear it. Thanks so much for enduring my yokel self, yall!
Chas Enman---Excellent description of what happens with Cortot.
Very astute comments, I would only hasten to add the names of Lipatti, Arrau, Rachmaninov, and about a dozen others to that list, including Michelangeli. There is something deeply personal when a great pianist takes on the music of Chopin, such that I wonder; Is there a right way to play his music? Perhaps, but it always seems to be with the heart.
@Val O'Brien THAT WAS TRULY HILARIOUS, AND YOU ARE STILL THE CONSUMMATE PLAYER!
The one and only! Whenever one hears a first class Piano sound that resonates to one’s ear, it’s got to be the King of all classical Piano music! Chopin is unreachable when comes to phenomenal sounds!
Delicious! Not a word I particularly like or use often, but with these exquisitly personal, elegant and highly refined miniatures, it seems to sum up Cortot's superbly idiomatic interpretations!
Since hearing Cortot a few times, he is now my favorite pianist. His exquisite sense of expression is beyond any other I have ever heard and he is now my favorite. Thank you guvenerozan for this greatest pleasure you have uploaded! His wrong notes sound simply divine to me.
Agree! Did you listen to the Franck's Prelude Chorale and Fuga by Cortot? It is an emotional experience.. a journey!
Diana Liberty There is also "Carnaval op9 " Schumann (1928) : exciting to listen him with originals records not roll-piano , original sound
OMG = Cortot !!! No words !
+MusicalMaryFly I have no words either: I'm stunned. THANKS for posting.
Beautiful, refined, poetic...in other words one genius interpreting another
I'm so glad I don't get uptight about a few wrong notes, so that I can enjoy this as much as I do. As far as whether Cortot is "good" or not, he's one of Brendel's favorites - that's good enough for me.
Hans Svoboda
Not just Brendel but Pollini, Perahia, Hewitt, Hough, to name a few... ;)
@@ganjamozart1435 Neuhaus's too!
forgot Kempff and Gieseking too!
These recordings are excellent. I haven’t listened to a lot of Cortot, but I am definitely a fan of his now.
Merveilleux Chopin
Merveilleux Cortot
Right to the point!
Modlitwa
Czym jesteś Bogu wszechmogący , że koisz serce moje swą opoką .
Dusza moja przynależna Tobie na czas życia ofiarowana , tutaj .
Jestem cały Tobie oddany , myślą , mową i uczynkiem z Tobą .
Moje myśli Tobie przynależne , czynem budzącym nowe świtanie .
W pokorze klękam przed Twoim majestatem - kimkolwiek jesteś .
Moje życie Tobie złożone od początku do końca tchnienia , oczu łzy.
Dotknąć myślami i przemierzyć szlaki boskich otchłani , moje marzenie .
Spełniam postanowienie obiecane , Razem polami pszenicznymi idziemy .
Wzlatam Duszą ponad głowami przyziemnymi , rozkoszuję widokami oczy.
Ponad teraźniejszością sięgam tu i ówdzie - pląsu ciała melodyjnego , Tobą !
Sprostam wyzwaniu i wartości ponadczasowe spełnię sobą - obiecałem !
Weźmy się za ręce pobiegnijmy w chmury odległe , splecione całunem .
Wielu z Nas Tobą powołanych - niewielu kroczy pewnie i dumnie ku chwale.
Przemożemy cierpkich doznań chwil różnakich , garściami plony sięgniemy .
Pomnożymy zbiory Twoją ufnością Nam darowane , winy też zwykłe , ludzkie.
Jesteś tą skarbnicą niedościgłą - naszego bytu wyzwolonego , oddamy stukrotnie !
Moc Boska , muśnięcie zaledwie - myśli skropionych trzciną delikatną - Jego !
Potoki dobrych uczynków wyzwalająca - ku chwale , na wieki wieków - Jemu !
Stukot opuszkami palców fortepianowej klawiatury Nim wyzwolonych dźwięków.
Niebiańskich tutaj na Ziemi stąpanej boso w podzięce godności Nim , Jego dla Nas .
Spisał Ryszard w Bogatyni 28 08 2022
w tle muzyka Chopina Waltz in A flat major ‚Farewell‘, Op. 69 no. 1
C'est trop bien et ça nous fait rêver 😪☺😍
...very insightful comments and observations... all valid and well expressed...
His wonderful performance is my luxury tranqulizer
grazie mille
Beautiful! Thank you for posting!
❤GENIUS! UNEQUALLED! THANK YOU !
gracias, gracias , gracias ´por dar la oportunidad de escuchar a este maestro de maestros
Merveilleux! Ouvrez le cognac!
My favourite: Op. 70, No. 1 in G-flat major - 33:50
+Cristino Bermudez Salcines "...Music is the more abstract of all the art forms, it means something different for every listener and is even different for the same person in a different mood..." Thank you for posting a very sublime statement. The very purpose of any art, whether it be novelistic, musical or pictorial is to engage the reader, listener or viewer and permit him/her the ability to bring to the piece what he/she interprets it to be. (It stands or falls if it does or doesn't engage!) Every person's interpretation is equally valid and at the same time, unique. Again, thank you for pointing this out to the forum here.
One the Best in the story of pianisme
astonishing!
Often ,when genius performs in society, that society does not recognize it.That is the case with Cortot. A genius like his registered after his death unfortunately. Thankfully, Alfred Brendel acknowledged Cortot’s genius.
Cortot's pianism is highly respected among pianists, but not so much in modern society, as you say. But not just for Brendel; Some famous pianists expressing their admiration for Cortot: Horowitz, Arrau, Kempff, Gieseking, de Larrocha, Heinrich Neuhaus, Stephen Hough, Perlemuter, Bolet, Argerich etc... According to all these pianists, Cortot was one of the greatest pianists.
@@OzanFabienGuvener Strange in that Brendel is very much a ‘come scritto’ pianist. Someone commented on his master class on the Liszt sonata that the idea of rhythm he was strictly imposing was unknown in the 19th century.
J'ai étudié avec Yvonne Hubert, élève d'Alfred Cortot, lui-même élève d'Émile Descombes, élève de Frédéric Chopin.... je reconnais la musique entre les notes...
Playing the "laying on of hands" game.
Lorraine Prieur j’ai moi même étudié avec Claudette Melanson élève d’Yvonne Hubert... Une génération plus loin!
Al fin escucho a Cortot ,nunca ha habido un disco en Mejico de Cortot ,lo encuentras en todas las partituras de Chopin ( bendecido por Dios. )
No puedo saber desde cuándo se grabó ,lo recuerdo desde los 7 años. ( sonaba con Chopin ❤️🇮🇷
aw man this brought back so many memories
Que du bonheur !
Merveilleux . .
In B-minor he is shredding like crazy but his interpretation is second to none.
This is so far the most messy Chopin Waltzes I even had, yet the most vivid one.
Los primeros años de tecnica. 🎶🎶🎶🎹 para los valses.
My teacher's teacher was Cortot's student. I think I am very lucky ☺ 😊
Gracias Ozen ❣️🎶🎶🎶 🇲🇽 Yucatan.
Wspaniałe i ponadczasowe. Ta muzyka będzie zachwycać wiecznie. Dzieło stuleci i symbol naszego narodu polskiego. ♥️
Interpretazione strepitosa 😎
Great!
La misma tecnica que interpretamos en la actualidad (. La teçnica de Lizst )❤
Fresh sounding!
Sir, would I be grossly mistaken if I said that I believe you collaborated with the great Victor Borge in a number involving playing Liszt Hungarian rhapsody for 4 hands. Your name sounds awfully familiar.
Dulces recuerdos. 🎶🎶🎹😂 🇮🇷 📚
Nadie en el mundo conocerá y apreciará más a Chopin. ,,,🙋🏻♀️🇮🇷 🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️Un angel 😘😘😘😘😘😘😚
Cortot corrijio todas las notas falsas. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
There is something about Cortot... He is totally free in his rhythm and expression but never gets sentimental, never shows of, never does something manieristic. Never ever. But he is always intense.
I totally agree with you. You expressed it very well
Se necesitan anos de preparación para llegar a Chopin incluso los valses 🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️😘❤️
It is interesting to note that Cortot systematically underplays the left hand throughout the waltzes. The dynamic level of the right hand is almost invariably several degrees louder than the left hand.
il y aussi Lipatti. mais quand on sait que Lipatti a été dans sa classe et aussi Haskil!
oui on peut parler d'une école de piano Cortot!
Victor Bernard Samson Francois also
J'aime beaucoup Dinu Lipatti, mais alors j' aime aussi Alfred Cortot...
@@liliaaliciaduhaldebruz6712 послушайте Алексея Султанова, вам очень понравится этот пианист!
Cool ☺🙏
Muy bonito!!!
😍😍😍
I love these recordings however I wonder how the playing would be received today if the exact same performance came from the fingers of an average person making a UA-cam recording. The quaintness of the old recording and accompanying black and white photographs add something to the mystery and atmosphere of the music.
I know what you mean but this is not true...even if they were recorded today the result would be more amazing..
@@tuxedomoon yes I suspect you are right, just playing devils advocate.
Pero Çortot corrijo todas las copias a MANO. (. no había imprenta. ). Los halagos son para Çortot. El sabio de esta época. ❣️🎶🎶🎶🎶 Y el mejor pianista. 💌 🖐️🖐️
En las biografías de Chopin y Liszt ,lo nombran todo el tiempo fueron amigos entrañables🙏🏻 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
Gracias ,,🙏🏻🎶🎶🎶🎶por la información de Lipatti
Que ❤️🩹 bien que Lupatti sea la exelencia para Chopin. ❤.
Cortot no fue compositor 🙏🏻🇮🇷 Braviiiisimo!!!!!!
Es una maravilla. como limpiaron el sonido. ( las grabaciones. antiguas NO. )
No son nada faciles ya hay tecnica de por medio 🎶🎶🎹
this just confirmed humannity to me
Performances from a time hen piano playing mattered more.
my childhood!!!!!
Cortot's playing puzzles me, though I only listened to Valse, op 70 #2. I know it is practically anathema to criticize stellar pianists like Cortot or say, Schnabel. However, Chopin's exquisite f m valse seems very peculiarly rushed and ebbed all through to an extreme degree. I can appreciate many niceties in his performances, and I realize other great musicians have commented so favorably - H. Neuhaus, for one (apparently his favorite pianist) at a time there was such a plethora of pianistic greatness. A very willful pianist, to be sure.
hm. very refreshing. great amount of rubato but he uses it in the right circumstances.
Rapturous ecstasy
Love Cortot
Interpretazione di una modernità che sbalordisce
Such freshness - one gets the impression of a musician always hearing in a new way, always finding a different approach from last time. I might compare Richter with him in that regard, as well as lovable weirdos like Gould, Pogorelich, and Natan Brand.
beautiful interpretations but he's no Dinu Lipatti
Af G Its the Master of dinu lipatti
Af G I find Cortot's interpretation of the Waltzes more expressive than Lipatti's. Dinu is probably my all-time favorite pianist, but this particular 1934 recording is unparalelled.
Une certaine parenté entre Alfred Cortot et Alexandra Dovgan.
is this 432 hz ? i mean is the piano tuned to 432 hz , considering that retuning only took place after 1900's?
Great questions. Like you said, given how old the recording is, I doubt it. That said, my ears aren't well trained enough to tell. This is just a prediction based on the age of the recording.
Uno dei 3 "maestri" di Sergio Fiorentino
Quel génie...
Ya estan correjidas por Cortot 🎶🎶🎹🇮🇷
Lipati. es la exelencia. 🎶🎶🎶🎹 ,🇮🇷
Just because ypu are a pupil of Cortot (e.g. Samson Francois) it does not follow that you are going to be as good as. or anywhere near, the master!!!!!
Llegan con ciertos errores. y Cortot 🌟 los corrigió.
14:23..
Grácias a Cortot 🌟 Chopin se puede leer perfecto.
in description it says e minor post hume but it doesnt sound like waltz 19 b150 ??
Many since the mid-20th century tried to achieve this art by dancing at the keyboard substituting body motion for more honest rubato. Indeed, there is a fear of deviating from a slavish adherence to the demands of the metronome in modern music that has stolen much of the magic from music making.
This is what panache sounds like🎉❤
chopinzee ' den buraya gelen var mı acaba?
Ben :). En iyi Chopin piyanistleri listesi isterim diye de belirteyim Ozan Bey'e :D
chopinzee?
9 : 30
He was THE ONLY pianist that actually had the galant character of Chopin's music. Great masters like Rubinstein only achieved extremely nuanced performances, but the character was completely absent. I have a strong prejudice regarding Chopin: you need to be physically slender to play him right.
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