Божественно...Сколько нюансов!!!Тончайшая филигранная отделка всей звуковой ткани...Душа, Дух прямо получает целительную подпитку...Я расстворяюсь в этом мелодизме...Какое-то упоительное исполнение..
french: il y a 8 mois (modifié) Divin... Combien de nuances !! La finition filigrane la plus fine de l’ensemble du tissu sonore... L’Âme, l’Esprit, reçoit directement une nourriture de guérison... Je me dissous dans cette mélodie... Une sorte de performance délicieuse.
The various interpretations of this piece seem to divide UA-cam audiences. But for me, Sokolov’s first movement is the best that I have found. Pure beauty.
When I heard the opening notes of this wonderfull b flat sonata I was delighted. Ever since I heard Richter's magisterial performance I've wanted to hear Sokolov's. This is a long meditative composition. Unique to Schubert. My favorite Schubert sonata if played well.
l love Schubert´s music, and most of all I love this sonata and the C String Quintet, both are at the top of the Great Music. Sokolov´s rendering is, perhaps, the better.
Was glad to be allowed to listen to him playing of Mozart, Schumann and Chopin at Frankfurt´s Alte Oper, but man, when it comes to Schubert, it reaches the innermost of your heart deepest of your soul.... Don´t miss it.
Incredible performance: precise and artistically beyond superb! This well known and extensively played sonata op. 960 is tough to play, because, like many popular music pieces, very few pianists can make it sound fresh and anew. Sokolov always does that! He is not afraid to perform pieces, known too well by everyone, pieces, that seemly lost their “luster” due to overuse, shunned by famous artists for that reason. 960 under Grigory’s hands comes out fresh and brilliant, total delight!
Have all the Schubert piano sonatas played by Tirimo. But now I think will have to get the ones Sokolov recorded, for he is really allowing me to finally discover and open my ears and head to this music. My mother has the piano career and insisted on Sokolov as her favourite pianist. She says his Schumann Carnaval is the best she has ever heard. 🤔🙄😳😊❤️👍🎶🙏
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D. 960 I. Molto moderato 0:02 II. Andante sostenuto 20:17 III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace con delicatezza 31:06 IV. Allegro ma non troppo 35:15
Grigory Sokolov is a very respected contemporary pianist, one of the few of the great names of the XX century that is alive and playing. He is Russian, his studies were done in Russia. He recognizes as one o h influencers the also Russian superb pianist Emil Gilels. I first heard his recordings playing Bacch and made a strong impression, his playing is straightforward, technically perfect, very respectful of the scores, a no frills, no nonsense player. Later, I found he plays a very wide list of composers besides Bach, from baroque to XX century. In my biased perception, Sokolov and Mitsuko Uchida may be counted among the best active Schubert piano players (Brendel is alive but retired). The romantic streak of Schubert may resonate well with the emotional, romantic soul of Russia. His rendering of the D 960 is near perfection.
You are correct on mentioning Emil Gilels and Grigory’s closeness. After winning the Tchaikovsky competition’s Grand prize at age 16, Grigory maintained his pupil- teacher relation with Gilels, until Gilels death. There are a lot of similarities in both of them: most importantly staying humbly in the shade of the composer! Knowing Grigory personally, seeing the rise in success and popularity, I can attest -his interactions with people never changed, he never adopted dismissive and arrogant attitude. From 16 yr old genius kid Sokolov became one of the greatest piano titans.
I'm a huge, huge fan of Sokolov, but on this piece, I agree with you. It has much more emotive force when played more slowly...but there remains that exquisite Sokolov touch.
Great live recording! It seems Sokolov takes an approach similar to Horowitz' in terms of speed and freshness which i'm beginning to prefer over the rigid slow approach chosen by others.
Thank you for introducing me to this pianist. I've listened to 6 different interpretations of this sonata this evening, came to this name--which I in the U.S. had never heard of before, shame on us.He's on a level with Kempff, whose version I love.
Grigory Sokolov=THE TITAN OF THE PIANO!! THE GIANT OF THE PIANO THE!! 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!! Maybe These two NO DUST TRASH ART! Artur Rubinstein=THE GOD! Emil Gilels=THE KING OF ALL PIANISTS!! WHO IS THE GREATEST?? The GOD?? The KING?? The GIANT?? The TITAN?? MY VOTE GOES TO THE GIANT OF THE PIANO=GRIGORY SOKOLOV!!
Love the pronounced ostinato bass figures in the slow movement recapitulation - initially it creates the character of a funeral march, that, after the magical modulation into radiant C major becomes a sublimely lyrical view heavenward.
Have his 7th and 8th Prokofiev Piano Sonatas. But the one I like the most is the 6th one, and this he never recorded. Have the 6th one by Pogorelich and it is excellent, but still prefer it by Richter. Have to hear again his 7th and 8th Prokofiev ones. Though my prefered Prokofiev piano are the Romeo and Juliet and the Cinderella transcriptions into piano. Tacchino played some of that and it's excellent piano music. Different to any other, with incredible rythms and beauty. 👍❤️🎵🙏
Sokolov is the greatest Schubert pianist. Even greater than Richter. These two Russians outdo all the others on Schubert's sonatas, including the Austrians and Germans. I'm shocked. Of all the Germans and Austrians on this music, only Gieseking is even nearly as good; however, he's much faster. Only he can race through the music at the marked tempos and come even close to the deeply moving renderings of them by Sokolov and Richter. Maybe if Schubert were to hear these performances, he'd change those markings.
Wilhelm Kempff ( The most beautiful piano sound 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!!! Maybe These NO DUST TRASH EMPTY TRASH ART! The Greatest pianists Are really=Artur Rubinstein=THE GOD! Wilhelm Kempff ( The most beautiful piano sound Ever) Sviatoslav Richter Alexei Lubimov ( THE GENIUS! Mozart piano concerto no 27!!) MY VOTE GOES TO THE GIANT OF THE PIANO=GRIGORY SOKOLOV!!!
Lupu is very disappointing in D960. Sokolov's is less mannered that it might've been from him, and I love it. But nothing on Kempff's. Comparable to Brendel's (superior in micro profundities, less of the Austrian naturalness of Brendel).
I agree that Kempff is sublime, but for me Lupu is still quite wonderful. I'm afraid that for me Sokolov is a "flash in the pan": a current star who has the backing of the Establishment (recording companies, festivals, big halls, promotion) but who lacks depth and longevity. But I am a mere listener!
@@johndrayton8728 Recording companies? To get him to record requires moving mountains. I am aware of only a dozen or so recordings in the past couple of decades. Big halls? He will play anywhere with a good piano. I heard him in a small church. Promotion? very very little if any. He is extraordinarily low key, as is his agent. He will, for instance, not cross the ocean, any ocean, where he could have a huge career if he wished.
I agree with one of the commentator's that the second movement lacks direction, and in fact the third sort of anders about aimlessly, too. Not the best by a long chalk: as for favourite versions: I love Richter and adore Schnabel, who for some reason is not mentioned here. Of younger contemporaries, the only one who I have found pleasure in is Martin Stadtfeld - youthful but very impressive. And not to forget Lazar Bermann!
One of the most remarkable recordings of D 960. Absolutely breathtaking.
Божественно...Сколько нюансов!!!Тончайшая филигранная отделка всей звуковой ткани...Душа, Дух прямо получает целительную подпитку...Я расстворяюсь в этом мелодизме...Какое-то упоительное исполнение..
french: il y a 8 mois (modifié)
Divin... Combien de nuances !! La finition filigrane la plus fine de l’ensemble du tissu sonore... L’Âme, l’Esprit, reçoit directement une nourriture de guérison... Je me dissous dans cette mélodie... Une sorte de performance délicieuse.
Григорий Соколов- титан фортепианного исполнительского искусства! Его проникновение в глубинную суть исполняемых им произведений не имеет себе равных.
french :Grigory Sokolov est un titan de l’art du piano ! Sa pénétration dans l’essence profonde des œuvres qu’il interprète est inégalée.
Schubert's songs rang true here. What a marvellous rendition and a good sound track here too. Thank you Mr S. and others concerned.
The Great SOKOLOV playing the great Schubert masterpiece!! :-))))
Pure gold!! Sokolov is a pianist of genius. He takes exactly the right tempo in the first movement.
The various interpretations of this piece seem to divide UA-cam audiences. But for me, Sokolov’s first movement is the best that I have found. Pure beauty.
When I heard the opening notes of this wonderfull b flat sonata I was delighted. Ever since I heard Richter's magisterial performance I've wanted to hear Sokolov's. This is a long meditative composition. Unique to Schubert. My favorite Schubert sonata if played well.
l love Schubert´s music, and most of all I love this sonata and the C String Quintet, both are at the top of the Great Music. Sokolov´s rendering is, perhaps, the better.
the better. !
Was glad to be allowed to listen to him playing of Mozart, Schumann and Chopin at Frankfurt´s Alte Oper, but man, when it comes to Schubert, it reaches the innermost of your heart deepest of your soul.... Don´t miss it.
Yes, am starting to agree. His Schubert can be by far the best I ever heard. Amazing pianist!! 👍❤️🎶🙏
Incredible performance: precise and artistically beyond superb! This well known and extensively played sonata op. 960 is tough to play, because, like many popular music pieces, very few pianists can make it sound fresh and anew. Sokolov always does that! He is not afraid to perform pieces, known too well by everyone, pieces, that seemly lost their “luster” due to overuse, shunned by famous artists for that reason. 960 under Grigory’s hands comes out fresh and brilliant, total delight!
Absolutely the truth.
In this Moment Sokolov is top Bach and Schubert artist
Я очень люблю Шуберта и игру этого пианиста.Душа откликается и на музыку и на её исполнение.
french : J’aime beaucoup Schubert et le jeu de ce pianiste.
Wow! Sokolov really captures the improvisatory element in late Schubert; almost sounds as if the music were being composed as he's playing.
Schubert the best to traslate
idea to music.
Magnífico!!
Brendel makes the most sense of the most notes in this astoundingly creative, magical work
Have all the Schubert piano sonatas played by Tirimo. But now I think will have to get the ones Sokolov recorded, for he is really allowing me to finally discover and open my ears and head to this music. My mother has the piano career and insisted on Sokolov as her favourite pianist. She says his Schumann Carnaval is the best she has ever heard. 🤔🙄😳😊❤️👍🎶🙏
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D. 960
I. Molto moderato 0:02
II. Andante sostenuto 20:17
III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace con delicatezza 31:06
IV. Allegro ma non troppo 35:15
고마워요 from korea...
Think Sokolov is a great pianist who shines specially when playing Schubert. He arises the inner beauty of the works with an apparent easiness. 🤔👌❤️
Shines also when layed Rameau, Sokolov is great.
Dolce addio alla vita .
Loneliness of Love holds a creative genius.
МУЗЫКАНТ ОТ ВСЕВЫШНЕГО !!!
Just really loved the last movement among the others. He really nailed it. :-))))
Grigory Sokolov is a very respected contemporary pianist, one of the few of the great names of the XX century that is alive and playing. He is Russian, his studies were done in Russia. He recognizes as one o h influencers the also Russian superb pianist Emil Gilels. I first heard his recordings playing Bacch and made a strong impression, his playing is straightforward, technically perfect, very respectful of the scores, a no frills, no nonsense player. Later, I found he plays a very wide list of composers besides Bach, from baroque to XX century. In my biased perception, Sokolov and Mitsuko Uchida may be counted among the best active Schubert piano players (Brendel is alive but retired). The romantic streak of Schubert may resonate well with the emotional, romantic soul of Russia. His rendering of the D 960 is near perfection.
You are correct on mentioning Emil Gilels and Grigory’s closeness. After winning the Tchaikovsky competition’s Grand prize at age 16, Grigory maintained his pupil- teacher relation with Gilels, until Gilels death. There are a lot of similarities in both of them: most importantly staying humbly in the shade of the composer! Knowing Grigory personally, seeing the rise in success and popularity, I can attest -his interactions with people never changed, he never adopted dismissive and arrogant attitude. From 16 yr old genius kid Sokolov became one of the greatest piano titans.
@@stonefireice6058 Thanks for your thoughtful. comment.
I'm a huge, huge fan of Sokolov, but on this piece, I agree with you. It has much more emotive force when played more slowly...but there remains that exquisite Sokolov touch.
Great Sokolov.
Great live recording! It seems Sokolov takes an approach similar to Horowitz' in terms of speed and freshness which i'm beginning to prefer over the rigid slow approach chosen by others.
Великолепно!
Thank you for introducing me to this pianist. I've listened to 6 different interpretations of this sonata this evening, came to this name--which I in the U.S. had never heard of before, shame on us.He's on a level with Kempff, whose version I love.
You are welcome!
Sviatoslav Richter
There are only Sokolov and Richter.
+Philip Nikolayev And Kempff!
+Philip Nikolayev Radu Lupu is my favourite
Exquisite pianist
Wonderful playing.
とても、大人の素晴らしい､演奏だと、思います。間を大事にした、名演ですね。
Great!
Best piano player in the world by very far
Grigory Sokolov=THE TITAN OF THE PIANO!! THE GIANT OF THE PIANO THE!! 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!! Maybe These two NO DUST TRASH ART! Artur Rubinstein=THE GOD! Emil Gilels=THE KING OF ALL PIANISTS!! WHO IS THE GREATEST?? The GOD?? The KING?? The GIANT?? The TITAN?? MY VOTE GOES TO THE GIANT OF THE PIANO=GRIGORY SOKOLOV!!
@@RaineriHakkarainen Richter is the titan of the piano
Love the pronounced ostinato bass figures in the slow movement recapitulation - initially it creates the character of a funeral march, that, after the magical modulation into radiant C major becomes a sublimely lyrical view heavenward.
Exactly how I hear that movement too: death and the hope for a better place after!
He really is fantastic. A bit too heavy sometimes but he plays Schubert jovial technical. He also suits Prokofiev
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Have his 7th and 8th Prokofiev Piano Sonatas. But the one I like the most is the 6th one, and this he never recorded. Have the 6th one by Pogorelich and it is excellent, but still prefer it by Richter. Have to hear again his 7th and 8th Prokofiev ones. Though my prefered Prokofiev piano are the Romeo and Juliet and the Cinderella transcriptions into piano. Tacchino played some of that and it's excellent piano music. Different to any other, with incredible rythms and beauty. 👍❤️🎵🙏
Thanks for that info I think I wanna check that out. I am such a huge fan of this work that if I were a pianist I'd dream of playing it myself.
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and the brendel one is allso verry nice
Brendel is the most overrated pianist ever
Bravo--a performance of the 4th movt that doesn't sound "studied" -- There is energy and speed but phrases are nuanced..they take flight.
Sokolov is the greatest Schubert pianist. Even greater than Richter. These two Russians outdo all the others on Schubert's sonatas, including the Austrians and Germans. I'm shocked. Of all the Germans and Austrians on this music, only Gieseking is even nearly as good; however, he's much faster. Only he can race through the music at the marked tempos and come even close to the deeply moving renderings of them by Sokolov and Richter. Maybe if Schubert were to hear these performances, he'd change those markings.
Imo Rudolf Serkins live performance is the best. Then is Richter
Excellent interpretation, but I prefer Richter's version. It is more slow and more mystical.
Richter plays it too slow for my likings.
23:33!
12:20
Lucio Battisti Emozioni
Vorrei Sentire Emozioni
孤寂的慈愛 是 天賜
Excellent interpretation, but I prefer Richter's version.
Celle de Schnabel est également magnifique.! 😊
I prefer Richters interpretation
I love Richter in D664, but I find the slowness simply affected in D960.
Prefer Sokolov to Richter.
Perfectly!
Nevertheless, Richter is better.
Only in my humble and sincere opinion!
Kempff's magic is the most ineffable and natural.
Wilhelm Kempff ( The most beautiful piano sound 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!!! Maybe These NO DUST TRASH EMPTY TRASH ART! The Greatest pianists Are really=Artur Rubinstein=THE GOD! Wilhelm Kempff ( The most beautiful piano sound Ever) Sviatoslav Richter Alexei Lubimov ( THE GENIUS! Mozart piano concerto no 27!!) MY VOTE GOES TO THE GIANT OF THE PIANO=GRIGORY SOKOLOV!!!
There are Maria Yudina, Richter, Kempff, and then probably Sokolov
Ian Probstein And Clifford Curzon, English pianist
+Ian Probstein If you like Yudina and Richter, give Afanassiev a try. He and Sokolov both studied under Gilels but are very different in style.
@@ianprobstein4643 Curzon was a fantastic pianist too. Have not heard his Schubert, but his Mozart is priceless in its beauty.
What about Tirimo? And Badura Skoda?
Schubert piano works carries Beethoven to where he was heading lyrically and romantically.
играет лучше, чем Рихтер
ага, щас....
There is not enough cold and death in Sokolov's second subject in the first movement. The onward momentum is like a babbling brook.
It is said the Sokolov Schubert is has a distinctive virility, who knows...
Lupu is very disappointing in D960. Sokolov's is less mannered that it might've been from him, and I love it. But nothing on Kempff's. Comparable to Brendel's (superior in micro profundities, less of the Austrian naturalness of Brendel).
I agree that Kempff is sublime, but for me Lupu is still quite wonderful. I'm afraid that for me Sokolov is a "flash in the pan": a current star who has the backing of the Establishment (recording companies, festivals, big halls, promotion) but who lacks depth and longevity.
But I am a mere listener!
@@johndrayton8728 Recording companies? To get him to record requires moving mountains. I am aware of only a dozen or so recordings in the past couple of decades. Big halls? He will play anywhere with a good piano. I heard him in a small church. Promotion? very very little if any. He is extraordinarily low key, as is his agent. He will, for instance, not cross the ocean, any ocean, where he could have a huge career if he wished.
Brendel is hard to beat with Schubert
I agree with one of the commentator's that the second movement lacks direction, and in fact the third sort of anders about aimlessly, too. Not the best by a long chalk: as for favourite versions: I love Richter and adore Schnabel, who for some reason is not mentioned here. Of younger contemporaries, the only one who I have found pleasure in is Martin Stadtfeld - youthful but very impressive. And not to forget Lazar Bermann!
@consternation6 ... "the second movement lacks direction" ... jeez, what a pity that he didn't hire you as a travel guide.
So, why do you waste your time listening to this pianist ?