I completely agree! I feel like I've heard 25/5 thousands of times but this interpretation is so refreshing. He doesn't rush the middle section, his playing is both powerful and with the lightest and most effortless accentuation
Sokolov offers one of the most charming and delightful versions of the Opus 25, no. 3 that I've ever heard. Thanks again for sharing the music of this great pianist with the rest of us.
Someone has uploaded a concert encore of the final etude, it might just be one of the best live performances of that piece ever recorded. I occasionally go back and watch it sheer awe of his prowess. Go watch it...it's unbelievable.
@@tombennettband1485 i didn’t say that, I said not every note is super clear, which is of course intentional, to create atmospheres and not banged notes, and he may create strong sounds but they’re never strident or loud.
@@maelcanicatti5907 I was agreeing with you...he's not a banger....but every note is clear and precise with the exact dynamic he wants to produce. Def one of the best if not the best out there.
When Grigory plays Chopin, he is Chopin. And when he plays Beethoven, he is also this great man. And for all, for all the Genius, he becomes all them. I love him !
Un impitoyable virtuose. Ne laisse la place à personne. Un cerveau èpoustouflant + une main gauche qui n'a d'égale qu'avec sa droite. Russe? Non, non Sokolov doit être extraterrestre. Jamais rien d'entendu de pareil, ni techniquement ni musicalement. Comment peut-on jouer du piano de la sorte? Son hiver, c'est la Sibérie. Son océan un tsunami...
First part of this works well as an introduction to "Someday I'll find You" by Sir Noel Coward....I know this as they have done in various productions...
Geez... I started taking piano lessons when I was 6, went to college for it, and it's been a few years since that. I've lived with the piano for over 20 years and have heard SO MANY people complain about coughing. And yes, sometimes as an audience member it can be a little frustrating when someone is coughing repeatedly and is clearly not even trying to suppress it whatsoever. However, sometimes a cough really does just come upon someone suddenly before they realize. It's always best to give the benefit of the doubt, especially when you aren't even present to see what's happening. That being said, at some of the "highest level" performances I've been to (Cliburn competition 2009 and Rivinia festival come to mind most readily for me), it was clear that at least 50% of the coughs were pretentious, rude people who weren't agreeing with or enjoying the performer's interpretation of the piece at hand, and were coughing to make it known that "this music is being performed poorly." Long comment to say, maybe the classical music community could stand to lighten up a bit in general. (Edited because damn autocorrect made "Cliburn" into "Clinton". Ugh.)
Я надеюсь , ты помнишь СОКОЛОВА АЛЕКСАНДРА ИЛЬИЧА ? Которого вы бросили помирать одного безногого и слепого ? И даже не были у него на похоронах ! Это написал Богданов Виктор Петрович , проживающий в Израиле по адресу : Бат-Ям ул. ГЕРЦЛЬ д.10 кв.4 . Всегда к Вашим услугам ...за прекрасного и светлого человека СОКОЛОВА АЛЕКСАНДРА ИЛЬИЧА !!!
+Enrico Lumetti I think he is pressing both pedals at the same time. An absolutly fantastic and incredible pianist. Never heard anybody like him. Could be a martian...
+MardkoMBR yeah, I figured as much after thinking about it. The way he gradually inserts the prima corda though... It never occurred to me before that this was possible
Although he can be a bit fussy in his interpretive approach to anything he plays, he's one of my very favorite pianists; however, I find his playing of these enormously difficult pieces a bit too 'etude like'. But still, in terms of pure technique, I think that #'s 3 and 11 would be hard to surpass...I just wish he would go back into the studio to re-record both Op. 10 and 25.
So? He had a wrong note? Rubinstein and Horowitz were well known for frequent wrong notes but they are seen as the greatest interpreters of Chopin and certainly among the greatest pianists in history!
Grigory Sokolov (born April 18, 1950 in Leningrad) In the 40 years since the 16-year-old Grigory Sokolov was awarded first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1966, the world has been blessed with what one American critic recently called "a kind of pianism, musicianship and artistry one thought had vanished forever". Championed at a young age by Emil Gilels and a prominent figure on the Russian music scene since his early teens, Sokolov has gained an almost mythical status amongst music-lovers and pianophiles throughout the world. He is considered by many today to be the world's greatest living pianist. Ever since his first major piano recital in Leningrad at the age of 12, Sokolov has amazed everyone again and again with the enormous breadth of his repertoire and his huge, almost physical musical strength. Using little pedal, and thus superior finger-work, he draws from the concert grand an immense variety of sounds; he has an unlimited palette of colours, a spontaneous imagination and a magical control of line. His interpretations are poetic and highly individual, and his rhythmic freedom and elasticity of phrase are perhaps unequalled among pianists today.
I think I enjoy Murray Perahia's Etudes better. Sokolov plays with a clunkier/heavier sounding hand. Perahia's are much more even, consistent, controlled. Sokolov does have a nice way of making the melody lines sing brightly. For me, Perahia edges him out on the Etudes.
Is it me, or is the piano too much out of tune? This performance itself, I think, is quite enyojable, even though his playing doesn't seem to be very consistent interpretation-wise here.
@@alexismandelias Honestly, I don't even remember writing this comment. And listening it isn't bad at all. I don't know what was running through my mind! XD
His sound resembles a digital reproduction. He achieves this (what people below are calling "clarity") by banging the keys, disaggregating the notes, and ignoring the musical progression from phrase to phrase. Too often he exaggerates accents and, for a professional pianist, has a completely cockeyed notion of rubato. His "sound" ends up "stressed" and ugly. The passage 17:10 - 18:20 illustrates. To be clear, I don't dispute that Sokolov has good technical skills: his musicianship, however - at any rate in this performances - is second rate.
I've just checked again to see if I was in a bad mood of something. But no, you have got to be kidding! I am incredulous. But perhaps you are being tongue in cheek, like Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.
David and the Angels hi - Pollini's is really famous: Richter gives another terrific performance. I'm not trying to be smart Alec but seriously, youtube is full of 'better' performances.
And just checked again (for the second time). Oh my, 17:10 - 18:20 is a doozy of a lousy passage. As I said 5 months ago. Given the hyperbolic adulation he gets, one is certainly entitled to get more music and less sound. His interpretations are as intolerable to the ear as they are, I suspect, to the piano. I'm only sorry he doesn't play quicker, and so get the ordeal over and done with faster. As it is, I've never heard a pianist bang so many notes per unit of time. Stunning. All the same, there is nothing to be heard in these interpretations that taking a jackhammer to the keyboard wouldn't produce.
The most stunning part is when he finishes No. 12, the applause starts, and you realise the entire recording was live.
🤣
Sokolov is a true God
Op. 25:
no 1 - 00:00
no 2 - 02:26
no 3 - 04:05
no 4 - 05:47
no 5 - 07:21
no 6 - 11:08
no 7 - 13:03
no 8 - 19:33
no 9 - 20:38
no 10 - 21:38
no 11 - 26:21
no 12 - 29:42
1:48 эолова арфа, самый гениальный из всех этюдов… 2:15
I love how he takes less than one second rest in between those last 2 colossal etudes.
Чудовий піаніст сучасності! Подяка тим, хто дає змогу доторкнутись до високої майстерності. Браво!
Dio mio........queste sono le mani di un angelo
i almost can't hear these pieces anymore but mr sokolov made me feel i was hearing opus 25/5 for the first time...
I completely agree! I feel like I've heard 25/5 thousands of times but this interpretation is so refreshing. He doesn't rush the middle section, his playing is both powerful and with the lightest and most effortless accentuation
Cheers
The way Sokolov voices the top note of the right hand in 25 6 is incredible!!!
The way her voices nearly everything is incredible.
Блаженство!!! Как благодарить Господа, что живу в одно время с гением??? Очарование, трепет души!!!! Живите долго, Милый наш !!!!
Sokolov offers one of the most charming and delightful versions of the Opus 25, no. 3 that I've ever heard. Thanks again for sharing the music of this great pianist with the rest of us.
Grigory the Great sees these more as finger than pedal studies, making them all the more difficult but no less musical for that. Astonishing.
When I listen to Grigory I just want to say "thank you" to him.
Simply breath taking... Soothes the mind and helps it to focus... I cannot stop listening to this...
Mind blowing !!! :)
Yes it is deffinetly safe to say that this is hands down one of my fave classical pieces!!
so so so nice
Yes, it is simply breathtaking! Words cannot describe...
Lucy Wynder ö
Breathtakingly beautiful!
Absolutely!
Sokolov belongs to the greatest pianists on earth!
And such a kind man...
Geert Dehoux, pianist.
What a marvelous sound!
There was never anything remotely like this nor ever will be!
Someone has uploaded a concert encore of the final etude, it might just be one of the best live performances of that piece ever recorded. I occasionally go back and watch it sheer awe of his prowess. Go watch it...it's unbelievable.
Art in interpretation.
О! Великий! Соколов спасибо за каждый звук!
Listened to it twice consecutivetley, and still wanting more, bravo!
Wspaniałe i ponadczasowe. Ta muzyka będzie zachwycać wiecznie. Dzieło stuleci i symbol naszego narodu polskiego. Wspaniałe wykonanie, bardzo dziękuję.
every notes are super clear...
+조유진 that is because he bangs the keys!
@@Riverification that’s not actually true
@@maelcanicatti5907 he's a master technician not a banger at all.
@@tombennettband1485 i didn’t say that, I said not every note is super clear, which is of course intentional, to create atmospheres and not banged notes, and he may create strong sounds but they’re never strident or loud.
@@maelcanicatti5907 I was agreeing with you...he's not a banger....but every note is clear and precise with the exact dynamic he wants to produce. Def one of the best if not the best out there.
wow, what an amazing performance!!! i really love the last etude in c minor
Divino!!!
Meraviglioso pianista e grande musicista.
This is perfection!
masterpiece performance!
When Grigory plays Chopin, he is Chopin.
And when he plays Beethoven, he is also this great man.
And for all, for all the Genius, he becomes all them.
I love him !
Sokolov and Cortot!
7:20 No.5 in E minor
今から50年前に大阪でソコロフを聴きその時のプログラムがショパンのエチュードと24の前奏曲でそれ迄に聴いた誰より素晴らしいかった。まずpからffまで音がみずみずしいしffではピアノのボディが膨らんで聴こえた。生を聴くとその凄さがわかるピアニストと思っていた。しかし当時ポリーニが騒がれていてソコロフは音楽性の無い馬力のピアニストと言う評論家が多く子供心にショックを受けた思いがあります。数回来日の度に聴きに行きました。プロコの7番は圧巻でした。最高のピアニストと思っています
大阪フェスティバルホールでしょうか。自分も50年近く前ケンプを聴きに行ったことがあり、思い出して懐かしく思います。ソコロフの音いいですね。
私も50年前ケンプをフェスティバルで聴き大変抜けの良い音に感動しました
ahhhhhhh so beutiful
Браво ! Мастер !
ПОЦЕЛОВАННЫЙ БОГОМ МУЗЫКАНТ !!! ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНО!!
Прекрасно!!!
Merci!
Eh sì, qui ci siamo. Ma ci siamo davvero... ❤❤❤
Это фантастическое исполнение!
I wonder--how many of the "thumbs down" folks realize that it's a live performance? Also this is likely the 2nd half of a recital...
Although I wouldn't do everything the same way, this is a great and INTERESTING performance!
Sokolov is Great!
Geert Dehoux, pianist.
Superb
His Op 25 no 12 is apocalyptic.
❤️
i love nature pics with classical music
Просто не находится слов,чтобы выразить своё восхищение...
great ... :-)
4:01 and 5:45 the coughing in the background adds to the experience
Yes, now I’m wearing my mask while listening. Small price to pay.
Un impitoyable virtuose. Ne laisse la place à personne. Un cerveau èpoustouflant + une main gauche qui n'a d'égale qu'avec sa droite. Russe? Non, non Sokolov doit être extraterrestre. Jamais rien d'entendu de pareil, ni techniquement ni musicalement. Comment peut-on jouer du piano de la sorte? Son hiver, c'est la Sibérie. Son océan un tsunami...
+MardkoMBR this pianist bangs the keyboard - a purely muscular achievement that does nothing for the music!
+limitattitude sh
limitattitude Hahaha...nice one.
You were joking, right?
MardkoMBR good words
Vraiment effrayant.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
First part of this works well as an introduction to "Someday I'll find You" by Sir Noel Coward....I know this as they have done in various productions...
Paul Anthony Romero are you asking who is Sokolov? You are completely out of mind!!!
my hormones are off the speedometers
Much interesting!
Magnificient THUMBS UP*****
What a powerful No.11! OMG he doesn't rest before No.12.
11번12번 들어갈때 긴장감 존멋
Was that a glissando /in A minor melodic/ or a scale @ 29:39 :))
Lympany was a great pianist and refined musician.
Estornudador número 3 se encuentra fuera de tono, por favor repitamos esta parte.
everyone who caughs should get thrown out...
Geez... I started taking piano lessons when I was 6, went to college for it, and it's been a few years since that. I've lived with the piano for over 20 years and have heard SO MANY people complain about coughing. And yes, sometimes as an audience member it can be a little frustrating when someone is coughing repeatedly and is clearly not even trying to suppress it whatsoever.
However, sometimes a cough really does just come upon someone suddenly before they realize. It's always best to give the benefit of the doubt, especially when you aren't even present to see what's happening. That being said, at some of the "highest level" performances I've been to (Cliburn competition 2009 and Rivinia festival come to mind most readily for me), it was clear that at least 50% of the coughs were pretentious, rude people who weren't agreeing with or enjoying the performer's interpretation of the piece at hand, and were coughing to make it known that "this music is being performed poorly."
Long comment to say, maybe the classical music community could stand to lighten up a bit in general.
(Edited because damn autocorrect made "Cliburn" into "Clinton". Ugh.)
Ahhhh
where is this photo belongs. I really want to know
Я надеюсь , ты помнишь СОКОЛОВА АЛЕКСАНДРА ИЛЬИЧА ?
Которого вы бросили помирать одного безногого и слепого ?
И даже не были у него на похоронах !
Это написал Богданов Виктор Петрович , проживающий в Израиле по адресу : Бат-Ям ул. ГЕРЦЛЬ д.10 кв.4 .
Всегда к Вашим услугам ...за прекрасного и светлого человека СОКОЛОВА АЛЕКСАНДРА ИЛЬИЧА !!!
КАК У ВАС ПОДНИМАЕТСЯ РУКА ТАКОЕ ПИСАТЬ ???!!
ВЫ ЧТО ИМЕЕТЕ НА ЭТО
ПРАВО ?! ГОСПОДЬ ВАМ СУДЬЯ...
That does not matter! Only listen :)
Chopin Etudes' ''new clothes''
Ни одного комментария за год...
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Category: sports?
Listen to Etudes 10, 11, and 12, and then tell me this isn't sports
is the piano slightly out of tune?
Correct me if I'm wrong. I think it may be 528Hz instead of 440Hz or it may be 444Hz.
All pianos are slightly out of tune.
What happens at 31:14?
Ao gli è scappata un nota
+Enrico Lumetti ah allora si
+Enrico Lumetti I think he is pressing both pedals at the same time. An absolutly fantastic and incredible pianist. Never heard anybody like him. Could be a martian...
+MardkoMBR yeah, I figured as much after thinking about it. The way he gradually inserts the prima corda though... It never occurred to me before that this was possible
I once witnessed a major pianist and a major singer marveling at his ability to produce a certain sound, without any idea of how he was able to do it.
Schnell, wir brauchen einen Klavierstimmer!
Wie schade...
naja... zu spät... aber jedes Klavier ist auf seine Art verstimmt
0:13 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 0:46
7:21
DELICIOSO
Although he can be a bit fussy in his interpretive approach to anything he plays, he's one of my very favorite pianists; however, I find his playing of these enormously difficult pieces a bit too 'etude like'.
But still, in terms of pure technique, I think that #'s 3 and 11 would be hard to surpass...I just wish he would go back into the studio to re-record both Op. 10 and 25.
LIVE............................unhuman!
pika
in bar 7 of the thirds etude he is playing an A# in the right hand.... I'm pretty sure that it's supposed to be an A natural
So? He had a wrong note?
Rubinstein and Horowitz were well known for frequent wrong notes but they are seen as the greatest interpreters of Chopin and certainly among the greatest pianists in history!
Я видела такую редакцию с ля диезом.
I feel that Horowitz’ interpretation is much more beautiful, much deeper, much loftier...
bcc
il y a de meilleurs interpretes
Who is Sokolov?
Grigory Sokolov (born April 18, 1950 in Leningrad)
In the 40 years since the 16-year-old Grigory Sokolov was awarded first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1966, the world has been blessed with what one American critic recently called "a kind of pianism, musicianship and artistry one thought had vanished forever". Championed at a young age by Emil Gilels and a prominent figure on the Russian music scene since his early teens, Sokolov has gained an almost mythical status amongst music-lovers and pianophiles throughout the world. He is considered by many today to be the world's greatest living pianist. Ever since his first major piano recital in Leningrad at the age of 12, Sokolov has amazed everyone again and again with the enormous breadth of his repertoire and his huge, almost physical musical strength. Using little pedal, and thus superior finger-work, he draws from the concert grand an immense variety of sounds; he has an unlimited palette of colours, a spontaneous imagination and a magical control of line. His interpretations are poetic and highly individual, and his rhythmic freedom and elasticity of phrase are perhaps unequalled among pianists today.
Thank you! I appreciate this information.
Well, they have already told you who's Sokolov.... You must watch the concert in France in 2002. Is a superb one!!!!
The best pianist to ever step foot on earth
I think I enjoy Murray Perahia's Etudes better. Sokolov plays with a clunkier/heavier sounding hand. Perahia's are much more even, consistent, controlled. Sokolov does have a nice way of making the melody lines sing brightly. For me, Perahia edges him out on the Etudes.
Is it me, or is the piano too much out of tune? This performance itself, I think, is quite enyojable, even though his playing doesn't seem to be very consistent interpretation-wise here.
I was just thinking the same... it's out of tune, unfortunately.
I just gotta say that I REALLY dont care for whoever is playing these pieces. Like these are probably my least favorite renditions of Op. 25.
I'd love to hear which are your favourite. I found some really interesting ideas in Sokolov's performance which I haven't encountered anywhere else.
@@alexismandelias Honestly, I don't even remember writing this comment. And listening it isn't bad at all. I don't know what was running through my mind! XD
@@PeanutSpring3 came for Sokolov's playing, stayed for the character development
Totally out of tune...
Sokolov is loss on Chopin style.
Rubenstein the best.
Love Rubenstein, but did he ever record the Etudes/
Ugh, I couldn't get past the first one in A-flat, so noisy, clunky and heavy
His sound resembles a digital reproduction. He achieves this (what people below are calling "clarity") by banging the keys, disaggregating the notes, and ignoring the musical progression from phrase to phrase. Too often he exaggerates accents and, for a professional pianist, has a completely cockeyed notion of rubato. His "sound" ends up "stressed" and ugly. The passage 17:10 - 18:20 illustrates.
To be clear, I don't dispute that Sokolov has good technical skills: his musicianship, however - at any rate in this performances - is second rate.
the sound is fresh, not tediously perfect, it has something new and is profound.
I've just checked again to see if I was in a bad mood of something. But no, you have got to be kidding! I am incredulous. But perhaps you are being tongue in cheek, like Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.
limitattitude, thanks for your views, who do you love playing these etudes?
David and the Angels hi - Pollini's is really famous: Richter gives another terrific performance. I'm not trying to be smart Alec but seriously, youtube is full of 'better' performances.
And just checked again (for the second time). Oh my, 17:10 - 18:20 is a doozy of a lousy passage. As I said 5 months ago. Given the hyperbolic adulation he gets, one is certainly entitled to get more music and less sound. His interpretations are as intolerable to the ear as they are, I suspect, to the piano. I'm only sorry he doesn't play quicker, and so get the ordeal over and done with faster. As it is, I've never heard a pianist bang so many notes per unit of time. Stunning. All the same, there is nothing to be heard in these interpretations that taking a jackhammer to the keyboard wouldn't produce.