Wow. I've never heard these recordings and I quite like them. Excellent sense of style, massive dynamic range, great control, and very precise playing overall.
Ignacy Friedman was born and raised in Podgórze, now a district of Krakow. Poland. In his youth he used to go with his father to dances organised in villages near Krakow. And it was this experience that determined the style of his mazurka performances - a peasant style, not a courtly salon style. Friedman himself said this in an interview.
@@Johannes_Brahms65 According to many witnesses, Chopin actually reflected this village dance in terms of rhythm and character in Mazurkas. Many composers cannot count the measures in Chopin's mazurka playing. Again, according to the testimonies of Chopin's closest relatives and students, "Parisian musicians cannot play my mazurkas, you have to be Polish to be able to play Mazurkas correctly." said by Chopin. So there's no contradiction here, and Friedman probably plays the closest thing to Chopin's mind. Polish pianists who worked with Chopin's students follow a similar path; Like Koczalski, Rosenthal and Michalowski. It is not necessary to be a villager to be influenced by village music: Some of the works of names such as Stravinsky, Bartok, Milhaud, Grieg, and Enescu are folk-interactive, and these people perform their own works like folk music (folk-inspired works, but not all) not like classical works.
@@OzanFabienGuvener Under one label (mazurka), Chopin composed mazurkas proper, kujawiaks and obereks. This is a fact still ignored by musicologists and performers.
I like this a lot. However I wonder what would happen if anyone would play like this at the Chopin competition, or even at their conservatory exam. Good old days! What I always wonder about is the little amount of pedaling in old recordings.
Une personnalité fascinante qui épouse cette musique comme une danse perpétuelle où elle semble nous enlacer. On s’y noie avec délice. Une merveille !
Each performance, unforgettable.
Wow. I've never heard these recordings and I quite like them. Excellent sense of style, massive dynamic range, great control, and very precise playing overall.
This, is the kind of comments I was hoping for. Thank you, evifnoskcaj!
Thank you for this invaluable upload - BRILLIANT!
Ignacy Friedman was born and raised in Podgórze, now a district of Krakow. Poland. In his youth he used to go with his father to dances organised in villages near Krakow. And it was this experience that determined the style of his mazurka performances - a peasant style, not a courtly salon style. Friedman himself said this in an interview.
Thank you for the information! It makes sense, but I belief that Chopin himself was more kind of a court person. But, in the end, we'll never know.
@@Johannes_Brahms65 According to many witnesses, Chopin actually reflected this village dance in terms of rhythm and character in Mazurkas. Many composers cannot count the measures in Chopin's mazurka playing. Again, according to the testimonies of Chopin's closest relatives and students, "Parisian musicians cannot play my mazurkas, you have to be Polish to be able to play Mazurkas correctly." said by Chopin. So there's no contradiction here, and Friedman probably plays the closest thing to Chopin's mind. Polish pianists who worked with Chopin's students follow a similar path; Like Koczalski, Rosenthal and Michalowski. It is not necessary to be a villager to be influenced by village music: Some of the works of names such as Stravinsky, Bartok, Milhaud, Grieg, and Enescu are folk-interactive, and these people perform their own works like folk music (folk-inspired works, but not all) not like classical works.
Thanks for posting this photo of the young Friedman. Have never seen before. And for posting the complete mazurkas
@@OzanFabienGuvener Under one label (mazurka), Chopin composed mazurkas proper, kujawiaks and obereks. This is a fact still ignored by musicologists and performers.
I like this a lot. However I wonder what would happen if anyone would play like this at the Chopin competition, or even at their conservatory exam. Good old days!
What I always wonder about is the little amount of pedaling in old recordings.
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Who today plays so quietly and with such delicacy and fantasy? No one in my (fairly extensive) experience. Magical.
So you heard everyone? Ok then.
Except Jan Paderewsky all the other pianists seem just good students in front of Friedman
Best Mazurkas ive ever heard
intoxicating .....
joyful tears
Someone speaking Chopin‘s language.