There's an audio recording of him doing both the Fugue and the Scherzo from the Barber Sonata. Absolutely superb, and for me better than any other performance I've heard of those movements. ua-cam.com/video/Kzau4jOBlak/v-deo.html
I want to cry when I think of this beautiful person with such jaw-dropping talent taking his own life at 22. At least we have these astonishing recordings to remind of his genius . . . and of our loss.
That Barber's fuga is just insane. Such power and precision in this tempo is mind blowing. It's gonna be a long time since someone comes close to that.
Terence Judd was a great pianist, in the same class as William Kapell. Both technically and musically superb, with which he always found new and dynamic ideas. This video is a priceless testament to his genius.
I knew Terence when he was a student at the Royal Academy of Music. He was a bit strange - insular and incommunicative - but a wonderful pianist. His father, Anthony, taught Oboe and Bassoon there. I spoke to him the week before he went to Beachy Head and jumped. I never foresaw what would happen.
Absolutely stunning that you or your organization is sharing these priceless videos of historic events. The story of Judd is tragic, and clearly he was an incredible talent that we all lost unnecessarily.
ADGO Do you also have the performance of Naum Grubert? I know him from my Conservatory period, and it would be very interesting to hear/see him play! (he received the sixth prize that year and his brother Ilya, who is a violinist, won the first prize)
pianopera Unfortunately I don't see anything about either Grubert from the '78 competition. From that year I still have winners' concert videos of violinists Elmar Oliveira and Irina Medvedeva, and pianist Steven Kemper, about whom there's basically nothing on the internet.
ADGO See: musiqueclassique.forumpro.fr/t2531-tous-les-laureats-du-concours-tchaikovsky Both brothers later moved to Holland and as far as I know, they still live there... Thanks again for all these videos of the competition.
ah, but I just live here! i am a citizen of e-ART-h! thanks again for the music. spent hours watching your videos yesterday. do you by chance have any video of Terence Judd playing the Prokofiev concerto? many people are interested to see more!
I JUST LOVED this guys playing... TO BAD he's not around now... I was told he was a favorite of many folks in the audience... Lucas LaBardge showed us you can come in FOURTH Place in a competition BUT if you win the hearts and minds of the audience... YOU will do fine!
Wow ! I can remember hearing of his suicide but had never heard him play. On the basis of this performance, he was clearly brilliant. What a tragic loss to the world of classical music. I hope more footage of him is unearthed.
I have all of his CDs and it’s so wonderful that we can now actually watch him play live with his supreme demonic technique. There’s a dark and disturbing nature to his talent. It’s hard to describe in words but you can hear it in his music and sound. Why is it some of the most prodigious players have such lethal demons inside them? God bless his soul.
I BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF DEMONS, BUT THIS MUSIC AND THE PIANIST WHO PLAYED IT SO GLORIOUSLY AND PROFOUNDLY WAS HEAVEN SENT BY GOD ALMIGHTY, "THE DIVINE ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE AND CREATOR OF ALL THINGS," AND IS IN NO WAY CONNECTED TO DEMONS. YOU HAVE PROJECTED THIS OUT OF YOUR OWN MIND, MOST LIKELY DUE TO JUDD'S APPARENT SUICIDE, A DARK DEED, INDEED. RESPECTFULLY
@@miltonmoore8369 I think you have a lack of understanding of how things work my friend. You’re obviously some deeply connected to religion which is clouding your judgment on reality. You don’t kill yourself when you’re at this level of talent because you’re totally inspired by God and Divine energy and are filled with joy. It is you unfortunately that is not accepting reality. We can agree to disagree bro. No need to write in all caps too. Calm down.
Because a lot of prodigies/geniuses are driven by an inner restlessness and a brilliant but agitated mind that will shut off. They channel this into their passion and enter a flow state when immersed in their craft which they can remain in for hours at a time, resulting in them achieving great skills and success at a young age. However, when they exit this flow state and return to ordinary life, the critical inner demons soon rear their ugly head again and again. Telling them that they're not good enough, that they failed when they made a minor slip. Read about the link between giftedness, perfectionism, OCD, ADHD and depression. I've heard similar stories again and again of brilliant young gifted kids who have this inner hyperactivity and anxiety which drives them and mentally torments them at the same time.
The piano competitions are corrupted and politicized (music is not olympics, sometime tes the winners are forgotten and their carresr are not relevant to the music industry. so the competition dont mean nothing for the great artist) the russians did not want van cliburn to win in 1958 but Richter gave him 100 points as member of the evaluators so Judd in 1978 had to play better than horowitz and Rubinstein together and with great lucky who knows if he could have gotten a great second place. For me Judd was the real winner. Thanks for this epic document.
Carlos Rupert You're welcome. I don't disagree with you overall, but you have to keep in mind that 1978 was a very competitive year, certainly among the best the Tchaikovsky competition has ever seen. Pletnev certainly deserved to win (I've uploaded his winners' recital), and if you watch Pascal Devoyon's winners' recital (which I've also uploaded), he deserved second too and the Russian audience adored him. Laplante also placed second, and Demidenko was third with Evgeny Rivkin. Boris Petrov tied with Judd, and Christian Blackshaw and Naum Grubert were fifth and sixth. That is an outstandingly strong group of musicians. Speaking of Judd alone, his playing was so special and the Barber sonata here is just breathtaking.
ADGO I agree with you. by the way, there is an interesting interview with Sergei Babayan named "Sergei Babayan in Conversation with Zsolt Bognár, 2011" where he talks about the Tchaikovsky Competition and explains why, in his opinion, Pletnev deserved to win the first prize in 1978. worth a read.
304712 L Thanks very much for that. It was fascinating. Do you know if a recording of the mentioned op. 111 from the first round exists? I suppose by 'the other pianist' Babayan meant Devoyon :) I liked what he said about Gilels' honesty and Sokolov too.
Боже! Как мне нравились эти чудесные,скромные и трогательные букетики,которые Советские Слушатели подносили своим Кумирам. А сейчас-веники из цветов. Но это,лично,моё ощущение. И мне неоднократно,смотрительницы Филармонического зала, предлагали такие букеты(подготовленные администрацией)для вручения,но я всегда отказывалась. 31.01.2022.
I'm sure that there is at least some more footage of Judd out there, from what I remember it was him alone in a studio with a cyan looking background. It was only a segment, but it mentioned a bit about his suicide and had a shot of his family home. It could be from either ARTE, Young Musician of the Year or The South Bank Show which might have had a segment on him, as those were really the only outlets I could watch to see anything piano related on TV back in the late 90's early 2000's. Although, having said that, I just looked him up on IMDb and he has a listing for a BBC Arts series called Contrasts. An episode called 'Small Wonder' about child prodigies. Putting two and two together, it's probably footage from that although I can't seem to find out much more.
+Man Beadle Thanks for the details. It would be amazing to find more footage of him. I haven't seen anything else, but in about a month from now I'll search and ask around. Perhaps we can find it.
+ADGO The thing is I remember that clip because of his hair (not because he was an amazing pianist or anything)... he could have been in competition with Kissin if their ages were closer together. Imagine them performing a duet! They could have called themselves the 'Bouncing Bouffants' I'll keep my eyes peeled.
ADGO I was just reeling a list off in my head and realised most of them weren't British. I'd say Myra Hess for her Beethoven and Mozart and John Ogdon.
Spectacular it is, but hardly "rare" now that it's on UA-cam! For me, the stand-out performances here are the Scriabin (he sounds like an orchestra; amazing) and Ravel (what concentration!); the Shostakovich and Barber are, of course, technically brilliant, but not a lot more (listen, for example, to Cliburn in the Barber Sonata for a meaningful emotional response) and there are some unfortunately slips in the Liszt, which is generally too loud (how much harder to play this piece quietly! Listen to Lang Lang!!). BTW, I don't know if anyone else has mentioned that the first three places that year went to: 1 Pletnev, 2 Devoyon and Laplante, 3 Demidenko and Rivkin (who?). Thanks for posting (shame about the distracting background noises; sounds like Klingons having a party in the flat above the recording booth).
Terence Judd was 3rd prize winner in weak Busoni competition in 1975! Tchaikovsky competition in 1978 much higher talent pool than weak Busoni 1975! No first prize winner in weak Busoni 1975!
Terence Judd was 3rd prize winner in weak Busoni competition in 1975! No first prize winner in weak Busoni 1975! Tchaikovsky 1978 much higher talent pool than weak Busoni 1975!!
ADGO Thanks for sharing, can you maybe also find Naum Grubert's performance who got 6th price in same year? He is my teacher now in Holland and would be really interesting to see his performance!
@@ADGO sorry my pathetic english, I mean I plan to make separate videos by dividing your video into parts, For example Terence Judd's playing Barber's fuga etc.
No, not really so, he had a history of mental fragility & depression dating from long before. I saw him often at concerts and recitals, in the audience; he cut a shy retiring figure but became enthusiastic and generous of opinion once engaged in conversation. I'll never forget the numb sensation shared with other concert-going friends; could we have helped...done more...? Then the broadcasts and discs were issued, making our loss even more acute. It's marvellous to see him again here, in full force.
Terence Judd was 3rd prize winner in weak Busoni competition in 1975! No first prize winner in weak Busoni 1975! Tchaikovsky 1978 much higher talent pool than weak Busoni 1975!
@@Hervinbalfour OMG. It was a joke. My "point" is to illustrate in a humorous way how impossibly DIFFICULT this music is to play. It's like that old joke when you're working like a dog too wipe down your car or wipe up a huge spill and after hours of work, your friend (or, say, your mother-in-law) comes along to point out the ONE thing you didn't get by saying the classic: "You missed a spot." I guess humor got lost.
My favorite performance of the fugue from Barber's piano sonata... Wow!! What a talent, and what a tragedy.
Mine too, those last 40 seconds in particular are astonishing.
I LOVED this guy... one of my favorite pianists of ALL time! His Prokofiev Three is just out of this world...
There's an audio recording of him doing both the Fugue and the Scherzo from the Barber Sonata. Absolutely superb, and for me better than any other performance I've heard of those movements.
ua-cam.com/video/Kzau4jOBlak/v-deo.html
@@emilgilels there's also a performance of him playing the WHOLE sonata... it's GRIPPING!!!
@@emilgilels ua-cam.com/video/iIjw9MQfHOM/v-deo.html
I want to cry when I think of this beautiful person with such jaw-dropping talent taking his own life at 22. At least we have these astonishing recordings to remind of his genius . . . and of our loss.
That Barber's fuga is just insane. Such power and precision in this tempo is mind blowing. It's gonna be a long time since someone comes close to that.
Terence Judd was a great pianist, in the same class as William Kapell. Both technically and musically superb, with which he always found new and dynamic ideas. This video is a priceless testament to his genius.
What a historical treasure this footage of Terence Judd is. A phenomenal talent tragically extinguished by his own inner demons.
I knew Terence when he was a student at the Royal Academy of Music. He was a bit strange - insular and incommunicative - but a wonderful pianist. His father, Anthony, taught Oboe and Bassoon there. I spoke to him the week before he went to Beachy Head and jumped. I never foresaw what would happen.
The best Shostakovic i've ever heard on piano.
What a prodegy... I know you are playing music somewhere in the universe, that recital was a huge one
Absolutely stunning that you or your organization is sharing these priceless videos of historic events. The story of Judd is tragic, and clearly he was an incredible talent that we all lost unnecessarily.
classicalalways He certainly was incredible. It's just me sharing by the way. Me and my fair use beliefs...
ADGO Do you also have the performance of Naum Grubert? I know him from my Conservatory period, and it would be very interesting to hear/see him play! (he received the sixth prize that year and his brother Ilya, who is a violinist, won the first prize)
pianopera Unfortunately I don't see anything about either Grubert from the '78 competition. From that year I still have winners' concert videos of violinists Elmar Oliveira and Irina Medvedeva, and pianist Steven Kemper, about whom there's basically nothing on the internet.
ADGO See: musiqueclassique.forumpro.fr/t2531-tous-les-laureats-du-concours-tchaikovsky
Both brothers later moved to Holland and as far as I know, they still live there...
Thanks again for all these videos of the competition.
pianopera my pleasure. I use the same site :) I'll watch out for the Grubert brothers in the future.
Thank you so much for sharing this.
I have never seen a video of Terence Judd; only heard some incredible recordings.
many thanks from Japan!
goGOnJyA my pleasure. I love Japanese culture and had an amazing time in your country, so thank you too :)
ah, but I just live here!
i am a citizen of e-ART-h!
thanks again for the music. spent hours watching your videos yesterday.
do you by chance have any video of Terence Judd playing the Prokofiev concerto? many people are interested to see more!
ADGO commented above - not sure if you'd see it so posting this here.
8-)
goGOnJyA :) unfortunately I haven't seen a copy of that. Of course I'd love to find it too and would immediately post a copy if I come across it.
I JUST LOVED this guys playing... TO BAD he's not around now... I was told he was a favorite of many folks in the audience... Lucas LaBardge showed us you can come in FOURTH Place in a competition BUT if you win the hearts and minds of the audience... YOU will do fine!
Having seen him play live, I still find this jaw-dropping!
Thank you so much ... this was such beautiful playing!
A truly brilliant artest. How tragic he took his own life.
Such a fabulously gifted pianist. A tragic loss.
Wow ! I can remember hearing of his suicide but had never heard him play. On the basis of this performance, he was clearly brilliant. What a tragic loss to the world of classical music. I hope more footage of him is unearthed.
He had a great voice introducing his encore. What a shame.
ОН был самый.. самый!!
Christian Blackshow was an outstanding competitor. He made spectacular come back recently with Mozart sonatas.
Som bom e imgem boas, gostei demais , nao conhecia o pianista em questao, mas e um vencedor, obrigado por postar e de muito bom gosto adorei.
Fantastic!
I have all of his CDs and it’s so wonderful that we can now actually watch him play live with his supreme demonic technique. There’s a dark and disturbing nature to his talent. It’s hard to describe in words but you can hear it in his music and sound. Why is it some of the most prodigious players have such lethal demons inside them? God bless his soul.
I BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF DEMONS, BUT THIS MUSIC AND THE PIANIST
WHO PLAYED IT SO GLORIOUSLY AND PROFOUNDLY WAS HEAVEN SENT BY GOD ALMIGHTY, "THE DIVINE ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE AND CREATOR OF ALL THINGS," AND IS IN NO WAY CONNECTED TO DEMONS. YOU HAVE PROJECTED THIS OUT OF YOUR OWN MIND, MOST LIKELY DUE TO JUDD'S
APPARENT SUICIDE, A DARK DEED, INDEED.
RESPECTFULLY
@@miltonmoore8369 I think you have a lack of understanding of how things work my friend. You’re obviously some deeply connected to religion which is clouding your judgment on reality. You don’t kill yourself when you’re at this level of talent because you’re totally inspired by God and Divine energy and are filled with joy. It is you unfortunately that is not accepting reality. We can agree to disagree bro. No need to write in all caps too. Calm down.
Because a lot of prodigies/geniuses are driven by an inner restlessness and a brilliant but agitated mind that will shut off. They channel this into their passion and enter a flow state when immersed in their craft which they can remain in for hours at a time, resulting in them achieving great skills and success at a young age. However, when they exit this flow state and return to ordinary life, the critical inner demons soon rear their ugly head again and again. Telling them that they're not good enough, that they failed when they made a minor slip. Read about the link between giftedness, perfectionism, OCD, ADHD and depression. I've heard similar stories again and again of brilliant young gifted kids who have this inner hyperactivity and anxiety which drives them and mentally torments them at the same time.
What 2 tin eared soulless “people” gave this genius a downvote????
Brilliant Brilliant playing!
The piano competitions are corrupted and politicized (music is not olympics, sometime tes the winners are forgotten and their carresr are not relevant to the music industry. so the competition dont mean nothing for the great artist) the russians did not want van cliburn to win in 1958 but Richter gave him 100 points as member of the evaluators so Judd in 1978 had to play better than horowitz and Rubinstein together and with great lucky who knows if he could have gotten a great second place. For me Judd was the real winner. Thanks for this epic document.
Carlos Rupert You're welcome. I don't disagree with you overall, but you have to keep in mind that 1978 was a very competitive year, certainly among the best the Tchaikovsky competition has ever seen. Pletnev certainly deserved to win (I've uploaded his winners' recital), and if you watch Pascal Devoyon's winners' recital (which I've also uploaded), he deserved second too and the Russian audience adored him. Laplante also placed second, and Demidenko was third with Evgeny Rivkin. Boris Petrov tied with Judd, and Christian Blackshaw and Naum Grubert were fifth and sixth. That is an outstandingly strong group of musicians. Speaking of Judd alone, his playing was so special and the Barber sonata here is just breathtaking.
Excellent explanation ADGO, thanks a lot, I'm going to check out Pletnev's recital.
ADGO I agree with you. by the way, there is an interesting interview with Sergei Babayan named "Sergei Babayan in Conversation with Zsolt Bognár, 2011" where he talks about the Tchaikovsky Competition and explains why, in his opinion, Pletnev deserved to win the first prize in 1978. worth a read.
304712 L Thanks very much for that. It was fascinating. Do you know if a recording of the mentioned op. 111 from the first round exists? I suppose by 'the other pianist' Babayan meant Devoyon :) I liked what he said about Gilels' honesty and Sokolov too.
Carlos Rupert Well I could understand that his Liszt Sonata doesn't deserve first prize . But the rest , c'mon.
Сколько чувств,выразительности,
серебряного звука и
пения в его игре! Ох...!!!
А мне у Теренса нравится выигранность всех деталей
Боже! Как мне нравились эти
чудесные,скромные и трогательные букетики,которые Советские
Слушатели подносили своим
Кумирам. А сейчас-веники из цветов. Но это,лично,моё
ощущение.
И мне неоднократно,смотрительницы Филармонического зала,
предлагали такие букеты(подготовленные администрацией)для вручения,но я всегда
отказывалась.
31.01.2022.
I'm sure that there is at least some more footage of Judd out there, from what I remember it was him alone in a studio with a cyan looking background. It was only a segment, but it mentioned a bit about his suicide and had a shot of his family home. It could be from either ARTE, Young Musician of the Year or The South Bank Show which might have had a segment on him, as those were really the only outlets I could watch to see anything piano related on TV back in the late 90's early 2000's.
Although, having said that, I just looked him up on IMDb and he has a listing for a BBC Arts series called Contrasts. An episode called 'Small Wonder' about child prodigies. Putting two and two together, it's probably footage from that although I can't seem to find out much more.
+Man Beadle Thanks for the details. It would be amazing to find more footage of him. I haven't seen anything else, but in about a month from now I'll search and ask around. Perhaps we can find it.
+ADGO
The thing is I remember that clip because of his hair (not because he was an amazing pianist or anything)... he could have been in competition with Kissin if their ages were closer together. Imagine them performing a duet! They could have called themselves the 'Bouncing Bouffants'
I'll keep my eyes peeled.
+Man Beadle lol :) nice use of the word competition :) Are you particularly fond of any of our British pianists?
ADGO
I was just reeling a list off in my head and realised most of them weren't British. I'd say Myra Hess for her Beethoven and Mozart and John Ogdon.
+Man Beadle Have you encountered Harriet Cohen? There's a recording on YT of her playing Chopin's op. 25/7 which is excellent
Spectacular it is, but hardly "rare" now that it's on UA-cam! For me, the stand-out performances here are the Scriabin (he sounds like an orchestra; amazing) and Ravel (what concentration!); the Shostakovich and Barber are, of course, technically brilliant, but not a lot more (listen, for example, to Cliburn in the Barber Sonata for a meaningful emotional response) and there are some unfortunately slips in the Liszt, which is generally too loud (how much harder to play this piece quietly! Listen to Lang Lang!!). BTW, I don't know if anyone else has mentioned that the first three places that year went to: 1 Pletnev, 2 Devoyon and Laplante, 3 Demidenko and Rivkin (who?). Thanks for posting (shame about the distracting background noises; sounds like Klingons having a party in the flat above the recording booth).
Terence Judd was 3rd prize winner in weak Busoni competition in 1975! Tchaikovsky competition in 1978 much higher talent pool than weak Busoni 1975! No first prize winner in weak Busoni 1975!
Bravissimo!
талантлив. Правдив. Достойно.
How does he not win?
Terence Judd was 3rd prize winner in weak Busoni competition in 1975! No first prize winner in weak Busoni 1975! Tchaikovsky 1978 much higher talent pool than weak Busoni 1975!!
ADGO Thanks for sharing, can you maybe also find Naum Grubert's performance who got 6th price in same year? He is my teacher now in Holland and would be really interesting to see his performance!
+Anto Bayram Karamenderes I looked already and unfortunately couldn't find it. Good luck with your studies :)
ADGO Sorry to hear that! thank you very much and all the best !
man, he plays the ever living shit out of the La Campanella. It's such an aggressive interpretation.
yup... well really everything!
so sad to hear that he killed himself.
That ravel...
what stage is this? and what score or place did he get?
He got 4th place. One year later after performing this he committed suicide.
This the famous Tchaikovsky Competition
Best haircut ever.
The 70s really had it unfortunately
Not a fan of the haircut but it suits the guy.
Can I use your video for to singularize several of the recitals?
I don't understand what you're asking. Could you explain please?
@@ADGO sorry my pathetic english,
I mean I plan to make separate videos by dividing your video into parts, For example Terence Judd's playing Barber's fuga etc.
Oh I see what you mean. Honestly I don't think there's a need for that - the UA-cam search works well and people can find this quite easily.
@@ADGO I see, Thank you for feedback.
21:03
How the FUCK did he not win? Fourth place??? No wonder he killed himself. Nice one, judges.
He didn't win because, well, look at the competition. It's sad but Terence lived and made his own decisions.
No, not really so, he had a history of mental fragility & depression dating from long before. I saw him often at concerts and recitals, in the audience; he cut a shy retiring figure but became enthusiastic and generous of opinion once engaged in conversation. I'll never forget the numb sensation shared with other concert-going friends; could we have helped...done more...? Then the broadcasts and discs were issued, making our loss even more acute. It's marvellous to see him again here, in full force.
@@ADGO what happened in the competition?
Terence Judd was 3rd prize winner in weak Busoni competition in 1975! No first prize winner in weak Busoni 1975! Tchaikovsky 1978 much higher talent pool than weak Busoni 1975!
17:46
HIs "Campanella is second only to Joesph Lhevinne's
such lucid power and clarity.
@@lunchmind He really was one of the THEE greats... I found out about him maybe fifteen years ago and have been addicted ever since!
@@Highinsight7 oH OKAY THANK YOU.
I think he played a D-flat by mistake at 20:26...
And so what was your point in pointing that out? To showcase what exactly?
@@Hervinbalfour OMG. It was a joke. My "point" is to illustrate in a humorous way how impossibly DIFFICULT this music is to play. It's like that old joke when you're working like a dog too wipe down your car or wipe up a huge spill and after hours of work, your friend (or, say, your mother-in-law) comes along to point out the ONE thing you didn't get by saying the classic: "You missed a spot."
I guess humor got lost.
I reckon this guy must have been Bipolar brilliant when His mood was up but sadly suicidal when it was down. Frank Schubert went the same way
You can hear SO many extreme moods in his playing... what a loss...
Schubert didn't kill himself, bruh.
Скрябин не понравился: нет полётности, воздуха, тяжеловестно и слишком прозаично. О нем ничего не знала до прочтения комментариев, извините
OMG! Lose the fat tie! I would never play in a tie like that; it'd flop all over the keyboard! : )
Thanks for focusing in on what's really important. Well done.
@@cufflink44 Right? Hey, I'm not alone in thinking that what a pianist wears is more important than anything. Look at Yuja Wang...
Clothing, haircut and mistakes. Style over substance. 😏
@@cufflink44 There's this new thing called humor.
@@paules3437 And we're supposed to know you meant the comment as humorous . . . how?