Alexander Malofeev - Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 - 2019 CIM Competition Final Round
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Alexander Malofeev - 2019 China International Music Competition - Final Round - CONCERT (2019.5.17)
Conductor: En Shao
Orchestra: Orchestra Academia China
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Alexander plays Mozart just as beautifully as he plays Rachmaninoff, Medtner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Prokofiev...and any number of composers' masterpieces. I'm always in awe of his performances...he's a music genius!!
My God! How can anyone complain about perfection? His birthday should be declared a holiday.
Aonde será que Alexander Malofev encontra tanta maturidade interpretativa e perfeição?
Um talento nato, cuidadosamente desenvolvido sim, mas jóia rara, talento indiscutível!
Deus o conserve assim?
É delicioso ouvir um rapaz tão novo e com tanta força interpretativa. Por mim, gostaria que aquela mão esquerda tivesse por vezes um pouco mais de presença. Porém, terá muito tempo para lá chegar. O recorte finíssimo de Richter e as notas mágicas de Arturo Benedetti Michelangelo estão igualmente ao seu alcance.
Performing Mozart can be tricky but not for Alexander. Mozart was a musical genius and so is Alexander.
Absolutely!
Can you compare and contrast Alexander Malefaev with Elisey Mysin in terms of the way they interpret Mozart?
I can’t believe Alexander didn’t win this competition. The best Mozart D minor ever!
None of us can!
unfortunately such competitions are more about politics than talent. music shouldn’t be performed as part of a competition anyways. nobody can take it away from Alexander: he is one in a century.
Competitions are merely a reflection of judges' biases, and of course politics infects all professional music. Music is not a tennis match.
@@radiumdude Goddamn right. Well said.
Agree
This is the first Mozart I have herd Alexander play. He does with Mozart what he does with every other composer he plays: he raises him from the dead. His flawless technique and deep understanding of the melodic line allows his listener to forget him and encounter the author. He is a truly humble virtuoso. He doesn’t have to prove himself, he lets himself go. And in this case, Morart soars.
Amen!
Only a big,big applause from me!!!
Oh yes!!! Malofeev brings Mozart back to life!! He brings his posture and music in front of us. What fantastic talent and love of music!
He often plays composers I do not like much, like Rachmaninoff, but I listen anyway just for him. When he does play someone I love, like Mozart or Gershwin, it makes my day.
Yes! I feel that he is modest and humble.
He’s just what we need in this time of so much turmoil and sickness. He is a balm to my soul and calms me down and I’m able to have a respite from the worries of the day. What a passionate angel has come among us and given such a gift of beauty.
In many decades of listening, this is by far the best performance of the Mozart Piano Concerto 20 I have ever heard. What a fantastical sense of musicality to have reached at such a young age. Bravo!
I totally agree, my friend - I keep coming back to this performance!
What is it eaxactly that makes it better? I am not disagreeing, just curious.
Straordinario meraviglioso pianista ,unico
@@mcd1722 I can't say that's it's better, but it is certainly flawless. Phrasing is rounded perfectly, tapering to a "t". Articulation: super, every note is heard with absolute distinction. Musically, I don't hear how it could be improved. I always enjoy this concerto, no matter who is performing.
I am also mesmorized by the fact that he not only masters a very wide variety of music (Mozart, the Great Russians, Grieg, and Gershwin!!!) and with such deep understanding and personal interpretations! - AND still manages to keep such great contact with the orchestra, just look at the way he communicates with the conductor at all times!
Maestro Malofeev is already one of the Greats!
What can one say of this awesome talent! Malofeev is here to stay to give us Joy, Peace and Love through those amazing hands! The hands that have put in thousands of hours of practice and dedication! Another genius from Russia!
Thank you Russia for producing such a talent! Now he is adored by the whole world!
Oh my heart!!! Thank you Malofeev for making Mozart live!!!
Amen!! He plays Mozart wonderfully!
Also, have you watched Alexander's Mozart performance with the Moscow Conservatory? It's wonderful also!
@@penniesfromheaven9724 I like the one from the Moiscow Conservatory better. May be better conductor or orchester - don't know.
I have followed this young man since his beginnings…he only gets better
Mozart is not a closed book. There is always more to come. Great musicians like Alexander Malofeev will always shine new light on the pages. We need to invite him to open the book - and shine, shine, shine! He does not disappoint the open ear of the open-minded.
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He is fantastic. He adds passion, color and expression to the music he plays.
What a privilege to have been born to live in the world of such beautiful music!
This and No. 26 are my absolute favourites of Mozart's piano concerti. Alex played his version the best I've ever heard it performed. Very supportive conductor and great young Chinese orchestra. Fantastic thank you.
Lucky Russia to have such great pianists... and this one is indeed one of the best. Beautiful interpretation
Other counries also have their stars of all ages whom we enjoy greatly. This diversity is a blessing.
@@user-nc1lx2so4d Russia has definitely been blessed with more stars...
Я думаю, хорошие пианисты везде есть, где развита культура.
@@user-nc1lx2so4d Here is an other STAR! ua-cam.com/video/ntkO4TZrYHc/v-deo.html
I do not agree that Russia is “lucky” to have such great pianists and other musicians. Russia has long experience in recognising great talent in its first bloom, and then in allowing students to make the most of those talents. They have teaching skills on a very organised basis; these skills plus extremely hard work from teachers, institutions and young musicians lead to what we hear tonight. Not one inch of it is blind “luck.” Gilels, Ashkenazy, Horowitz, Kissin ... the list is endless, and all of it the product of hard work such as most of us never dream of.
Александр один из наиболее тонко чувствующих музыкантов с невероятной техникой и сердцем ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Alexander’s interpretation is astonishingly mature for his age.
This is simply beautiful. Thank you Alexander Malofeev for your complete dedication to the music.
Brilliant..brilliant..brilliant!!! Thank you dear Alexander Malofeev....This is what we call "playing the piano excellent!"...
Определенно, это МОЦАРТ.....Боже,храни ТАКОГО музыканта......И респект педагогу Елене Владимировне Березкиной.
Piano Concerto No 20 (along with 23, 24 & 25) is one of my most loved Mozart Piano Concertos - and this performance is one of my all time favourites. I listen to a younger Vladimir Ashkenazy playing this and I really struggle to tell the difference between you both!! You truly are an exceptionally talented young man. Please look after yourself - both mentally and physically - so that (after Covid) many audiences in countries throughout the world will have the opportunity to hear you perform in person for very many years to come.
t charles, UK
Талант громаднейший. Дан Богом. Наверняка необыкновенная работоспособность. Умнейшие учителя. Столько волшебства в пальцах. Потрясающе. Спасибо.
@Svetiana ...amen to that
After hearing him play at 11 on here, now hearing him at 18 and he only gets better, if that is at all possible. What a Brilliant young pianist; and he still plays without a score in front of him! Again Alexander, Bravo!!!
El pianista es maravilloso y da realce a la orquesta que no pasa de ser solo buena. El director, bien.
All great pianists play without score. It is the mediocre who find it necessary to follow dots on paper. Alex plays music.
@Kenneth ...at this performance he was just 17 yo. As of today (2021) he is now 19.
It is normal practice to perform from memory. After learning the work we must commit to memory as the music score would only be a barrier between the music and the performer. He just knows the notes and has consciously memorised them.
Whoa, I didn't even notice!
Phenomenally musical teenager, exhuberant talent, nuanced subtlety in technique. Humble, unassuming, nigh on flawless, a servant of the music. Exquisite emerging performances, which we hope he has decades to interpret and reinterpret. Yes, he'll see greater depths in future, but it's in youth that we feel most deeply and passionately, wide eyed, before the reality of human misery and politics warps us and we become old and cynical enough to wear the hat of the carping critic.
Hopefully that won't happen to him. He is special.
I love that you call him a "servant of the music.". I usually save Mozart for nap time. This one woke me up!
Please God protect Sasha from as much worldly cynicism as possible ❤
The 'on the nose' performance of the orchestra contrasts so obviously with Alexander's subtle graceful rendering of the Mozart.
It appears this prodigy, this genius, has memorized the entire piano repertoire. God bless him. May he rest, from time to time, and occasionally laugh. And may he have a very long life. I watch and listen to him every morning before getting out of bed. And my life has improved immeasurably since I started doing this.
ha ha ha ha ha ! you're funny
jeanne Bourrelly. Stupid comment.
Me too.
I have a nice suggestion Samuel: listen to Alexander Malofeev AND to Ivan Bessonov every other day!
i guess im a bit dyslexic thought you wrote your wife has improved
This young man has, in his short years accomplished more than most people do their whole lives! god bless Alexander, his parents & all his future endeavors. I know we're not nearly through hearing from the VERY talented virtuoso
Любовь к музыке, талант, работоспособность и замечательный педагог сотворили чудо: достояние нашей Республики!
Огромное спасибо, здоровья вам, берегите себя.
@Olga Michajiova Spasibo for Alexander Malofeev. 🌷🌷🌷 (Holland-europe)
Где можно узнать об Александре Малофееве?
Alexander Malofeev é perfeito , maravilhoso na interpretação e na técnica. Toca com a alma , sente nota por nota , compasso por compasso. Espetacular!!!!!
Браво!!! Брависсимо!!!
Wow what a passionate and consummate performance by Malofeev sadly let down by a soulless and mechanical orchestral accompaniment. This is how you’d envisage Mozart playing it with energy and liveliness. The performance is all the more remarkable coming from a boy still in his teens. He has an amazing career ahead of him as he adds depth and pathos to youthful passion and energy.
I had a similar feeling about the orchester and conductor, but not sure what it was.
The performance seems re-incarnational - a youngster playing the eternal music of a composer who never grew old - with such freshness and energy - we know it's intention is Mozart's own.
I do not wish to make an invidious comparison. However, I would remind those critics who are unable to stomach Alexander's place among the great pianists of the past because of his age, that Mozart's first documented composition, a Minuet and Trio in G major, is listed as KV 1 and was composed when he was just five years old. He had written 13 symphonies by the time he was 15. I merely mention this to indicate that evaluating Alexander's musical maturity and insights on the basis of his chronological age is simplistic and misguided. He is definitely 'up there' among the greats!
AIALA
I must be missing something. What has Alexander composed? You are bringing Mozart as an example and I just don't see it.
@@jose4877 As you will have read, I was not making a comparison with Mozart in any way, other than his age. I was simply saying that judging the potential of a genius by his age is foolish - thats all.
Oh please. Do we really need a Mozart cliché mini bio? I know you don't mean to make a comparison to Mozart, but this pianist has his critics for valid reasons. I doubt people are criticizing him just because of his age. I for one think he plays a lot of music way too fast, missing out on the musical expression and depth. And I'm quite sure that won't change any time soon.
@Ab Ba OMG. Please just stop. Pressing keys down rapidly on a piano has nothing to do with COMPOSING. Stop the madness!
Thank you Alexander Malofeev. You make this world happy with your talent and performances. (Holland-europe) 🌷🌷🌷🎹🎶
If one listens to the wide range of dynamics , the intense emotionally diverse passages that Mozart wrote for the orchestra in this work, one realises what he intended for the soloist - an intention thwarted by the limitations of the harpsichord. These intentions can now be realised with the concert grand piano - and Alexander does just that. A truly 'Mozartian' performance of the highest calibre. I do not know what extraneous forces influenced the jury in this competition, but they certainly failed where Alexander succeeded.
Love Mozart and to listen a young maestro playing his pieces like this, bravooo Alexander!!!
Гениальное, на мой взгляд, исполнение Моцарта! Здоровья и успехов мальчику! Радость и счастье его слушать!
Love this! Such a talent comes but once in a lifetime!
There is always a danger that Mozart can be 'standardised', become 'monochrome', and 'academic'. No danger of that here! It is clear that many of his critics resent the vivacity and colourful joie de vivre that Alexander brings to this piece, battling with the storm, and emerging joyfully into the sun. Mozart was a pandoras box of wonders to be opened and revelled in, not an examination where you have to tick all the right boxes - or you fail!
He has critics?
@@Wkkbooks You bet! I admit - he ain't perfect, just getting close!
@@nogatram1 🤭
Me thinks critics as such don’t exist certainly they exist not of the negative kind.
Just thought ... the orchestra is starting way to dull and without energy .... and then Alexander starts and it takes a different turn. Enjoyed it very much!
Очень талантливый, молодец! Классно играет!У Александра большое будущее,дай Бог ему здоровья и побед!
Лучший из лучших Пианистов. Все гармонично, понимание стиля, виртуозность. Гений- Пианист.
Да!!!!!!
Amadeus Mozart I remember a festival heralding the composer at Lincoln Center where I spent afternoons. Lyrical, Lush, Luminescent your playing a God given gift.
I hope this 17-year old phenom, Alexander Malofeev would keep maturing and improving himself to be one of the greatest legends in the classical piano world.
Sorry the slow and last movement lacks depth of interpretation....correct notes are not anything.
@@henningviljoen5077 He has time.
YES .
@@henningviljoen5077 So you can play it better?
@@henningviljoen5077 Be awfully tiresome if every Mozart # 20 sounded precisely alike.
Исполнение Александра просто завораживает,невозможно оторваться! Брависсимо!!!
Очень правильное определение.Не возможно оторваться.Хочется слушать бесконечно.Поразительное проникновение в замысел композитора.Чудо!!!!!
So beautiful! This and his performance with the Moscow Conservatory Student orchestra are both wonderful. A side note, I'm so glad he's improved his posture in the past couple years. And his performances are better than ever, simply amazing.
You have brought so much joy during this dire time of the pandemic. Listening to you is so uplifting. Thank you for all your incomparable music making.
Музыка излучает свет,Александр дарит себя людям,щедрый и любящий,музыка вылетает с кончиков пальцев,храни Господь
Подскажите, какое он занял место ?
Второе место.
@@ANITA-cv8cq Ochen nespravedlivo.
THANK YOU MALOFEEV. BRAVO FOR EACH YEAR.
HE MAKES ME CRY. HE MAKES ME LOVE HIM WITH EVERY STROKE OF THE KEYS. I LOVE HIM DEEPLY !
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Блестящий пианист!
Very interesting. It ends in a major key. And obviously Alexander plays it with such genius, brilliance, and tenderness. I enjoyed every note.
Какое прекрасное исполнение!!!
quite remarkable to me. he charms me. like horowitz, i could listen to him forever
He has it!
Even better.
@@wandervanhoucke4331 Absolutely and even more than 'it'. He seems almost 'unreal', impossible... Really magnificent and more !
Замечательно играет Саша. Спасибо.Композитора чувствует удивительно.
What a brilliant pianist...true art in motion!
Pure passion and love, is like if he wants the piano talk, beautiful! This kids really really come to this life with that gift. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Sehr überzeugend und sensibel gespielt und auch im klassischem Stil Mozarts !
Haltung an Glenn Gould erinnernd , aber noch schöner gespielt! Großes Bravo !
i've been following alexander before this competition, so i was watching this video biased. after watching this competition's winner's performance vs. his, i firmly and proudly remain as alexander's big fan :) for whatever reasons i'm not capable of articulating, his performance always calms, moves and mesmerizes me
Me too!
I can t believe that the orchestra sound so bad ?!?! It s an international competition and they couldn't play better than that ????!!!!! What a shame! Poor pianist ....
Of.course , for the young artist, there is no critics , he is amazing : a true pianist. I m not agree with some "fast" tempos but , it s always a great pleasure to hear such an Artist!
What was so bad about them??
Гениальное исполнение Моцарта.
always great performance of this amazing young man , but already mature pianist 👏
There are not words enough suitable to praise this Prodigiuos Pianist: he lives the beauty of the music he plays and I can see that great interpreters of great composers ought to have a very internal link with all that is trascendent. I do pray God to enlighten Alexander Malofeev and thanking Alexander: it is not possible not to realize our souls soar to the Upmost.
Нет слов...Огромная живительная энергия влилась в меня во время его исполнения Моцарта...Богатейшая нюансировка...Технику не замечаешь: пальцы парят над клавиатурой...Волшебно!)))))
So delightful as everything I have heard before from Alexander Malofeev - BRAVO and thank you so much !
I think even Mozart himself would have enjoyed this performance.
All I can say is brilliance and dedication. Marvelous.
I agree zaphodsPlanet!
Mozart would laugh at this poseur and the ugly faces he makes 😂
@@YanKrendel Who are you talking about? You make no sense.
@@rummy9999 in order to get the sense one needs a brain
Браво Александр! 👏 Я люблю Моцарта! 👍
Браво, Сашенька !
Alexander the Great!
СЛАВА РОССИИ, КОТОРАЯ ВЫРАСТИЛА ТАКОЙ ПРЕКРАСНЫЙ БРИЛЛИАНТ ДЛЯ ВСЕЙ ПЛАНЕТЫ И ВСЕЙ ВСЕЛЕННОЙ. СПАСИБО, САШЕЧКА ДОРОГОЙ, АНГЕЛОЧЕК НАШ! ДАЙ БОГ ТЕБЕ И ДАЛЬШЕ УСЛАЖДАТЬ НАШИ ДУШИ БОЖЕСТВЕННЫМ ИСПОЛНЕНИЕМ! сПАСИБО! БЛАГОДАРНОСТЬ ВСЕМ, ТО ВЛОЖИЛ ТРУД В ЭТО ДИТЯ МИРА!!!
На счёт мира, а уж тем более вселенной это громко сказано.
@@user-gq2wv3br8k откройте сайт Малофеева. Концерты расписаны на пол года вперёд. И они по всему миру. К сожалению в России их нет.
Forever enchanted!
Это было великолепно!
I'm not entirely convinced Malofeev is human. His immense talent seems not of this world.
Brings us the joyful and playful character of Mozart's concerto. Bravo!
e daniel: Alex,the playing of this concert proves a great diversity of possibilities that your talent possesses.Congratulations.Again this time you make us vibrate with your musical genius.
Stupendus. I was transported to a serene unearthly dimension by listening to Malofeev.
This most dramatic and dark work of Mozart was so ahead of its time that the early pianos of the 1780's, Stein at al, could not possibly allow its realization. It was waiting for the modern concert grand, just as Bach's works are so much more expressive when not confined to the hopelessly inadequate harpsichord. This great and complex concerto was waiting for the insightful interpretation Aleksandr presents, hardly boring or stilted, like others! I especially enjoyed your imaginative and daring cadenza in the Allegro assai!
You deserve every accolade the world can bestow! Competitions are so rarely fair as you have learned! You were without peer in Beijing!
Bravo e Molto Grazie, Maestro Giovane!
Bach's inadequate harpsichord? LOL its a joke? 😂
Couldn't agree more.
Mozart, Bach and Beethoven deserve a Steinway Grand.
The purists can cry in their lattes.
But the bass line let's this down.
The upward arrppeggio of the orchestra needs much more oomph.
IT was a great cadenza and played so well.
@@peterjongsma2754 He deserves a Bosendorfer Imperial.
Alexander Malofeev saves the orchestra from mediocrity.
I had the same feeling: Alexander should have conducted as well
@@poetmale mee too😅
Are you referring to those disinterested parties congregated behind Sasha as an orchestra ?
Yes I agree. The orchestra is lacking and sends over disciplined or restrained somewhat.
È la differenza fra la mediocrità e l'eccelso che balza all'orecchio
Bravissimo pour la cadence improvisée magnifiquement , Monsieur Malofeev !
It always amazes me that these pianists can remember EVERY note!! I know, they practice and everything...but still - to the T man! Crazy. Well done 🎹🎼
Exceptional! Legendary pianist in the making!
What a great performance. So inspiring. Thank you.
Саша малофеев блестящий артист ценю его труд молодец
He is absolutely superb! 👏👏👏💚💜
Oh how very very lovely. Words simply fail me but thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Какой талант! Какое усердие! Какая феноменальная память! Достояние РОССИИ! Браво! Браво! Браво!
Александр Савенков Подписываюсь под каждым словом!!!
No one is property of their country. He is a human being of our planet, as I would hope that we all are. Mr. Malofeev belongs to himself. I enjoyed this Mozart 20 much more than expected. Bravo to Mr. Malofeev, he is truly one of the great young musicians living. I especially enjoyed his light, crisp touch on this Mozart. Wish the orchestra was better.
Никто не является собственностью своей страны. Он человек нашей планеты, как я надеюсь, что все мы. Г-н Малофеев принадлежит самому себе. Мне этот Моцарт 20 понравился намного больше, чем ожидалось. Браво господину Малофееву, он действительно один из величайших молодых музыкантов в мире. Мне особенно понравилось его легкое, четкое прикосновение к Моцарту. Желаю, чтобы оркестр был лучше.
Property!!?? Perhaps (I hope) it’s poor Google translation.
Sensationell!!
Wundersam herrlich inspiriert. Danke für den Hörgenuss. Grossartig, Weltspitze.
Además de talentoso tiene mucho carisma, ahorraré mucho para irlo a ver algún día. Lo admiro
lets not forget the orchestra, they are doing a fine job.
'Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration'. He practices over 10 hours daily. Hope he knows how to relax.
It would seem that it would take 10 hours a day to learn it so well.
Music is its own relaxation
He said in the interview he can practice that long only if he doesn't have a concert or school. He has a busy schedule so cannot always practice the 8-10 or 12 hours.
Best performance of this piece i've seen yet! Bravo!!
This is Mozart at his best. Fabulous
да, богата русская земля талантами
Los pianistas sobresalientes y virtuosos para serlo deberán aprobar
la exigente prueba de Mozart y este gran portento virtuoso Ruso sí que aprueba y sobresale. Felicitaciones.
super, danke
Bravo, perfecto!
Es un genio del piano
This is beautiful!