SHURA CHERKASSKY RECITAL SCHUBERT, ANTON RUBINSTEIN, LISZT 1995 'live'
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- PART OF A RECITAL SHURA GAVE JUST EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH IN LONDON ON 27TH DECEMBER 1995. HERE ARE THREE SCHUBERT IMPROMPTUS FROM THE D899 SET, ANTON RUBINSTEIN'S BARCAROLLE AND FAMOUS MELODY IN F, LISZT'S POLONAISE NO.2 AND MANA ZUCCA'S ZOAVES DRILL (ENCORE). CHERKASSKY'S TEACHER IN AMERICA WAS THE POLISH PIANIST JOSEF HOFMANN WHO HAD LESSONS WITH ANTON RUBINSTEIN. RUBINSTEIN'S FOURTH PIANO CONCERTO WAS PART OF CHERKASSKY'S REPERTOIRE AS IT WAS HOFMANNS AND RACHMANINOFFS.
I love Argerich and Sokolov but noone gets this quality of tone and immersion in another vision . The two films we have of Hofmann don't really give us the sense even here . I need to hear his earlier recordings . His recordings at the last 2 decades are like Rosenthal ethereal in the ppp and pp level . There is a secret to handling the machine and having round focused tone at these levels . I would have crawled to have seen him in NewYork or London . I wonder that students from all over didn't stampede his recitals ! He really is the star in the firmament shining brightly from another century !
He was a really great pianist with an astounding technique in spite of his small hands, wonderful musician!!!!!!
What he could have done, on a piano with narrower keys ! One US manufacturer makes such.
SCHUBERT:
00:02 Impromptu op 90 n 2
04:35 Impromptu op 90 n 3
09:57 Impromptu op 90 n 4
RUBINSTEIN:
17:04 Barcarolle op 93 n 4
24:35 Melody op 3 n 1
LISZT:
28:51 Polonaise S 223 n 2
MANA ZUCCA:
38:01 The zoaves drill op 68
Thank you so much, friend.....from Acapulco!
I heard this programme live in 1995 and will never forget how he played the Rubinstein Melody in F, it was hauntingly beautiful... I still hear it in my mind and had to come to my senses when I was sitting in the tram back home!
Yes, from the heart to the heart. Nowadays you rarely hear this rich quality of tone and depth of feeling.
What an amazing artist! I saw him in Bristol (UK) when I was 14 - and he must have been around 47 then!
Like Rubenstein, I think being able to play and share this, the most beautiful music ever written (in my view) brings one closer to immortality.
Im not surprised at all that Wanda Horowitz wanted him, and just him, to play at a Horowitz memorial, as Cherkassky said in an interview also posted here on youtube!
Yes, Cherkassky admired Horowtiz and wanted to be like him. He also greatly admired his teacher Josef Hofmann.
@@piano345 Where was this wonderful concert?
@@MP-uo6qd Must have been in Japan. At least the concert hall and the recording look like the same place described as Japan in another video.
The recital referred to occurred at the late, lamented Steinway Hall on West 57th Street (across the street from and a bit east of Carnegie Hall) on October 28, 1992. Cherkassky played Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Liszt, and both Wanda Horowitz and Cherkassky spoke to the privately invited audience after the program.
At Steinway Hall. I was there.
wonderfully musical. Love the way he plays the bubbling accompanying supporting passages in the g flat impromtu could almost be a dedication to the brook in Schone Mullerin song cycle
Thank you, piano 345 for such comprehensive coverage of Cherkassky's marvellous performances. The nineties were such tragic times for the piano and its devotees. We all lost so many great pianists.
Yes Wilhelm Kempff was one of them, who passed away in 91 ... Richter was another ...
Cherkassky died in hospital from breathing problems.(A month before he had churgerie).I think he died from pulmonary embolism,probably misdiagnosed as hyperventilation and didn't give him anticoagulation:a preventible dead by incompetent doctor.( they did the same with my mother).Gilels died also in hospital from a wrong infuse medication by inccompetent doctor.He was there for control.
Maravilhosa performance... fraseados perfeitos... sonoridade ímpar...
Small hands, gigantic pianism
Small hands!!!!! You must be joking.
What a wonderful pianist !!
I agree - a recreative and spontaneous artist and a master of tonal shading.
Une authentique présence 🌹
Im in love with this Rubinstein Barcarolle. Thank you for uploading all these Cherkassky videos. Havent heard from him before and his delicate sound.
Which opus this Barcarolle is?
I have no clue. Im not familiar with Rubinsteins work.
I've also uploaded Cherkassky's recording (with Ashkenazy as conductor) of Rubinstein's fourth piano concerto. I think you would enjoy it. Pleased to hear you are enjoying Cherkassky's playing. Rubinstein's music is probably considered to be a little old fashioned nowadays - more like salon music but his music was popular in its day.
It seems it is op 93, n 4. Lovely piece.
@@piano345I'd rather hear more of Rubinstein and less of the Rachmaninoff concertos.
Just as a marvellous, easy-flowing, effortless perfection, as Pavarotti's singing...❤
Beautiful!
You will never hear anyone be able to play these ppand ppp over a figure that is still heard in the Gb.Professionalpianists in the room must be shaking their heads his sauveness and delicacy are for most impossible.Melodies fly without being percussive and he can do this at any dynamic level nd can summon any tonal variety he wants! Incredible !
Just wonderful.
His hands were not that small. I met him backstage in the 1980s and sized them up versus my own hands. I'd say they were medium-sized, about the size of mine. I can play ninths comfortably. Horowitz's hands were gigantic. I shook Horowitz's hand backstage in the 1970s.
Es una maravilla
I never heard him live but from his recordings sadly not at his best here, but he had a big and unique sound and knew instinctively how to extract the tone colours he wanted.
One probably hears sonorities and colors in such magical
playing for the first time, unexpectedly from a pianoforte 😅
Agreed! I wonder why pianists generally with smaller hands and wide fingers produce such a sonorous tone quality.
What an amazing recital. Never heard this Mana Zucca piece before. His repertoire was immense! Was this recital in Japan? As it had Japanese subtitles...
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24:34 Melody in F
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Looks a bit ike the great Noel Coward esp.when he walks!?
I don't know much about anything...but as good as this piece may sound.....are you not concerned that if you went 2000 years into the future that it would still be the same...What I mean is that could not a pianist be so good that they could charge $25,000 per ticket.... .......No....and why not? Has the piano reached its limit...I guess we are still apes....We only use 1% of are brain...not 10%...your hopelessness is all the proof we need....go back to sleep....
What a strange technique. He seems to have very small hands.
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a Shura este čúra..?.. prostata OK??
Nullissime dans Liszt. Quand on peut pas on fait pas
Vous le jouerez sans doute beaucoup mieux à 85 ans!