Obwohl die Tonqualität nicht ideal ist, klingt diese Aufführung echt schön und zugleich überzeugend mit gut artikuliertem Anschlag und perfekt kontrollierter Dynamik. Bestimmt die beste Kombination der höchsten Technik und der angeborenen Lyrik. Danke fürs wertvolle Aufnahme!
Wow!! Never heard this (1928) version before. My all-time favorite is his 1953 recording.It's marvelous how every time he played a piece it was different from before, but always great.Thanks much for this one.☺
snaaptaker I have 3 recordings of this with Cortot 1928 ,1933 and 1953. This performance I think is the greatest. In1953 he was too old for this sonata. He could not really play it anymore,and I never understood why HMV brought it out. Cortot was a shadow of himself.
if my memory serves me right, he plays the 3rd movement very similar to horowitz (or i suppose i should say horowitz plays extremely similar to cortot)
There are some similiarities, but fortunately Cortot doesn't bang the piano like Horowitz does. Even though Horowitz recording of the 2nd sonata (1950's studio recording and one live recording from about the same time) is I think most impressive, in an extremely eccentric way, his way of bashing the piano was really out of place in performing Chopin...
@@w.j.m.91 nah, chopin himself liked extreme power like that sometimes and complimented students who could produce it. it's not a nocturne, it's a sonata, its fine.
@@pqiojsqdklnads3861 power is good and cortot has a lot of power, but what horowitz has is percussiveness, which works fine for some composers like late scriabin, but not chopin.
@@composaboi u have a point but go listen to horowitz' mazurka or nocturnes, he had the softest and most precise touch when he felt like it. nobody had touch like horowitz from recordings i know of, his peaceful chopin reinditions were pretty close to perfect. also if you listen to his heroic polonaise i wouldnt call it obnoxiously percussive, i think it was the most powerful and inspiring and well properly "heroic" recording there was of that piece. oh and i guess its worth to mention rachmaninoff actually had incredible touch too, perhaps the only who could be better than horowitz. but rachmaninoff's greatness was in timing and intuition, he really did hear things nobody else could - you can tell even with how low quality the recordings are.
Nobody plays this sonata better than Rachmaninov (sort of a stupid statement, I know, as virtually nobody played anything better than Rachmaninov save for Josef Lhevinne and Gieseking, and perhaps the earlier Hofmann), but Cortot certainly gives him a run for his money here. See also the William Kapell and 1946? Rubinstein recordings (the later Rubinstein recoding is too careful). Godowsky and Hofmann have their moments, but the latter, especially, is too eccentric, and I've never cared for the Horowitz or Michelangeli versions. It would cool if Perahia would record this again, as he's a very different artist today than he was back in 1973. FWIW, Cortot's very early recordings of the Chopin etudes (not the the whole sets, but the individual ones like op. 10 no. 5) are pretty much without peer, too, and a re definitely worth are listen to if you like what you hear here.
Rachmaninov's peers at the Conservatory considered him a "brittle" pianist. Lhevinne got the gold in piano, Scriabine got the silver for composing, and Rachmaninov got the bronze for conducting. Godowsky recorded this sonata. I prefer the Godowsky to the Rachmaninov because it's more nuanced and it does not imitate Rubenstein, as Rachmaninov does. Godowsky finds counterpoint in the last movement. Amazing.
Obwohl die Tonqualität nicht ideal ist, klingt diese Aufführung echt schön und zugleich überzeugend mit gut artikuliertem Anschlag und perfekt kontrollierter Dynamik. Bestimmt die beste Kombination der höchsten Technik und der angeborenen Lyrik. Danke fürs wertvolle Aufnahme!
I was heard this records 40y ago when i was study Chopin. amazing performance.
Me da gusto compartirte nada más que no desaparezcan.
This is so beautiful. Chopin is the best so moving so necessary for my soul he makes me appreciate life more. Cortot is amazing too
Wow!! Never heard this (1928) version before. My all-time favorite is his 1953 recording.It's marvelous how every time he played a piece it was different from before, but always great.Thanks much for this one.☺
snaaptaker I have 3 recordings of this with Cortot 1928 ,1933 and 1953. This performance I think is the greatest. In1953 he was too old for this sonata. He could not really play it anymore,and I never understood why HMV brought it out. Cortot was a shadow of himself.
Amazing performance, never heard before and it's so attractive, could not close it before sounds ended.
This is so amazing
Mejor interpretadas no hay.
if my memory serves me right, he plays the 3rd movement very similar to horowitz (or i suppose i should say horowitz plays extremely similar to cortot)
There are some similiarities, but fortunately Cortot doesn't bang the piano like Horowitz does. Even though Horowitz recording of the 2nd sonata (1950's studio recording and one live recording from about the same time) is I think most impressive, in an extremely eccentric way, his way of bashing the piano was really out of place in performing Chopin...
@@w.j.m.91 nah, chopin himself liked extreme power like that sometimes and complimented students who could produce it. it's not a nocturne, it's a sonata, its fine.
@@pqiojsqdklnads3861 power is good and cortot has a lot of power, but what horowitz has is percussiveness, which works fine for some composers like late scriabin, but not chopin.
@@composaboi u have a point but go listen to horowitz' mazurka or nocturnes, he had the softest and most precise touch when he felt like it. nobody had touch like horowitz from recordings i know of, his peaceful chopin reinditions were pretty close to perfect. also if you listen to his heroic polonaise i wouldnt call it obnoxiously percussive, i think it was the most powerful and inspiring and well properly "heroic" recording there was of that piece. oh and i guess its worth to mention rachmaninoff actually had incredible touch too, perhaps the only who could be better than horowitz. but rachmaninoff's greatness was in timing and intuition, he really did hear things nobody else could - you can tell even with how low quality the recordings are.
@@pqiojsqdklnads3861 When Chopin hit too hard, he pressed the soft pedal, so the sound did not sound too dirty. Cortot does this too.
Nobody plays this sonata better than Rachmaninov (sort of a stupid statement, I know, as virtually nobody played anything better than Rachmaninov save for Josef Lhevinne and Gieseking, and perhaps the earlier Hofmann), but Cortot certainly gives him a run for his money here. See also the William Kapell and 1946? Rubinstein recordings (the later Rubinstein recoding is too careful). Godowsky and Hofmann have their moments, but the latter, especially, is too eccentric, and I've never cared for the Horowitz or Michelangeli versions. It would cool if Perahia would record this again, as he's a very different artist today than he was back in 1973. FWIW, Cortot's very early recordings of the Chopin etudes (not the the whole sets, but the individual ones like op. 10 no. 5) are pretty much without peer, too, and a re definitely worth are listen to if you like what you hear here.
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Rachmaninov's peers at the Conservatory considered him a "brittle" pianist. Lhevinne got the gold in piano, Scriabine got the silver for composing, and Rachmaninov got the bronze for conducting. Godowsky recorded this sonata. I prefer the Godowsky to the Rachmaninov because it's more nuanced and it does not imitate Rubenstein, as Rachmaninov does. Godowsky finds counterpoint in the last movement. Amazing.
For me, too, Rachmaninoff is the gold standard when it comes to this great Sonata! 😃