Grigory Sokolov - Rachmaninoff - Concerto N 3

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  • čas přidán 7. 11. 2013
  • Moscow State Conservatory - Grand Hall - 1978
    1)Allegro ma non tanto - 0:25
    2)Intermezzo:Adagio - 18:40
    3)Finale:Alla Breve - 30:27
    Piano:Grigory Sokolov
    Conductor:Dmitrij Kitajenko
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Komentáře • 201

  • @MARTIN201199
    @MARTIN201199 Před 3 lety +59

    To me, Sokolov is the only great pianist that plays out of love. Everything he plays he makes it a beauty thing.

  • @lucildefrasca
    @lucildefrasca Před 6 měsíci +13

    Sokolov is a great pianist, not only technically but he puts sentiments too. It's a pleasure to hear and to see him inerpreting

  • @DaHeichef
    @DaHeichef Před 8 lety +165

    Sokolov is the only pianist I know of that plays all the 4 alternative ossia passages. An excellent performance overall.

    • @greatmusicchannel8549
      @greatmusicchannel8549  Před 8 lety +6

      +Heichef Are you Michelangel's fan? I'm Searching his rare recordings, do you have any?

    • @DaHeichef
      @DaHeichef Před 8 lety +7

      +Roger Waters I am. I have some of his DG and EMI recordings. I don't know about the rarity of those. Probably not so rare...

    • @greatmusicchannel8549
      @greatmusicchannel8549  Před 8 lety +5

      Very interesting!!!

    • @stephenjkelley1
      @stephenjkelley1 Před 7 lety +7

      I saw Sokolov in Kansas City MO around 1971 (and my beloved Pink Floyd in KC Kansas same time, and A. Rubinstein). The Michelangeli Debussy on Dg came out then also. What a year!

    • @EmptyVee00000
      @EmptyVee00000 Před 7 lety +2

      Kissin also does.

  • @MariaMoPiano
    @MariaMoPiano Před rokem +14

    the way he pulls and pushes the music so gracefully, such an architect.

  • @robertcohn8858
    @robertcohn8858 Před měsícem +3

    I've always admired Sokolov's performances. This is the first one I've seen with him being so young. That power and excitement is there. What a treat to see this great artist again. Thank you!

  • @hshshs2007
    @hshshs2007 Před 5 lety +43

    Настоящая радость - найти это редкое исполнение популярного концерта Рахманинова. Соколов действительно настоящий гений. Он дал новый свет и свежий ветер для концерта. Он действительно один из титанов инструмента.

  • @gerardocoluccini1751
    @gerardocoluccini1751 Před 9 měsíci +20

    Great rendition! Unparalleled the execution of the "cadenza", one of the most difficult pieces for piano ever written. Grigory Sokolov plays the piano with his whole being, like a man that gave all his life to music. Thanks, Grigory.

    • @user-ok1hy5sc7j
      @user-ok1hy5sc7j Před 8 měsíci +5

      Лучше просто невозможно. Исполнение исключительно. Спасибои пусть он будет здоров.

  • @Walter50
    @Walter50 Před 10 lety +44

    It was really interesting watching this performance despite the far from ideal recording conditions. It proves that from early on Sokolov had few equals and no peers as pianist and the reasons he had to wait so long world fame remains an enigma.

    • @shawnmand5607
      @shawnmand5607 Před 5 lety +7

      I mean, he won the Tchaikovsky competition when he was 16.

    • @steps222
      @steps222 Před 4 lety +2

      At 17 or 18 he recorded the best Saint-Saens 3rd Concerto I've ever heard and one of the best Carnavals. He'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition. The Saint-Saens was conducted by Neemi Jarvi with one the oddest transliterative spellings I've seen.

  • @aaaabb1666
    @aaaabb1666 Před 3 lety +17

    He has such amazing technical facility which he uses to maintain incredible rhythmic clarity throughout. It makes the whole piece sound so wonderfully balanced and logical.
    Also so cool when he takes the tempo of the third mvt into his own hands when the conductor started too slow xD

  • @natalievandenblink7802
    @natalievandenblink7802 Před 4 lety +12

    I needed resuscitation at the end !! It was moving, excitable, exhilarating and made me so grateful to be alive . Bravo Bravo Bravo !!!!!!!

  • @EnergyDiscoveries
    @EnergyDiscoveries Před rokem +8

    I've heard so many versions and I always find Sokolov far above anyone else!

  • @UaM17
    @UaM17 Před 5 lety +12

    My point of view about Rachmaninov totally changed when an old hungary pianiste told me : "Rachmaninov couldn't never go back in Russia, so, the principal theme of the heart of his music is : " The Return " !...

    • @777rogerf
      @777rogerf Před rokem

      Nostalgia, recollecting Russia: the good days and lovely rural estates.

  • @user-ih4wj1bf5r
    @user-ih4wj1bf5r Před rokem +12

    Гениально как и все, что он исполняе!!!

    • @lucildefrasca
      @lucildefrasca Před rokem +3

      Siberbio , desde sus manos mariposas que revolotean sobre las teclas sin casi rozarlas, a cuando sacan sonidos contundentes y firmes ,a los arpegios limpios y netos.
      Un placer para los oídos y para el alma.

  • @MardkoMBR
    @MardkoMBR Před 8 lety +18

    Un pianiste absolument extraordinaire, extraterrestre. Comment arrive-t-on à jouer avec une telle maitrise et une si grande musicalité?

    • @dankg55
      @dankg55 Před 7 lety +8

      MardkoMBR c'est la différence entre le talent et le génie.

    • @UaM17
      @UaM17 Před 5 lety +6

      C'est parcequ'il laisse toute la priorité, grâce l'ouverture de son coeur, à l'esprit, de passer outre

    • @elisabethlililatigresse840
      @elisabethlililatigresse840 Před rokem +4

      C’est parce que, pour tout morceau qu’il interprète, il a la faculté de devenir le compositeur lui-même et son âme, et nous offre ainsi le bonheur d’avoir une musique transcendante, réincarnée et vivante. Seul Sokolov est capable de cette métamorphose et réincarnation. De plus il est tellement humain, généreux, et modeste. Un don du Ciel pour nous tous.

    • @Woriviol
      @Woriviol Před 6 měsíci +1

      90% travail travail travail, le reste talent

  • @mulcio2500
    @mulcio2500 Před 10 měsíci +3

    I am still in awe or better call it trance after watching and listening to such levels of beauty and mastery by GS the orchestra under a great master of conducting. A big Rusian played by russians. What else can we ask for.!!🎶🎶🎶

  • @banjocracy
    @banjocracy Před 9 lety +10

    Authenticity and sincerity.

  • @user-uo4qv4ec7q
    @user-uo4qv4ec7q Před 8 lety +27

    Соколов -великий мастер!

  • @johannesbrahmsfan9228
    @johannesbrahmsfan9228 Před 6 lety +38

    Russian music played in Russia by the best Russian musicians; simply how this concerto is played best and most authentically. Bravo!

    • @ninasnetovva2973
      @ninasnetovva2973 Před 3 lety +3

      совершенно согласна!

    • @EmptyVee00000
      @EmptyVee00000 Před 3 lety +1

      Ashkenazy’s is by far the best.

    • @LisztianGR
      @LisztianGR Před 2 lety +1

      @@EmptyVee00000 how about no.

    • @EmptyVee00000
      @EmptyVee00000 Před 2 lety

      @@LisztianGR And then Gilels and Kissin.

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Před rokem

      @@EmptyVee00000 -- You're right....Byron Janis too excelled.......Cheers from Acapulco!

  • @vernonsoteldo
    @vernonsoteldo Před 4 lety +4

    Sr. Sokolov Un pianista Extraordinario de Una Fuerza y serenidad Admirable!!!

  • @larkspur77
    @larkspur77 Před rokem +2

    Riveting. Gorgeous. Thank you.

  • @gerdlindlar1980
    @gerdlindlar1980 Před 3 lety +5

    filigran and exceptional

  • @bifeldman
    @bifeldman Před 5 lety +10

    As though I had never heard this piece before.

  • @loving-everyone-equally
    @loving-everyone-equally Před 5 lety +19

    To play like him I'd even sell my soul.

    • @scottmiller6495
      @scottmiller6495 Před 3 lety +1

      He is very good !!!!!

    • @danibv1291
      @danibv1291 Před rokem

      He is selling his soul, not a cow...

    • @PMiss-gl8fy
      @PMiss-gl8fy Před 10 měsíci

      And It could be not enough

    • @loving-everyone-equally
      @loving-everyone-equally Před 10 měsíci

      . @PMiss-gl8fy I said it somewhere that a professor siad it would take me 300- lifetimes to play like the great pianists and at my age of almost 87 I'd desire something else

  • @christianvennemann9008
    @christianvennemann9008 Před 5 lety +25

    43:16 T-Rex. :D

  • @KaisarAnvar
    @KaisarAnvar Před rokem +4

    Let me point out something extremely crucial here. Take a look at the moment when he finishes this concerto and look at the reaction from the audience. This was performed in one of the most tough and demanding conservatories in the world - Moscow Conservatory. When you don't see a standing ovation from the audience after such a monumental concerto performed by a GIANT like Sokolov - not even a "BRAVO" being yelled out all over the hall, you should know that the standard is extremely high. So high to the point that the audience KNOWS this concerto more than enough.

    • @ppiiaannoo
      @ppiiaannoo Před rokem +1

      I agree. Also, I can say it's lia worship for them.

    • @benjaminravail5028
      @benjaminravail5028 Před 6 měsíci +2

      i hate that kind of audience....just because you're sittting in one of the greatest hall ever, people think they know enough to be so....how do you say ? untouched...jaded...whatever ! They just think they know....
      Duchable stopped his carrier for a good reason after all

  • @kneeman66
    @kneeman66 Před 3 lety +6

    Nothing is like a concert in the old timey days when there used to be an audience

    • @scottmiller6495
      @scottmiller6495 Před 3 lety +1

      If this world famous concerto is played just right with a powerful ending which is very rare today then the audience should give a standing ovation !!!!!

    • @lollycopter
      @lollycopter Před 2 lety

      Too bad there was no audience here. Fortunately over time, some things still change for the better.

  • @peterpontius9244
    @peterpontius9244 Před rokem +1

    The greatest. Love the chairs!

  • @user-hu6fv6ju1i
    @user-hu6fv6ju1i Před 5 lety +5

    Потрясающе!!!!Никто сейчас так не сможет!!!

    • @songyc7
      @songyc7 Před 2 lety

      i guess yunchan Lim paid homage to both sokolov and hotowits
      through his beautiful performance at van cliban concours, and almost equals to sokolov.

  • @antonellabecci4448
    @antonellabecci4448 Před rokem +2

    il Rach 3 è il pezzo pianistico più difficile! BRAVO!

  • @rosebogossian6592
    @rosebogossian6592 Před 6 lety +15

    The conductor and the orchestra are fired!! He is too good for them!!!
    The best interpretation I have heard!

  • @MrHiroyuki71
    @MrHiroyuki71 Před 5 lety +1

    決して、大げさすぎず、音量も抑え気味で、とても、奥深い演奏ですね。大家ですね。

  • @SuperMariamalia
    @SuperMariamalia Před 10 lety +13

    Genio Sokolov!!

  • @kuuderepiano2988
    @kuuderepiano2988 Před 2 lety +7

    Wish there were live footages of Rachmaninoff

  • @lulumuster
    @lulumuster Před 6 lety +7

    Гений!

  • @stephenshooterfineartist9635

    a great man with a lot to say....

  • @JacquelineRouet
    @JacquelineRouet Před 6 lety +4

    Sublime ! Un Maestro...

  • @scuunjieng
    @scuunjieng Před 7 lety +9

    never heard of him prior to reading Gramophone's rave review of his cd of this work this month. Many thanks for this post. the acclaim is very well deserved.

  • @jhoward1957
    @jhoward1957 Před 5 lety +12

    Such a bland response from such an incredible performance. Tough audience.

  • @atassano2001
    @atassano2001 Před 2 lety +1

    I love Volodos playing it. But sokolov is dammed good!!! Both are magnificent!!

  • @paulvalens5657
    @paulvalens5657 Před 9 lety +1

    Het is hem al helemaal.

  • @1947laurence
    @1947laurence Před 4 dny

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @Skidoo22
    @Skidoo22 Před 6 lety +2

    Listen to those singing strings 05:35 Expert listening from Kitajenko.

  • @luisalfredoolbertz755
    @luisalfredoolbertz755 Před 7 lety +4

    Where are exactly the four ossia passages? Anyone have a sheet with them?

  • @loving-everyone-equally
    @loving-everyone-equally Před 5 lety +10

    Forget about worshiping a God or Goddess. I worship Grigory.

    • @MARTIN201199
      @MARTIN201199 Před 3 lety

      Alton Slater nope. You worship yourself. You shitty idol.

    • @loving-everyone-equally
      @loving-everyone-equally Před 3 lety +1

      @@MARTIN201199 I WORSHIP THE SELF IS EVERYONE INCLUDING MARTIN.🙏

  • @gabrielbustos2706
    @gabrielbustos2706 Před 5 lety +7

    mvmt one cadenza 11:34

  • @teresavasey1041
    @teresavasey1041 Před rokem +3

    I will just throw it out there: Sokolov is the best pianist for Rachmaninoff, can't be beaten.

  • @relaxationmusicsanctuary3664

    Is there a CD quality version for sale of this concert?

  • @maksimryslyaev4794
    @maksimryslyaev4794 Před 5 měsíci

    Какие же измождённые лица были у людей в конце концерта, с непривычки устали

  • @gunnarMyTube
    @gunnarMyTube Před rokem

    45 years ago.

  • @cubanm81
    @cubanm81 Před rokem +4

    Bravooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.........................

  • @stanislavjanickovic8227
    @stanislavjanickovic8227 Před rokem +2

    ECCE GENIUS.

  • @pianistegolfeur
    @pianistegolfeur Před 9 měsíci +1

    Sokolov, tout jeune ! Vive les archives russes !

  • @user-fz5cp8pb1q
    @user-fz5cp8pb1q Před 8 měsíci +1

    아따 잘친다

  • @saranglee7777
    @saranglee7777 Před 3 lety +5

    He is the greatest!!!

  • @zhbrctdjcnmzyjd7369
    @zhbrctdjcnmzyjd7369 Před 7 lety +7

    сильно!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @wiktorialatos1157
    @wiktorialatos1157 Před 3 lety +1

    That chair he is sitting on though..

  • @Exelsio
    @Exelsio Před 2 lety +2

    Incredible! No, really. You will sometime find out that this is what R implied himself.

  • @marvintorrejas767
    @marvintorrejas767 Před 3 lety +1

    The Scene in the Ossia Cadenza:
    Godzilla VS Kong 😎

  •  Před 3 lety +1

    why does he do 16th notes at the end instead of triplets, does someone know? 45:16 i mean, triplets are notated in the score, and every other performance i could hear plays triplets there...

    •  Před 3 lety

      it's quite challenging though, and sounds good the contrast between first playing 16th's then triplets, but idk where does this idea come from

    • @greatmusicchannel8549
      @greatmusicchannel8549  Před 3 lety +2

      It's an alternative version of the Rch 3 Ending

    •  Před 3 lety

      @@greatmusicchannel8549 does any other pianist do that, or is it even notated, or is a Sokolov thing?

    • @greatmusicchannel8549
      @greatmusicchannel8549  Před 3 lety

      @ If i don’t mistake, Vladimir Ovchinnikov plays, i will check

    • @potatopotato0715
      @potatopotato0715 Před 2 lety +1

      @ yeah andre watts also did it even faster, it’s the final ossia (alternative passage) of the piece, check in score

  • @notmagicok7612
    @notmagicok7612 Před 9 měsíci +1

    not sure if its solokov or the conductor but the pianist and orchestra are really not on the same tempo

  • @JJTownley_Classical-Composer

    This is as good as it gets. Listen to that cadenza at 2:51 ending at 3:17. Nobody plays it that well.

    • @themusicalgerbil192
      @themusicalgerbil192 Před 8 lety +3

      +J J Townley Sometime-composer of Piano Concertos That's not technically a cadenza. Call it a flourish or fioritura, if you will.

    • @JJTownley_Classical-Composer
      @JJTownley_Classical-Composer Před 8 lety +1

      +Gerbil Jim Yes, you're right it's a little bit of unmeasured pyrotechnics to close out the first theme.

  • @jafa7794
    @jafa7794 Před 4 měsíci

    If it weren't for playing Chopin (which is performed - in my opinion - too Rachmaninofflike), I would call him a god of piano. Anyway, I am happy he is still a man. A prodigy man.

  • @cubanbach
    @cubanbach Před 5 lety +19

    That HAS to be POOREST audience response I have heard to a superb performance ever!

    • @8moltovivace8
      @8moltovivace8 Před 5 lety +2

      I agree
      I would be on my feet the very moment he hit that last chord

    • @kneeman66
      @kneeman66 Před 3 lety +1

      They're too worried about the line the next day they're going to have to wait in to get bread and milk to applaud.

    • @potatopotato0715
      @potatopotato0715 Před 2 lety

      @@kneeman66 Soviet era activities 😐

  • @jonathanfarrar2981
    @jonathanfarrar2981 Před 7 lety +10

    You know something, this guy might one day become a concert pianist.

    • @djmotise
      @djmotise Před 6 lety +1

      Jonathan Farrar lmao

  • @paolofranceschi6874
    @paolofranceschi6874 Před rokem +1

    🤍🩶🖤💜🩵💙💚💛🧡

  • @someonefromjapan3178
    @someonefromjapan3178 Před 2 lety

    Last part seems to be a little difference from common one looks so hard

    • @potatopotato0715
      @potatopotato0715 Před 2 lety

      It’s the final ossia. Quadruplets instead of triplets

  • @emmabu2626
    @emmabu2626 Před 2 lety

    21 7:05
    25 8:08
    27 8:44

  • @catherinejones9396
    @catherinejones9396 Před rokem +1

    Great performance but the orchestra sound was less compelling than it should have been. The piano track dominated. Not that it worried me because I was interested to see how he played this impossible music.

  • @penmerch2804
    @penmerch2804 Před 3 lety +4

    41:38 A missed note in the right hand

  • @carpedei_
    @carpedei_ Před 6 lety +1

    Toca muito o Sokolov. Válido apontar que nesta época ele usava um corte de cabelo estilo Beiçola.

    • @MurciellagoSV
      @MurciellagoSV Před 5 lety +2

      Ou, o beiçola usava um corte estilo Sokolov.

  • @irakli667
    @irakli667 Před rokem

    15:10

  • @davidrotter3076
    @davidrotter3076 Před 3 měsíci +1

    45:16
    ?
    Wow

  • @benjaminravail5028
    @benjaminravail5028 Před 16 dny

    such a reduced orchestra...

  • @null8295
    @null8295 Před rokem +3

    Cadenza 11:33

  • @jamesfrank5271
    @jamesfrank5271 Před 3 lety

    In a way, an angry performance. His complaint is with the orchestra/conductor; they just don't have his sense of the piece.

  • @markseged
    @markseged Před 8 lety

    Кто дирижирует?

  • @andysoul295
    @andysoul295 Před rokem +2

    Russians

  • @Drakussan
    @Drakussan Před rokem

    @27:23

  • @301250
    @301250 Před 3 lety +3

    Only Vladimir Horowitz revealed the splendour of this 3rd concerto just as Sviatoslav Richter, the 2nd! Sokolov’s performance here is stilted and self-conscious. Mere technique, however virtuosic isn’t enough! Enuf said. Next.

  • @potatopotato0715
    @potatopotato0715 Před 2 lety +1

    Lame audience

  • @user-gm1xj2vl4i
    @user-gm1xj2vl4i Před 9 lety +3

    А не стыдно ли играть РАХМАНИНОВА , после того , что ты сделал со своим братом ?

  • @searchers
    @searchers Před 6 lety +2

    Too bad sound and picture are so badly out of sync. That is enough to destroy any enjoyment of listening to a pianist.

    • @banjocracy
      @banjocracy Před 6 lety +1

      Listening? So just close your eyes!

    • @djmotise
      @djmotise Před 6 lety

      Don't watch then. Just listen. Wow.

    • @searchers
      @searchers Před 6 lety

      If you want to just listen, listen to a recording with far superior sound. The whole point of putting something on CZcams is visual mated to sound. If you can't mate the two elements, don't waste our time.

    • @ripinpepperonies9754
      @ripinpepperonies9754 Před 5 lety

      @@searchers this was from 1978, dont be so rude

    • @UaM17
      @UaM17 Před 5 lety

      What you say is stupid, for what do you listen music ? For the sound ? Stupidity, so you don't care about what music is really

  • @elinanostrant8627
    @elinanostrant8627 Před 5 lety +3

    Худшего исполнения я не слышала. Вычурно и безвкусно. The worst Rachmaninov I ever heard. Tasteless and mannered.

    • @user-ld5hu9ev6c
      @user-ld5hu9ev6c Před 5 lety +2

      Не думал что когда нибудь комментируя Соколова , я воскликну :
      "Охуеть ты ебанутая!!!"

    • @ludmilaklimanska3746
      @ludmilaklimanska3746 Před 4 lety +1

      @@user-ld5hu9ev6c Браво!!

    • @alxdwin
      @alxdwin Před rokem

      da u#, s mazuevim ne sravnitj.... blestashee ispolnenie

  • @petergolding5733
    @petergolding5733 Před 4 lety +3

    I have to say that I find this a shockingly bad performance of this great concerto. There are no lines followed and he beats the piano into submission. There is absolutely no through-flow in the piece. I do feel that Sokolov is a very over-rated artist (not that he has got very far anyway, and I can see why here and on his video of the Rachmaninov 2)

    • @jamesfrank5271
      @jamesfrank5271 Před 3 lety +7

      Your meds will be in tomorrow's mail.

    • @petergolding5733
      @petergolding5733 Před 3 lety +2

      @@jamesfrank5271 Thank you for your charming comment. As a concert pianist who has played this piece many times, I DO know what I'm talking about. Politeness costs nothing (from the untalented nobodies who reply to truthful comments on here)

    • @IMAWriterRobJ
      @IMAWriterRobJ Před 2 lety +3

      @@petergolding5733 You are, in a word Insufferable. Perhaps you should link one of YOUR CZcams performances so we all can glean wisdom from your performance. Bonus...if some, even a minuscule amount of your prodigious talent should rub off on us, wonderful.

    • @petergolding5733
      @petergolding5733 Před 2 lety

      @@IMAWriterRobJ Thank yo SO much for your kind comments. Why should I put my performances onto CZcams as I am playing them live and have no wish for the totally stupid uneducated people like you who can't work out a good performance from a bad one to comment. Maybe if you come to one of my concerts, you'll appreciate. Until then, politeness costs nothing so f off

    • @willsayers4176
      @willsayers4176 Před rokem

      @@IMAWriterRobJhahahaha fucked him there

  • @NordicHealer
    @NordicHealer Před 7 lety +4

    For my taste the tone is too Heavy, Lumbering and Forced!! His hands most of the time are positioned a Foot about the keyboard making pounding dives into the keys!! This might work in a few places where quadruple F is desired but he plays Most of the piece like this. To me he is literally Beating up the piano. I prefer more FINESS, Subtlety, Nuance and Refinement even in such Big, blockbuster pieces as this.

    • @francar7063
      @francar7063 Před 7 lety +14

      Wow. You seem to confuse his high position with pounding. You must not be really listening. "Beating up the piano", really? Fortunately, yours is distinctly a minority view...

    • @Hervinbalfour
      @Hervinbalfour Před 6 lety +7

      HUNH?!?!? "Beating up the piano"?!?!? Do you not hear the freakin' amazingly profound tones this man is creating in this piece? He is FAR from banging. And that fact that you aren't hearing what colors this man is producing is astounding!
      There is on moment in the cadenza where it appears that he is coming down with banging force but the tone that comes out is absolutely gorgeous! You either have bad ears. Or you don't really know wtf you are talking about....

    • @rosebogossian6592
      @rosebogossian6592 Před 6 lety +8

      You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about!

    • @m.l.pianist2370
      @m.l.pianist2370 Před 6 lety +5

      Sokolov's playing has a lot of nuance, subtlety, and refinement - just listen to how he plays the opening theme! Listen to how he subtly plays with the balance between the hands, how he sometimes plays the 8th notes unevenly or plays slightly ahead of or behind the beat, how he continually makes tiny adjustments in tempo, etc.

    • @m.l.pianist2370
      @m.l.pianist2370 Před 6 lety +6

      Use your ears, not your eyes - just because he lifts his hands high above the keys, that doesn't mean his tone will be harsh. It also depends on how rigid or loose his finger and wrist joints are.