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
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 " !...
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.
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.
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.!!🎶🎶🎶
. @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
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.
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
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 !!!!!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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)
@@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.
@@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
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.
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...
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....
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.
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.
To me, Sokolov is the only great pianist that plays out of love. Everything he plays he makes it a beauty thing.
Now we have Yunchan Lim.
Sokolov is a great pianist, not only technically but he puts sentiments too. It's a pleasure to hear and to see him inerpreting
Sokolov is the only pianist I know of that plays all the 4 alternative ossia passages. An excellent performance overall.
+Heichef Are you Michelangel's fan? I'm Searching his rare recordings, do you have any?
+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...
Very interesting!!!
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!
Kissin also does.
the way he pulls and pushes the music so gracefully, such an architect.
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!
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.
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.
Лучше просто невозможно. Исполнение исключительно. Спасибои пусть он будет здоров.
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.
I mean, he won the Tchaikovsky competition when he was 16.
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.
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
I needed resuscitation at the end !! It was moving, excitable, exhilarating and made me so grateful to be alive . Bravo Bravo Bravo !!!!!!!
Natalie Vandenblink so you we’re dead?
non è sempre convincente come in questo caso
I've heard so many versions and I always find Sokolov far above anyone else!
Si Argerich sous la direction de Ricardo Chailly
pas du tout@@patrickjoubertdesouches4520
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 " !...
Nostalgia, recollecting Russia: the good days and lovely rural estates.
Гениально как и все, что он исполняе!!!
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.
Un pianiste absolument extraordinaire, extraterrestre. Comment arrive-t-on à jouer avec une telle maitrise et une si grande musicalité?
MardkoMBR c'est la différence entre le talent et le génie.
C'est parcequ'il laisse toute la priorité, grâce l'ouverture de son coeur, à l'esprit, de passer outre
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.
90% travail travail travail, le reste talent
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.!!🎶🎶🎶
Authenticity and sincerity.
Соколов -великий мастер!
Великолепно
Коля
возможно выдающийся пианист нашей жизни?
Russian music played in Russia by the best Russian musicians; simply how this concerto is played best and most authentically. Bravo!
совершенно согласна!
Ashkenazy’s is by far the best.
@@EmptyVee00000 how about no.
@@LisztianGR And then Gilels and Kissin.
@@EmptyVee00000 -- You're right....Byron Janis too excelled.......Cheers from Acapulco!
Sr. Sokolov Un pianista Extraordinario de Una Fuerza y serenidad Admirable!!!
Riveting. Gorgeous. Thank you.
filigran and exceptional
As though I had never heard this piece before.
To play like him I'd even sell my soul.
He is very good !!!!!
He is selling his soul, not a cow...
And It could be not enough
. @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
43:16 T-Rex. :D
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.
I agree. Also, I can say it's lia worship for them.
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
Nothing is like a concert in the old timey days when there used to be an audience
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 !!!!!
Too bad there was no audience here. Fortunately over time, some things still change for the better.
The greatest. Love the chairs!
Потрясающе!!!!Никто сейчас так не сможет!!!
i guess yunchan Lim paid homage to both sokolov and hotowits
through his beautiful performance at van cliban concours, and almost equals to sokolov.
il Rach 3 è il pezzo pianistico più difficile! BRAVO!
The conductor and the orchestra are fired!! He is too good for them!!!
The best interpretation I have heard!
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。
Genio Sokolov!!
Wish there were live footages of Rachmaninoff
Гений!
a great man with a lot to say....
Sublime ! Un Maestro...
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.
Wonderful
Remarkable
Such a bland response from such an incredible performance. Tough audience.
I love Volodos playing it. But sokolov is dammed good!!! Both are magnificent!!
Het is hem al helemaal.
❤❤❤❤
Listen to those singing strings 05:35 Expert listening from Kitajenko.
Where are exactly the four ossia passages? Anyone have a sheet with them?
Forget about worshiping a God or Goddess. I worship Grigory.
Alton Slater nope. You worship yourself. You shitty idol.
@@MARTIN201199 I WORSHIP THE SELF IS EVERYONE INCLUDING MARTIN.🙏
mvmt one cadenza 11:34
I will just throw it out there: Sokolov is the best pianist for Rachmaninoff, can't be beaten.
Is there a CD quality version for sale of this concert?
Какие же измождённые лица были у людей в конце концерта, с непривычки устали
45 years ago.
Bravooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.........................
ECCE GENIUS.
Sokolov, tout jeune ! Vive les archives russes !
아따 잘친다
He is the greatest!!!
сильно!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That chair he is sitting on though..
Incredible! No, really. You will sometime find out that this is what R implied himself.
The Scene in the Ossia Cadenza:
Godzilla VS Kong 😎
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...
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
It's an alternative version of the Rch 3 Ending
@@greatmusicchannel8549 does any other pianist do that, or is it even notated, or is a Sokolov thing?
@ If i don’t mistake, Vladimir Ovchinnikov plays, i will check
@ yeah andre watts also did it even faster, it’s the final ossia (alternative passage) of the piece, check in score
not sure if its solokov or the conductor but the pianist and orchestra are really not on the same tempo
This is as good as it gets. Listen to that cadenza at 2:51 ending at 3:17. Nobody plays it that well.
+J J Townley Sometime-composer of Piano Concertos That's not technically a cadenza. Call it a flourish or fioritura, if you will.
+Gerbil Jim Yes, you're right it's a little bit of unmeasured pyrotechnics to close out the first theme.
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.
That HAS to be POOREST audience response I have heard to a superb performance ever!
I agree
I would be on my feet the very moment he hit that last chord
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.
@@kneeman66 Soviet era activities 😐
You know something, this guy might one day become a concert pianist.
Jonathan Farrar lmao
🤍🩶🖤💜🩵💙💚💛🧡
Last part seems to be a little difference from common one looks so hard
It’s the final ossia. Quadruplets instead of triplets
21 7:05
25 8:08
27 8:44
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.
41:38 A missed note in the right hand
Toca muito o Sokolov. Válido apontar que nesta época ele usava um corte de cabelo estilo Beiçola.
Ou, o beiçola usava um corte estilo Sokolov.
11:34
15:10
45:16
?
Wow
I know right?! Insane!
He did 4 instead of 3 octaves
i would also say 13:35
such a reduced orchestra...
Cadenza 11:33
In a way, an angry performance. His complaint is with the orchestra/conductor; they just don't have his sense of the piece.
Кто дирижирует?
+Mark Naydorf Conductor:Dmitrij Kitajenko/Дирижер: Дмитрий Китаенко
Roger Waters и
Плохо руководит оркестром.
Russians
@27:23
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.
Horowitz 😂
Bro what😂
Lame audience
А не стыдно ли играть РАХМАНИНОВА , после того , что ты сделал со своим братом ?
Вы о чём?
😂
Too bad sound and picture are so badly out of sync. That is enough to destroy any enjoyment of listening to a pianist.
Listening? So just close your eyes!
Don't watch then. Just listen. Wow.
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.
@@searchers this was from 1978, dont be so rude
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
Худшего исполнения я не слышала. Вычурно и безвкусно. The worst Rachmaninov I ever heard. Tasteless and mannered.
Не думал что когда нибудь комментируя Соколова , я воскликну :
"Охуеть ты ебанутая!!!"
@@user-ld5hu9ev6c Браво!!
da u#, s mazuevim ne sravnitj.... blestashee ispolnenie
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)
Your meds will be in tomorrow's mail.
@@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)
@@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.
@@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
@@IMAWriterRobJhahahaha fucked him there
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.
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...
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....
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about!
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.
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.