Somehow I found this video on my computer. Sokolov is one of my favorite pianists of all time. I also love how he interprets this particular piece. Enjoy!
Grigory Sokolov is wise enough to get out of the way and let Bach and Siloti speak. This requires great humilty, which is also evident when he takes a single bow at the end of a performance and then leaves the stage without any fanfare. Pianists like Yuja Wang could profit from Maestro Sokolov's example. It takes a certain maturity for soloists to accept the fact that it's all about the music, with the musician serving as a dutiful midwife for the creation of the composer.
Sokolov has long been at the point where he doesn't need to prove himself. Younger pianists still feel the need to "show off", Sokolov clearly doesn't care about that. Yuja is technically brilliant, but I doubt people will remember her for her musical interpretations.
Люблю игру Гилельса. Он был гений. Но и Соколов гениален, как можно сравнивать и к чему? Надо только слушать и наслаждаться, и благодарить судьбу, что мы можем их слушать.
Elmar Bagirov Космос! Великий художник помянул другого - ушедшего. Но и космическое одиночество. Быть может, схожее с одиночеством человека, принявшего решение провидца, каким мы сегодня видим Э.Г. Гилельса 1966 года. Вряд ли стоит сравнивать две интерпретации. Уверен, что Гилельс «присутствует» исполнении Г.Л. Соколова. Лучшего поминовения Эмиля Григорьевича я не знаю.
I don't like comparing performances because everyone is unique and has something to offer but I do agree with you on this one. Gilels performance is otherworldly!
I just don't know what it is that makes me so extremely emotional about this interpretation. I compare it to Gilels and see that Sokolov playes the piece much straighter / less romantic. But as soon as he plays the first note I start crying. I can't explain why. Its pure magic! Gilels playing is also nice to listen to but maybe he is trying to do more out of the piece- its musical structure is actually quite simple (but of course genius) and I think Sokolov shows us the perfect rendition of this simplicity. Not too much but also not to less. He's a true master...
Agree. It’s difficult to explain why it is so beautiful. One way I could possible attempt to describe it, would be the notion that there is a sense of hopelessness, something is lost not romanised. In essence, he is saying goodbye to something that no longer exists. I think this is achieved through the tempo and “cold” way he plays it. This gives the piece an almost tragic, rather than romantic feeling
Говорят, что когда в Харькове он закончил концерт на бис этой прелюдией, все просто встали и разошлись - аплодисментов не было. Они разрушили бы что-то созданное Григорием. Браво!
Не надо ни с кем сравнивать! Пианист Гений! И об этом говорят те чувства, которые испытываешь во время исполнения! У меня на голове зашевелились волосы, это ли не доказательство мощнейшего воздействия божественного звучания!!!!!!!!
Music and interpretation of inhuman beauty... Can lightness be searing? Can a burn be welcomed? Let's just skip pretentious confirmations. Sokolov is in his own element - unique to him unknowable way to get under one`s skin, stay there and tear things apart gently only to put everything back together just as gently with the sense of deepest resolution. All in 3 minutes. This is art.
Богу Слава! Мир вам! ~ под прелюдию Баха~Зилоти ~ стою я пред Богом под небом одна во Вселенной и с неба на землю летят огромные хлопья мягкого снега, а может весёлым стеклярусом сыплется град, ангел слезинки роняет в дождинках или ливнем обильным хлещет с небес водопад, омывая небесной крещенской купелью как же ещё нас грешных спасать? 26 января 2017 ~ ночь ~ накануне отдания праздника Богоявления
Он на концерте в Милане играл последний бис эту прелюдию. Это было так завораживающи. Он не сыграл что-то мощьное, быстрое на последний бис, нет, он окончил Бахом, великим Бахом
El tema B parecería de película hermosa. Solo Bach pudo haber compuesto esta maravilla, esta joya musical. Esta obra es la “personificación” de la perfección de principio a fin. Mesmeriza, hechiza de principio a fin.
If you're a pianist and have played this, you know how easy the notes are and how difficult it is to make them sing. Gilels used this as an encore over decades and, to my way of thinking, set a high standard. Great as Sokolov is in baroque (c.f. his readings of Bach's Kunst der Fuge) the opening bars here feel a bit stiff. Then he relaxes beautifully.
I have the score for harp and play it on piano. It's longer. The Prelude is A. Siloti creation on J.S.Bach Prelude in E-minor WTC 1 volume. The left hand tune.
The Prelude in B minor is a transcription for piano by Alexander Siloti of the Prelude in E minor BWV 855a by Johann Sebastian Bach from his Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Космос! Великий художник помянул другого - ушедшего. Но и космическое одиночество. Быть может, схожее с одиночеством человека, принявшего решение провидца, каким мы сегодня видим Э.Г. Гилельса 1966 года. Вряд ли стоит сравнивать две интерпретации. Уверен, что Гилельс «присутствует» в исполнении Г.Л. Соколова. Лучшего поминовения Эмиля Григорьевича я не знаю.
Несомненно хорошее исполнение, но темп !!! Совершенно другой! Гилельс все же исполнял совершенно по другому, Душа раскрывалась и пела, там какой то другой уровень!
This is NOT a "song," It is a "PIECE." Okay? A PIECE of music. Do not refer to it as a "song," A song is something that is SUNG. By humans. So tired of this. I hear Beethoven's symphonies being referred to as "songs," ("Oh, I love that song by Beethoven, you know, the fifth!") and I want to strangle them. They are "Preludes," "Quartets," "Trios" "Sonatas" "Polonaises," "Symphonies," "Concertos," "Fugues," "Serenades," -- WHATEVER! -- But NOT "SONGS!" Unless they are specifically SONGS, then they are not called "SONGS," OKAY????
***** I think you will find that the correct English translation of the German word 'lied' is the English word 'song'. All German-English dictionaries give the English word 'song' as the most appropriate translation of 'lied'. My point was a point about the English word ' song'. Not about the German word 'song'. The English word 'song' (like the German word 'lied') can be a song with words and without. Indeed, it can also be a poem which has not been set to music - the Biblical Song of Songs, or Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
***** Yes - I completely agree with you - arguing about the meaning of words is unlikely to help anyone appreciate the music. We usually know what another person is really trying to say. Correcting the way they say it is often simply an unnecessary distraction. Sometimes it can be unfriendly, or aggressive, or arrogant. (There is, I think, an example earlier in this thread - which actually provoked my first comment). I agree - let us concentrate on the music!!
I agree, but there is another version of Sokolov that is much better than this one. And there is also a pretty unknown version by the German pianist Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy which is wonderful. czcams.com/video/0XDoup7HbFc/video.html
Nikolai Medtner took his brother Emil wife. Three of them lived together and than Emil left for Germany. Nikolai and Anna joint Emil that gave up his wife and they live happily ever after. Russian music historian hide this fact.
Очень всегда берёт за душу это исполнение... Спасибо огромное! Если любите это произведение, можете посмотреть, как исполнил его юный украинский талант: czcams.com/video/X3o3FnJYevM/video.html
а что тебе в этом слышется? Мне слышется : правой рукой пробуждение желания и надежды, а левая рука демонстрирует решительность действий , которые растворяются к финалу ,толи .из-а недостаточной агрессии, толи из-за избыточной деликатности. Финал обидный и трогательный , а могло бы все закончиться победным апофеозом. Ну , нет хепи энда! И всплывают воспоминания из собственного жизненного опыта...
Why the heck did Siloti write the third measure DIFFERENT than what Bach wrote? He could have just kept the 16th notes as Bach wrote. But he didn't. I see no reason for the change.
Heinrich Kaspar Das Stück ist ja eine Überarbeitung von Alexander Siloti, deshalb seine romantische Interpreatitionsweise. Sonst würde es Sokolov ganz bestimmt anders spielen.
Don't know how many times I listened it... again and again...if there's a music for all people, this is it. Sokolov - it's divine translator
Grigory Sokolov is wise enough to get out of the way and let Bach and Siloti speak. This requires great humilty, which is also evident when he takes a single bow at the end of a performance and then leaves the stage without any fanfare. Pianists like Yuja Wang could profit from Maestro Sokolov's example. It takes a certain maturity for soloists to accept the fact that it's all about the music, with the musician serving as a dutiful midwife for the creation of the composer.
Sokolov has long been at the point where he doesn't need to prove himself. Younger pianists still feel the need to "show off", Sokolov clearly doesn't care about that. Yuja is technically brilliant, but I doubt people will remember her for her musical interpretations.
@@SabatSch95 Then maybe music is what she should seek ? Showing off can't compensate in front of every audience...
You’re really overthinking it. Shut up.
Я не согласна с определением "послушная акушерка". По моему мнению, без талантливого исполнителя волшебства музыки нет
Люблю игру Гилельса. Он был гений. Но и Соколов гениален, как можно сравнивать и к чему? Надо только слушать и наслаждаться, и благодарить судьбу, что мы можем их слушать.
да ради бога
Как верно, Елена!
I definitely prefer Sololov's interpretation.
Sokolov has a finesse that is uniquely suited to the Baroque period. I love his interpretation of Rameau.
Rameau didn’t compose it. Bach did.
No one does this piece justice as Gilels. That is the absolute best rendition of this piece.
Agreed
This is true. There is something both mystic and deeply human with Gilels which is hardly found with others.
rigel48 agree 100 %
Elmar Bagirov
Космос! Великий художник помянул другого - ушедшего. Но и
космическое одиночество. Быть может, схожее с одиночеством человека, принявшего
решение провидца, каким мы сегодня видим Э.Г. Гилельса 1966 года. Вряд ли стоит
сравнивать две интерпретации. Уверен, что Гилельс «присутствует» исполнении
Г.Л. Соколова. Лучшего поминовения Эмиля Григорьевича я не знаю.
I don't like comparing performances because everyone is unique and has something to offer but I do agree with you on this one. Gilels performance is otherworldly!
I just don't know what it is that makes me so extremely emotional about this interpretation. I compare it to Gilels and see that Sokolov playes the piece much straighter / less romantic. But as soon as he plays the first note I start crying. I can't explain why. Its pure magic! Gilels playing is also nice to listen to but maybe he is trying to do more out of the piece- its musical structure is actually quite simple (but of course genius) and I think Sokolov shows us the perfect rendition of this simplicity. Not too much but also not to less. He's a true master...
Yes. I think this rendition is extraordinary.
i agree
True master? We have many true masters, sokolov is a GOD
Agree. It’s difficult to explain why it is so beautiful. One way I could possible attempt to describe it, would be the notion that there is a sense of hopelessness, something is lost not romanised. In essence, he is saying goodbye to something that no longer exists. I think this is achieved through the tempo and “cold” way he plays it. This gives the piece an almost tragic, rather than romantic feeling
It's the piece. It's just pure genius - each progression pierces the heart just a little more and yes it induces the tears.
C'est comme s'il tombait et se relevait à chaque note porté par la musique. D'une beauté tragique totalement émouvante.
The human essence... no word needed
So simple yet so gracefully profound. Wow!
Divine. Bach + Sokolov 💙💫
Thanks from Russia. My teacher has remembered Sokolov as young student in Leningrad in USSR
I love this piece. Brings me to tears. It is love as sound.
Говорят, что когда в Харькове он закончил концерт на бис этой прелюдией,
все просто встали и разошлись - аплодисментов не было.
Они разрушили бы что-то созданное Григорием.
Браво!
Символично. На Родине Александра Силоти.
Да! После такого гениального выступления апплодисменты звучат как-то нелепо. Хочется тихо плакать, а не громко хлопать в ладоши.
Не тот Харьков пошел .. не той ...
Thats pure mastery❤
All music emanates from the spring of Father Bach.
He's 1 in a quadrillion.
Art in interpretation. Bravo and thank you Sir Sokolov.
Merci Jidong Zhong pour cette découverte qui me ravit l'âme.
This performance is perfection in its balance, dynamics, tonal range. Brilliant and very moving! Thank you for sharing.,
Pura magia...
Silenzio suona Sokolov ! Trattenete il respiro. E" UNA MERAVIGLIA . GRAZIE INFINITE
TOUT SIMPLEMENT MAGNIFIQUE et TRèS PROFOND !!!
The best interpretation of this legendary masterpiece 🎹🎶🙏🏻🙌💙🔥
Gilels is better.
No one comes even close to Gilels! Legendary ! This is not Bach it is a transcription of Bach... should be played accordingly
In my view this one is far better than Gilels, there is an inevitability in Sokolov’s phrasing that make this rendition stand out.
But tastes differ.
Thank you for sharing this gem. He is one of my favorite as well.
Не надо ни с кем сравнивать! Пианист Гений! И об этом говорят те чувства, которые испытываешь во время исполнения! У меня на голове зашевелились волосы, это ли не доказательство мощнейшего воздействия божественного звучания!!!!!!!!
Poesia pura..... una assoluta meraviglia!
Music and interpretation of inhuman beauty... Can lightness be searing? Can a burn be welcomed? Let's just skip pretentious confirmations. Sokolov is in his own element - unique to him unknowable way to get under one`s skin, stay there and tear things apart gently only to put everything back together just as gently with the sense of deepest resolution. All in 3 minutes. This is art.
As wonderful as the sound (the music) is, I long for an acoustical experience. Many thanks for this marvelous opportunity.
Thanks much. Sokolov is a great pianist and wonderful interpretater of music.
Был на его концертах в Питере не один раз и горжусь этим! Не понимаю тех, кто ставит дизлайки.
Вы счастливый человек! Я плачу, слушая записи...
Счастливчик
@@user-qe9xn6qu2n Не то слово
the best rendition of this prelude !!!!!!!!! incomparable !!!!!
By so far
Had not heard this before, happy to learn of its existence - it's the closest I have heard Bach come to romance. No wonder it moves to tears.
Have you heard „Bach - Busoni - ich rufe zu dir Herr Jesu Christ“?
Богу Слава! Мир вам!
~ под прелюдию Баха~Зилоти ~
стою я пред Богом под небом
одна во Вселенной
и с неба на землю летят
огромные хлопья мягкого снега,
а может весёлым стеклярусом сыплется град,
ангел слезинки роняет в дождинках
или ливнем обильным хлещет с небес водопад,
омывая небесной крещенской купелью
как же ещё нас грешных спасать?
26 января 2017 ~ ночь ~ накануне отдания праздника Богоявления
It is prelude in B minor by Siloti...it's an arrangement of Bach's Prelude in E minor from the Well Tempered Klavier book 1.
Big Thanks to you Jidong ,it made my day
Merci pour partager. Grandioso Sokolov .
genialnie💐
Genius!!!!
Он на концерте в Милане играл последний бис эту прелюдию. Это было так завораживающи.
Он не сыграл что-то мощьное, быстрое на последний бис, нет, он окончил Бахом, великим Бахом
El tema B parecería de película hermosa. Solo Bach pudo haber compuesto esta maravilla, esta joya musical.
Esta obra es la “personificación” de la perfección de principio a fin.
Mesmeriza, hechiza de principio a fin.
Masterpiece 🌿🌿🌿
Wow, what a great performance! This guy has tone ;)
amazing!
Чем больше разнообразия тем лучше!!!
If you're a pianist and have played this, you know how easy the notes are and how difficult it is to make them sing. Gilels used this as an encore over decades and, to my way of thinking, set a high standard. Great as Sokolov is in baroque (c.f. his readings of Bach's Kunst der Fuge) the opening bars here feel a bit stiff. Then he relaxes beautifully.
Браво!вы лучший!здоровья вам и удачи!
Genial...einfach genial...
Une interpretation exceptionnelle, avec une ligne de chant subblime.
Esecuzione perfetta
Magistral.
Yes, no doubt, Gilels interpretation is just heaven.
Какое наслаждение слушать его игру
Thank you 4 sharing
Unbelievable!
super vidéo merci
Sokolov is the Russian Glenn Gould. Such impeccable devotion to clarity.
Sokolov is Sokolov,unique genius
ГЕНИАЛЬНО!!
Genius !!
He is the only one to find a other way to the emperor Gilels so bravissimo
I have the score for harp and play it on piano. It's longer. The Prelude is A. Siloti creation on J.S.Bach Prelude in E-minor WTC 1 volume. The left hand tune.
Настоящий Мастер!
The Prelude in B minor is a transcription for piano by Alexander Siloti of the Prelude in E minor BWV 855a by Johann Sebastian Bach from his Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Parabéns à sua super sensibilidade. É fantástico *
Big Thanks to you Jidong
Gillels' is pure poetry (but very conventional). This one has more to do with strength and creativity. Both are admirable.
Космос! Великий художник помянул другого - ушедшего. Но и космическое одиночество. Быть может, схожее с одиночеством человека, принявшего решение провидца, каким мы сегодня видим Э.Г. Гилельса 1966 года. Вряд ли стоит сравнивать две интерпретации. Уверен, что Гилельс «присутствует» в исполнении Г.Л. Соколова. Лучшего поминовения Эмиля Григорьевича я не знаю.
+mnikeshichev 100%
Несомненно хорошее исполнение, но темп !!! Совершенно другой! Гилельс все же исполнял совершенно по другому, Душа раскрывалась и пела, там какой то другой уровень!
@@elmiramuradova561 соглас на с вами! Другой уровень!
Transcendental...
it's like the music of god..
Eccellente
Vadim Kholodenko has the ultimate performance of this piece. By far.
Everyone did learn from Bach!
Гилельс навсегда!
I need the notes to this beautiful piece so bad
IMSLP
This is NOT a "song," It is a "PIECE." Okay? A PIECE of music. Do not refer to it as a "song," A song is something that is SUNG. By humans. So tired of this. I hear Beethoven's symphonies being referred to as "songs," ("Oh, I love that song by Beethoven, you know, the fifth!") and I want to strangle them.
They are "Preludes," "Quartets," "Trios" "Sonatas" "Polonaises," "Symphonies," "Concertos," "Fugues," "Serenades," -- WHATEVER! -- But NOT "SONGS!" Unless they are specifically SONGS, then they are not called "SONGS," OKAY????
Songs don't need to be pieces of music that are sung.
Btw, this is a nice song.
How about Mendelssohn's piano pieces, "Songs Without Words" (Lieder ohne Worte) ?
***** I think you will find that the correct English translation of the German word 'lied' is the English word 'song'. All German-English dictionaries give the English word 'song' as the most appropriate translation of 'lied'. My point was a point about the English word ' song'. Not about the German word 'song'. The English word 'song' (like the German word 'lied') can be a song with words and without. Indeed, it can also be a poem which has not been set to music - the Biblical Song of Songs, or Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
***** Yes - I completely agree with you - arguing about the meaning of words is unlikely to help anyone appreciate the music. We usually know what another person is really trying to say. Correcting the way they say it is often simply an unnecessary distraction. Sometimes it can be unfriendly, or aggressive, or arrogant. (There is, I think, an example earlier in this thread - which actually provoked my first comment). I agree - let us concentrate on the music!!
Agreed !
Interesting voicing switch for the repeat.
Don't "cry" always, ladies ... no more tissues left.
In my opinion, Gilel will never be surpassed on this one...
I agree, but there is another version of Sokolov that is much better than this one. And there is also a pretty unknown version by the German pianist Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy which is wonderful. czcams.com/video/0XDoup7HbFc/video.html
Великий пианист, больше нечего сказать.
소콜로프는 진정한 살아있는 전설이다.....😐
Nikolai Medtner took his brother Emil wife. Three of them lived together and than Emil left for Germany. Nikolai and Anna joint Emil that gave up his wife and they live happily ever after. Russian music historian hide this fact.
Jidong ,please do not refer to music played on an instrument as a song; this is not a song. I really like Sokolov's interpretation.
И Зилоти и Перекличку птиц Рамо лучше исполняет Эмиль Гилельс, причём гениально.
sorry it is prelude in n minor:p didn't see the composer's name, thought it was from Chopin
Wis the first time I hear this Prel in Eminor of Bach- siloti .can you put in sheet ? I live far away from this is for buy
:) I was mistaken, sorry. Thanks for telling me.
I find it a tad too fast and too much forte, and despite the technical simplity of the piece, there seems to be a little slip in his fingers at 0:31.
Очень всегда берёт за душу это исполнение... Спасибо огромное!
Если любите это произведение, можете посмотреть, как исполнил его юный украинский талант: czcams.com/video/X3o3FnJYevM/video.html
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Can't find the right words. Maybe "magic"
Разговор с Богом, не иначе, самая трогающая вещь из всей музыки, до глубины души
does anyone has the complete score? Somehow Siloti´s available scores have only 2 pages... this might be an extended version I suppose?
***** Hi Jidong. How silly of me! I really didnt notice hauhauuhahuahua. Thanks a lot :-D
Как много можно сказать музыкой!
+Иван Поддубный Daaaaa!!!!!!!
а что тебе в этом слышется? Мне слышется : правой рукой пробуждение желания и надежды, а левая рука демонстрирует решительность действий , которые растворяются к финалу ,толи .из-а недостаточной агрессии, толи из-за избыточной деликатности. Финал обидный и трогательный , а могло бы все закончиться победным апофеозом. Ну , нет хепи энда! И всплывают воспоминания из собственного жизненного опыта...
@@user-uo4qv4ec7q А мне во второй части слышатся как падают тяжёлые и горькие слёзы Силоти в тоске по Родине.
Why the heck did Siloti write the third measure DIFFERENT than what Bach wrote? He could have just kept the 16th notes as Bach wrote. But he didn't. I see no reason for the change.
...слухи о некой соколиности угнетающе приувиличины .
i don't think this is prelude in b minor.. it sounds very beautiful though :)
Per favore ascoltate Gilels...
Yann Tiersen did learn from Bach?
what Yann Tiersen s work do you mean
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Мне нравится исполнение Соколова, но Ивана.
Zu schnell und zu hart! So sehr ich Sokolov bei anderen Komponisten mag, aber seine rusische Art zu spielen entspricht nicht Bach.
Heinrich Kaspar Das Stück ist ja eine Überarbeitung von Alexander Siloti, deshalb seine romantische Interpreatitionsweise. Sonst würde es Sokolov ganz bestimmt anders spielen.
Funny, a little mistake at 0'31", on a so easy piece for him !