Grigory sokolov live in paris

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Beethoven Brahms Mozart. Audio CD. The Salzburg Recital. Scott, Helen. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I. Next set of slides. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Customer reviews. How customer reviews and ratings work Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.

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Not a lot is available since he refuses to do conventional studio recordings, but I first got the five CD box of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms. It is simply astounding playing. There are five encores, by Chopin, Couperin and Bach. To say that this is merely perfect is to understate the case. This is absolutely extraordinary playing with the technical perfection of a studio performance combined with the musical energy of a live concert.

Sokolov is possibly the finest pianist alive. It is remarkable that after listening to him play, one listens to other pianists, one starts noticing that they don't quite have the dynamics accurately I usually listen with the score in hand , their tempi aren't quite as convincing, the colors are not quite as beautiful and so on. Great musicianship is a matter of both an overall vision and precise attention to every detail.

Sokolov has both. He does not give the impression of an eccentric or an egomaniac and he does not pander to the audience or try to amuse them with dramatics. He just plays the music. About as well as I can imagine it being played. Just one of many remarkable things about this concert is that after a ferocious performance of the last movement of the Prokofiev--barbaric in intensity--he plays as his first encore a very delicate Chopin mazurka Despite the director being Bruno Monsaingeon, certain filmic devices, such as the camera drawing away as a movement ends, are predictable.

The sound is first-rate though. The important thing here is how Sokolov interprets the music. This is a man who communicates through his intellect and fingers, through sound. I am, though, dismayed that Sokolov spurns the exposition repeat. Following are Six Dances of Sogomon Komitas of whom I know nothing, and on whom the booklet supplies only the dates just given.

I guess he was Turkish. He searches the explosive and interior aspects of this usually taken-for-granted piece and shows its elusive and deeper sides. The result is a revelation, not least in the finale, given with articulate rhythms and cumulative purpose — dogged rather than easy.