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Thanks, wr, for linking us to V. Vartanian. He is fantastic. I love his Chopin Waltz transcription. He is definitely someone to watch out for in the future! Beautiful playing - and an incredibly exciting performer.

And thanks for posting a response. It's nice to know someone else agrees when it comes to the playing of someone unknown.

Well indeed! This a major young artist at work. Just goes to show -I suppose- how much God-given talent is out there. Something to marvel at and be grateful for. Yeah, I studied that Chopin waltz, but I take my hat off to him. I am truly, and very happily, impressed.

No doubt this wonderful gentleman has worked very, very hard -you know, I did too!- but (once again) pace all the piano teachers here: this is a prime example of supreme piano playing that cannot be taught. Ultimately you either have it or you don't. No teacher can change that, they can only refine.

And now watch his Rachmaninov: Amazing!

Very much to admire of course, but listen to how carefully he voices those chords...

Thanks for posting this! I confess I'd never seen it before and it's always so interesting to get an insight into her personality. Oh, and the octaves at the end are amazing!

best performance of extremely difficult score

My fave.

I love it when he turns the page and his eyes bulge out - I've had exactly that experience!

Bronfman plays the Rach3 with the ossia cadenza. I've purposely linked to part 2 (I believe there are 5 parts in all) so you can hear the cadenza which starts at about 2:25 or so. Took my breath away...

Clickey here.....

I know Horowitz & Martha A's versions have always been considered benchmarks for this piece. But neither of them have anything on Bronfman where this is concerned (IMHO). What power !

Godowsky - The Swan

does anyone have this piece's sheet music?
love it but never found the sheet

Some amazing performances of PW member Koji Atwood:


http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Thracozaag

Worth watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w

Those thirds make me jealous, and the Tchaikovsky-Feinberg is just out of this world!

I like Barber Ballade a lot.

I like this a lot. atom heart mother keyboard cover

Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique
performed by Freddy Kempf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq4G3KRAuXc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2nG1bt7IBM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkr7WgQ_Y4

Hello everybody
Please help!
Can anyone identify this song? I desperately need to know what it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFChiv3930

Thank you in advance

posted in another topic, but it belongs here

one hand and a hook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcsCG6Fgykc

the end of one of my favorite concertos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3VDR_MkkHfM

Great, thanks! Never noticed the similarity to the 5th Symphony before... da da da daaaaahhh....

And of course you'll find that same motive -in a sense- in the 1st mov't of the 4th Piano Concerto.

Thanks apple* for the Myra Hess. Interesting that she breaks the pianistic eruption in measure 14 between two hands. Tovey doesn't mention that option in his edition, but I believe (?) Bülow did in his edition.

It seems fair enough without compromising Beethoven's intentions. And perhaps Beethoven wrote the passage as he did with the idea that a resourceful pianist would find an intelligent way to divide between the hands.

The parallel passage at measure 149 has the left hand otherwise occupied, but try it: the right hand starts with a crescendo and with the underpinning from the left hand, it feels easier. But yet is anything in the Appassionata easy? Charles Rosen considers it overall as hard as the Op. 106.

... and of course in Brahms Op. 5 (sonata), Op. 9 (variations), Op. 10 No. 1 (ballade)...... sometimes I wonder if it's just a nice rhythm that Beethoven, Brahms et al liked to use, without any perhaps-popularly-blown-out-of-proportion connection to the 5th?