I love to listen to Vladimir Ashkenazy play the piano and often treat myself to this video on repeat. I especially admire how he plays Chopin pieces...Thank you for posting this. He's a joy to watch as well!
Still my all time favorite interpretation of this great piece by Chopin.
@pablovalverde35424 жыл бұрын
With Richter as well
@sampeng52164 жыл бұрын
I agree. Listened to many famous pianists playing this piece but Ashkenazy's is still my favourite.
@alimolaei_guitar3 жыл бұрын
@@pablovalverde3542 I love richter's too, but this one is just brilliant!!
@ShadowShinobi1083 жыл бұрын
Nice I have so many favorites its hard to put an absolute best.. for me its Pollini, Ashkenazy, Zimerman, Richter and Yundi Li for this piece. Good to see that people have favorites and preferences; that'll help keep classical music alive :D
@jonathan130 Жыл бұрын
Zimmerman is way better
@Maffchops7 жыл бұрын
4:06-5:04 is one of the most stunningly beautiful passages in all of classical music, and I've never heard it performed as well as here.
@user-zz8bw6fs1s5 жыл бұрын
本当に、本当にありがとう御座います。永久保存版ですね。
@jimhendricks886 жыл бұрын
Until I finish learning the piece, I hesitate to do much commenting, but I'm amazed at his tone control--wow, such a refined touch; it's incredible. I appreciate the passionate performances of Rubenstein and Richter for this piece, though. Thanks for posting this. I've always had such great respect for Ashkenazy.
@cattleman64200120003 жыл бұрын
I love his wonderful musical sensitivity and poetry.
@satyu13108910 жыл бұрын
Surprised that this masterful performance has so little viewership. This man has an excellent balance of sentiment and restraint, I'm surprised by the poor reception
@antoinebouchaud42426 жыл бұрын
That's because he's not 7 years old, people prefere a bad interpretation from a toddler. People are weird.
@smudger6716 жыл бұрын
60,000 views - little viewership?
@EmptyVee000005 жыл бұрын
Because he does not show off; people prefer circus pianists these days.
@davidwhyberd76124 жыл бұрын
@@EmptyVee00000 John Lill dislikes being flamboyant and it puts me off when musicians show off with extravagant gestures. I have heard him in concert and there is just a flick of his coat tails. I met him and found him a very pleasant and modest man. I asked for Vladimir Ashkanazy's autograph during the 80s, but standing next to a great pianist that I have always admired was too much. Since I have found out what a lovely, humourous and modest man, I with that I had had a conversation with him.
@floriankoch52383 жыл бұрын
the quality of the sound is sooo bad... what is this noise in the background??
@rigel484 жыл бұрын
The first ballade is great, but the fourth is even greater. Beautiful interpretation from Ashkenazy.
@nadiadesimone86453 жыл бұрын
I agree. The fourth is magnificent too
@floragutierrez5382 жыл бұрын
Una de las mejores interpretaciones de esta balada
@shadowjuan26 жыл бұрын
Music that touches essence of the soul. We all reunite here to reverence the work of a man whose music opened our imagination to a never thought before realm of magic and mystery. Thank you Mr. Chopin and Mr. Ashkenazy.
@Reinaldo1464 жыл бұрын
Absolutely and very well said. Chopin brought it to us and the best of our humanity (i.e. Ashkenazy +) put it in our ears in all its splendor
@jesuisravi7 жыл бұрын
Such great concentration! I am happy to see that he doesn't make faces when he plays.
@meredith2184613 жыл бұрын
Ashkenazy brings such profound poetry and mastery to this great work, also he shows an intelligent awareness of its compositional shape and design. This has to be one of the finest live accounts of the 4th Ballade.
@nadiadesimone86453 жыл бұрын
Such a wonderful interpretation!
@JLDeloeul9 жыл бұрын
à 4 min et 7 sec du morceau, c'est l'un des rare à ne pas avoir un tempo plus lent que le retour au "a tempo" de la mesure 80. alors que la plupart des autres ralentissent trop avant la mesure 80 ce qui produit une accélération subite à la mesure 80. alors Bravo Vlad, et boooooouuuu les autres...
@stefaniagiannotta60576 жыл бұрын
Un solitario tra gli altri per eccellenza, misura, e ritrosia nell'essere concentrato sul brano e su sé stesso. Egli è anche il pubblico. A lui interessa, ed ha sempre interessato, il risultato. Non si può dire che si spezzi le mani per interpretare una serie di ottave, e neppure l'inimmaginabile. Il suo non è un vero e proprio canto, ma una danza e un esercizio di stile che parla del suo paese e della cultura in generale di popoli che hanno sofferto l'oppressione , la nostalgia e l'esilio. Il proprio mondo poetico, confluisce in queste connotazioni, anche volte al risorgere dalla rabbia e dalla sventura. Impegno nell'arte e nella politica, io vedo in lui, ma mai così esplicito ai più che lo ascoltano solo per la sua esuberanza nell'intensità che fuoriesce dalle sue dita d'acciaio.
@fabioalessi9730 Жыл бұрын
"Egli e' anche il pubblico", beh, questa me la segno: per Ashkenazy e' veramente azzeccata 🙂
@koumusic26004 жыл бұрын
Ashkenazy’s pacing and dynamics on the climax before the coda is sort of similar to Zimmerman’s. I love it, my favorite passage. 8:20-9:20
@Puran.4 ай бұрын
What a performance still best one 😍❤❤❤
@zuhairbakdoud78635 жыл бұрын
Ashkenazy talks to you using the godly instrument of music - the PIANO, CHOPIN’s tongue
@sk-fk7om3 жыл бұрын
Great☆ There is no other word.
@chazinko4 жыл бұрын
Poetic and brilliant - Ashkenazy at his best in this Romantic masterwork.
@aeolianharp1363 Жыл бұрын
master , legend
@stevestevenson88996 жыл бұрын
This is incredible.
@stevestevenson88996 жыл бұрын
And Iam 100% sure this performance was pawned off as Cziffra performance on YT. Very happy this has been righted.
@chopinchannel29433 жыл бұрын
うますぎ
@user-nz4hs2lh7r Жыл бұрын
素敵。
@cagrulu10178 жыл бұрын
Vladimir horowitz, Ivo pogorelich and ashkenazy ❤️
@floragutierrez5382 жыл бұрын
And S Richter
@musicsdarkangel9 жыл бұрын
5:40 how the hell did he do that? I'm learning this and that section is so difficult.
@Petermaguire36845 жыл бұрын
practice and deep knowledge of how it should be played. Notes are exactly just that, on a page.
@John-thinks7 жыл бұрын
The sounds he pulls from the piano here are pretty, but the overarching themes didn't move me deeply as other recordings of this ballade have.
@b1sing53 Жыл бұрын
Demonstably brilliant and moving. I hope he enjoys his retirement.
@everyday7345 жыл бұрын
7:38 fur elise
@EmptyVee000009 жыл бұрын
When was this filmed?
@yamie0098 жыл бұрын
+EmptyVee00000 1984.5.9
@user-uf7dt2ch2j3 жыл бұрын
Послушайте Кисина...
@jenniferbate96822 жыл бұрын
The reception is poor but, who could give a thumbs down to the wonderful Vladimir Ashkenazy playing Chopin? Must be deaf I guess!!
@olegkrimer9113 жыл бұрын
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@willemboone79128 жыл бұрын
Much as I love Ashkenazy as a Chopin pianist, I have never understood why he pedals as of 9.30.....??!? It's definitely not in the score!
@dthomases17 жыл бұрын
it'a tradition of Russian pianists begun, I believe, by Sofornitsky and continued by many others
@bach58617 жыл бұрын
Ashkenazy was a pupil of Yakov Flier.
@Transition3336 жыл бұрын
Beautifully stated!
@EmptyVee000006 жыл бұрын
No, he was a pupil of Anaida Sumbatyan and Lev Oborin, and Boris Zemlyansky.
@flouz25 жыл бұрын
even the greatest used pedaling when having problem with a certain passage, or even just a bar......
@claudioparrella183 Жыл бұрын
Una buona interpretazione ma niente di più
@jorgeliebermann91810 жыл бұрын
I don´t like the sound.He is not the great pianist of the 70/75.
@EmptyVee000004 жыл бұрын
I love the sound.
@freeqwerqwer7 жыл бұрын
He wasn't in best form. Very uninspired playing.
@senar19406 жыл бұрын
Omg! How can you say such a thing! This is totally nonsense, unfounded and unargumented. Clear your ears!!
@willemboone79125 жыл бұрын
I hope to be as uninspired as Ashkenazy one day! :-)
@user-tn1cz6sq4y3 жыл бұрын
Ashkenazy! Uninspired playing! And what about this? Unusually inspiring? :) )))) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rphxacKdsd6cqGg.html