"THE PIANO IS NOT ONLY A PIANO....IT IS AN ORCHESTRA...A HUMAN VOICE....IT IS SOME INSTRUMENT THAT WERE BEFORE THE PIANO...IT IS SOME ANTIQUE INSTRUMENT... WITH ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES"

What a treat! You are a goldmine.

I turned on the auto subtitles and, at the very start of this video, when the presenter says "Igo Pogorelich," the auto subtitles read: "evil will go away." a befitting mis-transcription for the beautiful music that follows.

This is wonderful. Thanks so much for posting.

Thank you so much! 💐Excited to hear Pogorelich talking about his long-term friendship with Pletnev and support for National Theatre of Russia.Again, thanks for sharing&merry Christmas:D

Thank you so much ADGO . very much appreciated.

Ivo Pogorelich was born in Belgrade in 1958 as son of a musician. He received his first piano lessons at the age of seven and went to Moscow at the age of twelve to study at the Central Special Music School and then at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory. In 1976 he began intensive studies with the renowned pianist and teacher Aliza Kezeradze, with whom he was married from 1980 until her untimely death in 1996. Mme. Kezeradze was able to transmit the spirit and matter of the school of Beethoven and Liszt, the tradition of the Liszt-Siloti school, originated in Vienna and than carried through to the Conservatory of St. Petersburg, flourishing towards the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th. Century. Pogorelich´s sound, concerts and recordings pay homage to this exceptionally refined, visionary, and truly revolutionary woman, who so lovingly made Pogorelich a unique artist of genius. Ivo Pogorelich won the first prize at the Alessandro Casagrande Competition at Terni (Italy) in 1978 and the first price at the Montreal International Music Competition in 1980. In October of the same year he entered the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw where, when prevented from participating in the final contest as a soloist with the orchestra, a fierce controversy resulted in the renowned argentinian pianist Martha Argerich, a member of the jury, protesting and leaving the competition, joined by other members of the jury panel, with the words “He is a genius”. The New York Times once wrote “He played each note exactly, with such a feeling, such expression, he was an entire orchestra- it was as if he played 200 years ahead of our time”. In this spirit Ivo Pogorelich is known today as a poet of the instrument. Ivo Pogorelich is not only an artist of the highest caliber, discipline and musicianship, but the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take. Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete. Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, love and compassion. -- Sound and Silence, Life and Death, Time and Space; collapse into the Eternal moment of Infinity. -- ----------------------- "you have to get into the phycological frame of mind in which composers wrote their works in order to discover its secrets. virtuosity comes from the greek origin virtue. original is finding the origin Gaudi said. rachmaninov had arthritis at the end of his life, he was so weak that his sound was very short, that is the reason he played fast, to fill the vacuum. if you have long sound you are in command to achieve clarity and the hypnotic sound between the notes. the problem was always the conflict and the difference between the absolute and the relative quality. beauty in music is like in diamonds, the purest diamond in the world is the Koh-i-Noor, it is the absolute beauty to which others with relative beauty are compared. work as hard as a galley slave. one should always try as much as possible to rediscover music as though one is hearing it for the first time, searching everywhere for new meanings and new depths. the highest function of the artist is to release the spirituality and the emotional immediacy that lie within the score. sound becomes metaphysical only when you have completely explored all physical possibilities. you should explore until reaching the absurd. music takes you to another universe of eternity that remains with you after the concert is finished." Ivo Pogorelich. ------------------------------------

This the bollocks, as we say. What beautiful phrasing and touch. LOVE him.

one of a kind....one of a kind. so so exquisite...

Thank you, ADGO!

Thank you so much!

Thanks, dear Antonio ..s.

Ivo Pogorelich, great Croatian virtuoso

Nice! This is a very nice Pogorelich recording!! And he still looks happier then than he looks nowadays. But in his reactions you can read how terrible he must have found all these occasions. His apparent not-loving these kind of occasions is honest; it is really not evident to appear in a tv studio, start playing just one short piece, but still wanting to play it at the utmost perfection, because everyone expects it from you, even on a piano that is not as good as you usually get on a concert stage, having not the same peace and concentration as before a normal recital...; we should not minimize that, even if people think it is "just an easy piece for such a famous pianist". Probably he must have loathed this media show more and more as time went by?? But this is really a very nice Scarlatti, thank you!

almost all pianists play this sonata fast. Pogorelich understood that this music must be played more slowly, quietly, tenderly, with a bit of melancholy. I love his rendition.

Спасибо, никогда не слышал Погорелича говорящим, теперь это пробел восполнен. Ну, и играет, разумеется, великолепно.

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He's sitting on a book hahha

Could that be the stupidest question ever? Do you look at that piano and just think "I'm gonna tame the shit out of you mate. Try anything with me, Ill show who's boss. Like Basil Fawlty's car. Got a stick here give you a beating first, Teach you some rythmn." I think these are often best performances, with guy in his shell suit, relaxed, idiot woman, no pressure. One of my top favourites. By the way, as any musician will say, you have to coax and draw down as much beauty with a LOVE AFFAIR with the instrument, however "poor." Love and peace and scarlatti. BC

Do you have the remainder of this interview?

The Israeli TV transcribed it as "maestro Pletner"

Pogorelich has reinforced the music of Scarlatti for me. Not a composer to whom I really ever gave much credit until I heard Pogorelich's performance of a G minor sonata...

who knows what Pogo says at about 6：42“I just believe without even hearing”Then what？

First "because music is an integral part of their culture..., second because when they study, they studt in the most dedicated way". Just Russia.

YAMAHA piano! I feel painful(’-’*)♪

Russian school !

He talks about having to play a short piece by Scarlatti as if it is such a terrible burden.