you put so much thought into this! definitely my favorite rachmaninoff concerto, probably my favorite piano concerto! happy early birthday to rachmaninoff (it’s tomorrow, April 1st)!!

Very helpful breakdown thankyou

thank you !

This makes listening to the whole concerto so much more approachable - thanks!

You are an angel thank you ❤️🧡🧡

i don't remember asking?

Ecxatly, he said thats famous words

sorry Lawrence . Van beethoven not von

this makes me feel better whenever I mess up practicing >

Awesome

Spotted

Onde exatamente ele disse isso

I was thinking the same thing, this must be one of the most difficult piano concertos to perform. She was both brave and brilliant at that.

@@sorellman @carlkligerman1981 its just a fact, amazing piece and how she plays... it it is insane!

At 18:50 yeah! 😆 The whole audience sounded corona positive.

well I have learned that it is quite rude to clap inbetween movements, since you interrupt the piece itself which is not over yet, it just takes a pause (with length defined by the conductor, and not by the people). and the people coughing in the pause inbetween movements usually held back any coughing during the piece itself which would disturb recordings, such as this one. so yeah this is kinda expected and also quite normal behavior in the classical music scene (at least in europe)

I hate that moment 😂🤣

As long as there are audiences you will hear coughing in between movements--get used to it or buy CDs. I've attended more orchestral and opera concerts than I could count; I've noticed people cough between movements because they've been holding it in for so long. Maybe they just can't stand to be silent for 45 minutes.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We need that so thick in every arts. Listen and going to concerts shoud be an academic prerequisite. Where else can we get creative resources to solve engineering and human problems?

Bella Ana. Excelente pianista una artista

❤❤❤❤❤なんともいい野菜

WTAF??? 👏👏👏👏👏

This is absolutely everything that my fellow commenters say that it is. My heart is touched with profound beauty. There are parts so perfectlly written and played thay call us back to them over and over. Thank you, UTube for making these concerts available. ~~ Love Anna's playring!!

I’ve always adored this music. It has actually had a big impact on how I’ve developed as a composer. Especially on an emotional level and that is the type of music that I do.

MaestrA ;)

@@Xargxes And virtuaosA.

Always have tears in my eyes...

Thank you! 🙏

Thank you.

32:20 another epic theme

Gracias.

8:42-10:35 maybe the most beautiful part of part 1

I told you a million times not to exaggerate. :) Rach 2 and 3 are among my 10 favorite compositions, and I always enjoy her interpretations.

Me too!!!!

אצלי רחמנינוף 2 --- היצירה האהובה ביותר אחרי שחרזאדה , שהיא במקום הראשון --- והשלישית היא נמבר ניין של דבוז'אק .

Her rhapsody on a theme of Paganini is well worth watching too.

Watch more, your views only counted to about two million so far... :D

I've Cryied with that part sorry

@@ericsanchezpianista2522 beautiful part.

me same

Remember me a tschaikovksky

Truly one of the most sublime moments ever composed as I'm concerned...

It really is amazing, we've got all this technology and plastic 1/4/5 music on the radio and you wonder if anyone could compose even the first 2 minutes of a piece like this today?

@@trutwijd no chance

probably because he learned a lot of useful music theory that may helped him to composed all of his masterpieces

@@fildzafadzli8620 I took a lot of Music Theory classes too, wasn't half bad... but I still couldn't compose Row Row Row Your Boat. :)

J Truts try to compose again then

Hey, why is this version differwnt fron the ones horowitz and yunchan lim play?

Rachmaninov wrote different versions for certain parts of the concerto. The performers can choose which versions they play.

Indeed :) Same here :)

Who are you kidding? No reasonable man.

You are done. Of course you love her. You like air, sunlight and cold water?

@Lenny Online You call this ugly? We must've seen a complete different video.

@Lenny Online What planet are you from?

I agree

Yes yes I always cry..I've learned to accept that impact.

@@hampsog that is the power of Rachmaninoff ;)

I struggle not to blubber and sob when I hear this music. The second piano concerto utterly devastates me. I don’t dare listen to Rachmaninoff if friends or family are around.

You have put words to what I feel when I hear this and rach 2. Well said

It feels almost sacrilegious to say such a thing in our world of amazing composers, yet here we are. “almost”

Rach 2 is lovely too

I personally like Rach 2 much more because it is more romantic and simply more beautiful because of the romantic themes. Rach 3 is also an incredible masterpiece, but in my opinion too technical, which means a little lack of romanticism. And romanticism is what Rachmaninoff is made of.

Yes, I feel that😢

Your time of the 3rd movement is off. It starts at 29:50

You forgot the lieder part from 0:00 to 0:22 :D

Cuando oigo esta musica es cuano mas creo en Dios

@@ilovemycatrussell9298 I don't think so, 30:12 is where the last two cords of the 2nd movement, leading then to the 3rd movement, so in any case, 30:12 is even before the 2nd movement has ended. PD: Please don't take this comment really seriously

no, the 3rd moviment starts at 30:15

Yes this is good, I also like Anas music. Still I find Daniil Trifonovs version on KZfaq better, with a lot more blood and suffering, and another temperament, higher temperature.

@@staffanolofsson8201 Respectfully, I have to disagree. I find him fussy, muddy and mannered. Not to my taste at all. Pianism, not musicianship. And I’m afraid to say I hate pianism. The “passion” is ersatz and tacky. Additionally, as it relates to my point about Fedorova, he is a pianist accompanied by an orchestra; she is a musician embedding herself in the orchestra. Most importantly her rhythmic suppleness and precision is something that is beyond most pianists but it adds so much that is expressive to this repertoire. Her command of the architecture is in a different league (it's not about playing phrases, anyone can play phrases.). And her control of colour is simply glorious. Your wayward friend doesn’t come close in those regards. It’s not all about how hard you can hit the keys, or how sweaty you can make yourself look ... But thank you for getting me to listen again to this majestic performance!

I really noticed that too, the fact that she doesn't try to preempt the orchestra, especially as new instruments and / or themes are introduced. So many other pianists (so called virtuosos) will try and beat the orchestra to the punch or outrace them, it doesn't sound good to me. Anna's music is as it should be !

She’s not supposed to listen to the orchestra in this piece. They all [conductor included] are SUPPOSED to key off of her. They didn’t do it. Because of the Conductor. He had the orchestras volume of playing too high. You couldn’t even hear the fine touch playing she was doing because of this. Check out Olga Kern doing this. Much better because the conductor is better. Fedorova’s and Kern’s renditions are only compared by preferences. But the conductor’s are easily compared. One is lacking in this.

@@frankiek2269 Perhaps you should get your ears tested...Or a better system...Just saying...As a musician for 47 years, I found it delightful to hear both the subtleties of Anna's playing AND the orchestra.

@Abram Huang yes! It was amazing! The ending of the encore piece was also really beautiful

Where was that?

I wish she would come to NEW YORK!! COME! ANNA!!!

that part totally made me cry when I heard it live in concert

That's true. Three of his concertos are the top 5 ever composed.

@@nicoofficial7595 wasnt his first concerto not that well recieved?

Mahler defines the symphony, Wagner defines the opera

@@joshuakim3734 Rachmoninoff wrote 4 concerts

@@joshuakim3734 that's was his first symphony, not received well because of one drunk conductor

LMAO XD

ICONIC.

Just before the infamous third movement XD, she is just bracing herself!

LMAO!!! How is she not tired?!

queen !

I have a harder time getting into the 3rd. How many listens does it takes you to really enjoy a piano concerto?

@@TheAskald I enjoyed the second one the first time. The third took several times. Sometimes I play minecraft and turn the sound off and have classical music playing instead. With Anna Fedorova I would rather watch her fingers working the keys.

I confess...

I always play the 3rd first, and segue into the 2nd. Only because I fell in love with the 3rd first...The 2nd, helps me to balance my emotions, brought on by the 3rd...

For me, Anna Fedorova,, is the special one I always go back to over and over. Love you Anna. Thank You, for your dedication to wonderment. Time will never forget you and your concerts!

Very sublime playing on her part

souhlasím .. vášeň slovanské duše

She’s living it!!!

Brava Brava Brava!!!

Yes, hell yes, but we will, and it's not over yet, just focus on the good! And go on!

It's easier to kill each other and win a medal than to learn one page of this.

You are a hundred times right. Unfortunately, this kind of the highest level culture is possessed by too small part of the humans. The majority of the people on the planet are pursuing just base goals and they threaten destroying the culture per se.

That, Mike, is the question of the millenium. One many of us have long pondered, since childhood. Perchance, are you the Mike Brown who was in the novel group Left Banke?

Then there's Van Cliburn who actually did both.

@@richardcondon3797 Depended on the venue. If it was a small town of music illiterates, Cliburn missed notes. It's ok.

Kent Betts please elaborate on what you mean

Hence, the concept of "interpretation"

Rachmaninoff 'missed' notes that he composed too... so I don't think playing right notes makes the musician.

I'm sure that she has!

she bring in my eyes

Senza dubbio! E’ fantastica! ❤️

Alexander Batyr she did (Just in case you haven't seen it - it's wonderful)

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptZ6aNh6ubKpc3k.html Here it is, is AWESOME!

I would love to hear her interpretation of his 4th piano concerto. The one he refused to write, The Warsaw Concerto.

She has. It is on the internet -- a beautiful rendition of Rhapsody of a Theme of Paganini.

@@wilsjane if ur still around ive got some amazing news for u (i attended it myself and her interpretation is refreshing:))

I go between 2, 3, and 4 over the span of a week for the past 2 months. Its just too good.

The trolls are there to be ignored. Or pitied. We are so fortunate in being able to appreciate and relish this beautiful music and the amazing composer and awesomely talented pianist who have given this gift to us.

I could not agree with you more. She is truly great with Rac 2 and 3. Her passion and timing are great. Rachmaninoff did not like this when he first played it after he wrote it on a cruse ship. I think it is one of his greatest works.

@@robertmurray7506 🙏

Well said. You catch her performance in all its breathtaking beauty. Thanks.

Yeah...like, no pressure!

@@johne6081 🔥🌪️⚡🌈🌦️🌨️🔥

muttley laugh

This is where we intersect with God.

Well Franz, your music is not that bad :)

+Robert Bonter ... and Canada.

+Robert Bonter and Brazil too.

+Robert Bonter And in Spain too

+Robert Bonter And in Texas too. What an awesome gift!

+Auric Golddfinger En México tambien

people carried out on stretchers

Indeed!

what I was looking for ♥

I agree. The following section from 27:17 to 28:37 is fantastic, too. I really can't get it out of my head and get goosebumps every time I hear it.

it is. sometimes i listen to this same couple of minutes many times in a row. is just so magical and genius i can't get over it. sometimes i cry too, lol

@@sarapiazza1325 yes that's really the only way i listen to music now LOL, just my favourite parts hahaha.

+Jacob Hendriks ..."the amazing Anna Fedodova." ah, ah, ah! : Sex in advertising From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Sex in advertising or "sex sells" is the use of sex appeal in advertising to help sell a particular product or service. Sexually appealing imagery may or may not pertain to the product or service in question. Examples of sexually appealing imagery include nudity, pin-up girls, and muscular men. The use of sex in advertising can be highly overt or extremely subtle. It ranges from relatively explicit displays of sexual acts, to the use of basic cosmetics to enhance attractive features." ALEXANDER BOOT Author, critic, polemicist Blogs > Alexander's blog > Sex sells - all of us short Submitted by Alexander on 24 June 2013 - 12:59pm The other day I listened to something or other on KZfaq, and a link to Chopin’s Fourth Ballade performed by the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili came up. The link was accompanied by a close-up publicity photo of the musician: sloe bedroom eyes, sensual semi-open lips suggesting a delight that’s still illegal in Alabama, naked shoulders hinting at the similarly nude rest of her body regrettably out of shot… Let me see where my wife is… Good, she isn’t looking over my shoulder, so I can admit to you that the picture got me excited in ways one doesn’t normally associate with Chopin’s Fourth Ballade or for that matter any other classical composition this side of Wagner or perhaps Ravel’s Bolero. Searching for a more traditional musical rapture I clicked on the actual clip and alas found it anticlimactic, as it were. Khatia’s playing, though competent, is as undeniably so-what as her voluptuous figure undeniably isn’t. (Yes, I know the photograph I mentioned doesn’t show much of her figure apart from the luscious shoulders but, the prurient side of my nature piqued, I did a bit of a web crawl.) Just for the hell of it I looked at the publicity shots of other currently active female musicians, such as Yuja Wang, Joanna MacGregor, Nicola Bendetti, Alison Balsom (nicknamed ‘crumpet with a trumpet’, her promos more often suggest ‘a strumpet with a trumpet’ instead), Anne-Sophie Mutter and a few others. They didn’t disappoint the Peeping Tom lurking under my aging surface. Just about all the photographs showed the ladies in various stages of undress, in bed, lying in suggestive poses on top of the piano, playing in frocks (if any) open to the coccyx in the back and/or to the navel up front. This is one thing these musicians have in common. The other is that none of them is all that good at her day job and some, such as Wang, are truly awful. Yet this doesn’t really matter either to them or to the public or, most important, to those who form the public tastes by writing about music and musicians. Thus, for example, a tabloid pundit expressing his heartfelt regret that Nicola Benedetti “won’t be posing for the lads’ mags anytime soon. Pity, because she looks fit as a fiddle…” Geddit? She’s a violinist, which is to say fiddler - well, you do get it. “But Nicola doesn’t always take the bonniest photo,” continues the writer, “she’s beaky in pics sometimes, which is weird because in the flesh she’s an absolute knock-out. “The classical musician is wearing skinny jeans which show off her long legs. She’s also busty with a washboard flat tummy, tottering around 5ft 10in in her Dune platform wedges.” How well does she play the violin though? No one cares. Not even critics writing for our broadsheets, who don’t mind talking about musicians in terms normally reserved for pole dancers. Thus for instance runs a review of a piano recital at Queen Elizabeth Hall, one of London’s top concert venues: “She is the most photogenic of players: young, pretty, bare-footed; and, with her long dark hair and exquisite strapless dress of dazzling white, not only seemed to imply that sexuality itself can make you a profound musician, but was a perfect visual complement to the sleek monochrome of a concert grand... [but] there’s more to her than meets the eye.” The male reader is clearly expected to get a stiffie trying to imagine what that might be. To help his imagination along, the piece is accompanied by a photo of the young lady in question reclining on her instrument in a pre-coital position with an unmistakable ‘come and get it’ expression on her face. The ‘monochrome’ piano is actually bright-red, a colour usually found not in concert halls but in dens of iniquity. Nowhere does the review mention the fact obvious to anyone with any taste for musical performance: the girl is so bad that she should indeed be playing in a brothel, rather than on the concert platform. Can you, in the wildest flight of fancy, imagine a reviewer talking in such terms about sublime women artists of the past, such as Myra Hess, Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg, Clara Haskil, Marcelle Meyer, Marguerite Long, Kathleen Ferrier? Can you see any of them allowing themselves to be photographed in the style of “lads’ mags”? I can’t, which raises the inevitable question: what exactly has changed in the last say 70 years? The short answer is, just about everything. Concert organisers and impresarios, who used to be in the business because they loved music first and wanted to make a living second, now care about nothing but money. Critics, who used to have discernment and taste, now have nothing but greed and lust for popularity. The public… well, don’t get me started on that. The circle is vicious: because tasteless ignoramuses use every available medium to build up musical nonentities, nonentities is all we get. And because the musical nonentities have no artistic qualities to write about, the writing nonentities have to concentrate on the more jutting attractions, using a vocabulary typically found in “lads’ mags”. The adage “sex sells” used to be applied first to B-movies, then to B-novels, and now to real music. From “sex sells” it’s but a short distance to “only sex sells”. This distance has already been travelled - and we are all being sold short.

+Georges Cancan Caution! A fraud! BETRUG !!! Hier gibt es z.B. 20.000 Klicks für 84,95 Euro, 100 Likes für 9,99 Euro. Bezahlung per PayPal.... getviews.de

Who is this idiot? (+Georges Cancan ) NOTE: I write my personal view about Anna Fedorova's great concert. Nothing else! Please stop making these stupid childish remarks. I've never payed nor received any money for making a remark!

+Jacob Hendriks ..."the amazing Anna Fedorova." ..."great concert." Sexy Anna? Jacob Hendriks - idi...?! THE TELEGRAPH As Nicola Benedetti, the violinist, bemoans the idea that sex sells classical music, professor of marketing Gloria Moss explains why both genders cash in on their looks to make their millions By Professor Gloria Moss 1:27PM BST 01 Apr 2014 Like it or not, looks affect our responses. So Nicola Benedetti’s comments that “classical music isn’t supposed to be sexy” and that her success bears no relation to her looks flies in the face of volumes of marketing research. It also flies in the face of history, since you have only to think of the effect of composer and pianist Franz Liszt in the 19th century (a 'looker' in his day) on women to realise this. Women would tear bits of his clothing, fight over broken piano strings and locks of his shoulder-length hair. They would even take his cigar butts and place them in their cleavages. ..... When it comes to classical music, you could argue that people don't buy or listen to it based on what the composer or musician looks like: they listen to their CD or record rather than watch it online through a music video, where female pop stars generally flirt with the camera to generate attention. .... However, people's responses to classical musicians do have a visual element, whether it is through the CD cover, concert hall or visual recording, and this will inevitably influence purchasing reactions. Related Articles Sex isn't what sells classical music, Nicola Benedetti says 01 Apr 2014 'Women who do well out of their looks play the game' 01 Apr 2014 'I can wear long skirts when I am 40' 05 Feb 2014 Besides, how do the successful classical musicians get their big break in the first place? Of course, talent is a huge part of it. So is hard work. But combine that with a beautiful body, flowing locks and an attractive smile, and you're onto a winner. Take extraordinary pianist Yuja Wang, who has made it her signature to perform in short dresses. Take Anne Sophie-Mutter, plucked for stardom by Karajan at the age of 13, and her strapless Galliano dresses. .... Also think of violinist Nigel Kennedy, protégé of Yehudi Menuhin, and the way his punk hairstyle may have helped him reach a large audience. The winning recipe is a superabundance of talent plus looks. Those who know how to use their looks well have an advantage: sex will always sell. .... At the end of the day, Benedetti may well baulk at the impact of looks but there is no denying their impact in her own success. That's just the world we live in; how does that old saying go: if you've got it, flaunt it. Dr Gloria A Moss is professor of marketing and management at Buckinghamshire New University and a visiting professor at ESG, Paris. She is the author of gender, design and marketing and has a new book, 'Why men like straight lines and women like polka dots', appearing in the spring.

+Georges Cancan HOLA FRITZ o MARIO o GEORGES CAN CAN. You are the same misoginist, POOR GUY! You'll never be what you wanna be!

Wow, 90 years old. Who do you think is the most incredible performer you've seen over your lifetime?

@@bammam5988 by far, Khatia Burniatishbili

@@billgaetz337 Just watched her performance of Scarbo, it's unbelievable.

Did you actually though?

JuIiana de Beers watch a pianist called Valentina Lisitsa she totally commands Rachmaninov 3. Please reply if you agree.🎹🎹🎹🎼

JuIiana de Beers what does ethereal mean? Sorry I don’t know that one? Best wishes from Phillip. 🎹🎹🎹🎼

@@philldwyer5221 V Lisitsa is cold - no spirit.

@@eduardosuarez4762 Bizarre appreciation. Valentina Lisitsa is passionate all the way. It is even a reproach that some make to her !

Existe una mejor performance de algún otro pianista? NO LO CREO! BRAVISSIMA ANA FEDEROVA!!! EXCELENTE!

Au-delà de la virtuosité, il y a toute l'âme de Rachmaninov qu'elle traduit merveilleusement bien.

她的演奏非常激情，是非常出色的演奏，是世界上最好最伟大的钢琴演奏家，值得推荐，