Dad used to play this on the piano and this is how we would wake up at 8am in the weekends.

you have no idea how many times i’ve rewatched this , she played it best

I am playing this in a recital in Seattle on Friday, and this is my inspiration. Everyone else plays it so rapidly that the gorgeous nuance is lost and it becomes a sprint.

I absolutely love this woman, this artist! Her playings along with her natural beauty are superb! I love her!

She builds the tension up really well after the B section finishes, to many people race off with it. She just plays it superbly, never overdoes it and the lyrical section is all clear.

I played this piece my junior year in music school, and I agree this is the best performance on KZfaq. Too many listeners are impressed by performers who play too fast a tempo, or bombastically. Olga's nails the tempo, and her technique is flawless. Most of all - her interpretation brings life to the piece I have rarely heard.

This has been the type of interpretation I've been looking all over the internet for. Thanks again Olga.

This is my favorite version of this prelude on YT. The march like qualities followed by the more lyrical midsection where Olga does such an excellent job of phrasing and bringing out all the voice lines. Just wonderful!

Olga Scheps is amazing! A stunning performance every time! 👏👏👏🎼🎶🎹

Best interpretation of this masterpiece EVER ! 😍😍😍 her tempo is just perfect and her voicing so powerful !

This prelude is extremely hard to play yet it's extremely beautiful. Thanks Olga. You delivered it in a way that the composer would be proud of you. ❤❤❤

Finally, a rendition with the PERFECT TEMPO! Bravo 👏👏👏

I love that she is not a speedy pianist, very thoughtful playing

Amazing!!! Olga, Thank you. The amount of feeling and expression you put into your playing is inspirational and astounding.

Bellísimo preludio de Rachmaninov ..Genial interpretación de Olga Scheps ..

she really felt rachmaninoff's piece. Love it!

I loved how you were able to play very softly when needed then rise to forceful strength again when needed. Amazing dynamics. Thank you i enjoyed the recording very much

I've listened to at least 15 or 20 different pianists perform this amazing piece and I like this the best.

Super . Both pianist and music are matched in perfection !

Left hand beautiful…every note clearly articulated …A supremely gifted artist💥😇😍🙏

This is actually a really good interpretation of my work. Bravo!

am 4.12.2019 in der Münchener Philharmonie live erlebt, ein Wahnsinns-Konzert.....danke, Olga

One of my favorites. Thank you for the great performance.

She is fantastic!!!! This piece is so dear to me...takes me right back to when I was playing it myself....

Absolutely beautiful. Olga is my favorite modern pianist, she has such passion & skill.

I cannot remember how many times i've watched this. Simply brilliant. As a 17/18 year old (20+ years ago) i made it through this from start to finish maybe twice - and that represented several months of combined pain, frustration, joy, and wonder... But i just couldn't deal with those left hand arpeggios... Pretty sure if any part of it ever sounded like this, it's was purely accidental. Bravo!

This is the best version of this piece I've ever heard so far (I've heard dozens or hundreds of these by the way). She does not play too fast as a lot of other pianists. I think this piece is played too fast by many other aritst which make it really less hunderstandable. The way she use pedale is also very interesting because she use it longer than other ones which chop the song too often. She makes the song smoother and more enjoyable for me at least. For me, it is like this that this piece should be played by Rachmaninov itself because it touches me way better this way.

No doubt about it. Olga in full bloom. Her version is very high pie in the sky. Just imagine all the sequels... Thank you with all my heart.

A magnificent rendition of one of my favorite pieces. Rocky, Freddy and Frankie are my 3 favorite composers, and i always get chills from good Rachmaninov. Wonderful pacing control. Just phenomenal.

1:19 Heart melts. OMG. That is truely one the great melodies of our times, and played so beautifully. Magical.

Thank you Olga! You bring joy to our lives!

Her calm and focused approach brought up many details that composer wanted us to hear.

Superb, superb! No other words, especially her expression during the transition piano part

Dearest Olga,. A superb interpretation of a Romantic Classic which you bring new vibrancy to. Bravo, Morton Dark

You are stunningly amazing my dear. I've listened to hundreds of pianists over the years in countless concert halls all over the world. You are the best of them all.

I find her voicing to be exquisitely nuanced compared to others' renditions.

I love the look you give the piano when you complete the piece.

Exceptionnel dans la rythmique, le toucher subtil, et la musicalité en plus. Tout y est. Félicitations!

The best I’ve ever heard this piece. Gorgeous. Bravo.

After listening to dozens and more of renditions of this piece, Olga's still is the best I've ever heard

It is wonderful how Olga can play rough and elegant at the same time. Always in control. Such a marvelous young pianist. :)

I never heard such a fantastic performance of my fav Rachmaninov's op23N5 . I would say its hard work to play that opus in the right way and not every even virtuoso can play it without little fails. Brava Olga !! You're pretty amazing!

Bravo! One of the very few pianists to perform this wonderful prelude without missing a trick. Most impressive was the slow build up near the end which starts pp and accelerandos to FF.

Absolutely glorious ! Thank you , Olga Scheps !

This is singlehandedly the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard.

Excellent, really enjoyed every note of this. Thank you.

I really love the way Olga constructed the dynamics in this rendition. Beautifully build crescendo from ppp after finishing the middle section. Controlled and balanced performance 👏

Olga it's an impressive performance. Thank you. 🌠💒💠

She performed it so beautifully! She is living Music, understanding the moods, transfering the moods. Great!

She can't deny her roots with this superb russian technique, the way she plays this prelude remindes me of Richter's performance, and yet, her special touch, excellent articulation, precise accentuation and phrasing, combined with the perfect tempo in my opinion, makes this interpretation really outstanding, unmatched certainly. ¡I am sorry 'Slava'! Olga will give us much more in the future, I am eager to listen at her when she is more mature, pianistically speaking, than she is already now. Can you imagine? ¡Brava Olga, maestro!

vous venez nous donner une magnifique interprétation; merci madame.

OMG I'm so glad I by mistake found this. She's supernaturally good, what a talent. I have a new favorite amongst pianists.

This piece of music is part of my life since I was a young teenager. This is one of the best versions I know.

1:19 gave me goosebumps. The most beautiful interpretation of Rachmaninoffs I have heard. I wish i knew about this earlier

Восхитительное исполнение и эмоции красивой девушки, просто прелестно!) Спасибо, прям кайф) Я влюбился в это исполнение, и в девушку) Одолжу пожалуй эту манеру исполнения себе!) Спасибо Ольга, вдохновляете!)

Good performance!!!! 🙏 one of the best version ever listened.

Best interpretation I've seen. Perfect tempo, beautiful voicing and dynamics. Rachmaninov would have been proud 👍

Wow this is so different from Yuja Wang's interpretation, and yet just equally stunningly amazing. I almost stopped breathing...so much life

Fantastic. Ms. Scheps is the perfect age and skill to play this piece. I don't know what Rachmaninoff was thinking when he composed this, but I feel like I know exactly what Ms. Schep was feeling. She is so transparent. The ending is perfect, and she seems to need a few seconds to come back to reality. I love how she was lost in this piece.

This is the piece I broke my only ever piano string on when I was in my teens. I was hammering the keys unnecessarily I still remember the anger & judgement on the face of the piano tuner who replaced the string for me. This is a controlled & musical interpretation very different to the Andrei Gavrilov version I once tried to emulate. Sometimes less virtuosity is for the better

Wonderful interpretation of Rachmaninov. Thank you so much for this emotions.

The best so far from all the interpretations I've heard.

One of the cleanest performances!

Amazing music , amazing performance. Thanks

Ah, the pristine memories this rendition brings me... Such pure bliss... Time flies indeed. Cherish this moment

Beautiful Rendition! Beautiful Olga!!!

Great Job by Olga, this music suits her style perfectly.

It’s like she knows instinctively and rehearses for when she’s solo. She’s filling in the gaps for an entire orchestra… so amazing!

So very enjoyable. Thank you.

Surely the best version of this song in KZfaq. Congratulations Young lady

Wow! That left hand! The accurate definition of each voice is mesmerizing! Maravillosa Maestra! Bravissimo.

It's hard to stand out from everyone else when playing such highly skilled pieces. The pieces are playable but expressing these pieces are very difficult and she does that excellently

Liebe Olga! Wie gut, dass es KZfaq gibt!

Beautifully performed, and the dynamics are right out of this world, Olga Scheps. Thank you so much for sharing and for the inspiration in my own piano studies. :-)

Olga is so good in playing Rachmaninov that I never loose the grip of her playing. She is always there to make Rachmaninovs piano the best.

Браво, Оленька! Сама красавица и исполнение блестящее! :)

Best interpretation I have ever experienced on this part. Exquisit!

Listened to this many times! That second subject typical Rach melody, wow! Beautifully played.👍

So brilliant that I could not resist at the end.I fainted.

Bravo!!! Great respect for you for such a cool performance!

This performance calls for wonderful words that don't yet exist. Beautiful! Rachmaninov would be proud of this.

Great interpretation. Nice dynamics. Very enjoyable. :) Hit an instant replay at the end. :) Thank you.

This is just so amazing, a very beautiful rendition of the piece , I like it do much

A beautiful and heartfelt interpretation!

Amazing performance. Definitely one of my favorites if not my favorite of this piece; I'm using it as inspiration for my own interpretation.

Absolutely wonderful, awesome pianist, awesome composer!

Insightful, original, and amazing!

The ending of the middle-section : beautiful !

It's refreshing to hear a performance in which the pianist understands that not every note is written staccato, where the performer doesn't feel the need to dive-bomb the lower register, and also where the performer doesn't play the work as though the last train of the evening is leaving in a few minutes. To many who have listened to the more bravura interpretations of others, this may sound plodding and overly deliberate. It's not; it's another way to interpret the work, and it's actually harder for an accomplished pianist such as Ms. Scheps to play this in a more controlled way than it is to try to win the "Fastest Performance of Day Award" or make the instrument heard ten blocks away. There are nuances and subtleties of tempo and dynamics that aren't found in most other performances of this piece. In the reintroduction, the tempo and sound increase smoothly and gradually, instead of doing so choppily and/or in stages. Sometimes it's good to be different, and this is one of those times. This is an intelligent, well-performed interpretation of this Prelude, and easily in the top ten of the 300 or so I've listened to.

My personal favourite video from Olga. And easily, at least for me, best video performance of this title

I feel inspired by her to try studying and playing the piece myself. I like her play very much.

Don't know a lot about the classics - but that was well worth 4 minutes 25 seconds of my life ....big thumbs up from me !!!

What a stunning performance. I'm speechless.

This is my favorite interpretation of this magnificent piece. I played it (not so well) as a teenager. I stopped playing piano as an adult, and just recently took it up again. My dream is to relearn this piece, one of my very favorites, but notoriously difficult.

Bravo, bravo...tiempo hacía que no escuchaba esta hermosa pieza musical!!!👏👏👏💗

my fav interpretation of this song👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️

Definitely in love with her... !!! Meravigliosa

Always my favorite classical piano piece!

Absolutely the best I have heard this prelude!

Goose bumps at 2:30!!! I love this piece.. on my list of "must plays". Great great emotion and interpretation!!!