RACHMANINOV Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, op. 36 (1931) - Yekwon Sunwoo

RACHMANINOV Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, op. 36 (1931) - Yekwon Sunwoo - Cliburn 2017

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Performed May 28, 2017 at the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, Texas, USA)
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@rachm06 7 ай бұрын

two things are certain in the universe: 1) death 2) people coughing during slow meditative sections of piano pieces.

@ronwalker4849 4 ай бұрын

THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE SUBLIME RACHMANINOFF PERFORMANCE OF THIS SONATA. ONCE YOU START LISTENING YOU CANNOT STOP. IT HAS EVERYTHING POSSIBLE. AND THE INNER VOICES ! WOW.

@angelob.1089 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best takes on Rachmaninoff's Second Sonata that I've ever heard. Unbelievable that this was taken at a competition. This playing easily stands alongside Lugansky, Hamelin, Horowitz, and Zoltan.

@balladin9200 11 ай бұрын

I forgot to say something the right hand doesn’t sound hesitant like it’s supposed to, just empty. Lugansky’s interpretation way better

@phucthinhinh107 6 ай бұрын

@angelob.1089 what do you mean "unbelievable that this is taken in a competition" Competition is a place where many lifetime performances are easy to come by, because the artist is still young, guided by many professors who have a pre-existing vision of the work and understand the work like its author. In addition, competition is a place of fierce competition to win a career that only a few of the best pianists are honored to receive, so young pianists will focus everything they have on it... later in their pianist career, it is easy to get lost because of the loss of guidance from professors, their vision is now easily limited by the unusual and difficult to integrate lifestyle of being a pianist born and raised as a bookworm, hold the piano everytime. Also suggest some goat performance that come from competition: Rafal Blechacz Chopin scherzo no4 - goat Rafal Blechacz Chopin piano concerto no1 - goat Yunchan Lim Rach3 - goat Gyehee Kim Tchaikovsky Valse-Scherzo - goat and a lot more

@RoboticsBay 5 ай бұрын

Lol KZfaq is truly an amazing place

@michaelware354 4 ай бұрын

It is great, but you can't compare much to Horowitz so simply.

@joanhurley5747 2 ай бұрын

I disagree

@richardishikawa2993 2 жыл бұрын

Great performance and wonderful sound on the piano. This is a gold medal performance.

@bogdanshevchenko 7 ай бұрын

I've been searching for this. The clearest melody pronunciation of any interpretation I've heard.

@virtuoso1088 3 жыл бұрын

Yekwon’s Rachmaninoff is the best!

@robertjones447 8 ай бұрын

Of living pianists, I concur (he's tied with Martha Argerich). This gentleman reminds me of the late great Alexis Weissenberg - his playing is very conceptual, he disassembles and recomposes this sonata as though Scriabin wrote it. Brilliant, fiery performance!

@llswanson11 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this performance especially but also for all the recently published past performances and tributes made by laureates. Now I can wait happily for June 2-18 of 2022!

@ilovemycatrussell9298 2 жыл бұрын

Yekwon Sunwoo Part of his 2017 Preliminary Recital Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Sonata in B-flat Minor, Op. 36 No. 2 - Revised (1931) 0:06 - I. Allegro agitato 8:27 - II. Non allegro 14:22 - III. Allegro molto

@b_tang 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing for a live performance

@ernesthoven 3 жыл бұрын

Great Yekwon!!

@Bobowobo 3 жыл бұрын

10:55 is absolutely heart wrenching

@alanortega7765 6 ай бұрын

segundos después hay unos errores ene la ejecución bro... =/

@g_lee273 3 ай бұрын

머리 속이 하얘짐.. 처음부터.. 너무 좋다.. 이런 느낌 오랫만에 느낀다 😭 I‘m fully blown away to the moon~ it’s been a while to have this kind of .. satisfaction.

@cheekyeasdale Жыл бұрын

Amazing. ❤️👌

@josegabrielvaldiviauria9226 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent performance. Congratulations!

@user-jb1su2ez3c Ай бұрын

GOOD!!! BRAVO!!!

@phucthinhinh107 6 ай бұрын

@kangchenjunga591 Жыл бұрын

This guy is making a name for himself. He outshines other emerging pianists, notably those who ‘think’ they are great. Yekwon plays with amazing technical brilliance and passion. Bravo 👏

@robertjones447 8 ай бұрын

. I'll name one, myself: Yuncham Lim, the piano playing chameleon. Highly, highly overrated. Will be forgotten within a decade. This pianist here is the genuine article, but without the legion of hype-brainwashed acolytes.

@user-fg5xk3ni4m 7 ай бұрын

@@robertjones447why?

@robertjones447 7 ай бұрын

@@user-fg5xk3ni4mAll show and no dough. Calculated performance, designed to wow, but not coming from the heart.

@6894q 7 ай бұрын

@@robertjones447 when someone’s extremely popular, there’s always a reason. in this case, it’s just that performances were amazing. His Rach 3 is much better than Yekwon Sunwoo’s to be honest. Both technically and musically.

@RoboticsBay 5 ай бұрын

@@6894qboth are soulless

@HIPguy 6 ай бұрын

The best!!!

@draganastojanovic-novicic7026 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant and exceptional interpretation!

@user-fr4fp2rj3u 2 ай бұрын

Best of Best❤

@martinross3920 4 ай бұрын

it was really very beautiful and he really drew out the melodic line from the rich texture, there some really beautiful moments around 14.30, of course it gets compaired to Horowitz, but that unfair as there is only one Horowitz, this was a very brave choice and for such a young man the pathos and trajedy was there in spades, brilliant

@ronl7131 3 ай бұрын

Very good Rachmaninov

@positive_moment 11 ай бұрын

beautiful!

@gabelonguinhos 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, you gotta take those ads off haha they are killer

@-.a Жыл бұрын

2nd best finale to this piece i have heard, second only to kocsis

@gl5gl5 Жыл бұрын

이게 더 좋다. 특히 윗소리 너무 좋다...와 너무 좋다... 역시 개멋있어...❤

@ericsabourin7661 9 ай бұрын

Aussi grand et distingué que Seong Jin Cho, bravo!

@bogdanshevchenko 7 ай бұрын

Also awesome to hear the guy breathe through his emotions

@user-kk3kt5lq5p Жыл бұрын

8:28 mov.2

@peterbond12 8 ай бұрын

Spellbinding performance !

@user-bx6kb3du7v 2 жыл бұрын

2악장 8:28

@strawberry3634 Жыл бұрын

14:22

@sj-ob6pj 2 ай бұрын

👍👍👍💗💕

@yien_hong Жыл бұрын

00:07

@SSS-gg3rz Жыл бұрын

4:17 4:31 4:54

@SSS-gg3rz Жыл бұрын

4:51 최고다

@user-sz4nd8bb6k 11 ай бұрын

8:28 14:21

@user-vg3id7ng9m 6 ай бұрын

8:28

@user-bt4hu9hh2l Ай бұрын

10:35

@robertjones447 8 ай бұрын

This is a mature, fully-formed, sui generis interpretation. Brings out the Scriabin influence and belongs in the same company as Alexis Weissenberg and Zoltan Kocsis, though never stoops to imitate either.

@leestamm3187 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful. Thanks for the tip, Robert. He really is excellent and will only get better. Already interpretively miles ahead of some others I could mention. His Rach PC3 from this competition also is excellent.

@robertjones447 8 ай бұрын

@@leestamm3187 You're welcome! I was unaware he also had the Third in his repertoire. Thank you as well for the tip! I remember when I was a teenager in the 1970s and Rachmaninoff's Third was still the best-kept secret in classical music. I mean, people listened to it, but the 2nd Concerto and the Paganini Rhapsody were still much more popular. Now, the 4th holds best-kept secret status.

@leestamm3187 8 ай бұрын

@@robertjones447 For 2 hours of listening pleasure, put "yekwon sunwoo beethovena recital" in the KZfaq search. (Be sure to include the "a" at the end of beethoven.)

@leenakaewnat7494 Жыл бұрын

The performance is technically very solid, but not close to what Horowitz produced. The passage starting at 10:45 needs more passion. The sonata as a whole is about creating the sense of lack of emotional control while playing the music beautifully.

@chidimoseri7563 Жыл бұрын

why are you comparing, just enjoy his performance. don't base your criticism off the playing of another pianist.

@ericsabourin7661 9 ай бұрын

@leenakaewnat7494 I guess you are another smart-a* with le grand savoir-faire of a loud mouth.