Wow

He makes the theme and first variation sing like the masterpiece they are. Not many do that. Fleisher, Katchen, Arrau and Anievas come to mind. I don't care as much as I once did for the rest of the work.

Enchanting performance by Sofronitsky, a true poet of the piano. Thanks for sharing.

Мало яка пісня так говорить про Україну.......

I keep coming back to this recording. What a fine pianist...

Interpretazione puramente romantica

Magistral interpretación. Es una de las versiones más brillante que he podido escuchar . Gracias MAESTRO Bravo

what did Hofmann invent?

Beautiful!!

Я ещё только готовился к воплощению, а эти два человека, со значительным разрывом во времени, сделали эту волшебную работу!

18:24 flying ...... furiously beautifully crazy

his intonation is so crystal clear

Beautiful

Исполнение фантастическое….!!!!

There is nobody to beat Goldenweiser except his beloved pupil Ginzburg. Thanks so much for these.

Песнь хорошо спелся. Сергей был хорошим певцом.

У русской эстрады было (пожалуй, есть) четыре эталона: Вадим Козин, Пётр Лещенко, Изабелла Юрьева, Александр Вертинский.

Великий, незабвенный, непревзойденный Леонид Борисович!

Is it fanciful to imagine that Clara or Liszt would have played this piece like this? I have certainly never heard it performed with greater passion! Thanks for posting.

Where can I get the piano sheet music for this. Anyone, please?

Bounced this to my daughter who is touring Skye for the next several days.

We have been told ad nauseam by colleagues and critics alike that Popsy played at his incomparable best only in his own living room. Godowsky himself later underscored the written plea, "Do not judge me by my recordings," and he described - along with Busoni, Schnabel and so many others - the torture it was in those early days to document his art on discs. But consider: While friends like Josef Hofmann and Abram Chasins said Godowsky dried up, not just in the studio but also on stage, Godowsky insisted that he played his best at concerts and recitals, though few people understood his approach. Chasins in his book Speaking of Pianists relates how Godowsky once criticized Hofmann for underlining portions of a score, and that Hofmann in turn accused Godowsky of undue reticence. Both Chasins and Hofmann then "caught" Godowsky italicizing part of a piece for them - and they praised him for it - but Godowsky explained that he was merely pointing out something novel in one of his own, newly written works, and that such an approach was not appropriate for the classics. As for Godowsky's assessment of his records, that notorious statement was made after the great pianist suffered a debilitating stroke, which he blamed on the arduous process of recording. He had also recently lost his wife and son. Godowsky at the end of his life was a bitter man. But would a musician who disdained recordings have made as many takes of individual 78 sides - as many as Rachmaninoff did, which is to say sometimes dozens! - if he was not more or less content at the time with the ultimate results? And what are those results? I don't know how Popsy played at home for everyone from his postman to Albert Einstein. But the records, including this Chopin sonata, are mostly magnificent. Different to be sure from those of even the "transitional" figures of his time, like (each in his own way) Rachmaninoff, Hofmann and early Horowitz - not to mention arch-romantics such as de Pachmann or Rosenthal. Godowsky's art is of course sovereign in technique for all the occasional smudges but more important, patrician as regards tempo, touch and especially the refined taste of a natural aristocrat. Like Chopin, Godowsky never insists. He never pounds. Just as his studies on Chopin's etudes eschew all obvious flamboyance, Godowsky conveys the essence of nearly every piece simply yet with infinite subtlety. And I'm not just talking about the records that everyone lauds: the Grieg Ballade, the Schubert-Godowsky transcriptions and the Chopin Fourth Scherzo. These may be supreme. But listen also to this Funeral March sonata, Les Adieux and even such hackneyed pieces as the third Liebestraum and then tell me who's played them with more elegance and nobility now or during the Golden Age. Forget what you've read and just listen. Thanks for sharing, Margot.

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Das ist die überzeugendste Wiedergabe dieser Sonate, weil sie nie übertreibt. Wunderbar!

One of the best performances of this concerto ever recorded. Superb.

Très belle version de Samson François comme toujours dans Chopin, mais pour les valses , Dinu Lipatti demeure inégalé et inégalable à tout jamais

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An underrated pianist. His tone is so warm and delicate.

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He escuchado muchas interpretaciones de Kogan, siempre Brillantes, Geniales. Con justicia, ahora se le reconoce como uno de los mejores violinistas de todos los tiempos.

8:08

Herzlichen Dank für diese Musikperle. Maestro Brumberg wurde für seine Genialität leider nie genug gewürdigt in seiner Wahlheimat.

One of the greatest violinists in history.Another one is David Oistrakh.❤

I had never heard of Alexander Jocheles before today. 997 happens to be my favorite Bach suite, so I listen to it where I find it. I had to slow down the playback on the gigue/double, and by then I was completely not surprised that his fingering was perfect. Where did you find a recording of such high quality? I don't think any record in my possession doesn't have pops and squeals, so hearing this without background defects was a pleasant surprise.

In my opinion the Adagio contains a quotation: "Languir per una bella" by Rossini. Is it possible?

Sofronitsky in Scriabine or the eighth wonder of the world...

This great artist left us too early!

God, how beautiful it is!! It's a miracle

Is there an LP of that, record published ? or radio broadcoast ?

恐ろしい演奏だ。

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Grazie

Grazie

This almost sounds as if he arranged it differently to bring out more musicality in the already beautiful music ❤

どれを聴いてもゴロワノフのロシア的個性と言うより強烈な体臭がプンプン（褒め言葉）w

Mmmmm... TY

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Благодарю Вас и за прекрасную фотографию,и за Марию Вениаминовну Юдину ,исполнившую эту великую СОНАТУ- по-своему! Я люблю исполнение Виталия Маргулиса-оно мне ближе. 15.05.2024.