Such an impressive live performance! Thanks for uploading the entire set.

Very admirable performance, probably my favorite ever! Segerstam’s conducting really shines in the last movement

Slower the better to savor each delectable stroke of music from the other side where applause for the virtuoso here cannot reach.

the most beautiful playing in the world, bar none!

Thanks for posting, always appreciate recordings of these etudes.

WONDERFUL!!!!! 🎶🎶🎶🌹🌹🌹😊😊😊

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Une version vraiment FABULEUSE !!! Merci à Hubert Wendel qui me l'a fait connaître.

I was blessed to attend his performances at Salzburg festival . Since then my adoration to the St Gregory began

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for some reason his recording more clear on 1905 rec than on 1910s

what a coincidence, was just listening to grunfeld and this got uploaded

Sokolov plays this with more historically informed baroque insights and practices than the better harpsichord musician.

I heard him live in Birmingham Town Hall, November 5th 1969, Beethoven and Schumann. Unforgettable. 🎹🎹

И вновь-БЛАГОДАРЮ!

These are from Richter's recitals in Prague 1975, and it seems you are the only one who has uploaded them here. Thanks! This is the best available Richter performance of these works.

Grazie Maestro Pletnev….

Even Hamelin might've thought that the tempo indicated in the third movement is way too quick to perfectly execute on the modern piano... as the same as I thought.

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I remember my dad taking me to Concord University in Athens, West Virginia where I also studied music and heard Robert Goldsand!

These recordings show that Adelina de Lara was still an admirably clear and precise pianist even in her later years: certainly a credit to her excellent teacher! Thanks for posting these recordings: more people should hear them.

You picked some of her best recordings (though I do think that the Studies in Canonic Form Opus 56 work better on the original instruments they were composed for, or as a two-piano arrangement by Debussy). It is indeed a pity that these recordings were made well past her prime, but still, they give more than a glimpse into the real Clara Schumann-style, which you describe beautifully.

18:26 he played this fast live??

Some of the greatest Scarlatti I've heard in years.

Even though I knew of them, for some reason I’ve never listened to these études before. I think I liked the second the best.

Thank you. It's fascinating to compare op. 56 nr. 4 with Marie Baumayers version.

This is fascinating, thank you for the upload and the insightful description

I heard him last year with a Bach, Bartok and Szymanowski programme; it was mesmerizing. In particular the partita in e minor which totally surprised me. Although clearly a "romantic" interpretation with a deep and broad tone, every voice was clear and nothing sounded heavy. He gave this encore as well.

Incredibly subtle and intelligent playing

Great pianist, truly wonderful playing. The last time I saw him play live was in the semi-finals of the Leeds piano competition in 2000. After an amazing performance of Beethovens Diabelli variations, he concluded the recital with Weburn's tiny op 27. With just two minutes of music left to play, he walked off stage because he thought he wasn't playing well enough!! Although he was disqualified, it never made any difference to his career because he is just so very good. Thank you sharing...

Wonderful, clear and sweet. Thank you for the video.

Thank you so much for posting this. I adore Sokolov's playing, but as a listener am often frustrated by his apparent distaste (or impatience) with the recording studio, which means one must rely on the kindness of strangers with recording equipment in their laps (!) to get a true measure of his artistry. So thank you again for that, and for the terrific essay as well.

Crystalline ... with the sweet world-weariness of Eastern Europe. (Your channel is stunning.)

I agree with you about RIchter owning the 5th - I think its appeal lies in the sensation of it being such a thrilling ride, so magnificently thought out and ultra-coherent from beginning to end. I would say that Richter's unparalleled sense of shaping a long-form piece (his teacher Neuhaus compared him to a hawk in this regard) is one of his most appreciated qualities... so maybe Richter's owning of the 5th may not be all that unthinkable (though the pairing of Richter's and Scriabin's names may seem kind of weird initially)

In jeder Hinsicht ganz wunderbar!

Glorious. My master studied with him

Pure music without ego. Superb spiritual sound.

Unvelievable vigour at 84 ! His mastery of Spanish music is unparalleled. Always my pianistic hero since the early 1970s ❤

"This is a Romance. For Robert Schumann says so." Ha! Also Sokolov's staccato is just special.

This was good, thanks for posting!

Sokolov really has about 15 different kinds of staccato he can just pull out whenever he wants huh? Somehow that doesn’t even end up being the most impressive part of the performance either. Thanks for sharing :)

Wonderful. Sokolov’s staccato in unique. Thanks for sharing

Half Sokolov's Schumann I don't like, the other half I just love. It is a strange feeling to be ambivalent, because usually I love nearly everything he does

I had to smile about your comment... but of course, this is a characterful Romance, thinking of the dedicatee Amalie Rieffel, who, according to rumours, couldn't take her eyes off Robert :). Clara wrote: "she is always quite exalted [...] in a terribly excited mood" .... "Her character is as eccentric as her play. There is a restlessness in her playing that makes one fearful and anxious. She has quite considerable skill, studies diligently, you can hear it, she also has expression when a quiet moment comes over her, which is admittedly rare, but she rushes everything, she flies over the keys in such a way that not one note is like the other, and the fingers have acquired a strange unevenness of touch. I have told her all this, but I believe she can never be cured - just as her inside is unprecedentedly restless, so are her fingers".

Раду Лупу-один из моих самых любимых пианистов.Я скорблю о его кончине,но он с нами-НАВСЕГДА… Благодарю!

This is truly a great performance by both pianist, conductor and orchestra. I particularly love the energy of the finale. The conductor gets the orchestra going with the same fervor of Volodos. The ending is the most exciting I’ve ever heard. Thanks for posting this. Will listen again…and again…

Just incredibly fantastic! Thank you for posting!❤❤❤❤❤

Extraordinary! This is unquestionably the finest performance ever of this etude!

Best op 6 no 1 I've heard, even better than Isaac M.