If music could ever change one's life, this would be this kind of music. I cannot even begin to describe the beauty, sophisticated, and yet so simple, of this piece. It is as if one's souls reminisced on something deeply personal, and dear to one's heart. Or as if an old person, who had lived a very, very long life, with joys and pains, told a young soul about it; as if that person had seen another world. As for me, it just remind me of my home, far, far away; and how grateful I was to God when I came back after 3 years of pandemia lockdown.❤

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This is without question the finest rendition that exists to this point. I've listened to Berman for decades....and no one comes close to his Rach 3, or Liszt Etudes. The Gold Standard.

He squeezes that note at 1:02 so beautifully :)

Magistral ejecución de la Obra Maestra del Genial Compositor Ruso ; en la interpretación del Prestigioso Violinista Viktor Tretyakov .

Воистину, лучшее исполнение Размышлений... Браво маэстро!

Magistral interpretación .

He nailed 1:13-1:17. Haven’t heard it played like that before

Capolavoro, suonato da dio!!!

Beautiful!

This is one of the few performances where the D major chord 2:02 has real meaning. Most others play the hell out before and when this chord arrives it just lacks ecstasy and looks like something that was ment to be te peak momentum but failed to. Not here. The reason is Berman maintained a prudent tempo not to suffocate the cadenza and a constant tension that led to the decisive point.

this is a very clear version - so many seem to get the sound rather muffled - a matter of footwork as well as fingers!

To the top, we have arrived.

Superb, The best Rach 3 overall imho

Just phenomenal 😲

I want to play like Victor Tretyakov

Bravo Maestro!👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

King !!!!!!🔥

C'est magnifique!

My favorite performance of this masterpiece

Вот именно эта музыка должна быть гимном России

Beautiful interpretation. But, don't forget it, at this low speed, it's easy to be clear.

Lazar Berman ❤

Фантастик

I am only one who is watcing this for school?

God and Rachmaninov agree this was the best performance of the cadenza

Gorgeous performance of this piece!

Max Bruch - I never get tired of listening to his wonderful music.

And very well played by Berman here. He doesn't overdo the rubato, builds a beautiful long line up to the climax and down again to an effective, serene ending. An underrated pianits- I enjoy most of what i hear from him alot, especially his Liszt interpretations. But also very convincing in the Rach preludes he has recorded.

A beast, and the best of all

Lazar Florence loves you so much! R.I.P.

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Bravo

So beautiful xxx

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Quelle beauté dans cette sérénade... Jouée divinement...

That is beautiful

Incredible. Best interpretation I have heard. There are many moments in this performance that make this piece.

Not ❌ having to accompany dancers 👯 allows more tempo freedom (within reason). The faster tempo allows the music to flow rather than lumber.

I just had an eargasm!!

5th English comment i guess

Very similar to Brofman rendition. That's the way to do it

Rach? Wow...arrogant basterds

excelente meditación para PENSAR EN LO INFINITO, EN LO INTERMINABLE Y EN MI PROPIA EXISTENCIA, TAN ASCETA, TAN TRETICA, TAN PAUPERRIMA

Unmatched Performance of the Century. This is how Rachmaninoff is at its best. He was my hero for Rachmaninoff & Liszt together. His last sequence 12 etudes d execution transcedente on lp CBS From Melodya and reissued 2011 or 2014, were a milestone in pianoplaying and did give a glance how Liszt would have performed it either.

Why is this very best interpretation Not -!!!- in the DGG & other Lazar Berman complete CD RECORDINGS BOXES??? For this performance I once bought its LP long ago . Horowitz is nowhere compared to Bermans Rachmaninoff with this prelude and with Rachmaninoffs 3th Piano Concerto, unmatched...

Totally amazing! One of my favorite pieces^^

Nice--but none of the mystery (or syncopation) or Richter. The latter touches God.

yes, this is a dark performance as it should be. A piece of dark melancholy. But i still prefer Idil Biret's 1963 performance of this concerto with Boston Orchestra/Erich Leinsdorf just one hour later than Kennedy died. As Emil Gilels said "she understood Rachmaninoff in a true way and played his concertos before us (he means Richter and himself). I agree. Her performance is dark, romantic and melancholic as in the way of Rachmaninoff.

Best interpretation ! ( from a violinist point of view)