Arcadi Volodos plays Rachmaninoff - video 2000

[@789armstrong]

Volodos needs to make more recordings!

[@Florestan1207]

A truly great musician, with a hint of the old world in his playing. Immaculate technique and beautiful tone and phrasing, it’s like being brought back to the golden age of the piano. I heard him once in La Roque d’Anthéron, a warm summer evening. He continued to play encores until midnight, obviously because he relished playing them. A wonderful and generous pianist.

[@Tompiano999]

Florestan1207, what year was that and what did he play? thanks.

[@Florestan1207]

​@@Tompiano999 It was on August the 20th, 2011. According to a blog that I found, he played the following works: Schubert: Les Moments musicaux, Moderato, Andantino, Allegro vivace Schubert F minor sonata D625 Liszt: Sonata Encores: Liszt: Nocturne en rêve Mompou: El Lago from ”Paisajes” Villa-Lobos: Polichinelle Mompou: Jeunes filles au jardin Schubert: Menuetto con trio

[@germanchris4440]

What is "old world" referring to?

[@Florestan1207]

@@germanchris4440 The 19th century grand manner of piano playing as exhibited by V Horowitz, Victor Borge, I Friedman, the Liszt pupils etc, with broad singing lines, a time when a performer was not only a musician but also a Musikant mit Spielfreude.

[@germanchris4440]

@@Florestan1207I understand and agree. There is a lot to it for sure. And also "old world" versus "new world" is absolutely right. But it is absolute and therefore goes far beyond such details as music and musicians. That's why I'll go into a little more detail here. The old days are now finally over, and after all the profound and ultimately evil changes over the last about hundred years (and more), humanity is now fully in the process of being transformed into the "new world". And anyone who really wants to understand this - if there are still people who even realize what is happening around them worldwide - must come to the truth that has been perfectly revealed to us by God in the Bible. Today we are living on the very edge of the most dramatic time of all. - In worldly terms, "Atlas shrugs" right now. (You know the book "Atlas Shrugged"?) The "new world", which is almost complete today and towards which everything has been steered, has only a short time, and it is essentially described in Revelation 13. And to return to Rachmaninoff: "Dies irae" is not just a religious topos of a melancholic composer. God's truth is not religion, but the truth ...

[@MARTIN201199]

Arcadi was a fellow student of my piano teacher. She says Arcady was famous since being a student because of his ability to transcribe music by listening. Back in 1997 I didn’t know him. Then I bought Rach 3 live performance with Volodos and BPO under Levine, and, WOW. I believe he is always at his best when playing Rachmaninov, Liszt, Schubert and Brahms.

[@user-sw5pw3cs4w]

Do you have any other stories to share about him? That's incredible that your teacher taught him!

[@thepianocornertpc]

@@user-sw5pw3cs4w I heard him once in Scriabin Sonata's 6,7,8,9 and 10 ..in one sitting. After we had diner and talked about Bill Evans and Paella.

[@hyunrr]

Coughing competition going on in the background, lovely.

[@mateuscosta787]

I rediscover and start to love some pieces after knowing Volodos performance of them...

[@kenanaleskerov4997]

Thank you so, so much! Great playing! And my top-wish - please, find the video of Rachmaninov concerto 3 by Volodos with Zubin Metha.

[@pdleavitt]

Such intense love of music, that is what I hear in his playing.

[@marckrovetz9578]

I really like this guy’s playing, never feeling any put on affectation from him, just commitment and solid musicianship, thanks

[@culturehorse]

Powerful artistry. Haven't seen this one. Many thank.

[@Sofronichrist]

Extraordinaire ! Merci infiniment !

[@januarijanuari9801]

Качество звука не сопоставимо почти ни с кем!!! Огромное спасибо!!!!

[@ciararespect4296]

Agreed. Although I think Marc Andre hamelin is a better technical player and far bigger repertoire and harder pieces volodos has better tone

[@opustravels3659]

How about this for a treat!! Thanks, Tony :-*

[@thomgeo8073]

ВЕЛИКИЙ ПИАНИСТ!!!!!

[@paulmetdebbie447]

Wow! Beyond time and place. Only he can do this.

[@arnaudlaborde7027]

incredible sequence of sounds

[@cbenbaruk]

Thank you !!!

[@antoniavignera2339]

Esecuzione magistrale. Complimenti.Ho ascoltato la sonata n.10 di Skrjabin sono rimasta sbalordita di come interpretata i mie sentiti complimenti.

[@hlpianin]

Thank you!

[@deborahchildress3635]

Gorgeous!❤

[@pianogus]

OMG. WOW. The level of pathos in his playing is extremely rare in most pianists.

[@FrederiksbergFestspil]

No doubt, the greatest living virtuoso ❤️

[@emc499]

How about the great Evgeny Kissin?

[@MARTIN201199]

emc499 very hard to compare one to the other. Claiming Volodos to be the greatest living virtuoso could be right. One thing is to be virtuoso and other thing to be a master. Undoubtedly Kissin is a great master and Volodos a great virtuoso.

[@FrederiksbergFestspil]

@@emc499 He is also a great virtuoso ❤️

[@sbarnea]

@@MARTIN201199 Surely they are both great virtuosos and great masters!

[@summushieremiasclarkson4700]

@bill Bloggs Volodos is certainly an übervirtuoso, on the same level as Hamelin. Hear him play the Italian polka transcription, it is godly, along with all his Scriabin and mompou recordings. As is Hamelin's Alkan and sokolov with Bach and Chopin's etudes.

[@lucasgust7720]

Great that his played pieces that are rarely performed, specially this well played.

[@Eva_Piano]

Спасибо!

[@valerieheinderyckx4506]

Prodigieux

[@Tompiano999]

fantastic upload in high quality! how did you get that? my word, great stuff.

[@germanchris4440]

The coughing destroys it.

[@1fattyfatman]

So fully formed already in his mid 20s.

[@musical_lolu4811]

Considering he started taking the piano seriously at the age of like 16.

[@ciararespect4296]

@@musical_lolu4811 yes I heard that before I don't believe that for one second though. He almost certainly started at about five and his technique was cemented

[@rb032682]

nice

[@itchy2345]

Cute!

[@PianistKimHanul]

❤

[@jurinardelli9360]

a miracle

[@monx]

volodos is a genius. did he add some things to the Serenade or is that the original arrangement??

[@kuglagerfeld]

It's unbelievable how that rude person coughed OUT LOUD, while Maestro played the delicate parts of the Romance, and after the last chord the person stopped. Some people are egotistical and should be removed from concerts. GOD ON HEAVEN, VOLODOS ON EARTH

[@susanhawkins3890]

Never heard this! What year was this written? When did he come to the US? Even with his entrouage he longed for Russia deeply.

[@jeroenpeeters9759]

I’m going to two recitals by Volodos this year and I’ll try to record them (sound not video) using my IPhone 8 with a Shure MV 88 microphone plugged in. In the settings I can choose the Hertz ranges but I don’t know which on is is best for a piano recital. Do you know?

[@ADGO]

I can ask a friend. Could you please email me from the About page? Cheers

[@jeroenpeeters9759]

@@ADGO oké

[@selectyourname]

01:20

[@liina6799]

Das kann NUR Rachmaninoff sein!

[@Daniel_Ilyich]

Thanks for this unexpected treat! That person with the incessant coughing is a real POS. Get cough drops, for God’s sake.

[@Paroles_et_Musique]

Its psychological, once it starts you can't stop. And it happens only in soft passages ;)

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

Tolstoy once said to Rachmaninoff, having listened to him play at Yasnaya Poliana, that people were doing unnecessarily complex stuff on piano - and likened Rachmaninoff to Beethoven. , I rate this performance as good.

[@salvationbygracealone5111]

Then listen to Volodos with your eyes closed, if your genius ears tells you this is only "good"...

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

@@salvationbygracealone5111 ok

[@keybawd4023]

You rate this performance as" good" - that's very kind of you.

[@user-sw5pw3cs4w]

@@militaryandemergencyservic3286 Who gives a damn what generation of student you are? You make it seem like just because you're a student in the lineage of Beethoven that your words hold more weight and just say 'good' when you damn know this is a performance of a lifetime. Guess what, I'm also a generation student of Beethoven and rate this performance as far beyond just good, Volodos is in my opinion the greatest living pianist alive.

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

@@user-sw5pw3cs4w really? Who is your/was your teacher? Yes Volodos is one of my favourites. My all-time favourte? Hoffman!

[@user-dn5om5we2n]

После исполнения Борисом Березовским произведений Рахманинова, не могу больше никого слушать,хотя Володось хороший пианист.

[@kristinabarsegyan5540]

Да, Березовский исполняет феноменально. Ну его манера исполнения, во всяком случае, мне больше по нраву... А Володось правда, хороший пианист

[@Vlad-lm4zv]

@@kristinabarsegyan5540 что у березовского с манерой исполнения? отдельные произведения хорошо исполняет, как и луганский, но не всё. володось все же более высокого уровня исполнитель нежели березовский, луганский, либо кто другой из современных(плетнев не в счет). уверен , если бы аркадий записал все прелюдии и этюды вопросов кто лучше не было бы. удивляет почему володось так мало записывается. на фоне кучи современных посредственных пианистов, особенно китайского ширпотреба, аркадию есть что сказать. точнее , исполнить.

[@user-vz4fy8uw9y]

Да, Вы правы, привычка - великая сила. Особенно в юности. Я тоже в начале 1960-х воспринимал Рахманинова только от Павла Серебрякова и Вана Клиберна. И до сих пор они для меня - эталон. Ну, Рихтер - это бог, это - другое!

[@willgraham8878]

Shut your coughing or out of the hall!!

[@angelobonacci461]

Sono sicuro che da queste interpretazioni di rach si possa assolutamente dire chi è il pianista migliore vivente..

[@angelobonacci461]

Nel secondo studio etable che ha eseguito io noto somiglianze con il primo scherzo di chopin,voi che dite, datemi anche voi intenditori o meno una risposta