Ashkenazy plays Chopin Mazurka No 13 in A minor, Op 17 No 4

[@_noahrh]

This piece is so haunting, melancholy, dark, velvety, soothing, and perfect.

[@ButterflyHurricane79]

My fav! In love with this piece ever since. You can hear Chopin's voice in it! Need to study it again. :(

[@CalvinMitchell]

My favorite of the mazurkas...just discovered it within the last few years.

[@exeem1302]

Imagine the exacting care it takes to carry a musical ideal from such treacherous heights down to earth and instrumentalise it without so much as disturbing an angelhair on its golden head. I'm just grateful there are those who've the gift to bear such a struggle and share its fruits! Thanks for the upload: I've never felt so grounded and formless at the same time.

[@jimkeller3868]

Damn. Brilliant.

[@blckisle]

my favorite mazurka. the movie "the empire of the sun" brought me here.

[@user-cb2wg7xj7j]

спасибо за нотный текст, реально удобно вникать)

[@bricecout]

Poignante mélancolie.

[@10mimu]

That introduction...so longing

[@theonesaracen6289]

Anyone learning, don't take the performance of a master as the final word. I'm in no position to criticise someone of the calibre of Ashkenazy, and I love his playing in general, but seems with all kinds of pianists that a bit of natural professional complacency can creep in. Give the score thoughtful attention and try and imagine for yourself what is meant by someone like Chopin. The two sharp crescendos 18 bars before the end, how does one interpret such a near-impossible marking - the first theme returning across the wind of a desolate waste? It's a question and challenge that is pretty much skipped in this performance. And the final chords 'perdendosi', shouldn't they be heard as if calling lost in the snow, fading, swelling slightly, and fading, hopelessly distant? It's a forlorn and listless series of chords to begin with, the extra perdendosi should really tell, but Ashkenazy doesn't bother with it.

[@oliverdorn3719]

Grade 8 gang

[@mr.h.heretohelp6541]

hi

[@matveygrinchuk8173]

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[@deanronson6331]

Are you his cousin or uncle? It's hard to judge this fully because the miking or the sound quality of the piano is not the best.

[@itamart.e8065]

Ashkenazy is a word for a type of race in the jewish pepole.. are you sure thats the name of the player?

[@LaughingStock55]

Vladimir Ashkenazy is one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. And yes, he is Jewish.

[@ferhatatluxanov6384]

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