Denis Matsuev - In Russian style - Intermezzo with Arik

[@robert982]

He is a Maestro, and genius. Matsuev, Volodos ...

[@prokastinatore]

There's one thing I don't believe of Maestro Matusev's words: "I practiced just one hour a day!". Well....Is that true or doesn't it show a kind of "special mystery"? I myself went to music conservatory when I was young and practiced on a daily basis 4-5 hrs a day. Later on I studied also jazz piano in the US and in Europe. After this I visited the medical school and I make my money as a general surgeon. Not this much time today but when I turned 55, suddenly I was able to play Stravinsky's "trios movements de petrouchka", "Rach 3" and all the pieces I was unable to play while being a student at the music conservatory in my twenties. Today I play maybe 2 hrs a week because I'm always busy. But I don't need to practice that much to perform on a high level. I guess that's possible now because I gave up to become a professional musician early and nowadays I'm relaxed enough to play better than some of the so called "graduated concert pianists". My teachers always underrated my talents and gifts but today I can call them "idiots" and I can lough about them and about myself!

[@prokastinatore]

I respect Denis Matusev, a great musician who won the International Tschaikowsky Competition . This guy playes on a very high level all works of the important Russian and European composers on the one hand. On the other hand he's a great jazz musician at the very same time. Not too much known on the international stages of the globe. But that does not mean that he is one of the top musicians of our entire world!

[@vova47]

That story of Horowitz is a defining one of Matsuev, more of a football player than a musician. Athletic but empty.