Evgeni Bozhanov plays Saint-Saens-Godowsky Le Cygne

Evgeni Bozhanov plays Saint-Saens-Godowsky Le Cygne

[@MrGGEFTER]

Colors, Voices and Instruments of your piano touch are remarkable!!!!

[@hjerteligtilstededagasbjrn4]

Today we have a lot of pianists, but only a few real musicians. Bozhanov is one of them and I have to go back in time in order to find someone of the same caliber. He reminds me of Rachmaninoff and Horowitz!!

[@Chopin4321]

yes

[@Bulbophile]

more sophisticated than horowitz

[@Chopin4321]

very sophisticated indeed, but can´t compare to the best, horowitz has been out of reach for decades kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ6vp6OArriVa5I just pogorelich got a bit close kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYfbiHSFbtxgpaM

[@bartoklover9884]

Really i agree

[@bludika]

i agree, it seems like too many pianists are only focused on virtuosity and showing their technical skills a lot more than their musicality when playing the pieces, even though skill is of course appreciated, i think you gotta have some soul when playing the piano especially, otherwise it just ends up feeling very robotic

[@JOSHUA-hs4zt]

Lovely as the playing is by Bozhanov, with wonderful arrays of colours, viewers should look to Cherkassky's video - not to compare, but to note how sublime this piece is, with every harmony savoured.

[@bludika]

sounds magical

[@Bulbophile]

beautiful

[@marekkotek6126]

super

[@hjhseo1114]

Has his own color if not anything else.

[@carmens1676]

Shura Cherkassky's interpretation is better

[@marksmith3947]

He sounds bored

[@bubffm]

Not quite...

[@bennyyclo]

He is not taking seriously

[@danymoore2135]

You are so right. ..

[@olegivanov6941]

Быстро и малоинтересно

[@bennyyclo]

Too dramatic

[@MrFrapado]

A Swan swims very poised and steady, not slow & fast; sorry but did not enjoy this performance

[@TheDionysiac]

Idk if this version was written with quite the sale scene in mind. Godowsky seems to have tripped on acid and saw the swan floating through space-time, if you ask me.

[@MrFrapado]

@@TheDionysiac This is my version which took me 10 months to master. I got one note wrong at the beginning but you can hear every single note clearly. Godowsky wrote on the score that it should be played under 2 minutes. For once I prefer my own version instead of the one by a virtuoso kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGGsoKigobaiga8

[@aziplawrence]

Godowsky specified a very quick tempo: "duration under two minutes". A number of modern performances are around 3 minutes long. The tempo here is very unsteady, though fast. and certainly doesn't fit the image of a swan swimming across still a pond.

[@paulmetdebbie447]

Mannerism.

[@jbweimar]

Ugh