Kapustin: Sonata for piano n.1 'Sonata-Fantasia' op 39 (4th movement) | Tristan Pfaff

Tristan Pfaff, piano
Live at Abbaye de Fontevraud in November 2012
Nikolai Kapustin, Sonata for piano n.1 'Sonata-Fantasia' op 39 (4th movement)
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[@maliciousliquid]

seriously can't believe this doesn't have more views, it's such an excellent rendition of an exceedingly difficult piece!!

[@robertwinkler3184]

wow this guy has (besides his excellent technique of cours) such a nice feeling 4 this music!

[@th.s.871]

Great! Great! Great! Very powerful. I like Kapustins Style (it remember me on Chick Corea). High energy without breaks. Very inspirating piano power. I wish Tristan all the best. :)

[@TonyKorean]

Awesome!!! The best playing of Kapustin piano sonata no.1 mov.4 that i've ever seen.

[@mariolongo7369]

True fusion : Classic-jazz

[@MichaelXinSun]

Wow, so brilliant. This is really my first time to see live performance of this piece. Great job!

[@DavidRussell323]

Mindblowing perfection

[@josephf151]

The playing and cinematography are great. Those lanterns off to to the side along with an invisible floor are neat as it sort of suggests the piano floating with stars around it.

[@いも-z9t]

brilliant!

[@pifauetre]

magnifique prestation !

[@gaetanorandazzo1423]

BRAVOOO!

[@ShaunakDesaiPiano]

I love this performance. But I think that he is rushing the introduction slightly - the massive chords of quaver length should have an obvious contrast with the semiquaver runs in between each iteration. Unless he is imitating the Russian classical music style (which he has done, but very rarely), Kapustin’s music should have rhythmic precision to the extreme, likely with little to no rubato.

[@terryss95]

Yep, he removed all the Jazz from the Sonata for the sake of making it more listenable to an audience used to a Classical repertoire, which defeats the point. Why bother playing Kapustin then? It's pretty bad overall, and after the "a tempo" in D major it gets worse... Don't bother, friend: Kapustin himself, Kawakami, Frank Duprée, Alexei Volodin and look no further.

[@ShaunakDesaiPiano]

@@terryss95 the pieces by Kapustin where rubato makes even an iota of sense are few and far between. This piece, or rather this movement (the first movement definitely allows for some rubato), is not one of them.

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

Fabulous performance.

[@MrMjp58]

Good grief. Real ability on YT.

[@黒岩朱音]

Wonderful!!👏

[@АвМелахов]

Thanks. But a very uneven rhythm.

[@bjornviir3333]

yes not as good as Kapustin himself, but a very hard piece.

[@erikfreitas7093]

Brilliant! 👏

[@段志恒]

bravo！

[@bjornviir3333]

Kapustin is hard or even harder than some Liszt. Harder to memorize for sure.