Pogorelich plays Live: Chopin Nocturne & Liszt Sonata - 2012

Ivo Pogorelich plays live 3 october 2012 in De Oosterpoort, Groningen (The Netherlands).
F. Chopin - Nocturne opus 48 no. 1
10:08 F. Liszt - Sonata in b minor
This is a private, audience-made recording.

[@ericrouach]

the nocturne is the most un-conventional ever heard but the deepest and most beautiful rendition i have ever heard

[@stephenchurley2438]

I made these comments on the other version of this same performance on KZbin (in poorer sound) where other listeners were less enthusiastic than here:

[@caphaddock1126]

This is so fascinating...! Thank you Ivo

[@mikaelkenner]

i know, i will be repeating myself, but i keep listening to the liszt b minor, over and over again.... each time i hear something new.... and yet... just unreal. it is like looking into the future.... but from the past.

[@jimkost2002]

Genius, visionary. Glad to hear him even in the dark days of the 2000s. Sounds like a renewal! Thankful.

[@michaelletellier218]

Just happened on this via YT algorithm. I must thank you for this upload. I recommend others to listen with their eye wide shut as it is a lovely performance. Hartelijk bedankt. Michael

[@fredogerald1475]

Realize that a Steinway holds tones much better than a Pleyel from other days.A historical notation is that Chopin took a rather slow speed in his onstage performances.The organiser asked him to be more speedy for time reasons and to keep the audience awake.He accepted without protesting.Remain that the intended speed, especially in some nocturnes from then must have been rather slow.Astonishment for the speed of Ivo abates from knowing this all.

[@simaraft7373]

He gives you new ears, new brain.

[@danijelamikic9717]

what can I say simply genius love love it

[@FredBrunel888]

Merci beaucoup pour ce partage du concer !. Je suis pianiste classique et jazz mais surtout enseignant en musique. Je crois à l'utilité existentielle de la Musique, loin de la rentabilité souvent avancée pour justifier sa diffusion. Pogorelich en est un des exemples: je suis heureux de savoir qu'il soit aussi présent ! Car, triste de ne pas avoir d'autres enregistrements de ce génie depuis 20 ans... Ses «suites anglaises de Bach» me donnent un tel élan dans mes journées ! Il faudrait tellement encourager ce pianiste «interprète-créateur» à refaire des CDs!!!! Quel perte sinon. Cependant votre partage KZbin me console.Donc merci encore.

[@PrairieDog1876]

Beautiful and Visionary.

[@simonbailey8814]

The nocturne is pure tragedy. Extraordinary.

[@HubertGiziewski]

Huge thanx for posting.

[@chopin4321]

"Under the fingers of Chopin´s hand the piano became the voice of an archangel, an orchestra, an army, a raging ocean, a creation of the universe, the end of the world." Solange Clesinger

[@sbseg]

tyvm tyvm for this recording - we hope to recieve a new recording on CD

[@MrInterestingthings]

when u hear b minor this slow the personality of Liszt seems like da legend poet and devil but like church music there is something holy and indecent at the same time.I think what Ivo is doing is incredible.His textures are completely different in the sonata.WOW! If performance practice changes he will be in da forefront!

[@mikaelkenner]

of course ivo is a true visionary. i have been bored with so many of the "standard" performances of the liszt. (but not martha or earlier ivo) now i actually have really something to listen to. and i had to go back and back again.... did i really hear that... how could a human do that... and again and again i listen to a section of the liszt. and yet again. unreal. makes horowitz sound like a little school girl.if liszt would have heard this he would have bowed and decided to give up the piano! with gratitude."if only i could have played this way!" a hundred years from now pianists will look back to history and ask (about pogorelich) "how could he have known?"

[@AndreJorgeOliveira1]

That's really Art, with capital letters!

[@LionelTacchini]

The more I listen to this performance of the Liszt Sonata and the more interesting I find it. For all extreme it may be, there is a strong sense of involvement and consistency to it which makes it as bold and successful as Liszt's own act of writing such a work itself. And by the way, I know two persons who got tickets to the coming Paris concert after listening to this.

[@hurttala98]

Fantastic!