POGORELICH, SCHUMANN FANTASY FANTASIE, BRAHMS PAGANINI VARIATIONS - MADRID 2016.

Fantasy:
From Greek phantasia ‘imagination, appearance’, later ‘phantom’, from phantazein ‘make visible’.
The faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things.
A genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.
0:01 ROBERT SCHUMANN´S FANTASIE IN C, OP 17
39:35 JOHANNES BRAHMS´ VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF PAGANINI, OP 35.
I dedicate this recording to the memory of Alice Kerezade.
This way of playing at the highest level possible , once again , I bet is always dedicated to the memory of Ivo´s mentor, teacher, and wife, Alice Kerezade, who lovingly passed on to him the tradition of the Liszt-Siloti school, before her untimely death in 1996.
This sublime and transcendental kind of playing in such a state of grace sure pays homage to this exceptionally refined, visionary, and truly revolutionary woman, who made Pogorelich not only a unique artist of genius, but the best ever at the level of Horowitz and Maria Callas.
Ivo Pogorelich is not only an artist of the highest caliber, discipline and musicianship, but the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take.
Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete.
Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, love and compassion.
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esta musica es milagrosa, es de un santo invisible, brahms, esta tocada por pogorelich, otro genio y el mejor pianista de la historia con Horowitz otro angel de la guarda invisible.
BEAUTY BECOMES ETERNITY
Sound and Silence, Life and Death, Time and Space; collapse into the Eternal moment of Infinity
thank you ivo
this was one of the few very best concerts in my life...pogorelich sound was projected with such a beauty and force...went through the ceiling of the national auditorium straight up searching the infinite of the cosmos...collapsing time and space...making an eternal moment of infinity.
he warmed up playing the concert works slowly and pianissimo while the audience kept entering and sitting... everybody listening to his warm up...it was magical, beautiful,delicate,poetic...even angelic... then he bowed with love to just one member of the audience who said bravo for the warm up session....and in just a few minutes ivo changed clothes and a thunder storm broke up...such a contrast...so dramatic and cathartic...i was petrified for 2 hours...ivo gives power, force, wisdom...something special to endure the tragedies of this life...i love his sound for this tragic quality....its a sacred transfer of energy....ivo is a genius among us and we don´t see it...
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EL REY DEL AJEDREZ -
Tu eres el protegido de la Muerte
que contemplas clavado en tu Tumba
el Juego de la Vida.
Eres el que lleva los ojos
en los clavos de una Cruz.
Tus manos acarician con ternura
las espaldas ciegas de tus soldados.
Tus guardianes armados y desalmados
te piden de rodillas
que claves una cruz en sus pechos
porque tienen miedo de no ser crucificados
en el momento deseado.
Leales pintores avanzan dibujándote
los secretos caminos de la Muerte.
Tus lágrimas de acero destrozan al caer
los desnudos dedos de tus pies.
Sobre el teclado de Tierra
la lluvia desentierra
las mil manos de la Guerra.
! Oh Rey del Ajedrez
dolor vivo de tu niñez !
! Tu mueres por no Vencer
y también mueres por Vencer !
A.S.
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thank you ivo, for your dignity, generosity and courage.
thank you for your life to music.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

0:01 ROBERT SCHUMANN´S FANTASIE IN C, OP 17 39:35 JOHANNES BRAHMS´ VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF PAGANINI, OP 35.

[@prokastinatore]

Ivo was- and he still is- a genius! A game changer! Thank you for uploading this.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

this was one of the few very best concerts in my life...like most of ivo...one arrau, one pollini, few pires, two perayas...pogorelich sound was projected with such a beauty and force...came through the ceiling of the national auditorium and went straight up searching the infinite of the cosmos...i kept wandering where he was heading to with his magic sound...cause time and space really collapsed...making an eternal moment of infinity...ivo really travels way high...it is indescribable..he warmed up playing the concert works slowly and pianissimo while the audience kept entering and sitting... everybody listening to his warm up...it was magic, beautiful,delicate,poetic...even angelic how he bowed with love to just one member of the audience who said bravo for the warm up session....then in just a few minutes ivo changed clothes and a thunder storm broke up...such a contrast...so dramatic and cathartic...i was petrified for 2 hours...compared to him most pianists are so simple and boring...ivo gives you..at least gives me, power, force, wisdom...something special to endure the tragedies of this life...i love his sound for this tragic quality...it is not entertainment...its a sacred transfer of energy...i guess we as audience must give him something sacred also...otherwise he would have retired long ago...ivo is a genius among us and we don´t see it...it happened to mozart, just haydn knew it, the rest of the world in the 35 years of mozart live had no clue...and it also happened to bach after he died...more than 100 years of oblivion...just incredible how miserable people can be, others were recognized right away and throughout their life,like horowitz, maria callas, beethoven, chopin...

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

This way of playing at the highest level possible , once again , I bet is always dedicated to the memory of Ivo´s mentor, teacher, and wife, Alice Kerezade, who lovingly passed on to him the tradition of the Liszt-Siloti school, before her untimely death in 1996. This sublime and transcendental kind of playing in such a state of grace sure pays homage to this exceptionally refined, visionary, and truly revolutionary woman, who made Pogorelich not only a unique artist of genius, but the best ever at the level of Horowitz and Maria Callas. Ivo Pogorelich is not only an artist of the highest caliber, discipline and musicianship, but the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take. Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete. Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, love and compassion.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

this is exquisite music, visionary and pure genius, like all pogorelich interpretations, which transcend and stretch beyond reality, beyond the present moment, and beyond beauty. his art of interpreting is almost subversive, bold and pushes the boundaries of what is acceptable, after listening to ivo i just can,t avoid see many interpreters a bit or a lot inferior or vulgar...the talent and genius of ivo, pianist of pianists, artist of artists, can´t be compared well to other pianists, belongs more to another more creative sphere, that is why he reminds and resembles me to some of the greatest geniuses like rembrandt, goya, velazquez, da vinci, michelangelo, van gogh, vermeer....they all captured and immortalized the noble and the universal of art. pogorelich also achieved this rare and beautiful capturing of the human soul with all its nobility and universality ... thank you ivo for enduring and for persisting a bit more, you are so alone...you are the only one with enough talent to take art beyond....you are an honor to music.

[@javiertrabajo9438]

genial como siempre Ivo

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

INFINITE BEAUTY... INFINITE LOVE....AN ARTIST, A MUSICIAN EVEN MORE, WHO HONORS THIS CAREER, IS BY NATURE A BEING OF LOVE, FOR LOVE, CARRIER OF HARMONY, BEAUTY AND PEACE.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

Ivo Pogorelich was born in Belgrade in 1958 as son of a musician. He received his first piano lessons at the age of seven and went to Moscow at the age of twelve to study at the Central Special Music School and then at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory. In 1976 he began intensive studies with the renowned pianist and teacher Aliza Kezeradze, with whom he was married from 1980 until her untimely death in 1996. Mme. Kezeradze was able to transmit the spirit and matter of the school of Beethoven and Liszt, the tradition of the Liszt-Siloti school, originated in Vienna and than carried through to the Conservatory of St. Petersburg, flourishing towards the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th. Century. Pogorelich´s sound, concerts and recordings pay homage to this exceptionally refined, visionary, and truly revolutionary woman, who so lovingly made Pogorelich a unique artist of genius. Ivo Pogorelich won the first prize at the Alessandro Casagrande Competition at Terni (Italy) in 1978 and the first price at the Montreal International Music Competition in 1980. In October of the same year he entered the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw where, when prevented from participating in the final contest as a soloist with the orchestra, a fierce controversy resulted in the renowned argentinian pianist Martha Argerich, a member of the jury, protesting and leaving the competition, joined by other members of the jury panel, with the words “He is a genius”. The New York Times once wrote “He played each note exactly, with such a feeling, such expression, he was an entire orchestra- it was as if he played 200 years ahead of our time”. In this spirit Ivo Pogorelich is known today as a poet of the instrument. Ivo Pogorelich is not only an artist of the highest caliber, discipline and musicianship, but the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take. Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete. Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, love and compassion. -- Sound and Silence, Life and Death, Time and Space; collapse into the Eternal moment of Infinity. -- ----------------------- "you have to get into the phycological frame of mind in which composers wrote their works in order to discover its secrets. virtuosity comes from the greek origin virtue. original is finding the origin Gaudi said. rachmaninov had arthritis at the end of his life, he was so weak that his sound was very short, that is the reason he played fast, to fill the vacuum. if you have long sound you are in command to achieve clarity and the hypnotic sound between the notes. the problem was always the conflict and the difference between the absolute and the relative quality. beauty in music is like in diamonds, the purest diamond in the world is the Koh-i-Noor, it is the absolute beauty to which others with relative beauty are compared. work as hard as a galley slave. one should always try as much as possible to rediscover music as though one is hearing it for the first time, searching everywhere for new meanings and new depths. the highest function of the artist is to release the spirituality and the emotional immediacy that lie within the score. sound becomes metaphysical only when you have completely explored all physical possibilities. you should explore until reaching the absurd. music takes you to another universe of eternity that remains with you after the concert is finished." Ivo Pogorelich. ------------------------------------

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

ivo and brahms... genius playing genius...-57:47....most delicate sweetest dream...

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

Liszt was a piano teacher in París in 1831-1832, among his pupils there was Valérie Boissier, whose mother, Caroline, kept a diary of her piano classes. Thats why we know that: " M. Liszt's playing contains abandonment, a liberated feeling, but even when it becomes impetuous and energetic in his fortissimo, it is still without harshness and dryness. [...] [He] draws from the piano tones that are purer, mellower and stronger than anyone has been able to do; his touch has an indescribable charm. [...] He is the enemy of affected, stilted, contorted expressions. Most of all, he wants truth in musical sentiment, and so he makes a psychological study of his emotions to convey them as they are. Thus, a strong expression is often followed by a sense of fatigue and dejection, a kind of coldness, because this is the way nature works." Liszt fue profesor en París. En 1831-1832 entre sus alumnos, se encontraba Valérie Boissier, cuya madre, Caroline, escribió un minucioso diario de las lecciones. Por ella sabemos que: " La interpretación de M[onsieur]. Liszt contiene abandono, un sentimiento liberado, pero incluso cuando se convierte en impetuoso y enérgico en su fortissimo, sigue siendo sin dureza ni sequedad. [...] Obtiene del piano tonos que son más puros, suaves y enérgicos que los que nadie ha sido capaz de conseguir; su toque tiene un encanto indescriptible. [...] Es el enemigo de las expresiones fingidas, forzadas o retorcidas. Sobre todo, quiere la verdad en el sentimiento musical, y por eso hace un estudio psicológico de sus emociones para transmitirlas como son. Así, a menudo una fuerte expresión es seguida por una sensación de fatiga y abatimiento, una especie de frialdad, porque esta es la forma en que funciona la naturaleza. "

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

ivo has the most beautiful and perfect equilibrium of the 3 elements of music ...melody, harmony and form. ivo has the highest internal discipline possible, which is the ability to identify, discern, and take action on the particular thoughts in his head that are actually aligned with his life vision and goals. has infinite hard work and sacrifice, pogorelich once said he worked like a galley slave, i believe him, the result is this, the most perfect and beautiful piano playing ever. " SIMPLICITY IS EVERYTHING, IT IS ART¨S FINAL OBJECT. ONE HAS TO HAVE STUDIED A LOT, TREMENDOUSLY, TO LET SIMPLICITY EMERGE WITH ALL ITS CHARM, GRACE AND MAGIC. PLACE THE HAND AT EASE, WITH A MAXIMUM OF SUPPLENESS AND FLEXIBILITY, -- ( FACILEMENT, FACILEMENT ) -- EASILY, EASILY. TO ATTAIN GOOD TASTE, NATURALNESS AND PERFECTION IN PIANO PLAYING, LEARN FROM THE BEST OPERA SINGERS, LISTENING CAREFULLY HOW THEY BREATH. " - CHOPIN - " The Ideal of great Art is supreme serenity. " - Franz Liszt - " MUSIC SHOULD FLOW LIKE OIL, NOTES SHOULD GO AS SMOOTH AS OIL " - MOZART - " MUSIC WAS BORN FREE; AND TO WIN ITS LOST LIBERTY IS ITS DESTINY. " - F. BUSONI -

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

"One thing we can say about music is that we can do our best to grasp it and teach it, but there will always be one thing missing this way - grace - the unexpected miracle which gives music its true worth. This ‘je ne sais quoi’ is what drives the composer to compose. It is grace which invites the musician- body and soul- to master his instrument and deepen his understanding. It is grace which attracts music lovers to come to concerts, to be part of a precious and unique event: the communication of this certain something, which is part of everyone’s make-up. The requirement for this ‘transmission’ is not only aesthetic, but ethical: music, like all art, is part of the mystery that shapes humans." [Maria Joao Pires]

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

bueno os pongo aqui algo que opino de ivo que escribi en su maravillosa y reciente grabacion de 3 obras de granados..." la primer vez que escuchas este granados te choca, como casi todo lo de ivo...te tira pa tras y te atrae a la vez...es normal que sea asi...es un shock...es tan innovador, tan radical, y tan diferente del resto de interpretaciones del pasado... parecen casi obras nuevas recien descubiertas, que se tocan solas, tocar asi es un trabajo gigantesco de orfebre, cada nota tiene un sentido y un sitio magico y maravilloso, y limpio...decia ivo en una entrevista que tardaba muchos meses solo en limpiar, en quitar el exceso de azucar y sentimentalismo que acumulan las obras por la vulgar y pesima tradicion de tocarlas demasiado empalagosas... a pesar del talento de ivo tan grande, imagino el trabajo y esfuerzo infinitos que realiza en el estudio de todo lo que toca...una vez dijo que el trabajo de un interprete es tan duro como el de un esclavo de galeras, siempre me quedo esa imagen de rigor y de dolor en el estudio, de sacrificio y sufrimiento para alcanzar la gran belleza, como un san sebastian con sus flechas...estoico y sagrado, por eso toca tan pocas obras comparado con otros, pero mejor que nadie, ivo universaliza, engrandece e inmortaliza el espiritu, alma y arte español, aqui estan sancho y quijote, un caballero español, siglos de honor y el saber perder un imperio, goya y velazquez, el duende de lorca, el caballero de la mano en el pecho de el greco, el cubismo de picasso, el andar, mirar y estar de españa, su sabiduria, su silencio mistico y su soledad sonora. "

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

at 48:22 and at 56:49 irresistible dream within a dream...intoxicating most beautiful ppp sottovoche... a double genius whisper

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

esta musica que escucho de nuevo hoy otra vez, es un sueño de inmortalidad, de eternidad y de belleza, donde el dolor y la muerte dan paso al amor.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

Pogorelich honors music...resurrecting his soul, his spirit....like no one. "Chopin´s playing evoked all the sweet and sorrowful voices of the past. Chopin sang the tears of music...in a whole gamut of different forms and voices, from that of the warrior to those of children and angels..." Bohdan Zaleski, polish poet, personal diary 2 feb 1844. "Under the fingers of Chopins´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

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

this is a wild beautiful dream...pure van gogh, rembrandt, el greco and goya together...most loving bipolarity...ivo plays so free and controlled at the same time...he is so paradoxical in so many ways...true genius, impossible to define. but let me try, cause i want to solve the mystery, he mixes sound and silence in such a unique magical way.... and forte and piano too...and melody and harmony.... always in the most musical way, only maria callas did something similar, and payed the highest price of genius, lots of money and applause plus destructive envy and total solitude, she suffered too much, could not stand it, died at 54, gave all her energy and love to the world, little in return, ivo is stronger. pogorelich like no one takes sound beyond, transcends public, audience, critics...he plays to the future, to the universe, there seems to be a perfect proportion of sound when he mixes two notes, how much weigh in the left hand to get a golden proportion to make the most beautiful cantabile, or harmony, and always as a coherent piece of a huge structure and form, like a cathedral... i never saw anyone use the 3 pedals of the piano so much and so beautifully as ivo in this recital, specially the very difficult middle one, no wonder his harmonies seem so new and different from anybody else, he creates a new sound for old music. when he was a kid at 13 , watch video in youtube, he already played like a wise old man, later in life he started playing like a demigod, he conveys to sound a rare kind of musical immortality, of soul´s eternity, of God´s infinity. pogorelich´s music belongs to another world...to worlds of dreams, magic and alchemy....ivo´s sound is made of gold, has such an intense pure quality...his music sounds superhuman...but he is just one of us, one of the best of us, ever.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

pires who is now 72, has wise comments in her new recording of beethoven piano concertos 3 and 4 in her new label - onyx -. comments about the job of the interpreter, about what she called the simple miracle of bringing and opening up the work, the score, the composer, to life...yielding to the source of all music. she talks about the difficulty of how much personality can the interpreter show in order to give life to the score...at the risk of betraying the spirit of the work; or on the contrary, showing the score the utmost respect suppressing interpreters personality to achieve a perfect but sometimes lifeless reading her thoughts made me think how brave are geniuses like maria callas, horowitz and ivo...showing their personality so much...taking high risks...receiving hard critics and envy...but never betraying the spirit of the work...thus giving more life to music than other artists anyway pires was brave enough to resign from d.g. after so many good records and years...cause she wanted to have freedom to choose her recording repertoire...and so she just did recently dedicating her new recording of beethoven in - onyx - to her lost friend claudio abbado so please ivo,do the same,quit d.g. and give us a few presents recording anywhere your last masterpieces, do not wait till you are 72 like pires to do it pires explained herself freer than ever in a recent interview " music should be an act and a world of purity, of serenity, it should be a mission, like teachers do, like medical doctors, actors, philosophers...who simply try to make a better world. music should not be a means of self promotion or for making money like it is now. many managers and record companies are the ones to blame. many young musicians are lost cause of this decadence. i broke my d.g. contract because of this and because in one of their cd records a d.g. artist appeared in an unmusical, anti-artistic, unethical attitude. so because of this i wrote the president of d.g. a resigning letter. that is exactly what young artists are forced to do to just sell copies for money and not for the sake and to honor what music should be. " thank you pires, and ivo, for your dignity,generosity, courage and for your life to music.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

this is it...schumann and ivo...-14:47 pain...sweetest of pains....-15:26 most loving lullaby....-16:22 pain goes to sleep...-17:37 two kisses, most beautiful dream, deep silence...

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

en 56:50 hay amor en carne viva, comienza la frase musical mas bella que escuche en mi vida, de ivo, y de cualquier otro genio como horowitz o maria callas, contiene el dolor de un angel, es el amor que cura el dolor de un angel, y el dolor de un angel es sagrado.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

"Chopin´s playing evoked all the sweet and sorrowful voices of the past. Chopin sang the tears of music...in a whole gamut of different forms and voices, from that of the warrior to those of children and angels..." Bohdan Zaleski, polish poet, personal diary 2 feb 1844. "Under the fingers of Chopins´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. Ivo is the archetype of the modern artist, the isolated and courageous master, who finds his own way to new heights of expression, no matter the prejudices or the barriers of misunderstanding raised against him. He stands alone at the beginning of a new epoch like a prophet, mapping the routes that art would take. Pogorelich´s cathartic and mystical sound, is concerned with the ultimate mysteries that transcend this world. His grandiose, colossal and majestic art, symbolizes the struggle of the human soul to find release from the bonds of its material body. His exquisite and overwhelming music continues to echo throughout the entire performance and beyond, so the action is at once momentary, eternal and complete. Pogorelich´s interpretations are indescribably beautiful and irresistible. His sound is pure poetry and extremely emotional, yet entirely unsentimental. We are hypnotized by his new and radical naturalness, by his nobility, dignity, severity and sobriety; transporting us to states of wonder, ecstasy, meditation, redemption, love and compassion. Sound and Silence, Life and Death, Time and Space; collapse into the Eternal moment of Infinity.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

Fantasy: From Greek phantasia ‘imagination, appearance’, later ‘phantom’, from phantazein ‘make visible’. The faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things. A genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

pogorelich wise words: many many hours of academic hard work is the secret. find inspiration after 8 hours of work like Picasso. first you have to be a servant...then comes the rest. sacrifice is the key. the substance is already there, but is dead until your work makes it alive. always fight against the worst enemy, routine. always have inspiration. warm the instrument before a concert like a car in winter... fight and find the substance. playing in public is transcendental. music takes you to another universe of eternity that remains with you after the concert is finished. virtuosity comes from the greek origin virtue. original is finding the origin Gaudi said. fight to achieve quality, go deeper...find the origin of the sound. technique is not just fast and slow...is the sound, the long sound, the palette of colors, is entering a different space, reaching the diversity of sound. rachmaninov had arthritis at the end of his life, he was so weak that his sound was very short, that is the reason he played fast, to fill the vacuum. if you have long sound you are in command to achieve clarity and the hypnotic sound between the notes. the problem was always the conflict and the difference between the absolute and the relative quality. beauty in music is like in diamonds, the purest diamond in the world is the Koh-i-Noor, it is the absolute beauty to which others with relative beauty are compared. ----- i love the immense range of the tragic and mysterious, in part demoniac, qualities in pogorelich´s music which defy analysis. i love his aspiration to reach the greatness of soul of composers and creators. once he said most music he could hear was an ostentatious circus act of virtuoso pieces for up-and-coming pianists, tests of finger dexterity, not art. ivo said you have to get into the phycological frame of mind in which composers wrote their works in order to discover its secrets. advices to work as hard as a galley slave. love his ability to achieve overwhelming, unique and intoxicating climaxes as well as subtleties of tonal shading. pogorelich shares with horowitz an immense creativity and an unprecedented technique. sound becomes metaphysical only when you have completely explored all physical possibilities. you should explore until reaching the absurd. one should always try as much as possible to rediscover music as though one is hearing it for the first time, searching everywhere for new meanings and new depths. the highest function of the artist is to release the spirituality and the emotional immediacy that lie within the score.

[@michelleclerc3857]

After this “daemonic” recreation of what Brahms may have had in mind or gone through in his heart while writing his Paganini Variations, how is it even possible to go on teaching them or being taught them the “normally’ “text faithful” way as is unceasingly being done? Either play and then interpret or do not interpret then do not play. Pogorelich puts every musician starkly before this choice.

[@JavierSerraltaSanMartin]

esta interpretacion es de otro mundo, de un mundo donde casi solo ivo ha estado...tendra que ser otro gran artista o creador en años quien explique y revele esta magia, aqui ivo ya sublima la belleza y el sentimiento mas que nunca, mira de frente a los misterios y a dios, esta manera de crear musica es transcendental, infalible, inmutable, invisible, poderosa, omnipresente, inmaterial y eterna, se acerca al misterio de dios y de las leyes naturales.

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

Are you off your pink pills again, Javier? Mom and nana worry about you!

[@MartinaMrkus]

go away

[@4321loli]

escucha bien lore, hija mia, el amor, la fuerza y la ternura infinitas de esta musica magica te ayudaran mucho...fijate en 56:50 es una caricia infinitamente dulce y amorosa, de un padre a un hijo, de dios al hombre...y en 57:19 se hace mas profunda , dulce y reparadora.. y en 57:48 todavia mas...ya tocando reparando el alma... esta musica es milagrosa, es de un santo invisible, brahms, esta tocada por pogorelich, otro genio, y el mejor pianista del mundo, otro angel de la guarda invisible.