Vladimir Selivokhin plays Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata no. 1, op. 28

[@jinwoobae7555]

Historical Perfomance!!!!!!!!!

[@YeojunKim04]

❤

[@SCRIABINIST]

Best interpretation by far

[@sean-kb4wr]

What about Sean botkin's interpretation

[@antonbruckner768]

Many thanks. I have listened to dozens of Rach's first piano sonata (I'm obsessed) and this is definitely in the top few. Certainly the most technically brilliant. I almost fell off my chair when I heard the clapping at the end and realised that it was a live performance. Staggering. I usually prefer it when the pianist relaxes more into the melodic sections. But Selivokhin slows down enough and has a lovely touch, and I did not find him over-hasty. Absolutely fantastic. Unbelievable he did not have a bigger career.

[@MrKTaskov]

Сокрушительно! Рахманинов/Селивохин...!!!

[@ponderingpianist6774]

Wonderful. Thank you so much. My teacher was, like Selivokhin, a pupil of Vsevolod Topilin, and from Selivokhin's pianistic art I recognize many qualities that I believe were common to the best pupils of Topilin...they seem to have shared - among other things - his aesthetics of the sound quality, and structuring the sound of the "satz", that is, profiling a three-dimensional soundscape (see also Neuhaus 1958). Also this straight style of playing, with a marvelous sense of the tragic and of austerity, avoiding all kind of sentimentality and commerciality, if I may put it so, yet still listening everything but knowing what is truly important... this all reminds me of Topilin's heritage. I was so happy to be reminded of that wonderful ETHOS of playing, which is so rare today. I think this level is not achieved through crazy practising, but through a different kind of thinking: structural understanding and deep philosophical approach. Despite a marvelous technique, I somehow feel that this is how one plays Rachmaninov, when the philosophy behind his music is understood and deeply agreed to. All who remember Topilin, know that his life was tragic: he was a top talent, but unfortunately also one of the victims of Stalin regime, spending circa 10 years in Ozerlag prison camp, which destroyed his health and more. Still, after being released, Topilin managed to teach at least in Kharkov and in Kiev until his untimely death in 1970. For those who can read Ukrainian and Russian, or have the patience to use Google Translator (English translation works quite well); there is an article and a monography available in internet, (both written by Olena Pinchuk) about Topilin's life and art. I managed to read both through with Google Translator. The name mentioned in both, V. Novikov, is my teacher. I think that in Vladimir Selivokhin's interpretation it is not the speed that governs, but how he handles the hypermeter keeping the tension, and how he carries the long line of phrasing. Compared to (at least to younger) Weissenberg (as someone here did before me), whose sound to me was sometimes too crushing (but it is a long time ago since I heard his recordings), I feel that Selivokhin's sound is not harsh at all. To me his sound is a straight style of sound with a core in it (opposed to a round sound with no core but a lot of resonance; maybe connected to the French piano school), sonorous & very beautiful, powerful without any aggressivity, instead with a lot of authority and honesty.

[@alexrode7858]

The way he brings out middle.voices in various parts of the first mvmt...unique! Powerful!

[@nassera]

Crazy. Impossible

[@eustacequinlank7418]

I wish I could thumb up each and every clip you upload... there are just so many! I've never heard of Selivokhin, so thanks for the pointer. Do you have any live performances of Terence Judd, perchance? There are a few clips of him around, but they seem to be scarce really. Just as an aside, I bought my nephew Rachmaninoff's book of Preludes for Christmas after he commented a while ago that the stuff he was learning was 'too easy'. Now he'll have to dislocate his 12 year old thumbs to make those chords.

[@ADGO]

+Man Beadle haha :) Cruel and wise, that'll take you far in this world. Cheers Mr. Beadle. The only live recording of Judd that I've come across is the video I uploaded of him playing at the Tchaikovsky comp. That one's spectacular. There must be some other British bootlegs and concert recordings that aren't yet published. Also I have not heard any other Selivokhin recordings, though there are some on CD from later in his life, and some other Melodiya LPs. I have a few more recordings to upload, and a mini-project to share at the end of this month, then I'll try to slow this way down.

[@иринадавыдова-м9щ]

Великий пианист!

[@nihilistlemon1995]

Just heard his interpretation of the first Liszt concerto . Holy cow that was impressive . I just knew he also have recorded the second concerto on LP . Any chance you have it and could upload it please :3 :3 :3

[@ADGO]

Did you hear it on iTunes? Unfortunately I don't have that recording.

[@nihilistlemon1995]

arf . It was on spotify with the Afanasiev tag .

[@Александрит-о7г]

The second concert of the Sheet is performed Salivahana have long been digitized. For example, here are links to each of the parts: 1) kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3_Yc62rjpegq6c 2) kzbin.info/www/bejne/p56bkoKPmdyGsNE 3) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGqWaqd4d9t8fq8 4) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZa3pXejfbt7n6M or to a playlist along with other works: kzbin.info/aero/OLAK5uy_k-UN5xWQGeny3MpKjKcxrGMkHkri4HL_s

[@ConcordMass]

reminds me of nyireghazi a bit... 5:49 sounds so much like him - wrong notes but right feeling. unfortunately rachs music has a "lower tolerance" for wrong notes... it sounds completely wrong (how selivokhin plays it)

[@rvenko1585]

I don't know if Lennon ever listened to Rachmaninoff, but from 11.45 amidst the enchanting moving melody I hear the melody of Yesterday. And then this line is repeated. Is this not a miracle?

[@palmerplantagenet]

Hadn't heard of this pianist, either. From a technical level, a listener can marvel, but I should hear other works performed by this pianist-with-unusually-adept-equipment, before feeling disappointed, overall. He matches Wiessenberg in speed - which isn't necessarily a good thing. I think both play this work at an undue, break-neck pace. Where Wiessenberg may offer a wallop, this pianist often breezes through with gratuitous suavity (in my estimation). And this most beautiful lento movement, unfortunately, does not come across beautiful, say, like Fiorentino's magnificently moving lento. More or less lastly, where Rachmaninoff often uses serious, dynamic rhythmic accenting, here I picked up a disagreeable sensation of merely (at times) bounding and bouncing along too quickly - so out of character for the music. Hopefully, I will be able to hear other recorded performances by Selivochin and be truly, musically 'transported' - his physical cultivation was more than sufficient to accomplish great things. Could carrying the banner of winning the Busoni Prize have given him a thirst for, and concept of, audience-demanded swiftness?

[@ДмитроКудрицький]

Please, search a lot of Vladimir Selivokhin recordings on Soundcloud: Joseph Haydn, Beethoven, Scarlatti, Ravel and Réminiscences de Don Juan right after Busoni win.

[@kevinheung8712]

Poor guy. He was the student of First Prize Winner of First Chopin Competition. Probably you don't know who is he. Hadn't heard of it again right?