Rach3 - A new candidate for most breath-taking performance...?

[dmc]

I purposely linked to the second part so y'all could hear the cadenza (the ossia one) which begins at about 2:50.  Martha's performance (which I own) is awesome without question.  But I think she's got nothing on Bronfman here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7y8zLnQi-M&NR=1

Oh My God....

[mattgreenecomposer]

I posted this a while back.  I saw this exact performance few years ago (I was there).  The applause went on for like a half hour afterwords.  Bronfman is amazing!!!!  Super powerful.  Kinda like a Richter in a sense.

[i heart xenakis]

True.  Bronfman is my second-favorite out of what?  Maybe 60 or 70 I've heard.


Entremont takes #1 though

[dmc]

Kinda like a Richter in a sense

More like Richter on steroids !

[thalberg]

Yes I heard Bronfman play Rach 3 live as well.  Just thought I'd share.   

[tompilk]

Lazar Berman is my favourite movt. 1 but my favourite movt. 3 is Hough...
And i know people will probably say otherwise (dont bother) but Hamelin is my favourite 2nd mov.

[michel dvorsky]

Oh, Marc-Andre Hamelin is the undisputed master of this piece. Such marvellous tone! The phrasing and color, and overall conception of Hamelin's performance is MARVELLOUS...I also love how he really sinks into the keys and generates such incredible excitement.  He doesn't make the piece gruesomely boring or incoherent or anything like that!

[jinfiesto]

I saw Jon Nakamatsu play this yesterday and sunday, yes, I went twice, it was that stunning, and I'd have to say that's the best I've ever heard. His record doesn't compare to his live performance. Breathtaking virtuosity, rhythmic drive, and lyricism. He plays much differently now, than when he won the Cliburn.

[retrouvailles]

Oh, Marc-Andre Hamelin is the undisputed master of this piece. Such marvellous tone! The phrasing and color, and overall conception of Hamelin's performance is MARVELLOUS...I also love how he really sinks into the keys and generates such incredible excitement.  He doesn't make the piece gruesomely boring or incoherent or anything like that!

You're such an asshole, Jake. Why must you always pick explicitly on him, no matter what username you have?

[franzliszt2]

I'm sorry but I refuse to accept Hamelin owns the second mvt. He hasn't got the tone for this music, and everyone I have ever spoken to who seen him play it live said it was awful.

I don't like the bronfman performance, but I do respect it. It's just not to my taste. I think it's just to heavy and I don't care much for the orchestral playing.

[michel dvorsky]

You're such an asshole, Jake. Why must you always pick explicitly on him, no matter what username you have?

Chill jre32422882. 

[wizardfingers]

lol, niice

[carazymcmahon]

I saw Jon Nakamatsu play this yesterday and sunday, yes, I went twice, it was that stunning, and I'd have to say that's the best I've ever heard. His record doesn't compare to his live performance. Breathtaking virtuosity, rhythmic drive, and lyricism. He plays much differently now, than when he won the Cliburn.

I was there on Sunday. It's interesting hearing it over youtube from the greatest, but hearing a live performance (an amazing one at that) is so much different. It's kinda weird saying this but some parts were really exciting and my heart was pounding at times. Really something else.

[tompilk]

I'm sorry but I refuse to accept Hamelin owns the second mvt. He hasn't got the tone for this music, and everyone I have ever spoken to who seen him play it live said it was awful.

don't accept it then, but i think the second movement from his performance in switzerland in november last year is wonderful...

[franzliszt2]

Yeh, becasue so many people agree with you....except the fellow Hamelin arse lickers. Go listen to Rachmaninoff himself play it.

[tompilk]

Yeh, becasue so many people agree with you....except the fellow Hamelin arse lickers. Go listen to Rachmaninoff himself play it.

why do i have to be wrong for you to be satisfied? I have heard the Rachmaninov recording many times, but why does that have to be my favourite? There's a million analogies I could use to show how ridiculous the "original is best" argument is, if that's why you have the opinions you do.
Either you are extremely childish, selfish or egotistic to think that what you think is "right". Just grow up a bit, and respect that even if I was the only person in the world to like Hamelin's performance, that would still not be a reason to change my opinion!
OK, I can't resist an analogy:
Billions of people believe in different religions, and a good proportion of them are wrong (if not all). You can't say that belief in numbers provides an objective (or even rational) approach in any way...

[franzliszt2]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA you have a website about Hamelin!!!

You should read Nitchzse "Human, all to human", it discusses worshiping other people....I'm sure it will interest you 

[tompilk]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA you have a website about Hamelin!!!

You should read Nitchzse "Human, all to human", it discusses worshiping other people....I'm sure it will interest you 

god, you really are a kid...

[tompilk]

plus, if this is the kind of reaction you give to someone who says they like 1 movement by a particular pianist you don't particularly like, I hate to think what your reaction is to people of other beliefs... it's arrogant and completely obnoxious. i don't come here meaning to start an argument. You, on the other hand, seem adamant to do so.