Jorge Bolet Master Class-Rachmaninoff Piano Conc.#3-Pt.2

gnolti Says:

Nov 23, 2007 - I've always preferred the ossia.

jannokas85 Says:

Nov 27, 2007 - I'm surprised Ira didn't suffer any injury after this...extremely hard physical work on fingers alone with no other movement (such as walking etc like Bolet is doing...and doing it well)...and the constant block chords and cadenzas etc etc. In reality one has to rest as often as possible after such work or the result is that you end up like Ira did at 4:43

maxi937 Says:

Dec 11, 2007 - All these pianists are so talented!

IloveAlexisBledel689 Says:

Dec 20, 2007 - I love this part do much

juzzyfuzz Says:

Dec 27, 2007 - There's no doubt, of course, that Bolet is a remarkably wonderful, musical pianist, and brilliant masterclass teacher. I have never seen any other pianist with such square movements as he makes with his forearms, especially when coming off the piano. Has anyone else noticed this? I mean - who cares, he obviously has no technical problems! Just an observation.

goodridgewinners Says:

Dec 31, 2007 - Loving those russian rhythms man!!! lol...If i were to say what style of music influences how i compose...i would say The Russian style of that of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff do. Its soo....exotic and charming and boistrous and powerful...it seems to burn a furnace into your heart; sending it through your veins and along your nerves...like an orgasmic burst of zest and majesty.Also, this cadenza is different to the version i have...it starts off differently.

maxi937 Says:

Feb 28, 2008 - This pianist is brilliant!

4ngry4nus Says:

Apr 8, 2008 - lmao at 2:19-2:20 he thought the young guy was gonna start. Look at his face! the sheer suprise!

sbcpianist Says:

Apr 25, 2008 - So cool! He sounds like Sean Connery!

hadricalifornia Says:

Jun 9, 2008 - This is the best part of all the master classes video. How can anyone think of such genius music? And it makes it so much more interesting to have bolets comments... We understand it more. It must feel so good after all these years of practice to pull all this together... And produce such power

IloveAlexisBledel689 Says:

Jul 21, 2008 - Lol his expretion at 4:53, not very polite.

karakallatore Says:

Sep 26, 2008 - This guy is great. two thumbs up.

Haeronthegreat Says:

Feb 5, 2009 - Levin loses all the wonderful inner voices before the descending thirds in the cadenza. Listen to Rach do it. It's incredible.

ciprian25 Says:

Feb 17, 2009 - Levin plays too fast! He loosses all the beauty in the melody, and all its grandious concept! You can hear the difference beetwen him and Bolet! You can tell when Bolet touches the piano!

zzzxtreme Says:

Jun 5, 2009 - what a precious golden video recording !

prongated Says:

Jun 28, 2009 - Agreed, but it's not so much that it's too fast - it's because he's rushing. Either he's too young to grasp the importance of rhythm, or his technique could be better.

gipfeli Says:

Aug 4, 2009 - 2:59-3:00 has a similar scene... those guys were "mocking" him, lol...

Shyrk Says:

Sep 16, 2009 - You can hear such a huge difference in the play of Bolet and the guy he's teaching. Really impressive.

Beethovens7th Says:

Sep 29, 2009 - Levin's time is all over the place, yikes!

laqin007 Says:

Oct 8, 2009 - That pianist is too tense on shoulder...

coralreef909 Says:

Dec 4, 2009 - Hi I''m curious about this Master class? is it commercially available on DVD or were you able to record it when aired on television? I've done a search for it and so far have come up with nothing. The people who originally produced it own the rights to it and won't allow student pianist to acquire it.

sanferrera Says:

Jan 23, 2010 - It´s incredible how Levin can correct inmediately, Bolet suggests something, and he can more or less play it at once! Thats tallent!!!

modelstatue Says:

Mar 26, 2010 - Rachmaninoff sounds a lot harder than Liszt!!!! This is an amazing piece of music!!!!!

Obaysch Says:

Apr 4, 2010 - @sanferrera Not really, Levin was his assistant at Curtis and probably had either coached it with him, or had some idea what Bolet's priorities are. What's shocking is how weak he is technically - which is probably why he's a conductor nowadays.

richclayderman Says:

May 7, 2010 - 3:00 "this guy....haha..."