Ivo Pogorelich - Piano Sonata No.2 In B-Flat Minor, Op.35 free for downloading

completely magical and gorgeous.

I wish I could press that like button twice...

Pogorelich honors Chopin´s 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

Great playing. He does have a bit of a Count Dracula look going on. I was waiting for him to expose his fangs at some point.

IVO, THE Best!!

I wonder if he asks for the "Beethoven" when he gets a haircut.

for me the best and most beatiful rendition in this sonata.

His wife died you know, that changed everything. I read an interview in which he said about his wife. It seems to me that he could never get out of the shadow of her death.

This is perfection

Best performance of this piece I've found. The Marche Funebre actually works well with a real march like tempo.

Yes. Argerich disagreed with the judges ruling, declared him a genius, and walked out.

Count Dracula performs Chopin in his castle.

The greatest pianist that I ever saw perform (four times in San Francisco). Unique, unorthodox, difficult, moody, introspective, self-doubting. Genius.

It is amazing that we people always tend to look for things in someones performamce like dynamics, tempi etc. We tend to get occupied by,,technical"things and try to nit pick things we dont like but i have to say this. I am amazed by the emotions and life that each note has, its like a story of great magnitude that is told by expressing yourself through. It is sad that in this,, competition days" we forget this. Bravo Ivo for being yourself, thanks for sharing your story.

I suspect that Pogorelich can somehow feel the sound before he presses the key, then he mixes the sound in his head and after that he put it on the piano. And his technical skills are so good that he can control it all the times. It is the secret behind his beautiful piano sound. Sometimes he plays very slowly but his brain works incredibly fast, twice or three times faster then normal. He is a genius. Don't even try to imitate him. You will fail if you don't have a supersensitive supercomputer in your head and big warm heart in your body.

A genius playing music written by a genius on a genius instrument. Mahhhhhvelous.

One of my very favorite piano performances of anything. Pogorelic brings something to this sonata that no one else can.

Amazing! I am in favor of traditional playing but I recognize that this interpretation is a valuable contribution to the experience of this Sonata. Novel, beautiful, emotional.