Great Pianists play Chopin Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 35 - Finale (4/4)

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Channel: gullivior · 2010 · Music

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"This is not music" (Schumann)..."Winds of night sweeping over churchyard graves." (Anton Rubinstein) ... "One may abhor it, yet it cannot be ignored."(Mendelssohn)... "... the ghost of the departed wandering about" (Tausig) ... "...the solitude and dreariness of a desert." (Niecks)..."...the freezing whirlwind descending on tombs." (Cortot)
...a comparison between 34 great pianists...
(I'm sorry for pianists omitted or forgotten...)

1. Witold Malcuzinsky
2. Wilhelm Kempff
3. Vladimir Horowitz
4. Alfred Cortot
5. Leopold Godowsky
6. Sergei Rachmaninoff

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