Roman Rabinovich plays Ligeti Musica Ricercata

live from Wigmore Hall
January 25, 2019
00:19 I. Sostenuto – Misurato – Prestissimo
3:03 II. Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale
6:38 III. Allegro con spirito
7:47 IV. Tempo di valse (poco vivace – « à l'orgue de Barbarie »)
10:10 V. Rubato. Lamentoso
13:30 VI. Allegro molto capriccioso
14:19 VII. Cantabile, molto legato
17:33 VIII. Vivace. Energico
18:36 IX. (Béla Bartók in Memoriam) Adagio. Mesto – Allegro maestoso
20:52 X. Vivace. Capriccioso
22:16 XI. (Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi) Andante misurato e tranquillo

[MrInterestingthings]

Rabinovich is a thinking man's pianist . He understands the genesis of the music and therefor there is depth and meaning to his attacks, tonal and textural, pedal choices !

[ritamonkovich]

In Roman Rabinovich's performance of the Ligeti's piece you can hear not the notes only - it is the meaningful interpretation with certain interpretation showing idea in very individual manner of the pianist.

[JoelJuanQuiPiano]

Most extraordinary live performance of this wonderful Ligeti's work. Congratulations Roman for sharing so much talent.

[domboyable]

Second track at 3.03 is a recurring theme in Stanley Kubrick's last film, "Eyes Wide Shut" starring Tom Cruise and Nicola Kidman

[robstand]

Very interesting interpretation of the meter for Musica Ricercata: II. I enjoyed your passion for the piece.

[stefanobermayr]

Rabinovich's Klavierspiel mutet so frei und ehrlich an, als würde es sich um eine Stegreifimprovisation handeln. Man spürt eine schöne und innige Beziehung zum Instrument - das ist angenehm!

[mattspitz]

yo let's get this to 20k views this got that jam from Eyes Wide Shut yall! great playing Roman! incredible piece played with skill and passion

[rimmausmanova]

Очень талантливый пианист как будто пришел из прошлой эпохи))) когда музыка была честной а пианисты были виртуозами ))))

[gabrielkolim]

So fresh! Looks like you were having great fun :). Congrats

[mangstadt]

IX reminded me so much of Olivier Messiaen and his Catalogue d'Oiseaux.

[excuseyou]

I wonder what baroque and romantic composers would have thought of ligeti’s music

[DanielBucurescu]

Very well done, mate! Congrats!!!
Sometimes a tiny biiiit to emotional for my taste (sometimes i missed the poker face, especially in the mechanic parts); but all in all meaningful performance! Thanks for sharing

[moles]

You have extracted every bit of nuance from these pieces. Congratulations! (I couldn't care less about "good" taste... which wins over few
hearts and no wars.)

[windowsmoke]

In the middle of the first one there was a single clap... Lol

[davidepirillo]

Hi Roman, it’ David from Rome, very good listening your performance, i love your way to «feel» Ligety works! Do you play some pieces of George Crumb too?
Bye 👋🏻

[szaszgyorgy]

Itt volna az ideje, hogy valaki meghangszerelje szimfonikus zenekarra. Csak arra kell vigyázni, hogy ne valami Orf-féle posztmodern takony sikerüljön belőle.

[markenbysk]

does somebody think this music is cool? ……it’s really not