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I have been to several recitals of Sokolov in Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Cologne and I will keep going to his concerts whenever he is close enough to get there. He acts through his play; he does not interact with the audience at all. Other artists smile, wave, bow, look happy for the applause. Sokolov just enters stiffly, quickly bows, sits down and hammers some incredible stuff into the keys, like nobody else can. So actually hearing him speak in a German interview and to realize that he seems to be a friendly and funny man, is really astonishing. Great interview.

Wow thanks so much for this treasure! He seems to speak German fluently (though I myself don’t speak German 🤣)

@quaver1239

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I have the same problem or gift, depending on one’s point of view. Germany provides a German interview that all Germans can understand, and they add closed captions - in German! Why not share it, in a more popular language, with the rest of the world?

@gilberthong9165

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@@quaver1239 The auto-translations worked pretty well

@tarikeld11

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Yep, I'm German and he speaks German almost perfectly. You can hear his russian accent and a few grammatical mistakes here and there, but it's a better German than I could ever spear Russian

Thank you very much for uploading. I will greatly appreciate it if someone can transcribe this very interesting interview. For me it’s difficult to catch spoken German.

Wie wunderbar er die Musik darstellt, die sich jeder Beschreibung in Worte entzieht und uns mehr oder weniger in die Sphäre der Ekstase führt, in der er sich ständig und vollkommen befindet, wenn er spielt.

Thank you for this post. I think it's sad that life sometimes changes everything in its own way.

ein toller Mensch und natürlich unglaublich sensibles Spiel

Please note, I'm not a translator. But I acknowledge the desire to hear word from sokholov, especially since anything available from him is so very rare. So I give it my best shot - don't blame me for mistakes, please. --- Sokholov: You know, music is not a profession, it is a part of life. Musicians are paid, but they don't play for money. --- Interviewer: It's easy for Sokholov to say, not because he won the Tchaikowsky competition with only 16 years and up to today earns a lot of money with his concerts throughout the world. You might assume that for the almost 60 years old chubby Sokholov money and fame is of little importance, when you see him cross the stage, right hand on his back like a waiter, with stoic face, sitting down on the piano stool while still bowing. He's interested in a different thing. Asked for his home, the permanently traveling St.Petersburger gives a strange answer. Sokholov: Concerts are a part of life. I cannot imagine life without concerts. My life is tightly connected to concerts. I never travel without concerts. Nowhere. Interviewer: Don't you like being at home? Sokholov: I do! But withtout concerts it's much worse. --- Interviewer: In the 70s and 80s Sokholov didn't have permission for western travels during his great soviet-career. Since he doesn't care (at all) for promotion, it took a long time until the western world acknowledged his rank. He prefers a half-filled concert-hall than a full one. Acoustics in a half-filled concert-hall are better, he thinks. At least from the stage. To him, there is only the stage. Sokholov: Concert-athmosphere is important, but that's a bit of a one-way street. From stage to audience. Not back. You can feel that. You can feel the audience. That's difficult. The audience might hear a piece for the first time and I have sacrificed my whole life for it. --- Interviewer: Instead of the dualism between stage and audience, duality for Sokholov is something within the interprete himself. Whoever has experienced him in one of his concertos cannot withdraw from the magic of his piano-playing. It is born from the risky dialectic between simultaneous devotion to the heart and the control of the heart. Sokholov: If you have the whole audience crying that doesn't mean you're crying yourself. You cannot play (when you're crying). If you play a piece called fog play like fog, nothing will transfer. You have to play fog crystal clear. That means that you have to split yourself ("you're always double"). --- Sokholov: It's like life. A new day is interesting to live. Nobody commits suicide after one day. I'm always different. Probably even tomorrow with a different concert-hall with a different piano it's possibly different. That's why the interpretation will be different. It's impossible to explain music in words. The more precise you talk about music, the further away from music you get. --- Sokholov: Frankly, I don't like records. It's the same as with fresh food and canned food. With good artists, concerts are always way better than records. With mediocre artists, records are way better than the concerts. That's the reason for the big crisis. --- Interviewer: It's strange that sokholov the concert-pianist and cd disdainer as a piano-colleague solely admires the studio artist and concert-hall evader Glenn Gould. The number of records of Sokholov at the french mini-label Opus 111 is single digit, the number of his concert-recordings legend. Sokholov: There are many concert-recordings located in Paris. Opus 111 did it, there are radio-recordings, lots of material. But honestly I don't have the time to travel there and listen to all recordings and decide which is better, which is ok. And then you have to cut it. It's a pain. For example I never play the same. I believe the best is as in the old times. A concert recording without cuts. --- Interviewer: He stays a studio-evader, the dread of marketing. That way he became cult, because cult is free of advertisement. If cult makes you odd, then Grigory Sokholov is at least wondrous which relates to the word wonder. He's a wonder of concentration. Concentration on the essential, the desired. Sokholov: I need to have a strong wish to play something. That's the most important thing. Sometimes I know ... We are lucky people. We do what we want to do. We do what we like.

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He speaks almost perfect german in this interview, with just a small accent. Sounds as if he has lived many years in Germany to get to this level

🌟 Enjoy other performances by *Grigory Sokolov* 🌟 • Chopin Etude Op.25 No.12 “Ocean”: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6p1mtORj9OXYdo.html • Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eIaMl9eGacarn9Y.html • Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 + Encores: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hKZo26prZdS0lKQ.html • Grigory Sokolov - The God of Piano: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHyT0JiLY5rZg9o.html • Collection of Grigory Sokolov’s recordings: kzread.info/head/PLfqPPQ0lIUgH_Y4pJOp8wwOJstWsKrm9-

Someone translate this into English please!