When I was ten years old, my mother bought me a CD of assorted pieces from the tenth International Chopin Competition. It featured the likes of pianists Luisada, Gekic, Fichman, and Jablonski--the latter playing this piece. I fell in love with his rendition, and I'm so glad I found this video!

@marcoaguila8770

Жыл бұрын

I had the same experience, just I had 12 years. I expected to listen crazy fast performance, since I had the sheet music which says Presto con Fuoco, but I wasn't prepared for this. Since then I've been practicing this Scherzo and I can tell that it's impossible to play it like this in a modern huge Grand.

Wait, this is actually like the best version of this piece I've heard. This is ridiculously good. It's always nice to know that you don't have to be ridiculously famous to play super well (on the other hand, it also implies that you don't necessarily become famous by playing this well :( ). Anyway, amazing.

@matthewv789

3 жыл бұрын

So true. My favorite is even more unknown: Alice Hwang

@AlexWalkerSmith

3 жыл бұрын

I had this performance on CD back in 1997, and it was the first time I had ever heard Chopin. I immediately fell in love Chopin's music, and I have still never heard a better performance of this Scherzo than this. I wasn't aware Steve Jablonsky wasn't well-known, because I've known his name since I was 9 years old!

@seankeel1675

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlexWalkerSmith I heard this performance on a cassette tape called Masters of Classical Music - Chopin. Also when I was about 9 years old! That's crazy! I haven't heard a better performance either and I've always remembered his name since. It is actually because of him and Chopin that I still play piano today.

@AlexWalkerSmith

2 жыл бұрын

@@seankeel1675 Yes, that's the same album I had! 😁👍🏻

i can't stop watching this

Besides the astonishing masterful interpretation, such a sublime and quality French art case!

Heard him play this Scherzo in the Odd Felow Palace venue in Copehagen 1990. A sublime Chopin performer.

wonderful performance - the middle section is so beautiful - heavenly

Wow one of the best interpretations i've heard of this Scherzo, it fits pretty much with the way i play it. Amazing!

My favorite interpretation of one of my favorite pieces. I love this scherzo because of the opportunities it gives performers to change its character with their own interpretations. Once you've heard Jablonski's, though, no one else's sounds quite right. Everyone else seems to lose the melody even if they're technically perfect. Surely this must be how the master himself played the piece, and if it isn't, then Jablonski has outdone Chopin.

My dad is a very good friend of krzystof jablonski. They went to the same class, very good friends. He practiced on piano 8 hours a day and never knew what was a summer vacation he mostly just played, his first summer was when he was 19. My dad just met up with him yesterday (toronto) :P. He is going to brazil now travels everyweek :P.

@AlexWalkerSmith

3 жыл бұрын

I would LOVE to meet him. In 1997, this performance was actually my introduction to Chopin.

His hands are just sliding across the keyboard like crazy, yet his face is so calm. :D great interpretation, great video, and obviously a great pianist!!!

stunning stunning stunning stunning stunning! just absolutely stunning! beautiful clarity, seductive touch. NON PLUS ULTRA.

Absolutely brilliant!

My mother had a CD with Jablonski playing this when I was small and I remember listening to it over and over in absolute awe. Inspiring, and strong clarity in the fast passages.

@AlexWalkerSmith

3 жыл бұрын

Was it the first track of the CD? If so, I grew up with the same CD!

@Sveccha93

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlexWalkerSmith wow I can't believe I've been on here for ten years! It was a cd called something like " masters of classical music : Chopin " with a habits portrait of him in the front

@AlexWalkerSmith

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sveccha93 That's the one! Jablonski does a phenomenal performance of the Black Key Etude on that CD as well. He really is one of the greatest Chopin performers.

@Sveccha93

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlexWalkerSmith Awesome! Yeah, I'm not always a fan of this pyrotechnic style of interpretation but he does it so, so beautifully -- it feels like perfection, and I have to think Chopin would love it. He is a genius at teasing out melody.

@skylerpretto1221

Ай бұрын

Same here. These performances were on CDs by Laserlight Digital. Epic performance, and also my first experience with chopin, jablonski. I have played piano ever since (1997), and I try to mimic his interpretation (I can't though lol). Jablonski is a genius!!

This is so great.

where's the other piano? I see one, but I hear two D=

Замечательно … Все услышала … Прекрасна середина .. Здорово! Идеально .

Jablonski is one of the best chopin interpret.

Outstanding

Yes.

@mainlymuzik It's a Steinway. You can clearly read it on the video.

I like chopin's scherzo! and Jablonski is I like the best of pianist!

Everybody Say horowits Rubinstein cortot pogorelich Arrau etc but in my opinión this is the best performance ever of this scherzo. It's amazona how he treated every single note jablonsky is the best intérprete ever of this marvelous sherzo.i googled him and round that he's actually recording all chopins works and was a profesor of the Chopin National institute in warsovia by fifteenyears he also won the Chopin international competition in1985 although he's not so famous like others he's considered the best Chopin intérprete ever who have participed in the Chopin competition they said that by 2019 the almost six hours cds Will be released to públic. icant wait !!

@matthewv789

3 жыл бұрын

I like Alice Hwang too (though she is totally unknown)

Powiem jedno. Mam płytę Pana Krzysztofa gdzie wykonuje 4 Scherza, oraz Barcarolle, Chopina. Również gra tam Scherzo h-moll. Muszę powiedzieć, że to wykonanie jest świetne, ale jak posłucha się jego późniejszego wykonania na płycie, to stwierdzenie świetne - jest obelgą. Krzysztof Jabłoński to samo Scherzo, gra o wiele dojrzalej, idealny sound, tempo, każda nuta "wypieszczona". Coś niesamowitego. Poszukajcie. Najlepsze jakie słyszałem. Tak to wymiótł, że głowa mała.

5:50 Listen to this transitionary material that is floating by the soft embrace of the sustain which retains the warmth of this sound unlike any other recordings I've heard. Other recordings (although delightful ones for the care taken in the rest of the piece) either slap this part out trying to add emphasis to this part of the melody or play it so thinly that the warmth of this one part is lost in the sterile legato. Perfect amount of pedal and not bogged down by rubato.

That minor 10th stretch in the middle section though. Thought i was the only one who chose that way to do it.

Doskonale!!!!!

great

@Vassagus78 Zgadzam sie w 100 % z kolegą! Ta plyta warta jest kazdych piedniedzy !

@mainlymuzik yes off course 2:03

he looks like my first teacher!

@fm04od It's a Steinway.

Maybe Steinway Louis XV Ornate (Hamburg).

@fm04od thats steinway for sure.

Faktycznie, pewnego błysku mu może brakuje, ale są to bardzo solidne wykonania i po prostu bardzo dobre. Ma facet warsztat pianistyczny i muzyczny. Przede wszystkim technicznie jest naprawdę znakomity, etiudy w jego wykonaniu są bardzo dobre.

Isn't this a Steinway?

he is the best scherzo's player, i didnt hear greater interpretation.

Do you know what brand is that piano?

@AlexWalkerSmith

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like it says Steinway & Sons.

@Vassagus78 Jablonski bardzo przyjemnie gra Chopina. Tak solidnie rzeklbym. Bylem niedawno na jego koncercie, gdzie gral op.24, perludia i chyba ktoras z ballad i naprawde swietne wykonania, ale brakuje mu takiego blysku geniuszu, ktory odroznia bardzo dobrych pianistwow od takich jak zimerman, harasiewicz czy czerny-stefanska. Oczywiscie jest to moje zdanie, chociaz np. to scherzo gra jablonski w moim odczuciu lepiej niz ziemerman. Ale z nagran op.20 preferuje to harasiewicza z lat 60.

And that's because you actually KNOW the personalities of pianists today? Or because he is yet another obscure pretty young man/boy in a competition-at least in 1985? How many times must I keep typing to you obsessive/compulsive before you stop commenting and trolling?

@essboarder23 studies show it is good for your health not to play the piano with your face.

bez polotu,płaskie bezmyslne granie-najslabszy konkurs ,musieli dac jakiemuś Polakowi to wypadło na tego niecharyzmatycznego,bez osobowości i błysku pianistę