Cecile Ousset LIVE - Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto - stereo '91 (pt.1of3)

PART TWO is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYDxD_VoyGU For the REAL STORY on this piece, click on http://morpheusatloppers.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/morpheus-on-prokofievs-third-piano-concerto/ The work is presented here in FULL - by POPULAR DEMAND! (The last two minutes alone, was and still is elsewhere on this channel).

Cecile was 55 when she gave this performance. The piece is not ideal for women players, due to the physical strength, power and stamina (not to mention stellar ABILITY) required to play it - but Cecile's extraordinary skill carried her through.

Now 74, she retired from playing in December 2006, with a bad back - but she continues to give an annual masterclass in Puycelsi, SW France.

The conductor, Rudolf Barshai, actually MET Prokofiev when he, Rudy, was a young man. He was 66 when he conducted this - and is still living and working today, at 85. [Update - 04/11/10: Rudolf passed away today. R.I.P.]

I would have loved to have met Prokofiev - but he died when I was only six months old.

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