Putin’s not getting any better at piano playing

Putin’s not getting any better at piano playing

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norman lebrecht

November 25, 2015

This is recent video of the Russian president playing at being a musician.

You can’t see his hands so there’s no way of knowing who’s producing the notes.

(Denis Matsuev, maybe?)

Here’s an older, more credible video of presidential pianism.
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Comments

  • Mark Henriksen says:
    November 25, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    The humor of playing the Darth Vader Theme is the point here isn’t?

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  • Eddie Mars says:
    November 25, 2015 at 7:31 pm

    The movement of the upper arms doesn’t seem likely to be that of those, err, moving the hands 🙂 Especially in the splayed octaves in the RH.

    But as Mark says above, that may not be the underlying meaning of this vid ))

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  • Erwin Poelstra says:
    November 26, 2015 at 9:08 am

    It’s a well kept secret, but actually Putin originally aspired to be a great concert pianist. He entered the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1972, but failed miserably in the first round. As a revenge and with the help of the head of the KGB, he later relentlessly harassed the winner of that year, Andrei Gavrilov, who later fled the country.

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