Greetings

Irishka, ti umniza!! ti viigraesh', ya znau i veru:) jdu v Moskve!
tvoia sosedka po Leipzigu:):):)

Jõudu ja jaksu teel järgmise konkursivõiduni :)

Londonist tervitades,
Silver Ainomäe

Irina's playing on the first round was exhilarating, I don't remember the last time I had experienced such joy after hearing a pianist's program (not only were the individual pieces well played, the structure of the whole program was well built). From what I've hard from the sound clips here, I have no doubts that she played the second round magnificently as well.

Good luck, I hope you win!

well I ve practiced this sonata too...
Played it too...
So stop thinking you hold the truth
there are no such things
AND PLEASE ASSUME YOUR MEAN COMMENTS
if you have "problems" wih people, you may start to ask why!....
And great pianists aren t always right about everything...
Simon

My first time in this discussion, so no personal with anybody.

How do you define a feminine approach? What are your criteria? And who are you to define it? Nobody asked you... Your entitled to your own opinion yes, but accusing somebody anonymously, well hidden behind your computer screen, isn't exactly humane...

By the way, the jury somehow liked it. Any comments on that? Are they ignorant too???

Don't you have the common sense to understand that you're offending a fellow colleague -or ain't she a colleague either?- when you post a comment like that in her own page, exactly where one should support this person???

Why waste months of your life for a single sonata if you can't realize a simple offense you commited???

Stefanos Nasos

you have too much problem with people. I just simply said what I thought of her performance based on the video clip I watched. You said my comments were "total lie," but you can't really say that since they were my opinions and I wasn't lying. Besides, you are not even herself so why do you care so much?

And believe me, I studied and played this sonata myself, and I think I know what I am talking about and that I have enough right to say what I said below. And you say stop referring to great pianists, but what they do makes most sense to me.

And again, no, I'm not the person who said girls can't play piano.

well you re not yuri, so who are you coward?
And stop always referring to great pianists, cause the two other prokofieff I heard were far from any good disc version...
Are you the same person that claims that girls cannot play the piano ?

that you go listen to Gilels play this sonata and let's see if you can still say what you said below.

And no, I'm not Yuri Blinov.

Yuri is that you ?
This comment is absolutely horrible and a total lie.
Irina, your prokofieff was exactly what the music demanded : all the articulations were here, the transitions were wonderful,
you were not "boxing the piano", the "classical" side of the sonata was brought with a lot of elegance and intelligence. Yes that s a feminine characteristic, but why should prokofieff always let to WBA men who play fortissimo form the beginning to the end ?
You re definitely the person I liked the most with Uki, which makes me a total "ennemy" of this kind of comments, once again not signed, mean and totally representative of biterness and narrow minded that we can sometimes read on these pages.
Simon

I'm sorry but I'm really not sure how you got into the Semifinal round; maybe you played your First round program very well. Your prokofiev was not organized very well, did not have smooth transitions that should have connected the many different sections of this sonata's first movement, and sounded too "feminine," aside from many careless mistakes you made...

Irina, your playing is uncomparable!