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see my Tchaikovsky PC1 octaves at 11:45 on this video and be amazed (I come from the Tchaikovsky lineage through 2 teachers then Nikolaev - who had Tchaikovsky as harmony/composition teacher): ruclips.net/user/liverIzkyQrtt70

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I can play piano that sounds just as interesting as anything in this video. I just can't do it twice :o)

Where is Sorabji

What about Zelenka

All the Pletnev comments are silly and unnecessary.

Every piece is on a spectrum. Just taking the Couperin and Rameau as examples - playing them with the crispness and electricity of Sokolov is an 8. The struggle for an ideal, convincing and satisfying performance makes everything difficult.

I think Sonata 7 is definitely harder than 8

The first minute...I thought...it does look okay!

Schubert wrote of his own Wanderer Fantasy that it was too difficult for him to play.

You are, of course, missing Brian Ferneyhough. And Arthur Kampela. You do have Finnesy, though. Ferneyhough has been transcribed on youtube: ruclips.net/video/LYMXbM0RCeU/видео.html

Personaly, I find Xenakis' Evryali way more difficult than Synaphaï. Even though Synaphaï is harder to read, Evryali is more difficult to play. But that's just my opinion. Very nice compilation though. :)

For me the most difficult pieces of music to play were Bach's fugue with 3,4,5 voices !! Too some Couperin ,Rameau ,or scarlatti ornements were pretty difficult to memorise and play ,.....but a pleasure to play ...

Where would be hungarian rhapsody 2?

Very cool compilation

Hello Mr. Hu, are you interested in doing a "every composer's top work" video? By this I mean what most people believe is that composer's masterpiece (not a subjective individual opinion), such as Beethoven's 9th, Bach's Mass in b minor, etc. Just wondering. (I might pitch the idea to a friend in any case, I think it's very handy to know every major composer's "masterpiece", but I think you know much more).

So many of the modern composers' pieces are as though they put as many notes as possible into a stanza only to result in a piece that is not very "easy" on the ear. Honestly, the historical composers would probably be offended if they ever heard it.

Okay I'm not saying anything else because a lot of these pieces are faves. I'm at Alkan's "Concerto for Solo Piano" (12:30 ) and though that is from the Last movement the 1st movement is monumental🔥🔥I learned some of it but I think it was too time consuming and taxing so I gave up😂 Maybe I should give it a go for fun🤣😅

There's something about Liszt that takes you to another place

The Felix Mendelssohn Concerto in d Minor is 1 of my favorites I swear I almost cried 🥹I haven't heard that piece in a while

And then Hummel just blows the lid off the bottle😂🔥I love Hummel. Working on 1 of his piano Sonatas right now😁

That segment of the "Goldberg Variations" was ahead of it's time and reminded me of a Presto finale movement of Beethoven's🔥

The perfect video for a pianist😍🎶 🎹

This is genius.

Bach's full name is Johann SebastiAn Bach

Thank you for including Florence Price… so much fell into obscurity.

John Cage's effort is similar to my cat walking up and down the piano.

There is no way that the Wanderer Fantasy is Schubert's most difficult piano piece...

And I also have to disagree with the piece chosen for Liszt. Trying to be understanding that this is obviously a subjective compilation but it just can’t seem to not bother me, ESPECIALLY for Liszt.

HIGHLY disappointed that the representation for Night Wind was such an underwhelming portion of the piece.

Hmm, it seems exceedingly charitable to refer to many of those composers as "major." Hehehe...

I am exhausted just by watching and listening. And I cannot read music, so huge kudos to those who can and then connect their eyes and brain and fingers.

Some of the choices really surprised me. I dare not contest any of them, being only an amateur pianist, but I will say that some of them I didn't expect. Edit: Whoa the Smetana is beautiful More edit: Whoa both the Czech pieces are beautiful

10:55 why u say 2nd movement when its from the third?

There's circle of fifths in the second theme of the first movement of Scriabin's 3rd sonata and also in end of the first section in the 2nd movement.

The Allegro de Concert should have made this list and probably near the top.

jesus, Hummel

For my tastes too many textures that don't belong in there. For example the tremolo below the motif in the winds right before the introduction ends. This whole motif belongs into the celli and bassis and they should play tremolo. That's clearly what Liszt's piano writing of that moment evokes. Then the ongoing tripplets in the main section just muddy the texture. Not a very convincing solution.

Minor details I noticed: Maybe divide the strings in the first movement as the flute plays the melody, just to be sure that the textures remain light enough for the flute carry over them because I'm not sure that a real full string section can play as soft as the computer can. And then give the answering motif in bar 57 to a solo violin.

La campanella is the hardest piece easy!!!

Schumann's piano concerto is very VERY respectfull, I put it among the 3 better of all times. And tle last movement probably is the best I know. There is something very original there I don't hear in the other.

Quite a few of these are pieces that you can't necessarily hum in the shower...

Gli ultimi fanno cagare e non sono difficili sono perditempo

subjectively sarasate introduction and tarantelle is harder than 4 season 🙂

Should’ve included the run from the 3rd pc, argreich plays it so beautifully

At 1:08:55 I quite like the title: "English Country Tunes", that suggests a traditional origin; if so, that must have been a very avant garde part of England...

What about sorabji?

Where is sonata no 2?

can u make a jsbach top 10 hardest ?