Alexey Koltakov - Liszt-Horowitz Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2008
- This is pianist Alexey Koltakov playing the AMAZING Horowitz arrangent of Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody in C-sharp minor.
This is a more clear version compared to the video I took of Lang Lang playing this piece.
I'm not 100% positive which competition this is, i think it might be at the 15th International Van Cliburn Competition, but again, I'm not positive. If you can recognize that backdrop, let me know? :D
This performance starts out a bit heavy, a bit hurried, but the friska is *amazing. The clarity in the sound is superb! 
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This is nearly the highest level. Very nice performance...
OHHHHH FANTASTIC WONDERFULL!! this is the top 5 best pianist in the world!!!
If you really can't hear the difference between the Horowitz version and the normal version don't bother asking.
One of the best performance of this piece.
Excellent performance
Michael the GREEK modern classical music composer
It takes huge balls to play this sh*t live. Well done.
Love it!
He is my favorite performer of this piece.
Excellent !!!
This guy is just amazing, he has above all other pianist an expressivity in very fast pieces that other pianists loose. His Campanella is also amazing. An error here and there can happen in these pieces...see the campanella of Kissin, there are many.....it's the overall performance that matters and the feeling it transmitt. I find him among the best ever.
What a great, clear performance.
I've only heard a few versions of this, but this is by far the best version I've heard. I've heard the horriwitz recording at carnegie hall but quality wasn't great, and I've heard Lang Lang.. He's brilliant ofcourse and a genious at the piano, but he just gives it too much for my liking... (should be called Bang Bang...hehe). The guy in this video has now set the standard! Brilliant!!
this is a great peice in my word, and he does a superb replica. i agree with kasyapa, he liszt is very creative. great job to alexy :)
great talent
Geez o petes this guy is awesome! I do feel that he rushed it a bit in the beginning but he more than made up for it later on. Brava!
brilliant!
can you believe it if you notice he doesnt have a partiture could you believe that he learnd that by heart wow..
I'm pretty sure this video was taken at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. Alexei received 2nd place.
I was referring to the Au bord d'une source, in which there are some differences in notes too. He even adds a couple of ornaments. In measure 11 he plays a c natural and repeats it on the notes missing the flat. In measure 40 he prolongs the tremelo by adding a few extra sixteenth notes. The difference between the original edition of the Rhapsody and his I do not know, as I have not studied it. Great video by the way!
@fluffytom82 i believe Horowitz version, his posture suits it too.
he is absolutly the best :D
@Imad9494 that is absolutely true
I wish i knew how do they play that part between 7:27 to 7:33... Both hands are doing 4 diferent things! It's soooooooo hard!
the best iv'e seen here (excluding horowitz himself). Is the left hand at 5:02 - 5:09 in chords or just octaves?
Combination of chords and octaves.
What a Wonderful, Dramatic (somewhere Annoying) performance :,D It can speak! It is Alexey's Hungarian Rhapsody! (Or Alexey's Rhapsody in Hungarian :D X)
It didn't sound like he got nearly as much applause as he deserved.
I love this! What version is this?
Horowitz's
A very different interpretation to the ones i've listened to, but I like it very much.
he looks as if he's typing a letter when he's playing!
@klapsikopatiko yes
I like the interpretation...he changes many riffs and he do it good...j'adore son interpretation...en plus d'etre habile il en rajoute et je respecte beaucoup cela...F***cking nice video...My favorite part is the:FRISKA
This man has learned to tame the beast. That is all.
1:07 has an excellent contrast of dynamics. Very impressive. Where is this guy? Is he afraid to say something?
I'm not sure how it's supposed to sound, but is there a loud wrong note at 0:53 or is that how this song is written? Amazing performance in any case.
Hilton competition?
At least three brains required to do this.
holy f**k hes good
You’re shit without holy
Stupid shit
7:03 O.O
Awesome! What did Vladamir Horowitz combine with this Rhapsody on his RCA Gold Seal recording featuring Brahm's 2nd with Toscanini? The key relationship was Ab to this c#. I'll give you a hint, I posted my vid. Horowitz played it better.
"learn it and then forget it"... the hands will go by themselves.. from the movie shine..
Whats the difference between the original and the horowitz version?
@demosj you mean 1953?
i agree with jewbar2point0. i think this is an excellent performance. as Maksim didn't display. the way he plays it. it's like he's just a bout to cook a recipe, he gets all the right ingredients into a bowl, but doesn't even mix them. He's got all the right notes, he just can't play them properly.
he needs to loosen up a bit more but great recording! i like it, it's like a more tame version of Lang Lang
i enjoy his creative alterations - he has some of the fleetness needed, but he needs to develop command - he gets flustered a little too easily.
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@bonerici a shame. you are so right
lol, rage!!
It was very good, but I think it's safe to say that no one will ever top Horowitz's recording
Adam Sander agreed
Oh its a Horowitz arrangement, didnt know, haha ignore me
Until
hey friends i play this lassan but in deferent way,mathmatic way,lassan are very nice slowly..see it go to jihadhamwi hungarian rhapsody.
Liszt was a genius
nope, it is Hilton Head
To me they sound like octaves with the fifth in the middle, not really chords. Couple of times he misses tho.
fausse note 53-54 seconde?
I'm not a pianist, so I'll enjoy this and bugs bunny.
Not my favorite version, incredibly heavy on the left hand at the beginning, but still very good.
i really enjoy this performance. he really seems to understand the piece. it speaks to him. and then he speaks to the piano. a rarity. unlike that clown maksim, who just a performing bozo
its funny how you can hear the tiniest mistake when someone is playing the piano, but i like this song too much to care:)
Bugs bunny too
Too faaaaast!
it is too fast still great though...
nice but maybe just a bit too much pedal on some parts
Don’t pretend you know better loser
Loser
it's actually the 11th Van Cliburn Competition
Despite the mistakes I am certain that none of yous could play the hungarian rhapsody. He is a very good pianist and i dont know why you are dissing him since i am sure none of yous could play like that.
better then that overrated valentina lisitsa 2nd to best performance of this piece i have heard
Am his stalker, just kidding nice work my friend see on you know what. :)
Just to what I say. It sounds like too much, I know., Your choice. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!!
I think his playing it to fast. It's a good performance but I prefer other.
ähm .. nothing ? he's playing the most famous piece on piano?
Wrong notes here or there do not ruin a performance at all. I'd much rather hear a performance played with emotion, passion, excitement, aliveness AND some wrong notes, rather than a note perfect performance that is cold and expressionless.
hahaha, relax...
Lassan is too fast and forceful for my liking
Who give a shit
he played that way too fast
your brain is too slow
Shut your BS
Loser
He may be able to play Horowitz's notes, but cannot channel Horowitz's neurotic energy. The end result is simply not satisfactory for me.
I am now sick AND disgusted. I play this about 1/10 as well as he does and I've worked it for a year. --AND the easy rendition- not with Horowitz's cadenzas
You should’ve feel disgusted with yourself
that mistake at 53 seconds is unfortunate, it almost ruins the piece. His finger slips and instead of an octave he makes this horrible dissonance. The thing is you make mistakes arpeggios, low notes, chords, they are usually ok, but that missed octave . . . ouch.
Save your BS to yourself . Loser
In two words, extremely boring