4:56 onwards, more like a "Winter Typhoon", the effect in the left hand at 5:10 to 5:20 is spine chilling. These videos are terrific for reference, but please make sure you listen to Hamelin's studio recordings or at least, some of the professionally filmed performances on RUclips to experience his full range of tone and dynamics.
Actually, in every respect, this is a better performance. He makes at least one mistake, but there's more energy to this performance, and it reaches the model's tempo much more closely.
Volodos is the most natural talent active today as far as I know. He practised 3 days to learn Rach 3. Usually he only have to listen to a piece ones then he can play it as perfect as most people can dream of after spending 3 months learning it from the score. Hamelin is almost as great when it comes to quicklearning but Berezowsky have to work more in general
SevenCircles awesome that Volodos has that talent. Musicality is a different gift than the mechanical playing of the hardest stuff, in this case, piano pieces. I would be proud if I could learn like you said about Volodos... Rach concerto soooo fast.. this amazing virtuoso piano players should not forget musicality too. No one is perfect in all areas, and apart from their talent, they worked incredibly hard to develop the capacity to learn the Rachmaninoff third piano concerto in 3 days. So there is always natural gift and WORK! but no piano player presents him like: "humm.. u know.. I could mess it up anytime during the concert. Maybe we should redefine what talent means, so we are sure we are talking about the same point.
jobohabannebes can you read the preface that Godowsky wrote for his arrangements of the Chopin etudes? Here you find some ideas behind this extreme virtuosity.
I only can listen to this with a bottle of Pepto Bismol in my right hand. These paramount and beautiful pieces should be performed in the best concert halls all over the world............but on a mute piano.
Hamelin is a brilliant pianist. Full of piano gymnastics but where is the musicality . There is none in this Godowsky stuff. This murders Chopin. There is absolutely no comparison with the original masterpiece.
This transcription in particular is extremely dense with flavors and articulations, it's really hard to make a good balance out of it. His study on the Op 10/6 is one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard though, to give an example of Godowsky's depth for musicality.
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As if the original winter wind wasn't hard enough! I bet Hamelin could poke holes through coconuts with just his fingers, what a beast!
4:56 onwards, more like a "Winter Typhoon", the effect in the left hand at 5:10 to 5:20 is spine chilling. These videos are terrific for reference, but please make sure you listen to Hamelin's studio recordings or at least, some of the professionally filmed performances on RUclips to experience his full range of tone and dynamics.
Stay at home cuz there is a blizzard at 2:03.
Godowky...uno de los más grandes técnicos de toda la historia del piano!
I neeed a HD of this!
He plays the No. 42 study slightly faster than on the Hyperion recording.
Actually, in every respect, this is a better performance. He makes at least one mistake, but there's more energy to this performance, and it reaches the model's tempo much more closely.
Volodos is the most natural talent active today as far as I know. He practised 3 days to learn Rach 3. Usually he only have to listen to a piece ones then he can play it as perfect as most people can dream of after spending 3 months learning it from the score.
Hamelin is almost as great when it comes to quicklearning but Berezowsky have to work more in general
SevenCircles awesome that Volodos has that talent. Musicality is a different gift than the mechanical playing of the hardest stuff, in this case, piano pieces. I would be proud if I could learn like you said about Volodos... Rach concerto soooo fast.. this amazing virtuoso piano players should not forget musicality too. No one is perfect in all areas, and apart from their talent, they worked incredibly hard to develop the capacity to learn the Rachmaninoff third piano concerto in 3 days. So there is always natural gift and WORK! but no piano player presents him like: "humm.. u know.. I could mess it up anytime during the concert.
Maybe we should redefine what talent means, so we are sure we are talking about the same point.
Still waiting for the day when Chopin's etudes are boring to me to the point that I want to play Godowsky...
jobohabannebes can you read the preface that Godowsky wrote for his arrangements of the Chopin etudes? Here you find some ideas behind this extreme virtuosity.
I only can listen to this with a bottle of Pepto Bismol in my right hand.
These paramount and beautiful pieces should be performed in the best concert halls all over the world............but on a mute piano.
nICE
Brutal.
Imagine Cziffra playing this.
정유현 :( I wish he did
Yeah!! I thought about it. It would be like an entire orchestra!!
I feel like Godowsky’s stuff is way too meticulous for Cziffra
Varun yep. Cziffra would make it too noisy.
he forgot Oceans, Chopin etude op.25, no.12.... :(
...........oh my....
!!!!!!! the fury begins at 2:00 .....
!!!!....the insanity begins at 2:00
yeah! godowsy fucked chopin's etudes! what would chopin say if he heard this masterpiece?
I summon TheExarion.
Make him the president!!
fuck..
so easy...
:O
Hamelin is a brilliant pianist. Full of piano gymnastics but where is the musicality . There is none in this Godowsky stuff. This murders Chopin. There is absolutely no comparison with the original masterpiece.
In a prison, to be forced to listen to this for an hour would be the most cruel punishment imaginable.
Are pianists only allowed to play for musicality?
not pianists but musicians
tho Hamelin has one of the best techniques imo
This transcription in particular is extremely dense with flavors and articulations, it's really hard to make a good balance out of it. His study on the Op 10/6 is one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard though, to give an example of Godowsky's depth for musicality.
I really don't like them either, even one iam playing ! LOL Sh+t !
dude that's freakin impossible WTF.... SERIOUSLY HAMELIN?!