@@moritzliska4629 I don't play piano anymore. I played for 7 years, and the hardest piece I ever played was Chopin's raindrop prelude. It was hopeless.
You honestly really don’t need to put those criticisms in it, I thought you sounded beautiful and couldn’t notice them even after you pointed them out :D
Some levels further we have the Original 1838 paganini etudes(especially no 4 and 6), all Reminiscences, Douze grandes etudes, Beethoven Symphonies transcriptions, Mephisto waltzes, Romancero Espagnol etc etc. Great video btw!
Mephisto waltz no 3 and 4 aren't that difficult compared to the other two or on this video. Reminiscences has a lot of difficult pieces like Norma, Don Juan, Robert Le Diable, Des Huguenots,Lucrezia Borgia, Des Purtains and a few more Reminiscences.
Wow this is so good Usually my excuse to myself when i see musicians that can play piano really well is that ‘oh im only 15 and they’re much older’ but with you that excuse falls apart quickly And to think I was sat here feeling all proud because i learnt the first 2 pages of Beethoven’s pathetique... i feel quite, well, pathetic now Oh well, i suppose we all have to start somewhere, great video nonetheless
This is absolutely INCREDIBLE! The amount of practice that you would have had to do for this video is insane. Unless you are LingLing or something; which you probably are, honestly. I've been playing piano for one year and I can understand just HOW difficult this is. You are insanely talented - keep it up
You can tell this guy is an amazing pianist by the way he points out the most minute and unnoticeable errors he makes like they ruin the piece! This is a great video made by a great musician.
All these months later I still haven’t enjoyed another pianist play it as much as you. Thanks so much for sharing, I’d love to see you play the whole thing
Really enjoyed listening to these short extracts. Your doing well for 16 years old pianist. Those chromatic fast passages are difficult and you played them fluently and expressively.
I feel like there could be the dante sonata or some pieces from the annees de pelerinage (or the harmonies poetiques et religieuses) in general in this list, but this is undoubtedly a great video. 8 Levels of Schumann next?
1. Something from Album for the young 2. Kinderszenen- Of Foreign Lands and Peoples/Traumerei 3. Fantasiestuck #1- "Des Abends" 4. Arabeske 5. Reconnaissance from Carnaval 6. Carnaval- Paganini 7. Sonata #1/2/3 or Kreisleriana (1st mvt.) 8. Symphonic studies/Toccata Op.7 Hope this list isn't very bad.
This is a really well put together list and a great video. Sonata in B Minor is one of my absolute favorite classical pieces. I have to ask, what is your practice routine?
SO BEAUTIFUL AS ALWAYS!!!!! Thank you for these excerpts of my favourite Liszt in an excellent your rendition, this recording will be helpful for many people, probably already I've heard/watched your all videos and I have my new public playlist called "Shutian Cheng", 17 videos, with my favourite your great performances. When are you planning your new music? Again all the best from Poland to England, I wish you every success in your musical career soon and in the future, have a happy week. Joanna
@@lflfkffjfkggocjdndn9938 nope check out Elisa tomilini play it. as long as u can reach an octave u should be able to play anything even if u have to arpeggiate some chords
My hands barely reach an octave and Liszt is my favourite composer to play (for fun and not for performance). There are missed notes here and there due to hand size but not something noticeable and frankly I make so many other mistakes that the occasional missed notes due to small hands hardly matters.
Level 1: seems easy. Level 2: Polyrythm. Level 3: Big Jumps and Polyrythm. Level 4: Arpeggios, thirds etc... Level 5: Paganini and Liszt. Level 6: I think I don't need to explain that. Level 7: That too. Level 8: I think everything. So if Level one is to easy for you and level two too hard then practice more (About 40 Hours a Day.). The funny thing is Level 1 is easy and Level 2 is hard, after that you know how difficult it is to play Franz Liszt.
I mean it is easier than all the pieces above it so I'd say it's fair. The main problem with this list is that the Sonata in B minor is not in the hardest tier of Liszt pieces (although, again it's placement in the video is fair).
If sonata b minor is level 8, then Level 9 : Reminiscence de Don Juan Level 10 : Spanish fantasy Level 11 : Berlioz Symphonie fantastique transcription Level 12 : Beethoven Symphony 9th transcription
Liszt, got to know him better through the autobiographies of his students Amy Fay and William Mason, but I never really appreciated his music till now. Thanks!
Extra: 9 - Réminiscences de Don Juan. That piece just gives me nightmares. PS: Excellent work and beautiful playing! I look forward to hearing you playing the halls later on! =)
8 levels of Beethoven? 8 levels of Schubert? 8 levels of Mendelssohn? 8 levels of Schumann? Probably not as virtuosic as this oe tho. Dunno how you would ever surpass Liszt in that regard, lol
I guess the thing that made Liszt sonata in B the most difficult is not just the octaves, notes, fast runs, but the Harmony, dynamics, interpretation of the piece. But yeah. That massive-octave run alone is sooooooo hard. Also I Imagine playing playing fast in ppp.
Thanks for the video, amazing! Tip: when you write something in the video, please let it show longer, cuz it's hard to read when you take what's written out very fast 😉
i was kinda skipping through to hear what songs you chose, and then i got to Liebestraum and i had to listen it’s so beautiful. it reminds me of my childhood when i would sit under the piano and listen to my dad play it :) edit: just got to la Campanella, more nostalgia 😭
Wonderful Shutian! You have great talent, you will go far. Love your piano, what is it? Sounds like a Steinway? So lucky to have such a wonderful instrument to do your videos with! Keep it up.
16? After seeing this, there's not much left to aspire to. Sorry. You have nothing left to aspire to. Your at the top. Just stay there as long as possible.
definitely agree on level 8. the hardest part of that sonata to me was the fugue part. oh, and of course playing through the entire sonata while still maintaining FFF sound. hahahah
In defense of Arrangement by Alan Walker, lecture at the Library of Congress. Two others, one if you don't know Italian, has English subtitles is very informative, called Liszt il grande virtuoso. Also more introspective is 'Liszt - Harmonies poetiques et religieuses by Andrea Bonatta. Try them out..
Absolutely amazing!!!🎉 I'm surprised you put Hr 2 below Spanish Rhapsody for me at least I feel alot more comfortable playing Spanish more than the Hungarian. But difficulty is subjective. And my god I could only dream of playing the B minor Sonata (length of it is what deturs me). As of now I'm working on the Robert Le Diable paraphrase.
"Levels" as a distinction in my mind are arbitrary. There's pieces were you play fast, or slow pieces that have lots of accidentals. And as you yourself point out in the end, "hard pieces" that have easy sections. Composers don't simply set out to write pieces of certain levels... With all that said, you are a pianist of great talent, no one can deny that.
Alternative title: 8 Piano Pieces everyone wants to learn but their 11th finger has not been shipped yet
Lmao😂😂😂😂
Underrated.
Just use your nose!
'[...] their 11th finger has not been shipped yet' 😂😂
*ive been waiting for 9 years and I still don’t have my eleventh finger.*
Pianists: So how many octaves?
Liszt: yes
This is a real quote from his memoirs
Hahaha
La Campanella: *why not make them skip “a couple octaves”, just a couple.*
@@Franz_Liszt_Korean Ha
@@PLstudio297 nice to meet you
Non musicians seeing La Campanella in Number 5:
**visible confusion**
Thats so annoying when people call it "the most difficult piece ever written"
It's not that I'm confused, but thinking to myself: oh crap, that's only level 5, and I could never play that no matter how much practice I put in.
@@justinbenglick Just try!
@@moritzliska4629 I don't play piano anymore. I played for 7 years, and the hardest piece I ever played was Chopin's raindrop prelude. It was hopeless.
@@justinbenglick hmm shit
You know its going to be wild when “Liebestraum” is only level 3
underrated comment
@@JulianUrsano you didn’t need to add that
@@solarsystem5286 I'm here for it
in reality it should be in lv -7 if compare to his whole repertoire
I literally just commented this lmfao
Timestamps :
1) En rêve - Nocturne, S.207 : 0:10
2) Consolation No.3, S.172 : 0:46
3) Liebestraum No.3, S.541 : 1:47
4) 3 Études de concert, S.144: 3. un sospiro : 2:51
5) La campanella : 3:34
6) Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 : 4:17
7) Spanish Rhapsody : 4:57
8) Sonata in B minor : 5:58
Tysm!!
Liszt wrote some haunting music later in his life.
But up to age 38, he was a mere technician.
9) Dante Sonata
10) Totentanz
Level 15 is Berlioz/Liszt Symphony Fantastique
@LM nah, Sonata b minor is harder than both of them.
My piano teacher: why are you so scared of octaves?
Me: *this video*
Teacher: *insert scared hamster face*
You honestly really don’t need to put those criticisms in it, I thought you sounded beautiful and couldn’t notice them even after you pointed them out :D
Those octaves in the Sonata were 🔥
Your best 8 levels so far. Good job!
Class!
Some levels further we have the Original 1838 paganini etudes(especially no 4 and 6), all Reminiscences, Douze grandes etudes, Beethoven Symphonies transcriptions, Mephisto waltzes, Romancero Espagnol etc etc. Great video btw!
forgive me if im being ignorant (not incredibly talented) but are all the rems and mephisto waltzes harder??
@@evslol1153 Mephisto waltz no 1 and 2 probably harder. The Reminiscences, yes i think so! Most of them at least.
Mephisto waltz no 3 and 4 aren't that difficult compared to the other two or on this video. Reminiscences has a lot of difficult pieces like Norma, Don Juan, Robert Le Diable, Des Huguenots,Lucrezia Borgia, Des Purtains and a few more Reminiscences.
@@Jesperjan17 thank u !
And s700ii
very underrated composer,, but i would love to see an 8 levels of ginastera 👀
8 levels of prok would be fantastic as well :]]
Wow this is so good
Usually my excuse to myself when i see musicians that can play piano really well is that ‘oh im only 15 and they’re much older’ but with you that excuse falls apart quickly
And to think I was sat here feeling all proud because i learnt the first 2 pages of Beethoven’s pathetique... i feel quite, well, pathetic now
Oh well, i suppose we all have to start somewhere, great video nonetheless
8 levels of Debussy would be so cool. Amazing work btw bro 👏🏽
Level 9: 1838 Paganini-Liszt Transcendental Étude 4b
This is absolutely INCREDIBLE! The amount of practice that you would have had to do for this video is insane. Unless you are LingLing or something; which you probably are, honestly. I've been playing piano for one year and I can understand just HOW difficult this is. You are insanely talented - keep it up
Rn Rêve is actually my one of my favorite pieces from Liszt, it’s fairly easy to learn, and is very majestic sounding and simple.
Goddamn it, Mr Shutian, you do not disappoint, i just subbed
Incredible clarity.
You can tell this guy is an amazing pianist by the way he points out the most minute and unnoticeable errors he makes like they ruin the piece! This is a great video made by a great musician.
Liszt never ceases to amaze me
I started learning piano last year. Gives me a completely different kind of appreciation for vids like these.
You are a very skilful player. Your interpretation of the B minor sonata won my subscription, congratulations.
WOW. You performed the HELL OUT OF LA CAMPANELLA!! That was one of the best renditions of that piece I’ve seen
All these months later I still haven’t enjoyed another pianist play it as much as you. Thanks so much for sharing, I’d love to see you play the whole thing
4:55
"I hate doing the same thing twice"
Looks like he hasn't ever heard pop music.
ahahah absolutely
They do the same thing more than twice.
I watched and forgot the world for a while... simply exquisite.
Really enjoyed listening to these short extracts. Your doing well for 16 years old pianist. Those chromatic fast passages are difficult and you played them fluently and expressively.
Where did all your videos go?
Grandpa with Parkinson's disease:
"Hold my beer, I'm coming for those doubled octaves"
awe the ending was really lovely, thank you for adding that in!
Me: * sees the craziness at level 3 *
Me: Holy crap, we're only at 3???
What part of the keyboard do you use most?
Liszt: Yes.
How many keys do you use in the first 3 seconds?
Yes.
Great to see you again in this repertoire :3
Can't wait to hear your excerpts from Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Ravel
Your playing of the sonata in b is so beautifully inspiring.
I feel like there could be the dante sonata or some pieces from the annees de pelerinage (or the harmonies poetiques et religieuses) in general in this list, but this is undoubtedly a great video. 8 Levels of Schumann next?
1. Something from Album for the young
2. Kinderszenen- Of Foreign Lands and Peoples/Traumerei
3. Fantasiestuck #1- "Des Abends"
4. Arabeske
5. Reconnaissance from Carnaval
6. Carnaval- Paganini
7. Sonata #1/2/3 or Kreisleriana (1st mvt.)
8. Symphonic studies/Toccata Op.7
Hope this list isn't very bad.
I'm proud to admit that I'm at Level 2😭😭😭✊ this is a way bigger achievement for me than it really is!😭
No, that’s actually a great achievement. Considering the fact that this is Liszt we’re talking about.
I'm learning Liebestraum No. 3 right now; it is the first Liszt piece I have ever played
Manc
Man, it’s the fist video i see from you, and i just love the way you play, your interpretation of those pieces, it’s really incredible! Keep it up!
This is a really well put together list and a great video. Sonata in B Minor is one of my absolute favorite classical pieces. I have to ask, what is your practice routine?
@@ShutianCheng Interesting - in your practice do you do much technical work at all (scales, arpeggios etc) or mainly pieces?
Did Listz forget that people actually had to PLAY the piano?
Yes
Yeah
No. He also wrote plenty of easy ones. Probably more than Chopin did, actually.
SO BEAUTIFUL AS ALWAYS!!!!! Thank you for these excerpts of my favourite Liszt in an excellent your rendition, this recording will be helpful for many people, probably already I've heard/watched your all videos and I have my new public playlist called "Shutian Cheng", 17 videos, with my favourite your great performances. When are you planning your new music? Again all the best from Poland to England, I wish you every success in your musical career soon and in the future, have a happy week. Joanna
My jaw dropped at least a dozen times watching this. You're so amazing!
My hands are probably too small for Liszt so the genetics really just said no at the moment I was born lol. Nevertheless, amazing video as usual.
Unless u can’t reach an octave, no hands are too small for liszt:)
@@durelldarcey6639 unless youre playing the 1838 paganini etude no 6
my hands are big
@@lflfkffjfkggocjdndn9938 nope check out Elisa tomilini play it. as long as u can reach an octave u should be able to play anything even if u have to arpeggiate some chords
My hands barely reach an octave and Liszt is my favourite composer to play (for fun and not for performance). There are missed notes here and there due to hand size but not something noticeable and frankly I make so many other mistakes that the occasional missed notes due to small hands hardly matters.
Can you make 8 levels of Mozart ?
Yes mozart or beethoven 😉
Liszt: I payed for the whole piano I'm going to use the whole piano
I feel proud to know I’m playing, both successfully and not successfully, level 4 of Liszt! Feels good
Level 1: seems easy.
Level 2: Polyrythm.
Level 3: Big Jumps and Polyrythm.
Level 4: Arpeggios, thirds etc...
Level 5: Paganini and Liszt.
Level 6: I think I don't need to explain that.
Level 7: That too.
Level 8: I think everything.
So if Level one is to easy for you and level two too hard then practice more (About 40 Hours a Day.).
The funny thing is Level 1 is easy and Level 2 is hard, after that you know how difficult it is to play Franz Liszt.
Excellent series and playing! 8 levels of Alkan could be pretty cool :)
Wow. You have put in so much work to get to the skill level you're at. Good job.
Seriously la Campanella level. 5? I know this is Liszt but don’t u think la campnella should be a higher level?
I liked my own comment 😃😃😃😃
I mean it is easier than all the pieces above it so I'd say it's fair. The main problem with this list is that the Sonata in B minor is not in the hardest tier of Liszt pieces (although, again it's placement in the video is fair).
ig ur right
What a marvelous work!
もうレベル3から8〜10くらいの難しさよ…
リスト天才だよね
You're incredible, Shutian! So happy to see your growth on RUclips as well, well deserved! Bach would be nice next :)
If sonata b minor is level 8, then
Level 9 : Reminiscence de Don Juan
Level 10 : Spanish fantasy
Level 11 : Berlioz Symphonie fantastique transcription
Level 12 : Beethoven Symphony 9th transcription
I LOVE the sound of your piano! Also very well played.
You're crazy good dude. This was awesome.
Liszt, got to know him better through the autobiographies of his students Amy Fay and William Mason, but I never really appreciated his music till now. Thanks!
Extra: 9 - Réminiscences de Don Juan. That piece just gives me nightmares.
PS: Excellent work and beautiful playing! I look forward to hearing you playing the halls later on! =)
Damn glad to have these vids back
Wow! Very impressive. Congrats on learning all of the pieces. 👏🎼
Normal people:La Campanella at lv5 means INSANE PIECES are going to come!
Liszt:Check this out!
Rosseau:WTF
You’re insanely talented on the piano
How many octaves do you want in the right hand?
Liszt: Yes
Your neighbors are blessed with this Gold, while mine have to listen to me experiment playing backwards and in the wrong majors for „science“.
Level 9 - Paganini etudes
Level 10 - Beethoven 9th symphony transcription
The power of Hungary❤️🇭🇺
8 levels of Beethoven?
8 levels of Schubert?
8 levels of Mendelssohn?
8 levels of Schumann?
Probably not as virtuosic as this oe tho. Dunno how you would ever surpass Liszt in that regard, lol
Another great video - thanks! I'd love to see 8 levels of Brahms - I think his piano music deserves to be better known!
Las combinó con La Campanela y Rapsodhias. Muy bien 🇲🇽. 💐. 🤩. Bravo. !!!!!
8 levels of schumann
Would defined love that
when i first read LISZT, i thought of tki opening for modern tetris, where you use L I S Z O pieces to make a tspin double
You are making me cry ..Liebestraum is only number 3 .I am fifteen years old and didn't even start with the first one ..
Even with the video, I can’t believe human hands can move that fast. My fave Liszt is the Mazeppa-what level would you place it?
One day I'll be able to play these all. Just give me a few decades.
I guess the thing that made Liszt sonata in B the most difficult is not just the octaves, notes, fast runs, but the Harmony, dynamics, interpretation of the piece. But yeah. That massive-octave run alone is sooooooo hard.
Also I Imagine playing playing fast in ppp.
I think that are the liszt 9th symphony transcription
Thanks for the video, amazing!
Tip: when you write something in the video, please let it show longer, cuz it's hard to read when you take what's written out very fast 😉
i was kinda skipping through to hear what songs you chose, and then i got to Liebestraum and i had to listen it’s so beautiful. it reminds me of my childhood when i would sit under the piano and listen to my dad play it :)
edit: just got to la Campanella, more nostalgia 😭
I enjoy this a lot.
Nice Liszt (haha)! Just wondering at which level would you place mephisto waltz no. 1 and Après une lecture de Dante? Thank you!
I saw the title and I was like, his hands are gonna break
Wonderful Shutian! You have great talent, you will go far. Love your piano, what is it? Sounds like a Steinway? So lucky to have such a wonderful instrument to do your videos with! Keep it up.
16? After seeing this, there's not much left to aspire to. Sorry. You have nothing left to aspire to. Your at the top. Just stay there as long as possible.
My forearms hurt just watching those hands.
I'm so proud to be Hungarian right now Liszt Ferenc i love you❤
definitely agree on level 8. the hardest part of that sonata to me was the fugue part. oh, and of course playing through the entire sonata while still maintaining FFF sound. hahahah
Well, that escalated quickly.
Lv 1:Super easy
Lv2:Easy
Lv3:A bit hard
Lv4:Very hard
Lv5:Super hard
Lv6:Insane
Lv7:WTF
Lv8:IMPOSSIBLE
In defense of Arrangement by Alan Walker, lecture at the Library of Congress. Two others, one if you don't know Italian, has English subtitles is very informative, called Liszt il grande virtuoso. Also more introspective is 'Liszt - Harmonies poetiques et religieuses by Andrea Bonatta. Try them out..
yayyyy theyre back lets go
Amazing video
Liszt is the dark souls of piano, so level 3 is amazing actually and already harder than average.
A reminder that even low level pieces aren’t easy, because some people can play the piece, but there is always possibility for improvement on it.
Absolutely amazing!!!🎉 I'm surprised you put Hr 2 below Spanish Rhapsody for me at least I feel alot more comfortable playing Spanish more than the Hungarian. But difficulty is subjective. And my god I could only dream of playing the B minor Sonata (length of it is what deturs me). As of now I'm working on the Robert Le Diable paraphrase.
You forgot lvl 9 which is etude no 4 1838 at full speed
IT'S BACK UP
It's probably nice to be able to learn all those pieces without finishing them. Can relate 🤣
From 2:40 , it sound Chopin's Winter Wind
Your neighbors are blessed
"Levels" as a distinction in my mind are arbitrary. There's pieces were you play fast, or slow pieces that have lots of accidentals. And as you yourself point out in the end, "hard pieces" that have easy sections. Composers don't simply set out to write pieces of certain levels... With all that said, you are a pianist of great talent, no one can deny that.
Level 3 I’m dead.