@@アヤミ Eight months late I know (I did not receive any notifications) haha, but I see it now. I did not know anything about music theory back then so quite strange reading it again today. Thanks! P.S. On the topic of vibrato on the piano, it even says "vibrato _assai_ " (as if doing a vibrato on the piano was possible in the first place) which makes this even funnier in my opinion haha.
You think that people have had heart attacks out of super high levels of frustration from trying to play Liszt's pieces like Mazeppa, Feux Follets, La Campanella, etc.? I guess it's happened. It's why you got to stay patient, relaxed, and focused while learning these ultra complex works of music
***** It's 97% illogical, incoherent shallow "pianisms", sole purpose is to make it difficult and impress the easily impressionable. Liszt attended a Paganini concert once, after which he decided to become the greatest virtuoso on the keyboard, "Paganini on the piano", and started insane practicing. He had never been particularly confident in his abilities as a composer, writing his first concerto for 26 years for example. At some point later in his life it was his Russian lover who was pushing him to start writing again. He preferred Beethoven's concertos for his own repertoire and added to them wild meaningless galloping across the keyboard in order to impress his public with his pianistic abilities. At some point organizers made him promise not to do that anymore. Liszt more than anybody else illustrates what went wrong with classical music after Beethoven - they ran out of meaningful ideas and focused of difficult and cheap shots to compensate. Schubert said that after Beethoven nothing was left to write, for example. Each and every of the prominent composers managed to write a couple of really good pieces but the rest is meaningless incoherent crap. I'd say that Brahms was an exception to that.
+VesChrist Art holds its beauty in the eye, or in this case ear of the beholder. You are entitled to your opinion, but what purpose does insulting generations of brilliant composers by dismissing them as "meaningless incoherent crap" hold. By your words Chopin, Tchaikovsky , Stravinsky, Liszt, Wagner, Debussy, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Ravel, Mahler, Rachmaninoff and countless many others wrote "meaningless incoherent crap" which I must say is a baffling and ignorant thing to say. You may not enjoy their music but it is hardly meaningless. It may be incoherent to you but that has to do with your own tastes not their compositions.
Chopin’s Études are more correct, as they maintain their “study” aspect, but Liszt could sight read them. He composed his original Grandes Études to essentially be unplayable, and then revised them to the Transcendental Études later in life, perhaps after receiving criticism/laughter for composing something no one would ever play. IMO Chopin’s Études still reign supreme as the most organized and complete study of his own piano technique.
Czerny: I've just finished my School of Velocity work and it's sure to confound even the best piano students for generations to come. Liszt: Hold my beer.
Learning how to read music is like learning a secondary language; such a unique form of art. I'm astounded by the complexity of Liszt's work. A true genius!
For all the guys who find this really hard... this is nothing compare to his other studies. just know that liszt wrote his study in a entire lifetime. he started teenager with "etudes en 12 exercices" with the them of all his transcendental study but a lot more easier. other versions came later. all the time a bit harder. he wrote "12 grandes études" and find out that nobody was able to play them because they were too hard. then he makes it more easier with the transcendental study witch is the version you are listening in this video. So this is the affordable one. just put on youtube "study n°4 liszt 12 grandes études" and you will see... I think most of them are midi file, a few pianists plays them but they have to play them reaaaaaally slow even if they are masters piano palyers... that show you how good liszt was...
This is definitely not 'nothing' compared to his other Etudes. You might be justified if you posted the same comment on the Paysage Transcendental Etude.
actually the douze etudes version of Mazeppa was easier than the transcendental etude one. It is, in fact, the ONLY etude that Liszt made harder. It is also considered the hardest out of the sets. I dont know where you got your information but its wrong lol
Frans Vulpone "Franz Liszt" Biography in two volume by Alan Walker, the most complete and accurate biography of Liszt. Including sheets and music analysis. Plus, I have played the mazeppa etude in Conservatoire and had a look at the 12 grandes études. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Études and finally: "The Transcendental Études (French: ''Études d'exécution transcendante''), S.139, are a series of twelve compositions for solo piano by Franz Liszt. They were published in 1852 as a revision of a more technically difficult 1837 series, which in turn were the elaboration of a set of studies written in 1826. " Lol...
From your link: (scroll a little bit down.) "However, the fourth étude of the final set, Mazeppa, is actually more demanding than its 1837 version, since it very frequently alters and crosses the hand to create a "galloping" effect." Lol ... If you can indeed play the Mazeppa, I yield and respect your opinion. Although I am still curious why then in all my research it has always been mentioned that Mazeppa was made harder in the transcendental etudes, and the only piece to have been made harder, too. I have also listened to all the douze etudes and in particular looked at mazeppa's changed sheet music and I, in my limited knowledge, do not see how the douze etudes version is to be harder than this one.
Etienne Delaunois I stand by my statement that I hated playing Liszt period, lol. Though this is interesting. I'm curious to see if my teacher has ever looked into those etudes.
***** Re read what i said. I was saying that people generally consider him a genius, but he's just some rand om guy playing with synths in fruity loops.
Themostamazinguy the reason people say he is a genius is when you listen to other performances of the piece, you then realize how genius this rendition is.
So I'm listening to this with my window open while there's a thunderstorm happening outside, and right as 6:25 came, thunder struck and continued to strike right up until 6:55. That was magical. :)
I remember learning this piece and the weirdest most grossest thing happened to me. Because of all the harmonies and the loud octaves and thirds, about a month into learning this piece a huge, chunk of dried up wax randomly fell out of my ear! It was both disgusting AND a relief! I'm not deaf, but I could definitely hear better. Haha! Never in all my years at the piano had that happened but only with the Liszt Mazeppa.
As any piece it's not hard to play, what is hard is playing at sheet's speed. Major skills needed are patience during practice, passion for that too, and not forget that you're making music even when playing slow.
IrokoSalei Of course their is much to appreciate below the tempo - I never said there weren't. But the composer included the tempo marking as a part of a piece for a reason, and without playing to that tempo you are not playing the piece as intended.
I've always seen this piece as a dramatically more difficult Chopin Etude 25 No.5, Crazy, chaotic and clangy beginning and ends, with a sweet sentimental middle section.
Vorpal we were just talking about this piece no? this is a very typical Liszt piece where he uses one theme and varies it with different kinds of accompaniment. musically it's very simple
I didn't say it wasn't all that. All I said was the in terms of musicality it's simple, always one melodic line with accompaniment. Compared to Chopin where you can sometimes get inner melodies
Dude you're too blinded by your self righteousness you completely ignore what I'm saying.. I was simply rejecting your claim that this piece is light years harder than ANYTHING Chopin has written, which is totally false cause majority of Chopin's pieces are harder to understand musically, certainly more than La Leggerezza and Un Sospiro
Tried this piece, and man is Liszt one of the most challenging out of all the composers I have played so far.. I thought Rachmaninoff's pieces were difficult, but this guy definitely takes the cake on being the most difficulty in techniques..
+toothless toe i'd say brahms is quite difficult, not as much technically, but for sure interpret wise. many performers have no clue what they're playing when playing brahms.
***** and that's why it's a challenge to make something dull into something worth listening to. much of Brahms aren't very melodic, maybe that was an influence in your disliking? But of course, brahms has what liszt or ravel doesn't have, and vise versa... like each and every composer out there.
i think the question was "how long have u played the piano?" i played for 9 years. And the most technically challenging piece I played so far would probably be Liszt paganini etude no.6, or Prokofiev Toccata. But it might be because of my small hands.
I can play this wait 1 day later (I buy another pair of hands) Then I play it Me it's still hard 2 days later (buys 100 pairs of hands) Plays it* Me:better
I can play this..... Wait 1 day later (buy another pair of hands) Then I play it Me: It's still hard... 2 days later (buy 100 pairs of hands) Then I play it again Me: It didn't sound well... 3 days later (buy a $1,000,000 Steinway and 1000 fingers) Then I play it, The Steinway broke. Me: WTF?!?!?!?!?!
H. Pianists never perform while reading, when you know it this well. it's all stuck into your head and muscle memory you don't need the sheets anymore although some put them there for some things to remember or as a backup for when they are lost while playing
TrapisScott that’s bullshit no teacher will give u this for work. Unless u r a prodigy then pliz tell me ur name I will Google search u up. Only the best of the best of the best pianist can attempt this
This performance is unbelievable. The performer, Mr. Yukio Yokoyama, is a former professor at the Ueno Gakuen Music College in Tokyo. He was a professor of pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii and he appears in the 2009 Cliburn International Competition documentary. Mr. Yokoyama was a medalist at the Chopin International Competition.
@@hopesonmakokha5217 I think it's something to do with the story of the piece. Some guy (called mazeppa I think) was strapped to a horse and the horse ran somewhere. Idk though
As a classical musician, thank you for providing these scores for our enjoyment. What is pretty amazing about Liszt is that on said score, it’s amazing how little white space is actually in the score ; so many pretty dots , such a beautiful piano piece.
It looks and sounds worse than it is. Don't get me wrong, it's difficult.... but after a while, the notes fall right under the fingers and there's a common pattern. It's one of those pieces that when practicing it, you start memorizing it at the same time. It was for me, anyway.
I saw Lazar Berman in concert two times back circa 1979. He was in his prime. I am a good amateur pianist and play some Liszt. The first one was in Tallahassee with my future wife and best friend. We were in the third row. It didn't matter what he played---it was so incredible the entire audience leaped to their feet as if by a magnetic force and cheered wildly. It was incredible, like watching someone walk on water! Impossible sounds. He played some of the transcendental etudes---unbelievable technique and twice as fast as anybody else could play them, so sometimes the cadenzas sounded almost continuous rather than discrete. Incredible. I've seen a lot of great pianists---no one like him at that time.
I would like to add that his recordings don't always do him justice. They're excellent, of course, but the fidelity is not so good in some of them. But 1978, touring America after spending years trapped in the Soviet Union, he was at his peak. I also have seen Van Cliburn, for example. On a scale of one to ten, Van Cliburn was a 10 easy. Perfect. Berman, on the hand, was pure sorcery, off the human scale. My best friend and I still talk about this concert almost four decades later. Neither one of us has ever felt the sense of irresistible levitation. We didn't think "Wow, great, let's get up and give him a standing ovation." He finished a piece, and suddenly we were on our feet applauding, the concert hall roaring!
There you have it folks, a piece wich for 99.9 % of us pianists is impossible to play or memorize. It's one of the hardest pieces ever written. I know there are others but dude this is crazy.. It's beyond me how a human being with only one brain and ten fingers is able to write and perform music like this.
English: If anyone is interested, I have made a playlist with everything I know at the moment about Baroque music, classicism, romanticism, and ragtime. Also if it is to your liking I have playlists of various authors of these periods mentioned above. Have a nice day and keep enjoying the music :v Español: Si a alguien le interesa, he hecho una lista de reproducción con todo lo que conozco de momento de la música del barroco, clasicismo, romanticismo, y ragtime. También si es de su agrado tengo listas de reproducción de diversos autores de estos periodos antes citados. Tengan buen día y sigan disfrutando de la música :v
from someone thats very new to music, even the sheet music looks like an absolute nightmare let alone actually playing this, anyone who can perform this has my immediate respect
To make your eyes dance even more, check out Godowsky's etudes after Chopin's etudes. He'd arrange Chopin etudes for one hand, do arrangements of two of Chopin's etudes to be played simultaneously (sort of), etc. Rachmaninoff admired Godowsky's work.
I think about pieces like Gaspard de la nuit of Ravel....Islamey of Balakirev..... maybe more difficult than this. In every case, I'd put Mazeppa into the 10 hardest piano pieces
@@equilibrio823 Those pieces are maybe top 100. There are some avant garde composers from the 20th century like Sorabji, Finnissy, Messiaen, Ligeti etc. whose works would blow those pieces out of the water. Look up Messaien's Vingt de Regards, Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum, Ligeti's Etudes, or Finnissy's English Country Tunes if you don't believe me.
@@user-sw5pw3cs4w I tried to hear Messiaen's Vingt de Regards.....20 minutes, i Jjust couldn't go on....very sperimental composing, too many dissonances, without a melodic thread. I couldn't keep listening, but I agree with you, the fourth and fifth, which was as far as I got, seemed very complicated to me....i can imagine the rest of the piece.
This song is amazing, that's why, I came Bach to listen it again and add it to my playLiszt. Sadly, I don't have the skill to play it ... my hands can't Haendel this. But at least, I can always go Chopin to buy the perfomer's album
No one has 12 hands, Liszt
+Devin Huang Really? 12-handed people were many in my days.
+Franz Liszt Omg yas
the answer will be "mom"..
Devin Huang you're wrong, Liszt has 12 hands
Yeh, wake up Liszt
"Wow Liszt, this is an incredible piece! What is it about?"
"A naked guy on a horse lmao"
Samovar Maker that’s what i do in my past times
Samovar Maker Lmaoooooooo
Yeah, I don't know what was Lord Bryon thinking while writing this and I seriously wonder what was Liszt thinking while composing this piece
Witcher 3 unicorn lol
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2:26 Liszt just told us to do vibrato on the piano. What a mad lad.
sorry if this is just a joke and I ruined it, but they're arpeggios
@@acsaha8304 no it’s the expression marking
@@acsaha8304 “marcato e vibrato assai”
@@アヤミ Eight months late I know (I did not receive any notifications) haha, but I see it now. I did not know anything about music theory back then so quite strange reading it again today. Thanks!
P.S. On the topic of vibrato on the piano, it even says "vibrato _assai_ " (as if doing a vibrato on the piano was possible in the first place) which makes this even funnier in my opinion haha.
@@acsaha8304 Well you actually used to be able to vibrato on pianos, but that was before Liszt's time iirc.
Yo, Liszt was like, "hey ladies, come over here and watch what I can do."
+ThePumpkin506 Watch my fingering ladies!
any lady that got fingered by list died
+Gijs Wolfs 😂
"look how big my hands are!!"
Haha don't know if you already knew but he was quite the ladies men haha
I swear Liszt just wanted to make pianists have a heart attack.
You think that people have had heart attacks out of super high levels of frustration from trying to play Liszt's pieces like Mazeppa, Feux Follets, La Campanella, etc.? I guess it's happened. It's why you got to stay patient, relaxed, and focused while learning these ultra complex works of music
@@alvexok5523 it was a joke mate relax.
Like paganini for piano
No I think he wanted pianists to break their pianos :))
Paganini agreed that.
The complexity of this piece frightens me.
Hard to believe but then again, looks can be deceiving. I see the point you're making.
***** It's 97% illogical, incoherent shallow "pianisms", sole purpose is to make it difficult and impress the easily impressionable.
Liszt attended a Paganini concert once, after which he decided to become the greatest virtuoso on the keyboard, "Paganini on the piano", and started insane practicing. He had never been particularly confident in his abilities as a composer, writing his first concerto for 26 years for example. At some point later in his life it was his Russian lover who was pushing him to start writing again. He preferred Beethoven's concertos for his own repertoire and added to them wild meaningless galloping across the keyboard in order to impress his public with his pianistic abilities. At some point organizers made him promise not to do that anymore.
Liszt more than anybody else illustrates what went wrong with classical music after Beethoven - they ran out of meaningful ideas and focused of difficult and cheap shots to compensate. Schubert said that after Beethoven nothing was left to write, for example. Each and every of the prominent composers managed to write a couple of really good pieces but the rest is meaningless incoherent crap. I'd say that Brahms was an exception to that.
VesChrist you are very jealous about liszt.
+VesChrist Art holds its beauty in the eye, or in this case ear of the beholder. You are entitled to your opinion, but what purpose does insulting generations of brilliant composers by dismissing them as "meaningless incoherent crap" hold. By your words Chopin, Tchaikovsky , Stravinsky, Liszt, Wagner, Debussy, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Ravel, Mahler, Rachmaninoff and countless many others wrote "meaningless incoherent crap" which I must say is a baffling and ignorant thing to say. You may not enjoy their music but it is hardly meaningless. It may be incoherent to you but that has to do with your own tastes not their compositions.
Jake Sellman Amen to that!
This piece is on my Bucket Liszt
best pun ive heard in a while😂
Herr Vorragend I laughed more than I should have
Herr Vorragend 😂😂
Even your name is a pun. I love it
Herr Vorragend 👏👏👏
Holy sheet
Haha
Oh my gahhhh
big oof
seems like puns are your *forte* ?
@@LeventK Oof. That was a tough one to *Handel*
God: Normal human beings has 2 hands.
Liszt: *3, take it or leave it.*
God: Hmm, I don't want to make another platypus mistake, you'll have to make do with just two.
Liszt: No problem
God: ...
Just imagine the script writers back in the days who had to make copies of this
Your comment reminded me of a 1977 Xerox commercial:
ruclips.net/video/faH1FXPqymU/видео.html
People in the 1800s: There isn't enough difficult music these days.
Liszt: So I took that personally...
Liszt's answer of Chopins revolutionary Etude
Schefchen Spassmacher i love that
Sanguil GeorArt like.
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revolutionary is much easier than this, the arpeggios in the left hand are nothing compared to this
Chopin’s Études are more correct, as they maintain their “study” aspect, but Liszt could sight read them. He composed his original Grandes Études to essentially be unplayable, and then revised them to the Transcendental Études later in life, perhaps after receiving criticism/laughter for composing something no one would ever play. IMO Chopin’s Études still reign supreme as the most organized and complete study of his own piano technique.
Liszt wrote interesting musical exercises.
Chopin composed true music.
Czerny: I've just finished my School of Velocity work and it's sure to confound even the best piano students for generations to come.
Liszt: Hold my beer.
theradioflier *Liszt: hold my opium
(*Liszt was a disciple of Czerni.*)
xD
School of velocity isn’t even hard😂
@@brysoncheng7574 technically some pieces are impossible cause his tempi markings were absurd
That thumbnail is terrifying.
WondrousMoose 2:13
That's literally the easiest part of the piece
@@calebhu6383 ikr lmfao
Caleb Hu fr like what
@@TJ-ov4ld Alternating chromatic octaves are one of Liszt's easiest techniques
the fact that my teacher actually played this and
“Wilde Jagd” is crazy to me. All my respect to her✨
who is wilde jagd
@@eternallyv lol, it's a Liszt Etude
@@eternallyv Transcendental Etude No. 8
hahahaha that was perfect!@@eternallyv
When music for the piano has three staves, you know it’s getting insane
you need 8 eyes to read that music sheet
Saimanoj Movva hahaha
I can lend you some, if you are short on... hands. Dawg
tanpeke really
Actually one eye would be better
Okay, I want to take my glasses, 3 glasses. 3x2+2: 8
lolXD
TBH my GF broke up with me that day and then I wrote this
Im screaming😂😂😂
That is incorrect. Imposter, I am the real Franz Liszt, not you...
@@franzliszt4302 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
best comment thread I've seen thus far.
Liszt, how do you get 4 hands?
This makes me rethink about how many hands did Liszt have
If you’re good at jumps, this piece can definitely be conquered with two :)
There's historic books that says Liszt did have a third arm
Only two, but he played with his toes as well as with his fingers!
0:23 theme
1:19 variation 1
2:26 variation 2
4:35 variation 4
5:07 variation 5
Where is variation 3 then?
@@richardchiu9832 I believe Variation 3 starts at roughly 3:12 , though I may be wrong and it may just be part of Variation 2.
@@acsaha8304 Thank you
0:00 , 6:00 , 6:53
Learning how to read music is like learning a secondary language; such a unique form of art. I'm astounded by the complexity of Liszt's work. A true genius!
Yeah, that’s learning to read. Learning to play would be like learning 5 languages
@@josuecenturiondomaniczky9297no learning to play is analogous to learning to speak, not sure where you got the five languages from.
For all the guys who find this really hard... this is nothing compare to his other studies.
just know that liszt wrote his study in a entire lifetime. he started teenager with "etudes en 12 exercices" with the them of all his transcendental study but a lot more easier.
other versions came later. all the time a bit harder. he wrote "12 grandes études" and find out that nobody was able to play them because they were too hard.
then he makes it more easier with the transcendental study witch is the version you are listening in this video.
So this is the affordable one.
just put on youtube "study n°4 liszt 12 grandes études" and you will see...
I think most of them are midi file, a few pianists plays them but they have to play them reaaaaaally slow even if they are masters piano palyers...
that show you how good liszt was...
This is definitely not 'nothing' compared to his other Etudes. You might be justified if you posted the same comment on the Paysage Transcendental Etude.
actually the douze etudes version of Mazeppa was easier than the transcendental etude one. It is, in fact, the ONLY etude that Liszt made harder. It is also considered the hardest out of the sets.
I dont know where you got your information but its wrong lol
Frans Vulpone "Franz Liszt" Biography in two volume by Alan Walker, the most complete and accurate biography of Liszt. Including sheets and music analysis.
Plus, I have played the mazeppa etude in Conservatoire and had a look at the 12 grandes études.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Études
and finally:
"The Transcendental Études (French: ''Études d'exécution transcendante''), S.139, are a series of twelve compositions for solo piano by Franz Liszt. They were published in 1852 as a revision of a more technically difficult 1837 series, which in turn were the elaboration of a set of studies written in 1826. "
Lol...
From your link: (scroll a little bit down.)
"However, the fourth étude of the final set, Mazeppa, is actually more demanding than its 1837 version, since it very frequently alters and crosses the hand to create a "galloping" effect."
Lol ...
If you can indeed play the Mazeppa, I yield and respect your opinion. Although I am still curious why then in all my research it has always been mentioned that Mazeppa was made harder in the transcendental etudes, and the only piece to have been made harder, too.
I have also listened to all the douze etudes and in particular looked at mazeppa's changed sheet music and I, in my limited knowledge, do not see how the douze etudes version is to be harder than this one.
Etienne Delaunois I stand by my statement that I hated playing Liszt period, lol. Though this is interesting. I'm curious to see if my teacher has ever looked into those etudes.
This looks like carpal tunnel waiting to happen
+Andy M That's actually a challenge when playing pieces like this. You have avoid tensing or you'll injure yourself. Easier said than done of course.
+Connor Winters there is a solution. SLOW metronome work
+Sai Kit Ng No surprise - universal method of perfecting difficult passages... Let alone this colossal, impressionistic work.
LMAO!!!!!
Eh, no biggy.
That was the last time his fingers moved: They exploded.
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People say will -i-am is a genius. People say mj us a genius. Extraordinarily talented yes, but this is testament to lizsts true genius
Themostamazinguy I don't know about that. Well, MJ was a really amazing dancer, but I fail to see what will-i-am is so talented at.
***** Re read what i said. I was saying that people generally consider him a genius, but he's just some rand om guy playing with synths in fruity loops.
Themostamazinguy
I get that, but you said "extraordinarily talented, yes" and I figured you referred to both MJ and Will.
***** Nah lol
Themostamazinguy the reason people say he is a genius is when you listen to other performances of the piece, you then realize how genius this rendition is.
Teacher: can u play us a song.
Me: snorts ten lines of cocaine.
Also me: y,y,ya s,su,sure.
So I'm listening to this with my window open while there's a thunderstorm happening outside, and right as 6:25 came, thunder struck and continued to strike right up until 6:55. That was magical. :)
Mission impossible!
+1
I'm proud to be a hungarian after listening to this genius mind's music.
Thanks for the sheet music, now I can try this.
Smashes all the keys and cries.
I remember learning this piece and the weirdest most grossest thing happened to me. Because of all the harmonies and the loud octaves and thirds, about a month into learning this piece a huge, chunk of dried up wax randomly fell out of my ear! It was both disgusting AND a relief! I'm not deaf, but I could definitely hear better. Haha! Never in all my years at the piano had that happened but only with the Liszt Mazeppa.
Yeah, that wasn't because of the "harmony" or the "octaves" LOL.
@@flyingpenandpaper6119 Yeah. It was. Very common with the vibrations of sound. LOL Wow...
when u talk with ur crush 0:00-0:10
Franz Liszt Accurate
Franz Liszt i
That's me when I'm just trying to make up the nerve to talk to my crush, or when I realize I have a crush.
4:35 when Liszt tries to trick us into thinking he's off the pills
I can play this! Err... the video, I mean.
Okay, seriously I can play the part at 6:21.
LOL you had me there..😝😆
As any piece it's not hard to play, what is hard is playing at sheet's speed. Major skills needed are patience during practice, passion for that too, and not forget that you're making music even when playing slow.
The tempo marking is a part of the piece. You're not playing the full piece if you can't get it up to tempo.
There's way more to appreciate in a piece like that than the tempo, maybe your liking of liszt stops if not at full speed but then the fault is yours.
IrokoSalei
Of course their is much to appreciate below the tempo - I never said there weren't. But the composer included the tempo marking as a part of a piece for a reason, and without playing to that tempo you are not playing the piece as intended.
This is why i love Liszt.Love all his works.
I've always seen this piece as a dramatically more difficult Chopin Etude 25 No.5, Crazy, chaotic and clangy beginning and ends, with a sweet sentimental middle section.
Vorpal in terms of techniques yes, musically no
Vorpal we were just talking about this piece no? this is a very typical Liszt piece where he uses one theme and varies it with different kinds of accompaniment.
musically it's very simple
I didn't say it wasn't all that.
All I said was the in terms of musicality it's simple, always one melodic line with accompaniment.
Compared to Chopin where you can sometimes get inner melodies
I'm learning Funerailles for my recital this year and I love it to bits, but again the ideas are really simple.
Dude you're too blinded by your self righteousness you completely ignore what I'm saying..
I was simply rejecting your claim that this piece is light years harder than ANYTHING Chopin has written, which is totally false cause majority of Chopin's pieces are harder to understand musically, certainly more than La Leggerezza and Un Sospiro
Tried this piece, and man is Liszt one of the most challenging out of all the composers I have played so far.. I thought Rachmaninoff's pieces were difficult, but this guy definitely takes the cake on being the most difficulty in techniques..
+Kyuhan Youn Try and play Islamey !
+toothless toe i'd say brahms is quite difficult, not as much technically, but for sure
interpret wise. many performers have no clue what they're playing when
playing brahms.
*****
and that's why it's a challenge to make something dull into something worth listening to. much of Brahms aren't very melodic, maybe that was an influence in your disliking? But of course, brahms has what liszt or ravel doesn't have, and vise versa... like each and every composer out there.
A challenging Liszt piece would be Totentanz in my opinion
i think the question was "how long have u played the piano?" i played for 9 years. And the most technically challenging piece I played so far would probably be Liszt paganini etude no.6, or Prokofiev Toccata. But it might be because of my small hands.
I can play this wait
1 day later (I buy another pair of hands)
Then I play it
Me it's still hard
2 days later (buys 100 pairs of hands)
Plays it*
Me:better
hazzart hi so cute what
Ludwig Van Beethoven made me laugh, wait, what are you doing here, stop pretending to be him, you're not the real Beethoven
Damn composers out of the grave. SHOVE EM BACK!
I can play this..... Wait
1 day later (buy another pair of hands)
Then I play it
Me: It's still hard...
2 days later (buy 100 pairs of hands)
Then I play it again
Me: It didn't sound well...
3 days later (buy a $1,000,000 Steinway and 1000 fingers)
Then I play it,
The Steinway broke.
Me: WTF?!?!?!?!?!
but do you hear it?
This looks so hard to read and play at the same time that it makes me sad and astonished at the same time.
H. Pianists never perform while reading, when you know it this well. it's all stuck into your head and muscle memory you don't need the sheets anymore although some put them there for some things to remember or as a backup for when they are lost while playing
Some parts are so beautiful
all parts are beautiful
Each difficulty of piano:
1.- easy (Bach)
2.- medium (Mozart)
3.- hard (Beethoven) ⚔️
4.- Insane (Chopin) 🕶️
5.- Legendary (Liszt) 👑
Bach isn't easy
@@ThePhreakass well, I played Prelude and Fugue in C major of Bach 👍
@@carlosantonioguevaraalcana715 Boy, everyone can play that. Try the Goldberg Variations
@@ThePhreakass ...
My teacher gave this to me yesterday. I have gotten passed approximately the first 10 seconds. I am scared to go any further
wait what
your teacher must fucking hate you.
TheLegend27 the actual fk? Are you some kind of prodigy? Because i dont think you can do it anytime soon ))))
TrapisScott that’s bullshit no teacher will give u this for work. Unless u r a prodigy then pliz tell me ur name I will Google search u up. Only the best of the best of the best pianist can attempt this
@@twicechaeyoung3652 my teacher too yesterday hahaha
so fast even flash didn't think twice
Liszt what did you smoke when you wrote this... Even I am not as crazy as you are.
Sergei Rachmaninoff hmmmmmm
Sergei Rachmaninoff you forgot that you are inspired by him... tsssssss
Sergei Rachmaninoff -_-
Rachmaninoff wrote stuff that was much much harder than this. His concertos, for example. Of course, so did Liszt :D
MrHeyheyhey27 look for my etudes if you wanna see the piano overclocking!
Wow qué obra tan compleja. Tenía que ser del gran Liszt. Qué gran ejecución.
This performance is unbelievable. The performer, Mr. Yukio Yokoyama, is a former professor at the Ueno Gakuen Music College in Tokyo. He was a professor of pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii and he appears in the 2009 Cliburn International Competition documentary. Mr. Yokoyama was a medalist at the Chopin International Competition.
"How could a page sit on a horse? How is it possible that wind doesn't blow it away?"
But then...I realized.
MattSD Pell wait what, I'm clueless
Too much ink i guess
@@hopesonmakokha5217 I think it's something to do with the story of the piece. Some guy (called mazeppa I think) was strapped to a horse and the horse ran somewhere. Idk though
Thanks power gaming
Clothes pegs
As a classical musician, thank you for providing these scores for our enjoyment. What is pretty amazing about Liszt is that on said score, it’s amazing how little white space is actually in the score ; so many pretty dots , such a beautiful piano piece.
How much drug is this
James Loggins like 2
Dear god have mercy on my soul
16th notes worth of crack
It looks and sounds worse than it is. Don't get me wrong, it's difficult.... but after a while, the notes fall right under the fingers and there's a common pattern. It's one of those pieces that when practicing it, you start memorizing it at the same time. It was for me, anyway.
Ludwig Van Beethoven fuck off beethoven you're almost as much of a god as Liszt
Yukio Yokoyama can play Liszt-Transcendental Étude perfectly!
I saw Lazar Berman in concert two times back circa 1979. He was in his prime. I am a good amateur pianist and play some Liszt. The first one was in Tallahassee with my future wife and best friend. We were in the third row. It didn't matter what he played---it was so incredible the entire audience leaped to their feet as if by a magnetic force and cheered wildly. It was incredible, like watching someone walk on water! Impossible sounds. He played some of the transcendental etudes---unbelievable technique and twice as fast as anybody else could play them, so sometimes the cadenzas sounded almost continuous rather than discrete. Incredible. I've seen a lot of great pianists---no one like him at that time.
I would like to add that his recordings don't always do him justice. They're excellent, of course, but the fidelity is not so good in some of them. But 1978, touring America after spending years trapped in the Soviet Union, he was at his peak. I also have seen Van Cliburn, for example. On a scale of one to ten, Van Cliburn was a 10 easy. Perfect. Berman, on the hand, was pure sorcery, off the human scale. My best friend and I still talk about this concert almost four decades later. Neither one of us has ever felt the sense of irresistible levitation. We didn't think "Wow, great, let's get up and give him a standing ovation." He finished a piece, and suddenly we were on our feet applauding, the concert hall roaring!
Oh my friend
5:06 let’s take a moment to appreciate this
Překrásné kadence v oktavach.
Stačí only 2 hands.
Bravo !!! Co dokáže člověk,
a ne počítač... 👍👍👍
This is the tune I hum in the shower every morning.
Ya, me too!
MrLu, magnificent!!! You must come and play for those of us who attend the SPCO (StPaul Chamber Orchestra). Wow!!!!!!!!!
Best I have ever heard of this.
That dramatic run staring at 0:59 leading into the next section is exquisite.
This is just so beautiful a masterpiece piano is amazing I love it
横山さん、さすがのテクニック…。生で聴いてみたい！
Liszt might have taken
Acetaminophen
Adderall
Alprazolam
Amitriptyline
Amlodipine
Amoxicillin
Ativan
Atorvastatin
Azithromycin
Ciprofloxacin
Citalopram
Clindamycin
Clonazepam
Codeine
Cyclobenzaprine
Cymbalta
Doxycycline
Gabapentin
Hydrochlorothiazide
Ibuprofen
Lexapro
Lisinopril
Loratadine
Lorazepam
Losartan
Lyrica
Meloxicam
Metformin
Metoprolol
Naproxen
Omeprazole
Oxycodone
Pantoprazole
Prednisone
Tramadol
Trazodone
Viagra
Wellbutrin
Xanax
Ooo... Yes, I forgot to put the last drug. Yes,that is Zoloft
Yokoyama is, by far, the best performer of this piece I've heard, feels way more subtle.
*0:00** - **2:25* Well.. This seems chaotic and crazy.
*2:26* - What...? Did I.. just transcend into heaven?
The further I listen to this piece, the more terrified I become.
Глядя в ноты первый раз думаешь ,что и сыграть это невозможно....однако исполняют же одаренные люди! Браво!
FL’s goal was to make the piano sound like an orchestra, and he did!
There you have it folks, a piece wich for 99.9 % of us pianists is impossible to play or memorize. It's one of the hardest pieces ever written. I know there are others but dude this is crazy.. It's beyond me how a human being with only one brain and ten fingers is able to write and perform music like this.
You're joking right
That 99.9% made me laugh so hard
I can't even follow the music on the sheet.
I can play the rests. Easy....
Yep, because if you're not playing piano at this moment, you're playing the rests right now. :D
There are legit 3 rests.
I’ve seen a lot more than that shockingly
I cant even play the rests, i feel like i have to hit something
no, you can't
This sheet music is the most craziest shit I've ever seen 😂😂,and this definitely sounded transcendental, these sounds were far ahead of his time,
English: If anyone is interested, I have made a playlist with
everything I know at the moment about Baroque music, classicism,
romanticism, and ragtime. Also if it is to your liking I have playlists
of various authors of these periods mentioned above. Have a nice day and
keep enjoying the music :v
Español: Si a alguien le interesa,
he hecho una lista de reproducción con todo lo que conozco de momento
de la música del barroco, clasicismo, romanticismo, y ragtime. También
si es de su agrado tengo listas de reproducción de diversos autores de
estos periodos antes citados. Tengan buen día y sigan disfrutando de la
música :v
Now, I have this piece in my playLiszt
from someone thats very new to music, even the sheet music looks like an absolute nightmare let alone actually playing this, anyone who can perform this has my immediate respect
This is definitely played by Yukio Yokoyama.
Brendan Hall This is not played by Evgeny Kissin, it is played by Yukio Yokoyama.
jeaxdeau0403 sounds like Claudio Arrau's version (in my ipod). I believe you though
+Joe Lin This is too fast for Arrau in the fast parts, but sounds very very close I agree
+Demian Alcazar it says in the description that the performer is Yukio
play
3:52 *sight reading has left the chat*
2:13 the terrifying thumbnail.
i keep listening this music after watching kim so yeon and her acting at the kdrama Penthouse 😆
Beethoven:
The 3rd Mvmt of the Moonligtht Sonata is without a doubt very vigorous and difficult to play.
Liszt:
*Hold my steroids*
To make your eyes dance even more, check out Godowsky's etudes after Chopin's etudes. He'd arrange Chopin etudes for one hand, do arrangements of two of Chopin's etudes to be played simultaneously (sort of), etc. Rachmaninoff admired Godowsky's work.
No doubt that Liszt's pieces are the hardest to play.
There are much more difficult composers than Liszt.
I think about pieces like Gaspard de la nuit of Ravel....Islamey of Balakirev..... maybe more difficult than this. In every case, I'd put Mazeppa into the 10 hardest piano pieces
@@equilibrio823 Those pieces are maybe top 100. There are some avant garde composers from the 20th century like Sorabji, Finnissy, Messiaen, Ligeti etc. whose works would blow those pieces out of the water.
Look up Messaien's Vingt de Regards, Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum, Ligeti's Etudes, or Finnissy's English Country Tunes if you don't believe me.
@@user-sw5pw3cs4w here I go
@@user-sw5pw3cs4w I tried to hear Messiaen's Vingt de Regards.....20 minutes, i Jjust couldn't go on....very sperimental composing,
too many dissonances, without a melodic thread. I couldn't keep listening, but I agree with you, the fourth and fifth, which was as far as I got, seemed very complicated to me....i can imagine the rest of the piece.
Great performance. A grand piece representing the poem by Lord Byron.
Cheon Seo Jin =))
Stunning performance! BEAUTIFULLY recorded! in what sounds like a REALLY great space!
This song is amazing, that's why, I came Bach to listen it again and add it to my playLiszt. Sadly, I don't have the skill to play it ... my hands can't Haendel this. But at least, I can always go Chopin to buy the perfomer's album
Change your attetude brah(ms). Don't say fugue this too soon, at Liszt you can try!
*piece 😭
Liszten*
fuguein hell man the cringe no one can handel these bachwards jokes no more, just liszten to the piece
You're a clever guy
so beautiful
He paid for the whole piano he's gonna use the whole piano
I’m convinced that’s what he is
Excellent beginner pianist piece .
2:18
(게임오버 효과음)
(Game Over sound effect)
The pianist made piano sing! Such clarity!
어쩜 이렇게 천서진이랑 어울리는 곡이 있다니...
OMFG THIS IS BREATH-TAKING START TO END
Definitely adding this on my piano playLiszt.
I feel like this recording is so much more passionate than other recordings
1:19 날 이르케 만든건 아버지에요흐.
흐으으으 그러니 너무 억울해마세요 아브지히 저한테 하나는 해주고 가셨으니 헤에 하흐으
0:23
Bravo bravo bravo brilliance music
alright im gonna go learn this piece see you guys in 5 years
@@mouffin3256 I’ve learned the first 8 bars
@@mouffin3256 thanks, I will need it
How's the progress now?
@@Ethan_is_me I threw away my piano
@@danielsafford9148 wtf why
equal parts amazing to listen to and displeasing to the eye
How have I not heard of him.....
You well not plepaled!
Brendan Hall
Do you play the piano?
@@lucasm4299 Perhaps he means the performer, rather than Liszt.
This is such an interesting piece, the Bb Major part is wonderful
I'm here because of SeoJin
Oh I love this song so much ... I actually got addicted to this song...