A stunning rendition with crystal lucidity of this pulchritudinous yet demoniacally challenging piece! It is said that in order to strenthen his fingers to play this monstrosity, Schumann come up with a device that crippled his fingers and therefore ruined his pianist career. When I listen to the recordings of Pogorelich and Criffra, the endings struck me like "why on earth end this piece by banging? Schumann would DEFINITELY ABHOR it!" Glad to find out that there are pianists also share this feeling!
Love the way you handle the voicing in this piece, especially around 0:25 onwards, where the top voice of the bass sounds exceptionally clear. Now that I´ve thought about it, I think the voicing is why I like Lugansky´s recording wayy more than Argerich´s, whose voicing unfortunately suffers as she just breezes through everything
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Your passion for this piece truly shines through in your music making. I am in awe you have such a gift Caleb 🌠. Thank you for doing this piece such justice!
Sir, admirably beautiful interpretation! I was actually working on this piece a few months ago, and after hearing this recording, I think I might revisit it! It is such an inspiring performance full of character; I have never heard it played this way, with technical brilliance and musical inspiration. A very interesting performance, I must say, and it inspires me to go back to working on this piece.
been listening to this on repeat, the more relaxed approach compared to the energetic approach of most other versions (like Lugansky, Argerich, Richter, etc.) while keeping clarity between the lines is pretty delicious 😋. id say you did better than Berezovsky at least (even with the less clean finale jumps)
It is honestly impressive to be able to play at this tempo, but his technical quality is excellent. Such a criticism would be more justified if he was sloppy in terms of precision, but this is not the case. This is a musical performance and technically brilliant. Remember, Schumann was not exactly a stable man; he finished his life in a mental hospital.
Yes I agree that it is allegro but the metronome in mid 19th century was s!ower than today and this toccata played too fast (which is an outstanding piano performance) tends to hide the music, to my opinion. As an example listen to Gilels or even Richter. Nice to speak about music anyway ! 😀 Kind regards
@@francoisdyckmans1210 on the metronome point i see too much recorded evidence that contradicts any double beat theory that you seem to be implying. in fact it confuses me that you mention Richter since he plays just about as fast as Caleb (in his studio recording at least)-Caleb even plays it with more legato than Richter so i don't see your point about musicality. as for Gilels i also don't think he plays this that much slower either.
This is the performance that made you go from "Caleb Who?" to Caleb Hu.
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A stunning rendition with crystal lucidity of this pulchritudinous yet demoniacally challenging piece!
It is said that in order to strenthen his fingers to play this monstrosity, Schumann come up with a device that crippled his fingers and therefore ruined his pianist career.
When I listen to the recordings of Pogorelich and Criffra, the endings struck me like "why on earth end this piece by banging? Schumann would DEFINITELY ABHOR it!"
Glad to find out that there are pianists also share this feeling!
This has got to be up there with the best recordings of the Toccata. Has the musicality of Lhevinne but also the technical bravura of Horowitz.
One of the best voicing and phrasing I have heard in this piece. Like, the part at 4:13 has so much emotion, almost sounds angsty.
yoooooo sounds more polished than previous takes (audio quality and all) owo!
RECORDED ON A SAMSUNG S22!???!
Love the octave passages
Oh my gosh. You are a lot of improvement than before bro..... Really impressive. 👏👍
yooo how's army training going?
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@@seonyonghwang stay strong 😅
황선용님 여기서 보네요 ㅋㅋㅋ
연주영상 매일 들었었는데 정신차려보니 저도 입대 2달차입니다..
전역하고 유투브 다시 활성화 되시길 항상 기다리고 있습니다! 화이팅
Love the way you handle the voicing in this piece, especially around 0:25 onwards, where the top voice of the bass sounds exceptionally clear. Now that I´ve thought about it, I think the voicing is why I like Lugansky´s recording wayy more than Argerich´s, whose voicing unfortunately suffers as she just breezes through everything
Listen to how he brings out the bass at 2:08
Lugansky is one of my favorite.
Man, I've never played a piece that has fatigued me more than this one. Props to you for such a convincing and exciting recording!
Based! And chef's kiss voicing
What does based mean? Im not english speaker
@@L1102 based is the opposite of cringe.
@@collinm.4652 Thanks, can you elaborate please what the feeling is you are expressing when saying based? I dont quite understand yet
@@L1102 well, @collinm.4652 has explained to you already what it means, and when you say 'based' it's the same feeling you have when you say 'great'.
@@L1102 Based is a generally positive descriptor, particularly prevalent in younger and/or frequent internet users. As Collin M. pointed out, the opposite of “based” in current internet slang is “cringe,” which functions identically, but as a negative descriptor. Both of these are quite recent developments in internet slang.
Very nice Caleb Hu.
Your passion for this piece truly shines through in your music making. I am in awe you have such a gift Caleb 🌠. Thank you for doing this piece such justice!
This has got to be awesome!
just listened to the older recording: insane improvement💪🏽
You should take a listen to the Toccata by Dimitar Nenov! From scale 1-9 it's maybe 8.5/9. Very challenging piano composition written in 1939.
Amazing job as always Caleb!
fr this is one of the best interpretations of this ive heard
Sir, admirably beautiful interpretation! I was actually working on this piece a few months ago, and after hearing this recording, I think I might revisit it! It is such an inspiring performance full of character; I have never heard it played this way, with technical brilliance and musical inspiration. A very interesting performance, I must say, and it inspires me to go back to working on this piece.
wow 🤩
so good
been listening to this on repeat, the more relaxed approach compared to the energetic approach of most other versions (like Lugansky, Argerich, Richter, etc.) while keeping clarity between the lines is pretty delicious 😋. id say you did better than Berezovsky at least (even with the less clean finale jumps)
Happy to hear that. Berezovsky's is a good bar to pass :D
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toccatastic
which part do you think was the most difficult?
Definitely 3:49
u fucking did it!!!!
3:51
oooooooooowoooooooooo
woah
wait how exactly did you record with the s 22
I have the same phone and it doesnt come near this in quality
great interpretation btw
better piano (and better skill :P) probably
Good acoustics, good piano
wait hold on, if you bumped this piece up to 8+, what happens to Kreisleriana and Davidsbündlertänze?
The Toccata is 8 without repeat, 8+ with repeat
@@calebhu6383 how does this one compare with the debussy etudes in difficulty?
@@stravinskyfan Debussy etudes are 8+
Harder than any individual debussy etude
@@calebhu6383 were you aiming to record with repeat lol
Great but ... only twice too fast. Not Schumann at all. Too bad.
It is honestly impressive to be able to play at this tempo, but his technical quality is excellent. Such a criticism would be more justified if he was sloppy in terms of precision, but this is not the case. This is a musical performance and technically brilliant. Remember, Schumann was not exactly a stable man; he finished his life in a mental hospital.
1. the tempo is literally allegro
2. pretty weird that you find Schumann to be typically slow
Yes I agree that it is allegro but the metronome in mid 19th century was s!ower than today and this toccata played too fast (which is an outstanding piano performance) tends to hide the music, to my opinion. As an example listen to Gilels or even Richter. Nice to speak about music anyway ! 😀 Kind regards
@@francoisdyckmans1210 that's incorrect
@@francoisdyckmans1210 on the metronome point i see too much recorded evidence that contradicts any double beat theory that you seem to be implying. in fact it confuses me that you mention Richter since he plays just about as fast as Caleb (in his studio recording at least)-Caleb even plays it with more legato than Richter so i don't see your point about musicality. as for Gilels i also don't think he plays this that much slower either.