Lang Lang - Liszt-Horowitz Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2006
- I've seen my video on youtube before, it was taken off of google. on that note.
I'm the camera man, those are my whistles at the end :D This video was taken on April 11th 2006 at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. Lang Lang gave an oustanding performance with typical Langlangesque gestures.. His Mozart sonata was flawless..
This is Lang Lang playing the Horowitz arrangement of Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody, enjoy!
p.s those of you who think that the crowd was "mocking" Lang Lang by snickering at him clearly don't understand the comedy behind why we were chuckling. it was because he had just come off this HUGE torrential wave of music into a small petite sounding melody.. i'd like to see ANY of you play this arrangement.
if you can, i'll eat my words. 
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Thanks for posting! I saw him perform this in Houston (i see you saw this in Dallas), must have been the same tour.
The most exciting performance of any musical anything i have ever seen. Truly amazing, i'm lucky to have been able to see it.
Same reaction from our audience, to see all the concert goers laugh, cheer and lighten up was incredible
People are so good at being critics. How about being pianists? I'd like to see a video of someone playing this as good as Lang Lang.
I love it!
It feels to me like he really put the effort in to understand Horowitz’s particular interpretation. The original Horowitz interpretation is definitely one that he seems to have very much poorer his heart and soul into the performance of. It definitely leaves plenty to be criticized but I think the fact that is so controversial speaks to the idea that we need more classical performers doing those types of interpretations. Franz Liszt certainly wouldn’t have been upset that someone changed his piece whether he thought it was good or not.
Personally, I feel like Liszt’s interpretation of Schubert’s Standchen really is incredible of how much someone can express through the way they hear and understand music. Certainly, someone should learn to play it as written (which can obviously have plenty of room for interpretation) but I think great things would come if there was more established virtuosos being encouraged to express their own connection with the music. It’s hard to argue that the average listener has anywhere near the understanding of a piece like this that a performer such as Horowitz or Lang Lang has.
Oh my god!!! I remember trying to play this when I was younger...but never nearly as free and virtuostic as Lang Lang....
IT'S AMAZING!
Bravo.... oups.... bravissimo ! quelle dextérité ! merci lang lang....
u know what people? if u dont understand art, then DONT LISTEN TO IT! every performer has their own interpretation of the piece! just because u guys dont like his version doesnt mean hes not good. (im not saying all of u)
lang lang is truly a great pianist. bravo! :)
郎朗が弾く狂詩曲が一番いいね
全盛期郎朗だね
I actually think this is really quite brilliant.Some parts of the piece I didn't quite like but that's not because of the way he played it. I think he performed it brilliantly.
he plays like he knows no technical difficulties, I mean this piece is SOOO technical, and he glides through it like a piece of cake....
@EliasCalabretta1 yes, this is the arragement by horowitz.
HE IS BOUNCING EVERYWHERE!! =D
the piece is so bouncy because of this!!!
it totally fits him!! it's awesome how he can take someone else's piece and make it reflect himself! and i like how he can make his version sound good, even i normally dont like this version from other composers! =]
this message goes towards the guy who put this video up. I got this piece down and Im performing it in a week. I learned it in under a month. So it is possible you know.
Lang lang non sa neanche lontanamente cosa sia una rapsodia e quale sia lo spirito ungherese di queste opere, mostra solo la sua tecnica stratosferica e soprattutto il suo GUSTO ORRIBILE!!!!!
Haha, that's not what I meant, but interpret what I wrote as you wish. It's free interpretation and creativity that makes music :) ~ there are many ways to refute your generalization, but you are entitled to your own opinion~
BANG BANG BANG BANG the piano!!!
The music critic for the Los Angeles Times once wrote that Lang Lang has to decide if he wants to be a great pianist or Liberace. This video is some evidence he has chosen the path of Liberace. Technique to burn but showmanship does not equal musicianship. For great interpretations, listen to Horowitz or Jorge Bolet.
spot on mate
thats what i've been saying
LOL, the best.
7.33. What does he do for an encore? The shot putt?
Excellent piece, I found free sheet music for it on SheetMusicFox DOT com and absolutely love it!
he seems very charismatic
The reason why people hate Lang Lang is that they take his exaggerated motions for pride. I can see why this is the case. However, you cannot deny his talent. The interpretation from 2:31 onward is brilliant, and with a lot of emotion and technical skill.
@PepperGeorge yea. You should check out my page. I only have one video up at the moment from when I was 18, but I'll be uploading more soon.
@Jamesallen20002003 cool man, are you a pianist?
Bleah
so is this a Vladimir Horowitz version?
sorry if I sound nooby, but I'd like to know.
I love Horowitz, and it kinda does sound him, but not 100 percent sure.
8 years later: yes it is.
The shock waves from his seizure at the end must have injured a small dog, yeah that's what it was, yeah.
how can you be so sure? :P
If the intention was to recreate a circus-like show (which Liszt did several times, where ladies used to even faint), he's really able to do this. I hear some people even laughing. At a certain point, I was feeling like the clowns, the elphants, and the monkeys were about come. I should go getting some popcorn! If a performer is somehow a pure entertainer and not an analytical min, then, he got it!
Is there a dog being killed at the end of the video? I hear it but I don't see it.
I enjoy it cause it's free..this is his sincere interpretation of that piece in that moment and its great!I'd like to listen "NeoComposer" play that piece...in that place.pheraps he's not so a good pianist to speak in that way.
Actually, he probably would've. Liszt was, after all, the man who insisted that his piano be moved to center stage facing the audience so that his audience could see HIM.
He usually doesn't do that with his hair; this is new. also on the last part he played it way too fast.
I particularly like Cortot and Rosenthal
Holy crap! I'm surprised at all these people with a stick up their butts in regards to how he looks when playing. It's passion. Perhaps you've heard of it. Also, music is supposed to be heard. There's 2 things on the side of your head for it, yeah?
People like you who hold their noses high and stare down at others who don't "know" music is the reason why many others don't enjoy classical music. Music doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be felt. You can "know" music by staring at the sheet music, but that is not feeling it. And what is art, if not FREE, unique or expressive? Even if you believe that his interpretation is not intellectual, there is absolutely no need to insult him.
lol, at the end, she is screaming!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was Mozart himself a stature of 'norm'? No, he was an eccentric, thus composed timeless music. Lang to the common eye appears as one too, and he too has a talent for music, he is a talented pianist. Enough said.
At the end, it's like he's having a seizure . . .
Rockstar playing the piano?
I can't agree more that he's playing it so fast but the last octive part he played more accurate than anyone I guess
I'm so confused. How the hell did he play that ending so fast?
@@susfranzliszt OMG the legendary daddy has come! I really don't know why tho, he has a habit of playing everything so fast, but its happening less often lately
@@chanshaunleo2103 I sight read this piece in my grave. It was really easy.
@@susfranzliszt XD
I'd rather hear Horowitz.
Also, he has very good technique, but he uses way too much pedal, and some notes are drowned out that way. Sometimes he plays too fast. He still is very good.
he seems like... dancing on the piano, rather playing it... hehe.. interesting...
hes like jerry that is angry to tom when playing the piano!! it begins at 7:04
wonderfull
I agree, why is it in this day and age people are reveered when sensible intelligent people realise their is no real talent their, they mask their lack of musical ability by bravado and showing off and that is what carries them through but you can't sustain that for a career if you want to last a generation people will see through the cracks eventually and become bored.If it is true what you say that 14 critics walked out on his last concert that is terrible.Which concert was it xiangvik?
what musical background do u have to say such comments of a professional player? i can say that his performance was great, and i've been playing piano for over 10 years, i just hate it when people that doesnt know sh!t about music disses great performers like lang lang.
because they earn a lot of money...that's why :P
Good playing but I HATE the theatrics!! Great artistry makes things look EASY, not like it's some effort.
Lang Lang is undoubtedly one of the world's virtuosos, but you have to beg the question, is technique becoming more important than musicality? He seems to 'plough' through sections like he can't wait to get to 'the next bit of excitement'. This becomes tasteless and boring after a while. Thank you for posting this clip. It has made me rethink going to one of his concerts!
Liszt was a show off and a rockstar of his time. In a way Lang Lang is playing liszt how it should be played. At the same time... It should sound good. I think liszt would have played this poorly as well. He had to technique to do whatever the heck he wanted, but he always wrote in letters and journals etc, that chopin was better at expressing music. And that there was something that chopin did he couldn't emulate. So, I believe one should show off in liszt's pieces, but not in others.
More feeling, less bollocks.
@ngexpert haha, no shit.. way to much preasure & no feeling at all *thumbs down* but that's the way Lang Lang likes to play everything!
My theory as to why he acts this way is that he is a very good pianist. He is, in fact, so good, that he can play music and afford to slack off and do these gestures at the same time. I don't know for certain, but that's what I think.
great Snakes!!!There seems to be a galloping goat in front of the piano!!!This piece has been utterly destroyed....
I am sure that if i could play that piece like him, i would have no reason not to end my life. It would be the most I could have expected. But it is just a fruitless hope, isn't it? xD
@rooksaiz music is about sound, not mimic. I believe that a pianist that needs facial expressions and grand gestures to convey an emotion to the audience lacks emotional maturity himself. Just close your eyes and listen to the music. I used to like this piece when played by Cziffra, with Lang Lang I just hear a complete mess. Besides, in this case he's not conveying anything with his gestures, he's just making fun of Liszt and his composition, which I find disgusting.
Never before have I seen someone butcher a piece of music with such virtuosity. Astounding display of ?????
i play piano so i know about music and i also know that Lang Lang destroyed this peice,he absolutely annihilated it. I don't know what you see in him. His music has no passion or feel in it although he tries to act like he does by jumping out of his seat. lol it kinda remindes me of a circus. So please tell me what u see in him and his music.
Sorry, but you can’t know how somebody is in their mind. You are ignorant and should screw off of him. This is the Horowitz transcription. He didn’t butcher it, he simply interpreted in his own way.
he made to carnagie not because he's good but because he's an atraction, people think that he's good because of the faces he makes and all that stuff...actually I think that even Yundi Li, another pianist I don't like, is a lot better than this
An incredible virtuoso with an astonishing talent used the worse possible way a pianist could come up with... But hey I must admit I had fun listening to this!
Lang Lang is not composing, so he doesn't justify banging on the piano
He should go for musicality rather than pure speed! He's going hell for leather at this!
do you know music sir? i don't need to be jealous to critisise him. all my friends, either in my school or in other music conservatories are holding the same opnion as me. even some concert pianist that i know agree with me
the norm, the fact is most people do not know music, so the norm is also tastless most of time
the fact is, lang lang is not intellectually interpreting the music. 'unique' performance doesnt mean it is artistic. i think you should study music before understanding my comments
that's rape
Maybe he's a very good pianist, but the way he plaes is not beautiful. It's just the thinking of FASTER FASTER FASTER no soul. I mean if ur prominent ... ok.. u can do what ever u like, but its just crap. For all the ones woh adore him and think I shouldn't listen to his songs I say: If u wanna make ur own opinion about what's good or not u have to hear them all to decide!
he plays wonderfully but i think the moves he does are excessive...!
...and somewhere, poor Volodya is spinning like a lathe!... 😞
have you been a pianist for 20 years, i think not? So since you haven't, according to you, i shouldn't listen to this comment.
awful noises =.=
I agree with zelyoko2800 on this one, his playing is horrible, and he looks horrible, i mean it's a wonder how he got in.
Terrible whoever is making the noise!
yeh but his interpritation is not how the peice is written and it is just noise and showboating
one of the best? One of the worst I'd say! Listen to Horowitz himself playing this and you'll find a big diference!
eww...
My opininon: Bad performance...
1) played too fast ( normal pianists play it in 9.35 minutes).
2) played too noisy
3) it's is not hungarian rhapsody no 2. it's just based of that piece. It is just another piece.
4) this is definitely not the way Liszt wrote this piece. played different
5) not enough emotions while playing
2** stars.....
I agree that the piano hammers by Lang,will be a great pianist but this interpretation has been escaped from the hands.Speeding spoils the work of Liszt.
In my opinion this perfomance or interpretation is bad.
Lang Lang is a comedian, not a pianist. 5:23-5:38 and 6:00-6:21... Are you KIDDING me?? That is the muddiest, sloppiest crap of "interpretation" I have ever heard. He clearly just wants his stringy hair to bounce all over the place to make it look like this takes some sort of incredible athleticism. I've seen some TERRIBLE body language at the piano in my day, but this takes the cake.
Pauvre Franz Liszt !Quel massacre!!!
god i cant say i like him but he plays the piece really noisy and disturbing.i don't like it in the way he plays it.
Ok honestly I think he ruined the first half of the song but I really like the second half! Especially the end!
Oh my gosh . . .
this is just horrible . . . .
Come on! What's a guy like that in a place like that? Shouldn't he be at the circus??
I really hate pianists that ruin beautiful pieces of music! This guy is only good for jumping around, I just watched him playing chopin's first piano concerto, and OH MY GOD!! Too much jumping, too much cheap rubato, but no music.I really think that there are lots of amateurs that can make more music than he can! This is my opinion, and I don't care about what you guys are going to write back,take note of that
haha, no shit.. way to much preasure & no feeling at all *thumbs down*
talented pianist, but this version sucks, he really screws the beginning, the theme and the ending, everything actually.. too bad.. way too fast.. hahahahah Bang Bang indeed
The worst interpretation of this piece by any virtuoso pianist ever to have played the piano.
the only embarrasment is your language
arrangement..... not a transcription... you should read the dictionary before
still ugly played. don't know much about Horowitz. but it's stupid that he makes such a beautifull piece so ugly...
Most horrible and insensate performance of Horowitz' arrangement.
Agreed, this sounded terrible
Lang Lang doesn't understand one note of the piece. He is outstandingly terrible. Compare this to Marc-Andre Hamelin and you'll what I mean.
mate i don't know what page your on
i lmao when i saw this
i can realy say that this was one of THE WORST performances i have ever seen
sorry but its true
People like you who hold their noses high and stare down at others who don't "know" music is the reason why many others don't enjoy classical music. Music doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be felt. You can "know" music by staring at the sheet music, but that is not feeling it. And what is art, if not FREE, unique or expressive? Even if you believe that his interpretation is not intellectual, there is absolutely no need to insult him.
the only embarrasment is your language