Mozkowski Etude 72-6

[RediForKing]

this etude is easy to critisize and hard to play

[asdfadlord]

newbcake its actually really hard cause u need to play it so fast.

[AldenHardaway]

So light, so free!

[marcxopoco]

I just heard Horowitz play this far better than the juvenile Freire, decidely faster.

Even Pletnev is much better than this.

[abajour]

@marcxopoco what do you mean by better? Horowitz, Pletnev and Freire are such unique artists... they don't deserve simplistic analysis like yours.

I see that you have personal issues with Nelson... not of my business anyway...

[marcxopoco]

The playing of a child mentality. Leaves a lot to be desired.

First of all, he is a 'soprano' pianist--no bass.

This is most evident when he plays the 2nd page with the left hand tenor melody detached and unheard while only the right hand downward chromatic scales can be heard.

There are no tops to be heard on the upward chromatic of the main subject.

Completely mechanical and unmelodic playing of them.

The broken chords between the two hands at the retransition are uneven.

[sergiodsimon1]

@marcxopoco How can you compare Horowitz and the 14 year old genius of Freire? You are such an amateur...

[marcxopoco]

@sergiodsimon1 , How do you know he is 14?

[thejesusfreak919]

@marcxopoco He might not be 14, I'd say 16 or 17 but definitely not older.

[marcxopoco]

@thejesusfreak919 If that is true, he is very good for that age.

[thejesusfreak919]

@marcxopoco He definitely is

[vfavato]

remarkable technique...one of the best pianists of our time...

[RediForKing]

the piano sounds just a amazing!

do you know what brand it is?

it's one of the best pianos I've ever heard

[sregnathan]

BRAVO...!!!!

[RemovdSande11]

F*ck I LOVE this etude, the second melody is mesmorizing. To bad I cant play it yet .... _<

[paulcopeland]

Absolutely remarkable technique. Very humbling.

[AlvinSong2025]

in 1:05 do u think guys hear somthing strange?? i think i do

[jefftam1234]

Freire probably has the most efficient piano playing mechanism (weight controlling) down. Just watch his Godowsky die Fledermaus, it is like he was playing on feather.

[belialah]

Great...old piano style

[ykpatr]

5***** 5***** 5***** 5***** 5*****

[sissichopin91]

This is one of the most difficult pieces for piano! Playing softly with those hard technique elements it's amazing! The best version of this etude is the Horowitz's; then Pletnev's

[Achtelnote]

@sissichopin91 this absolut not one of the most difficult pieces.there is not only one hard part.the only hard thing is this tempo,but every mozart sonata would be harder in this tempo.

[sissichopin91]

@Achtelnote It 'so difficult to play so fast, fast and smooth.

we must distinguish between the technical difficulty and artistic difficulties. I also think that Mozart (with Schumann) is more difficult to render. But this etude is technically one of the most difficult etudes i know.

[Achtelnote]

@sissichopin91 then you know not alot etudes.i needed only one week and a half to play it on my tempo quarter=100.but i needed for chopin op.10/4 6 weeks only for playing all the notes.

[sissichopin91]

@Achtelnote you are funny.

You know few etudes.

Log on the video where you play this etude: come on!

[Achtelnote]

@sissichopin91 the only funny are you.im piano teacher,studied in munich richard-strauss-conservatoire and i always have pupils who play this etude.it is really very easy to learn.try it,only easy patterns and chromatic scales.

[Achtelnote]

@sissichopin91 the only funny are you.this is really very easy to learn.try it,only easy patterns and chromatic scales(and one diatonic g-flat major).

[marcxopoco]

@sissichopin91 is blowing air out his ***.

This piece consists of chromatic scales and easy neighbor note triplets going down in sequence.

It would not be considered "one of the most difficult pieces for piano" by anyone but a youtube blowhard.

[sissichopin91]

@marcxopoco Playing this etude like this version or Horowitz's or Pletnev's makes this piece extremely difficult.

[xcomposerpianistx]

a very beautyful playing. Bravo.

[fooitstinazheng]

..i envy him

[ykpatr]

Bardzo Pięknie 6******Bardzo Kocham Muzykę To Moje Uczucie Muzyczne 6******

[michal1810]

I love his recordings

They are so funny and light, etudes, obviously

[marcxopoco]

He cheats on the left hand rund runs that come in the middle of the piece.

He plays the downward portion of each left hand run with the right hand.

[mgager06]

I think he's quite capable of playing it with his left hand only he chooses to incorporate his right had because it sounds better (I actually use this when I play the piece now)

[elgar34]

@mgager06: don't worry about marcxopoco, just trying to demonstrate sophistication. Yeah we can read the score too.

[troppofiato]

I don't think that redistributing stuff between the hands is "cheating". It's not like he's leaving notes out or anything like that.

[marcxopoco]

You don't know much about scale playing, troppo.

It is much easier to play the downward scale with the right hand.

Playing that downward scale with the left hand as Mozskowski wrote it is the hardest spot in the piece, scale-playing wise.

Friere avoids the difficulty by using the right hand to take over .

[troppofiato]

You are presumptuous and condescending to think I don't know much about scale playing, marcxopoco. You also seem to think that making life easier is cheating. If you were not seeing Freire playing, would you have known he was distributing notes between the hands? Do you really think he couldn't have played it as written if he had so chosen?

[Myyadda1]

@marcxopoco

that part where he uses right hind for L.H part is really helpful, it simplifies that passage

even Horowitz does the same, check out, the video of horowitz outtakes

[eribani]

@marcxopoco When a pianist of this calibre does things like that it's purely for sound/comfort, and hardly can be named cheating anymore. You can make sure that he can play it like it's 'supposed' to, but at this stage this piece is no more a study for him, but more of a concert piece. Don't simplify scores when studying, but when performing you can do whatever you want IMO, as long as it sounds good and the simplifying of the score doesn't result in a loss of tension in the music.

[marcxopoco]

@eribani,

Any competent player could play this with the left hand--as written and fingerred by Mozkowski.

It's a simple F major scale for the left hand.

[cm50gr3250]

Eccellente

[NickyRamone77]

Impressive technique. That piece is VERY difficult. I couldn't play it even in 10 years.

[jojodi]

That ending is absolutely amazing.

[markhallansen]

danm, he can play fast. its actually not that easy of a piece

[kaisersjoachim]

... but this piece he doesn`t play very fast - it`s a moderat tempo

[markhallansen]

yes he does. that tempo is way above moderate.

[w3sp]

Smooth

[hjiuhfhrehui]

awsome ... he is my fafourite preformer of this pice.

[javacisnotrecognized]

It's hard to describe the feeling with this kind of playing (I recently have been "Getting" it); You have to not "Press" into the key, but it is more like your fingers are just falling into the key. Notice that he is not playing legato at all, there are breaks between the notes. Trying to play it at speed staccato helps alot. As does trying to feel for the keys with the free fingers.

[victoriaarene]

holy bananas this is amazing.

[istreba]

supeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr tout simplement proooooooooo

[oas1s2004]

no doubt a complete success

[Pianoloverok]

Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!

[cortesepiloto]

awesome...a great virtuosi!!!

[MrRockin]

Out of all the videos i watched, his has the most clarity of all. Love it, wish i could play it clear as he does.

[galaxyrainguy]

Nelson Freire wasn't 6 he was 15 when this was recorded, it was a hard recording to obtain for many years, stunning in every way, I "saw" Freire in Vienna in the '80's, he stands out in a crowd very much, his playing as well.

[b3ti3]

my fingers refuse to move like that :(

[Fnkyazn67]

Fantastic Technique

[PhilippeLernould]

just fantastic

[newbcake]

It looks much more difficult than it really is. There are basically only chromatic scales that are played up and down and some chromatic variations. Chromtic scales are by far the easiest.

[DuranXL]

the end is killing me though

[assindiastignani]

Playing anything this well is difficult.

[newton2060]

Dear god, How is this possible? how!??!?! WILL SOMEBODY ANSWER ME!??!?!

[carlhopkinson]

1) Optimal hand adjustments to put fingers in their optimal position.

2) Use gravity and arm power transmitted thru fingers...fingers do minimal work to make arch and get key accelerating...doesn't waste any energy "keybedding".

3) Lots of practice.

4) Talent

In that order of importance approximately.

[assindiastignani]

Pure Letchitzky what you write - also the basis of the teaching of Tobias Matthay, Rosina Lhevine, and Cecile Gennhardt. With this clip of Mr. Friere we have the perfect illustration.

[newton2060]

He is 6 years old.

[LadyNRedShoes]

I love him anyway.. no matter what he chooses to play , though i prefer Chopin and Rach for him.

[lovesGenet]

Sounds nothing like hofmann.Not quite .We have hofmann in Mosk Caprice espagnole ,guitarre fingerwork extraordinary but much more charm.Freire has that too just not here . he is not trying to be too elegant but its better than study .Horowitz uses schmaltzy charm here.i wonder y Freire plays it like this .New objectivist sch of 60's dunno. Noone will ever have Hof control ,genius.If only there was more lhevinne,Rosenthal .Hmaelin Hough,Libetta (a beauty to boot) do the charm bit.

[kurvasignup]

looks so effortless...

[filthysoap]

intellectual, virtuosic, musical, and everything else

[amishan92]

Very good performance!

[scottbos68]

that kicked ass

[AMusicAddict]

I think it's "Moszkowski" ;-)

[7milord7]

cazzone

[igor327]

Perfect

Such note, such sound.

Bravo Freire!

[stareway]

go to the mall and be like everyone else then

[Nilfnar]

I'm 15, my piano teacher just assigned me this piece... help me...

[08ndl]

be nelson

[lorycortese]

Fantastic!!! Virtuoso Freire, realy amazing!

[DuranXL]

I found the sheet:d im gonna try

[reddoghud]

He played that exactly as it was meant to be played. Not even Horowitz could play it as clearly.

Bravo!

[carlhopkinson]

god-like control of this furiously difficult tempo

[sll10]

Fabulous! Nelson Freire is one of the greatest pianists alive! Thanks for posting this! Please post any more that you have!

[DuranXL]

i must have the sheet music for this thing:S:(

[kayserben]

where did you get this video from, does he have a dvd out or something?

[wborgstro]

3 days huh?

[kayserben]

it seems like he manages to play each note so crisply as if every note in the scale is played staccato, such control.

[bsarnold1]

amazing he is the smoothest player I've ever seen

[lhiasczkter]

i'm better :-)

[RIV2]

He is the best pianist in your time. But he doesn't like to make records, this it's no god.

[okikoreagurl]

He played it wonderfully and perfectly but I'm not ALL that amazed since it took me 3 days to learn this song. Its really easy, as long as you know how to pay your chromatic scales. I'm just amazed at the guy who wrote these etudes Moskowski is wonderful.

[allinvideo]

By the video he probably recorded this when he was around 16 years old (today he's white hair and beard).

He is very virtuous, I've seen him alive many times, but his strong virtuosity is the feeling put at the performance. Simply the best of our time.

[bur1gur1]

:O :O:O:O OMGWTFPWN

[felipegama]

Perfect !

[lovesGenet]

This man a nArgerich friend has  always had the most amazing facility and technique.That chromatic scale is as perfect even as horowitz.I ve always wanted to see him play.He is one of the top .Horowitz is more charming in this etude but they are from different periods and schools.This guy does have charm in his godowsky "stanchen".

[TodaySurreal]

omgosh....unbelievable....

[chad410]

good playing but not Cortot

[Robufnoru]

Es una maravilla de digitación.

[Bulacanos]

T'is swell performance

[bariguru]

He glides through those keys like wind!

[emtube]

Nelson Freire is one of the most amazingly facile virtuosi of the present age. For some unknown reason, his career in the U.S. did not really take off to the extent his great talent deserved. He has often performed insanely difficult duet literature with Martha Argerich, and his rather cool nature seems to work very well with Argerich's almost uncontrolled passionate nature.  So wonderful to see him in this video!

[gncoelho]

Hey, this is Nelson Freire, amazing Brazilian pianist! Now the people is specialist in hands, oh my god...This pianist should be much more known.

[tompilk]

lol.. it even shows his face.. thats nothing like Cziffra...

[WumpaCrash]

The pianist is definitely Cziffra. I can recognize those hands anywhere.

[WumpaCrash]

...never mind.

[Gorytinklebird]

You know what that piece lacked?

Key shooting!

Am I right?

[linderbrock]

awesome