Alexei Grynyuk - liszt HR6 Octave Unleash

[allenamenwaren]

his wife is lucky ;-)

[AldenHardaway]

Anyone else get a bat-out-of-hell impression at 0:47? Beast!

[AldenHardaway]

Liszt would approve =D



[Kinjutsuu]

13 people... oh wait these jokes aren't funny

[goknur1977]

I stayed with Alexei at the William Goodenough Trust in London when I was studying at the Royal College and I would try not to appear in the same recitals with him, because this guy always stole the bloody show, ha ha ha ha!!!!

[mccornflake1]

Meth is a hell of a drug.

[willemvdr12]

He must have been dieing during this thing, his lower arm muscles and his pink and thumb muscles must have hurten very much!

Amaging techniques! very accurate, and it´s even gentle, even though it´s very fast!

Don´t know if I´m using the correct english words... But the main thing is: I think it's amazing!

[giuseppe76761]

MINCHIa chi era stu litz un pazzo scatenato il dio indiscusso del piano di tutti i tempi e peso che tutti siamo d accordo litz n 1

[tomekkobialka]

that guy must've taken at least 100mg of paracetamol before this performance...

[TheSoulOfGenius]

FREAK.

[JeremysBugles]

If I were a piano player and saw this, I'd quit. There's nothing more to master. This guy's done it. Liszt was a genius.

[lavamaster530]

Wtf is that even possible? I mean look at his right hand o.o

[NapkinQueen]

holy shit

[kasyapa]

with a technique like that. even ... my bad

[kasyapa]

with a technique, where's the CD showing this kind of velocity?

[jeffjeff2955]

... play piano for 4 yrs, then not too hard rlly, begging is way H#@* lot harder, especially part two, that short part that was right before the slow, sad one. second part is ALL sharps, everything raised half step. im like why not just none raised half step?

[zaf511]

Three words...OH MY GOD. Just incredible incredible incredible. That goes beyond practice.

[Harkadenn]

Ok... he must be either an Alien or an Android or... both.

[anonymousQ45]

left hand 0:50

[AquaDonkey]

Blast Beat with hands hahaha

[Botchlae]

he should unleash the cheat codes too.

[Jackarooned]

I think I speak for everyone when I say, holy shit.

[qvrga]

menu -

modo vibrador: activado

[tomekkobialka]

0:58 - this guy has BIG peripheral vision!

[jonfortean6]

@tomekkobialka and kinesthetic perception

[AveCezar]

@tomekkobialka I think he's a kind of woman. HEEh

[kwongin]

wow was that video sped up?

[4785689]

@kwongin no aha

[Thegodthatfaild]

@kwongin

yes



[OriginalBasaliskos]

@Thegodthatfaild This video has not been sped up. If you will listen, the pitch has not been altered. People are actually capable of playing this fast.

[ykpatr]

Pozytywne Fajne 1:0 Perfect Music Bardzo Najmocniej Kocham Muzykę

[5f00tnothing]

Damn, Gina!

[DAVIDFREDERICKROY]

that will take a few years off my life..........

[177018101811]

Fast octaves, but not clean. Truly almost catastrophic at the end. The best version of this piece is from Shikun LIU, chinese pianist who won the second prize of the first Tchaikovski Competition, and the third prize of the Budapest Liszt Competition, where he won also the prize of the best interpretation of a hungarian rhapsody and a unusual prize: a lock of Liszt's hair.

I think it does not only work to succeed octaves. It is fundamental to find the correct hand position to relax.

[OrangeSodaKing]

@177018101811 Well, yeah... But this is taken with a video camera. You can tell that even when he's not using the damper pedal, the sound of the hall is fairly wet (as in, sound reverbs a lot), and the not-so-good microphone on the camera makes it worse. And yes, it's an unedited live performance, so there are mistakes.

And I even agree that the ending wasn't that great! But the octave technique here is undeniably phenomenal. I will look into Shikun LIU; thanks for suggesting!

[CDOG111]

@177018101811 The ending is fantastic- what are you talking about

[hotbebimauz]

OH MY GOD man you are a GENIOUS!!!!!! AMAZING wrist work the best octaves ive ever seen!!!!!!!!! amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[joosh1125]

hhmmm..... tight arm........(?)

[xxh3llfir3xx]

surprisingly, this section is one of the more easier parts to the song :D

[verystacy]

Anna Maria Mottola has faster octaves-I wish I had a video. The audience actually gasped.

[MishaTandler]

Why not take up the challenge of playing Chopin Op.10 No.12 with left hand in octaves? Nobody has done it real justice since Dreyschock. I think it wouldn't take you very long. You know the story.

[basshumpinyoface6]

my piano teacher once said he used to play liszt all the time but had to stop because he started getting carpal tunnel now i can see why

[morvensky]

This should be on ESPN

[Aul1kki]

His wrist will break someday.

[kederd]

If I could move my hand that fast I'd never leave the house.

[OrangeSodaKing]

Dang! He's got machine guns for wrists.

[addeex1]

These are my tests at the final (presto) octaves part:

Horowitz = 136 bmp

Argerich = 130 bmp

Cziffra = 128 bmp

Grynyuk = 142 bmp

Btw this is not the exact values, but you can see how is looks. And I´m not claiming that someone is better then the other, just checking for fun!!!! ^^

[ClassicMusicOnly]

Haha , can you change that into miles per hour? It would be intresting to see :D

[addeex1]

Miles?! xDDD

[ClassicMusicOnly]

Haha yup. I'll take a easy guess ,

Alexei Grynyuk = 200mph

How can you test it out to see how fast you play octaves I want to find out myself lol.

[arturon111]

you got it wrong, argerich plays fthe octaves faster than horowitz, plus they are cleaner, smoother and with better sound than horowitz

[addeex1]

Huh? Don't go and cry here, go and do it youreself instead....

And it depends on what performances too, not all are the same.

[ClassicMusicOnly]

Okay , be that way :p. I will convert it!

[ClassicMusicOnly]

Its not incorrect. Argerich octaves are not faster than Horowitz octaves. Argerichs don't even sound close to the speed of Horowitz's octaves. You got it all wrong my friend :)

[rigel48]

@ClassicMusicOnly

Try the prestissimo of Liszt's sonata or Funérailles, and you will see that Argerich's octaves are as fast (if not faster) than Horowitz's.

[ClassicMusicOnly]

You don't need to tell me to try to listen to her play Liszt's sonta or the Funerailles piece. I heard them. I have one of her albums., But we are talking specificly about this piece.. which is about 2 minutes of octaves which is alittle hard. Of course it should not be for a pianist , but her ending octaves are much slower than Horowitz's.

[rigel48]

@ClassicMusicOnly

Well, to sat that her ending octaves are MUCH slower than Horowitz's is somewhat exaggerated !

It would be more fair to say that Cziffra is slightly slower than Argerich, who is slightly slower than Horowitz, who himself is slightly slower than Grynyuk.

At least in this piece !

[ClassicMusicOnly]

Well.. finally we agree on something , because I agree on what you said this time :)

[rigel48]

@ClassicMusicOnly

In fact Horowitz takes is time before the presto to make a great speed contrast for the ending octaves. Maybe Cziffra and Argerich are already too fast to accelerate significantly when the presto arrives (or maybe they are not at their maximum speed as it seems for Horowitz and Grynyuk).

[ClassicMusicOnly]

What surpirses me , is that Cziffra's octaves are pretty slow for the Hungarian rhapsody 6. I mean , they are not horribly slow , but I would expect cziffra to be alittle faster than he is.. maybe somewhat alittle faster than Argerich.

[gkjoukov]

jesus fuckin christ. its the most amazing thing lol

[Twotonsandwich]

Sweet mother of pearl.....

[Eonizm]

Which piano did he use

anybody knows?

[ClassicMusicOnly]

Yamaha. He is preforming on a Yamaha.

[nmbanana]

yamaha CFIIIS

[coaster1000]

My right arm hurts from watching this.

[Airliners101]

I noticed that at the end he seems to go EVEN faster!

[Zebeldarebel]

Can you say carpel-tunnel?

[Malaka57]

Parkinsons...

[nanotechxe]

@Malaka57 hahahahahahaha

[Malaka57]

@nanotechxe ;-))

[jiririji]

@Malaka57 envidia

[Malaka57]

@jiririji no, tengo humorismo, joder

[jiririji]

@Malaka57 mal entendido je

[horses1]

One has to admire human anatomy ...

[Classicmozayful]

its great to hear and watch. but i just get the feeling its quite superficial. horowitz never touched that speed, yet we all know he could. and his version is ARTISTIC.

this becomes a blur in parts due to unartistic and overuse of the pedal. just my thoughts...

[ClassicMusicOnly]

I am not sure and I am in no position but I disagree with you that Horowitz could touch this speed. His ending octaves are still slower than these. Any how , I can touch his speed , but with great hardship. But I agree with you at the over pedaling. Especially at the end I think he kind of "forgot himself" as we might call , maybe because of the mistake. Many pianist do that , and I do as well.

The over pedaling does not make him a bad pianist he is very succesful and well known (in some ways)

[Classicmozayful]

ah but come on now, ive heard horowitz play octaves as quick as these on many occasions (mostly pirate copies)

and im fairly certain that those horowit's octaves in hexameron are far more beastly and difficult than what alexei did here.

i hate when people post comments like the one i just did, and i assure you that this is the first one i have posted; but something just bugs me about his playing

[ClassicMusicOnly]

I still keep up my opinion that Horowitz could NOT touch his speed. Besides in his interpretation the last octaves would not fit if they were so fast.

I still disagree that Horowitz could touch the speed because if he could he would do it.

[serox901]

for what it's worth the horowitz hexameron recording is fake, it's just lewenthal's recording sped up

the beauty of horowitz's octaves was their clarity and power. even if he couldn't play this fast, he rarely had a sloppy touch to octaves...at least, in his technical heyday. listen to his barbirolli rach 3 or early tchaikovsky recordings

[Booger308]

Fun to watch, but really ruins the music.

[Zebeldarebel]

I was going to say that his left hand had it easy, and then it started doing it, then both of them did!!!=O

[ChibiLove7]

his hands look like its having a seizure

[M1RoN41K]

Извиняюсь за выражение...НИ ХРЕНА СЕБЕ!!!!! ОКТАВЫ ПРОСТО СУМАСШЕДШИЕ!!!!!

[mozart1986mozart]

i was present exactly ta that perfomance ( but i was behind the door unfortunately )

but i heard all and it translate on other floors with acoustic systems

[Kapomafioso]

Amazing left-hand technique, but performance is bit without emotion...

[Kapomafioso]

I can't find this composition, which is the opus and the number? please....

[Kapomafioso]

How dumb I am...it's written there, it's not Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince, but Hungarian Rhapsody no. 6...Like I say, how dumb I am...sorry for previous post!

[rigel48]

Very very fast octaves. But what a lack of colour and subtlety !

[MoonMankkkkkk]

Faggot. It's a rhapsody. The "color", (not colour, eurofag), is in the speed, and it's much better played fast anyway.

[lscully3]

Eurofag your face. You stupid, lazy americans can't be bothered putting in one extra letter even though it was originally spelled like that.

[anonymousQ45]

eurofag lol

[GodHandPresents]

does anyone know how to get your hands to move through octaves that quickly?

[MathijsGiltjes1993]

Practice, practice, practice...

[kastlesucksTDOTS]

practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice & practice is required to play like this

[Aul1kki]

@kastlesucksTDOTS Except without proper technique you can practise forever and still not ever be able to achieve this.

[DJDrSciFi]

@kastlesucksTDOTS

practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice, practice practice & practice is required to play like this

......plus Magic

[pupulique]

@kastlesucksTDOTS you have to be born with such hands though. you can't learn to play octaves like that. even if you practice all day long.

[SkyHawk0117]

@kastlesucksTDOTS don't forget practice.

[Gebissimo]

@kastlesucksTDOTS just think you forgot one

[0530pianist]

@kastlesucksTDOTS

More than that.The pianists practice x10000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000 to make their own LEPATORY !!

[Manx123]

His left octave technique is... impressive...

[Liebromeistal]

Faster and crisper than Argerich's. I love it!

[anonymousQ45]

i bet liszt was just having fun or improvising when he started this. very fun! it makes me laugh. i think of cartoons tom and jerry, tom getting humiliated by jerry when i hear this section.

[ClassicMusicOnly]

No , he could not have been improvising because all the Hungrian Rhapsodies are based on the Gypsy scale so its more likly that he was not just having fun!

You might think of Tom nd Jerry on this on because its very fast and like Jerry running away from Tom from the start to 0:48 and then they switch around , and the from 1;06 to the end Tom gets kicked out of the house for destroying it , by that big lady ;)))

[anonymousQ45]

never gets old

[callanmchugh]

bahahahah!!! superb it should be said

[anonymousQ45]

looks like hamelin from this angle

[grampasso1989]

Perfect,

This is a piece where you can show all your technical quality.

[Kalen1457]

I think about 90% of all Liszt pieces you can show your technical quality:)

[chrestien83]

Piano: "Can I get a cig.."

[desertdawg41]

LOL

You get the gold star for the cleverest comment.

[BOSOX9004]

Wow...big "ups" to you.

[cisdolce]

Liszt would had been aroused himself.

[natolinas]

alzheimer

[BOSOX9004]

wait...when did robots and humans start inter-breeding?

Isnt that illegal?

[KaguyaRyuuji]

robosexuals

[anonymousQ45]

lol:j

[nmbanana]

you should try to listen to george cziffra play this. it sounds amazing

[nurlond]

I have a cziffra recording of this piece. Yes, it's pretty amazing!

[CAOHUAJUN]

feuchanghao

[javacisnotrecognized]

Doesn't it resemble a hummingbird ??

[addeex1]

Extremely funny

[relaxanimal]

this is circus show

[charlesbaker50]

Liszt himself would have been proud of this stunning speed!

[AngelicaTross]

"Do I care how fast you can play your octaves?" Liszt once thundered at a pupil in the middle of the celebrated octave passage of the Chopin A-flat-major Polonaise. "What I wish to hear is the canter of the horses of the Polish cavalry before they gather force and destroy the enemy." These are of course the words of the old Liszt. Let us not forget the virtuoso Liszt who would play Chopin's Etude Op 25 No 2 in octaves in order to please the audience.

[ravengoth1]

Wasn't Liszt's performance of the Chopin etude also to prove that he could best Dreyschock at octaves when the latter played Chopin's opus 10, no. 12 in octaves for the left hand?

[ZioStronzo]

I mean, this is absolutely phenomenal.

But... It seems a bit out of control... Sometimes the tempo changes, sometimes notes are note hit clearly... I mean, the performance is excellent, very exciting! But it lacks a bit of... I would say... "Class"... Exactly what is in Cziffra's recording, by the way :D

However, supergiga congratulations to Alexei who mastered this hellish piece!

[sokenbitya]

very fast.

[Anders039]

That is just sick! Hands jumping in entirely different directions.

[gracha123]

he's not bad on the old piano eh? :p

[dezxdestruction]

lmao ownage

[vrljikkerssfesst]

he uses his 4th finger when hitting the black keys.... but listen to cziffra's rendition of HR6.... it's more ingenious....

[konzolmester]

So many pianist,but rare talent.Alexei has tallent.

[ownage1810]

liszt's pieces always had a way of making pianist's hands look like spiders on crack.

[dezxdestruction]

so true man

[ibonykeys]

IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

(what hungarian rhapsody is this?)

[ibonykeys]

oh wait, i just read the title lol

[Point1991]

WHAT THE FUCK

[z666z666z]

SO ?????

666

[sshuck]

My face was like this for a minute and a half:

:D

[davidbaker03]

what fingering does he use of the right hand octaves, its hard to tell, i can't tell if he is just switching between 5, and 4, or if he thrown in some 3's. i am learning this song and i find it easier to use 3 as well

[paolohudson]

it's very impractical to switch fingers when going that fast. I'm pretty sure he just uses 5 the entire time, except for on the black keys, in which case he uses 4. It's kind of a comfortable position to have all the fingers (2,3,4) near 5 while playing fast octaves.

[biegel88]

How nice to have the octaves so cleanly and effortlessly.

[musicsdarkangel]

lol

[Chrisioco]

i love all of liszt music it ace

[konzolmester]

Me to Bro.

[solveaproblem]

Ok, someone tell me how the hell one does octaves like that. PLEASE! I have small hands, probably doesn't help.

[Malaka57]

Find the nerve that makes your hand shake, poke in an electrode and get some voltage. Move arm up and down the keyboard ....

Just joking. My piano teacher always said: Practice. Grynyuk is of course exceptionally fast (this is a concert recording, so the inacuracies are forgivable... ), maybe don't use this as a yardstick? The finale can be played with spunk without the speed in private.

[Haeronthegreat]

This man's only claim to fame is his octaves, it seems. Who cares how fast he can play octaves? He seems to lack true musicality to me.

[DaRandomCommeAlt]

fuck off

[simonjp90]

who gives a shit, look at his octaves

[Suhatomi]

...the true is true. This is really fast !

[DaRandomCommeAlt]

tru

[volodya2]

bravo!

[itsagasman]

Can you play Great Balls of Fire? That'll get you an audience.

[RuroJiruries]

I friggin' lol'ed XD Why -6 comment rating, really!? Rofl

[coaster1000]

Wow

[werqf]

シフラの演奏よりも、こちらのほうがはるかにすばらしい。これだ­けのスピードで弾けるヒトはほかにいないだろう。

[legamature]

how true.

[timuth]

J'aime mieux l'interpretation de Cziffra,ses interpretations sont plus particulières et il y met l'émotion et l'intensité, et celui ci, la vitesse c'est bien mais je ne vois rien de particulié a part un simple pianiste aveuglé par sa virtuosité

[yogaman13]

Je suis d'accord.

[seahyimin]

sounds so good!!!!!!!!!!!!

[miloromeo]

Wow!

[ifoundyouhaha]

look at them fingers go!

i bet he works wonders.

[peanutman182]

I bet his popular with the ladies ;)

[Corleone1337]

WTF!