someone plays Liszt-Horowitz Hungarian Rhapsody no.2

[aap629]

mm dont like the sounds of the piano ><

[leemute]

Too much sustain.

[jesusfreak972]

hehehe i think tom and jerry played it better lol

[brasileiropower]

I'm 13, and musician since 9. For me this is one of the most difficult musics ever made for piano.

[nelsonslein]

@at arvin,

you mean practice this song for 4 years or play for 4 years...

[GusELP]

Es Rapsodia húngara Nº 2 ? A mí me parece que Rapsodia húngara N º 2 es la que escribió Liszt. Tienen el virtuosismo y la partitura y tocan ésto???? LPM

[LynElric]

WOW

[JNard112]

lol someone XD haha

[SkuLL17935]

@JNard112 someone because this guy is just amateur, and played this piece in his school :)

[zotymund]

I like handsome guys playing the piano :)

[girz94]

I kid you not Vladamir horowits is my great great uncle i am his nice Golda horowitz :)

[g00gleh00]

@girz94 and i'm God's one and only other son

i am his other son, Heysus Christ

[girz94]

@g00gleh00 no need to be sarcastic man...its just plain rude... he really is my great great uncle...

[WindowsFatalError]

is it dificult?

[nicoejz]

It depends of what you think difficult is but in my opinion this is a quite hard piano piece.

[f1f1s]

It's pretty hard, especially to bear in mind all the 3 voices in the middle. A challenge for one's coordination technique.

[arvinroda]

The song is not that hard but you must atleast have playd for 4 years.

[toughlilsoldieress]

really now? i have been playing for about seven years now, and i am dying to find sheet music for this piece. any suggestions?

[talageorge]

google it man ...hungarian rhapsody no 2 sheet or something like that

[sclyfes1212]

@WindowsFatalError um...yea

[mahimehami]

WOW.  This is a beast to play and he didn't even break a sweat. Bravo!

[tenshikey]

i love thank you very much ! it is fantastique and if beautiful !

[elementalpuck]

I love the way he moves his lips when concentrating. Very cute.

[lemonredKRIZ]

oh! i remember this song in tom and jerry!

:D

[Jgijon59]

muy bien ^^ pero haber si se descubre quien es XD

[sam1i2am3]

he held down the pedal so it was hard to hear the song, it was loud, but really good

[gringo1414]

haha "someone"

[tokkul000]

that's Mr. Someone to you! *nods*

[whannes]

haha, yeah... SOMEONE.... how nice

[RupertCheek]

love it - variation in tempo, dynamics, humour!...agree about the pedal a bit tho

[DarkRaimundo]

Marc André Hamelin plays this version a lot better than any of these people.

[vladimirhorowitz]

Hamelin doesn't play Horowitz's transcription.

[LightningDemon]

this guy needs to take his fucking foot of that damn pedal!

[Horla008]

super j'adors

[kasyapa]

bravo, whoever you are.

[WoundedKite]

I never knew Kyle MacLachlan had talents beyond the chicken dance :D

[STI45]

Liberace is the Best

[omfgwaffles244]

lang lang in my opion killed this peice. i like maksims playing better than any other ive heard so far. if the sound quality on the recording was better it would be much much better than lang lang's.

[Purenicotine]

Lang Lang evolved this piece.

[blahblah3299]

are you kidding me, lang lang in my opinion is better-this guys just plays it too heavily and uses to much pedal

[hellenic300]

Lang Lang show boats thats all he does in this peice

[schlaget]

Masterful - way better than Lang Lang

[subwaysleuth]

I wish the recording equipment was of a better quality. The tone sounds brittle, and it is not the pianist's fault.

[leszarom69]

much more better than in lang lang's performance. but for me the best is how györgy cziffra plays it.

[jubecuwe]

very good performence... but he abuse with the utilisation of the pedal :/

It is not the best version I have heard, but I give it 4 stars ;)

[Lkashat]

Amazing.

[Catsarewonderful]

Far better than Lang Lang in this piece.

[chopzart]

u cant say whos "better" and whos "worse". theres no such thing in music.

[Catsarewonderful]

chopzart: Yes, I entirely agree with you in principle. We need to value the diversity of different performances and NOT try to work out which one is best. Different approaches are often equally valid. The international competitions are doing a lot of damage, promoting rivalry between musicians with damaging artistic results.

I only made the comment because Lang Lang's messy performance of this piece (on another YouTube video) is so obviously technically incompetent.

[Nyiregyhazi]

The reason competitions ae bad is because they promote mediocrity and force it upon us. Judging good again. good against bad is more important now than ever before. Competitions won't don't that for us, so it's down to listeners to judge for themselves instead of accepting things that are merely 'okay'. That guy is talking out of his arse.

[Nyiregyhazi]

Sure. So the average music college student is not worse than Horowitz? A grade 1 student is also on the same level?

Of course not. Your assertion is wildly illogical. Clearly you have to draw a line somewhere, before you can regard things as merely different. Who do you think you are, to determine that line for everyone?

[Catsarewonderful]

Nyiregyhazi: yes, sorry, my comments were not carefully worded, so they may have given a wrong impression.

Who has good artistic judgement these days though? The stupid magazine/newspaper critics are a major problem. In the contemporary music field I have known piano performances of total incompetence being praised enthusiastically by London critics.

I genuinely share your concerns, but I'm not in a position to agree with them in public, except behind an anonymous username.

[Nyiregyhazi]

Absolutely. The problem these days is where general criticism is found. The mostly likely performamnces to face criticism are interesting ones. It's no wonder we don't hear many of them. Most criticism is based on mindless literalism and is not productive at all. However, criticism based on musical issues of phrasing and sound is essential. There's not enough of this type of criticism around these days, hence all the mediocre players who get given good reviews.

[Catsarewonderful]

I agree with you about "mindless literalism". Sure, we want to follow the score's markings, but there are ambiguities in the notation which the composers WANTED us to "interpret" in a creative way. Ironically it's the academics who understand these issues best.

Musical personality isn't valued because the marketing men want standardised, glossy, slick pianism. The international competitions just want to manufacture "stars" to promote. Behind the scenes, the Leeds Competition is a farce.

[Nyiregyhazi]

Couldn't agree more (although I'm not sure about the academics, to be honest). If people were more critical about dull, uniform sound production and unimaginative phrasing, I should think that we would have a lot more players worth hearing, instead of a whole bunch of acceptable players who are not self-critical enough to produce anything special. The only problem with criticism is that it almost always aimed in the wrong place today.

[jorge1234]

good discussion, i feel i've learned something

[scytheceps]

I totaly agree.

[Szgerle]

@chopzart

actually, you can

[mrkazartash]

@chopzart

Actually you can!!!!

[123Trivium]

I don't love it. He's playing a little to heavy for my taste.

[Pianoloverok]

Excellent!!!

[Bcather]

BRAVO~

[MagicDonDino]

Non conosco il pianista ma ha suonato questo pezzo,già difficile originalmente rivisitato niente meno che da Horowitz, splendidamente.COMPLIMENTI!

[sany7]

needs alot of work to get it done finely

[ElizabethaSchneider]

It's very fantastic, wonderful ! He plays very well !^^

[chazzaderspazza]

yeah i agree with

nico22059, horowitz butchered it

[flubby44]

very interesting....

[latincharro]

Of course I'm NOT saying that the original is bad...no way...I'm just saying that i like this aproach....respect Liszt!

[latincharro]

I like this version best, much more than the original verion, because it insist on some notes which I like.....I heard this version on a Tom&Jerry cartoon ( I know it's funny), and when I listen to the original song, I was dissaponited, but now I'm happy that I found one I like

[mike81188]

I like the original version better than Horowitz's, however, this ending sounds much fuller and more colorful than the original.

[zm177]

I asked my piano teacher to play this and he played it very well, but nothing compared to this performance.

[thejazztenor]

to me, thats really well played

[nico22059]

Horowitz destroyed this piece. I prefer the original

[jma2w]

unless you've heard the somewhat difficult to find recording of horowitz actually playing this, you'd think that. his 1953 live recording is possibly one of the most impressive recordings ever made.

[muhanadpvt]

this man is greeeeeeeeeeeet

[pianomanandrew]

I love steinways

[LittleBastard20]

I love Bechstein.. more power in low sound. More romantic piano.

[pobz100]

Excellent, this guy is a super technician. Quite a humble performance too. I wish some folk would go to lengths to record the sound better for these videos.

Horowitz's version is more fluid and with far more personality and wothout one single mistake either.

[luccas88988]

I agree. For sure.

[luccas88988]

I don´t understand you all. You say this version is bad, but I don´t think so. I allways had the idea that the second rapsody should be slower, like this.

[oreillyfan360]

Hear Hear!... I mean, he puts lang lang's quick butchery to shame. Bravo.

[unpeumoinsvite]

very well played from this unknown pianist, i believe mr. im so good in entertaining people lang lang should take a leaf out if its book !!

[gugmac]

holly shit

[mike81188]

Horowitz's version is more complicated than the original, but not necessarily better, just different. I actually prefer Liszt's version. This version is a little too fancy that it diminishes the main melody.

[Krazypaul]

Also, this variation is much more complex and difficult to play correctly. For the friska section, there are several voices that occur simultaneously while the melody progresses. Horowitz did not make much change to the lento(1st half) of the piece.

[Krazypaul]

It's not "suppose" to. It's up to the pianist whether or not they want to include a cadenza. Read near the end of the sheet music: ad lib cadenza.

[chiaruzz90]

the original's is better...this pianist is excellent

[asianbumz]

mmmm

[dacc1974]

This guy is very very good. Congratulations. But this Horowitz's version is a shit. Horrible.Atrocious.

[SkuLL17935]

french touch

[josemtabares]

Although it's true that for someone who knows how the original version, this version might sound strange. Keep in mind however, that this version is WAY harder and more complex than the original (in my opinion). If this guy WANTED to, I am SURE he could perform a kick ass version of the original which would be simpler for him to play. Just enjoy it as a variation and nothing more. Kudos to you and I hope one day I get to play at that level!!!

[Lkashat]

My favourite piano piece. Very, very well done!

[neox324]

started well... but then failed close to the end...

i guess the original version was a lil bit different!

wish him good luck!

[LongDriveChamp03]

is it me or every time when i hear i this song it tends to change slightly

[dbajram93]

they not appreciating Liszt and they always changing this song making cadenzas

[ivrykeys]

Well the end of the piece does say "ad lib cadenza"

[ffezz]

n00b. this piece is supposed to have a cadenza

[TheCrazyHairPianist]

Cadenza?

[GTB599Fiorano]

It's a serving table with a cupboard below the surface. It originated in the 15th century.

[Krazypaul]

There are horowitz variations, including this one, that were reproduced by ear There are a few pianist who reproduced this piece by ear, which might account for the slight variations you may hear. I think Volodos did this, to name an example, but im not entirely sure.

[pobz100]

Its not a song...

[Likeafoxow]

this performance nearly put me to sleep. weird. the piece is hard, and the pianist is VERY talented, but i think the piece was too difficult for the pianist to perform at an extremely masterful and effective level. i think it was too slow maybe? now that i think about it, lang lang's performance really entertained me (because it was excitingly fast and he was exciting to watch) as opposed to put me to sleep like this one nearly did. sorry.

[SkuLL17935]

This is my brother! this is my brother ! :D

[smokecommon]

faster is not better

[zenzero42]

very nice! i agree that the pianist should be given due credit. Horowitz's transcription is fiendishly difficult - and yes, i've heard faster versions, but few more enjoyable. bravo!

[LegendarySkoolBoy]

Absoloutly a masterpeice without a doubt, with outstanding skills. I think he deserves some apreciation rather than that harsh 'someone' naming.

[mikey1304]

I enjoyed this immenseley, thank you. It is a pity the pianist isn't credited for his fine performance.

[ginkidasnuesschen]

very well interpretet, i sometimes could her horowitz electricity out what wasn'T possible with lang langs version. piano=music and not speed

congratulations

[burobbi]

well done. not as exciting as the lang lang one but most of the things are here. kudos. anyone who can play this transcription to this standard has already distinguished himself.

[musicismylife12345]

BRAVO!!! Absolutly astounding. Was that a bad note in the very last chord? It sounded lyk it. oh well, brilliant effort anyway!!!! Well Done!