Tzvi Erez plays Chopin's Fantasie_Impromptu, Opus 66

[rulezz264]

These changes to the piece at 4:13 and 4:23, who has made those?

[GnuSkool]

How do you pronounce this artist's name?

[10WiseVirgins]

Most intellectual musician I have ever seen with so much freedom and power to present the music - it takes us as it is a lightening !

Thank you.

Where do you teach?

Please upload your master classes .

[Melita2139]

Amazing!!..I want to play piano like that too.. :D

[andeanphoto]

It is indeed a pleasure listening to you playing this beautiful piece Mr. Erez. Thank you for sharing.

[solopianist1324]

we really don t care about the shit that fontana wrote.....

[mObbMD]

What I don´t get is the fact that if Chopin thought it was incomplete why did Fontana cut out so much of it?

However, I like listening to your work. Thank you again...

[lllllllllllllll88]

I'm having such trouble only with three notes; weird. And sometimes my fingers miss the treb keys when I have to look down at the base. Oh! So frustrating. I love the piece; hate trying to play it. This rendition is absolutely perfect. How do u do it? Oh, forgot; genius.

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The most amazing pianist on YouTube.

[brendeninchauspe]

ive always wanted to be able to play one of these songs at like a party and be all chill. You tell people "yah ive been foolen arround with some notes for a while"

[egoistaX]

please upload more Tzvi Erez

your interpretation are fantastic

[bubuchahchah]

Splendid performance!

[Aggilli]

How wonderful ... 

[mercantilist0]

Did Bossendorfers of that era like most of the modern ones have extra keys?

[epeeista07]

wow...

[bsd300d]

Just think of how many great pieces were thrown in Chopin's fireplace. Maybe I will hear them in Heaven.

[pianoamigo]

WoW.perfect

[manuel1973lito]

toca bien



[eDionysus]

Fantastic Interpretation of Fantasie Impromptu, love the sound

[ifortruth83]

ביצוע מדהים!!

בראבו!

[nttt7898]

OMG look at his FINGERSS!!!

[wwanims]

Fantastic!!!!! Bravo!!!

[superman5212]

Valentina Igoshina is the best. But Tzvi Erez you are great too !

[jakeboyman1000]

Tzvi Erez,.

In the left hand of the 13th bar of Fantasie-Impromptu are the notes on your manuscrpit A-C#-F#-A-C#-F# or A-C#-F#-A-F#-C#?

[kaiserfender]

i Heard this song in Tom & Jerry... in a winter scene... it brings me back some memories... thx...

[HorusHeresy50]

This piano has a rich sound, and this piece is a masterpiece, i heard it in my music school and i stopped breathing for a moment... Nice interpretation sir !

[T3hL337Sesshy]

Bravo! Fantastic playing, beautiful piano, and the tidbits of trivia are a nice touch. I didn't realize that his friend actually modified the manuscript, though; I was under the impression that the version most people have heard was an "early draft", and that the version you and Rubinstein play(ed) are the latest draft.

[yonatan5550]

Amazing!!

[akt400]

that was amazing!

[matanshtrahman]

כל הכבוד! הנה, עוד מוח יהודי/ישראלי מוכשר שמוכיח את עצמו. בתור פסנתרן, אני חושב שהנגן ממש טוב

[Deism4life]

JEW PRIDE!!

ma nishma?

ata menagen psanter meod yafe!

ani ben 16 ve ani kvar menagen et ha yetzira ha zot.

[Deism4life]

JEW PRIDE!!

ma nishma?

ata menagen psanter meod yafe!

ani ben 16 ve ani kvar menagen et ha yetzira ha zot.

[Deism4life]

JEW PRIDE!!

ma nishma?

ata menagen psanter meod yafe!

ani ben 16 ve ani kvar menagen et ha yetzira ha zot.

[ChristopherBoscole]

Thank You! for the information notes about the history of this music :)

[willemvdr12]

I like Tzvi Erez very much, but I don't like the Bösendorfer's bass so much... especially not when I heard the first octaves of this video.

[funfor1life]

Technique sufficiently developed to allow him to make a sensible use of the pedal..Highly commendable.

[lePistolero]

Well my teacher play it very well too and she's only 17...

Ok, well who care's, but it's a kind of tribute. :p

very well played as usual.

[cedric1808]

One of my favourites with the one of Valentina Igoshina. Both are technicaly perfect. So perfect here that Tzvi seams to disapear and let the music live on it's own. But somehow, Valentina's interpretation makes my eyes shine more easily.

[Clockmouth]

best version i've heard on youtube so far.

and i loved the trivia!

[djskeet3]

How come you are not on Wikipedia?

[OriginalBasaliskos]

Definitely better than some other interpretations I've heard and seen on youtube, but I prefer my fantaisie impromptu with a sense of longing in it. Very good though.

[TheRockinpianist]

Wow Sir you are now one of my favourites XD Bravo!! I loved your Chopin minute waltz :D

[cynderfella]

Stunning!

[Solstasis]

Can someone please help me get this version of the impromptu?

[daseladi]

Very nice performance, nice piano; too much staccato.

[pierolivier111]

Way better than Yundi li or kempf version.

[TeeJayMarsh]

@pierolivier111 No way. Yundi Li did this piece much cleaner - and I didn't hear the use of a sustain pedal in Li's performance.

[pierolivier111]

@TeeJayMarsh I agree to say that Yundi Li's version is cleaner but I'm not a fan of this particular interpretation. He sounds like he's in a urge.

[pierolivier111]

@pierolivier111 Although I think that his interpretation of the scherzo #3 is unbeatable.

[bunnyoneedge]

Yours is the best interpretation of Op.66. I've listened through some tens performance, yours are the best I dare to say.

The urtext version you're using is the best. Where can I find it ?

[TzviErez]

It is the G. Henle Verlag (Germany) Edition.

[bunnyoneedge]

Is it available online, mister ?

[J4WS1]

fantastic! u must have spent years and years too be able to play like this

[ljoekelsoey4]

imagine being able to compose something of this quality in your early 20s, and yet still not think it good enough for publication...

[daseladi]

:) Nice comment:)

[valmllr]

Chopin is an amazing composer!!! You are an amazing player.

[bubbaXzone]

and u are an amazing commenter >:D

[Pianda]

You are/play this overwhelmingly phantastic!

So far I honored (only) Li Yundi's version.

But you are a wonderful player that should be named in one line with great names bc. you are a great master!

Superb!

[willemvdr12]

Beautiful played, Really good!

But sometimes I'm starting to think it's a march. And it should not sound like a march. But, I get the story of fantasie impromptu, and the dynamics are very good! Yundi li plays it more smooth and less like a march.

- Willemvdr12

[rosalilly1]

sehr schön gespielt !

[ChopinFan231]

This interpretation is probably the best I've heard! The dynamics are wonderful, and its great that some background info is provided at the same time! The piano is phenomenal - the rich bass gives the impromptu an amazing texture. The expression put into this performance is amazing, perfectly melded with brilliant technical mastery! Brilliant performance!

[bunnyoneedge]

Couldnt agree more. The best I've ever heard. This record beats all the others

[jrummer221]

what happened to real music like this? this is so beautiful

[ChopinFan231]

i agree! what happened to musical brilliance?

[jrummer221]

yes i know! it is really scary and frightening to think that if we don't show the world how great it is, it can become lost from new generations who will only have this joke of music, hip-hop and rap, and pop. this is what real music is. Do you know of any modern day composers that you might share?

[ChopinFan231]

well i admit that these composers do not match the brilliance of Chopin, but they do create simple, yet engaging melodies. The new-age pianists, Yiruma and Joe Hisaishi

[tuanjp09]

I absolutely agree with you!

[Usuck709]

@jrummer221 ludovico einaudi

[dtdwFan420]

@jrummer221 govanni allevi - thinking of the "fiat" advertising ("secret love")

[llennercito]

perfect> very good!!! Muy bien interpretado!!

[Vendetta5246]

NiCe

[Rick69600]

Le son exceptionnel du piano rend les oeuvres encore plus émouvantes, plus proche du compositeur qui aurait presque pu jouer lui-même sur un instrument de cette qualité...

et c'est presque comme suivre Chopin qui marche dans la neige en plaçant nos pieds dans ses traces...

Merci de nous faire revivre les émotions de cet immense génie qui nous lègue dans ses partitions toute la beauté de son talent de compositeur ! Merci à tous les trois, Tzvi Erez, Chopin, et le Piano Bosendorfer !

[Rick69600]

Je découvre ici ce pianiste de grand talent, qui préfère les oeuvres originales aux adaptations , même pertinentes. Tzvi Erez sait rendre la douceur et la mélancolie des oeuvres qu'il joue, sa qualité de jeu montre un artiste virtuose d'exception, et j'apprends beaucoup rien qu'en l'écoutant et en regardant ses mains (ce qu'on ne peut faire avec un CD, merci Youtube !).

[BojangleDangles]

I feel really stupid, the bass DOES sound magnificent, and I didn't notice it until i read the comments below! I'm so disappointed at myself...

Great playing, Tzvi!

[bigd21289]

The bass is so rich and nice sounding

[yaisum]

Listen to that BASS sound around 0.23! So Rich. And great playing.

Is this as hard as it sounds piano players? I have no frame of ref, but it looks damn near impossible to me.

[AvidHobbyist]

Yeah, it's hard. I think most people would agree that the cross- rhythms are the most difficult part. But the note reading, fingering, and tempo (presto at the end) is also exceptionally difficult.

[pinkanimesmiles]

OMG u heard it too?? :) :) :) soo awesome :)

[warren0088]

amazing!!! wonderful play!!!!!!!!!!

[bunnyoneedge]

This IS what I expect to hear.

Why is Fontana's version so popular- played ? Urtext's deserves it better

[pinkanimesmiles]

cause urtext costs a lot more than the other music publishers. plus its not in many stores, you have to buy it online.

[Rubatoforever]

I actually think that this Bosendorfer sound better that may Steinways ...

[bunnyoneedge]

That depends on which pieces are being played, dude.

[AvidHobbyist]

The deep bass notes on his piano sounds really nice.

[dudeee91]

yes the sheet i have it i can send to u

[dudeee91]

bunnyooedge give me you email or something i can send it for you if u want

[bunnyoneedge]

the sheet or the mp3 ? I have the mp3. What about the sheet ? I'm needing the sheet (urtext version, you know)

[hsplst]

Esta es una de las mejores interpretaciones que he escuchado y es mi preferida!!

[hsplst]

Esta es una de las mejores interpretaciones que he escuchado y es mi preferida!!!

[bunnyoneedge]

His performance is the best best best I've ever heard. I personally prefer this one to Yundi Li's or Kissin's

[bunnyoneedge]

Where can I get his performance in mp3 ? (I mean audio version)

[XPJamieXD]

Great performance I love the piano btw :]

[kibalover95]

I love this song!

[DaHuzla]

flawless performance , just superb!

[AYBORA35]

why the hell are you changing the music??

[ngbulldog]

bcuz he feels like it

[mcfernicut]

la cancion mas linda lejos de chopin

[zackstaboy]

I have the Henle edition of the Impromptus which includes both versions of this piece. The implication from the notes in that book, is that the Fontana version was composed in 1834 and is perhaps obtained from a lost Chopin autograph, but the second version is from an autograph Chopin made for some woman a year later (1835). Both are great.

[afiqtube]

beautiful piece by Chopin....and played astonishingly well by Tzvi Erez. bravo!

i also heard that chopin did not want this piece to be published because he thought it sounded similar to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata....which i dont think its similar at all...

[nathan2392]

You heard it right, Chopin didn't like it, so he told his student to burn it. But his student didn't because he knew that it was a beautiful piece, so he or she published it. And till now, everyone loves the piece =]

[XPJamieXD]

I think this is referring to the 3rd movement of the Sonata.

[pianogirl98]

It's just wonderful!

[Pianoloverok]

You are great!!!!!!!!

[ihrtmusic12334]

It is definitely the URTEXT score. I have the same one. It is different from the majority of the scores I have seen because this is the original version. Most scores show the Julian Fontana edit of the music (this was the first edition published). The original was not published until 35 years after Fontana published his version

[pinkanimesmiles]

what are the differences between the URTEXT and Fontana versions? i'm asking because i don't know which version i have T_T

[DonkyKong8765]

urtext is the closest possible version to what chopin originally wrote.

[bunnyoneedge]

Do you have that sheet ? I mean the Urtext version of this impromptu. I'm desperately searching for it. Thank you so much.

[ACE29q]

No, to Chopin is Paderewki

[musiKraZ]

I like the sound of the piano, and the effect that this young sir plays with. But, exactly what score has he used? I doubt it's the URTEXT version. And I hope it's not Schirmer, either.

Why I'm perplexed? Because there are surprisingly different notes in the performance.

If it was the performer's choice to rebel and add his own variations, it is nice, but don't experiement with that so much; one may think that is the correct form of playing, and will get a bronze at his/her next debut.

[TzviErez]

Original G. Henle Verlag URTEX Edition used, ISM N M-2018-0235-0, Germany.

[musiKraZ]

I see. Well then, thank you very much for replying. You are quite talented

[oRuRio]

The reason Chopin did not want to publish this song was because it sounded to much like Bwethevon's Moonlight Sonata. Chopin chose to refrain form publishing it to avoid such criticism. But 6 years after his death by his friend Julian Fontana went to publish the piece as opus 66, even after Chopin asked him to Burn the score after his death. I would say this was not a easy choice for him, but a good thing that he did publish it as this is a very good song.

[tennywantyouyouyou]

his fingers are so fat and cute...good job``sounds beautiful

[cancontrl]

wow, i never knew the information provided in this video. Nor have i ever heard this version; it's wonderful, especially the sound of the classic piano. So, let me get this straight...Chopin thought his version was too simple and unworthy. He dies, and his friend, to make it publishable, dumbs it down? That makes no sense. Unless you're talking about a lame sitcom on tv.

[Picquet]

agreed... although I like the simple version too, and it should be said that the simple version isn't all that simple... its just less insanely complex than this.

Chopin is awesome :p

[psychowolfman]

wow it is so beautiful sounding especially on an Bosendorfer of all pianos

[lonewolf604]

This guy should do Chopin op. 53 next