Rachmaninov-Volodos Italian Polka

[SKAndland]

11 people are jealous on Volodos, beacause they can't manage to play this piece xD

[531337]

WHY WONT IT WORK?

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[georgecziffra]

@531337 Change the settings to 240p, then it should work.

[carldudesons]

BRAVO!!!!! "SHOUTING"

[Wolvenblaze]

Rachmaninoff's music always makes me smile a huge toothy grin.

Volodos' arrangements always make me laugh.

I must look like a madman right now.

[momounok]

すげええええええええええええええええええええええええええええ­えええええええええ

[calcmandan]

incredible, enough said.

[holasoyoswaldo]

Es un genio sin parangón.

[marie77711]

I just played the original version of this piece at a concert. I'm nothing compared to this guy. I was like O_O when I heard it. Amazing! *cheer*

[4785689]

11 persons dislike this, 11 stupids

[chingkaie15]

amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing!­

[stevemaster247]

1:40 OMFG!

[orayemre]

they set

[abmsghost]

My hero!!

[goodwin8x8]

They think that some random certain section 2:00 is just because of their own hearing impaired.

[rvpiano]

Genius just begins to tell the story.

[doctorkozi]

11 people voted this video thumb down: I can't understand them, or they can't understand art.

[chang1865]

at 2:00 he's like randomly mashing the keys lol! But great skill indeed..

[TheUUind]

@chang1865

I don't know if you've ever seen anyone randomly mash keys, but it definitely doesn't look like this.

[fisarmonicista]

@chang1865 You don´t really think that, do you?

[chang1865]

@fisarmonicista it's just a metaphor. I'm a pianist myself.

[fisarmonicista]

@chang1865 ok, sorry, lol, that's because you find every person in youtube....., sorry about that, it was a funny comment. =D

[hotbebimauz]

hes such a genious..and i love the pieces he plays and his arrangements, so virtuoso! but i must say i like dacics version a little better, it has more structure.

[mdeonx16]

Wow, won't the crowd just shut up and listen silently? 5/5

[ikemaster9]

Misha Dacic's is just a bit better.

[runallday400j50]

this guy always play the most technically difficult songs. amazing

[Lachausis]

Damn.

[RhotenXxX]

LMAO @ spartan1081990 ... I still can't get over your deluded idea that understanding chaos theory and thermodynamics are the only components of a genius .... maybe you should google search the word 'genius' or write a thesis on how Mozart is not a genius due to his lack of knowledge on the behavior of dynamical systems.

[demosj]

If anyone's interested in new Volodos-Rachmaninoff material, I've uploaded two of his live Etudes-Tableaux recordings which had yet to appear on Youtube.

[Or3st1s]

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooooooooooow!!!!!

what a finale o0

amazing!

[chinenyuyafan]

MAN. That was amazing!! O_____O lol. I wish I could play like that, but it'd probably take me two years just to learn that piece! XD lol. I give this guy a standing ovation! XD lol.

[danieljakimiu]

He shakes the piano a lot at 2:00. Unbelieveble stronggg!!

[Stunt2one]

Where is that recorded? It's the spanish TV (I'm from Spain...)

That public is so stupid!! What's the point of those horns at start? Look at the genious face...

Anyway, Volodos always perfect technique!

[GAOsipov]

1:58 impossible!

[Hogarth4]

BAD ASS!

[Marfleet18]

From 0:36 it shows the flowers Volodos has killed! Then at 0:40 it shows us Volodos has moved to the piano to try kill that instead! lol haha :D

Beautiful playing :P

[vincentws03]

that's a weird analogy, but I can't stop thinking that once I've read it

[codonauta]

From 1:50 to 2:00 Volodos looks like a bit bored, so he gets crazy and almost destroys the piano. :)

Really great.

[demosj]

The caption, S. Rachmaninoff (Bew. Volodos)

I wonder whether Bew. was short for Beware of Volodos. :P

[demosj]

It just kind of flew off the rails at 2:00. One has to wonder why Volodos included that in the transcription.

I mean, I was already impressed. you know?

[AttemptingToBeBusy]

Yeah, but what a finish!

[hophmi]

Great transcription. His finger work is incredible, especially given the giant sausages he has for fingers. These are circus acts, but musicians know that not everybody can put them together this way, and frankly, Volodos transcriptions are just plain fun, with wonderful combination of various themes. The variation at 1:40 is just amazing. 

It's kind of interesting to note that the two super-duper technicians (Volodos and Marc-Andre Hamelin) both have unusually thick fingers.

[Shumeshi]

My god... That's something new - youtubers argue about what percentage of his brain is used by Volodos.

[spartan1081990]

you liked it didn't you?

[Shumeshi]

Liked is a wrong word here...

[choopmac]

@Shumeshi he uses like every pianist up to 60 or 70% when he plays. But when he plays such virtuose pieces he uses probably less, because to play fast is not so difficult like to play slowly. Tests have shown, that pianists who play slowly use more of their brain than when they play fast.

[Jerrez]

Once I heard that we only use 20 % of our brain, imagine what we could do with 40% or more...

[spartan1081990]

it's actually like 3 percent

[Jerrez]

and volodos what is he using 10%? The should do a scan of his brain while performing....could be interesting

[spartan1081990]

he is not a genius, but he practiced a lot and practice makes perfect, maybe he is using 3 percent, or 1 percent, or 10 , but he knows how to play.

[Jerrez]

he plays about two hours a day, one month a year to study new stuff, I heard him live several times, spoke with people that know him personally, belief me if volodos is not a genius (and u can only judge about that if you've heard him live) no pianist is. Everyone that said he's not a genius changed there opinions after hearing him for real.

[spartan1081990]

can he understand chaos theory and thermodynamics like every normal genius, no.

[Jerrez]

"a genius is a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities." Mozart was a genius and so is Hawkings. But they're complete different persons. Genius means creating something. Horowitz was bad at school, always had bad grades so according to you if your not good in math you can't be a genius on other fronts...I think you're wrong

[Jerrez]

Volod s is a genius in musical intelligence, Picasso in painting and drawing, Einstein in math and sience( played the violin badly according to Milstein) and Da Vinci in everything.

[Bulasz]

From what I read recently the 10% brain usage thing is a myth. They said it was about 60% and that the other 40 were not exactly not being used, they were just in a "default mode" while in which they sort memories and stuff like that.

[trajan75]

What's a normal genius? Suppose Mozart couldn't understand Chaos Theory? So what?

[McSedowlasiy]

Да... испортил польку! (

[Margosher]

Он, конечно, виртуоз. Но это не "Итальянская полька" Рахманинова. Это "Итальянская полька" в бреду. :)

[keyplay89]

io AMO Volodos

[suli83]

Good player, but there's no need to break the piano!

[callenishss]

this guy is just amazingg!! wow

[desireexy]

he was so good..

[johnbaptistlulu]

i can't say i liked it. it was just a show, he played like crazy to impress the crowd. i like volodos' playing, his touch, but i dispise his attitude. he just murdered a wonderfull piece of music. Gryaznov's arrangement and interpretation makes volodos' violent fire look like the tip of a candle.

[exackerly]

You're right, Volodos has killed it absolutely dead. Especially Gryaznov's tepid version.

[hotuser2]

Impossible!

Whar a show!

[jImmyhitla]

I would love to have been there!!!! - MESMERIC !

[HjalmarOtmar]

Detta är ett grymt pianolir...skulle vara kul att höra versionen som Kjell Öhman skulle pianera! Eller varför inte Ulf Johansson-Werre, Janne Lundgren, Classe Crona, Marian Petrescu, Mikael Skoglund eller Sven Edelönn...

[eikay18]

i love key-mashing! :D

[kaidaniev]

Mr Volodos est un artiste très fin. Peut - etre pas dans cette transcription de cette polka italienne qui franchit la limite du ridicule vers la 2ème minute . Il se situe dans la continuité d'un certain Horowitz dans ses prouesses d'estrade. C'est quand meme époustouflant !!

[NapSeason]

It was good until 2:00, then it started sounding very random...

[CodyNelsonMusic]

He must have arranged this. It isn't Rach's version.

Where can I get the sheet music?

[Mikerizzle]

Send me a message if you still want it

[zhainess]

he went orgasmic during 2:01, when he starts to heat up @ 1:58

[astronomo16]

NO. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!

[donghyun45]

Awesome!!!!!

[Sa1yN]

holy crap...he is crazy...

[intrepido82]

Great!!

[hotuser2]

this is INSAAAAAAAANE

[GabsterRox912]

I just love his facial gestures!

[GabsterRox912]

1:53 his face kind of says, "This is a piece of cake!!!"

[ivan2908]

Yeah, he's pretty bad. Please post your arrangement and interpretation, show us the right path ! We are all eager to learn. Kiss !

[vladimirhorowitz]

I don't know why people in the audience are smiling. At parts it sounded like a five year old banging on the piano while a professional pianist plays the melody in the upper register.

Great technical ability obviously, but as far as piano arrangements go...not my cup of tea. I'll take his Turkish March any day of the week over this.

[hellskitchen123]

i never heard this man make one mistake...

[karlissocool]

HOLY SHITTTTTTTT

[pedropolidoro]

interessante, mas algumas notas soaram horríveis

(e) outras aleatórias, a mairoia dos que tentam modificar uma musica classica criam arranjos exagerados e saem muito piores, nao é o caso aqui

[1288358]

I apologize about my previous comment. I should have kept it to myself. Volodos is obviously very talented, I just don't like this arrangement. but please do not say that I know nothing about music. Music is my life.

[coqdorysme]

i.

want.

sheets.

this is INSAAAAAANE

[aammoossquito]

lol he goes spastic at 2:00 lol awesome

[idleub3da]

I was at his performance in my home town last week. Was kind of hoping this to be an additional piece, but sadly he didn't play it. :) Needless to say, he was awe-inspiring otherwise.

[hotty198]

its piano pyrotechnics for sure. like it or not thats what it is. is what he does hard? you bet. But definitely not as musical as I would like it to be. he just likes to tear up pianos much like Liszt back in the day lol.

[DonFrankos]

that is a very ignorant remark. besides the fact that this is almost exactly his cd version, consider this:

if he plays random notes, everybody would be able to do this, right? think about that.

[hcube3000]

you try playing an excerpt designed for 2 pianos after having made it exceptionally complicated. Then you can write that ignorant remark.

[pianoplayeruk]

i cant believe the ignorance of

1288358. Really. you should learn to keep your ill-considered and limp comments to yourself. Publishing comment such as those to the internet merely tells the world that your a half baked idiot who knows nothing about music. what Volodos played there was a montage of rich and complex melodies in a style that Rachmaninov would have loved I'm sure and not, as you have suggested, a bunch of random notes. Please get a life, and until then, go and play somewhere else.

[splico17]

i don't think that "1288358" should be blamed.. he just doesen't get it :))

[pianoplayeruk]

I disagree. Someone who insists on publishing comments which hail from the place as their farts, needs reminding of that fact from time to time.

[pianoplayeruk]

Clearly your comments are those of someone who is musically impotent.

[aammoossquito]

random notes my ass u faggot.

this is fantastic. i swear all his transcriptions are all so exciting and so good.

volodos is one of the living best

[aavvaa]

i bet his hands are kinda hurts...

[ChrisWatch]

lol I just tried playing the intro of this song lol!!!

[zkokoj]

i...

i...

well what can i say?

i wana play the piano like this man

[DScottWatson]

He is truly amazing and I love how crisp his attack is, his interpretations are always tasteful, even when slightly over the top... amazing

[budzillab]

wow! at 1:58 its amazing! i mean that must have been like quintuple forte! wow! just amazing

[fhood]

What was that crashing sound I heard just now? Wait a minute...ummm...it was only the sound of my jaw hitting the floor after watching this incredible performance! BRAVO!

[wnxg4nd4lf]

/bow

He is amazing!

[learnalitheway]

Holy~

[nickrussel79]

THE BEST pianist of our time. Just listen to his Rach #3 with Levine and Berlin phil!!!

[pianoplayeruk]

Who's Phil??

[nickrussel79]

=philharmonic orchestra

[pianoplayeruk]

Thank you but I am aware of that. I was actually cracking a joke...

[viiviiixxtactic]

Seriously... one guy playin two parts at once? His two hands doing the work of four... Amaazing human being.

[monster0129]

totally agree...mad!

[rupertennis]

this piece is written as a duet.... he plays both parts easily.

[oenobug]

If you listen to the duet, he's put much more in than is in the original.

Unbelievable doesn't even come close....

[re6356]

Bloody amazin` and there was only one pianist. Sounded like a TRIO!!!!!

[Dermo101]

this makes me smile everytime! i have two pages of this liek that the rest fuck me pretty impossible!

[Goldenkitten4]

This looks so effortless to him. It almost looks like its boring him. My god, he is an amazing perfomer!

[astronomo16]

pure technical. Its perfect

[pinedapopi]

this is awesome... so cool.

[pianoman64]

where is this??

[Hiddejan]

in Amsterdam I think

[spartan1081990]

and i thought that perfection was not possible....

[slobone]

I think he's having a piano-gasm from about 2:00 on...

[roo159]

i would too if i could play that well !!

yes, funny

[Iaxobus]

haha rachmaninov is always surprising.

and I wil definetly be listening to more of Volodos!!!!!

[virtual7insanity]

he's great

[kylelandry]

omg!

[etgenman]

I just couldn't help but smiling through this entire piece a la the man in ca. 2.20. Honest to god this man (Volodos, not the smiling one ;-)) is a piano-god. If I could play half as good .... why I may try and play in the Proms, god knows I've heard worse there... in short. Volodos, you are GOD. make more CDs, and come to Vienna!!!

[18cen]

why did i get 6 thums downs?? i didn't say anything bad in my comment. i just saidin my that the original is better opinion

[victorx13]

That's how it works, lol. You have to put that comment on the video of the original version, not the transcripted version.

[slobone]

People hate it when you put down something they love, even if you're right and they're idiots. Not that that's true here...

The other way around, if you love something they hate, nobody gives a toss.

[georgecziffra]

Isn't this a duet?

[w0mprat]

Outside performances are risky. God, it'd suck if it rained. bye bye 100 grand steinway.

[Rohit0406]

nah they have people on top of the buildings ready to throw umbrellas on the piano if it starts raining.

[ChopinARG]

Arcadi Volodos comes from other planet!!! He studied only four days before to play the Rachmaninov concert piano no. 2, HE IS AMAZING!!!

[Sealing]

VOLODOS IS THE BEEEEEESSSSTTT!!!!!!

[pcpilotnick]

for me this dosnt work, the original is so much better and will never be able to be more perfected!, ive seen this sort of thing happen to the blue danube waltz and it dosnt sound right, this one sounds like the piano needs a bit of a tune! and things are going wrong! lol sorry its a good preformance but its just not my type of thing. :)

[Nrj71]

Don't listen then! Volodos is very clever and plays also very well Schubert or Scriabine. Here, it's only for fun.

[sppe769]

I like the original better.

[acchos]

why are people giving this comment the thumbs down, people are entitled to there opinions.

[falstaffinfection]

they give thumbs down because they are entitled to their own opinion

[AlC92575]

I think the Rach would be smiling now.

[Shevcherto]

This is absolutely brilliant. The disonances make it so beautiful...and so hard to play (i am trying now and it is a roller coaster)Thanks for posting

[B337h0v3n]

always amazing...sometimes i dream that i can play like him...hahahahahah

[bubylugo88]

I REALLY LIKE VOLODOS.....to me HE'S THE BEST!!!!

[geddafan1]

He really has fabulous technical facility!!

[18cen]

the orijinal is way better..

[eeevildictator]

what are you referring to?

link?

[acchos]

this video always amazes me

[maxi937]

This guy entertains me!

[AlC92575]

Hats off gentlemen,a genius!

[gmlch]

unbelievable

[m04gigdeadmoroz212]

How do you think, who is more cool - Liszt or Volodos or Cziffra or Godovsky? =)) In technique i mean. Maybe in its different aspects..

..

After reading some notes with lessons by Ferenc it seems to me that Volodos has almost the same technique skills developed so close to ideal as Liszt had.

[nuyokbro]

VOLODOS!!!you are my idol!!!....i knew it since the first time he released the 1st cd...no words can describe his playing

[etude91]

WOW WOW WOW...

[RainMan34]

Incredible. I love how the piano overtook the noise of the surrounding environs.

[MagicDonDino]

Rachmaninov era il più grande compositore del 900. Arcadi Volodos diventerà il più grande pianista del nuovo millennio? Fino ad ora ha strabiliato il mondo con il suo talento innato. Italian Polka è uno dei pezzi trascritti da Volodos che preferisco.

[gurtrudelim]

This is time for raid! come on healers! come on wizards! let's get this godly boss and get some Musical talents :D! Mind Blowing Performance!

[bubylugo88]

La ng Lang is surely good....but NO CHANCES TO BE BETTER THAN THIS GOD

[korglove]

lang who????????

[bringit401]

holy F***! that is sick!! im learning the duet version of this its awesome

[afertyus1000]

lang lang has no chance of competing!

[langliszt]

I wonder if that colosal music machine Arcadi is playing is a Steinway D278 or a Fazioli F308. How freaky can one become.. auch.. It'd be funny that being in Italia he is playing an Italian piano

[dinulipatti1950]

arcadi, you´re simply the best.

[langliszt]

OK, he certainly is the far beyond all the others. However Lang Lang will become even greater undoubtfully.

[phi358]

He's a monster. wow

[pianist14sp]

he only took the beginning of his other transcription

[pianist14sp]

nevermind what I said on last comment...

[pianist14sp]

He made 2 transcriptions of this piece and in this video, I see he mixed up the two...

[jonnyboy126]

how can he play with such athleticism and remain so rotund?