[part3] Piano improvisation Battle - Theme and variation

[bootycall666]

hah, if you haven't already youtubed gonzales/chilly gonzales, get to it & see where he's coming from. might change your opinion, might strengthen it. excellent video regardless!

[Steinwaytoday]

funny thing is that guy actually does look a bit like Rocky Balboa XD

[Criticalperspective2]

I'd like to see Keith Jarrett in a piano battle. Oh SNAP!

[Criticalperspective2]

Gloves...what for?

[Robotman42]

Mr. upright seems to have trouble keeping his ideas coherent. A wilder and somewhat more interesting performance, but I'd judge the round against him.

[TheCeembee]

zygel>gonzo

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

Does Zygel's theme sound ODDLY like Liszt - Totentanz?

[deaddevils1]

the guy with the gloves looks like the guy from coraline. the not father looks like him

[ForeverPianist]

Hey hey, i just saw zygel and talked with him last week . I was in the stages of the theatre du chatelet in Paris , that was so fun . He is one of my friend's teacher (at the cnsmdp) , he's cool . I never saw him in improvisation before, he's heck a good ! (I'm french )

[parule]

Quite unfair in my opinion beause the better improvisateur has the better piano.

[plllytx]

zygels face at 7:05 hahaha he knows hes beat XD

that is zygel aint it? im not to sure lol

[gstryker18]

zygels playing is mostly noise its not much music.

[megazood]

ahaha Rocky))

[danielix11]

4:29-4:42 Amazing...

[lampshade429]

Gonzales has a fire in his playing that Zygel cannot compete with.

[hjiuhfhrehui]

whaha Piano improvisation Battle huh? :P

cziffra is king of improvisation :D  watch him.

[VanargrandsEnd]

At 4:30 what is gonzo playing??

[manu974aimwill]

eyes of iger c'est enorme!!!!! franchement chapeau bas messieurs!!

[KingBrucea]

5:58 onwards is fantastic in my opinion ^^

[verlorener]

eye of the tiger. the way he rocks on this instrument ist just great. fast and exact. i wanna be able to play like this too...

[rennsalami]

Yeah totaly^^ but this kind of ability Takes a lot of Talent AND Training... its hard to ever get as far as gonzo is

[nighthellfire123]

around 2:00 and 2:30 its totentanz(liszt)..

[kesandre]

what is the music at 3.15??

[arpeggio54]

around 8:00 is the chopin prelude in b minor i think

[Firrodrigolosofia]

This guy, gonzo, made a better performance!

Very entertaining!

[Emlomor]

but Zygel has more harmonic inventivity

[nighthellfire123]

yes.. since he's a solfege. prof. as I think

[spiderml]

gonzalez had better flow i though, and hes playing with gloves on an upright! this is still amazing though.

[prometheancurse]

chilly was far more entertaining in this round

[yutukzzz]

i think..

GOnzales lose in this part

[nekolux]

eyes of the tiger by gonzales was so final fantasy material lol

[wedgyman1]

I thinks that is is pretty obv. that zygal is better, however i much prefer gonzales, better style of player funner to listen to, and entertains you, the other guy is to serious  both are expert though

[jimbot90]

gonzo is such a showman. eye of the tiger - really cool.

[dicotomias]

Zygel es un careta

Gonzo le rompe el orto

[Desmonddd2002]

It is like some crazy rachmaninoff stuff in th opening

[Alvarordonez]

Wow!!! interesting improvisation! Thank you for posting this video!

[joshywah]

gonzo 4 life!!!!!!

[sunkid86]

haha, i love it so freaken much!!!! i ve been serching an praying for this for years!!! and it's here! ahhhh thankssss for youtube and who uploaded! i have seen this on TV about 1 year ago, and i was amazed,and stunned!!!!! thx

[bluetrancefer]

Ha! This is awesome! Both are very good!

[musician1245780]

oh how i wished i could improvise like them,and how i wish i could play the eye of the tiger like that guy,who is who anyway? i m not sure...haha

[Pianoman316]

Zygel is so much better

[eastsidepies]

Both are great!

[dorkothy]

I can't choose who I like better :S!

Both are good :)

[wally1979]

One is a true entertainer... the other is an academic...

[MaNiT0U]

I agree !

[Blandinnn]

Que j'aime l'interprétation de Gonsalez avec "Eyes of the tiger". Bravo!!!

[animmaster2]

zigel owned his show on french tv

he simply explains classical music for beginner

he is a very coo teacher

[eggory]

i thought gonzales was pretty overtaken. his more chaotic play is a style but the other guy's precision just seemed better and i still feel more for someone who seems to know what he's doing more.

[Pianoman316]

Dude, Zygel owned him....the other dude isn't even that good....

[deemaude]

gonzo über alles ;o]

[fangreza]

i changed my mind. in the end zygel is much better

[fangreza]

gonzales has a better imagination. zygel is too academic

[bulboflight]

in the end, isnt imagination music?

[cruncyfriends]

ahahaha dude. gonzales is probably the better player but zygel captures my heart with his hilarious ideas

[cruncyfriends]

mybad. opposite :::: gonzales is hilarious! teh pwn

[ILickGlue]

I think the guy with gloves owned the suit coat man..although he could improve hes clothing a bit, he lookis lika sum kind of sport athlete about to recover from a marathon.. but he owned the suit-coat-man

[gucken78]

they call it "irony"

[Kamibambiraptor]

Ah! I wasn't sure.... that's why I included the stuff about glasses. He still gets my vote (at least for this video). :)

[Kamibambiraptor]

My vote would have gone to Gonzales (the fellow with the glasses; not the fellow with the sweatband & gloves). Much more interesting & nicer touch; the other pianist was a little too heavy on the repeated notes, which don't particularly impress me.

[sorwell]

you're wrong : the one with glasses is Jean-François Zygel, the one with gloves is Gonzales...

[sorwell]

(je dis ça comme ça mais, la reprise finale du theme par Zygle est merveilleuse) (pourquoi est-elle coupée, d'ailleurs ?)

[adistar]

Amazing, two masters of improvisation. What about the other parts ?