Ligeti - Etude 4, "Fanfares"

[txync]

sounds like the music from gran turismo 5

[F14Lolcat]

@txync that is Prokofiev's 7th piano sonata, movement 3

[Jshaw1ful]

5 dislikes!??! would like to see them try and play this, fantastic left hand!

[zarbawen]

Many good versions on youtube of this, but yours rock! Its so....dancing XD, I loved it!! Congratulations!!!

[SamLowerySF]

nice!

[gonrolgonrol]

Wonderfull playing!

Have just really taken to me Ligeti!

:)

[squandermania]

Wow

[stokepogue]

Very nice. Those are interesting pieces.

[MrMusic1983]

Heave you listened to the Trio for Horn, Piano and Violin? This piece is taken right from there...or the other way around. Well played, though!

[hanstime]

dont comment if u cant play it

[lovesGenet]

I brought Ligeti etudes when the cd first hit store went to los Ang vacation found music in library .Must buy the complete sets .These African rythyms are so compelling. NanCarrow like but somehow more easily integrated . Nancarrow is not written for humans though some attempt it.This is such fabulous music.Such fabulous playing.Pianists everywh are playing these now.Odd Messiaen hasn't become as popular. Boulez & others to hard to figure out.This music is actually more accessible .

[nbmrsmz]

bravo!!

[martaKetamin]

jazz ;))

[popobox]

Bien joué mon pote

[rjr1967]

One of the few pieces of instrumental music that manages to be quite simply ... comical.

[Chromometron]

Wasn't that same ostinato in the trio for violin, horn and piano?

[MrMusic1983]

@Chromometron Yes, it was - it's in the final movement.

[sisenanda7]

I like it, exciting ostinato. Congratukations

[imdbstar]

too good  x-]

[NejiHyuuga777]

Very well played.

[plymouthpianist]

dude you rock! thanks for the play-by-play :-) Sounds awesome

[haroonriazb]

Very well played, and very nice camera positioning, is coherent with the rythym, a deserved five star rating!

[musthatedogs]

Rock on..

[GraigRussell]

Ligeti makes me regret giving up piano lessons when I was 9.

[DarkDavie]

Holy moly, that looked HARD. My piano teacher showed this to me, it looked OK, but I thought you were just meant to play it at a standard speed. Turns out I was wrong! :)

You're fantastic. Keep it up!

[bonitocerdo]

very very good

[zlapidus]

what an amazing piece and performance. congratulations, man.

[Bawedid]

Nice work dude! I will post my recording of this soon!

[audiobuttmaster]

No, you won't

[DarkDavie]

Yes, he will, whether you want him to or not.

[audiobuttmaster]

No, he wont. He just couldnt bear that somebody did something cool and got attention for that, so he had to make it look like he could play this too, when in fact he is sitting at home practicing "Für Elise". "Mommy, mommy, I can play Ligeti too, I will upload it soon."

[DarkDavie]

OK, fair enough.

[sportgel]

The first 3/4 of the piece is excellent. Small technical errors near the end which you pointed out. That being said, it's still an excellent performance. And at this point in time, the best youtube recording of this particular ligeti etude available.

How long did this take you to get under your fingers?

[sciyoshi]

I learned it (rather, had to learn it) in about a week, after which I played it in a recital. This recording is from a while afterwards though, maybe around two years, when I looked back at in and re-learned it for fun.

[gustavoturm]

@sciyoshi 1 week???? wtf????????

[pianaoki]

p.s. your articulation is INCREDIBLE. hope someday my technique can get that good. Well done :)

[pianaoki]

Fantastic! I love this piece... you can almost dance to it..

[GODSFISTS]

Thank you! Great playing!

...i would not do a rit at the end of the piece in the right hand - the only reason it ends there is that the keyboard is over, it is not musical, the piece continues actually.

Morendo is not rit. And also a pp and a pppp is supposed to be barely heard, but you play it MOSTLY in mF, MOSTLY.

But who the hell am i to tell you these things? Keep up the great work!

lol @ synthetic midi

[skimaster1]

COOL!

[abdelkaziz92]

strange...the rythmical perception sounds like quantisized...even the gestures look odd sometimes..look and listen twice...since played on a digital instrument, I bet this was recorded with midi-interface and then the speed was increased with some 50 to 100 percent ?...

[sciyoshi]

it's actually an upright Yamaha piano, recorded with a really bad webcam mic... but i'll take it sounding quantized as a compliment :-)

[KennYWooD2]

If it were sped up then how would you account for the audio/video synch? Jealousy leaves you idly standing by the side of the road yearning for the fast lane.

[Yilver]

Well done!

"Fanfares" is of course one ligeti's more "metronomic" pieces but also one with numerous folk references. Pronouncing the folkish spirit and letting the narrative function of different parts speak for itself and lead your dynamics and rubato (such as the last "farewell" passage of the right hand, the bugle style call in bar 88 or the mysterioso of bar 96) would turn your perfectionist interpretation into a magical one!

[naitsirkeprahs]

my goodness.... left hand??? wowsers!

Such a wonderful progression.

you're brilliant, I can hear every hour of practice!

Got any recommendations for a learner?

[sciyoshi]

Thanks alot! Its a really fun piece to learn...

At 0:45 Ligeti says that the accents on the repeated scale (the 3-2-3 rhythm) are just for synchronization, but I kinda like it better when you can hear the tension between the two hands rhythmically (especially the lontano part at 1:45, where the melody is 3+2+2=7), but its crazy hard to do. Anyways, good luck with it :-)

[naitsirkeprahs]

right, sciyoshi ...quick... be my friend....I'm doing a music degree and you have one hell of a way of critiquing complex music!

I thought listening to it was complex....you're in the groove you are!

Any recommendation's for a piano novice? the best theory / practice regimes....practice logs that could be of use to a intermediate pianist?

[julywapo]

very well‼

=)

[covallini]

very well interpreted and its a good recording. Keep doing well and posting videos!

[mh540]

very awesome - add more! love to hear you play no. 6

[carmantione]

Very good performance! There is only something in the last part (the crescendo till FFFFF) that is not perfectly correct in the rithm of the chords. Very interesting and "musicale"..

[LotharRindinsky]

Indeed this is an excellent performance. Just as is should be. You really understand and feel the essence of this music. It is true that many pianists can learn from this. Beautiful! Congratulations!

[ZooYork1212]

in what tempo is it played?

nice job, by the way.

[ZooYork1212]

~ 130bpm?

[sciyoshi]

about 67bpm for a whole note. don't have the score with me, and I don't remember what Ligeti wrote :-/

[matthewmaclellan]

He wrote 63 :)



This is so lovely, thank you for posting.

Just got this book, so I went looking for a recording of this.

[4444matthew4444]

this really freaking good man!

[SensMan]

Sounds very playful and swinging....

but due to the mediocre recording quality, I can't hear the ff(ff)'s very well.

But very good job!

[allegrissimo]

This performance is very good! I hope mister Volkert Banfield will listen to this and learn something. Compliments! :)

[darknotezero]

nice performance. not just accurate, but very expressive and musical.

[sciyoshi]

thanks!