His edit cadenza or whatever kind of wrecked the drive that the piece builds up. It felt like an un-related part that he used to show off. Horowitz's actually sound really good and isn't so long.
@AngKots Chuck Norris doesn't PLAY the piano. He demolishes it with his fists and the noise that goes on while he does it is Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. XD
@xakoviski I think it is because Jung Lin's fans push a little too much. I have no problem with her fans as I think her interpretation is also great. However, if I dislike someone's video, I usually don't post anything (unless the video is a complete mediocre). The fact is that Lin's fans keep posting something here, which could annoy Hamelin's fans. That is what I think.
@Snookimichev funny how you forgot hundreds of hamelin fans posting on jung lin's liszt 2nd rhapsody video saying how great hamelin is and how bad jung lin is. worse some of those were really bad attacks on her. besides r u saying you don't want any hamelin fan getting annoyed? man that's even more funny! xd
@bwinkled I usually don't read comments on other channels, so I don't know. It's something that I don't really care. You guys can crash each other as much as you wish, because arguing over personal preferences is simply dump. Don't say stuff that this channel prohibits, and that's all I care.
@Snookimichev I guess that could be it. But why would someone watch another interpreter play a piece like this, for instance, knowing that they prefer Jung Lin's version above all renditions? They critic the performance knowing that they would do such?
@xakoviski Don't people need to listen to all of the different versions on you tube before they have a preference?
Besides I did not critic Hamelin, I only said "Jung Lin's version is like heaven", that's the exact comment Hamelin fan posted on Jung's video talking up Hamelin. Nobody here is arguing or crashing anybody, I am not. Very petty is Hamelin fans getting annoyed if they see anybody here say something good about Jung and throwing temper tantrums. :D
@jnar7 I posted a vid of 17 pianists trying to play the ending of this piece. The last two are Hamelin and Kastle. They seem to be the only pianists who can actually play Liszt's octave ending. It's amazing how many recordings of this end in disaster.
Does anyone remember the argument two idiots were having in the comments for this video over a year ago? Glad they finally stopped, but they were going on for .. several months at least.
A versão de Jung Lin é realmente linda, mas a de Hamelin é mais intensa e por isso mesmo me agrada mais. Depois de ver e ouvir isto eu acabo ficando sem palavras. É fantástico.
They say Franz Liszt was a virtuoso, which is quite true. But if you listen to this piece, you can hear what it sounds like when a genius just noodles around on a piano. Yes, the piece is brilliant and has stood the test of time, but at the same time it's lots of fun to listen and, once you're brave and fortunate enough to learn how, to play, too.
Absolute genius. A modern interpretation for today in his cadenza. It is fresh, unique, modern, and the technique is stupendous. His cadenza alone seems 10x harder than the actual piece! Bravo for a LIVE performance! I could only wish to pull off a performance 25% as accurate and breath taking as that. I'll practice 5 years and maybe come to that level!
I posted a vid of a group of famous pianists playing, or attempting to play the ending of this piece. A college student/virtuoso said, "I had five minutes of laughing at the greatest virtuosi. Please crucify me. seriuosly, many of the virtuosi released messy recordings, and there is no shameto criticize their manner." Mark Hamelin is the last of seventeen pianists in my vid.
I was designing my building in Autocad (i'm a student of Architecture), and I just couldn't solve some technical issues. And that kept happening for weeks, till I started believing I couldn't make it. A few moments ago I searched for this piece on Youtube, I pressed the 'play' button and began working on my building again. And I achieved what I was struggling for. What can I say? I think this musical masterpiece is pure magic. Thank you, Liszt. :)
This is wonderful. I was fortunate enough to see Marc Andre play Totentanz live in Seattle. It was so impressive I thought I would faint. This is wonderful as well.
OCTAVE EXTRAVAGANZA.... I posted a vid of the most famous pianists trying to play Liszt's octave ending in this piece. Most of them are recording artists, and they can't seem to play the notes.
A Russian college student and talented virtuoso left this comment, "I had five minutes laughing at the greatest virtuosi. Please crucify me. Seriously, many of the virtuosi released messy recirdings, and there is no shame to critize their manner."
@andrewdeangelo1 maybe because hamelin's style doesn't fit this. his un sospiro is much better, doesn't call for much interpretation. the best by far on this piece is jung lin, she's astonishing, plays like a goddess on piano.
Cartoons are responsible, in a big way, for how much I like classical music. I grew up watching Tom trying to give a recital while Jerry is on his way.
@Chrai0n Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny....classical music is dying because they're not making those any more. Kill the wabbit is my all time favorite, with Tom and Jerry's HR2 a close second. This is a great performance, btw. He plays the finale for real!
Amazing, the best performance of Hungarian Rhapsody 2 by Liszt, above Lang Lang and many others.. much more understanding and interpretation I guess...
I've just listening Jung Lin's "performance", and I must say, Hamelin is pianist, a real pianist, and he knows how to play Liszt. It's a pitty to see that todays people can be satisfied with the thing Jung Lin is doing with her instrument. Realy, artists have to learn playing, but people have also to learn listening!
@BassoGdC Très honoré d'être perçu comme étant un fenouil! Je suppose que c'est une expression que vous utilisez pour me signaler que vous n'êtes pas d'accord avec ce que je dis. Dommage que vous ayez décidé de m'injurier pour le faire, j'aurai surement aimé lire votre point de vu si vous aviez été plus courtois.
This outclasses every pianist in this work. No one is even close to coming to these transcendental heights. Maybe Yevgeny Kissin. Bolet, too. But Hamelin is magnificent in every way. Wow!!!
@klavierspieler72 check out adam gyorgy's. i like his version of the middle MUCH better. Hamelin has a nasty habit of blazing through the strong emotions slightly faster than i like.
@bwinkled Why are so many people so elitest with this "no pedal" stuff? What's no pedal good for, other than to show off technique? Please enlighten me. I think good music should be about the sound, it shouldn't matter if one uses pedal... Personally I love the pedal and feel that it makes music sound a lot fuller. So there are people with crazy technique that can play pieces without pedal and still sound decently connected.... so what? Does that make their music better?
Like now Kissin didn't use pedal for la campanella, I feel that when pedal isn't used for pieces that should make use of it, even if the pianist is skillful enough to pull it off, it just doesn't have the tone and depth as when pedal is being used.
Or do people genuinely not like the sound of the pedal?
@YSFmemories The thing about MAH is he plays legato and uses pedal and you get no clarity. Using more pedal would be better if he played more staccato. I mean he's got the technique, why not use it? Playing with much less pedal is not just to show off technique, you get more clarity and better tone, and do more with better phrasing and dynamics. That's why I like Jung Lin's hr2, Cziffra's also. Kissin's La Campanella is one of the best.
I posted a video of 17 virtuosi attempting to play the almost unplayable alternating octaves at the end of this piece. It includes the best recordings of the past century.
A college student who plays the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, said this:
"I had 5 minutes of laughing at the greatest virtuosi! Please crucify me.
Seriously, many virtuosi released messy recordings, and there is no shame in criticizing their manner."
@abdullahbabi it's a cadenza :), if you look at the sheet music at that part it says "cadenza ad lib" which means you have the choice of improvising and adding in your own cadenza and then finishing off with the prestissimo section
@GOTTAFLYMAC I hate to disappoint you and all others who are swayed by the beautiful jazz chords he plays, but this is a jumble of cacophanic noise and this performance is pure crap.
excellent interpretation of this piece of music...
Regarding the racist stuff how does that tie in with classical music...? :))
Also i think that this performance is a bit more aggressive than the Jung Lin interpretation, and funny stuff is that this is closest to the first version i have ever heard this song (Tom and Jerry :)) ) so i think that's why i like it more! So glad Fred Quimby included classical music in his cartoons :D not like this mainstream crap that we see today...
Although, speaking to my last comment, I love Hamelin as a pianist, and I think his interpretation is wonderful and creative in the first part...really not a fan of the Horowitz style improv at the end, sounds like grandstanding and doesn't contribute to the feeling or structure of the piece...my question with this kind of thing is why bother? These people are obviously incredibly intelligent and creative, why not write a new composition rather than make Liszt sound like something hes not?
@Cancrizans First-hand observers of Franz Liszt in action performing his own music (as well as music of others) mention time and again that Liszt never let well enough alone - he was constantly re-writing his music in the middle of performance, adding double-thirds, arpeggios, etc., where none had been written. Liszt, by all accounts, was one of the great improvisers in history, and to play his music strictly as written is contrary to his own performance practice.
@rekab7070 Obviously, my comment was that the cadenza reminded me of that awful Horowitz routine, I personally found it not in the spirit of the piece, I love Marc Andre, just my opinion.
Talking a look at the top rated comments for this piece will give you a good idea of how serious you should take any comments about classical music on Youtube.
@mattyb2001uk Since you blocked me from your channel and all your maksim acts, I am making a comment here.
Since when have you admired MAH, you have attacked Hamelin fans and blocked them before on maksim's 'HR2' that is definitely an insult to Liszt.
Good to see you coming around and recognizing a real master in Hamelin, congratulations. Now overcome your bigotry and recognize Jung Lin as another master.
This is, in technicality, the hardest piece of music ever written. Hamelin, in technicality, is one the best pianist of modern day. When you put them together you get this. He also puts in his own modern cadenza which is also very clever and hard.
This is, in technicality, the hardest piece of music ever written. Hamelin, in technicality, is one the best pianist of modern day. When you put them together you get this. He also puts in his own modern cadenza which is also very clever and hard.
@aeabottss22 Did you put la campenella in that assessment? I'm halfway through this peice and I didnt get through 2 pages of la campenella. I haven't run into any thirds in hungarian rhapsody either.
@venik88 there are thirds in the first part of the second half... and i find this to be more difficult than the majority of la campenella... although there are definately more difficult parts in la campanella.... bottom line though, this is a hard piece and he plays it brilliantly ((love his cadenza's too, best i think i have heard))... but rach's 3rd is much MUCH harder than this.... atleast this is bare-able to play
@aeabottss22 Hardest piece technically? According to WHOM? Yes, it's a bitch to play, but I can think of at l east 10 others that are technically more over the top. Where did you get your info?
@aeabottss22 Gaspard de la Nuit, by Ravel; Islamey by Balakirev; Three Movements from Petrushka, by Stravinsky; Evryali by Xenakis; Opus Clavicembalisticum, by Sorabji; Concerto for Solo Piano, by Alkan; Passacaglia on a Theme from Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, by Godowsky; Rudepoema, by Villa-Lobos; practically any transcription written by Cziffra, etc. etc.
I liked jung lins performance but I think this is a performance that even Hamelin would go wow when he looks back at his performances.. I like this performance, I think its a great interpretation..
@MegaIbos No question Hamelin's is a great performance, he is a great pianist. Jung Lin's performance is astonishing and I love her musicality, she's absolutely a goddess on piano.
@MasterAzunai I was responding to a comment made to me that said 'I liked jung lins performance but I think this is a performance that even Hamelin would go wow when he looks back at his performances.. I like this performance, I think its a great interpretation' good comments all around.
About "Hoffman" - it's Hofmann so if you're dishing up opinions, at least spell his name correctly. However, I know what you mean - most of his recordings sound emotionally cool, but they're all little 4 minute bonbons except for the '37 concert and by then he'd begun to be sloppy. It should mean something though that EVERY one of his contemporaries thought him the greatest pianist they'd ever heard in bigger repertoire. The recordings bear out his elegance and superhuman technical command.
You're entitled to like or dislike whom you please, but as Sen. Moynihan once said "you're not entitled to your own set of facts." Claiming that "few go" to Kissin, Lugansky and Hough concerts is in tin foil hat territory. Hamelin has a "deal" with Hyperion that goes back about 25 years and has produced at least 15 albums that I am aware of. And about "only Russians and Chinese" being marketed - well, Jung Lin IS Chinese (born in Taiwan). She's great, just not in that league- and she'd agree.
@gtimny Hamelin's deal is not with a major label, everyone knows it. Chinese I had in mind are Lang Lang and Yundi Li. Don't pretend you don't know Jung Lin is not Chinese, she's from Taiwan, vastly different countries and if she was from China she would already big huge in that country. Only Russians that have technique as good as Hamelin and Jung Lin are Kissin and Lisitsa. Lugansky and Hough don't belong in the same conversation LOL. About historical recordings, listen to Rach, enjoy !!!
@03mbk30 OK - you win. Lugansky and Hough play Carnegie and every other major hall in the world every year and Lin plays the Botanical Gardens, St. Bart's and the Kosciuszko Fdn. because there is a conspiracy to deny her a career even though she's the greatest since Horowitz and the others are technical cripples. L and H are managed by Harrison Parrot and CMA, Lin has no manager. H just played Chicago Sym, L is on tour with St. Petersburg SO including Carnegie - Lin is at Instituto Cervantes.
@gtimny OK - so you are on the payroll of L and H's management company, but you need to use your brains and know better than to mention those two here. Compared to Hamelin or Jung Lin, Lugansky is way short in technique and plays like a robot, no musicality. Hough plays Chopin and Brahms, top five finishers of the last Chopin competition were better. As far as playing Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Ctr, I haven't heard anyone worth seeing since Jung Lin's last Lincoln Center recital :)
@03mbk30 Pretty clear you have a rather creepy Jung Lin obsession as you've managed to post a Jung Lin comment on just about every HR2 performance there is. Wouldn't be surprised to find you camped out in front of her apartment building. As to Lugansky's alleged technical faults - have a look at Feux Follets and repent of your stupidity. Hough, besides Chopin and Brahms, has recorded reams of the finger twistingest stunt repertoire there is including the Cziffra Trovatore. You need help.
Wonderful performance but I wouldn't call the cadenza "jazzy." It's more like Godowsky on amphetamines.
jonyungk 1 day ago
Ha~~~
ため息のみ！！
toraousama5726 2 days ago
Too bad this video is older. His cadenza is quite amazing.
lllllllllllllll88 1 week ago
Behold, the Fingers of God.
DrStrangefate 2 weeks ago
Brilliant! I really really liked it!
user6656 2 weeks ago
His hands look like fukin spiders running from a loud stomp!
DrBodybuilding 2 weeks ago
His edit cadenza or whatever kind of wrecked the drive that the piece builds up. It felt like an un-related part that he used to show off. Horowitz's actually sound really good and isn't so long.
llllShArPllll 3 weeks ago
Last minute of improvisation was OMGWTFBBQ I never seen fingers move that fast
Blahblobify 4 weeks ago
6:08 sweatdrop
TheLameloid 1 month ago
11:28... time to get new hands...
MaRiOoOomEn 1 month ago
KILL THE WABBIT
slackbguser 1 month ago
This guy can beat anyone in a piano-off... well beside Chuck norris
AngKots 1 month ago
@AngKots Chuck Norris doesn't PLAY the piano. He demolishes it with his fists and the noise that goes on while he does it is Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. XD
rawrgDX 1 month ago
I don't understand what's all the fuzz around Jung Lin's version of this piece.
They're both way above great...and still Hamelin has a far greater technique in comparison to Jung Lin. He plays Alkan, that says all!
xakoviski 1 month ago
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xakoviski 1 month ago
@xakoviski I think it is because Jung Lin's fans push a little too much. I have no problem with her fans as I think her interpretation is also great. However, if I dislike someone's video, I usually don't post anything (unless the video is a complete mediocre). The fact is that Lin's fans keep posting something here, which could annoy Hamelin's fans. That is what I think.
Snookimichev 1 month ago
@Snookimichev funny how you forgot hundreds of hamelin fans posting on jung lin's liszt 2nd rhapsody video saying how great hamelin is and how bad jung lin is. worse some of those were really bad attacks on her. besides r u saying you don't want any hamelin fan getting annoyed? man that's even more funny! xd
bwinkled 1 month ago
@bwinkled I usually don't read comments on other channels, so I don't know. It's something that I don't really care. You guys can crash each other as much as you wish, because arguing over personal preferences is simply dump. Don't say stuff that this channel prohibits, and that's all I care.
Snookimichev 1 month ago
@Snookimichev "dumb" not "dump" hehe...
Snookimichev 1 month ago
@Snookimichev I guess that could be it. But why would someone watch another interpreter play a piece like this, for instance, knowing that they prefer Jung Lin's version above all renditions? They critic the performance knowing that they would do such?
Very petty, if that's the case...
xakoviski 1 month ago
@xakoviski Don't people need to listen to all of the different versions on you tube before they have a preference?
Besides I did not critic Hamelin, I only said "Jung Lin's version is like heaven", that's the exact comment Hamelin fan posted on Jung's video talking up Hamelin. Nobody here is arguing or crashing anybody, I am not. Very petty is Hamelin fans getting annoyed if they see anybody here say something good about Jung and throwing temper tantrums. :D
bwinkled 1 month ago 2
@bwinkled I didn't even point fingers, merely dropped two questions! I like them both equally.
xakoviski 1 month ago
that extended cadenza is beyond olympic status, beyond astronauts, beyond fuckin TITANS.
What this man has done is god-like!!!!
jnar7 1 month ago
@jnar7 I posted a vid of 17 pianists trying to play the ending of this piece. The last two are Hamelin and Kastle. They seem to be the only pianists who can actually play Liszt's octave ending. It's amazing how many recordings of this end in disaster.
holdredger 1 month ago
Does anyone remember the argument two idiots were having in the comments for this video over a year ago? Glad they finally stopped, but they were going on for .. several months at least.
Tilaron 2 months ago
I've been trying to learn this doesn't like 5 years. I have the beginning down and the end, which are the funnest to play. :-)
mjacobson7 2 months ago
wow, it is so clear and precise that I bet this man can play anything he wants!
paulo0e 2 months ago
A versão de Jung Lin é realmente linda, mas a de Hamelin é mais intensa e por isso mesmo me agrada mais. Depois de ver e ouvir isto eu acabo ficando sem palavras. É fantástico.
davidbio1 2 months ago
They say Franz Liszt was a virtuoso, which is quite true. But if you listen to this piece, you can hear what it sounds like when a genius just noodles around on a piano. Yes, the piece is brilliant and has stood the test of time, but at the same time it's lots of fun to listen and, once you're brave and fortunate enough to learn how, to play, too.
TheRedComa 2 months ago
Hamelin is the BEST PIANIST in the WORLD!
THAT'S
IT
MegaDocalex 2 months ago
you know those youtube piano pieces that are impossible to play, those that are animated and played by a software,
if I heard the last 2 minutes but did not see him play, I though this was one of those pieces.
yuhamkoha 2 months ago
Imagine playing like this in a piano competition :P
Yamsareverytasty 2 months ago
Actually the cadenza ends at 11:34
Tolstoy111 3 months ago
Liszt would approve.
ThisisTedWells 3 months ago in playlist Classical 3
It looks like stunning playing to me. Worthy to play on Liszt's 200th birthday today.
Greetings from East Anglia in England.
uranrising 3 months ago
epic!!
anuarnx93 3 months ago
Absolute genius. A modern interpretation for today in his cadenza. It is fresh, unique, modern, and the technique is stupendous. His cadenza alone seems 10x harder than the actual piece! Bravo for a LIVE performance! I could only wish to pull off a performance 25% as accurate and breath taking as that. I'll practice 5 years and maybe come to that level!
bellnor757 3 months ago
I posted a vid of a group of famous pianists playing, or attempting to play the ending of this piece. A college student/virtuoso said, "I had five minutes of laughing at the greatest virtuosi. Please crucify me. seriuosly, many of the virtuosi released messy recordings, and there is no shameto criticize their manner." Mark Hamelin is the last of seventeen pianists in my vid.
holdredger 3 months ago
Such beautiful, romantic and dreamy at 1:09 -- 2:05
An excellent performance!
apluspianist 3 months ago
I hope i could learn how to play this.amazing. love it
1Dinith 3 months ago
Fuck yeah!
69mastalon 3 months ago
what is this? what version did he play at 8:21 and after?!?!?!
sergeymelnik006 3 months ago
@sergeymelnik006
It's his own cadenza...
twooffour 3 months ago
@sergeymelnik006 Read the description.
bentricky 1 month ago
................daaaam
aungmemehtut 3 months ago
I was designing my building in Autocad (i'm a student of Architecture), and I just couldn't solve some technical issues. And that kept happening for weeks, till I started believing I couldn't make it. A few moments ago I searched for this piece on Youtube, I pressed the 'play' button and began working on my building again. And I achieved what I was struggling for. What can I say? I think this musical masterpiece is pure magic. Thank you, Liszt. :)
nikolechr 3 months ago 23
one of my favorites...
flEy9 3 months ago
MARC ANDRE "THE GOD" HAMELLN
slackbguser 4 months ago
This is wonderful. I was fortunate enough to see Marc Andre play Totentanz live in Seattle. It was so impressive I thought I would faint. This is wonderful as well.
Valkyrie91a 4 months ago
@Valkyrie91a Wow!! I'd LOVE to hear THAT!! :O
Man, you're lucky =D
123mazeppa 4 months ago
fantastic!
dansh5 4 months ago
Makes good use of silences.
MrPaevo 4 months ago
8:17 Enter Hamelin
Fedorasnesguy 4 months ago
I want to know how me memorizes all the noted!!!!
TheDaftpunk02 4 months ago
@TheDaftpunk02
Mostly, it takes a LOT of practice
guismiti 4 months ago
This leaves me speechless... This is amazing.
jmsrmr65 4 months ago
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samtheman264 4 months ago
This is my favourite rendition of this piece. Very dynamic and exciting.
02vanilla 4 months ago
OCTAVE EXTRAVAGANZA.... I posted a vid of the most famous pianists trying to play Liszt's octave ending in this piece. Most of them are recording artists, and they can't seem to play the notes.
A Russian college student and talented virtuoso left this comment, "I had five minutes laughing at the greatest virtuosi. Please crucify me. Seriously, many of the virtuosi released messy recirdings, and there is no shame to critize their manner."
holdredger 5 months ago
it's been one year ive been watching this same performance, it's still the best one for this music by far...
guismiti 5 months ago
If Justin Bieber could play this, I'll like his music.
PredictionGuY89 5 months ago
He plays it at too high of a tempo.
doghouse144 5 months ago
Why the fuck does this have 114 dislikes?
VitalSigns1 5 months ago
@VitalSigns1 kastle fanboi faggots
xxxARCASxxx 4 months ago
@VitalSigns1 Fag
Guru1otaku 4 months ago
@Guru1otaku Stfu asshole
VitalSigns1 4 months ago
@VitalSigns1 jealousy,and i imagine a disliking for his rendition....i dont know why,i loved it.
andrewdeangelo1 4 months ago
@andrewdeangelo1 maybe because hamelin's style doesn't fit this. his un sospiro is much better, doesn't call for much interpretation. the best by far on this piece is jung lin, she's astonishing, plays like a goddess on piano.
03mbk30 4 months ago
@03mbk30 she really is phenomenal.
andrewdeangelo1 4 months ago
before i liked classical pieces alot now for some reason it bores me..
MegaIbos 5 months ago
Thanks to Hanna and Barbera (creators of Tom and Jerry) I liked piano since I was 5. Thanks to them I'm a better person, for sure! :D
marcostguimaraes 5 months ago 2
noone plays this piece better
5Gerdna5 5 months ago
Cartoons are responsible, in a big way, for how much I like classical music. I grew up watching Tom trying to give a recital while Jerry is on his way.
Chrai0n 5 months ago 3
@Chrai0n Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny....classical music is dying because they're not making those any more. Kill the wabbit is my all time favorite, with Tom and Jerry's HR2 a close second. This is a great performance, btw. He plays the finale for real!
binkymagnus 5 months ago 3
@binkymagnus come back from the past now there's harry potter and whatnot for children these days...
MegaIbos 5 months ago
Impressive..
alchavezb 5 months ago
Amazing, the best performance of Hungarian Rhapsody 2 by Liszt, above Lang Lang and many others.. much more understanding and interpretation I guess...
alchavezb 5 months ago
I've just listening Jung Lin's "performance", and I must say, Hamelin is pianist, a real pianist, and he knows how to play Liszt. It's a pitty to see that todays people can be satisfied with the thing Jung Lin is doing with her instrument. Realy, artists have to learn playing, but people have also to learn listening!
Chateaubriand26 5 months ago
@Chateaubriand26 i've just read your comments, and I must say you are a stronzo finoccio francese!
BassoGdC 5 months ago 5
@BassoGdC Très honoré d'être perçu comme étant un fenouil! Je suppose que c'est une expression que vous utilisez pour me signaler que vous n'êtes pas d'accord avec ce que je dis. Dommage que vous ayez décidé de m'injurier pour le faire, j'aurai surement aimé lire votre point de vu si vous aviez été plus courtois.
Chateaubriand26 5 months ago
11:28 :O
MRrandom103 5 months ago
Superb.As good as it ever got.TY S for posting.
paulostroff99 5 months ago
So impressive. How he is cool to attack the piano. So long, I´m not so impressed with a presentation in his highest level. A virtuoso, indeed.
But the composition was build to express this kind of situation to defy.
mrjohn1964 5 months ago
Try transcribing that cadenza! Yikes.
thatguynamednick 6 months ago
My favorite part was when the mouse came out of the piano and started to mess up his performance. Wait, I'm thinking of a different rendition...
TheYarrgh 6 months ago 4
This outclasses every pianist in this work. No one is even close to coming to these transcendental heights. Maybe Yevgeny Kissin. Bolet, too. But Hamelin is magnificent in every way. Wow!!!
klavierspieler72 6 months ago
@klavierspieler72 check out adam gyorgy's. i like his version of the middle MUCH better. Hamelin has a nasty habit of blazing through the strong emotions slightly faster than i like.
amxmachine 6 months ago
Jung Lin's version is like heaven :D
bwinkled 6 months ago 7
@bwinkled I think Hamelin's >>>>>> Jung Lin's
reu91 2 months ago 18
@reu91 Only if you like to hear lots of sustain pedal (beginning to end) like Hamelin uses. Jung Lin barely uses sustain, she's amazing and awesome.
bwinkled 2 months ago
@bwinkled Why are so many people so elitest with this "no pedal" stuff? What's no pedal good for, other than to show off technique? Please enlighten me. I think good music should be about the sound, it shouldn't matter if one uses pedal... Personally I love the pedal and feel that it makes music sound a lot fuller. So there are people with crazy technique that can play pieces without pedal and still sound decently connected.... so what? Does that make their music better?
YSFmemories 2 months ago
Like now Kissin didn't use pedal for la campanella, I feel that when pedal isn't used for pieces that should make use of it, even if the pianist is skillful enough to pull it off, it just doesn't have the tone and depth as when pedal is being used.
Or do people genuinely not like the sound of the pedal?
YSFmemories 2 months ago
@YSFmemories The thing about MAH is he plays legato and uses pedal and you get no clarity. Using more pedal would be better if he played more staccato. I mean he's got the technique, why not use it? Playing with much less pedal is not just to show off technique, you get more clarity and better tone, and do more with better phrasing and dynamics. That's why I like Jung Lin's hr2, Cziffra's also. Kissin's La Campanella is one of the best.
bwinkled 2 months ago
@reu91 Hamelin is a fucking machine!
viejodelbasston 1 month ago
@bwinkled Jung Lin's version is NOTHING compared to this.
bentricky 1 month ago
@bentricky Jung Lin's version is awesome! She's the pianist in the universe
bwinkled 1 month ago
Ah, I like this version. It has much more of an elegant air to it.
OzSweetness 6 months ago
Is it sweat or a tear that falls from his nose at 6.08?
YorkshireLass89 6 months ago
it is too fast :(
blackr41n 6 months ago
I posted a video of 17 virtuosi attempting to play the almost unplayable alternating octaves at the end of this piece. It includes the best recordings of the past century.
A college student who plays the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, said this:
"I had 5 minutes of laughing at the greatest virtuosi! Please crucify me.
Seriously, many virtuosi released messy recordings, and there is no shame in criticizing their manner."
holdredger 6 months ago
@holdredger another account of yours, mikecaffey?
alspageddi 6 months ago
@alspageddi My video ends with Hamelin. Kastle is second to last. mikecaffey would never put his client second to last.
holdredger 6 months ago
@holdredger I checked out your video, how serious were you in including Maksim? Maksim is no virtuoso my man, he is not even good, LOL
mgbrad3388 6 months ago
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holdredger 6 months ago
why did he made a change after 8.21??
it sounds awkward...i prefer the original one >.<
abdullahbabi 6 months ago
@abdullahbabi it's a cadenza :), if you look at the sheet music at that part it says "cadenza ad lib" which means you have the choice of improvising and adding in your own cadenza and then finishing off with the prestissimo section
brandon485 6 months ago
@brandon485 oic...(I don't know about that because i don't know piano)
btw except the 'cadenza' part...every single note is so perfect for me, much better than Jung Lin
and Horowitz's version (personal opinion)...love this, full of 'elegance' ^^thanks for your info
abdullahbabi 6 months ago
@abdullahbabi I'd have to agree...
OzSweetness 6 months ago
incredibile ...il piu' impressionante mai visto
giuseppe76761 6 months ago
@95superbad jung lin is better :)
bwinkled 6 months ago 3
@bwinkled I don't think soo when this guy plays i just wanna dance i get all excited:) just my opinion thought:)
95superbad 6 months ago
Jazzy 8:55
ZupraVisor 6 months ago 26
how did his hands not fall off???
pianofan97 6 months ago
The fuck did I just listen to.
TheMoritati 6 months ago 19
@TheMoritati Musique! :D
silentwulfsfan 3 months ago
i think he played it too fast.
KatinssEverdeen1234 6 months ago
this music makes me fall in love
LadyElisabethx 7 months ago 2
How Come Tom & Jerry - Cat Concerto is the only performance of this that has pleasant sounding timing and everyone else are CRINGE ??
Safron42 7 months ago 4
11:13 LOL...Hamelin tryng to keep himself from breaking out in laughter
liszt141 7 months ago
6.05 Ahahahahahah
giuseppe35789 7 months ago 2
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@GOTTAFLYMAC I hate to disappoint you and all others who are swayed by the beautiful jazz chords he plays, but this is a jumble of cacophanic noise and this performance is pure crap.
ldhmage 7 months ago
The only one who I found on youtube and who REALLY has feeling how to play this song. I really enjoyed it. Congrate, you are professional.
muhamed555 7 months ago
@muhamed555 i think the same, he is amazing!!
LadyElisabethx 6 months ago
That looked about as easy to Hamelin as eating the poptart I just ate was to me.
MasterAzunai 7 months ago
alkan has crept into marcs writing! i hear him from 9:03-10:40
amxmachine 7 months ago
if u want to learn hungarian rhapsody 2 dont watch this video looool
akumanation 7 months ago
WHAT A CADENZA!! IT'S AMAZING!
Lawrencelovespiano 7 months ago
excellent interpretation of this piece of music...
Regarding the racist stuff how does that tie in with classical music...? :))
Also i think that this performance is a bit more aggressive than the Jung Lin interpretation, and funny stuff is that this is closest to the first version i have ever heard this song (Tom and Jerry :)) ) so i think that's why i like it more! So glad Fred Quimby included classical music in his cartoons :D not like this mainstream crap that we see today...
VikingNightmare 7 months ago 2
Thanks you aeabottss22. Are there more pianists than made his own cadenza? :)
paualenyar 7 months ago
@paualenyar Rachmaninoff did.
89hedgehog 7 months ago
best perform i've ever heard
kidd23kidd 7 months ago
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kidd23kidd 7 months ago
Is this a correct version? The other versions are shorter than this.
paualenyar 7 months ago
@paualenyar He made his own cadenza at the end of the piece. it adds about 4 minutes
aeabottss22 7 months ago
THE BEST !
m8a1x2 7 months ago
The cadenza is amazing ._.
TheExarion 7 months ago 2
OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHMOHMYGOSH!!!!!!!!!!
I freakin love this piece! I wish I could like this video 300zillion times!!!!
Hadleton 8 months ago
Although, speaking to my last comment, I love Hamelin as a pianist, and I think his interpretation is wonderful and creative in the first part...really not a fan of the Horowitz style improv at the end, sounds like grandstanding and doesn't contribute to the feeling or structure of the piece...my question with this kind of thing is why bother? These people are obviously incredibly intelligent and creative, why not write a new composition rather than make Liszt sound like something hes not?
Cancrizans 8 months ago
@Cancrizans First-hand observers of Franz Liszt in action performing his own music (as well as music of others) mention time and again that Liszt never let well enough alone - he was constantly re-writing his music in the middle of performance, adding double-thirds, arpeggios, etc., where none had been written. Liszt, by all accounts, was one of the great improvisers in history, and to play his music strictly as written is contrary to his own performance practice.
rekab7070 7 months ago
@rekab7070 Obviously, my comment was that the cadenza reminded me of that awful Horowitz routine, I personally found it not in the spirit of the piece, I love Marc Andre, just my opinion.
Cancrizans 6 months ago
Talking a look at the top rated comments for this piece will give you a good idea of how serious you should take any comments about classical music on Youtube.
Cancrizans 8 months ago 2
hamelin is THE MAN
FlyingBlackAndWhite 8 months ago
@mattyb2001uk Since you blocked me from your channel and all your maksim acts, I am making a comment here.
Since when have you admired MAH, you have attacked Hamelin fans and blocked them before on maksim's 'HR2' that is definitely an insult to Liszt.
Good to see you coming around and recognizing a real master in Hamelin, congratulations. Now overcome your bigotry and recognize Jung Lin as another master.
36beachbum 8 months ago
6:05 dropping blood from his nose
nihari 8 months ago
@nihari seems more like sweat?
tiberiusgun 8 months ago
Outta these 600k views I probably comprise 99.9% of those hits... XD
GunsNRosesFanatic 8 months ago 3
@GunsNRosesFanatic but then what of my 29,000 views?
huzzzzzzahh 8 months ago
The piano is a natural extension of Hamelin's body.
MarcheseCadmio88 8 months ago 33
dear god that was incredible
axolotl84 8 months ago
That's was outstanding!!!
ApachaiHapachai 8 months ago
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This is, in technicality, the hardest piece of music ever written. Hamelin, in technicality, is one the best pianist of modern day. When you put them together you get this. He also puts in his own modern cadenza which is also very clever and hard.
aeabottss22 8 months ago
This is, in technicality, the hardest piece of music ever written. Hamelin, in technicality, is one the best pianist of modern day. When you put them together you get this. He also puts in his own modern cadenza which is also very clever and hard.
aeabottss22 8 months ago
@aeabottss22 Did you put la campenella in that assessment? I'm halfway through this peice and I didnt get through 2 pages of la campenella. I haven't run into any thirds in hungarian rhapsody either.
venik88 8 months ago
@venik88 there are thirds in the first part of the second half... and i find this to be more difficult than the majority of la campenella... although there are definately more difficult parts in la campanella.... bottom line though, this is a hard piece and he plays it brilliantly ((love his cadenza's too, best i think i have heard))... but rach's 3rd is much MUCH harder than this.... atleast this is bare-able to play
ilikeaeroplanejelly1 8 months ago
@ilikeaeroplanejelly1 Actually there are quintuplets on the third page, I was mistakenly reading them as quarters.
venik88 7 months ago
@aeabottss22 Hardest piece technically? According to WHOM? Yes, it's a bitch to play, but I can think of at l east 10 others that are technically more over the top. Where did you get your info?
Litawyn 8 months ago
@Litawyn name one that doesn't come from the sonatina book for beginners that you play from.
aeabottss22 7 months ago
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Litawyn 7 months ago
@aeabottss22 Gaspard de la Nuit, by Ravel; Islamey by Balakirev; Three Movements from Petrushka, by Stravinsky; Evryali by Xenakis; Opus Clavicembalisticum, by Sorabji; Concerto for Solo Piano, by Alkan; Passacaglia on a Theme from Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, by Godowsky; Rudepoema, by Villa-Lobos; practically any transcription written by Cziffra, etc. etc.
Litawyn 7 months ago
Masterpiece
6:02 face kicks ass :D
Blizz352 8 months ago
dam it
josepixx 8 months ago
only mr tom cat can play this better..
rvn10rvn17 8 months ago
Nice, nice, nice video, congratulations !!!!!
verovieira1 8 months ago
I remember this from Army Men II.
BillyQuincy 9 months ago
I liked jung lins performance but I think this is a performance that even Hamelin would go wow when he looks back at his performances.. I like this performance, I think its a great interpretation..
MegaIbos 9 months ago
@MegaIbos No question Hamelin's is a great performance, he is a great pianist. Jung Lin's performance is astonishing and I love her musicality, she's absolutely a goddess on piano.
03mbk30 9 months ago 27
@03mbk30 I agree with your comment about Hamelin, but what relevance does Jung Lin's performance have to this one?
MasterAzunai 7 months ago
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@MasterAzunai I was responding to a comment made to me that said 'I liked jung lins performance but I think this is a performance that even Hamelin would go wow when he looks back at his performances.. I like this performance, I think its a great interpretation' good comments all around.
03mbk30 7 months ago
@03mbk30 He's a man
nicoejz 6 months ago
About "Hoffman" - it's Hofmann so if you're dishing up opinions, at least spell his name correctly. However, I know what you mean - most of his recordings sound emotionally cool, but they're all little 4 minute bonbons except for the '37 concert and by then he'd begun to be sloppy. It should mean something though that EVERY one of his contemporaries thought him the greatest pianist they'd ever heard in bigger repertoire. The recordings bear out his elegance and superhuman technical command.
gtimny 9 months ago
You're entitled to like or dislike whom you please, but as Sen. Moynihan once said "you're not entitled to your own set of facts." Claiming that "few go" to Kissin, Lugansky and Hough concerts is in tin foil hat territory. Hamelin has a "deal" with Hyperion that goes back about 25 years and has produced at least 15 albums that I am aware of. And about "only Russians and Chinese" being marketed - well, Jung Lin IS Chinese (born in Taiwan). She's great, just not in that league- and she'd agree.
gtimny 9 months ago
@gtimny Hamelin's deal is not with a major label, everyone knows it. Chinese I had in mind are Lang Lang and Yundi Li. Don't pretend you don't know Jung Lin is not Chinese, she's from Taiwan, vastly different countries and if she was from China she would already big huge in that country. Only Russians that have technique as good as Hamelin and Jung Lin are Kissin and Lisitsa. Lugansky and Hough don't belong in the same conversation LOL. About historical recordings, listen to Rach, enjoy !!!
03mbk30 9 months ago
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@03mbk30 OK - you win. Lugansky and Hough play Carnegie and every other major hall in the world every year and Lin plays the Botanical Gardens, St. Bart's and the Kosciuszko Fdn. because there is a conspiracy to deny her a career even though she's the greatest since Horowitz and the others are technical cripples. L and H are managed by Harrison Parrot and CMA, Lin has no manager. H just played Chicago Sym, L is on tour with St. Petersburg SO including Carnegie - Lin is at Instituto Cervantes.
gtimny 9 months ago
@gtimny OK - so you are on the payroll of L and H's management company, but you need to use your brains and know better than to mention those two here. Compared to Hamelin or Jung Lin, Lugansky is way short in technique and plays like a robot, no musicality. Hough plays Chopin and Brahms, top five finishers of the last Chopin competition were better. As far as playing Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Ctr, I haven't heard anyone worth seeing since Jung Lin's last Lincoln Center recital :)
03mbk30 8 months ago 3
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@03mbk30 Pretty clear you have a rather creepy Jung Lin obsession as you've managed to post a Jung Lin comment on just about every HR2 performance there is. Wouldn't be surprised to find you camped out in front of her apartment building. As to Lugansky's alleged technical faults - have a look at Feux Follets and repent of your stupidity. Hough, besides Chopin and Brahms, has recorded reams of the finger twistingest stunt repertoire there is including the Cziffra Trovatore. You need help.
gtimny 8 months ago
Flawless victory Sir
chaacx4 9 months ago