Berezovsky - Liszt - Transcendental Etude No 12 ''chasse-Neige'

[jeangodecoster]

two people have got a sore thumb from looking at this vid

[dalecampbl7]

can't they put a giant fan on him?

[TheClaudioArrau]

I think Liszt wrote these etudes so that after playing all 12 every key on your piano would be out of tune. What you missed it the video was the break after each etude to tune the piano :/

[chuckbuckbobuck]

I doubt there is a piano piece more moving then this one. I have the CD of this movement along with several other Liszt pieces and have just about worn it out. I love this piano piece!!

[AlexandreJdB]

The best of all the transcendental etudes IMO

[PoesSoul7]

He's simply the best.

[diees]

how can you be more accomplished than this? yeah, yeah going beyond Liszt..is that even possible?

[colaband96]

@diees HAHA RAVEL!

[diees]

@colaband96 I mean these days, being alive that is

[jeangodecoster]

He was kinda in a hurry to finish this one off :-) 4:27 to play a piece that usually takes around 6 :-) nevertheless, great performance

[145zazaza]

very emotional

[kakehavata]

Claudio Arrau could play these when he was 11 years old. Go figure...

[spartan1081990]

not even all the "talent" of rapers,pop singers and other artists combined can create something half as good

[iulianik]

После В.В.Софроницкого он- лучший!!!!!

[frncgrc]

great touch....great pianist!

[thecollective10]

jesus....

[micheltennil]

La virtuosité est une nécessité, non un but. Jeu trop rapide, tempo inégal, mélodie inaudible, notes "sautées". Andante con moto. Cortot écrivait "ne pas méconnaître le sentiment douloureusement expressif de la ligne mélodique, trop fréquemment négligé au seuls profits d'une virtuosité exceptionnelle. Ecoutez l'interprétation d'Arrau. Vous comprendrez pourquoi Martin Krause, élève du compositeur, qualifiait le jeune Claudio de "plus grand talent naturel depuis Liszt".

[xo4u1dessert]

@micheltennil pour les grands virtuoses le but est de mélanger virtuosité et sentiments, c est ce que fait ici BB. Et le tempo inégal est ce qu on appelle en musique le Rubatto, c est fréquent, meme Arrau en faisait.

Puis Ok y a des imperfections, mais faut souligner le fait que BB vient d offrir au public les 11 autres études de Liszt, il doit etre "un peu" fatigué.

[xo4u1dessert]

@micheltennil et enfin, ta belle citation de Krause ne marche que pour le début du 20èmè siècle, je pense qu il ne connaissait pas encore BB ou encore Gelels, Richter, Sokolov...........

[TheManRaptor]

It looks like his hand is trembling! (Not really, but it looks like it)

[mrkwonsony]

guys like "hellomate639" proves nothing especially on internet, but something about their brain. If you can't prove and if you are not well known as much or better than (as) Berezovsky, stop fucking saying "oh, it's been only (1 ~ 2) years and I can play this piece". What a nerd line there dude.

[Angel94angel94]

chasse neige is one of the most beautyfull etude ever and i say thanks to Franz Liszt for writing it

[TheSmurffather]

He finds the time to scratch his nose ;x ....

[RobWiebe]

sure

[AmericanCars101]

liszt would be alot better

[ljoekelsoey4]

i dunno to be honest, in his time liszt was astoundingly good, but we cant truly ocmpare him to today becuase of the bias of all who saw and heard him play,and pianism has come on a long way. berezovsky plays this perfectly, and has a brilliant rendition of it, i would be suprised if liszt could play this better.

[theompizzle]

well for one, liszt didn't sweat like a pig when he played. as good as boris may be (and he is quite phenomenal), his technique is still forced. there's reports of liszt playing his erlkonig transcription without breaking a sweat...and that's a far more physically demanding piece than this one.

[celach]

Note that Berezovsky isn't sweating JUST because of playing No.12... he's sweating from playing Transcendental Etudes No.1-12 in an OUTDOOR concert. Also note that you don't sweat because you work hard, you sweat cause your body temperature rises.

[Alejandro270193]

how do you knosw that it was OUTDOOR? i don't see the sky....

[celach]

I was there... uploaded the original videos (HQ) to my profile

[Alejandro270193]

well, yes I've already downloaded all your vides in HQ, but i don't understand, how can it be OUTDOOR?

[nousernamewhatsoever]

@celach It's like it should be a warning video,something like Pianists Beware : that's what happens when you attempt to play Liszt's transcendental etudes!

[hellomate639]

@nousernamewhatsoever

I've played this many times in a row before with no sweat, often playing the most physically demanding parts repeatedly.

It's the temperature of the room, as romantic as it would be to say that the piece was so hard it made him start dripping in sweat.

[nousernamewhatsoever]

@hellomate639 Lol it does sound rather romantic doesn't it?Berezovsky working so hard to please the audience that he starts sweating profusely...

Poor him...and I guess all those lights directly on him didn't help.The fact that his hands didn't slip even a little is amazing!

[thegreatapologist]

@nousernamewhatsoever Probably because the sweat was absorbed by his shirt :)

[thecr8tor]

@hellomate639 But you must remember that he played 11 Transcendental Etudes before this one.

[hellomate639]

@thecr8tor

What I mean to say is I've played this piece for hours in a row, longer than he was playing this etude, without sweat. It was the lack of air conditioning, the lights and maybe nerves that made him sweat like that.

[salviati]

This kind of comment is so unhelpful and demeaning to someone who is clearly a world-class artist. It contributes nothing to what should be an uplifting discussion.

[Alejandro270193]

well, i also sweat like a pig, i think it is a biological thing of each one.

[afertyus1000]

just leave it at you 'dunno'

[afertyus1000]

haha what a lame comment

[Gutelimpa]

nice find haha

[dottbd91]

...che tecnica...wow...

[John11inch]

The scariest part is that he did this after playing the other eleven.

I think Liszt put this one at the end as a cruel joke for anyone who wanted to play them all in concert; requires so much control and stamina.

[FredilYupigo]

Hahaha. That must be it! :P

Although you must admit that he probably wouldn't put this much effort into a cruel joke ;)

[lottoformulier]

@John11inch We all know that Liszt must have been quite sadistic

[Desmonddd2002]

Comparing to scratching noses, I like his piano skill's better.

[singsinsing]

It was somewhat careless interpretation and he threw away the climaxes.

[bozebro201]

i agree. technically amazing but he could have done more musically at the climaxes. that mistake at the end of the first major chromatic scale is not because he can't do it, just carelessness.

[singsinsing]

I didn't mean the mistakes, he played the piece as if there was no climax. Certainly he can play the etudes (is there something he couldn't?) but I don't think I've ever heard him play some easy pieces, all pieces he plays are some super hard virtuoso pieces. Anyway he probably was a bit fatiqued in this piece, perhaps.

[FredilYupigo]

Indeed, I would say that Berezovsky's technique exceeds all pianists EVER except Godowsky and perhaps Liszt himself.

AMAZING!!!11!!1

[Aul1kki]

What about hamelin? And don't forget alkan.

[johnbaptistlulu]

and many others: Horowitz, Argerich, Chopin, Beethoven, Richter, Wilhelm Kempff, Pollini, Rachmaninoff... once technique reaches a certain level of perfection it is not needed to improve any more, so all the great pianist and composers were about the same in that area. liszt of course and godowsky were the top of the list because they pushed technique limitsfurther than ever before.

[Aul1kki]

Depends on what do you mean with that technique. Because it would be funny to see horowitz, chopin, beethoven, richter, kempff, pollini or rachmaninov trying to play this piece at this tempo. It's really hard to say anything about beethoven's or chopin's technique, because we have never heard their playing. But if we suppose that their technique was about the same as the difficulty level of their compositions, I don't believe they could do that.

[hellomate639]

This piece is overrated for difficulty because the hands look like a blur at the octaves. I can play it and I've only been playing for 2 years. Yes I'm good, but I'm not so good that I can rise to the hardest things to play in 2 years. It took me a bit too, but it's not as hard as it looks once you got it in your muscle memory. The tremolos are harder, but any concert pianist with a strong hand can play it as fast as Berezovsky. I think Arrau was old when he played it...

[Anders039]

Hello, I bet your version suck :)

[mozeskriebel]

I want him playing all these etudes @ dvd/cd. Anyone any idea where i can buy that? Plz send me a message, thanx in advance:)

[celach]

I have the original entire video, I can make a DVD of it for you if you want.

[hellomate639]

Fuck, I'm downloading this before it gets removed again... lol...

[trigalg693]

That's why you download it long before it gets removed :)

[FabioThePianist]

You're welcome, if you want, subscrive to my channel, I'll upload more video at soon possible

[Aul1kki]

This is just unbelievable version! Definitely best one. Thank you for posting.

[Dimeliszt]

he is un-stopable

[BachScholar]

This is incredible. Incredibly good, that is.

[VikingBerserker]

The camera angles in this vid are pretty damn annoying.

They only need one shot, not a billion close-ups.

all they need is the angle at 3:00.

[spartan1081990]

thank you so much :)!. i thought I wouldn't see this video again !.

[OverFjell]

YAY! Chasse-Neige is back up! Thank you Fabio!

[scheggiasms]

Thank for posting

this videos.

Passion,tecnique,

interpretation;uniques!

Mr. Berezovsky,born for playing.

Best russian pianist,no doubt!:D