I'm trying to self teach myself this piece after four and a half years of piano....now that i see this i might just GIVE UP. This deserves a billion views cause you don't realise how hard this is until you try it...he makes it look easy but it is a pain on the fingers at times, requires determination and bags of skill.. gekic has it all....
@Adler900 altho i have to admit that this is a very hard piece to play (i myself dont noe how to play it), I dont think you shud be "taunted" by Gekic's playing and give up.
OMG i have been playing piano for 3 years and I can never ever play like that, I mean if you watch his fingers constantly, it is impossible to imagine , and especially at the end!
Your by FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR the best La campanella player ever!!! Wow i've also noticed the last part was a bit different, as if one tone echoes behind another one!! Impressive dude!!!! How come ther is only few videos of you playing??????
For those wondering about the improvising, this is a very common practice for great Liszt pianists ranging from Horowitz to Cziffra and now on to Gekic. It's a wonderful way for a virtuoso pianist to be creative and add a little something to a showpiece. And for the purists, even they must respect that Liszt was the type of pianist who would do this to other composers music - so now it comes fuill circle to his own music.
A very nice performance, not rushed and in great taste. For those who prefer more of a daredevil approach, Gavrilov's is hard to beat. But no question this is an extremely fine performance here.
How FUCKING obnoxious is that ad bubble over the video?! Youtube, BOO! I can't watch the video without a bubble saying "Dear youtube viewer...." BOOO!!!
Kemal... sorry. Your playing is great. I just can't watch the video with that obnoxiousness obscuring your playing Bye.
unorthodox yet mind blowing...listen to Andrea Lucchesini's version which I have posted on youtube..he recorded it when he was only 19 yet what finesse and maturity!
No, they don't play it with wrong notes. Rubinstein makes only one mistakes, but along with Gyorgy keep a consistent tempo and properly hammers the end of the piece.
Um... no it isn't. Again, at least Gyorgy and Rubinstein know how to hammer chords and octaves and don't insert unneeded cadenzas. His tempo is a bit uneven, also.
La Campanella means Litle Bells and not Hammering. The cadenzas are in spirit of Liszt and he wanted performers to do them. G.and R. slow down whenever it is harder to play. Their volume in loud parts is smaller than here.
But you are free to prefer them. As I said it is a matter of taste
Very interesting & enjoyable to hear at least once.The variants are fun,altho,as ever,the plus or minus from the original is debatable.What leaves me a bit empty is the "applied" technicality and "ideas" rather than spontaneous musicality & daring.This can be the disadvantage of studio-made DVDs.
Wow, I like Yundi Li's performance more, but this interpretation was very intriguing. I enjoyed the variation Gekic put into this, I haven't heard anything like it before.
Kissin is one of the most powerful and inspired players of history. No doubt. But what Kemal Gekic does with La Campanella absolutely amazing, he plays with great power and fierce, with beautiful expression and absolute clarity.
But the variations made in this piece, IMHO, are not so beauty than Liszt's original ideas. Liszt used to add notes or change the original score, actually to improve the piece, not to impoverish it. La campanella (and Liszt's music in general) is just so rich and virtuoso that we really don't need to add notes). Busoni, Cziffra, Horowitz, Wild and so on, adding and changing notes, make his music worst.
if kemal gekic plays normal,it will be good performance,too.needless on purpose improvisation.
by the way,if improvisation destroy the liszt' original piece,the improvisation is wrong.kemal gekic virsion is no problem,though.his improvisation is just a little.
if kemal gekic plays normal,it will be good performance,too.needless on purpose improvisation.
by the way,if improvisation destroy the liszt' original piece,the improvisation is wrong.kemal gekic virsion is no problem,though.his improvisation is just a little.
Music as any other art, is totally relative. Depends on each individual person. I love how he puts some of his own here. Im sure not even Liszt played his pieces the same way over and over and over, for me, it would be patetic. If I would want to listen it exactly how it was written, I'd buy a CD and play over and over until dead. But, its valid that you dont like it, but that doesnt mean its wrong, is it? Not you nor me have the absolute true.
I quite agree. "Because he ia a professional,it is natural to play the same as the score"??? This is nonsense.
Score is only a sheet of paper in black and white....two dimensional. Perfprmance is to make it more than dimentional, according to one's own conscience.
I don't think Gekic is violating the beauty Liszt created.
fernography is correct that art is completely relative. However, this does not excuse this performance, for the pianist goes far beyond the limitations of the music.
It can no longer be called liszt's campanella, but rather, gekic's campanella. Yes, music, including the score, is very open to interpretation and therefore many of the performers idea can be imposed on it, but within this, the composers original intent must be present, and felt by the audience at all times. This performances completely lacks this aspect of a good interpretation.
Nice additions I think, guess they're his own little tweaks. Anyway, busoni did a different version and so did Ignaz Friedman. I also recommend Cziffra's rendition highly, its astounding, it's on youtube, just audio. Checkitout.
total train wreck. bad tempi, not following the dynamic markings in the score, and making up whole sections (WTF is this shit at 1:44??!) bad chromatic work at 2:20. weird stuff at 3:17. then plays p when should be sf and then the reverse. and the coda totally breaks tempo. terrible.
I'm not sure why you're analyzing this piece as you are. Perhaps his technique and style is a bit different than you prefer, but please realize that he is generally considered the best Liszt performer in the world to date. Also realize that Kemal enjoys finding transcriptions of pieces. Are you sure that you're looking at the same score that he used? I'll grant you that this recording is not the best he has made, but does it deserve such scorn?
"generally considered the best Liszt performer in the world to date"?? could you provide some references to support that statement? i would be interested to read them, especially if they are by music critics.
yeah man, you have got to chill out. If you criticized Gekic this bad, I wonder what you said about Yundi Li and Evgeny Kissin. In my opinion, Kemal plays this piece the best.
very light and nice interpreation, not the interpreation I prefer, but it surprised me!!! I do not like campanella with yundi li or kissin... I prefer cziffra... but this one is a real discovery for me!!!
wow! at 4:18 he makes exactly the same mistake, in the left hand, as Yundi Li does in his video on youtube. Bizarre! I like both interpretations for different reasons, but this man is definately very creative and techniccally outstanding.
Yes, I like it! One of my favorite version of the Campanella on Youtube.
You often see pianist who make a good job in this piece but that look to be working sooo hard to make it. He is on top of things, and that's what I want to see when I look at a pianist: someone who is enjoying himself, not being afraid of not being able to put it together...
He recently performed at Florida International University with the FIU symphony Orchestra, and I saw him. He played Piano Concerto No.2 in G major by Tchaikovsky. He was insanely fast yet with incredible dynamics. He is a genius and he got a near 10 minute applause in which he exited and re-entered 3 times. On the last time he sat back down on the piano and played an encore by himself.
really, i came to see this vid only after watching Yundi Li... and he is WAY better. (before voting against this or replying, pls watch yundi li's intepretation)
yundi li as a pianist and musician can not untie the shoes of this man. Highflowdrummer, better stick to your drumming and don't mess with things you don't understand
one question.. can u play this piece? no? then stfu! I can play it.. and i still get bored with the piano.. thats why im starting with the drums this year. you people think u are so great evaluating the "musicality" of famous pianists.. and while that is truly important.. u fail to recognize that perfection while playing a piece is also important.
I totally agree with you. Simply amazing. Techinically and musically. Kemal Gekic is also one of the few who played Liszt's crazy transciption on William Tell Overture. What a genius.
Starting from brisk tempo(while many others enjoy nocturne-like slack pace),continuing with new cadezas, imaginative pedalling and ending in transforming the last occurence of the main theme into a canonic display, this is a paragon of creativity in this piece,of which I have yet to find equal on Youtube or elsewhere.If you are aware of it, please let me know. By the way, I commend your good taste regarding Busoni, and completely agree on Kissin and Li
I could never confess to have an understanding of music that you obviously posess. I can only relate to your comment that this piece is a paragon of creatitity. I have heard La Campanella plyed countless times but Gekic adds some magic particularly from 3:58 I have NEVER heard expressed as briliantly
Dear 88,It certainly isn't the most creative version.
On youTube Busoni's blasts it out of this hemisphere
where creativity & inventiveness is concerned,& there are many others in recorded history as well.On the other hand,compared to Kissin or Li,it sounds like the fountain of creativity.
Dear smithsherman,I have the highest esteem for Busoni. Unfortunately, we can not take the piano roll a a representative sample of his musicianship for variety of reasons. As displayed on the roll, Busoni's contribution lies in a deduction from the printed score( actually, some of the most difficult parts are omitted), while Gekic version is based on addition of new effects.
Missing the inner phrase timing & punctuation.Many phrases without surprise or particular charm.
He has a beautiful variance of rallentandi,but almost
no accelerandi.The Gesturality,legato,swelling,& serene mindset r lovely.Concluded,he expresses music but not expression as I was only moved at the end.
oohhh en el final hace en una mano el tema prencipal y el segundo al mismo tiempo dios eso es ina concentracion, independencia de dedos, y articulacion increible, bravissisiisiimo
This is without doubt the best performance of La Campanella I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. This beats all the others, kissin, yundi li, everyone.
Gekic is a true virtuoso and lives up to the term by adding his own interpretations of the piece into the performance. BRAVO!
I met him last night!!!!
Marc1414 1 month ago
It's the best version.. :*
junxtionbox 5 months ago
hell with y'all...this was exciting liveness! my 3 amigos = Kissin, Y-Li and Gekic
female goddesses = Valentina, Alicia de Larrocha and Ingrid Hemming ;)
DICACIO1 6 months ago
fun alterations and passion throughout.
kasyapa 6 months ago
No one can play like Gekic even in future. The best La Campanella!
MikenoTamami 6 months ago
with that hair he look like a real liszt
FirstPublicChannel 9 months ago
AMAZING!! PERFECT!! Liszt incarnated! Such Passion and Intensity And he looks like he's having fun! This is how piano should be played!
MsTallBlond 10 months ago
I love his improvisation at 3:57 .
It is very beautiful!
Venustsang1 11 months ago
When Hairy Met Sally.
ABigOneLikeDaddys 1 year ago
@1212surface
Samson to I suppose.
Delightful music !
Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
HeySlowPokes 1 year ago
This is incredible. No chaseing, just perfect, very lisztian to me. fool proof!
chamade216 1 year ago
15 people have no hair
sirzoro 1 year ago 9
@sirzoro :) i have no hair but he is still great !!!
canmoscow 4 months ago 2
this is first class piano playing.. wow
FishGush 1 year ago
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junxtionbox 1 year ago
The Best one, I've ever heard... Glamorous...
junxtionbox 1 year ago
I think this is an wonderful performance. He did very good~~~~~~
matthewhung212 1 year ago
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matthewhung212 1 year ago
Get a haircut !
HeySlowPokes 1 year ago
I'm trying to self teach myself this piece after four and a half years of piano....now that i see this i might just GIVE UP. This deserves a billion views cause you don't realise how hard this is until you try it...he makes it look easy but it is a pain on the fingers at times, requires determination and bags of skill.. gekic has it all....
Adler900 1 year ago
@Adler900 altho i have to admit that this is a very hard piece to play (i myself dont noe how to play it), I dont think you shud be "taunted" by Gekic's playing and give up.
Piglet0123456789 1 year ago
tu si tas cabreras estas bien loco
xfraq 1 year ago
more interesting creativity and one of the bigger sounds this piece has ever gotten.
kasyapa 1 year ago
OMG i have been playing piano for 3 years and I can never ever play like that, I mean if you watch his fingers constantly, it is impossible to imagine , and especially at the end!
catgirl999yt 1 year ago
bravo!
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As if Liszt's edition wasn't difficult enough?!?! :(
He kind of makes everyone else seem like students
SimonDanellPiano 2 years ago
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SimonDanellPiano 2 years ago
He made some awesome additions to the song, BRAVO!
jacoman1234567 2 years ago
The only word for this pianist is Genius.
sonicsyndicate1111 2 years ago 3
Your by FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR the best La campanella player ever!!! Wow i've also noticed the last part was a bit different, as if one tone echoes behind another one!! Impressive dude!!!! How come ther is only few videos of you playing??????
linezero3 2 years ago
For those wondering about the improvising, this is a very common practice for great Liszt pianists ranging from Horowitz to Cziffra and now on to Gekic. It's a wonderful way for a virtuoso pianist to be creative and add a little something to a showpiece. And for the purists, even they must respect that Liszt was the type of pianist who would do this to other composers music - so now it comes fuill circle to his own music.
PIanoReview 2 years ago
A very nice performance, not rushed and in great taste. For those who prefer more of a daredevil approach, Gavrilov's is hard to beat. But no question this is an extremely fine performance here.
PIanoReview 2 years ago
so creative!
enjoyjoyjoyfully 2 years ago
Hasn't he improvised in some places?
It sounds so different from any other performance I've heard.
Are there multiple compositions?
parapluiesdechebourg 2 years ago
different version?
xiaoqiaozhugeliang 2 years ago
Bravo!!!!! I like this rendition even better than Claudio Arrau's...
RFanatic730 2 years ago
Interesting! :D
anemonejins 2 years ago
the piece is really difficult and full of technicality
but then, as he plays the piece... It is just simple and easy for him to play.
:P
salamence47 2 years ago
How FUCKING obnoxious is that ad bubble over the video?! Youtube, BOO! I can't watch the video without a bubble saying "Dear youtube viewer...." BOOO!!!
Kemal... sorry. Your playing is great. I just can't watch the video with that obnoxiousness obscuring your playing Bye.
egitnyc 2 years ago 6
Same here, man :D
sonicsyndicate1111 2 years ago
well turn it off with the button on the lower right of the vid
nx2000 2 years ago 2
You can turn off annotations, you know.
xXNickPXx 2 years ago
Definitely worth listening to. I dislike the way he kills the rhythm at 4:10 though. It's a creative performance, but slightly eccentric.
demosj 2 years ago
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kirishimaboo 2 years ago
he's uhm.. ok. i say he's into it to randomly improvise, but i still like Kissin's interpretation better and i really like his technique
TrackMeIoI 2 years ago 3
his hand technique is similar to horowitz
Zoaguyver 2 years ago
this is not best campanella, but it/s interesting.
rva25 2 years ago
Simply perfect! Probably the way that Liszt played the piece....
arsencarkic 2 years ago
Agreed. Fluid thought and controlled fingers. In my head this is how Liszt himself would have spun it.
TomOwen77 2 years ago
But having said that Gekic is a genius! He takes artistic liberty to a level which is redefined,,,
BoratBrother 2 years ago 2
unorthodox yet mind blowing...listen to Andrea Lucchesini's version which I have posted on youtube..he recorded it when he was only 19 yet what finesse and maturity!
BoratBrother 2 years ago
Gyorgy and Rubinstein all the way.
yelvaberry 3 years ago
this is way better
marinanarim 2 years ago
No, it isn't. Both Gyorgy and Rubinstein have better tone color and tempo.
yelvaberry 2 years ago
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marinanarim 2 years ago
No they don't. Both tempo and sound here are superior to theirs. But that may be your taste
marinanarim 2 years ago
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MoonMankkkkkk 2 years ago
They think it is a nocturno and they play too slow like most of people. Also with wrong notes. Listen to the
3rd mvt of Paganini Concerto no 2 where this theme comes from to learn the proper speed.
marinanarim 2 years ago
No, they don't play it with wrong notes. Rubinstein makes only one mistakes, but along with Gyorgy keep a consistent tempo and properly hammers the end of the piece.
MoonMankkkkkk 2 years ago
Consistent SLOW tempo
marinanarim 2 years ago
Um... no it isn't. Again, at least Gyorgy and Rubinstein know how to hammer chords and octaves and don't insert unneeded cadenzas. His tempo is a bit uneven, also.
MoonMankkkkkk 2 years ago
La Campanella means Litle Bells and not Hammering. The cadenzas are in spirit of Liszt and he wanted performers to do them. G.and R. slow down whenever it is harder to play. Their volume in loud parts is smaller than here.
But you are free to prefer them. As I said it is a matter of taste
marinanarim 2 years ago
At 2'35" and 2'55" Cziffra adds his own cadenzas. It does not bother me. They are nice and in the Liszt spirit
marinanarim 2 years ago
this one comes with some crazyness, very good one indeed. This one makes me high.
yeelic 3 years ago
mucho mejor q kissin...de lejos..
gonzal0999 3 years ago
totally crazy. wow
frenchmusician12 3 years ago
Very interesting & enjoyable to hear at least once.The variants are fun,altho,as ever,the plus or minus from the original is debatable.What leaves me a bit empty is the "applied" technicality and "ideas" rather than spontaneous musicality & daring.This can be the disadvantage of studio-made DVDs.
NOSEhow2LIV 3 years ago
Hi Paul//I am glad you liked it a bit
88Woland 3 years ago
Wow, I like Yundi Li's performance more, but this interpretation was very intriguing. I enjoyed the variation Gekic put into this, I haven't heard anything like it before.
WillCathers 3 years ago
mamma che fenomeno!!! però è meglio KISSIN
Attila19101960 3 years ago
he plays that 3-octave RH part insane!!!
One of my favorite performances!!
stienwayz 3 years ago
Interesting and exciting! In my opinion Liszt would have been thrilled that a pianist was adding ideas to his composition.
amused12day 3 years ago
Kissin is one of the most powerful and inspired players of history. No doubt. But what Kemal Gekic does with La Campanella absolutely amazing, he plays with great power and fierce, with beautiful expression and absolute clarity.
musicolorhythm 3 years ago
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kissin plays it well balanced and best!
haileygirl01 3 years ago
good, better, best... relative words in music... but you can't deny this is one of the "best" ones, too, right?
gipfeli 3 years ago 14
@gipfeli Aye, Alice Sare Ott has the ease, Kissin has the technique, Yundi Li has the beautiful sound, but Gekic has it all. 10/10
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NOT BAD THIS IS GREAT!
insantlye 3 years ago
~hey boys~
bquarante 3 years ago
its just my opinion but i don't appreciate much his version...,but he has great musicality and technique! bravo~!
gyseegy 3 years ago
His improv at 3:58 was amazing!
ink24571 3 years ago 3
He is amazing, truly, 5 stars.
But the variations made in this piece, IMHO, are not so beauty than Liszt's original ideas. Liszt used to add notes or change the original score, actually to improve the piece, not to impoverish it. La campanella (and Liszt's music in general) is just so rich and virtuoso that we really don't need to add notes). Busoni, Cziffra, Horowitz, Wild and so on, adding and changing notes, make his music worst.
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This is boring
michieldpiano 3 years ago
great! very interesting version 5/5
FutureAbe 3 years ago
Powerful
rankfrankrank 3 years ago
sounds like a jet engine
Rohit0406 3 years ago
I agree with koizumiyakumo.
he is one of good piano player.
and this is good performance.
if kemal gekic plays normal,it will be good performance,too.needless on purpose improvisation.
by the way,if improvisation destroy the liszt' original piece,the improvisation is wrong.kemal gekic virsion is no problem,though.his improvisation is just a little.
chinenyuki 3 years ago
I agree with koizumiyakumo.
he is one of good piano player.
and this is good performance.
if kemal gekic plays normal,it will be good performance,too.needless on purpose improvisation.
by the way,if improvisation destroy the liszt' original piece,the improvisation is wrong.kemal gekic virsion is no problem,though.his improvisation is just a little.
chinenyuki 3 years ago
posted two times is error,sorry
chinenyuki 3 years ago
wow.... powerful yet so very gentle.....
sounds like it's so much fun.
UpsidedownVieweing 3 years ago
In my opinion he is the best playing this song!
notteee 3 years ago 4
wow, talk about technic
incredible
impathesheikah 4 years ago
his inprovisation(improvisation) is very bad.
I think good performance without inprovesation(improvisation).
he must play more normal.
he must play like score.
koizumiyakumo 4 years ago
Can you do it better? Show us please.
fernography 4 years ago
It is unrelated whether it is possible to perform well.
The audience wants to listen to the performance according to the score.
I want him not to put the improvisation performance.
Because he is a professional, it is natural to do the performance the same as
the score.
koizumiyakumo 4 years ago
the first sentense,I made a mistake.
It is unrelated whether it is possible to perform better.
koizumiyakumo 4 years ago
Music as any other art, is totally relative. Depends on each individual person. I love how he puts some of his own here. Im sure not even Liszt played his pieces the same way over and over and over, for me, it would be patetic. If I would want to listen it exactly how it was written, I'd buy a CD and play over and over until dead. But, its valid that you dont like it, but that doesnt mean its wrong, is it? Not you nor me have the absolute true.
fernography 4 years ago 2
Bravo fernography!
I quite agree. "Because he ia a professional,it is natural to play the same as the score"??? This is nonsense.
Score is only a sheet of paper in black and white....two dimensional. Perfprmance is to make it more than dimentional, according to one's own conscience.
I don't think Gekic is violating the beauty Liszt created.
AuPrintemps 4 years ago
Is the first sentense is wrong?
It is no relationship whether it is possible to perform better.
rafaelleonard 4 years ago
Is the first sentense wrong?
It is no relationship whether it is possible to perform better.
rafaelleonard 4 years ago
koizumiyakumo, you're such an idiot--and you repeatedly express the same idiotic idea on almost every youtube piano solo video.
You seem to believe that music is a game, where the object is to play exactly the written score--and anything else is an error, an abomination.
Why no just create your own MIDIs of precisely the correct notes--then you won't have to bother watching youtube anymore??
GetMeThere1 3 years ago
fernography is correct that art is completely relative. However, this does not excuse this performance, for the pianist goes far beyond the limitations of the music.
Arcolithe 4 years ago
It can no longer be called liszt's campanella, but rather, gekic's campanella. Yes, music, including the score, is very open to interpretation and therefore many of the performers idea can be imposed on it, but within this, the composers original intent must be present, and felt by the audience at all times. This performances completely lacks this aspect of a good interpretation.
Arcolithe 4 years ago
Nice additions I think, guess they're his own little tweaks. Anyway, busoni did a different version and so did Ignaz Friedman. I also recommend Cziffra's rendition highly, its astounding, it's on youtube, just audio. Checkitout.
patrickytting 4 years ago
great
fsgmasato 4 years ago
did not enjoy this one.
stradavarius 4 years ago
Amazing
OorvakanSar 4 years ago
total train wreck. bad tempi, not following the dynamic markings in the score, and making up whole sections (WTF is this shit at 1:44??!) bad chromatic work at 2:20. weird stuff at 3:17. then plays p when should be sf and then the reverse. and the coda totally breaks tempo. terrible.
jmsofia 4 years ago
I'm not sure why you're analyzing this piece as you are. Perhaps his technique and style is a bit different than you prefer, but please realize that he is generally considered the best Liszt performer in the world to date. Also realize that Kemal enjoys finding transcriptions of pieces. Are you sure that you're looking at the same score that he used? I'll grant you that this recording is not the best he has made, but does it deserve such scorn?
PaulTergeist314 4 years ago 2
"generally considered the best Liszt performer in the world to date"?? could you provide some references to support that statement? i would be interested to read them, especially if they are by music critics.
jmsofia 4 years ago
Granted this is taken directly from his website (so the quotes are filtered), but the Boston Globe quote is rather indicative...
"the most talented pianist since Horowitz"
Boston Globe
"One of those phenomenal few in any generation born to play - a 'piano centaur' as it was said of Liszt"
Adrian Corleonis, Fanfare, USA
Check out his website to read some reviews: kemalgekic(dot)info You can also check out the publishers if you are so inclined.
PaulTergeist314 4 years ago 2
yeah man, you have got to chill out. If you criticized Gekic this bad, I wonder what you said about Yundi Li and Evgeny Kissin. In my opinion, Kemal plays this piece the best.
mastrovito88 4 years ago
Kemal the best
mathias4545 4 years ago
Unleash the beast
mathias4545 4 years ago
harikasınız
unalegeli 4 years ago
Amazingly great!!!... Nothing more to say.
agt200 4 years ago
this is absolutely amazing. look at his hands. omg.
SirMuco 4 years ago
Excellent. I dislike the piano though, it rather spoils the performance approaching the end.
Supanova7G 4 years ago
i dont know this version, its the first or second version of la campanella of liszt ? i love particulary the part at 3:56.
quelle est cette version ?
indokinawa 4 years ago
a great piano player. Almost won chopin competition
nico22059 4 years ago 2
very light and nice interpreation, not the interpreation I prefer, but it surprised me!!! I do not like campanella with yundi li or kissin... I prefer cziffra... but this one is a real discovery for me!!!
marcelmombeekeigen 4 years ago
Every interpretation of his is a real discovery!
mordent17 3 years ago 2
wow! at 4:18 he makes exactly the same mistake, in the left hand, as Yundi Li does in his video on youtube. Bizarre! I like both interpretations for different reasons, but this man is definately very creative and techniccally outstanding.
wouterpathetique 4 years ago
Maybe...just maybe...it isnt a mistake
mastrovito88 4 years ago
Maybe Liszt made the mistake writing it down like that ;-)
wouterpathetique 4 years ago
just kidding. ;) but he IS the best!
courtmcl 4 years ago
Yes, I like it! One of my favorite version of the Campanella on Youtube.
You often see pianist who make a good job in this piece but that look to be working sooo hard to make it. He is on top of things, and that's what I want to see when I look at a pianist: someone who is enjoying himself, not being afraid of not being able to put it together...
guboub 4 years ago
He recently performed at Florida International University with the FIU symphony Orchestra, and I saw him. He played Piano Concerto No.2 in G major by Tchaikovsky. He was insanely fast yet with incredible dynamics. He is a genius and he got a near 10 minute applause in which he exited and re-entered 3 times. On the last time he sat back down on the piano and played an encore by himself.
mastrovito88 4 years ago
Wonderful! But is he a nice person?
billabongxv 4 years ago
Yes, the Genius is so kind a gentleman. He is one of the most sophisticated and generous artist whom I have ever met.
vzv06101 4 years ago
Yeah he's a cool guy, i only talked to him once but he's a chill guy.
mastrovito88 4 years ago
Do you have a tape of the performance?
vzv06101 4 years ago
He is artist in resident at my school...hehe i see him everyday...anybody jealous?
mastrovito88 4 years ago
Damn u >> ;p
nightblade37 4 years ago
I am jealous....is he nice?
billabongxv 4 years ago
yeah he's super chill and a good teacher I hear. (im a classical guitar player so I wouldn't know)
mastrovito88 4 years ago
i'm insanely jealous
courtmcl 4 years ago
of mastrovito.. he's at your university for real?
courtmcl 4 years ago
yeah he is
mastrovito88 4 years ago
What school?!
ugnex3 4 years ago
FIU
mastrovito88 4 years ago
LA CAMPANELLA IS GREAAAAAAAAT
really, i came to see this vid only after watching Yundi Li... and he is WAY better. (before voting against this or replying, pls watch yundi li's intepretation)
yundi li = Heaven's music
HiGhFlowDrummer 4 years ago
yundi li as a pianist and musician can not untie the shoes of this man. Highflowdrummer, better stick to your drumming and don't mess with things you don't understand
billabongxv 4 years ago
You got that rite.
nightblade37 4 years ago
one question.. can u play this piece? no? then stfu! I can play it.. and i still get bored with the piano.. thats why im starting with the drums this year. you people think u are so great evaluating the "musicality" of famous pianists.. and while that is truly important.. u fail to recognize that perfection while playing a piece is also important.
HiGhFlowDrummer 4 years ago
I must agree with billablong on this one, and I will politely say shut the fuck up : )
TheUnfan4222 4 years ago
lol, yundi li sucks
nico22059 4 years ago
He does look like Liszt dont u think?? heheh Technically and appearance.
nightblade37 4 years ago 4
I know! towards the end he looks just like him.
mordent17 3 years ago
Posdravilyate! ;) By FAR the best Campanella. What a genius! His playing has everything- creativity, personality, wit, structure... Unbelievable.
scottchirish 4 years ago
I totally agree with you. Simply amazing. Techinically and musically. Kemal Gekic is also one of the few who played Liszt's crazy transciption on William Tell Overture. What a genius.
nightblade37 4 years ago
不错不错
garyqian 4 years ago
Starting from brisk tempo(while many others enjoy nocturne-like slack pace),continuing with new cadezas, imaginative pedalling and ending in transforming the last occurence of the main theme into a canonic display, this is a paragon of creativity in this piece,of which I have yet to find equal on Youtube or elsewhere.If you are aware of it, please let me know. By the way, I commend your good taste regarding Busoni, and completely agree on Kissin and Li
88Woland 4 years ago
I could never confess to have an understanding of music that you obviously posess. I can only relate to your comment that this piece is a paragon of creatitity. I have heard La Campanella plyed countless times but Gekic adds some magic particularly from 3:58 I have NEVER heard expressed as briliantly
busylifemeto 4 years ago 2
88Woland = way too smart....
TheUnfan4222 4 years ago
Dear 88,It certainly isn't the most creative version.
On youTube Busoni's blasts it out of this hemisphere
where creativity & inventiveness is concerned,& there are many others in recorded history as well.On the other hand,compared to Kissin or Li,it sounds like the fountain of creativity.
smithsherman 4 years ago
Dear smithsherman,I have the highest esteem for Busoni. Unfortunately, we can not take the piano roll a a representative sample of his musicianship for variety of reasons. As displayed on the roll, Busoni's contribution lies in a deduction from the printed score( actually, some of the most difficult parts are omitted), while Gekic version is based on addition of new effects.
88Woland 4 years ago
Missing the inner phrase timing & punctuation.Many phrases without surprise or particular charm.
He has a beautiful variance of rallentandi,but almost
no accelerandi.The Gesturality,legato,swelling,& serene mindset r lovely.Concluded,he expresses music but not expression as I was only moved at the end.
smithsherman 4 years ago
The most creative Campanella
88Woland 4 years ago
sii en 3:57 hace un canon con una mano dios es increible
JACZERO5 4 years ago
oohhh en el final hace en una mano el tema prencipal y el segundo al mismo tiempo dios eso es ina concentracion, independencia de dedos, y articulacion increible, bravissisiisiimo
JACZERO5 4 years ago
me dejo sin palabras, es la mejor interpretacion que he escuchado!!!
JACZERO5 4 years ago
Amazing performance, and crystal clear playing. But way too fast in some parts :/
CockroachCake 4 years ago
too fast on La Campanella? there's a first.....
TheUnfan4222 4 years ago 2
damn can't believe i didn't see this easier. the final theme addition is sweet. great effects too
eribani 4 years ago 2
I would love to play like this ...
maybe on my 13th Bday!!!!
blueyoyi 4 years ago
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morbongonsales 4 years ago
I know it was correct , but the effect is not my style.
Maybe yours , than its cool :p
lolkikker 4 years ago
Ha, he's the splitting image of Franz Liszt.
NeoComposer 4 years ago
I agree with lisztforlife .
This beats all.3:14 - 3:18 is not that good ...
But all the rest is heaven.
lolkikker 4 years ago
bravissimo! questa e la migliore esecuzione della campanella che abbia mai udito
Hellpiano 4 years ago
sin duda la mejor interpretación que he visto!! simplemente magnifico!!!
Soltan1988 4 years ago
This is without doubt the best performance of La Campanella I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. This beats all the others, kissin, yundi li, everyone.
Gekic is a true virtuoso and lives up to the term by adding his own interpretations of the piece into the performance. BRAVO!
LisztForLife 4 years ago
he added a whole bunch of notes everywhere in this piece. weird coda....i don't know......
spanky225sn 4 years ago