To all who are arguing on speed and virtuosity, who the heck cares? That's not what music is about. In my perspective, a musician who views himself as an "athlete" instead of an artist is a failure. If you don't include artistic value, nobody will have interest in whatever you're playing.
Cziffra is amazing, and all, but Horowitz has that artistic value that makes up for any lack of virtuosity. Why are you even comparing the two? They're both great musicians.
@everblue01 You're talking nonsense. In case you are not aware of basic musical facts, ALL piano versions of Flight of the Bumble Bee are either transcriptions or arrangments since the original piece comes from an opera. Stating that Cziffra's version is overrated only shows the extent of your ignorance. Worshipping a particular artist should not prevent you to get informed before posting such drivel.
This is my all-time favorite piece. I ahve heard numerous students play it, without emotion or tempo and everyone says they're amazing. This man stalked bees in order to play this, so if those peoplea re amazing, then this guys is God.
The original version is clearly the piece with more character and clarity. The overrated Cziffra version seems to me like it was only made to impress and not to express. It is executed by wannabe "artists" who cannot be a quarter of what Horowitz has been.
I suppose. However that is a way you wouldn't want to go - there is a list of pieces Horowitz completely destroyed more to 'impress not to express". Many pianists like Cziffra or Horowitz for forced into that position because of their fame and popularity. The same old piece wasn't enough for the public.
@everblue01 IMO Cziffra's version of flight of bumblebee is fantastic, just because of Cziffra's touch. It sounds like a real bee to me. Otherwise, id agree with you.
Horowitz is, admittedly, my favorite. However, it amazes me how there are always people who must comment that so and so are better, or faster. Guys, this is art. Not sports or any other kind of competition. Relax, enjoy and if you must compare greatest, go to baseball videos or something.
Oh man, clear, vivid, lively, expressive, any word pianists use today, may well be applied here. :D. I dunno why, but his interpretations are what I want whenever I hear them the first time. Like, his Chopin Op. 10 no. 5 is the most enchanting. Now, I prefer this than Maksim's.
The true difficult of this is not the speed but is tu play all the notes with precision, and Horowitz do this very well. I don't like this played faster.
like he stalkd bees for about a year and layed out this song on the pianos. this is THE flight of the bumble bee. this is AWESOM. doesnt deserve to be playd at mach 5 on the keys
@Virtuosic1 Actually this is a piece that is trying to put a bumble bee flight into notes and invoke an image of a bumble bee flying around in the listeners mind. It has nothing to do with speed. If you don't see a bumble bee in your head while listening to this piece then the performer failed imo.
In Horowitz's interpretation I can clearly see the little bumble bee doing it's thing :)
@Rozinaa The only other player on youtube to play this properly is Kissin. Too bad that Horowitz's recording is so old. Both evoke the bumblebee rather clearly. Most other players play it very ploddingly or merely attempt to go for the land speed record, both of which are completely inappropriate.
@ayokay123 There is a video on YT of Rachmaninoff playing "flight of the bumblebee" that's not too shabby either :-)) You are right, Kissin plays it well. And it's good there are no comments here extolling the virtues of Maksim or Yuja.
@Pianoboyness This is pretty damn fast as it is, but Horowitz makes it as though it isn't. Every note is perfectly heard. He was most certainly a master, and at least by my count, one of the best interpreters of this particular piece (which is of course not to say anything about his mastery of so many others).
@godXofXpath Actually, I'm a very good troll! I can play this piece with as much articulation as this fool, and at a far faster pace. I also play Cziffra's version of this at tempo. Search Virtuosic1 if you doubt me, cocksucker.
@Ragtime44Films Fuck art. This is a piece about virtuosity. It's a gauge to determine who has the monster chops. What you fail to understand is that you can never have enough facility. The more you are capable of, the more HEADROOM you have so you can still play a piece tremendously fast (compared to your peers) and have LOADS of headroom so your playing is never strained and limitless in dynamic expression. I NEVER play at my technical limit, I ALWAYS hold in reserve.
@Ragtime44Films The ability to be able to play at Warp 1 is art in itself. Some people are pre-disposed genetically for speed, a "type A" nervous system, capable of ultra fast movement. This ability, plus learning to "tickle" a piano key rather than to depress it, that is, being able to play at the surface of the key, instead of from above it (a technique that cuts serious vertical movement lag time, can produce an impulse technique not unlike the beating of a hummingbird's wings.
@Ragtime44Films You know nothing about genetic potential. That's like saying, "anyone on earth can dunk a basketball with practice, even dwarves" Or "anyone on earth can take steroids and bench press 1090 pounds". Yet, there's only 1 man on earth who can bench press 1090. GENETICS predetermine potential.
@Ragtime44Films Hands and a neurological system have the same genetically predisposed potentials as pectoral muscles. For instance, 6'4" 245 pound Dick Tidrow had am 85 mph fastball. 6'1" 150 pound Ron Guidry had a 97 mph fastball. Do you actually think that "practice" was the mitigating factor between their markedly different potentials to throw "fast"?? A pianist IS AN ATHLETE, the ENTIRE BODY the playing mechanism from the toes to the fingertips, the body works SYNERGISTICALLY.
@Ragtime44Films that's the most ironic comment one could make on this video. horowitz has mastered playing at lightning speed while showing restraint, and he does an excellent job proving that speed can still be secondary to art, even in this piece
Sorry, I meant that it's useless to play a piece 5 times faster than it's intended to be played. And of course this is art, and of course it's a great speed with great control. I never said otherwise.
@Ragtime44Films You can practice 16 hours per day for 30 years and STILL will not acheive virtuosic technique if your mind and nervous system hold you back, not to mention ANY weaknesses within the chain of your playing mechanism (which is your entire body). Eye/hand coordination, superb targeting, I can go on and on about all the parameters necessary to unfetter technique. If any necessities are missing, the whole will suffer, regardless of how much practice is undertaken.
@Ragtime44Films Understand, there is a Kata (same as in martial arts) to paying the piano effectively, a BALLET of synchronized movements. That's what the Chopin etudes are about. Learn the kata, the correct, wavelike motion of the forearms, the turn of the wrist, shift at the shoulder, to acheivethe synchronized "ballet" of the playing mechanism and playing the piece becomes an effortless motion of repetitive movements conducive to execution!
@Ragtime44Films Usually, the only thing practicing more than 6 hours per day ultimately produces is tendonytis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other finger/hand rheumatological/neurological defects. The more you wish topractice, the more controlled dynamics, and the verical and lateral travel of the fingers must be. An economy of motion is key, also utilizing the larger muscles/tendons/soft tissue of the arms and torso to target the finger over the surface of the key rather than finger reaching
@Virtuosic1 & @Puzzoozoo it's Pazuzu... and to whoever Virtuosic1 is; there is no need to get nasty over a youtube screen name but if you are; at least be smart enough to correct someone properly before you call them a 'dumb cocksucker' OH and btw you also misspelled "misspelled" (mispelled? seriously??) ...oh sweet irony...
@TheDaguerreotypist Well, if you were british like you and the rest of the world should be it is actually "misspelt". But you got it wrong from the get go, like so many other words and to save yourself from looking stupid you said, "hey, every country has a different cultural language right?"
fyi its spelt: colour, aeroplane, aluminium, grey, etc.
I know some of you "people" spell it grey anyway, but, lets not get into a conversation you wont be able to comprehend.
@serisAK LOL if it were not for Pippa nobody would put up with anachronistic and quaint Brit spelling or pronunciations! :-)) BTW it's spelled "color" as in Horowitz plays with extraordinary tone and color - "colour" went out with the Empire, been a while mate!
the thing about horowitz; he was always 200% in control of what he did. he knew those pieces all the way, as if they were his own. and that is what makes this so extremely pleasant to listen to, the man absolutely mastered the piano. we can hear his absolute joy in playing and his love for music in this rather short piece.. awesome! haha and what a handsome man he was when he was younger!
@DonFrankos I absolutely agree. To furthur your original point even more, Horowitz DID consider his repertoire his property! In fact, he was a bit nerved when he witnessed someone playing "his" music because he felt they were "his"!
I had no idea Horowitz ever recorded this... or even played it, for that matter.
Even if this isn't Horowitz, though, it's certainly one of the two best renditions of this transcription I've heard - the other best being the Rachmaninoff piano roll, which is hard to compare, since Rachmaninoff took creative liberties on his own setting. Rachmaninoff's live recording isn't too shabby either, though...
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Horowitz is the greatest pianist ever in my opinion but I must say that I find Hyung-Jung Lim to be as good as he is, just watch her interpretations of Rachmaninoff"s Etudes Tableaux and she's amazing
@BoogiePete i was just about to write the same thing ^^ speed is not everything... every piece has its own rythm and playing it as fast as you can won't make you the best pianist of the world... maybe the fastest but not the best... it's all about the feeling and the heart..
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That's good, but i think Yuja Wang plays it better. Fuller and more like a real Bee. Horrowitz BumbleBee is for me to empty. When i listen to Yuja Wangs BumbleBee i can see the Bee flying in the air!
Are you serious? At 0:30-0:33, Horowitz actually shapes the trajectory of the bumblebee, and plays with much greater subtlety overall. Yuja Wang plays the Cziffra arrangement so you can't compare them, but I can tell it's more a showcase for virtuosity and octave technique.
we really can hear that bee sounds in this version unlike other versions that they only played it faster but sounds like nothing but just merely plain piano acrobatics....
Fantastic! better than Lim, Wang, Cziffra.
MultiGypsy22 3 weeks ago 2
i thought the video came on a bit abruptly. could we have half an hour of ads please.
cocksookers
Bolinas1971 4 weeks ago
I once got head to this song LONG LIVE THE BUMBLEBEE!!!!
arkbishopbonkerboy 1 month ago
It stings to just listen to it :D
KassandraGreen 1 month ago 2
его ещё никто не переиграл..))
vgtambov 2 months ago
So much character!
theicyridge 2 months ago
hey if you guys could check out my channel/give me feedback it would be greatly appreciated.. thanks
KosyYak 2 months ago
To all who are arguing on speed and virtuosity, who the heck cares? That's not what music is about. In my perspective, a musician who views himself as an "athlete" instead of an artist is a failure. If you don't include artistic value, nobody will have interest in whatever you're playing.
Cziffra is amazing, and all, but Horowitz has that artistic value that makes up for any lack of virtuosity. Why are you even comparing the two? They're both great musicians.
Ragtime44Films 3 months ago 4
i like the part when he stays still and music plays
koopkill 3 months ago 11
@koopkill this made me laugh way to much.
UncleTaxi1 1 month ago
Some pianists look to play (inthe sense of having fun) during their performances, and Horowitz is one of them.
acla9000 3 months ago
Caroline Clipsham is the only other on YouTube that I have found that embodies this piece like Horowitz. It's amazing to see her play Flight.
prarpin 3 months ago
2 people got chased by bees .
GiselleOMG1 3 months ago
two people are made of pollen
RicoshetSC 4 months ago 30
this is just SIIIIICCCCCK! so fast and still awesome feeling and touch,,thye skills on this man is just wooow
zloop 5 months ago
2 people got stung by too many bees!
7751adri 5 months ago
this is definitely not the fastest I have ever heard, but what I am sure about his playing, is that there is some magic in it. Yes, it is magic...
chiupiano 7 months ago
I love Horowitz, we has speed, technique, harmony and hes enjoyable to listen to in his other videos!
ainsleyhallmark 7 months ago
Pleaseplaythisatmach7
30inventionman 7 months ago
@godXofXpath I think you're a freak of Circus.. the meaning is like Howowitz way. not Czifffra.. I can understand.. that for circus. not for ears..
Unbeloved27 8 months ago
hey z whats up bb
mia2808ful 8 months ago
@mia2808ful You're what's happening, Angel!! Always!!
Virtuosic1 8 months ago
Unsurpassable! It has that inimitable feel for rhythym he has.
nornied 10 months ago
@nornied agree...superb control and great pulse! The scales are perfect too.
tombennettpiano 9 months ago
seamless
BrianKimmel 11 months ago
danke !
yusukeundisolde 11 months ago
fuck horowitz cziffra rulz :D
21436587abc 1 year ago
@21436587abc lol noob
TripleRhu 11 months ago
Does anybody know if this is Rachmaninoff's piano transcription or another one?
Kurremkarmerruk1 1 year ago
@Kurremkarmerruk1 this is
New4785689 1 year ago
@everblue01 You're talking nonsense. In case you are not aware of basic musical facts, ALL piano versions of Flight of the Bumble Bee are either transcriptions or arrangments since the original piece comes from an opera. Stating that Cziffra's version is overrated only shows the extent of your ignorance. Worshipping a particular artist should not prevent you to get informed before posting such drivel.
konigstephan 1 year ago
@konigstephan What's wrong with calling Cziffra's version overrated? I personally find this to be much more charming.
th3wing3dpaint3r 1 year ago 3
This is my all-time favorite piece. I ahve heard numerous students play it, without emotion or tempo and everyone says they're amazing. This man stalked bees in order to play this, so if those peoplea re amazing, then this guys is God.
fridgnetha 1 year ago 2
how he plays it so fast and quite doesn't really make sense to me. Amazing stuff right here!
foamy11 1 year ago
Best..
jacobsee009 1 year ago
I've never heard such an amazingly fleet bumble bee as this one. Horowitz at his virtuosic peak.
meredith218461 1 year ago 2
HOLY COW!
mysterious1961 1 year ago
perfection.
kasyapa 1 year ago 2
Since when do bees fly so fast?
rubinsteinway 1 year ago
ufffffffffffffff it´s so fast
teresa2610 1 year ago
The original version is clearly the piece with more character and clarity. The overrated Cziffra version seems to me like it was only made to impress and not to express. It is executed by wannabe "artists" who cannot be a quarter of what Horowitz has been.
everblue01 1 year ago 17
@everblue01 cziffra's version is much to fast. it loses the emotion and detail in the notes. it just blurs into a jumble of fast noise.
frogjezz 5 months ago
@everblue01
I suppose. However that is a way you wouldn't want to go - there is a list of pieces Horowitz completely destroyed more to 'impress not to express". Many pianists like Cziffra or Horowitz for forced into that position because of their fame and popularity. The same old piece wasn't enough for the public.
Cheers!
ClassicMusicOnly 5 months ago 2
@everblue01 IMO Cziffra's version of flight of bumblebee is fantastic, just because of Cziffra's touch. It sounds like a real bee to me. Otherwise, id agree with you.
TripleRhu 5 months ago 2
LOL. I just hit my ear because it sounded like a real bee buzzing around me!
massdot 1 year ago
Il faut écouter ça. Époustouflant!
sdegrace 1 year ago
Clarity.
marcxopoco 1 year ago
Horowitz is, admittedly, my favorite. However, it amazes me how there are always people who must comment that so and so are better, or faster. Guys, this is art. Not sports or any other kind of competition. Relax, enjoy and if you must compare greatest, go to baseball videos or something.
jockolanterntits 1 year ago 6
@jockolanterntits - Great point, and well said!
Kevinatmiis 1 year ago
Oh man, clear, vivid, lively, expressive, any word pianists use today, may well be applied here. :D. I dunno why, but his interpretations are what I want whenever I hear them the first time. Like, his Chopin Op. 10 no. 5 is the most enchanting. Now, I prefer this than Maksim's.
erken 1 year ago 2
@erken I am completely with you!
massdot 1 year ago
The true difficult of this is not the speed but is tu play all the notes with precision, and Horowitz do this very well. I don't like this played faster.
mesonepigreco 1 year ago
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be faster
frendy1212 1 year ago
@frendy1212 you try playing faster
loco5430 2 months ago
Funny I know most Horowitz, but I may have missed this.
Oh, yes I've heard it faster-I guess-certainly this is fast enough
But the bee wing sound is uncanny, as well as living up to the title
as usual on another level compared to others
Labienus 1 year ago
the besto performance of the flight, a genius Horowitz
vizdi14 2 years ago 5
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@vizdi14
yuja wang's performance is better.
pbyshelley 1 year ago
@pbyshelley ahahahah.... no comment....
WaldemarKoszlowsky 1 year ago
listen to how clear every sound is. its like each one of the notes is set apart and put together at the same time
QuakerILYA 2 years ago 9
Amazing !!!
op10no4 2 years ago 3
like he stalkd bees for about a year and layed out this song on the pianos. this is THE flight of the bumble bee. this is AWESOM. doesnt deserve to be playd at mach 5 on the keys
Pianoboyness 2 years ago 51
@Pianoboyness Actually, this IS a piece that is designed to be played at Mach 5.
Virtuosic1 1 year ago
@Virtuosic1 Actually this is a piece that is trying to put a bumble bee flight into notes and invoke an image of a bumble bee flying around in the listeners mind. It has nothing to do with speed. If you don't see a bumble bee in your head while listening to this piece then the performer failed imo.
In Horowitz's interpretation I can clearly see the little bumble bee doing it's thing :)
Rozinaa 1 year ago 27
@Rozinaa I didn't envision a bumblebee, though Horowitz's efforts were not completely wasted because I did however envision two wasps fucking.
Virtuosic1 10 months ago 4
@Virtuosic1 That's the best comment on youtube.
meneltar 9 months ago
@Rozinaa quietly, secretly
xis10ce 10 months ago
@Rozinaa The only other player on youtube to play this properly is Kissin. Too bad that Horowitz's recording is so old. Both evoke the bumblebee rather clearly. Most other players play it very ploddingly or merely attempt to go for the land speed record, both of which are completely inappropriate.
ayokay123 3 months ago
@ayokay123 There is a video on YT of Rachmaninoff playing "flight of the bumblebee" that's not too shabby either :-)) You are right, Kissin plays it well. And it's good there are no comments here extolling the virtues of Maksim or Yuja.
Bret6464 3 months ago
@Pianoboyness This is pretty damn fast as it is, but Horowitz makes it as though it isn't. Every note is perfectly heard. He was most certainly a master, and at least by my count, one of the best interpreters of this particular piece (which is of course not to say anything about his mastery of so many others).
godXofXpath 11 months ago
@godXofXpath Horowitz is shit compared to Cziffra! Make no mistake about that!
Virtuosic1 8 months ago
@Virtuosic1 you're a bad troll, go back to bed.
godXofXpath 8 months ago
@godXofXpath Actually, I'm a very good troll! I can play this piece with as much articulation as this fool, and at a far faster pace. I also play Cziffra's version of this at tempo. Search Virtuosic1 if you doubt me, cocksucker.
Virtuosic1 8 months ago
@Virtuosic1 0/10
godXofXpath 8 months ago
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Ragtime44Films 7 months ago
@Ragtime44Films Fuck art. This is a piece about virtuosity. It's a gauge to determine who has the monster chops. What you fail to understand is that you can never have enough facility. The more you are capable of, the more HEADROOM you have so you can still play a piece tremendously fast (compared to your peers) and have LOADS of headroom so your playing is never strained and limitless in dynamic expression. I NEVER play at my technical limit, I ALWAYS hold in reserve.
Virtuosic1 7 months ago
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Ragtime44Films 7 months ago
@Ragtime44Films The ability to be able to play at Warp 1 is art in itself. Some people are pre-disposed genetically for speed, a "type A" nervous system, capable of ultra fast movement. This ability, plus learning to "tickle" a piano key rather than to depress it, that is, being able to play at the surface of the key, instead of from above it (a technique that cuts serious vertical movement lag time, can produce an impulse technique not unlike the beating of a hummingbird's wings.
Virtuosic1 7 months ago
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Ragtime44Films 7 months ago
@Ragtime44Films You know nothing about genetic potential. That's like saying, "anyone on earth can dunk a basketball with practice, even dwarves" Or "anyone on earth can take steroids and bench press 1090 pounds". Yet, there's only 1 man on earth who can bench press 1090. GENETICS predetermine potential.
Virtuosic1 7 months ago
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Ragtime44Films 7 months ago
@Ragtime44Films Hands and a neurological system have the same genetically predisposed potentials as pectoral muscles. For instance, 6'4" 245 pound Dick Tidrow had am 85 mph fastball. 6'1" 150 pound Ron Guidry had a 97 mph fastball. Do you actually think that "practice" was the mitigating factor between their markedly different potentials to throw "fast"?? A pianist IS AN ATHLETE, the ENTIRE BODY the playing mechanism from the toes to the fingertips, the body works SYNERGISTICALLY.
Virtuosic1 7 months ago
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Ragtime44Films 7 months ago
@Ragtime44Films that's the most ironic comment one could make on this video. horowitz has mastered playing at lightning speed while showing restraint, and he does an excellent job proving that speed can still be secondary to art, even in this piece
xis10ce 6 months ago
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Ragtime44Films 6 months ago
@xis10ce
Sorry, I meant that it's useless to play a piece 5 times faster than it's intended to be played. And of course this is art, and of course it's a great speed with great control. I never said otherwise.
Ragtime44Films 6 months ago
@Ragtime44Films lol oh ok i gotcha
xis10ce 6 months ago
@xis10ce
I'm going to go delete all my comments now.... These arguments on piano virtuosity are vicious.
Ragtime44Films 6 months ago
@Ragtime44Films You can practice 16 hours per day for 30 years and STILL will not acheive virtuosic technique if your mind and nervous system hold you back, not to mention ANY weaknesses within the chain of your playing mechanism (which is your entire body). Eye/hand coordination, superb targeting, I can go on and on about all the parameters necessary to unfetter technique. If any necessities are missing, the whole will suffer, regardless of how much practice is undertaken.
Virtuosic1 7 months ago
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Ragtime44Films 7 months ago
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Ragtime44Films 7 months ago
@Ragtime44Films Understand, there is a Kata (same as in martial arts) to paying the piano effectively, a BALLET of synchronized movements. That's what the Chopin etudes are about. Learn the kata, the correct, wavelike motion of the forearms, the turn of the wrist, shift at the shoulder, to acheivethe synchronized "ballet" of the playing mechanism and playing the piece becomes an effortless motion of repetitive movements conducive to execution!
Virtuosic1 7 months ago
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Ragtime44Films 7 months ago
@Ragtime44Films Usually, the only thing practicing more than 6 hours per day ultimately produces is tendonytis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other finger/hand rheumatological/neurological defects. The more you wish topractice, the more controlled dynamics, and the verical and lateral travel of the fingers must be. An economy of motion is key, also utilizing the larger muscles/tendons/soft tissue of the arms and torso to target the finger over the surface of the key rather than finger reaching
Virtuosic1 7 months ago
@Virtuosic1 Troll food, yummy.
Puzzoozoo 5 months ago
@Puzzoozoo You mispelled pazoozoo. Get it straight, you dumb cocksucker.
Virtuosic1 5 months ago
@Virtuosic1 Touche.
Puzzoozoo 5 months ago
@Virtuosic1 & @Puzzoozoo it's Pazuzu... and to whoever Virtuosic1 is; there is no need to get nasty over a youtube screen name but if you are; at least be smart enough to correct someone properly before you call them a 'dumb cocksucker' OH and btw you also misspelled "misspelled" (mispelled? seriously??) ...oh sweet irony...
TheDaguerreotypist 5 months ago
@TheDaguerreotypist owned.
BEATSbyROB 5 months ago
@TheDaguerreotypist Well, if you were british like you and the rest of the world should be it is actually "misspelt". But you got it wrong from the get go, like so many other words and to save yourself from looking stupid you said, "hey, every country has a different cultural language right?"
fyi its spelt: colour, aeroplane, aluminium, grey, etc.
I know some of you "people" spell it grey anyway, but, lets not get into a conversation you wont be able to comprehend.
serisAK 5 months ago
btw, i'm not actually an arsehole(asshole to you), i'm just being comically ironic.
serisAK 5 months ago
@serisAK obvious troll is... well you know the shtick...
TheDaguerreotypist 5 months ago
@serisAK LOL if it were not for Pippa nobody would put up with anachronistic and quaint Brit spelling or pronunciations! :-)) BTW it's spelled "color" as in Horowitz plays with extraordinary tone and color - "colour" went out with the Empire, been a while mate!
Bret6464 5 months ago
@Bret6464
LOL!
thegreencat13 3 months ago
@Virtuosic1 now now boys
mensabs 5 months ago
One of the head masters for the piano once again shows how to have control over a piece , emotion and amaze people!
ClassicMusicOnly 2 years ago 5
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Great performance!! Although Kissin is the best playing this same version.
edtskyline 2 years ago
In YOUR opinion.
Lity10 2 years ago
It is horowitz , i have the cd, and it is the best rendition
stefthe80 2 years ago
the thing about horowitz; he was always 200% in control of what he did. he knew those pieces all the way, as if they were his own. and that is what makes this so extremely pleasant to listen to, the man absolutely mastered the piano. we can hear his absolute joy in playing and his love for music in this rather short piece.. awesome! haha and what a handsome man he was when he was younger!
DonFrankos 2 years ago 6
@DonFrankos I absolutely agree. To furthur your original point even more, Horowitz DID consider his repertoire his property! In fact, he was a bit nerved when he witnessed someone playing "his" music because he felt they were "his"!
JohnnyStricklett 1 year ago
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I bet its not even Horowitz.
puchalaka 2 years ago
I had no idea Horowitz ever recorded this... or even played it, for that matter.
Even if this isn't Horowitz, though, it's certainly one of the two best renditions of this transcription I've heard - the other best being the Rachmaninoff piano roll, which is hard to compare, since Rachmaninoff took creative liberties on his own setting. Rachmaninoff's live recording isn't too shabby either, though...
BenMcCormack91 2 years ago 3
rimsky-korsakof's original arrangement for piano
Overlapse1000 2 years ago
he is the greatest, wonderful!
halavey 2 years ago
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Pischnaholic 2 years ago 3
I have the fastes and stunning version of the flight of the bumble bee on my playlist by Hyun-Jung LIM!!!!.....you absolutly have to watch this!!!
davidavid2009 2 years ago
I will look for it.
Thanks!
:)
leonengard 2 years ago
Quite impressive but a little out of control. Certainly not in the same league as Hororwitz.
utubuser10 2 years ago 4
This is not formula one. Speed is no measurement for musical quality.
Horowitz is master of masters.
Thank you for uploading this.
5*****
BoogiePete 2 years ago 76
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Horowitz is the greatest pianist ever in my opinion but I must say that I find Hyung-Jung Lim to be as good as he is, just watch her interpretations of Rachmaninoff"s Etudes Tableaux and she's amazing
COCOONFABULA 2 years ago
@BoogiePete noo he's not the master of masters. The big master is Claudio Arrau. The best
turuladeburro 1 year ago
@turuladeburro Feel free to elaborate
JohnnyStricklett 1 year ago
@BoogiePete i was just about to write the same thing ^^ speed is not everything... every piece has its own rythm and playing it as fast as you can won't make you the best pianist of the world... maybe the fastest but not the best... it's all about the feeling and the heart..
chrisoulicius 5 months ago
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That's good, but i think Yuja Wang plays it better. Fuller and more like a real Bee. Horrowitz BumbleBee is for me to empty. When i listen to Yuja Wangs BumbleBee i can see the Bee flying in the air!
SirJohnsStatement 2 years ago
Are you serious? At 0:30-0:33, Horowitz actually shapes the trajectory of the bumblebee, and plays with much greater subtlety overall. Yuja Wang plays the Cziffra arrangement so you can't compare them, but I can tell it's more a showcase for virtuosity and octave technique.
demosj 2 years ago 3
It's not the same version, Yuja plays Cziffra's transcriptions, it sounds like an army of bees xD
COCOONFABULA 2 years ago
we really can hear that bee sounds in this version unlike other versions that they only played it faster but sounds like nothing but just merely plain piano acrobatics....
naborghsoj08 2 years ago 6
perfect!!!
lisztbest 3 years ago 2
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davidavid2009 2 years ago
This vid also makes me wonder if he ever considered trying the Cziffra recomposition of the piece.
JupiterIV 3 years ago
doubtful - that's not the kind of virtuosity he liked.
kasyapa 3 years ago 7
Well then, there IS the Katchaturian/Cziffra "Danse du Sabre."
JupiterIV 3 years ago
he has a lot of transcriptions very similar to cziffra's with those large and thunderous octaves coming in at hand
libetta 2 years ago
AMAAAAAAAAAAZING!!!!!
leonengard 3 years ago 2
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davidavid2009 2 years ago
Absolutely chilling performance. Bravissimo!
saintreven 3 years ago 6
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davidavid2009 2 years ago