Cziffra:On the beautiful Blue Danube-Ante Blažević piano

[karlakor]

It's a shame the piano is so dreadfully out of tune!

[bozgur1995]

:/ dude wtf is that ??

[WelteMax]

Indeed a sound which you can only finde in a Yamaha! Great playing though!=)

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[Or3st1s]

Obvious fact no1: your piano skills are great ---//--- no2: your piano sounds shit (could be the recording equipment?) and it spoils everything for me.

good job anyways

[LandRoverWay23]

no

[piano345]

Very brave but remember Cziffra also plays with charm and humour not just ff and fast. The acoustic is too resonant and makes it noisy.

[goruz]

you are really really good!!!! what a pity that the piano is not good enough for your skill!!!

[tavcarovski]

:-/ 9min of him showing off

[AnAmericanComposer]

@tavcarovski You would show off if you could play this too, and you know it!

[tavcarovski]

@AnAmericanComposer

true...

[rukashawn]

Amazing,!

just one sgestion,

if you could just lessen

the right hnds volume a bit, you oculd really

create that dreamy effect.

[FlyingBlackAndWhite]

Nice Skills there man,

Excellent

[luis2590]

Good !!! but let me ask you something: Why YAMAHA???? awful sound!!!!......STEINWAY & SONG forever

[spartan1081990]

to all of those ignorants, this piece is not ment to be played like a waltz since it is a unique version so start criticizing it for what it is, oh and you need a grand piano, that piano in not enough for you

[felix0911176727]

I need the "Cziffra wrist band" you wore on you right wrist!!

[yellingLoL]

@felix0911176727

I second this.

[Mla1ani]

So big contrast: a piano player of highest class and a piano that is good enough for a provincial caffe-bar ! (Perhaps it only needs tuning)

Gospodine Blazevicu kada cete dobiti bolje uslove !? Ali glavno je ono sto vec posedujete, sto je u Vama. Srdacan pozdrav

[KrolocksSternkind]

you're F*** awesome!!!!

I wish I could to this with my Yamaha too ^^

[aleferrarif08]

Bravissimo....

[meticulum]

I think the bigger issue here is that the piano is in desperate need of a tuning and is likely being played in a closet.

[wilfryjules]

You are awesome!!!!!!!

You are the best pianist I ever saw!!

Your technique is just striking,,

[meticulum]

@wilfryjules You really need to get out of the house more often, sweetheart.

[RoYaLPriiNcE]

it hurts my eardrums ! you exxagerated playing it. lol it sounds nothing.

[vokuheila]

I used to like this song =(... now this will be stuck in my head

[jaymeraypivia1]

Awesome....but i think that's the waltz so it must be calm and awful...too much pedal not very clear...

but it is very AWESOME

[trucurimagice]

Your skills are wonderful. I'm sorry, but this piece is awful. It is a waltz. It had to be calm. It is so full of ornaments and it doesn't had to be like this. U can't understand anything.

[TheDreamsofLove]

hey its crazy im sorry make it simple

to understand it is much better

[TheJgutierrez]

how did he move his hand so fast but it is so flipin amazing how he did it

[doelman]

You have some skills, but its very hard to hear the melody through all your arpeggios and stuff.

[pianoprogress]

@doelman @doelman

DO YOU THINK THIS CARICATURE OF PIANO DOES ALLOW IT?

[cormaccrawley]

I agree with DoubleGauss

Don't get me wrong, amazing piano playing but why do that to a piece of music that is supposed to be graceful and refined - if you want to practice your scales, then do so outside of The blue Danube....after all it is a waltz!

[DoubleGauss]

Horrid. Absolutely horrid cacophony.

Those who cannot compose, take someone else's composition and "improvise".

[llamasownyou]

If you listen to Cziffra's recording, it's not all that cacaphonous (no offense to this pianist, excellent job in fact)

[wilfryjules]

J'en ai pris plein la gueule !!^^

BRAVOOO you are the best !!

[ExoticGawdess]

It sounds like the Blue Danube playing during and OCD fit.

First thoughts and joking aside, that is some amazing piano playing.

Great job.Wow!

[T3hL337Sesshy]

That's some piano shredding if I've ever seen it. Stunning, but it sounded like you gave it a bit too much pedal at parts. Or maybe it's the room acoustics/piano. Like one of the other comments said, your performance deserves a fine piano.

[Yonokachan]

BRAVO! very beautiful :-D

[gusse14]

@Yonokachan Blue Danube ^^

[brain1012]

In the right mood, this could be one heck of a performance. Not just entertaining, but emotionally.

[123romell]

The dude is like good. Really good.

[lovesGenet]

well da point is we can all move our fingas . musik or not . dis mania for vir chew ossitty

[Pischnaholic]

Obviously this pianist is the product of an unholy great affair between Georgy Cziffra and Simon Barrere.

Needs and richly DESERVES the finest Steinway.

I would love to hear this man play some "real" music.

But PLEASE don't knock the vivid vulgarity & rabid excesses of Cziffra's arrangements. It's all a great big Circus Act. He had it, and so he flaunted it. It doesn't pretend to be Beethoven.

Personally, I think it's GREAT FUN.

The ability to DO

Is given to very FEW.

Cheer

Don't jeer.

[muyy1]

you good

[hjiuhfhrehui]

YOU ARE VERRY GOOD ! :)

i bought cziffras transcriptions volume 1 and 2 :P

[EddyMoon64]

Listz, Thalberg and other great pianists, and all musicians in the past made some very interesting transcription. Even if there wasn't recording these transcripts made easy the diffusion and knowledge of different music and opera. Stop nonsense please.

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

"He had it, he flaunted it." Exactly what I thought, but couldn't put it into words. These are the words!

[Pischnaholic]

Thanks! This guy is a pianistic genius. Too bad he wasn't able to record on a good piano. This upright doesn't begin do him justice.

Have you heard Stephen Hough, by the way? He's a terrific virtuoso, but also very sensitive and creative. Stephen has made all sorts of wonderful transcriptions. A mystery why some players become famous and other -- often much greater -- talents remain obscure.

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

they focus on the art of music making, not the profession. those obscure yet great players remain obscure because they do not care to be famous; they just spread music!

[jefftam1234]

Hough's transcription of 'my favorite things' from the Sound of Music remains one of my favorite.

[acridindirty]

someone's been practising the scales alot! thats hard to do, good job

[dindin010]

amazing!

[guitarplayer878]

wow thats not good only becuase you cant hear the actual song because of all the scales you do

[pianovideo]

The acoustics and tuning may have a lot to do with this issue.

[andeaver1937]

okay some of this stuff is uncalled for...completely overdoing it. And NO I'm not jealous...

[capdeponds80]

more notes doesn't mean more soul...

[aardvaark069]

Eat it up! Man I'd like to hear you and this on a concert grand. Great pianist, fabulous over the top piece!

[ATS1143]

who are you????!!!!!!

[username1p]

how can anyone tolerate such untunded sound.

[embertelengyermek]

You are excellent, don't worry about the jalous dwarfs.

About the wristband : you are wearing it is funny because it was not Cziffra's secret, he had to wear it because his wrist was distroyed in the 2nd world war , because He had to dig too much.

Any way You are a Bravo Pianista.

[Malaka57]

Hey inhuman kid: I did not say the pianist was bad, I said that this version of the Danube is schlocky and sounds like practicing scales and octaves and stuff... Not the pianist's technique. Of you don't understand what people are writing, then don't comment, ok? (Yes, I do scales myself, to warm up).

Ante has great technique, I'd love to hear it on some better music, something classier , like Ligeti's Devil's Staircase. Please don't bother answering this, you will just be wasting your time.

[Suhatomi]

Bravo !!! Until now I tought nobody could play this transcription, only Cziffra. So,Thank you for this performance, The Schulz-Evler version is just an easy finger exercise to compare with this.

[eiannmou1]

wow ! a good way to pratice FINGER XD

[Illbeseeingyouhehe]

Work on this ,brother, you are almost there ;)

[S1llyw4bb1t]

that was absolutly beautifl i wish i could play half as good as that!

[piano345]

bravo technically - too closely miked though and lacking the necessary Straussian charm, lilt and elegance.

[mizzijam]

Mum, come over here, please? Thankyou for your undivided attention shoes hmm where could they be only time

[mizzijam]

Are you high? So much energy! You play it so fast, too! Awesome :)

[truthdetector101]

AMAZING job. Please get your piano tuned... your playing deserves a much better sounding piano...

[zngr1977]

Oh, look he's wearing a similar wristband like Cziffra did, so that's the secret! :) I am gonna get one!

[phangsinhui]

crazy wan~~~well!!!!

[legamature]

You play well, but it is not a good arrangement. Much too busy.

[Malaka57]

I must agree with you. It sounds like someone practicing scales and such.... I love the famous Schulz Evler transcription, which retains the elegance of the original. This is a lot of banging away. Though kudos to the pianist, really...

[embertelengyermek]

Can you "practicing scales" like him???

[embertelengyermek]

If it is not a good arrangement , what is the good one than???

[wing19831228]

good performance...

you work very hard...

P.S:I'm the critic..

not easy to leave good comment...

[cerzule]

Awe-inspiring music and performance! This is incredible.

[splico17]

kralju svaka cast

[donjuan9012]

wow man you have some big cojones for playing this piece.. keep up the excellent work, you're an inspiration!

[EndlersaurusRex]

that's crazy fantastic

[leif573]

great how long did it take u to learn this piece so well, if i may ask? and how long have u been playing piano.. id love to know im learning piano now thx

[jb1881]

You are good! I know what I am talking about.

[stienwayz]

I very much enjoyed your Cziffra performances!

Keep it up =)

[EtrofOnaip]

Excellent, but A master like you should record this on a tuned piano !!