Lutoslawski - Paganini variations

[McCalister999]

What is this I don't even

[martimtavares]

I think paganinni would die if he listened to this!

[MrJacques1980]

@martimtavares I strongly doubt that. As a flamboyant innovator he would have been delighted to hear this interpretation of his music.

[Laurentisimo]

So cool that they manage to continue to play while sometimes their fingers are cut in several pieces!!

[capthook1]

YES! Wonderful performance, thank you for sharing!

[Wandelbart]

Tolle Mischung aus konsonant und dissonant! Und meisterhaft gespielt! Schlapper Applaus...

[ZioJafar]

Great performance! Have you got other video of them?

[iloveoperons]

This is SO COOL :D

[ueblondon]

LOVE IT

[nelassov]

"your technic very special..." c'est un euphémisme... Magnifique moment de musique !

[calvin1028]

HOLY FLYING FUCK.

[choiseofdeads]

/watch?v=47KlWhhUMPE

You guys should take a look :)

[msbrittanystv]

these pianos are called fazoli pianos

[physphilmusic]

Oh my God. Why doesn't someone do this to all our overplayed compositions - like Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star, everything! I think if I ever become a proper composer one day I'll try to take up the job, if no one else is willing to - Lutoslawski here is amazing!

[Glend3]

@physphilmusic have you heard Dohnanyis variations on a Nursery Theme? great sense of humor, i won't spoil what the theme is you have to listen to it

[kohtianyi]

going to do this next year but it sounds awfully hard T.T

[classicalmusic29]

I'm learning the Primo to this. It's so funny how the keys just fit right under your fingers. I love it.

[TheZdephinio]

God:)

[CFHughespoet]

I heard this performed live in Brisbane recently by a married couple. It was lovely... beautiful discord!

[MrSafeway12]

0:00 to 4:57 best part hey :D

[Utrenja]

This is by far the most strong and technically proficient example of this piece of music you will find anywhere on youtube

[jasmine543210]

@Utrenja Not anymore! (this is debatable) Listen to the Kissin and Argerich version

[Reubunderfull]

Roma is a beast!!

[PENNSY671E]

Brilliant ! Paganini is smiling, too !

[fredgarjal]

Bravísimo. Bravísimo.

[demosj]

Rachmaninoff and Brahms both wrote superior variations.

[godelike]

@demosj it's just not the same style, and also not the same intent...

[BySharpandFlame]

@demosj Lutoslawski's are harmonically and thematically much, much, much more dense. The aforementioned composer's might be more enjoyable, but it doesn't make them superior.

[LazarusErlking]

@demosj Why do people always have to compare? Obviously, this is much, much different in terms of harmony. Pointless to compare.

[glen110]

..Unbelievable

[manidonno10]

Really brilliant interpretation - and I love the Fazoli's for this piece - awesome character!

Only one minor blow-up (hardly worh mentioning: they had a hard time settling into the groove at the top of page 12 (3:19) - it was even rocky on the second time through...

But seriously - beyond amazing performance.

[manidonno10]

Amazing read!

[Ellinidara]

Enrico Pace is an icon,a genius,Igor Roma a great pianist too,but he hasn't success...I don't know why.That's so wrong.

[kalisanna48]

ei der daus!!! das is mal eine gelungene interpretation! hut ab!

[Furrer25]

Flipa maño!

[eirderlaus]

It's absolutely incredible. Lutosławski was a genius, It's hard to believe somone was able to transcribe that paganini's piece like this. Lutosławski was Polish like me. im proud of that. po prostu świetne

[annablat]

omg amazing @_@*_*

[pianodesu]

Amazing! Best version on youtube

[ngtobzzz]

i'm really glad i can play this at the same speed as they play it..

it doesn't sound as good of course though.

=]

[osiumjrtosfyo5syerg]

speed is not everything but i'm glad you are glad :)

[ngtobzzz]

uncalled for?

or what.. you can't play it?

[SpanishEyedDesi]

i LOOOVE this!

[iski4luv]

very different, i'll give it that. i think... i like it!

[carmolis98]

Why so loud all the time!!! Guys, check the score and dynamics please!

[alienaberration]

BLUH!!! dis ting sick, blud!!!

(brapp brapp brapp)

[zsazsa1334]

for some, like me, it would be interesting to tag 'fazioli' , the piano brand, as well!

the sound is very important and different! :)

[ffiish]

One day I will have a Fazioli...

[ralphmiester007]

it was lutoslawski and panufnik who arranged this. Both were among the main polish composers.

[majark4]

this is just a shit

[Quadrupelfuge]

YEAHHHH!!!!!

[tfman15]

The same theme in the beginning was almost directly in Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Rachmaninoff!

(I never really got who Paganini was...anyone have an answer for me?)

[4candles]

Lutoslawski and Rachmaninov used the same theme for their respective pieces.

Nicoló Paganini was an Italian violin virtuoso who mesmerised his audiences with playing of unheard-of difficulty and incredible innovation. Some thought he had made a pact with the devil so that he could play that way, but that was probably nonsense. He was a very hard-practising and generous man apparently.

This version of the variations is the best I have hear so far.

[pianodesu]

Wonderful!

[Cirapf]

favoloso!!!

[JakWho92]

greatest piano ever made ; )

[elfa36]

impresionante!!

[havinghehs]

Greatest piece for two pianos ever composed!  I have never heard it played this fast before but it's amazing!

[kellnergram]

I've never heard these before. Wonderful work by Lutoslawski and excellent job by Pace and Roma.

[wangaling]

Fazioli....

:)

[rudyfantin]

This is really great music writing...and playing!!!!

[ValeriaUrigu]

.:wow:.

[jsbach777]

play a dissonance once and it's a mistake, play a dissonance five times, and you're a genius.

[flamebird3313]

Dissonance isn't a mistake,as its everywhere in tonal music.

[Hamburgerphil]

I'm sure Bach would have disagreed, had he lived until the 1940's.

Perhaps if you had rephrased it so: "I don't know what I'm talking about, and I dislike this composer's style. Thus, I will make a comment to the effect that the composer's choice of chords, which are displeasing to my oh so cultured ear, make him a horrible composer.

[Hamburgerphil]

@Wandelbart Did you even read my comment? I was being sarcastic to some other dude.

[Wandelbart]

@Hamburgerphil O sorry, I felt I could have misunderstood you... Nice you are still there.

[luminoceanne]

I don't mind so much about you talking about Lutoslawski ...But I do care Igor Roma and Enrico Pace...just great pianists that I discover her ! Thank you for this great posting ! I want to see more of them...

And at the end...so true: just "relax and work" or " work and relax" ! ;)

[hirstern]

I'm not fan of music with absonant harmonies, but this score is really really great and I like it very much. :D Superb performance and skills. Look at 4:00 min Igor Roma nearly made a mistake with his right hand, but we can forgive him :-). Sorry for my bad english.

[axol20]

stupid comments.. why bother

[TheSlyProfessor]

Beautiful page turning!

[alexthegreat490]

So what, lutoslawski writes clashing harmonies, and it's deemed genius?

There is nothing good about what he has done.

[hubx]

It's a pitty that you hear only clashing harmonies in that tune. I can find much more and I find it ingenious.

[alexthegreat490]

Ingenious? He rewrote a Paganini caprice, adding what I can only describe as "badness." Please, enlighten me - point out the ingenuity hidden behind the painfully bad sound.

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Of course"badness"is your point of view,just as one who dislikes paprika will find it"bad"(for him).The ingenuity is in the wit of piquant harmonies&clashes,(probably too strong flavor for you),the wit of spicing up rythms&syncop,and above all,extending the sound spectrum of that marvellous instrument:the 2PIANO,(not 2pianos but a single expressive unit!).All that simply based on the theme most varied by the most composers,(not"re-writing"but re-creating).I suppose i'm lucky,i like paprika!

[Yellottwe]

I'm sure you're a much better composer. Arrogant S.O.B.

[alexthegreat490]

That's irrelevant. Thanks, though.

[Steinwaytoday]

@alexthegreat490 ... I hope that in 2 years you have a more musically advanced opinion, but still... almost all good music from the 20th and 21st century is dissonant. Lutoslawski takes this, and he doesn't just add random "clash-sounding" chords to it. The chords are very carefully thought out and create a very specific effect on the listener. Dissonant harmonic movement can be just as complex or even more complex than consonant harmonies.

[DJAngiePangie]

I am utterly stunned by the speed and dexterity of their fingers.

[pianomatteo]

indeed! having played through this a bit myself, it seems some part are impossible at their tempo!

[sparrowarcher]

You should check out Arthur Rubenstein and Cziffra playing La Campanella. You WILL be speechless if you haven't already seen these two videos.

[masterschnief89]

wirklich gut und exakt gespielt!

[meshuganah1]

what i would give to be able to play this...

amazing.

[ooooollla]

I like it! I am playing now this variations with my friend. It`s not very easy, but this performance is light and perfection. I really like it!

[JJKjaer]

Fantastic piece, and performance. Really crazy!

[mathpianist93]

Var. 1 is plagiarized STRAIGHT from Liszt Paganini Etude No. 6.

[swirls999]

no it isn't

[mathpianist93]

they are extremely similar, because they both contain very similar arpeggio configurations.

I doubt you even know the Variation 1 of Liszt Paganini Etude No. 6 or Paganini Caprice No. 24.

[kongaroo]

Obviously they sound similar because they're based on the same piece. I wouldn't call it plagiarism though. They're not the same. This piece is arranged for two pianos, so the voicing is different. And the harmonic implications are different. Liszt's etude is very trademark romantic, while Lutoslawski puts a very modernist twist to it.

[mathpianist93]

oh you certainly made a good point. That was a strong verbal slippage...

[BlueCougar]

If you listen to Paganini's original variations, you'll see that Lutoslawski modeled each of his variations after one of Paganini's (i think each or most of them), so basically each of L.'s variations is a variation on one of Paganini's variations...

[janfabianowski]

That is Lutosławski's best peace.

[ji94552]

WOW!!!!!

[ilovehorowitz]

very good!!!!!

[almaguerjoel]

Qué hermoso! No había tenido la dicha de escuchar esta obra. Gracias por subir este video.

[Atttacca]

YESSSS!!!! thank you got posting this! amazing amazing piece. RIP Witold

[answerplz3000]

WOW

[thehissingstick]

hmm... fazioli, maybe I'll play like that when I get one

[augustleroy]

This was quite an incredible performance. Very clean and together, technique very impressive, maybe best performance i've heard.

[katsudonshake]

love this piece!

but i agree they sounded very cold.

[Tanynep]

I love this piece too... And I think too they sound cold : they exaggerate the tempi, play the slow part too slowly and the rest way too fast.

To me these guys just ruin the whole piece :(

[causticmario]

elitist.

[Tanynep]

Elitist ? I just don't like at all the way they play the piece. I can't see anything elitist about that.

[Racosz]

Excelent version of this work. One of the best piano pieces o 20th century music.

[beingsomebody2]

only thing is, are they really making it into a piece of music? i get the impression they have approached 'variations' as lots of separate pieces? personally, i prefer to make the piece a unified whole, surely thats why the variations are written, to contrast to be part of the piece, not separate small 'movement's (if you like...)

[prestoagitato07]

you cant say that Roma has better technique, its just his part that allows him to show his technique better than Pace. (Watch Pace's Performance of Liszt's "Totentanz" and youll know that his also got a brilliant technique)

[ishoy]

cuz it's too good

[Snaaak88]

what on earth do people like about this?

[mpracticus]

there are no 'easier' parts in a piece like this!can u think an easy part in stravinskys' rite of spring?? both of them are brilliants!!thanks indotje81

[John11inch]

i wonder why pace chose to perform the easier parts =/

[chad410]

great.this is one instance that I think the fazioli s brightness complements the music.i remember hearing Argerich s perfrmance of this with somebody and i went crazy

[sviatoslav]

I would really apreciate if you sed me the recording! thanks! = )

[sviatoslav]

Hi! Did you get mi response? It was a cuple of days ago...

[sviatoslav]

Wow... it is good... amazin tecnic... Could you please tell me the name of the cd, the recording date... the company.. all those things! I will buy it! I also like a lot "Nikolai Demidenko" who actually looks like one of them. I will apreciate the information. Thanks! = )

[busoniliszt]

Perhaps Roma has a more brilliant technique, but I find Pace's sound more interesting (although it's difficult to judge from this clip).

[GOGMOTIS]

its awesome how much the two musicians stay so tight with each other in their playing, so much as for me it sounds like one piano is being used by one pianist

[vividox]

The fact that they even have sheet music in front of them is kind of funny. Neither one of them look at it hardly at all, and you'd think you'd have that piece completely memorized after the number of times you'd have to practice it.

[robertpiano]

this composer is psyco

[alkanliszt]

The tremolo in this is written shared between the hands. Cziffra's sabre dance one isn't :) (Funnily enough, the left hand at that specific point in the sabre dance is harder than the right hand tremolo). Re this video: spectacular, they take it at a fast speed, and there are some additions to the score.

[popololopopolo]

hey wait. upon further listening to cziffra's sabre dance arrangement, it could be two handed tremolo. ahaha. nice video!

[popololopopolo]

the was a piano tremelo near the beginning. simply out of the world sound.

first time hearing it in cziffra's sabre dance and found it impossible to do with one hand.

Roma played the tremolo with both hands. same kind of sound. conclusion: cziffra is from mars.

[walter1958]

Cziffra is from Hungary.The tremolo at the beginning is to be played with both hands as the score indicates.Both are fantastic pianists.They studied not only in Italy but worked also privately with Jacques Detiege from Begium.An incredible teacher who advocates a system of silent practising.He is also the mentor of Leif Ove Andsnes.This man doensnt like publicity but as I said..an incredible teacher,one of the best in te world