Miroslav Kultyshev - Mazeppa

[KYS1178]

かーっっっこいぃーーーーーーーー！！！！！！！！！！！

観ていて、聴いていて、とても血が騒ぐ素敵な演奏でした。

[kandutery]

the best interpetation of this piece!!

[ComtedeMonteC]

Out of Berezovsky's performance and this, I prefer this by Kultyshev. It is more dramatic and artistic although both players have absolutely incredible technique.

[combones]

i feel ... 1:18 had a wrong note ... right ?

[greppi93]

Why do all the people who play this piece turn out to be the sweatiest men of the world!?

[bigtyme20]

Very nice performance

[1Thompsonmusic]

He's probably been learning since he was 2 or something.

[7pianoforte]

This is a phenomenal performance. Seldom does anybody take it at this tempo and still a high level of artistry and accuracy. Even though the velocity is great, it does not seem rushed and this is a very difficult thing to do in a piece of this level of difficulty. Liszt could probably take it at this tempo and get the same effect. Miroslav pulls off an incredible performance under extreme pressure - a feat very dfficult to duplicate.

[MasterAzunai]

Thinking about performing this actually makes me nauseous. If I ever did manage to pull this together at home, and if I ever decided to play it for a recital or competition, I'd probably break down in tears and run off the stage sobbing.

Great job though.

[MrOfflain]

He plays very , very well

[Dreadnoughtification]

Who said all virtuosos looked handsome?

[FranzLisztFerentz]

almost as good as Berezovsky... ALMOST, I said, aye?

[NYYfangirl]

I really like this Mazeppa. The double octaves he's able to pull off are impressive. Job well done Kultyshev :)

[litmus3141]

すばらしい！！

[1Thompsonmusic]

Frightening pianist.

[tjtheplay]

I don't know too much about competitions, but are you only supposed to play Tchaikovsky in a Tchaikovsky competition?

I mean, I'm pretty sure that Liszt composed Mazeppa.

[dmcII]

@tjtheplay Yes Liszt did compose this piece. A number of years back, Barry Douglas won this on the strength of a masteful performance of Pictures at an Exhibition which was composed by Mussogorsky. The contestants aren't limited to Tchaikovsky.

[tjtheplay]

@dmcII Aah I see.

[TheCookie30]

In 2007 "Fanfare" Magazine called this guy a "performing genius". How lucky we all are that he turned out to be a performing IDIOT!

[T3hL337Sesshy]

Amazing, but I don't think it holds a candle to the musicality of Berezovsky's performance.

[kzelmer]

@T3hL337Sesshy

Berezovsky's performance musicality? Check the performance of Lazar Berman. That's musicality.

[JohnRift]

This is much more than virtuoso. 

[1228Bear]

どうしたらこんなに指動くんだろう.......



[pianomanrj]

Although I love the speed and exciting feel, some of the technical passages are a little sloppy

Great overall performance though

[aardvaark069]

Is this as utterly terrifying to contemplate playing as it looks?

[XDXDXDXDXDXDXD]

@aardvaark069 Yes. 

[IlCOLElI]

lol @ his eyes 2:30

[PeaceMaker503]

This piece, is the ULTIMATE piece to learn : EPIC !!! Awesome perfomance too !

[SINMAIMAI]

ベレゾフスキーの方が数段上・・・と言う印象です。

[classicalalways]

Clearly this guy has a staggering technique and he plays with as much intensity as one can find these days. If he would work a little on his pacing, he could truly be an elite Liszt player. Not everything need to constantly be pressed forward at the expense of sculpting dramatic moments at different points. Instead, we have an all-out assault that is incredible, but misses its opportunity to be even more effective. The transition at 4:30-4:40 clearly shows there is no moment to create.

[gtimny]

@classicalalways Well said. He presses on so much, and struggles so hard, there is not much opportunity to shape the melodic line. He's playing faster than he can manage it - only a little faster, I think - and that turns into cracked notes here and there. Two clicks slower and it would be clean and beautifully controlled with clear pedaling and good phrasing. Not many pianists actually perform this piece except in competition, and it has swallowed quite a few of them whole.

[dmcII]

@gtimny I agree. Its obvious he can execute the piece but it comes off (IMHO) as too rushed and a bit out of control. I'd like to see him take a few breaths along the way and have a big finish at the end. Just sayin'....

[Vesivian]

and he got 2nd prize...

[PeaceMaker503]

@Vesivian Actually, not first prize has been awarded.

[marcohorowitz8]

look at the head of the jury, N. Petrov. he's so big he's going to explode!

[vallwl]

THE HEAD AGAIN!!!!

[tagnshare1234]

Mister Bean! Love it when he rolls his eyes

[scriabinish]

2:55 the best part ;)

[xjapan360]

鳥肌もの

[CHENNN26]

berezovsky is more direct and he has a better idea of where he wants his music to go

his performace is also more refined

kudos to this guy but berezovsky is better

[dieciseisegundos]

Está poseído!

[avalanche183]

OMG what the heck. I just got to the part where they pan out... SO MANY EMPTY SEATS, What is wrong with people?!

[avalanche183]

This isn't Tchaikovsky...... hahahahahhaa i kid, i kid...

[sososmork]

perfect!!

[Megavalsorim]

Полагаю, господин Лист был бы чрезвычайно доволен исполнением господина Култышева. Умудриться в таком бешеном темпе полностью раскрыть художественный замысел произведения - это высший пилотаж! Изумительно!

[CsFace98]

how could this be an etude. an etude is just a piece for warming up your fingers this makes your fingers die. this is an et(-masterclasswhichistakingev­erythinginthiscountry-)ude!!!

[BlazeKenny]

@CsFace98 you probably dont play the piano if you think so.

Generally, people decided etudes to be "excersises"

However I love to take etudes quite much as musical as other pieces, and i have to admit that transcendental etudes and chopin etudes are quite demanding (technically)

[just1bloke]

Hmm, Berezovsky's version is far superior. He even has grade 7 in sweating.

[OriginalBasaliskos]

@just1bloke Berezovsky's version is musically stagnant. Kultyshev has the perfect interpretation. Just listen to that heroic ending.

[evifnoskcaj]

What lovely technique!!! So relaxed!

[brownhairblond]

I've heard him playing all of the 12 transcendental etudes live... Thats amazing and he's awesome... :)

[brownhairblond]

amazing... I've heard him playing live... thats awesome... he's awesome... :)

[BlazeKenny]

lol in the middle part how he is thinking. he probably fell in love to a naked dirty man strapped to a wild horse

[Cancrizans]

@BlazeKenny I kind of like to think of that part as the transcendent focus and inner peace a person would have to have to be dragged that distance by a horse and survive, but ok. :P

[JABLONGO]

lol 2:57

[fuckshitass911]

EPIC WIN!!!!!!111oneoneone1!

[felipenunesnaim]

C'est execución est parfait! j'est aimé ! Felicitation!

[Hachoo1]

I wonder if anyone could ever achieve what Liszt had thought in his mind when he wrote this song. Simply wonderful.

[BlazeKenny]

@Hachoo1 say SONG once more and i kill you

[snickeer]

I'm in love.Totally in love with him! This is absolutely amazing!

[OriginalBasaliskos]

@snickeer I practically wet my pants when I first saw this too. I was blown away.

[mayorde18]

at 3:01, the chromatic scale in the bass + his eyes, do a good combination xDD

[davidbaker03]

I am sorry to say this.. but he is painful to look at!

[Nielsenesque]

@davidbaker03 Then close your eyes and listen.

[lottoformulier]

2:56 waaaa!!! :p

[chrism216]

tremendous!!!

[potenamao]

!!!

[dexterityhunter]

Impressive performance, indeed! Lack of color and evenness in the middle section though.

[ingridydeazevedo]

Um dia gostaria de tocar como vc Parabéns(one day I would play like you)

[thecollective09]

Wonderful performance!

[Gibson29]

Nikolai Petrov is driving me crazy in the background! He is a frighteningly attentive adjudicator- a statue throughout most of this and the Chasse-neige. Look how critically hes watching the rests nearing the end of the piece! Ears of God.

[silvituxas]

wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­

[karuzou1970]

うますぎ。

[Selecter8]

Bravoooooooo!!!!!!!!

[naterc93]

Holy freaking Jesus. If ANY of you have even one thing bad to say about this guy's performance you either need a hearing aid or need to lower yor chin and your nose because this guy is Beethoven's clone.

[OriginalBasaliskos]

I wonder what his Feux Follets sounds like. 

[TheJmacaroni]

@OriginalBasaliskos

/watch?v=em4onArspeM&p=792A057­573012F83 :]

[OriginalBasaliskos]

@TheJmacaroni Thank you.

[gavinklavier]

@jefftam1234 the fingering he used is not making any galloping effect. just as what wikipedia said, liszt's fingering is creating a total difficulty, and in purpose of making it sounded like galloping.

[OriginalBasaliskos]

If this is a Tchaikovsky competition why the hell is he playing Liszt?

[OrangeSodaKing]

@OriginalBasaliskos Well, I don't think it's like the Chopin competition where you play ONLY Chopin.

[TheJmacaroni]

@OrangeSodaKing Its held in his honor. its a russian competition after all.

[OrangeSodaKing]

@TheJmacaroni Of course! I looked at the repertoire requirements, and it requires SOME music from Tchaikovsky to be played. In the preliminary round (sending in a DVD), no works by Tchaikovsky are required. In Round I (a 50 minute recital), two more more works of contrasting style by Tchaikovsky must be included. Round II is a 60 minute recital including a composition chosen for the competition and a work by any Russian composer. Round 3 is two concerti: one by Tchikovsky and one by anyone else.

[OrangeSodaKing]

How does one DO that????

[CammehYaBams]

Chuck Norris can play this with his ass cheeks. Well, apart from 5:31 which is incredibly difficult

[sergiobantam]

O espírito de Liszt encarnou no rapaz...!

Incrível... absolutamente perfeito,....quase surreal!

depois de Bolet, Arrau, Czifra, Berman, Kissin, ...agora "Kultyshev" parece que Liszt se fracionou em vários clones!

Incrível.

[surgere94]

oh my heaven's sake....

[asg2401]

"Golly Grandma, what big eyes you have"

Beautifully played!

[WTT1978]

I think he's trying to show off a bit and he actually destorys the drama within the piece, there is a story in Mazeppa and he's reading it to us too fast! Even when played a little slower, the virtuosity in keeping its tempo would thrill any audiance.

[1Thompsonmusic]

@WTT1978

Ahh shut up

[frazer980]

ii joue super bien !! j'aurai apprécier d'etre dans la salle!! chut !!

[MegaGraffy]

Idegbeteg a csávó, de nagyon tud.....

[ASIRA89]

? sounds like the transcedental etude no. 4 by Liszt , why is this called mazeppa?

[1234567bryce]

@ASIRA89 the question answers itself, I believe...

[jefftam1234]

@ASIRA89 It is from the poem of Hugo with the same title I believe. About a condemned being strapped to a mad horse and whiplash into wilderness in night.

[OriginalBasaliskos]

@jefftam1234 It's the Hugo one, really? I always thought it was the Byron Mazeppa. Byron Mazeppa is better anyway.

[Tu16]

@ASIRA89 The subtitle is Mazeppa - the story depicted in the 4th transcedental etude is that of the polish nobleman Mazeppa, who was tiep to a horse that was stirred up by whiplashes. A capital punishment, but Mazeppa survived.

[FredilYupigo]

See, if you can play this without forgetting that it's actually music, you've impressed me already.

Bravo! :P

[HUNTPIECENIGGA]

Horrible! 

[Scorpio7500]

sounds a bit rushed/messy. Maybe if it were a little drier in the beginning, like Cziffra's, because it all sounds like white noise at first. I like the lo stesso tempo though, that was very expressive.

[Emiiliye]

@Scorpio7500 Agreed. It is really messy :c Cziffra's is a little too dry in my opinion but much more impressive technically than Kultyshev's

[RAYUARA]

う、うますぎる…

[bencrom]

This guy has just gone from playing Chasse neige straight into Mazeppa, if he played Feux Follets as well he'd be Liszt

[anonymousQ45]

@bencrom hes plays all 12 in concert

[ralphithecat]

Not bad. Shame his timing was slightly out on the 156th bar. Shame really, it was pretty good till then; but after that I kind of lost interest.

[Scorpio7500]

@ralphithecat wow isn't that being a bit too anal there?

[MrMozartman]

I don't imagine the stress ...

[Szhenrik94]

The Liszt Version is better...

[pyrorca]

@Szhenrik94 its the liszt version

he plays 2 not good notes

0:20 at 0:25

[alexggable]

Bravo, bravo!!! accentuation and phrasing are better than Beresovsky's version, cleaner, and middle part is played with an exquisite and addecuated amount of rubato, very melancholic, "a la Arrau". The result is awsome, congrats!!!!! I am sure Miroslav can play it even better than this verstion at the contest...

[alexggable]

Bravo, bravo!!! accentuation and phrasing are better than Beresovsky's version, cleaner, and middle part is played with an exquisite and addecuated amount of rubato, very melancholic, "a la Arrau". The result is awsome, congrats!!!!! I am sure Miroslav can play it even better than this verstion at the contest...

[MFDopeee]

i leaned it in 1 day that guy looks funny in the beginning

[theromanpraetorian]

play this, and you'll control the universe

[bigcalamaro]

MAZEPPA = feux d'artifice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[titibodin]

he is very good !

[hotbebimauz]

omggg.....hes such a genious and hes very cute ^-^

[RockyBalboaaaaaaa]

i was on his concert (mm)

awesome young pianist 5/5

[mdeonx16]

Hehe, at 2:32 he keeps raising his eyebrows when he plays upward arpeggios x3

[KeithWhalen11]

"All ascending arpeggios must be accompanied by a look of astonishment and a raising of the eyebrows."

It's actually written into the score I believe! Ahh, I'm only kidding. I keep coming back to this performance, it has a really distinct live intensity that surpasses the studio uploads.

[NemoProkofiev551]

Schnitzel! That was FREAKING amazing!!!! XD.

Flabbergasted here. Serious.

[FranzLisztian]

I love how every time he hits those chords that builds the melody he bangs his head

[eggplant1994]

beautiful. but if i was him, i wouldn't take so much time on those broken 6ths toward the end. it really shocked me out of what was otherwise a perfect performance.

[ZarBucanero]

magistraaal!

[AmericanCars101]

Would it be wrong if I said he sometimes looks like frodo in the lord of the rings?

[stevenc08]

@AmericanCars101 he can make some faces!

[stevenc08]

can i say something here? "Shit, that was beautiful"!!

[gammypage]

This piece involves a lot of wanking.

[musicanadeebee]

Lovely performance. Not only does this one have the usual Liszt demands, but it is physically tireing to play also!

[oscarconroy14]

He's a beast! :O I wish I could play like that. :/

[stevenc08]

@oscarconroy14 you to :-)

[RollaArtis]

This is the real Mazeppa - I'd love to hear how he transcends the other Etudes.....

[musicaorganum]

I simply cannot stop watching this performance. He played the hell out of that piece. I think that Liszt would indeed be proud.

[stevenc08]

@musicaorganum true. He beat that piano up!!

[18imnot]

my pants feel warm

[chutdigadut]

STUNNING!

[rachmanericoff]

I think that judge in the background is dreaming of hamburgers

[winkandrun]

Haha, I didn't realize what you meant and then I saw him lol

[MrNickTJones]

@rachmanericoff LOL, XD i see what you mean

[folopo2]

@rachmanericoff ]

hahahaha, true that! ;-)

[MaksutovCG]

@rachmanericoff

LOL!

[loaactnow]

@rachmanericoff funny

[jefftam1234]

@rachmanericoff That's Nikolai Petrov, the great Russian pianist and teacher. Show some goddamn respect.

[Hachoo1]

@rachmanericoff hamburgers galloping and flying around? Lols XD

[19jkc71]

Or a large pizza and a six pack of Budweisers!

[vladius20061]

Este foarte bun. Respect.

[folopo2]

@vladius20061

sense of humor :)

[elgatosucio]

Genius!!!

[nelsyeung]

Wow! round 2... and he played mazeppa... he is good but i still like Boris interpretation more. :)

[57402695]

Que maravilla de interpretación: clara, diáfana, energética y apasionada...

[M8T12B93]

5:49 funny! Very good performance.

[bicbaiev]

He lives the music! He lives every note!!!

[tecladistaofmetal]

espectacular!!!! amazing!!! full speed!!!!

[sagazflausino]

Altivo e magnânimo como realmente tem que ser. Maravilhoso!

[RobWiebe]

bravo. I really enjoy your interpretation of this piece and of Chasse Neige.

Because of seeing you on YouTube, I bought your CD "12 Etudes D Execution Transcendante" and will buy more as you release them.

Keep up the hard work dude!

[SeanFitandSmart]

Imagine what he'll sound like once he starts shaving....:)

[danettecute]

intense, great piano playing !

[OniyukiRyuken]

too fast  arrau owns this piece

[haggy3gp02]

nobody does it better than arrau!

[OniyukiRyuken]

My thoughts exactly EXACTLY Arrau is who I'm using for reference while learning this ....diabolic awesome..I couldn't pick up a pencil yesterday XD

[jegspillerpiano]

It's not too fast. He's one of the few people who actually manages to play ti fast enough to sound like what it is supposed to be - a horse galloping that has been whiplashed into madness.

[alexmanzo19]

@jegspillerpiano so you mean claudio arrau and Earl Wild don´t play this as is supposed to be?

[jefftam1234]

@jegspillerpiano though he is cheating on the gallaoping part though, using 24,13 as Liszt as written specifically using the 24,24 fingering (even in the remark)

but technically still very impressive

[TheJoey279]

all those herky jerky moves is distracting. I kinda think it's overdone. JMHO

[anonymousQ45]

love the octave chromatic scale at 2:00. is that what you would call it? anyway its the easiest technique in this etude, sure doesnt sound like it though

[geertdehoux]

This is a good live performance.

Although this young guy is musical, he could take more 'his time' for certain things.

By the way, what a stupidity, all those 'competitions'!

G. Dehoux, pianist.

[cfwpiano]

Something I agree with you on... I dislike competitions too...

Kinda meaningless

[geertdehoux]

Much has been said and written about competitions.

Schubert certainly didn't compose any of his genius Sonatas, Lieder, chamber music etc. for competitions, neither did Bach, nor Schumann...

Those who win a competition, get concerts for a while.

Most of the time, the others get nothing.

Abba was right: "The winner takes it all, the loser has to fall..."

What a stupid and cruel world we're living in!

G. Dehoux.

[Angel94angel94]

I can't decide wich version is better between this one ore the second one that Liszt wrote

:-/

[AlexanderWung]

did he just nod at 6:00?

[demosj]

@AlexanderWung

He's like "I've got this".