I'm sure he's capable of getting it better. What I'm hearing is chord grouping patterns. It should have a feel like falling water. It sounds like (descending) E C G C break E C G C break etc. Those arpeggio joins need to sound more continous without a feeling of one ending and another beginning...like a waterfall.
The rhythmic feel in this piece is just as important as the dynamics. Garrick Ohlsson, Pollini, Valentina Lisitsa (slower but good, and great dynamics).
Very excellent. You can hear even after playing it thousands of times, this piece still fatigues the player. How did Chopin do it with such small hands?
Lots of feeback about this performance. Also nice to see different ideas and opinions. Keep in mind though, folks, this is an etude. It therefore serves for a particular purpose - in this case to study/develop arpeggiation throught the range of the keyboard at speed. Musically it is a bit trivial, the physical demand is deceiving. Mainly, I think Chopin's intent with this piece was to represent endurance up and down the keyboard at speed without getting tense - not easy to do.
if we slow down the strings, and we train regularly, it is not so difficult for the tunes all come in sequences not jump low, high, low irregularly. Thanks to Freedy, he made a perfect smooth, but too many repeated, same notes make the imagination and appreciation rather blur.
The 10-12 only "sounds" difficult. It sounds difficult but it is straight forward. You learn the notes, you play them the slowly, then build up speed - within a short time frame. You are then free.
The 10-1 will always try you even after years of study.
dont know much about this piece so dont eat me if im wrong...but its known as the waterfall piece so the right hand should sort of flow of of the left hand so the left hand must be more prominent than the right? correct me if im wrong
@freaky011 try to play it. the distances between the notes are so horrible its really not easy to get into it. personally i dont think the revolutionary is one of the hardest chopin etudes, but also not one of the easiest. i think op. 4, which you can see in my profile is also one of the hardest, but this one blew my mind...
@HomerJ666 I don't know. I think there are quite a few harder ones than this one. Like the Revolutionary and Op. 25 No.11. Yes it's hard but most notes fall into a logical succession of the previous notes so it's not actually as hard as it sounds.
@Challsoer i think its harder than it sounds... i think everyone's different there, but i consider the revolutionary to be moderate in difficulty versus this one =) i never played 25/11 though, gotta try it ;)
Mind-boggling virtuosity, accuracy and dynamic range, but did Frederic Chopin really mean this piece to be played at such a break-neck speed? If he did, it means that just about everyone else plays it too slowly.
complete show off ! the arpeggios cant even be distinguished at that speed , and it seems rushed. maybe he should smoke a joint or two to relax and play it again.
Faster, faster, maybe you can beat Cziffra. Who cares about the melody, feeling, interpretation? Surely not Chopin! Next, try to play it in under a minute. Better yet, play it so fast that you finish before you start. That way no one will suffer.
This is maybe the best example of the kind of piano playing I so dislike--all the technique in the world but put only to the service of showing us only that! Cortot and Backhaus were the best ever at making real music of this piece. Ashkenasy does the best job of it today. Pollini is wonderful as well, no can ever fault him for whatever he plays. But he's slightly too technical as always, whereas Ashkenasy prefers the dramatic : so perfect for this piece.
The real art isn't to play the left hand extremly loudly and the right hand extremly fastly. The real art is to play the right hand clearly and the left hand quiet, but in a way you can hear the melody good. So, that isn't played in a way, Chopin would like it, i think.
@thelast193 It's an etude... Technique-wise, you should play the right hand to push its comfort level while melodically, the left hand has the melody, so that has to be emphasized.
@thelast193 You are quite right. Although this is played with great ease and power, Chopin should always have as a basis a melodic element which, when brought to the fore properly makes for an altogether different, but equally as stunning a musical statement.
@thelast193 i disagree, the melody is the left hand, the right hand being the accompaniment, the octaves in the bass should shine through the entire arpeggio run until the next octave is played, while occasionally a melody in the treble is to be bought out.... trust me ;)
Relax your wrist, ur technique might most probably be wrong, which was why ur arm was sore. Just remember go by the flow, swave ur wrist and arm around, don't over do it.
I was just listening to Pollini versus Kempff again. Pollini actually plays it a tad slower, but his clarity is awesome. I would be interested in what Kempff sounded like if he matched Pollini's speed. I think there is always an optimal speed to play something at. The heart beats with the music and the mood is being set. Too fast can miss the mood just as easily as too slow.
No doubt a fine pianist, just doesn't quite have Pollini's clarity in the right hand and I like Pollini's left hand treatment better. I think Freddy is better than his father was. They are all fantastically skilled musicians. I think the best test is when optimal recording equipment is used in the studio and some mixing is allowed.
I admire all the concert pianists for just reaching that level. That alone is worthy of praise.
Why, instead of analyzing how good they are or who is better, don't you just practice piano and play those pieces? It's better than being all I think this guy is clearer or whatever...Btw....where do I get this sheet music? I wanna play it...
I think he did very impressive.... He has a good technique... learning the song is one but paying attention to the fingering is like learning a whole new song in this case.
I suppose it really depends on each person. For example I started the etudes with this one however somebody else might find another one to be easier. =D Really depends on pianist...
needs a bit of drum and bass if you ask me. and maybe a rapper. Not sure if a few dancing girls in the background would be too much but I'd definitely ditch the piano... like soooo 1880.
If it is regarding criticism of this performance, then the only people that should be listened to are those who post a video response showing themselves playing this piece to the same degree as Freddy Kempf has played it here. If we see that they are indeed equal, then we shall here out any of their criticisms. Nobody should criticize another man unless he deems himself truly more superior.
I truly agree with you. I feel sorry for the people who do nothing, but criticize and scrutinize his performance. What a miserable world you must live in not to appreciate a wonderful performance like this.
Disagree. anybody can criticize dude... professional or not... just disregard what you disagree with. most people are not professional yes this is true, but most people also have common sense to know what sounds good, which is a contriuting factor to kempf's fame. non professionals im pretty sure come far & wide to see kempf perform because according to their non professional opinions, they think Kempf's playing is beautiful. the world is built on non professional opinions.
No I disagree with that, Its far easier to validly and legitimately criticise musical performances than to play the music for yourself. This is just a fact of life.
I haven't heard Ashkenazy's yet, but I definitely feel that this interpretation is far too rushed, and there are just too many mistakes as well. Pollini plays this better than anyone I've heard. I accept your opinion, but I just don't agree with it ;)
Are you fucking kidding? Too many mistakes? Freddy Kempf is a fucking amazing pianist and all the etudes he played in the series for this video are perfect. Unlike other shitty fucking versions of this piece on YouTube which are drowned out with TOO MUCH PEDAL, this one is clean and distinct. Not muddled and covered up with pedal.
The performance is inconsistent and very sloppy in places. He's an amazing pianist, of course, but this simply isn't a good performance, and all I'm saying is that it's ignorant to say that it's the best there is, which was what I originally replied to. Pollini's recording is far superior IMO, he almost makes it sound like an effortless finger exercise.
Hamsterpeiling: when you play it that well, you don't feel anything. Your hand only feels fatigue if you don't practice enough =) I'm in the middle of learning this etude.
no cabe duda que la interpretación es impecable, pero, con todo el respeto que me merece este gran pianista, que el manejo de las dinámicas no se ve, entonces es impresionante pero no transmite sensibilidad ni emociona mayormente... es mi humilde opinión. Olvidan que es arte...
You guys stop breaking balls with all that shit about "he has great technic but no interpretation". He has technic, AND sound AND power AND energy. What the hell do u wanna make more out of this composition? it's an "etude" and all we need to hear about it in a concert hall is just the outstanding job kempf does here!
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you said he has technique,but he keybeds every note he plays by forcing all his weight down onto the keys(that little jump thing he does)and his wrist keeps on moving up and down which just makes the tone monotonously uneven. SOUND?ja it might be loud,but it sounds like a tin meeting a baseball bat,this is because he keybeds everything and uses to much force to make a huge sound.there are easier methods to get a louder more beautiful,less sharper sound.Energy? it's fake. anyone can jump around
This interpertation even though I like his impressive techinique, has no feeling whatsoever. How come his other etudes sound have more feeling in them except this one?
mvs13l2, this etude DOES have loads of feeling, it's just that no one really knows how to bring it out, because they just learn the notes instead of learning the harmony and the melody.
Eh, I'm sorry I guess I wasn't clearer enough with my comment. I was referring to Freddy Kempff' interpretation of this piece, not the piece written by Chopin itself. I myself play this piece, I know that one can put more feeling into it like putting more strength when alternating from an ascending arpeggio to an descending one. I was referring to the player not the piece.
God forbid. Good technique, but the left hand it`s very stiff. Good tempo, but like that`s all. He didn`t do any kind of dynamics, he just played forte or mf all the way. I think he didn`t analyzed harmonically, cause you have some places that are in minor mode, from C Major to A minor, in the second page, nothing ... he didn`t care. Better listen Murray Perahia playing Chopin etudes, more beautiful
yo no desconozco la capacidad técnica de Freddy Kempf, es impecable, pero, a mi se me hace que él, como otros artistas jóvenes, descuidan un poco la interpretación y el debido uso de lad dinámicas, es algo que pienso se pierde de vista y es sumamente importante, hay piezas de mucha simpleza que transmiten demasiado todo por una buena interpretación... es un concepto muy humilde de mi parte que no mengua la capacidad de este gran artista...
what´s it with those last few left hand octaves bangged away ?? he makes a static sound and doen´t even seem to realize or care... weird considering his obvious technical abilities...
They actually completed at the same time (with Cziffra), but his recording has more silence in the video. And Cziffra makes pieces which are to be played slow even slower, and the most difficult parts even more insanely fast.
But I heard that from a National standard teacher. coz I think most of his techniques r in this song. Im not too sure how to explain it to u. Its a saying of a National standard teacher
The defenition of "master a piece" goes really wide.If you think of playing the score up and down without mistakes then you cant play every other chopin stuff. your national standard teacher means to reach perfection which is extremely difficult, but you dont hear it at that tempo here anyways. : )
this etude is really to strengen the left hand and get the right hand more flexible, every one of chopins etudes where to strenchen a diffrent thing, so this one etude doesnt mean you can play any chopin song.
@roybrachet The original tempo marking is 176
LW89music 2 days ago
Try this:
youtube.com/watch?v=zFC_4UKQ7GI
aljeke1 1 month ago
Technically proficient, but musically bland.
aljeke1 1 month ago
@aljeke1, my thoughts exactly. He's just running through it without saying anything.
KhagarBalugrak 1 month ago
@KhagarBalugrak i Guess Interpretation is in playing as well as in listening - i like his interpretations of the whole Opus a lot
Zwangsworkaholic 4 weeks ago
if u play faster than richter then u know u are to fast
piano0b 1 month ago
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1Thompsonmusic 1 month ago
класно...з такою швидкістю..)
Olga0143 2 months ago
He needs to listen to Cortot's version, and rethink the entire approach; I think it should be slower, softer, and way more melodic and tender.
pianomanjc93 2 months ago
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1Thompsonmusic 2 months ago
It's a powerful, fortissimo, spiritual performance of a divine work. Tender?? You're an idiot.
1Thompsonmusic 2 months ago
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1Thompsonmusic 2 months ago
@pianomanjc93
JEALOUS!!!
1Thompsonmusic 2 months ago
Does this man get elctric schocks from the keyboard?
PHILIPPEFRITSCH 5 months ago
I'm sure he's capable of getting it better. What I'm hearing is chord grouping patterns. It should have a feel like falling water. It sounds like (descending) E C G C break E C G C break etc. Those arpeggio joins need to sound more continous without a feeling of one ending and another beginning...like a waterfall.
The rhythmic feel in this piece is just as important as the dynamics. Garrick Ohlsson, Pollini, Valentina Lisitsa (slower but good, and great dynamics).
robertslistening 5 months ago
Started this today!!!! Climbing Mt. Everest in piano my teacher says.....
daytonmlivingston 6 months ago
Muito lindo!!!!!!!!!
NicoleMPLage 7 months ago
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1Thompsonmusic 7 months ago
Very excellent. You can hear even after playing it thousands of times, this piece still fatigues the player. How did Chopin do it with such small hands?
davids2000 8 months ago
@davids2000 its all in the wrists and forearm. thats one of the aims in this study
anonymousQ45 6 months ago
Wow is that fast. My best time was 1:50 but not quite the quality of this one.
K46620 8 months ago
Lots of feeback about this performance. Also nice to see different ideas and opinions. Keep in mind though, folks, this is an etude. It therefore serves for a particular purpose - in this case to study/develop arpeggiation throught the range of the keyboard at speed. Musically it is a bit trivial, the physical demand is deceiving. Mainly, I think Chopin's intent with this piece was to represent endurance up and down the keyboard at speed without getting tense - not easy to do.
9b8 8 months ago
if we slow down the strings, and we train regularly, it is not so difficult for the tunes all come in sequences not jump low, high, low irregularly. Thanks to Freedy, he made a perfect smooth, but too many repeated, same notes make the imagination and appreciation rather blur.
tanadihensen73 9 months ago
The 10-12 only "sounds" difficult. It sounds difficult but it is straight forward. You learn the notes, you play them the slowly, then build up speed - within a short time frame. You are then free.
The 10-1 will always try you even after years of study.
@supergaybot
This piece has no name. The waterfall image is but one of many possible interpretations.
As for the speed, around 1 minute, 45 seconds is the speed in the score. All others are just slow. For good reason ;)
TMattLee 9 months ago
@TMattLee erm, isn't that the key to all music? then why do SOOOOOOOO many musicians suck my balls?
SendInTheChickens 5 months ago
another version of this song : watch?v=UkApPrdfW_U
bubu102 9 months ago
dont know much about this piece so dont eat me if im wrong...but its known as the waterfall piece so the right hand should sort of flow of of the left hand so the left hand must be more prominent than the right? correct me if im wrong
supergaybot 11 months ago
this is hard to play :)
gotfouryearstolive 1 year ago
in my opinion, the hardest chopin etude of all...
HomerJ666 1 year ago
@HomerJ666: harder than the revolutionary? why?
freaky011 1 year ago
@freaky011 try to play it. the distances between the notes are so horrible its really not easy to get into it. personally i dont think the revolutionary is one of the hardest chopin etudes, but also not one of the easiest. i think op. 4, which you can see in my profile is also one of the hardest, but this one blew my mind...
HomerJ666 1 year ago
@freaky011 sorry, i meant op. 10 no. 4
HomerJ666 1 year ago
@HomerJ666 I don't know. I think there are quite a few harder ones than this one. Like the Revolutionary and Op. 25 No.11. Yes it's hard but most notes fall into a logical succession of the previous notes so it's not actually as hard as it sounds.
Challsoer 10 months ago
@Challsoer i think its harder than it sounds... i think everyone's different there, but i consider the revolutionary to be moderate in difficulty versus this one =) i never played 25/11 though, gotta try it ;)
HomerJ666 10 months ago
@Challsoer say that to little hands !!! doing a C F C F in this speed isnt that logical !!!
mehdital 10 months ago
@mehdital The wall is C F# A Eb ok slowly but speed ....
bertrandui 2 weeks ago
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!! :) greetings Hella
helladm1 1 year ago
i've always wanted to play the piano at a place like this. Yr awesome and lucky!! :D
melindasys 1 year ago
Mind-boggling virtuosity, accuracy and dynamic range, but did Frederic Chopin really mean this piece to be played at such a break-neck speed? If he did, it means that just about everyone else plays it too slowly.
roybrachet 1 year ago
@roybrachet not meant to offend or anything, but I think this is actually the right tempo d: atleast outta those 2 ppl i've heard play this piece b4
FPSfreak96 1 year ago
this is perfect, the melody is in the left hand, the right hand is about pure brilliance. I think he got it spot on
buckachiddy 1 year ago
complete show off ! the arpeggios cant even be distinguished at that speed , and it seems rushed. maybe he should smoke a joint or two to relax and play it again.
gohanisbuckethead 1 year ago
show off
selenajasondemi 1 year ago
Faster, faster, maybe you can beat Cziffra. Who cares about the melody, feeling, interpretation? Surely not Chopin! Next, try to play it in under a minute. Better yet, play it so fast that you finish before you start. That way no one will suffer.
sasha42196 1 year ago
@sasha42196 haha are you being sarcastic?
anonymousQ45 1 year ago
@sasha42196 lol, Arrau played it in 1 minute, 45 seconds. Playing fast doesn't necessarily destroy the beauty of the piece.
KindleFlames 1 year ago
I think this piece belongs to Ashkenazy, but still so so amazing ::)
guycrosswell 1 year ago
I just discovered Lugansky's interpretation of this piece and it even slightly out-does Ashkenasy's for my taste, but by only a little.
FromTheHeart99 1 year ago
This is maybe the best example of the kind of piano playing I so dislike--all the technique in the world but put only to the service of showing us only that! Cortot and Backhaus were the best ever at making real music of this piece. Ashkenasy does the best job of it today. Pollini is wonderful as well, no can ever fault him for whatever he plays. But he's slightly too technical as always, whereas Ashkenasy prefers the dramatic : so perfect for this piece.
FromTheHeart99 1 year ago
Vrey good but this is too fast and covers the music... ! I think that THIS piece belongs to Ashkenazy...
proteas1992 1 year ago 2
@proteas1992 very well said
guycrosswell 1 year ago
@proteas1992 Louis Lortie
anonymousQ45 1 year ago
@proteas1992
Insanely jealous. Ashkenazy is good, but this is a far superior pianist
1Thompsonmusic 1 month ago
UAOOO....
urbanizacionvalmoral 1 year ago
a 00.45 c'est le son de l'amour
rouliann 1 year ago
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31Ikura 1 year ago
is it running on fast forward mode by any chance? :P
bravo kempff!! you live upto your second name..
satyu131089 1 year ago
Hi Leon~!
michael80009 1 year ago
Check out my tutorial on this piece on my channel!!
scottg4life 1 year ago
I think this is played at the correct tempo at 176!
MusicClassical1 1 year ago
When he jumps you can see his hear going up into the air now and then! haha :)
MusicClassical1 1 year ago
@MusicClassical1 awesome comment dude...
acbry1208 1 year ago
The real art isn't to play the left hand extremly loudly and the right hand extremly fastly. The real art is to play the right hand clearly and the left hand quiet, but in a way you can hear the melody good. So, that isn't played in a way, Chopin would like it, i think.
thelast193 1 year ago
@thelast193 It's an etude... Technique-wise, you should play the right hand to push its comfort level while melodically, the left hand has the melody, so that has to be emphasized.
thaiguy20fromla 1 year ago
@thelast193 You are quite right. Although this is played with great ease and power, Chopin should always have as a basis a melodic element which, when brought to the fore properly makes for an altogether different, but equally as stunning a musical statement.
Grigor99 1 year ago
@thelast193 i disagree, the melody is the left hand, the right hand being the accompaniment, the octaves in the bass should shine through the entire arpeggio run until the next octave is played, while occasionally a melody in the treble is to be bought out.... trust me ;)
mrpolaroid123 1 year ago
@mrpolaroid123 wrong comment, i didn't mean to vote down your comment
Nocturne2000 1 year ago
stunning!
ytrsyt 1 year ago
Ja. Auf Vögel schiessen.
marmasiotis 1 year ago
Kempf is awesome!
trschaefer 1 year ago 2
My right hand hurts D:
Wolvenblaze 1 year ago
@Wolvenblaze I know the feeling.
TroubleinZION 1 year ago
He plays the left hand too loud like a sforzando.
nvdahkid123 1 year ago
@nvdahkid123 everybody plays it like this because its meant to be like this.
Achtelnote 1 year ago
I just had a go at recording this one - I can't make it go as fast as Freddy though.
SteinwayArtist 1 year ago
Very good played! :D
MyLordLoke 1 year ago
passion !!!
turlackov 1 year ago 6
Remember that the left hand here has a melody to sing...
vivvpprof 1 year ago 19
Enjoying this beautiful piece! =D
MyLordLoke 1 year ago
Same to me :)
chrizzel0 1 year ago
Man, that is awesome. I wish I could play like that.
guardianofthewood 2 years ago
check garrick ohlson's version on YT..
it may be a bit transposed but the style is just amazing..
rvn10rvn17 2 years ago
Olssohn's is the best version I say
johnalt16 2 years ago
OMG this song is hell. my arm was sore for a whole damn week when i played it through. (not even at half this speed)
ChildOfFury 2 years ago
Relax your wrist, ur technique might most probably be wrong, which was why ur arm was sore. Just remember go by the flow, swave ur wrist and arm around, don't over do it.
RichardGold8 1 year ago
I was just listening to Pollini versus Kempff again. Pollini actually plays it a tad slower, but his clarity is awesome. I would be interested in what Kempff sounded like if he matched Pollini's speed. I think there is always an optimal speed to play something at. The heart beats with the music and the mood is being set. Too fast can miss the mood just as easily as too slow.
robertslistening 2 years ago
No doubt a fine pianist, just doesn't quite have Pollini's clarity in the right hand and I like Pollini's left hand treatment better. I think Freddy is better than his father was. They are all fantastically skilled musicians. I think the best test is when optimal recording equipment is used in the studio and some mixing is allowed.
I admire all the concert pianists for just reaching that level. That alone is worthy of praise.
robertslistening 2 years ago
Why, instead of analyzing how good they are or who is better, don't you just practice piano and play those pieces? It's better than being all I think this guy is clearer or whatever...Btw....where do I get this sheet music? I wanna play it...
FearRain 2 years ago
You can find it any where on the internet, just type it in the search box.
RichardGold8 1 year ago
I tried!!! It's so hard finding one. And I don't have a music store near me so yea :(
FearRain 1 year ago
do you still need the music? I can show you where to get it if you want.
urahara53 1 year ago
@urahara53 I got it finally and I'm so happy :D I feel like god LMAO jkjkjk
FearRain 1 year ago
hmm, instead of saying who's better why don't you post your opinion of the video.
artv4nd3l4y 2 years ago
I think he did very impressive.... He has a good technique... learning the song is one but paying attention to the fingering is like learning a whole new song in this case.
blueberr1 2 years ago
pollini's interpretation is better
Prepared2Die 2 years ago 2
Very skillfull, but without any poetry.
joost62 2 years ago 3
Are the Forte Octaves hard on his left hand? In any case Hes one of my favorite pianist.
konzolmester 2 years ago
I love the atmosphere! the Piano just looks great in that room.
mahler151 2 years ago 6
Not exactly crystal clear or even like Pollini....
Liebromeistal 2 years ago
true.. this is really fast..
rvn10rvn17 2 years ago
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epic as fuck
funkadelik69 2 years ago 39
@funkadelik69 Lmao thats a thumbs up for sure!
thecollective10 1 year ago
@funkadelik69 why u thumbed up this! .....
BassicStorm 1 year ago
IMO hardest etude by Chopin
killingangel707 2 years ago
hmmm...U think so?
I suppose it really depends on each person. For example I started the etudes with this one however somebody else might find another one to be easier. =D Really depends on pianist...
isym444 2 years ago
needs a bit of drum and bass if you ask me. and maybe a rapper. Not sure if a few dancing girls in the background would be too much but I'd definitely ditch the piano... like soooo 1880.
squoocher 2 years ago
Lol squoocher = troll
Arfat 2 years ago
lol people dont seem to understand this is a joke
toastybread14 2 years ago
Splindid...
fapdm 2 years ago
aka stephen fry ? :)
guharup 2 years ago
Bah. SHUT UP!
fapdm 2 years ago
If it is regarding criticism of this performance, then the only people that should be listened to are those who post a video response showing themselves playing this piece to the same degree as Freddy Kempf has played it here. If we see that they are indeed equal, then we shall here out any of their criticisms. Nobody should criticize another man unless he deems himself truly more superior.
perhapsforever 2 years ago
I truly agree with you. I feel sorry for the people who do nothing, but criticize and scrutinize his performance. What a miserable world you must live in not to appreciate a wonderful performance like this.
woodtiger716 2 years ago
Disagree. anybody can criticize dude... professional or not... just disregard what you disagree with. most people are not professional yes this is true, but most people also have common sense to know what sounds good, which is a contriuting factor to kempf's fame. non professionals im pretty sure come far & wide to see kempf perform because according to their non professional opinions, they think Kempf's playing is beautiful. the world is built on non professional opinions.
JlDsanity 2 years ago
Right on perhapsforever, I agree! I like John Browning, Andrei Gavrilov and Murray Perahia performances as well.
LVB1770 2 years ago
No I disagree with that, Its far easier to validly and legitimately criticise musical performances than to play the music for yourself. This is just a fact of life.
chrish12345 2 years ago 4
this etude is intended to train the extension of the shoulder isn't it?
spartan1081990 2 years ago 2
i prefer Evgeny Kissin's interpretation .
i think it should slow down a bit ......
gcaee 2 years ago
Actually this tempo is correct :S
braintist 2 years ago
Por que jodidos quieren comparar a todos con Ashkenazy? Es bueno este video si o no y punto. Para mi es muy, muy bueno.
reebikov 2 years ago
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THE SOUND QUALITY IS HORRENDOUS
mdoub 2 years ago
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not one of the best players this Kempff...
davevb1989 2 years ago
What is your last name??? Chopin???
woodtiger716 2 years ago 31
@woodtiger716 Kempf.
Meanman332 1 year ago
not one of the knowledgeable commenters this dave...
killingangel707 2 years ago
Just listened to Ashkenazy's -- pretty good, but what's up with his "senza pedale" around 40 seconds in?! It doesn't say that on the score, does it?
flammesombres 2 years ago
So beautiful. I can't stop watching him playing.
woodtiger716 2 years ago
i love the emotion! *headbang* ftw
whoopsforgotmypiano 2 years ago
GOOOD
michaelnyman1 2 years ago
I love his playing - everything he plays is so wonderfully pieced together.
iloveaccompanying 2 years ago
Haha! This etude always makes me laugh - not with ridicule, mind you, but with glee.
IrenkaKaspar 2 years ago
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It's not very exact played, ... but i think this is a commentwall for idiots ... so fuck ya!
Oslix12 2 years ago
this is the best performance. from my point of view.
obstfredi 2 years ago 2
you can't have heard many, then
flammesombres 2 years ago
dude cant you accept my opinion? ashkenazys is not bad either
obstfredi 2 years ago
I haven't heard Ashkenazy's yet, but I definitely feel that this interpretation is far too rushed, and there are just too many mistakes as well. Pollini plays this better than anyone I've heard. I accept your opinion, but I just don't agree with it ;)
flammesombres 2 years ago 2
Are you fucking kidding? Too many mistakes? Freddy Kempf is a fucking amazing pianist and all the etudes he played in the series for this video are perfect. Unlike other shitty fucking versions of this piece on YouTube which are drowned out with TOO MUCH PEDAL, this one is clean and distinct. Not muddled and covered up with pedal.
diesel828 2 years ago 2
The performance is inconsistent and very sloppy in places. He's an amazing pianist, of course, but this simply isn't a good performance, and all I'm saying is that it's ignorant to say that it's the best there is, which was what I originally replied to. Pollini's recording is far superior IMO, he almost makes it sound like an effortless finger exercise.
flammesombres 2 years ago 5
Pedal is marked on the sheet to hold for almost every two measures.
Shadowtel 2 years ago
fine with me. but pollini is something diffrent. lets wait until kempf is that old ;)
obstfredi 2 years ago
I have this feeling that after you play this your hand will feel REALLY REALLY tired. :/
hamsterpeiling 2 years ago
Hamsterpeiling: when you play it that well, you don't feel anything. Your hand only feels fatigue if you don't practice enough =) I'm in the middle of learning this etude.
JlDsanity 2 years ago
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purememory 2 years ago
no cabe duda que la interpretación es impecable, pero, con todo el respeto que me merece este gran pianista, que el manejo de las dinámicas no se ve, entonces es impresionante pero no transmite sensibilidad ni emociona mayormente... es mi humilde opinión. Olvidan que es arte...
tato4527 2 years ago
You guys stop breaking balls with all that shit about "he has great technic but no interpretation". He has technic, AND sound AND power AND energy. What the hell do u wanna make more out of this composition? it's an "etude" and all we need to hear about it in a concert hall is just the outstanding job kempf does here!
pianofolle 2 years ago
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you have no idea what you're talking about. please stop commenting here
hehawmankel 2 years ago
we can make a deal: i stop commenting here while you stop dealing with MUSIC at all, nano-brained idiot
pianofolle 2 years ago
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you said he has technique,but he keybeds every note he plays by forcing all his weight down onto the keys(that little jump thing he does)and his wrist keeps on moving up and down which just makes the tone monotonously uneven. SOUND?ja it might be loud,but it sounds like a tin meeting a baseball bat,this is because he keybeds everything and uses to much force to make a huge sound.there are easier methods to get a louder more beautiful,less sharper sound.Energy? it's fake. anyone can jump around
hehawmankel 2 years ago
This interpertation even though I like his impressive techinique, has no feeling whatsoever. How come his other etudes sound have more feeling in them except this one?
mvs13I2 2 years ago
mvs13l2, this etude DOES have loads of feeling, it's just that no one really knows how to bring it out, because they just learn the notes instead of learning the harmony and the melody.
hehawmankel 2 years ago
Eh, I'm sorry I guess I wasn't clearer enough with my comment. I was referring to Freddy Kempff' interpretation of this piece, not the piece written by Chopin itself. I myself play this piece, I know that one can put more feeling into it like putting more strength when alternating from an ascending arpeggio to an descending one. I was referring to the player not the piece.
mvs13I2 2 years ago 2
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mvs13I2 2 years ago
God forbid. Good technique, but the left hand it`s very stiff. Good tempo, but like that`s all. He didn`t do any kind of dynamics, he just played forte or mf all the way. I think he didn`t analyzed harmonically, cause you have some places that are in minor mode, from C Major to A minor, in the second page, nothing ... he didn`t care. Better listen Murray Perahia playing Chopin etudes, more beautiful
eda2k 2 years ago
is it true that he is half japanese half german? i heard that and think that is really cool
LetTheMusicFlow1 2 years ago 2
yo no desconozco la capacidad técnica de Freddy Kempf, es impecable, pero, a mi se me hace que él, como otros artistas jóvenes, descuidan un poco la interpretación y el debido uso de lad dinámicas, es algo que pienso se pierde de vista y es sumamente importante, hay piezas de mucha simpleza que transmiten demasiado todo por una buena interpretación... es un concepto muy humilde de mi parte que no mengua la capacidad de este gran artista...
tato4527 2 years ago
Look at Kempf's face, it seems he is really painful
tonyngjichun 2 years ago
what´s it with those last few left hand octaves bangged away ?? he makes a static sound and doen´t even seem to realize or care... weird considering his obvious technical abilities...
martinl19 2 years ago
i dont really see/hear the static sounds
LetTheMusicFlow1 2 years ago
well...then you have to go to your doctor and get your ears checked!
martinl19 2 years ago
Arppegio's all day
superjam18 2 years ago 4
0:40 - section that requires the most stretching
Section afterwards is, I think, the most beautiful part of the piece.
ulsbolde89 2 years ago
i agree with you. it is one of the most difficult sections, especially for the second and third finger! and in 0:47 my favourite part begins, too.
hanniswurst 2 years ago 2
this guy actually plays this etude even faster than argerich or cziffra..
rvn10rvn17 2 years ago 2
They actually completed at the same time (with Cziffra), but his recording has more silence in the video. And Cziffra makes pieces which are to be played slow even slower, and the most difficult parts even more insanely fast.
f1f1s 2 years ago
Wonderful notes. I think Chopin had a little bit of Liszt when he composed this work.
puchalaka 2 years ago
Actually he was a little bit inspired by Paganini when he wrote this piece, however, it's simply wonderful.
sebastianrc 2 years ago 2
I thought this was inspired by Bach... (C major prelude in WTC)
johnalt16 2 years ago 4
you are correct. he wanted the LH to emulate the pedals of the organ
DualThunder 2 years ago
think the other way around liszt was always inspired by chopin!
theromanpraetorian 2 years ago
hey, what are the accents for in this piece.
at the start they are there then their not..
maydengarNSBHS 2 years ago
you have to play them through the whole piece.
JakWho92 2 years ago 2
Someone told me that if u can play this piece well, you can master any other Chopin songs too. Is that true?
RichardGold8 2 years ago
no chopin has so much other technique in his etudes, you cant compare it.
JakWho92 2 years ago 3
But I heard that from a National standard teacher. coz I think most of his techniques r in this song. Im not too sure how to explain it to u. Its a saying of a National standard teacher
RichardGold8 2 years ago
The defenition of "master a piece" goes really wide.If you think of playing the score up and down without mistakes then you cant play every other chopin stuff. your national standard teacher means to reach perfection which is extremely difficult, but you dont hear it at that tempo here anyways. : )
JakWho92 2 years ago
I think she meant by some important techniques or hard ones of Chopin.
RichardGold8 2 years ago
this etude is really to strengen the left hand and get the right hand more flexible, every one of chopins etudes where to strenchen a diffrent thing, so this one etude doesnt mean you can play any chopin song.
cloudftw93 2 years ago
terrible how it doesn't show his hands during the hardest parts around 40 seconds
bw2082 2 years ago
that's the easiest part lol..
maydengarNSBHS 2 years ago
OMG THAT ACTION LOOKS SOOOOOOO RESPONSIVE.... im sure it has to be for this masterpiece too.
godsloved3 2 years ago