Liszt Three Concert Etudes S.144 No.3 "Un Sospiro" (Hamelin)

[moonberrystarful]

Beautiful, just beautiful. I love it.

[ElFuroCrack]

I always smile when I listen to this piece

[nickers888]

such a gorgeous piece

[jamison94816]

WTF is this having a high dislike ratio!!!!

[Haamidpianoman]

those arpeggios look like firworks, holding hands!

[zachattack19942]

Have always loved the dynamics of this piece! Looks incredibly difficult too.

[shenkeey]

@jamessdfafas It's very shellfish of you to talk in your own language instead of English

[MissHappyAllTheTime]

It almost sounds like a harp with just the piano playing the top part. Its so methodical and beautiful.

[LyudmylaD]

Incredible ! No words !

[LyudmylaD]

@jamessdfafas

[jen1989z]

not a liszt fan, but thats so great!!

[violinpianoclassical]

This recording is the best I've heard so far. His playing is professional. I'm speechless... He's brilliant. :)

[BassicStorm]

3:00 how lovely theme gets repeated

[mikelord93]

666 likes >:) MUHAHAHAHA

[imaginethewonder]

lets all think of magical fairy land :)

[LAKATOSMARITA]

Csùkd be a szemed, és halgadsz erre a szép mélnkolikus zenére...

Ferme les yeux et écoute cet air mélancolique tout en douceur..;

Close your eyes ans lissen to this wonderfull music...

Nauwe u ogen en luister naar deze prachtige musik...

[LAKATOSMARITA]

Egy szomoru zene, de néha jó ilyen zenét hallgatni, amin lehet egy jót sírni, de úgy igazán...

[chick225]

i don't think i've ever heard anything like it. it was so beautiful

[sirshitsalot007]

such a high dislike ratio??? so disapointing

[Ir0nman86]

you can find sheet music @ sheetsearch . com

[videofreakmanic123]

@Ir0nman86 you fucking prick

[addeex1]

@videofreakmanic123 Lol why so mad bro...? I checked up the site and it seems ok.

[SNOWBORED11]

@4thlord51 Very tranquil, unless you are trying to play it, haha.

[LumiaraxThexPrince]

The piano is known for how it makes people feel, I repeated this feeling over and over lol.

[chasingthebluesky]

is it because of the glass of wine I just had, or is it really this is heavenly...

[TopRameen13]

I just created a youtube account and the first thing I did was come to this video so I can like it. A great performance of an even greater composition. Liszt definitely got it right by naming this piece "A Sigh". I don't know about you guys but I always find myself sighing at the end of this piece because of the sheer beauty i just heard.

[ShinichiKudou2008]

Are the notes on the left-hand all septuplets?

[abdnumber4]

@ShinichiKudou2008 It is a for a lot of the piece. What you do for the beginning bit and the rest with that same general theme going on is that you alternate which hand plays the melody. Left plays while the right does the upper half of the arpeggio and the right hits the melody while left plays the lower half of the arpeggio. You'll notice this if you check out the direction of the stems

[adkinsadam1]

I'm sorry but this is an unbelievably difficult piece to play well.

[CziffraTheThird]

what version does Hamelin have? because he plays extra notes there on the couple last bars. Was he just improvising there? does anyone if anyone know what publisher he is playing from that would be greaat

[MrLouisnumberone]

@CziffraTheThird It´s another ending liszt wrote.

[TheRachMan32]

@CziffraTheThird I have the solo Alfred sheet music for this piece and it includes, in addition to the regular ending, both the alternate, whole-tone scale based ending that Hamlin plays here and a slow, chordal section that would be inserted after the second cadenza, right before measure 53.

[twgirl1]

好棒 

[dave8ization]

is it me or is the score shown different at the end then what he plays?

[e4e5sf3sf6]

@dave8ization It is not just you mate. Hamelin added a few notes on the end. I like it :)

[888167]

@e4e5sf3sf6 no he didn't. Lizt offered two versions for the ending, but it's only printed in a few sheets. Hamelin is playing the second one.

[e4e5sf3sf6]

@888167 Ah ok. I am sorry to have misinformed. I just gave my previous comment a thumbs down :) Thanks for the info mate.

[888167]

@e4e5sf3sf6 :-) No problem man ^^

[RichmanPiano]

@dave8ization It's the optional ending Liszt wrote. So for some reason, the music that's shown in the recording has the first ending, Hamelin instead played the second ending. I like the second ending better. :D

[joaquindalessio]

I recommend Arrau's by far!

[cowheadcow]

@TamaNewb @tangycheezexists

There is sustain pedal used. Most professional scores don't include it because specific instructions for how to pedal is very amateurish.

[dave8ization]

@cowheadcow most editions have some sort of pedal instruction

[cowheadcow]

@dave8ization if a respectable edition has it, it's very minimal. In this sheet music, it tells you how to pedal the first 2 measures, then says sempre Pedale. Any more than that, and I would also expect the edition to spell out how to trill for me.

[F14Lolcat]

Liszt.. or Chopin? =)

[DafniElissa]

@F14Lolcat contamination ahahah

[aaron8895]

so beautiful

[OrchestraI]

There are so many beautiful piano pieces I've heard in my life that I don't know the names of...

I've now found one. Thank you. (:

[TamaNewb]

No sustain pedal? !!

[tangycheezexists]

@TamaNewb Well, otherwise the notes would run into each other, and the beauty of the piece would be somewhat marred.

Also, the player is usually leans toward his/her own interpretation of the piece.

[44STYLE187]

@TamaNewb

sure he uses lol

[gainweighttoday]

I think I know what Love sounds like...

[TamaNewb]

Can some on make a tutorial for this piece? I need a sign!

[richuanhu]

interesting ending! It's not the same as the score but sounds good nevertheless

[gotmusic8]

what's being played in the last line of the piece? wonderful!, but i'm confused...

[dezxdestruction]

@gotmusic8 He improvised the last line of the piece. I was also skeptic about it. Pretty nice improvisation if I could say so myself eh?

[dezxdestruction]

@DanMarcy1 Oh i see Dan, thank you.

[onesoongee]

@dezxdestruction The last part is an ossia added by Liszt himself, not Hamelin's improvisation.

[vietmauzzzy1]

this is impossible to play!

[snowgirl1052]

This just purges all the toxins from the brain. It is better than booze, drugs, or compulsive shopping.

[MultiTangerang]

This music makes me want to be a better person. . .

[TamaNewb]

@MultiTangerang I dont mean to be disrespectful but your comment lol'ed me. :) 

[ts1811]

Tranquility! Is so pretty that I'm almost speechless

[zamyrabyrd]

Lovely, and thanks for posting, but the ending played here is an alternate that Liszt wrote and not the one onscreen.

[nitabahtiri]

It's like being in Wonderland.

[matto135]

I used to appeal to drugs for what is quite sufficiently available from this.

[huzzzzzzahh]

@matto135 try ravel's "jeux d'eau" and Hofmann's "the sanctuary" if you really want to feel high

[matto135]

@huzzzzzzahh Well, then, I think I will, lol.

[mlmb41796]

the first time I heard this I fell in love and now I'm learning although I know I will never be able to play it as beautifully as this!

[HAHAnoob222]

½ pages to go =D!

[doomless198]

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[jbwhitechicks]

classical music is so amazinf because unlike other genres of music you can FEEL the music.

[kuntekimbe]

Thank you for posting with the sheet music, it makes listening so much more valid. I wanted to play this, before I realized there were three staves...Maybe 7 years from now or something.

[kuntekimbe]

I wanted to play this, before I realized there were three staves...

[Gargantupimp]

This piece is the definition of...WINNING!

[BlackXamarylliS]

34 people don't enjoy life...

[mlottes11]

I want this played at my funeral

[frade001]

34 people don't understand that if we are to ever reach for the stars and discover anything beyond this planet for ourselves we will be doing it listening to classical music.

[twooffour]

@frade001

No, we'll be doing it examining scientific data - you moony oddball.

[huzzzzzzahh]

1:35 to 1:42 makes me want to cry.

[Ferbbie]

Listz and Chopin, my favorite so far :o) love them both! Un Suspiro and Nocturne Op.9 No.2

[cedricrlongreen]

Can you post the other two. No one seems to post them. I understand this is the post popular one but...

[yuyihome]

The ending is diffirent!! It's so beautiful.

[pianoloveandgod]

I love this piece so much :) it has a stillness that takes my breath away!

[ChubbaBubba1026]

Piss



[ChubbaBubba1026]

@ChubbaBubba1026

oh no someone hacked my channel or something

[nonchan6]

arrau plays better.

[davel112]

i kno for sure there were two different endings. both are written in the edition i own

[moviesmyway]

can't we just be classic and say that 317 people so far are smarter than 32 people?

[4thlord51]

this song is the definition of tranquility

[2468HOTROD]

@4thlord51 lol or maybe to listen to while watching a butterfly migration somewhere? Awesome!

[Diffomega]

sounds like romance

[BUZZUBUZZU]

32 people can't "sigh"

[crltnmbr1]

This is such a beautiful piece of music!!!!!! I remember listening to it fotr the first time in music class 21 years ago, I was really BLOWN AWAY!!!!!! 

[OriginalBasaliskos]

@crltnmbr1 It's one of those pieces with "universal appeal" that anyone, including those that don't care for "classical" can enjoy. I remember falling in love with it the first time I heard it.

[MicroStarlight]

DAMN that's beautiful

[bootboydenmark88]

Yes I noticed he changed the ending compared to the score we can see on screen. Perhaps Liszt wrote to different endings, and Andre Hamelin used the other one?

[123coolmik]

I love how the piano is recorded, but the sound engineer should have used more variety in microphone placement throughout the piece.

[e4e5sf3sf6]

I think this is the most beautiful piece and interpretation I have ever heard. It would be a dream for me to be able to play this piece like Marc-André. Lizst is in a class of his own.

[everlightsan]

@looney1023 I thought so too. Just a small amount but I like it. :)

[looney1023]

is it me or does he completely change the ending?

[itsmister2u]

@bayonetsluts dam! Even at a page where u can listen to music and say just 1 simple word to express what u think of it some loveless jerk finds a way to come in and disrupt the flow with a childish comment. Let me guess. U want someone, anyone to give u something ro feed off of? Whats the matter bayonetsluts, nobody loves u??

[lePistolero]

Maybe the best of Liszt....

[itsmister2u]

Dreamy

[becson123]

This has left me completely breathless... simply amazing!

[airva21901]

is this piece played by only one person??????

[dharanishb]

what the hell is wrong with these 32 ppl thumbing down this beautiful piece of music!

[sschafi1]

@dharanishb Bieber fans...

[chimayai]

god..this piece is breathtaking and wonderful example of how bravura but precisely shaded Liszt's work can be. the only one I can play is the "apres lecture un dante"; this and others are a little beyond me, I think.

[justin10292000]

Marc-Andre Hamelin, one of the greatest pianists of our time, playing the music of one of the greatest pianists of ALL time. And this is LIVE! Beautiful music wonderfully played. Thank you for posting this!

[cristinabakkali]

es hermoso...

[broadwood1830]

also ich finde das 0815 blödgebremse überhaupt nicht angenehm

[keyser789]

most beautiful music ive ever heard

[RemovdSande11]

so difficult to play, respect

[12345qazx1]

Hamelin ....delicious playing..

[rcb44]

Db kicks ass.

[lePistolero]

I didn't know that we could find three keys on a piano sheet!

[simonchang8]

Love Hamelin's version... he played it so beautifullllllly!!

[karazh]

i list he melody somewhere in 3:00 :( amazing how he worked it out :) it soudns so amazing clearly !

[edtskyline]

LISZT WAS A GENIOUS!!!!! Hamelin is a genius!!! =D!!

[wieslawaify]

Mowa zycia.Piekny utwor.

[2009xellos]

It's slightly Schubertian

[lovelastsforever1000]

he had such huge hands.....God, i have long fingers too, but his were enourmous :P

[roarul]

WOW!

[roarul]

This is for 2 hands???!

[Aryamanable]

@roarul

Yeah there's a lot of hand crossing. Watch a video where you can see their hands, and you'll see, it's quite difficult to explain.

[korlock3000]

@roarul watch a version of someone playing it and watch how they move their hands. Its a neat little trick Liszt did.

[ciliaspippi]

@korlock3000 Yep, that's why it's a concert etude. Beautiful, and educational in technique at the same time.

[damgoodballers]

oh ty, i absolutely did not know that.... "NOW YOU KNOW!" (sing's Bill Nye the science guy song lol)

[damgoodballers]

can someone explain to me why he changes the ending? hes the only one that does a different ending lol... nontheless a awsome performance... at 1:25 i would had already given up LOL.... hard piece to play for sure

[purerhodium]

Liszt actually wrote an alternative ending, which is the one that Hamelin plays here. Personally, I prefer this alternative ending - it flows better with the rest of the piece.

[georgecziffra]

@damgoodballers He's playing an alternate ending that Liszt wrote, a far superior one at that.

[txmmj]

This video reminds me of the joy I get while I'm defecating.

[johnl5r3w]

HAHAHAHA awesome comment

[txmmj]

Feces.

[antkim319]

Bravo!

[mosdomo]

successful troll

[JLGGG908]

simplemente hermoso

[Jim341046]

Tunefull and experimental - love it. Years ahead of it's time.

[Jim341046]

What's going on at the end. It seems like there is loads of improvisation - it doesn't match with the score - sublime as it is...

[addeex1]

Liszt wrote different endings, he wrote different cadenzas at the middle part too. But I think hamelin has just made a little own ending ^^

[HandyTheXxxX]

Hamelin's cadenza's are my favourite, always imaginitive.

[addeex1]

Wow, I see you every where nowadays!! xD

Didn't notice it was you again :P

[Jim341046]

Ah yes! I want to hear your Alkan asap! There's also an Alkan piece not so well know - Prelude in E Minor also know as Etude de velocite on Wiki Scores - have a look at it..

I'm kidding myself it I think I can try any of this stuff. I can't even play the stuff Godowsky makes harder.

ps - if you're into raving try Meow. J

[addeex1]

Yeah I know that piece, I have the scores. Been looking on that one, but I have to focus on school a bit too :(

[aletbichon]

merci pour cette idée sublime de nous faire suivre le déroulement de l'œuvre sur partition

[lemonduh]

i can only manage 8 TT^TT thus I switched over to violin. But I did not quite playing hte piano ^-^

[futureviolinvirtuoso]

Liszt was one of the best of his day... without a doubt :)

Perfection doesn't even come close to describe it.

[advisorC101]

That's quite a tremendous stretch one has to make in the last two bars...

[Jim341046]

You're damn right - thats 12 notes. I can only just manage 10 (white keys only)

[advisorC101]

I have the same problem. I can also only make an tenth on the white notes.

I'd love to see my fingers grow just an inch longer..

[mosdomo]

@Jim341046 Historically liszt was said to have hands that could cover an 18th

[Jim341046]

It depends what you mean by 'cover'. I don't believe anyone could play 2 octaves + 2 without jumping save perhaps Robert Wadlow when he was alive. Rachmaninov was notes for his ability to play 12 eg C Minor - C, G, C, Eb, G

[mosdomo]

@Jim341046 His hands were bigger than Robert Downey Jr's ego.  That's approximately 3 feet in diameter.

[moonstaff1234]

@mosdomo, weren't piano keys slightly smaller back then?

[mosdomo]

Yes, in fact the average diameter of a piano key nowadays is roughly and inch and a half. give or take. Back in the day, piano keys were only half an inch, requiring a specialized hand contraption to play. It was only though mastery of this contraption that one could prove virtuosity.

[HandyTheXxxX]

@mosdomo lolwut ;D

[mosdomo]

huhuhuhu lololol

[jbz7890]

That's not true at all. His span was only a 10th.

[mosdomo]

No, historically, Liszt had hands that could crush a man`s head.

[hanspellegrims]

No, he could only just cover a 10th. Liszt once said to a pupil about his hands that he could only barely cover the last chords of the slow movement of the Hammerklavier Sonata, which are 10ths. It's because he made such huge jumps in his music that people credited him with far greater hands.

[FranzLisztian]

That would mean Liszt's hands were 30+ cm long...

[mosdomo]

just like my penis.

[ultracoolhomies]

@mosdomo LOL

[MultiFailBot]

Piano keys were about half an inch wide those days.

Now they're like, one and a half.

[ayso78]

@FranzLisztian There's a Youtube vid where Cziffra places his hand on a cast of Liszt's. Liszt's were humongous, probably similar to Cliburn's in size.

[Simo2009BORO]

oh bloody hell

12 !!!???

i can do 11 white notes

no one can do 12 surely

[Simo2009BORO]

still a long way though

[HandyTheXxxX]

Rach could reach from an Eb and to the second C upward! (Left Hand)

[ayso78]

@HandyTheXxxX He may have had Marfan syndrome, ditto Paganini.

[advisorC101]

Just lovely, and thank you for including the score in this fine presentation.