Liszt Transcendental Etude Nos 1 & 2 - Dimitris Sgouros

[sergiobantam]

Magnífico! Estupendo! Junto com Arrau, Czifra, Bolet e Berezovsky!

[TheInhaleMusic]

This scares the shit out of me.

[Cancrizans]

What I love about these performances is the volcanic intensity and emotional honesty. I am so sick and tired of hearing these polished technical interpretations that have resulted from both the academies' pedantry and modern audiences extreme awkwardness in dealing with technical missteps to the point that they would rather hear hours of uninspired note perfect readings than experience the true passion and transcendence hearing true musical art should inspire!

[hymntonight]

Great. I wish youtube had more live videos of people playing the Transc etudes.

[turtlemelody75]

Whip that hair son! Whip it!

[MrSalabertian]

@bryanolone I was joking...

[savemyplaylist]

What's with all the BS flopping around? I hate people who feel the need to bang their head while they play like a fucking idiot.

[Cancrizans]

@savemyplaylist Heh. And I find people who sit behind a piano playing the most moving music ever written while sitting silently like a damned statue to be facetious, but that is my opinion, we are all entitled to ours. However you are not entitled to call this "playing like an idiot" because no one with any intelligence would say that about this performance. What you are doing in that case, sir, is being both a liar and an pompous jackass of epic proportions.

[savemyplaylist]

@Cancrizans He looks like he should be in a god damn heavy metal bang with all that head banging. It's all show.

[Cancrizans]

@savemyplaylist While I personally can't stand heavy metal, there is nothing more an affront to classical music than the rich people in tuxedos and priceless gowns who crowd into concert halls in an attempt to ally their public images with the arts, meanwhile choking the atmosphere with their rancid and burdensome manners and phoney etiquette based concept of culture. Emotion and expression are vital to art, money and social norms like keeping one's composure are not.

[mrnanovideos]

Well I'm 13 and I play many large pieces by liszt(some transcendentals, totentanz, Dante sonata, don Juan)

[MrSalabertian]

@mrnanovideos Yes everyone, mrnanovideos does in fact play many "large pieces" by Liszt. I can't recommend his page high enough if you want to see excellent performances of these works!

[Cancrizans]

@MrSalabertian lol you know...I have no idea what to say here. On the one hand he obviously has the finger dexterity to either play pieces that are difficult but more forgiving to his age and emotional development...or maybe giving one of these pieces an honest shot. But these attempts to duplicate the rhythmic and emotional landscape of these pieces with almost no concern for tonal accuracy really make you like...wth is this lol? I can't really go off about it either it's just so...

[Cancrizans]

@Cancrizans BTW in case anyone gets the idea I am talking about Sgouros, I am referring to mrnanovideos youtube page where you can find a bizarre er traversal of the Liszt Transcendental Etudes among other things...definitely one of the er more different things I've seen on youtube. :P

[TheLolMenPeople]

@mrnanovideos I am currently 13, I am learning Liszts apparitions! They are my favourites by far. I may also start the liebestraums

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

1... 14!??!? O_O

[23global]

Well I'm 14 too and I play the piano too but not exactly in this way!!!!! Μπράβο μακάρι να παίζαμε κι εμείς έτσι στην ηλικία σου!!!!!

[spartan1081990]

HOLY COCKS FROM HELL!

[demosj]

Jesus.

[amplimax]

This is wonderful! How did he get so bad later?! This isn't just technically good, he plays with tons of energy and emotion too. His more recent stuff sounds like a distracted doctor performing surgery by remote control from the other side of the planet. WTF happened?!

[VassilisArt]

he is concertizing less . he is 40 yo now-

He didn't have an equal follow up etc

[demosj]

Is he still concertizing? I want to see more recent material of him, but I can't find much of this fascinating pianist.

[SeitanoShuuki]

Oh so that's what they sounded like....

...He makes them sound like they're not that hard... >_>

But honestly speaking, this is just plain amazing, at any age.

[calvinandhodge]

That kid is 14? He looks like hes 30 haha.

[alejandrothefader]

@calvinandhodge he sounds like 30, still he is only 14 there!

[nickolaus11]

he is a genie of the 20th

[chankymanky]

holy s! he's 14???

[leomulder]

I confess that I don't believe, but it doesn't matter to me. He was great here.

[Kalen1457]

Why he does have huge claws!

[Ellinidara]

He's a perfect virtuoso.

[flicktwick]

search him up at Wiki, he's born in 1969... so he's really just 14 at that time. ^^

[cvxmelody]

He was definitely 14. Sgouros was endowed with unusually large hands. In fact, Rostropovich commented as much in an interview in 1983 (when Sgouros was 13) -

tinyurl(dot)com(slash)5wddeq

[markmarshall39]

i how i agree with you, maybe he's 24 or older

[ianislios]

Das this look like an 94' video?

[insantlye]

WOW!!!

[darkcinderellaisabel]

eek! same age as me!

I will practice harder!

[23global]

@darkcinderellaisabel

Yea me too!!! But we are going to need many many years to reach this level!!! And when we finally manage to do this we'll be 114 not just 14!!!

[celpiano2]

why is this in low quality if this was in 1984?

[cvxmelody]

I suspect the original NTSC>PAL conversion was botched, this is also the reason why it's B&W

[godsloved3]

hahah he does NOT look 14! kinda more on the 30 side. cool music too.

[dorianmarkovac]

yea i thought that

[owenplayingpiano]

the difference between a pianist and a nonpianist is that the formor knows the whole part of the music work and try to show every musical elements to the outter world while a non pianist is trying to avoid mistakes in pressing keys and being sensitive to the responce from the outter world...

[Pianoman1770]

omg.. im his age and im soooo jealous!!!! i wish i could play that!! argh! great movie tho!

[celach]

why does he have to have epileptic seizures while playing... the first etude stunk in my opinion, even Berezovsky's first was better, and the quality of this vid isnt good enough for me to give my opinion of the second, but it SEEMS to be DECENT at best

And I CAN play some of these, so dont waste time with that comment... can movie critics actually act or make movies? no, but no one says to them "go make a movie then come back and criticize", so don't say it here either.

[Kalen1457]

Why is this in black and white?

[cheeseclo]

i think i just shit myself..

[alcyone77777]

Age 14?!?! I'm going to cry. Remember folks, no matter how good you think you are, there's always some virtuoso kid who'll eat you for breakfast...

[Larousse27192]

@alcyone77777 Yes, but he probably lost all his childhood and it will never back again. There's no reason to be a virtuoso at that age... if you don't believe me just search for a man called "Arthur Rubinstein", jajaja.

[alejandrothefader]

@alcyone77777 yeah, im 16 playing mazeppa and other quite hard pieces and i watch this every now and then to remeber my place and stay humble!

[HvatKondrat]

БРАВО!

[OorvakanSar]

Insane.

[diaswsw10]

japanese ? Hahaha! He's from greece.

[cherkassky]

A much better sounding *hi-fi* recording of the Liszt Transcendental Etudes Nos 1 & 2 as performed by Sgouros in Munich (1988), may be downloaded from here -

tinyurl(dot)com(slash)2r8y5a

[owenplayingpiano]

the difference between a pianist and a nonpianist is that the formor knows the whole part of the music work and try to show every musical elements to the outter world while a non pianist is trying to avoid mistakes in pressing keys and being sensitive to the responce from the outter world...

[23global]

@owenplayingpiano

So are you a pianist,or a nonpianist??????

[datruzepp]

ahahahahaa u jealouz cockz, diz iz a fuckin legendary perf!!!

to quote an SDC legend:

"m*zic iz entertainment, zpeed iz art"

[marcelmombeek]

tak tak tak tak, always the same with this guy, can not make music. Choose another profession my friend...

[willashland]

Why the black and white? I know the Japanese had color video cameras in the 1980's.

[metalguitarplayer1]

does he look japanese?

[JuliHuey]

i think hes just saying that color video was available at the time?

[Xardan]

Excellent, although i didn't like some of the phrasing in second one..

[cuecaaa]

san francisco liszt

[dadookacsa]

There could be a bit more of music and emotions.

[misotoma]

why so much bravura? what is bravura in the end... just another word for meaningless energy.. kinda like being lazy and spending energy watching tv :p he uses TOO much bravura he likes to push himself and make the etude an etude. hes good obviously. but what?? wat was that? O_o i sorta like it..

[Weaponofvanity]

Talented and well done..

But it's annoying how his hair bounces everywhere lol

[Raktif]

And I thought Mozart was hard when I started to play the piano...

[69trina]

age 14 ? hum I don't think. nd in 1984 I think the colors on the tv were already here, so why this video looks like a video of the 60's xD

To talk about the 'music' this is HORRIBLE, this guy doesn't played ONE note of music

there's a problem with this guy.

[trombro]

69Trina, you're a complete idiot who doesn't know a damn thing about music, the amount of skill it took to play that peice was tremendous. I can't believe you said "there's a problem with this guy" You abviously can't comprehend what real talent is.

[leomulder]

Thank God somebody recorded it.

[voolare]

I'm not a fan of him, but this performance of etude number 2 swept me off my feet!

[treasurehunter629]

doesn't look 14... maybe it's the suit

[dnephi]

Sgouros is an amazing guy.

I would never insult the pianism of such a man.

[rabbit787]

Sgouros continues to have a busy career as a teacher, recording artist, judge at international piano competitions, and he gives solo recitals and recitals with orchestras at concerts and festivals around the world... check out his website and other websites for his generous free music downloads and samples of recent recordings, personal schedule, photos, awards, interviews, videos, etc...

[os287]

en una pregunta muy importante

[ilovecomposition]

Que pasada! que fue de Sgouros? Es un genio.

[daeviydt]

wow, HIGH-VOLTAGE! this is even more impressive than his Islamey (also on youtube)... gives these pieces a real whoopin' -- and he was only 14 years old? S.O.B.! <envious sign and cringe>

[tmak69]

precioso

[simonwong101]

Outstanding second peice. I have heard of that one somwhere. On the internet. This is amazing stuff

[tmak69]

very nice music

[DoctorGradus]

an outstanding performance indeed.....and he was only 14 or 15 at the time....

[datruzepp]

HAHAHAHAHAHA FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK­KKKKKKKK DA MINI ZOGO

da harzhly wazted potential

diz mofo bazically ztop praxin at age 15 or zum sheeyat

[sab3156]

Yeah he started to suck after that.

[lazarogeorg]

you are absolutely right! Such a talent wssteded