Overture to Tannhäuser pt. 2/2- Daniel Lessner, Piano

[bouledogue888]

Génial ! technique et grande musicalité digne d'un très grand pianiste et musicien.

[MrMickmonk]

Brilliant ..... good music enters the ear with the greatest of ease...and leaves with the greatest of difficulty SUPERB

[UPutTheGayInGangster]

Incredible performance! I have enjoyed it more than once :)

[jimsamman1]

Spectacular, and stupendous.

[thegreatapologist]

Four people need to stop listening to justin bieber

[kreutzo1]

Gorgeous!

[heroineworshipper]

Too bad the 2nd part couldn't be stereo.

[Emzo99]

if i could play this i would be the happiest person alive.

[hydrangea65]

I'm really impressed! How can one person play in such a way? Just like an orchestra. Wonderful!

[163ken]

This is one hell of a performance of this very difficult work. WOW ! The word 'GREAT' may not be an exaggeration. One thing though.......could this 2nd part be re-posted due this being WAY out of sync? Again....LOVE this playing, Daniel. THANK YOU !!

[3NUNS]

Hearing this one can work out its take on the magician Adolf Hitler. Wagner must have worked very hard at his orchestration technique which we all must admit is fantastic.

[opusmortem87]

No words....

[barrywinehousexp]

YES

[lordcam09]

Daniel Lessner, you are fantastic! So is Wagner's music!

[dGustafb]

Brilliant!

[skalkmusix]

to pousth................

Ta gamhse ola

[cerzule]

Brilliant performance of a fantastic transcription of a magnificent piece! This is truly awe-inspiring. So beautiful and faithful to the original, and performed with incredible musical talent.

[boland7214]

Kind of takes your breath away!!! Wonderbar!!! Bravo! Thanks for putting this on YouTube!

[danjuan88]

Wow! I have never come across this transcription before! Before this my favourite was Bellini's "Norma" paraphrase [one for ixchaos to ponder over]. But this is some sheer dramatic music - of course, it's Wagner who wrote it, but I am absolutely in awe over the whole authenticity that this transcription bears with the original! Incredible!

[laurentco]

Jorge Bolet also does a awesome job of it in a live Carnegie hall recording. He really has a grand orchestral sound in his interpretation. You almost forget that it's one guy creation all this sound.

[dapianomeista]

A really fantastic performance. This transcription is so demanding physically and rarely attempted in concert these days. Even Liszt himself had to stop(to take a break!)while playing it to a student, before finishing the piece. Bravo, Mr. Lessner!

[52dalibor]

wonderful daniel.come and play it in the zofin hall.

[ixchaos]

wow, now if only liszt had the composing genius of wagner, there would be a lot more of these wonderful, both musically and technically, pieces for the piano. i mean, come on, liszt never really made a piece of music as good as this for the piano. this sure sounds better than most of that technical trash he put out there. thank god he spent some of his time transposing the works of better composers for the piano (no offense to liszt as a composer, but just admit it's true).

[Ninjaphil24]

Actually that isn't true. Its true of some of his earlier work, but then again that's true of Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, and a bunch of other great composers. Even Wagner. And Liszt didn't transpose anything. He did however transcribe a vast amount, which was the equivelant of printing a CD of a work in their time.

[Alfencequinty]

Heavenly......

[givemetime123]

Superbe, belle interprétation..

[mdmerino95]

Mien Gott im Himmel.

I have only heard a recording of the Liszt transcription, but never seen it played. truly amazing. I am speechless and in tears.

I bought the sheet music twenty-five years ago and have attempted it many times and am done in as soon as the right hand starts to emulate the cascading strings.

Thank you for posting this and thank you Daniel Lessner for a beautiful performance.

[bonsomi]

i`m overwhelming

[pchk1]

overwhelmed?

[tomaskloosterman]

really great! I like his way of playing, without unnecessary showy movements, just a true-hearted way of playing!

[mkeysou812]

wow! this surely must be one of the hardest pieces to play. how does it compare in terms of difficulty to the rach 3?

[LisztianGR]

Simply put, it depends on your endurance. You might have the technical skills to perform this piece, but you might wear out in the middle and not be able to perform the bombastic finale...observe that the composition almost never slows down (technically) after a certain point.

[drivala]

Rach 3 is far harder harmonically. This piece works like a set of variations so its easier to remember. I agree that you have to pace yourself to play it, but on the other hand this is 15 long and Rach 3 is 40.

[NeoComposer]

Bravo!!!

[mattmrs]

=that's an inspiration

[fdartmouth]

A totally impossible composition - beautifully done!

[andrewgorny]

it is obviously the custom to play certain parts of this slower than the tempo is usually taken in the orchestral version... I wonder if liszt himself was able to play those parts at tempo? That would be amazing to see... perhaps someone like art tatum could pull it off, but a) he's dead, b) dunno if he could accurately phrase it, and c) even if he did, he'd be laughed at in the classical community because apparently jazz musicians don't belong in the classical world :)

[LisztianGR]

Excellent, simply excellent. I'd never thought Jorge Bolet's performance of this piece could ever be topped, and I see this from a pianist a had never heard of...apart from this piece being the best transcription Liszt ever composed in my opinion, it might very well be the hardest. Congratulations to this pianist, outstanding work.

[sagalat]

Seems at least as hard as Rach 2 Sonata. Very well done. Quite a work-out.  Part I (02:38, great high violins; 05:17, excellent, plus the debt Wagner owes to Mendellsohn). Part II (03:00, looming large; 03:35 something's coming on; 05:00, Apocalypse Now, and you even managed the french horns at 06:09.) I loved it. Ever hear Nieregzhazi do Lohengrin? Let me know when you're in Hallandale.

[operaboy628]

That was the most amazing performance of this overture that I have ever seen. I never thought that a piano could come close to personifying the blockbuster violin part of the orchestral version, but I stand corrected. This performance is electrifyingly spectacular. I would kiss the feet of David Lessner if given the chance.

[Jantelover]

yes tho for me this cant capture what the full orchestra can.. how can't you be floored by the skill demonstrated here?.. one would wish for an audience reaction at least as spectacular