La Campanella - Adam Gyorgy (2007)

[TheRenair]

Gyorgy????? O:O sound like..O.o

[ZsomborWii]

14 vagyok, és most kezdem el tanulni :))

[Sikisija]

Very good! it sounded more Allegretto than the most others

[farrell360]

Nicely done, I still maintain Kissins version is the best.

[Riri4118]

11 people can't play this. (because of the feedbacks)

[johnsebastian127]

Nagyon jol!



[TheFlyingFoodTester]

If you can play liszt with ease, you are a master pianist.

[jesusbaby19]

I like how he plays it. I feel as though he really shows the artistic beauty in this etude. I am currently learning this piece and the piece actually is learned pretty quickly. Lol

[TheKadaba]

EASY

[triton382]

he plays the piece inthis fashion to avoid mistakes

[Ilheo1]

I prefer lisitsa :#

[whitecocoa08]

Go Adam! Can't wait to hear you again @Hungarian embassy.

[tentris]

Imagine how much he had to practice to memorize that.. If I were to play flawlessly like that, it would take me my whole life to achieve such a goal.. good job Adam!

[musicisasuperpower]

@tentris I started learning this piece right after finals and I've finally gotten all the notes under my fingers well, and if I did about a week of listening and studying for interpretation, it would be performance ready, so if you spent 2 or 3 hours a day on the piece in itself [assuming you do other a couple hours of technique for dexterity] you could perform the piece in about a month. It's an etude not a masterwork like mephitso's waltz.

[Ianthe22]

There is something wrong with the way he plays it. Like so mechanic in many parts of the piece. And the tempo is weird many places.

[MrANDREZ10]

this is imposible!

[MrANDREZ10]

WOWWWW

[reflectingfield]

I can't descripe how much I love this piece. It's more than beautiful *-*

[Drake126]

well, i don't think anyone can deny that there's way too much piano and not enough forte. it needs to be more colorfull :/

[jesper79]

@Drake126 Well actually Liszt only wrote FF at the very end of the piece. Everything else stays in p or pp.

[SuperPianoProdigy]

Awesome playing! Superb skill!

[adumsalsa]

AWSOME RECORDING!

[gabin1colas]

WOW !!!!

[chrism216]

CMON YOU PUSSY HIT THAT PIANO

DONT YOU KNOW WHAT FORTISSIMO MEANS!??!

SMASH IT!!

SHOW SOME DAMN PASSION FOR GODS SAKE!

THIS INTERPRETATION KILLS ME!

LISZT IS GONNA COME OUT OF HIS GRAVE AND KILL YOU HIMSELF

[bluo90296]

@chrism216 agreed-has to be much more exciting at the end

[shortmexican6494]

@chrism216 Umm only the last 8 bars are marked fortissimo, so maybe before you judge other musician's performances, you should know the music better. Besides I don't see any videos of you playing this...

[chrism216]

@shortmexican6494

i dont have any recordings of myself playing it. i am practicing it though.

in my version theres quite a few f's throughout the piece. and i dont mean just sheer loudness. i mean volume dynamics, which he totally lacks. he plays it at p volume for most of this piece, virtually ignoring all crescendos and diminuendos.

[TheHiuyan]

@chrism216 i don't think u have paid attention to what Adam was playing.:(

[AJHans12]

@shortmexican6494 I agree with your statement.

[LeandroRoverso]

@chrism216 He´s hungarian! He knows what he´s doing!

[alestar22]

the ending is much slower than the real play(as usual) because nobody risks to try with the original speed and humiliate.......

[84Fish48Fish]

Very nice! Each note is played so crisply and articulately. He sure proves that you don't need to play it quickly in order for it to be an amazing performance.

[kaiserWilhelm4]

Æçaěđ öėnaäçec?!!!

Øvæä ßeãðçä eçè ÐUÊÇÅÆ!!!!

Aćāþæ ðęßö ħroeďăf, tïçi dëø AđäÞ Ģœŗði vâłł.

[xiaonoobiexd]

A little bit too slow for my liking but incredible.

[solopianist1324]

that was undoubtedly a very touching performance but it can't be compared to Yundi li's...

[Achtelnote]

@solopianist1324 i agree complete with you.adam is so much more tasteful you cant compare them .

[Mischakal]

the endind wasnt hard enough :(

[salsadance999]

look at his hands at 1:56 !! Gosh! tht was fast!

[jtchen22]

God, this is so much better than his 2003 version, although both are great. I LOVE it when you play this as allegretto instead of whipping through it allegrissimo or as fast as you can play it.

You can really hear each shake of the bell this way!

[Szotyka]

My new best performance....

:)

Bravooo.

[badboy13988]

How long to reach his level :( .

[BongboBongbong]

It has to be a work of life.

And it's funny to see how he slowed down against the 2003-version. It is and will always be hard to play

[jtchen22]

@badboy13988 at least 20 years.

[lorenzoilre]

@jtchen22 it's not a matter of years, it's a matter of how much time per day you study, and you exercise your technique. You can play piano for a whole life and never be even close to this. You became a good pianist not because you've studied for long time, but because you've studied hard.

[stefanobevacqua]

just perfect O_O

[JuyoNi]

i had heard that this rendition had no mistakes at all, and that guy was right hahaha this is amazing i love it :)

[Hakan625]

Actually, no.

At 3:18 he makes an incomplete roll with the right hand. Not noticable for the lazy ear, though.

[Smeagollum86]

lol how big are those hands

he looks exactly like rach there lmao

[runeweb]

Blu-ray disc? I doubt that

[runeweb]

Nvm i saw the hd version

[deerodchan]

yes, i know the credit goes to listz this is a extremely wonderful and amazing piece.

i was just thanking pagani for the theme cause thats the only part i can play.

you started piano at 6? i remember i started around 6 as well, however after breaking my hands from monkey bars i stopped for 2 years and continued without motivation. this song was my motivation to play great again two years ago and now im working my way up!

[pianomaster272]

well I've never broken any bone but I imagine that if i did I wouldn't stop trying to play this....

[deerodchan]

haha who the hell said liszt wrote this?

listz wanted to be as great as pagani was with the violin so he created this piece for the piano.

thank you pagani for your wonderful piece and listz for your great composing skills.

only if it wasnt "timed" by the bell i may have the ability to play this piece. however doing the octaves are too hard for me. i give up.

[pianomaster272]

you're pretty solid with your facts.But liszt is considered the author of this etude,credits to paganini,whose theme from is concerto is repeated here.If a composer writes variations on a folk song,do we credit the farmer who made the tune up? no-we usually cite the composer...

[Magyari1]

Vaze ez igazán jó volt! Focival mi a helyzet?

[chutdigadut]

PERFECT

[eiweissexperience]

truly sounds like a little bell. Simply wonderful. He somehow can portray a song to its very meaning.

[TeddyHorse]

Come on. Liszt was a Hungarian.

[pianomaster272]

yeah,I know

[bytmig135]

this piece requires a big long finger plus a pure speed to achieve it...i dont posses the right criteria for it and iether way i cant play this..this piece is for those who have already been playing since childhood so...i cant really play this although i would love too if i can..

[soundspacegazers]

hi, yeah, and is very hard to play, almost all the liszt pieces requires big fingers

[332synic233]

you mean long, dexterous fingers ;)

'cause i agree....

[pianomaster272]

that's not true..I started playing at six(which is a bit late) and yes,I have pretty big hands,which are helpful for the long jumps, but my teacher has small hands and she played and can still play this piece.

[nanotechxe]

If you think youre late then what about me i am 29 and starting!!!!

[pianomaster272]

well,congrats on starting playing an instrument at 29!I'm not sure I could've......

[VSKCREW]

@bytmig135 Are you danish? :)

Well anyway, you can actually work your hands out to stretch more, like I have a bigger hand than my teacher but he can actually reach more in some cases, because the skin between your fingers can stretch out. It's quite amazing when you see the results of play etudes and strictly practicising.. :)

[bones1343]

lol! u can hear when he uses the pedal, it kinda makes a thud sound

[latchy01234]

nice playing but it sounds a lot better played faster at 4.20 onwords like evgeny kissin but its what people like at the end of the day.

[dquibs2]

How sweet. The way it should be played. Not butchered like so many other notable pianists. Tempo is perfect. No theatrics. This guy is top tier pianist. He's up there with Andsnes and Blechacz.

[delfino624]

this is one of the most important pianisists in our period!!!!!!!!

[veganSausage]

Scaffolder listening to classical? YES i love it

[realismnotideology]

nice !!!

i have never listened to such a comfortable interpretation !!!

[stratovona266]

WONDERFUL!!!

[zmey2k]

This one is little be more academic playing and prefer this one more because of quality of sound and video

[4hm3dimr4n]

this is really good

but i heard another version played by him

and it felt like it had a lot more dynamics

[ManWithManyShurikens]

so... clean. Not rushed and notes are played clearly. That equals perfect.

[SzabadTurul]

Egy újabb magyar tehetség

[thomasjft]

How do you compare this with Yundi Li or Evgeny Kissin versions?

[retrorteretro]

Yundi li doesn't know anything about hungarian music, just plays it in chinese style.

[AmroEgyptian]

You have to give Yundi Li some credit in the end...he did play it well but not as good as this guy and kissin.

[pianomaster272]

la campanella is italian...and you really cannot say who is better,be it kissin,yudi li, this guy,or whoever

[retrorteretro]

haha nooo liszt wasn't italian

[pianomaster272]

haha nooo liszt didn't write the theme....paganini wrote it and HE is italian

[pianomaster272]

what I mean is that at a certain level,interpretations are just DIFFERENT

[abercrombiefreak972]

kissin is soo weird

[nighthoverer]

@retrorteretro If that's true you can also say Yundi doesn't know anything about Chopin's music since he is not a Pole. But I'm sure the judges from the International Chopin Piano Competition couldn't agree with you, because they once gave him the first prize in the competition, let alone the theme of this repertoire is not composed by Listz. I believe one nation's culture and thoughts can be learned, understood and interpreted by another nation, because basically we are all human being.

[schoolboy913]

evgeny uses more emotion when he plays, yundi li and gyorgy uses more precision and play very technically!

[samirandgina]

I'd say yundi li is more precise AND more emotional..evgeny is very dry and needs to use more pedal and makes many mistakes

[schoolboy913]

hah, im sorry but evengy kissin, plays this better then any other person that has put a video on youtube, i recently learned this song and he follows all the dynamics very well and in the beginning of the song it is suppposed to be played stacatto. Kissin does an excellent job on la campanella regardless of the couple mistakes he made!!!!

[Haydenbrooks83]

What's with the rhythmic clapping?

[Pischnaholic]

Very very good. I gave it a five-star rating, BUT have you heard Mr. LEVHINNE's special version of this thing? I'm afriad this sounds downright plodding in comparison.

And Artur Rubinstein plays it with far more elegance and panache.

All that aside, Adam has pianistic talent of a very high order. Too bad we live in an age where note-niggling is too often a prime consideration.

The mania for "perfection" can -- and too often does -- sterilize all the joy and spontaneity out of the music .

[berkakinci]

Only one word..... Perfect....

[ChaoticPhill]

the ending is just breathtaking, this is a masterpiece...

[lorenzoilre]

@ChaoticPhill so is the performance.

[yelvaberry]

It might have been the piano or the sound system. I really don't see why this rendition seems so lifeless compared to his 2003 one.

[carldudesons]

cool,!!!

[jtchen22]

He's playing is with so much more feeling than he did in 2003. I love how he slowed down! :) Sounds much more fluid, with each note being ennuciated to such a crystal like clarity.

[yelvaberry]

Really? This seems so lifeless compared to the 2003 rendition, in my opinion.

[calixta1aquiles]

jdhsa8ud89!!!

IDOLO GROSOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Kaliexpert]

Fuck it, i love both of them.......

[HeftyBagDisposal]

Yes, the 03 version has more power and might in it.. This is good too, though..

[davrodrigues]

This version is very good, but i prefer the Yundi Li version.

[putdalimeindac0c0nut]

*this one.

[putdalimeindac0c0nut]

yeah i agree, just he seems more comfortable with it on this on.

[putdalimeindac0c0nut]

this is the best i've ever heard la campanella played.

[azfsiguy]

In my humble opinion, the '03 version is a little more dynamic and spirited.

[desertdawg41]

I agree, and just judging from his appearance, I think he must not have been feeling very well when doing this concert. Compare his skin color and facial expressions with the 2003 concert.

[RhYthMic93]

Bravo!

great skills!

[MiguelRMFR]

how is it possible ... that speed :O

[pianoben89]

one of the best versions i´ve ever seen of la campanella!

[inwonderwoman]

Does anyone know where Steinway Artist David Ward is? Please let me know where I may find him. If you have not heard of him look him up you will be suprised.

[virtuoso18]

it does sound more crisp but its not as entertaining as 2003...he doesnt really seem to be enjoying himself like before. i love the video of him playing gnomenreigen :)

[jtchen22]

Wonderfully crisp and not too quickly. It portrays his more mature mood as opposed to how he played it in 2003. I like both versions and actually prefer this one...

[matthiasjones]

Very nice. It doesn't seem to have as much... emotion... as his 2003 performance, but the trade off in emotion for quality of performance is worth it (in my opinion).

[Sanch3zn]

Great Quality overall, good rendition

[uraniumgrenade]

Call me weird- but I think his 2003 performance is better.

[ianfigures]

I sort of agree with you... this is good but he seemed to enjoy himself better in the 2003 performance...

[sopop7]

ok ur weird hehehehe^^

[sopop7]

weird!^^ enjoy^^

[Fnkyazn67]

A LOT better than the when he played it back in 2003.

[NoobTastic1234]

missed a note at 0:56? on pinki lololol

[stevey226]

Ha, I'm sure everyone has done that (well everyone who plays the piano).

[beethoven2nd]

Actually your theory is wrong i am still memorizing the piece man its so cool my teacher said to me that it is hard well for me its not=D.

[stevey226]

My theory? What theory??

[beethoven2nd]

Because not all people that can play the piano can also play la campanella

[stevey226]

That was not a theory. I was replying to a comment. They wrote "He hit a wrong note with his pinkie". And I was agreeing with him, as I do that sometimes. And I'm sure some other people have done.

[shikamaruchick988]

Woah!

[bigd21289]

i think they want an encore :D

[comedicine]

Great. ^_^ Really fun to watch.

[virtuoso18]

omg a new version yay !!!!! this is why i subscribed to you !!! thanks a bunch love this version as well although it seems slower and a bit more lyrical than the other..love adam gyorgy !!!

[BelgianPianoPlayer]

Adam gyorgy :D :D Yeah finally I was waiting for a newer version, and you don't dissappoint me ;) it's better than Adam Gyorgy plays F.Liszt: La campanella, 2003 Really, r.e.s.p.e.c.t for you, I'm 14 years old, and I can play it now :) and mayby for my exam next month. Maybe i'll post my version... Adam Very good, the begin is STACCATO :D finally someone who got it right =) 5 thumbs up for you adam !!!!! (Y)

[pupshadow]

wow, this is beautiful, i love him!!!!!

i need lessons:D

i think he's really talented, perfect Adam!

100% EXCELLENT!

[estudiosinluz]

Maybe a bit too slowly