Listen to a few other performances. Then realize how metronomic and boring this one is .. just a lot of notes one after the other. Look I can play the notes! Some of them are pretty loud! Wow, so what.
Try Horowitz or watch Cziffra, for example. Even less to look at (his head moves maybe an inch up and down) but so much subtlety in the interpretation.
People who comment on performances should stop using abusive language which contributes nothing at all and might as well not be there. Those who whine about certain details seem such know alls, one wonders if they can play anything on the piano themselves. By any standard the Schumann Toccata is a monster piece to play. Horowitz cheated with his special light action keyboard, but it does not detract from the performance. This pianist is to be congratulated on every level, without snide carping.
@acer4me Horowitz could never be meaningfully described as cheating. There are no rules of the piano that state your keyboard has to have such-and-such a weight: every piano that makes a good sound is artistically valid. Including Horowitz's piano, and any pianoforte Schumann might have played in 1830, which certainly had a much lighter action than a modern Steinway. So Horowitz is probably the most faithful to the practice of Schumann's time. Toccata means touch, not smash and bash.
Could be played with a little more emotional expression at some parts, for example the ending, and make breaks and accents more clear. Not a bad performance, just not polished completely. It's a very hard piece after all though.
In my opinion, he plays very poorly and is an awful interpretation - he needs to add much more emotion to his playing. At the beginning of the video, you can only see him playing notes without any inspiration of some sort. His posture is appalling by the way.
my personal opinion is that this is a very empty interpretation. and I do not have a problem with his physical presentation of this piece I just think that musically it was empty. but to each their own opinion.
this is good,but a little unrelenting- -the elephantine Richter and brittle brilliance of Pogorelich (to take to wildy different performances)are in another world altogether. Still,this handsome young man (yum!) is only at the start of his career.
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Euhm ... What are you doing here ?? Are you a pianist or a piano player ?! A pianist would be, at least, correctly sitting, and showing a minimum of expression... You are not on your sofa guy, you are playing Schumann, and above all with a Steinway and Sons. You don't respect the piano, the composer, the melody, and the spectators ...
Sorry, but you should do it again with expression, feelings and respect ...
He can sit on whatever he wants, there is no sitting "correctly". It's the sound that matters (about which I will not comment here). And also, there's nothing wrong with playing Schumann on your sofa on a Steinway & Sons.
@wookey val Overall piano music & MUSIC IN GENERAL for EARS...eye-talks for media & press... you are probably an American...so as your "philosophy" about "piano-show" ...Glen Gould is dumbest pianist on the planet as he were sitting almost UNDER the keyboard...?but he was & still the GENIUS ! even if did not get any awards... Grammy or Oscar...
@sam0xin as a matter of fact, Gould did get a Grammy for the 2nd set of Goldbergs... and he played on the American made piano and recorded for Columbia (American label). What this person (wookey) wrote is stupid, nay is reprehensible, but you assuming that he (or she) must be an American puts you pretty much on the same level...
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that said, I like Stadfeld's recording. the somewhat flat dynamic is probably because of his affinity for Bach. This is not great but quite credible,
@NotAgain90 I'm sorry if I hurt your patriotism to America...It's impossible to find all those plenty of comments here in YT to show you . But MOSTLY Americans are commenting on classical performances about how musicians sitting, walking , looking, moving , dressed etc. ...almost about anything except performance,genre or just about music in general. I have nothing against St. & Sons or Columbia rec. comp. ,
@NotAgain90....comp. but if you read my comment ones again, after GENIUS ! comes word [ EVEN...IF didn't get..] means I know he had a Grammy, & I know as well , that Oscar goes....at least to composer of film , ..:)) I just tried to explain that person that EVEN ALL KINDS OF NOISY AWARDS ARE secondary to me , simply because many GENIUS performances are underrated..( NO GRAMMY) & many movies had an Oscar as a best pic. but I FOUND VERY PURE..I MENT , WHAT You're ( wookey) TALKING ABOUT !!
@NotAgain90 BTW wooky from France.:)) Yeah & at last about Stadtfeld's version of Schumann's op.7! I like his mathematically exactness in rhythm & monotone sound for genre of Toccata..( I understand period of romanticism ,BUT TOCCATA anyway) , he put some hint of minimalism...nice idea to me.p.s. I just didn't get degrees of your comparison , Columbia,St. & Sons with unknown silly commenter ?! I have another favorite GENIUS pianist not even Canadian but from NJ , American , Murray Perahia !
Only complaint I have is why skip the repeat? It's short enough to repeat.
Hehehe, seriously, this is a good performance. Could use some more dynamic contrast, but this is a very difficult piece to play; takes much stamina. This video was posted years ago... I'm sure if the pianist has practiced more he can play it even better.
L'infarto non mi verrà, il mio cuore è già scampato all'esecuzione di stadtfeld, e se ha superato questo trauma, reggerà tranqullmente altre dure prove.
Confermo il precedente giudizio: il pupo crucco potrà diventare un grande pianista, ma per ora è un grande "tecnico".
Non puoi fare il pignolino e farti sfuggire le virgolette. La tua lettura è superficiale come l'ascolto della toccata, ma su questo già non avevo dubbi. Ad ogni buon conto, ho espresso la mia opinione, che tu puoi non condividere, e la cosa non mi turba. Non fare l'isterica con me.
Che dire poi dei "tecnici", o se preferisci "artisti": il mondo ne è pieno, e ognuno dà secondo le proprie capacità, fornite dal padreterno e dall'esperienza. Vuoi paragonare stadtfeld a gould ? Saluti e baci !
@TipheretV Il paragone fra me e stadtfeld: lui è secco mentre io in lieve sovrappeso, lui è figa lessa e io finocchio mascolino, lui sa suonare, ma io so ascoltare. Resto quindi convinto che questa toccata sia un po' ...da "tempesta ormonale". Tuttavia questa mattina mi ascoltavo das wohltemperierte klavier (suonato proprio dalla lessa) e devo dire che alcuni preludi sono veramente magnifici. Resta da ascoltare beethoven, speriamo in bene, diversamente farò una settimana di cura kempff.
i'm just amazed by his sitting position. Very interesting and certainly very intriguing, very close to the piano, but still have enough freedom of movement.....and he's like a movie star!....lol
by the way, if you guys didn't notice, the last comment was definitely sarcastic....since nowadays, you have to have to looks to be a classical musician....long gone are the days when glenn gould, richard goode, perahia, pianists with superb musicianship can get lots of performance opportunities and establish their musical careers. Yes, I'm amazed, but not necessarily agree with his posture or interpretation
EXCELLENT piano playing. Even throughout. Good solid tone. Never bangy. Never bombastic. Never skittish or erratic. Played with near perfect control.
Only Mr. Levhinne, who plays with unique elegance and affection -- as though it were a character piece, instead of a formidable challenge to the fingers -- and Vladimir Horowitz, who makes of it a scintillating, star-spangled circus, give better accounts of Opus 7, Schumann.
Well, I just heard Pogorelich, and in his unique way ranks with Levhinne and Horowitz above the excellent Mr. Stadtfeld, who does need to learn to play with greater dynamic contrast.
I do have to agree with you on that even though he seems effortless. A lot of critics of him usually pick on his limited dynamic range. Maybe that's how he perceived piano playing.
Interesting comment, that Stadfeldt may perceive piano playing as with a limited dynamic range, since he is known (and presents himself) mainly as a Bach player.
.....you are right whith Levhinne and Horowitz....I would add the version of Sergio Fiorentino.......I don't like Stadtfeld, but this is really good.....
The fingers work okay, sort of, but just press notes down mechanically. Considerations of shape, phrasing, placing,timing, color......they don't exist apparently. This guy is ASLEEP, musically. The overall effect is of ugly, clanking, unremitting machinery.
Except for those who made intelligent, musical comments, I must say that the rest of you are the absolute DREGS! Who are YOU to criticize a wonderful performance, and where's YOUR recording of this difficult piece of music? You people make me sick! You poor, simple boobs! I feel sorry for you. Could you comment on ANYTHING intelligently. I KNOW that you could not!
Congratulations to the pianist on a great performance!
Heh. You're all so violently angry at a young man for sitting down in front of his instrument and not putting on a show for your eyes.
Here's a thought: close your fucking eyes. Musically it's not an outstanding performance but it's not especially bad either. To suggest that someone with this person's talent "plays like a cunt" is mean-spirited and ignorant.
Evidentemente a quienes ven los videos de musica con el afan de expresar subjetivismos no les detiene nada. A algunos pianistas les critican porque se mueven mucho,porque hacen gesticulaciones,porque usan tecnicas no ortodoxas.
A otros porque no muestran expresividad,porque tienen economia de movimientos. La verdad es que aparte de esos subjetivismos este joven toca tecnicamente muy bien,nada puede reprocharsele y decir que es frio conscientemente es mucho arriesgarse.
Me agrada que un pianista profesional, y ademas de los buenos,tenga la objetividad de escribir que este joven es un pianista de primera linea,porque eso deja desarmados los comentarios mezquinos de quienes solo abren videos para ver defectos en los esfuerzos de los artistas por salir avante. Ademas de comentarios mal intencionados se usa un lenguaje que deja mucho que desear de la cultura de tales comentaristas. Es una lastima .
I think he was consciously trying to look effortless and relaxed, but instead he looks like a drunkard desperately trying to seem sober. A viewer can tell when a performer is trying to force an image.
So yeah, it's displeasing to the eye AND the ear. No excuse or marketing performance can save this performance.
You are tasteless and vulgar. Your remarks musically, have no meaning --except the "c "word is not said by intelligent people, which of course leaves out you
Kajohada, I don't want any misunderstanding: I don't say that you are stupid. But do you realise the stupidity of your comment ? Comments of this kind have no place here. ... Come on ! ...
ok,i shall correct myself------->it sounds g a y and f e m i n i n e and what´s the worst thing is------>it sounds b o r i n g and u n i n t e r e s t i n g!
gay means------>who´s that girl touching the piano shortly before a broken wrist,without any competence to express schumann´s world.prrrobably he is sitting on something i will not mention at all LOLL------>but if u consider that all gays like it u will understand what i mean ;)))
Close your mouth and try to think idea of this peace. You are perfect example of pianist that has no clue in that what he plays, he has no idea, and perfect example of how shouldnt look pianist...as i see you trying to imitate Cziffra but you are just stupid :). no offense but you sound it like it...
ya,an imitator has born...he sits on the chair like radu lupu and and the label wanna sell him as a new glenn gould,which overconfidence.he looks like a "second-life" baby trying his first steps on a asthonished piano;))
Yes, he is very funny with this chair. And when it comes difficulty part he moves toward the keyboard...Its a clear mechanicar performance, and no emotions and some idea, it has nothing. Just technic and mechanical performance is NO MUSIC, there isnt music at all.
Ya I have to agree that this guy has no idea how to correctly interpret the way the piece is to be played. Just because the mechanical aspect is correct, does not mean it is a great performance, it lacks emotion. It might as well be a player piano.
if you want to hear a contemporary German pianist play it get Bernd Glemser's CD-- Glemser is not known to be among the most exuberant and imaginative musicians, but HEy, his is exciting compared to the posted sleeping pill
this is DREADFUL!! Man! Is that boring! das ist ja furchtbar, wie so etwas vermarkted werden kann-- towards the end it's all dirt, no imagination, no tonal range, no Klangfarben whatsoever, no emotions--one can argue over what is the *right* Schumann interpretation but his has no ground to even TALK about INTERPRETATION!
Pop a pill, adamo, and you will get that "over the edge" feeling. What does it have to do with this particular composition is a different matter, and the answer is NOTHING! You have no clue.
daran sieht man einfach,dass der junge nicht begabt ist und aber auch keine ideen hat. begabung ist nicht alles aber man kann sich auch bemühen. schaut euch die anderen videos mit dem stück an (z.B. mit horowitz)und vergleicht das mit diesem schrott . da sieht man was wahre begabung und durchdachtes klavierspielen ist.
An cigarre93net: Ich stimme komplett zu. Ich war aber heute bei grossem Musikladen, und es gibt eine Dutzend CDs von ihm, nagelneu, mit entsprechenden Preisen von ca. 20€..
I like the tempo. Prhasing could be better but unlike others on youtube this is not too fast,too slow, too noisy or mistake ridden. This is very good.
Klingt wie üben, und dabei gibt er sich auch mühe, für das kalte unmusikalische Ergebnis. Natürlich ist es ein sehr sehr schwieriges Stück, man sollte es aber lassen, wenn man nicht etwas vernünftiges daraus holen kann. Echt verwunderlich, dass dieser Pianist erfolg hat und gefragt ist, und mit Plattenvertrag bei Sony...
this is dreadful!!!! there is absolutely no shape, in the first 50sec introduction is as flat as a piece of paper run over by a steam roller. The irst theme at 50 sec isnt at all prepared and there is absolutely no lyricism introudced. Listen to Czifra just the first 50 sec. you will understand actually what this piece is about....!
Ignoro cual sea el criterio de relación que existe en Youtube para que a la par de esta excelente interpretación y donde solo hay ejecuciones pianisticas,aparezca un vídeo vulgar
que absolutamente ninguna relacion tiene con el tema de la interpretacion musical .???????????????
Ignoro cual sea el criterio de relación que existe en Youtube para que a la par de esta excelente interpretación y donde solo hay ejecuciones pianisticas,aparezca un vídeo vulgar
que absolutamente ninguna relacion tiene con el tema de la interpretacion musical .???????????????
But why on earth is one of the related videos 'Masturbating niehbor strikes again: I took pictures'?! Thats completley vulgar, and has nothing to do with a schumann tocata! I wish youtube would be more acurate with the related videos.
I don't understand that either. There proably exists a way of puting your videos where you want to, otherwise it is out of my comprehension.I agree whit you about the rendering of the toccata.
you people need to stop bitching about it being too "mechanical" do you know how difficult this piece is? you guys dont even notice what a fiendish piece he is playing, so stfu
This piece is not that difficult, if you got the hand to play it. I know it, I have played it in recitals. And even if it was difficult, you could always put more feeling, even with wrong notes. I wouldn't say he's "an idiot", because the sound is good and the technique OK, but he doesn't know what he's playing.
How disappointing. I read very positive things about this young pianist. But as many here have already observed, this is cold, mechanical, disengaged, boring. It has no musical content. It isn't even interesting as a technical achievement.
People debate endlessly the pros and cons of the Toccata interpretations by Richter, Horowitz, Cziffra, Gilels, Lhevinne, etc. But Stadtfeld engenders no discussions. It's too flat, and immeasurably below any of those great renditions. What a letdown!
I play this piece, I'll publish in september one CD with this piece, among others by Schumann. I don't like this interpretation. It must be more appassionated, more happy, more free, more expressive. Even the technique is not quite clean and he doesn't take any risk. A bit boring. I'm sure he's a good pianist, but this piece must be played with more humour.
is he idiot or what? nothing happens in his interpretation... it seems to be the soundtrack of an idiot movie... no organization! no phrasing! no construction to some climax... nothing! the same sound everywhere! he shouldn't be so well promoted.
This beautiful Schumann's composition would need the performer played so that the listner can well perceive the rich interlacement of the parts and the cromatic structure. Cziffra performed it a astonishing virtuosistic way, but cannot make the listner enjoy the real vaòue of the composition. this rendition is a little better to get that aim, but is yet very unripe...
Who gives a toss what he looks like? MUSIC IS A SOUND YOU LISTEN TOO!!! Horowitz was a master because he produced a magnificent expressive SOUNDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!! and you could say he looked bored. But music goes through the ear not the eye! Come on people think for yourselves don't let society control you!!!
=)) is this boy a great piano star?! not only that he is almost ridiculous, but also he definitely doesn't understand a thing of what he plays... how can some of you compare him to Cziffra? an arrogant, technical executor, compared to a great pianist similar to Liszt himself?
A little bit of emotional involvement wouldn't hurt him. I agree that he looks bored and totally not interested. Technically he can do it, but that doesn't mean a whole lot to me as a fan. Richter is unmatched in this!
Wow. Cleaner than Richter and just as fast. If I had to play this monster I would jump off a bridge, right after Schumann. For those who want more dynamics remember a Toccatta is a Bach specialty, the only dynamic is f or p, anything else is else.
the comparison another reviewer made with the Cziffra performance is quite interesting: if Cziffra is a bit too freewheeling, this one errs on the other side, being a bit too "classical". this guy probably practiced with a metronome, and it shows. good technique but needs a lot more dynamic range.
Boooooooring! I know it's a Toccata, but this is nothing but the notes. It's a cool piece nontheless, but listen to Richter in stead. He has dynamics below mp and above mf. Sorry for my criticism, but you have to have colors in your mind for this piece..
KazBerlin is on laudanum...her critique sounds like an anti-Romantic critic in the early 1920s in the vanguard of the objectivist revisionist movement encouraging a dearth of humanity in performance and hailing it..."progressive"
This sounds like every other mechanized version of the last 50 years.
Excuse me but I think Stadtfeld is onto something here: his sober yet completely involved play goes beyond the usual emotionalized and, I am sorry to say, rather simplistic and thus boring interpretations which advocate "feeling" above all things. There is emotion too in Stadtfeld but it seems to me to be rather refined, rather checked, rather reflected. This may be the way to go; 21st century style.
"Schumann"... But the only trains that went by were named..."Stale Modern Revisions" or
Passionless Pedantic longlines"...SO
I went to a bar & ordered a Scotch on the rocks and mused over a Classical music world that doesn't deliver what it advertises,& praises itself for respect for the product.
Well, he plays it very sterile but not bad, I like it. He's not even as famous as you suggest over here, I don't get your anger, seriously. And wow, people who say that they like him are rated with minus numbers...it's strange, kind of a VERY bad hatred against him.
He is "so" famous because he won the Bach competition and, as the Germans don't have any good pisnists to boast with, certain people decided to make money by promoting him, giving him Echo classic award etc., although he is - obviously to most serious musicians - as good a pianist as an average musical college student. But showbiz people don't care about art, as long as good looks sell well, as everybody knows
No generalizations, please... Bach, Mozart, and Schumann were all from German-speaking territories, weren't they?? Please don't tell me that THEY created expressionless music.
This guy is amazing. I love the clarity with which every note is heard, the relentless flow, the fastidious adherence to timing, the singing melodies brought out. This made me order one of his Bach CDs.
You know, you have a very good opint: Fistly,He plays the toccata as though bach wrote it; to omantique qualities needed, secondly like many other pianists he pretends to have a 'different dimentional' stimulation to the piece, Although his crescendos are are actually decent.
Listen to a few other performances. Then realize how metronomic and boring this one is .. just a lot of notes one after the other. Look I can play the notes! Some of them are pretty loud! Wow, so what.
Try Horowitz or watch Cziffra, for example. Even less to look at (his head moves maybe an inch up and down) but so much subtlety in the interpretation.
stringph 1 month ago
People who comment on performances should stop using abusive language which contributes nothing at all and might as well not be there. Those who whine about certain details seem such know alls, one wonders if they can play anything on the piano themselves. By any standard the Schumann Toccata is a monster piece to play. Horowitz cheated with his special light action keyboard, but it does not detract from the performance. This pianist is to be congratulated on every level, without snide carping.
acer4me 3 months ago
@acer4me Horowitz could never be meaningfully described as cheating. There are no rules of the piano that state your keyboard has to have such-and-such a weight: every piano that makes a good sound is artistically valid. Including Horowitz's piano, and any pianoforte Schumann might have played in 1830, which certainly had a much lighter action than a modern Steinway. So Horowitz is probably the most faithful to the practice of Schumann's time. Toccata means touch, not smash and bash.
stringph 1 month ago
Could be played with a little more emotional expression at some parts, for example the ending, and make breaks and accents more clear. Not a bad performance, just not polished completely. It's a very hard piece after all though.
FriggenLoco 5 months ago 3
Perfect balance of concentration and expression. The result is phenomenal, an excellent interpretation.
jakaroo94 8 months ago
This is frightening!! And I mean that in a good way.
garfreed 9 months ago
I just want to know one thing: Where did he get those fabulous glowing balls on the floor?!
WorldCupSeoul 10 months ago
Well, good that he is resting while playing this... My granny could play this with more entusiasmo!!!
MrStefdj 1 year ago
@MrStefdj Do you have any idea how hard this piece is? Don't be such a jerk. Your granny couldn't even play measure one.
Sviolinist 1 year ago
@Sviolinist I now that it is hard , i played it... don`t get upset for my opinion :)
MrStefdj 1 year ago 3
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sam0xin 1 year ago
In my opinion, he plays very poorly and is an awful interpretation - he needs to add much more emotion to his playing. At the beginning of the video, you can only see him playing notes without any inspiration of some sort. His posture is appalling by the way.
Montyleeny14 1 year ago
I remember watching this video a long time ago... I forgot to say something: "He's cute."
There. Said it.
KarrotKun1 1 year ago
His hands are very even. Is it me or does he play it a bit slow??
Ianthe22 1 year ago
my personal opinion is that this is a very empty interpretation. and I do not have a problem with his physical presentation of this piece I just think that musically it was empty. but to each their own opinion.
LisztandChopin13 1 year ago
thankyou mr stadtfeld
drumier 1 year ago
wow, so clean touch...
this perfomance is best toccata(schumann)
choi0909 1 year ago
pagliaccio raccomandato
MastroBruno 1 year ago
Breathtaking performance!!
BettyCope 2 years ago
@BettyCope yes but sounds in slow motion compared the Cziffra
afertyus1000 1 year ago
A tribute to Pogorelich.
petie32 2 years ago
Nice cycle of 5th round about 3:00
this is good,but a little unrelenting- -the elephantine Richter and brittle brilliance of Pogorelich (to take to wildy different performances)are in another world altogether. Still,this handsome young man (yum!) is only at the start of his career.
japanesesweet 2 years ago
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Euhm ... What are you doing here ?? Are you a pianist or a piano player ?! A pianist would be, at least, correctly sitting, and showing a minimum of expression... You are not on your sofa guy, you are playing Schumann, and above all with a Steinway and Sons. You don't respect the piano, the composer, the melody, and the spectators ...
Sorry, but you should do it again with expression, feelings and respect ...
Nonetheless you've a good technic, USE IT !!!
wookyval 2 years ago
He can sit on whatever he wants, there is no sitting "correctly". It's the sound that matters (about which I will not comment here). And also, there's nothing wrong with playing Schumann on your sofa on a Steinway & Sons.
Schamschi 2 years ago
How do you know what he is feeling? You have no respect, and deserve none.
sirvio666 2 years ago
That comment is directed at wookyval.
sirvio666 2 years ago
@wookey val Overall piano music & MUSIC IN GENERAL for EARS...eye-talks for media & press... you are probably an American...so as your "philosophy" about "piano-show" ...Glen Gould is dumbest pianist on the planet as he were sitting almost UNDER the keyboard...?but he was & still the GENIUS ! even if did not get any awards... Grammy or Oscar...
sam0xin 1 year ago
@sam0xin as a matter of fact, Gould did get a Grammy for the 2nd set of Goldbergs... and he played on the American made piano and recorded for Columbia (American label). What this person (wookey) wrote is stupid, nay is reprehensible, but you assuming that he (or she) must be an American puts you pretty much on the same level...
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that said, I like Stadfeld's recording. the somewhat flat dynamic is probably because of his affinity for Bach. This is not great but quite credible,
NotAgain90 1 year ago
@NotAgain90 I'm sorry if I hurt your patriotism to America...It's impossible to find all those plenty of comments here in YT to show you . But MOSTLY Americans are commenting on classical performances about how musicians sitting, walking , looking, moving , dressed etc. ...almost about anything except performance,genre or just about music in general. I have nothing against St. & Sons or Columbia rec. comp. ,
sam0xin 1 year ago
@NotAgain90....comp. but if you read my comment ones again, after GENIUS ! comes word [ EVEN...IF didn't get..] means I know he had a Grammy, & I know as well , that Oscar goes....at least to composer of film , ..:)) I just tried to explain that person that EVEN ALL KINDS OF NOISY AWARDS ARE secondary to me , simply because many GENIUS performances are underrated..( NO GRAMMY) & many movies had an Oscar as a best pic. but I FOUND VERY PURE..I MENT , WHAT You're ( wookey) TALKING ABOUT !!
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@NotAgain90 BTW wooky from France.:)) Yeah & at last about Stadtfeld's version of Schumann's op.7! I like his mathematically exactness in rhythm & monotone sound for genre of Toccata..( I understand period of romanticism ,BUT TOCCATA anyway) , he put some hint of minimalism...nice idea to me.p.s. I just didn't get degrees of your comparison , Columbia,St. & Sons with unknown silly commenter ?! I have another favorite GENIUS pianist not even Canadian but from NJ , American , Murray Perahia !
sam0xin 1 year ago
@NotAgain90 error on Perahia's birthplace...not NJ but NY , Bronx.
sam0xin 1 year ago
Es precioso , gracias por poner estos videos!!
Marina96424 2 years ago
Only complaint I have is why skip the repeat? It's short enough to repeat.
Hehehe, seriously, this is a good performance. Could use some more dynamic contrast, but this is a very difficult piece to play; takes much stamina. This video was posted years ago... I'm sure if the pianist has practiced more he can play it even better.
OrangeSodaKing 2 years ago
No, no, no, no ! E ancora no ! grandi mani, piccolo cuore.
Aulin67 2 years ago 9
@Aulin67 La prossima volta la suoni tu la toccata di schumann così vediamo se ti viene un infarto e muori di crepacuore! ahah
TipheretV 2 years ago
L'infarto non mi verrà, il mio cuore è già scampato all'esecuzione di stadtfeld, e se ha superato questo trauma, reggerà tranqullmente altre dure prove.
Confermo il precedente giudizio: il pupo crucco potrà diventare un grande pianista, ma per ora è un grande "tecnico".
Aulin67 2 years ago
@Aulin67 Tecnica deriva dal greco techné, e vuol dire "arte". Indi mi pare già abbastanza che il "pupo crucco" sia un tecnico. Addio apoplettico
TipheretV 2 years ago
Non puoi fare il pignolino e farti sfuggire le virgolette. La tua lettura è superficiale come l'ascolto della toccata, ma su questo già non avevo dubbi. Ad ogni buon conto, ho espresso la mia opinione, che tu puoi non condividere, e la cosa non mi turba. Non fare l'isterica con me.
Che dire poi dei "tecnici", o se preferisci "artisti": il mondo ne è pieno, e ognuno dà secondo le proprie capacità, fornite dal padreterno e dall'esperienza. Vuoi paragonare stadtfeld a gould ? Saluti e baci !
Aulin67 2 years ago
@Aulin67 ahah perché vuoi paragonare te a stadtfeld? ;D
TipheretV 1 year ago
@TipheretV Il paragone fra me e stadtfeld: lui è secco mentre io in lieve sovrappeso, lui è figa lessa e io finocchio mascolino, lui sa suonare, ma io so ascoltare. Resto quindi convinto che questa toccata sia un po' ...da "tempesta ormonale". Tuttavia questa mattina mi ascoltavo das wohltemperierte klavier (suonato proprio dalla lessa) e devo dire che alcuni preludi sono veramente magnifici. Resta da ascoltare beethoven, speriamo in bene, diversamente farò una settimana di cura kempff.
Aulin67 1 year ago
@Aulin67 Neanche poi tanto grande a dire il vero... Comunque concordo.
Matteo7419 1 year ago
@Aulin67 completamente d'accordo!
;)
rachmaninovisback 1 year ago
full of joy!
AlmaSchiwago 2 years ago
i'm just amazed by his sitting position. Very interesting and certainly very intriguing, very close to the piano, but still have enough freedom of movement.....and he's like a movie star!....lol
kmpiano1 2 years ago
like glenn gould...he had his own chair
LetTheMusicFlow1 2 years ago
by the way, if you guys didn't notice, the last comment was definitely sarcastic....since nowadays, you have to have to looks to be a classical musician....long gone are the days when glenn gould, richard goode, perahia, pianists with superb musicianship can get lots of performance opportunities and establish their musical careers. Yes, I'm amazed, but not necessarily agree with his posture or interpretation
kmpiano1 1 year ago
very good :D. but i prefer cziffra's interpetation
hjiuhfhrehui 2 years ago
Kinda want the whole story. Very good performance, why the back on the piano bench/chair? Does he have some physical problems?
petie32 2 years ago
EXCELLENT piano playing. Even throughout. Good solid tone. Never bangy. Never bombastic. Never skittish or erratic. Played with near perfect control.
Only Mr. Levhinne, who plays with unique elegance and affection -- as though it were a character piece, instead of a formidable challenge to the fingers -- and Vladimir Horowitz, who makes of it a scintillating, star-spangled circus, give better accounts of Opus 7, Schumann.
There's no mannered striving for effect here.
GOOD! GOOD! GOOD!
Pischnaholic 2 years ago
Well, I just heard Pogorelich, and in his unique way ranks with Levhinne and Horowitz above the excellent Mr. Stadtfeld, who does need to learn to play with greater dynamic contrast.
Pischnaholic 2 years ago
I do have to agree with you on that even though he seems effortless. A lot of critics of him usually pick on his limited dynamic range. Maybe that's how he perceived piano playing.
kmpiano1 2 years ago
Interesting comment, that Stadfeldt may perceive piano playing as with a limited dynamic range, since he is known (and presents himself) mainly as a Bach player.
camaysar222 1 year ago
.....you are right whith Levhinne and Horowitz....I would add the version of Sergio Fiorentino.......I don't like Stadtfeld, but this is really good.....
Schibol 2 years ago
The fingers work okay, sort of, but just press notes down mechanically. Considerations of shape, phrasing, placing,timing, color......they don't exist apparently. This guy is ASLEEP, musically. The overall effect is of ugly, clanking, unremitting machinery.
NOSEhow2LIV 2 years ago 3
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berlinzerberus 2 years ago
if you dont like his performance you can still judge by the looks of this hot young guy. hope he's gay.
artje123 2 years ago
Except for those who made intelligent, musical comments, I must say that the rest of you are the absolute DREGS! Who are YOU to criticize a wonderful performance, and where's YOUR recording of this difficult piece of music? You people make me sick! You poor, simple boobs! I feel sorry for you. Could you comment on ANYTHING intelligently. I KNOW that you could not!
Congratulations to the pianist on a great performance!
shortestgiant 2 years ago
"wonderful performance"?
mister,although you are pretty advanced in your age,i must notice,that you have no idea of anything.
so what,according to your age one could expect a bit more know-how how to play the schumann toccata properly.
but perhaps you like only the interpreter as an atta boy from the vantage point of an olster!! LOLL
berlinzerberus 2 years ago
The arrogant rude remarks, made by nitwits who probably cannot play even a scale without a mistake.
Who cares if the pianist has his eyes closed or open. He is not playing with them.
acer4me 2 years ago
o my god, so good palying and so bad sitting :D
WOWdato 2 years ago
Heh. You're all so violently angry at a young man for sitting down in front of his instrument and not putting on a show for your eyes.
Here's a thought: close your fucking eyes. Musically it's not an outstanding performance but it's not especially bad either. To suggest that someone with this person's talent "plays like a cunt" is mean-spirited and ignorant.
Buldaner 2 years ago 20
@Buldaner I understand your anger at the vulgar criticism of the previous blogger but when you respond with equal vulgarity you stoop to his level.
trajan75 1 year ago
Evidentemente a quienes ven los videos de musica con el afan de expresar subjetivismos no les detiene nada. A algunos pianistas les critican porque se mueven mucho,porque hacen gesticulaciones,porque usan tecnicas no ortodoxas.
A otros porque no muestran expresividad,porque tienen economia de movimientos. La verdad es que aparte de esos subjetivismos este joven toca tecnicamente muy bien,nada puede reprocharsele y decir que es frio conscientemente es mucho arriesgarse.
JorPove 2 years ago
Más de acuerdo no puedo estar, tiene una técnica que ya muchos quisieran... No hay más que decir
VICTORMANUELMORALES 2 years ago
Me agrada que un pianista profesional, y ademas de los buenos,tenga la objetividad de escribir que este joven es un pianista de primera linea,porque eso deja desarmados los comentarios mezquinos de quienes solo abren videos para ver defectos en los esfuerzos de los artistas por salir avante. Ademas de comentarios mal intencionados se usa un lenguaje que deja mucho que desear de la cultura de tales comentaristas. Es una lastima .
JorPove 2 years ago
I think he was consciously trying to look effortless and relaxed, but instead he looks like a drunkard desperately trying to seem sober. A viewer can tell when a performer is trying to force an image.
So yeah, it's displeasing to the eye AND the ear. No excuse or marketing performance can save this performance.
demosj 2 years ago
This is nothing special. He plays the piece like the majority of piano players do. It's so... plain.
hoorayfor80smusic 2 years ago
That is so true, although he is very good looking, what's with the posture?
CJCappella 2 years ago
I'll say what everyone's thinking: He plays like a cunt.
davidgray2 2 years ago
You are tasteless and vulgar. Your remarks musically, have no meaning --except the "c "word is not said by intelligent people, which of course leaves out you
acer4me 2 years ago
Wirkt sehr emotionslos....die ganze Haltung, dazu Stuhl mit Lehne, unterstreicht dies noch.
Katharina1962 2 years ago
He looks like he's just sitting playing cocktain lounge music! No musical interest but technically very good.
Grigor99 2 years ago
definitely don't like. sorry
fixi93 2 years ago
Performs this piece like he is playing in his sleep and has no idea what the music is saying. Is he deaf? Does he know that a piano makes music?
ekphooldomali 2 years ago 3
It's a little too slow and a little too sloppy to be interesting.
exackerly 3 years ago
ein furchtbarer bubi. und was er da abliefert ist wieder mal alles andere als gut... wie kann so jemand nur so hochgejubelt werden...
Leubald 3 years ago
...right!
kajohada 3 years ago 2
One volume does not interest make.
Haeronthegreat 3 years ago
lol look 2.40 -2.47
queencheetah88 3 years ago
that's what she said
electronicjo1 3 years ago
damn, this piece sounds very very good. the best from schumann i think.
during his playing stadtfeld looks as if he had an orgasm. which strong feelings he had...
but its really amazing, my respect!
queencheetah88 3 years ago
...it sounds g a y ;))
kajohada 3 years ago
Kajohada, I don't want any misunderstanding: I don't say that you are stupid. But do you realise the stupidity of your comment ? Comments of this kind have no place here. ... Come on ! ...
sebchvd 3 years ago
ok,i shall correct myself------->it sounds g a y and f e m i n i n e and what´s the worst thing is------>it sounds b o r i n g and u n i n t e r e s t i n g!
kajohada 3 years ago
I don't know exactly what it is to sound "gay" for a piano player. Thank you for your reply.
sebchvd 3 years ago
gay means------>who´s that girl touching the piano shortly before a broken wrist,without any competence to express schumann´s world.prrrobably he is sitting on something i will not mention at all LOLL------>but if u consider that all gays like it u will understand what i mean ;)))
kajohada 3 years ago
1:59 - coolest part ever
solidsnake1391 3 years ago
Close your mouth and try to think idea of this peace. You are perfect example of pianist that has no clue in that what he plays, he has no idea, and perfect example of how shouldnt look pianist...as i see you trying to imitate Cziffra but you are just stupid :). no offense but you sound it like it...
predoje 3 years ago
ya,an imitator has born...he sits on the chair like radu lupu and and the label wanna sell him as a new glenn gould,which overconfidence.he looks like a "second-life" baby trying his first steps on a asthonished piano;))
kajohada 3 years ago
Yes, he is very funny with this chair. And when it comes difficulty part he moves toward the keyboard...Its a clear mechanicar performance, and no emotions and some idea, it has nothing. Just technic and mechanical performance is NO MUSIC, there isnt music at all.
predoje 3 years ago 3
Wow! The opening chords...and again around 2:30-2:40 are intense sounds and performance...
DerekLL2 3 years ago
you have very strange idea of intensity... :)
fatalerror1946 3 years ago 3
:)...the sound, his sound -- loud and sonorous!...
DerekLL2 3 years ago
Ya I have to agree that this guy has no idea how to correctly interpret the way the piece is to be played. Just because the mechanical aspect is correct, does not mean it is a great performance, it lacks emotion. It might as well be a player piano.
strausss 3 years ago 2
if you want to hear a contemporary German pianist play it get Bernd Glemser's CD-- Glemser is not known to be among the most exuberant and imaginative musicians, but HEy, his is exciting compared to the posted sleeping pill
goobernette 3 years ago
this is DREADFUL!! Man! Is that boring! das ist ja furchtbar, wie so etwas vermarkted werden kann-- towards the end it's all dirt, no imagination, no tonal range, no Klangfarben whatsoever, no emotions--one can argue over what is the *right* Schumann interpretation but his has no ground to even TALK about INTERPRETATION!
goobernette 3 years ago
man, get a life... music not for you... at least not Classical.
My computer is more interesting than you !
sargetadouro 3 years ago
awful, uninteresting!
petrof4056 3 years ago
this is dreadful.
Where is the hint of madness in the music? The sense of falling over the edge?? It is not there in any shape or form.
I have never heard a worse interpretation.
Who cares about the right notes when it sounds like this???
adamo29 3 years ago
Pop a pill, adamo, and you will get that "over the edge" feeling. What does it have to do with this particular composition is a different matter, and the answer is NOTHING! You have no clue.
mltube 3 years ago
uninteresting
ohvg61 3 years ago 4
Cos'è, Pianobar??
enantiodrom 3 years ago
what a horror
fatalerror1935 3 years ago 3
Czerny will be a great choice for the mister here.
fabioso82 3 years ago 4
haha
saintdracula 3 years ago
daran sieht man einfach,dass der junge nicht begabt ist und aber auch keine ideen hat. begabung ist nicht alles aber man kann sich auch bemühen. schaut euch die anderen videos mit dem stück an (z.B. mit horowitz)und vergleicht das mit diesem schrott . da sieht man was wahre begabung und durchdachtes klavierspielen ist.
cigarre93net 3 years ago 3
An cigarre93net: Ich stimme komplett zu. Ich war aber heute bei grossem Musikladen, und es gibt eine Dutzend CDs von ihm, nagelneu, mit entsprechenden Preisen von ca. 20€..
Ich verstehe nix.
marmasiotis 3 years ago
boah sry aber das ist soo eine schlechte aufnahme :( selten so was langweiliges gehört...
gollllum 3 years ago
I like the tempo. Prhasing could be better but unlike others on youtube this is not too fast,too slow, too noisy or mistake ridden. This is very good.
mikezzzaaa3 3 years ago
So Canadians always sit in chairs. First Gould, now Statfeld :)
beryllium2 3 years ago
but he isn't canadian^^
darchr90 3 years ago
Klingt wie üben, und dabei gibt er sich auch mühe, für das kalte unmusikalische Ergebnis. Natürlich ist es ein sehr sehr schwieriges Stück, man sollte es aber lassen, wenn man nicht etwas vernünftiges daraus holen kann. Echt verwunderlich, dass dieser Pianist erfolg hat und gefragt ist, und mit Plattenvertrag bei Sony...
vladibaby79 3 years ago 4
der typ ist doch ein reines plattenprodukt!
Sir2435 3 years ago 4
this is dreadful!!!! there is absolutely no shape, in the first 50sec introduction is as flat as a piece of paper run over by a steam roller. The irst theme at 50 sec isnt at all prepared and there is absolutely no lyricism introudced. Listen to Czifra just the first 50 sec. you will understand actually what this piece is about....!
vvozzeck 3 years ago
Ignoro cual sea el criterio de relación que existe en Youtube para que a la par de esta excelente interpretación y donde solo hay ejecuciones pianisticas,aparezca un vídeo vulgar
que absolutamente ninguna relacion tiene con el tema de la interpretacion musical .???????????????
JorPove 3 years ago
Es verdad, yo tampoco lo entiendo. Probablemente fue el mismo pibe del video el que hizo que apareciera aca (no se cómo), sino es inexplicable.
zopqwe 3 years ago
Ignoro cual sea el criterio de relación que existe en Youtube para que a la par de esta excelente interpretación y donde solo hay ejecuciones pianisticas,aparezca un vídeo vulgar
que absolutamente ninguna relacion tiene con el tema de la interpretacion musical .???????????????
JorPove 3 years ago
this isn't to great...
But why on earth is one of the related videos 'Masturbating niehbor strikes again: I took pictures'?! Thats completley vulgar, and has nothing to do with a schumann tocata! I wish youtube would be more acurate with the related videos.
beryllium2 3 years ago
I don't understand that either. There proably exists a way of puting your videos where you want to, otherwise it is out of my comprehension.I agree whit you about the rendering of the toccata.
zopqwe 3 years ago
you people need to stop bitching about it being too "mechanical" do you know how difficult this piece is? you guys dont even notice what a fiendish piece he is playing, so stfu
bludika 3 years ago
This piece is not that difficult, if you got the hand to play it. I know it, I have played it in recitals. And even if it was difficult, you could always put more feeling, even with wrong notes. I wouldn't say he's "an idiot", because the sound is good and the technique OK, but he doesn't know what he's playing.
oinetakoa 3 years ago 2
How disappointing. I read very positive things about this young pianist. But as many here have already observed, this is cold, mechanical, disengaged, boring. It has no musical content. It isn't even interesting as a technical achievement.
People debate endlessly the pros and cons of the Toccata interpretations by Richter, Horowitz, Cziffra, Gilels, Lhevinne, etc. But Stadtfeld engenders no discussions. It's too flat, and immeasurably below any of those great renditions. What a letdown!
Mortimer123 3 years ago 4
I play this piece, I'll publish in september one CD with this piece, among others by Schumann. I don't like this interpretation. It must be more appassionated, more happy, more free, more expressive. Even the technique is not quite clean and he doesn't take any risk. A bit boring. I'm sure he's a good pianist, but this piece must be played with more humour.
oinetakoa 3 years ago
is he idiot or what? nothing happens in his interpretation... it seems to be the soundtrack of an idiot movie... no organization! no phrasing! no construction to some climax... nothing! the same sound everywhere! he shouldn't be so well promoted.
fl0ryan 3 years ago 2
He's a very mechanical player. Same problem with his Goldbergs.
slobone 3 years ago 3
I prefer the Lhevinne version of this piece. This current performer plays it like a Hanon exercise.
horatiodreamt 3 years ago 2
This beautiful Schumann's composition would need the performer played so that the listner can well perceive the rich interlacement of the parts and the cromatic structure. Cziffra performed it a astonishing virtuosistic way, but cannot make the listner enjoy the real vaòue of the composition. this rendition is a little better to get that aim, but is yet very unripe...
laurion69 3 years ago
Who gives a toss what he looks like? MUSIC IS A SOUND YOU LISTEN TOO!!! Horowitz was a master because he produced a magnificent expressive SOUNDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!! and you could say he looked bored. But music goes through the ear not the eye! Come on people think for yourselves don't let society control you!!!
SecretPianist38 3 years ago 5
i agree with every word!
kiitoob 3 years ago
=)) is this boy a great piano star?! not only that he is almost ridiculous, but also he definitely doesn't understand a thing of what he plays... how can some of you compare him to Cziffra? an arrogant, technical executor, compared to a great pianist similar to Liszt himself?
fl0ryan 3 years ago
Listen to his recording of Bach's Goldberg-Variationen. Brilliant. One of the very few after Glenn Gould that deserve to be mentioned.
scarhoeld 3 years ago
A little bit of emotional involvement wouldn't hurt him. I agree that he looks bored and totally not interested. Technically he can do it, but that doesn't mean a whole lot to me as a fan. Richter is unmatched in this!
EPO1312 3 years ago
Martin, prometti bene, prima o poi ti innamorerai, e allora sentiremo tutt'altra (e migliore) musica.
Aulin67 4 years ago
This is better than Cziffra, 3MTom. Compared to Richter this version is abridged, and Richter's earlier account is technically unmatchable.
mltube 4 years ago
try it with longer hair and a cigar in your mouth, it's a party song!
drumier 4 years ago 3
This is good. It is not his fault that Cziffra was better - Cziffra is one of the handful of finest pianists that has ever lived
MadMadMadTom 4 years ago
Wow. Cleaner than Richter and just as fast. If I had to play this monster I would jump off a bridge, right after Schumann. For those who want more dynamics remember a Toccatta is a Bach specialty, the only dynamic is f or p, anything else is else.
petie32 4 years ago
nice; nice to hear it like this.
Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
NeoPercoDaniel 4 years ago
the comparison another reviewer made with the Cziffra performance is quite interesting: if Cziffra is a bit too freewheeling, this one errs on the other side, being a bit too "classical". this guy probably practiced with a metronome, and it shows. good technique but needs a lot more dynamic range.
jmsofia 4 years ago
he looks bored and uninterested jus sitting bak in his chair :S
KearneyPiano 4 years ago
I listened to this after Cziffra. I hate armchair critisism but I did prefer the whimsical poetry and effortless virtuosity of Cziffra?
florhand 4 years ago
sounds quite "academic" - of couse he has good technique, but this isn't enough to be a great piano player
darchr90 4 years ago 2
pretty competent in my opinion, not as good as Horowitz/Richter etc.. but that is not a very fair measuring stick to apply.
reservoirdog999 4 years ago
this sounds so trivial and naive like he is just testing piano before concert
galapz 4 years ago 2
He's talented and attractive. Please post more!
strcopy 4 years ago
Boooooooring! I know it's a Toccata, but this is nothing but the notes. It's a cool piece nontheless, but listen to Richter in stead. He has dynamics below mp and above mf. Sorry for my criticism, but you have to have colors in your mind for this piece..
Engloti 4 years ago 4
KazBerlin is on laudanum...her critique sounds like an anti-Romantic critic in the early 1920s in the vanguard of the objectivist revisionist movement encouraging a dearth of humanity in performance and hailing it..."progressive"
This sounds like every other mechanized version of the last 50 years.
smithsherman 4 years ago 2
Yeah. All that's missing is the metronome clicking in the background. There's no variety of color at all.
barnold81 4 years ago 6
da gibt es an den musikhochschulen europas schon jetzt mehrfach bessere.
dinulipatti1950 4 years ago 4
Excuse me but I think Stadtfeld is onto something here: his sober yet completely involved play goes beyond the usual emotionalized and, I am sorry to say, rather simplistic and thus boring interpretations which advocate "feeling" above all things. There is emotion too in Stadtfeld but it seems to me to be rather refined, rather checked, rather reflected. This may be the way to go; 21st century style.
KazBerlin 4 years ago
I went to the trainstation-stop marked...
"Schumann"... But the only trains that went by were named..."Stale Modern Revisions" or
Passionless Pedantic longlines"...SO
I went to a bar & ordered a Scotch on the rocks and mused over a Classical music world that doesn't deliver what it advertises,& praises itself for respect for the product.
Thank god the bars don't go this route!
smithsherman 4 years ago
Flowless but boring... I prefer Richter's and Cziffra's performance
chystokletov 4 years ago
Well, he plays it very sterile but not bad, I like it. He's not even as famous as you suggest over here, I don't get your anger, seriously. And wow, people who say that they like him are rated with minus numbers...it's strange, kind of a VERY bad hatred against him.
Hellof7 4 years ago
I like his style.
Hellof7 4 years ago
i don`t understand why he is so famous!
he plays without deep feelings... but it`s typical for german musicians i think.
kissingacherry 4 years ago
He is "so" famous because he won the Bach competition and, as the Germans don't have any good pisnists to boast with, certain people decided to make money by promoting him, giving him Echo classic award etc., although he is - obviously to most serious musicians - as good a pianist as an average musical college student. But showbiz people don't care about art, as long as good looks sell well, as everybody knows
op83bdur 4 years ago 3
It's not.
Hellof7 4 years ago
No generalizations, please... Bach, Mozart, and Schumann were all from German-speaking territories, weren't they?? Please don't tell me that THEY created expressionless music.
GrandPatzer 4 years ago 3
If he wasn't that good-looking, nobody would care about his piano playing !
pianofortea 4 years ago 4
This guy is amazing. I love the clarity with which every note is heard, the relentless flow, the fastidious adherence to timing, the singing melodies brought out. This made me order one of his Bach CDs.
curtmcd 4 years ago
actually it isn't that bad i kinda like this flat interpretation
theniceone223 4 years ago
THAT is not good...no expresion, no understanding, nothing.
oblifan132 4 years ago 3
You know, you have a very good opint: Fistly,He plays the toccata as though bach wrote it; to omantique qualities needed, secondly like many other pianists he pretends to have a 'different dimentional' stimulation to the piece, Although his crescendos are are actually decent.
thebestviolinistever 4 years ago
Nasty jacket!
thetunr 4 years ago 3
exercise again
orpheus63 4 years ago 3
I'd recommend Cecile Licad - amazing technique - yet thoroughly inspired, and impeccably musical
shishirth 4 years ago