Why dont play lang lang the original Liszt compisition, instead of this piece of sht weak try-out "improvization"? This clow is disgrace, in contrast the great Liszts composer compositions!
RUSSIAN Vladimir Horowitz made this simplified version where he cut the unplayable split-octave ending in half. He simplified other parts including the octaves just before the end and the chromatic chords. He lied to the press about the level of difficulty of his version.
CHINESE Lang Lang copies the Russian scam of playing the easier version. He doesn't have to lie about the difficulty of the arrangement, because Horowitz did the lying for him.
FRENCH Alfred Cortot rearranged the order of 400 notes at the end, so his hands wouldn't have to move in opposite directions. (Dichter was Polish, not French.)
POLISH Ignacy Paderewski used the same European scam as the others to con people into thinking that he could play Liszt.
AUSTRIAN Alfred Brendel used the same European scam on the ending, but he simplified other parts as well. (Example: he cut the 22 note scales and played 10 note arpeggios.)
AUSTRAILIAN Leslie Howard rearranged the order of 400 notes at the end, so his hands wouldn't have to move in opposite directions.
FRENCH Misha Dichter faked the split octaves the same way.
RUSSIAN Sergi Rachmaninoff used the old "interpretation" scam where he played the ending quietly, clinging to the keys. It's like a director who can't make the shower scene in Hitchcocks' Psycho exciting, so he "interprets" it as boring to make it easier.
CZECHOLVOKIAN Josef Bulva rearranged the orded of 400 notes at the end, so his hands wouldn't have to execute the opposite direction movements Liszt wrote.
ITALIAN Michelle Campanella changed the orded of the notes at the end the same as the other Europeans.
HUNGARIAN Georges Cziffra faked the split octaves at the end on his second recording. On his first recording, he showed you why he had to fake. That one ends in an embarassing mess of mistakes.
Diese Interpretation ist schrecklich !! Das hat das Stück nicht verdient. Grauenhaft. ! Keiner bestreitet, daß Lang Lang ein begnadeter Pianist ist, aber hier wird auf Kosten von Showeffekten ein tolles Werk zerstört !!!
@ultracowking That's idiotic. Anyone with ears can judge a musician. That judgment may be in error if the critic doesn't understand the fundamentals of pianism or the aspects of the piece in question, but they're still entitled to their opinions.
Lang takes a childish liberty with the tempi in this piece, focusing on showing off technical prowess instead of giving life to the half-serious, half- playful nature of this beautiful rhapsody. Very immature, not nearly as thoughtful as he should be.
Why is everyone so pre\judiced about Lang Lang ????? I saw him in the Sydney opera House last year playing the Rach 3 Concerto and he received a 10 minute standing ovation. Absolutlely nothing wrong with this HR 2 he is playing. Its at the right tempo and rich in expression and warm in tone. I give it 10/10
I love how Lang Lang can deceive millions and millions of deaf people in to believing he can actually play Liszt the way it suppose to be played. He's the master of practical jokes hahahaha!!!
@Will84ABA second that... as much as I like Lang Lang this performance is not only an insult to Liszt's fantastic composition but also simply disrespectful to the people who came to hear that... -_-'
I'm not too impressed with this interpretation. From a technical standpoint it's very well done, but he plays it so fast that parts of it just turn into noise, keeping the listener from enjoying the piece as it was meant to be played. Yes we realize you can play fast, but this isn't a race. Speed isn't everything. Emotion and dynamics are even more important.
i seriously think lang lang is overrated. no offense. he's good. but not good enough to be celebrated this much. like martha argerich, daniel pollack, Cziffa...people like that are incredibly good. but if you go up to a random person and ask them if they know these people. Nothing. But if you say Lang Lang; WOW. . . so i guess it's my opinion but ya...
Pianists covered by Billboard: Lang Lang, Richard Kastle, Vladimir Horowitz.
Pianists NOT covered by Billboard: Marc Andre Hamelin, Alice Sara Ott, Denis Matsuev. Minor label releases and recordings that don't sell are not covered. Most pianists never make it to Billboard, because very few people buy classical CD's.
This is not a march nor an etude, this is a rhapsody based on Traditional Hungarian melodies & dances... This is an insult to Liszt and all the pianists who have executed this heavily & commonly abused work... Sheesh!
@gunyor111 I wonder how in the hell major recording companies convinced him to record... No wonder DG, EMI and all the others are almost dead, while smaller labels like Hyperion, Chandos, CPO or LSO become more & more powerful... This pianist seems to be a complete psychopath who doesn't what he does really play, and the most scary part is that the audiance seems thrilled by this grotesque show. He seems to be in a state of trance, like Amy Winehouse was in Belgrade before her death...
The first minute is the worst version of Liszt Hun Rap 2 I ever listened to. Hard to hear the different melodies, just a messy big noise. Lang reminds my Andre Rieu, with less sense for the music... a pop star unfortunately playing classical music.
Did anyone read Anthony Tommasini's front page article in Sundays Arts section? He says that virtuosos are becoming a dime a dozen. He sites pieces everyone can play, while ignoring technique that's historically impossible (past and present), the alternating octaves at the end of this piece. He hails the new Chinese pianist's technique, but fails to mention that no Chinese has ever mastered the ending the way Liszt wrote it. He has a lot of nerve!
My piano teacher would have whipped my hands if I was playing this fast!! Horrible but what some people do not realize is that piano is played differently in different countries and therefore, taught differently. Maybe it has something to do with the time signature, or the metric system. IDK. Jung Linn was trained at Julliard so she has been exposed to western piano playing.
@mellymariefl I think LL is just having fun and putting a show on, the audience loved it. He was trained in the U.S. at Curtiss, and Jung Lin was trained at Juilliard. There's a difference, basically if you are good enough to get in you go to Juilliard where they teach musicality and interpretation :)
@bfg2stream Jung LIn's performance is so overrated it's incredible: everyone says she uses no pedal (oh, she uses the pedal especially when playing octaves), she's not smooth (way to jittery and hesitant for my tastes); it's as though because she's pretty everyone just falls over! Besides, there really isn't a best performance of this; I saw Volodos play it in SF and it was incredible - not as exciting as Horowitz but technically almost perfect.
Jung Lin's HR2 is extraordinary, immensely musical and underrated. She uses little pedal, a bit more than Rach in his HR2 - in contrast to other "virtuoso" who use pedal from the first note to the last note! LOL !!!
Volodos is extraordinary, he performs the Liszt-Horowitz HR2. Can not compare, still on the Liszt-Horowitz it is Horowitz and Volodos - Lang Lang plays it as a showpiece. On the List HR2 it is Rach, Moiseiwitsch and Jung Lin - and she is pretty :-)))
At 3:34, that lady was probably thinking - Wow, he stopped a moment from Bang Banging- and that poor naive woman from 4:16 did not take her medicines.
I see a lot of you who say its WAY too fast. Remember that we all have unique interpretations of music. He took the piece and made it his own. Please don't say it is too fast or too slow simply because the original was different. I personally like the slower version as well, but I appreciate that he attempted to make it unique.
Of course he is a great pianist. I feel a little bit sad that this piece is just being used for a show where non-musician people take it as a banal piece played in a bar or somewhere. It is not deep art, more like a show business. He is a superb virtuoso but i have a bad feeling when I listen to this. Sad. But this is my opinion of course..
@JaakSikk That is a strange way of looking at it. I hadn't thought of that. It gave me a strange feeling as well, but part of me is just glad that some people out there appreciate the classics and that it is getting out there. I fear that if we do not share these masterpieces with more people, our generation will let the number of people who enjoy and treasure its elegance die down. Keep the music going! I do wish that something this special were treated as such and played somewhere else.
Did anyone see the French bigots dissing American classical musicians on ABC's Nightline last Friday? When the reporter asked them which American classical musicians thay listen to, they laughed at the idea. They have a lot of nerve.
Anyone who doesn't know about the scams that Europeans use to stop Americans from making classical recordings, needs to read the blog on Richard Kastle's website that explains how bigots rigged things against the USA in the recording industry.
@MrPeterJohnston They play the violin and cello. They were laughing at all Americans, especially string players, who were screwed when Brandson sold Virgin to European bigots (EMI) who closed the American classical offices. The bigots were like Nazi's who viewed USA performers as Jews. Kastle's hit record Streetwise meant that more USA artists were about to be signed. They clensed the Americans from the label, and re-wrote the company bio as if the Americans never existed. USA should ban them!
@6347285 Okay... maybe that's true about Virgin - I don't know, but I'll take your word for it.
Although Cleansing Kastle from the label may have been a good thing. The guy's a hack who is desperately clawing to fame by spouting lies about other famous pianists (most of them dead). The guy doesn't deserve to be on a CD.
And hey - there's politics like this all around you. Sure it might suck - but what would the world be without bigots, and charlatans? Boring...
@MrPeterJohnston Your country, Australia, produced one recording act who recorded this piece. Leslie Howard was a dishonest pianist who couldn't play Liszt. He cheated like the other Europeans. The American plays Liszt masterfully. Only a bigot would refer to the first recording act who could actually play the alternating octaves at the end as a hack. The Europeans and Australians are the hacks, not the American.
Your country also gave us Rupert Murdock. Take him back!
@6347285 OKAY... First of all let me correct you. Leslie Howard is a great Liszt pianist who didn't cheat anyone - so don't DARE diss Leslie Howard. Richard Kastles main claim to fame is that he can play 30 seconds or repertoire great, which is sad because he can't actually. He jams down the pedal and completely wrecks the harmony.
And I NEVER said the americans were hacks - just Richard Kastle - so if you're going to quote me - get it RIGHT!
@6347285 If you're one of those Richard Kastle fanboys like MikeCaffey, or Juri Koll... or another one of those idiots who seem to think Richard Kastle is a brilliant piano player - then you need to either seriously wake up, or seek professional help. Kastle has based his reputation on trying to denegrade other pianists. The man is not a genius, nor is he even good.
There are some really great American Pianists but there's not enough room to list them here.
@6347285 but if you're going to try to correct me, and tell me Richard Kastle is a brilliant piano player - a man who outright tries to de-fame other piano players - then he seriously needs a kick in the head and so do you.
I've studied classical piano for 17 years, and I can spot a hack or a cheat very easily by myself.
The Europeans and the Australians are not hacks - Richard Kastle is. As for the rest of American pianists, I have no problems with them.
@6347285 Hmmm... I am perplexed by your comments. There are plenty of excellent American pianists who have had great success in Europe and who have recorded extensively. These include, but are certainly not limited to: Byron Janis, Earl Wilde, Garrick Ohlsson (who, by the way, won the Chopin competition in 1971), Van Cliburn (1958 Tchaikovsky Competition Gold Medalist), Agustin Anievas (phenominal Chopin specialist) Eugene Istomin etc... etc...
@Frozentoes1 Your list is disingenuous, four are dead, one is retired, and the other started his career in 1971. The problem with Europeans rigging the recording industry against American artists started in the 1990's.
Name some American pianists who began recording careers after 1990, and are welcomed in Europe. I bet you can't, because Americans were ceansed from the industry.
The Grammy Awards removed classical awards from the show. Classical recordings are a scam. Its a fact.
@6347285 I am glad you made your point and brought this up. Too many so-so European, Russian and Chinese pianists. I have boycotted clasical piano concerts on the East Coast (New York, Boston, DC), not attending any concerts until I see Argerich, Jung Lin, Ohlsson and Perahia on the stage!
@Frozentoes1 Is there anything that Cliburn played that sounded less than magnificent? I can't think on one performance that was below anything other than amazing. I was lucky enough to see him once and shake his hand afterward - what paws the guy had! - and he was gracious and a gentleman. Can't ask for more than that.
@6347285 No one gives a shit. There are NO great classical 'american' composers, and Richard Castle is an arrogant asshole. Everyone in the classical community on youtube knows that. So shut the fuck up.
My comment on video: LOL at all the people in the comments saying "Lang Lang's rendition of this Liszt piece is soo bad.." Who says this is his final rendition? He tours and plays this piece probably hundreds of times a year. If you want to hear his 'rendition', listen to his official recording!
@blackcuve Wrong. Richard Kastle is a great American composer. He proves it with his new symphony on YouTube (Symphony Venezia). You can watch him play the opening on the piano while looking at the score.
The "classical community on YouTube" is not reality. The comment pages are patrolled by European bigots like you who trash Americans. Record sales determine success. There are only 4 classical piansts with albums on Billboard: Lang, Kissin, Perriah and Kastle. Look it up.
if you really want to know how Liszt's Hungarian rhapsody is supposed to sound, why don't you listen to and analyze performances by Hungarian pianists like Cziffra or Gyorgy Adam?
@LWPLICM This is NOT the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody 2, this is Horowitz transcription (arrangement) of the Liszt original, can not compare LL's performance to Cziffra's, they are different pieces.
Cziffra plays the Liszt HR2 and he is extraordinary, of course. Another extraordinary performance is that of Jung Lin, also the versions by Rachmaninoff and Benno Moiseiwitsch are surreal, take a listen :-))
@Artingence I like Lang Lang on this, Jung Lin's is the best Liszt HR2 it's magical! and Maksim's version is an insult to Liszt, your boy is bad and shouldn't try to play a piece way beyond his ability! lol
AMERICAN Richard Kastle proved that American superiority reigns in classical music as well as the usual stuff, keeing the world safe from terrorists. His CD out sold the current RUSSIAN and CANADIAN pianists. CHINESE Lang has great press and sales, but he plays the easier version. It doesn't count. Kastle plays this piece with style and extravagance.
FACT: The USA produced the first recording artist in history who could play the octave ending without diluting the technique.
This interpretation makes me so damn mad at him for being such a terribly overacting "musician"... This guy is not playing Liszt, he is slapping him in the face repeatedly. All that in absolutely ridiculous gestures.
Lang Lang, why are you popular? Why can't people see what music really is?
@arfurlife: No, I don't dislike this because of his tempo.
1)his pedaling is so wrong it's beyond imaging, it's very rough and unever.
2)he doesn't choose a CONSISTENT TEMPO, I'm all for playing a piece faster or slower, but when parts are fastened and parts are slowed randomly, well it sounds bad .
3)Dynamics are terrible, almost everything sounds ff, nothing is pp.
conclusion: Lang Lang *can* be a good pianist, but not here, because this is so bad.
lots of improve... that's cool.. i guess..I've seen LL in concert.. Prokofiev's 4rth concerti ...least this time he into the music... whether i liked it or not.
The Chinese think that piano playing is a just matter of playing notes fast and accurately. Lang Lang is the product of their terrible musical education system which focuses on technical drills and emotional (and sometimes physical abuse). Add to this Lang Lang's homosexuality, and you end up with a terribly skewed performance.
I cannot believe so many people dislike this version. 807!! maybe its because its so unusual and original. His touch and dynamics are incredible and I think Liszt himself would have known greatness when he heard it here. Another example of the shocking elitist snobbery and jealousy in the piano circles. You cannot fake this music and Lang lang clearly is enjoying himself imensly...the crowd liked it too...and I liked it. Fabulous.
Stop flaming Lang Lang about his tempo! He can choose the tempo that he wants to play at >:O That just means that he's pro enough to play faster than most other people...
@TheBirlanca I know, I don't really enjoy Lang Lang's playing style...but I'd rather think about how pro he is just because he can even play it at that tempo...some prefer skills alone vs. music in respect of the composer (I agree with this more than skills)
in the right tempo it's about 12:10 long...here it's 7:22!!!waaaaaaaaaaaaay too fast!!!i mean...speed is not what makes a piece like that sound impressive...technice and emotions(even in such a "bubbly" sound)is what make it a masterpiece...!he may have the technice...but he doesn't have the abillity to understand liszt!!!
@goodguysdoll I may be wrong on some levels, but to say that Liszt NEVER did this is also wrong. Sure, he had great respect for Mozart, Handel, Bach, Beethoven, etc. - but he was widely known both for his ability to emotionally reproduce a piece to a T (as in, perfectly) and ALSO to embellish, improvise, and add things to a piece.
I also didn't say Lang Lang was any good. I didn't say Liszt would ever play anything like Lang Lang. I personally hate this rendition. But I'm not completely wrong.
Lang lang's Hungarian Rhapsody is different to Horowitz' transcription, and even more different than Liszt's original, could someone maybe tell me where are these versions originate from/relate to eachother?
This is the worst interpretation of this piece music I have ever heard out of all the interpretation that are on youtube.
hiprodonkey 11 hours ago
0:56 someone is laughing
astronomo16 4 days ago
Why dont play lang lang the original Liszt compisition, instead of this piece of sht weak try-out "improvization"? This clow is disgrace, in contrast the great Liszts composer compositions!
Fraktalam1 2 weeks ago
lang lang is a great pianist, but strangely expressive. 0:51 what a petifile
yes i love this rhapsody!
fatcat22able 2 weeks ago
Russian-American Rachmaninoff is the greatest pianist in history. His interpretation of the Liszt HR2 is sublime.
Russian-American Horowitz is peerless (except for Rach and Gilels), his performance of his transcription of the HR2 is extraordinary.
Lang Lang attempts the Horowitz version.
Jung Lin's HR2 is extraordinary.
Hamelin's HR2 has wonderful jazz-cadenza and a jazzy friska.
Lisitsa's HR2 is a lesson on strictly playing to indicated tempo and dynamics.
Maksim "attempts" the HR2 (?) - UGH
Bret6464 1 month ago 8
HISTORY IS FULL OF SCAM VERSIONS OF LISZT
RUSSIAN Vladimir Horowitz made this simplified version where he cut the unplayable split-octave ending in half. He simplified other parts including the octaves just before the end and the chromatic chords. He lied to the press about the level of difficulty of his version.
CHINESE Lang Lang copies the Russian scam of playing the easier version. He doesn't have to lie about the difficulty of the arrangement, because Horowitz did the lying for him.
6347285 1 month ago
@6347285
Someone please kick this moron out...
tajniak4 4 days ago
EXAMPLES OF SCAM VERSIONS OF LISZT
FRENCH Alfred Cortot rearranged the order of 400 notes at the end, so his hands wouldn't have to move in opposite directions. (Dichter was Polish, not French.)
POLISH Ignacy Paderewski used the same European scam as the others to con people into thinking that he could play Liszt.
AUSTRIAN Alfred Brendel used the same European scam on the ending, but he simplified other parts as well. (Example: he cut the 22 note scales and played 10 note arpeggios.)
6347285 1 month ago
EXAMPLES OF SIMPLIFIED LISZT ON RECORDINGS
AUSTRAILIAN Leslie Howard rearranged the order of 400 notes at the end, so his hands wouldn't have to move in opposite directions.
FRENCH Misha Dichter faked the split octaves the same way.
RUSSIAN Sergi Rachmaninoff used the old "interpretation" scam where he played the ending quietly, clinging to the keys. It's like a director who can't make the shower scene in Hitchcocks' Psycho exciting, so he "interprets" it as boring to make it easier.
6347285 1 month ago
MORE EXAMPLES OF SCAM VERSIONS OF LISZT
CZECHOLVOKIAN Josef Bulva rearranged the orded of 400 notes at the end, so his hands wouldn't have to execute the opposite direction movements Liszt wrote.
ITALIAN Michelle Campanella changed the orded of the notes at the end the same as the other Europeans.
HUNGARIAN Georges Cziffra faked the split octaves at the end on his second recording. On his first recording, he showed you why he had to fake. That one ends in an embarassing mess of mistakes.
6347285 1 month ago
Diese Interpretation ist schrecklich !! Das hat das Stück nicht verdient. Grauenhaft. ! Keiner bestreitet, daß Lang Lang ein begnadeter Pianist ist, aber hier wird auf Kosten von Showeffekten ein tolles Werk zerstört !!!
Nobbi111 1 month ago
Technical he is perfect. Everyone is entitled to their view of his interpretation. But in my opinion he is the best thing since sliced bread!!
andreagassicheung 2 months ago
So much for this being one of the most fun piano pieces...
TheJaronemoc 2 months ago
02:55 she smoke like smoking weed
TheMRGHABRIEL 2 months ago
918 People Known Classical Music, in especially this song...
jjonilson 2 months ago
Someday many years from now, in hell, there will be a concert of Lang Lang playing this piece, accompanied by Andre Rieu and his orchestra.
DFDalton1962 3 months ago 4
@DFDalton1962 And Maksim and his technodisco band
03mbk30 2 months ago
für alle leute die garkeine ahnung von klavier haben.............
Handeltasche 3 months ago
Hey, @muse2000 , Why don't you put in the title "Lang Lang Version"?
faustop2008 3 months ago
george li is where its at for this piece
allenmarkes 3 months ago
ovverated pianist
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MATIASARGUELLES94 3 months ago
woo woo woo....what the hell is this???
MsGibbone 3 months ago
technically impeccable but all that resembles a poor preformance in a third-class brothel
xworobic 3 months ago
Liszt was a Genius
G0007 3 months ago 3
guys... maybe lang lang just simply interprets this piece diferently... but personal, jung lins version is BOSS
LunaticLucario 3 months ago 45
what a tool
hogo1 3 months ago
To everyone saying they dont like this interpretation, when you get as good as him then your entitled to judge him...
ultracowking 3 months ago
@ultracowking That's idiotic. Anyone with ears can judge a musician. That judgment may be in error if the critic doesn't understand the fundamentals of pianism or the aspects of the piece in question, but they're still entitled to their opinions.
Lang takes a childish liberty with the tempi in this piece, focusing on showing off technical prowess instead of giving life to the half-serious, half- playful nature of this beautiful rhapsody. Very immature, not nearly as thoughtful as he should be.
ProRachStravinsKiev 3 months ago 3
Lang Lang....HAH
Marc-Andre would play circles round this lil' guy.
DrStrangefate 3 months ago
For God's sake!!!! It's just too
STUPID!
:P
KronosCodename 3 months ago
sounds like a speeded up jack n the box. just because you hit all the right notes doesn`t make it right,
this is absolutely rubbish, no emotion, rubbish tempo. just trickery..... like all his renditions
so over rated this guy, he massacres everything he plays. absolute dog mess
randymcknob 3 months ago
lang lang is just bad its like an a white person trying to be bettter than a black person at sports, it just doesn't work
cashmoney10020 3 months ago
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andrewstackj 3 months ago
Why is everyone so pre\judiced about Lang Lang ????? I saw him in the Sydney opera House last year playing the Rach 3 Concerto and he received a 10 minute standing ovation. Absolutlely nothing wrong with this HR 2 he is playing. Its at the right tempo and rich in expression and warm in tone. I give it 10/10
steinwaygrande1 3 months ago
I love how Lang Lang can deceive millions and millions of deaf people in to believing he can actually play Liszt the way it suppose to be played. He's the master of practical jokes hahahaha!!!
masterofsynapsis 3 months ago
Whats wrong.
Vesivian 3 months ago
it's Hungarian Rhapsody 2 made in china =))
Onikznsk 4 months ago
@Onikznsk Unfounded comment, sorry! Lang Lang was trained at Curtiss, Philadelphia, PA, USA :-)))
Bret6464 3 months ago
I didn't know he was American, but it's certainly not that great.
justinenns 4 months ago
one of the worst hungarian rh. no.2 i ever heard...sorry
Will84ABA 4 months ago 2
@Will84ABA this is not the liszt original hungarian rh. no. 2, it's the arrangement by horowitz.
03mbk30 4 months ago
@Will84ABA second that... as much as I like Lang Lang this performance is not only an insult to Liszt's fantastic composition but also simply disrespectful to the people who came to hear that... -_-'
Mjouze 4 months ago
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mgbrad3388 4 months ago
hear and look for YW1935...much better then this exentric one
antonius0123456789 4 months ago
I'm not too impressed with this interpretation. From a technical standpoint it's very well done, but he plays it so fast that parts of it just turn into noise, keeping the listener from enjoying the piece as it was meant to be played. Yes we realize you can play fast, but this isn't a race. Speed isn't everything. Emotion and dynamics are even more important.
number1strat 4 months ago
i seriously think lang lang is overrated. no offense. he's good. but not good enough to be celebrated this much. like martha argerich, daniel pollack, Cziffa...people like that are incredibly good. but if you go up to a random person and ask them if they know these people. Nothing. But if you say Lang Lang; WOW. . . so i guess it's my opinion but ya...
plaidword 4 months ago 2
??? Lang Lang, it's about playing, not composing. Or that is a Liszt variation?
lucashaderspeck 4 months ago
His interpretation of this is so poor. He plays way too fast and puts very little emotion into it... Maksim's is much better!
9989126 4 months ago
@9989126 Maksim is nothing but a lounge act, he is a very poor pianist - not in the same level as Lang Lang, Hamelin or Jung Lin!
Bret6464 4 months ago 3
A little too fast for my taste, but otherwise, it's a fine rendition. :)
AverageGamerz 4 months ago
Free notes of this piece you will find in : FREEMUSICBOOKS . COM (there many notes for free!!!)
JModestas 4 months ago
Unspeakably vile.
MuscleDaddyCMH 4 months ago
The record business is covered by Billboard.
Pianists covered by Billboard: Lang Lang, Richard Kastle, Vladimir Horowitz.
Pianists NOT covered by Billboard: Marc Andre Hamelin, Alice Sara Ott, Denis Matsuev. Minor label releases and recordings that don't sell are not covered. Most pianists never make it to Billboard, because very few people buy classical CD's.
6347285 4 months ago
This is not a march nor an etude, this is a rhapsody based on Traditional Hungarian melodies & dances... This is an insult to Liszt and all the pianists who have executed this heavily & commonly abused work... Sheesh!
DeliusAlkan 4 months ago
@DeliusAlkan Thank you! I wanted to say the same. This is a rhapsody, not a march. The end is terrible.
gunyor111 4 months ago
@gunyor111 I wonder how in the hell major recording companies convinced him to record... No wonder DG, EMI and all the others are almost dead, while smaller labels like Hyperion, Chandos, CPO or LSO become more & more powerful... This pianist seems to be a complete psychopath who doesn't what he does really play, and the most scary part is that the audiance seems thrilled by this grotesque show. He seems to be in a state of trance, like Amy Winehouse was in Belgrade before her death...
DeliusAlkan 4 months ago
Was the original really that fast??
sevencube3 4 months ago
@sevencube3 Sorry, there is no an original Liszt album.
gunyor111 4 months ago
If I had a dollar for every pixel in this video I'd have 2 dollars.
aCleanSnipe 5 months ago 40
@aCleanSnipe lol, you rock man
francdong 2 weeks ago
is that jason bateman at 0:58 ??
abhishek002 5 months ago
What a fucking audience, they try to clap... -.-
beckpatr1 5 months ago
Lang Lang is maybe not the best pianist but he is really awesome and has one of the best technic. Listen to Horowitz playing this piece - so good
5Gerdna5 5 months ago
The first minute is the worst version of Liszt Hun Rap 2 I ever listened to. Hard to hear the different melodies, just a messy big noise. Lang reminds my Andre Rieu, with less sense for the music... a pop star unfortunately playing classical music.
tubimurmeli 5 months ago 5
@tubimurmeli Great! I agree! :D
beckpatr1 5 months ago
He can plays as fast as he wants, he is fucking Lang Lang!
Singlerity 5 months ago
NY Times COVERAGE OF VIRTUOSOS IS RETARDED
Did anyone read Anthony Tommasini's front page article in Sundays Arts section? He says that virtuosos are becoming a dime a dozen. He sites pieces everyone can play, while ignoring technique that's historically impossible (past and present), the alternating octaves at the end of this piece. He hails the new Chinese pianist's technique, but fails to mention that no Chinese has ever mastered the ending the way Liszt wrote it. He has a lot of nerve!
6347285 5 months ago
Stupid audience dared to clap along and was stifled by the incredulously fast playing of Lang Lang
mellymariefl 5 months ago
My piano teacher would have whipped my hands if I was playing this fast!! Horrible but what some people do not realize is that piano is played differently in different countries and therefore, taught differently. Maybe it has something to do with the time signature, or the metric system. IDK. Jung Linn was trained at Julliard so she has been exposed to western piano playing.
mellymariefl 5 months ago
@mellymariefl I think LL is just having fun and putting a show on, the audience loved it. He was trained in the U.S. at Curtiss, and Jung Lin was trained at Juilliard. There's a difference, basically if you are good enough to get in you go to Juilliard where they teach musicality and interpretation :)
89hedgehog 5 months ago
Bit fast isn't it?? Usually it takes about 10 and a half minutes to play.. he also plays Polonaise in A Flat by Chopin to fast :/
DancerAndMe123 5 months ago
liszt on fast forward :D
greekLeon 5 months ago
people wont understand lang's own perception about music . shame . i for one enjoy more this one than jung lin's version.
bfg2stream 6 months ago
@bfg2stream Jung LIn's performance is so overrated it's incredible: everyone says she uses no pedal (oh, she uses the pedal especially when playing octaves), she's not smooth (way to jittery and hesitant for my tastes); it's as though because she's pretty everyone just falls over! Besides, there really isn't a best performance of this; I saw Volodos play it in SF and it was incredible - not as exciting as Horowitz but technically almost perfect.
Ramonedonda 4 months ago
@Ramonedonda
Jung Lin's HR2 is extraordinary, immensely musical and underrated. She uses little pedal, a bit more than Rach in his HR2 - in contrast to other "virtuoso" who use pedal from the first note to the last note! LOL !!!
Volodos is extraordinary, he performs the Liszt-Horowitz HR2. Can not compare, still on the Liszt-Horowitz it is Horowitz and Volodos - Lang Lang plays it as a showpiece. On the List HR2 it is Rach, Moiseiwitsch and Jung Lin - and she is pretty :-)))
Bret6464 3 months ago
What a clown...
Too fast, no emotion, no feeling for the heart of Liszt's masterpiece.
He is completely spoiling it.
Better try Arcady Volodos' awesome interpretation, the best I heard so far:
youtube.com/watch?v=HKDHeaDnZFw&feature=feedlik
doomgod88 6 months ago
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doomgod88 6 months ago
No no No no y mil veces No!
Ferbor1986 6 months ago
Va a los gomazos XD
Ferbor1986 6 months ago
nah this is abit too fast, im sorry lang i dont like it.
niksnipez 6 months ago
At 3:34, that lady was probably thinking - Wow, he stopped a moment from Bang Banging- and that poor naive woman from 4:16 did not take her medicines.
NewRachmaninoff 6 months ago
I see a lot of you who say its WAY too fast. Remember that we all have unique interpretations of music. He took the piece and made it his own. Please don't say it is too fast or too slow simply because the original was different. I personally like the slower version as well, but I appreciate that he attempted to make it unique.
MeliXdupraeX 6 months ago
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LadyElisabethx 7 months ago
why in the world do they start clapping?!?! :D
HyperMagFly 7 months ago
Now listen to Rachmaninoff play this.
Aphidboy 7 months ago
idiotic and ignorant playing would appeal to the donkeys in the audience
dziady1 7 months ago
SLOW DOWN
lazyfatarse 7 months ago
Of course he is a great pianist. I feel a little bit sad that this piece is just being used for a show where non-musician people take it as a banal piece played in a bar or somewhere. It is not deep art, more like a show business. He is a superb virtuoso but i have a bad feeling when I listen to this. Sad. But this is my opinion of course..
JaakSikk 7 months ago
@JaakSikk That is a strange way of looking at it. I hadn't thought of that. It gave me a strange feeling as well, but part of me is just glad that some people out there appreciate the classics and that it is getting out there. I fear that if we do not share these masterpieces with more people, our generation will let the number of people who enjoy and treasure its elegance die down. Keep the music going! I do wish that something this special were treated as such and played somewhere else.
MeliXdupraeX 6 months ago
its a
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MrDomperignon750 7 months ago
He wasnt playing the piano HE was PLAYING WITH the piano
theoakleystore 7 months ago
He has a better rendition on youtube, but if you keep listening to this gets good.
omgwhtrudoing 7 months ago
:23 guy on the bottom, face of total dissapointment
EricTheRed03 7 months ago
total crap !
MrGriis1988 7 months ago
too fast !
MrsSoulyclassic 7 months ago
Did anyone see the French bigots dissing American classical musicians on ABC's Nightline last Friday? When the reporter asked them which American classical musicians thay listen to, they laughed at the idea. They have a lot of nerve.
Anyone who doesn't know about the scams that Europeans use to stop Americans from making classical recordings, needs to read the blog on Richard Kastle's website that explains how bigots rigged things against the USA in the recording industry.
6347285 7 months ago 18
@6347285 The French have classical musicians? who's any good? can't think of one, LOL
mgbrad3388 7 months ago 5
@6347285 I think they were just laughing at Richard Kastle... There's a big difference.
MrPeterJohnston 6 months ago
@MrPeterJohnston They play the violin and cello. They were laughing at all Americans, especially string players, who were screwed when Brandson sold Virgin to European bigots (EMI) who closed the American classical offices. The bigots were like Nazi's who viewed USA performers as Jews. Kastle's hit record Streetwise meant that more USA artists were about to be signed. They clensed the Americans from the label, and re-wrote the company bio as if the Americans never existed. USA should ban them!
6347285 6 months ago
@6347285 Okay... maybe that's true about Virgin - I don't know, but I'll take your word for it.
Although Cleansing Kastle from the label may have been a good thing. The guy's a hack who is desperately clawing to fame by spouting lies about other famous pianists (most of them dead). The guy doesn't deserve to be on a CD.
And hey - there's politics like this all around you. Sure it might suck - but what would the world be without bigots, and charlatans? Boring...
MrPeterJohnston 6 months ago
@MrPeterJohnston Your country, Australia, produced one recording act who recorded this piece. Leslie Howard was a dishonest pianist who couldn't play Liszt. He cheated like the other Europeans. The American plays Liszt masterfully. Only a bigot would refer to the first recording act who could actually play the alternating octaves at the end as a hack. The Europeans and Australians are the hacks, not the American.
Your country also gave us Rupert Murdock. Take him back!
6347285 6 months ago
@6347285 OKAY... First of all let me correct you. Leslie Howard is a great Liszt pianist who didn't cheat anyone - so don't DARE diss Leslie Howard. Richard Kastles main claim to fame is that he can play 30 seconds or repertoire great, which is sad because he can't actually. He jams down the pedal and completely wrecks the harmony.
And I NEVER said the americans were hacks - just Richard Kastle - so if you're going to quote me - get it RIGHT!
And I reside in Australia, but I'm not Australian
MrPeterJohnston 6 months ago
@6347285 If you're one of those Richard Kastle fanboys like MikeCaffey, or Juri Koll... or another one of those idiots who seem to think Richard Kastle is a brilliant piano player - then you need to either seriously wake up, or seek professional help. Kastle has based his reputation on trying to denegrade other pianists. The man is not a genius, nor is he even good.
There are some really great American Pianists but there's not enough room to list them here.
MrPeterJohnston 6 months ago
@6347285 but if you're going to try to correct me, and tell me Richard Kastle is a brilliant piano player - a man who outright tries to de-fame other piano players - then he seriously needs a kick in the head and so do you.
I've studied classical piano for 17 years, and I can spot a hack or a cheat very easily by myself.
The Europeans and the Australians are not hacks - Richard Kastle is. As for the rest of American pianists, I have no problems with them.
And what are we to do with Murdoch?
MrPeterJohnston 6 months ago
@MrPeterJohnston
Murdock's a crook.
yung4evr 6 months ago
@yung4evr Maybe... I didn't say he wasn't.
And it's spelt 'Murdoch'...
MrPeterJohnston 6 months ago
@6347285 Hmmm... I am perplexed by your comments. There are plenty of excellent American pianists who have had great success in Europe and who have recorded extensively. These include, but are certainly not limited to: Byron Janis, Earl Wilde, Garrick Ohlsson (who, by the way, won the Chopin competition in 1971), Van Cliburn (1958 Tchaikovsky Competition Gold Medalist), Agustin Anievas (phenominal Chopin specialist) Eugene Istomin etc... etc...
Frozentoes1 6 months ago
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6347285 6 months ago
@Frozentoes1 Your list is disingenuous, four are dead, one is retired, and the other started his career in 1971. The problem with Europeans rigging the recording industry against American artists started in the 1990's.
Name some American pianists who began recording careers after 1990, and are welcomed in Europe. I bet you can't, because Americans were ceansed from the industry.
The Grammy Awards removed classical awards from the show. Classical recordings are a scam. Its a fact.
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FuguJikan 6 months ago
@6347285 I am glad you made your point and brought this up. Too many so-so European, Russian and Chinese pianists. I have boycotted clasical piano concerts on the East Coast (New York, Boston, DC), not attending any concerts until I see Argerich, Jung Lin, Ohlsson and Perahia on the stage!
89hedgehog 6 months ago 5
@Frozentoes1 Is there anything that Cliburn played that sounded less than magnificent? I can't think on one performance that was below anything other than amazing. I was lucky enough to see him once and shake his hand afterward - what paws the guy had! - and he was gracious and a gentleman. Can't ask for more than that.
Ramonedonda 4 months ago
@6347285 Chopin and Liszt both ended up in France and found inspiration there, so of course they know what they're talking about
PrincessDesert 4 months ago
@6347285 No one gives a shit. There are NO great classical 'american' composers, and Richard Castle is an arrogant asshole. Everyone in the classical community on youtube knows that. So shut the fuck up.
My comment on video: LOL at all the people in the comments saying "Lang Lang's rendition of this Liszt piece is soo bad.." Who says this is his final rendition? He tours and plays this piece probably hundreds of times a year. If you want to hear his 'rendition', listen to his official recording!
blackcuve 4 months ago
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6347285 4 months ago
@blackcuve Wrong. Richard Kastle is a great American composer. He proves it with his new symphony on YouTube (Symphony Venezia). You can watch him play the opening on the piano while looking at the score.
The "classical community on YouTube" is not reality. The comment pages are patrolled by European bigots like you who trash Americans. Record sales determine success. There are only 4 classical piansts with albums on Billboard: Lang, Kissin, Perriah and Kastle. Look it up.
Go team USA!
6347285 4 months ago
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@6347285 USA sucks ass. Nuke the whole pile of piss.
-Rest of the world.
blackcuve 4 months ago
Why so fast???
rteneos 7 months ago
Once, I told LL was becaming a second Liberace. There he is, performing to a weird audience, on a white piano.... Pure fireworks. I don't like him.
carlosasmarab 7 months ago
He is worse than Maxim, who is worse than Tom and Jerry.
nbharakey 7 months ago 2
@nbharakey nobody is worse than maxim, that's impossible
03mbk30 7 months ago 8
4:10 the people try to clap along but cant
teg999 7 months ago
@teg999 lol that's a huge fail
tyu3456 7 months ago
if you really want to know how Liszt's Hungarian rhapsody is supposed to sound, why don't you listen to and analyze performances by Hungarian pianists like Cziffra or Gyorgy Adam?
LWPLICM 8 months ago
@LWPLICM This is NOT the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody 2, this is Horowitz transcription (arrangement) of the Liszt original, can not compare LL's performance to Cziffra's, they are different pieces.
Cziffra plays the Liszt HR2 and he is extraordinary, of course. Another extraordinary performance is that of Jung Lin, also the versions by Rachmaninoff and Benno Moiseiwitsch are surreal, take a listen :-))
Bret6464 8 months ago
That camera was made in China...
Laudan08 8 months ago
Applause !! (((((((((
twgirl1 8 months ago
It's Lang Lang for the Liszt-Horowitz and Jung Lin for the Liszt HR2, PURE MAGIC :)
Oh, and Maksim's version is an insult to Liszt !!!
36beachbum 8 months ago 28
@36beachbum idiot...
Artingence 3 months ago
@Artingence I like Lang Lang on this, Jung Lin's is the best Liszt HR2 it's magical! and Maksim's version is an insult to Liszt, your boy is bad and shouldn't try to play a piece way beyond his ability! lol
36beachbum 3 months ago
cmon, Marc Andre Hamelin is the best HR2 player
guismiti 8 months ago
Wy did this music must be destroyed ??
xiaobrel 8 months ago
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bwinkled 8 months ago 31
Aberrante...
CorradoSev 8 months ago
He's just giving a show you idiots this is not a professional classical audience
1234Daan4321 8 months ago
what´s wrong with him?
bathroom emergency?
he can play the Hungarian Rhpasody at the speed he wants AT HOME, but not for the public. Very bad, shameful, what a sarcasm attitude.
vanessapatov 8 months ago 2
AMERICAN Richard Kastle proved that American superiority reigns in classical music as well as the usual stuff, keeing the world safe from terrorists. His CD out sold the current RUSSIAN and CANADIAN pianists. CHINESE Lang has great press and sales, but he plays the easier version. It doesn't count. Kastle plays this piece with style and extravagance.
FACT: The USA produced the first recording artist in history who could play the octave ending without diluting the technique.
GO TEAM USA!
6347285 9 months ago
this is idiotic playing..
dziady1 9 months ago
Lang Lang!!!
I love your story you first love and connection to the piano was come to life by Tom & Jerry - Cat Concerto.
But even you know you had to play it slower, though i love it because this song gives you strenght!
Annyhow Groeten uit Holland!
Thumbs up so he maybe see this!
Imaffia2 9 months ago
This interpretation makes me so damn mad at him for being such a terribly overacting "musician"... This guy is not playing Liszt, he is slapping him in the face repeatedly. All that in absolutely ridiculous gestures.
Lang Lang, why are you popular? Why can't people see what music really is?
BismuthWasTaken 9 months ago
either he totally misunderstood the piece or he has no brains to understand the piece.....
figurefigure 10 months ago
@arfurlife: No, I don't dislike this because of his tempo.
1)his pedaling is so wrong it's beyond imaging, it's very rough and unever.
2)he doesn't choose a CONSISTENT TEMPO, I'm all for playing a piece faster or slower, but when parts are fastened and parts are slowed randomly, well it sounds bad .
3)Dynamics are terrible, almost everything sounds ff, nothing is pp.
conclusion: Lang Lang *can* be a good pianist, but not here, because this is so bad.
kingfire111 10 months ago
Lang Lang, general inaccuracy and amateur dramatics do not make you a good pianist...
CammehYaBams 10 months ago
I'm pretty sure Liszt would back hand Lang Lang if he heard this...
MsFloopdedoop 10 months ago
Oh my god his hands.... >.>
IMASIANSNIPA 11 months ago
this is bad.... this isn´t how Liszt imagined , and that´s an offense to me... he could do it better
TheBirlanca 11 months ago
well, here's your proof that faster isn't always better.
Lamentus 11 months ago
lots of improve... that's cool.. i guess..I've seen LL in concert.. Prokofiev's 4rth concerti ...least this time he into the music... whether i liked it or not.
jtr48009 11 months ago
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The Chinese think that piano playing is a just matter of playing notes fast and accurately. Lang Lang is the product of their terrible musical education system which focuses on technical drills and emotional (and sometimes physical abuse). Add to this Lang Lang's homosexuality, and you end up with a terribly skewed performance.
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Bret6464 11 months ago
Stuff those who thinks Lang Lang's interpretation is bad, they're just jealous cause they don't have skill to play like this
ilovemimisomuch 11 months ago
soulless interpretation ever
abrasax08 11 months ago
I cannot believe so many people dislike this version. 807!! maybe its because its so unusual and original. His touch and dynamics are incredible and I think Liszt himself would have known greatness when he heard it here. Another example of the shocking elitist snobbery and jealousy in the piano circles. You cannot fake this music and Lang lang clearly is enjoying himself imensly...the crowd liked it too...and I liked it. Fabulous.
arfurlife 11 months ago
Stop flaming Lang Lang about his tempo! He can choose the tempo that he wants to play at >:O That just means that he's pro enough to play faster than most other people...
IMASIANSNIPA 11 months ago
@IMASIANSNIPA
However, a great pianist also follows the tempo that the composer set, and i haven´t read any "rubato"...
TheBirlanca 11 months ago
@TheBirlanca I know, I don't really enjoy Lang Lang's playing style...but I'd rather think about how pro he is just because he can even play it at that tempo...some prefer skills alone vs. music in respect of the composer (I agree with this more than skills)
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DFDalton1962 11 months ago
Butchered Franz Liszt. Must be the conjured up emotion. Nothing against Lang Lang.
But the soul of Hungary is found elsewhere.
Devoraak 11 months ago 3
in the right tempo it's about 12:10 long...here it's 7:22!!!waaaaaaaaaaaaay too fast!!!i mean...speed is not what makes a piece like that sound impressive...technice and emotions(even in such a "bubbly" sound)is what make it a masterpiece...!he may have the technice...but he doesn't have the abillity to understand liszt!!!
4444Elli 11 months ago
bad intro, some parts too fast, rest was okay
goopro45 11 months ago
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this interpretation is too harsh. after all these are incompatible cultures :/
mgurgun 11 months ago
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this interpretation is too harsh. after all these are incompatible cultures :/
mgurgun 11 months ago
awesome but too fast
maxbigazzi 11 months ago
when you can play you play it the way YOU want :P
FreeeeS 1 year ago
I hate it, I like much more touched by jung lin.
He plays too fast
franco21295 1 year ago 27
The intro was to fast,he needs to calm down!! Or else he turns this beautiful piece into CRAP!!!!
ghost1346791 1 year ago
If anything, Lang Lang's theatrics in playing is definitely an (bad) attempt to copy Liszt's stage-presence.
FraserGoodTimes 1 year ago
@goodguysdoll I may be wrong on some levels, but to say that Liszt NEVER did this is also wrong. Sure, he had great respect for Mozart, Handel, Bach, Beethoven, etc. - but he was widely known both for his ability to emotionally reproduce a piece to a T (as in, perfectly) and ALSO to embellish, improvise, and add things to a piece.
I also didn't say Lang Lang was any good. I didn't say Liszt would ever play anything like Lang Lang. I personally hate this rendition. But I'm not completely wrong.
FraserGoodTimes 1 year ago
stupid blond just staring into space at 3:34. And i can't believe the stupid audience starts clapping to the beat in the middle of the piece.
goodguysdoll 1 year ago
it is really too fast ... it lost some kind of magic in this piece.
JOHN121213 1 year ago
Lang lang's Hungarian Rhapsody is different to Horowitz' transcription, and even more different than Liszt's original, could someone maybe tell me where are these versions originate from/relate to eachother?
pianistsan 1 year ago
For better or