Steven Spooner plays Schubert/Liszt Standchen

[pwdrpuff53]

Fabulous!

[ivantopito]

congratulations steven cuchara god bless you -From an old friend in florida

[SammieRochester]

I saw Steven Spooner perform this piece live tonight. This video is great, but live it is phenomenal!

[cantplaygtar]

The opening triplets need to be more uniform. He is playing long-short. Also, the right hand ornamentations are not as smooth as some others I have heard on YT (eg. Vitaly Pisarenko). But overall, pretty good!

[0ellerbee0]

*sigh*

[marly9]

Thank you so much. What a beautiful work.

This brings tears to my eyes.

[julia59]

Wonderful.

[RobinLSL]

I really don't like this guy's rubato. It's as if he has to take a deep breath at the end of EVERY SINGLE MEASURE!! It completely breaks the flow of the piece.

[ptitepianiste]

merveilleux !!

[moderndesignworks]

Love it!!!

[guitviddle]

He's my cousin and he's form New Orleans. He played like this when we were kids. Very good!!

[pianonerd]

Hello everyone, He's actually from New Orleans and now teaches at the University of Kansas!

[mahooty]

Good people, he is not from Russia. I took a master class with him and his wife. He is from Idaho.

[Keytaster]

yes, with a name such as Steven Spooner it's rather unlikely to come from Russia :)

[yeahbyme]

Exquisite. Thanks.

[pianonerd]

This is easily the best I've heard--who is Rozum...

[swatz25]

he is one of the top pianists from Russia...very, very good

[gspaulsson]

Da, da, Stepan Lozhochka, iz Moskvyi

[swatz25]

he plays this okay, not the best i've heard, Yuri Rozum plays this very very well....

[ciellenator]

OMG I MET HIM! He hugged me!

[thedeus2580]

bravo!!tres belle interpretation

[KSchragKS]

this video never ceases to amaze me. perfection.

[Acwaverun]

This was an amazing interpretation of this piece. I am playing it for a recital, and I believe this is the grunfeld arrangement. The original piece doesn't have an ascending scale towards the end. The Horowitz version is also magnificent, but I still can't rap my head around how Spooner can maintain a rhythm while still playing soooooo quietly.

[CraigFrancisSoto]

Bravissimo. A wonderful interpretation of a beautiful Schubert piece. Thanks for posting it.

[lazaroavila]

Your interpretation is wonderful. Congratulations.

[lordlactose]

steven spooner = crazy skillz

[KSchragKS]

This guy is a freak, huh? I wish I could play as softly as he does. He's phenomenal. I know b/c he was my teacher!!!

[Yaniss]

i was wondering the same!!!:S

[redmach3]

Pretty sure its Schwanengesang, D957 - Book 1, No. 4: Standchen by Schubert (song). Liszt was famous for embellishing other composers music usually making them a lot more difficult to play.

[Perkeno]

That's it. Plus, the original version is for voice w/ accompaniment, not piano solo.

[Galans]

Bravo! I enjoy the imitation of the melody on right hand. One question:It is an arrangement of Liszt of Schubert's piece?