Paganini-Liszt Etude No. 2 - Evgeny Kissin

[gelfddelfg]

OMG kissin is so brilliant! its sound like studio recording, but the reality is live perform

[ThePianoPlayer4Ever]

True brilliance by him- as an ENCORE number. Just wow! Although he can play more encore pieces than normal pieces if the audience keeps clapping, that's what happened when I was listening to him! Amazing!

[CziffraTheThird]

when i meet him in late April... i will cry

[embersinthecookie]

Is he omitting notes in the first two runs? I think he is only playing second intervals in the first one, rather than chords and not doing any chords in the second run at the beginning of every triplet....still, amazing. I'm just trying to decide if I should do that!!!

[Yaf0]

@embersinthecookie that is a revised version you are referring to, he is playing the original as Liszt wrote it.

[lotorobly]

@shenkeey you are right, thanks for the question n_n

[shenkeey]

@lotorobly Hahaha ^^

[lotorobly]

@shenkeey it's funny but it's a very serious matter u_u*

[lotorobly]

"who control the future control the past, and who control the past control the present" Isaac Newton 253 

[shenkeey]

@lotorobly What has that to do with this piece?

[juicyj612]

@shenkeey Just because this music was made in 1606 doesn't mean you have to talk like you're in 1606...Lmao

[shenkeey]

@juicyj612 What are you talking about :''3

[juicyj612]

@shenkeey It was just the way your sentence was phrased. sweet guitar vids, btw. :P

[shenkeey]

@juicyj612 It was phrased like a gentleman, you know shits going down when it's phrased like a gentleman.

Thanks man! :)

[juicyj612]

@shenkeey Hahaha. *Epic high-five!* :D

[shenkeey]

@juicyj612 Awhh Yeah :D

[iwavns]

@juicyj612 1606? You are way off...This piece was written in 1851, noob!

[juicyj612]

@iwavns No YOU'RE way off...It's called "sarcasm," social noob!

[iwavns]

@juicyj612 "sarcasm", spelling noob! 

[juicyj612]

@iwavns I spelled it correctly, dyslexia noob!

[juicyj612]

@iwavns My spelling was correct, dyslexia noob!

[Jlan0151738]

I now understand what the expression 'one with the instrument means' :O

Kissin is the best!

[onisor188]

absolutely incredible...thunmbs up!!!!!!1



[chobeethaninov]

Astounding technical clarity, great sonority, technical control and also very beautiful... Kissin lives his music.

[ProfWSmith]

It is allways with deep respect that I listen to this performer. Have seen him playing live 3 times now. Superb musician.

[clementia101]

I wanna kiss Kissin's hands! That beautiful musicality!

[CziffraTheThird]

I can not wait to see this young man in Quebec City in April next year. ill be on the edge of my seat the whole time trying not to wet my self

[vanessapatov]

I love the way you play, Evgeny!

Wonderful!!

[Deliquent2006]

where's the Kissing button?

[FrancisMcLee]

I think the piano had an orgasm.

[nbambi1990]

Eleven people hate the piano

[TheNewCW]

this deserves so very many more views

[miisha918]

Watching this performance, slack-jawed & awestruck. Stunning!

[Kocoq]

oh jesus.....

[AndreGattiSilva]

SPIDER HANDS!!!!!!!!!

[Lity10]

Kissin is not my favourite pianist, but he certainly is one of the most fun to watch!

[sll10]

Incredible! This is why Kissin is one of the best!!

[Jim341046]

Here is the much harder second version. Back to the drawing board Evgeny! Only joking - he is amazing!

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[Eeli2008]

It sounds so clear! Brilliant technique!

[eatmoregrapes]

this is brilliant.

teehee. treble clef on his left lapel. makes me smile :)

[hotbebimauz]

in my opinion kissin has the best interpretation of this etude. incredible...

[GrotrianSeiler]

His control of the piano is remarkable.

[ZhangZhongShi]

@BassicStorm Because Liszt arranged it to this piano version.Btw Paganini was a violinist and inspired liszt because he had a technique that was never seen they said he was the devil himself..and then Liszt decided he will become the best pianist in the world...and he did.No pianist was better than him in the history of music..

Hope it helped :)

[BassicStorm]

@ZhangZhongShi your first sentense was enough :) ty

[Jim341046]

@ZhangZhongShi Yes, this is the 3rd Edition score from 1851, if you look at the 2nd addition from 1838, it's much harder than this. You can see the 2nd edition score for Etude number 4 on you tube played by Petrov. There's probably only a handful of people that can play it at speed.

[bestpp10]

perfect!

[pc2990]

love you 4ever

[TruthfuLie]

Kissin > Lang Lang

[Jim341046]

works so well with the room acoustics

[ErminTkalec]

likelikelike!!!

[StrivetobeDust]

So smooth!!

[funfor1life]

9 persons can't have disliked this...Impossible!

[worras2007]

This guy is simply born to play Liszt :)

[2NvickiE1]

BRAVO!!

[GiantWerner]

If I listen to this performance, I experience a feeling of happiness and I think to myself: God, allow me to enjoy this still a very long time. How can such a young human play this quite complex music so beautiful, so perfect, so filled of emotion. Mr. Kissin, if they say you are genius, damn they are right!!

[DogzRock88]

imagine what it would be like to view this right next to kissin. :O amazing performance!!!!!!!!!!!

[Robotman42]

Some of the runs in the treble sound a bit forced, but maybe that's the piano..?

[87Davey]

omg... that is just scary!

[cammywatt95]

1:24 to 1:32... sums up the entire perfomance. Incredible stuff

[chutdigadut]

haha i know, right

[FutureAbe]

supreme performance..

[Frozentoes1]

Perhaps Mr. Kissen should include some Alkan in his repertoire. I trust he would do him justice.

[bowmanlz]

@Frozentoes1

keep his name secret!

[pianoashmead]

@Frozentoes1 Couldn't agree more!!

[Bori04]

Gyönyörű!! Korábban nem voltam oda a klasszikus zenéért, de az utóbbi években egyre többször hallgatok ilyesmit!! Megfofott és lebilincselt! Jó tudni hogy Listnek volt magyar kötődése is.

[lovethepiano]

Just mesmerizing...

[scout6686]

I can play all of them.

To assume makes an ass out of you not me.

[josecruze1]

hes cool

[ancatiberian]

i have a friend who is 17 and plays this piece too...he loves kissin as much as i do

[scout6686]

not human?

there are so much more virtousic pieces then this

try grand galop chromatique or a lot more feux follett

[gre68]

I see it but I don't believe what I see...this man is brilliant

[juancillo]

not human

[kirillkorsunenko]

I like this piece and play it sometime for myself

[hailkayy]

Do you any music in that ? Like heart-taking music

[demosj]

I think the most notable thing about Kissin is how he's among the greats in an age where most of them are gone. Listen to Horowitz's famed recording of this etude that Arthur Rubinstein marveled at and made him admit Horowitz was the superior instrumentalist. Then listen to Kissin playing it here, and see how his recording is JUST AS GOOD.

[ttryl09]

I'm a violinist and right now I want to cry!!!! lol!

[JakWho92]

If you like them, liszt has 6 paganini liszt etudes, every single is beautiful but la campanella (3.) is without doubt the most famous =)

[korglove]

lang lang (bang bang), time for you to retire. kissin always will be above you!!

[freddiedug]

How can you not love Kissin? This guy brings so much passion to the music you can almost picture Liszt looking down from heaven smiling, thinking to himself "THAT is how I meant for it to be played!"

[JLorz84]

Or technicians or musicians..

[bende85]

hoooollly cow:D I think it's fantastic:)

[uhartchristian]

what else do we want more... there is a perfect musician with a perfect technique who plays us a perfect etude de Liszt in aperfect manner..... thanks Kissin to have worked so hard to show us this

[JlDsanity]

Nothing about Hamelin?

[gcaee]

yundi li has no progress since chopin competition, yujawang is a finger machine, sergio tiempo is not as good as his teacher Martha !!

[sean7326able]

I wonder if he would give me piano lessons if I asked nicely?? :P

[gcaee]

this is the list about the great pianist alive(in my opinion):

Evgeny Kissin

Martha Agerich

Krystian Zimmerman

Maurizio Pollini

the clown ::: Lang Lang

[Lang99Lang]

suth up...lang lang is at the levl of the other...like a lot of unknown pianists who didn't have kissin's luck

[VSKCREW]

@Lang99Lang

hmm You have to catch the attention of the audience. All of these unknown pianists has most possibly had good chance in concerts, but there is a reason why they didn't go further. this is not only luck.

[demosj]

What do you define as "Kissin's luck"? I guess being able to deliver a serious interpretation of the Chopin Concertos at the age of twelve counts as luck?

And you have no idea how ironic your words are, given your username. Lang Lang himself is extraordinarily fortunate.

[Lang99Lang]

that's exacly what i mean...i'm not saying that lang lang wasen't lucky...evry famouse pianist is lucky and with lucky i mean the luck to be famouse...you are right...the power to play chopin at 12 is not luck but talent...but the power to play it in front of an audience that is luck...

[Frozentoes1]

You make no sense. Try again.

[liszt100]

rafal blechacz

stanislav bunin

yundi li

yuja wang

lars vogt

stephen hough

sergio tiempo

[flouz2]

JOKES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SupGaillac]

Nothing about Berezovsky ?

[flouz2]

Ok for all apart the clown...........but it's my opinion, i prefer Duchalbe (because i'm french but not only for that)

[demosj]

Really? Isn't Duchable the douchebag that's planning on burning his pianos? Your preferred pianist is someone who obsessively hates piano?

[flouz2]

@demosj MISTAKE !! he doesn't hate piano, he didn't like the idea people made of it, that is to say, playing in front of person who can't appreciate evrything he puts in his work.....people who just show up at concerts in order to say "I've been there".....that's what he hated !!!!! and he still is one of the best of 21st Century !! if not why has he been chosen by rubinstein to be his one and single pupil ????

[develish16]

heheheheheh the clown :D:D:D:D

[CKmakifuji]

kissin, love you forever...

[TheRachmaninoffFan]

My goal of life: Find someone who can play the piano even remotely close to Kissin's ability.

[goodarzi]

horowitz

[UMSHFMOD]

Murray Perahia

[Alejandro270193]

Boris Berezovsky...

[paulosamsam]

somebody knows where the hell can i download mp3 from this guy (Evgeny Kissin) music...

this guy know how to play... anything else is just kidding...

[jasonextreme]

I wonder if these famous concert pianists watch themselves on youtube.

If they do, I hope to God Lang Lang sees all the negative criticism he's getting.

[TheKirbyraeg]

Kissin's performance balances the raw technicality of liszt and a romantic, breathing interpretation of the notes. The direction the melody is going is always clear, and well voiced at that!

Amazing, thanks for the upload.

[bloteshame]

get raped spenser :)

[Tidusauron12]

Well, now I know what I am practicing to play this piece for; It's as if this man were Liszt himself!

[Jan0ha]

this is what u call genius

[dajiik]

♥  ♪♫ ♥

[addeex1]

Geweldig <3

[fiddlinmatt]

this adds new meaning to playing with ivory

[jackylen57]

Quel merveilleux interprète!

[asanaonpointe]

Great! Kissin IS the best!!!! :]

[Sted675]

va talmente veloce che l'audio arriva prima del video...veramente bravo complimenti!

[Neilhoven]

This IS Liszt!

[CLASSICAListheWAY]

Wonderful!

[fredqjr]

great job and his hair is bad ass.

[JoFrSc]

Flawless Mr Kissin.

[kanavaro2007]

kissin is the best !

[gagiandjeo]

5 *****

[secons83]

è un mostro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mizfruitzy]

THATS COOLIO!

[VivaLaRevolucion7]

Like he is playing faster than sound...sound appears after his hands ... or it's just my fiction ?? i don't know

[Patternpop]

probably not in sync

[edtskyline]

wonderful!! this video needs more fps!!! hahahahah=D!!

[goldayumi]

Outstanding!!!

[matthew1722]

Superb performance. On my list of favorite 4 sure.

[RAMkid]

crazy!! he's just the best!!!

[ud752]

what does 3 mean in Japanese? lol

[snevets123]

I must agree with polymath7; the issue of hair style is an important one. Countless people can play the piano but how many would appear in public with hair like that? What if children were to watch this clip?..... Frightening.

[Cleroth]

OMG Funny hair! *dies*

[DualThunder]

ive noticed that musicians (generally) have a really bad sense of style/hair. its just something thats come up with most famous performers.

[theitalianpianist]

you know, they say Einstein had always the same clothes on, so he would not waste his time choosing what to wear everyday. Kissin is just as Einstein, he does not want to waste his time by making his hair look "stylish"

[thepianist1837]

such technical dominance, and you have a problem with the hair? get you're priorities straight

[polymath7]

Please do not agree with me snevets. You see, once in while I like to amuse myself and test the limits of my imagination by making the most invidiously inane comments I can think of.

I can only hope you are doing the same.

[avpny1346]

why"show" ?...its a gift of God!

[premium518]

beast------easy

[StrmUndDrng]

I have to say, the only enjoyment I get out of this piece is seeing him execute all of the runs (I admit his technique is outstanding), but nothing more.

[polymath7]

His technique, sir, is in fact bungling and hamfisted; I could produce a better sound by emptying a sack of marbles onto the keys.

You moreover fail to recognize that he man has funny hair.

[vincecharus]

Sir, have we heard you play? How many CDs have you recorded? How many recitals have you given in Carnegie Hall (or anywhere)?

Sir, we'd be grateful for a little sense of perspective. You may be a good pianist, but, you know...

[polymath7]

I admire Kissin tremendously, and I would have thought it was fairly self-evident that I was only fooling around -come now, "funny hair"?

Then again, it would seem from reading the comments on youtube that there is simply no limit to thew stupidity with which they may be made very much in earnest.

[SHRINKINGBASSIST]

wooohoo intellects

[polymath7]

You seem to be one of those people who take umbrage at the fact that anyone above a certain level of intellect would be so insufferably thoughtless as to neglect to conceal his intelligence.

It is precisely because of organisms like you that in some of my more sour moods I am sorely tempted to conclude that had I the ability to magically snap my fingers and cause everyone with an IQ below 150 to suffer a fatal brain hemorrhage, I would do so.

[SHRINKINGBASSIST]

Dear Polymath7

It is precisely because of organisms like you that in some of my more sour moods I am sorely tempted to conclude that had I the ability to magically snap my fingers and cause everyone with an IQ below 170 to suffer a fatal brain hemorrhage, I would do so.

Your magical powers won't harm meeeeeeeeeeeee

[polymath7]

While I appreciate the superlative sincerity (if not the obliqueness) of you flattery, I can't help but think you chose not to compose your own riposte for fear that any attempt to do so would vividly belie the fact that your IQ, contra your implausible insinuation, is in fact nowhere near 170.

Also, you are widely mistaken if you think I chose 150 as my cut-off point because this would be just enough to spare myself; I only meant that someone with a 150 IQ is no longer likely to be so...

[polymath7]

II.

...exasperatingly obtuse that I might wish him dead.

I have no trouble believing you, however, when you say that my remarks have not the power to harm you, for stupidity is usually incapable of self-recognition.

[jamesrphone]

Gosh, you are annoying in writing, polymath. Were you aware of that? It's okay not to have been.

[TheLostTruckDriver]

A smart person knows an IQ means nothing. It means someone retains the things they see and hear. About as good as having a tape recorder as a friend and a PDA as a lover.

Now for someone to use what they have learned and progress, creating new ideas not yet in existence; is greater.

[durkma2]

This is simply an amusing jest. lighten up people

[parule]

Unbelieveble technique!

[Barbette321]

marvelous. well, you know the old saying, 'the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on'. kissin makes music. it has personality, it's alive. i love it. i'm also a pianist. he really, really rocks. God bless him.

[chutdigadut]

DAMN. that was amazing!

[arneperschel]

horrible! absolute blasphemy and disgrace! nowadays he's starting to play better. better late than never...

[chutdigadut]

wow. you're a funny one, aren't you.

[arneperschel]

i'm afraid not... i'm quite serious. it's very bad

[maxi937]

Why is it bad?

[arneperschel]

(IN MY OPINION)

Introduction: the first attack is very brutal to my ears and the piano - the chord at 0:24 is also brutal and banal - the rapid descent from 0:28 is too fast, he sacrifices clarity and harmony in favour of effect - the B flat at 0:32 is so wild that it doesn't stay in the pedal (ugly sound), you may call this an accident but it still proves the pianist's main objective: to impress.

[arneperschel]

Scales: in general they are too fast, very often he arrives early which is very uncomfortable, what disturbs me most is the way he bites off the nose of each scale-> enjoy the wonderful sound at 0:59 and 1:14 ouch!

The chords are a bit too short but not bad

I would propose a more gracious, gentle and humouristic conception of the piece in stead of this mortal kombat feeling. The scales would sound even more brilliant if they were played legato.

At 1:22 his enthusiasm betrays previous boredom.

[arneperschel]

From 1:26 to 1:32 is a big noisy mess. If I wouldn't know better I would think Liszt is a horrible composer to tell from this section. Same for the octave scale at 1:35, agressive noise.

The middle section: it has certain qualities but he confuses energy with agression and from 2:08 he shouts, like a singer who would permanently sing as loud as he can. The problem in the global conception is that he plays it as if there was a terrible drama in this piece. Just compare with the caprice.

[arneperschel]

The second intro is good.

Reprise: Same comment as in the beginning, only now it's a little bit better because he seems to have lost his concentration, only to regain it at his favourite section at 3:32.

The end is much better but lays bare his weak point, to play softly and yet intensely.

At 4:22 the little appogiatura is just ridiculously unmelodical. Listen closely to the sound in the following descent: the tone is never beautiful, quiet or loud, always hard. The last chords too massive.

[maxi937]

Who cares, it sounds good to me

[skillzxd]

dont listen to that guy. he's probably one of those posers who thinks they're the shit at the piano.

just to let you know. kissin plays EVERYTHING right just like how liszt wants him to.

so shut the fuck up because you're not like kissin or liszt got that?

[maxi937]

Well said mate.

[polymath7]

Risible foldorol, skillzxd.

Far from playing "...EVERYTHING just right..." Kissin has funny hair.

QED.

[erosennin87]

dear youtube critic. perform better than he does and ye shall be permitted to criticize.

[mziel53]

That's easy to say what you did. Unfortunately an art doesn't exist without critic.

[kibbson]

True what you say. However, there is a time and a place for criticism.

[polymath7]

How on Earth would *you* know? Please have the elementary human decency not to inflict upon us your ostentatious pseudoprofundity.

Though I've not the vaguest notion of your general appearance, I may no doubt safely conclude that you have funny hair.

[musicStoneD]

violin paganini caprice NO.17 arr.by liszt.

wow nice!

[bballchic21]

first time i've seen with a black suit instead of his usual white :) hehe

[brandix30000]

wow kissin you did it again so incredible so ferfect scales and well prepared Dinamic

[dejanpiano1989]

maybe the most brilliant pianist today, i admire him.take a look at mozart sonata he plays with martha argerich

[TomBarrister]

Kissin plays it well enough, I suppose, but his style is well suited to the virtuostic music of Liszt.

[chrism216]

hahahaah this piece is so funny. love it!

kissin is the best! hes just enjoying himself there!