Liszt (and Chopin too) to begin the year. A piece of music like this awakes our emotions, especially when it is played by magnificient musicians. New year, new life, but always good music!
this is just heavenly. this particular song i listened to in my music history class that evoked emotions beyond emotions, almost to tears. "happy" tears though
I love when someone can express the unexpressable words of the soul. I am grateful for artists. poets, and composers who bring these yearnings to life. Amazing peice of music.
...it is pieces like this that give Romanticism a bad name, in some circles. Whether Mr. Hamelin's rendition of this made things a little worse, or pretty much left them as before, well, I have not made up my mind yet...
excellent performance, used to be my absolute favorite of Liszt. indescribable beauty, makes you realize why music like this exists and is important - there's no substitution for hearing it!
@ramjetross I have to agree... I love this piece, but I think that that was all taken too fast, I've heard it performed live a few times and listened to other recordings, and I find that generally it is more effective at a most restrained tempo... That being said, Hamelin did play it brilliantly :)
nice played, but without finding the real singing character of this magic peace. Too rough! Franz Liszt has been a poet in writing and playing. Everybody have the wrong imagine, that to play Liszt means to play very fast and hard. It isn't correct. Liszt was one of the greatest poets of the 19.th century. To know this you should read his book about his friend Frédéric Chopin.
@butterflybuffy ...can't resist this...but these composers were not really friends at all...and that is a bad book, although it is a classic, probably exactly because it is so bad...but I believe you can get it in English even now...still recomended reading for anybody interested in Chopin and Liszt...just don't believe what you actually see in it Liszt saying about his "friend"...
what one needs to bear in mind is that the inspirational TALENTS of both composer and pianist here are the result of the greatest artist ever, being made in his Creative image, our ALMIGHTY LORD
Incredible and beautiful all praise to you our Lord!
honestly from 2:33 to 3:01 is my favourite part of the whole piece. absolutely sends shivers through me. just absolutely dark and lightly gruesome and mysterious. unexplainable.
Exquisite playing by a real artist. The leggiero is divine. Better to understate pieces like this else they become trite and trivial. Make the listener listen to the depth in the interpretation vs.in-your-face syrup.
If any of you want to listen to another version of this song, the best I've heard so far is the version on harp, particularly by Susann McDonald. The tempo is taken slightly slower and the effect is heavenly, not to be cliche
Wow, that really is breathtaking, absolutely beautiful. He brings outthe tune so clearly and elegantly through all the tricky flourishes. I've just started learning this and I listened as I followed my music- and the ending is completely different! does anyone know why? I've got the Henle Urtext edition, which I'd hope is accurate. are there two versions?
Razor blade technical control - great way to describe it. I have never seen him struggle with any piece - even very difficult technical ones for which Liszt is famous or Godowsky's Chopin etudes. The criticism of Hamelin is that he plays with little emotion, but I just don't see that. I have seen him in person three times now playing a broad range of works. A young Cliburn could also play amazingly well, but by the mid-1960s Cliburn was burned out and technically deficient.
About 20 hours and I can play a little bit of it very sloppily but I'm still gonna keep trying, and I don't know why this comment ended up in 2 pieces
I'm currently working on playing this piece after only a year of playing piano, and I know I can't possibly play it yet, but I still have managed to spend about a grand total of
This is a wonderful performance. Hamelin allows the phrases to breathe and does not push them and the effect is much nicer than one trying to pour histrionics into the work. I would wager that this approach is closer to what an older Liszt would have used in his own music.
It's odd...I consider Hamelin to have one the best--if not THE best--technical expertise of any other pianist I know of. His tone is brilliant, and the emotional clarity of his playing is astonishingly beautiful...and yet Argerich remains my all-time favorite pianist. Other than his recordings of Nikolai Kapustin's music, I can always find an interpretation that I prefer over his. Beautiful, but...I can't explain it--not that I'm better than him by any means! --there's just something lacking.
@MrPianoLover1 What's lacking is expression. Hamelin plays this like Kissin and Yundi, no interpretation from any of them. Un Sospiro by Cliburn, Wilde, Cziffra are full of expression, pure magic! Oh yea, Martha's also at that level, love all her work.
We had a piano growing up and none of us knew how to play it, but my grandmother used to try. She got a Liszt album from the Salvation Army and used to try to play one song she particularly loved. She died still unable to play it. I've spent years hunting for that song but could never find it because I didn't know the name. Until today. I have a keyboard and I'll pick up where she left off. I don't know piano, but I'll play through the tears to hear the beauty she heard. I love you Grandma.
@StormSong8 You should know what "Un Sospiro" means. It means "a sigh" in Italian. A sigh of relief for you. Play it as if your grandmother is listening and being proud of you. Its a beautiful piece. Share it with the world, when you perfect it. Good luck mate.
@StormSong8 to develop the technique to play this you'll be looking at 5 years of practicing easier music for a fair amount of time each day and building yourself up to be able to play this
@Vesivian Will I? I'm not attempting to perfect the piece, I am attempting to keep a candle of memory burning, and in that manner I have already succeeded.
We had a piano growing up and none of us knew how to play it, but my grandmother used to try. She got a Liszt album from the Salvation Army and used to try to play one song she particularly loved. She died still unable to play it. I've spent years hunting for that one song but could never find it because I didn't know the name. Until today. I have a keyboard and I'll pick up where she left off. I don't know piano, but I'll play through the tears to hear the beauty she heard. I love you Grandma.
This is the best I have heard so far. I was lucky enough to know a talented young pianist from Bayreuth who kindly me pointed me in this direction. She is rather wonderful so Bayreuth can't be all that bad!
To see me play a tune just type l'autunno exam piece. I think that's how you spell it if that dons't work type sheepguy and scroll down until you see a pic of a guy on a piano
JairCrawford: I have a different name for my office computer but had forgotten - that jackass Misha1119 is me! Read what I wrote and see that I do appreciate Hamelin deeply. Some details I'd carp over, but what a radiant shimmer floats out of that Steinway - this is a truly special pianist. I have heard his Chopin-Godowsky etudes, and it is there (all of you try to listen to these) that he reveals himself to be one of the greatest living pianists - the playing is simply beyond
Kendrg, let me stress after heaping all that praise on Hamelin that he is not one ofmy favorites and I much prefer Cliburn and Arrau in this piece. The music should burn with the ardent heat of fiery passion, and that is something I do not hear in Hamelin's performance. And again, a broader tempo allows much more emotion in the line. There is a spiritual richness, a vast nobility of spirit that permeates Liszt's best work, and it is this Byronic expansiveness that Hamelin just does not have.
@mvolkov11 But, there IS fiery passion in this performance. It's unique in that he does not overly stretch the time before each of the melody notes like so many pianists do, and to me that makes the melody 'sing' even more. This is one of those pieces where a lot of people tend to overdo the rubato, imho. We are all entitled to our own opinions, but, just because he uses rubato differently, we should not pass this performance off as "not musical enough". It's a VERY musical performance. :)
@mvolkov11 I must say I disagree with you, since I preffer his touch and speed, since Cliburn hits the keys too heavily so does Arrau, and Arrau plays it at a weird tempo. I find Hamelin's interpretation perfect.
But that's just me, each person has a different opnion, specially on music.
@Joenobili Yes, you are correct, my apology in not being clearer..but Hamelin's interpretation breaks new ground...no other greats play it literally as a "sigh"...from Van Cliburn to Cziffra, Wild, and others...
For anyone that feels small as a pianist after watching Hamelin simply "own" this piece, take heart. Hamelin is considered the greatest technician to come along since Cziffra or Horowitz. He is in his early 40s here and just coming into his prime as an interpretive musician. One can only aspire to this kind of greatness without every realistically expecting to get there. Relax and enjoy.
My....I miss nbc KINGS....if any of you guys have seen this Gorgeous, Epic show...then you know how this piece is in somewhat in relation to nbc KINGS. WATCH IT YOU WON'T BE DISAPOINTED OR WASTING YOUR TIME I PROMISE.
officially the song I am walking down the isle to. This is absolutely beautiful. Amazing interpretation. Such fluidity. When Liszt wrote this, he intended for phenomenal performers like hamelin to play it. Bravo!
Its only after watching this for the first time that you realise just how far you have to go on your journey to piano greatness and state 'I might as well just give up now!'
Every time I hear this, I am transported to another world. Simply said, this is God's touch and tears flow. Hats off to Hamelin's performance, one of the best performances ever.
I learned this piece back in 9th grade, and I'm re-learning it now. I wish I had kept it under my fingers, as I think it's an absolutely gorgeous piece. Oh well, can't wait to be able to play it all the way through again!
And Hamelin plays it beautifully! I just wish it were a little slower.
Hamelin has a palette of twenty pianissimos, a golden burnished tone I wish more pianists would strive for, and passagework that creates an iridescent haze of shimmering beauty. I actually prefer a slower tempo, but should that one thing blind me to all the other obvious superlatives of his playing? To pick this performance apart for trivilalities shows a third-class mind working hard to
conceal that most insidious of all musical prejudices - jealousy. Nice post of a Godowsky-like pianist.
Not only great control over sound and voice balance but he is really getting the long melodic phrases to sing above the accompaniment!
chopin858 1 day ago
this really is an amazing rendition of this piece.
he plays it so fast! it's amazing :)
it souds so perfect, like it's a CD recording
hellohellocalling 4 days ago
Liszt (and Chopin too) to begin the year. A piece of music like this awakes our emotions, especially when it is played by magnificient musicians. New year, new life, but always good music!
aniagain1 3 weeks ago
I really like this piece but my stomach is in knots because this piece of music is so jumpy and energetic at least that's what I thought,
DreamBelieveAchieve2 4 weeks ago
Celestial
lfelgueta 1 month ago
I love how calm and peaceful he looks while he is playing this haha
arsenalo14 1 month ago
@arsenalo14 Like a boss
searchfgold6789 1 month ago
this is just heavenly. this particular song i listened to in my music history class that evoked emotions beyond emotions, almost to tears. "happy" tears though
darktowersl 1 month ago in playlist school
I love this piece so much. The accompaniment sounds like it's being played on a harp. Just incredible.
Badzad31 1 month ago
@Badzad31 and what an amusement to watch!
darktowersl 1 month ago in playlist school
At least 60 people in the world are idiots
patlarryz 1 month ago
@patlarryz pardon your opinion. ! perhaps they didn't enjoy this performance or the interpretation
darktowersl 1 month ago in playlist school
I love when someone can express the unexpressable words of the soul. I am grateful for artists. poets, and composers who bring these yearnings to life. Amazing peice of music.
EnsignBaiXin 1 month ago
Thanks for posting! I learned a lot listening to Hamelin's interpretation.
airbornertb 1 month ago
Se ve perfectamente pero no se puede escuchar
mariaaliciaparada 1 month ago
This is clearly just when Liszt wrote down a happy moment as notes.
Rachmaninoffkid 1 month ago
Il sospiro del tempo.
Urisihapai 2 months ago
KINGS
LemonLimeGrl 2 months ago 2
I recently learned to play this song and I am determined to practice it until I can play it this well :D
KatieTheKitten10 2 months ago
ca va, tres beau!
matthewsorbsnet 2 months ago
too fast,,,but still awesome
ToMMyBoY31788 3 months ago
BRAVO!
themogru1 3 months ago
...it is pieces like this that give Romanticism a bad name, in some circles. Whether Mr. Hamelin's rendition of this made things a little worse, or pretty much left them as before, well, I have not made up my mind yet...
fredericfranc 4 months ago
excellent performance, used to be my absolute favorite of Liszt. indescribable beauty, makes you realize why music like this exists and is important - there's no substitution for hearing it!
RoyJoy13642 4 months ago
I want play that ! : )
doneplayalmada 4 months ago
Amen mr slave!!
goldenfingersmusic 4 months ago
I love this piece but Hamelin's crossover pace just takes the juice out of it.
ramjetross 4 months ago
@ramjetross I have to agree... I love this piece, but I think that that was all taken too fast, I've heard it performed live a few times and listened to other recordings, and I find that generally it is more effective at a most restrained tempo... That being said, Hamelin did play it brilliantly :)
roflattheworld 3 months ago
nice played, but without finding the real singing character of this magic peace. Too rough! Franz Liszt has been a poet in writing and playing. Everybody have the wrong imagine, that to play Liszt means to play very fast and hard. It isn't correct. Liszt was one of the greatest poets of the 19.th century. To know this you should read his book about his friend Frédéric Chopin.
Sabine
butterflybuffy 5 months ago
@butterflybuffy ...can't resist this...but these composers were not really friends at all...and that is a bad book, although it is a classic, probably exactly because it is so bad...but I believe you can get it in English even now...still recomended reading for anybody interested in Chopin and Liszt...just don't believe what you actually see in it Liszt saying about his "friend"...
fredericfranc 4 months ago
oh the guy play piano with only one hand when playing chopin ^.^
hi KING XD you just my hero
doneplayalmada 5 months ago
@Mustloveoranda
what one needs to bear in mind is that the inspirational TALENTS of both composer and pianist here are the result of the greatest artist ever, being made in his Creative image, our ALMIGHTY LORD
Incredible and beautiful all praise to you our Lord!
MrSlavetolove 5 months ago
Two very different top comments indeed.
Pianofy 5 months ago
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honestly from 2:33 to 3:01 is my favourite part of the whole piece. absolutely sends shivers through me. just absolutely dark and lightly gruesome and mysterious. unexplainable.
CziffraTheThird 6 months ago 2
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CziffraTheThird 6 months ago
KINGS!!!!
Onlinepoetrycafe 6 months ago 2
@Onlinepoetrycafe KINGS
kenjiFriend 5 months ago
Richard Bosworth, Naples Florida performed this piece Sunday July 17 2011 at Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Magnificent!
carolynnichols9313 6 months ago
it's tooooo fast! i prefer ingrid fuziko heming's interpretation!
bravebloodprince 6 months ago
Exquisite playing by a real artist. The leggiero is divine. Better to understate pieces like this else they become trite and trivial. Make the listener listen to the depth in the interpretation vs.in-your-face syrup.
680stp 6 months ago
my friend who is 13years old was playing this!!
and that was really amazing!!!
12MikaMika 6 months ago
that's a beast of a piece!
ShawnaWanna2 7 months ago
The piano is doing all the work*
IbscottEd 7 months ago
Mr. Perfectly Efficient Technique does it again!!!
carlhopkinson 8 months ago
0:28 thought I was listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 21 for a second....
mysterioso2006 9 months ago
Aaaah, such a beautiful song, just like a dream!
If any of you want to listen to another version of this song, the best I've heard so far is the version on harp, particularly by Susann McDonald. The tempo is taken slightly slower and the effect is heavenly, not to be cliche
ktcrtll 9 months ago
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its soo goood!!! ah!!
livelovelisten100 9 months ago
57 people listen to dirty south beats
sirich121 9 months ago
@sirich121 Whaaaaaaaaaat not cool
QueenMuffen 9 months ago
@sirich121
i enjoy dirty south beats and this music you narrow minded twat.
dislike jokes are always unfunny and plain annoying
xoxaishaxox9 9 months ago 15
Wow, that really is breathtaking, absolutely beautiful. He brings outthe tune so clearly and elegantly through all the tricky flourishes. I've just started learning this and I listened as I followed my music- and the ending is completely different! does anyone know why? I've got the Henle Urtext edition, which I'd hope is accurate. are there two versions?
pianodudette 9 months ago
57 people have to die or whatever disappear from earth
asxethaderfh 9 months ago
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asxethaderfh 9 months ago
Absolutely breathtaking! :O :D
katooclassical 10 months ago
Razor blade technical control - great way to describe it. I have never seen him struggle with any piece - even very difficult technical ones for which Liszt is famous or Godowsky's Chopin etudes. The criticism of Hamelin is that he plays with little emotion, but I just don't see that. I have seen him in person three times now playing a broad range of works. A young Cliburn could also play amazingly well, but by the mid-1960s Cliburn was burned out and technically deficient.
pianomanrsn01 10 months ago 2
this really needs some serious scale practicing
Berrymore84 10 months ago
the sheet music looks like sea waves
Berrymore84 10 months ago
Hamelin has such razor blade technical control...God what I wouldnt give for a gift like that!
luke1841 10 months ago
About 20 hours and I can play a little bit of it very sloppily but I'm still gonna keep trying, and I don't know why this comment ended up in 2 pieces
huzzzzzzahh 10 months ago
I'm currently working on playing this piece after only a year of playing piano, and I know I can't possibly play it yet, but I still have managed to spend about a grand total of
huzzzzzzahh 10 months ago
@Mustloveoranda But if you do that the sense of this etude would be lost.
hellboyreloaded 10 months ago
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Extraordinaria sensibilidad del "mago" de Hamelin, pasan los años y es recurrente la necesidad de diletarse con este elíxir. .
kikke47 11 months ago
Extraordinaria sensibilidad del "mago" de Hamelin, pasan los años y es recurrente la necesidad de diletarse con este elíxir.
kikke47 11 months ago
:39 That is some crazy switching right there.
arc27 11 months ago
he looks like he strangles little kids! haha
dangeorge13 11 months ago 2
Elevator music! Go back to school!
(I mean, not like I can play this...)
hymnofashes 11 months ago
This is a wonderful performance. Hamelin allows the phrases to breathe and does not push them and the effect is much nicer than one trying to pour histrionics into the work. I would wager that this approach is closer to what an older Liszt would have used in his own music.
wangdasan 11 months ago
É cabível execução de título extrajudicial contra a Fazenda Pública
krifenix 11 months ago
my computer refuse to play
''Error 42: Too much win for only 64 bits''
maybe one day :(
UberTroll13 1 year ago
Honestrly, I think that he is the best pianist of the world.
michaelnyman1 1 year ago
@michaelnyman1 Check Zimmerman.
Jmjager1 5 months ago
Has anyone else heard that the author of this song wrote it for a friend who did his taxes? I just find that hillarious.
JacobMcandles 1 year ago 4
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geographyihate 2 months ago
@JacobMcandles
Who was also his uncle xD
geographyihate 2 months ago
It's odd...I consider Hamelin to have one the best--if not THE best--technical expertise of any other pianist I know of. His tone is brilliant, and the emotional clarity of his playing is astonishingly beautiful...and yet Argerich remains my all-time favorite pianist. Other than his recordings of Nikolai Kapustin's music, I can always find an interpretation that I prefer over his. Beautiful, but...I can't explain it--not that I'm better than him by any means! --there's just something lacking.
MrPianoLover1 1 year ago
@MrPianoLover1 What's lacking is expression. Hamelin plays this like Kissin and Yundi, no interpretation from any of them. Un Sospiro by Cliburn, Wilde, Cziffra are full of expression, pure magic! Oh yea, Martha's also at that level, love all her work.
36beachbum 1 year ago
Bravo Hamelin! beautiful performance... almost like Arrau's ...
Ray0X0 1 year ago
1:35 is the best
chrislpp 1 year ago
the emotions transformed into music, simply wonderful.
jorigo1976 1 year ago
I'm 13, and I love playing this song. This is a beatiful edition, and I now know what I need to sound like. :]
london4569 1 year ago
I'm 13, and I love playing this song. This is a beatiful edition, and I now know what I need to sound like. :]
london4569 1 year ago
in order to play this you have to have a 45th degree black belt in Piano-Fu
superjam18 1 year ago 7
This song was featured on the NBC shows Kings. It was played by the main character David Shepard.
AuckTown 1 year ago
We had a piano growing up and none of us knew how to play it, but my grandmother used to try. She got a Liszt album from the Salvation Army and used to try to play one song she particularly loved. She died still unable to play it. I've spent years hunting for that song but could never find it because I didn't know the name. Until today. I have a keyboard and I'll pick up where she left off. I don't know piano, but I'll play through the tears to hear the beauty she heard. I love you Grandma.
StormSong8 1 year ago 232
@StormSong8 Aww... missing my Grandma too right now. That would be a really great thing to do for her =)
PurrfectPeach 1 year ago
@StormSong8 You should know what "Un Sospiro" means. It means "a sigh" in Italian. A sigh of relief for you. Play it as if your grandmother is listening and being proud of you. Its a beautiful piece. Share it with the world, when you perfect it. Good luck mate.
0pacity 10 months ago
@0pacity Thanks, Opacity. I might never "perfect" it, but I'm trying and I will share. One day.
StormSong8 10 months ago
@StormSong8 to develop the technique to play this you'll be looking at 5 years of practicing easier music for a fair amount of time each day and building yourself up to be able to play this
SantaClause49 10 months ago
@SantaClause49 Oh. Well, I figured something so pretty wouldn't be easy.
StormSong8 10 months ago
@StormSong8 good luck if you have any trouble message me
SantaClause49 10 months ago
@StormSong8 You just blew my mind
ghostalin 10 months ago
@StormSong8 the most touching comment I've ever read. God bless your grandmother.
Barnaldomort 8 months ago 2
@StormSong8
Sorry about your Grandma! R.I.P...good luck with the song too!
edwardsgirl910 8 months ago
@StormSong8
♥
minored360 6 months ago
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andrewdeangelo1 5 months ago
@StormSong8 you just made me tear up.
andrewdeangelo1 5 months ago
@StormSong8 I cried while listening to this piece. Genuine words for genuine love.
LRomansu 4 months ago 9
@StormSong8 ur gonna fail
Vesivian 4 months ago
@Vesivian Will I? I'm not attempting to perfect the piece, I am attempting to keep a candle of memory burning, and in that manner I have already succeeded.
StormSong8 4 months ago
@StormSong8 Put a video
Vesivian 4 months ago
We had a piano growing up and none of us knew how to play it, but my grandmother used to try. She got a Liszt album from the Salvation Army and used to try to play one song she particularly loved. She died still unable to play it. I've spent years hunting for that one song but could never find it because I didn't know the name. Until today. I have a keyboard and I'll pick up where she left off. I don't know piano, but I'll play through the tears to hear the beauty she heard. I love you Grandma.
StormSong8 1 year ago
o mein gott,..that's sooo beautiful,..i'm impressed how music suprises me, again and again. un sospiro da vero!!!
bayreuthstinkt 1 year ago
@bayreuthstinkt
This is the best I have heard so far. I was lucky enough to know a talented young pianist from Bayreuth who kindly me pointed me in this direction. She is rather wonderful so Bayreuth can't be all that bad!
DAVIDFREDERICKROY 1 year ago
To see me play a tune just type l'autunno exam piece. I think that's how you spell it if that dons't work type sheepguy and scroll down until you see a pic of a guy on a piano
Masterwalker99 1 year ago
That was pretty amazing.
He kept it nice and smooth.
Masterwalker99 1 year ago
amazing interpretation,and great technique to go with it,.
bazzatt1 1 year ago
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BaseJest 1 year ago
JairCrawford: I have a different name for my office computer but had forgotten - that jackass Misha1119 is me! Read what I wrote and see that I do appreciate Hamelin deeply. Some details I'd carp over, but what a radiant shimmer floats out of that Steinway - this is a truly special pianist. I have heard his Chopin-Godowsky etudes, and it is there (all of you try to listen to these) that he reveals himself to be one of the greatest living pianists - the playing is simply beyond
belief.
MISHA1119 1 year ago
From the title, one that doesn't know much about music would think that Franz Liszt is playing and that the piece was composed by Marc-Andre Hamelin.
Steinwaytoday 1 year ago
@Steinwaytoday They'll know the truth at the end anyways because the piano is still in tact.
ilikehaku1100 1 year ago
he is my favourite pianist ( who is alive )
44STYLE187 1 year ago
Kendrg, let me stress after heaping all that praise on Hamelin that he is not one ofmy favorites and I much prefer Cliburn and Arrau in this piece. The music should burn with the ardent heat of fiery passion, and that is something I do not hear in Hamelin's performance. And again, a broader tempo allows much more emotion in the line. There is a spiritual richness, a vast nobility of spirit that permeates Liszt's best work, and it is this Byronic expansiveness that Hamelin just does not have.
mvolkov11 1 year ago 12
@mvolkov11 whatever...
wsp67326 1 year ago
@mvolkov11 But, there IS fiery passion in this performance. It's unique in that he does not overly stretch the time before each of the melody notes like so many pianists do, and to me that makes the melody 'sing' even more. This is one of those pieces where a lot of people tend to overdo the rubato, imho. We are all entitled to our own opinions, but, just because he uses rubato differently, we should not pass this performance off as "not musical enough". It's a VERY musical performance. :)
JairCrawford 1 year ago
@JairCrawford LOL he plays avant-garde no rubato no passion, sort of like cubism is to leonardo or van gogh.
bwinkled 1 year ago 9
@mvolkov11 I must say I disagree with you, since I preffer his touch and speed, since Cliburn hits the keys too heavily so does Arrau, and Arrau plays it at a weird tempo. I find Hamelin's interpretation perfect.
But that's just me, each person has a different opnion, specially on music.
Diffomega 1 year ago
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JPizzle1490 11 months ago
@mvolkov11
ok but that is just your opinion.
i play piano since 10 years and personally, i feel more while hearing to hamelin
44STYLE187 8 months ago
This penist is very good. He doesn't sit fully erect, butt he sure can tickle the ivories.
dirtypants428 1 year ago 3
@dirtypants428
haha well said
johnliamten 1 year ago
its the best interpretation on youtube..
44STYLE187 1 year ago 2
If this was an idea of a Breath, i wouldn't be surprised if Liszt made a very virtuosic piece called "A Cough".
Laudan08 1 year ago 2
Incredible!
sejb12992 1 year ago
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e4e5sf3sf6 1 year ago
Anyone know what year this is? I love this piece so much
e4e5sf3sf6 1 year ago 2
The first time I heard Un Sospiro played I was swept off my feet. It's heavenly!
Madcap39 1 year ago
Thank you for putting this up .... just awesome .... tears in my eyes!!! Thanks xx
heartpower8 1 year ago
lol i bet he fixed his glasses 1:30 xD
jemokjemok 1 year ago 3
mierdaa! es una mierda
ClAuDiiiAAAh 1 year ago
Ooh I haven't heard the alternate ending in a notable performance of this before, it's much cooler than I thought
swordchucks4life 1 year ago
I think Valentina Lisitsa should play this beautiful etude, it would be awesome :D
rurikrussi 1 year ago
@JakeSausage000 Let's see you play it then.
runescapeRP 1 year ago
*siggggghhhhhhhhhhh*
mountainmanchuck 1 year ago
im learning this piece right now! it's quite beautiful
orcdorkan97 1 year ago
47 dislikes... why?
Alinutza97 1 year ago
@Alinutza97 They missed the "like" button, I guess!
NemoProkofiev551 1 year ago
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Joenobili 1 year ago
@89hedgehog
From what I understand, "un sospiro" translates to "a sigh." The tone the Hamelin expresses is quite fitting, in my opinion.
Joenobili 1 year ago
@Joenobili Yes, you are correct, my apology in not being clearer..but Hamelin's interpretation breaks new ground...no other greats play it literally as a "sigh"...from Van Cliburn to Cziffra, Wild, and others...
89hedgehog 1 year ago
I'd like to see Hamelin and Yuja Wang play some virtuoso duet music together, although I can't think of a particular piece at the moment.
jerrytolable 1 year ago
looks so effortless
beautiful performance.
iahax3 1 year ago
For anyone that feels small as a pianist after watching Hamelin simply "own" this piece, take heart. Hamelin is considered the greatest technician to come along since Cziffra or Horowitz. He is in his early 40s here and just coming into his prime as an interpretive musician. One can only aspire to this kind of greatness without every realistically expecting to get there. Relax and enjoy.
pianomanrsn01 1 year ago
I know nothing about piano. But is it really necessary to cross hands like that? Is that the easiest way to play this amazing song?
sw2de3fr4gt 1 year ago
@sw2de3fr4gt Actually, yes. That is the point of this etude.
XinXiong0 1 year ago
@sw2de3fr4gt Yes.
Rotwatcher 1 year ago
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leekoenig 1 year ago
@sw2de3fr4gt Yes, it is absolutely necessary to cross the hands throughout this piece.
leekoenig 1 year ago
@sw2de3fr4gt it's impossible to play without crossing hands!
polkaadottiee 1 year ago
My....I miss nbc KINGS....if any of you guys have seen this Gorgeous, Epic show...then you know how this piece is in somewhat in relation to nbc KINGS. WATCH IT YOU WON'T BE DISAPOINTED OR WASTING YOUR TIME I PROMISE.
Alpuche2 1 year ago
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sammarco02 1 year ago
officially the song I am walking down the isle to. This is absolutely beautiful. Amazing interpretation. Such fluidity. When Liszt wrote this, he intended for phenomenal performers like hamelin to play it. Bravo!
lilpolskalova 1 year ago
Its only after watching this for the first time that you realise just how far you have to go on your journey to piano greatness and state 'I might as well just give up now!'
Carpster1978 1 year ago
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Every time I hear this, I am transported to another world. Simply said, this is God's touch and tears flow. Hats off to Hamelin's performance, one of the best performances ever.
keys811 1 year ago
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keys811 1 year ago
awesome, make me practicly cry =O
sebustienus 1 year ago
what a master! his control is impeccable
jrandall6 1 year ago
i love it
elysiawidjaja 1 year ago
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At 4:09 we see the eyes of the previous piano legends.
Liszt,
Chopin,
And Beethoven.
And they are watching Hamelin
FranzLisztian 1 year ago 76
@FranzLisztian yes! I see it! The eyes of piano legends aka saints.
keys811 1 year ago
@FranzLisztian This is certainly the weakest interpretation even on yt, listen to Cziffra !!
DimitarRM 1 year ago
@DimitarRM Weakest? How? Please provide specifics. Otherwise, your comments make you a lightweight not to be taken seriously.
Frozentoes1 1 year ago
@FranzLisztian Never saw such a profound dumb comment ^^
hailkayy 1 year ago
@hailkayy
I personally thought it was very cheesy and I felt bad after making that comment but it seems very popular so I do not complain
FranzLisztian 1 year ago
@FranzLisztian Very cheesy and sappy, and super dumb LOL
89hedgehog 1 year ago
@89hedgehog
I don't disagree
FranzLisztian 1 year ago
@FranzLisztian
I have enjoyed Mr. Hamelin live (a number of times) and wish he could be here
forever. At least we have recordings....
mtr369 1 year ago
@FranzLisztian That's actually quite spooky...
tomekkobialka 1 year ago
@FranzLisztian Liszt is the guy on top.
photoeditingchicken 1 year ago
Dazzling performance!
I like how he manage to maintain a soft tone in the melody and still keeping it in the top.
VSKCREW 1 year ago
AWESOME! TY.
paulostroff99 1 year ago
I learned this piece back in 9th grade, and I'm re-learning it now. I wish I had kept it under my fingers, as I think it's an absolutely gorgeous piece. Oh well, can't wait to be able to play it all the way through again!
And Hamelin plays it beautifully! I just wish it were a little slower.
Azlaier 1 year ago
Hamelin has a palette of twenty pianissimos, a golden burnished tone I wish more pianists would strive for, and passagework that creates an iridescent haze of shimmering beauty. I actually prefer a slower tempo, but should that one thing blind me to all the other obvious superlatives of his playing? To pick this performance apart for trivilalities shows a third-class mind working hard to
conceal that most insidious of all musical prejudices - jealousy. Nice post of a Godowsky-like pianist.
MISHA1119 1 year ago 36
@MISHA1119 I can not disagree, you love pianissimo Hamelin is your man, all pianissimo all the time xD
kendrg 1 year ago 3
Great! Amazing performance!
MyLordLoke 1 year ago
mind blowing shit..love this interpretation the best as well
HerbalDevil69 1 year ago