(HQ) Transcendental Etude No.6, Vision (Berezovsky)

[MrHeyheyhey27]

I just started learning this. Holy crap, I thought the 11th etude made my hand cramp...

[ohhhjizz]

I like when he does a serious pianist head bang and sweat flies all over the place.

[karlbaker8]

RAMPAGE!



[itsjustnopinionok]

Michael had the glove. Berezovsky has the towel.

[OverFjell]

@itsjustnopinionok Like how Horowitz had the handkerchief?

[anonymousQ45]

this etude compliments chopins op.25 no.1 well. they have a similar melodic structure and contrasting tones. it would be a good idea to perform them back to back

[afertyus1000]

this musically may be my favourite liszt etude but they are all wonderful

[gohanisbuckethead]

i think we just witnesed some serious piano ass kicking

[KizaWunder]

It's something unbelieveble!! 

[zara2255]

Great !.. :)

[lucasmcer]

ta com fome???? parece que quer terminar a música logo pra ir embora comer.

[invertedchords]

I'd like to see him try play mazzepa

[celach]

@invertedchords He has multiple times. His performance of it from the same concert as this video is also on my page (along with all 12).

[Bochum96]

@celach

except for no 10 :(

[krisevan1]

wtf his hand is BIG

[itsjustnopinionok]

I'd hate to be that piano.

[stomponyourlife]

His interpretations of the Transcendental Etudes are so perfect. Some people do these far too weak. Berezovsky adds the proper forcefulness and arrogance to the etudes.

[rashad9607]

man, I love this guy

[alehciMichela]

Orgasm!

[TheMrFunGuy]

Funny Berezovsky Moments!

1) 0:03 He gives that white towel a kiss and then he has a huge smile on his face

2) 0: 11 He stares at the white letters "6. VISION Lento" and waits for them to disappear.

3) 0:50 Berezovsky's eye spots a hot woman in the audience getting up!

4) 1:43 - 2:00 - Awesome arpeggios coming from teh hands of Berezovsky.

5) 2:24 - Berezovsky doing something awesome to the piano...something I'll never be able to do.

6) 2:56 - Hot lady back!

7) 3:10 - Berezovsky's Zombies!

[afertyus1000]

@TheMrFunGuy you forgot 5.01 at the end he's eating a fly that got in his way

[mrzeloswilder]

um, I can't get the link to work right what's wrong exactly?

[MrOliverKjaerulff]

This one is definately my favourite!

and it's supposed to be one of the "easier" of the etudes. Yes...

[Pianist46]

@MrOliverKjaerulff Yes, just the simplest etude ever...

lol

[SYOPianist]

@MrOliverKjaerulff Yah... "easier" ... It's not too hard to do technically right but to control the dynamics with such precision as Berezovsky does is truly an monstrous task.

[scout6686]

def not my fav etude

[GlimpseInTheLife]

2:04 Chopin Op. 10 N° 10

In all the piece there are many Chopin's influences! The biggst the one i write before. However a good piece, not much easy.

[GlimpseInTheLife]

@GlimpseInTheLife sorry 25 12 not 10 10

[BryceBnc]

@GlimpseInTheLife I was Thinking The Same Thing. Just About to Write A Comment On It, Until I saw Yours.

[massimiliano123123]

@GlimpseInTheLife It's impossible! Liszt wrote the first version of these etudes when he was 15 [Etude in douze exercises op 1]. They are very very very easier than the second version [Douze Grand etudes]. Transcendental etudes are the third version. They are easier than Grand etudes!

So... how you can see chopin influences in these etudes??? :P

[GlimpseInTheLife]

@massimiliano123123 "Thè Etudes in douze exercises" just follow the simple line of exercices, just then (i think around 1835 or later) that they took a similarity with these. And then, around 1850 (and chopin was just dead), he wrote these you are listening.

So from the first edition and the third there are a lot of changes and if you can hear Chopin's etudes, and then comparise the two liszt's version ('35 and '50) with the first edition you will discover the similarities with chopin work!.

[thecollective10]

@massimiliano123123 Can you give me source for this information, I would love to know more...

[SlyStallone208]

I've had to watch this several times to truly appreciate this... and now that I have it's incredible!

[aardvaark069]

A fine performance but without the artistic sensibility of Arrau.

[vokuheila]

horrible camerawork. HORRIBLE

[666KINKY999]

@vokuheila totally AGREE!!!

[hissetveoyna]

I heard this etude is about HAMLET.

[nmvdw]

@hissetveoyna Is it? Where did you read that? I have read it goes about Napoleon's funeral.

[hissetveoyna]

@nmvdw

maybe you are right..

i heard about Hamlet from my old teacher..

[d3fyre]

it makes me wonder. why does berezovsky sweat while playing?

[stevenc08]

@d3fyre could be a number of reasons. lights all around him got him sweating, some people just do it. it's ann uncontrolable thing. i'm sure he wishes it didn't happen while on stage but. i guess after trying different things he just say's i'll just have to get use to this happening. one thing is for sure. he is not nervous.

[Aerovistae]

@d3fyre stupid

[jameslo93]

his fingers dominated the whole piano !!!

[DanielMrtinzAngls]

from 3:10, zombies!

[addeex1]

3:20 WOOOW scary woman sitter there with her eyes glowing in the dark :O

Love this piece, alway have, and will alway do, genius Liszt <3 This is my favorite interpretation too

[xxh3llfir3xx]

lol at the end he says

"No thank you. I'm fine."

[afsdasdasda]

Rhitm of a buffalo.

[Lisztman88]

Best part of the piece starts at 2:50 in my opinion, although its all good.

[FranzLisztian]

Liszt's etudes are surely very musical compared to other composers.

[twooffour]

Other composers like Chopin, Scriabin, Ligeti, Stravinsky, Alkan?

[FranzLisztian]

Alkan is good too, and Chopin too. I don't really like Chopin but Alkan is awesome, especially Les Preux "The Knight"

[eggplant1994]

don't like chopin??? what is this???

[FranzLisztian]

I can stand him but I hardly ever listen to him, I like the Heroique polonaise though.

[davidbaker03]

@FranzLisztian chopin's are extremely musical. as are many by scriabin, and rachmaninoff.

[FranzLisztian]

I was mostly thinking about Czerny and a few others, and Liszt's etudes just stick out for me, they just seem so much better in any aspect.

[Lakeyh]

He should have drank that water....but its Berezovsky. Tough as nails.

[twarren8178]

Wow! After every song, he keeps on sweating and it looks like he's dying. I keep thinking that he's not going to be able to complete this performance, but he keeps going! inspirational.

[explosivejelly]

dont stretch your hand out playing the arpeggios, you can link hands if you look in the grande etudes (the first version) it says to link hands. but if you do it one hand, do not stretch your hand (will lead to injury), just use your arm and wrists in nice even movements to get the arpeggios, same idea as chopin's 1st etude.

[Chopianist3]

lol that must suck...i suppose you could try like using the free left hand?

[mozeskriebel]

What a brilliant touch. From very soft and gentle to fortissimo without making it sound forced. I can listen to this all day:)

[Egide0]

I have this on my ipod, so I actually listen to this almost every day!

[BlazeKenny]

@mozeskriebel he has the big body which can assure him the fortissimo ;)

girls dont play this :P

[vokuheila]

FC!!

[KeithWhalen11]

Without a doubt my favorite of the Transcendental Etudes!

[ondrejjko]

only this one version i love...otherwise i hate this etude...but in his interpretation i love it

[OverFjell]

Just out of interest, why do you hate this etude?

[ondrejjko]

IT is often played as big darknes....huuuuuuuuuuuuuu....­.but here it is so gentle....like night....no darkness...:-)

[schumannetudes]

you cant say you hate this etude then, you only hate the other pianists interpristians

[GustavMinski]

"interpristians"? Do you mean interpretations?

[cerzule]

This is probably my favorite T.E. after "Harmonies du Soir" and "Chasse-neige". So beautiful and majestic, but seldomly played!

[da19lila38]

To play the piano the way he does  is not easier than to play soccer or lift weights, rvn10... He is a brilliant pianist.

[edtskyline]

magnific!!!

Estupido director de camaras, en este video casi no salieron las manos de Berezovsky. Casi solo se ve la gente, el piano y el sudor...debio ser filmado por gente que conoce de música.

[kkANA403]

I agree! I don't really care to see how much he is sweating, although it does show the difficulty of playing these pieces..

[rvn10rvn17]

he looks like he plays soccer.. sweating..

[OverFjell]

Man, I wish my hands were big enough to play this, the stretches are huge!

[Tu16]

@OverFjell I am over 1.85 metres in length and have tiny hands as small as my 1.60 sister`s - and I managed to play the Hungarian Rhapsodies 15 and 17, working on 5! Keep trying, you`ll find a way to manage the stretches.