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  • She looks like she's playing with difficulty, having to peer closely to examine the text, rather than having it essentially internalized.

  • Oh goddammit this is incredibly terrible..... it's horrendous! OMG!!! It's not that I don't likec crazy music or anything xD but my line stops at Ligeti.

  • @SyncChrome Stockhausen's piano music is not his best work. his real genius lies with the electronic stuff he did and with works like "Lucifer's Abscheid". I approach the piano music as I do looking at star constellations but the composer's best work is found elsewhere. Like "Octophonie".

  • ...we get to see her ass, sort of, and the hair looks rather good...but never get to see her face...

  • O.o como hago para entender esta musica no le encuentro forma aunque soy consiente de o compleja q es

  • We are simply listening to abstract sonic art. Awesome!

  • Seeing a hot blonde girl play Stockhausen is way more bizarre than the music itself.

  • I like Stockhausen. This is a lovely fluid and flowing interpretation of this piece. I like it very much.

  • in my point of view, this is NOT music. its experimental cascade of tones and accords, but NOT music. btw what about the rhytm??

  • @kloiq Ever listened to schoenberg? He uses the serial technique but maintaining the 'cascade of tones and accords' in a romantic aesthetic, as "music". Webern just changed the way of listening to a 'vertical' way, but its still music, its just that the criteria of 'good' is another for this type of music. Like some occidental cultures like the beat of certain chords, while we consider them dissonant. Webern started a new trend with new criteria. Schoenberg sticks to the old one.

  • This is quite accessible

  • this is wonderful, stockhausen is the best, so is the urantia book!

  • bravissima e gran gnocca

  • Hah. Young Steinway Artist playing on a Yamaha. Irony. 

  • Two more things...

    1-"If you can't understand it, it's because you're not smart enough." (A common cop out used to justify crappy art).

    2-"We don't want to compose in a tonal style. That's so passe." (Yeah, but if you can't come up with anything better/more appealing, how about just putting down your pencil?)

  • @koreankayagum Progress is not possible without experimentation. I don't see anything wrong with coming up with something other than tonality to express musical ideas; sometimes it is even necessary, as in the case of Scriabin who underwent a dramatic evolution in his harmonic language from tonality to "atonality" and had a significant influence over the Russian avantgardes, whose music appeals to a significant mass (among classical listeners) and can be appreciated without special knowledge.

  • @koreankayagum By the way, the music of Bach (and many other famous composers like Beethoven) was also once considered experimental for the time when everyone composed the same way.

  • @xodn3300 I don't think Bach was ever considered experimental...old-fashioned, in fact.

  • @CriterionCoIIection yeah he probably isn't as experimental as some but compared to the medieval gregorian chants and whatnot? hell yeah

  • Um...no. Bach lived and composed during the late Baroque, centuries after Gregorian chant developed. While he was alive his contemporaries viewed his music as old fashioned. You were trying to make the point that many innovative composers were not immediately appreciated, which may be true. However, Bach is not one of those composers.

  • @CriterionCoIIection ook i guess so. sorry for talking about bach despite my ignorance and thanks for correcting me

  • @xodn3300 don't worry about it...just make sure it NEVER happens again. you don't want to know what I did to the last guy who posted something possibly misleading about Bach...

  • try to make an improvisation sounding like this, and then try to make another sounding like beethoven.

    what is more difficult? 

  • @rolandjosef

    Maybe you don't hear the difference between music and random notes in this composition?

    When you have studied a lot of music by Beethoven, it is easier to sound like Beethoven. When you have played a lot of music by Stockhausen, you might in the end sound like Stockhausen.

    Both tasks are however extremely difficult, since there was only one Beethoven and one Stockhausen.

  • @roparre

    i think you don't understand what i meant. i think everybody can sound like stockhausen or boulez when he just plays random notes. but nobody can sound like beethoven, even if he studied a lot of it. there is a difference in composing a melody with rhythm and harmony so that everybody can feel the music in it, and composing notes extremely complex without any connection. first is really genius, second is just construction and experiment.

  • @rolandjosef

    I completely understood what you meant.

    When you don't hear the structure of a composition of Stockhausen or Boulez, doesn't mean other listeners also don't hear it. There is no randomness in the notes of these composers.

    No serious listener doubts that Stockhausen and Boulez are brilliant composers.

  • @roparre

    is it genius to compose music in a way, that only professional musicians can hear the structure of a musical work? and is it good music, when it can only be understood by brain? you needn't understand the structure of baroque, classical or romantic music to enjoy it. don't misunderstand me, i am very interested in new music, i understand the structure when i follow the score and think about it. but i think new music must develope into an easier direction - listen to uros rojko.

  • @rolandjosef Agreed! A lot of this "experiemental" stuff sounds neat in theory, but the practical results are often unappealing. People are so caught up in the "intellectualism" of it all they can't listen simply and directly and hear it for the mess it is. I think a lot of modern art is a dare-"artists" getting away with absurdity b/c critics and people of influence won't say "THIS BLOWS." It's OK, though. In 200 years this will have been forgotten, but folks will still have Bach.

  • water babe

  • So difficult to understand ... but interesting.

  • Wow, that was a pretty bad mistake. She recovered from it pretty well though. Maybe next time she'll learn the song better before attempting. One missed note can ruin a performance like this.

  • Why waisting time arguing about what's in style and what's not or about this is super intellectual or not? Stockhausen was a great composer and an innovator. Him and his colleges (which included Ligeti and Kagel among others) changed art music forever and some of those influences have permeated to pop music (electronic music).

  • Would have been very disappointed if i'd paid to go to this concert.

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  • @th3wing3dpaint3r For this outstanding performance alone, I would have been absolutely thrilled to attend.

  • @devonmuse think I'm with th3wing3dpaint3r on this one.

  • i'd love to be able to play this. but i guess i would have to listen to it about a thousand times till i truly understand the rythm and the feeling...

  • love it, well played... just great

  • My, what an impressive list of ignorant comments! Suggestion: if you don't like it, go away. There's plenty of Madonna up on youtube, after all. I love the arrogance involved, too. "Nobody likes this, they just pretend to." All the answers about what everyone thinks, this guy should be famous, huh? But I bet he isn't, somehow ...

    I was hoping to see whether anyone else thought this was a particularly compelling performance. Instead I get Beavis and Butthead trying to be clever. Oh well...

  • It's not shocking to hear this kind of garbage being passed off as music. It's just the same boring nonsense that modern "composers" have been trying to tell us distinguishes sophisticated listeners from the philistines. People don't get shocked by this anymore, but they do get angry when they are forced to pay for it.

    If you feel better about yourself listening to this don't let me stand in your way. If you wouldn't mind though, please don't force me to pay for it or listen to it.

  • @MrSubtle When you say that "Nobody enjoys this kind of music", you certainly don't speak for a select group of major performers, conductors and composers.

    To name a few: Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Knussen, Kremer, Pollini, Mutter, to name but a few...

    Why should they have the same narrow taste as you have? Why are their ears so much more developed, that they understand that this isn't just random noise?

  • @revions Nope. Nobody actually enjoys listening to this. They may say they do, they may feel superior to the rest of us by claiming to know some secret that the rest of us don't. They may just not like music and enjoy sticking their thumb into the eyes of those of us who do. Perhaps they are so lacking in self awareness that they can't tell what they think, but nobody likes listening to 4'33".

    I'm not narrow in my tastes. I enjoy all kinds of music. This just isn't music. Obviously.

  • @MrSubtle When you think others may feel superior because they like music that you can't enjoy, you might suffer a severe inferiority complex. When you think there is some secret involved, you might suffer from paranoia. When you are less narrow in your tastes of music, you might discover that this is obviously music.

  • @MrSubtle maybe youre plainly retarded. Do you even know what music is? do you know its elements? look em up nigger and you'll see this includes them all. Just because its not classical tonality doesnt mean its not music. Classical tonality was like noise when it was inventd too. are you black? christian? why are you so ignorant? in case you didnt knew, music evolves, it wasnt tempered always and it wasnt serialism always and so on. have your ears move along cuz youre culturally 100 years old.

  • @omgtkseth I'm culturally 100 years old eh? So tell me when did calling people "nigger" come into style? How long ago did religious insults come into style? When exactly was it that listening to someone pounding a piano become the norm? Let me help:

    Calling people "niggers"? That went out at least 50 years ago, perhaps longer.

    Ignorance and prejudice are very old ideas, they are nothing new.

    Listening to people bang on a piano for pleasure has never been "in style".

  • @MrSubtle dont mind the nigger thing, im kust kidding, i dont know if your black. Lets for a moment stop deflecting and concentrate on music, because i didnt call you a nigger, nor talked to you in first place, because youre nigger. She isnt pounding/banging the piano, if yu think so then YOU are the ignorant. Go to school, this isnt your normal clayderman bullshit, it actually needs studies, its a complex but logical style, started with several like stravinsky, schoenberg and stockenhousen.

  • @MrSubtle if you were culturally 100 myears old youd listen to stravinsky. my mistake, 200 or 150 years old.

  • "The Emperor's New Clothes" springs to mind...

  • Really cool. Beautifully performed.....quite haunting.

  • cause I don't have the piano

     sheets :)

  • why arent you doing it then?

  • @sabrinabianca89 It's not this kind of music that usually makes you famous.

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  • Ela é corajosa!

  • just listen and say what you feel, if you don't like what are you feeling at this moment, just close this window and go listen to something more relaxing.

    i personally find it interesting, but i have no preparation for this level of atonality.

  • @locobeis

    I feel the horror and if you know something about stockhausens youth you know why he was into that horror sound...

  • Really great! I love it!

  • Very well played! But it's obvious, Vanessa Benelli was taught by Pascal Rogè! Even Stockhausen prized her!

  • great interpretation and performance!

  • Yes. I like to very much

  • yes

  • Yes - clean your ears.

  • Why is this skilled pianist wasting her time? Because she can make more money with less complicated music that is more suited for 'adiabatic' ears?

  • why is she wasting her time? she do what she wants. It's not about the money,  pff... :(

  • You are simply an adiabatic listener; that means a listener that is not able to hear beauty in this music.

  • Because you don't understand (probably because you have an adiabatic brain or adiabatic ears), doesn't mean that other people might not understand it.

    Don't take your own limitations as a universal standard. There are a lot of intelligent and musical people (Rattle, Boulez, Aimard, Pollini) that know how to appreciate these works. But maybe you think they only 'believe' to understand this, and maybe they are less talented than you are ;-)

  • There are enough people that enjoy this music, even if it is a majority. Why is it such a problem for you that OTHER people enjoy it?

  • @revions Nobody "enjoys" this kind of "music".  They enjoy being told that liking childish garbage makes them "sophisticated". That's not the same thing as enjoying music.

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  • laurion69 is troll

    DNFTT

  • @revions I'll believe that she's a "skilled pianist" when I hear her play some music. Any three year old can play this kind of "music".

  • There is nothing academic about this piece.

    Reading your comments on modern and electronic music I have a strong impression that you are more interesting in creating or reproducing one-liners than to get seriously involved in contemporary music.

  • Conoscete KICKO ? E' lo youtube del calcio!

  • I luv these singalong events...

  • It was never Stockhausens intention to drive listeners into a rage. Although KS thought his early piano music as a new starting point, it is largely in debt with the very traditional music by the Viennese composer Webern.

    It remains shocking to see that after 55 years some people still don't hear the beauty of such an important oeuvre as the Klavierstücke by KS. Here lies a big responsability with the musical education!

  • We shouldn't take anything for granted in life, not even beauty. What was considered ugly in the past is now recognized as pure beauty. (The most famous examples: the dissonance quartet, van Gogh etc.)

    You don't need to be educated to appreciate beauty (although sometimes it helps). A listener only needs to have an open mind and open ears. Open ears that are not stuffed with old ideas with what is beauty and what is not.

    This composition by KS is pure beauty.

  • I don't blame anybody nor anything. People are different, tastes are different. There will always be adventurous people with open minds and open ears and there will always be people that only want to enjoy music or art that is similar to what they already know.

    Times change, music changes and what is considered beauty changes...

  • @annedegro "Considered beautiful" by whom? I consider it to be random garbage. So do most people. Why is it that your opinion is so important?

  • @MrSubtle Indeed it is not 'considered beautiful' by most people, but that doesn't mean that some people (a lot of them with serious musical background and training) can't sincerely enjoy Stockhausen.

    When you simply consider it to be random garbage, only indicates that you can't follow the structure and form of this composition. When you really try to listen and to open your ears, you'll discover that it isn't random at all.

    Good luck

  • @annedegro I have had people like you telling me that this kind of garbage was music all through my musical education. It's not. They are wrong. You can repeat it a million times but that doesn't make it true.

  • @MrSubtle

    I totally agree with you.

    Anyway, she looks hot! ;)

  • i don t get it

  • awesome!! ... i cna't play like that ...

    i love Stockhausen!!

    kisses from Chile

  • can you share with us what is it that you like about his work? thanks

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  • To NivonStorm

    Yeah, you´re right.

    You can also hear music when you are in a super markt...

  • Why does this music still shock? Why do people become angry whenever they have to think a little.

  • @nicksum29 a little? They don't even understand Pink Floyd....how can they understand Stockhausen?!?

  • @AleDaino You know, I'm so tired of sounding like a pompous old bastard when I sigh about the new generation. But, oh, oh, oh! what will become of us? My nieces can hardly formulate a proper sentence, and my nephew thinks Stockhausen is a brand of German mustard.

  • @nicksum29 Because people now adays do not want to think about anything, nothing.

  • Goodness me - to assume that music should or shouldn't do something is a very narrow view for a musician (or even a music lover) to take. Who says music should arouse an emotion?

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  • I'm just now starting to get into Stockhausen, and I must say that even when I've never heard this work this is a rather impressive performance. Thanks for posting this! =D

  • I like this ^^

  • avant weird

  • non credere sia così facile suonarlo.

    il fatto che non sia "tonale" non significa sia facile da suonare....

    se sei interessato prova a documentarti e a capire cosa sta dietro al lavoro di stockhausen,

    poi ne riparliamo!

    ;) il lavoro è più che altro mentale, di costruzione, bla bla bla

  • Molto brava. Ce ne fossero di più di musicisti disposti ad eseguire musica contemporanea, e di questo calibro poi...

  • why not make up an entirely new word that makes as much sense as anacoretic, adiabatic or analdiabetic if your only aim is to disqualify music that you don't like?

  • I don't have any doubts that 99% dislike this music.

    So what?

    99% prefers Britney Spears.

    Music should be listened to, be heard and felt with heart and brain. Silly and dry academic words like 'adiabatic' and 'anacoretic' (I don't understand what that means, but I'm a musician, not an intellectual)

  • Gentile prof. Andrea F. ancora co' sta musica adiabatica! Ma se a lei, ascoltatore medio, sta musica non piace, non la ascolti! non è che siccome non piace a lei, la musica non ha senso!

  • she is hot!

  • Wow. I've been playing the piano for 12 years, And I find it hard to appreciate this.

    Although I'm not criticizing the pianists ability. This song just strikes the wrong chords for myself, but maybe you enjoy it?

    To each his own.

  • This sounds like irrational thoughts.

    Jabberwocky!

  • beatifaul performance! I love this piece

  • I find this music to be incredibly beautiful, I can not wait for my recorded of the complete version of this to arrive.

    some people say that it sounds as though one is just hitting the keyboard but if one actually goues and hits the keyboard of a piono it sounds nothing like thism there is still a structure hear, a melody but it is just not a traditional one, so is not what most people who think they know classical music think.

  • It sounds strange to you because you donºt understand it. Stockhausen is one of the best composers of our time. If you hear a poem in chinese and you donºt know chinese you are not going to understand it. You have got to be more open minded, pal. Greetings from Argentina.

  • So true.

  • Really? A word is a sound code? What about orthography? Is orthography simply sound codes physically represented? What if you can't speak a language, but you can read it? What does the orthography of that language represent, then? Language is not simply words. It is rule-bound, sure, but those rules are not absolute, they are cultural constructions, as are styles of music. Language is also creative. Why can't I say, "Like I potatoes to eat" instead of, "I like to eat potatoes"? Music is poetry.

  • Can we really be sure it has no beauty? What is beauty? I see beauty in mathematics, no matter how dense and rigid it is.

    What you just said makes no sense. If music is beauty, then music cannot lack beauty, because it cannot lack the very thing that makes it. An anology to this is that a building is a bunch of bricks. As such, it cannot lack the quality of having bricks. Stop being such a literalist with your definitions of what or what is not language.

    Also, music CAN communicate simple info.

  • so you think that music is not a language? you are absolutely wrong. The art and the music itself are languages. A language is a comunication system, and music is a way to comunicate. I think that you have a very straight thought of what things are: you think that language is only the spoken language or that music is only tonal music

  • So if it is wrong to draw any parallelism between language and music, why do you use a term like 'adiabatic' to explain why everybody should dislike contemporary music?

    By the way: Beethoven never thought that music had to be beautiful. Now everybody recognize the beauty of his music, but that wasn't something that occupied him while he was composing (as you for example can read in his letters)

  • I didn't claim that Beethoven didn't compose beautiful music. I only said that his aims were something else.

    No I can't read his thoughts, but I have read his letters.

    When you read his letters about his political, moral, religious and musical concerns you'll find some of the things that occupied him.

    So there you can find some of the proof of what he did think about and what he didn't think about... ;-)

    I'm so sorry that reading Beethovens letters was such a foolish thing... ;-)

  • Beethoven was concerned with politics and his own desperate situation. Beauty wasn't what he was thinking about. Revolution (3rd symphonie), destiny (5th symphonie) and so on. In his letters he mostly complains about lack of money and that he has to compose to survive. I don't remember the exact letter, but is a letter towards the end of his life. It is about the late stringquartets and the 9th (Schillers text doesn't concern beauty, but politics).

    He never mentions the word 'Schönheit'

  • Good to know that the pointless youtube insults arent just reserved for the Rap videos ROFL Classical battle!! 2 funny

  • Nope. You never said that. You're a clown. Now shut the fuck up and stop talking as if you know what a language is (I am a trained linguist). You suck. I win.

  • This is amazing! Just kidding. It's horrible.

  • I love it

  • "the reason you cannot explain in a clear way where is the beauty and the real logic of this Stockhausen's composition"

    There are enough listeners that you don't have to explain what the beauty is. Music and beauty is not something you can always explain 'with the mind' but should be felt with the senses. An academic approach like yours (in which you use terms from communication theory that aren't really appropriate) will never help. Music is for the ears, not only for the brains!