Liszt - Hexameron (1/2)

[ThomasMisson1]

Who is playing this? Such stunning virtuosity. The performer can do no wrong!

[boxers7x5]

I love the orchestrated version of this but haven't heard it in years.

[TheLolMenPeople]

4:12 WHAT THE FUCKK??!!

[TheLolMenPeople]

The part at 1:48 is wonderful

[tteu123]

Liszt has written so many beautiful pieces... But a lot of his work annoys me, to be honest.

[ixd735]

Who is the interpreter?

[FranzLisztFerentz]

4 dislikes?! That's too much for such a great piece

[FranzLisztFerentz]

Pixis' variation is my favourite

[gen6k]

i think this was considered pop in their time.

[2hyeok]

and musicalgnotus is hexameron

[wukillah]

This is phenomenal



[2hyeok]

haha hexameron is that famous music uploder's username

[geertdehoux]

Horrible music!

[fierydog]

Czerny wrote the best variation in my opinion.

[baesuk81]

aardvaark069 - As I wrote on my comment, Leslie Howard plays this piece, not HOROWITZ. if you look up his life, he never recorded this song ever. there are only very few pianists who recorded this piece, like Lewenthal, Eugene List, Ashkenazy and some others. that is about it.

[SYOPianist]

I love the way a single and simple theme line is reiterated in so many different ways producing such a wide range of emotions. So Alkan!

[HURLEYP]

@SYOPianist Go check the history of the Hexameron - the explanation of the theme will become apparent.

[baesuk81]

if you listen this one enough, you will notice the way Leslie plays is exactly the same every note and the timing of the rests and even pressing down keys are the same. and it actually sounds the same. i mean the sound of the piano and the recording sound are the same. somehow "pianohpiano" user must have done something to this music and uploaded to youtube to freak out people. i will let everyone know in the video, which is featured on the right column right now.

[baesuk81]

this is by Leslie howard. I have the CD. and i think the horowitz version is this one played somewhat faster in few parts and somehow dramatized. i have been listening to this for over one month and found out that horowitz version is a fake one. horowitz never played this song and there is no record of it at all anywhere. i have researched entire internet for this info and i know horowitz version is a fake one. but somehow it creates so much more energy. anyway, Leslie Howard is really good.

[aardvaark069]

@baesuk81 If the Horowitz is fake then who is really playing the Horowitz performance? It's absolutely incredible playing.

[PRUDENT92]

Très bon. Leslie Howard est un des meilleurs virtuoses de tous les temps mais Horowitz est le plus grand de tous. Ecoutez le même morceau par Horowitz et vous verrez que c'est joué encore un bon ton au dessus !

[CammehYaBams]

4:11 :O

[daithom14]

Wonderful thanks for posting - a lot of hard work has gone into producing this - many thanks - is harder than it looks - can anyone help untangle my fingers.

[u2marten]

Virtuoos!!!

[cammywatt95]

there is so much alkan-ness lol

[aubreyprosper1994]

My favorite part of the Hexameron is for sure 3.17 to 3.23

[ultracoolhomies]

@aubreyprosper1994 Out of all the beautiful melodies, that's your favorite part?

[aubreyprosper1994]

@ultracoolhomies I love the power in the consecutive octaves.

[marcohorowitz8]

is this Leslie Howard??

[broadwood1830]

die punktierten sind einfach zu lasch

[vesperus1981]

stop on var 13 "Di bravura" (8:26). Fifth measure in, look at the figures on beat2 and it's transition to beat 3. What is the fingering in the right hand? Please respond. Also last not of mm.6 beat 3 transition to beat 4. Is that g natural played with a one?

[josemariomonzon]

The Allegro Marziale sounds just like Norma´s, well int it's form, it sounded incredibly good, not that good when you hear it twice, but I liked the rest.

[23global]

I wonder who is this guy who didn't like this piece!!!! *_* *_*

[Haeronthegreat]

Dear lord, it's like every Romantic piano cliche ever conceived was put into this piece!

[TheDecadant]

@Haeronthegreat It wouldn't be the Romantic Era if he didn't put all the Cliche's in there. It would have been somewhat strange for him, given the style of the time, to be putting in bi-tonality, tone rows and plucking the strings i would think.

[MarkIngerman1]

No matter who the performer is. It's amazingly wondrful music!

[OkitaJuuzou]

Who played it??

[aardvaark069]

you ain't heard it til you've heard the Horowitz performance.

[felix0911176727]

Variation I: Ben marcato... just like some of Cziffra's works!

[cheburashka1991]

its pure firework....it does create a great impression, and its very fun to play, but its firework and not even all that challenging technically....i think....

[TTakach999]

@cheburashka1991 if Liszt wrote it, its probably very difficult,,

[cheburashka1991]

@TTakach999 not quite so!! Liszt didn't write all of it, and anyways, that Liszt wrote part of it doesn't mean it must, necessarily, be very difficult, Liszt also wrote things that were not, technically, difficult, do you know, for example, the Andante Lagrimoso, from the Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses?

[d3fyre]

it's definitely Leslie Howard who performed this

[f1f1s]

Please tell me who the performer is! Hamelin? Cziffra? Ringeissen? Howard?

[WBensburg]

@f1f1s Hard to believe he doesn't disclose the performer! My money's on Howard, though.

[madlovba2]

@f1f1s The performer is Leslie Howard (you can listen the first seconds of his performance on Hyperion's website, and it's the same), but try the recording by Marc-André Hamelin, he plays it much better!

[MrRosfordKjaerulff]

Along with Liszt's B minor sonata, this' got to be the most amazing piece of music ever written for piano! 5/5 for uploading this!

[Quirkulous]

Fantastic piece, truly fantastic. It seems to me to be one of the most technically challenging pieces I have ever come across, and I have played Liszt's Transcendental Etudes and his Mephisto Waltz 1.

Thalbergs variation is particularly amazing!

[iiqqzz1]

They should have asked Alkan to contribute to this piece.

[Hervinbalfour]

That would have been the technically unplayable part! lmao

[ultracoolhomies]

I was thinking the same thing.

[ChrisWatch]

and yet I get the feeling some how Liszt was inspired by Alkan here.

[codonauta]

@iiqqzz1 He didn´t want to open the door of his place to receive the invitation for the composition.

[DualThunder]

@iiqqzz1 he probably wouldn't have written it, he completely shut himself from society from quite early on in his life. He wouldn't even let his friends visit him

[eurisko618]

@DualThunder I don't know about that. He concertized until age 35 and continued to teach and promote others. It wasn't until he hit his 50s that he joined the Franciscans and took to the solitary life.

[laurion69]

Really impressive the Thalberg's variation!

[paopaomanalansan]

@laurion69 Yes, it is. Also of Pixis'.

[krojax45]

GREAT! Thank's for uploading.