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  • He's playing this piece rather wrong; there's a melody that's played somewhat asymmetrically between the hands... and it's supposed to be played 'legato'... Aimard plays this piece right if you're actually trying to learn the piece...

  • @ryguillian Those are phrase slurs, not legato slurs.

  • WHAT THE HELL!!! O Lord...

  • dumb

  • freak! all that madness, and nobody applauded?

  • @gsarci2011 It is a cycle. Surely directly after that piece he continued performing.

  • If you can't sightread well this would be fucking awful to learn.

  • WONDERFUL!!!!

  • so its really just a test of control?

  • OLEEEEEEEEEEEE WOOOOOOOOOOUUUUU!!!!!! VIVA ANDALORO!!!!! aplausos orgasmicos!!!!

  • Menuda afrenta al genio de Ligeti. No me extraña que al final del vídeo se lleve las manos a la cara, tras tomar nota de ese monumental fiasco que es su interpretación.

  • NO! NO!! NO!!!

    Please, listen to Pierre-Laurent Aimard!

    Too much wrong notes, but that's not the wost... Articulation and PHRASING: it's all wrong.

    Giuseppe, what are you thinking at?!?

    HAVE YOU STUDIED THE SCORE ***BEFORE*** PUTTING THESE ***GORGEOUS*** LIGETI PIECES IN YOUR REPERTORY?

  • Great avant-garde.

  • Minion voice: whaaaaaaaaaa........ (drool)

  • How do you know if this guy makes a mistake?

  • @oracle2world there is one at 0:52, but I think it is 'cause the performer goes too fast with the tempo. The Aimard recorded version makes justice to ligeti's incredibly complex writing.

  • Badass piece of music.

  • BRAVO!!

  • Hey, ese tal ivan solia ser mi amigo!!

  • At 1:47 it is very obvious that he misses one note. He plays an f instead of an f#.

    In spite of that the performance is quite all right.

  • @pikassoguitar You're quite wrong, it's supposed to be a Gb.

  • The way this man presses the piano buttons...cant help wondering what he'd do to his woman..:D

  • i loves me some bitonality. bless stravinsky for paving the way

  • I feel blessed that i don't cringe like most people when this kind of music is played haha it's beautiful and amazingly written :)

  • Ow yes, pretty simple... Lol

  • Also...I like this for some of the same reasons I love the Dillinger Escape Plan, it's genuinely fascinating and provocative in both an intellectual and emotional way...sigh...wish more people write this sort of suff

  • Awe inspiring musicianship.

  • Little too dry for my taste...

  • It sounds like he's been waiting for a guide to come and take him by the hand.

  • hm... I'm interested in this kind of music. But I guess we won't appreciate it as long as we don't recognize whether the pianiest is making mistakes or not :|

  • He is a machine.

  • absolute insaniity kind of reminds me of olivier messiean slightly!

  • too much dissonant

  • This is some serious handjob

  • desordre it is... Sorabji would be so proud!

  • @Oerbroodje Maybe this is what math sounds like?

  • @Forrester Perhaps. I don't like the sound of math then...

  • @Oerbroodje Do you hear the melody?? Actually this is structurally pretty simple ternary form ABA'

  • good!

  • He's got amazing technique, but he plays this piece way to fast.

  • Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy... So on...

  • WOW

  • this is so amazing!

  • i loveee this piece...i wanna learn it :)

  • That seems very hard to play!

  • I am very surprised to find that I really like all of Ligeti's music on first hearing.

    I think he is a genius and one of very few worthwhile modern composers.

    I believe that it is being played very well here, but at the least I would like to thank Andoloro for playing stuff like this. Bravo e grazie mille Giuseppe.

  • @GATTAPADRE Yes indeed a genius :)

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  • wonderfull

  • Bardzo Bardzo Pięęęęęknie Bardzo Najmocniej Kocham Muzykę Play Piano Perfect Music

  • left hand all black keys + right hand all white = brilliance

  • Exciting piece!

    :)

  • è orribile questa esecuzione. non c'è un briciolo di senso musicale in quello che fa. soprattutto non conosce il linguaggio della musica ligetiana. peccato, perchè pianisticamente è un mostro e, soprattutto, suona molto bene il quinto ed il secondo studio dello stesso libro.

  • The recording I have sounds different, especially toward the end. Does anyone know if this score allows for a bit of improvisation?

  • @folkicide no improvisation. The juxtaposition of rhythms ensures that no 2 pianists will play it the same. Few will ever achieve the tempo Andoloro did.

  • @musthatedogs Thanks pal. That makes sense.

  • i don't like Picasso either

  • Bardzo Bardzo Pięęęknie Bardzo Najmocniej Kocham Muzykę

  • Bardzo Pięknie Pozytywne Fajne 1:0 Perfect Music Bardzo Najmocniej Kocham Muzykę

  • Beyond words, spasms and all, this must be the equivalent of female multiple orgasms

  • @AGAG789 haha

  • @AGAG789 And just as hard to achieve, emphasis on HARD! Like, I said it probably takes a male athlete, lothario to accomplish, but it can be done.

  • @AGAG789 good to know i didnt knew that female orgasms felt like the slow amputation of your extremities.

  • @AGAG789 lmfao

  • Perfect 6******

  • amazing!

  • Badass

  • It's not random punching of keys. Sounds that way, yes. It's actually very odd way of composing. The composer, Ligeti, wrote the right hand in Cmajor and the left hand in Bmajor. He also wrote the left hand in 4/4 and the right hand has 4 measures of 4/4 followed by a 7/8 measure. So the measures start in time and become more and more out of allignment, hence the title, Disorder.

  • @jarhead9887 Indeed. However, it's probably more accurate to say that he wrote the right hand on white notes, and the left hand on black notes. The key signatures *are* C major and B Major, respectively, but there's very little that's C or B Major about this piece! It's fascinating to look at the music (which I have)...the different time signatures that you describe are truly the stroke of a genius, especially when the accents come back into alignment!  Fantastic stuff.

  • @jarhead9887 actually that's not entirely accurate. There is no time signature, and what your are speaking of is the way the eighth notes are grouped. The disorder isn't about the measures, it's about him setting up a perfect system of playing with the 4 + 4 + 6 phrase structure, and then BREAKING it which can be heard at (1:15) the accents on every eighth note. He then abandons his system for the rest of the piece and the eighth note groups become rediculously long (from "7/8" to like "21/8")

  • @jarhead9887 I do not believe he really composed the hands in a specific key.  The right hand is just all white keys, so the universal atonal signature of not specifying sharps or flats beforehand is used (which looks like CMajor upon first instinct). The left hand is all black keys, so it needed a minimum of 5 sharps (which looks like BMajor upon first instinct), and any more sharps would just be comical and useless. But, that's my opinion, and you are not necessarily inaccurate, either.

  • @jarhead9887 it's called polytonalism and polymetry

  • @jarhead9887 Actually the right hand plays the white keys, the left the black. So key is not an issue so much as diatonic versus pentatonic. Aimard voices the lines better so it sounds less like 'random punching of keys'.

  • @jarhead9887 i think its f major, since im writing a analysis about this piece and had a quiet close look at the sheets.. ;)

    greets from germany

    ps: glad somebody is interested in ligetis insanity!

  • I wonder how he memorized it LOL

  • The Vuvuzela button makes this piece nearly perfect.

  • Amazing. Absolutely amazing!

  • Csodálatos összetételét. Zongorista tudja, hogyan kell játszani

  • it certainly sounds that way. fantastic technique.

    i can't say i don't like it at all, but there are so many things i'd rather listen.

    at least for me, this is not something to be listened for pleasure - rather to satisfy curiosity.

  • thats easy just whack keys out of it randomly

  • @mrrtsno I assume this is a sarcastic comment? :)

  • @MrMusic1983 well i was trying to be funny, but it does look like almost random, lol

  • @mrrtsno A few years ago, I would have said the same thing, so I see where you are coming from. It's only after taking my music degree, and now studying composition for a Masters Degree, that I know a *bit* more (and only a *bit*) about this kind of music. In a way it does sound like random notes but, the more Ligeti you listen to, the more you begin to hear his compositional, harmonic and structural style. I have no doubt he knows exactly what he's writing, and that it's not easy to achieve!

  • @MrMusic1983 .... sorry to add a comment to your's... I am happy to hear you say that... I did not study enough music in my life, but a course in contemporary music and above all spending the netire Gunther Schuller week in Tanglewood listening to young composers rehearse orchestras and ensembles really did it for me.... I think wer are simply not exposed to contemporary classical enough and most of the incidental stuff we hear is very simplistic (pop tunes).

  • holy shit

    this could not have been more awesome

  • ok.. amazing..  but how.. did Andaloro manage to learn it? I mean it is named "Disorder" after all.. memorizing disorder is oxymoronic: by learning something in which there is no order it instantly receives a relative order in the person's brain.. ..I guess..

  • @Intono if you look at the score, you will notice that a lot of the piece is repetitious. However the two hands come in and out of sync with each other (an eighth note is dropped each time in the right hand) which creates this feeling of "disorder." Thus he had to memorize only the two lines and drop one a note off the melody each time is was repeated. Certainly not easy, but explainable

  • @freezegelman ok, thanks. I see how it could go. very interesting.

    btw, I cannot read music that well, I usually do not look on the sheets, so please forgive my ignorance.

    however, there is some sort of order then.. (?)

  • ARGH! I will never be able to play this! how can Andaloro be so damn good??

  • 5***** 5***** 5***** 5***** 5*****

  • Bardzo Pięknie Bardzo Kocham Muzykę 5*****

  • Brilliantly played and sounds fantastic - dissonance can be pleasant!

  • Way to dissonant. I can appreciate it for what it is, but it just sounds like shit to me.

  • sounds weird,but interresting

  • 5***** 5***** 5***** 5***** 5*****

  • Bardzo Pięknie Kocham Muzykę 6******

  • The Debussy etudesBartok etudes Ligeti etudes are much more difficult for the fingers thanChopin etudes.MUsic making is the hardest part because Chopin says so much and it can be right a million diff ways.Liszt's 1837 version of both bookshis studies are virtually unplayable and have you never seen the Godowsky studies.People you aretooyoung to make statements on topics u know nothing about.6 yearolds in special schools withfamous teachers come to youtube and they never post comments .

  • i think you should better travel on the sounds instead watching his technique

  • I don't care how accurately he can play it if it sounds like crap.

  • @tungazzio

    Don't worry 'bout it, dude. The majority of people just don't get this music- it's too envelope-pushing.

  • @entheomycophagist You're right I just don't get it, I like it a bit, anyway seems to me that play this kind of music must be so much better that listen it

  • It might be "clever", but it's horrible.

  • Bardzo Pięknie 6******

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  • this piece gives me a headache.

  • To put this piece into perspective, the great Marc-André Hamelin - perhaps the world's greatest piano technician, though maybe second to this guy here? - apparently found this piece too difficult!

  • No, he started learning it and then dropped it because he couldn't get a hold of it.

    He never said "omg so difficult never could I play this".

    Gotta love how people like to exaggerate anything and everything. Playing Chopin etudes doesn't mean you can instantly Bach Fugues as well - but omg how, I mean Chopin etudes are liek the most difficult pieces ever written?? Are the fugues even more faster???

    ... lol

  • bravo

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  • incredible artist, absolute mastery of the text, running at the highest levels, probably not repeatable

  • Alright, that was just completely ridiculous.

  • you know someone who can play better Ligeti?

  • lol, you miss-understand me. No I do not =)

  • You are an insider music, I do not think so.

  • Muito bom. Caótico.

  • simply great

  • Einfach geil! ;-)

  • what means "einfach geil"?

  • I think "simply great" would fit as a proper translation.

  • Bardzo Pięknie 6******Bardzo Najmocniej Kocham Muzykę 6******

  • It's two scales, though :)

  • But Ligeti's put the notes in the right order ;)

  • Not entirely convinced by this performance... the way of playing it is borrowed from Aimard (staccato on all the accented chords, without his fullness of sound), and the excessive speed only accentuates the "désordre" aspect (one of the original titles was "Ordre-Désordre").... he does lose it at moments (0:50, for example), at others it's too fast to matter... speed is not the only important thing in this piece. Aggressive and disconcerting as it is, it's still music of the highest order.

  • Don't let the music's attributes confuse you.

  • Love the fact he plays it faster than pretty much anyone else I've heard and yet still retains utter clarity.

  • There is an aural illusion to this piece which makes the "middle section" appear slower, and last time I compared different sections, I thought the "middle section" is played only slightly slower.

    Would be able to check again in a few hours...

    would you say that he actually fucks up at certain points, losing control over the coherence between the two hands?

  • No idea where you've seen "my work on Youtube" before, but it was definitely not the few last pages on this very video - which would consist of the argument against the very user you just responded to.

    Think again who I was referring to when saying "troll".

    And thanks so far, btw ;)

  • I have a suspicion we've got a troll here.

  • va anche a tempo con la testa ^^ pezzo difficilissimo, poi a memoria...

  • You gotta be kidding me right?... you know who ligeti is?

  • Could anyone with trained ears give a brief review of Andaloro's accuracy in this performance?

  • awesome. Ligeti is supposedly to sound like that.

  • Hey, I do find this performance sounds awesome (more fiery and breath-taking than Aimard's, although apparently less technically accurate, from what I can see), but I was interested in a competent review of how he did the job specifically :)

    Not sure what "Ligeti is to sound like that" should mean, I mean, he wrote pieces of different characters and structures... what's that supposed to say?

  • Ligeti was a modern composer. The accuracy is perfect.

    This pianist is not a hack. I don't know how to explain it anymore than that.

  • Oh yea, and how does it follow from the fact that "Ligeti was a modern composer" that the accuracy is perfect?

    Is it somehow impossible to perform a modern composer inaccurately?

    Then, what kind of argument is "the pianist is not a hack"? Not a hack because he plays perfectly? Or is obvious does he play perfectly anyway, because, you see, he's "obviously not a hack".

    And then you even ask "how to explain it any more than that"... seems you don't know/understand crap.

  • I asked for a competent evaluation, not meaningless stupid one-liners. Thanx.

  • Dude, you're an asshole. I've got my masters in Music Theory... there is nothing really to say about his performance. It was a decent rendition of Desordre. The Ligeti Etudes have to do with tension in the chords and constant dissonance. Ligeti exploits dissonance and uses it in a sequential pattern. This pianist does it dramatically.

    That better? Dick face.

  • Hey, please don't give me degrees and "authoritah".

    I asked about the TECHNICAL ACCURACY (that includes rhythmical, and I believe I heard some sloppiness here and there, in comparison to Aimard's e.g.) of this rendition, and you give me "modern composer and dissonance".

    If you can't answer to the point of a question, what is your Master good for, hm?

    Hey, I'm familiar with this Etude, I've seen the score and learnt a few pages, I know it's general structure, the constantly repeating....

  • ... melody pattern played in both hands in phase shifting, the diminution towards the climax, the ascending scales inbetween the octaves (making their final "point" at the very end), blah blah blah, I've looked at the score and you don't need to tell me it's "supposed to be dissonant".

    What does dissonance have to do with any of it?

    The beginning of Vertige isn't dissonant anywhere (haven't looked at the rest yet), and yet there are many ways you can play is sloppily, aren't there?

    Please

  • Vertige isn't dissonant? It's constant dissonance that does stop constant runs that clash with each other. Yeah, you haven't looked at the rest. If you look at ANY of his etudes, they are all of a dissonant nature. Hey bud, the next time you try talking to someone that knows about music, do your research. You sound like a high school senior that loves music. Great for you, get out of the big boy games and go analyze form. I'm done with this.

  • Huh? I said the BEGINNING of Vertige... WITHOUT talking about the rest... because I haven't looked at it yet... because it wasn't long ago and I had other stuff to do.... where the overlapping chromatic lines indeed build consonances.

    So just because it's consonant, does it make any performance of it automatically accurate? You still haven't answered this question :p

    Hey, are the parallel 10ths in "Devil's Staircase" dissonant, too? ;)

  • At any rate, you still haven't explained how the "dissonances" in this composition (because "Ligeti was a modern composer"... as there weren't any dissonances before modernity) have ANYTHING to do with my question about the accuracy of this performance.

    "Andaloro is not a hack" isn't even reminiscent of an argument, and it's certainly nothing I'd expect from someone with a music Master... rather from a highschool senior who loves music :)

  • Stumped, huh?

  • Nope, just don't give a shit about this enough to respond to a musically retarded person.

  • That's an interesting assessment coming from someone who just attempted to answer a question about the technical accuracy of a performance by pointing out the "dissonances" in the composition.

    As you still haven't said one valuable iota on this issue despite a lot of typing, yea, hm, I guess "stumped".

    Sorry, nice try to weasel yourself out of the situation though, my "Master" ;)

  • what was that? I think i heard a little twit... oh wait it was just someone who probably doesn't have the ability on an instrument to get a degree in music or ever get the chance at a masters... Oh well.. I guess it was just nothing.

  • Well as it stands, all you've been doing is bragging around with your "degree", in combination with schoolyard insults basically amounting to nothing other than "my cock is much bigger than yours" - with nothing apart from inane, and totally worthless one-liners on the actual subject to back it up.

    As it stands, you read someone asking a question, and despite decided to respond to it, weren't able to post anything other than... inane and totally worthless one-liners.

  • Your Master exams did have "written tests", right? Have you unlearned how to properly "comprehend and answer questions" since then?

  • Just to round it off, I for my part don't give a wet fart about "bachelors", "masters" or "1st prizes", save maybe for their functions as potential career possibilities, as they in themselves are nothing but worthless pieces of paper, and I'd frankly despise myself if all the practice and work I put in had ANYTHING to do with "earning a degree at an exam".

  • If you can't even answer a simple question on Youtube without entirely missing the point and sounding like a complete retard, don't even BOTHER to talk about your "degrees".

    "Ligeti was a modern composer. The accuracy is perfect."

    Awesome.

  • Cecil Taylor falls off the edge and comes back as modern classical music.

  • Very well played. One of the most difficult etudes for piano, surely..

  • amaziing piece ! really wonderfull!

  • meraviglioso!!!!!

  • meraviglioso

  • He can't seriously be playing that from memory? I don't see a score.

  • he does

  • Well, he's playing it from memory, then.

  • Why? I'm not saying your comment sucks, but you are just a big piece of crap!

    You're talking about one of the greatest composers, and this particular etude is very interesting... please, stop saying pendejadas on-line.

  • Excellent asshole (I'm talking about you, of course).

  • Frighteningly perfect and well-timed, given how abstract and annoying the piece really is.

  • great performance of a great work!!!

  • Pięknie Gratulacje 5*****

  • the way he plays shows something about the piece. think about trying to put emotion into such chaotic complexity, the result might seem robotic on the surface but if you look deeper there are many human elements in his playing

  • It's a robotic piece

  • Grandioso!! tanto la obra como el interprete!! genial!!!

  • excelente!!!