Etude No. 6 - Paganini/Liszt

[majav15mg]

This has nothing to do with her performance butttttttttttttt... you don't need to be a chef to decide whether a dish sucks or not...

I'm sure there are plenty of people who can't play twinkle twinkle little star on piano, yet have very well developed ears, developed tastes, and can decide whether what they hear has value or not...

ps there's this little thing called.... FREEDOM OF SPEEESSSHSHSH

[pplazaro]

Genial !!!!!!!!

[pplazaro]

Genial

[choopmac]

She missed the variations 5,6,7,9 and 10...

[guycrosswell]

"video calibration" lol, amazing. very good though and a great interpretation, i hope i have the technical ability to play some of liszts etudes one day, especially la campanella!!

[mikosaaol]

we like it

[musicioso]

wooow man...the ending is very amazing. The very very fast octaves....very amazing technique.

[music0701]

she misses keys from the biginning

And yes, it is slower than usual.. And too much pedal.

I don't agree with David. This recording is full of miss keys... what the heck;;

I can't listen to it anymore

[v4liumfrance]

video calibration meh..

[hotbebimauz]

i dont know if it is the recorder, but this interpretation is in my opinion mostly only loud and too much pedal, no emotion, and its too slow i think

[rwichlan]

@hotbebimauz

Really!  What are your musical credentials?

[stevey226]

@rwichlan You don't have to have musical credentials to be able to critic. I for one agree with hotbebimauz

[MoonMankkkkkk]

@rwichlan

He's not completely deaf.

[hotbebimauz]

is it really so? im surprised about that because my teacher sais campanella is one of the hardest liszt etudes and the paganini versions was the easiest of all.

[kasyapa]

massive!

[calflyboy]

Wow. What amazing musicality and what amazing power. I'd love to hear her play ALL the variations. This piece is not particularly beautiful in the hands of most pianists. She is the exception.

[nico22059]

She´s an amazing pianist and person...

[CKmakifuji]

The focus should be on why choose this part instead of other parts, not why she omitted it........

btw it is wonderful performance, it is live, live concert live recording and it's youtube quality(which is quite bad...), I think this is very good already!

[CKmakifuji]

................suprised to see so many people arguing about the missing part of this vatiation...is that quite normal that in some situation the musician just pick certain parts to play instead of the whole piece?...........just like in some concert the play dvorak no.9 first chapter, then go for beethoven no 9. last chapter.....it's just the choice....

[pierlu94]

un nome piu corto no è XD

[234sx3820qi]

She skipped some variations Right?

[anfarahat]

Yes, some variations are missing, and maybe "Dynamics" are not the same as Romanov's, but allow me to argue that she got a lot of musicality out of this piece which seems to a lot of performers more or less as a show of technique. Congratulations!

[bethanylovesdan]

not harder then la campanella but it sounds just sweet

[balk06]

she plays it quite slow, i think that la campanella is much harder to play but yes it depends which one you are learning first

[GypsyPianist]

Who is this?

[JakWho92]

"ana maria trenchi de bottazzi"

[Djert11]

fucking amazing well, I think this tops the difficulty of La campanella, what do you guys think?

[JakWho92]

#6 is the hardest but i think she plays it not as good as dimitrji romanov in my favs ;)

[jennyfromalbania]

yes I think that dimitrji romanov plays this much better than ana maria trenchi de bottazzi!I don't like the way that she plays this.

[JakWho92]

i think it depends on what you lern first...when you are used to liszts technic then you will learn faster ;)

[CEYC55]

I dunno, La Campanella is near impossible if you don't have the hand span. This piece is doable without the hand span.  Don't get me wrong, both are hard but one clearly genetically discriminates :)

[HeartbreakerMax]

haha I agreee with you!

[gott1rott]

@CEYC55

That isnt true at all. The entire point of the Campanella etude is to practice making those huge jumps. So you aren't supposed to be able to span your hand that wide and most people that play it cannot. There are people who can only reach 1 octave that play it well even though it has reaches jumps up to 2 octaves.

Jumps are actually not incredibly difficult to learn. You want near impossible? Try Liszt's Feux Follets.

[pierolivier111]

@CEYC55 What is the hand span for it?

[commenter125]

@CEYC55 Lol! La campanella has nothing to do with hand span! If you can reach an octave, that's enough...

[ptdrawoh]

@CEYC55

Not true, I tried it, played the first few pages successfully, and my hands aren't large enough to span anything close to 2 octaves (I can cover ten keys) :D

[ptdrawoh]

I believe some parts were skipped O_O

[L2thaV]

She plays the 3th and the 4th variations in wrong order...

[jeremylty]

very great! Is that 'Hour of Power'?

[rwichlan]

Yes - It was "The Hour of Power".

[NecronHasan]

i wish i could play only half as good as this pianist!

[wing19831228]

is a sound to let peoples easy to forget..

[DavidFortepiano]

To all you cowards who criticize, I want to see your live performance videos so we can hear you. I bet no one of you is a professional musician. Only people who put themselves on a stage should be allowed to post. For all of you who criticize from an arm chair, GET A LIFE!!!

[rwichlan]

Right on David!

[siralchemistuk]

Well...I think people should be allowed to say what they like...it's up to us to decide if they are crazy or not! That chap clear is :0)

[musicformillions]

The only trouble is that an idiot doesn't have the mental wherewithal to understand that he's an idiot. These people will talk forever and no matter how good the other person's knowledge the idiot will continue his babble -- increasing his passion and expletives, of course.

[commenter125]

@DavidFortepiano Oh, so people have no right to think? I've performed this many times, so I can say whatever I think. But many people hasn't, but they have the same rights as anyone else. Congratz for most stupid comment of the decade...

[DavidFortepiano]

@commenter125 I looked for your live video of this piece and couldn't find it!!! If you performed it SO many times, can we see it? put it online so we can all see what you are talking about.....

[commenter125]

@DavidFortepiano Did anyone say I uploaded it? I prefer not to upload mu music, thanks to people like you. Who the hell are you to say that people can't say what they think about something? If I think she plays this too slow, or too fast, do I have to prove that I can play it slower/faster. That's one of those really old ideas about super humans, and that's basically what nazis did - "You can't express what you think, unless you think the right thing".

[fmagistel]

@DavidFortepiano I personally agree on that this performance is a great one, but your comment isn't correct. If so, can only politicians criticize politicians?

[thelittleliszt]

very well!!

[compianister]

technical errors and ommissions aside...very musical and unique...brava!

[bhdamasta]

I hope this was her worst performance ever, cuz this is really bad... Missed a lot of notes, played a lot of wrong notes, and she changed tempo where she shouldn't have changed. Ouch!!

[chopinandliszt]

I would agree with bhdamasta if he posts up his version of the Etude and "if" it is better than this pianist's version.

[rwichlan]

I guess that you are just too stupid to understand. Your comments have nothing to do with the situation. Please post one of your recorded pieces so that I can hear the great pianist! How about playing the same variation. Be sure to use your name so that I know it is you playing.

[rwichlan]

You are the idiot. She could only perform a limited variation for the aloted time that was given her.

[lazarogeorg]

I heard after nicos22059 comment the recording by Romanov..It is flawless..yes..Its good for an Etude..but for music it is nothing AT ALL..Its dry..primitive and "wooden"..I prefer 100 times Bottazzis "flawed" recording..But I guess its a disease of our times to adore the mechanical correctness..

[flugelmaniac]

I've checked...

Ms Bottazzi IS a proffessional

concert pianist who has given recitals in Carnegie Hall amongst other places.

[flugelmaniac]

she's a very capable pianist and I am sure she could produce a full & excellent recording of this work in a studio,if she hasn't already.

[flugelmaniac]

shortened or not,she's a very good pianist.

She would be easily capable of producing a very good studio recording of this work.

[NordicHealer]

I congratulate her for trying and for her huge courage to play it publically in front of thousands at what looks like Crytal Cathedral!!!! Bravo! This piece requires Herculean Powers, and Wizzardly Technique, and all but the Greatest Professional pianists are able to totally pull it off. And she played it live without any recourse to do touch-ups or multi retakes. The missing variations were probably omitted because there was NOT TIME to include the whole work within the church service.

[NordicHealer]

I congratulate her for trying and for her huge courage to play it publically in front of thousands at what looks like Crytal Cathedral!!!! Bravo! This piece requires Herculean Powers, and Wizzardly Technique, and all but the Greatest Professional pianists are able to totally pull it off. And she played it live without any recourse to do touch-ups or multi retakes. The missing variations were probably omitted because there was NOT TIME to include the whole work within the church service.

[FLaST4ever]

There's missing a lot! Mh a shame, i would like to know why? Too small hands or not finished?

-> But it's a difficult piece, definitely!

[nico22059]

Sorry to say this, but this just SUCKS. Listen to dimitrij romanov´s. He just plays it great

[djriskyp]

Great constructive criticism there genius. Not everyone can achieve godly results, and saying it sucks only shows how much you CANNOT appreciate the effort it takes most people to be able to play this well, let alone better.

Save these kinds of comments for your immediate family or friends if you still have any left with such an attitude.

[grnd2]

She makes some clear mistakes. I don't like her tecknique. And some variations are missing. If u want the real deal, just check dmitrij romanov.

[christophefrancois]

great tone, very sensual. Aren't there some missing variations?

[ThatGirl115]

Brava! Brava! Brava!