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  • from 3:43,he must have become a GOD!!

    i have never seen the people who can play this less than 4;oo

  • He rapes the piano!!

  • There is no such thing as a finished piece of work by Liszt...They were all meant to be continually interpreted and changed.

  • !!!!!!!!

  • Virtuosity was well done all up until the ending. Then he sped up more than by 10 beats and completely fucked it up. Damn overkill.

  • One of the best versions of this piece is the one played by Alicia de Larrocha. I truly recomend it!!!!

  • Maybe this is a "mess" but even Cziffra's wrists can't produce such speed. It's impressive to say the least...

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  • lmao, that ending was just absurd

  • Not the best interpretation. My neighbor's kid plays this way better.

  • Even with a messy ending, it's still pretty wonderful, and exciting!

  • I swear the main female protagonist in Nodame Cantabile is based on this guy. He's interpretation and flow overwhelms the mistake he makes. Heck, he even has that 'lip pouting' thing going on, the same as Nodame!

  • Awsome, definantely top 10 performed !

  • Great musicianship! Great tone and dynamics, much better than Lisitsa and some others who do finger exercises to show technique.

  • " no risk no fun"

  • I love the wonderful musical flair and the freshness of the live performance. Many great pianists have played encores fast as they are pumped up with excitement after a successful concert. To hell with what people say. I love this very exciting over the top encore. I hate perfect studio performances and touch ups and cuts !! This performance musically moves me !!!!!

  • Give him a break guys.

    He played it really really well considering he was on crack at the time.

  • There is a difference between executing a piece flawlessly and performing a piece.

    My good friends, this gentleman is a PERFORMER!

  • ego.

    

  • One of the best,,,absolutely amazing technique , BTW who cares about an odd slip when the overall performance is brillant,,,

  • Terrible!!!

  •  foolish comments from people without the training to recognize.Risk,character that gives the music its zest. few have wrists that can do this. An encore after a full program . You name other pianists who don't have 1/20 of his personality, or instincts.There are tens of thousands well trained but they are limited. Lisitsa doesn't have this kind of power or spontaneity. De Larrocha ,Argerich a powerhouse . Wang I predict won't last long.No ear for tone color it seems to me.

  • Gavrilov is a phenominal pianist. I heard him live in Rach3 in 2007 I certainly know. This is such an exciting live performance. It was an obvious success. I prefer a live performance which is exciting, rather than a dull accurate studio recording.  When I heard him live in 2007 he played marvellously and he got a standing ovation. on average he is known to have a fantastic technique.

  • That ending completely screws it all up. TW4T

  • In a piece like this-a super virtuoso etude, it's more about whipping the audience up into a frenzy as long as there aren't a ton of missed notes. One must always balance the speed and virtuosity against any note-slips and in my book, the incredible speed with which he plays weighed against the missed notes is no big deal whatsoever. Amazing playing. I used to think someday I could play this fast, but then I realized I only had 10 fingers!

  • I really wanna shoot the person who was recording him!!!!!!!!! He should have recorded

    His hands at the very last section!!! Seriously!!!

  • @zzhhaannggddii That's what i wanted to do!!!!!!!

  • Stop your badgering about the wrong notes, you must understand that this was after an exhausting performance.

  • For those of you saying too many wrong notes...you are even less imaginative than Gavrilov himself.

    "right notes" is just only one tiny part of music making. I can give you a perfect rendition of this etudes using a MIDI file (for the complete experience I can also add in some pops and clicks to imitate old recordings). no wrong notes, with any tempo. How's that?

  • so many mistakes at the end...

  • Very good performance, live. 2 or 3 minor smudges but 100% better than most and very fast and breathtaking, I have a reasonable ear having played the piano for 68 years so I disagree with the complainers.

  • Nice round tone. Flowing in most parts. =) Impressive.

  • No feeling at all. Like a player piano.

  • haha i totally agree. this is a mad show off piece. only if i can play this piece i would be showing off like him too.

  • 利用乾淨與安靜製造出可怕瘋狂的琴聲!!

    技巧延伸表現的可能~~

    他是個絕佳的材料!!

  • beautiful job *****

  • It's hard to believe anyone would find this performance anything less than incredible. Sure, Gavrilov is hardly one of the more imaginative musicians. But here he has a chance to share his incredible facility, and no one can deny that it is anything less than incredible. And it is Liszt - the composer's first version of the work was back in 1838 when he was anything but the refined musician. All he did was clean the work up in the later version, but it is still the wild young Liszt at heart.

  • that's SICK !! even cziffra doesn't reache that speed...

  • Cziffra is a class above but I think you know that very well...Indeed the speed is there but Cziffra executes it at a speed which is safe for him...Gavrilow's tempo here is all but safe. As a result, we can unfortunately hear several mistakes, even at the very beginning...Just a bit disapointing in my opinion but there are some very good parts in it...Overall (very) good anyway :)

  • Technically at ease - but dull...this is a showoff piece...then do that in the true Liszt spirit :-)

  • Absolutely brilliant!!! Even better than Kissin!

  • gavrilov is so inspired in this concert! the 23-5 prelude is also incredible!!

  • I'll bet this is what it sounded like when Liszt played it. Liszt was wild...effect was everything. This is theatre! This is drama.

  • And it's obviously an encore! Give him a break. The guy had probably played some finger-wrecking stuff all night already! In any case, as one of my teachers used to say..."The notes are the starting point....not written in stone" How many wrong notes did Horowitz used to get away with??????????

  • i believe he plays too fast here, if that's possible. he's plays just a tad too quickly and it really takes some of the emotion away from a beautiful piece. a great performance nonetheless!

  • This is fantastic. Andrei Gavrilov is a fantastic pianist. This is an incredibly exciting musical performance. He has incredible musical flair. I heard him playing Rach 3 live in Dublin in October 2007. He was truly fantastic. The audience gave him a standing ovation.

  • Awesome! Totally in the right spirit of Liszt.

  • his ending is a mess!!!

    too fast...too noisy...not accurate.

    loved his chopin etude op' 10 no' 1...

    la campanella is not for any pianist

    to play...

  • I have a recording from 1974 Tschaikowsky Competition - he plays even more dirty notes, and won it. A convincing interpretation has obviosly nothing to do with with playing clean.

  • @hein2214 Totally agree. This version touched me more than Valentina's, even when she's perfect.

  • @hein2214 I agree with you hein.... this interpretation is very interesting. and yes la campanella is not for any pianist but surely Gavrilov is one virtuoso who can play this la campanella.

  • @hein2214 Exactly! Nowadays it seems that pianists with the least amount of mistakes are considered the best. Look at a random Cortot video, half of the comments are about wrong notes. People, goddamnit just listen to the MUSIC. If you do care about wrong notes why don't you listen to a MIDI file?

  • it was designed for a piano.. so it in fact is designed for a pianist to play. it just needs the right pianist - and i agree that gawrilow isn't the man to do it. kissin has the best rendition i've heard so far.

  • @kiitoob i'd like to see you do better

  • @kiitoob i'd like to see you do better

  • @kiitoob You should hear Alicia de Larrocha's "Campanella".  Perfection!!!!

  • I actually think it quite suites liszt style, it is light, agile, and flexible..... Even in the coda part.

  • I do not like his performance even if his technique is quit good

  • fastest campanella i've heard on youtube so far 4:00!!

  • BAD BAD BAD Quality!!!!!!!!

  • he was a good student

    one of my best

  • Shut up! The fantastic virtuoso is back!!!

  • He plays to fast and without interpetation.

    But he plays other pieces fantastically.

  • I really like his technic his fingering is superb look at his 4th fingers always up and high, he hammers the board with the mere tip something that some pianist really miss, I would say changes in the volume will make him perfect.

  • I've never heard a pianist begin with a mistake. At 0:04 it sounds for sure like he hit D.

  • yes i heard that toooo i hit the D

  • @jaekn LOL I saw that too, maybe he was gonna play fur elise, then just changed his mind lol

  • @jaekn yup but considering his ending...its nothing

  • @jaekn

    haha that is true!

  • @jaekn I know I kinda responded late but it does sound like a mistake lol

  • What a blast! Thanks so much for posting this. Makes you wonder what it would have been like to see Liszt himself perform this piece.

  • loool omg 2:22 the devil

  • Back in the 1970's as distinguished a commentator as Joan Chissell recognised that in terms of virtuoso equipment, Andrei Gavrilov was second to none. She put him in the "super-Horowitz" class. If it were just his virtuosity, however, he might be ultimately boring, like Beresovsky or Lisitsa. What sets him apart is imagination and musicianship, and considerably subtlety.

  • smudgepots.  I totally agree with you. Andrei gavrilov is such a fantastic pianist.

  • I totally agree with you both!!

    I saw him play for the second time two week's ago, and he was AMAZING!!!

    I can't wait to see him again ASAP!!! :-)

  • chrispiano1, I want to hear him play a major Rachmaninov Concerto again. His Rachmaninov3 in Dublin in October 2007 was fabulous.He got a standing ovation.

  • Ooh yes, I'd love to see him do a Rachmaninov Concerto!!

    The audience in Zurich just wouldn't let him go!! Tha applause just went on & on & on!!! Even after he'd given us two encores!!! :-)

  • @smudgepots Hmmm i dont think beresovsky and lisitsa is boring though...

  • Listen to the Chopin Etudes uploaded by his assistant on YouTube - they are sensitive and stormy, perfectly articulated and touching in their eloquence. There is true greatness in his playing, whatever his detractors say.

  • this is the fastest rendition i heard so far. and the ending is that diabolic!

  • 2:22. Please don't kill me!

  • He has such big hands....you can see it in the beginning where he scarecely moves his right hand when most of us would need great wrist movement to execute those big lips properly....BIG hands, and talent btw =)

  • Could you play it right while on the stage before a large audience? I don't think you would even have the opportunity.

    And fail for noticing that mistake on your second listen-through.

  • I can see you're proud of yourself for catching the most apparent mistake in the entire performance.

  • puts no soul into it

  • wow, what an exciting performance! only 4 minutes long too!

  • bellissimo....però c'è una pacchia mi sembra da 3 :15 circa fino a 3:20.....è un pò animale iihhhhh....

  • wow!

  • perfect technichal pianist. very good.!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This is a fantastic performance. Incredible brilliance and risk taking. He is incredibly famous for his ability. this is a live encore. It is so exciting to listen to and he gets so many magical sounds.He is amazing. I am not interested with touched up performances.

  • NO U.

  • definitely performed in the spirit of liszt. went a little crazy at the end there tho lol

  • Was there ever anyone better than YOUNG Gavrilov??

  • Your mom!

  • that was like.. FASTEST OF THE FASTEST! :O WAYYYYY TOOOOOOO FASTTT!!! How can he sees his fingers in that speed? lol.

  • no risk no fun \o/

  • so fast, very good performance.

  • liszt would like to be his fans...

  • This is stunning pianism! As for the occasional dropped note - well, like all great pianists, his wrong notes are way more interesting than most ordinary pianists' correct notes.

  • He is a phenominal pianist. I find him the most exciting to listen to.

  • la campanella is a fast piece wat do ya expect but.... i cannot deny the flaws in the first part .... it was very, but distracting.

  • Andrei Grawrilow extraordinario pianista de tecnica muy depurada pero sobre todo muy apasionado en esta obra de Franz Liszt lo demuestra. de un Mexicano de Mexico.

  • This was an encore at the end of a fantastic concert. His playing is fabulous and exciting. Wonderful flair and beautiful touch near the beginning. All great pianists occasionally drop notes.He is human.

  • He sacrificed accuracy for speed...which I don't think is a good idea.

  • I think it's fantastic..definately adds something to the piece.

  • that was a bit weird.

    i thought the whole thing was great right up until about 3:40 n he just went insane! not like

  • why is he rushing at the end ??

    the begining is not so bad

  • Javier Barden plays piano ???

  • I think Liszt himself would have played it like this - the bravour way is the only right way to play this stuff.

  • jaapaap5. Very well said!!!!!

  • it was too fast at the end.

  • It was fine until 3:43, when the wtfness started. Seriously, WTF

  • What

    a

    MESS...... Kissin all the way....

  • I'd love to hear it played by volodos.. ihihihi

  • hilariously fast

  • wow

  • strong performance, but both Kissin and Gavrilov in my opinion lose the spirit of the piece in the end, because their speed and especially there fortissimo are not representing a campanella, a little bell.

    But as to mistakes, there are more in Kissins performance than in Gavrilovs.

  • How on earth are you going to play the ending like a little bell?!

  • It's difficult, but for example Jorge Bolet manages a bit: he plays the end in the same tempo as the beginning which creates an atmosphere of ease, and he controls everything better. Additionally there is less pedal.

  • Speed good! but Kissin is technic + art

  • 아놔...클라이막스에서 왜 얼굴만 비추는 거야....

    계속 손만 비추다가....약올리나 카메라맨....

  • The best, the master, the one.

  • YesYesYes!Very brilliant,the mis-hits at start are unimportant as he gets the diabolic elegance even at this speed,(unlike Cziffra)and doesn't slow for really trick details,(as Cziffra has to).Very"live",typical of the best younger Gavrilov.

  • Mr. Kissen more interesting (it's me opiniom)

  • absolutely tremendously fabulous ! i've never in my life experienced such virtuosity and expression in piano playing before . Gavrilov is a sucker for the drama , and occasionly overdoes the stuff , but this is of such caliber, that you'd have to be either deaf or retarded not to see the amazing level of this performance . this is technically much more than complex scale runs , this is a piece for only the truly virtuos . Gavrilov (along with Horowitz) are my favourite performance - thumbs up !

  • This was a fantastic encore. He was playing for effect and I must say he sounds brilliant and has a fabulous touch.

  • there were quite a lot of mistakes... they were to obvious.

  • worth going to hos next recital me tinxx

  • 2:11 OWN!

    fuck, thats a good performance

  • BRILLIANT !!!

  • what's the brand of the piano he's playing?? It has a phenomenal sound!

  • 情熱的で好きだなぁ、この弾き方。

  • great pianist but too many mistakes.

    if you want a flawless one, watch yundi li's version.

  • of course, if you play it as boring as Yundi Li does, without taking the slightest risk, it can be played flawless...

  • Yundi li doesn't have mistakes? You must be kidding me. If you want to listen almost perfect version of this one watch kissin's interpretion. But Yundi li's version has more feeling in my opinion.

  • Kissin's version also has some "hearable" mistakes. If you want note-perfect, fast, but boring performance - see Valentina Lisitsa's one.

  • what risk are you talking about? this is piano playing not stock market speculation.

  • Thank you!! I totally agree fanguism.

  • What a fantastic and all embracing comment!

    Bravo Fanguism!!! Teach them further, one day they will get the point what's the art about!

    S K

  • You wouldn't know unless you were a true pianist

  • This is an amazing encore. Wow, he is a phenominal pianist. I heard him live very recently, I know.

  • wah!!!!!!!incredible ..he is human or alien ??how come can play so fast ??who is he ??

  • its my idea?? he have HUGE hands??

  • yes indeed his hand is very big...13th on piano..........

  • the same hand of rachmaninoff??? fock

    even bigger than liszt who was a 12th

  • no..rachmanioff's hand is even bigger 15th..

  • no rachmaninoffs were a 12th

  • Rachnaninoff's was 12th... Maybe you wanted to say one 8va plus a 5th?

  • Liszt was no more than barely a 10th, which surprised people at his time when they heard about it (there is a witness who saw that when he saw Liszt playing and Liszt confirmed his observation afterwards). He could make very fast arpeggios with larger intervals, however, so it seemed he had large hands.

  • ...NOT!

  • if you want a good player, watch Jorge Bolet

  • That is NOT how it's typically played.

    But it was still very impressive.

  • The ending is incredibly fast=3=

  • HUGE hands.

  • I really find this extremely exciting. You can hear the audience loved his playing.He is an amazing player. Remember this is a live encore.What mattered was the effect he had on the audience.I hate unexciting performances of this piece.

  • Very impressive, but at that speed he makes a mess of the ending.

  • yeah...i agree...yundi li owns la campenella...and then maybe evgeny kissin 2nd

  • holy shit....

  • & PS I can't believe what he does at 2:50!

  • I think it's time they start giving pianists antidoping tests.

    Great interpretation i think. i liked it. I've heard several overs. This is among my La Campanella Top 10.

  • I was looking at the postings here and was amazed that actually there were other people besides z666z666z leaving comments... :)

  • Brilliant. Nice to hear the pianos & pianissimi really played soft, but fast and crystal clear at the same time.

  • I agree with you totally Slobone. This is fantastic playing with amazing flair. It is absolutely unique. It is an encore of a very sucessful concert. I heard Gavrilov recently and I found his playing wonderful.

  • passionate but very hasty. His playing kinda made me feel uncomfortable because of his unstable tempo. however, I respect the character and his style of playing

  • It is a style. But I think the color of his sound was too light and the speed was a little quicker than that makes me comfortable.