[part 3 ] Berezovsky Chopin Etude Op10/4 + Godowsky version

[therealjj01]

I like the way he puts his right hand on the piano, like he's doing some kind of warm up... hate it how he makes it looks so easy

[pixieechelon]

こんなに素晴らしいエチュードは聞いたことがない

素晴らしい

曲を生かしている

[zflauta92]

I just keep singing the missing melody. This is maybe more difficult, but it has not the same rush... The 'Chopin'' is missing.

[mooobtube]

His left hand is better than both of my hands

[MegaHappyjane]

unbelieveable!!!



[JOZZYmusic]

Second only to Richter, I think. This is incredible.

[kinkokonko]

@JOZZYmusic based on a SHITE recording

thanks

technical A- music D

[JOZZYmusic]

@kinkokonko Have fun with that.

[Krieg1870]

better than Lisitsa in this etude

[TheKeenanBoy]

Incredible. And I am only 40 seconds in

[blackfrozzen777]

Absurdo.... simplemente no hay palabras!!! es una melodía magistral!!! Imaginarme tocando eso... seria absolutamente absurdo!!!

[T6e6r6o]

It always annoys me that the audience is not allowed to applaud in between etudes, and all they do instead is cough, as if to reassure the performer that they are still there. This stupid etiquette needs to go.

[olivleonardo]

Confuse.

[Azel247]

That's one lucky piano

[HomerJ666]

godowsky starts at 2:18

[Eztoez]

Yeah just watched that japanese girl. Amazing :D

[nassosmichas]

@Eztoez Aimi Kobayashi

[onaiP101]

He always does this; play with one hand. Truly talented. I saw him do this with Chopin Revolutionary Etude, and you know how difficult that is... This man has gifts.

[onaiP101]

u r amazing! 

[petie32]

Godowski arranged these for some pianist who lost his right hand in WW1.

[Eztoez]

He looks like he has enormous hands. Seems to play octaves between his thumb and third finger on the right hand !!

[nico22059]

@Eztoez well...actually you don´t really need to have a really big hand to do that. I can do that as well and I reach a tenth (I don´t have really big hands)

[onaiP101]

@Eztoez - If you look to your right where the Japanese writing is, there is a little girl in that (orange bg) video playing this. (It has an advertisement, but if you could stomach that, then watch her play this. lol I don't do commercials. lol) She's amazing too. Enjoy...

[wedgim]

looks difficult

[Eztoez]

@wedgim Thats a massive understatement. lol

[eliyaguy]

I agree with the comments about an amazing left hand, but I think that I can also trace a fully functioning very developed brain behind the hand, too

[eschera]

unbelievable left hand. Sinestro Maximus!

[StanislavRodionov]

-good!

[bobbphysics]

Wrong chord at 0:52

[Haydnseek1]

@bobbphysics I think we can let an understandable mistake occur in lieu of the fantastic music he makes elsewhere. :p

[avb20540]

Holy crap. This guy is a monster. His one hand is better than all of us commenting put together.

[callenishss]

russian pianist gets huge famous

chines pianist Wenyu Shen plays HUUUUUUGE repertoire almost the entire classical pedagogue from A to Z and he is not well known

[mrozomir3]

@callenishss I looked up on Wenyu Shen's repertoire, and it is not from A to Z, it is big, but not huge, Where' s Alkan, Arensky and so on. I watched some of his videos on yt and youku, and sometimes i don't understand what he plays.

[callenishss]

@mrozomir3

who plays a huge repertoire then?

by the way, y do i have trouble deleting my own comments on vids

[mrozomir4]

@callenishss

Maybe Cimirro but i am not sure

[BlazeKenny]

@callenishss Richter had 80 repertoires in head, so did Horowitz

[Pianomaster26]

@callenishss Wenyu Shen did not win the Tchaikovsky competition...

[ANTiRussia1]

you see what Chopin's music is when they perform it even for 5-6% right

[MrDove93]

He is not a man!! AMAZING!!!!

[MrStrav81]

Even if this were for the right hand alone, it would still be harder than the original version.

[sll10]

This guys technique is nothing short of astonishing!

[OrangeSodaKing]

Major kudos to Berezovsky for playing Godowsky's paraphrases on Chopin's etudes! The originals are priceless, the paraphrases are ingenious, and Berezovsky executes both well!

[chutdigadut]

W.T.F........WOOOOOW

[Elicgt]

The original etude is played great, but for the Godowsky version I prefer Hamelin :P

[FreakinTiger]

Having good right hand technique, his left hand isn't as good as his right.

I prefer the Hamelin version of op. 10 no. 4

[nintendomaster96312]

Great, but not fantastic. Sorry, I still like the interprtation though..

[kettellive]

best version in my opinion.

[johnanthonyp]

Many of you are more knowledgeable in this field watching this. Can I ask a question? Is this the best living pianist? Is this human brilliance? This is pretty much the best of learned and practiced human brilliance I've ever seen. If an alien gunslinger came to town....?

[Krebcakes]

you sound like an asshole when you say things like that. Be positive.

[jscognamiglio]

Technically speaking, perhaps, but in overall emotion, I don't think so.

[petie32]

Richters famous tape was before the day you could speed up the recording and keep the pitch the same. It was not digital. It was also not sped up.

It is possible to play the piece an octave lower at half speed and double the film speed in the playback but that obviously was not done. I've done just that on tapes for fun and got some rediculously fast Moonlight 3d movements, but the tone and timbre isn't right.

[antoinezygfryd]

Quel dommage d'être si grand pianiste et si navrant artiste!

[martin460123]

Exelent!!!!!!!!!!!! Bravo!!!!!!!!!

[sergeflousier]

If I were in the audience, I would have clapped my hand between the two pieces ANYWAY !!!!

[chaim1954]

Berezovsky über alles!

[mees04101993]

kak

[Sabina1991s]

I like)

[Ruchfun]

Ma come si fa

a suonare metà brano ad occhi chiusi? Incredibile :D

[XxDunklesxX]

awesome

[DualThunder]

fucking godly

[randellasmile]

Wonderful, all I can say.

[rinex49]

oooooooooohhhhh my god.

4:46 scotched to the screen. Definitely perfect

[DeltZKinetiX]

4:03 is like Alkan's Chemin de fer climax part =D

[petie32]

brilliant.

[TheAnonymousRep]

Godowski was insane.

And this guy has an amazing left hand. Absolutely amazing.

[darrenabcd1]

seems effortless for him...

[Eztoez]

He had the Devil's own left hand!

Phenomenal tequnique

[antoinezygfryd]

Les études de Godowski sont des monstruosités.

Pitié pour nos oreilles,s-v-p !

[davidpolkmusic]

his technique is flawless. he makes it look so effortless!

it's too loud though..i like john browning's version better.

[Xcelerate2]

then turn the volume down

[davidpolkmusic]

i didn't mean the entire piece is too loud, merely that his phrasing doesn't get delicate enough in somes places..makes it sounds a bit brutish..which chopin was anything but.

[IceShadowMeteora]

Perfecto !!!

[8585506]

it's like hey idiot...you make a better door than a window....get out of the way!!!!

[giuseppe89fg]

penso che persone cosi sia no proprio di fuori.....che velocità!!!

[indigoblue555]

Speechless........

[belmany]

boris berezovsky is my god.

[andreichiu01]

i agree

he is the GOD of PIANO............

[Elicgt]

Holy...

[indigoblue555]

to Elicgt - ...yes, absolutely.

[PianistSang]

It seems like the camera is having trouble with the intensity of the playing.

[DualThunder]

absolutely astonishing.

[NVRGSKI]

amazing fingering

[tomaxi007]

Leistungssport in musikalischer Version, wo bleibt da noch der Genuss? Der Mann hat ihn selber auch nicht mehr, wie man genau erkennt. Gewichtheben wäre hier vergleichbar! Da merkt man die Grenzen des Vortrags und die Ambition einer Komposition. Godowsky schrieb es zur Erleichterung des Originals nicht um sich vor dem Publikum zu beweisen. Wie kann der Zuhörer noch Musik aufnehmen, wenn der Interpret auf Teufel komm raus mit Mammutaufgaben sich verewigen will? Musik ist kein Sport!

[andreapapazzoni]

fucking shit, i play this myself, but OMG only with the left hand!!!!

[belmany]

That's the godowsky version. duh. berezovsky is pro at godowsky stuff.

[nikinikinikita]

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[tracychypre]

i just discovered the story with godowski ... amazing !

[kayin4o8]

genius...especially playing a godowsky version...too much technique =X

[kuider312]

love it <3

[sidhartes]

Godowsky had no right hand due to his clash with pirates. He fought bravely, so, so, so, bravely...

[bjarjour]

he is amazing.

i wonder how he can play it without looking

[wkdrudgml]

when berezovsky plays piano, he seems like playing with such an ease unlike other ppl who struggle to move their body alot, but still berezovsky plays one of the best pieces in best ways...!!

[trigalg693]

Holy crap that Godowsky transcription is crazy...and I thought the original Chopin one was hard.

[whatsmylogin]

I was labouring under the delusion that these pieces were written for human beings to play.

[RobertJV24]

They should hold the camera still, looks like he's playing on a rocking boat. :-P

[cedmck]

Did anyone else watch his left arm grow 5 inches in width? XD

[OorvakanSar]

whoa, this guy is scary

[luciferqing]

fast like hell i like it!!

[fdaltrey]

Berezovsky's stamina is quite amazing. His left hand dexterity is even more stunning! Has Berezovsky shown any interest in contemporary music? I'd love to see him play Stockhausen, Boulez, Carter or Nono.

[nazhiitoxx]

He's Berezovsky, he can play any velocity, fast or slow, for that he studied piano, and that isn't so fast anyway, I've lots of playings faster than this

[appassionatodipiano]

it's too faster ;it's almost impossible playing so fast

[trigalg693]

Hm? I can play it that fast...

[xylilyx]

Is it me, or is he picking up the piano there towards the end?

[sebastianklamer]

Love the nose-scratching @ ~ 1:10 !

[sebastianklamer]

Btw, very, very well played

[K189T]

yes, unotrovise and elegant. Love his face at 00:11 and 01:20

[3NUNS]

This is very very very very very very very very very very very good stuff. I don't care for anyone's criticism. I will wlecome this guy to Carnegie Hall anytime.

[Ilovemusic83]

so far, for this piece it's the best interpretation I've encountered...Richter plays it ridiculously way tooo fast

[bulboflight]

why no one clap after he finished the first performance :(?

[3NUNS]

There is much debate that the Richter performance of 10 3 on YOuTube is speeded up on its replay.

[barnold81]

Op. 10, No. 4 you mean. It's definitely sped up. There's no way that is humanly possible for anyone. I don't see how it's a debate.

[LeeSooMan]

actually it is humanly possible

i've seen a middle-school girl at my school who played ALMOST as fast as richter

not nearly as clean though.. but still. that means it's possible

[superpotential]

i can play it as fast as richter with about maybe 80% note accuracy, says that a professional should probably be able to handle near 100%

it's damn tough but humanly possible. rachmaninoff wrote much crazier works imho.

[amcmjel]

Have you listened to Gavrilov´s version?

[barnold81]

Considering what I've seen Argerich do, maybe it is possible. Not dissing Richter, I'm just giving my honest response to the video. Richter is a god, definitely one of the greatest.

[xiangyik]

haha its real. Heard the recordings of his live concerts? Its right there. get the disc.

[gabrielusa911]

he looks like hes about to punch the piano in the face at the one handed part

[3NUNS]

nonsense !

[magior329]

I could see that

[petie32]

Probably the best one I've heard yet. The Godowski variation is INSANE.

[kayguevara]

ma cm cazz fai?

[goodridgewinners]

Piano Concerts make me sad. Why? Because of the tradition of not applauding the pianist after each piece.

I understand that it can highly distract the pianist if we did so, but you know the feeling right? You're sitting there going "OH MY GOSH! IM SO EXCITED, I WISH I COULD PRAISE HIM"...but you cant. lol...sorry, dont go off at me and say im shallow minded or whatever, im just stating my feelings about the concert setting.

[jdk458]

I'm a performer myself (ameteur), and would actually agree with you to some extent. I still don't think there should be applause between movements of a sonata (which should be considered part of a whole), but in a set of etudes, by all means, show your appreciation. Especially in this case - the pieces (esp. the Godowsky version) are incredibly difficult and require hours of practice.

[Frozentoes1]

I would respectfully disagree. Concerts, when featuring great performers such as Berezovsky et al, are, in my estimation, a medetative, reflective event that allows one to be in communion with the great masters of yesteryear. It drives me nuts when people applaud between movements. Destroys the flow and the transition between them. ARG.

[3NUNS]

Performance applauding thereof is an expression of mass hysteria which essentially damages the beauty of a piece or its afterthought. If one is a performer, one understands this and often finds the clapping unfortunate in the least.

[haga1008]

いい演奏求めて色々聞いてると、ボリス・ベレゾフスキー氏の演奏­にたどり着くことが多い・・・

表現力とテクニック正確さがすごすぎます。

[Emlomor]

je n'aurais pas dit mieux ;)

[Karkacool]

this etude is played by Richter, Richter plays much better then this godowsky...

[sppe769]

where in the world can I find sheet music for the Godowsky version? I looked about everywhere.

[lovesGenet]

Godowsky's music is music all onit's own mon . stop this silly undergrad bickering and take yo fingers out ya noses .ya knows too little and too much .Big deal Berezovsky 's been playing these etudes for 35 or more years wuz the big deal .I have cd;s very musical but i dont like this aweful recorded sound .poopoo

[eeevildictator]

Oh my god! Some people grind my gears because they intentionally use short forms instead of real words, but I have never met such an ignoramus who had no idea how to use punctuation. Literally nothing there is correct. This pains me to tell anyone this. I could cite examples, but I would have to split up my comment.

[sppe769]

In my theory, its called poor language.

[MitchelWeaver]

The Godowsky version is extremely impressive, but it really just sounds like someone pressed the fast forward button on a CD player. But it's an etude, so I guess that's okay.

[eeevildictator]

That is the amazing part of the Godowsky version - he made a two hand piece sound very very similar with only one hand, without reducing it simply to the melody.

At least that's what it does for me.

[crazypianist1234]

Lol one of the tags is dayum. This guy definitely made me say that. And to be able to play all these etudes in one performance is astonishment. This is greaat.

[petie32]

This dude has an incredible number of fingers on his left hand....

Seriously, I had never heard this before, it's amazing.

[donthuis]

Technically there's nothing wrong here, on the contrary. On the other hand: it's only about the "pyrotechnics" of playing and if Godowsky raises the bar, pianists like him, like it even better. I consider him more as "a pianist's pianist" like Gould was on the piano when Bach was concerbed. Both highly esteemed by colleagues, but less favoured by the larger audience, who prefers a more melodious approach (like Cortot did with Chopin etudes)

[gnatluo]

Wish I was there.

[haioforler]

Although very fast played, a clear and transparent play, and anything else played but boring. Great !

[epeterson19931]

holy crap. The first second i blew a load in my pants!! 10/10 dude!!

[dalethomasdewitt]

When I played this long, long ago I imagined a galloping horse. Now I don't know what to make of it. Everybody plays it like finger exercises alongside a little harmonic take notice script. That's music. Do what the hell ya want.

[WENCHINGTON]

When I played this before birth and then wrote it a year later, I decided that I would imagine leprachauns whenever I played piano, and then I would tell people about it.

[dalethomasdewitt]

"When I played this before birth and then wrote it a year later, I decided that I would imagine leprachauns whenever I played piano, and then I would tell people about it." In response to :"When I played this long, long ago I imagined a galloping horse. Now I don't know what to make of it. Everybody plays it like finger exercises alongside a little harmonic take notice script. That's music." OK, but the point is the body rhythm.

[akumaboy5000]

very very very bad posture. it makes me feel like I'm 70 just watchingl!

[indigoblue555]

Great artists or sportsmen often get great results though they are not correct ex.for beginners = G.Gould had quite an extr.personal

approach to the keybord = About this clip I like him better when playing Studio 1 Op.10 =

[tgm21234]

I agree. This man is an accomplished artist. Are we going to tell him how to play?

[sppe769]

I like the Godowsky version myself, especially at the sub ending!! good job!

[epeterson19931]

Holy fucking shit 10/10!!!!!

[starfalco]

The Godowsky version was interesting, but the original version is so much better. Even tho this guy didn't play it that fantastic. It was pretty bland.

[CarloMSantos]

You don't understand where I'm coming from here. If you're telling us how Chopin is supposed to sound like, make sure that you can back up that statement by proving it with a video or recording. And you weren't very attentive towards my comment about "bad recording equipment." Oh and just out of curiosity, can you please tell me what degree you have?

[silensen]

so hard

[garrillas]

Amazing!!!

[igormarich1968]

I am a concert pianist and have p[layed at carnegy hall, and shorline amphiteater in nortern california-this guy is dady-tata for all of us that professionaly play piano,to play godovskys arragment of chopin etude with such easyness!!all of you young piamists should have a godovsky peace as obligatory since leopold godovsky is something like a piano paganini . .

[dalethomasdewitt]

Yeaah, and Eye wroate Warr n' Piece. Speellin is next to Godliness. nortern cal? What have you been smoking. Turds? Learn the English language and then Western notation.

[bordervillage]

j'adore =)

[danielito1979]

great piano playing, you are out of this planet. thank you

[biegel88]

I enjoy the juxtaposition of the two. Well done, Boris! I only have my audio recording on You Tube--I should get a vid!!

[johnnybev99]

Vacuous, poorly controlled, wrong-headed playing. Perhaps he thinks 'con fuoco' is the required audience response?

[nostromissimo]

Godowsky, what a mess.

[3NUNS]

tHIS GUYS USES DIFFERENT TEMPI IN THIS PIECE...

[3NUNS]

Interesting....

[magior329]

This guy is great.

[DGaultier1670]

Berezovsky has been whizzing up and down the keyboard

for so long,he has begun to think of listening to

his fingers whirr as ...expression.Apparently he

thinks that we too would enjoy listening to lyricless,

phraseless,expressionless pieces too.

[BettyCope]

I enjoyed this very much, especially the first one.

[orpheus63]

certainly very good but I think romotchka ist right: can't be compared with Richter

[DarkRossignol]

Just with the fingers... taht's good, but i think there should be more weight and wrist, but it's very good ;)

[ravelabc]

all these comments about him just being 'fast fingers'-that's bullshit.he is one who when he wants,can make probably the most beautiful sound possible on the piano.personally,this is not my favourite recording of his,but all the people who just mindlessly,ignorantly slate musicians of this calibre are just jealous.

[romotchka]

to ravelabc: trust me, i am not jealous, i am humble enough to say i worked for a long these pieces as an educated amateur, no more, and i posted elsewhere on youtube quite positive comments on his Listz's transcendental studies. Yet, i maintain that Berezovski is not the kind of musician that moves you deeply, and that makes you feel the very gist of music, throughout real masterworks of the piano - which are not written simply to show off.

[sagalat]

Bizarre. Phenomenal. From some other world.

[wborgstro]

In all my years I wouldn't have believed a left hand could do this. BRAVO !!!!!!!!!

[romotchka]

He is a good virtuoso but an average virtuoso. Far from a really great virtuoso like Richter and the like. But he's simply not a musician. Fast and loud and looking bored. I knew him as a limited artist, this is a confirmation.

[kasyapa]

he doesn't look bored.

[galanski]

Wait wait wait. I think you should check out his Liszt Transcendental Etudes, all of which are here on youtube. He takes time to warm into the theta brainstates, but then... well have a listen for yourself.

[CarloMSantos]

What are you saying about this guy not being a musician. I would like to hear your interpretation of Opus 10 No. 4 and see how it compares to his version.

[romotchka]

Sorry, the coward I am will post no video on Youtube of my playing opus 10/4! I am just an educated amateur with a 2-hr daily practice and it would have no great artistic value. Still, my brain -not my fingers- can assess Mr Berezovsky's vacuity as an artist. His Godowski is simply out of melodic and rhythmic line. You won't believe me, I even don't have Godowski's score. And no time for arguments of entomologists.

[gspaulsson]

Standard dumb youtube comment. I can't play baseball, but I know a good pitcher from a bad pitcher. Can you play this? Do you have any opinions about cellists, singers, violinists or composers, and do you do all those things? All I hear here is fast fingers, no Chopin.

[miriamania]

Si sente la fatica alla fine... ma che vuoi di più!