G.LIGETI, Etude No. 6 "Autumn in Warsaw"

[krabkore]

Slam the god damn keys -- Be treated like genius.

[zutflutefleur]

I was in Warsaw walking at night and a huge lightning storm started and it rained so hard that the rainwater pooled knee-high. Automne en Varsovie reminds me of that.

[gonrolgonrol]

Wonderful playing of such a wonderful piece!  :)

[sonokosuzuki]

It's got some haunting beauty. But I would never want to listen to this without an accompanying film or context.

[AleAgosto1973]

Ligeti genio

[Firebird772]

Wow... that was really good

This etude is really hard because the player has to bring out the melody notes which are the falling leaves and also has to keep the fast notes which make the wind really soft.

[danielchong1234]

this sounds very scary.lols.i won't want to play this in the middle of the night.hahaa

[AldenHardaway]

@danielchong1234 It is! Haha. If I ever end up playing this, I probably will be practicing it at night quite a bit. Alone in a dark room with a concert grand and one dim light over the music. I'll be waiting for Dracula to show up any second =D

[MISZCZU6]

Mainly I`m the guitarist and double bass player, but I wish I could play this composition one day. Then I`m over.

[cesmemael]

wow how beautiful.....

[andorebajo]

fucking beautifull piece

[1980NewWave]

wonderful piece of music

[EuphoricDan]

This is sick. I think this is my favorite Legeti thus far...

[baudelaire123]

Somehow this piece makes me think of autumn in an East European, maybe Poland.

haha.

[imdbstar]

WOW!!

[rjr1967]

It's difficult to tell because of the quality of the sound and the body language of the performer, but he seems to be playing the chord changes with a little ritenuto, as if it were Chopin. Surely they should change like clockwork? But I would agree that the ghost of Chopin is certainly there, in the clockwork.

[andreybeci]

great

[Slack3ron]

ooo im playing this

its AMAZING to play!

[death2empire]

awesome

[manhiemstoned]

Ligeti is the greatest!

[jfmjsw]

@manhiemstoned ......

[vincecharus]

Wow!

[mynippon]

J'adore !!! Je regrette de ne pas être allé à ce concert

[cobaltjones]

People forget, that the only thing that matters in music is the aesthetic result of what has been produced. This is an objectivity housing myriad interpretations; a seeming paradox that is actually proof of its achievement. This piece will spark a wide divergence of reaction, for it expresses no less wide an arc of emotion. It is an enigma that refuses to give up its secret and wields a dangerous ambiguity, the everyman's terror. In a word, stellar.

[ggurks]

objectivity housing interpretations, paradox (which is) proof of its achievement, enigma that refuses to give up its secret... blah blah what an accumulation of stupid cliched ideas - in sharp contrast to this amazing music

[twooffour]

"People forget, that the only thing that matters in music is the aesthetic result of what has been produced."

lol

This is an objectivity"

rofl

[hickoryou812]

WOW!! Now that's pretty deep. More than likely to far famished for the average listener. Then again there are people on this planet that can follow along and get what it means. What does it mean? Only the interpetation of the listener can reveal that secret.. Some see butter fly, some see the Figi Islands. Well done!!

[lapsedcannibal]

Um... isn't senza ped. at the end? Boris totally missed the point, I feel.

Aside form that, not a bad performance.

But it's such an amazing piece...

[chaseef]

god, that is the most out of control coda ever. I love it!

[23BET23]

Very well played, one of my favorite studies from the entire set.

[a20008137]

Bortkievitch no sabes lo que dices. Ligeti es un gran músico, compositor e incluso más que eso. El hecho de que no sea pianista no significa que no pueda componer estudios para piano, justamente para eso se preparan los compositores, para componer para todo tipo de instrumentos.

[bortkievitch]

Chopin,Liszt,Brahms,Rachmanino­v...they composed truly piano studies.Ligeti's piano studies are a truly musical rubbish.

[Ramatganski]

This Etude is actually very powerful.

Still, it's apparent how you're an intelligent, pleasant human being with original, relevant, worth-while opinions (not "rubbish" at all).

[GraigRussell]

Lucky for the music world, and art in general, that opinions like yours never cease artists innovating. People said some pretty nasty things about the composers you listed in their day, and in fact every major artist in the world.

Take a moment to think about that.

[Quoyled]

Yeah, course, you're right. Fuck progress. Classic FM forever.

Eugh.

Anyway - One of my favourite piano pieces! Thanks for the great upload!

[level5elfdruid]

@bortkievitch why dont you write a better one

[bortkievitch]

Quisiera saber dónde tenía Ligeti la inspiración.¿Conoce GreekCivilization los estudios de Chopin?, o los de Liszt,Mendelssohn, Brahms,Rachmaninov...?Ellos eran MUSICOS y pianistas...Ligeti fue todo lo contrario...

[cykniz]

AMAZING rendition!

[NormanicusDiabolicus]

A stunning performance of a truly daring work based upon a simple chromatic series!