The camerawork and the setting are quite annoying, it reminds me of watching a tennis match, or some sort of sportive event (complete with assistants who bring fresh towels) ...Mr. Berezovsky has great stamina and pianistic control, he makes it look and sound easy -- however IMO there is something superficial and cold in his playing.
Haha. They don't clap right away since they didn't hear V to I. He was on the dominant though but it was quite distorted since the bottom notes were into the lower register.
Simply astonishing. Instead of making negative critics of Beresovsky, we should just enjoy his interpretation, other than focusing on technical flaws and other minor details. It looses a lot of point to listen if people just continue debating over it (if it's a worthwhile performance or not) instead of just listening to it and enjoy it.
ahahah just imagine, in the back storage room they have like 70 more steinways xD I really like this etude along with feux follets. I can play preludio(the first etude).. hah :/
@About14Pandas Cool, I can play this etude Wilde Jagd except 0:48 just impossible, I also play this alot slower then it should be because its tooooooooo fast!!
@About14Pandas like everyday for a year, people say my hands are colossal but I dunno, I just play stuff that I like. I don't play it very well though, I can't take 1:59 as fast as it should be much at all, especially at 2:36 but I guess I will one day
@About14Pandas Please tell us where you found information stating that this set is "meant to be played in one sitting". It's like saying Chopin wrote his Preludes to be played at one sitting, or Bach his WTC. Any of these may benefit from the perspective granted by a complete performance, but I don't think it's ever been the norm to play sets like this in one sitting, musicians almost always chose pieces from different composers and eras to lend variety to their performances.
ohh i'm saying like, well I haven't been to a concert so tell me if i'm wrong but say berezovsky was to play chopin's op. 10. what i'm saying is that wouldn't he play all 12 etudes ? like he would play all 12 transcendental etudes at one concert is what i'm trying to say. thats why in every one of these videos, berezovsky is sweater each time with the audience applauding :)
@About14Pandas While sometimes a pianist will play an entire set like Chopin's OP 10, much more often they will select one or a few pieces from a set like that combine them with other pieces to create a program. Especially with a set like these Etudes, I don't think many people have EVER played them all in one sitting, much more often one or a couple are played as part of a concert that includes other pieces. I was just wondering why you thought they were designed to be played as a set.
@Corleone1337 Technically you are a piece of ass in piano if you can afford to use the word "ruined"there's no mistake so if you think you have something to say then let's hear you playn' even 2 etudes
@perjaromana Why should someone have to be able to play this in order to say its bad? Then you should also have to be able to play it to say it's great. And you should also be able to direct a hollywood movie before saying a movie is bad.
@celach Well, it's a "well, if you think it's bad, let's see you do it" sort of deal. To even pull it off halfway decent is incredibly hard. He somewhat has a point- you can be a performing pianist and listen to others and have a distaste for a certain part and avoid it as an interpretation unfavorable with you.
Besides, who are we to talk smack about a performance of probably the most diversely difficult set of etudes, pre-1900, live in one sitting?
@perjaromana If you compare this recording to Evgeny Kissin's version, you'll hopefully understand why Berezovsky doesn't play it that well - he's rushing through the piece as quickly as possible.
As a side note, I can play this Transcendental Etude, but you'll have to give me a month or two to record it, since my piano is about 12.000 km away at the moment :o)
@Corleone1337 I personally don't see speed or tempo as a huge factor, especially in an etude, just so long as every musical detail and inflection is present.
@thaiguy20fromla Which is why I dislike this recording - he is sacrificing the musical details (particularly in the section I mentioned earlier) for speed; the playing sounds very robotic at that point.
This does not, of course, mean that he is a bad pianist; I certainly admire his stamina and skill in performing all twelve etudes, but I simply dislike his interpretation (and thus avoid it in my own (non-professional) playing ;-) )
The section beginning with 2:00 is rhythmically very complicated, me thinks. There are many intervowen rhythmic patterns, which perhaps not even Liszt was aware of at once.
@afertyus1000 Well, I wrote "perhaps". But I don't think this idea is so far of. In rhythmically rich pieces, I often see pianists acentuate different parts of the score, which lends itself to different patterns.
@celach Yeah, and a pretty big one near the end of the Mazeppa. but... damn he's good! He has quite a different interpretation on most of the transcendentals I've heard before, especially the Hamories du Soir. I like it!
@celach Not overtly noticeable, though, :), I think that's a sign of a true piano virtuoso, the ability to cover up mistakes so they don't sound blaring.
@celach Maybe, but tell me - who wouldn't do them?! In my opinion his play is just fabulous. I don't hear any mistakes. I agree with ToxicLabProductions. He's by far one of the best..
@Cancrizans Appreciate your comment, don't think it was constructive either. I wasn't unprompted nor did I say 'lol mistakes". The idea that just because you think a performance is solid and awesome that your brain MUST make the leap to say it is flawless and perfect is ridiculous. We don't need to call attention to mistakes but that doesn't mean you pretend they don't exist.
@celach Fair enough. I occasionally get overloaded reading the self professed geniuses on Youtube nitpick great artists and don't read enough of the comments to get a good impression of what an individual poster's actual attitude or position is. My apologies.
@celach Sorry if it took so long... I deleted my uninformed comment concerning your statement that Berezovsky made some mistakes in this performance because I obviously misunderstood your intention in posting that comment. I read so much nitpicking nonsense on Youtube where artists are judged on a finger slip or a failure to conform to whoever's pedagogical ideal, that I mistook your comment for similar without understanding your position.
Wow, what a snobby pretentious bullshit comment that was.
"We're higher than some "mistakes"... that's the product of stupid philistine companies! No... we care about ART."
Sorry... no. Just no. Mistakes are mistakes - if you have sufficiently good ears, they may not matter to you, or, on rarer occasions, they can create a charming effect of different kind, be it a "lol he's still human" or, indeed, an accidental aural pleasure.
@twooffour What bothers me most of all is that I really don't think most people appreciate what a true artist's life is like; therefore taking a paparazzi style snapshot when someone makes a mistake in the greater context of artistic endeavor is simply perverted.
@twooffour What I intended my comment to mean was simply...why is it we can never view the life and intentions of an artist in a broader scope? Why is it always "oh let's judge this and that performance and make sure we give our opinions!" as if the creation of Art even remotely resembled that kind of judgement-based thinking.
If nothing else, passing judgements and opinions (certainly thought-out ones, arguably less so as well) can have a reflecting effect on the artists - reminding them that many people, even thoughtful ones, will come to listen to what they present and won't bend over backwards to take into account their "artistic life" and look the other way when mistakes or slops are made.
From my own perspective, I don't see why I should bother pondering the "artist's life" before daring to...
... express my views on what I've just heard, in the first place.
Having that said, please explain to me how the creation of art doesn't resemble "that kind of judgment-based thinking"?
What about the tireless self-criticism and self-correction exercized by the artist to eliminate their own slops and mistakes? What about their teachers'?
Did you know that lots of performers and composers pass judgments on and bad-mouth about other artists, as well?
@twooffour Of course...but that is simply bad habits we share as a society. Artists are equally burdened by the social norms of conversational language as we all are. My point is simply this: art does not come about through aggression, through arrogance, through power...it comes about through wisdom, understanding, passion for freedom, not passion for control. The artist judges his or her self not at a critical level...it is a completely different thing, it is tumultuous, experiential, volcanic
If you come back to the ground, you'll realize (and learn) that artists, certainly when it comes to technique and performance, test themselves, listen to themselves, record themselves and ask for advice and feedback with pretty much the same brand of critical, rigorous attitude as you hear from "art critics" or "mistake complainers".
The "passion for freedom" vs. "passion for control" are two side of the same coin -
exaggerated passion for freedom can take away the (technical) control, the presence of technical and mental control can generate a sensation of freedom (both for the performer and the listener).
When we hear flaws or mistakes, who says it isn't our passion for freedom (from slop, mistakes and flaws, the things that drag down the experience and only remind us that it's a human playing) rather than "aggression speaking"?
... a sore thumb, and pointing that out has NOTHING to do with "manufactured images" by "commercial companies" - on the contrary, it's a honest expression of a genuine observation and sentiment.
If that makes you feel insecure, then that's too bad.
@ToxicLabProductions Lawl that is very hard to determine. Different pianists excel in different areas. Gabriela Montero is a fantastic improviser. Glenn Gould had innovative and exquisite interpretations of Bach, and so on. You can't just say a person is the best pianist because of their technique, after a certain mastery level is attained they are pretty much as good as each other :)
Perfectly as ... already I indicated in my previous message that more descriptive than aggressive I think that it(he) would be furious. I am glad that you feel identified with the emotional agitation that produces this work. You expressed it perfectly with the words " otherwise you should plough not alive ".
Just to throw my two cents in, "wilde jagd" means "wild hunt". Liszt specifically characterized it as "wild". Also, the tempo indication is "presto furioso". I would definitely say that it's intended to be violent and aggressive, and that Berezovsky's performance (for the most part) reflected that. But that doesn't mean it can't be beautiful at the same time.
@celach oscar wilde oce said in front of the judge" cant a book be genius which reflects unmoral meanings?" ( veryfree,because i only know it in german)
The chromatism is insuperable, and the turbulence of the sound stops any search of peace or tranquility. The fingers must touch the piano with the maximum violence (and talent) possibly, reflecting an interior unbearable fight.
Liszt broke many piano, and this piece is a perfect candidate to break one. The interior passion must make yield the resistance of the piano (speaking in general on the studies). It is necessary to make suffer to the piano, since it is precisely the feeling that we want to move, distresses. Since you will be able to verify Berezovsky manages to break a string hereinafterlater on. It is the indicative one that the studies are touched well ;)
Pianos during Liszt's lifetime were generally very sensitive and well, maybe didn't literally break but went out of tune very quickly. I think I read somewhere that Liszt usually played with two pianos on stage - not because they would break, but they went out of tune so fast.
More that aggressive, pardon, debit of expressing and to be interpreted in a furious way. This score has really diabolical connotations, added to his fearsome difficulty.
This great work reflects a deep, sensitive and aggrieved feeling that gets up with a force and intensity that I would qualify of Dionysian.
Darn. I wanted to see what he does for fingering at the big chromatic run in th ebeginning. What does everyone here do? I'm thinking that 5432154321 and 1234512345 work the best? Any other ideas?
Its 4321321321, as well it is not a chromatic run. I'm not sure why you would want to know that if you had to ask, took me 5 mins to look up the score.
Great performance. I really don't like the camera work however, I want to see the fingers and arms, not sweat beads and views from UNDERNEATH the keys, I don't see the point there.
Can anyone believe it?!! My god this is hot!!! I love it how people are commenting on his sweat - who cares?!! Just close your eyes gang and dig what he's doing - he's perhaps one of the all time great pianists!!
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audreyhsux5727 2 days ago
0:30 the sweat just flies right off of him lol
violadude0987 6 days ago
whoa O_O
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Patryk429 3 weeks ago
Probably one of the best piano players/performers ever!!!
TheEmokidd1 3 weeks ago
There's LOTS of very good pianists around there. But there's no better pianists playing this etudes. Period.
Commientator 1 month ago
This man is my hero. Not only because he's a beast, but because he doesn't look like he's faking an orgasm.
TheCrazyHairPianist 1 month ago
@TheCrazyHairPianist haha right! But I do believe it is impossible to play this AND have the mannerisms of Lang Lang at the same time :O
crazyghetto978818 1 month ago
Next one on my list. Already praying to God so he won't give me a heart attack playing it.
Tu16 1 month ago
I love how it literally left the audience speechless for a few seconds xD
piano9977 2 months ago
He could make a great Old Spice commercial
possimpible007 2 months ago 6
The camerawork and the setting are quite annoying, it reminds me of watching a tennis match, or some sort of sportive event (complete with assistants who bring fresh towels) ...Mr. Berezovsky has great stamina and pianistic control, he makes it look and sound easy -- however IMO there is something superficial and cold in his playing.
pianopera 2 months ago
Estupendo!!!!!!!!
colombo1981 3 months ago
I can't believe a man could play these etudes continously without being exhausted
nettes44 3 months ago
WaaAOUUU There is no better version,he eats Richter and company,Ladies and Gentleman.
Ellinidara 3 months ago
@Ellinidara I don´t absolutely agree with you!
berlinzerberus 3 months ago
@berlinzerberus I respect every opinions like always:-) Luckily we all are different:):)
Ellinidara 2 months ago
Haha. They don't clap right away since they didn't hear V to I. He was on the dominant though but it was quite distorted since the bottom notes were into the lower register.
marty051892 4 months ago
he made that etude his bitch
jdog25140 4 months ago 20
@jdog25140 indeed
BassicStorm 4 months ago
@jdog25140 I agree, he plays on the ground of his sexist fantasies probably.. hehe!
What has this playing actually got to do with art?
Gross piano-action!
berlinzerberus 3 months ago
@jdog25140 I like your comment, laugh much when reading it. As for the performance, it's simply amazing.
clementj2005 2 months ago
I have never seen anyone be that sweaty before. Although he's probably on the verge of passing out he still plays beautifully.
adam2004138 5 months ago
Why is he sweating? Doesn't look like much of a work out...
radports 5 months ago
@radports All of Liszt pieces, except for a few, are energy drainers. Plus, he played seven pieces before this.
TripleRhu 5 months ago 4
i bet this guy would be rly good at guitar hero
someoldcliche 5 months ago 2
Simply astonishing. Instead of making negative critics of Beresovsky, we should just enjoy his interpretation, other than focusing on technical flaws and other minor details. It looses a lot of point to listen if people just continue debating over it (if it's a worthwhile performance or not) instead of just listening to it and enjoy it.
gushadowx89 5 months ago
Thanks, but your link is broken :(
Where can I download the full video with all etudes? Is this DVD?
Smeol1 6 months ago in playlist Liszt's Transcendental Etudes (Berezovsky)
@Smeol1 dl.dropbox.com/u/38126213/Berezovsky_Transcendental_Etudes.avi
T3hL337Sesshy 6 months ago
Good lord.....that shit was WICKED!!
That man can play!!! That dude knows how to fuck up a piano real good!!
This guy is raw....how his fingers are still in tack; I don't know!!
755hp 7 months ago
HOLY SHIT 4:35
Laudan08 7 months ago 2
How can anyone dislike this?
Bochum96 7 months ago
Needa few more ppl to see it tho :( LOL
Zoldi77 7 months ago
I was the one who disliked, because i like the red colour.
Zoldi77 7 months ago
That melody is stunning; he makes more of it than some pianists, I like that.
friendant72 7 months ago
Why would someone dislike this video? The music is beautiful
TimothyWong24 7 months ago
arrau played that these etudes the age of 11
burnedsoma 8 months ago
@burnedsoma i can play them and i'm only seven
afertyus1000 8 months ago
@afertyus1000 lmao...brilliant.
ann03071874 7 months ago
from 2.01 what a beautiful melody!
afertyus1000 8 months ago
sauna:)
71lupenzo710 8 months ago
it's very annoying to see him so sweat...
FirstPublicChannel 9 months ago
@FirstPublicChannel
You would also sweat playing these things
Matthewfawr 8 months ago
@Matthewfawr yes, but no so much xD
FirstPublicChannel 8 months ago
the Whale does it again
maulcs 9 months ago
@maulcs ...Your inability to see this man staggering virtuosity pitiful...
thecollective09 9 months ago
@thecollective09 kekefind?
maulcs 9 months ago
that's crazy... how can he play them in a row?
Chromatica23 9 months ago
@Chromatica23
its meant to be played in one sitting if played at the concert ahaha, but it is hard to believe how his fingers aren't like sore.. o.o
About14Pandas 9 months ago
@About14Pandas I bet they would have to buy a flippin new piano every time these etudes are played!
TheProNinjaz 9 months ago
@TheProNinjaz
ahahah just imagine, in the back storage room they have like 70 more steinways xD I really like this etude along with feux follets. I can play preludio(the first etude).. hah :/
About14Pandas 9 months ago
@About14Pandas Cool, I can play this etude Wilde Jagd except 0:48 just impossible, I also play this alot slower then it should be because its tooooooooo fast!!
TheProNinjaz 9 months ago
@TheProNinjaz ahah practice makes perfect :) how long have you been playing ?
About14Pandas 9 months ago
@About14Pandas only about 2 years, i think im going a bit to far tho :L
TheProNinjaz 9 months ago
@TheProNinjaz ohh ahah wow ! wilde jagd in 2 years, thats crazy ! how long have you been working on the piece ?
About14Pandas 9 months ago
@About14Pandas like everyday for a year, people say my hands are colossal but I dunno, I just play stuff that I like. I don't play it very well though, I can't take 1:59 as fast as it should be much at all, especially at 2:36 but I guess I will one day
TheProNinjaz 9 months ago
@TheProNinjaz no i learnt this one after three months playing the piano lucky i have a good span
afertyus1000 8 months ago
@About14Pandas what else do you know?
TheProNinjaz 9 months ago
@About14Pandas Please tell us where you found information stating that this set is "meant to be played in one sitting". It's like saying Chopin wrote his Preludes to be played at one sitting, or Bach his WTC. Any of these may benefit from the perspective granted by a complete performance, but I don't think it's ever been the norm to play sets like this in one sitting, musicians almost always chose pieces from different composers and eras to lend variety to their performances.
Cancrizans 8 months ago
@Cancrizans
ohh i'm saying like, well I haven't been to a concert so tell me if i'm wrong but say berezovsky was to play chopin's op. 10. what i'm saying is that wouldn't he play all 12 etudes ? like he would play all 12 transcendental etudes at one concert is what i'm trying to say. thats why in every one of these videos, berezovsky is sweater each time with the audience applauding :)
About14Pandas 8 months ago
@About14Pandas While sometimes a pianist will play an entire set like Chopin's OP 10, much more often they will select one or a few pieces from a set like that combine them with other pieces to create a program. Especially with a set like these Etudes, I don't think many people have EVER played them all in one sitting, much more often one or a couple are played as part of a concert that includes other pieces. I was just wondering why you thought they were designed to be played as a set.
Cancrizans 8 months ago
BEREZOVSKY YOU MADE ME PRACTICE 15 MORE HOURS PER DAY...YOU'RE MY PIANO IDOL AND I HOPE I WILL BE ABLE TO PLAY ALL THE ETUDES ONE DAY..
IF THERE IS SOMEONE WHO DISLIKE THIS THEN **** ******** ******* ********.BEREZOVSKY IS THE HAND OF GOD
perjaromana 11 months ago 4
Technically great, but he ruined 2:00 until 3:00. Too bad.
I'd love to hear Marc-André Hamelin play this instead.
Corleone1337 1 year ago
@Corleone1337 Technically you are a piece of ass in piano if you can afford to use the word "ruined"there's no mistake so if you think you have something to say then let's hear you playn' even 2 etudes
perjaromana 11 months ago
@perjaromana Why should someone have to be able to play this in order to say its bad? Then you should also have to be able to play it to say it's great. And you should also be able to direct a hollywood movie before saying a movie is bad.
That logic is so silly.
celach 11 months ago
@celach Well, it's a "well, if you think it's bad, let's see you do it" sort of deal. To even pull it off halfway decent is incredibly hard. He somewhat has a point- you can be a performing pianist and listen to others and have a distaste for a certain part and avoid it as an interpretation unfavorable with you.
Besides, who are we to talk smack about a performance of probably the most diversely difficult set of etudes, pre-1900, live in one sitting?
thaiguy20fromla 10 months ago
@perjaromana If you compare this recording to Evgeny Kissin's version, you'll hopefully understand why Berezovsky doesn't play it that well - he's rushing through the piece as quickly as possible.
As a side note, I can play this Transcendental Etude, but you'll have to give me a month or two to record it, since my piano is about 12.000 km away at the moment :o)
Corleone1337 11 months ago
@Corleone1337 I personally don't see speed or tempo as a huge factor, especially in an etude, just so long as every musical detail and inflection is present.
thaiguy20fromla 10 months ago 6
@thaiguy20fromla Which is why I dislike this recording - he is sacrificing the musical details (particularly in the section I mentioned earlier) for speed; the playing sounds very robotic at that point.
This does not, of course, mean that he is a bad pianist; I certainly admire his stamina and skill in performing all twelve etudes, but I simply dislike his interpretation (and thus avoid it in my own (non-professional) playing ;-) )
Corleone1337 10 months ago
@Corleone1337 Gross comment. Truly gross.
maulcs 9 months ago
@kerrrs wow
BassicStorm 1 year ago
I want to CRY listening him playing this piece!
Minoru73 1 year ago
@Minoru73 agreed
ToxicLabProductions 1 year ago
was that glissando @ 3:44?
BassicStorm 1 year ago
@BassicStorm lol I was wondering that to, I think so
ToxicLabProductions 1 year ago
Its amazing! Although I wish he would take a little more artistic liberty with the tempo.
thegreatapologist 1 year ago
Have you seen his top at 00:40!!!!! It's incredible!!!
AlexandreJdB 1 year ago
Epic!
bersa888 1 year ago
The section beginning with 2:00 is rhythmically very complicated, me thinks. There are many intervowen rhythmic patterns, which perhaps not even Liszt was aware of at once.
flippert0 1 year ago 2
@flippert0 Liszt wasn't aware of his own patterns in his compositions??? i've heard it all now on YT armchair critics!!!
afertyus1000 8 months ago
@afertyus1000 Well, I wrote "perhaps". But I don't think this idea is so far of. In rhythmically rich pieces, I often see pianists acentuate different parts of the score, which lends itself to different patterns.
flippert0 8 months ago
@flippert0 yes of course different pianists have a flair for finding melodic accents in pieces which have hitherto been hidden maybe you have a point
afertyus1000 8 months ago
It really is amazing how he did not mess up, not once, in any of the etudes....
and he played them all in one sitting......
The man is by far the greatest pianist of our time
ToxicLabProductions 1 year ago 23
@ToxicLabProductions He actually did make a few mistakes here and there in them.
celach 1 year ago 22
@celach but musical / sound-wise he made it perfect, so the little mistakes were unnoticeable
BlazeKenny 1 year ago
@celach
where?
theRealRealTruth 1 year ago
@celach Yeah, and a pretty big one near the end of the Mazeppa. but... damn he's good! He has quite a different interpretation on most of the transcendentals I've heard before, especially the Hamories du Soir. I like it!
jeandvl 1 year ago
@celach Not overtly noticeable, though, :), I think that's a sign of a true piano virtuoso, the ability to cover up mistakes so they don't sound blaring.
OverFjell 1 year ago
@OverFjell I agree, I can't seem to pick out any mistakes in the 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th, 10th or 12th for that matter. If you can, let me know :)
ann03071874 1 year ago
@ann03071874 there are clear ones in the 4th 10th and 12th, not that it matters at all...
trtnec 8 months ago
@celach no one will ever be able to play all of them without mistakes.
chipncharge94 1 year ago
@celach you're so fussy
RediForKing 11 months ago
@celach Maybe, but tell me - who wouldn't do them?! In my opinion his play is just fabulous. I don't hear any mistakes. I agree with ToxicLabProductions. He's by far one of the best..
bajbojka22 8 months ago
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Cancrizans 8 months ago
@Cancrizans Appreciate your comment, don't think it was constructive either. I wasn't unprompted nor did I say 'lol mistakes". The idea that just because you think a performance is solid and awesome that your brain MUST make the leap to say it is flawless and perfect is ridiculous. We don't need to call attention to mistakes but that doesn't mean you pretend they don't exist.
celach 8 months ago 24
@celach Fair enough. I occasionally get overloaded reading the self professed geniuses on Youtube nitpick great artists and don't read enough of the comments to get a good impression of what an individual poster's actual attitude or position is. My apologies.
Cancrizans 8 months ago
@celach Making mistakes, is not messing up. Leting a mistake affect you when you play, making you choke, that's more like messing up I think =)
bb0ysmiley 6 months ago
@celach Sorry if it took so long... I deleted my uninformed comment concerning your statement that Berezovsky made some mistakes in this performance because I obviously misunderstood your intention in posting that comment. I read so much nitpicking nonsense on Youtube where artists are judged on a finger slip or a failure to conform to whoever's pedagogical ideal, that I mistook your comment for similar without understanding your position.
Cancrizans 5 months ago
@Cancrizans
Wow, what a snobby pretentious bullshit comment that was.
"We're higher than some "mistakes"... that's the product of stupid philistine companies! No... we care about ART."
Sorry... no. Just no. Mistakes are mistakes - if you have sufficiently good ears, they may not matter to you, or, on rarer occasions, they can create a charming effect of different kind, be it a "lol he's still human" or, indeed, an accidental aural pleasure.
In most cases, though, they'll stick out as...
twooffour 7 months ago
@twooffour What bothers me most of all is that I really don't think most people appreciate what a true artist's life is like; therefore taking a paparazzi style snapshot when someone makes a mistake in the greater context of artistic endeavor is simply perverted.
Cancrizans 5 months ago
@twooffour What I intended my comment to mean was simply...why is it we can never view the life and intentions of an artist in a broader scope? Why is it always "oh let's judge this and that performance and make sure we give our opinions!" as if the creation of Art even remotely resembled that kind of judgement-based thinking.
Cancrizans 5 months ago
@Cancrizans
If nothing else, passing judgements and opinions (certainly thought-out ones, arguably less so as well) can have a reflecting effect on the artists - reminding them that many people, even thoughtful ones, will come to listen to what they present and won't bend over backwards to take into account their "artistic life" and look the other way when mistakes or slops are made.
From my own perspective, I don't see why I should bother pondering the "artist's life" before daring to...
twooffour 5 months ago
@Cancrizans
... express my views on what I've just heard, in the first place.
Having that said, please explain to me how the creation of art doesn't resemble "that kind of judgment-based thinking"?
What about the tireless self-criticism and self-correction exercized by the artist to eliminate their own slops and mistakes? What about their teachers'?
Did you know that lots of performers and composers pass judgments on and bad-mouth about other artists, as well?
twooffour 5 months ago
@twooffour Of course...but that is simply bad habits we share as a society. Artists are equally burdened by the social norms of conversational language as we all are. My point is simply this: art does not come about through aggression, through arrogance, through power...it comes about through wisdom, understanding, passion for freedom, not passion for control. The artist judges his or her self not at a critical level...it is a completely different thing, it is tumultuous, experiential, volcanic
Cancrizans 5 months ago
@Cancrizans
You're way up there in the clouds, mate.
If you come back to the ground, you'll realize (and learn) that artists, certainly when it comes to technique and performance, test themselves, listen to themselves, record themselves and ask for advice and feedback with pretty much the same brand of critical, rigorous attitude as you hear from "art critics" or "mistake complainers".
The "passion for freedom" vs. "passion for control" are two side of the same coin -
twooffour 5 months ago
@Cancrizans
exaggerated passion for freedom can take away the (technical) control, the presence of technical and mental control can generate a sensation of freedom (both for the performer and the listener).
When we hear flaws or mistakes, who says it isn't our passion for freedom (from slop, mistakes and flaws, the things that drag down the experience and only remind us that it's a human playing) rather than "aggression speaking"?
Come back when you've learnd to think, PLEASE.
twooffour 5 months ago
@twooffour It sure ain't art criticism, I'll say that.
Cancrizans 5 months ago
@Cancrizans
... a sore thumb, and pointing that out has NOTHING to do with "manufactured images" by "commercial companies" - on the contrary, it's a honest expression of a genuine observation and sentiment.
If that makes you feel insecure, then that's too bad.
twooffour 7 months ago
@ToxicLabProductions Specifically in #4, just after the Alegro deciso, he goes back to a part he played earlier.
liszt141 9 months ago
@ToxicLabProductions Lawl that is very hard to determine. Different pianists excel in different areas. Gabriela Montero is a fantastic improviser. Glenn Gould had innovative and exquisite interpretations of Bach, and so on. You can't just say a person is the best pianist because of their technique, after a certain mastery level is attained they are pretty much as good as each other :)
bennemann 9 months ago
@ToxicLabProductions didnt he almost start wrong somewhere in the no4 mazeppa
Ingot49 8 months ago
Талантише..
FedyaXinelov 1 year ago
are the hard etudes or the easy ones? S139 or S-(I dunno)
EmceeLorder 1 year ago
Wonderful video... anyone know who the production company was?
gwizvideo 1 year ago
At the end, those fools don't even seem to realize what they have just witnessed.
gott1rott 1 year ago
This is NOT the most difficult Trancedental etude . The two most difficult in the set are the Feux Follets and Mazeppa.
openmindspace 1 year ago
@openmindspace Obviouzly.
maulcs 9 months ago
This peice is so wonderful. It is like anger, unbearable passion, agitation released in the form of fire.
hophophippopotamus 1 year ago
What a Master!!!!!!!!!! Thank you to Berezovsky parents for giving this genius birth!!! :D
Thank God such a pianist exists!!!!!!!!! Master Boris brings us out of the mediocrity and dimness of leProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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SebastienLoong 1 year ago
lol why the hell do you think it says presto furioso? lol
ToxicLabProductions 1 year ago
yo tocando esta obra perdi un dedo....y tocando la campanela quede sordo.....por ultimo toque la pathetica de Beethoven y quede loco....
martin460123 1 year ago
presto furioso
71lupenzo710 1 year ago
what a moment of silence in the and.. great 8)
deedeethedude 2 years ago
Perfectly as ... already I indicated in my previous message that more descriptive than aggressive I think that it(he) would be furious. I am glad that you feel identified with the emotional agitation that produces this work. You expressed it perfectly with the words " otherwise you should plough not alive ".
Cordial greeting
astronomo16 2 years ago
Just to throw my two cents in, "wilde jagd" means "wild hunt". Liszt specifically characterized it as "wild". Also, the tempo indication is "presto furioso". I would definitely say that it's intended to be violent and aggressive, and that Berezovsky's performance (for the most part) reflected that. But that doesn't mean it can't be beautiful at the same time.
celach 2 years ago 3
@celach
1) He called it "wild hunt" because the "wild hunt" is the specific name of an old folk myth.
2) These etudes only got their programmatic names in their final versions, so they're really just ret-cons.
twooffour 1 year ago
@celach oscar wilde oce said in front of the judge" cant a book be genius which reflects unmoral meanings?" ( veryfree,because i only know it in german)
karazh 1 year ago
@celach Tru dat, plus it's his interpretation of the piece.
ToxicLabProductions 1 year ago
The chromatism is insuperable, and the turbulence of the sound stops any search of peace or tranquility. The fingers must touch the piano with the maximum violence (and talent) possibly, reflecting an interior unbearable fight.
astronomo16 2 years ago 4
HA I wonder if liszt broke many pianos playing this piece!
AmericanCars101 2 years ago
Liszt broke many piano, and this piece is a perfect candidate to break one. The interior passion must make yield the resistance of the piano (speaking in general on the studies). It is necessary to make suffer to the piano, since it is precisely the feeling that we want to move, distresses. Since you will be able to verify Berezovsky manages to break a string hereinafterlater on. It is the indicative one that the studies are touched well ;)
astronomo16 2 years ago
@AmericanCars101
Pianos during Liszt's lifetime were generally very sensitive and well, maybe didn't literally break but went out of tune very quickly. I think I read somewhere that Liszt usually played with two pianos on stage - not because they would break, but they went out of tune so fast.
FranzLisztian 1 year ago
More that aggressive, pardon, debit of expressing and to be interpreted in a furious way. This score has really diabolical connotations, added to his fearsome difficulty.
This great work reflects a deep, sensitive and aggrieved feeling that gets up with a force and intensity that I would qualify of Dionysian.
astronomo16 2 years ago 3
He plays so beautifully. This piece is agressive! (perfect thecnique)
astronomo16 2 years ago 2
I hope he wore deodorant with that much sweat.
alkaneer 2 years ago 5
he plays all trascendental etudes at one recital, its amazing!
karazh 2 years ago 2
looks like he just pulled his shirt out of the washer lol. He plays the second half of the etude beautifully.
ChrisWatch 2 years ago 16
WTF how does he do that
ADVERTlSEMENT 2 years ago
Darn. I wanted to see what he does for fingering at the big chromatic run in th ebeginning. What does everyone here do? I'm thinking that 5432154321 and 1234512345 work the best? Any other ideas?
aguyfromtexas 2 years ago
which chromatic run are you talking about?
by
bencrom 2 years ago
Its 4321321321, as well it is not a chromatic run. I'm not sure why you would want to know that if you had to ask, took me 5 mins to look up the score.
pianoaccount23 2 years ago
"Nor chromatic" how?
twooffour 2 years ago
I don't know if you still need it, but I do 5432131321 in RH and 2341231234 in LH
chaOsMastaGuru 1 year ago
But how much does he sweat??!
Bravissimoooo
MrAlessandro999 2 years ago 7
I learn this piece, and try to learn from berezovsky, how he plays it, pity that hand not enouqht shown here, more his wet face.
musicpiano14 2 years ago 6
1:50 Bodybuilder Berezovsky xD!!!!!!
What an arms!!!!!! Look at that!!! pure muscle, pure piano, non steroids xD
edtskyline 2 years ago 3
this is one of my favourites. just BEAUTIFUL!...
ccen1 2 years ago 2
Possibly one of the most angry pieces ever written.
Gothic1982 2 years ago 6
Great performance. I really don't like the camera work however, I want to see the fingers and arms, not sweat beads and views from UNDERNEATH the keys, I don't see the point there.
CatalyticAntibody 2 years ago 10
same goes
visionnn 2 years ago
semplicemente fantastico....il mio idolo... mi auguro di incontrarlo un giorno...amazing performance!!
vincenzopollini 2 years ago 3
It's~~~~~~~~ bravo!!!
a87057200234 2 years ago
The piano is bigger than my parents bed ... xD
TheSmurffather 2 years ago 28
@TheSmurffather
Now you know why people have decorative pianos at home...
twooffour 9 months ago
Gotta love that ending.
Chidi88 2 years ago 5
OMG LISZT FC
vokuheila 2 years ago 3
haha :D though he forgot to tip the piano and get star power
SanctumZero 2 years ago
He forgot to tip the towel boy
mmcau 2 years ago
Das ist wunderbar!!! Das ist unglaublich!!
Das ist eine gewaltige Tempo!
Sehr-sehr gut!
Meine alle Anerkennung gehört Berezovsky!!! Fantastisch!!!
abgedrosselt 2 years ago 5
Liszt dedicated the Transcendental Etudes to Carl Czerny. Boris had'nt been born yet.
rflo1981 2 years ago
that piano is beautiful...
123joshyy 2 years ago 3
Can anyone believe it?!! My god this is hot!!! I love it how people are commenting on his sweat - who cares?!! Just close your eyes gang and dig what he's doing - he's perhaps one of the all time great pianists!!
musictomorrow142677 2 years ago 8
Well its not just sweat, its sweat in high quality xD
celach 2 years ago 18
lol , but still nice technique
mosen17 2 years ago 2
LOL this piece is hard, but playing all the leads of execution études jaja
SvaenarHoly 2 years ago 4
its nnot that hard, its all under your fingers! Clever Liszt :D!
predoje 2 years ago
Amazing!!!
edtskyline 3 years ago 2
He must be the sweatiest pianist in the world!
PapiJohn51 3 years ago 3
Insane!!!!
aaabbbccc5 3 years ago 2