Alexey Koltakov - Liszt-Horowitz Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

This is pianist Alexey Koltakov playing the AMAZING Horowitz arrangent of Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody in C-sharp minor.

This is a more clear version compared to the video I took of Lang Lang playing this piece.

I'm not 100% positive which competition this is, i -think- it might be at the 15th International Van Cliburn Competition, but again, I'm not positive. If you can recognize that backdrop, let me know? :D

This performance starts out a bit heavy, a bit hurried, but the friska is *amazing. The clarity in the sound is superb!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• piano
• alexey
• Koltakov
• international
• competition
• vladimir
• horowitz
• franz
• liszt
• hungarian
• rhapsody
• no.
• c-sharp

[jewbar2point0]

i really enjoy this performance. he really seems to understand the piece. it speaks to him. and then he speaks to the piano. a rarity. unlike that clown maksim, who just a performing bozo

[fabrizio76c]

This guy is just amazing, he has above all other pianist an expressivity in very fast pieces that other pianists loose. His Campanella is also amazing. An error here and there can happen in these pieces...see the campanella of Kissin, there are many.....it's the overall performance that matters and the feeling it transmitt. I find him among the best ever.

[coffeedude7]

22 people are obviously brain dead.

[llllShArPllll]

It was very good, but I think it's safe to say that no one will ever top Horowitz's recording

[g7727]

oh my chocolate! This is better.

[Funzone2]

I am now sick AND disgusted. I play this about 1/10 as well as he does and I've worked it for a year. --AND the easy rendition- not with Horowitz's cadenzas

[gigantore21]

pretty sure it was tom and jerry

[azahnd82]

Thumbs up if you totally remember this song from the Bugs Bunny cartoon. :D

[ourDC888]

Wow! Thank you for sharing!

[MsMymichael]

Excellent performance

Michael the GREEK modern classical music composer

[Fear9356]

What a Wonderful, Dramatic (somewhere Annoying) performance :,D It can speak! It is Alexey's Hungarian Rhapsody! (Or Alexey's Rhapsody in Hungarian :D X)

[mohammadvarzaldoust]

a wonderful performance! thanks