Vitaly Pisarenko plays Ständchen by Schubert/Liszt

Vitaly Pisarenko, Winner of the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition of Utrecht, The Netherlands plays Ständchen (Serenade) by Schubert/Liszt. This was his encore after recieving the First Prize during the Final Gala evening of the Liszt Competition in April 2008 in Utrecht. Recording by NPS television.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• Liszt
• Utrecht
• Pisarenko
• Competition
• Schubert
• Ständchen
• Piano

[charmingemily]

is it written by schubert or liszt?

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[lisztcompetition]

Dear Charmingemily, this song was originally written by Schubert and rewritten for piano solo by Franz Liszt.

[charmingemily]

Thanks! By the way are you an official person in Liszt Competition or you're just somebody interested in it?

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[lisztcompetition]

you've got me... I do work for the Liszt Competition. You can find me on our website.

[Veringetorix]

@lisztcompetition the original was sung wasn't it?

[lisztcompetition]

@Veringetorix Yes it was. You can find it on YouTube.

[thdkid]

Not bad, but not on the level of Horowitz's or Rachmaninoff's recordings.

[MultiPianoteacher]

@MrDucksss Good quality has nothing to do with a good quality arrangement, mrducksss.

Its been long time since your request. But if you still don't have it, I'm willing to provide one for you.

[MultiPianoteacher]

@thdkid Are you kidding me? Horowitz played this song with his feet. This young man actually gave beauty to this song. Greatly executed. BRAVO. Beautiful. You made Schubert proud.

[wouterharbers]

So beautiful!

[throwscats]

@RoystonScholar He played much harder works, I'm assuming. This is an encore. Horowitz would play Mozart's "Alla Turca" as an encore, and that is a rather simple piece.

There's a lot more to music than how difficult it is. How beautiful it is is much more important, from "simple" music to the more difficult pieces. Know what I mean?

[smeetsnoud1]

@RoystonScholar how many flats or sharps you play doesn't matter. /this piece seems simple, but I can tell you myself, it's not. You should give it a try playing it with perfect balance between left hand, melody and echo.

[smeetsnoud1]

@AlexAlcyone That's right, although he's not improvising.. It's a cadenza liszt used alot at concerts, according to students who wrote the cadenza on paper. Got it in my sheet music, and play it as well tonight at a concert in Amsterdam. But I agree playing the cadenza, improvised or studied, is more Liszt style.

[PaulineQin]

Bravo!!!!!

[PrincessDesert]

@RoystonScholar Beethoven's moonlight Sonata 1st movement, you would say is very easy, but no one even knows how to play it right

[tough0crowd0eh91]

Did he win the "Looks Most Like Liszt" category.

[nwarch]

The other day I heard Kissin playing this same piece on the radio classical station, it was on 109.5 on October 10, 2011. Having spent endless years playing piano myself, I was amazed with the sound and the impression was absolutely as if there was another piano playing echoe.... I keep looking for Kissin's interpretation of this piece here on Youtube and can not find it. Others play not as Kissin did....And i never was Kissin's admirer, but this piece sounds amazing in his hands...