Marc Andre Hamelin - Richard Kastle - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - 17 virtuosi play Liszt's last page

Liszt's treacherous last page played by Marc Andre Hamelin, Richard Kastle, Sergi Rachmaninoff and others.

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 last page played in this order: Moritz Rosenthal, Sergi Rachmaninoff, Ignace Paderewski, Josef Hofmann, Alfred Cortot, Gyorgy Cziffra, Alfred Brendel, Earl Wild, Jposef Bulva, Leslie Howard, Alice Sara Ot, Denis Matsuev, Maksim Mrvica, Jung Lin, Adam Gyorgy, Richard Kastle, Mark Andre Hamelin

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• Liszt
• Richard
• Kastle
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• Rachmaninoff
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• Ott
• Gyorgy
• Matsuev
• Hofmann
• Paderewski
• Brendel
• Cortot
• Lin
• Wild
• Rosenthal
• Howard
• piano

[MrStrav81]

Is this worth comparing pianists side by side on?

[holdredger]

@MrStrav81 Yes it is. You can hear who can play Liszt, and who can't. You can also determine which ones cheat in the studio.

[MrStrav81]

@holdredger

It was meant to be a rhetorical question. The answer is no.

[holdredger]

@MrStrav81 Make sure your tombstone includes the phrase, "ignorance is bliss."

[binkymagnus]

Where's Tom and Jerry?! :)

[f1f1s]

I had 5 minutes of laughing at the greatest virtuosi. Please crucify me!

Seriously, many virtuosi released messy recordings, and there is no shame to criticize their manner.

But this video leaves an aftertaste of incompleteness without Rubinstein, Argerich, and Horowitz...

[airvarie]

Umm I see

[TheShnag]

@OrangeSodaKing Kastle himself says that Hamelin took Rachmaninoff's shorcut, which is to play closer to the keys, making it easier to hit all the correct notes, but with less volume. He does give Hamelin credit for bringing that method to respectable volume. Kastle sounds cocky when he passes out judgement like that, but you can't help but agree with him. He is the only pianist in the past century, maybe Denis Matsuev too, who could play Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 the way Franz Liszt intended.

[6347285]

@tchykovsky I agree that it's about the music. The problem with Rachmaninoff is that he plays the ending quietly, like a director who remakes Hitchcock's Psycho and inteprets the shower scene as calm and boring. You're the critic who is impressed by how calm and soothing the new shower scene is, notwithstanding the creator's intent and the direct violation of logical reasoning.