Richard Kastle - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Ending

Can't place the name of the pianist playing the piece in the beginning. Saw it on Google Video.

Okay, my subscribers probably don't know what I'm talking about in this video. This is mainly directed at those who have seen the Interview with Richard Kastle where he talks about the ending of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and mikecaffey's comments, as well. I talk about how absurd it is to believe Marc-Andre Hamelin plays this piece wrongly, also.

I guess I am overreacting,but what can I say; I'm easily annoyed.

There are some images in this video that might be hard to see. Here are the URL's (full-size images):

http://www.music.informatics.indiana.edu/media/don/sorabjislur2.jpg

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9761/sorabji1ii.jpg

http://fuwatm.hp.infoseek.co.jp/finnissy_english_16.gif

^I made a mistake. This is something from a composer named Finnissy, but my point is still made.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l221/happyuser90/Kastle.jpg

Everything else is explained in the video.

Music tracks:

"Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" - Franz Liszt

"Etude Allegro Barbaro" - Charles-Valentin Alkan (played by Jack Gibbons

"La Campanella" - Franz Liszt (played by Evgeny Kissin)

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[rurikrussi]

Yes, there's harder music to play in piano than Liszt. An example is Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, specially the 3rd movement, "Scarbo". Not only Liszt has very difficult piano music n_n. mikecaffey forgot Rachmaninoff too

[Laudan08]

This is not difficult, i'm 15 and i can assure you i can play it, i'm just lazy as shit.

[JeyelSchroeder]

@6347285 I can see that you are a true devotee, and I'm not going to take that away from you. Those are amazing accounts from heavy names, but you are still relying on what other people say rather than having an opinion of you own. So do you like this passage? And/or do you personally, from what you know, think it's impressing from a technical point of view?

If I got you right, this guy was once a gifted kid and a promising student, but I've never heard of him before. So what happened?

[6347285]

@JeyelSchroeder That's true about believing things on YouTube, but Kastle's teachers are quoted in the press saying that he started out as a genius who could play Liszt before he could read music. Horowitz's student, Ivan Davis raved about Kastle's technique in the press. The articles are on the internet. It sounds like he was ahead of the others before he had his first lesson, so it only makes sense that he would push the limits and write octaves that are harder then Liszt's.

[chrismanners1]

Poor, poor deluded man. Actually thinks he's a genius... Bless :(

[JeyelSchroeder]

@6347285 You shouldn't believe everything you read on Youtube. Just because someone claims that a passage he invented is impossible for others to play, it doesn't mean you have to take that statement for a fact. In this case, it seems to be some kind of a practical joke. OK, if you've never touched a piano, you'd have to catch up with some basics before you can play this, but there are really no particular difficulties in it. However, I suppose it works fine as an octave study.

[BnkWrATMt1ts]

Not my kind of music. I'll stick to my Mozart sonatas, thanks.

[6347285]

You have not heard the whole concerto with orchestra. What's on YouTube is just a section of a work in progress played at the piano without an orchestra. It ends with octave technique that looks impossible.

[matthew1722]

@6347285 I know, I've already heard it, and to be honest I find it more boring than some of Kastle's other work.

[6347285]

@matthew1722 Another example of American Exceptionalism can be found at the end of Ole Ole from Kastle's 9th Concerto, where he set the new standard for technical virtuosity. Liszt's unplayable octaves are easy when compared with Kastle's.