Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 | Khatia Buniatishvili (Verbier 2011)
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- Pure piano virtuosity: Khatia Buniatishvili plays Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (S. 514) by Franz Liszt. The concert took place at the Verbier Festival on July 26. 2011.
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886), who was himself a great piano virtuoso, composed several top-class bravura pieces for piano, including the four Mephisto Waltzes. The Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (1856 - 61) is the most famous of the four piano waltzes and remains one of the most frequently performed virtuoso pieces by the Austro-Hungarian composer.
The first Mephisto waltz is subtitled ‚Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke‘ (The Dance in the Village Inn) and is a typical example of program music. However, the literary template for the program around the Mephisto figure does not come from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's famous Faust tragedy but from the verse epic "Faust. Ein Gedicht" by the Austrian writer Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850). In the episode The Dance, Faust and Mephisto enter a village tavern. There Mephisto grabs a musician's violin, tunes the instrument and plays a wild dance on it - while Faust disappears into the forest with a harlot. Franz Liszt transfers this scene to his piano waltz in rich detail. At the beginning, you can hear the violin's voices as empty fifths, then the infernal dance and finally the song of a nightingale in the forest. The following musically condensed passage has even been interpreted as the first time a sexual act was set directly to music.
Liszt dedicated the Mephisto Waltz to his famous piano pupil Karl Tausig and later rewrote it to create an orchestral version. Nevertheless, the virtuoso piano piece has remained a concert favourite. Khatia Buniatishvili plays the Mephisto Waltz No. 1 full of drama and sensuality - earning much applause and cheers.
As a child, pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, born in 1987 in Tblisi, Georgia, was considered a wunderkind. She began to play the piano at the age of three and gave her first concert with the Tblisi concert orchestra at the age of six. International performances followed when she was ten. In 2008, she gave her US debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Since then, Buniatishvili has been regularly invited to many high-profile festivals and has given concerts in the world’s most renowned concert halls, for instance at Vienna’s Musikverein, at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and at the Berlin Philharmonic. She has won the highly respected Echo Classic Award twice.
The Verbier Festival is one of the most prestigious classical music events in the world. The quality of the participating artists as well as the originality of the programs have established the festival as a highlight of the music season. It takes place for two weeks in late July and early August in the mountain resort of Verbier, in Switzerland.
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Once I started watching her, I couldn't stop. It's been ALL day. Magnificent!
She is ONE in TEN billion ♥
Such a divinely poetic spirit with Mephistophelian nerve
She can play the piano!! Brilliant!! WOW such magic fingers!
She can indeed! Make sure to check our other videos featuring Khatia Buniatishvili too :)
Me atrevería a comparar su sensibilidad artística y su motricidad fina a Vladimir Horowitz. Magistral!.
She's a very close second to Lang Lang playing Liszt's Réminiscences de Don Juan (on themes from Mozart's Don Giovanni)
Écouter la musique tout en vous voyant jouer est un spectacle complet et merveilleux : mes oreilles y participent aussi bien que mes yeux. Merci.
Как же щедро бывает одарён один человек!
Шикарная внешность, блестящие музыкальные способности, высокая одухотворёность, ощущаемая в каждрм звуке!
Как поразительно.. .
Genial ! Ich spiele über 60 Jahre Klavier, aber dabei kann ich mich nur flach auf den Boden legen .... und rühre nie wieder eine Taste an 😌 😍
Me pasa igual toque piano 60 y 30 no se nada sigo con tareas, de piano Solo puede oir, Y disfruto!!0
Khatia is talented and stylish too. I want her CD, because I am addicted to the Mephisto Waltz. I love her spirited version !
Lizst, himself the greatest pianist of his day, would be blown away!
Liszt please
Not at all, this is mess.
Un uso dei tempi non convenzionale ma il risultato è magnifico
My new favorite pianist, ive been watching nonstop!
Mamma mia, che brava.
Khatia, talento, gracia, elegancia!. Nacida el 21-06-1987, tres días antes que el gran Leo Messi, Khatia es la Messi del piano!!!.
absolut genial! das reicht weit ins 20. jahrhundert hinein. was für ein temperament und wenn ich an gründgens mephisto denke muss ich eingestehen, er hat ihn fantastisch portraitiert!
Loved it!! Bravo!
Maravilhosa, deusa, perfeita, magnífica!
Ainda mais,
Gostei DEMAIS.
Khatia, you are the best!
She really is!
Da acordo,
Insieme a yuja Wang
Maravilhosa interpretação! 4:11
How many people on the planet can play this? 3? 4?. My God she is brilliant.
Well tens of thousands I reckon
a lot, it's not impossible as a piece, but sure really hard ye : )
87 if you want a number
Listen to Sultanov
Magnifique 👿
FANTASTIC ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Incredible.
I love her so much. Technique is brilliant but some sections are messy. Take your time we know you can play at the speed of light but some sections need you to take time. I love love love this woman.
Непостижимо ...ибо великолепно . Благодарю .
Khatia est tellement extraordinaire qu'elle arrive à nous faire croire que Méphisto lui-même peut souffrir, avoir de la sensibilité jusqu'à aller partager la souffrance qu'il a infligé auparavant aux humains. Oh ! Merci Khatia.
On dirait limite que c’est Franz Liszt qui joue !
Hard to believe what I just saw and heard.
Very nicely done powerful meaningful 👌☺
There are some parts that a bit rushing but still magnificent technique there. This piece is hella difficult with that kind of speed!
Absolutamente brillante
If a tear doth not well up in the peepers then thou not human.
wow
Simplesmente , a melhor pianista da atualidade ,ao meu ver !!!!!
Holy frick, that is fast.
😍♥️😍♥️😍♥️😍♥️😍🇧🇷
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Nein, da bevorzuge ich das wunderbar von Khatja gespielte Ständchen von Schubert/Liszt.
Она очень много и упорно трудилась а теперь показывает выдающийся результат!!!мой Вам поклон Катя)или оно по другому переводится на русский язык?!)
perevodit ne nado! ee zvat Chatia i izvolte tak i nazivat
@@ninololadze828 договорились 🤝
I didn't know it was a competition of speed with that piece.
Yeah, the tempo is a little too fast. I think she needs to let it breathe.
Indeed. She does the music no favours like this
I think its about showing off
Now you know.
Halleluya
praise the Lord.
Thanks a lot for your magical playlist
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Please, would somebody tell me who arrange that sheet? I have a Busoni’s arrange and it's very different. Thank you 🙏🏻 all
Dear Jesus Colavita,
We assume that the original version by Franz Liszt will be played here. Busoni arranged the piece later.
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Grandiosa interprete como sempre
Endiablado de dificil de interpretar ,solo los grandes lo logran ...Bravooo por ella
😘👏👏👏💐
Great performance but im saddened to see the tempo cause some sections to be pretty choppy and inaccurate. better than I could ever do so who am i to judge...
No, you are a listener who knows what he hears. You have a right to judge. I agree with you! It's fast playing, but it doesn't sound like the 'Dance of the Devil.'
It seems like she rushing it.. I like her but sometimes the same pieces she plays compared to yuja wang there's a major difference in rhythm and the music part.. She more focused on speed and trying to play fast and perfect
Haha haha, "rushing it". The fastest Waltz in history, I hope that was humor?
Incredible technical facility. Fingers of steel with the best of them. Horowitz, Bolet, Cziffra, Pletnev Y. Wang etc. Horowitz used to call it "Box Office". As fun as it was, I prefer a little slower and more lyrical playing.
7:02 oh gosh her thumb on her right hand slipped over. I know that painful feeling and the panick after it
good spot
Linda
I am sorry but is she pernamently sitting on left pedal? Sounds like it.
She has to become matured.....It's not only about showing up hard studied piano skills but moreover about the spirits of the devil.....
I recommand also listening to maestro Andrei Gavrilov ( gold-medal winner 1974, Intern. Tschaikowsky-Competiition Moscow 1974) after Vladimir Ashkenazy who won it before.. Gavrilov performed Prokofiev: "suggestion diabolique". And that's only my recomantdation while rehearsing.
Mi dispiace dirlo ma è la peggiore versione che io abbia mai ascoltato , questa pianista non ha idea di cos'è musicalità , senso, interpretazione etc etc disastro
7:17
4:53
Her technique is astonishing, but I don't care for this interpretation. This piece has some beautiful lyrical moments that just don't work at this tempo.
I agree with you. Incredible techinique, but don't worth lyrical and melodical aspects of the preceptores.
The new speed records worldwide
Supersonica
Is that good? NO!!!
Ultimate Goddess ...I attentend She Live ×2 Aaaahhh...
7:18 how
I mean, sure... speed.. ok, but it makes no sense played like this, plus there are more wrong notes than right ones xD
Still impressive in some ways I guess
casi que se lo ve al mismisimo mefistofeles bailando sobre la teclas
She is a beautiful woman. I don't know maybe i have to listen some more time to this interpretation, but the music flows away in such a speed way. There are beautiful details in this masterwork missing...your technique is amazing but it's not matter to be the best technician all over the world...that is also music..in the last 2 or 3 minutes everything passes like a Ferrari along a formula 1 circuit...so i return to my dearest Vladimir Horowitz and Gyorgyi Cziffra to be completely satisfied..
My 2 cents anyway...
Ok
Needs more work...baseline harmonies not brought out in many instances ...sounds mushed in too many places....lost the music line im afraid...so many of these so called virtuosi putting out these pieces not playing from on high...your just better playing a simple piice to greater effect...
7:25 Ig it should be more clear but ok
zudem viele falsche und nicht vorhandene Töne...es geht viel verloren bei ihrem Temperament...
A pure rush job in parts.
Thank you, for whoever posted the thumbs up, I could have said a lot more.
@@davidransbottom8314 go for it. I agree. She’s so talented and just wastes that talent with messes like this
@@neilkilleen3911 Thanks, by the way, and if your interested, Please check out the videos of Yulianna Avdeeva, who in my opinion is a far better Pianist. Her Liszt is tremendous, again, in my opinion.
@@davidransbottom8314 yeah she is awesome, and has given so much to the community through her Thursday livestreams
@@neilkilleen3911 Exactly!
Venus at piano, Khatia
შესანიშნავი, უნიჭიერესი.
nah... too fast and not that clean
Do you know how insanely hard it is to play at that tempo? And clean doesn’t always mean that there are no wrong notes. Go watch Twoset’s video about the best piano performances where a pianists gives her thoughts about this.
@@letsbrawl945 I do know how hard is to play at that speed, but these days everything seems about speed: to play an instrument doesn't mean to play it quickly, it means to convey emotions.
This - and many other aspects - differs real Masters of the past with young pianists of these days, only a few of them are really really good at playing piano.
@@ArgoBeats I am definitely aware that not everything is about speed, but I'm only talking about this spesific piece now. She's proabably showing a lot of emtion but that's just pretty hard to tell with this piece (spesifically the part where she starts playing fast, ofcourse there are parts in this piece were emotion is important)
Encore moi, désolé ! Cette femme, je vous le dis, je vous le crie, c'est Dieu. Merci alors mon Dieu de venir parmi nous par les mains merveilleuse de Khatia !
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Много педали, нет целостности, иногда мимо нот.
Люди, слушайте Султанова
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Nem èrtek a zenèhez, ìgy csak az èrzèseimre tàmaszkodhatom : csodàlatos volt. Szerintem, kivèteles tehetsèg, nagy ember, ès művèsz. Liszt Ferenc kritikája èrdekelne, nagyon. Ő , a szerző, zongoravirtuòz, csak ő tudhatná, hogyan kellene előadni-àtèlni , a művét. A kritikáknàl, nem àrtana figyelembe venni, hogy a Művèsznő -ad absurdum- nő. Ebből adòdòan, az èletben sok mindent, a zenèt is màskèpp láthatja, èrtelmezheti-èlheti meg,ès àt. Ès, még nem is beszèltünk, a művèszet szabadsàgàròl
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Szàmomra, Khatia Buniatisvili, vagy Sinèad O'Connor, Whitney Houston, Lady Diana Spencer èlete, ès/vagy művèszete-tettei/k/ nem kèpezhetik vita tàrgyàt sosem. Sem magyarul, sem , màs nyelven.
нет.. технично, но мелко...
How do they remember all those notes? 🤣
Musical memory.
Years to years of studi, natural talent
Just like you would be able to memorize a text of 10 000 words if you took your time and practiced enough. The accumulated knowledge of music these professional musicians have is like being a perfect linguist. There are plenty of factors that make memorizing these notes easier than you think. A long run of let's say 80 notes could be constructed in a very clear way based on a single chord. You only need to master the keyboard and comprehend how the composer wrote the run and it'll be a run you will never forget how to play despite the 80 individual notes. It'll also be easy to remember. Your brain will know where to place your fingers based on the single knowledge of a chord, and that in a couple of milliseconds.
It's just too fast. The musicality and the daredevilry of Mephisto aren't crystallized in this performance. It feels like she wants to finish the task at hand prestissimo possible. It really sucks when Liszt's works become vehicles of circus virtuosity.
what are some of the best renditions, more nuanced, that you could recommend - thanks!
ЗАВИСТЬ - плохое чувство, которое сжирает человеческую сущность !!Избавьтесь от неё и вы почувствуете себя счастливым человеком !Катя -- великий музыкант , она творит вместе с композиторами !!Рахманинов и КАТЯ -- ОКЕАН МУЗЫКИ ПОТРЯСАЮЩИХ ЭМОЦИЙ И ЧУВСТВ !!!ЭТО ВЕЛИКИЕ КОМПОЗИТОР И ПИАНИСТКА- ИНТЕРПРЕТАТОР ПЛАНЕТАРНОГО МАСШТАБА , КОТОРЫЕ ПРИНОСЯТ МИРУ ОГРОМНОЕ ДУХОВНОЕ НАСЛАЖДЕНИЕ НАВЕКИ ВСЕМ ЖИТЕЛЯМ ЗЕМЛИ !!!
@@bobanbu Listen to Claire-Marie Le Guay (from her recording Joies de l'âme). The cleanest rendition ever. Passion but with a sense of control.
Exactly! well said..
Ashkenazy, Richter, and I haven't seen it, but I think Horowitz could've made miracles with this (a miracle for the devil, that is) @@bobanbu
also die meisten töne sind richtig 🤣... und aus den falschen könnte man nen neuen mephisto schreiben 🙄
Too fast
Too much Dionysian energy in some parts. A pity, she deconstructs music into a shimmering, whirring sound!
A veces el exceso de virtuosismo hace perder el sentido de la obra.
No...too fast and not musical. When you play Liszt, you need to be able to hide the virtuosity, otherwise listeners miss the musical content. But it's very hard to do this. Yes, Yuja often succeeds at this, but not always.
Yes - I couldn’t appreciate her performances of this piece until I was more familiar with it, after listening to it at a more sane tempo… but goddamn man the skill required to jump octaves at that speed really is incredible
Sultanov
Ощущение, будто говном с ложки покормили..... Не меня - аудиторию....
Ну я бы не стал так грубо выражаться, но в целом согласен) Темп очень загнанный, из-за этого много лиричных моментов упущено. Да и по технике не особо чисто сыграно
She absolutely destroyed this piece, what a shame of interpretation!
She could be a master at piano technique, but this thing she did, was awful... speed just... obliterated musicality 0/10
Ужас. Не слушает ни одной паузы. Темпы не соответствуют качеству. За Листа обидно.
she frustrates me so much! she has magnificent technique and musical sensibility when she wants it and some of what she does is glorious. but so often, she plays at ridiculous speeds that just throws all that away. In this performance there are places where she simply cannot hold it together with reasonable precision and accuracy because of the excess tempo. Worse, she does the music no favours with these silly tempos.
ridiculous
The worst interpretation I ever heard...
Нелепо, без смысла.Разочаровала.
Faster does not mean better. What a dreadful performance.
I have seen highschool students play Mephisto with more emotion and less mistakes. Losing tempo or accuracy in the name of musicality is ok, i can see that she wants both but she kinda fails…
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