He's the best living pianist. I've seen him many times since he was a teenager, and even at his worst, he's a thrilling interpreter. At his best he's transcendental.
I enjoyed@@stephenarnold3015 definitely some superior aspects to it. Listening to this one a couple years later I hear that Kissin here is sloppy in many places. Nails it in a few sections, though I'd probably not stand by my initial statement of it being the gold standard haha
I was lucky to experience him live in Copenhagen some years ago where he performed all of Chopin's preludes. Most amazing classical concert I have ever been to.
I've searched for this specifically because this is the piece that Brahms plays on the only existing recording of himself playing - it's an old phonograph from 1889, hardly recognisable but you can actually hear Brahms play this exact piece. And also, alone with his 2 hands.
GREAT PIANIST TECHNIQUE, EXPRESSION, CLARITY THE COMPLETE PACKAGE IN EVERY LEVEL THANK YOU FOR GOD GIVEN TALENT.THANK YOU kissin for sharing this to the world.
This is indeed an incredible rendition of a very hackneyed piece by Brahms that many great musicians neglect it. This rendition reveals the huge musical mind hear and mind or Yevgeny.
@@PieInTheSky9 Yes, the piece looks extremely hard but is incredibly pianistic and just fits under your hands if you actually practice scales, arpeggios and octaves. Another example of a piece like this would be Liszt's Rigoletto paraphrase
I have literally grown up with this most invaluable treasure of this recorded concert from 1998 in Tokyo here onTH-cam. I can not express how truly thankful I am that we have TH-cam or technology in general just because of this concert of when he did the Chopin Préludes(my most personally revered work of Chopin), the Liszt in the second half, and then a wad of thee most utterly astonishing encores following of Brahms and Liszt.....what a gargantuan achievement. This very concert itself, despite the not so great audio quality, the young master's tone quality and blinding sheen of a brilliance still pierces through with every note he played......not to mention the character, tone colours, and thee most astonishing quality of a timbre of the choice model Kissin uses here(I have always wondered if he carried around his own piano? Is this his own piano?). It is seriously one of thee most flawless, prime level, ear pleasing set of keys I have ever heard on a recording audio or visual. The very thought I just realized last night that from his 1984 live concert of Chopin's first concerto when he was only just 13 years old, this was only....ONLY 14 years later. His development into the young astute and prudent man here when he was 27 at this concert is truly....truly terrifying, he was 27 here. I am turning 28 next month. Very piercing to me! And for many years I always would look back at this concert on TH-cam for such inspiration. Lord willing, I will not give up and keep on keeping on despite all the chaos in the world at this time! Thank you....thank you whoever you are, over and over for uploading this concert how many years ago! This spectacle was and is one of the most important, meaningful, impressive, and extraordinary ever recorded. We are blessed! Matthew.
Don't know whether Evgeni Kissin always took his own piano with him for concerts. But Vladimir Horowitz definitely did it. He brought always his own Steinway and piano tuner with him. To all countries where ever he gave concerts
Et Dieu créa Brahms et Brahms trouva l´inspiration d´écrire sa musique, et Kissin a heureusement eu la force de la tenir en vie par ce jeu sacré, qui nous transporte au bord de la folie, Kissin avoir eu la chance de voir Kissin au moins une fois dans sa vie, porte en lui une mémoire indélébile, la joie immense de cet interprète fabuleux... et ces mains sont comme les ailes de l´oiseau de feu.
Saw Kissin in Bergen last month. He played one of Liszt's dances as an encore. The instrument couldn't handle him, and a string in the upper register broke. He pulled out the broken string and played another encore. Paganini turns over in his grave... to applaud.
He is truly amazing and magnificent. His clarity and technical ability is unsurpassable. However if you really want to know how Hungarian music should be interpreted, listen to a Hungarian pianist, such as Georges Cziffra. (1921-1994). You will hear the difference.
What does the expression of speed like a bullet lend to this whole song? . I can only thunk its only relatable to a human that had experienced the speed of an autonomic flight or fight response. It’s like ballet on speed. Who could dance to this fast enough they’d look like their having a seizure.
There is an interesting disconnect between the fire and passion of Kissin's playing, and his icey, distant demeanor with his audience. It's no wonder his admirers find him enigmatic.
@ahahaha62 : To the EIGHT ignorant people (the first commentator and the seven approvers). It was Brahms who wrote the two-handed version of Hungarian Dance Number 1 not Doctor Kissinger that plays a four-handed version with two hands.
@inazuma3gou : You miissed one out and that was Stokowski the conductor who transcribed works by J S Bach for the orchestra. But the REAL thing about this video is Brahms and the beauty and warmth and bravado that he composed into this HUNGARIAN DANCE.
@Pianoman121968 Search up "imslp hungarian dance no. 1" on google and click on the first link. Look for the solo piano arrangements by Brahms under the "Arrangements and Transcriptions" section.
I think brahms is really difficult to play cause he has a very "firm" and "grand" style (like he was) and evgeny kissin is the one who can adopt this syle with clearness.
@CLASSICAListheWAY My comment was intended as an observation and not a criticism.Kissin's perfunctory demeanour on stage has frequently been commented on. Hell, I'm on his side-all those fawning fans wanting personal contact must be irritating.
He's the best living pianist. I've seen him many times since he was a teenager, and even at his worst, he's a thrilling interpreter. At his best he's transcendental.
素晴らしいですね‼️私も彼が16才で来日したときから、ずっと大好きです🎶🎶❤️
Sokolov? Pletnev? Volodos? Etc. Not one "best" pianist.
Best I have seen in Paris in 20 years of concerts are Sokolov, Pogorelic, Volodos
@@davidgray5964 Martha Agerich?
@@arturcrane2764 howorwitz
it's amazing when two hands can perform a song meant for four hands so flawlessly and effortlessly.
I am obsessed with this piece.
And same here. My covid 19 lockdown soundtrack.
@@nathanm169 what year are you studying? :0 i love this pieces and would love to learn them as well
Yeah! It's perfect. Brahms' perfectionist taste paid off.
I feel the same.
@@nathanm169 how's that going? I'm a novice so one measure takes me days to learn properly
Nobody gives this piece the energy and driving rhythm that Kissin does,
There are absolutely no words to describe how amazing this performance is!
Happy 35th Anniversary Link!
Brahms come back and listen to evgeny kissin
The gold standard of performance for this piece. Absolutely amazing. How he nails 1:14 is beyond me
Have you heard Katchen's performance?
I enjoyed@@stephenarnold3015 definitely some superior aspects to it. Listening to this one a couple years later I hear that Kissin here is sloppy in many places. Nails it in a few sections, though I'd probably not stand by my initial statement of it being the gold standard haha
I was lucky to experience him live in Copenhagen some years ago where he performed all of Chopin's preludes. Most amazing classical concert I have ever been to.
I've searched for this specifically because this is the piece that Brahms plays on the only existing recording of himself playing - it's an old phonograph from 1889, hardly recognisable but you can actually hear Brahms play this exact piece. And also, alone with his 2 hands.
He is miracle and great👍❤♥
This is a legendary performance of Brahms HD1
One of the greatest pianist of ALL TIME
GREAT PIANIST TECHNIQUE, EXPRESSION, CLARITY THE COMPLETE PACKAGE IN EVERY LEVEL THANK YOU FOR GOD GIVEN TALENT.THANK YOU kissin for sharing this to the world.
@bersa888 You also can´t prove the opposite.
Magnificent!! I am not only enchanted by Brahms and his creation but also by the performance of Kissin... Halleluja...
Such a beautiful piece
It takes so much energy to play these big pieces. I'm exhausted just watching him...
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Awesome video.
Awesome performance, when I was a boy I saw Gilels play this as an encore but I believe Kissin is even more electric.
I agree👍He is miracle and great‼️
absolute genius
やっぱりキーシンは最高😃⤴️⤴️何回聴いても、ゾクゾクします。
best interpretation of this piece ever, by Evgeny Kissin, as usual.
Excellent. I play this peice, and I like the tempo and the way that Kissin plays this. Good emotions in his playing.
This is indeed an incredible rendition of a very hackneyed piece by Brahms that many great musicians neglect it. This rendition reveals the huge musical mind hear and mind or Yevgeny.
Electrifying!!! Brahms we miss you, please come back and cure our souls!!
Amazing
どの演奏も凄いけど、これも、完璧❗🙆🎊素晴らしい‼️
What a talent! Authentic gift of God.
Honestly, I adore the lyric part in the beginning.
Simply amazing
2:45 - 2:51 is the true finger killer
I’m practicing this part! It’s very very hard
Großer Respekt!
Spiele Selber Klavier und komme dem entsprechenden mit großer Achtung entgegen.
I am in tears...
Magnífica apresentação revela uma sensibilidade enorme de interpretação e técnica.
LOL I just got the sheets and want to play it but after looking at his hands..... damn that's gonna be a hard time xD
Man I am thinking exactly the same now. Your comment is from 3 years ago, how did it go then?
As someone who plays this, it's harder than it looks in this video heh
@@PieInTheSky9 Yes, the piece looks extremely hard but is incredibly pianistic and just fits under your hands if you actually practice scales, arpeggios and octaves. Another example of a piece like this would be Liszt's Rigoletto paraphrase
@@niccolopaganini4268 its like those czerny arpeggio etudes, looks hard at first sight. But it really isn't
Oh my! He's so good I cannot even envy him!
absolutely amazing
I have literally grown up with this most invaluable treasure of this recorded concert from 1998 in Tokyo here onTH-cam. I can not express how truly thankful I am that we have TH-cam or technology in general just because of this concert of when he did the Chopin Préludes(my most personally revered work of Chopin), the Liszt in the second half, and then a wad of thee most utterly astonishing encores following of Brahms and Liszt.....what a gargantuan achievement. This very concert itself, despite the not so great audio quality, the young master's tone quality and blinding sheen of a brilliance still pierces through with every note he played......not to mention the character, tone colours, and thee most astonishing quality of a timbre of the choice model Kissin uses here(I have always wondered if he carried around his own piano? Is this his own piano?). It is seriously one of thee most flawless, prime level, ear pleasing set of keys I have ever heard on a recording audio or visual. The very thought I just realized last night that from his 1984 live concert of Chopin's first concerto when he was only just 13 years old, this was only....ONLY 14 years later. His development into the young astute and prudent man here when he was 27 at this concert is truly....truly terrifying, he was 27 here. I am turning 28 next month. Very piercing to me! And for many years I always would look back at this concert on TH-cam for such inspiration. Lord willing, I will not give up and keep on keeping on despite all the chaos in the world at this time! Thank you....thank you whoever you are, over and over for uploading this concert how many years ago! This spectacle was and is one of the most important, meaningful, impressive, and extraordinary ever recorded. We are blessed!
Matthew.
Don't know whether Evgeni Kissin always took his own piano with him for concerts. But Vladimir Horowitz definitely did it. He brought always his own Steinway and piano tuner with him. To all countries where ever he gave concerts
rubinstein y kissin de mis favoritos interpretes
OMG!! OoO His hands are moving so quickly... Hes so good!! :D
i´ve no words for this - just WOW!
Magnificent performance
Et Dieu créa Brahms et Brahms trouva l´inspiration d´écrire sa musique, et Kissin a heureusement eu la force de la tenir en vie par ce jeu sacré, qui nous transporte au bord de la folie, Kissin avoir eu la chance de voir Kissin au moins une fois dans sa vie, porte en lui une mémoire indélébile, la joie immense de cet interprète fabuleux... et ces mains sont comme les ailes de l´oiseau de feu.
dans la création de Dieu, vous avez oublié Sárközy et ses Isteni czàrdas, qui ont inspiré Brahms
Simply the best !
I agree👍He is miracle🎶
Simplesmente fantástico.
wow i have goose bumps 😱
1:14 does remind of Chopin's G minor Ballade, haha.
Born to play the piano 😊
Saw Kissin in Bergen last month. He played one of Liszt's dances as an encore. The instrument couldn't handle him, and a string in the upper register broke. He pulled out the broken string and played another encore. Paganini turns over in his grave... to applaud.
fabulous sound, no-one like him :)
2:51 is the start of complete and total awesomeness!!!
Complete and total awesomeness start at 0:19 my friend ;-)
@@georgiegirl0621 haha true
i just love it!!!!
He is truly amazing and magnificent. His clarity and technical ability is unsurpassable. However if you really want to know how Hungarian music should be interpreted, listen to a Hungarian pianist, such as Georges Cziffra. (1921-1994). You will hear the difference.
Less pride more feeling and rhythm.Melody and innerness.
I like this its so pleasant!
What does the expression of speed like a bullet lend to this whole song? . I can only thunk its only relatable to a human that had experienced the speed of an autonomic flight or fight response. It’s like ballet on speed. Who could dance to this fast enough they’d look like their having a seizure.
After 1:14 it is incredible how he can maintain the triplet timing without errors at this tempo.
fantastic
Thank you for the upload
His hair rules!
and his interpretarion too!!
very beautiful
I agree👍He is miracle and great👍😀
Flawless victory
I agree👍💯
I'm speechless...Kissin RULEZZ!!!!!
Ev"Genie" Kissin
Brutalisimo!
please come to Australia you are amazing
Amazing!!!
There is an interesting disconnect between the fire and passion of Kissin's playing, and his icey, distant demeanor with his audience. It's no wonder his admirers find him enigmatic.
I know right? Isnt it so awesome the people you meet!?
@ahahaha62 : To the EIGHT ignorant people (the first commentator and the seven approvers). It was Brahms who wrote the two-handed version of Hungarian Dance Number 1 not Doctor Kissinger that plays a four-handed version with two hands.
it's the original version of hungarian dance for two hands. but anyway it needs very high skill.
HACE MUCHO QUE SUPERO LA PERFECCION
FANTÁSTICO!!!!
@stephenishki : Brahms´ original version. Can be obtained in a Dover Reprint or at ISMLP !
Kissin pwns the Hungarian Dance no. 1 in 1337 fashion! Awesome! /favorited
omg o.o
this is just........WOW
@inazuma3gou : You miissed one out and that was Stokowski the conductor who transcribed works by J S Bach for the orchestra.
But the REAL thing about this video is Brahms and the beauty and warmth and bravado that he composed into this HUNGARIAN DANCE.
is the original version for piano solo.
the orchestra version is the arrangement
@blichilde : An intersesting development of my theme ! Shall we proceed in sonata form ?
@Pianoman121968
Search up "imslp hungarian dance no. 1" on google and click on the first link. Look for the solo piano arrangements by Brahms under the "Arrangements and Transcriptions" section.
I think brahms is really difficult to play cause he has a very "firm" and "grand" style (like he was) and evgeny kissin is the one who can adopt this syle with clearness.
Ad essere bravo così ci metterei la firma
@CLASSICAListheWAY My comment was intended as an observation and not a criticism.Kissin's perfunctory demeanour on stage has frequently been commented on. Hell, I'm on his side-all those fawning fans wanting personal contact must be irritating.
awesome
@michelangeli23 well, he does has pretty epic hair.
神業
ハンガリー舞曲1番
どうしたらこう弾けるの？
キーシンにしか弾けないかも(?_?)❓😱😱😱
this song is my district band audition piece (on tenor sax, so not nearly as hard, but still terrifying)
FANTASZTIK GRÁCIA
Yes., He is miracle and great👍😀
uhh....the tempo marking given by brahms is "allegro"...that means FAST...i'm a pianist and i did this piece.
goooosh just so freakin EPIC! biggest dynamic range of any pianist i've ever seen in my life so far
Oh shittttt
@danedaworld hang on... so kissin's great great grandmothers cousin is still alive? wow!!!
Una maravilla
I like his hair.
Yes very cute😍☺
Fucking amazing.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I don't know why, but this piece makes me imagine a ship sailing in the middle of a storm
Jeden z cudów świata
Grandioso!
Чудо чудное и Диво дивное!!
Epic
yes,he is :)
very very nice!
I really like KIssin's La Campanella performance