Chris Benna I don't like yuja anymore, and its missing cziffra there...so, I like argerich/Lang Lang playing Chopin, cziffra/hamelin playing Liszt, michelangeli/hamelin playing Debussy, Lang Lang playing Tchaikovsky and lugansky playing Rachmaninoff.
@@chrisbenna506 yuja Wang? You must be joking. She is just a speed freak, and even that she clearly cannot sustain due to the number of mistakes and missed notes. I never make a fuss about mistakes, but she clearly wants to show off her speed at the cost of dynamic range, musicality, tonal harmonics and generally clear playing. Hamelin is great, but Volodos is the best by far.
Arcadi Volodos is not human. Such piano playing is not possible. Check his piano for wires. All kidding aside it was great watching and hearing these great virtuosos. Bravo!!
Volodos!! Also, what sensitivity he has as well. He has deep musicianship, not just flash. Cziffra should be in this video too - with his Grand Galop Cromatique by Liszt.
Thank you so much - a wonderful sound-bite compilation of contemporary pianists - It's introduced me to some great new ones e.g. the lyrical Massimilano Ferrarti - and snippets of some unfamiliar works!
A lot of these pieces are "taken out of context", of you will. Ppl r commenting how these are all just show off pieces when in actuality the uploader just showed the famously virtuosic sections. If we're gonna be real here, most of these pieces wouldn't even be in the top difficult piano pieces tbh
Yeah - CZIFFRA: Grand Galop Chromatique - a staggering work. Best part are the bursts of "effortless" speed. A rare glimpse of the depth of his technique and mastery. Nice of you to put that particular Valentina (!)
***** How is possible to tell such stupid things about one of the greatest pianist of the XXcentury ??One video speaking about virtuosity without speaking of Cziffra is like speaking about violin without speaking of Heifetz !!!!!
anonymousQ45 you are right man, I'm a child... that's funny because in view of the comments on TH-cam, it seems they are a lot of kids obsessed with Cziffra...By the way I'm also obsessed with Michelangeli, Gould, Argerich, Richter, Sofronitski, Peterson, Tatum, Keith Jarrett, Evans etcIn fact you seem obsessed by virtuosity of pianists who like to show off rather than musicians who have something to say.
+Abel Lifschutz Sorry, I seem to be bumping to you quite a lot today. :/ But it's ironic that you say that, whilst in the video, you see Volodos putting his own finale of Liszt's hungarian rhapsody no. 13. :/ And besides, in the 1800's, it was expected that you do improvisations whilst performing certain pieces. Liszt did that all the time. Even Chopin changed his own endings in his nocturnes and nouvelle etudes. Alexander Dreyshock played Chopin's revolutionary etude in octave form. Liszt also played Chopin's etude op. 25 no. 2 in octave form. Cziffra was merely respecting that tradition, since most of the pieces he played derived from that era. So with all due respect, wouldn't it be great if some pianists like Cziffra and Volodos preserved that tradition and kept it alive despite having countless robotic pianists doing the same thing over and over again? No offense, but that's a very ignorant comment coming from you. :/
Omgawd!!! I can't believe Grynuk's octaves ! The rest all of us amateurs can play just not as aesthetically, musically or tonally excellent as these artists. Tiempo is fabulous in Chopin prelude.Gibbons is always incredible in Alkan.Volodos has more than all of us put together . The true test is who can make 10 seconds of easy to play music a memory of a lifetime. volodis Schumann is n that category!!!
I see everyone commenting on the absence of other great virtuosos like Cziffra, Argerich, etc. I think they're right, but there's one I never see mentioned: Richter. Have you checked his rendition of Chopin's etude in C # minor? It's ridiculous...
I like very much Richter but I find his performance of op10 n4 too speed and not very musical, I prefer a lot the Aimi Kobayashi's interpretation of this etude (sorry for my english)
I didn't know his performance, I like very much. I found it a little slow but very clear and musical. However I pesonally prefer Kobashi's performance for this etude, equally musical and controlled than Lisieki's performance but more passionate (je remets mon commentaire en français ce sera + clair si tu parles français) Je connaissais pas la performance de Jan Lisieki mais j'ai beaucoup aimé. Je la trouve un peu lente mais très claire et très musicale. Je préfère quand même l'interprétation de cette étude par Aimy Kobayashi, tout aussi musicale que celle de Lisieki mais + passionnée (ce qui correspond mieux au caractère fougueux de cette étude je trouve)
Is OP using theword ridiculous as praise? I've listened to 3 or 4 different performances now, and they all sound the same to me right now, which is odd. I could use some pointers. thx in advance
With Marc-Andre Hamelin, what amazes is the apparently incredible ease with which he dispatches the most difficult passages in the most difficult pieces.
I think cziffras performences is far more musical than any of these pianists. Who cares if he misses some notes, he plays liszt as if he improvised the pieces on stage, as it should be I think.
toothless toe Not surprising to find you here :) I would recommend you give Cziffra another shot. To start, try the 5th transcendental etude by Liszt (fuex follets, however do you spell that?). While I have heard pianists that equal Cziffra or surpass him in technicality, his interpretation is the only one in which I could actually envision an enchanted scene unfold - this requires from the pianist careful attention to detail: dynamics, ballance and rubato are all utilized in a way that really evokes a picturesque scene fitting the title - You can really track the movement of fireflies and imagine a host of effects and scenery in this "story". Other pianists, of whom I consider Kissin to be the most articulate, might play it at a greater tempo and/or give a more clear tone to each note, but have failed to create a clear line of thought that I can follow - a "story" if you will.
Zorm Her technique is also great, but lots of people discuss about her interpretation, so I'm not really sure. If I only see her technique, sure she deserves at all.
Volodos and Hamelin, obviously. Those two make everyone else look human. That said, I don't get how the hell any of these guys do this and Zimmerman's economy of motion is ridiculous, much like Art Tatum. I also want to mention that I love Tiempo's huge sound. It's magnificent like Angelina Jolie's rack.
Sorry to report that Jolie has no rack; she had it whacked off surgically fearing she might develop breast cancer since it reputedly ran in her family. Insane, if you ask me!!!!....and sad😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Unfortunately, this compilation is not complete... In my channel you can listen to the most virtuoso pianist Richard Morefingers playing the most difficult Liszt piano piece: The Flea Rhapsody (recently discovered)
It's a great one - with one of the best technical possibilities, but a very carefull musician too. But listen the 4. Chopin study with Svjatoslav Richter....he beets them all...!!
De fato, a técnica é importantíssima. Entretanto, a música deve falar, acima de tudo, ao coração. O Grande Frederic Chopin já observava, em sua época, o exagero de certas apresentações, que enfatizavam mais as qualidades da pirotecnia do que a dinâmica da sensibilidade. Franz Liszt, certa vez, chegou a afirmar : " Até quando estarei condenado a esta atividade de picadeiro de circo, sem dar livre curso à sensibilidade ? ". Um tema para reflexão, também para os dias de hoje.
Some of these excerpts make me want to put my hands in my pockets and never play again. I have a DMA in piano performance from a major conservatory, by the way. Virtuosity should never be exploited at the expense of the music, but to have the kind of technique that can do absolutely anything and perform the most difficult music without a struggle is a gift not given to everyone.
This video proves to my satisfaction that virtuosiy can be overdone and does not produce memorable music. Just racing up and down the keyboard needs to be used sparingly not be the whole product. The memorable examples here for example are the less virtuosic ones Hungarian wotsit at the start and a bit of Chopin in the middle. Having said that it is amazing how high is the technical level of composition and playing that has been achieved.
Nice attempt and idea - but a mixed bad of some outstanding and some ok performances in terms of virtuosity. Wunder and Ott are certainly not today's most dazzling pianists. Blechacz in the Chopin Scherzo? But sure, Volodos and Hamelin (though Kempf is more impressive in the Rachmaninoff 2nd Sonata).
I watched it and apparently you have not seen Volodos play Stars and Stripes Forever, Lugansky play the 12th Transcendental Etude (Ott is better looking, I get it - especially when she slows at the end to rest her fingers), or for that matter Weissenberg play Petrushka (but heaven forbid there be a historic performance that has withstood the test of time as one of the most dazzling videos ever made). And Zimerman's Chopin 2nd Ballade compared to Argerich's Scarlatti K141 that no one has ever equaled. For that matter, no Argerich, but yes Zimerman and Ott. I am sorry for being too pretentious, I just thought this was an attempt at the most virtuoso videos out there - and some are and som are not representative of that caliber of virtuosity.
And if just Chopin and Liszt - Cziffra's Grand Galop Chromatique was not at Ott's level I gather, nor was Richter's Revolutionary Etude at the level of Zimerman's 2nd Ballade - of course in terms of virtuosity. Neither Cziffra nor Richter were known I guess as the type of vituosos that Ott and Zimerman are. If that is pretentious, I guess I am part of a large group. And I could go on - but substance today is not as important as aesthetics - color videos, good sound, and celebrity status.
I think putting in the same sentence Ott and Zimerman is a bit odd. :) Being the latter not only an extraordinary virtuoso - just listen to his live rendition of Bacewicz's Sonata n. 2- but probably among the greatest musicians in the history of piano playing. *But* I understand what you are trying to say, I wouldn't put Zimerman (and Miss Ott too) in a compilation of "Virtuosity" either.
For hyramess Hiramess: All I see is "HORSESHIT." Kindly put your comment in context to what you are referring to, i.e., the person to whom you are retaliating, so we can understand what your point is. Peace.
I think the best is Arcady Volodos (because more over it's an improvisation), then Lisitsa, even if I like Zimerman when he plays Chopin. But the great one of virtuosity is Franz Liszt, of course. Like Pele in Football !!! But let's wait and see Volodos in 5 or 10 years. May be...
I absolutely love how Zimerman is so calm in his movements but his virtuosity is amazing
TheGreenPianist he isnt calm
Mlr I mean his hand movements, his doesn't lift his fingers up high or make awkward or exaggerated hand movements in highly technical passages
Zimerman makes pieces look easy
my beer can do this, hold me
best comment ever
LOL
xD
Your sense makes no comment
@@muhammadsadiq8659 I'm hard so laughing 😂
@@physicsisawesome696 meet bach we again so and
Hamelin is a monster.
I think he's got the best technique of living pianists right now
Jack Curley Hamelin, howard, yuja wang
Chris Benna I don't like yuja anymore, and its missing cziffra there...so, I like
argerich/Lang Lang playing Chopin, cziffra/hamelin playing Liszt, michelangeli/hamelin playing Debussy, Lang Lang playing Tchaikovsky and lugansky playing Rachmaninoff.
@@jackcurley1591 His Circus Galop is a total nightmare.
@@chrisbenna506 yuja Wang? You must be joking. She is just a speed freak, and even that she clearly cannot sustain due to the number of mistakes and missed notes. I never make a fuss about mistakes, but she clearly wants to show off her speed at the cost of dynamic range, musicality, tonal harmonics and generally clear playing. Hamelin is great, but Volodos is the best by far.
This video could also be titled "a lot of practice"
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Wow, so original
@@teddythemlgcorgi7309 ikr, it was 2 years ago
you mean, shopping liszt?
@@randomstranger8705 after 3 years. I made a grave mistake, you have won this battle of puns.
@@randomstranger8705 you mean, chopin liszt?
I think the lesson learned here is that liszt was the master of virtuoso piano :)
+Mike Lauderback wierd way to spell alkan
+Swen Zettler lol true
You spelled Chopin wrong
+Michael Quigley Did I?
+Michael Quigley nope
Cziffra, Godowsky, and Katsaris need to be in this video! Cziffra is probably the greatest interpreter of Liszt in the 20th Century
Arcadi Volodos is not human. Such piano playing is not possible. Check his piano for wires. All kidding aside it was great watching and hearing these great virtuosos. Bravo!!
I swear that's the piano concerto for solo piano, not symphony
Andy G it is lmao it's from the finale
Deniz Olgun no, it isnt, its from the concerto, op 39 no. 10
Wow the last performance is beyond mastery
Volodos!! Also, what sensitivity he has as well. He has deep musicianship, not just flash. Cziffra should be in this video too - with his Grand Galop Cromatique by Liszt.
Thank u internet once again for gaining me confidence in my piano skills and small hands
3:12 is Alkan's Concerto Solo Piano 3rd Movement, not his Symphony.
Thank you so much - a wonderful sound-bite compilation of contemporary pianists - It's introduced me to some great new ones e.g. the lyrical Massimilano Ferrarti - and snippets of some unfamiliar works!
Holy crap I didn't even know playing that fast was possible
great edition, had fun listening to it, thank you!
A lot of these pieces are "taken out of context", of you will. Ppl r commenting how these are all just show off pieces when in actuality the uploader just showed the famously virtuosic sections. If we're gonna be real here, most of these pieces wouldn't even be in the top difficult piano pieces tbh
-insert forgettable name- too bad there was not much Alkan, he wrote many impossible pieces people attempt these days
@MCライド owo
Yeah - CZIFFRA: Grand Galop Chromatique - a staggering work. Best part are the bursts of "effortless" speed. A rare glimpse of the depth of his technique and mastery.
Nice of you to put that particular Valentina (!)
This video literally changed my life. Thank you
How about CZIFFRA ????
how about people who are alive and playing right now?
***** How is possible to tell such stupid things about one of the greatest pianist of the XXcentury ??One video speaking about virtuosity without speaking of Cziffra is like speaking about violin without speaking of Heifetz !!!!!
anonymousQ45 you are right man, I'm a child... that's funny because in view of the comments on TH-cam, it seems they are a lot of kids obsessed with Cziffra...By the way I'm also obsessed with Michelangeli, Gould, Argerich, Richter, Sofronitski, Peterson, Tatum, Keith Jarrett, Evans etcIn fact you seem obsessed by virtuosity of pianists who like to show off rather than musicians who have something to say.
+Abel Lifschutz Sorry, I seem to be bumping to you quite a lot today. :/ But it's ironic that you say that, whilst in the video, you see Volodos putting his own finale of Liszt's hungarian rhapsody no. 13. :/
And besides, in the 1800's, it was expected that you do improvisations whilst performing certain pieces. Liszt did that all the time. Even Chopin changed his own endings in his nocturnes and nouvelle etudes. Alexander Dreyshock played Chopin's revolutionary etude in octave form. Liszt also played Chopin's etude op. 25 no. 2 in octave form. Cziffra was merely respecting that tradition, since most of the pieces he played derived from that era.
So with all due respect, wouldn't it be great if some pianists like Cziffra and Volodos preserved that tradition and kept it alive despite having countless robotic pianists doing the same thing over and over again? No offense, but that's a very ignorant comment coming from you. :/
+anonymousQ45 Wait what's wrong with being dead?
Arcadi Volodos is completely out of this world
Omgawd!!! I can't believe Grynuk's octaves ! The rest all of us amateurs can play just not as aesthetically, musically or tonally excellent as these artists. Tiempo is fabulous in Chopin prelude.Gibbons is always incredible in Alkan.Volodos has more than all of us put together . The true test is who can make 10 seconds of easy to play music a memory of a lifetime. volodis Schumann is n that category!!!
I see everyone commenting on the absence of other great virtuosos like Cziffra, Argerich, etc. I think they're right, but there's one I never see mentioned: Richter. Have you checked his rendition of Chopin's etude in C # minor? It's ridiculous...
Yes Richter's performance of op10 no4 is ridiculous
I like very much Richter but I find his performance of op10 n4 too speed and not very musical, I prefer a lot the Aimi Kobayashi's interpretation of this etude
(sorry for my english)
I didn't know his performance, I like very much. I found it a little slow but very clear and musical.
However I pesonally prefer Kobashi's performance for this etude, equally musical and controlled than Lisieki's performance but more passionate
(je remets mon commentaire en français ce sera + clair si tu parles français) Je connaissais pas la performance de Jan Lisieki mais j'ai beaucoup aimé. Je la trouve un peu lente mais très claire et très musicale.
Je préfère quand même l'interprétation de cette étude par Aimy Kobayashi, tout aussi musicale que celle de Lisieki mais + passionnée (ce qui correspond mieux au caractère fougueux de cette étude je trouve)
Ki Wi Ah bon ? je n'ai pas encore vu sa performance, je vais la regarder :D
Is OP using theword ridiculous as praise? I've listened to 3 or 4 different performances now, and they all sound the same to me right now, which is odd. I could use some pointers. thx in advance
Amazing !!!!
With Marc-Andre Hamelin, what amazes is the apparently incredible ease with which he dispatches the most difficult passages in the most difficult pieces.
Amazing.....
AMAZING
buenos virtuosos de los grandes compositores
When you have stage anxiety and you're trying to get it over with
wow!
Cziffra is the master of virtuosity
Hamelin's second excerpt is Alkan's Concerto for solo piano 3rd mov. Not Symphony :p
Where is Cziffra...
I wouldn't call Cziffra garbage lol. He is one of the most technical pianists of 20th century
toothless toe Yeah I agree... I do like some of his playing though, while others he really messed up
I think cziffras performences is far more musical than any of these pianists. Who cares if he misses some notes, he plays liszt as if he improvised the pieces on stage, as it should be I think.
toothless toe
Not surprising to find you here :)
I would recommend you give Cziffra another shot.
To start, try the 5th transcendental etude by Liszt (fuex follets, however do you spell that?).
While I have heard pianists that equal Cziffra or surpass him in technicality, his interpretation is the only one in which I could actually envision an enchanted scene unfold - this requires from the pianist careful attention to detail: dynamics, ballance and rubato are all utilized in a way that really evokes a picturesque scene fitting the title - You can really track the movement of fireflies and imagine a host of effects and scenery in this "story". Other pianists, of whom I consider Kissin to be the most articulate, might play it at a greater tempo and/or give a more clear tone to each note, but have failed to create a clear line of thought that I can follow - a "story" if you will.
toothless toe I wonder: What are your preferred pianists?
2:35 alien fingers
Great!
volodos is the virtuosity itself !!!!!!!!!
When you practice 40 hours a day
exquisite
A musical freak show. Without music.
Go listen to sorabji and finnisy, and you will see how good this sounds
Rachmaninoff is just...........wow.
Where Goran Filipec Elisa tomelinni cziffra Katsaris, Kristina Miller, Andrew wright, and Seon Yong Hwang?!,
HAMELIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VOLODOS!!!!
2:06
Hamelin: best of all times😃
Hamelin, Volodos, Grynyuk!!!
but no Cziffra :(
+Hyunmin Kim 김현민 Would Yuja wang deserve her place in this video ?
Zorm Her technique is also great, but lots of people discuss about her interpretation, so I'm not really sure. If I only see her technique, sure she deserves at all.
Volodos and Hamelin, obviously. Those two make everyone else look human. That said, I don't get how the hell any of these guys do this and Zimmerman's economy of motion is ridiculous, much like Art Tatum. I also want to mention that I love Tiempo's huge sound. It's magnificent like Angelina Jolie's rack.
bledredwine Good that you brought it back home at the end there.
bledredwine Agreed. Volodos and Hamelin have ridiculous complexion and speed.
Sorry to report that
Jolie has no rack;
she had it whacked
off surgically fearing
she might develop
breast cancer since
it reputedly ran in her
family. Insane, if you
ask me!!!!....and sad😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
bledredwine you should listen to Volodos Turkish March its even in my channel and his compoistions looks IMPOSSIBLE
Awesome 20188 check out the transcriptions of hamelin and cziffra...
3:53 Arcadi Volodos, Inacreditavel.
Where is Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang plays the Flight of the Bumble-Bee (Vol du Bourdon)
Flight of the bumblebee is a joke
I was waiting for Rafal to show up!
:-D PPP ... Díky !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3.13 with M.a.Hamelin is a footage from Alkan's Concerto!
C'est inimaginable de réaliser cela avec 10 doigts ! Ne pas oublier La Virtuose : Martha ARGERICH.
Yuja Wang, Kissin, Martha Argerich, Berezovsky.
エッ、、、動作性IQ300と鑑みる・・・。。。
I thought piano music was relaxing this can keep me awake whole night even my dog ran out
wow
Not surprised to see Valentina Lisitsa in videos like this...
Ooooo Grynyuk!!!!!!
Virtuosity
Cziffra?
Yeah this is skill on the piano. Not these fucking street performances with some pop transcribed to piano.
I get so sick of those videos and they get so many undeserved views.
exactly! They mess up 12930810239 times yet still manage to get 6 million more views than this
The sad thing is they're playing very easy songs with I, IV, V chord progessions.
0:59 - 1:19 my favorite virtuosic passage
3:54 IS BEST!!!!!!!
*VOLODOS #1*
Yeah!!!!!!! Same!!!!!!
I'm between Hamelin and Volodos.
Lol i found your comment bruh why u here
JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!!!
0:34 I saw him perform Prokofiev's 3rd piano concerto with the Ukraine orchestra, and was completely blown away.
Mikhail Pletnev would be a welcome addition to this collection. He is almost the definition of a good artist.
Liszt's Rhapsodies are so crazy.
el que pusiste la Sinfonía de Alkan es en realidad el Tercer movimiento del Concierto para piano solo
Unfortunately, this compilation is not complete... In my channel you can listen to the most virtuoso pianist Richard Morefingers playing the most difficult Liszt piano piece: The Flea Rhapsody (recently discovered)
We need The Slow Mo Guys
please can anybody tell me how to play like this
I agree! Cziffra is definitely a necessary inclusion for a video such as this!
Boris Berezovsky ????
I would've but at the time I didn't have any videos of him.
It's a great one - with one of the best technical possibilities, but a very carefull musician too. But listen the 4. Chopin study with Svjatoslav Richter....he beets them all...!!
Videos? You can see many of them on TH-cam.
How does Hamelin just like slide his hands
sports!!!
cest des fous du clavier trop trop trop !!!
VOLODOS !!!!!!!!
I hear Chopin in video I like
How do you play octaves that fast?! Your arm would be burning after you did all of that.
De fato, a técnica é importantíssima. Entretanto, a música deve falar, acima de tudo, ao coração. O Grande Frederic Chopin já observava, em sua época, o exagero de certas apresentações, que enfatizavam mais as qualidades da pirotecnia do que a dinâmica da sensibilidade. Franz Liszt, certa vez, chegou a afirmar : " Até quando estarei condenado a esta atividade de picadeiro de circo, sem dar livre curso à sensibilidade ? ". Um tema para reflexão, também para os dias de hoje.
Hamelin and Volodos take the cake. :P
Nikolas Economou should also be included in this amazing list.
Im still learning my scales
Some of these excerpts make me want to put my hands in my pockets and never play again. I have a DMA in piano performance from a major conservatory, by the way. Virtuosity should never be exploited at the expense of the music, but to have the kind of technique that can do absolutely anything and perform the most difficult music without a struggle is a gift not given to everyone.
What about Jordan Rudess?
This video proves to my satisfaction that virtuosiy can be overdone and does not produce memorable music.
Just racing up and down the keyboard needs to be used sparingly not be the whole product.
The memorable examples here for example are the less virtuosic ones
Hungarian wotsit at the start and a bit of Chopin in the middle.
Having said that it is amazing how high is the technical level of composition and playing that has been achieved.
Nice attempt and idea - but a mixed bad of some outstanding and some ok performances in terms of virtuosity. Wunder and Ott are certainly not today's most dazzling pianists. Blechacz in the Chopin Scherzo? But sure, Volodos and Hamelin (though Kempf is more impressive in the Rachmaninoff 2nd Sonata).
I watched it and apparently you have not seen Volodos play Stars and Stripes Forever, Lugansky play the 12th Transcendental Etude (Ott is better looking, I get it - especially when she slows at the end to rest her fingers), or for that matter Weissenberg play Petrushka (but heaven forbid there be a historic performance that has withstood the test of time as one of the most dazzling videos ever made). And Zimerman's Chopin 2nd Ballade compared to Argerich's Scarlatti K141 that no one has ever equaled. For that matter, no Argerich, but yes Zimerman and Ott. I am sorry for being too pretentious, I just thought this was an attempt at the most virtuoso videos out there - and some are and som are not representative of that caliber of virtuosity.
And if just Chopin and Liszt - Cziffra's Grand Galop Chromatique was not at Ott's level I gather, nor was Richter's Revolutionary Etude at the level of Zimerman's 2nd Ballade - of course in terms of virtuosity. Neither Cziffra nor Richter were known I guess as the type of vituosos that Ott and Zimerman are. If that is pretentious, I guess I am part of a large group. And I could go on - but substance today is not as important as aesthetics - color videos, good sound, and celebrity status.
I think putting in the same sentence Ott and Zimerman is a bit odd. :) Being the latter not only an extraordinary virtuoso - just listen to his live rendition of Bacewicz's Sonata n. 2- but probably among the greatest musicians in the history of piano playing. *But* I understand what you are trying to say, I wouldn't put Zimerman (and Miss Ott too) in a compilation of "Virtuosity" either.
HORSESHIT!
For hyramess Hiramess: All I see
is "HORSESHIT." Kindly put your comment in context
to what you are referring to, i.e., the
person to whom you
are retaliating, so we
can understand what
your point is. Peace.
\o/
haha I guessed Volodos would appear as the finale
Where is hamelins modified hr2 cadenza??!!!
Brasil?
Where were HOROWITZ, and B-E-N_ G-R-O-S-V-E-N-O-R? Where is Claire HUANGSCI'S Prokofieff Toccata?
0:55 hand went sonic mode
I'd give my right arm to play like these ppl
gratiaDei777 Then you wouldn't be able to play these pieces
That's the joke^^
I think the best is Arcady Volodos (because more over it's an improvisation), then Lisitsa, even if I like Zimerman when he plays Chopin.
But the great one of virtuosity is Franz Liszt, of course. Like Pele in Football !!!
But let's wait and see Volodos in 5 or 10 years. May be...
looks like the piano had its technical highlight in the 1840s
Incredible! I'd love to congratulate the people and shake their hands, but I'm afraid they'd break it
Alexei Grynuk so hardcore
where is la compellena?
How about Yuja Wang?