Good idea for a video! Actually, the Strauss/Cziffra was played by Cziffra himself (not Yuja Wang) in this video. It is a greater accomplishment than all of the other recordings due to the sheer speed and accuracy.
I was expecting some completely impossible passage from Boulez, Stockhausen, Sorabji or "new Complexity" composers like Finnissy or Ferneyhough to come out on top, but that variation is somehow even more unhinged😂
@@user-tc8ut9oc4jI made a piece with 6th chords going down like a scale as fast as the diminished octaves going down in yankee doodle variations but still cant play Hungarian rhapsody 2, AND THE SIXTHS CHORDS WERE IN A TUPLET OF 6!
I am so happy you included Strakosch in here. He's such an underrated composer and the yankee doodle variations are just fitting for this! Also, subscribed! Looking forward to seeing some Alkan here because he has a level 10 for everything!
The craziest left hand jumps I've done are usually in improvs where i'm trying to juggle 3 voices as best as I can (I am improvising after all...) and they span most of the keyboard, but are only one or two notes. Those jumps in Bravura are ridiculous! Truthfully I didn't think the Yankee-Doodle variations sounded all that good. That said if that was sight reading, very interesting.
of course I didn't lol, this video appeared on my recommended tab and then I decided to give it a watch since I am quite aware from the yankee doodle variations xd, when I am going to watch top videos I often avoid reading the comments cuz most of them are spoilers from the videos as always so my comment is legit lmao@@Jartious
Hello i have commented As one of this guys friends, I can confirm he can play (or at least attempt) level 10 and do it well So well done nice video edit too
Honorable mentions (actually candidates for n. 1): - Alkan Concerto 1st movement, measure 463 and on. The jumps aren't that far, but they are full chords at an unbelievable speed. - Schumann fantaisie, end of 2nd movement. Perhaps the most notorious leaps passage in piano music. Nearly every great pianist who has attempted it in a live performance has butchered it. Yes, even the best of the best who can breeze through the hardest passages of Rach 3 and Feux Follets without breaking a sweat - they still go and make a mess of wrong notes and uneven rhythms of this Schumann passage. Too funny Schumann put this horror in one of the greatest piano pieces in all the literature, and pianists simply have no other option but to play it :)
What about S. 140 4b? Not just the left hand though. Cziffra’s Sabre Dance and maybe some jumps in how Katsaris performs Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s 9th symphony might also be up there. Also pieces for the left hand alone
as someone whos played bravura its quite a bit harder than yankee doodle. both hands jumping >>> one hand jumping so if you only count the left hand i guess yankee doodle is harder
Great selections, but I think it’s important that you have video for all of them, rather than sheet music, because you can only truly appreciate the jumps when you see someone performing them. The overhead-style videos, like Rousseau and Traum, work great for seeing jumps clearly, but even when an overhead view is not available, some kind of footage is much better than just sheet music.
@@ryzikxWitnesses to what? His playing at the original speed of the unedited version? First, his technical skills in all his other videos do not come even close to the level of this kind of virtuosity - sight-reading or not. Second, I did put this footage in iMovie at half the speed and it matched all the other footage. His movements in this one clip do not match any other clip.
Thought this was hand-crossing, lol, but I would say Sabre Dance/ Cziffra should be in number 8 place. Number 8 should be lower than 7. Number 3 should be in 4. If you ever do a hand cross video, include Scarlatti sonata K 24 or Islamey for sure
I’m genuinely surprised Op. 25 No. 9 was on this. I just finished studying it and the left hand had like two somewhat big jumps the whole time. Definitely not big enough jumps for where it’s at though (for the whole piece)
oh arent you the guy that commented on my channel asking for mereaux 60 💀 im working on the left hand only and it needs more endurance than 24 by quite a bit
@@Jartiousits gonna be a while. to no ones surprise its very difficult 😭not to mention piano isnt my main hobby either but mark my words i will get the entire piece left hand one day. theres a lot of 10ths in the right hand especially at the coda so i probably wont be doing that in the foreseeable future
Kind of sad I didn't see Alkan's Grand Sonate 30, Quasi Faust on here. I've worked on that piece and while it isn't throughout the entire piece, there are some stupidly ridiculous left hand jumps in there. Nothing as ridiculous as that last piece though wtf
Si me pusieran a escoger cosas que odio al tocar, siempre van ser los saltos xddd Cuando la pieza tiene demasiados saltos, siempre va ser un dolor aprenderla completamente. Pero al menos se gana más experiencia y habilidad que practicar arpegios o bordados
2:25ish traum piano misses several of the bass notes. Smudges them. You see it in the midi. But you don't hear it. Proof these midi 'pianists' edit their performances to make them 'perfect'
@@vincentstone7272 hm, i guess youre probably right, traum did actually have a concert recently where he revealed his face, and i mean he didnt seem to make any mistakes from the clip i heard
Can someone explain to me why you have to cross hands in the Mereaux one? Im sure there's some reason but it looks like it would be easier to just not.
It is easier to just not, the guy that played the last piece has a recording on his channel of the Mereaux one of him playing without crossing his hands, but as it is an etude, the composer just wanted the piece to be played like that for the challenge, the whole opus 63 is just a bunch of virtuosic trials. So, short answer: because the composer wanted it that way.
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0:07 Level 1: Tchaikovsky - Italian Song, Op. 39 No. 15
0:19 Level 2: Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1
1:00 Level 3: Luciano Michelini - Frolic
1:19 Level 4: Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S.244/2
1:59 Level 5: Chopin - Etude Op. 25 No. 9 "Butterfly"
2:19 Level 6: Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, S.244/6
2:53 Level 7: Strauss/Cziffra - Tritsch Tratch Polka
3:30 Level 8: Liszt - Paganini Etudes, S.140 No. 6
3:56 Level 9: Mereaux - Etudes, Op. 63 No. 24 "Bravura"
4:48 Level 10: Strakosch - Yankee Doodle Concert Variations
Wow, my first time getting one of these comments. Thanks!
@@Jartious no problem! Thanks for the video too👍
Good idea for a video!
Actually, the Strauss/Cziffra was played by Cziffra himself (not Yuja Wang) in this video. It is a greater accomplishment than all of the other recordings due to the sheer speed and accuracy.
@@michaelharvey702 yeah I know. It was yuja wang but I had to change the clip because of copyright. I forgot to change the name though (oops)
How did you play this 4:57 😮
”He’s sightreading btw” 💀
sightreading for the 5000 times maybe 🤣
the sightreading ability of some people is disgusting
“La Campanella is the hardest piece 🤓”
Yankee fricking doodle:
Lmao that yankee doodle var was unhinged af,,, surprised there was anything higher than the Mereaux etude
I was expecting some completely impossible passage from Boulez, Stockhausen, Sorabji or "new Complexity" composers like Finnissy or Ferneyhough to come out on top, but that variation is somehow even more unhinged😂
what the hell was that last piece 💀
simple child nursery rhyme yang doodle for kids level 1
I mean it wasn’t good that’s for sure…
@@joshyman221 yes it is, even if ironically
Merauxmaxing
It is just experimental 😅
Ignore where it says Yuja Wang. I forgot to change that to Cziffra 😅
Thanks for commenting this. Your comment would get more attention than mine ever would 😩
@@herobrine1847 i would pin you but I've already pinned that other guy...
thanks for this clarification. It explains why this is an "old" recording and the pitch is very high. I almost hear B note at the end
i still remember those days where i thought la campanella and hr2 were the hardest pieces ever LOL
Me tooooo!
same
Hungarian rhapsody no 2 isn’t even that hard unless you have lazy hands
@@user-tc8ut9oc4j Yeah, I mean it was tough but I still managed to pull it off
@@user-tc8ut9oc4jI made a piece with 6th chords going down like a scale as fast as the diminished octaves going down in yankee doodle variations but still cant play Hungarian rhapsody 2, AND THE SIXTHS CHORDS WERE IN A TUPLET OF 6!
Doing this video without putting Schumann's fantasy 2mvt is criminal
IM SORRY HES WHAT?
Yeah, click on one of the source links. Theres a whole 28 minute video of him sightreading crazy stuff!
hes gae
I am so happy you included Strakosch in here. He's such an underrated composer and the yankee doodle variations are just fitting for this! Also, subscribed! Looking forward to seeing some Alkan here because he has a level 10 for everything!
Yeah I'm trying to shed light on smaller composers/channels. Thanks for the comment!
@@Jartious wait me????
@@susrizzlerno not you sus rizzler
People: "La Capmanella is the hadrest piece ever!"
Yankee Doodle: BRUH
So happy to see Yankee Doodle on here! That was my warm up piece back in high school😅
I didn't know a nursery rhyme could be turned into a masterpiece that's more difficult than La Campanella
The craziest left hand jumps I've done are usually in improvs where i'm trying to juggle 3 voices as best as I can (I am improvising after all...) and they span most of the keyboard, but are only one or two notes. Those jumps in Bravura are ridiculous! Truthfully I didn't think the Yankee-Doodle variations sounded all that good. That said if that was sight reading, very interesting.
Bring Art Tatum Tiger Rag here .....
Lol the last one was the first time for me I thought a piano video would be speed up😮 (and I've seen Liszt's transcendental etudes..)
the pianist at yankee doodle concert was laughing his ass off lmao
Get this man some Alkan
Lol I will include him in my next comp: ten levels of octaves
I forgot about LH crossovers 💀
yes, microtonal guy
2020 vibes xd epic
Sightreading my ass, he looks at his hands
I am not going to spoil myself nor read the comments but if the last piece is the yankee doodle variations finale I will drink milk
I drank milk.
Did you actually not check the comments?
of course I didn't lol, this video appeared on my recommended tab and then I decided to give it a watch since I am quite aware from the yankee doodle variations xd, when I am going to watch top videos I often avoid reading the comments cuz most of them are spoilers from the videos as always so my comment is legit lmao@@Jartious
I just realized, Goran Filipec is a friend of my teacher and he gave me a small masterclass.
Mereaux in the thumbnail, nice
It's a bad day when Hungarian Rhapsody is only no. 4
Need some Scriabin's there.
I think you should have included Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Yes, me: Mozart, how about 23rd piano concerto?!
The last 3 level's composer actually can make everything simple, but they didn't, and that's why these composer are noted as the devil composer
The lh octaves in Bach Katsaris Toccata and Fugue in D minor are also insane
NOT THE YANKEE DOODLE
Hello i have commented
As one of this guys friends, I can confirm he can play (or at least attempt) level 10 and do it well
So well done nice video edit too
Yes yes ty
Horror
Honorable mention to Baba Yaga by Mussorgsky.
Hungarian rhapsodies are a beast to play. You feel physically tired after practicing them
Honorable mentions (actually candidates for n. 1):
- Alkan Concerto 1st movement, measure 463 and on. The jumps aren't that far, but they are full chords at an unbelievable speed.
- Schumann fantaisie, end of 2nd movement. Perhaps the most notorious leaps passage in piano music. Nearly every great pianist who has attempted it in a live performance has butchered it. Yes, even the best of the best who can breeze through the hardest passages of Rach 3 and Feux Follets without breaking a sweat - they still go and make a mess of wrong notes and uneven rhythms of this Schumann passage.
Too funny Schumann put this horror in one of the greatest piano pieces in all the literature, and pianists simply have no other option but to play it :)
I saw Grosvenor perform the Schumann Fantaisie live and he played the jumps perfectly. What a sight to behold
Alkan Grande Sonate 30ans might be included in honorable mentions.
십 단계 레전드 ㅇㅇ
*Coughs* Scriabin's 8th piano sonata.
And op. 8 no. 12 etude
my ass sight reading
What about S. 140 4b? Not just the left hand though. Cziffra’s Sabre Dance and maybe some jumps in how Katsaris performs Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s 9th symphony might also be up there. Also pieces for the left hand alone
Brahms piano concerto 2 has a nasty jump passage leading up to the development section in the first movement.
Art Tatum "I wish I were twins"
cringe
Now I finally why I can't play Chopin Butterfly Etude💀
And the other reason is I'm sucks at playing piano lmao
Misoppurtunity to use Mozart's Sonata KV 331 Movement 1 Variation 4. The left hand crossing over the right hand is just-
as someone whos played bravura its quite a bit harder than yankee doodle. both hands jumping >>> one hand jumping
so if you only count the left hand i guess yankee doodle is harder
yeah I was only basing it on left hand jumps
you should include (even for fun) etude s140 no 4b where ai concert creator plays with only left hand for some time
liszt a galop?
Not the hardest left hand Liszt piece, but alright. Harder than the 1838 Et6 I guess
hes sightreading btw is one of the most cappest things i have ever heard.
What makes you say that? It's not a very complex piece, basically just the same cords played again and again.
He s sightreading btw
Meanwhile me who struggles to sightread simple pieces after years and hours of practice:
Why does everybody forget about op25 n4? Those jumps are insane
Great list, though that’s Cziffra playing trisch not Yuja
Oops, I thought I changed that
Yankee doodle is very hardest than la campanella
Бетховене нервно курит Беломорканал в сторонке
I have an attempt of the last piece posted, absolutely insane difficulty
I have comment on your video! I attempted the coda and it's on my channel
art tatum
Yeah he should have been on this list
Great selections, but I think it’s important that you have video for all of them, rather than sheet music, because you can only truly appreciate the jumps when you see someone performing them. The overhead-style videos, like Rousseau and Traum, work great for seeing jumps clearly, but even when an overhead view is not available, some kind of footage is much better than just sheet music.
I tried to add more overhead videos but I got copyrighted...
@@JartiousThat’s unfortunate :(
Alkan concerto for solo piano 1st mvt.
I think you couldve added Liszt Mozart Remiscences du don juan
İnstead etude op 25 i'd add prelude 16
Been playing piani for 9 years and I’m still horrible at left hand jumps. I can’t get past Level 4 😭
Level 3 is inherently for all rags.
アルカンのソナタの左手の跳躍も凄い
2:53 that Cziffra playing tho? Why does it say Yuja?
I play a song that is at least level 6: Escorregando-Ernesto Nazareth.
rosseau gonna copyright the shit out of this
Level 7 Tritsch-Tratsch Polka was harder for me than level 8 Liszt 😭
Faltou aí o concerto para mão esquerda de Ravel
instead of ai, shoutout to barbaro mr's playing of Mereaux - Etudes, Op. 63 No. 24 "Bravura" th-cam.com/video/k57Tl7qAGFs/w-d-xo.html
@4:48 Concert Variations (original video) clearly shows that this footage was sped up. Not played at tempo.
id youre talking about seonyongs performance its not sped up. he has witnesses
@@ryzikxWitnesses to what? His playing at the original speed of the unedited version? First, his technical skills in all his other videos do not come even close to the level of this kind of virtuosity - sight-reading or not. Second, I did put this footage in iMovie at half the speed and it matched all the other footage. His movements in this one clip do not match any other clip.
@@Dizzyfingers2oh youre right . i didnt watch closely enough
Scriabin Etude in D# minor
No way is the Butterfly etude a level above HR2
La massima difficoltà unita al maggior gusto e bellezza ricordiamoci è sempre Liszt eccetto forse qualche primo scriabin e rach
Thought this was hand-crossing, lol, but I would say Sabre Dance/ Cziffra should be in number 8 place. Number 8 should be lower than 7. Number 3 should be in 4.
If you ever do a hand cross video, include Scarlatti sonata K 24 or Islamey for sure
Another one for level 9: Petrushka
Que mierda con el último, saltos de 5 octavas y media con la mano izquierda a 200 tempo no me jodas
es sólo por diversion
Dawg was not sightreading
He is
Also, sight reading is the only way that abomination at the end should be performed.
Normally, it is better to play music
Scherzo Focoso should have been atleast here as level 6 or 7
I’m genuinely surprised Op. 25 No. 9 was on this. I just finished studying it and the left hand had like two somewhat big jumps the whole time. Definitely not big enough jumps for where it’s at though (for the whole piece)
oh arent you the guy that commented on my channel asking for mereaux 60 💀 im working on the left hand only and it needs more endurance than 24 by quite a bit
Yeah das me. I'm happy you're working on it! Please send clips one day!
@@Jartiousits gonna be a while. to no ones surprise its very difficult 😭not to mention piano isnt my main hobby either
but mark my words i will get the entire piece left hand one day. theres a lot of 10ths in the right hand especially at the coda so i probably wont be doing that in the foreseeable future
@@ryzikx what's your hand span? I can only just clip an 11th in my right hand and tenth in my left
@@Jartious10th in both hands with extension. i cant reliably play 10ths
Kind of sad I didn't see Alkan's Grand Sonate 30, Quasi Faust on here. I've worked on that piece and while it isn't throughout the entire piece, there are some stupidly ridiculous left hand jumps in there. Nothing as ridiculous as that last piece though wtf
Lol wtf was that last one.
2:24 Look at traum’s left hand, the sheet music does not go that far. Its just 1 octave higher
Ehh I just added it since lots of people play it like that (traum, cziffra, evgeny genchev)
@@Jartious oh ok
Why rousseau !!!??
💀💀💀
No Schumann Fantasy?
I might remake this video honestly but with viewer suggestions
Yo creo que en lugar de Chopin etude op 25 n9, hubiera sido mejor Chopin Scherzo 3 coda
Traum played differently than written and i would place hr2 higher than the chopin etude and hr6
yea
Yeah traum made the jumps a whole octave wider
Idk, I'm ranking them solely on left hand jumps and since I've played the friskas from hr2 and 6, I just how I felt about them.
@@JartiousThere’s Liszt’s LH jumps, and there is a Cziffra’s version of Liszt’s jumps, which goes at least two levels above.
To be honest, Cziffras jumps weren't even that hard when I attempted them
Brooo where’s liebestraummmmmm
Ofc its hwang playing that fucking shit
Si me pusieran a escoger cosas que odio al tocar, siempre van ser los saltos xddd
Cuando la pieza tiene demasiados saltos, siempre va ser un dolor aprenderla completamente. Pero al menos se gana más experiencia y habilidad que practicar arpegios o bordados
You know you messed up with HR 6 Is only on level 6 💀💀💀
why did i think this was ai generated
where petrouchka???
2:25ish traum piano misses several of the bass notes. Smudges them. You see it in the midi. But you don't hear it. Proof these midi 'pianists' edit their performances to make them 'perfect'
I think it shows up as a color but doesnt play a note (like you can press the key without it sounding) because I dont hear any misses
Believe it or not, I think Traum actually changed that passage to make the left hand jumps bigger. Not smaller, bigger. Absolute madlad.
@@vincentstone7272i think somehow he edits the sound to make it sound like theres no mistakes
@@karrotkakeif he edits the sound why would he not also edit the visuals? Wouldn't editing the visuals also be easier? I don't think he edited it.
@@vincentstone7272 hm, i guess youre probably right, traum did actually have a concert recently where he revealed his face, and i mean he didnt seem to make any mistakes from the clip i heard
What level would be prelude 16 by chopin jumps? (Like on the middle of the piece)
Wow I thought I’d see stride lmao
3:30
Not really. There are many much more harder Liszt pieces with insane jumps than the one mentioned here.
yeah idk why he decided to put this one as level 8
Tbh that etude would be more fitting for RH jumps than LH
@@dzordzszs There are still other Liszt pieces that have harder RH jumps than this.
Can someone explain to me why you have to cross hands in the Mereaux one? Im sure there's some reason but it looks like it would be easier to just not.
It is easier to just not, the guy that played the last piece has a recording on his channel of the Mereaux one of him playing without crossing his hands, but as it is an etude, the composer just wanted the piece to be played like that for the challenge, the whole opus 63 is just a bunch of virtuosic trials.
So, short answer: because the composer wanted it that way.
@@inuush Thank you!