what a most beautiful performance - Grainger was a major virtuoso - obviously so from the degree of difficulty of this piece - so charmingly and winsomely caught here - elegance, nonchalance, and superb brio. Bravo maestro.
Being a dancer, I've heard this piece my whole life … The interpretation is amazing. Such a different style, it gives you very odd (in a good way) vision of this piece. A+++
@Cooper Allan Dude, any composer sounded like that, just listen Rachmaninov (you can hear a transition of very romantico to very "modern"), Scriabin, it was a armony trend, it was a XX century composer.
left hand : 5/4/6/2 of the left hand ; middle hand : 1 of the left hand, plus 1/2 of the right hand ; right hand : 3/4/5 of the right hand. Anyway, one finger can be felt like a hand itself.
Well, you showed to the public that you play very well and have very fast and precise hands. But at what cost???? Killing all of the pomp, majesty, delicacy and magic of this beautiful piece. Congrats for turning one of the most beautiful intros ever created in the history of music into a depressed machine horrible sound.
He's not ruining "the piece", the performer is actually interpreting it fairly well, though your criticism would be valid if you are targetting Percy Grainger's paraphrase. I don't think that it is that bad, it's just not what you probably were expecting while clicking this video. Probably the uploaders fault to not name it "Tchaikovsky-Grainger, paraphrase on Waltz of the Flowers"
For what you are searching for, I highly recommend Taneyev's solo piano transcription and a good interpretation of it: th-cam.com/video/3a82fVerl6w/w-d-xo.html
Joao549 You’re welcome! Try to put in mind that the version here is a paraphrase/interpretation while that version was intended to be a solo piano transcription. Katsaris has a wonderful tone and an impaccable technique when it comes to orchestral transcriptions! Enjoy!
A lot of people don't like this arrangement, however, I loved it from the very beginning, it adds so much more to the original one. I actually prefer this one more.
聲の形 The original version is meant for an orchestra not one piano. So some of the things he added were to add those extra elements. He did a fantastic job
People who think this doesn’t match the orchestral version have to understand MOST piano orchestra reductions are not meant to convert the orchestral version accurately and exactly for piano it is meant to be flashy and virtuosic. Which is why the ending has been completely altered and the cello solo I think the performer here changed because it sounds different from the original Grainger arrangement. It is not possible to get the same orchestral effect to the piano simply not enough fingers and too many notes if you want accuracy look for two piano arrangements.
Very interesting paraphrase. A little like Liszt minus the genius, but very enjoyable all the same. Stellar performance by Ovchinnikov, as you might expect.
@oreonyamnyam You're right, not the feeling like in the original song, not even the feeling like in the simplified song you learn the first year of piano lessons.
Very good... and one of my favorite pianists... But after hearing the Nyiregyhazi piano roll recording first... I must admit I preferred the piano roll recording. One plus about this recording... I can hear a lot more of the inner voices in this performance and much more dynamic contrast, which I did enjoy more than they Nyiregyhazi performance (but that was only a piano roll) Can't imagine how many strings he would have broke if it were a live recording.
I also know the Nyireghazi Ampico piano roll (#61613H, Jan. 1923) very well, and in fact, prefer it to Grainger's own recoding for the Duo-Art (#6085, Dec. 1918.). One thing that seems odd to me about Ovchinnikov's performance here are the two right-hand treble figures that occur at 4:29 and 4:32. These are apparently ad libs by Ovchinnikov as they do not appear on either piano roll, nor are they notated on the score.
People who doesn't like this arrangement need to understand romantic (artistic period in music and its piano consequences) arrangement trend, XX century music, and then do a kind of mix of these trends. Then you can have an educated idea of what's happening here.
At the end, a little bit of madness is better than some conductors who play so slowly I doze off. But on the whole, yes, it's a bit too jazzy and free-form for a piece so aristocatic.
Those improvisation is masters job...but i think it's not really fit with the original...somehow i feel the time i enjoying this masterpiece was intterupted...used to express happiness, enjoyable, relaxing music but this pianist add some "enigmatic" and "Passion"...
The pianist is excellent, but I prefer Taneyev's arrangement as being more faithful to the score. Grainger's is flashy, at the expense of straying far afield.
well, he played it cool.. but.. its not make me feeling better.. as i thought waltz of the flowers is a beautiful song.. in here.. its just like he showed his skill..
Esta muy buena la interpretación de está hermosa melodía, pero hace tantos arreglos que llegan puntos en los que se desvía demasiado de la melodía normal
Please realize that only the TUNE/MELODY is Tchaikovsky. The ARRANGEMENT is by Percy Grainger, c. 1905. Here, Ovchinnikov is NOT improvising or "showing off", he is playing (or interpreting, if you prefer) Grainger's arrangement, almost note-for-note, according to the chart.
I heard it s a wrong piece of Tchaikovsky s composition. I dont like to hear. it rapes the original composition. it s a blah, blah! not fit to original.
Most underrated pianists ever, this is magnific!
That is nothing
Instablaster...
what a most beautiful performance - Grainger was a major virtuoso - obviously so from the degree of difficulty of this piece - so charmingly and winsomely caught here - elegance, nonchalance, and superb brio. Bravo maestro.
The best of best version
Excelente! Pianista. Magnífica ejecución del Vals de las Flores en arreglo de P. Grainger.
Being a dancer, I've heard this piece my whole life …
The interpretation is amazing. Such a different style, it gives you very odd (in a good way) vision of this piece.
A+++
Truly a beautiful and masterful performance!
Absolutely stunning.
Truly transcends the boundary of Jazz piano and classical piano. Stunning!
Did anyone feel like he's playing Liszt?
Anyways, nice interpretation and perfect technique. :)
Beautiful !!
Good to see a piano solo version. Piano duo version is epic, but it's nice to see something else for a change.
Its the best performance i have heard
Splendid performance!
It is amazing!! I LOVE IT!!!
there are some songs that sound good when people put there own flare to it but this is not one of those songs.
EXACTLY!
+Henrado17
a tad too many scale runs but great talent
Henrado17 or maybe you don't like his flare. Um
Then what about the Duke Ellington version? Sounds pretty good to me
@Cooper Allan Dude, any composer sounded like that, just listen Rachmaninov (you can hear a transition of very romantico to very "modern"), Scriabin, it was a armony trend, it was a XX century composer.
I think this is the greatest piano arrangement of this song!! Excellent performance!
Wow, this version is SUPER difficult... congratulations!!
Learning this at the moment. It's quite hard - but I love this piece and this transcription is great. :)
Great performance of it too.
Incrível, incredible.
Ochinnikov es un maravilloso pianista que debería estar más en primera línea!
My hands don't even move that fast while playing the drums for gods sake.
My respects.
this has nothing to do with the original...its purely skills demonstration....
+akis Saskatchewan He did his best recreating the grandeur of Orchestra on a piano solo piece, and I have to say he did a great job.
I. AM. JEALOUS.
How nice!
amazing
Okay where is his 3rd hand?
on his feet!
left hand : 5/4/6/2 of the left hand ; middle hand : 1 of the left hand, plus 1/2 of the right hand ; right hand : 3/4/5 of the right hand. Anyway, one finger can be felt like a hand itself.
Very very good
Verry well played.
Love this version so much XD
like substantial drops make hits on mirror :)
Well, you showed to the public that you play very well and have very fast and precise hands. But at what cost???? Killing all of the
pomp, majesty, delicacy and magic of this beautiful piece. Congrats for turning one of the most beautiful intros ever created in the history of music into a depressed machine horrible sound.
He's not ruining "the piece", the performer is actually interpreting it fairly well, though your criticism would be valid if you are targetting Percy Grainger's paraphrase. I don't think that it is that bad, it's just not what you probably were expecting while clicking this video.
Probably the uploaders fault to not name it "Tchaikovsky-Grainger, paraphrase on Waltz of the Flowers"
For what you are searching for, I highly recommend Taneyev's solo piano transcription and a good interpretation of it:
th-cam.com/video/3a82fVerl6w/w-d-xo.html
@@lisztomani4c Its amazing!!! Thank you so much!!!
Joao549 You’re welcome! Try to put in mind that the version here is a paraphrase/interpretation while that version was intended to be a solo piano transcription. Katsaris has a wonderful tone and an impaccable technique when it comes to orchestral transcriptions! Enjoy!
que relajante y bella melodia
A lot of people don't like this arrangement, however, I loved it from the very beginning, it adds so much more to the original one. I actually prefer this one more.
聲の形 The original version is meant for an orchestra not one piano. So some of the things he added were to add those extra elements. He did a fantastic job
gut!!!!! brava!!!!! das gut!!!!
People who think this doesn’t match the orchestral version have to understand MOST piano orchestra reductions are not meant to convert the orchestral version accurately and exactly for piano it is meant to be flashy and virtuosic. Which is why the ending has been completely altered and the cello solo I think the performer here changed because it sounds different from the original Grainger arrangement. It is not possible to get the same orchestral effect to the piano simply not enough fingers and too many notes if you want accuracy look for two piano arrangements.
Wow
love 1:50 its beautiful!!
Vladimir Ovchinnikov !!!
Very interesting paraphrase. A little like Liszt minus the genius, but very enjoyable all the same. Stellar performance by Ovchinnikov, as you might expect.
otlichno
@oreonyamnyam You're right, not the feeling like in the original song, not even the feeling like in the simplified song you learn the first year of piano lessons.
Ultra difficult. Percy Grainger must have been a virtuoso. I can't do BOTH hands jumping and never will.
OMG! Maybe in my next lifetime I shall come back as one better than him! What fingers! How grand!
Very good... and one of my favorite pianists... But after hearing the Nyiregyhazi piano roll recording first... I must admit I preferred the piano roll recording. One plus about this recording... I can hear a lot more of the inner voices in this performance and much more dynamic contrast, which I did enjoy more than they Nyiregyhazi performance (but that was only a piano roll) Can't imagine how many strings he would have broke if it were a live recording.
I also know the Nyireghazi Ampico piano roll (#61613H, Jan. 1923) very well, and in fact, prefer it to Grainger's own recoding for the Duo-Art (#6085, Dec. 1918.). One thing that seems odd to me about Ovchinnikov's performance here are the two right-hand treble figures that occur at 4:29 and 4:32. These are apparently ad libs by Ovchinnikov as they do not appear on either piano roll, nor are they notated on the score.
People who doesn't like this arrangement need to understand romantic (artistic period in music and its piano consequences) arrangement trend, XX century music, and then do a kind of mix of these trends. Then you can have an educated idea of what's happening here.
4:00-4:03 = Frederic Chopin, valse n 7, opus 64 n2
Masterful improvisations but they do not seem appropriate with the piece.
- Joseph Stalin, c. Oct. 2016 lol
At the end, a little bit of madness is better than some conductors who play so slowly I doze off. But on the whole, yes, it's a bit too jazzy and free-form for a piece so aristocatic.
2020? 2120? 2220? How long time its will be unbelievably
do you know where to get the sheets of this piano version ? I tried to found some version but it doesn't like sounds that he played.
I've been a gifted athlete my whole life, but the piano still eludes me...
+lulem400 who cares. ok?
***** you
+lulem400 nope
You seem to be desperately asking for online validation. how pathetic. "gifted athlete" wahaha
+Dan what?
Well, a technique to make a lot of people jealous... but that's about it.
Try K. Kornienko
Those improvisation is masters job...but i think it's not really fit with the original...somehow i feel the time i enjoying this masterpiece was intterupted...used to express happiness, enjoyable, relaxing music but this pianist add some "enigmatic" and "Passion"...
Yeah I agree I wanted something more relaxing
is not an improvisation!!!!!!!!
Anyone know what tune he is playing? 🤨
where can i get the piano sheet for this version, can someone help pls? :D
+Leo Schapiro tough score
check imslp, they probably have it
Yes but unfortunately some people don't have a full orchestra at their disposal..
ultimate Olympic Rachmaninoff Waltz !!!!
telio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ελενακι μ'αγαπας;
okay I give up, where's he hiding his 3rd hand.
¿Quien es el Pianista?
looks he is waving hands like chopping steaks. and sounds like this. Bon apetit.
fwiggin 5....... juts 5
What was that¿
@felix0911176727 o gajo afinal usava asmaos para muito mais que defender
The pianist is excellent, but I prefer Taneyev's arrangement as being more faithful to the score. Grainger's is flashy, at the expense of straying far afield.
Как можно минусовать такое?)
try imslp
well, he played it cool..
but.. its not make me feeling better..
as i thought waltz of the flowers is a beautiful song..
in here.. its just like he showed his skill..
Pieza destruida...
I don't think the harp cadenza played the right way at all
He plays good as hell. But it didnt work here
Here from My Zombie Boyfriend 😅
Esta muy buena la interpretación de está hermosa melodía, pero hace tantos arreglos que llegan puntos en los que se desvía demasiado de la melodía normal
toca muy apurado, para mi pierde el sentido de la piesa que es tan bello
Walts of Flowers - Franz Liszt 😂
sounds and looks like steak hache
I don't like this arrangement...
+Dan yep, he ruined the waltz of the flowers
+Hanief Kautsar actually, on second listening, it's still quite nice actually. lol
@@erkaerka815 He? who?
I understand why a lot of people wouldn’t, because it’s pretty muddled, but you have to admit it’s probably fun to play and a good encore piece.
THIS ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT SOUND LIKE TCHAIKOVSKY
Please realize that only the TUNE/MELODY is Tchaikovsky. The ARRANGEMENT is by Percy Grainger, c. 1905. Here, Ovchinnikov is NOT improvising or "showing off", he is playing (or interpreting, if you prefer) Grainger's arrangement, almost note-for-note, according to the chart.
I turned off the volume but it is still bad
I heard it s a wrong piece of Tchaikovsky s composition. I dont like to hear. it rapes the original composition. it s a blah, blah! not fit to original.
He plays very good the Piano,but try next time to play the music :)
Yuck. I've heard much better.
lol
It's good.Why don't you like it?
OH man stop it! its tchaikovsky. stop the demonstration of your skils. its provintialism :) nothing more :)
terrible
Awful
He completely ruined an amazing piece. He just throws the notes. Doesn't even think about them.