THE MOST INSANE PIANO PIECES! | Pianist Reacts
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- In this video I react to the most insane piano pieces chosen by Rousseau. Although these pieces are difficult and require a good level of ability to be played, I think there are a lot harder pieces out there to play. If you think there is a harder piece of music, let me know in the comments!
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I would definitely love to see your top hardest piano pieces
Sammeee
I totally want to see it too.
Yes!!!
Me too
yup same
One that is hard both technically and musically is definitely ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, you should definitely go over that one
Tbh love watching you review this stuff keep it up
Rach 3 and 2, Lizsts Sonata In B Minor, Bachs Goldberg Variations, Beethovens Hammerklavier, Liszts Spanish Rhapsody, are definitely harder than the pieces selected.
Finally someone who understands. I believe most people haven't dug enough into real classical music. Most people believe that cooler sounding pieces sound hard. But in reality it isn't, it is all based on the length, technique, and musicality.
There's even some mainstream pieces that are still harder (looking at you, Hungarian Rhapsody no.2)
Godowsky passacaglia is very hard too.
Loved this. Im glad TH-cam finally suggested something great. Add one subscriber to your list. Btw, have u ever watched Tina S play moonlight sonata 3 on guitar? It was also recommended to me, and I was surprised it could be done on guitar. Anyway, thank you so much. Looking forward to more.
Please do more really hard piano piece videos really love them
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 - I suspect not difficult, but cool...also Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Rachmaninoff 3rd piano concerto has to be up there as one of the absolute hardest pieces especially given how long it is as wwll
One of the main reasons that moonlight sonata(all movements) is and will forever be my favorite piece is because of the coda. Beethoven's music has always been some of my favorites (waldastein, pathetique, rage over a lost penny), but moonlight sonata just takes the cake imo.
Appasionata
you definitely deserve more subs, I mean look at this a mazing video qaulity
he really does
Matt is my hero.
Off the top of my head:
Rach concertos 2 and 3
Ravel Gaspar de la nuit
Ravel La Valse
Liszt Mazzepa
Liszt Spanish rhapsody
Liszt hungarian rhapsody no12
Liszt sonata in B minor
Liszt reminiscence of Don Juan and Norma
Balakriev Islamey
Rach 2 isn't as hard, maybe Beethoven Hammerklavier or the op 111 sonata
Replace spanish rhapsody with spanish fantasy and Norma with Reminiscences de Lucrezia Borga
I wonder this is just a question but does anyone know how many years of experience this guy has doing classical music/playing piano because when he sees the person play the peice he plays it back so smoothly and fluently and I think that's so cool 😮😄
Would say Islamey by Balakirev is up there
La Campanella is definitely way up there in the hardest piano pieces. Just keep listening to the song; it is really epic
Some of the most insane/hazardous solo pieces: Paganini-Brahms Variations (difficulty 11/10), Cziffra's transcription of Rimsky Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee (difficulty 12/10, probably only a few top pianists can play it properly), Liszt et al.'s Hexameron (difficulty 10/10), Godowsky's transcription of Chopin's Etudes (difficulty 9-12/10, probably only few of the best can play them all properly), Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit (difficulty 10/10), Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata (difficulty 10/10).
flight of the bumble bee is really hard when i was practising and still is so 12/10 is a good rating
Liszt’s symphony no 9 transcription, alkan’s concerto for solo piano and mereaux’s 45th etude are what i think are some of the hardest
Finally some big brained person
also liszt paganini etude no. 4 (1838), liszt transcendental etude no 4 and 5. Also fun fact - mereaux's 45th etude is actually impossible to play in tempo
@@martynszalewski4762 transcendental etudes are not that hard. Should be Grandes Etudes
@@notmusictheory74 no 4 and 5 are very hard (especially no 5)
Also Liszt: Réminiscences de Don Juan and Réminiscences de norma, i love those two pieces.
Just started learning the piano , love to be able to have this amount of ability to play
Mattttttttt can you teach mmeeeeeee
Chopin‘s etudes op. 25 are pretty insane… I am learning the Winter Wind right now and I have no idea how to play this as fast as all those professionals can do… 😅
I'm a piano student and I'm starting to get comfortable to playing fast.
Get a good teacher, practice at least 3 hours a day. Dont fail your scales and arpeggios. Never tense up your wrist, always play relaxedly (that's insanely important). Get good fingering (good teacher needed for that). Practice in sections, don't just keep making concertos for yourself. Practice hands separately, if you can only play with the two hand then you only know half of the music. Use metronome regularly. Analise your music, it's important to know the harmonys of your music so you know how to interpret it correctly (tensions and resolutions). Play deep in the piano keybed so you dont miss notes. Practice staccato, modified rythms and modified accents in the fast sections (will help you to play faster)...
@@DanielSilva-gc4xz Definitely agree with the teacher and never tense up but the practicing 3 hours a day seems quite traditional in a way and I feel like if you follow that all the time even on days where you might feel tired then that might not be the best but I entirely agree with what you said
@@yorkzie7593 3 hours is not much if you’re practicing everything you need to.
Will you do your top 10 hardest pieces video?
Moonlight sonata 3rd movement is like the moon crashing into the earth.
One that probably isn't the MOST difficult piano piece but is very challenging is the toccata from Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin"
Piano concertos, especially Rachamaninoff piano concertos. Or pieces like Islamey, Mephisto-watlz
nugarian rhaspody no.2 and no.6? i can play no.2 and its pretty hard
Could you do one on ladivina fanatic’s performance of the Spanish Fantasy？
Liszt Hungarian rhapsody’s are very technically difficult because of the length of the piece or just the insane amount of notes . An example I’ve thought is the second Hungarian rhapsody when it gets to the frisks part. Along with the Hungarian rhapsody no 6. Near the end there is huge jumps on the left hand.
Would love a take on animenz’s arrangement on unravel since classical pianists need to take a bit of time to practise it. Have also never heard anyone play it as well as animenz :).
Great video.
Chopin's ballade no.1
Could you react to one of Traum's videos, please? He plays a lot of insane pieces, you should definitely react to it.
Like ravel gaspard de nuit is insainly hard as is ravel in general.
Most challenging for me would be either Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit or Liszt's Transcendental Etude No. 5, but of course "most challenging" will mean something different to everyone.
Beethovens 5 symphony is really hard for me to play because of the big jump in the beginning
I would love to hear you play Ballade No. 1 In G Minor op 23 that imo is one of the hardest pieces to play
I’ve played it in recitals before 😊 il maybe do it sometime…the last couple of pages are the most fun 😊
La Campanella or Hungarian rhapsody no 2
For my money, Ligeti’s Etude No. 13 "The Devil’s Staircase" ranks as one of the most insane - and insanely difficult - pieces to play. I sure can’t do it.
moonlight is difficult because you must hit the keys strong and fast and dont miss
Some hard pieces: Transcendental etuden minus Paysage, Thirds etude Chopin and also one of my upcoming pieces is fairly hard but thats on a different channel
Love watching people play but all I can think is oh my carpal tunnel I could never move that much.
Islamey, gaspard de la nuit, some brahms, liszt transcendental studies, moskowski, busoni? All harder than this lot
the hardest piece to me would be rachmaninoff concerto no.3 because of the continuous playing fast for almost an hour, I almost fained trying to play this piece and I was sweating. so if you can play this or anyone here i am impressed.
Sorabji with his "screw you" time signature and polyrythms
You ar very underated ngl
in my opinion some of the hardest solo piano pieces are liszts rondo fantastique (el contrabandista), liszts reminiscences de don juan, liszts transcriptions of beethoven sonatas, especially no 9, and liszts 1838 paganini etude 4b
have you reacted to musical basics? he has some good originals like pachalbel nightmare, you can watch the one from 10 years ago or the fairly recent one like 3 years ago or blackstar
you didn't even checked on the hardest part lol!
I feel like campanella is the hardest piano piece i ever sang😂
Wut
The hardest piano piece to play is one where you have to crescendo a whole note.
Modern composers be like:
@@DanielSilva-gc4xz Mazzepa be like…
Liszt's transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies.
how are you so underrated-
Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2! Rousseau plays that one as well and I consider that the hardest piano piece there is!
Think it was meant to be "most insane piano pieces played by rousseau" but great video
Pieces that I think are in the range of top 100 most difficult
Liszt/Beethoven Symphony 9 in D Major
Scherzo alla napoletana
Rach 3 (ofc)
Transcendental Etude no 8 (Thats only if you play the entire set of 12 as this is right after you play the majority of the tiring etudes and not to forget about the fast jumps in this etude)
Chopin op 10 2/25 6 (but theres definitely much harder pieces due to how short these pieces are and since they only focus on one piano technique)
Liszt Reminiscence don juan
I heard that listz’s transcendental etudes are the hardest.. or at least some of them
alr im learning my arpeggios and scales now
I want you to make that vid again,but use the vid of "traum piano". He is the best pianist youtuber
Him: "It is not complicated as it sounds".
Us:
Love dream. Liszt is definitely one of the hardest songs out there
Ravel - scarbo
No list of "insanely difficult pieces" in the standard repertoire is complete without Liszt Feux Follets and Chopin Sonata in B minor on it.
Talking about original works, that is.
Chopin Black Key Etude!
Polonaise op53 by Chopin is pretty hard :D
I'm surprised you didn't cover Godowsky (the easy ones if there are any). Also most of Ravel's pieces.
Most insane must be Mereaux Bravura. The hand crossing is actually absurd.
I MOSTLY think that “Mily Balakirev Islamey: Oriental Fantasy” is the most difficult 😂 good luck
React to Volume 2!
liszt don juan and Rachmaninoff Etudes Tableaux Op. 39, No. 1 or his third piano concerto
Try doing rush E.
In its actual form
Heroic polonaise by Chopin is very difficult along with Hungarian rhapsody no.2 by Liszt
no
@@norisky9987 yes
No problem with your reaction, but unfortunately, most lists with titles like this one just reflect a lack of exploration of the piano repertoire by the people who put them together. IN terms of my personal musical taste, I'm pretty largely rooted in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but enjoy exploring both before and after those periods. So how you could make such a list and not include something like "Par lui a tout ete fait" from Messiaen's "Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jesus" or one of the Ligeti etudes, I'll never understand. Throw Chopin Op. 10 #4 at most technically capable pianists and if they don't already know it, they'll say "Sure, I'll give it a go." Throw the Messiaen or Ligeti at them and they're likely to say "Ummm, I'm not sure I'll have the time...."
Mereaux 45 coda is insanely difficult
Weren’t all of these pieces also in the other video from rousseau?
My list would be:
Liszt Spanish fantasy
Gaspard de la Nuit
Islamey balakirev
Liszt Beethoven symphony no 9
Godowsky-Chopin etude
Alkan Etude
Fur elise
Are not the first and the second ballade by chopin extremly hard?
I think Hungarian Rhapsody no 2 is up there.
My problem with every piece there is is just the speed, the rest is easy.
paganini piszt no.6??
Hungarian rhapsody 2 ?🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
Im not sure if this is difficult or not but 'Scarbo' by Maurice Ravel is an insanely scary piece.
True
you would be correct! scarbo (and really, gaspard de la nuit as a whole) is one of the hardest pieces in the piano repertoire
Gaspar de la nuit, islamey or probably alkhan concerto for solo piano
Try bartoks 2nd concerto
Liszt Operatic Fantasies and Reminiscences And Transcendental Etude And Years of Pilgrimage are difficult ✔️
Nice
Hardest Piano Piece That I Know (technically)
Galop In A Minor Liszt
Islamey, Gaspard de la Nuit, Feux Follets to name a few
La Campanella like piano
Could you react to Vinheritos most difficult pieces
Id say ravel's Gaspard de la built m.3 I.I.I :scarbo is the hardest
I think the hardest piece would either be unify by HDSQ or tau the song by HDSQ but you’ve already seen those so……
How bout the finger breaker?
I personally think that is one of the hardest, the speed at which you need to move your hand and the precision required is astounding
La Campanella looks hard and it is, don't get me wrong. But Liszt's style consists of mostly technique. If you are dedicated and practice a ton, you could play this. From someone that has been playing piano for 10 years I can tell you that there are a lot more pieces such as Rachmaninoff's Concertos that are way more difficult.
Hardest song on piano is hot cross buns followed by jingle bells
Chopin Ballade No.1 in G Minor
Winter wind?
hmm id say chopin ballad no. 1 in g-minor op. 23
Maybe Chopin's prelude in g# minor
I've been having a long-running debate with a fellow musician friend about the legitimacy of artists who primarily work in the space of digital music, and when I was recently checking out one particular performance, I sent it to him with the text "this right here would make a concert pianist blush." He was certainly impressed, and after our discussion, despite me not being a reaction video guy by any means, I found myself wondering if any pianists had reacted to it. I was surprised to find that almost nobody reacted to it.
So here I am to pitch some reaction fodder to you. The artist is Shawn Wasabi, and the upload is his live "mashup" of Marble Soda: th-cam.com/video/qAeybdD5UoQ/w-d-xo.html
I'd be interested to see what the debatable height of hand dexterity in the world of instrumental musicians has to say about this. I sincerely hope you dig it.
So... I watched it and I have no idea what makes you think this compares to the hand dexterity seen in a concert pianist. I mean, yes it's impressive, but it's nowhere near the likes of professional pianists. Just watch a performance of Feux Follet (Liszt Transcendental Etude No.5) or Scarbo from Gaspard de la Nuit by Ravel. Respectfully, it's incomparable.
@@smoloreo2410 Thanks for the recommendations, they were both very impressive and I really enjoyed both.
And they make your case well enough, though to be fair, I'm not exactly saying that video constitutes an analog to the most impressive of dexterous piano play in all of recorded music - I cited pianists as the debatable height of hand dexterity in the world of instrumental musicians for good reason, which is why I wanted to see them weigh in.
As a person who doesn't play the piano and who could only arrange the keygroup that Wasabi used if you provided me with the samples and a map, if I were to make an argument (just for the sake of a productive, healthy and respectful argument - I'm more curious than opinionated on this very specific question) for Wasabi's dexterity being comparable, it would be as follows:
* While working with fewer keys (but possibly more inputs, depending on how many pad banks he's working with), he's working across two axes, which can (and I'd say does in this case) involve more complex and unnatural hand and finger movement/positions.
* The keygroup is not a steady progression of notes, which is to say it's completely unintuitive until the performer makes it that way to the extent possible. The act of memorization, arrangement and performance doesn't have the support of an unchanging instrument that the player has a wealth of experience with - arranging it so its playable is, alone, a unique feat.
* More than one instrument is being manipulated in a song where numerous instruments/sounds are playing in unison, which is to say, in my estimation at least, that this performance is more than just the sum of its parts in keystrokes. As an example, I'd offer up the act of playing an instrument while singing. While it comes naturally to some people, many, like myself, who can sing something well enough alone and play something well enough on (say, for this example) a bass, struggle to sing while playing even the simplest bass parts. For me personally, my brain tries to drag me into singing the notes I'm playing on the bass - I don't have as much of a problem singing while playing the drums, aside from the breathing of it all. For others, the potentially unaligned rhythms frustrate them. It's possible that a performance like Wasabi's might, for many people, be easier if they had a track map to follow without hearing any of the sounds - and I'd imagine that the sound of the keys being pressed wouldn't even necessarily sound like it's attached to music much of the time.
* Slightly related to the last point, going back to that "map," Wasabi's performance require that fingers on both of his hands work outside of any kind of steady rhythm at many points, and the non-repetitiveness of virtually everything but the percussive sounds in that track (most of the samples don't repeat) ends up in something that, in the realm of my experience from the viewer/listener end, most closely resembles the type of classical piano performances you linked me. I have a feeling that were you to visually map out a moving track to Wasabi's performance, as I watched in the videos of performances you recommended, the two tracks wouldn't look too dissimilar in complexity, even if the single-instrument nature of the inputs might make the piano play sound more musical were you to play out the strokes on some monotone surface (like the buttons on a controller).
Anyway, that's me trying to make an argument for the sake of exploring the topic. People with far more dexterous hands and fingers than my own may have a different take. Speaking of which, thanks again, assuming you're a pianist, and even if you're not and just had some perspective to offer. Again, I don't necessarily disagree, but I feel like it's healthy to explore the topic. I do think that people who play traditional instruments (which I do as well) oftentimes look down on digital music producers and performers, and while I don't think complex performance or composition a good song necessarily makes, I do think that anything to win people over to being more open to new things is fair game when it comes to music. I'm personally satisfied to judge something by the quality of its output, but I can understand how it can come off as kids stuff to lifelong musicians when they see people creating music by pressing controller button in front of Macbooks haha.
@@shokosugi2346 Well, I actually have a lot of respect for digital music producers. But the point I was mostly trying to make was that it's just not comparable to complexity and dexterity required to play some of the more challenging pieces on piano, or really any stringed instrument for that matter. Though piano is a bit more challenging at the far end of difficulty for the instrument, as compared to other stringed instruments (and yes I know the piano is technically a percussion instrument rather than a stringed instrument).
As for your first point, about the number of axis, I feel the piano gains difficulty and complexity from having only one axis, because the keys are large, it allows for more complexity in the number of notes played in a confined area at a fast pace, or allows large jumps. Since the keys spread across a large area it requires, a lot of the time, use of the entire body in order to play with the proper technique and musicality.
As with your second point, I will agree that the mapping of the pad does vary from song to song, and therefore it must be relearned for each one. This eliminates the advantage that pianists have with their familiarity with the instrument.
In terms of the number of instruments manipulated, I recommend you look into organ music. An organ can be many instruments (or rather sound like many instruments), depending on which stops are pulled. And unlike a piano, organs have foot pedals, so not only are you possibly playing up to 4 parts (or more) in your two hands, you could also be playing one or two more parts in your feet, simultaneously. And during this you may have to push or pull stops in and out while your playing. This introduces a whole other layer of complexity and required dexterity/coordination. Quite literally, Organists sometimes have to nearly every muscle in their body to play certain pieces.
Lastly, rhythm and repetition, or the lack thereof. I introduce to you... Xenakis - Mists. This piece contains no time signature. Its full of insanely complicated rhythms due to the composer being not only a musician but an architect. The entire piece, though not containing a time signature, is heavily mathematically based, though its probably impossible for a human to play faithfully to the score. This is one of the hardest pieces written for piano. But not the hardest. For that, I present Sorabji's Symphonic Variations for Piano. The piece is 9 hours long. As of writing this, no recording exists of it in its entirety as played by a human.
please react to sofiane pamart :) i think with his piano playing he has a good chance to become one of the biggest pianists of this century
Il check it out 😊
Gaspard de la nuit (Ravel)
Bubble bee is the hardest to perfect on this list because of how boring it sounds. It makes practicing it soooo monotonous.
it’s not that hard
Try Beethovens pathetique, I find it so hard