This is amazing pianism. Hamelin somehow makes the piano sound more like the violin here in parts than I thought possible. And I’ve been playing the piano for 40 years. Amazing!
Never existed and never will exist the kind of pianist like Hamelin. I had a privilege to listen to his live concert in São Paulo. No words can describe his monstruos level of playing piano. He played all The most difficult pieces written for piano like if he was joking. Sometimes I ask God what is a criteria of distributing of talents...... Why for some He gives 01% and for other 100% . This will be one of the questions I'll ask Him when come to heaven. My eternal admiration to Hamelin! Thank you for sharing your talent with humanity.
You don't have to ask god for talent. If you train you can do the same. It will require 75% of your life tho. Train 8 hours a day and you can do it at some point^^
"Never will exist" I really don't like that statement when it comes to piano. Maybe they said "they will never be a composer like montiverdi" but look at all that's been written since then
Hamelin. Wow. THANK you sir... for Making those Many Notes.. NOT. about-the-notes. You Have SUCH a dialogue sir. SUCH-a dialogue - You communicate with Heart sir as you play. Great Heart.
Did anyone notice that little improvisation in the 3rd to last bar? Nice As a journalist once commented, Hamelin has a COMMAND of the piano like no-one else.
thanks man for showing me a beautiful piece. you are right, he played it outstanding. i really liked the melody. well, now that i heard some recordings, i can say hamelin tends to play Liszt's pieces a bit faster than the rest of his "colleagues". my opinion was probably built on a fact that i mostly listen mostly to liszt, so those were the only recording of him that i've heard. he is a terrific virtuoso, i just prefer someone else over him when it comes to liszt. :)
I can't believe it. This piece's difficulty is amazing. Is one of the most difficult pieces for piano ever written. In some second I asked me how the pianist pressed all that tiles in that velocity. Ok, my english sucks, I hope you can understand the comment.
It is not even close to top 1000 hardest. It is definitely not the hardest. Look at alkan op 39 no 1, it is way more difficult (still not the hardest but still harder)
@@decafcoffee0935 please don't even compare that stuff. Obviously you can make some piece that's 100 millions times more complicated with contemporary or 1900 stuff
@@decafcoffee0935 yep you're right, I'm sorry. Anyway I still don't think that it should be compared. I mean Alkan wrote pieces just for the point of being difficult... and also it's more like a Czerny on steroids, this kind of pieces by Liszt is more musical, is actually a real piece not made just for technique
I think I heard a mistake at 0:03, but he played it correctly at 0:00 so that mistake doesn't discredit him. Especially considering that there's no way I could ever play it this well.
I've been practicing this for a year and its fast and furious, most would say that it sounds like a professional recording (except some speed fluctuations and changes in dynamics to give the song a dramatic effect and my own personal touch) but it is almost impossible to perfect. The polyrhythms at the end are good, entire variation eleven is really good (fast, no staccato at beginning) variation 8 I speed up a bit (as everyone does) but variation 6? Never can be as fast as the rest of the piece IF I play it without mistakes. This dream of playing it perfect will never happen for anyone just cause of damn variation 6 and 11. It takes two very different skillsets to one of them somewhat correct let alone perfect. I've always been quick with right and left hand movement and even arpeggios, but the jitter you have to do to play variation 6 at the same speed as the rest is possible, but very unlikely when playing the correct notes and rhythms. Some people would say I have perfected this and I would say I'm as close as anyone could get to it, but I know that I will never play it perfect. That is why the Liszt/Paganini grandes etudes are so difficult and intriguing, it's a complex piece that you can practice forever and always improve on. If someone was to perfect the etudes they would lose the wonder, awe and fascination surrounding them. Only a few people can play it right, and I am proud to say I am one of them.
Believe it or not this is the easier Grandes etudes version..... Look up for the original version (etude transcendante d'après d'exécution) and you will see.
This is a revised version, the unrevised version can't be played by a single human, check out the channel, Roikelli, he has uploaded the real version of this etude
@madlovba3 Thanx madlovba! What a delightful recital! It's so strange (and beautiful). to see a pro pianist playing some of the Etudes en Douze Exercises...Thanks!
Why do Liszt pieces all have such catchy melodies? I literally dream about pieces like la campanella, love dream, hungarian rhapsody no. 6, and this etude.
This is actually originally composed by Niccolo Paganini for the violin (as mentioned by the title of this video); Liszt just loved to arrange violin and orchestra songs on to the piano, like how Rachmaninov adapted “Flight of the Bumblebee” from Rimsky and Korsakov’s orchestra piece.
Even La Campanella was composed by Paganini (Grandes Etudes de Paganini no 2). That’s the reason mostly refer to these pieces as (Liszt/[Original Composer])
You have to have to lean your torso the direction your hand is moving. That way, your hand has a much larger range. I had do do something similar for the Tchaikovsky I'm learning. It also helps you keep an even sound and gives you more control.
I posted a vid of him playing Liszt Legend No. 2, plus 2 small bootleg videos that I made (Schubert and Debussy) - be sure to check them out, wonderful performances! :) But yea, most probably I'll post other stuff by him as well, he's really great.
Okay, that's your opinion. Even though I pretty much think the diametrical opposite of what you say (his tempi are always perfect IMO), feel free to think what you think. But as we don't talk about "intentional hate" in your case, let me recommend a really beautiful recording by Hamelin, of Felix Blumenfeld's Etude for the left hand alone: /watch?v=VYDS3BOFQtM Now if there IS a piece he didn't rush for sure, this is it.
Honestly this doesn’t look that bad as I thought it might be, I think I will try playing this. Maybe back then I thought it would be extremely hard, but I don’t think it would be any worse than pieces like In The Hall of The Mountain King (Ginsberg) or Cziffra Sabre Danze.
Just a matter of taste. I prefer the clarity of Claudio Arrau (in my ipod) when playing these studies. I don't think playing them so fast help. Claudio's version tend to be slow but does not lack virtuosity. It is all relative. Virtuosity is not something one can always achieve by playing really fast. Towards the 'coda' Hamillion's left hand is not really there (too muddy).
i don't know how to practice and play this piece without disturbing my neighbours hhhh....must be played much softer anyway then need to fix the piano after this
There's no question as to Hamelin's skill as a pianist, but somehow this seems a little bit too dramatic when compared to Arrau's 1928 performance or that of Marie-Aimee Warrot's 1946 performance. Still, to each his own, and I must admit that the times when I've heard Hamelin play have always left me with a warm glow after the recital has ended. This is the first time that I've heard anything by him that I didn't really love.
chopin said that c major/a minor are the hardest keys to play in because of how unnatural it feels to play in those keys. he apparently taught students to play in b major because it’s the easiest key to play in because of how natural it feels, which is actually kinda true.
Believe it or not, Brendel actually plays it at quite the same tempo (watch?v=zZlVcisJfUM), and the original caprice's tempo is pretty close to this one's, too. But actually I think if a bit faster tempo sounds better on piano, why not play it that way? :)
I love hamelin and the majority of his interpretations, from kapustin to liszt. But personally I felt this was a bit emotionless, and somewhat dry. I do find this performance very impressive, but at times it felt a little "flashy" where it didn't need to be. I still enjoyed listening to it though.
He KILLED Var. 9!!!!! WOOOOW! I absolutely looove his performance of this entire piece. He is a monster on the piano!! Truly a master!!
Il ne fait pas assez staccato
I don't like only var 5
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@Alice Ling26 it was already so good enough. If that was me in the show I would make massive mistakes
The trills followed by chromatic scales at the end of the last variation send chills up my spine every single time. Ah, Liszt!
Sebastien Traglia Are you single?
It amazes me how much Liszt could express with just one piano.
I wish Liszt could do it as in the 5th original capriccio but it's already used in the 1st etude.
😳
0:01 Theme
0:23 Var1
0:38 Var2
1:05 Var3
1:24 Var4
1:39 Var5
1:55 Var6
2:15 Var7
2:38 Var8
2:50 Var9-My personal favorite. LH pizzicato on the piano? Astonishing!
3:04 Var10
3:35 Var11
4:13 Var12/Finale(Thanks to PRO_48)
4:31 Coda(Thanks to vertex2509)
My Favorite is Variation No.3
My favourite is var11
@@justintimetoclashandbrawl3348 same
@@justintimetoclashandbrawl3348 me too
My favourite is the theme
This is amazing pianism. Hamelin somehow makes the piano sound more like the violin here in parts than I thought possible. And I’ve been playing the piano for 40 years. Amazing!
Theme: 0:00
Var. 1: 0:23
Var. 2: 0:38
Var. 3: 1:04
Var. 4: 1:24
Var. 5: 1:40
Var. 6: 1:54
Var. 7: 2:15
Var. 8: 2:38
Var. 9: 2:50
Var. 10: 3:03
Var. 11: 3:35
Finale: 4:13
Never existed and never will exist the kind of pianist like Hamelin. I had a privilege to listen to his live concert in São Paulo. No words can describe his monstruos level of playing piano.
He played all The most difficult pieces written for piano like if he was joking. Sometimes I ask God what is a criteria of distributing of talents...... Why for some He gives 01% and for other 100% . This will be one of the questions I'll ask Him when come to heaven.
My eternal admiration to Hamelin! Thank you for sharing your talent with humanity.
But the ability and will to show dedication and passion is also a kind of talent ;)
In case you're wondering, yes, this is how I justify my laziness.
You don't have to ask god for talent. If you train you can do the same. It will require 75% of your life tho. Train 8 hours a day and you can do it at some point^^
Olga Kopylova Liszt it was like the best pianist of all time
"Never will exist"
I really don't like that statement when it comes to piano. Maybe they said "they will never be a composer like montiverdi" but look at all that's been written since then
use the fourth finger to tap any octave black key is the key point to build up a good technic
practice the A major arpeggios
Finally I found someone with a lot of subs in these comments.
Joke or what ?
Minor?
@@HiHello-rs1ey yes 😂
@@achchimaburke2389 new comment brought me back. Why was I here? someone actually requested a tutorial from me 🤣
one of my favourite pieces for the piano
me too!
Mi tu
Mie tu
His technical ability and dexterity is out of this world.
Var 11 is pure Liszt. Thank you for putting this up. Love it.
Hamelin. Wow. THANK you sir... for Making those Many Notes.. NOT. about-the-notes.
You Have SUCH a dialogue sir. SUCH-a dialogue - You communicate with Heart sir as you play. Great Heart.
I don’t understand
Fantastic etude, magnificently performed!
Did anyone notice that little improvisation in the 3rd to last bar? Nice
As a journalist once commented, Hamelin has a COMMAND of the piano like no-one else.
4:13 on is one of the most epic endings to a piano piece I have ever heard!
Listen to reminiscences de Don Juan transcription by liszt, or Rachmaninoff sonata 2 endings. They are pretty amazing too
4:13
C une merveille ce morceaux, Franz lizst, ce compositeur. C un brank. J'adore ça!!
puis cette interpretation, c une tuerie!
Wait this was live?!?! I was so surprised at the end to hear the cheering. Assumed a studio recording from the, perfection.
That transition from 8 to 9 was smooth af ...
That was incredible. I love it.
Very perfect performance! real super virtuoso...
That is an awesome piece of piano music. It's hard to believe but Hamelin can handle even 'bigger fish' than this. He's an ultra-virtuosi!
Good heavens, that var. 9 is amazing!
Oh, Hamelin, it is fantastic
Variation 11
I love it too!
I love how he plays variation 7. He plays it at a tempo similar to the Lutoslawski. I'm guessing it's consistent with the caprice.
thanks man for showing me a beautiful piece. you are right, he played it outstanding. i really liked the melody. well, now that i heard some recordings, i can say hamelin tends to play Liszt's pieces a bit faster than the rest of his "colleagues". my opinion was probably built on a fact that i mostly listen mostly to liszt, so those were the only recording of him that i've heard. he is a terrific virtuoso, i just prefer someone else over him when it comes to liszt. :)
don't agree but respect your opinion
Hamelin is really a monster.
Super performance..
Best thing ever....
Brahms has arranged this piece in an extraordinary way,a real fingerbreaker
isn't it liszt?
@@Gregggggggggg th-cam.com/video/1EIE78D0m1g/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Dear God how the hell...?
Never heard? Paganini was considered the devils violinist :D
Ken Morgan
i think they meant the pianist
No Paganini was a violinist
Yuval Avital
By the pianist I mean the pianist who played this version or the arranger
oh so Paganini was the devils violinist and liszt was the devils pianist
Beautiful
I can play this in my sleep. In my dreams that is.
jeez I wish I had bigger hands -_-
Fanchen Piano if wishes were horses beggars would ride and gary busey
+Fanchen Piano Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
+Fanchen Piano If wishes and buts were candy and nuts then every day would be Christmas.
nvm I managed to play it and go to nationals with my tiny hands lol
+Fanchen Piano what nationals ye little lad
although... I LOVE watching the score... but with Hamelin... IT'S even more FUN watching his hands...
An arduous, but very wonderful piece....
Thank you SO much. This helped me get the rhythm right on variation 2! You inspired me!
I can't believe it. This piece's difficulty is amazing. Is one of the most difficult pieces for piano ever written. In some second I asked me how the pianist pressed all that tiles in that velocity. Ok, my english sucks, I hope you can understand the comment.
It is not even close to top 1000 hardest. It is definitely not the hardest. Look at alkan op 39 no 1, it is way more difficult (still not the hardest but still harder)
@@decafcoffee0935 please don't even compare that stuff. Obviously you can make some piece that's 100 millions times more complicated with contemporary or 1900 stuff
@@matthewdraaik9269 check your facts. they're the same era
@@decafcoffee0935 yep you're right, I'm sorry. Anyway I still don't think that it should be compared. I mean Alkan wrote pieces just for the point of being difficult... and also it's more like a Czerny on steroids, this kind of pieces by Liszt is more musical, is actually a real piece not made just for technique
This piece is montrous but compare to like sorabji stuff it is nothing.
By far the best version here on youtube...
I think I heard a mistake at 0:03, but he played it correctly at 0:00 so that mistake doesn't discredit him. Especially considering that there's no way I could ever play it this well.
I've been practicing this for a year and its fast and furious, most would say that it sounds like a professional recording (except some speed fluctuations and changes in dynamics to give the song a dramatic effect and my own personal touch) but it is almost impossible to perfect. The polyrhythms at the end are good, entire variation eleven is really good (fast, no staccato at beginning) variation 8 I speed up a bit (as everyone does) but variation 6? Never can be as fast as the rest of the piece IF I play it without mistakes. This dream of playing it perfect will never happen for anyone just cause of damn variation 6 and 11. It takes two very different skillsets to one of them somewhat correct let alone perfect. I've always been quick with right and left hand movement and even arpeggios, but the jitter you have to do to play variation 6 at the same speed as the rest is possible, but very unlikely when playing the correct notes and rhythms. Some people would say I have perfected this and I would say I'm as close as anyone could get to it, but I know that I will never play it perfect. That is why the Liszt/Paganini grandes etudes are so difficult and intriguing, it's a complex piece that you can practice forever and always improve on. If someone was to perfect the etudes they would lose the wonder, awe and fascination surrounding them. Only a few people can play it right, and I am proud to say I am one of them.
I hope some day I will be able to play this, or at least some of the variations. But my teacher would prob think I'm crazy
Great!!!!!
this is really brilliant. such a passion!!
Is this the piano version of Caprice 24?
Lau Zhen Zhoa Yes, The Liszt Piano version
Yes
@@fardpig4269 That's the older set. The one that Hamelin is playjng is the newer S.141 set and quite a bit easier.
Yes
Yes sir
Haha dude, I'm glad you like this one so much! MAH is fantastic, isn't he? ;)
The Franz Liszt of the modern world🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
Wow! These notes were more readable than i expected considering this *piece* is hard
undoubtedly,this is an *etude*
Believe it or not this is the easier Grandes etudes version..... Look up for the original version (etude transcendante d'après d'exécution) and you will see.
Yea you really think that a human can play that
@@thoughtfulthoughts3103 Nikolai Petrov certainly did.
@@ArgentAlapin the original is impossible
@@thoughtfulthoughts3103 no it aint
thoughtful thoughts Nikolai Petrov plays it but at a slower tempo
one of the more enjoyable peace to ear and play
2:50 ❤️
definition of amazing right there
I LEARNED VARIATION 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Sigbot Great!
Sigbot This version is the easy one. look for the s140 variation 8 you will pee in your pants.
Amédée Méreaux oh yeah I know what you mean!
Variation 8 is easiest one!!
So easy-
@@hsyoon3219 aight, i sightreaded until var 10, the appergios at the end is 2 hard for me
4:45 .. Liszt : " Oh sh1t i thought my etude was impossible"
Hamelin: " mwahaha i kicked your ass"
Liszt: "Now beat its older brother from 1838."
This is a revised version, the unrevised version can't be played by a single human, check out the channel, Roikelli, he has uploaded the real version of this etude
4:45
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@@davidgarrett4327 are u talking about the original version? Cuz if yes, then petrov can play the whole set.
Que gusto ,los mas grandes.
I would like to see the liszt version of nel cor più non mi sento
1:11 why do I hear boss music?
3:35 Let's find your REAL height!
Get outta here
I love Variation 8 & Variation 9:)
Don't worry about that, it's a little problem. If it is a problem. The video is really great.
@madlovba3 Thanx madlovba! What a delightful recital! It's so strange (and beautiful). to see a pro pianist playing some of the Etudes en Douze Exercises...Thanks!
He is very cool played!!!
I heard a small piece from Beethoven's Tempest Mvt 3
Ludwig Van Beethoven , of course because you are Beethoven, lol!
Chung Bùi Kim so actually, he couldn't have heard a piece from his sonata.... am I wrong?
remember you're deaf? XD
He wasn't always deaf.
Ludwig Van Beethoven who the fuck is this guy?
I won't be able to play this till I die
Why do Liszt pieces all have such catchy melodies? I literally dream about pieces like la campanella, love dream, hungarian rhapsody no. 6, and this etude.
This is actually originally composed by Niccolo Paganini for the violin (as mentioned by the title of this video); Liszt just loved to arrange violin and orchestra songs on to the piano, like how Rachmaninov adapted “Flight of the Bumblebee” from Rimsky and Korsakov’s orchestra piece.
Even La Campanella was composed by Paganini (Grandes Etudes de Paganini no 2). That’s the reason mostly refer to these pieces as (Liszt/[Original Composer])
Yes
@@nishyanthkumar Yeah I'm aware, I wasn't trying to imply that they were all his original compositions.
@@nishyanthkumar That's true but he SIGNIFICANTLY alters the pieces.
mein Pruefungsstuck 1966
@scriabinwasmydaddy Grrrrrreat to see you back here! :-D
Am I the only one who's favourite section is 2:16 ?
You have to have to lean your torso the direction your hand is moving. That way, your hand has a much larger range. I had do do something similar for the Tchaikovsky I'm learning. It also helps you keep an even sound and gives you more control.
liszt and paganini would be proud
oh...my gosh
ci sono cose che solo Hamelin puo' fare cosi bene
ballata no. 4 soprattutto
Am I the only one who found the applause quite... well mellow?
I posted a vid of him playing Liszt Legend No. 2, plus 2 small bootleg videos that I made (Schubert and Debussy) - be sure to check them out, wonderful performances! :) But yea, most probably I'll post other stuff by him as well, he's really great.
4:49 Liszt- "How did u do it , i though it was impossible" Hamelin-"i kicked your ass"
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Боже, как хочется это сыграть!
Okay, that's your opinion. Even though I pretty much think the diametrical opposite of what you say (his tempi are always perfect IMO), feel free to think what you think. But as we don't talk about "intentional hate" in your case, let me recommend a really beautiful recording by Hamelin, of Felix Blumenfeld's Etude for the left hand alone: /watch?v=VYDS3BOFQtM Now if there IS a piece he didn't rush for sure, this is it.
Wow...
(Korean)
정말 피아노 치는 사람으로서 아믈랭은 존경할 수 밖에 없는 것 같습니다..후덜덜
Tuna turn 아믈랭은 존경의 대상입니다 ㅋㅋㅋ
Honestly this doesn’t look that bad as I thought it might be, I think I will try playing this. Maybe back then I thought it would be extremely hard, but I don’t think it would be any worse than pieces like In The Hall of The Mountain King (Ginsberg) or Cziffra Sabre Danze.
It´s interesting also, that Lutoslawski based some of his Paganini variations, on these ones.
Best performance
Just a matter of taste. I prefer the clarity of Claudio Arrau (in my ipod) when playing these studies. I don't think playing them so fast help. Claudio's version tend to be slow but does not lack virtuosity. It is all relative. Virtuosity is not something one can always achieve by playing really fast. Towards the 'coda' Hamillion's left hand is not really there (too muddy).
Ok.
i don't know how to practice and play this piece without disturbing my neighbours hhhh....must be played much softer anyway then need to fix the piano after this
@rvn10rvn17 Unfortunately, he did not play it at this concert... I have a live recording of him playing it, but it's just like his studio one.
There's no question as to Hamelin's skill as a pianist, but somehow this seems a little bit too dramatic when compared to Arrau's 1928 performance or that of Marie-Aimee Warrot's 1946 performance. Still, to each his own, and I must admit that the times when I've heard Hamelin play have always left me with a warm glow after the recital has ended. This is the first time that I've heard anything by him that I didn't really love.
Wonderful…
Fun fact: This Etude was remade from Paganini's Caprice No. 24.
i play this a lot of times
And ppl in my class say: pieces that have no sharp or b are easy. So the pieces in A minor and C major are easy.(they say)
Some of Liszt's most difficult works are in C Major/A Minor.
chopin said that c major/a minor are the hardest keys to play in because of how unnatural it feels to play in those keys. he apparently taught students to play in b major because it’s the easiest key to play in because of how natural it feels, which is actually kinda true.
@@thenotsookayguy ik
I hate playing in a minor or C Major
Because it feels so unnatural.
I Like C# minor
Believe it or not, Brendel actually plays it at quite the same tempo (watch?v=zZlVcisJfUM), and the original caprice's tempo is pretty close to this one's, too. But actually I think if a bit faster tempo sounds better on piano, why not play it that way? :)
It's available on imslp.org. :)
3:35
The original is quite hard too...
Zan Huang the original makes this look like Mozart sonata!
@@amedeemereaux5678 link to the original?
LP search “Paganini transcendental etude no.6” and you can see it!
quite? just incomparable!!!
Die Variation 10 gefällt mir !
I love hamelin and the majority of his interpretations, from kapustin to liszt. But personally I felt this was a bit emotionless, and somewhat dry. I do find this performance very impressive, but at times it felt a little "flashy" where it didn't need to be. I still enjoyed listening to it though.
3:04 2019
3:35 2020
Stupendous
MAH is just sick.
Paganini is already a monster, then Liszt came and had to make it more difficult than ever.
真的好爱这首...李斯特yyds！！！
same
When was this recorded?