He was a genius. Listen him, and your happiness will return :)

how can you not know who chopin is

@@deathkiller3671 Pianist, not Composer.

@@jorgeandrade20 Well he didn't even play that well, just speeded through everything tbh

@@deathkiller3671 your opinion. I think it sounds wonderful

Thanks a lot!

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Ty

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haha twoset violin😂

Amo Chopin 🎶💌🙏

Piano gaaaang!

@@DrMd-jr3xt YEAH

LMAO I laughed hahaha

@@amj.composer wow 3 years ago, brings me back ;)

@@alexismiller2349 Recently a lot of my older comments have been resurfacing its fun to see them.

Yep

I'd have a heart attack trying to keep up with this tempo.

@@sharonsalisbury7334 I'd risk it 😄

yes he is my favorite chopin waltz pianist ! :(

R.I.P. Kocsis Zoltán! He was a great pianist.

Marcus Jones no

Thank fuck for that. His playing is just absolutely disgraceful!

I have been fortunate enough to have been taught by some truly amazing teachers including a world leading authority on the interpretation of Chopin and this flies in the face of everything he taught me. And, as Chopin is my favourite composer, it just makes me mad. I'm actually quite a laid back kind of guy.

same...

CreepyRed Somebody's trying to play Minute Waltz in a minute lol

Same lol

BUT HE CAN'T!!!!XDXDXD

@@nurdvpn not as bad as some people trying to play 15 notes a second lol #twoset

@@clarayu5409 he did it really really clean for that tempo. Applaud for that

Well aren't you a little too sure of yourself! :D

He took it back to it's rustic roots.

Yes.

I think he plays it too fast

Well plenty of amazing posthumous works... Like Mozarts requiem, a whole bunch of Schubert works, and outside of music, the entire works of Franz Kafka.

chopin doesnt know what he's talking about then, b. 150 is beautiful

Composed 1826 / 1827 , the manuscript being lost during Second World War.

yes agree is one of most beautiful things i never listened to

I absolutely agree, I find the faster than normal tempo to be great and also really like the rubato. All the colors fit just right.

@@ItalianMappingBestMapper But you do not feel the faster tempo at the same time, it feels to be just right. It is really relaxed due to the technique of Mr. Kocsis

@@gliderfan6196 Exactly, it carries you forward with vitality but it doesn't feel rushed in the slightest

Honestly hilarious, where did you learn about this?

Whether Frederic would make Liszt's female students faint is another question. It would be a nice change of pace if they didn't after all....

Corbis Vids Time well spent :)

*You made the right choice*

Pootis

Just the entirely same situation right here.

Pootis

+Zac Clark I always thought that there was no one in the world that likes these two things both at the same time.But it seems you do! :D

Lol, your hoovy face goes perfectly with that comment.

+Zac Clark Of course it does! :P

+The Amazing Pootisman Hey, you never know who likes classical music. I mean like, I like the smoky dank may-mays and I can also list 40 something pianistic composers just off the top of my head.

+Zac Clark that's the spirit!!

+Wayne Threadgate I can't even play it normally.But plannig to try waltz b.150 and b.44 . They are amazing too!

the refrain of this one sounds a lot like a minor key version of the refrain from Grande Valse Brilliante Op. 18

These are not fast it's the correct tempo if you know, the tempo markings have changed over time, which means what our Andante ( at a walking pace) means was actually their marathon.

@@ravelness :)

+Agustín Barrios Mangoré Kissin is terrible, I'll pass.

Rubinstein does it 1000x better

+Gijs Wolfs I think they are both amazing pianists. The style is only personal taste... their level of playing Chopin is definitely equal.

+nicholas72611 Kissin is definitely not terrible, if anything, I think I prefer his style of playing to Chopin's Waltzes compared to anyone else.

It sounds good, but it isn't how the songs are supposed to be played. For example, in the Waltz Op.64 No.2 it clearly states "tempo giusto" in the score, yet the performer fucks around with tempo like nobody's business.

+Ludwig Van Beethoven The salon temper.

With a dance I think the tempo should stay reasonably consistent. His changes in tempo are terribly annoying. How can one dance to such seeming chaos?

@@TomCatFromMA these waltzes werent written to be danced to, rather to be performed in concerts and such

@@aidanguy2182 And yet, it is. His waltzes aren't made for dancing, they are independent pieces of music created only for interpretation. The reason he named them waltzes is because they have waltz elements like the standard waltz accompaniment, 3/4 time etc., but they're *not* made for dancing, that is a fact.

Chopin would only teach girls i was told .

He taught anyone who could afford his price, which was high, the price of a box seat at the opera. He taught a fifteen year old boy who was a real prodigy. But he died mysteriously, Back then people were dying all the time from all kinds of things. Germs. In Beethoven's time women were not allowed to perform in public, but that was changing, in Paris.

+Ken Nickels But girls was the first of his priorities, and maybe they should pay less than boys !

That boy's name? Albert Einstein.

@@oOpumpkinheadOo 2070 paradigm shift?

Uhhhh Liszt? Brahms? Rach? Tchaikovsky?

@@owennorth4045 none of those rival him, all of them except rachmaninoff are incompetent, and I wouldn't even say rachmaninoff is romantic, I'd rather say he's early modernist.

Interesting you say that. Kocsis had this goal: to keep the works fresh and immediate, so the audience felt they were hearing something for the first time. It seems he achieved that goal.

+Archishman Ghosh This is exactly what I think.

+Archishman Ghosh You're totally right dude. I absolutely love Rubinstein, but we must give a chance to all different points of view of Chopin's art...

+Archishman Ghosh Particular mention of 19-Waltz Op.posth. B.150. The tempo is perfect, how a Waltz should be danced to. All the other KZfaq videos I've seen tend to drag the music.

+Archishman Ghosh I think is fun, but it breaks the purpose of a waltz, no one could dance to it but on the other hand no one dances waltz anymore anyway so.

Chopin waltzes are characteristic piano pieces and not for dancing. Only the first 4 waltzes are for dancing. He didn't write waltzes like the viennese did. Huneker (critic) mentions this too.

Air After b6

I'm not an aficionado but I do love Chopin. A waltz is a dance. This performer's insanely rushed passages don't seem to me to be how Chopin would have wanted them played. The dancers would be going nuts trying to keep up and then be hit with unpredictable slow-downs at times. I'm incredulous. Too erratic and unpredictable. Just because you can play something fast doesn't mean that you should.

On the contrary, Chopin stressed to his publishers that neither his waltzes, nor his mazurkas were meant for dancing. Sure, he plays with a little bit too much rubato here and there, or he plays a little too fast on some of the pieces, which Chopin may not have approved of, I still think that Chopin would have appreciated most of these.

@@happypiano4810 yeah the fact that most of chopin's waltzes would just ruin the mood of the dance(XD everyone would get gloomy, wouldn't they lol) so in that sense i completely agree with you that these were fine. In fact, i'd even say I found a lot of them to be the best on youtube.

@@TomCatFromMA no one can dance to a lot of them even if they were played slower lol, i.e. there would naturally be more focus on the pianist than the dancers lol also if one were to dance to that for some reason beyond me, it's actually very much possible with the rubato...although yes it would differ from the traditional waltz where everything seems to be the same all throughtout.

hmm well, from what I've read of the other comments, the general opinion is that it's rushed yet still somewhat good. My opinion, however, is that this style just makes *most*(not all, the last few waltzes did feel rushed at parts, which I don't exactly mind, but the waltz in a minor tho lol) of them sound really nice! I doubt Chopin would want it to be played like that, but who cares, a pianist can have as much freedom as they want...and Zoltan, as you know, has a peculiar interpretation and style so it would feel more forced to him at slower tempi. Also to me, I've never liked recordings of Chopin's waltzes as much as I did listening to these...one might say the emotions got ruined but to me, the musicality and emotions were retained, and even more at certain parts. (now ofc consider waltz in a min posth out of whatever i said XD)

@@sziklaszilard8413 Számomra Ő egy minden tekintetben nagy művész, nem is szoktam múlt időben fogalmazni. Nincs olyan, hogy Ő volt...

@@sziklaszilard8413 😔

@@sziklaszilard8413 jó lett volna személyesen ismerni...

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Me : All Classical Composer's Music is the Language of my Heart

Nah, Chopin music is heaven, more tham heaven, it is the universe! Sorry for being too late here though.

Same feeling when I found this video.

You noticed this too!!! When I learned this waltz, I noticed the first notes in the RH of each measure were accented in the score(and as such, it is usually performed this way). However, when I played it myself I found it interesting to emphasize the last note of each measure instead (bottom voice in the RH as you describe). Upon asking my piano teacher about this, he said that doing so didn't quite fit the rhythm of the waltz, as it was emphasizing the wrong pulse and would at best be idiosyncratic. So I'm so glad you pointed this out, that even the world's best do what I wanted to do too!

@@lifestyleastherapyafterstr9423 yeah its really interesting - i think your teacher is mostly correct, though it's often those idiosyncrasies that give each player their own character. i wonder how much of it is truly intentional and how much is maybe because the thumb plays those notes and the tendency is to hit a little harder with that finger. it seems like it's extra prominent in that spot though, and those guys are so intentional with their playing I have to assume it's at least mostly on purpose