Richter seemed to be a superhuman player. Immensely talented
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Cziffra's teacher was liszt's pupils Istvan Thoman. He was better than richter. Cziffra was Liszt expert.
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Tahir Ant Cziffra was really be Liszt superman player immensely talented.
@davidschestenger73503 жыл бұрын
Are de olympics or is music ?
@paulzeng62119 ай бұрын
However, I do believe Richter plays better than Cziffra, just my humble opinion after little practice and banging out Op.10 No.4 faster than Richter himself as well as the Ballad @@howardlitson9796
@uhartchristian13 жыл бұрын
this is absolutely a sensation.... incredible..... thanks for posting
@robert9828 жыл бұрын
I think his rendition of etude 2 is unmatched.
@charlesbickford51676 жыл бұрын
Arrau!
@michaelreimer97996 жыл бұрын
True!
@linkinthegame25745 жыл бұрын
Sure ! etude 11 too
@johnmerrick95915 жыл бұрын
Possibly even faster than Cziffra! Terrific.
@kimsolmo11 жыл бұрын
No other human beings cannot play better than Richter.
@jean-mariedethier54957 жыл бұрын
Yes !
@marmasiotis6 жыл бұрын
This is so true, and sad.
@andrewkennaugh63296 жыл бұрын
Don't you mean can play better?!😕
@MisterJSF3 жыл бұрын
Well... Did you hear about Cziffra... ?
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Don't deny virtuoso pianist cziffra. Cziffra have three version Liszt transcendental Etude feux follets.
@632ash4 жыл бұрын
Greatest! Thank you!
@ronstriebig27495 ай бұрын
This was one of my 21st birthday presents I was astonished by the brilliance
@ljiljanastanic90767 жыл бұрын
Top🎼🎼🎼💙💙💙💝💝💝🍀no words!!!🎼🎼🎼🎹
@c.g.marseille45107 жыл бұрын
Ljiljana , this look' very nice ! !
@carmel16294 жыл бұрын
Transcendental Liszt . Transcendental Richter !
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Cziffra was better than richter. Don't forget cziffra's teacher was liszt's pupils Istvan Thoman.
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Cziffra recorded full transcendental etudes Liszt with hungarian gypsy style. Cziffra was standard liszt style.
@AnastasiaHronis12 жыл бұрын
This is amazing!
@ronstriebig27493 жыл бұрын
Pianist of 20 th century
@paulzeng62115 ай бұрын
Pianist of mankind's legends.
@andrewkennaugh10656 жыл бұрын
There are great pianists...and there's Richter...😊
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
There are great pianists... And for 20 century there was 24 years old young virtuoso pianist martha argerich. It's better than richter.
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Chopin piano competition 1965 was martha argerich pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Even ashkenazy admired argerich.
@K72362 Жыл бұрын
@@howardlitson9796 Nonsense. Argerich is not better than Richter. She doesn't even come close to Koczalski, von Sauer or Friedman...
@paulzeng62119 ай бұрын
Fuck yea.
@paulzeng62115 ай бұрын
@@howardlitson9796 Everyone in front of Richter SUCKS, I might put in the effort to match him, but that's meaningless.
@davidpetter67563 жыл бұрын
This is a supreme example of what Liszt meant by transcendental technique; supreme virtuosity with the sole purpose of realising the poetic idea behind the music.
@j.e.84424 жыл бұрын
Number 11 just beautiful as blazing.
@ronstriebig2749 Жыл бұрын
Pianist of the 20th century I have his signature on a concert programme that I attended whilst he was in London
@ronstriebig27495 ай бұрын
The last etude is so lovely
@ronstriebig27493 жыл бұрын
With Richter the soal of the music remains amongst the beauty and complexity
@Highinsight79 жыл бұрын
I think... he was having... FUN... GOOD FOR him...
@rayray991009 жыл бұрын
Unwinding a the piano....
@rudbeckie18 жыл бұрын
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Díky (Y)
@leibnitz63523 жыл бұрын
In terms of agility and dexterity, perhaps the singular man in the history who would be comparable to or surpass George Czziffra.
@leomiller22913 жыл бұрын
There’s also Marc-Andre Hamelin.
@jackcurley15912 жыл бұрын
I couldn't disagree with this comment more. Richter was an incredibly dextrous and capable pianist, sure, but it's simply wrong to suggest his dexterity was comparable to Cziffra or MAH. I think Richter was, undoubtedly, a better musician than Cziffra or MAH (which, combined with his quite impressive technical capacity, makes him one of, if not, the greatest pianist(s) of the 20th century), but Cziffra and MAH are simply different animals; literally different types of musicians too (the ultra-rare hyper-virtousi)
@leomiller22912 жыл бұрын
@@jackcurley1591 you’re absolutely right!
@s1earle2 жыл бұрын
@@jackcurley1591 Yes absolutely wrong to compare pianists because firstly their selection of music differs and is coupled with our personal likes (and dislikes too).
@donaldallen1771 Жыл бұрын
@@jackcurley1591 And I disagree in some respects with your comment. First of all, Cziffra and Hamelin were/are not just incredible virtuosi, but were/are thoughtful musicians. I am a bit acquainted with Marc-Andre Hamelin and I know how much he cares about the musical aspect of his playing, not just the technical wizardry. And I think he's very convincing, producing beautiful, moving playing in some music. And he's less strong in other repertoire. In other words, he's just like everyone else in this respect -- he doesn't do everything well. No one does, Richter included. As for Richter, I think technically he was pretty nearly a match for Cziffra and Hamelin, especially when he was young (have you seen the video of his Op. 10 c#-minor Etude at Chopin's tempo? Astonishing.). And I am surprised that other people who were at the absolute top technically weren't mentioned -- Rachmaninoff, Lhevinne, Hofmann, Busoni, Horowitz, Friedman, Pollini. And I think Argerich is in that class, as well.
@JohnEBPiano12 жыл бұрын
He makes the second etude sound like Armageddon! Amazing playing, Richter at his best.
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Cziffra was best at transcendental etudes. Didn't forget cziffra's teacher was liszt's pupils Istvan Thoman.
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Don't deny 20 century hungiran virtuoso pianist can play better than richter. Don't be sure that no one can play better than richter.
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Didn't forget except hungarian virtuoso pianist cziffra 20 century, there was hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer and conductor tamas vasary. Tamas vasary's teacher was pupil of Istvan Thoman and his name was Ernst von Dohnányi
@paulzeng62113 жыл бұрын
@@howardlitson9796 I prefer, the flying idiot etudes. All I hear is some idiot flying and crashing and flying and crashing, poor guy, living for the thake of virtuosity and nothing meaningful.
@paulzeng62113 жыл бұрын
he makes the second etude sound like a flying idiot! Just as Liszt wanted to.
@ronstriebig27495 ай бұрын
The Liszt of the 20th century
@thomastsang25077 ай бұрын
I never dreamt #2 could be played like this ...
@user-gy2qo9lg6d4 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@johndinwiddie44119 жыл бұрын
I'll take a chance. Richter never bores me, and at his best, he lifts me very very high. Most all of us feel that. His tempi, in a way similar in idiosyncracies to those of Glen Gould, can be too fast, and as I listen now to the altogether reasonable 2nd etude, the first and the introduction that precedes it--did that count as etude 1 (I forget)--were just way too fast and the power and resonance of the music suffered as it always does when playing becomes hysterical. I could argue for his approach, but that grand faux Andalusian etude is first and foremost great music. I am more interested in its true grandeur than its function as a very hard etude> I might add that I always preferred his first version of that work, but Liszt understandably backed off from it. The long passage that alternates thumb and thumb-octave is impossible, but he threw out some of the baby with the bath when he rewrote. I also prefer the first version of Mazeppa. Too often a composer gets it right the first time and then screws the works by gildfing the lily. Well, whatever, this here is one hell of a document.
@marksmith3947 Жыл бұрын
Rachmaninoff overworked his own pieces to death. It's part of the reason I think he never could be considered in the first tier of composers -- even just restricted to romantics
@ronstriebig2749 Жыл бұрын
Beyond astonishing
@meredith21846111 жыл бұрын
Richter was always sensational in Liszt. I love the sheer abandon he displays, no prisoners are taken.
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Don't deny virtuoso pianist cziffra and cziffra's teacher was liszt's pupils Istvan Thoman.
@s1earle2 жыл бұрын
@@howardlitson9796 Yes agree that Cziffra had a very good and coming excellent technique coupled with exceptional composing skills but his playing of Liszt in the virtuosic passages is marred by heavy handed thumping, his playing of pieces requiring less virtuosity is really beautiful.
@marksmith3947 Жыл бұрын
@@s1earleyour comment reads as if you've never actually listened to Cziffra. He was anything but a heavy handed thumper
@s1earle Жыл бұрын
@@marksmith3947 Mark, I respect your valued opinion but you know Cziffra, in certain performances, was anything but impressive and his virtuosity though immense was sometimes short of the performance: Perhaps different to the perfectionist Lipatti...and the great Richter as well.
@marksmith3947 Жыл бұрын
@@s1earle your comment was so inaccurate I couldn't believe you listened to Cziffra. There's no mutual respect here
@themusicalgerbil19211 жыл бұрын
He plays them like they're nothing.
@lunchmind6 жыл бұрын
happy birthday, Franz Liszt.
@c.g.marseille45107 жыл бұрын
Thanks !
@c.g.marseille45107 жыл бұрын
prachtige muziek !
@Ar1osssa5 жыл бұрын
Why he don't play 4-th etude?
@paulzeng62115 ай бұрын
because I did.
@HumbleBasse8 жыл бұрын
he knows the deal
@moacirdreger17163 жыл бұрын
Transcende ele próprio o estudo número 11! Muito grato!
@billmarrufo9 жыл бұрын
Only pianist to come close or even match Cziffra in energy and technique. I also enjoy the available versions of Arrau, Berman.
@nasherkosm978 жыл бұрын
+billmarrufo Actually , Berman surpassed Cziffra in nearly all of the transcendental etudes, and everyone else of course, in terms of technique.
@pietstamitz15 жыл бұрын
@@nasherkosm97 Yes, and also in terms of musicality, spirituality, and deep understanding.
@g.kech.102 жыл бұрын
All these 4 you mentioned are equal in depth, but with different personal playing charachteristics.
@marksmith3947 Жыл бұрын
@@nasherkosm97Berman was an uninteresting banger. He's barely second rate.
@ronstriebig27493 жыл бұрын
Stagering I saw him live in London I have his signature !!!!
@jean-mariedethier54956 жыл бұрын
Comment qualifier la capacité de Richter à rendre neuf tout ce qu'il touche ?
@philippajoy43008 ай бұрын
Feux Follets is nice and delicate. One should notnbe made aware that this is virtuosic that spoils the magic.
@FirstPublicChannel13 жыл бұрын
@New4785689 se fosse sbagliata, lo sarebbe nello scan... dice 10 giugno 1956
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
So many moscow musical conservatory teacher love Emil Gilels very much. Emil Gilels was very transitional and very standard.
@PianoMagno10 жыл бұрын
Good interpretation, but regarding the transcendental studies suggest the interpretation of Claudio Arrau as one of the best.
@carrau1009 жыл бұрын
PianoMagno ARRAU IS THE BEST!
@CLASSICALFAN1008 жыл бұрын
+Marcos ribeiro Arthur Rubinstein once said that comparing great pianists was ridiculous, and was like "comparing" Michelangelo with Leonardo da Vinci or Raphael. THERE'S NO COMPARISON---THEY'RE ALL ORIGINALS!!
@jamesnickoloff66925 жыл бұрын
@@CLASSICALFAN100 This strikes me as an idiotic comment. There may be no comparing Michelangelo and Raphael. But we CAN compare other artists at the time of these and say, "No, nowhere near." That is how it is with most other 20th-century pianists (all good) and Richter.
@rainchen78462 жыл бұрын
@@jamesnickoloff6692 comparing artists, in general, is idiotic, every artist learn different repertoires, have different thoughts on music, learn music differently, and artists may struggle with one piece but not another depending on the techniques required but then again, what is the point of it? you can never expect perfection in this world anyway, looking for perfection is just a fool's errand
@ousejamais1vezousejamais1vez5 жыл бұрын
The feux follets...not from this world
@paulzeng62115 ай бұрын
True. Somehow, newer pianists attempt this and bang it raw and slow, or play with so much nuance and facial arrogance, and most people yet still worship them. Sigh..
@jgmaio6 жыл бұрын
No not this time Richter it is not what I expected from him. I prefer by far Arrau this time.
@johnjohannes59549 жыл бұрын
Who's so fool to vote vegatively?
@pbrownonyouification9 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately,these are called 'trolls'. People with nothing better to do but cause shit for no other reason other than to get a reaction. As long as you appreciate good music,that's all that matters. Just ignore the trolls. Nice music btw.
@sixkatz9 жыл бұрын
Penny Brown People who vote "vegatively" [sic] are called "trolls?" They do it only to "cause shit?" You think all that matters is that "you appreciate good music." And your critical comment is "nice music btw." Penny, you're not only gorgeously named for your role, but as a Philistine hell bent on an exegesis of trolls, you're beyond compare!
@pbrownonyouification9 жыл бұрын
sixkatz Yeah......what ever. Speak some fuckin ENGLISH or pull the dictionary out of your ass,okay there Skippy.😒
@sixkatz9 жыл бұрын
Penny Brown Sorry Penny. It's English all right. Your struggle with the language seems to be occasioned by that that troublesome low IQ of yours, and your helplessness in reply: "Yeah...what ever" [sic: you mean whatever, sweetheart]. You obviously think you can improve on your lack of content by adding "fuckin ENGLISH" in your winsome schoolgirl way, but it's easy to see right through it all. Can't think. Can't write. Can't defend her views, such as they are. Okay there Skippy? Is it sinking in? When you tell me U0001F612, I know I've located the bottom of your barrel.
@inraid9 жыл бұрын
John Johannes Alfred Brendel
@cziffra114 жыл бұрын
I believe that if a person were to listen to this "blind," that is without knowing who the pianist is, the common response would be: great technique but the playing is often brutal and coarse. The second Etude, for example, is dispatched with nary a problem technically but damn near bludgeoned to death. Just my opinion...and I should also state that I fidget when people play Liszt -- especially pieces that were obviously intended to challenge the player technically and gobsmack the audience -- as if they were part of the WTC. Smoke and flying gravel are integral to much of virtuosic Liszt, but a considerable portion of this playing strikes me as brutal and savage. Of course the recorded sound is glassy and percussive. It might very well be that the effect in the hall during this recital was quite different. I guess we can never know. Richter was one of a handful of great pianists, not only of the 20th century but of all time but I just don't think this serves him well.
@rainchen78462 жыл бұрын
I agree with your statement about the performance of the 2nd etude, speed should never be an excuse to compromise the clarity of the harmonies and massacre such beautiful music the etudes are meant to transcend both technical and musical limits, and it would be unwise to focus only on the technical aspects of the etudes, I think Leslie Howard's lecture explains quite a lot about Liszt's etudes d'execution transcendante: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZeHlrhy3bzDo6c.html I do hope you see Liszt in a new light
@howardlitson97963 жыл бұрын
Don't deny 20 century hungarian virtuoso pianist tamas vasary. His teacher was pupil of Istvan Thoman and his name was Ernst von Dohnányi
@Tenutotv11 жыл бұрын
Erk, I can't say this is a great performance. Lots of banging. Just my opinion though!
@alhfgsp5 жыл бұрын
@R_ Reveley I agree, it was recorded with 1950s technology. Richter's playing brings out the right aspects of the various interwoven melodic lines at the right times and has a perfect sense of timing with his subtle rubato (he's mostly on tempo which I love).
It s even more bombastic and tasteless then Liszt wrote :-)
@andrewkennaugh10656 жыл бұрын
If you can't appreciate Richter's playing then perhaps you should stick to listening to Barry Manilow and Richard Clayderman...😕😊
@juliandavies94675 жыл бұрын
than not then
@nickjgunning3 жыл бұрын
We've got to remember that musical conservatives have always equally hated and envied liszt. They prefer to stick to safe and near moribund 'classical' composers with the correct number of repetitions and predictable key changes- they like their music by numbers, solid like mendelssohn or Brahms with nothing to upset them. Like the people in the Saki story who understood art providing the frame carried subtitles. Well, when did you last find a concert of music byAnton Rubenstein, or Hanslick? Liszt forces you to listen to the music.
@ratzlp0li Жыл бұрын
Just listen to no. 3!
@LeifD95810 ай бұрын
Liszt is never tasteless.
@Jarnobh12 жыл бұрын
Awful performance, especially no. 1
@paulzeng62115 ай бұрын
Blame the flying idiot jumping astronaut named Liszt, not Richter. It's made to sound awful, fyi.
@user-pf3ku5ph2p6 жыл бұрын
I'm a big fan of Richter, but I do not think Liszt is his thing
@johnlovric58965 жыл бұрын
Maybe it is not your thing?
@christophbader37135 жыл бұрын
John Lovric :D
@Manx1237 жыл бұрын
Too fast and too monotonous. Much better is Russell Sherman's recording.