Awesome…..The perfect combo is Ligeti and Pierre-Laurent together! Hope see you again somewhere!

Great vidéo...thanks. ❤

Immenso Schiff

Super!

What a Master Class. Maestro Schiff give us much more in 6 minutes that some other in several hours. Thank you!!

It's worth saying that, when it comes to musical dictation, those with perfect pitch have a significant advantage over those who don't, to the point that it becomes unfair. This is particularly true if the musical excerpt you're using is atonal or highly chromatic. If you're going to grade people on it, it would make sense to separate those with and without perfect pitch and grade them differently. It's as if, in math class, you had a portion of students who instantly knew the answers to problems without having to think or work out the solution.

I know persons who can write down everything they hear. they are totally un-musical. 😂

Amazing!

Video così ti riconciliano con la vita, grazie!

Rauber translates to something like robber

Boulez y Messian Grandes comp.

XD bassat

Brilliant. Brilliant man.

I used to sit with an acoustic guitar in front of the TV late at night while studying classical composition at university. I'd try and play along with the hideous infomercials that interrupted our film viewing as the same ads would appear frequently. This ended up being a surprisingly efficient educational tool as I always got 100% in every ear training dictation test.

Sehr SCHON

Just watch Aimard playing this piece last night in Beijing - it was the last piece of the program. I've seen this video two years ago, but hearing this piece in a concert still gave me much surprise.

What's disturbing is that there is very few anything of this quality produced for children today.

Is it possible to have a complete recording of the masterclass? I would pay for that!

magnifique. Quel cadeau!

finding these little youtubes of boulez talking in super-depth are a treasure trove to me -- thank you for putting them up

What a bunch of subjective and narcissistic expectation making players suffer and their skin crawl. Yet this player is a musician I respect with all my spirit, soul and body. Such wonderful interpretive and technical skills

A wonderful musician

Completely beg to differ; His hands have always been foreboding and stiff which is akin to most of his musical/esoteric/high-minded and devoid of passionate emotion way of being. The voice has a dead cadence with awkward pauses that -to me- makes him the Hangman or funeral director in a vampire movie.

ARgh - I should proofread - "(or even 'Atmospheres') when they watch '2001 OR 'Lontano'..."

People hear the 'Requiem' (or even 'Atmosphere's) when they watch '2001' of 'Lontano' in 'The Shining' and many immediately decide they should steer clear of Ligeti (which is a pity, because along with Penderecki's 'Threnody for...', the Requiem is one of the most harrowing pieces of music yet composed...and what is music to be if not to thrust to the extremities of all experience? It's also a bit hypocritical because for most lay people - me included - those films were their first exposure to this genius), but his 'juvenile' piece, 'Musica ricercata' is a testament to the simple beauty he could achieve with the polyrhythm of No. 7, some of the settings of Hungarian songs and the icy micro-polyphony of 'Lux aeterna' Why he isn't regarded with more conviction as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century I'll never know.

Superbe

superbe

What a pleasure to have found Explore the score. As a film maker and musician I tried more than 25 years ago to produce such type of videos. It was impossible. I would not find any support even from Arte. I love it.

Indeed I’ve always felt this piece had a 3D feeling when listening to it, stunning. A genius composer

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Thank you.

Schiff is such an inspiration. He looks always in another world deeply connected with music!

great pianist and performer🙏🏽

This is one outlook, here's another : " I compose at the piano, and I do not regret it" Igor Stravinsky. And it doesn't have to be one or the other either.

This etude is so beautiful. I wish I had the technique necessary to play these beautiful pieces.

Its so fucking hilarious

Wow, what a treat to hear such a clear analysis of this Ligeti etude. Thank you very much.

Ah, the "Good" Schiff. Not the Evil one. Bravo.

why the fuck did whoever edited the video cut out all the parts where she plays? -_-

Breathtakingly beautiful ❤

Wonderful to hear Aimard explain the aims of the composer here . I thought no. 1 was impossible with strong fingers and wrists but NO.12 has polyrhythms going on too and the density and voicing is an almost impossible human goal in piano playing ! I bought several players in these when they were first recorded after the Bolcolm etudes they are some of the most fabulous writing ever for keyboard !

András Schiff is so beautiful

Már a számitógép elött feltalálták a lyukkártyát... 😅

Just listened to Bartok, and then found this - by one of the most distinguished, intelligent, extra-ordinary musicians ever born. Wonderful!

With all due respect for Mr. Schiff, a very fine pianist and often a deep thinker, his statement that Beethoven's written instruction "gesangvoll mit der innigsten Empfindung" translated as "singing with the innermost feeling" is a very poor English translation is a tad ludicrous. How is this a poor translation? Mr. Schiff's English is pretty darn good, so he must have a better suggestion. But he doesn't say. Or, if his English is bad, then how would he know that the translation is poor??

Mr. Aimard is a master at gauging the extent in which to blend technical musical terms and descriptive language in his explanations. As a result, he makes clear what might otherwise seem random or impossibly high concept, and opens up our ears and minds to Ligeti. All of the videos he (Aimard) has done on Ligeti are wonderful.

One needs time to discuss music - I dislike the short lecture times allocated to analysis nowadays. Messiaen took his time and look at the results ❤

Quickly becoming my favorite pianist

When I was an undergraduate, we had “music theory” class five days a week for two years. This was essentially a mixture of part writing and ear training. The ear training included sight-singing, “melodic dictation”, and “harmonic dictation”. It’s my impression that this was standard fare at music schools (universities and conservatories) across the country (the United States) and beyond. Boulez doesn’t actually specify what sort of things Messiaen had him transcribe-maybe they were particularly difficult-but just the circumstance that there was regular dictation is not in itself remarkable or unusual. What I find discouraging is that after those first few years music students tend never to go back to ear training. You don’t stop practicing your instrument after you graduate; why should you stop training your ears?

Toll!