Maestro, I've been listening to your Liszt and appreciating it deeply. And now you turn out to have played my favorite piece, too. :)

Mr wolfram is among the greatest pianists.

When was this performed?

Marvelous 😊 congratulations for such a magnificent performance...interpretation 😅

Came in here thinking what's the point. Have recently listened to Horowitz and Sultanov play this, both spectacular. This stands up very well. Over the top late-romantic excess, with plenty of piano fireworks, comes across very well, and better recorded than either of the above. Listen.

I have beautiful memories about this concerto and the performance is just perfect. Thank you so much :)

Wow❤🎉😊😮❤

Claudio Abbado, Martha Argerich, Berliner Philharmoniker: this outstanding interpretation from 1992 stays for me unattained including the historic interpretations here on youtube !!!

Maravilloso !!!!

Bravo!!

Mr. Wolfram, thank you for including the applause at the end because it is part of the musical experience and is very richly deserved!

OK piano playing but the choreography does not work well here, Nuages gris is very contemporary, opening to a new century of music and the extremely classical and infrabasic language was dropped for no reason in the middle of it, completely disconnected, dead, and way too basic, unfelt, uninteresting. Dance is not a succession of positions. This is a crime.

Why is the ending so slow? It is marked "The terror rises up and mingles with the delirious dance." Where is the mad dance? Where is the vertigo? This interpretation makes no sense.

Passionate interpretation of a great work!

Very passionate and unique interpretation!

wolfram is freakin epic

33:02

nice interpretation

Amazing!

I’ve been listening all day and as usual I’m so mesmerized.

Appreciate this pieces in the Scriabin late style! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o-Bln7Z929u5g5c.html and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pKt_hrOrns2maac.html This year, January 6 marked the 150th anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin. He is the person closest to me and beloved by me in the whole world of art, a composer who immerses with his magical music into the worlds of "the highest refinement and the highest grandeur." Having deeply passed through all his work, I learned to thoroughly reproduce the elements of the Scriabin style. In particular, the style of the works of his late creative period, sounding extraordinary, otherworldly, mystical... Using specific means, first of all harmony (as well as texture and tempo), I can "scriabe" any piece, melody or motive accordingly, without changing at all or almost without changing the notes of the melodic line of the original. And despite the fact that in this case I didn't even change a single note of the melody of the original holiday song "Happy birthday to you" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pKt_hrOrns2maac.html , in the end it sounds completely different: now it's not a "home holiday", but the image of a nervous-impetuous strong-willed flame characteristic of Scriabin! Also I "enchanted" the famous Christmas song "Jingle bells" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o-Bln7Z929u5g5c.html into a figurative sphere characteristic of Scriabin: now it is the most refined cosmic longing, gradually ecstatically excited, and then melting away...

Are you the JFK researcher? Vince Palamara posted an old conference I believe you took part in did you ever write that book you had quotes about the cia needing oversight and other things

Bravo bravo! Guess who made this comment😄😄😄

Wolfram is amazing and never disappoints.

Mr.Wolfram!!!!!!!

Absolutely wonderful congrats

Fabulous performance! Thanks.

Yay! I was hoping you'd upload again soon! You're such a brilliant pianist, and I love Rachmaninoff.

Nice, original conception. So much better than the soulless boring ones! BTW, it seems you are among those pianists (all of them as far as I can tell) who give a resounding "NO WAY!" to the metronome indication of half note = 120 for the STRETTA at m.468 :)

I'm shocked I'm the only commenter apart from William himself, superb playing as always! Your interpretation of Liszt is top notch.

Bravo! Beautiful playing.

This is wonderful, thank you for sharing!!

Absolutely beautiful wrist movement.

Amazing interpretation of this piece. I've discovered William Wolfram after listening his "Transcriptions of Wagner" CD, such a gem work. Thank you for your art!

Wonderful pedrformance. Please , would you give somr more info - like who is the conductor, what orchestra, what label or the place and the date of this performance. Thank yoy.

Would you please add some more details, like conductor, orchestra, date and place of performance. Great performance, nice, clear sound, impecable technique! Definitely one of the best recordings I know of.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Thanks for posting! I always love hearing you play!!

Not interest int this sonata at all, sound to me tormenting.

Wonderful, thank you for sharing!! Your Liszt - Naxos series discs have been a constant joy. You never lose sight of the music, the line, in the midst of cascades of notes. You've been my favorite pianist since I met you after a concert in 1986.

So far, I feel this is the best version of the piece on KZfaq, as The pianist and conductor make more musical sense out of this strange piece. Wolfram’s tone is rich, full, and resonant as well! Bravo to you!

nice performance!

An addendum: i just remembered....it was the Elliott Carter Piano Concerto, not The Schoenberg that made Lateiner bonkers....read post below for lots of goodies..... Keep up the Amazing Work Bill.........Best, Alan

Great Work Bill, but I doubt Raieff would have worked on it with you. I asked Lateiner, about his recording of the Schoenberg Concerto one day in front of the School Library......." Mr. Lateiner turned Pale, gave a wry smile......and said NEVER ASK ME ABOUT THAT PIECE !!! " I have your wonderful Liszt recordings, Bill........Horowitz would have really liked your playing, Bill. I'm sure that you know I used to take afternoon walks in the park with him. I should write a book about his incredibly surprising comments he made on Pianists of the Past as well as Composers. I'm sure That Liz Stephenson told you about the time i brought some Juilliard friends over to Horowitz's Townhouse and crashed his Birthday Party. I waved to him through a Large window and beckoned him to COME OUTSIDE ( it was a COLD October 1st Evening, with MANY Limousines parked outside)..... I told him ......PLEASE !!!!....meet his Juilliard PIANO STUDENTS, THAT IDOLIZED HIM.....much to everyone's surprise he came outside and CHATTED WITH US !!!!!!........THEN HE SAID WATCH THIS: I KID YOU NOT,, BILL.....HE STARTED TO DO SEVERAL JUMPING JACK EXERCISES IN FRONT OF US !!!!.....Verify it with Liz Stephenson. He was Such a mercurial personality...just like his playing .Horowitz, much to my surprise, kept our 20 Year Correspondence...I wrote endlessly through the years to him and have saved all of his replies ....He put all my letters into " The Vladimir Horowitz Yale University Archives " !!!!.....I learned this after his passing from his Secretary Beatrice Stein......The Greatest 3 Moments of my " Career " were the 3 Separate times that I played some Etudes for him at his home on 94th Street, on that Amazing Steinway D in his gorgeous living room. He especially liked my Scriabin d# minor Etude ....He asked me what Competitions I would be entering, and I told him none ! He was quite surprised, but I told him, can't stand stress like that. He broke out in tremendous laughter on his Couch, and said " Then Why did You Pick This Crazy Business ?......I started laughing and we both couldn't stop laughing.....I guess I'm still laughing. He then said seriously, that he hated the concept of Competitions but they are a necessary evil. He really was a Character as well as a Genius. I really should write a Book. .....Keep those fingers flying Bill...I especially liked your Gnomenreigen....it was as Good as Rachmaninoffs playing !!!!!!!! Best, Alan

Great performance! Can we get more information about this recording?

This was really nicely done. I'm gonna try learning this one..... Naw maybe not. I'll just stick to balancing a chair on my chin.

ONCE AGAIN You Tube has misidentified my LIVE recording ...as a commercial one ..LIVE ones most often have mistakes commercial ones hardly ever do.

One of my TOP ten favorite pianists... This guys OLD school ROMANCE... !!! REALLY wonderful!

THIS IS NOT A RECORDING AS KZfaq SEEMS TO THINK IT IS LIVE AND I AM PLAYING !!!!!!

THIS IS NOT A RECORDING AS KZfaq STATES......IT IS LIVE AND I AM PLAYING !!!!!