The algorithm is clever. I had forgotten I watched this video 5 years ago and left a one word comment which I stand by. But my perspective has matured and widened a bit since then. This performance is so good that words become trivial irritations I could just sweep aside. He plays the music as written with finesse and a golden touch. Liszt didn’t make ladies faint by angrily banging the piano as if a weapon of war. He no doubt played with great aplomb, but interspersed with the delicate and smooth. The finest and best Scotch Whiskey is best had only in Scotland and drunk straight by the shot, down the gullet she goes, potent enough to grow hairs on a lady’s breast, but smooth as the smell of spring grasses, and giving a nuanced finish of agreeable complexity invoking cherished memories of good times gone wrong but made right again…Too often we hear Liszt played like the 1812 overture - and there are such moments to be sure. But one ought not neglect the grace and beauty that require a lighter touch I would argue is the predominate facet of Listz. If I were to play this piece, I would want it to sound just like we hear it here.

2:59 sry but I don't think the LH of the score doesn't match what Cohen's LH is playing?

Yo crei que escuchaba una cumbia colombiana....que mal....escuche a Claudio Arrau li vava guiar porvel camino correcto....

🎉

3:21

Il penseroso

2:57-3:27 this is the shit

Wonderful performance :0 It have so much personality :D

Merry Christmas yall ❤

he knows when to play heavy and lighten on the keys

like to see someone's hands fly on that

When was this recorded?

3:00

This version is excellent. There are only one or two on this platform that I could find I like better: check out Stephanie McCallum's take.

Bravissimo…

8:38 it’s not for me to say, but I do enjoy this part faster.

Back here every year, I love it. Greatest Christmas music to exist

0:45

What a lovely composition; passionate Mendelssohn Song Without Words type

Least one I like not interesting

05:37 - 07:04 did not expect that. Wow 🤯👍

Funny enough this is actually one of the Liszt pieces that not even Leslie Howard has played. 😮

Is he left handed? Dreyshock would be proud.

Uma de minhas peças favoritas. ❤❤❤

This version of Obermann is definitely the best friend of Alkan's Quasi Faust. But the coda somehow lose some tension.

Switzerland but something actually happens.

I listened to classical since the 70ies

His trills are good jn both hands

Автор так то Бетховен

Fine improviser

Beautiful piece especially around 7 minutes

The non-rewritten ending (the orchestral one) is better. This pianist plays with too much pedal, and the lines are not distinct enough. The performance of the Stradal arrangement by Monti is more exciting.

Middle part was wild would like to see someone play that

What a hideous piece of music

I actually like the late Liszt more and more compared to the earlier stuff....The sonata of course being the flagship of all piano music ever composed.

Essa reminiscence é a minha preferida, e é uma das menos visualizadas, não compreendo

It's literally one of his hardest fantasies

I wish there was a live performance of this piece so I could watch it. It's one of the best. 😭😭😭

Is an insult that you add a commercial in the middle of this artwork ma friend.

Absolutely crushed and in tears by 8:30

2:18 i really love this part

Чудесно....

Moving.

Ах, эти излюбленные Листом виртуозные терции, сексты и октавы! Попробуй сыграть!

8:02 sounds like it could be from a Debussy piece. People who say Liszt was just a showman irritate me.

I see this listed as #21. #21 in what book?

Reminds me of Godovskies star dpangled banner, especially towards the end

3:00 For me one of the best Lisztian moments in all his music

Liszt wrote the first Christmas album 😂

He saw things on the horizon that nobody else could see yet.