Beethoven-Liszt - Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 (Sheet Music) (Piano Reduction)

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

I THOUGHT HE ONLY DID SYMPHONY 9. LISZT TRANSRIBED ALL OF THEM OMG WHAT A GOD

[@guii8993]

Liszt was the greatest Beethoven fan ever, Beethoven was a hero for him ever since they met when he was a little boy, this set of transcriptions are one of the noblest tributes in the entire history of music in my opinion (if not the greatest).

[@allstarmark12345]

I KNOW RIGHT?!!!

[@ShaunakDesaiPiano]

Liszt also made at least two more transcriptions of the ninth: Two pianos Two pianos and timpani. You really see the effect of this in the scherzo, it’s actually a really good version.

[@nickjgunning]

He also did two versions of the ninth. At first, he didn't believe it could all be done by one player, so he did a transcription for two pianos. Brahms and Clara Schuman played this version regularly at home. He then found a way to transcribe it for two hands. All of these symphonies have been recorded by Cyprien Katsaris and are his most prominent performances.

[@huailiulin]

P A T I E N C E

[@calebhu6383]

Liszt himself would have been amazed by the fluidity in which Katsaris plays this transcription

[@bruh-th5ft]

The most impressive part of the transcriptions Liszt made to me is that as Liszt he cound definitely made those transcriptions much fancier, but he made it the most likely to the original orchestral form anyone could made instead

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

I wish Liszt had lived long enough and had the passion to transcribe Mahler's symphonies for solo pianos. I don't think anyone else could do it.

[@tedpiano]

I have to say I've never heard a Mahler Symphony piano transcription that's truly convincing (they exist, mainly for two pianos or four hands), but these Liszt transcriptions show that it's possible to bring out the scale and spirit of an orchestra with piano alone, so I think it's possible with Mahler too. It also comes down to the artistry of execution. Here's hoping a skilled composer of our time takes on the challenge for solo piano and shares with us!

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

@@tedpiano Indeed. All the versions are for 4 hands and I've never heard anyone play them well. I'm no skilled composer but I'm planning to have a go, starting with Symphony No.2

[@RacinZilla003]

Ian Farrington did a phenomenal job transcribing the first 8 of Mahler's symphonies for solo piano Edit: First 6 Symphonies

[@wrrichardson]

@@sebastian-benedictflore Update on your progress with this ?

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

@@wrrichardson aaahaha sorry, won't be doing that for a while. Earliest I would start is this October. I'm afraid you won't see compositions or transcriptions from me in a long time, currently working on solo piano, very sorry.

[@JJTownley_Classical-Composer]

This is the best transcription of the Eroica you'll ever find. Masterfully adapted for the piano --manages to generate nearly as much excitement as listening to the Berlin Phil. Imagine that Liszt. He was bored one weekend so he transcribes all nine Beethoven symphonies. What a guy...er... what a God!

[@animalistiktiero3835]

45:55 Just a little replay button for me :)

[@demertzis2694]

47:23 - 50:54 i didnt want to write about my fav part at first because the whole composition is amazing and theres a lot of parts i like a lot, thanks to beethoven and his beautiful music that stands by me through all my sadness

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

Besides that it's your favourite part, do you have any idea to pull off that ossia? Not that I am planning to work on this piece (yeah, right), I'm just curious...

[@SherwinGooch]

If you listen to the 9th, Ludi van, much like the laughing Buddha, explains that life is but a joke.

[@dr.equilibrium9631]

45:55 - This part is just majestic!

[@samuellabrecque880]

Definitely my favourite too! And at every listen I just still can't believe that Katsaris made it even harder than Liszt's original by adding the flute run into the mix.

[@GICM]

@@samuellabrecque880 not just the flute, the cello and some of the middle lines too

[@micetro614]

I've listened to this part so many times and I still can't figure out exactly how he did it smh

[@GICM]

@@micetro614 this guy made a decent guess: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHayc6RjlNGep5o

[@samuellabrecque880]

@@micetro614 You can watch him play here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKCspmyibatknZI at around 3:50. You kind of need to put the playback speed at 0.25 to faintly see the scale gesture in his fingers. That's just perfect finger control!

[@eugenprinz5367]

The coordination and combination of the chords and harmonies marching with incredible atmosphere undoubtedly amazes me

[@most_sane_piano_enthusiast]

45:46 I like his addition of occasional scales, which aren't written in the score

[@kgjhskgskgskgskdgfsk]

He is simply not human…

[@samdoherty2284]

24:10 the most beautiful part of the whole Symphony

[@batboy5023]

completely and this is a symphony littered with beautiful moments. My favorite piece of music ever.

[@most_sane_piano_enthusiast]

My favorite part is from 45:18 onwards

[@bosu37]

I love the 1st and 4th movements so much I never gave the 2nd as much attention as it deserves, but I completely agree. That crescendo is almost painfully beautiful.

[@giacomoboganini7823]

44:40 --> 45:55 ❤ --> 46:36 soooo amazing!

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

44:40 is an amazing fugue

[@Medtszkowski]

@@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji wayyy better than bachs

[@Bwv1046]

Ah yes Beethoven The greatest composer to ever walk on earth

[@RobertOrgRobert]

11:23 probably the most controversial music ever written ! Genius. Great playing too.

[@thanos4677]

what about it is controversial?

[@RobertOrgRobert]

@@thanos4677 11:23 The key of the horn entry !

[@mckernan603]

Why do you think Beethoven did that?

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

Controversial, sure, not the most, though.

[@cerealbowl7038]

@@thanos4677 Horn arpeggiates Eb whilst violins imply Bb7.

[@SherwinGooch]

OMG that was good! I feel like my soul has been massaged every time I complete listening to this rendition of the 3rd.

[@anisweiler]

8:55 sounds like 1000 souls screaming repeatedly “help me” while trapped in a bottomless pit in hell

[@WEEBLLOM]

It sounds quite majestic to me lol

[@carlhopkinson]

The 4:55 section of the Finale is worth more than all pop music written after 1980.

[@maxfaberg128]

Nobody mentioned 14:11 so far? It's the most hilarious passage I laugh every time I hear that in the symphony. Love it!

[@ondrejsedo8659]

At several parts of the score I have no idea how to play them even theoretically with two hands only :-)

[@richargyle3307]

My brother was a serious Liszt “student” and told me that the composer used the pedals as a “ third” hand in many pieces. Robert le Diable is one.

[@microitos9754]

@@richargyle3307 yeah you have one old brother

[@mckernan603]

11:22 interesting horn line...

[@noob_blackcat0611]

16:24

[@marcalexandrefontenay9801]

Sublime Héroïque transcendée par un Liszt envoûté par le génie beethovenien !

[@JohannesBruhms]

I have no idea how he played 45:54

[@pianista-mediocre]

He has a video recording of this

[@Tachometrically]

@@pianista-mediocre where?link?

[@azuranokurobuchiumi]

*_B R A V U R A_* seriously how do he ceep stamina thru 53 min peice of music super virtuoso supa fighta supa tough virtuoso

[@C.R.C.]

42:40 7:02 45:55

[@manndrew]

Absolutely fabulous.

[@mcig98]

Listening to the other Katsaris recordings, I've been having mixed feelings towards his additional tidbits. In these symphony transcriptions though, I barely can listen to them without those additions at this point. Heck, even in the original symphonies I imagine the tidbits in the sections where Katsaris adds them

[@monuum]

45:33 45:54

[@bosu37]

Those tremolos at 15:50.

[@franktana824]

I want to trying to playing just 3rd movement. course Beethoven loved horns part !

[@jcl9792]

6:56 44:40 45:55

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

Idk if anyone noticed but the pianist plays differently from the score, often adding things that make it even more difficult

[@calebhu6383]

Yes. It is remarkable

[@musicforeveryone7960]

Like the first chords are supposed to be rolled.

[@schubertuk]

​@@musicforeveryone7960 Not sure what you mean - the pianist played that as Lizst chose to transcribe it [obviously it wasn't rolled in the orchestral score - but Lizst was a pragmatist]. But (as a clear example) the pianist did at extra pedal notes to the tutti (doubled naked octaves) at 1:04 into the video which Lizst did not include in his transcription.

[@nickjgunning]

Liszt often produced various ossia to vary the complexity for various specific pianists. The published version is not necessarily as complex as the versions he or his star students would have played.

[@nickjgunning]

That's because there are several versions

[@SherwinGooch]

22:40 - Song Sung Blue. (Just so I don't misplace this reference.)

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

Liszt transcribed the fugue like a pro, although the whole transcription is lit! Only a bit more than a handful of transcriptions can be as great!

[@ancapcitorw5162]

4:16

[@remuspierre]

Beautiful songs sounds good on the piano

[@한관우-t7h]

들으면서 숙제를 하고 있었는데 어느순간 숙제하는건 까먹고 음악 감상만 하게 되네

[@danwolfe9087]

I am wondering if "piano reduction" is appropriate for Liszt's transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies .... that gives me an imptession of "simplifiication" .. just wondering.

[@TrollMeister_]

When I first heard the third symphony at age 18 I thought it was among the ugliest pieces of music ever written. Beethoven was an overrated talentless hack who couldn’t hold a candle to Mozart. But as I matured and listened to it many times over the years my opinion of it began to change. Fast forward many years - today I think it’s a work of genius like no other. And like many conductors agree, the greatest symphony ever composed in the history of symphonies.

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

I'm so glad. I won't lie, I could not have tolerated 18 year old you. I first heard it live (like the RoS) at 14 or 15, I think. I cried on the first listening it it remains by far my favourite Beethoven symphony. Edit: but yeah, I'm glad you love and enjoy the symphony now and isn't this transcription just a wonder?

[@ymaysernameuay1113]

how did you heal your 18 year old brain?

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

44:40 based fugue

[@thierryranger2230]

46:53 based 2nd fugue :)

[@michaelralph7301]

OMFG 7:02!!

[@antonioanker2958]

starke Leistung.

[@sebastianmartinez8215]

Such a great work. Who is the pianist?

[@bust2death]

Cyprien Katsaris

[@nubicumwotblitz892]

katsarsis

[@Tizohip]

47:01

[@alimovahed8996]

5:46

[@canman5060]

I wish Liszt live long enough to transcribe Mahler's Symphony of Thousands and The Resurrection.

[@violoncello4439]

5:46 Sounds like a colossal software error

[@anisweiler]

😂😂😂

[@darius.lvb.]

I still can't understand how to sing 45:55, especially after the pianist added the flute part to the performance...

[@jcl9792]

It would be interesting to know how he does it.

[@jcl9792]

It would be interesting to know how he does it.

[@matttondr9282]

45:25 is my favorite little motif of the whole symphony. Wish Beethoven would have elaborated on it a little more. (I can already see this might confuse people, to clarify I was being sarcastic and joking about the countless appearances of the theme)

[@mylesjacobs678]

i think only people music masters can play that

[@brianpuddifer4734]

Full of wonder

[@JamesSmith-mw7ps]

“Reduction” makes it sound as if you have some hope of playing it.

[@harryk4840]

❤️

[@andredelacerdasantos4439]

I feel like this is the least accessible of the Beethoven's symphonies

[@richardbulik9018]

Francois Poulenc harpsichord concerto

[@blasiohuszar]

a ket zseni❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@JFGecik]

Unfortunately, the score is out of sync with the music during most of the fourth movement. This needs to be re-created. The performance is tremendous, though.

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

Seemed fine to me. Could you point out where exactly it does go out of sync, please?

[@hubertpivert9633]

it's not out of sync, it's just that the performer doesn't play exactly what is written, he adds some notes, see 45:57 for example.

[@JFGecik]

I'm sorry, gentlemen. On the day that I wrote my first comment, KZbin must have had a technical problem, which caused me to make a mistake. On re-playing the fourth movement today, I find no "out-of-sync" problem. That is good news indeed!

[@darius.lvb.]

@@hubertpivert9633 the performer also added the flute part of the original symphony, which makes the piano transcription much more epic

[@vivianevonscharnhorst8878]

Maybe it's Katsaris but it's not Beethoven.

[@horstguenther8166]

Tolle Komposotin von Beethoven und gute Arbeit von Liszt, gut gespielt, aber, Allegro ist nicht Presto, also viel zu schnell. So kommt kein Gefühl auf!

[@maximilianb.8789]

Kein Satz ist mM nach zu schnell. Das Scherzo ist beinahe zu langsam, erster und dritter Satz nehmen sich vom Tempo nicht viel mit den gängigen Aufnahmen (Karajan etc.).

[@horstguenther8166]

@@maximilianb.8789 Bitte keinen Vergleich mit Karajan, der hat nämlich die Orchesterpeitsche erfunden. - Hören Sie sich einmale historische Aufnahmen an, lehnen Sie sich zurück und genießen die aufkommenden Gefühle, die Euphorie im ersten Satz bis zur tiefsten Traurigkeit im zeiten Satz.

[@Enri45100]

Is this played by a human being??

[@borestroke]

Yes, I thought this was played by at least two human beings!

[@lowlightpiano7110]

Repent and put your trust in Jesus. We're all sinners and deserve Hell, but Christ died on the Cross for our sins. He didn't stay dead. He rose on the third day! If you repent and put your trust in Jesus, you will be saved! Romans 3:23 John 3:16

[@nikolaikrinets5136]

Траурный марш - гениально.

[@chrismc1834]

Guys is this song hard? Just wonderingg😊😊🥹

[@brianbernstein3826]

Nah. I started piano at age 2 and my teacher started me with this piece. By age 2 and a half I could play all nine of them by memory

[@thejils1669]

It is if you're deaf!

[@sebastian9445]

53:00

[@Kikirocy]

45:55

[@calebhu6383]

46:44

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

26:34

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

43:41

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

45:55

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

46:37

[@aircraftnerdsingapore_official]

53:00

[@elijahmoore5798]

49:05

[@lopex7077]

35:48

[@arthurc3628]

25:50

[@randiey95]

45:55

[@KaveekornKusakurat-rp2tw]

45:55

[@KaveekornKusakurat-rp2tw]

45:55

[@DaviSousa-y7u]

45:45