00:00 - Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso 14:21 - Scherzo: Molto vivace -- Presto 29:03 - Adagio molto e cantabile 42:42 - Recitative
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@fabiopalma44292 жыл бұрын
To play a full hour of music like this, with this precision and detail to Beethoven's score, looks almost superhuman. This score is maybe the hardest one Liszt ever wrote. Mr. Cyprien Katsaris did something here to be remembered...
@jackcurley15915 жыл бұрын
This single recording cements katsaris as one of the greatest pianists in history in my opinion. His phrasing, voicing and technicality here are truly unsurpassed with respect to this transcription, no one really comes close. Moreover, his additions to the original Beethoven/Liszt text are trenchant and ever-more virtuosic. I’m constantly in awe of this man’s musicianship!!
@cartoryxofficial71763 жыл бұрын
yes !
@carlhopkinson2 жыл бұрын
I agree 100 percent. Katsaris is a one in a billion type musician.
@jackcurley15912 жыл бұрын
@@carlhopkinson Agreed! When I listen to him, I think: "Man, I need to go practice!"
@sven-sandershestakov52012 жыл бұрын
@@carlhopkinson To me, he's the greatest. The GREATEST. Based mostly on this recording, but not this alone. A gargantuan, seemingly limitless technique matched only by 2 or 3 other pianists alive perhaps... the deepest musical understanding... and to top it all off, he improved on Liszt's own transcription of the 9th. Altogether, this recording is an achievement that is so indescribably tremendous that it's a huge shame that so few people seem to even realize its greatness.
@classicalmusic432hz82 жыл бұрын
how would you compare this to leslie howards?
@Doug1975253311 жыл бұрын
Lizst was actually commissioned to transcribe the Beethoven Symphonies. when he reached the 9th, he (yes the great Liszt who could sight read ANYTHING perfectly at sight, even a full score) said the 4th mvt was impossible to do for solo piano (he later made a 4 hand transcription) and abandoned it. he later came back and finished the piano solo version.
@FougarouBe5 жыл бұрын
Hello. This is not really true that he could read anything at sight as he had to study the etudes of his friend Chopin before beeing able to play them, which impressed him a lot as it was usually not the case with other scores ... Cheers.
@robbydyer45004 жыл бұрын
@@FougarouBe He sight read Brahms' Op. 4 at first sight FROM BRAHMS' HANDWRITING and gave onrunning commentary throughout.
@jamesa9013 жыл бұрын
There are many apocryphal stories circulating around Liszt. One is that an 11-year old Liszt met an old Beethoven. Beethoven pulled out a copy of Bach's WTC and told Liszt to sight-read the Fugue in C-minor. Liszt did so. Beethoven said that many young boys can sight read a Bach fugue, and asked him to sight read it in a different key. With some difficulty, Liszt succeeded. Beethoven replied "I am impressed. This boy will go far." Regardless whether that's true or not, Liszt worked off and on for decades to transcribe Beethoven's symphonies. No one else had the insane energy, undying motivation, incessant drive, utter raw talent, and intimate personal relationship with Beethoven to tackle the task. And yes, he got through all of them until the 9th, 4th movement. After trying 4 times he concluded it was a fool's errand. In the end he was successful, but one wonders if he was ever really happy with the result...
@FranzLisztOfficial3 жыл бұрын
True
@ValzainLumivix3 жыл бұрын
@@FougarouBe No, he sightread the Op.10 from Chopin's manuscript bearing his handwriting.
@BorisCr10 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Cyprien Katsaris was born with four hands of 8 finger each, for a grand total of 32 fingers...
@Maralegar200910 жыл бұрын
and Two brains to manage it xD
@BorisCr10 жыл бұрын
I did not know that, but it makes sense!
@parkthoven9 жыл бұрын
Hahaha~! listening this makes me to think like what you have wrote~:) I wish he made a video performance of this WOW performance~:D
@vdvoskin19 жыл бұрын
he is a BAD man )
@AhmedKMoustafa29 жыл бұрын
are you crazy guys ??! are you sure about this ?
@maschan913 жыл бұрын
53:58 that fugue is the best section of any of Beethoven's works.
@bwv1793 жыл бұрын
always thought the same
@stevenledbetter99972 жыл бұрын
Played a little too fast though
@lapreghierasemplice2 ай бұрын
This fugue as played here by Katsaris is a treasure of Mankind. It belongs to Heaven - "uber Sternen muss Er wohnen"
@michaelcogan759 жыл бұрын
This is amazing. Not only is Katsaris an amazing pianist, the piano transcription brings out lines and details that are not so audible in the orchestral version.
@LisztAddict Жыл бұрын
Liszt literally make this piece better than Beethoven ever did
@Highlander14327 ай бұрын
Haha Liszt would surely be in love with Katsaris's playing here
@JramLisztfan2 жыл бұрын
54:24 that slight modulation always gives me chills for some reason
Liszt would have been astounded and delighted to hear this powerful and poetic interpretation of Beethoven's 9th by Cyprien Katsaris
@aerohydra38493 жыл бұрын
I've been listening to these Liszt piano transcriptions of Beethoven's Symphonies and I'm completely mesmerized to be honest- I've never heard the piano being pushed to its limits like in these pieces. It's amazing and terrifying how much Liszt can get out of the piano to be honest, how complex and lush the voices go and how virtuosic yet emotionally deep it can get at the same time.
@Keithustus3 жыл бұрын
Well he did take a sabbatical for 18 months to be able to do them, after all.
@segmentsAndCurves2 жыл бұрын
@@Keithustus Wow, that's new.
@PO-cx2ej Жыл бұрын
@@Keithustus in 18 months i might be able to learn parts of the easiest movement of this piece, and never even close to be as well played as this.
@herobrine18473 ай бұрын
It’s not just Liszt’s work, it’s also Katsaris’s innovation. It’s like 40% Liszt and 60% Katsaris. Not only did he make his own significant arrangements to what’s notated on the score, but Katsaris’s technique, his piano, and recording setup are able to create a timbre space more expansive than any other piano recording I know.
@andrewwiemken64436 жыл бұрын
It's near impossible to get the "Froh, wie seine sonnen" tenor solo in the Alla Marcia to sound remotely correct, and of course the ensuing fugue makes the Hammerklavier's look downright ergonomic and near-trivial. The entire fourth movement borders on "unplayable", to use word Liszt lent to his attempts at transcribing the quartets. To be able to pull it together like this, musically and technically, is nothing short of astonishing.
@jackcurley15915 жыл бұрын
And what's more, Katsaris makes significant changes to the original Liszt score, making the transcription even more full, sonorous, and difficult! He's one of the most underrated piano talents of the last 50 years
@walterschmidt36185 жыл бұрын
Andrew Wiemken 2
@EntelSidious_gamzeylmz3 жыл бұрын
@@jackcurley1591 Why is he underrated?
@f.p.20103 жыл бұрын
@@EntelSidious_gamzeylmz he's literally almost unknown
@CK-kd5pn3 жыл бұрын
@@f.p.2010 I mean just because he doesn't have a strong presence on the internet doesn't mean he's unknown
@vivelafrance63142 жыл бұрын
Where would we be without this man? Only someone like M. Katsaris is able to fully and truly unlock the full potential of this wonderful transcription Liszt made of Beethoven's even more impressive piece. It's like Beethoven/Liszt are the lock to the door of musical bliss only Katsaris is able to open.
@taputapuu94874 жыл бұрын
This is one of the hardest liszt transcriptions to play and he did it. Absolutely amazing playing
@bait52572 жыл бұрын
Yes. Hardest *
@marcossidoruk80332 жыл бұрын
One of?
@ilovemycatrussell92984 жыл бұрын
1. 0:00 2. 14:21 3. 29:03 4. 42:42 55:27 Ode to Joy
@0kcu5 жыл бұрын
I was actually wondering how the actual sequence starting at 13:19 could be transcripted into piano. Ingenious
@GyromiteROB6 жыл бұрын
I always come back to these marvelous recordings of the piano symphonies. Katsaris not only has very clear and precise technique but he manages to evoke the emotions of Beethoven like no other pianist.
@rikidozan933 жыл бұрын
Ain't it Amazing that One Person on a Piano can even Cover the Great 9th Symphony of Beethoven? SOUNDS MAGNIFICENT! HAIL BEETHOVEN! HAIL LISZT! HAIL KATSARIS!
@naegling91842 жыл бұрын
And all hail Britannia of course
@dwacheopus9 ай бұрын
Hail hitl...
@Highlander14327 ай бұрын
This is truly a treasure chest. We are SO fortunate to have access to these recordings. Thank you!!!
@newgeorge6 жыл бұрын
I´m glad Beethoven orchestrated this :)
@jonahpatuto11964 жыл бұрын
........ Me too, man
@dariodangelo89384 жыл бұрын
newgeorge 😂😂👍👍
@mariusvandewall28314 жыл бұрын
Bravo.
@franzliszt48834 жыл бұрын
You mean you didn't like my monster transcription for piano?!
@mariusvandewall28314 жыл бұрын
@@franzliszt4883 Nah mate, he's saying yours came first, which it obviously did.
@damianlopez404810 жыл бұрын
This is so incredible, Beethoven and Liszt, two geniuses.
@VRnamek7 жыл бұрын
Liszt is a master for piano transcriptions. He had great reworks for Schubert, Bach, Verdi and more...
@jackcurley15915 жыл бұрын
Namekuseijin Br Liszt is unquestionably the greatest transcriber in all of the piano literature!!
@FranzLisztOfficial3 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@qalaphyll3 жыл бұрын
@@ValzainLumivix and you too
@ValzainLumivix3 жыл бұрын
@@qalaphyll stfu
@kirkmiller9713 жыл бұрын
This recording was my introduction to Liszt's transcriptions, and now I'm spoiled. I've heard other great pianists attempt it. None but Katsaris make it sound like a symphony. Incredible. I think I actually prefer it to the greatest orchestral productions. It's missing only the vocal, which a piano can't manage. Maybe someday, if we're very very lucky.
@Facconti2 жыл бұрын
Take a listen to Yury Martynov's recording on a period piano. He is splendid and the piano, such as one Liszt would have played, sheds a whole new light on the transcription.
@marcusbrandenburg42069 күн бұрын
@@Facconti Yes, indeed. Same piece but completely different impression when played on a present-day piano compared to one from that period.
@javiqt14 жыл бұрын
Speechless... I cannot believe this is possible
@xbataux9 жыл бұрын
52:35
@nielsliljedahlchristensen49247 жыл бұрын
This. Best part of the entire symphony/piece
@TheJaoz36 жыл бұрын
55:22
@marogenesis43025 жыл бұрын
Niels Liljedahl Christensen yes...just yes
@duongnguyenngoc91602 жыл бұрын
No, the best part start from 0:00
@thomasgeorge30138 жыл бұрын
Beethoven 9th is my favorite symphony and have always wondered what it would sound like with piano only - I finally did a KZbin search and found this amazing piece. Excuse me for saying so, but this is fucking heavenly! I'm on my 2nd listen and think it's incredible. Thank You to of course Beethoven, the piano player and poster. Unbeilable...
@kipkleimenhagen84348 жыл бұрын
+Thomas George It's only available on CD, but IMHO I feel that Ashkenazy did a superior job on this piece. Now if only Glenn Gould had recorded it...
@8463908 жыл бұрын
And thank you Liszt for the transcription ;)
@EVZYL7 жыл бұрын
Thomas George: That's O f_ckn K. I'm sure Beethoven dropped the occasional four letter (or 6 letter in German) word himself. Though maybe not for the same reasons.
@bait52572 жыл бұрын
Try listening it on midi. It's even more amazing
@frankromano9064 Жыл бұрын
@@kipkleimenhagen8434 There is NO recording of Ashkenazy playing this transcription that I'm aware of. Can you enlighten us?
@radiotelegram Жыл бұрын
Imagine how proud you'd feel holding Franz's beer. Probably a full time job.
@lovetosteer15 күн бұрын
I tried. Then I drank it and got promptly fired.
@fandefrancoisasselineau39259 жыл бұрын
Dés la première minute on sent que l'on à affaire à un très grand musicien. Quel profondeur de touché. Puissance sans dureté
@dereksuszko7286 жыл бұрын
I hate it when people feel the need to say something like "this is even better than the actual symphony" or "all the sounds only come out in the piano version." Show some respect to the greatest symphonic composer of all time in Beethoven. I agree these transcriptions are incredible but that's because the original symphonies are incredible.
@SimonPiano426 жыл бұрын
noone says this is better than the actual symphony, that would be silly. though one could like it better, that's up to taste. Secondly, saying some details come out better in the piano version has nothing to do with disrespect, it's just a technical matter of sound. The viola voice also comes out better if you play the viola voice only, which doesn't mean the viola voice solo would be a better piece than the symphony. You can hate other people's comments as much as you want, but to criticize someone you should use good arguments.
@trespasser1215 жыл бұрын
Not only there cannot be a better piano transcription than the incredible original as Beethoven wrote it, but for me this one is particularly disappointing.. I was only interested in the Adagio, i already know the other movements cannot be nearly interesting for piano only.. but the Adagio could... but apparently not - I find some extra notes that diminish the musicality of the piece, or perhaps if they are not 'extra' it's just wrong emphasis - sounds like 'fat fingers' at times. If somebody cannot hear something in the original that is supposed to be there, perhaps they need different audio gear or ear piece.
@santaanna7005 жыл бұрын
Lol chill out bro it's just their opinion.
@XenophonSoulis4 жыл бұрын
It is enough to show that a piano can do anything that an orchestra can.
@maakmakmak4 жыл бұрын
I think that the beautify of an orchestra is that not all of the voices can be heard. You can think of it being that way as a design. For example, when the entire orchestra is playing FFF, there is no way the strings should be equal to the brass. The expectation is for the brass to override the strings and the strings serve as a filler when the orchestra plays FFF. If the whole orchestra is playing FFF and the strings are covering the brass, then you need to fire the brass players and get new ones. But then take a beautiful legato section the the strings play and then the woodwinds or brass repeat. (or the other way around). The expectation is that the strings will be able to play with so much more nuance and flowing phrases just because of the design of there instruments. A woodwind is never going to out express a string player. A piano erases all of this and everything now is essentially equal. Which is good for hearing everything but that is without the complexity of an orchestra.
@anjas190311 жыл бұрын
Liszt was out of this world!
@xrayvizhen5014 жыл бұрын
I never knew the Liszt transcriptions existed until by chance I came across a recent NY Times article (7/2019) on the recent resurgence in interest on these pieces. The article went on to say that no less a pianist than Vladimir Horowitz regretted never playing them in public because he loved them and played them all the time in private. Tremendous!
@agniva3 жыл бұрын
This is the link: www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/arts/music/piano-transcriptions.html
@kyleethekelt2 жыл бұрын
The stand-out part for me was the sheer joy I can hear in the playing. Here is an artist, clearly at the top of his game, enjoying himself hugely.
@josemigueldelacruz69976 жыл бұрын
This transcription shows that the piano is one of the most outstanding machine invented by man, if not the most.
@humamghassib26858 жыл бұрын
Air, air! I can't breathe! Simply sublime! Here we have Beethoven, our precious precious symbol, plus the great Liszt, plus the splendid Katsaris. Incredible!
@herobrine18473 ай бұрын
Put Katsaris first.
@MusicIsMyLife699111 жыл бұрын
I just...I don't know who is more of a genius. Liszt or Beethoven. Simply overwhelming.
@daniandres32114 жыл бұрын
Well, Beethoven changed the history of Music as nobody else had done before or has done after him. It's hard to explain: imagine a being from an alien civilization that comes to our planet and brings us revolutionary concepts in music that nobody had ever imagined before him, also in terms of the social and professional aspects of music making. And, he manages to influence every musician in his time, starting a new era of music. Ok, turns out Beethoven did exactly that. Liszt was a genius. Beethoven is probably the greatest genius, artist, and musician that ever existed. Someone wrote that Beethoven is the greatest human being that ever walked this planet...
@andrewzhang85124 жыл бұрын
@@daniandres3211 Newton, Leibniz, Bach, and Mozart may want to disagree.
@daniandres32114 жыл бұрын
@@andrewzhang8512 Geniuses like Newton, Leibniz, Einstein, Bach, Mozart, Lao-Tzu, the builders of the Pyramids of Giza and Shakespeare would definitely agree Beethoven achieved the highest and most extraordinary levels of Beauty a human being can create. Yes, Bach achieved the most superhuman levels of Perfection with his musical writing, but Beethoven wrote music as beautiful as Nature itself. Beethoven's creative powers are monstruous and unsurpassed.
@davidbudo55513 жыл бұрын
@@daniandres3211, I agree with you. Beethoven is the greatest of them all because he was one of the most remarkably flawed human specimens, who wrung a monumental level of greatness out of every fibre of his being through sheer force and will. His struggle to find the legend within is why his music stands above the rest. As the saying goes, Bach is the universe and Beethoven is the light.
@marcossidoruk80332 жыл бұрын
@@daniandres3211 no they wouldn't. Bach is the greatest and if you think anything else you are wrong.
@delphineleroy2224 ай бұрын
As a pianist i tried to play this transcription... it's very hard technicaly but maybe more to give a rendition close to the orchestra one. Katsaris is able to do both and for one hour last ; amazing performance. You easily imagine the original one but only with a piano. I particularly appreciate those attacks on the left hand which sound like a thunder stroke...fascinating ! Congratulations to this orchestra man !
@ValzainLumivix3 жыл бұрын
16:59 Wilde Jagd moment
@qalaphyll3 жыл бұрын
ok
@ValzainLumivix3 жыл бұрын
@@qalaphyll no
@qalaphyll3 жыл бұрын
yes
@aakarshitsingh15353 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@aakarshitsingh15353 жыл бұрын
Sounds awfully similar to Wilde jagd
@Jantsenpr7777 жыл бұрын
I still find it difficult to believe that it is just one pair of hands. Wow! Amazing.
@jimhendricks887 жыл бұрын
I always thought this was for four hands...
@Jantsenpr7777 жыл бұрын
I thought that, too. Then, I found out that Liszt made the two-piano version first, and after a bit of pressure from the editor, he came out with the one-piano version. How did he pull it off? I still have no idea. However, it took him many years to work out an acceptable one-piano transcription.
@garyprestonpianist6 жыл бұрын
Well spotted! There at least 3 hands at work in part of this recording.
@jackcurley15915 жыл бұрын
Gary Preston Nope, just katsaris’ two
@rineric321410 жыл бұрын
The greatest piano accomplishment of all-time(Liszt, thank you!)by the greatest piano player of all-time - Cyprien Katsaris!(thank you!!). I never heard the Ninth until I heard Cyprien play it. It's like being Ludwig's neighbor.
@lovetosteer15 күн бұрын
I ❤ the last line of this comment. It feels sooo true.
@rineric321415 күн бұрын
@@lovetosteer Do you know the story of Beethoven's landlords? The husband and wife who rented a room to Ludwig were transported by his improvisations and naturally applauded them. Beethoven never played again at that rental. They pleaded with him to continue, promising NOT to listen, but he would not play again, having been KNOWINGLY eavesdropped on.
@lovetosteer15 күн бұрын
@@rineric3214 no I did not know that. Thank you now I'm appreciating the original comment even more.
@mariopascual85778 жыл бұрын
Is this really only two hands? Increadible...
@abdllaabozhra3496 жыл бұрын
no.... two hands and brain
@MonastraOperaSymphonyClassical5 жыл бұрын
Is a two pianos trascription, recorded for the same pianist: superposition recording.
@syxalite5 жыл бұрын
Opera Symphony & Classical - Gustavo Monastra tenor no.. This is a solo piece It was firstly wrote for two pianos, and then wrote for one pianos (2 hands). This one is the 2 hands version
@williammai47833 жыл бұрын
16:10 Absolutely genius Katsaris!
@parkthoven8 жыл бұрын
It's a pity that Teldec didn't make the video of this magical moment~ Alas~~!
@nibeh36118 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh … He plays so well!
@themajor-theminor28007 жыл бұрын
55:27
@SherwinGooch4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely one of the greatest compositions in all of music!!! And a remarkable rendition, as well!
@LordCargena10 жыл бұрын
0:55:00 the choir explosion Freude, schöner Götterfunken Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum. Deine Zauber binden wieder, Was die Mode streng geteilt; Alle Menschen werden Brüder, Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt
@DiegoRMulio10 жыл бұрын
Simply amazing
@Metadeth19974 жыл бұрын
56:32 My favourite part of this entire piece, such beautiful longing and recapitulation
@Metadeth19974 жыл бұрын
@Qafar Quluzade Some of them but honestly, a lot of the key harmonies was kind of missing in his performance. But sure there were good moments there as well, just this is my favorite part
@accordiontv17 жыл бұрын
Astonishing!!! Thank you Emperor Cyprien!!!!
@alvilcas3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant!
@akbeethoven9 жыл бұрын
I love it! Thank you for uploading it!
@hernanparra30979 жыл бұрын
Impresionante
@riccardocuciniello20444 жыл бұрын
What a joy the Recitative is!
@SamirAbadeer7 жыл бұрын
That was an exceptional Performance .. I enjoyed it
@carloscesargomezmondejar5954 Жыл бұрын
Sencillamente, genial, gracias, maestro.
@helmutlocatelli407010 жыл бұрын
Impressionante!
@michaelkomnenos5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! -it sounds so modern.
@MisakaMikoto10694 жыл бұрын
55:27 this was the melody I've been trying to find.
@galileofigaro47474 жыл бұрын
Just ask any musicians for the melody and he will get it for you, if u have a classical melody that got stuck in your head you can sing it for me and i can tell you the name of it
@dianalian75104 жыл бұрын
WTF ME TOO
@thisisaloadofbarnacles9214 жыл бұрын
You're missing out on the other stuff!
@ValzainLumivix3 жыл бұрын
Probably the most popular melody ever bruh
@andresfcastanoescritor10 жыл бұрын
Exceptional version with great technical resources to service of musicality.
@motasemsalameh15219 жыл бұрын
Very powerful first movement!
@MrGar116 жыл бұрын
31:03 so so so so so lovely!
@MsLYNNEO11 жыл бұрын
I agree - stunning stuff.
@pinggoyskiee60105 жыл бұрын
Liszt was a one-man Orchestra
@Fiscoc11 жыл бұрын
This is pure perfection, I don't know why would anyone dislike this!
@p--p30298 жыл бұрын
again - astounding performance !
@raph25505 жыл бұрын
This is beyond great
@albertopenap67669 жыл бұрын
Estoy encantado con estas transcripciones de Liszt que no conocía.
@cvlen6 жыл бұрын
Amazing performance. Just awesome. The transcription is gorgeous as well (and extremely difficult!).
@unclearnuclear7 жыл бұрын
This is so interesting. Thank you for uploading!
@Nergal_885 жыл бұрын
Meraviglioso... Wonderful...
@matmm75006 Жыл бұрын
Katsaris is a genius !
@nickjgunning2 жыл бұрын
Not a commission but his own dedicated project. Just as with his virtual invention of the solo recital, his aim was always to make the music available to a wide and popular audience. Many might only get to hear these masterworks once in a lifetime in the original- pre sound recording, trained pianists could open up the music to wide audiences. At first he transcribed the ninth for four hands because he wasn't sure that it could be done in two. The two handed version was later. Brahms and Clara Schumann used to play the 4 hand regularly. Liszt may well have played the extra orchestration in concerts, but he was concerned to make it accessible to less agile players.
@kierkegaard20107 жыл бұрын
it seemed that I was listening to the orchestra itself!
@temarito111 жыл бұрын
Ok, the piano is the one instrument that played by only one person can give us the same sensations or feelings that an orchest.
@jasonhurd43795 жыл бұрын
Sorry, wrong. The organ is the instrument which has that ability, not the piano. Compared to the organ, the piano is a clumsy, clunky box of wire.
@XenophonSoulis4 жыл бұрын
@@jasonhurd4379 They are right, you are wrong. This piece would be nothing in Organ. Piano is the instrument that can play from the Ninth to the Nineties with ease and splendid result.
@sla78892 жыл бұрын
@@XenophonSoulis They are just different instruments But the organ is a more complete one for sure And yes, this symphony sounds better on the piano because it was written for the piano Playing Bach organ pieces on the organ for example sound way better in the organ They are different instruments with different sounds that pass different feelings And yes, the guy above is an idiot
@Aurelia1196110 жыл бұрын
They all tried it but they never did it like him. Great!
@sebastiangundelachq.5887 жыл бұрын
he play sooo well!!!
@laspiano765 Жыл бұрын
Fantástico,
@tomaspianist10 жыл бұрын
This is so fucking phenomenal, I am ............mesmerized, Liszt did achieve the full orchestral color, this is so amazing I am so diminished, this is totally amazing amazing
@nefceh22275 жыл бұрын
At some day, I will play this piece and even if it needs a lifetime I will play it, not for me not for anyone else just for my grandma, she loved this piece with so much heart, but unfortunately she died 3 years ago.
@optimisticdork83805 жыл бұрын
Nefceh, I am dearly sorry for your loss, but I hope you will not and have not already given up your goal of playing this piece, because once you’ve done so, get a picture of your grandma, and place it in your piano. Now, every time you play that piece, know that she will be listening to you, every time you play that piece, loving you for how you are as not just a grandchild, but as a person who cares and loves.
@cristianionita83593 жыл бұрын
I am sorry for your loss. Out of sheer curiosity, have you started studying it? I'm enamoured of this version's fantastic musicality, but at the same time a bit intimidated by its complexity.
@nefceh22273 жыл бұрын
Thank you. On my current level I wouldn't be able to actually play it but I am going little by little to eventually play it one day.
@nefceh22273 жыл бұрын
@William Taittinger Well, not the exact piece but I'm further studying piano so it will probably actually take at least half a life time but at some point I'll play it
@duongnguyenngoc91602 жыл бұрын
Your story makes me think that Liszt is so evil for making this piece so hard
Love how Liszt picked up on a lot of the melodies and through-lines that kind of got buried in the harmony of the orchestra in the original work. Listen to the sections that develop after around 4:30 and you'll know what I'm talking about, especially if you listen to the left hand.
@Santosificationable4 жыл бұрын
Charles Valentin Alkan is often hailed as having composed more difficult music than even Liszt. However, I believe this one is an exception; it is possibly more demanding than even Alkan's Solo Concerto. This is likely the most demanding solo piece written by Franz Liszt!
@maakmakmak4 жыл бұрын
Alkan was one of the only people (if not the only) that Liszt feared and/or thought he could not out play. The downside to Alkan is that he was not the showman that Liszt was. Liszt could rile an audience up and knock them down. Alkan could not get this same type of energy.
@charlesvalkan2524 жыл бұрын
Did someone speak my name?
@isahellepain50026 жыл бұрын
THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING MADMAN HE WENT AND DID IT HE PUT BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONIES ON A PIANO
@sebsebast5435 жыл бұрын
I listen to those recordings since teenages, must be 30 years more or less they are part of my musical life and I prefere them to the orchestra originals. M. Katsaris has the ability of getting into a state of mind clear as a diamond- a thing you usually only get when living like an hermit or monk in nature, being very askethic. Maybe he has a big garden where he spends all his time to keep it up like this.
@kojiattwood11 жыл бұрын
Yes, Cyprien added quite a lot of extra instrumentation that Liszt omitted.
@nickjgunning4 жыл бұрын
Depends on which version he did more than one for different students. There is also a version for 2 pianos 4 hands which Brahms and Clara Schuman played regularly- I think Katsaris's version is authentic but he may have added voices from the 4 hands version. The two handed versions were produced later because liszt wasn't sure it could be done effectively. Versions done for Lina Smallhausen and Frederic Lamonde would have been different.
@VBGamer8 жыл бұрын
I needed something relaxing tonight, and didn't feel like locating this CD (from the set that I acquired in 1997) so I found this. I absolutely love Cyprien's work on this piece. Everyone who is a LVB fan should get the remastered version of the complete set of these symphony transcriptions (called reductions, but I don't like that term). They are all pieces of beautiful music. Beethoven and Liszt were geniuses....
@malupezzin98777 жыл бұрын
GRATA POR TANTA BELEZA. (Malu - Brasil)
@VMOjeda111 жыл бұрын
I had lisening now from 3 to 9, all of them, I thougt Liszt transcriptions were done for his own satisfaction, in those days he coul'nt lisen the works as often as he wanted, but this are monumental transcriptions, Rubinstein played the 9 too, great job Mr. Dr. Katsaris
@holden4th3 жыл бұрын
Anton or Arthur? It certainly wasn't Arthur.
@VMOjeda13 жыл бұрын
@@holden4th You are right, Anton worked together with Lizst in his transcription from the 9th
@VMOjeda13 жыл бұрын
I read that Clara Schumann and Brahms workwd in a transcription too
@Oldman808 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely astounding! 3rd movement at 28:59
@kentisaksson42236 жыл бұрын
I've heard the Wagner transcription which I also like very much.
@SAPBM9 ай бұрын
42:42 - Presto - Recitative - Allegro assai (tema) - Presto - Recitative - Allegro assai (tema) - Var. I : Allegro assai vivace, alla Marcia - Var. II - Var. III - Var. IV : Andante maestoso - Var. V : Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato Var. VI : Allegro ma non tanto, Poco Adagio - Var. VII : Poco Allegro, Prestissimo.
@JuanPabloBayona10 жыл бұрын
Liszt god bless you, after Beethoven and Mozart, the most virtuoso piano player ever lived.
@TempterMan10 жыл бұрын
After Beethoven and Mozart as a pianist??? Liszt may not be so notorious as a composer like these two are, but as a pianist he was far above Beethoven and Mozart and anybody else of that time!!! Please don't write such stupidity!
@VMOjeda110 жыл бұрын
***** Correct, you are right, but Beethoven he was a virtuous too and above all an extraordinary improviser
@maxboox36010 жыл бұрын
***** Maybe you are right because Beethoven and Mozart never played piano. They played only harpischord.
@pablosorbara228010 жыл бұрын
maxboox360 Bartolomeo Cristofori was the invertor of the piano, and died on 1731, Mozart died on 1791, so obviously he played the piano. Not only that, he actually composed 16 sonatas for piano. And Beethoven was BORN on 1770, 39 years after the death of the inventor of the piano, and composed a LOT for piano, so saying niether Mozart or Beethoven played the piano is a stupidity.
@TempterMan10 жыл бұрын
Pablo Sorbara For sure Beethoven and Mozart had contact with the piano, but not the piano forte as we know today. Historians claim that the piano was invented in 1707, long before Beethoven or Mozart were born. But as far as I know Mozart owned a clavichord, not a real piano, only Beethoven had a piano.
@onaypetrof9 жыл бұрын
For me one of the most crazy piano pieces. I like it :)
@professordeportugadoyt1139 жыл бұрын
You need a pact with Satan so you can play it. lol
@accordiontv17 жыл бұрын
No, a pact with Satan won't cut it here. You need a pact with God!!! :)
@professordeportugadoyt1137 жыл бұрын
David Spencer No, Satan
@accordiontv17 жыл бұрын
Absolutely not. A deal with Satan is for blues and lame ass pop music....
@suezuccati3046 жыл бұрын
David Spencer what about Paganini?
@Bendzsi199711 жыл бұрын
Yes and I downloaded Write on KZbin: beethoven symphony no.9 wagner The title's language is Spanish. There are chorus and soloists here. + Found in Mahler's re-orchestrated too.
@professordeportugadoyt1139 жыл бұрын
This guy is a genious.
@allenspencer64347 жыл бұрын
Thank You
@majark871711 жыл бұрын
love it!
@beth_levin_piano8 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@111111111111111162099 жыл бұрын
amazing!
@vladimir.thoret6 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous
@Maralegar200910 жыл бұрын
Amazing transcription ... Sad brain attack in 2012 for Katsaris ! GOOD RECOVER MAESTRO