Boris Berezovsky plays Liszt 12 Transcendental Etudes - video 2009

Boris Berezovsky playing Liszt's 12 Transcendental Etudes, live in Moscow in 2009. There's nothing I can do about the TV sound quality -- unless you have a high quality audio recording of the recital, which I can attach to the video. Timing below:
00:00 - Preludio
00:40 - Fusées
02:49 - Paysage
06:12 - Mazeppa
12:17 - Feux-Follets
15:33 - Vision
19:13 - Eroica
23:08 - Wilde Jagd
27:48 - Ricordanza
35:28 - Appassionata
39:40 - Harmonies du soir
47:19 - Chasse-neige
Борис Березовский - Лист

[@natalievandenblink7802]

just listened to Berezovsky playing like a genius. This makes you believe in Heaven and the Angels - how he can keep going through all these exquisite etudes and not flag - its a miracle.. Bravo !!!

[@Highinsight7]

he's simply amazing... in soo many ways!

[@damongatewood795]

Hats off to the preparation and endurance to play all of these with no breaks on a live concert program!

[@tomekateven7987]

Fantastic pianist i like him very much! Amazing composer also.

[@bonnijordan2627]

Amazing performance! He has my highest admiration! So beautiful, thank you!

[@s1earle]

Playing of the highest order and really captures the excitement and interest of any listener...

[@svenrose2000]

Works definitively not for me.

[@incontrariomotu]

Thanks for this video. I heard him in those studies a few weeks ago in the Grange de Meslay, and it was great.

[@odilereneleau3464]

So splendid play that I listen over and over again ! Thanks a lot ADGO for this wonderful video !

[@user-sk4kd7ob2b]

Новый год стучится в двери. В сказку хочется так верить. С наступающим Новым 2021 Годом! А Березовского,я очень люблю. Пусть у вас всё будет хорошо. 31.12.2020.

[@musicjohnny544]

Marvellous play! I like how Berezovsky plays, because he doesn’t do many energic moves

[@nordicpiano6592]

Yes, energetic moves are so annoying!

[@zvezdinki7998]

Music Johnny but he can’t play Rachmaninov and Scriabin

[@Tizohip]

@@zvezdinki7998 '-' he can

[@zvezdinki7998]

Danimar da Silva rach and Scriabin is not his best

[@alokjohn8208]

Yeah he has a more pedagogical approach

[@lanakim3896]

Brilliant!Wonderfull!💞

[@evifnoskcaj]

Even though he bombs the beginning of Mazeppa, he's still so far ahead of even my best efforts it's scary. The man is just insane. His Islamey is legendary and still the best performance of it I've ever heard, imo. His Night on Bald Mountain for solo piano is also properly scary good. Boris Berezovsky is incredible with such effortless technique which allows him to have such incredible speed. One of the best, and one of my favorites! His Feux follets here is heart attack inducing, and still has incredible rubato. Lord have mercy.

[@MishaSkripach]

Такой замечательный пианист!

[@beenthereonce]

OMG. Thanks for sharing!

[@gracielacapobianco1347]

Maravilloso Maestro!!! Temple, carácter, interpretación, virtuosismo Felicitaciones y muchas gracias!!!

[@natalievandenblink7802]

He plays like a god. Some parts of Liszt are heartbreakingly beautiful and he feels it. Bravo !!!

[@user-my7gx6wg6h]

00:00 1. Preludio 00:39 2. 02:49 3. Paysage 06:10 4. Mazeppa 12:17 5. Feux follets 15:33 6. Vision 19:14 7. Eroica 23:09 8. Wilde Jagd 27:47 9. Ricordanza 35:28 10. 39:41 11. Harmonies du soir 47:20 12. Chasse-neige

[@classiclover2129]

2 is Fusées and 10 is Apassionata

[@lesmusiquesdelaigle1336]

description

[@louisehollyhead6807]

@@classiclover2129 not titles given by Liszt but Busoni. Some people use them and some don't

[@user-oo3ly2un9u]

Великий музыкант и пианист! Фантастическое Мастерство,Интеллект,Благородство, огромный Масштаб! восхитительное мощное звучание рояля и без жесткости и стука! Можно еще долго перечислять его достоинства,но это будет целая поэма,а потому скажу так: Березовский, это великий Микеланджело в Музыке!! Мой любимый музыкант и пианист!. Брависсимо,Маэстро!!!❤❤❤

[@1990201088]

Fantástico !!!!!!

[@lllmeng]

Bravo Mr. Berezovsky!!!

[@rogercantero5509]

Bellisimo! BRAVO!

[@drrolfapfel]

BREATHTAKING !

[@damienmartin2761]

He breaths so well

[@jimvids]

effortless ...........wooooohh.................bravo

[@user-vc3pt4qm2t]

Бездонная душа великого человека в каждом звуке. Такого звука нет ни у кого из современников. Инструмент для него, как женщина и сила, и власть,и нежность , и знание предмета, и любовь, конечно. Слава Богу за этот дар нам. Спасибо, храни Господь этого человека и пианиста.

[@WigbertTraxler]

Berezovsky is a huge guy without any technical problems. So plays he. He is the perfect example for extreme sovereignty. Marvellous.

[@pimghlag]

Pretty sure he makes a mistake around the third glissando of Mazeppa.

[@WigbertTraxler]

Oh, this is important indeed. You wouldn't have made this mistake, I'm sure. Cheers.

[@pimghlag]

No, I quite certainly can't do this, lol, it's talent beyond belief. It's just not 'technically perfect' to 'critics.

[@pimghlag]

In fact, my favorite interpretation of Mazeppa is certainly one of Berezovsky's.

[@user-yw1pt2dn7x]

Фантастическое Мастерство!!! Брависсимо, Маэстро!!! Благодарю!!!

[@CH3CH2OCH2CH3net]

He brings out the actual *music* in these etudes. It's one thing to play them because they're technically demanding, and to make them sound like they're technically demanding. It's quite another thing to play these etudes like they're actual pieces of *real music*.

[@rudolfpleininger7294]

Incredible speed, most amazing performance🤗💐

[@Killakan45]

*Прекрасно*

[@saxangel45]

la mejor técnica que he visto.

[@ciararespect4296]

No. E Marc Andre Hamelin

[@Jackson-zk5mu]

I want to be a professional pianist but I don't understand how that could be possible when people like this already exist. Incredible

[@davidcarter3049]

If you love playing the piano, play the piano.. a dolphin doesn’t have to get paid to leap through the waves..it doesn’t give up just because another dolphin can leap higher

[@CH3CH2OCH2CH3net]

As a really good piano professor said to me, when I felt the same way you do: "Just do your best, and mean every note you play." (And in my case, "every note I write", because even though he was my piano professor I had so little self-confidence as a composer that I consulted him on everything I wrote. He was not a composition teacher, but he had the esthetics of music down COLD. And he was right. Learn to listen to yourself like crazy; make videos of yourself playing and listen to yourself critically and analytically, learn from your playing, and you can become an *excellent* pianist.

[@zvezdinki7998]

Very good this time

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

언니영혼이 눈물 흘리면 저도 같이 눈물이 나왔습니다 예쁜언니 두분영혼이 잘되면 좋겠네요

[@brunella971]

Divino

[@izzyvilens9559]

Nice

[@dmitrikostov4803]

Вот это - ДАААААА!!!!!!!

[@FTiszl]

Magnificent example HOW TO play Liszt !

[@ciromenon4221]

F.Tiszl mm nope

[@alexismiller2349]

Too fast in my opinion.

[@Ar1osssa]

F.Tiszl Especially beginning of Mazeppa😂

[@MorbidMayem]

Too fast and messy.

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

보리스베레좁스키님 은 비아마추어도 연주를 듣게 하는 재능가 입니다

[@priscilamalanski7405]

amazing....powerfull....

[@user-pp1gx1ly3t]

❤

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

조회수 보다 두분언니영혼이 연주곡 을 느끼면서 행복하기를 원했습니다 영혼도 제각기 빛깔이 다릅니다 순결한영혼은 아름다운 향기를 뿜어내죠

[@cheesegirl0.088]

this is crazy...

[@zvezdinki7998]

0:50 спасибо!❤ 0:59

[@jimvids]

feux follets.........woooooohhh lightning speed

[@telephilia]

Unlike the etude sets of Chopin and Debussy the Transcendental Etudes don't each serve a specific pedagogical purpose (chromatics, arpeggios, repeated notes, etc.) just very difficult to play and mostly with programmatic titles.

[@pimghlag]

William Perry, yes, that is my problem with these etudes.

[@op-th1yx]

Chopin's études are meant to polish a specific technique. If you are already pretty good at octaves you play op 25 no 10 to master them. The Liszt études are meant to further develop your technique. They have more advanced and specifk techniques. Also a big variety in every piece. Let me sum this up. Learn a technique, polish it with a chopin etude and further develop it with Liszt études.

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

보리스베레좁스키님 부인과 행복하세요 잘해주셔서 감사합니다

[@pxtokarev]

I've heard him do this trick in Lisbon CCB.

[@CH3CH2OCH2CH3net]

Playing all of the Liszt Transcendental Etudes, or all of Albeniz' Iberia, or all of de Falla's Goyescas isn't exactly a "trick". And these etudes are played *extremely* well.

[@user-tg7ii4ft4f]

the 2002 la rouque le d'athron performance was much better idk y but sounds unbeatable imo

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

보리스베레좁스키님 은 연주곡 을 줄여서 기획 하시는 명인 이시군요

[@chriso9338]

Il y avait l immense pianiste lazare barman dans les études et nous avons boris maintenant merci a l école russe la plus grande école de piano du monde bien entendus je n oublie pas les autres pianiste comme rudi lisitsa kissin et bien d autres Merci a la grande Russie ❤

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

보리스베레좁스키님 의 좋은모습의 뒷면에 또다른 어떤이면이 있을까요? 기대만큼 안되면 실망하는 것이 인간의 욕망인데요 과연 부인은 어떤인격의 품성인지 궁금합니다

[@monicacaramelo7085]

What happened to Vision?

[@computeraddict4993]

???

[@Ar1osssa]

Monica Caramelo Escaped)

[@LachlanTyrrell2003]

He played half of it lol.

[@damienmartin2761]

It should takes him one purcent of his energy to play one of this studies..

[@marcosviniciosribeirocompo1137]

Listen ARRAU !!!!!

[@miguelangeldangelo6578]

All of them were great, Chasse Neige and Mazeppa unsurpassable renditions, except Feux Follets.

[@miguelangeldangelo6578]

Transcendental etude 6: he omitted (or forgot) a big tremolo section.

[@ruthlivesey4331]

Yes, I suspect he would have just got mixed up where he was, as there is an identical entry of dotted octaves which precede the bit he missed and the big he skipped to so a lapse of concentration and he went into the wrong bit. Happens to the best of them

[@paolofranceschi6874]

Un dio. Anzi: dio.

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

보리스베레좁스키님 같은 완벽한 분의 부인이 궁금합니다 어떤인격인지 알고싶네요

[@joanne6300]

The beginning of Mazeppa.... I thought this was Berezovsky?!?!

[@ryushev2000]

too much to drink xD

[@katttttt]

Can somebody explain?

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

죽은 두언니 영혼이 보리스베레좁스키님 의 연주를 듣고 행복했을것이라 믿어요 보리스베레좁스키님 부인과 행복하세요 잘해주셔서 감사합니다

[@powergaming3429]

tf happened in mazeppa xd apart fromtbe tho very good

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

가까이 하기엔 너무 먼 당신이다 거리감이 있는 보리스베레좁스키님

[@VahagnBarseghyan]

mazeppa's start was totally horrific)))

[@theangrycat6513]

Vahagn Barseghyan I was really looking for a comment to that :D

[@Highinsight7]

Live ... it happens to the best of them...

[@aaronjlk]

Vahagn Barseghyan lol!

[@fairly75]

сыграй лучше, если смогешь.

[@crescenzoverdenavidacrociera]

ye I noticed, actually in another video of him playing the same set etudes he messes up Mazeppa but in the finale of that other performance, if I am not wrong he messes up chords sequences in both instances.

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

음감 이 다른연주가 보다 크고 풍부하지만 옴니버스 형식으로 다양한 감성을 완벽하게 표현하기 어렵죠

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

한사람의 인격을 알아가고 이해 하는것은 많은 시간과 인내력이 요구된다 보리스베레좁스키님 의 인성은? 어떤빛깔인지 궁금합니다

[@silencedogood7297]

Rich sound, sparkling runs. Tempos impossible !

[@antonwills-eve124]

Yes, it is a pity that the sound recording is so poor, but even so one can see that he plays the whole set much faster than the sublime interpretation by Trifonov at Lyon some five years later. Perhaps it just proves that the Lyon performance was one of the greatest recitals in the history of music and will never be equalled again. Not even by Trifonov himself! My favourite Berezovsky performance is definitely his Rach3 concerto with Patrenko in Moscow a few months ago.

[@ryank9848]

The Lyon recital was magic. It is had better sound quality, but I believe was overall a way better interpretation. I find myself watching it over and over on youtube. I wish we could borrow Liszt and have him play his own and see what he had in mind.

[@TheSabletooth]

Trifonov's performance in Lyon was divine.

[@trifonovfan9819]

18 yo Yunchan Lim just surpasses Berezovsky by playing a better set of the Transcendental etudes AND the best Rach 3 at the Cliburn Competition. He won…

[@louisehollyhead6807]

@@trifonovfan9819 no trifinov's technique is weak compared to Berezovsky and there is far more passion in Berezovsky's playing but his Berezovsky is at his best live in 2002 at la Roque d'antheron

[@TheScherzando]

Qu'on lui coupe l'électricité ! 💛💙🇺🇦

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

오래 간직할만한 동영상 입니다

[@saxangel45]

técnica perfecta, el mejor

[@stephenn77]

Yeah, his playing here is lacking the fire and depth of his earlier recording. I notice it on Wilde Jagd.

[@user-tg7ii4ft4f]

2002 sounds polished

[@cloud15489]

How can he finished under 1 hr!

[@petersimon5231]

A concert is no competition...

[@cloud15489]

@@petersimon5231 hmm I not quite get what u mean, but I just feel like he didn’t do a great job, 🥲 that’s too quick

[@petersimon5231]

@@cloud15489 Well, it seems I've misunderstood your remark to be praise (and your faulty English didn't help - correctly, you should have written: How could he finish...). I agree with you about his too quick tempo, I just didn't want to degrade him - I'd love to be able to play with as much technique and confidence as he did/does, but I'd rather play like Trifonov (or the late Richter or Gilels). I switched this recording off my likes as I don't really always like his rendition, either.

[@cloud15489]

@@petersimon5231 yes, and he made quite a lot of mistakes🥲

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

리즈시절의 에로이카 연주 해 맑았다

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

유부남 연주가와 연관되면 안되죠 보리스베레좁스키님 은 부인의 품격이죠 잘해주셔서 감사합니다 건강하시고 행복하세요 부인과 행복하세요

[@fpv_am]

Мацуев нервно курит в сторонке)

[@IgorBerov]

В каком смысле?

[@zRain_]

Igor Berov в прямом

[@frvl]

+

[@user-jp7ex5pr9m]

Долой мацуевщину!!!

[@ukuleleukulele2059]

@@user-jp7ex5pr9m Долой! Шоумен он,а не пианист. Пианизм это не только ко техника!

[@Mushkus]

В каком зале он исполняет?

[@user-mf3td9iw6f]

Зал Чайковского в Москве.

[@user-hl1qz1hg2e]

ФАНТАСТИКА!!!

[@ThePainkiller1982]

What's transcendental in these etudes?

[@sm30405]

ThePainkiller1982 It's about the art, Extreme technology of pianoforte. (Although these technology are possible now, but these have been impossible in 1837 XDDD

[@snickydoodle4744]

difficulty

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

엘가의 2중주를 가슴두근거리면서 완성하고싶었다 날밤을 지새워도 아깝지 않을 만큼 그런 나에게 러시아 연주가와 연관이 되었는지 이해가 안된다

[@icmung099]

Mazeppa introduction miss 왤케 많앜ㅋㅋ

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

보리스베레좁스키님 의 부인을 보면 남자의 인격을 알수있다

[@ABC-nc4zu]

님 대체 혼자 댓글 몇개를 쓰는거임?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ뭔말을 하는건지도 모르겠고

[@codysteevis9536]

Y tho

[@user-ue1nf5jv3z]

와 저걸 한번에 다치넼ㅋㅋ 사람인가

[@mfuttersack]

For me the best interpretation is by Louis Kentner

[@fonorecord]

Why so fast? Romanticism and fast play don't go together... for me the best performance on CD are the liszt's studies played by Claudio Arrau... not so fast and "in style"

[@scherzox]

I hate how he rushes through the beautiful middle part of 8

[@damienmartin2761]

There is someone into the piano ? ..with hammers ?

[@mehmethacioglu2092]

Wtf Vision is not Vision

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

죽은 현주언니영혼 산타체칠리아 에서 인정 받은 재능 가였는데 현주언니와 나상만교수가 다음생애에 꼭 못이룬 사랑을 이루세요

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

마제파가 그립군요

[@joelin3049]

To me, Mazeppa is probably the most difficult.

[@mydog1871]

I mean out of the etudes right? Because I had this ridiculously long argument of the hardest song in the world, and the other person kept insisting that these were the hardest. I mean they are virtuoso type but not the hardest. Wow I wasted a lot of life on that.

[@Ar1osssa]

Joe Lin I think Feux Follets is more harder than Mazeppa

[@carlociotti6485]

@@Ar1osssa It is

[@sosta1364]

Of course it depends on the pianist playing them, but I'm pretty sure most people would say feux follets is horrendously hard compared to even mazeppa.

[@Ar1osssa]

Вряд ли я из эти этюды сыграю лучше, но Березовский в этот раз исполнил не очень уверенно. Запорол начало Мазепы, Героику загнал, а Метель вообще в конце терцовые триоли в 73-м такте в левой руке не играл. Видно было, что исполнял на широкую массу, где обычно к таким вещам не придираются. Да и по его трактовке динамики в 12-м этюде я не особо согласен. Я уже молчу, что во время выступления была куча случайных нот. Но в целом очень хорошо.

[@unkunk5784]

Ну случаются и такие выступления,тут не угадаешь это Лист,многие сравнивают с Трифоновым,но не всегда возможно сыграть стабильно,странно конечно ,что в начале Мазепы,он по ум септакордам не попал

[@Mushkus]

У Березовского есть более ранние записи этих этюдов, студийные и концертные. Совершенно шикарные. В этот раз, может, погода не та или голова болела))

[@Ar1osssa]

@@Mushkus Мне Березовский вообще не нравится. Загоняет, почти нигде нет рубато. Сухо и не интересно. Вот Овчинников или Киссин это другое дело. Трифонов тоже не нравится. Выдумывает где не надо.

[@unkunk5784]

@@Ar1osssa вы знаете ,я сам пианист проф ,все не играл эти этюды,но многие,уже за то ,что в одном концерте,играются трансцендетные этюды,это результат большой кропотливой работы,и надо уважать коллегу,да что то может ,не нравиться,где то разночтения

[@unkunk5784]

@@Mushkus да слышал ,он тогда гораздо,моложе был,до конца доиграть уже счастье,что руки,не отвалятся ,кто муз ,тот поймет!)

[@joanne6300]

it seems as if berezovsky's energy was sucked out during this concert

[@99Grigor]

No. 2 was way too sluggish. Listen to Berman! No. 3 was more like a Barcarolle!! Feux Follets was a total mess with too much speed. Wilde Jage was pretty decent but I still much prefer Josef Villa's astounding performance.

[@computeraddict4993]

cant you stop critize over and over and just appreciate his work on these etudes???

[@snickydoodle4744]

@@computeraddict4993 whats wrong with constructive criticism?

[@op-th1yx]

@@snickydoodle4744 some people get butt hurt after their favorite pianist got criticized. Even if it is constructive and not coming from a guy saying "LOL SO BAD I PLAY Better".

[@maulcs]

I'm a big fan of da whale, but he needs to practice more

[@crescenzoverdenavidacrociera]

ahha lol da whale, he needs practice.

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

나 에겐 버림받은 자살한 음대생 언니부터 타살당한 안타까운 사랑을 한 현주언니 영혼 들이 찾아오네요 구분 언니들은 전부갖춘 외는 명문 음대생인데 어떻게 운명이 이렇게 다르죠?

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

보리스베레좁스키님 은 완벽한 분 흐리틱로샨은 친숙한 장점이 있다 부족해도 용서를 해주는 장점이 있다

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

보리스베레좁스키님 부인과 행복하세요 잘해주셔서 감사합니다 당신동영상 보기가 무섭네요 당신을 사칭하는 네티즌 이 있죠 건강관리 잘하시고 행복하시길

[@bobnorth350]

Human can play this from memory? No sheet charts? How many millions of years till monkeys or apes can do this s

[@user-no2wl3xq8t]

언니의 반영을 20년넘게 지켰습니다 만감이 교차했다

[@juandanielalzate6263]

Wtf number six??????

[@stringendo]

Why he skipped it???

[@mydog1871]

That is Vision right