Rachmaninov-Volodos Italian Polka

[@vova47]

Volodos did not start late.Friend of mine studied with him at the same class and everybody knew from the early age that he was a genius at the piano. he did study to be a conductor but was terrible at it.However he was forgiven because of his piano playing!

[@sandercouck8454]

Volodos reminds me of George Cziffra.. Their amazing technique and extremely virtuoso transcriptions blow you off your socks every time. I LOVE IT

[@gabrielgabriel8096]

I do think exactly the same

[@aaronslens]

He could've been. Wish he didn't spend the last 15 years boring us with Schubert and Brahms.

[@m.a.3322]

This transcription is so different from Gryaznov's one. I really love them both. They both have different styles and themes.

[@nickysf]

THE BEST pianist of our time. Just listen to his Rach #3 with Levine and Berlin phil!!!

[@thepianocornertpc]

Or Schubert Sonatas.

[@rozalinapiano]

I am so grateful to Arcadi for creating this very inspiring for my little piano students transcription. Most of his fans know him as a piano virtuoso. But very few are fortunate to know about his virtuous heart. And, that is why his playing is so soulful and deeply toughing, in addition to being entertaining and technically virtually unlimited.

[@DScottWatson]

He is truly amazing and I love how crisp his attack is, his interpretations are always tasteful, even when slightly over the top... amazing

[@MagicDonDino]

Rachmaninov era il più grande compositore del 900. Arcadi Volodos diventerà il più grande pianista del nuovo millennio? Fino ad ora ha strabiliato il mondo con il suo talento innato. Italian Polka è uno dei pezzi trascritti da Volodos che preferisco.

[@hophmi]

Great transcription. His finger work is incredible, especially given the giant sausages he has for fingers. These are circus acts, but musicians know that not everybody can put them together this way, and frankly, Volodos transcriptions are just plain fun, with wonderful combination of various themes. The variation at 1:40 is just amazing. It's kind of interesting to note that the two super-duper technicians (Volodos and Marc-Andre Hamelin) both have unusually thick fingers.

[@richardwassmuth1032]

There is another super virtuoso Pianist - Kristina Miller - has played cziffra Transcriptions for KZbin

[@DanielRobertspiano]

Every time I watch this it NEVER EVER Fails to amaze me!

[@kayobenson4602]

1:58

[@AmosdollMusic]

lol he goes spastic at 2:00 lol awesome

[@HermanIngram]

That’s the testosterone kicking in. G-d bless him!

[@lucasvannieuwenhuijzen5646]

heeeyy you there 12 years ago

[@charlesthomas5956]

2:00

[@charlesthomas5956]

​​@@lucasvannieuwenhuijzen5646 He first joined KZbin 16 years ago and made is first video almost 16 years ago

[@789armstrong]

Totally awesome! The sound of genius.

[@zoink5484]

spotted

[@charlesthomas5956]

Cziffra and Horowitz are both good too! All of these guys are wizards (Don't forget Hamelin!)

[@789armstrong]

@@charlesthomas5956 You might want to check out young Alexei Sultanov who could have walked in their footsteps had he lived longer.

[@AbandonedMines11]

What was that crashing sound I heard just now? Wait a minute...ummm...it was only the sound of my jaw hitting the floor after watching this incredible performance! BRAVO!

[@danieljakimiu]

He shakes the piano a lot at 2:00. Unbelieveble stronggg!!

[@charlesthomas5956]

2:00

[@HodGabriel]

Like this comment if this video was one of the first virtuoso piano videos you ever watched

[@rvpiano]

Genius just begins to tell the story.

[@idleub3da]

I was at his performance in my home town last week. Was kind of hoping this to be an additional piece, but sadly he didn't play it. :) Needless to say, he was awe-inspiring otherwise.

[@kavanzhang]

i come by every week

[@B337h0v3n]

always amazing...sometimes i dream that i can play like him...hahahahahah

[@kacemchawqi5787]

😂😂😂

[@DylanCobb]

He's just incredible at the climax. He didn't hit a single wrong note and there were a LOT of notes XD. Like the last guy, I'd love to see the score too...

[@TheMightyFork_]

DylanCobb 2:13 wrong note

[@sandercouck8454]

Hahahahahaha from 1:58 on this actually made me laugh out hard! Hahahahahaha, only Volodos (or Cziffra in his time) could pull this off like this!

[@ryushev2000]

Dont forget denis matsuev

[@charlesthomas5956]

​@@ryushev2000 Or Marc-Andre Hamelin

[@codonauta]

From 1:50 to 2:00 Volodos looks like a bit bored, so he gets crazy and almost destroys the piano. :) Really great.

[@charlesthomas5956]

1:50 to 2:00

[@holasoyoswaldo]

Es un genio sin parangón.

[@NormanicusDiabolicus]

Absolutely incredible!!

[@KenWangpiano]

Look at the poor piano trembling under all that force!

[@KrazyPianist]

it's almost scary how much Volodos and myself look like each other...i'll post a picture of myself on my profile soon...it's weird seriously lol

[@charlesthomas5956]

Omg that is so weird😮

[@virtual7insanity]

he's great

[@cyw225]

Absolutely Incredible!!! Speechless !!!

[@kanemochi1973]

george Cziffra and Horowitz plus mix up DNA piano !!!!!!!!!!! Amazing !

[@pinedapopi]

this is awesome... so cool.

[@Marfleet18]

From 0:36 it shows the flowers Volodos has killed! Then at 0:40 it shows us Volodos has moved to the piano to try kill that instead! lol haha :D Beautiful playing :P

[@budzillab]

wow! at 1:58 its amazing! i mean that must have been like quintuple forte! wow! just amazing

[@StevenHobbs-s4z]

There has never been a performance that can rival this arrangement. The depth, the pressure on each key. It is in my opinion a perfect performance. An Asian pianist would just try to play as quickly as possible, a shallow somewhat rushed performance, choosing speed over feeling and understanding, it sounds cheap and tacky as if a robot was programmed to perform this piece. This is the greatest performance of Turkish March you'll ever hear.

[@kaidaniev]

Mr Volodos est un artiste très fin. Peut - etre pas dans cette transcription de cette polka italienne qui franchit la limite du ridicule vers la 2ème minute . Il se situe dans la continuité d'un certain Horowitz dans ses prouesses d'estrade. C'est quand meme époustouflant !!

[@lolita7961]

феноменально,просто фантастика!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Браво!

[@marcomedina4434]

Just because he started late doesn't mean he's not a prodigy. Whether he's a prodigy or not depends on how fast he progressed.

[@astronomo16]

pure technical. Its perfect

[@donghyun45]

Awesome!!!!!

[@Anna-Krasa]

Класс!🤩

[@cameronleesimpson5742]

And I thought his Turkish March was astounding,This guy and Jarrod Radnich needs to collab someday.

[@Hogarth4]

BAD ASS!

[@AlC92575]

Hats off gentlemen,a genius!

[@Ashley-qc2sc]

F.....G AWESOME!

[@monster0129]

totally agree...mad!

[@1me0815]

Brrraaaavvooooo👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@intrepido82]

Great!!

[@NoshuHyena]

Rachmaninoff's music always makes me smile a huge toothy grin. Volodos' arrangements always make me laugh. I must look like a madman right now.

[@viiviiixxtactic]

Seriously... one guy playin two parts at once? His two hands doing the work of four... Amaazing human being.

[@muziqueonmymind]

he has like 2 versinos of that its like he switched the begining and the end.. but over all i like this one over my volodos sound track that i got in i tunes

[@Hectorlph]

It's hard to listen to the original after brainwashing my mind with this paraphrase lol.

[@RiLeY2011]

o my gosh thats incredible. i can only hope to play like that. lol

[@aspolti]

Arcadi is the best pianist of the century

[@NiPaVou]

/bow He is amazing!

[@TheSkyLineDJ360]

i just pooped my pants

[@Bulacanos]

Phenomenal. This is a guess, but is this outdoor performance in Amsterdam? Audience looks fired up, and no premature applause too!

[@BWV846]

WOW

[@Lachausis]

Damn.

[@coqdorysme]

i. want. sheets. this is INSAAAAAANE

[@matankesselman456]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5rZdKuHppuKidk

[@matankesselman456]

I put a video where you can see the sheet music as the piece goes, idk whether the guy has a copy of just the sheets

[@gapjsampa]

God bless!

[@eikay18]

i love key-mashing! :D

[@Vesivian]

wat dah faq happened at 2:00...

[@polopixel5142]

Resonance

[@charlesthomas5956]

2:00 Godzilla time

[@marcovalenti1926]

Volodos number 1!!!!! my preferite pianist ... good good good

[@gerdlindlar1980]

mega !

they set

[@nickysf]

=philharmonic orchestra

[@pianosenzanima1]

Now can somebody tell me why this guy isn't teaching at Moscow Conservatory? Why isn't he in the Tchaikovsky competition jury? Where the fuck is him?? Why did this talent got buried!?? Man such a fucking unfair insane terrible world we live in...

[@muziqueonmymind]

wooooow

[@mdc00001]

MAN. That was amazing!! O_____O lol. I wish I could play like that, but it'd probably take me two years just to learn that piece! XD lol. I give this guy a standing ovation! XD lol.

[@RainMan34]

Incredible. I love how the piano overtook the noise of the surrounding environs.

[@GAOsipov]

1:58 impossible!

[@rupertennis]

this piece is written as a duet.... he plays both parts easily.

[@pianonineg9576]

Arcadi you had at Bb. No words. xox

[@scottdotjazzman]

Show-off. :P In all seriousness, bravo!

[@chang1865]

@fisarmonicista it's just a metaphor. I'm a pianist myself.

[@learnalitheway]

Holy~

[@roo159]

i would too if i could play that well !! yes, funny

[@vincentws03]

that's a weird analogy, but I can't stop thinking that once I've read it

[@marekkotek6126]

szok

[@charlesthomas5956]

Fun fact: Volodos could barely take the tenths in the beginning of Rach 2, Cziffra had to roll the tenths in Schumann's toccata and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody 6, Argerich could only take ninths, and Lazar Berman had to roll the tenths in Chopin's polonaises. But Horowitz could take an eleventh, and Earl Wild and Richter twelfths...

[@nicolasramirez3456]

As far as i Know, i read that Horowitz said he could take tenths, but it wasn't really that confortable cziffra did had good hands and could take tenths too, but not all tenths, for example not a major tenth with a black and a white key, also fast tenths are too un confortable to do without rolling unless you got Big hands like Pogorelich (theres a video with 2 passages with fast tenths of him) Richter or Hamelin And that fun fact is the original post from a thread from on a piano forum, the thread it's from 2009

[@georgecziffra]

@531337 Change the settings to 240p, then it should work.

[@pianoplayeruk]

I disagree. Someone who insists on publishing comments which hail from the place as their farts, needs reminding of that fact from time to time.

[@Rohit0406]

nah they have people on top of the buildings ready to throw umbrellas on the piano if it starts raining.

[@Stunt2one]

Where is that recorded? It's the spanish TV (I'm from Spain...) That public is so stupid!! What's the point of those horns at start? Look at the genious face... Anyway, Volodos always perfect technique!

[@canardroti]

he's..da...shizzle..

[@DanielRobertspiano]

But bear in a mind he's only a Virtuoso because of the big found full tone he creates, and not because he can play a miilion notes a second!

[@astronomo16]

NO. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!

[@Bulasz]

From what I read recently the 10% brain usage thing is a myth. They said it was about 60% and that the other 40 were not exactly not being used, they were just in a "default mode" while in which they sort memories and stuff like that.

[@falstaffinfection]

they give thumbs down because they are entitled to their own opinion

[@nikasukiashvili2622]

liszt who?

[@fisarmonicista]

@chang1865 You don´t really think that, do you?

[@eeevildictator]

what are you referring to? link?

[@AlC92575]

I think the Rach would be smiling now.

[@pianoman64]

where is this??

[@Mikerizzle]

Send me a message if you still want it

[@SKAndland]

11 people are jealous on Volodos, beacause they can't manage to play this piece xD

[@chang1865]

at 2:00 he's like randomly mashing the keys lol! But great skill indeed..

[@LeifD958]

Chang's Stuff It’s not random, if you hear clearly. However, it makes a huge effect.

[@charlesthomas5956]

2:00

[@DonFrankos]

that is a very ignorant remark. besides the fact that this is almost exactly his cd version, consider this: if he plays random notes, everybody would be able to do this, right? think about that.

[@doctorkozi]

11 people voted this video thumb down: I can't understand them, or they can't understand art.

[@charlesthomas5956]

Maybe it's because they thought he used too much pedel or they were just his trolls

[@pianoplayeruk]

Who's Phil??

[@arturcrane2764]

wtf?...godzila SOUND!!!...

[@pianosenzanima1]

Freaking RUSSIAN Tank

[@charlesthomas5956]

Godzilla sound at 2:00