wow! incredible piano videos on youtube!

[visitor]

Yes he still plays it /recorded it again ,dang I love this arrangement, I've been needing to start learning it I get so distracted and forget to !

[visitor]

Actually let's add this since Tal did such a groovy job of sticking a fugue in there at the end ,let's let Nina Simone show how's done too

[jimf12]

Lisitsa play the 3rd movement of the War sonata...

[visitor]

Dang it's so good piano,the group, pletnev conducting
Videography everything wow

[visitor]

Wow he's so good already but them he went and arranged this and just I'm loving this do dang much

[klavieronin]

[ranjit]

Lisitsa play the 3rd movement of the War sonata...

Wow, it sounds so... jazzy.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

The original recording is justly famous, but being of 1923 vintage, very crackly.

I used specialist noise reduction, and now:

[visitor]

Hayato up to his genius shenanigans again

[ronde_des_sylphes]

One of the greatest competition recitals I've ever seen. The pianist is just 18 and we're going to hear a lot more of him.

[julill]

Incredible...

[liszt-and-the-galops]

This is very much a necropost, but this thread definitely should be brought back into the limelight.
In terms of the topic, here's one that never gets old:

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Another necropost on this thread lol...
Yi-Chung Huang has some insane recordings of some of the most difficult pieces out there...
Liszt - S. 140 no. 4b (one of the hardest piano Etudes ever written)

Alkan - Op. 17 Le Preux (the octave section at the end is just absurd)

Liszt- S. 253 Spanish Fantasy (possibly the single most difficult individual piano piece, pre-Sorabji)

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Cziffra's complete recordings of Chopin:

Nothing special, I just feel like this video was getting less attention than it should. Happy listening!

[essence]

The original recording is justly famous, but being of 1923 vintage, very crackly.

Sounds great fun to play. I will search for the score.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Cziffra playing Brahms' Variations on a theme of Paganini feels very underappreciated compared to other (IMO worse) performances by other notable pianists.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Necro-ing this thread again, but IMO Elina Akselrud's Scriabin Sonata no. 8 is severely underrated:

So is Alicia de Larrocha's Schumann Fantaisie:

[essence]

Yes, it is good, but it seems to me to lack momentum?

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Yes, it is good, but it seems to me to lack momentum?

Which one?

[essence]

Sorry - the Scriabin 8. I have played it in an amateur public performance (with music!) and it has great complexity. It can appear to lack structure, but in my view there should be an inexorable drive throughout.

Maybe unfair to compare with the master.

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[essence]

Some seem to not rate Ashkenzy, but he is my goto for current pianists. Note his little accelerandos.

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[liszt-and-the-galops]

I necro this thread a lot, lol :D. Cziffra playing his own improv/Fantasy on William Tell; I'd listened to the finale before, but the rest of it is just as good and just as horrifyingly difficult.

Introduction + Orage

Pastorale + Finale

[gasplamey]

Cziffra playing his own improv/Fantasy on William Tell; I'd listened to the finale before, but the rest of it is just as good and just as horrifyingly difficult.

Introduction + Orage

Pastorale + Finale

Cziffra just moved up about 50 spotsa in my ranking of 'best pianists'.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Cziffra just moved up about 50 spotsa in my ranking of 'best pianists'.

Where was he before?

[dizzyfingers]

i was just amazed by this video, and there are many more, even some by hamelin and cziffra that are even nearly as good!

The first post of this thread. 2006 !  And the video is still there.  Though the sound quality is horrible, partly because it's been sped up.   Wonder what the original sounded like, and if that was sped up as well.  Such a funny post, "hamelin and cziffra that are even nearly as good!"

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Yet more Cziffra, lol. Complete Cziffra transcriptions of Brahms' Hungarian Dances (*to my knowledge; I don't think he transcribed nos. 7, 11, 14-15, 18, or 20).

[lelle]

The first post of this thread. 2006 !  And the video is still there.  Though the sound quality is horrible, partly because it's been sped up.   Wonder what the original sounded like, and if that was sped up as well.  Such a funny post, "hamelin and cziffra that are even nearly as good!"

There was a while this thread seemed to be about "incredible" videos rather than incredible videos, if you get my drift. I remember getting a good chuckle out of some of the stuff posted here back in 2008/2009, but some of those are unfortunately taken down now.