Maksim

[steinwaymodeld]

Resurrection of a dead topic

and a even more dead pop-icon (i will cut my hands off before i crown him with the term 'artist' or 'musician' or 'pianist', or any term similar to that)

BTW, it's not 'other pianists played bumblebee faster', it's just the piece can't go any slower than how Maksim play, not even with all the fancy computer effect he adds.

O and hilariously, even after taking out the true 'exercise' part of the revolutionary (which is the LH, he only plays the simple chords on the RH in the recording), and added all those computer-henced effects, his music/technique/sound is still painfully slow and stupefying.

O and yea, I saw/heard him live on TV (unfortunately).
I would rather watch a chimpanzee throw feces to a group of boyscout camping out at Michael Jackson's neverland than the mockery of so called 'artistry' wrapped around by the diarrhea of commercialism and got stuffed up the arse of this drug-addicted-look-alike pop figure.

For more information, consult his new recording/DVD-video of the piece Totentanz.

[jay_maksim]

and a even more dead pop-icon (i will cut my hands off before i crown him with the term 'artist' or 'musician' or 'pianist', or any term similar to that)

ok...

BTW, it's not 'other pianists played bumblebee faster', it's just the piece can't go any slower than how Maksim play, not even with all the fancy computer effect he adds.

On the DVD when he plays it solo he plays it at a much faster tempo not the same tempo as the crossover version.

O and hilariously, even after taking out the true 'exercise' part of the revolutionary (which is the LH, he only plays the simple chords on the RH in the recording), and added all those computer-henced effects, his music/technique/sound is still painfully slow and stupefying.

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And how long did it take you to work out he took out the left hand??    soon you will be saying: HE DOES NOT PLAY GRIEGS PIANO CONCERTO IN A MINOR THE WHOLE WAY THROUH!" ....no shi.t sherlock

O and yea, I saw/heard him live on TV (unfortunately).
I would rather watch a chimpanzee throw feces to a group of boyscout camping out at Michael Jackson's neverland than the mockery of so called 'artistry' wrapped around by the diarrhea of commercialism and got stuffed up the arse of this drug-addicted-look-alike pop figure

then change the channel, it's not hard. Oh and i'm sure where ever you are from you proberly have that on TV.  ("chimpanzee throw feces to a group of boyscout... ")

[steinwaymodeld]

then change the channel, it's not hard. Oh and i'm sure where ever you are from you proberly have that on TV.  ("chimpanzee throw feces to a group of boyscout... ")

Yea. But due to low rating, they have annouced to combine the two show together, by keeping the part where Chimpanzee throw feces at people from the first show, and the Maksim part from the 2nd shows.

now THAT i will watch.

[perfect_pitch]

Actually, that isn't quite true... In his concerts he will play his versions of pieces like his Bumble Bee and Rachmaninoff Variations, but he always finishes it with a proper performance of a Piano Concerto with full Symphonic Orchestra.

I like him for the fact that his music is certainly not as cheesy are richard claydermans.... and he isn't trying to sell Classical Music to people as Schmaltzy watery crap.

He's trying his best to try and let Most teenagers who couldn't give a crap about Classical, a taste of it. He is basing his Renditions on the Classical Music, and once people start liking it, they have to wonder where he got the inspiration from.

And having said that, I do agree with the fact that he is certainly overrated as a Professional pianist, but I think he's trying to do a good thing and get more people interested in Classical Music.


His renditions may not be purely classical, but he's bridging the gap.

And for those who are wondering, in case it wasn't mentioned already - His full name is Maksim Mrvica, a croatian Pianist.

[jas]

It's called "PR" - they all say it, for example :-

Universal Classics and Jazz managing director Bill Holland said: "Myleene [Klass] is one of the greatest talents I've ever heard.  "Her mission is to eradicate the barriers between pop and classical music."

Oh, for Christ's sake. This annoys me. Bloody PR. This guy needs to get out more if she's "one of the greatest talents" he's ever heard. She has no such noble missions at all. She wants fame and doesn't care what she has it for. She was on a reality TV programme, got into a cheesy pop group, had a short success then a high profile failure, then she looked for something else that would make her famous and remembered that she could play the piano. I saw her on TV playing something by Bach (can't remember what) with a pop background, and for something so technically undemanding she was making a hell of a show at the piano, swinging her arms around and making theatrical faces.

As for this Maksim bloke, having listened to 30 seconds of that revolutionary study someone posted, I've made up my mind. He's exactly the same. They spout all this rubbish about trying to get classical music to the masses and having all these noble intentions. They're lying.

Jas

[steinwaymodeld]

Oh, for Christ's sake. This annoys me. Bloody PR. This guy needs to get out more if she's "one of the greatest talents" he's ever heard. She has no such noble missions at all. She wants fame and doesn't care what she has it for. She was on a reality TV programme, got into a cheesy pop group, had a short success then a high profile failure, then she looked for something else that would make her famous and remembered that she could play the piano. I saw her on TV playing something by Bach (can't remember what) with a pop background, and for something so technically undemanding she was making a hell of a show at the piano, swinging her arms around and making theatrical faces.

As for this Maksim bloke, having listened to 30 seconds of that revolutionary study someone posted, I've made up my mind. He's exactly the same. They spout all this rubbish about trying to get classical music to the masses and having all these noble intentions. They're lying.

Jas

yea and funny people claimed 'he made the music more available for other people'

for christ sake, read the CD footnotes, he didn't even arrange any of those pieces.