You're great, guys I think every reasonable person would delete such comments.Why do you even bother? We know who's right and that's all we need to know, why give a ... on what some guy x in the internet believes or not?Calm down Oo
Perhaps we should cut this guy some slack - afterall, he's just following a common path to notoriety and his 15 min of fame. He's probably laughing all the way to the bank at how seriously we are taking him. It really all started with the likes of P.T. Barnum and the human abberations he paraded past the public who were always willing to pay. History is filled with descriptions of artists who diluted and/or adjusted their talents for the adulation of the masses but their fame never reached beyong their grave to be anything other than a footnote or a bio in Wikepedia. Someone has to feed that great unwashed their piece of cake. Let them hoot, holler and woo-woo at the sexy outfits and the quasi-goth appearances. It's probably the same receiption they would afford drivers at a monster truck rally. At least we can choose not to buy in--my God, even serious musicians need a good laugh now and then
mikecaffey:"Lang should be commended for playing passages at level 9. Most pianists can't do that. The ending of this piece on Richard Kastle's Virgin Records CD was the only level 10 recording in the 20th Century. You can watch him play it on YouTube. I challenge anyone to find a 20th century pianist who can play the notes as written."I challenge anyone to find a 20th century pianist who CAN'T play the notes as written
I think I need less than 5 mins to play that passage....(at least better than kaslte) eventhough i dont know which level i would be after that
yeah now that kastle's tackled the most difficult feat in piano he can surely take on opus clavembalisticum.
Hey I just wanted everyone to know that the other day I finally figured out how to play J.S Bach's Prelude in C major from Book one. I'm the only pianist ever to play the hidden spriritual meaning behind the notes - everyone else who has ever played this has been faking and only playing the shallow notes. I immediately phoned Connie Chung about this and she seemed very excited and wants me to spread my message of truth to the whole world. I'll be on TV next February with a whole 2 hour segment devoted to me and my achievements. They are cancelling the premiere of "Lost" Season 4 on ABC to make room for my segment. Virgin Records wants me to record a single of this prelude and my 23 Symphonies I composed last year. I think the most significant one is my "Chandelier" Symphony, which barely beats out my "Monaco" Concerto as the best orchestral work written in the past 16 years. A lot of people have told me that other composers' musics sound like garbage when compared to mine. I guess God blessed me with the true musical gift. It feels good to have mastered the most difficult piece of music ever written and to have been the only person ever to do so. You can congratulate me now.
Please. Emmanuel Ax told me himself that I am at least level 11, if not 12. And Manny is only level 7.
what's this thing about levels? I don't even know what it is?
Kastle talks about levels, but everyone thinks he's being stupid so everyone is making fun of him. It's all like a big joke. Something out of Dungeons and Dragons, I think.
Just another thing to make pianists nervous, torture themselves, doubt themselves or forget why they are playing. The overemphasis on technique as practically an end in itself, goes wayyyyy back. There is a lot of critcism of this throughout art history.
or perhaps Dante
It's a fact. Richard Kastle is the only pianist in the 20th century who played the 110 hand positions with the hands in conflict with each other as Liszt requires. Kastles Virgin Records CD proves it. The others have to fake, because, their brains aren't wired like Liszt.
That's nonsence. The evidence of faking is irrefutable. A pianist who studies at the highest level knows that they fake this passage as well as play the simplified Bussoni version of La Campanella. Listen to the way Cziffra plays as much of it as he can and then puts his hands together for the hardest past. They do covers. They can't create a symphony or a concerto and they leave irrefutable evidence that they can't play the most famous page of music. Pathetic.
Your friends at the music school need to connect their axons to the dendrites. The neurons must form interconnected circuits between the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex. Don't insult an accomplished artist who can help you and your friends. Of you fail to wire up the complex thought section of your brain you will be forced to become a con artist. You can't fool the new generation when it comes to neuroscience.
Correct me if I'm wrong.... but I heard a rumor that Lang Lang wears Gloves of Fortuitous Rapture while he practices. It doubles the XP you receive and makes Tanking a lot easier. In just two hours he took down Scarbo, although he only had 28 HP left at the end because Scarbo unleashed a Repeated Note attack and Lang Lang was almost Poisoned.
this guy is simply a joke.his technique is medicore at best, his doesn't have any sense of musicality, he is arrogant, and he speaks crap.and he is nothing but a show off
Kastle should marry that idiotic tramp, The Great Kat ( https://www.greatkat.com/ ) who is similarly a complete buffoon who thinks that Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Wagner represent the highest peaks of Western music.
Topic: Who does this guy think he is? (Including Horowitz diss) 