Can someone answer if Sousa wrote this originally for a Symphony or for just Brass and Drums , or for solo piano ? It is genius composed, and performed by this musician.
Incredible and faster than Horovitz played it himself! Really, really clean and so crisp, am full of admiration for you sir! Bravo!! Great to see the expressions on the orchestral players faces as the maestro plays! As you say, it takes a Russian artist to play the “Stars and Strips” properly!!! Marvellous indeed!! Adrian in Bermuda ❤️❤️
Yeah this a difficult piece to play originally as written . This guy took that arrangement and used the degree of difficulty to the nth degree . You have to be spot on your octaves to master this . I also loved his mood swings and dynamics . Dude is a master .
To all who wonder, this concerto took place in Sr. Petersburg on 16'Jun'2000. Kuleshov played this encore after playing Rachmaninov's Concerto no. 3 Op. 30. There is a video of the full performance in Kuleshov's RU-vid channel.
2:03 In this part appear the most iconic part of music in the history of the Argentina TV because this part of the song was used by Cronica Tv for show the news in the program
Wow!!! What a brilliant pianist! What a majestic performance!!! Performed better than any I have heard play this masterpiece before! It makes it even more sweeter being a Russian pianist!!! I love it!!!
I was searching for "video of horowitz playing stars and stripes forever" and couldn't find a copy. I have been dying to see what his fingers were doing in an arrangement that clearly needs three hands to play. Thanks be to God this guy figured it out. My understanding was that another pianist had done so during Horowitz's life and he never forgave him.
Valery made his transcription by listening to Horowitz's performances and copying them down note by note. He then performed it at the Busoni Competition in Bolzano, Italy (I believe). Thomas Frost the recording engineer who had worked on many Horowitz recordings heard Valery in Bolzano and enthusiastically told Horowitz about the young Russian. Horowitz was mightily impressed and he wrote Valery a charming letter. Horowitz invited Valery to visit him at his home in New York, which Valery did in early 1989, I believe it was. Horowitz was full of praise for Valery's extraordinary technique and musicianship and invited him to return to New York for lessons. Sadly, Horowitz died in late 1989 and the lessons never took place. queuing
Indudablemente que demostró ser un gran pianista ya que organizó toda la composición en un solo instrumento con sus dos manos a tres y hasta cuatro voces con una magistral seguridad como todo un gran pianista. No sé si alguien notó que al inicio me pareció algo Chopianesco que le quitaba un poco el aire de Marcha, si tiene sus partes chopaniescas pero no obstante estuvo espléndido, magistral, irrepetible, irrefutable. Le plus 👏👏👏👏👏👏
I’m sorry but the audience reaction is totally inappropriate for this performance. It should have been necessary for security to clear the building and for engineers to check for structural damage.
WOW! I have never seen this played with anything less than 4 hands and many times with 8 hands on two pianos. Amazing, simply amazing. My mind could never think fast enough to move my hands that fast to play those notes, LOL!
