Andre Watts plays: Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude," Op.10 #12 

What I find amazing is the pianists here on RU-vid, who have much less talent than Watts, get hundreds of thousands of views. One in particular is Yuja Wang who dresses like a whor1e. She is mediocre at best.

Maybe the piano isn't able to contain the energy so it must overshoot somehow

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If you can get a recording of Vladimir Horowitz playing Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude," you will be stunned and amazed by the power of his fingers as well....not to mention how he goes from piano to forte....I never heard anything matching his performance....It is how one imagines the great Franz Liszt would have played this thundering etude. Check Horowitz's playing here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-seC8oc_1rYQ.html

I have that. Watts is superior!​@@MoebiusTripper

he literally backhanded the piano. I've never seen that techniqu before.

one year on :) happy birthday chopin

Check out his La Campanella it's so unique

@@JulianWatsonThe400 Okay, but questions like that are so weird. Like, it's literally in the titel and the announcer also says it at the beginning.

He got his break when Glen Gould took sick and André was called in to take his place with the NY Phil. A Juilliard graduate, Andre became a legend.

Interesting! Thanks

@@MrJojowasaman Nope, he went to Peabody (my alma mater) and studied with Leon Fleischer. He took 8 years to graduate, because he was already performing so much right out of HS.

I have to disagree with you about Mr. Watts being better than Horowitz. If you listen to Horowitz play this etude you will hear him play it with thunderous sweeps and his use of the pedals is in itself an art form. He always takes your breath away. Rubinstein, on the other hand is just the opposite.

@@MoebiusTripper and I'll disagree with you on that the left hand sucks ass and sounds barely adequate. You think i haven't listened to all the recordings by Horowitz, Perlman, Heifetz, Gitlis, Vasa Prohida, etc, I've written a Symphonie No.2 in C #MinorOp 183, which is on SOUTHERN HAWK STUDIOS so no, on this particular piece Watts is the best I've heard and that's my opinion till death. Thanks!

@@dondraper7441 Mr. Watts agrees with me. Just ask him. Everyone knows Mr. Horowitz was the greatest pianist of the past century.

@@dondraper7441 I'll tell Mr. Watts what you said about him being the greatest player of this etude. I know he will get a laughing kick out of it.

...they are both one of a kind. Before this I was just listening to Glenn Gould playing the first movement of Beethoven's piano sonata no. 8 (the "Pathetique") and was blown away so much that I had to get a reference point for greatness, and I remember hearing this many years ago as one of my references for greatness. Technique seems to be a by-product of their inner voice.

@@muken48 indeed 😁

What Watts has in common with the great Horowitz is the fire and passion with which they perform the works of the Slavic Romantic composers!

He better than Horowirz.

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Does that include Vladimir Horowitz's playing of this etude as well?

What do you think of Vladimir Horowitz performance of this etude? What you say Mr. Watts lacks, Mr. Horowitz certainly has. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-seC8oc_1rYQ.html

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The playing lacks the poetic and the musical flavors of Chopin ... it sounds perhaps like a Czerny exercise at random ...

People that cannot distinguish between an encore performance and a competition performance do not have enough credibility to speak about such performances.

MY FAVORITE!!!!! All the rest sound exactly the same. Like a blizzard of notes. I love this so much that I love hearing every single note. Contrast. Emotion. Fearless!!!