Beethoven-Liszt - Symphony 3, "Eroica" (I. Allegro con brio) - Cyprien Katsaris Piano 

Absolutely incredible! The voicing, the consistent pulse through the most finger-buckling textures. The musicality, the sense of structure. The pianism AND orchestral color. Just absolutely astonishing. Congratulations Mr. Katsaris. I'm quit sure even Liszt himself would be taken aback.

Three geniuses at work here: Beethoven, Liszt, Katsaris. Amazing!

作曲家も編曲者も演奏者も凄いですが　ピアノと言う偉大な楽器の存在も　 凄いですよね〜PIANOPIANOPIANO・・・

11:13 I felt it like it was the very first time that I hear something like that! Such a stonishing pianist!

These "symphonies" now also rank in the top tier of greatest piano sonatas written as well. LOL.

Magnificant! Hear and appreciate the work with fresh ears in this piano arrangement.

2:42 typical for Beethoven :D

LISTZ & BEETHOVEN : Amazing talents beyond human understanding!

My favourite classical piece... have to say piano version is very pleasing as well.

Like at least 4 hands, and the nose as an extra finger😊🎹🎼 🎶🎶🎶💛

9:12

Thank you for this!

So this is love❤❤

this is stupidly good

awesome

This is beautiful! Liszt would have only been 16 when Beethoven died, plus his hearing would have completely gone by then, otherwise I'm sure they could have made a great duo.

If we put this on 1.25x speed, we get Beethoven's metronome markings - as it is the case with all Katsaris's Beethoven-Liszt recordings.

Looks like he got 4 hands

Katsaris? Wow, very, very nice

At 10:18 he's not playing the notes on the sheet, is he? Anyway, great recording of a fantastic piece of music.

I myself have looked at the Liszt transcriptions of Beethoven's 3 most famous symphonies and their difficulty seems to be in this order: 1. Ninth Symphony aka Choral Symphony - Tons of melodic octaves and difficult to play harmonies + Fast tempi(especially the Scherzo, my favorite movement of Beethoven's Ninth) 2. Third Symphony aka Eroica Symphony - Looks easier on the surface than say the Fifth Symphony, but requires a ton of fast pedal action to pull off solo, needs a duet to get close to the orchestral sound 3. Fifth Symphony aka Fate Symphony - Looks more challenging than it actually is. Most challenging bits are the few examples of tenths(for example an F minor chord being spread out to F, C, Ab, across the span of a tenth, which I personally condense to F, C, F in the span of an octave, because that alone will in context, sound like F minor, no Ab needed) and the diminished sevenths that include the root an octave higher(I find that to be a very uncomfortable position and I generally take out one of the diminished seventh notes to make the octave more comfortable(Enough of the diminished seventh sound comes across with only 3 notes + an octave)) I personally can play the Fifth Symphony transcription very easily, but the Eroica and the Ninth Symphony, I struggle with, and not because I'm not advanced enough(even when I slow it down considerably for practice, I still struggle).

Woah!

11:28 That damned hornist! Can't he count? It sounds frightfully wrong.

Symphony No. 6 5th Mvt is influenced by this

6:56

9:00

6: 17 start of development?

overwhelmingly jealous.

This is when technology was manual and talent was being engraved into the brain from childhood, I would call it the positive hardship when forcing in childhood harvests after growing up. I'm from Middle East and had a tiny portion of that hardship comparing to those alike this great pianist.. I wish that childhood forcing (by parents) was given somewhat to music, I would've been a good (merely good) pianist comparing to this supernatural human being...

Dommage que le pianiste soit adepte de la scientologie. Il a de bon points de vues sur la musique en general.

This must be 2 pianists, at least in some sections

Not enough guts!

There's no doubt Katsaris is a master, I just think this piece doesn't go well with piano at all... It just needs an orchestra.

awful

The interpretation is lacking.