While all better than kissin, B's fire flies still have lots of non-speaking notes. A shity piano? Generally, Brzsky, if this is an unedited recording, does Liszt far greater than what this generally kitsch composer deserves. Brilliant.
Playlist Times 0:14 No.1 in C major, "Preludio" 0:57 No.2 in A minor, "Molto Vivace" 3:12 No.3 in F major, "Paysage" 6:51 No.4 in D minor, "Mazeppa" 13:00 No.5 in B-flat major, "Feux Follets" 16:28 No.6 in G minor, "Vision" 21:45 No.7 in E-flat major, "Eroica" 26:02 No.8, "Wilde Jagd" 30:55 No.9 in A-flat major, "Ricordanza" 38:47 No.10 in F minor, "Allegro Agitato molto" 43:04 No.11 in D-flat major, "Harmonies du Soir" 50:43 No.12 in B-flat minor, "Chasse-neige"
very accurate too, especially in music with enormous leaps and blazing octave execution. ending the video atm and have only heard 2 mistakes throughout the entire performance
What a gargantuan effort Boris Berezovsky expends, playing these extremely difficult pieces with such precision and finesse. This is now one of my favorite recordings period!
What is truly baffling about this performance is the fact that he played them all consecutively so well. It's one thing to play a transcendental etude or two in concert, but to play them all with this mastery of technique is truly incredible!
A friend was there and the had to repeat two times one etude (I don't remember which one) cause he messed up this. And the other repeat was that at the etude no. 10 he broke a string. He still being amazing, though. Also Francesco Libetta played there a couple of days later or before (don't remember) and he told me that every time he was going into the dressing room to change of shirt cause the hall was so so warm. A person on the dressing rooms was ironing the shirt he changed.
He has a sympathetic "work man's" appearance; this is the artisan pianist, with rolled-up sleeves, the professional at work, doing what he is good at -- no sweat (or perhaps a little, hardly detectable).
@@benharmonics I agree, Trifonov is sweating like hell 😌 Ok just kidding, why do you like it so much? :)) (I'm just wondering what other fans think about it xD)
@@katttttt It’s not so much that I like it, more that I’m impressed by the sheer amount of sweat the guy can produce! But with the ladies it’s a little different… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eyKV0Z9mvoY.htmlsi=yLPvEvvTiqsmhsj8
Berezkovsky is a god among men. It IS physically impossible to play the entire set of transcendental etudes straight through. For a human. Not for a god.
This is absolutely jaw dropping. The performance is incredibly sublime. I've viewed the sheet music and to memorize and perform all of Liszt's transcendental etudes is beyond anything else I've seen or listen to. I'm a 15 year old pianist, and I've been playing for 5 or 6 years and just started playing Liszt. This is baffling, great job!
Playing Liszt at age 15 is jaw dropping too (for me at least) :-)! Great job too! I wish you many fulfilling moments and life-giving experiences! Have you also own videos from your playing? That would be great! THX in advance.
it will take you at least 15 more to be able to play these. Liebestraum in Ab (the most popular one) is a great place to start with Liszt. Also La Campanella isn't as difficult as it seems. Hungarian Rhapsody (no 4?) in Eb is probably within your grasp and the F major liebestraum as well. not crazy impressive but very beautiful nonetheless. play as much Chopin as you can, specifically the Etudes. Chopin, probably largely out of reverence for Bach (he knew the whole Well-Tempered Clavier 1 and 2, by memory of course, and played them regularly) followed the principle of the books by using every key major and minor. Also of course, per the nature of an Etude, he utilized a different and specific theme for each Etude. large stretches, consecutive thirds, running octaves, you name it. Well not literally name. Chopin has already done that.
Hey man, have you played the Liszt transcendental etudes since your comment here? Hope you're continuing to find excitement and fulfillment in piano and music.
0:15 No.1 in C major, "Preludio" 0:57 No.2 in A minor, "Molto Vivace" 3:12 No.3 in F major, "Paysage" 6:52 No.4 in D minor, "Mazeppa" 13:00 No.5 in B-flat major, "Feux Follets" 16:28 No.6 in G minor, "Vision" 21:45 No.7 in E-flat major, "Eroica" 26:02 No.8, "Wilde Jagd" 30:55 No.9 in A-flat major, "Ricordanza" 38:47 No.10 in F minor, "Allegro Agitato molto" 43:06 No.11 in D-flat major, "Harmonies du Soir" 50:43 No.12 in B-flat minor, "Chasse-neige"
I'll m completely amazed, stonned and enchanted. Feeling glad for your generosity in sending this to the world , this great work of art , these art of yours.
All I'm saying is that you cant compare them to Berevosky, he plays one of the best transcendental etudes I've seen in my life. And if you want to make negative comments about Berevosky, can you even play this good?
You can see his shirt get all crumpled up with sweat as the piano marathon goes on... this is a challenge made by the gods to push the limits of human skill!
0:15 No.1 in C major, "Preludio" 0:57 No.2 in A minor, "Molto Vivace" 3.:2 No.3 in F major, "Paysage" 6:52 No.4 in D minor, "Mazeppa" 13:00 No.5 in B-flat major, "Feux Follets" 16:28 No.6 in G minor, "Vision" 21:45 No.7 in E-flat major, "Eroica" 26:02 No.8, "Wilde Jagd" 30:55 No.9 in A-flat major, "Ricordanza" 38:47 No.10 in F minor, "Allegro Agitato molto" 43:06 No.11 in D-flat major, "Harmonies du Soir" 50:43 No.12 in B-flat minor, "Chasse-neige"
0.15 No.1 in C major, "Preludio" 0.57 No.2 in A minor, "Molto Vivace" 3.12 No.3 in F major, "Paysage" 6.52 No.4 in D minor, "Mazeppa" 13.00 No.5 in B-flat major, "Feux Follets" 16.28 No.6 in G minor, "Vision" 21.45 No.7 in E-flat major, "Eroica" 26.02 No.8, "Wilde Jagd" 30.55 No.9 in A-flat major, "Ricordanza" 38.47 No.10 in F minor, "Allegro Agitato molto" 43.06 No.11 in D-flat major, "Harmonies du Soir" 50.43 No.12 in B-flat minor, "Chasse-neige"
I may have a new favorite pianist. Certainly a new favorite living pianist. Berezovsky just allowed me a deep appreciation in Liszt's music I have unfortunately lacked. I always saw Liszt as a mountain, as near insurmountable monument, but of little compositional value. This man just taught me how wrong I was, how glorious of a composer Liszt turned out to be beyond his exceptional virtuosity. Groundbreaking and at once beautiful and frightening, ugly and brutishly masculine yet also intelligent and unrelenting to his vision (get it, Vision?). By the way, I have attempted Mazeppa….it is underrated in it's challenge. Mazeppa is to me as a performer more difficult than Rhapsody 2, more difficult than Campanella (by far)...as difficult as Islamey, and if not, then more so. Berezovsky shows no emotion or expression until he gets to Mazeppa. Then he burns the fucking roof off like 1900 's cigarette on steroids. There were Chopin and Liszt, there is Cziffra and Berezovsky. Speaking of 1900 (" ") I bet Will o' the Wisps was Morricone's muse for that crazy practically unplayable duel number 2 piece where he lights the cigarette. The camera work during that piece even looks very reminiscent of the scene.
Bravo, Maestro! Boris Berezovsky pianist represents the truer Russia and deserves more fame worldwide than Boris Berezovsky, the late criminal, politician, and billionaire
The feat Berezovsky achieved right there, playing the 12 Liszt Etudes, is like running a 44 km marathon, swimming for 8 km and biking for 50 km, back to back!
The Douze grandes etudes are even harder than his readaptation ino the transcendental etudes! Liszt would probably be shocked if he knew anyone else played those after his time.
Claro pero creo que aquí el pianista Berezovsky merece un igual reconocimiento, que manera de poder revivir a Liszt y poder traer sus piezas de nuevo a la vida.
No, it's probably an untrained audience, however quite frankly I would of applaused too, that is probably one of the best Mazeppa's performance I've ever heard. Nevertheless I did found kind of annoying that they applaused the next 8 trascendentals etudes, it feels almost like a forced. Probably they don't want Berezovsky to think that is the only piece that deserves an applause before the end. The best to do in this kind of scenario is to save your applauses till the end.
Someone should turn on the AC for the poor man! 27:47 - 28:22 He's literally drenched (best part 29:14 - 29:25) Seriously though, this performance is on another level. Excellent, excellent work Mr. Berezovsky. Thanks for making this video available
Wonderful, powerful, very virtuosic technique, perfect for Liszt. And no disgusting physical clownish behaviour. He is such a great pianist, he has nothing to prove with such antics.
You really hate links, don't you? 0:15 No.1 in C major, "Preludio" 0:57 No.2 in A minor, "Molto Vivace" 3:12 No.3 in F major, "Paysage" 6:52 No.4 in D minor, "Mazeppa" 13:00 No.5 in B-flat major, "Feux Follets" 16:28 No.6 in G minor, "Vision" 21:45 No.7 in E-flat major, "Eroica" 26:02 No.8, "Wilde Jagd" 30:55 No.9 in A-flat major, "Ricordanza" 38:47 No.10 in F minor, "Allegro Agitato molto" 43:06 No.11 in D-flat major, "Harmonies du Soir" 50:43 No.12 in B-flat minor, "Chasse-neige"
That's a lie. I do believe Arrau was able to play some of the "easier" trascendental etude, but etudes like Feux Follets, Mazeppa, Chasse-Neige, are totally beyond a 11 year old no matter how good he can be. I don't really know about Brahms Paganini Variations very well so I can't really have an opinion for this one.
Sorry that some need to compare to Cziffra but IMO, this is masterful and musical in one breath of fresh air. Agreed that Listz would marvel at the fact that anyone could play these after him, but many of us can...just saying.
