Claudio Arrau, plays "Gnomenreigen" by Franz Liszt. Live in Carnegie Hall (1953) COMPLETE. 

I like this a lot, but I prefer Cziffra

Rachmaninoff actually was pretty good

this has to be the worst thing I have ever heard.

@@yoda6134 You are a very perceptive A*s!

@@yoda6134 it’s his opinion

@@yoda6134 Not a friend of music?

This is fax. None of the rest play the beat drop loud at the end. Kinda ruins the song when then play it all soft and legato

I like Dinu Lipatti's too. You should check it out.

Cziffra

Not to mention his incredible clarity in all notes when Arrau plays! None, and I mean NO pianist plays so clearly! His piano scales are unbeatable, humbling!!

check out adam gyorgy playing this

Intriguing isn’t it. Even Rachmaninov cheats playing a lot of it as chords. I’m sure he could have played it as written but chose not to.

I heard Wild perform this at Carnegie Hall on his 80th birthday concert. Magnificent.

@@WBensburg I heard him play it in a small hall at Mount Saint Mary's University in LA in the late 80s. He gets the evil in this piece, and in the Mephisto Waltz even more. He played three recitals on a Mon/Wed/Fri of all Liszt. At the very end, he played an encore: the simplest possible waltz by Chopin. A few of us "got it" and guffawed. There is a performance by Wild here on RU-vid. search: Gnomenreigen earl wild

Liszt danced with the devil.

@@markrymanowski719 As in the guy playing it. The piece is wonderful but not when someone like Arrau is playing it.

😃😃😉 ich hab schon schlimmeres gehört.😀😀😀