Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1, McGill Symphony Orchestra Montreal 

And you are beautiful.

@@aggomez594 simp

lmao

@@qalaphyll hello there

@@agolooritte3057 why hello there! i don't think we have met before, have we?

@@qalaphyll AGOL8RITTE sounds familiar? And cat with bread? Or mysigmind

@@agolooritte3057 lmao hi agolo, how are you?

Gives it an eerie mood worthy of its title.

this is the original version. it’s later composed to be piano solo

@@fredericchopin6445 Hechos.

I would recommend listening to the performance of Traum Piano, i think it's the best interpretation of this piece on the piano. He generally does a great interpretation of any piece he plays.

Amazing

+C Chang Haha, I wonder if Liszt was the same as a conductor. He was a pretty playful and fun guy, he must've had his own "stage moves"

Hadouken!

Ahahahah beautiful 😂

@@andreafilidei3071 what's beautiful in it?

Me too.

That's because transcribing litterally everything an orchestra plays to a single piano is quite hard for humans with 2 hands, thus we lost something but ended up with a demonically hard piano version

+Alison Ann Je suis d'accord.

Was it yesterday?

@@fardpig4269 Why must you insult the person while also educating them? It seems like they genuinely didn’t know, yet you feel the need to assert your intellect by belittling them in the process?

It was originally composed as orchestra and then for piano

Thanks for commenting. Yes, I can visualize Mephisto, by himself, bouncing and dangling like a marionette to the haunting memes of this piece, all the time with a hellish grin on his face.

Samuel Runt though, Liszt was actually extremely religious (in fact more so than Chopin who was only remotely.)

I can also picture the Walpurgis Night on both Mount Triglav and then Mount St Helens.

Where Pantalisilette as a genie and Mephistopheles as a genie met again at. Aladdin version of a witches' Sabbath.

Kacem Mephisto ?

It is not known-but Liszt was very keen to publish "Zwei Episoden aus Lenaus Faust" in tandem.

ruramikael Intresting

I don't know exactly, but I read somewhere, that he orchestrated the waltz for a big, extended orchestra, so I guess he wrote the piano version first :)

NO, it is not clear which version came first.

He wrote the orchestral version first. He then reduced it to a piano score (thankfully. It's much better for solo piano).

This version is a bit simplified. I'd love a 1 to 1 virtuosic arrangement for orchestra that keeps all the notes

​@@vistastructionsthe original version is orchestral, Liszt then did the classic Lizst move by transcribing a technical piano version, but sadly you can't replicate an entire orchestra with a piano, so that's why Lizst chose to focus on technique

Nope. Liszt's Mephisto waltz for piano. They transcribed it for orchestra.

@@PuddintameXYZ Thank you

@@PuddintameXYZ it's originally for orchestra and then Liszt transcibed it for piano, it's most of the time like that.

@@crescenzoverdenavidacrociera whoops, that's right. Nos. 1 & 2 were originally for orchestra, and 3 & 4 originally piano.

@@PuddintameXYZ I didn t know that. I actually knew only this one was originally for orchestra. I am going to learn about all of them in depth. I think on Google I will find the informations. Thanks.

+Cameron Wong I believe that the 1st violins are to the left of the conductor and the 2nds are to the right. There is more than one violin to his right (7:54).

I see, thanks!

Liszts father was a cellist in Haydn's orchestra and he always includes solo passages, possibly as a memorial. In Adam's day, you could play the works of Haydn in his orchestra and his quartets, and Liszt seems to have been very high standard, as well as a university graduate, but you couldn't make a living to support a family unless you had a court position, so Adam became an Esterhazy estate managerand carried on the family tradition, teaching his son. Liszt's concert career helped make music into a profession, though he gave most of thre millions he made to charitable causes.

hasan fard You are quite wrong. Liszt composed Mephisto Waltz for orquestra. Later he arranged It for 4 hands. And finally the solo piano version.

Roberto Acevedo thanks for your attention. And for giving the true information about mephisto valse. Excuse me for my mistake about this piece . But believe it or not, the piano arrangement is the best.