www.andersonpiano.com | Imagine: You're in hell, and you want to get out. Piano Etude No. 13, "The Devil's Staircase" (L'escalier du diable) composed by Gyorgy Ligeti, performed by Greg Anderson.
There's something interesting about the way the music is notated in terms of numbers. This is etude No. 13 which is pretty obvious, but every bar is divided into three sections (notated with dashed bar lines). Each of these sections is six beats. So every full bar has 666 embedded into it. Some fun numerical references going on.
Only if you concider every other eightnote as a beat. Like if you're counting 6/8 time 2+2+2, even if the music goes 3+3. Devils staircase goes 2232223--=--2. Then you get 655 655 655 655 655 655 655 655 655 564 564 etc.
I always revisit this video. When I first saw this I was in the early stages of learning the piano- now I am old and mature enough to tackle this piece I believe. Thank you for inspiring me all those years back with this great video!
Oh, there is one, but God made a way to not go there, instead have eternal life through *faith* in Jesus Christ and his finished crosswork at Calvary. Christ paid the wages of sin on Calvary's cross where God was in Christ imputing the world's sin to his only perfect son who became our sacrifice and by himself shed his own blood. He was buried putting sin away and rose from the dead. All who believe in Christ and what he alone accomplished by his grace are then justified, made complete in him, we are joined to Christ and given a decree of his righteousness and sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. We become by his work a new creature, a member of the body of Christ. 2Corintians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Your faith or belief in this good news our Apostle Paul calls "my gospel" gives you access to the grace gift that happened long before you were born. 1Corintians 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1Co 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, 👉how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1Co 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
@@karilamervo5343 I thought the same. I wish people could believe in each other instead of gods. Religions build walls between people, we need bridges!
Yea, people can actually be kind to each other without needing to resort to a religion based on brain washing, war, culture cleansing, and dogma. Many of us have chosen to evolve beyond the mental aptitudes of homogenized cattle. I pity your narrow field of view... Can you think about anything without invoking what a group of 'men' said 2000 years ago? Who gives a shit if jesus mum was fucked by a ghost?
Thanks! After a year of comments about the tempo, I thought I'd throw my two cents in the pile: Ligeti provides two specific indications of tempo in the score: a metronome marking (dotted whole note = 30), and the piece's total duration (5'16"). I'm not one to argue complete faithfulness to the score, but Ligeti's definitely on my side here. I like hearing and feeling the rhythms with some resistance anyway!
This is the most astonishing performance of this piece I have listen! Amazing control, amazing interpretation, amazing everything! Two thumbs + two big toes up!
Superb performance of a short work from a collection of some of the most important piano material in music history. Thank you, Mr. Anderson, for bringing this to the public.
Great angles with the video. I like the piece taken at this tempo, as well, as opposed to the mad dash to which it is usually subjected. Here, the climaxes are more effective, and the contours sound like real melodic material, instead of "just" passage work.
Phenomenal playing: what technique and what terror and excitement! This is the first time I have heard this piece of Ligeti. Absolutely extraordinary. Magnificent playing. Thank you so much.
It took going through the Hindemith clarinet sonata to open up the 20th century for me. I was lucky to be guided through by an experienced musician, and afterward I felt like I'd been punched in the gut by the sheer concentration of emotion. My mind had been completely blown: THIS was what passion sounded like. It was like someone had distilled pain and the anguish of resignation into an audible form and then shot it directly into my nerves.
Greg, this is a great interpretation of Ligeti' etude 13. As a matter of fact, was the first time I heard it, about 1 year ago (just decided now to coment...) I'm a great ligeti's fan, and this came to enlarge my "fanness" a lot. GreatGreg!
I love romantics... love harmony in music.. order, sentimentalism.. But our time is not of order, we do not seek a romantic idealism, we see decadence and chaos around us. So there is a bond between our time, fellings and music.
pedrobutelli, I think the beginning is what makes the rest even cooler!It is something know one else is doing. We need more artists like this man! He is breaking the mold.
After that experience, I went back to the composers I hadn't been able to enjoy and found much more in them, and now 20th century music holds a special place in my music collection. Admittedly, Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez still give me a lot of trouble, I don't get those yet.
Great choice, excellent performance! Interesting comments (I do not know why people listen to it if they do not like it and then say something that is not correct.) Congratulations! Looking forward to hearing more Ligeti from you.
Feel the panicked tension on the chromatic scales upward, the mounting pressure of the crescendos, the disappointment and the frustration of the second theme that comes in the after the second time after the pianist is forced to start climbing the "ladder" from the bottom.
Great energetic and emotional performance. Most astonishing is the creative visualation of this difficult piece:good work and good thinking! Like Anderson and Roe anyway,real music lovers in the best sense of the word.
