Hough: Pedalling Techniques In Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.12 

One of the moments you really feel the difference between master and talented student

+LisztyLiszt Well - for one thing she is on a Steinway and he is on a Yamaha. Just saying. But having said that...yes, you make a good point. Artist versus student.

+thomasg321 I can clearly see that which is why I said; "It's particularly extraordinary when you hear two pianists play the same piece on the same piano." She is an artist too. It would be fairer to say master and student.

+thomasg321 And what's Liszt?

Hi XtrAMassivE. Unfortunately, we've had to temporarily take it down. We'll let you know if we can put it up again.

oh, stop whining

ivelosthewilltolive Have you considered that Hough has her entire lifetime more of experience on the piano and she can't be expected to play at his level just because he showed her once? People always seem to believe that these students "have perfect technique but lack emotions" when there's no such distinction. Playing this phrase as musically and expressively as Hough does is the culmination of a myriad of microsecond decisions, playing each note with the exact right pressure, pulling the phrase just slightly at exactly the right moments and subtly altering the displacement between concurrent notes more or less depending on the part of the phrase. These are real skills that, just like playing precise octaves or fast scales, are too many and too fast to be forced with conscious thought. You have to have a great deal of experience,muscle memory and internalized, intuitive responses to all kinds of phrasing situations on the piano to be able to properly express "what you're feeling" on the piano, lest you bluntly exaggerate dynamics or impose artificial and clumsy rubato which in the end only sounds bad and disingenuous.

Evan O'Leary i think its the culture. they just dont think the same as we do here, being a different political and social system and all... thanks for your counterexample, however i still think her performance seems quite lucid and fails to command the ear of the listener.

I apologize, but your comment is quite offensive, insensitive, and destructively reductive. I think the sentiment "They play with no emotions" is one of the most confounding biases that I have a hard time digesting. I would much rather find the 'emotions' from the music, rather than from the physicality of the music.

you are so offensive and racist shame on you :(

Ma Mere L'oye i mean on the piano

Ma Mere L'oye world class skill or not, im trying to experience the music through the performer. kissin has almost the same problem, except its seems he cant handle his emotions...