Listening to Evgeny Kissin perform Liszt's 'Rhapsodie espagnole' feels like stepping into another world. The way his fingers dance across the keys and the emotions he pours into each note - it's simply captivating. I can't help but marvel at his skill and passion. His performance always manages to touch something deep within me.
And stephen hough's. His one is technically and musicaly better than this one and he's added bits of his own that brings this piece to a whole new level.
WHERE GARGANTUAN TECHNICAL WIZARDRY, NOT SEEN SINCE LISZT HIMSELF, MEETS THE GREATEST INTERPRETER IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME..... AND WHERE DANCING FINGERS MEET THE DANCING "FRO" - IN OTHER WORDS THE FULL PACKAGE, THE MAN HAS NEVER BEEN TOPPED IN THE RECORDING AGE, (WELL, "KID" AT THIS POINT) - HE IS CLEARLY FROM ANOTHER WORLD !!!
DON'T FORGET THIS IS A LIVE PERFORMANCE, THE MISTAKES DON'T DEVIATE HIM FROM HIS OVERALL SCOPE AND PASSION AND GENIUS, HE HAS AN EXTRAORDINARY LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE TO BE ABLE TO HIT EVERYTHING SO HARD WITH SUCH SUPREME VISION AND INTENSITY !!! HIS INTERPRETATION IS THE GENIUS THING ABOUT HIM, HIS FINGERS NOT BEING ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THAT MUCH GENIUS IS INCIDENTAL !!! THE DEVIATION BETWEEN THE MYSTICAL AND PHYSICAL IT'S PROBABLY LESS THAN A MILLIONTH OF A PERCENT !!! EACH NOTE CAN PROBABLY BE PLAYED A MILLION DIFFERENT WAYS WITH DIFFERENT ATTACKS AND DYNAMICS AND TIMING, SO MULTIPLY A MILLION BY HOW MANY NOTES IN THIS PIECE, AND THEN TAKE ONE NUMBER AWAY FOR EACH WRONG NOTE AND IT'S A PRETTY AMAZING PERFORMANCE OVERALL !!! IF YOU DO THE MATH !!!
When he hits that final chord 13:32 he curls his fist in defiance. He's saying "SUCK IT, LISZT, YOU PUNK BEYOTCH!!" Damn. He set that piano on FIRE! My fingers ache just watching him. I can't believe anyone could ever play that way. Its superhuman.
@@andreusdelvonamichel137 There are wrong notes sprinkled throughout this performance. I have yet to hear a note-perfect performance of this very difficult work. Even the greatest pianists make mistakes from time to time!
@@orlandocfi The reason why this performance is so great even though there are mistakes, is that people like me, a first time listener, can't hear much mistakes.
@@ilovemilfs69420 Certainly…one of the curses of being a musician is having an ear tuned to perfection. The antidote is to understand that making errors is human and doesn’t always diminish from the overall musical impact of the performance.
I thought I watched this entire concert with ending encores on RU-vid, but now can only find this and one or two other pieces from it, as separate clips. If anyone has the link to the whole thing, please share... tks
@@isaacparlin3070 Fyi, I did manage to find it again, somehow! In the search field, type in “Evgeny Kissin in Japan 1991 (Movie Live)”. Posted by 192bps Sound. For a cool experience, first watch his earlier (like when he was 13 years old or something) Japan recital by typing in “Evgeny Kissin in Tokyo”. That one was posted by Yi June, & has a little better video quality than some of the other blurry ones I’ve seen. Pretty neat to see him younger first, then revisiting Japan as a 19 (or so) year old.
@@bendmymind486 Thank you very much! I wonder why I thought it had disappeared. I think I was trying to find Kissin's Grieg Op.41 No.3 and no videos from Japan were showing up, but I knew he played it there. Sure enough, it's in that video. And I agree, seeing Kissin's growth is incredibly cool.
It is hard to judge the piano by the sound if it, especially with a highly tuned recording by the editor (publisher). But through the inside design and the logo on it, I’m certainly sure that it’s a Yamaha.
The fact that you care more about Kissin's infinitesimal mistakes (enough to comment the exact same thing twice!) than the brilliance that is this performance on a whole is incredibly telling, and not in a favourable way...
