Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.12 (Kissin) 

Kissin’s Hungarian rhapsodies are some of the best interpretations you’ll find out there

Nah, he wants us to suffer

He'd like us to overcome that handicap through skill.

maybe he should have said can use foots

He's great at composing not so much with biology

Giant hands

my since 2007

@@Tizohip nice, I wish I heard this piece earlier, like when you did.

Oh hi! Mine too!

For me it’s my third fav my opinion is 10 and 2 is better lol

Me 2😭

on the contrary, I didn't remember how an unending filler this piece was

yeah Kissin plays this way better than anyone.

@kappelmeister123 I never noticed this until now! Thanks!

@kappelmeister123 at 3:16 also number 6!

5?

I agree with fun, but without subtlety? The way Liszt records the characteristic ornaments and harmonic inflections of Hungarian Gypsy performers of the mid-19th century is almost Bartók-like in its thoroughness. He meant to document an idiosynchratic urban/folk ensemble performance tradition - on solo piano. Nothing of the sort had been done up that point - or I should say nothing that I am aware of. But beyond the ornaments, the harmonic language in some of the Rhapsodies (even the early ones) present revolutionary inventions, just look at the last page of No. 3. If you listen and study them carefully, you will find that basically all the Rhapsodies offer some truly ingenious gems of harmony, texture, timbre - yes, they are fun, but they have a lot of merit beyond being fun. The late Rhapsodies (16-19) represent a completely different world - those don't really belong with the early set, their musical language is very bold, and (with the exception of No. 19) pianistically restrained.

Agree with the comment above. It's dismissive to think of this music as just showing Liszt's ability to write virtuoso piano pieces. shay loya's book on liszt and lynn hooker's book on hungarian music are must-reads for anyone who wants to have more than superficial grasp of what liszt was trying to do here.

I totally agree. I feel like that mentality also diminishes their political significance. These were also powerful statements against Austria’s occupation of Hungary. One of the best examples of this is No. 15. The Racokczi March was something akin to the Marseillaise in 19th Century Hungary, and Liszt nearly got in trouble with Austrian authorities numerous times for playing it in Hungary.

"Without subtlety" Madness.......

ALL of Liszt's hungarian rhapsodies go back to actual Hungarian Folkmelodies. You will hear some of the same ones in Brahms' Hungarian Dances.

it sounds like a christmas music for some reasons

It's also used in Brahms' 15th HD.

@@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabjiyes I was hoping someone else would notice that!!

what's going on?

Yeah.. pretty hard to get it perfect

Just practice slow

I would’ve guessed that 8:18 is harder

@@yuezhidou8625 trill melody, meaning that you have to play trills and main melody at the same time with just the right hand

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AqyHLwZIWJM.htmlsi=6Ub-ftdLQsN365ID Stephen Hough explaining this section from 02:20 -02:52 is worth a listening to realise what can be done with this part!!!❤

Ikr it reminds me of Christmas

​@@RandomUser822i find hr2 vibes there

Agree. I should

i'm doing that right now

@@Faaizer How it's going?

@@Faaizer do tell me how it’s going :)

Mohamed Abdulwahab did it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EX42UvZUDrc.html

THANK YOU for the time stamp!

THANK YOOOU

i didnt catch it can you help me

That's nothing compared to what's after it loll

5:53 💥

dolce grazioso

Marquis De Sade it’s fucking with 4 o’s you dumbass. It also wasn’t a woooosh moment.

Think of La Campanella

*quasi

Sempre piano, quasi campanelle = Always soft, almost bells

So beautiful

Best part

From humanity

"Think"

I would have agreed until recently, but recently I've got into the complexity of a lot of stride and jazz and realised it's a tough contest. Of course, its geniuses like Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson loved Liszt!

Yup.That's kind a like🤣

Keks were heard. Based

sup fam

not rlly all that hard to learn

@@alanlajmiri5585 not really that hard to learn but hard to master

Yes. It is.

No

Köszönöm az értékelést

Köszönöm az értékelést

A very poor statement. Your opinion.

I'm a Cziffra admirer and he truely owned Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 but not this piece, with all due respect I have to say when it comes to No 12, I've never yet listened to anyone playing it better than Kissin

There are a number of overlaps between Liszt's and Brahms' arrangements of contemporary Hungarian dance tunes. The brilliant little melody at 6:17 was composed by Liszt's friend Béni Egressy, it is called "Hej, haj magyar ember..." Brahms based his Hungarian Dance No. 15 on this song.

Yes. Liszt must have pinched it twenty years before brahms wrote Hungarian dances...

cool muso no, i think kissin

what a horrible insult !!! Shame on you...

You're absolutely right, that gets said a lot for these rhapsodies, particularly 4 (I think). I think it's the folk influence. Some of the other ones have moments like that as well.

@@alex9920ro ok elitist kid

"Superior composer"

finish is hard but mosy of it is quite straight forward.

This is more difficult than No. 2

why

@@WEEBLLOM because played absolutely soullessly, incomprehensible, he just plays notes, or he has at least something to do with what he performs. Or he wants to say that Liszt is only a set of different piano exercises. Like, hey guys, this is complete bullshit, nothing but quick passages

It’s a good performance, but indeed not a good interpretation at all. But that’s typical of Kissin, he‘s not very creative with his playing apart from staying perfectly faithful to the score

​@@user-fu7zf4ck9z It's depends what we call good performance. For playing as you say only "perfectly faithful to the score" it's not more than student's performing. Don't you agree?

@@dzatiashvili I think Kissin‘s performance is good. He plays all the right notes with accurate tempo choices and correct dynamics. The problem with his performance is that it’s not finished, the individuality is missing. His interpretation is technically not finished, since this might be as well played by a MIDI computer. The total lack of rubato and to a certain extent ornamentations/improvisations is upsetting, sure, but that doesn’t make his playing a failure. His performance is a bit *too* perfect I‘d say