Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 

It was only 1.5 years ago that I started Rousseau, and now there are over 2 MILLION of us - I can't even begin to comprehend this, thank you all. Now that we’ve hit this incredible milestone and ticked HR2 off the bucket list, it is time to take Rousseau to the next level. An original album is already in the works, we're thinking of ways to reimagine live shows too and are working on a concert series! This is just the beginning of what is planned beyond RU-vid and I can’t wait to share more details with you all in 2020! If you’re subscribed to the newsletter, you’ll be the first to know. ♥ www.rousseaum.com

"Let's make the beginning easy so we can fool these newbies"-Liszt

Simply Piano Ads: Day One: *Twinkle Twinkle Little Star* Day Three: *This*

I remembered falling love with this piece thanks to Tom and Jerry. This masterpiece stand true even in today times😊

An insane number of classic catchy riffs in one piece

He took time to take off jerry from the inside of his piano.

This is the end of an era my friends.

Dude was really flexing when he came out with this.

Liszt payed for the whole piano so he used the whole piano! It is unbelievable that you masterd this piece! Have a nice day!

This is just a warm up to make sure all of my keys are working.

I would learn this piece, but my third hand hasn’t been shipped yet

Jerry tumbling down the screen is a wonderful homage to that lovely cartoon. Superb.

11:30 this part always gives me chills

I hope you're ready.

Let’s just appreciate that Tom played this with 8 fingers

Any Tom and jerry fans???

0:05 opening 0:40 lassan 5:06 Friska 9:17 cadenza 11:55 ending cadenza

10years ago I challenged myself to play this piece and now I can finally play it on my spotify

Ah, Rousseau. My favourite student.

Me during the first half: Nay nay, this is too calm. This can’t be Liszt’s Me in the last half: Yup, this definitely IS Liszt’s 🥶

I was first introduced to this in 1965 when I was four. My dad played the violin, having taken up the instrument in his home of Sighisoara as a young man. As soon as he bought our first Garrard record player, he started a record collection and this was amongst the first.

PLAY HUNGARIAN RHAPS.. oh wait. What now?

Liszt is the kind of guy to inspire you and at the same time to make you wanna quit

I literally struggle with believing someone created this music and it makes me cry when I think about all the beautiful things that can come from a human brain 1/22/24, just watched this again and just noticed Jerry tumbling down the side at one point. I'm quite pleased

That cadenza is the most coolest EVER 11/10!

Liszt is well known for his beginner pieces such as this

6:31 Liszt: I wrote this piece so no one could play it Rosseau: Hold my Jerry

The applause after this would be incomprehensible

Never heard Hungarian Rhapsody in its entirety before.. What a journey. Further you are into the piece, more detached you are, reality becomes blurry and you recognize pieces of what you knew, but distorted, unfamilliar. This is a journey from depression, thru mania, to mental breakdown. Absolute ma-ster-pie-ce

6:32 that Tom and Jerry “Easter egg” made my day

“I finally made HR. 2” “What did it cost?” “My fingers.”

As an accomplished piano player, this is God level. 1in a 10 billion can do this truly correctly. And I feel the only one better at it, by way of passion is Hamlin, but I fear he may have sold his soul to do it. literally NO ONE can play this correctly, and I'm including demi-god Liszt. The one and only one who manages more passion is Hamlin, but it isn't worth it, selling your soul. Your rendition is flawless. When I need humility, this is what I listen to.

As a lover of Liszt and one who is very visual, thank you for this incredible video (and all the other ones you masterfully do)!!

And on 30th September, 2019, Liszt was resurrected from the dead.

The schoolwork: Happy birthday The homework: Moonlight Sonata The test:

I swear I can see each part of Tom and Jerry The Cat Concerto play out in my head as I listen. It’s astonishing how well they synced up the jokes and music. Seriously.

This is my favorite piece of music ever written

I’ll make sure my kids know why September 30th 2019 was a good day

If I could play piano like this, I don’t think I would ever leave the keyboard

I love how Jerry falls in the video that made my day

항상 피아노 음악 잘 듣고있구요. 한곡힌곡마다 연습하는거 힘드실텐데 너무 멋지세요! 앞으로도 더 좋은곡 들려주세요! 응원합니다

What if Rousseau is just a pair of floating hands

People think "if I played like that I would be playing all day" it is literally the opposite, you have to play all day to be able to play like that

I'm 59 always loved really heavy stuff. This is the first I've heard this, I listened all the way through and have tears rolling down my cheeks. What a .... I'm not qualified to say this, masterpiece.

The way you play it is just sooo perfect...everyday..i return to your channel and watch all of your top videos again and again...........the melody gave me chills. Its amazing, nice talent Rousseau

Me two weeks ago: What kind of effect takes two whole weeks to render? Today: Oh my

I've been revisiting this recording periodically for a couple of years now and I consider this my reference recording for this piece. That is, this is what I compare everything else to. Tonight, two hours ago I was in a private home listening to a private concert performed by a very good concert pianist. There were about 30 people present. The piece was performed on a new Yamaha baby grand. They played this piece, one of my favorites. When they got to the cadenza two people got up from the audience and walked over and joined the pianist and they went on to play the most complex mind blowing 7 minute long six handed cadenza I have ever heard. They never left the theme of the piece but simply reworked it and varied it and layered it from end to end in what I would call a beautiful convolution of notes. The three performers composed the arrangement of the cadenza themselves. The principal pianist is a concert pianist but also teaches and the other two were his students. I was unable to convince them to provide me with a copy of the sheet music for the cadenza though clearly they were performing off sheet music they had hand written.

I feel like this piece reaches all kinds of emotions. Especially the way you played it. Incredible performance. Hoped those fingers healed after the 3 years since this video released :)

"The meme will never end." - Rousseau

Rousseau: *Uploads HR2* Me: This does put a smile on my face

Composed this in 1851, 57 years before the first cartoon, and 77 years before the first cartoon with sound.

I can imagine some audience in the 19th century absolutely losing their minds over hearing Liszt playing this live.

I imagine after he played this piece he looked at his friend and said "You know, something like that."

Man...Simply Piano really payed off didn’t it?

the cadenza part is just😍

after 4 YEARS i *still L O V E this*

My grandfather used to play this as well as many other Liszt and Chopin pieces when I was a kid. He chose a life of entrepreneurship over becoming a concert pianist. He always said it was the best decision he ever made because otherwise he never would’ve met my grandma and my whole family would never have come to be. He passed away last month. It’s amazing how much more of an impact this recording has for me now that he’s passed. R.I.P. Grandpa Challe. I’ll see you again up there.❤️

Rousseau: Will release HR2 Me: DO I TRUST YOU?

Cat: jumps on piano Lizst: write that down right this instant!

Lassan - 0:04 Friska - 5:06 Hamelin Cadenza (Abridged) - 9:14 Jerry - 6:31

i can just imagine... the year is 1851 and Liszt knows he has this BANGER and he is about to go perform it live for the first time in front of all kinds of royals and upper-class individuals, that would have been a sight to see

I honestly thought I would never be able to play this. And here we are, 6 years later, I was right

5:48 this part sounds like trying to laugh while crying and getting into a laughing fit

I've watched all HR 2. And this the best video

the madman actually did it :O its pissing me off that this doesnt have millions of views yet, this video has been hyped up for EVER

To think someone really composed this with ink, paper, and a piano blows my mind.

Does anyone remember 4 years ago this was the most requested song on this channel so it became a meme, and when he released this the livestream went nuts and everyone spammed in chat i was here. Yep good old times, never the less one of my favorite arrangements keep coming back to this one.

6:00 For The Part We All Know And Love.

The Cat Concerto-Tom and Jerry 0:00 Tom starts playing 0:30 Tom cleans his hands and puts his shirt back up 0:40 Tom continues playing 1:12 Jerry;sleeping was moved around. 1:18 Jerry Wakes up 1:25 Jerry falls on a string 1:35 Jerry notices Tom 1:40 Jerry starts waving to the key patterns,Tom notices Jerry 1:49 Tom flicks Jerry back into the piano 2:16 Jerry appears under a piano key 2:25 Tom plays the key of which Jerry is under 2:32 Jerry runs under the keys 2:39 Tom plays the key Jerry is under and moves on 3:35 Tom plays an ascending run 3:38 The trill is still going as Jerry is repeating them from the inside of the piano 3:43 Tom bonks Jerry and continues playing 5:08 Jerry slams the piano’s door shut and flatten’s Tom’s hand 5:50 Jerry tries to cut Tom’s fingers 6:21 Jerry replaces two keys with a mouse trap 6:25 Tom’s finger was caught in the trap and inflates 6:28 Jerry starts playing with his feet 6:31 Tom starts getting Jerry of the keyboard 6:37 Tom checks if Jerry is around and continues playing 6:48 Jerry starts playing his own tune 6:57 Tom shoves keys as Jerry appears and makes faces at Tom 7:14 Tom was tired of Jerry’s shit and start tormenting him 8:19 The hammer starts playing Jerry like a baseball 8:31 The hammers move around and hit Jerry in the face multiple times 11:55 Jerry starts playing by breaking two hammers as Tom tries to mimic them(repeat this part at 1.5x speed 3 times) 12:15 Tom gets tired and collapses

How grand do you want your Hungarian Rhapsody to be? Rousseau: *Yes*

I almost forget to breathe when I watch & listen to this. Thank you sincerely.

This piece just takes me places in my mind. It’s hard to explain. It’s amazing

Is no one gonna talk about how beautiful the diamond notes are ?

Let's be honest, we all listened to this more than once.

The first five minutes are like attending a funeral. The rest is like finding out you got something great in the will.

the improvised cadenza starting 12:54 is pretty unique. Never hear that part of Liszt before now.

Rousseau: doesn't troll us Me: impossible

Rousseau: "Oh, finally this piece is done!" Rendering: _I'm about to end this man's whole computer_

Love the visuals. Makes the music seem even more complex

I was 5 or 6 when I was watching Fantasia. A portion of the cartoon was dubbed to this peace. I was completely memorized and have been in love with classical music every sense. You definitely do this peace justice. The cartoon was as complicated as this peace. Simply love it.❤❤❤❤t❤❤❤❤

at 6:43 i was really hoping your pinky would grow really long to hit that one note

oh he actually played the cadenza, almost noone does that

5:59 is like a transition into a whole different song

Incrível! Eu lembro dessa música de um episódio do Tom e Jerry. Lembrança da infância ❤

“Hungarian Rhapsody is hard” *Last 3 minutes wants to know your location.*

Tom and Jerry really thought us how to appreciate classical music.

Why are people saying this is hard to play??? I pressed play and it worked just fine.🤔🤔

I absolutely love the last part. I wish more interprets played it.

6:31 we can see a little jerry trying to ruin his/her hr2 performance.

If I die today I'm gonna be so pissed

6:06 i love his left hand just hopping side to side

Downloading extra arm... Downloading extra fingers... Increasing elasticity... Now you are ready to play Hungarian Rapsody n° 2!

For some reason, Liszt always tries to destroy either the piano or the pianist or both. But of course in a beautifull manner.

watched this video 6 months ago. just recovered from the traumatic brain injury and seizures induced watching the cadenza

After listening to Rousseau playing this piece, I am glad I play the classical guitar...

I have an exam tomorrow but this is more important.

God: creates ten fingers Liszt: Ima pretend I didn't see that

Well done, Rousseau! You have a very good talent at 11:29 - Glissando white keys!

Lol nice touch with Jerry at 6:30

Biology: Humans have 5 fingers on each hand, total of 10 Listz: Did i hear 20 on 4 hands?