Liszt - "Spanish Fantasy" S.253 

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12:12 You play B instead of a D, in the upper voice, one bar before the prestíssimo, i like this .

@@Tizohip I also added a low A in the left hand (and a few other places).

How big are your hands? -I will be very surprised if you cannot play a 12th-

Absolutly right! I am coming back to this performance for weeks now every day. And every time I am just speechless.

Would you say this is Liszt's hardest piece? Usually they say it's Liszt Sonata or Don Juan...

this piece seemed more difficult than b-minor sonata or don juan technically

@@microsofthelps What about in comparison to Liszt/Beethoven Symphony Nos6-9?

@@matthewclarke5008 only Symphony No. 9 transcription comes close to beating this piece (in terms of its raw technique)

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​@@christianweatherbroadcasti3491no one asked

@@CapInshallah People don't have to ask your permission to speak, just as you are allowed to speak and write this comment without asking.

@@swanoflove6833 I never said that he must ask permission. I'm just done with random christians preaching their shi when it has nothing to do with the comment or video

Wish that was the case here in US. I have friends who without any shame tell me that classical music is so boring even though they want their kids to win music competitions to use for college applications etc. value of classical music is pretty much ignored even in Boston area where we live where there are so many great schools etc. It’s a shame!

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But his keyboards surely had less depth and were easier to play on, perhaps narrower keys, as well?

@@nonenoneonenonenoneYup, and much more delicate. That’s the reason he broke so many pianos during his recitals 😅

​@@nonenoneonenonenone they weren't all too different than modern pianos. By the time this piece was written the key sizes were pretty much the same as they are now.

That "insanely epic march" really is awesome.

How do you know? Did you attend a masterclass of Liszt?

What i read about him written by many of his pupils i suppose strongly that he would not agree with todays speedmania , same with Chopin, Mozart and Bach, but we have just different times.

@@samothchipmah2407 Apparently, Liszt didn't care much about speed/tempo, according to the diary notes of his pupil August Göllerich, what he cared about is the interpretation and the meaning behind the piece.

@@ladivinafanatic That`s what i said. Thank you

@@samothchipmah2407 I hear what you mean, and I think it is a little fast around the edges, but I don't think this is speedmania tho... It's played quickly enough that the music dances with the energy that it's supposed to, like the style of music that it's trying to emulate. If you do a sweep of the few other live excerpts of people playing this piece, most of them are _too_ slow by comparison. And then there are plenty of musical elements to this interpretation that make it more dimensional than someone who's just trying to play it "fast." And while I also usually don't equate speed with quality, this is the only take I've heard that's "quick" enough to sound like a serious, polished performance. In this context, the speed turns it from a Liszt nerd dream piece that a few people have sight read, to an actual piece with a mature interpreter. Whether Liszt would agree with the interpretation is up for debate, but being deeply acquainted with Spanish music myself, I think this interpretation is on the right track. And I think he'd be impressed that somebody played this entire piece, and came up with a smart, cohesive interpretation for doing so. I do think there's room for someone to come behind this with a more thoughtful performance that still has the firey energy of the Spanish music, but is more colorful and expressive. But as this is the only interpretation of this piece I'm aware of right now, I think it's a good start.

It sure is...especially at the 2:49 mark.....this melody is definitely the same

Spanish rhapsody is just a nerfed version of this monster.

It's not real. Wake up.

@@debussy843 go to sleep lmao

@@debussy843 yes it’s real, ik his name, Yi-Chung Huang, ik the competition he was in, Elevato Piano Competition, ik the year it was in, 2021, ik almost everything abt LaDivina cuz I’m friends with him

@@Damian_Theodoridis stop talking bullshit. At least agree whit this DivinaFanatic. In the comments he says I'm not the same person!!

@@debussy843 Many say they know this "DivinaFanatic" and that, Yi-Chung Huang, they are the same person. Too bad, however, that in the comments, this DivinaFanatic claims to know who Yi-Chung Huang is, but that they are not the same person. They should talk first, so they would avoid disagreeing over bullshit

Thanks

LOVE your breakdown!!

@@PastukhSkota Thank you!

kinda unrelated but whats the most exciting piano piece you've heard this year?

@@supasayajinsongoku4464 Rachmaninoff Sonata 2

kinda unrelated but whats the most exciting piano piece you've heard this year?

I think he only ever performed this piece for George Sand once, and that's it. I could be wrong though.

He is wisely considered the most important musician of that century.

​@@supasayajinsongoku4464ligeti Piano concerto

​@@supasayajinsongoku4464boulez/airmaid recording

I hate these recordings. They don't sound like a real person recorded them at all. And to your point, I don't believe it. I'll need to see it with my own eyes.

@@debussy843 of course it sounds real, what are you talking about?

@@debussy843 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9eG6vug8qYI.html&ab_channel=LaDivinaFanatic heres a video of it being played in a live recording!

@@debussy843there is a video recording

@@debussy843 I prefer judging music by ear rather than by eyes, but you do you :P

Totally agree. Definitely top 5 most difficult Liszt pieces, especially at this fast of a tempo

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Because it's fake, obviously.

​@@debussy843 are you here just to say that this is fake lmao 💀 you gain nothing from being here if you don't like it so just leave these people alone Also, it sounds like you're jealous

@@debussy843 go to sleep lmao

But it's a fake...the video has been sped up...the original uploader disabled comments on it and he hides himself in the shadows. It's absurd. If it were real do you honestly believe that he wouldn't be seeking a career right now? Of course he would...which is why he hides...it isn't real.

@@user-xr1em8ux2c Sounds like someone's jealous

A lot of people say this is fake or sped up. The truth is, its the best rendition of the song, and probably one of the best recordings in history of any piano song. People are also upset it is not coming from LANGLANG, and it's from someone they have not heard before. We are witnessing history repeat itself here, people! Someone had to accuse liszt of selling his soul to the devil. Someone has to accuse LaDivina for speeding up his recording.

@@platinum6914 You affirming that it's the best rendition of the song despite plainly stating the accusations of being sped up made this occur to me: who cares if it's sped up? It sounds incredible, with remarkable energy and engaging musicality. So what if the performer played it a little slower than what we hear here... who cares?

@@oscargill423 someone must always claim foul play when something incredible occurs. Sometimes they are right. In this point in history, They are on the loser's side.

It's fake. Recorded "by a stealthy 20y/o conservatory student" Obviously we would know this student's name if he/she was this brilliant.

@@debussy843Their channel is “LaDivinaFanatic” if you wanna see his hands performing. You can also look up “VI Concurso Internacional de Piano - Cidade de Vigo | Semifinal” for further evidence of his skills. Research is free.

@@debussy843 his name is yi chung huang, so its real

@@debussy843 loud mouthed without substance.

Truly awestriking. I believe he is a reincarnate of Liszt himself. In time, we will see him blossom into a beautiful flower the is separated from the rest! Magnificent display.

Wow thank you very much! I actually discovered this piece from your channel and I love your channel very much! And yes, it's real but it's very exhausting to play like this.

@@ladivinafanatic whoa , dude, you should record your playing more often! And make videos of yourself playing! I'm so curious now to see hands moving at that inhumane speed...

@@ladivinafanatic You're amazing!

@@brownydd8820 🙂

아니 여기 귀한분이...

It’s WAY far from perfection, but still very good.

Basically everyone says that he sped up the recording but its literally not sped up if u look at the hands and fingers and just by hearing this its literally harder to play it slow and make the hand look like that and also make it sound like that.

And also clearly from the glissandos u can hear that its not sped up

@@chrismc1834yeah, you can hear directly from the sound that it’s not sped up !

Agree to your opinion

That is very true! I think the pianos at the time underwent a change from 1850 onwards; they were lighter before that time and I think the width between the keys were also smaller, allowing more people to hit 10ths and greater lengths. This might explain why Liszt removed many of the wider-spaced intervals when he re-did all his etudes by 1851. The originals were unfriendly to the newer pianos, which would've made it unfair for pianists wanting to learn these pieces. And today's much heavier pianos are definitely much more incompatible to the early 1830s / 1840s pieces of Liszt; it would be very difficult to play them on today's modern heavier pianos.

Excuses, the recording is a fraud. The clown should post a video of themselves "playing" it so we can watch them fail.

@@debussy843 bruh the description literally links to a video of the performer playing the piece 💀 ...

@@epm6673 I've determined it to be fake, based on the fact the guys career failed. Also, the video description says it's for competitions, yet to video doesn't pass the criteria for any competition. Video submissions for any competition must show the players face.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9eG6vug8qYI.html

I had to check that I didn't have it set to 1.5x playback speed :o

@@crystal4o681 That's because ladivinafanatic already increased the speed of the original...it's a fake

to be honest I thought I had the video in 2x speed 😂😂😁LaDivinaFanatic is truly something! Liszt reincarnate!

@@platinum6914 This audio is a MISREPRESENTATION of the truth. I'm sure the pianist can play this music, BUT...not at this tempo! It is a LIE!!! That is my only issue with this matter...the guy is PRETENDING that he can play this piece at his envisioned tempo...but...IT IS A LIE. Good luck to you.

@@user-xr1em8ux2c it’s not fake

true VERY TRUE..whoever this is...ULTRA playing!! playing everything like ....a wild horse...but never losing the MUSICAL line...throughout all the THICKET of sound...GREAT PLAYING...in every way.

@@kmondays Well, I’m not a fan of Hamelin…

But I really don’t want to be another Hamelin. I want to be the modern day Alexander Dreyschock.

@@ladivinafanatic left hand octave chopin etude guy

@@zerois2801 Yup

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Thank you very much and yes, the difficulty of 11:58-12:13 is been ignored by many people.

I love this part

i listen in loop 12:08 to 12:13

This is actually my favorite part of the entire piece!

I believe that is precisely what happened! Though the Spanish Rhapsody is so different that they're pretty much entirely different pieces on the same themes.

Liszy has really simplified her repertoire. 141 studies are proof of this In the 1830s, he wrote the studies on paganini themes S140, but in the 1850s, he made the studies 141, which were much simpler and "easier" The La Campanella we know is one of these facilitations/adaptations of S141

I think you don't even know what will a sped up video sounds like You should look up jumpny2010 Although I hate it very much

@@henrychang5361 Ironic, there's plenty of recording software that can pitch shift regardless of the tempo change.

It’s not sped up, I’ve heard him play live playing Islamey and Remininces de Don Juan (idk how tf to spell remininces) at the Elevato piano competition, look up Elevato competition

@@bosu37But the pitch shift + speed increase would sound so artificial because it would affect the acoustics & background residue. I believe it’s real.

@@Damian_Theodoridis That’s the best Don Juan and Islamey that I’ve ever heard

LISZT!!!

kinda unrelated but whats the most exciting piano piece you've heard this year?

@@supasayajinsongoku4464 this one

kinda unrelated but whats the most exciting piano piece you've heard this year?

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just people getting jealous of his talent its so obvious that this version is the greatest so far

The original uploader won't reveal himself because it's a fake...the speed was artificially increased which is why he disabled comments on his original upload. Ask yourself a question: If this were real, why is he hiding in the shadows and not making a career for himself?

A lot of comments say its fake because of two reasons. Reason number one : It is by far the best rendition of the song, and probably one of the best recorded playthroughs of a piano song in history. Reason number two : It's not someone EVERYONE knows like lang lang. MUST BE FAKE! PARLOR TRICKS! No, people. WE are witnessing history being made firsthand. And there will always be those on the side that attack the virtuoso for his genius. We will look back and read over the comments of "BOO! FAKE!" and "ITS SPED UP!!" and laugh at them. Probably while we wait for LaDivina's Next Concert. Someone had to accuse liszt of selling his soul to the devil. Someone has to accuse LaDivina for speeding up his recording. This is history.

@@user-xr1em8ux2c Is that the only evidence you got? It's not even a strong evidence. There's a video, and you're accusing him of speeding up only with the fact that he 'disabled comments' and 'is hiding in the shadows'. How pathetic. You're just jealous and making up reasons for your nonsense claim.

​@@user-fq7uh3wq1f ​ You are right It's not even a piece of evidence That is only a guess Hope they are smart enough to know how to argue a thing

It’s far from perfect.

If it were only not sped up artificially...it's a FAKE.

@@user-xr1em8ux2c💀

@@user-xr1em8ux2cI can play it this tempos and I’m 13 :0

It's a fake

@@user-xr1em8ux2c no it’s not

@@user-xr1em8ux2c I am friends with the player

S.400 is too fast, they should chillax. Le Preux is cool tho. Also, I dunno what this has to do with this recording.

​@@thenotsookayguy it's the same pianist

@@simonmatusek7006 In the vid where LaDivinaFanatic plays Spanish Fantasy and Don Juan, despite the absolute dog shit video quality, I think their hands are different, this dude's mutts are way meatier. Though it could just be my head making up stuff since LaDivinaFanatic decided to only ever record himself with $10 point and shoot cameras.

@@thenotsookayguy it is him, Yi chung huang, on both the videos you mentioned

Yes, that saves it from being empty showing off.

kinda unrelated but whats the most exciting piano piece you've heard this year?

@@supasayajinsongoku4464 Maybe Franz Liszt's transcriptions of the beethoven symphonies. I knew about them before but I never got very seriously into listening to them until this year.

Yuja? She can't play for toffee. Surprised out of all the pianists you mentioned it's her? Can't be just her piano skills you're interested in nudge nudge wink wink

@@ciararespect4296 true

@@ciararespect4296 you don't even think this performance is real, you're clearly an uneducated troll

@@ciararespect4296 go blind

It takes a lot of practice to get this good.

This is a Steinway C

You can't. Prior to it being uploaded here, it was a pretty obscure work that wasn't even published in Liszt's lifetime. You're just gonna have to figure it out yourself.

I can send you the sheets from NLA tho, it's cleaner and more accurate than the one of IMSLP, but it was scanned poorly.

22 now

what are you now trying to prove my fren?

yeah the video clearly looks normal

This is pletnev

@@arakelandmusic600 nah, this isn’t

Did he win that competition or not? This perfection of technique is a marvel, to play with such speed and complete freedom of tension, perfection of movement, with whom did he study? We should know these things. Long fingers seem to help. I was amused that his first knuckles were often collapsed, double-jointed, which seemed to help in getting a fuller contact with the key, yet without impeding movement. The big question is, is he Chinese?

Yes!!! I feel like people don’t talk about it as much, but it’s honestly one of Liszt’s most sentimental moments for me.

So difficult to play but good as difficulty

Yes, it is completely unbelievable because it is a fake. It has been sped up. The original uploader won't reveal himself because it's a fake...the speed was artificially increased which is why he disabled comments on his original upload. Ask yourself a question: If this were real, why is he hiding in the shadows and not making a career for himself? One word-FRAUD.

​@@user-xr1em8ux2c почему это подделка? Есть доказательства?

@@user-xr1em8ux2c it’s not fake, I am friends with the player