Another beautiful video : Jean Martin plays Bach • BACH-BUSONI Adagio en ... LISZT-VOLODOS : Hungarian Rhapsody n°13 Arcadi Volodos, piano Amsterdam, Prince's Canal (2001)
People on the ground, people on a boat, and there are people on a rolling train. This is an amazing impossible performance. He tops everyone's imagination.
One day I will be as talented as Volodos .... So long as I consistently practise 20 hours a day and live to be 800 hundred years old, then I don't see why not!
Simon M simply not true. If we’re talking about practicing for a total of 666 years worth of life, than you’d have much MUCH more impeccable technique than Volodos. Now the musicality aspect wouldn’t simply develop just like that, but I’d you could keep the strong passion for music alive for 800 years, than you’d develop a much deeper understanding of music than anybody ever could. This is all stupid and theoretical ofcourse, but i will say that sleep may hold you back, but it’s not like anybody is living to 800 anyways. So let’s just assume 3 hours of sleep a night can keep you living injury free, than yes... I think you’d surpass Volodos light years on a technique standpoint.
Oliver Rodriguez Is it really even possible to have much better technique than Volodos? It's not like there is an infinite headroom for further improvement, certain limitations of human physiology will always limit what you can so.
Simon M I would agree. I don't think those circumstances would guarantee matching Volodos. If anything stood out in my +20 years as a pianoteacher it is TALANT. Hard work is crucial too but I've never seen it compensate for lack/medioker talant
@@SrtZipTop sorry but not true. Synapses in the brain are connected at a young age for piano so if you started slightly later it would never happen also perfect practice is required and latent talent
@@1YinYang1 you're joking, right? Lisitsa? He already listed actually, the best of the best. Maybe Zimerman and Argerich, but Volodos and Hamelin are the best, by far.
@DonFrankos your sooo right... i saw a live preformance of him in amsterdam.. it was soooo beautiful. and his encores where just amazing :O !! after concert he signed cd's and ive helt his right hand xD.. when he was done. i asked him if i could take a picture with him.. and i was actualy able to sit next to him :D :D !!. that was the greatest day in my life. for so far xD.
Not a chance, he is much more refined and has a deeper sense of melody and phrasing than cziffra. And his renditions of Brahms and Schubert's short pieces are the best we've heard since decades, pure finesse
Liszt is regarded as the worlds greatest piano virtuoso. Even his pupils who lived into the early 1900's and heard the current best pianists of that time still believed liszt could out do them all.
Entre tanta Barbarie el mundo se da el lujo de tener Volodos Baremboin Martha Argerich que contrapuntos¡¡¡Gracias al mundo del arte que nos estan salvando¡¡
There is no greater virtuoso playing before the public today -- and I doubt if there ever has been in the past. There are several who compare favorably -- Stephen Hough, Dennis Matsuev, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, Marc André Hamelin, Claire Huangsci (Her Prokofiev Toccata is far and away the most magnificent ever recorded). But VOLODOS is not only a virtuoso whose accomplishments excel those of Mr. Levhinne and Horowitz, he is also a MUSICIAN of impeccable taste and great character.
Nice, and Volodos is overwhelming, but lists are always incomplete and futile because too many contenders always get left out, Jorge Bolet and Alexis Weissenberg, for example. And the maestro of them all, the immortal SERGEI VASSILIEVITCH RACHMANINOFF is rarely mentioned on greatest virtuosi lists!!!
Nice, and Volodos is overwhelming, but lists are always incomplete and futile because too many contenders always get left out, Jorge Bolet and Alexis Weissenberg, for example. And the maestro of them all, the immortal SERGEI VASSILIEVITCH RACHMANINOFF is rarely mentioned on greatest virtuosi lists!!!
you doubt there ever has been a greater piano virtuoso in the past? Liszt, Beethoven, Anton Rubenstein, Cziffra, Art Tatum, the list goes on. Hamelin is far beyond Volodos technically, as is Yuja Wang. the greatest of all the pianists in the world are Kissin, Sokolov, Argerich, and Zimmerman. the reason they are superior to someone like Volodos is they don't just have the world class technical virtuosity, they can play very slow pieces with absolute perfect singing control, sonority, voice balance and orchestration. link me to one video of Volodos doing this... for someone like Kissin there are literally endless videos of him doing this. his control and precision makes Volodos look like a beginner
@@brianbernstein3826 Dumbest comment I ever read! Volodos plays slow pieces all the time. About 2 years ago I saw him and even talked with him. He said: I hate virtuosic music. All the early recordings were a request from manager and recording company. He is big fan of Shubert music and plays it super quietly and beautifully. It is a consensus of anyone who knows anything about playing piano that since Horowitz there was no pianist with such a beautiful pianissimo as Volodos.
Yes, these pianists are great and unbelievable!! But the truth is, since the recording area = evidence we can hear!! The most magnificient pianist is Keith Jarrett !!! Many Virtuoses have no doubt about it. There is non one ☝️☝️ of all these great modern pianists who was able to play the Sun Bear Concerts of Keith Jarrett. Also Glenn Gould said, Jarrett is the greatest Pianist ever
Liszt was definitely as technically skilled as Volodos. How can I tell? I can tell because of the monstrously difficult things he wrote, because he traveled all around Europe playing these monstrously difficult works.
A sensational and overwhelming interpretation of this rhapsody - highly emotional !! But the camera handling is a pain, showing the audience most the time instead of the hands of the Pianist !!
6:11 - 6:13 - Volodos is accepted to the Del Arte Italian theatre without any makup or masks! :D Indeed, a very powerful perfomance. He's a fury of perfect shaped steel boulders, while Hamelin is a whirl of thinnest pins...
Now that is a venue. Was that train in the back timed or did it really come just in time? because a few seconds earlier would have been a huge issue. Wish I could have been there.
Well yes, Hamelin is a great virtuoso as well. Hamelin's technique is second to none. He doesn't really move me that much though... I love Lipatti, Helena Czerny Stefanska, Ingrid Haebler, Lev Oborin, mostly all the pianists that have been dead for a long time...
@principecalaf your right. cziffra is one of my favourite to :D you know his flight of the bumble bee ?? or tritsch tratch polka.. or blue danube? amazing xD
***** Hamelin does not come a mile within Volodos. Volodos moves mountains with his fingerstrokes - Hamelin does not have the strength and speed to keep up with his unearthly virtuosity.
well, definitely, everyone would advice you changing fingers, mostly 321 I would say... But moreover, it's IMHO also about having the distal phalangs of your fingers under controle, like that that the last part of your fingers should still be firm, if you understand, what I'm trying to say :D Because in passages like this, fingers tend to lose controle of the distal part, so it becomes too free and the tones don't repeat..
It's an open air concert in the middle of the city. What would you expect ? This audience isn't classically trained. Volodos knew that very well himself.
yes it is impossible to know unless the two were together, Hamelin has unbelievable technique and his pieces are phenomenally difficult i would put my money on him
good boy gypsy pianist best pianist always...i am sure if all gypsy musicians would have a piano to play on and practise a little from time to time theyd be quite quickly at that level of technique at piano as well no big problem for real gypsy them all magic cause of free mind not toomuch numbed by civilisation mud.
In his time, Chopin, at his best, played to a select audience of princesses and countesses in a Paris salon, and that was exactly the right thing to do. God, how times have hanged! However you cut it, this is a great video, but, hell, it is still plenty weird...
