Master class: Nikolai Lugansky teaches piano 

Thank, you're a star.

Listening to Enrico Pace's rendition now. :)

Lol, what makes you think he's never seen or played Totentanz?

Enrico Pace played it very... Pacey :D excellent performance, was my first I ever listened, still my most favourite. Joe - because, does he have any reason to lie about that? No ;) he doesn't need to prove anything to anyone, he's one of the best pianist in the world, no pianist is gonna be a millionaire, but he's not gonna die by hunger ;) from all his nice behaviour, the character he showed there, I have no reason not to trust him. And I can ask you, why do you think such pianist should play any piece that was ever composed by anyone? Some pianist don't even recognize most of Liszt pieces worth playing or listening - maybe because they're often more difficult than beautiful

Where in the video does he say that he's never seen it or played it? A pianist of his calibre will have definitely either sight read it or accompanied it at some point in his life/career and that's without a doubt.

shivani singh I’m wondering if the people who set up the event thought maybe they could throw Lugansky up there to double as a recital too and didn’t want to block the sound haha

Я люблю Луганского но не согласен с ним в аккордах где он не указывает, что аккорды левой руки должны доминировать и они усиливают стук судьбы-вместо та та та та судьба более вызывающе та та та та та та та! Это Бетховен!

@@thomgeo8073 thom поэтому вы не луганский:)

😮😮😢😢

Greatest living pianist.

Ahahaha yes, his sight reading is incredible

Exactly! 🎶

No, it’s clear that he’s sight-reading. You can see the direction of his eyes is wedded to the page, also the speed of his hand movements is fractionally ‘last second’ rather than ‘prepared’. He also makes one ‘misreading’ mistake, (rather than a wrong note). He has zero need to impress students in this way by lying about his abilities. In any case, why would he. It would be a bit more exhausting to pretend to be differently brilliant at the piano.

idk, if liszt truly was able to sight read chopin etude at full speed then i dont think its too crazy to think lugansky can sight read totentanz

Sight-reading complicated musical scores without making (many) mistakes may seem impossible to many people, but it's actually a skill just like reading a book out loud (and be good or bad at it). Once the musician reached a certain level of technical perfection, it becomes quite simple. Of course, you need to have the talent for it, your brain has to be able to coordinate your fingers at such ease that it can focus on reading, just like it coordinates your tongue, jaw and breathing automatically while you are reading out loud. Some musicians obviously have much more talent in fine motor skills than others, and a few are so gifted in coordination that sight-reading at proper speed is no big deal to them. But you do not necessarily have to be a great musical artist, just a great technician at your instrument. I have seen that before in musicians much lesser sublime than Lugansky. My choirmaster for example is one of them (piano), my uncle (classic guitar) is another. And generally I have known quite a lot of (non-famous) Russian musicians who all were excellent at sight-reading music.

I am a non-famous classical trained violin player/teacher. I can sight read violin piece, but terrible sight-reader at the piano. If you try to sight-read music which is written for your instruments, it's not a big deal for most of mediocre musician. Because even they are not the world class or top instrumentalist in your countries, they are still much more talented than non-musician people. And if you had ever listened to the piece, sight-read playing will much easier. I am sure that Lugansky had listened to totentanz before.

@@MrAristaeus believe what you want, this piece is popular, lugansky has played many pieces, its undoubted that he's played it before. i dont really care if you dont believe me if I know it's true.

Lmao savage but true

That's from his father, I think. His father is Great Teacher, not in the field of music though.

No its rachmaninoff sonata 2

3linx Oooops! Not the same thing! Thank you so much :-)

No One rachmaninoff piano sonata no2 1st mvt

@@azizmusic-100 Rachmaninoff sonata 2

@@chamestb6632 Thanks

Thank you!

it's better for them - and for you & me - that they would remain anonymous .

@@keescanalfp5143Why?

Mozart Piano Sonata B flat Major KV 333

@@bozobanovic TY

Matthew Neale Totentanz from Liszt! It's not far from the end of the piece :)

Rachmaninoff Sonata 2

@@zoink5484 Thanks

Piano Sonata in B flat major, K. 333 (Mozart).

Beethoven Sonata No23

Appassionata op 57

Mozart - Sonata B flat major K.333

In life imitation is what counts.

It’s a masterclass, fuckin dick

Which pieces do you exactly mean?

Seriously, what’s the point of a comment like this?

@@nicolasroques1887 Looks like he is a cruise ship classical pianist, Russian. That's OK for someone of the kind of activity.

@@scizlt whats a cruise ship classical pianist?

@@РоссийскаяФедерация-б4я Можете зайти на его блог и спросить его лично.

Nicolas Roques I am a pianist from Ukraine knowing a lot about teaching. So I know what I am talking about. It’s really low level of teaching. He just says “Play louder or play quieter...” And that’s all..? Is that really what music is..? It’s a shame to teach like that for such famous pianist. But nobody cares. Nowadays there are less and less true masters

Школа фортепиано, and thats why you are not lugansky

It’s clearly not dead, seeing as they’re still playing it. Van Cliburn competition finalist got 8.9 million views, all 3 Chopin competition finalists got 3+ million views. In fact, I’d actually say the sport is keeping classical music alive

Matthew Neale its Totentanz by Franz Liszt