Astounding virtuosity in the service of the music! He has a flair for the style. Liszt probably couldn't have played it any better. This paraphrase is short and sweet compared to some of Liszt's other operatic paraphrases, which can become tedious.
Wasted his talent with all sorts of things. I saw him on a pop show recently on a Chinese SAT tv channel. He possibly earns a lot more by doing so. Really a pity.
yes, but those six hands changed a couple notes at the end to play it more bombastically. Performance apart, that is something many pianists do. It is tempting, but I wouldn't do it.
The great weakness of this performance is that the beautiful melody from the Act 3 Rigoletto quartet is largely lost in the embroidery and "show-offish" technical fireworks. Yundi Li apparently lacks the capacity to voice the melody separately from the other elements of Liszt's paraphrase. Liszt surely intended that as one of the technical demands of this work - it's not merely fast finger work. For comparison, I happened recently to hear a performance by Daniel Barenboim on Sirius XM, which I felt was a far more effective rendition.
@@bludika LC is a very difficult piece, don’t get me wrong. But Liszt wrote dozens of harder piece. Saying this is “significantly harder” might have been excessive, but this is definitely harder than LC imo
Where's the fire!!! He's off to the races - a full half-minute faster than other great pianists like Cziffra and Wild. Yundi has fantastic technique and volume variations, but he disregards Liszt's many ritardandos throughout this piece as he gallops ahead with hardly any pauses from one section of the theme to another. A flashy joy ride, but I prefer the interpretations of Cziffra and especially of Wild much better.
And also he's quite rigid. When I look at Argerich's or HJ Lim's flexible hands and his great block of fingers, I understand where the difference in touch comes from...
