My finger bled while practicing this piece. Just saying. It's disgustingly hard. And Kissin's technique here is flawless. Note-perfect performance aside, his articulation and clarity is simply astounding.
I hope your joking about your finger bleeding lol. A big part of learning the technique is to be able to play each variation with as much relaxation as possible. As JLH once said, if your fingers hurt, your doing something wrong!
These variations are sublime, and extremely difficult to perform. Evgeny Kissin aces them, and imparts a rapturous emotional expression in each and every one of them. I don't care for the timing of the commercials.
My piano teacher, an eminent concert pianist in his own right, considered the Brahms Variations the most difficult piece in all of piano literature. And amazing statement! But listening to this by someone like Kissin, really confirms what my teach said years ago. It is a super human feat of pianistic brilliance. This is an amazing recital. And it's the first time I've ever gazed on the music. Astonishing!
Mr. Kumar's extensive and knowledgeable comments are always a pleasure to read. He's an excellent writer. As a musician I also enjoy having the score moving with the music.
Book2, variation 11 defies belief in the enormous difficulty and incredible fluid effortlessness of Kissin's technique. I return to this performance regularly and listen to that variation over and over. The wonder does not subside even after 100 hearings.
Same. I listened to probably all the versions I can find, kissin is the so far the best, before I listened to kissin’s, Katchen made the best version of this piece
Absolutely brilliant...gives me goosebumps when I hear Kissin attack the 14th variation. So many pianists do not repeat the variation or leave it out all together because they do not do this section justice. Wish I could have seen this performance live.
In what was a rare occasion for Brahms, he exhausted all his rhetorical resources in this work. This is as close as this composer ever comes to Alkan. Listen to the 4th variation of the second set. It reminds me of gondola ride impressions through the canals of Venice, as interpreted by a North German with an unfettered Romantic inclination.
The internet is amazing. I learnt from a different channel how to play the piano. I used the app and learnt to read this morning. This afternoon I learnt technique then this evening I memorised this from the sheets and played it flawlessly to an audience
I was fortunate enough to hear the young Kissin play this work live, an unbelievable experience. Hearing him again here is equally impressive, certainly on the rapid and brilliant side, (the opposite to Arrau's depth and grandeur, for example), but most enjoyable in its verve & clarity.
a piano work of rare ingenuity - Brahms was second to none in his treatment of this oft-used theme. a kaleidoscopic showcase of emotions on display here!
My already great admiration for Evgeny Kissin's piano playing gets even bigger after listening to his stunning performance of the above Variations. I wonder who else can perform this fiendishly difficult piece by Brahms?
@@GTXTi-db5xuyeah a good 8-9 years older than yunchan lim is rn (significant age gap at that range) give him some time. Although I don't think kissins recording is going to be topped.
I don't listen to this piece very often because of the extreme technical intensity. To me, these books of variations/etudes are like the K2 of the piano. They're a nearly impossible undertaking. They exist beyond where anything can hope to live. They dwell in the Death Zone. They're not themselves even alive, but a creation of a machine that has complete ambivalence to whether you the mortal pianist live or die. But if you somehow make it without turning back as any sensible person would do, you reach the truest summit of your craft. You achieve piano godhood. There can't be more than a couple dozen pianists alive at any one time who have truly mastered this.
YES!!! since im an oboist and pianist, I of course knew i couldnt play this caprisse. BUT I DIDNT KNOW THAT BRAHMS CONVERTED IT TO PIANO!!! I will try to get this score... THANKS BRAHMS!!!!!
I love how I hear this on piano tiles and think it’s a slow moving song, then I look on CZcams and become sad when my dreams of playing this easily are crushed
Davide Pisanu you mean 1838, not 1848. And as a whole, the 1838 Paganini studies are harder than these variations made by Brahms, but if you were just comparing Liszt’s 1838 variations on this Paganini theme (the 6th etude) and these variations by Brahms, Brahms is much harder and more interesting
violett ly It’s how generally repetitive it appears. Four chords repeated intensively beneath trills. Which comes to show, pop music can stem out of classical, but it appears that no big substance can stem out of pop. Pop is great in its place and time, but it’s ridiculously restricted and repetitive in its expressive means.
First and foremost, Liszt is one of my heroes, and his Sonata in B minor has had a profound influence in my life. He was a tremendous pianist, and supreme arranger. Everyone agrees on that. Nonetheless, I´d like to say to all of you in all fairness: Sight-reading these variations could be achievable ... playing these varitionas at first sight is impossible. We have to accept that there are a lot of myths and fallacies surrounding Liszt's persona. The dubious anecdote regarding Liszt performing these variations flawlessly at first sight, is one of those myths. Too bad we don't have recordings to support my argument. As far as pianism is concerned, It is my firm belief that Brahms was as remarkable as Liszt. Do not belittle Brahms´ chefs d'oeuvre. From my point of view, Brahms and Beethoven wrote the most brilliant piano pieces ever. Brahms´ greatest merit, in terms of pianism, was to commence moulding his unique style at a very young age, in an epoch were 90% of composers pianists were deeply influenced by Chopin.
Though very hard to imagine, it is possible to play these variations at first sight... I saw the pianist Conrad Tao sight-read Alkan etudes better than I could play them if I studied them. It was the kind of thing that I would never have believed if I hadn't witnessed it, and suddenly all those stories about Liszt (which I also thought were mostly myths) made sense to me...!
@@Numberonesorabjifan His violin Concerto in D is arguably the best single composition in all of music. Seriously, what did Beethoven write that beats it?
Along with Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, this is one of the top-3 greatest theme and variations sets for the piano. Perhaps even greater? (that's just my opinion)
This is 100% Brahms proving his critics wrong. Brahms imo is the pinnacle of romantic era music. He paved the way for post romantic era composers, but it took years for anyone else to take up his challenge.
@@awe331 I said its not the stereotypical Brahms, and its not. That doesn't mean I'm disrespecting Brahms, I love Brahms, and I play Brahms' keyboard works (never played the lullaby though!) Someone I heard commented on this piece that he "out Liszted Liszt" with this piece, which I think is true. The virtuosity in this piece is insane!
This is the best recording of the Brahms -Paganini I know. the Arrau could have been better recored. Kissin is so smart he puts in the growlof the eighth chord in left hand .Obviously Brahms wanted that there is no accent but that he wrote another left hand chord there pianists shoud kow what this means . Yet I don't remember all the great and not famous pianiss too I ve heard not noticing . Or maybe ts my 1s time noticing . Kissin makes this exciting .I'm amazed hat other ianists dont bring out the lion in this . Backhaus,the young Kempf,the famous Brahms Julius Katchen player American who died young I need to hear him again .Pletnev does he play Brahms How could this firebreathig demon not play eithe rof the big Brahms Var. Katchen IS wonderful in the Brahms -Schumann which I grew up as a child loving ! ) Arrau got 3 suites in he Phillips along with Brendel who I say is a greater virtuoso with as much panache .I've been very against Arrau unfairly and foolishly but i have not heard good recordings and his piano sound is always not "right" .His Mozart playing is astonishingly ???Iwont say but if you hear Ingrid Haebler!!!,Uchida !! Perahia even Lili Kraus who has sincerely grown in my estimation ! in Mozart you realize ow Mozart should sound and how he makes sense. Many a supervirtuoso shows his lack of taste and ghetto demeanor in his essaying Mozart . Lupu recorded an ideal Mozart whni was achild with Andre Previn ( he is astonishing too in his own right. He was smarter than many international ly known pianistto have been able to play as he did with rather limited training . Brendel did right when he told Phillips that Haebler was worth representing . I have her Chpin waltzes on a cassette. she is a Phenomenon of taste and can play a passage in a way that no mtter how many centuries Im given I will never be able to accomplish . Someone tell me Rosalyn tureck left us some mozart . Did she tramp haha all around dis welt in all Bach recitals and was she recorded in any thing else. I must research this . I guess i better hear Kissin's Chopin again . when his videos came out along time ago . Ipicked them up couldnt wai to watch a great pianist as a child play chaikosky concerto. he shold give us no2 or 3 . How is it possible no.2 and 3 are so trivial and weak sounding. He wrote every one of thse symphonies is fine music and i want to study those orchestrations . Tchai was a very smart man .Trifonov is really impressing me . Noone plays chopin better than the almost unknown Chiu . record companies sould be pushing him .I think chiu is the most talented! most astute, tasteful virtuoso -trueMUSICIEN ( a are beast ) on this planet . If he ever gives us some Liszt it will out class every other Lisztian on the planet .Poetry in chopin is not as obvious as the cheap peanut gallery would have us think. Hear his etudes and then write and beg for the Ballades, Scherzi an Nocturnes someday !!!! Forget Pollini ,dust off Cortot and see how much diving of chopin chiu really accomplishes I need a piano blog but who the hell am i and i never studied with a famous teacher or went to a conservatory and even today now that Im woke still couldnt even win a competitin in my own little town . I simply canot play piano ! But I've learned aout style , taste and judgement and i know a little about what the hands sound like when they fall on a keyboard . Perlemuter 's etudes why didnt we hear them earlier not great stuff. I have so many recordings of he Chopin etudes .Brailowsky is worth remembering ? Cziffra defintiely IS !
Not really, that is just the uploader's subjective opinion. If you look at some of Liszt's horrendously difficult opera fantasies, these Paganini variations do not stand up to them in terms of difficulty.
Andrei Cristian Anghel I’m playing this piece right now and I can tell you that it might very well be one of the hardest pieces ever written if you play it as well as Kissen did
Andrei Cristian Anghel I didn’t say it was the hardest, I said it might be one of the hardest. And playing and learning this piece will drive you crazy
@@gidster192 Whether you're playing them or not is irrelevant. This work is certainly not one of the hardest pieces ever written, read my previous comment again, and have a look at Liszt's S697 Fantasy on Figaro and Don Giovanni (as edited by Howard) which easily outshines these Brahms variations in terms of difficulty.
Kissin's technical prowess is Horowitzian in this reading. Variation 11: even Michelangeli leaves it out; Anda flubs part of it; Bachauer slows it down a bit to play it; Wuja Wang mutes out the octaves and does the variation with the thumbs and index fingers emphasized. The rest of the books are tossed off magically and Kissin takes time to bring out the musical elements. I wonder if Brahms was able to fly through these. Or even wanted to. Arrau's reading is less acrobatic, less like what you'd hear from Argerich, but weightier.....more moderate tempi.......more Brahmsian............nothing glib or supersonic tempi.
My finger bled while practicing this piece. Just saying. It's disgustingly hard. And Kissin's technique here is flawless. Note-perfect performance aside, his articulation and clarity is simply astounding.
Wait you practiced this piece? You must be a virtuoso pianist! Wowwwwwww
I tried to play this and this is so difficult
I would say that Kissin plays this piece about as well as it can be played!
I bought the score for this thinking it was doable. Tried once, go to variation 3 or 4 I think. I've never opened the book again.
I hope your joking about your finger bleeding lol. A big part of learning the technique is to be able to play each variation with as much relaxation as possible. As JLH once said, if your fingers hurt, your doing something wrong!
As a relatively young person, I'm so glad that I have the rest of my life to listen to this.
I am 23 and listening this masterpiece
9:30 The voicing is simply outstanding. Kissin makes the piano sound like Glockenspiel
I love the generosity of Brahms. He always gives you more sumptuousness, more grandeur. It's like cuddling a schizophrenic teddy bear.
HAHAH WHAT KIND OF A ANALOGY IS THAT
r/brandnewsentence
Oh, so that’s why he grew a thick man beard.
"Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his."
- Franz Liszt
Liszt was an honest man.
These variations are sublime, and extremely difficult to perform. Evgeny Kissin aces them, and imparts a rapturous emotional expression in each and every one of them.
I don't care for the timing of the commercials.
Haha did he really say that??
I prefere Liszt's
Rachmaninoff: observe gentlemen *writes 24 variations*
Correction: Liszt was a Brahms hater
Book I
00:00 Theme
00:25 Var.1
00:49 Var.2
01:14 Var.3
01:40 Var.4
02:25 Var.5
03:33 Var.6
03:56 Var.7
04:21 Var.8
04:47 Var.9
06:07 Var.10
07:45 Var.11
09:30 Var.12
10:56 Var.13
11:29 Var.14
Book II
13:11 Var.1
13:56 Var.2
14:31 Var.3
15:00 Var.4
16:05 Var.5
16:28 Var.6
16:49 Var.7
17:07 Var.8
17:35 Var.9
18:35 Var.10
19:24 Var.11
19:48 Var.12
21:08 Var.13
22:16 Var.14
These are posted in the description...
@@fashionablefrog5813 these are clickable ;-)
🙏
Variation 11 feels so sudden when it happens, and it's sublime. The bell tones are to die for.
I could never really get into Brahms but this channel is slowly changing me.
+gayerest That's very nice to hear.
harriest
gayerest,I think you'd prefer Paganini as this piece mostly composed entirely from Paganini melodies.
You'll love Brahms 1st and 2nd piano concertos. Try Zimmermans interpretation
Hey. Is this tougher than La Campanella?
My piano teacher, an eminent concert pianist in his own right, considered the Brahms Variations the most difficult piece in all of piano literature. And amazing statement! But listening to this by someone like Kissin, really confirms what my teach said years ago. It is a super human feat of pianistic brilliance. This is an amazing recital. And it's the first time I've ever gazed on the music. Astonishing!
Much harder out there; Alkan, mereaux, scriabin, sorabji.
Your eminent concert pianist teacher is sorely mistaken.
@@ValzainLumivix Clearly, what's hard, harder, or hardest is subjective.
@@flylooper At times, but this is, by no means, the hardest piano literature written.
@@ValzainLumivix What are some pieces you would consider to be the hardest?
Paganini: Prepare for trouble
Pianist Composers: And make it double
Dương Thành Vương liszt*
Chung Dang Liszt*
@@Relatively_Irrelevant liszt made the s140 etude 6
That 1 Guy That Does CZcams liszt*
That 1 Guy That Does CZcams my guy was being mad funny and changed it from “Liszt” to “pianist composers”
I can’t find any recording of any piece by any pianist that matches this qua technicality&clarity. Superb
Mr. Kumar's extensive and knowledgeable comments are always a pleasure to read. He's an excellent writer. As a musician I also enjoy having the score moving with the music.
Book2, variation 11 defies belief in the enormous difficulty and incredible fluid effortlessness of Kissin's technique. I return to this performance regularly and listen to that variation over and over. The wonder does not subside even after 100 hearings.
I don't know who this pianist is and why he's kissing someone but he's really good.
Same. I listened to probably all the versions I can find, kissin is the so far the best, before I listened to kissin’s, Katchen made the best version of this piece
THE TEMPO AND DYNAMICS AND COMPLICATION OF THE VAR.14 OF BOOK I ARE SO STUNNING....
Absolutely brilliant...gives me goosebumps when I hear Kissin attack the 14th variation. So many pianists do not repeat the variation or leave it out all together because they do not do this section justice. Wish I could have seen this performance live.
Liszt, Rachmaninoff used this theme of Paganini. Didn't know that Brahms used it too! Brilliant!
Szymanowski, Lutoslawski and Andrew Lloyd Webber too.
And even Hamelin
Same I just discovered it !
Also Hillary Hahn and Schumann.
In what was a rare occasion for Brahms, he exhausted all his rhetorical resources in this work. This is as close as this composer ever comes to Alkan.
Listen to the 4th variation of the second set. It reminds me of gondola ride impressions through the canals of Venice, as interpreted by a North German with an unfettered Romantic inclination.
The internet is amazing. I learnt from a different channel how to play the piano. I used the app and learnt to read this morning. This afternoon I learnt technique then this evening I memorised this from the sheets and played it flawlessly to an audience
I think Brahms is genius. He actually tried to make this piece sounds like the violin piece. The trills. And 1:30 sounds like violin plucking
The variation seems to be a kind of meta reference to the first paganini caprice
Better and harder than the Liszt version
@@user-xg4ot7yl4qLizst's 1838 version is more difficult, but I do agree with the revised S. 140
I was fortunate enough to hear the young Kissin play this work live, an unbelievable experience. Hearing him again here is equally impressive, certainly on the rapid and brilliant side, (the opposite to Arrau's depth and grandeur, for example), but most enjoyable in its verve & clarity.
I would die for a live/video recording of this. 😢so envy
Thank you for making this. It's really convenient to look at the score and to listen the music at the same time.
You write impressively well about music; Brahms and Kissin would approve.
Yes you did.
Kissin's performance of the work is transcendent. It is extremely powerful, brilliant and moving. The best performance of this work in my opinion.
He has a recording of Pictures at an Exhibition that's great
a piano work of rare ingenuity - Brahms was second to none in his treatment of this oft-used theme. a kaleidoscopic showcase of emotions on display here!
My favourite interpretation of this masterwork.
Indeed.
Brahms has the genius to create an entire orchestra with a single piano, in these variations (and also in some of the Haendel's).
The way variation 7-9 of book 1 lead into each other is so cool.
Did every composer make variations of Paganini? xD
seems to be that way
biokaese. Yes, I think Billy Joel has made a recording of it which remains in the vaults.
pretty much
Lots of
Even Paganini made Variations on Paganini
The definitive recording. Kissin is incredible
Michelangeli live recording (only Book1) Warsaw 1955. Very good sound too...
Julius Katchen
I used to love Katchen’s until I found kissin’s
Interprétation incroyable et gigantesque, souffle, détails, quel pianiste !
Thanks for sharing that and the chapters with your annotations. I've always been fascinated with the cascade at 12:01.
키신이라는 연주자가 이세상에 있음에 감사하네요 브람스 파가니니의 비젼이 키신에 의해 확실히 보여지는것같아요
테크닉, 소리의 선명함 음악적 표현까지 어디하나 빠지지 않습니다
저한테 마지막 바리에이션은 진짜 넘지못할 산처럼 느껴지고 실제로도 못 넘었습니다ㅜㅜ
키신 브라보👏👏👏
셋의 조합이 완벽한 것 같아요. 브람스 파가니니 키신♡
この曲大好き！💕
激しい曲で感情が力強く表現されていて素晴らしいです✨
アイスはやっぱりパルム 今は銀ちゃんになったピアノちゃん❤️が解説付きで弾いてくれていて、この曲の存在を初めて知りました！素晴らしい曲ですねー( ˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ )
でも、難しすぎます(≧∀≦)流石のキーシンですねー(*´꒳`*)❤️💕😀
best variations 0:26 , 0:49 , 1:14 , 1:41 , 3:56 , 4:21 , 9:30 , 10:56 , 11:29 , 13:11 , 14:31 , 16:05 , 16:28
All of them lol
3:56 👍
My already great admiration for Evgeny Kissin's piano playing gets even bigger after listening to his stunning performance of the above Variations. I wonder who else can perform this fiendishly difficult piece by Brahms?
I‘ll wait for Yunchan Lim
@@dankurth4232 Kissin is better
@@GTXTi-db5xuye no shit yunchin lim is still young, kissin is already a well established pianist in his 50s
@@Numberonesorabjifan He recorded this in his 20's
@@GTXTi-db5xuyeah a good 8-9 years older than yunchan lim is rn (significant age gap at that range) give him some time. Although I don't think kissins recording is going to be topped.
Undoubtedly the pinnacle of technical and musical challenge. Conceived by Brahms. Channeled by the mastery of Kissin.
If Brahms and Rachmaninov made variatons like this on Caprice 24, is Caprice 24 a meme?
No. Something as complex as that can't be a meme ("meme" was conceived as analogue to "gene").
@@robertrossmair3626 There is another word Dawkins uses, it is more like culture.
There's also Liszt, Lutoslawski, Szymanowski, Muszinsky, Hamelin, Andrew Loyd-Webber and many more. It most definitely is a meme.
Guys being a meme isn’t always an insult
Omg, the first meme of history
This recording shows just how rich and thick the musical texture Brahms conveys. Not only is it rich but sonorous as well and technically demanding!
I don't listen to this piece very often because of the extreme technical intensity. To me, these books of variations/etudes are like the K2 of the piano. They're a nearly impossible undertaking. They exist beyond where anything can hope to live. They dwell in the Death Zone. They're not themselves even alive, but a creation of a machine that has complete ambivalence to whether you the mortal pianist live or die.
But if you somehow make it without turning back as any sensible person would do, you reach the truest summit of your craft. You achieve piano godhood. There can't be more than a couple dozen pianists alive at any one time who have truly mastered this.
Really love your musical analyses ! It adds a whole other dimension not only to the piece i am listening, but to yout channel :)
YES!!! since im an oboist and pianist, I of course knew i couldnt play this caprisse. BUT I DIDNT KNOW THAT BRAHMS CONVERTED IT TO PIANO!!! I will try to get this score... THANKS BRAHMS!!!!!
Brahms: *makes a piece on a Theme of Paganini*
Liszt: Oh, you're approaching me?
I like how the third variation is reminiscent of Paganini's 1st Caprice.
Great performance of it, by the way!
Brahms makes the theme his own, it’s marvelous!
I love how I hear this on piano tiles and think it’s a slow moving song, then I look on CZcams and become sad when my dreams of playing this easily are crushed
When Brahms chooses to be difficult he’s like early Liszt and Alkan decided to make a baby lol
Liskan 😂? Hhhhhh
And I came looking for an easier arrangement than Liszt's 24.
Brahms variations if fucking difficult.
Berkovich's one is pretty easy
Not only is this one about five times longer, but it's also about twice as difficult.
@@calebhu6383 Nope the 1848 version of the Liszt Paganini Etudes is even harder
Davide Pisanu you mean 1838, not 1848. And as a whole, the 1838 Paganini studies are harder than these variations made by Brahms, but if you were just comparing Liszt’s 1838 variations on this Paganini theme (the 6th etude) and these variations by Brahms, Brahms is much harder and more interesting
Number 12 is utterly outstanding. A musical jewel....
1:41 Var. 4 could be a pop song😂
violett ly It’s how generally repetitive it appears. Four chords repeated intensively beneath trills. Which comes to show, pop music can stem out of classical, but it appears that no big substance can stem out of pop. Pop is great in its place and time, but it’s ridiculously restricted and repetitive in its expressive means.
and Var. 3 (2nd Book) 14:31
well...now I realize why I should play Brahms's '51 exercises'. This is so crazy.
Var 13 always gets me with those octaves glissando :)
First and foremost, Liszt is one of my heroes, and his Sonata in B minor has had a profound influence in my life.
He was a tremendous pianist, and supreme arranger. Everyone agrees on that.
Nonetheless, I´d like to say to all of you in all fairness: Sight-reading these variations could be achievable ... playing these varitionas at first sight is impossible. We have to accept that there are a lot of myths and fallacies surrounding Liszt's persona. The dubious anecdote regarding Liszt performing these variations flawlessly at first sight, is one of those myths. Too bad we don't have recordings to support my argument.
As far as pianism is concerned, It is my firm belief that Brahms was as remarkable as Liszt. Do not belittle Brahms´ chefs d'oeuvre. From my point of view, Brahms and Beethoven wrote the most brilliant piano pieces ever.
Brahms´ greatest merit, in terms of pianism, was to commence moulding his unique style at a very young age, in an epoch were 90% of composers pianists were deeply influenced by Chopin.
Though very hard to imagine, it is possible to play these variations at first sight... I saw the pianist Conrad Tao sight-read Alkan etudes better than I could play them if I studied them. It was the kind of thing that I would never have believed if I hadn't witnessed it, and suddenly all those stories about Liszt (which I also thought were mostly myths) made sense to me...!
Imo Brahms wrote the best concerti (piano and violin)
@@Numberonesorabjifan
His violin Concerto in D is arguably the best single composition in all of music. Seriously, what did Beethoven write that beats it?
Balancing so perfectly harmonious. beautiful performance.
Kissin is a wonderful Pianist
I've been listening to a few of his recordings lately
19:48 is my favorite part ever.
It's so beautiful
The devil incarna- *I mean*, these variations, make pieces like Mazeppa, La Campanella, and the B minor Sonata feel like playing Mozart K.545
この曲に関しては文句無しでキーシンのこの時の演奏が一番素晴らしい。
The 12th variation of the first book is far ahead of its time. Nearly Scriabinesque/Rachmaninoffian in character
Book 1 Variation 14 is sublime...just awesome and extremely difficult
I listen him in Brussels when I was still at conservatory, he plays that and I don't Always understand how he's doing, great
Along with Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, this is one of the top-3 greatest theme and variations sets for the piano. Perhaps even greater? (that's just my opinion)
I’d personally replace the Diabellis w Godowsky’s passacaglia but agree w other two!!
Alkan's festin d'ope
Brahms Op. 9, Rachmaninov's Corelli 👌
19:24 HORRIBLY difficult. giving the respect for Kissin
Yes this is nearly impossible
The very best I ever heard!
Wunderschönes Stück! Einfach genial! Einfach anders
This is 100% Brahms proving his critics wrong. Brahms imo is the pinnacle of romantic era music. He paved the way for post romantic era composers, but it took years for anyone else to take up his challenge.
due monumenti: a Brahms per questa opera stupenda e a Kissin per la sua tecnica miracolosa!!!!
Oh.my.god evengy kissins performance is just... Wow! Unbelievably brilliant ! Var.14 his left hand is so good
3:35 chopin étude?
Opus 25/4?
Sounds like opus 25 #4.
Kissin is simply unbelievable. Book 1 is so cool.
After I watched the anime Nodame I fell in love with the piano and orchestra
Beautiful ! Thanks for sharing!
A stunning masterpiece. Not the stereotypical Brahms!
There is no stereotypical Brahms..
@@jeromeweingart5596 oh yes there is!
You are disrespecting Brahms so hard right now. I bet the only Brahms piece you know is his lullaby, and you’re just going off of that
@@awe331 I said its not the stereotypical Brahms, and its not. That doesn't mean I'm disrespecting Brahms, I love Brahms, and I play Brahms' keyboard works (never played the lullaby though!) Someone I heard commented on this piece that he "out Liszted Liszt" with this piece, which I think is true. The virtuosity in this piece is insane!
@@marcsmith7789that quote is debatable when one considers Liszt's La Clochette fantasy.
That octave glissando in variation 13 looks so scary and painful to play fast and well.
11:30 I'm in paradise😍😍😍😍🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😍😍😍❤️
Brahms I ❤️ you
This variation is up there with Bach and Chopin in terms of ingenius keyboard invention!
Que belleza ,no la habia escuchado la trscripsion al piano y de Brahns menos
This is the best recording of the Brahms -Paganini I know. the Arrau could have been better recored. Kissin is so smart he puts in the growlof the eighth chord in left hand .Obviously Brahms wanted that there is no accent but that he wrote another left hand chord there pianists shoud kow what this means . Yet I don't remember all the great and not famous pianiss too I ve heard not noticing . Or maybe ts my 1s time noticing . Kissin makes this exciting .I'm amazed hat other ianists dont bring out the lion in this . Backhaus,the young Kempf,the famous Brahms Julius Katchen player American who died young I need to hear him again .Pletnev does he play Brahms How could this firebreathig demon not play eithe rof the big Brahms Var. Katchen IS wonderful in the Brahms -Schumann which I grew up as a child loving ! ) Arrau got 3 suites in he Phillips along with Brendel who I say is a greater virtuoso with as much panache .I've been very against Arrau unfairly and foolishly but i have not heard good recordings and his piano sound is always not "right" .His Mozart playing is astonishingly ???Iwont say but if you hear Ingrid Haebler!!!,Uchida !! Perahia even Lili Kraus who has sincerely grown in my estimation ! in Mozart you realize ow Mozart should sound and how he makes sense. Many a supervirtuoso shows his lack of taste and ghetto demeanor in his essaying Mozart . Lupu recorded an ideal Mozart whni was achild with Andre Previn ( he is astonishing too in his own right. He was smarter than many international ly known pianistto have been able to play as he did with rather limited training . Brendel did right when he told Phillips that Haebler was worth representing . I have her Chpin waltzes on a cassette. she is a Phenomenon of taste and can play a passage in a way that no mtter how many centuries Im given I will never be able to accomplish . Someone tell me Rosalyn tureck left us some mozart . Did she tramp haha all around dis welt in all Bach recitals and was she recorded in any thing else. I must research this . I guess i better hear Kissin's Chopin again . when his videos came out along time ago . Ipicked them up couldnt wai to watch a great pianist as a child play chaikosky concerto. he shold give us no2 or 3 . How is it possible no.2 and 3 are so trivial and weak sounding. He wrote every one of thse symphonies is fine music and i want to study those orchestrations . Tchai was a very smart man .Trifonov is really impressing me . Noone plays chopin better than the almost unknown Chiu . record companies sould be pushing him .I think chiu is the most talented! most astute, tasteful virtuoso -trueMUSICIEN ( a are beast ) on this planet . If he ever gives us some Liszt it will out class every other Lisztian on the planet .Poetry in chopin is not as obvious as the cheap peanut gallery would have us think. Hear his etudes and then write and beg for the Ballades, Scherzi an Nocturnes someday !!!! Forget Pollini ,dust off Cortot and see how much diving of chopin chiu really accomplishes I need a piano blog but who the hell am i and i never
studied with a famous teacher or went to a conservatory and even today now that Im
woke still couldnt even win a competitin in my own little town . I simply canot play piano ! But I've learned aout style , taste and judgement and i know a little about what
the hands sound like when they fall on a keyboard . Perlemuter 's etudes why didnt we hear them earlier not great stuff. I have so many recordings of he Chopin etudes .Brailowsky is worth remembering ? Cziffra defintiely IS !
Fantastic! It's no wonder that Clara Schumann called these Hexenvariotionen, Witches ' Variations!
0:01, 2:53, 9:57, 11:35, 14:18, 15:22
Liszt - Paganini : La Campanella ; Rachmaninoff - Paganini : Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini ; Brahms - Paganini : Variations on a Theme of Paganini.
also, Liszt-Paganini etude 3 / caprice 24
Thai Anh Phan Liszt has 6 Etudes after paganini + grand paraphrase on la clochette
@@jogosoline8661 Schumann has a set as well.
@@calebhu6383 chopin too
@@ygl163 Yep, almost forgot about that one.
Variation 14 is amazing
alik1989 And variation 4 (especially in the beginning) is just spectacular and beautiful as well. :D
Did Brahms himself ever play this in public?
Most composers played their own works, so it's possible.
Yes, he did in 1865.
@@geckogra1747 Brahms' performance was the premier.
Liszt has indeed been out-Liszted. Wow
Not really, that is just the uploader's subjective opinion. If you look at some of Liszt's horrendously difficult opera fantasies, these Paganini variations do not stand up to them in terms of difficulty.
Andrei Cristian Anghel fair enough. But it’s at least on par with most of his piano works.
Andrei Cristian Anghel I’m playing this piece right now and I can tell you that it might very well be one of the hardest pieces ever written if you play it as well as Kissen did
Andrei Cristian Anghel I didn’t say it was the hardest, I said it might be one of the hardest. And playing and learning this piece will drive you crazy
@@gidster192 Whether you're playing them or not is irrelevant. This work is certainly not one of the hardest pieces ever written, read my previous comment again, and have a look at Liszt's S697 Fantasy on Figaro and Don Giovanni (as edited by Howard) which easily outshines these Brahms variations in terms of difficulty.
+Ashish Xiangyi Kumar May you correct the time for variation 5, which starts at 2:45, please?
3 amazing names in one sentence
22:48 is just wonderful
Johannes Brahms:Változatok egy Paganini-témára Op.35
I.kötet
1. Téma:Non troppo presto 00:00
2. 1.variáció 00:25
3. 2.variáció 00:49
4. 3.variáció 01:14
5. 4.variáció 01:40
6. 5.variáció 02:25
7. 6.variáció 03:33
8. 7.variáció 03:56
9. 8.variáció 04:21
10. 9.variáció 04:47
11. 10.variáció 06:07
12. 11.variáció:Andante 07:45
13. 12.variáció 09:30
14. 13.variáció 10:56
15. 14.vriáció:Allegro 11:29
II.kötet
16. 1.variáció 13:11
17. 2.variáció 13:56
18. 3.variáció 14:31
19. 4.variáció:Poco allegretto 15:00
20. 5.variáció 16:05
21. 6.variáció:Poco piú vivace 16:28
22. 7.variáció 16:50
23. 8.variáció 17:07
24. 9.variáció 17:35
25. 10.variáció:Feroce,energico 18:35
26. 11.variáció:Vivace 19:24
27. 12.variáció:Un poco andante 19:48
28. 13.variáció:Un poco piú andante 21:08
29. 14.variáció:Presto,ma non troppo 22:16
Jevgenyij Kiszin-zongora
Köszönöm az értékelést
16:20 THE BEST SHEET IN MY LIFE
Just imagine if Reger ever composed variations on this theme and ended with an earth-shattering fugue? Lol
well reger is brahms on xanax after all
Bravo.Thanks Brahms nice and difficult piano variation works for us .Very useful for piano learner.I love it.
곡도 곡이지만 키신 진짜 존나 잘친다. 브람스, 쇼팽, 리스트, 라흐마니노프가 들어도 감탄만 할듯
Kissin ,, He is insane..
Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov All They can't believe it.
Io da profana, dico solo che è una musica sublime. È la musica giusta per cominciare un "Nuovo Anno". Grazie. Tanto Amore per tutti.
Wowwww!!!!!!.... sublimeeeee....que precisión por Dios...... transcendente!!!!!!!
I'm wondering if variation 3, book II is a reference to Schumann's F sharp minor sonata? Actually I'm pretty certain
Does anyone know what brand of piano Kissin used for this piece?
The best of the best, Steinway & Sons. Kissin is a Steinway artist.
The variation n. 11 (07:45) is something that touches you "inside".
Thanks, Ashish for the excellent commentary!
Kissin's technical prowess is Horowitzian in this reading. Variation 11: even Michelangeli leaves it out; Anda flubs part of it; Bachauer slows it down a bit to play it; Wuja Wang mutes out the octaves and does the variation with the thumbs and index fingers emphasized. The rest of the books are tossed off magically and Kissin takes time to bring out the musical elements. I wonder if Brahms was able to fly through these. Or even wanted to. Arrau's reading is less acrobatic, less like what you'd hear from Argerich, but weightier.....more moderate tempi.......more Brahmsian............nothing glib or supersonic tempi.
Paul Jones. I was gonna say that!
Brahms, it seems, complained that much of his music was played too fast. I think that Kissin really got this as right as it can be.
Kissin's recording is incredible, though I feel like Arrau plays is closer to how I imagine Brahms would have likely played it.
I mean, Kissin has the best Feux Follets too D:
What are you talking about, Michelangeli played the 11th variation. Listen to his 1948 recording.
Kissin. ..un génie du piano
Wait....what are the black keys for?
great description. great video. great success
Brahms-Kissin son una combinación estremecedora Diría insuperable