I HAVE TO GET USED TO THIS - REACTING TO FRANZ LISZT FEUX FOLLET - EVGENY KISSIN
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Yeah this piece is a real monster! To put it in perspective as to why this is so hard I'll make a list. You have here:
~Incredibly fast runs with awkward fingerings
~Double note technique (try to move your 4th finger and your pink really fast... It's really hard right? Now try that while moving your other three fingers in time with it in a particular order... Even harder!)
~Huge jumps and leaps (this difficulty is exacerbated further by the fact that you have to do these WHILE doing the other stuff as well!)
~Intricate and difficult voicing due to the sheer mass of notes( basically how to make the melody stand out in front of everything else)
~Tight and awkward hand crossings which must be performed in tandem with these other techniques
I really don’t understand how that’s even possible…
Schumann called these "studies of storm and dread for, at most, 10 or 12 pianists in the world."
I saw Evgeny Kissin play in Philadelphia about a month ago. It was absolutely amazing, and he did 4 encores! Thanks for reacting to this! I highly suggest listening to some of the Chopin Etudes!
The next transcendental etude (No. 6) of Liszt resembles a funeral march, possibly in remembrance of the vast majority of concert pianists in history who never made their way to Feux Follets alive.
i love evgeny kissin
This piece even harder than it looks. The right hand is almost entirely in double notes, and not just thirds either. Lots of intervals mixed together. I hope you react to Marc-Andre Hamelin's playing one day. He has the best technique of all time and plays some insane pieces. His hands are fascinating to watch.
Ahh My favorite transcendental etude! Liszt was really known to be a completely skilled virtuoso pianist, who liked to show off what he can do, well at least from his earlier years. He was known to have sight-read Chopin's etudes perfectly. He was also known to be incredibly attractive, When he performs, the audience goes mad crazy to the point that women throws underwear to him and some pass out. And you might not believe this, but these are actually the easy (well at least for Liszt) versions of the actual monster pieces he made. These "Transcendental etudes" are actually transcriptions of his "Douze Grande etudes" which are completely impossible to play. Anyways. nice reaction!
Damn imagine been this talented and also good looking…
@@GIDIREACTS lol yeah
Some pieces are hard just cause there’s always so much going on to think about, but this one I just don’t get how it physically works
Btw the main hard thing is actually just the right hand, because when it’s playing that main fast thing, it’s two notes at a time at that speed, so they sound almost like single notes at first but they’re actually chords going that fast (that’s why his hand looks more spread out doing it compared to other little fast stuff. You can see how he switches from single to double notes at about 1:58)
I recently stumbled across your channel and I’ve really enjoyed watching your reactions. I relate a lot to you when you first discovered classical music.
I recommend you listen to Chopin nocturne op 48 no 1, seong Jin Cho’s performance is my personal favorite. It’s a great piece and always puts me in the feels.
Appreciate it!
Imma put that on my list too, really enjoy chopin pieces
Nice Video, that was even that piece i recommended as well for you t watch.
But Liszt didn't just composed brutally difficuld music pieces like the sonata in b-minor, he also composed easier pieces like the 5 little piano pieces, the 6 consolations (1 and 2 one are the easiest from all of the six) and la cloche sonne you should react to them as well. I would especially love to see your reaction on the la cloche sonne, the 6 consolations and the 5 little piano pieces.
Greetings again from Bavaria.
Yo very good reaction!
I know how to play that piece, I have a video on my Chanel, it's really fun to play after practice very much
great reaction!! feux follets is actually an etude, which im sure you're quite familiar with already haha. it's main purpose is to train the right hand to do these incredibly difficult and awkward patterns where your fingers practically need to be independent, and at a high speed too. this is the 5th of liszt's 12 transcendental etudes which, i again highly recommend, and it's commonly known as one of liszt's most technically difficult pieces. these transc. etudes go beyond just being etudes anymore, just insanely difficult music XD keep it up!
Liszt is the piano Paganini😀😱😲💓❤️🥰😘👍🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
I only recently found out that it’s pronounced Feux Follets and not Foul Fawlets
lang lang - reminiscences de Don Juan:) Carnegie hall hardest Liszt piece ever composed.
Not quite the hardest but yes that's another beast
@@skillbomb8823 what piece is harder than the de Don Juan lol
@@chickenman9059 I'll throw one out, though it isn't to be played at the tempo shown by many synthesia videos of it. Liszt etudes d'execution transcendante d'après Paganini s140 4b. Also some other reminiscences like reminiscences de Lucrezia Borgia. Spanish songbook comes to mind as well
@@skillbomb8823 I just think the general longevity of the piece is what makes it more challenging than others. Maintaining the speed of broken octave passages, trills, massive octave jumps etc through the final few bars of the work.
@@chickenman9059 Spanish song book and Lucrezia Borgia are both longer than Don Juan and I'd still say that the s140 4b etude is harder. Check the pieces out and you'll see. Also i should add I'm not at all discrediting the difficulty of Don Juan. It is a monstrous piece, with even Scriabin injuring his hand practising it and Balakirevs islamey.
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I have talked to and know several pianists who perform as concert pianists, and they all say the same, technique can be learned if you start early and practice very hard, then at some point it becomes not to bad. What you need to listen for when hearing these performances is not the speedy and flashy bits but melody, clarity, connection and personality. No to classical pieces are played the same at this level, and this especially becomes very clear when the piece becomes slow, as if the performer is naked. I recommend listening to the same recording without video played by different pianists, then try to pick up the differences and train your ear. I noticed you like Valentina Lisitsa, try to compare her rachmaninoff to Martha Argerich, tell us what you found!
Good one, I’ll keep that in mind thanks 😌
Perhaps try Liszt's Réminiscences de Don Juan if you are trying to find the hardest liszt piece out there
Don Juan is awesome and very difficult but it isn’t the hardest. Even among the Liszt fantasies - Lucrezia Borgia, Puritains, Norma, Huguenots etc are all more difficult. The Beethoven symphony transcriptions, obscure works like Spanish Fantasy or Romancero Espagnol are also harder
Try listening to Chopin’s Four ballades
He has reacted to zimerman playing ballades 1 and 4 on this channel
So. They put this on Liszt.
I see what you did there lol I ain’t gon lie it took me a second 😅
@@GIDIREACTS Lol.
@@GIDIREACTS By the way i can play piano too.