I cant believe nobody has done this yet 0:09 - I 2:19 - II 5:21 - III

@cubycube9924

5 ай бұрын

Ayyy thx

Man this is some DIVERSE music

@LazarSoljaga

6 жыл бұрын

Ah i see your a man of culture as well.

@VarynDEE33t

6 жыл бұрын

Lazar Soljaga I forgot the source of this reference. I knew at the time of writing this but now I forgot xD

@LazarSoljaga

6 жыл бұрын

The dude from Become the Knight made a fuss about Despasito not being a diverse song because it was just in spanish but still used typical pop song cords and drums. So he made a list of songs that sound nothing like typical pop songs. We both saw that video and here we are.

@VarynDEE33t

6 жыл бұрын

Lazar Soljaga Ah yes, thank you for jogging my memory.

@darriancampbell9928

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Become the knight

0:00 no1 2:19 no2 5:18 no.3

@justelynnnjoelle

5 жыл бұрын

Bless your soul.

@AsrielKujo

3 жыл бұрын

5:18 no.3 Please fix

They are almost horrifyingly captivating that makes me listen to again and again. Bartok is a pure genius.

@Prelude_Op.23-No.5

Жыл бұрын

"The desire of repeated sounds".

I just got educated, thx Mike.

@krypto360

7 жыл бұрын

Rika lmao this is diverse? This doesn't even have a rhythm fucking boring

@ryanbollinger1759

7 жыл бұрын

FallingLeaf It's diverse because it's stupidly complex with the thyme signatures, chords, and progressions

@krypto360

7 жыл бұрын

it's all over the place this is garbage.

@op-th1yx

2 жыл бұрын

@@krypto360 the composer was known for a quite funny philosophy. He insisted that piano was a percussion instrument, and that’s what his music revolves around. You can literally hear the rhythmic play in the first etude. His music is very fun listening to

Not even joking, this is honestly one of my top three favorite videos on KZread ever.

@niinaranta3014

6 жыл бұрын

same

@NF30

2 жыл бұрын

Update: It is no longer top 3 but it is still very good. Also I fixed a 4 year old typo

@dylanl.3366

2 жыл бұрын

@@NF30 was not expecting to see a 39 minute old reply here lol

@NF30

2 жыл бұрын

@@dylanl.3366 Hahaha I was not expecting to make that reply but then I saw the video and saw that I had written a comment 4 years ago which I didn't even remember making and I'm bored and don't want to do homework so I figured I would fix it and stuff. Also since then I learned the first movement of Out of Doors and it is one of my favorite pieces I have ever played!

@miss_honk

2 жыл бұрын

@@NF30 what are your three favorites now.

Bartok is Absolutely a Genius. This set of Etude not only makes you to practice your technique, but also educates you the music notation/engraving, solfege. PLUS, this is enjoyable to listen to. Perfect Etude.

Bartok is a genius. How is he able to produce such sounds? It just blows me away. That second etude is really something, the mysteriousness and eeriness just gets to me every time. But it should be impossible for me to play.

@Ar1osssa

2 жыл бұрын

Skill question

Just heard about the news....RIP Mr Koscsis :(

i literally can't stop listening to these its addictive

This is freaking brilliant

once again Bartok leaves me speechless, a wonderful performance.

@TimothySweeney

10 жыл бұрын

I believe Robert Fripp said "music can be a considerable friend at times" and so I have rediscovered Erik Satie's Gymnopedes and Gnossiennes, I may attempt # 3 on the mandocello. Which led me to Bartok's Three Etudes, not for the nervous to be sure. Then there's this Bill Frisell "Dysfarmer", distinctly American Music. and Hendrix of course. What are you listening to ?

@Zantorc

10 жыл бұрын

Timothy Sweeney Conlon Nancarrow. Study no.21,Wyschnegradsky - Twenty-four Preludes in Quarter-tones; No. 3, Anything by Kaikhosru Sorabji, any piano work by Sciarrino, anything by Bach, Barkarole by Thomas Blomenkamp, Jessye Norman - Beim Schlafengehen by R Strauss, Electra by R Strauss, Cecilia Bartoli Vivaldi- Gelido in ogni vena, Berezovsky plays Liszt's Transcendental etudes, Robert Johnson- Crossroad blues, and quite a lot of Hendrix. (You can find most of this on KZread).

the second etude is so beautifully sinister

Fascinating. All the classic Bartok Idioms and harmonic devices are there. Only a genius could make something so discordant and complex so fascinating, engaging and simply listenable.

It took me quite a while to understand modern music. The more you listen, the more your brain gets used to listening for different kinds of harmony.

@m.a.g.3920

2 ай бұрын

The final Boss Cecil Taylor😂😂😂

Truly a genius!

@stravinskyfan

2 жыл бұрын

It would be cool if you make a synthesia of this. Would be crazy to visualize this masterpiece on synthesia.

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

23 people are scared s*itless by the pure brutality of these amazing etudes. Nobody plays Bartok better that Kocsis.

20 seconds in and I already love this.

Kocsis is so phenomenal. This is one example of his phenomenal technique and polish. Another good one is his recording of the original version of the Rachmaninoff Sonata No. 2. Unreal!

Zoltan Kocsis is my favorite Bartók interpreter.

Two Hungarian genius. Bartók and Kocsis...

@nicholas72611

9 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Liszt!

@kyletomlinson5365

9 жыл бұрын

nicholas72611 ha its you again

@nicholas72611

9 жыл бұрын

Kyle Tomlinson Where did you last see me?

@nicholas72611

9 жыл бұрын

Kyle Tomlinson Ohhhhh are you the guy who said Prokofiev was shit?

@kyletomlinson5365

9 жыл бұрын

nah I was on that reply chain thing though

very interesting for me. I am glad the score is displayed. The interpretation of the Mr Kocsis is simply breathtaking.

the difficulty of the piano is extreme here...how skilled one pianist can perform this..

Bartok is the kinda guy to use time signature 47/20

Stunning. Absolutely stunning.

Those final chords of the first etude, oh my god pure genius

@CziffraTheThird

6 жыл бұрын

Sebastien Traglia Speaking of final chords...the ones to the end of the third...unbelievable timbres Bartók created...so hair raising, pure ecstasy.

@sevenlayer8780

3 жыл бұрын

Only Bartok could combine this type of craftsmanship, rhythmic drive, and sonorous beauty. Look and listen closely; for music that is so frenzied, there are tonal relationships everywhere (etude #1 continually exploits and teases the F#-B, dominant-tonic relationship).

Great and complex music, Bela was really a master at his craft.

I. Allegro molto [00:09] II. Andante sostenuto [02:20] III. Rubato - Tempo giusto [05:20]

Good lord this looks so ridiculously hard!

Thank you for sharing this awesome music and video with its wondrously difficult score. It’s beguiling visually as well as aurally, and there is a certain amount of synergy that this video creates. I have watched this over a dozen times, over the past several years, even shared this (link) on my facebook a few times, and it never gets old. I also kept looking up iTunes for this very fantastic recording by Zoltan Kocsis, but it never seems available. So here I am, revisiting this, for the Nth time. Thank you again.

Bartok was a genius . First he goes out into the countryside and discovers that the peasant's music is more harmonically advanced than "Western classical music, " then he adapts that into his style creating something wonderful and unique. By the way I love dissonance. Check out Jancek also please.

the third one is just like bartok saying "these classical musicians want time signatures? *ill give them time signatures*"

See, THIS is real music!

Mr. Kocsis gets it all - thanks for sharing this!

This is just incredible; I tried to follow the notes and my eyes are now permanently rolling. I 'Favourited' this within the first 5 seconds

Shockingly good. Thanks for putting this up!!

These etudes... every once in a while I'm like "ahhh, this is so cool let's give it shot"... and hour later I'm like "good god Ligeti is easier". Besides the amount of chromaticism, difficult passagework, the rhythm is so damn complex... the third etude goddamn.

@moev51

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, sorry-- Legeti is pure torment. I'll take the Bartok.

@jethroolivier868

2 жыл бұрын

Scriabin Op. 65 also screaming

@AlbertoHernandez-zm9ul

2 жыл бұрын

lol lol same here!!

That second etude... Probably listened like 10 times now... Wow!

Very expressive, beautiful performance.

thanks this is great! immediately added to my favorites

@MichaelAMAoun

Жыл бұрын

You have good taste!

Become the knight sent me here

an amazing performance. what a great pianist he is!

So difficult yet beautiful

Who else is here cuz of become the knight

@pramodacharya6756

6 жыл бұрын

i am

@schwarzenudel2937

6 жыл бұрын

aidan craig me xD

@brucenatelee

5 жыл бұрын

ROCK ON! One year later, but still.

@OofBoi727

5 жыл бұрын

I am

Truly remarkable. Such masterful music. Bartok is so great. Played to perfection here. Thanks for sharing.

I'm starting to think these are even more modern, radical and impossibly difficult (both technically and intellectually) than Ligeti's fabled etudes. I don't think they could be played better than this. Kocsis was to Bartok what Larrocha was to Albeniz and Granados. Untouchable, in a class all of their own. I wonder if Kocsis would have given us the benchmark recording of the Ligeti etudes had he been granted more time.

Szervusz. These are three beautiful pieces that we can enjoy thanks to the mastery of such a great interpreter of Béla Bartók's music like Mr. Kocsis. Bravo!

Fantastic playing of some fiendishly difficult works! BRAVO KOCSIS! Zsenialis!

I'm in total awe that someone could play this. Zoltan Kocsis must be one epic pianist, right up there with Hamelin in the raw technique to deal with the seemingly impossible department. My finger tips hurt just thinking about it.

just amazing piece

I love these etudes the second in particular is so beautiful in its own perverted way.

Thanks! great etudes and performance

The first etude is threathening af 😂

amazing music and great performance !

I always think of something diabolical when I listen to these, like gargoyles or demons dancing or something, especially the first and third. The second makes me think of something like stepping on broken glass or something...its very disturbing. The third is the true "devil's staircase" I think.

Pffff the scales of the third movement are so freaking amazing

Incredible!

Sono difficilissimi quasi ineseguibili! 😲🙂👍

I can’t even imagine how you read all those arpeggios in mvmt 2 with all those accidentals

Best nourishment for the mind!

Did anyone hear a bit of Gaspard de la Nuit in this? Chords from Scarbo...

@NanaKwame96

10 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, totally. The ending of the First Etude.. And a little bit from even the second etude.

@banjalien

6 жыл бұрын

Yes I thought same thing...

@vnwa7390

5 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought before I saw this comment

this looks like so much fun

For some reason i've been taking a liking to atonal pieces and i found this. This is very interesting to listen to and impressive bartok was able to write this. Atonal pieces are hard to make well.

feel the power and emotion.

best version!

honestly as a pianist I love challenge like when I heard the liszt sonata I was like I could so work hard on this and feel good after. the first glance I took at these etudes repelled me in such aggravating fascination. but its a piece i know ill never bother with because my im just gonna have a nervous breakdown trying

Genial! 100%! Cant, imagine better version of these pieces.

Incredible performance of these impossible works.

Fabuleux !

Fantastic.

what a genius!!

The first etude is amazing! These are extremely hard but still help enhance technique.

Fantastic!

oh my God, I'm not a pianist but this sound terribly difficult! and Kocsis is a phenomenon, as always!

Incredible

Kocsis is amazing.

These are some really challenging studies, musically and technically biting and neurotic. I've always found them more fascinating than much of Bartok's other piano music. He wrote these in a transitional period of his career (along with The Miraculous Mandarin), and understood the limited appeal these would have to the general public. The older Paul Jacobs recording still resonates in my ear strongly, though the performance here is staggeringly good.

This is fucking AWESOME!!!

Finally hearing something great from Hungary. I'm saying that as a Hungarian myself.

@abraxasstone

4 жыл бұрын

You’ve never heard Liszt, then! A great Hungarian composer, not the most famous but definitely one of the best.

@the_seer_0421

4 жыл бұрын

@@abraxasstone nah, I think I have heard of him but it was a long time ago. I need to check him out.

@abraxasstone

4 жыл бұрын

Alrighty c:

@scriabinismydog2439

4 жыл бұрын

@@abraxasstone I think Liszt is the most famous hungarian composer actually... Hell he's one of the most famous composers in all Europe

Also, the first etude is like La Campanella on steroids

@antoniolosciale

8 жыл бұрын

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@vnwa7390

5 жыл бұрын

La Campanella on steroids is Liszt's "La Clochette" fantasy, which includes the La Campanella theme and runs for about 15 minutes, presenting various extreme difficulties; far more difficult than any of these etudes, if majorly considered.

@vnwa7390

4 жыл бұрын

@@paeffill9428 Any of them are arguably harder than La Clochette, depending on the pianist; likewise, La Clochette is arguably harder than any of them depending on the pianist/keyboardist.

@vnwa7390

4 жыл бұрын

@@paeffill9428 I really don't get it. La Clochette and these etudes can generally be considered to be in the same realm of difficulty and it's different for every individual (it's more difficult than any of the etudes for me personally for example); using a Sorabji-Haydn outlandish analogy here doesn't make any sense. By the way, I shouldn't call you a nut because you seem rather musically knowledgeable and I've seen you around youtube on the obscure and relatively popular music videos.

i would love to see this live!

I read, Ligeti tried to write works like Bartók. Now, I understand, why they write in the book, where I read it. :) This is fantastic, thanks for upload!

¡Estupenda esta colección de música!

One of the hardest etude sets I know.

Excellent.

An etude that I will surely play someday.

wonderful

Kocsis is perfect, but I miss the swing that Argerich gives to Bartók. Thank you for sharing!

Oh wow really diverse music

You've got a fantastic channel. Very interesting music. And one can really appreciate the technical difficulties when there is a score to follow. Like with Rachmaninov, you would not want to have small hands attempting this sort of music.

Sometimes I think, with a lot of practice, I could be a decent pianist. Then I look at stuff like this and get discouraged. Then I try and fail to play Baa Baa Black Sheep and I want to kill myself. Oh well.

@ElliMsp

7 жыл бұрын

arjens0 I really can't tell if you are being serious or wether this was just sarcasm?

@lbteacher7903

7 жыл бұрын

arjens0 Absolutely right! And Zoltan Kocsis definitely had them all!! I particularly love his Rachmaninoff Sonata No.2, Liszt Piano Concerto No.2, all his Debussy masterpieces , and many more from other composers all the way from early Baroque period to the late Romantic period. I would love to listen to all the Hungarian folk music that he played if I could find it.

Thanks John - I'll look these up - as I say, the composition itself is so dramatic that it carries the player along as long as they just get the notes right - but more anon - it sounds like you know others with interesting performances....

I don't listen to nearly enough Bartok.

@sanicyouth6540

9 жыл бұрын

jackal59 I don't listen to nearly enough classical music. I must fix that.

@slipperyslope7970

7 жыл бұрын

Piano Sonata Sz.80 is one of the masterpieces of all piano literature.

01:57 is unbelievable

6:32

Bijzonder goed gespeeld

화이팅!!! 할 수 있다!!

exquisite

madness!!

Damn this is DIVERSE as hell. Tbh i reallly do like it