George Li plays Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

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Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Performed by George Li
Tippet Rise Art Center, The Olivier Music Barn, July 8, 2016
Film Director: Kathy Kasic
Cinematographers: Katie Mullen, Billy Collins, Kathy Kasic, Taylor Fraser
Editors: Claude DeMoss, Taylor Fraser
Sound Recording: Mickey Houlihan, Monte Nickles, Jake Pickett, Joe Shepard
Sound Mastering: Dominick Maita

Пікірлер: 164

  • @efmusic04
    @efmusic044 жыл бұрын

    If anyone is wondering, this is Rachmaninoff's cadenza.

  • @peterluger1400

    @peterluger1400

    3 жыл бұрын

    thanks

  • @efmusic04

    @efmusic04

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@peterluger1400 no problem

  • @charlesdavis7087

    @charlesdavis7087

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the insight. I got kind of confused at first... and didn't think it really worked.

  • @julianruiz4725
    @julianruiz47256 жыл бұрын

    His face makes it look like it's either really easy or really hard.I think hard

  • @zedlarae

    @zedlarae

    5 жыл бұрын

    I am surprised to find someone else who likes twenty one pilots here.

  • @fernandomedina7320

    @fernandomedina7320

    5 жыл бұрын

    He has good technique but when he plays the piano his face is stupid, ridiculous, facial gestures very exaggerated and funny.

  • @majornewb

    @majornewb

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@fernandomedina7320 It's how he emotionally conveys this piece you idiot, everybody has a different style

  • @DealerCamel
    @DealerCamel7 жыл бұрын

    Impeccable technique. Great energy too.

  • @terezap.5660

    @terezap.5660

    6 жыл бұрын

    Debyise moonlight

  • @susfranzliszt

    @susfranzliszt

    5 жыл бұрын

    6:00 O MY LORD!!!

  • @theMad_Artist
    @theMad_Artist6 жыл бұрын

    The friska is perfect. Wonderfully voiced, especially in the bass.

  • @leot7

    @leot7

    6 жыл бұрын

    Abhik Mazumder Most people will probably disagree but it was too fast for me

  • @nathanqi1998

    @nathanqi1998

    Жыл бұрын

    @Leo T, George Li's interpretation is indeed much faster than most, but it is also exhilarating; he is amazing indeed. The Friska is supposed to be fast, btw.

  • @lucidviolin1298
    @lucidviolin1298 Жыл бұрын

    not only was this an amazingly immaculate rendition of this piece but that piano's tone is so well-balanced it makes me wanna play it haha

  • @Azian2DaMax
    @Azian2DaMax4 жыл бұрын

    6:20 never ceases to put a big ol smile on my face.

  • @richardwalker9826
    @richardwalker9826 Жыл бұрын

    fluid - dynamic- and passionate- and light and caring- i feel carried away to another place of peace.

  • @DERICR
    @DERICR7 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely breathtaking, to say the very least. Love George Li.

  • @jeniferbliss9698
    @jeniferbliss96984 жыл бұрын

    George plays this with so much musical expression. He really feels the music he is playing! As it should be!!! Bravo George!!!

  • @hopesonmakokha5217
    @hopesonmakokha52176 жыл бұрын

    Astonishing! I've heard this piece many times, a lot of pianists always bring something unique to this piece. This was a great performance! I feel Inspired

  • @jeniferbliss9698
    @jeniferbliss96984 жыл бұрын

    What an amazing performance!!! My grandfather, Henry Fischer, used to play this piece. He was really good, but George is even better!!!

  • @laopang91362
    @laopang913625 жыл бұрын

    I have been watch George Li for sometimes, great job!!!

  • @agastyaraul6710
    @agastyaraul67104 жыл бұрын

    My face when someone asks me to play für Elise:7:08

  • @ericliberto6185
    @ericliberto6185 Жыл бұрын

    Just saw Mr. Li performing in Little Rock! Absolutely outstanding!

  • @azraelsoluna110
    @azraelsoluna1103 ай бұрын

    FANTASTIC

  • @kodypickney6462
    @kodypickney64623 жыл бұрын

    8:12 to 8:30 was the best part!!

  • @bellaaa9340
    @bellaaa93407 жыл бұрын

    beautiful!!

  • @giovanni98000
    @giovanni980006 жыл бұрын

    Great!! Amazing! Best performance!!

  • @ronsolomon1405
    @ronsolomon14055 жыл бұрын

    A very exceptional performer. My very best wishes to you in your concert career. You will bring to many people the great joy of music. Some people think they are special. Your are special.

  • @semrabahcivan8627
    @semrabahcivan86276 жыл бұрын

    Amazing, thank you.

  • @leonorisabelantillonsargen3419
    @leonorisabelantillonsargen34197 жыл бұрын

    Gracias, es un enorme disfrute.

  • @amilcarcarpintero7422
    @amilcarcarpintero74223 жыл бұрын

    hHow much precision !!! Excellent presentation. GREEEAT!

  • @ismaelsoto9680
    @ismaelsoto96807 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic, so fresh.

  • @RUGTP
    @RUGTP6 жыл бұрын

    Great playing, and good quality of the recording!

  • @augustineng1673
    @augustineng16736 жыл бұрын

    Well done, George Li! Bravo!!!

  • @gerdlindlar1980
    @gerdlindlar19806 жыл бұрын

    fabulous

  • @AndreasMBrndhaugen
    @AndreasMBrndhaugen3 жыл бұрын

    Incredible performance!

  • @zutaten
    @zutaten5 жыл бұрын

    great power and technique, Bravo!

  • @davidlerell
    @davidlerell5 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful !

  • @deandbn
    @deandbn6 жыл бұрын

    Excellent Performance.

  • @garysandiego
    @garysandiego6 жыл бұрын

    Darn! This kid is good. First time I've heard him play. I got to look into this fellow.

  • @Htfsik

    @Htfsik

    8 ай бұрын

    I’ve just come back to this recording. Still spell binding. Which cadenza was this?

  • @johnybrokeit
    @johnybrokeit5 жыл бұрын

    My goshhhhh! I’m numb now. What a master at this skill, Mr. George is. I’m blown away; more like, hit with a cricket bat hard on the face cuz i still am dazed at this performance. This is perfection! Mastery. To remember all that, and to play it all with such emotion and perfection (I say it yet again), maestro :) I wish you all the very best in life! You could get Any girl on the planet doing that, man. Even 2 at the same time, to live with you forever 😄🤷🏾‍♂️

  • @larysayevdokymova-rizk6036
    @larysayevdokymova-rizk60367 жыл бұрын

    Bright future💎

  • @michaelturov4439
    @michaelturov44395 жыл бұрын

    Bravo, George!!!

  • @natashadimitrovagyaurova4855
    @natashadimitrovagyaurova48552 жыл бұрын

    Dios!!! Impecable!!!!

  • @Majestic469
    @Majestic4695 жыл бұрын

    This interpretation is extremely unique, especially towards the end.... but well played!

  • @zachbosch-bird1005

    @zachbosch-bird1005

    4 жыл бұрын

    haha yeah i think he was playing the Rachmaninoff cadenza

  • @joseph.r1122
    @joseph.r11222 жыл бұрын

    Bravo!

  • @PDN11141
    @PDN111414 жыл бұрын

    Bravo.

  • @gerdlindlar1980
    @gerdlindlar19804 жыл бұрын

    beauté surréale! et joie transcendentale!

  • @lucianobrevi295
    @lucianobrevi2952 жыл бұрын

    Grande pianista con un talento eccezionale

  • @nekrotico7
    @nekrotico75 жыл бұрын

    Amazing , bravo. a red bull for the elders...

  • @charlesdavis7087
    @charlesdavis70873 жыл бұрын

    The clarity and precision of the left hand were beyond anything I've ever heard before. But I think that the Rockmonoff cadenza didn't really work. You're ready to write your own cadenza George. Bravo young Jedi.

  • @Walnutpaste

    @Walnutpaste

    2 жыл бұрын

    rockmonoff

  • @j.m.5354
    @j.m.53542 жыл бұрын

    bravo!!!

  • @DC-op6no
    @DC-op6no4 жыл бұрын

    This Steinway is awesome like George Li !

  • @manliorodriguez9024
    @manliorodriguez90247 жыл бұрын

    ES UN VIRTUOSO DEL PIANO ESTE ARTISTA, ME GUSTA SU INTERPRETACIÓN

  • @mohamadharier654
    @mohamadharier6543 жыл бұрын

    My god this is clean

  • @user-yj3bq5tm6q
    @user-yj3bq5tm6q6 жыл бұрын

    Perfect speed

  • @Unity2002
    @Unity20025 жыл бұрын

    this dude is a god... wow probably the best version of this i've seen besides the ones done by computers

  • @orsemcore

    @orsemcore

    4 жыл бұрын

    the ones done by computers sound shit though

  • @marccutirella

    @marccutirella

    4 жыл бұрын

    Unity this version suck. His rythm in this piece is awful. Way to fast

  • @eastbaypianist
    @eastbaypianist4 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding! Very moving.

  • @gsilverstone
    @gsilverstone6 жыл бұрын

    What a handsome genius!

  • @colinmurphy2214
    @colinmurphy22145 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic looking piano too. Don’t make them like that anymore.

  • @user-ps9bu9tk2f
    @user-ps9bu9tk2f5 жыл бұрын

    Good

  • @kokpohwai8456
    @kokpohwai84563 ай бұрын

    at 7:26 the grass outside are shaking together with him

  • @theodorek.4563
    @theodorek.45633 жыл бұрын

    I never understood the need for cadenzas for this piece. I mean, isn't it bloody hard enough?

  • @kontoru22

    @kontoru22

    2 жыл бұрын

    The harder the more prestige it had bruh

  • @kodypickney6462
    @kodypickney64624 жыл бұрын

    I love you

  • @pedrojaguilar
    @pedrojaguilar5 жыл бұрын

    9:36 Etude Tableaux op.33 no.1

  • @10reubenl
    @10reubenl5 жыл бұрын

    How old is he? His technique is very impressive. Especially those incredibly quick melodic passages. He played them all flawlessly and every note was clear. The only thing I would say is, I think he played the melody a bit too fast. Otherwise, a lovely performance.

  • @alexwang9976

    @alexwang9976

    5 жыл бұрын

    This was a month or so before his 21st birthday

  • @MultiRedskins12
    @MultiRedskins123 жыл бұрын

    This performance is acceptable.

  • @danyfrenn7817
    @danyfrenn78173 жыл бұрын

    at 5:22 you can see the grass dancing

  • @andioop4458
    @andioop44585 жыл бұрын

    I wish my hands were big enough to play like that but sadly I’m 11 and hands can barely reach an octave 😢

  • @yoshi_drinks_tea

    @yoshi_drinks_tea

    5 жыл бұрын

    You don’t need big hands.

  • @You-rg4ec

    @You-rg4ec

    5 жыл бұрын

    yoshi_drinks_tea but if he can barely reach an octave, playing this piece is nearly impossible

  • @realandychen

    @realandychen

    3 жыл бұрын

    I quite easily reach a ninth and this piece is still almost impossible for me

  • @katttttt

    @katttttt

    7 ай бұрын

    You're still growing

  • @markmc5379
    @markmc53796 жыл бұрын

    Tempo giusto !!!!

  • @Auto640
    @Auto6403 жыл бұрын

    Notice: it's raining outside

  • @SRT_CHEE
    @SRT_CHEE5 жыл бұрын

    He played this when he was 13 and he played it 10 times better

  • @agastyaraul6710
    @agastyaraul67104 жыл бұрын

    5:00

  • @artygunnar
    @artygunnar7 жыл бұрын

    Cadenza was improvised?

  • @bobthepig8628

    @bobthepig8628

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @mambooooooo917

    @mambooooooo917

    6 жыл бұрын

    Arthur Yagami No it's Rachmaninoff's cadenza

  • @7pianoforte

    @7pianoforte

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes, its Rachmaninoff's cadenza

  • @alexwang9976

    @alexwang9976

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@mambooooooo917 Rachmaninoff improvised it though right?

  • @DVZM.

    @DVZM.

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@alexwang9976 Not a single person in this world improvises cadenzas. They might claim and act like it, but of course they composed it long before the audition and practiced it very long and hard. Maybe even more then the piece itself.

  • @liamyounger7264
    @liamyounger72646 жыл бұрын

    Is he okay?

  • @hopesonmakokha5217

    @hopesonmakokha5217

    6 жыл бұрын

    Liam Younger I guess he is. This is a very difficult piece you know, and he played it with amazing technique. Concentration was key.

  • @susfranzliszt

    @susfranzliszt

    5 жыл бұрын

    6:00 O MY LORD!!!

  • @RafaelZappa
    @RafaelZappa3 жыл бұрын

    He invented too much in the end but obviously in general it was very good!

  • @madhavchithirasreemadam7116

    @madhavchithirasreemadam7116

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not invent, that's the Rachmaninoff cadenza I think

  • @pedrxk
    @pedrxk6 жыл бұрын

    atchiin tocando piano

  • @ismaelsoto9680
    @ismaelsoto96807 жыл бұрын

    What Cadenza is this :O

  • @bobthepig8628

    @bobthepig8628

    7 жыл бұрын

    Rachmanioff

  • @hopesonmakokha5217

    @hopesonmakokha5217

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ismael Soto it's the best cadenza I heard

  • @maxgraide70
    @maxgraide704 жыл бұрын

    Amazing! Now play it backwards

  • @orsemcore

    @orsemcore

    4 жыл бұрын

    he is asian, playing it backwards is light work for him

  • @user-kq6yf4su1o
    @user-kq6yf4su1o9 ай бұрын

    죽인다…

  • @renezarza6678
    @renezarza66784 жыл бұрын

    Hameilin

  • @davidjones2043
    @davidjones20434 жыл бұрын

    Tom played this and Jerry had a bad day that day....

  • @mohameddafroullah2823
    @mohameddafroullah28235 жыл бұрын

    Error 1:16

  • @ix-_elefanatauro_-xi2059
    @ix-_elefanatauro_-xi20595 жыл бұрын

    Me emputa sus gestos

  • @HeartBurstHD
    @HeartBurstHD5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe I am not to experimented about playing piano but... why too many pianist accelerate and decelerate with no reasons? And touch too light the piano key that seem there is not a note... maybe I am an ignorant about it, or too exquisite in music.

  • @videokngtyuhi4895

    @videokngtyuhi4895

    5 жыл бұрын

    This happens for many reasons. As an example when a pianist hits a key too lightly, so that you can barely hear it can be for many reasons, but I personally do it to barely make a sound to make my audience feel that the piece is more different from other interpretations of a piece, like if you want to admit something to someone else, and act like you regret it right after saying it. As per accelerating parts of a piece can be because you would want parts of the piece to be more highlighted than others

  • @john3260

    @john3260

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's for expression and the term is 'rubato'.

  • @darrylserato8852
    @darrylserato88525 жыл бұрын

    Uhhhmmm his face though😂😂

  • @danielsheets6841
    @danielsheets68412 жыл бұрын

    He plays wonderfully, but so much energy stored up in his fingers make them shake in the slow parts. I couldn’t watch because it was invoking some anxiety in me.

  • @jospehas7850
    @jospehas78506 жыл бұрын

    What the fuck? The face though but great performance.

  • @cloroxbleach4542

    @cloroxbleach4542

    6 жыл бұрын

    Anonymous Piano Freak APF Look at this 5:45

  • @apostate

    @apostate

    6 жыл бұрын

    You know nothing. If that is what he needs to express to channel his art so be it. The fact that it stands out to you instead of his playing say is all I need to know about you.

  • @cloroxbleach4542
    @cloroxbleach45426 жыл бұрын

    If i could play i would atleast smile..

  • @dylannagy226

    @dylannagy226

    6 жыл бұрын

    If i could play on multiple intervals at varying speeds that require utmost concentration, I'm sure I wouldn't put energy into smiling thanks

  • @jondoe9596

    @jondoe9596

    6 жыл бұрын

    Not when the dominant tone of the piece is dark and somber.

  • @PinkPianist

    @PinkPianist

    6 жыл бұрын

    Trust me, when you're performing a difficult piece, smiling is the last thing on your mind.

  • @ssimon64
    @ssimon644 жыл бұрын

    does anybody play this song without varying the tempo so much? why can't they just play it at a constant damned tempo?

  • @john3260

    @john3260

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is from the romantic era not classical era.

  • @ssimon64

    @ssimon64

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@john3260 WHAT THAT MEANS?!!

  • @john3260

    @john3260

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ssimon64 Classical common period music is divided into many eras. IIRC it goes from renaissance, baroque, romantic, impressionist, modern then contemporary. Romantic music calls for the use of rubato, the stretching and compressing of tempo.

  • @ssimon64

    @ssimon64

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@john3260 I see, thanks for the info. I still think many versions of this piece are played with too much rubato. It doesn't sound good to the ear sometimes.

  • @john3260

    @john3260

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ssimon64 Well it is an interpretation. I think that rubato adds emotional depth to a piece. You never want a musical composition to sound robotic.

  • @victoriasoyoung
    @victoriasoyoung5 жыл бұрын

    Dwarf

  • @robertcentobene4375
    @robertcentobene43756 жыл бұрын

    Sorry. Somehow I was writing the previous comment on this page and I was switched ahead in time. I wrote those comments to address the way you played it back then. I see you have made it much worse.

  • @pakyukwokalex3683
    @pakyukwokalex36836 жыл бұрын

    great great great technique, but a bit too heavy metal

  • @neowise9264
    @neowise92643 жыл бұрын

    4:42 wtf face

  • @billiebuffalo
    @billiebuffalo4 жыл бұрын

    This is the type of piano player that I find amusing rather than talented. And don't get me wrong, he is talented. I just don't find the over the top facial expressions and posture particularly professional or inspiring.

  • @robertcentobene4375
    @robertcentobene43756 жыл бұрын

    It is one of the best performances of this work I heard. Please, don't join the butchers and play an addendum of the Friska. This is the big mistake of all that play this work. Only what the composer wrote is best. Adding anything else is just aggrandizing the ego. Otherwise, you play it better than anyone else. Horowitz truly butchered it and probably couldn't play at the extreme breakneck speed you played it. Afterward everybody made asses of themselves.

  • @joshua.lau_

    @joshua.lau_

    6 жыл бұрын

    On the score it says cadenza ad lib, so shouldn't the pianist be free to improvise based on any material in the piece?

  • @robertcentobene4375

    @robertcentobene4375

    6 жыл бұрын

    Franz Liszt rarely wrote add lib, if any, on any of the cadenzas in any of his compositions. He certainly didn't on his published score of the Hungarian Rhapsody Number Two. What Horowitz played either as an encore, after or during a concert, was received by an audience out of respect and afterward it stuck because the 'great' Horowitz started it. Any ad lib doesn't include notes not written by the composer. This is the biggest fallacy that a musical artist can fall for, unless you are living in the time of Mozart. At that time people were coming out of the era of the dark ages. Most really didn't know any better. You might as well call it an entirely different piece if you add or subtract notes deliberately. The only excuse for playing added notes is if your fingers cannot reach them or a few notes here or there are left out..

  • @robertcentobene4375

    @robertcentobene4375

    6 жыл бұрын

    Join the bandwagon. It is OK if everyone else does it. I for one don't want anything musical I wrote with ad lib. I leave that to the musical butchers that cannot seem to write any pleasing sounding music. Any Ad lib would best be done with the licks you find in yourself. Music written down should be precious. Do you know anyone that can ad lib what Chopin wrote successfully? Liszt was a great composer, similar to Chopin.

  • @acestorms5256

    @acestorms5256

    5 жыл бұрын

    Digustibus non est disputandum.

  • @robertcentobene4375

    @robertcentobene4375

    5 жыл бұрын

    Very funny- ha ha,

  • @inner.inspire
    @inner.inspire6 жыл бұрын

    Good performance but he can be more better than this

  • @99Grigor
    @99Grigor5 жыл бұрын

    What was all that crap at the end????

  • @JinPlaysPiano

    @JinPlaysPiano

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gregg Michalak the crap was Rachmaninov’s cadenzia 😂

  • @gervasseslosse9524
    @gervasseslosse95244 жыл бұрын

    U don’t need to show that much expression on ur face. Ur accuracy is terrible anyway so it doesn’t make u a good pianist

  • @finnstyles

    @finnstyles

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gervasse Slosse shut up geravsse

  • @adamalabi1520
    @adamalabi15204 жыл бұрын

    5:45

  • @nnkeng_-.
    @nnkeng_-.2 жыл бұрын

    4:49

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    @nnkeng_-.

    2 жыл бұрын

    E

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    @nnkeng_-.

    2 жыл бұрын

    E

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    @nnkeng_-.

    2 жыл бұрын

    E

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    @nnkeng_-.

    2 жыл бұрын

    E

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    @nnkeng_-.

    2 жыл бұрын

    E

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