Great Pianists DESTROY Piano for 14 Minutes Straight (Volume up!)
I'm excited to share some of the most climactic powerful and thrilling moments from the repertoire of the world's finest pianists. Denis Matsuev, Lang Lang, Khatia Buniatishvili, Grigory Sokolov, Alexei Grynyuk, Yuja Wang, Giorgy Cziffra and Vladimir Horowitz deliver performances of nothing but sheer intensity and passion as they masterfully command the instrument.
NOTE: The video may be challenging to view (to listen) due to its apocalyptic mood.
Original videos:
• Denis Matsuev - Grieg ...
• Lang Lang Plays Rach 3...
• Khatia Buniatishvili -...
• S. Prokofiev : Sonata ...
• Alexei Grynyuk - liszt...
• i've got goosebumps al...
• Yuja Wang - Turkish Ma...
• Cziffra plays Liszt's ...
• VLADIMIR HOROWITZ PLAY...
• Vladimir Horowitz - Va...
Пікірлер: 653
why is lang lang looking at me like i owe him money
@xxlxxl3153
Ай бұрын
ha ha ha
@user-dd3st4rz1h
Ай бұрын
Fr 😂😂
@totothebunny333
Ай бұрын
Well.... do you? :P
@mahmoudkchaou1799
Ай бұрын
We all owe him after watching him.
@linglee1601
Ай бұрын
😂😂
1:36 "Found the camera!! ( °д° )Oops!"
@WdymWork
Ай бұрын
LOL
@Sudulicious
Ай бұрын
that was the langiest lang in the whole internet
@andresllorente5852
Ай бұрын
Lol😂
@cescania
Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@cutesnorlax1431
Ай бұрын
I was searching the comment to find this lol
Yuja Wang is the definition of being fluent on an instrument.
@user-yu3gy4hb8y
26 күн бұрын
She's amaising, love her
@MM-oq1lb
17 күн бұрын
Incredible disappointment in this video
@susanpettit8529
14 күн бұрын
No actual music here, just noise.
@bradheward140
Күн бұрын
and she's hot
@user-yu3gy4hb8y
20 сағат бұрын
@@bradheward140 agree
Yuja Wang is the perfect example to intimidate and make anyone feel horror about learning to play piano.
@adriannoe9841
28 күн бұрын
Es una maquina de tocar Yuja, My God !!!!!
The intensity of a pianist is unique.
Horowitz and Cziffra without hesitation: a technique isn't gratuitous, a technique serves expression
@LogioTek
Ай бұрын
Also probably the only two here who compose and improvise.
@Schaunard
Ай бұрын
G. Sokolov is to be added to this circle of piano maestri ultima.
@fredfeinberg3995
Ай бұрын
Although I'm the last person to compare Wang to Horowitz, give Caesar her due: that is among the only technically flawless versions of that insane cadenza in a live recording, and she is ALWAYS like that.
@beecolor
Ай бұрын
@@fredfeinberg3995 Yes, but without getting into a big debate, there's still a huge confusion that will live forever: technique is NOT about playing cleanly, it's only part of the technique. EVERYTHING is technique: having expression is technique, singing the melody is technique, having independent voices (like Horowitz) is technique, controlling tempo is technique, internalizing the music is technique (which Lang doesn't have), etc.
@fredfeinberg3995
Ай бұрын
@@beecolor Yes, of course. People have been saying this since Hofmann and Rachmaninoff, but I guess it still hasn't penetrated. I once read something on KZread like "Lang Lang is the greatest pianist of modern and historical times". And all I could think is "it's sad if you live in a universe where you've heard recordings by Richter (and so many others) and can still think that." I recall one great quote from Jorge Bolet, "Nothing kills excitement like mere velocity". YES. I do have a sore point with this: Argerich. It makes me insane when people say "OK, so she can play fast", as if that's why she is world-famous. Feh!
Nothing beats the experience of a live act. At that moment the musician is so elated he/she feels capable of everything. The entire Universe is under the sheer energy and power of the performance. And it's all in the musician's hands, body, heart and soul.
@MishaSkripach
Ай бұрын
TRUE! But, alas, to achieve this, one must gave up all his childhood and devote all his life to music! Like wizards, they do not exist separately from their art.
@MishaSkripach
Ай бұрын
@@johnbanach3875 I don't know anyone who started as a teenager and succeeded in getting full skill? it is impossible. Like sports, has to be started young. Bruce Liu began to play the piano at eight years old and was performing by the age of eleven. The technique must be developed before puberty.
@carolasandrakaty
Ай бұрын
@@MishaSkripach not all of them gave up their childhood. Most of the good ones enjoyed playing piano as a kid. Doing what you love does not mean giving it up and for sure most of them had enough life experience by their adolescence to be able to express complex fellings like they did through music. That life experience is gained by living! I used to play 4h/day and had plenty of time to play as a kid and learn in normal school and read a lot of books and do everything else needed.
@MishaSkripach
Ай бұрын
@@carolasandrakaty ALL OF THEM DID. I was talking about really outstanding musicians, not ordinary ones who have a degree. Giving up childhood to devote to music is not a bad thing, it is very enjoyable for those rare people. It is impossible for them to go to normal school. Four-five hours of practice+ solfege dictation lessons+chamber music and orchestra+ second instrument+composition+masterclasses, concerts, rehearsals, travelling to competitions. It is incompatible with normal school life, and none of those great musicians ever attended normal schools beyond age 7/ They don't have time for books either, just getting along with the minimal school curriculum is the maximum they can afford. Vengerov at age 9 thought that strawberries grow on trees, he was so busy learning. I am puzzled why you put yourself forward as an example, as pianist Sandra Popescu by age 34 has not even been spotted playing with an orchestra at all, and cannot be found anywhere playing? I was talking about the top talent, top achievers, not music teachers for nurseries?
@carolasandrakaty
Ай бұрын
@@MishaSkripach you are a little agresive, calm down. 1. School is different in different parts of the world. 2. I have changed my name after marriage, I am not 34 y.o. and I have not studied a second instrument (although I also sing as a soprano in a choir). You are right, I am not one of the greatest (at least not yet), but for sure I did not went to music school because my parents pushed me to, but because I wanted it. There are kids like that. Not all are pushed by the parents. Sorry if you probably fell like you lost your childhood. For me is fun, I somehow get to fell like a kid even now. I see age as a state of mind. The piano was my favorite toy. So... again, don't judge all the people by your experience. I know not all the great ones were like me, acknowledge that not all were like you. It is kind of a spectrum this presure that parents put sometimes. But that is not a lost childhood, not always. Ask the great ones how they think about their childhood if you only belive the "great ones".
Lang Lang and Yuja never miss to delight with their amazing intricate musicality...my top favourites.
All these performances More and More are the reminders that LESS is MORE!
I'm always perplexed by how awkward and seemingly contorted and tense Lang Lang's hands look, yet he shreds. I'm not a huge fan of his playing, but the dude has bizarrely powerful technique.
Falling for Khatia and Yuja all over again❤
The end of the first one completely killed me xD
Finiding Buniatishvili's talent and exuberance after the faces of Lang Lang got me unprepared. I fell in love ... again.
@tatjanasiljeg2429
Ай бұрын
I choose not to look at him - I just listen...😅
@valerio51987
Ай бұрын
@@tatjanasiljeg2429 that's the right choice, his faces ruin the music he plays. Not sure why he makes those expressions, I think he makes them on purpose. They don't look natural or spontaneous.
@tatjanasiljeg2429
Ай бұрын
@@valerio51987 - yes, it's really irritating - it ruins whole experience...
@mindanielj.9479
28 күн бұрын
The reason he makes face is the express the music. For example if the B theme is angry the he will make an angry face if the C theme is sad the he will make a sad face it just means he’s really in the music. So when he played the octaves in the Rachmaninov concerto and he opens he’s mouth just really means he’s really in the music. He may not make the right faces or expressions and they may be weird, but it just means he’s really in the music.
@tatjanasiljeg2429
28 күн бұрын
@@mindanielj.9479 - yes, they want that it seem so... The thing is that one can play without such expressions... But then again - he is such a great pianist that everything is ok...😉
What are those LANG LANG faces? 😂
@utvpoop
Ай бұрын
The late conductor Yury Temirkanov told him while rehearsing the same piece: "If you smile even once, you get the hell outta here"
@user-mz2sd9uj8n
Ай бұрын
那是傾注靈魂的臉。
@randomguy6934
Ай бұрын
😮🤩😧🤩😁😁
@muzicaltel
Ай бұрын
Stravinsky a dit de Rachmaninov qu'il était un des rares pianistes qui ne grimaçaient pas! A méditer...
@shooshieroberts3913
Ай бұрын
Lang Lang is one of the greatest performers alive today. I don’t care if he comes out with a flamingo on his head. To play like that, he’s got my respect. Y’all have got to come to grips with reality: some folks are a little different. It’s what makes them great, and if it spills over into visible tics or “grimaces” as some like to say, that’s ok. Doesn’t bother me one bit UNTIL they start doing LIberace with practiced grins and comedy. Lang Lang is able to play what he feels, and his face goes along with it. Don’t embarrass him. support him. Tell him it’s ok. Not that he gives a damn at this point, but it’s the principle of the thing.
Wow!! Piano is surely one of Percussion instruments according to this video..
@aaronwalderslade
Ай бұрын
Technically yes the piano is a percussion instrument, although it's based on a harp.
Matsuev is crazy.))) Play it slower, bring mystery to the performance. So is Lang-Lang, Khatia (what a show body))), Yuja. Gosh, where is a music art gone?
We all know why we clicked on this video.
@rearaujo2995
27 күн бұрын
Para ver os peitos dela? 😂
@TheMan21892
27 күн бұрын
Men of culture… we gather once again.
@That1CrazyWeirdo
27 күн бұрын
I don’t know
@irfanmuafa2605
26 күн бұрын
Distracted -> click
@ruiizidine
26 күн бұрын
The lady in red😂
I was there in Chicago when Yuja broke a string!
@christianeKastanie
10 күн бұрын
😮
My preference is for Cziffra. One step above
All of them very impressive pianists, none better than the others
and this is why piano is a percussion instrument
Those are beautiful………….classics
Sure some of these performances is bad but the comments are hugely disrespectful to many great pianists
@Keith-dj8jg
Ай бұрын
Agreed
@alguien9710
22 күн бұрын
If we could play the piano we wouldn't be doing comments
@AntonPolezhayev
15 күн бұрын
@@alguien9710 hopefully you wouldn’t play the piano like this.
@SunAndMoon-zc9vd
12 күн бұрын
@@AntonPolezhayev Why do you hope he/she wouldn't play the piano like the pianists in this video?
@AntonPolezhayev
11 күн бұрын
@@SunAndMoon-zc9vd because there are tons of missed notes, inappropriately fast tempi for the style of music, and grimacing and clowning around, which is vulgar and repulsive.
Lang lang...ooo no there's a tarantula in my trousers
Aw That Steinway was built to TAKE THAT! AND THAT! AND THAT!!♡♡♡ Trust me! It was built w Lizst in Mind! 😅 Even Liza Minelli dancing on the top of a Concert D with Stilettos! When that one came back home to the Steinway basement we were in awe!
The world's greatest pianist is noticeably absent from this selection, possibly because he makes light of any of these kind of pieces and instead of "destroying" the piano for shallow effect, he actually favours music over acrobatics. Nice work Yuja Wang and Sokolov!
Superbe, grand talent ❤
I really need to learn piano
Theatrics, weird faces and histrionics make some player’s live performances difficult to enjoy. Horowitz is extraordinary. Yuja’s hands are a wonder to watch. The rest of us are tinkering
@kiszeg
24 күн бұрын
Horowitz and Cziffra.
No les pasa que cuando ven interpretar una pieza demasiado rápido sienten que no suena como debería, algo asi me pasó con friska, igualmente que increíble manera de derrochar virtuosismo 🙌🏻
List’s Hungarian Rhapsody will always belong to Tom and Jerry. Once seen it will always be with you when you hear this🤷🏼♂️
@mypointofview1111
4 күн бұрын
And Bugs Bunny, what's up Doc?
Thank you! 🙏
Is this a new sport???
@marcosviniciosribeirocompo1137
Ай бұрын
Probably yes !!! ....Where are the music ?? Probably Death !
@eddund6932
25 күн бұрын
Ça transpire, ça éructe, ça souffle, ça grimace, un vrai magma musical organisé part des brutes, ou des dactylographes, allez savoir, ou la musique dans tout ça? heureusement Yuja Wang fait de la musique avec élégance et bien sûr Horowitz tout de même .
@IsabellePETIET
25 күн бұрын
En effet..tout est ignoble et dune terrifiante betise@@eddund6932
@mypointofview1111
4 күн бұрын
No I just need to get this over and done with.
@IsabellePETIET
4 күн бұрын
What?????????@@mypointofview1111
Absolutely incredible ! How can they do that , that fast ? Their brain is going at same speed ! whaou ! Hat's up !
Absolutely Maniacal 😮❤
1:33 You can’t tell me these mafackas aint possessed
Wang in Prokofiev …stunning.
@ALiquer1
Ай бұрын
Fabulous, but I still prefer Beatrice Rana’s and Anna Vinnitskaya’s performances of Prokofiev 2nd. Check them if you didn’t watch yet.
@KrisThomas-ut7to
Ай бұрын
Yes, Anna's performance was spectacular!!
@JHon-lz1ef
Ай бұрын
Listen to this same concerto by yundi
Горовец вне конкуренции ! 👏👏👏
Lang lang "ohh we are live!!!"
@bennaarsongidi9269
Ай бұрын
Dude uko huku 🤣
@Nakestra
Ай бұрын
@@bennaarsongidi9269 Ofcourse
Khatia buniatishvili is a freackin legend!!! She even played at asap rocky’s concert
The pianos came through unscathed, the music not always.
@noncompliant4316
Ай бұрын
Some of those pieced were tortured ...
Horowitz the master of the masters! 😁 No doubt about it.
Senssacional!
Music destroyed. Pianos are fine.
@KarieWei
Ай бұрын
Sometime I wonder what's the point of them smashing the keys 😂
@alhfgsp
Ай бұрын
@@KarieWei Because people who have the technique capable of it are exhilarated by it.
@AcousticBruce
Ай бұрын
@@alhfgsp makes a lot of sense...
@dezabaleta1
Ай бұрын
Excellent
@vitorhlopes
Ай бұрын
@@KarieWei pianos have little hammer that are directly influenced by the force applied on the keys, so hitting harder makes the sound louder
Shred that piano!!!! YEAH!!!!🤘🤘
Es algo increíble 😮
Too much emphasis on speed and volume. Gave me an awful headache. And i actually like some of these pieces, played properly.
@DarkeyOfficial
Ай бұрын
I agree
@Jayvier_ljj
Ай бұрын
thisisto show virtuosity sosorry
@Jayvier_ljj
Ай бұрын
im rrally sorry but this is to listen to their virtuosity, not for some boring old normal way of playing, each pianisthave their interpretations, making each recording sound unique, so if u really hate it then bye
@margaretcorfield9891
Ай бұрын
And there was silly old me, thinking music was something to be enjoyed. I never realised that it was actually a speeding competition. Oh well, I guess it's just another of life's little pleasures I can knock off the list
@DarkeyOfficial
Ай бұрын
@@margaretcorfield9891 wait. I didnt realize that it was actually sth like a speeding competition. Youre all right
Buniatishvilli missed out or messed up or mashed in every tempi that rhapsody offers, which is all those physically possible. It's reaffirming to know she can pull off a dazzler, but things do come in a certain order. Even rhapsodies.
@bootattack8
Ай бұрын
She's a breast pianist
@KenhelExcallius
27 күн бұрын
I believe that was a cadenza, and not the friska part… Unless then yea… Too messy and Cziffra did it better
Lang lang !!!!! 😅 es increíble!!!!
Outstanding
Third pianist in red kept my focus
C'est juste magnifique❤
I can feel the pain of those pianos 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
They become one, the player and the instrument.
Yuja Wang is the piano teacher of my great great great grandma.
0:50 Matsuev, are those really the correct notes in the left hand? Sounds like the whole hand is mashing the keys..
@fazliddinerkaboyev6568
2 ай бұрын
It's his own transcription.
@kacht345
Ай бұрын
@@fazliddinerkaboyev6568thought it was Ginzburg‘s
@fazliddinerkaboyev6568
Ай бұрын
@@kacht345 No. I bet it is his.
@kacht345
Ай бұрын
@@fazliddinerkaboyev6568 just checked full version. You lost the bet. :) it‘s Ginzburg‘s
@kacht345
Ай бұрын
@@fazliddinerkaboyev6568 ?
А ведь некоторые балдеют от его игры.... Дурновкусие, желание произвести эффект на слушателя, используя силу
@user-jn7od5tf9s
Ай бұрын
Ланг Ланг - пианист номер один, а тебе слушать лучше шансон.
@user-sz8uo6pe6t
Ай бұрын
Вы же о Мацуеве?
@olenkayk
Ай бұрын
этим грешат многие пианисты. т.к. конкуренция большая, а выделяться хочется, но я предпочитаю слушать музыку, которую написали композиторы. а не тот фарс, в который превращают ее некоторые самовлюбленные исполнители (про вымя вообще молчу, детей на такие концерты водить нельзя, это 18+, бесстыдница какая-то. ладно, еще низ прикрыт и инструмент целый))))
Denis ❤️
I have heard Kassia and Rousseau play, and they play very well, but when I saw this, I thought Kassia and Rousseau were amateurs.
@ExlCostava
3 күн бұрын
you would love traum he’s an actual professional pianist behind the mask
@user-cj9vm5cp7n
3 күн бұрын
@@ExlCostava Okay, I'll try him.
Esta mujer bien podría aprovechar su talento como boxeadora en la MMA.....
lang lang fr looking at our souls
WOW!!!!🎉❤❤❤❤
Even though one can, sometimes one should not
Por qué Lang Lang me saca lagrimas? 😢❤❤❤❤❤
His faces are ok with his amazing technique
Crazy way to play! It just emphasizes the flexibility of the performer's fingers, which is very unpleasant in the listening position of the solo.
where's pogorelich's recording of islamey???
Buniatishvilli’s Hungarian Rhapsody 2 was an awful mess!
@marksmith3947
Ай бұрын
She is a sloppy pianist
@FranzLiszt0904
Ай бұрын
This is Horowitz Version, which is
@Daniel_Ilyich
Ай бұрын
@@FranzLiszt0904 which is what?
@Numberonesorabjifan
Ай бұрын
@@FranzLiszt0904Sloppy
@IsabellePETIET
Ай бұрын
Is she making fun of us?????
Horovic supeeer bravisimo.no koment veri good horovic❤🙏
The second one. Lang Lang overshadows all the others by a country mile.
@eddund6932
23 күн бұрын
Parlez vous au second degré ?
Démonstrations techniques implacables, y-a-t-il des fausses notes ? J'en doute, mais de toute façon on ne s'en rendrait pas compte au milieu de toutes ces cacophonies prétentieuses qui n'ont de la musique que le bruit. Ce qui est étrange, c'est qu'on puisse éprouver du goût à jouer ces morceaux, sans doute un attrait pour la gymnastique? Ils feraient tous de bons dactylos.
Это уже не музыка, а "спорт высших достижений".
@user-dm4jy3km6i
Ай бұрын
И цирк..
@georgtrakl8319
Ай бұрын
это полная деградация пианистического искусства, а если еще и с учетом новейшей орфографии, то дигродация.
@IsabellePETIET
Ай бұрын
Oui, cest honteux.
@olenkayk
Ай бұрын
ну у нас и в фигурном катании уже прыжки на коньках, а здесь бой по клавишам, кто наконец-то добьет инструмент, я так и ждала, что клавиши вывалятся, как в знаменитом диснеевском мультике))))))
@olenkayk
Ай бұрын
@@georgtrakl8319 +1000, это можно слушать только один раз, чтобы испугаться, или показывать как пример того, как не должны играть учащиеся)))))
Magnífica recopilación. Por supuesto que son interpretaciones muy personales de la música, pero la mnimetacion de ellos con la música es tal que son poseídos por ella en sus emociones y lo transmiten en su genial interpretación, que escandaliza a los puristas, pero son momentos en que su sensibilidad se encuentra al borde y se desboca en la interpretación.!!!! Gracias por proporcionarnos estas oportunidades únicas
@olenkayk
Ай бұрын
тогда надо называть это каверами, а не исполнением оригинала
The third lady saw lang lang’s face, so she decided to hide her own
@olenkayk
Ай бұрын
)))))))))))))) зато все остальное вывесила, как в картинной галерее))))
I'm ashame to say I don't feel anything listening to Yuja Wang. Very precise, maybe too much, kinda hollow.
Nothing is pure pianistically destructive as nyiregyhazi’s performance of Liszt 1st mephisto waltz
No matter what all you critics say. Everyone is incredible!! There memory for one is out of this world. I would say the hours of practice they have to put in would be incredible. Enjoy what they do. And yes I play!😊
I adore G.CZIFFRA, SOKOLOV & K BUNIATICHVILLI 😮😮😮😮😮😮
What i learned from this video: Pianists can easily get posessed on the piano.
I loved Lang Lang, but most I loved Round Round.
5:00 - spot the difference of this scene to the one in Tom and Jerry's piano concert. :)
Should be considered as criminal offense to piano
03:40 no man found the piano here. 😊 or here 04:04, or here 04:23
Monstrueux !!!!!😃
@IsabellePETIET
Ай бұрын
Oui...immonde..
That moment at 1:37 when Lang Lang sees into the future of this video and he looks at you looking at him!
Birds have natural ears'caps when they sing. What about pianists ? Yuja Wang IS the best, staying cristal clear even in these furia's passages.
@Paroles_et_Musique
Ай бұрын
yes, but she doesn't take any risk. She controls everything, including emotions.
@LaurentPingaultLyon
Ай бұрын
@@Paroles_et_Musique she recognized to be a control freak like Bartok. But she does feel uncomfortable on stage. Even if it doesn't appear on her face. It's all about music and loving the grand piano. When she plays bumblebee, your hear a piano sound. As when Lang Lang plays it, you actually ear a bumblebee.
@Paroles_et_Musique
Ай бұрын
@@LaurentPingaultLyon I agree, Lang Lang's bumblebee is phenomenal, no one is even close.
I get it when you can play anything and are that good you have to find challenges
Khatia ,Gryniuk, Yuja, ...THE BEST !!!!
solokov be dribbling on the piano ma man, insane power
Tienes razón, pero es algo que llama la atención. Saludos.
THAT'S WHAT I CALL ( as a 😢 piano technician no MUSIC but MUSICK!! IT'S ONLY PIANO FORTE!! THEY FORGOT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORD PIANO😢 WHAT A BEAUTIFUL TIME THE BAROQUE WAS !! With musical unbelief from Holland 🇳🇱
Video başlangıç fotoğrafına bakınca kadın piyanoyu memesiyle çalacak sandım 😂😂
@mypointofview1111
4 күн бұрын
She was wearing her Jessica Rabbit dress. Just watch Who Killed Roger Rabbit, you'll get the joke
@hayatsanayi1238
4 күн бұрын
@@mypointofview1111 ok baby🫡
You can't destroy a piano by playing it!
That first piece was a monstrous performance with supper jet speed. The only other two pianists I believe capable of reaching this speed are Yuja Wang and Mark Adre Hamelin.
I've Always had a negative idea on Lang Lang but i know for sure that if he can do that lots of faces he Need to be a great pianist
Beeindruckend. Aber es ist schon bei manchen Stücken erstaunlich, was einem als "Musik" verkauft wird ..... Und bei den Pianisten wird gepfuscht, was das Zeug hält - sonst wären die Stücke auch völlig unspielbar.
Lang lang kinda looks like PAC-MAN
@sol999__6
Ай бұрын
not in this video, but he always recalls me Yoda
@franciscouderq1100
Ай бұрын
Possessed, rather
Lang Lang is his own condictor.
Trop de recherche de performance en vitesse et force ... C'est pas ça... ça dénature l'œuvre ...
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