Just played this in my local pub, They weren't impressed 😔

@kobbelobbe941

7 ай бұрын

this is the best comment on youtube

@falkeprophet

5 ай бұрын

Lmfao

@minhtriphung9373

Ай бұрын

Because they don't know how to listen Ligeti etudes.

@glenncambray9783

17 күн бұрын

Bloody peasants.

Ligeti is one of the few avant-garde composers that I actually enjoy hearing.

@TheSoteriologist

3 ай бұрын

Exactly.

I can't believe that there isn't a single comment on the performance. This pianist (Fredrik Ullén) is a genius.

@KeyboardKirby

Жыл бұрын

I feel the same. Overshadowed by how incredible the music itself is. But WOW I have heard every performance available and this guy is by far the best. Full of color. Clarity, and control. Some of the finest piano playing I’ve ever heard. (And I’ve heard a LOT).

@delko000

Жыл бұрын

just memorizing the first piece must require a bionic brain

@stueystuey1962

8 ай бұрын

I don't fancy myself a critic; total amateur. I can play a few Rolling Stones songs on the geetar. this piece - Ligeti that is - does reek of modrnism even though it is rather traditional in the formulation. As far as the playing it does frolic, and wallow, and emote and all that good stuff. Extermely enjoyable.

@pikachuchujelly7628

3 ай бұрын

This is some brutally difficult piano music.

@maxgregorycompositions6216

14 күн бұрын

No, Ligeti is a genius, he actually wrote it. The pianist is just extremely talented.

Every thing seems easy after studying Ligeti, highly recommend.

@emadmary4271

4 жыл бұрын

I realised that the best Way to understand the music is to look at the name of the piece or movement It's then that you realise that the essence of the music is not in the sound but in the image portrayed

@Enigmatic_Music1

4 жыл бұрын

Every thing else also seems better

@null8295

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomasj.pucheugabriel4908 far more complex

@nurrylee-piano2613

4 жыл бұрын

haha so true

@AsrielKujo

4 жыл бұрын

Which one should i start with? im thinking of doing them

36:47 Accent the accents. Got it

@TheYouTubeCuber888

7 жыл бұрын

36:52 Accent the accented accents. And that while playing ffffffff.

@sebastianzaczek

5 жыл бұрын

"Play loud"

@phenethylamine91

5 жыл бұрын

>>>ffffffff as in 'ouch my ffffffffingers are bleeding'

@jessekaiser21

4 жыл бұрын

Ligeti was undoubtedly a fan of banging the keys, literally calling for it in some cases.

@oaaees

4 жыл бұрын

@@phenethylamine91 fffffffff as in 'ffffffffuck this is loud'

Aside from the tonality The man's sense of how register work's is mind blowing.

@segmentsAndCurves

2 жыл бұрын

he knows what he's doin

@dzordzszs

2 жыл бұрын

@‮001 arffizC changed your name from Akkadian or whatever it was?

@segmentsAndCurves

2 жыл бұрын

@@dzordzszs Invisible character.

@dzordzszs

2 жыл бұрын

@‮001 arffizC Nevermind

@dzordzszs

2 жыл бұрын

@@segmentsAndCurves Oh

"Vertige" is the intellectual equivalent of kicking the shit out of someone for accusing you of being unable to pat your head while rubbing your stomach simultaneously

@scruffysean3640

3 жыл бұрын

I love this comment.

@segmentsAndCurves

2 жыл бұрын

tf, why is this relatable?

@mariatpena7638

2 жыл бұрын

Just NO 👊

@null8295

Жыл бұрын

@@segmentsAndCurves because its the most difficult of the collection

White on white is just out of this world, absolutely sublime

Everyone: Try for technical excellence Ligeti: Hold my metronome

13:07 now that's some good jazz fantastic etude, love these dissonances, they're somehow not that aggressive and even feel 'calming' a bit

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji

7 ай бұрын

Agree

"The Devil's Staircase" (no 13) has already rightly become a virtuoso showoff piece (not done with enough attack here) but I love the calm, Debussy-style beauty of no 2 (Cordes a Vide)

@youresomodest

6 жыл бұрын

Yutong Sun played them with his eyes closed nearly the entire time at last year's Cliburn competition. It was amazing.

@marcellomarianetti1770

5 жыл бұрын

I love n. 2 too!

@calebhu6383

4 жыл бұрын

Several of the virtuoso etudes here are not played clearly/precisely enough, but the slow etudes are beautifully done.

@camthesaxman3387

Жыл бұрын

It reminds me of the endless staircase music from Super Mario 64, and that's no coincidence.

@riccardofortino134

Жыл бұрын

@@calebhu6383 "not played clearly"? Sorry but I strongly disagree. I think that this one is the best recording of these etudes BY FAR and that this pianist is an absolute genius.

Maybe the most inventive and original piano music since Debussy's preludes. Just incredible music

Ligeti was a genius!

21:30 'fascinating rhythm'

@solarean

3 жыл бұрын

jacob collier flashbacks

@segmentsAndCurves

3 жыл бұрын

tell me about it

Ligeti: "Where we're going, we need no metrum signs"

@delko000

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, I had an image of doc in "back to the future" in my head.

@danielgonzalezjr8350

3 жыл бұрын

Also Ligeti: “You only need the understand the tempo of ‘Continuum’” Aimard: “But I don’t play clavecin.” Ligeti: “Look, we are here.”

@nghiavan8952

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielgonzalezjr8350 Ligeti should’ve been a phycisist

@solarean

3 жыл бұрын

Sorabji is the owner of that place.

@segmentsAndCurves

3 жыл бұрын

@@solarean Haha

Perhaps the closest to impossibility that possibility may get.

@toothlesstoe

5 жыл бұрын

You need to check out Sorabji's etudes. They're even more difficult than these.

@depauleable

5 жыл бұрын

@@toothlesstoe Oh boy, what about Conlon Nancarrow?

@toothlesstoe

5 жыл бұрын

@@depauleable We're obviously talking about within the realm of remote possibility.

@written12

5 жыл бұрын

depauleable Man arrow is crazy, so crazy he had to get himself a player piano.

@ghmus7

4 жыл бұрын

@@toothlesstoe Yes but don't have as much music. I can't decide if Sorabji is a fake or a genius.

Many thanks for posting these exemplary performances together with pristine screenshots. Rare quality !

thanks for this upload. i only knew aimard performances, these are really beautiful as well

Cannot thank you enough for posting the score on here!!

wow, this is incredible....chapeau bas mr ligeti and mr ullen !

00:02 1: Désordre 02:15 2: Cordes à vide 05:21 3: Touches bloquées 07:11 4: Fanfares 10:29 5: Arc-en-ciel 13:54 6: Automne à Varsovie 17:57 7: Galamb Borong 20:19 8: Fém 22:55 9: Vertige 25:12 10: Der Zauberlehrling 27:27 11: En Suspens 29:55 12: Entrelacs 32:37 13: L'escalier du diable 37:41 14: Coloana infinită 39:04 15: White on White 42:08 16: Pour Irina 45:02 17: À bout de souffle 47:07 18: Canon

@pantoleonantonio9653

3 жыл бұрын

Sparticus Booker I know, i just copy-pasted this from there in case someone didn’t realise it’s in the description

@alexendrix6

2 жыл бұрын

@@pantoleonantonio9653 thx Antonio very useful

The undeniable virtuosity of Fredrik Ullén particularly touches me and deliciously juggles with the sensitivity of the emotions of the soul. Thank you very much for this pure happiness 🤠

Fab; I'm v grateful for this posting

Thank you for the work you have put in to create this audio+score video. Fascinating to follow the music as it plays out on the page.

Brilliant!

thanks for the download!

this is actually mind blowing

This is the first time I’ve actually heard the imagery of the devil’s staircase. He really painted the image. Bravo!

@kofiLjunggren

2 жыл бұрын

Which one?

@klop4228

Жыл бұрын

@@kofiLjunggren 13: L'escalier du Diable

39:04 I never thought I would ever find myself thinking of the word "beautiful" to describe a Ligeti work. 41:11 Well, there's the proof that this is, indeed, a Ligeti work.

@verslaflamme666

6 жыл бұрын

White on White is truly beautiful. Though, I'm not a fan of this interpretation. It's a little fast in my opinion.

@florisheijdra9583

5 жыл бұрын

same with No. 13. Way too fast in my opinion. (at least we know the pianist doesn't lack technical aspects)

@sebastianzaczek

5 жыл бұрын

When someone says that Tonal = Consonant i like to Show this piece from 41:11 indeed

@nathanielouzana

5 жыл бұрын

Arc en ciel is extremely beautiful in my opinion...

@sebastianzaczek

5 жыл бұрын

@@nathanielouzana indeed

BRAVO

The Ligeti piano etudes prove interesting because they use a relatively restrained chromatic melodic & harmonic language reminiscent of the ultramodenrists of the 1920s, so unlike many other contemporary composers, these pieces sound harmonically and melodically as though they were composed 80 years earlier. (Think Carl Ruggles or Ruth Crawford Seeger or very early Aaron Copland.) The main difference is that most of the Ligeti piano etudes make extensive use of polyMETER, which is very different from polyRHYTHM. In polymeter, the notes occur in sync with one another but the *phrase boundaries* don't line up. So you have a musical phrase that starts and ends in a different place in one voice than in another voice. That produces a type of desynchronization that has been less used in modern music than outright polyrhythms. Rhythmically of course Ligeti piano etudes are still a lot simpler than Conlon Nancarrow's or Ferneyhough's music (everything is rhythmically simpler than their music), but Ligeti's piano etudes have a different type of phrase-level complexity that's intriguing and refreshingly novel.

@trancosomarcus

Жыл бұрын

Great!

@bretharley7480

Жыл бұрын

I enjoy the banging

@pikachuchujelly7628

3 ай бұрын

Sometimes even polytonality. In the first one, the left and right hands are playing in different keys, yet it somehow works.

phenomenal performance

cordes à vide is really beautiful

Fascinante!

Thank you for sharing

Ty for the Angels in this Beautiful Music 🎶

SHEESSHH EPIC 🔥🔥🔥💯

Absolutely fire

Simplemente maravilloso!!!!

amazing

What did I just hear. It's amazingly... amazing

And they say Liszt is the king of finger-breaking...

@user-pf5nb9tu6n

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah and Ligeti is unmusical

@Qazwdx111

3 жыл бұрын

@User Delete i dont think it is fact D:

@null8295

3 жыл бұрын

it is for those who have two hands, we who study Ligeti have at least four

Hermods y maravillosa musica!

Pure genius!

A KZread account, a Tsumugi Pfp with quality Music uploaded, a good find for sure :)

The sixth one really appeals to me, a good composer for getting into more out-there music without overly breaking your ears. The string quartet no1 (assuming he did more which I don’t know) is quite something as well

@davidecarlassara8525

8 ай бұрын

There is a second one, which I like a bit less than the third. I highly recommend the violin concerto and the sonata for solo viola if you don't want to "break your ears"

This is f#$%^ amazing that a piece like this can even be written down.

Maravilloso, es encontrar entre el cielo y la tierra otro sentido de la vida ¡ Gracias ¡¡¡¡¡

FANTASTICO!!!

@mmmistero7071

4 ай бұрын

no

@rossanopinelli5150

4 ай бұрын

​@@mmmistero7071 Opinione personale che, naturalmente, rispetto. Ma da compositore mi permetto di dire che a certa musica estremamente complessa, intricata, ma straordinariamente espressiva e inventiva come questa, occorre far l'abitudine - per poterla comprendere e apprezzare pienamente - studiandola, ascoltandola, praticandola per lungo tempo. Un saluto e buona continuazione con lo studio del pianoforte.

Please, keep up uploading videos!

so good ...

@UtsyoChakraborty

2 жыл бұрын

so good!!

@zerois2801

2 жыл бұрын

@@UtsyoChakraborty genius indeed

Super.

Maravillosa composición; magistral al extremo. Y muchas felicitaciones al intérprete: es infernal lo que toca, por dios... Muchas gracias por compartir. Un abrazo desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I am at 10 now. So far 2 and 9 are my absolute favourites. Beautiful. And there I was thinking I just don't like atonal music. I just don't like BAD atonal music !! This is amazing. Number 9 vertigo is groundbreaking

@segmentsAndCurves

2 жыл бұрын

When you open yourself enough, you will find anything good, it's just you try to neglect that.

@thefrankonion

2 жыл бұрын

I like 2. too.

@andreasvandieaarde

2 жыл бұрын

@@segmentsAndCurves Hey I recognise you from somewhere! Can't remember the video lmao but I agree

@andreasvandieaarde

2 жыл бұрын

What is bad atonal music to you?, Gaudetjaja?

@segmentsAndCurves

2 жыл бұрын

@@andreasvandieaarde I'm in places

If you're a jazz fan, like me, you can only love and admire this.

@MarcusHK1

6 жыл бұрын

Bach is sometimes jazzy too. For example the 2nd piece in the Art of Fugue, especially in Glenn Gould's version.

@toothlesstoe

5 жыл бұрын

@@MarcusHK1 No, Bach is nowhere remotely close to being jazzy. To even make a remark like that is ignorant and anachronistic.

@MarcusHK1

5 жыл бұрын

@@toothlesstoe It depends what one means exactly by "jazzy". Bach is indeed a far cry from actual jazz, but there is sometimes a slight ressemblance. Try to listen for example to the 2nd fugue of the Art of fugue played by Glenn Gould.

@depauleable

5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes it sounds like Joachim Kühn improvising. He probably played some of these pieces at some point

@OrbiliusMagister

4 жыл бұрын

I would love to hear N. 5 performed with actual swing by an actual jazz pianist.

3:32 - 3:37 so beautiful I'm crying

That’s my jam!

33:30 My mouth just hang open for a minute...

@null8295

3 жыл бұрын

trust me, vertige is way more difficult

Ligeti was a great Vampire composer!

Think I'll stay here for a while.

I love ligeti

Goated Ligeti

5:27

10/10 level etude.

Absolute amazing Music!

@themobiusfunction

8 ай бұрын

​@@Enigmatic_Music1but for real this time

The ending of Automne à Varsovie is properly insane17:40

nice

The glory of Christ shines through these etudes.

It's like Messiaen after way too many coffees.

10:29

현대연주는 의도된 불협화음으로 청중의 심리를 불안하고 불편하게 만드는 연주가 많은데... 두 번은 듣기 힘드니... 음악에 있어서는 편안함과 아름다운 멜로디를 좋아하는 평범한 저는 악보에 그려진 저 기괴한 음표만 보는것만으로 힘드네요. 연주자가 얼마나 힘들게 연습했는지 노고에 큰 박수를보냅니다.

No. 9 is likely influenced by the 3rd from Bartok's 14 bagatelles

@null8295

3 жыл бұрын

thanks

45:03 lol he just HAD to stagger both hands right

@crowbar6723

7 жыл бұрын

slateflash you've blown my mind by making me think of a way to play that without crossing over or staggering. you had me in the 4 dimension for a few minutes there.

@slateflash

7 жыл бұрын

i really don't know how it's possible

@steveegallo3384

7 жыл бұрын

Hats off to Maestro Fredrik Ullén for achieving the Impossible here..........

@toothlesstoe

5 жыл бұрын

A passage like that definitely requires a lot of hands-separate practice. It helps to practice the figurations in unison, then gradually break out of phase with each other. It's not as hard as it seems.

@sebastianzaczek

5 жыл бұрын

A while ago i wrote a piece with a similar concept, but tonally, and i Personally don't find it that difficult... but my piece doesn't have so many dense and irregular accents, so it is probably easier in General too

Wonderful! Which editor do you use?

Interesting in Disordre the end of the piece has variant keys and key signatures for left and right hand lines

Fanfares was certainly inspired by Bartók's bulgarian dance No. 6, or so it seems

This is what Captain Beefheart would've made if he was classically trained.

Based on a Theme by Palestrina

@mitodrumisra8972

3 жыл бұрын

wait what

The staircase for the Devil reminds me of some of Keith Jarret's music in the Vienna Concert.

Неплохо для Лигети

If I had to name a compositional model, it would probably be Ligeti.

05:21 3: Touches bloquées

you should experience the thrill of listening to the entire work with x2 speed

@segmentsAndCurves

2 жыл бұрын

Oh.

@WEEBLLOM

Жыл бұрын

epic

@null8295

Жыл бұрын

@@WEEBLLOM i know you

@WEEBLLOM

Жыл бұрын

@@null8295 maybe

Great stuff, but devilishly difficult to play!

already in the repertoire of many pianists.

@muslit

3 жыл бұрын

@@MatthewScott88 yes lol - they're already appearing frequently on piano competition lists of repertoire.

@francesschaefer

Жыл бұрын

@@muslit GOOD!

White on White is so gorgeous but I think this pianist plays the half note section a little faster than it's supposed to be.

La quatrième étude aurait pu constituer un numéro de Mikrokosmos volume... 7.

@7takes

9 ай бұрын

nombre 8 aussi

バルトークのピアノ曲集ミクロコスモスが更に現代化 20世紀後半のピアノ曲の傑作

I jazzisti per poter proiettare il linguaggio jazzistico in un possibile futuro di questa MUSICA DOVREBBERO ascoltare gli STUDI per la pianoforte di Ligeti..... Illuminanti... Vivi... Composizioni semplici nella scrittura ma complicati da eseguire... Tutto nel rispetto del suono EVVIVA

@enricointra5203

2 жыл бұрын

Per pianoforte di Ligeti

@alexendrix6

2 жыл бұрын

Grazie Maestro Enrico Intra seguirò il tuo prezioso consiglio anche se mi aspetta un lavoro molto molto impegnativo, Wi il Jazz un abbraccio da Alessandro Fattori in memoria di Studio7 e Franco Cerri

I practice this piece, but is so hard to practice myself..

Oh my fucking god. This shouldn’t be physically possible

20:19が私のお気に入り ★★★★★

Two hundred forte

meilensteine der komposition u interpretation. extrem ....

I am comparing this version etude by etude with that of Thomas Hell and can't decide which I prefer. Maybe they are just very different, but both convincing.

07:11 13:54

It is interesting to see all the études played, nevertheless the étude 13 (L'escalier du diable), the only one I can speak of with some assurance, is played far too quickly. The pianist in this étude omits almost all the accents written by Ligeti because of the excessive speed.

The titels of 7 and 8 are hungarian: 7= Dove Broods, 8= Metal . The title of 14 is romanian: Infinite Column .

@tobiolopainto

3 жыл бұрын

It's also the title of a sculpture by Brancusi in Romania from 1938.

@peterkocsis7010

3 жыл бұрын

@@tobiolopainto So probably the title is an allusion to this sculpture.

@tobiolopainto

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterkocsis7010 Sure. The Brancusi is a monument to Romanian fighters of World War I. Look it up on wiki. Beautiful!

@peterkocsis7010

3 жыл бұрын

@@tobiolopainto Have done it- thank you ! Really a great work- I didn´t know there was a Brancusi open air work in Romania, I though Ceausescu had destroyed everything- - but now I read that it is part of a triple work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculptural_Ensemble_of_Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncu%C8%99i_at_T%C3%A2rgu_Jiu

@tobiolopainto

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterkocsis7010 Yes. And the Endless Column is a template for an Endless Column. It was kept to 90 feet for structural reasons, but in theory, that column could go on forever. If Brancusi was an Eastern Orthodox Christian, the trapezoidal units have something to do with the Eastern Orthodox conception of the perfect, or divine form. Another artist, Mike Lekakis worked using a similar form, but in wood. He explained the trapezoid form idea to me once. You can look him up on wiki, too. You'll see that his work is closely related to Brancusi's.

Omg.

no.1 , 6 , 13