He has large hands! We don’t often comment about the physical gifts of some people. Nobody would doubt that Usain Bolt would run faster than a 5’9 person with shorter leg to torso ratio. The same here: the easiness of playing is just otherworldly: see Yuja’s performances for examples, and you will see that this stamina and power at this speed is simply not there; fortes are a little softer and not as effectively drawn. Pianos are more inaudible, etc. Nobody would question this reality with Rachmaninov…
As pianist, I heard a lot of classical pieces throughout my life, but this arrangement always amazes me of how well this piece resembles original orchestral Firebird.
Danse Infernale du roi Kastchel and Finale were really intense, and that second half of Danse Infernale was so incredible, it blew me away! It was understandable how he then needed a breather with Berceuse, and to play slow and easy for a few minutes before the magnificent Finale
@@jasonhuang6023, oh yes, it's still difficult. But it's not as fast which makes it a degree easier. I guess I meant that it was a breather for him. I could never play Danse Infernale.
I am a piano transcription/arrangement artist, it's what I love to do more than practically anything. I say with confidence, this is the greatest transcription I have ever heard. It has nothing to do with "reducing" or stripping a song down for piano, it's a matter of translating the exact energy and basically all the notes. Superb work by Agosti, what a genius to be able to transcribe without the aid of software. The score for this by the way, is insane. I have it sitting on my piano right now. There are often 3 staves dancing around each other, incredibly hard to read. My favorite is the Finale. I love how Piementossi plays the 7/4 quarter notes rubato. Every other performance, the pianists are strict with the timing of those notes. His interpretation is far more passionate, and relatable in my opinion
It just doesn't get any better than this. It is one of those moments where you don't even want to attempt to play this piece because his performance is already perfectly sufficent.
@@militaryandemergencyservic3286 The sheet music can be found online, certainly for purchase if you're willing to pay, I see Scribd has it, it's 25 pages and you can do a free 30-day free trial to download and print it, but I imagine it's a beast to play, far beyond my abilities. Good luck to you though, if you give it a go.
agosti only transcripted 3 dances from the firebird. but there's a guy that transcripted the whole thing to piano, the sheet is in imslp edit: the guy who transcripted the whole thing is stravinsky himself
I used to think this comment was about it being a cover of an orchestra. Then I learned it's about the piece requiring you to look at the notes like they are the instruments they are representing. Replicating the timbres with dynamics. Wow.
I'm having hardcore chills right now. I'm 1 minute in and I already know how this guy is going to rock the ending so perfectly. Completely here for this.
I mean....just the intro....what an intro! This is how you start a piece.. Then there is the Berceuse, what a different world the Berceuse takes you to.
I've never heard of this guy before but Holy Sweet Baby Jesus... Man, this guy's good. And here I thought Petrushka was a nightmare. Don't get me wrong, La semaine grasse is still monstrously difficult. This just add another title to my 'Impossible Musics' list.
Who is this? What a technique melded by musicality...no fancying of shoulders or useless facial expressions...makes it easy to listen to what he is creating within heart and his hands.Awesome, impressed and so so enjoying.
Amazing performance. I have looked at the score. It seems physically impossible. It is wonderful to actually see a real performance. Thank you for sharing this video in UA-cam. Francesco is super talented.
This man lives through music, becomes music in his playing and is music. I am overwhelmed at this performance. Truly an inspirational musician. Bravo Francesco!!!!
Grandissimo Francesco Piemontesi...hai dato all'Uccello di Fuoco la predominanza Ritmica che merita, fuori da ogni mediazione melodica o sinfonica. Emerge la Danza Primitiva da cui origina la Vita stessa. E con essa la Musica. Bravissimo, Maestro. Biologia musicale.... Marco Rotondi
Dude on the cam controller likely did this live. Post editing means you can look at it all at once and go "hmm, maybe this" unfortunately we're stuck with the guy who did things as best he could at the moment. Also, if something happened to that camera (it moved away, or it was shook or dropped) the controller would switch to a different camera. So there could be a reason for it.
This is the performance of God quality of a God quality piece of music. It's like witnessing the top of Everest and you get to fly away instead of having to climb down.
We can hear its gorgeous, intense sound but at the same time can see his delicate technique as a Virtuoso. Moreover, his original glissandi sound effectively. There will never be another it.
In some ways this is even better than the orchestra version, as I've yet to hear any orchestra whose articulation was this sharp and whose tempo felt this exhilarating. Even the pros tend to not quite get it right. It's understandable, of course, Stravinsky's rhythms are stupidly hard sometimes, and a pianist who has practiced this for hundreds of hours knows the piece inside and out and can take liberties whereas an orchestra which has one day to rehearse together before the performance can't do that. Still, this my new reference for how the Infernal Dance *should* sound.
This comment reminds me: even Stravinsky wasn’t quite sure how the Firebird *should* sound. There is the magnificent 1910 original (and the 1911 suite, identical to the ballet), then came the 1919 suite, which was IMO already a sort of castrated version done at the dawn of his neoclassical period. You could say that by downsizing the orchestra, Stravinsky wanted to make it more “performable” (not everyone has 3 harps), but that doesn’t excuse it from all its half-baked, jerry-built orchestration choices, which I could go on about for months how much of a downgrade they are. Then came the cherry on top, the truly execrable, botched 1945 version - which thank God, almost nobody plays - and what I assume only saw the light of day so that Igor could cash in on his royalties in the USA.
Well probably not exactly. There's always someone better than you. And lots harder pieces than this that other pianists play as well or better than he played this piece.
When Erik said he was the most talented of this generation, that was his opinion. You didn't need to comment on his opinion and try to validate it with your own opinion. Thanks but no thanks.
+Erik Vertriest Daniil Trifonov, Denis Matsuev, Evgeny Kissin, Yuja Wang...just to name a few that immediately come to mind. I'm sure there's quite a few more as well.
Who is this marvelous performer? It is perfect, tempo, accuracy et.al. This has to be one of the most difficult pieces to perform. Orchestra is still my favorite--guess I've always heard it that way. The video photographer needs some piano lessons, why cut away from the keyboard on the best parts?
Bart Watts I have seen the score many times. Here are some pieces that are considerably more difficult: Alkan Le Preux, Alkan solo concerto, Liszt 1838 Paganini etudes, Liszt’s 2nd version of the transcendental etudes (not the 1851 version performed today), Liszt’ La Clochette fantasy, Liszt/Beethoven 9, Godowsky’s Passacaglia, Godowsky’s piano sonata, the majority of the Mereaux etudes, etc. you get my point
@@jackcurley1591 1) You have mentioned so few pieced that the claim "one of the most difficult" remains undisputed and your entire comment is pointless. 2) Le Preux is an excercise in very fast octaves, nothing more. 3) Alkan's solo concerto is 5 times as long as this piece and is mostly difficult because of its length. Not comparable. 4) Both the 1838 paganini etudes and transcendental etudes aren't "more difficult" than the revised versions-they're just written much worse and are awkward and uncomfortable to play. This is why Liszt fixed them and nobody plays them anymore. Bart was talking about pieces in the repertoire; these arent. Obviously, any idiot can write a piece that consists of repeated chords or octaves at unplayable speeds, 12ths spreads or just physiologically impossible intervals without any effort whatsoever. This is absolutely meaningless, however. If there's no musical merit to it and nobody performs it, it's irrelevant. Incidentally, this applies to the Meraux etudes as well, of which only 3 or 4 are that difficult at any rate, and only if you choose to play them fast, which again, is irrelevant as there's absolutely no musical merit to playing them fast (or slow). You might as well argue that the chopin etudes are harder stil, provided you play them at double speed. Not repertoire. Not relevant. 5) Godowsky passacaglia could arguably have some variations that are as or more technically difficult than this one, but again, it's a much longer piece and not comparable at all. 6) Godowsky's sonata is technically easier than the variations, even longer, and its difficulty is so utterly different from this piece that it wouldn't even be comparable if it wasn't 5 times as long. 7) The Beethoven/Liszt transcription is literally over an hour longer than this piece. The most technically difficult parts are in the fourth movement, which only exists transcribed for two pianos.
Stravinsky was one of the great orchestrators, and the orchestral version of this is of course as beautiful as can be. But a piano transcription like this shows how much of the beauty does depend just on the actual notes. He was also famous for the distinctive spacing of the notes in the chords, which also changes the character of the harmony. But that shows up more in later works than this. (Think of the unmistakable E Minor chord that opens Symphony of Psalms -- different from any other E Minor chord you have ever heard, and instantly recognizable.)
Agreed. It's amazing how much of Stravinsky's music can withstand transcription and still preserve its unique character. He basically always composed at the piano, so I guess that's part of it.
Met Francesco tonight. He plans to transcribe an extra 2-ish minutes that were left out by Agosti and play it sometime in the near-future. I'm looking forward to seeing another performance.
I've been considering what to do for a better ending. And I think I figured it out. The score says to start at the bottom of the piano and go to the higher end (I also dislike the gliss). Listening to Stravinsky, I think it's actually better to do this the other way around. The piece ends with timpani not with flutes. So I think it sounds much better to play the right hand chord an octave down. Then slowly build up B major chords from the bottom of the piano to the top. Then when you're ready, gliss (Alternatively, something else) to the bottom of the piano. LH lowest B octave, right hand B major chord below middle C. That sounded great when I did that. The issue with this videos ending (And I think he tried as best he could so it's not a mistake on his part) is it's not quite what Stravinsky envisioned. It's more of an every instrument crescendos to _ffff_ and everything stops with a loud crash. At 10:17 that B is written in treble clef not bass clef lol. I was making the same mistake, it seemed weird so I looked again. Also, I'm curious as to why the score has a gliss. I don't really hear that in Stravinsky's 1960 video. Although, an orchestral version of it may appear elsewhere or perhaps the score is based off a different version of the firebird.
I've never heard a piano sound like that before. I'm completely blown away.
Ikr, who knows what other sounds the piano is capable of creating? Such a flexible instrument!
Balfour
Marvellous isn’t it?
Another one is Ivo Pogorelich as a young man of similar age playing Ravel’s ‘Gaspard de la Nuit’.
so is that piano
He has large hands! We don’t often comment about the physical gifts of some people. Nobody would doubt that Usain Bolt would run faster than a 5’9 person with shorter leg to torso ratio. The same here: the easiness of playing is just otherworldly: see Yuja’s performances for examples, and you will see that this stamina and power at this speed is simply not there; fortes are a little softer and not as effectively drawn. Pianos are more inaudible, etc. Nobody would question this reality with Rachmaninov…
При таком пианисте оркестр модез нервно покурить в сторонке. Браво, МУЗЫКАНТ!!!!!!
As pianist, I heard a lot of classical pieces throughout my life, but this arrangement always amazes me of how well this piece resembles original orchestral Firebird.
The best and most exciting version on UA-cam.
AGREE!!!!
Indeed
I concur.
【0:06】Danse infernale du roi Kastchei
【5:02】Berceuse
【8:41】Finale
Danse Infernale du roi Kastchel and Finale were really intense, and that second half of Danse Infernale was so incredible, it blew me away! It was understandable how he then needed a breather with Berceuse, and to play slow and easy for a few minutes before the magnificent Finale
@@alvexok5523 Yes, I get your point, but the berceuse was hard too.
@@jasonhuang6023, oh yes, it's still difficult. But it's not as fast which makes it a degree easier. I guess I meant that it was a breather for him. I could never play Danse Infernale.
@@alvexok5523 True
@Schuyler Bacn everywhere you
I am a piano transcription/arrangement artist, it's what I love to do more than practically anything. I say with confidence, this is the greatest transcription I have ever heard. It has nothing to do with "reducing" or stripping a song down for piano, it's a matter of translating the exact energy and basically all the notes. Superb work by Agosti, what a genius to be able to transcribe without the aid of software. The score for this by the way, is insane. I have it sitting on my piano right now. There are often 3 staves dancing around each other, incredibly hard to read.
My favorite is the Finale. I love how Piementossi plays the 7/4 quarter notes rubato. Every other performance, the pianists are strict with the timing of those notes. His interpretation is far more passionate, and relatable in my opinion
It just doesn't get any better than this. It is one of those moments where you don't even want to attempt to play this piece because his performance is already perfectly sufficent.
i would like to play some of it.
@@militaryandemergencyservic3286 The sheet music can be found online, certainly for purchase if you're willing to pay, I see Scribd has it, it's 25 pages and you can do a free 30-day free trial to download and print it, but I imagine it's a beast to play, far beyond my abilities. Good luck to you though, if you give it a go.
Because who needs the orchestra when you can do all the themes yourself?
Yes but there is more in the firebird.
agosti only transcripted 3 dances from the firebird.
but there's a guy that transcripted the whole thing to piano, the sheet is in imslp
edit: the guy who transcripted the whole thing is stravinsky himself
I used to think this comment was about it being a cover of an orchestra.
Then I learned it's about the piece requiring you to look at the notes like they are the instruments they are representing. Replicating the timbres with dynamics.
Wow.
@@david2618 I'm gonna be honest I have no idea what the original comment was about.
@@xyzc2 No problem, it was 4 years ago, I wasn't directly addressing you I was trying to address people passing by who read it.
I'm having hardcore chills right now. I'm 1 minute in and I already know how this guy is going to rock the ending so perfectly. Completely here for this.
How did you feel about the ending after listening 8 months? :)
@@stacia6678 we will never know, it's been 2 years 😢😢😢
@@tyler-qr5jn ahahahs
@@tyler-qr5jn 3 years and bro is still speechless with their jaw on the floor... It's that good!
@@tedpiano I hope they can get that fixed soon, it's been so long 😪💔
Love the double reverse glissandi at 09:57! Infernal dance fantastic of course...
I'm finally working on this. It's a dope piece
The power and the glory. Absolutely brilliant! :)
I mean....just the intro....what an intro! This is how you start a piece..
Then there is the Berceuse, what a different world the Berceuse takes you to.
One of the most beautiful piano performance I've ever seen...
Stravinsky himself may well have been favourably impressed by this performance!
It's very unfortunate the sound quality is glitchy because this performance is unbelievable, he totally got the interpretation right, love it!
if you heard two other of them, this is the highest quality one in all of YT
wonderful,,,,,,,,,,,,,brilliant.thank you to the pianist and to the person who posted this video...............the pianist is a brilliant pianist.
素晴らしい作品、素晴らしいピアニストと出会うことが出来ました。
今日は、本当にLUCKY❤DAY 😊😊❤😊🎵
Oh! God. The MAN and the PIANO playing this Firebird Alone!!!❤❤❤
I've never heard of this guy before but Holy Sweet Baby Jesus... Man, this guy's good.
And here I thought Petrushka was a nightmare. Don't get me wrong, La semaine grasse is still monstrously difficult. This just add another title to my 'Impossible Musics' list.
I cried.....so beautiful
YES! Other versions on UA-cam lack the sheer power, might, majesty, and exuberance this performance has!!!
Kenneth Perkins music Absolutely yes!!
I never heard a firebird like this before in my whole life
Best recording ever heard on this work.
I love the Berceuse section. Stravinsky hammers that one motif for a solid couple minutes and it never gets old.
Me too. Of course the other sections are appropriately bombastic and climatic, but that eerie atmosphere of Berceuse is mysterious and chilling.
A sleeping giant that is remembering that one smell
I'm exhausted, and I just watched this!
Who is this? What a technique melded by musicality...no fancying of shoulders or useless facial expressions...makes it easy to listen to what he is creating within heart and his hands.Awesome, impressed and so so enjoying.
Francesco Piemontesi
Amazing performance. I have looked at the score. It seems physically impossible. It is wonderful to actually see a real performance. Thank you for sharing this video in UA-cam. Francesco is super talented.
BEAUTIFUL!!!! And now that I'm done listening, I'm going to listen to it again and again, and again....
Never mess with a pianist with glasses.
Me.
Lesson learned. That first part scared the crap out of me!!
Lol
This man lives through music, becomes music in his playing and is music. I am overwhelmed at this performance. Truly an inspirational musician. Bravo Francesco!!!!
It feels like 10 years ago since I first heard this man's performance on piano playing this part.
Every time i come back I am blown away.
@@teacoffee42 welcome
Wow! Astounding playing and an excellent and very exciting arrangement!
My favorite piano transcription and it's performance!!! BRAVO!!!!!
Fabulous, fantastic, farfetched, never knew the Firebird could sound almost equally intense on piano as by orchestra.
This piano transcription sounds like Marc André-Hamelin, and I absolutely love it!
Wow what an amazing arrangement. It must be fun playing it.
Now its ur turn to record this arrangement
Fanchen!
@@aeroslothyworking on it rn. Will probably take a few months
what genius sounds like..dont ever let anyone convince you perfection isnt real
Explosive performance from a top class pianist!
Grandissimo Francesco Piemontesi...hai dato all'Uccello di Fuoco la predominanza Ritmica che merita, fuori da ogni mediazione melodica o sinfonica.
Emerge la Danza Primitiva da cui origina la Vita stessa.
E con essa la Musica.
Bravissimo, Maestro.
Biologia musicale....
Marco Rotondi
Beautiful hands.
2:22-2:35
Man, way to cut away from the keys on the best part
This is one of my biggest pet peeves of piano professional video recordings 😤
They are professional in the sense they know what you want, and they will only give you a little bit of it to lure you to consume more.
😬😬😬
Dude on the cam controller likely did this live. Post editing means you can look at it all at once and go "hmm, maybe this" unfortunately we're stuck with the guy who did things as best he could at the moment. Also, if something happened to that camera (it moved away, or it was shook or dropped) the controller would switch to a different camera. So there could be a reason for it.
The best performance of this.
Can't believe Mahler came back to play it, must've been a fan
Hhahahahah bro he is literally him
This is out of this world!
This is the performance of God quality of a God quality piece of music. It's like witnessing the top of Everest and you get to fly away instead of having to climb down.
A tremendous arrangement and the most wonderful pianist. Go go go Francesco!
Igor would be impressed. C’est très formidable.
Sublime. . . . phenomenal performance. Thanks.
Astonishing!!
We can hear its gorgeous, intense sound but at the same time can see his delicate technique as a Virtuoso. Moreover, his original glissandi sound effectively. There will never be another it.
0:06 and 8:39 are my happiness buttons.
What a formidable pianist!
In some ways this is even better than the orchestra version, as I've yet to hear any orchestra whose articulation was this sharp and whose tempo felt this exhilarating. Even the pros tend to not quite get it right. It's understandable, of course, Stravinsky's rhythms are stupidly hard sometimes, and a pianist who has practiced this for hundreds of hours knows the piece inside and out and can take liberties whereas an orchestra which has one day to rehearse together before the performance can't do that. Still, this my new reference for how the Infernal Dance *should* sound.
Great comment
This comment reminds me: even Stravinsky wasn’t quite sure how the Firebird *should* sound. There is the magnificent 1910 original (and the 1911 suite, identical to the ballet), then came the 1919 suite, which was IMO already a sort of castrated version done at the dawn of his neoclassical period. You could say that by downsizing the orchestra, Stravinsky wanted to make it more “performable” (not everyone has 3 harps), but that doesn’t excuse it from all its half-baked, jerry-built orchestration choices, which I could go on about for months how much of a downgrade they are. Then came the cherry on top, the truly execrable, botched 1945 version - which thank God, almost nobody plays - and what I assume only saw the light of day so that Igor could cash in on his royalties in the USA.
Having played the clarinet in the orchestra version, I wish I could play the piano like this genius because like you, I prefer the piano version.
Amazing performance! Bravo!
Magnificent! So exciting! And with wonderful orchestral, idiomatic textures. A delight!
I want him to play this at my funeral.
Along with the Rite of Spring.
IT´S ABOUT LIFE AND NOT DEATH.
This must be very difficult to play. And a magnificent interpretation ... Thumbs up and thanks for posting !
I just stumbled onto this performance... WOW. Completely blown away. What an amazing talent and performance!
Marvelous, stupendous, well executed, who'd have thought this orchestral work could have been rendered on piano, and so inspirationally?
Most talented pianist of his generation, without any doubt.
Well probably not exactly. There's always someone better than you. And lots harder pieces than this that other pianists play as well or better than he played this piece.
Well, just name them....
When Erik said he was the most talented of this generation, that was his opinion. You didn't need to comment on his opinion and try to validate it with your own opinion. Thanks but no thanks.
Erik Vertriest Evgeny Kissin, for example.
+Erik Vertriest Daniil Trifonov, Denis Matsuev, Evgeny Kissin, Yuja Wang...just to name a few that immediately come to mind. I'm sure there's quite a few more as well.
0:06 When the quiet kid starts playing the piano
Wahnsinn!! Yes, he's an orchestra!!
4:30-6:15 i love this part so much
Absolutely sublime
Amazing performance!!!
Che grandissimo pianista!
Who is this marvelous performer? It is perfect, tempo, accuracy et.al. This has to be one of the most difficult pieces to perform. Orchestra is still my favorite--guess I've always heard it that way. The video photographer needs some piano lessons, why cut away from the keyboard on the best parts?
Francesco Piemontesi
Mike Surratt it’s tough but nowhere near the most difficult pieces in the piano repertoire.
+Jack Curley wrong! It is considered one of the most technically challenging pieces in the repertoire. You’ve clearly not seen this in print.
Bart Watts I have seen the score many times. Here are some pieces that are considerably more difficult: Alkan Le Preux, Alkan solo concerto, Liszt 1838 Paganini etudes, Liszt’s 2nd version of the transcendental etudes (not the 1851 version performed today), Liszt’ La Clochette fantasy, Liszt/Beethoven 9, Godowsky’s Passacaglia, Godowsky’s piano sonata, the majority of the Mereaux etudes, etc. you get my point
@@jackcurley1591
1) You have mentioned so few pieced that the claim "one of the most difficult" remains undisputed and your entire comment is pointless.
2) Le Preux is an excercise in very fast octaves, nothing more.
3) Alkan's solo concerto is 5 times as long as this piece and is mostly difficult because of its length. Not comparable.
4) Both the 1838 paganini etudes and transcendental etudes aren't "more difficult" than the revised versions-they're just written much worse and are awkward and uncomfortable to play. This is why Liszt fixed them and nobody plays them anymore. Bart was talking about pieces in the repertoire; these arent. Obviously, any idiot can write a piece that consists of repeated chords or octaves at unplayable speeds, 12ths spreads or just physiologically impossible intervals without any effort whatsoever. This is absolutely meaningless, however. If there's no musical merit to it and nobody performs it, it's irrelevant. Incidentally, this applies to the Meraux etudes as well, of which only 3 or 4 are that difficult at any rate, and only if you choose to play them fast, which again, is irrelevant as there's absolutely no musical merit to playing them fast (or slow). You might as well argue that the chopin etudes are harder stil, provided you play them at double speed. Not repertoire. Not relevant.
5) Godowsky passacaglia could arguably have some variations that are as or more technically difficult than this one, but again, it's a much longer piece and not comparable at all.
6) Godowsky's sonata is technically easier than the variations, even longer, and its difficulty is so utterly different from this piece that it wouldn't even be comparable if it wasn't 5 times as long.
7) The Beethoven/Liszt transcription is literally over an hour longer than this piece. The most technically difficult parts are in the fourth movement, which only exists transcribed for two pianos.
It is marvellous. Absolutely perfect. A thinker and most virtuous pianist. Bravo. Hats off.
Hes performance is so perfect!!!!! 💗 💗 💗 💗 💗 💗
Stravinsky was one of the great orchestrators, and the orchestral version of this is of course as beautiful as can be. But a piano transcription like this shows how much of the beauty does depend just on the actual notes.
He was also famous for the distinctive spacing of the notes in the chords, which also changes the character of the harmony. But that shows up more in later works than this. (Think of the unmistakable E Minor chord that opens Symphony of Psalms -- different from any other E Minor chord you have ever heard, and instantly recognizable.)
Agreed. It's amazing how much of Stravinsky's music can withstand transcription and still preserve its unique character. He basically always composed at the piano, so I guess that's part of it.
speachless........amazingly done!! ♡♡
BRAVO!!!!!!!!😭
What a beautiful performance! Thank you! :)
SUPER SUPER SUPERPIANIST!!! BRAVO MAESTRO!!!!
This should be the go to encore piece for every piano competition. Except it's probably too difficult. lol
2:24 Favorite part
stunning - ...all of it but the last 4 minutes - wowza !!
I've heard this many times since I was a child, but never on piano. Sounds fantastic!
This is how you play it. No one else on UA-cam matches this tempo
Met Francesco tonight. He plans to transcribe an extra 2-ish minutes that were left out by Agosti and play it sometime in the near-future. I'm looking forward to seeing another performance.
For real? That's amazing I'm excited
@@ripinpepperonies9754 That's what he told me! I'll certainly take him for his word after his amazing performance that evening.
rip in pepperonies he added some notes
진짜 오케스트라 같아.. 악기 하나하나 다 표현 잘함..
Bravo!!! The best!!
3:25-4:25 mad skills.
Arno Lowi Guess we'll never know, we can only assume... He would probably play it differently though...
Arno Lowi Wouldn't be the first time he'd do so tho
God of Piano.
Love the extra glissandi he added!
Really impressive and at same level as the Petrouchka transcription for piano written by Stravinsky himself.
una bravura trascendentale, trascinante
by far the most brilliant performance out there yet !
Played extremely well
I've been considering what to do for a better ending. And I think I figured it out. The score says to start at the bottom of the piano and go to the higher end (I also dislike the gliss). Listening to Stravinsky, I think it's actually better to do this the other way around. The piece ends with timpani not with flutes. So I think it sounds much better to play the right hand chord an octave down. Then slowly build up B major chords from the bottom of the piano to the top. Then when you're ready, gliss (Alternatively, something else) to the bottom of the piano. LH lowest B octave, right hand B major chord below middle C. That sounded great when I did that. The issue with this videos ending (And I think he tried as best he could so it's not a mistake on his part) is it's not quite what Stravinsky envisioned. It's more of an every instrument crescendos to _ffff_ and everything stops with a loud crash.
At 10:17 that B is written in treble clef not bass clef lol. I was making the same mistake, it seemed weird so I looked again. Also, I'm curious as to why the score has a gliss. I don't really hear that in Stravinsky's 1960 video. Although, an orchestral version of it may appear elsewhere or perhaps the score is based off a different version of the firebird.
Piemontesi is fantastic!
As a composer and pianist orchestral piano reductions are my favorite thing
Замечательный, гениальный Стравинский!!!!! Музыка третьего тысячелетия!!!!
Очень талантлиаый пианист!!!!💐
Just marvellous !
ピアノのために作られた曲だったとしても充分なほどに素晴らしい！！
それに、オーケストラの迫力・音色を損なわずにピアノで弾く奏者も、編曲も素晴らしすぎる…！
Oh! my God amazing! it's so difficult!
INSUPERABILE 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The metal of classical music!
Im going to learn and play the whole bloody suite. Mark my words!!