Hi, David.:) Wow. In Liszt's pieces, I personally like this piece. You learned this piece at thirteen. It's Amazing.:) Always thank you for your deep, emotional and outstanding interpretation.
Thank you, Kassia!! I'm sure you played all this rep as a teenager too... A short story... my piano prof back then told me to enter a small competition and you had to send in a 15-minute recording for it, and I was supposed to record Chopin's Fantasie and a mvt of a Beethoven Sonata. I really wanted to do Funerailles though, which she'd told me to forget about, so I recorded the pieces she wanted on side A (of a cassette tape!) and a favorite Bach Prelude and Fugue followed by Funerailles on Side B and rewound the tape to side B for the judges. When I attended the award ceremony, I found out that the judges had only listened to Side B, which gave me a lot of pleasure. I was kind of nervous though for a while my professor would find out...
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano Wow, It's so funny.:) It reminds of cassette tape side A/B:) You've had faith in your music since then. So, I guess that you become a great pianist and conductor now.:)
7:40 the octaves that recall Chopin's Heroic Polonaise. Today/tomorrow, depending on your timezone, is the anniversary of Chopin's death - 17 October 1849. I can't imagine what our lives would be like without Chopin - we salute you
Thank you, The Flaming Piano! I'm sure this piece will become part of of your rep. I was pretty sparing with the effects, and with the length of the piece it took about 36 hours to render, but then I realized I'd made a couple careless mistakes in the early steps, so I had to go back and re-render from scratch, and AE kept crashing for inexplicable reasons (silent scream), so it took about 48 hours the 2nd time...
Before I met grief, before I discovered mourning, I learned of it as a young teenager through Liszt’s Funérailles, composed in memory of fallen comrades fighting for freedom a year earlier, and in the weeks after Liszt’s close friend, Chopin’s death. The combination of revolution, poetry and boundless loss caught my young imagination like nothing I'd ever known and struck me to the core.
Marvelous. I very much appreciate and enjoy your interpretation. Liszt music is an important part of my life. My 95 years old mother as a young girl studied piano with one of Liszt last students.
Fortunately or unfortunately, I can't relate to this piece on an emotional level, since I haven't experienced grief and am too young. For me, the slow pace of the first half highlights the sorrow and mourning during the stages of grief. The second half picks up the pace and is more "powerful", which depicts the hardness at which grief hits you, and the strong denial. The piece reverts back to a slow pace to perhaps show the sorrow, mourning, and possible acceptance after grief. This was my first try on an analysis on a piece you've played. It truly is a work of art!
I think you've pretty much captured it in terms of the big picture. I would add in mention of the intro section, with the Church bells tolling death, and the initial moaning and crying in reaction, from both sides of the grave, as it were. It makes me think of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Another key component, recalling Chopin's Heroic Polonaise, is the military section with the cavalry, followed by the return of the main theme, full of anger and despair. Curiously, and ingeniously, both of these sections, and the very end of the coda, is expressed within the sonority of deathly bells and growing cacophony. The octave section is one of the first instances of music as noise and distortion, impressionistic and modern all at once. As if Debussy meets Prokofiev 6...
Fantastic performance! It's really impressive! I love the stark contrast between the powerful part and the soft one. Thanks for sharing your great work!
I hate I missed the premier. I had school and football. Great playing! Love the emotion in this piece That's insane that you learned it at 13! I'm 13 and been playing piano for almost 2 years. I know a few pieces but right now I'm trying to learn The Lark from Kassia's video and Rebel Without a Cause by musicalbasics!
It's not impossible, it might just take a little longer. The same way I played Clare de Lune after having played piano for only a month. It took me about 2 months to learn because I was still developing the strength and technique to do so. And after 6 years I can play Un Sospiro and it took me a month to learn, then after 7 years, Transcendental Etude No 6, which took me 2 months to learn. The Lark isn't nearly as hard as those so it's very possible.
I didn't know this piece. It's so not Liszt haha. I loved it. You sure played it awesome as always! Keep posting David! PS: I don't know if you take requests, but it's worth trying. You could play Bach's Chaconne (Busoni) :-)
The best funeral piece ever written outside of the Faure requiem. A true journey, as every piece of this length and purpose ought to be. This performance is unnecessarily heavy-handed in spots, though.
So excellent performance! You really did a good job throught the whole piece, especially the low octaves part which you handled it nicely :D You are going to be the second Liszt i am sure.
This one was new to me, really impressive. The fact that you learned this as a teenager it's really amazing, by now I'm a teenager and i just can play some of the easiest chopin's waltzes ahahaah. Nice work as always, Zen. :)
Thanks :) By now I'm going to try the op. 69, it has really good waltzes. I learned the waltz in A minor and in C# minor, maybe I'll learn the waltz in Db and in E minor too, but i need to get a better technique before.
Thank you! I used to think Totentanz was a bag of cheap tricks, and now I think it's genius... But I've never learned it. Eventually I'll tackle the solo piano version.
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano Argerich has octaves like nobody else. And I love her interpretation of 1st Tchaikowsky. Those octaves are like beast. Its so strong and light at the same time. I have no clue how is she doing it? Do you have?
@@kaspianocz6330 I would need a few pages. Here's a few thoughts. I've learned more about octaves from Argerich and Horowitz than anyone else. Start by giving yourself permission to miss about 1% of them. All of the great octaves recordings miss a few and we don't care. If you aim at 100%, you'll end up with small octaves and small interpretations. Study Bruce Lee's one-inch punch. Also apply some freestyle kickboxing techniques, especially in terms of playing with various types of rotation/swinging in the hands and wrists. Embrace percussive sounds as a starting point - it's easy to warm up the sound if you possess the strength/speed for percussion. Think like a squirrel jumping fearlessly smong high branches, unafraid of falling. Ultimately the most important motion is a bouncing sensation from the hand, as if bouncing a basketbsll from about 1-2 inches off the ground. Realize that lateral moving of the arm for all leaps etc comes from muscles on the inner side of your armpit and not from the hand. Lateral speed in the arms can be developed away from the piano. Desist immediately from anything that causes pain or discomfort. Otherwise push your octave limits daily.
In response to this question about the same passage, Horowitz once said "practice high from the wrist.." I'm not sure how much this helps, but it's definitely worth trying and thinking about. In left hand octave passages like this, I generally focus my energy toward the thumb. When you can group them 3+3, let the 2nd and 3rd octaves of the group rebound off the energy/attack from the 1st one. Using the same idea, I play the first octave of a grouping from higher up in the hand, or wrist or arm. For example, the first octave could be played from the forearm, and the 2nd and 3rd more from the hand or even fingers. There's also the endurance/strength equation. A passage like this, unless you've been playing fast and loud octaves everyday, takes a steady buildup of strength over several days or even weeks. So rather than trying and failing all in one day, track your small steps over 10 days or so.
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Hi, David.:) Wow. In Liszt's pieces, I personally like this piece. You learned this piece at thirteen. It's Amazing.:) Always thank you for your deep, emotional and outstanding interpretation.
Thank you, Kassia!! I'm sure you played all this rep as a teenager too... A short story... my piano prof back then told me to enter a small competition and you had to send in a 15-minute recording for it, and I was supposed to record Chopin's Fantasie and a mvt of a Beethoven Sonata. I really wanted to do Funerailles though, which she'd told me to forget about, so I recorded the pieces she wanted on side A (of a cassette tape!) and a favorite Bach Prelude and Fugue followed by Funerailles on Side B and rewound the tape to side B for the judges. When I attended the award ceremony, I found out that the judges had only listened to Side B, which gave me a lot of pleasure. I was kind of nervous though for a while my professor would find out...
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano interesting story
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano Wow, It's so funny.:) It reminds of cassette tape side A/B:) You've had faith in your music since then. So, I guess that you become a great pianist and conductor now.:)
Omg I didn’t expect to find Kassia. Honestly you both are amazing pianists.
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano such a rebel kid . I like It 😂😂😂
12:21 that's clearly a press f to pay respect
Ahahahah
@Zachary Cameron Williams Is that a Jojo reference?
7:40 the octaves that recall Chopin's Heroic Polonaise.
Today/tomorrow, depending on your timezone, is the anniversary of Chopin's death - 17 October 1849. I can't imagine what our lives would be like without Chopin - we salute you
Also, at 4:43 it's similar to the middle section of Chopin's Marche Funébre
@@giuseppeagresta1425 I hadn't noticed that
To me, Chopin's compositions were extraordinary, and he was a genius. He and Lizst completely changed the way I looked at classical music. Kudos.
Should upload a quick honorary video, eh? Beautiful composition & great video, as always.
@@giuseppeagresta1425 Actually that part is typical Liszt
12 minutes... how long did it take to render this? Really amazing work, it's a powerful and beautiful piece. You are so amazing!
Thank you, The Flaming Piano! I'm sure this piece will become part of of your rep.
I was pretty sparing with the effects, and with the length of the piece it took about 36 hours to render, but then I realized I'd made a couple careless mistakes in the early steps, so I had to go back and re-render from scratch, and AE kept crashing for inexplicable reasons (silent scream), so it took about 48 hours the 2nd time...
Before I met grief, before I discovered mourning, I learned of it as a young teenager through Liszt’s Funérailles, composed in memory of fallen comrades fighting for freedom a year earlier, and in the weeks after Liszt’s close friend, Chopin’s death. The combination of revolution, poetry and boundless loss caught my young imagination like nothing I'd ever known and struck me to the core.
Marvelous. I very much appreciate and enjoy your interpretation. Liszt music is an important part of my life. My 95 years old mother as a young girl studied piano with one of Liszt last students.
Fortunately or unfortunately, I can't relate to this piece on an emotional level, since I haven't experienced grief and am too young. For me, the slow pace of the first half highlights the sorrow and mourning during the stages of grief. The second half picks up the pace and is more "powerful", which depicts the hardness at which grief hits you, and the strong denial. The piece reverts back to a slow pace to perhaps show the sorrow, mourning, and possible acceptance after grief.
This was my first try on an analysis on a piece you've played. It truly is a work of art!
I think you've pretty much captured it in terms of the big picture.
I would add in mention of the intro section, with the Church bells tolling death, and the initial moaning and crying in reaction, from both sides of the grave, as it were. It makes me think of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Another key component, recalling Chopin's Heroic Polonaise, is the military section with the cavalry, followed by the return of the main theme, full of anger and despair. Curiously, and ingeniously, both of these sections, and the very end of the coda, is expressed within the sonority of deathly bells and growing cacophony. The octave section is one of the first instances of music as noise and distortion, impressionistic and modern all at once. As if Debussy meets Prokofiev 6...
6:35 my favorite part
I've been Lisztening to this all day
Why didn't I discover your channel earlier ; - ; your musicality is amazing and learning this piece when you were 13?? That's insane!!! Man, you rock
Fantastic performance! It's really impressive! I love the stark contrast between the powerful part and the soft one. Thanks for sharing your great work!
4:28 is such a gorgeous melody
I hate I missed the premier. I had school and football. Great playing! Love the emotion in this piece That's insane that you learned it at 13! I'm 13 and been playing piano for almost 2 years. I know a few pieces but right now I'm trying to learn The Lark from Kassia's video and Rebel Without a Cause by musicalbasics!
Sorry but I'm pretty sure that in 2 years playing the lark is almost impossible
@@ko4la886 I started learning it about a month ago and I've learned about 40 seconds of it so far!
@@JacobSimpson the first 40 seconds aren't the problem. You'll got trouble around 2:20
@@ko4la886 yeah for sure. That part will take a while
It's not impossible, it might just take a little longer. The same way I played Clare de Lune after having played piano for only a month. It took me about 2 months to learn because I was still developing the strength and technique to do so. And after 6 years I can play Un Sospiro and it took me a month to learn, then after 7 years, Transcendental Etude No 6, which took me 2 months to learn. The Lark isn't nearly as hard as those so it's very possible.
I didn't know this piece. It's so not Liszt haha. I loved it. You sure played it awesome as always! Keep posting David!
PS: I don't know if you take requests, but it's worth trying. You could play Bach's Chaconne (Busoni) :-)
I’ve never heard this piece before. It’s very interesting
Wow, your playing is very powerful, well done, I remembered trying to learn this piece back then, but I dropped it coz it's too hard
The best funeral piece ever written outside of the Faure requiem. A true journey, as every piece of this length and purpose ought to be. This performance is unnecessarily heavy-handed in spots, though.
Perfect performing as alwyas and 7:40.....best remembrance of chopin
So excellent performance! You really did a good job throught the whole piece, especially the low octaves part which you handled it nicely :D You are going to be the second Liszt i am sure.
This one was new to me, really impressive. The fact that you learned this as a teenager it's really amazing, by now I'm a teenager and i just can play some of the easiest chopin's waltzes ahahaah.
Nice work as always, Zen. :)
Thank you, Bolinho!
the waltzes are no joke... keep it up and you'll be playing this bigger rep in no time :)
Thanks :)
By now I'm going to try the op. 69, it has really good waltzes. I learned the waltz in A minor and in C# minor, maybe I'll learn the waltz in Db and in E minor too, but i need to get a better technique before.
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I love pieces with amazing bass and this is one of them. Loved your strong bass
EDIT : altough I think that totentanz is the best death piece.
Thank you!
I used to think Totentanz was a bag of cheap tricks, and now I think it's genius... But I've never learned it. Eventually I'll tackle the solo piano version.
Amazing! Hats off for octaves, almost as fast as Argerich. Thats impressive!!
Wow.. a first comparison to the goddess Argerich... thank you!!
My favorite Argerich quote: "I kind of have a thing for octaves."
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano Argerich has octaves like nobody else. And I love her interpretation of 1st Tchaikowsky. Those octaves are like beast. Its so strong and light at the same time. I have no clue how is she doing it? Do you have?
@@kaspianocz6330 I would need a few pages. Here's a few thoughts. I've learned more about octaves from Argerich and Horowitz than anyone else. Start by giving yourself permission to miss about 1% of them. All of the great octaves recordings miss a few and we don't care. If you aim at 100%, you'll end up with small octaves and small interpretations. Study Bruce Lee's one-inch punch. Also apply some freestyle kickboxing techniques, especially in terms of playing with various types of rotation/swinging in the hands and wrists. Embrace percussive sounds as a starting point - it's easy to warm up the sound if you possess the strength/speed for percussion. Think like a squirrel jumping fearlessly smong high branches, unafraid of falling. Ultimately the most important motion is a bouncing sensation from the hand, as if bouncing a basketbsll from about 1-2 inches off the ground. Realize that lateral moving of the arm for all leaps etc comes from muscles on the inner side of your armpit and not from the hand. Lateral speed in the arms can be developed away from the piano. Desist immediately from anything that causes pain or discomfort. Otherwise push your octave limits daily.
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano hah thanx, what piano do you have?
The weird thing is you uploaded this on the day I left for a funeral.
wow.. Its so sad and so liszt😂
Old format was better! You incredible, you and SeeMusic Piano the Best perfomer!!! 😀😀😀
Thank you! You mean 2D vs 3D, or LED's? Among my videos, is there a style you liked best?
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano Emmmmmm, sorry for miss understanding, i mean that i like more when 2d? Old format when you play HR 2 and etc...
list music is emotional this is dark cold takes away the greatness¡¡¡¡¡¡
Is it influenced by Chopin's Funeral March?
Hi
May I have some tips on the rapid octave in the Bass section?
In response to this question about the same passage, Horowitz once said "practice high from the wrist.." I'm not sure how much this helps, but it's definitely worth trying and thinking about. In left hand octave passages like this, I generally focus my energy toward the thumb. When you can group them 3+3, let the 2nd and 3rd octaves of the group rebound off the energy/attack from the 1st one. Using the same idea, I play the first octave of a grouping from higher up in the hand, or wrist or arm. For example, the first octave could be played from the forearm, and the 2nd and 3rd more from the hand or even fingers. There's also the endurance/strength equation. A passage like this, unless you've been playing fast and loud octaves everyday, takes a steady buildup of strength over several days or even weeks. So rather than trying and failing all in one day, track your small steps over 10 days or so.
Do you have a recording of when you played this at age 13?
Maybe so, buried somewhere in storage. I don't think I've ever re-listened to it since then.
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano will you upload it to UA-cam? The recording must be a real treasure!
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0:50 its confirmed that liszt is the father of djent
I have a piano channel as well, almost at 160 subs
my niece see this maybe help you it's called the forest of the piano
Where’s thetageshow? That’s a first
TheTage Show of course you were at the premiere :D 👍 I didn’t think you’d ever miss a video
Noice
I hate you so much for puttig two ads in the middle of this
i am very pool
also there are small faults
Although it's not so bad for your age
music lacks feelings this does not show or abstain from feelings