Liszt - Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este (The Fountains of the Villa d'Este)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In his travels to Italy, Franz Liszt was a frequent guest of the cardinal at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli near Rome. His “Jeux d'eaux” - an inspiration and model for French impressionists - describes the stunning fountains at the Villa. Liszt included a Biblical quotation about the “water of life” in the score, and he'd once aspired to become a priest, but there's also a very human, even ecstatic, quality to the piece.
outro: Chopin Heroic Polonaise
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It's amazing visual, David!:) It's a new concept of visualizing piano video. And, the movement is soft and delicate. Thanks for fantastic performance!
Thank you, Kassia!! I think I'll stick with variations of this look for a while.
This was a completely vulnerable performance. I closed my eyes for most of it because I didn't want to react to the lights. It makes me too conscious somehow of the individual keystrokes. You must have this piece in repertoire - I hope you record it sometime :)
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano I think that it is wonderful performance. We know that there is limitation in LED midi piano system. LED light in dark can be dangerous.
I also play pieces with my eyes closed as much as possible. Doctor said that sunglasses can seriously affect eyes...Anyway, thank you for great video!
Liszt's Jeux d'eaux opens vistas of sound and explores dozens of ways to invoke the look, feel and sensation of water. It's hard to imagine Ravel's Jeux d'eau or Ondine, or some of Debussy's water-infused works, if not for this piece. It's at once religious and romantic, calming and invigorating; in 7 or 8 minutes, it somehow renews the spirit.
Liszt is like a multi-sided cube... there always seems to be another side
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano This is really neat.I have a calm piece too that would be famous maybe and I was wondering when you have time can you play my piece.It's called Aqua.
This is stunning, David! A truly sublime interpretation.
P.S. vertical synthesia is a nice touch! Waterfall-esque.
"Be water, my friend." I literally had a photo of Bruce Lee on the piano for this recording.
The score alternates between free tremolos and measured rhythms. Water though doesn't conform to the restricted limitations of the mathematics of 19th century musical notation, and notation hasn't gotten much more advanced since. Liszt gave an approximation of what he might have actually played. To create the fluidity and randomness of water currents, you have to be completely free to fill in between the cracks and follow random ripples of energy that surface at the moment of performance. I recorded this is a single take (this was the 8th take though!), trying to capture the flow through colors and meaning from the first note to the last.
Here's a fuller version of the Bruce Lee quote:
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
What a wonderful description of a wonderful piece...
I love this piece great Job on it!
Beautiful!! The angled note visualization is very cool and well-suited to the piece ⛲️
Really amazing, sounds like a harp! Way to bring out the melody and capture the feel too! I'm also attempting Ravel's Jeux d'eau now, with difficulty
Thank you! The melody is so tricky because it needs to intermingle with the water rather than stand apart from it, but because of that, it's easy to bury it in the texture of over-pedal it. It takes endless experimentation to find transparent colors.
Jeux d'eau is just as hard. I play it too, but don't think I've ever performed it for anyone. Such an incredible, enchanted piece!! I look forward to hearing you do it :) My first Ravel piece on the channel will probably be Ondine.
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano long way to go with all that twisty fingering and fast notes. It's really the musicality when it comes to watery pieces like these, isn't it? My next video will be Pathetique 1st mvt. Gonna take some time to render
How did Liszt do shit like this? This isn’t ‘kinda impressionistic’ - it is impressionistic. Hungarian Rhapsody no.6 is almost Jazz. Time didn’t matter to liszt - he was probably one of the more genius composers. He’s really underated - these pieces should put him up there with Mozart and Bach.
5:02. Are you fucking kidding me!!!!!!!??????!!!! What the fuck!!!!!!!!!??????!!!!!!! How did he?! No - really?! How did he?! That’s so Debussy esque - almost a hundred years before Debussy - no body had heard anything even remotely close to that!!!! His biography of Chopin is really starting to feel ironic. “Deeply regreted as his death may be by the whole body of artists - we must still be permitted to doubt if the time has even yet arrived in which he ---- can truly be appreciated in accordance with his just value.” It’s almost 200 years later - only now can we understand Liszt.
TheTage Show yes, Some of Mozart’s lesser known works also scare the shit out of me in the same way. His faintaisy in D minor for example, almost sounds like it’s a piece dedicated and in the style of Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt chronologically - which should’ve been impossible.
@@alicgluch5553 I though exactly the same 😂
Liszt is the smartest musician ever to me. Even smarter than Bach. Sure, his music is super difficult to play and it seems to make no sense. But underneath all that 'mess' there's math. We just don't see because it's math we just don't understand.
Seconded!!! He is SO underrated; I've loved classical music my entire life, but Liszt mostly slipped under my radar when I was younger. I only knew La Campanella and the Hungarian Rhapsodies. Lately I've been getting into his lesser known works, and I'm addicted. I had this impression of him as a virtuosic piano-smasher but now I know that's not even an infinitesimal fraction of the whole picture and his music was actually incredibly diverse.
Sad that most (or actually, all) of his work is too difficult for me to play :\
The only recording of this piece I could find on UA-cam
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Thanks for (nearly) 3K subs!! I've been working on creating a new 3D look to mark the occasion.
Please let me know what you think - how would you like it to be different?
I'm grateful to you all for joining me on this pianistic exploration of sound + visual effects :)
Yeah man we need a tutorial of tiles falling effect if you can make one
Either on this channel on you can make on your other channel
@TheTage Show i mean he should make an another channel for the tutorial videos where he can post different things other than piano covers
Congrats! I really liked the new look!
@TheTage Show and @Mad Max First, thanks!
Ask me anything about piano technique or tips how to sound a little more like any of the giants of piano, and I'm happy to give it a shot, but tech tutorials are beyond my expertise. It would be a disaster. I make 5 or 10 major mistakes for every minor step forward. I should have done a video of me nonchalantly cutting an LED strip while it was turned on, shorting the whole thing - fortunately sparing me - and then trying unsuccessfully to solder in pieces from another strip to salvage it. On the digital front, there are a couple helpful tutorials that have come out in the past 6 months or so on the After Effects + Synthesia approach if you google that.
Aw I missed the premier. Great playing! Liszt just couldn't write a simple piece could he! Besides his consolations. Visuals look great!
He wrote an etude in Dm that's pretty easy
Thank you!
Sarah, do you mean Paysage? That's a gorgeous one...
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano yeah it is pretty, too bad it isn't as popular
@@sarahkraus8247 I agree. Of the twelve, it's least like an etude, but by far the most beautiful and sincere.
Very nice. Beautiful harmonies.
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thank you, Logan!
Batata Fedida Who’s this?
Batata Fedida ah, hi
@@loganm2924 stinky potato
Amazing performance and great choice for a piece
You are the first one do this piece like that! GREAT!
thank you! I tried to match the music to the visuals and vice versa. I almost posted a slow Chopin Prelude with this new look, but changed to this once the visuals started taking shape.
This piece sounds sooo pretty!! I'm sure the fountain was magnificent if it inspired this composition
Your hands flow on the piano so well, just like water! Very nice
Maestro! Virtuoso!
You are a god! Have a blessed day sir😃😃
Wow! Amazing performance! It reminds me of old memories. I also performed this beautiful piece when I was in college. I'm not sure I can play this now though. Your performance is brilliant and superb! Thanks for sharing your fantastic work!
Jinnie, thank you!! it seems we have a lot of repertoire common :) I'm sure it would come back into your fingers very fast.
I love how certain pieces attach themselves to specific experiences and relationships in our life. Looking forward to your next creation.
Awesome! 🎹
Your performance of this such an underrated piece is so amazing! I really love your techniques and emotions in this piece, especially 4:21 :)
oh, that chord is so rapturous. There are many different types of climatic moments in the piece, and that's one of those moments that almost comes out of nowhere and transports you into a magical space.
Curiously, it also illustrates that more often than not the points of greatest beauty in music are the points of maximum dissonance. You can see a pathway on this front into Wagner and beyond.
That was amazing! You balanced the free-flowing and beautiful aspects of this piece with the meaningful and powerful sections perfectly. I like the new style of your performances (not just the well known and difficult to play ones, but the ones where the difficulty doesn’t really matter, just the interpretation and emotion)
The camera angle is a nice shift too
Thank you! I'm comfortable and even enjoy throwing my fingers and hands about in ultra-virtuoso music, but given a choice, I'm much more drawn to pieces with the fewest notes. This is one of those pieces that's somewhat gymnastic and full of fireworks, but also with the maximum of poetic intent. You never get that feeling of entertaining the listener with effects like you might have in a piece like the Rigoletto Paraphrase (coming soon, btw!). In several of my videos on the channel, i don't really recognize myself in the final product, but I think this one came off, for better or worse, as authentic me.
What a beautiful composition, and I love the way this looks, you should definitely keep this unique 3d effect going. Also, please start on the Transcendental Etudes, I would appreciate it! Wish I was here for the premiere.
Thank you! I'll stick with developing this 3D look. I will eventually get to some of the Transcendental etudes :)
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano Please do! My personal favorite is No. 4 "Mazeppa."
Sorry for being late, I was doing a exam this morning ;)
This piece is really hard and you played it so well, loved it, it's the first time that I've heard this piece. I can't even pronounce the name of it hahaha It's a bit similar to portuguese, my native language, but the accent is really hard to "imitate".
Loved the change of the camera angle.
Thank you! The title is one of those duo-lingo tongue-twisters. I actually used to live a few minutes away from the Villa d'Este for about a year. I speak several languages, but not Portuguese alas... maybe someday. Hope your exam went well ;)
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano Thxx Zen, I guess i was fine at the exam, but the pyshics part was really hard :/
What languages do you speak? I just know how to speak english, portuguese and spanish. I started to studying japanese and I'm going to try russian too.
@@FelipeDChs Ha! My physics is zero. The languages I'm closest to, after my native English, are Korean, Italian, French and Spanish.
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano Man this is awesome. Rubenstein knew a lot of languages too, the same for Zimerman.
I wanted to learn more languages, but even my parents don't support me, my father doesn't like the idea that i study music or other languages than english, for him it's a waste of time :(
Languages are awesome! Here’s what I would do in your situation.
1) Choose one foreign language to start with. No need to hurry. Choose the language you’re most interested in regardless of difficulty or amount of speakers. (I started Italian before Spanish, for example)
2) Download Duolingo. It’s not ideal but it’s free and you can use it everywhere you take your phone.
3) Learn the basics.
4) Learn the rest with authentic sources + learn the grammar, slowly decreasing the ‘study’ time and increasing the ‘fun’ time 😄
Good luck!
Sir u are a pro performer & real artist..
thank you, Ali!
Amazing performance
thank you!
I've been wishing someone would post this
Nice playing! It seems that Ravel took inspiration from Liszt to write his Jeux d'eau.Anyways, Can you play Feux d'artifice by Debussy? thanks!
Beautiful performance Zen. Please play Reflets Dans L'eau, by Debussy, is my favorite piano piece
Thank you! I adore that piece, and do play it. There's so much Debussy I'd like to lay down. I'll get to it :)
This is the first time I heard this piece. I knew of it's existentence but neve heard it. Seems very difficult. Also, congrats on almost 3K.
thank you! I remember the first time I heard this, the summer I turned 15. I spent the next few days learning it at fast as I could... it's a miraculous piece.
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano You learned THIS in a few days. I'm 15 now and hope to play the chopin ballade 1 or 2.(probably 1)
@@pianoa226 cool. Both great pieces. The 2nd is underappreciated.
@TheTage Show Mozart is hard even for pros. No one is gonna play mozart for a competition finale.
Piano A I am 11 and trying to learn this piece and it is literally impossible. Chopin is even harder than Liszt in my perspective.
I’ve always wanted to play this piece but it’s just way beyond my current comprehension levels yet.
Ro Choa, if you're attracted to it, I'm sure you'll one day play it.
I find it to be one of those pieces that teaches you the techniques needed as you study it, which is often not the case... it's also a piece that can be learned 8 or 16 bars at a time.
It Is amazing. Could IT be: OUTREGEOUS? Well, IT IS WONDEFULL. THANKS A LOT. GOD BLESS YOU.
Thank you! I'm not sure what outregeous means, but I like the sound of it ;)
@@ZenandtheArtofPiano OUTREGEOUS, it has two points of analysis: in the positive way. It Means to put in shock. Because it Is More than MARVELOUS, More than wondefull. Thanks and Blessings
So beautiful 😍😍❤❤💖💖
Hi, not sure if you still read the comments here. But this piece by Liszt played by you is so awesome and great! I also play piano and right now I'm on the second stage of diploma and my repertoire has this piece. I would definitely take some inspiration from you, your techniques were well-played and I wanna 2 questions:
- How do you have so much stamina to last for the entire piece? When I reach the coda, my fingers were exhausted from the last tremolos xD
- Is there a way to practise on the repeated notes at 03:38 - 03:51? I sometimes struggle on that part.
Thank you so much if you reply cuz I really appreciate it :)
First impressionistic piano piece is by Liszt!
Csodálatos gyönyörű.
How.
Wow, so far 3 premiers this week for subscriber specials, all being pieces I've requested to Rousseau, and only one of them being played by Rousseau 😂
That's not bad! I'm happy to have been one of them :)
Good
Hey ! Very nice, i wish i know how you installed the LEDs :-)
There are tutorials online.
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Vim aqui por causa do livro "MISTER" estou re lendo 11/12/2020
Beautiful music. When I first heard it months ago, I thought it was ravel
It's so close to Ravel, it's kind of astonishing. People don't give Liszt enough credit for shaping the future of music.
Zen and the Art of Piano lol THANK YOU! I always say that liszt is the most underrated of all time, despite how popular he is. He was so forward thinking it's incredible
*i think he predicted the future of music because he wasn’t human*
btw your profile picture... i can hear it from here omg
NaICE
thank you!
You mean that you learn one piece like this every week????
I showed this video to my epileptic uncle, RIP
Bruh
You look like your trying to use vibrato on the ending chords😂
Liszt just couldnt write a simple piece could he lol. These visuals are pretty cool to
The six consolations
@TheTage Show I geuss some of his consolations are pretty simple but im not familiar with any other simple pieces by him. He has plenty of beautiful pieces though
@@Deadpool-me4er all the consolations are simple, maybe no. 6 is a little bit hard. He also has pieces like Angelus! Or Il penseroso that are quite easy
@TheTage Show all that pieces are easy except vallée d'obermann, lmao the ending of that piece is insane
@@GUILLOM agreed. Nice list from TheTage Show. Vallee d'Obermann is easy until it isn't.