Good idea for a video! Actually, the Strauss/Cziffra was played by Cziffra himself (not Yuja Wang) in this video. It is a greater accomplishment than all of the other recordings due to the sheer speed and accuracy.
I was expecting some completely impossible passage from Boulez, Stockhausen, Sorabji or "new Complexity" composers like Finnissy or Ferneyhough to come out on top, but that variation is somehow even more unhinged😂
@@user-tc8ut9oc4jI made a piece with 6th chords going down like a scale as fast as the diminished octaves going down in yankee doodle variations but still cant play Hungarian rhapsody 2, AND THE SIXTHS CHORDS WERE IN A TUPLET OF 6!
I am so happy you included Strakosch in here. He's such an underrated composer and the yankee doodle variations are just fitting for this! Also, subscribed! Looking forward to seeing some Alkan here because he has a level 10 for everything!
The craziest left hand jumps I've done are usually in improvs where i'm trying to juggle 3 voices as best as I can (I am improvising after all...) and they span most of the keyboard, but are only one or two notes. Those jumps in Bravura are ridiculous! Truthfully I didn't think the Yankee-Doodle variations sounded all that good. That said if that was sight reading, very interesting.
Hello i have commented As one of this guys friends, I can confirm he can play (or at least attempt) level 10 and do it well So well done nice video edit too
of course I didn't lol, this video appeared on my recommended tab and then I decided to give it a watch since I am quite aware from the yankee doodle variations xd, when I am going to watch top videos I often avoid reading the comments cuz most of them are spoilers from the videos as always so my comment is legit lmao@@Jartious
What about S. 140 4b? Not just the left hand though. Cziffra’s Sabre Dance and maybe some jumps in how Katsaris performs Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s 9th symphony might also be up there. Also pieces for the left hand alone
Brahms PC 2 First movement - some crazy LH jumps around the end of the exposition. There's one part where the jump interval expands. Ravel Piano Concerto for LH has some great jumps - again very difficult.
Honorable mentions (actually candidates for n. 1): - Alkan Concerto 1st movement, measure 463 and on. The jumps aren't that far, but they are full chords at an unbelievable speed. - Schumann fantaisie, end of 2nd movement. Perhaps the most notorious leaps passage in piano music. Nearly every great pianist who has attempted it in a live performance has butchered it. Yes, even the best of the best who can breeze through the hardest passages of Rach 3 and Feux Follets without breaking a sweat - they still go and make a mess of wrong notes and uneven rhythms of this Schumann passage. Too funny Schumann put this horror in one of the greatest piano pieces in all the literature, and pianists simply have no other option but to play it :)
as someone whos played bravura its quite a bit harder than yankee doodle. both hands jumping >>> one hand jumping so if you only count the left hand i guess yankee doodle is harder
Great selections, but I think it’s important that you have video for all of them, rather than sheet music, because you can only truly appreciate the jumps when you see someone performing them. The overhead-style videos, like Rousseau and Traum, work great for seeing jumps clearly, but even when an overhead view is not available, some kind of footage is much better than just sheet music.
Here are the sources!: ua-cam.com/video/X1A-eoofUmA/v-deo.htmlsi=IB09sDhwJ7qfTzOS ua-cam.com/video/315XN6VPi8U/v-deo.htmlsi=jin8UPwxrAmyMCbp ua-cam.com/video/3ozGuW4Yoiw/v-deo.htmlsi=23ePWnkvTWX0uPMQ ua-cam.com/video/ALqOKq0M6ho/v-deo.htmlsi=ft3MSOhOYAwCa6Q2 ua-cam.com/video/6qSozuSUpBQ/v-deo.htmlsi=ImAkypo0VtneKBaj ua-cam.com/video/WZYHvEF84NQ/v-deo.htmlsi=kRzFU5jjzvZC7CHU ua-cam.com/video/3zGx98fuR4I/v-deo.htmlsi=YtXtzlDQBtI9dppA ua-cam.com/video/9_KJEQEqnRw/v-deo.htmlsi=j0rsEKNd3yHRUtBs ua-cam.com/video/R_JkIvT3pYA/v-deo.htmlsi=rSWeehs7VD7Or8Ln ua-cam.com/video/XnBFGvQBtms/v-deo.htmlsi=Nn_x8N_YS6RbP8-6
Thought this was hand-crossing, lol, but I would say Sabre Dance/ Cziffra should be in number 8 place. Number 8 should be lower than 7. Number 3 should be in 4. If you ever do a hand cross video, include Scarlatti sonata K 24 or Islamey for sure
@@ryzikxWitnesses to what? His playing at the original speed of the unedited version? First, his technical skills in all his other videos do not come even close to the level of this kind of virtuosity - sight-reading or not. Second, I did put this footage in iMovie at half the speed and it matched all the other footage. His movements in this one clip do not match any other clip.
oh arent you the guy that commented on my channel asking for mereaux 60 💀 im working on the left hand only and it needs more endurance than 24 by quite a bit
@@Jartiousits gonna be a while. to no ones surprise its very difficult 😭not to mention piano isnt my main hobby either but mark my words i will get the entire piece left hand one day. theres a lot of 10ths in the right hand especially at the coda so i probably wont be doing that in the foreseeable future
I’m genuinely surprised Op. 25 No. 9 was on this. I just finished studying it and the left hand had like two somewhat big jumps the whole time. Definitely not big enough jumps for where it’s at though (for the whole piece)
Kind of sad I didn't see Alkan's Grand Sonate 30, Quasi Faust on here. I've worked on that piece and while it isn't throughout the entire piece, there are some stupidly ridiculous left hand jumps in there. Nothing as ridiculous as that last piece though wtf
Si me pusieran a escoger cosas que odio al tocar, siempre van ser los saltos xddd Cuando la pieza tiene demasiados saltos, siempre va ser un dolor aprenderla completamente. Pero al menos se gana más experiencia y habilidad que practicar arpegios o bordados
0:07 Level 1: Tchaikovsky - Italian Song, Op. 39 No. 15
0:19 Level 2: Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1
1:00 Level 3: Luciano Michelini - Frolic
1:19 Level 4: Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S.244/2
1:59 Level 5: Chopin - Etude Op. 25 No. 9 "Butterfly"
2:19 Level 6: Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, S.244/6
2:53 Level 7: Strauss/Cziffra - Tritsch Tratch Polka
3:30 Level 8: Liszt - Paganini Etudes, S.140 No. 6
3:56 Level 9: Mereaux - Etudes, Op. 63 No. 24 "Bravura"
4:48 Level 10: Strakosch - Yankee Doodle Concert Variations
Wow, my first time getting one of these comments. Thanks!
@@Jartious no problem! Thanks for the video too👍
Good idea for a video!
Actually, the Strauss/Cziffra was played by Cziffra himself (not Yuja Wang) in this video. It is a greater accomplishment than all of the other recordings due to the sheer speed and accuracy.
@@michaelharvey702 yeah I know. It was yuja wang but I had to change the clip because of copyright. I forgot to change the name though (oops)
How did you play this 4:57 😮
”He’s sightreading btw” 💀
sightreading for the 5000 times maybe 🤣
💀
Isnt impressive, he got all the notes wrong, just so you know you can sightread all complexity music
“La Campanella is the hardest piece 🤓”
Yankee fricking doodle:
the sightreading ability of some people is disgusting
No way he's sightreading that
@@littleguy-ij8jfUnfortunately, he is, so, yeah. I'm just gonna cry knowing that I'm a failure 😅
Lmao that yankee doodle var was unhinged af,,, surprised there was anything higher than the Mereaux etude
I was expecting some completely impossible passage from Boulez, Stockhausen, Sorabji or "new Complexity" composers like Finnissy or Ferneyhough to come out on top, but that variation is somehow even more unhinged😂
what the hell was that last piece 💀
simple child nursery rhyme yang doodle for kids level 1
I mean it wasn’t good that’s for sure…
@@joshyman221 yes it is, even if ironically
Merauxmaxing
It is just experimental 😅
Ignore where it says Yuja Wang. I forgot to change that to Cziffra 😅
Thanks for commenting this. Your comment would get more attention than mine ever would 😩
@@herobrine1847 i would pin you but I've already pinned that other guy...
thanks for this clarification. It explains why this is an "old" recording and the pitch is very high. I almost hear B note at the end
i still remember those days where i thought la campanella and hr2 were the hardest pieces ever LOL
Me tooooo!
same
Hungarian rhapsody no 2 isn’t even that hard unless you have lazy hands
@@user-tc8ut9oc4j Yeah, I mean it was tough but I still managed to pull it off
@@user-tc8ut9oc4jI made a piece with 6th chords going down like a scale as fast as the diminished octaves going down in yankee doodle variations but still cant play Hungarian rhapsody 2, AND THE SIXTHS CHORDS WERE IN A TUPLET OF 6!
Sightreading my ass, he looks at his hands
I am so happy you included Strakosch in here. He's such an underrated composer and the yankee doodle variations are just fitting for this! Also, subscribed! Looking forward to seeing some Alkan here because he has a level 10 for everything!
Yeah I'm trying to shed light on smaller composers/channels. Thanks for the comment!
@@Jartious wait me????
@@susrizzlerno not you sus rizzler
Fuck the last level
IM SORRY HES WHAT?
Yeah, click on one of the source links. Theres a whole 28 minute video of him sightreading crazy stuff!
hes gae
The craziest left hand jumps I've done are usually in improvs where i'm trying to juggle 3 voices as best as I can (I am improvising after all...) and they span most of the keyboard, but are only one or two notes. Those jumps in Bravura are ridiculous! Truthfully I didn't think the Yankee-Doodle variations sounded all that good. That said if that was sight reading, very interesting.
So happy to see Yankee Doodle on here! That was my warm up piece back in high school😅
Lol the last one was the first time for me I thought a piano video would be speed up😮 (and I've seen Liszt's transcendental etudes..)
I forgot about LH crossovers 💀
yes, microtonal guy
Hello i have commented
As one of this guys friends, I can confirm he can play (or at least attempt) level 10 and do it well
So well done nice video edit too
Yes yes ty
Get this man some Alkan
Lol I will include him in my next comp: ten levels of octaves
I just realized, Goran Filipec is a friend of my teacher and he gave me a small masterclass.
2020 vibes xd epic
Mereaux in the thumbnail, nice
noice
I think you should have included Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Brahms piano concerto 2 has a nasty jump passage leading up to the development section in the first movement.
The lh octaves in Bach Katsaris Toccata and Fugue in D minor are also insane
NOT THE YANKEE DOODLE
I didn't know a nursery rhyme could be turned into a masterpiece that's more difficult than La Campanella
I am not going to spoil myself nor read the comments but if the last piece is the yankee doodle variations finale I will drink milk
I drank milk.
Did you actually not check the comments?
of course I didn't lol, this video appeared on my recommended tab and then I decided to give it a watch since I am quite aware from the yankee doodle variations xd, when I am going to watch top videos I often avoid reading the comments cuz most of them are spoilers from the videos as always so my comment is legit lmao@@Jartious
Yes, me: Mozart, how about 23rd piano concerto?!
*Coughs* Scriabin's 8th piano sonata.
And op. 8 no. 12 etude
What about S. 140 4b? Not just the left hand though. Cziffra’s Sabre Dance and maybe some jumps in how Katsaris performs Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s 9th symphony might also be up there. Also pieces for the left hand alone
the pianist at yankee doodle concert was laughing his ass off lmao
Brahms PC 2 First movement - some crazy LH jumps around the end of the exposition. There's one part where the jump interval expands. Ravel Piano Concerto for LH has some great jumps - again very difficult.
Alkan Grande Sonate 30ans might be included in honorable mentions.
Level 10 is crazy.
Great list, though that’s Cziffra playing trisch not Yuja
Oops, I thought I changed that
Honorable mentions (actually candidates for n. 1):
- Alkan Concerto 1st movement, measure 463 and on. The jumps aren't that far, but they are full chords at an unbelievable speed.
- Schumann fantaisie, end of 2nd movement. Perhaps the most notorious leaps passage in piano music. Nearly every great pianist who has attempted it in a live performance has butchered it. Yes, even the best of the best who can breeze through the hardest passages of Rach 3 and Feux Follets without breaking a sweat - they still go and make a mess of wrong notes and uneven rhythms of this Schumann passage.
Too funny Schumann put this horror in one of the greatest piano pieces in all the literature, and pianists simply have no other option but to play it :)
I saw Grosvenor perform the Schumann Fantaisie live and he played the jumps perfectly. What a sight to behold
Need some Scriabin's there.
liszt a galop?
Not the hardest left hand Liszt piece, but alright. Harder than the 1838 Et6 I guess
art tatum
Yeah he should have been on this list
as someone whos played bravura its quite a bit harder than yankee doodle. both hands jumping >>> one hand jumping
so if you only count the left hand i guess yankee doodle is harder
yeah I was only basing it on left hand jumps
you should include (even for fun) etude s140 no 4b where ai concert creator plays with only left hand for some time
Great selections, but I think it’s important that you have video for all of them, rather than sheet music, because you can only truly appreciate the jumps when you see someone performing them. The overhead-style videos, like Rousseau and Traum, work great for seeing jumps clearly, but even when an overhead view is not available, some kind of footage is much better than just sheet music.
I tried to add more overhead videos but I got copyrighted...
@@JartiousThat’s unfortunate :(
Doing this video without putting Schumann's fantasy 2mvt is criminal
Why does everybody forget about op25 n4? Those jumps are insane
It's a bad day when Hungarian Rhapsody is only no. 4
Art Tatum "I wish I were twins"
cringe
Horror
Honorable mention to Baba Yaga by Mussorgsky.
Hungarian rhapsodies are a beast to play. You feel physically tired after practicing them
I have an attempt of the last piece posted, absolutely insane difficulty
I have comment on your video! I attempted the coda and it's on my channel
Misoppurtunity to use Mozart's Sonata KV 331 Movement 1 Variation 4. The left hand crossing over the right hand is just-
hes sightreading btw is one of the most cappest things i have ever heard.
What makes you say that? It's not a very complex piece, basically just the same cords played again and again.
Been playing piani for 9 years and I’m still horrible at left hand jumps. I can’t get past Level 4 😭
Now I finally why I can't play Chopin Butterfly Etude💀
And the other reason is I'm sucks at playing piano lmao
The last 3 level's composer actually can make everything simple, but they didn't, and that's why these composer are noted as the devil composer
He s sightreading btw
Meanwhile me who struggles to sightread simple pieces after years and hours of practice:
instead of ai, shoutout to barbaro mr's playing of Mereaux - Etudes, Op. 63 No. 24 "Bravura" ua-cam.com/video/k57Tl7qAGFs/v-deo.html
Here are the sources!:
ua-cam.com/video/X1A-eoofUmA/v-deo.htmlsi=IB09sDhwJ7qfTzOS
ua-cam.com/video/315XN6VPi8U/v-deo.htmlsi=jin8UPwxrAmyMCbp
ua-cam.com/video/3ozGuW4Yoiw/v-deo.htmlsi=23ePWnkvTWX0uPMQ
ua-cam.com/video/ALqOKq0M6ho/v-deo.htmlsi=ft3MSOhOYAwCa6Q2
ua-cam.com/video/6qSozuSUpBQ/v-deo.htmlsi=ImAkypo0VtneKBaj
ua-cam.com/video/WZYHvEF84NQ/v-deo.htmlsi=kRzFU5jjzvZC7CHU
ua-cam.com/video/3zGx98fuR4I/v-deo.htmlsi=YtXtzlDQBtI9dppA
ua-cam.com/video/9_KJEQEqnRw/v-deo.htmlsi=j0rsEKNd3yHRUtBs
ua-cam.com/video/R_JkIvT3pYA/v-deo.htmlsi=rSWeehs7VD7Or8Ln
ua-cam.com/video/XnBFGvQBtms/v-deo.htmlsi=Nn_x8N_YS6RbP8-6
Level 2 sounds like Minecraft
Level 3 is inherently for all rags.
Bring Art Tatum Tiger Rag here .....
Бетховене нервно курит Беломорканал в сторонке
I think you couldve added Liszt Mozart Remiscences du don juan
Thought this was hand-crossing, lol, but I would say Sabre Dance/ Cziffra should be in number 8 place. Number 8 should be lower than 7. Number 3 should be in 4.
If you ever do a hand cross video, include Scarlatti sonata K 24 or Islamey for sure
@4:48 Concert Variations (original video) clearly shows that this footage was sped up. Not played at tempo.
id youre talking about seonyongs performance its not sped up. he has witnesses
@@ryzikxWitnesses to what? His playing at the original speed of the unedited version? First, his technical skills in all his other videos do not come even close to the level of this kind of virtuosity - sight-reading or not. Second, I did put this footage in iMovie at half the speed and it matched all the other footage. His movements in this one clip do not match any other clip.
@@Dizzyfingers2oh youre right . i didnt watch closely enough
Scriabin Etude in D# minor
Honorable mention: Mazeppa S.137
Dawg was not sightreading
He is
İnstead etude op 25 i'd add prelude 16
4:49 Source of inspiration
I play a song that is at least level 6: Escorregando-Ernesto Nazareth.
No way is the Butterfly etude a level above HR2
Yankee doodle but its ww2
I saw a disappointing lack of ragtime in this video
Alkan concerto for solo piano 1st mvt.
2:53 that Cziffra playing tho? Why does it say Yuja?
oh arent you the guy that commented on my channel asking for mereaux 60 💀 im working on the left hand only and it needs more endurance than 24 by quite a bit
Yeah das me. I'm happy you're working on it! Please send clips one day!
@@Jartiousits gonna be a while. to no ones surprise its very difficult 😭not to mention piano isnt my main hobby either
but mark my words i will get the entire piece left hand one day. theres a lot of 10ths in the right hand especially at the coda so i probably wont be doing that in the foreseeable future
@@ryzikx what's your hand span? I can only just clip an 11th in my right hand and tenth in my left
@@Jartious10th in both hands with extension. i cant reliably play 10ths
my ass sight reading
Faltou aí o concerto para mão esquerda de Ravel
Level 7 Tritsch-Tratsch Polka was harder for me than level 8 Liszt 😭
why did i think this was ai generated
I’m genuinely surprised Op. 25 No. 9 was on this. I just finished studying it and the left hand had like two somewhat big jumps the whole time. Definitely not big enough jumps for where it’s at though (for the whole piece)
アルカンのソナタの左手の跳躍も凄い
THATS NOT HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY NO. 6 💀
No Schumann Fantasy?
I might remake this video honestly but with viewer suggestions
십 단계 레전드 ㅇㅇ
Kind of sad I didn't see Alkan's Grand Sonate 30, Quasi Faust on here. I've worked on that piece and while it isn't throughout the entire piece, there are some stupidly ridiculous left hand jumps in there. Nothing as ridiculous as that last piece though wtf
Lol wtf was that last one.
Is Last piece possible to play on solo?
ua-cam.com/video/HeVb04MVmOQ/v-deo.htmlsi=GQbSn3nScbo7a90r
4:01 I haven’t played the piece, but from looking at it, that does not look like the way to play it
rosseau gonna copyright the shit out of this
Si me pusieran a escoger cosas que odio al tocar, siempre van ser los saltos xddd
Cuando la pieza tiene demasiados saltos, siempre va ser un dolor aprenderla completamente. Pero al menos se gana más experiencia y habilidad que practicar arpegios o bordados
2:24 Look at traum’s left hand, the sheet music does not go that far. Its just 1 octave higher
Ehh I just added it since lots of people play it like that (traum, cziffra, evgeny genchev)
@@Jartious oh ok
Scherzo Focoso should have been atleast here as level 6 or 7
Another one for level 9: Petrushka
Que mierda con el último, saltos de 5 octavas y media con la mano izquierda a 200 tempo no me jodas
es sólo por diversion
Why rousseau !!!??
La massima difficoltà unita al maggior gusto e bellezza ricordiamoci è sempre Liszt eccetto forse qualche primo scriabin e rach
You know you messed up with HR 6 Is only on level 6 💀💀💀
What level would be prelude 16 by chopin jumps? (Like on the middle of the piece)
Brooo where’s liebestraummmmmm