he can not be comparred to any other pianist! he is so unique. the man is (in my humble opinion) a genius and a miracle! .....WHAT A MUSICIAN!!!!!WOW!!
d60944 - nyiregyhazi always played slowly. cf. the silent film from the 1920s where he's playing. he said lamond told him that liszt's basic tempi were not fast at all.
Just about the last recorded struggle from Nyiregyhazi. (The performance and photo are from Japan in 1982, I think.) But the colors, conception, and pacing make most other pianists sound like they are just skimming through the piece.
I don't understand this cult that has recently developed around Nyíregyházi either. It must have something to do with the recently published biography. What's so great about being the "loudest" pianist in history if you have no control over tone production. He must have been a different pianists in the 30's judging from the snippets of film recordings he made. Arnold Schoenberg and Claudio Arrau both praised him early in his career so maybe he had something.
Sorry, I just don't "get" his style. Nyíregyházi has awful tone quality and control, and attempts to cover his gaping lack of technique by adopting very artificial postures of "grandeur" at pseudo-heroic slow tempi, ruining the shapes in the music in doing so (I have nothing against wrong notes per se). Completely lacking in poetry. What's the fuss about him?
![Franz Liszt - Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata [Early version], S.158c (Filipec)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZVslIit_9VE/mqdefault.jpg)
he can not be comparred to any other pianist! he is so unique. the man is (in my humble opinion) a genius and a miracle! .....WHAT A MUSICIAN!!!!!WOW!!
d60944 - nyiregyhazi always played slowly. cf. the silent film from the 1920s where he's playing. he said lamond told him that liszt's basic tempi were not fast at all.
Just about the last recorded struggle from Nyiregyhazi. (The performance and photo are from Japan in 1982, I think.) But the colors, conception, and pacing make most other pianists sound like they are just skimming through the piece.
klavierspieler72 - those are some of the great unfound recordings of all time. just imagine, they may well be somewhere in someone's attic.
pianiplunker - you can't hear all the tone colors there? turn up the volume from 0 on your computer. :)
Decade later, was going to reply about the same thing.
I don't understand this cult that has recently developed around Nyíregyházi either. It must have something to do with the recently published biography. What's so great about being the "loudest" pianist in history if you have no control over tone production. He must have been a different pianists in the 30's judging from the snippets of film recordings he made. Arnold Schoenberg and Claudio Arrau both praised him early in his career so maybe he had something.
marcohorowitz8 - and it matters not a bit!
don't agree. listen again...
Sorry, I just don't "get" his style. Nyíregyházi has awful tone quality and control, and attempts to cover his gaping lack of technique by adopting very artificial postures of "grandeur" at pseudo-heroic slow tempi, ruining the shapes in the music in doing so (I have nothing against wrong notes per se). Completely lacking in poetry. What's the fuss about him?
Do you still hold this thought to this day?
@@foulmercy8095 Yes. The more I have learned and listened, the more so.
@@d60944 Fair enough