He shows here a very intelligent use of the pedal. The technique is superb. The piece is very well known by pianists to be difficult and risky. I like very much his left hand playing with great articulation.
Kissin's performance here is slower than a lot of other well-known pianist's, yet I always marvel at his immense virtuosity and ability to convey the story in such an elaborate way. His interpretations are really unparalleled, my favorite interpretation by far!
have you ever played a complicated piece of music on a musical instrument? Everyone has their "rock" face, which is that stupid face you pull when you're trying to focus on one thing. Every see the faces people make when looking for something they can't see, like trying to find something under a couch? I totally look like I have an extra chromosome when I play guitar. Just happens.
0:51 - 1:03 Father, do you need see the Elfking? 1:43 - 1:54 My Father! My Father! Do you not see the elfking’s daughters there? 2:20 MY FATHER! MY FATHER! HE HAS GRABBED ME! THE ELFKING’S HURT ME!
I'm left handed and I used to start this piece with the left hand to get it going before I had to use it in the low register - STILL really hard, hehe!
This is the best performance of the piece I have seen on youtube. Lisitsa's version has 10 times the likes but this is just incomparably better - on a whole other level better
Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind; Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm. Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht? - Siehst, Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht? Den Erlenkönig mit Kron und Schweif? - Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif. - "Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir! Gar schöne Spiele spiel ich mit dir; Manch bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand, Meine Mutter hat manch gülden Gewand." Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörest du nicht, Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht? - Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind; In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind. - "Willst, feiner Knabe, du mit mir gehn? Meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön; Meine Töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn, Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein." Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort Erlkönigs Töchter am düstern Ort? - Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh es genau: Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau. - "Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt; Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt." Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt faßt er mich an! Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan! - Dem Vater grausets, er reitet geschwind, Er hält in Armen das ächzende Kind, Erreicht den Hof mit Mühe und Not; In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.
Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear? The father it is, with his infant so dear; He holdeth the boy tightly clasp'd in his arm, He holdeth him safely, he keepeth him warm. My son, wherefore seek'st thou thy face thus to hide? - Look, father, the Erl-King is close by our side! Dost see not the Erl-King, with crown and with train? - My son, 'tis the mist rising over the plain. - "Oh, come, thou dear infant! oh come thou with me! For many a game I will play there with thee; On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold, My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold." - My father, my father, and dost thou not hear The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear? - Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives; 'Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves. - "Wilt go, then, dear infant, wilt go with me there? My daughters shall tend thee with sisterly care; My daughters by night their glad festival keep, They'll dance thee, and rock thee, and sing thee to sleep." - My father, my father, and dost thou not see, How the Erl-King his daughters has brought here for me? - My darling, my darling, I see it aright, 'Tis the aged grey willows deceiving thy sight. - "I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy! And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ." - My father, my father, he seizes me fast, For sorely the Erl-King has hurt me at last. - The father now gallops, with terror half wild, He grasps in his arms the poor shuddering child; He reaches his courtyard with toil and with dread, - The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead.
@@raydemeyer6847 if he has good technique, then he has no discomfort :) piano playing is painless if you've got the right technique..now, i can't play this piece because my hands aren't big enough to span the repeated octaves :( :(
@@mistressmozart That's not true at all... Some techniques in piano require both strength and dexterity. I have come across multiple pieces which become VERY tiresome in the hand after a while, but through repeated practicing and strengthening they become painless. Kissin obviously doesn't feel any pain here considering he's played for decades, but to say it all comes down to technique is ridicilous.
My old music teacher once told me that Liszt's many technically complex (most always more complex than the original) earned him a reputation as "The Great Embellisher."
What relief for the hands when the Erlkönig begins speaking, even accompanying this song, one's hands threaten to cramp up. ..... What an extraordinary performance of this work!
Yuja Wang plays only faster, I wouldn´t ever say "better", Evgeny Kissin understand all about this story, every character plays wonderfull following the perfect moment from the story, etc, Wang plays only fast and virtuoso but she seems not to understand in every moment what happen in this piece.
Having listened to quite a few interpretations of this masterpiece in its solo piano transcription I have one remark that will probably get me in trouble. I think of course that Liszt's work is amazing bar one thing. I cannot hear the threat in the Elfking's part. It is written too softly and someone who is not aware of the poem might paint a completely different picture from the one Goetthe and Schubert intended to. I cannot believe that I "criticize" dear Franz, nevertheless I don't get the same emotion compared to its original edition.
Constantine Eleftheriadis I fully respect your opinion.. but I thought & learned that Erlkonig's part was intended to sound sweet and seducing, both on Schubert's original song and Liszt's transcription.
@chobeethaninov you may or may not be right, but you two are comparing professional recording quality (this one) with an amateur camcorder (Yuja's). Please people, if you feel the need to compare at all (which I don't see why), at least make it a fair comparison, such as between two studio recordings or two live professional recordings, or even two live amateur camcorders. Trust me, these things make a HUGE subconscious difference in your emotional preference.
I love Evgeny Kissin's interpretation of this piece. Yes, more than Yuja Wang's although she plays with her body which I wished Kissin would do much more.
@LordHettrick well i dunno. I mean i know its written as octaves, but thats insanely fast, and it sounds like the Schubert version with voice. In that one, you don't play it as an octave.
Kissin plays the left-hand ascending scale pattern better than anyone (his phrasing is absolutely correct), but the best all-time performance of this piece is Lazaar Berman.
He did nnot really improve it. Why is everyone saying that? He just wrote a version for solo piano. The singing voice is just added to the piano voice. No doubt, executed perfectly.
No doubt a very difficult piece to play and master. But there are suppose to be three distinct voices: The father, the son, and the Elf king. Each one is to sound distinct in pitch and tempo to be able to identify each character. I only heard a single pitch and tempo for all three, and it had the distinct sound of the child. Any one who has heard the original version can tell which narrator is speaking, but they were not distinct on the piano by Kissin, which is the difficult aspect of this work. How to keep each character voice distinct and unique when playing. The Galloping horse play was very well done. The technique was great.
Fine performance by the young Kissin. He somewhat lacks power and drama in few moments, but overall this is great musicianship and beautiful sense for singing.
@KevinBeethoven I could care less about how well I play the piano, in fact I just made that comment to see how offended people would get, and so far I think i was pretty successful.
I recommend checking out Yuja Wang's with this. Let me know which you prefer. There's a few distinct differences between the two. IMHO, the "musicality" (wld be too laborious for me to try to line ate what I meant by the term here; my sincere apology for it) aspect of Kissin's playing of the earlier portion of the piece seems a teeny shade better. But for the "drama" aspect of the piece, Wang's seems to enunciate the storyline behind the piece, with the pathos of the various characters in the story better than Kissin's, especially in the latter portion of the 4+ minutes of Erkonig.
He's so fast that I think the child should have been saved.
Underrated comment!
Yes, the horse was so fast..haha
No too fast , children got heart attack ,died
100 th like
Lol.
his hair can only be described by the fact that he hits supersayan 3 while playing this piece
HAHHAH
He shows here a very intelligent use of the pedal. The technique is superb. The piece is very well known by pianists to be difficult and risky. I like very much his left hand playing with great articulation.
Kissin's performance here is slower than a lot of other well-known pianist's, yet I always marvel at his immense virtuosity and ability to convey the story in such an elaborate way. His interpretations are really unparalleled, my favorite interpretation by far!
not as fast as others.......????
but as Karajan said: why play fast if no emotion is being transmitted........
Stanislav Igolinsky The Best Erlkönig!!
have you ever played a complicated piece of music on a musical instrument? Everyone has their "rock" face, which is that stupid face you pull when you're trying to focus on one thing. Every see the faces people make when looking for something they can't see, like trying to find something under a couch? I totally look like I have an extra chromosome when I play guitar. Just happens.
0:51 - 1:03
Father, do you need see the Elfking?
1:43 - 1:54
My Father! My Father! Do you not see the elfking’s daughters there?
2:20
MY FATHER! MY FATHER! HE HAS GRABBED ME! THE ELFKING’S HURT ME!
i see someone saw new Traum’s video
Masterful playing, no doubt. Kissin gives the best performance of this piece I've heard so far.
6 people couldn't get their right hand octaves up to speed. ;)
now its 9
Tom Willbanks 10 people now
+Daeun Park Still 10
I'm left handed and I used to start this piece with the left hand to get it going before I had to use it in the low register - STILL really hard, hehe!
extraordinaire...
This is the best performance of the piece I have seen on youtube. Lisitsa's version has 10 times the likes but this is just incomparably better - on a whole other level better
i think she's often overly dramatic. this is a nice, raw, emotion packed performance without being overwrought
I recommend looking at yuja wang’s performance
mistressmozart you know the meaning of this piece do you? I don’t think you can be over dramatic! They’re both great interpretations!
yuja is also very good, lisita is more like a rockstar to it, i don't like her interpretation that much. Her political views don't add up well.
Lisitsa is good, but he is even better, in my opinion.
Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind;
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.
Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht? -
Siehst, Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht?
Den Erlenkönig mit Kron und Schweif? -
Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif. -
"Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir!
Gar schöne Spiele spiel ich mit dir;
Manch bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand,
Meine Mutter hat manch gülden Gewand."
Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörest du nicht,
Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht? -
Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind;
In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind. -
"Willst, feiner Knabe, du mit mir gehn?
Meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön;
Meine Töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn,
Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein."
Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort
Erlkönigs Töchter am düstern Ort? -
Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh es genau:
Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau. -
"Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt;
Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt."
Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt faßt er mich an!
Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan! -
Dem Vater grausets, er reitet geschwind,
Er hält in Armen das ächzende Kind,
Erreicht den Hof mit Mühe und Not;
In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.
Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?
The father it is, with his infant so dear;
He holdeth the boy tightly clasp'd in his arm,
He holdeth him safely, he keepeth him warm.
My son, wherefore seek'st thou thy face thus to hide? -
Look, father, the Erl-King is close by our side!
Dost see not the Erl-King, with crown and with train? -
My son, 'tis the mist rising over the plain. -
"Oh, come, thou dear infant! oh come thou with me!
For many a game I will play there with thee;
On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,
My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold." -
My father, my father, and dost thou not hear
The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear? -
Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;
'Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves. -
"Wilt go, then, dear infant, wilt go with me there?
My daughters shall tend thee with sisterly care;
My daughters by night their glad festival keep,
They'll dance thee, and rock thee, and sing thee to sleep." -
My father, my father, and dost thou not see,
How the Erl-King his daughters has brought here for me? -
My darling, my darling, I see it aright,
'Tis the aged grey willows deceiving thy sight. -
"I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy!
And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ." -
My father, my father, he seizes me fast,
For sorely the Erl-King has hurt me at last. -
The father now gallops, with terror half wild,
He grasps in his arms the poor shuddering child;
He reaches his courtyard with toil and with dread, -
The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead.
His wrist must be killing him.
more in the middle of the hand
LongDriveChamp03 wrists have no muscles, probably his low forearm hurts
and his fingertips too -just sayin'
@@raydemeyer6847 if he has good technique, then he has no discomfort :) piano playing is painless if you've got the right technique..now, i can't play this piece because my hands aren't big enough to span the repeated octaves :( :(
@@mistressmozart That's not true at all... Some techniques in piano require both strength and dexterity. I have come across multiple pieces which become VERY tiresome in the hand after a while, but through repeated practicing and strengthening they become painless. Kissin obviously doesn't feel any pain here considering he's played for decades, but to say it all comes down to technique is ridicilous.
Why is Liszt improving everything
*Probabily because he likes this Schubert's theme.*
it's not improved. It's just written for solo piano dumb fuck
My old music teacher once told me that Liszt's many technically complex (most always more complex than the original) earned him a reputation as "The Great Embellisher."
@@joha4574 the fuck is wrong with you, why do you have to insult him for no reason? get help man
@@joha4574 no need to swear noob
He makes it sing, as a song should. Amazing hands. Innate musicality.
40 years ago, my music teacher told me KISSIN-the great young pianist...
I noticed.....the harder the piece or the faster the pace, he tends to have a bigger circular motion XD
Ha!
What relief for the hands when the Erlkönig begins speaking, even accompanying this song, one's hands threaten to cramp up. ..... What an extraordinary performance of this work!
so much relief, it seems almost tempting...😏 Liszt really did capture the true nature of the Erlkönig
Not really. He just plays it very soft. It's still very fast and wrist-breaking
本当に凄すぎる❗やっぱりキーシン大好きです。有り難うございます。🎶
He slayed this piece so hard
incredible, just as if there was a singer in his hands
Liszt = Genius
Schubert is the genius here
They both are
none of them are
@@awsmunicorn7488 Nice trolling attempt. Keep trying.
@@awsmunicorn7488 Cope.
Yuja Wang plays only faster, I wouldn´t ever say "better", Evgeny Kissin understand all about this story, every character plays wonderfull following the perfect moment from the story, etc, Wang plays only fast and virtuoso but she seems not to understand in every moment what happen in this piece.
Only two words to describe Kissin a genius and virtuoso! toronto
I was wondering what Moss got up to now that the IT Crowd has finished.
18/05/2019: "I'm sorry you're having a hard time, but I already told you I won't be convinced" she said.
Outstanding version of the Erlkönig. Very well performed! I enjoyed it very much😄
Best interpretation!
Having listened to quite a few interpretations of this masterpiece in its solo piano transcription I have one remark that will probably get me in trouble. I think of course that Liszt's work is amazing bar one thing. I cannot hear the threat in the Elfking's part. It is written too softly and someone who is not aware of the poem might paint a completely different picture from the one Goetthe and Schubert intended to. I cannot believe that I "criticize" dear Franz, nevertheless I don't get the same emotion compared to its original edition.
Constantine Eleftheriadis I fully respect your opinion.. but I thought & learned that Erlkonig's part was intended to sound sweet and seducing, both on Schubert's original song and Liszt's transcription.
양은모 good point!
für mich, leider, das Drama ontbreekt ( fehlt )
@chobeethaninov you may or may not be right, but you two are comparing professional recording quality (this one) with an amateur camcorder (Yuja's). Please people, if you feel the need to compare at all (which I don't see why), at least make it a fair comparison, such as between two studio recordings or two live professional recordings, or even two live amateur camcorders. Trust me, these things make a HUGE subconscious difference in your emotional preference.
Yuja only knows "f" to "ffff"
Indeed no need to compare a god and an amateur
Лучший!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Malaka57
ahahaha! That is so true!
The Erlkonig may be the antagonist in the poem, but it's definitely the pianist's savior!
Whoa this was uploaded on my birthday
This is much better than the version with the singing. IMO
Please don't believe the myth that you play the piano with your fingers.
I love Evgeny Kissin's interpretation of this piece. Yes, more than Yuja Wang's although she plays with her body which I wished Kissin would do much more.
@LordHettrick well i dunno. I mean i know its written as octaves, but thats insanely fast, and it sounds like the Schubert version with voice. In that one, you don't play it as an octave.
this is so much better than yuja wang its not even funny
Thanks Keuder. Such elegant hands.
Kissin plays the left-hand ascending scale pattern better than anyone (his phrasing is absolutely correct), but the best all-time performance of this piece is Lazaar Berman.
He include own waves dynamic in all pieces
Handsome man
Now he's lod lol
2:08 he was making this look so sensual for no reason lmao
The Part beginning at 1:34 was the most difficult for me :s
you need big hands although these chords are rolled ...
Абсолютно гениально!
I can never use this fingering, so sad
another evgeny kissin great.
.... good video because it shows how it is played ... .
liszt is the genius
brilliant "coda"
This guy is the man.
evgeny kissin could play some awesome blast beats ^^
@shusarik no way, berman takes way too many liberties with the music. not to say that i don't like it, it's just totally not as flawless as this one
WOW
liszt improves everything so well
he should be known as an improver AND a composer
Kissin's hair looks wierd
He did nnot really improve it. Why is everyone saying that? He just wrote a version for solo piano. The singing voice is just added to the piano voice. No doubt, executed perfectly.
Изумительно!!!
Oh, if I haven't seen Yuja Wang's playing, I might like this one. Now it is impossible for me to go back XD.
No doubt a very difficult piece to play and master. But there are suppose to be three distinct voices: The father, the son, and the Elf king. Each one is to sound distinct in pitch and tempo to be able to identify each character. I only heard a single pitch and tempo for all three, and it had the distinct sound of the child. Any one who has heard the original version can tell which narrator is speaking, but they were not distinct on the piano by Kissin, which is the difficult aspect of this work. How to keep each character voice distinct and unique when playing. The Galloping horse play was very well done. The technique was great.
He is so fast that even his hair looks like flying through the air….
bravo
My favorite recording of the piano transcription of this
The version of this piece forma violin is brutal
@tombennettpiano virtuoso contains not only technique!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was hard to play then,,
How old he is when he play this song?
check out yuja wang
In the beginning is he playing those as octaves?
Yes.
The better is by far Sofronotzky !
Just envy his gifted hands from god. he nailed it so much
Its not from god! Its from his parents, and his own work!
Hafez Rais Rohani you may think otherwise but you cannot counter a religious belief.
shame on you, purezephyr
translation
Maestro je maher, cestitam! Hvala!
A great performance. Quite similar to Richter.
이형 다씹어먹네😂😂
@korlock3000 Yes, as written.
O O
Holy crow...
I am amazed. I am really amazed. True mastership.
젊은 키신💚💚💚
just perfect
I agree👌
I'll pay the world to have him as my accompanist!
....grandioso Eugeny Kissin...
Wang plays far better
You mean yuja?
bravo
extraordinaire.....
amazing..
Fine performance by the young Kissin. He somewhat lacks power and drama in few moments, but overall this is great musicianship and beautiful sense for singing.
@KevinBeethoven I could care less about how well I play the piano, in fact I just made that comment to see how offended people would get, and so far I think i was pretty successful.
haha!
what
He's weird
I recommend checking out Yuja Wang's with this. Let me know which you prefer.
There's a few distinct differences between the two.
IMHO, the "musicality" (wld be too laborious for me to try to line ate what I meant by the term here; my sincere apology for it) aspect of Kissin's playing of the earlier portion of the piece seems a teeny shade better. But for the "drama" aspect of the piece, Wang's seems to enunciate the storyline behind the piece, with the pathos of the various characters in the story better than Kissin's, especially in the latter portion of the 4+ minutes of Erkonig.
I'm truly sorry to say this, but only people who has down syndrome would say that Evgeny Kissin has down syndrome...may God bless you, poor thing.
imo this beats the opera version any day
it's called lieder, not opera xD