Super Human !!!!.... My Teacher at Juilliard ( Josef Raieff ) Studied with Lhevinne. He told me that when he watched Lhevinne perform, all Piano Technique was Child’s play for him no matter how difficult. It was simply beyond words, and It’s a shame that we don’t have one note of his Playing on VIDEO !……… We also don’t have one note of the Great Rachmaninoff performing on VIDEO either !!!! I.....i hope that someday, someone will find some Film of These 2 Giants actually Playing !
This is a perfect illustration, without even addressing issues of tone production, voicing, and pedaling, of the limits of a piano roll versus an audio recording of a performance. Lhevinne was unsurpassed as a technician, but as his audio recording of this piece reveals, some moments of the piano roll were clearly “juiced” beyond the limits of human possibility, as evidenced by the fact that these most suspect moments, though still astonishing, sound quite human on the sound recording he made of the same piece not long thereafter. Several other of his piano rolls have equally suspect moments, such as the impossible ppp chromatic scale echo in the middle of la Campanella, or the insanely dashing coda of the Tausig Gypsy Fantasy. Nor is Lhevinne the only pianist whose playing is falsely represented by the rolls. Consider von Sauer’s recording of Liszt’s Don Juan Fantasy for example. Impossible! Lhévinne’s sound recordings, which do faithfully represent his playing, are astonishing enough. No need to exaggerate his already incredible prowess.
Good point -- I can't believe how many listeners don't realize that piano-rolls are not an accurate representation of an artist's playing - actual recordings are more useful even if the sound is "archival."
Lhevinne's performance of this masterpiece was my introduction to the art of the piano transcription. I was a young impressionable mediocre piano student, and I thought surely there must have been more than one pianist performing. Interestingly, on the recording I heard, and must’ve owned - definitely not this performance, which is much faster - Lhevinne began with the B-flat introduction (1.06 here), and it was years before I discovered several pages that preceded the entire enterprise - an introduction, as it were, to what I’d thought was an “introduction”. I wonder how many extant performances of Lhevinne playing this piece there are.
If you combine Arthur Rubinstein with Gyorgy Cziffra, you get this, absolutely unique and terrific masterpiece, any recording by Lhevinne is just mind blowing and the quality of his playing is transcendental
I mean Arthur Rubenstein said that Joseph Lhevinne's left hand was the envy of all pianists. I think Scriabin broke his collarbone trying to imitate it.
what a surprise, I've been looking for the better versions all the while, from Pletnev, Cherkassky, and just when I thought Dmitris Sgouros was good enough, there Hamelin topped him a bit, then Glosvenor seems a bit better, then came Lhevinne, he topped them all, and his was the oldest, and we thought modern pianists are advancing technically?
I've got to agree with you somewhat. I absolutely loved (and still do love) Hamelin's version. But after hearing this, I believe I have found perfection. I never thought I'd hear a more technically proficient pianist than Marc-Andre Hamelin. I only wish Lhevinne recorded more.
@@ciararespect4296 я тоже фанат Амлена! И считаю его совершенным пианистом! Но после Левина он сидит и слушает:) Левин более совершенный в технике, чем Амлен, это очевидно, для меня точно. Заранее можно понимать, предполагать, что любое исполнение Левиным будет лучше и безупречней любых самых лучших записей:) А те, которые есть, это сокровища! Та же Кампанелла Левина недосягаема. А так-как таких записей нет, будем наслаждаться существующими титанами как Амлен, Володось и другие:)
Oh, my dear Gullivor!! You upload the most exquisite recordings!! Many thanks!! I heard this on KUSC 30 years ago. If only I had been able to obtain the transcription before my father passed, I would have attempted to play it for him. At the time I did not catch which transcription/arrangement it was. What's the difference between a transcription and an arrangement by the way? Any? Do you suppose this beautiful piece is available in print anywhere? Any response is appreciated! :)
Here is a link to the sheet music I have. Found it on amazon. www.amazon.com/Dances-Vienna-Concert-Arabesques-Beautiful/dp/B00L8630XE/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?dchild=1&keywords=blue+danube+concert+arabesque+Josef+Lhevinne&qid=1589598706&sr=8-2-fkmr0 Hope this helps. All the best to you.
Godowsky did not like this piece. He said it was musically impossible (not unplayable for him -- just impossible in its conception). Godowsky rearranged this piece, but the rearrangement was lost after his death :(
It is slightly sped up , and you don't need to compare it to the recording made just one year later to know that, and his dynamics are more flat, again piano roll recordings are not a good representations of a pianist's art!
I beg to differ, perhaps you've never heard a properly restored/regulated reproducing piano.. They come very close.. imho.. I do restore them for a living.. but to each his own..
This is what perfection sounds like.
The most superb version of the Danube I have ever ever heard
Greatest version of this transcription i have heard. Bravo Lhevinne!
Super Human !!!!.... My Teacher at Juilliard ( Josef Raieff ) Studied with Lhevinne. He told me that when he watched Lhevinne perform, all Piano Technique was Child’s play for him no matter how difficult. It was simply beyond words, and It’s a shame that we don’t have one note of his Playing on VIDEO !……… We also don’t have one note of the Great Rachmaninoff performing on VIDEO either !!!! I.....i hope that someday, someone will find some Film of These 2 Giants actually Playing !
This video has no sound, but at least we get to see Lhevinne in action for a few seconds: ua-cam.com/video/THNILoqQwJk/v-deo.html
@@VitoOnUA-cam ☑️ Now To Find An Actual Video Of Rachmaninoff Playing !
Yes, this is the Ampico piano roll version (issued on LP on the Argo label in the 1970s I believe) - still utterly fantastic
Don’t think so. The Argo LP version was in mono, and this is clearly in stereo.
This is incredible. It's beyond me how this level of technical proficiency is humanly possible.
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Magnifique musique merci🎹🎶💕
This is a perfect illustration, without even addressing issues of tone production, voicing, and pedaling, of the limits of a piano roll versus an audio recording of a performance. Lhevinne was unsurpassed as a technician, but as his audio recording of this piece reveals, some moments of the piano roll were clearly “juiced” beyond the limits of human possibility, as evidenced by the fact that these most suspect moments, though still astonishing, sound quite human on the sound recording he made of the same piece not long thereafter. Several other of his piano rolls have equally suspect moments, such as the impossible ppp chromatic scale echo in the middle of la Campanella, or the insanely dashing coda of the Tausig Gypsy Fantasy. Nor is Lhevinne the only pianist whose playing is falsely represented by the rolls. Consider von Sauer’s recording of Liszt’s Don Juan Fantasy for example. Impossible!
Lhévinne’s sound recordings, which do faithfully represent his playing, are astonishing enough. No need to exaggerate his already incredible prowess.
Good point -- I can't believe how many listeners don't realize that piano-rolls are not an accurate representation of an artist's playing - actual recordings are more useful even if the sound is "archival."
The consumate master from the Golden Age of pianist who gave us a splendid portrait of the Viennese waltz.
Lhevinne's performance of this masterpiece was my introduction to the art of the piano transcription. I was a young impressionable mediocre piano student, and I thought surely there must have been more than one pianist performing. Interestingly, on the recording I heard, and must’ve owned - definitely not this performance, which is much faster - Lhevinne began with the B-flat introduction (1.06 here), and it was years before I discovered several pages that preceded the entire enterprise - an introduction, as it were, to what I’d thought was an “introduction”. I wonder how many extant performances of Lhevinne playing this piece there are.
Most of Lehvinne’s performances are “recorded” on player piano “cards”, though certainly not all. He was my teachers teachers teacher!
Есть еще запись 1928 года, без вступления как здесь!
ua-cam.com/video/8fnzGtmSmRM/v-deo.htmlsi=E90cgyOM_LYURxCd
If you combine Arthur Rubinstein with Gyorgy Cziffra, you get this, absolutely unique and terrific masterpiece, any recording by Lhevinne is just mind blowing and the quality of his playing is transcendental
spot on. when I first heard his recordings simply so unimaginably wonderful .What a gifted man.
Not really, Cziffra has his own version of the same thing and it didn’t sound any remotely close to Lhevinne 😁
When he was a student at Conservatory, Anton Rubinstein told his entire class that JL had more talent that all of the rest of them *combined* ...
@@CLASSICALFAN100 I can imagine what the students were thinking when he said that.
@@CLASSICALFAN100 It was Busoni who said that after Lhevinned played the Toccata of Schuman.
Absolutely Amazing!
Great interpretation, a masterpiece.
Me encantó 🎶🎶🎶🎶
TRANSCENDENTAL...
7:18 that's physically impossible!
Listen to this recording of his. It's much more natural than a piano roll recording.
ua-cam.com/video/NVfi6E3S1uY/v-deo.htmlm44s
Ya conocí a un pianista ,que no existía hasta hoy muy bueno.
Y Cortot. en los Estudios de Chopin. 🤩
The only interpretation of this piece that can be heard, after hearing this one, is Jorge Bolet's (from the 1940's)
Cada quien lo toca como le da la gana ,en general todas sus obras.
I thought Cherkassky was amazing in this, but Lhevinne simply blows me away!
Meredith Foster I agree. This is amazing.
Josef Lhevinne also had the best hand of the pianists. All the pianists of his time envied it.
I mean Arthur Rubenstein said that Joseph Lhevinne's left hand was the envy of all pianists. I think Scriabin broke his collarbone trying to imitate it.
what a surprise, I've been looking for the better versions all the while, from Pletnev, Cherkassky, and just when I thought Dmitris Sgouros was good enough, there Hamelin topped him a bit, then Glosvenor seems a bit better, then came Lhevinne, he topped them all, and his was the oldest, and we thought modern pianists are advancing technically?
I've got to agree with you somewhat. I absolutely loved (and still do love) Hamelin's version. But after hearing this, I believe I have found perfection. I never thought I'd hear a more technically proficient pianist than Marc-Andre Hamelin. I only wish Lhevinne recorded more.
Yes but Hamelin is still technically the best in all the repertoire
@@h.p.734 Well hamelin is better. This is only a trifling piece
@@ciararespect4296 я тоже фанат Амлена! И считаю его совершенным пианистом! Но после Левина он сидит и слушает:) Левин более совершенный в технике, чем Амлен, это очевидно, для меня точно. Заранее можно понимать, предполагать, что любое исполнение Левиным будет лучше и безупречней любых самых лучших записей:) А те, которые есть, это сокровища! Та же Кампанелла Левина недосягаема. А так-как таких записей нет, будем наслаждаться существующими титанами как Амлен, Володось и другие:)
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Oh, my dear Gullivor!! You upload the most exquisite recordings!! Many thanks!!
I heard this on KUSC 30 years ago. If only I had been able to obtain the transcription before my father passed, I would have attempted to play it for him.
At the time I did not catch which transcription/arrangement it was. What's the difference between a transcription and an arrangement by the way? Any?
Do you suppose this beautiful piece is available in print anywhere?
Any response is appreciated! :)
Here is a link to the sheet music I have. Found it on amazon. www.amazon.com/Dances-Vienna-Concert-Arabesques-Beautiful/dp/B00L8630XE/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?dchild=1&keywords=blue+danube+concert+arabesque+Josef+Lhevinne&qid=1589598706&sr=8-2-fkmr0
Hope this helps. All the best to you.
@@artisticdiva1 You are most kind! Thank you!
@@artisticdiva1 Bought it today!! All smiles 🤗😽
I'm tempted to say that Lhevinne is THE greatest pianist of all time. But I want to hear Godowsky play this piece.
Godowsky did not like this piece. He said it was musically impossible (not unplayable for him -- just impossible in its conception). Godowsky rearranged this piece, but the rearrangement was lost after his death :(
Thanks for your reply.
I would like to know you! :)
I prefer this version over the one played for Welte. It has more flexibility, elegance and virtuosic dash. What a system is this?
Ampico. A very expensive, reproducing piano. These type of pianos were no longer affordable when the Great Depression came.
I agree! I have the Welte recording and this one is much better.
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Is this Evler's original version?
Se escucha exelente en estas manos. .Zhutz es otro que corregía lo que llegaba mal copiado ejemplo Los Estudios de Chopin.
Can anyone direct me to Lhevinne's real recordings (not piano-rolls)?
He recorded for RCA...
His complete recordings are available on Marston. He recorded this in the acoustic process, too.
ua-cam.com/video/RmKDAzG-z30/v-deo.html
Con cadensias difíciles. .
40 hours of work just with this instrument to achieve the specific depth requirements for each register. Just kidding second try if you're him
это не И.Левин играет!ошибка записи.
а кто? У кого еще такая ясная, безупречная, ошеломляющая техника из таких старых записей? И это пиано ролл к тому же..
It is slightly sped up , and you don't need to compare it to the recording made just one year later to know that, and his dynamics are more flat, again piano roll recordings are not a good representations of a pianist's art!
I beg to differ, perhaps you've never heard a properly restored/regulated reproducing piano.. They come very close.. imho.. I do restore them for a living.. but to each his own..
A reproducing piano is not at all the same as a player piano. It's analog, sure, but reproduces dynamics and touch extremely well.
Se vuelve a morir si escucha su música en el circo