I read on a youtube comment that the best(in that user's opinion) rendition of Liszt's Gnomenreigen was done by Rachmaninov, that it was better than the one found in this link:

Since I'm learning this piece right now, it would be great for me to hear several interpretations of it especially by Rachmaninov, so could anyone link me to videos/audio of Rachmaninov, Bolet, Arrau, or Barere playing this?

I know there's some people here who are very good piano players and might have played this and might have the recordings.

HeadBangaa

United States6512 Posts

October 08 2006 08:57 GMT

Holy shit you could play that?

Binky1842

United States2599 Posts

October 08 2006 08:58 GMT

JFC

keke

Canada186 Posts

October 08 2006 08:59 GMT

thats some crazy shit right there.

exalted

United States3612 Posts

October 08 2006 09:09 GMT

Haha, sounds like a pretty sweet piece, but so "piano-demanding" - It would suck hearing it on anything less than a piano B (preferably Steinway), you can't take that piece and then go to a friend's upright or someshit and blast it.

Try searching on Music P2P is my best advice, I doubt anyone here besides Empyrean would know where to find classical music.

AngryLlama

United States1227 Posts

October 08 2006 09:12 GMT

damn, piano is so bad ass

Ceril

Sweden1343 Posts

October 08 2006 09:13 GMT

...whats the amp of a pro piano player?
*sorry*

Now I got to find me some classical pieces again -_-

Last Romantic

United States20661 Posts

October 08 2006 09:14 GMT

Good Steinways so hard to find nowadays. Wheee for crapppppppy new ones.

Rachmaninoff recorded on really old media - gramophones, paper recordings, that sort of stuff. I suppose people've converted it to .mp3s and whatnot, but I'm not sure that after age/translation/etc, it will be a superior recording, though it originally may have been.

by the way, nice piece ~

Edit: Oh, and why are you looking for so many diff recordings, anyways? Romantic era pieces are most difficult to use recordings to learn - it depends the most on individual style, IMO.

Empyrean

16985 Posts

October 08 2006 09:15 GMT

On October 08 2006 18:09 exalted wrote:
Haha, sounds like a pretty sweet piece, but so "piano-demanding" - It would suck hearing it on anything less than a piano B (preferably Steinway), you can't take that piece and then go to a friend's upright or someshit and blast it.

Try searching on Music P2P is my best advice, I doubt anyone here besides Empyrean would know where to find classical music.

I'm surprised that you, of all people, haven't heard of this piece. It was part of one of Liszt's Concert Etudes sets (I believe it was second of his "2 Concert Etudes" set).

Jorge Bolet has an excellent recording of this piece, as well as other popular Liszt pieces such as Waldesrauchen, Funerailles 18whatever, etc.

zergc1

Zimbabwe961 Posts

October 08 2006 09:33 GMT

#10

by Bolet
http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=289532c
by Magaloff
http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=33c26ea
by Arrau
http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=b65c3f2
by Rachmaninoff (the best imo)
http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=5687f03

gl xD

CoralReefer

Canada2069 Posts

October 08 2006 09:49 GMT

#11

On October 08 2006 18:15 Empyrean wrote:
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I'm surprised that you, of all people, haven't heard of this piece. It was part of one of Liszt's Concert Etudes sets (I believe it was second of his "2 Concert Etudes" set).

Jorge Bolet has an excellent recording of this piece, as well as other popular Liszt pieces such as Waldesrauchen, Funerailles 18whatever, etc.

WHOA
NOW IT'S ON!!!

u gonna take that shit exalted?

Unforgiven_ve

Venezuela1232 Posts

October 08 2006 09:53 GMT

#12

piano rox.

do you get a lot of ass for this? hehe...i hope that you do :p

Newbistic

China2912 Posts

October 08 2006 10:01 GMT

#13

Wow the guy looks really intense... I always thought true piano masters didn't need to stare at their keys that hard... play by instinct and all.

iamke55

United States2806 Posts

October 08 2006 10:26 GMT

#14

On October 08 2006 18:33 zergc1 wrote:
by Bolet
http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=289532c
by Magaloff
http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=33c26ea
by Arrau
http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=b65c3f2
by Rachmaninoff (the best imo)
http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=5687f03

gl xD

O_O Thanks! I'm guessing you uploaded them yourself, since it says added by iloveoov.

Good to know that not everyone believes in Cziffra's insane tempo -_-

Alborz

Canada1551 Posts

October 08 2006 10:30 GMT

#15

that guy has gosu apm

Empyrean

16985 Posts

October 08 2006 10:39 GMT

#16

I've always Cziffra. The fact that he's ugly doesn't help. Nor his obscenely stupid interpretations.

EDIT: Should be I've always hated Cziffra.

iamke55

United States2806 Posts

October 10 2006 10:20 GMT

#17

Sorry for bumping an old topic, but is there any way for me to save those goear files to my hard drive?

Random note: You know that part in Harry Potter where Harry thinks it should be illegal to have a facial expression as smug as Percy's? That's what I think when I see Cziffra's face in the video.

DarkYoDA

United States1347 Posts

October 10 2006 10:35 GMT

#18

I say that's an apm = 300+

TLKiD

China1136 Posts

October 10 2006 10:51 GMT

#19

On October 10 2006 19:35 DarkYoDA wrote:
I say that's an apm = 300+

negative, i d say that d be something like 500+ i am serious

teh leet newb

United States1999 Posts

October 10 2006 11:14 GMT

#20

Well, considering how scales can be played at like 500+ APM (unless you're Empyrean

), it shouldn't be too hard to break 500.

Myrmidon

United States9452 Posts

October 10 2006 11:21 GMT

#21

My band director can tap (meaning one single hand/finger movement) solid even offbeats to a metronome at 500 beats per minute playing downbeats. Sure, it's easier to tap something than to strike a piano key, but you've got 10 fingers instead of 1, and it's not like he's anybody important in the musical establishment.