Published on Apr 21, 2012 פורסם ב-21 לאפריל 2012
"Do you think I care how fast you play octaves?"
Liszt to a pianist who tried to impress him with Chopin Op 53's octaves
Rachmaninov Op 1 רחמנינוב
Rachmaninov
("In octave playing a large hand can be helpful, but an over-sized hand is definitely a hindrance. This is the reason we find so few octave passages in Rachmaninov's compositions." Earl Wild)
Liszt ליסט
Orage 00:22
Mazeppa 01:30
Eroica 01:59
Berman
Chopin שופן
Op 10-5
Horowitz 02:34
Janis 02:44
Op 25-10
Berman 02:54
Francois 03:40
Lhevinne 04:33
Czerny Octave Etude 05:08 צ'רני
Schulz-Evler Blue Danube 06:27
Lhevinne
Bliss PC בילס
Solomon 07:35
Liszt PC 1 ליסט
Richter 08:06
Arrau 08:30
Michelangeli 8:54
Weber Op79 וובר
Arrau 09:32
Rubinstein Op 70 רובינשטיין
Hofmann 10:04
Schubert-Liszt Erlkonig שוברט
Hofmann 10:19
( "Pieces like Erlkonig cannot be played from the wrist alone because it gives us neither the power nor the speed required. The wrist alone is to be used only in light graceful places. Heavier octaves put the elbow and shoulder into action. A striving for economy of force and the least possible fatigue will produce this division of labour unconsciously." Hofmann)
Ginzburg 10:46 גינסבורג, ריכטר
Richter 11:13
Schubert D.784 שוברט
(Schubert's music certainly has some of the most perverse octaves…)
Richter 11:36
Gilels 11:58
Schubert Wanderer שוברט
Watts 12:18
(a utopian passage on the verge of unplayability. In the score, the top staves are Listz's humbler adaptation)
Schubert-Liszt Wanderer שוברט
Brendel 12:32
(…another possibility: let the orchestra play it!)
Schumann Op 7 שומן
Barere 13:15
Horowitz 13:35 הורוביץ
Richter 13:56 ריכטר
Op 20
Horowitz 14:16 הורוביץ
Bach Busoni Toccata בך בוזוני
Michelangeli 14:41
Chopin שופן
Op 44
Horowitz 15:09 הורוביץ
Rubinstein 15:41 רובינשטיין
(beautiful legato octaves but the astonishing feat
is the jump at 15:48!)
Op 49
Solomon 16:15 סולומון
Katchen 16:45
Liszt ליסט
Scherzo und Marsch
Richter 17:02 ריכטר
Funerailles
Richter 18:15 ריכטר
Berman 19:04 ברמן
Horowitz 19:54 הורוביץ
Chopin Op 53 שופן
Sofronitsky 20:31
("I remember Chopin telling me how unhappy he felt because he heard his Polonaise in A flat played fast thereby destroying all the grandeur, the majesty of this noble composition " C.Halle)
Balakirev Islamey בלקרייב
Katchen 21:40 קאצאן
Arrau 21:55 אראו
Barere 22:08 בארר
Horowitz 22:23 הורוביץ
Liszt Sonata ליסט
Horowitz 22:37 הורוביץ
Richter 24:00 ריכטר
Horowitz 24:42 הורוביץ
Arrau 25:31 אראו
Argerich 26:07 אגריך
Liszt Dante Sonata ליסט דנטה
Arrau 26:37 אראו
Ogdon 28:09 אוגדון
Liszt Bach Fantasy & Fugue ליסט בך
Brendel 29:30 ברנדל
(lightning fast and relatively easy to play, "blind" octaves are certainly among Listz's most striking inventions)
Chopin-Tausig PC 1 שופן
Bellucci 31:12 באלוצי
(interestingly Rosenthal liked to end the concerto with this fragment of Tausig's transcription)
Debussy Et. No 5 דביוסי
Pollini 31:43 פוליני
Bartok Out of Doors ברטוק
Pollini 32:33 פוליני
(octaves and ninths)
Scriabin סקריאבין
Op 65-1
Richter 34:02 ריכטר
(…just ninths please!)
Op 8-9
Merzhanov 34:25 מרזהאנוב
Chopin Op 28-22 שופן
Rubinstein 35:19 רובינשטיין
Scriabin Op 11-18 סקריאבין
Pletnev 35:55 פלטניב
Liszt Sursum Corda ליסט
Bartok 36:46 ברטוק
Bartok Allegro Barbaro ברטוק
Bartok 37:34 ברטוק
Bartok PC 2 ברטוק
Anda 38:06 אנדה
Kocsis 39:04
Brahms ברהמס
Op 5
Kocsis 39:29 קוקסיס
Sokolov 39:50 סוקולוב
Op 24
Arrau 40:13 אראו
Op 35
Michelangeli 41:01 מיכאלאנגלי
Katchen 41:33 קאטצאן
Szymanovsky Op 10 סימנובסקי
Zimerman 41:59 צימרמן
Liszt ליסט
Legend No 2
Ciccolini 42:47 ציקוליני
Rigoletto ריגולטו
Ciccolini 43:12 ציקוליני
Faust
Ciccolini 43:32 ציקוליני
Barere 43:48 בארר
Robert le diable
Wild 44:33
Norma נורמן
Bellucci 45:56 באלוצי
Don Juan דון גואן
Barere 46:33 בארר
Hamelin 47:22 המלין
Tannhauser טננהאוזר
Bolet 48:49 בולט
La Muette
Cziffra 51:07
Rhap.
No 4
Cziffra 52:14
No 6
Janis 53:43
(Surprisingly Horowitz claimed to play this passage with the wrist alone: "The movement stops at the wrist. If I used the whole arm, I should be fatigued, and the tone would be harsh and clumsy")
No 15
Cziffra 55:55
Spanish
Gilels 56:42
Berman 57:49
Arrau 58:51
Tchaikovsky Op 23
Horowitz 59:47
(A few comments on Horowitz's octaves:
"You have won the octave Olympics" Rubinstein
"He is an Octavian, but not Caesar" Rosenthal )
Argerich 1:01:01
Horowitz 1:01:43
Argerich 1:02:03
Gilels 1:02:20
Lhevinne 1:02:39
Sapellnikoff 1:02:57
(Sapellnikoff was an intimate friend and collaborator of Tchaikovsky. His leisurely paced octaves could therefore be closer to the composer's intentions than more demonic versions a-la Horowitz…And if we believe Bernard Shaw's judgement his (left) octave technique was not bad: "a marvel even among right hands for delicacy of touch and independence and swiftness of action")
Chopin Godowsky
Op 10-1
Berezovsky 1:03:20
Op 25-2
Grante 1:04:10
Godowsky Künstlerleben
Hamelin 1:04:49
Liszt Paganini Et.
No.2 Horowitz 1:05:29
No.6 Arrau 1:06:11
No.3 Fiorentino 1:06:31
Saint Saens
Op 22
Rubinstein 1:07:16
Op 29
Ciccolini 1:07:40
Collard 1:08:38
Op 44
Casadesus 1:09:25
Tchaikovsky Op.44
Gilels 1:10:05
(Interviewer: "I have always wondered why one never hears Tchaikovsky's 2nd Concerto"
Schnabel: "I have never played even the first…")
Brahms
Op 83
Gilels 1:10:54
Rubinstein 1:11:09
Richter 1:11:23
Op 15
Fleisher 1:11:37
Pollini 1:12:15
Rachmaninov Op 43
Katchen 1:13:15
Gershwin Rhap.
Katchen 1:13:38
Weber Op 70
Fleisher 1:13:58
Alkan
Op35-5
Gibbons 1:14:34
Sonata
Hamelin 1:15:15
Liszt
Hexameron
Lewenthal 1:15:36
Mephisto
Feinberg 1:17:23
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