Фантазия-экспромт до-диез минор, Op.66

I'm glad Julian Fontana disobeyed Chopin's order and DID publish this outstanding piece. Otherwise, we would have never got to play a music gem like this.

Well, I Do find this arrangement very interesting!

Of Course, if everyone wants a McDonalds in the middle of Stonehedge then..?

So to this version of the Chopin is like filling a Cathedral with technically brilliant performance garbage. I love Ragtime and Scott Joplin and many musics other then Western Classical too. I have no snobbery with Song and Dance bands either, but this is merely a performer playing brilliantly a showy lounge lizard degrading of brilliance. As a composer I do write Variations a lot of them. This is an unfortunate moment for the pianist is obviously exceptionally talented as a performer; and I wish I had something good to say on his treatment of Chopin, but he is sadly lacking in the necessary compositional insight and talent required much more than mere performance skills necessary to create an excellent Variation on a work by Chopin. He needs a composer; but no composer even genius can fix his current rendition.

Sorry folks, He is an excellent show pianist, but as a composer or creative interpretation genius he's not. Best analogy I can say here is taking the Alhambra Palace, in Granada Spain or the Tal Mahal in India and turning it into a Disneyland Amusement Park; or putting a large very American McDonalds in the middle of Stonehedge in England. There is nothing inherently wrong with Disneyland Amusement Parks or a McDonalds, both are Great, however there is something very wrong and some correctly would all it a travesty to do the above

Amazing, simply amazing

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