What technique you must have to mess up the finale that way" Leschetizky to Rosenthal on an Anton Rubinstein recital."The pianist should never be afraid to take risks" Horowitz"In the old days wrong notes were the right of the genius" ArrauThis collection is meant as a humorous counterpoint to the previous videos. Mistakes range from the ubiquitous "neighbouring note" (to quote Blanche Selva) to half disasters a-la Anton Rubinstein. I have of course the greatest admiration for all the artists featured in this compilation of mishaps which serve to remind us that the bounds of possibility are being pushed by the performer and that even great pianists are human!There is actually a mistake in this video, which is left to the astute viewer to discover...!Strauss Blue Danube BorgeBach-Busoni BWV564 VH 00:57Schumann Op17 VH 01:25 (In the original release, these slips were cleaned up. "The perspiration ran into my eyes and I could not see the keyboard. So I played blind. It was an act of God. ") & SR 02:20"I have heard many great pianists, but all of them, even Rubinstein, displayed physical exertion at this passage; not Liszt" (Lachmund)Schumann Op1 02:58 & Chopin Op37/2 03:14 SRChopin Op52 Baumgartner 04:11BeethovenOp106 AS 04:49 (At Beethoven's tempos, Artur's Op106 sometimes resembles an atomic mushroom cloud...yet it is one of the greatest!)Op101 AS 05:20 & VH 05:35 (Full of little traps...to the point that Richter considered it more challenging than Op106)Brahms Op15 AS 05:49 ("When a piece gets difficult, make faces." Schnabel )Tchaikovsky Op23 VH 06:08 (Exciting nonetheless!)Weber Op39 Gilels 06:27 & AC 07:20 (One of Cortot's greatest interpretations. In his edition he observes that this page "offre d'evidentes difficulties d'execution", its rich orchestral textures being almost impossible to reproduce satisfactorily.)Chopin Op25/11 08:16 & Stravinsky Petrouchka 10:30 ARLisztSonata Curzon 11:18Feux Follets Friedheim 12:09 (Very tricky hand crossing... if one is faithful to the score!)BeethovenRondo Op129 d'Albert 12:47 ("He used to have a big technique. Then he started losing interest in piano playing in order to compose. And yet his performance of the Liszt sonata was still marvelous. Full of wrong notes, and missed passages. But the feeling was wonderful —coordinating the whole thing, with each idea coming out of the one before." Arrau)Op73 d'Albert 13:00 & ABM 14:06Op58 14:36 & Rubinstein Contredanse from Le Bal Op14 15:03 Hofmann (Perhaps the first ever wrong notes to be recorded?)Op33/5 Kempff 15:14 (His first recording. According to a famous story, shortly after smudging the bottom F in the return of the theme Kempff exclaimed "Donnerwetter!" ("Dammit!"). A voice can just be heard on the recording, but it is difficult to make out the specific word.)Brahms Op5 Kempff 15:32ChopinOp10/5 de Pachmann 15:53Op10/7 Plante 16:13 ("Merde!")Ives Study, Ives 16:48 (Ives predominantly recorded not for posterity, but so that he could listen to his own works with detachment. "Oh! That's the note! My finger slipped on it")BachBWV806 GG 17:19 ("For 'The Alchemist', in which we had decided to stage a recording session, we went so far as to define which wrong note Glenn would force himself to play in the Bourree of Bach's 1st English Suite, so as to make that sequence plausible. Poor Glenn; he was so allergic to wrong notes!" Monsaingeon)BWV971 SR 17:58 & 18:19 ("Just now S. Richter realized, much to his regret, that he always made a mistake in the third measure before the end of the Andante. As a matter of fact, through forty years - and no musician or technician ever pointed it out to him - he played F-sharp rather than F ")Mozart K488 AS 18:43 (What the pianist fears most: a terrible memory lapse)Scriabin Op30 Gilels 19:50 (...which could just as easily arise from the simplicity of a Mozart concerto, or the complexity of a Scriabin sonata)Liszt Sonata Curzon 20:40 (Struggling for accuracy already - see 11:18 - perhaps precipitated this memory loss)Chopin Op35 AR 21:21 (At bar 65, he returns to 22, then makes the same mistake again before improvising into the trio. The applause of the audience may have catastrophically disturbed his concentration. ABM's legendary Moscow concert of earlier that year may also have increased his 'nervousness'.)Beethoven Op15 AC 23:57 (How do you manage the RH octave gliss in tempo? Play the bass first and use both hands for the glissando!)Liszt Sonata Berman 24:30 (One could call it the "Hammerklavier syndrome": Lazar replaces the risky double octave jump at bars 8-9 with a single note version) & Cortot 25:25 (Alfred eschews the double octaves in the triplet of the theme);Schubert Wanderer Brendel 25:49 (Difficult left octaves? Drastic solution!)Alkan Concerto Ogdon 26:03 ("Un tantino poco piu' mosso", one of Alkan's most diabolic and uncompromising passages)Prokofiev Op84 SR 26:55