Bartok - Piano Sonata 2 (Lang Lang)

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Haters:

If you played like this, your piano teacher would gasp with enthusiasm and become your full-time agent, for free at first. Your parents would beam with pride. Your local competition's judges would award you first prize and fill your comments sheet with positive feedback regarding your originality, control, projection, sensitivity, clarity, and emotional commitment to and overall vision of the piece.

But you don't play like this. (I assume; I couldn't find your own videos anywhere.)

[VFBandi89]

whats the title of this sonata? i want to learn it... thank you

[ym42ym42]

Nice movement!

[kawaiime100]

Number 1 is even better. Go see it! ;)

[pickinstone]

if he can execute the music without his movement/ animation getting in the way then who cares. You ever watch Keith Jarret play, or Glen Gloud. Lang Lang illustrates his musicianship in this piece and I would have loved to be in the audience watching. Every musician channels music differently, if this is his way then it is his way. Plus it is interesting to watch.

[fredericfranc]

With a Lang Lang audience, a slow movement will never die if their man over-Romanticizes it, and he, hell, knows that too... This is presumably a precursor to Bartok's "night music" movements, and probably calls for a more impressionistic approach...but look at the wild things he already did with the side movements...(he: LL)

[behindtheaegis]

He flails around like an asshole but he's a top-tier pianist. Just close your eyes and shut up, this is beautiful.

[KatharsisWorks]

I am not able to watch him playing... but his playing is nice.

[NanaIvanov]

There are a thousand of "psychomovementologists" here: "He may move fingers this, he may lay hands that..." but godsake! Isn't these the conjunction of a particular way the interpreter need to express himself?

[AndyMajia]

@NanaIvanov to be an asshole, yes lol

[dalecampbl5]

all i gotta say is this Piano Sonata rocks, I love the slow movement and most of Bartok's slow movements...furthermore, Lang Lang is goddamn famous and he's actually successful as a pianist so he must be doing something right and let's just leave it at that

[PieroBolzano]

Why are you talking about his movements and expressions instead his way of plaiyng???

Don't you think that music and "visual" should be different things?

[shinyflygon35]

Why, Piero, when you play and there's peoplo that see, you have to control your istincts :)

[PieroBolzano]

@shinyflygon35, si risponde "Because" ingnorante!!!

I'm not convinced, if you are listening to music you mustn't judge the movements of the pianist... although they are exagerate as in this case...

[shinyflygon35]

@PieroBolzano Oddio! Chiedo scusa al mondo per questo errore, è la prima volta che rispondo con un why!!! O.O"

Yes, but first, the movements of a pianist have effects on the music, second when you look at the pianist it's horrible and third, this movements make a people loose the control of the music. With a Bartok, ok...But with other is impossible to play without control. Even a Chopin needs control!

[TheEarlOfDublin]

what is with the stupid exaggerated gestures, it makes it look like he bored or something

[jakiner]

@TheEarlOfDublin perhaps he actually feels the music like any normal human being would

[TheEarlOfDublin]

@jakiner please stop all unnecessary gyrations its arousing strange, err "feelings" (is that whats its called) things in me and interfering with my musical analysis

[deemilieu]

the aesthetic beauty of the music...as angular and dissonant as it is, is undeniable.

[musicy88]

4:26 is hilarious..!

[kage1369]

maybe your attitude is too... ...who knows?

[stephanoronaldo91]

pfff --'

[zeljo111111]

Okay, well, the facial expressions are really a bit much!!

[Zebeldarebel]

Man, this is good stuff.

[Blueser66]

i really love his playing...i am going to see him play in vienna in two days:)