Its good that you foment discussion. Usually it makes uploaders disable comments, some only like having adulations or salutations posted, and the rest, is 'trolling' or 'spamming'...
Michele Campanella è più regolare eseguendo questo brano,controllato ed elegante più adatto ad un pubblico normale che non accetta stranezze alla Lang Lang.
@PianoDaemon It's actually an optional cut (and there are more) but I agree with you. It's a great reminder and a highly effective way of rounding off the performance. I've only performed this twice (don't ask why I went for 'round 2'!) and I played those few bars both times. At least he plays the longer bridge before the 'champagne aria'. So did I, but I think the shorter one is actually more effective overall.
I saw and heard Lang Lang play this at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester (UK) several years ago - my first time of hearing him. This bowled me over - absolutely compelling. The atmosphere was electric and we were all drawn in. I was nearly breathless and in tears, and I knew that as soon as he'd finished playing i would jump up from my seat - as nearly everyone else did in the audience. Bravo!
wow this absolutely amazing and he has a sensible sense for musical interpretation in a lot od slow parts. and his huge 5th finger makes this performance even more to a highlitght . great technique
I have listened (not watched!) again and again this performance trying to find out something worthy. Leaving aside the ridiculous showmanship aside as irrelevant and speaking of music pure and simple, yes, he does have few nice moments in which he is indeed musical. But these are very few indeed. And they are diluted with truly amazing and preposterously fast banging. Yes, it's impressive technically, but musically this is travesty, to say the least. He may mature in future, but I doubt it.
@Spiritakis I stress this... No one cares about your negative opinions. And saying: "Oh, I've tried AGAIN and AGAIN to find something worthy..." I don't think you understand how broad music is. It isn't one WAY, it's multiple ways. And can you explain why he's one of the most popular classical performers on earth, and how he inspired millions of people world wide to take up learning piano? He brings a flair and pure passion to the music he plays. Also, do you even know Liszt?
@Spiritakis Also Spiritakis, do you know how difficult it would be to add as much feeling and tone into one of the most difficult pieces in the world? I think he's just too overwhelming for you, that it's hard to appreciate him.
Actually there is some editing here. I just wouldn't take the sweating as a sign. I would go for things like what happens at 7:33. There are other examples in part one of this Liszt Reminiscence and throughout the recital (I have the DVD). Nevertheless, good show. Wonder how his arms don't hurt like hell...
Jpirie 1990, It's very difficult if you have emotion :) and not an olympic conception... Hear Cziffra please, it's better than this, Lang Lang, to my opinion is not a genius !!! I don't like it, it's a technic of a robot... No musician... Sorry :) I have play this piece in concert, really difficult piece, but like lang lang... piu facile ! technic technic technic and no music !!
@scarbolaught Are you having a laugh? I have tried to play this... it's extremely tough. I can't believe anyone could say that this was not a technically difficult piece.
That is never better demonstrated than in this mesmerising account of Liszt's Paraphrase on Mozart's Don Juan by Lang Lang the Chinese superstar of the piano. The technical demands of this piece are monumental and as difficult as it gets. Combine that with the probing introspective artistic and intellectual insight that is required you have an instrument and a piece that many try to master but rarely achieve
Mastery of this fine instrument requires not only super human technical ability but an artistic and poetic insight beyond the mere physical for that you need to enter the realm of the spiritual insight. Also a probing intellectual ablility ...to grasp the ultimate question of what music really is about, communicating something that cannot be expressed in mere words alone.
Lang Lang's best performance of any work to date without doubt. Mesmerising technical ability that is just astounding. He depicts the darker moments of Don Juan perfectly and ends the work with a jaw dropping finale to the work as the Carnegie Hall audience erupt with cheers and applause at the end justly so.
@1Lisztener1 Thats a good opinion. I am, and I have, and I still maintain that Glenn Gould or Cyprien Katsaris or Leonard Bernstein are better. Hell, id go for Lola Astanova (cause at least she supplements talent with cheek by the bucketful) than him. Sorry,but this is MY opinion ,seeing as i study music at uni and you can go wear a bucket on your head and be silent. Ta!
@StormAngel13 I saw him live last night in Toronto. I was truly in the presence of greatness. I went up to him for an autograph and said: "That was brilliant." :P He looked at me and said "Thank you." The people on the internet who haven't heard him live are restricted in their thoughts and opinions. Have you seen him live? And please, explain me how Glenn Gould and Bernstein are/were better. Don't mistake me for a fanboy. I just don't understand where some hate comes from.
@1Lisztener1 No,I grant you i havent seen him live and cant compare him to either Gould or Bernstein 'live' either,because they are dead. Bernstein-easily answered:he wasnt just a pianist,he was a conductor,composer and he filmed lots of educational music programs.Likewise,Gould was a thinking musician, whose abilities were not merely confined to a flawless piano technique but also included unconventional approaches to music that nobody had thought of b4.Besides, he looks like James Dean :P
@StormAngel13 Of course Gould and Bernstein were more personally involved wit music. However Lang Lang has inspired millions of kids worldwide to start playing piano. He even created a foundation for this. Comparing global impacts, no one has ever inspired so many people to start studying music. He isn't just a showman pianist.; he cares for music and the continuing study of music.
People who complain about Lang Lang's facial mugging forget that he is singing all the roles in a three-hour opera. To play Liszt's paraphrase full out -- as LL clearly does here -- a pianist needs to master the opera: the characters, the words, the conflicts, the scenes... He needs, in effect, to assimilate and inhabit a vast theatrical landscape. To attempt this with a flat affect - as some clearly do on these YouTubes - is an insult to Mozart and to theatre!!
lol at the high number of "dislikes." ONLY because it has the name "Lang Lang" in the title. I find it ironic with the high number of dislikes no one can actually specify in the comments what exactly is wrong with the playing, because this is the best performance of this piece in recorded history and even the people that hate him can't deny it. No one is even close to Lang Lang's cleanness of every technical part of this piece. Then throw in the playful style and it's practically perfect.
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This fabulous piece by Liszt deserves better than this self-indulgent clown. Can't dispute the flawless technique, but it isn't everything, especially here. The overall impression is woeful.
I have always liked his enthusiasm. I could not care if he jumps up and down on the piano stool and pulls down his pants, this guy is a huge talent and brings the piano to life. To all those who whine about his expressions - since when has genius been boring? His technique is not perfect, he moves his body a lot, he rolls his eyes but he interprets the music his way and I just love it. In this world full of cynicism and suffering it makes a pleasant change to celebrate something good.
As with most music, you are better off not looking at the performers too closely. I have seen flautists who look like they are about to vomit while playing the most beautiful, lyrical passages.... LL does a great job of this pinnacle work. I have heard about 20 interpretations of it and this one is really fun. He has a bit of the showman in him, and for many pieces that is just great.
One of the very best perfomances of Lang Lang. But I dislike that he left the 4 Bars of the Andante in the Coda just for the greater effect for the audience.
@parule Hi there. About Lang Lang leaving out the 4 bars of the Coda...well, if you look at the music, there's a marking made by Liszt(or probably Liszt did it in the performance) and it says "optional cut". Well, i am learning this piece and i prefer it with the coda. However, without the coda at the ending will definitely sound more intense. It's more like a personal preference.
There once was a great man called Lang Lang, whom the critics referred to as bang bang;but to me his technique, is dazzling, unique;with flashes of Liszt, his hands are God kissed; the public's in awe, and crying for more;they dance in the aisles, with ebullient smiles;so he is to be cheered, and always revered;for his critics who moan, they're as deaf as a stone; completely tone deaf,couldn't read a bass clef;he's widely admired, his playing inspired; to me it's quite clear, he has no peer.
Can you hear the huge difference when Wen-Yu Shen plays between 5:16 through 5:18,
and Lang Lang played this piece at 5:52 through 5:57????? Wen-Yu Shen has longer fingers, but did not learn how to use them. May be next time, Wen-Yu Shen plays this piece again, I will have someone help him filling up those few gaps in between music notes during that segment.
i dont really like lang lang, hes playing like a machine not like a human, pletnev is playing way better if you compare rachmaninows piano concerts, but thats only my opinion
For some reason I love ths song but I can't quite put my finger on it on what about It I like, is it the tempo, is it just Lang Lang playing it making it better, I don't know but I know I like the whole piece but my favorite part is at starting at 5:22 to the end. That jolly little theme always has me bobbing my head from side to side like him for some reason and that killer little build up to 7:03 then that amazing bass lower run at 7:11....I'm spechless now.......Awesome performance!!!!!!!!!!!
This video shows three men at their highest: Mozart, Liszt and Lang Lang.
Mozart: I don't need to add any comment about the magnitude of his genuius.
Liszt: A first rank genius, whose geniality hasn't been recognized by all the "establishment of the musically educated world" (especially in western european)
Lang Lang: I don't think all he plays is perfect. But the way he plays this piece is absolutely perfect, the music and the technique. Thank you for posting.
I think most people who play the piano, a monstrously difficult instrument to master, would realise just how brilliant a pianist Lang Lang clearly is. He makes the near impossible look easy. It is surely an exhausting piece to play, let alone play with dazzling virtuosity; he must have forearms of steel. How lucky we are to live in an age of digital recording and HD film. What a shame we've been deprived of Liszt's (1811-1886) pyrotechnics at the keyboard. Thank goodness we have his music.
Believe me , I'm the first to denounce ANY musician's 'affectations' but I believe Lang Lang means every raise of the eyebrow. Forgetting all that, this is a fabulous display of pianism but he also understands the original source well enough to marry it to Liszt's intended improvisatory spirit - unlike 'gabpant', who doesn't. He really does sound like he's making it up and enjoying every second.
PS He plays the 'long' version which really IS a pig.
@sheppoz I like this interpretation...I think Mozart is the best composer of every times...His music seems to descend directly from God...It is so simple, so natural, so fresh...and liszt Destroyed the simplicity, the naturalness and the freshness of this work...but, at all, i like this interpretation..
Brilliance in the rushes from top to bottom... 7:40
He´s amazing. Feeling the music you play is essential for good music. And he owns it, thus his facial expressions must be much more than just granted!
I don't like Lang Lang usually with all his nonsense but I have to agree that this is the perfect piece for him, and what an astonishing performance! He devoured it! Very impressive. Why then does he make such a mess of the Horowitz arrangement of the Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 which is so much easier than this??
This piece (and much of Liszt, in fact) is perfect for Lang Lang... all about the flashy technique at the expense of expressivity. Lang Lang can move people with his power and dexterity, but I sincerely doubt that many are moved by the emotive quality of his *playing*. His gestures, facial expressions, etc. are certainly emotional, but they're interpreting for us because his musicianship doesn't. Strip away the visuals, and you have a performance of mediocre expression at best.
though i personally am not a big fan of lang lang, i have to admit that here, despite some of his usual monkeying around, lang lang owns this piece like very few others can. awesome, exciting performance!
yaa i agree. i really like his wierd gestures...but u no wat...Glenn Gould did weird gestures as well...did anyone hate glenn gould 4 tht? NO. Y r ppl hating on Lang lang 4 his? This guy a simply amazing. i've never heard Yundi Lee play a Liszt piece like this....the chromatic thirds...the daring leaps...Lang Lang has it all.
EXACTLY!! close yout eyes and don't look, and you'll notice that he plays very musically and technically perfectly. It's when you look at his 'clown' face that it puts you off a bit!
Nonostante Lang Lang non mi piaccia, devo ammettere che qua è abbastanza fantascientifico!! Al solito pecca nel gusto e nelle eccessive esagerazioni. Cmq mostruoso!!
and people believe the hype...
muslit 2 weeks ago
Valentina Lisitsa´s version is better in my opinion...
Angettermaxi 3 weeks ago
@Angettermaxi is that a joke?
mcrettable 2 weeks ago
That made my day. A very special moment caught on tape.
GomersRevenge 1 month ago
Its good that you foment discussion. Usually it makes uploaders disable comments, some only like having adulations or salutations posted, and the rest, is 'trolling' or 'spamming'...
omgtkseth 1 month ago
73 cases of jealousy and envy. They see literally red with envy, they need a laxative.
bartje11 1 month ago
i'd love to see him play the mesphito waltz!!
mcrettable 1 month ago
Michele Campanella è più regolare eseguendo questo brano,controllato ed elegante più adatto ad un pubblico normale che non accetta stranezze alla Lang Lang.
vjelis123 2 months ago in playlist Liszt playlist
:(
imsohornynwet 2 months ago
4:47
thesamnsays 2 months ago in playlist Liszt playlist
Am i the only one who wanted to dance impulsively to this?
MusicPrincess222 3 months ago
Explosive power.
Jlan0151738 3 months ago
This piece depicts what is the pinnacle of all composition and technique. Few can play it.
ApolloKotzius 4 months ago
He cuts out the last appearance of the Commendatore's theme in the final bars, which I find highly unnecessary and very annoying.
PianoDaemon 4 months ago
@PianoDaemon It's actually an optional cut (and there are more) but I agree with you. It's a great reminder and a highly effective way of rounding off the performance. I've only performed this twice (don't ask why I went for 'round 2'!) and I played those few bars both times. At least he plays the longer bridge before the 'champagne aria'. So did I, but I think the shorter one is actually more effective overall.
ferocel 2 months ago
@PianoDaemon Wrong, you are annoying. Where is your performance on You Tube with the Commendatore's theme? Let's watch it!!
bartje11 1 month ago
I finally decided to listen rather than to play after I watch this.
iif5 4 months ago
this is off the charts. the best interpretation of this spectacular, hair-raising piece. liszt was a frikkin' GOD. absolutely AMAZING
FountainofFire 4 months ago
This is so bad I can hardly listen...
Lisztman88 4 months ago
Thanks God cameras exist
stacattos 5 months ago 3
-dies of his awesomeness-
xxNikkiLyric 5 months ago in playlist Liszt playlist
If you care about his facial expression.
Close your eyes. Don't close your ears.
...
You're gonna love this guy. ^ ^
journeytripreview 5 months ago 2
I saw and heard Lang Lang play this at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester (UK) several years ago - my first time of hearing him. This bowled me over - absolutely compelling. The atmosphere was electric and we were all drawn in. I was nearly breathless and in tears, and I knew that as soon as he'd finished playing i would jump up from my seat - as nearly everyone else did in the audience. Bravo!
dubbyagee1 5 months ago 2
such a presence... i can feel his through the screen.
mcrettable 6 months ago
wow this absolutely amazing and he has a sensible sense for musical interpretation in a lot od slow parts. and his huge 5th finger makes this performance even more to a highlitght . great technique
keyboardathlete 6 months ago 2
anyone dont like his face?
titandown 6 months ago in playlist Liszt playlist
fake xd
Atekkk89 7 months ago
Holy shit that bass line makes me remember Cziffra! 7:02
Laudan08 7 months ago
啥也别说了，干杯～
yangdahui 7 months ago
lang lang set the standard for piano performance here, if youve got a problem with that, i suggest you start practicing
bryan16love6love 8 months ago
what can I say... modern music genius
FutureAbe 8 months ago
Gentlemen, is there a nasty cut in the very end of the piece (the return of the Commendatore) or am I being wrong?
Spiritakis 9 months ago
I have listened (not watched!) again and again this performance trying to find out something worthy. Leaving aside the ridiculous showmanship aside as irrelevant and speaking of music pure and simple, yes, he does have few nice moments in which he is indeed musical. But these are very few indeed. And they are diluted with truly amazing and preposterously fast banging. Yes, it's impressive technically, but musically this is travesty, to say the least. He may mature in future, but I doubt it.
Spiritakis 10 months ago
@Spiritakis yeah, please enlighten us what music is about.
gurucow 9 months ago
@gurucow
This you should discover for yourself, sweetheart.
Spiritakis 9 months ago
@Spiritakis I stress this... No one cares about your negative opinions. And saying: "Oh, I've tried AGAIN and AGAIN to find something worthy..." I don't think you understand how broad music is. It isn't one WAY, it's multiple ways. And can you explain why he's one of the most popular classical performers on earth, and how he inspired millions of people world wide to take up learning piano? He brings a flair and pure passion to the music he plays. Also, do you even know Liszt?
mcrettable 8 months ago in playlist Lang Lang
@Spiritakis Also Spiritakis, do you know how difficult it would be to add as much feeling and tone into one of the most difficult pieces in the world? I think he's just too overwhelming for you, that it's hard to appreciate him.
mcrettable 8 months ago
liszt rolls over in his grave
TheFranchise417 10 months ago
oh my god!! it's absolutely amazing...=]
grandpiano2007 10 months ago 25
I like that he plays version B instead.
mrnanovideos 11 months ago
69 people are jealous.
ericfontainejazz 11 months ago 2
Great montage. Wish it was really live. Great editing.
Notice the lack of sweat just seconds before he ends.
Magically sweat appears as he bows. If you see the whole concert
the Schubert Wanderer Fantasy he is sweating and a far easier piece than this.
The land of make believe rules.
gongcome 1 year ago
@gongcome are you for real?
chrismanners1 1 year ago 8
@chrismanners1
Actually there is some editing here. I just wouldn't take the sweating as a sign. I would go for things like what happens at 7:33. There are other examples in part one of this Liszt Reminiscence and throughout the recital (I have the DVD). Nevertheless, good show. Wonder how his arms don't hurt like hell...
BMX90 6 months ago
@gongcome his sweat does not appear as much because of his movements. how naivete
gavinklavier 4 months ago
Wow
Levitani16 1 year ago
Ten thumbs up! That's because when he plays, I know I'm "all thumbs" in comparison!
3rdgatebaptist 1 year ago
Greatest pianist of his generation.
Tzsil713 1 year ago
this piece is really technically demanding! he played v well :) bravo!
chopinjierong 1 year ago
Jpirie 1990, It's very difficult if you have emotion :) and not an olympic conception... Hear Cziffra please, it's better than this, Lang Lang, to my opinion is not a genius !!! I don't like it, it's a technic of a robot... No musician... Sorry :) I have play this piece in concert, really difficult piece, but like lang lang... piu facile ! technic technic technic and no music !!
Piernic, you are impolite.
scarbolaught 1 year ago
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Tzsil713 1 year ago
Positively frightening. And I mean that in a good way!
garfreed 1 year ago
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo mmmyyyyy goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CICCIBUBUCICCI 1 year ago 5
He is not a genius... Yes it's very fast but not very very hard technically.
scarbolaught 1 year ago
@scarbolaught Are you having a laugh? I have tried to play this... it's extremely tough. I can't believe anyone could say that this was not a technically difficult piece.
jpirie1990 1 year ago
@scarbolaught u're an imbecile
piernic75 1 year ago
@CICCIBUBUCICCI you said it....
Tzsil713 1 year ago
That is never better demonstrated than in this mesmerising account of Liszt's Paraphrase on Mozart's Don Juan by Lang Lang the Chinese superstar of the piano. The technical demands of this piece are monumental and as difficult as it gets. Combine that with the probing introspective artistic and intellectual insight that is required you have an instrument and a piece that many try to master but rarely achieve
TheGreatRichter 1 year ago 2
Mastery of this fine instrument requires not only super human technical ability but an artistic and poetic insight beyond the mere physical for that you need to enter the realm of the spiritual insight. Also a probing intellectual ablility ...to grasp the ultimate question of what music really is about, communicating something that cannot be expressed in mere words alone.
TheGreatRichter 1 year ago
Lang Lang's best performance of any work to date without doubt. Mesmerising technical ability that is just astounding. He depicts the darker moments of Don Juan perfectly and ends the work with a jaw dropping finale to the work as the Carnegie Hall audience erupt with cheers and applause at the end justly so.
TheGreatRichter 1 year ago
This is THE interpretation of this piece.
belialah 1 year ago
5:20 Jizz in my pants :) hahaha
ImportSys 1 year ago 2
I'm pleased to suggest you one guy that could teach you something... (at least about this piece...) his name is : ENRICO PACE!!!
0vaff4 1 year ago
Only 507 likes? Come on people- this is utterly *fantastic*!
jpirie1990 1 year ago
百看不膩 百聽不膩
k7512228 1 year ago
THAT was just wickedly AWEEESSSSOOOMMMEEEE!!!
nicopetut 1 year ago
there are many examples of outstanding virtuosity throughout the performance but id like to point out my favorite in this second half
3:54 - 4:09
4:25 - 4:52
5:33 - 7:30
anonymousQ45 1 year ago
he fking destroyed the piano!!!
releasebooster81 1 year ago
its just AWSOME. i would LOVE TO SEE HIM PLAY CHARLES VALENTIN ALKAN.
cherzo focoso or le preux concert etude no 17
hjiuhfhrehui 1 year ago
i love this piece, and classical music in general. It's such a challenge to follow the left and right hand tunes in your mind at the same time!
1Lisztener1 1 year ago
....piece composed by Liszt. Ruined by a Chinaman pulling funny faces.
StormAngel13 1 year ago
@StormAngel13 You can only judge a piece when you've played it, in my opinion. Get good at piano, then come back and post something worth reading.
1Lisztener1 1 year ago
@1Lisztener1 Thats a good opinion. I am, and I have, and I still maintain that Glenn Gould or Cyprien Katsaris or Leonard Bernstein are better. Hell, id go for Lola Astanova (cause at least she supplements talent with cheek by the bucketful) than him. Sorry,but this is MY opinion ,seeing as i study music at uni and you can go wear a bucket on your head and be silent. Ta!
StormAngel13 1 year ago
@StormAngel13 I saw him live last night in Toronto. I was truly in the presence of greatness. I went up to him for an autograph and said: "That was brilliant." :P He looked at me and said "Thank you." The people on the internet who haven't heard him live are restricted in their thoughts and opinions. Have you seen him live? And please, explain me how Glenn Gould and Bernstein are/were better. Don't mistake me for a fanboy. I just don't understand where some hate comes from.
1Lisztener1 1 year ago
@1Lisztener1 No,I grant you i havent seen him live and cant compare him to either Gould or Bernstein 'live' either,because they are dead. Bernstein-easily answered:he wasnt just a pianist,he was a conductor,composer and he filmed lots of educational music programs.Likewise,Gould was a thinking musician, whose abilities were not merely confined to a flawless piano technique but also included unconventional approaches to music that nobody had thought of b4.Besides, he looks like James Dean :P
StormAngel13 1 year ago
@StormAngel13 Of course Gould and Bernstein were more personally involved wit music. However Lang Lang has inspired millions of kids worldwide to start playing piano. He even created a foundation for this. Comparing global impacts, no one has ever inspired so many people to start studying music. He isn't just a showman pianist.; he cares for music and the continuing study of music.
1Lisztener1 1 year ago 3
urgh! He totally messed up the ending. Listen to Valentina Lisitsa's version, she plays it a thousand times better.
KevinDorner 1 year ago
@KevinDorner Since when is interpretation a contest? I believe that Lang Lang is much more talented that Valentina Lisista...
1Lisztener1 1 year ago
this is because I like the classical music business; because the stars are actually talented.
FutureAbe 1 year ago
People who complain about Lang Lang's facial mugging forget that he is singing all the roles in a three-hour opera. To play Liszt's paraphrase full out -- as LL clearly does here -- a pianist needs to master the opera: the characters, the words, the conflicts, the scenes... He needs, in effect, to assimilate and inhabit a vast theatrical landscape. To attempt this with a flat affect - as some clearly do on these YouTubes - is an insult to Mozart and to theatre!!
pbratnober 1 year ago 2
@pbratnober Haters just look for something to hate. Even when it's completely absurd.
1Lisztener1 1 year ago
All the Lang Lang haters haven't seen this... O-O
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1Lisztener1 1 year ago
oh my gosh just look at his hands!! he can do simply everything with them!!
Tschaennis93 1 year ago
he has the fastest fingers in the world...
bossel100 1 year ago
Before Michael Jackson there was Lisztomania!
garfreed 1 year ago 6
What I would do for five minutes with this legend!
buzinessmann 1 year ago
jajaja.. put the same video without lang lang name and
I guess that all that lang lang haters, will say that this is the best recording of liszt.
figensco 1 year ago
@figensco that´s exacly wath i think...
Lang99Lang 1 year ago
gosh the chromatics... Liszt is too amazing.. Lang Lang made it perfect.. I think he's really amazing when it comes to chromatics..
TrackMeIoI 1 year ago
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DjProdKR 1 year ago 3
4:16 crouching dragon hidden tiger!
her0esfan 1 year ago
lol at the high number of "dislikes." ONLY because it has the name "Lang Lang" in the title. I find it ironic with the high number of dislikes no one can actually specify in the comments what exactly is wrong with the playing, because this is the best performance of this piece in recorded history and even the people that hate him can't deny it. No one is even close to Lang Lang's cleanness of every technical part of this piece. Then throw in the playful style and it's practically perfect.
trtnec 1 year ago 2
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This fabulous piece by Liszt deserves better than this self-indulgent clown. Can't dispute the flawless technique, but it isn't everything, especially here. The overall impression is woeful.
giboulee752 1 year ago
where was this performance ???
UnionToko 1 year ago
@UnionToko
Carnegie Hall in 2003
fanjiatia 1 year ago
@UnionToko At Carnegie hall
Lang99Lang 1 year ago
@UnionToko carnegie hall...
stagesix6 1 year ago
I have never seen such animation at the piano. At 7:04 I thought the house was falling down due to an earthquake!
her0esfan 1 year ago 2
awesome song, especially the ending. His pose is GOD LIKE! when he finished
ericehuang 1 year ago
@ericehuang lol! it was a surprise!
her0esfan 1 year ago
@ericehuang you suck at life if you think so
jefftam1234 1 year ago
this is one piece lang lang excels at
for pretty much evertying else, however, he is pretty woeful
shoenberg3 1 year ago
he loved that!
robbiethemann 1 year ago
pure genius
mikecho123 1 year ago 3
how can ANYONE say hes not good it makes me so angry listen to this it is PHENONEMAL i have no words hes GENIOUS!!!!!!!
hotbebimauz 1 year ago 5
4:28, magical...
stagesix6 1 year ago 2
holy SHIT! Liszt reincarnated.
jemokjemok 1 year ago 3
朗朗，真厉害
liushuangqing1983 1 year ago
I have always liked his enthusiasm. I could not care if he jumps up and down on the piano stool and pulls down his pants, this guy is a huge talent and brings the piano to life. To all those who whine about his expressions - since when has genius been boring? His technique is not perfect, he moves his body a lot, he rolls his eyes but he interprets the music his way and I just love it. In this world full of cynicism and suffering it makes a pleasant change to celebrate something good.
Mafiawl 1 year ago 4
mhhhh....
like me in this theatre piece and this film.... but I wasn't so alive !
222mozart 1 year ago
I wonder how can it be that a clown is able to play music...
I hate to visit him while his playing. Very.
222mozart 1 year ago
well, he's a bit like mozart in that respect, 222mozart :P
xxcocoloco 1 year ago
please give me a reason being NOT like this! This is music!
vampierkill 1 year ago
As with most music, you are better off not looking at the performers too closely. I have seen flautists who look like they are about to vomit while playing the most beautiful, lyrical passages.... LL does a great job of this pinnacle work. I have heard about 20 interpretations of it and this one is really fun. He has a bit of the showman in him, and for many pieces that is just great.
Malaka57 1 year ago
If anyone here thinks Lang Lang is not a good pianist, go to 8:09. Tell everyone who is clapping, that they are idiots.
jemokjemok 1 year ago 3
One of the very best perfomances of Lang Lang. But I dislike that he left the 4 Bars of the Andante in the Coda just for the greater effect for the audience.
parule 1 year ago
@parule Hi there. About Lang Lang leaving out the 4 bars of the Coda...well, if you look at the music, there's a marking made by Liszt(or probably Liszt did it in the performance) and it says "optional cut". Well, i am learning this piece and i prefer it with the coda. However, without the coda at the ending will definitely sound more intense. It's more like a personal preference.
oliverylchan 1 year ago
unbelievable! i'm not kidding, that's absolutly amazing! wowowowowowow!
stagesix6 1 year ago 3
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There once was a great man called Lang Lang, whom the critics referred to as bang bang;but to me his technique, is dazzling, unique;with flashes of Liszt, his hands are God kissed; the public's in awe, and crying for more;they dance in the aisles, with ebullient smiles;so he is to be cheered, and always revered;for his critics who moan, they're as deaf as a stone; completely tone deaf,couldn't read a bass clef;he's widely admired, his playing inspired; to me it's quite clear, he has no peer.
pianostruggler 2 years ago
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@pianostruggler No this is only a circus number, nothing more a show! This isn't music. Lang Lang is a Clown.
WaldemarKoszlowsky 1 year ago
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brazilamaral 2 years ago
Can you hear the huge difference when Wen-Yu Shen plays between 5:16 through 5:18,
and Lang Lang played this piece at 5:52 through 5:57????? Wen-Yu Shen has longer fingers, but did not learn how to use them. May be next time, Wen-Yu Shen plays this piece again, I will have someone help him filling up those few gaps in between music notes during that segment.
Annarogers988 2 years ago 2
Is he too good to be liked by people who is very Jealoused by his gifted talent and skills from all years hard work?????????
Annarogers988 2 years ago 8
i dont really like lang lang, hes playing like a machine not like a human, pletnev is playing way better if you compare rachmaninows piano concerts, but thats only my opinion
jorumpl 2 years ago 2
Freakin awesome.
Naujlo 2 years ago 40
For some reason I love ths song but I can't quite put my finger on it on what about It I like, is it the tempo, is it just Lang Lang playing it making it better, I don't know but I know I like the whole piece but my favorite part is at starting at 5:22 to the end. That jolly little theme always has me bobbing my head from side to side like him for some reason and that killer little build up to 7:03 then that amazing bass lower run at 7:11....I'm spechless now.......Awesome performance!!!!!!!!!!!
ultradmann 2 years ago 10
oh my goooooddd hes soooo good hes genious
hotbebimauz 2 years ago 50
@hotbebimauz This is all in his head 0-0
1Lisztener1 1 year ago
@hotbebimauz as long as he does not play Chopin he´s not bad, but please make him stop playing Chopin. Chopin is out of his league.
junghesse 8 months ago
@junghesse I guess you haven't heard his Nocturne Op.27 No.2.
TheIshter 7 months ago
This video shows three men at their highest: Mozart, Liszt and Lang Lang.
Mozart: I don't need to add any comment about the magnitude of his genuius.
Liszt: A first rank genius, whose geniality hasn't been recognized by all the "establishment of the musically educated world" (especially in western european)
Lang Lang: I don't think all he plays is perfect. But the way he plays this piece is absolutely perfect, the music and the technique. Thank you for posting.
fquesada 2 years ago 6
0:09 spider..?
richclayderman 2 years ago 4
I cannot imagine how many hours he would have to practice. I bet he spent more hours practicing than sleeping in a day.
jemokjemok 2 years ago 7
I agree, Mozart, in my humble opinion, is the closest phenomenon to the God of Music.
41 symphonies, 27 piano concertos, 22 operas if my memory serves me correctly,
plus much much more...
5 violin concertos completed before the age of 20. And tragically died at 35 years of age.
pianostruggler 2 years ago
I think most people who play the piano, a monstrously difficult instrument to master, would realise just how brilliant a pianist Lang Lang clearly is. He makes the near impossible look easy. It is surely an exhausting piece to play, let alone play with dazzling virtuosity; he must have forearms of steel. How lucky we are to live in an age of digital recording and HD film. What a shame we've been deprived of Liszt's (1811-1886) pyrotechnics at the keyboard. Thank goodness we have his music.
pianostruggler 2 years ago 5
Believe me , I'm the first to denounce ANY musician's 'affectations' but I believe Lang Lang means every raise of the eyebrow. Forgetting all that, this is a fabulous display of pianism but he also understands the original source well enough to marry it to Liszt's intended improvisatory spirit - unlike 'gabpant', who doesn't. He really does sound like he's making it up and enjoying every second.
PS He plays the 'long' version which really IS a pig.
sheppoz 2 years ago 4
@sheppoz I like this interpretation...I think Mozart is the best composer of every times...His music seems to descend directly from God...It is so simple, so natural, so fresh...and liszt Destroyed the simplicity, the naturalness and the freshness of this work...but, at all, i like this interpretation..
gabpant 2 years ago 2
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listz is a pig....How can you destroy the don juan????
gabpant 2 years ago
I think that its a great interpretation, but i must hear only the interpretation and dont look the pianist
wjjuarez 2 years ago 4
What fine handling for dynamics.... 6:33
Brilliance in the rushes from top to bottom... 7:40
He´s amazing. Feeling the music you play is essential for good music. And he owns it, thus his facial expressions must be much more than just granted!
Falconermalik 2 years ago 10
I don't like Lang Lang usually with all his nonsense but I have to agree that this is the perfect piece for him, and what an astonishing performance! He devoured it! Very impressive. Why then does he make such a mess of the Horowitz arrangement of the Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 which is so much easier than this??
sprund2009 2 years ago 4
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hes truly amazing.
this is only one of the best.
AllegroDemolish 2 years ago
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AllegroDemolish 2 years ago
vorrei poter mettere in evidenza i difetti ma dopo la 50°volta che lo guardo mi sembra ancora tutto così perfetto...
Volerto90 2 years ago
the precision and musicality with which he plays 5:33 and on is absolutely amazing.
drzeng 2 years ago 4
His technique is awesome. His mannerisms wouldn't bother me if his music making was a little more coherent.
muslit 2 years ago
He looks like he's having such a fun time playing the last 2 minutes!
PeachandCream 2 years ago 2
it is just hilarious...shame that he actually has to involve the piano and liszt etc..but..oh dear his act is such a cliche...very funny
MATTDUNCAN1 2 years ago
This piece (and much of Liszt, in fact) is perfect for Lang Lang... all about the flashy technique at the expense of expressivity. Lang Lang can move people with his power and dexterity, but I sincerely doubt that many are moved by the emotive quality of his *playing*. His gestures, facial expressions, etc. are certainly emotional, but they're interpreting for us because his musicianship doesn't. Strip away the visuals, and you have a performance of mediocre expression at best.
Anyaume 2 years ago
he's got style. maybe not facially, but musically.
and virtuoso-status regardless what people say otherwise.
cl427x 2 years ago 5
His excellent perfect emotional interpretative performance is fantasty best. He is pianist as well as artist.
piano916 2 years ago
WOW! :) great !!!
hjiuhfhrehui 2 years ago 7
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Such a tart ! Lame Lame is made for hairy flute, not piano...
minastronasse 2 years ago
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svetlana67831 2 years ago 2
though i personally am not a big fan of lang lang, i have to admit that here, despite some of his usual monkeying around, lang lang owns this piece like very few others can. awesome, exciting performance!
Belamus 2 years ago 6
holy crap.
I feel like giving up piano haha.
jk, never :)
ArvindanT 2 years ago
this masterpiece push me to climax. I do really enjoy Lang lang playing. maybe over accented sometimes, but .... yet awesome!
mrvinass 2 years ago
mabe a pianist, but not an artist!
digidragon100 2 years ago
How do you call this? a car washer?
He is an artist!! Almoust every pianist would like to play like him. Dont you think so?
alexmanzo19 2 years ago
hahaha car washer? hahaha
froget86 2 years ago
yaa i agree. i really like his wierd gestures...but u no wat...Glenn Gould did weird gestures as well...did anyone hate glenn gould 4 tht? NO. Y r ppl hating on Lang lang 4 his? This guy a simply amazing. i've never heard Yundi Lee play a Liszt piece like this....the chromatic thirds...the daring leaps...Lang Lang has it all.
bluematrix109 2 years ago
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go fuck urself
bluematrix109 2 years ago
u must be kidding man, this is the best version ever!
stagesix6 2 years ago
OMG!!! He is a genius!! how easy he plays this. This is one of the most difficult pieces. He really enjoyes it and make me enjoy too.
alexmanzo19 2 years ago
EXACTLY!! close yout eyes and don't look, and you'll notice that he plays very musically and technically perfectly. It's when you look at his 'clown' face that it puts you off a bit!
marcohorowitz8 2 years ago 2
Nonostante Lang Lang non mi piaccia, devo ammettere che qua è abbastanza fantascientifico!! Al solito pecca nel gusto e nelle eccessive esagerazioni. Cmq mostruoso!!
prodesica 2 years ago
It is fascinating how he can play so clearly without making mistakes.
He is amazing... Bravo!
HappyKljave 2 years ago 2