Bartok Piano Concerto No3 - Mov.1 Myung-Whun Chung, Yeol-Eum Son, Seoul Philharmonic

[toxiicparadiise1]

Quel talent !

[rmjs777]

Who cares how Bartok wanted it to sound? A different approach is so damn refreshing. So many classical recordings are so boring and formulaic...

[doovud]

@rmjs777 The composer's intentions are the far most important. It's a bad performance without the bartokian idioms. The music will survive such performances, thank God.

[obiwan88]

Technically strong, but I don't think she's doing justice to the concerto, at least I don't think it's the way Bartok wanted it to be sound. Not an issue if you aren't looking for that in the first place though. It's like getting someone to play Bach like a Rachmaninov concerto.

[SmianiexD]

she's great, but i don't understand the music.....

[sethmartinhill]

She really can bang that piano! Seriously, her interpretation is a lot more "brittle" and "sharp" and "percussive" than most, but it's actually kind of interesting. Bartok wrote a lot of dissonances which other pianists kind of bury.

[liquidrunning]

Not my favourite concerto ever (not even, really), but not a terribly good performance of this first movement either. Sorry.

[avenaoat]

I look at the pianist's face and I can see she like very much this concerto. The orchastra is excellent too. Excellent performance!

[KosteckiAdam]

great!! very impressiv!

[jubailblast]

She's really good! Too bad the music she's playing is mediocre at best...

[macchupicchu29]

@jubailblast : my friend, if you people don't understand this music, then don't say anything. She is indeed a very strong peformer (strong fingers, and strong personality), but in this kind of music she demonstrates a tremendous lack of musical understanding. Take a look at the score: she's playing way too fast and and the discrepancies between the piano and the orchetra are almost unforgivable for someone who got 2nd prize at the Cliburn Competition.

[jubailblast]

@macchupicchu29 Sorry my Friend, but I lack any kind of musical knowledge. However, even if her performance was deceiving and imperfect I still don't find this particular piano concerto in any way mesmerizing. I listen to a lot of classical music and to be honest this one doesn't invoke any feelings. It's complex, I'll give it that. But in my humble opinion, it's a pretentious, unoriginal piece.

[MrRaph87]

dommage d'avoir une opinion aussi radicale ... c'est un magnifique Concerto, et le quasi-testament de Bartok, une oeuvre sublissime !! vous êtes libre de qualifier ce Concerto d'oeuvre "médiocre" (awful comment !!), et de ne rien comprendre à cette musique, allant même jusqu'à dire qu'elle est "prétentieuse" !! mon Dieu !!

peut-être, si vous écoutez le 2e mouvement, reviendrez-vous sur des commentaires aussi hâtifs ... et stupides !!

[kadidask15]

thank you so much for uploading this!!

[rminadeo]

wonderful presentation! she´s a good talent!!!