Lang Lang: Nocturne in C

[austinjp11]

D Flat Major!

[conor2806]

this is in D flat major... but very nice :)

[minastronasse]

This is obscene, as usual. I'm sure he has the same expression when his boyfriend blows him.

[wreckedyou]

this gives me goosebumps.

[Steerpikey]

I don't like it when musicians (especially Asian musicians) artificially create emotions in music. The way he plays.... makes me an observer. I'm not seduced. It feels so fake and created. The emotions seem so prepared and almost mathematically scheduled. or am I the only one who has this impression?

[FanBrazil1]

Especially Asian musicians? What are you, some kind of bigot?

Just close your eyes and concentrate on the music, you dumb ignoramus!

[DonVoghano]

You misread. The Chinese speak a tonal language. People who speak a tonal language consider ups and downs in tone of voice as a different sound altogether, while speakers of non-tonal languages like Europeans use tone to denote emotion.

The speaker of a tonal language is more likely to have perfect pitch because he is more attuned to variations in sound, but has to work harder to understand and reproduce the "mood" of a piece (classical music is after all European).

[DonVoghano]

Anyway, facial expressions aside, he does a very good job, imho.

[Steerpikey]

That's an interesting perspective: tone in tonal languages relates to musical pitch like intonation of non-tonal languages relates to musical prosody... Pm me if you want to go further into this; I did research on the possible existance of chord progressions in human speech intonation.

[articulationable]

simply magic.the best version I've ever heard.

[sclyfes1212]

I just want to stare at the night sky and lie down on the soft grass of an empty valley.

[aahhhshaddap]

drinking budweiser?

[bggshenoy]

I dont know what to feel when i listen to this... Its has a happy feeling to it.. yet chaotic.. And this is i believe the best interpretation i could relate to.. not even Bunin's version was slightly close to this when it comes to different colors he has produced.. Just great.. I can call this guy my favourite pianist for just this one interpr..!!!

[ShakadeVirgo0987]

That`s not nocturne in C.

It's Nocturne in Db Op.27 No.2

Too Beautiful

[Trainbuff75]

Anonymous is right; it's the Nocturne in D flat and one of my favorites.

[sclyfes1212]

Yep o'l nocturne no. 8 ^^

[sayaendo1016e]

同曲の演奏のなかで、音の美しさとロマンを讃えた情感の点で最高­だと思います。

ショパンも絶賛したかもしれません。

郎朗の実力が窺えます。

顔は、変だけど。。。

[Anonymous71688]

This is the nocturne in Db lol

[shadecross]

youre right

[TheAtma]

Richter hated planning concerts years in advance, and in later years took to playing at very short notice in small, most often darkened halls, with only a small lamp lighting the score. Richter claimed that this setting helped the audience focus on the music being performed, rather than on extraneous and irrelevant matters such as the performer's grimaces and gestures.

- Wikipedia

[Focoist911]

there is alot of that, and as a child no doubt why I grimaced away from all of you. Its cycnical community around it all. But I do believe there is so much concentration to accomplish it that the performer is nowhere but standing right beside Chopin or who ever else you have learnt to love.

[bevster1]

Does anyone know of any asian composers of classical music, or is it all europeans? Composers that are in, or close to, composers like Chopin and Rachmaninov etc. I'm not trying to make a point, I would just really love to hear their stuff if there are any, at the moment I only know of european and some american classical composers.

[marciareginabalbo]

É impressionante, o rosto dele mostra um extremo prazer ao tocar...uma incrivel paixão.

O músico, o instrumento e a música transformam-se em só um...ele não mostra aquele rosto sério compenetrado, e sim, uma expressão de alegria,amo ver os vídeos dele, obrigada!

[Chapa7ld]

Its actually in Db Major.

[beelizst]

Bravo! Lang lang, I love the emotion and colors you put into playing this music, I'm learning this piece right now, after I just got done w/ Chopin Noct. 9-2 and Revolutionary Etude. Thanks xj808 for posting this, it's very inspiring and awesome performance

[artymowycz]

its as if he cheats at playing the piano. brilliant dynamics and technique.

[freddy12345678]

This is a Chopin Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2

[muziqueonmymind]

Why does it say C? i was excited because i would think its hard to write a nocturne in C.. MAybe minor the closest chopin in C i heard was actually in Am which was the waltz...

[matthew1722]

He wrote two etudes and a prelude in C major, so I imagine it would have been easy for Chopin to write a nocturne in C if he had wished.

[degreplayspiano]

Chopin actually wrote a nocturne in c minor that is one of the best...i don't understand why it should be strange to write a nocturne in that key...

[matthew1722]

I know, it's one of my favorites. I don't think

muziqueonmymind has the slightest idea what he is commenting about when it comes to Chopin's works.

[degreplayspiano]

Ahahah I think you're right! :-) Yes, that nocturne is also one of my favourite. Here in you tube there is an excellent version of it by valentina igoshina

[Achtelnote]

nocturne in c is wrong.d flat major.

[Anonymous71688]

haha the title says C, the description says D, close, but no cigar lol.

[MemoryofLightwaves]

Lol I love his positioning and stance. The intense feeling that he has for the music. It's like he's floating and it goes great with the music =]

[dblueroom]

well he's not playing nocturne op. 9 no. 2, so I cant compare him to yundi li directly. nevertheless, this is also very beautiful piece.

[gaferpiano]

me too love Lang Lang, is the best!

[Coque019]

Vaya esta es la opus 27 nº 2.

[pejkr]

lang lang is really master of sense, look onto his face. no, i´m just joking, he´s very good

[kinpopdj]

Once again, not in C, but in Db.

[veraluciaferrariabud]

wonderfull, just wonderfull! no more words to describe! He just made me cry!

[ggrey]

this isn't nocturne C :-(

[zimant78]

his top is rather plain for a big concert?? i like when he gets all intonation super dramatic like it's a victorian kinda family soap opera. good damatic stuff

[usodstallion]

I love Lang Lang.

[theangel154]

carnegie hall, not holl

[capetond]

that nocturne is not in C, is in Db

[kinpopdj]

I don't know why anybody would give you a thumbs down, because you are right!

[willistara]

I love Lang Lang

[stevey226]

Is this played right after he played 'Horseracing' with his dad? If you watch the end of 'Horseracing' and the beginning of this it matches up, I think.

[alliax]

Not it doesn't match up. Notice how the audience is already leaving in horseracing and is all sit up on this video. Not the same moment.

[stevey226]

Oh, cool. Thank you :)

[s2babyy]

omg the place is so gorgeous. and yea this is op 27 no. 2 Db major

[showylee1980]

i say chopin was very,very feminine,too. lol thanks for the vid.

[hiercomesthesun]

very, very feminine.

[HUNTPIECENIGGA]

i agree

[iowntheclough]

divine, no wonder he is he highest paid pianist in the world, gorgeous. thanks lang lang, pure talent xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[musicauxmoi]

Lang Lang plays this piece like a perfectly oaked chardonnay. it's wonderful

[Hiddejan]

sorry to say, but its not the nocturne in c and its also not D760. He also plays WANDERFANTASIE IN C D760 by Schubert. This nocturne is op.27 no.2 and not in C.. Compliments to Lang for this beautiful interpretation!