Yundi Li Plays Franz Liszt, Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major.mp4

[pianonger]

You can find the most pointless arguments on classical music in YouTube.

[lisa8503311]

Talk about amazing pianist....

[0515stan]

@ch252525 "those who clapped between movements are morons"

By no means is this true! This concert was done in Beijing, China. It is entirely possible that Chinese protocols for a classical concert are quite different from those in the western world. They responded to the performance like Chinese, not Americans. Indeed, it is possible that the average Chinese person has a deeper understanding of, and a deeper appreciation for, classical music than does the average American.

[lefkada88]

i just had a massive musical orgasm! he performed is perfectly !

[bprimorc]

At some parts tempo could be a little slower. Despite that still great performance!

[bh1520]

last week i went for the stephen hough's liszt concerto no1.but i felt yundi is better....

[demianxss]

Marvelous! and jessicapun97 Shut up you bitch whore troll. "Hitting the piano too hard" - lol get the fuck out of here. Liszt is meant to be played fraught with emotion and passion. I find it hard to believe you "know good music" because it is obvious you don't know Liszt.

[wonphi]

@Jessicapun97 you don't have to be an editor of this or that, but fact is, you have much to learn according to what you present to me. It is b/c music is important to me that I won't allow any one ignorant to just come in & mark some1's work as incompetent when its not the case. Again, like I said, being at your age & experience shows lack there of. You don't seem like you want to learn, you just seem like you think you know all of it. You may not want to offend, but your ignorance has already.

[wonphi]

@Jessicapun97 And don't forget, this is a LIVE performance, the recordings you hear on your Ipod or other recordings on youtube are recordings for records, CD's & etc. They don't allow those to have any mistakes and keep recording and redoing until it's perfect. Live performances you will hear mistakes even from the most renowned pianists of the old, the sound quality of recordings are also recorded at a MUCH higher quality than this video, which this video is via web stream.

[wonphi]

@Jessicapun97 As well, since this is a concerto, the main drive of the tempo of the music is through the conductor, different conductors have different ways of pushing their musicians into shaping the concerto to what they feel it should be. Of course people will have different opinions of ALL music around the world, the world is made of different opinions anyway. but it is disrespectful to just go to a video and downplay on anyone's efforts or a collective group effort.

[wonphi]

@Jessicapun97 It's no different than saying to a girl "no offense, but in my opinion you are kind of ugly, I've seen better looking girls than you, & I know what a good looking girl should look like. But no disrespect."

That's essentially what you're doing, but alas, we all know about the quote "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." & that goes with music as well, to the ears of the beholder.

I hope you understand, that is what I mean by you are still young & Naive. I've been there done that.

[wonphi]

@Jessicapun97 Hearing from you, you sound still very immature and inexperienced in terms of being able to critique what a good pianist is. I think you will learn in time. You are still very young.

[wonphi]

@Jessicapun97 the fact is that people who come to music performances just to listen to and point out wrong notes, is not getting what music is about. Anybody can play a piece and hit all the right notes and perform it horribly, but that isn't what music is about, the expression of the human art.

There were hardly any wrong notes, and even if there were (which there isn't), it doesn't take away from the artists expression and energy portrayed into the music.

[Jessicapun97]

*No offences to anyone*

Many wrong notes, and it's too many

And this is the fact:(

[jaywbe]

why is the orchestra a load of gobshite?

i love yundi li, and he deserved a lot better. bravo on his part anyway, as per usual.

[DellDreamer]

I like this performance. It seems to me that Yundi needs to go beyond Chopin repertoire. I guess perhaps the record company has too much say about what he can play in public and "type-set" yundi to be a Chopin player, which I believe is unfair.

[plvsbpb]

I see comments in all sorts of things about how rude it is to clap between movements, but honestly, performers never mind. Unless it were between mvts. 2 and 3 of Beethoven 4th concerto. And in the liszt especially, its actually kind of fitting. Fantastic performance, anyways.

[wclmyy]

I saw Langlang playing this piece with CSO two months ago at Ravinia, haha. It's also fantastic.

[cdq68jgr]

This version shows more details of Yundi's hand technique which is wonderful. Yundi felt more comfortable in his homeland and played better.

[cdq68jgr]

@ch252525 They did not clap between movements, but clapped at the begining and the end. This is a short , 18 min. concerto.

[concerto35]

@ch252525 I wonder why people do that? They should know better.

[enecee13]

somehow funny.. he plays it like chopin. still amazing though

[cloudy10071]

Yundi's fingers touching on keybord is so artistic!!! Fascinate!!!

Not to mention, his performance is always deeply impressed me.

Love Yundi!!!

Thank you again, wonphi.

[wonphi]

@cloudy10071 :)

[chopin0123]

Yundi is so great, but the orchestra ... it's completely different level between he and the orche unfortunately.

[osmsm]

w00t. fantastic performance!

[dopeywonder]

this is awesome