Ching-Yun Hu plays Ligeti Etude No. 10, "Der Zauberlehrling

[duckisfaction]

It's pianissimo, but obviously she cants play. Automaton. And stupid.

[59ell]

It`s beautiful/////

[emptied10]

if you held the dampener open a tad more it would have a better effect

[MrVeronica1663]

excellent

[yashamaruism]

this some is awesome to pick up girls with

[zimnomel]

O_________O

I'm speechless.

[fakkmorradi]

PIANO AUTOMATON

[astroboomboy]

Bra!

[universoeterno1]

OH MAN! GO GIRL! THIS IS NOT OF THIS WORLD! THANK FOR POSTING IT. WOW!

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

That was incredible

[AEFic]

Very graceful. Proof that more modern, 'experimental' compositions can be played with as much feeling as Chopin or the other romantic greats.

[Khailand]

Unbelievable focus and balance. Nice work.

[Holbeinisscheisse]

is she chinese? her name is translated incorrectly I believe.. if she was chinese, her correct 'english' name would be hu jing yun

[mimibao1009]

@Holbeinisscheisse

She comes from Taiwan.

Her name is translated correctly because the translation in Taiwan is different than China.

You can see her Facebook.

[zachrhea1]

Now THAT is an ending.

[Snuds05]

mui bean

[wnaenni]

Fantastisch!!

[OktoPlasm]

I think she missed the 15 va in the middle of the piece... hehe

[MrLovre]

@OktoPlasm I can't believe what had she done, and how. At 1:04 it's supposed to be played 15ma higher, and after some time just an 8va higher. But she plays both parts in the same octave, so she had to switch to the upper octave later (both hands) =) She wanted to be individual, perhaps.

[arneperschel]

@MrLovre

In another version on YouTube, Anna Shelest makes the same mistake. Maybe they have a bad edition and didn't figure out the obvious flaw. Who are their teachers? Seriously. These people play in the world's top competitions...

[rathuanyatzi]

that was a hot mess i just apricciate this type of music i like classical not torture! it sounds like a really pissed off swarm of bees! LOL!

[benny82ta]

Wei vedi che hai sbagliato ottava verso la parte centrale!

[Triviumisi]

BRAVO!

[ColtonBrook]

@Triviumisi BRAVI :)

[hanstime]

awesome

[NocivaProject]

fantastic

[andorebajo]

Amazing,

I think when you can enter the trance-wolrd of ligeti then the interpretation is excelent

[kevinm4435]

stop arguing, yall

[yuichituba]

She is absolutely amazing. I think I may prefer this performance over Fredrik Ullen's recording, as amazing as he is.

[pollottoliere]

bravissima cioè incredibile

[seanmcmills]

This is my latest favorite composition. I'm looking into purchasing the sheet music, but loathe adding the fingering.

[Hapathy]

I could watch this without sound. The way her hands move is beautiful.

[BachRocks314]

So true. It's wonderful.

[Feeling0od]

cette chanson c'est du vrai n'importe quoi..-_- ms bon elle a l'air de maitrisé qd mm ;)

[becomepostal]

Ceci n'est pas une "chanson". Apprend à écrire correctement avant de dire de pareilles idioties.

[IViolentiAmorosi]

troppo forte !!! Ligeti è troppo forte

[BlueCougar]

Sounds too much like Debussy.

[TouchingYou]

I think this composition is a conceptual mess.

And too academic.

I like some of his other stuff but this piece is almost all wrong to my ears and eyes.

Too cliche in many ways.

Are there any pianists who avoid more cliches in etudes or such?

I'm looking for classical composers who sound like they never heard OTHER classical music, and Harry Partch doesn't do it for me.

(While some Debussy STILL sounds like it's from tomorrow, in my taste.)

[becomepostal]

You're right about Debussy.

[cruzlee]

You don't want that, just like you wouldn't want to drive a car built by someone who has never seen one. There has been progress in music.

But I think I know what you mean and the answer is jazz. The vast majority of great compositional talent is in jazz nowadays.

[TouchingYou]

Music is an ART form.

it is the precise OPPOSITE of building a car, so your analogy doesn't fit.

ALL musicians are chained down by the past and for the most part, that is NOT healthy for anyone.

In fact, it's killing music.

99% of jazz is also just imitations of the past.

I like "avant-garde" anything, as long as they eschew CLICHES, b/c even most of the "greats" traffic in cliches and I don't understand why more artists don't HATE cliches.

[BachRocks314]

How ironic because I find you to be a conceptual mess.

[TouchingYou]

Is your post to ME?

B/c even my enemies say I'm a conceptual genius.

I have many flaws, but you just called Mount Everest the LOWEST point on earth.

[TaylorTot9000]

hahaha

[SmallRubberFeet]

Don't feed the conceptual geniuses.

[nalcow]

@TouchingYou yawn.

[nalcow]

@TouchingYou - Music is just to let yourself go and let the spirit do the music. Dont let your mind interfere in the playing.

[andreybeci]

amazing, music and performance

[joaoferreira86]

Can any one explain me why does she and Anna Shelest plays one octave lower in mesure 66? Is there another edition or what?

[ornleifs]

Ligeti is always great and this performance has real fire in it, very good indeed.

[lovesGenet]

Aimard indeed is wonderful.Idil Biret takes them at slower paces but has a wonderful varity of sound.Banfeild - sorry to say doeesn't really have the technique, I've been fascin with Ligeti for a while. cant get 1st etude accents .How can so many play thi s ferocious difficult and contemporary music. Smart adept minds.Really well played here.!

[musthatedogs]

Ligeti was the greatest composer post 1945. He also is the only composer able to make the audience break out in laughter with pure music. (see string quartet 1) Not even Beethoven could do that.

[artemon124]

very nice!

[3cplantin]

The "statue" happens to be quite busy and doesn't have time to move around ala Lang Lang.

[sebastian181812]

just listen it with Aimard.

[ctdjazz]

No one does it quite like Ligeti.

Great performance.

[lupinebeast]

wow! phenomenal fingerwork. does she do Autumn in Warzawa too?

[FrankenBosey]

Excellent performance. This one goes in my favorites. -f

[stumbitonghi]

l'esecuzione più espressiva che abbia mai sentito

[meandmymustard]

you are absolutely beautiful

[LackingLack0]

wow that was motafuka awesome

[deliousluna]

*bravo-clap clap)

Belicimo!

[areversis]

virtuozu!

[laneharder]

phenomenal.

[xtabay1980]

very nice perfomance!!! imagine that this etude is one of the easiest in the whole set!! check n 13 n14 and n9

[rceretta]

In a certain way...

But it sure is music. Amazing, so to say.

[MrLovre]

Awesome.

[Denesmanzo]

in 1:05, she did'in play a octave higer,like in the score.... any way she play amazing!

[flashdoom]

ok,who bet she played at least 1 tone by mistake?

[elmusishian]

that was for airy52 :-/

[mikrokosmik]

The way she does those last notes gives me chills every time i listen to this performance. I wish she wasn't playing this on a Yamaha piano.

[pfbinh]

PLease, does anyone have the score for this piece?? I need to get it!!!

[nemost01]

you can easily find it on e-mule.

[pfbinh]

yeah, im gonna try that. thanks

[SaxyBoy91]

i wanna see the sheet music for this becuase it must be completely covered in black

[AlwaysReading2]

Amazing...thank you!

[airy52]

if i just wrote a bunnch of random notes, it would be hard for her to learn it, and she probably would in the end. but it would still be shit. i hate how people pretend to appreciate this or trick themselvfes into appreciating it when its total shit, just a bunch of bad noise mixed together. if it doesnt make you move you shouldnt like it that much.

[naitsirkeprahs]

Not all music is there to make you move....!

How about opening your mind...you don't have to like it if you don't want to.... but try and put it into context with everything else you hear!

[naitsirkeprahs]

The right moments in a film would make total sense of this piece,

And further more, classical appreciators can and do actually listen to music with a finer ear than that of the culture who simply 'move' to the music. I actually think that's daft myself....goodness, all that hard work and people just jump around to it, back to you four to the floor's mate.

[naitsirkeprahs]

We'll continue with our sophisticated appreciation for quality musicianship....you just listen to a bunch of samples being churned out by a computer....

move robot... MOVE!

[TsanGwanWai]

Dude, you really are making an effort to be funny arn't you? and I doubt anyone cares about sophisticated appreciation for quality of music shit, as long as we like what we hear, we can live happy lives. So just go away and find something to do when your aged 33.

[naitsirkeprahs]

TsanGwanWai, can I just ask what the hell you're doing knocking people who are into listening to sophisticated music on a thread entitled "Ching-Yun Hu plays Ligeti Etude No. 10, "Der Zauberlehrling"?

Let's face it, you're here to insult rather than expand that cranial pea of yours...

When you're '3' ...perhaps you could find something to do too.... maybe go from potty to toilet?

Ohh, and erm ...thanks for the compliment about my age....very flattered....not sure where you got that from..?

[TsanGwanWai]

Well according to your profile your aged 33, and quit it with your 'Trying to be funny' quotes. It's kinda boring in this Era. I'm not insulting anyone, just you. I didn't say i don't like this music, Infact i think it takes alot of skill to play this piece and you're just misunderstanding me. You're really obssessed with listening to sophisticated music aren't you? I'm wayy past the age of three, People like you need to check out other people's profiles and read what age they are.

[naitsirkeprahs]

TsanGwanWai, People have checked out your profile mate, Can I borrow your face for a few days? My ass is going on holiday!

[TsanGwanWai]

trying to be funny again? Doesn't work. Well I'm bored with replying to your crappy 'wanting to be funny' messages. so grow a bit more and develop better jokes. Later.

[naitsirkeprahs]

Ok, you win.... :-( I'm not funny.... I'm gonna take my unfunnyness elsewhere ...sniff, I would have liked to see things from your point of view.... but I can't seem to get my head that far up my ass! Mowah ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa!

[TsanGwanWai]

lol. good try.

[naitsirkeprahs]

heh heh...last word etc..etc.. lol!

All the best...

ere? can you hear piano?

[TsanGwanWai]

Since when did I say i didn't like it, I was just saying to Kingofnothing87 that he should try playing it cos he thought it was a mess. You don't have to butt into my concerns.

[elmusishian]

so you think people shouldn't like music that doesn't make you move?? just go back to your hip hop dude...

[Sveccha93]

@airy52 I understand this comment is 3 years old. I have to say though...every modernist composition featured on youtube has trolls like you, and you are embarrassing yourselves. I imagine this is what happens: 1) you are disgusted/repulsed by what you hear 2) you can't imagine liking it 3) you assume people who like it are posturing 4) you proceed to call them out with righteous indignation. It's a recipe for narcissism. You and your kind are unthinking cunts with clearly immature ideas.

[Chateaubriand26]

@Sveccha93 N'importe quoi ! Cela voudrait dire que 3/4 des compositeurs étaient immatures, puisqu'ils passaient leur temps à s'étriper pour des histoires de délit culturel et d'indigence musicale!

Bien, vous êtes bien le reflet du monde dans lequel nous vivons ; dès que quelque chose subit la critique, on prends des grands airs et on crie à l'intolérance et à l'immaturité. Mais c'est sur qu'il faut être détraqué pour appeler cela de la musique.

[Sveccha93]

@Chateaubriand26 Trois quarts de n'importe quoi c'est de la merde - tout le monde sait celà! En plus, le mot détraqué, quoiqu'il soit offensif, ne forme aucune définition de la musique ni répond à théorie décrite ci-dessus de manière honnête. Ton commentaire ne fait que réinforcer ma thèse! Tu tâches seulement d'injurier. I'm not saying that polytonalism/experimentation are the ONLY valid forms of music. I'm complaining that people who decry it are not thinking it through. I must insist here!

[Chateaubriand26]

@Sveccha93 Personnellement je l'ai écouté comme une étude, c'est l'intitulé me semble t'il. Il faut de la technique pour pouvoir jouer cette partition, mais je crois que ce n'est vraiment qu'un exercice technique. J'ai peut être exagéré en disant que les amateurs de ce genre de pièces étaient des détraqués, je m'en excuse. Il n'en reste pas moins que je trouve votre analyse de la chose assez méprisante pour ceux qui considèrent que la musique post-dodécaphoniste n'est pas au sommet de l'art.

[Sveccha93]

@Chateaubriand26 D'accord et moi je m'excuse aussi d'avoir été si sévère. Je ne répondais toutefois à un avis aussi cultivé que le vôtre mais à quelqu'un qui s'exprimait de façon ignorante pour, il me semble, remuer la merde et apaiser son égo. Cependant je trouve que dire qu'un effort artistique quelconque n'appartient même pas au domaine de la musique où ne mérite pas de respect n'est pas juste dans pas mal de cas. Et pourtant il y a, bien sûr, beaucoup d'imposture dans l'art moderne.

[Chateaubriand26]

@Sveccha93 Imposture ou non, on a tous nos théories en questions musicales. Je n'ai rien contre la dissonance, au contraire, Liszt, Ravel ou encore Strauss nous ont bien montré que les résultats peuvent être sublimes. Je ne vois simplement pas l'intérêt de la dissonance "pure-jus". Je ne peux pas l’apprécier que lorsqu'elle est au service de l'harmonie, dans les gammes chromatiques par exemple. D'autres dirons que tout est possible et que tout marche. Comme je disais, les théories varient.

[pushdontpull1]

didnt listen, too many notes

[kingofnothin87]

That just sounded like a complete mess, as technical as it was it lacked any emotion and was equivalent to shredding on the guitar.....pointless

[naitsirkeprahs]

Pointless to you maybe? what, all music YOU don't understand is pointless....?

please, open your mind a little further... you don't find it fascinating that she could play the whole piece again exactly the same?

Did you want your chaos to have order?

Flight of the bumble bee?

[KrolikPWR]

For me its completely "random" and automatic. No melody and emotion. I can do the same with typing letters on keyboard.

[pelodelperro]

No, you can't.

[TsanGwanWai]

why won't you try doing it?

[naitsirkeprahs]

I'm afraid you're simply not a sophisticated enough listener to this 'form' of music.

that's not an insult... I'm not saying you're 'not sophisticated', but from my own classical experiences.... one does tend to start out just hearing a lot of notes...

Then it hits you as you listen to it more and more...

people these days just think music's easy....and it should be downloadable free!

[naitsirkeprahs]

There's a general lack of appreciation for the finer aspects of music.... and they are normally only enjoyed by people who actually care about who's composed it, who played the retitle, where it was played, when, on what...and how long etc...

rather than the normal, "Well I got it off the internet, it's on my phone...and that's that"

It IS a crazy piece... but if you understand how much time and effort it took to learn and play, you'd also understand that a musician can learn to assimilate no?

[TsanGwanWai]

erm....yes.

[naitsirkeprahs]

Did the piano ask you something?

[TsanGwanWai]

is that supposed to be funny? Your lack of sense of humour doesn't suit this place.

[naitsirkeprahs]

You don't seem to have a sense of humour dude.... is that why you need me to have one while we're here?

[naitsirkeprahs]

hear those funny little gay notes at the top..... that's you that is!

[TsanGwanWai]

...dude, attend some classes to increase your jokes. I'm a bit distraught to see you trying to be funny.

[naitsirkeprahs]

Classes, no, not a chance... you'd be there!

[TsanGwanWai]

Why do you seem to sense that I have no sense of humour? I haven't tried to say anything funny and I don't intend to. You can't tell if a person has a sense of humour unless you have actually talked to them. We are talking much you know, We are just replying you dick.

[emptymiror]

immature..................haha­aahaaaaaaa.......obvious things are meaningless

[TsanGwanWai]

lol, I s'pose

[pelodelperro]

Ignorance is bliss.

[AHN5D]

Very nicely played! WOW!!! Love ya Ching-Yon Hu. Liked your posture and everything.

[comic000]

she just made into the top 3 of the Arthur Rubinstein competition. Final round is this Thursday.

[nemost01]

i'm studying this étude.

great interpretation, but she didn't do the 'allargando' part. it would be more dramatic with a little pedal, like fred ullen did. and im doing too. =)

thanks for postin this video.

[20Regards]

Vey impressive, and nice to look at, beccause no "chi-chi", all concentrates on the work & not on the ego of the performer... Total concentration , ... an example of serving the music

[guboub]

Hey, good job! I really like your interpretation. Thanks!