Liszt Sonata in B Minor - Yundi Li / 李雲迪 (4of4)

[darkkerrigan]

Each time I come back to listen to this, makes me smile from ear to ear each time without fail =D Wonderful passion and wonderful interpretation from an amazing pianist! All these people caught up on a few wrong notes....lets see you try to play this live and have no mistakes whatsoever! *sigh* Just learn to enjoy the music rather than look for a persons mistakes!

[osmsm]

where can I download this? best version of this sonata imo

[GerritsHenry]

the coughing @10.01 unbelievable ! ..... if you do that at such a sensitive dramatic moment in the piece you should not be sitting there !!!!

[xBleach4Eva]

Sometimes this piece kinda sounds out of tune ... ( sometimes at the beginning )

[X3nion]

The very very deep B he plays at 3:06 gives me the chills every time I listen to this sonata! That note here is one octave deeper than in the original, however it's a perfect sign for the Grandioso motive to start!

Yundi Li intentionally takes the furious and dramatic part, that he plays before, into the Grandioso by playing this particular deep B as an end of the connection between the furious part and the Grandioso.

It's great how he can so keep the drama of the music and cause goosebumps! :-)

[alsa005]

Brahms fell asleep while Liszt was playing this for the first time xD

[darrenabcd1]

Maybe Franz Liszt occupied his soul.

[darrenabcd1]

This is unbelievable, memorized each note?! Such a long performance! Best interpretation ever! Marvelous!

[jgrab1]

@darrenabcd1 Yes, they all memorize each note. Best interpretation ever? You've heard them all since the sonata was written? How old are you? Just curious.

[lajtnga]

@jgrab1 I agree with you. No one heard all pianists playing that sonate.

I think it is greatest recording I've ever heard, but at the same time, there is so much of things in sonata that could be expressed more nicely and could line some parts better together.

I'm trying to do that, but it takes time : )

[davidmirth]

@jgrab1 I'd say, that the best interpretation of this sonata was, when it was played by angry Liszt when Brahms had already fallen asleep :-D

[infozas]

Very powerful, vibrating and intense interpretation! Bravo!!

[littleasshole26]

Wow?!Wow!?Wow!!Wow!!!WOWWWW!!!­

[osmsm]

love to build up from about 4:50 to 6:30

[fledgehog]

10:12 made me start crying...like not just a couple teardrops....legit crying...

[lhrmeonom]

@fledgehog is it like "sob.... " or "MUAAAAAAAAAAAA *waterfall"

[rxtkp]

テンポがバラバラ。

[Lexaander90]

The public didn't dare to applause... I am mesmerished... that it means to be an artist of international level and not a playing machine... how many musician could do that? Yindi Li beetween the Gods...

[9b8]

Did anyone "get" his expressions? At the end, the expression of exhaustion? It is as if it is Liszt himself performing it back in the day...exhausted after pouring out everything into his performance for the crowd. What you saw here is Yundi Li reliving that experience literally and absolutely. Impeccable.

[abcedmond]

5:42 is awesome... and 6:04 is also very nice

[NuovoCurioso]

Grande Liszt..Grande Yundi Li ...grande anche il gran coda Steinway & Sons...

[MrNavarra94]

veramente un capolavoro... grazie a liszt e a yundi li. :)

[pianotalent]

oh MY!!!!!! Even one note was wrong, still oh MY!!!!

[perezlince]

excepcional interpretacion.

[ykpatr]

Bardzo Pięknie 5*****

[rdsabd]

I'm left speechless. Thanks Yundi for Liszt!

[lurgidbee]

One feels as if this piece asks of the concert grand piano to go beyond it's full powers of expression as an instrument.

[richclayderman]

oen of the best renditions ever

[tigertolyy]

Best pianist ever. Almost completely flawless. If not flawless. This is the best that this sonata has ever been, or ever will be played.

[NodameSpecial]

He make alot of mistakes? is messy but i dont really care i just love his emotion. Wow i look at the score wow i would make a hell lots of more mistake Lol

[chenyg1119]

Yundi Li is undoubtedly a godlike, magical master!!!

[hhyuen2785]

marvelous!

[madlovba2]

OMG... I'm speechless... this playing includes everything... technique, passion, emotion, structure, power... This is the best performace of this piece, no question.

[sadromantique]

wooooooooow!!!!!!!!!!! his tone at 10:00. he makes those high chords ring like bells =D =D how i wish i owned a steinway like that =p he could probably make my piano sound like that though

[NodameSpecial]

@sadromantique You just have to get use to your piano and control the sound well =)

[prokofievace1979]

Amazing, what energy!

[michaelkam]

DAM GOOD!

[gerardbedecarter]

Wonderful !!!!!

[superstarduc]

i have this DVD Yundi Li

[darkkerrigan]

Some people knock this performance saying that it isn't musical enough, but I feel he has such a tremendous passion and wonderful energy for this Finale. Suits this masterwork very well!

[darkkerrigan]

DAMN! He OWNES that piano! I can't get enough of this video <3

[darkkerrigan]

I get so sick and tired of snobs pointing out his wrong notes...this is an INCREDIBLE performance and he has the perfect energy for this work! A pianist with the skill and musicality to play this masterwork!

[blogAL526]

yeah you are right

Yundi Li real do a fantastic performance

on this , I still can't understand why this mv only 4.5 points....I think he deserve 5 points of course

[blogAL526]

神乎奇技李雲迪 名符其實鋼琴王子...

[coffemuse]

*cough cough* why can't the audience shut up??

[blogAL526]

I can't understand why such fantastic music only 4.5 points , of course I give him 5 points

[Laban54]

If an amateur was playin everybody would give him 5.. just look at other videos at youtube.. But when the best of the best is playing they really love to criticize.. even though this is far better than anyone could ever play it.

[Cattytea]

I like the Sonata from his CD, but this is the first time i watch him playing this piece. Thanks for sharing.

His hands are amazing starting 5:52

[partitasa89]

Love it!!! Energetic and exciting!!! Bravo!

[degreplayspiano]

Master-piece and master-pianist...nothing to say. Just listen and...enjoy! And also many many thanks to who posted this video

[Jamespianista]

it´s a DVD, i´ve got it.

he plays the 4 chopin´s scherzos,a nocturne, this sonata, and more thing´s

is very interesting, you can buy it if you want, i recomended it to yo

[darkkerrigan]

Can you tell me the exact name of the DVD? I would really like to purchase it. It would make a wonderful addition to my collection! Thanks

[Jamespianista]

yes, it´s

Yundi Li

Chopin/Liszt

Live in concert.

[vincentws03]

some dummy said it was a part of the video collection of the Chopin competition ^/^

[Jamespianista]

I don´t know

maybe

[bellstretcher]

duetche grammaphone [spelling is close] recorded all of his CDs & DVDs. they have a website.

[nedolem]

its a greatest sonata and Yundi Li percect,thnx Yundi

[AHN5D]

This is a phenomenal performance.

[AHN5D]

Loved somewhat longer pause and following rich bass on 7:05

[Fantasie0643]

I love Yundi Li play this peice! 

he is a real pianist!

[darkkerrigan]

I actually love this performance - it is full of passion and the energy that is needed for this grand work. I agree he could be a bit more musical in some areas, but I still love it.

[jickypicky]

wow....XDDDDD i can only do that if i speed up my piano videos lol.

[pinkshroud]

amazing... but fazil say's version is better than this..

[Klinkibergi]

no applaus? xD

[ayuprnkcller]

Silence at the end of a great work is the best part. It is the moment where time freezes and a moment of absolute beauty reveals itself.

[stegben]

I agree with Corleone1337 .

If you had heard his record of this piece

you must be touched more!

[randomguy10]

i find this performance lyrical + beautiful - esp. his touches at the softer sections of the piece - while retaining the necessary flair and excitement for a Liszt piece. Yundi Li excels at this kind of 'late' Liszt or Chopin pieces which contain so much poetic contents, because he got both the 'hard' virtuoso skills + 'soft' touches. Don't think it carries too much emotions or spiritual inspirations but don't worry they will come when reaches 50 years old

[Corleone1337]

I can hardly believe I'm saying this, but I really hate this interpretation. Yundi Li is probably my favourite pianists, but I find this performance rather bad. It sounds so... mechanical. I even prefer my own amazingly flawed playing over this. Hopefully Yundi Li will not become a robot pianists, because only a couple of years ago he was amazing enough to win the Chopin competition.

Alexei Grynyuk's performance is the best one I've heard of this masterpiece, but I doubt that others will agree.

[darkkerrigan]

I know exactly what you mean. Murray Perahia is one of my favorite pianists and as he has gotten older, his recordings are more mechanical and robotic than his recordings from when he was yougner. It is a shame to see such amazing pianists becaome robotic. Maybe it happens after the hundreds of recitals? lol /shrug

[AHNharmony]

Piu Mosso(2:06)--This is a pre climax and Yundi's way of bringing that tricky climax(because the real climax happens later)is amazing!

[antony59370]

I prefer Valentina Lisitsa's emotion in music but yundi ly have a good technic too :)

The lisitsa's version is so different...:)

[TheGreatPerahia]

They are already flooding the market with their cheap inferior, products worldwide undermining and undercutting other nations far better quality goods we don't really want that to extend to churning out production line pianists that have no uniqueness or individuality that sound like every other one. At the moment we have a few that are good including Yundi Li, If someone has something unique about them, they deserve to succeed,leave mass marketism to the pretentious pop world.

[eggplant1994]

lol youtube arguments....

its like tetris.... no one wins, and even if you do, no one cares

[Liujiashu]

Although there is something wrong at 1:48,I think it's a wonderful job,even compared with Shura Cherkassky or Martha Argerich.

[ohvg61]

completely mechanical interpretation of Liszt Sonata, without any vision or imagination. Listen to Bolet version, you will know what i mean...

[albertzhang2008]

love horowitz most

[ohvg61]

why does this get voted thumb down? he only said, he likes Horowitz most, what's wrong with that?

[TheGreatPerahia]

no thanks, just eaten, and I never do it on a full stomach!!.

[AngelinaTaylor]

I can't wait to see what he's gonna sound like in 8-10 years.

[ohvg61]

i think in 8-10 years he's gonna be disappeared, because new chinese robots are going to win competitions and degrade the spirit of great piano playing...

[TheGreatPerahia]

Its a negative point, but a valid one. What we don't want is China flooding the classical world with masses of pianists(millions learning at the moment) that are no different to any other. Even Lang Lang has highlighted the point that the education is not anywhere the standard of Western music education and he even went out to the USA to further his education. We don't want an overcrowded mass market that exists in pop music because it will destroy classical music's unique position in the arts

[ohvg61]

but it's too late, this is already happening

[TheGreatPerahia]

What is anysent? Anyway to clarify, Why is it when someone who has an opinion that someone doesn't agree with they automatically assume them to be racist?. Quite frankly it is becoming tiresome and boring to hear this constantly.Nowhere in the dictionary does it state you are racist if you "don't agree with cheap,inferior products or pianists flooding the market".The definition is someone who is against someones race,colour or religion of which I am clearly not as I have good ethnic friends.

[TheGreatPerahia]

Also where ever we are subjected to cheap inferior goods or pianists or whatever it wouldnt be acceptable,if it was in the UK would still be a valid point,Dont confuse differences of opinion with racism.The two are completely different and as I said I admire Yundi Li's talents or anyone who has genuine unique ability,so I couldnt be further from what you are insinuating but I am not offended by your comments, I could take your view of me as racist because you disagree with me but I choose not to

[ohvg61]

watch your language, buddy. You don't understand it is not about racism, but about tradition of great pianism we try to save. we can have conversation any time about pianists, but not at this level

[TheGreatPerahia]

ohvg61 you make a valid point, racism is the new power over free speech and it is being mis-used to destroy anyone's right to disgree with someones point of view. Is it anymore racist for say a non-white person to inflict racial abuse than a white person inflicting it? No of course not, it is not acceptable from any culture towards another.Freedom to have a different view point is however acceptable and should not be confused with racism which at it's core is a form of fascism which I'm against

[bastianloewe]

he is absolutely impressive,

yundi li is going to give us some thing to talk abbout

[yenloo1209]

thx 4 sharing !

[jgrab1]

I disagree so much. The recording is textbook, but just that,textbook. Here he gives the work his stamp of personality, something missing on most of his studio recordings.

[aaabbbccc5]

young master

[jcasbell]

he leaves the audience silent at the end. brilliant

[jgrab1]

@jcasbell They all do. Kinda the point.

[tikihjruy]

this is good

[frelidae]

good stuff