I saw him last night at the bridge water hall playing chopins piano concerto, and it brought me to tears! And then even more so when I found out he was blind. Even though are blind pianists, like stevie wonder, they just don't compare! Because his technique is through the roof!!!! It was the best concert I've been to!
Does he feel he has to play fast all the time? Sure he has talent, but the music is very annoying and stressful, piano should relax the mind not make us mad. I do not enjoy this at all. Sorry just my opinion.
@peninsulamike Listen to him play La campanella and the Chopin Nocturne. He plays fast because that is what is required for a lot of the 12 Etudes Chopin composed. The first etude, which is supposed to sparkle and move rapidly, is hard to make sound relaxed without destroying the piece. Listen to the third etude, it is especially relaxed. And I disagree with your statement that piano should relax the mind, piano should enhance the mind, to see with our ears all the colours of music and emotion.
@peninsulamike ur opinion is bull crap. dont come here and give you opinion on shit u dont know about. my mother is a proffesor from the conservatory of russia and she said few pianists play with as much technique and emotion as this 23 year old! the piano is made for music not your bull shity opinion. go away
amazing. my mom is a proffesional piano proffesor and she played these pieces back in the russian conservatory. she gave her proffesional opinion that this man played it as well as it gets....and most likely practices 8 hours a day...the 29 dislikes are from people that really have to stop being jealous.
@ytbcomm, where's your video doing anything? Stay behind your computer eating chips and drinking soda and trying to have a life through the internet. So go watch your hairy guy videos you love so much...
@Mustardcrust4u. Maybe you should work out more instead of making crappy noise with your poor guitar. Or do you just like to humiliate yourself by showing off that kind of crap on the internet? maybe you should stay behind of your computer. Oh, that's what you've been doing... playing guitar in your tiny bed room lol
@ytbcomm, just gonna parrot what I say? Be origional. Like I said, wheres your video? I bet you're the type of person Brad Paisly is singing about in his song "Online"
@lhrmeonom I know I could be wrong cause I'm not experienced at judging, but it could be true that he needs to be less technical and more emotional. Anyway, etudes should be beautiful too, if they're performed they're no longer just for practicing skill, but for an audience to hear right?
@lhrmeonom You're still an idiot to hype someone PRACTICING fast. Weak!!! I can hear this same thing in a dozen piano classrooms in any city at any Highschool. Not impresive at all. I rather watch the 'great balls of fire' sence from Top Gun than this PRACTICING crap!!! Loser!!
Obviously after watching his crappy guitar playing videos, he has no idea on music or whatsoever... poor kid YOU go practice your crap before commenting on anything.
@melagads we can all 'see'. He has something truly special.. but I could not speak for him, of course. A very interesting question. I had the privledge to attend a master class with him. He is as humble as he is talented. He said that he stopped reading music by brail because it was too inhibitive and cumbersome. To think of the MILLIONS of notes this man has locked within his head is something out of this universe. Makes me proud to be human. I also know he is a man of faith!!!
This is truly wonderful, but I do not think that the rest of us should be ashamed. A gift is a gift, whatever it is, and only becomes worth something when it is worked on.. THAT is where shame might come in...
This Trancendent Virtuouso Genius-AMAZING! POETRY! Maestro Nobuyki Tsujii's sound world is so PERFECT! TOTALLY ORGANIC! Colors, Shapes, Textures and Sound weave in and out, but never out of context. He is genius personified!!!! BRAVO!!!! I can't wait for you to play Beethoven's "32"! I will be so there to enjoy the transcendent music making you give to the world!!!!!
This Trancendent Virtuouso Genius-AMAZING! POETRY! Maestro Nobuyki Tsujii's sound world is so PERFECT! TOTALLY ORGANIC! Colors, Shapes, Textures and Sound weave in and out, but never out of context. He is genius personified!!!! BRAVO!!!! I can't wait for you to play Beethoven's "32"! I will be so there to enjoy the transcendent music making you give to the world.
In my own opinion I believe that Chopin built these 12 studies to show the most basics of piano at its fully mastered level. Chromatic scales, arpeggios, co-ordination etc. And Nobuyuki has not only mastered and perfected these etudes but brought such life to them that it can not help but inspire. Bravo, Nobuyuki. Bravo. You have once again brought a tear to my eye :P
January 27-- This just in: Nobuyuki Tsujii will appear in New York City's Carnegie Hall in November 2011, in the Piano Virtuosos series of Carnegie's 2011-12 season.
This poor kid's teachers and parents should be taken to task for letting him develop such a lousy posture! They must have put so much into helping him develop his musicianship, so why didn't they occasionally touch him on the shoulder and tell him to straighten up?
Profit now and let him pay later?
His eccentric gestures are perfectly normal for a blind person, but his posture, which can only harm him in later life, is not.
@PhenylbutyricAcid If you watch other videos of his performances, you will see that Nobuyuki Tsujii does not always play like that, but some of these etudes (including the first) are so demanding that it takes all his strength and the awkward posture to play it.
@88alan8800 - you can read the answer on the "frequently asked question " page on my "nobufans" site. But here it is in summary. Nobu DOES NOT learn from listening to a recorded performance of the whole piece. He is pitch-perfect and can repeat any note or chords that he hears. To learn a piece: He has the notes on each hand recorded on separate cassette tapes with notations, and listen to each tape over and over again - then he synthesize the whole thing with his own interpretation.
He's not good at piano because hes blind. Hes good at piano because he works hard at it. Its amazing that he pursued piano with the great challenges of being blind! He's def. one of my favorite pianists of all times... I can't believe how large his repertoire is... it must have taken forever to learn where all the keys are and the distance & ect... especially large leaps
It was good seeing you in Fort Worth we had a good time hope you liked Boomer Jack's. Take care my friend and keep playing like The Greatest Ones cause you are one of them. God Bless you.
Just returned from his recital in California, on Oct. 18, 2010, and had the rare opportunity to listen in on his practices and to sit not more than 20' from him during performance, with full view of the keyboard. Seen close-up, Tsujii’s techniques are even more impressive. The fluidity of his fingering defies belief. But it doesn't come easy: he practiced >5 hours straight practically as soon as he got off the plane, and again until an hour before the show. Awe inspiring in so many ways.
<3 His performance always moves me...he is so gifted and so fortunate to have such great teachers. Thank you so much for posting & sharing this stunning music video*^o^* Brilliant☆ <3
Great! I hope you go to his concert. His concert schedule is another thing that's unbelievable about Nobu. He's touring all over thye U.S. this month (Oct. 2010), and then he goes back to Japan and has back-to-back concerts all month November. After that, off he goes to Europe: Italy, Serbia, England, Russia ...
Here's what Nobu supposedly said in an interview this month (10/2010): "I am memorizing music on tape which is recorded at some appropriate length by single hand, each with meticulous markings. At the same time, a voice recording about phrasing or articulation is included, so it is possible to choose edits,." Search "nobufans" for a website that has more on this topic.
This young man is the greatest natural pianist alive at the momment a true phenom a phenom in the Art Tatum sense of the word funny how both were and are blind those who dis his learning methods supposed need to mature as a musician cant say a damn thing about his natural gifts memory ears fingers or heart the last of which ill take over hamelins any day of the week like cliburn said an act of god thats a paraphrase
> so true. the classical world hates anything out of the norm and the elite. people normally make it as savants or as people who come from musically elite families
What probably further infuriates these people is that Nobuyuki’s CDs have been selling phenomenally, by classical music standard. His Cliburn gold medalist CD has sold over 100,000 copies, in a business where a life-time 10,000 copies sale is considered a success. I highly recommend his Cliburn all-Chopin CD.
All 12 etudes, along with the Concerto #1 and the Berceuse concerto is included in a CD titled "Nobuyuki Tsujii: Chopin", available at the Cliburn Foundation site, amazon, and iTune.
I am aghast. This is a man who cannot see and he can dash off twelve of the most challenging pieces for piano, back to back to back. Puts all the rest of us to shame!
@corkasus its because he is blind, he can play this well. a large part of the brain develops all the necessities the eyes have. when one is born blind, that part of the brain can be used to contribute other parts, in which case this boy has bizarre musical hearing and motorics in the hands.
I wish I could objectively judge this performance, but come on, he's BLIND. The fact that he can play pieces like this without making mistakes is incredible in itself
@flicfan416 Plus, it's hard to be objective about music, since the criteria one judges by are generally subjective themselves... is dynamic contrast important? How about technique? Posture? Are note mistakes worse than an inconsistent interpretation?
@LisztofKuwait actully if one is blind, their other senses are stronger: ex/ hearing/touch which is a key quality to piano playing! so blindness is actully helping him ... play better.. the bull shit you wrote is stupid and pointless just listen to the dam music or go to hell
@LisztofKuwait no then he'd be deaf, he still can't see. so he can hear, and understand musical language, to a degree we do not... I fucking hate this intellectual masturbation that happens on youtube
SHIT! I spent a long time learning this, and I wondered if he had this in his reperteoire..now I stumble across it and see that he does. I even tried to play this with my eyes closed for a few days and I just couldn't do it. OH well.
No, for ANYONE he is an amazing pianist. Why do you add the, "for a blind person" in there? That means you're comparing him only to other BLIND pianists...
Nobuyuki definitely had a stronger performance than Haochen Zhang. Zhang's music was incredibly, impeccably clean, but he didn't have the same force or sound that Nobuyuki was producing. Nobuyuki drew the audience in, in a way that Zhang could not. What it comes down to for the Cliburn isn't technical skill (everyone is practically perfect), but the extra, powerful emotion conveyed by the musician that absolutely captivates the audience. Nobuyuki deserved his gold.
i prefer zhang in terms of techniques.... he is able to "command" and gain better control of the piano.. nobuyuki is incredible too... he is able to bring out the fullest potential of the piano he is playing on....
Also, people were trying so hard to be political correct that they don't want others to say he won because he is blind. So they have to make another Lang Lang style win.
the melody is the left hand here.The amazing arpeggios elaborate harmony..How does he do this one so fast and missing no notesand # three sixhths and the leaps in4# 11 is so beautiful did he play that too.and he has the musicality and a wonderful Chopin style to boot!.god these etudew have been part of my life for almost 35 years now!
I saw him last night at the bridge water hall playing chopins piano concerto, and it brought me to tears! And then even more so when I found out he was blind. Even though are blind pianists, like stevie wonder, they just don't compare! Because his technique is through the roof!!!! It was the best concert I've been to!
PianoKingsleyPeart 1 week ago 2
I'm seeing him in concert tonight I can't wait :) Phenomenal!
Ruairidh1231 1 week ago
Children should been seen not heard. Wow, get a life!
peninsulamike 3 weeks ago
30 persons ar blind of your ears
jorlo7117 1 month ago
凄い の一言。。。素晴らしすぎる！
TheKballet 2 months ago
Genius
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Does he feel he has to play fast all the time? Sure he has talent, but the music is very annoying and stressful, piano should relax the mind not make us mad. I do not enjoy this at all. Sorry just my opinion.
peninsulamike 2 months ago
@peninsulamike Listen to him play La campanella and the Chopin Nocturne. He plays fast because that is what is required for a lot of the 12 Etudes Chopin composed. The first etude, which is supposed to sparkle and move rapidly, is hard to make sound relaxed without destroying the piece. Listen to the third etude, it is especially relaxed. And I disagree with your statement that piano should relax the mind, piano should enhance the mind, to see with our ears all the colours of music and emotion.
Shunkitology 2 months ago 3
@peninsulamike You have to be non-stupid to enjoy this.
Sorry is just a requirement.
tzinacan5243 1 month ago
@peninsulamike ur opinion is bull crap. dont come here and give you opinion on shit u dont know about. my mother is a proffesor from the conservatory of russia and she said few pianists play with as much technique and emotion as this 23 year old! the piano is made for music not your bull shity opinion. go away
Xsabergandora 3 weeks ago
amazing. my mom is a proffesional piano proffesor and she played these pieces back in the russian conservatory. she gave her proffesional opinion that this man played it as well as it gets....and most likely practices 8 hours a day...the 29 dislikes are from people that really have to stop being jealous.
Xsabergandora 3 months ago 2
Amazing other blind pianist too.
K189T 3 months ago
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1Thompsonmusic 3 months ago
amazing!
かっこいい！！！
nagnosanuktube 4 months ago
i'm inspired! :)
coolasianbrian 4 months ago in playlist CHOPIN Etudes
28 people are deaf in their right eyes!
pianosniperman369 4 months ago 6
These are the first 4 etudes right? Did he also play the other 8?
aditsu 5 months ago
@ytbcomm, where's your video doing anything? Stay behind your computer eating chips and drinking soda and trying to have a life through the internet. So go watch your hairy guy videos you love so much...
Mustardcrust4u 6 months ago
@Mustardcrust4u. Maybe you should work out more instead of making crappy noise with your poor guitar. Or do you just like to humiliate yourself by showing off that kind of crap on the internet? maybe you should stay behind of your computer. Oh, that's what you've been doing... playing guitar in your tiny bed room lol
ytbcomm 6 months ago
@ytbcomm, just gonna parrot what I say? Be origional. Like I said, wheres your video? I bet you're the type of person Brad Paisly is singing about in his song "Online"
Mustardcrust4u 6 months ago
Nobuyuki Tsujii is a BLIND.
KitaroED 6 months ago
oh my!!! what's not to like???? amazing!
bcr0024 6 months ago 3
So he plays fast. What's the big deal? Sounds kinda annoying...
Mustardcrust4u 7 months ago
@Mustardcrust4u you're so ignorant, that's the POINT of this piece, it's an etude, one to practice your skill on, in this case, PLAYING FAST.
lhrmeonom 7 months ago
@lhrmeonom I know I could be wrong cause I'm not experienced at judging, but it could be true that he needs to be less technical and more emotional. Anyway, etudes should be beautiful too, if they're performed they're no longer just for practicing skill, but for an audience to hear right?
caladwenaeariel 6 months ago
@lhrmeonom You're still an idiot to hype someone PRACTICING fast. Weak!!! I can hear this same thing in a dozen piano classrooms in any city at any Highschool. Not impresive at all. I rather watch the 'great balls of fire' sence from Top Gun than this PRACTICING crap!!! Loser!!
Mustardcrust4u 6 months ago
@Mustardcrust4u
Obviously after watching his crappy guitar playing videos, he has no idea on music or whatsoever... poor kid YOU go practice your crap before commenting on anything.
ytbcomm 6 months ago
@Mustardcrust4u
hes born BLIND.
KitaroED 6 months ago
@Mustardcrust4u bad sound quality in the video
anonymousQ45 6 months ago
@Mustardcrust4u u try faggot. u try.
Xsabergandora 3 weeks ago
one word: inspiring
ddodgers030 7 months ago 2
24 idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
andrewchou3g 7 months ago 3
大好きでしょう。
DanceSarahDance831 9 months ago
I wonder if he would give up his talent to be able to see
melagads 11 months ago
@melagads we can all 'see'. He has something truly special.. but I could not speak for him, of course. A very interesting question. I had the privledge to attend a master class with him. He is as humble as he is talented. He said that he stopped reading music by brail because it was too inhibitive and cumbersome. To think of the MILLIONS of notes this man has locked within his head is something out of this universe. Makes me proud to be human. I also know he is a man of faith!!!
jmanthirtyseven 11 months ago 9
@melagads Are you mad...
xHuntedGunzPCGx 10 months ago
I would give up my sight to be able to play as well as him.
tjdes81 8 months ago
@tjdes81 u wouldn't
melagads 8 months ago
This is truly wonderful, but I do not think that the rest of us should be ashamed. A gift is a gift, whatever it is, and only becomes worth something when it is worked on.. THAT is where shame might come in...
mousepics 11 months ago
22 people tried to play this.
BB1951 11 months ago 7
Bonzai!!
norm49henri 1 year ago 2
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Victor84vic 1 year ago 2
take THAT Lang Lang!!
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This Trancendent Virtuouso Genius-AMAZING! POETRY! Maestro Nobuyki Tsujii's sound world is so PERFECT! TOTALLY ORGANIC! Colors, Shapes, Textures and Sound weave in and out, but never out of context. He is genius personified!!!! BRAVO!!!! I can't wait for you to play Beethoven's "32"! I will be so there to enjoy the transcendent music making you give to the world!!!!!
VariationsOnNoTheme 1 year ago
This Trancendent Virtuouso Genius-AMAZING! POETRY! Maestro Nobuyki Tsujii's sound world is so PERFECT! TOTALLY ORGANIC! Colors, Shapes, Textures and Sound weave in and out, but never out of context. He is genius personified!!!! BRAVO!!!! I can't wait for you to play Beethoven's "32"! I will be so there to enjoy the transcendent music making you give to the world.
VariationsOnNoTheme 1 year ago 4
god send him to earth. that's for sure!
korglove 1 year ago
22 people cannot hear
foodmore 1 year ago 34
what kind of piano do they use in the in this?
Camohat100 1 year ago
@Camohat100 The piano is a Steinway
johonn 9 months ago
In my own opinion I believe that Chopin built these 12 studies to show the most basics of piano at its fully mastered level. Chromatic scales, arpeggios, co-ordination etc. And Nobuyuki has not only mastered and perfected these etudes but brought such life to them that it can not help but inspire. Bravo, Nobuyuki. Bravo. You have once again brought a tear to my eye :P
DeepFriedCrayon 1 year ago 3
Awesome!
this is music's power!
alanguitarra 1 year ago 2
January 27-- This just in: Nobuyuki Tsujii will appear in New York City's Carnegie Hall in November 2011, in the Piano Virtuosos series of Carnegie's 2011-12 season.
mlliu2006 1 year ago 5
This poor kid's teachers and parents should be taken to task for letting him develop such a lousy posture! They must have put so much into helping him develop his musicianship, so why didn't they occasionally touch him on the shoulder and tell him to straighten up?
Profit now and let him pay later?
His eccentric gestures are perfectly normal for a blind person, but his posture, which can only harm him in later life, is not.
Why did this happen?
PhenylbutyricAcid 1 year ago
@PhenylbutyricAcid If you watch other videos of his performances, you will see that Nobuyuki Tsujii does not always play like that, but some of these etudes (including the first) are so demanding that it takes all his strength and the awkward posture to play it.
mlliu2006 1 year ago 2
magnefico perfecto !!! bravoooo excelente !!!
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Close the eyes when listening. The dynamics and touch are amazing.
Morgan30233 1 year ago
Close the eyes when listening. The dynamics and touch are amazing.
Morgan30233 1 year ago 2
o.m.g.
goodguysdoll 1 year ago
how does he learn the music if he cannot see? does he do it all by ear? or are there brail scores
88alan8800 1 year ago
@88alan8800 - you can read the answer on the "frequently asked question " page on my "nobufans" site. But here it is in summary. Nobu DOES NOT learn from listening to a recorded performance of the whole piece. He is pitch-perfect and can repeat any note or chords that he hears. To learn a piece: He has the notes on each hand recorded on separate cassette tapes with notations, and listen to each tape over and over again - then he synthesize the whole thing with his own interpretation.
mlliu2006 1 year ago 3
@mlliu2006 very interesting, thank you for your repsonse!
88alan8800 1 year ago
makes lang lang look like a student
88alan8800 1 year ago 5
so sad that he cant read our comments : (
Garudanime 1 year ago 30
@Garudanime haha pretty sure blind people can use screen readers to use the internet.
TCharlieA 3 months ago 4
@Garudanime
but someone read for him
DJFaBieL 1 month ago
@Garudanime He can.
reekpeekseek 1 month ago
@Garudanime but he has heard rave applause from millions inluding yours truly
767gonza 1 month ago
amazing, im moved.
Garudanime 1 year ago 2
22 dislikes... Probably deaf people...
taniniver666 1 year ago 4
this is one of the most amazing things i've ever seen
aznm1ke31 1 year ago 4
Makes you completely rethink who's the disabled one.
ach1088 1 year ago 3
He's not good at piano because hes blind. Hes good at piano because he works hard at it. Its amazing that he pursued piano with the great challenges of being blind! He's def. one of my favorite pianists of all times... I can't believe how large his repertoire is... it must have taken forever to learn where all the keys are and the distance & ect... especially large leaps
bummy33 1 year ago
Viva japones!
mayu9960 1 year ago 3
he love playing
chad410 1 year ago 2
I can't believe to my eyes
newFranzFerencLiszt 1 year ago
the asiatic artists look like robots they are really enjoy the music
JusticierodelYuTube 1 year ago
for those who stil able to see, please stop saying that you cant play the piano
omguanyin 1 year ago
fuck
belialah 1 year ago
It was good seeing you in Fort Worth we had a good time hope you liked Boomer Jack's. Take care my friend and keep playing like The Greatest Ones cause you are one of them. God Bless you.
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Just returned from his recital in California, on Oct. 18, 2010, and had the rare opportunity to listen in on his practices and to sit not more than 20' from him during performance, with full view of the keyboard. Seen close-up, Tsujii’s techniques are even more impressive. The fluidity of his fingering defies belief. But it doesn't come easy: he practiced >5 hours straight practically as soon as he got off the plane, and again until an hour before the show. Awe inspiring in so many ways.
mlliu2006 1 year ago 2
<3 His performance always moves me...he is so gifted and so fortunate to have such great teachers. Thank you so much for posting & sharing this stunning music video*^o^* Brilliant☆ <3
AphroditeEros33 1 year ago 3
HE IS COMING TO MY SCHOOL TONIGHT I CANT WAIT TO SEE HIM LIVE
MissJazzyJ001 1 year ago 2
@MissJazzyJ001
CPCC Right? I was there tonight. It was a great performance.
TheDaneo85 1 year ago 2
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mlliu2006 1 year ago
@TheDaneo85 YES AT CPCC AND YES IT WAS GREAT!!!
MissJazzyJ001 1 year ago
he coming in Serbia soon ;)
BassicStorm 1 year ago
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mlliu2006 1 year ago
@BassicStorm
>he coming in Serbia soon ;)
Great! I hope you go to his concert. His concert schedule is another thing that's unbelievable about Nobu. He's touring all over thye U.S. this month (Oct. 2010), and then he goes back to Japan and has back-to-back concerts all month November. After that, off he goes to Europe: Italy, Serbia, England, Russia ...
These are heady days for Mr. Tsujii :-)
mlliu2006 1 year ago 3
does he learn pieces by ear?
melagads 1 year ago
@melagads
>Does he learn pieces by ear?
Here's what Nobu supposedly said in an interview this month (10/2010): "I am memorizing music on tape which is recorded at some appropriate length by single hand, each with meticulous markings. At the same time, a voice recording about phrasing or articulation is included, so it is possible to choose edits,." Search "nobufans" for a website that has more on this topic.
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This young man is the greatest natural pianist alive at the momment a true phenom a phenom in the Art Tatum sense of the word funny how both were and are blind those who dis his learning methods supposed need to mature as a musician cant say a damn thing about his natural gifts memory ears fingers or heart the last of which ill take over hamelins any day of the week like cliburn said an act of god thats a paraphrase
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harriter88 1 year ago
@sami71290
> so true. the classical world hates anything out of the norm and the elite. people normally make it as savants or as people who come from musically elite families
What probably further infuriates these people is that Nobuyuki’s CDs have been selling phenomenally, by classical music standard. His Cliburn gold medalist CD has sold over 100,000 copies, in a business where a life-time 10,000 copies sale is considered a success. I highly recommend his Cliburn all-Chopin CD.
mlliu2006 1 year ago
All 12 etudes, along with the Concerto #1 and the Berceuse concerto is included in a CD titled "Nobuyuki Tsujii: Chopin", available at the Cliburn Foundation site, amazon, and iTune.
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It's especially impressive considering that he played this well while Darth Vader was filming him.
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amadeusrayis 1 year ago
He doesn't play with his eyes. He plays with soul & passion.
beateralex 1 year ago 5
@zwitsall Nerd
gaarasd 1 year ago
anyone hear that wierd noise in the background?
thetaxi500 1 year ago
It's a shame that the camera angle is not higher to be able to see his hands. All the same he is simply the greatest, truly a miracle.
odagledja 1 year ago
It's a shame that the camera angle is not higher to be abel to see his hands. All the same he is simply the greatest, truly a miracle.
odagledja 1 year ago
Sort of a classical Art Tatum
mjsmcd 1 year ago
if you can make people with sight jealous your truly unbelievable!!! Just Amazing
MBSPulse 1 year ago 2
I LOVE HIM.
This is incredibly brilliant. I get goosebumps just listening to him.
fuckyoshitupRAH666 1 year ago 4
Hahahaha of the 4, the 2nd one is the least impressive of the fast ones and the most impressive, the 4th one is probably the easiest of the fast ones
werq34ac 1 year ago
@werq34ac The 2nd one is probably the hardest Chopin etude.
ilikehaku1100 1 year ago
@ilikehaku1100 Yes I know. I was pointing out the irony, thus the hahahaha =P
werq34ac 1 year ago
Where are the other 8?
ADVERTlSEMENT 1 year ago
I love this blind guy. He is amazing!!!
amandakova 1 year ago 5
That last one there was FUCKING INSANE!
Chakiejan 1 year ago
Look at this:
youtube.com/watch?v=c2Nr_yuneFQ
Haochen Zhang played 2-5 of These twelve Etudes op 10 at the age of 11.
wclmyy 1 year ago
unbelievable playing
tony2tone1985 1 year ago 4
CDで聴き比べただけですが、(エラそうなことを書きました）ショパンピアノコンクールの時よりさらにうまくなっている気がしました、（あたりまえか）
でもどちらの演奏も良いです。双方を聴き比べできるよう編集して、毎日聴きています。
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Out of this world.
lovethepiano 1 year ago
Gosh! This is "Love at First Sight" (Love Beach, Emerson Lake & Palmer) intro! :-)
- c.a.t.
carlosalbertoteixeir 1 year ago
I am aghast. This is a man who cannot see and he can dash off twelve of the most challenging pieces for piano, back to back to back. Puts all the rest of us to shame!
corkasus 1 year ago 17
@corkasus agreed with the first part of your comment...lol....
mokacode 1 year ago
@mokacode So when will we see your performance showing that this does not put all to shame?.....mouahahahaha
josealonsoleon 1 year ago
@josealonsoleon when pigs will fly...héhé....
mokacode 1 year ago
@corkasus its because he is blind, he can play this well. a large part of the brain develops all the necessities the eyes have. when one is born blind, that part of the brain can be used to contribute other parts, in which case this boy has bizarre musical hearing and motorics in the hands.
Rocksolid88 1 year ago
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>its because he is blind ... when one is born blind, that part of the brain can be used to contribute other parts ...
But only if you have the talent to start with! Nobuyuki Tsujii's brilliance is dazzling.
mlliu2006 1 year ago
Sweet...
newhousemusic007 1 year ago 4
Wow. I'm not blind and my performance is not even as good as his. T__T
michaelatm2603 1 year ago 4
I totally agree with LisztoKuwait
lilchopin1 1 year ago 4
One word... just WOW. I don't even know what to say. I'm completely breath-taken. Especially the first etude... all those arpeggios...
Dang.
I have some serious respect for this guy.
tifftt 1 year ago 7
Bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
delahoya6 1 year ago 13
bravo!!! magnefico, excelente!!1 prodogy musico!!1
hen2reque 1 year ago 3
不覚にも落涙した・・・
big2000d 1 year ago 4
He isn't God, but God-given. A joy to listen to, a pleasure to watch those hands!
Viewofmonkeydos 1 year ago 5
I wish I could objectively judge this performance, but come on, he's BLIND. The fact that he can play pieces like this without making mistakes is incredible in itself
flicfan416 1 year ago 4
@flicfan416 Plus, it's hard to be objective about music, since the criteria one judges by are generally subjective themselves... is dynamic contrast important? How about technique? Posture? Are note mistakes worse than an inconsistent interpretation?
All depends on perspective, I think.
BenMcCormack91 1 year ago
watcing this remind me of how much potential human can have.
next time before I give up, i will ask twice if what i am going to do is impossible or I am just looking for excuse not to do it
popohim 1 year ago 5
omg...im so impressed!!!!!! he has my full respect.....how did he learn the notes??!
this is so amazing....
hotbebimauz 1 year ago 5
he has eyes for music...
okasantina 1 year ago 4
wow..this guy is God.
sayonara my friend..
kartik
India
need4peace 2 years ago
The music biz is showbiz everybody! If your personna carries a good vibe and the player is brilliant, then a star is born!
this guy has it all! No nerds need to apply!
ALL the ultimate greats seem to be blind...Art tatum, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, George Shearing.
radiokid2 2 years ago 6
respect, he is amazing!!!!
djotiad 2 years ago 6
流れるような速いアルペジオがとっても感動的ですｳﾜｧｧ-----｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡-----ﾝ!!!!
yfl584 2 years ago 4
Blindess is not that of the eyes...but it is that of the hearts...he is not blind. He sees the truth that we cannot.
LisztofKuwait 2 years ago 95
@LisztofKuwait you are soooooooo corny
souljaboy1211 1 year ago
@LisztofKuwait no he just rules the piano
JoeFromCO 1 year ago
he makess the 2nd seem so easy. I found my fingers were in knots
chad410 1 year ago 2
@LisztofKuwait actully if one is blind, their other senses are stronger: ex/ hearing/touch which is a key quality to piano playing! so blindness is actully helping him ... play better.. the bull shit you wrote is stupid and pointless just listen to the dam music or go to hell
hohohee1 1 year ago
@LisztofKuwait no then he'd be deaf, he still can't see. so he can hear, and understand musical language, to a degree we do not... I fucking hate this intellectual masturbation that happens on youtube
Vinnypoo 1 year ago
SHIT! I spent a long time learning this, and I wondered if he had this in his reperteoire..now I stumble across it and see that he does. I even tried to play this with my eyes closed for a few days and I just couldn't do it. OH well.
itsanthonyhere 2 years ago
For a legally blind person, he is an amazing pianist, and to play these etudes technically flawless (and musically)...
kilace 2 years ago 9
No, for ANYONE he is an amazing pianist. Why do you add the, "for a blind person" in there? That means you're comparing him only to other BLIND pianists...
itsanthonyhere 2 years ago 3
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Nobuyuki definitely had a stronger performance than Haochen Zhang. Zhang's music was incredibly, impeccably clean, but he didn't have the same force or sound that Nobuyuki was producing. Nobuyuki drew the audience in, in a way that Zhang could not. What it comes down to for the Cliburn isn't technical skill (everyone is practically perfect), but the extra, powerful emotion conveyed by the musician that absolutely captivates the audience. Nobuyuki deserved his gold.
beadlety 2 years ago 62
i prefer zhang in terms of techniques.... he is able to "command" and gain better control of the piano.. nobuyuki is incredible too... he is able to bring out the fullest potential of the piano he is playing on....
dotanostars 1 year ago
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though haochen zhang is better, i bet he would be better that haochen zhang if he wasn't blind. amazing
jonathanc1026 2 years ago
Also, people were trying so hard to be political correct that they don't want others to say he won because he is blind. So they have to make another Lang Lang style win.
terrygowork 2 years ago 3
To me, he is the only winner. His sound can not be compared to Haochen Zhang
terrygowork 2 years ago 13
感動して涙がとまりません。。
marianqueen 2 years ago 5
inspiring.
Manamika 2 years ago 2
amazing..!
fundarah 2 years ago 2
なんだろうか声みたいなのが聞こえるのだが？
riyunion1 2 years ago
弾いているときでしょ？
ホールの残響でしょう
nakimushipunch 2 years ago
the melody is the left hand here.The amazing arpeggios elaborate harmony..How does he do this one so fast and missing no notesand # three sixhths and the leaps in4# 11 is so beautiful did he play that too.and he has the musicality and a wonderful Chopin style to boot!.god these etudew have been part of my life for almost 35 years now!
lovesGenet 2 years ago 3
what a performance!
dpalavi 2 years ago 2
you cant even classify him hes one of a kind
anonymousQ45 2 years ago
For me,this Chopin's etude was the best perfomance in this competition.
Especially, the No.1 Etude.
The sounds like Milky Way in midnight.
Very special !
shiroazarashi 2 years ago 8
Amazing !! its like him and the music notes intertwine as one.. He's not playing the music anymore he feels the music in his soul !..
God bless his gifted soul.
AuroraCypher 2 years ago 3
What a great performance !!!
I was moved to tears by his piano.....
YUZU2009NICO 2 years ago 4