Even if I get a chance of a masterclass with Lang Lang, I will reject it. My blood boils as I hear more of this interpretation. Oh, aaaaaarggghhh, no! NOT ANY MORE LANG LANG! AAARRRgHHH! auuu! How can anyone play that bad!
Chopin rarely performed publicly and if he did it would be for a small group of people. usually those people were important.
Some people claimed Chopin played to quietly. Chopin wrote a galore of chamber music. Langlang here playing this piece for the camera and it's microphone? sure seems like.
I think lang lang is trying the piece with a different approch to his (and other pianist) usual playing style of this piece. Tbh it's more like he isn't taking this seriously, he's experimenting and just having fun.
@ImCalebRosengard You might want to read my post again. I have not given any opinion to wheather i think it's good or bad. What's wrong with your reading skills?
He makes it sound like it isn't Chopin... Playing Chopin requires a certain style. How sad he chose to play it this way, but, it's an "opinion" nonetheless.
@technicalentity a music lover doesnt need to know how to play any instrument. the same piece can be played by many musician. audiences can decide which version they like and express why. Everyone can express how they felt about it. they DON'T really need to know how to play it. You dont need to be angry or nervus or worry about people commenting on your idle.
You may see a goofy face, but Lang Lang's inspiration to play, at 3, was a Tom & Jerry Cartoon called the Cat Concerto; Liszt's Hungarian Dance. He has always interpreted music visually and his facial expressions, while appalling to most, are simply unreserved markings of what he "sees". Watch the video of Lang Lang & Derek Wang and you'll understand. He taught Derek to play using visual imagery, and this imagery is included in Wang's youtube performance of Prokofiev's Tocatta.
I tried not to watch the video, but still feel weird.. the way he played this piece.. most of the time, I felt like this music is trying to hurry me to do something.. really hard to enjoy in it. Note that I really didn't watch the video, simply listen the audio.. not elegant at all.. : (
I say this: Once you have played Carnegie Hall or the Proms, then you are in the position to say how anyone else should play. Until then, your opinions are not very informed.
@technicalentity I've played the piece. I've studied the piano and music for a long time. And I've watched Lang Lang for most of his career. I consider myself a fan of his. I was at his Carnegie Hall premiere. The man is a great pianist when he wants to be, and he's also vulgar sometimes. Some of his playing in the Carnegie debut was criticized for exactly this reason, rightfully so. I chalk most of it up to youthful excess and a well-intentioned desire to be a crowd-pleaser.
He has this child expression while he plays ... this is maybe why people doesnt like this interpretation. but try just listening without looking at the video.
@Winarchnesa I tried, but still feel weird.. the way he played this piece.. most of the time, I felt like this music is trying to hurry me to do something.. really hard to enjoy in it. Note that I really didn't watch the video, simply listen the audio.. not elegant at all.. : (
For all those who do not like the way Lang Lang plays these pieces, I tell you all something my father used to tell me when I'd disagree with an interpretation: "Show me how YOU would play it.
Is it just me or did someone else also notice that Lang Lang seems to "steal" pieces that got Yundi Li popular? Widmung, Chopin first concerto, Chopin third sonata, and now this.
Lang Lang, Yundi, Yuja, lugansky, all of the impressarios use the same literature; these [pieces are standards for all concert pianists' repertoires; they are all taught them to perform them in concert tours, mostly as encores, and no one is stealing anything. These encore pieces fall in and out of vogue; and this is the current list of popular pieces.
Piano concerts isn't a open-air sessions or pop stars performances, music have a main role. And no matter, Lang Lang plaing that in coat or in a big-black-dog-costume. IMHO, ofc.
I think most of you writing bull**** are just talking bull****...i'm sure that 2% of you cannot play at least 0.00001% of Lang Lang! At the beginning i did not like him at all, still now i find him a little bit "showing-off" sometimes, but his so amazing, technique, sound, new interpreation of this fantastic composition! I find this absolutely outstanding! Michelangeli? Everyone know that he was great..post your playing video to demonstrate that you are better than LANG LANG * * *
@torritaclassica Based on your logic, everyone who cannot play the piano like Rubinstein does, does not even have the right to say that they do not like this "Lang Lang robot play", nor even dare to listen to the music of Chopin?
sometimes Lang shows more of his virtuosism for some audience that goes to see his ability rather than his heart playing. In the proms you do not expect too much quality, but performing.
i feel like just because someone new comes in with a complete new interpretation of a piece they get completely shot down with it. Lang lang doesn't play like the usual, it's just a very unique point of view...you guys are just not flexible enough to accept it
@siyang2 Next time let it be played by ASIMO robot by Toyota. I read this robot can already walk and speak. And run. I think he could play like Lang Lang or even better.
Now seriously - it is not about flexibility. I like interpretations of various kinds. But to be able to interpret something, you need to first understand it. Chopin is not just pure technique, nor jazz. It is CLASSICS. And shall be performed like that.
@worras2007 but who said "classics" have to be played in one way? Especially considering the fact that Chopin is from the Romantic period where neoclassical music is starting to form so technically the piece is not even Classical.
@siyang2 By "classics" I meant that this is Chopin, not modern jazz (in that sense). Yes, all performers are unique, and they have their own "signatures". But in my personal opinion and my personal taste, I think that Lang Lang with his too much of freedom and squeezed out artificial "originality" simply destroys the very meaning of this masterpiece of music. Your right to believe otherwise.
I followed him using the sheet music provided with Rubinsteins youtube interpretation; Lang Lang not only abides by all Chopin's markings, he does it almost in the same amount of time as Rubinstein and sounds very similar; his orchestral version is even closer to Rubinstein's than this one. Lang Lang's interpretation of this is very traditional.
@granadabruselas NO feeling huh? Look at him playing Chopin Nocturne Op 27. #2 If feeling isn't shouting at you then - sorry to say that but you are deaf...
Seriously, lang lang is just a show of and basically a circus peformer, he can only play the notes of a piece. he can never get inside it and have musicality, it just looks like hes having an orgasm when hes playing.
His interpretation of this polonaise is somewhat different from others I think. More bouncy? Bit of a show off too. Liszt would have played like this but definitely not Chopin
who ever mocks lang lang !!!!!!!!!!! Listen___ close your eyes and think above the limit .how he plays..it's his world not our world..... the best pianist is the one who is in his world and makes the piece his song! Feel the spirit of his........try to understand his world then u will feel different. ( this sounds bit nerdy but anyway ) what ever~~~
omg he totally messes up like in 10 seconds into the piece. LOL i can name one person better than BANG BANG.... its called YUNDI LI. And if you beg to differ (which you can of course everyone has their own opinon), just remember this: YUNDI LI WON CHOPIN COMPETITION IN 2000, what did bang bang do? Hear Yundi Li's version and youll see the difference
jeeez. why is everyone having a dig at lang lang. its the music everyone should be paying attention to, not his face. just scroll away or something. that way you can actually appreciate the quality of his playing
The show is good; what counts to save that kind of music is to keep people interested in it. Oh, by the way ... Chopin was also a good show and not a perfect pianist. Who are we to judge anyway?
Lang Lang like Pavarotti helps to bring classical music back to main stream. If that remains the main merit, I can live with it.
@ppaolo2000 i think michelangeli was the best pianist ever heard. lang lang is a talented pianist, i think one of the most eclectic pianist of this time,but in his interpretation of chopin's gran polonaise he plays like a clown. playing liszt instead i think he's one of the greatest.
@alexandros789 i don't like lang lang ..certanly he has a good tecnique but his pianism is an exaggeration of pathos and at the end it seems not real....in my opinion naturally..:)
Hilarious all these comments ! No rules were written when Chopin wrote this piece so this interpretation is as valid or invalid as any other. Personally I prefer listening to Lang Lang (who I saw live a few months at the Festival Hall and who for what it's worth stayed behind for over an hour signing autographs in foyer!) than some ghostly figure who plays with no joie de vivre!
@ChoiHsinMath thats not true, this interpretation is great. Chopin would have appreciated. The changing of speed as you say is an old tradition coming directly from Liszt and Chopin and even Schumann. These three composer did knew each other and did teach a lot of pianists who gave the tradition to their pupils. Very famous pianists were the result. Here these ones and you will see they also change tempi....
Like or leave people! For all the other interpretations there are other pianists. This is Lang Lang and this is his interpretation. The one and only universal way to play a piece doesn't exist and is rather (a) personal (experience).
an excellent performer and a fine interpretation... one thing i don't like about him, he's interpretation is too much liberated.. another thing, his tone to each note may sometimes sound too harsh.... it sounds it sounds more likely a SCHERZO not a polonaise brilliante...
@luisangel981 no creo... si has oido varias versiones verás que cuestiona (y en eso aciertas) la interpretación de la obra en cuanto a la velocidad... es una polonesa (caracter nacionalista) y billante (hay una exageracion evidente de este aspecto) pero técnicamente ademas de ser cuasi perfecto, desafía lo posible. pero te aseguro que la interpretación no se salva de sentimiento y saboreo (jeje) de los momentos que la obra tiene. ! un saludo, quien es u interprete favorito de esta pieza??
@luisangel981 :) es de mis favoritos!!!!! tiene una versión de esta obra que es mi favorita, en el concurso internacional chopin, que ganó con 18 años! doy por hecho que la conoces!!! jeje un saludo!!
Showiness is a big part of what is known and perceived as "bravura"...
In that sense I find his playing very attractive in a unique way. His decisions on what to do with each particular passage don't have to make sense stylistically to leave the audience breathless in awe.
Purists may be offended, but I say Chopin's been dead for two centuries... somehow, I don't think he'll mind (the most he can do is roll around in his grave). Play on!
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This is why Langlang became famous: brilliant technique + exaggerative face expression + "Unique" (which is too much different from general musical sense) interpretation.
This langlang is stupid and can't understand Chopin's music.
I say fuck him. He altered this beautiful romantic piece by Chopin
into a blood-bath. Fuck you&Go to hell, langlang. Don't murder Chopin's music.
And fans of langlang,I say fuck you too.You think that music is all about being showy&no feelingYou guys just don't understand what is the true meaning of music. Langlang has no feeling. Put that into your little chicken brains before I break them with my mallet.
fully agree with you!! i won't say fuck him or fuck his fans. but he's really a stupid pianist! YuDi Lee is much much better than langlang. of course lang lang has outstanding techhics but his playing just like a performance in circus, only make people fun but cursorily.... my god....!
@123mazeppa You don't have a clue. 'Feeling' does not equal sentimentality. Too many idiots can't seem to grasp this and continue bash Lang Lang when they know nothing. Go study some aesthetics if you want to appear as though you're some expert spouting the 'true meaning' of music.
This isn't one of Lang Lang's better interpretations, but he is still an excellent pianist. Do you think you can understand Chopin's music better? I guess all you'd be able to say is 'it has feeling'
@johnalt16 Of course feeling doesnt equal sentimentality-in which Lang-Lang showed a perfect example
in this weird performance.
Look at Hamelin's performance. He's the EXACT opposite of Lang-Lang.When he performs, he don't move an inch& appears that he has no feeling. But in the music he plays, one can in fact, feel his soul and albeit he don't show his emotion, the music shows it for him.
Which is one of the reasons why he is regarded as one of the greatest virtuoso pianists
No offense to those that love Lang Lang. Yes his talent is extraordinary, however, he is too haughty and arrogant. Evidenced by this video he is more into "look at me I can play something that's really hard". Where is the Polish identity that Lang Lang plays in his rendition of the Grande Polonaise Brillante?
I prefer Janusz Olejniczak rendition of this piece
@LegendOD20 you 're wrong dude, i met lang lang once in nuremberg in a chinese restaurant. i talked to him and we had a nice conversation, he isnt arrogant or something. but i think his playing style is way too eccentric
I cant tell i prefer this perfomance or that, each one has its own interpretation, but Lang Lang plays as it was always a rebirth of each score, do you sense it?;)
I simply love how he enjoys kissing the keys with his fingers and also makes me enjoy it. He's surely a bright one.
TheArmorPenetrator 14 hours ago
Very Bright Interpretation!
krysmar1000 3 days ago
Even if I get a chance of a masterclass with Lang Lang, I will reject it. My blood boils as I hear more of this interpretation. Oh, aaaaaarggghhh, no! NOT ANY MORE LANG LANG! AAARRRgHHH! auuu! How can anyone play that bad!
Parishrut2 4 days ago
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nileinafrica 1 week ago
love this!
anjilala 1 week ago
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Chopin rarely performed publicly and if he did it would be for a small group of people. usually those people were important.
Some people claimed Chopin played to quietly. Chopin wrote a galore of chamber music. Langlang here playing this piece for the camera and it's microphone? sure seems like.
ChrisWatch 2 weeks ago
I think lang lang is trying the piece with a different approch to his (and other pianist) usual playing style of this piece. Tbh it's more like he isn't taking this seriously, he's experimenting and just having fun.
06moca1 2 weeks ago
@06moca1 And what's wrong with that?
ImCalebRosengard 2 days ago
@ImCalebRosengard You might want to read my post again. I have not given any opinion to wheather i think it's good or bad. What's wrong with your reading skills?
06moca1 1 day ago
@06moca1 Well, probably the fact that I'm not a fluent english speaker, sorry anyway
ImCalebRosengard 1 day ago
Is he trying to be funny? Cause really the boy is good...
Chinese Benny Hill or something... If not, it's really sad...
don't reply, i won't come back on this page for sure... :)
TheKrdinal 3 weeks ago
langlang decided to play this after seeing Yundi Li's interpretation with all those lasers. little did langlang know it was a trap.
ChrisWatch 3 weeks ago
He makes it sound like it isn't Chopin... Playing Chopin requires a certain style. How sad he chose to play it this way, but, it's an "opinion" nonetheless.
marimbamarcy 3 weeks ago
比較喜歡李雲迪的,比較符合曲子最初的風格~~
nick811129 4 weeks ago
I am performing this piece in two weeks and yes everyone does have diferent interpretations iwill put a link up after my recital PS im 18
tnthepianoplayer 1 month ago
@ahjenchang sorry,a typo. I mean IDOL, not idle... :p
ahjenchang 1 month ago
@technicalentity a music lover doesnt need to know how to play any instrument. the same piece can be played by many musician. audiences can decide which version they like and express why. Everyone can express how they felt about it. they DON'T really need to know how to play it. You dont need to be angry or nervus or worry about people commenting on your idle.
ahjenchang 1 month ago
One of the world's finest pianist
88wooper88 1 month ago
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88wooper88 1 month ago
quit with the fucking goofy face.
DonCorleone87 1 month ago
You may see a goofy face, but Lang Lang's inspiration to play, at 3, was a Tom & Jerry Cartoon called the Cat Concerto; Liszt's Hungarian Dance. He has always interpreted music visually and his facial expressions, while appalling to most, are simply unreserved markings of what he "sees". Watch the video of Lang Lang & Derek Wang and you'll understand. He taught Derek to play using visual imagery, and this imagery is included in Wang's youtube performance of Prokofiev's Tocatta.
technicalentity 1 month ago
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I tried not to watch the video, but still feel weird.. the way he played this piece.. most of the time, I felt like this music is trying to hurry me to do something.. really hard to enjoy in it. Note that I really didn't watch the video, simply listen the audio.. not elegant at all.. : (
ahjenchang 1 month ago
moim zdaniem Azjaci nie rozumieją Chopina... nie podoba mi się ta interpretacja
micnal69 1 month ago
It's very simple. Lang Lang can be a great pianist. But sometimes, he's simply just vulgar, and this is one of those times.
hophmi 1 month ago
I say this: Once you have played Carnegie Hall or the Proms, then you are in the position to say how anyone else should play. Until then, your opinions are not very informed.
technicalentity 1 month ago
@technicalentity I've played the piece. I've studied the piano and music for a long time. And I've watched Lang Lang for most of his career. I consider myself a fan of his. I was at his Carnegie Hall premiere. The man is a great pianist when he wants to be, and he's also vulgar sometimes. Some of his playing in the Carnegie debut was criticized for exactly this reason, rightfully so. I chalk most of it up to youthful excess and a well-intentioned desire to be a crowd-pleaser.
hophmi 1 month ago
@hophmi don't you think he;'s come along swimmingly since them? He is really maturing fast.
technicalentity 1 month ago
Gracias Youtoube!!!!Estos videos de Lang son maravillosos!!!!!!!!!!!
silviamarian 1 month ago
He has this child expression while he plays ... this is maybe why people doesnt like this interpretation. but try just listening without looking at the video.
Winarchnesa 1 month ago
@Winarchnesa I tried, but still feel weird.. the way he played this piece.. most of the time, I felt like this music is trying to hurry me to do something.. really hard to enjoy in it. Note that I really didn't watch the video, simply listen the audio.. not elegant at all.. : (
ahjenchang 1 month ago
For all those who do not like the way Lang Lang plays these pieces, I tell you all something my father used to tell me when I'd disagree with an interpretation: "Show me how YOU would play it.
technicalentity 1 month ago
Lang Lang its a very talented pianist but in this interpretation is to me, very istherical,
mcmardini 1 month ago
Pure. Awesomeness.
Hitherto90 1 month ago
his a piano killer ...
abengyu112751 1 month ago
no disrespect to lang lang, but this is the only performance of this polonaise where I DON'T cry at 3:44..
ceilingkatt 2 months ago
this is not chopin, this is liszt. highly unacceptable.
reaksiyonasokan 2 months ago
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kgiven100 2 months ago
his interpretation becomes good if you don't look at his stupid face while you listen
noflysonsid 2 months ago
1:30 LOL oh yeaaa i love that part!!!
mcpopper88 2 months ago
That is the dream of a Pianist... :D
mpiedehierro 2 months ago
True rubato! What incredible music!
evifnoskcaj 2 months ago
Is it just me or did someone else also notice that Lang Lang seems to "steal" pieces that got Yundi Li popular? Widmung, Chopin first concerto, Chopin third sonata, and now this.
yitengd 2 months ago
Lang Lang, Yundi, Yuja, lugansky, all of the impressarios use the same literature; these [pieces are standards for all concert pianists' repertoires; they are all taught them to perform them in concert tours, mostly as encores, and no one is stealing anything. These encore pieces fall in and out of vogue; and this is the current list of popular pieces.
technicalentity 1 month ago
i just love his interpretation of the music
tszho1995 2 months ago
Lang Lang is the best!
09088908 2 months ago
Man do I wish I could play like this
thebigcaboos 3 months ago
Piano concerts isn't a open-air sessions or pop stars performances, music have a main role. And no matter, Lang Lang plaing that in coat or in a big-black-dog-costume. IMHO, ofc.
gweanplen 3 months ago
I think Lang Lang is singing with the piano. I think Lang Lang is such a wonderful entertainer. He plays the piano to entertain people. If he plays it
just nomally, it would be boring and nothing interesting. I like Lang Lang's performance and his sound is so beautiful and touching. I love it.
kirari1231 3 months ago 4
I think most of you writing bull**** are just talking bull****...i'm sure that 2% of you cannot play at least 0.00001% of Lang Lang! At the beginning i did not like him at all, still now i find him a little bit "showing-off" sometimes, but his so amazing, technique, sound, new interpreation of this fantastic composition! I find this absolutely outstanding! Michelangeli? Everyone know that he was great..post your playing video to demonstrate that you are better than LANG LANG * * *
torritaclassica 3 months ago
@torritaclassica Based on your logic, everyone who cannot play the piano like Rubinstein does, does not even have the right to say that they do not like this "Lang Lang robot play", nor even dare to listen to the music of Chopin?
worras2007 2 months ago
wtf...
DenGodfather 3 months ago
to all people that said that you hate him, I would lik to se U play it!!!
yaydini 3 months ago
what the fuck!!! it's a polonaise!!! not a polka!!!!!!!! and looking like a clown while playing doesn't help!!! i just can't stay lang lang!!
AlexandreJdB 3 months ago
sometimes Lang shows more of his virtuosism for some audience that goes to see his ability rather than his heart playing. In the proms you do not expect too much quality, but performing.
enaralva 3 months ago
I never saw such a great pianist destroy Chopin like that! It's awful how he plays, even if the technic is impressive!
nonoar234 3 months ago
very gud
VillarrealHumberto 3 months ago
love all these youtube critics
CtlBrandon 3 months ago
i feel like just because someone new comes in with a complete new interpretation of a piece they get completely shot down with it. Lang lang doesn't play like the usual, it's just a very unique point of view...you guys are just not flexible enough to accept it
siyang2 3 months ago 19
@siyang2 Well put!
normgood11 3 months ago
@siyang2 Who do you mean you guys?
DetectiveConan150 2 months ago
@siyang2 Next time let it be played by ASIMO robot by Toyota. I read this robot can already walk and speak. And run. I think he could play like Lang Lang or even better.
Now seriously - it is not about flexibility. I like interpretations of various kinds. But to be able to interpret something, you need to first understand it. Chopin is not just pure technique, nor jazz. It is CLASSICS. And shall be performed like that.
worras2007 2 months ago
@worras2007 but who said "classics" have to be played in one way? Especially considering the fact that Chopin is from the Romantic period where neoclassical music is starting to form so technically the piece is not even Classical.
siyang2 2 months ago
@siyang2 By "classics" I meant that this is Chopin, not modern jazz (in that sense). Yes, all performers are unique, and they have their own "signatures". But in my personal opinion and my personal taste, I think that Lang Lang with his too much of freedom and squeezed out artificial "originality" simply destroys the very meaning of this masterpiece of music. Your right to believe otherwise.
worras2007 2 months ago
I followed him using the sheet music provided with Rubinsteins youtube interpretation; Lang Lang not only abides by all Chopin's markings, he does it almost in the same amount of time as Rubinstein and sounds very similar; his orchestral version is even closer to Rubinstein's than this one. Lang Lang's interpretation of this is very traditional.
technicalentity 1 month ago
he is just a shhowman, no feeling
granadabruselas 3 months ago
@granadabruselas NO feeling huh? Look at him playing Chopin Nocturne Op 27. #2 If feeling isn't shouting at you then - sorry to say that but you are deaf...
Daniel0889 3 months ago
Seriously, lang lang is just a show of and basically a circus peformer, he can only play the notes of a piece. he can never get inside it and have musicality, it just looks like hes having an orgasm when hes playing.
callum6660 3 months ago
@callum6660 When's your next performance at Carnegie Hall?
mrpolaroid123 3 months ago
83 people are racists
B1loveR 4 months ago
I never knew a piano coul loo like a gun
deathelnater 4 months ago
i had to laugh hard when he showed his karate skills!
Cooller1993 4 months ago
His interpretation of this polonaise is somewhat different from others I think. More bouncy? Bit of a show off too. Liszt would have played like this but definitely not Chopin
kthinz37 4 months ago
@kthinz37 are u mad? dont EVEN compare liszt and the shitty lang
Cooller1993 4 months ago
who ever mocks lang lang !!!!!!!!!!! Listen___ close your eyes and think above the limit .how he plays..it's his world not our world..... the best pianist is the one who is in his world and makes the piece his song! Feel the spirit of his........try to understand his world then u will feel different. ( this sounds bit nerdy but anyway ) what ever~~~
B1loveR 4 months ago
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lawrencepiano100 4 months ago
彈的好粗糙 >.<
lawrencepiano100 4 months ago
Brilliant player， great expression and confidence!
stevenwins2012 4 months ago
wow - remarkable technical skill.
But - my back hurts from the cringing. Painful, yet I somehow couldn't get myself to stop watching.
pottyspenguin 4 months ago
The reason why he is rushing through this piece is because he has hella groupies waiting for him backstage
Kingkamehahaole 4 months ago
中國農民還是回去種土豆適合些
wjeking 4 months ago
@wjeking hi~~~Mr Potato
XueLingYin 4 months ago
omg he totally messes up like in 10 seconds into the piece. LOL i can name one person better than BANG BANG.... its called YUNDI LI. And if you beg to differ (which you can of course everyone has their own opinon), just remember this: YUNDI LI WON CHOPIN COMPETITION IN 2000, what did bang bang do? Hear Yundi Li's version and youll see the difference
damgoodballers 4 months ago
This stuff is GREAT... 13 people better??? name them.... name just 1,,, oh that's right ..You..right?
OLDERBLUE 4 months ago
jeeez. why is everyone having a dig at lang lang. its the music everyone should be paying attention to, not his face. just scroll away or something. that way you can actually appreciate the quality of his playing
charli2493 4 months ago
Haha I like his replacement of the orchestra.
TheMrClamberto 4 months ago
This is just too awful
HensCambier 5 months ago
The show is good; what counts to save that kind of music is to keep people interested in it. Oh, by the way ... Chopin was also a good show and not a perfect pianist. Who are we to judge anyway?
Lang Lang like Pavarotti helps to bring classical music back to main stream. If that remains the main merit, I can live with it.
cashflowin 5 months ago
If you play Chopin think in musicality, no in how fast you can play it forgetting all the musicality.
legocamilochopin 5 months ago
compared to michelangeli,he's a clown. no more.
alexandros789 5 months ago
@alexandros789 not only michelangeli.....many others like rubinstein horowitz and so on
ppaolo2000 5 months ago
@ppaolo2000 i think michelangeli was the best pianist ever heard. lang lang is a talented pianist, i think one of the most eclectic pianist of this time,but in his interpretation of chopin's gran polonaise he plays like a clown. playing liszt instead i think he's one of the greatest.
alexandros789 4 months ago
@alexandros789 i don't like lang lang ..certanly he has a good tecnique but his pianism is an exaggeration of pathos and at the end it seems not real....in my opinion naturally..:)
ppaolo2000 4 months ago
the most ugly interpretation i have ever heard. too fast and vfery unaccurate
antonius0123456789 5 months ago
the most ugly interpretation i have ever heard.
antonius0123456789 5 months ago
play Chopin with the passion of Liszt
yangdahui 5 months ago 8
Il apporte toute sa fantaisie au morceau. Ca annule un peu l'effet dramatique du romantisme. C'est génial.
persepolis668 5 months ago
Ah ah ah il est complètement taré ! Mais queeeeeeeeeeel talent !
persepolis668 5 months ago
Amazing musicality, Lang Lang sure is good! :)
qwertical 5 months ago
the face is not so important....listen and don t look him...please... where do you live ? in Patagonia???
Michelangeli is piano's HIstory.Lang Lang no. the music is not a face show...let go to study music please.
TheZdp1 5 months ago
I worked and played with this genius.....
you don t have a real cognition sorry..
Chopin haven t rules??????
Where did you studied music ?In a medical center?
Michelengeli is a ghostly figure????Do you know piano history???????
May be that you don t know michelangeli's story....and you have not idea what you listen.
Do you know the difference between Perrier and Champagne? I think no...but is not important.
bye
TheZdp1 5 months ago
Hilarious all these comments ! No rules were written when Chopin wrote this piece so this interpretation is as valid or invalid as any other. Personally I prefer listening to Lang Lang (who I saw live a few months at the Festival Hall and who for what it's worth stayed behind for over an hour signing autographs in foyer!) than some ghostly figure who plays with no joie de vivre!
anyardsroad 5 months ago
Let's learn...
TheZdp1 5 months ago
Lang Lang is great but this is not Chopin is a circus....
TheZdp1 5 months ago
I don't get how Lang Lang always gets so many dislikes..
ColorfulHyena 5 months ago
@ColorfulHyena YES! I swear I've been through the majority of his videos at least twice and I'm expecting millions of views with millions of likes!
whatthacrunk 5 months ago
@ColorfulHyena He often gets a highly unpredictable rapid changing on speed which destroys a sentence at all. He and his music are insane.
ChoiHsinMath 5 months ago
@ChoiHsinMath thats not true, this interpretation is great. Chopin would have appreciated. The changing of speed as you say is an old tradition coming directly from Liszt and Chopin and even Schumann. These three composer did knew each other and did teach a lot of pianists who gave the tradition to their pupils. Very famous pianists were the result. Here these ones and you will see they also change tempi....
uhartchristian 5 months ago
0:48 does the guy in the white shirt gets an orgasm :D?
XxbambambxX 6 months ago
she is bang bang!
zerglin5200 6 months ago
Not good.
Mbecker92 6 months ago
Penoso
LesQuatreAges 6 months ago
sonic boom @ 2:07
Jlan0151738 6 months ago
Like or leave people! For all the other interpretations there are other pianists. This is Lang Lang and this is his interpretation. The one and only universal way to play a piece doesn't exist and is rather (a) personal (experience).
beethoven16121770 6 months ago
Meeeeeuuu Deus...!!! Quanto atropelo desnecessário, isso é quase um estupro musical...
RCA11DESIGN 6 months ago
an excellent performer and a fine interpretation... one thing i don't like about him, he's interpretation is too much liberated.. another thing, his tone to each note may sometimes sound too harsh.... it sounds it sounds more likely a SCHERZO not a polonaise brilliante...
obeltene 6 months ago 2
Lang Lang ami se me hace que toca bastante rapido y sin interes de sentir la pieza !!
luisangel981 6 months ago
@luisangel981 no creo... si has oido varias versiones verás que cuestiona (y en eso aciertas) la interpretación de la obra en cuanto a la velocidad... es una polonesa (caracter nacionalista) y billante (hay una exageracion evidente de este aspecto) pero técnicamente ademas de ser cuasi perfecto, desafía lo posible. pero te aseguro que la interpretación no se salva de sentimiento y saboreo (jeje) de los momentos que la obra tiene. ! un saludo, quien es u interprete favorito de esta pieza??
javimateos 6 months ago
@javimateos Muy cierto , mi interprete favorito se llama Yundi Li !
luisangel981 6 months ago
@luisangel981 :) es de mis favoritos!!!!! tiene una versión de esta obra que es mi favorita, en el concurso internacional chopin, que ganó con 18 años! doy por hecho que la conoces!!! jeje un saludo!!
javimateos 6 months ago
Maravilhosa interpretação!!!!!!!!!
NicoleMPLage 6 months ago
I like his interpretation ... A lot more staccato than any other ones but I'm more of a legato kind of person but I still like it =D
612curtis 7 months ago
...this is so sick it is awesome...like Letterman likes to say get your friends and neighbors to check this out too...
fredericfranc 7 months ago
c'è qualcosa che non mi convince anche in chopin
stefano1980ify 7 months ago
I feel like that I am watching showy pianist liberace is playing..
wikct2 7 months ago
Frederic Chopin may be turning in his grave.
mlliu2006 8 months ago
i love lang lang very much
but grand polonaise dosent played like that im sorry
pianistaziz 8 months ago
I take it I'm one of the very few people that love this.
gayerest 8 months ago
about 2 minutes in and so far this may be the worst chopin op. 22 i've ever heard
fledgehog 8 months ago
Il est marrant quand il joue! Mais Bravo quand meme!
Grazyna87 8 months ago in playlist Lang Lang
没听过这么难听的诠释
ldong03 8 months ago
Showiness is a big part of what is known and perceived as "bravura"...
In that sense I find his playing very attractive in a unique way. His decisions on what to do with each particular passage don't have to make sense stylistically to leave the audience breathless in awe.
Purists may be offended, but I say Chopin's been dead for two centuries... somehow, I don't think he'll mind (the most he can do is roll around in his grave). Play on!
kb27787 9 months ago
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classic4piano 10 months ago
朗朗这个农民，带着秋收的喜悦，把肖邦的恢弘的波罗奈之变成了往地里播撒土豆。
1302456zz 10 months ago 20
@1302456zz 笑死我了
Nainica 10 months ago
@1302456zz: it is so funny words. but i have the same feeling as yours.
katew0129 5 months ago
@1302456zz: it is so funny words. but i have the same feeling as yours.
katew0129 5 months ago
This is why Langlang became famous: brilliant technique + exaggerative face expression + "Unique" (which is too much different from general musical sense) interpretation.
shengjosh 10 months ago
Well, I think probably 13 people play better than Lang Lang....
cocolucky 10 months ago 8
@cocolucky Perhaps I am one of them
JoseDanti 4 months ago
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CanIHazIceCream 4 months ago
bit of a little too much pompous. I find it a good performance though
alexei6003 11 months ago
2:10 how to catch a fly
Some1bor3d 11 months ago
tecnicamente straordinario, ma quelle facce e quelle mosse dovrebbe veramente risparmiarsele...
paolopulici67 11 months ago
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he does have the magic fingers
Some1bor3d 11 months ago
This langlang is stupid and can't understand Chopin's music.
I say fuck him. He altered this beautiful romantic piece by Chopin
into a blood-bath. Fuck you&Go to hell, langlang. Don't murder Chopin's music.
And fans of langlang,I say fuck you too.You think that music is all about being showy&no feelingYou guys just don't understand what is the true meaning of music. Langlang has no feeling. Put that into your little chicken brains before I break them with my mallet.
What a stupid pianist
123mazeppa 11 months ago
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regdwight1978 11 months ago
@123mazeppa
Well, why don't you post your own interpretation so we all are afforded the opportunity of enlightenment.
regdwight1978 11 months ago
@123mazeppa
fully agree with you!! i won't say fuck him or fuck his fans. but he's really a stupid pianist! YuDi Lee is much much better than langlang. of course lang lang has outstanding techhics but his playing just like a performance in circus, only make people fun but cursorily.... my god....!
digidragon100 11 months ago
@123mazeppa You don't have a clue. 'Feeling' does not equal sentimentality. Too many idiots can't seem to grasp this and continue bash Lang Lang when they know nothing. Go study some aesthetics if you want to appear as though you're some expert spouting the 'true meaning' of music.
This isn't one of Lang Lang's better interpretations, but he is still an excellent pianist. Do you think you can understand Chopin's music better? I guess all you'd be able to say is 'it has feeling'
johnalt16 10 months ago
@johnalt16 Of course feeling doesnt equal sentimentality-in which Lang-Lang showed a perfect example
in this weird performance.
Look at Hamelin's performance. He's the EXACT opposite of Lang-Lang.When he performs, he don't move an inch& appears that he has no feeling. But in the music he plays, one can in fact, feel his soul and albeit he don't show his emotion, the music shows it for him.
Which is one of the reasons why he is regarded as one of the greatest virtuoso pianists
of the 20th century
123mazeppa 10 months ago
Watching this, I could call playing piano a sport ;)
TheYinmusic 11 months ago
I've never heard anything from Lang Lang before.
I think he is technically brillant, like a young Horowitz. He plays with joy and surely can hammer this masterpiece like brushing his teeth.
But I have noted some kind of shallowness and lack of feeling.
Anyway it's great music!
PChemato 11 months ago
That is the weirdest interpretation....
jasonextreme 11 months ago
Holy God, be easy to interpret this complicated piece.
a virtuoso on the piano, Lang Lang is great.
Oscarenedg 1 year ago
Quel massacre!!!
openware21 1 year ago 2
perfect example of a musician overpowering the music itself
dharmdevil 1 year ago
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This Chinese or Japanese doesn't play with the heart.... He plays with the ass.... Considering it in that way, he do it good.....
mariano37551 1 year ago
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mariano37551 1 year ago
At 1:26 he goes to minor... Then at 6:26 he goes back to major. Ha! Or maybe i'm just hearing it incorrectly o.o
Tzsil713 1 year ago
@Tzsil713 It is how the score is written.
Vesivian 1 year ago
@Vesivian Alright. I'm paranoid.
Tzsil713 1 year ago
@Tzsil713 No your just a schizophrenic! lol jk :)
Vesivian 1 year ago
@Vesivian I'm glad you're kidding, I was worried for a sec. :P
Tzsil713 1 year ago
At 1:26 he goes to minor... Then at 6:26 he goes back to major. Ha!
Tzsil713 1 year ago
Is 1:26 played differently than is written?????
Tzsil713 1 year ago
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alberto63450 1 year ago
No offense to those that love Lang Lang. Yes his talent is extraordinary, however, he is too haughty and arrogant. Evidenced by this video he is more into "look at me I can play something that's really hard". Where is the Polish identity that Lang Lang plays in his rendition of the Grande Polonaise Brillante?
I prefer Janusz Olejniczak rendition of this piece
LegendOD20 1 year ago
@LegendOD20 you 're wrong dude, i met lang lang once in nuremberg in a chinese restaurant. i talked to him and we had a nice conversation, he isnt arrogant or something. but i think his playing style is way too eccentric
DrSm4rT 11 months ago
@ people who like him........minimize the window and listen to this and you will see and only show but the playing is boring
Handeltasche 1 year ago
I cant tell i prefer this perfomance or that, each one has its own interpretation, but Lang Lang plays as it was always a rebirth of each score, do you sense it?;)
Phenixdansant 1 year ago
I prefer Yundi Li.
miriettee 1 year ago 5