Cambry plays Tempest Sonata 1st mvmt

[a83692128]

i like your touch and your sound. however i believe you can have more dynamics and phrasing throughtout the piece. also the above comment about rolling waves is kind of unclear, but i do think u can have more phrasing and balance. Also you can try to be more connected in the beginning largo part, maybe try to play it alittle bit faster? because when you play too slow it feel a little bit disconnected

[TommyDai1]

im sorry i dont wanto to be offensive youre a very talented player but you are missing the gutsy quality of beethoven this is to soft.

[grimalover]

You are very good. I love your piano playing of Beethoven.

[supersmashermeta]

I think people should start auditioning for shows in areas, there are so many great pianist in the world that you see on the internet, but many of them arn't known world wide.

[pulvillus]

At some point time stops and I can hear eternity. This is simply brilliant.

[dmparchitect]

Great performance again, and one of my favorate Beethoven pieces which I know very well because I can almost play myself. When the main theme is first introduced, I cross my left hand over my right, which poses some problems but it's the best I can do...

[tedly10027]

teacher was right about the pedal throughout the recitativo lines...one pedal down through. the story goes that beethoven intended it to evoke the echoes remaining and mixing as if in a dungeon or big cavern..so it IS true to beethoven's spirit. he was , after all, BOLDER than we even think.

[RicbA91]

i love this sonata!!!! good job man!!! you should try to be a concert pianist you have the talent and the passion to do it

[akumanation]

very nice good job

[beatsdude]

Good to see you playing something from the classical era for a change! Fantastic.

[stoutfellow]

You're an awesome pianist, Jonathan. Congratulations on your achievements which are testaments to your talent and self-discipline. There is still room for improvement of musical expression in your playing. For this studying with the right teacher would be most helpful. Again, congratulations on your most impressive accomplishments.

John

[MakeViolntRevolution]

One of my favorite pieces to play and to hear. Very well done my friend. I have to say that the dynamics were excellent. Very expressive in the slow section. However, I think you could be more expressive in the rest of the piece. While it is certainly impressive that you can take it and control it (a hard thing to do, seeing as it is the Tempest), I think that some of it is lost in the blurring speed. You might want to slow it down a bit and experiment. Just a thought. Best of luck!

[19uno50]

bravo!!!!!

[SnowingInCanada]

whoa. you are awesome. seriously.

[Likeafoxow]

oh and one question: at 4:42, shouldn't the left hand be an octave lower? i have that on my edition and was playing it an octave higher too until my professor corrected me

[robmob12]

Thanks for uploading. Well done.

[yougottabFNkiddingme]

really nice chops my friend! much faster than i would take it, but that is cause i can't!! kudos and much respect... your fan and friend in japan, eLi G.

[Likeafoxow]

i dont like how you held the pedals at the two RH solo sections immediately following the recapitulation (starting at 3:34). it feels like theres too much different pitches resonating. it cant all be a one chord can it? other than that, the piece was good. though lots of minor glitches here and there. eh, it was only your first shot at it. props

[lazawrcat666]

well, it marks in any urtext edition to hold the pedal for duration of the solo

[Likeafoxow]

i understand that, and i have tried it that way since my professor likes for me to stay true to the written music. i personally am not a huge fan of it, just because it sounds a little messy. but i suppose his way is all right too. again, good job.

[JJKjaer]

Have you tried using half of the pedal? That works better, I think. One must also remember that in Beethovens time, the effect of the pedal was much smaller than today.

[Likeafoxow]

i actually decided to just hold it down completely, while playing the right hand as softly as possible. it seemed to have worked well, thanks for the advice though!

[shiranissosexy]

wow in that part after the cadenza, i had to do that part with two hands so i could do it up to tempo... you only had to use one hand, and i counted and you did the tempo precisely. good job!

[chikondarun6]

Unless i wasn't wearing my glasses, i'm pretty sure my edition doesn't have anything about crossing hands in the second theme

[Quinnduff]

i gotta side with concert pianist, you really should cross your hands.

[chikondarun6]

Yo, concertpianist,

Until you can play as well as Cambry, shut up. If you actually wan't someone to take into consideration your criticism of the piece maybe you should suggest it and not demand it. His switching hands is barely noticable, and I think he executes it wonderfully. How audacious you are to so blatantly criticize someone else's interpretation of a piece.

[ConcertPianist]

How dare you not play this piece correctly; total disgrace to the genius of Beethoven. The cross-hand method written in the orignal score was to instill the sense of the rolling waves. You do not have this here. Beethoven meant it when he wrote that the hands should cross. Honor that!

[PianoPlaya123]

lol shutup douche, what kind of kid signs up for youtube looking for the name "concertpianist"

[blingtheory]

lol........!!!

youtube the land of the critics

[Ollie53]

HAHAHAA, totally agreed!!

[pianomatteo]

you have no idea what you're talking about... if my professors are telling me specifically not to play it that way, i think he has the choice not to.

[MJGriftz]

Neither of my editions has the cross-hand method written in, nor is playing it that way practical for sustaining the last bass note in the motif. Beethoven was never impractical with his technique--please cite your sources for this "rolling wave" theory.

@Cambry, I agree though, you should work on connecting the slurred notes. Besides that, good job.

[ConcertPianist]

Please tell me you are using 3,2,3,2 when playing the beginning --- otherwise the slurs are not hearable.

[blingtheory]

does anybody know what your talking about. i dont

[SolarJakee]

Shouldnt you be able to tell by listening to it if it bothers you that much?

You jealous twat!!

Cambry you're still one of my favourite pianists and definitely my favourite you tube pianist!!

Hope to hear more soon.

[NG345]

hey i was just wondering which edition you used when you practiced for this piece?

[lordlactose]

i like this song 5 stars

[lordlactose]

jesus does this guy know every song ever writtin lol?

[Omega1987]

Uh.. No.

[chineseporcupine]

nah, I'd give that title to Ashkenazy...

[lentoagitato]

There were a few mistakes, but who cares...The only thing I would suggest at 1:50 make right hand louder and the beginning try accenting the first in note in each phrase...good job tho!

[plainwain]

Why should he? There is freedom in expression in music as long as the phrases are not completely compromised through incompetence.

[diletante86]

nice job!

[tonywylde]

nice work nigga!!!

[modernoracle]

Incredible. Your perfromance is so emotional and passionate. Thank you for the journey. I hope I can find my way back, lol.

[MJGriftz]

your style is very modern: moderate in everything. It's the way the winds blow these days. I have a feeling you will be one of the most well-known pianists of the 21st century.

(obviously some of these people have never heard of Andre Watts)

[PianoPlaya123]

Thanks for your comments MJGriftz, being one of the most well-known pianists of the 21st century is a bit out of reach though haha being a concert pianist requires that and that only to be your life forever, at this stage I am not sure what improvement i'll see or what will happen in the future, all I can do is my best and go from there, for now I just love doing this for fun :)

[Tashmere]

You are going to do Rachmanioff's second? Oh I can't wait to see it!! Is the college orchestra going to play with you? That would be so cool.

[PianoPlaya123]

Yes Tashmere :) i'm going to do Rachmaninoff's second, however it will be accompanied on second piano for now so that I can submit it to a concerto competition where hopefully i'll get the chance to play with an orchestra

[MrOCDhelpmee]

Cambry, you make several mistakes by the hitting the wrong notes at times. And you don't play with emotion. That being said I still think you do pretty well. If you really put your heart into it you might become a very well known virtuoso.

[hxc4328]

Cambry, I think you have reached the status of a celebrity. No matter what happens next, you are making history in youtube. My son, Gabriel Cano admires you,I hope he could play with you one day, maybe Beethoven piano concerto No 4?

[IamFlowHopkins]

Im speechless just brilliant

[typicalmusiclover]

god, what's with people here, so goddamn racist, cambry is quite a piano player, does it matter what color he is, ray charles was black and he was an amazing pianist, fucking dumb ignorant pricks on here, jesus. Keep it up cambry, you sound great!

[79xd79]

EVERY TIME there's a black guy in a video on YouTube, we have to be projected back in time to the eighteen fuckin' nineties. The guy's black. So what?

It still amazes me how many bigots use the internet as their last refuge.

[PianoPlaya123]

Why does it amaze you? It's the perfect place for those type of people, they can be scared and hide behind their computer all they want, they only deserve a response here if they put what they said in a video response.

[Siaa89]

its not about that i'm a nigger to but ur not playing beethoven

[Schandy]

That is pretty sad, Siaa.

[Siaa89]

is this music of beethoven or a nigger trying to compete?

[MrRockin]

U must be mad that you could never play like that.Dont take it out on other ppl because your brain can't fucntion properly to understand the art of piano...And to think i wasn't even going to respond to this ignorant comment.Ppl still have the same mind frame as before, society and TV has damaged your mind to see that we african americans can achieve high goals.U must be miserable with urself that u have failed to achieve something like this.

[LVB1770]

Oh my God, he took off his hat!

[PianoPlaya123]

lol are you really 40 years old?

[LVB1770]

PianoPlaya123,

Yea, I just don't act like it. So, what style are you

going to study now? I will miss you classical posts!

This is your best Beethoven to date.

[PianoPlaya123]

Thanks, sorry I wasn't specific when I was asking the last question now that i'm looking at it, because in your videos you look much younger. I'm going to try a little jazz, rock piano, and rap

[LVB1770]

Thanks so much PianoPlaya123,

It is good to play other styles of music. I have played

much jazz, rock, rap but on drums not piano. I wish you

all the best! Don't totally stop classical, keep your chops up.

[Breecks]

You're pretty good, obviously. I took classical lessons for many years, then I did my own thing - I try to play jazz, a lot of rock and blues, and I like it a lot. But now that I'm trying to play classical again, I realized that NOTHING trains your fingers in dynamic control like classical. NOTHING. Whatever you do, keep up classical on the side.

[plainwain]

I agree with your ideology concerning the classical music "discipline". Check out a man named: "Thelonious Monk" right here on youtube and research how he was a student in classical music before 'doin' his own thang' in founding "Be-Bop" and playing Jazz.

[creubank]

Beautifully played! I liked how you distribute the lines between left and right hands. I am learning this piece now but it will take me at least a year before I can perform it like you.

[Atsushi0607]

Thanks! You remember I wrote somewhere that I would listen to more Beethoven works from you.

It's Awesome. respect

[eeevildictator]

I love it, all of your work!

You are my piano idol

[Jazzeerun]

To have memorized 5 to 10 complete pieces is brilliant - and you're ten times beyond that. I realize that classical is your forte but what's your opinion of artitsts such as Art Tatum or Johnny Costa?

[dageek]

Great performance. Did you happen to record the other 2 movements?

[Marowyn]

You totally rock!

Such talent!!

[swimgirlangel]

One of the best videos you've made so far. I like your playing in this one! I've been listening a lot to Kempff, one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters, and your movement resembles much of his.

[pharmacopaeia]

Your videos make me super happy - thank you :)

[Mozmike]

Great stuff! Sorry you won't be doing classical anymore...you're great!

[MrBonkers123]

your videos are always a treat !