Yundi Li Plays Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 1/5

[zeniabrpat]

Beautiful! Beautiful! Yundi Li is Superb!

[cloudy10071]

Yundi has great talent .

I think his power of expression is coming from pure mind loving the music.

love his performannce with all his heart and soul.

2,3 movement are beautiful!!! Yundi and the Cellist are impressed me deeply.

[hvk29]

Horrible orchestra, beurk!

[Grigor99]

Well, this is very fine playing, unfortunately he missed the opening low B flat with the horn. This is a small point, but a very important one. I doubt he would miss this now in his older more experienced years.

[MaestroSerge]

Yundi Li is pretty good, particularly for his age, but orchestra is terrible. Absolutely agree with JimiHendrixANDVADER; listen to Emil Gilels, especially his early recording with Chicago Symphony and Fritz Reiner.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@MaestroSerge Well, You won't get much better than Emil Gilels and Fritz Reiner. I must admit that Rubinstein, Gilels, Richter, Arrau and a few others are the best for me. I have a soft spot for Glenn Gould and Horowitz also. My music teacher said that Rubiinstein was the greatest, and he was a personal friend of the master.

[bagdad4]

nice projection in the piano's opening phrase

[jazzlover06]

well that's me told! :)

[Schamschi]

Man, this orchestra plays exceptionally boring.

[JimiHendrixANDVADER]

Some one has been listening to Emil Gilels.

[Sim882]

Yundi is a very good pianist but I love this concerto too much to praise his performance here

[jazzlover06]

Why does China have to be known for LangLang when Yundi Li is so much more talented! I mean, would Lang lang even qualify to play at the Chopin Piano festival, let alone win it?!

[wikct2]

It is the US that promotes him because he studies in US. Yundi Li never studied in US and prefer to study piano in Germany. To bad and to sad, everything AMerican does is politically motivated. You don't even see much of Yundi Li's CDs in US but Lang Lang's everywhere even no one is interested to buy.

[jazzlover06]

Well LangLang was always a superstar in China first of all. 30million people in china are grade 8 piano standard and they can't recognise the talent of Yundi Li... Saying that, I do think Lang Lang has come an awful long way, and has just about avoided now being labelled as a "prodigy", he might rescue himself; Yehudi Menuhin did.

[robfuturemd]

Bang Bang is "marketable" it has nothing to do ith his abilities as a pianist, he is not that well regarded in most knowledgeable circles anyway.

[wikct2]

I don't see what is your point? Is this related to what my comment says? Then how so? I know what I am saying because I am American.

[wikct2]

I dont project any image? I just say what my preference is. I dont' care if you like or not. Do Americans care about image of others?

[jazzlover06]

I'm not quite sure what your argument is... My best friend is from HK and I have spent many months there - it is an incredible city. However, one criticism is you can't use HK as a microcosm for China, since it might as well still be British (or at least not Chinese - autonomically/ linguistically / socially speaking), but my point wasn't meant to be racist :S - I'm just saying gold-shoe Lang lang is more famous in China than Yundi Li is.

[jazzlover06]

Oh thank you - I should have read this comment first! :$ As much as I enjoy having discussions like this, I believe Youtube is never the right medium for debate as so much can be misconstrued as argumentative. And by the way, it is doubtless that China will become a superpower; if not THE superpower soon...

[jazzlover06]

wooooooah, I'm not a racist, and I disrespect you for respecting racists... None of my best friends are British, and many of the nicest people I've come to know have been Chinese for instance. I hope you are right and Yundi Li will become known throughout China - he deserves it. In fact, Lang Lang has improved so much recently that I follow him all over, and have booked tickets to see him at the Proms this August. I resent being called racist, and I resent honest debates turning acrinomious...

[jazzlover06]

I think LangLang is in the process of maturity now though; over the last year he has come on soooo much, and aside from the famed Chinese teaching, I would put a grand piano on the fact Daniel Barenboim was the single entity that turned Lang lang around... At least you admit he is a virtuoso - would you ever call Argerich, Richter, Brendel virtuosi?

[robfuturemd]

Can't agree with you more bro. Finally someone agrees with me that Yundi Li is better!!!

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@robfuturemd Um. I don't know anyone who doesn't think that. All over youtube people are saying Yundi Li is marvellous and Lang Lang is rubbish. Have a look at Lang Lang's masterclass with Danny. Danny just about lost it. I don't think he was impressed with Lang Lang.

[NachtCrus]

@SugarTomAppleRoger my piano teacher seems to think Lang Lang is "ok" and the piano professor seems to think "Lang Lang is crap, Akiko (my piano teacher) plays better than him". I think it has to do with the way he moves a lot while he is playing and the exaggeration he puts on some things that puts out a lot of people

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@NachtCrus I wouldn't call Lang Lang "crap". I don't think you would either. That is a bit strong. If your piano teacher plays better than Lang Lang, he must be very good indeed. :)

[NachtCrus]

@SugarTomAppleRoger yeah, i like his music, and people are a bit excessive when they critisize him, and the professor was just joking :p, but he really does hate lang lang for some reason

[bookguy12000]

@SugarTomAppleRoger Barenboim?

[Joelthry]

@jazzlover06 I am with you about Yundi Li! I think he is amazing, however Lang Langs repertoire is WAY bigger than Yundi Li :( that is a fact

[ADVERTlSEMENT]

@jazzlover06 lol he would now these days

[tbone2604]

No, it's no.2.

[crackslanger]

the part starting at 8:01 is so badass

[beethomozart]

Yundi Li is an exceptional good pianist, amazing specially if we take into account how young he is , 27 nowadays, This concert started to be composed by the genius of german romanticism, Brahms in 1878 and premiered 3 years later on november 9, 1881 in Budapest, with the composer himself at the piano!

[bach1899]

Well, that's almost 10 years ago, when he was 17.

[Rure]

Woah his hair looks so different!