李雲迪 Yundi Li - sun flower (piano)

[SpringInTheSchool]

His performance and he both are so nice...whoa.

Both are. Both... (<<What am I takin' about?)

[CubicPianoNinja]

Fantastic performance! I think I'm going to make this piece my next big project!

[H1widA1]

so beautiful

[charliehou48]

10 people are jelous they can't play this well

[llethaface11]

i really feel like i'm walking through a chinese village where everyone is wearing traditional chinese clothes. its summer time and i can smell the sunshine.

[sakaco88]

kinda modern! Love this piece

[littlefireist]

good job

[kssthrn]

this song just makes me so... just plain happy :)

[bachopinmozart]

This makes me want to go to China, get my orange chicken, and never come back to America

[verastar29]

@bachopinmozart have to remind you there's no such thing as"orange chicken" in China... It is purely an Ameican style Chinese food

[RUFOMENENDEZ]

you play very very well

[cutthroooat]

I find it really hard to place this song in any category. Kinda Asian, but not really. Kinda classical, but not really. Kinda gentle, but not really. Kinda slow, but not really. The only category I can safely put it into: Too short. Anything that awesome should not end after 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

[stad97]

@cutthroooat

i would put it under classical structure but chinese tune. i dunno, but i don't have any trouble categorising it.

[littlefireist]

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[charliehou48]

@cutthroooat what are you even talking about, it's totally asian

[lookseer500]

9 people don't know what they're missing. The 658+ people are on the right track. ^.^

[12345catherine12345]

this brought tears to my eyes as it reminded me of my mother country

[wubs23]

@12345catherine12345 you live in a sunflower? o.O'

[chihuahuabebi]

sounds like chinese muisc

[MLFamily]

@chihuahuabebi

It is indeed. We have others like 'yellow river', 'liang zhu' and so on that had been translated into piano interpretations.

[23456angie]

@chihuahuabebi

so????

[chobeethaninov]

This makes me happy...

[Niersteentje]

Tra la-la la, la

how cheerful!

[GoldenWhiskey]

very nice is this piece also on other instruments?? :P

[selena393939]

super cool!!ヾ(。◕ฺ∀◕ฺ)ノ♫♫°º¤ø,¸¸,ø♪º°­`° ♫ø°º♫°º¤ø,¸¸,ø♪º°`° ♫ø°º

[Mreleezy]

i can't figure out why there 9 people hate this?? so u guys think Justin Bieber is better than this??

[kralbertson]

Limber fingers. Music like this uplifts your heart and pulls out an easy smile.

Yundi Li is freaking awesome.

[LenachenUSA]

好听死啦！

[sanggmaii811]

@LenachenUSA

還沒死啦!不過

一個字

讚!!

[raycdaddy]

his piano playing is so smooth, its actually amazing

[Tbanks007]

This might be the most unique and intriguing piece I have ever heard!

[RaindropsFantasia]

I truly don't understand how anybody could dislike this music!

[raymondleung93]

agreed

[supergolferkid]

Have i just witnessed a god play piano?? I think i have,

[TheNoralein]

I love this so much

[Haygirl345]

@andrew33323 Dead on. I thought I was crazy because I couldn't make it sound right. I gots a job in front of me...

[SweChristmas]

How can he play so fast! I play it around 100 times slower...

[KLOOmitdoppelO]

i feel like laughing, this kinda makes me happy :D i really never felt this way when listening to this kind of music :O

[aquajak]

he is way better than lang lang, just my opinion..

[lindsayschulz9]

could anyone email me this beautiful music so I can attempt to play it? adamsjaa1986@yahoo.com

[swedentracknfield]

@lindsayschulz9 I have sent it to you :)

[AnimeDevil009]

its soo....magnificent.......in some part its.....so joyful... i dunno but dis music is beautiful......u cant not like dis.......agree?

[Tama300]

Does anyone know what year this piece was written?

It is traditional Chinese music? academic or music?

[10iPanda]

it really paints a picture in yur mind =)

[jmd130]

wow. this is inspiring. 

[absolute666]

sugoi naa, subarashi~~ (*_*) <3

[honkiebonkie]

double u, o, double u. (wow)

[breezestar100]

Love it!

[Jellybottlebabies]

@yuxuan121094 youre a dick, and your language pussy.

[stepha9416]

This is the most beautiful thing i've ever heard on the piano...i literally just want to listen tot his for the rest of my lifeeeee <333

[deborahmendoza7]

lo amo eternamente!

[1shalan]

Fantastic! The combination of East with the West, what a pleasure!

[iT4L3NT3D]

this is art

[noestardust]

lovely

[musicman753357]

Cute and playful song, gotta love Yundi Li.

[AnimeVocaloidGirl]

Is this that song in that Higashi Setsuna AMV? :O

[foxzen9]

The composer's name should be in the title and tags

[swedentracknfield]

This piece is so light and happy!

[josephinewu870303]

I played this before!!! :)

[freshmentos]

this makes me so happy! ^_^

[sindygsz]

marcoyuan012, fur elise is this difficulty for you?

[InAnn4]

It looks like it isn't dificult!!! Osome

[op10no4]

So wonderful, full of kindness =)

[tortoise1963]

Wonderful, I like it

[RicAbapo]

i can really imagine a sunflower, directly in front of me, beautifully smiling with grace, glancing her head and somewhat like inviting me come to her and dance, ah, this piece is so nice, so calm, sound like u are traveling in a chinese village then u saw that sunflower that i've been talking..

[Foosofdeath]

@RicAbapo I imagine a sunflower in front of my face with happyface and a carot for a nose and i wonder what am i thinking? :P

[RicAbapo]

@Foosofdeath hahaha! i do not know, but that's what "imagination" is all about, so uncertain, and it changes and varies from time to time! :)

[superkenneth899]

Beautiful.

[marcoyuan012]

thanks for the offer but somebody emailed the sunflower piece to me already..by keemzoh.

yes you're correct, the piece was quite easy. its just like the same difficulty level as fur elise by beethoven. in one week or less, i will be able to perfect it. i have to play it lightly though-for the fast parts.

again, thanks. i would like to have the piece la campanella by franz liszt. do you happen to have one? :-D

[chueckting]

I have the music sheet for this peice, I cant post the link in here, dunno y.. but if you want it you can PM me.

[Zonataz]

Wow, what a great interpretation!

[xXbenikoXx]

I want his shirt

[sweeyue]

Effortless fingering, and the melody just flows hauntingly.

[leungus]

buy the chopin album, it comes with free sheet music!

[marcoyuan012]

trying so hard to find this piece.

[leungus]

Don't just put negative mark on my comment! get his actual chopin album, stick it on ur computer, and it will allow you to print sheets music off! DICK HEAD!

[GoldenMusician]

That's the respect you get for helping out, lol.

[hehehahabla]

i got this album:D

[marcoyuan012]

whats your problem?

[daveren]

look up on youtube

"Yundi Li plays Sun Flowers by Wang (piano)"

or go to this vid.

/watch?v=yuzG_dckk7Q&feature=r­elated

[greenily]

@marcoyuan012

i can give you the sheets if you want xD , just, pn me ^^

the sheets are easyt but to play them as fast as in the video is difficult =.=

i love the way Yundi li plays sun flower *-*

[floatingrose14]

@greenily and by the way:) can you send me the sheets too?? this would be soooo awesome!!:)

[daveren]

?

Which album, the chopin recital and also

do you know what the sheet music is?

[thesweethush]

by whom is this piece?

or does he just play a piano version of anything from anywhere? :D

[dli123456]

its by wang, the edited version. hope i helped!

[thesweethush]

you did, thanks ;)

[deerodchan]

@thesweethush

this is from yu shi wangs sunflower.

[cantaloupehat134]

this is so asian. epic win.

[japanesesen]

Awesome play!! :D

[cjie106]

It's a really fun piece to play!

[andyandlou]

I like the little look of inspiration into the ceiling

[dli123456]

102181 views. HAH

[dli123456]

lol i like his shirt

xDDDD

[dli123456]

gorgeous. just. beautiful. *speechless :o

[jbichotte]

makes me think of some Chinese market place where everyone is happy

[mcmusician1992]

WOW absolutely amazing!!!!!! very talented!! i loved it!!

[NuovoCurioso]

Molto bravo....OK OK!!!

[bihagsutube]

Beautiful Piece executed Beautifully.

[DreamPiano]

Wonderful

1000 Star Forever

Serena

[yuentze001]

i really love Yundi's performance. best technique.

[bluematrix109]

lolz! Pentatonics @ its best! hahaha!

[TheWaterfallman]

That's great!

[wLasky]

Yu Shi Wang

arranged by Er Yao Ling

[Chaltje]

Who is the original composer of this piece? Full name?

[Chaltje]

aawhhh lovely piece :D

[igormarich1968]

Thank god that i have lived to see coming back of the romaticism in interpretation of yundi lee,

vladimir berezovski ,lang-lang

.and others.They are continuing great tradicion

of wladimir horowitz and arthur rubinstain.

igor marich,koncert pianist

[iceartic25]

is this song easy?

[coffemuse]

nope, he just makes it look that way :)

It's not in a Western scale (i.e. not major or minor). Makes it difficult unless you're familiar with the key it's in.

[iceartic25]

i see cause i dont know why , this tune somehow repeats itself many times in my head when i doing things. =)

[vincentws03]

it's sort of pentatonic that gives it the "Chinese" feel, but not totally, so it seems a bit normal.... don't think that makes it difficult though

[Wasabi144]

@coffemuse I think the harder part is just how fast and precise the piece has to be.

[Alejandro270193]

it's not so hard. I think that all is difficult since you have to work to master a piece.

It's not as hard as a Beethoven Piano sonata, but i'ts harder that For Elisa, for example.

[Alejandro270193]

yeah it is

[andrew33323]

Well at first glance, if you look at the sheet, it doesn't look too bad. But as you start to play it, you realize that unless you have the fluidity and speed and dexterity of the pros, it just doesn't sound right. The hard part is not learning the notes. The hard part is making it sound good.

[steamrolledboy]

on that note... the part from about 0:20 to 0:25 is damn near impossible to get the articulation right for me.

[ItzThatAznJonny]

@andrew33323 So true....the song needs that delicate, bouncy, quickness to make it not sound like a "dead" sunflower. But all the speed and dexterity problems can be solved if you practice alot. After, Yundi Li may be a prodigy, but he is still a human, and if you practice enough, you can get close to his level, can't you?

[greenily]

@ItzThatAznJonny

yes, one can! ^.^

i practiced it a lot of times.. ^^ i think after 2 month i could play it this fast.. *-*

it's so beautiful that i can play it again and again. xD the most songs a annoying with the time..

[floatingrose14]

@greenily so do you think it's veery difficult to learn or is it not?

'cause I would really loooove to play it, but I don't know if I'm good enough at the Piano.

[VSKCREW]

@andrew33323 It's a pretty good introduction to the chinese classical music though :) Most of their music is composed pretty much the same way.

[floatingrose14]

@andrew33323 you have the sheets? can you send it to me? would be great! :)

[mrhairy2005]

Perfect Chinese pianist!

Maybe caucasians can live in China and experience the culture before learning this song.

[LiUra17]

Beautiful!!

[ZhuMicho1122]

great!!! i love it soooo much! i'll never be able to play it that well!

[DeadSexington]

breathtaking

impossible not to listen to without smiling from ear to ear

[YSFmemories]

☺☻☺☻☺☻

[Dschon13]

Don't overdo it ^^

I heard this song and instantly tried to play it...

Now I practice for about 3 weeks and play it quite well... (I'm 15 and got piano lessons for about 1 year now (I'm not asian, lol))

[vincentws03]

I spent a whole weekend trying to overcome the technical aspects of this piece (i.e. playing all the notes correctly). I'm Asian LOL

[IndiansRulee]

wow :|

[stonebridge001]

So beautiful, so lovely!

[coffemuse]

Wow, fascinating - you can hear how he's matured when you compare this recording with the way he played the same piece at the Chopin competition in 2000. That's on you tube too - scroll down on right, it's called 'Yundi Li plays Sun Flowers by Wang (piano), posted by CleverDjembe. I never thought it was possible to improve on perfection, but he has! :-)

[matelotgeek]

> Yundi Li plays Sun Flowers by Wang (piano), posted by CleverDjembe

why not just post the link ???

[vincentws03]

playing a non-Chopin in a Chopin competition?!

[meltedmalt]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the Chopin competition, you are only allowed to play pieces by chopin. :)

[ZhuMicho1122]

i think it is just a motto (like the chess tournament, the Right Move)

[YSFmemories]

That's what i thought. ofcourse this has nothing to do w/ the competition

[meltedmalt]

Sorry, I guess youtube formatted my comment differently than I intended. I was replying to a guy that said something in the context of "Yundi Li has matured so much... Check out him playing this song in the chopin festival by clicking (one of the videos on the right)

[vincentws03]

there is NO WAY that a non-Chopin would appear in a "Chopin festival".... I think you're talking about his concert; Yundi Li live in Concert, it's a DVD

[coffemuse]

I think they play lots of pieces by Chopin, and one or two by someone else. Didn't Rafal do a Beethoven??

[MurasakiGurl]

Sorry this is a noobish question, but what is this "grade"? (in this case, not school grades) I've never even heard of it. Plus I am not that experienced in piano, but I have overcome many hard songs. :)

[MysteriousClubProxy]

Does anyone have the sheet music. I need it!!!

[PattehPatrick]

Haha

I'm Asian, but I'm not a music student. I've seen other people, who weren't Asians ask, "What grade?". I definitely agree with what you just said. If you know how to play the piano, you have the technique down, and you can play it aesthetically and emotionally, then you can play the God damn song.

The "grade" doesn't make the pianist; unless, if you suck that much to rely on lessons to learn a song, and you can't practice independently.

And yes, I know how to play the piano.

[LogoStar09]

I love this song so much!!!!!

[Ragnarokhack]

LoonooL playes this song very good search profil LoonooL =O

[blarg1221]

anyone know the approximate grade of this piece?

[itsanthonyhere]

Stop thinking about grades. Just because it's a hard grade doesn't mean you can't learn it. You either can, or you can't. But, I don't know. I just had to say that because Asian music students always ask "what grade what grade?"

[petertungate1]

ok, that was a little racey, but I agree with you.  I was just wondering if it was worth my time to improve my skill, or if it was a song I could learn on my off time for personal pleasure.

[itsanthonyhere]

A song is whatever you make it : )

Don't ask others what you're capable of.

[Hypocrite333]

not SO difficult, to LEARN, but awfully difficult to actually PLAY this.

To keep it together as one piece, in the right mood and the right intention, without leaving out all the facettes of the song, THATS the real WORK you have as a player of this song, and this is, what yundi li did.

[yuentze]

So refreshing!

[gaussboy1]

This piece is awesome.

His hair is coool...=)

[AgitoKingOfFang]

When I'm down or troubled about something I always listen to this song... Yundi Li is incredible. I absolutely adore his hands technique. So smooth and elegant. And thank you for sharing this video.

[matelotgeek]

this piece is really spirit-lifting

[alexanderhartkopp]

@ vincent, to play it the way he does - belive me it is as difficult as it sounds;)

[jwcaligirl]

can you please send this to me?!

it's absolutely beautiful

[vincentws03]

it's not as difficult as it sounds :)

[heyygracee]

Beautiful! im totally in love with this music. Can u please send this sheet to my email please? i really want to play this music

[a1180427]

真的好喜歡李雲迪詮釋的方式

[JonnMcNally]

where did you get this video? can you upload it somewhere so i can download the higher quality one, or just the mp3 would be nice.

[swordyboyakon]

that'd be cool to be like him, having every piano technique at my disposal, that way i can play every piece and any piece whenever i feel like it.

[fennnyyy]

must be so fun to be able to play like that.. :)

[bobthebuildereatscow]

woooooow he plays it so well!!! im learning this atm and getting 10000 audial orgasms(just thought you'd like to know) each second because i've always wanted a chinese sounding piece(being chinese) and this is so chinese

[pietpietpiet59]

ahh..you mean eargasms