Lang Lang - Liszt La Campanella

[SuperWest94]

ALL PROFESSIONAL PIANISTS ARE GREAT YOU CANT SAY ONE IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER

[chingping0804]

the sound recorded was totally rubbish! he plays well but the recorder's quality was bad.

[grandisimo1000]

1:45 mistake :)

[Pilotsofer]

@grandisimo1000 good for you

[jonnyslowjo]

Why would people bother to listen to this when they could listen to Katy Perry or something fun?

[legendac]

@jonnyslowjo why would you bother to watch this and comment lol.

[ahming1984]

I think Li Yundi is playing much more better than him...

[ThePianoPlayer4Ever]

1:22... why?

[TheMusicpatri]

Todo muy lindo para el show ,"con toda la parafernalia"...pero la música clásica es formal !!!, lo cual significa que hay que respetar en la medida de lo posible todos los matices que introdujo el autor, y ni que hablar del ritmo caprichoso...

Es evidente que este muchacho no conoce nada del movimiento romántico tardío, y mucho menos del exquisito estilo de Liszt!!. No hizo mas que deformar la pieza a su antojo y comodidad para poder tocarla...,escuchen a Rubinstein y notarán la diferencia.-

[fredericfranc]

...restores your faith in the YT audience if one-third of them DO NOT like this...yes, LL is amazingly indifferent to the music, the perf. is entirely generic, there is no discernible interest in any articulation or stylization, he just beats out the notes, not the music, no "little bell" is heard at all...

[pidrgu]

I dont understand why there are so many dislikes on this video? What's wrong with his playing?

[guismiti]

The people who are disliking, they think this is one of his other interpretations, in which he modifies the music, I dont like those either. But this one, it is excellent, so, dont comment and dont dislike before you hear it. You wouldnt notice it is him playing if you simply covered your eyes.

[guismiti]

@guismiti

By excellent I mean, unmodified.

[mfnieddu]

Magnifique !!! BRAVO!!

[animederpulous]

The people who actually dislike this... THIS IS AWESOME

[KhagarBalugrak]

Lang Lang is as good as Horowitz was. He's right up there with Murray Perahia,

[JDTNYC32]

@KhagarBalugrak Not even close to Horowitz. The kid is robotic 90% of the time, and sloppy mistakes a 10-year old is taught how to fix the other 10% of the time. Horowitz was never as hamfisted and emotionless.

[LilMusicful]

@JDTNYC32 Okay , your turn, show us how well you can play this :)

[JDTNYC32]

@LilMusicful When I was 15 years younger and had 17 years of piano lessons behind me, I played this. Tried to start out on a promising professional career. Back then I would have accomodated you by posting a video to prove you wrong (no youtube back then). My dream at the time was to become a concert pianist. But when you have an untimely stroke at 22 and the dreams die, you can't. I still teach, just can't do much anymore myself. Sorry.

[MiaSakamoto]

my ears are bleeding

[thiresaki]

shut up you all!!! Comercial or not comercial, he is one of the most great pianists of our days and if you want to judge him, you should start playnig like him too!! ohh, one tiny little detail, YOU CAN'T!!!

[jc2971]

Does he know how to play this or what? He should take a lesson from E. Kissin

[ThomasPetrik]

Omg ! Milion mistakes, he just faces that he is the pianist - comercial pianist - ( valentina lisitsa plays it much much better than him -_- )

[jakemcguire777]

@ThomasPetrik - speaking of mistakes... You start off your critique sounding like the love child of Paris Hilton and Pauley Shore (OMG!) and then proceed to squeeze in 6 grammatical errors. To demonstrate this much shitheadedness in roughly 20 words is simply remarkable. Well done, Thomas. Well done.

[ThomasPetrik]

@jakemcguire777 Sorry Im stranger - try to write something in slovak language , perhaps you will be better speaker :))

[rachm06]

that piano has a strange sound..

[elenatalentoaspell]

¿Lang Land vs Yundi Li? = ¡¡ música maravillosa !! vs técnica fría

Sin duda Yundi Li se sabe la partituta a la perfección nota por nota.

Lang Lang va desgranado la música sonido a sonido de modo incomparable

[debeastdueeast]

Woah!!! a human making mistakes, kill him!!!

[nguyentuan2050]

the king of piano !

[1983Marcolino]

Oh my! At 3:43 there's a serious mistake with his left hand. And you can hear it quite well too. Look at his face!

[samuraimatt11]

he made mistakes =O

[cubspiano]

Fantastic playing, still going with the Kissin version though.

[Malaperdoklis]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!!!!

[Pilotsofer]

why so much dislike?

[kikyouchen]

@Pilotsofer maybe because he is not good looking?

[AllaboutDebby]

2:44-2:48 Emo

After 2:49 Applause by others?

[Pilotsofer]

Lang Lang, you are a great inspiration to me

[rexpakyue]

多麼美麗的Performance被你兩句國語徹底破壞氣氛了

[PianoMaster221]

if only Kissin would play Hungarian Rhapsody 2...

[cubspiano]

@PianoMaster221 Agreed! The Prelude in C-Sharp Minor would also be nice.. I suppose he makes up for it with the Scriabin Etudes.

[wclmyy]

So surprisingly, Langlang played this piece softly and lovely! This is not the typical fast and crazy pianist as people expected. But you can still tell that's Langlang's style towards the end, Isn't it? I love his performance, always so exciting with full energy!!!

[tommy30092000]

i think acardi volodos is better then him!

BUT ALSO THIS IS GREAT

[danhuyle]

I think Lang Lang has the best finishing pose for this piece. I've seen other ones, and never would've thought of this one.

[tjtheplay]

Kissin and yundi li has a waaaaay better interpretation of this. However, I do think that Lang Lang gets a little too much criticism.

[albertcombrink]

Impresive!

[chenle12]

10000 times better then yundi



[mosen17]

bang bang .

[jere9992]

why don't they just shut up, omg

[Ravenofyore]

Give him a metronom.

[dagadbm]

kissin wins

[DrLegitimate]

@dagadbm To be fair, Kissin is known for how well he plays the piece. I don't think anyone else in the world can play it as well as Kissin.

[dagadbm]

@DrLegitimate indeed. it's amazing. but lang lanag did an amazing job in liszt concerto. i was like: WTF THIS ISNT LANG LANG

[YDellMe]

Forget it Mr Bang Bang.. I thought you were not tooo far away from Yundi Li... But now i guess Yundi Li plays it better than you even with his toes =)

[ThePhantomneko]

Guys? This is the famed man who plays the Hungarian Rhapsody #2 with ease. Your comments are rude and, unless you are a musician yourself and have played this song, then I suggest that you SHUT UP.

[fastestbird]

before blaming him, watch this : /watch?v=8yE3Dz0-koA

[TheCicek34]

kissin is better

[bethpinochet]

Lo amooo!!

Geniaaal!

[705JRC]

LOL @ 2:46 -- does he think he's a tenor holding a high C? Classic!!!

[mcollinsblog]

An amazing pianist plays an incredible piece of music and all you can think to do is compare him to another incredible pianist? What's wrong with just appreciating the sheer level of skill it takes to play such a piece?

[ThePhantomneko]

@mcollinsblog I must agree. Unless you can play anything better and put this man to shame, I would suggest that you keep your thoughts of comparison to yourselves and just enjoy the music.

[G00PG00PIE]

A few of the notes are out of tune. Sounds so much more worse than Yundi Li.

[YoufailTrollYouFail]

Who fucking is this human error?

[matthewypk]

shut up when someone is playing piano!

[weirdspanishdude]

droped 1 percent after i wrote it

[yenhoho]

Liszt might want to slap him in his big face.

[TheBobofi]

Lang lang is awesome!

[Djioguinho]

evgeny kissin has a perfect personality to play this kind of masterpieces.

[weirdspanishdude]

why is it 67% like?

[OnlyOnWensdays]

@weirdspanishdude good math!

[chelschoy]

i like Yundi Li's version more

[sibyller1]

Can not compare with Yundi at all,after listen to langlang's interpretation,I just want to say Yundi deserves more attention.

[Luisitosau]

evgeny es mejor desde el comienzo, con fuerza y pasion, este chinito no la hace tan bien como kissin

[xuhanxiang]

i dont knwo y ppl dislike this video. if you are a true musician who knows how to appriciate music then you would know this is a great great performance. please dont just press dislike because you do not like lang lang or his interpretations for some other pieces.

[TaylorJ0nas]

Liszt (from the sky) : " THANKS Lang Lang "

[tnthepianoplayer]

I think i wanna learn it sounds cool

[G00PG00PIE]

I think Yundi Li plays this more smoothly and nicely...

[proszel]

Chinese has nothing to do with it.  Yundi Li understands this piece. Lang Lang does not.

[okhabin]

lol they talk, they touch the mic, blow air in it, knocks on it, beep sound, i mean... i believe lang lang is Chinese, show some respect..

[BeaLux100]

the piano isnt the best tuned (but nothing compared to mine :'/ ) and i gotta say i really like the lisitsa version better. sounds more fluent, think because she really plays the high octave trillers as trillers and not like sleeping (uhh that was polemic, sorry lang lang)

[dlfreak1]

shut up while he's playing normal people doesnt understand cat's XD

[a12196935]

他彈的好輕鬆=.=

[rvwatch]

Wow, I actually kind of enjoyed this interpretation and I didn't even want to kick a puppy in the face as a result of his facial expressions! However, I suspect someone instructed him to tone down the crazy face a bit... But unfortunately I listened to Kissin's version just before this... Compared to that, Lang Lang might as well have been playing a keytar with 2 baseball bats for hands...

[polarvolcano15]

Horrible bang at 1:58

[tvu732]

Sorry Lang, I'm already in love with Yundi Li. xD

[yiu1130154]

A bit slower than Yundi Li but more magnificent! :D

[LittleDreamWalker]

I found his interpretation of this piece a bit too mechanical without much emotion for a Liszt piece. But he surely has his theatrical skills... i find his facial expressions really painful for some reason ._.

[jo88sip]

crazy asians!

they're to good at everything!

[ivansobst17]

yundi li is much better than him

[Pilotsofer]

@ivansobst17 no

[Ignika542]

Who the hell is talking while he's playing? Stupid Chinese woman.

[celebrei]

love the pianist hate the piano

[radoslavmladenov]

why everybody makes comparison between pianists? Each pianist plays his own interpretation of the pieces, it is logically that they will differ. That's the beauty of the music. Great performance on this extremely difficult piece.

[Fkid]

"Hotties shaking their ass" - two sluts with dancing (actually just shaking asses) randomly in a room - 2.44 million views - 90% of likes

"Lang Lang - Liszt La Campanella" - the most skilled pianist among 2 billion asians, who has dedicated his life to music, performing this magnificent song by one of the best composers ever - 14664 views - 73% of likes

Shame on you humanity...

[piano0b]

@Fkid yeah the other 27% saw yundi li, valentina lisitsa, evgeny kissin or whatever. everything is better than this. i think it's the bad audio quality why it sounds so worse (i hope so). oh yeah and he is not the most skilled asian pianist

[Fkid]

@piano0b this man played LA CAMPANELLA. no matter if it is worse than Kissin, he is playing something that requires a lifetime dedication and lots of skill. Of course everyone has their own opinions on different pianists. The point of my comment is that this video not only has less than 1% of the "hotties shaking their ass" views, and it's also more disliked.

[piano0b]

@Fkid excuse me but i've never heard about this video before

[tjtheplay]

@Fkid Okay now this interpretation sucks. It would have been better if you posted that comment on yundi Li's or Kissins interpretation lol

[elainemusic369]

Magnificent performance! But the high D# key is slightly out of tune.

[tommasomangiagalli]

greenhorn..learns from kissin, then we'll talk about it..

[zoenie123]

The high D# note went out of tune during the playing ..... that's a pity. I like the performance :-)

[Beenanddoneit]

Lang Lang is good but for anybody wanting to see how this should really be played try Georges Cziffra who is the finest Liszt interpretator. Okay the videos are old but just listen to Cziffras magic.

[puterabeethoven]

yundi just disappeard from touring entirely recently. lang lang just got better and better.

[blackcuve]

So I just watched this, and compared to Evgeny Kissin's version..

Sorry Lang Lang.. you ain't got nothing on Kissin. He exceeds you in technique, speed, and accuracy. Still very good though

[Eriolwood]

@blackcuve I agree

[dataznguy5]

Most people youtube "La Campanella" and see Yundi or Kissin videos on top result and immediately think their version is the best. There are others brilliant renditions such as those played by Alicia de Larrocha or Alice Sara Ott. Lang Lang's version sounded very witty and lively, a pity it was played on such a piano.

[ltran90]

First of all - he's playing for a chinese audience. Those people don't even notice if a piano is out of tune or not (most of them).

Second: Lang Lang is clearly better then Yundi Li. Although Yundi is a more professional pianist who doesn't pull of a show all the time, he has a limited repertoire and only his Chopin is somewhat good. Lang Lang if playing seriously has a much wider range of skills.

[flakemike]

And you guys think he is at the same level with yundi? What the hell was wrong with you?

[work365days]

這鋼琴的聲音跟磚塊一樣！ 

[matiquielma]

What's wrong with that steinway!?

[gc0619]

Wow, this is definitely LangLang's version of La Campanella! Hope to listen this piece in his concert with a different piano.

[Teppichbodenman]

i'm sorry but i don't agree with this interpretation... in my oppinion it's a bit... boring...

[plok20032001]

He is.....................if you close your eyes

[waersd3]

OMG HE IS SOOOOOOO PRO

[oitotheworld23]

wow that piano sounds like sh*t

[Ignika542]

You know, really, the only people that could critique them would be people who could be better than them, or play at their equal level... So all of you who argue, "LANG LANG IS BETTER" or 'YUNDI LI KICKS BANG BANG'S ASS ALWAYS" can go practice. Kthanks :)

[xplah]

@Ignika542 And not a single fuck was given that day.

[boxers7x5]

@Ignika542

LOL, that' like saying a wine critic has to know how to make better wine then they are tasting.

[Ignika542]

@boxers7x5 why would that be? Im a bit confuzzled :S

[boxers7x5]

@Ignika542

You're "confuzzled" because you're a moron.

[Luiscnm]

Para mi forma de ver y escuchar las cosas ésta pieza no forma parte del repertorio habitual de Lang lang, me gusta más de sus interpretaciones Liebestraum de Liszt o Beethoven, sin embargo es una pieza de un nivel de dificultad asombroso. La versión de Yubdi Li para mi es más exacta pero hay más versiones que me agradan. Aun así Lang Lang es de los mejores pianistas de nuestro tiempo.

[Luiscnm]

Para mi forma de ver y escuchar las cosas ésta pieza no forma parte del repertorio habitual de Lang lang, me gusta más de sus interpretaciones Liebestraum de Liszt o Beethoven, sin embargo es una pieza de un nivel de dificultad asombroso. La versión de Yubdi Li para mi es más exacta pero hay más versiones que me agradan. Aun así Lang Lang es de los mejores pianistas de nuetro tiempo.

[garygary978]

The only sad thing is he is Chinese.........or else his performence is awesome XD

[Azamat1337]

@garygary978 You're a fucking tool. What does being Chinese have anything to do with it being sad?

[zerglin5200]

Bang Bang -.-

[chrism216]

hes a bit sloppy at some parts, which is absolutely understandable for a live performance. but one thing i really like are his trills, very very fluent and crystal clear!

stop comparing this to yundi li please... li's performanced is a recorded performance, without an audience. he probably had 15 tries before he got it right, and the sound might not even match the video.

this is a live performance, a WHOLE different ballgame.

[salyumisia]

NOT La Campanella

[Udders666]

Yes it is.

[shenkeey]

@salyumisia What the hell? Why not?

[piano0b]

he can play this better

[hidkidd]

Frist of all! I am not lang lang fans .but The place where he performed is difference !That is a skating rink! It's hard to concentrate!

[Kaner3339]

Evgeny Kissin plays this one better by a factor of 1000000000.

[AlexPianoPwns]

@Kaner3339 na man yundi li is the pro for this piece

[hyjames4]

I dont really think its necessary to compare the two great pianist. They r both great. But personally I think Lang Lang is more commercialized. His playing is more like a show. I think piano is less than that. He gave piano playing a little much.

[singsilent]

今次有小小令人失望.. :(

[singsilent]

今次小小令人失望.. :(

[jasp1405]

Lang Lang made a lot of mistakes in this piece, Yundi Li made only two in the whole song!

[felix0911176727]

That's good, do not always play the Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 of Liszt...

[19sharon92]

worst performance ever!

[TehIshter]

@19sharon92 Did you see how shitty the audience was at the end of the video?

Hell, I wouldn't even play for those ungrateful bastards.

[Dwyane1st]

the last bit is just with left hand playing some random notes, this is so ridiculous... suck balls

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

that's the most out of tune piano i have ever heard him play on!!! that D# at the top hahaha omg.

[WhoStanLeee]

lol the trill...nom nom piano

[ThePro2004]

Yundi Li is much better :) everyone with piano knowledge should know this.

[Londonlondon1233]

@ThePro2004 I have piano knowledge, certified to teach piano. Lang lang is much more better, as he can play the piece as well as be more expressive. Yundi Li cannot.

[david71998]

@Londonlondon1233 There is no way that can be the case, sorry, but yundi plays MUCH better

[ThePro2004]

STOP FUCKING TALKING WHILE HE'S PLAYING!

[FutureAbe]

@ThePro2004 relax?

[ThePro2004]

@FutureAbe No. It's retarded!

[DancerAndMe123]

Omiiiigod.... I LOVE IT.

[SimonHo1107]

Yundi Li lost, Lang Lang win!!!!!!!!

[SimonHo1107]

Lang Lang is the best pianist!!!!!!!

[boxers7x5]

@SimonHo1107

Really??? Arrau, Michelangeli et al......

you surely don't know what you're talking about.

[tjtheplay]

In the beginning, why the fuck you would do your stupid announcement while he's playing? Stupid bitch

[numex106]

this sucks compared to yundi li