Ravel left hand piano concert by Siheng Song宋思衡(part 2)

[mulvavroop]

Wow -- they really went for it, and succeeded.

[Narnarek]

excellent performance!!!!!!

[treegarchie]

Oh, the trikling of the flute and the piano together... sends you high,

[Jimbothenoob]

So expressive.

[pierrehardybalaruc]

j'adore ce concerto et je trouve cette interprétation surprenante le soliste est au top dans la première partie mais se perd avec l'orchestre en finale dommage le piano est genial je veux dire l'instrument ...........

[EpiicDeMiiC]

If my girlfriend sounded like this i would actualy listen to her.

[wawa314159]

Were it not for the video, not at all will I discover that this piece is played by only one hand...

[ryuchan4544]

Nice Performance!! Unbeleabable

[ryuchan4544]

Great　This left his is unbeleabable

[NicholasPiano]

wow. I want to play this piece someday!!! amazing.

[tweakerdude]

cant believe what my ears and eyes just witnessed...

[SurfeurBleu42]

The slow part shows us the sensitive and "female" part of Ravel. By the way, we can hear the american influence due to the previous Ravel's trip in USA, especially in the end (it sounds like Gershwin's music) . I am astonished that this piece was not recorded on CD. Siheng Song told me that he was waiting for that ;o) Please record one day this piece, which is the most of one fabulous piece of the Great Ravel.

[realscruffy]

usa la destra solo per stringere la mano al Maestro praticamente

[rurikrussi]

Because it's a piano concerto, but only using one hand...that's why it's "For the left hand"...

Nice perfomance :D

[GLkamina121]

why does he only play with one hand?

[wuouou]

Because the pianist Ravel dedicated this concerto to lost his right hand in the World War I.

[betaomega04]

@GLkamina121 Who said Piano had to be written for two hands?

[k88rudy]

boo!

[TeeteringBulb]

Nice performance - but is he singing along during the cadenza?

[zilvinas1980]

Great video and a splendid piece! Also this is one of those rare opportunities to hear French bassoon in the symphonic orchestra today - please note its unique and beautiful timbre between 1:28 and 1:55 !

[Enanram]

@zilvinas1980 It has a lovely sound up high, as here, but I think the German bassoon still plays the low notes better.

[SurfeurBleu42]

Who is the conductor please ?

[SurfeurBleu42]

I have found : the conductor is Ion Marin. He has an official website. It's a great conductor.

[SurfeurBleu42]

Maurice Ravel is my preferred compositor, not for the reason I am a frenchy, because i love his innovating music. He was a sound perfectionnist. These piece is fabulous and Song is a sensitive musician and as usual, the strange, mysterious Ravel's Universe.

[pianofranck]

Very solid. I liked the way he plays 3:50-4:05 ("Piu vivo ed accel.")

[Hayk1991]

THE MIDDLE PART IS THE BEST IN THE VIDEO

[sethmartinhill]

In the middle, when the piano is playing the "jaunty, galloping, dance" theme, and the orchestra enters with the "ominous" opening theme, and the piano continues with the "galloping" theme over the orchestra's increasingly tense "ominous" theme - to me is the most terrifying moment in all of classical music. This performance certainly brought that out.

[Pokankuni]

It's a sort of powerful II world war prophecy (this was written around 1930).

[bagdad4]

yeah i know exactly what u mean it scared the crap out of me the first time i heard it too...but now i think the scariest piece around is poulenc's organ concerto, its terrifying but very brilliant

[Masmorra84]

very very good cadenza!