My dear sirs, please enlighten us by explaining what the **** is wrong with you. You ruined the performance by getting into pointless arguments, and invaded pages. Please leave place for fomments ABOUT the video, and finally, show some respect to each other. Thank you.
@MrTomt1990 ...if you spent money on 3 live concerts, you, for some reason already "believed" in LL...maybe you want to "swallow your pride" (or embarassment) and REALLY listen to what LL does pianistically, and the inexpensive way is to do it HERE on the YT...repeatedly, over considerable time, listen to a lot of LL, but also other people, and see what happens...
@audioholla i agree with you i have a keyboard and i dont put down other people's work because i know the work put into it is alot... and it makes me sad that not many care about classical music like and leave it undercredited...
@audioholla I've just read a comment according to which LangLang seems having sex with the piano. Now you say he is a extroverterted musician. I suggest thinking this over and find a way to reconcile the two standards.
I suppose when you're this good you can make as many faces as you like. Thanks to God for giving us Chopin and pianists like Lang Lang to play his marvellous compositions.
It is obvious, he is simply in love with classical music. They say that music shows your true character and also your true emotions and passions about music.
Very original and his musical expression never fails. He "lives through this song" while he plays it.To me it is the best version of Valse Brillante I've heard so far.
Terrible. Reminds me of the "risk and side effects" slogan spoken the fastest way to save precious advertising time. He plays this piece so fast that you can't enjoy the music, just be impressed by his speed. The emotion that I see in his face is fun, he is laughing at Chopin saying "see what I have done to your music". I am not what some people might call "hater". Hate is a bad emotion and I keep away of that. Just saying that he can't play this Valse (making it a Vienna Coffee House "Waltz").
none of you motherfuckers could play like that, so stop with the comments about how he acts when he plays. When I watched this it didn't bother me at all. I was amazed at his interpretation.
...this kind of thing always makes me wish LL would quit playing the piano in public for good...he could, instead, impersonate a friendly panda on the Sesame Street and be a great hit with the kids...woud make good enough money...
Ye-ah....well, his playing is humorous, I always think, but I don't think that his interpretation is showing much depth like Mr. Horowitz or Mr. Kissin...well, the depth...then recordings of Yuja Wang is also great.
Well, this is just my opinion! I can't sure as a fact.
Music is music. It's what appeals to you, to me, to anyone. We're all going to have different reactions to different types of music. To some, Lang Lang may be TOO expressive and to others he's pure genius. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. Besides, he's the one traveling the world making bank for doing something he LOVES and something he's actually GREAT at. How many people in this world can say that about their own careers?
Son jeu est juste balancé comme ça, c'est dupremier jet, aucune reflexion là derière. Lang Lang est un pervers, il vulgarise tout. Que Chopin lui pardonne.
Sviatoslav Richter would piss on Lang Lang's face if he saw his style of playing. As surgere94 mentioned, citing Glenn Gould, "The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."
No grace whatsoever. Like a bull trying to do ballet
I don't understand why it is popular to belittle Lang Lang's performances. The people who keep using words such as "Emotionless" are obviously have no ideas what they're talking about. He and Katchen are my two favorite pianist of all time.
@dataznguy5 it's not emotionless, only machines play emotionless. Watch his Vienna recital and compare that with Volodos his Vienna recital and than maybe you'll see what they mean. His technique does not serve the music, he makes illogical choices eg his Beethoven is much too sentimental as for Voldoos eg his Schumann is pure art you don't even think about his breathtaking technique not even in the Liszt Dante Sonata. Are all the critics wrong about LL? I uploaded Volodos Tchaikovsky
@dataznguy5 piano concerto. Marvelous playing, never sentimental, never sowing down or speeding up...just in perfect harmony with the orchestra. You think man I heard this concerto so many times but I never really heard it like this as for LL his many Tchaikovsky PC concerto's i think fast octaves ok, but musical? some parts ok but overall a boring interpretation. Technique has to serve the music as for now I never saw that with him. I asked many prof pianists about this ..and they all agree...
@surgere94 Well said, sir. I feel the same way. Lang Lang, while technically proficient, plays with no emotion. And I don't think Lang Lang has the capacity to improvise (his Rhapsody in Blue is especially lifeless) because he is a douche and already thinks he is the what every pianist aspires to be. He isn't called a joke in the world of classical musicians for nothing.
@sheekieboomboom "I don't know anything about classical music or classical musicians"
"Lang Lang has made little progress and seems now frozen somewhere in the middle, his artistic development temporally stunted. White-knuckle passages in the first and final movements were, to him, nothing, tossed off with dazzling confidence." - LA Times on ruining Dudamel's performance
@surgere94 very true in what you say, but I would like to make one point. Lang Lang is perceived by many to be a modern-age performer, where today classical music is played to an entirely different group of audiences. The purpose of performance is not to create music, but merely to show off as much virtuosity as possible, as Lang Lang strives to do. To the inexperienced audience you see in this video, this is what they want, and this is what Lang Lang gives them.
@figurefigure makes a good point. Maybe that is what makes all these young pianists play so quickly. Unfortunately virtuosity does not prdocue always a feeling.
@figurefigure I am part of this modern-age audience, and I loathe the way he plays this, as do many other people I know. This is not making beautiful music, it's a commercial product.
@surgere94 You know, I really like Glenn Gould and what he did, but I don't think he is the god of what musical interpretation is. Maybe this is how Lang Lang wants it. Don't get me wrong either, I personally don't like this interpretation.
@surgere94 You cannot say music has ONE meaning, no matter who says so I personally love this interpretation but I also love Glenn Gould, people are so superficial...
@surgere94 Hey you hurt many admirers of him by making such nasty remarks! I admire Lang Lang so much, he has fooled millions of people all over the world in to believing that he has any musical insight! The greatest con-artist ever!!!!! At least show him some respect!!!!
hly fuk ppl if thats how he fucking plays it if thats his face if thats how he interprets it THEN THATS HOW HE DOES IT SO FUK OFF!! when he jumps around and makes those faces HE NOT EMOTIONLESS HES FUKEN HAPPY AND IS ENJOYING THE PIECE
Thats his way to interpret this song and i like different interpretations.. they come from heart and not automatically just playing the notes. I think you do him wrong if you say he plays without emotion - he plays with his emotion! Thats for me the most important.
If you had listened instead of watched, you wouldn't be calling this crap. He's already one of the best...he can do whatever the heck he wants. xD I love his music.
En Lang Lang s'emociona mentre interpreta aquesta preciosa partitura. És per això que fa expressions facials que poden sobtar, però jo trobo que fa molt bé si ell sent així la música. I ja ni dic com sona el piano, que això ja és cosa dels genis, com ara en Lang Lang. Bravíssimo!
please people ... music without expression is boring .. a part in the music is the expression you show .. that makes the holl thing complete .. so don't complain about expression ... it just HAVE TO to make the holl picture .. perfect
Of the 10,000's of performances of this piece this is one of the best. No boring old 123-123 here, this portrays the ballroom of Chopin's time - couples spinning, swirling gowns. The man nails it!! As for his famous posturing, I suspect he would behave the same wihtout an audience. He simply lives the music.
If anyone insulting him can play half as well as him. Then props to you, insult him all you want. But reality is, he's a great pianist. He does make goofy facial expressions, but that doesn't stray from the fact that he's a wonderful pianist. and shouldn't be criticized for something as simple as a facial expression. He gave his life to this instrument, show some respect.
When you can play like this man, you can make any damn kind of face you like, as far as I'm concerned...just keep playing. He looks like he is enjoying every second of playing the piano, and his love for the music comes out so clearly and beautifully. I find his playing redeshing and free. Which is so often lost in a lot of the rather stoggy technically correct, but lifeless performances of a lot of pianists.
One can always count on Lang Lang to butcher Chopin. No the facial expressions do not show that he feels the music! And are you seriously comparing Listz to Lang??? hahahaha what a joke.
Like him or not, his technique is flawless and effortless. I wonder if the detractors out there have any idea of how difficult a piece this is to play. You may like or dislike his interpretation (as with any other form of art) but that doesn't make him any less an artist. I don't always agree with Horowitz's interpretation either, but I consider him an absolute genius nevertheless.
No matter what facial expressions he put on doesn't affect his music. Music is for ears, instead of eyes. You can't deny the hard fact that he plays really good.
@arlongan I agree with you. HIs music is really good. It is perfect music, isn't it? People who go the concert not only listening seeing and enjoying overall his performance. I probably doesn't have buy to pat\y to go his concert if just the matter of the musici which is only really good. Besides I like him, but I want to enjoy to feel the heart of music and performer's passion to the Art. I want to feel the music. I don't need to listen the perfect music. Tired.
I am really shocked. It sounds so terrible to my ears, everyone who knows a little about Chopin knows he wouldn´t like that at all. This guy is so much concerned about the camera filming his gestures and emotional contortions without a feeling for the correct expression this piece needs. I ve listened to the version of Kissin and they are as different as day and night. I´m not surprised the engl Queen or Prince Charles have honored him, the english never comprehended, but always insult Chopin
I hope so and anyway I did not think that way, but I especially refer to those days (1848) when Chopin had to move from Paris to London - even before some papers in London insulted Chopin and called him a loser, he did not like most of english habits those days. But in 1848 there were people in England who liked Chopin, too.
It is just fenomenal....... what a wonderful piano playing. Nunca lo habia escuchado, definitivamente es un maestro. When you come to Colombia to play with The Bogota's Philarmonic Orchesta and to have a recital in the Alberto Castilla Music Room in Ibague? Seria fantastico.
Sounded excellent. Some nice dynamic choices and interesting phrasing. I was wondering if he uses some of Horowitz's technique. He seems to get some backwards bend in the last finger joint sometimes. Horowitz used flat finger technique at times. He hit the notes at speed so he must be doing something right. Gary Grafman must be a good teacher. Both Lang Lang and Yuja Wang are good interpreters. (My favorite for her is Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini).
All I can say is there's a difference between feeling the music and acting like you do. Frankly, this annoyed me; he's just trying to make people like him by being a stage monkey.
Parece que se la están chupando debajo del piano con esas caras que pone de gusto. Aún así, caray, qué manera de interpretar la maravillosa música de Chopin; magistral es mi voto. Con pianistas así, el mundo está servido. :)
...he boldly and unapolegetically does everything you are NOT supposed to do in a waltz like this...it is a spectacular travesty of what Chopin is supposed to be all about...but they of couse love it...and LL has a good time for all to see...will Chopin in the long run survive such abuse?...probably...that music is surprisingly tough...will survive Lang Lang...and even worse...
The Asian Power! See that how he practices so much instead of you westerners whining every time you parents tell you to play piano! Fame comes from practice, not money.
Lang is a great artist; no doubt. One could show emotions without tampering so much with the tempo, though. There is a fine boundary between interpretation and exaggeration. Dinu Lipatti managed to walk this line brilliantly in all his Chopin performances; probably the best renditions ever.
Why is that interesting? This guy is still criticized for that today from what I see on Youtube comments at least. Isn't that why the people who despise him call him "Bang Bang"? Not that I do in any way, in fact, I wish I had even close to the level of mastery he does.
ceux qui n'aiment pas ....sont de gros jaloux!!....qui souhaiteraient jouer et interpreter comme lui!!!!MOI je dis........ BRAVO!!!!!!
mfnieddu 10 hours ago
Genius
Growbag95 1 week ago
AMAZING
giskills 1 week ago
My dear sirs, please enlighten us by explaining what the **** is wrong with you. You ruined the performance by getting into pointless arguments, and invaded pages. Please leave place for fomments ABOUT the video, and finally, show some respect to each other. Thank you.
TheArmorPenetrator 2 weeks ago
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MrTomt1990 2 weeks ago
我總覺得樂團的每個人都在忍笑。
0718ponpon 2 weeks ago
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MrTomt1990 2 weeks ago
@MrTomt1990 ...if you spent money on 3 live concerts, you, for some reason already "believed" in LL...maybe you want to "swallow your pride" (or embarassment) and REALLY listen to what LL does pianistically, and the inexpensive way is to do it HERE on the YT...repeatedly, over considerable time, listen to a lot of LL, but also other people, and see what happens...
fredericfranc 2 weeks ago
姿態誇張
kokileefaikoki 2 weeks ago
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MrTomt1990 3 weeks ago
nip slip at 4:57
thedirtymeatball 3 weeks ago
@thedirtymeatball there is no 4 57
bubuska101 2 weeks ago
I agree with you... he deserves respect and the whole admiration of all of us... good example for new generations...
inesmarta74 3 weeks ago
HA RESUCITADO UN SER DE LA FAMILIA DE LA ENSEÑANZAS IGUALES A MOZART ...!!!
ABATAR144 3 weeks ago
o.0
SomeAnimeOtaku 4 weeks ago
@SomeAnimeOtaku o.0 amazing isn't it? o.O O.o
supersonic1608 3 weeks ago
@supersonic1608 ololol Damn right it is = D = D = D
SomeAnimeOtaku 3 weeks ago
@audioholla i agree with you i have a keyboard and i dont put down other people's work because i know the work put into it is alot... and it makes me sad that not many care about classical music like and leave it undercredited...
KleinZaffre 1 month ago
@KleinZaffre classical music is awesome, just no one values it since they got the rappers who's job is to rap and knock women up!
fadithepianoman 1 month ago
Play this with the snow flake enabled...
VTKlutZ 1 month ago
Wonderful. He's not just a pianist, he's an artist. Thank you for this "Valse Brillante" M. Chopin, and for playing this M. Lang Lang.
SWORD678912 1 month ago
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fissionesque 1 month ago
I like his music. Why do ppl take his action too seriously? He`s an artist, it`s he`s way of expressing the music.
kjn0320 1 month ago
Here comes a showman, an acrobat!
But where is the musician?
Corsackify 1 month ago
Beautiful! Thank you very much!
Kendall Kessler
Newriverartist 1 month ago
yuck...
shohei121 1 month ago
I don't like his outfit
imsohornynwet 1 month ago
@imsohornynwet
So?
MaybeLater500 1 month ago
@MaybeLater500 SO I DON'T LIKE IT
imsohornynwet 1 month ago
fucking subhuman gook
savemyplaylist 1 month ago in playlist Piano
Please listen to my rendition of the Valse op. 34 no.1 by chopin
SPpiano95 1 month ago
damn this chink's got it, from a fellow asian, i can honestly say i have never seen emotions like that from anyone.
swaghelper1996 1 month ago
Is it just me or does lang lang look like an asian elvis?
JGichan 1 month ago
Non mi piace perchè il pianista, pur essendo bravissimo, si 'agita' troppo.
MARIAHELENA606 2 months ago
I'm guessing this was the way Mozart played :P
joanarcs 2 months ago
@audioholla I've just read a comment according to which LangLang seems having sex with the piano. Now you say he is a extroverterted musician. I suggest thinking this over and find a way to reconcile the two standards.
MK40213 2 months ago
this shouldn't even be considered the same piece..... although well played in my opinion, it is in no way shape or form Chopin's Masterpiece
TranceGamer92 2 months ago
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fredericfranc 2 months ago
would love to see him flip his collars up and do an elvis impression at the karaoke bar after the show
CaseyRocky 2 months ago 6
I suppose when you're this good you can make as many faces as you like. Thanks to God for giving us Chopin and pianists like Lang Lang to play his marvellous compositions.
iansdigby 2 months ago
he looks like he's getting a blowjob or something
Dunderhead36 2 months ago
@Dunderhead36 play the piano can be much more interesting ;)
newFranzFerencLiszt 2 months ago
It is obvious, he is simply in love with classical music. They say that music shows your true character and also your true emotions and passions about music.
5jdy 2 months ago
Very original and his musical expression never fails. He "lives through this song" while he plays it.To me it is the best version of Valse Brillante I've heard so far.
IGMUSLA 2 months ago
Lang Lang never ceases to amaze me.
TheGrawxian 2 months ago
Beautiful playing.
Michelangelo61 2 months ago
hahahahaha the scream at 4:49 ;)
audreykaoisthebest11 2 months ago
Terrible. Reminds me of the "risk and side effects" slogan spoken the fastest way to save precious advertising time. He plays this piece so fast that you can't enjoy the music, just be impressed by his speed. The emotion that I see in his face is fun, he is laughing at Chopin saying "see what I have done to your music". I am not what some people might call "hater". Hate is a bad emotion and I keep away of that. Just saying that he can't play this Valse (making it a Vienna Coffee House "Waltz").
waushh 3 months ago 2
IF he's the second most emotional pianist in the world, NO ONE could be the first most emotional pianist..... == (Maybe only God could =.-)
yiu1130154 3 months ago
BELLISSIMA INTERPRETATION DE LANG LANG UN VERO PIACERE DI PIANISTA GRAZIE A TE AMICIZIA RAYMOND
TheFredenucci 3 months ago
disaster!
sibyller1 3 months ago
Parfait, félicitations Maestro Lang Lang !!!
benone1974 3 months ago
none of you motherfuckers could play like that, so stop with the comments about how he acts when he plays. When I watched this it didn't bother me at all. I was amazed at his interpretation.
Bgoods91 3 months ago
UN VÉRITABLE PLAISIR DE VOIR ET ECOUTER CE MERVEILLEUX ET PRODIGE PIANISTE COMME LUI ! AMITIÉ RAYMOND
raymond13008 3 months ago
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seria mejor si no fuese chino :D
angelger100 3 months ago
Perfectly well interpretated.....
Th3ForgottenOne 3 months ago 20
...this kind of thing always makes me wish LL would quit playing the piano in public for good...he could, instead, impersonate a friendly panda on the Sesame Street and be a great hit with the kids...woud make good enough money...
fredericfranc 3 months ago 2
What an idiot...
LSfalanxLS 3 months ago
his cool
ppromitey 3 months ago
Ye-ah....well, his playing is humorous, I always think, but I don't think that his interpretation is showing much depth like Mr. Horowitz or Mr. Kissin...well, the depth...then recordings of Yuja Wang is also great.
Well, this is just my opinion! I can't sure as a fact.
SpringInTheSchool 3 months ago
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masterofsynapsis 4 months ago
how the hell can he play half of this piece without see his hands!?!?!
alexandros789 4 months ago
bang bang has no muscality att ALL only fast, thats his trade markt........
antonius0123456789 4 months ago
perfection right there.
emmemmmusic 4 months ago
@darrenabcd1 are you angry at lang lang??? :)
MrJeremiahValenzuela 4 months ago
Glen Gould was just as ridiculous with his expressions, but no one criticises him
mrpolaroid123 4 months ago
@mrpolaroid123 And he hummed, but we excuse those bad habits because he was brilliant.
PrometheanRunGood 4 months ago
The fact of the matter is, say what you like about Lang Lang, you try playing half as well as him
mrpolaroid123 4 months ago
Music is music. It's what appeals to you, to me, to anyone. We're all going to have different reactions to different types of music. To some, Lang Lang may be TOO expressive and to others he's pure genius. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. Besides, he's the one traveling the world making bank for doing something he LOVES and something he's actually GREAT at. How many people in this world can say that about their own careers?
iLime14 4 months ago
Son jeu est juste balancé comme ça, c'est dupremier jet, aucune reflexion là derière. Lang Lang est un pervers, il vulgarise tout. Que Chopin lui pardonne.
Chateaubriand26 4 months ago
he is not afraid to express himself no matter how foolish he might look...for me that's the mark of a great artist...
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This, is ATROCIOUS.
Sviatoslav Richter would piss on Lang Lang's face if he saw his style of playing. As surgere94 mentioned, citing Glenn Gould, "The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."
No grace whatsoever. Like a bull trying to do ballet
tapaddtiiiii 4 months ago 2
jajajaja que caras
fizerethan 4 months ago
I don't understand why it is popular to belittle Lang Lang's performances. The people who keep using words such as "Emotionless" are obviously have no ideas what they're talking about. He and Katchen are my two favorite pianist of all time.
dataznguy5 4 months ago
@dataznguy5 it's not emotionless, only machines play emotionless. Watch his Vienna recital and compare that with Volodos his Vienna recital and than maybe you'll see what they mean. His technique does not serve the music, he makes illogical choices eg his Beethoven is much too sentimental as for Voldoos eg his Schumann is pure art you don't even think about his breathtaking technique not even in the Liszt Dante Sonata. Are all the critics wrong about LL? I uploaded Volodos Tchaikovsky
masterofsynapsis 4 months ago
@dataznguy5 piano concerto. Marvelous playing, never sentimental, never sowing down or speeding up...just in perfect harmony with the orchestra. You think man I heard this concerto so many times but I never really heard it like this as for LL his many Tchaikovsky PC concerto's i think fast octaves ok, but musical? some parts ok but overall a boring interpretation. Technique has to serve the music as for now I never saw that with him. I asked many prof pianists about this ..and they all agree...
masterofsynapsis 4 months ago
LULZ at people who use their eyes to judge music
DjCINEMA 4 months ago
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surgere94 4 months ago 4
@surgere94 Well said, sir. I feel the same way. Lang Lang, while technically proficient, plays with no emotion. And I don't think Lang Lang has the capacity to improvise (his Rhapsody in Blue is especially lifeless) because he is a douche and already thinks he is the what every pianist aspires to be. He isn't called a joke in the world of classical musicians for nothing.
ankoripasta 4 months ago
@ankoripasta "He isn't called a joke in the world of classical musicians for nothing."
who are you again?
sheekieboomboom 4 months ago 2
@sheekieboomboom "I don't know anything about classical music or classical musicians"
"Lang Lang has made little progress and seems now frozen somewhere in the middle, his artistic development temporally stunted. White-knuckle passages in the first and final movements were, to him, nothing, tossed off with dazzling confidence." - LA Times on ruining Dudamel's performance
Get educated scrub.
ankoripasta 4 months ago
@ankoripasta
#1 i reiterate, who are you again?
#2 LA Times, the no. 1 source for classical music critiques
:-)
sheekieboomboom 4 months ago
@surgere94 very true in what you say, but I would like to make one point. Lang Lang is perceived by many to be a modern-age performer, where today classical music is played to an entirely different group of audiences. The purpose of performance is not to create music, but merely to show off as much virtuosity as possible, as Lang Lang strives to do. To the inexperienced audience you see in this video, this is what they want, and this is what Lang Lang gives them.
figurefigure 4 months ago
@figurefigure makes a good point. Maybe that is what makes all these young pianists play so quickly. Unfortunately virtuosity does not prdocue always a feeling.
Lijie888 4 months ago
@figurefigure I am part of this modern-age audience, and I loathe the way he plays this, as do many other people I know. This is not making beautiful music, it's a commercial product.
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titusbeertsen 4 months ago
@surgere94 You know, I really like Glenn Gould and what he did, but I don't think he is the god of what musical interpretation is. Maybe this is how Lang Lang wants it. Don't get me wrong either, I personally don't like this interpretation.
amazingwave 4 months ago
@surgere94 You cannot say music has ONE meaning, no matter who says so I personally love this interpretation but I also love Glenn Gould, people are so superficial...
tommie997 4 months ago
@surgere94 Hey you hurt many admirers of him by making such nasty remarks! I admire Lang Lang so much, he has fooled millions of people all over the world in to believing that he has any musical insight! The greatest con-artist ever!!!!! At least show him some respect!!!!
masterofsynapsis 4 months ago
@surgere94
You don't see any of your so called "depth" only because Lang Lang look so relaxed when he plays piano.
aczbdk 3 months ago
hly fuk ppl if thats how he fucking plays it if thats his face if thats how he interprets it THEN THATS HOW HE DOES IT SO FUK OFF!! when he jumps around and makes those faces HE NOT EMOTIONLESS HES FUKEN HAPPY AND IS ENJOYING THE PIECE
Agomongo1235 4 months ago
Thats his way to interpret this song and i like different interpretations.. they come from heart and not automatically just playing the notes. I think you do him wrong if you say he plays without emotion - he plays with his emotion! Thats for me the most important.
Malinux 4 months ago
If you had listened instead of watched, you wouldn't be calling this crap. He's already one of the best...he can do whatever the heck he wants. xD I love his music.
Therachh3 5 months ago
What an emotionless interpretation! It's like he's making a mockery of Chopin.
ankoripasta 5 months ago
@ankoripasta
that is a definite exaggeration. Mockery?
LURKUMALL 5 months ago
@LURKUMALL Very much so.
ankoripasta 4 months ago
At last a pianist who is really enjoying playing music; what a change from so many, like Barenboim, who seems to be playing at a funeral.
JBSERBIST 5 months ago
En Lang Lang s'emociona mentre interpreta aquesta preciosa partitura. És per això que fa expressions facials que poden sobtar, però jo trobo que fa molt bé si ell sent així la música. I ja ni dic com sona el piano, que això ja és cosa dels genis, com ara en Lang Lang. Bravíssimo!
Ottozimerman 5 months ago
Very beautiful^.^
Thanks for the share^___^;)*
18Ruankaew 5 months ago
please people ... music without expression is boring .. a part in the music is the expression you show .. that makes the holl thing complete .. so don't complain about expression ... it just HAVE TO to make the holl picture .. perfect
Darkboy2525 5 months ago
Please Chopin, wipe the smuck off his face. Otherwise it is Brilliante.
engs1 5 months ago
I would be satisfied if I could play with this happiness
santgil 5 months ago
He plays very well but it doesn't feel like Chopin.
shazza15256 5 months ago
@shazza15256 Agreed; he feels like an Elvis version of Chopin.
haKittehh 5 months ago
It is call the romantic period for a reason.
timothias1217 5 months ago
if you dont look at his face its actually pretty good lol
aimsteroo 5 months ago
super Lang Lang!!
017011961 5 months ago
he touched the soul of the piece
mahuubao 5 months ago
Bozhanov, Wunder, Kultyshev, Trifonov .... all these new guys humiliate Lang Lang ...
zviato 5 months ago
Chopin would have been sick if he had listened to this crap ...
zviato 5 months ago
@zviato Hi would be sick of You
mahuubao 5 months ago
this is the best performance of this i have ever heard.
juiceforjoe 5 months ago
Well, you sure can't deny he has dexterity in his playing!
Not bad, not bad. Nice playing!
NemoProkofiev551 5 months ago
Ah, c'est toujours aussi mauvais, décidément aucune partition n'est à l’abri de ce massacreur de piano!
Chateaubriand26 5 months ago
His facial expressions mean he is playing with his heart.. and it is essential with Chopin.
19boubou94 5 months ago 5
@19boubou94 Especially true considering all of his etudes are meant to be programmatic.
RomTromPolo 3 months ago
such an ugly shirt
xBlocherx 5 months ago
beautiful
galaxian06 6 months ago 2
He's the cutest man I've ever seen.
titania797 6 months ago
This is the only song played by Lang Lang's where I wouldn't mind his facial expressions. Best Performance from Grand Valse.
morriganzero 6 months ago
Why is everyone so obsessed with criticising his facial expression? He obviously loves what he does.
"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion" (Hegel)
Deal with his passion. Or step out of the way.
nesllikeyoyoyo 6 months ago 29
@nesllikeyoyoyo ........Thank you very much!
2468HOTROD 5 months ago
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@nesllikeyoyoyo "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion" (Hegel) < that's how i feel when masturbating.
SerieOrtiz 3 months ago
Of the 10,000's of performances of this piece this is one of the best. No boring old 123-123 here, this portrays the ballroom of Chopin's time - couples spinning, swirling gowns. The man nails it!! As for his famous posturing, I suspect he would behave the same wihtout an audience. He simply lives the music.
worthptr 6 months ago
magnificent playing!
Genagurevich 6 months ago
that was awesome! i love his body language .. especially during the 'fun parts' .. like the beginning
superterrifichappy 6 months ago
who cares what faces he makes?! he cud have poo smeared on his face and still be more respectable then most people. LISTEN TO HIM PLAY!!!!!
omfg192 6 months ago
If anyone insulting him can play half as well as him. Then props to you, insult him all you want. But reality is, he's a great pianist. He does make goofy facial expressions, but that doesn't stray from the fact that he's a wonderful pianist. and shouldn't be criticized for something as simple as a facial expression. He gave his life to this instrument, show some respect.
irene98339 6 months ago
^A^ ~
countryroses123 6 months ago in playlist the best
What a joy to watch! It's as if he's right *inside* the music he's playing.
isaacdavid1958 6 months ago
When you can play like this man, you can make any damn kind of face you like, as far as I'm concerned...just keep playing. He looks like he is enjoying every second of playing the piano, and his love for the music comes out so clearly and beautifully. I find his playing redeshing and free. Which is so often lost in a lot of the rather stoggy technically correct, but lifeless performances of a lot of pianists.
daisymae229 6 months ago 2
l'homme qui va tout le temps en avant , ira vers la lumiére .MERCI lang
elguerroujy 6 months ago
So perfect..
The best !!
MrShirotaicho 6 months ago
noob
pzamkrbob 6 months ago
3:09 Haha he looks like he just got an orgasim xD
Dude55622 6 months ago
4:33 - Lang Lang, you're supposed to be giving an encore, not pushing out a huge turd!
hmin310 6 months ago
The only part I have trouble playing is from 0:28 to 0:37.
brandondockery1 6 months ago
meisterklasse absoluter wahnsinn
umbaloaco 6 months ago
One can always count on Lang Lang to butcher Chopin. No the facial expressions do not show that he feels the music! And are you seriously comparing Listz to Lang??? hahahaha what a joke.
International1ify 6 months ago 2
i feel satisfied when i turn on the mute function and just l watch his facial expression, it's the other kind of enjoyment
miranda12033 6 months ago
0:20 fake note !!!
MiguelGarcia852 6 months ago
Like him or not, his technique is flawless and effortless. I wonder if the detractors out there have any idea of how difficult a piece this is to play. You may like or dislike his interpretation (as with any other form of art) but that doesn't make him any less an artist. I don't always agree with Horowitz's interpretation either, but I consider him an absolute genius nevertheless.
admd101 6 months ago
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Jajaja no es de este mundo este hombre que particular y animal es al tocar .Terribleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee magnificooooooooooooooooooooo
natalia 6 months ago
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natalia 6 months ago
You don't play by looking, you play by feeling and muscle memory.
vivalamatt11 7 months ago
How can you play without looking at the keys? Thats Amazing!!!
shannan2000 7 months ago
AWESOME!!!! :D
diegoZrichi 7 months ago in playlist Lang Lang
No matter what facial expressions he put on doesn't affect his music. Music is for ears, instead of eyes. You can't deny the hard fact that he plays really good.
arlongan 7 months ago 35
@arlongan really good!?!?! He's a virtuoso and quite possibly the best piano player in the world!
scrillanilla 5 months ago
@arlongan but that's not fucking good enough. Every single performance of lang lang on the internet MUST ALWAYS be artistic brilliance
FutureAbe 4 months ago
@arlongan I agree with you. HIs music is really good. It is perfect music, isn't it? People who go the concert not only listening seeing and enjoying overall his performance. I probably doesn't have buy to pat\y to go his concert if just the matter of the musici which is only really good. Besides I like him, but I want to enjoy to feel the heart of music and performer's passion to the Art. I want to feel the music. I don't need to listen the perfect music. Tired.
moymoy123ish 4 months ago
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I like Li Yundi better
victorw2306 7 months ago
I like Li Yundi better
victorw2306 7 months ago
tooooooooooo much facial expressions this seems more like a comedy than a piano performance
more music less facial expressions
pepsify5920 7 months ago
I am really shocked. It sounds so terrible to my ears, everyone who knows a little about Chopin knows he wouldn´t like that at all. This guy is so much concerned about the camera filming his gestures and emotional contortions without a feeling for the correct expression this piece needs. I ve listened to the version of Kissin and they are as different as day and night. I´m not surprised the engl Queen or Prince Charles have honored him, the english never comprehended, but always insult Chopin
junghesse 7 months ago 2
@junghesse Just listen to the music, he plays it well. His phrasing is a little quirky sometimes... so was Glenn Gould's.
dave8ization 7 months ago
@junghesse You are right on. He has no inkling what the music is about. He is a third-rate Liberace wannabe.
amendoesit 7 months ago
@junghesse Please don't generalise all English people to think the same as the Monarchy. A vast majority of us are not huge fans of the Queen xP
XRememberxMyxNameX 6 months ago
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I hope so and anyway I did not think that way, but I especially refer to those days (1848) when Chopin had to move from Paris to London - even before some papers in London insulted Chopin and called him a loser, he did not like most of english habits those days. But in 1848 there were people in England who liked Chopin, too.
junghesse 6 months ago
grandissimo e affascinante, senza strafare!!!
ogmari 7 months ago
It is just fenomenal....... what a wonderful piano playing. Nunca lo habia escuchado, definitivamente es un maestro. When you come to Colombia to play with The Bogota's Philarmonic Orchesta and to have a recital in the Alberto Castilla Music Room in Ibague? Seria fantastico.
MrJuanchoed 7 months ago
Sounded excellent. Some nice dynamic choices and interesting phrasing. I was wondering if he uses some of Horowitz's technique. He seems to get some backwards bend in the last finger joint sometimes. Horowitz used flat finger technique at times. He hit the notes at speed so he must be doing something right. Gary Grafman must be a good teacher. Both Lang Lang and Yuja Wang are good interpreters. (My favorite for her is Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini).
robertslistening 7 months ago
@Pelleas1007 you dont care every pianist has it own expression.....
MrJeremiahValenzuela 8 months ago
those who hate lang lang are listening with their eyes. you don't get to be silly without being good first.
GuitarsAmSuck 8 months ago
What a clown. It's useless to move like it. D'ailleurs il se loupe régulièrement quand il fait trop le pitre. Horowitz, that's a true pianist.
FinrodFR 8 months ago
@FinrodFR That doesn't necessarily detract from the music
johnalt16 8 months ago
@FinrodFR Tout à fait d'accord. La pièce est quasi méconnaissable.
sweetaliena 7 months ago
All I can say is there's a difference between feeling the music and acting like you do. Frankly, this annoyed me; he's just trying to make people like him by being a stage monkey.
MrPianoLover1 8 months ago 3
Parece que se la están chupando debajo del piano con esas caras que pone de gusto. Aún así, caray, qué manera de interpretar la maravillosa música de Chopin; magistral es mi voto. Con pianistas así, el mundo está servido. :)
RazorinR 8 months ago
i love this guy!
bestihe 8 months ago
...he boldly and unapolegetically does everything you are NOT supposed to do in a waltz like this...it is a spectacular travesty of what Chopin is supposed to be all about...but they of couse love it...and LL has a good time for all to see...will Chopin in the long run survive such abuse?...probably...that music is surprisingly tough...will survive Lang Lang...and even worse...
fredericfranc 8 months ago
everyone at the back is thinking man, has this head bobbing genius had his medication today.
alle144 8 months ago
The Asian Power! See that how he practices so much instead of you westerners whining every time you parents tell you to play piano! Fame comes from practice, not money.
HeistheRedeemer 8 months ago
Nice expression, awesome playing, darn the haters. 195 people are either tone deaf or deaf. Try hearing aids.
HeistheRedeemer 8 months ago 5
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No, they are just racists:)
MrEmilien007 6 months ago
I'm here at school staring at how he looks so happy to play this delightful waltz.
Chopinumbreon 8 months ago in playlist Chopin Waltz
Lang is a great artist; no doubt. One could show emotions without tampering so much with the tempo, though. There is a fine boundary between interpretation and exaggeration. Dinu Lipatti managed to walk this line brilliantly in all his Chopin performances; probably the best renditions ever.
Curatica 8 months ago 2
in the 19th century, liszt was criticised by the media for his facial expressions when he played. interesting.
100Wilbur999 8 months ago 39
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Why is that interesting? This guy is still criticized for that today from what I see on Youtube comments at least. Isn't that why the people who despise him call him "Bang Bang"? Not that I do in any way, in fact, I wish I had even close to the level of mastery he does.
minesasecret 6 months ago