Anna (11) plays Liszt Mephisto Waltz for Lang Lang

This is Anna's first time performing a Liszt piece in public! She played it in front of 600 elementary and middle school kids at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley CA. They were a great audience. She got a standing ovation at the end. Lang Lang was there donating his time for this event, teaching kids about classical music. Backstage, Lang Lang suggested her to do more to bring out and exaggerate the character of the piece. She'll keep working to improve it. It was hard to make forte on the treble. Sincere thanks to the organizers for inviting Anna to perform. It was great!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Liszt
• Mephisto Waltz
• Anna Larsen
• classical music

[andreea140794]

I've listened to other interpretations of this piece and I've decided that your interpretation , Anna ,is the best . From my point of view you are already an accomplished pianist ,after playing this extremely difficult piece I believe you can play every piece composed for piano.Thank you for showing us how Liszt should pe played !

[LarsenPiano]

@andreea140794 Wow, thank you for your nice comment! Of course it isn't true, the Kissin recording is amazing and Horowitz recording is so nuts, you have to love it! (He adds in notes and measures and crazy stuff!) But you are so nice to say these words :)

[gkollias14]

Hello,

Over the range of 5 years that your videos are filmed you have had a pheanomenal musical first and technical improvement with furnished and balanced playing. I think that a great future exists. You have a phaenomeal memory also so this will help you greatly and might give you a huge leap over other pianists since you can be able to play more programs without loosing anything from the previous. The only thing that you need to be looking now is not the longterm future butthe present.

[LarsenPiano]

@gkollias14 Thank you! Some of the videos from 5 years ago now seem a bit embarrassing! :) But part of the point of posting these videos is to create a video record of artistic growth over the years. We're so happy you mentioned this point and see the difference. :)

[bowieuk2]

Splendid, superb, magnificent, and as they say in the USA, AWESOME. If I expand my vocabulary with more superlatives, such as: wonderful, marvelous, supreme, consummate, outstanding, remarkable, first-rate, first-class, premier, prime, unsurpassed, unequaled, unparalleled, unrivaled, preeminent; I'll be back to add them. You're good Anna, nice to catch a glimpse of Lang Lang at the end too.

[LarsenPiano]

@bowieuk2 Thanks for the high praise!

[PIANOpartner]

The improvements made by this child has been incredible. The only thing we would suggest is to get a better camera or an audio recorder device, so that we, as a whole audience, receive a better detailed video. And it is always good to have Lang Lang watch your back.

[TheAnastasiaLee]

Anna:

Bravo on this incredible piece !

Sincerely,

~Anastasia Lee~

[marce11o]

Inspirational. If she can do it I can do it.

[lilly763]

Just coming back to this video and it's still amazing =) How long had Anna been learning the piece before this performance? I would love to hear another performance once she's in even better control of the piece, though of course it was already very good here.

[gkollias14]

It is really good to see that classical music has still some appreciation with children and old traditionds are not forgotten.

[Lunt1557]

My God you are really a monster !!!!