Lang Lang plays Debussy Prelude "Les Collines d'Anacapri".

Lang Lang plays Debussy Prelude "Les Collines d'Anacapri".

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• Debussy
• Prelude
• Les
• Collines
• d'Anacapri.
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• Concert
• Grand
• Piano
• Classical
• Music

[sparklekitten16]

Not the biggest lang lang fan, but I loved this performance and it helped me to better 'get' how some enjoy his antics so much. They enhance the performance of this playful piece.

[imdidiwawa]

I like langlang

[koolanddagang12]

Real talk.. there aren't too many notable contemporary pianists out there nowadays. And as ego driven as he is, just open a new tab and don't watch if its bothersome, because he really is a marvelous player and its not like he doesn't feel the music, i'd almost rather see this overzealousness as opposed to a bland facade. "The Kanye of Classical" hahah quote me on that.

[manthasagittarius1]

OK, OK -- this kid is on the high end of the eccentricity curve. But he is musical and intelligent, and the stuff he is doing is about 90% unintentional, especially the body choreographies, which are the way he is mediating his nicely shaped long phrases, with body kinetics in real time. The face -- well, the music delights, pains, amuses, or blows him away and it shows. This is not hammy clowning -- that really looks very different. Check out Victor Borge, who did it brilliantly on purpose.

[fredericfranc]

...too much of an ego-driven show, to show off the technique, or something, no interest in "being fair to the intent of the composer"...you just get no sense of that "visual-Impressionist" Debussy feel...listen to how the French pianists, raised on THEIR Debussy do it...

[ajayajath]

i love his musical sense

but hes just too cocky i guess

i mean, why shuld u make faces like that!?

i know that lang lang plays great but why do that!?

[videoreff]

Lang Lang is quite a drama queen, even Liberace was less facially expressive.

Some people like this kind of expressiveness, personally I find it distracting as it comes over as pure showmanship - it's as if the pianist is showing the audience what they should be feeling.

I like the way Richter would often play in near-darkness, saying that the appearance of a pianist is irrelevant, the sound you produce is everything.

I do acknowledge Lang Langs sound is good so if I buy it'll be CDs not DVDs.

[MentalModel1]

The master of overkill. He must think his audience so stupid that they need all his gesticulating to appraciate and undersatnd the piece. Cheap.

[juantendo8]

A good performance, but Michelangeli's interpretation is clearly superior. I feel Lang Lang is just a bit too aggressive with dynamic and tempo shifts. Exciting, but a bit shallow in comparison.

[humourlayers]

indeed, his mastery of the piano overpowers his facial expression and like it or not, he and the music fuse together as one. I was not a fan of Langlang before, also disliked his expressions - but overtime, I am totally captivated by his play and looking more positives towards his expressions. He is getting better by each performance. Debussy couldn't be happy at all having another person who looks like Debussy!

[TheBuck4013]

You can see he truly feels the music.