Freddy Kempf - Chopin, Etude Op.10 No. 12

Freddy Kempf is an English pianist, born in 1977 in London to a German father and a Japanese mother. Having resided in London for many years and studying at the Royal Academy of Music, he now lives in Berlin.

Taking up the piano at the age of four, Kempf first caught the attention of British concertgoers four years later when he played Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12, K. 414, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall. The child virtuoso was shortly invited to Germany to repeat his performance. In 1987, Kempf won the first National Mozart Competition in England and in 1992, was named BBC Young Musician of the Year for his performance of Rachmaninoff's Paganini Rhapsody.

In a controversial turn of events, Kempf's early adult career ironically benefited from his failure to win the 1998 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where the first prize in the piano section went instead to Denis Matsuev. Apparently, some judges had wanted to award the first prize jointly to Matsuev and Kempf and had successfully negotiated with the Russian Culture Ministry for the additional funding. However, Kempf collected only third prize in the end, which provoked a barrage of indignant protests from the audience and the Russian press, who accused some of the judges of bias (especially towards contestants who also happened to be their former pupils).

In April 1999, Kempf returned to Moscow with a series of television broadcasts and sold-out concerts. Kempf's popularity has been compared with that garnered by American pianist Van Cliburn who, in a different result in 1958, had won the inaugural Competition.

Kempf has continued to perform solo, chamber, and concertante music in Europe, the Americas, East Asia, and Australia, and has recorded recital discs of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and Schumann. He was voted Best Young British Classical Performer in the Classical BRIT Awards in 2001.

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[CsFace98]

54 people wanted to die after they've been playing 3 notes

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@Roora555 - It's all about SPEED; INTENSE speed at that. This is not a piece to "feel", but about raw speed and power. This is not one of Chopin's "romantic" pieces, this is an Etude, a Study, an Exercise mainly for the left hand.

So with all due respect, if you're not "feeling" it, then Freddy Kempt is doing eveything Correctly.

[TheXzzero]

@pianistinblues I'm sorry but you clearly can't hear right there is a fairly noticeable difference between his triplets and his sixteenth notes and I have used many different printings of this piece and there is no tempo difference in the third page

[pianistinblues]

@pianistinblues "can be genius is not egual play like a genius " he is a good pianist but is far away to play all his pieces like a genius.



[pianistinblues]

@PianoCriticsKiller isn' t precisely, isn'e clearily , he don't have a right time for this piece,

he don't make a difference from the " terzine" e " quartine" ( triplets and quatrains) in the same melody but in the third page chopin have wrote in different time, he can play better than this and for me is no a great interpretetion .

[pianistinblues]

@PianoCriticsKiller only you have understand that i don't like his Chopin pieces,

but i have wrote that i don't like THIS interpretetion of Chopin,

i know Chopin very good, before write something , read and don't write a stupid post. best regards.

[PianoCriticsKiller]

@pianistinblues Oh let me add that if you don't like any of his Chopin pieces, it's probably because you don't understand Chopin. It's too deep.

[PianoCriticsKiller]

@sirshitsalot007 - They are distant relatives, per his fb.

[PianoCriticsKiller]

@pianistinblues "...and is normal dislake something, can be genius is not egual like make all like a genius" WHAT????

This is the (2nd) best version of this piece. But that's just my opinion. It's clear, crisp, he has the emotions, it's flawless and he's playing it precisely the way it's written. What more do you want?

[pianistinblues]

@PianoCriticsKiller i'm sorry for you but i like KEMPF when he play " patetique" but i dislake this interpretation of chopin, there some pianists can play this so much better, and is not important if he is a genius or not, this is not a good interpretation.

i love how he play "patetique" for me his interpretation of patetique is one of better in youtube, but not this chopin, and is normal dislake something, can be genius is not egual like make all like a genius ! put this in you mind!

[RRavenclawsDiadem]

@sirshitsalot007 i dunno, but on his website it says they're related :D

[sirshitsalot007]

is he wilhem kempff's son?