Chopin Etude op.25 no.1, "Aeolian Harp"

Lang Lang, pf. (encore). London Proms RAH 27-Aug-2009

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Music

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• Chopin
• Piano
• Etude
• Aeolian
• Harp
• Lang

[dubistscheissse]

Do you remember Artur Rubinstein? he never made any gimmicks, exaggerations or whatever and his music was absolutely though... so don't act that much!!

[Ernesto7608]

I am usually appreciative of Lang Lang's interpretations. But I find this performance quite stupid, sentimentalist, schmaltzy. Maybe he was high on concert-audience-applause egotism. Like many others, this etude just speak for itself, and needs at most some slight rubato at the end of phrases.

[MrCrgl]

@Demusics lo que tu dices tambien es una estupidez.

[Demusics]

Chopin is a great romantic. This interpretation is Genial. Digo que esta interpretación es genial, precisamente porque Chopin era uno de los grandes románticos. Por ahí leo muchas estupideces... Chopin no hay que tocarlo como un mecano matemático, aunque sean "estudios". Ni siquiera Bach, al que todos les buscan las matematicas y luego resulta que aquel que intenta seguir un sistema matricial para acabar alguna fuga, lo hace plastico y sin sentido... Lang Lang, el puto amo...

[poplife123]

Stick with Horowitz ..... Best version I've heard on YouTube so far.....and trust me I've been looking high n low.....

[thejesusfreak919]

0:25...is it just me, or does it look like he's painfully masturbating?

[winrx]

Young students of the keyboard, if you'd like to know what vulgar Chopin sounds like, look no further......

[winrx]

Yeah, he was certainly laying it a bit thick there, straight from the Yo Yo Ma School of Interpretative Arts.....

[chiidaramushini]

It is noisy.

[dziady1]

He is terrible - he kills the line - poor Chopin sacrificed to a second rate musical mind .

[nyhyl]

I've read a couple of comments now. To those who call Lang Lang an actor: Acting means showing something which isn't real and authentic. He would be acting if he were playing a role. He most certainly wasn't playing a role. What role would it have been? Hamlet?

He is a musician who expresses his feelings physically which hasn't to do anything with acting. Actually it's absolutely natural and much more authentic than what a lot of other pianists have done.

[LynnCommunication]

I'm commenting as a musician. I recognize the talent of Lang Lang without an hesitation. Now people get surprised with his faces. But I too look weird sometimes when playing Schubert or Chopin for instance, so I understand him. I think it's the cameras's fault, not his. Instead of shooting more often his hands, they shoot his face, they even zoom it, just to make people talk and criticise... Just like you people do ! Well done ! Then close your eyes and just listen !