My favorite since the very first phrase he played in the first round... Nocturne op. 27 no.2! and it seems that he is always having more to show and share with the audience. Fantastic!

So much passion, brilliance, and artistry throughout this performance... he is not just a pianist, he is an artist! Wish him best of luck, for me, he is already a winner!

I'm in love with this performance. What a refreshing approach to Chopin. Really unique among other competitors. I wonder why he's so underrated.

"Best" is not a word I like when comparing performances at this level. But competitions are competitions! This performance is absolutely fascinating, the most interesting and intelligent I've heard. It's far more 'classical' than others and more beautiful for that.

SPLENDID! The audience obviously adored this young man, and I do too. Rarely do we get to hear playing with such character, merriment, spontaneity, emotional involvement and unrestrained joie de vivre. This player's body language shows how comfortable he is in front of an audience, and how freely he expresses the joy, tenderness, puckish good humor and VIVACITY inherent in Chopin's music. One can aways find things to criticize, but why bother? THIS kind of playing demonstrates the main POINT of wanting to perform and to listen to great works in the first place. This performance goes behind mere virtuosity. It is delightfully WARM, CAPTIVATING, BRILLIANT and stunningly ALIVE.

Amazing...listening all morning!!!

Aljoša is winner of my slavic heart, it sounds that he has polish spirit:) His interpretations are full of real depth, not affected manners.

I like this performance and Aljosa generally :-)

One of my favourite interpretations, full of so much emotion

This is absolutely SUPERB! So fresh, beautiful and exciting while always grasping long lines and overall coherence of the piece. Wonderful!!

My favorite. Not because we r both Croatians, but because I think Chopin should be played with intelligence, passion and brilliance, and not too soft and emo. In my opinion Chopin in his opus incorporated the strength, force, passion, love for life & his country and a brilliance of expression that he wasn't able to convey fully himself, because of his health condition. Aljoša Jurinić with his amiability, articulation and confident elegance has embodied and conveyed all those qualities most of all the finalist that performed until now. That said all the finalists are excellent. Congratulations Aljoša, whatever the jury decides, you are the winner for me.

So beautiful. I actually was listening to the second movement (and not just waiting for the third). Bravo!

Bravo!!!! what a music soul.... this guy is winner!!

Very good. Bravo A.J. Good luck for you.

La migliore interpretazione tra i 10 finalisti!

Sir, it was a pleasure to hear you perform your heart out. Looking at how the jurors have rated you, it is comforting to note that four of the 5 top laureates liked you consistently to advance to the next rounds until the finals: Argerich, Ohlsson, Harasiewicz and Yundi. Those are the people who, based on their judgment, have given you their approval of how you played Chopin's masterworks. Take heart then and flourish. We hope to see you here perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC one of these days. Please do add another section in your personal website: tour dates! Please do some all-Chopin record!

You are my favorite piyanist Congratulations Aljosa Yurinic

確かにコンクールではあまり好かれない個性的な演奏だけど、私は3楽章の左手のバスの聞かせ方とかすごく好き。一番聞いてて楽しかった。

Love It! Wonderful soul and artist !

Pod njegovim prstima klavir pjeva i ujedno plaće. Bravisimo Aljoša!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

he is actually pretty good.. and apparently audiences like him too

I am from croatia and I know him. He has even more to offer than this. But great performance overall. Svaka čast.

beautiful music

GREAT PIANIST!!! He has personality.

Aljosa Jurinic is probably best Croatian pianist. I completed Master in Piano too, but am not probably nowhere near to his brilliance. I am very poor pianist compared to Aljosa. It needs a lot of strength to play something like this.

That B at 6:15 is eargasmic

If he ever records Etudes I'll be the first to purchase the CD. His interpretations of Winter Wind and Ocean were (or are in this case) timeless... Bravo Aljosa!

Bravo

Bravo brilliance music super

1. 0:48 2. 22:48 3. 32:37 I found this performance a bit too tensed and slightly less accurate, but he still feels the music.

Generally good! :) many small mistakes and a bit too slow tempo, especially in the coda of the finale, but there is potential. Many passages are really beautiful, some others not so much but can be easily improved. I think it's just a matter of a bit more practicing and feeling "brave" on stage.

Bravo!

It seems as if the same sort of inexplicable injustice gets repeated every couple of decades with another Croatian piano player. This time there was no Magnificent Martha to walk out of the jury. Dear Aljoša, I wish you the long and most successful career. Be unique and yourself as Ivo has been doing ever since his Warsaw finals. Congratulations from the homeland! Pišem na engleskom tako da više ljudi može razumijeti. Pozdrav, Petar.

He was obviously nervous here - although there are number of wonderful moments! He tried to sing out every note and unintentionally made many places too loud and similar sounding while loosing refinement.

Удивительно хорошее исполнение! Слушала со слезами на глазах -- такое сильное впечатление! Surprisingly good performance! I listened with tears in my eyes - such a strong impression!

Most of the judges didn't like him

Sin dudas el mas interesante y sofisticado de todos los participantes , incomprensible la decisión del jurado , debería haber estado entre los tres primeros premios.

Aljoša, super performance! The orchestra great! Im waiting for a CD with your recording of the Piano Concerto in E minor Op. 11

I don't get why this has fewer views than the others...

Esplêndido! quanta emoção tocada de forma vibrante e luminosa...

05:00 I can't believe how hard that cough sounded

Bardzo lubię ten występ ! ;-)

He is good, but I feel his sound in Rondo vivace part is too heavy. Also the interpretion of this piece is unfamiliar to me...

7:07 I don't know how, but so many of the finalists made an error on this jump

Wondering which "version" of score the piano part's performance is based on - Just a difference in interpretation as of pianist's personality. Compared with most of others's, less stream-phrasing, yet notes stress here and there - One of the reasons why got some finger-sticking sounding?!

Good practice tempo.

Este muchacho tiene un sonido bellísimo.

That tempo makes this concerto accessible to the piano-playing masses!! Jurinic is a musical communist!!!

For all you commenting, saying he's "the best" and the most "unique," you're out of your minds. Get over your obsessions. I just listened to five of these, and they all sound amazing, particularly the Kate girl. Go find something more productive to do. Stop spewing your shallow opinions. Go learn something about music, or practice, or don't practice. Who cares? Just stop with this stuff.

32:36 rondo

I didn't know Jesse Eisenberg played piano so well!

He looks like Ivo a

to be honest I prefer Aljosa's piano concerto interpretation than Hamelin. This decision about giving Hamelin the 2nd prize I really do not understand...

안스러워서 겨우 봤어요ㅜㅜ 저라면 중간에 울었을꺼 같은데 끝까지 최선을 다했네요.

22:40

rip

이번에는 본선에서 꼴찌하셨지만 그래도 진짜 잘 치세요^^ 앞으로도 좋은 결과 보여주시길...

his left hand play isnt really balanced with right handsome part. but his piano sound is beautiful! 성진군 다음으로 피아노 쳐서 부담 됐겠다 ㅠ

Why so many dislikes?...😱😱😱

W trudnych sytuacjach Chopin pomaga......

😁😀💛💬

터치도 좋고 괜찮았는데.. 템포라던지 여러 부분에서 아쉬움이 많이 남네요

When I was listening his live playing, I though he should deserve a prize as he handle the emotions quite well, although he made a few of mistake during his play (Sine I was literally sitting in front of the contrabass, contrabass sound covered the piano sound, so I could only hear around 6 mistakes, some tiny mistakes are acceptable in a competetion.) But when I listen his play again and again at home, couples of tiny mistakes with other couples of tiny mistakes become a huge mistake which cannot be accepted in final stage in an international competition. He seems quite nerves in the third movement, he made around 5 mistakes in a minute (From 34:00), which was punished severely. Overall, he made at least 30 mistakes in whole concerto.

You cant play that many wrong notes in chopin.. I understand well why he got scored the lowest amongst all

I have to say i'm not fond of his interpretation. it feels a bit flat, and he drags the tempo sometimes. I've heard more interesting interpretations from the competition

lowest score in the finals

How sick that every year after every year people have to perform this piece a million times, again and again, with different pianists, all for the sake of the petty absurd wasteful task of determining which one is "the best" when in fact they all are the same. If you can really play the piano well, every great pianist is just as good as you. This is just shameful that they make all these pianists play a Chopin concerto again and again and again. Imagine how bored the orchestra and listeners must be after all this. They should be allowed to pick any concerto they wish. I can't stand this competition, supported by Yamaha no less.

His playing is not consistent and not flowing !!

Bravo