lol so true

lol no-one but only you cared the audience during his play

lol i didn't notice that

exactly

Luke Holmes lol

Nope its jesus

Ale moja też jest niczego sobie, jak twierdzi przyjaciółka

And.what about the Horowitz interpretation?(referring to that CBS LP "H on Television")

Yes, in general, yamahas are not the best for classical music, but chopin institute's yamaha is one of the best.

i think Yamaha just sounds great in his hands

Who’s do you consider to be the best performance of this piece?

totally agreed

Yeah, I think the most talented participant last year was Hayato Sumino (Bruce Liu was good but in my opinion not winner worthy). However in the 17th Chopin Competition there were many talented people, and the winner of it was exceptionally talented.

Agreed. Honestly I was a bit disappointed when listening to the 18th Chopin competition. I was expecting someone (especially the winner) to be able to surpass my favourite interpretations. But that didn't happen. Just compare Bruce Liu's ballade no.2 and Seong Jin Cho's and you will see the difference. Cho's could surpass Zimerman's yet Bruce Liu's couldn't IMO. I actually like the top 3 competitors' performances very much for the 17th, yet I don't even like Bruce Liu for the 18th. Maybe I just set my expectations too high. 17th was definitely fantastic.

Agreed. I am expecting to enjoy Seong-Jin Cho's Handel, Brahms and Schumann this October. I also look forward to Charles Richard-Hamelin's performance in Taipei. He is really good.

I think this polonaise has the most untapped potential. So difficult to balance power, tempo, finesse, and phrasing in this one.

Completely agree

Agree😊💕

Krzysztof Ksiazek also good.

To me, Ksiazek was better. His interpretation was more majestic the way the character of the polonaise is

Blechacz all the way

17 year old Ivo Pogorelich is also quite stunning.

I'd prefer pogorelich

for me, this interpretation comes 2nd after Kultyshev's. This is a great version too.

Charles-Richard Hamelin is a pianist who studied in the town of Joliette, in Québec, Canada. We are very proud of his performance all over the world… ❤

@@louiseplante1256 Rightly so! He's a great pianist!

l agree. The perfomanse is veri good! But Vladimir Sofronitski plays simply divine!!! The rekording is old without video,but from the first chords carries away.Good luck!

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what about Witold Malcuzynski?

plz don't compare the epic version of Rubinstein with this! Like plz!

@@qualityvigilante599Rubenstein was an old fart who didn’t understand chopin, people have far surpassed his level😂

I could not find any better interpretation of this piece...

Yes that was exactly the issue when Fedorova played the piece

+morinoroba Absolutely fantastic.

Jestes wspanialy alicja

+Poudre Noire Absolutely. and I would also like to hear him play Bach-Busoni.

So would I

This is the miracle of fantastic music written by such composers as Chopin and overall Brahms!!

I couldn't have put it better, this sentence defines Chopin to me.

I want to like this comment million times. I always felt this through this song but didn't know the words to describe it.

never would agree to take part in such!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Liszt would definitely win. Chopin loved to see Liszt play his work and wrote in a letter to a friend how he wished he had Liszt's hands even though Chopin was probably more carefully and delicately emotive in his playing, Liszt's sheer skill (probably the most skilled pianist of all time) perhaps dwarfed Chopin's abilities

I've read that Tausig won over Liszt in terms of playing skills

Yes but Chopin much preferred Liszt's playing of his pieces.

People at that time thought that Liszt played things best the first time he sight-read them. After that he improvised a lot! He could transcribe an orchestral score to the piano on the fly, while making critical comments to the author, Wagner, who swore Liszt's spontaneous transcription was better than the orchestral version!

I also started playing the piano when I was 6 and had similar but slightly faster progress when I was 14. Now I am 17 and am learning this one. It isn't as hard as the others that I have been playing (4 ballades). So you definitely can do it! I think you will be able to pick up this one at 17 or 18 given your progress.

i’m 14 and playing this now. I believe you can learn it as long as you build up to difficult pieces like this. sight reading definitely helps or gradually learning more and more difficult pieces. don’t give up because i really wanted to quit piano 2 years ago and it just started to click with me and now i’m in love with piano. also, be patient with your progress!! piano takes a lot of time and this piece took me awhile to learn because i would always put it off. i recommend learning the main theme/section before you learn the easier part (a little before the mazurka). i hope this helps!

I'm older and have been playing longer. I can play the Hammerklavier fugue in the shower)

"even"?

Yamaha CFX is on par with the best European piano