The best grande polonaise brillante I 've heard in my life.

How perfect this could be, she is unbelievable. What a master in all Chopin pieces. I am happy to watch her again and again and I still feel her spirit and soul of Chopin. Bravo Kate Liu.

I come back here to vibe sometimes

Read the chat of the current Chopin Competition, every time someone plays the Andante and Grand Polonaise someone always recall Kate Liu's performance. This marvelous performance has become some sort of standard for this piece.

The best pianist 0:00 Andante Spianato 5:07 Grande Polonaise Brillante op 22

今まで聴いた中で、一番美しいアンダンテ・スピアナート 出だしから完全に引き込まれた

This pianist is pretty much the definition of tone production. Not a single note is wasted or half sounded. She really trusts herself with the tone production, and it works

그냥 손이 마법인것같다.부드러운 터치로 아름다운 세상에 하나뿐인 옥동자(선율)을 탄생시키는것같다.건반을 쓰다듬듯 귀한 보물을 만지듯 그런 한음한음이 탄생되고 있다.경이로움이다..

What an amazing human being. 🔥🎹✨

It’s now been seven years since Kate Liu played this masterpiece at the 2015 Chopin Competition, and for me no other performance before or since can touch it-not even close. 👩🏻🎹🙋🏻‍♀️

Years later and this is still the best performance I've ever seen

This was UNREAL. Oh my god

2:25 when she layers two melodies so clearly, I am captivated. And she's not rushing, unlike others.

Very clean, crisp, lyrical sound, like pearls scattering on the piano board! Love it so much

The section 10:00-10:30 will always be my favorite part. Whenever I listen to Kate's playing on that part, I associate the sound to nostalgia and melancholy. I feel like I'm taken back to my happy days but reality is reminding me that those are the old days that I can't go back anymore. Whenever I listen to other pianists, I always anticipate how are they gonna play it and Kate's playing on this part would always take me back here at this video.

watching again after watching the last of the 2021 prelims, frankly, this is just such a class above. what a breath-taking performance, some brilliant passages, and the yamaha piano is so clear

She plays with the lightness of a butterfly but, I believe that, in addition to talent and sensitivity, there is an iron self-discipline that allows her to achieve these results. All my admiration and esteem. Suona con la leggerezza di una farfalla ma, credo che, oltre al talento e alla sensibilità, ci sia una ferrea autodisciplina che le consente di ottenere questi risultati. Tutta la mia ammirazione e stima.

あなたの奏でる音楽は世界一です

Sometimes I feel the urgency to come back here to listen to this magical performance.. ✨

Happy birthday Kate!!. may 23(2024) we love you so much!!!. we will want Kate to play a lot of Chopin music from now on. I'm looking forward to it .

Her rendition leaves me breathless and hypnotized long after she finished her playing, she makes me cry and shiver all over my body, I wouldn't change a note in her performance, what a sensitivity and perfect understanding of all those emotions behind Chopin's music. She's already the winner, the audience was all hers.

Masterful performance! Just wonderful in every way.

This Polonaise is a a piece of Chopin music what acts like a nostalgic arrow aimed in the heart of the Polish soul. We can easily start crying listening to this tune... Kate Liu... She performed this essential theme in a virtuoso way but she gave us much more. She found a clue to mystery behind notes. It's everything here: the view of Polish bocage, enthusiasm of live and the sorrow of passage. All embroiled around familiar Polonaise sound what was so frequently performed at gentry's homes during winter evenings. Really - great appearance on the XVII Chopin competition. Congratulations!

I think she is channeling Chopin's spirit. She is absolutely amazing. She seems like she's in a trance and the music is just flowing through her.

The soft touch, the ability to make that piano so human in nature and sounds, this is where Kate is amazing. Soft and powerful - Steel wrapped in silk.

Simply amazing. I usually smile seeing comments like "the best performance ever" BUT listening to this I have to say that it is truly the best performance ever.

one example of her brilliance: 10:18 and 10:20 are the same upward runs; the first is pedaled, forte and so smooth, the second time it is crisp and somehow almost staccato yet piannissimo (can you imagine playing staccato yet pianissimo at that speed???). same for the next two upward runs: 10:22 and 10:24. it evokes such great emotion this way -- memory, nostalgia, acceptance that passed time is done and final.

The dissonance that creeps in right around 1:52 is possibly my favorite moment in all of Chopin’s works. A little taste of what’s to come. A cold spirit about to collide with the beauty of the theme. It’s just incredible.

She sounds like an angel. I can't stop listening.

Kate with the Golden Hands. I just can not get enough of her playing this piece. Chopin himself should have heard this...

何回ショパンを聴いたなんてわかりませんが、あなたのショパンが私の中で世界一です。 地球の裏側で聴けるなんて、私は良い時代に生まれました。

This is such a marvelous and brilliant performance. Brought tears into my eyes. I'm listening to this polonaise for the first time ever and I can't even express how shocked I am. My mind is spinning and perhaps it's because I'm ill but this performance is beautiful in so many ways.

This is my favorite music of Chopin, especially the “Andante Spianato”, as if from heaven, incredibly beautiful, pearl-like rounded clear tone, she played Chopin true spirit!!

Miss Liu is a genius, or an angel, avatar, or who knows what she is. But i beg humanity to give her all the space and support to express her divine nature.

I never could imagine that someone can one day re-invent this piece ... but the miracle occured.

This girl TRULY has that "Chopin insight" which is sorely lacked by even greatest pianists, not to mention by many competitors in this event. She does not just play notes here; she FATHOMS the meaning, the feeling behind Chopin pieces.

Came here after watching chopin comp 2021 2nd round. Kate liu is just an another level on this polonaise. Her touch is soft but powerful, deep but bright. I’d enjoy Bruce’s one too, but felt too rushing.

This is truly a world class performance! She really makes the piano sing. You can tell from her hands and fingers, so similar to those of some other world class pianists. They are built to conquer.

One of my favourites to win.

She sings with her heart, so sincere. Her playing is not made up. I was pleasantly surprised with her nocturne especially the beginning. I dare to say and to wish that she's going to go far with her talent.

Kate’s playing is just wonderful. Her phrasing is superb, which is from her understanding of Chopin.

My favorite pianist of the recent Chopin competitions ❤ I hope I get to see someone that even gets close to her level of grace and touch.

She is the GOD of music.

Thank you God for giving us Kate Liu.

Good thing this was her final piece for this stage. Can you imagine hearing that and NOT applauding?

Kate Liu has an enormous talent and her playing is indescribably beautiful! This Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, I never heard it better, not even from the greatest pianists! It has everything in immense quantity: force, poetry, clearness and her technical skills are of a stupendous perfectness. I'm completely speechless.

Unsurpassable clarity, delicacy and voice control.

Chopin is such a master at creating beautiful, relaxing and peaceful melodies that Kate amazingly brings to life, she really lets the sound flow out and it is just wonderful. Wow

Chopin to najpiękniejsza spuścizna dla ludzkości.

never gets old- Kate, it's so incredibly beautiful.

The way she plays the middle part of the Spianato is just amazing. The sweet, calming sound she is able to produce, I give her my total respect :)

素晴らしい音色と華麗なテクニックがあり、引きこまれました🏆🏆　3位　マズルカ賞受賞おめでとうございます㊗️㊗️ さすがです！‼️ 彼女こそ　本当のピアニストだと思います😭😭amejing ^_^

my blood chilled at listening to this performance. IMHO, this is the best performance of this piece in this competition.

To this day, this is the best rendition of this piece I have ever heard. The subtleties, the intonation, the pace, the softness, the inner channeling, the command. All facets are genuine and perfect. I've heard this piece played by most other current piano greats and STILL, this version is best. She will go very far in her career. She has "it".

Never heard this piece played better. Period. And that brilliant piano...it sounds absolutely perfectly tuned, bravo to whomever tuned it!!

I am polish and not proud of Chopin. I am proud of beauty. Chopin as God touch and Kate as touch of him. She touch my soul so deeply !!

I think this is most hypnotized beautiful andante spinato I’ve ever listened.

Never heard anyone play this so perfect … wow … uncle Frederic would be so proud

9:59 perfection (beginning of a miracle) 10:17 the miracle. Kate, I don't know if you hear me or not, but believe me, and I am very serious, these some bars by you will stay in history. You made at these very seconds a constellation between Lhevinne, Friedman and Lipatti. Who, who on earth is able to such a miracle ? Tell me, please ....

this may be the most beautiful thing i've heard in my life -- her fingers are floating across the keys ...

피아노가 타악기가 아니라 건반악기임을 실감케해주는 연주자..오르간같기도 하고..참 아름답게 소리를 내는것같다건반으로 마치 풍경을 그리는 화가같다..너무나 소중한 연주자다..

That ending is just mesmerizing o.O Apart from that, I like the way she plays every single note. I haven't felt like this for a long time. Makes me sad because I stopped following my dreams as a classical pianist, but I am happy knowing that she made me feel motivated to play more and to embrace life as it is, full of wonderful people like her that inspire us to move on and create a better version of ourselves. Thank you for your wonderful performance Kate Liu.

It's so beautiful it hurts.

Still not over at how brilliant this performance is. Kate is a revelation.

Her touches are so soft and delicate... I am closing my eyes while listening to this, and it makes me feel as if I am in a vast, peaceful spring field in the quiet mountains.

Since I heard Kate Liu for the first time some days ago, I couldn't stop listening to her. She is amazing!

Another winner for Curtis institute. Insane precision and beauty all in one.

One of Chopins most sublime pieces. It moves your soul, like waves in an ocean. And this performance always gets my heart soaring, amazing

extraordinary charisma and most beautiful pianist hands ever! :)

I obviously respect experienced musicians, as well as competition juries, who track down the slightest infidelity to the score; but, for my part, I am above all looking for emotion, which the ''live'', in classical music, almost always brings, and so I really need the personal touch of the interpreter, his mood of the day, of his personal emotion, especially when it comes to personalities as strong as Kate, whose playing is obviously ''mannered'', but never distorts the work of Chopin. Clearly, I prefer there to be a few discreet differences (sometimes voluntary), rather than having to deal with an ultra-slick and smooth disc, or the perfect execution of a score by a robot? In this respect, I find the present interpretation of the Andante Spianato by Kate Liu incomparable.

It's now 2021. WHERE is this truly superb pianist now? She should be world-famous.

How could someone have ever written such a piece o music? This is absolutely incredible, gives me so much hope in the humankind

I’ve heard so many great pianists playing this piece, but Kate is the one who makes the moon rise and stars shine in my heart. I’m no music critique but her polonaise is full of nostalgic sensitivity and delicate touches here and there. Her phrasing of those ascending notes starting at 10:00, the second time fading away like an echo of the first…simply amazing. Would love to see Kate perform other delicate pieces like this!

Her touch and voice control are incredible.

Genius, clad in divine body, possessing fabulous talent and marvelous palms. Bless you Kate...

Nie jestem wielkim znawcą muzyki, ale po przesłuchaniu wszystkich finalistów, mogę tylko stwierdzić, że szacowne jury konkursu skrzywdziło Kate Liu, a my straciliśmy możliwość obcowania z jej wyjątkową wrażliwością. Myślę, że Chopin, nie byłby zadowolony.

I personally think that Kate plays the best Chopin polonaise op 22 ever, just so perfect, beautiful and amazing control!

The Grande Polonaise Brillante op 22's reference, so much musicality in so much technique

I have listened to Kate playing this more than 20 times in recent days I think, I can not stop it...

I can hear the sound of orchestra, what a magical, incredible, fantasy performance.❤️

Father, give us this day our daily bread, and Chopin's music performed by Kate Liu.

My God, she's sent from heaven. How can she produce that sound. Hypnotic. Rapturous.

This is the Chopin I live for. Absolutely mesmerizing..

9:51 thirty seconds of supreme delicacy .............. and in front of one thousand persons and a jury , this is an incredible victory , much more dangerous and fragile than any mechanical virtuosity of the "First Price" .... .... But this is Mrs. Liu , ... the Princess

A most gifted young woman with tremendous talent. Kate has the technique that allows her to challenge the most difficult passages with ease producing wonderful artistry. She has a bright future!

Kate’s performance sets the benchmark! I listen to some of the most famous pianists in the world play this piece - and come back to Kate’s magical rendition, time and time again!

This 15 minutes was the best moment for today

Watching her face at around 2:30 is so magnificent, she really feels it...what a gorgeous piece of music

What a magical interpretation. To me, Andante spianato evokes a warm autumn day, beautifully coloured trees above my head, a gentle breeze moving their leaves into a quiet hum and sunrays gently caressing my face as I walk peacefully and enjoy that blissfull moment.

The rendition by Kate touches deep to my heart and I couldn't stop listening, it's like oxygen for me now.

She is so magnificent playing this. I could listen to it over and over.

I'm absolutely enthralled by her playing. I can't count the number of times that I've stayed up way too late in the evening listening to her. She is just brilliant on so many levels.

As I am pushing the age of 70, I am constantly amazed at the volume of material that these youngsters are able to memorize. It was easier in my teens, but it is virtually impossible now. I am blown away by Kate's performance.

The best performance of this piece. As I listened more, I think she has become my favorite among the prize winners.

彼女の選んだ曲目は全て、そのジャンルの最高難度。 このコンクールに全てを賭けてきたという思いが音に表れている。 ペダルを多用せず、クリアな音を繰り広げていて、聴き心地がいい。 最高の腕を持っているソリストだと思う。 日本人に長らくこういう女性が現れてないのが残念でならない。

I can't stop listening this gorgeous performance....

Bravo! This is my favorite version so far, what an achievement for such a young lady!

어떻게 피아노에서 구슬 굴러가는 소리가 들릴까 어쩜 이렇게 맑고 예쁘게 연주할까 너무 좋다 진짜로ㅠㅠㅠ

I 1st heard & learned of this brilliant young lady, Kate Liu, shortly after this competition. More than a year has past, & now I revisit her competition performances. I'm almost moved to tears this time, because now I've heard more artists with whom to compare her. I now dare to say that she will be one of the most influential pianists of the 21st century. To me, she is the epitome of the Romantic Age of classical music. To me, much of who Chopin is & what the Romantic Age is seems to be embodied in this young lady. Her: elegance, skill & delivery are so in tune to what the music of the Romantic Age represents. She is destined for a remarkable journey & it is my prayer that one day I will be blessed to see her in person. She is so well prepared to help guide generations into a prosperous future. God bless you Miss Liu!!!

I cannot stop listening to this piece of Kate’s beautiful Chopin even it passed 2 years from this competition. I cannot find better andante spianato. She makes me feel comfortable and passion at the same time through listening to this. She is the best pianist ever in my whole life.