She doesn't waste her youth. She lives her life with honesty and passion and that's why we love her.

The listening of the polyphonic lines is Amazing and there is, in this young and talented artiste I have discovered in Chopin competition, a high sense of spirituality. Love Kate Liu.

Sorry, but are entitled to your opinion, Grimaud's performance is the one you should be watching.

いつも憧れています！ケイトさん素敵です！

It's because volume and tone on the piano is controlled by timing and voicing, which, mechanically speaking, is key acceleration and not how hard a key is pressed; it's all leveraging and not heft.

Wow you met early year of her! I envy you. I found Mrs del Rosario is a really renowned teacher.. Guess you had a wonderful experience.

@@yesshinonein8282 Those weekend class meetings were amazing featuring pianists like Kate Liu and Conrad Tao. My wife was a student of del Rosario back in the seventies, as well as my daughter in 2001-2002.

@@normsantos1274 Wow there are so many artists learned from this amazing teacher! I actually never heard of Tao but I should listen to him. It's wonderful that your wife and daughter also got lessons from him (I'm super surprised)!!! I slightly recommend you to listen to some performances of rachel kudo, especially andante spianato by chopin. I think there are some points of naturality in music made by those who learned from del Rosario.

@@yesshinonein8282 i'm very familiar with rachel kudo. she played in a number of del rosario's class meetings, as well.

@@normsantos1274 Wow you're such a lucky guy.. Wish I were there. Today is the very birthday of this wonderful pianist! Hope greeting May, she wins cliburn competition!

Sorry, she didn't......never has never won first prize in any of her Major Completions either

what is pogorelich disease?

Yeh, what is Pogorelich disease? Is it that you think she is just too dynamic? Too virtuosic? Listen, I am so glad that Kate Liu is that way, that there is a strength and Amazon side like what I hear in this performance. I was concerned that in her playing of the Chopin E Minor Concerto at the Chopin Competition that Kate, from the very start of the solo was too introspective and reflective, that she should have reserved such contemplativeness and intimacy for a later refrain of the themes and rather, she should have come into the solo with more of what I hear her capable of doing here.... the Chopin Concerto is a bigger work than the 2nd Concerto of Chopin, and at its commencement, I feel there is no place for dreaming. I feared that the tiny woman that Kate is did not have the physical power that needed to come along with her uncanny depth and commitment to express a composer. Is Pogberelich disease virtuosity for virtuosity's sake? Seong-Jin Cho, winner of that competition, in contrast, played the same concerto a bit too "big" for my taste. But getting back to her performance here, Kate Liu's playing is glorious! I am glad she has it in her! I want to point out, in contrast, that Yuja Wang is certainly a very fine talent and while I don't underestimate her capacities, she plays everything just too fast, probably on purpose so as to be Horowitzian Reincarnate. When Yuja Wang plays the Turkish Marche, I am aghast that she actually believes that soldiers march that fast. She plays so rapidly, like in the Bizet-Horowitz transcription of Carmen, that there is no room to interpret anything that remotely is reflective or introspective, everything is a bit too shallow because it is all just played at breakneck speed, there being no time for nuance. Kate Liu, on the other hand, is a Titan of the piano when it comes to nuance and probing the depths, searching and searching and sharing what she uncovers with the listener... Oh, Kate Liu may not wear revealing clothes like Yuja Wang, but she is so cute!

@@mr.fredericchopin6214 "Is it that you think she is just too dynamic? Too virtuosic?" Not at all. It is "too introspective and reflective", something Pogorelich has pushed to an extreme. But I heard more recent recordings of her, and this seems to have only been for a period as I hoped 2 years ago.

Oh my goodness! cannot be serious. here, but your entitled to your opinion

You didn't miss much, a lot better performance

Is it that you think she is just too dynamic? Too virtuosic? Listen, I am so glad that Kate Liu is that way, that there is a strength and Amazon side like what I hear in this performance. I was concerned that in her playing of the Chopin E Minor Concerto at the Chopin Competition that Kate, from the very start of the solo was too introspective and reflective, that she should have reserved such contemplativeness and intimacy for a later refrain of the themes and rather, she should have come into the solo with more of what I hear her capable of doing here.... the Chopin Concerto is a bigger work than the 2nd Concerto of Chopin, and at its commencement, I feel there is no place for dreaming. I feared that the tiny woman that Kate is did not have the physical power that needed to come along with her uncanny depth and commitment to express a composer. Is Pogberelich disease virtuosity for virtuosity's sake? Seong-Jin Cho, winner of that competition, in contrast, played the same concerto a bit too "big" for my taste. But getting back to her performance here, Kate Liu's playing is glorious! I am glad she has it in her! I want to point out, in contrast, that Yuja Wang is certainly a very fine talent and while I don't underestimate her capacities, she plays everything just too fast, probably on purpose so as to be Horowitzian Reincarnate. When Yuja Wang plays the Turkish Marche, I am aghast that she actually believes that soldiers march that fast. She plays so rapidly, like in the Bizet-Horowitz transcription of Carmen, that there is no room to interpret anything that remotely is reflective or introspective, everything is a bit too shallow because it is all just played at breakneck speed, there being no time for nuance. Kate Liu, on the other hand, is a Titan of the piano when it comes to nuance and probing the depths, searching and searching and sharing what she uncovers with the listener... Oh, Kate Liu may not wear revealing clothes like Yuja Wang, but Kate Liu is so cute!

Unkind and unnecessary. This was a gentler performance than Ms Grimaud's but it was typical of Kate Liu and an excellent rendition. Having played this myself long ago I am well aware of how much work has gone into this beautiful performance

Oh , Heleana Grimaud's version, spectacular, powerful! Could not agree more mouth open, facial expressions, could not agree more.