I heard Hao Rao's performance yesterday in the Royal Baths Park in Warsaw. Despite a huge storm approaching, Hao Rao played Chopin's etudes for the people of Warsaw. After one hour, the organizers had to take safety measures but we could stay there forever listening to Hao Rao with admiration and appreciation.

Bravo! 👏👏

Trash!

A stupendous recital. I agree with Devardman that the second Ballade was exceptionally good. The deceptively simple opening is boring in most pianists' hands, even very famous ones. Here, it is rocking (amazing that even famous pianists fail to capture the rocking 6/8 rhythm) and subtle. Throughout the recital, his technique is as steady as rock even in the hardest passages, but it is the grasp of the overall structure that impresses. The Ballades can seem rhapsodic in many interpretations, but with the trajectory of each piece crystal clear in his mind, he could introduce tiny hesitations and breathing room without harming the flow of the music. While Lang Lang enraptures the audience and infuriates the connoisseurs and critics, Rao is a pianists' pianist. Those who know this music inside out are bound to be enormously impressed by the optimal interpretative choices made. As I have remarked before, piano playing is not just an art but also a sport. It pays to have a coach to point things out to you. Dr Li is a wonderful 'coach' in this respect. A good example of the excellent interpretative choices made is the Polonaise. This is so well known that it risks comparison with everyone's favourite interpretations. Rao has made it special, and demonstrated how this Polonaise SHOULD be played, by playing the restatement of the main theme heroically rather than as fast as possible, and not letting the tempo sag in the disquieting and meandering passage leading up to the recapitulation of the main theme. This is not just masterly, but correct (meaning others are wrong). If there is one tiny flaw in this live recital, it is in the statement of the main theme in the Fourth Ballade. In a recital, one's concentration may lapse after playing at an exalted level for half an hour, but I think there is perhaps not enough preparation for this passage. As written, it is frustratingly repetitive, so how to make it into an evolving story takes a lot of imagination and interpretative ingenuity. Dr Li can help him here, but for one who has transitioned from a teenager to an adult, he would do well to read European literature and to listen to opera (Chopin was fond of Bellini and bel canto).

Congratulations Hao Rao, nice to hear you .

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Excellent! Congrats Vivian!!

ハオラオさんのまろやかで綺麗な音が好きで、ショパンコンクールの時から応援しています。バラード４番、とっても素敵な演奏でした！

Wow!

sublime

Parabéns, belissima execução

superb!

Il est évident Que Hao Rao met tout de lui-même dans ce qu´il joue...ne lui manque qu´un peu plus d´aisance de respiration de bien être d´espace qui déploie la mélodie avec poésie...Il semble ici trop actif à interpréter...et ce qu´il fait est dense et trop serré....avec le temps....viendra

...Robuste..Carré .plein d´énergie...mais doigté souple. ne manque pas de sensibilité dans ses expressions.....Des Promesses pour le futur ! Bonne route !

OMG HOW COULD YOU PUT HATE COMMENNTS FROM THREE YEARS AGO! UR SO ANNOYING WOMAN!

Forgot how much I loved his playing during the Chopin Competition!

Absolutely brilliant young man, I was transfixed for almost 11 minutes! BRAVO 💖🎼🎹

Perfect for my car trip❤

Discovering this marvelous pianist has renewed my spirit.

Genius, as time has proven already. He makes me at 66 experience this music as if for the first time.

Performance of 2nd ballade best I've ever heard. He makes me hear Chopin with a new seat of ears; i'm hearing him anew after 55 years of listening. Well, this could be said for his performances of all of these ballades.

Just saw him peeform the other night in Boston; an incredible pianist and performer. Wish they would have given him a better piano though.

Excellent piano playing!

도저히 끝까지 못 듣겠다. 불행하게도 너무 완벽한 연주가 이미 나와 있으니... 더욱 정진하시길

Incredible performance for someone who was only thirteen. This is difficult 'modern' music performed cogently.

Love it! So much fun!

Absolutely wonderful!

Next chopin competition will be this pianist ^^^

This was the second half of the recital?!

I have to say, I really dont like the Interpretation of the second etude. But of course still impressive

What a surreal rendition! Not 1 but 4 Ballades ! The Heroic Polonaise nailed this recital. He just gets better and better. A prodigy !

Wow Hao - super impressive. A great milestone and accomplishment.

Practice 40 hours a day.

Really marvelous, I am very impressed! Thank you for posting this entire recital plus no less than 3 encores❤. Keep going, Hao Rao, you are a great musician

There is a special place in hell for the tuner of that piano

Bravissimo ❤

Играет чудесно, уже не говоря о технике, но какая - то странная акустика.

Gorgeous lush beautiful Chopin thanks Hao!

Ballade # 3 is my favorite ❤

Bruh why the heck would you say that Elise that she is ugly and weird and thather singing is awful?!

Incredibly beautiful, thank you, Hao - and Vivian!

Wonderful - so great to watch your superb trajectory!

lovely. i play this one

Really good!!

壮大で堂々としたたくましい英雄ポロネーズ。素晴らしいです。

フレッシュでエネルギッシュなものがどんどん溢れ出てくるイメージですね。聴いていると元気が出てきます。

Congrations to Zhonghua Wei winning 1st place at 2023 Hilton Head International Competition. Wow 👋

Outstanding playing from Hao Rao but for the people at the venue they could have tuned the piano better.

Deserve more likes

Ganz unglaublich! So ein junges Mädchen spielt mit so viel Gefühl die Musik eines einzigartigen Komponisten -❤️ Frédéric Chopin ❤️. Wirklich großartig! Was macht dieses sympathische Talent heute? 👍🏻🙂