Have to add to my preceding comment that I find Lang Lang's performance of mvt. 2 to be the most coherent and persuasive (especially rhythmically), quiet (though with dramatically loud moments), and mysterious of any I've heard.
Slow movement is especially great. I've performed this piece and honestly his playing is pretty detailed; I don't agree with the "bangy" assessments, though I wouldn't call it clear either.
Too fast i think; still, I heard melodic phrases I hadn't picked out as clearly from other performances; these now more-salient aspects reminded me of Rite and Spring and Petrushka.
Lang Lang seems bent on driving a HGV at full tilt down the motorway. Too much hammer and tongs. Andor Foldes brought out the crude, raw power of the work, but he also understood its lighter side; far more balanced.
Andor Foldes just bangs through it, and overall unconsidered. Lang Lang is a little crude here and there but at least brings bite and character to the work.
Thanks for your feelings Tom. Why don’t you write the Berlin Phil and remind them that if they can’t remember their next program of symphonies, they should not perform
I don't like this performance...First movement is too fast , missing or obscured notes..so bad.... too much pedal in the second movement. .....And why is he using sheet music...never seen that before. listen to Argerich's.version
Have to add to my preceding comment that I find Lang Lang's performance of mvt. 2 to be the most coherent and persuasive (especially rhythmically), quiet (though with dramatically loud moments), and mysterious of any I've heard.
13:04 sounds like a gong, onwards sounds very deep and almost industrial.
The page turner is 3 steps away not to get punched in the face!
0:10 mov.1
4:19 mov.2
10:35 mov.3
Meant to be played at approx 2/3 or 3/4 of this tempo
Slow movement is especially great.
I've performed this piece and honestly his playing is pretty detailed; I don't agree with the "bangy" assessments, though I wouldn't call it clear either.
Clearly the best performance of that specific sonata.
Zoltan Kocsis is the best for me, but I guess everyone has a different opinion
@@Steinwaytoday I like Kocsis's way, too. But here I find even more of the playfulness and folkloristic zest that many performances lack.
I think so
FABULOUS!!!
와.....amazing...
🎉🎉🎉🎉
Why does he need the score?
Bartók composed in a percussive style, but he did not write "bang the keys as if they were drums"
Too fast i think; still, I heard melodic phrases I hadn't picked out as clearly from other performances; these now more-salient aspects reminded me of Rite and Spring and Petrushka.
Lang Lang seems bent on driving a HGV at full tilt down the motorway. Too much hammer and tongs. Andor Foldes brought out the crude, raw power of the work, but he also understood its lighter side; far more balanced.
Andor Foldes just bangs through it, and overall unconsidered. Lang Lang is a little crude here and there but at least brings bite and character to the work.
Absolutely terrible, showing off his technique w speed.
Too fast .
True. And out of any sense.
He does not understand Bartok.... at all.
Bartók just let his cat walk on the piano and wherever she stepped got into the piece. Then he got more cats. Then this piece 😀
Which still happens to be better than that horrifying River Flows in You
@@AllNewYear how did you know I like that?
If you can't remember it, don't play it. This is pretty good. Better if he would just remember it.
Bullshit!
Thanks for your feelings Tom. Why don’t you write the Berlin Phil and remind them that if they can’t remember their next program of symphonies, they should not perform
Idiotic comment.
Why so ridiculous movements
I don't like this performance...First movement is too fast , missing or obscured notes..so bad.... too much pedal in the second movement. .....And why is he using sheet music...never seen that before. listen to Argerich's.version
Rather battered and over-casual. Still, much better than the Andras Schiffs of the world, hoity-toity pinheads.