You can tell he was ( rightfully so ) nervous when he started but as he eases into the music it just keeps getting better and better, just amazing. He’s playing quite fast but with so much control it doesn't sound rushed but dramatic, elegant and passionate.
This one is a hidden gem. The interpretation and the energy and everything. I don't know why the view count and likes are so low compared to his other ones. This is one of my favourites.
It was a refreshing Chopin ballad performance. It was a cool performance where all the lumps in my heart were gone. I want Bruce to play other ballads, too. Bruce is the best!
Notice the phrasing in the left-hand at 5:36. Extremely subtle but I love it and have incorporated it into my playing of this piece now! The slight pause before the climax on the left-hand makes it sound so much more dramatic and longing. Makes it sound so much more devastating and heart breaking.
You have here got the spirit of Chopin, Fryc, Frederic, - the young man who created a new artform, new music, well aware of earlier music, and it seems also aware of many many untrodden paths which we tend to forget. Here is a piece with so many spectacular refinements that you tend to ignore because it sounds so natural. But take a look at the harmonies in this piece. First time I heard this 50 years ago it was Julian von Karolyi on a DG record, and his rendering of the "fuoco" without much pedal really gave a thing to this piece, I Liu you hits the same mood in the first 4 upwards-figures there, even with a bit of pedal, those repeated notes are feverish. But that was only an aside remark. The tempo is hervorragend, terrific, a bit to the too fast side in my taste, but it works.
Xiaoyu Liu - you play the piano so beautifully, a pleasure to listen to every time. Congratulations on your recent win. You have been blessed with an amazing gift and you brought it to perfection. I admire you so much.
Mr Bruce Liu, sus interpretaciones son mí amanecer de cada día. El Universo y la Luz se despliegan en medio de la intensidad de sus arpegios. Gracias por tanta belleza!💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫🇦🇷
I was happy to listen to the long interview in French on the Chinese French channel.He is a very interesting person, his interpretation also reflects his personality.Great❤️🔥💝🎶🎵🌺
This is one of those Chopin pieces that has a perfectly beautiful, if sweet and innocent sounding theme and then goes into the maelstrom pyrotechnics that seem peculiar to me, even after hearing such for 50 years on now. Well, I'll just have to compose something better, I guess! Chopin more often seems divinely perfect, but this is planet Earth after all, and I can't criticize Chopin himself, just the taste of the listener, is it? Do I have an argument?
An interesting interpretation, showing a lot of control and constraint. Very delicate playing, which can sometimes be a misnomer for Chopin as people believe that he was this weak, frail, and sad little man, instead of the warm, extremely passionate, personally strong, patriotic, and compassionate person that he was. Just because his health was poor doesn't mean his music should be played in a sickly way. Please understand, this is not a critique of this performance, as it is flawless and can only be critiqued in its restraint, but that is purely a creative and interpretive decision, and not a technical critique, nor a real flaw. Wonderfully performed, but I still wanted to share the food for thought. ❤️
A bit too soft at the presto con fuoco in my opinion. Maybe it's the recording's fault (they often lower the volume of loud sounds). But overall geat performance! full with emotions , and the coda is phenomenal!
The ballade starts with andantino, Sotto voce. The Presto con fuoco starts at Bar 47. And Bruce played it as such. And I may add, faster than Zimerman. I’m impressed with Bruce’s wide dynamics, his power, the dexterity, and subtle pedaling.. Yes, the Coda is impressive.
Sometimes too much clarity, lightness and brightness isn't good especially for pieces like this. We need that distortion for tragedy and fiery, otherwise it becomes Mozart. Not sure if it's the Fazioli or he can only do bright & brilliant touch. Even his sotto voce doesn't really sound under. His tone is always 'out'.
Brilliant obviously. But maybe not as much of the violence and madness come crashing through the serenity of the opening theme as in some other recordings?
I know this is very individual and subjective, but I have never been impressed by how Bruce Liu plays. For me it just lacks something. And usually a bit too fast. I think there were better pianists in the 18th Chopin Competition that deserved the Grand Prix more than Bruce.
@@mateuszjurkiewicz8133 In my opinion a number of pianists were better than Bruce, e.g. Andrzej Wierciński, Hayato Sumino, Aimi Kobayashi, Kyohei Sorita...
@Zjdh76 If you know this segment of the score, Chopin marked it Presto con fuoco - extremely fast and Fiery. It’s supposed to be played extremely fast and thunderous! If Sorita is “singing” here, he is not following Chopin’s instructions!
@@zjdh7692 Sorita’s rendition in the preliminaries was the best in my opinion. Maybe it has something to do with difference of the acoustics in the second stage vs the preliminaries, but you can really hear the grit and violence much needed in this piece from Sorita in the prelims.
He is very musical, but personally I think that he could play so much better. This sort of Chopin playing does not move me. His playing is too bright, too clear, too organized and rational, too perfect in the sense of every note being firmly in place. There is no poetry, no human element anymore. And the utmost clarity of the piano in the way it is built and tuned is just too much. BUT - I don’t blame this pianist in the slightest: Classical music competitions have become so severe that it’s almost impossible to make truly great music anymore. As in figure skating (for those who watch this sport), it’s the same here: The standard of „perfection“ has become so high and the range of what is acceptable in freedom so narrow that it’s almost impossible to give an exciting, moving performance. Everyone sounds almost the same. The standard now is a note-wise perfection with utmost clarity and no wrong notes, which destroys every chance for an exciting rhythm, a beautiful, long singing line or dramatic expression. The pianists are so busy with playing cleanly and making no mistakes that they have no time for letting the music speak. You can even see it on their posture, it has become tense and unnatural, especially with the past winner Avdeeva. Of course, the competitors have to adjust to these standards, from a very young age they are being trained this way or otherwise they have no change of getting to the top. Were the standards different, they would play differently. As much as I admire these pianists for their perfection and their immense courage and discipline in adjusting to these impossible standards, listening to them I don’t get the same feeling as when I listen to Cortot, Novaes, Neuhaus or others.
Hope him not to be deceived by the eastern idolatry! Follow Jesus and read the Bible, which is the only way out of the mankind, no matter from which country their root are. The common root of the whole mankind is the Creation and Salvation of God, not idols, not atheism, not money worshipping!
Amen! I know what you mean! Bruce is a precious, talented soul endowed by God, praying he will find Jesus as his maker to give Him glory with all his beautiful rendition of his playing!🙏✝️😄
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He's so sensitive in his playing, but also dramatic. This is the quintessential balance playing Chopin requires, imo!
You can tell he was ( rightfully so ) nervous when he started but as he eases into the music it just keeps getting better and better, just amazing. He’s playing quite fast but with so much control it doesn't sound rushed but dramatic, elegant and passionate.
Eccellente di grande bravura non per nulla ha vinto il primo premio Chopin .
This one is a hidden gem. The interpretation and the energy and everything. I don't know why the view count and likes are so low compared to his other ones. This is one of my favourites.
Не хватило драматичности. Самое лучшее исполнение Иво Погорелич. А здесь мало контраста.
me encanta Bruce Liu, fanatica argentina desde Córdoba, Argentina
小さな音も一音一音大切にひいているのが伝わってきて素晴らしい演奏❗
I like the ballads he plays so much that I listen to it many times‥
とても優しい素敵な音色ですね。有難うございます。
It was a refreshing Chopin ballad performance. It was a cool performance where all the lumps in my heart were gone. I want Bruce to play other ballads, too. Bruce is the best!
Ok but that moment 6:01 is just magical
Bruce and Sorita were the standouts in a highly talented group
It's great, excellent interpretation and execution Congratulation Bruce Liu
easily his best piece during the competition
Notice the phrasing in the left-hand at 5:36. Extremely subtle but I love it and have incorporated it into my playing of this piece now!
The slight pause before the climax on the left-hand makes it sound so much more dramatic and longing. Makes it sound so much more devastating and heart breaking.
You have here got the spirit of Chopin, Fryc, Frederic, - the young man who created a new artform, new music, well aware of earlier music, and it seems also aware of many many untrodden paths which we tend to forget. Here is a piece with so many spectacular refinements that you tend to ignore because it sounds so natural. But take a look at the harmonies in this piece.
First time I heard this 50 years ago it was Julian von Karolyi on a DG record, and his rendering of the "fuoco" without much pedal really gave a thing to this piece, I Liu you hits the same mood in the first 4 upwards-figures there, even with a bit of pedal, those repeated notes are feverish. But that was only an aside remark. The tempo is hervorragend, terrific, a bit to the too fast side in my taste, but it works.
Bravo Bruce!!!
Just magical. Looking so much forward to hearing you again live!
fantástico pianista,!!!!!bien ganado por él el Chopin
Impeccable timing and touch.
I just love listening to tis over and over again! You, Bruce Liu have reached Chopin's spirit!
Mad scientist vibes! Yes!
I love this ballade! Very well played 🎼💚
Xiaoyu Liu - you play the piano so beautifully, a pleasure to listen to every time. Congratulations on your recent win. You have been blessed with an amazing gift and you brought it to perfection. I admire you so much.
To me,it’s a pleasure to WATCH his performance every time.
@@weiliao3158yes to listen and WATCH Bruce Liu playing!😊
CHOPIN NAJPIEKNIEJSZA SPUŚCIZNA DLA LUDZKOŚCI. DZIĘKUJĘ.
Mr Bruce Liu, sus interpretaciones son mí amanecer de cada día. El Universo y la Luz se despliegan en medio de la intensidad de sus arpegios. Gracias por tanta belleza!💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫🇦🇷
Tellement beau entre vos doigts.❤❤❤❤
He plays fantastic!
Specificly this ballade,simple Chopens spirit.
So full of emotions 👏🏻👏🏻🎶😯💐 I really like this Ballad!!
I like the sound of Fazioli piano meraviglioso 🎵🎶🌈
I've always been impressed with the sound that the Fazioli can produce when it is in the capable hands of a consummate artist as Bruce Lui.
@@pianoman551000and Martin Garcia Garcia.
Congrats!!!!
Beautiful soul!!!❤️
Wow. Real goose bump
Perfect!!! ❤
You could argue for others but you can't argue against Bruce.
Loving it!!
This is unironically good
wdym unironically? ofc it's good, its a chopin ballade lol
Mind-blowing quality. I wish him much happiness and a stellar career.
I was happy to listen to the long interview in French on the Chinese French channel.He is a very interesting person, his interpretation also reflects his personality.Great❤️🔥💝🎶🎵🌺
Even though this is not my favorite interpretation and many of his dynamics are dissonant to my ears, I still respect this performance entirely.
Beautiful playing.
This was really good. 😀
Bravo, Bruce! Quintessential Chopin!
5:45
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❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is one of those Chopin pieces that has a perfectly beautiful, if sweet and innocent sounding theme and then goes into the maelstrom pyrotechnics that seem peculiar to me, even after hearing such for 50 years on now. Well, I'll just have to compose something better, I guess! Chopin more often seems divinely perfect, but this is planet Earth after all, and I can't criticize Chopin himself, just the taste of the listener, is it? Do I have an argument?
An interesting interpretation, showing a lot of control and constraint. Very delicate playing, which can sometimes be a misnomer for Chopin as people believe that he was this weak, frail, and sad little man, instead of the warm, extremely passionate, personally strong, patriotic, and compassionate person that he was. Just because his health was poor doesn't mean his music should be played in a sickly way.
Please understand, this is not a critique of this performance, as it is flawless and can only be critiqued in its restraint, but that is purely a creative and interpretive decision, and not a technical critique, nor a real flaw.
Wonderfully performed, but I still wanted to share the food for thought. ❤️
I always come back to listen how he plays this intro.
Here i am again, always paying attention to how he lets every different melody/voice line shine through for just a moment.
Maravilhoso!
👽💚 Alien says: *Excellent video* Chopin music teleports me out of this world 👽👍+1👈🚀🚀 *I think he has super powers* 🚀🚀
Peut-être un peu trop clair et trop élégant à mon goût, enfin sa technique reste exceptionnellement limpide. C'est un très bon pianiste.
A bit too soft at the presto con fuoco in my opinion. Maybe it's the recording's fault (they often lower the volume of loud sounds). But overall geat performance! full with emotions , and the coda is phenomenal!
The ballade starts with andantino, Sotto voce.
The Presto con fuoco starts at Bar 47. And Bruce played it as such. And I may add, faster than Zimerman.
I’m impressed with Bruce’s wide dynamics, his power, the dexterity, and subtle pedaling..
Yes, the Coda is impressive.
Sometimes too much clarity, lightness and brightness isn't good especially for pieces like this. We need that distortion for tragedy and fiery, otherwise it becomes Mozart. Not sure if it's the Fazioli or he can only do bright & brilliant touch. Even his sotto voce doesn't really sound under. His tone is always 'out'.
You have no idea how silly you sound..
Maybe needed more presto con fuoco in the end. I did not see a battle scene in which the hero died
Agreed! For this piece Aimi's Kobayashi interpretation is better! 😊 At least for me
個人的には反田恭平さんの演奏がとてもいい
He can play the piece however he wants. It’s his interpretation.
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5:59
Brilliant obviously. But maybe not as much of the violence and madness come crashing through the serenity of the opening theme as in some other recordings?
I don't like his performance of this ballad and of any other large forms. He's good in smaller forms though.
I know this is very individual and subjective, but I have never been impressed by how Bruce Liu plays. For me it just lacks something. And usually a bit too fast. I think there were better pianists in the 18th Chopin Competition that deserved the Grand Prix more than Bruce.
Interesting. Who did you think was better than Bruce? Don't misunderstand me, I'm just curious.
@@mateuszjurkiewicz8133 In my opinion a number of pianists were better than Bruce, e.g. Andrzej Wierciński, Hayato Sumino, Aimi Kobayashi, Kyohei Sorita...
a bit too fast... there's something lacking here, don't you think?
이렇게쳐도 쇼팽콩쿨 1등을 할수있구나...
놀랍다 브루스 dang
무슨뜻?
@@시설관리잡부 역대 우승자의 연주를 들어보면 됩니다
파지올리 소리가 노골적이긴 한데 기교적으로 문제가 있는진 모르겠네요
@@시설관리잡부 실력적인 부분을 말하는건 아니어요...
콩쿠르이므로 비교가 될수밖에 없는데...
역대우승자는 물론이고 이번대회 다른 참가자들에 비해서 딱히~
거기다 심사위원인 당타이손의 애제자이니... 뭐~
15년 콩쿨에서 조성진에 0점준 심사위원도 있었다는데...
wow bro good but i better i 5 yo chinese
I have to say Sorita has the best Ballade Op.38
I totally disagree!
@@annettefallon1652 compare 5:30 till the end with Sorita (second round). How Sorita uses the pedal is phenomenal and the piano is singing.
@Zjdh76
If you know this segment of the score, Chopin marked it Presto con fuoco - extremely fast and Fiery.
It’s supposed to be played extremely fast and thunderous!
If Sorita is “singing” here, he is not following Chopin’s instructions!
okay, but this is good too
@@zjdh7692 Sorita’s rendition in the preliminaries was the best in my opinion. Maybe it has something to do with difference of the acoustics in the second stage vs the preliminaries, but you can really hear the grit and violence much needed in this piece from Sorita in the prelims.
He is very musical, but personally I think that he could play so much better. This sort of Chopin playing does not move me. His playing is too bright, too clear, too organized and rational, too perfect in the sense of every note being firmly in place. There is no poetry, no human element anymore. And the utmost clarity of the piano in the way it is built and tuned is just too much.
BUT - I don’t blame this pianist in the slightest: Classical music competitions have become so severe that it’s almost impossible to make truly great music anymore. As in figure skating (for those who watch this sport), it’s the same here: The standard of „perfection“ has become so high and the range of what is acceptable in freedom so narrow that it’s almost impossible to give an exciting, moving performance. Everyone sounds almost the same. The standard now is a note-wise perfection with utmost clarity and no wrong notes, which destroys every chance for an exciting rhythm, a beautiful, long singing line or dramatic expression. The pianists are so busy with playing cleanly and making no mistakes that they have no time for letting the music speak. You can even see it on their posture, it has become tense and unnatural, especially with the past winner Avdeeva. Of course, the competitors have to adjust to these standards, from a very young age they are being trained this way or otherwise they have no change of getting to the top. Were the standards different, they would play differently.
As much as I admire these pianists for their perfection and their immense courage and discipline in adjusting to these impossible standards, listening to them I don’t get the same feeling as when I listen to Cortot, Novaes, Neuhaus or others.
very very nice interpretation but zimmerman is the best at ballades
Zimmerman is untouchable when it comes to ballades for sure 110%
Hope him not to be deceived by the eastern idolatry! Follow Jesus and read the Bible, which is the only way out of the mankind, no matter from which country their root are. The common root of the whole mankind is the Creation and Salvation of God, not idols, not atheism, not money worshipping!
Amen! I know what you mean! Bruce is a precious, talented soul endowed by God, praying he will find Jesus as his maker to give Him glory with all his beautiful rendition of his playing!🙏✝️😄
What the fuck does that have to do with anything?
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