Aimi Kobayashi - Ballade in G minor, Op. 23 (second stage) 

why is it so hard to admit that she hit a couple wrong notes?

it's probably because nobody seems to care about how beautifully she plays the piece, on a lot of her performance videos, I've seen a lot of comments on how she hit 2 wrong notes or something obscure like that.

Cecilia Carlsson, people have done that on Horowitz and Rubinstein videos. There's no pleasing some people

Aaaaand this is why people fill videos like this with references to Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, because of people like you who view music and its performance as a cold, heartless science.

Albus Nix stop trying to be pc, i hear tons of performances who are much better than hers who make lesser/no mistakes. she didn't practice enough/probably nervous on stage. you know why people make kimi uso comments? Because of pc people like you who make excuses for mistakes.

Who cares her mistakes? I ve heared Yuja Wang playing this piece, and she made also mistakes but performance was outstanding.

@@martinstahle2006 you have literally restated what he said..

joshua cho lmao

Aimi is communicating with Chopin's soul. Those minor aberrations have been approved by the composer, who adores Aimi and her magic performances.

That's so beautiful

-Will Ferrell

Lol not every pianist can play the right notes

can u?

@@v3le No I can't

+Allan Wong Interpretations are not even that most of the time imho. Clean playing , yeah its something, but il take inspired always.. That is the frontier .. Seems to me like that's her home. I have utter artistic confidence in her skills.. Its not even a conversation. I dont know how often she succeeds, off to the finals i guess to see what happened.

Haha overplayed might be a bit of an overstatement. This piece is insanely hard to pull off. Just my 2 cents.

@@generalbugis5700 obviously its insanely hard, but we're talking about only at these competitions. At competitions its not quite uncommon to see this piece

湯口壽夫

@@amystruble4730 What was your point in copying and pasting his name?

@@thesillypanda6639 chill fam

Matthew Kwan ??? I show no anger.

@@maachtms I laughed so hard

+kh yang XDDDD

すばらしい！

+ピアノ練習 toda la razón

+Richard Deschenes Avec tout mon respect pour votre opinion - qui est subjective, comme la mienne et celles de tous les autres - je trouve cette interprétation trop (….cherchant le mot juste…) sucré (“honeyed” en anglais). C’est jolie, c’est mignonne, mais avec un teint legerement superficielle et artificielle (comme un bibelot scintillant au lieu de l’or authentique). Sensibilité? oui, beaucoup; et subtleté evocatrice aussi, à plusieurs endroits. Mais “psaume épique”? Non, non, pas du tout. (Comme j’avais dit, chacun son goût.)

I agree with you... Although for arguments sake, if you or everyone in the comments section were blindfolded. Do you think you or all the others would perceive this "emotion" just by sound? I feel emotion gets too subjective and then biased based on facial expressions. When it's those subtle things in the piano that only those at the top of the classical piano field would perceive. (my opinion)

@@funneverends1991 yes I would percieve this soley by sound, I don't know about everybody though, I think maybe the non classical music listeners will most likely feel more emotion actually watching. I dont know if it's just me but sound matters more than anything, I'd rather no expressions if expressions will get in the way of a good performance.

@@2muchz Well, Im a pianist and I love watching people play, specially the hands. There's much more expression and feeling through hands than any other part of the body.

Thiago nothing wrong with that, I probably shouldn’t have said that only non classical music listeners feel the emotion from watching but what you said kind of implys that it’s not exactly the music that makes you feel the way you do when you listen to this. If you close your eyes and you can’t enjoy classical music then what’s the point ? You can’t just plug in some headphones and listen to some music ? You do you, nothing against you but it just doesn’t make sense to me, as long as it makes you happy that’s really all that matters.

@@funneverends1991 is just the interpretation.....

+Francis Fawkes Hmm... I'd be curious to conduct a blind testing about this...

+Francis Fawkes hmm, good equipment? Like...a piano? What do you mean equipment? I would say she's educated on the piano but doesn't have real talent. What ever flaw your hearing with the "good equipment" comment could be attached to the fact she need's to learn how to play better.

+ADENS SKY I mean a very good speaker that can bring out the true quality of her sound. Aimi has real talent and genius because she played in Carnegie Hall three times. Kobayashi's awards include three Yamaguchi Prefecture "Glory Culture Prize" and the special Frédéric Chopin passport from the Polish government. She has performed in France, Brazil, Poland, Russia, South Korea, the United States, and Japan in venues such as the Salle Cortot (Paris), Svetlanov Hall (Moscow), Suntory Hall (Japan), and all three halls of the Carnegie Hall Complex (New York City). AADGT (the American Association for Development of the Gifted and Talented), a New York based non-profit organization, has supported Kobayashi for many years. From Wikipedia.

+Francis Fawkes Aimi should have won if she played up to her true potential. However, she did well enough to make the finals.

+ADENS SKY worthy of reply since she has a universe of talent. SO happy to know that Her talent exists and is contemporary. LOL She is so badass its not even funny.

It was heart

Exactamente, ella lo hace del corazón :)

Aikun- kun The emotion and passion is what you are feeling

Minutes?

This feels like, I DONT KNOW FEELS LIKE U ARE FALLING SLOWLY and fall into a garden with a beautiful moon

me too, Hanyu has skated this masterpiece with magic and made it into the best record holder till now

Don't waver, piano is monumentally more difficult than guitar. The more you train, the better you get. For starters, try to play as how the composers deign it to be played, as your techniques get honed you will be able to proceed with your own interpretation.

Saying piano is monumentally more difficult than guitar is quite a statement, I play piano but many people I know play guitar. And I have to say, classical guitar, not the basic and repeated chord progressions in classic rock or metal/pop(etc...), is comparably as difficult as piano.

Guitar its a lot easier than Piano, its what Im seeing but I got confortable with it pretty fast.

exz In my experience, i do find guitar to be less challenging than mastering piano. The necessity to have full control over 10 fingers that moves incessantly and powerfully over the course of 30 minutes at some times. Rach 3, for example. It's like a marathon championship for fingers. Or La Campanella that demands trills from your middle, 3rd and 4th fingers throughout the entire song.

+Putr Kosh yeah, I was quite amazed when i got to know de dificulty of that pieces, guitar is not that dificult... piano its a lot more exigent no room for mistakes

But it’s ironic that u are too....

@@jamestsindos946 LMAO😂😂

bro there just saying to help her, and everyone who said that she played a few notes wrong said a good thing that she did too

I know for a fact that you can never take constructive criticism

Also not every pianist plays a wrong note during a performance. Most performances have 0 mistakes.

There's surprisingly few on this video.

Vegeta Pixel because those basics can’t distinguish a great performance from a synthesia video

I despise those comments on any classical piece

+Noah Johnson Yes, Absolutely.... I can't stop listening to it. The overwhelming expression of Love she is delivering to the heart is just so enrapturing it is addictive and almost inebriating. There is just so much expression in her delivery of this masterpiece that I am totally intoxicated with sentiment in such a wide pallet of pastel colors, crimson moods and sparks of brashness. This is what I was telling you in my comment about bringing out the heart and soul of Chopin! Notice the great Love Chopin had buried within him through Aimi's interpretation.... This is true Chopin my friend! This is fusion of hearts and living breathing pure emotional bliss! You must capture it in your renditions and bring it out strong in this very way! I believe Chopin can only be felt and not really explained...

Richard Deschenes Exactly! Very well said. Haha we are becoming youtube pals lol :)

+Noah Johnson Loll.... Yeah! I guess we are! ... we never have too many good friends...

but mistake 8:04~8:20

Yes there are quite a few mistakes in that difficult section. However, a performance should not be characterized by how many mistakes are made, but by how much music is made.

「格調」の高さ？

Its actually right

yes she will be very good some day

+Jesus Barraza Aimi is already amazing.

yea, i would have preferred if she chose a Yamaha CFX instead of a Steinway Model D

boku no naka ni , watashi no naka ni kimi ga iru

Go fuck yourselves weebs.

GamerOfCringe k. And?

fuck off weebs

for the love of god you're an embarrassment to our country represent your own

You mean Arima...

Tempest music or Emi

Emi?

@@sebastian-benedictflore aiza's girlfriend

@@glennhonestly6600 There is no Aimi in your lie. Thought they meant Emi. Aiza has no girlfriend, unless you wanna count Izumi.

I really do not agree with you there here interpretation of this song is really not that amazing to be honest the performance is pretty adequate everything is played very forceful and then it sounds very happy almost all the way through which is completly wrong it should sound and make you feel extremely lonely this performance did neither

You do realize its absurd to say how a piece should make you feel?

Dang another one

bc most pianists believe pieces should be played w the utmost perfection and very expressive , which is absolutely correct but i believe a few slipups are unavoidable in some cases. all in all, she shodve honed this piece a little more, bc there were a few bumps here n there. BUT SHE PLAYED this poece rlly nicely and actually captured the beauty of chopins ballade fully

I wanted the violin part too omg

Stfu

OTAKU

bruh