Alkan - Le Preux, Op. 17 (Huang Yi-Chung) 

I listen to this almost everyday. It is so chivalrous, knightly and there’s so much energy and dynamics. It is a perfect interpretation in my opinion. Hats off Yi-Chung Huang, I really mean it.

So much better than most MIDIs and somehow faster than some MIDIs too.

Would seem fake if it weren't played live in a competition

He played Le Preux AFTER playing Liszt's Lucrezia Borgia! Hats off

So, I’ve resisted Alkan for a long time. The hyper virtuosity and questionable musicality is just not satisfying to me and I am not questioning anyone’s love of Alkan’s music. However, this pianist, showed us the way! How cool is that middle section with its tremolo-like swell that sounds like the notes are shining! Bravo to this performance!!!

I do love everyone's recording of Le Preux on youtube, but this one has to be the best one. Well, another le preux in my music playlist wouldn't hurt lmao

That guy technique and stamina is really unmatched.

A composer who wrote for the synthesizer a century and a half before its appearance. It's incredible.

Someone says he fake videos by speeding up. I would like see their reactions to this live recording.

Legendary! Super glad somebody pulled this and kept it from it being lost when that vid goes down.

For anyone curious to watch the live video version of this, follow the link provided in the video description and go to 2:45:00 (it's the last performance of the video).

Greatest living pianist

Ok, I just watched the entire round from this competition and I’m honestly convinced this pianist isn’t human. Like he doesn’t show ANY signs of physical or mental strain or signs of tiring from anything he’s doing. It’s like his arms don’t produce any lactic acid whatsoever, he must have crazy genetics to have that kind of stamina and concentration. He must have the fitness of a top athlete.

Thank you for sharing the interpretation with the score. Very useful.

Wow, this is the best interpretation ever!

The voicing, the staccatissimo, and the dynamics were all handled superbly - especially at such a fast tempo!

A superb virtuosic and technical feat. I imagine this piece has to be so difficult to make musically convincing in performance because of the demands.

How preux he was to unleash this piece at this tempo at a competition

Fantastic 😮

Insanely amazing

Respect! 👏👏

Far from my favorite Alkan's piece, but... I am speechless. The amount of work to achieve this, I could not even imagine. I hope to hear more about this crazy Huang Yi-Chung soon, maybe on more lyrical pieces! (edit: I just saw him playing, he really is "le preux", and I am even more speechless)

I refused to believe this was an actual human playing but the video put all doubts to rest. I'm genuinely speechless.

insane... and... SO MUCH FUN!!!!

Respect!

Wow!!! This is mindblowing

good job 黃顗中!

Nice!

Note to self: The piece is at 2:45:00 in the competition video

Only ladivafanatic! Bravo

Alkan wrote "Follow the Yellow Brick Road"

2:15, 4:35

great performance and interpretation of banal piece

Why can't this be on Spotify?!

Sometimes we must forget the pianist, the virtuosity, and just admire how beautiful 3:10 is

noIce

4:37-4:47 How is that even humanly possible 😳 Well I've got a new goal now...

Extremely virtuose and ballzy man, close to perfection tbh, it lacks of some harmony it sounds too much ''robotic'' (0:41), I can hear some mistakes( 0:31, 0:32, 0:59 ...) but It deserve a standing ovation hope he won that s by far the best le preux I ever heard.

The techniques required in this piece is basically an ultra version of majeppa😅

From a Superb Highschool pianist to an extremely unmatched Pianist, his tempi is wild especially the Piece before Le preux (Reminiscènces de Lucrezia Borgia S.400, literally what was supposed to be a 22 minute piece became a 17-18 minute piece) you should definetly post a score video of Lucrezia Borgia with his recording aswell as the other ones with Don Juan, Robert Le Diable and S.140 No.4b

during the live performance, what is the name of the piece played before Le Preux? Just curious because the original video had comments turned off and the chapters dont work

What does Carrement mean btw

4:47

What is the composer's tempo for this? I'm thinking about making a recording.

This is a very good piece but I would recommend adding more IV-4 - DX1- and 45XVE23 chord progressions! Other than that, this piece sounds very good!

Sounds extremely similar to LaDivinaFanatic's interpretation, but what a beautiful interpretation of such a virtuosic work by Alkan.

Damn, I'm too old for this shit....

This Alkan was a devil !😈

LaDivinaFanatic 이네..손가락 모양이 특이해서 알겠다. 고생했네...속도를 줄이고 완성도를 높이지..아쉽.

Jack Gibons is playing?

your 2000th view ;)

Why do you credit someone by name? This is obviously not a real performance by a real person.

The liszt's rivals be like:

Bugs Bunny music.

Too fast

일본인 아마추어 느낌으로 치네 왜 우승 못 한지 알거같음

Le Preux means KNIGHT. At this speed, it barely sounds like horse and knights. Just another mechanical Alkan performance... btw... it sounds like Nanasakov midi player....

This is what happens when a pianist puts most their skill points into technique and very little into musicality. The playing here may be superhuman, but the musical details are highly lackluster. No I am not being jealous. I have played this piece before, and would not play it this fast even if I could do it as easily as him, because playing this fast necessarily means that musical details will go missing (and if you really try to bring them out, it sounds unnatural). 0:14 (and similar sections) can't even hear the melody in the LH 0:20 (and similar sections) there are dynamic changes that are ignored (unfortunately, literally no recording brings those out) 1:33 3:11 In the alternating notes sections, there is pretty much no effort to articulate the melody. For instance, perhaps at 1:33 one could bring out the RH, and then, the second time it appears at 1:46, bring out the LH. 1:54 3:32 Dynamic details mostly ignored 4:23 4:35 Rhythm of LH is a complete mess 4:44 The accents on the F, C, and F are missing

sloppy :/