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"Introducing" the Shigeru Kawai SK-EX | Grieg | Episode 2

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Listen to pianist Ivan Ilić perform Edward Grieg's "Vanished Days" op, 57 No.1 and find out more about what he regards as the salient characteristics of the Shigeru Kawai concert grand piano.
Recorded at Laeiszhalle Hamburg on 16 October 2018.
Piano: Shigeru Kawai SK-EX.
Director of Photography, Editing: Martin Teschner
Balance Engineer: Torsten Otto
This film is a co-production of Kawai im Pianohaus Huster, Kawai Europa GmbH, and No-Te Productions. #KAWAI #ShigeruKawai #welovepianistst #IvanIlic

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23 авг 2024

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@carlhopkinson 4 года назад

I had the good fortune to play on this for 30 minutes in a showroom. The sound was so lush that I was literally walking on air coming out of there.

@anirutvideo 3 года назад

I've had the chance too. The experience playing the SK-EX was just orgasmic.

@pianomanic71 4 года назад

At the Gurwitz International piano competition last week they had one of these and two Steinway D's. The gold medalist from China chose the Shigeru and it sounded awesome!

@wednesdaymac 3 года назад

I bought a used studio Kawai in 1990 in Phoenix. Over the next 20 years, I dragged it to Florida and back to Arizona. Despite the transitions from dry to humid and back to dry, I've never had a problem with the action or the sound,with the exception that the damper pedal was so stiff, using it made my hip hurt, so it had to be adjusted. Just tune it regularly and keep it away from heat, and it still sounds beautiful as ever.

@decentespresso 5 лет назад

Just beautiful.

@jonymerida Год назад

3:46 The resonance of its low tones is captivating and the sound is balanced and clean.

@MichaelShawPhoto 5 лет назад

What an incredible piano! I can only imagine how very wonderful it sounds in person. Congratulations, Kawai on an amazing instrument! I loved the Grieg "Vanished Days" as it is deceptively complex and a perfect piece to examine the middle register as Ivan said.

@carlhopkinson 4 года назад

it sounds even better in person...i played one in a showroom for 30 minutes

@juancarlosleiva1411 7 месяцев назад

@@carlhopkinson I got to play one for only about 5 minutes. That was the greatest 5 mins of my life

@areareare9953 4 месяца назад

That piano made Grieg sound like jazz!

@niklasmennel215 5 лет назад

I think haven't played a single grand piano in my life, neither do i have any memories of hearing one in person, but i've heard a lot of similar high quality recording of other pianos from many different manufactures(steinway, Bösendorfer, Yamaha, Fazioli, Bechstein), and so far, i like Shigeru Kawai the most.

@Akriskal Год назад

À chaque que j'écoute un Kawai il y a ce petit plus qui m'attire et me pousse à les préférer à d'autres.

@johnnovie3168 2 года назад

I play this shigeru kawai concert grand piano at my local music store, nothing like it!!!

@lcoghlin 3 года назад

If ever there could be a better demonstration-to-endorsement..., this is it. Beautifully done

@tubule22857 Год назад

Beautiful and rich tone!

@CC-gt3ro Год назад

Le piano sk ex concert Grand est incroyable. J’ai eu par le passé leur tres bon piano portable es8 et le sk ex concert grand était vraiment excellent deja et reproduisait une bonne image sonore du sk ex original avec des bonnes basses claires et puissante un medium riche et clair et des aigus avec une resonance riche et complexe. Bien sûr l’original est d’une qualité exceptionnelle. Une œuvre d’art pour moi, fabriqué a la main avec les techniques d’antan.

@PeterFritzWalter 5 лет назад

Fabulous presentation and very beautiful music to play. And the piano is my eternal dream, I find it really more naturally sounding than Steinway and Bösendorfer.

@Sybertuk 3 года назад

It is just amazing! Ivan, you showed tremendous piano playing. Thank you!

@KosmasLapatas 5 лет назад

Amazing presentation from an amazing pianist! Piano poets like Ivan are very rare in our century.

@patrickjones8255 2 года назад

I'm in love with this sound.

@alex-plays8407 4 года назад

What an astonishingly incredible instrument.

@PB-cb7ht 4 года назад

I've always been blinkered by steinway. this is such a nice sounding piano

@pierredagnac8557 5 лет назад

C'est splendide ! Bravo Ivan

@user-dk9op1qd5w 5 лет назад

すげぇ…SKの潜在性を完璧に引き出してる

@IvanCDGvideos 4 года назад

はい！まさに！

@carlhopkinson 4 года назад

I want one right now!!!!!!!

@PeterFritzWalter 5 лет назад

Thank you, Ivan Ilić, your presentation is extraordinary! Thank you so much, through your presentation I found this piece which I had not in my Lyric Pieces collection and will study it. It is truly wonderful and magic, and introspective. And thank you again for your wonderful play! You have given me the conviction that this is the best concert grand I could ever buy if I had the funds for doing so.

@IvanCDGvideos 5 лет назад

Thank you Peter for your kind message. Grieg wrote 66 lyric pieces; many of them have extraordinary communicative power, using simple means (similar to Satie, Debussy, Chopin, and other masters of miniatures). Take a look at the Nocturne as well, it is exceptionally beautiful. If you have the chance to try a Shigeru Kawai near you at a dealer, it's well worth it. Kawai has been kind enough to send me one to try for a year (an SK-3) and it has completely changed the way I hear certain pieces. The story behind how Kawai created the Shigeru 20 years ago is fascinating and I'm hoping to share it in separate videos.

@carlhopkinson 4 года назад

sounds freaking gorgeous!!!!

@PianoScoreVids 5 лет назад

He's so professional

@SteveBlancoMusicianWarrior 9 месяцев назад

What an absolutely gorgeous sounding instrument. Nice elegant video as well.

@freyahellier9345 5 лет назад

bravo Ivan

@taputapuu9487 5 лет назад

I love kawai bass...

@carlhopkinson 4 года назад

i had the pleasure of playing this type of instrument in a showroom for 30 minutes....i was walking on air coming out of that showroom....i really couldn't feel my feet.

@dwacheopus 11 месяцев назад

I wish i had it...

@chuck1prillaman 5 лет назад

If I put away $1,000 per month, I'll have enough to buy one of these in only 16 years.

@theswissmusic 5 лет назад

Until then price will be doubled - another 16 years then... :-)

@IvanCDGvideos 5 лет назад

@@theswissmusic True; but the happiness it provides you in your daily practicing is priceless. People spend so much on luxury cars, but playing on a fine piano is like a kind of daily therapy. I wouldn't trade it for anything else.

@jokoumbaran8927 4 года назад

hahahahah you funny

@ivanslivonja3393 4 года назад

@@IvanCDGvideos True that Ivan. Your playing is a joy to listen, like I can feel your connection with the piano. I recently bought an digital Kawai ES8, and although its a stage piano within 2000$ budget, the SK EX samples in it are marvelous and they are giving so much feedback, as Im sitting in front of the real SK......It even feels better than playing Yamaha baby grand in a studio couple of times. Kawai are putting much effort in their acoustic pianos and digital keyboards, and for a piano enthusiast they should be on the radar definetly.

@someguyfromarcticfreezer6854 4 года назад

If you save $1000 in bitcoin 3rd January 2009, you would afford all models in Kawai Grand pianos and upright piano and digital pianos.

@theviperdoctor 5 месяцев назад

Fabulous. The transients are like diamonds.

@maripisanugreenwood5643 4 года назад

Mai sentito una simile poesia di suono in tutta la mia vita 😲

@DarioBoente 3 года назад

Great Piano!!!

@ghiadetomaso1642 5 лет назад

first one i ever heard in YT sounding as nice as a Fazioli, ear candy :)

@carlhopkinson 4 года назад

To me Fazioli sounds artificial.

@ivanfrangugic8355 5 лет назад

when someone tell me steinway is the best... unfortunately kawai has the best bass in acustic as well as in digital. i love this piano this is my dream.

@_trismegistus 4 года назад

The SKs all seem to have a nasally sound in the middle ocataves. It is even captures in the samples of the SK EX and SK-5 in my Kawai ES8.

@haelscheirs_haven 4 года назад

@@_trismegistus I personally prefer the EX samples which have none of that nasaliness and a very full and deep bass. The Shigeru Kawais I've come across in showrooms weren't as muffled as the SK EX samples, and bizarrely, the SK-5 samples sounded worse than my GL-20 with how I had it voiced, and you can really hear the register break at the G2 in the SK-5 samples.

@SpaghettiKillah 4 года назад

You have no idea what you're talking about. Fazioli (very articulated, defined bass) and Bosendorfer (for extension) OWN the bass register. And it's not even close with other manufacturers.

@vijaysundarrajan1785 4 года назад

@@SpaghettiKillah I'd argue the Fazioli isn't as great, but Bosendorfer certainly is the best in the bass section.

@frazzledude 3 года назад

@@vijaysundarrajan1785 Try the bass on a Fazioli f308. That, along with the Bösendorfer 290 imperial grand, is the very best bass on a concert grand piano.

@carlhopkinson 4 года назад

Wow. So gorgeous. Steinway who??

@AGC828 3 года назад

Sounded beautiful. Surprised. As I assumed it might sound similar to a Yamaha which I've never liked. Find them overly bright. This Shigeru sounds similar to my ears to a Bosendofer. My other favourite. Wondering how a once size smaller "grand" would sound vs this "concert" size grand. I assume you did a video already...heh..

@vickiehorowitz1934 2 года назад

Their smaller grands are MAGNIFICENYT

@LuisKolodin 4 года назад

how come the middle register gives an idea of the rest of the piano? in fact treble and bass are usually very problematic... the middle is the "ok" part of almost any piano.

@cristianpopa3866 3 года назад

Sublim sunet şi interpretare.

@tomarmstrong1281 2 года назад

As a non-pianist, and reminded of the saying that certain horses perform best on certain courses, makes me ponder. These wonderful instruments have been developed to sound their best in a concert hall, therefore why would anyone want them in a domestic environment?

@c3piano 2 года назад

As a pianist I'd say it is a dream to be able to create support a beautiful tone in your own home.

@tomarmstrong1281 2 года назад

@@c3piano To each his own.

@Sloimer Год назад

@@tomarmstrong1281 what would you prefer to have in a domestic environment?

@tomarmstrong1281 Год назад

@@Sloimer I remember, as a boy my parents stored a relative's upright piano for them. It was in our dining room for about two years. I believe the make was a Chapel. A elder cousin who had taken piano lessons occasionally came and played it. It had a beautiful tone

@Sloimer Год назад

@@tomarmstrong1281 that’s a nice memory. To be honest I kind of feel the same way. As beautiful as concert grands are, I kind of gravitate more towards the idea of having a 52” upright flanked by a couple of bookshelves, maybe between two windows looking outside. The idea of a grand seems cumbersome - maybe I’ll feel differently later in life, but I like the tone of uprights just fine.

@cockroachafro 5 лет назад

So i shouldn't rest my drink on it?

@Seadogstudio 3 года назад

Cigarettes are ok. ;p

@markhomiak6966 2 года назад

Mine came with the carbon fiber cup holder upgrade, and the cooler inside the bench.

@julianshowmanpiano Год назад

Fernando Simón playing piano be like:

@user-rh8ug3qi9t Год назад

敢えて。弦楽器などは、百数十年大切にされた生きた音色を尊ぶのに、ピアノにはそこを言わないように感じる。もちろん新機種の設計クオリティ商品化クオリティ等々の高さは評価に値すると思います。ですが、都度の調律師の技術にはふれてくれないですか？？演奏会場の設計クオリティにはふれてくらないですか？？録音関連のクオリティにはふれてくれないですか？ピアノに使われる、金属も地球誕生からの数億年のねむりに目覚めての音色を奏でていますよね。ピアノに使われる木材も、数十年地球の環境に貢献しながらかつ伐採されてそれから数年間眠りについてからの目覚めての音色を奏でていますよね。数日前2022年10月の日本経済新聞記事に、KAWAIとYAMAHAのコンサートグラントピアノに関しての記事があったように思われます。私個人と致しましては、さんざん環境問題が世界的に問題になっておりますことも思いますと、今まで、学校や公共施設に置かれていたピアノについて、どう生きているのか疑問なのです。倉庫のような薄暗い中で眠らされているだけですか？買い替えなどまで、言われたりするのですか？？ピアノだって、弦楽器と似たようなもので、育てて貰って音色に深みが増す部分も少なくないのでは無かったでしょうか？？私は貧乏な類です、資金はグラントピアノを買うような資金などありません。それ故の妬み発言と思われても仕方ないとは思いますが、なんだか、ピアノコンクールで活躍したグラントピアノのその後を知らないだけに、哀しく思います。