Joshua Wright - Chopin Piano Competition 2015 (preliminary round) 

PianoShaman absolutely! he filled in my blanks as to what it means to be an actual pianist. i played the piano for fun and now i know for sure i did just that :) loosen to speed up. nr. 1 hint.

PianoShaman true

His ProPractice course goes even deeper and helps out infinitely more.

Yeah!

Did he get in the final?

I totally agree! ;)

Crispy Lol Josh placed in the top 5 at the national Chopin Competition before this, has won several international competitions, and has recorded much of Chopin’s repertoire (including the 3rd sonata). You have no place discussing whether or not “he’s ready for the hall”

I don't disagree that they're probably better pianists, but that doesn't take away from the fact that Josh is an established performer, teacher, and recording artist, having appeared at carnegie and the Kennedy center

Can anyone of you do better? Register for the next competition and then we can all sit around and take potshots at your playing. Until then, recognize and respect your betters!!!

@@cheerilicious You seem to have a very competitive approach to music, I am sorry for your attitude. But I am sure you will now tell us who you are that your ears are the musical world's judges. Let us hear your version of the first Chopin ballade. Simply by writing sentences like "...are far superior to him! PERIOD." somehow disqualify you from anyone taking you seriously. The Internet is a wonderful place.

So you'd literally give both of your nuts?

Thank you sir!

TheDiamondDude qq

+Frédéric Chopin I'll edit my comment then. Will that make you happy, Chopin?

TheDiamondDude much better :)

Frédéric Chopin ❤❤❤❤❤❤

also paul barton

+Miss Mozart Lucky!! I wish I could have been there... or at least could be there for any of it.

:))

But one Wong surely was Wright!

even rubinstein did some mistakes

Many, and he is one of the best in history

In general Rubinstein played such that he made quite a few mistakes, especially earlier in his career. He once conceded that he could write an entire composition just using all of the wrong notes he had played in a given recital (or something close to that sentiment; this was more true when he was younger and more careless about preparing recitals). But Rubinstein came on the concertizing scene before recordings were available to any extent and, consequently, the audiences generally had less critical ears back then. On this point, Rubinstein famously explained how, when very young and first arriving in Paris (probably late 19th or early 20th Century), he played the Chopin etude Op. 25 # 11 (A minor) at a concert and hit completely wrong notes (probably a little bit of an exaggeration... but maybe not too much... indeed, Rubinstein would have wished he could have played that etude as note-accurately as Josh Wright does here) in the very busy right hand while the left hand proudly and more or less accurately pouded out the theme. As he finished and expected to be booed off the stage, the Paris audience went wild with enthusiasm, taking Rubibstein to be note perfect in the performance and some sort of genius. Yes, things have changed since that time. Rubinstein once went up to a piano competition contestant and said (approximately): "You play with great feeling. But you play too many wrong notes... and I used to play that way. It is a shame that these American audiences believe that if they've paid their money they deserve to hear all of the notes."

John Uscian absolutely agreed man!!! So glad someone understands

@@Juscz big facts

Ba dum tsss

Mitchell E. Wright the Wright notes etude

oh no

Beautiful performances ... I have attended many piano competition performances and always disagree with the verdicts. Just to perform so well under such stressful conditions is an amazing achievement. The results of competitions have very little to do with musicality

technique not energy

John Blanch lol i caught that too

Yeah what's up with that?:)

Formidable means terrible FYI

Josh is skillful enough..if you were alive to hear Chopin played these himself..you're perfect to judge....but If you aren't capable yourself you shouldn't Judge him as terrible...simply envious

​@@evanhendrickson3134Formidable means to inspire fear or respect. It's like saying something is intimidating. It's a word used to show admiration. It does not mean terrible.

@@evanhendrickson3134No it doesn’t. Ex. A formidable foe isn’t a horrible opponent.

Macpherson Aghah me too

Just seeing Josh entering the stage, sit down at the piano and pause... I felt nervous - and I'm just a spectator! :-D I get nervous just playing for my teacher but performance is definitely an aspect of music and we should embrace all of its aspects - the nervousness, the playing errors, the amazing highs of an awesome performance and the lingering doubts after having a lousy performance.

Music should be performed , not competed.

Vladimir Horowitz said that too

Harry Potter tuseyt

hi eddy

TheGreenPianist try second movement of schumann's fantasie...

jogosonline jogos I was just exaggerating/joking, there are tons of pieces with scary jumps, Liszt Rhapsodies 2 and 6, Chopin Op 25 no 4, Rachmaninoff Etude tableaux op 39 no 6 and many others

wow I never even realised how quick and far that jump is

@@thegreenpianist7683 maybe like that crazy jump from listz mamphisto waltz...

octave jumps in Liszt‘s wild jade？

Dihelson Mendonca post your version

@@zakariahlafreniere1332 he doesnt need to post his own version if he thinks this version isnt good. Just because you cant play a piece doesnt mean your opinion is suddenly irelevant

@@em8714 No he does

@@em8714 it does when you go rattling off timestamps of mistakes.

@@JimPIckins He said the playing was good regardless. What's the problem? Yes, it's a bit silly to list mistakes, but we all know mistakes aren't the measure of a performance.

he is actually sooo good like really i mean he was taught (as far as i know) by a legendary pianist, sergei babayan (who also taught daniil trifonov i think)

He actually practiced for 2.5 hours a day for most of his childhood and does less now everyday because he’s a busy man. He’s still a great player but this in an international competition and he was going up against people who probably practice like 8 hours a day, but even so, making it to the preliminary round takes an enormous amount of skill anyway.

@@moderncaleb3923 Well, he said in a video he practices 4 hours every day...

@@IvelinaDobreva Which one? Maybe he practiced 4 hours a day in preparation for the competition, but I’ve heard him say in general, for most of life he practiced 2.5 hours.

@@moderncaleb3923 Not a specific piece. Just in general.

+AjLongsPiano We can agree to disagree. :)

+Kaka carrot cake the super sand lesbian Lets keep it civil folks.

***** ohhhhh nvm I thought YOU were the performer hahaha. nevermind he is entitled to his argument then. And don't tell me to be civil AJ Long... I am your dad.

***** oh i seeee

+AjLongsPiano Noah's totally right

Op10 no4 doesnt require incredible technique youll realize as u progress

@@西宮硝子-k8l for someone with more dexterity and experience with his pieces no doubt. A lot of people struggle with polyrhythms, but having played a lot of Rachmaninoff, I find polyrhythms pretty easy now. I'm excited to get better at Chopin and build my technique through his works.

@@themike97_58 rach 3 is harder then anything chopin wrote bro

@@samaritan29dude try Etude Op.25 No.6, Ballade No.4, and Sonata No.3 in B minor.

I agree! He has such an amazing and modest character!

neonRTowner Well, to me his sound is a bit too raw at places, where should be very intimate and deep. And his agogicas are felt to be planned and same every time, instead of being random. However he plays way better, than some who made it to the next round.

The "sound" you hear is the horrid recording venue. Hard reflective walls, single source microphone, uneven recital area reflective surfaces etc

neonRTowner - no it's not, neon. The fact is that other pianists, the guy from Indonesia in particular, made a very beautiful tone consistently on the same piano in the same hall. One of the guys from Japan had an enormous palette of colors and used them very interestingly. So it's not just the recording quality.

lagunagreg I was about to answer the same.

stephenlimbaugh - 1- do you play the piano to this level steve? I imagine that the presenters did not change the setup at all from day to day, not the mike placement nor the recording levels. Why would they? LIke most institutional presenters, they had no reason to, just like they didn't change the camera setups. The Yamaha was a bit brighter from the Steinway they had. However, different pianists playing the same instrument on the same day produced different qualities of sound, sometimes one after the other.

ikr, would be cool to participate but so many pianists can be too stressed, even Alkan was afraid to play in public from what i've read and liszt said he had the best technique

@@stevenanker that sucks af

@@agamaz5650 Yup. You can look up his performance of Ballade no 1 on youtube and it's amazing.

Eric Bluestine He played fantastically, but he was disregarded due to his performance of the Wrong Note Etude. He missed out a load of important notes in the right hand. Since the competition is just as exceptional, a single misplay will often throw you out of the running.

Eric Bluestine - that's the nicest black key etude I've heard in the round so far. Along with many other lovely moments!

Eric Bluestine This is lovely. But have you heard his competitors? Some of them can record for DG, they're that good. The field is very deep, even deeper than the 2010 competition when Trifonov should have won.

Vette gaddia - I have been listening to all the videos on RU-vid, and what you say is very true. The range of such great talent is overwhelming.

@@joephilips7265 still sounded great

True. But the effort people put into improving their playing for it makes it worth it.

That's a lot of copium you inhaled. You can't deny the fact that some interpretations are BETTER than others.

She had no clue. She knew you liked music and she wanted to pick you up.

you kidding wright?

MrClassicalMusic1 lmaooooo

I really want Earplugs in my ears if I'm on my deathbed too

I should fucking hope so, entering a competition like this. I mean what do you expect? Adele? Some tone deaf random? Actually they are both he same thing :D

I love Kate Liu's

Funny that. I know a singer that found his own piano. Down an alleyway actually. Had a few keys missing but...

really? That's my favorite part of Ballade 1

Is it too dramatic for you? Cus for me, that is the best part of Ballade 1 even better than the coda.

No Seong Jin cho won and josh shouldn't have won. I think he would last until round 2

mistep444 what did she say?

_BkSk_ "Joshua Wrong"...

kerimpiano ....

He messed up a few time

@C.H compared to a lot of the competition he doesn't even compare

Get your technique checked. That should not happen.

If you get cramps after only 15 minutes, I think you should try less difficult pieces

@@moderncaleb3923 2 years ago lel, now impromptu is my warm up piece xd

@@mystikman5594 nice one 👍

@@moderncaleb3923 btw you're right. Back then my hardest piece before impromptu was alla turca, so maybe i was a bit too reckless :p