Lang Lang performs "Rondo alla turca" from Mozart's Piano Sonata No 11 

Er ist technisch brillant, aber sein Spiel hat inzwischen null Seele. Ein selbstverliebter Gockel. Ich habe ihn life erlebt und mir tut das Geld, das ich für die Karten ausgegeben habe heute noch leid.

To timspiano: Now ain't that nice: He's so happy. And boy, is he ever enjoying the beauty (!) of the music. He should be horse-whipped.

I hate that most of today's songs are about the lyrics than the music. Except for sme Exceptions.

@@kerstinrieck3648don’t compare yourself with the piano god, it is no use. He will always be better than self-absorbed roosters.

​@@pianocats6872 Lang Lang isnt even close to being a piano god. Not to hate. Other pianists like Ivo Pogorelich Sung Chang Yuja Wang , and so on.

He played too fast. It's supposed to sound like a march

To elspitz . . . . So you think Mozart would've played it like this? And he'd be proud of this depraved, brazen, sped-up musical massacre? Somehow, I don't think so. In fact, he'd be both offended and horrified. Isn't it curious, though, that grotesquely rendered performances such as this always are met with audience approval? Must be the excitement generated by the sheer, utterly mindless, precipitous madness of such a circus spectacle.

@@richardvolpe7664 Fanny 🤣

@@ASquidWithC4 Must've taken years for you to amass such an extensive vocabulary.

This is exact performance Mozart wouldve played? Lmaooo

Play it 2x and you get the version that no one is able to play

*Piece* you Idio-

​@@nashhhhh41Lang Lang after drugs

@@turtleyisepic4805😂😂😂😂😂

Play it at 2x speed you get lang langs normal speed not edited lol

that’s so good to know! thanks for sharing this mate

So happy to see advances in music and technology that we can finally see the visions of our great composers realized 🤍 Mozart would be proud.

Source? I don’t trust comments like this without citations. This is how stupid stuff gets passed around the world through the internet and too many people are gullible and don’t bother fact checking and just accept what a person says 🙄

@@elwey444fact check before you just believe someone lol

@@NEnigma777 thanks for the advice 👍🏻didn't ask for it tho

To owenzhang: Well, YOU look at that stupid smirk on that smiley-faced circus performer! How unbearable can this creature get?

To owenzhang: YOU look at that smug, self-congratulatory smile! It's hard to erase that face from one's mind, with its being plastered all over the place. And as for playing the piano for the 'joy' of it, who doesn't? Are other pianists suffering in misery by not employing this silly-ass smirking, grinning and cutesy eye motions?

@@richardvolpe7664I would love to see your version with no smiling ☺️ At least lang lang can play this piece, unlike SOME PEOPLE I can think of

@@pianocats6872 I've performed this sonata, but without employing the shit-eating smiley face that Lang can't seem to part with.

Ok then, then upload it to your channel. I would love to hear it! 😊

Same❤

Mozart: this fag00t isn't too bad, though his butt hurts....

probably he would bleed from his eyes

@@richardvolpe7664 你是一个偏执狂，完全听不出其中的奥妙。对别人的人身攻击，显得你粗鲁又野蛮

@@richardvolpe7664can’t you pick on another pianist? Or learn some piano before criticizing others?

@@pianocats6872 Learn some piano? I've performed six Mozart sonatas, twelve by Beethoven, three by Haydn, two by Chopin, et al. Plus 14 concertos with orchestra. Yes, I criticize Lang for some of his outrageous interpretations, but I also compliment his superb performances of, for instance, etudes and other short works of Chopin. Done in the studio, they're free from all the exaggerations and peculiarities that abound in his 'public' performances. If I point out, for example, that he ruins the last page of Beethoven's Appassionata sonata by rushing like a madman to the end, I like to think, for god's sake, that I know SOMEthing about what I'm saying.

@@richardvolpe7664 Why don’t you upload all of those wonderful sonatas? I am always looking for more music to listen to. Also, not only is playing it hard, performing it in front of hundreds of audience members and millions of criticizing RU-vid listeners like yourself is even harder. Try to enjoy the hard work Lang lang has put in for this amazing moment of music.

To owenzhang6585: "An incredibly COMPLICATED piece?" Just when I thought I'd heard everything! Hilarious, simply hilarious.

If you think this is a very easy piece, try 1:33 with perfect technique and the speed that langlang plays

@@pianocats6872 At 1:33, the notes lie so comfortably "under the hand," as pianists like to say, that the passage almost 'plays itself', even at a high speed. It's no exaggeration to say, in fact, that this section is "easy as pie," compared to hundreds of examples. Here are three: Chopin etudes op.10, nos.1 and 2; Liszt's "Feux Follets." I hope this convinces you. If not, then I have nothing more to say.

If you can play it as flawlessly as Lang lang has, then it will convince me.

@@pianocats6872 Like all "accomplished" pianists. of COURSE I can play this flawlessly at Lang's tempo. You seem to think that this would be a sort of super-human feat, when in fact it would present no difficulty at all. In other words, this rondo simply SOUNDS (at high speed, that is) much harder than it is. Incidentally, I don't believe that Lang, even when he's in one of his most tasteless moods, would ever play it this way as part of a formal recital. In the video at hand, I think he, in a spirit of "encore excitement" spontaneously decided to tickle his listeners' fancy by "horsing around," so to speak, by throwing formality out of the window (you know - - the "what the hell!" approach), realizing, he was sure, that the crowd would love it (and of course, they did). Any professional pianist would have no difficulty in citing dozens and dozens of piano works whose technical challenges make this little Mozart Turkish March (that's what the composer titled it, and the very word "march" should certainly caution against a wildly madcap tempo) what it is: mere child's play, no matter what the chosen speed. Have I finally made this clear?

Because they knew the crowd loves his buffoonery...

No, it’s both. It focuses on 3 parts:his hands, his face and him with the piano. It’s balanced and it wouldn’t be the same video just looking at his hands too.

@@nothing-zb3hs During the 2:08 performance, his hands got close-ups for about 15 sec, from further (mostly from below) about 25, the rest is him making fun of ... Mozart? the audience that is besotted with his stupid grimacing... do you call that balanced?? He can play a lot better when he's at it. Here, he shows no respect to the music or the composer at all with his charade.

@UCRgwUptmncymQ94WMJrjEiw And if not? If audiences consisted only of piano players, who would the players play for?? Do you seriously think non-player audiences do not understand music or differences among players? By the way, I used to play, and lots of pianists and piano teachers I know have a low opinion of Lang Lang. My opinion has been changing for the better but this recording points to the other direction. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he can develop into someone serious. But if you can't understand the difference, why do you play yourself? As I suppose that was the origin of your 'Bruh'. Blah blah blah...

Lol who are you @ing 🤣

No. IT s very fast. Where is the music?

​@@sikmaveza It is there, huge contrasts, great phrasing, alternance of expressive traits with more martial ones, brillance, then poetic atmosphere at the end. This is music, communicating emotions.

@@Paroles_et_Musique I Don t hear it there!

@@sikmaveza fix your ears maybe then

@@Paroles_et_Musique Emotions? Tell me where this light-weight march displays, of all things, "emotion." Expressive traits? Great phrasing? I'm forced to assume that you've never heard a proper (meaning, according to the composer's wishes) performance of this piece. You'll be as shocked to hear this played at a sensible tempo as I was horrified to witness this cheap, irreverent parody that Lang, with his unique brazenness, dished out to the crowd, all of whom, of course, ate up every last scrap in their typical enthusiasm. No surprise there.

there you go. Glenn Gould ver. is the most accurate tempo-wise

you must be joking

@@johndoe6050 you must be joking

@@MrLULE you must be cumming

@@z-past1454 lol

To petereinach8608: I suppose I should give you the benefit of the doubt, and presume that you've never heard this piece played properly. Do you realize that he's bastardizing this rondo by doubling its usual speed? And that he's more than willing to disrespect the composer's intention, as long as there's a good chance that this "sensational spectacle" of a performance will delight and impress the crowd? His tactics are as cheap and distasteful as - - well, as you said, they're "out of this world."

Why don’t you contemplate the possibility that langlang is actually having fun? Maybe he likes it this fast.

@@pianocats6872 Any semi-conscious person who's been following Lang's work for the past two decades, knows only too well that he's one of the happiest people in the whole world, so of course he's 'having fun', and maybe he does like it this fast. But, being a shrewd cookie, he also knows that his audience will love it played this way, and he's not about to deprive them of the thrill. Is this the sort of rendition Mozart would've approved of? I doubt it, but of course I can't prove it. No matter how you look at this, though, his delivery wasn't in the proper musical style, nor did it bear any resemblance to the composer's tempo instruction. As a pianist myself, I can trot out dozens of 'moderately fast' pieces, and play them at double the speed, but in so doing, I'd be aware that I'm nerely "fooling around," and not being respectful to the composer's wishes.

To jpve: Several times? I had trouble enduring it just one time.

@@richardvolpe7664

To jws4444: You think that just because he's played some concertos from memory (as ALL pianists do!), he's incapable of displaying abhorrently poor taste? This smiling fool gets away with it, thanks to the "cultivated, ultra-sophisticated, easily entertained" crowd of adoring listeners. As for Simon Rattle's opinions, I'd like to think that he'd regard this delivery as musically inappropriate, but with his well-known sense of humor, he'd probably just laugh it off as a spur-of-the-moment stunt or "party trick," mischievously calculated to please, of course.

He is

Wolfgang Lang Lang Mozart

To user-js4hw etc. How would you say in Korean: "That smiling face deserves a good, swift slap?"

Don't tell stupid things, the majority of professionals consider Lang Lang as genius. Are you a professional or just pushing your wishes?

1:47 is good

it do make it more exciting to watch tho

it was during a super long encore and I feel he was just playing with the rhythm and having fun with the audience, rather than treating it as a serious performance.

This makes an overplayed piece enjoyable again, you’re just wrong here

Mozart wrote he wants to play this fast and happy but due to the quality of pianos back then he can't.

To TheStockwell: Oh come ON! Liberace had better taste than THIS, to put it mildly.

To rh4438: Do you mean to imply that YOU understand music?

Because it was an encore played at the end of a long concert and just a bit of fun, not intended as a serious part of the main program. If it was a part of the actual concert, he'd have played it more 'seriously'. Although you can still hear the skill, musicality and control in this version in my opinion.

To hempwizard: WOULD he, now? More likely, he'd be mortified.

because always at this part he makes funny faces i guess lol

i am pretty sure because of the speed

So true

To 9freesolo: Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who "sees through" his circus displays.

辻井伸行じゃなくてランランですよ

To hougen-aka: Intonation? What's he playing - - the violin?