After watching the entire competition, he was fascinating at the first rounds and just went in crescendo. For me he was the clear winner by far. Embodied Chopin’s lyricism.
I heard him play during the third round. To my ears, his performance stood out amongst others who played, including the first prize winner who played in the same piano. I lok. forward to hearing his performance live soon
Magnificent. This is one of the greatest nocturnes Chopin composed. This performance is is unique in terms of tempo, voicing and clarity. Claudio Arrau would be loved it.
Well, nice touch on the keys, but unfortunately wrong tempi in the various passages. As a result too ponderous, loses content, is even torn apart. It later becomes nothing more than so to say incoherent notes in harmonic bliss. But these works by Chopin demand the utmost sensitivity and profundity. This requires a very special human maturity..--
@@nicolasiovu6584 I haven't found anyone who plays this piece sensitively enough. As I'm a trained pianist myself (but haven't yet faced the world...), I could practise this piece, but indeed don't really have the time at the moment. I'd love to a little later. The problem with this interpretation is that the tempo suddenly remains too steady and ponderous. Too static. Changes in volume also need to be much more concise. And everything must be often much more cautious, much finer in volume. Almost every bar of this work is a harmonically heightened, delicate surprise in its facets, extreme subtlety... Chopin is the absolute pinnacle of "primal romantic" musical subtlety and the older he got, he added even a plus in his already well-known super high emotional sophistication... As described above, must be brought out acoustically at the piano... It requires an enormous tonal sensitivity + also special sense for "surprising swings of passion", correspondingly rousing, brief tempo changes, especially in this work, if you know what I mean... Any kind regards
Meh. Young pianists today play so coldly and analytically these days. It barely seems like Chopin. This is a very romantic piece, yet he plays it like he is doing his taxes.Where is the passion and unfulfilled longing?
I do so wish the pianists had a wonderful Schimmel K230 for such works. It has the perfect European grand piano sound, in my opinion, and is just right for recital works. Yeah, get a 9 footer for the symphonic stuff!! duh... LOL!!!
