Piano Battle Chilly Gonzales vs Jean Francois Zygel 

world needs more piano battles

Gonzo's intro word: "Sometimes, winning is just showing the opponent you're ready to go farther than them". 0:44 - Two minutes each to paint your musical self-portrait. 4:27 - Approximately ten seconds to react to your opponent's musical moves, like a round of lightning chess. 8:33 - Random draw for Zygel: white keys. 11:36 - Random draw for Gonzales: black keys. 13:30 - Blindfolded 14:23 - Standing up

why i'm into Chilly: a few years ago, 2012 or so, i wanted to go to sleep, and choosing the Mezzo channel was the perfect option to sleep (for me) Then i heard some notes playing and so on so i started watching it, And that's it :)

incredible the piece on white keys ... at min 9' ... just mind blowing

The best thing I have seen on YT since ages...

Awwh, it's only 15 minutes long! The entire performance was almost an hour long, and absolutely fantastic to watch. I wish I could find the DVD for it.

I remember that broadcast, it was really a lot of fun. :) Too bad they discontinued it and never made any more of those.

Chilly sa force c'est la simplicité et conduire le publique automatiquement dès la première note à vivre une émotion et de là il peut faire ce qu'il veut :)

Gonzales lui montre la puissance de la simplicité et du minimalsme, beau contraste!

Chilly: a musical genius, super handsome, knows how not to take himself too seriously and has an actual sense of humour. I'm in love

Garch ! J'aurais vendu mon âme pour être présent dans la salle !

Superbe, deux pianistes grandioses

Fun fact about Gonzales: he always wears winter clothes because he’s always chilly.

damn yo, Zygel's fingering is delicate like he could pleasure 5 butterflies simultaneously

C'est génial !!!! Merci !!!

I like how the guy at 4:00 takes 10 seconds to play every chord. Literally after the first chord he paused so long that I thought he was done. For the first thirty seconds of his playing their was more silence than actual piano.

Incroyable

L'intro de Chilly à 2:45 est incroyable ;o. Est-ce une pièce de M. Gonzales?

#TeamChilly

Excellent ! Chilly is my next future husband, he just doesn't know it yet.

Great stuff! From 2011 I believe.

Anyone can recommend a track similar to the beautiful thing Zygel plays from to 10:00~11:20. What's his inspiration?

멋있다

🎈

admirable

@13:12 it looks like Zygel is pondering "how the fuck did he do that??..."

A 8:33 Il lit Novecento de Alessandro Baricco!

_What if there was an anime, where the keys the pianist play, moves their character,_ _So, the characters of both pianists fight, and the winner depends on which character gets damaged the most, after a certain period time._ _Just imagine the pianists playing and their characters fighting in-front of them in a ring or stadium._

Oh my don’t tell me they cut “the eye of the tiger” part due to copyright??? 😭

Gonzales won

Look how sad BMO is at 9:34

The first one for me was just hammering

Consternant...

Chilly Gonzales est un peu « juste » pour oser se mesurer à Zygel!!! Par contre cet été Gabriella Montero !!!👍

mental mofos

There backs are omg terrible

France sleeping pill!!

So bad, very awkward to watch