This is an excellent performance, no doubt, but far from the greatest ever. She's still quite young and her playing and interpretation will mature. Imagine...
Beautiful rubato, I can easily sense the rocking of a boat! Stunning interpretation, sensitive and understanding of Chopin's emotions. I've been touched for ever by this brilliant performance.
@@themoroccanpianist8953 It is the left hand that gives the very good impression of the rocking of a boat in the water, swelling and falling. Rubato means it is not strict time, you feel the rhythm instead.
have you listened to IVETT's barcarolle it's a disaster compared to Tiffany's but she passed to second stage :/ and not Tiffany ? i don't fkin understand !!!
Bravo! In my opinion, she is one of very few pianists who see correctly through what Chopin's Barcarolle is really about. I can see that she plays with her own unique inspiration; she is definitely not one of the many mimicking pretend-to-be-artists. I really hope she will succeed as a professional pianist.
I just can't believe the vast difference in quality between Tiffany Poon and the so called finalists. What world am I living in???? Such grace, understanding of the musical matter, such ease, such richness in dynamics, the contour of musical form... Thank you, Tiffany, you and your Chopin bring so much joy to me!!
For those who criticize the jury for not giving her a pass to 2nd stage due to politics/jealousness (lol)/..., just want to remind you that there were ~20 reputable judges, including Martha Argerich, Dang Thai Son, Yundi Li, Adam Harasiewicz, Garrick Ohlsson, among others. In particular, Martha was resigning from the jury due to Pogorelic's truely controversial behavior and performance in 10th chopin comp -- when someone is a real genius, even as eccentric as ivo, he/she will be backed up by at least some of the jurors. The actual 'political' injustice may be that Seong Jin Cho received the lowest possible score of 1 from a juror in the final round, possibly because the conflict between that juror and cho's teacher...
She played this exceptionally well. Her body movements are very distracting though - I have to not look at the video in order to listen to the music properly. This is so far the best rendition I have every heard of this piece.
I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SHE DIDN'T PASS TO SECOND STAGE ! those jury people deserve BAD LUCK, because of them we didn't have the chance to listen to more Tiffany's playing i am so mad !
My new favorite performance. Bravo! Hearing about your personal journey with this piece makes it all the more special. I likewise took a long time to learn it before performing it this year. I still have progress to make but your journey inspires me as I continue to grow.
Yes!!! Now, that's beautiful playing. I found this piece to be very complex when I tried it after only 5 to 8 years of intermittent practice on the piano. Now after about 26 years of intermittent practice, I may try it again, because the beauty of it keeps pressing my ear, so you guys pray for me 😊🙏🏽. Of course Tiffany Poon does a magnificent job with it, based on my very limited knowledge of this piece. 😊✌🏽💪🏽
I happen to think that acts and affectations during playing do not add significantly to the technical and musical aspects of the performance, but that is merely my own opinion. However, as has been said before, if one is not exuberant in youth, what is there to pare away on the long road to old age?
How can this talent be possibly eliminated from the first round of the recently concluded Chopin Piano competition? It still perplexes and angers me almost a month after. Each member of the jury panel must answer this question so the public trust can be restored.
Because the jury probably know that the winner will bè Sejong jin Cho of Korea. He know repertoire piano and orchestra that Tiffany even must to study (3° concerto Rachmaninov), and Mozart and Beethoven. The winner have played some times with orchestra and piano.
To Hell with those competitions. The public just wants to hear these young people. They don't really give a damn about who wins what. No one can play this masterpiece better than what we hear from Tiffany.
Presumably in order to be sure that Poon was better than the other 70 competitors at the stage one round you did listen to all their performances - as did the official jury?
Anyone else see the older woman in the front row falling asleep, mouth gapped open and head snapped back? Hilarious. Poor Tiffany's playing her heart out. Nobody's better at making a piece of music sound like its aware of its own death at the end of itself than Chopin.
It is possible that the inflated exaggerated remarks about Poon's playing from her many fans actually contributed to her early elimination from the competition because they gave Tiffany Poon a false inflated view of her playing; she was insufficiently self-critical. She was eliminated correctly at round 1 as there were many pianists who played better. It is just not the case that she was of the same standard as the finalists.
Nothing should influence the removal of a contestant except the sound they create. How can you truly believe there were pianists that did “better” than her? “Better” is a completely objective term and is not finite
I've listened to the performances of all the winners and the finalists. In my opinion, no one played as good as Tiffany Poon. I also noticed that all of them don't have the academic accomplishment at all, but just constantly practice the piano day after day, year after year. Although some ignorant people admired some of these piano-playing robots and even praised them as the "in born Chopinist", I believe only Tiffany Poon is going on the right track and she will undoubtedly become a great pianist. According to her website, she is an outstanding student at both Juilliard School and Columbia University, and received full scholarships ever since she attended high school. If she is not super talented, those prestigious institutes might not have awarded her with the full scholarships and named her the John Jay Scholar. Most of all, Tiffany is a remarkable pianist with exceptional artistic qualities, tremendous technique and solid academic background. Her huge and widely varied repertoire has also enabled her to reach out to an enormously wide range of audiences. Because of her unique academic background as well as art and culture accomplishment, it greatly enhances her interpretation showing the poetic imagination, deep emotion and strong artistic sensibility.
And what has academic accomplishment has to do with musicality? Many of the greats such as Argerich and Horowitz didn't even go to university, it should be day after day practice. Your argument is invalid and even funny
she needs to drop the adolescent pigtail hairstyle, and simply a general make-over to match her stylish playing! her manager should have already advised this before the competition
With this song, she clearly proves that she is an accomplished pianist, not letting her advance to the second round proves that the judges are corrupt.
+Sam Wise That is a real possibility. Somebody should speak up and question the jury. If this jury is not questioned, this injustice will continue and more young promising pianists will have their careers destroyed.
+TheQueefingCunt Why Tiffany Poon was eliminated at Stage 1? There are some political reasons: 1. Tiffany played much better than most of the jurors. In order to retain their dominant position in the classical field, the jurors had to eliminate Tiffany at the very beginning of the competition (Stage 1) and remain those competitors with the average level at the competition. For the past years, we couldn't see any Chopin Competition winner has become more famous than the jurors. 2. Tiffany was outstanding and too popular. If she was allowed to advance and play more rounds, she would give a very good impression to more audience. The audience would witness that she was one of the best among the competitors. Therefore, if she was not awarded any prize, it might cause riots. 3. Among the jury, there was a Chinese juror whose career is in his down trend and is seriously threatened by Lang Lang and Yuja Wang. Don't you think that he was foolish enough to let another Chinese star rise and ruin his career? 4. There was no Chinese competitor advanced to the Final Stage because there was a Vietnamese juror whose country had arose anti-Chinese protests several months ago. Show less
Men have poles. Women have holes. Do you KNOW personally any of the judges? Also they are professionals and maybe ...you are not? And finally , nobody's career gets " destroyed" by not passing the first round in a competition...
Who are the judges, so much a mistake not sending her to the 2 round. She is absolutely one of the best pianists in the field. No comparison. Most music and interesrting interpretation and technique. I think there is mafia and money in this. Redicoulous competion. I will never notice the Chopin competition the slighest again. Comical!!
You are actually right. I dont know what happened After the first round in spring she could easily have been a winner. I dont know what happened - why i wrote this.Among mucisians and producers sometimes there is evil because of carrer and money.Ii already one time apologized on the competitions fb.
+Johannes Ostenfeld-Rosenthal Why Tiffany Poon was eliminated at Stage 1? There are some political reasons: 1. Tiffany played much better than most of the jurors. In order to retain their dominant position in the classical field, the jurors had to eliminate Tiffany at the very beginning of the competition (Stage 1) and remain those competitors with the average level at the competition. For the past years, we couldn't see any Chopin Competition winner has become more famous than the jurors. 2. Tiffany was outstanding and too popular. If she was allowed to advance and play more rounds, she would give a very good impression to more audience. The audience would witness that she was one of the best among the competitors. Therefore, if she was not awarded any prize, it might cause riots. 3. Among the jury, there was a Chinese juror whose career is in his down trend and is seriously threatened by Lang Lang and Yuja Wang. Don't you think that he was foolish enough to let another Chinese star rise and ruin his career? 4. There was no Chinese competitor advanced to the Final Stage because there was a Vietnamese juror whose country had arose anti-Chinese protests several months ago. Show less
QualityMusic Ahh, interesting - and think you might be right. I will share this point of view in my fb as i show did show some there fr the competition too
Her recent performances in the Arthur Rubinstein Music Piano Masters were not very good. Her low dynamic range is what is demeaning Tiffany of her success in competitions. She uses the soft pedal to compensate for that reason.
excellent first and second parts, with a beautiful cantabile. At the end of the third part, as the passion is growing, Tiffany's emotional playing becomes over-sentimental, unnecessarily underscoring the melodrama in this piece. If she had listened to the jurors interviews, she might have chosen a more classical interpretation for the ending.
Marek Krasuski so she should play based on the jury and not based on her best judgement? that sounds like maybe a recipe to win but now to develop your own artistry.
It has to be sentimental like an Italian gondolier serenading his love on the Grand Canal in Venice (the very definition of the barcarolle, the word barca in Italian means boat).
Tiffany is a lovely pianist and also a sweet and gentle person, as far as I got to know her on RU-vid. But she's not Tiger enough for a competition like this, probably not wanting to take away prices from other participants. Too many doubts make her otherwise pointy fingers floppy. Like Chopin himself, she might perform much better with a small audience of friends.
Dang Thai Son had huge power to influence the competition result. Three of his students won 3rd, 4th & 5th prize. Besides, exactly how many winners and finalists had made a personal connection with him in any way? Can any insider tell us the truth?
+ClassicalLover I think, Dang Thai Son is going to make a fantastic income after Chopin Competition. Many pianists are eager to study piano with him in order to win prizes in the next Chopin Competition. More students = Make more money.
+danonedanone2000 Why Tiffany Poon was eliminated at Stage 1? There are some political reasons: 1. Tiffany played much better than most of the jurors. In order to retain their dominant position in the classical field, the jurors had to eliminate Tiffany at the very beginning of the competition (Stage 1) and remain those competitors with the average level at the competition. For the past years, we couldn't see any Chopin Competition winner has become more famous than the jurors. 2. Tiffany was outstanding and too popular. If she was allowed to advance and play more rounds, she would give a very good impression to more audience. The audience would witness that she was one of the best among the competitors. Therefore, if she was not awarded any prize, it might cause riots. 3. Among the jury, there was a Chinese juror whose career is in his down trend and is seriously threatened by Lang Lang and Yuja Wang. Don't you think that he was foolish enough to let another Chinese star rise and ruin his career? 4. There was no Chinese competitor advanced to the Final Stage because there was a Vietnamese juror whose country had arose anti-Chinese protests several months ago. Show less
In my opinion, Tiffany is much better than Yuja Wang because of the feeling that she puts into her music. (Although Yuja Wang might have more flair and technical ability, it doesn't make up for the feeling). And Tiffany is certainly better than Lang Lang because her feeling feels real. Any competition in which she does not come out near the top is obviously rigged.
@@ThatBoomerDude56 I do agree there is more feeling with Tiffany, but Yuja most definitely has the superior Russian music (Prok, Rach, stravinsky etc.) compared to Tiffany.
What do you mean by that? Please stop overrating her just because she has a RU-vid channel. The Chopin Competition is the most prestigious piano competition in history. Tiffany Poon is a great player, but truthfully, she is not even good enough to be a finalist in this competition. Eric Lu and Seong-jin Cho were playing at the highest level. It is strange she didn't make it to the second stage, though. This performance is indeed amazing.
The only thing that needs work is her inconsistent phrasing, I would argue that's the most important aspect of a Chopin performance. It also sounded too much like other performances in my opinion. You can see that the judges want something new every year.
Her playing is not delicate enough, if i have to criticize. But, at least, she should have been advanced. If i were one of the jurors, I would have rated her "20 yes". How would you guys rate her?
THE TRUE WINNER OF THE 2015 CHOPIN PIANO COMPETITION 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🥀 THE ELIMINATION OF THIS GIRL AT THE VERY FIRST STAGE OF THIS OUTSTANDING WORLDWIDE MUSICAL EVENT IS THE GREATEST SHAME IN ITS HISTORY!! So maybe somehow it is profetic that the year, 2020 -Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw didn’t take place.
The judges did not advance Tiffany out of pure jealousy. What other reason could there be? She is easily one of the brightest, most sensual and dedicated musicians of her age. She didn’t even belong here in the first place, she’s so above these superfluous competitions and has nothing left to prove to anyone
Nicolas Roques they’re human beings who let their musical careers go and are set to judge the finest musicians of our age. Jealousy and resentment are a part of it wether you believe it or not
@@nicolasroques1887 Seong Jin Cho is better, yes, but there were some finalists that were bellow her by a significant amount. I also disagree with the idea of jealousy but the judges were clearly operating with an agenda.
