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Live Webcast of the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition 2010

October 6th, 2010 in Piano News by | 13 comments

The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, the oldest of its kind in the world, is held every five years in the Polish capital Warsaw and is avidly followed by lovers of Chopin, the Franco-Polish composer and pianist who was born in 1810 in Zelazowa Wola near the Polish capital.
Eighty-one pianists from 23 countries are now competing for honours at the competition marking the bicentennial of the composer’s birth.
The competition runs until October 20 and hundreds of performances of Ballades, Nocturnes, Mazurkas and other piano pieces by Chopin are currently available to enjoy through the live competition webcast at konkurs.chopin.pl:

Watch Live Webcast

Schedule

When the broadcast is not live, you can instead listen to the Competition Chronicle mp3:s

Update:
Who qualified for the second stage? Find out here!
The 2nd stage auditions will start on Saturday, the 9th of October and they will end on Wednesday, the 13th of October.


Chopin Express is an official, bilingual newspaper of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition published by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute with the cooperation of the musical magazine „Gramophone”. The newspaper will be distributed for free during the whole Competition in the streets of Warsaw and in the Warsaw Philharmonic and are also available online as pdf.


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Comments

  • pianisten1989 says:

    is there a way to see old videos? My friend is playing there, but I had no chance to see her… :(

  • Minja Kolak says:

    came yesterday from warsaw so thrilled by fantastic competitors and atmosphere! great suspense about the winner because the level is so high and personalities so different

  • Andrys says:

    On Facebook, the Competition reps said the (official) videos are 80% done and will be viewable for free online but they want to get caught up before putting them online.

    I guess that means caught up through Stage 1.

  • I would suggest – 35years age limit, insted of some peaces of Chopin – Bach, Mozart, Beefhoven , otherwise soon comes world record for fast fingers with accel. – rit.in every peace

  • Josef Sekon says:

    How wonderful to watch and hear these talented young artists! The world needs such events! Congratulations for all of your fantastic work! It is much appreciated!

  • Bogumil P-G says:

    Just to remind members and webmasters that Fryderyk Chopin in not a Franco-Polish composer and never was such. The source of his musical genius was very strongly connected to his motherland: Poland. Most of his compositions were dedicated to Poland and he considered himself to be a Polish patriot. In short (notwithstanding his father’s French roots) Fryderik Chopin was and is a Polish composer.
    As to the Competition – I used to watch it all the time as a child and it did have a tremendous impact o my musical and artistic tastes. Although I did came to the conclusion later that at times it is too traditionalist and stiff in approach to different interpretations (remember Argerich and Pogorevich?). That does not diminish its importance, though.

  • Andrys says:

    The Competition representative at the Facebook site announced this morning that all the videos from yesterday’s concertos are in the video areas for each pianist who played yesterday.

    http://konkurs.chopin.pl/en/edition/xvi/video/archive

    And for those who were puzzled by some of Bozhanov’s concerto performance, there is an audio-only mp3 file, and it seems that when watching his facial movements (which appear to be for getting the next notes “into character”), I heard the playing as fitful, disjointed, and overdone. But, it turns out that’s not true.

    The faces telegraphed fitful facemaking but not disjointed music. And it affected what I was ‘hearing.’ Much of it is actually quite beautiful. The pianist Roberto Poli (who teaches at New England Conservatory of Music) is quite openly taken with the interpretation and has listened to the mp3 a few times, he says at the forum, feeling it was the most ‘ecstatic’ moment in the Competition so far.

    The ‘truth’ for others may lie somewhere in between but I now think it’s mostly a beautiful reading (with 2 exposed bloopers in the last minute of the work) and doesn’t sound like a competition performance.

  • Andrys says:

    That mp3 file of the concerto by Bozhanov, for an experiment in listening without watching him, is at

    http://www.sendspace.com/file/g8mmu4

    Obviously he is going to have to modify this, as it affects (negatively) perceptions of how he is playing a piece.

  • M. Liu says:

    I am listening to the winners’ concert and specifically Yulianna Avdeeva’s performance of Concerto #1.

    I have been quite taken with Nobuyuki Tsujii’s performance of this piece at the 2009 Cliburn and could not help but compare. In my honest opinion Ms Avddva’s interpretation is relatively stiff and dare I say too faminine? It doesn’t have the sparkle in the 3rd movement of Nobuyuki’s rendition, and does not move me in the other two movements.

    I do realize that her performance is but an exhibition, not for the competition; and there is no question that she’s a brilliant pianist in her own right.

  • rizka says:

    waaaw,, it’s a nice blog!!
    Love it!!

  • noam88 says:

    is there a way to see old videos? My friend is playing there, but I had no chance to see her

  • rockliff17 says:

    is there a way to see old videos? My friend is playing there, but I had no chance to see her

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