wow! incredible piano videos on youtube!

[infectedmushroom]

what? no right notes, rythm, half of it is improvised...he cant even read notes for gods sake

Yeah, that guy must be joking or something. I really had to laugh when that part came that he plays for a few people (I wonder what those people were thinking... Or maybe they're deaf or something).

[sissco]

 

8 year old girl amazed jury and audience

    With her little body and small hands,an eight-year-old-girl exhibited outstanding maturity and infinite musical talent. She, Miss Aimi Kobayashi won at the grade under 15 years old(Jr.G grade), leaving other participants far behind.
    At the final round, she performed Beethoven Sonata No.10-1, Chopin Etude op.25-2 and Nocturne. Her music was really coming from inside, and was expressed thoroughly on the piano. The Chief Jury, Prof.Mieko Harimoto(head professor of piano faclulty, Tokyo Music College) addressed "Construction of Beethoven Sonata, concentration to play the 3rd movement without any disruption, was remarkable. And her technique was really proficient." Prof.Yoheved Kaplinsky (head professor of Juilliard School) who also served as an adjudicator of Jr.G grade, praised her distinguished talent and maturity which was well beyond the expectation.
    The emergence of this little pianist is not by chance. Prof.Harimoto analyzed that the development of educational materials for young piano learners are greatly dedicated. For instance, the assistant pedaling system has been developed, so that even young children under 140cm can play with sensitive and natural pedaling. This was invented by one of the PTNA members, whose idea was based upon researches and experiments over 10 years.
    The efforts to make better education materials helps the innovation of piano study in Japan.
    Ms.Kobayashi will play in Paris next March with three other Japanese young pianists.


Okido

[letters]

this kid is wriggly.... but quite good, except all his movements look a bit taught for a 10 yr old!!

[zheer]

this kid is wriggly.... but quite good, except all his movements look a bit taught for a 10 yr old!!

  Very nice though slightly on the slow side.

[quantum]

  ... slightly on the slow side.

Mildly. 

He learned the piece with more care and detail than some of the older people who posted the same piece on YouTube.  I'd say he had a very good work ethic when tackling the piece.

[donjuan]

Lol, this is the worst performance of Chopin's Etude 10/12 I've ever seen.



"here is my course of playing piano, this is a 2 year course of how my classical has improved using the same song. . keep in mind i've only been playing for 3-4 years w/ no lessons"


See for yourself:

if he had a teacher, he could learn to make those kind of improvements in an hour.  still gotta give him credit for trying

[quantum]

Rubinstein, A - Chopin - Barcarolle Fis-Dur, Op.60

[jre58591]

barber- sonata finale - stephen beus. talk about furious.

[letters]

Lol, this is the worst performance of Chopin's Etude 10/12 I've ever seen.



"here is my course of playing piano, this is a 2 year course of how my classical has improved using the same song. . keep in mind i've only been playing for 3-4 years w/ no lessons"


See for yourself:

good god.... i guess having no lessons never puts how well you play into context... its only your judgement... what he just did a glissando CHEAT

[nanabush]

Omg, his left hand is like pure improv!! What a fool puttin that up... thinks he's all pro with his freestylin on this etude 

[quantum]

barber- sonata finale - stephen beus. talk about furious.

I like.  I feel da fury of da fugue.

[quantum]

Nelson Freire plays Villa-Lobos: A Lenda do Caboclo

[instromp]

When i was watching this, it made me think of that "black pianists" thread  .Well anyway this man plays HR6, now i havent heard any good perf's of this piece except the one by Cziffra , but i think this guy does an excellent job, the sound quality is a lil distorded some and i think there a few bum notes in there near the end but so what wrong notes are allowed on a piece like this ..I wonder what that rest of you think?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XB0R0zQUgHI&mode=related&search=

[infectedmushroom]

A 10 year old playing Liebestraume:

He isn't playing the piano for a long time either, so imo, a very nice performance.

[berrt]

A 10 year old playing Liebestraume:
He isn't playing the piano for a long time either, so imo, a very nice performance.

1 1/2 ys of piano?? thats REALLY impressive

[quantum]

Chopin Etude op.25 no.11 "Winter wind" by "Yeol Eum Son".
Finalist of Chopin Competition 2005.

[instromp]

Maksim-Hungarian Rhapsody#2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byGI1mDi3no

[dlu]

Maksim-Hungarian Rhapsody#2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byGI1mDi3no

 

[instromp]

  haha

[pianowolfi]

Don't know if this has been posted before, lol 

&mode=related&search=

lang lang hungarian rhapsody#2, backstroke method haha

[justliam]

Is it just me, or did that Maksim surprise anyone? lol

[instromp]

Is it just me, or did that Maksim surprise anyone? lol

I actually thought it was good ,lol.

[nanabush]

I actually really enjoyed his HR2, and I checked out a few other vids of him, and he's got this music video dealy thing called Exodus, and that's pretty cool too.  The video suits the music 

[donjuan]

yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by Maksin's HR2 as well.  with all the crap he is known to do, it is easy to forget he can really play the instrument

[leahcim]

if he had a teacher, he could learn to make those kind of improvements in an hour.  still gotta give him credit for trying

I think there are plenty of other videos on youtube that are just as indicative of what the state of piano teaching is at - at least for the vast majority of folk who have a desire to learn.

If he could find someone good, but ime that's as big an "if" that he may as well have soldiered on and saved his money than given it to one of the teachers teaching some of those guys posting on the same site.

[quantum]

Art Tatum plays Dvorak

[kelly_kelly]

A 10 year old playing Liebestraume:

He isn't playing the piano for a long time either, so imo, a very nice performance.

Wow! I would have been impressed eben if he'd been playing for 6 years. The cadenzas are a bit slow, but it was still an amazing performance.

[infectedmushroom]

Young kid playing a Chopin Nocturne:

... Isn't he on this forum also? Named "arielpiano"... !?

[donjuan]

this isnt piano, but I just posted Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture, sang by the Swingle Singers:

[instromp]

I thought only Langlang did this arrangement of fledermaus but Kissin does it too.Great
, not sure if its been posted here or not.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yKnbwd7n8IQ

[quantum]

Young kid playing a Chopin Nocturne:

... Isn't he on this forum also? Named "arielpiano"... !?

I believe so. 

[infectedmushroom]

spam

[donjuan]

Some videos of an, for me, unknown Pianist called "Kemal Gekic"

if you ever get a chance, listen to his Liszt: Overture to William Tell on the NAXOS label; it's just phenomenal!

[jre58591]

ligeti - l'escalier du diable - greg anderson. this guy has some nice effects and i like his intro, haha. it rivals libetta's video, which i posted a while ago. this will blow your mind. well worth watching.

i also like this intro he gave for it on his website:

"Etude No. 13 - "The Devil's Staircase," composed by the late Gyorgy Ligeti, presents a not-so-subtle vision of hell. The pianist and the listeners embark upon an endless quest to climb the staircases out of hell. The harder and faster you climb, the more hell sucks you back in."

[quantum]

ligeti - l'escalier du diable - greg anderson. this guy has some nice effects and i like his intro, haha. it rivals libetta's video, which i posted a while ago. this will blow your mind. well worth watching.

i also like this intro he gave for it on his website:

"Etude No. 13 - "The Devil's Staircase," composed by the late Gyorgy Ligeti, presents a not-so-subtle vision of hell. The pianist and the listeners embark upon an endless quest to climb the staircases out of hell. The harder and faster you climb, the more hell sucks you back in."

I love this!  'tis wicked.

[jre58591]

check this out:

https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6039884695523883071&q=rachmaninoff+concerto&pr=goog-sl&hl=en

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Kassaa]

check this out:

https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6039884695523883071&q=rachmaninoff+concerto&pr=goog-sl&hl=en

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

OMG, and that is live too. That must be my worst nightmare, screwing up like that in a concerto :x.

[pianowolfi]

That is so shocking, that almost makes me cry. Mikhail Rudy is a pretty famous pianist afaik. I have a Cd with Janacek compositions by him and it is actually good. He must have had a desastrous blackout.

[donjuan]

check this out:

https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6039884695523883071&q=rachmaninoff+concerto&pr=goog-sl&hl=en

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

wow what a brain fart

[nicco]

check this out:

https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6039884695523883071&q=rachmaninoff+concerto&pr=goog-sl&hl=en

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

oh. my. dear. mersiful. saviour. in. heaven.

how is this possible?? and im practicing this!

omg

[pianowolfi]

To recover from the previous check this one

Jorge Bolet plays Godowsky Chopin Nr. 12

[phil13]

check this out:

https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6039884695523883071&q=rachmaninoff+concerto&pr=goog-sl&hl=en

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

Ow. Just....ouch.

My virgin ears weren't ready for that.   

Phil

[quantum]

check this out:

https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6039884695523883071&q=rachmaninoff+concerto&pr=goog-sl&hl=en

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Ouch......um...that hurt.... a lot.  I may need to see my psychiatrist now.   

[xire]

Quite impressive performance of a 13 year old girl, performing a Chopin Waltz:

[quantum]

Quite impressive performance of a 13 year old girl, performing a Chopin Waltz:

Cool

[quantum]

Some were requesting Ashkenazy vids. 

Well here is Chopin Op 10/1:

[infectedmushroom]

12 Year old boy performing Chopin Scherzo No. 1, Op. 20:

[instromp]

12 Year old boy performing Chopin Scherzo No. 1, Op. 20:

I had a strong feeling he was going to be asian.seeing little kids like this play big pieces makes me not want to play anymore.But i can't give up

[leahcim]

I had a strong feeling he was going to be asian

Yeah, his Dad would have had a shock if he wasn't.

[donjuan]

I had a strong feeling he was going to be asian.seeing little kids like this play big pieces makes me not want to play anymore.But i can't give up

dont feel bad.  being a young asian pianist is a bad thing in the same way you think it it a good thing.

compared to the number of young asian pianists, there are very few well known asian concert pianists.  imo, they usually have the discipline to perform technically well, but along the line they forget why they want to play piano in the first place.  and then they all become medical doctors with clean-cut hairstyles.