Lang Lang vs Yundi Li

[The Tempest]

In a ferocious piano battle witnessed by the world, only one emerges victorious.

Who do think it would be?

[Siberian Husky]

Yundi Lang

[gkatele]

Yundi Yundi!   

[yoshiki]

Yundi Li is much better (he is more musical).

[Waldszenen]

bahaha I started this topic way back in 2003 and it gets its first reply today.


bahahah

[perfect_pitch]

bahaha I started this topic way back in 2003 and it gets its first reply today.


bahahah

IT TOOK SOME PEOPLE 18 Months to come up with their answer.... Thats Sad. I didn't realise this topic existed because I joined in 2004.

ohhhh... Yes YUNDI LI.

[stevie]

hilariously, these pianists are always compared, and yet they are so different its unbelievable.

[Siberian Husky]

its cause they're both asian

[Kassaa]

Horowitz.

[026497]

Lang Lang of course.
Yundi Li is nothing compared to him.
(I thought Yundi Li is a girl when I first saw him on teley)

[perfect_pitch]

Lang Lang of course.
Yundi Li is nothing compared to him.
(I thought Yundi Li is a girl when I first saw him on teley)

HELL NO!!! Yundi Li ****s all over Lang Lang.... Onlybecause Lang Lang barely ever takes Performances seriously, he turns them into a joke showpiece which disgusts me.

[pita bread]

The Lang Lang Prokofiev 3rd interview video is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen.

[practicingnow]

Lang Lang is an insanely talented guy, no question.  The thing is, when you have all that talent, and all those ideas, it is difficult to focus it all into a coherent architectural performance, especially at such a young age.  This usually comes through experience, and very proper guidance.
Yundi Li on the other hand, is at the moment a finer pianist, although he is not working with as much raw material as Lang Lang, that's for sure.
If Lang Lang ever really gets it together, he'll be a great.

[march05]

methink lang lang is technic-wise very talented, and musically quite fine, but not the over-the-top variety... look at his carnegie hall debut program: schumann abegg vars, haydn sonata in C, schubert wanderer fantasy, some chinese-impressionist pieces, 1 chopin nocturne, and liszt don juan fantasy. they are mostly technical pieces, not the kinds that require deep musical/emotional involvement like sadness or appassionata or beauty. even the chopin nocturne he chose is one of the cooler, distant chopin. his playing is indeed uncommonly clean and polished, methink that's what pushes him to the top with the critics (as well as his technique, of course)...

[arensky]

                                                                Horowitz.

[stevie]

Lang Lang is an insanely talented guy, no question.  The thing is, when you have all that talent, and all those ideas, it is difficult to focus it all into a coherent architectural performance, especially at such a young age.  This usually comes through experience, and very proper guidance.
Yundi Li on the other hand, is at the moment a finer pianist, although he is not working with as much raw material as Lang Lang, that's for sure.
If Lang Lang ever really gets it together, he'll be a great.

i agree with that, but i really enjoy langlang's playing as it is, its randomness is thrilling and entertaining.