2010 Chopin piano competition -YES!

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I haven't read your reactions to specific performances (or haven't found your posts about them, here) from the 2010 Chopin piano competition held in Warsaw last Fall.  So many of them were wonderful, but I think my favorite was Ingolf Wunder's performance of Chopin's first concerto.   His playing was so... perfectly balanced.  Is that really the best I can say?  Well, perhaps I was surprised that it was if only because, in the first movement, Ingolf was SO serious and in the last movement, simply joyous!

The link header to the competition comes up frequently when I log in to pianostreet, but here's a link that'll get you a bit closer:

https://www.pianostreet.com/search/chopin-competition-2010-videos-repertoire.php

If interested in Herr Wunder, you'll just need to scroll down alphabetically to his name and select the particular piece(s) or stages of the competition you wish to hear and, as a nice bonus of modern times, to see.

Enjoy,
Bruce

[nataliethepianist]

It was great, wasnt it? A performance I find myself going back to over and over again is Fei Fei Dong's Rondo Op. 16. It is simply a flawless performace. I wish to learn this piece someday, maybe even as well as she can!