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Offline rachmaninoff_forever

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Unattractive pianists?!
on: December 11, 2012, 02:11:35 AM
Don't you dare post a picture of Valentina Lisitsa or else I'm going to find where you live and burn down your house!  Then I'll make you buy another one, just so I can decorate it with pictures of Valentina Lisitsa, and make you go crazy so you'll burn down your second house!  Then I'll make you buy another house, just so I can burn it down again!
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Re: Unattractive pianists?!
Reply #1 on: December 11, 2012, 02:31:35 AM
Lang Lang. He is unattractive and his playing is mediocre.

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Re: Unattractive pianists?!
Reply #2 on: December 11, 2012, 02:32:38 AM
Lang Lang. He is unattractive and his playing is mediocre.

I actually like Lang Lang though.

He does a pretty kick ass Appassionata.
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Re: Unattractive pianists?!
Reply #3 on: December 11, 2012, 02:57:42 AM
I actually like Lang Lang though.

He does a pretty kick ass Appassionata.

I don't like his Appassionata. Lisitsa plays it pretty well. I just don't like Lang Lang's piano playing/interpretation. Although there was a Youtube video of Lang Lang playing Chopin Op. 10/5 using an orange.

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Re: Unattractive pianists?!
Reply #4 on: December 11, 2012, 03:14:51 AM

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Re: Unattractive pianists?!
Reply #5 on: December 11, 2012, 03:18:58 AM
I don't like his Appassionata. Lisitsa plays it pretty well. I just don't like Lang Lang's piano playing/interpretation. Although there was a Youtube video of Lang Lang playing Chopin Op. 10/5 using an orange.

Here is the video of Lang Lang playing Chopin with an orange. It doesn't sound very good though.

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Re: Unattractive pianists?!
Reply #6 on: December 11, 2012, 03:23:12 AM
Here is the video of Lang Lang playing Chopin with an orange. It doesn't sound very good though.



I tried that on my former teachers piano, and I knocked off a couple black keys.

I blamed his son.
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Re: Unattractive pianists?!
Reply #7 on: December 11, 2012, 01:11:05 PM
I always thought Lang Lang was quite a dashing gent actually.

I'm surprised nobody has brought up Evgeny Kissin though. Don't even bother denying it.

Also I think it would be unfair to bring up the old ones because well... yeah. I mean Mitsuko Uchida was beautiful as a young woman but obviously she is now a senior citizen, you can't really fight the ravages of age no matter the level of your inherent beauty.

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Reply #8 on: December 11, 2012, 01:24:15 PM

Also I think it would be unfair to bring up the old ones because well... yeah. I mean Mitsuko Uchida was beautiful as a young woman but obviously she is now a senior citizen, you can't really fight the ravages of age no matter the level of your inherent beauty.

I agree. I still think Mitsuko Uchida is rather beautiful, despite her age. And she plays Mozart so well.

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Re: Unattractive pianists?!
Reply #9 on: December 11, 2012, 03:25:07 PM
Don't you dare post a picture of Valentina Lisitsa or else I'm going to find where you live and burn down your house!  Then I'll make you buy another one, just so I can decorate it with pictures of Valentina Lisitsa, and make you go crazy so you'll burn down your second house!  Then I'll make you buy another house, just so I can burn it down again!
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That's a lot of arson that you propose; wouldn't your time be better occupied practising?

I'm not about to post a picture of anyone here, incidentally.

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Re: Unattractive pianists?!
Reply #10 on: December 11, 2012, 04:54:59 PM

I'm surprised nobody has brought up Evgeny Kissin though. Don't even bother denying it.

In his younger age he was cool though:


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It does fit his personality imo and it's one of my favourite present-day pianists. :)
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