Ravel La Valse

[pianoville]

From the same recital as the Chopin Fantasie I posted earlier. If you have any suggestions please leave them below.

[pianoville]

25 views and no replies... Is it that bad?

[orangesodaking]

Wonderful performance!! It's very clear and full of colors, like an orchestra, but the rubato is never too much and it actually sounds like a waltz. I prefer the orchestral version of this work, and I like when performances of the solo piano version sound more like imitating an orchestra than just displaying piano flashiness.

Great job!

[pianoville]

Wonderful performance!! It's very clear and full of colors, like an orchestra, but the rubato is never too much and it actually sounds like a waltz. I prefer the orchestral version of this work, and I like when performances of the solo piano version sound more like imitating an orchestra than just displaying piano flashiness.

Great job!

Thanks for the nice response! I agree with you, what makes some performances bad is that some pianists treat it as it was written for the piano and not for orchestra (*cough cough* Khatia Buniatishvili). I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[jdrpiano]

I thought your performance was very inspiring! ALSO, I found it very funny that your comment about pianists playing pieces as is just for piano and not being imaginative enough as if to play for orchestra was directed at Khatia Buniatishvili xD I literally watched your performance and right below was the autoplay for her interpretation, I listened to it and compared both of your recordings. Yours was MUCH more colorful!

[pianoville]

I thought your performance was very inspiring! ALSO, I found it very funny that your comment about pianists playing pieces as is just for piano and not being imaginative enough as if to play for orchestra was directed at Khatia Buniatishvili xD I literally watched your performance and right below was the autoplay for her interpretation, I listened to it and compared both of your recordings. Yours was MUCH more colorful!

Thank you for the response! Actually I didn't want to target just Khatia Buniatishvili I just wanted to give an example of how you not should play la valse, but still I think her interpretation is the worst one out there    Anyways, thanks for the kind words, I personally think it is my best recording (Not that I have many at all lol). I mean, if you truly love a piece I think you can pull it off, no matter how difficult it is

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Really very good. You kept hold of the waltz feel throughout, and there was a lot of elegance about the playing. You (or the video editor) shouldn't have cut the well-deserved applause off the end! Very entertaining to listen to, and as previous posters have commented, I think the colour and vitality of the performance has a lot to do with that.

[chopinawesome]

Very amazing performance! I agree that it is very colorful and find it surprising that you are 13.

[pianoville]

Very amazing performance! I agree that it is very colorful and find it surprising that you are 14.

Thanks! I am 13 btw 

[chopinawesome]

Thanks! I am 13 btw 

Oh, I am very sorry Fixed now

[beethovenfan01]

All you child prodigies are making me feel so old and not-talented! I'm 17 ...

[pianoville]

All you child prodigies are making me feel so old and not-talented! I'm 17 ...

Thanks! Your repertoire isn't too shabby though 

[beethovenfan01]

Ah thanks. But very few of those pieces are in any kind of coherent architecture right now ...