Van Cliburn Contest

[MattL]

I don't knpow if anyone has posted this yet but whos gonaa watch the Cliburn Contest this Friday?

Just wondering...

[Dazzer]

it'l be another live broadcast i think

[Alde]

For me the Van Cliburn is like the Olympics.  I am definitely going to watch.

[felval]

I was looking forward to watching it but just found out that I'm going to be pretty busy while it's on.

Anyone know how/if I can "record" the live broadcast and watch later?

[steinwayguy]

Where is this live broadcast?

[Dazzer]

try the cliburn website.


www.cliburn.org

in fact they're testing it out at the moment, and you can watch a stream of olga kern playing. digustingly good - sigh -

[BoliverAllmon]

geez olga kern is very good.

[Dazzer]

Okay i took the liberty of getting the timezones out.

For those people without the privilege of knowing what Central Time Zone is in america, here's the GMT time


Texas - >  GMT - 6.

Good luck waking up.

[BoliverAllmon]

Okay i took the liberty of getting the timezones out.

For those people without the privilege of knowing what Central Time Zone is in america, here's the GMT time


Texas - >  GMT - 6.

Good luck waking up.

haha, I forgot that this is in Texas. I don't have to wake up at crazy hours to watch.

boliver

[BoliverAllmon]

Holy Cow!!! the repertoire requirements is insane.
two 50 min. solo recitals.
1 60 min. solo recital
a piano quintet
and two concertoes.

geez.

[felval]

Anyone else having trouble accessing the site?

[Dazzer]

not surprised. there'll be alot of people watching. that and the server isn't all that reliable to start with.

[celticqt]

I got all excited about watching this today and now the stupid friggin computer won't load the page.  *Grrrr*

[Ziggy]

Try this link


https://reflectweb.reflectsystems.com/getContent.aspx?Action=Factory&FileName=vancliburn/frame.htm&WCID=df73cd8a-75fb-44d8-98e5-0451eee381b6

[Dazzer]

*** you beat me to it!!!!

oh use IE. Firefox causes an error when i try to load the stream.

i'm quite impressed... the stream is quite stable.

[Ziggy]

 


You can also paste this into file < open url in Windows Media player


https://reflectweb.reflectsystems.com/mediaFactory.aspx?WCID=df73cd8a-75fb-44d8-98e5-0451eee381b6&StreamID=88&MediaID=1

[Dazzer]

bah... i'm watching it and i'm getting depressed.
i'm looking at the repetoires of the competitors, and i'm looking at the ages and i'm getting depressed.


bah what's the point ...

[Nightscape]

Is there any way to find out who is playing?  Like a schedule or something?

The lady playing now looks like she's about to cry.

[celticqt]

Wow! Thanks, Ziggy - it's working!
 
Ugh how discouraging - these people are awesome.  But also very motivating too. 

Do they all have such extreme facial expressions??

[paris]

too bad i can't see the video... 

[Bacfokievrahms]

wow the guy right now looks like he's sucking on some really sour candy, but judging by the biography given him, I'd say that he was drinking really sour soup last night and he's still tasting it and he's like, ohhh god why didn't i brush my teeth, oh no my van cliburn performing will be ruined.

[Nightscape]

What did everybody think of the first four competitors?  I didn't get to hear the first lady, but I'd have to say that the first guy (the one from italy) was the weakest.  Granted, the sound was out during a good portion of his Bach piece, but his Stravinksy in particular wasn't as strong as other performances I've heard of it.  Especially in the last movement, it seemed like the energy and tempo in the piece jumped around and I've always felt that that movement is meant only to gain momentum, excitement, and energy (not necessarily speeding up, mind you) as it gets closer to the end, not to lose it.

Overall, I was very impressed with all of their playing though.  And thier facial features and gestures were quite amusing to watch.

[kghayesh]

Hey have you seen this Israeli guy.... He is the ideal true virtuoso. He plays Liszt as if he was Liszt.....

I have never seen such a show of virtuosity before.....

[Nightscape]

Hey have you seen this Israeli guy.... He is the ideal true virtuoso. He plays Liszt as if he was Liszt.....

I have never seen such a show of virtuosity before.....

Yeah, that guy was awesome.  Apparently he's really likes Liszt.  If he makes it to the finals, he's going to play the entire first year of Annes.

[iumonito]

I loved Cabassi and thought Mamriev was entirely flat.

How was Braide?  I had technical issues and missed it.

[felval]

I missed most of today's program.  It sounds like there was some impressive stuff.

By any chance, is anyone recording and willing to share?

[iumonito]

Well, I think Franceschetti did not disappoint.  Great Schumann.  Great Beethoven.  I didn't care that much for the Schoenberg, but that just me not loving the piece.  Straight into the second round, I think.

I thought the best of Fong's performance was her Haendel.  She played the crap out of the piano with her redition of Keith Leighton's 6 Studies - Variation, but again, what a strange choice of repertoire.  Same goes to a bunch of early Rachmaninov she insterspersed between a lovely Lilacs, a thorough Prelude in B-flat major and some other forgettable stuff.  She was great, but 23 great pianist will be eliminated in the first round.   How sad.

[Motrax]

I didn't see much yesterday (Just Akapova, Mamriev, and Kolomiytseva), but from those three I'd put my money with Lilian Akapova. Her Bach was incredible, as was the Liszt that followed. I also found Mamriev rather flat.

Sa Chen just played today - I got the impression she has a lot of technique but is somewhat shallow in her interperetations. Chopin's Op. 25-6 and Feux Follets were both pretty incredible, but her Gaspard seemed somewhat boring (even if she did hit all the notes).

(Stephen Beus is playing now, I'll hold my opinion of him 'till later)

[anda]

so far, i loved petroushka. everything else was (for me) good but just good. but then again, i haven't heard braide, franceschetti and fong (way too late for me). anyway, i'm impressed about the general athmosphere - nothing competition-like!

[iumonito]

Sa Chen, lots of technique, and very original.  I did not find her shallow at all; reminds me of Ashkenazy.

I loved Beus, but I fear he is precisely the type of pianist that gets eliminated early.  Great Chopin sonata.  Very American-sounding Barber (nothing like Horowitz or Olga Kern).

Plano is a musicians' pianist.  Sadly no enough technical display to go forward.

Grynyuk was the one that sounded shallow to me.  I have seen pianists like this go forward and it would not surprise me if he gets chosen ahead of more deserving musicians.

[hodi]

this maybe a stupid question by me but...
where is van cliburn today?
does he makes recordings?
does he gives concerts?

[iumonito]

Can anyone confirm that Giuseppe Andaloro chose the Kawai piano to play his preliminary round?  Extraordinary pianism.  Head and shoulders above anybody else so far.

[thracozaag]

Holy Cow!!! the repertoire requirements is insane.
two 50 min. solo recitals.
1 60 min. solo recital
a piano quintet
and two concertoes.

geez.

 
  Kapell in '96 was even worse.

koji (STSD)

[thracozaag]

this maybe a stupid question by me but...
where is van cliburn today?
does he makes recordings?
does he gives concerts?

  Alive and well.
  Not for a long while now
  Yes

koji (STSD)

[Ziggy]

https://www.ktcu.tcu.edu/ktcu/index.html



Best way to  listen is to stream radio only from ktcu, and for video watch the stream with no volume.

[iumonito]

Oh, my! What a session!  Roe and Lee were both very good.  I give the edge to Roe among the two, as she plays with more concentration and depth.  Great to have them both play La valse so close in time.

Do not miss the matinee session tomorrow.  Koltakov, Mazo and Martinez might very well all be in the finals (this what in soccer we would call the group of death).  We will see if they meet expectations.

[kghayesh]

Has anybody just heard Zlabys, Actually this is the most disgusting time i have ever heard Beethoven's Tempest. The third movement was too much fast and too unclear in terms of musicality. Moreover, i don't know why he made this strange gestures (he looked like as if he was blind or something).

[iumonito]

Yeah.  Zlabys, how sad, just beat Mamriev as the weakest so far.  Even worse sorrounded by the strongest session so far, with Koltakov and Martinez really putting high numbers in there.

I already have five I think should go forward (Martinez, Koltakov, Andaloro, Roe and Franceschetti).  There will not be enough room for even the very good ones!

[Motrax]

I thought Plano was really great - especially the Brahms. Beus sort of disappointed me - I didn't hear the Barber to the end (and if that was his strongpoint, then I've probably got a misguided impression of him), but I didn't find his other playing to be out of the ordinary. It was good, for sure, but it didn't shine past any of the others.

Unfortunately I missed Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, so I've no comment about that.

[iumonito]

I missed all but the last couple of pages of Moutouzkine, he sounded good and I remember him as a grand manner pianist from last time.  Anything good?  I would find it most helpful if you can compare him with Koltakov and Martinez, whom I heard today.

[Nightscape]

I just found Martinez on Facebook, and sent her a message telling her great job.  I'm so embaressed!  I know it's silly, but it felt like I was sending fan mail to a celebrity.

[Ziggy]

Cool - you can look at people from other schools on facebook (or do you go to Juilliard?)? I thought it was limited to your own school for some reason.

[Alde]

https://www.ktcu.tcu.edu/ktcu/index.html



Best way to  listen is to stream radio only from ktcu, and for video watch the stream with no volume.

I have tried this but found that there is about a 10 second delay.

[Ziggy]

You can enable something on realplayer called perfectplay, chich will cache the stream for up to 12 hours. Just listen for some audio landmark on the KTCU stream, then pause it and turn up the volume on the video stream, when it reaches the same spot, press play on the KTCU stream. good luck

[redintegra]

I just found Martinez on Facebook, and sent her a message telling her great job.  I'm so embaressed!  I know it's silly, but it felt like I was sending fan mail to a celebrity.

I couldn't find her. I did a search and 6 people named Gabriela Martinez showed up but none are from Juilliard.

[Nightscape]

That's because she uses a nickname for facebook.

[iumonito]

Love her or hate her, but indifferent you can't be to Mariya Kim.  She reminded me of Bolet; so much power, such line!

I think my browser was playing games on me, because I heard some measures in the last page I had never registered in either version of the sonata.  I doubt it was ex tempore, but if it was, shame on the jury if they take that into consideration.  She should go through.

In fact,  I like her with Koltakov, Andaloro and Martinez in the finals.

Anyone heard Xiaohan Wang?  I missed this afternoon.

[MattL]

Does anyone else have a video quality that is extremely dark, I think somethings wrong because its so darK

[pianonut]

tuesday, may 24, 2005

three players that i heard tonight:  joyce yang, ang li, and chu-fang huang -
LOVE chu-fang!!!  since i haven't heard the pianists that came before (due to technical difficulties), i vote for her tonight. 

[iumonito]

Here are my 12, in order of appearance:

Davide Cabassi
Davide Franceschetti
Sa Chen
Stephen Beus
Giuseppe Andaloro
Elizabeth Joy Roe
Alexey Koltakov
Gabriela Martinez
Alexander Kobrin (yikes!  If i were a jury I would put Maria Mazo in and leave Kobrin out)
Wang Xiaohan
Mariya Kim
Chu-Fang Huang

The jury's list comes in 45 minutes, so post yours fast!