10:18 and here ..... the great moment .... the moment "Recorded History" .... these four runs ............. the most incredible arpeggios ever recorded .... their elegance and sheer innocent beauty surpass everything before ... no more Horowitz, Moiseïwitch, Lhevinne; Cortot, Friedman or even Lipatti, this is a pure Miracle .... the girl into her own vertigo of perfection .... no words ....
I would say it is one of the best Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante I ever heard! Kate Liu relly feels it, I truly believe that it is the way Chopin wanted anyone t perform it... Genial!
13:46 Eden on the stage ... ich bin verloren ... this is so beautiful, this elegance, this sincerity .. I never reached a millisecond of this during my whole life
Read the chat of the current Chopin Competition, every time someone plays the Andante and Grand Polonaise someone always recall Kate Liu's performance. This marvelous performance has become some sort of standard for this piece.
So true... I also watch the chat of the 18th Chopin Competition and there is always a comment of Kate's renditions of the antante spianato and the 4th ballade.. She is amazing.. So unique..!
To me, it has become the standard indeed. Technically almost perfect, but way beyond that, the style and respect of the sheet as well as the delicate details of every phrase is making this interpretation extremely remarkable. I can't get enough of listening to this!
How perfect this could be, she is unbelievable. What a master in all Chopin pieces. I am happy to watch her again and again and I still feel her spirit and soul of Chopin. Bravo Kate Liu.
This pianist is pretty much the definition of tone production. Not a single note is wasted or half sounded. She really trusts herself with the tone production, and it works
kids3mom her piano concerto sounds better than the seong Jin cho's... Her etudes and mazurkas were also good in the previous rounds... I wonder why isn't she selected
It’s now been seven years since Kate Liu played this masterpiece at the 2015 Chopin Competition, and for me no other performance before or since can touch it-not even close. 👩🏻🎹🙋🏻♀️
The interpretation by Krystian Zimerman is also fantastic, very dramatic. And, as others have mentioned, other great interpretations include those by Martha Argerich and Horowitz.
She plays with the lightness of a butterfly but, I believe that, in addition to talent and sensitivity, there is an iron self-discipline that allows her to achieve these results. All my admiration and esteem. Suona con la leggerezza di una farfalla ma, credo che, oltre al talento e alla sensibilità, ci sia una ferrea autodisciplina che le consente di ottenere questi risultati. Tutta la mia ammirazione e stima.
@@Aoichanpiano Michelangeli, Richter, V.Felzman, many recordings from XX century you can achieve. A question is what good performance for you is. if you heard all of the best and you still prefer Kate, it is your right to think so. the problem that sentences like "it is the best...." in 99,99% said by people who have not hear anything else in their life but come to TH-cam to share their important opinion that someone is a genius. with all what I said, I still remind that as I said above in this topic Kate's performance sounds much better than many modern pianists e.g. trifonov, yundi, Kissin etc. and the award from competition - it is the last last last criteria I take into account when listening to piano performances. suggest you doing the same.
I've heard many recordings you mentioned to prepare my own graduation concert. Katie's is 'my' preperence, and I express ' my ' personal opinion. Evetybody have their own taste and there's no right and wrong. Anyway, why do you think I haven't heard much? 😂 @vaxx2007 @@vaxx2007
one example of her brilliance: 10:18 and 10:20 are the same upward runs; the first is pedaled, forte and so smooth, the second time it is crisp and somehow almost staccato yet piannissimo (can you imagine playing staccato yet pianissimo at that speed???). same for the next two upward runs: 10:22 and 10:24. it evokes such great emotion this way -- memory, nostalgia, acceptance that passed time is done and final.
A genius composer is at work here. Check out the run at 10:00 and the one you quoted. It's basically the same music, identical chord progression but presented differently as leaping sixths first and as arpeggio second. And the 10:18 is triplet notes, 10:20 is quadruplet notes with added notes to offer something new. If the artist is emotionally open, there's so much genius in Chopin's music to inspire him. And this artist is something special too!
10:18 these four arpeggios (with all the excellent descriptions you gave) are out of immense emotion ; Hearing this is able to change something in your own soul .....
The section 10:00-10:30 will always be my favorite part. Whenever I listen to Kate's playing on that part, I associate the sound to nostalgia and melancholy. I feel like I'm taken back to my happy days but reality is reminding me that those are the old days that I can't go back anymore. Whenever I listen to other pianists, I always anticipate how are they gonna play it and Kate's playing on this part would always take me back here at this video.
This Polonaise is a a piece of Chopin music what acts like a nostalgic arrow aimed in the heart of the Polish soul. We can easily start crying listening to this tune... Kate Liu... She performed this essential theme in a virtuoso way but she gave us much more. She found a clue to mystery behind notes. It's everything here: the view of Polish bocage, enthusiasm of live and the sorrow of passage. All embroiled around familiar Polonaise sound what was so frequently performed at gentry's homes during winter evenings. Really - great appearance on the XVII Chopin competition. Congratulations!
Her playing does make me emotional, its wild. I have been obsessed with music of all genres all my life, but nothing evokes the emotions of classical, and in particular Kate's performances. I don't know enough about the technical side to keep up with some of the comments here, but I know theres something special about her. Its almost beyond imagination
Wow! First time I listened to this piece I knew there was something special about this. I have listened to it for more than 100 times in past year and have started learning this piece myself. Such a joy. There isn't a day that I don't play this on my piano.
I obviously respect experienced musicians, as well as competition juries, who track down the slightest infidelity to the score; but, for my part, I am above all looking for emotion, which the ''live'', in classical music, almost always brings, and so I really need the personal touch of the interpreter, his mood of the day, of his personal emotion, especially when it comes to personalities as strong as Kate, whose playing is obviously ''mannered'', but never distorts the work of Chopin. Clearly, I prefer there to be a few discreet differences (sometimes voluntary), rather than having to deal with an ultra-slick and smooth disc, or the perfect execution of a score by a robot? In this respect, I find the present interpretation of the Andante Spianato by Kate Liu incomparable.
Her rendition leaves me breathless and hypnotized long after she finished her playing, she makes me cry and shiver all over my body, I wouldn't change a note in her performance, what a sensitivity and perfect understanding of all those emotions behind Chopin's music. She's already the winner, the audience was all hers.
+liceous There are others who rival her in this competition. She has to have the recital of her life to win. I am interested which Chopin sonata she will play in the 3rd round. I hope it will be the opus 58. Cho and Lu are also breathtaking. No more cookie cutter robots. But pianist who are scary good. A few wrong notes can make the difference. You can no longer afford more than a few audible errors with these guys.
ADGO Wonderful. I hope she pulls it off. IMO, this is a masterpiece of epic proportions and pyrotechnical demands and you must have immense poetry, dynamic range and the most delicate nuances. IF she can pull it off, she will medal. But as we all know, anything can happen. I have never heard her play it. Let the best pianist win. I know who the top three front runners are after the 2nd round. They should make Chopin proud.
10:17 oh my Goodness ........... these four arpeggios ..............................................................this is Heaven ....................................... this is as good as Lhevinne or Friedman .... .... as a member of the jury I would have climbed immediately on the stage and give her the gold medal , on the knees .......
She sings with her heart, so sincere. Her playing is not made up. I was pleasantly surprised with her nocturne especially the beginning. I dare to say and to wish that she's going to go far with her talent.
Chopin is such a master at creating beautiful, relaxing and peaceful melodies that Kate amazingly brings to life, she really lets the sound flow out and it is just wonderful. Wow
Came here after watching chopin comp 2021 2nd round. Kate liu is just an another level on this polonaise. Her touch is soft but powerful, deep but bright. I’d enjoy Bruce’s one too, but felt too rushing.
watching again after watching the last of the 2021 prelims, frankly, this is just such a class above. what a breath-taking performance, some brilliant passages, and the yamaha piano is so clear
I’ve heard so many great pianists playing this piece, but Kate is the one who makes the moon rise and stars shine in my heart. I’m no music critique but her polonaise is full of nostalgic sensitivity and delicate touches here and there. Her phrasing of those ascending notes starting at 10:00, the second time fading away like an echo of the first…simply amazing. Would love to see Kate perform other delicate pieces like this!
❤️❤️❤️ Am I the only one who can hear Katie’s voice in 3:10-3:20 ? She is singing together with righ hand part very delicately…..! (Headphones) Unbealivable performance !
This is such a marvelous and brilliant performance. Brought tears into my eyes. I'm listening to this polonaise for the first time ever and I can't even express how shocked I am. My mind is spinning and perhaps it's because I'm ill but this performance is beautiful in so many ways.
To this day, this is the best rendition of this piece I have ever heard. The subtleties, the intonation, the pace, the softness, the inner channeling, the command. All facets are genuine and perfect. I've heard this piece played by most other current piano greats and STILL, this version is best. She will go very far in her career. She has "it".
Simply amazing. I usually smile seeing comments like "the best performance ever" BUT listening to this I have to say that it is truly the best performance ever.
Yeah I keep coming back to this video when I want to hear this piece. This is one of those pieces where if I could play any classical piece to perfection, this would be in my top 3 probably.
she's pretty renowned in the Polish public and was the most popular among their listeners during the Chopin competition--which is what this is. Idk how mainstream that is though
As I am pushing the age of 70, I am constantly amazed at the volume of material that these youngsters are able to memorize. It was easier in my teens, but it is virtually impossible now. I am blown away by Kate's performance.
This is my favorite music of Chopin, especially the “Andante Spianato”, as if from heaven, incredibly beautiful, pearl-like rounded clear tone, she played Chopin true spirit!!
That ending is just mesmerizing o.O Apart from that, I like the way she plays every single note. I haven't felt like this for a long time. Makes me sad because I stopped following my dreams as a classical pianist, but I am happy knowing that she made me feel motivated to play more and to embrace life as it is, full of wonderful people like her that inspire us to move on and create a better version of ourselves. Thank you for your wonderful performance Kate Liu.
The dissonance that creeps in right around 1:52 is possibly my favorite moment in all of Chopin’s works. A little taste of what’s to come. A cold spirit about to collide with the beauty of the theme. It’s just incredible.
This girl TRULY has that "Chopin insight" which is sorely lacked by even greatest pianists, not to mention by many competitors in this event. She does not just play notes here; she FATHOMS the meaning, the feeling behind Chopin pieces.
Close the eyes on the girl , forget the modern recording quality of today , and just get her tone ................... this is marvelous . There are very , very little pianists with this quality of softness , phrasing and flavour . Perhaps Von Sauer , Lhevinne , sometimes Friedman , and the very late Horowitz . Welcome in piano history , Mrs. Liu .
"Close the eyes on the girl ... and just get her tone..." Agreed, and the tone is wonderful, along with other aspects of her playing, without more. But then, I indulge myself and look at her! O.M.G.!!!
Kate Liu has an enormous talent and her playing is indescribably beautiful! This Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, I never heard it better, not even from the greatest pianists! It has everything in immense quantity: force, poetry, clearness and her technical skills are of a stupendous perfectness. I'm completely speechless.
The soft touch, the ability to make that piano so human in nature and sounds, this is where Kate is amazing. Soft and powerful - Steel wrapped in silk.
+debussy843 No its not the piano. Of course there is the way the sound waves only can b produced fr just this instrument, but James talks about KATE's sound. there is a world of difference fr pianist to pinist. The way u mix the tones to each other the way you hit the piano and so on so on. I never heard it better than kate!!
Miss Liu is a genius, or an angel, avatar, or who knows what she is. But i beg humanity to give her all the space and support to express her divine nature.
9:51 thirty seconds of supreme delicacy .............. and in front of one thousand persons and a jury , this is an incredible victory , much more dangerous and fragile than any mechanical virtuosity of the "First Price" .... .... But this is Mrs. Liu , ... the Princess
I 1st heard & learned of this brilliant young lady, Kate Liu, shortly after this competition. More than a year has past, & now I revisit her competition performances. I'm almost moved to tears this time, because now I've heard more artists with whom to compare her. I now dare to say that she will be one of the most influential pianists of the 21st century. To me, she is the epitome of the Romantic Age of classical music. To me, much of who Chopin is & what the Romantic Age is seems to be embodied in this young lady. Her: elegance, skill & delivery are so in tune to what the music of the Romantic Age represents. She is destined for a remarkable journey & it is my prayer that one day I will be blessed to see her in person. She is so well prepared to help guide generations into a prosperous future. God bless you Miss Liu!!!
Nie jestem wielkim znawcą muzyki, ale po przesłuchaniu wszystkich finalistów, mogę tylko stwierdzić, że szacowne jury konkursu skrzywdziło Kate Liu, a my straciliśmy możliwość obcowania z jej wyjątkową wrażliwością. Myślę, że Chopin, nie byłby zadowolony.
I cannot stop listening to this piece of Kate’s beautiful Chopin even it passed 2 years from this competition. I cannot find better andante spianato. She makes me feel comfortable and passion at the same time through listening to this. She is the best pianist ever in my whole life.
I've been listening this performance of hers for years too, highly recommend: th-cam.com/video/rs8rrW4s_rs/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ChopinInstitute. At times (usually stressful/difficult times) I listen almost every day. There is something deeply calming and meditative about her playing. Unlike most music I've had an emotional response to, it doesn't seem to fade over time. Its incredible
9:59 perfection (beginning of a miracle) 10:17 the miracle. Kate, I don't know if you hear me or not, but believe me, and I am very serious, these some bars by you will stay in history. You made at these very seconds a constellation between Lhevinne, Friedman and Lipatti. Who, who on earth is able to such a miracle ? Tell me, please ....
This is truly a world class performance! She really makes the piano sing. You can tell from her hands and fingers, so similar to those of some other world class pianists. They are built to conquer.
Years later and this is still the best performance I've ever seen
This is not a pianist, this is an angel
I come back here to vibe sometimes
The projection of each note feels so much longer than other pianists who play this. It's so unbelievable
10:18 and here ..... the great moment .... the moment "Recorded History" .... these four runs ............. the most incredible arpeggios ever recorded .... their elegance and sheer innocent beauty surpass everything before ... no more Horowitz, Moiseïwitch, Lhevinne; Cortot, Friedman or even Lipatti, this is a pure Miracle .... the girl into her own vertigo of perfection .... no words ....
I would say it is one of the best Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante I ever heard! Kate Liu relly feels it, I truly believe that it is the way Chopin wanted anyone t perform it... Genial!
13:46 Eden on the stage ... ich bin verloren ... this is so beautiful, this elegance, this sincerity .. I never reached a millisecond of this during my whole life
The world best version of Grand Polonaise.
何回ショパンを聴いたなんてわかりませんが、あなたのショパンが私の中で世界一です。
地球の裏側で聴けるなんて、私は良い時代に生まれました。
You can tell from her face, that is a real artist
그냥 손이 마법인것같다.부드러운 터치로 아름다운 세상에 하나뿐인 옥동자(선율)을 탄생시키는것같다.건반을 쓰다듬듯 귀한 보물을 만지듯 그런 한음한음이 탄생되고 있다.경이로움이다..
Kate Liu second stage는 진짜 모든 게 레전드임 특히 이거랑 발라드 4번
천재
이곡을 이사람만큼 잘치는사람은 못봄 ㄹㅇ로
She absolutely crushed both songs. everytime she plays Chopin its incredible
Read the chat of the current Chopin Competition, every time someone plays the Andante and Grand Polonaise someone always recall Kate Liu's performance. This marvelous performance has become some sort of standard for this piece.
So true... I also watch the chat of the 18th Chopin Competition and there is always a comment of Kate's renditions of the antante spianato and the 4th ballade.. She is amazing.. So unique..!
I’m not surprised. She treats the Andante with the delicacy it deserves .. the delicacy I’m usually annoyed to find lacking.
To me, it has become the standard indeed. Technically almost perfect, but way beyond that, the style and respect of the sheet as well as the delicate details of every phrase is making this interpretation extremely remarkable. I can't get enough of listening to this!
Today, during Szymon Nehring’s livestream performance, someone remarked that this was “Kate piece” lol
A Performer in the True Chopin Mold. 😺😺😺
The best pianist
0:00 Andante Spianato
5:07 Grande Polonaise Brillante op 22
In fact, op.22 contains both pieces.
あなたの奏でる音楽は世界一です
Sometimes I feel the urgency to come back here to listen to this magical performance.. ✨
Hello good looking honey
Hello good looking honey baby
How perfect this could be, she is unbelievable. What a master in all Chopin pieces. I am happy to watch her again and again and I still feel her spirit and soul of Chopin. Bravo Kate Liu.
But why the slight doubt "this could be"?
I've seen what heaven looks like through listening to her Andante Spianato
彼女の選んだ曲目は全て、そのジャンルの最高難度。
このコンクールに全てを賭けてきたという思いが音に表れている。
ペダルを多用せず、クリアな音を繰り広げていて、聴き心地がいい。
最高の腕を持っているソリストだと思う。
日本人に長らくこういう女性が現れてないのが残念でならない。
This pianist is pretty much the definition of tone production. Not a single note is wasted or half sounded. She really trusts herself with the tone production, and it works
kids3mom her piano concerto sounds better than the seong Jin cho's... Her etudes and mazurkas were also good in the previous rounds... I wonder why isn't she selected
what do you mean ?
Havalina Chiel I meant that she is worth for the first prize
@@rakeshkrishna1795 I agree. To this day I'm not conformed.
@@dylanl.3366
aha , another one who is dealing with wrong notes instead with music , poor world ......
It’s now been seven years since Kate Liu played this masterpiece at the 2015 Chopin Competition, and for me no other performance before or since can touch it-not even close.
👩🏻🎹🙋🏻♀️
I’d say yundi li in the 2000 Chopin competition and Kate Liu have the best recorded version of the song.
@@samgwon4606: You might also appreciate Martha Argerich’s recording of the Andante Spianato:
th-cam.com/video/0tk4HPtmtjE/w-d-xo.html
😎🎹
She did a wonderful job! Rubinstein's interpretation was amazing as well.
In my opinion the best performance is from Daniil Trifonov
The interpretation by Krystian Zimerman is also fantastic, very dramatic. And, as others have mentioned, other great interpretations include those by Martha Argerich and Horowitz.
피아노가 타악기가 아니라 건반악기임을 실감케해주는 연주자..오르간같기도 하고..참 아름답게 소리를 내는것같다건반으로 마치 풍경을 그리는 화가같다..너무나 소중한 연주자다..
타건악기이죠.
건반악기임
말뜻을. 이해못하는 바보들
한국. 교수들은. 체중 실으라고 세게치라고 헛 소리 햇을듯
풍경그리는. 화가라는. 표현을. 캬
She plays with the lightness of a butterfly but, I believe that, in addition to talent and sensitivity, there is an iron self-discipline that allows her to achieve these results. All my admiration and esteem.
Suona con la leggerezza di una farfalla ma, credo che, oltre al talento e alla sensibilità, ci sia una ferrea autodisciplina che le consente di ottenere questi risultati. Tutta la mia ammirazione e stima.
피아노의 '시인'이라는 쇼팽의 칭호는 어쩌면 케이트리우에게 가장 잘 어울릴지도 모른다.정말 위대한 피아니스트다
The best grande polonaise brillante I 've heard in my life.
you haven't heard much
@@vaxx2007Why don’t you enlighten us to who is so much better than? She literally won third prize, this is definitely one of the best recordings.
@@Aoichanpiano Michelangeli, Richter, V.Felzman, many recordings from XX century you can achieve. A question is what good performance for you is. if you heard all of the best and you still prefer Kate, it is your right to think so. the problem that sentences like "it is the best...." in 99,99% said by people who have not hear anything else in their life but come to TH-cam to share their important opinion that someone is a genius.
with all what I said, I still remind that as I said above in this topic Kate's performance sounds much better than many modern pianists e.g. trifonov, yundi, Kissin etc.
and the award from competition - it is the last last last criteria I take into account when listening to piano performances. suggest you doing the same.
I've heard many recordings you mentioned to prepare my own graduation concert. Katie's is 'my' preperence, and I express ' my ' personal opinion. Evetybody have their own taste and there's no right and wrong. Anyway, why do you think I haven't heard much? 😂 @vaxx2007 @@vaxx2007
Very clean, crisp, lyrical sound, like pearls scattering on the piano board! Love it so much
What makes it even better is considering all the things that Chopin said about the sound. It feels like she brings that spirit further.
one example of her brilliance: 10:18 and 10:20 are the same upward runs; the first is pedaled, forte and so smooth, the second time it is crisp and somehow almost staccato yet piannissimo (can you imagine playing staccato yet pianissimo at that speed???). same for the next two upward runs: 10:22 and 10:24. it evokes such great emotion this way -- memory, nostalgia, acceptance that passed time is done and final.
A genius composer is at work here. Check out the run at 10:00 and the one you quoted. It's basically the same music, identical chord progression but presented differently as leaping sixths first and as arpeggio second. And the 10:18 is triplet notes, 10:20 is quadruplet notes with added notes to offer something new. If the artist is emotionally open, there's so much genius in Chopin's music to inspire him. And this artist is something special too!
10:18 these four arpeggios (with all the excellent descriptions you gave) are out of immense emotion ;
Hearing this is able to change something in your own soul .....
It isn't the same run, dude.
@@reuben8856
Yes , this is precisely the point .
Funny, because it's precisely around 10:18 that she makes 2 mistakes.
다시봐도 야마하 소리 신의 한수.. 브릴리언트! 이걸 이길만한 연주는 없다 .. 최고!
素晴らしい音色と華麗なテクニックがあり、引きこまれました🏆🏆 3位 マズルカ賞受賞おめでとうございます㊗️㊗️ さすがです！‼️ 彼女こそ 本当のピアニストだと思います😭😭amejing ^_^
The section 10:00-10:30 will always be my favorite part. Whenever I listen to Kate's playing on that part, I associate the sound to nostalgia and melancholy. I feel like I'm taken back to my happy days but reality is reminding me that those are the old days that I can't go back anymore. Whenever I listen to other pianists, I always anticipate how are they gonna play it and Kate's playing on this part would always take me back here at this video.
This was UNREAL. Oh my god
What a superb touch ; what touching emotion !
liu는 몽환적이며 감성 증폭기 같은 연주를 한다. 꿈 많은 소녀의 감성
What an amazing human being. 🔥🎹✨
indeed , you can feel her passion by her expression
Schoenberg is my daddy bruh you’re here and you hate Chopin
@Felis Skalkotris Sorabjitus w
Chopin? yes, indeed. He certainly was.
I really like her
This Polonaise is a a piece of Chopin music what acts like a nostalgic arrow aimed in the heart of the Polish soul. We can easily start crying listening to this tune...
Kate Liu... She performed this essential theme in a virtuoso way but she gave us much more. She found a clue to mystery behind notes. It's everything here: the view of Polish bocage, enthusiasm of live and the sorrow of passage. All embroiled around familiar Polonaise sound what was so frequently performed at gentry's homes during winter evenings. Really - great appearance on the XVII Chopin competition. Congratulations!
You Poles have suffered so much that it is not surprising that you are more sensitive to your geniuses than the rest of us.
Sorry to have tainted ur reputation
@@sebastianmelmoth685 Pole history is such a fantasy.
Her playing does make me emotional, its wild. I have been obsessed with music of all genres all my life, but nothing evokes the emotions of classical, and in particular Kate's performances. I don't know enough about the technical side to keep up with some of the comments here, but I know theres something special about her. Its almost beyond imagination
Wow! First time I listened to this piece I knew there was something special about this. I have listened to it for more than 100 times in past year and have started learning this piece myself. Such a joy. There isn't a day that I don't play this on my piano.
주로 키신이나 짐머만 버전을 들어왔는데, 케이트의 스타일은 완전히 다르네요. 더 감미롭고 부드러운 느낌이라 아예 다른 곡을 듣는듯해요,, 너무 좋아서 하루에도 몇번씩 듣게되요
Chopin to najpiękniejsza spuścizna dla ludzkości.
I obviously respect experienced musicians, as well as competition juries, who track down the slightest infidelity to the score; but, for my part, I am above all looking for emotion, which the ''live'', in classical music, almost always brings, and so I really need the personal touch of the interpreter, his mood of the day, of his personal emotion, especially when it comes to personalities as strong as Kate, whose playing is obviously ''mannered'', but never distorts the work of Chopin.
Clearly, I prefer there to be a few discreet differences (sometimes voluntary), rather than having to deal with an ultra-slick and smooth disc, or the perfect execution of a score by a robot?
In this respect, I find the present interpretation of the Andante Spianato by Kate Liu incomparable.
언제 들어도 편안하고 부드러워요 흘러가는 구름처럼 ~튜티부분 격정적이지만 과하지않은 내면적 표현 어쩌면 저런 연주 가능 할까요?
Very expressive. I like her playing. She’s dexterous, skillfully aesthetic. Thank you for sharing.
Good thing this was her final piece for this stage. Can you imagine hearing that and NOT applauding?
One of the greatest piano pieces of all time performed extremely well, I'd say.
개인적으로 윤디리보다 케이트류의 화려한 대 폴로네이즈가 더 좋다..
디테일면에서도 그렇고 음질차이가 꽤 크다고생각하지만 더 섬세한 소리를 뽑아내는것도 케이트류같다.
내 꿈의 곡인 그란데폴로네이즈.. 케이트류의 연주를 목표로해도 괜찮을것같다
this may be the most beautiful thing i've heard in my life -- her fingers are floating across the keys ...
Never heard this piece played better. Period. And that brilliant piano...it sounds absolutely perfectly tuned, bravo to whomever tuned it!!
Her rendition leaves me breathless and hypnotized long after she finished her playing, she makes me cry and shiver all over my body, I wouldn't change a note in her performance, what a sensitivity and perfect understanding of all those emotions behind Chopin's music. She's already the winner, the audience was all hers.
I can't believe someone can be so talented
+liceous There are others who rival her in this competition. She has to have the recital of her life to win. I am interested which Chopin sonata she will play in the 3rd round. I hope it will be the opus 58. Cho and Lu are also breathtaking. No more cookie cutter robots. But pianist who are scary good. A few wrong notes can make the difference. You can no longer afford more than a few audible errors with these guys.
+Vette gaddia She'll play the third sonata, and has chosen an autumnal programme that plays to her strengths, in my opinion.
ADGO Wonderful. I hope she pulls it off. IMO, this is a masterpiece of epic proportions and pyrotechnical demands and you must have immense poetry, dynamic range and the most delicate nuances. IF she can pull it off, she will medal. But as we all know, anything can happen. I have never heard her play it. Let the best pianist win. I know who the top three front runners are after the 2nd round. They should make Chopin proud.
10:17 oh my Goodness ........... these four arpeggios ..............................................................this is Heaven ....................................... this is as good as Lhevinne or Friedman .... .... as a member of the jury I would have climbed immediately on the stage and give her the gold medal , on the knees .......
I think she is channeling Chopin's spirit. She is absolutely amazing. She seems like she's in a trance and the music is just flowing through her.
She sings with her heart, so sincere. Her playing is not made up. I was pleasantly surprised with her nocturne especially the beginning. I dare to say and to wish that she's going to go far with her talent.
Nocturne?
+Gin Mayushii well the andante spianato has a nocturne like character :)
DAAAAAAAAAAAARKNESS
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Im with you ....you would you like be my girlfriend???? Jajajajaja
Chopin is such a master at creating beautiful, relaxing and peaceful melodies that Kate amazingly brings to life, she really lets the sound flow out and it is just wonderful. Wow
Came here after watching chopin comp 2021 2nd round. Kate liu is just an another level on this polonaise. Her touch is soft but powerful, deep but bright. I’d enjoy Bruce’s one too, but felt too rushing.
Agree ,Kate s rubato s much more natural and her tone s much more singing..simply adorable,each note played with a true ❤️
watching again after watching the last of the 2021 prelims, frankly, this is just such a class above. what a breath-taking performance, some brilliant passages, and the yamaha piano is so clear
Never heard anyone play this so perfect … wow … uncle Frederic would be so proud
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I’ve heard so many great pianists playing this piece, but Kate is the one who makes the moon rise and stars shine in my heart. I’m no music critique but her polonaise is full of nostalgic sensitivity and delicate touches here and there. Her phrasing of those ascending notes starting at 10:00, the second time fading away like an echo of the first…simply amazing. Would love to see Kate perform other delicate pieces like this!
I agree
That's my favorite part, too! What a fantastic phrasing!
Natalie my Kate is the best piano player in the country and world.
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You probably didn’t hear Zimerman playing this
❤️❤️❤️ Am I the only one who can hear Katie’s voice in 3:10-3:20 ? She is singing together with righ hand part very delicately…..! (Headphones) Unbealivable performance !
Yes, I heard that too!! She was definitely humming, so cute.
I can also hear her voicing during the ballade no 4 performance
I never could imagine that someone can one day re-invent this piece ... but the miracle occured.
She's not reinventing it -- she feels what Chopin was feeling when he composed the piece & interpreted it perfectly.
This is such a marvelous and brilliant performance. Brought tears into my eyes. I'm listening to this polonaise for the first time ever and I can't even express how shocked I am. My mind is spinning and perhaps it's because I'm ill but this performance is beautiful in so many ways.
To this day, this is the best rendition of this piece I have ever heard. The subtleties, the intonation, the pace, the softness, the inner channeling, the command. All facets are genuine and perfect. I've heard this piece played by most other current piano greats and STILL, this version is best. She will go very far in her career. She has "it".
Hard to argue. I heard Horowitz play this Carnegie Hall, 1976. Prefer Kate's!
Totally agree!
The way she plays the middle part of the Spianato is just amazing. The sweet, calming sound she is able to produce, I give her my total respect :)
Simply amazing. I usually smile seeing comments like "the best performance ever" BUT listening to this I have to say that it is truly the best performance ever.
Yeah I keep coming back to this video when I want to hear this piece. This is one of those pieces where if I could play any classical piece to perfection, this would be in my top 3 probably.
loving each note with a big heart ❤️
Why isn’t she more known to the international public ? What a talent !!!! She needs a new manager and PR agent ! Marta Argerich in the making......
she's pretty renowned in the Polish public and was the most popular among their listeners during the Chopin competition--which is what this is. Idk how mainstream that is though
Thank you God for giving us Kate Liu.
As I am pushing the age of 70, I am constantly amazed at the volume of material that these youngsters are able to memorize. It was easier in my teens, but it is virtually impossible now. I am blown away by Kate's performance.
This is my favorite music of Chopin, especially the “Andante Spianato”, as if from heaven, incredibly beautiful, pearl-like rounded clear tone, she played Chopin true spirit!!
That ending is just mesmerizing o.O Apart from that, I like the way she plays every single note. I haven't felt like this for a long time. Makes me sad because I stopped following my dreams as a classical pianist, but I am happy knowing that she made me feel motivated to play more and to embrace life as it is, full of wonderful people like her that inspire us to move on and create a better version of ourselves. Thank you for your wonderful performance Kate Liu.
haha ....... for me, just the the opposite of you. With Kate Liu, I understand why my piano practising is without any future ......;;
The dissonance that creeps in right around 1:52 is possibly my favorite moment in all of Chopin’s works. A little taste of what’s to come. A cold spirit about to collide with the beauty of the theme. It’s just incredible.
This girl TRULY has that "Chopin insight" which is sorely lacked by even greatest pianists, not to mention by many competitors in this event. She does not just play notes here; she FATHOMS the meaning, the feeling behind Chopin pieces.
Close the eyes on the girl , forget the modern recording quality of today , and just get her tone ................... this is marvelous .
There are very , very little pianists with this quality of softness , phrasing and flavour .
Perhaps Von Sauer , Lhevinne , sometimes Friedman , and the very late Horowitz .
Welcome in piano history , Mrs. Liu .
Is she married? Who with?
"Close the eyes on the girl ... and just get her tone..." Agreed, and the tone is wonderful, along with other aspects of her playing, without more. But then, I indulge myself and look at her! O.M.G.!!!
어떻게 피아노에서 구슬 굴러가는 소리가 들릴까 어쩜 이렇게 맑고 예쁘게 연주할까 너무 좋다 진짜로ㅠㅠㅠ
Kate Liu has an enormous talent and her playing is indescribably beautiful!
This Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, I never heard it better, not even from the greatest pianists! It has everything in immense quantity: force, poetry, clearness and her technical skills are of a stupendous perfectness. I'm completely speechless.
Listen to Kissin’s. The Israel performance.
tbh i like weissenbergs
I could listen to those measures at 9:59 over and over
I personally think that Kate plays the best Chopin polonaise op 22 ever, just so perfect, beautiful and amazing control!
The soft touch, the ability to make that piano so human in nature and sounds, this is where Kate is amazing. Soft and powerful - Steel wrapped in silk.
This is the best Chopin performance I've ever seen. She is an angel.
Whats about Trifonovs interpretation?
Trif would render her a new 'Chopin' !
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천재적인 피아니스트인듯... 음반 있으면 꼭 사서 들어보고 싶은데 ㅠ
It's now 2021. WHERE is this truly superb pianist now? She should be world-famous.
Could not agree more! 😎🎹
My God, she's sent from heaven. How can she produce that sound. Hypnotic. Rapturous.
+James Maxwell Magat (The Nice Guy) What sound? The tinny harsh Yamaha?
+organboi are you Russian? Maybe you think Chopin is Russian rather than polish. Chopin is not Liszt. Get over it.
+organboi and he's not Rachmaninov or Prokofiev.
+James Maxwell Magat (The Nice Guy) It's the piano. Not her talent. And I'm not saying that as a joke.
+debussy843 No its not the piano. Of course there is the way the sound waves only can b produced fr just this instrument, but James talks about KATE's sound. there is a world of difference fr pianist to pinist. The way u mix the tones to each other the way you hit the piano and so on so on. I never heard it better than kate!!
Kate’s playing is just wonderful. Her phrasing is superb, which is from her understanding of Chopin.
Still not over at how brilliant this performance is. Kate is a revelation.
I am polish and not proud of Chopin. I am proud of beauty. Chopin as God touch and Kate as touch of him. She touch my soul so deeply !!
Miss Liu is a genius, or an angel, avatar, or who knows what she is. But i beg humanity to give her all the space and support to express her divine nature.
9:51 thirty seconds of supreme delicacy .............. and in front of one thousand persons and a jury , this is an incredible victory , much more dangerous and fragile than any mechanical virtuosity of the "First Price" .... .... But this is Mrs. Liu , ... the Princess
I 1st heard & learned of this brilliant young lady, Kate Liu, shortly after this competition. More than a year has past, & now I revisit her competition performances. I'm almost moved to tears this time, because now I've heard more artists with whom to compare her. I now dare to say that she will be one of the most influential pianists of the 21st century. To me, she is the epitome of the Romantic Age of classical music. To me, much of who Chopin is & what the Romantic Age is seems to be embodied in this young lady. Her: elegance, skill & delivery are so in tune to what the music of the Romantic Age represents. She is destined for a remarkable journey & it is my prayer that one day I will be blessed to see her in person. She is so well prepared to help guide generations into a prosperous future. God bless you Miss Liu!!!
Michael's ML&ATG: Beautifully said.
Nie jestem wielkim znawcą muzyki, ale po przesłuchaniu wszystkich finalistów, mogę tylko stwierdzić, że szacowne jury konkursu skrzywdziło Kate Liu, a my straciliśmy możliwość obcowania z jej wyjątkową wrażliwością.
Myślę, że Chopin, nie byłby zadowolony.
never gets old- Kate, it's so incredibly beautiful.
Kate with the Golden Hands. I just can not get enough of her playing this piece. Chopin himself should have heard this...
Unsurpassable clarity, delicacy and voice control.
Since I heard Kate Liu for the first time some days ago, I couldn't stop listening to her. She is amazing!
my blood chilled at listening to this performance. IMHO, this is the best performance of this piece in this competition.
Masterful performance! Just wonderful in every way.
She sounds like an angel. I can't stop listening.
My favorite pianist of the recent Chopin competitions ❤ I hope I get to see someone that even gets close to her level of grace and touch.
I cannot stop listening to this piece of Kate’s beautiful Chopin even it passed 2 years from this competition.
I cannot find better andante spianato. She makes me feel comfortable and passion at the same time through listening to this.
She is the best pianist ever in my whole life.
I've been listening this performance of hers for years too, highly recommend: th-cam.com/video/rs8rrW4s_rs/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ChopinInstitute. At times (usually stressful/difficult times) I listen almost every day. There is something deeply calming and meditative about her playing. Unlike most music I've had an emotional response to, it doesn't seem to fade over time. Its incredible
Happy birthday Kate!!. may 23(2024)
we love you so much!!!.
we will want Kate to play a lot of Chopin music from now on.
I'm looking forward to it .
I have listened to Kate playing this more than 20 times in recent days I think, I can not stop it...
It's so beautiful it hurts.
Father, give us this day our daily bread, and Chopin's music performed by Kate Liu.
9:59 perfection (beginning of a miracle)
10:17 the miracle.
Kate, I don't know if you hear me or not, but believe me, and I am very serious, these some bars by you will stay in history.
You made at these very seconds a constellation between Lhevinne, Friedman and Lipatti.
Who, who on earth is able to such a miracle ? Tell me, please ....
The Grande Polonaise Brillante op 22's reference, so much musicality in so much technique
This is truly a world class performance!
She really makes the piano sing.
You can tell from her hands and fingers,
so similar to those of some other world class pianists. They are built to conquer.