Lang Lang - Chopin, “Raindrop” Prelude on the Steinway & Sons Spirio | r
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- Steinway Artist Lang Lang performs Frédéric Chopin’s Prelude in D-flat Major, Op. 28: No. 15 “Raindrop” on the Steinway & Sons Spirio | r, the world’s finest high resolution player piano, capable of live performance capture and playback. Chopin took inspiration for the “Raindrop” following a waking dream at the keyboard at a monastery in Majorca. According to George Sand, who interrupted the composer’s reverie when she returned to the monastery during a rainstorm, the composer saw himself drowned in a lake, while heavy drops of water fell in a regular rhythm on his chest.
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Do some of you realize Chopin wrote this in 1834? That means he was only 24 years old when he wrote this masterpiece. Can you imagine? Can you imagine what a genius he was?
Paul baldadig from what I gather, it was written in the winter of 1838, so when he was 28. He wrote this when he thought he was about to die. Arguably that influenced the genius of it, regardless of age.
Yes everyone knows. Chopin is the shyte. Winter wind is the most terrible spiral ever. It is despair. I love Beethoven, rach, theres no piano ever like chopin.
While nice, didn't mozart write his first few when he was 8?
@@deanmoncaster yeah why
@@deanmoncaster When he was 5
Classical music is hardcore, we're not even 5 seconds in and someone in the audience is already choking to death for the entire remainder of the piece.
“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”
― Frédéric Chopin
My piano ... and only my piano knew whether I was happy or sad. Best friend during my childhood. Thank you for sharing that meaningful quote from Fryderyk Chopin.
@@mmbmbmbmb so true
Where did he say that? I would like to read more about him.
@@RodrigoMartini look for 'Chopin's letter' and numerous other books about him. They're incredible.
@@kestrel3509 Thanks! The words of Chopin are overwhelming.
If you want me to watch a six-and-a-half minute commercial for a piano, this is the way to do it. A beautiful performance on a fine instrument.
Very well put.
Hah my favorite kind of commercial!
Steinway do not need to advertise , any one who can afford one or play one will already have one or know where to get one , I can do neither , but I do appreciate the instruments and those that play so beautifully, I hope one day steinway and sons may offer me a pair of tickets to see lang lang or yuja Wang play live somewhere , that would be such a gift
Maybe the twist is that they took the MIDI recording from this and that's what we're hearing (and audience coughs are dubbed in). Well, at least they had to potential to do so. 😆
Magnifique preĺûde joué par un grand Maestro ! Merci.😊
After listening to this, I understand why I love Lang Lang’s playing so much. He should go down in history as one of the best pianists. He’s definitely my favorite.
Yeah.
With cziffra, hamelin, liszt, alkan, pogorelich, yuja wang
@@dwacheopuswhere's chopin
@@dwacheopus npc
@@eyelll4982 wut
Coughing wasn’t loud enough. I managed to hear Lang Lang playing sometimes.
Finally, a performance that isn't rushed. Yes, I hear the constant raindrops, but, I think the piece represents life. I'm not really a fan of Lang Lang, but this performance is one the finest I've ever heard. Very inspiring. It was a blessing to hear.
I prefer this tempo to Martha Argerich. She sounds like she's playing a dance on a fiddle.
Pogorelich still has the best version, he gets that low note right at the end of the crescendo where Lang barely hits it.. he doesn't make it boom enough, also his raindrops are too loud throughout imo.
I was originally taught that this piece should have a constant pulse throughout, which I always thought made it rushed. This is a more organic version and closer to the way I liked to play it. I don't have his touch but I like this approach much more than others who pound through it. The ending makes much more sense when you do it this way.
No concert is complete without random coughing.
The first concert back from Covid will be the most cough-free concert in history.
Funny! I agree they can be annoying, but the coughs are simply part of the price of a live performance, and having an audience can inspire a performer and help generate a greater performance. So I think of it as something like scratches on a vinyl record (a completely different analogy, I know).
Drives me nuts!
Very funny, yes very funny indeed. But I think that’s just kind of random to say/type something like that
@@ziwenjiao3391 I don't think its random. The OP was enjoying the music, like I was, and then it gets spoilt by someone coughing.
Lang Lang is the instrument - sometimes you don’t know where he ends and the piano begins. It’s all one - so restrained, so loving, such delicate dynamics
Lang Lang is amazing. Apparently Steinway sound engineers are also amazing: Sound quality is superb.
Lang Lang + Steinway + Chopin = stunning masterpiece
Absolutely right my friend
What humanity can do!! Create masterpieces!! Not wars......
i like how its so whimsical at first and then its like "okay now are getting into dark war flashbacks now"
very occasionally, only once in every hundreds of pieces, will you see a pianist that plays a piece having a complete, simply pristime understanding of it, and a clear passion and connection to it. This is true with this piece and Lang Lang. Theres no hesitation, nothing is forced. The music carries itself. The only other examples I can think of, which I would definitely recommend, depending on wether you like the style of the piece, is Kissin playing Rachmanninof prelude in C sharp minor, and Wolfram Schmitt - Ballade no.3.
Never have I heard a truer statement
I just listened to the end and I'm stunned and emotional even. That ending, those soft notes, blending as he wished, the overtones, the stillness and softness, yeah, I don't really have the words but the audio let us hear it as it might have sounded in person. Absolutely astounding musically.
I nearly always prefer other interpretations than Lang Lang's - in this instance however I totally agree, the greatest version I have heard so far:)
@@cldavis33
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I don't like this interpretation.
By "Raindrop" he must have meant tears cause I'm crying right now.
Chopin wrote this song during a weekend vacation in Palma (Spain) with his wife, George Sand. The weekend was a desastrous vacation as the rain never stopped the entire week. Chopin, depressed as he was, wrote this song in only a few days (or even hours), at the age of 24.
I’m very impressed by Lang Lang’s playing of this prelude. Sensitive, tender, passionate, everything you would want to hear in this masterpiece!
Звучит хорошо ,но зачем это показывать на морде,чувствуй внутри в душе ,а не мимикой,противно смотреть.Это у него всегда так .
the dynamic range on those pianos is really incredible
I hadn't heard LL playing this Prelude before today. I am glad I listened and watched his Expressive rendition; NOT RUSHED and themes and phrases well rounded, as it should be. I teach my private students, who are in Middle School for the Performing Arts, to play this Prelude, not rushing neither cadential irregular values nor the triple grace notes, EXACTLY as Lang Lang executes them in this video (mind you, I took 3 years of piano Lesson with Polish Maestro Jan Gorbaty (Chairman of the Chopin Foundation in New York). He taught me to play and expressively place Chopin's work in the Romantic Era, and not in the post-classical. He made me understand all the delicacy involved in phrasing, theme endings, rubato, NOT RUSHED ornaments in pieces in slow tempo, etc., as intended by composers of the Romantic Era, and today, my student came upset because her piano teacher at the Middle School for the Performing Art destroyed all the work we had done. Mind you, she is a good teacher, but for Romanbtic Era, she adheres to strict rhythm, fast ornaments, which make the students sound mechanical. Yes, the piece sounds terrific because Chopin is a genius, but
But no one can take away what that student heard if they truly understood what you were getting at. They might have to play it differently for an exam, but they will never forget that way of hearing Chopin
This is by far the best interpretation on youtube. I usually play it a bit faster than Lang Lang, but damn, it's so difficult to find a good interpretation here.
Try horowitz's interpretation. That's, in my opinion, the best.
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@@mohamedh5964 YES finally a good one. It's the best one so far. The beginning must convey anxious anticipation of the storm which it does. The ff part is strong and loud enough and the ending is a lot calmer than the beginning.
Everyone else is trying to play this piece very softly, which I don't think it is. There are also a few versions with calm strings added to it. That's just horrendous.
Watch Yundi's. That's closer to the tempo I generally play it at, so I like it quite a bit.
If you play the piano, why don’t you put it up on your account?
Love this piece, when listen to it or play it i litterally can feel and see rain, thunder and even first beams of sun in the end. This is like a painting.
Words literally cannot express how I feel after watching this
The b section is so good, its like twice as good as other pianists playing it
Lang Lang is so good at playing melody in the bass notes, it's so fluid and smooth. He has angel fingers :O !
Someone should buy this guy a piano he isn't too bad
deanmoncaster he has a piano
If he does not, he would not be able to play this well!
@@IEEMAZ_Convoluted_14.2.8.5 r/whoosh
Ikr
@Khai West I think that's the first time I've ever seen one of those not in a compilation
I love Lang Lang's interpretation each time...
Wonderful performance, I just wish the audience wasn't dying from the plague. That coughing was absurd. Kudos to Lang Lang for not being distracted.
A masterpiece. One of the greatest pieces of music ever written and this is the best interpretation I’ve heard. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
It’s so beautiful I wanna cry.
"Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano." - Frederic Chopin
U can never go wrong with Lang Lang
Here, Lang Lang makes this piece his own. Galvanizing! A complete synthesis of man, artist, music and instrument. ...and what a gorgeous creation from Steinway! Bravo all!
“Galvanising” is nice. I’m having that.
It is amazing every piano piece just comes alive when Lang Lang plays it.
He always seems to be in love with the music and the composer.
This is very sensitively played. At the same time, I don'r think it is accurate to say Lang Lang plays everything superbly.
5:38- 6:00, sound of the last raindrops... Lang Lang's rendition is the best version I ever heard, and it inspired me to learn this piece.
I am quite certain Lang Lang's performance here was used in the Halo 3 commercial "Believe". It's powerful.
I have watched this over and over, I’m quite nervous as today I have a solo concert where hundreds are watching. I’ve tried to make an interpretation as good as this but it doesn’t come close! Anyways good luck to myself and you are inspirational 👍 The piece which I am going to play is a relaxing soothing masterpiece. I am very shy to this type of thing, if I were to play like this I would be given scholarships from top uni’s hah! You’ve inspired me for fur Elise, moonlight sonata, this prelude and lots of others. You area great musician. I could only wish to be as good as you.
@@wilkeseyberry26 I hoping well
You express, what the music makes you feel. This is not my favourite interpretation. You can dislike Lang Lang`s views. Not about skill at all.
Did you win? (did it go well?)
How was it? 😋
The woodgrain on that piano is glorious.
Lang Lang 40 hours
I would like this comment but I cannot mess with the number of perfection
@@piccolopagalingling6284 I forgive you, fellow user
The tempo was much too slow, but not 40 hours.
@@vrfvfdcdvgtre2369 it's actually a twoset reference haha
Can everybody stop saying twoset violin? I hate those people
His playing and the piano are beautiful 😭😭
Absolutely AWESOME! The best version I have ever heard played! Fabulous Lang Lang! 😊
It’s been very fun to follow Lang Lang through the years. Such tonal mastery and musicality from an artist known for his incredible technical ability.
And for just a moment while performing this piece, one becomes the thunderstorm and can feel it flow through you.
Raindrop was featured in Akira Kurasawa’s Dreams. That’s when I first heard it 24 years ago; so beautiful, so powerful!
Same here
If I have to give up my bed for THIS piano, I sure will. Love this rendition!
這樣出神談䔥邦的曲子，就好像蕭邦本人的琴聲，怎不令人讚嘆！
如此用心彈䔥邦的心事，就好像䔥邦靈魂的跳動，當然使我大驚！
The playing is amazing but I am so terribly distracted by that most gorgeous piano OMG. The artisanship, and it's such a wonderful piece of human ingenuity. I do woodwork, and so yeah, I see it in that lens too.
Goose bumps everywhere! This is one of my favourite pieces and I love to play it myself.
Lang lang puts it to another level. The "darkness" of the middle part came out really great. The interaction between the soft and "hard" parts....impressive.
Cant stop listening to this absolute masterpiece....
Not a hard song to learn at all, and that thunderstorm part is so fun. Used to drive my mother crazy when I would pound away at it. And then to bring it back to the raindrops at the end. Very satisfying piece. Fun to learn and play around with.
Magnifico I think Lang Lang belong to the big league , bravo!
My friend, he doesn't belong to the big league. He is the big league.
@@GanovenEde for you , I stand for .
The wait at the the end, on the fermata Oh it’s perfect.
This so takes my breath away and I am speechless in awe.
Arcydzieło, rewelacja ! Chopinie, geniuszu ❤
Beautiful rendition, played at just the right tempo.
really could feel Chopins growing despair and frustration in that performance. Poignantly captured
A melhor versão desse prelúdio.... simplesmente magnífico.
Si!
I love Lang Lang's playing. It is wonderful!!
I love Chopin, always so beautiful, and Lang, Lang plays it to all its glory, absolutely spectacular
I Love Lang Lang and Frederic Chopin. It is a perfect combination 😍🎹🎼
Chopin was such a great pianist and Lang Lang played it if Chopin would be alive again. Great Performance.
The GOAAAAAAT 🎉 My everything and totally legendary ❤
Awesomely stunning by the Maestro!
Chopin’s raindrop falls harder
Than most every storm
The ones where walls break
When Earths quake and
Hearts break when Worlds separate
Nice.
Slow and controlled...learning about Chopin this was what he did from the heart and wanted humanity to do the same...I have never learnt that he had political views that were strong...his world was music...alas for politicians...the uk is in self destruct...but there is always The Raindrop...and my beautiful daughters...we can never do enough for those ŵe love...
If it makes you feel any better, all of Europe (as well as the U.S.) is in self-destruct.
@@excelsior999 Why would destruction make anybody feel better?
Hace 246 años o más que Chopin escribió y aún condo la escuchas te inundan el alma!!
One if the most difficult pieces to play in every sense. Lang Lang just conqueres it. One of the very few to even manage it.
What great and deep performance is this... Good interpreter on excelled piano!
what a humbling to be still enjoying these 2 masters,.lovely to be alive .
Absolutely beautiful interpretation ! ! !
Lang Lang is truly an unparalled master of the pianoforte.
Amazing wow
stunning performance . The feeling he put into this already beautiful Chopin masterpiece is awe inspiring.
The most epic voicing of any prelude, hands down thumb under pinky epic experience
Exquisite.
I took some video footage of rain reflections projected by sunlight onto my living room wall and posted it on FB, saying it looked like waveforms. I wrote that I wondered what it sounded like and my friend linked to this recording. Watching the video and listening to this performance, I immediately felt a sense of pure calm in my chest and breathed out slowly. Bliss.
Lang Lang
You are an incredible musician.
Chopin is very proud of you. Always in spirit.
The tone of this piano is really good. Mesmerizing.
All talking about the emotions and all that but I'm sitting here thinking like "I wonder how long he needed to get it this soothing"
Edit: I started learning this piece and I must say it isn't technical hard but damn you have to get a good grip on the pronounciation.
Lang Lang told himself, that he creates stories - and Segovia said wisely: "The prosody of musical language and spoken language are equivalent".
@@metteholm4833 That is actually pretty great.
@@nefceh2227 This is one of my favorite pieces to play, but after watching this I feel the need to relearn it again. Such amazing control, and I noticed different fingering in the right hand.
@@lorenchristopher I know right, he plays his own piece. Good that I usually just need a rough example of how to play it and find my own style. Funny thing is that I can't enjoy the piece if someone else plays it, so that's an good motivation to keep practicing the pieces I already learned
@@lorenchristopher Aye. It really is all about control and truly feeling the story of the song. It tells a harrowing tale to me, but hey...that's the fun of music. It's so mysterious
that piano is gorgeous
Seriously, goosebumps every time.
Just Beautiful!!!!
I found this very calming
Yes!!!! Yes!!!! I love you. Bravo. Wanderful Lang. Big and magic.
Absolutely beautiful performance 👏👏👏💕🥰 Thank you dear Lang Lang ❤️
Quando ouço algo dessa magnitude, simplesmente não consigo tirar da cabeça: "Como diabos alguém nesta terra poderia realmente sentar com caneta e papel e escrever algo assim... está completamente além da minha compreensão. " quero dizer, Chopin teve que ouvir isso em sua cabeça - em detalhes completos de tudo o que a música pode conter... e depois anotá-la? Simplesmente inacreditável - e todos os outros compositores também!
That's cheerful. In the book I read about Chopin, he went to Majorca and it never stopped raining, thus sounding his death knell. He had TB and was not a very well man at all. This experience worsened his condition... seriously.
Not that it makes a heck of a difference, but the current theory in the world of medical science is that Chopin died because of Cystic Fibrosis.
Lang Lang has become a Chopin master. Wonderful.
I'm crying. It's so beautiful❤❤❤❤
Damn that piano is beautiful
Staggering. Breathtaking. What a joy and privilege to listen to this.
Ah Hastings...my dear friend...they were good days, yes...they have been good days. H.Poirot
so peaceful!
Breathtaking and exquisite.
From Fast Lang Lang the best of best brilliant interpretation on youtube
Quel fantastique jeu nuancé dans ce pur chef d'œuvre de Chopin
2:00 Signalis
Perfect...
I sent this to my wife... as a song I won at... to justify the 250 each tickets in Toronto..
It is hard to explain how LL is the biggest 'rockstar' in piano.
Murder Bong you deaf?
@@shirleyhare6177 why, you didn't like his version? I did.
I apologise unreservedly, I misread your comment as, you didn't understand why LL is so popular, I am a top fan of LL and think he's pretty awesome, sorry if I offended you. We agree, he's Tops xx cheers
To murder Bong. My reply below, sorry
@@shirleyhare6177 It's all good! I was mostly saying this is proof why, tickets in Toronto go for 250 on keyboard side. (nosebleeds too!) He is a rockstar, Metalica tickets don't cost that much. but for a pianist, married to a non pianist.. she thinks it's just some guy lol. I had actually thought i sent the comment to a friend , but clicked the wrong window. (She gave me a 'hard no' on tickets, maybe his next world tour)
amazing performance.. such a beautiful piano too!
Le musiche di Chopin sono delle poesie. Poesie che non tutti sanno recitare.
Ecco, questa esecuzione è una recitazione perfetta.
Bravo!!!
Perfect match! Lang lang, steinway, chopin!
Every great pianist has his own interpretation of ‘Raindrop,’ but Lang Lang’s is by far the most inspirational, best interpretation of any written piece of music composed by anyone. Flor me, this interpretation of Chopin’s Prelude ‘Raindrop’ is simply the best I have ever heard. I have listened to him playing this piece of music so many times and I never tire-NEVER. This prelude showcases two things-Chopin and Lang Lang’s genius. They should have met. Who knows? Maybe they did once!
Best version of this piece on TH-cam!
The most beautiful interpretation I ever heard of this piece