Yunchan Lim 임윤찬 LAUGHS in the face of Liszt's hardest piece (Feux follets)
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- Ben Laude tells the story of Liszt's 'Feux follets' via Yunchan Lim's remarkable performance.
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0:00 Yunchan's miraculous Liszt
1:13 Surviving Mazeppa, facing Feux follets
2:13 Watching pianists on TH-cam
3:34 Harmonic cloud over a beautiful melody
4:31 The devil bickering with a will-o'-the-wisp
6:39 Double-note tutorial
9:04 Liszt's pre-pubescent Feux follets
11:49 Walpurgis night: Yunchan, Trifonov, Cziffra
14:39 Yunchan actually seems to be enjoying himself
15:50 Kissin's cartoonish ghosts, Yunchan's sinister humor
Ben Laude tells the story of Liszt's 'Feux follets' via Yunchan Lim's remarkable performance from the 2022 Cliburn Competition Semifinals.
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The most impressive thing about this pianist is that he played ALL of them back to back without much decline in stamina. I can't imagine how good his professional recording of it will be.
AND on barely any sleep, since he hardly slept during the competition period
@@Am33304 why are you here if you don't care about music? Go save the world
@@Am33304 Of course, it did.
what’s also impressive is that lizst wrote all of this super young wtff
And also without. the. notes. HOW do you remember all of this so perfectly?
Yunchan Lim is able to play this horribly technically complex piece in a so noble and musical way
Completely
I wanna see him play Sorabji's Opus Archimagicum without a piano sheet
@@josedelprado1268 more like wanna see him performing entire Alkan' opus
Musical? Not at all.
@@NeverTalkToCops1do you have ears? it is very musical, explain why you think it isn’t?
He's literally insane. I watched the whole set and I probably left a dent on the floor due how many times my jaw dropped throughout.
So true!!
Best comment hahaha
totally.
😂😂👍
Literally insane? Well, if he is literally insane when is he going to be sent to a psychiatric hospital?
He was invited to play at my university and all seats were booked in 3 minutes. Very disappointed I couldn’t hear him play live
Which uni was that?!
KAIST??
He says he is comfortable playing Liszt's pieces. Because it is not difficult to understand. It means that technique is no longer a problem.
This is what Yunchan said at the Van Cliburn press conference (the one with his teacher Sohn Minsoo, not word for word as my Korean sucks): “The name ‘Transcendental Etudes’ sounds threatening, but teacher Sohn emphasises in every lesson that Transcendental Etudes are not just to do with technical skills, but rather surpassing the technical difficulties. The moment musicality is reached again in the music is when it becomes transcendental.” - this is exactly what is magical about Yunchan’s Feux Follets. As a listener, you no longer carry the burden of technique and wondering if the pianist will stumble over his finger. But rather, an image of feux follets dancing and chasing each other in a dark forest emerges before your eyes. If this isn’t storytelling at its finest I don’t know what is! Thank you Yunchan and teacher Sohn for making me see Liszt’s genius!
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this does not in any way invalidate or take away their monstruous impossibility haha
It took Lim's performance to help me appreciate Liszt's composition. There is no higher praise I can think of.
damn thats actually deep unironically
Liszt wrote this for people like Lim to play
so true.
I didn't know of Feux Follets. I didn't know of Lim. But I'm glad the algorithm brought me here.
I cant imagine what he will be like in 10 years. The attention to detail in his interpretations is astonishing.
Improvement is very unlikely at this point since there is barely anything to improve upon at this level. He should try his hand at Sorabji to maximize his potential.
@@toothlesstoeafter that point he’ll just have to make something harder to perform
@@toothlesstoethe improvement will be him composing beautiful (probably hard) pieces xD
Yunchan said he considers Chopin op10 & op25 etudes more difficult for him for the reason it's harder to bring out its musicality than Listz's Trancendental etudes. Yunchan plans to showcase the entire 27 Chopin etudes during the upcoming Carnegie Hall debut recital in Feb '24. That will be another jaw dropping performance, I bet.
I must admit that is a consolation prize (changing from the original Liszt program) that's truly considerable.. 😅😊 I hope the event is televised so tonebase piano can do another delightful review series like this one
Btw do you have the link to the interview where he discussed chopin etudes? Thanks! 😊
Yunchan will the tackling the Prokofiev Concerto #2 at his 2024 Pittsburgh and Paris debuts. He said this concerto is even more challenging than the Rach 3.
@@puiwing6289 Yeah, Prok 2 is hard as hell...
You know you have a godly technique when musicality is your primary way of discerning difficulty in Chopin and Liszt etudes
The technical ability aspect is always fun. But it's truly magic when that technical ability isn't flaunted needlessly but used as a tool of expression from someone who clearly understand the spirit and personality of the piece.
Spot on!
I noticed with opera. There are technically spotless singers who do the Queen of the Night from the magic flute standing around like a cloth rack. If you did not read the piece you would never imagine there is a mother frothing for anger, telling her daughter to kill that guy or else she is not her daughter anymore. Some can do both sing the piece well and with emotions of madness and give a spectator a proper impression of what is going on in the story and the character.
I like your expression beautiful
How can anyone's fingers move with precision that fast? Absolutely incredible.
These composers, I'm convinced were sadists and wrote these pieces to torture musicians for an eternity.
How do they stay motivated when practicing-and how can I make it fun and enjoyable when I get bored and distracted easily and don't like repeating boring scales?
@@leif1075 imo the best way is to become a piansit as an occupation so you will be stressed out with performances, however this is not mentally healthy. Unless you truly want to learn a piece which you LOVE, you need to have some mental determination
BRO HE'S 18💀☠
it’s so over
Thanks! now I'm depressed
i am just gonna quit man
(jk)
@@LikeABaws81 this just in: it never even began
Some people are just like that Idk what to say. Keep practicing im only 17 nd the hardest piece I can play is Scriabin Opus 42. No. 5
I know guys we're all cultural people with a lot of respect to words like "beauty" and other staff but seriously, Yunchan is fucking amazing beyond mind.
Succint.
I agree damn it
I agree; English is a limited language in some ways for describing certain things. We just don't have enough words. There ought to be more words to describe performances like this.
😂I agree.
I totally concur. He's the shyt
Yunchan is like a child and the piano for him is like a toy. When his hands peck on the piano with the etude in his mind, he enjoys it like a kid as if he was thinking "this is a fun toy".
Guys, you just can't get tired of Yunchan Lim. The fk, he's only a teenager that can do all this for God's sake!
What was I doing at age 18...
How can we be like him?
How do they stay motivated when practicing-and how can I make it fun and enjoyable when I get bored and distracted easily and don't like repeating boring scales?
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yeah, the sad thing is that most people .this age and amazing skill comes at the most gruesome cost regarding social life, wellbeing, character development.. this kinda stuff should seriously be stopped, examined, eal with because not even your most fav composers were necessarily exemplary, kind beings.
@@UltraLeetJhe learnt it in 5 months, which, whilst definitely means he played all day every day, also means that he learns at such a pace that he surely has time in his life to explore things other than piano
@@turntech4776 will never be able to know that.. social media and especially exploitation like this is less than a tenth of a persons struggle
Cannot believe he is still 18.
My tendons scream to the sound of capricious spirits. What a player!
The most shocking part for me is that he is having fun, I don't think I've seen many in his shoes be having too much fun anymore
We need Liszt Beethoven or Rachmaninov to be alive to show us how you play with passion come on friends where's the passion I like Unchan
Unassuming Nob: Yuchan Lim what a master yes, but then there is also Alexander Malofeev with "Islamey" by Balakirev.
I'd swap Liszt with Chopin, please.
@@PetrGladkikh Liszt was a better Piano Player than Chopin.
@@charliegold3227 probably....but composer?....
@@rexlu1969 he had definitely a wider range and a bigger social impact on other artists of the time.
Damn bro, this is like a level 100 grandmaster pianist at work.
The speed. The stamina. The skill. Masterful. How can one person possess this amazing feat of beastliness?
Simply amazing.
I am so jealous of Yunchan's hair
According to what Yunchan Lim said in an interview on the radio, it took about 5 months to practice all Transcendental etudes. He said that he practiced No. 1, 4, and 5 first, because the longer and more times they practiced, the more it would help him to play perfectly. (According to another interview, out of those three pieces, he practiced No. 5 feux follet first.) After that, he practiced No. 9, 10, 11, 12, and then practiced No. 2, 3, and at the end he practiced No. 6, 7, 8. He said the last piece he practiced was No. 7 Eroica. And he practiced the etudes by matching one or two relatively easy pieces with one very difficult etude. Therefore, as it is feux follet, which is the first piece practiced and practiced the most, it shines even more and shows outstanding performance.
So you are telling me he learnt the whole transcendentals in just 5 months? Unbelievable
@@alejandrom.4680 Yes. He said it took two months to practice the whole pieces of Chopin etude Op. 25 for him, so he thought it would be okay in five months to practice the whole Transcendental etudes. lol
@@alejandrom.4680 You have to remember he was practicing 5-10 hrs a day
@@isthatajojoreference149
Yunchan has stated that 10 to 12 hour practice days have been his routine for the last several years.
@@jwilliam2255 that's just a ridiculous amount of determination, and it clearly shows in his playing.
Yuanchan Lim, probably: Ah, finally a worthy challenger.
I know nothing about these things and even I can tell that he was a: having and enjoying himself and b: that he understood the spirit of the tune he was playing and it came to life inside him as he played it. Too many other pianists just play the music. For this guy, the music comes to life in him when he understands it and he showed that he totally gets it.
He practiced this one more than any other before the semifinal recital. On this video the phrase starting at 1:59, he practiced it over and over and over in his typical fashion of recording himself on his phone and listening while playing it back. Ben, thanks so so much for this video. Very enlightening, amusing, and entertaining.
Thank you for mentioning him.
Thank you for hosting Yunchan with all your heart.
Thank you for sharing it
Happy new year
Yunchan's amazing host father in Fortworth! Happy to see u here.
wow host jeffffffff♡♡♡♡
Liszt was a piano God. His work is considered some of the most technically complex pieces of art ever made. Lim saw the challenge and decided to ABSOLUTELY MURDER IT ❤
Yuncham Lim is Liszt in the present...
His performance is more palpable and catchy than any other performer.
It's more shiny,fresh and powerful.
I came here to watch the video, but am amazed at the praises that Yunchan unanimously receives in this reply section. He is obviously being loved!
What's not to love? Why amazed? 🤔
@AnimalsAre BeautifulPeople oh I meant it with respect and happiness to see Yunchan being loved. From your response I guess the word "amazed" implies a negative nuisance. But I did not mean negative! Sorry if my English was misleading♡
@@traos201 ah "amazed" is not negative necessarily but it signals a surprise, like something is unbelievable. So if you are amazed that someone is held in high regard it suggests that you may not agree that that person should be held in high regard. Anyway thanks for clearing up the misunderstanding. 😄
Dearest Mr. Liszt, did you think that with your 'strings' (feux follets) you would give all subsequent pianists traumas, nightmares and 10 bruised fingers, so that they would study something other than piano? Listen here and hear and see that your trick failed. What a fantastic video, thank you tonebase Piano.😉🌷(Holland)
My goosebumps kid❤. Anytime I listen to him I tear up, I don’t know why.
extraordinary performer....another of God's talents....Practice makes perfect too!
Liszt was connected to an eternal realm where music emanates. This young man would have been a special student in the Weimar Meisterklassen in that little cottage. Van Cliburn would be beaming.
It's miraculous for anyone to play that piece that well, but he's only 18! How's that possible? He's only just hatched, there shouldn't have been enough time to achive that kind of degree of perfection.
Yes, that is amazing part.
Lim took only 5 months to make stages with all 12 etudes on 2021
You can find full video on YT
NAAAAAAAAH NO WAY HES ONE YEAR OLDER THAN ME
Asian buff
Hatched🤣
Check Alexander Malofeev and you will be even more impressed how he plays in his 13!
What on earth did I just watch? Or rather, not on earth, it's out of this world!
Aside from Lim's technicality, I am most impressed with his brilliant interpretation of all 12 etudes and its musicality in a way I have never heard before. Liszt must be smiling for his Transcental etudes getting its overdue recognition as a musical masterpiece, Finally.
Being able to play the notes... yeah that's pretty incredible. Being able to do that with a good dose of musicality require an overdose of genius. Being able to do both with a whimsical smile and such playful ease, well that's just beyond human!
The way he plays it doesn't even leave it sounding like an especially technical piece. It sounds like he could handle a kind of piece that no one has had enough distain for the mental health of pianists enough to compose yet.
And in competition! Where you really need to be on at all times, not just not allowing any lapses but actually putting out all that you've learnt and pracritsed.
Many years ago, I saw this sheet music up on a pianoforte stand, and thought it to be totally unplayable. Lol.
Very enjoyable documentary with good contrasts with other pianists.
If I may be permitted a nerdy French moment (I am from France), the Feux Follets (plural) can be found referenced in literature by the 9th Century. The most common description is of a small flame or a pale colored luminescence.
Science suggests this phenomena is due to matter decomposing in wet mud without oxygen. The decomposition produces methane which mixes with live bacteria and phosphor. When this mixture seeps up and out, it combusts for a few seconds as it encounters oxygen. Manifestations throughout history seem to always be in cemeteries and near water (swamps). Modern burial practices and civil engineering have caused these chemical reactions to become rather infrequent it seems.
Not to be confused with St. Elmo's fire which is of an electrical nature. From the Latin, we find the idea these are "fire spirits". Catholic superstition rendered these the troubled souls of deceased children or those having lost their way from death to paradise.
Wow, what a great commentary on the chemistry of feux follets! That is so fascinating as we have something quite similar in Japanese folk culture too. They are described as small fireballs that float around cemeteries. The Japanese version unfortunately doesn’t have association with something jovial or humorous. The difference in culture! - Please excuse me for going off on something unrelated to the video. I’m really an official Yunchan fan and looking forward to seeing him soon!
I'm pretty sure Liszt would like that guy
Movie Mozart's laughter is so contagious.
I will NEVER be over how EASY he makes it all look (when we all know it’s beyond insanely difficult)🤯
I like No.8 wilde jadg for the same reason. There are various facial expressions of Yunchan, and the time to wipe off sweat impresses the audiences inexplicably. His expressions and movements are even beautiful in No.9 that follows.
No8 my favorite 2
The top of my amateur music career was to be able play the early version of this etude. Then I went with mathematics.
Great video as always.
Math and music are not mutually exclusive! I'm learning complex analysis and playing Chopin's 2nd Sonata at the same time.
@@zswu31416 Music has remained an important element in my life, but not in a professional way.
@@ImrePolik i think that the early version was the s137-s138 , monster of piece.
Wonderful artist! I'm sitting here, in Vienna, dreaming about how it was possible that giants like Franz Liszt, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, Salieri or Beethoven lived and created all these epic pieces right "around the corner"... and now I am watching a North American piano pro explaining how an East Asian prodigy interprets them. Cheers to humanity! 😊
The colors/sounds and storytelling he was able to make in this monster of a piece was so incredible at times i started laughing because i couldn't believe what i was hearing. Also him smiling during it just made it that much more special.
I'm more impressed by the ability to memorize all this and the speed of the brain to operate the body. And then there is the singularity of Liszt himself. He did this centuries ago. Where did he come from? Earth?
This was by far the funniest classical music educational documentary video I've ever watched in my life. We can all agree that Yunchan is a god-tier pianist, but I think this video editing was also easily a S-tier work. Great work!
Now I understood why Yunchan made those facial expressions! Your comparative analysis among pianists is so fun to know! Thanks and what if you were my music teacher at my school days? Haha
It's the heavy metal of classical music. In summary...it totally rocks....
It’s an unbelievably perfect performance. Bravo!
When they do the comparison with other pianists playing the same piece, it is true how amazingly clear Yunchan notes sound, perfectly separated, perfectly timed, and perfectly evident. It's like if it had been programmed using a robotic hand so that it would be 100% verified and tested to come out as wanted. It's like when in the Queen of the Night by Mozart everybody just focuses on checking if the soprano can hit the famous high note part, but they don't notice that the intro just before that part has a bunch of consecutive notes way more difficult than hitting the high note. You see some sopranos rolling them all over together in a mess that can be hardly discernible. I always look for that part to see who sung it right and who couldn't deal with it. The high note is BS, they all can do that.
This man is a wizard😨
Unbelievable Performance !!!!
OMG. Yunchan is out of this world. Unbelievable.
I'm not a pianist (okay I have a keyboard) but I'm so glad I found this video, and absolutely awestruck. Yunchan is an alien! I love how each pianist has their own style and syncopation.
Why do you say he isan alien??
Thanks so much for this clip! It is really fun to watch and you picked my comment. What an honor! YunChan is a crazy genius and I really love everything of him. He gives me the full satisfaction. Everyday I am excited to listen to what he recreates.
Thanks for providing me with good material for my videos!
@@tonebasePiano I often play the beginning of Vision (No. 6) with LH alone to give my right hand a rest…
Despite having like 700 different emotions during this entire video....i literally went insane..... Broo this is insane or am I insane ...NVm but HE IS LiTeRAlly so close to what I think people could have witnessed Liszt playing ❤. Speechless
Ditto, and very good point!
Incredible skills. I wish we could hear Liszt playing his own compositions…
It is becoming the never ending story..
I don't even play piano but you explained everything so well
Yunchan's Feux is pretty mind-blowing indeed. I think most of the advice around the middle of the video revolves around one main theme: go light on the alto voice. And that is indeed the key to getting around that main material. Sadly, the toughest parts are some of the bits in the middle.
Liszt is my favourite composer and I find all his pieces hard to play, needless to mention that I haven’t even attempted this one. It really makes you question how a human being can actually compose that! This guy who plays it is outstanding! Makes me feel like a total loser after watching him🙈lol
Woe ... inCREDible and aMAZing😱 Thank you for this, Ben!
This is as much entertaining as informative. And I commend highly Ben for not being afraid of looking like a clown to enlighten earthlings like me. Your presentation is at once fun and educational.
Absolutely amazing. The ending was unexpected. This young is a genius on the piano. Now that's a recording I would love to have! Thank you for sharing this.
Wow!!!so happy to see Mr laude and his tonebase piano video again
As a person with the musical sense or a small rock, even I appreciate how incredibly difficult it is to play this. Not only to play it but have it sound good too. I'm guessing when the average pianist tries to play this it sounds like cats walking across a keyboard.
Thank you for your kind explanation!
Yunchan’s interpretations are just so incredible. We’ll be dissecting them forever. I’m most amazed at how unifying they are. In a genre where everyone is hypercritical regarding how a single note is played, he transcends the minutia to make us all happy.
I guess the bottom line is they all really enjoy the challenge and the achievement of playing this well means EVERYTHING to them, and then of course there's only a few that actually have the technical dexterity to reach this level. Focus and determination in the utmost.
I must say that the videos Mr. Laude produces about these jawdropping Yunchan-Liszt etudes are genuine masterpieces of their kind as well!
Thank you so much for putting them together, great editing, a judicious measure of humour and insight - and voilá, the fastest 17 minutes I've had in front of TH-cam for a very long time.
The Goethe Faust-quotations that are put up alongside the opening measures of Feux Follets are pretty much a step-by-step description of what's going on in the music (or the other way around, I guess:), it's incredible how well it fits! Cheers for pointing it out, I'm 100% sold on the idea of Liszt drawing inspiration from Mephisto's independent-minded little helpers. Also, these videos make me appreciate even more how ludicrously brilliant Yunchan's interpretation of these etudes is - apart from the total technical command he truly has a deep understanding of the music of this set as well as the extramusical circumstances of its conception. It's beautiful.
Very much looking forward to the remaining installments of this monumental Yunchan-Liszt performance. What a wonderful time to be a piano nut!
Thanks again for making these videos!
(One tiny note: Cziffra is pronunced with a "ts" as in tsunami. And, somewhat aptly, his name means ornate/decorated/flashy in Hungarian.)
I appreciate this! And, I've always been self-conscious when pronouncing Cziffra. Thank you for diction tip. I will practice his name slowly.
Either he truly sold his soul to the devil or he IS Liszt in the present day...
or he practises 40 hrs a day 24/7
Apparently from age 12 he practiced 8hrs a day
Yep. He's a wonderful beast. Perhaps even Liszt's jaw would have dropped - and that never happened... Conquered technical nightmares aside, this performance sounds so BEAUTIFUL! Way back when I was a kid, nobody in the west heard it played like this, although hearing it played on the radio was one of the reasons I fell in love with Liszt's piano music. That said, Sviatoslav Richter's performance from the mid-1950s is miraculously fast and delicate, and I love that too. Liszt didn't even suggest it should be played that fast, but the result is very spooky and very much in keeping with romantic poetic ideas of 'Will o' the Wisp'...
Goose bumps at the witch dance section. Good materials u put together. A lot of respect for u
Thank you for making this video … very enlightening and mesmerising… Need to see Yunchan Lim’s recital at Wigmore Hall now.
it is a perfect (smaller) hall for solo piano. Yunchan does not disappoint.
YESSS you do...perfect venue!
I can't wait to see Lim in NY. He just sold out David Geffen Hall. All three performances!
Now I understand why Yoonchan is Piano BTS in Korea. Thanks for great content. Very helpful.
Brilliant breakdown - worth the wait!
His performance is utterly awe-inspiring, it's amazing, it's so vivid. Man, it makes me want to try and learn piano again, I may be slow, but it's something in a strange beauty.
Welcome welcome
I've been waiting for "Limst" part two for a long time
That was a blast. Thanks for the entertaining and informative video. I’m pretty crazy about Lim’s playing, and I liked very much hearing your take on his performance of Feux Freakin Follets.
Way to go Ben! This was both fun and educational…..not easy to achieve and I know it took a lot of work to put together.👏👏👏
There are a large number of excellent Korean pianists.
Everything he does is beyond miracle. Goosebumps everytime!
You have become my fav YT Channel. As simple as that. Gracias!
Greatest classical tube content on the net!
Your video, which is humorous and kind to me, is the Best Educational Material.
Thank you 10 million times.
Pianoworld and other forums were my life back when I was in the conservatory. The fact that you were on there as well explains so much about this channel. Loving the content here, keep it up.
Holy moly, that was insane!!!!! My hands hurt just watching him play that beast of a piece!
I love your posts Ben. Yunchan simply makes me smile and you contribute to that appreciation by your insightful peering into enriching pianism.
It brings me great and unbridled joy that this video has been viewed over 600 thousand times. It means more and more people can start appreciating this music more deeply. This video and others by other social media personalities have been helping create a new culture around classical music that, I think, will provide both the fundamental basis and social fuel for new generations of listeners and performers.
Thank you for introducing me to this player.
I'm not sure about what impresses me the most, Yunchan Lim's interpretation or your take on it, I got so hooked by it. I'm so grateful my algorythm has finally found you. Thank you so much for this!
This is nice, unlike any other videos I’ve seen
This video makes me really want to learn this piece, and stay the hell away from it at the same time…
the fluidity and various expressivity are amazing
This was quite spectacular, not only did I learn about a piece of music I never heard before, but watched it being played exquisitely. Having you explain the historical context musically and including the Faust reference was also interesting. I had to look up Walpurgistnacht too. Loved how you included the witches dancing. Thanks for your insights and sharing this.
Seems like his hair also plays the piano.💕
This is fantastic content. Thank you!