Bruce Liu - Chopin: Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, KK IVa/16 (WPD performance)

[@scottwallace1]

Beautiful. Expressive. Sensitive.

[@deutschegrammophon]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@danijelamikic5363]

Yes this was the first time I hear a cinese pianist to play like this,with whole soul,not only techique

[@遠藤久仁子]

Liu様あなたの音色に生涯にわたります神様の祝福とご加護を祈り続けております。

[@georgerichards4808]

thank God. Finally a version of this piece that doesn’t give equal weight to both hands. The melody is in the right hand, the left-hand plays the compliment. That’s the way it supposed to be done. A lot of people play with equal weight and it just eff’s the whole thing up. This is beautifully played with the exact amount of touch necessary between the two hands.

[@gulnarhasanova9165]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@alexdermer9827]

That's what makes Bruce special. Fluently playing different dynamics on different hands is one of the toughest things there is to do on a piano imo.

[@janeesfandiari101]

You sound like a music snob 😢

[@ffffff1-mmmm]

yes his voicing in the right hand is exceptional

[@user-JJ_Piano]

Bass line

[@siphovice]

Just beautiful 😢

[@deutschegrammophon]

Indeed

[@sambaker8418]

the way he finished, with sweat dripping down his face, oh god it was magical, his hands were so soft and sensual 10/10 perfomance

[@dimioo]

I guess, it was a tear. And I was crying too

[@Hylandan]

11/10

[@user-JJ_Piano]

23/10

[@user-JJ_Piano]

😢😢😢

[@ЛюбовьПотемина-ш3б]

Notwithstanding the factor of his sweating the performance is just perfect.

[@garssympa500]

I heard Bruce Liu place this exact piece in Montréal. A privilege that I will remember forever!

[@c.a.savage5689]

I am assuming this was a very small, intimate group of listeners, judging by the smattering of polite applause at the end. I expected to hear men weeping and woman swooning. Never have l heard this piece played so magnificently. Every single note.

[@AaronDao]

I thought the same!!! In the introduction,they said this performance took place in Chopin’s salon in Paris.Salons were where Chopin performed most of his pieces since salon back then only had a small group of people that are close to Chopin to give him a comfortable atmosphere unlike most opera houses filled with strange audiences (I read this in a book and yes Chopin preferred playing in a salon for only a small group of people)

[@pattiannepascual]

💯❤

[@MariaKostka-Wach]

Tak pięknie i prawdziwie B Liu zanurza się i nas w nocnej magicznej przestrzeni , w której chce sie wciąż być i sluchać tej cudnej romantycznej muzyki ,jesteśmy z Tobą !

[@EpsilonDCLAN]

- Bruce Lee, Martial Arts Expert. Time Traveler *Moves a Chair* - Bruce Liu, The renaissance virtuoso!

[@EliasAxelPettersson]

Wow, what incredible touch and sensitivity. Also, bringing a fresh approach to a piece played so often. One of the greatest living pianists with a great future.

[@ゆきさん-b4v]

癒やされますね～戦場のピアニスト場面が鮮明におもだされす

[@TomHawk640]

Inclined to agree. Although there's stiff competition coming out of Korea.

[@mcinshadley]

Agree whole-heartedly . . . for me it's the first time hearing him play. I'm going to have to watch the full concert. Audience seemed a little sedate in comparison to the excellence of what they had just heard.

[@andreaguarino8207]

One of the best pianist of our age

[@juanfragueiroaramburu]

Best interpretation I’ve heard. The dynamics were divine. So much soul into the piece.

[@biggiebaby3541]

No. Valentina.

[@serenitys531]

OMG.. MY SOUL HAS LEFT MY BODY.. ❤😢

[@ElazarY]

this man is a genius on the piano. Excited to see more emotional pieces from him.

[@conxitamasuetserrallonga8796]

Chopin est tambien mi favorito y la interpretacion todo un relax muy bien interpretado

[@vdigion530]

Noticing how he is almost only using his 1 2 and 3 fingers for the right hand is probably the key to how accurate and expressive each note is played, along with the emotions and the dynamic movements of his hands over the instrument.

[@Ednaldo5591]

Chopin's music makes us cry. What a power to express feelings.

[@carmenl9280]

I was looking for a good interpretation of this nocturne. Bruce Liu's was the first one I came across. As soon as I started listening I knew I needed not look any further. Absolutely beautiful, full of feeling (in fact I think he is crying, not just sweating profusely, at the end of the video). I honestly am lost for words...Beautiful does not even get close to what I would like to say. Thanks for posting this amazing video.

[@subrahmanianchandrasekhar6969]

Amazing great pianist, bravo!

[@leonardodelyrarodrigues3752]

Also listen to Dimitry Masleev, another great performance, Also Grigory Sokolov and Valentina Lisitsa, are the best interpretations for me of this nocturne.

[@hsudr]

Yes, this is very good. Check out lang Lang and Yundi li version too. Lang Lang : kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJaXc6N6jZh7iKc

[@leonardodelyrarodrigues3752]

@@hsudr I've heard them all, and many more.

[@hsudr]

@@leonardodelyrarodrigues3752 there is another great Chinese pianist, very well known in China. He has just posted his version. Try it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o37ZnKR8brGSars

[@nadiagreen1185]

Mille mercis pour cette magnifique performance ❤ mon Dieu quel talent ! On sent que vous vivez chaque note que vous jouez . Bravo 👏 c’est l’une des meilleures interprétations de ce nocturne de Chopin ❤❤❤❤❤

[@krasnaja6807]

Beautiful music by Chopin, genius and poet of the piano, good pianist ♥️🎹♥️💫🎶✨😊👏👌

[@deutschegrammophon]

Many thanks!

[@jstefens]

Chopin's music just cuts all the way into the deepest parts of my core.

[@Penelope-b5s]

Bruce Liu playing this song is absolutely beautiful ❤

[@deutschegrammophon]

Glad you think so :)

[@ernesztinarudnyak4193]

Ogni tal volta lo ascolto mi vengono le lacrime!!!! Lo adoro il brano é lui che suona la mia pianista in assoluto!

[@mahmudrzayev696]

Dinlədiyim ən yaxşı ifalardan biri idi👏🏻

[@siuhhonkeung]

Chopin's #20 nocturne, a hauntingly beautiful piece of music. Mr. Liu plays it on the Fazioli concert grand. Its sound is so beautiful, seemingly perfect for the pianist and for this music. This is a privileged small audience in a privileged small salon. The music is so beautiful that it was transcribed for violin and many top violinists play it. I have a special feeling towards Mr. Liu because I once studied in Montreal, in the late '60s. Bravo!

[@berryallenhamhams4006]

Which 60’s? He’s only 26 years old. 😅

[@marchandesermf2854]

So beautiful interprétation .......

[@nicolehourcade]

I really like his vision, his approach of Chopin’ music.He has a very personal proofreading of the score.Great artist😮😮😮😮😮

[@DellDreamer]

Take a deep breath, slow down, and enjoy Bruce's interpretation of Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp Minor. Heavenly!

[@PabloIzurieta]

An excellent pianist with an excellent name.

[@LoveMusic-pd5iz]

His technical ability, interpretation, color and shading and oh! his touch! Just beautiful.

[@MKossobudzkivonStein]

Simply absolute perfection.

[@guitarprayer8197]

Ubolewam nad tym, że tak niewiele nagrań tego arcymistrza chopinowskiego stylu można znaleźć i posłuchać na YT.

[@dobbydoughnuts9941]

One of the best performances I’ve ever heard

[@cheval63sg]

Born to Chinese parents and grown up in France, he speaks French, Chinese and English perfectly.

[@dabaska787]

and yes he plays the piano very well

[@sofiachen1529]

Born in Paris and moved to Montreal at aged 6, his mother tongues are French and Mandarin.

[@danijelamikic5363]

He is extraordinary

[@user-JJ_Piano]

I though he was American

[@Piano51260]

Incroyable comme interprétation! Cela transporte dans un autre monde. Merci!

[@kathleenholyoak9809]

Bravo! Such a beautiful interpretation with such great sensitivity. I could listen to this over and over again. Thank you for sharing your talent!

[@DebYvette522]

The most gentle, graceful hands ever on piano. He has his own individuality but he surely resembles Sifu Bruce Lee!

[@jovdenren1]

A uniquely beautiful and very wide color spectrum, above all a unique dynamic and emotionality, as a result of such a gentle and colorful sound and an unobtrusive tempo, without breaking the upper limit of volume and speed for this Chopin piece. Phenomenal and very demanding, I believe that the feeling was created by itself in the moment of reliving by holding, prolonging and slowing down the performance of certain notes and phrases, or volume and tempo, exactly as this extraordinary pianist feels. Articulation of the experienced or interpretation superb and unique....👏

[@MatthewC.-ox7kd]

He’s drenched in sweat! 😅 the passion and the pressure

[@m.joanhay522]

I have a large photo of GlennGould & you can see the sweat running down his face.

[@user-JJ_Piano]

@@m.joanhay522nice

[@aywuaywu2]

I listened to this video again and again. He played it beautifully and gently touched my inner soul. In the end, I felt a tranquility that no words can describe.

[@dmtdreamz7706]

Then I heard a new sound: a living sound, like the richest, most complex, most beautiful piece of music you've ever heard. Growing in volume as a pure white light descended, it obliterated the monotonous mechanical pounding that, seemingly for eons, had been my only company up until then. The light got closer and closer, spinning around and around and generating those filaments of pure white light that I now saw were tinged, here and there, with hints of gold.

[@王進賢-g6p]

手腕很鬆，氣質好，第一個音sol升，不要太強，當唱歌彈下去就不強，你非常棒，你彈琴柔中帶鋼，超棒

[@henrithellier7684]

.. Très profond Nocturne... sous des doigts très doux bien applqués sans heurter des ecoulements limpides Admirable Bruce Liu. !!!

[@cheval63sg]

plus : il est trilingue, chinois, francais et anglais.

[@henrithellier7684]

@@cheval63sg Le Manchou entr´autre...le langage des Lettrés !... faut-il que l´on soit particulièrement doué....Nos félicitations sans réserve !

[@mr.fredericchopin6214]

Bruce, I hope you read this because I have to tell you that you are already a legendary pianist for the 21st Century. With a lifetime of repertoire ahead of you to acquire, you have already, in my view, joined the Greats. You have at your command as much or more nuance and sensitivity as Horowitz and a maturity that matches Rubistein! Please, make videos and CDs so I can collect your wondrous playing... I am not saying that a pianist like Marta Augerich is not a super pianist... to each his or her own... but IMHO, you are much more than she... for Mozart, there is Lili Krause (Piano Concertos with Stephen Simon, Conductor) and Maria João Pires is tops. You are just like them. Keep up the good work!

[@lorigrant247]

Absolutely mesmerizing 😢 such a beautiful Chopin piece! He did this piece exquisitely! Bravo!!

[@deutschegrammophon]

Thank you so much! 😍

[@angelobalzano6254]

Un pianista fantastico, davvero dotatissimo, un grande fuoriclasse.

[@andyanderson9824]

What truly beautiful music, played truly wonderfully well by Bruce Liu. What an insipid response for such great playing. A Listener for pleasure.

[@urbanoracle_14]

💜 his skill & presentation. One of my all-time favorites.

[@ahmettas3350]

A very emotional performance, great. Only so much emotion could be conveyed to the listener.

[@michalmichael9087]

why is the music of Chopin, a Polish composer, so moving to the soul? I think you need to study the history of Poland, there was a lot of sadness in that period. wonderful performance, great Artist, Chopin's ambassador❤

[@danijelamikic5363]

He was Polish but most of his life spent in France.

[@lukaszzach2444]

2:12 ​​@@danijelamikic5363And always said I PROUD POLE, not french...

[@ClarissaBrown-e9b]

How beautiful! So delicately played. Thank you Messrs Chopin and Liu for bringing some peaceful respite into a troubled world. Clara

[@anklebreaka03]

What a phenomenal, inspiring performance and rendition. Incredible talent

[@deutschegrammophon]

Thank you!

[@patrickhoy2475]

A simply beautiful and graceful peformance showing integrity and the graceful swan like hand movements are unique and demonstrate the appreciation of the beauty of the composition. Rosie Hoy New Zealand

[@judyjae6022]

Absolutely beautiful! Chopin is my favorite composeŕ. Bruce Liu played this nocturne with such feeling. Most mellifluous and lovely. ❤

[@c.ssantisteban5317]

That piano... Fazioli makes so cristal sounds. Brilliant.

[@deutschegrammophon]

glad you like it!

[@dabaska787]

wow stop the clock this is a wonderful interpretation thank you

[@deutschegrammophon]

Glad you like it!

[@maropl2515]

Look at his face when he is about to play certain fragments and he is preparing for each fragment of the song mentally, mentally and musically (2:38 - pianisimo possibile) as if he wanted to play with the greatest love and tenderness. I always try to play Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor and other pieces this way, but you have to feel it. This Chinese played Fryderyk Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor very well and reflectively. Greetings from Poland :)

[@Salsahaj]

Beautiful rendition of this very speciel piece of music. Bravo!

[@57mab]

Ditto all the comments about the dynamics and superb touch that Bruce has; but to me, equally impressive is that I don't think I could play much at all in the key of C# Minor ! Bravo !

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

Chopin was the wizard of piano compositions .....

[@beatrizlejarza8694]

Qué maravilla que existan personas que tengan en sus manos la armonía del Universo.

[@larisatarabaeva5461]

Прекрасное проникновенное исполнение..!❤ спасибо!

[@MatthewC.-ox7kd]

This is one of the best piano performances I’ve seen and great choice of song 👏🏼

[@deutschegrammophon]

Thank you so much!

[@Kumikomio]

💖 My respect and admiration for this young, very talented man 💖

[@Toobula]

Beautifully played. Tempo and intonation excellent.

[@Mereteli]

One of the best performances what I hear❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@krystynam.8223]

Beautiful, perfect, excellent. 🎹❤️‍🩹💯 Thank you very much for the emotions. 👏👏👏🇵🇱

[@wongjoyce1150]

Very detailed and delicate playing with full understanding of Chopin. Just like fishes swimming through the flowing water. Beautiful!

[@johntechwriter]

Nice simile!

[@alexyang9159]

What a beautiful performance 🎉This piece is too easy for Bruce Liu given that he was a champion of the international Chopin Piano Competition 😊

[@NylonStrings83]

As a classical musician let me u 1 thing it’s the slow pieces which are the hardest and if the slow piece has such emotion it’s nightmarishly hard to get the emotion out

[@hannastaszak1684]

Cudowna muzyka genialnego Chopina, boskie wykonanie ❤️

[@PinkKraken-qx9lv]

Прекрасное исполнение. А за руками его следить сплошное удовольствие:)

[@Erevos9]

Such class. Such quality. Such emotion... Sensational.

[@pippikrumeluss5167]

What an intimate setting! Wish I could have been there! Divine playing! But please take care Bruce! 💕🥰

[@tiberiuoprea8482]

This has now 47 thousands views, but it will have millions views in the future, I can bet on this guy 's value anytime

[@jonjones3137]

More than 400k now , that's great ✨

[@FoxyJohn]

and still he makes glaring errors in the 8th bar.

[@tiberiuoprea8482]

​@@FoxyJohn You don't need to think about that, listen to the melody, it's perfect, it depends on what reference you have. In the end it's a matter of taste :) . You know, a computer can play this also.

[@FoxyJohn]

@@tiberiuoprea8482weird comment. The reference is the autograph score. Which I have. And it’s wrong. He plays F# instead of D# in the left hand. And it’s all I can think about.

[@tiberiuoprea8482]

@@FoxyJohn Maybe he made errors, I don't argue about that as I don't have the score and didn't play myself this piece ever, but it's a shame that you cannot hear the melody just because one or two mistakes. I looked for a different play of this song on youtube and imo this is the best version. I don't care about stupid mistakes that I can't even detect, but the melody is beautiful and this is what matters to me. I also like Miles Davis which is known for his take on mistakes, which he loved and transformed it to make a beautiful melody, still he is considered one of the best.

[@hilaryford6493]

I’m speechless beautiful thank you x

[@galinakrivulin6767]

Gracefully played Frederic Chopin: Nocturne! Nothing else was to be expected from Bruce Liu. And playing at the Salon Frederic Chopin it’s even more demanding. Thank you, Deutsche Grammophon for upload.

[@TheFFFF3]

Beautiful version love it the emotion is so deep made me cry

[@sourabhjangid8013]

Best Performance on this piece I have seen. Wow man that was magical

[@yvonneyang8205]

Bruce playing with great emotion, very touching…to your heart! ❤

[@Любовь-м1п7ж]

Как же красиво! Благодарю! Всех благ.

[@разговоръ]

..what a magnificent cascade. Bravo...

[@bedenerexhepaj1480]

Magnificat performance!! Wow!! Thank you for uploaded!!

[@Angharad329]

AWESOME interpretation, BRAVO !

[@kapukalahiki396]

Wow…those last notes gave me goosebumps 🥹

[@auroraf.s]

Marvelous performance of this Masterpiece of the great Frèdèric Chopin.♥️🌹🌟

[@bwvvariationen]

Such a perfect sound

[@srenschandorf]

Absolutely mesmerizing!!

[@alzbetamolnarova4961]

So gentle. I heard this as his encore of recital. But with Fazioli is very senzitive. QUEIT different.

[@alvarosousa8834]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHSYo5mnd5WggLM

[@azamatkarasaev9933]

One of the best performances of this nocturne

[@rejanebalut]

Belissima interpretação ! ❤

[@angelasesovici5393]

Emoție, rafinament și eleganță! Felicitări!

[@wawerua96]

Amecheza wimbo huu kwa ustadi mno. Hongera!

[@janebishop5885]

How exquisite! Than you for this beautiful gift this Easter day.

[@dmitrit81]

One of the Greatest compositions ever written by F. Chopin!!! And a Great performance 🎵🎹👍 Thank you so much !!!

[@jancossmann7006]

Über ein Jahr habe ich an dem herrlichen Stück geübt. Leider ist es mir nie vergönnt gewesen es so toll zu spielen. Toll gemacht 👍

[@elquixotedelascanarias]

Wow. Such a fresh perspective. I love it.

[@stephanemetens9810]

Simply absolute perfection, listen, enjoy, applaud, thank you Bruce Liu, a more than judicious choice for the Fazioli.

[@deutschegrammophon]

Enjoy!

[@darkwhiteda]

I heard this in his encore of recital! Thanks bruce liu!!

[@chantalreveau7084]

Bravo! Magnifique interprétation.

[@leaberenice1024]

Viva nosso querido Bruce!!! Cada vez melhor. Passo as noites te ouvindo . Deus te abençoe

[@moy9022]

Very beautiful Chopan piece, well played.