Chopin Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op.22 - Dang Thai Son

Chopin Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op.22, performed by the Gold Medalist, Dang Thai Son, at the Xth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1980).
www.dangthaison.net

[@Van.K.T]

In an interview he said that back then he just had to win the competition so that his then severely ill father in Vietnam can get better treatment. He did not spend any award prize for himself, he bought the first proper grand piano for Vietnam National Conservatory. What a soul.

[@rdaepianist3931]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@iagusi2532]

...Chopin proud chest sitting playing... no slouch👍🏻

[@hastensavoir7782]

Doesn’t matter what he spent it for. I just think we all have different purposes, and for pianists who dismiss piano competitions, I can only say they are Privileged to be Established concert artists who don’t have to spend as much effort to be known to the general music public.

[@user-mh2xm4hf4n]

かかく

[@nicolereding7234]

Amazing and generous person very rare in France🥲🌸🎶🎵🌞

[@ronmigatz5913]

I've been playing for over 60 yrs........................Tears came to my eyes!

[@johanlindeberg7304]

You should take a pause now and then.

[@7pianoforte]

Fantastic indeed. I see why he was a first place winner in 1980. He certainly deserved it.

[@miguelkhalil5226]

Pogorelich who should have won.

[@chibaz8882]

@@miguelkhalil5226 I assure you, the more historical books on Chopin or his letters you read, you'll arrive at a different conclusion. Ah, just read a few reviews of Chopin's performances. Chopin compositional school and Chopin piano playing school are not the same things. Pogorelich was right when he said in that interview that he wanted to give rise to a new tradition of playing Chopin, purely because it's was so different from Chopin's.

[@miguelkhalil5226]

@@chibaz8882 i agree with you, he was eliminated for being too eccentric.

[@truongviettran8722]

@@chibaz8882 Chopin wake up from chest and said that: I m playing that you decry. Sad...

[@vantrinhnguyen987]

@@miguelkhalil5226 Pogorelic didn't interpret Chopin musics, he expressed himself

[@philippehazael-massieux9181]

j'ai découvert récemment ce type, et j'ai constaté qu'il jouait, entre autres, l'andante spianato de façon merveilleuse; je me suis dit qu'il mettait dans cette musique une subtilité que certains des plus grands pianiste n'ont pas su exprimer; je n'ai connu un tel ravissement qu'avec deux autres pianistes, également asiatiques , Kate Liu et Éric Lu. J'ai appris peu après que ce deux jeunes artistes avaient été ses élève; le moins qu'on puisse dire, c'est qu'il a bien passé le relai...

[@NN-rn1oz]

Pogo this, Pogo that. In the meantime, this guy plays Chopin with the utmost beauty.

[@claudiorighetti4417]

ESATTAMENTE......: Pogo era senz'altro straordinario come pianista ma, troppo spesso, il suo Chopin sembra piuttosto Scriabin o Rachmaninov, completamente fuori stile. La vera poesia del linguaggio chopiniano, anche nei toni più eroici, è nelle mani del giovanissimo Dan Thai Son.......: bravissimo!!!!

[@DuyNguyen-du3fc]

This performance still moves me to this day.

[@chrislimnios9180]

Dear God, he must have a fantastic musical ear to be able to deliver that level of detailed beauty in his sound.

[@MichaelAlexander1967]

This man, Dang Thai Son, those fingers, that piano - oh me oh my! Clarity, power, sensitivity and impeccable technique = #1, the winner.

[@datnguyenthe8300]

Amazing clarity, every note in the right hand is pronounced. Great dynamics. Incredibly light when needed, like birds chirping. Amazing rendition, my favourite yet!

[@eeee4773]

세월이 지나서 모든 것이 변하지만, 그때의 그 아름다웠던 음악은 영원히 남는 것..... 너무 좋네요♥

[@abcdefghijklmn3417]

This is definitely my favorite! You can listen this at least 1000 times.

[@marekvollach7831]

His poetic sensitivity to phrase shaping and dynamics and agogic accent are all SUPERB. I love this person's playing

[@Nickee_Sonicjinn]

His fingers are dancing so graciously on the keys, but at the same time they are so powerful and this combination makes his redition so exquisite. Thanks for posting this video :)

[@v3le]

his fingers look so funny like in tom & jerry

[@Sahasrarasmi-Sancodite]

His fingers move just like Pogorelichs on the keyboard. Both were students at the moscow conservatory at the same time in 1980 and both entered the competition in 1980.

[@scr3channel39]

No word just shut up and listen best of Chopin the legendary pianist

[@sunnemusic]

Genius touch and commitment more into the piece until the end. Breath taking performance.

[@bagi5511]

He is the best Chopin pro........

[@friedrichbaumgarten8886]

How can it be even possible? It's so sweet... impeccable performance indeed!

[@IKIRU2]

One can see why he won, even if he displaced Pogorelich. His Chopin is delicate, calm, poetic, elegant, sweeping and bold when it needs to be. His hands are long supple thoroughbreads, like Horoowitz's, in that famous film clip. Despite his unprepossessing appearance, he plays with assurance. I enjoyed this right through to the end. Haven't heard much of him, but that's my ignorance: he has plenty of recordings, including DG of this.

[@lanhuongpham629]

Ignorance

[@hellbooks3024]

I suggest looking at photos of Paderewski while listening to this, if you’re still bothered by his “unprepossessing” appearance.

[@jacobschiller4486]

He did not "displace" Pogorelich. In a sense, Ivo did that to himself because of his eccentricity.

[@yoshi_drinks_tea]

He’s fucking hot, don’t know what kind of eyesight would be needed to see otherwise

[@marekvollach7831]

WOW....what an accurate, deep and sensitive comment and I fully agree with you. Thank you for posting

[@truekingvictory]

Gods what a performance! And the tiny bouquet at the end just cracked me up 😂

[@vivianrfjblaw]

wtf dead,, same hes like wtf this is embarrassing but so funny

[@yeac6271]

Look at his misfit suit. He's from vietnam, which was considered as very far from classical music especially at the time. when he was first chosen to Moscow Conservatory, no famous professor would pick him because he had too many technical problems due to unprofessional training he had before. But he made such a turnover in 2 years. In 2015 Eric Lu and Kathie Liu (if i remember the name correctly) who are his students also gave brilliant work on this piece. True genius. Bravo!

[@foolishbit]

He learned piano from his mother, Thai Thi Lien, a Vietnamese pianist and also the founder of Viet Nam National Academy of Music (the former Hanoi National Conservatory of Music), and was later discovered by a nationally renowned Russian pianist, Isaac Katz, on a visit to Vietnam in 1974. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Russia with professor Vladimir Natanson, and Dmitri Bashkirov. Both professors are not "no famous". Studied at the Moscow Conservatory is an honor to the classical world. Her mother, Thai Thi Lien, who studied at the Paris Conservatory and completed her education in Prague, began teaching her son in earnest when he was 5. At 8, Dang Thai Son passed the entrance examination at the School of Music of Vietnam. There's no doubt that he has the gifted talent from god and piece of classical and artistic mind so that he is known particular acclaim for the sonority and poetry in his interpretations of music of Chopin.

[@thanhthuynguyen9799]

His father, Đặng Đình Hưng, is one of the group called "Nhân Văn - Giai Phẩm" who wrote articles, short stories, and poems criticized the dictatorship and totalitarianism of Vietnamese communist government and asked freedom of speech in 1950s. All of them were forced to live in miserable lives after that. Therefore, he was not "favored student" of Vietnamese communist government. Luckily, a Russian professor Vladimir Natanson picked him when he went to Hanoi and saw him playing piano. Mr. Natanson helped him get a scholarship to study music at Moscow and sent him to the Chopin Competition without the support of Vietnamese Embassy in Russia. At that time, 1980s, Vietnam was very underdeveloped. All people lived in the poor condition, especially the families in the "black list" like his family for his father could not get any job. You can see how thin he was. So sad when look at his outfit. But, how wonderful he is playing. Growing in the harsh condition might help him get the deep thoughts that he expressed in his playing.

[@hunglukenguyen]

misfit suite because the Vietnam communist government did not even give him money for travelling + rent before this competition. He got help from a foreign professor. His letter in Vietnamese about this: “Con bị ốm nặng bố ạ, có lẽ vì hành trình đi Vac-sa-va quá dài mà con đi bằng xe lửa. Sứ quán bác đơn xin tiền lộ phí của con để đi thi, họ cũng khước từ bảo hộ cho danh xưng của con trong cuộc thi. Nhưng con quyết định liều và giáo sư Na-tan-xon một lần nữa lại giúp con, ông ấy cho con tiền đi đường, tiền thuê dàn nhạc đệm và tiền trọ… Trong cơn sốt 39.5 độ, con đã chảy nước mắt ròng: Các nước tham dự cuộc thi đều được chào cờ và cử quốc ca của mình, mà Việt Nam thì không có - Con tham dự với tư cách thí sinh tự do… Nhưng cũng nhờ sự cay đắng đó mà con gặp được Chopin - Những nỗi đau giao thoa với nhau đã bật lên tiếng đàn của hồn ông…”

[@jaycraigiie4096]

which showed how talent he was. It took only two years a turnover from unprofessional training he had before and he won.

[@SanyL.]

Jay Craigiie Imagine, if he had had the best conditions to be trained as the other most famous pianists in the world, he would have been on the top of the world long time ago. In fact a Russian piano teacher, Isaac Katz who was teaching then in Vietnam discovered him, tried to help him to go to Russia to have a proper training. Though the Vietnamese Communists tried stopping just because his father who was an architect, a painter and also a musician who was in the well known group of talented people that were considered being an opponent to Communists! As soon as he got to Russia he passed exam to attend to Tchaikovsky Piano where professor Natanson who recognized his talent tried helping him to attend the annual Chopin Piano exam in Poland. He got the top reward without any difficulty. When he attended the exam Vietnamese Communist refused to support him, so hè attended Á Á freelance candidate instead of representing his country as Vietnam! No country’s anthem was played when he was nominated! One more time his teacher Natanson used his own money to send him to the exam, even to pay for his performing outfit! It’s ironic that as soon as he got The top reward, the Vietnamese Communists turned around praised him absurdly! Even they gave him the title “The people’s musician”. He had very limited means through his schooling and training, yet he got the top reward! That’s proven how talented Đặng Thắi Sơn is!

[@psych320]

Best interpretation upon first hearing. No need to listen to others. Even though I'm fan of Yundi li n Ivo Pogorelich. Soo poetic n touching. Like stream of spring water

[@JianShan-hk8jt]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH-bh3WPg6tlgqM try this u wont want this version of Dang Thai Son anymore lol

[@orikate1743]

@@JianShan-hk8jt 聽了鄧泰山的演奏後，就聽不下去李雲迪的了。李比起鄧差多了。

[@JianShan-hk8jt]

@@orikate1743 個人喜好囉:) 鄧年輕比賽的版本跟雲迪比起來我比較喜歡雲迪 雲迪的風格很明顯 不過鄧自己有說 他以前在俄羅斯的時候 因為聽到學習到的版本很少 他以前談的跟現在風格不太一樣 因為現在網路發達 以前都聽錄音帶

[@JianShan-hk8jt]

@@orikate1743 雲迪 時好時壞...各種臨場表現反差太大 巔峰還是在18-22歲的時候 :))

[@LC-ig2jm]

Still, the 2000 Yundi is more poignant.

[@ghostrider8307]

One of the most perfect renditions of this piece

[@doubleriee17]

How can just clicking a like button reciprocate this marvelous play!

[@StraussKeyboards]

He is so like Chopin with his hair and his style 🎉

[@alwatsonpianist]

Truly a winning interpretation!!!!

[@TLNetworkGuru]

Ooh.. this guy gets it... what an amazing performance of this very amazing piece.... Splendid.

[@nobody12364]

Dang Thai Son was my Star when I was a kid.

[@LienTran-ds1rc]

ILOVE DRIVING thank you :3 he's Vietnamese and also me :3 my country's so pround of him :3 he made Vietnam brighter :3

[@ducanhtrannn99]

Liên Trần proud* you mean?

[@PhuongNguyen-cy4gg]

me too :))

[@danielkristianson208]

This man is the real deal. Virtually every element is there for Dang Thai Son to be counted as one of the greatest pianists of all time. As for the 1980 Chopin competition, how I wish Pogorelich had been advanced to the finals ... Dang Thai Son would still have won (IMHO), and the spotlight would have been almost entirely on him, rather than on the controversy swirling around Pogorelich's exclusion from the finals. Dang Thai Son will always be one of my favorites, along with William Kappel, Dinu Lipatti and Gilels.

[@user-bn4ip9eu6s]

Grace, sensitivity, youthful coolness with thoughtful play, clarity and stability. Abilities that even the excellent Pogorelich would appreciate with the sense that distinguishes him.

[@eduardomolli5860]

Fantastic. He plays wonderfuly and this rendition is amazing. A great technique in fingers and feelings in the sounds they make.

[@hieuthaonguyen506]

😢 the best interpretation of this polonaise so far. I wish l could see you play in person one day

[@kabs1681]

Came here from spotify just to say that this is REALLY GOOD. I've been listening to this almost everyday for more than a month now. Goated interpretation.

[@vitastory]

you are the soul of piano!

[@giaBao2011]

Thật kỳ diệu! Tự hào vì Đặng Thái Sơn là người Việt Nam, người Châu Á! 😍😍😍🎶🎶🎶🎹🎹🎹🌍🌎🌏

[@WilliamSFBikeTour]

Quite possibly my new favorite version of this piece. Exquisite. Flawless. Beautiful. Phenomenal. Thank you. Peace.

[@reedonam]

tự hào về anh Đặng Thái Sơn, tự hào là người Việt, bình luận tiếng Việt đầu tiên ở đây, còn bạn là thứ mấy?

[@hannastaszak1684]

Cudowna muzyka genialnego Chopina, boskie wykonanie ❤️

[@maninblack2898]

Glorious, glorious..

[@ThePianoPlayer4Ever]

Unbelievably crisp!

[@davidmoran5431]

lefthand brilliant at end, clear and clean if you gotta do Chopin, then like this, yeah

[@pianoman1857]

10:43 his touch … is just amazing

[@jasonkim5503]

It is SUCH a SHAME that he hasn’t gained the international fame that he truly deserved. Look what happened to Ivo Pogorelich, who stole the thunder right under his nose by NOT winning. Life is truly funny.

[@MyTubeSongs123]

Simple explanation: Racism...

[@Cubi.Nguyen]

N. Minh Nguyen lol no

[@elifnur2683]

@@MyTubeSongs123 hahaha you high?

[@MurciellagoSV]

Son said he chose to go back to school after winning the competition. He was humble enough to recognize he wasn't ready for it and had lots of work to do.

[@yeac6271]

First I think any piano fun would say that Dang is very famous. Pogorelich had very polarised comments but was also an undoubtable rising star. Second after the competition he still couldnt travel to the west because he had a vietnamese passport which limited his fame for like a decade. But he did give a lot of performance in Japan which also had and still have a very good classical music environment.

[@foolishbit]

Everybody plays Chopin, he's playing music. There's no doubt that Dang Thai Son won first place over Pogorelich who is playing Chopin in his own style.

[@note160]

진짜 최고네요 당타이손은 잘 몰랐는데 진정한 쇼팽 스페셜리스트가 여기 계셨네 ㅠㅠ 시작하는데 숨멎는 줄

[@1frchopin]

dang thai son is first chopin international piano competition winner as asian people

[@jimvids]

not the first, there were theree asian participants called Fou Ts'ong from China, Li Min Qiang from China, Hiroko Nakamura from Japan and Mitsuko Uchida from Japan although they not gained first prize

[@HoangPham-ii4fj]

Hyunjae Kwon said he's the first Asian winner, not the first competitor

[@jasonkim5503]

Ng Keanjin Yeah, but he was the first Asian WINNER, 1st place. Mitsko Uchida was awarded a 2nd place, after Garrick Olson, in 1970.

[@isaachernando8560]

@@jasonkim5503 First, second, and third place are considered winners in this competition?

[@vitellia]

@@isaachernando8560 I guess different people have different definitions. Ok, let me just say he was the first Asian "1ST PLACE WINNER". That'll do. ^_^

[@elizabethwilkinson5747]

Magical.

[@user-nx4pq1ly5l]

My heart simply melting right under your finger tips ! ❤❤❤

[@kimweonill]

I didn't know he was of that much genius!!!

[@missmlb3842]

One can only imagine how long he studied..practiced to play such a piece so brilliantly@!

[@hannastaszak1684]

Chopin to najpiękniejsza spuścizna dla ludzkości.

[@yoonjjeon]

Amazing so clear

[@johnnyyang6625]

His style is so similar to Bruce Liu's. He is indeed Liu's teacher.

[@NHANNGUYEN-tf5pk]

The soul of Chopin .....--,{@}

[@Kaydendummy]

4:44 is where the polonaise starts

[@iagusi2532]

enchantée...Chopin shine...brilliant

[@andrewle1020]

Hay hơn hẳn những nhạc sĩ dương cầm khác vì bác Sơn chơi bản này không một chút bạo lực. Ngược lại, giai điệu của bác đầy thơ mộng, nhẹ nhàng như chiếc lá thu rơi trôi trên dòng suối mơ, trong cánh rừng nơi những con chim đang ríu rít vui đùa.

[@JianShan-hk8jt]

this is why he is the winner omg so good, now i know why YunDi Lee can play this song so well because of Dang Thai Son

[@jaycraigiie4096]

love it .beautiful melody

[@larissayegorova4442]

Как замечательно! Великолепно! Это и учитель победителя нынешнего ,18 конкурса Шопена- Брюса Лю!!

[@jasonkim5503]

Ok, please tell me he won the Best Polonaise Performance as well, because this is truly the most amazing performance of Op. 22, easily beating out Yundi Li’s.

[@HuyNguyen-rf4in]

As you wish chopin2015.medici.tv/en/page/laureates. He won all the (minor) prize for mazurka, polonaise and concerto

[@jasonkim5503]

Huy Nguyen Wow, AWESOME!!!

[@Populous3Tutorials]

you need to listen to more versions :D this isnt close to the best version of op22

[@chainuser1774]

His Polonaise Brilliante is a little fast for my liking but man is it so crisp and clear. Not a single note wasted!

[@nicolereding7234]

Stunning interpretation, when i heard Bruce Xiayo Liu in this piece, i felt the influence of his masrer⚡️💯🤲🌞🌈

[@lm1iii517]

This is best version.

[@godthai610]

0:12. Look at those fingers, they are dancing. That's the reason why the piano is always set in this view. Dang Thai Son made this rendition more sightly.

[@h.p.734]

Beautifully played!!

[@TwelfthRoot2]

exceptional performance!

[@angelogarcia4220]

I love the way Dung Tyson plays this piece. It's truly a genius performance.

[@andrewle1020]

Dung Tyson. Nice interpretation hahhaha. very effective for english speaker

[@GrzegorzNowacki]

*Brilliant performance* ♪ ♩ ♫ ♪

[@g.e.b.8159]

Such maturity at such a young age!

[@user-ld5hu9ev6c]

Совершенно зрелое, мастерское исполнение. Абсолютное владение звуковой палитрой, фразировкой, rubato. Совершенно понятно решение жюри о присуждении первой премии. Потому что на тот момент уровень мастерства был уже близок к вершине или уже. Уже в молодом возрасте, в конкурсной обстановке, пианист продемонстрировал такое глубокое понимание Шопена, такое владение музыкальным языком композитора, что не может возникнуть никакого сомнения в решении жюри, несмотря на выпады некоторых его членов.

[@owennovenski4794]

From Chopin’s pen to these poetic fingers. Yet another example of string theory.

[@shalvahmbmacdonald8487]

Bravo!

[@SanyL.]

So beautiful! Profoundly expressing!

[@lanlanlinh]

than sau quy khoc. dien dai me man. Truly amazing. sent my soul to the 9th cloud, dancing with angels.

[@bakuto.1055]

May not be my musical preference, but damn look at that technique. That alone is impressive af.

[@hyl2510]

그저 감탄만.. 독보적이다. 지금 시대가 아니어서 안타깝다

[@toewomg]

真的是彈得太好了，他當年羸得金獎是絕對正確的，那怕Martha Argerich 為了Ivo Pogorelić落選而退出評審團！

[@antoniowu6587]

A Great pianist

[@carlhopkinson]

Whoop-ass rendition!!!!

[@1oneMIND]

와...정말 페달을 최소한으로만 쓰면서 이렇게 잘 치다니!! 그리고 리듬감 최고!!!

[@krystynahamburg]

PERFECTion, full stop.

[@2HHB]

love his bent collar at 3 49

[@faerys_wheel6529]

lol me too! his nerdness captivates me. haha

[@Chimboica2011]

@@faerys_wheel6529 me too, that even made him look more unit, we just witness a true artist. His ending flat me to floor. WOW

[@jjzg456]

4:44 Grande Polonaise Brillante

[@nobodynoone2081]

Wow Mike thaison looks very different when he plays the piano!

[@user-fi8cs4se8h]

아... 눈물이 나올 것만 같아! 하다가 눈물이 또로록 흘러나왔다ㅠㅠ

[@thisisphamtree]

thank you, sr

[@leegio6602]

Am I the only one who thinks his style is pretty close to Bruce Liu’s? He’s actually Liu’s teacher. Liu seems to have inherited and developed his style. Light, controlled touch and excellent tempo, flexible phrasing like stream. In that era, pianists with sound like steel and thunder were noted. Meanwhile, Son had been undervalued. Now Bruce Liu is creating a new trend with his original style, and we can see how modern what Dang Thai Son tried 40 years ago was.

[@user-so7pi1lc2n]

awesome

[@hosinooji]

no doubt 1st place

[@annalice4244]

彈超好的

[@grazianolauzana2236]

Bravissimo!!!

[@melodien1]

Dang!Csodálatos a kezed,de nem mindig használod jól!Emeld meg akkor is a csuklód,mikor azt gondolnád,hogy nem kell!Helyenként csápolsz!De jó uton jársz!Híved:Otto Anthony Fai

[@charlesdavis7087]

Listen you handsome young man... You DON'T NEED TO WARE GLASSES WHILE PLAY THE PIANO. Right? Right. Right! Let people see your smile of deep heart understanding........ The real you coming forward... with all of us... upon this musical moment and phrase... with you. Well done young genius. Hope to hear more of you. From Charles, USA, Los Angeles, Hollywood.

[@dangin540]

from hanoi 1/2023

[@thanhchinguyen1814]

Đặng qua Nhật chi ta.... Sao không ở lại Việt Nam. Giờ năm 2019 con cháu và nhiều bạn bè tôi sẽ xem Đặng biểu diễn. Người Việt Nam hỏi Chopin thì biết nhưng Đặng Thái Sơn thì không biết !!!!!

[@TF2Starlight]

god tier recording

[@finnstyles]

4:43 grande polonaise brillante

[@ThuyTran-ix5wh]

🎹🌿👏🎹🎹🎹

[@stutti42]

Zarte, aber mit einem Touch dem einzigartigen Sound wurde hochglanzpoliert war tief.

[@huuvietle833]

Hay quá