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

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From the Salon Frédéric Chopin at Paris's Place Vendôme, Bruce Liu - winner of the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition - presents an intimate recital of the composer's music. The Ballades Nos. 2 and 3 form the heart of the programme, the one contrasting lilting lyricism with stormy outbursts, the other building from a quiet, understated opening to a triumphant conclusion. The ballades are bookended by two early works, the spritely Rondo à la mazur and the dazzlingly virtuosic Variations on "Là ci darem la mano". And Liu continues in virtuosic vein for two encores: Chopin's "Black Key" Etude in G-Flat and the breathtaking Etude "La Campanella" by Chopin's friend and rival Franz Liszt.
Bruce Liu - Chopin: Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, KK IVa/16 (WPD performance)
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[@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)

[@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

[@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]

😢😢😢

[@user-nc1lx2so4d]

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

[@juanfragueiroaramburu]

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

[@biggiebaby3541]

No. Valentina.

[@garssympa500]

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

[@user-rs1hy1tr7u]

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

[@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.

[@user-xj4lj4bk1p]

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.

[@ernesztinarudnyak4193]

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

[@micheleklatt3888]

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

[@dabaska787]

wow stop the clock this is a wonderful interpretation thank you

[@deutschegrammophon]

Glad you like it!

[@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 👍

[@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

[@user-uw8os2mw1i]

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 !

[@scottwallace1]

Beautiful. Expressive. Sensitive.

[@deutschegrammophon]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jstefens]

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

[@urbanoracle_14]

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

[@krasnaja6807]

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

[@deutschegrammophon]

Many thanks!

[@anklebreaka03]

What a phenomenal, inspiring performance and rendition. Incredible talent

[@deutschegrammophon]

Thank you!

[@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....👏

[@justiciaylibertad774]

Without words!!!😎

[@deutschegrammophon]

🙏

[@Salsahaj]

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

[@lorigrant31]

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

[@deutschegrammophon]

Thank you so much! 😍

[@разговоръ]

..what a magnificent cascade. Bravo...

[@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

[@elsagamez1953]

Ya perdí la cuenta de cuantas veces he visto , escuchado esta interpretación de Bruce, mi video para despertar y dormir.....Celestial

[@MKossobudzkivonStein]

Simply absolute perfection.

[@andyanderson9824]

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

[@larisatarabaeva5461]

Прекрасное проникновенное исполнение..!❤ спасибо!

[@siphovice]

Just beautiful 😢

[@deutschegrammophon]

Indeed

[@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. 😅

[@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.

[@nicolehourcade]

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

[@bedenerexhepaj1480]

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

[@pritchetty]

Divine

[@deutschegrammophon]

🙏

[@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!

[@ahmettas3350]

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

[@phishsaw]

Talented and handsome 😍

[@eastorthodox]

Magnificiently played!

[@MatthewC.-ox7kd]

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

[@deutschegrammophon]

Thank you so much!

[@DellDreamer]

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

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

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

[@johnerdmann2700]

PERFECT-HANDS!!!!

[@dobbydoughnuts9941]

One of the best performances I’ve ever heard

[@c.ssantisteban5317]

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

[@deutschegrammophon]

glad you like it!

[@serenitys531]

OMG.. MY SOUL HAS LEFT MY BODY.. ❤😢

[@judyjae6022]

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

[@PabloIzurieta]

An excellent pianist with an excellent name.

[@gracenotes5379]

What a gift!

[@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❤

[@chrislaw1945]

So Beautiful and Perfect 👍

[@TheFFFF3]

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

[@mahmudrzayev696]

Dinlədiyim ən yaxşı ifalardan biri idi👏🏻

[@LoveMusic-pd5iz]

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

[@krystynam.8223]

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

[@marchandesermf2854]

So beautiful interprétation .......

[@arcticwolf4029]

So much feelings, so beautiful!

[@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

[@user-om9sx5yw7f]

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。

[@stephanemetens9810]

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

[@deutschegrammophon]

Enjoy!

[@bwvvariationen]

Such a perfect sound

[@rejanebalut]

Belissima interpretação ! ❤

[@TerryBeemer]

Both of my ears are happy.

[@yvonneyang8205]

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

[@hilaryford6493]

I’m speechless beautiful thank you x

[@auroraf.s]

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

[@Mereteli]

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

[@DeborahYvette522]

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

[@notsure7404]

PERFECT

[@pippikrumeluss5167]

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

[@henri-francoisserrescousin412]

So perfect ! Thanks for this pure moment of Art !

[@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 :)

[@jonchristianpiano]

Beautiful

[@WannerMoya]

Perfect!!!! For you Monica, my love for eternity, IN YOUR MEMORY ❤

[@user-ty2cq8tu7b]

クリアで暖かい旋律が大好き❤

[@Puppyhappyall]

He is one of the kind! I have re-watched this video for many times, he is so good. Just he can make this beautiful vibes

[@wongjoyce1150]

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

[@johntechwriter]

Nice simile!

[@ML-yx6hw]

Thank you so much! Incredible!

[@deutschegrammophon]

Glad you liked it!

[@dmitrit81]

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

[@eliasmusic919]

Beautiful!

[@StrikeOutl]

wow! Moving performance. It's crazy how you hear the same piece over and over and discover different/more shades of a seemingly same emotion of "sadness" or "nostalgia" within you.

[@teardrop720]

The touch is profound

[@seanwilliams5953]

That is just masterful!

[@leaberenice1024]

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

[@fredhoupt4078]

Lovely and sensitive interpretation

[@sourabhjangid8013]

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

[@Angharad329]

AWESOME interpretation, BRAVO !

[@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 !

[@srenschandorf]

Absolutely mesmerizing!!

[@hannastaszak1684]

Cudowna muzyka genialnego Chopina, boskie wykonanie ❤️

[@Toobula]

Beautifully played. Tempo and intonation excellent.

[@miguelmasson5417]

Merveilleux interprétation digne des plus grands bravo

[@selmaipekoglu5726]

Wow mir laufen gerade die Tränen so gerührt bin ich. Danke vielmals.

[@darkwhiteda]

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

[@saritis7123]

What a beautiful player.

[@willycat7445]

Such beautiful grace with his hands. Very precise.

[@jwxujerry]

Breathtakingly beautiful!

[@ck1234k]

Sublime

[@tobiaswatters7221]

oh my goodness lord this was truly magical i had sweat dripping down my face i've never edged so hard. when he hit that last chord i EXPLODED. so sensual and absolutely gorgeous. highly recommend. better than the hub

[@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.