Kate Liu - Polonaise-fantasy in A flat major Op. 61 (third stage)

[@태현-u6u]

Kate Liu's Second Stage's Andante spianato, Ballade No. 4 and Scherzo No. 3 trio are the best performances in all-time Chopin Competition... To name one more thing, the third stage's Polonaise fantasy... These four are truly the treasure of humanity...

[@집콕-o9i]

I’m literally speechless. Her musical storytelling ability is just insane in this piece!

[@angelinemapiano2543]

yes exactly. she tells a magical story, one that does not need to be explained in tangible, real-life events or words, but one that is a story in itself just because of her music. kate liu’s profundity and understanding are like nobody else’s…

[@TheCitybike]

Wonderful : real music everywhere

[@blacksmith1699]

Although nine years have passed, your music continues to shine brighter than ever. I eagerly anticipate more of your incredible performances. I sincerely hope for the chance to hear you play live again someday.

[@優-y6i]

幻想ポロネーズ難しいのにこんなにていねいに弾かれるケイト•リュウさんは私にとって素敵なピアニストです。 この幻想ポロネーズを何回も聴いています。 いつか私も弾いて見たいです。 そして、今はコロナの世界的大流行。コロナが収束したら、ぜひまた日本に来てほしいです！

[@AyGee11]

No matter how many times I listen to Kate Liu, her uncanny ability to connect to Chopin's soul is unparalleled. What else can you ask for? Thank you Liu for sharing your most intimate emotions...

[@ciararespect4296]

No Europeans have the key to Chopin its just inherent in their blood

[@liceous]

8:50 is one of the most beautiful melodies of all time.

[@ShaneTheMathGuy]

+liceous :)

[@TheRegina78]

Kate 's the number one

[@marshallartz395]

liceous: Especially when it’s played like this.

[@szkari65]

11:18 - the same melody - but it is the most painful loneliness which anybody has ever felt in the Universe

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@szkari65 Loneliness is a beautiful emotion.

[@blacksmith1699]

This performance is the best .!!! Kate Liu is The world no 1 .!!!!!

[@blacksmith9338]

Happy Birthday Kate !!! may 23 (2023). We love you so much. We want Kate to play a lot of Chopin music from now on .

[@MarshallArtz007]

❤❤❤ 🎂 ❤️❤️❤️

[@ilubCHRISTsomach]

Kate can certainly play some good Chopin!! She has a way of making each note sound so noble, and her dynamics are flawless.

[@blacksmith9338]

Kate's performance is excellent.!! No one has ever played like this , before.!!!

[@NoahJohnson1810]

I just love this polonaise. Every melody is fresh and brilliant. Great performance Kate!

[@angelinemapiano2543]

one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, played elegantly and absolutely exquisitely by a fantastic artist!

[@hannastaszak1684]

Chopin to cudowne dzieło Boga. Mój ulubiony kompozytor.

[@pabloportocarrero9439]

TENGO UNA NIETA RECIEN NACIDA QUE TIENE TU NOMBRE: ¡ HANNA ! Y OJALÁ, TAMBIÉN UN DÍA DISFRUTE MUCHO DE LA MÚSICA DE SHOPIN. SALUDOS DESDE BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA.

[@MARI-ib6xq]

Również Chopin jest moim ulubionym kompozytorem odkąd skończyłem 5 lat. Uczyłem się gry na fortepianie przez 14 lat i najczęściej grałem jego piękne kompozycje.

[@dudamarthe8044]

Lepiej bym tego nie ujęła

[@김미영-b1h]

​@@pabloportocarrero943911¹¹1¹¹¹❤❤

[@lul817]

Geniusz, a wykonanie - tyle obrazów i emocji, pięknie!!!!

[@mji71]

Chopin was a freakin' genius. This masterpiece proves it. Enough said.

[@LazlosPlane]

No doubt, one of Chopin's most under-appreciated misunderstood works. It shows, upon careful analysis, the mark a true craftsman of music at the peak of his powers. The genius overflows in ways that are not easily discernible to the casual listener. This work (along with the Ballades, the Fantasy in F-minor, the Barcarolle, and of course, the Mazurkas) places Chopin in the ranks of the greatest composers. And Ms. Liu plays it quite beautifully.

[@vahe_freestyle62]

Omg so true this piece is so magical it’s not persee sad nor happy, it’s just has like a very magical touch i can’t explain the feeling i get.

[@davidstarkweather7764]

It is an amazing work but who is under rating it? Did you have a music teacher who hated it because they weren't able to play it adequately?

[@Johannes_Brahms65]

There's something about her... The focus, one-pointed consciousness, effortlesness, ears wide open and fingertips so sensitive without allowing any distraction, feeling the music as if she's telling her parents about something special that just happened. To me this is piano playing on the highest level. But before all this, she must be a mystic, knowingly or not. After all the message is about inner peace, isn't it?

[@miamargareta9997]

Very exact definition 👌 ..simply marvelous playing

[@cathrine7020]

mystic 33.

[@mina-ry2st]

Her piano play has a power. If I’m a lion or other wild animal, I sit down on the ground and just listen to her piano. 🦁

[@Chopinbarcarolle]

Chopin must have been very proud of her if he had a chance to listen to her playing this piece. I've been a big time fan of this piece and her interpretation is by far the best to me. I appreciate her breathtaking performance.

[@meetrieum]

마치 피아노가 숨을 쉬고 호흡을 하는것처럼..때로 다정하게 어루만지고 시간을 함께하며 추억을 쌓는것처럼..진정 음악을 연주하는 연주자..케이트 리우.. 쇼팽의 선률을 풍경화가 처럼 그려나가는 모습이 진정 예술가가 아닐까..다른 시연자들..기교와 기량과 패션을 맘껏 과시하는 연주자도 있지만.. 투명하게 맑은 모습으로 기품있는 선을 그려나가는 피아니스트다..진정 사랑받아야할 연주자가 아닐까...ㅠㅠ

[@CuteBaneling]

케이트 리우만의 유니크한 그런 분위기가 있죠

[@why_you_scared9]

저도진짜좋아하는 피아니스트에요

[@도우사마]

군더더기 없는 최고의 연주입니다

[@Romi726]

Good…..❤❤❤❤❤

[@CompozinCarolinaTreborYeldah]

Ms. Liu makes this most harmonically complex and difficult work live with a most beautiful elegant simplicity...the work of a master pianist!

[@theMEANpipe]

brought me to tears

[@joaoluisfreitas3909]

Incredible new and amazing intrerpretation of Chopin´s Fantaisie Polonaise by Kate Liu ! Unbelivable !! One of the best, ever! João Luís Freitas, Portugal

[@plain713]

12:57 ~ 13:13 that left hand's melody is incredible

[@darkshadows9658]

Also really cool that this melody was taken exactly from 8:00 transposed in A flat in the style of a polonaise. This work is a masterpiece :)

[@marshan1226]

MoonlightBlade wow

[@visveee6678]

@@darkshadows9658One of the things I love about this piece specifically is that, after a section ends, you can still hear it in other places you wouldn’t. This is a great example of that.

[@jonathanlim7091]

really a mesmerizing sight seeing her beautiful hands glide through the keyboard quite gently

[@marshallartz395]

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) Polonaise-Fantasie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 *(1846)* 00:00 Allegro maestoso 02:12 *m 22 a tempo giusto* 03:46 *m 64* 04:47 *m 94 a tempo* 05:29 *m 116 dolce* 06:52 *m 148 Poco più lento* 08:43 *m 180* 10:35 *m 214* 11:21 *m 216* 12:29 *m 242* 14:15 _The End_ Kate Liu, piano✨ *17th International Chopin Competition* *Stage 3, 10 am-2:15 pm Session* *October 15, 2015*

[@whatsupdom]

I am currently learning this piece and part of learning it is hearing other pianists’ interpretation. I must say that this is by far the best performance of this piece I have ever heard. Not only technically but her musical sincerity and truth with her playing makes this performance a piece of heaven and an epitome of our human potential. Very inspiring indeed. Kudos Kate Liu!

[@Thiago-px9ev]

Let me recommend you Arthur Moreira Lima's 1965 performance on the same Chopin competition

[@whatsupdom]

@@Thiago-px9ev I will get back to you after I have listened to it! I have performed this piece at the time of this writing and will still do on my recital on April or May this year.

[@Thiago-px9ev]

@@whatsupdom Cool! Im pretending the same on my graduation recital. Im sure your polonaise is already great, but its nice to hear from someone that actually have studied this piece what you'll think about Moreira Lima's version. He's my fellow countryman and one of the best Chopin interpreters I've ever heard

[@PM-4564]

You don't think Ingolf Wunder's is better? For me, Kate Liu's Sonata is the best, and Ingolf Wunder has the best Polonaise-Fantasy and Concerto.

[@ThanhTran-to5cj]

I think Yulianna play it better

[@bomikim798]

kate liu always makes me practice harder.She plays very clearly this technical difficult pice.I envy you. since 2015 this competition

[@vettegaddia6234]

Yet another beautiful and thoughtful performance for Liu.

[@brunopiccinin]

Brilliant Kate Liu. OMG, I've never heard so many people coughing in an audience like this before, this is outrageous.

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

Best rendition i have ever heard....even surpassing the so called GREATS.

[@meetrieum]

인류 60억중에 이렇게 될수있는 확률이 얼마나 될까..60억분의 1의 그룹에 해당하는 사람이다.그리고 그중에서도 자신만의 색채가 뚜렷한 피아니스트사람이다..해서 그녀의 존재는 특별하다..ㅠㅜ

[@안창살]

리우 판타지 ㄹㅇ 따라올사람이없음 ;;

[@ciararespect4296]

Not really. She can't play it like Europeans can

[@juv7026]

@@ciararespect4296 yea, she does it better

[@madhukiran4037]

Kate Liu is one of the best interpreters of Chopin. She is so good at Op. 61 that she can even play it in her sleep. LIKE SHE DOES IN THIS VIDEO! 😂

[@maxb4074]

her artistic abilities are unmatched and give everything she plays a lovely quality

[@literaine6550]

Chopin says allow me to tell you about a place I've been, I will take you there. Kate is marvelous.

[@sandplus5048]

Kate’s music is very sensitive, very delicate and beautiful to our ears. When she looks up, what does she see ? She is talking to Chopin.

[@admirljubovic6759]

I am in a dream state listening to this

[@blacksmith1699]

Happy birthday Kate!!. may 23 (2024). We love you so much !!!. we will want Kate to play a lot of Chopin music from now on. I'm looking forward to it .

[@EsaieKisimba-p6l]

What a beautiful introduction

[@angelinemapiano2543]

12:54 onwards brings tears to my eyes. so magical and passionate

[@크에리]

Flow of the music is so natural in her performance. I like it.

[@mina-ry2st]

I want to give her “The fantasy award” for op41 and op61. 🌌🎹🎶🏆

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

mystified at such wonderful talent

[@maria_pianista7760]

I think she will win the Chopin Competition

[@vettegaddia6234]

+maria_pianista There are about 3 pianists who were near flawless in all three rounds. And they also have artistry.

[@cmcase]

The mentality for whom a performance is ruined by a few technical slipups is the same as that which would put down a novel or poem upon encountering a misprint.

[@tigerphantom354]

?

[@novulus5470]

@@tigerphantom354 it's basically like reading the best story ever on a book with some typos and misprints which is basically still fulfilling, more so than reading a book with no typos, perfect print, but a terribly boring story.

[@nymeriafrost7687]

A misprint is the fault of the printing machine. A more accurate comparison would be trashing a novel because the novelist made some grammatical mistakes and occasionally used wrong vocabulary.

[@novulus5470]

@@nymeriafrost7687 Yes. A few grammatical errors won't ruin the experience of a well written story. However similarly, too many slip-ups, or in this case grammatical errors, can annoy the listener/reader. It's like eating really good tasting food but encountering random tiny pebbles every bite.

[@fars1d3s]

A masterful and mature performance. Kate Liu is our new Chopin specialist of the 21st century.

[@canoedist]

Liu in one ear and Blechacz in the other? Yep. I'm a happy camper!

[@syoshi8466]

この難曲をオーソドックスかつ丁寧に弾きこなしている。しかもタッチが柔らかく音色が心地よい。物足りないと思う人もいるかもしれないが、この柔らかい弾き方は一般の方々にとって参考になるのでは。

[@pinguente]

A master pianist like Kate Liu will always take care to train by performing in front of a respiratory clinic patients' audience, in order to be able to overhear the obnoxious coughing people in the "real" public, like it happens here. It is fantastic how these people choose to cough always in the pauses or ppp parts... Magistral execution by the way....

[@WitoldBanasik]

Kate is "within a zone" as she always states... in other words she doesn't care much what's happening around her during the performance. She embodies music all by herself... I'm sure Chopin admires Kate ... while listening to her somewhere over the rainbow.

[@malurocapiano]

One of the best renditions ever

[@TOMKOT35]

She was born to play this song. One of the best performances of this song. Way to go.

[@alfredoparamo3139]

I listened live to great pianists like Claudio Arrau and Alexis Weisenberg, but more I have been touched by Kate Liu,

[@SmasherBunny]

6:45 Great shot showing how she finds the right keys with her eyes closed :)

[@wpchang]

love this comp

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

Here you have the pure genius and incredible Gift from God......our Chopin

[@MARI-ib6xq]

I think Kate should have won first prize at the 2015 International Competition not third. She is a great pianist and she plays Chopin beautifully.

[@saptap387]

lol cho played much more better.

[@danielabosnegeanu1065]

Love ...a great performance ! 💓...brilliant !

[@oliwertwardy593]

One of the few pianists untouched with pop music. Brilliant phrases, rubata, beautiful melody and dynamics. Great.

[@segmentsAndCurves]

"One of the few pianists untouched with pop music." I don't understand what you're trying to say. Please explain!

[@ozyush]

My point exactly!

[@viniciussanches9742]

She will be a finalist

[@John-thinks]

placed 3rd

[@WitoldBanasik]

Kate, Heaven must have sent you from above !!!!

[@janfils1922]

j'aime bien sa tendresse dans l'interpretation de Chopin.

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

Considering the time this was written by Chopin...he was at least a century or two ahead of his own time. This music is complex.....advanced in a very unique way... well beyond the general mentality of the time in which he found himself alive....hahaah and considering the mentality of the time in which we live now this music is still miles ahead

[@cmcase]

It has something of the rhapsodic improvisatory quality of some of the best jazz music.

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

@Kill Bill2021 good thoughts there...... I think different composers heard different voices inside them compelling them and directing them to create what they did ...and perhaps for reasons only they could understand or even comprehend

[@kestrel3509]

i don't think you should say 'Ahead', i think he transcended into his own world composing and playing this piece. I mean what do we have today in the name of musical integrity??

[@valterracca5369]

I melted when I heard this part, I really love this part ... good kate liu 4:43

[@blacksmith9338]

Kate is like the goddess of music.!!!

[@angelinemapiano2543]

brilliant!!! is it unhealthy that i listen to this at least 5x everyday?

[@irkira477]

Yes, it is unhealthy. It should be at least 10 times.

[@manuelbes]

@@irkira477 best response

[@Alun49]

Only five? What's wrong with you!! :)

[@szkari65]

Kate's Chopin is very dangerous, leads to addiction :) Believe me, I do know! Just now finished listening E minor concerto, today 6th time. So I must begin 7th time. No escape...

[@marshallartz395]

szkari65: Keep going! Update: It’s now March 2022 and I still keep coming back to this great performance. 🎹😎

[@samwillis1843]

7:05...8:50...13:27...An incredible piece filled with incredible melodies...

[@javiertw89]

Beautiful performance!

[@blacksmith9338]

Kate is the person whom my life cannot lack in.

[@sefaemreilikli]

Coughing at these competitions must be considered a crime. Do you see anyone coming to a marathon and try to tackle the runners? It affects everyone from the pianists to the jury members because it creates a negative emotion, disrupts the musicians' concentration and generally damages the whole atmosphere. Chopin Competition please at least warn people! I was blissfully swimming in dreams when the guy at 11:21 just annoyed me to the point of writing an angry comment under this magnificent performance. Ruined the whole recording for me. If you are coughing, stay at home and don't ruin it for the rest of us.

[@西宮硝子-k8l]

Lmao calm down

[@manuelbes]

What was Chopin diagnosed with already? Oh yes I remember now, tuberculosis...

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

@@西宮硝子-k8l And you, shut up

[@西宮硝子-k8l]

@@Fritz_Maisenbacher calm down kid

[@willyj3321]

Definition of a first world problem. Imagine being so bothered by a person coughing. I get it- it’s sort of annoying. It’s not worth writing a literal diatribe over, though.

[@PianistKimHanul]

SPIRIT..

[@rodolfo0506]

Kate Liu, when the Mystery of the Music takes possession of a human integrality taken Her out of this rude World, lefting us aspiring to raise our flights

[@carlose.johansson739]

Absolutely wonderful!

[@TheRegina78]

beautiful and the best

[@apei3899]

나의 플레이리스트1번 한번씩 들으면 좋다

[@Giannaena]

I love this piece 🎹🎵

[@duwir5959]

he played so fine, great. Sviatoslav Richter played it also great.

[@duwir5959]

sorry, SHE ...

[@simongrant1237]

Wonderful!

[@Mukundanghri]

Took my breath away.

[@retrogamerdave362]

That Yamaha CFX sounds fantastic

[@blacksmith1699]

This income will be all Chopin Institute !! I feel sorry for Kate !!!

[@AbeKenney]

Yes KZbin will pay them a whole 15 dollars.

[@pedrobetancur4477]

Que linda ella y su interpretación que el dios de ella y el mío la bendigan

[@John-thinks]

Starting at 8:44, there's a potent pause at 8:53/4

[@adibmansour7657]

BRAVISSIMA!!! 💙💙💙💙

[@MarshallArtz007]

Still loving Kate Liu’s performance of this exquisite work in January 2025. 😎🎹

[@hervich]

Beau jeu Raffiné précis poétique avec des fulgurances tempérées par une grande maîtrise 👍 Toutefois ne me fait pas oublier l’enregistrement de Samson François.

[@leadesire1723]

i love but love

[@joaoluisfreitas3909]

Were I´m again. Execuse me...if the Holy Mother exists... no its dead. Happy birthday and glory to Kate Liu!!

[@이지수-j2o7c]

I can see heaven in my head🤍

[@Hakdo_composer]

편곡이 너무 제 스탈이에요🥹

[@valterracca5369]

5:57 amazing

[@canoedist]

Assuming this plague ever ends, hear her in a live recital. She does NOT disappoint!

[@szkari65]

It is my dream! But her concerts in August at Warsaw Chopin Festival are canceled, the all Helsingborg Piano Festival also canceled. We have to wait, wait, wait...

[@canoedist]

@@szkari65 Keep your dream(s) alive. The rewards ARE worth the wait. Keep the ears open and greedy. You never know what sounds may appear, eh?

[@monter_tv]

Jestem zachwycony!

[@pianoprogress]

It is a sin of the judges that they did not let her win.

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

internal politics no doubt

[@LazlosPlane]

@@helenavondrakenstein4969 Jesus! Just because the person YOU like doesn't win. Internal politics. Childish.

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

@@LazlosPlane why are you addressing this to me...i didn't make the comment

[@LazlosPlane]

​You wrote "Internal politics." It's right there. Your comment is right there above mine.

[@youmiau]

@@helenavondrakenstein4969 Mafia... As usual, conservatory world. I know pretty well.

[@bogdankolodziej2675]

Perfect play!

[@bingwu399]

肖邦作品的完美詮釋鋼琴家！👍

[@teraz76]

The magical moment at 12:58

[@Tizohip]

12:52

[@badingsabini8]

This polonaise fantasy wasn’t about lovers saying goodbye but the artist saying goodbye to her past self.

[@stefanskytt650]

Soo good!!

[@LazlosPlane]

Impressive!

[@sevastianjavier1325]

5:30 best part

[@sk-fk7om]

Fantastic☆