Yunchan vs Trifonov: The Hardest Part of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes

[@91483]

You had to give an extra mark to Yunchan for the SMILE at the beginning of the Feux Follet!

[@Hooneetv]

미소점수에 동의합니다 😊😄😁

[@eunwoomin7875]

Totally agree!!!

[@ellaw571]

Areed haha he ate that up like..

[@JunkBondTrader]

extra marks to Trifonov though for being an absolute lunatic when he plays :)

[@Piano_improvisations]

and trifonov just using his sweaty suffering face lmao

[@Daramji0513]

Oh my! I’ve been really waited your another comment about Yunchan’s performance!!!!!! What a gift👍😍

[@게임일기-q5v]

Thank you so much for posting another video about Yun Chan

[@melinaanibarro7324]

Yunchan's Feux Follets was the first i had ever heard of the piece. There were moments i laughed out loud due to sheer amazement because i had never heard a piano sound like that alive before nor had I seen a pianist be that into the music.

[@williammanning5066]

It's hard to overstate just how hard FF is, the first time I looked at the sheet I didn't even try reading through the first measure lol

[@qualitymusic122]

That happened to me as well. First time I heard from Trifonov, but I don't know what's with that music. It just puts a smile on your face

[@eunwoomin7875]

It was Really FUN. LOL. Can't wait until Next Weekend!!!!

[@Varooooooom]

5:13 - Worth noting that Lim plays those final chords slower than most. I definitely believe him when he says he needed that break between Etudes No.4 and No.5.

[@kx3kx3]

That's my thoughts to: he prepared for #5 before he finished #4. There should be an "off side" call here!

[@vankirby1762]

Thank you so much for uploading this entertaning video and I'm so thrilled at the prospect of seeing your next video again.

[@user_2837]

Such a valuable channel.

[@quaver1239]

Why? How?

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Poor video!, awful Berezhovsky was 6th place Leeds competition! Trifinov is the most over-rated ever! Hype student Yunchan Lim was 2nd prize winner in weak Cleveland! Hype student Yunchan Lim played colorless dry cold piano sound Rach concerto no 3 and boring Mozart piano concerto no 22! Dimitri Bashkirov her teacher Anastasia Virsaladze teach saying to Bashkirov the most important lesson is the love of beautiful colorful piano sound! All the modern players are cold colorless dry piano sound players like Kissin Zimerman Pletnev Hamelin Yuja Wang and latest hype student Yunchan Lim! All the beautiful colorful piano sound players are gone dead like Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov!! If you are better than Berezhovsky or Trifinov that not make hype student Yunchan Lim Great! Mozart wrote do not make my kids average players like hype student Yunchan Lim or Berezhovsky or Trifonov!

[@ronigbzjr]

Such a silly geeky classical music video. Love it!

[@shatin96]

This piece is Russlll Sherman's life time repertoire. He is the teacher of Minsoo Sohn(Yunchan Lim's teacher) Yunchan said he will dedicate this rendition to Russell Sherman just before the sem-i final playing, texted Minsoo Sohn. How can i think this young boy is only 18? He's so thoughtful & warm. He can appreciate to others really. Some people say Yunchan is 108 or 1008 years old actually. Congrats! Ben. Your last video view hits record.

[@Dh-uj8pr]

He is so precious!!! I was so moved to hear this boy has dedicated the performancr to Sherman, he really appreciates the heritage and knows how important it is

[@Skyblue-qi3oo]

He said one of his lifetime goal is to honor the great musicians of hundreds years ago and properly deliver their heritages to this age. And your theory of him being 108 years old.. persuaded :)

[@Skyblue-qi3oo]

@@aug28th8 In an interview his teacher Sohn said that "just before the semi-final, Yunchan texted me saying that he wants to dedicate the performance to my teacher Russell Sherman."

[@Dh-uj8pr]

@@aug28th8 그건 결선입니다~

[@jhjoo96]

Is Russell Sherman the one who had close friendship with Arnold Shoenberg?

[@gojiberry6968]

How humorous Ben is... became a fan of Ben's sense of humor.

[@Shibaboy23]

Can't wait to see your breakdown for Yunchan's Liszt performance at the Cliburn..next weekend can't come soon enough!!

[@Daniel_Zalman]

This was great. We need more entertaining videos like this to get youngsters (to use an old timey term) into classical music.

[@alvodin6197]

In order to bring youngster's into classical music, you need to stop being to uptight and formal. Young people find it pretentious and obnoxious, seriously. Like this guy talking about proper clapping etiquette. I understand if people are screaming and shouting, but seriously, they are clapping because they are amazed. That shouldn't be improper etiquette.

[@Pingoping]

Sorry but it doesn’t work like that. On youtube, videos about classical music will only be recommended to people who’ve already shown interest in classical music. Most youngsters who aren’t interested in the first place would never find or click on videos like this

[@bengeurden1272]

Nothing more than cheap entertainment, this video is.

[@8beef4u]

@@alvodin6197 It’s no different than not clapping in the middle of a movie or play. It breaks the flow of the music. Also, you have to remember that if the audience isn’t familiar with the piece, they won’t know when it ends. It might just be a long rest. I don’t know how many times some bozo claps right before the coda of the fourth Chopin ballade but it’s always obnoxious

[@SelectCircle]

@@alvodin6197 The religious cult of classical music is indeed its own worst enemy. But then - kids can forgive a little - can't they? When you ask these cultists to loosen up - they only get worse - as with Carion's video of Ligeti's Six Bagatelles. Show the kiddies Yuja Wang's prancing around onstage without any underwear. That might work.

[@gavinroberts7192]

Thank you for the inimitably named SPBMAFF Competition! With the greatest respect, and as I'm sure you will appreciate, the competition fails to appreciate one important consideration! Dear Yun Chan, you can take as long as you like to do pretty much whatever takes your fancy! 😆

[@tonyventura4605]

We’re still patiently waiting for Ben’s analysis of Yunchan’s transcendental études..

[@StacyMG17]

Ah I've been waiting for this. Thank you!!!

[@thatnicekid04]

I loved every moment of this

[@ejsk4431]

I looooove this channel.^^

[@brian106699]

This is pure entertainment. 🙌🏾👏🏾

[@nanakim5942]

영상 기다렸어요!!!!꺄옥~~~

[@peachmousse]

너무 유쾌하고 재밌네요! 아주 즐거운 경기ㅎㅎ

[@robert1564y]

My kind of sports commentary! Awesome!

[@pspspsps9848]

I burst out laughing every time he says SPBMAFF

[@InochinoMichi]

Analysis of how famous pianists play certain pieces are amazing! We need more videos like that

[@timw4383]

I loved this. Very funny, and entertaining.

[@junghanjin1990]

윤찬림 👍

[@Sam_Saraguy]

Well done! Very entertaining!

[@roberto4747-w3o]

Bravo Daniil, Bravo!

[@jinaakim6494]

Love to hear you call Yunchan Lim to Lim Yun Chan! Just like the way of call Korean name(family name goes the first).♥ thank you for make this. I waited so long that you make contents about Yunchan Lim's.

[@goflowjoe]

Should it not be pronounched "Im," though, if the Hangeul is pronounced precisely? I thought 림 was a North Korean dialect.

[@Dh-uj8pr]

@@goflowjoe Yes you're right! I guess it's because for western people it's not easy to pronounce Im as 임 , they will say "aim" inastead haha

[@goflowjoe]

@@Dh-uj8pr right...like Park for 박, because without the "r," people might assume "Pak" sounds like "pack." "Pahk" could work, I guess. Similar phenomenon with 이 becoming "Lee," since "Ee" must be odd to see and pronounce on the fly.

[@heejeongjeong7583]

@@goflowjoe Right. The original sound of 'Im' is 'Lim'. But when It comes to the First place of the word, we, South Koreans pronounce it as 'Im' cause It's more comfortable to pronounce. North Koreans' just keeping the original sound.

[@hannacho1252]

정말요! 한국에서 이름을 부르는 순서대로 임윤찬이라고 성을 먼저 불러주셔서 놀랐습니다. 이 분의 관찰력이 남다르다고 생각했습니다! 멋집니다~ 흥미로운 영상도 감사합니다.

[@mixelplixed]

That was great! It really is all about the space between the notes 😄

[@asg77777]

Not that I want to be serious, but in his performance of TE last October in Korea, Lim took only 7 seconds' break between the two. It's around the same time when the interview took place, so that's true, he went straight into Feux Follets without a thougt. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIbKiKech7qgfrs And more, during his recitals in Korea, he played TE right after (without intermission) he had played these: Liszt - Annees de pelerinage, 2nd Year "Italie", suite for Piano, S.161 4. Sonetto 47 del Petrarca 5. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca 6. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca

[@dionysus4778]

He's not an average human being. He's from out of this world...

[@tonebasePiano]

I love this comment. To be fair, I also found other Berezovsky live performances where he only takes ~6-7 seconds

[@asg77777]

​@@tonebasePiano Than you! You are humble, fair and very funny 😁

[@bestpranks1884]

check out gryaznov... takes like half a second between the two kzbin.info/www/bejne/eH-wYqKuotF0qac&ab_channel=BuddyJohnson

[@emanuelsotelo8707]

I love what you are doing for the diffusion of classical piano. It's hard work and you are doing it superbly. I loved the video, but to add excitement in the way of boxing fights, I think you could have introduced first is Berezovsky, as the old champion who still has a lot to give, then Yunchan Lim, as the young arrogant boxer who comes to demolish the past and finally Trifonov, as the challenger who comes to restore the anchor regime (in this case, the Russian school). I think this would have the dynamic of the great fights between Ali, Frazier and Holmes in the 70s. Greetings and thanks from Islamabad. Emanuel

[@kwgm8578]

Ben, you're in the running for the 2022 FTCWAWCSPBMAFF (Fastest T-shirt Change While Announcing the World Champion SPBMAFF) Championship. Good luck, Ben!

[@jaygatz4335]

I eagerly look forward to the SPBMAFF award at the next Cliburn competition! (I'm not sure if the award should be for shortest pause or best pronunciation.) Ben can present it in a smart tux.

[@myunglee3683]

That is a funny competition, but interesting one.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Poor awful video! Awful Berezhovsky was 6th place weak Leeds competition! Trifonov is the most over-rated ever! Hype student Yunchan Lim played colorless dry cold piano sound Rach concerto no 3 and boring Mozart 22 concerto! Dimitri Bashkirov her teacher Anastasia Virsaladze teach saying to Bashkirov the most important lesson is the love of beautiful colorful piano sound! We are lowering piano playing standards! More genius than these 3=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg! More colorful beautiful piano sound than these 3=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More powerful louder than Hype student Yunchan Lim and Berezhovsky trifonov=Mikhail Pletnev!, The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique attack better than these boring 3 Hype student Yunchan Lim Berezhovsky Trifonov!!

[@91483]

So looking forward to watching the videos with Thibaudet!

[@rotsteineva]

😂😂😂 What a great commentatist!!! You make this contest even more exciting!

[@pingko1742]

잘한다! 잘한다! 잘한다! 아주 칭찬해~ 좋은 체널이야~gooooooooooood!!!!👍

[@qawi272]

Boris Berezovsky: _Big towel_ Yunchan Lim: _Tiny towel_ Daniil Trifonov: _What is towel?_

[@pascalpoussin1209]

This was very entertaining, well done. Obviously this spbmaff doesn't mean much in itself, but I believe it was not meant to be. Bravo for this video and your brilliant channel.

[@eleanorshayeva3747]

Yunchan Lim played " Mazeppa " much faster, than each one of them. I would, first of all, meager the time of the performance in full, then the resting time. I'm not buying this comparison.

[@marshan1226]

Try not to cry, it’s not a real award lmao

[@eleanorshayeva3747]

If you're not crying, then you're amateur pianist. No one should make fun on experience of other.

[@diegoponce5423]

What in tarnation

[@KrisPBacon69]

You're taking this vid too seriously... It's a joke video lmao

[@duongnguyenngoc9160]

@@eleanorshayeva3747 wow, i can’t believe someone actually take the video seriously

[@JunkBondTrader]

Trifonov plays like he's posessed, I love that performance. And watching him play Rach's piano concerto no 3 is probably my favourite piano performance ever. He resembles more of a mad puppeteer than a pianist.

[@Marie-ChristineCoupillaud]

less clarity and less nuances than Yunchan Lim !!

[@August-f3p]

which performances of rachs 3rd do you mean, with Yuri Temirkanov or with Myung-Whun Chung?

[@katttttt]

​@@Marie-ChristineCoupillaud well, it can still be ones favourite?

[@irenechoi9423]

🎉🎉❤❤ What a stamina!!And beauty!

[@Dh-uj8pr]

Haha I kind of became your fan by now! What a commentary

[@guessw3rktunes733]

love the etudes, been wanting to hear some new interpretations

[@whereangelsfeartotread]

what an interesting🧐 comparison.

[@peter5.056]

I took a 17 year break between those two. It wasn't long enough. 😆😭

[@asg77777]

😆

[@하니-f4l]

옷을 다르게 입었잖아요..... 셔츠에 자켓까지, 실제 저렇게 임윤찬 처럼 입으면 땀이 피아노 건반에도 튈수 있으니 복장이 굉장히 중요한것같습니다. ㅎㅎ 흥미로운 비교 재미있어요.

[@estherbae5183]

I’m dying 😂😂 thank you for this

[@annettefallon1652]

Omg, Ben is wearing a wedding ring. Who's the lucky girl?

[@lumitic774]

started to learn how to play piano two months ago, already obsessed in watching a ton of youtube videos…

[@marymissmary]

Fantastic commentary 😂❤

[@Bluewater-p9l]

윤찬은 리스트 12곡을 쉬지 않고 쳤지요 그것도 비교해 줄 수 있나요?

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Yuncham 🖐️ 🇮🇷 hoy por hoy nadie lo supera ,su interprtacion y qerfeccion va directo al corazón ,mínimo podría ser su mamá pianista. Se de lo que expreso. 🥉💕🌷🇮🇷

[@raaghavgoelpiano]

I lost it every time you said SPBMAFF hahaha

[@tomlabooks3263]

Brilliant!

[@andrewc9643]

I really enjoy this type of commentary.. good job.. subscribed 👍

[@SI-kt5ls]

An excellent competition 😂😂

[@김지니-s1q]

Thank you so much for this video. 💗 And you're so funny and cute. 😀😁👍

[@vartonise]

I want that Bach t-shirt!

[@BjornHegstad]

I'm happy you added the joke at the end about Chopin opus 10 no 1 and no 2. I'm studying opus 10 now, and as I tell my friends: "The hardest part about playing no. 1 is when you are done and your hand is on fire, you realize that next you'll have to play no 2!"

[@tonyventura4605]

Can’t wait to watch your real analysis of the Mazeppa and Feux Follets. The only rival to Yunchan is Cziffra!

[@kurtmorris454]

My favorite is Lazar Berman.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

These 3 are so awful! Lazar Berman was a boring alwdgehammer! Hype student Yunchan Lim is an average student competition winner! Cziffra was raw rough colorless dry cold piano sound player! Dimitri Bashkirov her teacher Anastasia Virsaladze teach saying to Bashkirov the most important lesson is the love of beautiful colorful piano sound! Most colorful beautiful piano sound players are really=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! Most genius like Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg Murray Perahia Alexei Lubimov Dinu Lipatti Stanislav Igolinsky! Most powerful Loudest ever =Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique attack was number one! Berezhovsky was 6th prize winner in weak Leeds piano competition! Mozart wrote do not make my kids average players! Hype student Yunchan Lim played colorless dry cold piano sound Rach concerto no 3 and Boring Mozart 22 in weak Cliburn Finals! Crazy people from South Korea new classical music fans started to shout lame lie Probaganda hype student Yunchan Lim is the greatest!

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

If hype student Yunchan Lim is better than Awful Second-rated Trifonov that not prove that hype student Yunchan Lim is so great!!

[@carolasandrakaty]

:)))))))) commented and presented like a proffesional sports competition made my day!! Thank you! It was brilliant!

[@eugene6730]

This was very fun to watch, thanks!

[@NafthaliHananja]

Awesome! Earned my sub 👍🏽

[@robertstrzelecki1568]

Such a great insight into all those compatitions' performances. Thanks a lot for this. I am wondering if you could do the same with Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto.

[@Damon_Mah]

he already did: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epm4d3-bpcqqnaM

[@morgenlefay]

Mischievous smile 😂 this is hilarious, great editing too

[@matthew4606]

Love this video! Thanks!!

[@bettyjalpa7858]

Enjoyed your video!

[@whereangelsfeartotread]

I’ll check your followup.

[@stephenmcintyre4544]

Not convinced why this might be important or even interesting, but I am looking forward to your analysis of the Liszt Etudes

[@gervasiomontenegro569]

Very funny 😂😂😂👏👏👏

[@Numberonesorabjifan]

Trifnov's set is just incredible. Still waiting for a better one.

[@bogbogman42]

Really cool t-shirt!

[@maryannpost8146]

My money was on Trifonov! Thanks! This was great fun!!

[@KosmasLapatas]

Trifonov is in another class, not even argerich was close at the same age

[@dionysus4778]

@@KosmasLapatas no

[@annettefallon1652]

@@KosmasLapatas Yunchan played them the best, imo. Trifonov is not enough close to Yunchan if we're talking technically. Although Trifonov played them with the most drama...

[@KosmasLapatas]

@@annettefallon1652 Trifonov is not technically enough? Are you a professional pianist or a music listener?

[@annettefallon1652]

I’m a retired music professor at a well known conservatory. Listen closely to Lim and Trifonov play the Etude #4 “Masuppa”. Lim plays it much faster, and more accurately than Trifonov. Trifonov is a great virtuoso, but if you have the score in front of you, there’s no question that Lim is technically superior to Trifonov in many of the TE’s. Trifonov even had to pause and slow down in the hardest passages. Too much pedal. This is not to say Lim is a “better” pianist than Trifonov. He isn’t yet. But imo, Lim handles the technical demands of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes “better” than Trifonov.

[@LouFerl]

Absolutely hilarious! What a riot. :D 😄 And fabulous music too, of course...

[@evifnoskcaj]

Great choices for the other pianists! Berezovsky is an insane pianist, especially his Islamey. Trifonov's Mephisto Waltz is my favorite for him. Also, I am jealous of your drip as those shirts are 🔥

[@americanswan]

What would be really interesting is when you begin to analyzing recitals and performances in the future and can say for certain that Yoon Chun changed the way pieces are played.

[@萬善香]

괜찮답니다. 4악장에서 5악장 넘어가는 순간에 청중도 쉼표가 필요합니다. 4악장에서 5악장으로 마구 휘몰아치려면 굳이 악장을 나누지 않았을겁니다.^^ 그래도 참 재미있는 분석입니다~

[@Shibaboy23]

Where the Liszt breakdown for Yunchan's Cliburn performance?!?!?!🥺😰

[@tonebasePiano]

I'm sorry to keep you waiting, but it's coming! Had to push it back a week because it's been such a complicated edit. In the mean time, practice your Chopin Etudes :P

[@Shibaboy23]

@@tonebasePiano Thanks for the update...gonna be another agonizing week but well worth it🤩

[@SY-eq5qf]

Would you do similar thing for Yunchan Lim’s Chopin Etude p.25 1-12 at his age 15? I think its incredible too

[@marciahill4591]

@@tonebasePiano We eagerly await your masterful analysis!!

[@MicheleAngeliniTenor]

Let me start by saying how much I love this channel and that I am such a Yunchan Lim fan after his Cliburn win and his Liszt is definitely one of the most incredible I've ever heard. Truly up there with any of the greats: Arrau, Cziffra, et al. However, as regards the World Champion of Mazeppa into Feux Follets, I'm surprised you overlooked one of my favorite modern pianists (he's also NYC-based) and a musician/technician of the highest caliber: Vyacheslav Gryaznov!! I happened to be in attendance of this very performance...there is no pause at all! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eH-wYqKuotF0qac

[@victormontielpiano]

Hahaha this is great

[@geuros]

It really is silly but funny. The question is, does the music need it? I think everyone included in the performance - pianist, audience, the hall, the time of the day, Liszt, Mazeppa and Feux Follets, ALL of these benefit from longer pause in my opinion. It's not a set of préludes, some of them are rather piano predecessors to symphonic poems.

[@JoePatrych]

The winner of ANY transition from a TE to FF has to be Pogorelich from May 7, 1990 - he went from the final chord of Wilde Jagd into FF in about 1.2 seconds.

[@americanswan]

"next weekend" he said. 8 days later, still no video.

[@carmirobert.cruceru]

Slow down 0.25 the speed at 8:35 some funny stuff happens with the timers

[@myunglee3683]

YC Lim asked to turn off AC before performance to keep the fingers warm. Probably, inside the hall was hot during playing. He was sweating perfusely. So a little disadvantageous to YC Lim for this amusing competition.

[@americanswan]

"Next week" he said. Ten days later....

[@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094]

The weekend has come and gone.... 😳🥺😥😢😭

[@tonebasePiano]

apologies for the delay... it's coming next weekend, for sure. (it's a big, complicated video)

[@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094]

@@tonebasePiano looking forward to it! 🥰 don't worry and take your time to make it great! 💚💙 we know you are a perfectionist 😊

[@yehonatanmargolin2725]

@@tonebasePiano any updates?

[@Shibaboy23]

So....next week?😞

[@JensSchellhammer]

Liszt is not a speed competition. As Kirill Gerstein (who played them all) recently said, on German radio, Feux Follets is not a hyperactive bumblebee on an Autobahn. But tranquil, meandering, flickering lights in a forest.

[@iceshelf]

Well, it’s just for fun. Don't be serious. 🤣🤣🤣

[@ralphziigersson3975]

A comparison of their enterpretations would also be interesting..But I am sure this is in the making..😀

[@negan556]

Trifonov is a great pianist

[@masterlup]

Please also make a chopin op25-11 to op25-12 contest. Also: i think its better to start counting the time from the moment the last chord is struck because staying in the keys is already somewhat relaxing.

[@tonebasePiano]

That depends on the pianist! But, indeed, it SHOULDN'T take any strain to keep the key depressed. Ultimately, though, starting the clock from the release point sets a more even playing field.

[@ValkyRiver]

@@tonebasePiano Do Godowsky-Chopin studies!

[@danielb4560]

Love it

[@atomicpiano]

nice shirt

[@chrispysaid]

Hey! Your mic is a side-address mic, not a top-address. The mic capsules are on the sides. If you're in cardioid mode (the circle with a divot/rounded heart/butt lookin symbol), you'll want the side with the mute button facing you. This isn't an opinion, Blue Microphones has this info on their official materials.

[@tonebasePiano]

Thanks for the info!

[@sypark8176]

이게 뭐야 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@maybaez]

Trifonov is unforgettable