You'd be surprised. I give private music lessons and am constantly blown away by what kids can achieve when they're having fun. I wish I'd started when I was five.
I'm 26 and now I'm playing this piece because I love Mozarts music. I started learning one year ago I think I still need a lots of practice. Thanks to Lang Lang for interpreting about this piece.
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16 years old is quite young. Don't let these conservative standards shape your relationship with progress. Luigi Carroccia started to play the piano at 15yo and managed to arrive in the third stage of the 2015 Chopin Competition. He's also competing this year as well and has a wonderful sound. Dive head first in whatever you want to learn and enjoy the whole process, it's the only thing that really matters at the end.
The very first piece I played in front of an audience was the second movement (Adagio) from Beethovens first piano sonata in f. Never played this sonata by Mozart in C in public but I learned it as well in music school. Hallelujah.
"First" recital piece? Okay, piano players who are feeling demoralized here, don't despair! Obviously Lang Lang is a prodigy and seems a little out of touch with most musicians. But for reference The Royal Conservatory of Music has this piece as a choice from their Level 8 curriculum. They start Prep A, Pre B, 1, 2, 3...Levels 5, 6, 7, 8 are considered "Intermediate." 9 and 10 are "Advanced."
Lang Lang is referring to the first recital piece for child prodigies and not for ordinary people. 🤣🤣 It took me 6 months to learn this piece and it's still not polished yet. 😂😂
I showed this video to my daughter who is playing this piece now. She thinks this is very inspiring for her to rethink what is she doing and how to make practice more fun. All the music or playing are something in common. But it takes long long time to get the simple idea. Love music love classic!
Omg, i am 24 and am learning this piece. When he played saying don't play it like this, that's exactly how I play😂😅🥲😭. I don't sound that bad but i cannot for the life of me play the trills properly. It's sounds good when i practice them but when i listen to my recording I feel like quitting
You play higher pitch first 3 2 3 2 3 2 1 3 1. Don't play the low pitch first like other pianist, always play the higher first. That's how you play Trills, always go first at the higher pitch. Look.. ua-cam.com/video/EN84zyEcqBY/v-deo.html:44
so, you're not really trying to interpret a piece, you just do what you do and that's it? when you hear from the great pianists, they are great for a reason.
I thought that we shouldn't raise the elbows when doing thumbs under, but obvisously Lang Lang does it a lot ... Raising elbows sure helps a lot ... What to think about this ?? Also, his thumbs under technic doesn't sound perfect to my ears, I mean that I can hear a break in the melody when he does them ... I know he is an amazing piano player, am I looking too much for an unecessary perfection ?
yes, you see he can play it so and so,freely, interpret it...or what kind of analisis do you think? There is no analisis in his interpretations...The only interpretation is how he could be more unconventional in order to show music unalfabetical persons his genius,born to understand everything of music...He is tragedy of contemporary scene together with few more of them,with simillar names...I think Composers does not sleep well in their eternity listening him...Or they regret they have ever composed anything of music lol...
What about the second movement? In particular I am most intrigued to know where to use the pedals and especially the sustaining pedal as in the Henle Text I have there are no markings?
You don’t have to use any pedal for Mozart. Just keep a good legato with your fingers. That being said, if you want to use pedal the old aphorism is you should pedal with your ears. That is, listen for where the pedal adds a nice resonance and listen to where holding the pedal makes it sound too blurry.
@@popocrispies You make a good point; whilst Beethoven never met Mozart, it is just possible he heard him play during the very brief but aborted visit to Vienna in 1787. We know how much Beethoven admired Mozart, but he reported later somewhat critically that Mozart’s playing was very ‘choppy’ ie lacking legato; this would suggest that there was virtually no pedalling (probably primitive knee pedals in 1787 Vienna), and that the more legato passages would be played as you suggest using finger-pedalling.
How’s it coming along? I’m 69! I started studying at 7 and quit at 8. (Though I’m an accomplished singer, so I have been reading music for decades.) Finally got back to piano at 64. Four+ years later, I can play some pretty good Satie and a few other pieces. Enjoying it a lot! I’m going to try this one…
This piece is Level 7 or 8 (I forget which) in the Royal College of Music syllabus. No way is this an easy piece in its entirety, and no way is it a typical "first recital piece" for anyone. That's just a crock. Who do you know that plays Level 7 or 8 pieces for their first recital? There are UA-cam videos of children playing this piece (I'm talking 10 years old or younger), but none of them really play it properly. Watch Daniel Barenboim play it and see how it's really supposed to be played. No child on earth can play it that way. This video is just Lang Lang flexing and being passively condescending. And of course he's sitting at a $175K (or more?) Steinway Grand with action that plays like butter. Don't feel bad, people, if you can't duplicate his playing here or if you didn't master this piece at age 5. No one else has either.
‘...and, everybody knows this piece’. Actually, everybody knows only the first four bars. PS: To clear up a widespread misunderstanding. The title ‘Sonata facile’ is *Italian*- it is not French. (The clue is in the noun; the correct French spelling would be ‘Sonate facile’). Whilst the word ‘facile’ (‘easy’) is identical in both languages, the correct pronunciation in each language could not be more different. To pronounce the title correctly in Italian, it should sound: ‘Sonata *fah*-chee-leh’. (…and it is ‘sonata’, not ‘sonada’). To pronounce the word incorrectly - and look foolish - with a spurious French pronunciation, carry on saying, ‘Sonata fass-eel’; ie you are saying ‘sonata’ in Italian and ‘facile’ in French.
@@stephenreid7043 he's not wrong though.. this guy is freaking cocky and obnoxious and is obviously not a good pianist cause he shows no emotion or dynamic skill
@@AK47_414 I agree he is a cocky individual. He was probably a very precocious child, but this behaviour may have been encouraged as his father is a famous Chinese musician and Lang is, de rigeur, an only child. You are not the first to notice his lack of emotion. He intended to audition for Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music, but, having difficulties with his lessons, was expelled from his piano tutor's studio for "lack of talent". Another music teacher at his state school noticed Lang's sadness, and put the score of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330 on the piano; she asked him to play the second movement, which reminded Lang of his love for the instrument. "Playing the K. 330 brought me hope again," he recalled. (from Wikipedia). I would assume that his considerable following, both from Europe and USA and the most populous country on earth, and his now considerable wealth has perhaps added to his air of superiority! Apparently, some of the greatest classical masters were not considered, amiable, nice or even interesting individuals. God bless you my friend!
"Any 5 year old can try a little bit different"
Me immediately quits playing piano. Thanks for the motivation Lang Lang.
Every 5 year old can try it
Ok
You'd be surprised. I give private music lessons and am constantly blown away by what kids can achieve when they're having fun.
I wish I'd started when I was five.
if you start at 2. well there is a chance
Never too early nor too late.
I'm 26 and now I'm playing this piece because I love Mozarts music. I started learning one year ago I think I still need a lots of practice. Thanks to Lang Lang for interpreting about this piece.
"Just when I was 5."
Thanks for flexing.
KarMa I played this when I was in the womb!
@@krishnaswainpiano4129 hahahahaha good one
KarMa yep
I really started when I was 3 lol
Charley Van okay
I'm 30 and just started this piece today... *confidence level plummeted to subzero level...
You can do it!! We are not all Lang Lang...some of us can be Ling Lings!
Same here! Decided to do it anyways.
same, 34yo here and resuming piano after not having touched one for 25 years, so mad at him right now 😂
I'll be 50 in a couple of months and I will be learning this piece next... love it and hoping to play it as I hear it in my mind...
I want to say a big thank you for your comment/comments (how many it may be), your love and support , I created this channel to reach out to fans and you are amazing❤️❤️.
where are you from?
Goes the legend that Lang Lang started playing the piano at age -2.
Love his energy so much
RAY!!!
u everywhere
When Mozart said in Amedeus that he wasn't the only composer in Vienna but he was the best. I concur, he was the best.
Its quite rare for someone to quote the Amadeus movie as a factual source in support of a point they might make.
'When i was 5'
Me being a 16 year old be like wtf
Deyuan Mao wtf?
But how long did he take learning it when he was five?
Yeah he's a genius
same
16 years old is quite young. Don't let these conservative standards shape your relationship with progress. Luigi Carroccia started to play the piano at 15yo and managed to arrive in the third stage of the 2015 Chopin Competition. He's also competing this year as well and has a wonderful sound.
Dive head first in whatever you want to learn and enjoy the whole process, it's the only thing that really matters at the end.
2:24 "We don't want to hear another version of ... *starts playing the way I play it thinking I'm majestic* "
Davis Robinson ME TOOO 😭
Davis Robinson no
It has no expression and not lively like Mozart
You beat me to it!
One of the things I love about Lang Lang is his expressiveness!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤣🤣🤣🤣🎼🎼🎼🎼🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
The very first piece I played in front of an audience was the second movement (Adagio) from Beethovens first piano sonata in f. Never played this sonata by Mozart in C in public but I learned it as well in music school. Hallelujah.
ive never heard lang lang's voice before, i love his energy lol
Prodigy a true prodigy. A great example
"First" recital piece? Okay, piano players who are feeling demoralized here, don't despair! Obviously Lang Lang is a prodigy and seems a little out of touch with most musicians. But for reference The Royal Conservatory of Music has this piece as a choice from their Level 8 curriculum. They start Prep A, Pre B, 1, 2, 3...Levels 5, 6, 7, 8 are considered "Intermediate." 9 and 10 are "Advanced."
Lang Lang is referring to the first recital piece for child prodigies and not for ordinary people. 🤣🤣
It took me 6 months to learn this piece and it's still not polished yet. 😂😂
Love you interpretations, love your playing, love everything you do, keep it coming! Australia
I showed this video to my daughter who is playing this piece now. She thinks this is very inspiring for her to rethink what is she doing and how to make practice more fun. All the music or playing are something in common. But it takes long long time to get the simple idea. Love music love classic!
"this was your first peice" REally this was like my 100th peice i learned
Omg, i am 24 and am learning this piece. When he played saying don't play it like this, that's exactly how I play😂😅🥲😭. I don't sound that bad but i cannot for the life of me play the trills properly. It's sounds good when i practice them but when i listen to my recording I feel like quitting
I love the interpret and the texture and quality of the notes!🥰🤩
Question: how long did it take for you to learn it when you were five?
Also question: how large were your fingers when you were five?
@✿forest gamez✿ ?
@✿forest gamez✿tf are you on about?
I also learned this when I was little, and it was the first Mozart I played. The melody will always feel special to me.
The key is .. to start early as a kid
Jasper Ckv no, its c major
Lol good point
When I was 5, I was still playing twinkle twinkle!!!
*to be asian
The key is: you need to be a genius. Michelangeli started at 10. By 19 he was considered the next Lizt, by no one else than Cortot
0:28 (ignore me i’m trying to figure out what the hell he did on that trill because it’s stunning)
You play higher pitch first 3 2 3 2 3 2 1 3 1. Don't play the low pitch first like other pianist, always play the higher first. That's how you play Trills, always go first at the higher pitch. Look.. ua-cam.com/video/EN84zyEcqBY/v-deo.html:44
I think he started it early, it could almost be written as a double grace note the way he did it. I liked it too.
I love your different style of your music. So good
straight flexing for 3 minutes
And 6 seconds...
Its easy
@@bakuto.1055 bruh wdym-
@Hamouza piano Hamza why did u send meh that?
This is exactly what I needed to hear
This dude goes so hard on the piani
J'adore cette sonate de Mozart Elle est si délicate et si mélodieuse. Tu l'interprètes si bien !❤
my cat LOVES IT
Admariable explanations thnks.indeed Dearest LL.
I don’t think it’s fair him saying we don’t want a boring standard version. We can’t all be brilliant. It’s about trying and enjoying playing.
so, you're not really trying to interpret a piece, you just do what you do and that's it? when you hear from the great pianists, they are great for a reason.
@@curious011 most are great from insane amounts of practice and going to music academy’s. Odd how very few compose brilliant original compositions
I thought that we shouldn't raise the elbows when doing thumbs under, but obvisously Lang Lang does it a lot ... Raising elbows sure helps a lot ... What to think about this ?? Also, his thumbs under technic doesn't sound perfect to my ears, I mean that I can hear a break in the melody when he does them ... I know he is an amazing piano player, am I looking too much for an unecessary perfection ?
This wasn’t my first recital piece, it was my second. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik was my first recital piece
Wow you are amazing 🤩 you have inspired me!!
im 34 playing this piece i find it really difficult to play at meant tempo....any tips on how to practice this piece would be helpful!!
Every piano teacher's head now exploding
I love that intro
This is three minutes of him humbly saying don't suck
He is so efficient
Its your first peace if you call the 200 before "Songs"
he is always so good
You are awfully amazing!!
Awesome
Thx for saving me the embarrassment of sitting down at the local library piano thinking I'm gonna impress somebody.
Great!
Mr. lang just one question: Do you know some basic musical analisis?
yes, you see he can play it so and so,freely, interpret it...or what kind of analisis do you think? There is no analisis in his interpretations...The only interpretation is how he could be more unconventional in order to show music unalfabetical persons his genius,born to understand everything of music...He is tragedy of contemporary scene together with few more of them,with simillar names...I think Composers does not sleep well in their eternity listening him...Or they regret they have ever composed anything of music lol...
hello, I am Mr Lang. Thank you for addressing me directly, as I take the time to read all comments in all videos about me. Best regards, Lang Lang.
Me as a 37 year old struggling to get it anywhere close to proper tempo 😂
Just in time when I am learning this! lOL!
Teach me Lang Lang
LangLang: I played this when I was 5” Me: “I started when I was 6 BRUH”
”Every five year old can try a little bit different”
When i was five i was running motorcrosses into snow piles
I was still trying to not eat glue at 5
Yes yes
Bro just out here somewhat demotivating people and bragging, i thought he was a respected master
He is...Don't suck...that's a great lesson.
Omg this meants that I play like a 5 year old when I’m 19
In 1946 Movie Chopin this Mozart was playing, in reality as 8 years OLD after a consert in Polen Chopin said'they admire my 'kravatt(like a tie
So, Mary had a Little lamb is not everyone's first piece???? Dang...
thx Lang Lang-for the advice. This was great! but I'm playing like a 4 year old.
What about the second movement? In particular I am most intrigued to know where to use the pedals and especially the sustaining pedal as in the Henle Text I have there are no markings?
You don’t have to use any pedal for Mozart. Just keep a good legato with your fingers.
That being said, if you want to use pedal the old aphorism is you should pedal with your ears. That is, listen for where the pedal adds a nice resonance and listen to where holding the pedal makes it sound too blurry.
@@popocrispies
You make a good point; whilst Beethoven never met Mozart, it is just possible he heard him play during the very brief but aborted visit to Vienna in 1787.
We know how much Beethoven admired Mozart, but he reported later somewhat critically that Mozart’s playing was very ‘choppy’ ie lacking legato; this would suggest that there was virtually no pedalling (probably primitive knee pedals in 1787 Vienna), and that the more legato passages would be played as you suggest using finger-pedalling.
為什麼16分音符要彈成斷的？
This guy's at the same level as Mozart😯
Are You stupid?
@@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy You can say whatever you want, but why so rude.
are you normal?
whoa, slow down buddy. He's an interpreter, not a composer (let alone one of the best composers ever)
I’m Alara Mozart isn’t alive Lang Lang is the new Mozart!
The Key is... practice 40 hours a day.
According to the comments I’m the oldest person ever to start learning this piece. I’m 38 🦕 Who can be beat me ? Started 5 months ago. Wish me luck 😆
How’s it coming along? I’m 69! I started studying at 7 and quit at 8. (Though I’m an accomplished singer, so I have been reading music for decades.) Finally got back to piano at 64. Four+ years later, I can play some pretty good Satie and a few other pieces. Enjoying it a lot! I’m going to try this one…
ling ling?
Krishna Swain Piano FORTY HOURS
@@goldennebula5013 2 set?
My sister at 5: can we watch Dora now??? 👁👄👁
Hi
My first recital more like Mary had a little lamb
Lang Lang, can you speak in Cantonese?Please🙏🏻 I live in UK but speak Cantonese😊
Lang Lang?
0:53 But you don't know the difference between them
Thought I was the only one ahah
Ozzie Ri Maybe not for you. But it is really abvous to a trained musician.
@@yoshi_drinks_teaObviously it is a joke lol don't be silly
yoshi_drinks_tea You can’t even take a joke LOL
Mozart is your father lang lang
MOZART SONATAH INN C, lul i luv his accent
I started at 3
2:24 felt like a personal attack on how I play this piece!
If he was playing this when he was 5....
i play it when i was five.......
*me split my water out*
my mom now hates me because im playing it when i was 1
This piece is Level 7 or 8 (I forget which) in the Royal College of Music syllabus. No way is this an easy piece in its entirety, and no way is it a typical "first recital piece" for anyone. That's just a crock. Who do you know that plays Level 7 or 8 pieces for their first recital? There are UA-cam videos of children playing this piece (I'm talking 10 years old or younger), but none of them really play it properly. Watch Daniel Barenboim play it and see how it's really supposed to be played. No child on earth can play it that way. This video is just Lang Lang flexing and being passively condescending. And of course he's sitting at a $175K (or more?) Steinway Grand with action that plays like butter. Don't feel bad, people, if you can't duplicate his playing here or if you didn't master this piece at age 5. No one else has either.
Beer!!!!!!!!!!!🇵🇭🎶🍺😎♿️⚜️👋‼️
I just wanna him to play fugues.
Just practice people
1
’When I was five’
Weird flex bro
Ok I’m selling my piano after watching this
‘...and, everybody knows this piece’.
Actually, everybody knows only the first four bars.
PS: To clear up a widespread misunderstanding.
The title ‘Sonata facile’ is *Italian*- it is not French.
(The clue is in the noun; the correct French spelling would be ‘Sonate facile’).
Whilst the word ‘facile’ (‘easy’) is identical in both languages, the correct pronunciation in each language could not be more different.
To pronounce the title correctly in Italian, it should sound:
‘Sonata *fah*-chee-leh’.
(…and it is ‘sonata’, not ‘sonada’).
To pronounce the word incorrectly - and look foolish - with a spurious French pronunciation, carry on saying, ‘Sonata fass-eel’;
ie you are saying ‘sonata’ in Italian and ‘facile’ in French.
It is not easy at all - and many teachers give it to non-genius -pupils. Very wrong.
Omg
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#Daniel 12 #Revelation 21
keeping the Faith 💜😎
When I was 5???
This is a waste of time.
Yup, just a lot of bragging and no instruction on improving or practice method. He does the same on his 'master class' videos.
Why is he wearing a white undershirt under his white suit...
why does it freaking matter?!
because he's lang lang
Lesson learnt: Be 5 years old or DIE
Any 5 year old Lmfaoo
Mozart sonata insi
What is the point of this video?
LOL
Really 100% absolutely positively not helpful 😊
He's a Hacker
Talking for three minutes and saying nothing.
You're a Philistine
@@stephenreid7043 he's not wrong though.. this guy is freaking cocky and obnoxious and is obviously not a good pianist cause he shows no emotion or dynamic skill
@@AK47_414 I agree he is a cocky individual. He was probably a very precocious child, but this behaviour may have been encouraged as his father is a famous Chinese musician and Lang is, de rigeur, an only child. You are not the first to notice his lack of emotion. He intended to audition for Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music, but, having difficulties with his lessons, was expelled from his piano tutor's studio for "lack of talent". Another music teacher at his state school noticed Lang's sadness, and put the score of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330 on the piano; she asked him to play the second movement, which reminded Lang of his love for the instrument. "Playing the K. 330 brought me hope again," he recalled. (from Wikipedia). I would assume that his considerable following, both from Europe and USA and the most populous country on earth, and his now considerable wealth has perhaps added to his air of superiority! Apparently, some of the greatest classical masters were not considered, amiable, nice or even interesting individuals. God bless you my friend!
Está sobrevalorado este chino
How sweet