The reason she might hit the rare wrong note is because she is playing with passion and cares more about the heart of the music than just trying to impress us with perfection which of course turns out to be perfection after all.
it's probably because nobody seems to care about how beautifully she plays the piece, on a lot of her performance videos, I've seen a lot of comments on how she hit 2 wrong notes or something obscure like that.
Aaaaand this is why people fill videos like this with references to Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, because of people like you who view music and its performance as a cold, heartless science.
Albus Nix stop trying to be pc, i hear tons of performances who are much better than hers who make lesser/no mistakes. she didn't practice enough/probably nervous on stage. you know why people make kimi uso comments? Because of pc people like you who make excuses for mistakes.
I don’t get why people often demonstrate contempt for this young lady. She is clearly a gifted person who is supremely committed to practicing her art.
Who cares about the wrong note! Every time Chopin played his own music, he played also differently. There is no wrong note from her play, but full of passion and brilliant interpolation of this polish legend.
Despite the errors Aimi's 2nd stage program was one of the most musically interesting in the competition. It's hard to find fresh interpretations for such overplayed pieces as the Heroic Polonaise and Ballade #1 but somehow she managed to do it and I think the judges appreciated it. I noticed some of the other competitors who gave cleaner but more conventional interpretations were cut.
+Allan Wong Interpretations are not even that most of the time imho. Clean playing , yeah its something, but il take inspired always.. That is the frontier .. Seems to me like that's her home. I have utter artistic confidence in her skills.. Its not even a conversation. I dont know how often she succeeds, off to the finals i guess to see what happened.
@@generalbugis5700 obviously its insanely hard, but we're talking about only at these competitions. At competitions its not quite uncommon to see this piece
as a non-specialist I only care about the expression and the emotion. she played it gently and pasionately at the same time (idk how lol). one of my favorite interpretation thus far for this incredible piece
I agree with you... Although for arguments sake, if you or everyone in the comments section were blindfolded. Do you think you or all the others would perceive this "emotion" just by sound? I feel emotion gets too subjective and then biased based on facial expressions. When it's those subtle things in the piano that only those at the top of the classical piano field would perceive. (my opinion)
@@funneverends1991 yes I would percieve this soley by sound, I don't know about everybody though, I think maybe the non classical music listeners will most likely feel more emotion actually watching. I dont know if it's just me but sound matters more than anything, I'd rather no expressions if expressions will get in the way of a good performance.
@@ysl310x Well, Im a pianist and I love watching people play, specially the hands. There's much more expression and feeling through hands than any other part of the body.
Thiago nothing wrong with that, I probably shouldn’t have said that only non classical music listeners feel the emotion from watching but what you said kind of implys that it’s not exactly the music that makes you feel the way you do when you listen to this. If you close your eyes and you can’t enjoy classical music then what’s the point ? You can’t just plug in some headphones and listen to some music ? You do you, nothing against you but it just doesn’t make sense to me, as long as it makes you happy that’s really all that matters.
I'm on my 7th review listening of this performance and I can truly state that you have captured this ballade's epic psalm brilliantly! as in depth as to convey the fragrance of a passing breeze, a sudden turn of heart or even the subtlety of a permeating thought, it's all here... palpable, palatable and colorful. A song of the wind telling a tale from the deep. You have given this piece a wonderful sound, in harmonious grace. So well done Aimi, brilliantly performed!
+Richard Deschenes Avec tout mon respect pour votre opinion - qui est subjective, comme la mienne et celles de tous les autres - je trouve cette interprétation trop (….cherchant le mot juste…) sucré (“honeyed” en anglais). C’est jolie, c’est mignonne, mais avec un teint legerement superficielle et artificielle (comme un bibelot scintillant au lieu de l’or authentique). Sensibilité? oui, beaucoup; et subtleté evocatrice aussi, à plusieurs endroits. Mais “psaume épique”? Non, non, pas du tout. (Comme j’avais dit, chacun son goût.)
Aimi has a unique sound. The harmonics that make up her sound are deeper and richer than that of the ordinary pianist. However, she exploits it to very musical ends. Compare the sonority of her playing with good equipment to that of other players and you will see what I am talking about.
+Francis Fawkes hmm, good equipment? Like...a piano? What do you mean equipment? I would say she's educated on the piano but doesn't have real talent. What ever flaw your hearing with the "good equipment" comment could be attached to the fact she need's to learn how to play better.
+ADENS SKY I mean a very good speaker that can bring out the true quality of her sound. Aimi has real talent and genius because she played in Carnegie Hall three times. Kobayashi's awards include three Yamaguchi Prefecture "Glory Culture Prize" and the special Frédéric Chopin passport from the Polish government. She has performed in France, Brazil, Poland, Russia, South Korea, the United States, and Japan in venues such as the Salle Cortot (Paris), Svetlanov Hall (Moscow), Suntory Hall (Japan), and all three halls of the Carnegie Hall Complex (New York City). AADGT (the American Association for Development of the Gifted and Talented), a New York based non-profit organization, has supported Kobayashi for many years. From Wikipedia.
+ADENS SKY worthy of reply since she has a universe of talent. SO happy to know that Her talent exists and is contemporary. LOL She is so badass its not even funny.
No matter what the ''Judges'' of this competition thought, Aimi Kobayashi and Tiffany Poon are the pianists to watch out for in the future . My guess is that that both of them will become world famous mega stars of the classical piano world.
Even though she hit some wrong notes, she never stopped her performance, she was still continuing. And I find that way more impressive than anything else ,because you know that most of the people heard your mistakes, but you have the strenght to continue. And that's what she did. She was feeling the music, and only that mattered for her. She did an amazing performance there.
Aimi is a heavenly pianist who along with Tiffany Poon, will be major classical stars stars in a few years times, when a lot of the others in this competition have largely gone into obscurity. The reason why they WILL succeed is that they like Yuja Wang have so much more than the average, also bags of charisma, that extra star quality that makes you want to go and pay to see them perform.
It is hard to try to get touch with the great soul of Chopin but she and her music have already done that!!!!!! Thank you Aimi , for you and your beautiful, amazing, indescribable talent and a lot of efforts you have made👏 Also I always remember Yuzuru Hanyu when I hear this piece.
A colossal pianistic talent who also plays with a great deal of insight, human warmth and fervor. I hope Aimee enjoys a HUGELY successful career n the concert stage. I believe she was BORN to it.
Despite all the mistakes, this is the best version of the Ballade ... so many wonderful emotions ..... I have never enjoyed this Ballade like this before ...
It is heartening to read so many comments about musicianship over note accuracy. Restores somewhat my faith in classical music and. It’s future audiences.
Extraordinary! Aimi does not limit herself to performing this Chopin Ballata in an exemplary manner, but she feels it intensely, she intensely feels all the joys, all the pains, all the sensations that this passage evokes; not only hearing she playing is a real pleasure, but this video and all the videos of her interpretations give us something more. Thanks Aimi
There is not a pianist on the planet that can express so much heart in every not she plays. No one compares to aimi. No one. I wish she would record more. Much more.
This is the best version for me. I also liked how she plays it using with her feelings, it's hard to hear some rare mistakes too (Except for the hard one)
omG that's amazing! we can feel the music through her interpretation. beautiful to see her touching and emotional face. the mistakes are almost meaningless because of this.
It sounds to me as if she needed another month or two of preparation on this piece. That being said...it is an extremely challenging piece and for the most part she pulled it off well. Some parts I really liked her interpretation and other parts not so much. Her tone is wonderful though. Can't wait to hear where her pioneering interpretations take her in the future.
So beautifully interpreted and again the magic in those hands and heart she reveals is just breathtaking. A perfection of movement and a reminder once more that I shall never tire or grow weary of listening to her as she channels through her a piece of heaven each time she places her delicate hands on that Steinway! No doubt a gift to us from the Universe for which I bow in absolute gratitude.
This was absolutely amazing. Incredible playing with such a clear enjoyment of the piece. Impossibly better than that is all this perspective we get from the piano. Looking at the screen more closely completely fools me into perceiving it as full 3d. Those keys are right here within my reach, and to see them played so well is very humbling.
So many bullcrap comments about wrong notes, this and that. I guess I'm a "low-level hilbilly" since I can't hear the difference. But what I can, as a listener, is feel a whole lot of emotion. Aimi plays like a Godess, and none of these wannabe classical music connoiseur-people commenting such bullcrap, can play anywhere near this level of mastery.
Wow, amazing interpretation! Just perfect, I wish one day to be just like you! Classical music motivated me to play music and most of them were pieces from Chopin, Kreisler and Rachmaninoff. I already played Guitar but now Im going to learn how to play piano and play all the pieces I like !
Don't waver, piano is monumentally more difficult than guitar. The more you train, the better you get. For starters, try to play as how the composers deign it to be played, as your techniques get honed you will be able to proceed with your own interpretation.
Saying piano is monumentally more difficult than guitar is quite a statement, I play piano but many people I know play guitar. And I have to say, classical guitar, not the basic and repeated chord progressions in classic rock or metal/pop(etc...), is comparably as difficult as piano.
exz In my experience, i do find guitar to be less challenging than mastering piano. The necessity to have full control over 10 fingers that moves incessantly and powerfully over the course of 30 minutes at some times. Rach 3, for example. It's like a marathon championship for fingers. Or La Campanella that demands trills from your middle, 3rd and 4th fingers throughout the entire song.
+Putr Kosh yeah, I was quite amazed when i got to know de dificulty of that pieces, guitar is not that dificult... piano its a lot more exigent no room for mistakes
The reason why Steinway and Sons’ piano are the best piano in the world is because we can hear the richness of each note Chopin wrote. Especially during the 4:53 section when she hits all these chords, damn, each one feel so profound, meaningful…
impresionante como siendo la misma canción, cada músico le pone su sentimiento y hace suya las notas...y la convierte en una interpretación particular...
I've seen a lot of versions of this piece on youtube but there's just something about Aimi's playing and her emotions that touches me in a different way...
Artyści japońscy są wspaniałymi wykonawcami muzyki Chopina mają w sobie tą pasję tą ikre moim zdaniem to wielcy wirtuozi fortepianu od lat obserwuję koncerty chopinowskie wielkie brawa i szacunek dla aimi kobayasi nie ujmując tym samym wszystkim wykonawcom tej wspaniałej muzyki
What’s with people calling her performance sloppy and full of mistakes? She’s young and has small hands, this piece is not easy for people with small hands and can actually be tiring near the end. But she fought through and played it beautifully! I don’t mind the mistakes why not just enjoy the passion and emotion? I understand it’s being judged but... we’re not the judges here?
bc most pianists believe pieces should be played w the utmost perfection and very expressive , which is absolutely correct but i believe a few slipups are unavoidable in some cases. all in all, she shodve honed this piece a little more, bc there were a few bumps here n there. BUT SHE PLAYED this poece rlly nicely and actually captured the beauty of chopins ballade fully
Other great performances on the competition, but u are in a league of your own. Eksperimenting with your expression, going right to the borders and ALWAYS interesting listening to. This is also a great performance.For your age you are extreme. Still teenager but Chopin was too when writing some of his greates pieces^^
She's technically very competent. And her poetic expression is mature for someone her age. If she could somehow slow down a little in the coda for some contrasts it would be close to perfection.
+Noah Johnson Yes, Absolutely.... I can't stop listening to it. The overwhelming expression of Love she is delivering to the heart is just so enrapturing it is addictive and almost inebriating. There is just so much expression in her delivery of this masterpiece that I am totally intoxicated with sentiment in such a wide pallet of pastel colors, crimson moods and sparks of brashness. This is what I was telling you in my comment about bringing out the heart and soul of Chopin! Notice the great Love Chopin had buried within him through Aimi's interpretation.... This is true Chopin my friend! This is fusion of hearts and living breathing pure emotional bliss! You must capture it in your renditions and bring it out strong in this very way! I believe Chopin can only be felt and not really explained...
Yes there are quite a few mistakes in that difficult section. However, a performance should not be characterized by how many mistakes are made, but by how much music is made.
Her hands may be too small for this song despite using wrist rotation or chopin method to fit each hitting note. Why no anybody discuss about the narrowed key piano topic(eg. DS.6.0 or 5.5 piano).????? For professional player(and hobbyist) I think this topic is soo important. Inappropriate size of the key may lead to permanent injury or made her loss of passion and quit playing piano(thinking she 's nit trained hard enough or not have talent, but actually the problem is just piano key size) I've recently seen this topic in pianist magazine also.
Just watched barcarole and this back to back. THe best playing Ive seen . THere should be like 3 dislikes> idk wtf is wrong with some of you. SerIOUS POWER, interpretation, tone, everything. Outstanding. ~S~ win win for humanity. SHe truly displays power at the instrument. Formidable. AS IT SHOULD BE!
I really do not agree with you there here interpretation of this song is really not that amazing to be honest the performance is pretty adequate everything is played very forceful and then it sounds very happy almost all the way through which is completly wrong it should sound and make you feel extremely lonely this performance did neither
This is really good! On 7:57 nd 8:03, I noticed its the same part, and it sounds kind of weird, not clear? But the whole was seriously really good!!! I really like how she expressed her emotions
I would love to hear her creative presentation of the Ballade on a piano that didn't have such an amazingly bland and limpid tenor and treble. Almost any tier 1 European grand would be an improvement.
I love how everyone feels the need to pint out that she hit wrong notes. SHES A HUMAN BEING of course she hit a few wrong notes, it happens to EVERY pianist
i usually don't have much of indept analysis in order to spot mistakes in piano pieces since i mostly don't know the scores but i can tell this is vastly different for Zimerman's play of this ballade. hope she keeps improving this world need more people who can actually taste this art
I don't know the piece very well but yall are bashing her for making minor mistakes. This girl could play 20 minute pieces with ease at such a young age. She is still young but she plays with such mature expression and dynamics.
I have heard several Chopin-performances by young, Asian pianist. Some of them are technically perfect, but lack expression and soul. Aimi Kobayashi might make some minor "mistakes" (as some comments point out), but her playing is magical. It is like Amaterasu Omikami (the Sun Goddess) and the pantheon of japanese kami are performing magic through her soul and hands. There is a depth in Japanese culture which provides an unique foundation for interpreting classical music. Japanese wabi-sabi esthetics rests on the understanding that nothing is ever finished, on the beauty in transience and imperfection. Ami Kobayashi's interpretation of Chopin resonates with those profound cultural sentiments.
i don’t like how everyone is talking about her mistakes. let’s talk about her interpretation. i love it
She has the most emotional performance, just like what my teacher said: it’s not about playing all the right notes, it’s about how you play them.
The reason she might hit the rare wrong note is because she is playing with passion and cares more about the heart of the music than just trying to impress us with perfection which of course turns out to be perfection after all.
why is it so hard to admit that she hit a couple wrong notes?
it's probably because nobody seems to care about how beautifully she plays the piece, on a lot of her performance videos, I've seen a lot of comments on how she hit 2 wrong notes or something obscure like that.
Cecilia Carlsson, people have done that on Horowitz and Rubinstein videos. There's no pleasing some people
Aaaaand this is why people fill videos like this with references to Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, because of people like you who view music and its performance as a cold, heartless science.
Albus Nix stop trying to be pc, i hear tons of performances who are much better than hers who make lesser/no mistakes. she didn't practice enough/probably nervous on stage. you know why people make kimi uso comments? Because of pc people like you who make excuses for mistakes.
ホントに美しいバラード一番。
皆様書かれているようにミスは有ります。でも今UA-camで聴けるこの曲の中で一番好きです。
心地よいルバート、間のとり方、説得力、素晴らしいです！！ありがとうございます
I don’t get why people often demonstrate contempt for this young lady. She is clearly a gifted person who is supremely committed to practicing her art.
Who cares about the wrong note! Every time Chopin played his own music, he played also differently. There is no wrong note from her play, but full of passion and brilliant interpolation of this polish legend.
Despite the errors Aimi's 2nd stage program was one of the most musically interesting in the competition. It's hard to find fresh interpretations for such overplayed pieces as the Heroic Polonaise and Ballade #1 but somehow she managed to do it and I think the judges appreciated it. I noticed some of the other competitors who gave cleaner but more conventional interpretations were cut.
+Allan Wong Interpretations are not even that most of the time imho. Clean playing , yeah its something, but il take inspired always.. That is the frontier .. Seems to me like that's her home. I have utter artistic confidence in her skills.. Its not even a conversation. I dont know how often she succeeds, off to the finals i guess to see what happened.
Haha overplayed might be a bit of an overstatement. This piece is insanely hard to pull off. Just my 2 cents.
@@generalbugis5700 obviously its insanely hard, but we're talking about only at these competitions. At competitions its not quite uncommon to see this piece
There are some mistouches, but her expression is outstanding.
Who cares her mistakes? I ve heared Yuja Wang playing this piece, and she made also mistakes but performance was outstanding.
@@martinstahle2006 you have literally restated what he said..
joshua cho lmao
Aimi is communicating with Chopin's soul. Those minor aberrations have been approved by the composer, who adores Aimi and her magic performances.
as a non-specialist I only care about the expression and the emotion. she played it gently and pasionately at the same time (idk how lol). one of my favorite interpretation thus far for this incredible piece
I agree with you... Although for arguments sake, if you or everyone in the comments section were blindfolded. Do you think you or all the others would perceive this "emotion" just by sound?
I feel emotion gets too subjective and then biased based on facial expressions. When it's those subtle things in the piano that only those at the top of the classical piano field would perceive. (my opinion)
@@funneverends1991 yes I would percieve this soley by sound, I don't know about everybody though, I think maybe the non classical music listeners will most likely feel more emotion actually watching. I dont know if it's just me but sound matters more than anything, I'd rather no expressions if expressions will get in the way of a good performance.
@@ysl310x Well, Im a pianist and I love watching people play, specially the hands. There's much more expression and feeling through hands than any other part of the body.
Thiago nothing wrong with that, I probably shouldn’t have said that only non classical music listeners feel the emotion from watching but what you said kind of implys that it’s not exactly the music that makes you feel the way you do when you listen to this. If you close your eyes and you can’t enjoy classical music then what’s the point ? You can’t just plug in some headphones and listen to some music ? You do you, nothing against you but it just doesn’t make sense to me, as long as it makes you happy that’s really all that matters.
@@funneverends1991 is just the interpretation.....
Her performance is very wonderful. Indeed her performance has Chopin's sensitivity.
湯口壽夫
@@amystruble4730 What was your point in copying and pasting his name?
@@thesillypanda6639 chill fam
Matthew Kwan ??? I show no anger.
@@maachtms I laughed so hard
I'm on my 7th review listening of this performance and I can truly state that you have captured this ballade's epic psalm brilliantly! as in depth as to convey the fragrance of a passing breeze, a sudden turn of heart or even the subtlety of a permeating thought, it's all here... palpable, palatable and colorful. A song of the wind telling a tale from the deep. You have given this piece a wonderful sound, in harmonious grace. So well done Aimi, brilliantly performed!
+Richard Deschenes Avec tout mon respect pour votre opinion - qui est subjective, comme la mienne et celles de tous les autres - je trouve cette interprétation trop (….cherchant le mot juste…) sucré (“honeyed” en anglais). C’est jolie, c’est mignonne, mais avec un teint legerement superficielle et artificielle (comme un bibelot scintillant au lieu de l’or authentique). Sensibilité? oui, beaucoup; et subtleté evocatrice aussi, à plusieurs endroits. Mais “psaume épique”? Non, non, pas du tout. (Comme j’avais dit, chacun son goût.)
She tends to have alot more freedom with her tempo than you would expect in a competition
The transition at 3:00 is the best I’ve interpretation I’ve seen. So light and tranquil
なんというピアノ…
ミスタッチは何度かあるけど、この大舞台で本当になんというピアノを弾くんだ
すごく感動した！！結果はどうあれ、忘れられない演奏です
Aimi has a unique sound. The harmonics that make up her sound are deeper and richer than that of the ordinary pianist. However, she exploits it to very musical ends. Compare the sonority of her playing with good equipment to that of other players and you will see what I am talking about.
+Francis Fawkes Hmm... I'd be curious to conduct a blind testing about this...
+Francis Fawkes hmm, good equipment? Like...a piano? What do you mean equipment? I would say she's educated on the piano but doesn't have real talent. What ever flaw your hearing with the "good equipment" comment could be attached to the fact she need's to learn how to play better.
+ADENS SKY I mean a very good speaker that can bring out the true quality of her sound. Aimi has real talent and genius because she played in Carnegie Hall three times. Kobayashi's awards include three Yamaguchi Prefecture "Glory Culture Prize" and the special Frédéric Chopin passport from the Polish government.
She has performed in France, Brazil, Poland, Russia, South Korea, the United States, and Japan in venues such as the Salle Cortot (Paris), Svetlanov Hall (Moscow), Suntory Hall (Japan), and all three halls of the Carnegie Hall Complex (New York City).
AADGT (the American Association for Development of the Gifted and Talented), a
New York based non-profit organization, has supported Kobayashi for
many years. From Wikipedia.
+Francis Fawkes Aimi should have won if she played up to her true potential. However, she did well enough to make the finals.
+ADENS SKY worthy of reply since she has a universe of talent. SO happy to know that Her talent exists and is contemporary. LOL She is so badass its not even funny.
Not only virtuously performed ~ but also played with utmost sensitivity to the composer!
BRAVO!
She is playing with heart and soul. Imperfectly perfect. You can tell by her express alone that each touch of every key is flowing through her.
No matter what the ''Judges'' of this competition thought, Aimi Kobayashi and Tiffany Poon are the pianists to watch out for in the future . My guess is that that both of them will become world famous mega stars of the classical piano world.
Even though she hit some wrong notes, she never stopped her performance, she was still continuing. And I find that way more impressive than anything else ,because you know that most of the people heard your mistakes, but you have the strenght to continue. And that's what she did. She was feeling the music, and only that mattered for her. She did an amazing performance there.
Aimi is a heavenly pianist who along with Tiffany Poon, will be major classical stars stars in a few years times, when a lot of the others in this competition have largely gone into obscurity. The reason why they WILL succeed is that they like Yuja Wang have so much more than the average, also bags of charisma, that extra star quality that makes you want to go and pay to see them perform.
Can't get enough of this young Pianist playing. Just reaches deep into my soul.
これは歴史に残る名演だと思います。誰にも真似出来ないショパンらしさ。お見事です❣️👏👏👏👏👏
なんと美しいバラード❗
空間的な広がり、拡張の高さ、如何にも女性らしさの溢れたソフトで細やかな語り口、最高です❗
「格調」の高さ？
Her performance made me feel this ballade better than any version I heard before. Wrong notes don’t bother her outstanding performance.
It is hard to try to get touch with the great soul of Chopin but she and her music have already done that!!!!!!
Thank you Aimi , for you and your beautiful, amazing, indescribable talent and a lot of efforts you have made👏
Also I always remember Yuzuru Hanyu when I hear this piece.
me too, Hanyu has skated this masterpiece with magic and made it into the best record holder till now
A colossal pianistic talent who also plays with a great deal of insight, human warmth and fervor. I hope Aimee enjoys a HUGELY successful career n the concert stage. I believe she was BORN to it.
素晴らしい！！
名盤と言われる演奏となんの遜色もない至極の演奏
Chopin to cudowne dzieło Boga. Mój ulubiony kompozytor.
For me this is the single most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard.
Despite all the mistakes, this is the best version of the Ballade ... so many wonderful emotions ..... I have never enjoyed this Ballade like this before ...
I love the hands of Aimi when she it's playing
ピティナの時とは大違い❗大人の演奏になって、解釈が変わっているのが良くわかる‼️素敵です🎵
コーダに入る前の表情が
むっちゃ好きです
Her patience is admirable, she really makes you feel the soft parts
It is heartening to read so many comments about musicianship over note accuracy. Restores somewhat my faith in classical music and. It’s future audiences.
The beauty of sadness, pain and elation. Perfect
So beautiful and with such emotion she was telling a story and we were all there with her
Such an original interpretation. It was fresh to hear something new!
Extraordinary! Aimi does not limit herself to performing this Chopin Ballata in an exemplary manner, but she feels it intensely, she intensely feels all the joys, all the pains, all the sensations that this passage evokes; not only hearing she playing is a real pleasure, but this video and all the videos of her interpretations give us something more. Thanks Aimi
There is not a pianist on the planet that can express so much heart in every not she plays. No one compares to aimi. No one. I wish she would record more. Much more.
This is the best version for me. I also liked how she plays it using with her feelings, it's hard to hear some rare mistakes too (Except for the hard one)
omG that's amazing! we can feel the music through her interpretation. beautiful to see her touching and emotional face. the mistakes are almost meaningless because of this.
It sounds to me as if she needed another month or two of preparation on this piece. That being said...it is an extremely challenging piece and for the most part she pulled it off well. Some parts I really liked her interpretation and other parts not so much. Her tone is wonderful though. Can't wait to hear where her pioneering interpretations take her in the future.
this is beautiful. i lean into the parts when the intensity is brilliantly built by her, and i feel the chords. magnificent job.
私もいつかこのコンクールでこの曲を弾きたいです
These it's the passion of the big Aimi Kobayashi !!!!!!! these it's the perfection of interpretation at the piano. WOWWWWWWWW
Every piano can play the right notes, but not every pianist can *feel* the right notes.
That's so beautiful
-Will Ferrell
Lol not every pianist can play the right notes
can u?
@@v3le
No I can't
Always enjoy watching Aimi's performances.
So beautifully interpreted and again the magic in those hands and heart she reveals is just breathtaking. A perfection of movement and a reminder once more that I shall never tire or grow weary of listening to her as she channels through her a piece of heaven each time she places her delicate hands on that Steinway! No doubt a gift to us from the Universe for which I bow in absolute gratitude.
This was absolutely amazing. Incredible playing with such a clear enjoyment of the piece. Impossibly better than that is all this perspective we get from the piano. Looking at the screen more closely completely fools me into perceiving it as full 3d. Those keys are right here within my reach, and to see them played so well is very humbling.
So many bullcrap comments about wrong notes, this and that. I guess I'm a "low-level hilbilly" since I can't hear the difference. But what I can, as a listener, is feel a whole lot of emotion. Aimi plays like a Godess, and none of these wannabe classical music connoiseur-people commenting such bullcrap, can play anywhere near this level of mastery.
Wow, amazing interpretation! Just perfect, I wish one day to be just like you!
Classical music motivated me to play music and most of them were pieces from Chopin, Kreisler and Rachmaninoff.
I already played Guitar but now Im going to learn how to play piano and play all the pieces I like !
Don't waver, piano is monumentally more difficult than guitar. The more you train, the better you get. For starters, try to play as how the composers deign it to be played, as your techniques get honed you will be able to proceed with your own interpretation.
Saying piano is monumentally more difficult than guitar is quite a statement, I play piano but many people I know play guitar. And I have to say, classical guitar, not the basic and repeated chord progressions in classic rock or metal/pop(etc...), is comparably as difficult as piano.
Guitar its a lot easier than Piano, its what Im seeing but I got confortable with it pretty fast.
exz In my experience, i do find guitar to be less challenging than mastering piano. The necessity to have full control over 10 fingers that moves incessantly and powerfully over the course of 30 minutes at some times. Rach 3, for example. It's like a marathon championship for fingers. Or La Campanella that demands trills from your middle, 3rd and 4th fingers throughout the entire song.
+Putr Kosh yeah, I was quite amazed when i got to know de dificulty of that pieces, guitar is not that dificult... piano its a lot more exigent no room for mistakes
いつ見ても素晴らしい演奏💖
7:49 Yes! This is the intensity I’ve searched for in a rendition of this piece! I aspire to play this like her one day.
The reason why Steinway and Sons’ piano are the best piano in the world is because we can hear the richness of each note Chopin wrote. Especially during the 4:53 section when she hits all these chords, damn, each one feel so profound, meaningful…
I really like Yamaha, it has a very strong and brilliant sound. both are wonderful
@@joaogabriell6683 yes Yamaha is so underrated but Steinway is better
impresionante como siendo la misma canción, cada músico le pone su sentimiento y hace suya las notas...y la convierte en una interpretación particular...
It was lovely to listen to! I like that she slowed down some dramatic moments and drew them out.
It’s alive. That’s the thing, you must live it not just play it. She feels it we can see it well well.
I've seen a lot of versions of this piece on youtube but there's just something about Aimi's playing and her emotions that touches me in a different way...
Artyści japońscy są wspaniałymi wykonawcami muzyki Chopina mają w sobie tą pasję tą ikre moim zdaniem to wielcy wirtuozi fortepianu od lat obserwuję koncerty chopinowskie wielkie brawa i szacunek dla aimi kobayasi nie ujmując tym samym wszystkim wykonawcom tej wspaniałej muzyki
Daar ben ik het volledig me eens (hihi) (=:''
Aimi owns this one. There are great pianists, great musicians, but Aimi owns this one.
This performance is magnificent.
Maravilhosa interpretação de uma obra difícil cheia de sentimentos.
Parabéns Srta. Aimi , penso que está entre as melhores pianista da atualidade.
Heard this piece many times
down the decades.
This performance brings
a tear to the eye.
Beautiful performance :)
What’s with people calling her performance sloppy and full of mistakes? She’s young and has small hands, this piece is not easy for people with small hands and can actually be tiring near the end. But she fought through and played it beautifully! I don’t mind the mistakes why not just enjoy the passion and emotion? I understand it’s being judged but... we’re not the judges here?
bc most pianists believe pieces should be played w the utmost perfection and very expressive , which is absolutely correct but i believe a few slipups are unavoidable in some cases. all in all, she shodve honed this piece a little more, bc there were a few bumps here n there. BUT SHE PLAYED this poece rlly nicely and actually captured the beauty of chopins ballade fully
There is no better than this piano playing. Musically and technically there is no better than this. It's speacking through music. Just ideal!!!
This was probably my favorite interpretation of this song! I loved it!
Other great performances on the competition, but u are in a league of your own. Eksperimenting with your expression, going right to the borders and ALWAYS interesting listening to. This is also a great performance.For your age you are extreme. Still teenager but Chopin was too when writing some of his greates pieces^^
she made mistakes but theres something special that made her preformance good
It was heart
Exactamente, ella lo hace del corazón :)
Aikun- kun The emotion and passion is what you are feeling
Minutes?
This feels like, I DONT KNOW FEELS LIKE U ARE FALLING SLOWLY and fall into a garden with a beautiful moon
She's technically very competent. And her poetic expression is mature for someone her age. If she could somehow slow down a little in the coda for some contrasts it would be close to perfection.
何百回見ても飽きない。すばらしいバラード。
Everything about this video is 100% beautiful.
+Noah Johnson Yes, Absolutely.... I can't stop listening to it. The overwhelming expression of Love she is delivering to the heart is just so enrapturing it is addictive and almost inebriating. There is just so much expression in her delivery of this masterpiece that I am totally intoxicated with sentiment in such a wide pallet of pastel colors, crimson moods and sparks of brashness. This is what I was telling you in my comment about bringing out the heart and soul of Chopin! Notice the great Love Chopin had buried within him through Aimi's interpretation.... This is true Chopin my friend! This is fusion of hearts and living breathing pure emotional bliss!
You must capture it in your renditions and bring it out strong in this very way! I believe Chopin can only be felt and not really explained...
Richard Deschenes Exactly! Very well said. Haha we are becoming youtube pals lol :)
+Noah Johnson Loll.... Yeah! I guess we are! ... we never have too many good friends...
but mistake 8:04~8:20
Yes there are quite a few mistakes in that difficult section. However, a performance should not be characterized by how many mistakes are made, but by how much music is made.
この人ほんとすごい
Her hands may be too small for this song despite using wrist rotation or chopin method to fit each hitting note.
Why no anybody discuss about the narrowed key piano topic(eg. DS.6.0 or 5.5 piano).?????
For professional player(and hobbyist) I think this topic is soo important. Inappropriate size of the key may lead to permanent injury or made her loss of passion and quit playing piano(thinking she 's nit trained hard enough or not have talent, but actually the problem is just piano key size)
I've recently seen this topic in pianist magazine also.
Just watched barcarole and this back to back. THe best playing Ive seen . THere should be like 3 dislikes> idk wtf is wrong with some of you. SerIOUS POWER, interpretation, tone, everything. Outstanding. ~S~ win win for humanity. SHe truly displays power at the instrument. Formidable. AS IT SHOULD BE!
I really do not agree with you there here interpretation of this song is really not that amazing to be honest the performance is pretty adequate everything is played very forceful and then it sounds very happy almost all the way through which is completly wrong it should sound and make you feel extremely lonely this performance did neither
You do realize its absurd to say how a piece should make you feel?
When i hear her play this piece i got goosebumps, absolutely goregous performance
subarashi
+kh yang XDDDD
すばらしい！
+ピアノ練習 toda la razón
-- Il y a beaucoup de tempérament dans son jeu. Ce n'est certes pas parfait mais c'est franc, et c'est beau. --
彼女の情熱が伝わる素晴らしい演奏でした。
The great performance.It's very passionate.
素晴らしい演奏です！！
I love this piece so much like so so much and the Aimi played it makes me want to break down it’s so beautiful
This is really good! On 7:57 nd 8:03, I noticed its the same part, and it sounds kind of weird, not clear? But the whole was seriously really good!!! I really like how she expressed her emotions
Its actually right
Bravo for sharing your soul, Aimi!
I would love to hear her creative presentation of the Ballade on a piano that didn't have such an amazingly bland and limpid tenor and treble. Almost any tier 1 European grand would be an improvement.
yea, i would have preferred if she chose a Yamaha CFX instead of a Steinway Model D
これいつか弾けるようになりたい
Stunning dress and amazing performance!!!
Maravilhoso, Subarashi, Beautiful! Que alma retornou em Aimi?!!
You can really tell she turned sorrow in to frustration at the middle. Which I think is a key importance to this Ballude.
I love how everyone feels the need to pint out that she hit wrong notes. SHES A HUMAN BEING of course she hit a few wrong notes, it happens to EVERY pianist
But it’s ironic that u are too....
@@jamestsindos946 LMAO😂😂
bro there just saying to help her, and everyone who said that she played a few notes wrong said a good thing that she did too
I know for a fact that you can never take constructive criticism
Also not every pianist plays a wrong note during a performance. Most performances have 0 mistakes.
A beautiful talented young lady ,One of the best.
frank kent
Nice interpretation. Top level pianism (posture, wrist, tone...), musical insight...and beauty)
Yo no se criticar a los músicos, solo se que me encanta como toca el piano Aimi.
i usually don't have much of indept analysis in order to spot mistakes in piano pieces since i mostly don't know the scores but i can tell this is vastly different for Zimerman's play of this ballade. hope she keeps improving this world need more people who can actually taste this art
Beautifull performance Aimi! God bless you!
I don't know the piece very well but yall are bashing her for making minor mistakes. This girl could play 20 minute pieces with ease at such a young age. She is still young but she plays with such mature expression and dynamics.
大学最後の学内演奏会で弾いた思い出の曲🥹
やっぱり素晴らしいな。
さっきご主人のコンチェルト1番聴いて来て、愛美さんのバラードを聴きに来た。
このご夫婦に素晴らしい演奏をして貰って、きっとショパンも喜んでいるでしょう。
극적인 표현은 많이 없지만
그만큼 절제되고 수려한 발라드인거 같다. 좋네….
약간 발라드에 대한 내 고정관념은 깨준거 같음..
I have heard several Chopin-performances by young, Asian pianist. Some of them are technically perfect, but lack expression and soul. Aimi Kobayashi might make some minor "mistakes" (as some comments point out), but her playing is magical. It is like Amaterasu Omikami (the Sun Goddess) and the pantheon of japanese kami are performing magic through her soul and hands.
There is a depth in Japanese culture which provides an unique foundation for interpreting classical music. Japanese wabi-sabi esthetics rests on the understanding that nothing is ever finished, on the beauty in transience and imperfection. Ami Kobayashi's interpretation of Chopin resonates with those profound cultural sentiments.