Honestly very clean. Maybe it's the quality of the recording, the clarity of the performance rendered by the musicians, or the laptop speakers I'm experiencing it through. This concerto has a precision to it, approaching musical sterilization, in which the constituent parts hustle about in orderly perfection, achieving the effect on the listener of a kaleidoscope of chromaticism, throughout which the omnipresence of the piano does its best to impart a unifying "theme" to the piece. Altogether a not unfortunate concerto, if one has the ears for such a thing.
It is madness. It is so pure. It seems to me as if it should be physically impossible to write something like this and yet everything fits together so logically. I just don't get it. HOW??
Crazy piece. It's kind of mind boggling how anyone learns it and puts it together. I'm watching the score and can barely tell how the sounds in the recording relate to the notes on the page.
Chung an SunwookKim how can it be done.From start to finish no let up.Incredible activity.The onslaught of last pages-I cant believe the energy and the instrumental solos,percussion.What an experience!!!
Even though she studied with G. Ligeti I can hear in this concert very strong Messiaen vibes emerging from sparkling birdlike outbursts, eerie rhythm devices and gamelan percussions.
For the first and last time I will listen to this, it's certainly imaginative and interesting. The oddball textures and soundscapes create an alternative reality to the present. I couldn't help but think of the third movement of this concerto being a data scramble at the event horizon of a black hole of the 3rd movement Gershwin's Piano Concerto, then flung into a parallel Universe resulting in this. As much as I admire the evident hard work, information, studious learning and acquired skill it takes to write something like this (let alone perform it!!!😨); one listening and I feel I've had my full for the next very long while. But there are those who love this music. That's what counts. There! I made it to the end of the Concerto. Well done and thanks for sharing - 👏
Just because you mention it, I went to listen to Gershwin's concerto for the first time. It was surprisingly good for the style of music I avoided for my entire life. Yes, if you take some ingredients of this piece and line them up neatly in simple order with tons of cheese to bake a pizza, it will be like Gershwin. It's funny that I kind of feel the same about that concert, I can see it's good, certainly a serious stuff, but once is enough for a long while...LOL Wonder if you ever come back here again.
Not something I'm going to put on often but i respect her command of structure. Just when an idea is getting tiring, she knows to move on to something else.
Well Dick, it's got a great beat and you can dance to it! American Bandstand jokes aside this is a really nice piece that demands my attention. I liked it a lot, thx for the upload!
No, it's not in sonata form. The traditional aspect is dividing the piece into movements of alternating tempo as it is in classical concertos. The individual movements are much more linear in some sense, developing an idea or texture, rather than being thematically/tonally divided into rotational forms. Think of it as a slow accumulation or build up in most cases. In one interview Chin described her thinking about music as being more about statistical density or sparsity rather than melody/motif, etc.
When the world crumbles, when the structures of a civilization falter, it is good to return to that which in history does not flex, but on the contrary recovers courage, gathers the separated, pacifies without bruising. It’s worth recalling that the genius of creation is also moving in an history devoted to the destruction💥
Musique pour plus intellectuel que moi. Ecoute répétitive me laisse blanc de sentiments...Les pensées frappées seules par les singularités de ces assemblages sonores! Cet univers là m´échappe totalement...(et je ne courrai pas après !...)
What a disgusting piece. Genuinely trash. It's truly sad when this would work best as a sound score for a film character being plunged into the depths of insanity, but then it's stretched out for nearly 23 unbearable minutes. And thinking studying the discordant flatulence that Ligeti wrote is a point of pride, there's a reason normal people would rather pull up long-dead composers than this "contemporary" rubbish. The amount of restraint I've had to exercise to keep this comment civil...
@@michaelmatthews1567 Normal people do give a shit about good music. If this were good music, then it might rank up there with other relatively recent composers and their music. Not everyone knows George Gerschwin, but everyone knows Rhapsody in Blue when they hear it.
@@igo.spekkyjarvonvreich If calling a spade a spade makes me a jerk, then so be it. When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, an intentionally jarring piece, sounds better than this, you know it's time to reconsider your angle of approaching music composition.
@@hughmungus7280 A funny comparison. Just like saying everybody knows "Yellow Submarine" when they hear it but not "The art of fugue". Popularity doesn't always match its artistry. It's interesting to see how some people can't shut their mouths for something they don't understand.
Chin writes BANGERS omg i just came from school and im so glad i came back to this
Well banging is one way to describe it…
TIM!
hellaur
I just love every music Chin wrote.
Long awaited sequel to Ligetis piano concerto.
And damn it is good
Long awaited comment comparing Unsuk Chin to Ligeti, again.
@@fishorbit1 It's kinda inevitable imo. Teacher and student. oof
@@fishorbit1 Imo.........Chin is a bit more avant garde than Ligeti.
@@zgart i heard it right now after seeing the comment, it felt kinda distant from ligeti's piano concerto, but i kinda understand your point
I love this recording the most... thank you so much
Narfen
MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING THE TEXTURES ARE INSANNNNNNE
Honestly very clean. Maybe it's the quality of the recording, the clarity of the performance rendered by the musicians, or the laptop speakers I'm experiencing it through. This concerto has a precision to it, approaching musical sterilization, in which the constituent parts hustle about in orderly perfection, achieving the effect on the listener of a kaleidoscope of chromaticism, throughout which the omnipresence of the piano does its best to impart a unifying "theme" to the piece. Altogether a not unfortunate concerto, if one has the ears for such a thing.
It is madness. It is so pure. It seems to me as if it should be physically impossible to write something like this and yet everything fits together so logically. I just don't get it. HOW??
Crazy piece. It's kind of mind boggling how anyone learns it and puts it together. I'm watching the score and can barely tell how the sounds in the recording relate to the notes on the page.
Chung an SunwookKim how can it be done.From start to finish no let up.Incredible activity.The onslaught of last pages-I cant believe the energy and the instrumental solos,percussion.What an experience!!!
Even though she studied with G. Ligeti I can hear in this concert very strong Messiaen vibes emerging from sparkling birdlike outbursts, eerie rhythm devices and gamelan percussions.
I hear Ravel
@@James-ll3jb No surprise, Messiaen deeply studied and revered Ravel's music.
Awesome piece!
For the first and last time I will listen to this, it's certainly imaginative and interesting. The oddball textures and soundscapes create an alternative reality to the present.
I couldn't help but think of the third movement of this concerto being a data scramble at the event horizon of a black hole of the 3rd movement Gershwin's Piano Concerto, then flung into a parallel Universe resulting in this.
As much as I admire the evident hard work, information, studious learning and acquired skill it takes to write something like this (let alone perform it!!!😨); one listening and I feel I've had my full for the next very long while.
But there are those who love this music. That's what counts.
There! I made it to the end of the Concerto. Well done and thanks for sharing - 👏
Just because you mention it, I went to listen to Gershwin's concerto for the first time. It was surprisingly good for the style of music I avoided for my entire life. Yes, if you take some ingredients of this piece and line them up neatly in simple order with tons of cheese to bake a pizza, it will be like Gershwin. It's funny that I kind of feel the same about that concert, I can see it's good, certainly a serious stuff, but once is enough for a long while...LOL Wonder if you ever come back here again.
Finally, a person who can have their opinion while still understanding others' in a civilised manner.
Not something I'm going to put on often but i respect her command of structure. Just when an idea is getting tiring, she knows to move on to something else.
Well Dick, it's got a great beat and you can dance to it!
American Bandstand jokes aside this is a really nice piece that demands my attention. I liked it a lot, thx for the upload!
first movement is 4'33'' long, hmmm...
so FUCKING GOOD...!!!!
DAMN
Beautiful
Beautiful!
Hell, the second movement is so good...
so good…
アンサンブルする楽しさに溢れてます！どのパートも楽しそう！そしておそらく、難しい🤑
11:00 ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥...
A MASTERPIECE
Two thumbs up. Or three if you like
"Ligeti wants to know your location."
is this piece in any kinda form like sonata form, im not used to atonality and i genuinely cant tell
No, it's not in sonata form. The traditional aspect is dividing the piece into movements of alternating tempo as it is in classical concertos. The individual movements are much more linear in some sense, developing an idea or texture, rather than being thematically/tonally divided into rotational forms. Think of it as a slow accumulation or build up in most cases. In one interview Chin described her thinking about music as being more about statistical density or sparsity rather than melody/motif, etc.
@@Flatscores Sounds like early Xenakis
Shades of Ravel😊
When the world crumbles, when the structures of a civilization falter, it is good to return to that which in history does not flex, but on the contrary recovers courage, gathers the separated, pacifies without bruising. It’s worth recalling that the genius of creation is also moving in an history devoted to the destruction💥
Musique pour plus intellectuel que moi. Ecoute répétitive me laisse blanc de sentiments...Les pensées frappées seules par les singularités de ces assemblages sonores! Cet univers là m´échappe totalement...(et je ne courrai pas après !...)
Tonality? What's that?
mind blowing, isn't it 🤣
Composers have stopped using tonality since well over a hundred years, why do you act so surprised
@@arielorthmann4061 Who said I was surprised?
This isn't atonal though
@@vinewailhfytyjtg818 If this isn't atonal I don't know what is
sodelicious...
This is the music the AI inside a supercomputer would put on for easy listening lol
🧐
4' 33'' ahahah
...Musique ?? pour des illuminés sans racines humaines..!!!
One climax after another, and if a melody occurred to the composer, it would be welcomed.
just a bunch of noise...
What shit
You'll understand one day
I had hope but this is gross
What a disgusting piece. Genuinely trash. It's truly sad when this would work best as a sound score for a film character being plunged into the depths of insanity, but then it's stretched out for nearly 23 unbearable minutes. And thinking studying the discordant flatulence that Ligeti wrote is a point of pride, there's a reason normal people would rather pull up long-dead composers than this "contemporary" rubbish. The amount of restraint I've had to exercise to keep this comment civil...
If you don’t like it don’t be a jerk
Normal people don’t give a shit about composers, dead or otherwise. Your art is dying and you know it.
@@michaelmatthews1567 Normal people do give a shit about good music. If this were good music, then it might rank up there with other relatively recent composers and their music. Not everyone knows George Gerschwin, but everyone knows Rhapsody in Blue when they hear it.
@@igo.spekkyjarvonvreich If calling a spade a spade makes me a jerk, then so be it. When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, an intentionally jarring piece, sounds better than this, you know it's time to reconsider your angle of approaching music composition.
@@hughmungus7280 A funny comparison. Just like saying everybody knows "Yellow Submarine" when they hear it but not "The art of fugue". Popularity doesn't always match its artistry.
It's interesting to see how some people can't shut their mouths for something they don't understand.
Over orchestrated. Could have been better with three instruments - piano, conductor and a metronome.