i think everybody should take into account that Chopin pieces are open to much interpretation, as you can tell by the tons of different versions of pieces such as Waltz in C# Minor and Fantasie-Impromptu, and Ballade No. 1. It is clear that Lang Lang is into the music, he is very clean, and he definitely incorporates musicality into it that goes beyond those set by the composer and arranger. That is why I love this interpretation and him as a pianist in general.
@rubberduckz94 ... I would never have noticed that this note @ 5:01 was held by the sostenuto pedal, had you not pointed it out. Thanks for that "educational" detail! To me Lang Lang is a full blooded musician (Vollblut-Musiker) who combines tremendous technical skills, a strong sense for the composer as well as his very own style --- with BRAVURA!
Some people just don't understand what constitutes good sound, good interpretation and touch. Chopin's music is beautiful by itself, even when someone like Bang Bang plays it.
I think Lang Lang is singing with the piano. I think Lang Lang is such a wonderful entertainer. He plays the piano to entertain people. If he plays it just nomally, it would be boring and nothing interesting. I like Lang Lang's performance and his sound is so beautiful and touching. I love it.
@technicalentity a music lover doesnt need to know how to play any instrument. the same piece can be played by many musician. audiences can decide which version they like and express why. Everyone can express how they felt about it. they DON'T really need to know how to play it. You dont need to be angry or nervus or worry about people commenting on your idle.
You know, when it's music that it's nearly 200 years old, that hundreds of pianist have played it "the way it should be played", i often come to hear Lang Lang to hear something new, a variation, a murder if you prefer. I apologize if i didn't make much sense, english isn't my native language.
It is this kind of thing which makes me respect Lang Lang as both a showman and a virtuoso pianist. Also 5:01 is the best use of the sostenuto (middle) pedal I've heard.
Ho avuto occasione di vedere Michelangeli scendere le scale di casa per recarsi a studiare nella baita che aveva a Piazzola di Rabbi val di Sole . Sempre in frac con lo sguardo assente che trasmetteva grande carisma dato dalla profonda dimensione in cui lui viveva la musica.E nelle sue esecuzioni si sente sempre la sua grandezza.
Showiness is a big part of what is known and perceived as "bravura"... In that sense I find his playing very attractive in a unique way. His decisions on what to do with each particular passage don't have to make sense stylistically to leave the audience breathless in awe. Purists may be offended, but I say Chopin's been dead for two centuries... somehow, I don't think he'll mind (the most he can do is roll around in his grave). Play on!
Thank you for politely taking my criticism and I will forgive your first comment. I just don't really like that argument at all. I am perfectly fine with you liking Lang Lang, he just doesn't really impress me at all. Let's just agree to have different opinions about Lang Lang. I do agree with you that comments making fun of his showmanship with no comment on his playing is getting old though.
@technicalentity I've played the piece. I've studied the piano and music for a long time. And I've watched Lang Lang for most of his career. I consider myself a fan of his. I was at his Carnegie Hall premiere. The man is a great pianist when he wants to be, and he's also vulgar sometimes. Some of his playing in the Carnegie debut was criticized for exactly this reason, rightfully so. I chalk most of it up to youthful excess and a well-intentioned desire to be a crowd-pleaser.
I cant tell i prefer this perfomance or that, each one has its own interpretation, but Lang Lang plays as it was always a rebirth of each score, do you sense it?;)
i can guarantee you there are tens of thousands of pianists who can play anything, let alone chopin, better than lang lang. fame has nothing to do with talent.
good point thanks, I remember learning this on my English 1010 like 6 years ago haha but I read the wiki article, very interesting and true. I guess I did not much thought in my comment, I was just upset at people who commented about "look at his facial expressions" and I just did not like that.
This is why Langlang became famous: brilliant technique + exaggerative face expression + "Unique" (which is too much different from general musical sense) interpretation.
Lang Lang es un buen pianista...prometedor...no obstante, considero que gesticula exageradamente en un intento por expresar PASIÓN...desde mi punto de vista, su técnica le resta elegancia...cualidad que todo pianista debe desarrolalr al momento de presentarse en público. Paradigma de elegancia: Arthur Rubinstain....
Lang Lang sin duda es un buen pianista...No obstante, en su afán por expresar PASIÓN, gesticula exageradamente y golpea las teclas con más fuerza de la necesaria. Su técnica le resta elegancia como pianista...Paradigma de elegancia: Arthur Rubinstein
Lang lang has amazing talent. Its clear he still has a lot of maturity to develop in his playing style but just imagine when it happens... People who say idiotic things about him being talentless are just being stupid...
he is a genius... and a genius will always looking for something different.. differences are not acceptable for mediocre or average.. we want everything to be normal..
I clicked on this thinking I wouldn't like Lang Lang's interpretation but it's actually quite convincing. I approve. Still prefer Yundi Li's performance though.
@ChoiHsinMath thats not true, this interpretation is great. Chopin would have appreciated. The changing of speed as you say is an old tradition coming directly from Liszt and Chopin and even Schumann. These three composer did knew each other and did teach a lot of pianists who gave the tradition to their pupils. Very famous pianists were the result. Here these ones and you will see they also change tempi....
to compare Yundi Li to Lang Lang is like comparing a Bentley to a Saab.... Yundi Li's style is just so much more classier and appealing to that of Lang Lang's.
Hilarious all these comments ! No rules were written when Chopin wrote this piece so this interpretation is as valid or invalid as any other. Personally I prefer listening to Lang Lang (who I saw live a few months at the Festival Hall and who for what it's worth stayed behind for over an hour signing autographs in foyer!) than some ghostly figure who plays with no joie de vivre!
@LegendOD20 you 're wrong dude, i met lang lang once in nuremberg in a chinese restaurant. i talked to him and we had a nice conversation, he isnt arrogant or something. but i think his playing style is way too eccentric
WHO WROTE THE RULES FOR "how an artist can move when he plays"... ? If an artist wants to be pompous let him be, he is an artist, an expression of himself not a "constituted" set of rules that need to be followed to please people that give bad feedback. Why do you even care to watch if you don't enjoy his playing? Why do you watch things you don't enjoy and just enjoy criticizing? Go and think about this and how good you are at playing piano, if you're not better than him then please, SHUT UP!
sometimes Lang shows more of his virtuosism for some audience that goes to see his ability rather than his heart playing. In the proms you do not expect too much quality, but performing.
@torritaclassica Based on your logic, everyone who cannot play the piano like Rubinstein does, does not even have the right to say that they do not like this "Lang Lang robot play", nor even dare to listen to the music of Chopin?
It's ONE of his interpretations of this piece. Loads of errors of course, but he plays it beautifully in other renderings. He was clowning about a little here. If you don't like his physical mannerisms, just listen to him.
I didn't hear this; amazing that YOU did, considering the helter-skelter, stupidly rushed first 15 seconds of the piece. You used the phrase "just for starters"; am I to suppose that there's more that I missed?@@DaleHubbard And by the way, I abhor his facial and physical mannerisms. The latter, which usually refers to gestures and expressions of which the player is unaware, doesn't seem to me to be appropriate here, because it should be obvious to anyone who's half-awake that this pianist is abundantly conscious of every "face" he makes, of every feathery, floating arm and wrist motion that he "delivers" to his awe-struck adoring audiences. Make no mistake, this showman "ain't no fool" - - he knows only too well what he's doing!
condivido in pieno quello che dici...tanti lo criticano,ma per me è uno dei più fenomenali pianisti in circolazione (se non il migliore). ps michelangeli però questa polacca la suona molto meglio ahahaha
Not how it was intended to be played. It's a polonaise, not some sort of hurricane, which sometimes bangs along the way and sometimes subsides. I've heard Lang Lang better =/ My opinion, but not only mine.
How come these "tens of thousands of pianists" are still in obscurity? It is extremely unfair, isn't it? You don't have to guarantee but just do them a favor by posting their work in UA-cam, and if they are better than Lang Lang, I am willing to sponsor a platform for them to showcase their skill.
@worras2007 but who said "classics" have to be played in one way? Especially considering the fact that Chopin is from the Romantic period where neoclassical music is starting to form so technically the piece is not even Classical.
@siyang2 By "classics" I meant that this is Chopin, not modern jazz (in that sense). Yes, all performers are unique, and they have their own "signatures". But in my personal opinion and my personal taste, I think that Lang Lang with his too much of freedom and squeezed out artificial "originality" simply destroys the very meaning of this masterpiece of music. Your right to believe otherwise.
Lang Lang looks and sounds like he is having a seizure when he plays. In fact, for all we know, he is actually epileptic and simply extremely lucky that when he sits at the piano, he has a seizure that happens to make him play whatever piece it is he is supposed to play. This may even be a more plausible theory than that he has been schooled in any way, seeing as most sensible musicians absolutely would not play so spastically.
People clearly don't listen to other pianists. The only reason people are here is because at some point it was a trend for them when they seen hbim on =J leno or wateva talk show he sprung into.
Nice playing, but still prefer yundi li's version. This one doesnt give me a romantic feeling but more like 20th century style(due to his interpretation )
@123mazeppa You don't have a clue. 'Feeling' does not equal sentimentality. Too many idiots can't seem to grasp this and continue bash Lang Lang when they know nothing. Go study some aesthetics if you want to appear as though you're some expert spouting the 'true meaning' of music. This isn't one of Lang Lang's better interpretations, but he is still an excellent pianist. Do you think you can understand Chopin's music better? I guess all you'd be able to say is 'it has feeling'
i feel like just because someone new comes in with a complete new interpretation of a piece they get completely shot down with it. Lang lang doesn't play like the usual, it's just a very unique point of view...you guys are just not flexible enough to accept it
@siyang2 I feel people care less about the piece being played and more about the person who's playing it. To take apart an original piece and fill it with the utter nonsense that is the void of your relentless "era" or what ever little clevere thought that atributed it would be a tragic event to witness in any regard. No one in his position is free from criticism. If you or anyone don't like it go bury your heads back in the ground after reading this and have a nice day. Shalom
@granadabruselas NO feeling huh? Look at him playing Chopin Nocturne Op 27. #2 If feeling isn't shouting at you then - sorry to say that but you are deaf...
an excellent performer and a fine interpretation... one thing i don't like about him, he's interpretation is too much liberated.. another thing, his tone to each note may sometimes sound too harsh.... it sounds it sounds more likely a SCHERZO not a polonaise brilliante...
@siyang2 Next time let it be played by ASIMO robot by Toyota. I read this robot can already walk and speak. And run. I think he could play like Lang Lang or even better. Now seriously - it is not about flexibility. I like interpretations of various kinds. But to be able to interpret something, you need to first understand it. Chopin is not just pure technique, nor jazz. It is CLASSICS. And shall be performed like that.
He was not serious at this live. If you listen to this piece in Lang Lang's The Chopin Album, you will find it the most wonderful work in the world.
I think, If you listen this piece with closed eyes, you will feel the seriousness,
Despite of his face appearance.
現場版的比較符合他的風格
Exactly.
i think everybody should take into account that Chopin pieces are open to much interpretation, as you can tell by the tons of different versions of pieces such as Waltz in C# Minor and Fantasie-Impromptu, and Ballade No. 1.
It is clear that Lang Lang is into the music, he is very clean, and he definitely incorporates musicality into it that goes beyond those set by the composer and arranger. That is why I love this interpretation and him as a pianist in general.
He found his friend at 5:50 and “Hi” at 5:55
@rubberduckz94 ... I would never have noticed that this note @ 5:01 was held by the sostenuto pedal, had you not pointed it out. Thanks for that "educational" detail!
To me Lang Lang is a full blooded musician (Vollblut-Musiker) who combines tremendous technical skills, a strong sense for the composer as well as his very own style --- with BRAVURA!
I simply love how he enjoys kissing the keys with his fingers and also makes me enjoy it. He's surely a bright one.
So so so so so so wonderful ! ! ! ! ! Lang Lang's feeling of music always so strong ~ so nice ~ so lively ! GOOD ! ! !
Some people just don't understand what constitutes good sound, good interpretation and touch. Chopin's music is beautiful by itself, even when someone like Bang Bang plays it.
I think Lang Lang is singing with the piano. I think Lang Lang is such a wonderful entertainer. He plays the piano to entertain people. If he plays it
just nomally, it would be boring and nothing interesting. I like Lang Lang's performance and his sound is so beautiful and touching. I love it.
If you have watched one of his master class he mentioned that body movements affects the sound and expression and motivates his students to do so.
The best player ever.👌
bravo, wonderful performance!
Gracias Youtoube!!!!Estos videos de Lang son maravillosos!!!!!!!!!!!
@technicalentity a music lover doesnt need to know how to play any instrument. the same piece can be played by many musician. audiences can decide which version they like and express why. Everyone can express how they felt about it. they DON'T really need to know how to play it. You dont need to be angry or nervus or worry about people commenting on your idle.
You know, when it's music that it's nearly 200 years old, that hundreds of pianist have played it "the way it should be played", i often come to hear Lang Lang to hear something new, a variation, a murder if you prefer. I apologize if i didn't make much sense, english isn't my native language.
It is this kind of thing which makes me respect Lang Lang as both a showman and a virtuoso pianist. Also 5:01 is the best use of the sostenuto (middle) pedal I've heard.
i like the Jazz aspect lang lang brings to this piece. actually it gets a more dramatic and happy feeling
Jazz aspect? What - - no Hip Hop?
Bravo...Lang Lang
and you are the best
@ColorfulHyena YES! I swear I've been through the majority of his videos at least twice and I'm expecting millions of views with millions of likes!
Ho avuto occasione di vedere Michelangeli scendere le scale di casa per recarsi a studiare nella baita che aveva a Piazzola di Rabbi val di Sole . Sempre in frac con lo sguardo assente che trasmetteva grande carisma dato dalla profonda dimensione in cui lui viveva la musica.E nelle sue esecuzioni si sente sempre la sua grandezza.
Showiness is a big part of what is known and perceived as "bravura"...
In that sense I find his playing very attractive in a unique way. His decisions on what to do with each particular passage don't have to make sense stylistically to leave the audience breathless in awe.
Purists may be offended, but I say Chopin's been dead for two centuries... somehow, I don't think he'll mind (the most he can do is roll around in his grave). Play on!
there is a reason why he is a globally accomplished pianist.
love this!
Thank you for politely taking my criticism and I will forgive your first comment. I just don't really like that argument at all. I am perfectly fine with you liking Lang Lang, he just doesn't really impress me at all. Let's just agree to have different opinions about Lang Lang.
I do agree with you that comments making fun of his showmanship with no comment on his playing is getting old though.
@technicalentity I've played the piece. I've studied the piano and music for a long time. And I've watched Lang Lang for most of his career. I consider myself a fan of his. I was at his Carnegie Hall premiere. The man is a great pianist when he wants to be, and he's also vulgar sometimes. Some of his playing in the Carnegie debut was criticized for exactly this reason, rightfully so. I chalk most of it up to youthful excess and a well-intentioned desire to be a crowd-pleaser.
Finalmente un grande che suona senza pesi sullo stomaco........GRANDE
I am performing this piece in two weeks and yes everyone does have diferent interpretations iwill put a link up after my recital PS im 18
Vendo essa maravilha... acredito que Deus Existe !! 👏 👏 👏
Sheer brilliance! Such precious playing, I love Lang Lang...
Pure. Awesomeness.
I cant tell i prefer this perfomance or that, each one has its own interpretation, but Lang Lang plays as it was always a rebirth of each score, do you sense it?;)
i can guarantee you there are tens of thousands of pianists who can play anything, let alone chopin, better than lang lang. fame has nothing to do with talent.
good point thanks, I remember learning this on my English 1010 like 6 years ago haha but I read the wiki article, very interesting and true. I guess I did not much thought in my comment, I was just upset at people who commented about "look at his facial expressions" and I just did not like that.
best ever
I like his interpretation ... A lot more staccato than any other ones but I'm more of a legato kind of person but I still like it =D
@ahjenchang sorry,a typo. I mean IDOL, not idle... :p
@siyang2 Well put!
貴公子！最高！秀峰了！能造多喜適合的増強力CD&DVD
This is why Langlang became famous: brilliant technique + exaggerative face expression + "Unique" (which is too much different from general musical sense) interpretation.
Maravilhosa interpretação!!!!!!!!!
Lang Lang es un buen pianista...prometedor...no obstante, considero que gesticula exageradamente en un intento por expresar PASIÓN...desde mi punto de vista, su técnica le resta elegancia...cualidad que todo pianista debe desarrolalr al momento de presentarse en público. Paradigma de elegancia: Arthur Rubinstain....
Lang Lang sin duda es un buen pianista...No obstante, en su afán por expresar PASIÓN, gesticula exageradamente y golpea las teclas con más fuerza de la necesaria. Su técnica le resta elegancia como pianista...Paradigma de elegancia: Arthur Rubinstein
no disrespect to lang lang, but this is the only performance of this polonaise where I DON'T cry at 3:44..
What's with all this 'crying' business? I notice in so many comments how viewers are brought to tears by the most unlikely kinds of music.
@ColorfulHyena He often gets a highly unpredictable rapid changing on speed which destroys a sentence at all. He and his music are insane.
Now we're GETTING somewhere!
Lang lang has amazing talent. Its clear he still has a lot of maturity to develop in his playing style but just imagine when it happens... People who say idiotic things about him being talentless are just being stupid...
he is a genius... and a genius will always looking for something different..
differences are not acceptable for mediocre or average.. we want everything to be normal..
langlang decided to play this after seeing Yundi Li's interpretation with all those lasers. little did langlang know it was a trap.
I clicked on this thinking I wouldn't like Lang Lang's interpretation but it's actually quite convincing. I approve. Still prefer Yundi Li's performance though.
very ggod point the artist is artist he paly as he want he is very good and fast great pianist
@ChoiHsinMath thats not true, this interpretation is great. Chopin would have appreciated. The changing of speed as you say is an old tradition coming directly from Liszt and Chopin and even Schumann. These three composer did knew each other and did teach a lot of pianists who gave the tradition to their pupils. Very famous pianists were the result. Here these ones and you will see they also change tempi....
to compare Yundi Li to Lang Lang is like comparing a Bentley to a Saab.... Yundi Li's style is just so much more classier and appealing to that of Lang Lang's.
@Tzsil713 It is how the score is written.
Hilarious all these comments ! No rules were written when Chopin wrote this piece so this interpretation is as valid or invalid as any other. Personally I prefer listening to Lang Lang (who I saw live a few months at the Festival Hall and who for what it's worth stayed behind for over an hour signing autographs in foyer!) than some ghostly figure who plays with no joie de vivre!
very gud
True rubato! What incredible music!
True rubato? What on earth?
1:30 LOL oh yeaaa i love that part!!!
@LegendOD20 you 're wrong dude, i met lang lang once in nuremberg in a chinese restaurant. i talked to him and we had a nice conversation, he isnt arrogant or something. but i think his playing style is way too eccentric
WHO WROTE THE RULES FOR "how an artist can move when he plays"... ? If an artist wants to be pompous let him be, he is an artist, an expression of himself not a "constituted" set of rules that need to be followed to please people that give bad feedback. Why do you even care to watch if you don't enjoy his playing? Why do you watch things you don't enjoy and just enjoy criticizing? Go and think about this and how good you are at playing piano, if you're not better than him then please, SHUT UP!
❤
3:09 my favourite part of the piece
sometimes Lang shows more of his virtuosism for some audience that goes to see his ability rather than his heart playing. In the proms you do not expect too much quality, but performing.
omg we both have Sonic display pics
Holy God, be easy to interpret this complicated piece.
a virtuoso on the piano, Lang Lang is great.
This piece couldn't be any less complicated.
Let's learn...
@torritaclassica Based on your logic, everyone who cannot play the piano like Rubinstein does, does not even have the right to say that they do not like this "Lang Lang robot play", nor even dare to listen to the music of Chopin?
Perfect! *****
Lets send him a Blue and White apron for his birthday.
It's ONE of his interpretations of this piece. Loads of errors of course, but he plays it beautifully in other renderings. He was clowning about a little here. If you don't like his physical mannerisms, just listen to him.
Loads of errors? Where?
@@richardvolpe7664 Just for starters, 5 seconds in, he plays a left-hand octave a semitone sharp...
I didn't hear this; amazing that YOU did, considering the helter-skelter, stupidly rushed first 15 seconds of the piece. You used the phrase "just for starters"; am I to suppose that there's more that I missed?@@DaleHubbard
And by the way, I abhor his facial and physical mannerisms. The latter, which usually refers to gestures and expressions of which the player is unaware, doesn't seem to me to be appropriate here, because it should be obvious to anyone who's half-awake that this pianist is abundantly conscious of every "face" he makes, of every feathery, floating arm and wrist motion that he "delivers" to his awe-struck adoring audiences. Make no mistake, this showman "ain't no fool" - - he knows only too well what he's doing!
Agree.
0:25 is the best
condivido in pieno quello che dici...tanti lo criticano,ma per me è uno dei più fenomenali pianisti in circolazione (se non il migliore). ps michelangeli però questa polacca la suona molto meglio ahahaha
which piece was he referring to?
@06moca1 Well, probably the fact that I'm not a fluent english speaker, sorry anyway
faster faster....
@alexandros789 not only michelangeli.....many others like rubinstein horowitz and so on
i had to laugh hard when he showed his karate skills!
Not how it was intended to be played. It's a polonaise, not some sort of hurricane, which sometimes bangs along the way and sometimes subsides. I've heard Lang Lang better =/
My opinion, but not only mine.
How come these "tens of thousands of pianists" are still in obscurity? It is extremely unfair, isn't it? You don't have to guarantee but just do them a favor by posting their work in UA-cam, and if they are better than Lang Lang, I am willing to sponsor a platform for them to showcase their skill.
perfect example of a musician overpowering the music itself
@worras2007 but who said "classics" have to be played in one way? Especially considering the fact that Chopin is from the Romantic period where neoclassical music is starting to form so technically the piece is not even Classical.
???
bardzo pieknie!
przypuszczalnie samemu Fryderykowi by szczeka opadla! :-)
super!!!
@siyang2 By "classics" I meant that this is Chopin, not modern jazz (in that sense). Yes, all performers are unique, and they have their own "signatures". But in my personal opinion and my personal taste, I think that Lang Lang with his too much of freedom and squeezed out artificial "originality" simply destroys the very meaning of this masterpiece of music. Your right to believe otherwise.
I just realised. THE AUDIENCE WERE STANDING THROUGHOUT THE PERFORMANCE?!
And?
Lang Lang looks and sounds like he is having a seizure when he plays. In fact, for all we know, he is actually epileptic and simply extremely lucky that when he sits at the piano, he has a seizure that happens to make him play whatever piece it is he is supposed to play. This may even be a more plausible theory than that he has been schooled in any way, seeing as most sensible musicians absolutely would not play so spastically.
Haha I like his replacement of the orchestra.
his a piano killer ...
Joker vs. the piano
This stuff is GREAT... 13 people better??? name them.... name just 1,,, oh that's right ..You..right?
People clearly don't listen to other pianists. The only reason people are here is because at some point it was a trend for them when they seen hbim on =J leno or wateva talk show he sprung into.
id like to see you up there oscrrrrr
@cocolucky Perhaps I am one of them
@06moca1 And what's wrong with that?
Nice playing, but still prefer yundi li's version. This one doesnt give me a romantic feeling but more like 20th century style(due to his interpretation )
@123mazeppa You don't have a clue. 'Feeling' does not equal sentimentality. Too many idiots can't seem to grasp this and continue bash Lang Lang when they know nothing. Go study some aesthetics if you want to appear as though you're some expert spouting the 'true meaning' of music.
This isn't one of Lang Lang's better interpretations, but he is still an excellent pianist. Do you think you can understand Chopin's music better? I guess all you'd be able to say is 'it has feeling'
i feel like just because someone new comes in with a complete new interpretation of a piece they get completely shot down with it. Lang lang doesn't play like the usual, it's just a very unique point of view...you guys are just not flexible enough to accept it
@siyang2 I feel people care less about the piece being played and more about the person who's playing it.
To take apart an original piece and fill it with the utter nonsense that is the void of your relentless "era" or what ever little clevere thought that atributed it would be a tragic event to witness in any regard. No one in his position is free from criticism. If you or anyone don't like it go bury your heads back in the ground after reading this and have a nice day. Shalom
@granadabruselas NO feeling huh? Look at him playing Chopin Nocturne Op 27. #2 If feeling isn't shouting at you then - sorry to say that but you are deaf...
sonic boom @ 2:07
an excellent performer and a fine interpretation... one thing i don't like about him, he's interpretation is too much liberated.. another thing, his tone to each note may sometimes sound too harsh.... it sounds it sounds more likely a SCHERZO not a polonaise brilliante...
tecnicamente straordinario, ma quelle facce e quelle mosse dovrebbe veramente risparmiarsele...
@siyang2 Next time let it be played by ASIMO robot by Toyota. I read this robot can already walk and speak. And run. I think he could play like Lang Lang or even better.
Now seriously - it is not about flexibility. I like interpretations of various kinds. But to be able to interpret something, you need to first understand it. Chopin is not just pure technique, nor jazz. It is CLASSICS. And shall be performed like that.
play Chopin with the passion of Liszt