So basically, a lot (most?) of these competitors are just as uninteresting of those from the regular comp, they’re just on a different instrument?
A bit harsh, but that might be true. I’m afraid I’m losing interest soon in this competition. I simply prefer the sound of modern instruments.
Yes, I think it’s fair to say that. Most are clearly “pianists”, used to modern instruments and just walk on stage and repeat what they’ve practiced on these period instruments. All of them today - this session would have been better if they had a Steinway in the room.
Hahaha you linked much later on in the clip. I was browsing snippets.
It’ll be interesting to see how the judges rank them incidentally. None here have appeared yet I would have any interest in on a modern piano after the competition, but there have been those who play “well” only in the Steinway sense, and then there have been guys like Ablogin who wouldn’t work at all on a Steinway but who was really good with touch, timbre and colour on these period instruments. So, who do they pick? I really hope they favour the latter kind and give these hands-close-to-the-keys pianists some space, but most of the judges are pianists rather than fortepianists so it could be that they go by their usual parameters and just try to find a normal Chopin Competition winner.
I really haven’t watched enough to come to such an opinion definitively, but my initial impression is that I’m hearing filigree passagework with more clarity than usual, but in a greater sense the results are coloristically limited. Don’t yet know if that’s da 88 or da performers…
ahahaha dat 10/4 wuz quite a LEGENDARY PERF
but ztill a bit zl*wah den diz:
youtube.com/watch?v=tDxFI-fRYlA
Ahahahahahahahaha fucķkkkkkkk!!!
Move over 
you haff been defeated 
Ahahaha ic zum of deze mofoz doin zum authendick 19th century preludin
REZPEC
But zo far I dun c any authendick 19th century rape perfz
at leazt one revo in octz, no? 
Tru, aftah da zong iz…
recognized 
NINJA playing!
zepp’s fingers are so fast, his wisdom so great, and his shirt so black that all the notes can not be properly registered by the human microphone. 
HAHAHAHAHAH TRU DA CLAZZIC EXTREME CHANNEL MOFO!!!
diz legend randomly look lyk da twin brotha of da NOR, but on a zlitely different diet
ahahahah to enjoy diz kind of perf
one muz firzt develop an innate AUTO-TUNE ability dat vil correct da notez/fill in da blank while u iz liztenin
tru only da moz elite SDC membahz iz blezzed wiz diz rare gift of hearin, REZPEC
haha
Meanwhile the CC will apparently announce the results from S1 in half an hour. Don’t know where, but if not on youtube presumably at least at http://www.iccpi.eu/en.
Well, not sure if anyone here is interested to watch but looks it’ll come here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOMogBpfFVQ
…in 4 minutes!
Ablogin and Kawaguchi are thru.
Klinton too.
Yep, I haven’t learnt all names but the ones I’ve caught were in.
From what I’ve seen Ablogin is all that matters though. Man I’m impressed by him! He survived a second hearing with flying colors while I was waiting for the results here too.
List here: iccpi.eu/en/news/id/126
It looks pretty good. The neat & tidy participants I remember aren’t here, while all the good ones I remember the names of are. Maybe minus Hajduk with the spellbinding Bach, but the piano largely did it for her, and I found her following Chopin selections rather stiff.