Ravel left hand piano concert by Siheng Song宋思衡(part 2)
Siheng Song Play the ravel conceert with Philharmonic de Radio france in Salle Pleyel.Pianist Siheng Song was born in Shanghai China in 1981 and is widely regarded as one of the top pianists of his generation. As the multiple winner of numerous competitions, he has performed in important venues and with prestigious orchestras around the globe. His early studies began at the age of three, and 1991, he was accepted in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, studying under Professors Yiqi Shen, and Xu Zhong. He graduated from the school in 2001. During his time of study, he won many prizes including first prize at the Beijing National Piano Competition, and silver medals at the Porto Piano Competition in Portugal and the Shanghai International Piano Competition, along with additional special prizes. In 2002, Siheng was awarded a scholarship from the Zaleski Foundation, enabling him to study abroad in France in the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Prof. Marian Rybicki. After receiving his Diploma of Concert Pianist, he went on to study with Olivier Gardon in the Conservatory of Paris, and is currently studying privately with Dominique Merlet. He has also participated in masterclasses with masters such as Phillipe Entremont, Michel Dalberto and Dmitri Bashkirov. After moving to Paris, Siheng began collecting many definitive prizes, such as first prizes in the Pontoise Piano Campus Concours, Morocco International Piano Concours, Viseu International Competition in Portugal …
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Wang Haijie, winner of Singapore National Piano Competition plays Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor during his recent debut in Germany. He is accompanied by Volker Hartung conducting the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra in Laeisz Halle, Hamburg. The complete concerto performance can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/maestrohartung
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27 comments
Were it not for the video, not at all will I discover that this piece is played by only one hand…
Nice Performance!! Unbeleabable
Great This left his is unbeleabable
wow. I want to play this piece someday!!! amazing.
@GLkamina121 Who said Piano had to be written for two hands?
cant believe what my ears and eyes just witnessed…
The slow part shows us the sensitive and “female” part of Ravel. By the way, we can hear the american influence due to the previous Ravel’s trip in USA, especially in the end (it sounds like Gershwin’s music) . I am astonished that this piece was not recorded on CD. Siheng Song told me that he was waiting for that ;o) Please record one day this piece, which is the most of one fabulous piece of the Great Ravel.
usa la destra solo per stringere la mano al Maestro praticamente
Because the pianist Ravel dedicated this concerto to lost his right hand in the World War I.
Because it’s a piano concerto, but only using one hand…that’s why it’s “For the left hand”…
Nice perfomance
why does he only play with one hand?
boo!
Nice performance — but is he singing along during the cadenza?
Great video and a splendid piece! Also this is one of those rare opportunities to hear French bassoon in the symphonic orchestra today — please note its unique and beautiful timbre between 1:28 and 1:55 !
yeah i know exactly what u mean it scared the crap out of me the first time i heard it too…but now i think the scariest piece around is poulenc’s organ concerto, its terrifying but very brilliant
I have found : the conductor is Ion Marin. He has an official website. It’s a great conductor.
Who is the conductor please ?
Maurice Ravel is my preferred compositor, not for the reason I am a frenchy, because i love his innovating music. He was a sound perfectionnist. These piece is fabulous and Song is a sensitive musician and as usual, the strange, mysterious Ravel’s Universe.
Very solid. I liked the way he plays 3:50–4:05 (“Piu vivo ed accel.”)
THE MIDDLE PART IS THE BEST IN THE VIDEO
It’s a sort of powerful II world war prophecy (this was written around 1930).
In the middle, when the piano is playing the “jaunty, galloping, dance” theme, and the orchestra enters with the “ominous” opening theme, and the piano continues with the “galloping” theme over the orchestra’s increasingly tense “ominous” theme — to me is the most terrifying moment in all of classical music. This performance certainly brought that out.
very very good cadenza!
I played here last september.. beautifull hall..
Grieg’s Piano Concerto is my all-time favorite song.
This song is so beautiful =]
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Amazing!