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Are you watching this?
http://konkurs.chopin.pl/en/edition/xvi/online/broadcasting
No problem with the connection in Dublin, Ireland.

Yes, and I never had this problem before. Maybe I will try to restart Firefox....

I think I have to give up watching the contest tonight...

Edit - Two minutes later:
I am listening to it on the radio instead...

There are multiple sources to watch it from aswell, maybe just try another link?

it is working well for me..
Savoring Kultyshev now.. Love the Polonaise pulse..
He apparently already won the Tchaikovsky competition a few years ago!!

This dude is GOOD

They are all bad tonight... Well, actually only the Chopin2010.pl site works at all here apart from the competition site.
But the radio works OK.
I set the video mute and am still watching it with the music from the radio, so at least the music goes on when the connection is interrupted...
Unfortunately they are not 100% synchronized though....

Addict, maybe it s a connection problem. Mine s gone off twice today (new flat, but reatrting windows has solved it. i think the stream is fine.

Kultyshev is living up to my expectations. But will they favour a Tchaik winner to win the Chopin too? Anyone ever won both?

ASnyway, looking at this year's level (veru high) , i can only reaffirm my idea that Blechacz is one ina amillion, literally. The guy won this at 20!

I did try to restart Windows too - with no luck...

Oh well ... at least you can hear it, which is what counts

I like Miroslav Kultyshev a lot.I'll be surprised if he doesn't make the final round.

Krystian Zimerman (born December 5, 1956) was the winner of that competition (IX) in 1975. He was eighteen then!!!

The closest was Ashkenazy. He won 2nd prize at the Chopin competition in 1955, and shared the Tchaik. first prize with John Ogdon in 1962.

Haha omg Ogdon and Ashkenazy, that must have been a spectacle!

I am impressed with the coverage of this event. It s really cool that a piano competition gets so much support, and relevance. I wish there was something even remotely like this on every big competition.

It will be interesting to see who takes the "constructor championship". I have not listened to a Fazioli yet. Trifonov will be playing one later today. Hélène Tysman will be using Yamaha. All the others today will be on Steinway.

Are there any other pianos available to the participants?

I have seen Shigeru Kawai too, and the Fazioli just once I think, but I couldn't follow all the concerts due to the time difference.

Just curious... Has anyone here at PW ever participated in the competition?

yes I did






in my dreams...

is the stream offline btw?

Incidentally, all the contestants who played the Fazioli went through to the second stage (Watanabe, Trifonov, Veneziano, Dumont)and will be playing it again.

I liked very much the Canadian pianist who played right before the intermission. I thought he played the Waltz Op. 42 with less emphasis on pure brilliance and somewhat slower than most pianists and enjoyed this interpretation. I liked his Ballade No.2 very much also. In the fast sections his right hand didn't interfere as much with the left hand melody as is often the case. The piece sounded much less like an etude than it does in many performances I've heard. Liked his Mazurkas also.

Mei Ting Sun will be playing the Allegro de Concert in his recital which should be very interesting.