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What the heck is she wearing!? That's a really pretty gown. Probably pretty expensive, too, given the appliqued ribbon swirls.
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Rana is Rana, but if there's a comparison to be made I'd say she reminds me more of De Larocca than Kissin.
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I like the images of Rana's hands during the Chopin, she has an admirable technique and her hands are pretty. However I am not taken by her interpretation.
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To add a word to my post, I'd be curious as to her first teachers who formed her with this technique.
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Rana is Rana, but if there's a comparison to be made I'd say she reminds me more of De Larocca than Kissin. Interesting, I think she's much more like Kissin or Argerich than de Larrocha. Rana is playing her chosen repertoire excellently, but I can't really imagine her pulling off Scarlatti, Mozart, Schubert, or even some Beethoven as convincingly. Though of course I would be happy to be proven wrong!
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Not a fan of this Raindrop, but I think she's doing a great job with the preludes so far! Interested to see how Dong's will hold up in comparison...
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The characters and colors she's able to create are incredible IMO, but I find many of her tempi to be too impetuous for my taste. I felt this throughout the Scriabin, as well as several of the preludes (esp. nos. 3, 10, 11, 16). Is it just me?
EDIT: And she had only gotten to 17 at that point... I thought the same of 18 and 19.
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Rachmaninoff - Preludes op. 23 nos. 4 and 7
Deciding between Mozart K. 310 and Beethoven op. 10 no. 3
Albeniz - Almeria from Iberia book II
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Not a fan of this Raindrop, but I think she's doing a great job with the preludes so far! Interested to see how Dong's will hold up in comparison... I don't think it works that way, or at least I hope it doesn't -- i.e. comparing players head-to-head because they're playing the same pieces. I would hope that each gets considered on her own terms.I admit that in this discussion, I've talked about some of the performances that way too, especially on the Liszt Sonata, but that was because I was replying to posts where this was already being done. I don't think I'll be evaluating Dong on how it compares with Rana -- especially considering that Dong seems to be a quite unusual musician (as competitions go!), and therefore that the only fair way to evaluate her (IMO) is on her own terms. P.S. (unrelated) Anyway else feel that Rana's two closing chords of Prelude #18 foreshadowed #20 (C minor)? Maybe this is an accepted and well-known thing about that ending to #18, but I've never heard it, and never noticed or thought of it before. All I know is that when she hit those chords (and the way she hit them), I immediately thought of #20, and never had before.
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Oh I know, but it's interesting to see how people approach the same works differently. Isn't that sort of what the required piece is about? Seeing who "got the right idea" the best. But the Preludes, yes, leave a lot of room for artists to be individual.
Funny that I find a lot of her tempi to be very natural...but that's because my benchmark recording of the preludes is performed by Argerich.
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On another note, I think Rana's preludes are wonderful! She really had a great legato sound on the E-flat major prelude.
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I think Rana's rubato is very controlled and restrained. Maybe that's how Chopin played the piano, but I would prefer a little more freedom and flexibility between languor and vigor.
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Another excellent program for Rana. She's still the one to beat, IMO.
Also, since we're halfway through the semis, here's where I think it stands:
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I don't understand this post, can someone explain it to me?
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aw f*ck. the whole point with quoting it was to get that helluva long post it originally was. forget it.
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I am impressed as to how few people have come to hear the auditions.
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Only heard the last 8-9 preludes or so by Rana, but thought all of that was top playing! She's absolutely up there in the front. Not sure about some of the remaining predictions of Brendan,but let's see.
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Best post of the whole thread. ....since we're halfway through the semis, here's where I think it stands:
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Correcting for Brendan's errors  (and anyway I'm sure he is soon to be banned for that other post): Rana Deljavan Kholodenko Huangci Gillham Dong Mndoyants Chen Khozyainov Chernov Abrosimov Sakata (Do I really think Dong is in the top 6? I honestly couldn't tell you. Our discussion took on too much of a life of its own.) Main thing I'm thinking is dam, I wish there were like 8 slots in the finals....
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