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I found Swigut very musical. A lot of personality and both nice touch and nuances and phrasing. A real sense of architecture. The 10/8 was really good, one of the best I have listened to.
Sumino was solid technically but I dont find him to have any particular personality. Musicaly I did not connect with his way of playing. Sumino was loud and fast, too much bass in his playing.
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Some played op. 10 no.1 using facilitated fingerings and some played the descending thirds scale in bars 47-48 of op. 25 no.6 with two hands.
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Ziji Zhao oh she was good I bet finale, but le'ts wait, there is only place for 6, but third stage 100% unless she will fail in 2nd. I was impressed by her Fantasy.
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What happened to Anastasia Yasko?
Was she distracted (phone?)?
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What happened to Anastasia Yasko?
Was she distracted (phone?)? No. Stress. It happens to few competitors on each competirion. It was surprising to me a bit, as is like 30 years old with already good concert career in her back.
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What happened to Anastasia Yasko?
Was she distracted (phone?)? No. Stress. It happens to few competitors on each competirion. It was surprising to me a bit, as is like 30 years old with already good concert career in her back. I wondered about that because there was a switch your phones off reminder by the MC after her performance before the next competitor.
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^ an unfortunate slip that kind of derailed the whole piece (Op. 10, No. 2). I did not seem to hear anything from the hall, cellphone or otherwise, that might have distracted her.
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She played wrong notes near the end of the previous etude op10 no.8.
She seemed upset after that etude, and I thought she might have wiped off a drop of tear. So if anything that distracted her happened it was probably during the first etude.
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Kai-Min Chang, Hyounglok Choi were standouts in the second session today. Xuehong Chen was good too. He played the best Op. 10 no. 8 thus far, I think.
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What happened to Anastasia Yasko?
Was she distracted (phone?)? No. Stress. It happens to few competitors on each competirion. It was surprising to me a bit, as is like 30 years old with already good concert career in her back. These competitions are a different level of stress altogether. It's not only in the hall, but the stream has something like 11k people on average watching. One time I saw it hit nearly 20k. Like most internet commentators, they don't shy away from criticizing (to put it mildly). From the ones that I saw today the standouts for me were Armellini (she absolutely slayed her program and made that Fazioli sing like no other), Kai-Min Chang, and Choi.
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I've heard nothing out of the ordinary up to now, 5 october, so really rather cautious playing, no adventures in Warsaw.
Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure, but not anymore!
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Kyohei Sorita will probably be a finalist. Really polished. He was excellent in the prelim too.
Hayato Sumino has the most beautiful touch. A standout touch. Is it because he plays with fingers flat?
Sarah Tuan's hands are just insanely long. She plays facilely/fluidly but it left me unmoved.
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From the morning session, I'd say that Gadjiev (maturity/control) and Gevorgyan (technical command) stood out. I'm not particularly taken by Gevorgyan's style (dark, Russian Chopin), but she was noticably more confident and assertive than lots of the other competitors. Gagliano has some beautiful things in her program, too - very poised and elegant all around.
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Do they have two Faziolis (308 and 278)?
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What did you guys think of Eva Gevorgyan? I liked her playing best. Her scherzo was out of this world.
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So far I guess these competitors might advance to Stage II:
Xuanyi Mao
Szymon Nehring
Georgijs Osokins
Kamil Pacholec
Jinhyung Park
Leonardo Pierdomenico
Hao Rao
Sohgo Sawada
Aristo Sham
Talon Smith
Kyohei Sorita
Szu-Yu Su
Hayato Sumino
Yutong Sun
Aleksandra Świgut
Shunshun Tie
Sarah Tuan
Tomoharu Ushida
Andrzej Wierciński
Zi Xu
Boao Zhang
Piotr Alexewicz
Leonora Armellini
Michelle Candotti
Kai-Min Chang
Xuehong Chen
Hyounglok Choi
Yasuko Furumi
Alexander Gadjiev
Avery Gagliano
Eva Gevorgyan
Chelsea Guo
Yifan Hou
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Yes she was very good.
There are two Steinways - one more soft and darker (number 300) and other more louder open and bright (479).
Besides there is one Fazioli 308, one Yamaha CFX and one Shigeru.
Maybe I had no luck, but so far I have not seen any competitor to play on CFX, but seen already few on Kawai. Most popular in Steinway 300. Fazioli is also used quite often.
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Yes she was very good.
There are two Steinways - one more soft and darker (number 300) and other more louder open and bright (479).
Besides there is one Fazioli 308, one Yamaha CFX and one Shigeru.
Maybe I had no luck, but so far I have not seen any competitor to play on CFX, but seen already few on Kawai. Most popular in Steinway 300. Fazioli is also used quite often. According to their site, 64 competitors chose Steinway, 9 Yamaha, 8 Fazioli and 6 Kawai. https://chopin2020.pl/en/news/artic...ticipants-of-the-18th-chopin-competitionBTW, in the recent stream they are denoting the Fazioli as model F278 Previously it was denoted as model 308. I am confused. Could anybody identify which Fazioli is actually used.
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Do they have two Faziolis (308 and 278)? Answered above
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Yes she was very good.
There are two Steinways - one more soft and darker (number 300) and other more louder open and bright (479).
Besides there is one Fazioli 308, one Yamaha CFX and one Shigeru.
Maybe I had no luck, but so far I have not seen any competitor to play on CFX, but seen already few on Kawai. Most popular in Steinway 300. Fazioli is also used quite often. Osokins played on Yamaha.
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