I am not an expert in classical music by any means, but there is something about Julien Libeer's performance that is just exquisite. (And Maria Joao Pires' approach is beautiful!)
I'm not a musician and I undertood the meaning of her words. Technique is something you can rely on and use in a repetitive fashion. But what really is required for music, in her mind, is to flow with the requirements and needs of the music.......which implies constant change.........and therefore NO FIXED TECHNIQUE. Someone wrote something about "esoteric nonsense" in the comments, but that's the point - rigid mental positions get in the way of attending the flow of music. "There is no technique" is a statement someone like Bruce Lee would be liable to make about his take on martial arts - with Jeet Kune Do, more than doing developing a set of techniques (and he studied many martial arts) he wanted something adaptable, that was organic and where you could express yourself....and the tool we use in martial arts is VERY clearly different from person to person (different bodies). Also, as a music lover who HATED learning the organ as a kid, but would LOVE to make music...........I also understand her to mean that if you lead with technique.......you are just programming your body for a bunch of executions........but if the love of the music and the feeling side is prioritized......you organically adapt and tailor your execution. I hate learning with my left brain .........but even without remembering most of what I learned, I can play a bit of keyboards without a set idea of how to execute. Many people project their worldviews regarding the simplest of things onto music as well. If my organ teacher had given me pieces I ENJOYED playing rather than forcing me to play the boring curriculum.....I might have been a good player. How we approach music is EVERYTHING............and if the goal of any sane music lover is to democratize music (it should be in my view; we should all be playing music)..........than we are merely creating a bunch of robots by stressing technique as something primordial in our relationship with music playing..........when it really shouldn't.
Here are the 4 pieces timecodes : Beethoven - 5 Variations sur "Rule Britannia : 05:20 Lipatti - Sonatine pour la main gauche : 15:47 Liszt - Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude (S.173/3) : 27:25 Bach - Prélude et fugue en mi majeur BWV 878 (deuxième livre) : 47:20
Julien Liber's approach to music and his perspective is really exquisite and special Maria João Pires is like a whiff of fresh air, that exudes hope and joy.🎉
Leon Fleischer once said: Technique is the ability to produce what you want. In that sense this young man have a great technique. He played such an intense and sensitive performance of this great Liszt piece. The most wonderful since the famous Arrau recording. Thank you for this.
Hi Julien, I like your piano cover that you use over your piano. I'm thinking of doing the same. Is there someplace I could buy something similar or is it just a blanket? Thanks!
Of course, if some1 regards this statement as something one can agree or disagree with he turns it into “esoteric nonsense”. But having opinions is totally irrelevant.
"🎹❤🌹Life Changing Life Enhancing Documentary. This work has made a lasting impact on me as an Artist and Human. Cant recommend enough this Documentary to all Musicians and Artists. Perhaps...for Everyone."
Sauf, je n ai pas vu ca: 5:10 Si on file de facon aussi ignorante a cote d un musician de rue, c est des choses que le destin n aime pas Dit un autre musician de rue Qui vit un peu omme gitan et connait un peu les lois de la liberte Et des chemins de la vie.
Call it what you like but technique is the architecture of form and style in all of the arts. It requires long hours of practice to achieve the expertise necessary to make that precious emotional connection to an audience.
@@liedersanger1 don't be fooled, these guys arent artists, they're just players, the artist is the composer, or someone who is original like glenn Gould, these people arent artists.
@@ignacioclerici5341 Stupid thinking. An artist (performer) is someone who serves the music by breathing new life into it with an individual point of view.
@@liedersanger1 lol exactly what i said, this guy is one more performer who has nothing new to offer to music, he doesnt posses an original individualistic musical personality like Glenn Gould or Horowitz, those were real artists. And he problably doesnt know how to improvise music and compose music, in my book i wouldnt call him an artist, but a performer. A pianist. But thats subjetive, if you think anyone who plays music is an artist it's your subjetivity..
@@ignacioclerici5341 Of course, it's subjective, that's why you should avoid pronouncing judgment on such people. And if you only count extreme and distorted personalities as "real" artists then the term has little meaning. I confess a personal weakness for Horowitz, but I would hate to have the pianistic world peopled only by the likes of him, and not have Rubenstein, Serkin, or Brendel, or--here's the point--Maria Joao Pires there too!
Nicely presented the concept of piano play ( or music play in general). Even to convey "Technique does not exist", one need to use technique to convey it. Without proper videography, without scripting, choreography, video or sound editing, music play, this message cannot be conveyed in its appropriate form. Similarly, music do not need technique to feel it in an alive system. In order to translate it in any form of perceptive medium , one need to have certain technique for that perceptive medium. As soon as any alive system who becomes a transmitter to present the music in any form of perceptive medium, need an appropriate technique to present it in respective medium of perception. For example, fingering technique is not music. Dancing technique is not music. Painting technique is not music. But without using fingers, music cannot be presented on piano by a piano player. Without using dancing movement, music cannot be presented in dance form. Without using painting skill, music cannot be presented in painting form. Music is certainly not technical but without using technique , it cannot be manifested in any medium of its perception. Dancing is also one form of musical presentation. But without using technique of movement, music cannot be presented in that medium of perception. Painting is also one form of musical presentation. And so sculpture, fine arts, sports or any kind of playfulness. One need to have appropriate technique to manifest what you want to transmit from within. Of course first, you should have core entity within yourself which needs manifestation in other mediums of perception using respective techniques for respective medium of perception. Most important aspect of this discussion is how to get core entity (music as playfulness or mysterious beauty) within self. Certainly this also need technique but of different nature within creative intelligence of an alive system. These techniques are not physical nor psycho-physical. Here paradox begins and so mystery begins. Certainly mystery can be decoded at particular level of intelligence provided to have an ability to transcend the level of specified intelligence.
Highly privileged people making grand statements utterly based on being preselected for having a certain rare ability they can't explain our replicate. They can play piano but that doesn't mean they understand or, especially, can replicate their fundamental, requisite ability.
Technique sure does exist, honey! Try playing without it or doing any other skill that requires an intelligent use of the body. As for music expressing the performer, I also beg to differ. Uppermost must be the intentions of the composer and the structure of the music. We serve them, not ourselves.
Misinformed and very misleading. I just used technique to write this message,. I brush my teeth with technique. I do everything with technique and so does Julien and Maria...be real!
I am not an expert in classical music by any means, but there is something about Julien Libeer's performance that is just exquisite. (And Maria Joao Pires' approach is beautiful!)
Thanks for being so talently passionate. May this dazzling fire, which animates you, never fade. Thanks for being...
I'm not a musician and I undertood the meaning of her words. Technique is something you can rely on and use in a repetitive fashion. But what really is required for music, in her mind, is to flow with the requirements and needs of the music.......which implies constant change.........and therefore NO FIXED TECHNIQUE.
Someone wrote something about "esoteric nonsense" in the comments, but that's the point - rigid mental positions get in the way of attending the flow of music. "There is no technique" is a statement someone like Bruce Lee would be liable to make about his take on martial arts - with Jeet Kune Do, more than doing developing a set of techniques (and he studied many martial arts) he wanted something adaptable, that was organic and where you could express yourself....and the tool we use in martial arts is VERY clearly different from person to person (different bodies).
Also, as a music lover who HATED learning the organ as a kid, but would LOVE to make music...........I also understand her to mean that if you lead with technique.......you are just programming your body for a bunch of executions........but if the love of the music and the feeling side is prioritized......you organically adapt and tailor your execution. I hate learning with my left brain .........but even without remembering most of what I learned, I can play a bit of keyboards without a set idea of how to execute.
Many people project their worldviews regarding the simplest of things onto music as well. If my organ teacher had given me pieces I ENJOYED playing rather than forcing me to play the boring curriculum.....I might have been a good player. How we approach music is EVERYTHING............and if the goal of any sane music lover is to democratize music (it should be in my view; we should all be playing music)..........than we are merely creating a bunch of robots by stressing technique as something primordial in our relationship with music playing..........when it really shouldn't.
Here are the 4 pieces timecodes :
Beethoven - 5 Variations sur "Rule Britannia : 05:20
Lipatti - Sonatine pour la main gauche : 15:47
Liszt - Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude (S.173/3) : 27:25
Bach - Prélude et fugue en mi majeur BWV 878 (deuxième livre) : 47:20
Julien Liber's approach to music and his perspective is really exquisite and special
Maria João Pires is like a whiff of fresh air, that exudes hope and joy.🎉
Thank you Maria !
Julien Libeer and Maria João Pires are exquisite people with beautiful souls.
... the perfect extension of who you are as a person... EXACTLY! Thank you for that Julien. Mary Lou Williams said the same thing to me.
Leon Fleischer once said: Technique is the ability to produce what you want. In that sense this young man have a great technique. He played such an intense and sensitive performance of this great Liszt piece. The most wonderful since the famous Arrau recording. Thank you for this.
Hi Julien, I like your piano cover that you use over your piano. I'm thinking of doing the same. Is there someplace I could buy something similar or is it just a blanket? Thanks!
Some1 called this "esoteric nonsense". Easy to agree.
Of course, if some1 regards this statement as something one can agree or disagree with he turns it into “esoteric nonsense”. But having opinions is totally irrelevant.
"🎹❤🌹Life Changing Life Enhancing Documentary. This work has made a lasting impact on me as an Artist and Human. Cant recommend enough this Documentary to all Musicians and Artists. Perhaps...for Everyone."
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What is the piece playing in the background when the movie begins?
Schubert fantasy f minor
Bassic storm Many thanks! What a wonderful piece!
merci pour la musique, t est un ange
Sauf, je n ai pas vu ca:
5:10
Si on file de facon aussi ignorante a cote d un musician de rue, c est des choses que le destin n aime pas
Dit un autre musician de rue
Qui vit un peu omme gitan et connait un peu les lois de la liberte
Et des chemins de la vie.
Call it what you like but technique is the architecture of form and style in all of the arts. It requires long hours of practice to achieve the expertise necessary to make that precious emotional connection to an audience.
I think you missed her (and his) point. It takes years of study and emotional growth and immersion in life and reflection to become an artist.
@@liedersanger1 don't be fooled, these guys arent artists, they're just players, the artist is the composer, or someone who is original like glenn Gould, these people arent artists.
@@ignacioclerici5341 Stupid thinking. An artist (performer) is someone who serves the music by breathing new life into it with an individual point of view.
@@liedersanger1 lol exactly what i said, this guy is one more performer who has nothing new to offer to music, he doesnt posses an original individualistic musical personality like Glenn Gould or Horowitz, those were real artists.
And he problably doesnt know how to improvise music and compose music, in my book i wouldnt call him an artist, but a performer. A pianist.
But thats subjetive, if you think anyone who plays music is an artist it's your subjetivity..
@@ignacioclerici5341 Of course, it's subjective, that's why you should avoid pronouncing judgment on such people. And if you only count extreme and distorted personalities as "real" artists then the term has little meaning. I confess a personal weakness for Horowitz, but I would hate to have the pianistic world peopled only by the likes of him, and not have Rubenstein, Serkin, or Brendel, or--here's the point--Maria Joao Pires there too!
What are the pieces he is playing?
Dohnanyi Sonatina for left hand
No i mean the piece right at the beginning 1:30
@@krristop no the one at 1:30
@@jdbrown371 no the one at 1:30
@@rabbitpunch1422 it is Schubert fantasy f minor
This video has a great ability to nag people.
Daniel Tkach Yes, it seems to have "triggered" a bunch of folks.
Nicely presented the concept of piano play ( or music play in general). Even to convey "Technique does not exist", one need to use technique to convey it. Without proper videography, without scripting, choreography, video or sound editing, music play, this message cannot be conveyed in its appropriate form. Similarly, music do not need technique to feel it in an alive system. In order to translate it in any form of perceptive medium , one need to have certain technique for that perceptive medium. As soon as any alive system who becomes a transmitter to present the music in any form of perceptive medium, need an appropriate technique to present it in respective medium of perception. For example, fingering technique is not music. Dancing technique is not music. Painting technique is not music. But without using fingers, music cannot be presented on piano by a piano player. Without using dancing movement, music cannot be presented in dance form. Without using painting skill, music cannot be presented in painting form. Music is certainly not technical but without using technique , it cannot be manifested in any medium of its perception. Dancing is also one form of musical presentation. But without using technique of movement, music cannot be presented in that medium of perception. Painting is also one form of musical presentation. And so sculpture, fine arts, sports or any kind of playfulness. One need to have appropriate technique to manifest what you want to transmit from within. Of course first, you should have core entity within yourself which needs manifestation in other mediums of perception using respective techniques for respective medium of perception. Most important aspect of this discussion is how to get core entity (music as playfulness or mysterious beauty) within self. Certainly this also need technique but of different nature within creative intelligence of an alive system. These techniques are not physical nor psycho-physical. Here paradox begins and so mystery begins. Certainly mystery can be decoded at particular level of intelligence provided to have an ability to transcend the level of specified intelligence.
This guy looks like a mix between Ryan Phillippe and Ethan Hawk.
Well thats fu***ING interesting
Highly privileged people making grand statements utterly based on being preselected for having a certain rare ability they can't explain our replicate. They can play piano but that doesn't mean they understand or, especially, can replicate their fundamental, requisite ability.
Technique does not exist. The piano also does not exist. Neither does music, or youtube. This comment also does not exist.
So neither do you???
@@CTrembanis Correct.
She meant: technique is not what you think, it is very dynamic, and mutiple. But I agree the catchphrase is a bit pushy and wrong.
Excellent comment. Too bad it does not exist.
Technique sure does exist, honey! Try playing without it or doing any other skill that requires an intelligent use of the body. As for music expressing the performer, I also beg to differ. Uppermost must be the intentions of the composer and the structure of the music. We serve them, not ourselves.
Technique treafed separately from artistic vision isn't music. That's her point.
Perhaps you should study what Josef Hoffman had to say about the subject.
Misinformed and very misleading. I just used technique to write this message,. I brush my teeth with technique. I do everything with technique and so does Julien and Maria...be real!