WGBH Music: Jonathan Biss plays Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (No. 2 Aufschwung)

you gave me all your determination

Bravo. Very nice and not exaggerated

I had this piece in high school.

Congrats on 100K Front Row

nice one!

All my feelings are here, i love it.

This rendition is pure BISS! 😍

Sad he died so young…

I wish I had big hands, this piece will be much easier to play if one has big hands.

What a fantastic performance

Beautiful interpretation and performance. Mr. Biss can really play.

I'm learning this piece now. This is the best version I've found.

nice playing!

I just have to comment again= THAT DUDE FUCKING KILLS IT, HAHAHA. I seriously Love It!!!!

easy

Well, that was superb. A lot of renditions of this don't interpret the 'touch' involved in playing the piece: of course that's not something Anybody could know as the author is long since dead and the do not write how a key should be struck in sheet music- I'd say you had the right touch as far a force is concerned. Anywho can sit and bang some keys but it takes a real musician to try to feel how the piece is suppose to be played. You nailed it.

I wish i had bigger hands

Ohhh precioso

The piece is not friendly for the people who has small hands ~~~😓

WOW ... it is as if Schumann has written down all my pain and my struggles. And Biss knows how to express them. So beautiful 😢

Bravo!

Really great performance! Outstanding and breathtaking.

Wonderful perfomance. Bravo Sir !!!

Really great performance.

How the frickity frick his hands do that

I don't understand it. There are performances of this piece by some of the most famous pianists around, over several generations, and this is better than all of them.

See "The Improvement in Mr. Gaynor's Technique," by S.N. Behrman, in "55 Short Stories From The New Yorker" [magazine], copyright 1949.

Noice

Who would thumbs down to that?

Played this one in UIL Competition in High School. One of my favorites. :-) Brings back memories.

Wow! Fantastic!

How did he play it so clean?

I'm actually learning this piece right now, and I'm using your video to help me! Thanks!

Great performance!!

amazing

wonderful performance

I like the way he plays, but I agree, he does move a little too much. I like the way the camera changes angles. Very professional.

Does not the beginning sound like Chopin prelude 18 ?

@WGBH Music The moving around wildly and all the other pretentious histrionics is EXTREMELY ANNOYING to look at! Stop it!

Ne pas oublier de respirer…

HAPPY (*%th) BIRTHDAY, JONATHAN!!
JONATHAN BISS
(born 16 September 1980)
Jonathan Biss is an American pianist, teacher, and writer

A great pianist who inhabits and transmits - exactly and powerfully - the FEELING

great but your movement is bit hippy-style^^

try to keep calm in general, and between phrases, and try to build up a steady anxiety.
Technically you're there just keep calm and build up and afterwards....just show hurt and slow down. 
 

Bravissimo! c'è l'anima di Schumann 
Mi piace più di Argerich

you're genial!

Awesome as always! Greetings from Portugal!

I don't have a car, but I can buy one :D

Dear WGBH, would you please marry me?