But me, until the last minute, I was still trying to find new ideas. A lot of people come to the competition with a program that they have prepared so well and they tried to bring that onstage, as stable as possible. What was the biggest challenge as you advanced through the competition's stages? I didn't think at all about the prizes or anything.Д«ruce Liu comes offstage following his performance in the 1st stage of the 18th Chopin Competition in Warsaw on Oct. But the moment I entered the final, I was so happy because I could play all the repertoire I had prepared. Maybe because, you know, I had tried quite a lot of competitions. What were your expectations going into the competition? But, somehow it's useful, that third-person perspective, you know? They prefer to be in the illusion of their playing. I started to record myself a lot - something that most artists hate because when they listen, you know, it's just really bad and everything is not the way that they think. Actually, this pandemic helped me in that everything went online. That's one way of preparing Chopin: to play something else. I started playing something else, like Beethoven and other pieces. I was really trying not to play a lot of Chopin, actually. I decided not so early, like maybe two years ago, to start preparing for it. I felt I was the right age: I'd be too old in five years and was too young five years ago - six years ago, actually. Why did you decide to enter the Chopin Competition?Д®very child's dream is to participate in this competition. This interview has been edited for brevity. Stream the new album below and scroll down for our Q&A with Liu, who's currently touring JapanВ and explains how the risks he took at the Chopin Competition paid off. The powerful emotions and extraordinary beauty of Chopin's art speak deeply to young musicians, which is why we believe it is so important to share these recordings from the Chopin Competition.' 'We see this recording, forged in the white heat of competition, as an integral part of our mission to increase the worldwide audience for Chopin's music,' saidВ Artur Szklener, director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, in a statement.В Clemens Trautmann, president of Deutsche Grammophon, added, 'I know that everyone will join us in congratulating Bruce Liu for his revelatory interpretations during the last few weeks. Rising to that challenge and playing with spontaneity may have been what set the 24-year-old MontrealerВ apart from the field of elite pianists. The level of playing at this edition of the Chopin Competition was especially high, with contestants having had more time to prepare.В The competition usually happens every five years, but this time, it was six yearsВ due to a COVID-related delay.В 'I think that was the challenge, actually: to not get bored of yourself after playing these pieces and practising them forВ thousands of hours,' Liu told CBC Music during a recent interview. 42, from the second round and his entire Round 1 recital (two Etudes, a Nocturne and the fourth Scherzo). 2, from the third round В theВ Andante Spianato and Polonaise in E-flat major, Op. 33 Mazurkas and theВ Variations in B-flat major, Op. 19 and comprises solo piano pieces chosen fromВ Liu'sВ performances in the competition's various stages: Chopin's Op. Canada's Bruce Xiaoyu Liu has won 1st prize at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition.

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