This must be the most technically impressive piano playing I've ever seen in my life. Here's Wang Yujia (王羽佳) playing the second movement of Prokofiev's second concerto and, for an encore, Cziffra's arrangement of Flight of the Bumblebee. In the Prokofiev, by the way, that movement has the right hand and left hand playing almost 1500 16th-notes each in under 3 minutes, or basically 10 notes per second, both hands together.
That's the kind of finger independence each pianist wishes for: each finger on each of her hands is controlled completely individually! And look at how relaxed her hands are throughout! It's just astounding. Check out 6:55-7:00, especially.
By the way, that's Michael Tilson Thomas conducting -- he's the head conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, a nearby orchestra I go to often (just heard Beethoven 7 and on Oct. 24 is Beethoven piano concerto 4).
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