Yuja Wang (*pfft*) plays "Flight of the Bumblebees" VERY fast indeed. I can't detect fakery, but then I am rather gullible about these things...
This is a link from a blog called "Dark Roasted Blend", which keeps me mesmerised for hours, and I highly recommend it.
(, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 17:57, Reply)
Fast-forward to 4:44 - 320 bpm, with quadruplet notes that's 1280 notes per minute, over 20 notes a second.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLNkntczESo&feature=related
(, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 18:09, Reply)
I'm still laughing as I type . . . caught me completely off guard.
(, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 20:13, Reply)
i bet it wouldn't have sounded quite so awful
(, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 21:34, Reply)
mass. produced. Chinese. musician.
Grew up in HK, everybody is amazing at maths and music there and the only thing that grabs peoples attention is a gimmick.
I can imagine she practiced that for months on end. Creativity is not alive here :-(
(, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 9:19, Reply)