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Totally agree. Something happened. He is not what he was promising to be. Too many gimmicks, mannerisms, affectations, etc.

And when are you giving your performance?

@@Eric-jo8uh I didn't know that I had to be a concert pianist to appreciate music. After all , I stated that this i my opinion.

Yes and he plays the rest of the concerto wonderfully.. Musical as he is, I wonder why he choose to play the cadenza like this. After all, technically he is capable of playing perfectly and usually with such sensitivity - the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux arranged by Pletnev- no one plays it as magnificently as A.Malofeev. I still love him and it shows that you don't and cannot love everything played even by one of your favorite and greatest pianists.

wtf

@@null8295 not sure why you said this. Have you played it? It’s not harder than medium difficulty, believe me. The solo piano music of Messiaen is much more difficult than Turangalila. Since I didn’t even attempt to memorize it, I learned it very quickly. I had ten rehearsals with the orchestra, which helped me learn it.

​@@danielgloverpiano7693 I have never studied Turangalila. I believe you. What I don't understand is if you are implying that Yuja Wang performed very badly here, even claiming she was faking passages and sightreading!! I'm also surprised by you, being a professional musician, judging Turangalila as "not good music," when I have always considered Messiaen to be one of, if not the best composer ever.

@@null8295 you misread. Go read my comment again. Yuja can sight read anything. Given that she has the score, I assume she’s reading it. It’s not that difficult, and yes, she probably is faking a lot of those chords. I did. Nobody knew, not even the conductor. And yes, many agree with me that Turangalila is not one of Messiaen’s greatest works. Some view it as a failed experiment which he didn’t repeat. The greatest work I’ve heard by him is his opera, St. Francis of Assisi. It’s six hours long and I’ve seen it twice in person. Turangalila simply cannot touch it in quality. For one thing, Turangalila has no element of Catholicism or religious fervor. This was of extreme importance to the composer, and I don’t think his heart was in it. Just my opinion. Play it some day, and you’ll probably agree. The audience we performed it for wasn’t impressed, and the local critic refused to write a review as he said he didn’t understand the piece and therefore didn’t have an opinion of our performance. That was very honest of him.

@@null8295 I read my comment again. In no way, no how, can you take any of what I said as criticism of Yuja’s performance. I have performed this and I can’t tell if she’s playing the right notes or not. Only Pierre Boulez had such an ear.

why shouldn’t she dress how she pleases? are you forgetting she’s one of the most renowned pianists in the entire world?

@@ashersizemore Aha, and because she is famous, she is allowed to behave badly, to offend cultivated people with her bad taste?

@@beckerhanshermann8372 Yes, she is allowed. And her taste is excellent. In every way.

@@karl-heinzhuber5910 Like Miss Wang, you can continue to cultivate your bad taste, especially your taste in the worst dressed women. The world doesn't need Miss Wang or you.

@@karl-heinzhuber5910 Like Miss Wang, you are allowed to cultivate your bad taste when it comes to your passion for badly dressed pianists. And your wet dreams too, of course.

Live is very interesting

@@ivanjam82 No way for me. Sorry.

yeah afterall why not hating the best composer who ever lived...

Simply superb, even the poor recording quality does not matter at all. Pure musicality 🏆