In my 65+ years of listening to this piece, Scarbo, by Ravel-my greatest influence as a composer-this is the greatest performance I have ever heard! Gaspard de la Nuit was considered the most difficult piano composition of the 19th century -most particularly, Scarbo! Walter Gieseking, the great 20th century interpreter of Debussy and Ravel, once said it took a certain amount of luck (as well as great technique) to successfully pull off a successful performance of this piece! I wish Yuja, who doesn’t need luck, would record all three movements of this work!
This was posted 6 years ago and is hard to find now, so I'm reposting it. @MOORES777 00:00 Kreisleriana 32:16 Scarbo 42:05 Hammerklavier 1:24:58 encores
Yuja Wang in Recital Verbier Festival 2016 Robert Schuman (1810-1856) Kreisleriana, Op. 16 (1838) _Dedicated to Frédéric Chopin_ 0:00:03 *1. Äußert bewegt* 0:02:59 *2. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch* 0:05:12 _Intermezzo I. Sehr lebhaft_ 0:06:32 _Intermezzo II. Etwas bewegter_ 0:14:03 *3. Sehr aufgeregt* 0:15:11 *4. Sehr langsam* 0:18:46 *5. Sehr lebhaft* 0:22:08 *6. Sehr langsam* 0:25:31 *7. Sehr rasch* 0:27:49 *8. Schnell und spielend* 0:31:12 *Applause* Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Gaspard de la nuit (1908) 0:32:20 *III. Scarbo (The Gremlin)* 👺 0:40:48 *Applause* Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" (1818) 0:42:07 *I. Allegro* 0:45:06 _m 136 [Fughetta]_ 0:46:21 _m 200 • a tempo_ 0:46:52 _m 226_ 0:51:01 *II. Scherzo: assai vivace* 0:53:53 *III. Adagio sostenuto* 1:03:46 _a tempo_ 1:10:40 *IV. Introduzione: Largo* 1:12:30 _Allegro-Fuga: Allegro risoluto_ 1:22:32 *Applause* Encores *Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart •* *Fazil Say • Yuja Wang* 1:24:58 Alla Turca Jazz 1:27:08 *Applause* George Bizet • Vladimir Horowitz 1:28:15 "Carmen" Variations 1:31:07 *Applause* Yuja Wang, piano✨ _Salle des Combins_ _Verbier, Switzerland 🇨🇭 July 27, 2016_
She plays so many different pieces from such a varied number of composers,how the fudge does she remember so many pieces ?? Totally amazing young woman, she is my favourite pianist atm.
Her memory is astounding, her playing and interpretation brilliant this consists with not only studying and knowing the music but the composer and history as well. I love her beautiful dresses and her over all mezzmerizing beauty, and towering command of the pieces she plays. This comes with endless practice and dedication. Truly one one of the most beautiful and talented pianists of our time.
✨✨ Yuja Wang in Recital ✨✨ *Verbier Festival 2016* Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Kreisleriana, Op. 16 *(1838)* _Dedicated to Frédéric Chopin_ 0:00:03 1. Äußert bewegt 0:02:59 2. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch 0:05:12 *Intermezzo I. Sehr lebhaft* 0:06:32 *Intermezzo II. Etwas bewegter* 0:14:03 3. Sehr aufgeregt 0:15:11 4. Sehr langsam 0:18:46 5. Sehr lebhaft 0:22:08 6. Sehr langsam 0:25:31 7. Sehr rasch 0:27:49 8. Schnell und spielend *0:31:12** Applause* Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Gaspard de la nuit *(1908)* 0:32:20 III. Scarbo *(The Gremlin)* 👹 0:40:48 *Applause* Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier” *(1818)* 0:42:07 I. Allegro 0:45:06 *m 136 [Fughetta]* 0:46:21 *m 200 a tempo* 0:46:52 *m 226* 0:51:01 II. Scherzo: assai vivace 0:53:53 III. Adagio sostenuto. *Appassionato e con* *molto sentimento* 1:03:46 *a tempo* 1:10:40 IV. Introduzione: Largo 1:12:30 *Allegro-Fuga: Allegro* *risoluto* *1:22:32** Applause* *Encores* 1:24:58 *Wolfgang Amadeus* *Mozart/* *Fazil Say/Yuja Wang:* Alla Turca Jazz *1:27:08** Applause* 1:28:15 Bizet/Horowitz: “Carmen” Variations *1:31:07** Applause* Yuja Wang, piano✨ *Salle des Combins* *Verbier, Switzerland 🇨🇭 July 27, 2016*
That’s a very clear and clean performance of Scarbo…sparkling, risky, yet transparent and highly intelligible. All the notes and phrasing scintillate. Lots of personality and evocative phrasing so often neglected in other performances I’ve heard. This is the way it should be. Quirky yet self-consistent, and with each new turn, the mind says “wow, that makes sense!”
@@benthere4380 His comment is insightful if you understand it. Yes, Yuja dresses in a manner usually only seen in the popular music scene. However, her playing (with the exception of the encores) is very technical and pure, with no superfluous virtuosity. Her performances, musically, are in the very best taste. Whether you approve of the way she dresses is a separate issue.
@@timothybolshaw ??? Huh? To begin - I totally approve of “the way she dresses” … Now with that being said - Anyone not understanding that the reason she dresses as she does is “for the attention” is simply living in denial. And, for Claudio to even use the word ”modesty” in his post is simply laughable.
Yes, modesty. Her modesty and humility today, after a lifetime of praise and adulation, is the most astonishing thing about Yuja. She's still nice, not stuck up or snotty. Great personality, comes across as "one of the guys", the "girl next door"...Cares about other people. And I've noticed how she always tries to include the conductors and orchestras in the post-performance applause.
Ms. Wang is quite unique. There are many, many wonderful pianists, before and current, ones I think play superbly. Even with that I can think of two, Horowitz and Yuja who simply amaze me because they surprise me. There is a certain freedom with which they play that allows me to simply listen, as if a great story is being told and I feel compelled to concentrate on it alone.
It's funny you mentioned Horowitz, because he's the one I immediately thought of during the Schumann. When I hear Horowitz, I think of Heifetz. Both produced very unique, individual tones on their instruments. YW is not on Horowitz's level & never will be. Then, again, she is not alone. No one ever will be.
I couldn’t agree more, Steven. Her virtuosity is so effortless that you forget everything and all that is left is pure music. It’s divine. I literally cannot function after listening to that Scarbo. I would hate to compare her to anyone else, tbh. I think she is quite in a class of her own.
@@unclejuniorsoprano That's really a silly statement. Over time there are always those who are better than the previous best. That's true in every aspect of achievement. It may be fair to say YW is not on Horowitz's level now and maybe she never will be, but to say that "no one ever will" is mere foolishness. You think 100, 200 years from now Horowitz will still be the greatest pianist who has ever lived? If so you've been drinking a little too much Horowitz kool aid.
Yuja brings such a curiosity, energy and sense of exploration to her playing, and looks at every opportunity as a chance to find something new in the music. She says that she is always looking for the ‘magic’! This is what really makes her playing so fresh and alive, and I have not found anyone more inspiring!
Don't bother with "Tov". Can't you see that he is a professional troll? Who is his Thai student? and the Brazilian? He can't even provide their name. They must live in another solar system. That's always possible. I have encountered a troll who show up repeatedly under different alias to belittle many pianists including Sviatoslav Richter. To provide credential for his attacks, he always claimed his own achievements but cannot substantiated it. "Tov" must be his latest reincarnation. I don't reply to him because He does not deserve to make any more dimes and pennies from YT.
she is allover astounding -- a once-off , the best of the best--- her memory is something out of this world -- and she breathes music --- absolutely amazing.
That glissando in the Hammerklavier scherzo is incredible - she goes off-script and does a true white key fingernail glissando, then seamlessly transitions into the actual scale with the right when the left hand comes in to reinforce it at the very end. It WORKS, perfectly, it's bold and playful, and the technical execution is staggering as usual.
@@michaelb247 I wouldn't call Beethoven or Schumann's musics charming. This is my problem with Yuja, she puts charm clichés in music requiring structure, dramatic power, anxiety, passion, taking risks and so on. She fakes.
@@Paroles_et_Musique if she is *so fake* what are you doing here? Go listen to your dismal, unemotional music in a crypt. BTW she's 29 here. Name her superior and their age.
Magnificent. Some of these difficult pieces can sound like cryptic crossword puzzles. Which they are, a bit. Yuja makes them sound like music. Jaw dropping technique and musicality.
I, as others who listen to yuja,cannot ever stop listening to her repertoire,because she is able to put us into a kind of absolute relaxation.That is all there is to it.
As a non-musician, I am surprised at how many works I know 90% correctly. But I have been listening and loving this music over twice as long as Yuja has been alive. And she produces these sublime interpretations all from memory. This has been an astonishing performance; after the Hammerklavier, I couldn't take any more for some time, even her encores! and Scarbo was a revelation... Must mention the close-ups; physically gorgeous - but Yuja's glorious shining intelligence shown was beyond words. A total treasure. 🤗🤗🤗
Part of the secret imo is that she sings along with her playing all the time. As far as i know she's the only pianist who follows the word of the long late Arthur Rubinstein to do so. Look at her face : it's moving, because of her silent song.
..Questa donna è qualcosa di indefinibile per le qualità strumentali e musicali più uniche che rare.per uno stile una personalità e un aspetto dalle sembianze in apparenza così contrastanti con una pianista di musica classica. È il fenomeno pianistico più eclatante, più incredibile e inafferrabile apparso sulla scena internazionale,e in grado di fare impallidire le più accreditate star del concertismo internazionale...!!!!! Vastità di repertorio incredibile, memoria prodigiosa!! Trattasi di una reincarnazione? non è da escludere,in lei c'è qualcosa che lo fa pensare..
Her beauty in displaying and interpreting the piano is devouring and creating is it not displaying another dimension upon a creation upon itself giving and in one breath taking the wind out of the room?!!! Such a beautiful piece!! a Master, Mastering and taming a legendary performance, who tames the wind? Then creates upon its own induction on which its staged. . celebration ❤😢
divina pianista, apasionada, natural, tremenda velocidad, gracias por ponerla, thanks for the post, she is incredible, beautiful and passionate, bravisimo
Melle. Wang se joue de toutes les difficultés techniques les plus redoutables avec un brio qui surprend, vu son jeunee âge... Quelle somme invraisemblable de travail cela suppose, d'offrir un répertoire aussi divers, interprété avec un tel talent : les 'Kreissleriana' et 'Scarbo' sont tellement difficiles (sans parler des 3e concertos de Prokofiev et de Rachmaninoff, par exemple). Une personne aussi douée émerveille...
Mais pourquoi cette sempiternelle obsession pour la difficulté ? Serait-ce parce qu'il y a si peu de pensée et de sentiment sur la musique, la performance, l'art ?
Finally, an unassuming Kreisleriana- much more approachable. Your interpretation of most of the music you play is unique and gives the listener much to think about, as well as enjoyment, thank you Yuja. Lovely and strangely coherent programme.
En verdad, extraordinaria.una diva en su personalidad y una maestra con amplisimo repertorio ,esos dedos,impulsados por un cerebro de amplia memoria . Un deleite ver y escuchar a Yuja Wang.
HAH that encore was so hard I was not ready for it. This entire performance was such a joy
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Wonderful! I think her feelings of love to the music is a huge component in her prowess. I enjoy her playing so much! Keep it on! You're unique and one of the best pianists ever.
It's astounding particularly as it's live. For a recording I prefer Benjamin Grosvenor's, but I'd need to hear her perform all of Gaspard to see if she can shine a light to BG's astounding rendition of Ondine.
Yuja Wang has passion and elegance which is a lotus flower one can sense those blooms of colors and smells. Thank you for this. 🪷🌺 I have seen this performance before. I listen to many of her performances quite often as I do with many other great pianists and conductors and orchestras.
¡UNA FLOR ÚNICA DE LA GENÉTICA HUMANA! Pocas veces pueden confluir tantas exepciones y privilegios especiales juntos en una misma persona... una mujer que se dedica a la música... que elige el piano... que tiene la habilidad física y la salud necesaria para un ejercicio tan exigente... que alcanza la máxima exelencia en ese ejercicio... que tiene la inteligencia altísima que requiere la comprensión de temas tan elevados en lo intelectual y tan profundos en lo emotivo... la sensibilidad para una expresión fiel al tema...que dispone de los recursos materiales y humanos para estudiar con lo mejor de la gente de música... que a tan corta edad ya es reina de intérpretes musicales ... y ha alcanzado el más alto nivel de cultivo que le permite expresar a cualquier autor... y que con ello augura un futuro jamás superado... y de postre es una mujer preciosa y una hembra exuberante! ... ¡dichosos nosotros los que hemos tenido la suerte de conocerla! Libercapitum
La señora Wang tiene mucho arte!!! Y como se nota que está en forma tanto pianísticamente hablando y físicamente. Por ejemplo, si yo hiciera esa flexión de espalda que ella hace para agradecer al público los aplausos me daría un ataque de lumbago y me quedaría en el sitio. Como decía el poeta: " juventud divino tesoro..." ( Gijón, 22 de abril de 2022 ).
Quelle musique ! Beethoven ouvrant la voie au romantique Schumann puis à impressionniste Ravel, tout est dit,les influences des uns sur les autres,le fil conducteur de l'évolution musicale admirablement interprété par une jeune et charmante virtuose de la dernière surprenante génération de pianiste qui nous comble de bonheur.bravo yuja Chang
She is a magnificent joy both for the ears and the eyes. As I've said some times, I am 75 and I thank whatever God that I was given the chance to hear and see her fingers dancing on the keyboard like a ballerina, at the same time delicate yet strongly sure. Could possibly Steinway and Sons make a Grand Piano called "Special for Yuja Wang"?
@@hcarr I have listened both to Rachmaninoff and Yuja Wang playing the same Rachmaninoff pieces, while I read the score. Yuja is much more precise and accurate, while also being more expressive. I think Yuja plays Rachmaninoff better than Rachmaninoff did.
What a terrific "Kreisleriana," so poetic but unmannered, daring, intuitive, and with wonderful balances and textures. To be compared with her equally wonderful live video from Carnegie Hall this year. As someone else wrote here, YW just keeps getting better and better, broadening her repertoire constantly while playing so often everywhere. How does she do it?
Good question! Graffman said she learns extremely fast. But, as you say, when? Is it during her long flights she goes through those new scores, and then plays them as if turning the pages in her head? I guess a genius like her probably can. - I would love to hear more about it than was touched upon in the interview before her Bartok concert here in Stockholm.
@Mazzel Tov There are certainly some with larger repertoires, but her repertoire is definitely big. She also plays a lot of chamber music, too. If there is criticism it would be that broad as it is, it is not very adventurous. She does not do lesser known composers and limits even her new music to the best known names.
Warren, I have tended to prefer more standard stuff, but Yuja has certainly got me into a much wider range than 70+ years of loving all types - as long as it IS music, like (for me) previously unregarded Prokofiev, Ligeti, Scriabin, Messiaen, John Adams...? (I do hesitate with this, but Mazzel - have you seen "The Clone"?... 😂)
Het ontroerd mij zeer jouw prachtig pianospel Luister naar alle opnames van jou, je bent een echte grote ster in alles ook de kleding die je draagt is grandioos!
She's a phenomenal pianist, indeed, & can play ANYTHING as well as any living pianist, & she's very, very beautiful, but she doesn't play the Schumann like Horowitz by a long shot. Then again, nobody does.
This is a fabulous recital. Starting with one of Schubert's most loved piano compositions (Kreisleriana) he dedicated to the love of his life Clara (and Frederic Chopin). Yuja plays it in a her unique fashion. With tempo, and a lot of pedal and almost with the "sturm und drang "of her 28 years. (Schuman was 28 years old when he wrote it in 1838) Also on You tube (with 430000 less "views") is Girgory Sokolov playing it with the finesse of his 74 years (1 year ago) Yuja and Grigory seem to completely merge into the composition. I love both of them they are both extraordinary and very different. Recommended! (e.g. 2 sehr innig und nicht so rasch Yuja at 0632 etwas bewegter Grigory at 08.55 very different in tempo, and the use of the pedal. Yuja with a lot of both, very moving and rythmical. Grigory very refined and light taking us into space almost etherical. What a fabulous composition and performers!
I love your interpretations! Some are so subtle, and others are very clearly taking some license. This is the highest form of art. I interpret the Tai-Chi that I have done for so many decades, as did my highest level teacher, while always adhering to the principles. You have a new fan for life!
![Yuja Wang: Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54 [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fWDrJT0s1s8/mqdefault.jpg)
What a beautiful improvised encore. I am 80 years old and crying with gratitude to Yuja Wang. Thank you for creating such beauty.
Me crying too.. incredible!
as am i. 80 yrs old, weeping.. and in awe of her performances..
I started crying even before I heard her for the first time.
Qq
Her encore is a Mozart Turca variation by Fazil Say
In my 65+ years of listening to this piece, Scarbo, by Ravel-my greatest influence as a composer-this is the greatest performance I have ever heard! Gaspard de la Nuit was considered the most difficult piano composition of the 19th century -most particularly, Scarbo! Walter Gieseking, the great 20th century interpreter of Debussy and Ravel, once said it took a certain amount of luck (as well as great technique) to successfully pull off a successful performance of this piece!
I wish Yuja, who doesn’t need luck, would record all three movements of this work!
This was posted 6 years ago and is hard to find now, so I'm reposting it.
@MOORES777
00:00 Kreisleriana
32:16 Scarbo
42:05 Hammerklavier
1:24:58 encores
Yuja Wang in Recital
Verbier Festival 2016
Robert Schuman (1810-1856)
Kreisleriana, Op. 16 (1838)
_Dedicated to Frédéric Chopin_
0:00:03 *1. Äußert bewegt*
0:02:59 *2. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch*
0:05:12 _Intermezzo I. Sehr lebhaft_
0:06:32 _Intermezzo II. Etwas bewegter_
0:14:03 *3. Sehr aufgeregt*
0:15:11 *4. Sehr langsam*
0:18:46 *5. Sehr lebhaft*
0:22:08 *6. Sehr langsam*
0:25:31 *7. Sehr rasch*
0:27:49 *8. Schnell und spielend*
0:31:12 *Applause*
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit (1908)
0:32:20 *III. Scarbo (The Gremlin)* 👺
0:40:48 *Applause*
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" (1818)
0:42:07 *I. Allegro*
0:45:06 _m 136 [Fughetta]_
0:46:21 _m 200 • a tempo_
0:46:52 _m 226_
0:51:01 *II. Scherzo: assai vivace*
0:53:53 *III. Adagio sostenuto*
1:03:46 _a tempo_
1:10:40 *IV. Introduzione: Largo*
1:12:30 _Allegro-Fuga: Allegro risoluto_
1:22:32 *Applause*
Encores
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart •*
*Fazil Say • Yuja Wang*
1:24:58 Alla Turca Jazz
1:27:08 *Applause*
George Bizet • Vladimir Horowitz
1:28:15 "Carmen" Variations
1:31:07 *Applause*
Yuja Wang, piano✨
_Salle des Combins_
_Verbier, Switzerland 🇨🇭 July 27, 2016_
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She plays so many different pieces from such a varied number of composers,how the fudge does she remember so many pieces ?? Totally amazing young woman, she is my favourite pianist atm.
Nice to listen to Schumann with a new touch, bravo Yuja Wang ! Tjerk
Practice. And of course big talent.
Totally agree. Luck enough to have seen her several times. A phenomena ! Try Alexandra Dovgan ☺️
Extremely an artist of the great beauty of energy that came only come from her soul and years of practice.
I think All of them de piano players are not from this planet... They are more than amazing...
I love that she's breaking the stodgy mold for classical piano players - and her playing is mellifluous and sublime.
Her memory is astounding, her playing and interpretation brilliant this consists with not only studying and knowing the music but the composer and history as well.
I love her beautiful dresses and her over all mezzmerizing beauty, and towering command of the pieces she plays. This comes with endless practice and dedication. Truly one one of the most beautiful and talented pianists of our time.
You and me both friend...
"....of our time" better "of all time".
She also has a precious butt.
Yuja is a gift
羽佳是仙子下凡，人間瑰寶，與鋼琴融為一體，我們聆聽觀賞，真是萬分的
幸福感激。💖👏🌹👌🙏
Her Scarbo is beyond compare. Absolute transcendence. Dazzling and hair raising.
Grandiosa absoluta. MS. Wang.
The most talented and dazzling pianist in today's music scene.
✨✨ Yuja Wang in Recital ✨✨
*Verbier Festival 2016*
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Kreisleriana, Op. 16 *(1838)*
_Dedicated to Frédéric Chopin_
0:00:03 1. Äußert bewegt
0:02:59 2. Sehr innig und nicht
zu rasch
0:05:12 *Intermezzo I. Sehr lebhaft*
0:06:32 *Intermezzo II. Etwas bewegter*
0:14:03 3. Sehr aufgeregt
0:15:11 4. Sehr langsam
0:18:46 5. Sehr lebhaft
0:22:08 6. Sehr langsam
0:25:31 7. Sehr rasch
0:27:49 8. Schnell und spielend
*0:31:12** Applause*
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit *(1908)*
0:32:20 III. Scarbo *(The Gremlin)* 👹
0:40:48 *Applause*
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major,
Op. 106, “Hammerklavier” *(1818)*
0:42:07 I. Allegro
0:45:06 *m 136 [Fughetta]*
0:46:21 *m 200 a tempo*
0:46:52 *m 226*
0:51:01 II. Scherzo: assai vivace
0:53:53 III. Adagio sostenuto.
*Appassionato e con*
*molto sentimento*
1:03:46 *a tempo*
1:10:40 IV. Introduzione: Largo
1:12:30 *Allegro-Fuga: Allegro*
*risoluto*
*1:22:32** Applause*
*Encores*
1:24:58 *Wolfgang Amadeus* *Mozart/*
*Fazil Say/Yuja Wang:*
Alla Turca Jazz
*1:27:08** Applause*
1:28:15 Bizet/Horowitz: “Carmen”
Variations
*1:31:07** Applause*
Yuja Wang, piano✨
*Salle des Combins*
*Verbier, Switzerland 🇨🇭 July 27, 2016*
Euh... Maybe replace Franz Schubert by Robert Schumann?
:D
thanks!
1:27:22 Creepy front row people not moving or clapping after the greatest encore.
Tks
TQvm
That’s a very clear and clean performance of Scarbo…sparkling, risky, yet transparent and highly intelligible. All the notes and phrasing scintillate. Lots of personality and evocative phrasing so often neglected in other performances I’ve heard. This is the way it should be. Quirky yet self-consistent, and with each new turn, the mind says “wow, that makes sense!”
Lol I would be happy to just make it to the end of Scarbo 🙂
What I most admire about Miss Yuja Wang is her modesty. She just plays with the greatest profrssionalism and doesn't try to show off.
Are you blind?
@@benthere4380 His comment is insightful if you understand it. Yes, Yuja dresses in a manner usually only seen in the popular music scene. However, her playing (with the exception of the encores) is very technical and pure, with no superfluous virtuosity. Her performances, musically, are in the very best taste. Whether you approve of the way she dresses is a separate issue.
@@timothybolshaw ??? Huh? To begin - I totally approve of “the way she dresses” … Now with that being said - Anyone not understanding that the reason she dresses as she does is “for the attention” is simply living in denial. And, for Claudio to even use the word ”modesty” in his post is simply laughable.
Yes, modesty. Her modesty and humility today, after a lifetime of praise and adulation, is the most astonishing thing about Yuja. She's still nice, not stuck up or snotty. Great personality, comes across as "one of the guys", the "girl next door"...Cares about other people. And I've noticed how she always tries to include the conductors and orchestras in the post-performance applause.
@@timshank3328 Y U J A illustrious Work of Art Slave to the Gods
Grand Piano Princess Mistress of Cheerfulness Salvatrix Mundi -gc-
Can't believe, what I hear and what I see........ she is one of a kind.
I watched and listened to Yuja these pieces last night ……I was in tears for her magnificence on the keyboard
1.5hrs of prodigious music performed by a prodigy. in my book, the only people allowed to critique this superhuman are the composers themselves.
And people who know what's about, above the level of ones being in awe because she plays 1 hour and half.
Agreed. Interesting that those critics who sometimes savage her don't seem to have names.
That´s what I often think too. Or imagine.
her critics are failed musicians
When all beauties come together it must be Yuja Wang who is playing.
Ms. Wang is quite unique. There are many, many wonderful pianists, before and current, ones I think play superbly. Even with that I can think of two, Horowitz and Yuja who simply amaze me because they surprise me. There is a certain freedom with which they play that allows me to simply listen, as if a great story is being told and I feel compelled to concentrate on it alone.
It's funny you mentioned Horowitz, because he's the one I immediately thought of during the Schumann. When I hear Horowitz, I think of Heifetz. Both produced very unique, individual tones on their instruments. YW is not on Horowitz's level & never will be. Then, again, she is not alone. No one ever will be.
I couldn’t agree more, Steven. Her virtuosity is so effortless that you forget everything and all that is left is pure music. It’s divine. I literally cannot function after listening to that Scarbo. I would hate to compare her to anyone else, tbh. I think she is quite in a class of her own.
Khatja Buniatishvili gehört meines Erachtens auch dazu . . .
@@unclejuniorsoprano That's really a silly statement. Over time there are always those who are better than the previous best. That's true in every aspect of achievement. It may be fair to say YW is not on Horowitz's level now and maybe she never will be, but to say that "no one ever will" is mere foolishness. You think 100, 200 years from now Horowitz will still be the greatest pianist who has ever lived? If so you've been drinking a little too much Horowitz kool aid.
Yuja brings such a curiosity, energy and sense of exploration to her playing, and looks at every opportunity as a chance to find something new in the music. She says that she is always looking for the ‘magic’! This is what really makes her playing so fresh and alive, and I have not found anyone more inspiring!
Don't bother with "Tov". Can't you see that he is a professional troll? Who is his Thai student? and the Brazilian? He can't even provide their name. They must live in another solar system. That's always possible. I have encountered a troll who show up repeatedly under different alias to belittle many pianists including Sviatoslav Richter. To provide credential for his attacks, he always claimed his own achievements but cannot substantiated it. "Tov" must be his latest reincarnation. I don't reply to him because He does not deserve to make any more dimes and pennies from YT.
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@@ershenlin1774 , thanks for this. Not being very technical, I didn’t realise that I was ‘helping’ this person or whoever it is! Cheers!
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00:00 Kreisleriana
32:16 Scarbo
42:05 Hammerklavier
1:24:58 encores
Thank you.
Thank you mate 👍
Thank you, so much. I kind of thought as much. The Scarbo sounded too modern to be Beethoven....to me.
she is allover astounding -- a once-off , the best of the best--- her memory is something out of this world -- and she breathes music --- absolutely amazing.
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That glissando in the Hammerklavier scherzo is incredible - she goes off-script and does a true white key fingernail glissando, then seamlessly transitions into the actual scale with the right when the left hand comes in to reinforce it at the very end. It WORKS, perfectly, it's bold and playful, and the technical execution is staggering as usual.
Transporting. I have never seen or heard a better performance. Even Yuja was in awe of what she played and felt.
Compared to other musicians, that's what I love most about her, is that she has fun playing the piano!
And it shows by his communicative smile 😍
@@michaelb247 I wouldn't call Beethoven or Schumann's musics charming.
This is my problem with Yuja, she puts charm clichés in music requiring structure, dramatic power, anxiety, passion, taking risks and so on.
She fakes.
@@Paroles_et_Musique if she is *so fake* what are you doing here? Go listen to your dismal, unemotional music in a crypt. BTW she's 29 here. Name her superior and their age.
@@Paroles_et_Musique You won't find many who agree with you in this commentary.
Magnificent. Some of these difficult pieces can sound like cryptic crossword puzzles. Which they are, a bit. Yuja makes them sound like music. Jaw dropping technique and musicality.
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You enriched humanity. You are God’s gift to all generations!
Boy your parents must be extremely proud of having a great genius as their daughter...I would....
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She plays beautiful like and angel
I like her too much, she is amaizing
She has the talent and beauty in one! Very inspiring pianist for the 21 century.
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such authority in her playing, don't mess with her
Magnificent Ms Yuja Wang, I feel fortunate to have enjoyed her artistic performances,life and in videos and CD. 👍👏🏻👏🏻🎵🎶🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
I, as others who listen to yuja,cannot ever stop listening to her repertoire,because she is able to put us into a kind of absolute relaxation.That is all there is to it.
Outstanding "Adagio Sostenuto". Yuja understands the narrative of this movement.that portrays a life full of struggle and suffering.
As a non-musician, I am surprised at how many works I know 90% correctly. But I have been listening and loving this music over twice as long as Yuja has been alive. And she produces these sublime interpretations all from memory.
This has been an astonishing performance; after the Hammerklavier, I couldn't take any more for some time, even her encores! and Scarbo was a revelation...
Must mention the close-ups; physically gorgeous - but Yuja's glorious shining intelligence shown was beyond words.
A total treasure. 🤗🤗🤗
Part of the secret imo is that she sings along with her playing all the time. As far as i know she's the only pianist who follows the word of the long late Arthur Rubinstein to do so. Look at her face : it's moving, because of her silent song.
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I am going through my own house to go to the gym oioo
I have it on the calendar and I’m ouyuuoooi
justesse, finesse, délicatesse. ordre et beauté, luxe, calme et volupté. charme. Yuga Wang est superbe.
Absolument vrai!
Très bon résumé !
Beautiful 💞❤️
You said it!
No day ever passes that Yuga Wang isn’t an intricate part of it ! ❤
Always truly exciting and played to absolute perfection. Unmatched genius.
..Questa donna è qualcosa di
indefinibile per le qualità strumentali e musicali più uniche che rare.per uno stile una personalità e un aspetto
dalle sembianze in apparenza
così contrastanti con una pianista di musica classica.
È il fenomeno pianistico più
eclatante, più incredibile e inafferrabile apparso sulla scena internazionale,e in grado
di fare impallidire le più accreditate star del concertismo internazionale...!!!!!
Vastità di repertorio incredibile,
memoria prodigiosa!!
Trattasi di una reincarnazione?
non è da escludere,in lei c'è
qualcosa che lo fa pensare..
Absolute Incredible! It's so amazing how someone so good just keeps getting better. Thank you Seung-Ho for posting this video.
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Have watched this many times. What a beautiful spirit we have in our midst!
What have I just heard and seen? Yuja Wang is just a beautiful dream, right? But I'm awake!
Her beauty in displaying and interpreting the piano is devouring and creating is it not displaying another dimension upon a creation upon itself giving and in one breath taking the wind out of the room?!!! Such a beautiful piece!! a Master, Mastering and taming a legendary performance, who tames the wind? Then creates upon its own induction on which its staged. . celebration ❤😢
The Sehr Rasch from 25:30 and onwards is my favourite piece of music of all piano literature. Goosebumps for 2 minutes straight. Amazing Schumann.
That piece is really incredible
I agree fully. It is a wonderful piece of music.
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE……….PURE GENIUS
divina pianista, apasionada, natural, tremenda velocidad, gracias por ponerla, thanks for the post, she is incredible, beautiful and passionate, bravisimo
that's without doubt the most electrifying performance of scarbo i've ever heard!
She sounds like Horowitz...the bass notes are incredible!
Those fingers seem possessed with sensitivity and flexibility supreme and Yuja is very clearly enjoying the whole experience!
Rarely does a day pass without me listening to.Yuja Wang. She is a Classical Genius I love her !
She is the best in every way
The Schumann was marvellous... in my head for days afterwards. The encores simply astonishing.
Yuja Wang You're my inspiration. I am in Love with your music and your person. What a sheer talent?
可愛的羽佳，令人讚賞不已，天才、自然與美的化身，毫無做作。
身心 樂曲 鋼琴融為一體，還有自我的創意。
驚世駭俗，世間瑰寶，上天賜與的禮物，傳奇 ！偉大！
令人感動！膜拜。 👏💖🌹
阿彌陀佛👌🙏🙏🙏🙏
Melle. Wang se joue de toutes les difficultés techniques les plus redoutables avec un brio qui surprend, vu son jeunee âge... Quelle somme invraisemblable de travail cela suppose, d'offrir un répertoire aussi divers, interprété avec un tel talent : les 'Kreissleriana' et 'Scarbo' sont tellement difficiles (sans parler des 3e concertos de Prokofiev et de Rachmaninoff, par exemple). Une personne aussi douée émerveille...
Tout à fait d'accord.Ce récital m'a captivé de bout en bout.
Mais pourquoi cette sempiternelle obsession pour la difficulté ? Serait-ce parce qu'il y a si peu de pensée et de sentiment sur la musique, la performance, l'art ?
Finally, an unassuming Kreisleriana- much more approachable. Your interpretation of most of the music you play is unique and gives the listener much to think about, as well as enjoyment, thank you Yuja. Lovely and strangely coherent programme.
Yuja gets be gentle with the piano . I love this girl
En verdad, extraordinaria.una diva en su personalidad y una maestra con amplisimo repertorio ,esos dedos,impulsados por un cerebro de amplia memoria . Un deleite ver y escuchar a Yuja Wang.
HAH that encore was so hard I was not ready for it. This entire performance was such a joy
Wonderful! I think her feelings of love to the music is a huge component in her prowess. I enjoy her playing so much! Keep it on! You're unique and one of the best pianists ever.
She breathes the piano, she IS the Piano.. incredible..
Yes, I think so. ❤️👍👏👏👌🙏
Nope she's average
Non riesco a capacitarmi del talento, della dedizione che servano per arrivare a suonare così Scarbo. Lo guardo e mi sorprendo con la bocca aperta.
All three pieces are magnificent but her Scarbo is the best on RUclips
Absolutely right!
It's astounding particularly as it's live. For a recording I prefer Benjamin Grosvenor's, but I'd need to hear her perform all of Gaspard to see if she can shine a light to BG's astounding rendition of Ondine.
How fortunate we are to be able to make such a comparison! I will check BG's rendition.
Nobody can top Ivo Pogorelich's Interpretation of Gaspard de la nuit.
@@mathisabbing7566 Yuja topped it...but Pogorelich's was the best for many many years! And his interpretation will stay forever!
A landmark video and audio recording of a landmark performance. Can't wait for Yuja's next Verbier recital.
Always a beautiful woman and a superb pianist .
Yuja Wang has passion and elegance which is a lotus flower one can sense those blooms of colors and smells. Thank you for this.
🪷🌺 I have seen this performance before. I listen to many of her performances quite often as I do with many other great pianists and conductors and orchestras.
¡UNA FLOR ÚNICA DE LA GENÉTICA HUMANA! Pocas veces pueden confluir tantas exepciones y privilegios especiales juntos en una misma persona... una mujer que se dedica a la música... que elige el piano... que tiene la habilidad física y la salud necesaria para un ejercicio tan exigente... que alcanza la máxima exelencia en ese ejercicio... que tiene la inteligencia altísima que requiere la comprensión de temas tan elevados en lo intelectual y tan profundos en lo emotivo... la sensibilidad para una expresión fiel al tema...que dispone de los recursos materiales y humanos para estudiar con lo mejor de la gente de música... que a tan corta edad ya es reina de intérpretes musicales ... y ha alcanzado el más alto nivel de cultivo que le permite expresar a cualquier autor... y que con ello augura un futuro jamás superado... y de postre es una mujer preciosa
y una hembra exuberante! ... ¡dichosos nosotros los que hemos tenido la suerte de conocerla!
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Tus conceptos son totalmente descriptivos de YUJA una mujer única.
ABsolutamente de acuerdo con la descripcion de quien se expreso tan acabadamanta, Yuja Wang es un regalo de la naturaleza. Alejandro Rodia.
La señora Wang tiene mucho arte!!! Y como se nota que está en forma tanto pianísticamente hablando y físicamente. Por ejemplo, si yo hiciera esa flexión de espalda que ella hace para agradecer al público los aplausos me daría un ataque de lumbago y me quedaría en el sitio. Como decía el poeta: " juventud divino tesoro..." ( Gijón, 22 de abril de 2022 ).
Quelle musique ! Beethoven ouvrant la voie au romantique Schumann puis à impressionniste Ravel, tout est dit,les influences des uns sur les autres,le fil conducteur de l'évolution musicale admirablement interprété par une jeune et charmante virtuose de la dernière surprenante génération de pianiste qui nous comble de bonheur.bravo yuja Chang
She is a magnificent joy both for the ears and the eyes. As I've said some times, I am 75 and I thank whatever God that I was given the chance to hear and see her fingers dancing on the keyboard like a ballerina, at the same time delicate yet strongly sure. Could possibly Steinway and Sons make a Grand Piano called "Special for Yuja Wang"?
I am 88 and could not agree more with you! If perfection exists, Yuja may be the embodiment of it! Bravo Yuja. Please come some time soon to Boston!
@@robertcopeland1464 Hear hear !!
How true.
They've made 88 Lang Lang special edition Steinway B's LOL!
Mai sentito uno Sgarbo suonato così Bene se non da pogorelich.. incantato! E la qualità della registrazione del pianoforte eccezionale!
Fantastic ! Seen in San Juan, 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico.
If you watch her facial expressions, it seems she is making love to the music. She is, I think, the finest pianist living or dead.
In my opinion, Rachmaninoff takes that title, but she is the best I've heard alive today.
@@hcarr I have listened both to Rachmaninoff and Yuja Wang playing the same Rachmaninoff pieces, while I read the score. Yuja is much more precise and accurate, while also being more expressive. I think Yuja plays Rachmaninoff better than Rachmaninoff did.
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"The finest pianist living or dead"? Yes, but I'm pretty certain that anyone could play better than someone who's dead.
I know. She has the same expression when flirting! ❤
Everything is just beautiful ☺️
Yuja is lovely...how she plays the music....perhaps sometime could be at
Chile and play for us....beautifull .....
I'm beginning to think Yuja Wong is the best pianist out there right now.
The woman is incredible.
Thank you for uploading such a wonderful video! The program is:
Robert Schumann, Kreisleriana, Op. 16
1. Äußerst bewegt (Very animated)
2. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch (Introspective and not too fast)
3. Sehr aufgeregt (Very agitated)
4. Sehr langsam (Very slowly)
5. Sehr lebhaft (Very lively)
6. Sehr langsam (Very slowly)
7. Sehr rasch (Very fast)
8. Schnell und spielend (Fast and playful)
Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55
III. Scarbo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier"
1. Allegro
2. Scherzo, assai vivace
3. Adagio sostenuto. Appassionato e con molto sentimento
4. Largo - Allegro risoluto
5. Fugue
(encore) Mozart/Volodos: Rondo alla Turca
(encore) Bizet/Horowitz: Carmen Variations
DETAILS
Directed by: Corentin Leconte
Venue: Salle des Combins (Verbier, Switzerland)
Broadcast date: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 1:00 PM (EDT)
Production date: 2016
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Production: © Idéale Audience
She's simply the greatest!
This is so much better.ruclips.net/video/e2hmt_BQJR4/видео.html
I love her ‘Hammerklavier’ played here even more so then the one she performed in Carnegie Hall, because of recording sounds is better!
Beautiful expression of musical beauty.
Magnifique.... Merci Yuja
I'm wore out. It really doesn't get better. Extraordinary in every way!
What a terrific "Kreisleriana," so poetic but unmannered, daring, intuitive, and with wonderful balances and textures. To be compared with her equally wonderful live video from Carnegie Hall this year. As someone else wrote here, YW just keeps getting better and better, broadening her repertoire constantly while playing so often everywhere. How does she do it?
Good question! Graffman said she learns extremely fast. But, as you say, when? Is it during her long flights she goes through those new scores, and then plays them as if turning the pages in her head? I guess a genius like her probably can. - I would love to hear more about it than was touched upon in the interview before her Bartok concert here in Stockholm.
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@Mazzel Tov There are certainly some with larger repertoires, but her repertoire is definitely big. She also plays a lot of chamber music, too. If there is criticism it would be that broad as it is, it is not very adventurous. She does not do lesser known composers and limits even her new music to the best known names.
Warren, I have tended to prefer more standard stuff, but Yuja has certainly got me into a much wider range than 70+ years of loving all types - as long as it IS music, like (for me) previously unregarded Prokofiev, Ligeti, Scriabin, Messiaen, John Adams...? (I do hesitate with this, but Mazzel - have you seen "The Clone"?... 😂)
@Mazzel Tov But not at her age and not on her level....
Beautiful playing & music.. Always a joy watching & listening to Yuja.
Fantástica Yuja, increíble.Bravo
Het ontroerd mij zeer jouw prachtig pianospel
Luister naar alle opnames van jou, je bent een echte grote ster in alles
ook de kleding die je draagt is grandioos!
Apart from everything else, her endurance is staggering.
This entire recital is a marvel! 😎🎹
She is amazing!
One of the best recitals I ever heard her do👍👏🏻👏🏻🎶🫶🏻
She's a phenomenal pianist, indeed, & can play ANYTHING as well as any living pianist, & she's very, very beautiful, but she doesn't play the Schumann like Horowitz by a long shot. Then again, nobody does.
Wonderful musicianship, as usual, Yuja!
Esta maravillosa artista, que hace una fusión entre su cuerpo y el instrumento expresa tantos sentimientos q me emociona
profundamente.
A tour de force!!! Priceless. A privilege. Thank you. 🌞🫶🏼🎹🎶🖖🏼
Those encores stole my soul! Above Outstanding!
Outstanding pianism and interpretation!
A GENIUS AT THE KEYBOARD…..A GIFT VIA RUclips
Bellezza e la commozione provocata dalla sua musica portano in cielo....forse è scesa dall'Olimpo
I Believe She Has The Largest Repertoire of Any Living Pianist !! And She's Still So Young !!!.....
Incredible Ms Yuja Wang 👏🏼👏🏼🎼🥰
This is a fabulous recital. Starting with one of Schubert's most loved piano compositions (Kreisleriana) he dedicated to the love of his life Clara (and Frederic Chopin). Yuja plays it in a her unique fashion. With tempo, and a lot of pedal and almost with the "sturm und drang "of her 28 years. (Schuman was 28 years old when he wrote it in 1838)
Also on You tube (with 430000 less "views") is Girgory Sokolov playing it with the finesse of his 74 years (1 year ago)
Yuja and Grigory seem to completely merge into the composition. I love both of them they are both extraordinary and very different. Recommended!
(e.g. 2 sehr innig und nicht so rasch Yuja at 0632 etwas bewegter Grigory at 08.55 very different in tempo, and the use of the pedal. Yuja with a lot of both, very moving and rythmical. Grigory very refined and light taking us into space almost etherical. What a fabulous composition and performers!
I love your interpretations! Some are so subtle, and others are very clearly taking some license. This is the highest form of art. I interpret the Tai-Chi that I have done for so many decades, as did my highest level teacher, while always adhering to the principles. You have a new fan for life!
A Hammerklavier to die for