Nice meet you Hannah! You can do it. I am not good pianist but I can play this piece. I had played at open hall in front of over one hundred persons when I was 52 years old. Even though not prefect but I had tear with joy. This piece make me full heart. Hannah! You can do it. Right now let's practice.
Yuja's technique is obviously great, but what really stands out to me is how smart of a player she is. Her performances are so intuitive and nuanced, they just feel right.
This instrument she is playing, sounds really like a piano should sound. She gets out of it 100 different intensities, her pianissimo is pianissssssimo, her fortissimo is fortissssssssimo. What an amazing performer, what a musician, her sensibility is beyond belief. thanks Yuja for bringing tears to my eyes. Chopin would be so very proud of you. Jose Zamora
I love Yuga Wang. Sometimes I think she is assaulting the piano, other times she is making love to it! How can so much talent fit in such a small person?
This is definition of a true genius. Her own interpretation, does not care about any rules. Music flowing naturally. Chopin would be full of joy himself on such playing!
@@patriciagraham222 Playing the piano is not genius. 'The composer is the God I'm just the interpreter'. Valentina Lisitsa. One of the top five super virtuoso pianists today.
I have never commented before on an online forum but I've been a professional musician for over 30 years and have adjudicated various competitions around the world. One might do things differently, but this is still sensational piano playing. In a difficult "lockdown" situation her Mendelssohn 1st Concerto with Kurt Masur at the Verbier Festival on You Tube is truly joyous music making. A spectacularly gifted musician just having fun! There's a childlike sense of wonder about it all and a playfulness that everyone I've shared it with just loves. Hope you love it too...
I was fortunate enough to be there in person for this recital! I had never heard of Yuja Wang before, but I can assure you that after that recital (which also included such show-stoppers as the Prokofiev Toccata and Ravel's piano version of "La Valse") she became unforgettable in my mind forever.
Student recitals at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia are such an amazing thing because a few times a year you get to see young people who are quite clearly going to be superstars. Great things were expected of Yuja Wang from the time she set foot in Philadelphia. You can certainly see from this performance that she was ready for the world stage. But it would have been impossible to predict her level of superstardom. There's a good argument she's the most important pianist in the world under 40 right now.
Ooof this comment did not age well after two years. There's a good argument she's now the most important pianist in the world period, regardless of age :D
@@DrDLL99 Can't argue with that. She is setting new standards. Her virtuosity and stamina (and of course good taste and insight) are allowing her to redefine some of the music she's playing. She will be influential. She plays lightly with incredible clarity. Young people will be trying to emulate her Hammerklavier for years to come.
You couldn't expect because at the time she was dressing properly. If you listen to that extraordinary Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, same age as Wang and same virtuosity, you will hear the difference : incredibly deep understanding and respect of composers ' styles which gives strong emotions to the audience. (And he won the Van Cliburn International Competition in 2009... despite his blindness).
What is going on with people dissing on her here? this lady is a really fine pianist and this was a good interpretation, it's not my favorite but I still acknowledge the sensitivity that she has and Chopin himself said "Put all your soul in it, play the way you feel", and she definitely did that, you might not like everything she did, I didn't like everything she did but I did like a lot of the liberties she took and you have to admit that it has great sensitivity and she plays with passion and you have to respect that because not everyone can play like this, also she is a professional pianist that has been playing her whole life and performed in some of the biggest halls worldwide so she knows what she is doing better than anyone commenting here on RUclips, and she was very young here so this was a fantastic interpretation for such a young age.
@TheGreenPianist , WHAT didn't you like she did? The ONLY thing I did NOT like was she did not give an encore !!! Her interpretation of Chopin's Ballade in G minor was magnificent !!!
Lord Delacroix very nicely said. The composer has the “given “ capacity to enter a world closed to us, the world of music and what he hears there he copies and writes down for us. It is wonderful to listen to an interpretation which comes near to what the composer had heard. Technical mastery is not enough or indispensable.
...she breaths through the piano keys... she feels through the sounds.. she exists through the music .. she is letting herself to be filled, and she fills anyone and anything whoever is around with the emotions out of place and time.. I'm grateful to whoever is responsible for spotting and developing this amazing talent.. and I am a bit sorry for the artist though... as- as we all know : "With great power comes great responsibility".. Sending my love to Yuja.. be strong, beautiful...
What I hate about piano critics is that everyone has a different idea for interpretation of the piece, and they all can't accept different interpretations because they feel that theirs is 100% correct. Therefore, every piano performance will always have blood suckers complaining no matter how good it is.
Yes, what pianists do is to describe the feeling of the composer, and everyone have their own opinion, it's just different people, why do they need to be the same?
+Kataune Miku that's right for those reasoning with their own gut... you recognize them because they say something like "too fast" "too slow", no emotions etc. Nonetheless, there are some unbiased factors that can be used to evaluate a performance, such as coherence in interpretation, phrasing, managing stress moments, ability to exalting and disentangling different voices.. etc. Some factors need expertise in piano technique to understand what passages are more tricky or difficult to render in a certain manner. Anyway, do not be too much critic about critics, music is love so there is also hate. It's not jealousy. If everybody say that all is beautiful it would be pretty boring and meritocracy wouldn't exist. P.S. I'm not criticizing this interpretation!
Les 15 dernières années ont pleinement confirmé le remarquable talent de Yuja qui éclate ici alors qu'elle n'a que 19 ans. C'est clairement une des plus grandes pianistes des années actuelles en devenir. Je suis d'autant plus frappé qu'à cet âge on pourrait craindre beaucoup de vitesse et d'éclats ; pas du tout Yuja révèle une admirable sensibilité et profondeur.
Having heard this piece so many many times I was beginning to become a bit jaded to the genius of the music, and then Yuja comes along and revives it all. Grateful.
I personally feel like I watched her feelings and heard Chopin's heart pour out through her fingers. Its was not played as if only by rote. Mechanical. Technical. Brava! Beautiful.
Not only a great performance, but also a unique performance. For me it's unique because of the extreme sensitivity and sensibility demonstrated by the great pianist Yuja Wang. Its here strong technique that leads to such an enhanced sensitivity an romanticism in her performance. This is unique. One of a kind!
Beauty should not be a factor in evaluating a musical performance! Unfortunately it color's so many people's opinions and adds extra undeserved points to a woman's performance in too many instances. Yuja Want doesn't wear microdresses for nothing. That said I did like her interpretation of this piece and I thought she did a good job. I wouldn't place this performance on par with other world class performers but as has been pointed out she was only 21 so give her a decade and she'll be up there with the rest of them.
Awe inspiring. I don't really even get how it is possible for a person to play a song like this, but I am sitting here with goosebumps on my arms anyway.
False. Lang Lang is much better. And Yunchan Lim is probably the most talented prodigy in the world right now that will take both of their spots in about 10 years
Ich muss zugeben, sie berührt mich nicht tief im Herzen. Dafür ist ihre Interpretation zu perfekt.. Sie ist zu sehr im Verstand. Das sind die meisten Pianisten leider. Auf Kosten von Gefühl, Herz...
Jiminy Chrismas! This "gal" is incredible! Just her virtuosity alone is spellbinding, but she also plays with tender lyricism here as well. Stunning performance and done as part of a graduation recital! I read somewhere once that Chopin advised a student to play with all their soul. Detractors here can say she plays too fast, slow down, etc., but I find her abandon here to be electrifying! What I wouldn't give to be able to play this great Ballade like this! Bravo, Yuja Wang! And many thanks to "Excellent interpretation" for uploading this superb performance!
I've literally heard dozens of fine and great pianists perform this Chopin ballade. Yuja Wang brilliance here outshines all other experiences - in power, precision and grace!!!
Only geniuses are Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin just to name a few of classical music composers. Pianists are not geniuses, they are just interpreting and performing music by composers.
Until Yuja Wang played Flight of the BumbleBee, thought my grandmother was the greatest piano player that ever lived. She once played her songs in 5 different places in Hollywood, California in one night (New Year's Eve) during the Great Depression. Wish we had U-Tube during the FDR years... Her mother (my great grandmother) brought a piano in a wagon train all the way to Colorado and made my poor grandmother practice 4 hours per day since age 4. No running water and no electricity. Life was a struggle prior to Calvin Coolidge becoming President.
I don't adore this recording of this - but I think that her playing it now would be stupendous. This is a piece that while amazing youngsters can learn, it's the actual understanding of the phrasing and meaning that brings it to life
Yuja Wang was a perfect, master piano performer way before this playing at her graduation! There is no one close to her perfection on the piano keys! Remember, she particularly lived on a piano bench since six (6) years young! Also, the forever saying, "What ever is sowed, shall be reaped!" Holds true in every situation!
Like a Ming Dynasty vase, delicately coloured, a recurrent pattern, best china, made of & making history, priceless. Yuja Wang & her performance. Love the Chinese still in her. This is so riveting, committed, dynamic, driven. I am in her thrall.
this will be the benchmark for centuries to come... Even observing Yuja's back movement, let alone her face, I can tell that she has become one with this beautiful piece.. She does things that just cannot be learned.. They flow from the deep crevices of her complex emotional buildup.
Let Wang criticise her own work. My God, it was absolutely perfect! Maybe I liked Horowitz' interpretation a little more, but that's only because I grew up listening to him as a boy. The world is richly blessed to have her!
You played it wonderfully. You are amazing full with emotions. Thank you. I just listened to from the start to the end (its not obvious) When I was about 25 (37 years ago), I played it the way you interpreted it with minor differences 😊, my professor was influenced by Horowitz and Rubinstein, thus do I ❤ After 30 years not playing at all - I decided to play it again, I didn't remember I was struggling so much like now.
2:26 is the part where I like to hear the artists' interpretation. I LOVE how she goes slow and progressive instead of going really intense half way through. Very subjective of course! great piece, great interpretation.
ilyen fantasztikus előadást soha nem láttam még.......majdnem beleolvad a billentyűkön keresztűl a balladába........mennyei.....földönkivűli alakitás......nagyon köszönöm, hogy láthattam......
I played this piece at 19. It has some pretty hard sections but all of it is conquerable with the right technique. The music is so compelling that it urges one on to work through the most difficult challenges with sheer determination. I think no. 4 at the end is much harder, as well as scherzo 2 and 3. Everyone has their own demons! And if you really want to talk impossible, try Rach sonata 2 or any of the Liszt transcendental etudes or his Snow Drift. Insane!
JDM 104 i find rachmaninoff's pieces in general to be pretty hard, because of how far apart the notes are. And yeah I find fast songs too difficult for me and I'm pretty ashamed of it myself. (Such as Chopin's revolutionary etude.) I've got a lot to work on.
As I look at some of the, shall we say, less than complimentary comments here, I feel that most of the nit picky posts come from those who are convinced they know something real. Having been involved in music for nearly 60 years; both performing and enjoying all over the world countless performers, I will share that it is extremely rare for me to find an artist who is SO talented they move something deep inside me emotionally. It doesn't matter to me about their gender, the instrument, their nationality, or anything else. Yuja Wang MOVES me deeply. She excites me in her technique, interpretation, and approach. It astounds me that she's so young and gives me awesome pause imagining her abilities in the future. I don't claim to be an expert or "highbrow," or anything of the sort. It doesn't matter to me if her instrument is flawless in every way or it isn't because it's utterly irrelevant. Her interpretations playing Chopin are incredible. They don't always fit MY views, but I will point out that everyone sees EVERYTHING differently - it's human nature. What most impresses me is that she doesn't PLAY her instrument, she EXPRESSES on it. I think she's incredibly amazing . . . PERIOD!
If music as it is presented moves you that is a very personal experience. I had the privilege of seeing Ms Wang and found her playing an amazing experience, something I will never forget. For those that have the ability to feel the music in their soul it is a living thing that no other stimuli can equal. As young children in school we were so fortunate to have an amazing music teacher that taught us to appreciate great music. Even though most of us did not become musicians he instilled in us the desire to seek out styles that move us, what greater thing could a teacher accomplish, he changed our lives. I've sought out and witnessed amazing performances throughout my life in many places because of this man. Thank God for great teachers!
As an asian musician(violin) myself, I agree with your comment partly. No one can denied you were moved by Yuja's performance. However, classical music is surely european culture. We have to respect about that. The composers like Mozart and Chopin requires certain study about their style which even european students has to learn. Yuja's Chopin wasn't in that manner. This performance lacked the essence of Chopin. The same reason I don't respect Hiraly Hahn's Mozart. There are so many reasons I can respect American education, but it's not perfect. More specifically, I am not comfortable about her way of feeling the first beat and how to flow rest of the bar. Polish has own sense of rhythm which is so strong. It was big influences to the left hand part's artistry, and right hand part's musical flow in Chopin's work. Chopin used his polish background into the great piano works with his unique elegance. Thoughtful tone choices and articulation also requires to fit Chopin as the same case of Mozart.
Well, I am not a critic but I love her playing. I can almost feel what she is feeling in her interpretations and her feel for the piece. That is a sign of a great pianist. Katia possesses this also.
Yes is, I totally agree that Yuja plays this in an extraordinary way. She succeeds over some musical phrases better than any pianist I have heard play it. This is a sign of an extra-ordinary technique that few pianists have accomplished. In fact if Franz Liszt were here today, one might say she has stolen his shoes-and is wearing them. The blend of her technique and musicology is so fine! I have noticed this in only one other pianist, Martha Argerich. Robert C., Palm Desert CA.
Nothing quite compares hearing the magnificent sound of chopan on a finely tuned grand piano, expertly played by a very talented pianist, Mis Yuja Wang...very enjoyable, thank you, ✌️
I've been searching for this balad for years then I come across this young lady with sich a wise, sweet, excact performance. What can I say? Sheila, have a nice day!
I think most people knew the instant they heard Yuja play that they were witnessing greatness. For the lucky people at this very early recital by Yuja, I'm sure they were floored by what they heard. Thank heavens this recital was recorded so that now it is available for all to hear.
She made this ballade her own! 👏👏👏👏👏 Having an Impressive Technique she focuses on interpretation so easily, everywhere... Very sensible interpretation, clear and with so many nuances!
Это юность, это первая любовь...это то, что кружит голову, это радость, от которой хочется взлететь....искрящаяся жизнь.....это прошлое...это то, что осталось... Все это в звучащей музыке- спасибо, Юджа!!!
I know this piece from a few decades ago. I've never heard it played like this but, at least on first listening, I quite like her interpretation. Plenty of energy and passion. Quite a girl, I'd say
Was für eine super Begabung.Ich hab sie gerade mal wieder gegoogelt. und schaue wieder mal ganz fassziniert zu Würde sie auch gern mal im Konzert erleben. Sie macht das mit einer Lockerheit . Ich bewundere auch ihre gute Haltung!Da stimmt wirklich alles.
Do not compare. Just enjoy. She is into the music, plays nuances everyone could agree to as they follow gravity of movement, flowing through the body, through her hands, and through the heart. There is no best player. On the top, they must be different, or they would not breathe that thin air.. There is just this lady now, gifted to express, energetic and brillant..
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I WILL NOT DIE BEFORE I CAN PLAY THIS PIECE
It's not that hard really. There's many pieces that are much more difficult.
No, but the rest of us will listening to you try.
@@satrialesporkstore7889 i dont care how difficult it is, that's my statement about it anyway
Nice meet you Hannah! You can do it. I am not good pianist but I can play this piece. I had played at open hall in front of over one hundred persons when I was 52 years old. Even though not prefect but I had tear with joy. This piece make me full heart.
Hannah! You can do it. Right now let's practice.
@@MountainwalkwithMusic thank you very much :)
I was there, in person! My first time attending one of her performances -- super memorable!!! (As I noted in my message 7 years ago, LOL).
100 процентно -профнепригодный ученик музучилища...
Yuja's technique is obviously great, but what really stands out to me is how smart of a player she is. Her performances are so intuitive and nuanced, they just feel right.
Wonderful dynamics.
Yeah she just crushes it every time. She says she doesn't even practice before a performance as it throws her off.
Yes I agree- so much better than others imo😊
J'ai rarement entendu cette oeuvre jouée avec autant de sensibilité et de grâce
This instrument she is playing, sounds really like a piano should sound. She gets out of it 100 different intensities, her pianissimo is pianissssssimo, her fortissimo is fortissssssssimo. What an amazing performer, what a musician, her sensibility is beyond belief. thanks Yuja for bringing tears to my eyes. Chopin would be so very proud of you. Jose Zamora
Tf is this ?
Do you mean pianississississimo, and fortissississississimo
I love Yuga Wang. Sometimes I think she is assaulting the piano, other times she is making love to it!
How can so much talent fit in such a small person?
@@cecilogren8616 sounds so 🤨 but perfectly describes it.
Well, the Steinway D helps...
This is definition of a true genius. Her own interpretation, does not care about any rules. Music flowing naturally. Chopin would be full of joy himself on such playing!
No.
The genius is the composer.
@@markrymanowski719 It takes two! The whole performance is magic.
@@patriciagraham222
Playing the piano is not genius.
'The composer is the God
I'm just the interpreter'.
Valentina Lisitsa.
One of the top five super virtuoso pianists today.
@@markrymanowski719 Playing to that amazing level is wonderful - what can you play of Chopin's? - to that high quality?
@@markrymanowski719 Hey Mark! Envy is in not a good guide.
I am glad that the recording does her performance justice. Yuja is superb!
Unbelievable... How she could achieve creating such emotion during a graduation recital is beyond my mind.
I have never commented before on an online forum but I've been a professional musician for over 30 years and have adjudicated various competitions around the world. One might do things differently, but this is still sensational piano playing. In a difficult "lockdown" situation her Mendelssohn 1st Concerto with Kurt Masur at the Verbier Festival on You Tube is truly joyous music making. A spectacularly gifted musician just having fun! There's a childlike sense of wonder about it all and a playfulness that everyone I've shared it with just loves. Hope you love it too...
It's not "still" sensational, it's just plain sensational, as Yuja proves over and over again in 2023!
I was fortunate enough to be there in person for this recital! I had never heard of Yuja Wang before, but I can assure you that after that recital (which also included such show-stoppers as the Prokofiev Toccata and Ravel's piano version of "La Valse") she became unforgettable in my mind forever.
I can belive you!
What made you attend the recital if you didn't know anything about her?
Steven Haff It wasn't just her recital. There were many other people there.
That must have been amazing!! You are so lucky to have been there... I wish I was there too!!
Cory Newman I would DIE to hear her play La valse live
Student recitals at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia are such an amazing thing because a few times a year you get to see young people who are quite clearly going to be superstars. Great things were expected of Yuja Wang from the time she set foot in Philadelphia. You can certainly see from this performance that she was ready for the world stage. But it would have been impossible to predict her level of superstardom. There's a good argument she's the most important pianist in the world under 40 right now.
Ooof this comment did not age well after two years. There's a good argument she's now the most important pianist in the world period, regardless of age :D
@@DrDLL99 Can't argue with that. She is setting new standards. Her virtuosity and stamina (and of course good taste and insight) are allowing her to redefine some of the music she's playing. She will be influential. She plays lightly with incredible clarity. Young people will be trying to emulate her Hammerklavier for years to come.
You couldn't expect because at the time she was dressing properly. If you listen to that extraordinary Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, same age as Wang and same virtuosity, you will hear the difference : incredibly deep understanding and respect of composers ' styles which gives strong emotions to the audience. (And he won the Van Cliburn International Competition in 2009... despite his blindness).
She is nowhere near "the best"
@@DrDLL99 ....in your opinion only. She is not the most "important" or the best pianist in the world by a long shot.
Did she realize at that time how good she is worldwide? Sublime dynamics and transitions!... and crystal clarity! 👏👏👏👏👏
What is going on with people dissing on her here? this lady is a really fine pianist and this was a good interpretation, it's not my favorite but I still acknowledge the sensitivity that she has and Chopin himself said "Put all your soul in it, play the way you feel", and she definitely did that, you might not like everything she did, I didn't like everything she did but I did like a lot of the liberties she took and you have to admit that it has great sensitivity and she plays with passion and you have to respect that because not everyone can play like this, also she is a professional pianist that has been playing her whole life and performed in some of the biggest halls worldwide so she knows what she is doing better than anyone commenting here on RUclips, and she was very young here so this was a fantastic interpretation for such a young age.
@TheGreenPianist , WHAT didn't you like she did? The ONLY thing I did NOT like was she did not give an encore !!! Her interpretation of Chopin's Ballade in G minor was magnificent !!!
Bravo!!!
Chopin said thst??
Most people here think she is brilliant. Some squabble about how this or that pianist interprets the music but people will never all agree.
This is the way I imagine Chopin heard it as he wrote it down. Simply fabulous!
Lord Delacroix very nicely said. The composer has the “given “ capacity to enter a world closed to us, the world of music and what he hears there he copies and writes down for us. It is wonderful to listen to an interpretation which comes near to what the composer had heard. Technical mastery is not enough or indispensable.
A0A
Yes my Lord, it was.
Please no
She is extremely good ,her technique is soo unique ,her interpretation also outstanding !!
The woman is extraordinarily, wonderfully, wonderful. And extraordinary. If no one has guessed yet, I am a fan.
Stand in line………lol
When I here this ballade I can't help but think of that poor sick man who composed it.
I hear you, yet this cannot be played without muscle strength and neurons firing!
...she breaths through the piano keys... she feels through the sounds.. she exists through the music .. she is letting herself to be filled, and she fills anyone and anything whoever is around with the emotions out of place and time.. I'm grateful to whoever is responsible for spotting and developing this amazing talent.. and I am a bit sorry for the artist though... as- as we all know : "With great power comes great responsibility".. Sending my love to Yuja.. be strong, beautiful...
In her mind, she knows how to play this with subtle emotion- sounds so much better than Zimmerman
Totally brilliant, and she's only 19 in this video. Thanks for being super-human !
She gets better every time I listen to her.
...... or, perhaps it's my appreciation that grows.
What an amazing pianist!
Her music is heavenly for 99.99% of mankind who loves the music.
What I hate about piano critics is that everyone has a different idea for interpretation of the piece, and they all can't accept different interpretations because they feel that theirs is 100% correct. Therefore, every piano performance will always have blood suckers complaining no matter how good it is.
Yes, what pianists do is to describe the feeling of the composer, and everyone have their own opinion, it's just different people, why do they need to be the same?
+Kataune Miku I agree with you. It's a dangerous mix between ignorance and jealousy.
+Kataune Miku that's right for those reasoning with their own gut... you recognize them because they say something like "too fast" "too slow", no emotions etc. Nonetheless, there are some unbiased factors that can be used to evaluate a performance, such as coherence in interpretation, phrasing, managing stress moments, ability to exalting and disentangling different voices.. etc. Some factors need expertise in piano technique to understand what passages are more tricky or difficult to render in a certain manner. Anyway, do not be too much critic about critics, music is love so there is also hate. It's not jealousy. If everybody say that all is beautiful it would be pretty boring and meritocracy wouldn't exist. P.S. I'm not criticizing this interpretation!
+Kataune Miku Not necessarily true. Rubinstein played it perfect.
Yes, I mean you are right. Just for me it's exciting to listen to, and compare all those different interpretations. (Therefore RUclips is excellent!).
Les 15 dernières années ont pleinement confirmé le remarquable talent de Yuja qui éclate ici alors qu'elle n'a que 19 ans. C'est clairement une des plus grandes pianistes des années actuelles en devenir. Je suis d'autant plus frappé qu'à cet âge on pourrait craindre beaucoup de vitesse et d'éclats ; pas du tout Yuja révèle une admirable sensibilité et profondeur.
Having heard this piece so many many times I was beginning to become a bit jaded to the genius of the music, and then Yuja comes along and revives it all. Grateful.
I personally feel like I watched her feelings and heard Chopin's heart pour out through her fingers. Its was not played as if only by rote. Mechanical. Technical. Brava! Beautiful.
her phrasing and flow is really impressive
Her control of dynamics and ability to bring out the emotional content of the music is startling for someone of her age. 19 yrs. old.
What??! *polite applause* at the end of this incredible performance?? I was almost as astounded by the tepid reception as I was at her brilliance.
She absorbed the music and it became part of her, amazing and beautiful
Not only a great performance, but also a unique performance. For me it's unique because of the extreme sensitivity and sensibility demonstrated by the great pianist Yuja Wang. Its here strong technique that leads to such an enhanced
sensitivity an romanticism in her performance. This is unique. One of a kind!
+Zareh Darakjian I AGREE...
+Zareh Darakjian I think like you.
Absolutely to the point! Her performance is just magic. Add her age and beauty, and we are blessed with a goddess from outer space.
Beauty should not be a factor in evaluating a musical performance! Unfortunately it color's so many people's opinions and adds extra undeserved points to a woman's performance in too many instances. Yuja Want doesn't wear microdresses for nothing. That said I did like her interpretation of this piece and I thought she did a good job. I wouldn't place this performance on par with other world class performers but as has been pointed out she was only 21 so give her a decade and she'll be up there with the rest of them.
SHE WAS 19...
...WHAT ABOUT TODAY AT PUSHING 30?
Awe inspiring.
I don't really even get how it is possible for a person to play a song like this, but I am sitting here with goosebumps on my arms anyway.
Piece* not song
It goes without saying, you absolutely nailed this piece, Yuja. Simply amazing!
I don’t think there are any words to describe her brilliance. She probably is the best pianist in the world right now.
Let's say, for the last 10 years
and for the next 100 j. also
False. Lang Lang is much better. And Yunchan Lim is probably the most talented prodigy in the world right now that will take both of their spots in about 10 years
Ich muss zugeben, sie berührt mich nicht tief im Herzen. Dafür ist ihre Interpretation zu perfekt.. Sie ist zu sehr im Verstand. Das sind die meisten Pianisten leider. Auf Kosten von Gefühl, Herz...
Idk if i really like this interpretation however she surely can play it better now.
Jiminy Chrismas! This "gal" is incredible! Just her virtuosity alone is spellbinding, but she also plays with tender lyricism here as well. Stunning performance and done as part of a graduation recital! I read somewhere once that Chopin advised a student to play with all their soul. Detractors here can say she plays too fast, slow down, etc., but I find her abandon here to be electrifying! What I wouldn't give to be able to play this great Ballade like this! Bravo, Yuja Wang! And many thanks to "Excellent interpretation" for uploading this superb performance!
Vous jouez à la perfection , vous interprétez comme les plus grands et .... vous êtes belle ! Un cadeau des cieux!
Marty.
Tiziano Marcolini - uh.... ok.
I call her performance "magic " , thank you
Such a wonderful performance!!! I am in tears listening!!!!! This lady is a amazing,really unique!
One of Yuja wangs most beautiful piece’s
❤❤❤she certainly has a god given gift, truly mesmerising, l could listen to her forever ❤❤❤❤❤l truly love you 🎉🎉sylvie x
Experiencing Yuga Wang's graduation recital is like having Willy Mays' rookie card.
Such astounding talent!
A true artist feels their work, and this young lady is most certainly living the moment. Beautiful.
I've literally heard dozens of fine and great pianists perform this Chopin ballade. Yuja Wang brilliance here outshines all other experiences - in power, precision and grace!!!
She is a genius. Watch her too when she was a child. She is now a renowned concert pianist and you critics where are you now?
Only geniuses are Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin just to name a few of classical music composers. Pianists are not geniuses, they are just interpreting and performing music by composers.
as a music lover, it doesn't get any better.
I played this when I was young- 20 yrs old- Yuja plays sooo well with more emotion - I loved this .. yes..
I'm back. She went and tore my heart out! What a performance!
Until Yuja Wang played Flight of the BumbleBee, thought my grandmother was the greatest piano player that ever lived. She once played her songs in 5 different places in Hollywood, California in one night (New Year's Eve) during the Great Depression. Wish we had U-Tube during the FDR years... Her mother (my great grandmother) brought a piano in a wagon train all the way to Colorado and made my poor grandmother practice 4 hours per day since age 4. No running water and no electricity. Life was a struggle prior to Calvin Coolidge becoming President.
I don't adore this recording of this - but I think that her playing it now would be stupendous. This is a piece that while amazing youngsters can learn, it's the actual understanding of the phrasing and meaning that brings it to life
Yuja Wang was a perfect, master piano performer way before this playing at her graduation! There is no one close to her perfection on the piano keys! Remember, she particularly lived on a piano bench since six (6) years young! Also, the forever saying, "What ever is sowed, shall be reaped!" Holds true in every situation!
Jeez, the only innate Chopin performer alive. Look at her now 11 years after - still a class for herself.
Like a Ming Dynasty vase, delicately coloured, a recurrent pattern, best china, made of & making history, priceless. Yuja Wang & her performance. Love the Chinese still in her. This is so riveting, committed, dynamic, driven. I am in her thrall.
mckavitt . . . as am I. Beautifully said.
+PETER KRONES Many thanks.
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Yuja Wang is Yuja Wang and no body else
the best interpretation of this ballade I've ever heard, it felt like i was there listening to her absolutely magnificent playing.
this will be the benchmark for centuries to come...
Even observing Yuja's back movement, let alone her face, I can tell that she has become one with this beautiful piece..
She does things that just cannot be learned.. They flow from the deep crevices of her complex emotional buildup.
you put that well...
@@davidaltschuler9687 Thank you so much!
@@zarehdarakjian2476 did you listen to Seong-Jin Cho's interpretation? I think it was phenomenal!
So very impressive. She gets a wonderful sound out of the piano. It is a joy to hear her play. Hard to believe this is before she turned professional.
ממש נהדרת ביצוע מעולה
Heaven is listening to the young Yuja Wang play Chopin Ballade 1
Still very much taken by your performance/. My absolute favorite piece/. Sorry for repeating myself/. Best regards/.
I've listened to 10 different versions of this piece, and Yuja's performance is by far the most passionate. I can't stop coming back to this video.
The phrasing of the descending part at 6:20 into the main theme is phenomenal!...
Only one word describes Yuja wang's performance! (Superb) 😊❤❤❤
Let Wang criticise her own work. My God, it was absolutely perfect! Maybe I liked Horowitz' interpretation a little more, but that's only because I grew up listening to him as a boy. The world is richly blessed to have her!
You played it wonderfully. You are amazing full with emotions. Thank you. I just listened to from the start to the end (its not obvious)
When I was about 25 (37 years ago), I played it the way you interpreted it with minor differences 😊, my professor was influenced by Horowitz and Rubinstein, thus do I ❤
After 30 years not playing at all - I decided to play it again, I didn't remember I was struggling so much like now.
2:26 is the part where I like to hear the artists' interpretation. I LOVE how she goes slow and progressive instead of going really intense half way through. Very subjective of course! great piece, great interpretation.
Beautiful and wonderful graduation recital which has been already predicted
the future success in the music world internationally !
Bravo !
This masterpiece in the hands of Yuja Wang describes my devotion for poetry.
makes me cry. among THE best on RUclips.THANK YOU to Excellent Interpretation. end of story.
Me too! When I played this, I used to cry- never had this as good as Yuja!
I saw her live at Davies symphony hall in San Francisco and man was she phenomenal!
ilyen fantasztikus előadást soha nem láttam még.......majdnem beleolvad a billentyűkön keresztűl a balladába........mennyei.....földönkivűli alakitás......nagyon köszönöm, hogy láthattam......
Pure poetry when poetry is needed; incredible passion and drama when called for. An unforgettable story in music told by a master.
One of the most amazing performances of this piece I've ever seen
Its easy to criticeze...
Jaja besides she was 19 by then. To a pianist play chopin's first ballade is like... a doctorate. Its a advanced level work.
doctorate is an overstatement lol. I would consider it to be around degree-masters.
what's criticeze ?
I played this piece at 19. It has some pretty hard sections but all of it is conquerable with the right technique. The music is so compelling that it urges one on to work through the most difficult challenges with sheer determination. I think no. 4 at the end is much harder, as well as scherzo 2 and 3. Everyone has their own demons! And if you really want to talk impossible, try Rach sonata 2 or any of the Liszt transcendental etudes or his Snow Drift. Insane!
JDM 104 i find rachmaninoff's pieces in general to be pretty hard, because of how far apart the notes are. And yeah I find fast songs too difficult for me and I'm pretty ashamed of it myself. (Such as Chopin's revolutionary etude.) I've got a lot to work on.
reformed desire h
world heritage, she is bigger than herself, what and talent.
supreme eloquence.every voice in this complex narrative is carried with convincing clarity.
As I look at some of the, shall we say, less than complimentary comments here, I feel that most of the nit picky posts come from those who are convinced they know something real. Having been involved in music for nearly 60 years; both performing and enjoying all over the world countless performers, I will share that it is extremely rare for me to find an artist who is SO talented they move something deep inside me emotionally. It doesn't matter to me about their gender, the instrument, their nationality, or anything else. Yuja Wang MOVES me deeply. She excites me in her technique, interpretation, and approach. It astounds me that she's so young and gives me awesome pause imagining her abilities in the future.
I don't claim to be an expert or "highbrow," or anything of the sort. It doesn't matter to me if her instrument is flawless in every way or it isn't because it's utterly irrelevant. Her interpretations playing Chopin are incredible. They don't always fit MY views, but I will point out that everyone sees EVERYTHING differently - it's human nature. What most impresses me is that she doesn't PLAY her instrument, she EXPRESSES on it. I think she's incredibly amazing . . . PERIOD!
Many young players bring something fresh; challenging us all to be open minded and thankful a new generation is so motivated!
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If music as it is presented moves you that is a very personal experience. I had the privilege of seeing Ms Wang and found her playing an amazing experience, something I will never forget. For those that have the ability to feel the music in their soul it is a living thing that no other stimuli can equal.
As young children in school we were so fortunate to have an amazing music teacher that taught us to appreciate great music. Even though most of us did not become musicians he instilled in us the desire to seek out styles that move us, what greater thing could a teacher accomplish, he changed our lives. I've sought out and witnessed amazing performances throughout my life in many places because of this man. Thank God for great teachers!
As an asian musician(violin) myself, I agree with your comment partly. No one can denied you were moved by Yuja's performance.
However, classical music is surely european culture. We have to respect about that. The composers like Mozart and Chopin requires certain study about their style which even european students has to learn. Yuja's Chopin wasn't in that manner. This performance lacked the essence of Chopin. The same reason I don't respect Hiraly Hahn's Mozart. There are so many reasons I can respect American education, but it's not perfect.
More specifically, I am not comfortable about her way of feeling the first beat and how to flow rest of the bar. Polish has own sense of rhythm which is so strong. It was big influences to the left hand part's artistry, and right hand part's musical flow in Chopin's work. Chopin used his polish background into the great piano works with his unique elegance. Thoughtful tone choices and articulation also requires to fit Chopin as the same case of Mozart.
I’d like to see and hear these “critiques” play this repertoire and make the world stage like Yuja has!
The coda was magnificent, bravo. The dynamics used is how I like to play a lot of classical pieces, with power, speed, and passion!
Amazing performance and interpretation on Chopin. Delicate sounds. Great pianist, I believe.
Well, I am not a critic but I love her playing. I can almost feel what she is feeling in her interpretations and her feel for the piece. That is a sign of a great pianist. Katia possesses this also.
Je n’ai jamais entendu une si belle interprétation (de cette ballade). Chopin serait content, je crois.
Yes is, I totally agree that Yuja plays this in an extraordinary way. She succeeds over some musical phrases better than any pianist I have heard play it. This is a sign of an extra-ordinary technique that few pianists have accomplished. In fact if Franz Liszt were here today, one might say she has stolen his shoes-and is wearing them. The blend of her technique and musicology is so fine! I have noticed this in only one other pianist, Martha Argerich. Robert C., Palm Desert CA.
More than others Ballade
she plays it differently like all players do. On the whole it's fantastically performed! And, I would buy a ticket if she came to my city.
You’d be lucky to OBTAIN a ticket today! She sells out concerts almost as fast as when the tickets go on sale!
And this was is pretty damn brilliantly beautifully good by any standard
Nothing quite compares hearing the magnificent sound of chopan on a finely tuned grand piano, expertly played by a very talented pianist, Mis Yuja Wang...very enjoyable, thank you, ✌️
Rubenstein would have agreed with you and marvelled at her virtuosity. He would also have admired the confident expression of her femininity. Bravo
Amazingly wonderful! Such power, such beauty--absolutely heavenly!
I've been searching for this balad for years then I come across this young lady with sich a wise, sweet, excact performance. What can I say? Sheila, have a nice day!
Sent chills through my body. Theres NO WAY. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY GOLD.
I think most people knew the instant they heard Yuja play that they were witnessing greatness. For the lucky people at this very early recital by Yuja, I'm sure they were floored by what they heard. Thank heavens this recital was recorded so that now it is available for all to hear.
This is simply amazing!! Thank you Yuja
wow she takes my breath away, both listening to and watching her play!
you really bring heaven down to us..it is superbly beautiful.
les petits cochons ne l'ont pas mangée , sept ans après elle nous charme toujours les oreilles ....et les yeux ...merci madame wang .
She made this ballade her own! 👏👏👏👏👏
Having an Impressive Technique she focuses on interpretation so easily, everywhere... Very sensible interpretation, clear and with so many nuances!
Hats off, gentlemen, a graduation!
Это юность, это первая любовь...это то, что кружит голову, это радость, от которой хочется взлететь....искрящаяся жизнь.....это прошлое...это то, что осталось... Все это в звучащей музыке- спасибо, Юджа!!!
tears down,brilliant performance
I know this piece from a few decades ago. I've never heard it played like this but, at least on first listening, I quite like her interpretation. Plenty of energy and passion. Quite a girl, I'd say
Maravilloso
Plenty of banging and the notes are all over the place.
Was für eine super Begabung.Ich hab sie gerade mal wieder gegoogelt.
und schaue wieder mal ganz fassziniert zu
Würde sie auch gern mal im Konzert erleben.
Sie macht das mit einer Lockerheit .
Ich bewundere auch ihre gute Haltung!Da stimmt wirklich alles.
Do not compare. Just enjoy. She is into the music, plays nuances everyone could agree to as they follow gravity of movement, flowing through the body, through her hands, and through the heart. There is no best player. On the top, they must be different, or they would not breathe that thin air.. There is just this lady now, gifted to express, energetic and brillant..
That is about perfect as one can get. What a wonderful performance
Such powerful and intense execution... brava!
Absolutely GREATTTT...
Beautiful interpretation; such a talented young lady; compares with the best