My grandmother was a professional pianist, and the hallmark of a great pianist, for her, was having a delicate touch. Specifically, a delicate touch that creates a powerful sound. This woman can create the most sonorous sound by barely touching the keys. She is unequivocally one of the greats.
As a former piano teacher and mediocre pianist, I have to comment on one of the things that I think makes her so great - her perfect posture. This illustrates her core strength. She doesn't wallow around on the bench like a lot of other young pianists caught up in the drama of the performance. There is stillness at the center. She is a perfect combination of strength and brain.
Thank you for this. It is an excellent reminder. My father was a well-known clarinetist and teacher and whenever a student began waving their instrument around and dancing on the stage he would remind them that the music was the subject and their theatrics detracted from it. I am very disappointed that so many young musicians today feel the necessity to perform contortionist efforts while playing everything from Mozart to Stravinsky.
As a former terrible piano player who wasted a bunch of his parents' money on piano lessons, I have no idea why she is good. I just think her playing is groovy, man.
Cynthia Stribling Yes! Thank you! I can’t stand the overacting we see sometimes. Ashkenazy is another one for pure expression and interpretation without theatrics. His Chopin melts me. I was also admiring her arm strength. She is in great shape physically and musically.
When you play the piano at a certain level, it can become an out of body experience. this is the ultimate reward for me and can rarely be achieved. the feeling cannot be described. to do this with an orchestra must feel like the peak of human being -- even before applause and bravos...
Yes! I saw her say in an interview that when she plays it feels as though she had composed the music. It is so much a part of her that it IS her. The applause are nice, but not necessary.
I've watched, and re-watched, re-watched, and re-watched this video many times and the underwhelming response from the Chinese audience almost undermines the greatness of this performance by the orchestra, by the conductor and Yuja who put her personal best on the line. In Europe or America, they'd be cheering "Brava!" and leap to their feet, rather than just give polite applause. Still, I go back and listen and watch because they have achieved another level of excellence here seldom seen in a recording of such a complex concerto. A better response is the one she got in Europe, also on RUclips.
@@rogerlephoque3661 and your point is ? Are you talking about the quality of Rachmaninov's compositions? Because my comment refers to the quality of playing.
This is the marriage of two incredible geniuses, the iconic Rachmaninov the creator, the magnificient performer Yuja Wang, and set before one of the greatest orchestras of our age. I've heard and seen this concerto more times than I can remember and I believe I've reached the pinacle. The intermezzo here is so achingly beautiful one is taken on a magic carpet to another world, a better one than we have here and now.
I see you posted this a year ago. So articulate. And a perfect description. Unfortunately the world hasn’t improved. Just the opposite. But listening to Miss Wang does help. Enjoy.
Here is a pianist who genuinely loves what she does. No affectations, just doing her best for her audience and enjoying it. Such a prodigy ❤️ It isn’t surprising that all her life piano has been her passion and nobody had to ‘force’ her to practise. That was her genuine love.
For me she was always a wonderful performer of Chopin, but in recent years she has been showing that no challenge is too great for her. I agree that Yuja is going to be the best in the world.
@silverbud She forces you to nothing, you may not choose what you notice but you choose what you pay attention to. And it is clear that music is not what you choose
Yes, Yuja was already a wonderful Chopin exponent by age 14. However, it is worth remembering that Yuja was deemed a worthy replacement for Martha Argerich in a performance of this same concerto while still a student at Curtis aged just 20. Indeed, I believe by the time she left Curtis she was already one of the finest interpreters of the modern Russian composers, including the very best current exponent of Prokofiev.
In the soft passages, she has the whole orchestra mesmerized by her musicality - you can see in in their faces and their posture; they're so happy to arrive at the same moments together even when they're not playing. I believe she makes every orchestra play better - she listens and plays back to them.
I have come back three months later to cry while all the world is suffering the coronavirus attack to receive consolation of this outstanding performance with Yuja and Rachmaninov. Thank you once more for filling my mind with this incredible concerto. Thanks also to the wonderful orchestra and conductor Orozco-Estrada.
The Great Giant YUJA WANG!!! One of the most stunning performers in the XXI Century!!! A great conductor as Andrés Orozco Estrada! And a beautirful orchestral rendition by The Great Wiener Phil!!! WoW!!! Just Perfect!!!
What a blessing to be able to watch and listen to such a hugely talented, bright and beautiful young woman playing one of her favourite concertos. She brings me to tears.
It is one of the best interpretations ever made of this, perhaps Rachmaninoff's best writing. Here Yuja puts not only all his feeling and expertise but also his emotion. Nobody feels every movement like she does. His hands chase the giant's (32 cm high) and his lips accompany his brain in 1909 when he finished his writing. Yuja does it the same as when it was first performed at the Old Society of the New York Symphony Orchestra (now the New York Philharmonic) with Rachmaninov as soloist. The audience, and me among them, absolutely moved.
For me, this piano concert is one of the most beautiful ones ever created. I think that Yuja also shares that perception. Therefore, her behavior and superb achievement become so strongly enjoyable. It is seen on her throughout the appearance how she herself enjoys the music she plays. It makes her achievement to an emotionally strong experience.
Just heard - for about the 100th time - the full performance of this magnificent piano concerto. about 44 minutes long, 2643 seconds to be precise. Every second was enjoyable. Its now official, this is my lifetime favorite piece of music. Delighted to learn it was also among the top eight in Arthur C Clarke`s `Desert Island Disc` list.
I cried listening to this, reflecting also on my own mom going through her cancer regimen. She’s resilient. Thank you for posting! The music is difficult, but my tears flowed as I saw this iconic performance by somewhat as everyone is echoing here in the comments, the “greatest” Piano player in the World. Tackling a Rach 3 is like going to a Super Bowl Championship ten to one thousand times in a row, and winning everytime!
Yuja Wang is always delivering the most beautifull and passionate music, regardless who is the composer!! This Rach 3, known as the Mount Everest of all the piano concerts, shows her great talent, her passion and also her class in wearing that nice and elegant red dress!!Bravissima and bellissima Yuja!!
There are so many good things to say about this concert. For one, the piece itself is a marriage of traditional Russian lyricism and high emotion with some of the more abstract , almost atonal features of the twentieth-century idiom (for example, just before and after the ten-minute mark). Yuja can bring this synthesis out fully because, above and beyond her ridiculous technique, she is always aware of the large structures, "telling the story", so to speak. There may be no particular benefit in comparing her to other incredible pianists past and present; what is clear, in comparing her to her own younger self, is that she is growing very fast as an artist. At times in the past she seemed to be simply letting her flying fingers speak for her, while here she is altogether possessed by the passions of the work. What next?
Ridiculous Technique? Yes, that's really one can ook away from this very shallow uninteresting performance. Anyone interested in great women pianists should know Gina Bachauer Here is a real performance with deep tone and feeling, a true legato line and wonderful musical imagination that Ms. Wang does not have at her very fleet and accurate finger tip: ruclips.net/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/видео.html
@@bostonviewer5430 What makes you think it’s “uninteresting?” Is it because it’s executed so perfectly? That’s the great fallacy of classical music- that you choose great technique or emotional depth and only get one. I believe this performance shows Yuja has both (just look at the last two minutes of the third movement).
@@willyj3321 Hi there Willy. Thanks for your comment. I'm glad to have the opportunity to point out I never said that technique and emotional depth are mutually exclusive and if I did you are right on that; one can get both. I will, however, point out two things about Ms. Wang that her keyboard technique while quite quick and fluid is not big enough to properly perform this concerto . WHAT WHAT you say? I assume you are capable of reading a score so I suggest you do and you will discover she, at the most challenging moments, simplifies the bigger choral passages to make it through. The other technical issue is that when heard live you realize conductors do have to keep the orchestra down somewhat for her and that the sound she produces without the advantage of amplification is never sufficient to do full justice to this monumental work. I have heard her live. Have you? I offer you several performances right here on RUclips by pianists who do have the big technique and heart and though the sound of the recording may not please you they are closer the Russian school and how Rachmaninoff played. She is a lovely artist but I think your last comment: "(just look at the last two minutes of the third movement)" may prove my point: You're LOOKING not listening!! I've been listening to classical music for the better part of my 70 years and have known and loved this concerto since I was in High School and have heard many times in live performances. She is a very attractive young lady quite musical but if she were not so photogenic I'm not sure she would have this sort of career. Listen and if you don't agree at least you may hear how else this piece could be performed and that is always a pleasure musically to hear other points of view. And btw... I think she's a good pianist just not up to this piece. ruclips.net/video/opnwQ_re6Us/видео.html Gieseking/Mengelberg/Concertgebouw, 1940 ruclips.net/video/QZNfCiIlVok/видео.html Van Cliburn Kirill Kondrashin, conductor 1958 ruclips.net/video/aFkAwFDZGHk/видео.html Yefim Bronfman Valery Gergiev
What a superb performance. I have heard Horowitz and Rubenstein but Yuja Wang is the best. As a former piano teacher and accomplished pianist, I appreciate the difficulties of this piece.
Thanks to all of the patrons of, in this case especially, the classical music arts. Mastery of great Western music is still considered a worthy endeavor and produces artists like Yuga Wang for all of us to appreciate. Watching this recording on a large screen at home, with wonderfully clear video and high-fidelity sound, as well as various camera views and close-ups of the performers--I have better views than I could ever have by spending a great deal of money to be present there. In this case, today, I am just astounded by this video recording of the Rach 3 Piano Concerto. Wow!
I couldn't agree with you more. Only to your mentioning The Mastery of great Western music, I would like to add a note. As an explanation, one of my idols, was, more or less my neighbour, just up the road where he lived in Bertram villa, ( if I was born 35 years earlier, ha, ha.). In spite of being the head of a conservatory of music in New York, it did not make him a Western music composer. I am talking about Antonín Dvořák. Also, in my humble opinion, It would be unreasonable to create a division, between other, including Eastern origins of music, and the Western type. I heard some nice compositions of Chinese and Japanese composers. Not to forget all the Russian giant of music. Too many to mention. I love Rachmaninoff, but I love them all. They are not Western. And, by the way, regarding Japanese, I drive a Honda. Ha.ha. I know, my friend, that you did not mean to polarize the West against the East, in music, and you meant it as an expression as a music lover. As I wrote above, there are Chinese angels, in spite of being an atheist, Yuja is the Goddess.
Sublime? Really? is that what your heard in this very shallow uninteresting performance. Anyone interested in great women pianists should know Gina Bachauer Here is a real performance with deep tone and feeling, a true legato line and wonderful musical imagination that Ms. Wang does not have at her very fleet and accurate finger tip: ruclips.net/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/видео.html
@@bostonviewer5430 I have to give you a thumbs down. Nothing against Gina Bachauer, You have been grossly unfair to Ms Wang. She is very talented. To say what you have said is most unkind. The performance was anything but "shallow and uninteresting."" A beautiful performance.
My goodness....another amazing performance by an incredible performer.... In the last minute of the masterwork you can't really see her hands as they seem to be powered by rocket fuel! What a gift to the musical world! What a gift to the world!
Stunning beauty playing just perfectly, i watched and listen to this video a thousand times, and every time i hear and see the perfect fingering technique, the inmaculate sound dynamics of one of the most complex pieces ever written. She is a Piano Godess, and that dress, she is a heartbreaker. Thank you Yuja , you make great music and show.
I love this concerto so much. I hear something new every time I listen to it. One of my most recent discoveries: listen to how the flute plays a Bb with the half-note chord played by the piano at 42:34, and notice how well it adds to the tension of these chords that just pulls at your heartstrings. I would never think of putting a Bb there, but Rachmaninoff did!
You've got a pretty sharp ear, Willy because I cannot hear that B-flat you speak of and I'm a pianist who used to play parts of this concerto way back when. But I checked the conductor's score and indeed the flute plays a sustained B-flat sitting atop a G in the other flute. Well-done.
To hear this piece and watch Miss Wang play from somewhere deep within her heart, obviously, is spellbounding. Rachmaninov would be elated at this compassionate, romantic and genius interpretation. I’ve loved Rachmaninov for 7 decades and heard brilliant performances but it’s only my opinion that Miss Wang is perhaps the most gifted. To watch her face and hands Is astonishing. Thank you Mr Chen for giving us this stellar once in a lifetime treasure.
Amazing rendition of this concerto. I saw Olga Kern live in Dresden some years back and hers was equally as powerful. As hard as it is for me to imagine what it takes to play this piece, I cannot fathom the genius that is Rachmaninoff that engendered its creation in the first place.
I just went to yuja’s concert two weeks ago in Orlando, she played the same piece. She is amazing no doubt, if you feel the recording is no good please see her concert in person.
I was lucky enough to attend the Prom in 2021. As great as it was, the close-ups, the band, Yuja's hands and expressions do add an extra joy to this performance. Not for the first time, I find so much beauty Sergio wrote, and the whole ensemble gave us almost hurt... No thanks are enough.
Great pianist of the Century? Well maybe the 21 though that can't be true with the likes of Uchida and Argerich still playing is that really all you took away from this very shallow uninteresting performance. Anyone interested in great women pianists should know Gina Bachauer Here is a real performance with deep tone and feeling, a true legato line and wonderful musical imagination that Ms. Wang does not have at her very fleet and accurate finger tip: ruclips.net/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/видео.html
It’s like she’s dusting off the cobwebs accumulated over centuries whenever she sits down at the piano and brings the music into the present moment. Amazing pianist. She makes me feel things I don’t normally feel. Like I want to laugh and cry at the same time when she plays.
She's definitely my favorite pianist, and she's improving more and more.
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Breathtaking performance, very controlled and yet played with passion. Also a brilliant performance by this top symphony orchestra with top musicians in all sections.
It lasts five times of hearing this interpretation to get a clue of it's total uniquiness. She turns upside down from stomping elephants to being deeply in love with the universe. And the conductor leads the orchestra in exactly the same way so they got a perfect match. A milestone for eternity!
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Absolutely enchanting. There are those days that are destinated for great things to happen. This was clearly one of them. An orchestra in great shape, a very good image and sound recording, but above all the genius of Yuja who sets the standard here. Touchingly beautiful!
Spectacular performance !!! The Finale, ... from 38:00 thru 44:55 ... surpasses every piano concerto performance I've seen in 50+ years. Loved seeing her "feel" the ecstasy of the music. Yuja graciously brings an exquisite passion and flawless intensity to Rach's No. 3.
What an exquisite performance! She's having so much fun you get the feeling she's just toying Rach 3. That's how extraordinary talented she is. Definitely there is a God!
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 *(1909)* 00:16 I. Allegro ma non tanto 03:06 *Moderato* 03:50 *[5] a tempo* 07:19 *Tempo I* 10:55 *Allegro molto* _[cadenza begins]_ 12:45 *[19] Meno mosso* _[cadenza_ _ends]_ 15:52 *Tempo I* 17:33 II. Intermezzo: Adagio 20:07 *Più mosso* _[piano entrance]_ 20:26 *a tempo* 22:38 *Più vivo* 25:52 *poco più mosso* _[waltz section]_ 28:39 *end of Mvt. 2 & attacca* *subito Mvt. 3* 29:02 III. Finale: Alla breve 30:20 *più mosso* 32:13 *[48] Scherzando* 34:05 *[52] Meno mosso* 35:54 *[55] Lento molto espressivo* 38:13 *[59] Tempo I. Alla breve* 39:39 *Più mosso* 41:54 *[74] Vivacissimo* *43:46** Applause* Yuja Wang, piano✨ Vienna Philharmonic Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor *Macau Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium* *Macau, China, October 21, 2019*
Yuja Wang as usual .. Outstanding! She Will be remembered Forever! Such discipline and those Gifted Hands. And besides, She's So Beautiful!!! God give us Yuja's to reach heaven on earth!
Yuja is to the piano what Hilary Hahn is to the violin. GOD blessed the woman above men in performance, while the men gave them the voice they deserve.
Quelle merveille de voir et entendre une telle musique si bien interprétée, une pianiste qui vous fait rêver à voir et entendre, de l’art que tout cela, rien d’autre à vrai dire. Tout cela adoucit la rudesse de l’existence qui devient de plus en plus brutale et destructive. Ainsi le 21e siècle nous apporte certaines merveilles, elles sont rares mais de très haute qualité comme celle que nous voyons ici, bravo.
Many comments here are treating this RUclips like playing CDs. This is a recording of a live performance - therefore the most important aspect should be what impression the audience went away with, how the audience felt with their ears, eyes, muscles, brains, minds and souls (the last 2 are not organs). The artist may have chosen to perform differently from their (and/or the others') previous recordings or previous life performances because of their musical life-experience. And on the day, many factors can affect the performance of over 50 people, the soloist, the conductor, the musicians in the orchestra. Music is probably the most universal language of mankind. The scientific theory of music system and the music score system are universal. One can see different people round the world interpret the same piece of music similarly but also differently, just like the accent of a language and dialect within a country or a region. What is my point? A live performance is unique and not repeatable. It is direct sounds from instruments to audience. Just enjoy it as a piece of history of art performing. A CD is to be played and replayed at someone's discretion. Thanks to RUclips, the live performance can now be enjoyed by many more people around the world who were not part of the audience. Still, we should enjoy the live performance in RUclips with a mind-set as if we were in the audience. Any classical music artists who can attract audience to live-performance are good artists. For those who consistently selling out tickets are exceptional artists. For myself, going to a concert largely depends on the program, and then musicians (soloist, conductor, ..). If Yuja performs near where I live, I will not hesitate to go regardless of her concert program. But I cannot afford the money nor the time to catch her concerts far away from where I live.
I love how your just spitting straight facts😂 honestly I just love to enjoy her playing. I would not have come here if it wasn't for her. If I was going to treat it like a CD I would go to a generic video with no actual video but just audio and a picture of Rachmaninoff. But as I was going to say, thanks for bringing light to this!
Yeah I've done plenty of live solo and ensemble concerts on the professional level. What is important about those is that the "language" aspect of music be center-stage. I constantly think, "my version of this piece, appropriate to my mental state/mood today." And I practice that every day in the practice room. Similar to a spoken language....I may say the same sentence completely different tomorrow, than I would today. I've never been in a studio to record a CD, but I would imagine that studio time is far different. I certainly prefer live performances to CDs. No one -- not even someone like Yuja or Sarah Chang -- plays as perfectly as CDs sound...b/c no one's perfect lol :) The only factor that I disagree on is money/full seats = good musicianship. Look at the pop world, lol. However, there are more cases in the classical and jazz worlds where that's accurate. But I've met and played w/ plenty of exceptional musicians who don't attract a large crowd. I feel that it's more accurate to say that popular = money and filled seats. I don't feel that the majority of Americans really appreciate great musicianship. America largely wants to have fun. IMO there aren't as many people who want to be be enriched mentally/emotionally by the very complicated language of music. I imagine that it's different in other countries (?), as many of my former classmates have moved to other countries to find FT work. Not trying to be mean, just sharing :)
When Rachmaninoff was performing as a guest with an orchestra live, and it was simultaneously being broadcast on the radio, he insisted that the radio station play one of his recordings instead of the live broadcast. If the listeners hadn't bothered to buy a ticket to be present at the concert hall while he was performing, then why should they sit at home and listen to the performance free? His performance was for the ears of his audience and for nobody else.
Thank you for uploading this concert with my (again) favorite pianist. It's true, this piece of Rachmaninov seems to be new. In an interview she explained her way she is conducting herself in concerts. She is always trying to find something exciting for for herself in that and that's the public is being a witness auf her discoveries. Otherwise it would be too boring to her. What a way to perform!
Yuja ! mon dieu ! Quelle performance , quelle présence. Une facilité déconcertante, en fusion avec l'œuvre. Ses mains volent sur le clavier. Le final est époustouflant de physique et d'immersion. On voit la sueur tomber en gouttes sur sa robe, ses vêtements collés à son corps quand elle se lève. Merci Madame Yuja Wang.
Considering this performer's youth, it stretches the mind to consider what possible refinements and further investigations will emerge as she matures. Humans have so much potential, and experiences and reflection will surely continue to add vistas unguessed to her interpretations.
Just amazing in every way. I have heard this concerto played by dozens of pianists and orchestras. THIS performance, which by some measure is more gentle than most others, is, nevertheless superb technically as well as artistically. No value at all in comparison to others or offering “personal insights” into the interpretation here. What we have here is just a performance by pianist and orchestra that is simply a thing of enormous beauty.
I have been in awe of this piece ever since I saw the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra play it with Conrad Taos in Little Rock, AR. I was moved to tears when hearing it in person. However, I love watching Yuja Wang play the piano. Her hands just float over the piano keys and we all are amazed that the human brain can memorize this difficult piece and that her strong mind and body can demonstrate it! Good job! This conductor and orchestra did well too!!! Bravo!!!
These people are born to prove to us that the impossible is possible. This pianist understood her mission. It is at the top layer of humanity. The love that creates emotion.
Perfect composition. Perfect recitation. Such is the majesty of Her performance, I have lost my gift of phrase. Forever, this moment will be embedded in my Mind.
I've enjoyed Ms Wang playing this in several different videos and this is by far my favorite. Her terrifying pace and precision are, as ever, in full view, but there is also a newer, more meltingly tender approach to certain passages that I really love. The Utterly Fabulous Ms Wang, there truly is no one like her! I hasten to add the orchestra and director are on song as well.
First time I have heard Rach 3 so magical. Until now, it was just garbled, mad and wondered what kind of drug Rachmaninov was on. Yuma and Wiener had exceeded the notion of perfection. Never slipped away. Absorbed, intense concentration but such sensitive touch and clarity. Rare moments when performance like this happens. Damn, I want to see it live.
The entire orchestra is reading music, but she is not! It's quite impressive to be able to remember every note from the original score. This beautiful woman is devoted to her craft and must practice many hours a day. Her dynamics playing between her fingers and use of the foot pedals is so alive. I'm in love with her quiet emotional fire that burns and makes her and the piano one instrument. And, damn, she is so pretty and sexy. A joy for me.
Concert soloists almost *never* read music when performing, especially a piece like this. If a soloist hasn't completely memorized the piece then they have definitely not thought deeply about it or developed and practiced their own interpretation.
Ho ascoltato attentamente le sue esecuzioni, non sbaglia una nota e con una velocità di esecuzione impressionante, senza esitazioni. Talento naturale?, si; Ragazza Prodigio?,Si. Ma ricordare sempre che questi Grandissimi risultati si ottengono con la passione, il sacrificio , la dedizione , la perseveranza. Vedere le sue mani danzare sulla tastiera, le sue dita toccare, sfiorare i tasti con grazia e vigore unico, con la consapevolezza di chi ha passato migliaia di ore a studiare le note. Ascoltarti e vederti mi fà sentire più leggero, ammirato da tanta bellezza e mi distrae , mi porta in un altro mondo. Con mia grande Ammirazione, spero di essere presente ai tuoi prossimi concerti in Italia. Claudio Zucconi.
Once more one comes, with pleasure for spiritual renewal, total caressing of our senses, and thanks that Rachmaninov was, and Yuja is, to join scaling this mountain of human artistic achievement. I'm still stunned, this can be. On a different note, wishing some refrain publicizing their personal problems with womanly sensuality after all these years. Sad...
I'm amazed that at the very beginning of the piece, she doesn't have a single nervous twitch in her fingers. To me, that's just as amazing as her playing of the whole concerto.
This performance beats every other performance of this work I know of - it's simply the most passionate and convincing account of this work. It's not only the best Rachmaninoff 3, but one of the best performances of any piano concertos. Somehow, the Macau audience did not respond to the great performance with any degree of passion. Maybe they don't really care. For me, if I have to criticize her for this video, it would be her makeup which almost turns her into a Peking Opera singer. The VPO is in good shape, but it's regrettable that they have abandoned the natural horn for the vaulted ones.
I thought she challenged the late great Rubenstein in his hitherto supreme rendition of Chopin (I've listened to most of her concerts on RUclips). Still, here we have her mounting a similar challenge to the late, equally great Horowitz and his association with Rachmaninov. On balance, I think this is far less of a challenge to Horowitz's masterful capture of Rachmaninov. Furthermore, Rubenstein never matched Horowitz vis-a-vis Rachmaninov and, likewise, Horowitz vis-a-vis Chopin. Undoubtedly she remains a very great pianist, a virtuoso talent who has arrived, is with us now and will be for many years to come. Bravo!
She positively takes my breath away ... what an incredibly gifted pianist! We watched her in the Vienna concert (can't remember date that was on PBS) and then accessed it several times from On Demand. Yuja Wang surrounds us with both healing and joy during these "distancing" times.
We all know that the Classical music on XXI Century will be remebered for some Ladies as YUJA WANG! She's a GREAT GREAT Musician! I Love every single rendition on her hands!!! Long Life to YUJA! Bravo YUJA WANG!!!
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She doesn’t grandstand, swoon, or make dramatic facial expressions. She has fun and she plays. She just loves the music.
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She becomes one with the piano.
I love her facial expressions while she’s playing and how deeply she’s into the music.
@@Wilkins_Micawberand music ❤
Pianists can't really control their face so you shouldn't make fun. I open my mouth half way and stick my tongue out of the left side of my mouth
Dont look/listen more than once unless you want to get addicted. You have been warned!
Absolutely, I would even say : you have been wanged !
i think i'm gonna ignore that warning
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My grandmother was a professional pianist, and the hallmark of a great pianist, for her, was having a delicate touch. Specifically, a delicate touch that creates a powerful sound. This woman can create the most sonorous sound by barely touching the keys. She is unequivocally one of the greats.
She is the best in the world by now
As a former piano teacher and mediocre pianist, I have to comment on one of the things that I think makes her so great - her perfect posture. This illustrates her core strength. She doesn't wallow around on the bench like a lot of other young pianists caught up in the drama of the performance. There is stillness at the center. She is a perfect combination of strength and brain.
Interesting insight thanks
Thank you for this. It is an excellent reminder. My father was a well-known clarinetist and teacher and whenever a student began waving their instrument around and dancing on the stage he would remind them that the music was the subject and their theatrics detracted from it. I am very disappointed that so many young musicians today feel the necessity to perform contortionist efforts while playing everything from Mozart to Stravinsky.
As a former terrible piano player who wasted a bunch of his parents' money on piano lessons, I have no idea why she is good. I just think her playing is groovy, man.
Cynthia Stribling Yes! Thank you! I can’t stand the overacting we see sometimes. Ashkenazy is another one for pure expression and interpretation without theatrics. His Chopin melts me.
I was also admiring her arm strength. She is in great shape physically and musically.
Bravo!
stop hating on yuja’s fit and appreciate her virtuosity that she put into the piece…
Dizer o q dela.esta acima de tudo
Ela interpreta rak muito melhor q o compositor.chega ser estranho tal inter pretacao
.ela terá sangue russo.essa.angustia.essa esperança.
She's not just a pianist, a musician, she's got to be a gift to all music lovers.
A pianist that actually looks like she in enjoying herself whilst performing at the highest level of perfection
I heard her live two years ago. Like you say, enjoying while playing, in a way that is for me the most important thing and I love how she shows it.
@Timmy Tran alright
When you play the piano at a certain level, it can become an out of body experience.
this is the ultimate reward for me and can rarely be achieved.
the feeling cannot be described.
to do this with an orchestra must feel like the peak of human being -- even before applause and bravos...
Yes! I saw her say in an interview that when she plays it feels as though she had composed the music. It is so much a part of her that it IS her. The applause are nice, but not necessary.
I always believe concert pianists are who those beloved by God so they are so talented and can go to the place other 99.9% people on earth cannot go.
I've watched, and re-watched, re-watched, and re-watched this video many times and the underwhelming response from the Chinese audience almost undermines the greatness of this performance by the orchestra, by the conductor and Yuja who put her personal best on the line. In Europe or America, they'd be cheering "Brava!" and leap to their feet, rather than just give polite applause. Still, I go back and listen and watch because they have achieved another level of excellence here seldom seen in a recording of such a complex concerto. A better response is the one she got in Europe, also on RUclips.
Rachmaninov would be proud to hear his music played so incredibly.
I'm not sure I agree with you; on balance, Rachmaninov is still coupled with Horovitz and vice-versa.
@@rogerlephoque3661 and your point is ? Are you talking about the quality of Rachmaninov's compositions? Because my comment refers to the quality of playing.
This is the marriage of two incredible geniuses, the iconic Rachmaninov the creator, the magnificient performer Yuja Wang, and set before one of the greatest orchestras of our age. I've heard and seen this concerto more times than I can remember and I believe I've reached the pinacle. The intermezzo here is so achingly beautiful one is taken on a magic carpet to another world, a better one than we have here and now.
I see you posted this a year ago. So articulate. And a perfect description. Unfortunately the world hasn’t improved. Just the opposite. But listening to Miss Wang does help. Enjoy.
Here is a pianist who genuinely loves what she does. No affectations, just doing her best for her audience and enjoying it. Such a prodigy ❤️ It isn’t surprising that all her life piano has been her passion and nobody had to ‘force’ her to practise. That was her genuine love.
She is absolutely brilliant and it is a real pleasure to watch her playing. I honestly feel that she is the most exciting living pianist now.
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YUJA WANG!!! One of the most talented performers in this XXI Century!!! She will be remembered always for her renditions!!! I Love Yuja!!!
EXACTLY what Rachmaninoff tried to express when he wrote the concerto. He would be smiling with great delight if he were able to hear her~!
For me she was always a wonderful performer of Chopin, but in recent years she has been showing that no challenge is too great for her. I agree that Yuja is going to be the best in the world.
Ella no respira Aspira Musica y exhala Diva masterpiece
@silverbud Please. Admire Ms. Wang for her talent and keep the sexist stuff out of the discussion. Thank you.
@silverbud She forces you to nothing, you may not choose what you notice but you choose what you pay attention to. And it is clear that music is not what you choose
yuja wang is pretty good but you are delusional if you think she will be the best in the world
Yes, Yuja was already a wonderful Chopin exponent by age 14. However, it is worth remembering that Yuja was deemed a worthy replacement for Martha Argerich in a performance of this same concerto while still a student at Curtis aged just 20. Indeed, I believe by the time she left Curtis she was already one of the finest interpreters of the modern Russian composers, including the very best current exponent of Prokofiev.
Yuja Wang is simply a piano genius, the great pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff would be in awe to hear her!!!❤
In the soft passages, she has the whole orchestra mesmerized by her musicality - you can see in in their faces and their posture; they're so happy to arrive at the same moments together even when they're not playing. I believe she makes every orchestra play better - she listens and plays back to them.
I have come back three months later to cry while all the world is suffering the coronavirus attack to receive consolation of this outstanding performance with Yuja and Rachmaninov. Thank you once more for filling my mind with this incredible concerto. Thanks also to the wonderful orchestra and conductor Orozco-Estrada.
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My favorite concerto performed by my favorite musician. If I could only watch one video the rest of my life, it would be this one!
The Great Giant YUJA WANG!!! One of the most stunning performers in the XXI Century!!! A great conductor as Andrés Orozco Estrada! And a beautirful orchestral rendition by The Great Wiener Phil!!! WoW!!! Just Perfect!!!
What a blessing to be able to watch and listen to such a hugely talented, bright and beautiful young woman playing one of her favourite concertos. She brings me to tears.
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It is one of the best interpretations ever made of this, perhaps Rachmaninoff's best writing. Here Yuja puts not only all his feeling and expertise but also his emotion. Nobody feels every movement like she does. His hands chase the giant's (32 cm high) and his lips accompany his brain in 1909 when he finished his writing. Yuja does it the same as when it was first performed at the Old Society of the New York Symphony Orchestra (now the New York Philharmonic) with Rachmaninov as soloist. The audience, and me among them, absolutely moved.
She's wonderful. She knows how to make a Steinway Concert Grand sing with a voice that Steinway intended.
For me, this piano concert is one of the most beautiful ones ever created. I think that Yuja also shares that perception. Therefore, her behavior and superb achievement become so strongly enjoyable. It is seen on her throughout the appearance how she herself enjoys the music she plays. It makes her achievement to an emotionally strong experience.
BREATHTAKING PERFORMANCE, WHERE SHE GATHERS ALL HER STRENGTH TO PERFORM THIS WIZARDRY TO THE POWERFUL AND EMOTIONAL END. MOST BEAUTIFUL.
She's extraordinary!!! Whit so sensitivity, feeling, musicality and talent!!! I love Yuja Wang. ♥️🌼🌹🍀🌟
王羽佳音色的颗粒性是全世界钢琴家里最好的，轻快跳跃，干脆利落的触键，也让她的弹奏有很高的辨识度。一首诗句形容：嘈嘈切切错杂弹，大珠小珠落玉盘。
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Yuja Wang never fails to impress us. What power and intensity! What a performance!
O goddess of the keys, with her bestowals of strength, speed, softness, delicacy, and emotional appropriation! So wonderfully amazing!
I so agree!
Just heard - for about the 100th time - the full performance of this magnificent piano concerto. about 44 minutes long, 2643 seconds to be precise. Every second was enjoyable. Its now official, this is my lifetime favorite piece of music. Delighted to learn it was also among the top eight in Arthur C Clarke`s `Desert Island Disc` list.
I cried listening to this, reflecting also on my own mom going through her cancer regimen. She’s resilient. Thank you for posting! The music is difficult, but my tears flowed as I saw this iconic performance by somewhat as everyone is echoing here in the comments, the “greatest” Piano player in the World. Tackling a Rach 3 is like going to a Super Bowl Championship ten to one thousand times in a row, and winning everytime!
The keyboard perfectly played, Yuja we can hear your heart and soul in this piece......Magnificent!
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Yuja Wang is always delivering the most beautifull and passionate music, regardless who is the composer!! This Rach 3, known as the Mount Everest of all the piano concerts, shows her great talent, her passion and also her class in wearing that nice and elegant red dress!!Bravissima and bellissima Yuja!!
There are so many good things to say about this concert. For one, the piece itself is a marriage of traditional Russian lyricism and high emotion with some of the more abstract , almost atonal features of the twentieth-century idiom (for example, just before and after the ten-minute mark). Yuja can bring this synthesis out fully because, above and beyond her ridiculous technique, she is always aware of the large structures, "telling the story", so to speak. There may be no particular benefit in comparing her to other incredible pianists past and present; what is clear, in comparing her to her own younger self, is that she is growing very fast as an artist. At times in the past she seemed to be simply letting her flying fingers speak for her, while here she is altogether possessed by the passions of the work. What next?
Ridiculous Technique? Yes, that's really one can ook away from this very shallow uninteresting performance.
Anyone interested in great women pianists should know Gina Bachauer Here is a real performance with deep tone and feeling, a true legato line and wonderful musical imagination that Ms. Wang does not have at her very fleet and accurate finger tip: ruclips.net/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/видео.html
@@bostonviewer5430 here we go again, another bloody expert . Critics are like eunuchs in a harem, they know how to do it but can't themselves!
@@bostonviewer5430 What makes you think it’s “uninteresting?” Is it because it’s executed so perfectly? That’s the great fallacy of classical music- that you choose great technique or emotional depth and only get one. I believe this performance shows Yuja has both (just look at the last two minutes of the third movement).
@@willyj3321 Hi there Willy. Thanks for your comment. I'm glad to have the opportunity to point out I never said that technique and emotional depth are mutually exclusive and if I did you are right on that; one can get both.
I will, however, point out two things about Ms. Wang that her keyboard technique while quite quick and fluid is not big enough to properly perform this concerto . WHAT WHAT you say? I assume you are capable of reading a score so I suggest you do and you will discover she, at the most challenging moments, simplifies the bigger choral passages to make it through. The other technical issue is that when heard live you realize conductors do have to keep the orchestra down somewhat for her and that the sound she produces without the advantage of amplification is never sufficient to do full justice to this monumental work. I have heard her live. Have you?
I offer you several performances right here on RUclips by pianists who do have the big technique and heart and though the sound of the recording may not please you they are closer the Russian school and how Rachmaninoff played.
She is a lovely artist but I think your last comment: "(just look at the last two minutes of the third movement)" may prove my point: You're LOOKING not listening!!
I've been listening to classical music for the better part of my 70 years and have known and loved this concerto since I was in High School and have heard many times in live performances.
She is a very attractive young lady quite musical but if she were not so photogenic I'm not sure she would have this sort of career.
Listen and if you don't agree at least you may hear how else this piece could be performed and that is always a pleasure musically to hear other points of view. And btw... I think she's a good pianist just not up to this piece.
ruclips.net/video/opnwQ_re6Us/видео.html Gieseking/Mengelberg/Concertgebouw, 1940
ruclips.net/video/QZNfCiIlVok/видео.html Van Cliburn Kirill Kondrashin, conductor 1958
ruclips.net/video/aFkAwFDZGHk/видео.html Yefim Bronfman Valery Gergiev
@@bostonviewer5430 I love Yuja Wang and I've seen her live but I must say Ashkenazy is still my fav for Rach concertos!
The more I listen to her the more I like her ...and love her outfits!👏😀
She's really pretty and has great posture! It adds flair to the stage and not only that but she plays amazing! I hope to one day play like that😁
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What a superb performance. I have heard Horowitz and Rubenstein but Yuja Wang is the best. As a former piano teacher and accomplished pianist, I appreciate the difficulties of this piece.
She's simply fantastic.
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Indeed,she is simply fantastic!!!!!thanks a lot for ur uploading this concert held in China !!!!!!!!!
Yes she is!
Thanks to all of the patrons of, in this case especially, the classical music arts. Mastery of great Western music is still considered a worthy endeavor and produces artists like Yuga Wang for all of us to appreciate. Watching this recording on a large screen at home, with wonderfully clear video and high-fidelity sound, as well as various camera views and close-ups of the performers--I have better views than I could ever have by spending a great deal of money to be present there. In this case, today, I am just astounded by this video recording of the Rach 3 Piano Concerto. Wow!
I couldn't agree with you more. Only to your mentioning The Mastery of great Western music, I would like to add a note. As an explanation, one of my idols, was, more or less my neighbour, just up the road where he lived in Bertram villa, ( if I was born 35 years earlier, ha, ha.). In spite of being the head of a conservatory of music in New York, it did not make him a Western music composer. I am talking about Antonín Dvořák. Also, in my humble opinion, It would be unreasonable to create a division, between other, including Eastern origins of music, and the Western type. I heard some nice compositions of Chinese and Japanese composers. Not to forget all the Russian giant of music. Too many to mention. I love Rachmaninoff, but I love them all. They are not Western. And, by the way, regarding Japanese, I drive a Honda. Ha.ha. I know, my friend, that you did not mean to polarize the West against the East, in music, and you meant it as an expression as a music lover. As I wrote above, there are Chinese angels, in spite of being an atheist, Yuja is the Goddess.
Absolutely sublime, her mastery of the Rach 3 clearly places her among the legends. Thank you, it was amazing to see this.
Sublime? Really?
is that what your heard in this very shallow uninteresting performance.
Anyone interested in great women pianists should know Gina Bachauer Here is a real performance with deep tone and feeling, a true legato line and wonderful musical imagination that Ms. Wang does not have at her very fleet and accurate finger tip: ruclips.net/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/видео.html
@@bostonviewer5430 I have to give you a thumbs down. Nothing against Gina Bachauer, You have been grossly unfair to Ms Wang. She is very talented. To say what you have said is most unkind. The performance was anything but "shallow and uninteresting."" A beautiful performance.
Pure magic! The perfect combination for Rachmaninov's glorious masterpiece: Pianist, Orchestra and superb Maestro! Bravo Bravo.
I love Yuja Wang! She is a virtuosa! I love her playing, and her clothes! An absolute revolutionary in the classical world!
@@beckerhanshermann8372 You're truly a sad, sad man.
My goodness....another amazing performance by an incredible performer.... In the last minute of the masterwork you can't really see her hands as they seem to be powered by rocket fuel! What a gift to the musical world! What a gift to the world!
Stunning beauty playing just perfectly, i watched and listen to this video a thousand times, and every time i hear and see the perfect fingering technique, the inmaculate sound dynamics of one of the most complex pieces ever written. She is a Piano Godess, and that dress, she is a heartbreaker.
Thank you Yuja , you make great music and show.
I love this concerto so much. I hear something new every time I listen to it. One of my most recent discoveries: listen to how the flute plays a Bb with the half-note chord played by the piano at 42:34, and notice how well it adds to the tension of these chords that just pulls at your heartstrings. I would never think of putting a Bb there, but Rachmaninoff did!
You've got a pretty sharp ear, Willy because I cannot hear that B-flat you speak of and I'm a pianist who used to play parts of this concerto way back when. But I checked the conductor's score and indeed the flute plays a sustained B-flat sitting atop a G in the other flute. Well-done.
To hear this piece and watch Miss Wang play from somewhere deep within her heart, obviously, is spellbounding. Rachmaninov would be elated at this compassionate, romantic and genius interpretation. I’ve loved Rachmaninov for 7 decades and heard brilliant performances but it’s only my opinion that Miss Wang is perhaps the most gifted. To watch her face and hands Is astonishing. Thank you Mr Chen for giving us this stellar once in a lifetime treasure.
Amazing rendition of this concerto. I saw Olga Kern live in Dresden some years back and hers was equally as powerful. As hard as it is for me to imagine what it takes to play this piece, I cannot fathom the genius that is Rachmaninoff that engendered its creation in the first place.
Yuja Wang --- Mooi mens. Met ijzeren gestel, uitstekend geheugen. intellectueel onderlegd, flexibele geest, temperamentvol, bescheiden, geïnspireerd, vrolijk, uitdagend, diepzinnig, lief, toegewijd.
En bovenal : (leef)tijdloos muzikaal wonderkind.
I just went to yuja’s concert two weeks ago in Orlando, she played the same piece. She is amazing no doubt, if you feel the recording is no good please see her concert in person.
I was lucky enough to attend the Prom in 2021. As great as it was, the close-ups, the band, Yuja's hands and expressions do add an extra joy to this performance. Not for the first time, I find so much beauty Sergio wrote, and the whole ensemble gave us almost hurt... No thanks are enough.
She's just divine. And the orchestra sublime!
great performance again by Yuja!
don't dont be bothered by thumb down, there are 22 times more thumb up!
maybe the thumbs down are for the audience in the video who clearly don’t appreciate her
Great pianist of this century.
Great pianist of the Century? Well maybe the 21 though that can't be true with the likes of Uchida and Argerich still playing
is that really all you took away from this very shallow uninteresting performance.
Anyone interested in great women pianists should know Gina Bachauer Here is a real performance with deep tone and feeling, a true legato line and wonderful musical imagination that Ms. Wang does not have at her very fleet and accurate finger tip: ruclips.net/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/видео.html
The other one being Lugansky. And Fedorova is not far behind.
It’s like she’s dusting off the cobwebs accumulated over centuries whenever she sits down at the piano and brings the music into the present moment. Amazing pianist. She makes me feel things I don’t normally feel. Like I want to laugh and cry at the same time when she plays.
Yuja superb... The orchestra absolutely outstanding... An excellent conduction brings the magnificency.
The world is more interesting since this wonderful creature is here
She's definitely my favorite pianist, and she's improving more and more.
Breathtaking performance, very controlled and yet played with passion. Also a brilliant performance by this top symphony orchestra with top musicians in all sections.
It lasts five times of hearing this interpretation to get a clue of it's total uniquiness. She turns upside down from stomping elephants to being deeply in love with the universe. And the conductor leads the orchestra in exactly the same way so they got a perfect match. A milestone for eternity!
Absolutely enchanting. There are those days that are destinated for great things to happen. This was clearly one of them. An orchestra in great shape, a very good image and sound recording, but above all the genius of Yuja who sets the standard here. Touchingly beautiful!
All words fail to describe the beauty of her playing!!!
Spectacular performance !!!
The Finale, ... from 38:00 thru 44:55 ... surpasses every piano concerto performance I've seen in 50+ years. Loved seeing her "feel" the ecstasy of the music. Yuja graciously brings an exquisite passion and flawless intensity to Rach's No. 3.
I prefer kyrisyian zimmerman
What an exquisite performance! She's having so much fun you get the feeling she's just toying Rach 3. That's how extraordinary talented she is. Definitely there is a God!
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor,
Op. 30 *(1909)*
00:16 I. Allegro ma non tanto
03:06 *Moderato*
03:50 *[5] a tempo*
07:19 *Tempo I*
10:55 *Allegro molto* _[cadenza begins]_
12:45 *[19] Meno mosso* _[cadenza_
_ends]_
15:52 *Tempo I*
17:33 II. Intermezzo: Adagio
20:07 *Più mosso* _[piano entrance]_
20:26 *a tempo*
22:38 *Più vivo*
25:52 *poco più mosso* _[waltz section]_
28:39 *end of Mvt. 2 & attacca*
*subito Mvt. 3*
29:02 III. Finale: Alla breve
30:20 *più mosso*
32:13 *[48] Scherzando*
34:05 *[52] Meno mosso*
35:54 *[55] Lento molto espressivo*
38:13 *[59] Tempo I. Alla breve*
39:39 *Più mosso*
41:54 *[74] Vivacissimo*
*43:46** Applause*
Yuja Wang, piano✨
Vienna Philharmonic
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor
*Macau Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium*
*Macau, China, October 21, 2019*
THANK you !
Big thanks!
Yuja Wang as usual .. Outstanding! She Will be remembered Forever! Such discipline and those Gifted Hands. And besides, She's So Beautiful!!! God give us Yuja's to reach heaven on earth!
👍🌹👌🙏
Yuja is to the piano what Hilary Hahn is to the violin. GOD blessed the woman above men in performance, while the men gave them the voice they deserve.
Gary McAleer:
Can’t wait for them to perform and make recordings together! 😎🎹
Such a magnificent performer, such elegance, passion and power, and her style is impeccable
👏👍❤️🌹👌🙏
Quelle merveille de voir et entendre une telle musique si bien interprétée, une pianiste qui vous fait rêver à voir et entendre, de l’art que tout cela, rien d’autre à vrai dire. Tout cela adoucit la rudesse de l’existence qui devient de plus en plus brutale et destructive. Ainsi le 21e siècle nous apporte certaines merveilles, elles sont rares mais de très haute qualité comme celle que nous voyons ici, bravo.
Many comments here are treating this RUclips like playing CDs. This is a recording of a live performance - therefore the most important aspect should be what impression the audience went away with, how the audience felt with their ears, eyes, muscles, brains, minds and souls (the last 2 are not organs). The artist may have chosen to perform differently from their (and/or the others') previous recordings or previous life performances because of their musical life-experience. And on the day, many factors can affect the performance of over 50 people, the soloist, the conductor, the musicians in the orchestra.
Music is probably the most universal language of mankind. The scientific theory of music system and the music score system are universal. One can see different people round the world interpret the same piece of music similarly but also differently, just like the accent of a language and dialect within a country or a region.
What is my point? A live performance is unique and not repeatable. It is direct sounds from instruments to audience. Just enjoy it as a piece of history of art performing.
A CD is to be played and replayed at someone's discretion. Thanks to RUclips, the live performance can now be enjoyed by many more people around the world who were not part of the audience. Still, we should enjoy the live performance in RUclips with a mind-set as if we were in the audience.
Any classical music artists who can attract audience to live-performance are good artists. For those who consistently selling out tickets are exceptional artists. For myself, going to a concert largely depends on the program, and then musicians (soloist, conductor, ..). If Yuja performs near where I live, I will not hesitate to go regardless of her concert program. But I cannot afford the money nor the time to catch her concerts far away from where I live.
I love how your just spitting straight facts😂 honestly I just love to enjoy her playing. I would not have come here if it wasn't for her. If I was going to treat it like a CD I would go to a generic video with no actual video but just audio and a picture of Rachmaninoff. But as I was going to say, thanks for bringing light to this!
However, is there a CD recording or any high quality source of this concert?
@@gocc01 Forget about CDs my dear friend. Time has moved on. You can extract the MP3 out of the video.
Yeah I've done plenty of live solo and ensemble concerts on the professional level. What is important about those is that the "language" aspect of music be center-stage. I constantly think, "my version of this piece, appropriate to my mental state/mood today." And I practice that every day in the practice room. Similar to a spoken language....I may say the same sentence completely different tomorrow, than I would today. I've never been in a studio to record a CD, but I would imagine that studio time is far different. I certainly prefer live performances to CDs. No one -- not even someone like Yuja or Sarah Chang -- plays as perfectly as CDs sound...b/c no one's perfect lol :)
The only factor that I disagree on is money/full seats = good musicianship. Look at the pop world, lol. However, there are more cases in the classical and jazz worlds where that's accurate. But I've met and played w/ plenty of exceptional musicians who don't attract a large crowd. I feel that it's more accurate to say that popular = money and filled seats.
I don't feel that the majority of Americans really appreciate great musicianship. America largely wants to have fun. IMO there aren't as many people who want to be be enriched mentally/emotionally by the very complicated language of music. I imagine that it's different in other countries (?), as many of my former classmates have moved to other countries to find FT work. Not trying to be mean, just sharing :)
When Rachmaninoff was performing as a guest with an orchestra live, and it was simultaneously being broadcast on the radio, he insisted that the radio station play one of his recordings instead of the live broadcast. If the listeners hadn't bothered to buy a ticket to be present at the concert hall while he was performing, then why should they sit at home and listen to the performance free? His performance was for the ears of his audience and for nobody else.
Thank you for uploading this concert with my (again) favorite pianist. It's true, this piece of Rachmaninov seems to be new. In an interview she explained her way she is conducting herself in concerts. She is always trying to find something exciting for for herself in that and that's the public is being a witness auf her discoveries. Otherwise it would be too boring to her. What a way to perform!
Yuja ! mon dieu ! Quelle performance , quelle présence. Une facilité déconcertante, en fusion avec l'œuvre. Ses mains volent sur le clavier. Le final est époustouflant de physique et d'immersion. On voit la sueur tomber en gouttes sur sa robe, ses vêtements collés à son corps quand elle se lève. Merci Madame Yuja Wang.
Considering this performer's youth, it stretches the mind to consider what possible refinements and further investigations will emerge as she matures.
Humans have so much potential, and experiences and reflection will surely continue to add vistas unguessed to her interpretations.
Yuja such a powerful ending you brought me to tears……magnificence
She's wonderful, and shows so much emotion when playing this peice.
Just amazing in every way. I have heard this concerto played by dozens of pianists and orchestras. THIS performance, which by some measure is more gentle than most others, is, nevertheless superb technically as well as artistically. No value at all in comparison to others or offering “personal insights” into the interpretation here. What we have here is just a performance by pianist and orchestra that is simply a thing of enormous beauty.
I have been in awe of this piece ever since I saw the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra play it with Conrad Taos in Little Rock, AR. I was moved to tears when hearing it in person. However, I love watching Yuja Wang play the piano. Her hands just float over the piano keys and we all are amazed that the human brain can memorize this difficult piece and that her strong mind and body can demonstrate it! Good job! This conductor and orchestra did well too!!! Bravo!!!
she breathes music, outstanding passion.
These people are born to prove to us that the impossible is possible. This pianist understood her mission. It is at the top layer of humanity. The love that creates emotion.
Yuja also adds these nifty improvs not written into the original music......she slips them in so effortlessly that it's amazing.
Perfect composition. Perfect recitation. Such is the majesty of Her performance, I have lost my gift of phrase. Forever, this moment will be embedded in my Mind.
Brilliant! Magnificent! Great pianist! Great performance excellent interpretation....! Wonderful orchestra!
we... all has been already said .. She is simply the best... difficult to understand the poor reaction... was just magnificent! Chapo!
I've enjoyed Ms Wang playing this in several different videos and this is by far my favorite. Her terrifying pace and precision are, as ever, in full view, but there is also a newer, more meltingly tender approach to certain passages that I really love. The Utterly Fabulous Ms Wang, there truly is no one like her! I hasten to add the orchestra and director are on song as well.
Just watching her hands fly over the keyboard is so exciting it makes Anything she plays memorable.
The Mount Everest of piano concerto’s played flawlessly...
First time I have heard Rach 3 so magical. Until now, it was just garbled, mad and wondered what kind of drug Rachmaninov was on. Yuma and Wiener had exceeded the notion of perfection. Never slipped away. Absorbed, intense concentration but such sensitive touch and clarity. Rare moments when performance like this happens. Damn, I want to see it live.
You nailed it! Whatever Rach was on, just you nailed all my feelings in one comment thank you!
The entire orchestra is reading music, but she is not! It's quite impressive to be able to remember every note from the original score. This beautiful woman is devoted to her craft and must practice many hours a day. Her dynamics playing between her fingers and use of the foot pedals is so alive. I'm in love with her quiet emotional fire that burns and makes her and the piano one instrument. And, damn, she is so pretty and sexy. A joy for me.
Not sure I've ever seen any pianist perform this while reading music... memorizing the music is kind of the job.
Concert soloists almost *never* read music when performing, especially a piece like this. If a soloist hasn't completely memorized the piece then they have definitely not thought deeply about it or developed and practiced their own interpretation.
Ho ascoltato attentamente le sue esecuzioni, non sbaglia una nota e con una velocità di esecuzione impressionante, senza esitazioni. Talento naturale?, si; Ragazza Prodigio?,Si. Ma ricordare sempre che questi Grandissimi risultati si ottengono con la passione, il sacrificio , la dedizione , la perseveranza.
Vedere le sue mani danzare sulla tastiera, le sue dita toccare, sfiorare i tasti con grazia e vigore unico, con la consapevolezza di chi ha passato migliaia di ore a studiare le note.
Ascoltarti e vederti mi fà sentire più leggero, ammirato da tanta bellezza e mi distrae , mi porta in un altro mondo.
Con mia grande Ammirazione, spero di essere presente ai tuoi prossimi concerti in Italia. Claudio Zucconi.
Once more one comes, with pleasure for spiritual renewal, total caressing of our senses, and thanks that Rachmaninov was, and Yuja is, to join scaling this mountain of human artistic achievement. I'm still stunned, this can be.
On a different note, wishing some refrain publicizing their personal problems with womanly sensuality after all these years. Sad...
Divine is the only way to describe this lady on the piano.
Il concerto più romantico ed impetuoso, magistralmente interpretato da una pianista eccezionale!
Faultless performance & correct tempo throughout ! Bravo .
I'm amazed that at the very beginning of the piece, she doesn't have a single nervous twitch in her fingers. To me, that's just as amazing as her playing of the whole concerto.
This performance beats every other performance of this work I know of - it's simply the most passionate and convincing account of this work. It's not only the best Rachmaninoff 3, but one of the best performances of any piano concertos. Somehow, the Macau audience did not respond to the great performance with any degree of passion. Maybe they don't really care. For me, if I have to criticize her for this video, it would be her makeup which almost turns her into a Peking Opera singer. The VPO is in good shape, but it's regrettable that they have abandoned the natural horn for the vaulted ones.
I thought she challenged the late great Rubenstein in his hitherto supreme rendition of Chopin (I've listened to most of her concerts on RUclips). Still, here we have her mounting a similar challenge to the late, equally great Horowitz and his association with Rachmaninov. On balance, I think this is far less of a challenge to Horowitz's masterful capture of Rachmaninov. Furthermore, Rubenstein never matched Horowitz vis-a-vis Rachmaninov and, likewise, Horowitz vis-a-vis Chopin. Undoubtedly she remains a very great pianist, a virtuoso talent who has arrived, is with us now and will be for many years to come. Bravo!
I’m so excited! My orchestra is doing all four Rach piano concertos in January with Yuja. She is incredible!
where? when?
lucky
@Thecatspajamas891 is it the show at Lincoln Center? My wife and I will be attending the Jan 7th show! I am so excited!
thats so exciting omg i hope there'll be a recording since i cant see it live
I just saw her perform all four concertos in Orlando Jan the 14th and 15th. It was perfection and something I'll never forget!!!
Want to cry in this unsettling world.
The joy she gets while playing adds to this overall spectacular performance. She's totally amazing. I have no words that do justice to her playing.
She positively takes my breath away ... what an incredibly gifted pianist! We watched her in the Vienna concert (can't remember date that was on PBS) and then accessed it several times from On Demand. Yuja Wang surrounds us with both healing and joy during these "distancing" times.
This is so beautiful it makes me cry...
OMG!!! That was... truly... astounding. Some humans lift our spirits with passion and emotion. She surely did... Cheers!
Truly an inspired and inspiring rendition if a concerto masterpiece; none before to match this. A beacon for all future pianists to attempt to match
We all know that the Classical music on XXI Century will be remebered for some Ladies as YUJA WANG! She's a GREAT GREAT Musician! I Love every single rendition on her hands!!! Long Life to YUJA! Bravo YUJA WANG!!!