Yuja Wang's technique is impeccable and her execution unbelievable. She is a true pianist. She has matured so much as an artist and grown. She is constantly expanding her repertoire to the appreciation of her many fans. This is outstanding.
Un-be-LIEVABLE!!!! This woman is gifted beyond understanding. Her performances in 2030 (and beyone) will be of a level previously unknown - technique is not her gift. Her gift is music and ours is to hear her.
Yula Wang kann sich offenbar mehr als alle Pianisten bislang, soo in die Komposition hineinfühlen, dass man meint die Gefühle und Gedanken des Komponisten su erleben. Dankedanke!!
This performance is a masterpiece. She literally sang that 1st piece wuth her heart and not so much with her fingers. The last 2 pieces is standing ovations.
I am delighted at having discovered this lady, pure genius to me, having discovered her one day on U tube. My delight is being of fairly good health & a good age too I may well have another 5 - 7 years of bliss listening to her and graciously thank Yuja for the joy she has already given me and indeed the outstanding composers who have written their dynamic music for us all to enjoy not forgetting so much orchestral talent who present it to all classical music lovers. I hope I’ll also survive a few more BBC Proms. J Brian Morgan
She is, quite simply, amazing! The more I listen to her play the more impressed I am. She is something special, she interprets everything so well. Fantastic!
Yuja Wang Is the ultimate symbol of perfection in everything she does! Combining Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Brahms, and Beethoven, etc., they being equal would never reach the bar of precision and perfection that Yuja performs!
This is sheer poetry. Every single note is in the right place. Every single note says something. Virtuosity serving musicality. You have captured the depth and the unfettered passion of the romantic period like a true master, a true artist. Bravo!!!
Fascinating how she makes the music come alive in all its subtlety and charm. I can only envy her ability and intellect to understand the music and present it so beautifully. Thank you.
Yuga Wang's playing of Grethchen Am Spinrade is right on the exact emotional target as if she is actually singing. I had vocal lessons years ago from a vocal teacher In Claremont California who lent me a recording of a beautiful female voice this wonderful song and Yuga makes the piano sing it perfectly as I heard this female voice singing this beautiful song. She does this keeping the melody in perfect alignment with its best quality regardless of the rhythms and turmoil of the accompanying harmony. Breathtakingly beautiful! Robert C., Palm Desert, California.
It's hard to believe Liszt himself ever played it any better (same goes for her staggering performance of his B minor sonata). Absolutely superhuman genius. There is nothing she can't play, and play it with more originality and passion than anyone has ever heard before. She moves effortlessly from the tenderest pathos to stunning velocity and virtuosity that take the roof right off the concert hall. "Phenomenon" doesn't begin to do her justice. She's an incandescent miracle, and we're all very fortunate to have her among us. Bravissima, Yuja!
+Leigh Clark YUJA is the measure of all things in the entire world of classical pianists. Nobody can reach her incomprehensible technical perfection and her phenomenal expressiveness and stage presence.... nobody !!!
+Piano Man42 Most great concert viruosi have their standard repertoire memorized. But it's HOW Yuja memorizes it, and plays it and makes it entirely her own. That is beyond incredible, almost supernatural (as people once thought of Paganini's virtuosity).
+Catan de Lorca Well said. I was so lucky to see and hear her for five times live in concert - she's the greatest pianist since Liszt. AND I was so lucky to talk with her - absolutely sympathic nice person. Charme, Charisma and Intelligence!
I saw some comments about Yuja doing her own music. For sure she is one of the best, if not THE best interpreter I ever heard over the last decades, but doing music is another monster. I really think this musical gift comes at an early age, some playing, some composing, both together are very rare, and becoming a very successful composer when you go older after being a pianist like she is now, never heard about. Anyway, if she continues playing like this as an angel sent by God, I'll continue to admire her forever, but if she is going to write her own pieces, better to start now, Mozart, Liszt, Beethoven and many others were already exceptional many years younger than she does. Follow your heart Yuja !!!
Every now and then, I’d come back here to feel this magical Yuja moment of musical spirits, it never gets old or boring, like occasionally you look up at the night sky and you see the bright gleaming moon right there, elegant and quiet yet soothing and inspiring.
I’m not surprised that this is the best, most divine interpretation-everything she plays not only has the epitome of depth and consideration, but innumerable amounts of every factor needed. As a pianist, I always wonder if I can be like this, even though the answer is no; you bring the greatest inspiration into all of our lives, Miss Yuja Wang. Thank you so much for every piece you play.
I haven't watched and listened to this video in about a year now, but coming back reminds me of just how great these pieces are played by Yuja. Just magnificent music making!
🔺🔺 Yuja Wang in Recital 🔺🔺 🏔Verbier 2010🏔 Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Three Songs, *transcribed for piano solo by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)* 00:15 *Gretchen am Spinnrade* _Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel_ 03:53 *Auf dem Wasser zu singen* _To be Sung on the Water_ 08:01 *Erlkönig* _The Elf-King_ 12:18 *Applause* Yuja Wang, piano✨ *Verbier Festival* *Salle des Combins* *Verbier, Switzerland 🇨🇭 July 20, 2010*
Its not just her playing that is divine. She thinks deeply and deliberately about any and all pieces she plays. There is always more to any complex piece of music that its execution. Wang's performances are palpable. Its as if she is showing you the poetry, interpreting it and coloring it all at the same time without missing a beat! We are so very fortunate to live in an age when she is performing.
Bennett Markel She is so beautiful, face, hands, gown. She is a natural. This beautiful music is best heard by not looking at the performer, but who can resist?
the most beautiful 12 minutes of piano I've listened to. I must have held my breath umpteenth times in that duration, afraid of missing hearing any note. She just somehow seems to make every note sing!
@@norahdealmeida5847 No one glorifys her for the way she dresses...apparently you're the one who thinks it's a big deal...it's the 21st century not the middle ages
Everybody who likes her looks and fashion choices sometimes pass on one of her best physical features-the beauty and strength of her hands...displayed superbly om this video in these sensitively played pieces.
I completely agree. Her hands are what convey her virtuosity and innate musicality. But ultimately for me her greatest quality is her mind. She brings every piece to life with her interpretations. I don't think it will be long before Wang is considered one of (if not THE) greatest living pianist.
@@PaddyCharles90 Whatever she is considered, her pianism has brought joy and appreciation to classical music. Having known her a bit in NYC, I can also say she is a caring and giving person...
Lady Wang, You are the best! You make me cry - it's Your way to tell the story, forgetting about any difficulties of technics. You do all the music in the very natural way like Your appearance! You are a modern young Lady, and Your recordings sound exactly like this. Thank You very much! Juergen, an old german musician
I get chills and tingling in my body from head to toe when she plays the flight of the bumblebee and the Turkish march. She just sends me to a place that is heaven on earth because she is an angel from heaven. Her parents should be very proud of her. You just can't help falling in love with her.
What is amazing is how what Franz Liszt transcribed from a composer other than him - those pieces are the equal, if not better than what he wrote. Yujas playing of them is marvelous - how she makes the piano sing!
Sam and Sueli GOOD?? She's the best pianist of the last century, I like her playing even more than Rachmaninovs or Cziffra. If Yuja is a great pianist, Martha is the goddess of piano
She plays with subtleties of dynamics and sounds that remind me of an Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Decidedly, this young lady is the proof that we will always be able to discover new and original interpretations for works that we thought were already completed by the greatest pianists.
So this is a performance from five years ago. She was 25 here, now she's thirty. There's so much music that she has performed out in the last five years. So much catching up to do.
Amazing phenomenon! Erlkonig is probably the best performance of all the greats who have ever recorded it - most dramatic and free/expressive at the same time.
List who loved Schubert as a poet arranged more than 50 Leider, but it would also have the meaning of introducing Schubert's splendor in Austria and Paris. Yuja's playing Schubert's melody is beautiful, and Erlkonig that changed the original vivace to presto agitato, Yuja's transcendetnt virtuosity heightened the tension of the song.
I played at Carnegie Hall as the "Openning Act" for a Cencert Pianist who was going on to Play in National Competition🎼🎹🎵🎶❣❣I guest I've been very critical during many years that have past! Miss Wang is AMAZING🎵🎶🎵❣❣❣ She "Plays with the Passion, Emotion, Physical Relation to the MUSIC, PLUS BEAUTIFUL EMOTION TECHNIQUE, FINGERS, HANDS, HEART & FULL BODY BRINGS EVERY NOTE TO LIFE💞💖🎵🎵💖❣
Truly brilliant sound and appeal. As previously mentioned, I listen for the beauty of the sound. This is a feast of such beautiful sound. Thank you Miss. Wang, your skill is magnificent.
From when are these performances? Yuja's rendition of "Gretchen" always rips my heart out, but that "Erlkonig" is a very close second. Can't you just hear her singing those poems? And how she delineates the character voices in "Erlkonig"....truly fine playing, and that's an understatement.
Yuja manages to concentrate all the musical romanticism in each of these pieces, in each phrase, in each bar. She kills me. Listening to her is the closest thing I know to "Stendhal syndrome"
The first one is Yuja's favorite D minor encore. According to her interview, she prefers minor keys and has lots of D minor encores. This one is based on "Gretchen am spinnrade" and she sees herself in the piece, being lonely travelling from tour to another tour.
Elkonig was... wow! The speed and control of those octaves, just from a technique point of view!! When you consider the sheer pianist difficulties of that piece and then to have such a sublime musical interpretation. Bravo Ms. Wang.
Wow! It's simply amazing what you find on RUclips. I have heard quite a few of LIszt's Schubert arrangements and often I dislike them because it's too much about Liszt (and the pianist) and not enough about Schubert. These performances are simply astonishing. For one thing she has the songs themselves nailed. Schubert was proabably the greatest story teller through melody that ever lived and here Ms Wang lives and breathes the worlds Schubert and Liszt have created. It is obvious that she knows the songs, the narrative arcs and what the words mean. How marvelous that such things can be captured on video and shared. Thank you so much for sharing.
Up until the present, Gary Graffman had always been my favorite pianist. His coloring of my favorite pieces played to my preferences. How delight to discover Yuja Wang studied under Graffman! She carries on the great tradition of pianists who play with passion and yet precision, joining greats such as Van Cliburn, Horowitz, Ashkenazy, and Rubenstein. She is the 21st Century's star of the piano and a welcome addition to the library of the trained ear.
Юджа - такая хрупкая и такая сильная одновременно! Просто поразительная быстрота в технике игры и безупречная музыкальная память: играет сложные произведения без партитуры! Дальнейших успехов тебе!
Superb - sensitivity, lyricism, power and passion are all here. Particularly admirable I think is Yuja's lucidity with 'Auf dem wasser' which can so easily sound dense and cluttered. I sense that she knows the original songs very well.
This is definitely my favourite Schubert/Liszt collaboration and I always thought Kissin did it best - until I saw this video. Wow. Yuja Wang effortlessly brings out the intense motion, emotion and drama that Schubert and Liszt brought to this piece. The push on the foot treadle, the turn of the spinning wheel, the moment Gretchen starts talking about Faust and all of sudden the moment when she stops her work to think about a kiss, then the resignation and longing for something she can't have. Bravo! What a wonderful three minutes and thirty seconds lol
Yuja Wang mueve todos mis sentidos en lo más profundo. Ella es genial tanto en sus interpretaciones como en su persona. En ella se conjugan talento y belleza. Mis ratos más agradables son cuando la escucho. Que se conserve por muchos años más y siga tocando como hasta ahora. No lo puede hacer mejor ha llegado a la perfección.
YUJA ...eres la REINA del piano! ...INSUPERABLE! ... EXELENCIA TÉCNICA...EXELENCIA DE EJECUCIÓN... EXELENCIA EN LA COMPRENSIÓN DEL TEMA... EXELENCIA EN LA EXPRESIÓN...EN LA ESTÉTICA, EN EL VIDEO... EN EL SONIDO...EN LA ELECCIÓN DE LOS TEMAS AFINES.... EXELENCIA EN LA PRESENTACIÓN PERSONAL... ...SENSUALIDAD Y BELLEZA FEMENINA COMO UN REGALO EXTRA... ¡MAGNÍFICA!
Just happy with this. Yuja Wang + Schubert is a short journey out in the outer space, unbelieable as it seems, but still true as a fact. And we never want to come down on earth again.
Yo no soy ningún experto en música clásica, pero no se necesita serlo para darse cuenta que Yuja Wang es perfecta, todo lo que ella toca suena sublime, este video en particular es adictivo. Yo procuro escuchar algo de ella todos los días.
a piano goddess monster ...she is a power to behold and I imagine a beautiful human as well judging from her interviews ...so natural too...it is too late to want to be like her...alas....anyway, praise GOD!
I've studied piano and pianists all my life and honestly I have never found a way to describe Yuja. She is other worldly, magical ... such talent, I have no way to process it. Just enjoy, listen. Watch.
The sounds of beauty must just flow through her arms down to her fingers like a beautiful waterfall into a tranquil stream. I'd give anything to know what it must be like inside her mind as she emits a delight of harmony for others to cherish.
This isn't just good, this is SCARY good. I mean, I nervous laughed through the whole thing. Wow, just wow. This is like witnessing a natural catastrophe: scary as hell and absolutely sublime at the same time
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Yuja Wang's technique is impeccable and her execution unbelievable. She is a true pianist. She has matured so much as an artist and grown. She is constantly expanding her repertoire to the appreciation of her many fans. This is outstanding.
Un-be-LIEVABLE!!!! This woman is gifted beyond understanding. Her performances in 2030 (and beyone) will be of a level previously unknown - technique is not her gift. Her gift is music and ours is to hear her.
Yuja Wang maravilla viviente, Dios te guarde por muchísimos años más.
@saygued. If she got the mandated shots, by that time, she will be gone.
Yula Wang kann sich offenbar mehr als alle Pianisten bislang, soo in die Komposition hineinfühlen, dass man meint die Gefühle und Gedanken des Komponisten su erleben. Dankedanke!!
This performance is a masterpiece. She literally sang that 1st piece wuth her heart and not so much with her fingers. The last 2 pieces is standing ovations.
Yuja Wangs virtuosity and interpretation is transcendental like almost no other pianist alive
I am delighted at having discovered this lady, pure genius to me, having discovered her one day on U tube. My delight is being of fairly good health & a good age too I may well have another 5 - 7 years of bliss listening to her and graciously thank Yuja for the joy she has already given me and indeed the outstanding composers who have written their dynamic music for us all to enjoy not forgetting so much orchestral talent who present it to all classical
music lovers. I hope I’ll also survive a few more BBC Proms. J Brian Morgan
Words fail me to describe her interpretation of Schubert and Liszt here....so sublime and soft and caring!
She is, quite simply, amazing! The more I listen to her play the more impressed I am. She is something special, she interprets everything so well. Fantastic!
This is a 12 minute performance for the ages. Such emotion and beauty in these songs and delivered with majesty by Yuja.
Yuja Wang Is the ultimate symbol of perfection in everything she does! Combining Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Brahms, and Beethoven, etc., they being equal would never reach the bar of precision and perfection that Yuja performs!
Love to listen again and again, when I feel frustrated, or stressful, or sad; YuJa magical flying fingers‘ melody heal me immediately.
I feel the same way!
This is sheer poetry. Every single note is in the right place. Every single note says something. Virtuosity serving musicality. You have captured the depth and the unfettered passion of the romantic period like a true master, a true artist. Bravo!!!
Fascinating how she makes the music come alive in all its subtlety and charm. I can only envy her ability and intellect to understand the music and present it so beautifully. Thank you.
Yuga Wang's playing of Grethchen Am Spinrade is right on the exact emotional target as if she is actually singing. I had vocal lessons years ago from a vocal teacher In Claremont California who lent me a recording of a beautiful female voice this wonderful song and Yuga makes the piano sing it perfectly as I heard this female voice singing this beautiful song. She does this keeping the melody in perfect alignment with its best quality regardless of the rhythms and turmoil of the accompanying harmony. Breathtakingly beautiful! Robert C., Palm Desert, California.
wow. she is everything we all aspire to be. charming, fun, talented, beautiful, and above all, passionate. so perfect.
It's hard to believe Liszt himself ever played it any better (same goes for her staggering performance of his B minor sonata). Absolutely superhuman genius. There is nothing she can't play, and play it with more originality and passion than anyone has ever heard before. She moves effortlessly from the tenderest pathos to stunning velocity and virtuosity that take the roof right off the concert hall. "Phenomenon" doesn't begin to do her justice. She's an incandescent miracle, and we're all very fortunate to have her among us. Bravissima, Yuja!
+Leigh Clark What is even more incredible is she is playing this stuff by memory, no sheets. Holy Shit.
+Leigh Clark YUJA is the measure of all things in the entire world of classical pianists. Nobody can reach her incomprehensible technical perfection and her phenomenal expressiveness and stage presence.... nobody !!!
+Catan de Lorca Absolutely! Well said!
+Piano Man42 Most great concert viruosi have their standard repertoire memorized. But it's HOW Yuja memorizes it, and plays it and makes it entirely her own. That is beyond incredible, almost supernatural (as people once thought of Paganini's virtuosity).
+Catan de Lorca Well said. I was so lucky to see and hear her for five times live in concert - she's the greatest pianist since Liszt.
AND I was so lucky to talk with her - absolutely sympathic nice person.
Charme, Charisma and Intelligence!
Nobody should be this traditionally beautiful and be this grand at playing. She's among the best I've heard.
This magnificent young lady has brought so much joy into my life
Thank you Yuja
I saw some comments about Yuja doing her own music. For sure she is one of the best, if not THE best interpreter I ever heard over the last decades, but doing music is another monster. I really think this musical gift comes at an early age, some playing, some composing, both together are very rare, and becoming a very successful composer when you go older after being a pianist like she is now, never heard about. Anyway, if she continues playing like this as an angel sent by God, I'll continue to admire her forever, but if she is going to write her own pieces, better to start now, Mozart, Liszt, Beethoven and many others were already exceptional many years younger than she does. Follow your heart Yuja !!!
Every now and then, I’d come back here to feel this magical Yuja moment of musical spirits, it never gets old or boring, like occasionally you look up at the night sky and you see the bright gleaming moon right there, elegant and quiet yet soothing and inspiring.
I’m not surprised that this is the best, most divine interpretation-everything she plays not only has the epitome of depth and consideration, but innumerable amounts of every factor needed. As a pianist, I always wonder if I can be like this, even though the answer is no; you bring the greatest inspiration into all of our lives, Miss Yuja Wang. Thank you so much for every piece you play.
She is so beautiful!and played beautifully too!!
I haven't watched and listened to this video in about a year now, but coming back reminds me of just how great these pieces are played by Yuja. Just magnificent music making!
She is not playing music, she is the music!!!
🔺🔺 Yuja Wang in Recital 🔺🔺
🏔Verbier 2010🏔
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Three Songs, *transcribed for piano solo by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)*
00:15 *Gretchen am Spinnrade*
_Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel_
03:53 *Auf dem Wasser zu singen*
_To be Sung on the Water_
08:01 *Erlkönig*
_The Elf-King_
12:18 *Applause*
Yuja Wang, piano✨
*Verbier Festival*
*Salle des Combins*
*Verbier, Switzerland 🇨🇭 July 20, 2010*
Thanks for the info. :-)
Le bonheur!❤️👏😘🌹🥰
She is a gift to the world 🦋
Superb pianist. Special woman. The deep bow is somehow devotional to her audience, and reveals her strong character. We're lucky to have her.
This girl has such great technique- she truly is a virtuoso. WOW!
Its not just her playing that is divine. She thinks deeply and deliberately about any and all pieces she plays. There is always more to any complex piece of music that its execution. Wang's performances are palpable. Its as if she is showing you the poetry, interpreting it and coloring it all at the same time without missing a beat! We are so very fortunate to live in an age when she is performing.
She is the phenomenon of the third Millinium indeed
Not a professional Pianist only but full of Romance And sensation
Bennett Markel
She is so beautiful, face, hands, gown. She is a natural. This beautiful music is best heard by not looking at the performer, but who can resist?
Not very often someone comes along whose skill and interpretation moves music onto another level, Yuja is one such person
I tear up every time I replay her interpretation of Schubert , beautiful beyond words. , Thanks Yuja !
Schubert was a great composer and Liszt was a great arranger. Yuja Wang is a great pianist, indeed.
It is truly a privilege to live in the same world as this staggering talent.
Fantastic pianist , she seems to clear very wonderful sounds and a perfect tencic to play a dificult musica like LISZT
the most beautiful 12 minutes of piano I've listened to. I must have held my breath umpteenth times in that duration, afraid of missing hearing any note. She just somehow seems to make every note sing!
She creates a tremendous sense of momentum and direction in each song, wonderful interpretations. One can't help but be swept along with her.
no one can reach her...... she's perfect in every way.... she's a genius !
She´s a genius! Oh! My god! She plays well, indeed. But let´s not glorify her because the way she gets dressed...
Es un GENIO.
@@norahdealmeida5847 No one glorifys her for the way she dresses...apparently you're the one who thinks it's a big deal...it's the 21st century not the middle ages
Including her intelligence.
@@norahdealmeida5847 What a bitter little person you must be.
What baffles me the most is how on earth are she able to remember every tiny detail with such accuracy,
Yuja Wang is proof that God exists and she is a miracle!
starting in a language with over 3000 characters might help working memory.
Everybody who likes her looks and fashion choices sometimes pass on one of her best physical features-the beauty and strength of her hands...displayed superbly om this video in these sensitively played pieces.
I completely agree. Her hands are what convey her virtuosity and innate musicality. But ultimately for me her greatest quality is her mind. She brings every piece to life with her interpretations. I don't think it will be long before Wang is considered one of (if not THE) greatest living pianist.
@@PaddyCharles90 Whatever she is considered, her pianism has brought joy and appreciation to classical music. Having known her a bit in NYC, I can also say she is a caring and giving person...
Lady Wang, You are the best! You make me cry - it's Your way to tell the story, forgetting about any difficulties of technics. You do all the music in the very natural way like Your appearance! You are a modern young Lady, and Your recordings sound exactly like this. Thank You very much!
Juergen, an old german musician
Ich bin du bist,very very,danke .Szymon Kozerski Polak.I like Chopin.
Szymon Kozerski
Szymon Kozerski
Du bist(pardon)!
Juergen Voigt yes....she is amazing and makes me cry too!
I get chills and tingling in my body from head to toe when she plays the flight of the bumblebee and the Turkish march. She just sends me to a place that is heaven on earth because she is an angel from heaven. Her parents should be very proud of her. You just can't help falling in love with her.
Better is impossible. The talent of this girl is not from this world !
What is amazing is how what Franz Liszt transcribed from a composer other than him - those pieces are the equal, if not better than what he wrote. Yujas playing of them is marvelous - how she makes the piano sing!
Breathtakingly beautiful! I'm speechless! Can't stop coming back.
I read some of your comments with astonishment. Yuja is a great pianist. Not just good; not just brilliant but GREAT. She is wonderwoman..
+David Lee
There are 2 pianists I listen to: Richter,and Yuja.
Sam and Sueli and Martha Argerich too!
Good too
Sam and Sueli GOOD?? She's the best pianist of the last century, I like her playing even more than Rachmaninovs or Cziffra. If Yuja is a great pianist, Martha is the goddess of piano
Real musician playing real music - a combination hard to find on RUclips. Thank you TOO much.
She plays with subtleties of dynamics and sounds that remind me of an Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Decidedly, this young lady is the proof that we will always be able to discover new and original interpretations for works that we thought were already completed by the greatest pianists.
Schubert/Liszt
Gretchen am spinnrade 0:13
Auf dem Wasser zu singen 3:49
Der Erlkonig 7:58
Dick Moores thx
gracias !!!
Thank you, much appreciated.
My favorite is either the 1st one or the 3rd one
THANK YOU! A necessity in my case, not being an expert on all Schubert music arranged by Liszt or vice versa!
So this is a performance from five years ago. She was 25 here, now she's thirty. There's so much music that she has performed out in the last five years. So much catching up to do.
Amazing phenomenon! Erlkonig is probably the best performance of all the greats who have ever recorded it - most dramatic and free/expressive at the same time.
List who loved Schubert as a poet arranged more than 50 Leider, but it would also have the meaning of introducing Schubert's splendor in Austria and Paris. Yuja's playing Schubert's melody is beautiful, and Erlkonig that changed the original vivace to presto agitato, Yuja's transcendetnt virtuosity heightened the tension of the song.
I played at Carnegie Hall as the "Openning Act" for a Cencert Pianist who was going on to Play in National Competition🎼🎹🎵🎶❣❣I guest I've been very critical during many years that have past! Miss Wang is AMAZING🎵🎶🎵❣❣❣ She "Plays with the Passion, Emotion, Physical Relation to the MUSIC, PLUS BEAUTIFUL EMOTION TECHNIQUE, FINGERS, HANDS, HEART & FULL BODY BRINGS EVERY NOTE TO LIFE💞💖🎵🎵💖❣
This woman is a genius. I hadn't heard her before, but she is a genius interpreter standing up there with the greats from the past.
Truly brilliant sound and appeal. As previously mentioned, I listen for the beauty of the sound. This is a feast of such beautiful sound. Thank you Miss. Wang, your skill is magnificent.
Simply stunning....one of the best piano pieces on youtube in my opinion.
and such a great choice for a concert....captivating for audience.....
From when are these performances? Yuja's rendition of "Gretchen" always rips my heart out, but that "Erlkonig" is a very close second. Can't you just hear her singing those poems? And how she delineates the character voices in "Erlkonig"....truly fine playing, and that's an understatement.
Yuja manages to concentrate all the musical romanticism in each of these pieces, in each phrase, in each bar. She kills me. Listening to her is the closest thing I know to "Stendhal syndrome"
The first one is Yuja's favorite D minor encore. According to her interview, she prefers minor keys and has lots of D minor encores. This one is based on "Gretchen am spinnrade" and she sees herself in the piece, being lonely travelling from tour to another tour.
Gracias a esta nueva generación, la gran música sigue vigente. Gracias Yuja Wang.
Elkonig was... wow! The speed and control of those octaves, just from a technique point of view!! When you consider the sheer pianist difficulties of that piece and then to have such a sublime musical interpretation. Bravo Ms. Wang.
You're right, Erlkonig in her performance is a masterpiece.
I am in absolute disbelief at the frantic emotion she conjures up. I would have thought it impossible for anyone to play the piece so desperately.
Wow! It's simply amazing what you find on RUclips.
I have heard quite a few of LIszt's Schubert arrangements and often I dislike them because it's too much about Liszt (and the pianist) and not enough about Schubert. These performances are simply astonishing. For one thing she has the songs themselves nailed. Schubert was proabably the greatest story teller through melody that ever lived and here Ms Wang lives and breathes the worlds Schubert and Liszt have created. It is obvious that she knows the songs, the narrative arcs and what the words mean. How marvelous that such things can be captured on video and shared. Thank you so much for sharing.
I am actually to scared to breathe , in case I MISS THE SOUND OF ONE NOTE , IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL , SHE REALLY BRINGS HEAVENS TO ANOTHER LEVEL .
yes she does!! I wasn't familiar with the first piece, but I am in love with it now and, of course, with Yuga.
So am I...
Who's Yuga? :-)
Actually it is YUJA WANG...
Brilliant rendition of these transcriptions. Virtuosity at the best I have ever heard it. China's stars do piano music proud. Cathy
Up until the present, Gary Graffman had always been my favorite pianist. His coloring of my favorite pieces played to my preferences. How delight to discover Yuja Wang studied under Graffman! She carries on the great tradition of pianists who play with passion and yet precision, joining greats such as Van Cliburn, Horowitz, Ashkenazy, and Rubenstein. She is the 21st Century's star of the piano and a welcome addition to the library of the trained ear.
Yuja Wang... ALWAYS giving me the chills!
Юджа - такая хрупкая и такая сильная одновременно! Просто поразительная быстрота в технике игры и безупречная музыкальная память: играет сложные произведения без партитуры! Дальнейших успехов тебе!
Notice how the melodies higher up the keyboard make her smile with pleasure!
I’m lost for words , Schubert, Liszt and Wang, what a combination, stunning 👌🧛♂️👏
Martha, Marie, and Mitsuko must feel their thrones trembling. This is, simply put, a superb musical performance.
some say Zchrembur Ikbineisten is tremendously impressed!
Superb - sensitivity, lyricism, power and passion are all here. Particularly admirable I think is Yuja's lucidity with 'Auf dem wasser' which can so easily sound dense and cluttered. I sense that she knows the original songs very well.
Well said as usual Julian...all the best.
absolutely agreed. Coming from someone who played the pieces, i guess?
She makes it sound easy, doesn't she?
paulprocopolis
wonderful to hear transcriptions coming back
Do you know of a link to the original songs on RUclips to share?
This is incredible. Beautiful. Talented. Sincere. Wow. I’m speechless
I'm so fortunate to see her in March in Amsterdam. I watch her playing over and over again
Yuja must play all the Schubert sonates I look forward to this!
Aren't they the best. Yuja is as best I have heard.
This is definitely my favourite Schubert/Liszt collaboration and I always thought Kissin did it best - until I saw this video.
Wow. Yuja Wang effortlessly brings out the intense motion, emotion and drama that Schubert and Liszt brought to this piece. The push on the foot treadle, the turn of the spinning wheel, the moment Gretchen starts talking about Faust and all of sudden the moment when she stops her work to think about a kiss, then the resignation and longing for something she can't have.
Bravo! What a wonderful three minutes and thirty seconds lol
Brilliant! God Bless you, Yuja!
Yuja Wang performs piano music with a perfection never seen before
Gran artista. Técnica insuperable. LA MEJOR
Yuja Wang mueve todos mis sentidos en lo más profundo. Ella es genial tanto en sus interpretaciones como en su persona. En ella se conjugan talento y belleza. Mis ratos más agradables son cuando la escucho. Que se conserve por muchos años más y siga tocando como hasta ahora. No lo puede hacer mejor ha llegado a la perfección.
YUJA ...eres la REINA del piano! ...INSUPERABLE! ... EXELENCIA TÉCNICA...EXELENCIA DE EJECUCIÓN...
EXELENCIA EN LA COMPRENSIÓN DEL TEMA... EXELENCIA EN LA EXPRESIÓN...EN LA ESTÉTICA, EN EL VIDEO...
EN EL SONIDO...EN LA ELECCIÓN DE LOS TEMAS AFINES.... EXELENCIA EN LA PRESENTACIÓN PERSONAL...
...SENSUALIDAD Y BELLEZA FEMENINA COMO UN REGALO EXTRA... ¡MAGNÍFICA!
lyrical and enjoyable; full of confidence in the performance.
She's so perfect
Jaw dropping. Amazing. I can't find any word to describe her performance.
Just happy with this. Yuja Wang + Schubert is a short journey out in the outer space, unbelieable as it seems, but still true as a fact. And we never want to come down on earth again.
Yo no soy ningún experto en música clásica, pero no se necesita serlo para darse cuenta que Yuja Wang es perfecta, todo lo que ella toca suena sublime, este video en particular es adictivo. Yo procuro escuchar algo de ella todos los días.
WOW, that is so beautiful. What an amazing talent
I am immersed in pleasure while listening to her incomparable performance .
From Tokyo in Japan where is within your imagination .
a piano goddess monster ...she is a power to behold and I imagine a beautiful human as well judging from her interviews ...so natural too...it is too late to want to be like her...alas....anyway, praise GOD!
This utterly breathtaking beauty has extraordinary finesse...
I've studied piano and pianists all my life and honestly I have never found a way to describe Yuja. She is other worldly, magical ... such talent, I have no way to process it. Just enjoy, listen. Watch.
Tecnica inarrivabile, interpretazione sublime! Un genio.
The sounds of beauty must just flow through her arms down to her fingers like a beautiful waterfall into a tranquil stream. I'd give anything to know what it must be like inside her mind as she emits a delight of harmony for others to cherish.
This isn't just good, this is SCARY good. I mean, I nervous laughed through the whole thing. Wow, just wow. This is like witnessing a natural catastrophe: scary as hell and absolutely sublime at the same time
What I would like to say has all been said before . Speechless !
Amazing one person can be so talented and so beautiful
Beautiful , Yuja. No one can say she plays with no feelings.
I felt as though I have had a taste of heaven for the duration of the short three pieces. Thanks Yuja, and thanks eagle3x for uploading it for us.
Yuja Wang transmite su visión interna de la música que interpreta y la admiro y disfruto mucho.
Pianista magnífica. Grande sensibilidade e de uma técnica espantosa!
She brings something 'visceral' to her performances, which gives her a mastery that technique alone can't produce.
that was the fastest 12 minutes and 20 secondes of my life, in every way possible
I can't believe I can watch this for free! What a gift 🎁