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.
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.
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 UA-cam.
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.
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.
@@rogerlephoque3661 and your point is ? Are you talking about the quality of Rachmaninov's compositions? Because my comment refers to the quality of playing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
25:52 to 26:45 will always have my heart. It's just soooo beautiful. I can't stop listening to it, I've probably listened to it at least 20 times this week. I'm obsessed. Nobody talks about it
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
Absolutely fantastic performance: poetry, expressivity, untamedness and otherworldliness, no matter wether there is some incongruence between the latin temperament of the conductor and Yuja's that contributes to a very sympathetic vivacity of the interpretation... and the VPO accompaining with remarcable empathy!
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.
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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.
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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!
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: ua-cam.com/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/v-deo.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 UA-cam 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. ua-cam.com/video/opnwQ_re6Us/v-deo.html Gieseking/Mengelberg/Concertgebouw, 1940 ua-cam.com/video/QZNfCiIlVok/v-deo.html Van Cliburn Kirill Kondrashin, conductor 1958 ua-cam.com/video/aFkAwFDZGHk/v-deo.html Yefim Bronfman Valery Gergiev
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!
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*
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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!
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: ua-cam.com/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/v-deo.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.
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.
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!!!
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!
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.
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.
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.
We are so lucky to live in a beautiful place away from the congestion of the city and be able to enjoy classical music with the camera bringing all the performers to you, closer than being in a concert hall. And, with acoustics and fidelity, color and expressions. Life is good! Iguana
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: ua-cam.com/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/v-deo.html
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.
Saw her at SF Symphony in Feb for an amazing 2 hour recital. She did 3 encores performance. She decided to play the program in her own order. She stopped the program one two separate occasions to get a piano tuned. One of the encores was the Prokofiev Toccatta. Amazing. She played it a bit faster than the youtube recordings and flawlessly. She also did the carmen variations. Tremendous musician clearly devoted to her craft!
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.
Wow! Many thanks for these uploads. I couldn't get into Yuja's Carnegie Hall tour de force, all 4 Rach's, so I'm recreating it thru UA-cam vids. 3 down, 1 to go.
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.
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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
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
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.
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 UA-cam.
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 favorite concerto performed by my favorite musician. If I could only watch one video the rest of my life, it would be this one!
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.
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.
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.
YUJA WANG!!! One of the most talented performers in this XXI Century!!! She will be remembered always for her renditions!!! I Love Yuja!!!
BREATHTAKING PERFORMANCE, WHERE SHE GATHERS ALL HER STRENGTH TO PERFORM THIS WIZARDRY TO THE POWERFUL AND EMOTIONAL END. MOST BEAUTIFUL.
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.
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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She's extraordinary!!! Whit so sensitivity, feeling, musicality and talent!!! I love Yuja Wang. ♥️🌼🌹🍀🌟
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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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.
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.
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~!
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。
真贴切
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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.
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.
25:52 to 26:45 will always have my heart. It's just soooo beautiful. I can't stop listening to it, I've probably listened to it at least 20 times this week. I'm obsessed. Nobody talks about it
Totally agree, this kind of waltz passage is a true mystery for me, it's like a labyrinth...crazy listening to it in slow speed.
The keyboard perfectly played, Yuja we can hear your heart and soul in this piece......Magnificent!
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She's wonderful. She knows how to make a Steinway Concert Grand sing with a voice that Steinway intended.
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!
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!
Yuja Wang is simply a piano genius, the great pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff would be in awe to hear her!!!❤
She's just divine. And the orchestra sublime!
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.
Pure magic! The perfect combination for Rachmaninov's glorious masterpiece: Pianist, Orchestra and superb Maestro! Bravo Bravo.
A talent like hers comes but once in a lifetime, i can not move when she is playing i want to hear every note withpout any intrference
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.
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
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 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.
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.
O goddess of the keys, with her bestowals of strength, speed, softness, delicacy, and emotional appropriation! So wonderfully amazing!
I so agree!
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.
Yuja superb... The orchestra absolutely outstanding... An excellent conduction brings the magnificency.
Listen to the whole thing in one sitting. Moved me to tears in the finale. Amazingly played
Yuja Wang never fails to impress us. What power and intensity! What a performance!
She's not just a pianist, a musician, she's got to be a gift to all music lovers.
Yuja Wang ia out of this world!!! She captures the magic of Rachmaninov´s music with incredibly sensitivity and superb interpretation. The best!!!!!
Her control is amazing. So beautiful, spectacular
Absolutely fantastic performance: poetry, expressivity, untamedness and otherworldliness, no matter wether there is some incongruence between the latin temperament of the conductor and Yuja's that contributes to a very sympathetic vivacity of the interpretation... and the VPO accompaining with remarcable empathy!
Thank you.....and thank you mind boggling virtuouso Ms Yuja Wang!!!!!!!!!
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.
Breathtaking performance, very controlled and yet played with passion. Also a brilliant performance by this top symphony orchestra with top musicians in all sections.
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!!!
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: ua-cam.com/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/v-deo.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 UA-cam 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.
ua-cam.com/video/opnwQ_re6Us/v-deo.html Gieseking/Mengelberg/Concertgebouw, 1940
ua-cam.com/video/QZNfCiIlVok/v-deo.html Van Cliburn Kirill Kondrashin, conductor 1958
ua-cam.com/video/aFkAwFDZGHk/v-deo.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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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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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
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.
Браво ЮЯ! Браво дирижор и оркестр! Браво композитор Сергей Рахманинов концерт 3! Спасибо!
you must have been falling in love with this piece😆
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😁
Слушателей надо учиться уважать и себя тоже...
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.
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.
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!!
Brilliant! Magnificent! Great pianist! Great performance excellent interpretation....! Wonderful orchestra!
She's wonderful, and shows so much emotion when playing this peice.
Such a magnificent performer, such elegance, passion and power, and her style is impeccable
👏👍❤️🌹👌🙏
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!
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Faultless performance & correct tempo throughout ! Bravo .
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: ua-cam.com/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/v-deo.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.
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.
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!!!
The world is more interesting since this wonderful creature is here
she breathes music, outstanding passion.
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!
Just watching her hands fly over the keyboard is so exciting it makes Anything she plays memorable.
Yuja, you make this look so easy to play.... Such a romantic concerto to listen to... Bravo....
Браво пианистка ЮЯ! Браво дирижор и оркестр! Браво композитор Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов! Спасибо!
The best performance of this wonderful Piano Concerto that I ever heard!
The emotion Miss Wang produces from the piano is spectacular. Thank you so much for this extraordinary performance viewing. I’m spellbound.
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.
Wonderful interpretation! Magical Rach 3!
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.
Yuja also adds these nifty improvs not written into the original music......she slips them in so effortlessly that it's amazing.
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.
We are so lucky to live in a beautiful place away from the congestion of the city and be able to enjoy classical music with the camera bringing all the performers to you, closer than being in a concert hall. And, with acoustics and fidelity, color and expressions. Life is good!
Iguana
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: ua-cam.com/video/7YbF4M9UFOc/v-deo.html
The other one being Lugansky. And Fedorova is not far behind.
Want to cry in this unsettling world.
Il concerto più romantico ed impetuoso, magistralmente interpretato da una pianista eccezionale!
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.
12:07 -- this cadenza gets me every time. I like when pianists drag it out for extra drama/expression. Wonderful musicianship throughout.
Браво ЮЯ! Браво дирижор и оркестр! Браво композитор Сергей Рахманинов! Спасибо! БРАВО!
A glorious experience watching and listening to Yuja wang
Saw her at SF Symphony in Feb for an amazing 2 hour recital. She did 3 encores performance. She decided to play the program in her own order. She stopped the program one two separate occasions to get a piano tuned. One of the encores was the Prokofiev Toccatta. Amazing. She played it a bit faster than the youtube recordings and flawlessly. She also did the carmen variations. Tremendous musician clearly devoted to her craft!
Never really listened to concerto #3……REALLY ENJOYED IT, WONDERFUL VERY POWERFUL. ENJOYING YUJA MORE AND MORE.
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.
Wow! Many thanks for these uploads. I couldn't get into Yuja's Carnegie Hall tour de force, all 4 Rach's, so I'm recreating it thru UA-cam vids. 3 down, 1 to go.
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