Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 is a milestone among the piano concertos of all composers. Only an exceptional pianist like Yuja Wang can convey its beauty. She is the measure of all things when it comes to virtuosity on the piano. Everything is just right here. Technique, timing, expression, dynamics, sensitivity. She plays the second movement simply breathtakingly beautiful and moving. What an exquisite orchestra! What a wonderful conductor! What a world class pianist !! What a great concert..!!!
I don't know anything about classical music, I don't know this pianist. But I know this concerto because it hits me to my soul. There is nothing like it, I can't explain it. I am moved and overwhelmed whenever I hear it. It's a journey to somewhere, I don't even know where. All I know is I expend every emotion along the way. This is a beautiful version of the most beautiful bit of music I've ever heard in my life.
Amen. Any musician would be thrilled to have moved you & touched you as you describe. "Knowin" more enables you to augment & appreciate the music more, but music isn't to be analyzed: it's to be experienced, and it is the only form of art that can directly evoke feeling such as you describe.
I think the reason Yuja Wang performs so exquisitely is because of her deep emotional connection to the music. It is apparent in her facial expressions and the movement of her body; she is living deeply in the music. She doesn't play the music; she travels into it. She becomes the music. A concert for her is not another day at the office, it's when she is most alive. And the rest of us get to listen to the magnificent result.
@@rancidblock5615 Nonsense. You have no idea what pretentious means, obviously. Seeing the changing expressions on her face, watching her eyes and the changes that ripple across her face, her hands and body movements, all are extensions of the story and language of the music itself. What a pity that you are unable to fully savor the fullness of her artistic expression.
Yes, it has had that effect on me since I was a teenager. Then at Bristol University when music students told me it was just slush I realised that if you don’t appreciate music it simply cannot be taught. As Louis Armstrong said: if you Gotta ask you’ll never know.
@@Mivoat yeah, I tear up and don't know why. Louis Armstrong had it right. But then a Belle Tire commercial came on two minutes in.??? I guess its all glimpses of the things we need to see. I'm good.
Rachmaninoff was brilliant. I honestly think he heard music from Heaven and shared it with us. Heavenly; heart-touching; soul healing; majestical music 🎵🎶
I especially love the back story - as I recall it. That fairly young Rachmaninoff put his heart into his first symphony and it was very poorly received by the critics. A failure. He went into a depression of some kind. Someone got him associated with a psychiatrist/psychologist (talk therapy) who kept motivating him to begin his next piece. It was Piano Concerto #2 - and the entire piece reflects his journey out of those doldrums. A piece that speaks for all of humanity overcoming failure and turning loss into greatness. A song for all of us. I have heard this piece numerous times including quite a number at the symphony by various pianists. I even play a few pages of it on the piano - a wonderful feeling to experience - as though connected to Rachmaninoff through the hands, the piano and the feeling of the song Having said that, for me this performance by Wang, the conductor especially and the orchestra IS the best interpretation in my opinion. So many rich subtleties brought out.
I've seen Yuja in interviews. She is always smiling and upbeat, actually bubbly in her personality. Then when she goes before the piano and begins to perform, it seems that she is transformed, almost as if one of the great composers like Rachmaninov has entered her soul and taken over. You can see it in her expressions and concentration, a total absorption of the music. What is even better is that she takes us along for the ride.
You said exactly what happens. She developed sufficient dexterity and the entity that possessed Rachmaninov it possesses her too and the entire audience. It is fed by the life energy of everyone present, generation after generation. It is slavery after all, very far from the freedom we would have if we lived the Truth that Jesus taught us. Passing pleasure vs eternal and happy life, the broad path vs the narrow path. Discernment is needed. 💖🇨🇱
@@arthurmclarty1 It's my response to the first comment, about how she seems to transform...So that it is known what is really happening in an event in which something catches the attention of everyone else. The more enraptured people are, the more energy they deliver. And nobody notices that is losing precious moments of his life that should be occupied in the true way, the one that restores freedom and life to humanity: Loving each other like Jesus taught us and commanded us. The discernment and wisdom that the Love of one for another gives, are necessary to awaken a humanity accustomed to living lethargically, without even imagining the greatness of their own potential. We better wake up to this true wonder. 💖🇨🇱
I can’t for the life of me image how in the world she remembers all those notes! She’s amazing in so many ways (besides remembering the notes). That’s just for starters.
Her fingers are like ballerinas on the keys. Her intense concentration and involvement are a beauty to behold . The music is beyond emotionally engrossing.
To begin to understand this piece you have to understand how it came to be. Rachmaninov had endured a disastrous opening from reasons that are still disputed. Following that intense depression prevented him from composing. After working with a psychotherapist he was able to compose. The result was his 2nd Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. The most beloved in the romantic repertoire. This piece is a beautiful gift and serves as his triumphant return to composition. ❤❤❤
You are so correct. The dark clouds lifted and this magnificent work was born. I do not feel that it was fully reflected on this performance, which was too focused on the technicalities. The conductor seemed more into the emotions. I feel that Anna Fedorova is one of the few people who has fully captured the the entire inner feelings of the composer.
Why is everyone in this comment section making comments like they could ever play anywhere near a well as her?? THIS IS YUJA WANG AFTER ALL!!! Her technique and coordination is exceptional!! Y’all just need to sit back and enjoy the beauty of this piece. Yuja is truly one of the greatest pianists of our time
For me, listening to her recordings can be enjoyable, but I no longer have any desire to attend her performances. I find her stage act to be a huge turn-off, particularly her custom of appearing in onstage in those Go-Go costumes, as if she were playing the piano in a cocktail lounge.
A creation of artistic interpretation second to none when considering Yula Wang’s perfect and natural rendition of Rachmaninov’s no. 2 piano concerto. x
Her clarity,intensity,and interpretation of the music is exceptional. No theatrics! No arms flying around,or bushy,unkempt hair tossing. Yuja's face and hands say it all! Truly the entire package!
Somewhere the guilty family dog has secretly buried the conductor's baton, but Valery Gergiev persevered nonetheless with a toothpick, and the orchestra along with superb pianist Yuja Wang played an exquisite version of the beautiful Rach 2...
Absolutely unbelievable technique, e.g. 25:44 it's the fastest I've ever heard this played, yet not a single note out of place. There is no limit to what Yuja can do. Simply incredible.
Your use of the word "incredible" is spot on as vocabulary goes. I cannot believe my eyes and ears...I will now toss a few words of my own into the mix: transcendental, sublime, and only the heavens know what...
Playing any fast pieces with precision, crisp notes and without any errors is what YJW is great at! She is probably the best pianist today the more I listen to her epic performances! She is so perfect every time in every performance!
@@georgiaguardian4696 Her hands/fingers are a blur, just like the hovering humming bird which flaps its wings in a hover so fast per second that a video cannot catch the movement unless the film is set to slow motion.
Sergei says at the beginning… “ the troops are coming…here’s the quick version of the drama.” He finds more time and we endure the majesty and misery like absolutely no one else can tell/live this. Oh and long live Queen Yuja
I play just one moment of this beautiful peace of music over and over again. From 20:40 it feels like whole new world is starting to bloom. A M A Z I N G!
I can never get stop listening to it, even after hundreds of times listening, i can never get tired of it. The climax of the piano and the romantic violins heals my soul
The most beautiful Rach concert in my opinion. Therefore, I have spent the evening listening to the same piano concerto with four other (female) pianists. All performances had their merits. But no one can interpret all the emotions that this work contains like Yuja Wang, nor does anyone seem to enjoy the concert as much as she does. That alone enhances the pleasure I experience when I watch and listen to Yuja.
Ever so many years ago, I rented a Lincoln Town Car for a week's vacation when they were running a special. On the way back to Las Vegas from Laughlin on a dark night, I put the cassette, yes, cassette, in the player on the car. I inserted the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 by the Cleveland Orchestra and the music began to play. It was an experience I'll always remember. I just happened to run across a blurb a few days ago that Yuga is performing in China this week. Wouldn't it be a dream for my Chinese wife and me to attend one of her live performances. Dream on! I'll just have to be content to listen to her recorded music and watching her on You Tube. Happy holidays to all of you.
Absolutely the best interpretation of the Rach 2! Yuja's performance is utter magic. Glorious fingering and phrasing...sensitivity and power! She is a miracle!
This concert takes you to another dimension, where only beauty , joy and harmony exists. Happy the ones who have a soul that can appreciate it, and feel all the warmth that this music emanates, straight from heavenly realms...❤🎉
5:50 to me, this is what melancholy and happiness sound like. I think it's because of how well the violins and the piano mix together. The violins sound bittersweet, but the piano adds another layer of complexity to it, their synergy is immaculate. I came here because Mao Asada skated to this for her free skate at Sochi 2014, and out of all the different pianists who popped up after searching it up, I specifically clicked on this video because I saw that Yuja wang was the one performing it, and I had a slight memory of her bowing compilation on TikTok. I knew the amount of passion she had just from watching her bow to the audience, and I'm going to be honest, I kind of got teary eyed while listening to this! Thank you to Yuja Wang and the entire orchestra for performing this masterpiece with such grace and passion ❤Yuja even made me rethink quitting piano to start figure skating! LOL
I dated a pianist who had to go audition for her PHD in the states so I travelled with her and I sat there for hours on end listening to her play. I’ve memorized everything too and even learnt how to read sheet music because I had to follow it and turn the page at the right time. That’s what comes with dating a musician.
Yuja Wang gets engulfed in the notes and melody. She lets her body feel it. Almost like an emotional connection with the piece, and her fingers keep the flame ignited.
Бесподобно!! Юджи это явление мирового фортепианного искусства Она снова "вытолкнула" интерес к классической музыке в 21 веке Блестящая исполнительница, умница , тонко чувствующая композитора Стараюсь не пропустить ни одного ее выступления на доступных ресурсах и каждый раз изумляюсь ее игрой Это счастье жить во время когда она вышла на большую мировую сцену
Гениальное исполнение. Каждая нотка прослушивается. Какие эмоции!!! Дирижер- гений. Юля -гений. Я много слушал это концерт в разных исполнениях. После Б. Березовского- она вторая. Лучше их нет.
❤she feels every single note through her body, a gift straight from spirit, remarkable ❤l could listen to her forever, so uplifting in this sad world ❤❤❤
Oh to be an orchestra member who gets to watch Yuja play up close. Her fingers are like spiders scrambling across the keys in a blur. How is it possible to direct each finger to hit the correct key again and again? It is as Michelangelo said that God directs his hands to carve out the image within a block of granite. It would be the same for Yuja (and other great pianist) whose play is being led by a higher power. True greatness brings tears to my olde eyes.
My passion is classical music ; I LOVE Rachmaninov ; I absolutely ADORE Yuja Wang and to hear and also SEE her play this GORGEOUS piano concerto just BLOWS MY MIND❗
00:30 , 6:00 , 6:35 I come here after watching nodame cantabile. Never expect to sit through this performance until the end. Music really can touch your heart even if you know nothing about classical music
@emmanuelr.474 I watch the live action version, actually its my 3rd rewatch coz i just love it so much. Glad to know that there are others from the show too
First time I watched and the FIRST thing I noticed is at 0:42 how tight those base notes are with the double basses....great rhythm and timing, more so than a lot I've heard (and this is my favourite Concerto of all time).
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No2 is a masterpiece, and Ms Wang plays it magnificently! It is such a pleasure to watch not only her fingers but her face and body because there is so much emotion in her playing this piece. I thought she was going to fly right off that piano bench a few times! This was the second time I've watched this video, and I'm sure it won't be the last. Bravo!👏👏👏👏
Well, I have to confess - and I am not even a big Yuja Wang fan - that this particular performance with Gergiev is my favourite one, most appealing. And there are many, even the one by Rachmaninov himself. So there, I admit it.
J’aime tellement Yuja Wang depuis toujours ,elle incarne pour moi la grâce sans jamais faillir au compositeur qu’elle interprète. Magnifique musicienne. ❤
I have watched this video many time... So how does it bring a lump to my throat every time?... What sorcery is this?.. We are privileged that this magical lady plays for us.
Хочу отметить филигранную работу звукорежиссёров. Такое гармоничное звучание рояля и оркестра слышу впервые. Настолько выверено всё по частотам, басы "масло", верхние не звенят. Работу даже самого лучшего артиста важно донести до слушателя. Здесь это идеально.Браво звукорежиссёрам!
I like it when she plays a slow, soft part and the camera is on her face. She's loving the peace it brings to herself and the audience. She breaks a slight smile and raises her eye brows slightly. She's just having a wonderful time!
Rach's 2nd and 3rd make life worth living. Yuja Wang, Olga Kern, Valentina Lisitsa. I cannot decide whom I enjoy the most. If I were a billionaire oligarch, I would have a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand installed into my 250 foot yacht in the grand salon and pay whatever fee they want to just play Rach 2nd and 3rd solo without orchestra, as I enjoy it with a tumbler of brandy as an audience of one. I'll open the windows and let the glorious music wafe over the water in St. Tropez harbor as it nears sunset.
I have listened to this amazing concerto so many times . Yuja Wang’s performance is unparalleled to anything I’ve seen. I really love her and her talent. May she continue to perform for the decades to come.❤️🌹❤️
@yujawang77533 dear yuja, my love for you is spiritual, the type that brightens my heart everything I see you perform. I hope I could see you when you come to San Francisco next time. With lots of ❤️ ❤️❤️
Music can do so many things. For example: heal a broken heart, help someone to make the right decision, beeing a companion in perhaps hard times, help us to see the underlying circumstances in something that is totally messed up. And so on. Or like here, for me: A total enjoying of the musical qualities of this playing. Thank you Yuja Wang, Valery Gergiev and Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra.
THE INTRICACY OF YUJA WANG; The brilliance! The astonishing orchestral beauty! The dynamics, the tone, timing, contour, EVERYTHING DOWN TO THE LAST DROP IS BEAUTIFUL
I know nothing about the technicalities of music, and have never touched an instrument. However this performance resonates with something in my brain.. not sure what it is. I'm a bit of a cynic and don't like being told what is good and what is better. When the recording is over, I just want to play it again. It's mesmeric
My God. My breath has been taken away. Such a beautiful of example of what beauty humans can create. Her energy is intoxicating. Just bought tickets for me and my 12yo boy to see her in Canada in april. So excited!
“Recording provided by the Yuja Wang archives”. Archives? How old IS she? lol. What an absolutely beautiful concert. UA-cam putting commercials in the middle is sinful. Interrupting a half hour of inoffensiveness. Rather than calling that commercial your payment for watching, how about each of us introduce a child in our lives to the wonders of classical music with this masterpiece? Big thanks to Yuja for bringing this old dog back to listening to classics again. 🎹
Ms. Yuja Wang is maturing wonderfully as a really great pianist . Life itself, when viewed accordingly, can afford great insight, in het case, to a deeper "feel" for the music she performs Her greater focus on the art itself and less on the visual aspect of her performance is a testemony of her growth. ( She is no less pleasant to the eyes, quite the contrary, but in a more mature, deep, lasting way ! )
Scintillating performance....extraordinary technique in the faster passages, and wonderful sensitive phrasing in the slower passages. I love Yuja's wry smile at 27:27 after getting through what is a very tricky passage (light on notes, but evenness and accuracy essential).
This is my favourite Rach. So many interpretations, and still I hold Yuja Wang together with Valery Gergiev and this orchestra the best for delivering this music. Sometimes you only need a toothpick to rule the music.
Incredibile and wonderful. She is superhuman. What is she capable of to play with a sensitivity, precision and expression and to memorize is unbelievable. Wow.
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Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 is a milestone among the piano concertos of all composers. Only an exceptional pianist like Yuja Wang can convey its beauty. She is the measure of all things when it comes to virtuosity on the piano. Everything is just right here. Technique, timing, expression, dynamics, sensitivity. She plays the second movement simply breathtakingly beautiful and moving. What an exquisite orchestra! What a wonderful conductor! What a world class pianist !! What a great concert..!!!
I agree that she is great, but so is Isata Kanneh-Mason.
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Have you heard of Richter’s version?
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I don't know anything about classical music, I don't know this pianist. But I know this concerto because it hits me to my soul. There is nothing like it, I can't explain it. I am moved and overwhelmed whenever I hear it. It's a journey to somewhere, I don't even know where. All I know is I expend every emotion along the way. This is a beautiful version of the most beautiful bit of music I've ever heard in my life.
What a beautiful sentiment to honor and appreciate this music.
Welcome!
Dont say you dont know music. If this touches you, you know music enough.
Amen. Any musician would be thrilled to have moved you & touched you as you describe.
"Knowin" more enables you to augment & appreciate the music more, but music isn't to be analyzed: it's to be experienced, and it is the only form of art that can directly evoke feeling such as you describe.
Welcome to the world of Yuja Wang... Once captured we can never say goodbye.❤ ... Enjoy her Prokofiev too..
I think the reason Yuja Wang performs so exquisitely is because of her deep emotional connection to the music. It is apparent in her facial expressions and the movement of her body; she is living deeply in the music. She doesn't play the music; she travels into it. She becomes the music. A concert for her is not another day at the office, it's when she is most alive. And the rest of us get to listen to the magnificent result.
It looks like she's doing an expressive dance, it looks pretentious.
@@rancidblock5615, check out Lang Lang and you may need to re-define pretentious.
It's so beautiful deep dreamy and emotional .it takes you to a different place
Excellent comment and spot on.👌
@@rancidblock5615 Nonsense. You have no idea what pretentious means, obviously. Seeing the changing expressions on her face, watching her eyes and the changes that ripple across her face, her hands and body movements, all are extensions of the story and language of the music itself. What a pity that you are unable to fully savor the fullness of her artistic expression.
i am 83. Lucky I stuck around long enough to see and hear this. This performance ❤is what I will miss most
i can watch this a million times and still cry my heart out
This Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 makes me cry every time - it touches deep within the soul in a place where I can't explain.
The first time you were able and I didn’t have a problem with it I ww wwww I weeeeee weasel ap
Yes, it has had that effect on me since I was a teenager. Then at Bristol University when music students told me it was just slush I realised that if you don’t appreciate music it simply cannot be taught. As Louis Armstrong said: if you Gotta ask you’ll never know.
@@Mivoat yeah, I tear up and don't know why. Louis Armstrong had it right. But then a Belle Tire commercial came on two minutes in.??? I guess its all glimpses of the things we need to see. I'm good.
Yes, me too. It makes my heart ache.
Rachmaninoff was brilliant. I honestly think he heard music from Heaven and shared it with us. Heavenly; heart-touching; soul healing; majestical music 🎵🎶
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 Opus 18, is one of the most wonderful pieces of music ever written!
Totally agree. Have listened since I was 5 and my father play the record at least once a week.
Saludos.
Beautiful melody indeed.
Rodrigo, compared to chopsticks and Yankee doodle of course it's great.
@@ripvanwinkle1819 lol
I especially love the back story - as I recall it. That fairly young Rachmaninoff put his heart into his first symphony and it was very poorly received by the critics. A failure. He went into a depression of some kind. Someone got him associated with a psychiatrist/psychologist (talk therapy) who kept motivating him to begin his next piece. It was Piano Concerto #2 - and the entire piece reflects his journey out of those doldrums. A piece that speaks for all of humanity overcoming failure and turning loss into greatness. A song for all of us. I have heard this piece numerous times including quite a number at the symphony by various pianists. I even play a few pages of it on the piano - a wonderful feeling to experience - as though connected to Rachmaninoff through the hands, the piano and the feeling of the song
Having said that, for me this performance by Wang, the conductor especially and the orchestra IS the best interpretation in my opinion. So many rich subtleties brought out.
I've seen Yuja in interviews. She is always smiling and upbeat, actually bubbly in her personality. Then when she goes before the piano and begins to perform, it seems that she is transformed, almost as if one of the great composers like Rachmaninov has entered her soul and taken over. You can see it in her expressions and concentration, a total absorption of the music. What is even better is that she takes us along for the ride.
Indeed. Well said. Rachmaninov has a way with all of us.
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You said exactly what happens. She developed sufficient dexterity and the entity that possessed Rachmaninov it possesses her too and the entire audience. It is fed by the life energy of everyone present, generation after generation. It is slavery after all, very far from the freedom we would have if we lived the Truth that Jesus taught us.
Passing pleasure vs eternal and happy life, the broad path vs the narrow path. Discernment is needed. 💖🇨🇱
@@boyanaskrbic What does that have to do with Yuja's performance and our marveling at it while being enriched by it?
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It's my response to the first comment, about how she seems to transform...So that it is known what is really happening in an event in which something catches the attention of everyone else. The more enraptured people are, the more energy they deliver. And nobody notices that is losing precious moments of his life that should be occupied in the true way, the one that restores freedom and life to humanity: Loving each other like Jesus taught us and commanded us.
The discernment and wisdom that the Love of one for another gives, are necessary to awaken a humanity accustomed to living lethargically, without even imagining the greatness of their own potential. We better wake up to this true wonder. 💖🇨🇱
We cannot tell the difference between Yuja and the master himself. It's a blessing from God.
What master are you referring to?
I can’t for the life of me image how in the world she remembers all those notes! She’s amazing in so many ways (besides remembering the notes). That’s just for starters.
By the time you master a piece like this, you have it memorized.
Everyday practice my friend. As our other friend said, after a while it becomes muscle memory.
Her fingers are like ballerinas on the keys. Her intense concentration and involvement are a beauty to behold . The music is beyond emotionally engrossing.
And the body...
The pianist is cute sure. The music is uncomfortably terrible. You pay 80 bucks to get angry?
@@ripvanwinkle1819lol what?
@@ripvanwinkle1819what is bro saying.
Bit off topic but have you seen this babe’s abs? She could hold a plank for an hour and, for all I know, does. Daily.
To begin to understand this piece you have to understand how it came to be. Rachmaninov had endured a disastrous opening from reasons that are still disputed. Following that intense depression prevented him from composing. After working with a psychotherapist he was able to compose. The result was his 2nd Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. The most beloved in the romantic repertoire. This piece is a beautiful gift and serves as his triumphant return to composition. ❤❤❤
You are so correct. The dark clouds lifted and this magnificent work was born.
I do not feel that it was fully reflected on this performance, which was too focused on the technicalities. The conductor seemed more into the emotions.
I feel that Anna Fedorova is one of the few people who has fully captured the the entire inner feelings of the composer.
Ouvir Rachmaninov dispensa qualquer tipo de terapia psicológica, principalmente pela manhã ao acordar !!!
And if memory serves correctly, he dedicated it to his psychotherapist.
@@drjdsjr and the psychotherapist played in the orchestra in the 1st performance.
in one of her interviews, she said she could play the rach 2
"in her sleep", because she knew/loved it so much.
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 is simply breathtaking; its beauty is beyond words.
Agree. I heard many versions of it, but Yuja's is among the best ones.
my favorite composer
Why is everyone in this comment section making comments like they could ever play anywhere near a well as her?? THIS IS YUJA WANG AFTER ALL!!! Her technique and coordination is exceptional!! Y’all just need to sit back and enjoy the beauty of this piece. Yuja is truly one of the greatest pianists of our time
For me, listening to her recordings can be enjoyable, but I no longer have any desire to attend her performances. I find her stage act to be a huge turn-off, particularly her custom of appearing in onstage in those Go-Go costumes, as if she were playing the piano in a cocktail lounge.
Yes!!!
@@excelsior999then just listen, you don't need to stare at her the whole performance, what a nothingburger statement
I love this performance of Rachmaninov's Yuja Wang!
Ok for me splendid interprétation
I can’t find enough adjectives to describe my admiration for this wonderful Young Lady I am completely spellbound 💘
The orchestra is equally good.
@@psandbergnz: Yes, the orchestra is tremendous here. And so well recorded. 😎🎹
out of all the interpretations ive heard, yuja is the most emotional and romantic. beautiful intepretation
A creation of artistic interpretation second to none when considering Yula Wang’s perfect and natural rendition of Rachmaninov’s no. 2 piano concerto. x
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Her clarity,intensity,and interpretation of the music is exceptional. No theatrics! No arms flying around,or bushy,unkempt hair tossing. Yuja's face and hands say it all! Truly the entire package!
For me this piece is the most beautiful piece I have ever heard.
Me too!
Somewhere the guilty family dog has secretly buried the conductor's baton, but Valery Gergiev persevered nonetheless with a toothpick, and the orchestra along with superb pianist Yuja Wang played an exquisite version of the beautiful Rach 2...
LOL! Gergiev the ever resourceful man.
Absolutely unbelievable technique, e.g. 25:44 it's the fastest I've ever heard this played, yet not a single note out of place.
There is no limit to what Yuja can do. Simply incredible.
Your use of the word "incredible" is spot on as vocabulary goes. I cannot believe my eyes and ears...I will now toss a few words of my own into the mix: transcendental, sublime, and only the heavens know what...
Playing any fast pieces with precision, crisp notes and without any errors is what YJW is great at! She is probably the best pianist today the more I listen to her epic performances! She is so perfect every time in every performance!
@@georgiaguardian4696 Her hands/fingers are a blur, just like the hovering humming bird which flaps its wings in a hover so fast per second that a video cannot catch the movement unless the film is set to slow motion.
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@@ajarnwordsmith628 Rac himself had a 12 key finger span and Yuja has about 8 so she’s playing super fast and accurate
How dare they put adverts throughout such a timeless piece. Find other UA-camrs with the whole concert with no adverts. Absolutely unbelievable.
Or, as I do, get a free adblocker or AdBlocker browser for a phone...
Yt puts it in themselves most of the time
The ad insertions are grotesque, to say the least!!
I have UA-cam premium so...
worth the money, to me @@sineadiloveyou
THESE EXTRAORDINARY DIFFICULT PIECES THAT THESE PRODIGIES SEEM TO JUST SAIL & GLIDE THRU....UNBELIEVABLE!!!
YUJA'S GOWN IS VERY PRETTY .
Ads in the middle of a piece as heavenly as this is fucking devious.
ikr lmfao
Sergei says at the beginning… “ the troops are coming…here’s the quick version of the drama.” He finds more time and we endure the majesty and misery like absolutely no one else can tell/live this. Oh and long live Queen Yuja
Her fingers are so powerful and fast, she plays this piece with such authority that nobody else can match.
So many people emotionally unsatisfied in the comments, i don't understand honestly. I like her playing a lot.
4:00 this call and response with the piano and oboe melts me every time
Yess
I play just one moment of this beautiful peace of music over and over again.
From 20:40 it feels like whole new world is starting to bloom.
A M A Z I N G!
MY FAVORITE PART!!! It makes me so emotional
20:30 moved me to tears like no other musician. I balled for the rest of the performance. God bless her soul
Literally interrupted by an ad while shedding tears to this oh my fucking god
im so sorry
Condolences 😂
So great pianist ... I've heard this concerto too much time and by many orchestra .. but this one was the best
I AGREE!
Yuja Wang - the best pianist in the world at this time!
After Yunchan Lim, of course
from 19:00 to 22:00 is my favorite section of music ever. makes me cry everytime. what a pleasure to hear such music.
I can never get stop listening to it, even after hundreds of times listening, i can never get tired of it. The climax of the piano and the romantic violins heals my soul
Yuja Wang is one of the greatest pianists of all time.
This is one of the few musical pieces that I can play over and over and over again, and never tire. And she does it grand!
The most beautiful Rach concert in my opinion. Therefore, I have spent the evening listening to the same piano concerto with four other (female) pianists. All performances had their merits. But no one can interpret all the emotions that this work contains like Yuja Wang, nor does anyone seem to enjoy the concert as much as she does. That alone enhances the pleasure I experience when I watch and listen to Yuja.
Who were the other females? And why restrict yourself to females?
Ever so many years ago, I rented a Lincoln Town Car for a week's vacation when they were running a special. On the way back to Las Vegas from Laughlin on a dark night, I put the cassette, yes, cassette, in the player on the car. I inserted the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 by the Cleveland Orchestra and the music began to play. It was an experience I'll always remember. I just happened to run across a blurb a few days ago that Yuga is performing in China this week. Wouldn't it be a dream for my Chinese wife and me to attend one of her live performances. Dream on! I'll just have to be content to listen to her recorded music and watching her on You Tube. Happy holidays to all of you.
4:17 - 4:37 is so beautiful and romantic. I feel like it’s not talked about enough!!
Absolutely the best interpretation of the Rach 2! Yuja's performance is utter magic. Glorious fingering and phrasing...sensitivity and power! She is a miracle!
She's way too much for this orchestra. No disrespect intended but her masterful artistry is on an other worldly level.
I like Isata Kanneh-Mason’s better.
The phrasing is WILDLY incredible here. Yuja’s beyond brilliant.
This concert takes you to another dimension, where only beauty , joy and harmony exists. Happy the ones who have a soul that can appreciate it, and feel all the warmth that this music emanates, straight from heavenly realms...❤🎉
5:50 to me, this is what melancholy and happiness sound like. I think it's because of how well the violins and the piano mix together. The violins sound bittersweet, but the piano adds another layer of complexity to it, their synergy is immaculate. I came here because Mao Asada skated to this for her free skate at Sochi 2014, and out of all the different pianists who popped up after searching it up, I specifically clicked on this video because I saw that Yuja wang was the one performing it, and I had a slight memory of her bowing compilation on TikTok. I knew the amount of passion she had just from watching her bow to the audience, and I'm going to be honest, I kind of got teary eyed while listening to this! Thank you to Yuja Wang and the entire orchestra for performing this masterpiece with such grace and passion ❤Yuja even made me rethink quitting piano to start figure skating! LOL
Браво Рахманинов концерт 2 для пиано, браво оркестр и дирижор Гергиев, брао пиано ЮЯ Ванг! Браво! Спасибо!
0:00 I Moderato
10:44 II Adagio sostenuto (wtf so awesome)
22:00 III Allegro scherzando
19:07 the sequence you all came for starts here
THANK YOU!!!
Simplemente única, indescriptible, perfecta.
Gracias Yuja vienes de otro mundo. ❤
I dated a pianist who had to go audition for her PHD in the states so I travelled with her and I sat there for hours on end listening to her play. I’ve memorized everything too and even learnt how to read sheet music because I had to follow it and turn the page at the right time. That’s what comes with dating a musician.
why is that so cute awww 😭
Yuja Wang gets engulfed in the notes and melody. She lets her body feel it. Almost like an emotional connection with the piece, and her fingers keep the flame ignited.
Бесподобно!! Юджи это явление мирового фортепианного искусства Она снова "вытолкнула" интерес к классической музыке в 21 веке Блестящая исполнительница, умница , тонко чувствующая композитора Стараюсь не пропустить ни одного ее выступления на доступных ресурсах и каждый раз изумляюсь ее игрой Это счастье жить во время когда она вышла на большую мировую сцену
Гениальное исполнение. Каждая нотка прослушивается. Какие эмоции!!!
Дирижер- гений. Юля -гений.
Я много слушал это концерт в разных исполнениях. После Б. Березовского- она вторая. Лучше их нет.
Brilliant conductor, brilliant pianist, what more can you ask for. Bravo!!!!
❤she feels every single note through her body, a gift straight from spirit, remarkable ❤l could listen to her forever, so uplifting in this sad world ❤❤❤
May Yuja Wang live for ever.
Oh to be an orchestra member who gets to watch Yuja play up close. Her fingers are like spiders scrambling across the keys in a blur. How is it possible to direct each finger to hit the correct key again and again? It is as Michelangelo said that God directs his hands to carve out the image within a block of granite. It would be the same for Yuja (and other great pianist) whose play is being led by a higher power. True greatness brings tears to my olde eyes.
It's hard to believe that Rachmaninoff was still in his late 20's when he composed this. ! !
Probably the greatest piece of classical music ever written.
I agree... RACHMANINOV was a real genius!
My passion is classical music ; I LOVE Rachmaninov ; I absolutely ADORE Yuja Wang and to hear and also SEE her play this GORGEOUS piano concerto just BLOWS MY MIND❗
This performance captures all the nuances of Rachmaninoff - the passionm, the romance and the sadness all combined! Magnificent!!!
00:30 , 6:00 , 6:35
I come here after watching nodame cantabile. Never expect to sit through this performance until the end. Music really can touch your heart even if you know nothing about classical music
@emmanuelr.474 I watch the live action version, actually its my 3rd rewatch coz i just love it so much. Glad to know that there are others from the show too
First time I watched and the FIRST thing I noticed is at 0:42 how tight those base notes are with the double basses....great rhythm and timing, more so than a lot I've heard (and this is my favourite Concerto of all time).
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No2 is a masterpiece, and Ms Wang plays it magnificently! It is such a pleasure to watch not only her fingers but her face and body because there is so much emotion in her playing this piece. I thought she was going to fly right off that piano bench a few times! This was the second time I've watched this video, and I'm sure it won't be the last. Bravo!👏👏👏👏
Браво Рахманинов концерт 2!
Браво дирижер Гергиев и оркестр!.Браво пиано ЮЯ! Спасибо!.
I COME HERE EVERY DAY AND WEEP FOR JOY.
Well, I have to confess - and I am not even a big Yuja Wang fan - that this particular performance with Gergiev is my favourite one, most appealing. And there are many, even the one by Rachmaninov himself. So there, I admit it.
Her playing and interpretation are just incredible! I can't imagine anyone doing it any better.
check out the Weissenberg/Karajan interpretation, it is up there in quality!
People must surely be born to play like this. That doesn't mean absence of pure hard work etc but honestly! She's a force.
Just got home, and decided to hear this. Best 30 minutes in the garage ever.
J’aime tellement Yuja Wang depuis toujours ,elle incarne pour moi la grâce sans jamais faillir au compositeur qu’elle interprète. Magnifique musicienne. ❤
Brings tears to my old eyes, no matter how often I have heard it - but never better . - Thank you, thank you!
I think Horowitz is listening somewhere in the universe...
@@rogerlephoque3661: And sadly, he never performed this concerto in public. 😎🎹
I have watched this video many time... So how does it bring a lump to my throat every time?... What sorcery is this?.. We are privileged that this magical lady plays for us.
this has to be the best interpretation of this concerto, no contest
It’s great but check out Sviatoslav Richter
Хочу отметить филигранную работу звукорежиссёров. Такое гармоничное звучание рояля и оркестра слышу впервые. Настолько выверено всё по частотам, басы "масло", верхние не звенят. Работу даже самого лучшего артиста важно донести до слушателя. Здесь это идеально.Браво звукорежиссёрам!
I like it when she plays a slow, soft part and the camera is on her face. She's loving the peace it brings to herself and the audience. She breaks a slight smile and raises her eye brows slightly. She's just having a wonderful time!
Magnificent performance. A display of an extraordinarily powerful human brain.
Rach's 2nd and 3rd make life worth living. Yuja Wang, Olga Kern, Valentina Lisitsa. I cannot decide whom I enjoy the most. If I were a billionaire oligarch, I would have a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand installed into my 250 foot yacht in the grand salon and pay whatever fee they want to just play Rach 2nd and 3rd solo without orchestra, as I enjoy it with a tumbler of brandy as an audience of one. I'll open the windows and let the glorious music wafe over the water in St. Tropez harbor as it nears sunset.
Can I get an invite?
Oh, my! Life is much easier than that! And true happiness too 😉
I have listened to this amazing concerto so many times . Yuja Wang’s performance is unparalleled to anything I’ve seen. I really love her and her talent. May she continue to perform for the decades to come.❤️🌹❤️
@yujawang77533 dear yuja, my love for you is spiritual, the type that brightens my heart everything I see you perform.
I hope I could see you when you come to San Francisco next time.
With lots of ❤️ ❤️❤️
@yujawang77533 I will be there for sure.
We are indeed fortunate to live in a time when we can hear her at her prime. What a privilege. Everything about her is incredible.
My god. What a start to a piece of music.
Music can do so many things. For example: heal a broken heart, help someone to make the right decision, beeing a companion in perhaps hard times, help us to see the underlying circumstances in something that is totally messed up. And so on. Or like here, for me: A total enjoying of the musical qualities of this playing. Thank you Yuja Wang, Valery Gergiev and Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra.
Love the smile, she's really enjoying the performance. Bless her ⚘️🎶
THE MAGIC STILL HOLDS TRUE, YUJA AND RACHMANINOV IN THIS BRILLIANT CONCERT.
THE INTRICACY OF YUJA WANG; The brilliance! The astonishing orchestral beauty! The dynamics, the tone, timing, contour, EVERYTHING DOWN TO THE LAST DROP IS BEAUTIFUL
For me this performance is the most beautiful I have ever heard. on YT
You need to look for more….Sokolov is enough to prove how far you are from music appreciation to call her “the best”
@@carloscappellini1687que pesado
One of the most wonderful pieces of music ever written!
I am transfixed by Yuja's performances - breathtaking!!
I know nothing about the technicalities of music, and have never touched an instrument. However this performance resonates with something in my brain.. not sure what it is. I'm a bit of a cynic and don't like being told what is good and what is better. When the recording is over, I just want to play it again. It's mesmeric
My God. My breath has been taken away.
Such a beautiful of example of what beauty humans can create.
Her energy is intoxicating.
Just bought tickets for me and my 12yo boy to see her in Canada in april. So excited!
A beautiful piece of music and a wonderful technician. You have a heart of stone if this doesn't make you weep.
One of the best performances I’ve seen. She’s a goddess.
Yuja Wang so talented , simply beautiful
“Recording provided by the Yuja Wang archives”. Archives? How old IS she? lol. What an absolutely beautiful concert. UA-cam putting commercials in the middle is sinful. Interrupting a half hour of inoffensiveness. Rather than calling that commercial your payment for watching, how about each of us introduce a child in our lives to the wonders of classical music with this masterpiece? Big thanks to Yuja for bringing this old dog back to listening to classics again. 🎹
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At the time she was 35 and had been playing in public since age 5 or 6, so she has roughly 30 years of archived performances.
Tonight I listened to Rachmaninov 2 and 3 by Yuja wang, the best ever a gift to all of us thank you
Браво ЮЯ Ванг пиано концерт 2 композитор Рахманинов! Браво оркестр и дирижор Гергиев! Браво! Спасибо.
Браво концерт-2 композитор Рахманинов! Браво пиано Ю.Я.Ванг! Браво оркестр и дирижор Гергиев! Спасибо, браво!
Yuja you are beautiful noble poetic and divine. Rachmananovs soul is singing thru your heavenly fingers
Ms. Yuja Wang is maturing wonderfully as a really great pianist .
Life itself, when viewed accordingly, can afford great insight, in het case, to a deeper "feel" for the music she performs
Her greater focus on the art itself and less on the visual aspect of her performance is a testemony of her growth.
( She is no less pleasant to the eyes, quite the contrary, but in a more mature, deep, lasting way ! )
Слов нет никаких. Так блестяше сыграть это концерт- фантастика. Это же как надо чувствовать С. Рахманинова. Гергиев- гений.
Браво пиано ЮЯ Ванг!
Браво композитор Рахманинов концерт 2! Браво оркестр и дирижор
Гергиев! Спасибо Вы лучшие, браво!
Scintillating performance....extraordinary technique in the faster passages, and wonderful sensitive phrasing in the slower passages. I love Yuja's wry smile at 27:27 after getting through what is a very tricky passage (light on notes, but evenness and accuracy essential).
Yuja looks so elegant, her interpretation of Rac 2 is sublime. ❤
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This is my favourite Rach. So many interpretations, and still I hold Yuja Wang together with Valery Gergiev and this orchestra the best for delivering this music. Sometimes you only need a toothpick to rule the music.
But then I heard Yeol Eum Son in this, and now I am nor sure...
What a player, and what a gorgeous sounding Steinway!
Браво ЮЯ Ванг! С Ноаым 2024 годом!
Поздравляю с успехами в концертной деятельности. Ты талант. 31:08 Молодец! Так держать! Спасибо за
Рахманинова.
Incredibile and wonderful. She is superhuman. What is she capable of to play with a sensitivity, precision and expression and to memorize is unbelievable. Wow.
Words are inadequate to describe this performance. Excellent!