Learning that concerto is a b**ch, trust me. The six or so pages of the lengthy cadenza near the end feel as if they were written for three hands instead of one. Paul Wittgenstein (the pianist for whom it and many other left hand concertos were written, after he lost his right arm in WWI) disliked this concerto because of that cadenza. He preferred playing other left hand concertos instead, especially Korngold's Concerto in C sharp minor and Britten's "Diversions." He also hated Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.4 for left hand alone, and would not play it
Wow! Before I die, I hope to see Yuja Wang in concert... I have every one of these concertos in my music collection, and all the other concertos by the same composers as well. And somehow, I was sure Rach #3 would be her most performed piece. I saw Olga Kern perform that one with the Nashville Symphony orchestra several years ago. The ending took my breath away, literally. I was on the verge of hyperventilating. Everyone else was leaving the concert, and I couldn't move. Just when you think those last few minutes can't soar any higher, they do. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one that gets that, which is too bad, because it is an amazing feeling.
Prokopiev Piano Concerto #2? I must check it out Yuja was at the point of crying at RACH 3, carried by the music or was just very very tired and her fingers are already aching?
Olga Kern looks much the same near the end of her Van Cliburn performance of Rach #3. If you're going to play this piece, you need to spend considerable time in the gym. Check it out... ua-cam.com/video/AapjpeqmviM/v-deo.html
Исполнять" Быстрее всех"- для русской классики не подойдет,. . Русская Музыкальная Классика- прежде Глубина образов,..❗ .... Пианистке надо Осмыслить, что хочет исполнять... ⚡✨
I wish she plays some famous pop songs and add some classical flair to them. Because the simple and rhytmic melody would be much more enjoyable to listen than some of the classical music that is mostly too complicated
Basically, she always plays the same concerts. After all, there is a change: sometimes she exposes her back and the right leg, sometimes the back and the left leg. There is always music with naked flesh.
That's strange...imo, her movements aren't at all frantic. They are contained, smooth. Frantic movements are an impossibility when a pianist is playing intricate music. Just like any elite athlete, YW doesn't waste her energy. Are you a pianist?
Absolutely astonishing! Here's a playlist: 00:08 Ravel Piano Concerto In G 00:39 Ravel Left Hand Piano Concerto from Rome 01:19 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 02:12 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 03:20 Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 04:34 Bartók Piano Concerto No.1 05:28 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 06:54 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3 08:45 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.2 10:18 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3
My mouth is agape. Her two most-frequently played concertos are also the two most difficult in the international concert pianist's standard repertoire !! I pray that some heavenly protection rests upon her and that she endures for a very long time. The world needs her.
@Karin Becker I can make comparisons only among real pianists, not potential ones. The formidable virtuosity encased in her fine interpretations of the music are admirable and worthy of the fandom she has. Her physical beauty, brains, fashion sense and seemingly affable personality are all part of her. Performers perform. This includes employing any assets they bring to their performances. Will she endure as a towering pianist of the ages ? who knows ? Enjoy it now.
@Karin Becker sounds like a tinge of jealousy to me. Why can't you recognise a brilliant, confident sparkling talent. You must have had a very sad life !
There are many fine pianists - 100's - each with their own preferences and qualities and surely there is no need to argue about who is the 'greatest' - indeed it's a rather meaningless title.
@@adrianwright8685 So nice to, very rarely, come across an intelligent and balanced post on the intellectual desert and fanboy fever of the Tubes. Thanks...
To a great pianist belongs more than playing Prokofiev and Rachmaninov and then Shostakovich and some Chopin. She is a virtuoso, but she is not a great artist at the piano.
@@beckerhanshermann8372 Lol-do you ever actually reason before you troll? So, if we follow your twisted and ignorant reasoning, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov and Shostakovich and Chopin are not really played by 'great artists'. Well, Hans/Karin/Max, we certainly have more proof here you are definitely no musical intellect, and not even that great a troll. Perhaps old age does that, or too much guilt over all the Nazi loot still in your Swiss coffers...😜
If only she'd perform Rachmaninoff piano concerto no. 1, just once, her greatness would be complete; for us who love Rachmaninoff and absolutely in love with Yuja: the gift of serenity amidst the thunder from God.
@@burrenmagic I trust you meant "why do I think she doesn't play/hasn't played it". My continuous hopeful searches for a video of Yuja doing justice to concerto 1 has been fruitless. Yuja is a UA-cam star phenomenon: if she has performed it some fan, somewhere, would have uploaded it for the shared enjoyment of other fans. Thank goodness for HJ Lim's scintillating concerti 123 with the Barcelona Orchestra.
She was supposed to play it in Cleveland last January. Program is below. Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, January 15, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Yuja Wang, piano SCHUBERT Symphony No. 6 RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 1 DVOŘÁK A Hero’s Song [Heldenlied] - Cleveland Orchestra premiere
@@joelrw1 Thanks for the info. The pandemic presumably, and sadly, put paid to all that. Who's to say that she might not privately record it, with minus-one orchestral backing, and upload it to give some small succor to her ardent devotees, like us, in this distressing times. And who knows: Yuja might stumble upon this fervent wish and actually do it, eh! Thanks again and regards.
I would love to hear her play the very original version of Rachmaninoff's 4th concerto, a truly powerful work compared to the mutilated published version
No me agradó......no solo la música......sino que ser buen pianista no es mostrar la técnica,velocidad,digitación,esfuerzo.....sino además poner el alma en lo que se ejecuta,sentirlo,emocionar al oyente, en fin, ......debe sensibilizar......NO MARTIRIZAR......Y MARTIRIZARSE..Perdón......es mi simple opinión
She has played 79 times the Rachmaninov concerto, so played this 5 times in one year, with Prokofiev Concerto 4 times in one year and Tchaikovsky concerto 4 times in one year? She played circa 250 concertos in 15 Years? It seem very strange... I thinked that She played 20-25 concertos in 15 years. But Wang is one of my favorite pianists.
Miss Wang has played about 20 concerts in 2020. In previous years she played up to 120 concerts including recitals and chamber music. The concerts of the Chinese are counted under yuja wang Nicer Web. It is not reported whether all the concerts were good or very good.
Yuja Wang is the greatest athlete of the piano! Yes, lol, that’s what she does. Horowitz was amused by Chinese pianists’ utter physical dexterity at the piano. There is no depth in her playing; it is all about hands flying and hopping beautifully all over the keyboard. And her head bobs and weaves like the head of Joe Frazier, the boxer. I stopped listening to her and to Lang Lang a very long time ago.
Here's an interesting stat: I don't think I've LISTENED to recordings of the Rach III more than 60 times! While these are phenomenal feats of musical prowess, I'm wondering how many times she's performed the Beethoven piano concertos, or the Brahms 1, or the Prokovief 1, or the Mozart 20, 22, or 24, etc., etc...
I wish she would dress as classically as she plays! Her dresses need backs! Yuja Wang is a fine, fine pianist and nothing should detract from the music! Should be all about the music.
Ah, which one, my amigo? And who's "genuine emotion" and "color of truth" are you missing? Your own? Such stupid and musically ignorant critique is your right, but so is making a fool of yourself with such a shallow and silly biased post...
I used to think so too. But her virtuosity is so stupefying that she makes it seem effortless and emotion free unlike Kissin or even Trifonov whose blood sweat and tears you can see and feel when they play. At least that's what i feel. I think now she's better than Argerich...? She plays the Prokofiev 2 and all Bartok which are so enormously hard to play - with ease. Argerich wouldn't touch P. 2 and Argerich was very bloodless in performances too. When you are so technically virtuoso something else loses out...
She shows her talent in every way including her dress.
she always dresses provocatively, what a artiste and pianist, Juja Wang, you are brilliant xx
You walk like a panther and play like a divinity,and for that million thanks.
She is without doubt together with Trifonov and Hamelin, the best contempory Pianist. A gift from god for all of us.
solamente Yuja y Trifonov
Brofman, Lang Lang....
@@Oka33Agree: Bronfman, Hamelin, Lugansky, Trifonov, Gryatznov, Wang, yes. Lang-Lang, no.
No one gets to me like Yuja I absolutely adore Her 💘💘💘💘❤️
AMAZING!
I was already a fan - but she continues to amaze me...
That Ravel for left hand is so strange and fascinating to watch...highly recommend. Then read the comments why she only plays with one hand 👌
Learning that concerto is a b**ch, trust me. The six or so pages of the lengthy cadenza near the end feel as if they were written for three hands instead of one. Paul Wittgenstein (the pianist for whom it and many other left hand concertos were written, after he lost his right arm in WWI) disliked this concerto because of that cadenza. He preferred playing other left hand concertos instead, especially Korngold's Concerto in C sharp minor and Britten's "Diversions." He also hated Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.4 for left hand alone, and would not play it
😂
She is a Genius !!!
Phenomenal player!
Thanks for posting! 👍 👍 👍
Her chords and octaves are so powerful and warm. How can anybody in the world not love her?
Btw, at 9:50 that's amazing conducting!
Bravissimo !
Wow! Before I die, I hope to see Yuja Wang in concert... I have every one of these concertos in my music collection, and all the other concertos by the same composers as well. And somehow, I was sure Rach #3 would be her most performed piece. I saw Olga Kern perform that one with the Nashville Symphony orchestra several years ago. The ending took my breath away, literally. I was on the verge of hyperventilating. Everyone else was leaving the concert, and I couldn't move. Just when you think those last few minutes can't soar any higher, they do. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one that gets that, which is too bad, because it is an amazing feeling.
agree completely. Rach 3 is also for me, one of the most beautiful and wonderful piano pieces and Yuha is there.
Merci mais cette version est avec quel chef et orchestre ??
You are NOT the only one!!!!
Rach #3 absolutely kills me!
Bellissimo
💖💖💖
...whether she plays with one hand or both..SHE IS THE ORCHESTRA...
Reminds me of Manuel de Falla’s “Fire Dance”.
No. 9 - I was there!
Boy, I bet she could play "Great Balls of Fire" almost as good as The Killer himself.
Compared with the same piece of music Yuja Wang played， I certainly am very much in favor of that Yuja played. The differences are clear.
MARAVILHA
🥰🥰👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Fera!
She doesn't meet with audience members after a concert, such as at Disney Hall. Why?
Did you not realise, she does 120 concerts in one year !!!
Prokopiev Piano Concerto #2? I must check it out
Yuja was at the point of crying at RACH 3, carried by the music or was just very very tired and her fingers are already aching?
I noticed that as well. It was probably something much deeper.
I think it's sweating. the heat of Macao, the physical effort, the concentration. her dress received a lot, and her eyes too
Olga Kern looks much the same near the end of her Van Cliburn performance of Rach #3. If you're going to play this piece, you need to spend considerable time in the gym. Check it out... ua-cam.com/video/AapjpeqmviM/v-deo.html
Mascara problem, I think
I think Rach 3 means more to her than she lets on. It's such a challenge, even Gary Graffman said he never mastered it like Yuja can !
Different concertos, different personalities.. :)
Исполнять" Быстрее всех"- для русской классики не подойдет,.
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Русская Музыкальная Классика- прежде Глубина образов,..❗ .... Пианистке надо Осмыслить, что хочет исполнять... ⚡✨
8:44
I wish she plays some famous pop songs and add some classical flair to them. Because the simple and rhytmic melody would be much more enjoyable to listen than some of the classical music that is mostly too complicated
12:45 that french horn player looks a lot like debussy
Basically, she always plays the same concerts. After all, there is a change: sometimes she exposes her back and the right leg, sometimes the back and the left leg. There is always music with naked flesh.
And there is always posting from you with racist/sexist nazi propaganda from you Dr. Goebbels!
People see all these frantic movements of arms, head, body, etc., and are impressed …. Chopin, Beethoven and Brahms would not be impressed, though.
That's strange...imo, her movements aren't at all frantic. They are contained, smooth. Frantic movements are an impossibility when a pianist is playing intricate music. Just like any elite athlete, YW doesn't waste her energy.
Are you a pianist?
Absolutely astonishing!
Here's a playlist:
00:08 Ravel Piano Concerto In G
00:39 Ravel Left Hand Piano Concerto from Rome
01:19 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1
02:12 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2
03:20 Brahms Piano Concerto No.2
04:34 Bartók Piano Concerto No.1
05:28 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1
06:54 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3
08:45 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.2
10:18 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3
Did she ever play Griegs piano concerto.....?
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My mouth is agape. Her two most-frequently played concertos are also the two most difficult in the international concert pianist's standard repertoire !! I pray that some heavenly protection rests upon her and that she endures for a very long time. The world needs her.
@Karin Becker I can make comparisons only among real pianists, not potential ones. The formidable virtuosity encased in her fine interpretations of the music are admirable and worthy of the fandom she has. Her physical beauty, brains, fashion sense and seemingly affable personality are all part of her. Performers perform. This includes employing any assets they bring to their performances. Will she endure as a towering pianist of the ages ? who knows ? Enjoy it now.
@Karin Becker sounds like a tinge of jealousy to me. Why can't you recognise a brilliant, confident sparkling talent. You must have had a very sad life !
She's so exciting to watch. I haven't been taken up by a pianist so much since the days of Gary Graffman, who it turns out, is/was her mentor.
As for Lang Lang!
I totally agree! I never knew that I could be addicted to any pianist. She's the best!
Avec Martha !!!
I like to claim that she's the greatest pianist alive, & no one gonna convince me otherwise.
I think her and Martha agerich are the 2 greatest alive pianists
Martha Argerich isn't dead yet and Yuja isn't on the level of Maria João Pires, which is a much greater artist.
There are many fine pianists - 100's - each with their own preferences and qualities and surely there is no need to argue about who is the 'greatest' - indeed it's a rather meaningless title.
@@adrianwright8685 So nice to, very rarely, come across an intelligent and balanced post on the intellectual desert and fanboy fever of the Tubes. Thanks...
@@daniels7052
Je pense la même chose : impossible de les départager !!
Prodige + Talent ce deux choses rassemblées en mathématique = GÉNIE 💥💥💥💥💥💥🎩🎩👋👋👋👋👋💐💐💐💯💯
I thought #1 would be “turkish marcsh” 😆
She never fails to amaze me with her talent.
Piano technique?
@@zuhairbakdoud1360 Yes, talent (before you edited your comment). And yes, piano technique (your edited comment).
SO HARD TO BELIEVE SUCH A CREATURE OF TALENT COULD EVER EXIST.
She is absolutely one in a million. One of the greatest pianists of her generation for sure.
That would mean that there are more than 7000 pianist like her on this planet... One out of 10 or 100 millins, maybe.
@@filippofontana8248 it’s a figure of speech
@@gretareinarsson7461 :-)
Tremenda,brutal,impecable,sofisticada.profunda...🔥🔥🧡
She is something else. She also a fabulous piano player...
Such a great pianist, I’d call her “lady with hands of fire”.
To a great pianist belongs more than playing Prokofiev and Rachmaninov and then Shostakovich and some Chopin. She is a virtuoso, but she is not a great artist at the piano.
@@beckerhanshermann8372 Lol-do you ever actually reason before you troll? So, if we follow your twisted and ignorant reasoning, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov and Shostakovich and Chopin are not really played by 'great artists'.
Well, Hans/Karin/Max, we certainly have more proof here you are definitely no musical intellect, and not even that great a troll. Perhaps old age does that, or too much guilt over all the Nazi loot still in your Swiss coffers...😜
@@beckerhanshermann8372 another bloody expert. Hate negativity.
Becker Hans,
Thank you for your remark about this athlete of the keyboard.
I agree with you, Becker Hans.
If only she'd perform Rachmaninoff piano concerto no. 1, just once, her greatness would be complete; for us who love Rachmaninoff and absolutely in love with Yuja: the gift of serenity amidst the thunder from God.
why don't you think she plays it?
@@burrenmagic
I trust you meant "why do I think she doesn't play/hasn't played it".
My continuous hopeful searches for a video of Yuja doing justice to concerto 1 has been fruitless.
Yuja is a UA-cam star phenomenon: if she has performed it some fan, somewhere, would have uploaded it for the shared enjoyment of other fans.
Thank goodness for HJ Lim's scintillating concerti 123 with the Barcelona Orchestra.
She was supposed to play it in Cleveland last January. Program is below.
Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 15, 2021 at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 8:00 p.m.
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 6
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 1
DVOŘÁK A Hero’s Song [Heldenlied] - Cleveland Orchestra premiere
@@joelrw1
Thanks for the info. The pandemic presumably, and sadly, put paid to all that.
Who's to say that she might not privately record it, with minus-one orchestral backing, and upload it to give some small succor to her ardent devotees, like us, in this distressing times.
And who knows: Yuja might stumble upon this fervent wish and actually do it, eh!
Thanks again and regards.
I would love to hear her play the very original version of Rachmaninoff's 4th concerto, a truly powerful work compared to the mutilated published version
Muscles of upper all at work! Amazing skill🥰
Amazing.. can you also please include the details of the performances in the video? would love to watch them in full
And so beautiful...
She never ceases to amaze with her virtuoso performances! Bravo!
You are Always Incredible for perfect executions and velocity❣️💓🌡️❤️🔥😱🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹⚡
SVP:
Quel est le chef et l’orchestre du concerto n3 de Rachmaninov ?
Cette version est incroyable d’émotion…
Anders Orozco-Estrada, Wiener Philarmonic, Played in Macau (2019)
@@L00D00
Thanks 😊
C'est CE concerto et CETTE pianiste qui en font ce moment incroyable
YUJA WANG The name of the XXI Century!
it's all damned good
An accurate description, but I think her heart is more attached to the 20th Century. Phenomenal
she is piano, a piano's soul,,,,, you do not she is piano, or piano is her , all of around her are entirely motivated and become one music soul !!!!
Magic. Thank you!
Magnificento.
As an agnostic, I believe only a God, couldn't of created someone like Yuja, maybe I'll convert...........nah.
Sir, l cannot understand your English, l apologize.
Exaggeration?
讓人徹底感動的貴族品味
She is only 37 years old.
la mejor pianista
the camera can't keep up with her fingers!!
6:50 the face of the conductor :)
Yeahh!! Great
Шостакович-Темп утрирован.
Рахманинов С. В. - Русская Душа, Самобытность. Мелодизм❗
Исполнителям слушать в исп. Рахманинова❗.
No me agradó......no solo la música......sino que ser buen pianista no es mostrar la técnica,velocidad,digitación,esfuerzo.....sino además poner el alma en lo que se ejecuta,sentirlo,emocionar al oyente, en fin, ......debe sensibilizar......NO MARTIRIZAR......Y MARTIRIZARSE..Perdón......es mi simple opinión
An absolute joy to have found this as i'm a long-time fan of Yuga. Thank you for putting this up.
Чудесно.......
11:20 Didn't know Elon Musk could play the violin
HOW IMMACULATE !
NEVER SUCH A PERFORMER AS SHE .
Ich kann mich nicht satt sehen an dieser aussergewöhnlichen Erscheinung. Wie kann man nur dermaßen begnadet spielen?
ESPETACULAR
MUITO LINDO AMEI
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Yujia rocks ❤!
¡ Muchas gracias !
She has played 79 times the Rachmaninov concerto, so played this 5 times in one year, with Prokofiev Concerto 4 times in one year and Tchaikovsky concerto 4 times in one year? She played circa 250 concertos in 15 Years? It seem very strange... I thinked that She played 20-25 concertos in 15 years. But Wang is one of my favorite pianists.
Miss Wang has played about 20 concerts in 2020. In previous years she played up to 120 concerts including recitals and chamber music. The concerts of the Chinese are counted under yuja wang Nicer Web. It is not reported whether all the concerts were good or very good.
You Can check and count them if you want, but what is surprising about a World class pianist playing 40-50 concertos per year ?
@@zestofpiano3509 I think piano concerto not general concerto.
@@lorisbonetti4250she used to play about 80-120 concerts each year between 2009 and 2019, that could easily include 50-60 concertos.
Yuja, please Rapsody in Blue...!
she's done it? it's on this...
No Beethoven?
The Beethoven's concerto she played the most is the first one, 18 times, so it did'nt make it in this ranking.
@@zestofpiano3509 The more I hear #1, the more I like it. My favorite is #4. Hopefully, she'll play that soon.
Where’s Lang Lang?…
Tout le génie pianiste et musical est dans ses mains
Meravigliosa
I am eternally grateful, Zest of Piano ; hard to describe the joy Ms Wang brings ....:-) :-)
Her fingers seems to have a life of their own.
Yuja is my dream girl, a gift to music lovers.
I think you mean "dream woman", don't you?
You have expressed it well…
Yuja Wang is the greatest athlete of the piano!
Yes, lol, that’s what she does.
Horowitz was amused by Chinese pianists’ utter physical dexterity at the piano. There is no depth in her playing; it is all about hands flying and hopping beautifully all over the keyboard. And her head bobs and weaves like the head of Joe Frazier, the boxer. I stopped listening to her and to Lang Lang a very long time ago.
Wonderful performances! 想听您讲几句北京话！
She is so gifted. Adore her, and proud of her being a Beijinger!
Here's an interesting stat: I don't think I've LISTENED to recordings of the Rach III more than 60 times!
While these are phenomenal feats of musical prowess, I'm wondering how many times she's performed the Beethoven piano concertos, or the Brahms 1, or the Prokovief 1, or the Mozart 20, 22, or 24, etc., etc...
I wish she would dress as classically as she plays! Her dresses need backs! Yuja Wang is a fine, fine pianist and nothing should detract from the music! Should be all about the music.
Rach 3 very nice I still prefer horowitz and argeritch but this girl is also terrific
How about Richter, Nikolayeva, Fournel ! ?
@@bobroest9031 i said "prefer"
Its virtuosity is undeniable, but it lacks soul and feeling and a color of truth and genuine emotion.
Ah, which one, my amigo? And who's "genuine emotion" and "color of truth" are you missing? Your own? Such stupid and musically ignorant critique is your right, but so is making a fool of yourself with such a shallow and silly
biased post...
You're deaf ...or just prejudiced, both conditions poorly suitable for music
Lacking not, for me.
I used to think so too. But her virtuosity is so stupefying that she makes it seem effortless and emotion free unlike Kissin or even Trifonov whose blood sweat and tears you can see and feel when they play. At least that's what i feel. I think now she's better than Argerich...? She plays the Prokofiev 2 and all Bartok which are so enormously hard to play - with ease. Argerich wouldn't touch P. 2 and Argerich was very bloodless in performances too. When you are so technically virtuoso something else loses out...
STRA TOP NR 1 .....troppo tutto!!!