Yuja Wang explains the unique concept behind her solo recital tour
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2020
- 11 March: We are sorry to announce that Yuja Wang has had to cancel the remaining dates of this solo recital tour. For a full statement, follow here / b9mq2p6a-bh
Yuja Wang details the thought process behind her new recital programme which she will tour over the next 7 weeks.
Yuja’s solo tour will take her all across North America and Europe, totalling an impressive 19 recitals.
To find out more, read our news story: www.intermusica.co.uk/news/4388
Yuja Wang is an immense and mature talent but is also an attractive young woman making her way in a very competitive business. She obviously has both a sense of humor and a good marketing instinct that manifests itself in her gowns. We wish her the best in her career.
Saw her at Carnegie Hall last week. She is incredibly gifted.
I was there too! it was an amazing performance
In one asks me : “Who is the most talented living pianist nowadays ?” My answer is “Yuja Wang”.
You've heard every living pianist, huh? Wow, when do you find time to poop?
She is so beautiful, so real, so personal, in her interviews. Definitely one of the best pianists in our time.
One day I'll see and hear live. 🎶🎼🎹
What a gifted and beautiful woman
Yuja plays so "effortlessly" that she could squeeze 3 Minute Waltzes into 50 seconds, leaving the audience wanting more.
sounds very good
I don't know whether Yuja or her management reads these comments? Hoping that somebody does: here goes. It's always a joy to hear Yuja: and I'm sorry to hear elsewhere that a few petty old fogies have called her "childish" or are griping about her exquisite costumes on stage. Just flush 'em down the pan, my girl, and you walk tall. I love Yuja's zest and sense of fun, her brio and appetite for life and sense of adventure, not least musical adventure. No way is this "childish" - and it helps to make her as special as she is. As for being "childlike": this is the basis of all great art, and of all great artists. Would you rather she had the mind of a chartered accountant?
A word about flashy encores. These have been part of almost any virtuoso's portfolio, as far back as Liszt and doubtless further. There is a difference between "flashy" and "trashy", which is only partly a matter of context and of taste. Just as long as "flashy" excess stays for the encores? And this, alas, is where I start to blot my copybook. Stuck in the USA, there is an immense temptation and indulge in transatlantic kitsch (yes, I'm afraid I do include Rhapsody in Blue, not to mention jazz) if you want to turn heads and win a reputation, or to appear patriotic, or to seem One of the Guys. If you deal with the likes of an international also-ran like Michael Tilson-Thomas, the temptation is tenfold. There is a difference between adventure or eclecticism, and convivial musical tat. I loved Yuja's "Libertango" (a concert in Israel, I think) but I'm far more relieved that she is starting to stretch herself with towering peaks of the repertoire, in the company of big boys and grown-ups such as Valery Gergiev. Please don't sink into the mire of crossover pap, Yuja, as Lola Astanova is doing? It's terribly, terribly hard to find your way back. Work out your course, keep your eye on your goal. Fun, exuberance, daring: these are essentials to your mindset. Of course they are. Just so long as "flashy" - tongue in cheek, even - stays for the encores, in the right sort of context. You wouldn't inflict Godowsky on a concert of late Brahms.
And maybe one day we'll see you move to Europe, where you will have readier access to key audiences with less pressure to play to the gallery?
Stephen Jackson Eloquently expressed Mr. Jackson.
@@simonkwong5380 Thanks, Simon! I'm a sucker for compliments 😜
I love both seeing her beautiful dresses and watching her incredible talent and emotional involvement with the music.
The problem is when Yuja plays, say, the Rach 3. This is not, in any way, a light joyful piece. Here is passion and tragedy. It goes to the depths of our souls. Yuja doesn't have that in her. I saw her smiling in inappropriate places. Her touch on the piano is very light in the recording I listened to. It just doesn't go with Rachmaninoff. At the same time, her playing is flawless. The notes work, but the gravitas is just not there. Give me a Russian anytime to play this wonderful piece of music.
she's playing une barque sur l'ocean so i have to go see her
Indeed, I was puzzled when I saw that programme of the concert in Amsterdam at the end of this month.
In one of the documentaries she recently said she was reading 'If on a winter's night a traveler' by Italo Calvino: 'as if it was written for me.' The book is mind-boggling and it sheds a disturbing light on the life she must lead as an artist. In the book a 'reader' is trying to read to the end of a book, but somehow he keeps falling from one boog into the other, sometimes as a subject, sometimes as a writer never getting to the end - from this book I got an image of the pianist, traveling from one orchestra to another, from one symphony into another, with one conductor or another always stepping into a book somewhere on page 45, and leaving on page 52, sometimes to return and finding out that the orchestra is now on page 62, the conductor is on page 75, only in different books, that sometimes contain a love-story, the other time a detective intrigue in search of some ghost she sees somewhere on a balcony on the other side of the street from the window of her hotel. (I have not yet read any reaction on her comment on this book, only on her dresses).
Now she seems to have composed her own reader, and she seems to go she goes in search of the spirit of the concert halls...
To her maybe these halls are what hotel rooms are in the daily life of normal travelers.
At least she has, now, a book with her that she, and she alone, will read to us, to the ghost on the other side of the stage, from the beginning to the end. No director, no orchestra to complicate matters, how elusive will we be?
Is there any way we can prevent her to loose herself in the labyrinth that Calvino predicts? Or is this by definition the dangerous life of a young artist and is she on her own, condemned by her talent?
È vero. A Chicago la performance ha perfettamente trasmesso questa sensazione, notevole risposta alla lettura di Calvino, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore.
Can't wait to see her recital next month!
@@marshallartz395: Awesome! Please let us know how it was.
@@marshallartz395 Awesome! Please tell us how it was.
Isola: Her concert was great! Details later. Time for bed 🛏 .
Okay, I’m awake now🐓. Yuja Wang played a stunning, if somewhat unorthodox, recital at Davies Hall in San Francisco. (Sunday, February 23, 2020)
Before appearing on stage she announced over the hall’s PA system that she would not be performing her program in the order printed in the brochure.
This was no problem as I’d spent some time familiarizing myself with pieces I didn’t know very well, or at all. As far as I could tell, the (sold out) audience was fine with it, too.
She began with Ravel’s “Une Barque sur l’ocean”, and not only was it gorgeous, she coaxed colors from the piano-especially in the left hand-that were simply breathtaking.
Both Scriabin sonatas (Nos. 4 & 5), as you might expect, were played with fire and passion.
My only issue was with the repertoire itself. As beautiful as they were, perhaps the second half of her program was weighted too heavily with introspective short works of Brahms and Chopin. Couple these with the brooding Berg sonata (played in the 1st half) and you end up with a very serious, contemplative program.
She ended with the Scriabin 5th and was greeted with an instantaneous standing ovation from the audience.
Then came the encores-three of them:
Schubert/Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade
Bizet/Horowitz: ‘Carmen’ Variations
Prokofiev: Toccata
It was a thrill to hear Yuja Wang perform these virtuoso pieces live after hearing them so many times on UA-cam. The Prokofiev ‘Toccata’ in particular was riveting.
What a great, truly great, artist.
@@marshallartz395: Thank you so much for your excellent review! It'll be my first Yuja concert next month, so much looking forward! I just found a review of the concert:
www.sfcv.org/reviews/san-francisco-symphony/yuja-wang-shakes-it-up-at-davies-and-wins
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Hello Karin, yes I think beautiful is a fair description
I bet this is good. Her speed is intimidating to the ear at times. Some brains just don't process fast enough. I thought her Reval Left Hand was perfect.
Yuja, do you know any Billy Joel? Just kidding, you are brilliant. Probably the best pianist in the world. From a former music teacher.
Hi Karen Becker, yes beautiful must be the word. 👨🌾
How many of the concerts are being cancelled at the moment?
Would not be easy for Yuja to read all comments from her supporters ,guess someone else checks it out who knows I've never seen a comment answered by Yuja ,if she is by any chance reading this I ask her why she never play at the Wigmore Hall in London its small and intimate but built for the piano ,when will you play there Yuja I know its small but it was made for you .:)
Spot on!
when artists can resume their performance？
29mars 2020 📡 📡 📞Take Time 🐺👠👍💋
There is no Covid-19 in Samoa. Please concertize there.
Yuja Wang= Tik Tok piano concerto!
Seems strange seeing her so covered up.
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