Yuja Wang plays two Études by G. Ligeti
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- After playing two of the Ligeti's Études in 2008, Yuja Wang returns to this composer with two other works (Automne à Varsovie and l'Escalier du diable) that are both frighteningly rhythmically complex and poignantly tragic. Will there still be people who claim that Yuja does not render this tragedy as well as this complexity?
The number of stubborn fools is not decreasing: haters are going to hate. But Yuja is obviously a superb and brilliant musician and a serious and deep artist.
Ligetis' music always has shape and is clearly going somewhere. How Yuja absorbs and plays this music so fluently is a mystery to me but I just accept it and love it. A bonus point to the piano technician who tuned the top octave.
Wonderful to hear these supremely atmospheric pieces under the hands of such a musical genius!
What a technique to summon a surreal whirlwind of addictive bewilderment! I got swept into the twilight zone....
Great shapes. Irregular but fluent.
Wonderful.
No tricks no deception, simply reflections in art.
Great interpretation.
Thank you for listening. 🥳
These two Ligeti-Etudes were the Highlight- in my opinion- beneath a fabulous - showing the listener accents and voices he certainly never heard before - Beethoven...a Schönberg with a natural flow (this is really possible if the pianist has the grandezza of a Yuja Wang!...an extremely deep (or should I better say "high"? and "out-of-this-world" Scriabin...Albéniz with an incredible lightness and spanish feeling...many breathtaking encores (my Highlight was Philip Glass' Etude no.6 where she managed to make wonderful music out of this simple Etude...
Astonishing Ligeti.
These Ligeti etudes are challenging but rewarding….warning, you will dream them and see the score when you close your eyes😅
Raw talent par exelant
I think Yuja Wang is the perfect pianist for Ligeti. (0:05 Automne 4:50 l'Escalier)
eww ligeti is such an incompetent, overemotional, irrational composer.
or it's possible you don't understand him
@@mcintertz5593 oh yeah, because there is so much to understand -_- random noise and expressionistic music, there sure is alot to unpack there
@@Whatismusic123 Ok let's unpack the second etude she plays a bit.
It's called the Devil's Staircase and is mainly based around this ever-climbing demonic-esque motif ( I definitely see references to Prokofiev's D minor toccata in this piece). We have various points where Ligeti is playing around with textures and with the extremities of the keyboard. In the middle, we have moments of stark bleakness that hark to the twelve-tone music which he had been fascinated by (around the 7:00 mark) - that for me just add to this demonic/devilish nature of the piece.
Whilst it is not the most tonal music that was never Ligeti's style. These are also etudes, they push the pianist to the extreme (incredibly complex rhythmically and technically - although Yuja barely breaks a sweat, and watching them be performed, and the feat of this is part of the fun). Whilst I can concede that they may not have the emotional substance of a Chopin Ballade, for example (although your labelling of them as 'overemotional' clearly shows your lack of grasp of this music), this is clearly not Ligeti's intention; instead, they are a brilliant display of experimental tonality, texture and of a pianists technique.
Hopefully, this can help you appreciate this more. These pieces are not a waste of time but form one of the most significant contributions to the piano repertoire in the twentieth century.
@@mcintertz5593 okay, so you attach labels to things that don't have value, a genious he is!
@@Whatismusic123 What are the things that have value in your opinion?