It’s amazing that a Chinese woman from a different culture can feel European music a with instinctive understanding yet other eastern cultures do not so much.
It is like Yuja connects to the composer emotionally directly through the keys, just like he or she wrote it. It isn’t an interpretation but as if the composer is playing their own compositions. She is making love to those piano keys. All I can hope for is that someday she will play in Seattle.
What a wonderful interview. Arie Vardi is so warm and an amazing musician himself. I met Yuja in 2008 and she is exactly what you see here. Genuine, humble and funny. She is a pianistic treasure.
I like the way Wang comes across here: friendly, confident, open. Interviewer treats her like a machine-play this, play that. Can you play faster than Martha?
The interviewer i believe himself is a musician too. But his questions are just so basic and awkward for yuja to answer. “Can you play faster than Martha Argerich?”…….
His questions sound so dumb 💀💀 He wants to hear her play "faster than Martha" and "do some Chinese magic" (like lots of people), but where is the music?? He never really talks about music, which is quite annoying...
