Chopin - 24 Preludes, Op.28 (Yuja Wang) 

Yes. And I feel the same whenever I watch Hilary Hahn perform on the violin. We are fortunate to be breathing at the same time.

Likewise brother

Yeah Dat shit dope bruh

Valentina Igoshina is recognized as an artist, whereas Wang is known as a performer and entertainer.

Her harsh sound when she plays loud is unfortunately always the same whatever composer she plays. And of course inappropriate in Chopin. She said herself in a (written) interview that she feels bored with Mozart and Chopin (and I think it must be the same with Schumann). But she is fantastic in the modern and contemporary repertoire where her technical and rhythmical skills are at her best.

Agree

Yuja Wang brilliantly completed her first cycle of the three Bartók piano concertos - the Second on Thursday and Friday; the Third on Saturday and Sunday - the latest step for the 30-year-old virtuoso on the path to possibly becoming one of the world’s most important pianists. Gustavo Dudamel surrounded the concertos with alluringly eerie accounts of Stravinsky’s “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” and spectacular ones of Janácek’s brassy Sinfonietta." Oh poor , mentally ill sexist Mario/Georges! ;-)

+Georges Cancan Cretin

Hi Jean-Pierre Mürrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrli! Yes! Yes! Yes!!! Yes, ..."she likes to dress up like that." ... player.vimeo.com/video/57468088?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=d30000&api=1&player_id=media-player

Well put-tho' obsessive/compulsive sexist cretin may be more apt. :-)

+Georges Cancan Cretin

My God, what a linguistic effort because of a half-naked Chinese woman. This must be love...

@@beckerhanshermann8372 dude what s your problem. It has nothing to do with the way she dresses and if ure a truly classical music enthusiast ud know that. I mean it is about tastes and your comment is rude and based on nothing

@@tavidemea6363 You are welcome to keep an attitude based on naivety and poor fashion taste.

@@beckerhanshermann8372 as I ve said its your opinion and a matter of taste in fact. But I assure u that Yuja is a high level performer probably not the best pianistic appearance but still...

@@beckerhanshermann8372 You're entitled to your opinion. Do you really, sincerely not like her "playing", or is it the attention she gets that you don't like?

😢😢😢😢😮😮😮😮😊😊😊

Liszt would admire the hell out of it, as well!

Well, yeah...

@@jansnauwaert1785 For some.

@@willdon.1279 Take a few deep breaths.

why not just tell the truth? why not just tell you see a woman of your dream? music not music, who cares. decrease a sound of your phone to zero, you will be same impressed😅

really an INCREDIBLE performance. Yuja plays these preludes like no one else. Just stunning and perfect.

I'm so happy and fortunate to see and hear Yuja Wong wonderful playing of these beautiful music. I appreciate her purity in love of piano music and lovingly sharing her talent of piano performance with the world What an admirable humble humanity. Long live Yuja for your pure, beautiful, loving humanity expressed through your magnificent piano playing!

Credo che si dovrebbe parlare esclusivamente della tecnica e soprattutto della bravura di Miss Wang, non trovo per niente attinenti al discorso le considerazioni socioantropologiche e quelle sulle sue mises (peraltro quasi sempre molto belle ed eleganti)

Yes, an almost naked treasure in a very ugly packaging.

@@beckerhanshermann8372 She needs less clothes, that's my only complaint.

@@beckerhanshermann8372 we don’t give a fuck, just listen and close your eyes

@@starplatinum7581 Miss Wang does not take off her clothes to make her audience close their eyes. She undresses and stalks on high heels to the piano so that she can be seen and spoken of. She is an attention whore. By the way: Chopin's Preludes are played more convincingly by other pianists. Miss Wang is very overrated.

@@beckerhanshermann8372 Yes poor Becker, you should have stopped at a brothel before the concert and cleared your thoughts so that could appreciate her music.

pas encore reconnu à sa juste valeur dans le monde malheureusement

Yes.

is the hesitation deliberate ? or she just "draw a blank" ?

The momentary look of panic on her face suggests the latter.

@@MontyGumby to me it looked like she drew a blank

An that is what I admire most about Yuja, all highly intelligent women regardless of their field tend to have similar characteristics, I only wish I could attract such women, but most highly intelligent women are attracted to strong intelligent successful men who tend to be very narcissistic, vein and arrogant and attract other women , so they seldom stay faithful, and usually play the field, our strengths are are also our weaknesses...no one is perfect, so one must enjoy life the best we can according to our desires, lol Peace!!

Ji Wang just a robot really and what talent ? Here for Chopin but badly played ; not her ridiculous outfit it's not the time or place

You are wrong: It follows the maxims of marketing. She has to stand out to get a lot of attention in the form of clicks in the (social) media. You also posted. Attention can be turned into money, e.B. from sponsors. Her appearance in this dress and the shoes she can't walk in is ridiculous. As a person, I don't take them seriously.

@@beckerhanshermann8372 exactly sex sells it's the oldest advertising theme in the world for better or worse. I go to a brothel or a concert I don't like the two mixed

@@ciararespect4296 You go to a brothel? A male one (or maybe LGBT)?

I have also listened to Yuja W since her 20's. She grew in her maturity and interpretation to present excellence and onward...to wisdom..

Yes. She plays god.

Wonderful prediction!

Oh I agree with you so much! Its everything I was thinking myself…x

interesting perspective, but i think you are right. memorisation doesn't happen on the note-level, it is indeed something you can "hear" in your mind. personally, when i memorise, it never takes conscious effort, it's just a by product of practice. i am sure it's like that for yuja as well. I'm not sure how other people memorise though, note-by-note? i'm not sure.

@@megumi_0 I am a bit dislectic when reading music. It takes ages if I can't hear the piece. I recall trying to play pieces by Scott Joplin years ago. Having an album to actually hear the music used to help a lot. Miss Wang of course is galaxies away from my humble endeavors. 🙂

I don't find memorizing pieces hard. I almost start doing it as soon as I start to learn a piece so I don't have to waste my focus on the score, though I admit that I am a bit unusual that way as I am not much above an intermediate player who could only play about half these preludes. I don't believe the memorization itself represents another level, but it certainly helps achieve better music, for me at least.

Well when you practice it 1000 times, you cannot not memorize.

rubbish; you don't know what she is seeing. Without practice, it's just romantic words. SHe worked hard for it and was committed. You have no right to not recognize the tremendous work it takes.

I agree von Punkin. She seemed a bit angry. But some of the preludes were angry. In spite of any mood in which she may have been, she gave an absolutely wonderful performance. I keep coming back to this video, for a gripping spine-tingling performance.

Ok r Wilson

I hate how her playing is stereotyped as technique only I admire her intellect, musicianship and gentle heart.

I find that it distracts from the music - but never mind!

Agreed....

Geht es nicht auch ne Nummer kleiner?

Tant de bruit pour une omelette

Save her from what?... poverty, fat chance of that.

Yeah dis shit dope bruh

You don't note what the performer is wearing, but the algorithm does. And Yuja knows this.

570.329!!! Incredible! This vulgarity attracts evetyone, like shit attracts flies! Yuya Wang - a product of Chinese education. The goal of this education is the indispensable achievement of the highest results! High results bring a lot of money! This principle works always and everywhere! Yuya Vang is making money! Money for yourself and a huge gang of businessmen who use it as a money making machine! In addition to the piano keyboard, she did not see anything! She has no clue about European culture that gave rise to classical music! The result is a lot of money and questionable interpretations! Her experiments with clothes (on the verge of a strip club) serve that purpose - making money! Her audience ?! Her audience is looking forward to when Yuya will undress completely! It is very sad when the culture falls under the influence of businessmen whose main goal is MONEY !!!

The New York Times Review. Yuja Wang Plays Dazed Chaos, Then 7 Encores By Zachary Woolfe May 18, 2018 The usual praise for a musician who plays a recital in a big hall is that he or she makes that big hall feel small. But on Thursday, the pianist Yuja Wang made Carnegie Hall seem even vaster than normal: big, empty, lonely. Through her concert’s uncompromisingly grim first half and its wary, stunned second, Ms. Wang charted wholly dark, private emotions. She was in no way hostile toward an adoring (if slightly disoriented) audience, but neither did she seem at all interested in seducing it. After the playbills had been printed, Ms. Wang - who will have a Perspectives series at Carnegie next season - revised her program. She subtracted two of the four Rachmaninoff preludes she’d planned to give before intermission and added an extra three of his later, even less scrutable Études-Tableaux. Ms. Wang played none of these pieces in a way that made them seem grounded or orderly; she even seemed to want to run the seven together in an unbroken, heady minor-key span, a choice that most - but not enough - of the audience respected by not clapping in between. Even divided by light applause, these pieces blurred into and stretched toward one another. Doing nothing that felt exaggerated or overwrought, Ms. Wang emphasized unsettled harmonies and de-emphasized melodic integrity. The Étude-Tableau, in E-flat Minor (Op. 33, No. 6) wasn’t the juxtaposition of one hand’s abstraction and the other’s clear etching. No, she was telling two surreal tales at once. The martial opening of the Prelude in G Minor (Op. 23, No. 5) swiftly unraveled into something woozy and bewildering. The washes of sound in the Étude-Tableau in C Minor (Op. 39, No. 1) were set alongside insectlike fingerwork - neurotic, insistent, claustrophobic. ... Her bending of the line in the Étude-Tableau in B Minor (Op. 39, No. 4) felt like the turning of a widening gyre, infusing the evocation of aristocratic nostalgia with anxiety. (Rachmaninoff composed most of the works Ms. Wang played as World War I loomed and unfolded, and the 19th century finally ended.) The stretched-out, washed-out quality of melancholy in her account of the Étude-Tableau in C Minor (Op. 33, No. 3), made that sorrow seem more like resignation: The loneliness she depicted felt familiar to her, even comfortable. The prevailing mood - dreamlike sadness; a feeling of being lost; rushing through darkness - continued in what followed. The relentless trills and tremolos of Scriabin’s Sonata No. 10 - which is sometimes played lusciously but was here diffuse and gauzy - glittered angrily. Three Ligeti etudes from the 1980s and ’90s proved that Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, as she presented them, were presentiments of the modernism of the distant future. There was the sense that more time than just 20 minutes - decades, perhaps - had elapsed during intermission, after which Ms. Wang played Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 8, composed during World War II. Here, playing with guarded poise, Ms. Wang seemed to inhabit a kind of aftermath of the dazed chaos she had depicted in the early-20th-century works on the first half. The contours were sharper now, the colors brighter and bolder. The effect was still unnerving. I considered whether Ms. Wang’s flamboyant clothes - in the first half, a floor-length purple gown with only a slash of sparkle covering her breasts; in the second, a tiny iridescent turquoise dress with vertiginous heels - were the right costume here. They did give the impression that she had arrived alone, a disconcerting combination of powerful and vulnerable, at a not particularly appealing party. In that sense they were a fitting complement to her ominous vision of this music. Likewise, it seemed at first that a few of her seven - yes, seven - encores jarred with the forlorn mood she’d built up. Vladimir Horowitz’s “Carmen” fantasia, an Art Tatum stride version of “Tea for Two,” a demented arrangement of Mozart’s “Rondo alla Turca” - all were blazingly performed but had a touch of cheerful kitsch about them. But perhaps they, too, were of a piece with the intoxication that permeated the recital. ... And by the end, as she followed the “Mélodie” from Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” with Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” Ms. Wang finally seemed to have found a measure of real, hard-earned peace.

Yuya Vang will land at the end of the day in a psychiatric clinic or in a strip club ??? Sure! The typical way of the "stars" of American show business !!! Joe Gallaher: "For health reasons, she has recently been forced to reduce her performance workload." Dear Joe, Yuya Wang is moving along the path of the violinist Midori Goto??? "In September 1994, Midori suddenly cancelled her concerts and withdrew from public view. She was hospitalised and given an official diagnosis of anorexia for the first time.[5] In her twenties, Midori struggled with anorexia and depression, resulting in a number of hospital stays. She later wrote about these personal difficulties in her 2004 memoir Simply Midori, which has been published in German but not English. (It was updated and reissued in German-speaking countries in 2011.)[8][19] After recovering, she continued to perform and also studied psychology and gender studies at New York University. For a while, she considered psychology as an alternative career, with a focus on working with children.[5] " Wikipedia SLIPPED DISC Sicklist: Yuja Wang is told to slow down By Norman Lebrecht on June 1, 2018 Message from the LA Phil: Pianist Yuja Wang‘s originally scheduled May 8, 2018 recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall, which was postponed because of illness, will not be rescheduled. Due to the artist’s busy schedule, a replacement date could not be identified. Regarding the cancellation, Wang has stated: I have been working hard to find a date in the next few months to play my postponed recitals in Vancouver, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Costa Mesa, but I’m sorry to tell my fans that it is simply impossible. I have been given strict instructions by my doctors that I’m trying very hard to follow to ensure that I remain healthy. I thank you all for your support and kindness and I look forward to performing for you again as soon as I am able. < Dear Joe Gallagher, Yuya Wang is moving along the path of the violinist Midori Goto???

"Show your beauty and show your talent"? No: Show your talent. Let the beauty of the MUSIC shine without cheapening it by wearing scant clothing. Music is pure. Don't compromise it by combining it with the banality of exposed flesh. There are other venues one can visit to view such things, and they certainly don't include concert halls. I don't see male concert pianists(violinists) performing shirtless and in tight pants! Yuja Wang - "McDonald´s"culture! The money& "sex sells" culture!!!

Just feel really sorry for anyone who does not experience the joy she spreads amongst the 99% of us touched by her magic. (apart from the automatic "AI" surely? Trolls...I just wonder why)

There are about 500 kids in the conservatories today who can play better than this, but I'll reckon you've never made the effort to even hear them. If you must have your Chopin Preludes played by someone who lights up a cocktail dress, check out Beatrice Rana. Light years beyond YW. If you can have your Chopin Preludes played by a middle-aged man who couldn't wear a cocktail dress to save his life, try Shura Cherkassky. Light years beyond YW or Beatrice Rana.

I've been listening to classical piano for 30 yrs and I AGREE!!

and part-time mermaid

@@jgrab1 but are they also mermaids?

@@jgrab1 She's an extraordinary pianist.

The balance between hands was not good, the left hand was overpowering the melody in much of the piece.

​@@thesteve7397i disagree. Melody is very clear

Yes, indeed, she is great to listen to and wonderful to watch.

Yes ! She is more sexy and charming than any other pianist, and it is good so.

👍👍👍👏👏❤️👌🙏🙏

Leila, musicians like this lady are awesome. Just think of their amazing mental capacity, then their ability to transform what is in their brain onto the keyboard. As for the cretins, just ignore them. As I understand it, RU-vid is now available in mental institutions. Let's you and I join the people who really appreciate this sort of lady and her ability to transform our day. Sunshine and happiness to you.

Same with wonderful young lady : 8 Million views ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tgffDVO2UyA.html

Poor Pollini, he does not deserve the comparison with a Chinese exhibitionist.

@@beckerhanshermann8372 Hello little hansi! You don't deserve write about her, but the thing it's that You can do it! Poor hansi, full of ENVY cause You haven't been a Beautiful girl!!!

​@@beckerhanshermann8372totally idiot and racist comment.

You are to be admired for such an intelligent post, and marvelously appropriate assessment.

There is a lot of film of her playing, (wonderfully, of course) as a kid, dressed up like an over exuberant wedding cake. Her outfits now are surely a reaction to that!

Perfect posture indeed - such a rare thing amongst pianists.

Sie ist unglaublich!

Chopin Preludes are exceptionally beautiful but the best recording of them is Ivan Moravec and hasn't been surpassed yet. Yuja Wang doesn't reach half of the depth of his interpretation. She is a fantastic pianist for modern and contemporary music but in romantic repertoire she is often totally lost on the musical level (even here the sound becomes harsh when she plays loud and the whole thing sounds quite cold). As musical critics said in "The Guardian" (UK 2022) "Wang's flamboyance and virtuosity doesn't always convey a real sense of what music is about, but in works such as Ligeti's Études she is irrésistible". Totally agree with that statement : in Bartok, Ligeti, Kapustin and contemporary composers she is fantastic and not many pianists can play these so difficult pieces. But for the rest she brings lots of joy to many people who enjoy watching a lively young woman and her sexy dresses contribute to bring them the entertainment they expect. There's nothing wrong about that, that's how marketing works, but being "the most famous pianist" doesn't make her "the best pianist". Let's not forget that the most important artist is the composer...

@@GingerIndiana I couldn't disagree more on your Yuja Wang comments. It's ok. You're entitled to your opinion. I've heard the Moravec Chopin Preludes and they are very good. I like Yuja's better but that's my opinion.

@@nickk8416 Actually the musical critic Dave from "Classics today" (if you know that channel) explained in one of his videos that nowadays some people want to hear something "different". I guess you are part of listeners who appreciate that. Personally I don't understand this because Chopin hasn't changed, he is not different. And the beautiful details of his music will appear even (or maybe even more I would say) if they are part of the general structure, there is no need to put them into our face at a 20 cm distance. But these are 2 different ways of appreciating music...😉. Anyway Mrs Wang said herself in a (written) interview in Paris that she felt bored with Mozart and Chopin music. These are not her favorites at all. I think no pianist can be at his best in all composers and all periods of music so nothing bad about this. (And it doesn't mean part of the audience can't like it anyway. That's something so personal and subjective).

Plot twist: The police will be extra kind and not count this as vandalism.

Hehe! :)

Hehe! :-)! Yes, ..."she likes to dress up like that." ... player.vimeo.com/video/57468088?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=d30000&api=1&player_id=media-player

Hehe! "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll" generation ??? Well this is red light district piano playing for sure, i hope they keep wet wipes handy for the players that must use that stool after these escorts. Play on gals, make that money!!! :-) She is Amsterdam red light district , mediocre classical pianist, she and Khatia Buniatishvili, i think they try to compensate for their lack of talent, i think they are both overrated and need a book on etiquette badly. I am not a prude but these chicks look like they carry a supply of penicillin with them, they can't be taken seriously, neither is pretty, so i assume the dressing is used to distract the people from their looks, and Khatia with all the phony hair flipping which is so unauthentic. I am not being mean just real, we all like pretty things and they could be sexy without looking classically hookerish, someone should tell them, but i think they have been told and don't care, they look like rough broads. :-) !!!

It's disgusting. I think she has a heck of a lot of talent, she can certainly play piano better than I can, and she chooses to objectify herself. We don't live in the days when women were told and expected by shifty managers to take it all off or else, and she's setting things back with this kind of dress. I really dislike that word "prude" since there's no way I'd dress like that or even close, but that would earn me the label from some people. I don't care for formal dress either since that generally isn't the most comfortable, particularly when having to put on a performance. I'd rather dress in my usual clothes. Because I'd be there to put on music, not a fashion show, and I always make sure whatever I wear is suitable for being out in the general public. Having said all that, here is an interesting article, debunking feminist claims of gender bias when it comes to classicall music performance. Feminists and mgtow would actually be the biggest supporters of Yuja 'wang's choice of dress, for two different reasons. blog.twedt.com/archives/1365 Annoyingly, on another video where Maria Yudina was performing, her interpretation of the music didn't go over that well with some listeners, and then this jerk came along and whinged about how people just didn't like her because she was a woman. What bullcrap.

Yes, this was the article posted earlier. The descriptions of her scant clothing had me aghast.

Yes, Hair and dress was specially for fan! for fan: New York CLASSICAL REVIEW < Yuja shows familiar flash but a lack of depth in Carnegie recital> By Eric C. Simpson May 15.2016 Bravo, Eric! Yuja is a well-oiled (Sex sells + Kitsch) Chinese sewing machine! YW - PR product, money making machine!!!

Yuja Wang brilliantly completed her first cycle of the three Bartók piano concertos - the Second on Thursday and Friday; the Third on Saturday and Sunday - the latest step for the 30-year-old virtuoso on the path to possibly becoming one of the world’s most important pianists. Gustavo Dudamel surrounded the concertos with alluringly eerie accounts of Stravinsky’s “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” and spectacular ones of Janácek’s brassy Sinfonietta." Oh poor , mentally ill sexist Mario/Georges! ;-)

just pianist, no need for "lady" pianist.

+Mario DiSarli Cretin

PISS OFF.!!!!

😳 Did you ever listen to other pianists playing these Chopin Preludes then??? Ivan Moravec is known as having made the best recording of them and Yuja Wang's playing doesn't reach half of the depth his interpretation... Try and come back on Earth afterwards 😊. Yuja Wang is fantastic in modern and contemporary repertoire but certainly not in the romantic one. As musical critics in The Guardian (UK 2022) wrote "Wang's flamboyance and virtuosity doesn't always convey a real sense of what music is about, but in works such as Ligeti's Études she is irrésistible". Totally agree with that statement. But Yuja Wang brings joy to many people beacuse she is a lively young woman and her sexy dresses add an extra flavor for many people (men especially). There's nothing bad about this, but it doesn't make her "the best pianist in the World", just "the most famous one". Let's not forget that the real artist is the composer...

I think that you must need a single zone of focus with which to pull this off as a performance. If you approached one piece with little regard for its difficulty then that would mar other pieces that would require a strong technique. Each of these ‘easy’ pieces that I have heard so far are immediately followed by something very hard to execute. Great performance.

It goes so deep in my soul.

you are completely in love with her. don't mess it with the performance

@@vaxx2007 haha..next time will see you play..put on youtube

@@mariomatura4308 why youtube? i play at concerts

@@vaxx2007 yea..i see..cheers