High praise indeed but not inaccurate. However it's very difficult to pin down quite why. Questing, turbulent, tender, rhapsodic, almost monotonous - but always ravishing - the remarkable and very serious players bring out all these qualities.
What a combination! Two of the best musicians ever playing together! I've seen and heard them live in Munich....unforgettable. Both had been sick and both played like gods....
The superb craft of these two artists reveals this much derided sonata as a wonderful creation. It is not always the case that top flight solo pianists are also excellent duo partners. However Yuja is very special and her contribution in chamber music is equal to her sensational pyrotechnics in the great Russian concertos. Her contribution to this performance is a case in point.
@@aaronnelson7104 I am not very good at describing styles, but I might qualify it as unaffected or direct depend upon it. This is not to mention their utmost ease and class, which only very few artists can boast about.
Yeah... what's going on there? It's a repeat in the score I think. The pager turner doesn't know when to go back, whether or not he's supposed to turn forward a page.... GET SOMEONE ELSE haha :P Yuja is one of the world's best pianists today and you'd expect for someone to have organised a more than decent page turner for her. Good thing the guy is not one of the assistants in a doctor's surgery that hands over important tools in a life or death situation....
Third mvt begins improperly... repeated beginnings. This which is one of the most beautiful Adagios for violin is performed without “hearth”, commonplace and even. And perhaps too fast.Slowing down at the end.
Well, for whatever reason, this just didn't work. Lots of contradictions here. Everything sounds better when you look away from them. Kavakos looks disengaged but Yuja wants you to look at her. For all the shameless appeals to her sexuality she plays this without any real passion. The deficiencies of this piece can be disguised if the performers are genuinely committed. Luckily for youtubers the Kramer/Agerich performance is just a click away.
