Mendelssohns - Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor (op. 25) , Yuja Wang, Kurt Masur (Full) 

+Andrew W Hahahaha with all her talent all you could notice was her body? Thats all? But since you opened that door, I must quietly admit that noticed it was as if her lips were dripping with only the sweetest of all honey, as I kept sliding off my chair and bumping my chin on the table on the way down...and each time I reemerged from the grave of passion, I needed only the answers of her healing touch as I reached out to my computer screen begging for mercy from her immortal grace crying out of my heart OH GOD WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME!!!. OH GOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!

???? I thought I was acknowledging talent...that she doesn't just play the music, she feels it--it's not mechanical. Saying that her playing was perfect would have been redundant, I thought, lol.

I was just teasing dude not attacking, I was on the same page as you

+lynx777 oh!! ok then XD

No worries I agreed LOL

Thanks so much! I appreciate)

Thanks

You forgot 1:48 - 1.1 Slower

@@DJArschlochficker lol is that what the person is yelling? I can't tell what the word is, or even what language it is!

@@AlessandroSistiMusic i think it's the conductor. To be fair Yuja is incredibly fast in that passage. You can hear the orchestra barely keeping up

She is absolutely incredible! What a time to be alive!

Beautifully said! You have a way with words - I would expect no less from you, SludgeMcPoople!

McPoople, are you part of the Great "Poop" dynasty? The world wants to know !

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More than superb

Yuja does not have any "sensual" expression on her face. Her facial expression is meditative, In my opinion.

duh

Ее трудолюбие совершенно, а способности - феноменальны.

So many other excellent versions of this by others, but nothing quite matches this.

❤

Exactly my first impression. This type of expressivity has been attempted by so many young pianists as they started and became recognized, but she has been able to keep the dazzling technique her own without giving any of it up. here it is 10 years down the road...I hope I'm around for another 20 to see how si evolves.

Ella es fantastica. Una precision .....increible...

exactly how I feel. Have watched this many many times.

Yes, I do too

Great comment, I just discovered Wang, normally I listen mostly to Michlangeli...:)

Very much appreciate your post, Lpmgato1.

I am 100 % OK with your comment. Yuja is the best pianist alive. We can only be very grateful and pleased to be able to see and hear her.

It's rare to see someone with such finesse. She barely even broke a sweat.

You have said it all. She is just wonderful to watch and listen to and because of her tremendous talent you are comfortsble listening. I am 74 so I can say great kid, just love you.

The last performance of this concerto that I have heard and liked was Emil Gilels over 50 + years ago.

Does playing this piece tire the left arm often?

XTAYLORXBOYX not really

Owen Williams Are you speaking from first-hand experience or just trying belittle Yuja’s great power?

Cindy Yan No I mean from first hand experience. At least for the first movement (that’s the only one i learned from the concerto). In no way am I trying to bring Yuja Wang down a notch, if that’s even possible :)

I agree entirely! Very well said!

Спасибо за комментарий.

Absolutely!

Hm, was heisst "even in Germany"? Vor allem "in Germany", würde ich meinen - da war er ja 12 Jahre lang verboten!

Christoph Müller Eben. Und bis heute wenig gespielt unter Studenten in Konservatorien in Deutschland. Vielen kennen ihn nicht einmal. Das war jedenfalls meine eigene Erfahrung in Saarbrücken. Und so schrieb ich 'even in Germany,' um auszudrücken, dass er doch schliesslich Deutscher war. (Und das wissen die meisten Amerikaner nun wiederum nicht). Bezeichnenderweise I habe ich dieses Konzert durch einen französischen Pianisten kennengelernt: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, der es viel zu schnell und mechanisch-virtuos spielt, obwohl er sehr populär ist in Frankreich. Yuja Wang spielt es, wie es meiner Meinung kein deutscher Pianist jemals gespielt hat, mit Genie nämlich, weswegen ich von 'Genius Meets Genius' sprach.

***** Schon gut. War ja auch nur eine bissige Bemerkung. Allerdings: Wer getraut sich noch, nach Yuja dieses Konzert zu spielen? Es gibt zwar auch eine Aufnahme auf RU-vid mit Lang Lang und dem Gewandhausorchester unter Ricardo Chailly, die ich sehr schön fand - einfach weniger hübsch anzuschauen. Das Orchester schien mir sogar besser. Damit will ich allerdings nicht die Platitüde kolportieren, Yuja sei ein weiblicher Lang Lang. Für mich steht sie mit ihrer bezaubernden Natürlichkeit weit über ihm.

Christoph Müller Gute Frage, die ich mir selbst auch stelle … ich stimme Ihnen zu, dass ein Vergleich zwischen Lang Lang und Yuja Wang hinken würde, obwohl manche mir bekannte Pianisten sie beide auf einer Ebene abtun. Ich hörte mir kürzlich die Eingangstakte von Liszt's Erstem Klavierkonzert mit Lang Lang an-und es war eine grosse Enttäuschung, da er nicht einmal diese heroische und gar so wichtige Eingangspassage in einem gleichen Tempo spielt. Das klang abgehackt und inkohärent.

This wasn't my favorite concerto before. It sounds very different. So I dug out my 2003 Lang Lang CD with Barenboim-Chicago S. O. If my memory served me right, it sounded more than ok when I bought it. Now it seems subdued. It is quite cruel to compare side by side. So I stop at this.

She should come in a swimming suit

@@xavieramoros6954 Okay 👀

Her appearance is part of her allure but once she starts playing I just put that aside and let my jaw drop.

@@xavieramoros6954stop

Answer: No, there is not! Yuja IS perfection!

"Leaving the orchestra in the dust" reminds me of the great racehorse Secretariat in his 1973 win of the Triple Crown, in which he outran the pack and kept speeding up so that he was ahead by 34 lengths when he crossed the finish line! So Ms Wang outpaces the orchestral pack because her artistic destiny is to express her inner energy and vision of this concerto, not just to limp along with the orchestral pack! It is a glimpse into the future of how reality will be experienced by humans , with greater energy, greater talent and capacities, and we see this glimpse into the future with Ms Wangs performance. 500 years from now artists will consider Yuja Wang a fore- runner of the class of pianistic talents that will be considered normal and constant. By the way, no great race horse has as yet broken Secretariats world record for the New York Triple Crown race in Saratoga and it still stands on its divine pedestal 38 years later (from 1973 win). These "personages" are the future showing up in our present to highlight the way to our eventual divine destiny.

Hear hear...

They don't like strong and sexy women.

Because, thanks to nature, Yuja is a very strong and sensitive sexy woman!

José Guillermo Molina Not thanks to nature, but thanks to Yuja's nature!

She is simply too fast! In that tier of performance, that is constructive critisism

Or even a geek tribe...

+Dominic Joseph Radanovich That, my observant fellow, is The Oriental.

@Alexandre Claudio I also hear all the notes with other soloists when they are played.

Extraordinary

You are absolutely right! I am helplessly drawn to the immense quality of Yuja's playing -- perfect clarity, mesmerizing brilliance, and incredible translucency. And coupled with unbelievable technical prowess and musical passion she stands tall and firm among all great pianists.

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Ma la

Yes absolutely remarkable.

AMEN !!!!!

Ronald Pavellas Watch her lips. She is actually singing along with the music.

@@fooksengloke3625 This is what is so special - she "lives" the music; others do also, but for many of us, she is out on her own. And a delight to talk to!

That's not meant to knock Lang Lang either.

You should search for Alexandra Dovgan 10 years old. Playing this much more better

@@meplenn Not even in the same universe (yet)

melvin lenn I also love Alexandra’s interpretation best. Yuja is wonderful, but for my taste Mendelssohn doesn’t suit her very well. She plays very sharp and bombastic, especially in the 3rd movement, while Alexandra just flys through it

I think Mazur was actually telling Yuja to slow down, not the orchestra.

I think not. Mazur could hardly be telling the orchestra to speed up. If it had slowed, it would have been under his direction n the first place. No, his exhortation was directed at Yuja, who was simply running away solo.

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If you watch Masur's hands they are shaking uncontrollably during the whole concerto, especially his left hand making communication with the orchestra and soloist most difficult. I think for a few phrases the orchestra lagged behind Ms. Wang. She was steady as a rock! I commend her for not being thrown by the orchestra's problem or Masur shouting. Ms. Wang, as always, delivers an amazing performance. She is a Rock Star!

@@stanleyshelmire Well, I suppose we’ll never know, but I think the odds of twenty-five musicians spontaneously slowing down, or Mazur’s allowing them to do so (versus Yuja’s getting a little over-excited and speeding up) are pretty slim. And no one loves her any more than I do. Cheers!

the fingers listen to Yuja cause She is Genius !

The orchestra had a hard time to follow her.thats why conductor shout tempo.tempo

+Savannah Walker Agree!!

Ridiculously underrated as a composer

Oh Yeah. Est Verdad!!

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HOW WAS THE CONCERT,,,,WORTH THE WAIT???

Who da hell is Mendlesson?

@@felixmendelssohn991cucunya moses mendelssohn, kakeknya seorang filsuf sementara ayahnya seorang bankir, oratorio dia yang paling terkenal berjudul elijah..

Yes, Yuja Wang is a true "enigma" in terms of emotional artistic expression Allied to an almost "robotic/AI" technique pianists consider virtuosity. See my comment up above where I consider Yuja to be an earthly manifestation of a "LILA AVATAR", an "expression" of the Divine Krishna the Supreme Personality of the Godhead, who manifests in various human personalities to teach us Something, which we can only discern as time evolves and passes on in our lives. WHAT message a Lila Avatar is bringing in this century as an expression Known as Yuja Wang remains to be found out and understood!

I’m with you joe. This is my favorite piano performance.

The entire concerto is beautiful. It must be challenging for a pianist, BUT her performance is beyond perfection for me. Intensity, passion, hellish rythm combined with the most touching passage i've ever heard: the second movement, what she does, is... I have no words to describe what i feel, but i always end up holding tears.

There is a funny piece by Hector Berlioz, in the 1830's, describing a piano of the time having a nervous breakdown by having had to be played in this too many times!

Pletnev would play like this, and Mendelssohn wrote this.

you just said : "It is beyond my scope of understanding!!" That woman is a horror of our time, but mobs like you are the real horror, promoting that crap over serious art

Daphne Filippaki Me too (& the rest of her, inside & out)

Kira Yoshikage?

My favourite performance too. Yes, the youthful orchestra and soloist, and the work, just come together magically.

WONDERFUL !!

Yeah l agree haha

well that's not bad either...and this performer is only 10 years old ! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FapaI1bxH2s.html

Every time I revisit this... 😂😂😂

Check the performance out of this 14 years old Hungarian pianist called Ildikó Rozsonics. Absolutely fantastic the way she is playing ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PrCPkdA0c5M.html

you all prolly dont care at all but does someone know a tool to get back into an instagram account?? I was stupid forgot the account password. I love any tips you can give me!

Agree!!

kin william no piece is impossible for her to play 😭

Nah she has infinity percent of both lol

論語原文是：「知之者不如好之者；好之者不如樂之者。」

Absolutely agree! His "Songs without words" are miniature pieces of lyrical perfection !

yes, I also find him as good or at least as comparable as other romantic composers. Although, he was very popular in his time. Liszt was also a great admirer of Mendelssohn. I think one of the (probably) many reasons that he isn't as regarded as all other composers might has to do with Chopin's popularity. Liszt was as well known as Chopin back in the day but on this day not as much of course. So did that happen to Mendelssohn's fame to this day. Same thing happened to Schubert, only Schubert wasn't even popular in his time. (Sorry for a not so good English vocabulary, I'm still working on my grammer, so writing something detailed is hell for me LOL)

@@mariedagoult1 Schubert was over shadowed by the great Beethoven.

@@empireentertainmentevents1353 I didn't mention it but it's what I meant

The orch could just could not keep up with her and not to mention the conductor shouting “hey” in the beginning?

Yuja Wang is world famous as one of the best concert pianists.

Yo this shit is off the hook

Dear Rob Morley, if you like this piece and young performers you should have a look to Alexandra Dovgan playing this at only 11 years old.

She is not a young performer. I think she must be an alien of perhaps 1000 years of age who happend to casually land on Earth. I don't know when this entity will decide to go to space again, by now let's just enjoy this gift from beyond the sky.

The brief shout you mention, i always had this doubt. It was for the orchestra? Or it was for yuja? They lost synchronization for some seconds, but im not sure who is to blame there. The soloist? The concertmaster? Anyway this is by far my favorite performance and favorite concerto. You cant play better than this

Eloquently put!

If by "in his prime youth" you mean "not yet the Mendelssohn who wrote religious kitsch like Elijah" (yeah, I said it), then yes, he was in his prime when he wrote this (1830-31, when he was about 21). But I think only the first movement of this concerto is great. The third reminds me of whipped cream.

@@GoldinDr I love whipped cream!

@@GoldinDr Yes. this is a very nice feel good concerto, whipped cream is just fine for me to enjoy. I do not mean to compare it to other heavy and deep pieces such as Brahms #1.

***** IT was fine till that last paragraph where the creep factor exploded.

vishnu Sreekumar The man has every right to harbor feelings of admiration and affection for Yuja Wang, even to fall in love with her. It's absolutely natural and healthy and involves a certain degree of divinity. Mrs Wang is a creature of prodigious talent and dazzling beauty and therefore can be the subject of passionate worship - like numerous music/piano idols from Liszt to Martha Argerich.

InOmniaParatus83 haha, this is indeed so creepy. take it easy guys, there are better much better pianists. Fanboys...

calavera Not really-and what is truly creepy is your irrelevant concern over this....Obsessive....

bloodgrss take it easy dude

TheAtlasAce yeah especially on those double trills in the first movement.

Peace Harmony En otro vídeo de este mismo concierto, interpretado por el pianista Hamelin, hay un individuo que desprecia este concierto, considerándolo, con soberbia, como de serie B. Yo también consideró, como tú, que es una obra maestra.Despues de una transición maravillosa, comienza un bellísimo Andante, como pocos. Estoy harto de esta especie de suprema islas en música clásica, que solo consideran que una composición es de gran calidad cuando aburre a las ovejas.

I have indeed. To me, they are not his best works. Still excellent, though, being Mendelssohn, after all. ;) Like other great composers, he never actually wrote anything less than great. However, I particularly like his concertos (his Violin Concerto is the best ever written, imo), symphonies (his fourth and first in particular), his Paulus (simply divine!), and his late organ sonatas.

Have you heard his second symphony? The hymn of praise. A work of absolute genius.

No, she must have more than twenty fingers to play this piece!

“Allegro” means “lively”, not “cheerful”.

nott human,but perfect! This young woman is a real genius,like Glenn Gould,and each others!

Bro.... That's kinda cringe

Si ella es la mejor muchos hombres y mujeres pensamos lo mismo. Recomiendo a Juja en moscow 2012

i wont say she is the best... coz above the heaven may be the 2nd floor of heaven which we do not know... however yuja wang is a very magical pianist in classical music and i dont wish she goes to other genre ever

erika katarina teng Muy simpatico tu comentario y con imaginacion. Juja está en el segundo piso del cielo y es la mejor del mundo.

i cant speak other language than english .....

Just listened to this masterpiece once again. Wonderful Juja!

10 years later, no signs of burnout.

@@bruce_c_in_nz True! So she is obviously pacing herself isn't she?

Fully agree, this concerto is elated from the joyful heart.

Quite.

More profound concertos, possibly, but this one is so happy, especially the last movement. The way she sails into it is a joy to hear. Pure excitement!!

@@michaelfoutch1169 Agreed...

Philippe Delicately shouting? A contradiction in terms, but I like it.

"Singing" (Mostly love songs, whatever she's playing)

She just wandered in from under her bridge with no time to do her hair?

@@rogerpropes7129 With her otherworldly ability as a pianist, it wouldn't matter if she had shambled in covered in moss and grime. Besides, the messy-hair look accompanies Mendelssohn well.

@@fardpig4269 Phillipe was assessing the exuberance and elan of this example. What we hear is a symbiosis of imagination and realisation - for a fine performance (as this one is) they need to meld into a whole, Yuja "lived" it, Loved it. Hence, so should we. 🎵😊😊

I think it's the first movement where she was too fast? But I think it's negligible.

scottson2 x

I agree with Charles. It's the orchestra lagging behind her.

I think the thumbs down come from clowns with nothing else to do but surf around the internet and play with sites they do not understand. No big deal. We have much worse on political sites that make a mockery of any intelligence. All one has to do is just listen.....really listen and love you will find.

@@magisterLudi1000 well said!!!

Exactly, the only thing as beautiful as her playing is her very beauty itself. Insanely beautiful, as you say.