Claire Huangci is simply fantastic... I absolutely cannot get enough of this. Her playing is nearly perfect and her interpretation is beyond compare. Sensitive... strong... beautiful!!!
00:00 01-Thema, Andante 01:12 02-Etude01-Variation01, Un poco piú vivo 02:00 03-Etude02-Variation02, Marcato il canto 03:38 04-Etude03, Vivace 04:17 05-Etude04-Variation03, Without Tempo Marking 04:46 06-Etude05-Variation04, Vivacissimo 05:23 07-Etude06-Variation05, Agitato 05:51 08-Etude07-Variation06, Allegro molto 06:29 09-Supplemental Variation01, Without Tempo Marking 07:27 10-Supplemental Variation02, Without Tempo Marking 09:38 11-Supplemental Variation03, Without Tempo Marking 11:18 12-Supplemental Variation04, Con espressione 13:15 13-Supplemental Variation05, Without Tempo Marking 14:38 14-Etude08-Variation07, Andante 16:09 15-Etude09, Presto possible 16:33 16-Etude10-Variation08, Allegro 17:23 17-Etude11-Variation09, Andante 19:22 18-Etude12-Finale, Allegro brillante
I was actually looking for another pianist playing this and found this young lady by accident. WOW! What a find, I am astounded. An incredible interpretation! This is why I love youtube! :)
Can I just add, having listened to this to the end, that this is possibly the best version that I have ever heard! Many more listenings will prove my statement, I'm sure! But it's certainly going to be up there with my three other favourite performances. Wonderful!
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That trill at 0:34!!! Magnificently performed. I was unsure about how to perform the trill here from the sheet music, I suspected this trill was a trade secret among concert pianists, since in every other video of a recording I watched, once the trill begins the camera zooms away from the hands of the pianist!! The main theme is beautifully played here, and I find the main theme of these etudes particularly touching.
Absolutely superb! For the fist time I was able to appreciate the exquisite beauty of the rarely performed Anhungen without wondering if they were ever going to end. A very superior pianist and musical artist who finds and extracts the beauty and charm of every phrase.
The greatest piano work of the 19th century - the Liszt sonata - has as many great interpretations as this masterpiece of the first half the 1800s, perhaps the century’s second-greatest piece. Sofronitsky, Richter, Gilels, Grinburg, Gilels, Petrov and Rubinstein are among standout performers of Schumann’s Op 13, all interpolating the five (essential) posthumous variations somewhere along the way. That this performer can hold her head high among such peerless artists says all there is to say about her magnificent interpretation of the Symphonic Studies. I once listed the running order of studies in all recordings of the piece available in the 1970s, when I worked in the BBC Gramophone Library, who paid me for this undertaking. Over 40 years on, I’m afraid the variety of running orders eludes me, but this is not the most common (not the order followed by Richter in his magnificent studio recording that first appeared in the UK on vinyl on the Eurodisc and Melodiya labels). But all that matters is that the order is as convincing as the standard of the playing, and I salute an artist who, if this is the measure of her musicianship and pianism in the repertoire as a whole, is another Yuja Wang in the making. (And there’s plenty of room in the universe for more musicians of her standing.)
