I have listened to Waldstein to Polini, Zimerman, Pletnev, Ashkenazy, Brendel, Sokolov...etc BUT YOURS iS THE BEST!!!!!. I like your modest, honest approach with an immaculate flow!!!
It's very well defined: refined style, remarkably beautiful Beethoven ! I add to this: "powerful interpretation" with "extremely high velocity" ! Congratulations from São Paulo, Brazil !!!!
Exactly the extremely high speed is the best in her interpretation. Despite the high speed, all all all ALL the notes are very clear, there isn't any note skipped, stunning interpretation, impressive. Greetings from São Paulo, Brazil! Much success!!!!
I have heard it many times. This interpretation is full of energy, powerful, dynamic, spectacular, one of the best I've heard since my childhood in the 60s. This includes the interpretations of Beethoven by Horowitz, Rubinstein, Nelson Freire, Lisitsa, Hupmann and other masters. We observe that Su has excellent teachers in her country ! What is her school, please ? Congratulations and thanks for sharing !!!!
Exactly this, she is dynamic, very dynamic, and has perfectly caught Beethoven's message. Better is impossible ! Congratulations ! I have heard Beethoven since my childhood, and Su's interpretation is surely one of the best !!!!!
The most beautiful rendition of the Waldstein sonata I have ever heard. Her unusually brisk tempi are exactly what this music demands, and I am sure the composer would have agreed.
It's very well defined: refined style, remarkably beautiful Beethoven ! I add to this: "powerful interpretation" with "extremely high velocity" ! Congratulations from São Paulo, Brazil !!!!
She understands very well the melodic sequence of the sonata and transmits us perfectly, with the perfect speed, so the sonata isn't boring. If the speed isn't high, then the piece becomes boring. For sure, a master interpretation, one of the best of all time. Yes, exactly this, OF ALL TIME. Super, super impressive, beyond compare. So, I will research all the interpretations of Su Yeon Kim, thanks for sharing, from São Paulo, Brazil !
After listening to it many times, I say: Perfect scales, perfect staccatos, perfect linked notes, perfect chords, extremely high speed and well-highlighted melody, this is Su's performance. Better impossible, again: congratulations on PERFECTION, thanks for sharing, from São Paulo, Brazil!!!!
In my opinion, Beethoven must be played at extremely high speed, just as Su plays. When the pianist does not achieve this, then, for me, the interpretation becomes tedious. This interpretation of the Waldstein by Su, for me, is perfect, better is impossible. Surely Su is one of the greatest pianists of today. Thanks a lot for sharing, much success will come for Su, all the best, from São Paulo, Brazil !
@@irinasher7269 Thanks for the sugestion, I've just listened to and liked very much, surely he is another great interpreter of our time, I'll follow him also!!!!
Great performance but I think the first movement was played too fast, especially at the beginning. She then somehow slowed down reaching the right tempo.
Before listening, I'll say a typical performance of the Waldstein takes between 24 and 26 minutes. Edit: and she does it in 21 if you take away the 30 second break between movements 1 and 2 she plays the first movement very fast, more than 2 minutes faster than most versions I've heard, I hear the 2nd movement drag on often, but I think she gets through it a bit too quickly, especially the last section. It's ok to dwell on some of the chords for a moment or two Won't criticise the third movement, thus is actually become one of my favorite interpretations, its important not to make it into a sprint (play it too fast) but I don't think she does that, obviously different pianists will play at slightly different speeds. But I've got to give credit, to play at that speed required immens technical ability, and she's got that, I just think she could hold back a little at certain points
computerized waldstein. I just heard Matteo Sugan - piano/Italy in summer music festival prague recording on youtube. He is so nervous that even messes up notes but sounds so interesting that even downloaded his recording. This above I am trying to listen and do not understand humans plays or robot
She doesn’t have a good understanding of what she is playing, thus the chaos and incoherence. This sonata is not for any pianist like her. Very unpleasant presentation. Poor Beethoven !!!!👎👎👎
This pedaling at the beginning of the last movement is a notoriously famous place. Beethoven actually wrote it this way, blurring the major and minor harmonies. For this to make sense, you need to play it very softly, or you may cheat by using half pedal. Ms. Kim got it exactly right, in this marvelous recording.
@@olavk7111 iam teaching myself to play the waldstein, managed to play 2nd movement and 3rd, with 3rd movement I managed to play the notes, at mo it has a few mistakes and hesitation, but not bad humbly speaking considering I am teaching myself, today also went through a bit of the 1st movement, iam mostly self taught, taught myself fortunately at the age of 15yrs to play the piano, I also love playing the moonlight 2 movements, all the pathetique, and 2 movements of the appassionata, though I left it for a while, going back to playing it now, but all the credit goes to the creator of the human brain 🧠, and that is the ALMIGHTY GOD JEHOVAH, greetings from wales uk.
