Yuja Wang: Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Op. 21 [HD] 

She's exceptional. The Largetto has aged like fine wine. Just sublime.

I can’t stop watching her hands! She has extraordinarily long fingers for such a tiny gal! What a talent.

Yuja Wang continues to be my favorite pianist. An understatement ...as I consistently find her to be the most profound inspiration to my own pursuits as a performance artist. Yuja's artisty, dedication and devotion to the work is the example that lifts us into the potential of our best selves. In our troubled world, she is a welcoming light.

Now 70 and adored Chopin since my teens. Some of the Ballades are not of this world but for sheer beauty and the expression of young love turned to music the second movement here is unmatched. Brings tears to soften my aging dry eyes.

She has approached the piano as a baby, in whom I assume was her father. Her life is as pianist. I wish her the multitude of happiness she brings to all of us in her personal life!

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, is a piano concerto composed by Frédéric Chopin in fall 1829. Chopin composed the piece before he had finished his formal education, at around 20 years of age. It was first performed on 17 March 1830, in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as soloist. It was the second of his piano concertos to be published (after the Piano Concerto No. 1), and so was designated as "No. 2", even though it was written first.

Yuja Wang is the #1. pianist of our time

She is a complete technical master of her instrument, but what I love most about her playing is that she is fully engaged. Her love for the music is in her face and in her soul.

Ce que j'apprécie surtout chez cette artiste c'est la sobriété de son jeu.elle n'a pas besoin de se coucher sur son piano pour exprimer ses émotions.

I am not musically trained, don’t understand any of the technical terms. I just enjoy classical music and , after coming across this piece, have listened to it three times in a row. Some passages are so beautiful, something inside me leaps up and sighs in happiness. Play it again. Thank you, Yuja Wang, for bringing so much joy and happiness with you incomparable playing.

Best pianist with unmatched technicality, genius I have no words to describe her incredible talent, I play myself but being around pianos for last 65 years, hear all who try to be the best she leave them far behind. Love her ❤️

I will never understand how a human being can memorize such complex melodies, including all dynamic nuances, in this length. Not even if it was just one piece. But the scope of her repertoire is simply immeasurable. I've watched dozens of her videos now and never spotted a single sheet of music. How does she do that?

Last week I heard and see a concert with Yuja and the Mahler Chamber Orchestre in Munich. And I had the unbelievable pleasure to meet Ms Wang after the concert, talk to her a few minutes, and she is really an absolutly friendly down-to-earth woman. A very natural and very apart person! Thanks Yuja for this short moment, I am deeply impressed.

She is like playing air piano, throughout the whole piece, effortlessly, flawlessly hearing the music in her ears.

Yuja has matured into such a wonderful pianist, her virtuosity so effortless that you’re freed to enjoy the music with no concern for any technical or musical error - there are none!

It always amazes me how these piano concerto composers back in the day were making the most wonderful, but unplayable things possible, yet some can actually do it.

Époustouflant de musicalité, je ne parle pas de sa technique, c'est une extra-terrestre... Je n'ai jamais entendu une musique de Chopin aussi proche que je l'imagine dans ma tête. C'est parfait. Que dire de plus... Si... MERCI!

Personne ne peut faire face à cette demande d'amour de Chopin, c'est ce que nous révèle Yuja Wang

As an artistic phenomenon, Ms Wang deserves her expressive freedom. Her talent and beauty together are what make her special to all who admire her. Each aspect alone is enough to deserve our admiration, and still on top of those we see the bright, cheerful, intelligent , humorous side of her. Her ability to bring it all together creates for a us the rare opportunity that we have in our lifetime to see such amazing alignment of the stars.

Yuja a primit talentul de la Dumnezeu și tot Dumnezeu ne-a dăruit - o noua.Se mulează perfect pe romantismul lui Chopin.

I have listened to/watched Yuja Wang perform 15 piano concertos from Rachmaninoff and Chopin to Ravel and Bartok. While my favorite is the Schumann, she proves to my ears again and again why she is the most astonishingly gifted pianist performing today.

J’adore ce concerto de Frédéric Chopin, l’un des chefs d’oeuvre que je crois parmi les plus beaux qu’il ait produits . Il est joué de façon admirable, sublime, attendrissante. Merci pour tant de bonheur.

This music is well known, it has a tradition of also well known interpreters with also well known interpretations. I suggest that we skip all that, and just listen. In my ears ( Sennheiser Momentum headphones) this sounds wonderful. Yujas playing is the most responsive playing I have heard, and her version of this music is just perfect. My opinion.

喜欢王羽佳她为钢琴而生，上帝给我们的礼物。

Yuja est une force de la nature qui dépoussière le répertoire

Interprétation d'une limpidité, d'une transparence et d'une beauté exceptionnelles. Un pur cristal! Merci madame; continuez à nous éblouir

Literally just got home from seeing her and Michael perform Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto. Time for some more I guess!

Je découvre aujourd'hui cette merveilleuse interprétation. Quelle finesse de jeu, quelle musicalité, quelle énergie! pas de pathos enfin.

The wonderfulness and beauty and comfort of her performance Ìs immeasurable and off the charts She is a modern Alchemist embodies the musical aesthetics of Chopin, and generates impression and pleasure

Chopin's music remains the top on my list for its unique Romantic themes. He may be dead but his memory lives on for years to come🙌

If heaven exists, yuja wang and lang lang will be there giving God's ears a musical massage.

I have always loved this music. And now I have another favourite pianist in interpreting this. As I understand it, Yuja Wangs glamour style in clothing is not at all reflected in her interpretation, no, she plays this with so much inner feeling and admiration for Chopins sometimes hesitating and lyrlc way of expressing himself, that I can nothing but adore her playing.

Talk about filing an inside straight! Chopin, Wang, Tilson-Thomas, and the SF Symphony! Favorite peoples and sounds from all over. Thank you Peter for this treasure!

Großartig wie immer. Technisch und musikantisch hervorragender Vortrag.

A stunning performance of one of my very favourite concertos. Her fingers just dance over the keys and gives it a whole new life. Well done and thank you, Dear Yuja!

Yuja Wang is in great shape here... Beautiful performance.

I've never heard a more electric yet elegantly phrased final mvt.!

BEING REFILLED OF MUSIC SPIRIT EVERY TIME, YUJA BECAME THE BETTER AND BETTER, AS MY LOVE GROWS TOO

It's Chopin without his sadness and sorrow. Jazzy style instead. I love this interpretation. So many pianists express their own black thoughts through their Chopin playing. But Yuja Wang is pure joy, energy, poetry. And as in a trapeze artists couple, MTT is here to catch her when she flies in the air.

I like everything about her playing. A truely deep musician on top almost otherworldly chops. And MTT conducting too!

I would cross the ocean to hear Ms Wang play. She so brilliantly captures the rhapsodic, and episodic nature of Chopin with her technical mastery, I can think of no other pianist in our time. The orchestra is somewhat lackluster

Chopin can rest in peace, for sure, if his 'Spirit' can hear Ms Yuja Wang play his composition.

Maestra. She plays like an angel but delivers full power strength together with perfect articulation when needed. Phenomenal.

Vibrancy and youth gives us a chance to see greatness manifest in a young and beautiful woman. Best of many years ahead to Yujia Wang performance and inspiration to youth that can raise this field of music to new heights.

Yuja continues to enthrall and entertain. Her beauty and her talent on full display.

An excellent interpretation with good flow, nice rubatos and a Larghetto at 15:14 that almost takes the breath away from me.

I can't believe I've never heard this work before! What an astounding treat to have Yuja sitting at the sensual 88 key's of this gorgeours Steinway! A very pretty work performed by a very pretty artist! Glimpses of sounds from heaven! GOD bless Yuja in the name of Jesus always! 😍

After all, I find this to be the best interpretation. It has has the drama, the articulation, the inner feeling, the poetry that is needed when you want to listen to a really good playing in Chopin Conserto no 2. So thanks Yuja for this! And San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas!

Bottom ( pardon the pun ) line ,, Ms. Wang on the piano is simply spectacular, she really does have it all does she not ? ,, when you are that good you can wear whatever the hell you want !!

羽佳的音乐着实令人着迷，the best! 这见件演出服看着很高雅漂亮，比演奏李斯特第一钢琴协奏曲的超短红裙高雅太多了。音乐美，人也美，的确是上帝给予我们的礼物。

Only a genius like Yuja Wang can do it. She is the best in the World ❤

Yuja Wang patrimonio de la Humanidad. Yuja despliega sensibilidad y virtuosismo. Placer de escuchar

Yuja Wang is a gift from God ！

Una de jovenes mas destacadas e importantes pianistas de la actualidad !!!!!!!! .

Fantastically great performance!!

What a treat to be the one thousandth person to click the like button. Yuga Wang is certainly growing on me. Her virtuosity is matched by her nuanced interpretations, sensitivity, and musical acumen.

There is no one that plays this Piano Concerto like her!

Shi is a gift who Can be unique with her outstanding skills. Without Such skills, you can only fall into what is supposed to be the normal "decent" way of interpretation.

Thanks for this incredible treat!🌺

It is in the third movement Yuja Wang really dominates the scene. Listen at 24:07. If you have any serious questions about this (her dress or her looks) please report this to Peter Chan. I myself just enjoy her playing.

So beautifully performed. The ending is so well played it might be the best .

oh my, oh MY. Grasping upon the seat to which adheres me. A wonderful and powerful display of the best of the best. Yuja reminds us of our Souls.

BRAVO! ENCORE MS WANG...Chopin is one of my favourite classiCAL MUSICIAN!

I love that her outfit is so extrovert, but her music is so delicate and introvert, what a contrast

Sublime rendering by Yuja Wang, and subtle equilibrium with the orchestra whenever wanted.

Pure ecstasy. And what a piece of Magic from Chopin

Our hometown San Francisco Symphony is really world-class!

Wonderful Yuja!

너무 좋습니다.... ㅠ

Simply astonishing. Watching her play transports me to another world!

she is ONE with the keyboard with subtle passion. Outstanding!

Indeed she is a gift from god!

bravissimo and well doe yuja !!!!!!!!

我已經幾乎不聽華沙蕭邦鋼琴大賽了，但我依然在聽王羽佳，他和包括樂團~

Again BRILLIANT...and no distractions makes it even sweeter..;)!

My favorite song. Made me fall in love with Chopin.

Brava, amazing beautiful!

The uniqueness of Yuja Wang -- her unfathomable talent, sheer virtuosity, and ever-expanding repertoire and following -- is proven by the consistently irrelevant, tasteless, unsolicited non-musical observations that attempt to challenge the stream of rapturous acclaim she so thoroughly deserves. If one dislikes Madonna or Rihanna for whatsoever reason, one just steers clear of them and their You Tube performances. But in the case of Yuja, the unreceptive just can't seem to stay away, or hold their tongues which suggest she threatens their limited conceptions tied to 'now late great' performers of the past. On what illogical grounds can someone dismiss a serious concert performance due to the soloist's style of dress, her gender, or her Orientalism? Do they also compare Rubinstein's extrovertish worldly womanising with the need of the effete Chopin to take refuge in butch George Sand, which is far more closely paralleled in Horowitz'childless steadfast marriage? I've never stopped to consider which of Gould, Rubinstein and Horowitz wears the snappier penguin outfit -- they all adhere to the theory that doing a Liberace detracts from focusing on the works of the masters. If style of dress does impinge on a performance, why do we not find directives in concerto scores --- Allegro - sports jacket and cravat; Adagio - charcoal overcoat and scarf; Prestissimo - Nike Air cross-trainers. Hopefully, we eventually develop an essential open approach that we continue to listen to Bach, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff, per se, provided the performer meets the minimum levels of accomplishment as soloist to match the standards of the orchestra, rather than become trapped in the pedantic approach that imposes a pre-established criterion that Bach is Bach as in Gould for example, Chopin as in Rubinstein, and Rachmaninoff as in Horowitz' Rach 3. The pedant is the equivalent of the prophet of doom trudging the streets with his placard announcing "The end of the world is nigh". Yuja Wang represents a product of emancipation, 21st century globalism, and personal individualism. I have never felt her personal choice in dress, quite likely an expression of her generation and her success in breaking free from the yoke of a rigidly dominated society into which she was born, impinges in any way on what she brings to the steadily increasing repertoire she has explored. Nor does her gender particularly impact on her performance. She is simply a DYNAMIC force serving music --- a fabulously freshly talented virtuouso and sensitive accompanist and ensemble player --- and clearly one who is rightfully loved by those who appreciate who she is, namely, the majority of music lovers who have heard her play.

I do love her.. so, I cannot be really objective !! Superb concerto played by a superb lady…. Without forgetting the high qu’aigle the orchestra !!!

Chopin is so natural to her since a very young age. Passionate, sensitive, elegance yet completely original. In a sense her Chopin is too good that it does not feel challenging enough to perform often. I suggest her agent should book more Chopin for her, and that will outshine those undeserving recent Chopin competition winners back to square one.

Regardless of how often, and it is many, times I listen to this wonderful musician it never ceases to astonish me of the beauty this piece gives.

感心した。指揮者は編成と配置、そして冒頭の棒からして、緊密だが柔軟な室内楽を目指していると思われるが、ソリストは彼の意図を良く理解して彼女の才能を端的に表すゴージャスなサウンドとセンセーショナルなフレージングを封印してテクニックをニュアンスの表現に全振りしてきている。弱音のスケールなど、もっといつものように弾いても、と思う部分もあるが、全てのパッセージに新しい彼女を感じることができる。自らの進化を戦略的に演出できる、非常にモダンなアーティストだ。

wonderful....! thanks for posting!

No.1 piano concerto of all time, in my heart.

A great performance of a great concerto..

Love Yuja Artistry. Great collaboration with MTT & Orchestra

Bravissima 👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹😘

Exquisita interpretación. El 2°movimiento me gusta cómo lo interpreta. ❤

this young lady is nothing short of incredible..

I Love YUJA WANG!!! She's So Talented and a Beautiful Lady!!!

Beautiful.

You want music? She's got you!!!!

Just superb! 😎🎹

The Best pianist in the world Perfection .

Very beautiful!

Браво Шопен, Браво оркестр и дирижор, ,Браво ЮЯ!

Não me contento só em ouvir, mas acompanhar as mãos e os dedos do pianista. Fico maravilhada. Normalmente me arrepio.

Superb, thank you 🙏 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊

Watch and listen to Yuja playing the second movement of Chopin’s concerto no. 2. It is fabulous and of great emotional depth and sensitivity. WOW! Roger Broughton MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Ottawa, Canada

БРАВО !