You left the "e" out of "soiled"... oh wait! You mean "Solid!" hahahahahahahaha Surely there's a Mexican dish we could create out of this: Doritos + Toccata = Dorccatas? Toccitos? Hmmmm... I"ll bet she has a bag of Doritos hidden right there in the piano...
Beautiful dress too. She puts on a real show. Technically awesome. Her rocking from side to side on the piano stool has my insides nervous. Really awesome. I am truly thankful and pleased to know this woman plays. Perhaps get to see a live gig some time. Not a classical concert hall. Someplace jazzier. Beautiful dress too. 🥳
Holy Fuck, this will never ever be played with such crystaline fluidity, supernatural facility, and with such perfection ! Nikolai would be dazzled!!!!
@@certaindeaf8632 you are most certainly deaf, after 10yrs of Juilliard, 22 solo cds, so many grammies and academy awards I have lost count, I am in perpetual awe of such transcendent jazzy placement of notes, and a virtuosity that will never be equalled SO STFU
on a lighter note, look at the body language of the page turner, can you imagine, I once turned pages for Sam Sanders in Carnegie Hall and he gave me a lot of dirty looks, this guy looks terrified , its pretty funny
Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020) 0:03 Toccatina, Op. 40 No. 3 *from* _Eight Concert Études for Piano_ *(1984)* 1:51 *Applause* Yuja Wang, piano✨ *Philharmonie de Paris* *Paris, France 🇫🇷 March 9, 2022* _[Encore, from a cellphone recording.]_
musicality lost in virtuosity.... I love the play of Yuja Wang, she's one of the most brilliant piano players of our time. But this way to play the Toccatina robs it of the spirit of Kapustin. Get a look of his own interpretation here on youtube and you know what i mean.
I also prefer the composer’s rendition, but I wouldn’t say Yuja looses musicality by playing it so fast… in my opinion it’s just a different interpretation.
Escucharla yndespues no queda mas que morir. Ese control y el placer que muestra al tocar cosas veloces, fuertes, rítmicas es único. Esperando que toque a Ginastera !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yuja is phenomal, such technique. Many will say this is too fast, but all she is doing is offering her interpretation, which yes, is hyperspeed. It is still valid, and she still hits the groove. That's the thing, look at her body language and the look on her face, she is getting the piece even as her fingers are a blur. I also like Kapustin's own version, but Yuja is in a class of one. Amazing.
Genius! My favorite part is 1.40-1.45. Subito piano and the wave of cresc. decrescendo makes those 5 seconds addictive ❤ and she does it so joyfully and just perfect...
Yuja, your dexterity is awesome - I am exhausted watching you! - are you sure you don't have hidden fingers we can't see? You are totally incredible. Thank you for that fantastic performance.
ugh why does she have to play kapustin so damn fast, like a another commenter said on another video all Yuja does is commit musical violence- Shan Sun plays fast too but at least she stills captures the groove of the piece
Definitely! Just fast playing, but no grasp of the musical content. I admire her technical ability, although just playing the notes as fast as possible doesn't do justice to the music. Kapustin's own rendering with it's straight forward clarity and motoric is perfect! To be fair, there is another performance of her at Verbier Festival. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F3mVb6P8SGw.html That is quite a lot clearer. Maybe her adrenaline was high after the concert. Or is it the length of her dress? In Verbier she plays almost in a swim suit...
There is another yuja recording of this toccatina on her berlin recital album, which is slightly slower than here but still faster than the kapustin recording. I find it preserves the funky tone of the piece while still being fast enough to be a little bit more exciting than the kapustin. I feel its one of the very rare occasions of someone playing a kapustin piece better than the man himself.
At least she could show some respect to the composer. Meaning? Tempo is toooooo fast, and I mean really tooooooo fast. This has nothing to do with Kapustin.
Sorry, but this just doesn’t do it for me. It’s almost like Yuja feels she needs to show how technically good she is. She doesn’t, everyone already knows. The only person who pulls it off this fast is Dmitri Masleev. Regardless of how perfectly it is played, too much detail is simply lost at this speed.
You can turn pages on an iPad by tapping the screen, and now there are Bluetooth apps which enable you to turn pages using 2 foot pedals which sit on the floor (one for going forward, the other for going back). This system of course lets you turn pages hands free. I saw Yuja Wang’s recital in San Francisco last Sunday and she played her entire program using an iPad and no human page turner/iPad tapper. I assume she was using foot pedals to turn pages. (And I assume she was playing pieces she had learned more recently, since she usually plays from memory.) 📱🙋🏻♀️🎹
@@marshallartz395 I thought the ipad or siri can listen and turn pages automatically. i did not see any foot pedals at her los angeles disney hall recital last week.
@@papagen00 That technology is in the works, but not fully developed yet, as far as I can tell. I did not see Yuja Wang using foot pedals or tapping the screen at her San Franciso recital. Could she be beta testing a new app? Freedom from page turning would be a dream come true for musicians. If somebody else has better information, let us know. 😀📱🎹🙋🏻♀️
This world there is many pianist can perform this works nothing great unless you compose your own toccata to show that you are better than the great masters
Don't give her Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit then lol. Which is probably one of the most challenging Piano pieces ever written. It's a piece that creates nightmares for Pianists everywhere. Especially in the third called Scarbo yikes 😬. What possessed lunatic would write a piece like that without killing the musician in the process? Still Yuja always seems to defy the odds. Still prefer her to Beethoven Hammerklavier Sonata or Rachmaninoff but just my preference. :)
Absolutely insane technically. This piece is hard enough at half that speed. Unfortunately it doesn’t make much sense that fast. If it’s done slower it swings like crazy. This is just manic. But it’s very impressive.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz Well, objectively speaking, she is world-class ("pianist," if not a "musician"), but even world-class people sometimes play badly. I can name a lot of very well known names to have no clue how to play Schubert sonatas. :-) :-) :-) But that's sophisticated stuff. I can even name some very big names who are very so-so with something as obvious as the finale of Prokofiev No. 7 . . .
@@RusskyVoyennyKorablIdiNakhui Argerich and Horowitz did terribly, in concert, with that Prokofiev. I'm sure that miss Wang, with her world-class fingers, would get all the notes right. But that's about it.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz I must confess I did not look up Vladimir. But Martha's reading I know. :-) May I offer you someone (shall we say, a mystery pianist) who decided to butt heads with her -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jzzKu5SGi3g.html It is my contention that the blue note makes the piece.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz And, while we are that, here's a tidbit of the 8th. I listened to both Gilels (the first performer, I believe) and Richter, and, shockingly, they are kinda boring compared to this -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TAbx_r5XCYY.html
