Knockout performances of mesmerizing pieces, they suit Yuja like a glove! Her electricity lifts these away from some of the intello/academic/struggling student/etc, rendings we've suffered. Yuja on form=spine-tingling pleasure.
@@jesusmauryvargas8971 what kind of question is this even? What excuse do you have for not know way more information than you already do? Ahh yes, because you just dont. Like come on.
There is something about her playing that just has opened new doors into modern music for me. Before Yuja, I just didn't "get" composers like Prokofiev or Ligeti, but now I really like their music. I guess her playing finally opened my ears to atonal compositions.
prokofiev for all his advancements is nothing compared to Ligeti. Prokofiev still holds onto the past while expanding his present. Composers like Ligeti and Lutoslawski are actively trying to abandon the past despite being influenced by the past, at least IMHO.
Great performance. Kind of funny that the video probably should have stopped at about 6:34, but then she sits down to the piano again, and I get all hyped to hear what she's going to play next, and then it ends.
Terrific ! Hits the spot ! Thanks for sharing your "Wang"sides.. Gonna kick the "Wang Dang Doodle " all night long . Yea man ! She's just terrific with Legeti !
Entre los años 1985 y 2001, Ligeti compuso tres libros de estudios para piano. El primer estudio que aquí le escuchamos a Yuja Wang, "Fanfares", corresponde al Libro I y lleva el N° 4. El segundo estudio, "Der Zauberlehrling" (El aprendiz de brujo) es del Libro II y es, también, el estudio N° 4. (Gentileza de La Belleza de Escuchar).
Wow!! What a great jazz pianist. This beautiful chopstick of a girl really swings! Yuja you remind me of the American expression "I love my wife, but oh you kid". Seriously, Yuja Wang must be the greatest living pianist
I am so glad that Yuja is choosing to play contemporary the piano literature - she could easily have rested her reputation on a steady diet of Chopin, Rachmaninov, and other romantic virtuoso pieces. The Ligeti etudes are fiendishly difficult, and she plays it all so excellently!
This particular performance comes from very early in her career when Ligeti was one of Yuja's mentors who would have given her detailed feedback on how these pieces should be interpreted. After the composer's death, Yuja has generally played Ligeti less often, but played a couple of his etudes frequently last year.
@@timothybolshaw I'd be interested to hear her play Ligeti's Piano Concerto. The Etudes have made it into the standard repertoire but, it seems like the Concerto is still performed mainly by pianists who specialize in contemporary music.
@@alans3597 Yuja has more leeway in choosing what she will play with solo recitals and chamber music. When it comes to concertos, the conductor, orchestra and others need to be convinced to go along. While popularity and commercial viability is always a factor, this is especially true with an expensive orchestral performance. Sadly, large concert halls with the top orchestras are not likely to be interested in performing the Ligeti concerto. I would also be interested in seeing Yuja perform it (and believe she probably knows it) but I fear we are destined to be disappointed.
@@timothybolshawshe studied with him? When? Where do you know it from? I never heard about it. In fact it is not necessary to study with the composer. Using the sheet music should be enough! Even listening to others is not obligatory-but it can sure help. But because of recordings there are so many pianists who play literally like each other. And that sucks. In the past one had to be a really good musician to play well. (With less recordings available)
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benditos sean los dedos prodigiosos de Yuja, la inaudible voz de sus sonrientes labios mientras dialoga con sus graves o juguetonas teclas niñas
@NT I think he means Pierre-Laurent Aimard. For the sake of comparison, you can listen to his version here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nzHXJezwDWA.html @Ash Bell, I'm with you -- I would love to hear her do all three books as well
Oh yeah Aimard of course is THE Ligeti player, and I believe they collaborated during composition. It was the first time I heard the Etudes. and I don’t think there’s any performance comparable to that.
I have my Ligeti etudes signed by Aimard :') He played a recital of etudes (Bartok, Debussy, Scriabin, Ligeti)... What else one could ask? It was just magical, never seen anything alike... But yeah, Yuja is also superb!
@chickenringNYC This is the exact marking: "sempre legato, quasi senza pedale", i.e. connected or touching, but with almost *no* pedal. Plus *accented* first, fourth, and sixth notes. Which is what she does. The net effect should be a rapid machine-like ostinato, not a line that is completely "smooth and flowing". (Cf. also with the same basic ostinato figuration in the second movement of the Horn Trio.)
I like Yuja's clarity...if that is what you mean by "older classical"; it's a valid tempo and choice for any some of us who respond at all to Ligeti... But Ching-Yun Hu is certainly more 'anarchistic' in her playing of this, and more percussive, surprising; since Yuja normally leans toward that too. And her performance IS wonderful. So I could not choose a 'winner', since both approaches are valid and unique enough-I'm glad to laud them both!
"But Ching-Yun Hu is certainly more 'anarchistic' in her playing of this, and more percussive, surprising; since Yuja normally leans toward that too. And her performance IS wonderful." As you write, it is surprising to hear Yuja (like Aimard) approach Ligeti with a less percussive approach, though a casual reading of the score seems to call out for such. It is worth noting that Ligeti was one of Yuja's mentors at this early period in her career, and I am pretty sure this would be an approved interpretation to go along with her usual excellent technique.
@@timothybolshaw I had forgotten this post! The person I was responding to has actually died since then. I do think she is one of the least purposely note-banging' of virtuoso today, and I like that certainly still in this performance.
📯 Yuja Wang Plays Ligeti 📯 György Ligeti (1923-2006) Études for Piano *(1985-2001)* 0:33 Étude 4: Fanfares 🎺 _Vivacissimo, molto ritmico,_ _con allegria e slancio_ 4:17 Étude 10: Der Zauberlehrling *(The Sorcerer’s Apprentice)* 🧙♂️🪄 _Prestissimo, staccatissimo,_ _leggierissimo_ 7:04 *The End* Yuja Wang, piano✨ *Verbier Festival 2008* *Église de Verbier* *Verbier, Switzerland 🇨🇭*
@chickenringNYC Did you listened Yuja Wng playing Mendelsson, Scarlatti, Rachmaninov etc., were she uses all the necessary types of articulations, in the place and in the correct moment?
Ligeti is never easy to play (although his "Fanfares" is the easier of the 18). She did fine, obviously, but she's playing it a little bit like older classical. My favorite performance on RU-vid of Etude No. 10, "Der Zauberlehrling" is by Ching-Yun Hu. She's plays it like none other!
Also sagen wir so, technisch perfekt, keine Frage, aber man muss sich sehr lange reinhören bis man mit Ligeti was anfangen kann. Geht mir zumindest gerade so.
I find you trolling HERE now. Those of us who admire her work find plenty of emotion in interpretations when called for. What is amusingly pompous is your whole need to post trolling negativity against Yuja all over YT-like freddyfranc, not happy with your romantic life-lonely--or of petrified taste so her short dresses get to you? Silly undervaluation--but what prejudice prompts you to post now so obsessively? Feeling rejected....trying to impress your Dad....angry at the musical world...? :-)
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