Yuja Wang: Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43 [HD] 

Highest thanks and praise to EVERYONE who made this supreme music, starting with Rachmaninov moving through conductor and every instrumentalist, soloist, & Queen Yuja !! Same goes for all technical crew without which we in RU-vid land wouldn’t have this divine experience !!

If the music from Variation #18 cannot move you, nothing will. Rachmaninoff turns Paganini's music upside down in this variation and you don't hear Paganini anymore, just music from heaven. Watch Ms Wang's hands and fingers at play, they are nonhuman. If you don't play attention, you will not realize how long her fingers are. She is sent to earth by God.

Wonderful as ever, she's well loved around the world.

Not only is she GREAT 😊 , but check that dress❣️❣️❣️

真愛看她彈琴時的嘴。不停的動、時帶笑、時咬牙。不知她是在和鋼琴溝通還是和作曲家對話。美極。 love to watch her mouth while she was playing. Seems she was talking to the composer or to the piano. So lovely !

When she plays the adagio my heart melts.

Thank you Peter, I had heard about this performance but not seen it before.~ she has a wonderful style of playing.

Bravissima Yuja!!!!!!!!!

Peter Chen you are brilliant bringing Yuja to the world - may good fortune shine on you

Yuja:absolutely magnificent, as usual.❤❤

Yuja is so unique . . . not just as a spectacular technician, but her presence, energy, beauty, and maybe just a bit of quirky humor, elevates anything she has ever performed to an entirely different level. An excedingly rare "perfect storm" of the genetic lottery, upbringing and surrounding supporters who inspired and created who she is now, and may yet become.

OK, first time I've ever seen a cellist wearing gloves. And on the left hand, no less. And Yuja's interpretation and technical ability are unparalleled, as usual.

Amazing performance thank you.

Grazie di esistere Yuja grande dono di Dio!

Pure bliss

Wow 🤩🎶🎶🎹🎻🪈🎻🎹🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶🎹🎻🎶👏🤝🔝👏👏🔝 PERFORMANCE ECCELLENTE 💯💯🎶🎻🎶🥁🪈😊

Thank you, Peter. What an electric performance!

A beautiful performance, especially variation 18. I love the way she throws away the ending, just as the writing indicates.

I love the viola players reaction to the on-cue dog bark at 00:35

Wonderful

Yuja Wang pure genius - truly on another level - a level where her spiritual power sits beside the obvious technical mastery and somehow we get a window into the heart of the composer who no doubt is watching and laughing with pleasure

It's not the first time I've had this thought watching a classical pianist play a piece without a score, but gosh, how is it possible? Especially on this piece?

thank u for identifying each variation for us listeners. very helpful indeed

I’ve heard mannyyy interpreteisongs of this piece Since its one of my favorites. From the first movement this professional sat down …., wow . No more words for this interpreter. I long she had been my child.!!!

Bravissima 👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹😘

Awesome orchestra music ❤

The Maestriss of the piano ( if I can say that )......Please come to Australia Yuja.......We long to hear you here.........................................................

@PeterChenW the synchronization seems absolutely perfect here. A very nicely produced video. The captions and timed contents are great to have as well.

🎶🎶🎹🎹🎶🎹🔝💯🎻🎻 ORCHESTER FILARMONICA DIRECTORY ECCELLENTI 🤝🤝👏👏❤️❤️💯

sublime !

The Best Music never dies ...

The crowd clapping at the end of the 10th variation really pissed me off for some reason. 😆

Everyone shits their pants for Glenn Gould's detache playing -- but Yuja shows those people what detache should sound like. "Secco" doesn't mean "colorless" or "brown." I'd like to hear her play more Mozart, or Haydn, even.

Brava! That was bloody amazing ❤

Yuja Wang in the Year of the Dragon - Brooke Watson 2024 I hear the heavy final breathing as completion Draws the great composer’s mind From the final black ink notes Into eternal blessed sleep And too I hear the clack and thunder of a thousand horses Dreaming through the misted ages Bearing fearlessly their precious burden across the centuries Until at last - As if by some invisible heavenly direction Those tender childish woman hands reach out And Draw his blood alive again: His mighty spirit woken and now bursting out across our fragile moments How can this be? How can this tiny powerhouse crack open the black ink courses with such purity; Where Saint Cecelia offers up her motes of love Where Her Beauty dances in amongst those black ink notes That is where Her Beauty is now shining through those tender woman hands Her own young Beauty Adorning the ancient breath Adorning the light - and liberating love’s true soul once more - A tender musicians hands shaping love’s spirit on god’s distant shore.

woow superb 王羽佳

Great job with this video production. There had to be at least 8 cameras involved to capture the performance. And I liked how the volume was handled for the various instruments when they had the spotlight. Their contribution came out very clearly. There had to be microphones all over the place. And the editor worked hard to put the final product together.

My neighbor is a sound engineer and this would make him cry

Just listened to her on BBC 3 post hurricane “Breakneck finger work”

What a awesome performance!.... Yuja is such a great talent: .... A child prodigy.... Always wears sexy gowns.. Have watched her interviews, & she has alot of depth to her as well...... Where is this coming from?... My Mother was a music teacher, so I grew up listening to this beautiful music.... Many Blessings😃🙏

Incredible. High art!

Yuja so respectful and gentle when the diamond emerges

Variation 18 is so beautiful

The passion , the feeling . Never heard it before before

Very good performance and she looks so lovely.

👏🤝🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎹🎻🎶🔝🔝🔝👏👏👏🤝🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎹 THANK YOU SO MUCH…❤👏👏👏💯😊

Це просто неймовірно!

Those who are critical of her playing should understand that playing in an outside venue the soloist must adapt to the conditions, which in this case is most challenging. For me she does a grand attempt.

As usual ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🎉

double BRAVA!

Wow, wow, wow!. ❤

Dearest Wang Yuja, Thank you for your life in all that it ever has been, ever is, and ever will be! May your Divine love, wisdom, and understanding in your actions of the music expressed through you, touch the hearts and minds of all humanity and beyond. May the Divinity of the music as Divinely expressed through you, reach the Divinity of all humanity, in this world and beyond. May your Divine expressions through your love and understanding of the music, reach through to all the Divine love and wisdom of all humanity, and beyond. May we fortunate enough to have heard the music expressed through you, experience in our hearts and minds, a miraculous and revolutionary reverence towards a peaceful loving healing of all our hearts and minds, upon hearing you play, may it inspire in us all a greater realisation towards all our aspirations for what is possible within a greater understanding and fathoming of all our hearts and minds, upon us hearing the music played through you, May it spark a revolution in our aspirations for what is possible for the whole world over, and over, and over, May all our hearts and minds be healed, the whole world over, and over, and over, as well as through, and through, and through, May we all be blessedly healed. May the realisation for a revolution in our aspirations for what is possible through you, then extend further to all of nature in this world and, beyond, and beyond, and, beyond. May your Divine fathoming and actions of the music forever free you from all attachment and aversion and forever and instantaneously set you free from all and any torment and suffering, May this be true for you in music, as well as true for you in life, may you forever be free from all torment and suffering. Then through your realisation of freedom, may we all without exception, through your freedom, may we all without exception, may we all without exception be set free too…May this be in all, May it be for all, May it be in all, for all, in all, in all the Ten directions, and may it be in all the Four times, and beyond, and beyond, and beyond... Wang Yuja, May you live a long, and prosperous, happy fruitful life, and may the world be a better place for having you been born, lived, learned, played and shared your life within it! With Love from Love to Love, Yours Sincerely, Faithfully and Forevermore…. Will you someday please bless us in person here too on our shores in Australia, with a visit to Sydney or Melbourne with one or more of your blessed performance’s?

i’m crying my eyes out. thank u.

王羽佳音樂家琴藝精湛教人歎為觀止！ 🎼🎹🎼🌹🌹🌹

Wow, I hear Paganini’s 24th caprice at the beginning there! That’s cool hearing it as a piano concerto!

Yuia 🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎹💯🔝🎶🎶🎶🎹🎹 BRAVA 🤩

Желаю Юйцзе Ванг крепкого здоровья и счастья, трудиться на благо людей, просветляя их сердце , душу и мозг. Прекрасное выступление.

22:20 This is where the fire explodes!

Certamente è tra le migliori versioni del Web

Yuja wang and her classic sharp bows

About 4 years ago I booked to go to Luxemburg to see Yuja Wang in a concert, however, it was cancelled at the last minute. This kind of made up for it. I still went to Luxemburg - great trekking countryside surrounding the city.

classical music for the eyes

It's really hard to think of a more beaautiful stretch of music than variation #`18. Perhaps Schuman's Traumerei, Brahms intermezzo #118, Mahler's Adagietto, but maybe equal, not greater.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

And the 17th variation is the world we are all living in presently........

15:28 onwards, variation 18

And finally, as usual, superb technique and upright hand and body posture at the piano.

Gran Obra con mayúsculas

巅峰状态的王羽佳，尽显顶级钢琴家风范。

Love made me a fool.: Andy Williams ❤🎉😊 OST.Somewhere In Time.❤🎉😊

Variation 18❤❤

I don't know what caused it, perhaps the way the orchestra was mic'd up but the balance between the orchestra and the soloist was way wrong on the tutti sections. It felt almost like a contest between the two, which is a shame. Orchestra played at ffff the whole time! At some points the soloist was literally drowned out.. Yuja is an incredible talent and I really like to hear her. However, this performance was flawed in my humble opinion......

It's the South Bank Show!

And sh e plays without a music sheet, all of this Phapsody is played by memory and hours of practice, she is either an Alien from space or the 8th wonder, maybe both, I love her

Magnificent performance and an excellent production. One nit--the remote camera in close-up on the keyboard was shaking and distracting. It could have been fixed in post with digital stabilization.

Want a solo piano video for this.

always looking forwarf to the part at 7:02, makes me tear up

she's pretty amazing in this piece - the very weird, almost Mahlerian Variation 16 a particular highlight in this performance.

Beautiful, the music is great also.

Simple explanation: She's not from this planet. She can't be!

А где купальник?!?!?!? Нет, мы так не договаривались!!! Юджа должна выступать в купальнике с блестками!!!!

2:11 15:30

22:22键盘上飞舞的手指，真漂亮！

I think the orchestra is drowning out the pianist at times. Still a superb performance by all, especially by Ms. Wang❤

18:19 just suoluplifting

What does "conducted by a video conductor" means??? I read it in the description, but i can't get what does it mean: i see a real conductor there

Cellist with a glove. What is that kind of glove for?

And tuning problems to augment the horror.

05:03 08:23 09:45

It is nightmarish to perform such a piece outdoors with no sound reflections, all the downside of a very unsympathetic space. Dozens of microphones no matter how carefully positioned will combine in an unmusical way. Why was this even done? I’m sad to say, it sounds horrendous. This outcome would not have been unanticipated either. Musicians would absolutely know just by walking onto the ‘stage’ that they were in for a very difficult day. Some promoter(s) got it in their head that this was a great idea. Players and audience alike suffered for that.

This yellow dress is one of Yuja's best. Tasteful. Separate issue, as always, i am not a fan of the high heels. Makes her waddle instead of walking nomally.

4:28 the bassoonist is awful!!

Toujours des tenues indécentes 😮🥱👙🩱👠

＃ライブ映像の魅力、＃ピアノ、＃ピアニスト、＃楽曲の演奏速度最高です。＃臨場感、＃リプレイ可能です、＃英語の字幕付き、＃ピアノ演奏の手の交差右手と左手の役割、＃深い音、＃音の三要素、＃スイッチャーカット割り映像、＃スイッチャーカメラ割り映像、 (00)-0:00秒オープニングは、セルゲイ・ラフマニノフフ、パガニーニの主題による狂詩曲 op.43、イントロダクション、テーマ、24のバリエーション、ユジャ・ワンのピアノ、 【ユジャ・ワン、パガニーニの主題による狂詩曲 op.43、[HD]】 ピアニスト奏者の演奏は楽譜の強弱記号や速度記号や1つのみを強調する記号含む演奏のニュアンスが素晴らしく感動しています、 また複数台のTVカメラオペレーターの楽譜が読めるスイッチャーのカメラ割り映像が素晴らしく感動しました。 アップロードに感謝申し上げます👍😍、 (01)-0:22秒🚺、イントロダクション：アレグロ・ライブ、テーマ：同じ時間、（手の交差右手と左手の役割） （02）-0:32秒バリエーション1：（前）、 (03)-0:50秒テーマ：同じ時間、 (04)-1:09秒バリエーション２：同じ時間、 (05)-1:28秒バリエーション３：同じ時間、 (06)-1:53秒バリエーション4：より生き生きと、 (07)-2:21秒バリエーション５：前のテンポ、 (08)-2:50秒バリエーション６：同じ時間、 (09)-3:55秒バリエーション7：途切れが少なく、適度なテンポで、 (10)-5:04秒バリエーション８：テンポ l、 (11)-5:39秒バリエーション9：同じ時間、 (12)-6:12秒バリエーション10：同じ時間、 (13)-7:03秒バリエーション11：中程度、 (14)-8:25秒変奏曲12：メヌエットの時間、 (15)-9:46秒変奏曲13：アレグロ、 (16)-10:17秒アレーション14：同じ頃、 (17)-10:59秒バリエーション15：私はもっとふざけて生きます、 (18)-12:08秒変奏16：アレグレット、 (19)-13:47秒変奏17：（アレグレット）、 (20)-15:33秒⭕️第18変奏：アンダンテ・カレンタービレ、 (21)-18:14秒変奏曲19：活発なテンポで、 (22)-18:46秒バリエーション20：もう少し生き生きと、 (23)-19:25秒バリエーション21：もう少し生き生きと、 (24)-19:50秒バリエーション22：武道。もう少し生きて（すぐに）、 (25)-21:30秒バリエーション23：同じ時間、 (26)-22:22秒変奏曲24：少し遅めのテンポ、（ピアノ鍵盤グリッサンド演奏あり） （A）-23:18秒秒🎹ピアノグリッサンド演奏です、 尚私はタブレット端末の画面サイズに拡大してループ再生やリプレイで好きな曲を繰り返し視聴しています👍、 2024年６月３日現在視聴しながら追加コメントを書き込んでいます。🖋️🖋️、 JST、4:07分

Que reste-t-il de Yüna Wzng? Déjà finie et qui n’a plus rien à dire? Quelques oripeaux excentriques, un jeu à l’eau de Javel…très très peu d’émotions. Déjà fanée.

Yuja Wang's tone quality is so hard and brittle that it verges on the unlistenable. She never lets you forget that the piano is a percussion instrument.

this is shockingly bad

oh my god what a lousy orchestra.

Played a teeny weeny too fast, and too hard. Yuja is past her prime. She butchered this one. 🙁