Yuja Wang plays Ravel's piano concerto in G minor with Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in June 2016. Lionel Bringuier conducting. Encores: Carmen Variations (Horowitz), Melody (Guck/Sgambati)
bloody bloody bloody difficult this concerto. It seems she is drinking a coffee except the second part when she flyes like an angel. I'm astonished ! The orchestra is flying with her hand in the hand. Maravellous moment. Thank you sal50811.
Ravel tried 3 times for a chance to study in Rome (Prix de Rome) and failed. And now his music echoes in every corner of this ancient capital. What a beautiful irony :)
I used to be quite critical of this concerto because of its occasional dissonance. However my perspective completely changed when I found this rendition on RU-vid. Brilliant playing!
I can't stop replaying the second movement (which starts at 8:30) . There are no words to describe it, except it makes me transcend this plane of reality and make me feel surrounded by perfection.
For this as is one of my favourite masterpieces, since , as Ravel wanted to 'reply' to the then revolutionary sounding Raphsody in Blue from his acquaintance Gershwin,the only personal note is just on the Adagio, where in certain passages, Ravel forces his attempt at jazz, save the overall beauty of the movement, with a breathtaking ending. And he forces even more in the 3rd movement. I find the 1st movement is perfect. I attended the performance.
@@antoniomonteiro3698 Also fantastic! It was my favorite, but Yuja played it with more feelings...especially in the second movement. But Michelangeli is one of the greatest ever, no doubt!
During the dialogue with the english horn her nuances of touché are outstanding; there aren't two following notes played with the same intensity .Insane!!!!
I attended the performance (in the same event, Wuja Wang performed also the marvelous Ravel's Piano Concerto for the left hand). For this as is one of my favourite masterpieces, since , as Ravel wanted to 'reply' to the then revolutionary sounding Raphsody in Blue from his acquaintance Gershwin, the only personal note is just on the Adagio, where in certain passages, Ravel forces his attempt at jazz, save the overall beauty of the movement, with a breathtaking ending. And he forces even more in the 3rd movement. I find the 1st movement is perfect. Wuja is always magic to me. She plays so 'easy'. And she is also so generous on beautiful encores!
It is important to know that is your taste, don’t forget those words are according to you, you don’t really have the right to say if it is objectively good or bad, or if things are wrong or right or forced. 😊 the second movement makes me feel great. If some passages are not to your liking, you can use that to write something more to your taste if you are able to do so. Kind words, am not trying to mean, just that it is already very hard for artists to make art, they need encouragement.
You are thinking the same I was thinking about Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin, but I thought maybe George G. got his inspiration from Ravel (not the other way around.)
I have watched this at least 6 times and it is still breathtaking. Technical, musical and aesthetic perfection. Making the most of Ravel's genius. Her 'duos' with Maria Irsara Cor anglais and Andrea Lucchi principle trumpet are absolutely delightful.
I love to watch her play. Not only her expression, but how rapidly her hands move, muscles in arms rippling. Her fingers must be unbelievably strong. She is an outstanding musician. An exemplary performance.
The second movement is just wonderful, with the woodwind perfectly matching dynamics across all those gorgeous phrases. Well done, beautiful ensemble playing.
Excellent "management" by Lionel - with brilliance from the individual band members... Yuja - was Yuja. (and ridiculously beautiful!) Super concert. And what is special is her clear sense of fun at the right time. 😍 2021 - Here yet again for another dose of "Miraculous" 😇😇😇
Quelle interprétation ! Moins qu'ailleurs la bataille entre transcendance, sensibilité, contrastes et lecture analytique. Mais oui, Ravel, si difficile, translucide et exigeant, est un tout, est authentique et magique. Ici. Merci de me faire entendre cela.
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"Clarté française" as Ravel wanted it to be played. The greatest interpretation since Michelangeli. The second movement of the G-major concerto is in his unpretentious and deeply musical insight even better than Michelangeli. I never thought this is possible but Yuja does it.
It also surpasses ABM in the interpretations of the following composers: Bach, Scarlatti, Galuppi, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninov. She is the best of all the pianists currently performing at the moment, and if she ever goes from us, there will never again be a nearly as excedllable and enchanting artist.
@@rigel48 You are right. The fiery recordings of the Grieg and Liszt concertos are incomparable. I love them very much, despite the poor recording quality. My post was meant ironically. I find the adoration of a talented young woman by men who let a doll face, a presentable ass and stilettos influence their judgement ridiculous. Every now and then I hear recordings of the Chinese woman on the radio without knowing she is playing. Her playing does not impress me. It does not touch.
@@beckerhanshermann8372 There are pianists for all tastes, puritan, rebel or other. Yuja Wang seems to be tasted by all great conductors, orchestras, and audiences (and probably all present composers on earth and past composers in heaven). I'm just grateful to live in Yuja's Epoch. And she is evolving every year toward new repertoires. This year she played Mozart successfully in Jurmala and Luzern
@@LaurentPingaultLyon "I am just grateful to live in Yuja's era. " That's wonderful. Then future historians can call the first half of the 21st century the Yuja Wang Era. That is a beautiful and poetic name.
8:40 is the intersection where an extremely talented pianist and an extremely sustaining treble section of this piano come together to make the most translucent glowing sound imaginable. She didn't do this by using any sustain pedal. 11:00 She did this by holding down one key after another with one finger as her other finger started playing another note. One of the greatest challenges of the piano is to take it out of its percussive realm and make it sound like a wind instrument. Yuja is doing that beautifully!
@Frank Skoda-Simmons jennifer86010 was talking about wind instruments, I suppose it's a good example. You can add to the list instruments like violin, cello,..
@@rootlesscosmopolite You use the term "nalog". What does this mean? And, if you are referring to the piano being "digital" meaning of the fingers, you are only partially correct, because a very skilled pianist can shape the sound coming out of a piano to achieve the illusion of a wind or string instrument. It is a very advanced technique, involving keyboard finger technique and the listener's hearing. Example: If you run a film in extreme slow motion, it appears as single still photos shown in succession. As you speed up the film, those photos blend into a smooth, lifelike representation of natural movement, no longer a succession of still photos. A very skilled pianist can do the same thing on the piano, and the listener's ear perceives it as a fluid sound, not a succession of individually struck notes. This is the illusion of "legato" but it is heard as legato. Listen to Keith Jarrett play any of his solo piano ballads. He uses this technique a lot, which accounts for his amazingly fluid, rich, elegant tone and often non-percussive piano sound.
@@jennifer86010 Good question--it made me go and look up some definitions of terms I've used un-rigorously (though I think fairly correctly) for years. The definitions I found are in terms of electronics so I've had to try to adapt them to musical instruments--I could probably find a better source for the way they apply in music. But roughly speaking, a digital signal (such as the sound produced by a keyboard instrument) is made up of discrete points, which would correspond to the keys on the keyboard, the strings of the piano, the pipes of the organ etc. An analog signal is continuous. The digital signal may be complex--a fundamental tone plus harmonics or overtones--but what we actually hear--what our brains process--is a series of pitches. A string or wind instrument is able to produce a continuity of pitches between any two fundamentals. Again roughly speaking, the keyboard is like the integers, the violin is like the real numbers. I think the connection with "digits" meaning "fingers" is the idea that points on a digital scale can be counted, like the fingers, whereas the points on an analog scale are infinite. There are ways to overcome the limitations of digital instruments--I think the clarinet glissando at the beginning of "Rhapsody in Blue" is an example. Again, I'm glad you brought this up.
Great as always. But there are other marvelous pianists out there, too. Martha Argerich did a lovely interpretation of the Ravel just a few years ago. The coming together of intelligence, talent, technique and sensibility is a wonder to experience for all of us.
Points de mots pour décrire cette sublime beauté qui semble qui semble jaillir de l’Âme de l’Artiste et rend la musique Sacrée . Grand merci Yuja . Camille de Dinard
The problem is most of us is listening with our eyes. That's why I love radio and not knowing who is playing at first. don't watch the screen and just listen with your ears and watch what happens.
Ed - I know what you mean; I first only heard Yuja playing Brahms, on Radio 3, and thought something special going on here... but her beautiful expressions really do enhance my pleasure. Often fall asleep listening with the screen off, however. :-)
through the last years she grown up in expression. she always was extremely talented and technincally flawless, but now she even is perfect in emotional aspects. to me personally she is one of the best if not the best piano player these days on this planet. and what will happen if she gets even a lil bit older? i am looking forward...
Cette pianiste est très belle et très expressive, c’est un plaisir de la regarder! Elle va jouer les 2 concertos de Ravel le 4 et le 5 octobre à la Philharmonie avec l’orchestre de Paris sous la direction du jeune chef finlandais Klaus Mäkelä (27ans!). Mais la meilleure version de ces concertos pour moi reste celle de Samson François, élève de Marguerite Long, elle-même élève de Ravel et créatrice du concerto en sol.
Thank you! Some support that she can wear whatever she pleases and it doesn't matter, but THIS appearance goes to show that those super short, revealing outfits aren't really in her favour. Here, she looks her most beautifully feminine and elegant and it so well fits the music that she's playing.
This is by far the best interpretation of this concerto. So much better than any other versions I listened to! I wish so much to listen to Yuja Wang’s version of Daphnis et Chloe Suite #2 - in the piano solo version 🥺
This is a sensational performance, even though there are several other extraordinary performances of the Ravel Concerto: Michelangeli, Katchen, Argerich, just to mention a few.
Incredible performance. Great 1st movement, and one of the most gorgeous interpretations of the 2nd movement. 3rd movement felt a tad frantic to me, but who am I?
Her Prokofiev, Ravel and Rachmaninoff are astounding, as is the Hammerklavier of Beethoven. I would really like to hear her do the Beethoven concertos especially 4 and 5.
If I’m correct and if she played Horowitz’s variations of on Carmen, I think its interesting how different her performance was different from Horowitz’s himself. For example, the climax is much lighter and faster than Horowitz’s.
