Yuja Wang - Chopin - Polonaise Fantaisie Op. 61

[fredericfranc]

Well, Yuja is certainly trying to plumb the mysteries of this peculiar epic, but she does not have the talent for the dark depths Chopin is calling for here. She is certainly trying hard, and her face is doing quite a bit of that Lang Lang thing, but it is not the face that really needs to do the hard work...

[mwtakeru312]

@fredericfranc stfu just listen

[fredericfranc]

@mwtakeru312 girl move face piano playing bad girl please no move face because Chopin bad

[predoje]

@fredericfranc FUCK OFF BEATCH HAHAHHA

[fredericfranc]

@predoje ...I know how to fuck off...the beatch is hard...

[petcila]

the playing is so prefect... but could've done so much better with the hair >~<!

[strrawberrygirl]

I have never heard a such talented piano player

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

I don't hear the end of the end of the arpeggios, at the beginning..

[audreyhsux5727]

everyone here insults lang lang. in truth hes not a bad pianist! every1 just says he sucks because of popular choice, which came from a few jealous critics...get over it, people, overexaggerated facial expressions doesnt mean horrible playing

[YetHaterLover]

My fiance.

[birdie22765]

To see her hands gliding over the keys must be a nightmare for arachnophobes.

[Fakissxxx]

muy grosa la minita esta

[jewgienij131]

it's Chopin masterpiece

[reidabuate]

18 persons, doesn't know how to play piano

[TheRenair]

@reidabuate they don't know what is a piano! :)

[dreaminginenglish]

18 dislikes? Really? What are these people looking for? I know we all have our favorites, but I can't figure out what there is to dislike about this performance?

[mebbio]

@dreaminginenglish perhaps the following is a weak point: there is no clear direction in this rendition. "Locally", bar by bar, it works. On a global level it doesn't work at all: it lacks an unifying view/idea. For this reason I prefer a lot other renditions than Yuja's. Nevertheless I don't think she deserves pushing the "dislike" button. Greetings.

[TheSuNsHiNeDiNo]

RIP to head phone users.

[cheval63sg]

She was 19 y.o only, at that time! She's just so perfect...

[sebchooo]

of course shes asian

[houseofyu]

superb... she ownz this seiler masterpiece piano like no-one else

[guirlandes3]

Elegant, idiomatic, absorbing, melancholy -- just as it should be. Her reading of this otherwise complex work will only grow richer and more layered in time. Another remarkable performance from this superb young pianist.

[MistarGriff]

Thumbs Up if you tried closing down the little window that came up at beginning :)

[fredericfranc]

...I expected lots of wrong notes, right?...she should have done a a girl-Hamelin kind of thing, a crazy thing by Alkan....

[fevercovers]

12 people don't have ears

[krisnaga91]

Wait... She's not reading sheet music...

[PockyHeartsPoptarts]

@krisnaga91 this is a recital. you're supposed to play by memory.

[skippityskipskip]

@krisnaga91 its called memorization. ever heard of it?

[rtuiy9898]

@ridwanfariz no! GIFTED TALENTED AWESOME

[Sophiestelle]

Always wonderful Yuja, beautiful, bravo!

[hirose9999]

ブラボー！

[ridwanfariz]

HOT HOT HOT

[MadexPL]

Can someone tell me what the two deep chords at the start are?

In the A-F format? thanks... :/

[NuovoCurioso]

....grandiosa Yuja!!!!

[miker2001]

What is amazing is that Gary Graffman taught both Yuja, and that clown, Lang Lang. She is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bret6464]

@miker2001 That Graffman was their teacher explains some of it, no wonder Graffman was never considered great. What Lang Lang and she have in common is they are both from the PRC, got signed by the same record co. that will sell lots of CDs in the PRC. But she is a better pianist and looks much better than Lang :-)

[marcohorowitz8]

@Bret6464 have you heard graffman's recording of the Chopin Ballades? It is mind-blowing. he was one of the greatest pianists in history, also one of Horowitz's favourite students. Unfortunately his right hand went K.O. in the 80s, a bit like Leon Fleisher and , more recently, Micha Dichter; since then he's been doing mostly left-hand repertoire.

[Bret6464]

@marcohorowitz8 Gilels' Chopin Ballades are unmatched, he alone plays them how I believe Rach would have, as Rach said Gilels was his true disciple. I also love Horowitz's Ballades. Horowitz was hesitant to discuss "students" said he had none, but Perahia was his favorite. Dichter follows Horowitz closely, being a student of R. Lhevinne at Juilliard (when Horowitz was in NYC)  My favorite currrent Chopin interpreter is Jung Lin also from Juilliard, and Argerich and Ohllson.

[TheDuplicityBuster]

@Bret6464 Would you mind revealing the source of your assertion that SR anointed Gilels as his "true disciple"? . In all the literature at my disposal, much of it in Russian, and just as much from Rachmaninoff's surviving family here and in Russia -- and not least, from one of the most comprehensive books on Russian pianists ever written, "Sovremyenniye Pianisti" by Grigoriev and Platek -- there is no such attribution.

[TheDuplicityBuster]

By the way, you are mistaken with regard to Horowitz as one who favored Perahia as a student. Trust me on this, as an inside source. Horowitz couldn't stand Perahia's playing, not in the least. It was all politics, thats all, believe me.

[miker2001]

@Bret6464 and she lets the music speak, rather than the over emoting that the other fellow does.

[sean44david]

fantastic ! she is so nice and what a real authentic poetic  chopin!

[snowykay]

Formidable!

Even better than Maurizio Pollini.

I'd like her to release Debussy and Bach (quite intriguing to compare her with Glenn Gould, too - two geniuses).

[beezuuss07]

5 people can't play the piano =))

[medoooc]

@beezuuss07

8! ;)

[jeavii]

There is so much passion in her playing

[universoeterno1]

Amazing! Thank you for the upload.

[OriginalBasaliskos]

Such sensitive playing.

[utubuser10]

when and where was this filmed?

[odriban]

Excelente, has logrado sonido de octavas y acordes no golpeado. Además has mejorado la calidad interpretativa. Felicitaciones.

[Tsachir]

Wonderful. Everything Yuja plays sounds so perfect. Certainly - one of the best pianists ever.

[thanchaun]

enchanting !

[NuovoCurioso]

...grande Yuja...

[fastben2010]

interressant !!manque la sensibilité de mr tiberghien en finale du concour long thibault

[bagatellissimo]

@fastben2010

ah !!! puisque vous le dîtes !!!!

[fastben2010]

@bagatellissimo  voyez vanessa wagner elle joue magnifiquement bien et aussi katia skanavi. en ce moment suis fan de valentina lititsa pas sûr de l'ortho dans la 1 ier sonate de ragmaninov