Mendelssohn piano Concerto No. 1 - Yuja Wang, Kurt Masur

[Mintcubes]

Do you spot the chinese-looking woman at 0:16? I'm guessing that's her mom.

[iLoveMuzqik]

Beautiful

[Seeka1337]

this wang is awesome ^^

[fintajo]

SUPER!!!!!

[wiedrenn]

DAYUUUMMM!!!!!

[magicalmusic0188]

I love how she knows the song and when she's not playing she's anxious.

[PowerofTrueInsight]

Always sweet....

[zerosum88]

Lang Lang does not work for me well. Yujia is the best in the world. I like Yundi Li as well.

[kucusin]

sos la mejor!!

[divvy1400yam600]

This extract and this version are amongst my absolute favourites.

I have watchaed it soooo often

How Miss wang makes it all look so easy.

Especially the bits where the main melody is played at speed with the 4t/5th fingers of the right hand. Counting the thumb as 1 lol

Musical beautiful remarkable.

i love it.

[charizianne]

she should star as Nodame in the Nodame Cantabile movie!!!! She would be perfect as her!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks just like her and her piano playing would be good for that movie.........!!!!

[CookieandCupcakes29]

@charizianne and have lang lang as the guy? that guy.. um whats his name? chiaki? or watever his name is XD jsut a perfect match

[andreasn8]

Nodame?!

[carinah1236]

oh my god look at the muscles in her hands, she's so gooddd!!!

[lego10123]

Lang Lang is better

[UlrichRuler13]

@lego10123

You're fucking crazy. Lang Lang may have the technical aspects hammered down but honestly, come on.

[lego10123]

@UlrichRuler13 Everyone have their own choice , I am not fucking crazy XD

[mappingtheshit]

@UlrichRuler13 Having a technical aspect is the most important and the most difficult part for the PIANIST... It's like a wondered person wants to be a mathematician, he loves it, but without TECHNICS he is nothing

[UlrichRuler13]

@mappingtheshit

Agreed but what's the use of gaining all technical abilities without being able to express your emotion through extremely technical pieces.

[mappingtheshit]

@UlrichRuler13 what I wanted to say is that Technical Aspects = Professionalism...

[Papadragon18]

Trolling for anyone else who thinks they can play piano. :P

[96Emotaz]

she looks really sad when shes not playing its adorable

[trigons]

she could get it ;) (while she plays the piano)

[boiledeggplant]

she's amazing but she looks so bored when she has nothing to play...

[1995Ammy]

at !:39 she looks like she is about to cry or something haha

[XyelleX]

at 1:25 she pb thinks: "Come on!!!"

[pinaklonkar]

This video got me into Mendelssohn

[MisterKaiPod]

@skimask777 watch?v=p0L_pAqLAi0&feature=re­lated is part 2 of 2 where this piece is played. Part one is linked in the related videos.

[skimask777]

@MisterKaiPod Thanks! Lang Lang is either lost in space or missing in action since Yuja hit Youtube. Lol

[organboi]

@skimask777 Please don't even say the name "Gang Bang" on any page with Miss Wang. He will continue to spew his atrocities on the music world just the same. But thank God a real musician has come along.

[gnatural]

This is easily the most beautiful chinese woman I have seen yet

[flaminio67]

@gnatural

. . . . and the most gifted too!

[StrumstickJoe]

SHE'S MIMING!

[Nisshoku1729]

1:25 "God dammit, just get to the part where I get to play again"

[CarolvOdd]

@Nisshoku1729 hahaha exactly

[skularatna]

I take back what I said after listening to this again, I can really now feel the emotion. I guess first time i watched it, I wasn't really listening properly. One can hear very differently when they are concentrating and not distracted by other interferences

[flaminio67berlino]

@skularatna You are shure it was she?

Lucky boy!

[skularatna]

@flaminio67berlino I think you have mistaken me for Dominiku who met her in a bar... I wish I met her in a bar :)

[flaminio67berlino]

@skularatna Thank you - of course, it was a mistake. I guess the girl upsets me a little bit.

[Dominiku3]

haha, i met this girl in a bar in tokyo a few months ago, she said she was a professional pianist but i didn't expect this

[musiclady777]

Incredible!!



[banjuja58]

To all the know-nothings who say there is no emotion: 1) It's the f**king 3rd movement of the Mendelssohn 1st concerto. Pure virtuoso display music, what kind of "emotion" are you expecting? 2)Check out the video of her Scriabin set from Santa Fe (yeah, the one with the tiny purple dress.) Then dare to tell me there is no feeling in her playing.

[TalPlayPiano]

Musique exceptionnelle, et pianiste exceptionnelle !!!

Bravo !!!

:-)

Chantal

(le piano arc-en-ciel)

[xavierulzok]

she is BUFF :)

[xAngeLificatioN]

1:20-1:45 . She was like "im bored."

[musicalidea]

Wonderful, natural execution of the acceleration up to the cadence during 1:05-1:11.

[hd9xc1k2]

I love to see Asian musicians because when they play you get to weed out those pseudo-music-lovers who immediately assume that they have no emotions because they are Asian.

For some people, their racial prejudices prevent them from feeling.

[MrALCOTTS]

To 31 failed pianists that have said critical feedback about this video: let's go to bathroom to find yourself!!!!!!!!!!!;-)

[MarkTheCode]

If she is technically perfect, you say there's no emotion in her piece. If she's both technically and emotionally uncritizable, you say it's because she's asian. How confusing, isnt it

[MrLeokeyboardist]

DIMINIZ

[foodmore]

its funny when people criticize pianists. They don't realize they are also criticizing the conductor and the audience. The pianist doesnt just appear and forces her way into a concert. She has to be there for a reason, and the audience is there because they chose to watch that pianist.

[KayFrankThomas]

I don't think most of you can see the emotion in her face. We Asians can see it perfectly.

[miniq2004]

How can you say she lacks emotion! Listen to her!

[skularatna]

technically very good but lacking emotion still a long way to go to reach the heights of cziffra, ashkenazy, horowitz and other great concert pianists...but damn she is cute right?

[davehshs]

@skularatna I don't know what kind of "emotion" you're expecting to see Ms. Wang exhibit in response to this music, which has lots of fireworks but is pretty superficial emotionally. She brings out a sense of fun in this lively, tricky music. It is not the musician but the music that lacks emotion, in this case, and she plays it quite appropriately.

[Starzmans]

2:08  she said "Oh Fuck"

[uUUu314]

Ha 1:26 she looks so bummed that she isnt playing. As iEnjoiSushi said

[iEnjoiSushi]

She's so cute D:

[triworldsupersaiyan]

Yuja Wang I love you.Your so Good!I wish my son/baby Karl Lenin-Tri World Pianist would be like you also! your the Best!

[prince2000ful]

Yes Talented but still very young and without real expression.

[Erikk91]

Excellent technique, poor musicality, it is a robotic execution. I am not a hater, just telling my opinion.

[KarenKotosaki]

beautiful...her rendition is like a stream of melody.

[BeautifulThrix56]

I wanna be like her!...

[papcyrill]

my fav female pianist,,love this girl

[erickalk]

NO MUSICAL!

[flaminio67]

@erickalk Indeed - it's not a musical but a piano concerto - in a beautiful performance.

[georgecrgr]

Wonderful !

[cro508]

she is crazy good!

[laichingyung]

Awesome!!



[TalPlayPiano]

Excellente musique, et excellente pianiste !!!!

:-)

lepianoarcenciel

[Crayterm13]

1:37, she starts pouting. I wondre why. 

[flaminio67]

@Crayterm13 She is also beautiful when she is pouting! You can see on youtube the wohle concert, and if you look the first part, you can imagine, why she may have been not so amused.

But sometimes in this video Yuja has such a blissful smile on her lips like nowhere else, and this variety of emotions makes it so incredibly graceful.

[NewSuperHelioBros]

One day Yuja Wang was walking down the street when she came across a gathering of people huddled around a man. This man was lying on the ground, having just suffered a massive heart attack.

Surely he was dead.

"Step back!" She proclaimed and the crowd immediately parted. Kneeling down, she ran the tips of her fingers up and down the man's chest as if she were playing the piano and he miraculously sprung back to life!

The crowds cheered and Yuja Wang, her work done, flew off into sky.

[hidkidd]

she is so cute when she was playing...

[MrSammyscroll]

Flawless, absolutely flawless technique and beauty to match....what a combination. She takes this extremely technical concerto in stride....

[zielbinie]

amazing pinger

[charizianne]

...and that joyfulness playing of her also reminds one of Nodame's joyful and carefree playing!! =D

[charizianne]

Especially with that messy hair of her, it would bring out even more the messy character of Nodame!!!

[charizianne]

I think she will be a fitting star for the character of Nodame in the Nodame Cantabile's series LOL

[charizianne]

however, her hair is so messy, just so messy, especially for a stage performance X( even if it might be the "hairstyle", it just looks too messy

[mrgb46]

@charizianne so! It doesn't affect her playing,does it??

[charizianne]

her dress is so nice

[Serzap]

She looks disappointed when she's not playing XD

[ThePianoLad]

i really wonder what she whispers to herself every time she plays

[Knusperle1]

@ThePianoLad Maybe she "sings" the notes she's playing. My piano teachter tells me always to do the same. o_O

But I don't know exactly. ^^

[ThePianoLad]

@Knusperle1 Oh. haha. well she must also be a good singer, singing fast notes while playing the piano. oh yuja, you're good at everything @__@

[mewstar2]

lol 1:28, hurry up orchestra I want to play

[LUCIANOCRATING]

Piano rocks

[Xaederaz]

I just LOVE how passionate piano players look when they play! How they jump and bounce, how their arms seemingly just flies around... And in the meanwhile making that lovely music! Yay for piano!

[supernova1102]

she's pretty too.....-_-. sigh...

[flaminio67]

So charming. Probably the most erotic classic video!

[pianists1]

It's fantastic!!

[papcyrill]

omg the cresendo at 1.08 so powerful!!! great wang

[SuperJeffacake]

her fingers have biceps

[0xXxXfactorXxXx0]

she looked angry and sad in 1:24

[Al3xTehKittyJackass]

@0xXxXfactorXxXx0 I think she was only waiting for her cue during the viollin only part...

[hotuser2]

She is the Chinese Martha Argerich, playing with a similar spirit.

[ttslipknotrulez132]

shes hot

[yuirrr]

So cute.

A baby panda playing piano.

[BakaNyanRabu]

She lives in the music she plays, her face lights up in joy when shes pressing keys. From the waiting you can see her just wanting to keep playing :D then when its her turn to go again her whole expression changes into a child that just experienced something amazing. What a great musician.

[definitionofstory]

@BakaNyanRabu she's a performer... she's acting

[PKAmarks56]

Wow....

[gemballi]

Excellente performance !

Amazing !

[pvn2474]

Yes, not much compassion in that girl, apparently, but sexy as hell!!!

[arschgrauviolett]

@pvn2474 Apparently you didn't heard a lot from here. Just try some different performances of hers and you'll see that perfect technique doesn't automatically mean a lack of passion!

[zerkabal]

I know now why the 250 speed exist on a metronome ! =)

[mikaririshow]

She doesn't look very happy.. :/

[90Lyka]

@mikaririshow She is not very patient. That's why she loves playing the hard and fast pieces. I guess when she plays, she doesn't want to stop for any reasons because she's so into the music of her own.

[thesnipes001]

im liking the hair



[LucielStarz123]

DON'T EVER PLAY THUMBWAR WITH HER

if u do! call the ER right away :)

[AzndoubleAA]

What goes through her mind when she plays? She is truly amazing.

And also...NODAME-CHAN!!!!!!!

[alyssaxoxo8]

@AzndoubleAA Exactly what I thought when I watch her... REAL LIFE Nodame! LOL

[celsiebear]

Holy cow she is amazing!! She plays this song so polished and with so much expression! I'm very impressed!

[elizabethandre1]

How truly beautiful and talented you are.Thankyou for the lovely music

ElizabethAndree

[cogitoergosummmx]

have... my children....

[aarongluzman]

Swinging...

Between...

Seductive & captivated...

Her exceptional...

Mystical astonishment...

Make room...

To reach & inspire...

Fluidity of her grace...

©...Aronne

[pauloalfredo100]

PLEASE BLU-RAY _ EUROARTS OR ACCENTUS MUSIC !!!!!!

[utubuser10]

she is such a fox!

[MrFpam]

Very exciting! What great talent!

[Iverson78700]

Around 1:30, just love her expression : )

[andriventu]

but...she's so sad!

[JOTHYJOTHY]

i like dang's version.

[jeffpianiste]

Very personnal sound . Good luck for your carrier . Don t truth in bad critics you are exceptional . Best regards . Jeff Martin

[chefer891]

Ella entiende la musica que toca en el piano mejor que nadie que yo haya visto...se nota que lo disfruta, eso hace que nosotros disfrutemos cualquier cosa que este tocando!

[takappar]

She is the best pianist I have ever seen!

[nixgut]

She looks like the pace of this piece bores her. :O

[aarongluzman]

Blooming...

The entrance of...

Pure attraction...

Hyped with...

Delicate stroking...

Tenderly...

Exhilarating sensibility...

Genuineness dazzling, transforming your mind...

©...Aronne

[Luka56c]

Im ... im speachless!

Incredible playing!

Bravo!

[NuovoCurioso]

...tropo brava!!!

[DamnedEyez]

She looks both bored and upset when she has to stop playing for awhile...then she seems to smile when she starts again...

[Gillesct1931]

What a great artist you are Yujia

[MrWannabe21]

She's Asian, of course...

[Iverson78700]

@MrWannabe21 Though she's not a manufactured one. She's one of the few which play with true feelings.

[afertyus1000]

@MrWannabe21 racist! is that supposed to mean that europeans can't play as good if not better? you sir are a joke

[Nicolinha3567]

how old is she???

[nimosna]

@Nicolinha3567 she is only 23 years old!!!!!!

[MrPicSir]

@Nicolinha3567 She is twenty-three now but in this I don't know know maybe 21 22?

[TerrelHayes]

i feel so bad that she has to stop playing at that one point cause she really looks kinda mad that she had to stop

[sochackiz]

coś wspaniałego, a poza tym piękna kobieta i nie prawdopodobny talent

[zamoraaaa]

she is very cute

[StephenChin1]

I have watched Dang Thai Son, Andre Watts, Lang Lang,Jean Yves Thibodeau, numerous other pianists and Yuja Wang play this. Yuja Wang's performance is the only one which which brings out the spontaneous joy that is Mendelssohn. Yuja has set a new level of excellence for the world's pianists to aim at.

[yuirrr]

@StephenChin1 Nah, she is just a cute face.

Still, after watching this video 4 times I still haven't managed to know why the baby panda is playing the piano.

[meowziklvr]

@StephenChin1 But you haven't watched Gabriela Montero, watch?v=gDFnznMpQaw

[goetomo2008]

i love to see your confident face during performance,you are great, hope to see you perform in singapore.

[DoctorD47]

@KantutJuice that he did. some of his videos have added speech bubbles put in too

[chichi123xx]

I love her!! She's so adorable and such a prodigy!! : D

[saxodarap]

@brandonok14

Oh dear you are silly. I have 46 years of education in music behind my name. I have studied at conservatories in Japan, Australia, China, Austria, Italy, England, South Africa and of course the Juilliard School that you so gladly defame. That should give me enough authority to call you silly and unintelligent without giving any apparent reason. Someone smiling at the piano obviously enjoys what she is doing, enough said.

[TheFanwindow]

@saxodarap

Someone so worldly and educated should know (I hope) that it is silly to call someone "silly and unintelligent" with no apparent reason. Prestige doesn't (or shouldn't) give someone such an ego, especially if it's coming from an education that, I would hope, broaden the mind, not diminish it.

But I do agree that she looks likes she's enjoying herself.

[vampiressxoxmusic]

@brandonok14 oh, stop criticizing other people when you don't have any right to. Are you God? Were you the one who gave the talent to her? No, right? You are not even the one feeding her. Reading at your comments makes me think that your country is nothing but full of shitty people and assholes. Well, you can't blame seeing what an ill-bred person you are. If I was in the same country as you, I would rather die. :<

[C0nstellati0ns]

amazing

[marjan12342]

I love this piece!!!

[brandonok14]

@GazMan1991 what did you say, Chink? China is the bomb? 500 million starving people and tortures are as common as cats for supper. some perspective you have, you pathetic deluded fool. And this Chink was probably tortured to make her practice, that's fairly common in the chink piano community.

[KantutJuice]

Wow. Chillax guys, when did classical music become so racist. O.O. I am pretty sure many pianist in the US and Europe had to go through a lot of shit to become a good pianist! It is sad, I think people of the modern age are getting lazier and lazier. While people in the past are more willing to work through shit. I mean, people now have such a carefree attitude to life, kinda like, I'm a failure, my government will support me so who cares. Before it was, if I'm a failure, I'll starve and die.

[randomnonsense1000]

@brandonok14 Tsk tsk silly honkey. Third Worlder? China's pretty much going to take over USA's economy soon, now go and take your Cracker ass back to Redneck land and eat your mcdonalds ya piece of fat white trash. Honkey Honk Honk!

[brandonok14]

@randomnonsense1000 I'm glad you like shitty Chink pianists, asshole. I just wonder why you had to leave your homeland if your country is so fucking good. The US produces 9 great pianists for every 1 the Chink shithole does. Too bad Chinks don't know how to play this WESTERN instrument.

[Vyszeamy]

She's awfully so cute in front of the piano <3

[janerichis]

Se ve que ella realmente ama hacerlo y se divierte

:)

[DoctorD47]

ever notice that in almost all of her videos she is talking to herself as she plays?

[KantutJuice]

@DoctorD47 Glenn Gould mumbled in recordings. :D

[oldgypsytap]

stunning...but too short a clip.

[StephenChin1]

Mufasa148: To quote your own words

YOU SK LK SH...



[Asiratani]

I love her!

[brandonok14]

@Mufasa148 Chink, you're a joke. Learn what about Mendelssohn? I've forgotten more about Mendelssohn than your yellow brain will ever absorb. You're from a country that considers Lang Lang a good pianist. Go check out solo piano events at Carnegie Hall and tell me how many are American soloists and how many are Chinks. Get a life, Ping Pong Yang.

[johnayumi]

@brandonok14 none but her! cuz usa cant even pruduce such a hot chick on a piano, never!

[johnayumi]

评论此视频...  people say nasty things about her cuz they are obviously jealous!! as she has it all!!! everything!

[mr11]

@brandonok14 I won't be so noble and gentle like Mufasa148 or destinystarseneca (nice nick btw), mr.piano know it all "bradonok14". So shut yer yap !

[brandonok14]

@mr11 Hey, Third Worlder, Go listen to her recording of the Chopin B-minor and then tell me that this nothing is a good pianist. If you fall asleep halfway through the first movement, don't say I didn't warn you.

[mr11]

@brandonok14 "third worlder", eh ? grow up, man. period.

[trschaefer]

This is tremendous playing!!

[JDL615]

wow, total waste of Masur's talent..she's a showpiece xd