Yuja Wang - prokofiev sonata 6 finale

[geertdehoux]

No kidding: Yuja Wang is a PHENOMENAL talent and pianist!!

Although a collegue from Antwerp calls her " 'n driedagsvlieg", I would listen hours a day to her playing, if music was still appealing to me.

G. Dehoux, ex music addict.

[joecapaldi]

i really love these 'cam-corder' videos. They have amazing built in microphones that capture more reverb and atmosphere than the commercially made live DVDs...

[xXAzNBa0Xx]

both hands are totally equal ... how does she do this ?

[quinto34]

Wow, this is very good 6th Prokofiev, interesting technique, I love this sonata!!

I'm a bit distracted by the wonderful purple dress though :)

[cjromb]

This is really beautiful. I hope she sees these comments. Thank you for a wonderful experience listening to and watching this.

[vivacecilia]

She s very inteligent!!! It s extremly rare for a woman.....Ihhihh Great

[abmsghost1]

her biggest strenght is a fantastic left hand.

[kybo61]

She is very good. Sometimes tends to the technical but is gifted with strong, large hands for a female which many female performers do not have. She has passion which helps. I like her performance. It is hard not to contrast her with Evgeny Kissin but each performer is unique and she deserves very much praise.

[wyllyness]

Sometimes it looks like her hands are in fast forward, but the rest of her is in normal time. Wow!!

[skimask777]

I guess no one really knows by now this is the pianist of the century!!!!!

[dreaminginenglish]

I heard things in her performance of this piece that I've never heard before, especially in the lower register. She just keeps going on her merry way impressing the world.

[dvdlpznyc]

I enjoy this performance! Perhaps it doesn't languish exorbitantly in or launch wildly into the moments of pure apocalyptic insanity (RICHTER!), but it's definitely more than just empty showmanship or even worse "bleeding it dry."

I have a decent ticket to see her performing this sonata (as well as Liszt B Minor) at Carnegie Hall in a little more than a week... Can't wait!

[jamesboyk]

What a bad recording--in audio terms, I mean. Mikes far too distant.

[arturiviris]

monstruoso!

[Nutterbutterz95]

I'm too much of a Richter fanboy to appreciate this. Sorry, guys.

[fredericfranc]

...Prokofiev's incredible notions about writing for the piano are laid bare for everyone to see...she slices thru all the insanity with that Yuja-ease...but I suspect some of the musical message gets sacrificed in all this virtuosity...Yuja is a technician, she is not an interpreter...

[MsMymichael]

You are great performer

Michael the Greek modern classical music composer

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[selenriz87]

Maravillosa ejecucion, Yuja posee mucho talento.

Felicidades.

[paulorcarro]

escucha a Sergei Yerokhin, incomparable

[paulorcarro]

Escucha la versión de Sergei Yerokhin

[morfingaunt]

This is fantastic. I read someone dissing this performance on Richter's video (which is, of course, also fantastic), so I had to come check it out. I was very surprised to instead find a performance simmering with that beautiful imaginative sarcasm of Profokiev that weaves in and out of the colourful and the colourless, magnetises harmonies, cuts themes in half, stitches them together, makes silence heavy and bass comic. Brilliantly done, Ms. Wang.

[asimo911]

Wow! awesome interpretation.



[orreguin]

and she is very pretty, too!

[mrmayursoni]

Mind bloowing perfomans

[Jamez5cz]

I can't even imagine how is the sheet of music from this piece!, must be a nightmare, or worst.

[yourimperfectangel]

i shall never regrets watching her performance!!!

[Chakiejan]

1:28 ftw!

[The43rdOnchan]

I can't figure out what key she's in. Is she modulating? Because it kinda sounds like it.

[MusicStudyMan]

@The43rdOnchan The key of Fantastic.

[lnicoll100]

@The43rdOnchan It's in A minor, and it modulates a little to F Sharp Minor I think.

[tigertolyy]

wow Yuja is unbelievably amazing awesome superb and on top of it all shes super pretty. :) best woman pianist all time. :) my opinion.

[andycan1988]

real Prokofiev!!!! so exciting!!

[RabidCh]

Great passion and technique. I still stand unconvinced though, for me this movement is all about machines, dreariness, and compaction. She only gets 1 of the 3.

Perhaps it's the acoustics, but it's way too wet here, and I don't like her use of pedal (when I can tell she is holding it down). It isn't very haunting either. At first I thought it was better than young Kissin, but I went back to him and changed my mind. I like him better. IMO, they both don't hold a candle to Richter's best.

[dejavu19888]

FANTASTIC!!!! =)

[iter68]

a beautiful piano techique plus beautiful girl = WOW, it satisfies both my eyes and ears!!

[actekc]

beautiful performance... Inspires me to keep practicing and be better as a musician... thank you

[tonycosworth]

The new Martha

[v4liumfrance]

bad sound shame..

[fastben2010]

andrei gavrilov est aussi interessant à écouter! j'aime bien sa vision .c'est pêchu very good

[pierolivier111]

The best interpretation of this piece belong to kissin.

[Ellinidara]

@pierolivier111 I prefer her version:)

[QinChaiLa90]

OMG ... i love u yuja .. u are my idol ~~

[4785689]

la prova che il piano non è eseguito bene solo dai maschi

comunque preferisco richter

[NuovoCurioso]

Simply extraordinary....brava Yuja!

[fredericfranc]

Relates to the keyboard like an olympic swimmer to water, the hands go where they must by themselves. The girl was made by her Maker to beat out the Prokofievian sonorities out of a Steinway grand. Only Richter can also bring this baby home, this magnificent movement. Should be rquired viewing/listening in all the schools of the land, as the only music of today. The Eliott Carter Piano Conceto, next.

[ilovekyokyoxD]

1:11- 1:22 is off of the anime midori days i think 

[pinosworld]

you play kung fu or piano!!!!! same rubbish as lang lang!!!! you are just a joke in the world of classic!

[PowerofTrueInsight]

Someone need to stand up and say: pinosworld, why is your tongue so ignorant and filthy?

[zzhhaannggddii]

@pinosworld do u really understand classic music?? do u know how prokofiev's pieces sound like??? if u dont, shut the f up!!

[GGefter1]

@pinosworld !

Dear , you wish to play piano at this level?

Sorry not for you, you are not capable to UNDERSTAND talent and workmanship....

[hawaiilaw]

@GGefter1 Yeah. penusworld is definitely NOT capable.

[hawaiilaw]

@pinosworld - Why does your comment say "hide"? You afraid to be shown for what you are - ignoramus about piano

[AllegroDemolish]

she will be another martha argerich of her generation.

[hawaiilaw]

@AllegroDemolish She's already outshone Argerich

[demosj]

@hawaiilaw How 'bout no? Nothing she's achieved has yet to approach Argerich's accomplishments. She certainly doesn't interpret Prokofiev better. Come back again once Yuja Wang has won the Chopin competition, or the Cliburn, or the Tchaikovsky.

Support whichever pianist you like, but don't make up these ridiculous statements.

[bsmusicd]

@demosj Seeing as she already has a recording contract with DG and a busy concert schedule, I can't imagine why she'd end up entering any competitions.

[bernardlinde]

@demosj Since when does winning any of those competitions make you a BETTER musician? Wang remains a fenominal talent. Period.

[demosj]

@bernardlinde I wasn't arguing musicianship, but achievement.

When Argerich was young, won the Chopin competition and various other international competitions, had the regard of great pianists such as Horowitz, played with the great orchestras and orchestras.

Wang might be a PHenomenal talent, but quantitatively & objectively, Argerich remains more accomplished than Wang.

[bernardlinde]

@demosj As far as I recall, Argerich was not that much more accomplished at 23. She only won the Chopin competition when she was 24. I am a big fan of Argerich, but we must just compare apples with apples here.

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@hawaiilaw "She's already outshone Argerich" How exactly? Let's say both are playing Prokofiev3 in adjacent halls. Are you naive enough to think people would go listen to Yuja over Argerich? :D

[utubuser10]

@th3wing3dpaint3r yes.

[rblcoles]

@th3wing3dpaint3r How arrogant of you to come to a video where clearly some people favor this pianist and tell them they are wrong? If any, you should be humbled to know a pianist you like was compared to Yuja! Grow up.

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@rblcoles I'm just as entitled to an opinion as anyone on this page. The comments don't all have to be "Yuja is the best". I admire her dexterity & i really like that she's not as ostentatious about it as other pianists, but her Prokofiev sounds rather bland.

I did not start the comparison and don't really see any grounds for one. But i'll pitch in my opinion anyway, and you'll learn to live with it :)

[rblcoles]

@th3wing3dpaint3r I never said you weren't entitled to an opinion, but thanks? And you're right, why start a coparison when, clearly, there is none. Yuja rocks (Y).

[gouloum2222]

gosh her hands seem much bigger now !

[DJG44F]

I love this interpretation I have listened much more than several times. Astounding. Really. Thak you Yuja.

[brozors]

nice tan Yujia

[POPYLOLY8]

○ ○ IN GENERAL:

○ ○ She's One Of The Kind!!

[ssprokofiev]

A superb performance! Bravo! Yuja Wang is one of her generation's most talented Prokofiev interpreters. She understands Prokofiev; she gets it! She plays the closing chords perfectly: they are a variation on the four-note main theme and must sound Armageddon-like. In her hands, they do. Magnificent!

[Cissy97]

@ssprokofiev

How true!

Her greatest strength lies here.

[lePistolero]

Mad prokofiev!

5 stars

[HjalmarGuitarMaster]

at last! a good video of this sonata

[B4TBOMRKITE]

my brain stopped working. overload of awesomeness...

[DJG44F]

Warmest congratulations to Yuja for this very difficult piece of piano so nicely and rightly performed

[ChrisWatch]

She is so delicious to listen to!

So well mannered. Not taken too far.

She can see into the future

Powerful but floats like a feather in the breeze.

Truely I have to bite her atleast once in my life time...

[blueyoyi]

delicious...bite her ??? ..hehehhee!!!!!!!

yes she is a very attractive pianist and quite accomplished too!!

[penguinshin]

@ChrisWatch wtf?

[ChrisWatch]

@penguinshin lol

[kantmosq]

OOPS!!!! She is my favorite.....

[NuovoCurioso]

.....wonderful.....

brava Yuja...sei grande!!

[ZxqamF]

Prokofiev is the most interesting and unique composer. I always love listening to his music.

[Ilgiangyk]

Dafuckinmart, wonderful gift for Christmas.

[gifgifgifgifgifgif]

Euh, je viens de voir que tu étais français(e), donc pas besoin de passer en mode je-suis-trop-bilingue...!

[gifgifgifgifgifgif]

Hey, was it in the "Salle Pleyel", in Paris ?? 'Cause I was there, and she was so great, especially during that piece.

[GeorgeMaxwellDuPre]

Was this the Madrid performance in December 2009?

[sal50811]

It was i Paris on 16 dec 2009

[iilurvshootingstarz]

Omg!! This is really AWESOME!! I was so speechless from the start..