Yuja Wang plays Scarlatti Sonata in G major

[TheDustinnguyen]

only 85,150 ppl are appreciative of yuja wang's work.

[nhickification]

Nice!!



[iWillBlockYou]

some of the Scarlatti sonatas are VERY difficult indeed!! good job!

[leobenezneto]

Oh my God! It looks like a midi sequencer... music is not just technical skill.

playing like that, music has no soul or emotion!

[itsanthonyhere]

@leobenezneto Just perception - I think this version has more soul and emotion than any other version I've heard. Besides, with pieces like this, it's nice to see the technical skill the player is capable of producing...no one else seems to be able to play like this, and she's not even really trying. Some like this played slower, some faster. Good thing there is more than one pianist on earth :)

[fredericfranc]

...can this lady REALLY play Scarlatti? Who gives a fuck...just fucking LOOK at her...I tried to get it on LOOKING at Lang Lang...for a report on how it went, well, private-message me, if you are interested...

[hymnofashes]

@fredericfranc Please explain this attempted sexual encounter with Lang Lang.

[fredericfranc]

@hymnofashes ...since I am very shy, and the YT is, famously, a family-oriented-Rick-Santorum-­like kind of medium, this would require altogether more private channels...anyway, pretty damn interesting that you should ask...and. finally, my comment was really about Yuja's handling of this here Scarlatti, if rather indirectly so...

[ellab2002]

WOW.JUST WOW.

[geertdehoux]

Also phenomenal!

She has incredibly elastic fingermuscles, most probably 'cause she's from Asian origin.

Geert Dehoux, pianist (Belgium).

[bloodgrss]

@eazygoinbloke Rubinstein thought Horowitz a better pianist-but he was a better musician. To each his own.. lets hope to see, in the intimacy of the recording studio, how well she can 'communicate' Scarlatti someday! Here's hoping she will do so after she gets through her Scriabin phase--MY agenda not to particularly love him!

[bloodgrss]

@eazygoinbloke What a silly canard you perpetrate when to say she needs to be "seasoned" by maturity, mentors, and a retreat form our CG world! We all change in time and tide.I find she has considerable emotional maturity--and enough for even this little piece. Scarlatti suits her just fine!

[bloodgrss]

@eazygoingbloke You would be more pretentiously correct to argue the point that it can NEVER be expressed properly except on a Harpsichord! The MUSIC speaks to us through its very notes--or should--whether played-in your implications--by an "artist" or simple "artisan". She WILL mature--but I find considerable emotional power in her playing-this little piece is almost irrelevant. Your agenda is showing!

[bloodgrss]

@eazygoingbloke My my--what a load of Post Graduate crap. Others have responded well to all these words you have been unkind enough to bequeath to us--at least they are literately composed-a rarity on YouTube. But to take Yuja to task for this is really just a thinly veiled attempt to express your own distaste for the modern world--she WILL mature--as all artists do-but all this critique for a little Scarlatti sonata?

[mappingtheshit]

@eazygoinbloke Maybe by writing all those shit you satisfied your libido that you couldn't in your real pathetic life. A lot of people whose life are mirerable on the web are like that, by saying something they consider smart on the web page they feel that their life got somewhat better. If you want a conversation, do it privately, not by postin a duper long meaningless sentences in the public comment section

[lllllllllllllll88]

LOVE Scarlatti! And she plays him well!!!!!!!!!!

Brava, Yuja!!! Brava!!!

[mappingtheshit]

@eazygoingbloke Are you trying to look smart here??? I don't know what you wrote, but it looks you trying to look smart, dumbass

[photoleif]

well-deserved applause. that was epic. great work

[divvy1400yam600]

@eazygoingbloke This is not a piece to evoke tender emotion.

Its written, or at least interpreted, to demonstrate urgency, effort, technical skill..

A musical arse kicking if you will

18th century hooligans probably loved it !

[divvy1400yam600]

@eazygoingbloke Ms Wang has risen to the technical challenges present in this piece and swept them aside.

Speaking of delicacy: how about the control/emphasis that she is able to bring to the interplay between the LH/RH.Remarkable.

This obviously resolves to. independant motor control from brain hemispheres.

How this piece is scored with regard to tempo/volume I do not know.

I do like the way it is interpreted here.

In fact I love it.

cont

[divvy1400yam600]

@eazygoingbloke With the exception of some straw man points you have at least concentrated on the issue..

I have listened to the Michelageli you point to and I do hear a bit more delicacy than is present here.

Neither sonata IMO is beautiful.

Is it not true that at the time these pieces were written the sonata form was being developed ? If so, then again IMO, Scarlatti was trying to demonstrate the reach of what is possible. ie he has really written studies.

cont:

[divvy1400yam600]

@eazygoingbloke In response to your post exacty what emotion do you think this extract is supposed to indicate ?

Are you employed by the BBC to give long winded abstruse forgettable opinions on 'things' that the observers themselves cannot achieve.

A form of reverse penis envy I suppose.

Some twit below says this performance is 'flat'

I arsk ya.

When coomunicatig, unless reading a script ,human interaction is imperfect.

This is a rush of stern staccato sound.

Otstanding IMO

[Hextraordinary13]

Listen to this on 720 for better audio.

[ViAaRo]

Is that the normal speed for this piece?

[Kurtlane]

Sorry, I don't like this at all.

Incredible technique. Unbelievable speed. No feeling at all.

[NaliniNelson]

Parabéns Yuja Wang - interpretação maravilhosa!

[WJE37FCSM]

Just listened to the Horowitz Kk455. Yuja's recording here is half as long, 1:33 vs 3 minutes plus of Horowitz. There are a number of repeats to he uses that Yuja choose to ignore. That said Yuja's repeated notes are crystal clear, and she makes the music sound more aggressive than the Horowitz gentle approach. I tend to prefer this version.

[Erikk91]

chosen only for the repeated notes. this is exhibition of virtuosism, not music. i find her interpretation very very flat.

[TheHankster30]

Yes, this is a brilliant performance, but the recording made by Horowitz of this piece (in the mid-sixties I think) is magical. Check it out.

[select899]

I don't believe this is real. Inhuman

[PaulHummerman]

remarkable!

[WJE37FCSM]

I was confused by K455 identification of this sonata believing all K numbers belonged to Ludwig von Köchel who cataloged Mozart's works. K455 is Mozart's variations for piano which to be fair I've never heard. My old "Horowitz plays Scarlatti" used the old Alessandro Longo system, the G Major being Longo 349. The Oxford dictionary says that the Longo system was superseded by Kirkpatrick. That said, I'm look forward to more Scarlatti from Miss Wang, she and Horowitz are soul-mates of Scarlatti.

[CoolestDragon]

Awesome... I love the FEELING put in it.

[VictorVonFox]

you haven't heard G Major untill you have heard G MAJOR

[wrightaboutit]

High Expectations Asian Father has nothing to say.

[atombomb31458]

spectacular

[PlanetMan77]

The only good piano performance of this song, maybe ever.

[BlackwindSamurai]

holy shit, she can pull off an amazing pianissimo even in spite of the quick tempo.

that's nothing short of virtuosic.

[meredith218461]

Too machine like for my taste, however no denying her great dexterity.

[miker2001]

It is like she took the pages out of the Lang Lang play book (all the faces and emotions he wears on his sleeve) and tossed it in the garbage, saying that has nothing to do with the music I wish to make. Instead, she has very few unnecessary gestures and wonderfully lets the music, speak for itself.

[hashalibi]

Nice!!!!

[csportalcomua]

yes shes plays somewhat angry

[huikh2r]

I am so addicted to Yujia's performance. Just can't get enough. Got to watch her performance live one day.

[PlanetMan77]

This is like the only good rendition of this piece I've heard on piano. Nobody else does it justice, and her so-called "harshness" is the reason it works here. The best is still when a computer program plays it on harpsichord.

[MusicStudyMan]

If I had a time machine I'd dress Yuja in period costume, zip back to Scarlatti's time, introduce her and get her to play this and watch him pee himself with excitement.

[sunyi1984520]

真的好棒 技巧超级好 希望羽佳走的更远 期待她的贝多芬 巴赫 

[HoD3]

I'm fuckin hypnotized by her fingers

[jafskater1]

what the fuck type of name is your user name

[hobaleo]

her fingers got IQ

[Mintcubes]

I'm sorry but.. the way she bows looks like she's gonna throw up, seriously. Anyway, amazing performance as always, Yuja Wang.

[nazrimalik]

I like to see her fingers..

[theUroshman]

I really like Yuja Wang and especially her performance of virtuosic pieces by Liszt, Scriabin, Korsakov etc. This is a bit too fast for my taste also and I invite you to see Scarlatti - Sonata in G, played by great Dame Myra Hess (1895-1965) that I downloaded today. Greetings

[robertslistening]

I was watching a video of her doing a shoot with "proud" magazine. I'd like to say she has all the popularity and respect she needs being a wonderful rising piano star on the concert tour. Why give in to a bunch of low lifes that just make her look like trash. I resent how ragmags and people like Hugh Hefner in "playboy" use and abuse people like they are disposable garbage.

Photo shoots like that don't help, they hurt your image. There's no need to be Marilyn Monroe. Look what happened to her.

[WeelYoung]

LIKE

[buonomaxi]

i don't like it... I LOVE IT!

[BizzMarki]

A little fast for my taste but all the more impressive.

[mdeonx16]

I tried learning this, it's way harder than it sounds 3:

[itsanthonyhere]

How is the audio so clear on this when the camera is pretty far away?

[beakt]

@itsanthonyhere There's this invention, it's called the microphone. I think they might have had one of them there. They bought it at the microphone store.

[itsanthonyhere]

@beakt I realize that.....but the audio is perfect and clear. Not just any microphone could do this as far away as it is. Try recording piano and you'll see.

[beakt]

@itsanthonyhere Heh. I was being a wise-ass. What I meant was, the microphone is probably right by the piano. In fact, you can see them at the start of the video. The sound we're hearing is most probably not from the video camera.

[itsanthonyhere]

@beakt Thought that too, but would you still have that much reverb? I've been trying to get a good piano recording sound but it just never seems just perfect like this :(

[itsanthonyhere]

I'm sorry to all talented pianists out there, but Yuja is the only one who is capable of doing this. This is the equivalent of taking Van Halen's eruption solo and making it look like it's nothing at all.

[pvn2474]

Yes, agreed, too fast. Young woman, wants to show off :-) But veeery sexy girl ;-) Hmm...

[lauracida]

@pvn2474 you are completely gross. young PIANIST, gender is unimportant. and the sexy comment is demeaning, stupid and unnecesary.

[beakt]

@lauracida Your comment is demeaning (to yourself), stupid, and unnecessary.

[pcmh1978]

Too fast. She turns a lovely piece of music into a dull technical exercise in repitition.

[COCOONFABULA]

@pcmh1978 Aren't those "sonatas" also called "essercizi" ? Weren't they of a formidable virtuosic challenge at Scarlatti's time ?

[Dachion]

" Scarlatti?Ten Thousand devils at the Demonichord! "

[iRewel]

I'd bang her.

[rea082151]

I have the Horowitz recording of this sonata. She has managed to capture that indescribable "something" that Horowitz brought to the work without just being a copy of Horowitz.

[mdehkram]

I would like to comment on the harsh tone. I attended a concert of Yuja Wang in St. Paul, MN, I was in the front row only a few feet away. The tone was not harsh at all. She played loud without banging, and her pianissimo was very quiet. She plays ver quickly, but it does not come across as loud or percussive live as it does on youtube

[LedKenji666]

@mdehkram its a harpsichord song its supposed to sound all loud.

[MrCanada4evr]

@mdehkram

I think the harshness is due to the limitations of recording devices, not her playing. I've heard her live and have met her (years ago). She is VERY talented.

[VolkColopatrion]

@mdehkram i hear exaclty what you're talking about.

it's not just speed. it's control.

[ninjacon64]

@mdehkram You are a nice person... that is a very rare species on the internet.

[mdehkram]

@ninjacon64

Thanks for the compliment. It was a real privilege to hear Yuja Wang in a smaller auditorium only a few feet away from her at the piano. It does not sound like this. Her pianissimos is very soft, also whispering. The fast fingering passages also are softer. It was like she was playing in one's living room. As I remember she did play this piece, it was much more delicate. I had heard several of her videos previously, and was struck by the contrast.

[sal50811]

amazing repetitions!

[divvy1400yam600]

@sal50811 Indeed. It seems to me they are played on a white note too.

IMO that makes them all the more difficult to play.

The balance between right/left hand is perfect.

Wonderful performance.

[driemaaldrommels]

great playing but I don't like her tone! to harsh if you ask me! but still, great talent and a great pianist!

[concerto35]

@driemaaldrommels : This is not really her tone. it is all due tothe recording equipment

[TempterMan]

First one!