Anyone knows who her piano teacher was in China? Are her parents musicians as well? The interpretations, techniques, pedaling, all are very good! She probably showed her talent in very young age. Her teacher at that time should have been given half of the credit!
@Rebecca627 She mainly studied with Prof LING Yuan. Prof ZHOU Guangren also gave her guidance. Both are from the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China.
Wang Yuja is born to an artist family. Her mother is a dancer and her father a musician (Chinese folklore).
Can we stop talking about Yuja Wang as if she has been tortured by her parents in piano just because she is really good and asian? If this kid was white or any other race except Asian people wouldn't jump to this conclusion so quickly! Sure there are horrible parents in China, there are horrible parents everywhere. Asians are not all the same! People are not all the same!
i dont wanna be racist but this is insane,and please dont compare little arrau with this little trained monkey,it seems that all good comments are from amateurs or conoisseurs who dont understand main rules and are deaf,cause this is sound just like from computer synthesia,robotic intepretations are the worst what can pianist play,and its sad that recently amount of these asian young musicians has increased,if they only could play REAL music...
@Axotrotl you are so sadly out of touch.. "a little trained monkey..," speaks worlds about where you're coming from. your comment is very hard to follow. your points are wayward and lack focus. the only thing that cuts through is that you are one hell of an inarticulate bigot.
Don't be an idiot, she was just a child. Children have very basic emotions and feelings. You can't expect any child to be able to play with emotion as they have yet to experience complex emotions like love and loss, hope and melancholy. Musicians go through different phases and they style of play changes dramatically over the years as they experience life and begin to understand music on a different level.
@ofiterpunte huh but NO child has to play such a diffcult piece,or any chopiin piece,which is tough for all adults....theres really small chance for asian that he will once play normally
@Axotrotl he/she/it won't. thanks god. because it'd sound horrible. their feelings probably never evolve, since feelings are evolving WHEN a human being is a child. their childhood is gone with practicing.
@xAnonymousss yes,main isnt the too much practicing,all piano legends were practicing from childhood,but its the MENTALITY of asian people. They are taught to no showing of emotions from childhood.
@Axotrotl yes, they were, but you, honestly, don't need 5hours+ per day to play good. i practice about an hour or 2. but not straight. i take 5mins to eat something, i take 5mins to smoke a cigarette, i take 5mins to just hang around, i take 5mins to listen the the music i'm playing and still i have quite good technics and rubato, with quite some feeling. the thing is, it's HOW you practice not how long. and that's the thing asians will never understand.
@xAnonymousss indeed true...well i am 16,i started real practising a year ago and that means every day at min. 2 and half to four hours with breaks...and i enjoy everyday of practice...
@xAnonymousss "The thing asians will never understand"? Do you think you know every single asian on earth? What the hell is so great about you to make you think that you can just say that about people? If you don't know anything then shut up and go play with your piano! And what's this rubbish about Asian kids being taught to show no emotions? What are we robots, or spies? What kind of messed up tv have you guys been watching?
@hanxikongfu Not to be rude but how many people inhabited the world when Mozart was a wunderkind? At that time western music had not spread to the east. It is only in our time that every major city in the world sports a symphony orchestra, and YouTube postings reach nearly household. It should not be surprising that there are a great deal more prodigies amazing we ordinary folk not only from China but even from Pittsburgh, Chicago, and LA. (Evancho, Bear, and Garrett.)
I have no idea how many parents torture their kids into playing piano (or anything else) against their will, when Pokemon might be what they actually want. It's sad and I share your feelings. But those kids will never reach this level. You need to be both gifted and interested to play such difficult pieces. Such child prodigies are rare and far from "trained monkeys". Parents and teachers are usually way over their heads with such children and sometimes end up holding them back :)
the first time i heard this etude was on a cheap supermarket CD played by Sylvia Capova. It turned out to be my favourite interpretation, and Yuja Wang here plays it in the same manner.
Well, Arrau played Liszt's trascendental etudes when he was 11 years old. So, she was good... Now she pwns even the fastest, clearmost and finest pianists and only 10 years after...
I was recently intoduced to Yuja playing piano by a very special person in my heart. Seeing her here so young and talented as touched my heart more through her passion.
Blows my mind how Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus has millions of views... and beautiful and talented young Yuja has merely 25000. That is just ridiculous, I'm about to lose faith in the human kind.
Her musical perception was amazing for someone at her age. I think you need to have learnt the piece yourself in order to fully appreciate her performance here.
she is already playing this MUSICALLY better than any of the young pianists posted here andive seen maybe a dozen or more.She is very special.Lacking only color more sophisticated tonal variety esp noticeable when she plays with orchestra.but she is special and has been for a while.Lang, Viisitskaya more interesting.wheni hear her Beethoven,Schumann.Schubert then we will know really wht kind of artist she is.Kinderszenen more thanCziffra wrist work!
Este video muestra lo importante de la tecnica para poder llegar a ser un gran pianista, no es lo principal la velocidad con que pueda tocar, sino que cada notita sea ejecutada perfectamente para tener una limpia ejecución.
Esto requiere de mucha paciencia pero vean los resultados, vean a Yuja ahora=D!!
@brtn460y you can't say she might turn out to be the best, b.c there are so many ways to define a great pianist. some are known for their technique like berezovsky, others for their passion like lang lang, and some who just try to attempt the impossible like hamelin and his circus gallop. it's very unlikely she will be best in technique and emotion.
@brtn460y any type of "talent" or skill can be trained. She's young but that doesn't mean she hasn't spent as much time learning this piece as anybody else who can play it.
I think it's quite admirable that she chose to perform it at a slow speed with complete control... Many performers of her technical abilities (at the time) would have chosen to butcher it faster.
nice. I hate it when kids play songs like this since I am probably three times their age and could only play it now. damn them. this was well done though...
Kids like this have a distinct advantage in that they are born with aptitude, opportunity and teaching expertise is readily available. Fortunately, God judges us not according to someone else's yardstick but with our own. What have we done with our own talent's, according to our own peculiar circumstaces? Yuja, I must admit seems great to me, but I do not know how she will be judged. Let's hope and pray for the best!!
fuck her
Rachelcool1000 3 weeks ago
fuck my life
elkwolf 1 month ago
Anyone knows who her piano teacher was in China? Are her parents musicians as well? The interpretations, techniques, pedaling, all are very good! She probably showed her talent in very young age. Her teacher at that time should have been given half of the credit!
Rebecca627 2 months ago
@Rebecca627 She mainly studied with Prof LING Yuan. Prof ZHOU Guangren also gave her guidance. Both are from the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China.
Wang Yuja is born to an artist family. Her mother is a dancer and her father a musician (Chinese folklore).
cheval63sg 2 months ago
i now fell ashamed of myself..
el6478 2 months ago
Can we stop talking about Yuja Wang as if she has been tortured by her parents in piano just because she is really good and asian? If this kid was white or any other race except Asian people wouldn't jump to this conclusion so quickly! Sure there are horrible parents in China, there are horrible parents everywhere. Asians are not all the same! People are not all the same!
hanxikongfu 3 months ago
ASIANS ROCK AT PIANO! lol
lilbel234 4 months ago
i dont wanna be racist but this is insane,and please dont compare little arrau with this little trained monkey,it seems that all good comments are from amateurs or conoisseurs who dont understand main rules and are deaf,cause this is sound just like from computer synthesia,robotic intepretations are the worst what can pianist play,and its sad that recently amount of these asian young musicians has increased,if they only could play REAL music...
Axotrotl 6 months ago
@Axotrotl you are so sadly out of touch.. "a little trained monkey..," speaks worlds about where you're coming from. your comment is very hard to follow. your points are wayward and lack focus. the only thing that cuts through is that you are one hell of an inarticulate bigot.
utubuser10 6 months ago in playlist Yuja Wang
@Axotrotl /watch?v=40_hgc0V2M8
piano0b 5 months ago
@Axotrotl
Don't be an idiot, she was just a child. Children have very basic emotions and feelings. You can't expect any child to be able to play with emotion as they have yet to experience complex emotions like love and loss, hope and melancholy. Musicians go through different phases and they style of play changes dramatically over the years as they experience life and begin to understand music on a different level.
ofiterpunte 5 months ago
@ofiterpunte huh but NO child has to play such a diffcult piece,or any chopiin piece,which is tough for all adults....theres really small chance for asian that he will once play normally
Axotrotl 5 months ago
@Axotrotl he/she/it won't. thanks god. because it'd sound horrible. their feelings probably never evolve, since feelings are evolving WHEN a human being is a child. their childhood is gone with practicing.
xAnonymousss 5 months ago
@xAnonymousss yes,main isnt the too much practicing,all piano legends were practicing from childhood,but its the MENTALITY of asian people. They are taught to no showing of emotions from childhood.
Axotrotl 5 months ago
@Axotrotl yes, they were, but you, honestly, don't need 5hours+ per day to play good. i practice about an hour or 2. but not straight. i take 5mins to eat something, i take 5mins to smoke a cigarette, i take 5mins to just hang around, i take 5mins to listen the the music i'm playing and still i have quite good technics and rubato, with quite some feeling. the thing is, it's HOW you practice not how long. and that's the thing asians will never understand.
xAnonymousss 5 months ago
@xAnonymousss indeed true...well i am 16,i started real practising a year ago and that means every day at min. 2 and half to four hours with breaks...and i enjoy everyday of practice...
Axotrotl 5 months ago
@xAnonymousss But too bad most 5 year old Asians are better both you and I
samsungisahottie 3 months ago
@xAnonymousss "The thing asians will never understand"? Do you think you know every single asian on earth? What the hell is so great about you to make you think that you can just say that about people? If you don't know anything then shut up and go play with your piano! And what's this rubbish about Asian kids being taught to show no emotions? What are we robots, or spies? What kind of messed up tv have you guys been watching?
hanxikongfu 3 months ago
@hanxikongfu Not to be rude but how many people inhabited the world when Mozart was a wunderkind? At that time western music had not spread to the east. It is only in our time that every major city in the world sports a symphony orchestra, and YouTube postings reach nearly household. It should not be surprising that there are a great deal more prodigies amazing we ordinary folk not only from China but even from Pittsburgh, Chicago, and LA. (Evancho, Bear, and Garrett.)
WJE37FCSM 2 months ago
@WJE37FCSM Yeah, so she's merely one in a million not one in a billion. One in a million are a dime a dozen. (according to you).
leongatha6 2 weeks ago
@Axotrotl
I have no idea how many parents torture their kids into playing piano (or anything else) against their will, when Pokemon might be what they actually want. It's sad and I share your feelings. But those kids will never reach this level. You need to be both gifted and interested to play such difficult pieces. Such child prodigies are rare and far from "trained monkeys". Parents and teachers are usually way over their heads with such children and sometimes end up holding them back :)
ofiterpunte 5 months ago
@ofiterpunte obviously, not the case here.
utubuser10 2 months ago
Are we looking at the new Martha Argerich? (this is beyond the credible. Put her in the Guiness Book of Records.)
ellandelachapelle 6 months ago
the first time i heard this etude was on a cheap supermarket CD played by Sylvia Capova. It turned out to be my favourite interpretation, and Yuja Wang here plays it in the same manner.
foodmore 7 months ago
I must destroy my piano now!
lt6jam 7 months ago 2
perfect!
cky0606 8 months ago
Well, Arrau played Liszt's trascendental etudes when he was 11 years old. So, she was good... Now she pwns even the fastest, clearmost and finest pianists and only 10 years after...
Laudan08 9 months ago
Imagine her play it now.
HypeeTommy 9 months ago
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@HypeeTommy go and check it out. AMAZING
anionaesca 9 months ago
how is this possible???? If I could not see and hear it, I would not believe it.
miker2001 9 months ago
Wow.. disregarding the tempo everybody else plays this at, this is a perfect performance O.O And I know someone named Yuja who plays piano too...
emeralddreams888 9 months ago
OMG This is... wonderfull... a child... woooww excellent
BlAcKSyMpHoNy10 10 months ago 2
she is a prodigy ! amazing !
mmyylleenn 11 months ago
so talented and adorable!!
helenlinpiano 1 year ago
Yuja, you truly are amazing!
Keep up the good work.
Love from Anna.
annacreations 1 year ago
amazing~~~~~
andycan1988 1 year ago
How old was this? WOW. lol
Desmonddd2002 1 year ago
@Desmonddd2002 10 yrs old
yurunzhang 1 year ago
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yurunzhang 1 year ago
It seems that she started to study playing the piano since she was born.
guitarfish97 1 year ago
amazing....
Lydia6192 1 year ago
imagine how she can play it now
anonymousQ45 1 year ago
@anonymousQ45 She grew up. Youtube her. She's amazing.
AramithSRK 1 year ago 2
People who gave bad judgement might be deaf...
manchi77able 1 year ago
People who gave bad judgement were blind.
manchi77able 1 year ago
i lose faith in humankind too, this video is amazing
trang23390 1 year ago
I was recently intoduced to Yuja playing piano by a very special person in my heart. Seeing her here so young and talented as touched my heart more through her passion.
LovingHandOfRose 1 year ago
I think this girl is genetically engineered.
freshhh1994 1 year ago
Blows my mind how Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus has millions of views... and beautiful and talented young Yuja has merely 25000. That is just ridiculous, I'm about to lose faith in the human kind.
zhentaokou 1 year ago 20
Her musical perception was amazing for someone at her age. I think you need to have learnt the piece yourself in order to fully appreciate her performance here.
Vanadis240 1 year ago
she is already playing this MUSICALLY better than any of the young pianists posted here andive seen maybe a dozen or more.She is very special.Lacking only color more sophisticated tonal variety esp noticeable when she plays with orchestra.but she is special and has been for a while.Lang, Viisitskaya more interesting.wheni hear her Beethoven,Schumann.Schubert then we will know really wht kind of artist she is.Kinderszenen more thanCziffra wrist work!
lovesGenet 1 year ago 4
but nonetheless amazing performance. :D
seaking020492 1 year ago
Crystal clear! One of her hallmarks.
steveaulie 2 years ago 3
wow, a prodigy but arrau played transcendental etude at age 11
rvn10rvn17 2 years ago
are you serious ??
arrau played that at 11 ??!?!
yenhoho 1 year ago
that's what all people say..
i mean transcendental etude at 11 is just sickly ridiculous (in a good way)
rvn10rvn17 1 year ago 2
Fabulous !!
Japansae 2 years ago
How old was she then? o___o
KellyGoRound 2 years ago 2
only 10...
zzhhaannggddii 2 years ago
@zzhhaannggddii 10? wow, wow, wow OMG! Amazing ;PP
AnnMarry19 2 years ago
Sviatoslav Richer in slow motion hahahah xD!!!! =D!!!
edtskyline 2 years ago
...sei grande Yujia ....grazie di esistere!!!!
NuovoCurioso 2 years ago
Este video muestra lo importante de la tecnica para poder llegar a ser un gran pianista, no es lo principal la velocidad con que pueda tocar, sino que cada notita sea ejecutada perfectamente para tener una limpia ejecución.
Esto requiere de mucha paciencia pero vean los resultados, vean a Yuja ahora=D!!
edtskyline 2 years ago
She is a beautiful young woman now. Check out some of her Concertos on You Tube. Impressive.
789vbc 2 years ago 6
This is the type of performance that defines natural talent! She just might turn out to be the best in the world!
brtn460y 2 years ago 49
she is pretty famous now.
anyan112 2 years ago 3
@brtn460y you can't say she might turn out to be the best, b.c there are so many ways to define a great pianist. some are known for their technique like berezovsky, others for their passion like lang lang, and some who just try to attempt the impossible like hamelin and his circus gallop. it's very unlikely she will be best in technique and emotion.
seaking020492 1 year ago
@brtn460y she is already the best...she's yuja wang
utki17 1 year ago
@brtn460y you can change "might" to "will" now.
meesbroersen 11 months ago
@meesbroersen u can change "will" with "has been" ^^
melagads 11 months ago
@brtn460y she is the best in the world now
77xpro 4 months ago 5
@brtn460y I think she probably is now!
rwcrx 2 months ago
@brtn460y any type of "talent" or skill can be trained. She's young but that doesn't mean she hasn't spent as much time learning this piece as anybody else who can play it.
goaliedude32 2 weeks ago
@goaliedude32 So, Mister, why you don't play it by your self, and put your video in youtube? ...I think you are jealous!
Sophiestelle 3 days ago
@Sophiestelle I never said i put the time in I don't own a piano
goaliedude32 3 days ago
@Sophiestelle And what is there to be jealous of? I do not understand
goaliedude32 3 days ago
Bosendorfer 290
JPmanga800 2 years ago
this is what "talented" means
kayliecheng 2 years ago 3
Speed was appropriate for this child. Wonderful ...
mlaux72 2 years ago 35
I think it's quite admirable that she chose to perform it at a slow speed with complete control... Many performers of her technical abilities (at the time) would have chosen to butcher it faster.
lilly763 2 years ago 7
nice. I hate it when kids play songs like this since I am probably three times their age and could only play it now. damn them. this was well done though...
xolaroid 3 years ago 6
Kids like this have a distinct advantage in that they are born with aptitude, opportunity and teaching expertise is readily available. Fortunately, God judges us not according to someone else's yardstick but with our own. What have we done with our own talent's, according to our own peculiar circumstaces? Yuja, I must admit seems great to me, but I do not know how she will be judged. Let's hope and pray for the best!!
concerto35 3 years ago 3
God is imaginary. This girl, on the other hand, is real.
williamfbartley 2 years ago
just perfect
kantmosq 3 years ago 7