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@Vesivian Umi Garret is well on her way to become a world class pianist a virtuoso. Emily on the other hand creates music out of nothing. I cannot find a hint of another composers work in her original stuff. Her arrangement of Silent Night elevates it to another level and I would love to hear No...

This not so much Yuja playing Chopin as Chopin playing Yuja... they didn't call it the Romantic Era for nothing.

Thank you for posting this Bartok piece, I really like it and hope to add it to my record/cd collection but I'm wondering where I can find a better performance. qyunqyun? You're another young lady I'm going to have to pay attention to. Bravo.

Elegant.

Thank you - Your playing took me back to a recording by Samson Francois from 1965. This is a great piece of music that you play beautifully. I was just made aware of you and your web site via a youtube dispute and you have my attention. Again Thank You.

I have two collections of the Mozart Piano Concertos, the old DG vinyl set by Anda and the CD's by Uchida and Jeffry Tate, neither include the 2 piano Concerto No. 10. I find that curious. Finley's performance implies that there is an arrangement of K.365 for one piano, either he or somebody els...

@s1earle watcha doing? I know you have good taste in pianists but why the insult directed at this accomplished young lady? That said, I want to thank you for posting the Finey on your page as he lives in my local.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the arrangement of Silent Night people will by playing far into the future - Just Magic.

Whoa: This Impromptu can also be found on a Philips Duo CD of the Complete Impromptus and Moments Musicaux by Alfred Brendel, one of the great concert pianists. I could probably tell the difference between Mr. Brendel and Miss Garrett but I wouldn't put much money on it. Great work Umi, and give ...

How is it that the simplest of music can tug at the heart? Maybe this song is anything but simple, and out of a child? I'm stunned.

@TheSecretAzNMan As far as I know there are 2 DVD's and 3 CD's featuring Yuja Wang on Amazon. CD's are on the DG label while the DVD's are from the Lucerne, and Verbier festivals. At Lucerne she plays Prokofiev Concerto 3 with Claudio Abbado. At Verbier she plays Mendelssohn Concerto 1, the Pian...

From Christmas in Worcester - Maria Ferrante - Marjorie Ness - 1998

@mikakrstic Not true, check her arrangement of Silent Night, all her little additions and counter melodies though easy enough for a decent pianist are just right. She makes that tired old Christmas carol into something special. Very few who can do that.

Not many better cartoons than this.

@caradatavermibus Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. something or another. Yuja Wang has the whole half-hour thing up and she does an outstanding job with it. That said, this clip of Argerich is eye opening to say the least.

It is interesting to note that Bumble Bees and Humming Birds create a sound by flapping their wings faster than twenty beats per second, the near threshold of human hearing. The individual pitch of middle A is 440 cycles per second. A pianist like Yuja is playing close to the 20 notes per second ...

I keep wondering when I see a performance like this what the limitation on muscle contraction and restoration really is for a human being, or any animal for that mater. Not to mention how long someone can keep it up without depleting the glucose and oxygen necessary to make it all work. The musi...

@corean3polar I'm glad to hear that. I'm awaiting mine and in anticipation tweaking the surround sound setup. That said, how is it every time I see and hear someone with explosive talent display their skills the first words out of my mouth are "holy @#&%?"

I take it that this is a work by Chopin. It is beautifully played and recorded, a better title such as Aveline Gram plays Chopin would steer more listeners to this talented young lady.

Does the phrase 'one armed paper hanger' come to mind? It looks like great fun but I don't think mufti-tasking musical instruments will ever replace an ensemble.

@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 ...

Note how Yuja is tied to the score in this video and now most of what she plays is flawlessly memorized. That said there is one contemporary video, I think it a Bartok concerto, where the score is stuffed horizontally in the open piano and she has to add page turning to her tasks.

One of my more enduring memories of music school was to hear a concert with the piano tuned to perfect fifth rather than the Bach endorsed (Galileo's dad also promoted it) well tempered arrangement, a compromise that allow a composer to modulate far from the original key. So I imagine that tuning...

I hope Deutsche Grammophon gets the Prokofiev added to Yuja's collection in the near future. She is really good at it. But then again, a lot of us would rather have it on a DVD, there is something exciting about seeing a young lady beat the crap out of a Steinway in a miniature evening gown.

An all new learning curve for this old sod. Went searching for Yuja Wang and found Xiayin and Danielpour and a 'Wiener KammerOchester.' I tell ya folks, its hard to keep up with the music scene these days. To Xianyin, I hope to get to one of your concerts in the Boston area in the near future a...

Anybody know what orchestra this is and who is the conductor?

@YodaOI I'm with you on this. I've only been aware of Yuja for the past several days. I was introduced to her via the prodigy Umi Garrett who was star struck because of an impending get together with Miss Wang. It takes a lot of work to keep up with all the new talent trying to make a name for th...

For some reason your playing took me back to an Alfred Brendel CD - Philips 456 061 - The Complete Impromptus - Moments musicaux of Franz Schubert (1997). There is some wonderful things in that set of music that deserve another look.

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 bei...

@wieniawski Because that is where all the passion and drive comes from. To be blunt it is the sexiest part of the human body.