My wife and I were so lucky to hear and see this live in Aix en Provence. Gilels and Kempf played it in a fantastic way, now Yuja brought new life in this joyful sonata. Her clarity, beautiful modulated scales (even at a pianissimo she's able to do a decrescendo without any missing note.) and "deep" emotional playing is simply incomparable. Since her "Hammerklavier" and her play/conducting Beethoven's first two piano concertos we can hear (though she's very respectful with Beethoven - calling him a "philosoph") Beethoven is no problem at all for her. Hopefully there will be more insightful and tasteful interpretations of his wonderful piano music!
@michaelschefold3299
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for creating this beautiful Video with score!!!
@philzmusic8098
Жыл бұрын
I've never seen anyone enjoy playing the piano so much. it's as if she's playing for her own pleasure alone. and we mortals are privileged to listen in.
@martynschickerling6176
8 ай бұрын
Do not ever tell me she has no musicality and plays like a robot. Some of the critique I picked up over time in some comments.....AND her dresses have NOTHING to do with anybody....that is who she is, (her words).... concentrate on and enjoy her music...... she is brilliant.
@martynschickerling6176
7 ай бұрын
Even better: DO NOT BUY A TICKET!
@bloodgrss
3 ай бұрын
Well said...@@martynschickerling6176
@luigiiacoletti8134
2 ай бұрын
Tutto giusto...ma dovrebbe cambiare sarto! Ho il sospetto che li disegni lei i suoi abiti...
@richardwillford2418
Ай бұрын
I do, and she is brilliant. But only technically. Her playing does nothing for me. I find it shallow and superficial. If you want to hear an equally technically brilliant pianist WITH intellectual grasp, emotional depth and an original approach, listen to Alexandra Dovgan, the 17 year-old Russian genius, and likely the next Horowitz.
@hannslunninger416
Жыл бұрын
Man kann ihr stundenlang zuhören. Egal, welches Stück sie spielt, von welchem Komponisten es stammt, Yuja Wang stellt immer die Aussage des Werkes in den Vordergrund. Technische Hürden kennt sie nicht, Virtuosität ist einfach da, wenn man sie braucht. Ein Geschenk, dass man das erleben kann.
@amaurylopez5558
3 ай бұрын
Beautiful how one hears every single note,soft and loud just as crisp. Incredibly melodic. Only as virtuoso can play such a complex piece so beautifully and enjoy it as Yuja Wang 👍👏🏼💕🫶🏼🎵🎼🎶
@cellopainting
Жыл бұрын
I am a firm believer, that Beethoven new the piano so well, that he not only played it as an musical instrument, and used it to compose music, but also played with the piano, as a child plays with its favorite toy! And now…there is Yuja Wang, who plays the piano so magnificently, to a point that God may have mercy to make Beethoven hear again, and smile.
@mcgdoc9546
Жыл бұрын
Yup! It is in the hands of an artist who has the sensibilities to recreate the magic!
@adrianwright8685
Жыл бұрын
"knew" - past tense of know
@felixsinniger280
11 ай бұрын
YUJA WANG is one of the most important pianists in this century, to my mind. It seems that she has no limits as a pianist.
@luigiiacoletti8134
2 ай бұрын
Her limite are the...dress
@felixsinniger280
2 ай бұрын
@@luigiiacoletti8134It is nice that her choice in dresses have not either any limits. Any pianist can dress what she or he likes. But first is their art !
@luigiiacoletti8134
2 ай бұрын
@@felixsinniger280 her, really, art is unquestionable
@STEVEBURTON99
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you, thank you! What fun! Op 31 #3 isn't played that often, and almost never with this passion, pleasure and clarity. I've loved it since I first heard it at university 55 years ago. And what a treat to have the score on the screen rather that having to hold it in my lap or laying it on my desk. Thank you again for your gift of your hard work in putting this together with the score.
@richardlloyd-jones8312
Жыл бұрын
It surely is important that we respect the approach the pianist has decided on and not present an alternative as criticism. This beautifully crisp interpretation conveys all the joy of the composition. So, in a very different way, did Ms Wang's "Hammerklavier" where her prodigious fingering technique enabled her to enjoy, and communicate enjoyment, where others sometimes show stress, labouring simply to play the piece. No doubt for well thought through reasons she seems to be holding off for now much of the heavily trodden paths of Beethoven.
@toewomg
8 ай бұрын
Loved her performance so much, wishing she can play more of Beethoven in the future!
@jeanvmy1
Жыл бұрын
Délicieux moment, la magie opère comme toujours
@itzhakyogev8077
9 ай бұрын
Wow! I never knew this sonata was so rich and emotional. This is oustanding!!!
@donaldaxel
Жыл бұрын
Chopin loved this sonata. Chopin also had a Scherzo as second movement in his sonatas (all three of them). If you like educated discussions on classical music tradition find the dialogue below initiated by "Crotchet" ❤
@hugowilliams1988
Жыл бұрын
Finally Beethoven is not complaining.
@erikbrodnax7050
7 ай бұрын
When Plato had music in mind his ideal would have been Ms. Wang. To say then her playing is Beautiful is to do so without qualification. Bravissimo and oh, how one yearns for more!
@giovannischiavocampo1993
8 ай бұрын
con questa esecuzione dimostra di essere pienamente in grado di dare corpo a una sua completa edizione delle sonate di Beethoven che vada ad arricchire il ricco panorama esecutivo del passato da Backhaus ad Arrau. Sarebbe una fortuna per chi ama la musica avere a disposizione un tale contributo interpretativo
@pettybujazha5133
Ай бұрын
De otro planeta
@MADHIKER777
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate the inclusion of the score, but I admit it is still difficult to take my eyes off Yuja!
@adambowles3804
9 ай бұрын
Pure genius! Yuja here is up to the level of artistry of Richard Goode or Jeffery Kahane, or Serkin or Richter for that matter!
@felixsinniger280
Жыл бұрын
Que soltura fresquita !
@eliezeraquinosilva9887
11 ай бұрын
yuja you are so perfect womam amazing your performance incledible
@Brainpower-p1u
3 ай бұрын
?
@claudiomarri2021
9 ай бұрын
Yuja. Grandissima
@wolfgangklofat594
8 ай бұрын
Technisch gewandt ist keine stilistische Gesamterfassung in diesem Spiel zu erkennen. Die mit Abstand pointierstete und zugleich geschlossenste Einspielung ist die von Daniil Trifonov vom Februar 2019 aus der Carnegie Hall.
@bingwu399
Жыл бұрын
充满活力的琴音
@kathng8354
Ай бұрын
I m working on this piece.
@user-om5co3nd8u
Жыл бұрын
I like this digital purpiter with remote flipping. How far progress bringing us
@claudioparrella183
4 ай бұрын
brava, l'Hammerkliavier non mi è piaciuta
@user-zk6nu7cz4y
10 ай бұрын
🌹🌹🌹❤❤❤😘
@petergregory8864
2 ай бұрын
18?
@mcgdoc9546
Жыл бұрын
I would guessed this was a Mozart piece, swear! But I know… it a Beethoven Sonata, of course. But… you know what I mean. I hope.
@user-om5co3nd8u
Жыл бұрын
Perhaps, you missed with kv400b ;-)
@SimonParker-hv6uu
10 ай бұрын
Yes she plays it almost like it's Scarlatti. It's that sort of finesse and gossamer. Really remarkable playing
@garrybreitstein3593
Жыл бұрын
What are the "good reasons" for repeats?
@loveispatient0808
Жыл бұрын
It’s the composer’s intention, so to do it out of respect for the composer.
@heinzgilbert
5 ай бұрын
That is why Chopin chose to not write repeat bars because some musicians would not respect them. He wrote all of them in ink 😂
@xinchuan8188
6 ай бұрын
俄系已经登峰造极。再吃透德奥系的贝多芬的磅礴,肖邦的潇洒细腻,布拉姆斯的厚重。王羽佳加油。
@gilbertpangyarihan8014
Жыл бұрын
Yuja Wang verzichtete auf die übertriebene Mimik der asiatischen Pianistin. Sie machte sich jedoch mit ihrer Wahl der Kleidung wieder gut. Wunderbare Leistung. Zertifiziert intergalaktisch!🌹
@Brainpower-p1u
3 ай бұрын
1:50
@vicproulx6843
Жыл бұрын
What? Are we applauding between movements now?
@toewomg
8 ай бұрын
This kinds of applauding shows that the audience appreciated ones performance, it doesn’t happen too often, but they do!
@brothercuber3288
7 ай бұрын
@@toewomg the audience is ignorant then. clapping only makes the pianist more stressed. its rude to clap between movements.
@richardwillford2418
Ай бұрын
Well, if you the pianist dresses like a Vegas card dealer and plays like a circus act, why not?
@brooksiefan
Жыл бұрын
Playing Beethoven is a matter of personal empathy with the composer. Even a most respectful rendering of the score may sound somewhat odd. It is all right, It is pleasant, but still It falls short to the integral dimension of his genius.
@wai701b6
Жыл бұрын
I think not.
@timothybolshaw
Жыл бұрын
Yuja's interpretations of Beethoven are individual. For that reason, I think many will find them unfamiliar and unsatisfying on first hearing. It is worth listening a few times. I do not know to what degree Ludwig, himself, would approve of this performance, but Yuja's Beethoven interpretations are interesting, and worthy of taking seriously, I think.
@bloodgrss
Жыл бұрын
Sorry, this early sonata is played beautifully and musically. It isn't later Ludwig-it doesn't fall short of the 'integral dimension of his genius', whatever that is supposed to mean...
@TheHanslick
Ай бұрын
100% agreed!
@marioargentieri1778
Жыл бұрын
..certo è piacevole ,divertente ..ma non è lo stile beethoveniano.
@domenicolazzaro2950
6 ай бұрын
This Is not Beethoven😢
@edhanslick5630
Жыл бұрын
Well, this is technicaly perfect. However, you can´t play (at least in Beethoven!) a 1/4 note as 1/16 note (bars 9, 10 and further). I know, it seems like a detail, but the perfectness lays in details. There is, of course, more into it why the 1/4 note should be played as 1/4 - see the similarity in bars 1 and 2. Sorry for the comment, but the values of notes must be observed.
@eusebiusetflorestan2532
Жыл бұрын
Your pseudonym suggests that you are a formidable critic. However, I have listened carefully and I can't hear where you mean a rhythmic inaccuracy in the measures in question. If I am not mistaken « a 1/4 note, a 1/16 note » are a quarter note, a sixteenth note (my native language is not English). Are you really saying that Yuja Wang plays a quarter note as a sixteenth note?? Perfection is in the details, and in the details, this interpretation is above criticism. It is also splendid as a whole, and I hope that you appreciate the whole and do not remain fixated on two bars, which are otherwise flawless. On the other hand, it is amusing, or irritating, depending on one's mood, that Yuja Wang, who is one of the most consistently faithful pianists to the score, should be quarreled with on such subjects. Anyway, I wish you the most beautiful listening.
@edhanslick5630
Жыл бұрын
@@eusebiusetflorestan2532 First, I must admit I am a big fan of Yuja Wang. Second, I must apologize for my mistake: I am talking about bars 18 and 19 (right hand - the same motiv as in bars 1 and 2, 10,11 and so on where she plays quarter notes correctly). Generally speaking, I hate the habit of cutting off ends of phrases, that is playing the last note staccato (which is not the case I am talking about here). If you compare these places with Beethoven interprets like Gulda, Backhaus, Badura-Skoda, Brendel, Arrau ... you will never find this problem.
@eusebiusetflorestan2532
Жыл бұрын
@@edhanslick5630 I'm glad to hear you're a big Yuja fan, but for a fan, you're pretty harsh ("I hate this habit..."). But I think I understand now what you are talking about. Here's a small detail: it's true that in bars 18 and 19, Yuja doesn't make the quarter note last as long as in bars 10 and 11, but it can't be said that she "cuts off the ends of the phrases". More importantly, there is a highly musical justification for this shortening of the quarter note: you will notice that the context of bars 18 and 19 is quite different from bars 10 and 11, where the left hand plays a half note, while in bars 18 and 19 it plays a repeated quaver note staccato. Subtly, Yuja's right hand "imitates" this staccato spirit of the left hand. I hope in any case that this very slight difference, which for my part I find entirely justified (and certainly thought out), will not harm your listening, and that you will continue to be a "big fan" of this artist! It is perhaps even this kind of subtle choices which makes her interpretation, in its totality, so fine, light and especially alive.
@edhanslick5630
Жыл бұрын
@@eusebiusetflorestan2532 The habit of cutting off ... does not refer to those bars (I just mentioned it as another mistake in Beethoven´s interpretations). Anyway, in a few bars I find a little disrespect to note values. It doesn´t make too much difference at another composers, but for the classical music, esp. Beethoven, it does. I spent several years on this problem and it would take more space to explain it. Just listen to F. Gulda´s interpretation of this sonata and you will see what I mean. Y. Wang is not a typical interpret for classical music (like a lot of other great pianists), which is fine with me. So far this is the first time I disagree with her (probably because I was too much involved with L.v.B.). Everything else she does is just super and great and I will remain to be her fan in the future ( I own all her recordings and also her live performances available on YT). Note: - I listened only to the first movement. - Y. W. doesn´t imitate the left hand, since there is NO staccato there.
@eusebiusetflorestan2532
Жыл бұрын
@@edhanslick5630 Dear Mr. "Hanslick", to begin with the end: it is true that there is no staccato stricto sensu in the measure in question, but there is a rapid repetition of the same note, which gives a staccato atmosphere, if I dare say so. What I was trying to say is that Yuja Wang's choices are always deeply thought out, even if her playing seems very spontaneous. And in this case, her way of playing this quarter note seems to me to be faithful, if not to the letter of Beethoven, at least to his spirit! You should now listen to the other movements of the sonata! I think you will not regret it. You probably know that on my channel I have put online many videos of Yuja (always with score, a big job), among which a Beethoven absolutely unsurpassable in my opinion, the one of the Hammerklavier: kzitem.info/news/bejne/pmdtq6eEkJOfrYY If you are a great Beethoven specialist, as I understand it, perhaps you will not be convinced by this interpretation either? I hope you will be, because I don't think any pianist in the world has put so much clarity in the final fugue, and so much subtle depth in the slow movement. Finally, let me introduce myself a little better. I am a writer (of French language), passionate about music and I have published several books on this subject (on Alban Berg, on BACH, on music and exile, on music for the left hand of the piano). I also wrote a novel inspired by Yuja Wang, "Chinese Piano", of which there is a translation in German (is that your language?) and in English. Thank you, anyway, for this very interesting dialogue, with my warmest thoughts. EB
@xiaobrel
Жыл бұрын
Le besoin de faire différent l'égare dans de curieuses fantaisies, on est très loin de Beethoven, elle rajoute des effets qui n'existent pas dans le texte, à la longue cela devient ennuyeux, on écoute une virtuose qui n'a rien à nous dire. Si on veux écouter quelque chose de différent, retourner chez Glenn Gould.
@domenicolazzaro2950
2 ай бұрын
Kempff ...Arrau...Schnabel..Backaus..
@richardwillford2418
Ай бұрын
Amen!
@richardwillford2418
Ай бұрын
Or try the young and very brilliant Alexandra Dovgan. A true artist.
@quaver1239
Жыл бұрын
What stops her from playing the clearly delineated repeats? That is SO arrogant and annoying that one wants to simply dismiss her. Beethoven and other composers wrote repeats for good reasons, and if we’re going to play their work then at the very least we can show some respect.
@eusebiusetflorestan2532
Жыл бұрын
The question of repetition in contemporary classical music performance is a complex one, and opinions are divided. Scholarly articles have been written on the subject (e.g., J. MacDonald's « To Repeat or not to Repeat », or George Fee's im his thesis, « The Solo Keyboard Sonatas and Sonatinas of Georg Anton Benda »). What is certain is that, for musicological and sociological reasons, there is a tendency to renounce certain repetitions. This is also the case with Beethoven himself, who in the course of his sonatas has less and less recourse to this procedure. His music developed according to other laws. One thing is certain: this decision (which other pianists have also made) has nothing to do with Yuja Wang's "arrogance". This pianist is known for her respect for the text, and one only has to listen to the way she follows the slightest nuances of the score to be convinced. It is sad that instead of admiring her playing (and incidentally, thanking the author of this site for adding the score to the video; but I'm dreaming here), such unnecessarily aggressive comments are made.
@quaver1239
Жыл бұрын
@@eusebiusetflorestan2532 : Yes, it is really good having the score, and is much appreciated. And I apologise for the note of aggression. I am well aware of the musicological arguments, since I take part in them. I cannot, however, agree that Yuja Wang “follows the slightest nuances of the score.” Nuances change when repeats are played. Beethoven knew what he was doing. It is not compulsory to admire Ms Wang’s playing, and I am not amongst her legion of fans. I do not mean to be aggressive; am simply an angry person when I hear a sonata amputated and therefore mangled. Nothing to admire there.
@eusebiusetflorestan2532
Жыл бұрын
@@quaver1239 Thank you for your kind reply. I'm touched. But... your answer was only the first sentence when I read it... I would like to respond to the rest! Let's be logical: if you change the nuances when you play the repeats, then you are not strictly following the score anymore! On the other hand, I hoped to have convinced you that the sonata, as played by Yuja Wang (and other pianists; the question is not whether you are a fan or not), is neither amputated nor mangled. "Beethoven knew what he was doing": no doubt, but the reasons he had for indicating repeats are not the same today. The evolution of music, of which he is one of the main actors, has contributed to removing the meaning of these identical repetitions. Finally, I believe that this sonata, without repetitions, is very beautiful, and certainly more beautiful than with them. Of course, you may have a different opinion. But to speak of mutilation seems to me excessive, to say the least.
@quaver1239
Жыл бұрын
@@eusebiusetflorestan2532 : Thanks, and you are probably right! I am just a grumpy person. Keep up your good work. 🤗
@quaver1239
Жыл бұрын
@Eusebius et Florestan : Am going to listen again now to Yuja’s performance and keep a VERY open mind and heart.
@domenicolazzaro2950
6 ай бұрын
This is not Beethoven....sorry
@hugowilliams1988
6 ай бұрын
wow, she is not trying to be Beethoven. You are !
@bloodgrss
3 ай бұрын
Your comment is not critically valid...sorry
@richardwillford2418
Ай бұрын
Sorry, but this is just shallow. This pianist may be technically brilliant, but she has nothing to say.
@mitsuokurokawa8329
11 ай бұрын
Yuja! 👏👏👏👏👏👍Sem orquestra! Basta um grande piano, de cauda! - From Brazil.
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