Andre Maia A bless that means being born with prodigious talent, being born with strong and flexible tendons, ligaments and fingers, and... yes, then dedication.
+jerome taylor Bravo, bravo! " fantastic! " "fantastic!" Yuja! Yuja! : Sex in advertising From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Sex in advertising or "sex sells" is the use of sex appeal in advertising to help sell a particular product or service. Sexually appealing imagery may or may not pertain to the product or service in question. Examples of sexually appealing imagery include nudity, pin-up girls, and muscular men. The use of sex in advertising can be highly overt or extremely subtle. It ranges from relatively explicit displays of sexual acts, to the use of basic cosmetics to enhance attractive features." ALEXANDER BOOT Author, critic, polemicist Blogs > Alexander's blog > Sex sells - all of us short Submitted by Alexander on 24 June 2013 - 12:59pm The other day I listened to something or other on TH-cam, and a link to Chopin’s Fourth Ballade performed by the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili came up. The link was accompanied by a close-up publicity photo of the musician: sloe bedroom eyes, sensual semi-open lips suggesting a delight that’s still illegal in Alabama, naked shoulders hinting at the similarly nude rest of her body regrettably out of shot… Let me see where my wife is… Good, she isn’t looking over my shoulder, so I can admit to you that the picture got me excited in ways one doesn’t normally associate with Chopin’s Fourth Ballade or for that matter any other classical composition this side of Wagner or perhaps Ravel’s Bolero. Searching for a more traditional musical rapture I clicked on the actual clip and alas found it anticlimactic, as it were. Khatia’s playing, though competent, is as undeniably so-what as her voluptuous figure undeniably isn’t. (Yes, I know the photograph I mentioned doesn’t show much of her figure apart from the luscious shoulders but, the prurient side of my nature piqued, I did a bit of a web crawl.) Just for the hell of it I looked at the publicity shots of other currently active female musicians, such as Yuja Wang, Joanna MacGregor, Nicola Bendetti, Alison Balsom (nicknamed ‘crumpet with a trumpet’, her promos more often suggest ‘a strumpet with a trumpet’ instead), Anne-Sophie Mutter and a few others. They didn’t disappoint the Peeping Tom lurking under my aging surface. Just about all the photographs showed the ladies in various stages of undress, in bed, lying in suggestive poses on top of the piano, playing in frocks (if any) open to the coccyx in the back and/or to the navel up front. This is one thing these musicians have in common. The other is that none of them is all that good at her day job and some, such as Wang, are truly awful. Yet this doesn’t really matter either to them or to the public or, most important, to those who form the public tastes by writing about music and musicians. Thus, for example, a tabloid pundit expressing his heartfelt regret that Nicola Benedetti “won’t be posing for the lads’ mags anytime soon. Pity, because she looks fit as a fiddle…” Geddit? She’s a violinist, which is to say fiddler - well, you do get it. “But Nicola doesn’t always take the bonniest photo,” continues the writer, “she’s beaky in pics sometimes, which is weird because in the flesh she’s an absolute knock-out. “The classical musician is wearing skinny jeans which show off her long legs. She’s also busty with a washboard flat tummy, tottering around 5ft 10in in her Dune platform wedges.” How well does she play the violin though? No one cares. Not even critics writing for our broadsheets, who don’t mind talking about musicians in terms normally reserved for pole dancers. Thus for instance runs a review of a piano recital at Queen Elizabeth Hall, one of London’s top concert venues: “She is the most photogenic of players: young, pretty, bare-footed; and, with her long dark hair and exquisite strapless dress of dazzling white, not only seemed to imply that sexuality itself can make you a profound musician, but was a perfect visual complement to the sleek monochrome of a concert grand... [but] there’s more to her than meets the eye.” The male reader is clearly expected to get a stiffie trying to imagine what that might be. To help his imagination along, the piece is accompanied by a photo of the young lady in question reclining on her instrument in a pre-coital position with an unmistakable ‘come and get it’ expression on her face. The ‘monochrome’ piano is actually bright-red, a colour usually found not in concert halls but in dens of iniquity. Nowhere does the review mention the fact obvious to anyone with any taste for musical performance: the girl is so bad that she should indeed be playing in a brothel, rather than on the concert platform. Can you, in the wildest flight of fancy, imagine a reviewer talking in such terms about sublime women artists of the past, such as Myra Hess, Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg, Clara Haskil, Marcelle Meyer, Marguerite Long, Kathleen Ferrier? Can you see any of them allowing themselves to be photographed in the style of “lads’ mags”? I can’t, which raises the inevitable question: what exactly has changed in the last say 70 years? The short answer is, just about everything. Concert organisers and impresarios, who used to be in the business because they loved music first and wanted to make a living second, now care about nothing but money. Critics, who used to have discernment and taste, now have nothing but greed and lust for popularity. The public… well, don’t get me started on that. The circle is vicious: because tasteless ignoramuses use every available medium to build up musical nonentities, nonentities is all we get. And because the musical nonentities have no artistic qualities to write about, the writing nonentities have to concentrate on the more jutting attractions, using a vocabulary typically found in “lads’ mags”. The adage “sex sells” used to be applied first to B-movies, then to B-novels, and now to real music. From “sex sells” it’s but a short distance to “only sex sells”. This distance has already been travelled - and we are all being sold short.
I've been waiting a long time to hear/see her play Prokofiev's toccata. She even brings out certain voices from the lower register that often escape me while listening to other recordings. Glad I'm living in a time to witness this remarkable musician!
She did this at Carnegie in Feb '20. When she finished the whole section let out a collective "Whoa". Just amazing. As Yuja would say, I need more of this nourishment.
Yuja never ceases to amaze me and having just discovered her few months ago, I can't get enough of her talent. She has me even loving Prokofiev who is not my favorite. She's amazing and I appreciate her enjoyment in and desire to just share her talent with public anyway she can.
Personally I loved her performance. Is a lot about getting different lines out of the music. Is very rarely that i have heard Prokofief being performed musically and without hitting the piano. Many would say that this is not the way Prokofiev is suppossed to be performed, but I think that we should be open to perform his music in other ways than "what he meant" because that makes us experience both the composer and the piece in another level.
Physical and fashion beauty aside, one can only marvel at the depth of her intellect and athleticism. Her performances, several of which I have witnessed, are equally demanding and significant in the hard work and depth of interpretation resulting.
+Michael Schefold also!!!! GIDON KREMER "Briefe an eine junge Pianistin", Braumüller (German, France). ..." ,,Wir leben in einer Welt des Glamours. Glamours verlangt, das alles sich ihm unterwirft. Er gibt die Normen vor. Was würdigt ist, im Rampenlicht zu stehen, auf wen die Strahlen des Ruhmes fallen, bestimmt er. Das Glamourgesetz verlangt vor allem BRILLANZ. Die Hauptfiguren des Spektakels, oder anders ausgedrückt: die Waren, die auf diesem Basar feilgeboten werden, sind verplichtet, auf Covers, Plakaten, Zeitschriften, in Talkshows, auf Präsentationen oder in Interviews zu glänzen. Der Glamour braucht das IMAGE des ERFOLGS, das lässt sich leichter verkaufen als das Image des Leidens. Und das Lächeln gehört dazu. Können Sie sich Bruckner mit Star-Lächeln vorstellen?...Glamour fabriziert Stars, er gibt die Parameter des Erfolges vor, Treulosigkeit verzeiht er nicht. Diese Starfabrik operiert mit allen Verkaufstechniken wie Bestsellerlisten, Preisen, Exklusivrechten, Werbung, von der Foto-Session,der Stilisierung a la irgendwas, bis hin zur Intensität des Make-ups. Das wurde von den Großmeistern der Kommerzwelt sorgfältig getestet, und sie setzen es mit holywoodschem oder bollywoodschem Elan in Szene. Was der Künstler und seine Firma ,,absetzen" wollen, muss unbedingt gut verpackt sein. Man muss wissen , wie man die ,,Ware" anbietet. ...Nackte Schulter- ab und zu sogar etwas mehr- junge Damen passen zu jedem Instrument. Ein Wolf oder ein Schwan verstärken die Wirkung. Hauptsache, etwas fällt auf! Geht es um die Musik? Die Interpretation? ich befürchte, beides ist eher nebensächlich. Wenn man meint, Beethoven nicht ,,a la Lang Lang" verkaufen zu können, so verkauft man eben, sieh Cover, Lang Lang ,,a la Beethoven". Nach Glamour besteht Nachfrage. Er dringt in alles ein. Auch in die Musik. Handel und Händler regieren die Welt nicht schlechter, vielleicht sogar besser als Politiker ..."
count one note is a day of her life practicing? how much hard work, love, passion, discipline, drive, depression, hope, faith had been put into this excellent performance that is behind scenes and no one knows! Great performance, God bless. "And love it also because you a Chinse girl. "
I hate the fact that some critics aren't yet able to look pass her heels, dresses, and race... hopefully she will release more studio works. Especially playing many Rachmaninoff... she plays his so beautifully.. viva Wang.
This piece is quite factory, machine like anyway, so having it played into the factory where they make the pianos is quite brilliant. As usual, Yuja plays like a champion.
I like this toccata very much! I still remember I find the piece hard to understand before I studied composition and trained my ear around 5 years ago, but now it gives me goose bump.
It's amazing to compose with such dissonances while maintaining that unique, inimitable style and voice. Which is why Prokofiev's up there together with the other 20th century greats!
When you grow up with a piano as a favorite “Toy”. The piano is you, and you are the piano. All the great composers and writers are your soulmates. Then you become a master at last. 😃
Indeed you have to get acquainted with Yuja's staccato approach, and from 1:40 till 2:00 she fumbles up a bit. I have repeated this interpretation several times and now I am convinced this is the best interpretation I ever heard, even better than of Argerich. I just listened to the interpretation of Prokofiev himself and on that terrible dual tone hard touch piano it sounded not well but you can still hear what he meant to play, and I think Yuja Wang has interpreted this piece exactly as Prokofiev meant it.
I love Yuja because she isn't afraid to be herself and dress and act the way she wants. I'm worried about her performance as a musician and not her hemline, performance venue, etc. It isn't my or anyone's place to judge her as a person.
@@thibomeurkens2296 Ha, yeah, hi! This was actually the first performance of this piece I ever saw and that made me want to learn it, and in fact it was Yuja Wang's performance of Prokofiev's second piano concerto that made me realise I absolutely loved Prokofiev in general.
@@DodderingOldMan The second concerto is so good! (also really hard probably 😂). And you’re right Prokofiev is great. The first piece I knew of him is actually this toccata (it’s still my favorite!) but then I went down a whole Prokofiev rabbithole he has so much great stuff!!
@@DodderingOldMan okay I have a lot more spreekrecht for you now I’m trying the piece and there where the hands cross in the beginning is so hard I’m playing it really slowly and my brain still can’t handle it 😂
and how she can! listen and see her Scriabin playing. This is the most difficult pedal in all music. She does it perfectly - with sexy high heels! Wow!
She's so normal looking, but out of tens of millions of people, no one can play like that but her. She's sexy, but in an understated way, body-wise. She doesn't have more than is required to be sexy, but it's put together so well. Plus, she's a comedian. A star!
I heard from the grapevine that Yuja Wang is leaving her Opus3 agent, Earl G.Blackburn, to join London-based Fidelio Artists as its first instrumentalist. Fidelio have young conductors of Gustavo Dudamel, Lionel Bringuier & Esa-Peka Salonen. These 3 are LA Phil's prominent conductors whom JW has recently worked with at the Hollywood Bowl. Remember YW's short orange/yellow dress that went viral? Guess who the conductor was? Right, the 27 year old Lionel. Gustavo & Yuja just released their Rach album. And, guess who the conductor was when Yuja first played Shostakovich at the Bowl? Right again. Esa-Peka. She dumping the old for the young? Watch out! Welcome to Hollywood, Yuja! Now, you'll get a better chance to produce DVDs instead of CDs. CD's are still good, but they are from the last century. The 21st demands DVDs. It is a visual century. And your fans who can't see you perform live, are craving to see you in a visual medium. They want to see your fingers fly over the keyboard. They want to see you singing and being playful while stroking the keys. They want to see, do I dare mention, your attire. You are a fashionista, and where can you better trot your sense of fashion than here in Hollywood. Go for it, girl!
For a brand-new Steinway, with new, fluffy, soft hammer-heads, it seems rather bright!! Or is it the way the music is written or the style of the piece,, or is it how she attacks the keys?
Those heels! Great performance, but I was so afraid the whole time that she'd finish the piece, take a bow and then start stepping on mice as an encore
Sebastian Berg "too light and lacks richness". I think that's characteristic of her playing. She plays with great agility and lightness, at least in my opinion.
I got the feeling that this particular performance sounded forced... as if the piano had not been broken in as of yet, or the cold air of the factory made it sluggish. Still , she plays this as well as anybody. Compare this performance with "Yuja Wang - Concerti GMI di Modena III bis."
Prokofiev himself made a recording of his toccata - he plays at a slower tempo with much less elan and drive than Yuja. it proves that the composer isn't always the best interpreter of his/her own music, even Ravel admitted this when playing his Gaspard in public...
He was good enough a pianist to envision what it would sound like in the hands of really great pianists. That, was his true legacy - the same could be said for great composers in general.
It's really what the fingers "remember".. She studied the piece with such intent, and made it her own, so she can just play it from the get-go without really having to muster much thought. It's like solving and equation, but you remember all the formulas and even made your own!
@@meggiel.512 Well, yes, but also no.. Her rendition is very accurate to the sheet music, but everyone has their own flair and style.. Compare this song to other artists, and you'll see they do little things to the music that make it their own.. That's what helps them to remember the piece because they remember what they actually do to express it One example is in an interview with horowitz, he was called upon to play a song he hadn't played in years.. He said he wasn't even sure if he remembered it, since he was also in his old age.. But as sat down to play, the music just flowed from him. He remembered the entire song, because he made it his through his unique rendition
@@Wosudhehqaxb9169Thanks a lot to share this advanced fact. So no particular way to improve the ability to remember a piano solo? Merry Christmas 🎄 and Happy Holidays! 🎉🎊🎈
@@meggiel.512 Different people have different techniques for memorization. Books have been written about it. Most of them by people who aren't really experts on psychology or neurology, so it's hard to get definitive answers on the subject. For me, memorization has many different facets: kinesthetic, visual, aural, and theoretical/analytical. Those facets have then have their own subfacets, e.g. visual can be thought of as having a visual memory of your hands playing the piece that you can recall or as having a visual memory of the score. Each of these different facets are important and need to be nurtured for me to be able to reliably play a piece well from memory. By the time you're ready to play a piece from memory, you usually have it planned out in your head where in the piece you should think about certain aspects of your memory you'll find most helpful. You create kind of a personal roadmap that keeps you on track and gives you chances to get back on if you get off.
She isn't real... No human being can be so perfect playing the piano. A bless that means dedication, devotion, practice and music adoration.
Andre Maia A bless that means being born with prodigious talent, being born with strong and flexible tendons, ligaments and fingers, and... yes, then dedication.
Sven-Sander Shestakov You both mean a blessing, I believe.
She is able to memorize a vast amount of music....an incredible feat in itself. She is truly amazing.....
This is my nearly 3-year old daughter's favorite video on TH-cam at the moment. Now she keeps asking for "Coffee in D minor, again?"
I find it surprising and unusual for kids that age to enjoy this type of music.
I think it's a tribute to Prokofiev that his music is both highly innovative and accessible.
Andrew Chen Why? Their perception is not yet spoiled by commercial "acoustic pollution" :)
+Bryan Ho I think that's so cool for your daughter to appreciate what she is hearing! What a way to start off!! Bravo!!!
+jerome taylor Bravo, bravo! " fantastic! " "fantastic!" Yuja! Yuja! : Sex in advertising
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Sex in advertising or "sex sells" is the use of sex appeal in
advertising to help sell a particular product or service. Sexually
appealing imagery may or may not pertain to the product or service in
question. Examples of sexually appealing imagery include nudity, pin-up
girls, and muscular men.
The use of sex in advertising can be highly overt or extremely subtle.
It ranges from relatively explicit displays of sexual acts, to the use
of basic cosmetics to enhance attractive features."
ALEXANDER BOOT Author, critic, polemicist
Blogs > Alexander's blog >
Sex sells - all of us short
Submitted by Alexander on 24 June 2013 - 12:59pm
The
other day I listened to something or other on TH-cam, and a link to
Chopin’s Fourth Ballade performed by the Georgian pianist Khatia
Buniatishvili came up.
The link was accompanied by a close-up publicity photo of the musician:
sloe bedroom eyes, sensual semi-open lips suggesting a delight that’s
still illegal in Alabama, naked shoulders hinting at the similarly nude
rest of her body regrettably out of shot…
Let me see where my wife is… Good, she isn’t looking over my shoulder,
so I can admit to you that the picture got me excited in ways one
doesn’t normally associate with Chopin’s Fourth Ballade or for that
matter any other classical composition this side of Wagner or perhaps
Ravel’s Bolero.
Searching for a more traditional musical rapture I clicked on the actual
clip and alas found it anticlimactic, as it were. Khatia’s playing,
though competent, is as undeniably so-what as her voluptuous figure
undeniably isn’t. (Yes, I know the photograph I mentioned doesn’t show
much of her figure apart from the luscious shoulders but, the prurient
side of my nature piqued, I did a bit of a web crawl.)
Just for the hell of it I looked at the publicity shots of other
currently active female musicians, such as Yuja Wang, Joanna MacGregor,
Nicola Bendetti, Alison Balsom (nicknamed ‘crumpet with a trumpet’, her
promos more often suggest ‘a strumpet with a trumpet’ instead),
Anne-Sophie Mutter and a few others.
They didn’t disappoint the Peeping Tom lurking under my aging surface.
Just about all the photographs showed the ladies in various stages of
undress, in bed, lying in suggestive poses on top of the piano, playing
in frocks (if any) open to the coccyx in the back and/or to the navel up
front.
This is one thing these musicians have in common. The other is that none
of them is all that good at her day job and some, such as Wang, are
truly awful. Yet this doesn’t really matter either to them or to the
public or, most important, to those who form the public tastes by
writing about music and musicians.
Thus, for example, a tabloid pundit expressing his heartfelt regret that
Nicola Benedetti “won’t be posing for the lads’ mags anytime soon.
Pity, because she looks fit as a fiddle…” Geddit? She’s a violinist,
which is to say fiddler - well, you do get it.
“But Nicola doesn’t always take the bonniest photo,” continues the
writer, “she’s beaky in pics sometimes, which is weird because in the
flesh she’s an absolute knock-out.
“The classical musician is wearing skinny jeans which show off her long
legs. She’s also busty with a washboard flat tummy, tottering around 5ft
10in in her Dune platform wedges.”
How well does she play the violin though? No one cares. Not even critics
writing for our broadsheets, who don’t mind talking about musicians in
terms normally reserved for pole dancers. Thus for instance runs a
review of a piano recital at Queen Elizabeth Hall, one of London’s top
concert venues:
“She is the most photogenic of players: young, pretty, bare-footed; and,
with her long dark hair and exquisite strapless dress of dazzling
white, not only seemed to imply that sexuality itself can make you a
profound musician, but was a perfect visual complement to the sleek
monochrome of a concert grand... [but] there’s more to her than meets
the eye.”
The male reader is clearly expected to get a stiffie trying to imagine
what that might be. To help his imagination along, the piece is
accompanied by a photo of the young lady in question reclining on her
instrument in a pre-coital position with an unmistakable ‘come and get
it’ expression on her face. The ‘monochrome’ piano is actually
bright-red, a colour usually found not in concert halls but in dens of
iniquity.
Nowhere does the review mention the fact obvious to anyone with any
taste for musical performance: the girl is so bad that she should indeed
be playing in a brothel, rather than on the concert platform.
Can you, in the wildest flight of fancy, imagine a reviewer talking in
such terms about sublime women artists of the past, such as Myra Hess,
Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg, Clara Haskil, Marcelle Meyer, Marguerite
Long, Kathleen Ferrier? Can you see any of them allowing themselves to
be photographed in the style of “lads’ mags”?
I can’t, which raises the inevitable question: what exactly has changed
in the last say 70 years? The short answer is, just about everything.
Concert organisers and impresarios, who used to be in the business
because they loved music first and wanted to make a living second, now
care about nothing but money. Critics, who used to have discernment and
taste, now have nothing but greed and lust for popularity. The public…
well, don’t get me started on that.
The circle is vicious: because tasteless ignoramuses use every available
medium to build up musical nonentities, nonentities is all we get. And
because the musical nonentities have no artistic qualities to write
about, the writing nonentities have to concentrate on the more jutting
attractions, using a vocabulary typically found in “lads’ mags”.
The adage “sex sells” used to be applied first to B-movies, then to
B-novels, and now to real music. From “sex sells” it’s but a short
distance to “only sex sells”. This distance has already been travelled -
and we are all being sold short.
I've been waiting a long time to hear/see her play Prokofiev's toccata. She even brings out certain voices from the lower register that often escape me while listening to other recordings. Glad I'm living in a time to witness this remarkable musician!
She did this at Carnegie in Feb '20. When she finished the whole section let out a collective "Whoa". Just amazing. As Yuja would say, I need more of this nourishment.
I listened to her recording and that of Martha Argerich, they are so insanely different which is weird because it’s the same piece.
Yuja never ceases to amaze me and having just discovered her few months ago, I can't get enough of her talent. She has me even loving Prokofiev who is not my favorite. She's amazing and I appreciate her enjoyment in and desire to just share her talent with public anyway she can.
I feel the same way about her Prokofiev interpretations.
The microphone placement on this recording seems extraordinarily good to me. What a superb and crystal clear recording!
Personally I loved her performance. Is a lot about getting different lines out of the music. Is very rarely that i have heard Prokofief being performed musically and without hitting the piano. Many would say that this is not the way Prokofiev is suppossed to be performed, but I think that we should be open to perform his music in other ways than "what he meant" because that makes us experience both the composer and the piece in another level.
Physical and fashion beauty aside, one can only marvel at the depth of her intellect and athleticism. Her performances, several of which I have witnessed, are equally demanding and significant in the hard work and depth of interpretation resulting.
i like her outfit as girl! so nice hair and handcloves!!
Still watching this in October 2020! Amazing!
Stunning! What a privilege to hear her play!
Stunning - both visually and aurally!
Yuja, you are so talented, brilliant and amazing! Bravo!!
Love the piano frames in the backdrop. This, is what you will be and the sounds you'll emanate when we're done with you.
If only I could like this a million times!!!
I also!!!
+Michael Schefold also!!!! GIDON KREMER "Briefe an eine junge Pianistin", Braumüller (German,
France). ..." ,,Wir leben in einer Welt des Glamours. Glamours
verlangt, das alles
sich ihm unterwirft. Er gibt die Normen vor. Was würdigt ist, im
Rampenlicht zu stehen, auf wen die Strahlen des Ruhmes fallen, bestimmt
er. Das Glamourgesetz verlangt vor allem BRILLANZ. Die Hauptfiguren des
Spektakels, oder anders ausgedrückt: die Waren, die auf diesem Basar
feilgeboten werden, sind verplichtet, auf Covers, Plakaten,
Zeitschriften, in Talkshows, auf Präsentationen oder in Interviews zu
glänzen. Der Glamour braucht das IMAGE des ERFOLGS, das lässt sich
leichter verkaufen als das Image des Leidens. Und das Lächeln gehört
dazu. Können Sie sich Bruckner mit Star-Lächeln vorstellen?...Glamour
fabriziert Stars, er gibt die Parameter des Erfolges vor, Treulosigkeit
verzeiht er nicht. Diese Starfabrik operiert mit allen Verkaufstechniken
wie Bestsellerlisten, Preisen, Exklusivrechten, Werbung, von der
Foto-Session,der Stilisierung a la irgendwas, bis hin zur Intensität des
Make-ups. Das wurde von den Großmeistern der Kommerzwelt sorgfältig
getestet, und sie setzen es mit holywoodschem oder bollywoodschem Elan
in Szene. Was der Künstler und seine Firma ,,absetzen" wollen, muss
unbedingt gut verpackt sein. Man muss wissen , wie man die ,,Ware"
anbietet. ...Nackte Schulter- ab und zu sogar etwas mehr- junge Damen
passen zu jedem Instrument. Ein Wolf oder ein Schwan verstärken die
Wirkung. Hauptsache, etwas fällt auf! Geht es um die Musik? Die
Interpretation? ich befürchte, beides ist eher nebensächlich. Wenn man
meint, Beethoven nicht ,,a la Lang Lang" verkaufen zu können, so
verkauft man eben, sieh Cover, Lang Lang ,,a la Beethoven". Nach Glamour
besteht Nachfrage. Er dringt in alles ein. Auch in die Musik. Handel
und Händler regieren die Welt nicht schlechter, vielleicht sogar besser
als Politiker ..."
who are the 56 haters that gave this a thumbs down, they must be very angry with life.
Love the way how she uses piano as her makeup mirror at 0:52
@acryingonion haha!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 my piano doesn’t have a mirror there!!!!
Loved your comment!
***I LIKED YOUR COMMENT***
❄️✌🏻🌈💜🎹🥰
She respects all the qualities the instrument has 😂
count one note is a day of her life practicing? how much hard work, love, passion, discipline, drive, depression, hope, faith had been put into this excellent performance that is behind scenes and no one knows! Great performance, God bless. "And love it also because you a Chinse girl. "
I hate the fact that some critics aren't yet able to look pass her heels, dresses, and race... hopefully she will release more studio works. Especially playing many Rachmaninoff... she plays his so beautifully.. viva Wang.
This piece is quite factory, machine like anyway, so having it played into the factory where they make the pianos is quite brilliant. As usual, Yuja plays like a champion.
So raw ! Such a delight! So pure and perfect music. Thanks for sharing this.
Wow! - thanks for sharing Halvard
I've heard this piece played by others but none brings out a smile and an enthrallment as Yuja's version.
This video deserves more than 300K views
How weird not to hear thunderous applause after one of her recitals... I think she expected it as well. LOVE you Yuja.
Still watching this in 2020.
2024
Wow...just wow! I’m watching this first thing in the morning and I don’t think I need a cup of coffee now!
4th time in a row watching this. Can't stop.
I like this toccata very much! I still remember I find the piece hard to understand before I studied composition and trained my ear around 5 years ago, but now it gives me goose bump.
It's amazing to compose with such dissonances while maintaining that unique, inimitable style and voice. Which is why Prokofiev's up there together with the other 20th century greats!
When you grow up with a piano as a favorite “Toy”. The piano is you, and you are the piano. All the great composers and writers are your soulmates. Then you become a master at last. 😃
Indeed you have to get acquainted with Yuja's staccato approach, and from 1:40 till 2:00 she fumbles up a bit. I have repeated this interpretation several times and now I am convinced this is the best interpretation I ever heard, even better than of Argerich. I just listened to the interpretation of Prokofiev himself and on that terrible dual tone hard touch piano it sounded not well but you can still hear what he meant to play, and I think Yuja Wang has interpreted this piece exactly as Prokofiev meant it.
I think the same. Prokofiev would be happy to hear AND see her!
Yes, Of course Prokofiev would love this. Yuja Wang is his perfect Ambassador.
perfect Ambassador， well say.
Yuja's interpretaion is honest = fast but still clear, free of any artificial substances.
Also it's freezing cold. Teeny mistakes are understandable.
little did i realize where this would take me
i had no idea of her talents
and for that introduction
i owe you all at
NPR
bigtime
3:11 and 4:12 sound so beautifully crisp and grand. That's why I love Steinway Pianos
I cant imagine writing or playing this. Children of a greater God.
Incredible. Not quite as dark an interpretation as some others, but her technique is fascinating.
I also like Argerich's version. Darker for sure.
@@Anthony-qn8ox And definitely more full-bloodied and sonorous.
I love Yuja because she isn't afraid to be herself and dress and act the way she wants. I'm worried about her performance as a musician and not her hemline, performance venue, etc. It isn't my or anyone's place to judge her as a person.
If you liked watching the building the piano, there is a whole documentary about the making of a Steinway. It's called "Note by Note" and it's great.
I love what she did with that fabulous Prokofiev piece!!! :-)
She practically owns this piece!
The marketing is just quite the icing on the cake...
Wonderful, Yuija ! What an energy ! I love. Superb ...
Bravo! Those flying fingers with deadly accuracy.
Love this. What a spectacular performance!
Esta chica es un fenómeno de nuestra época!
I'm trying to learn this, because it looks like a lot of fun. Now, if only I could play the piano...
Buffoon1980 It's fun to practice it. It's not fun to perform it - that is the stuff of nightmares.
Hehe fancy meeting you here 😂
@@thibomeurkens2296 Ha, yeah, hi! This was actually the first performance of this piece I ever saw and that made me want to learn it, and in fact it was Yuja Wang's performance of Prokofiev's second piano concerto that made me realise I absolutely loved Prokofiev in general.
@@DodderingOldMan The second concerto is so good! (also really hard probably 😂). And you’re right Prokofiev is great. The first piece I knew of him is actually this toccata (it’s still my favorite!) but then I went down a whole Prokofiev rabbithole he has so much great stuff!!
@@DodderingOldMan okay I have a lot more spreekrecht for you now I’m trying the piece and there where the hands cross in the beginning is so hard I’m playing it really slowly and my brain still can’t handle it 😂
Great Prokofiev...... and outfit.
Words fail me here. Wow!!! Everything.
Oh my gosh. I know nothing about piano but that was amazing and captivating.
Fabulous!!!
Fantastic musician!!! I loved the setting too!
I love her version of the ending best
Cherry 🍒 on the cake, it seems that all other pianos in the room are vibrating in echo to this astonishing performance
I can't believe she can pedal in those heels o.0
and how she can! listen and see her Scriabin playing. This is the most difficult pedal in all music. She does it perfectly - with sexy high heels! Wow!
In one of her interviews, Yuja actually said she's more comfortable playing with her high heels on.
I can’t even do it why wearing my shoe.. (okay I can but it’s terrible)
You can say she trademarked it. Maybe she will write a book about it someday...
Loved the lipstick hack😂. Brilliant!
Play like a boss :D
Fabulosa partitura y fabulosa pianista
I still have fond memories on this piece. It's very challenging to perform.
She's so normal looking, but out of tens of millions of people, no one can play like that but her. She's sexy, but in an understated way, body-wise. She doesn't have more than is required to be sexy, but it's put together so well. Plus, she's a comedian. A star!
Maravilloso, me parece increíble tanta perfección en la interpretación. 😍😍😍
The best
Piano Stainway & Sons
She's slayin it!!!! How i wish i could play the piano like her
4 - 7 hours of practice daily...; you'd get there
Yuja..number 1
This toccata has finally found its master =)
Zanpra As I seen, Yuja Wang is the best Russian classical music interpretor in the world.
@@Bati_ Russian?!
Ren Vollmer He is saying she‘s the best Russian classical piano music interpretor，not saying she is Russian
@@YL-kl5iv ha I also was confused then I remembered Prokofiev being Russian 🤦
masterful
OMG You are So Amazing 👍 Such an Inspiration for Me and My Students 👏
Very expressive,
and great interpretation.
would love to hear her on a bosendorfer!
perfect!
I heard from the grapevine that Yuja Wang is leaving her Opus3 agent, Earl G.Blackburn, to join London-based Fidelio Artists as its first instrumentalist.
Fidelio have young conductors of Gustavo Dudamel, Lionel Bringuier & Esa-Peka Salonen. These 3 are LA Phil's prominent conductors whom JW has recently worked with at the Hollywood Bowl. Remember YW's short orange/yellow dress that went viral? Guess who the conductor was? Right, the 27 year old Lionel. Gustavo & Yuja just released their Rach album. And, guess who the conductor was when Yuja first played Shostakovich at the Bowl? Right again. Esa-Peka.
She dumping the old for the young? Watch out! Welcome to Hollywood, Yuja! Now, you'll get a better chance to produce DVDs instead of CDs. CD's are still good, but they are from the last century. The 21st demands DVDs. It is a visual century. And your fans who can't see you perform live, are craving to see you in a visual medium. They want to see your fingers fly over the keyboard. They want to see you singing and being playful while stroking the keys. They want to see, do I dare mention, your attire. You are a fashionista, and where can you better trot your sense of fashion than here in Hollywood.
Go for it, girl!
+Rolando Reyes
YES!!!!!!
+Rolando Reyes
YES!!!!!!
Which does she put, the finger-less groves or the arm warmers? what an amazing piano play.
A mind that works at lightning speed and an imagination to accompany it
사랑스러 ㅠㅠ 마지막 표정!!!!
At the final cadence, Her funny face made me laugh loudly.
Exhilarating to watch!
Marvelous!
Yuja sei semplicemente fantastica!!!!!!
For a brand-new Steinway, with new, fluffy, soft hammer-heads, it seems rather bright!! Or is it the way the music is written or the style of the piece,, or is it how she attacks the keys?
Oh. My. God. I have watched a lot of Yuja Wang's videos, but nothing like this.
bravo!
Haven't heard this played so perfectly since Martha Argerich on her debut album.
Those gloves are what i need for practicing when the climate is cold
....is it normal to feel like your having your "peak" when listening to this?....because i think i just did...wow
lol, that comes from having the right beat, lead up to the big peak XD
Those heels! Great performance, but I was so afraid the whole time that she'd finish the piece, take a bow and then start stepping on mice as an encore
For me it sounds a bit too light and lacks a little richness, but it's still a great performance, it's this video that made me love prokofiev
Sebastian Berg "too light and lacks richness". I think that's characteristic of her playing. She plays with great agility and lightness, at least in my opinion.
Whoa!!!
Marvelous performance.
110%
Just fantastic... and what a piano!
Good warmup.
Speechless !
I got the feeling that this particular performance sounded forced... as if the piano had not been broken in as of yet, or the cold air of the factory made it sluggish. Still , she plays this as well as anybody. Compare this performance with "Yuja Wang - Concerti GMI di Modena III bis."
Wow!...just wow!
Beautiful !! OMG !!
This is a brain wake upper...Love It #YujaWang
Good & funny ;-) S.Prokofiev in Steinway factory...cool idea!
she's soaring
woooow!!! super!!! Yuja!!!!
god of piano
I'm not familiar with this piece but I like her clarity and can hear many voices.
Prokofiev himself made a recording of his toccata - he plays at a slower tempo with much less elan and drive than Yuja. it proves that the composer isn't always the best interpreter of his/her own music, even Ravel admitted this when playing his Gaspard in public...
he physically couldnt play it a tempo
Ravel was not a virtuoso pianist, and he never played Gaspard de la Nuit in public. Same for his G major piano concerto.
He was good enough a pianist to envision what it would sound like in the hands of really great pianists. That, was his true legacy - the same could be said for great composers in general.
@@rigel48 Ravel's hands were small. He didn't write Gaspard de la Nuit for himself (to play) apparently.
Beautiful!
Wow x 👍999
Who else love the head thing she did in 3:22? :D
Bravo bravo ragazzo
How can she remember such a mechanical-like piece?
It's really what the fingers "remember".. She studied the piece with such intent, and made it her own, so she can just play it from the get-go without really having to muster much thought. It's like solving and equation, but you remember all the formulas and even made your own!
@@Wosudhehqaxb9169 So actually she is playing her own similar version of that particular piece?
@@meggiel.512 Well, yes, but also no.. Her rendition is very accurate to the sheet music, but everyone has their own flair and style.. Compare this song to other artists, and you'll see they do little things to the music that make it their own.. That's what helps them to remember the piece because they remember what they actually do to express it
One example is in an interview with horowitz, he was called upon to play a song he hadn't played in years.. He said he wasn't even sure if he remembered it, since he was also in his old age.. But as sat down to play, the music just flowed from him. He remembered the entire song, because he made it his through his unique rendition
@@Wosudhehqaxb9169Thanks a lot to share this advanced fact. So no particular way to improve the ability to remember a piano solo? Merry Christmas 🎄 and Happy Holidays! 🎉🎊🎈
@@meggiel.512 Different people have different techniques for memorization. Books have been written about it. Most of them by people who aren't really experts on psychology or neurology, so it's hard to get definitive answers on the subject.
For me, memorization has many different facets: kinesthetic, visual, aural, and theoretical/analytical. Those facets have then have their own subfacets, e.g. visual can be thought of as having a visual memory of your hands playing the piece that you can recall or as having a visual memory of the score. Each of these different facets are important and need to be nurtured for me to be able to reliably play a piece well from memory. By the time you're ready to play a piece from memory, you usually have it planned out in your head where in the piece you should think about certain aspects of your memory you'll find most helpful. You create kind of a personal roadmap that keeps you on track and gives you chances to get back on if you get off.