Yuja Wang is by far my fav pianist of all time, particularly her interpretation of all of Prokofiev's works...and this recording is just sooo fantastic I listen to it over and over again...I LOVE Yuja and Prokofiev! Thank you to both!
But she does not produce a marvelous sound. Nothing wrong with her technique but, in my opinion, that's all she has aside from her "Cirque du Soleil" perfoming style. There are SO many marvelous recordings of this by other pianists.
When I saw all the kudos about this performance--some calling this the greatest version ever--I was more than a little skeptical, but as I listened I realized this was easily among the best accounts of this concerto I've ever heard. Bravo!
@@awalkingman83 I'm sorry, but you don't understand how posts that insult people's intelligence works. You can't have typos in them, nor misspellings in them, nor grammatical errors in them, nor errors of fact in them. They must be intellectually pristine. If they are not, you simply make a doofus out of yourself.
@@stueystuey1962 Beethoven is the best , but Magnet12 said Prokofiev was 'my fav composer...' and favorites are another thing entirely, aren't they? I know I've loved Prokofiev since I first heard Peter & The Wolf, and even if his 3rd and 4th Symphonies aren't all that good, it doesn't make me love him any less. He was highly unique among composers, who could make one break down in tears or laugh out loud.
Yes and it is quite uncanny. I have an old MK Soviet LP of this with Richter and Wang is basically coming to the same conclusions as the great Russian did -- but from a different direction and with her mentor MTT. Even the more spacious approach to the last movement is like that early Richter. Strange how Prokofiev always sounds modern and original as time passes.
Prokofiev composed this concerto for his graduation at age 18. The examiners were absolutely stunned by the teenager's mastery virtuoso unsurpassing techniques but the music itself wasn't well received at that time.
Glazunov was head of the composition department at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He was never fond of Prokofiev. But your comment that the concerto wasn't well received is not entirely correct. The premiere performance which featured Prokofiev as soloist was one for the ages. The capacity audience went nuts even if the critics at the time panned the work. It is probably because it was so badly panned that the first performance created the Prokofiev mystique.
That's not quite accurate. The concerto was completed, and premiered in Moscow, in 1912, the year in which Prokofiev turned 21, and he had already taken his diploma in 1909. The performance at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he had been a student, took place in 1914 not in fulfilment of a graduation requirement but as part of that school's competition for the Anton Rubinstein Prize, which was awarded for pianistic, not compositional, accomplishment. The rules of the competition stipulated that only published concertos could be performed. Prokofiev was able to find a publisher for the work and obtain printed copies only at the last minute but by so doing was able to satisfy the letter of the rules. He is reported to have said that he thought the judges would be less critical of his execution if they were not familiar with the work being performed.
Spectacular performance. The composer was great, the conductor is super and the Lovely Yuja performed her magic again. She is such an incredible lady. Paul D. Escudero (author of many Novels sold worldwide)
It starts out sounding attractive, but then Prokofiev resorts to the entry of the elephants and stone sharp chaos. You can refine chaos with chaos, but Chaos is still chaos.
I am so sorry you don't like elephants or Chaos in your Piano concerti. Perhaps you would prefer works by Prokofiev for solo piano from his early years? Works such as the 5 "Sarcasms" Opus 5, the Opus 11 Toccata, or the 20 "Visions Fugitives" Op 22?? His music can get a little scary at times, but Chaotic? Nyet!
Prokofiev is too much of one flavor. He departs too much from old lines just to make a name for himself. I wouldn't call him a great composer, but a misguided man of the musical type that discards lines of the old. He is in a part of a 'dime a dozen' that believes greatness lies in total originality. When you exclude the beautiful and live by experimentation you join the list of ignoramusesthat exclude what is necessary for an audience to be enthrald. The fast works are OK but when you get into the slow sections excessive dissonance and experimentation, that is actually ugly, cause any audience to lose interest.
In all, there is only order, balance and chaos. All three are present in any music composition. Chaos is reduced to a tiny circle in a great work of art (music) with beauty and balance in the top. This makes order and balance king and Queen. If a great artist can read music perfectly, I suggest using only the manuscript instead of injecting a form of poison into his/her physiognomy. Chaos in any excessive form is dangerous to your body and others. Order in chaos is very deceptive. Fortunately for me I seem to have a radar that keeps me from truly tuning in over the ugly sections. Admittedly, Prokofiev isn't as blatant as the others, such as Bartok. He is listenable to a certain extent. He is still too much of one flavor. Because his fill ins are thin and sometimes obsessive with discord. A performer and listener has to be very objective (with praise).
No. No. The orchestra has been lacking vitality and virility, the qualities which are absolutely essential here. And the soloist, with all her technical virtuosity, has been soulless. I know this charge has been quite often, perhaps too often, raised against Yuja Wang, but I can't help. Sorry. One of the poorer performance (among well-known artists) I've heard.
What do you mean, I rather think that this is the best interpretation of the concerto. It has all the climaxes and vitality, which you clearly didn't notice.
Yuja Wang is by far my fav pianist of all time, particularly her interpretation of all of Prokofiev's works...and this recording is just sooo fantastic I listen to it over and over again...I LOVE Yuja and Prokofiev! Thank you to both!
I think she has the same rebellious energy Prokofiev did when he composed this. She’s so spectacular technically this is a walk in the park for her.
But she does not produce a marvelous sound. Nothing wrong with her technique but, in my opinion, that's all she has aside from her "Cirque du Soleil" perfoming style. There are SO many marvelous recordings of this by other pianists.
@@gesualdodavenosa8550 What does 'marvelous sound' mean? You need to dig deeper, much deeper
Finally, someone who broadens out the final section. And they took time with the very last chord, instead of rushing through. Bravo.
Yuja always impressed me....!
Yuja Wang plus Michael Tilson Thomas equals musical perfection.
This is such a fantastic concerto. I've been listening to the Graffman/Szell recording for 30 years. Yuja does a nice job here.
Do you know Graffman was Yuja's teacher at Curtis? For six years she studied under his guidance. Graffman was also Lang Lang's teacher at Curtis.
Last year I listened 100 times. Starting the next 100 now :) A beautiful amazing performance of a stunning concerto :):)
I meant to say, a truly amazing photo too! Yuja's hair is flying like her fingers! Hen ke ai de.
When I saw all the kudos about this performance--some calling this the greatest version ever--I was more than a little skeptical, but as I listened I realized this was easily among the best accounts of this concerto I've ever heard. Bravo!
0:00 is a good place to start.
Yes, I agree
Thanks! 😎🎹
@@awalkingman83 I'm sorry, but you don't understand how posts that insult people's intelligence works. You can't have typos in them, nor misspellings in them, nor grammatical errors in them, nor errors of fact in them. They must be intellectually pristine. If they are not, you simply make a doofus out of yourself.
Prokofiev is a genius and my fav composer along with ravel
0:20 such a dignified sound
9:28
prokofiev is a genius; it is arguable whether he is beat ever...
@@stueystuey1962 Beethoven is the best , but Magnet12 said Prokofiev was 'my fav composer...' and favorites are another thing entirely, aren't they? I know I've loved Prokofiev since I first heard Peter & The Wolf, and even if his 3rd and 4th Symphonies aren't all that good, it doesn't make me love him any less. He was highly unique among composers, who could make one break down in tears or laugh out loud.
Yes, good, good quite good. This is the way it should be. Well done Yuja.
She just gets Prokofiev better than anyone else... love hearing her
Not better than Argerich. 😏
@@Omega-he7ru Listen to them back to back-much better than Argerich.
@@Heather-im5sg Ashkenazy is better more magic
Definitely not better than Argerich. 😁😁😁
@@WaterFlame957 I'll be honest, I never like argerich
I wish there was a live performance of her with this concerto! All of her other Prokofiev Concerto’s were so beautiful!!
TODAY I HEARD CONCERTOS 2.3 AND 1...WHAT A GREAT COMBO PLATTER THAT WAS.....
Guess it's time for Nr.5
Short powerful Masterpiece by young Prokofiev
The music's quality is sublime, companied by the greatest composer and the unsurpassable performer!
Best version ever!
Mike Pulcinella No doubt!!! Uncompearable!
Mike Pulcinella I prefer Argerich /Rabinovitch
@@mariedonofrio5598 Argerich is every bit as good and she dresses more appropriately....
🪆 Yuja Wang Plays Prokofiev 🪆
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-Flat Major,
Op. 10 *(1912)*
00:01 *Allegro brioso - Poco più mosso* -
*Tempo primo* -
03:32 *Meno mosso* -
06:37 *Andante assai* -
09:59 *Allegro scherzando - Poco più*
*sostenuto*
*14:16** Applause*
Yuja Wang, piano✨
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
*Davies Hall*
*San Francisco, California, USA 🇺🇸*
*May 22, 2014*
Perfecto! Muy interesante esta version
Speechless!!! Wow!👏👏👏
Probably the best
Try listening to any PC by Prokofiev on headphones while running at a fast pace over a long distance….sublime
Shes up there with Cziffra. Amazing talent.
7:45 Oh oh oh i recognize that!!! It's used in the andante beginning of his 3rd concerto!
Why don't they put it on CD or on ITunes? I want it!! ❤️
its bcuz this is fake
@@andrewg6031 You're the one who's a fake.
This is the start of something heroic.... just wait until the end.
She is up here with Richter! What more can i say!
You could have said that her interpretation and sound brought us to another dimension. She simply gets Prokofiev better than anyone else!
Yes and it is quite uncanny. I have an old MK Soviet LP of this with Richter and Wang is basically coming to the same conclusions as the great Russian did -- but from a different direction and with her mentor MTT. Even the more spacious approach to the last movement is like that early Richter.
Strange how Prokofiev always sounds modern and original as time passes.
it sound like yuja :O maybe is real
Prokofiev composed this concerto for his graduation at age 18. The examiners were absolutely stunned by the teenager's mastery virtuoso unsurpassing techniques but the music itself wasn't well received at that time.
Glazunov was head of the composition department at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He was never fond of Prokofiev. But your comment that the concerto wasn't well received is not entirely correct. The premiere performance which featured Prokofiev as soloist was one for the ages. The capacity audience went nuts even if the critics at the time panned the work. It is probably because it was so badly panned that the first performance created the Prokofiev mystique.
That's not quite accurate. The concerto was completed, and premiered in Moscow, in 1912, the year in which Prokofiev turned 21, and he had already taken his diploma in 1909. The performance at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he had been a student, took place in 1914 not in fulfilment of a graduation requirement but as part of that school's competition for the Anton Rubinstein Prize, which was awarded for pianistic, not compositional, accomplishment. The rules of the competition stipulated that only published concertos could be performed. Prokofiev was able to find a publisher for the work and obtain printed copies only at the last minute but by so doing was able to satisfy the letter of the rules. He is reported to have said that he thought the judges would be less critical of his execution if they were not familiar with the work being performed.
@@awalkingman83 We do just that, but quite likely more than "most of [you] on here do".
@@marcparella Glazanov must have been jealous. There was a Master Composer in his midst.
12:21
OMG!!!!
Spectacular performance. The composer was great, the conductor is super and the Lovely Yuja performed her magic again. She is such an incredible lady. Paul D. Escudero (author of many Novels sold worldwide)
Prokofievs teacher Glasunov after having listened to this concert: If this is supposed to be music, I am not a musician.😂
Definitive . . !
Su tecnica es automatisada , escuchen este concierto por Marta Argerich y luego me cuentan 😊😊
she is awesome... I like pollini on the sonatas but she wins on the concerti
Is there an actual video of this performance anywhere?
China's gift to the World !
If you are practicing this concerto and need a backing track (orchestral accompaniment) check this video: m.th-cam.com/video/CynzJ8KVRrI/w-d-xo.html
I have to apologize for talking negative about something you love. I am sure that the whole concert is well received by all.
Robert Centobene do you know that you’re an idiot?
I have to apologize for talking negative about something that others love. This is just not my cup of tea.
I have to apologize for putting out negative comments about something others love. Continue on.
Robert Centobene you are sad and pathetic, and your apology is even worse then your opinion on music.
Vladimir Askenashy go home !
Hahaha, this it's anthoter version more...cruiser entreteiment I think so.
It starts out sounding attractive, but then Prokofiev resorts to the entry of the elephants and stone sharp chaos. You can refine chaos with chaos, but Chaos is still chaos.
I am so sorry you don't like elephants or Chaos in your Piano concerti. Perhaps you would prefer works by Prokofiev for solo piano from his early years? Works such as the 5 "Sarcasms" Opus 5, the Opus 11 Toccata, or the 20 "Visions Fugitives" Op 22?? His music can get a little scary at times, but Chaotic? Nyet!
Prokofiev is too much of one flavor. He departs too much from old lines just to make a name for himself. I wouldn't call him a great composer, but a misguided man of the musical type that discards lines of the old. He is in a part of a 'dime a dozen' that believes greatness lies in total originality. When you exclude the beautiful and live by experimentation you join the list of ignoramusesthat exclude what is necessary for an audience to be enthrald. The fast works are OK but when you get into the slow sections excessive dissonance and experimentation, that is actually ugly, cause any audience to lose interest.
Prokofiev is the wrong way. Music has to be more beautiful than this.
Robert Centobene What are you talking about?!? No. Just, no.
In all, there is only order, balance and chaos. All three are present in any music composition. Chaos is reduced to a tiny circle in a great work of art (music) with beauty and balance in the top. This makes order and balance king and Queen. If a great artist can read music perfectly, I suggest using only the manuscript instead of injecting a form of poison into his/her physiognomy. Chaos in any excessive form is dangerous to your body and others. Order in chaos is very deceptive. Fortunately for me I seem to have a radar that keeps me from truly tuning in over the ugly sections. Admittedly, Prokofiev isn't as blatant as the others, such as Bartok. He is listenable to a certain extent. He is still too much of one flavor. Because his fill ins are thin and sometimes obsessive with discord. A performer and listener has to be very objective (with praise).
No. No. The orchestra has been lacking vitality and virility, the qualities which are absolutely essential here. And the soloist, with all her technical virtuosity, has been soulless.
I know this charge has been quite often, perhaps too often, raised against Yuja Wang, but I can't help. Sorry. One of the poorer performance (among well-known artists) I've heard.
Music remains mere noise until it reaches a human soul. It is rather rich for you to claim Yuja Wang is soulless, since you yourself clearly has none.
What do you mean, I rather think that this is the best interpretation of the concerto. It has all the climaxes and vitality, which you clearly didn't notice.
Yes I agree Heather
hater
She does a nice job, but I don't personally give it the gushing accolades one normally sees on Yuja's videos. She's very good though.