If the music from Variation #18 cannot move you, nothing will. Rachmaninoff turns Paganini's music upside down in this variation and you don't hear Paganini anymore, just music from heaven. Watch Ms Wang's hands and fingers at play, they are nonhuman. If you don't play attention, you will not realize how long her fingers are. She is sent to earth by God.
J'ai eu l'occasion de demander une dédicace à yuja Wang après un concert et je lui ai demandé gentiment de me montrer ses mains, je peux vous dire qu'elle ne sont pas si grandes que ça. Ses doigts sont de la même taille que les miens (mais plus jolis...) qui ne dépassent pas une neuvième sur un clavier de piano.
Highest thanks and praise to EVERYONE who made this supreme music, starting with Rachmaninov moving through conductor and every instrumentalist, soloist, & Queen Yuja !! Same goes for all technical crew without which we in TH-cam land wouldn’t have this divine experience !!
Pity she hasn't come to New Zealand yet. I was told the other day that there would be a five year wait if they tried to book her. Apparently the APO said too much for us to afford
Fantastic Ms. Wang! I am anyway a Ms. Wang fan and in my eyes - and to my ears - she can do no wrong. If any one in the entire world can play better than she can....or even as well...let them step forward! Surely she is the greatest pianist of the 21st Century.
Those who are critical of her playing should understand that playing in an outside venue the soloist must adapt to the conditions, which in this case is most challenging. For me she does a grand attempt.
Yuja is so unique . . . not just as a spectacular technician, but her presence, energy, beauty, and maybe just a bit of quirky humor, elevates anything she has ever performed to an entirely different level. An excedingly rare "perfect storm" of the genetic lottery, upbringing and surrounding supporters who inspired and created who she is now, and may yet become.
真愛看她彈琴時的嘴。不停的動、時帶笑、時咬牙。不知她是在和鋼琴溝通還是和作曲家對話。美極。 love to watch her mouth while she was playing. Seems she was talking to the composer or to the piano. So lovely !
Les critiques sont faciles j aime cette mjsique et je ne me permettrai aucune remarque je suis incapable de faire le dixieme alors respect des interpretes
It's not the first time I've had this thought watching a classical pianist play a piece without a score, but gosh, how is it possible? Especially on this piece?
OK, first time I've ever seen a cellist wearing gloves. And on the left hand, no less. And Yuja's interpretation and technical ability are unparalleled, as usual.
Yuja Wang in the Year of the Dragon - Brooke Watson 2024 I hear the heavy final breathing as completion Draws the great composer’s mind From the final black ink notes Into eternal blessed sleep And too I hear the clack and thunder of a thousand horses Dreaming through the misted ages Bearing fearlessly their precious burden across the centuries Until at last - As if by some invisible heavenly direction Those tender childish woman hands reach out And Draw his blood alive again: His mighty spirit woken and now bursting out across our fragile moments How can this be? How can this tiny powerhouse crack open the black ink courses with such purity; Where Saint Cecelia offers up her motes of love Where Her Beauty dances in amongst those black ink notes That is where Her Beauty is now shining through those tender woman hands Her own young Beauty Adorning the ancient breath Adorning the light - and liberating love’s true soul once more - A tender musicians hands shaping love’s spirit on god’s distant shore.
The Maestriss of the piano ( if I can say that )......Please come to Australia Yuja.......We long to hear you here.........................................................
Yuja Wang pure genius - truly on another level - a level where her spiritual power sits beside the obvious technical mastery and somehow we get a window into the heart of the composer who no doubt is watching and laughing with pleasure
I’ve heard mannyyy interpreteisongs of this piece Since its one of my favorites. From the first movement this professional sat down …., wow . No more words for this interpreter. I long she had been my child.!!!
And sh e plays without a music sheet, all of this Phapsody is played by memory and hours of practice, she is either an Alien from space or the 8th wonder, maybe both, I love her
Everyone shits their pants for Glenn Gould's detache playing -- but Yuja shows those people what detache should sound like. "Secco" doesn't mean "colorless" or "brown." I'd like to hear her play more Mozart, or Haydn, even.
@PeterChenW the synchronization seems absolutely perfect here. A very nicely produced video. The captions and timed contents are great to have as well.
About 4 years ago I booked to go to Luxemburg to see Yuja Wang in a concert, however, it was cancelled at the last minute. This kind of made up for it. I still went to Luxemburg - great trekking countryside surrounding the city.
Dearest Wang Yuja, Thank you for your life in all that it ever has been, ever is, and ever will be! May your Divine love, wisdom, and understanding in your actions of the music expressed through you, touch the hearts and minds of all humanity and beyond. May the Divinity of the music as Divinely expressed through you, reach the Divinity of all humanity, in this world and beyond. May your Divine expressions through your love and understanding of the music, reach through to all the Divine love and wisdom of all humanity, and beyond. May we fortunate enough to have heard the music expressed through you, experience in our hearts and minds, a miraculous and revolutionary reverence towards a peaceful loving healing of all our hearts and minds, upon hearing you play, may it inspire in us all a greater realisation towards all our aspirations for what is possible within a greater understanding and fathoming of all our hearts and minds, upon us hearing the music played through you, May it spark a revolution in our aspirations for what is possible for the whole world over, and over, and over, May all our hearts and minds be healed, the whole world over, and over, and over, as well as through, and through, and through, May we all be blessedly healed. May the realisation for a revolution in our aspirations for what is possible through you, then extend further to all of nature in this world and, beyond, and beyond, and, beyond. May your Divine fathoming and actions of the music forever free you from all attachment and aversion and forever and instantaneously set you free from all and any torment and suffering, May this be true for you in music, as well as true for you in life, may you forever be free from all torment and suffering. Then through your realisation of freedom, may we all without exception, through your freedom, may we all without exception, may we all without exception be set free too…May this be in all, May it be for all, May it be in all, for all, in all, in all the Ten directions, and may it be in all the Four times, and beyond, and beyond, and beyond... Wang Yuja, May you live a long, and prosperous, happy fruitful life, and may the world be a better place for having you been born, lived, learned, played and shared your life within it! With Love from Love to Love, Yours Sincerely, Faithfully and Forevermore…. Will you someday please bless us in person here too on our shores in Australia, with a visit to Sydney or Melbourne with one or more of your blessed performance’s?
Great job with this video production. There had to be at least 8 cameras involved to capture the performance. And I liked how the volume was handled for the various instruments when they had the spotlight. Their contribution came out very clearly. There had to be microphones all over the place. And the editor worked hard to put the final product together.
What a awesome performance!.... Yuja is such a great talent: .... A child prodigy.... Always wears sexy gowns.. Have watched her interviews, & she has alot of depth to her as well...... Where is this coming from?... My Mother was a music teacher, so I grew up listening to this beautiful music.... Many Blessings😃🙏
It's really hard to think of a more beaautiful stretch of music than variation #`18. Perhaps Schuman's Traumerei, Brahms intermezzo #118, Mahler's Adagietto, but maybe equal, not greater.
I don't know what caused it, perhaps the way the orchestra was mic'd up but the balance between the orchestra and the soloist was way wrong on the tutti sections. It felt almost like a contest between the two, which is a shame. Orchestra played at ffff the whole time! At some points the soloist was literally drowned out.. Yuja is an incredible talent and I really like to hear her. However, this performance was flawed in my humble opinion......
I think you have your point there, I presume that because it was played in the wilderness of outdoor, so the conductor want everything to be ffff and LOUD all the time lol.
Recordings may sound different to the actual concert itself. Normally these type of performances the recordings will be done on the mixer itself. And the mixer might be tuned with balance for a hall, or outdoor settings. Some recordings (even in live concerts / performances) were done on individual channels instead, which can be tuned to suit playback.
Magnificent performance and an excellent production. One nit--the remote camera in close-up on the keyboard was shaking and distracting. It could have been fixed in post with digital stabilization.
I don't see camera shaking, but the piano was bouncing in the heavier passages, even the microphone in front was swaying to the music:-) See var. 13 starting 9:45, also the ending starting 23:00.
@@PeterChenW Thank you for your reply. I do see shaking at 00:20. The camera is zoomed in, which highlights the motion. It was much less noticeable after that. You mentioned the mic swaying at 23:00, which is very true! However, if you look at the upper-right edge of the piano, you can see that the background audience moves with the piano. It's more subtle than at 00:20. I think the camera stand is shaking from the same vibration on the stage. In any case, I loved the video. Thanks for sharing it!
@@FetchTheCow you're right, when Yuja pounds the piano, there's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on, including the on-stage camera! Too bad youtube no longer supports its image stabilization tool, and I don't feel like redoing and re-uploading. The little shaking just reminds us this is an outdoor concert with all its imperfections and distractions.
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If the music from Variation #18 cannot move you, nothing will. Rachmaninoff turns Paganini's music upside down in this variation and you don't hear Paganini anymore, just music from heaven. Watch Ms Wang's hands and fingers at play, they are nonhuman. If you don't play attention, you will not realize how long her fingers are. She is sent to earth by God.
I'm only up to variation 15 which is being played at a breakneck pace that I've never heard anyone else so, at time of writing. Amazing
Yes Yuja's hands are superb
I would bathe them in coconut oil for her if she allow me to repay the gift she shares with us all so freely
Sure, the clue is there but the taste is totally different! I listen to this one more than Paganini 24.
J'ai eu l'occasion de demander une dédicace à yuja Wang après un concert et je lui ai demandé gentiment de me montrer ses mains, je peux vous dire qu'elle ne sont pas si grandes que ça. Ses doigts sont de la même taille que les miens (mais plus jolis...) qui ne dépassent pas une neuvième sur un clavier de piano.
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Highest thanks and praise to EVERYONE who made this supreme music, starting with Rachmaninov moving through conductor and every instrumentalist, soloist, & Queen Yuja !! Same goes for all technical crew without which we in TH-cam land wouldn’t have this divine experience !!
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😅
나는 너에게 동의한다. 일본 🇯🇵에서, JST、4:12分
Not only is she GREAT 😊 , but check that dress❣️❣️❣️
Wonderful as ever, she's well loved around the world.
Pity she hasn't come to New Zealand yet. I was told the other day that there would be a five year wait if they tried to book her. Apparently the APO said too much for us to afford
나는 너에게 동의한다. 일본 🇯🇵에서, JST、4:14分
Yuja is amazing! Anything she chooses to play. She is a musician par excellence!
Fantastic Ms. Wang! I am anyway a Ms. Wang fan and in my eyes - and to my ears - she can do no wrong. If any one in the entire world can play better than she can....or even as well...let them step forward! Surely she is the greatest pianist of the 21st Century.
A "virtuoso" not an artist !
Peter Chen you are brilliant bringing Yuja to the world - may good fortune shine on you
Those who are critical of her playing should understand that playing in an outside venue the soloist must adapt to the conditions, which in this case is most challenging. For me she does a grand attempt.
Yuja is so unique . . . not just as a spectacular technician, but her presence, energy, beauty, and maybe just a bit of quirky humor, elevates anything she has ever performed to an entirely different level. An excedingly rare "perfect storm" of the genetic lottery, upbringing and surrounding supporters who inspired and created who she is now, and may yet become.
真愛看她彈琴時的嘴。不停的動、時帶笑、時咬牙。不知她是在和鋼琴溝通還是和作曲家對話。美極。
love to watch her mouth while she was playing. Seems she was talking to the composer or to the piano. So lovely !
If you hadn’t become a world famous pianist you would’ve become a world famous dancer!! You’re simply beautiful and unbelievably talented!! 🌟😍
When she plays the adagio my heart melts.
I saw her last evening playing magnificent as always in London South bank she played for almost 3 hours with countless encores.
Thank you Peter, I had heard about this performance but not seen it before.~ she has a wonderful style of playing.
나는 너에게 동의한다. 일본 🇯🇵에서, JST、4:16分
I love the viola players reaction to the on-cue dog bark at 00:35
This women can do anything and she's a great musician. I Heard she in Brussels in Bartok 2 great,
Yuja:absolutely magnificent, as usual.❤❤
A beautiful performance, especially variation 18. I love the way she throws away the ending, just as the writing indicates.
Es un momento mágico....Yuja Wanng interptetando a Rafmanninof...en un tema Paganini. Excelente.....maravilloso....❤❤❤
Les critiques sont faciles j aime cette mjsique et je ne me permettrai aucune remarque je suis incapable de faire le dixieme alors respect des interpretes
It's not the first time I've had this thought watching a classical pianist play a piece without a score, but gosh, how is it possible? Especially on this piece?
OK, first time I've ever seen a cellist wearing gloves. And on the left hand, no less.
And Yuja's interpretation and technical ability are unparalleled, as usual.
I agree with you. From Japan 🇯🇵, JST、5:06分
Grazie di esistere Yuja grande dono di Dio!
Thank you, Peter. What an electric performance!
Yuja Wang in the Year of the Dragon - Brooke Watson 2024
I hear the heavy final breathing as completion
Draws the great composer’s mind
From the final black ink notes Into eternal blessed sleep
And too I hear the clack and thunder of a thousand horses
Dreaming through the misted ages
Bearing fearlessly their precious burden across the centuries
Until at last - As if by some invisible heavenly direction
Those tender childish woman hands reach out And
Draw his blood alive again:
His mighty spirit woken and now bursting out across our fragile moments
How can this be?
How can this tiny powerhouse crack open the black ink courses with such purity;
Where Saint Cecelia offers up her motes of love
Where Her Beauty dances in amongst those black ink notes
That is where Her Beauty is now shining through those tender woman hands
Her own young Beauty Adorning the ancient breath
Adorning the light - and liberating love’s true soul once more -
A tender musicians hands shaping love’s spirit on god’s distant shore.
Inimitable Yuja, precision, voicing, & passion….fine collaboration.
The Maestriss of the piano ( if I can say that )......Please come to Australia Yuja.......We long to hear you here.........................................................
Amazing performance thank you.
The crowd clapping at the end of the 10th variation really pissed me off for some reason. 😆
Wow 🤩🎶🎶🎹🎻🪈🎻🎹🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶🎹🎻🎶👏🤝🔝👏👏🔝 PERFORMANCE ECCELLENTE 💯💯🎶🎻🎶🥁🪈😊
Yuja Wang pure genius - truly on another level - a level where her spiritual power sits beside the obvious technical mastery and somehow we get a window into the heart of the composer who no doubt is watching and laughing with pleasure
Bravissima Yuja!!!!!!!!!
I’ve heard mannyyy interpreteisongs of this piece Since its one of my favorites. From the first movement this professional sat down …., wow . No more words for this interpreter. I long she had been my child.!!!
Pure bliss
And sh e plays without a music sheet, all of this Phapsody is played by memory and hours of practice, she is either an Alien from space or the 8th wonder, maybe both, I love her
Just listened to her on BBC 3 post hurricane “Breakneck finger work”
Everyone shits their pants for Glenn Gould's detache playing -- but Yuja shows those people what detache should sound like. "Secco" doesn't mean "colorless" or "brown." I'd like to hear her play more Mozart, or Haydn, even.
thank u for identifying each variation for us listeners. very helpful indeed
Wonderful
The crackling noise you hear from time to time is the sound of Wang's fingers breaking the sound barrier.
Haha good one
@PeterChenW the synchronization seems absolutely perfect here. A very nicely produced video. The captions and timed contents are great to have as well.
The Best Music never dies ...
Hermoso... Disfrutable , mis recuerdos de niño es a partir de la variación 12.en adelante.
About 4 years ago I booked to go to Luxemburg to see Yuja Wang in a concert, however, it was cancelled at the last minute. This kind of made up for it. I still went to Luxemburg - great trekking countryside surrounding the city.
Variation 18 is so beautiful
Awesome orchestra music ❤
Wow, I hear Paganini’s 24th caprice at the beginning there! That’s cool hearing it as a piano concerto!
I very much so enjoyed this recording and not for the occasional baby crying.
🤣 once our choir had that while singing Sviridow…
Желаю Юйцзе Ванг крепкого здоровья и счастья, трудиться на благо людей, просветляя их сердце , душу и мозг. Прекрасное выступление.
22:20 This is where the fire explodes!
🎶🎶🎹🎹🎶🎹🔝💯🎻🎻 ORCHESTER FILARMONICA DIRECTORY ECCELLENTI 🤝🤝👏👏❤️❤️💯
Dearest Wang Yuja,
Thank you for your life in all that it ever has been, ever is, and ever will be! May your Divine love, wisdom, and understanding in your actions of the music expressed through you, touch the hearts and minds of all humanity and beyond. May the Divinity of the music as Divinely expressed through you, reach the Divinity of all humanity, in this world and beyond. May your Divine expressions through your love and understanding of the music, reach through to all the Divine love and wisdom of all humanity, and beyond. May we fortunate enough to have heard the music expressed through you, experience in our hearts and minds, a miraculous and revolutionary reverence towards a peaceful loving healing of all our hearts and minds, upon hearing you play, may it inspire in us all a greater realisation towards all our aspirations for what is possible within a greater understanding and fathoming of all our hearts and minds, upon us hearing the music played through you, May it spark a revolution in our aspirations for what is possible for the whole world over, and over, and over, May all our hearts and minds be healed, the whole world over, and over, and over, as well as through, and through, and through, May we all be blessedly healed. May the realisation for a revolution in our aspirations for what is possible through you, then extend further to all of nature in this world and, beyond, and beyond, and, beyond. May your Divine fathoming and actions of the music forever free you from all attachment and aversion and forever and instantaneously set you free from all and any torment and suffering, May this be true for you in music, as well as true for you in life, may you forever be free from all torment and suffering. Then through your realisation of freedom, may we all without exception, through your freedom, may we all without exception, may we all without exception be set free too…May this be in all, May it be for all, May it be in all, for all, in all, in all the Ten directions, and may it be in all the Four times, and beyond, and beyond, and beyond...
Wang Yuja, May you live a long, and prosperous, happy fruitful life, and may the world be a better place for having you been born, lived, learned, played and shared your life within it!
With Love from Love to Love,
Yours Sincerely, Faithfully and Forevermore….
Will you someday please bless us in person here too on our shores in Australia, with a visit to Sydney or Melbourne with one or more of your blessed performance’s?
amen to that
王羽佳音樂家琴藝精湛教人歎為觀止！
🎼🎹🎼🌹🌹🌹
I agree with you. In Japan 🇯🇵, JST、5:03分
Mk, 6:10!! (BAM)🎼🎹🎶🎵🎶
S🫠MASHING in yellow💛💛💛
Yuja so respectful and gentle when the diamond emerges
👏🤝🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎹🎻🎶🔝🔝🔝👏👏👏🤝🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎹 THANK YOU SO MUCH…❤👏👏👏💯😊
INCROYABLES YUJA WANG PIANISTE INCROYABLES DE TALENT
My neighbor is a sound engineer and this would make him cry
sublime !
Great job with this video production. There had to be at least 8 cameras involved to capture the performance. And I liked how the volume was handled for the various instruments when they had the spotlight. Their contribution came out very clearly. There had to be microphones all over the place. And the editor worked hard to put the final product together.
I think the orchestra is drowning out the pianist at times. Still a superb performance by all, especially by Ms. Wang❤
Mic her.
@@zenmasterx All of them have microphones. So this is the fault of the person running the sound system. On the stage, I bet the balance is perfect.
Yuia 🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎹💯🔝🎶🎶🎶🎹🎹 BRAVA 🤩
Yuja wang and her classic sharp bows
woow superb 王羽佳
Brava! That was bloody amazing ❤
Incredible. High art!
What a awesome performance!....
Yuja is such a great talent: ....
A child prodigy....
Always wears sexy gowns..
Have watched her interviews, & she has alot of depth to her as well......
Where is this coming from?...
My Mother was a music teacher, so I grew up listening to this beautiful music....
Many Blessings😃🙏
15:28 onwards, variation 18
Bravissima 👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹😘
bravo 🎉
It's really hard to think of a more beaautiful stretch of music than variation #`18. Perhaps Schuman's Traumerei, Brahms intermezzo #118, Mahler's Adagietto, but maybe equal, not greater.
Certamente è tra le migliori versioni del Web
And the 17th variation is the world we are all living in presently........
Ominous dark clouds threatening a thunderstorm - hopefully followed by a ray of sunshine in the 18th?
The passion , the feeling . Never heard it before before
As usual ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🎉
Це просто неймовірно!
Very good performance and she looks so lovely.
巅峰状态的王羽佳，尽显顶级钢琴家风范。
double BRAVA!
Out of words
Love made me a fool.: Andy Williams ❤🎉😊
OST.Somewhere In Time.❤🎉😊
Simple explanation: She's not from this planet. She can't be!
classical music for the eyes
Wow, wow, wow!. ❤
Variation 18❤❤
It's the South Bank Show!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
THIS IS.....OUT OF ANYBODY'S LEAGUE .
i’m crying my eyes out. thank u.
she's pretty amazing in this piece - the very weird, almost Mahlerian Variation 16 a particular highlight in this performance.
Want a solo piano video for this.
Madness.
And finally, as usual, superb technique and upright hand and body posture at the piano.
It's all technique and no soul. Robotic.
I don't know what caused it, perhaps the way the orchestra was mic'd up but the balance between the orchestra and the soloist was way wrong on the tutti sections. It felt almost like a contest between the two, which is a shame. Orchestra played at ffff the whole time! At some points the soloist was literally drowned out.. Yuja is an incredible talent and I really like to hear her. However, this performance was flawed in my humble opinion......
I think you have your point there, I presume that because it was played in the wilderness of outdoor, so the conductor want everything to be ffff and LOUD all the time lol.
Recordings may sound different to the actual concert itself. Normally these type of performances the recordings will be done on the mixer itself. And the mixer might be tuned with balance for a hall, or outdoor settings.
Some recordings (even in live concerts / performances) were done on individual channels instead, which can be tuned to suit playback.
Gran Obra con mayúsculas
18:19 just suoluplifting
Just a bonus, hear the birds singing their twilight song in the background? Magical.
always looking forwarf to the part at 7:02, makes me tear up
Magnificent performance and an excellent production. One nit--the remote camera in close-up on the keyboard was shaking and distracting. It could have been fixed in post with digital stabilization.
I don't see camera shaking, but the piano was bouncing in the heavier passages, even the microphone in front was swaying to the music:-) See var. 13 starting 9:45, also the ending starting 23:00.
@@PeterChenW Thank you for your reply. I do see shaking at 00:20. The camera is zoomed in, which highlights the motion. It was much less noticeable after that. You mentioned the mic swaying at 23:00, which is very true! However, if you look at the upper-right edge of the piano, you can see that the background audience moves with the piano. It's more subtle than at 00:20. I think the camera stand is shaking from the same vibration on the stage.
In any case, I loved the video. Thanks for sharing it!
@@FetchTheCow you're right, when Yuja pounds the piano, there's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on, including the on-stage camera! Too bad youtube no longer supports its image stabilization tool, and I don't feel like redoing and re-uploading. The little shaking just reminds us this is an outdoor concert with all its imperfections and distractions.
А где купальник?!?!?!? Нет, мы так не договаривались!!! Юджа должна выступать в купальнике с блестками!!!!
Translation: "Where's the swimsuit?!?!?!? No, we didn’t agree like that!!! Yuja should perform in a sequined leotard!!!!" 🤣🤣