You left the "e" out of "soiled"... oh wait! You mean "Solid!" hahahahahahahaha Surely there's a Mexican dish we could create out of this: Doritos + Toccata = Dorccatas? Toccitos? Hmmmm... I"ll bet she has a bag of Doritos hidden right there in the piano...
Beautiful dress too. She puts on a real show. Technically awesome. Her rocking from side to side on the piano stool has my insides nervous. Really awesome. I am truly thankful and pleased to know this woman plays. Perhaps get to see a live gig some time. Not a classical concert hall. Someplace jazzier. Beautiful dress too. 🥳
Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020) 0:03 Toccatina, Op. 40 No. 3 *from* _Eight Concert Études for Piano_ *(1984)* 1:51 *Applause* Yuja Wang, piano✨ *Philharmonie de Paris* *Paris, France 🇫🇷 March 9, 2022* _[Encore, from a cellphone recording.]_
She has a super quick grasp of fiendishly difficult piano music. As a piano player myself, I am a tortoise who cannot hope to catch up with that rabbit.
Yes. That’s why she doesn’t tackle Beethoven or Bach, or even Schumann. She is waiting to do that for the time when she is older and the bravura and the fingers aren’t there anymore.
Holy Fuck, this will never ever be played with such crystaline fluidity, supernatural facility, and with such perfection ! Nikolai would be dazzled!!!!
@@certaindeaf8632 you are most certainly deaf, after 10yrs of Juilliard, 22 solo cds, so many grammies and academy awards I have lost count, I am in perpetual awe of such transcendent jazzy placement of notes, and a virtuosity that will never be equalled SO STFU
on a lighter note, look at the body language of the page turner, can you imagine, I once turned pages for Sam Sanders in Carnegie Hall and he gave me a lot of dirty looks, this guy looks terrified , its pretty funny
musicality lost in virtuosity.... I love the play of Yuja Wang, she's one of the most brilliant piano players of our time. But this way to play the Toccatina robs it of the spirit of Kapustin. Get a look of his own interpretation here on youtube and you know what i mean.
I also prefer the composer’s rendition, but I wouldn’t say Yuja looses musicality by playing it so fast… in my opinion it’s just a different interpretation.
Yuja is phenomal, such technique. Many will say this is too fast, but all she is doing is offering her interpretation, which yes, is hyperspeed. It is still valid, and she still hits the groove. That's the thing, look at her body language and the look on her face, she is getting the piece even as her fingers are a blur. I also like Kapustin's own version, but Yuja is in a class of one. Amazing.
Genius! My favorite part is 1.40-1.45. Subito piano and the wave of cresc. decrescendo makes those 5 seconds addictive ❤ and she does it so joyfully and just perfect...
Escucharla yndespues no queda mas que morir. Ese control y el placer que muestra al tocar cosas veloces, fuertes, rítmicas es único. Esperando que toque a Ginastera !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yuja, your dexterity is awesome - I am exhausted watching you! - are you sure you don't have hidden fingers we can't see? You are totally incredible. Thank you for that fantastic performance.
ugh why does she have to play kapustin so damn fast, like a another commenter said on another video all Yuja does is commit musical violence- Shan Sun plays fast too but at least she stills captures the groove of the piece
Definitely! Just fast playing, but no grasp of the musical content. I admire her technical ability, although just playing the notes as fast as possible doesn't do justice to the music. Kapustin's own rendering with it's straight forward clarity and motoric is perfect! To be fair, there is another performance of her at Verbier Festival. czcams.com/video/F3mVb6P8SGw/video.html That is quite a lot clearer. Maybe her adrenaline was high after the concert. Or is it the length of her dress? In Verbier she plays almost in a swim suit...
There is another yuja recording of this toccatina on her berlin recital album, which is slightly slower than here but still faster than the kapustin recording. I find it preserves the funky tone of the piece while still being fast enough to be a little bit more exciting than the kapustin. I feel its one of the very rare occasions of someone playing a kapustin piece better than the man himself.
At least she could show some respect to the composer. Meaning? Tempo is toooooo fast, and I mean really tooooooo fast. This has nothing to do with Kapustin.
This world there is many pianist can perform this works nothing great unless you compose your own toccata to show that you are better than the great masters
You can turn pages on an iPad by tapping the screen, and now there are Bluetooth apps which enable you to turn pages using 2 foot pedals which sit on the floor (one for going forward, the other for going back). This system of course lets you turn pages hands free. I saw Yuja Wang’s recital in San Francisco last Sunday and she played her entire program using an iPad and no human page turner/iPad tapper. I assume she was using foot pedals to turn pages. (And I assume she was playing pieces she had learned more recently, since she usually plays from memory.) 📱🙋🏻♀️🎹
@@marshallartz395 I thought the ipad or siri can listen and turn pages automatically. i did not see any foot pedals at her los angeles disney hall recital last week.
@@papagen00 That technology is in the works, but not fully developed yet, as far as I can tell. I did not see Yuja Wang using foot pedals or tapping the screen at her San Franciso recital. Could she be beta testing a new app? Freedom from page turning would be a dream come true for musicians. If somebody else has better information, let us know. 😀📱🎹🙋🏻♀️
Sorry, but this just doesn’t do it for me. It’s almost like Yuja feels she needs to show how technically good she is. She doesn’t, everyone already knows. The only person who pulls it off this fast is Dmitri Masleev. Regardless of how perfectly it is played, too much detail is simply lost at this speed.
Absolutely insane technically. This piece is hard enough at half that speed. Unfortunately it doesn’t make much sense that fast. If it’s done slower it swings like crazy. This is just manic. But it’s very impressive.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz Well, objectively speaking, she is world-class ("pianist," if not a "musician"), but even world-class people sometimes play badly. I can name a lot of very well known names to have no clue how to play Schubert sonatas. :-) :-) :-) But that's sophisticated stuff. I can even name some very big names who are very so-so with something as obvious as the finale of Prokofiev No. 7 . . .
@@RusskyVoyennyKorablIdiNakhui Argerich and Horowitz did terribly, in concert, with that Prokofiev. I'm sure that miss Wang, with her world-class fingers, would get all the notes right. But that's about it.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz I must confess I did not look up Vladimir. But Martha's reading I know. :-) May I offer you someone (shall we say, a mystery pianist) who decided to butt heads with her -- czcams.com/video/jzzKu5SGi3g/video.html It is my contention that the blue note makes the piece.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz And, while we are that, here's a tidbit of the 8th. I listened to both Gilels (the first performer, I believe) and Richter, and, shockingly, they are kinda boring compared to this -- czcams.com/video/TAbx_r5XCYY/video.html
Don't give her Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit then lol. Which is probably one of the most challenging Piano pieces ever written. It's a piece that creates nightmares for Pianists everywhere. Especially in the third called Scarbo yikes 😬. What possessed lunatic would write a piece like that without killing the musician in the process? Still Yuja always seems to defy the odds. Still prefer her to Beethoven Hammerklavier Sonata or Rachmaninoff but just my preference. :)
Yuja Wang is the God of toccatas. Her staccato and bursts are just like doritos, crisp and solid
loved the analogy / love doritos, love yuja
true - LOL
You left the "e" out of "soiled"... oh wait! You mean "Solid!" hahahahahahahaha
Surely there's a Mexican dish we could create out of this: Doritos + Toccata = Dorccatas? Toccitos?
Hmmmm... I"ll bet she has a bag of Doritos hidden right there in the piano...
@@paules3437 uhh top tier humor that I can't quite comprehend that is
@@paules3437 Well, I love Mexican food. Can't get enough of it. Goes well with Yuja ha.
Espectacular como siempre.
Buen equipo con el "pasa página", Director y ...😊
Beautiful dress too. She puts on a real show. Technically awesome. Her rocking from side to side on the piano stool has my insides nervous. Really awesome. I am truly thankful and pleased to know this woman plays. Perhaps get to see a live gig some time. Not a classical concert hall. Someplace jazzier. Beautiful dress too. 🥳
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Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020)
0:03 Toccatina, Op. 40 No. 3 *from*
_Eight Concert Études for Piano_ *(1984)*
1:51 *Applause*
Yuja Wang, piano✨
*Philharmonie de Paris*
*Paris, France 🇫🇷 March 9, 2022*
_[Encore, from a cellphone recording.]_
And we noticed your name too, Marshall. Nice work. 🙂
She has a super quick grasp of fiendishly difficult piano music. As a piano player myself, I am a tortoise who cannot hope to catch up with that rabbit.
Sometimes adagios are more difficult to play well. Pianists choose what they are good at to play, naturally.
Yes. That’s why she doesn’t tackle Beethoven or Bach, or even Schumann. She is waiting to do that for the time when she is older and the bravura and the fingers aren’t there anymore.
@@dlozada1 She played Hammerklavier a few seasons ago. She did a pretty good job.
And she did do the Schumann Concerto. It was ok, not her best work.
@@dlozada1 .
Holy Fuck, this will never ever be played with such crystaline fluidity, supernatural facility, and with such perfection ! Nikolai would be dazzled!!!!
I think he might be superficially impressed with her incredible facility. But ultimately bored.
@@certaindeaf8632 you are most certainly deaf, after 10yrs of Juilliard, 22 solo cds, so many grammies and academy awards I have lost count, I am in perpetual awe of such transcendent jazzy placement of notes, and a virtuosity that will never be equalled SO STFU
on a lighter note, look at the body language of the page turner, can you imagine, I once turned pages for Sam Sanders in Carnegie Hall and he gave me a lot of dirty looks, this guy looks terrified , its pretty funny
@@peapodesque that was the conductor. The one and only Klaus Makela
@@peapodesque Is he really turning pages, though? It looks to me as though he's just pushing a button or a touch screen on a digital device.
Absolutely amazing.
Yuja Wang gets around the keyboard and then some! It must be a blast to be able to zoom around on the keys like that!
musicality lost in virtuosity.... I love the play of Yuja Wang, she's one of the most brilliant piano players of our time. But this way to play the Toccatina robs it of the spirit of Kapustin. Get a look of his own interpretation here on youtube and you know what i mean.
I also prefer the composer’s rendition, but I wouldn’t say Yuja looses musicality by playing it so fast… in my opinion it’s just a different interpretation.
Uhh -- I can hear everything. EVERYTHING. Maybe your ear isn't as trained as us super-conservatory grads.
Music is read -- it is not heard... Contrary to popular belief... If music is heard, then noise is music...
Yuja is phenomal, such technique. Many will say this is too fast, but all she is doing is offering her interpretation, which yes, is hyperspeed. It is still valid, and she still hits the groove. That's the thing, look at her body language and the look on her face, she is getting the piece even as her fingers are a blur. I also like Kapustin's own version, but Yuja is in a class of one. Amazing.
Yuja Wang rules.
blown away!
I’m so much thrilled. 👏👏👏✨
Totally awesome!
QUEEN
Yuja, you are the best!
That nice handsome conductor has willingness to be a page turner for Yuja as her boyfriend. What a sweet guy ! 🤭
Fabulous 👌 👏 👍 😍
absolutely fantastic
Genius! My favorite part is 1.40-1.45. Subito piano and the wave of cresc. decrescendo makes those 5 seconds addictive ❤ and she does it so joyfully and just perfect...
Escucharla yndespues no queda mas que morir. Ese control y el placer que muestra al tocar cosas veloces, fuertes, rítmicas es único. Esperando que toque a Ginastera !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
¡Buah, de la Sonata 1 haría una versión portentosa...!
Невероятно. Просто amazing.
Was expecting this to be good. And it is.
Im speechless. That is not human.
Simply sick!
Incredible!
I appreciate that the man is watching her carefully to make sure she doesn't play anything offensive.
She’s a genius…
I agree, but not with Kapustin.
God DAMNNNNN
❤ Yuja is the best of the best. Phenomenal❗👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💙💜❤🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻
Brilliant
Yuja, your dexterity is awesome - I am exhausted watching you! - are you sure you don't have hidden fingers we can't see? You are totally incredible. Thank you for that fantastic performance.
danke fürs Teilen!!!!!!!
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yuja yuja yuja... Ufffff!!!
ugh why does she have to play kapustin so damn fast, like a another commenter said on another video all Yuja does is commit musical violence- Shan Sun plays fast too but at least she stills captures the groove of the piece
Fantástica
WOW!!!!
Wow!
Scintillating!
Bruh, Klaus Makela's face
Incredible execution for that speed, but it looses the groove and feeling of the piece. I prefer Kapustin's own recording
Definitely! Just fast playing, but no grasp of the musical content. I admire her technical ability, although just playing the notes as fast as possible doesn't do justice to the music. Kapustin's own rendering with it's straight forward clarity and motoric is perfect! To be fair, there is another performance of her at Verbier Festival. czcams.com/video/F3mVb6P8SGw/video.html
That is quite a lot clearer. Maybe her adrenaline was high after the concert. Or is it the length of her dress? In Verbier she plays almost in a swim suit...
@@gottfriedrabl1469 I definetely agree with you! I hope at some point people will realize music is not about who can play the fastest.
@@tarikeld11 Yes, but then we would have to agree this piece is really valid music, a point I would dispute...
Fast, faster, too fast and even more too fast. It is simply too fast.
Una dea
I would not want to be that page turner
I suppose Klaus Mäkelä enjoy s more his beloved s play than turning the page..suppose it wasn t any problem for him though 🙂
Sure this is toccata but it's too fast, Kapustin's recording has better groove
There is another yuja recording of this toccatina on her berlin recital album, which is slightly slower than here but still faster than the kapustin recording. I find it preserves the funky tone of the piece while still being fast enough to be a little bit more exciting than the kapustin. I feel its one of the very rare occasions of someone playing a kapustin piece better than the man himself.
Tainokreb: yes, you're right, way too fast.
At least she could show some respect to the composer. Meaning? Tempo is toooooo fast, and I mean really tooooooo fast. This has nothing to do with Kapustin.
I HAVE'NT WORDS,TOO BREATHLESS TO SPEAK.
Even after 4 days is it still too fast, far too fast.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
But unusual to need the score for an encore? Don't recall ever seeing that before.
Great extroverted virtuosity-but where remains the essential blue note?
In the ear of the beholder, putz...
音乐神的代表
I like how she played on the piano really fast it’s hard to play that kind of music well done she’s beautiful & sexy
This world there is many pianist can perform this works nothing great unless you compose your own toccata to show that you are better than the great masters
Huh!?
you are right!
Viel zu schnell! Der musikalische Aufbau des Stückes ist kaum noch erkennbar !
how do you turn pages on an iPad?
It’s a special program for music scores
It’s a special program for music scores.
You can turn pages on an iPad by tapping the screen, and now there are Bluetooth apps which enable you to turn pages using 2 foot pedals which sit on the floor (one for going forward, the other for going back). This system of course lets you turn pages hands free.
I saw Yuja Wang’s recital in San Francisco last Sunday and she played her entire program using an iPad and no human page turner/iPad tapper. I assume she was using foot pedals to turn pages. (And I assume she was playing pieces she had learned more recently, since she usually plays from memory.)
📱🙋🏻♀️🎹
@@marshallartz395 I thought the ipad or siri can listen and turn pages automatically. i did not see any foot pedals at her los angeles disney hall recital last week.
@@papagen00 That technology is in the works, but not fully developed yet, as far as I can tell. I did not see Yuja Wang using foot pedals or tapping the screen at her San Franciso recital. Could she be beta testing a new app?
Freedom from page turning would be a dream come true for musicians. If somebody else has better information, let us know.
😀📱🎹🙋🏻♀️
Sorry, but this just doesn’t do it for me. It’s almost like Yuja feels she needs to show how technically good she is. She doesn’t, everyone already knows. The only person who pulls it off this fast is Dmitri Masleev. Regardless of how perfectly it is played, too much detail is simply lost at this speed.
Way too fast, and sadly the result is very poor articulation.
It's too slow.
Absolutely insane technically. This piece is hard enough at half that speed. Unfortunately it doesn’t make much sense that fast. If it’s done slower it swings like crazy. This is just manic. But it’s very impressive.
Just listen at 1.25x speed. Tempo is much closer what we want!
@@notmytempo464 Too slow.
i hope you're being sarcastic
😂😂😂
譜めくりのお兄さん、譜面を追うのが大変なのでは？
spooky
她应该把所有的托卡塔都弹一遍，来个托卡塔专场。
Badly played,. Incredible fingers; brains -- not so much. Too fast, unmitigated mess.
Story of her life...
But there's enough ignoramuses out there who think she's a world-class musician.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz Well, objectively speaking, she is world-class ("pianist," if not a "musician"), but even world-class people sometimes play badly. I can name a lot of very well known names to have no clue how to play Schubert sonatas. :-) :-) :-) But that's sophisticated stuff. I can even name some very big names who are very so-so with something as obvious as the finale of Prokofiev No. 7 . . .
@@RusskyVoyennyKorablIdiNakhui Argerich and Horowitz did terribly, in concert, with that Prokofiev.
I'm sure that miss Wang, with her world-class fingers, would get all the notes right. But that's about it.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz I must confess I did not look up Vladimir. But Martha's reading I know. :-) May I offer you someone (shall we say, a mystery pianist) who decided to butt heads with her --
czcams.com/video/jzzKu5SGi3g/video.html
It is my contention that the blue note makes the piece.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz And, while we are that, here's a tidbit of the 8th. I listened to both Gilels (the first performer, I believe) and Richter, and, shockingly, they are kinda boring compared to this --
czcams.com/video/TAbx_r5XCYY/video.html
She is actually using sheet music - and a page turner???? You mean YUJA WANG IS HUMAN??????
Say it isn’t so!!! 😳😳
Not really human. She was probably sight reading it for the first time. 😂😂😂
Une tortue prend le temps et donne a entendre des emotions, c est aussi bien, Duffy Duck.
Essayez Errinerung de Schumann
Don't give her Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit then lol. Which is probably one of the most challenging Piano pieces ever written. It's a piece that creates nightmares for Pianists everywhere. Especially in the third called Scarbo yikes 😬.
What possessed lunatic would write a piece like that without killing the musician in the process? Still Yuja always seems to defy the odds. Still prefer her to Beethoven Hammerklavier Sonata or Rachmaninoff but just my preference. :)
Yikes. "Hammerklavier" and Wang is like Proust and Trump.
You can watch her play Gaspard de la Nuit here: czcams.com/video/SfwcW07yhSo/video.html
Yikes!
Too fast. No groove. No Jazz. Sorry.
Excellent performance but what a shame that it had to be played with sheet music and a page turner.
Pfffft. Nonsense.
Utter nonsense
I had a hard time listening to this; I kept being distracted by the fact that she was actually wearing clothes in this performance....
You nailed it. Historic performance, for that very reason.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz Right? : )
@@paules3437 On the other hand who cares about Miss Wang ? As a serious interpreter, I mean...
@@Pogouldangeliwitz Right. No one. Certainly not her millions of fans...
@@paules3437 1.4 billion Chinese who needed a national hero and several millions of older white males who needed a pin-up pianist...
Demasiado rápido, me quedo con la interpretación del compositor
I’m so sick of the way she dresses. It is distracting and cheap. She’s not pushing boundaries, she lessening herself.
Dude telling a woman how to dress. It’s 2022. Jesus.
you should do something about it so that you will stop complaining.
@@hugowilliams1988 I think it’s Bart who needs to do something differently.
@@Sam-zj6mw My message is to Bart.
you are right!
The page turner should never be bigger or taller than the pianist. It should be a female and a small one.
???
This is an encore and the page turner is the conductor Klaus Makela