Yuja Wang: Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major Op. 30

[@Azian2DaMax]

I heard this piece for the first time at a Yuja Wang recital a couple days ago. I've tried listening to Scriabin's music several times over the years, but just wasn't able to grasp his musical language, but I've gone down a rabbit hole of music after hearing this. I finally understand! Eureka! The three hand illusion part towards the second half of the Andante is some of the most beautiful piano literature I've ever heard. And the climax at the end, oh my god.

[@polka678]

He really is quite the enigma, but I can’t get enough of him. I think the fact that his music contains an undigested mass of sounds is amongst one of the main reasons why some experience difficulty with enjoying his music.

[@madamzzaj]

Thank you again, Mr. Chen for bringing us more of Ms. Yuja Wang's solo work.

[@maxb4074]

Her interpretatioms of Scriabin are uncanny. Amazing.

[@markjacksonturner6462]

Wonderfully and sensitively played. Rubato timing and dynamics are superb.

[@뚜두뚜두팬보이]

Thanks for all these wonderful Yuja recordings from the Wiener Konzerthaus. Sure sounds like that was a fantastic concert evening there! ☆☆☆

[@albertcombrink3717]

OH YES! Please play more Scriabin! Wonderful performance!

[@Sophiestelle]

Wonderful, that you Yuja Wang!

[@keithwinter7721]

I like the building up.

[@СергейКуприенко-ш7з]

Привет, классно, попадание точно в цель, молодец

[@mark-shane]

hope she plays Scriabin concerto soon

[@nosehow2liv525]

Well, it would have probably been marvellous to be present, as the performance is typically vital and pianistically detailed, yet this piece still manages to catch out the most skilled players! At least Yuja gets past the usual point of derailment, (the recap, from about 4.45, where all goes fine), only for her left hand to briefly go walkabout at 5.38! All credit for staying on track for a suitably passionate final climax.

[@npelletier89]

I'm slowly working on the 2nd movement now, and I know exactly what you mean by this comment now. This piece is NASTY. It ends up burning past so quickly, and to keep that motif intact while your hands are literally flying around is insane.

[@espectro3914]

Thanks for share

[@michaelschefold3299]

Magical Scriabin-playing....like from another world.

[@feliceschillaci4719]

I liked Scriabin when nobody liked Scriabin. Horowitz made me like him. No Scriabin is becoming mainstream. Love this woman for style at the piano , in clothes and in the choice of photographer.

[@michaelschefold3299]

The inner voices are way better articulated than in Sokolov's version. Sounds more like Scriabin than any other interpretation. Great piano playing!

[@madamzzaj]

Exactly.

[@horatiodreamt]

Did Horowitz ever record this sonata?

[@warrencohen8246]

no. He didn't play it, as far as we can tell.

[@georgiepentch]

6:16

[@norwalltino]

Great video, subjective from my side, because I compose music from my own egosentric bubble. Who doesn't?

[@tatsushiru]

The 2nd mvm. of this sonata is called "Prestissimo volando". Is that, what begins at 2:39, volano or prestissimo? No. And neverhteless, even she ignores the author's tempo remark prestissimo she is not able to play without wrong notes: 5:37 - 5:40. Not to mention such defect as absense of clarity somewhere here and there.

[@madamzzaj]

Scriabin was a mystic. He did not go for clarity. He was not the classical school or the baroque period.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

I don't know if I like it or not . But who cares ? And I am personnally not very interested about my own point of view . The only thing which is obvious is that this moment is History . Final point .

[@tfpp1]

The second movement is so "stutter-y" to begin with, that she's not doing the music any favors by adding more unwarranted tempo rubatos and "flam-ing" her chords and octaves between her hands. Oh sure, and then there's all of the wrong notes. Passionate expression doesn't cover that up, honey.

[@allegroschoolofmusic4424]

agree with this, it sounds like she learned it really quickly and it needs more practice

[@polka678]

K

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

This is glorious, the perfect womanized mirror of Sofronitsky .... sexy insolence

[@lightningbolt4419]

Stop

[@alpline5154]

💩🤒👎🏾No No No.Jumping not Skjabin Yuja