Mendelssohn piano Concerto No. 1 - Yuja Wang, Kurt Masur

[@ihatetheparty6340]

Yuja is AWESOME. I could listen to her play forever. Takes my breath away....

[@Khae.]

I just LOVE how passionate piano players look when they play! How they jump and bounce, how their arms seemingly just flies around... And in the meanwhile making that lovely music! Yay for piano!

[@WKYanks]

I just can't stop watching and listening to this thing! Such a great piece preformed to perfection!

[@UCAFGermany]

I feel lucky to hear and see such beauty. Mendelssohn is one of my favourite composer and it makes me happy to experience his work played by a gifted pianist like Yuja Wang. Many thanks for the upload!

[@immaculatezulu]

this girl is astonishing...thank you for posting

[@medicitv]

It was 4 years ago, her playing has changed since that time. Don't you think so?

[@GodGiftedMusician]

She already talks to herself like the 'pros' do. Many great pianists have been known to silently move their mouths as if they are talking while they perform. She is incredibly beautiful. Wow, Amazing performance!

[@PowerofTrueInsight]

Compared to other videos of the same performance by Yuja, this captures the best parts of her external expressions after the emotional transition from a kind of delicately pensive to briskly blissful. No wonder most find this one more enjoyable.

[@4401samr]

I am so grateful that there are such prodigiously astounding people in the world!

[@freeqwerqwer]

OMG....This is actually the way this concerto should be played ! I felt as if it were the first time I had heard this concerto....by that I mean I was transported back to the 1840s when it was composed !!! She plays it so crisp, lithe, and with unbridled excitment, unlike all other pianists with their bogus heavy affectations. Amazing little girl....and I don't even know her name or anything about her. This concerto is best performed by oungsters, not oldters. Bravo all the way !

[@NewSuperHelioBros]

One day Yuja Wang was walking down the street when she came across a gathering of people huddled around a man. This man was lying on the ground, having just suffered a massive heart attack. Surely he was dead. "Step back!" She proclaimed and the crowd immediately parted. Kneeling down, she ran the tips of her fingers up and down the man's chest as if she were playing the piano and he miraculously sprung back to life! The crowds cheered and Yuja Wang, her work done, flew off into sky.

[@elizabethdanchen4]

Wow 😂

[@bjoartec]

I saw her at the Kravis center in West Palm FL, she is so incredible, I had a picture taken with her, and had her autographed my CD, she is so talented, so lovable, so busy at the same time, that it is said that they're five of hers touring the world with her magic flying fingers, I love her and her playing, Boy, what an artist !....

[@20Lukas93]

Wow - she is so beautiful to watch! you can tell how much she loves it!!

[@gc0619]

Beauty came out naturally and her fingers can really move everyone's emotional gear. Dancing with her fingers, the music fits her talent well. Felix smiles too.

[@chefer891]

Ella entiende la musica que toca en el piano mejor que nadie que yo haya visto...se nota que lo disfruta, eso hace que nosotros disfrutemos cualquier cosa que este tocando!

[@vodyannoi]

She appears to be having fun. So wonderful to listen to her music.

[@1980NewWave]

Simply outstanding. This is about as technically perfect as I have ever heard from ANY pianist.

[@謝其鵬-n5d]

" Yuja Wang" 代表著全人類的 ‘福音’ 和 '樂音' ！！ 音樂將透過她的鋼琴，展現劃時代的形式和內涵。 上天賦與全人類的音樂代言人！ 請起立致敬-鼓掌喝采吧!!!

[@medicitv]

You're welcome, do not hesitate to come and have a look to all the concerts on our plateforme. You have the infos below the video.

[@brtn460y]

I had the pleasure of seeing her in concert last week playing with the Russian National Orchestra performing the Emperor's Concerto, a piece below her level of talent, but she was absolutely magnificient! I love watching her play, and she did the same thing in concert as I see on these videos, she mouths the notes that she plays sometimes...anyone know what that is? Bravo Yuja Wang!

[@jean-charlesdepecker8008]

Wonderful performance Wonderful pianist Wonderful woman!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥✌✌✌✌💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[@aepiphid]

I tried getting tickets to see her at Denison University a few weeks ago, but it was a closed performance with limited seating for general public, and I didn't know about it until too late. I'd love to see her come to the N.E. Ohio area and participate in the Blossom Summer Concert Series with TCO, or play Severance Hall next season. She's a phenomenal talent. I'd love to hear her tackle Litolff.

[@hsmith1932]

What a virtuosic performance! This woman's repertoire is incredible! So young yet so gifted! Great music performed by a n incredibly gifted pianist. I just love the great romantic classical repertoire. H E W Smith, E.D., A.D.M. Dip Health Couns

[@AngeloDeAngelis748]

...meravigliosa pianista...bellissimo il concerto...bellissimo il pianoforte!!!

[@elizabethandre1]

How truly beautiful and talented you are.Thankyou for the lovely music ElizabethAndree

[@amandakova]

Brilliant and true artist. Wang and the piano becomes a perfection to harmony!!!

[@KarenKotosaki]

beautiful...her rendition is like a stream of melody.

[@divvy1400yam600]

Wow: this is absolutely fantastic. A very high level of control and sensitivity required to play this. The balance LH to RH seems spot on to me. Absolutely wonderful.

[@kjaeckle03]

Ich liebe Yuja seit diesem Konzert in Verbier. 😍😍😍

[@jasjas-rm9kc]

Words can't describe this.

[@ytubejat]

I'm in heaven, just fabulous playing! The best version of this concerto I've ever heard!

[@hotbebimauz]

woow this is SO AMAZING her fingers move soo fast and she makes it look so easy! she is full of energy and she looks so cute and perfect, im in love with her!!!!!

[@mvrp94]

she's so beautiful playing the piano, it's really like she was born for this! excellent performance, as well

[@peterhann9254]

She's Amazing. Could listen to her play all day.

[@unpodimusica1]

Oh, I love this!!! I could listen to this forever. Beautiful interpretation too.

[@busylifemeto]

Awesome and she is having a ball playing it too, What a talent and a classy lady.

[@EC1M]

Yuja has fun when she plays. Her piano is both beautifully natural and naturally beautiful.

[@divvy1400yam600]

This extract and this version are amongst my absolute favourites. I have watchaed it soooo often How Miss wang makes it all look so easy. Especially the bits where the main melody is played at speed with the 4t/5th fingers of the right hand. Counting the thumb as 1 lol Musical beautiful remarkable. i love it.

[@zimonski52]

Pure esthetic beauty combined with advanced sound. Im absolutely amazed!

[@monofff]

Ye, she is beyond everyone, everything..... she was born for this!

[@Iwillalwayslovethesu]

Stunning. Stunning stunning!!!

[@UNOENELTODO]

Yuja Wang is the number 1 for this concerto, nobody else to compare.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Dimitri Bashkirov Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video KZbin! Bashkirov a class of his own playing Mendelssohn piano concerto! Bashkirov The Best piano sound The Best tempos! The melodies Are rolling! Yuja Wang is a student! Bashkirov The teacher! Anastasia Virsaladze teach Bashkirov The first lesson is YOU Have to love The beautiful piano sound!!

[@UNOENELTODO]

@@RaineriHakkarainen ¡No! Yuja Wang,The best sound. The best everything!

[@stuballs42]

I know you must have the talent to begin with ,BUT, her teachers must be extremely proud of this young lady!!!!!

[@skularatna]

I take back what I said after listening to this again, I can really now feel the emotion. I guess first time i watched it, I wasn't really listening properly. One can hear very differently when they are concentrating and not distracted by other interferences

[@TalPlayPiano]

Musique exceptionnelle, et pianiste exceptionnelle !!! Bravo !!! :-) Chantal (le piano arc-en-ciel)

[@goetomo2008]

i love to see your confident face during performance,you are great, hope to see you perform in singapore.

[@keithtinkler4073]

Alexandra Dovgan is giving her a run for money on this concerto!

[@ghoshneh]

Dovgan's right-hand melodies are more articulated than Wang, but then Dovgan doesn't still have the power on her left hand to play the chords more pronounced due to her very young age. Wang plays the left-hand dynamics a lot more accurate.

[@sandplus5048]

No, I recognize A. Dovgan is good, but she needs to mature more. A fine good wine, but it needs aging.

[@mikoajmikoaj8268]

@@sandplus5048 Mature more ? Are u serious ? Alexandra plays it in a more mature way than Yuja. She has bigger legato, richer sound and more expression. I totally respect Yuja, I cannot criticize her but Dovgan with her Russian fingers wins :)

[@ghoshneh]

@absoftitanium Sure, we are saying the same thing I think. Meant to say the matter of articulation is just related to her very young age and strength in her fingers still developing, not her amazing musicality!

[@paulpage1265]

Left hand strength, etc. Come on! Both performers are simply amazing. Why not just leave it at that? Dovgan is, though, enormously talented not only as a skillful pianist, but as a musician who “understands” what she’s playing with truly-gifted intuition. And her manner of performance is so unaffected and delightful. I hope she never becomes jaded in her manner or interpretations. Yuja and Alexandra are NOT in competition; nor should their performances be compared. Each brings the highest level of musicianship and physical dexterity to every performance. What a delight to be able to hear them in my living room. (The online outfits who are trying to monetize these performances are, in my opinion, doing a disservice to classical music. The great musicians in the world, either pop, jazz, Vocal/choral, classical will certainly garner sufficient accolades and live concert receipts to support them comfortably as they continue to pursue their art without the internet controllers who are mostly interested in just making money.)

[@bjoartec]

And she's 23 Y/O, full of energy, a beautiful stage gown, lovable attitude, What a beautiful young artist!!....:) :) :)

[@takappar]

She is the best pianist I have ever seen!

[@artymowycz]

It was November 16th at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto.

[@charizianne]

...and that joyfulness playing of her also reminds one of Nodame's joyful and carefree playing!! =D

[@aarongluzman]

Swinging... Between... Seductive & captivated... Her exceptional... Mystical astonishment... Make room... To reach & inspire... Fluidity of her grace... ©...Aronne

[@Gillesct1931]

What a great artist you are Yujia

[@peteroxley4987]

Wow, phenomenal......

[@TenorsLoveThemselves]

She's such a genius.

[@raoulhery]

she seems so inspired!!! love her

[@busylifemeto]

Pure virtuoso playing and unlike so many who who pull amazing contorted faces as they play she has am impish delighted little girl look as if she is gaining the greatest pleaseure from it. truly amazing lady and as a bonus very beautiful as well. I have seen her backstage and she is a truly delightful person.

[@austinjp11]

Absoulutely unbelievable!

[@StevePhillips]

What can I say, what indeed. Yuja Wang Thank you!

[@odriban]

Excelente. Claridad perfecta. Interpretacion equilibrada. En acordes y octavas debe evitar el sonido golpeado.

[@foodmore]

its funny when people criticize pianists. They don't realize they are also criticizing the conductor and the audience. The pianist doesnt just appear and forces her way into a concert. She has to be there for a reason, and the audience is there because they chose to watch that pianist.

[@merman4]

wonderful! absolutely stunning :) why did Mendelssohn write such fast music? i guess it was the caliber of 19th century music?

[@UlrichRuler13]

I wish there was an album of this performance.

[@ColdTearSP]

fast and clear. Bravo

[@flaminio67]

@Crayterm13 She is also beautiful when she is pouting! You can see on youtube the wohle concert, and if you look the first part, you can imagine, why she may have been not so amused. But sometimes in this video Yuja has such a blissful smile on her lips like nowhere else, and this variety of emotions makes it so incredibly graceful.

[@MrFpam]

Very exciting! What great talent!

[@3wwasha]

She is amazing!

[@robertoellison348]

MAN THAT IS SOME GREAT PIANO PLAYING, LOVE IT. 02-14-2019

[@navajovik]

I'm in love!

[@cacaw_0]

i love the time when she finishes strong in 1:20 and 2:49 when she lets her hair just flow in front of her eyes..

[@icedragontt]

flawless.

[@TheHsin100]

Great performance

[@marjan12342]

I love this piece!!!

[@MusicForLifeWithAmit]

She played it well....I enjoyed it

[@judiththomas5154]

Her tone color is very reminiscent of Horowitz's -- marvelous. Ergonomically she is perfect -- never uses more muscle than she needs -- interesting spidery, super independent fingers. Great interpretation -- such joy; LoisFRICK

[@cheval63sg]

simply fantastic!

[@stuballs42]

No doubt about it ,Yuja,is the BOMB!!!!

[@msaito36]

Very wonderful piano playing!!!!!*****♫♪♫♪♪♫

[@aarongluzman]

Blooming... The entrance of... Pure attraction... Hyped with... Delicate stroking... Tenderly... Exhilarating sensibility... Genuineness dazzling, transforming your mind... ©...Aronne

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

All you can find Dimitri Bashkirov playing Mendelsohn concerto 1.Just put on Felix Mendelsohn piano concerto 1 Dimitri Bashkirov.Check that out!

[@AngeloDeAngelis748]

...you are an excellent pianist..

[@TalPlayPiano]

Excellente musique, et excellente pianiste !!!! :-) lepianoarcenciel

[@skimask777]

@MisterKaiPod Thanks! Lang Lang is either lost in space or missing in action since Yuja hit KZbin. Lol

[@JazzyZenBrotha]

She's like a purple butterfly playing piano so elegantly. I have fallen in love.......with the music heh heh :)

[@alfonsopinadelrio5918]

En 2:59, ¿dónde está el concierto?

[@_Ashley_O]

Beautiful

[@dakevinc]

looks like 14 people missed the LIKE button :o this is A M A Z I N G

[@skularatna]

@flaminio67berlino I think you have mistaken me for Dominiku who met her in a bar... I wish I met her in a bar :)

[@banjuja58]

To all the know-nothings who say there is no emotion: 1) It's the f**king 3rd movement of the Mendelssohn 1st concerto. Pure virtuoso display music, what kind of "emotion" are you expecting? 2)Check out the video of her Scriabin set from Santa Fe (yeah, the one with the tiny purple dress.) Then dare to tell me there is no feeling in her playing.

[@flaminio67]

@erickalk Indeed - it's not a musical but a piano concerto - in a beautiful performance.

[@Asiratani]

I love her!

[@aepiphid]

@bennyboy12341234 That's a great observation! Minus a single measure near the end of that video, she doesn't pedal at all. I noticed this in another video of her playing Mozart as a kid - no pedal. I actually came to realize, just a couple days ago, that I personally rely too much on pedaling when I play for exactly the same reason you mentioned - to help cover myself when I get sloppy. There's a lesson in there for aspiring pianists - fix your errors, don't cover them up!

[@gifgifgifgifgifgif]

Love it (and her) !

[@ulrichkrampen2903]

Yuja ist grossartig

[@nathanplayspiano]

What exactly denotes a pieces' difficulty? Technical bravura alone?

[@Dominiku3]

haha, i met this girl in a bar in tokyo a few months ago, she said she was a professional pianist but i didn't expect this

[@AngeloDeAngelis748]

Brava...I love your piano.....

[@PowerofTrueInsight]

Interesting to hear many uttering the words "cute" and "amazing." Best parts fitting those two words seem to be 1:18-1:20, 2:07-2:17 and 2:45:2:48.

[@nomadine85]

I wonder what she is mouthing... So much passion.

[@cro508]

she is crazy good!