When your tremolos are better than MIDI:

[@ThatOneGuyRAR]

Ravel didn’t care about what was physically possible for a pianist, and neither did Yuja Wang

[@joemiller95]

baloney. This is full-on piano competition playing, where physical dexterity takes precedence over everything else. Music and musicality are like twenty-third on the list.

[@ThatOneGuyRAR]

@Joe miller r/whooooosh

[@Annihilator_5024]

@@joemiller95 what are you talking about?? the point is obviously that ravel had almost super human expectations and yuja was able to meet them

[@hoogreen]

@@joemiller95 this guy cant read

[@joemiller95]

@@Annihilator_5024 What I'm talking about is that the jumps past the music and turns it into a demonstration of how fast her twitchy muscles can move her little fingers. The music is lost. This is for children and for audiences who like fast twitch muscles more than music. It's nonsense. If everyone could move their fingers this fast no one would care one bit what she's doing because that's all that's there. Maybe you've never experienced a higher level musical performance. Played like this, the piece should be called Homage to a Woodpecker.

[@donaldaxel]

Yes it is fabulous, but honestly if I listen to Yuja Wang playing it is not just to hear tremolos and fast runs; - nevertheless that is an impressive feature of her playing, and establishing a name as concert giver absolutely includes a "race for virtuosity", too.

[@nicolassosa866]

What’s the tittle of the video?

[@donaldaxel]

@@nicolassosa866 What do you mean, really? What video? You mean "Gaspard de la Nuit by Ravel played by Yuja Wang"? I think it is the third item on a video where Yuja Wang plays for an hour or so. Yuja Wang performs Schumann, Ravel and Beethoven at Verbier Festival - HD watch? v=3q5aZeLdqgY 198,968 views Aug 19, 2016 Live at Verbier Festival. This summer, Yuja Wang returns to the Verbier Festival. After two chamber music concerts, she gives us a solo recital of two of the most outstanding works from the Germanic Romantic repertoire, Schumann’s Kreisleriana and Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, as well as Scarbo from French composer Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit. Yuja Wang. Piano. Location : Salle des Combins (Verbier, Switzerland) Ρroduction date : 2016 Ρroduction : Idéale Αudience. Movie director : Сorentin Leconte . -- I can't believe I did this work to give you the information about the original video. But it is an outstanding video, and really wonderful that we can get to listen such performance at home.

[@aguilarrojasoctavio4402]

Beatifully put, that´s why I hate when people say Yuja play like a robot, which is simply not true

[@OrbiliusMagister]

The title is true: MIDI tremolos are even but stiff and cold, while if you listen to the hemiolas at the beginning of 0:42 Yuja Wang performs a slight accelerando (with tremolo and all that follows) not written in the score, but totally effective, and going back to tempo 1º for the final arpeggio. This is neither technique nor inspiration, it's both and it's called art.

[@joemiller95]

With some shaping and the time to play with it, MIDI tremolos don't have to be any of what you just said. Every aspect of it is adjustable. The fact that you haven't heard them well worked out doesn't mean they're what you say. I find her playing in this video to be twitchy and competition worthy. It's so inspiring - she has the spirit of a woodpecker in her fingers. It's glorious, like watching the tongue of a frog catching a bug. It's so fast, so perfectly annoying and unmusical. Where has this speed artist been all my life?

[@seedmole]

I was with you til you started insulting her playing.. but yeah, the only reason midi notes are ever boring is if they're programmed boringly.

[@joemiller95]

@@seedmole I don't think I'm insulting her playing. I despise it. She's just another competition banger, probably one of the more successful ones. It's horrifying to watch what the competitions bangers do to the music overall and to the pieces they bang through specifically. As the public has fewer and fewer alternatives to these competition bangers and thumpers, the entire art of classical piano playing is going to just go away, and no one will be around to miss it. She does have a beautiful body, though, and she displays it with the same zeal with which she displays the speed and strength of her woodpecker-like fingers.

[@Yubin_Lee_Doramelin]

Man, I CAN'T agree with you MORE. Tremolos are horrendously difficult to input like a human performance. The length, tempo, and dynamics of each individual note is uneven, as you mentioned; also, even these three factors are ideal, sometimes tremolos sound mechanical due to discontinuous nature of digital tools. P.S. To people who ask me why I'm currently making MIDI performances, I have an epilepsy, and my upper limbs and shoulders jerk randomly due to the seizure, which affects the piano playing in real life.

[@polystylisticimprovisation3993]

Thank you for sharing this content, please share more!

[@pink_key]

A lot more videos coming, thanks for the comment!

[@null8295]

Yuja has improved so much lately

[@globulebleu77]

0:23 this beginning wow

[@PikeRunner2]

Scarbo❌️ Scarab beetle✅️

[@michaelschefold3299]

This is my favorite piano piece. Maybe the most difficult piano piece ever written...I'm a professional pianist and play it, too....but far away from Yuja's quality. Martha Argerich and Ivo Pogorelich played fantastic renditions, but Yuja's is the first (nearly) perfect rendition of Ravel's masterwork. In my opinion it's the best piano performance ever. (Unfortunately we cannot listen to Liszt's playing....) Here there is all: accuracy, brillance, drama, depht, jeu perlée and a deep understanding of Ravel's "Clarté française".

[@arekcierniak7220]

Check Grigory Sokolov...

[@EntelSidious_gamzeylmz]

oh it def isnt even close to the hardest ever written and a lot of people has better interpretations of the piece than this

[@michaelschefold3299]

@@EntelSidious_gamzeylmz no

[@michaelschefold3299]

@@arekcierniak7220 I don't like Sokolov...

[@michaelschefold3299]

@@EntelSidious_gamzeylmz Are you a pianist? Have you ever played it?...

[@s.igneum422]

Una gran autómata!

[@joemiller95]

Una maquina de teclado automatica. Tan impresionante como el pajaro que pone huecos en los arboles.

[@erickakudry]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@mateuszkozieja7537]

I like how the last piece of sheet music is blank

[@dariusgoh5314]

lmfao that ominous b major at the end

[@1389Chopin]

Excellent - imho / haochen zhang even better

[@hopelessluvrgirl]

im gonna play this one day

[@MrHmmm98]

Forgot that reading YT comments is the road to madness.

[@silvio2869]

Piano typing

[@franzliszt3196]

What are tremolos again?

[@LucaBonato]

Guess who missed her concert because of covid first outbreak 🥲

[@MildSatire]

A sad, sad man named Luca Bonato

[@dwacheopus]

​@@MildSatire undoubtedly correct!

[@flllutiste]

Circus player

[@chisciccise]

Yes yes yes, good old envy is still alive and well in 2022, what a relief.

[@wuwupiano]

Really? I'm not hearing half the detail that's in the score.

[@geoycs]

Maybe you should get your hearing checked :)

[@DanielSilva-gc4xz]

Says "Wuwu Piano"

[@wuwupiano]

@@geoycs ok let me elaborate. Actually the title is pretty accurate, but doesn't make her performance amazing like everyone seems to think. The pedal is not an on/off button and excitement is not all about speed.

[@wuwupiano]

@@DanielSilva-gc4xz thanks for the free plug.😚

[@EntelSidious_gamzeylmz]

yup

[@MarcAmengual]

I don't like Yuja Wang, plays so well but connects so little with it's audience. As a pianist I may feel impressed about his technical abilities, as a listener not too much.

[@stefanbohle]

totally out of rhythm. If Ravel wanted the first page ad libito, he would have written. Theme too fast - its "vif", not "prestissimo". This turns the poème into an étude...

[@joemiller95]

This woman has a superhuman understanding of the art of woodpeckers. She has an expert grasp of the repeating mechanism of the modern piano and I hope she soon turns her high speed typing talents to the high-speed keyboarding literature so she can add some Guiness World Records to her piano competition accomplishments. Does anyone know where the music went? I was hoping to hear some music, but I got this twitchy high-speed typing thing instead.

[@nadia4985]

This. Thank you. The actual music would require a musician with the kind of brain, which has access to fully human experience, an actually active left anterior insula among other things. So many amazing musicians out there who are incredible human beings, but nobody makes them famous. This ongoing trend of fascination with fast notes played by voids with egos, is solely for the likes parading as "bringing classical to the large audiences". DSO Berlin and the violinist I had high hopes for, linked themselves to an artificial, not to mention everything-psychopathic-girl-puppet band Blackpink with 50 mil followers, as the band (mis)used in a horrid way fragment of Paganini's piece (in a song mimicking shooting us, viewers, while the brain-dead "sexy" girls in imbecilic outfits twirl into utter stupidity. And yes, he included their video fragments) So why not to take the ride with this 50 mil. group and BS us it's to "push classical" further to masses". People who called him on it politely, got deleted. I am making it my mission to find and support sincere, fully human musicians with the human values more than ever, as much as I can.

[@joemiller95]

@@nadia4985 Try to find the same piece, Scarbo, played by Ruth Laredo. It's not on KZbin, but another piece from the same set is. Ondine. You can quickly get a grasp of what kind of difference there is between this competition thumper doing Homage a Woodpecker and the kind of musician Ruth Laredo was even just listening to her play Ondine in a way that wouldn't have interested competition thumping judges. But Ruth Laredo never turned her musicality off to become a competition thumper and she wasn't successful at competition thumping. Competition thumping is a relatively new thing in the history of classical music performing. When it started to become more and more the direction so many children took, we knew it was the beginning of the end of actual musicianship. But the distance it has come in eliminating musicality is actually stunning.

[@nadia4985]

@@joemiller95 I appreciate the tip on Ruth Laredo's playing. I am not a pro and even I find disturbing to what extent and the ways the classical is being mutilated. I am an avid concert goer for 30 years now and it's astonishing what has happened and as you say, the scale of it. This circus act was a big hit at Verbier Festival too. Just cringe. Competition thomping - the accuracy.. I used to think a bulldozer, but then again, I've observed actual bulldozers being navigated with utmost sensitivity and grace😄 Speaking of where did the music go..where the actual legato go lately? Not the entire nuanced array of various types of legatos, just one basic one would do..😄 Uh oh, that would make things too complex and tricky for the woodpecker speed champions..

[@joemiller95]

@@nadia4985 I remember when this started. We realized that these kids were showing up to these competitions who had been raised specifically to compete in that way. Their entire pianistic - in my area of interest - upbringing had been shaped by competitions and all they could do, the repertoire and the training they'd gotten was 100% focused on it, was this high-speed thumping and banging that is completely uninteresting for anyone who actually recognizes what the classical musical literature offers that other things don't. What I didn't consider at the time was that a point would come when the audiences, starved of the musicality of actual great pianists who made music, would turn into consumers of this thumping as if it were any other athletic accomplishment. And the problem is that as actual music lovers stop coming into existence, this athletic thumping will attract smaller and smaller numbers of people and the whole thing is going to die off. For a few more years, like at most fifty or ninety, there will be these children who can blast through notes at higher and higher speeds, and then gradually people will just move on to something else that's even more circus like and wild, and they may just have competitions where people just repeat notes and do trills, measured by computers, and then drop the pieces completely.

[@timothybolshaw]

Yuja plays the Scarbo as Ravel intended. If you want to hear music composed in a different style, check out Yuja's playing of composers like Scriabin. There, high speed and intensity are not an essential part of performing the piece in question. I can appreciate Yuja's playing of both Ravel and Scriabin, but I am forced to agree with you if you claim that the Scarbo is not the best illustration of Yuja's musicality. By its nature, the necessary virtuosity obscures the musicality.

[@LuisKolodin]

brusque, unmusical musical ears do not care about this. here it lacks smooth fade out, to create a mysterious mood.

[@magnusjonsson7303]

Sorry but MIDI is not good; it is death.

[@chrisc7265]

do not apologize to midi, midi has no feelings

[@nadia4985]

This trend of being fascinated by things a soul-less robot could do..

[@davisatdavis1]

Yuja Wang isn't a soulless robot

[@nadia4985]

@@davisatdavis1 where do you read that she is? I've wrote that soul-less robot can play like she does. Some things simply can't be faked, not without coming across as utterly grotesque. Having activity in left anterior insula is one of them. You are a perfect sample of her audience, can't process a simple sentence. Speaking of which, the type of audience/fandom reflects the inner qualities of the artist. No activity in left anterior insula in her fans either as well as signs of other brain disorders/limits. People's brains' access to the level and depth of perceptions varies. Greatly.

[@bckthundr]

@@nadia4985 💀🤓

[@georgedotnet]

@@nadia4985 they could try processing a single sentence if you had written one to begin with. Good lord, you're a bloviating bore.

[@devonchristopher5837]

ratio

[@franciscom.e.9780]

If she can play so well, why does she rely on such vulgar dressing?

[@saullandiof5768]

it's not even vulgar lol why do people focus so much on this

[@L.M1792]

A beautiful back. Very smooth soft and supportive. Of course the piano interpretations are second to none. I imagine she is wearing no bra. Beneath such a finely sown dress material it can only lead us to further excellence or an NHS right to the kisser, any one of the two, probably both.

[@BiggyJimbo]

What are you on about

[@L.M1792]

@@BiggyJimbo good point and concisely put.

[@L.M1792]

@@BiggyJimbo I have zero familiarity with anyone on the planet. It is a fixated delusion (Freudian) that maintains this surrounding’s economy.

[@bartwatts1921]

What a creep you are.

[@erickakudry]

You are right