Yuja Wang,Joshua Bell Beethoven kreutzer 3rd movement

3rd movement

[@tibele1000]

It's a great privilege to watch and hear Beethoven Yuja Wang and Joshua Bell. My profound thank you!

[@SurangikaSenanayake]

Beethoven, Yuja and Josh! What an awesome combination!

[@DCJL333]

Phenomenal! Energizing music played with pure passion and mastery. Love it!

[@PeterFritzWalter]

Mad and phenomenal musicality and total harmony between two musical geniuses … I never heard that kind of Beethoven before … ecstatic!

[@michaelschefold3299]

Totally agree with you. A better Beethoven is not possible. Yuja is by far the best pianist since Rachmaninow - maybe a little bit better than he was. Her technique, musicality, intelligence and good taste are overwhelming. We can be happy to live in the same time as such a great artist and charismatic woman.

[@helenyuan8619]

👍👏❤️💖🌹👌🙏

[@vladimirguluta6504]

I felt so much joy of life from both of them

[@benjaminhorwitz1172]

Wonderful piece of music played by two wonderful artists! Bravo!

[@alberthofmann5195]

How it took me so long listening to classical music? This is so perfect and emotionnal. I love it so much

[@zojapetkovamarkovic8963]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@marysecadoret9559]

Magnifique moment de musicalité et de vélocité. Bravo et merci aux deux artistes!

[@bartwatts1921]

@Fred MyOpinion: You are right in every aspect with the exception of one vital point. The violin is not meant to be the star. It is not a violin sonata. Beethoven conceived it along with the other 8 as a piano and violin sonata. It is a duo. The pianist does not merely accompany, the pianist plays with equal weight and importance. Yuja Wang plays it exactly as it should be played. She is in an equal conversation with the violinist.

[@SurangikaSenanayake]

Beethoven, master of melody an structure, brought to life!

[@willdon.1279]

Such a deeply loved piece... and these two lead us off to complete enchantment. 😍😍😍

[@jorgealfredogonzalezgonzalez]

Yuja & Joshua, dos mundos, dos culturas: una perfecta identidad: el amor por la belleza. ¡Un solo Júpiter! Genial la ejecución de la sonata a Kreutzer. Gracias.

[@TarekPianoMan]

Outstanding music performance for the greatest composer Beethoven, by the greatest young players in the world, the violinist Joshua Bell, and the extraordinary genius pianist..Yuja Wang, I adore her!

[@jameshopkins21]

Absolutely amazing and gorgeous.

[@Naedem86]

haha, these two are loving it :) and so am I.

[@karenistalking5774]

This is one video in which I can just relax and have a fun time w/o analyzing things. A totally exhilarating performance.

[@paulprocopolis]

Fantastic playing, full of energy and musical conviction.

[@wjwattie175]

Both Wang and Bell show virtuosity and feeling. Lovely performance and it is essential to go back and find all 3 movements for complete pleasure.

[@Terry1950Men]

It all looks so much fun and effortless. I love this way of approaching music.

[@connypiano5038]

WOW!! Great performance!

[@montanus57]

A really outstanding performance of the whole Beethoven Kreutzer-sonata (Yes, I've watched Wang and Bell perform the first two movements, too.) by Wang and Bell! The latter is a remarkable violinist, and in this famous Beethoven piece Wang for once shows that she's got more on her plate than just her dazzling techniques.

[@manfredlipp6410]

Welche Leidenschaft, große Kunst von tollen Künstlern? - Danke!

[@JimSharp]

Amazing performance!

[@giuseppecaminiti3306]

Che fantastica accoppiata: stupendi!

[@CarmeloBonifacioMalandrino]

Un momento di grande euforia di Beethoven che viene eseguito in modo egregio dai due suonatori.

[@barronlacy5898]

full of life

[@lcruisesbytakemetravelcons2974]

Simply Magnificent!

[@kurtsnider3859]

Amazing!

[@jbut1208]

One or two are disconcerted by youthful Elan! Why I love the spirit shown by these artists! Bravo!

[@benjamincuevaseninde]

-- Grande performance de ces deux là pour cette sonate à Kreutzer qui reste ma préférée de toutes parmi celles que le grand Beethoven avait composé. La nouvelle génération est en marche, et puissante. --

[@mariodisarli1022]

+Ben Cuevas "Sex sells ...classical music?" Sex sells. Marketing professionals know that, which is why advertisements for everything from cars to beer regularly feature scantily clad women. We live in an age where appearance is more important than ever before; scientific studies suggest that more attractive people get better jobs and are happier. Until recently, classical music was one of the few industries where sex is not usually used to sell the product. Performers often dress within a prescribed fashion, with men wearing dinner suits or tuxedos and women wearing full-length dresses. However, a number of prominent musicians have recently been courting controversy for their appearance. Young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang has received as much coverage about her appearance as her performances recently, with the Los Angeles Times commenting, “Her dress [on] Tuesday was so short and tight that had there been any less of it, the Bowl might have been forced to restrict admission to any music lover under 18 not accompanied by an adult. Had her heels been any higher, walking, to say nothing of her sensitive pedaling, would have been unfeasible.” It’s not just women pushing the envelope, though. American organist Cameron Carpenter, a soloist with this year’s NZSO National Youth Orchestra, has received a great deal of media attention for wearing white stovepipe trousers and bejewelled tops during performances. In an interview with Radio New Zealand’s Kathryn Ryan, Carpenter admitted that he regularly works out at the gym, and opined that a musician’s appearance is “extremely important”. Korean-American violinist Hahn-Bin describes himself as “Viagra to classical music”, and dresses flamboyantly, complete with heavy eyeliner and Mohawk hairstyle.

[@reouvenbrahami8609]

Two for tea

[@MichelTretout]

wonderfull .. once again ! Bravo

[@robertpauljeanjobard9386]

Kreutzer à qui Beethoven avait dédié cette sonate ne l'avait pas comprise, peut-être jalousait-il l'importance du piano presque à égalité avec le violon. Nous avons là deux virtuoses qui doivent enchanter Ludwig et qui nous emportent dans l'au delà. Les deux interprètent jouent magnifiquement et on voit sur leur visage leur amour de la musique et leurs sentiments qu'ils lui communiquent. La musique un jour sauvera l’humanité

[@willdon.1279]

D'accord!

[@phantomofoaktown]

One of my favorites

[@darylehudson]

Bravo! Great performance ( all 3!)!!!

[@TipoQueTocaelPiano]

Joshua Bell burns more calories playing violin than doing push-ups

[@tarinaerisjah7718]

so is yuja wang

[@WJE37FCSM]

Satin or silk on silky smooth skin, (yes it make my ancient heart pitter patter) no co-efficient of friction. Their playing also affects my arrhythmia, for this old man my first hearing of the Kreutzer. Thank you Yuja and Joshua

[@WJE37FCSM]

I have been a choral singer all my life, but I did take a few piano lessons at 35. They did not help much but the one thing I took away from them was the idea that one should relax shoulders and arms and support them on the finger or fingers that are sounding notes at that instant. My teacher felt that was one of the best ways to produce a singing legato sound. I'm not sure whether YW uses that technique or not or if there is a trade off of flexibility vs sound.

[@tinhnguyenuc2704]

điều gì xẩy ra giữa hai người và những nốt nhạc họ tài giởi vô cùng

[@suannlee7018]

Yuja Wang really super glad she is not wearing high heels shoes anymore, but a wonder to listen and watch her playing. A truly great young pianist in the class of Helene Grimaud and Martha Argerich --in time to come, she like Yundi Life is still young.

[@MrKlemps]

Grimaud, apart from being a woman, is not in the same class as the other two.

[@curaticac5391]

:-)

[@davidb2206]

What do high heels have to do with it? Honestly curious.

[@WJE37FCSM]

Perhaps CK who allows an opinion that he is an expert on piano practice to prevail could help us out a bit here. Was my piano teacher correct about weighting the hands?. Is that technique useful for a pianist of YW's lightning speed? Is there a tradeoff? Was the technique taught by her Chinese teachers? CK, I'm trying to help. Does YW have technical deficiencies that warrant your sniping or is it just a gut feeling that drives you on. Some of us would like to know.

[@bloodgrss]

Yes, indeed it is...but I find this performance creditable...and am glad to see this music is still PLAYED by such talented young artists today...without what can be a somewhat pretentious clamoring on for who is 'best'. The music itself is....

[@peperiveros]

Perfecto

[@anatolyFedotov]

Bravo

[@Squishergeo]

Awesome!

[@髙島博則]

ユジャ　にしては、珍しくもの　ベートーベン　ですね　やや　楽しそう

[@alfonsoquintana6296]

Alfonso Quintana Beethoven is most great composer all time

[@PhukIT1865]

haha :25 she adjust her dress...love it!!

[@keithwilson6060]

Beautiful, but how does one study to become a professional page turner?

[@cadenza56]

Dear worstnightmare885, could you please put the correct info about this Sonata? Where did you get the number 14???? Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 Op. 47 3rd movement Presto This Sonata is known as the Kreutzer Sonata, originally was dedicated to the violinist George Bridgetower, Beethoven removed the dedication of the piece, dedicating it instead to Rodolphe Kreutzer. long story ... love and passion were involved )) Thank you for uploading this video!! )

[@Rozochka77777]

Great !!!!! Great !!!! Great !!!!

[@waqasahmed3422]

Bravo!

[@robertomoltrasio1765]

DA MUCHISIMO PLACER ESCUCHAR ESTA MUSICA MARAVILLOSA INTERPRETADA POR ESTOS GENIOS ABSOLUTOS Y DA MUCHA VERGUENZA AJENA LOS 28 "DISLIKES"!

[@musicfanBRA]

Why the rush?

[@jchenergy]

Good performance of the Kreutzer. To all music lovers and interested in music and social sciences, I recomend to read the book "The Kreutzar Sonata" by no other than Leo Tostoy. Beethoven, with this work (chromaticism in the second movement) paved the way for Berlioz's Romeo and Wagner Tristan, no doubt. Incidentely, Mr. Bridgtower, for whom Beethoven wrote the Nº 9 Sonata, was a black violinist performing in England in those days. He should have been a good one to deserve the honour! Also, what about the idea that Beethoven himself was not a pure white but a mulato (I read the idea in a Time magazine edition of many years ago)

[@WJE37FCSM]

I'm not against the idea and I've heard it before (mixed-race), but there is a lot of literature about Beethoven and almost none if not all fail to mention any African background in his genealogy. His parent's problems with alcohol is widely known and are probably connected to his becoming deaf at the height of his career. We all have a distant African background, but what you are talking about is a connection only a few generations removed from his birth. If there is any literature I would love to read it. PS. Yuja has very little Beethoven in her repertoire and her performance here makes me long for more.

[@WJE37FCSM]

I poked around Google (Beethoven Genealogy) after I wrote my first response and a number of sites delve into his heritage tracing his father's ancestry back to the late 1400's noting a strong Flemish background. There is even a mention of a Spanish connection but that is where it ended and the possible region where there may have been some introduction of an African genetic line, but none of that is clearly documented.

[@1027372]

"¡Qué buen par de dos! "-diría mi abuelo

[@georginageorgina4880]

精彩

[@joecheng3344]

JB trying to be a showman now(Lang Lang is laughing) he doesn't need to, he is already an all American boy. should attract the listener by his music, W has both, but bit more powerful to JB, With Kogan could be a perfect match, but just a wishful thinking. 經典!

[@AthSamaras]

Fantastic prformance (I heared all of the 3 movements). Thanks "worstnightmare885" for uploading, Thanks "cadenza56" for the discriptions.

[@michaelprozonic]

Oddly, Rodolphe Kreutzer never performed this piece and called it “outrageously unintelligible”.

[@WJE37FCSM]

Yuja's main antagonist on her YT pages in the past has dismissed her as a typist, that she produces a lousy tone, and that she assaults the keyboard and the music. Because of this she produces a negative reaction in his pianistic sensibilities and it appears to be his lot in life to warn away other gullible listeners and that he is not driven by petty jealousies. OK, I'll take him at his word but lets explore the charges.

[@hongyuliang]

出类拔萃！

[@keithwilson6060]

Joshua Bell is the Lang Lang of violin over-expression.

[@charlieff2]

how true!

[@liedersanger1]

You mean physically, I assume. Big deal. Its the playing that counts.

[@eugenvonbismarck5029]

I don't really like his dance 😂

[@daviddemers1538]

Excuse me?

[@keithwinter7721]

total mayhem in DC 2 inches of snow!"* xxoo

[@bloodgrss]

Now you LIKE Yuja!? What are you smoking' today Fred...

[@anaakopovi8290]

ძალიან მაგარია

[@ezegoma]

Qué barbaridad!

[@inraid]

+Ezequiel Gomares Why ?!?

[@ezegoma]

+inraid Why qué?. Qué barbaridad!. No lo entiendes?. Tienes que seguir aprendiendo español, jeje!. Con esto nos referimos a que es espectacular, impresionante.....

[@marcraider]

Yo hablo español, pero hasta a mí me confundió tu respuesta, es la primera vez que veo a alguien usar la palabra barbaridad para elogiar algo, por que por lo que sabía barbaridad se usaba para criticar algo, incluso busque el significado por que me hiciste dudar y es " Dicho o hecho que causa sorpresa y rechazo por ser especialmente torpe, equivocado o exagerado", pero tal vez lo uses como un modismo regional de donde vives.

[@ezegoma]

Pues perdonadme pero aún os falta mucho español por aprender.....qué barbaridad!....jeje...

[@ArtbyAtlas]

Yuja is really good! :)

[@RuffusMD]

This was simply perfect . there were periods of this piece that Yuja was actually working . I have never seen that before in her playing . This was probably the second time she had played this piece no doubt . I bet she doesn't wear that dress again .

[@WJE37FCSM]

Also... What is this non-sense about YW treading lightly on the Beethoven catalog. This performance belies that self-doubt. A lot of pianists who are not in Yuja's league are publishing sonata and concerto cycles and growing older does not necessarily translate into pianistic maturity. Yuja, go for it.

[@CookingJames1]

Why? Any problem?

[@bloodgrss]

Not really...

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Please Mrs. Wang would you try the same with Kreisler and not with this spaghetti ? In my dreams if you want .

[@keithwinter7721]

slushy side walks

[@bloodgrss]

Your partisan and bigoted 'critique' of Yuja Wang in this creditable performance is the same shallow prejudice from you that shows why you should never attempt to leave such superficial trolls on her videos for the public to see... Your absence would indeed bring a "Thank god' from balanced and less emotionally fraught music lovers...

[@cadenza56]

:)

[@edvinportuly1398]

Wash nomer v filarmonii,proidet(na raz-na prazdnik_Novui god)v techenji goda(sho,siljno ne blestal:Odin skripach,za pianina+dvyh gonglerov(s neykoriznennuh lizom-yge:ni prazdnik;smeh?sarkazm!ygomanisj,pognal kak vskahj/dva ,,myguka"hotetj poteyt-do ykariznu:da ne smejyt(zal podruvatj k aplodisment:magor spadavitj

[@hotbebimauz]

This performance says a great deal about why Yuja Wang never attempts to play Beethoven in public. Thank god!

[@willdon.1279]

Ha Ha Ha - it IS possible to edit one's comments Lua.

[@margaretmoroz9454]

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[@freeqwerqwer]

Wang has a superb sense of rhythm, always correctly on time. Her accents are correct too. There's no denying she is fun to hear. But Bell plays like a fiddler, not a violinist. His rhythm is irregular, always playing catch up to the pianist .

[@bloodgrss]

Poor Fred-after all this time becoming a fan pf Yuja....wonders will never cease!

[@liedersanger1]

Rudolf Feindler You are correct.

[@lourak613]

Very exciting indeed! - but I'm afraid the performance is seriously tainted with so many affectations and gesticulations and other gimmicky devices which just cripple the musical flow - what a shame!

[@martinsinger9886]

lourak613 Just close your eyes .... :)

[@lourak613]

Martin Singer I am wondering whether you are a musician yourself or only music-lover (not to be denigrated at all). The terms I use: "affectations", "gesticulations" are well known to serious practicing musicians. I speak here of music only - not bodily movements which are of no consequence to me. Hope that clarifies the matter. But perhaps you don't agree with that...

[@martinsinger9886]

lourak613 Ok now I understand (English is not my first language and for me your comment sounded as if it was aimed at the body). And I slightly disagree. Both adhere pretty well to the score (I played the Kreutzer long ago myself (the violin) but I am not a professional, just studied it more than half a century ago, but letft it always as a hobby and choose engineering and programming - which I studied in parallel - as profession). It seems to be sort of a spontaneous, slightly exaggerated interpretation, but (IMHO) well within the limits. I personally like the recording with Argerich / Kremer best, but both recordings have one thing (avery important one) in common: They enjoy playing this very demanding sonata and they transmit this joy to the listener. However - we might disagree, we all have different taste and experiences so we can disagree with an interpretation, but we should never disrespect or claim, that one of them is the absolute best :)

[@mariodisarli1022]

+lourak613 "She (Khatia Buniatishvili) is Amsterdam red light district , mediocre classical pianist, she and Yuga Wang, i think they try to compensate for their lack of talent, i think they are both overrated and need a book on etiquette badly. I am not a prude but these chicks look like they carry a supply of penicillin with them, they can't be taken seriously, neither is pretty, so i assume the dressing is used to distract the people from their looks, and Khatia with all the phony hair flipping which is so unauthentic. I am not being mean just real, we all like pretty things and they could be sexy without looking classically hookerish, someone should tell them, but i think they have been told and don't care, they look like rough broads." martha jane

[@Blueboyo1]

Blather ......You would have hated Glenn Gould.

[@freeqwerqwer]

Yes, the pianist plays spritely w/ lively enthusiasm. The violinist plays scratchyly and w/ a tired tone. He doesn't display a bouncing spirit nor is his musicianship like hers.

[@keithwinter7721]

blonde drespresso

[@worstnightmare885]

OH MY!! HAHA! sorry about that ^_^ my bad . . .

[@freeqwerqwer]

It's obvious that the pianist is better than the violinist. The violinist's tone is a bit maudlin and his timing somewhat drags.This duo reminds of the rabbit vs. turtle race ....where the violinist can't keep w/ the pianist and she is not stopping but is in full swing of things. She plays as if the piano is the star of the show when it is the reverse. But, in the end, it's fun listening to her. She has a clean, direct, and fun way of interpreting pieces.

[@bloodgrss]

"Yes, the days of the dignity and the integrity of the particular individual performance are behind us, for ever." Wait...I thought you were fredericfranc's "student" and not himself? So how can such an 'innocent' know what the 'old' days were like...or share his drunken musical acumen. and shallow and obvious bigotry? Hmmm... "Welcome to the Tube" indeed; where trolls never die-they simply fade into another identity;-)

[@antekmilka9808]

Awful does not begin to describe it -horrible pianist This has the sensitivity of a truck smashing into a wall .

[@Blueboyo1]

Jealous much ?

[@AthSamaras]

Fantastic prformance (I heared all of the 3 movements). Thanks "worstnightmare885" for uploading, Thanks "cadenza56" for the discriptions.

[@suannlee7018]

Yuja Wang really super glad she is not wearing high heels shoes anymore, but a wonder to listen and watch her playing. A truly great young pianist in the class of Helene Grimaud and Martha Argerich --in time to come, she like Yundi Life is still young.

[@joecheng3344]

+Su Ann Lee I am glad YuJa Wang is on the raise because I kinda disapointed with Yundi Li 's last performance at Hollywood Bowl, so plain!