Yuja Wang's explosive Rach 3 opens the 2023 Verbier Festival with Zubin Mehta

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Sergei Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
3. Finale: Alla breve
Yuja Wang - Pianist
Verbier Festival Orchestra
Zubin Mehta - Conductor
Concert recorded at Salle des Combins (Verbier, Switzerland), on July 14, 2023.
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[@grantgranite1109]

what a pianist. the strength, beauty and elegance...incomparable. Yuja was sweating from the effort. very engaging.

[@kathyyeager6055]

I had the amazing opportunity to see her play this from the second row directly in front of her. That will be 2 years ago and I'm still speechless. You cannot get a sense of her power from the videos ..I've watched a lot! And most impressively..her breathing was audible. I was blown away by the physicality involved in playing to her level of mastery. I'll never get over it

[@karl-heinzhuber5910]

@kathyyeager6055 Thats really right! I saw and hear her 3 weeks ago in Vienna with a recital evening, I was sitting in the first row, directly in 2m distance! No one can imagine her precence on stage! You have to go to see and hear her in concert! She also played 10 encores! Powerful, sensitive, wonderful!

[@amaurylopez5558]

The best still, incomparable, soulful and amazing Ms Yuja Wang 👍👏🏼👏🏼🎼🎶🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

[@m111ark]

Yuja plays with fire and passion, she deserves a conductor who conducts with the same level of fire and passion. Zubin looks like he could fall over any moment.

[@thecatspajamas8918]

Before I saw your comment I was thinking that Mehta looked bored. He is pushing 90 so I’m not expecting him to leap up and down, but I do expect conductors to at least pretend to care. I’ve played in orchestras for 40 years and have the good fortune to have played with Yuja several times, including the four Rachmaninoff piano concertos in one weekend. Nobody sits still when she is playing!

[@dsmacd46]

To cut Mehta's some slack: Maybe he knows how to get what's needed from the orchestra without gesturing like a wild man (I sang in a choir when we were all in robes, director included, and his comment to us was, "The people didn't come to watch me look like I'm trying to fly; watch me carefully and do what you know we want to do." Kept his hands mostly in front of himself ... but his facial expressions! We knew what to do and when!) Maybe Mehta is not feeling well but soldiering-on. Maybe respect for his legendary status alone deserves cutting him some slack. I can't imagine people in that audience went away saying, "Yuja was great, but the orchestra sounded terrible." FWIW

[@AnnaMishel]

Why do I feel, the conductor is not important. I feel, they would do almost the same thing without a conductor.

[@0418502188]

I just love the way she is actually fully immersed in the music. Every time I see her perform I get more impressed in how, through her facial expressions, she appears to be talking to the piano as if it were her child.

[@flavioctiago]

Fills my eyes with tears of joy.

[@georgehahn2979]

Great performance by one of the greatest living pianists.

[@miguelvidaurre7612]

The elegant Concert no 3, enhanced by her playing is out of this world, then the quality of the sound, the high definition showing every key she plays and the passionate music coming from deep of every nerve of her femenine soul, even Yuja sweat adds on to her expression, my living room is a concert hall. Thank you for sharing this beautiful art.

[@normacosme9096]

The beauty of the music really comes out everytime Yujang Wang plays it! Incredible!!!❤❤❤

[@benharmonics]

It’s crazy to think that 45 years ago, Mehta conducted that same piece with Horowitz playing

[@DrDLL99]

And never conducted Rach 3 with anyone in the interim

[@benharmonics]

@@DrDLL99 Really? That's crazy 😳

[@MaScalo4508]

And the orchestra was still out of tempo when she played the final octaves 45 years later…

[@PS-kd1if]

@MaScalo4508 Haha, totally.😅

[@GTXTi-db5xu]

@@DrDLL99No he did, he played with Evgeny Kissin the recording is on my channel.

[@carlosmonsalve2350]

Absolutey amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Rosangela161]

Always magnificent!! Thank you.

[@Rosangela161]

Encore ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐😊🌷

[@alenkapintar8660]

Great pianist and music. Brilliant.

[@INFINITO712]

Gracias, gracias Yuja Wang. Tu vienes de otra dimensión. Única, perfecta, gloriosa, sublime. Gracias !! ❤

[@sabinaceleste1962]

It was just amazing! Will never forget it/

[@ilikechopin8112]

The brass sharp spot-on entries at 1:35 are critical to keep and show these final octaves were perfectly in-sync... piano and orchestra... superb ending of Rach 3, never seen before! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Howardwood-sv2cd]

Again La Maestra dazzles us.Yuja is the world,s leading exponent on Rach.Truly she is Madam Rach.

[@michaelschefold3299]

A better Rach3 isn't possible! She's really the Queen of Piano and worth like no other to play the opening of such a great Festival. ❤❤❤

[@s.c.1494]

Yes! I have no words except wow, wow, wow!!! ❤🎉

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

You two need to consult asap.

[@PS-kd1if]

@Pogouldangeliwitz Agree 100%, need to consult either a music educator or a psychoanalyst.

[@Heather-im5sg]

@@Pogouldangeliwitz Anyone who thinks Pogorelich and Gould are good pianists is immediately disqualified from commenting on pianism.

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

@@Heather-im5sg Hush, child, we're having a discussion among adults here.

[@AnnaMishel]

I LOVE everything Yuja plays. Sometimes I listen again and again. The only way I know if I heard her play it before, is if I remember the dress. They’re also amazing!

[@AnnaMishel]

I am speechless!

[@remuspierre7573]

Beautiful Performance

[@pangtan349]

本世纪最偉大的钢琴演奏家

[@mariapap8962]

How to make Rach3 even more challenging :play it in extreme weather conditions 😂.

[@pangtan349]

本世纪最佳钢琴家

[@marcoschrispim3083]

fantastic.!!!

[@mariatartini1146]

BETTER IMPOSSIBLE!!!

[@user-qf8hw4tj7k]

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[@sofarsogut]

👏👏👏👏 and MORE

[@fulgenjbatista4640]

❤

[@martinforrester8249]

Great to see her again, love her.

[@danielapaparini-jj8kw]

Grazie per il video. Ma che brava!!!

[@AnnaMishel]

OMG!

[@aarongluzman]

Magic 🎹🎶🎹 In the images of a great force the strong character of individuality & originality finds the free woman very beautiful & very likeable Feels that magic in her mystic soul where her smile stays Lives a beautiful miracle In her mystic 🎶soul finds paradise the most mature & beautiful of a particularly seductive femininity That force of maturity and sensibility finds her soul… Occupying a small space of her sentimental life In her heart full of joy like the lotus flower 🌈🌺💖 From the centre emerges the magical beauty Touches a gift of beauty & wonder Of magical passionate love of a mystic 💖 love Of Playing the 🎹 piano 💖 La favola della bella principessa💖 Bravo Yuja 🎹🎵🎹 Wang No One Builds A Legacy 🌹By Standing Still Aronnelife✍ 🏎 🚲📚

[@ivannvillanueva4778]

Her performance leaves you with virtuous piano playing and artistic passion, even without trying she is very sensual, giving her concerts that trade mark of beauty and musicality; no other pianistp comes even close , no wonder people break the bank to buy her concert tickets, this videos serve as a testament to her virtuosity and elegant sensuality.

[@troleg1]

Я бы назвал рядом Екатерину Мечетину. Она так же полностью выкладывается на концертах и ее так же приятно не только слушать, но и видеть

[@ivannvillanueva4778]

Thanks God for youtube, now you made me curious and will look for Ekaterina Mechetina music, suffice to say Russia has a broad range of the greatest classical Composers Rachmaninov and Pianists such as the great piano magician Mr Horowitts.

[@joecrowaz]

Her posture is so perfect... Among other things 💜🥰

[@Fomites]

I was living within walking distance of the Royal Albert Hall London 2017-2020 and I wanted to go to one of her concerts there but was feeling unwell dammit. Such regret.

[@oisacaroline]

essa página é tão incrível!!

[@pangtan349]

羽佳本世纪最好刚琴演奏家

[@Fomites]

I didn't recognise Zubin Mehta. He is fantastic especially at the age of 91 when this was recorded.

[@gottfriedwilhelmvonleibniz9033]

Jesus the brass section was so loud in the ending...

[@Creative_Dialogue]

Agree!

[@skrutten_]

Definitely something from the recording. The microphone for the trumpet was just too close and it wasn't adjusted, not the players' fault.

[@TrainwaySons]

I was there at the opening of Verbier Festival, and indeed I felt like there was a bit too much of brass.

[@amparocasas1855]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@neu4791]

👏

[@jiancai_nocturne]

Please upload Chopin nocturne no.4, op 15/1. Thanks.

[@user-or1gv3kl8y]

🌹🥀🌹

[@Joe-eq4yh]

I hope everyone listened Yunchan Lim interpretation from the Cliburn competition. You are missing out if not.

[@hugowilliams1988]

why ?

[@larkspur77]

​@@hugowilliams1988 A good question. The fan boys don't allow for recognition of the many knuckle breaking pianists who play this wonderfully. They cannot say why Yuchan Lim is great (he is) - that's what's so ridiculous. Also a comment here from "bloodgras" pointed out that Rachmonioff is the real hero / "goat" and he rightfully acknowledges the orchestra and conductor.

[@hugowilliams1988]

Music version of "Truth will set you free "

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Taking breath away fans

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

She is terrific! But I still like Alexander Malofeevs interpretation better. Just my personal choice. They are both incredible artists

[@ebodelbianco5773]

I LOVE YOU TOO

[@gvbrandolini]

Bravi

[@georgetheodoridis3303]

I never watch a video if there are two ads. NEVER! They shit me no end!

[@willyword3413]

rad

[@pangtan349]

大气啊 羽佳

[@chopin-fe2sz]

💯👍🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@blscksholz]

가고싶다

[@blscksholz]

Sweat

[@Plathismo]

Man, was it hot in there or was it just her?

[@Creative_Dialogue]

Terrible recording, great playing!

[@RachJoonoff]

unfortunately...we've been already heard the GOAT Rach3 in 2022

[@Yurz.x]

be open minded. just because his was great doesn't mean hers wasn't. you need to accept all interpretations.

[@bloodgrss]

Such a comment marks you as a fanatic, not a real musical intelligence...

[@larkspur77]

Yes, please tell these fan boys this! Yuchan Lim is incredible and will enrich the music world for years to come one hopes, but there are other pianists, other great even legendary performances of Rach 3: Andrei Gavrilov, Daniil Trifonov is fantastic on this and almost everything else I have heard him play, Yefim Bronfam is a legend for Rach 3 that he has performed around the world, G. Sokolov, here Yuja Wang, and the greats of the past as remarkable Lazar Berman, V. Horowitz of course and so many more. Each brings something else to this masterpiece keeping us interested in what could be labeled a warhorse, but we continue to listen and love it and not tire of it because each musician reveals new insights into this masterpiece.

[@bloodgrss]

@@larkspur77 It may be human nature to compare, but to let it become an MMA competition will indeed blind a person to the music itself, and the many ways dedicated and amazing artists (and that includes the orchestra and conductors) can help us enjoy the genius of the work. The GOAT is Rachmaninoff.

[@Leftyhanded56]

Write English much?

[@davidlee9653]

Thank heaven she cannot play jazz. She'd blow Art Tatum out of ther room

[@DrDLL99]

Somebody take that trumpet away.

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

And the pianist too.

[@DrDLL99]

@@Pogouldangeliwitz Hey guys look, a butt hurt trumpeter

[@PS-kd1if]

@Pogouldangeliwitz Not so fast😀 - she was actually the better of the three components here (the conductor, the orchestra, and the soloist).

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

@@PS-kd1if Even I would be better than Droolin Zeta and his wannabeband 😛

[@oleromer9525]

out of s.....