Yuja Wang - Scriabin: Piano Sonata No.10, Op.70 (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin / 2018)

Yuja Wang’s philosophy of music is both simple and profoundly complex. “I want to relate all life to music,” she recently told veteran British critic Fiona Maddocks. The Beijing-born pianist’s latest album for Deutsche Grammophon captures the white heat of solo works by Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Scriabin and Ligeti, a trio of Russians together with one of the late 20th-century’s greatest composers. The Berlin Recital was recorded live this summer at the Berlin Philharmonie’s Kammermusiksaal during Yuja’s extensive solo tour of North America and Europe.
Yuja Wang - Scriabin: Piano Sonata No.10, Op.70 (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin / 2018)
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[@FoziCoD]

She sing every notes of every sentences, this is horribly beautiful.

[@michaelschefold3299]

Finally available, Scriabin's last sonata, he called it the "insect-sonata". "Insects are mystical beeings-born from the sun" (Alexander Scriabin). Listen to this phenomenal interpretation of one of the best pieces ever written. No thrill is like the other, an interpretation out of this world! I was so lucky to hear and see this live in Zürich- the audience was speechless, you could hear a needle falling down. It was one of the rare moments, music transported the audience into another sphere. Thank you, Yuja!!!

[@mariodisarli1022]

Michael Schefold: "Agree with you! All her interpretations are closer to the composer than Horowitz' . Also listen to her Scarlatti K87! Breathtaking!" Incredible! Do you present yourself as a connoisseur of the Russian composer Scriabin ?! Horowitz was born, grew up and became a famous musician in Russia! He knew the culture of this country and its soul, knew Russian composers and their music! And you, the representative of Deutsche Grammophone, dared to assert that the American-Chinese version of the performance of Scriabin's music is a masterpiece ?! Listen to the performance of this sonata by Scriabin by Russian famous pianists Vladimir Sofronitsky and Heinrich Neuhaus! Yuya Vang should play country music and leave Russian (and European too) composers alone! By the way, Deutsche Gramophone, presenting the music of Russian composers performed by Yui Wang, violates the sanctions against Russia put forward by President Trump, Chancellor Merkel and the European Union!

[@saintansele]

"audience was speechless". I have seen this many times in my long career of recital attendance when Scriabin was on the program. Audiences love Scriabin when they get the chance to hear him "live". A very great master indeed.

[@mariodisarli1022]

@@saintansele @saintansele Scriabin died in 1915. When did you hear him live? How old are you? What do you think, would the great composer Scriabin be very pleased if his works were performed by such pianists: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJu0qqJ6aNB6raM Who is Yuja Wang? Product PR and show industry! An absolutely ordinary pianist who is being dragged onto the stage by mafia structures for the sexual entertainment of a bored crowd! Her videos and interviews multiply at the rate of cholera spread! She filled the entire Internet with her "art" consisting of a half-naked body. We all must finally say: enough !!!

[@Paroles_et_Musique]

@@mariodisarli1022 , well, not like I disagree with her being rather mediocre musically ( at the level she would want to be), but frankly your arguments beside that, industry, sexual, naked body, are ridiculous. She is a phenomenon technically, with prodigious memory, already gigantic repertory, the other details don't matter. She is doing outstanding job and deserves respect.

[@saintansele]

@@mariodisarli1022 Sorry to have abbreviated. Meant:...audiences love Scriabin('s music)...&...hear him (played) live. It is great to converse with Scriabinists, there are too few, IMO. I am in my 80s, attended hundreds of recitals over the years in So Calif, played many Scriabin works my self (im a mere hobbyist), & I was a member of the official Scriabin Society of America (NYC) years ago. I saw Ashkenazy play much Scriabin & Slobodyanik play Son 6, audiences were in awe. I mention these 2 among many artists.

[@globalc3849]

This is a prime example of someone with infinite technique putting it at complete service to the music. Absolutely breathtaking performance. I love to see artist mature into music like this. Bravo!

[@Scriabin_fan]

This is my favorite piano sonata of all time. Ms. Wang plays it so perfectly here. 5:32 always gives me chills.

[@alamudesky1959]

Why ?

[@globalc3849]

Other worldly. Pure genius playing a work of genius.

[@noirvalentin]

I can hardly imagine a better performance. Also, the sound and image are really good.

[@svartmetall]

For sheer ecstatic abandon I still don't think I've heard anyone top Igor Zhukov in this (in fact his whole cycle is superb, I truly think his 6th, 8th and 10th are unmatched even by Sofronitsky), but this is still an excellent performance.

[@noirvalentin]

svartmetall I’m glad you mentioned Zhukov, I’m a huge fan

[@mysterium364]

@@svartmetall Zhukov also has a great Vers La Flamme recording! I like only Richter's interpretation better. I would love to hear Yuja Wang play Vers la Flamme someday.

[@DihelsonMendonca]

In all performances, no matter who plays, there's always this comment: "This is the best one". Só, people just have a taste personal opinion. 😊

[@thierryranger2230]

This girl's Scriabin, unreal she was born to play his music.

[@Poeme340]

I always love hearing a fresh interpretation of this uniquely beautiful piece by a virtuoso. You can hear the reverence she has for Scriabin in every note. Glorious-Thank you, Yuja!👍

[@BromeliadBro]

Her technique really is incredible.

[@rollandpi]

Toujours impressionnante,Yuja Wang,et très en osmose avec ce compositeur,ses préludes et autres poèmes joués par elle avec une sensibilité,sensualité aussi raffinées qu'exactes et précises...C'est grandiose de maestria....On reste sans voix,charmé.

[@meriadocbrandebouc]

What a superb interpretation of my favourite of Scriabin sonatas! *_* I'm speechless.

[@mariodisarli1022]

Great clown!!! The New York Times Review: Yuja Wang, Trying Comedy, Shows How Funny Virtuosity Can Be The pianist Yuja Wang took a break from her typical concerts for a no-less-virtuosic comedy show at Zankel Hall on Monday.CreditMichelle V. Agins/The New York Times By Joshua Barone Feb. 12, 2019 In all seriousness: What can’t Yuja Wang do? This star pianist has built her reputation on breathtaking mastery of the standard repertory, like the chamber works she played last Wednesday with the violinist Leonidas Kavakos at Carnegie Hall. Or Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, which she’ll do with the Boston Symphony Orchestra later this week. But in between those two dates, she stopped by Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on Monday for something entirely different: a comedy show. One with music, of course. And, as always, she was radiant in Rachmaninoff and Lutoslawski. But there was - more. She rapped! She sang and danced through a “West Side Story” medley! She did one-legged, upside-down yoga on a piano bench! And along the way, she never lost an ounce of virtuosity.

[@mariodisarli1022]

Wow! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIbPYYKElMurbrs

[@lindacox3062]

I love Yuja's playing look at how much she is enjoying playing this. She is a treasure beyond words.

[@SEBANOWITZ]

Yuja Wang montre une nouvelle fois qu'elle est une très grande Scriabinienne. Cette œuvre est encore plus folle que "vers la flamme", la façon dont Scriabine arrive à organiser sa folie en rendant son harmonie d'accords treizième renversées et altérés parfaitement intelligible, tout cela dans un geste à la fois contemporain et romantique, est fascinant. Personne n'a su faire aussi bien dans le genre après lui.

[@basha0810]

In the world we're living in, this song fits in beautifully. It should be in a movie. ❤

[@robertmicelli2946]

She is beyond belief astounding!

[@user-hj2lm3zn9b]

Невероятная пианистка, Безумно красивая игра.

[@TobiasBruel1996]

When you put ads in this piece of music you are a cruel person

[@mcrettable]

why... how else does yuja and deutsche make money?

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

First pay , and complain after .

[@mauricemusician7636]

I think it's the ads in the middle of the music. It's like cutting to commercial between the pitch & the catch instead of between innings.

[@saltech3444]

Scriabin's 10th Piano Sonata "Insect Sonata" Sonata Form 0:02 Exposition 0:02 Theme A - Soft And Pure 2:21 Theme B - Exaltation (Note that a third theme, the trilling "insect theme", repeatedly interrupts and obscures both themes, for example at 1:38) 3:58 Development 8:09 Recapitulation

[@enriquerivera2271]

¡Qué magnífica pianista!

[@whatgivesit]

what a gift

[@stueystuey1962]

She is amazing. I had never heard this sonata before. Though I am somewhat cognizant of many of the other Scriabin piano sonatas. She is maturing into perhaps the greatest all around pianist ever. Until she does Schoenberg, some Webern and one or two other XXth century masters I withhold declaring her the greatest ever. Please do the Schoenberg concerto, Yuja!

[@michaelschefold3299]

She did and does many 20century masters! Ligeti, Messiaen, Psathas, Lieberman....now she playes the new piano concerto by John Adams written for her! A phenomenal piece in a phenomenal interpretation!

[@timothybolshaw]

I think it is difficult for her to arrange a performance of a relatively unpopular orchestral piece like the Schoenberg concerto. It is easier for her to include composers like Schoenberg in her solo recitals. She has several times played the Schoenberg Suite for Piano Op 25 this year. The Yuja Wang archive has a link to one of the performances (kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5y5ipyCrqh9a5o) I would just mention that I consider composers like Rachmaninov (she plays all four of his piano concertos among other pieces), Prokofiev (she plays all five of his concertos, arguably better than anyone else in history) and Bartok (all three piano concertos, a stern test) to be 20th century composers

[@stueystuey1962]

​@@timothybolshawI get it. There are 5 or 6 Piano Concertos by the so called serialists worthy of performance. They become popular by virtue of one of the performers playing a work. Schoenberg, Carter, Maderna, Babbitt and Wuorinen. There are probably other compositions waiting for a performance. Carters Concerto for piano is one of the greatest works of the late 20th Century.

[@KristaporAttarian.Composer]

Best Scriabin's Piano Sonata No.10 i have ever heard This could be only Yuja

[@MatthewDovetail]

Talented, skilled, deep, perfect. Yuja is simple as that. (at some point I got distracted by the hair in her mouth ahah who else noticed it?)

[@walkercatenaccio]

Perfection. Again .

[@Ivan_1791]

Such a wonderful rendition.

[@tanjanovicic2926]

I see ocean and life in ocean....ocean is soul of someone. Yuja Wang plays very,very soft and magnificent.. 🌹🌹🌹🕊❤

[@OngoingBox]

fantastic performance!!!

[@mauriziofranzini8418]

Ottima Interpretazione! Brava!!!

[@richardhuter2292]

very perfegt!thank you for this great playing

[@antoniofurnari9558]

Monstre Sacré du piano. Inaccessible YUJA WANG ❤️👋👋👋👋👋👋👋🎼💐🎼🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶🎼👋👋

[@jcrossi56]

Enormously entertaining

[@AlessandroZir]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thank you! you made it fully perceptible;

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Culmination of elegance and sensuality .... remake it in mono , some scratches , and you can find again some old sounds ...... Horowitz , Sofronitzky , Neuhaus ........

[@spartybob1]

Refreshing and exciting

[@Desireyso58]

Yuja it's not only a BEAUTIFUL Lady!!! She's So TALENTED too!!!

[@JeanPierreZeidman]

La plus grande pianiste de tous les temps ? Peut-être. Et en plus elle est belle.

[@giovannischiavocampo1993]

wonderful

[@tanjanovicic2926]

Yes,life of ocean is glad and deep.

[@Seaileanu]

She's brilliant. Fight me.

[@litoboy5]

great

[@saintansele]

An omen? Im hearing this great reading of the "insect Son." on 3/15/19, just 2 days after it was posted. Earlier today I got to see thousands of "Painted Lady" butterflies flying past my coastal home in So. Calif, these insects are migrating from Mex to No.Calif. I never have seen this before in my 45 years living here. Horowitz is said to have shaped the hammers on his piano to very sharp points creating his electric & vibrant trademark & his is also unique in Son 10 history.

[@bhastro9959]

totally convincing performance of this musical apothiosis.

[@Fortunfortvej]

So beautiful! One might Think That miss Wang has known Alexander Nikolaevich in an earlier life!

[@Lubawaandme]

БЛИН ! ОНА КРУТО ИГРАЕТ. НЕ ДУМАЛ ЧТО Я КОГДА-ТО ПОЛЮБЛЮ СКРЯБИНА. А ВОТ ЖЕ

[@DanielMartinez-nw1pn]

Thank for the ads 😒😒

[@henkdevries5932]

This young woman is definitely more than just pretty! which is I think important in today's musical culture. Superb and mature musical interpretation. Out of this world! More!

[@mts2]

essa sonata é muito maneira

[@kurtbrendel6610]

I wish I could combine different elements of this performance and the Horowitz recording into a single take

[@peterrowan9955]

My thinking exactly, a man of taste!

[@lanebrain55]

much to like here

[@robertmicelli2946]

She is a credit to the human race

[@etp4379]

Wow, I forgot about the existence of this recording.

[@VanoArts]

7:00

[@williamgabriel2286]

arrival

[@user-lv3yf6my9x]

Beautiful both woman and the music.....Yellow somehow fits this sonata)).

[@fineblanket]

this how i play when the music rooms open during lunchtime

[@BrassicaRappa]

Oh, uh..y - yeah! Me too! Obviously.

[@WEEBLLOM]

What

[@qalaphyll]

what

[@DavidHahnMusic]

Very sensitively and organically played. The 7th is my favorite but I have always loved the sonic mysticism of this piece. ..also would love to take a shower with her!

[@viktorartemiev6147]

Fireflies & swamp lights?

[@VicenteMReyes-vs9nh]

Is this the White Mass sonata?

[@isaacthrpenquinez1098]

That’s the 7th sonata you are thinking of

[@markchiang3449]

How to recite sheet music? :)

[@segmentsAndCurves]

You... practise?

[@markchiang3449]

@@segmentsAndCurves Now I know . :)

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@markchiang3449 :D

[@1498america]

Impresionante capacidad interpretativa de la pianista. Todas las piezas que he escuchado de ella son así. En cuanto a la sonata, con el perdón y el respeto debido al compositor, no me gusta. Me parece absurdo que un pianista de tanto talento deba aprender de memoria una obra semejante. Si Yuja Wang se lo propone podría hacer sus propias improvisaciones. Pero esto es una opinión muy personal, condicionada sin duda por el gusto. Reconozco que mi opinión no es la de un músico, sino sólo la de alguien a quien le gusta la música. Música que tenga armonía, creatividad y un desarrollo melódico que exprese sentido: origen, desarrollo y fin; que sea expresión de belleza y coherencia, que enriquezca el alma y eleve el espíritu. _/\ _

[@jonathansamir8351]

Hermano si no sabes nada del compositor, que es lo que veo no lo critiques. Primero Alexander Scriabin nació en 1872 y murió en 1915. Segundo era ocultista, teósofo, padecía de ligeras paranoias y era sinestesico, su música era totalmente espiritual, escucha más obras de el, y vuelve a escuchar esta. Tercero soy compositor de música de concierto y te digo que está música está muy adelantada a su época, es atonal y/o pantonal, algo que intentó Lizst pero no lo logró y Schoenberg y sus aliados lo logran posteriormente, Debussy es el más cercano a este estilo y ni siquiera llega al nivel de armonía compleja que combina el cromatismo, los octatonismos, las disonancias(7mas Maj y men, 9nas, 11nas, 4tas Aum y 13nas), los closters, los trémolos, los trinos, el contrapunto disonante, los acordes mayores-menores, los acordes aumentados y su escala prometeo, etcétera .Cuarto toda esta música fue una reacción a la música romántica tradición del siglo XIX, al igual que la música impresionista lo fue, esto es música Simbolista, observa un cuadro o un boceto de Gustave Moreau y/o Jean Delville y Verás lo idénticos que son, Scriabin y estos últimos. Quinto escribir y llevar a papel esta música es cincuenta veces más difícil que Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Weber, Schoenberg, Wagner, Chopin, etc ,Te lo digo por experiencia propia, tal vez piensas que el tipo improvisó cualquier cosa, cualquier ritmo, hasta cierto punto tienes razón porque los rusos eran muy buenos improvisando, pero escribir esto es lo difícil no improvisarlo, además Bach improvisaba muchas de sus obras al igual que Beethoven porque dominaban la tecla. Y por Último te digo las sonatas de Scriabin fueron la reacción a casi dos siglos de forma sonata tradicional, que tenían que ser generalmente de 3 o 4 movimientos, que incluso el mismo Beethoven hizo sonatas de dos movimientos. Las sonatas al principio eran de estructura tradicional y eran tonales, a partir de la cinco empieza a experimentar con disonancia y modalismos, pero sigue con armadura de clave, ya con la 6 crea un sistema armónico nuevo, que el mismo Prokofiev denominó complejo, imosible e impresionante, un sistema armónico que empieza con su obra Feuillet d' álbum op 58 y termina con sus dos ultimas obras, Cinco Preludios op 74 y L' Acte Prealable(preludio) para Mysterium(obra sinfónica que debía ser interpretada en Los Himalayas en un templo, en el que se iban a unir todas las artes de la época, creando una única experiencia sinestesica que transportaría a todos los seres humanos a vivir en un plano astral. En fin con esto te digo estudia más sobre el ya también tuve esa impresión al principio con una obra de el Verse la flamme, de sus últimas obras. Saludo

[@jonathansamir8351]

Además debes replantearte que es música, y técnicamente hablando sus obras son de un gran desarrollo excepto las más pequeñas(Preludios, poemas) porque no es necesario. Está música enriquece definitivamente al alma, y es bella y tiene coherencia, el problema es que estás arraigado al concepto de resolución tonal, que claramente en la música atonal no existe, ya que es la reacción a este. Y su y créeme te puede transportar a otros planos. Busca sus poema sinfónicos, Poema divino , Prometeo, o su otro poema el Poema del extasis, también busca Prefatory Action, son de sus mejores obras sinfónicas. Dentro su obra pianística busca Deux Danses Op.73,Verse la flamme, Sonata no8, Sonata no 4 y 5. Preludio op 59 en fin busca

[@1498america]

@@jonathansamir8351 , muchas gracias por el interés en responder al comentario que hice. Muchas gracias por toda la información didáctica aportada, la aprecio y respeto. No soy músico, mucho menos compositor. Simplemente soy un amante de ese arte en la medida en que su contenido trasmita un mensaje de coherencia unido a belleza. En la medida en la que sea una expresión creativa con un mensaje de vida en el lenguaje del autor. No pongo en duda que en la música de Aleksandr Nikoláievich Skriabin​​​​ exista un altísimo valor artístico y hasta espiritual que personalmente no he podido percibir aún. Además lo que he escuchado de él es muy poco. Mi comentario estuvo dirigido exclusivamente a la pieza que interpretó Yuja Wang, la cual me pareció de una altísima dificultad técnica y ejecutiva, así lo aprecié. La música del compositor como tal no resonó conmigo. Admiro mucho a Yuja Wang como pianista. Me osombro cuando veo la capacidad interpretativa de piezas tan complejas ejecutadas de memoria pero saliendo con maestría viva de su propio corazón. Y esto no sólo lo aprecio en ella sino en tantos otros grandes intérpretes virtuosos de hoy. Por ello mi reacción al verla ejecutar de memoria lo que para mí no pasa de ser una muy exigente improvisación ajena que, además, como música no me gustó. No me gustó ni gusta quizás porque no he aprendido su lenguaje o porque expresa una postura existencial que me resulta antagónica. No toda luz, por el hecho de ser luz, sirve para iluminar al alma. Hay que discernir. Gracias de nuevo por sus palabras. Deseo que esté usted muy bien. Atentamente, Miguel Saturno _/\ _

[@jonathansamir8351]

De nada, solo fue una aclaración necesaria, ya que observo que puede ser neófito en este arte, le sugiero que busque otras obras de el. De todos modos lo único que el quiso exponer con esta obra fue un concepto ocultista: Los insectos son hijos del Sol. Es muy simbolista, expresa su amor a toda forma de vida, ya que para el todo pertenece o es parte del Adi Buddha o Logos(Expresión Universal). Scriabin era un poeta simbolista no confesado. Y Como le digo la música de cada compositor revela sus más íntimos secretos, revela sus necesidades, su forma de ser, por eso surgen los estilos personales y los grupales. Y para entender la música simbolista, que en realidad es una vision estética muy común en la música, es muy complejo, ya que como tal no existe una época simbolista para ningún tipo de manifestación artística debido a que siempre hubo arte ritual, destinado a las Verdades Absolutas, como las Pasiones de Bach, o el Mesias de Handel, los Cantos gregorianos, la música hindu, los Cantos y rituales con instrumentos de viento y percusión de los Tibetanos, las piezas ritualisticas masónicas de Mozart, la música cristiana de Liszt, y posteriormente la Música rosa cruz de Erik Satie, la Música teosofica de Scriabin y de Dane Rudhyar, en fin para que continuar. Puntualizando hay muchos estilos para componer que se han ido refinando y complejizando, le recomiendo a que busca en un canal de KZbin que es específico para la música de vanguardia o contemporánea, se llama Wellez Theatre, tiene diferentes versiones, tal vez así pueda entender mejor las músicas Posteriores a la etapa del Romanticismo que son el Impresionismo, Simbolismo, Expresionismo, Folklorismo, Primitivismo, Neobarroco, Neoclasicismo, Aleatorismo, Serialismo, Música Electro acústica, Eclecticismo, Minimalismo, etc. Es decir todo el pensamiento estilístico Modernista incluso el Posmodernista. Y si desea entender, solo si desea comprender mejor el pensamiento de Scriabin y el de los Simbolistas de la música, indague sobre la Teosofía, el Esoterismo, el Tantra Budista, la Alquimia, los poetas, pintores y escritores simbolistas, los ocultistas de fines del siglo XIX, y principalmente sobre Josephin Peladan, escritor simbolista y ocultista, que fue muy influyente para otros escritores de la misma época y posteriores, también lo fue para artistas plásticos de la índole de Khnopff, Delville o Böcklin. Y para que mencionar la influencia que ejerció en compositores tan buenos como Debussy y Satie. Concluyendo un saludo y que viva el arte, y que la igualdad, el respeto y las maneras diferentes de expresar a través de estos se propague bellamente.

[@jonathansamir8351]

Ah y se me olvidó, el concepto de belleza estética y coherencia depende de la persona, del estilo y del momento, es decir filosóficamente no es algo rígido , no existe un solo tipo de belleza que sea la real, ya que todo en la vida es impermanente; Por ejemplo Stravinsky pasó por diferentes etapas y primero pasó de un Nacionalismo refinado a un Folklorismo y posteriormente a un Primitivismo, después de esta primera etapa folclórica pasó a un Neoclasicismo y al final de su vida llegó a ser un compositor del estilo del Serialismo,por eso le digo recuerde siempre esto, el estilo y la forma no hacen que una obra sea bella o fea, coherente o incoherente eso depende del gusto y de la persona. Saludos

[@viktorartemiev6147]

Mice?

[@oscarbasza]

Amazing performance! This piece inspired me to write my own original piano sonata - "Second Praise". Check it out if you have some time!

[@thecontinuum1284]

I like Yuja, but at 2:37 I gave up. Imho, she sounds like she's playing Jacks with ebony and ivory.

[@SuperWave86]

Awesome interpretation of Scriabin! Love his Chromaticism and his delicate pianist areas that are very atmospheric! 🎹 Lovely 😘 dress Yuja is wearing very hot and plays fantastic she's so hot! 🔥 👅 lol 😆

[@dalethomasdewitt]

It's not counterpoint. 1:44

[@accs4]

It's kind of like a casual run-through to make sure she remembers everything

[@bloodgrss]

Did you forget your perceptive brain when listening?

[@JoeLinux2000]

If so, it's one of the most perfect run throughs I've ever heard.

[@accs4]

@@JoeLinux2000 😬

[@bootman26]

I'm an old creep, but I wish I could live to see Yuja old, fat, and gray, and listen to her perfoming as the best pianist of the 21st century.

[@bloodgrss]

Since many of the greats of the 20th century did much of their best in younger years, why do you need to wait the potential and just hear the best of today? No decay of look required...

[@bootman26]

As I read my comment again, it does sound pretty stupid. My point, of course, is that Yuja's already amazing, but I hope to be around (and I hope Yuja is around) in 20 years so I can hear her then. By the way, I LOVED Yuja's performance of this Scriabin sonata.

[@bloodgrss]

@@bootman26 Your comment was not stupid at all! Some , tho. may think 'maturity' is a matter of age. But, in music, it can be inspiration and freshness of thought that sometimes takes the cake. I also hope to be here in 20 years; Yuja may not be wearing her short dresses then, but how interesting it will be indeed to hear how her vision of works may have changed. Fascinatingly different, if not always better than she has already done. I also hope at that age, she will still bring into the world of music the sheer joy she does; a classical world that to often is grim 'seriousness'.All the best to you...

[@JoeLinux2000]

I think you will find she ages quite well. I play tennis with a Chinese woman who is twice her age, and you could mistake one for the other. The lady I play with is highly skilled at amateur tennis. She is more mobile than most of the rest of us.

[@bloodgrss]

@@JoeLinux2000 And, Yuja is devoted to yoga...

[@dayan5402]

Great performance again. Can it be more like humanized insects living their emotional lives on the keyboard? I really don't know ;)

[@mariodisarli1022]

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[@thehypnotist9750]

Is this piece supposed to be reminiscent of insects? It's always reminded me of a documentary about bugs for some reason

[@dayan5402]

@@thehypnotist9750 I suppose. However, what it mimics is just the string that the thoughts hang on to. In the end, what matters is great music.

[@thehypnotist9750]

@@dayan5402 True that. I just find it crazy that it always reminded me of bugs even though I had no idea it was even supposed to.

[@Whatismusic123]

enjoy the music not your delusions, you aren't being reminded by anything other than your predisposed beliefs.

[@Piflaser]

Excuse me, but the result is for me more Ives than Skrjabin. She is playing so soft and too beautiful. Very interesting, but the Skrjabin I imaginate is more erratic and strong. It is the Skrjabin of the great Russian pianists.

[@hugowilliams1988]

we don't need 100 pianists playing this piece just Scriabin did.

[@johnmusic1923]

This piece is scary a little for me.

[@DavenH]

The great part about Scriabin's sonatas is if you hit a wrong note, it sounds more harmonious! just a joke :-)

[@segmentsAndCurves]

Now listen here, you little...

[@WEEBLLOM]

No

[@user-qm1xk9xk2w]

horrible, absolutely horrible. she just runs through this music carelessly, not a single phrase was given a meaning. So much money for a ticket just to listen to a 2-3 hour worth of work, that apparently was put into learning of this piece(maybe even less). With this, no wonder some people think late scriabin is a joke

[@Whatismusic123]

Terrible interpretation.

[@13kmawayfromyou39]

you read the first 20 pages of a music theory book and now think you can critize one of the most accomplished pianists of the century. congrats you narcisistic little prick

[@Calagat]

I can imagine the female praying mantis eating the male one.Especially the one wearing the yellow dress.

[@JoeLinux2000]

More true to life than you realize. It is the way of beautiful women.

[@Calagat]

@@JoeLinux2000 I'm for more women composers and an advocate for 7/8 sized pianos.Although Yujia can reach a tenth quite comfortably.

[@frankfeldman6657]

It's very, very good. But it sent me back to the Horowitz, which is, needless to say, better.

[@JA-zs7fw]

horowits overrated

[@bloodgrss]

Listen with your ears, not worshipful fandom...

[@Piflaser]

@@JA-zs7fw No!

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@bloodgrss That's just a false dilemma.

[@bloodgrss]

@@segmentsAndCurves Hmm, really not sure what rational point you are trying to make. My comment stands...

[@teddythemlgcorgi7309]

Childish compared to Horowitz

[@bloodgrss]

Childish post when compared to real musical understanding..

[@teddythemlgcorgi7309]

@@bloodgrss wtf does that even mean? Horowitz and yuja don’t even compare

[@bloodgrss]

@@teddythemlgcorgi7309 Your lack of understanding anything here is no surprise! And, yes, compare, for example, the 'mature' Horowitz 1977 performance of Liszt's sonata and it embarrassing mistakes, with Yuja's 2 here on the tubes. There is, as you say, no comparison in the quality of Ms. Wang over him.. Thus, again, does blind hero worship masquerade for a veracious critical ear. Mere personal prejudice and fanaticism...ho hum.

[@teddythemlgcorgi7309]

@@bloodgrss who cares if it has wrong notes? Is that really what music is all about? Playing the notes right with nothing else? If so Beethoven would have to disagree with you. Horowitzs playing reaches levels of profoundness yuja can never dream of. And don’t forgot his early years, look at his earlier recording of the same sonata and it is almost technically perfect! He didn’t have great technique, but what he did in his later life trumps anything any other pianists have done.

[@teddythemlgcorgi7309]

@@bloodgrss well no.... my lack of understanding is cause some of the sentences you say make 0 sense.... can tell English isn’t your first language

[@Dichweed]

All she does, when playing Scriabin, is desecrate it.

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

(Mark 8:36) 'For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?' Specially gifted artists are mortals like the rest of us. In their art, they mostly seek their own pleasure. We should not be in awe of them. Scriabin composed this piece near the end of his life, at the height of his powers. He was involved in a bizarre pseudo-philosophical and religious cult of the time, called 'theosophy'. He probably did not realize that a bizarre medical condition would suddenly strike him dead at the age of 43.

[@JoeLinux2000]

I'm a fan of Clemens, but I don't think his remark necessarily applies to Yuja. She is no charlatan. She is actually quite an exceptional human who does what she likes to the best of her ability.

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

@@JoeLinux2000 It's one thing to do exceptional things which one likes doing, because one has been granted both the capacity and the opportunity. It's another to sacrifice oneself, even one's legitimate desires, for the good of others. Those who do the latter are the truly exceptional ones. Some of these may escape public notice entirely.