Yuja Wang - Tea For Two

[@FatSwede]

Just heard her play this live in London, England as an encore at a 'Prom' concert. Scintillating, stunning.

[@Lpmgato1]

Awesome. Yuja Wang is amazing!

[@hamiltoncarvalho2383]

Y es, also in pop music.

[@beckerhanshermann8372]

The world's best bar pianist!

[@margaretahauenstein2501]

She's wonderful

[@markberryhill2715]

Excellent! I love 💘 it!

[@stubbsmusic543]

Nice version of an Art Tatum transcription. We definitely should be having revivals of some of this great music. I thank her for honoring this.

[@philippepagot1561]

Not an Art Tatum transcription but Horowitz's arrangement

[@stubbsmusic543]

@@philippepagot1561 It sounds more like transcription of something Art Tatum would do, but I looked it up and Vladimir Horowitz was an art Tatum fan and even met him and heard him play.

[@philippepagot1561]

@@stubbsmusic543 There are only 3 recorded versions of Tea for Two. You can find here an interview of Oscar PETERSON mentionning Horowitz visiting Tatum and playing his own arrangement to Tatum, then Tatum improvising another version. Horowitz was a great Tatum fan. When we have ime, let's compare with the 3 Tatum versions (1933-1939-1953). You could also listent to Cziffra's Tea for two, obviously very much influnced by Tatum.

[@rogerforsberg3910]

@@philippepagot1561 From someone who's less knowledgable, thank you for this informative comment, M Pagot!

[@musical_lolu4811]

​@philippepagot1561 this is NOT Horowitz's transcription.

[@adrianruiz7137]

Unparalleled Virtuosity!

[@alfredocorreia9385]

MEU DEUS!!! ESSE TOQUE LEMBRA DEMAIS O ESTILO DO GRANDE E GENIAL *ART TATUM* !!! É COMO SE ELE A TIVESSE MEDIUNIZADO NESSA APRESENTAÇÃO!!!

[@Desireyso58]

Yuja Wang. The next step on music. YUJA the Grant.

[@artievipperla2635]

So marvelous. Thanks for posting.

[@davidkappy1122]

earl 'fatha' hines, art tatum, and.....YUJA WANG!?! incredible

[@derCarilloneur]

Sounds like Billy Mayerl, great!

[@DaleHubbard]

She's a genius.

[@TonyTalluri944]

magic girl

[@rogerforsberg3910]

WOW! This is the first time that I've realized that this is a schottische!! That is... (Figure 1) Step-together-step-hop, step-together-step-hop, (Figure 2) step-hop-step-hop-step-hop-step-hop! Thank you, kindly, Yuja Wang!!

[@ebodelbianco5773]

我愛你，我想要你變得愛。 我喜歡您的貓咪，所以每晚與您的音樂一起做夢 Wǒ ài nǐ, wǒ xiǎng yào nǐ biàn dé ài. Wǒ xǐhuān nín de māomī, suǒyǐ měi wǎn yǔ nín de yīnyuè yīqǐ zuòmèng

[@gabchaim8232]

Stravinsky once met Art Tatum. He said : 'i have completely figured out how you did that song. Finally i know how you did it.' Then mr. Tatum replied to Stravinsky: 'Good for you to know how i did it, but do you also know w h y ??'

[@Fomites]

Nice skin 😊

[@johnlinnemeier9624]

Can you imagine the guy who wrote tea for two... Irving Caesar hearing this? He'd be astounded!

[@flooey580]

So would Vincent Youmans!

[@harlemswingorchestra9771]

Whaouuhhh ....

[@i-told-you-sodear1526]

An American jazz song played like a European waltz.

[@ralsei217]

What

[@fryderyckchopin484]

Wtf where is the waltz

[@i-told-you-sodear1526]

@@fryderyckchopin484 That's not how Americans play jazz pop tunes. Not raised in America, she plays that tune in a rigid European Classical music manner.

[@fryderyckchopin484]

@@i-told-you-sodear1526 "only americans can tell" wtf, so proud of yourself right?

[@cageynerd]

it is in 2/4, are you an inbred?

[@rweaver6]

Obviously a nice effort. Yuja does stride! Kudos for venturing into different creative territory. Offering this link to other T42 master performances, for comparison. Pick your favorite. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4uTZaiaaMiGrcU

[@emiliacastiglia1439]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@maurizioghezzer4302]

Certamente un ottima pianista classica ma cimentarsi con Tatum ... si sente che non è affatto il suo genere...totalmente priva di swing e anche NON a tempo...musica classica e jazz sono 2 generi totalmente diversi, mai sentito un pianista anche eccelso padroneggiare entrambi gli stili...

[@dairejamescorrigan]

Keith Jarrett

[@XplusX12345678]

The best modern pianist can barely play an art Tatum piece. Tells me something.

[@jonathanDstrand]

what are you talking about

[@alexleach6307]

Remind me again how often Tatum played Prokofiev's Second Concerto...

[@XplusX12345678]

@@alexleach6307 tatum didn't play classical. He just improvised. He also innovated heavily in reharmonization, passing chords and rhythm changes. That's his contribution to humanities long music history. His Technique was just an added benefit. Charley Parker went on to take Arts innovations and take them to another level.

[@charliegold3227]

@@XplusX12345678 but harmonically, Tatum couldn’t hold a candle against Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev or Schönberg. But his music was quite nice.

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

She's hardly the best. Maybe one of the 4000 best. Ranking between 3560 and 3610...

[@meher7060]

I bet she’s sight reading this!

[@flooey580]

Do you see the pages changing on the iPad? She's not reading anything. She's played this piece as an encore at formal concerts many times, without music. FFS she has multiple piano concertos memorized!

[@alexanderwillis77]

You’re not just wrong, you’re stupid

[@Thy_Metronome]

@@flooey580 Granted meher was probably attempting to compliment her skills as sighting is exceptionally difficult and I agree she definitely has this memorized, but my god her interpretation is so clear and beautiful.

[@ablandouge]

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