Yuja Wang Toccata Prokofieff ECHO 2011

[@walternicolich895]

ADORABLE AND AGREAT TALENT

[@Lukethesavior]

Compared to 2019, this performance is a bit lacking, but still way way ahead on the amazingness scale.

[@s.c.1494]

Yes, compared this performance in 2011 when she was 24 to the encore piece performed to Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in 2018 when she was 31 playing with the Berlin Phil, there is some disconnects in this performance. Well it actually is not the entire piece; it's only the second half. So maybe that explains the disconnects or lacking one feels. But perhaps it also shows that Yuja is getting better as she ages, which is quite incredible considering how impeccable she already was at a younger age.

[@20891]

You are lacking

[@ihatetheparty6340]

MIRROR< MIRROR ON THE WALL: Es gibt nicht bessere, keins ist schoener als YUJA WANG!

[@michaelpearson6746]

🍋🍋🍋 THE HORN ON EAST AFRICA IS ALADDIN'S LAMP AND KRISHNA'S PEACOCK FEATHER. I AM POLISHING MY LAMP FOR THIS... THE INFINITE BLUE WATER MULTIVERSE IS A GIANT MUSICAL... IN THE MILKY WAY ALONE THERE ARE 100,000 STAGES. 💗

[@三猫-u2b]

她是个绝对的天才。作为一个中国人，我为她骄傲。She is an ultimate prodigy. As a Chinese, I am proud of her, her super performance.

[@lemu7738]

I am also so ^proud of this alien of the music!

[@orangewedges]

I wish she got to play the whole piece...it's really impressive when she does!

[@checallo]

Yuja Wang is kind of magic

[@fongyinlee4312]

talent matched by beauty. poetry in motion.

[@nevilledarman8n21]

Not only beautiful but talented 👌😍😍😍🇦🇺

[@klauskastner1930]

Yuja Wang: absolutely the best I ever heared!

[@ihatetheparty6340]

We are all going to die horrible deaths someday and our rotting bodies will turn into manure. But this music makes it all worthwhile --- and it's immortal! So .... embrace it my friends, amd replay it while your are sleeping at night,

[@mckavitt13]

I do, I do.

[@mckavitt13]

+Georges Cancan Oh, grow up.

[@lovemetu]

OMG, is the sick multi ID Yuja Wang troll still around ? eg ''Georges Cancan'' in this instance !!

[@lindairisrosen8509]

Georges Cancan troll

[@mariodisarli1022]

Classical music? No! Western consumerism !!! Pop music?? Show?? Pop music has, for several decades, found that the "show" is even more important than the music. Think of all the top female pop performers of recent times - their shows are spectacular (as are their outfits), while the actual music is definitely secondary (sometimes even prerecorded)!!!

[@johnmortlock3421]

well played Yuja Wang. This piece shows a little insanity on the part of Prokofieff! a very dark peice

[@paulcadogan7033]

wonderful musician and I do wish the germans would have avoided the voice over.

[@lovemetu]

Magnificent , Bravo Yuja.

[@1uxo1]

la souplesse du salut de ouf en plus !!! Yuja a tout pour elle, c'est beau de la voir et de l'écouter.............

[@mckavitt13]

William Stewart merveilleux

[@dewirayungsasi6067]

What a brain inside her head??!!!😍😍😍😍

[@stayfree870]

I think I almost see smoke coming from the keys.

[@waterbird91]

SHE MAKES IT LOOK SO EASY. THE PIANO IS A BITCH TO LEARN, I CARRY A BIG STICK WHEN I GET NEAR ONE & HOPE THAT MY PRACTICE SESSIONS GO AS PLANNED. SOI RESPECT THIS GIRL, SHE KNOWS HER "STUFF". SHE'S MAGICAL, PLAYS LIKE A WIZARD!!!!!!!!

[@otiebrown9999]

The flying camera and the beautiful walk by Yuja - is totally stunning!

[@daigo1952]

She does this piece for npr in the Steinway factory. It is very intense, check it out.

[@mariapap8962]

Yup! Great video, that one!

[@archie11941]

Undoubtedly and absolutely the best I've heard and I'm 78.

[@musiclover148]

Stunning. Perfect choice of a piece for the occasion. Dramatic entrance and then the powerful punch of Prokofiev. Yuja, I hope you remember to eat sometimes. I don't know how you have the strength to box with the piano and win. Presumably, you burn up all the calories that way!

[@mariodisarli1022]

The Latin spell "In vestimentis non est sapientia mentis" , translated literally, means The wisdom of the mind is not in clothing . The expression is the Latin version of the Italian proverb, the dress does not make the monk .

[@harryboggon2608]

An absolute genius and a very very beautiful girl

[@WwธิติWwจง]

Harry Boggon

[@mariodisarli1022]

Play on gals, make that money!!! :-) Und in diesem Fall bin ich mir ziemlich sicher, dass es ihm (Profieff) in jeder Hinsicht "gefallen" würde ... Wir sind im 21.Jahrhundert! Das wohl bekannteste Musikstück aus Wagners Ring des Nibelungen, der "Ritt der Walküren". Yuja Wang ist dabei und eine gesamte >Westliche Konsumgesellschaft

[@mariodisarli1022]

Hi John! The method of achieving good results with the help of a naked body is called prostitution!

[@georgescancan7503]

Hi ECHO & Deutsche Grammophon! Stormy Daniels is the best!

[@cesteres]

@@mariodisarli1022 get real. We all use what we got.

[@bennettmarkel7724]

I"m afraid I've become all all Yujed-out, certainly worn out on music as show business.

[@AudiobooksToday]

The volume is a little low. Performance flawless.

[@georgescancan7503]

Yes ! The deeper the neckline of the pianist, the better the sound of Chopin, Prokofieff, ...!!! Sexy Yuja? No! too much vodka, caviar and potatoes!

[@georgescancan7503]

The Latin spell "In vestimentis non est sapientia mentis" , translated literally, means The wisdom of the mind is not in clothing . The expression is the Latin version of the Italian proverb, the dress does not make the monk . respect for this silly girl??? Surely not acceptable to muck about with Schumann's, Chopin's, Tchaikovsky's, ... music in this way! >Yuja Wang, "Kamasutra" music

[@yannickguillon9003]

Bravo et merci Yuja Wang.

[@guzepppi]

THIS IS THE BEST WAY FOR CHINA TO. CONQUER THE WEST THOUGH I DO NOT CONSIDER CHINA AS A CONQUERER.

[@alessandromanfredi4187]

WOW! What beautiful girl!

[@motorhead55maxhead15]

This will be my wedding song!!!

[@mariapap8962]

😂

[@MontyGumby]

OK I'm all for free expression and style but that dress is about 3 inches too short.....

[@kurilladesign]

nobody comes close to her....

[@Bashkii]

Thomas Kurilla Yes, Kathia Buniatisvilly

[@albertocolombo8008]

La bellezza di questa bravissima pianista è di non essersi abbandonata al suo splendido corpo e visino,ma ci ha regalato il suo grande talento ,certamente faticando moltissimo. Doppi Complimenti.

[@aerico36]

que mas podemos decir de esta criatura....Asombrosa !!!

[@thomasjk5994]

merveilleuse Yuga

[@lsbrother]

Yuja !

[@WwธิติWwจง]

jacqueline Thomas

[@georgescancan7503]

Yes ! The deeper the neckline of the pianist, the better the sound of Chopin, Prokofieff, ...!!! Sexy Yuja? No! too much vodka, caviar and potatoes!

[@yurrintinckelsonn812]

This version is lacking compared to her other. She looks unhappy to have to play a chopped version.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Yuja is one of the best proofs of the existence of GOD; she also reinforces my belief that women are the crown of GOD'S creation.

[@meetrieum]

pianist & fassionist..

[@모모눈보라웬디까르르]

유자왕은 요술쟁이. 그많은곡을다

[@aerico36]

Cuanto talento, que maravilla !!!

[@Daneel56]

Impressive. I think she is not human. In any case she is a very cute Martian. Love her.

[@Jasperonomium]

Wow, nice interpretation! It sounded much like a piece from Chopin, somehow. How she intonated the notes and used the pedals it reminded me of a waltz. Weird, interesting, different, good

[@mariodisarli1022]

The Latin spell "In vestimentis non est sapientia mentis" , translated literally, means The wisdom of the mind is not in clothing . The expression is the Latin version of the Italian proverb, the dress does not make the monk .

[@MegaPianogenius]

chopin? are you sure you heard the same piece??

[@mariapap8962]

My thoughts exactly!

[@keechulpark6161]

My wife

[@mckavitt13]

Kee chul Park No mine. 😘😍❤

[@MegaPianogenius]

no my mistress

[@charlescascales647]

She's no one's wife- probably a good thing because no man could keep up with her. Besides, she has stated that she prefers "girls." LOL

[@cesteres]

Sad

[@marcelocabrera257]

TALENTOSA Y BELLA QUE MEJOR CONVINACION

[@santi-w3x]

Simplemente Prokofieff angelical !!!

[@kurtsnider3859]

So crazy! 👐

[@mikepen3477]

could her dress get any shorter?

[@triniju]

The most beautiful and talented woman in music history.

[@pauljohnston3884]

Gee. Ever heard o' Martha Argerich? Well, have ya? Punk?

[@avantikaroy5146]

Heard of Valentina lisitsa?

[@franchelgmarduk114]

Yuja wang gran ejecutante y técnica en piano

[@usuitakumi8179]

3:24 do I sense MIMIMIMIMI? lol

[@shiningdiamond8080]

This is where?

[@rrtrrt-ku7kd]

My goodness, beautiful, her genes need to be propagated! Yuja when your time comes to get married, please, please marry someone with musical talent and multiply these super musical genius to your kids! Classical piano lessons are becoming rare nowadays.

[@georgescancan7503]

THE NEW YORKER by Janet Malcolm " What is one to think of the clothes the twenty-nine-year-old pianist Yuja Wang wears when she performs-extremely short and tight dresses that ride up as she plays, so that she has to tug at them when she has a free hand, or clinging backless gowns that give an impression of near-nakedness (accompanied in all cases by four-inch-high stiletto heels)? In 2011, Mark Swed, the music critic of the L.A. Times, referring to the short and tight orange dress Yuja wore when she played Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl, wrote 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.” Two years later, the New Criterion critic Jay Nordlinger characterized the “shorter-than-short red dress, barely covering her rear,” that Yuja wore for a Carnegie Hall recital as “stripper-wear.” Never has the relationship between what we see at a concert and what we hear come under such perplexing scrutiny. Is the seeing part a distraction (Glenn Gould thought it was) or is it-can it be-a heightening of the musical experience? During the intermission of a recital at Carnegie Hall in May, Yuja changed from the relatively conventional long gold sequinned gown she had worn for the first half, two Brahms Ballades and Schumann’s “Kreisleriana,” into something more characteristically outré. For the second half, Beethoven’s extremely long and difficult Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat, known as the “Hammerklavier,” she wore a dress that was neither short nor long but both: a dark-blue-green number, also sequinned, with a long train on one side-the side not facing the audience-and nothing on the other, so that her right thigh and leg were completely exposed. As she performed, the thigh, splayed by the weight of the torso and the action of the toe working the pedal, looked startlingly large, almost fat, though Yuja is a very slender woman. Her back was bare, thin straps crossing it. She looked like a dominatrix or a lion tamer’s assistant. She had come to tame the beast of a piece, this half-naked woman in sadistic high heels. Take that, and that, Beethoven! ..." Und in diesem Fall bin ich mir ziemlich sicher, dass es ihm (Prokofiev) in jeder Hinsicht gefallen würde ... Wir sind im 21.Jahrhundert! Das wohl bekannteste Musikstück aus Wagners Ring des Nibelungen, der "Ritt der Walküren". Yuja Wang ist dabei, auch eine gesamte >Westliche Konsumgesellschaft

[@mckavitt13]

rrt2360 rrt2360 She is perhaps not the marrying kind.

[@mariodisarli1022]

My goodness, ... Classical music? No! Western consumerism !!! Pop music?? Show?? Pop music has, for several decades, found that the "show" is even more important than the music. Think of all the top female pop performers of recent times - their shows are spectacular (as are their outfits), while the actual music is definitely secondary (sometimes even prerecorded)!!!

[@mckavitt13]

Mario DiSarli No one goes to only to see pop singer Céline Dion, but to hear her. She dresses beautifully, perhaps sensuously, but she is a presence onstage, a big & generous personality &, above all, a voice. I may agree w you about the likes of Britney Spears, but there are some really talented female (& male) singers out there, as there always have been. Look at the rage caused by the Beatles, whose mere sound was the trigger of all that was to follow. What I fail to understand is why you bother to slur Yuja Wang whose dress code obviously offends you & whose pianistic gifts seem to leave you cold? Haven't you anything better to do w your time? You can see that her fans on here remain unconvinced by your (& other critics') arguments to do her musical performances disservice. Why try to fight a tsunami, dear sir, when in the end nothing is heard but that v. thing you seek to silence? Put another way, why try to 'wake up' the dead, as it were, instead of simply seeking other artists whose performances do not fail to please you? PS: I mean you, nor anyone (Britney Spears fans) any disrespect here.

[@celestes.7187]

Mario DiSarli - Actually, I have the opposite reaction to you. I wished she dressed better so people will take her seriously and not judge her on appearances because she is an incredible pianist. Then again, she's free to express herself however she wishes to. All I know is that her playing touches something so many concert pianists fail to in me. For that reason I don't really care if she played naked as long as she continued to play. Genius cannot be put in boxes, which people like you seem to want to do. Just let her be who she is and take your sanctimonious condescension elsewhere. I honestly don't know why you bother commenting under every video of hers. Someone with your attitude could never make good music that touches the soul!! Too much bitterness. The world does not need nor desire the kind of negative energy you embody.

[@nazzarenogovi6843]

Brava e terribilmente sexi

[@hhhqpdj]

What a beauty.

[@ayazmasalacak5800]

Muhteşem.

[@ihatetheparty6340]

Es gibt nicht bessere als Yuja!

[@mckavitt13]

I Hate the Party There probably is, but no matter. We love her & she is fantastic, both to see AND hear. Voilà tout!

[@anjagoller]

That was one really short version. Usually twice as long

[@thuhanguyen2367]

anjagoller yes she started about halfway through the piece, maybe as just a very quick encore

[@anjagoller]

I think they didn't want to hear the whole piece. Didn't seem like an encore.

[@bmgoddard470]

What a rocket incredible BWG

[@laszlostocker2894]

Toll! :)

[@Mp-re1wj]

love her talent but Damn she knows how to dress sexy as hell

[@mikepen3477]

problem is she dresses like a harlot

[@lovemetu]

NO...she dresses as a fashionable young woman does now, especially if you are in any form of the entertainment business.

[@sunnynaire]

Just go on stage, bang as fast and as hard on the piano keyboard. The audience and spectators will surely applause out of courtesy although the music sounds cranky :):)

[@mariodisarli1022]

< Talk Classcal> Forum < Sexualisation of women in the classical music industry> Time and time again people have certainly opined on the presentation of female performers, wether it be Yuja Wang's dress, Lara St. John's CD covers or Anne Sofie Mutter's pose (recently those violinists were pointed out in the worst cd covers thread). Each of these cases, according to different people, have come down to a general conclusion that sexist inclinations of today have influenced their physical appearance (on varying levels). Even on this site there have been debates as to modesty on stage, the importance of appearance, wether women should conduct an orchestra and so on, which all end up boiling down to the same (if not a similar) debate.

[@aerico36]

Siempre dando la nota. Podré saber quien te esctrbe los libretos ??? Patético !!!

[@binbinshen3126]

It takes an angel from the Heaven to play this wonderful piano piece with great skill ! Bravo !

[@mariapap8962]

Wonderful performance but sorry, this is far from being a work of... "angels" 🙄. It's dark, edgy and quite diabolical.

[@purpleowl2075]

'Is it ok to play piano in those shoes?' She's one of the top professional pianists in the world for christ's sake!

[@LaurentPingaultLyon]

Look the Bedouelle study on that topic. He explains why it is easier for a short person to play in high heel than barefoot, because if you have to lower the seat, then the arms are not in the right position. The height of the keyboard above the floor being at a fix value.

[@mariapap8962]

Τhis was at the beginning of her career, but whatever the case that was a pretty valid question and she didn't seem to mind it, so what's YOUR problem?! 🙄

[@paul77035]

And not a single muslim in the audience…….

[@martinhablaespagnol]

aha - so its important that there a muslims in the audience -? or do u hate them - I think u are a bit dumb

[@aerico36]

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[@ParriniMike]

What’s that got to do with her skills and charm? Are you a racist twerp or what? Grow up ffs!

[@aerico36]

Por suerte tampoco esta vos imbecil !!!

[@Alasgar.G]

Have you asked everyone about their religion there?