There is no one quite like Yuja...

[GT]

...and her magnificent piano playing. If your system can reproduce the piano with the weight, scale, tone and delicacy of this performance then you have a very good system!

 

[Space is the Place]

She's in one of NPR's field recordings at Steinway...

Lots of wonderful field recording to listen to here...

https://www.npr.org/series/144918893/field-recordings?t=1660391328110

I was quite keen on Valentina Lisitsa my friend sent me her Rachmaninoff Concerto No2 and it's amazing, unfortunately she has aligned herself with Putin, can you separate the art from the artist?

 

[serendipitydawg]

can you separate the art from the artist?

Of course you can, IMHO

 

[narabdela]

...unfortunately she has aligned herself with Putin, can you separate the art from the artist?

Tricky, but personally, I can't.

 

[Mike Reed]

Not familiar with Liszt p.c. 1 but she really is something, both visually and musically. No sheet music in sight either. Unusual first name but Wang is def. Chinese (says my wife).

 

[Ptah]

She was amazing but I thought dear old Clive Myrie was a bit out of his depth interviewing her ('what's your favourite after show drink'!).
Those hotpants must have given the first violins a hard time.

 

[tuga]

I listened to her play a solo recital some 10 or 15 years ago. A fiery performance but not good enough to place her in my favourite pianists list.

 

[tuga]

Those hotpants must have given the first violins a hard time.

I suspect that her looks could be behind her success amongst middle aged and over males, courtesy of YouTube

 

[k90tour]

I've never heard her play Beethoven or Schubert sonatas. They are my personal test. This Prom concert represents everything I don't like about the Proms and classical music marketing. The conductor is very young for his post and is promoted on the basis of his youth. As for Yuja Wang, I just heard the first few minutes of this to check, but the playing is nothing better than competent. No weight of sound, no story telling. Flat and impersonal. Playing Prokofiev and Liszt concertos does give one a chance to show off one's technique, but there has to be something more to say. Here, she has nothing to say. So we have a conductor who is no genius and a good pianist who is known for here skimpy clothes and ability to play lots of difficult notes.

 

[cobbers]

Then check out Martha Argerich's performance from a few years ago,

I think Argerich was 75 at the time

 

[Del monaco]

Then check out Martha Argerich's performance from a few years ago,

Different league altogether.

 

[k90tour]

Argerich is an artist who also plays the piano brilliantly.

 

[cobbers]

i did watch on 4 last night and just thought it was rather 'flash'

 

[narabdela]

i did watch on 4 last night and just thought it was rather 'flash'

Yep. All technique, no soul.

Sex sells though.

 

[Del monaco]

 

[Del monaco]

There’s no-one quite like Argerich!

 

[cobbers]

As for conductor I remember only too well Rattle becoming conductor of the C.B,S.O at 25 - different class altogether.

 

[Alex S]

haha, listening to her Ravel on Audioengine A2s. Still good!

 

[Tantris]

I don’t agree with the negative comments - having seen her at the Verbier festival in other repertoire, my view is that she is remarkably gifted and talented. I don’t find Liszt’s PC1 a particularly attractive work, and would prefer to listen to say, Années de pèlerinage. But that’s Proms programming for you.

I also think she can dress however she chooses.

 

[Del monaco]

I don’t agree with the negative comments - having seen her at the Verbier festival in other repertoire, my view is that she is remarkably gifted and talented. I don’t find Liszt’s PC1 a particularly attractive work, and would prefer to listen to say, Années de pèlerinage. But that’s Proms programming for you.

I also think she can dress however she chooses.

Nothing negative. I agree. But there are plenty like her. Only a few become Great.