Yuja Wang goes shoeless in Salzburg
NewsShe makes her unscheduled debut there tonight after Yevgeny Kissin pulled out.
Comments
MOST READ TODAY:
-
Orchestras
Consolation for Klaus Mäkelä after Vienna Phil debut
The over-booked Finn had a hard time at…
-
News
Breaking: Vienna’s New Year’s Day concert is women-only
A new ensemble, La Philharmonica, is putting on…
-
News
Breaking: King Charles backs Monteverdi orchestras – without Gardiner
The King has sent a message of support…
-
Orchestras
UK soloist suffers broken wrist
Message from the BBC Symphony Orchestra: We regret…
She’s wearing sneakers, and it’s a soundcheck. What am I missing here?
Her posture at the piano is *perfect* when she has those unwalkable shoes on. I think they probably help (her) a lot with weight transfer.
More like Yuja goes “soulless”.
All keyboardists looks better in hot pants. Well, maybe not John DeFrancesco.
Re: this blog’s obsession with Yuja’s looks/wardrobe, it’s becoming like E!, People, or the other celebrity rags reporting breathlessly on what they ate n wore, how much weight they’ve lost, who they are sleeping with, who they are rumored to be sleeping with, who they want to be sleeping with…
I think one person we could safely eliminate from that scenario is NL himself.
At the BBC Proms on 12th August playing Liszt’ first piano concerto with the Oslo Philhamonic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/erpqwh
Another attraction of the concert is Klaus Mäkelä conducting Sibelius’ Tapiola following thepr successful Sibelius cucle on Decca.
But can she fill a stadium like Khatia?
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=596082691873859&set=pb.100044164012616.-2207520000..
Wish her all the best of luck. Lovely playing in the above clip, six-inch heels or not!
I see the stiletto heels are on stand-by. Wang has been an incredible master of Bartok and Prokofiev, revealing surprising lyrical left-hand passages in their concertos. I think that people who attend her concerts get to brag.
I just don’t see why this even merits reporting. Even if she were to perform before a packed house, it wouldn’t merit reporting. There is nothing astounding or inappropriate about it and it has no negative impact on the performance.
If I paid for Kissin and I get Yuja, I want my money back.
I remember Alice Sara Ott playing without shoes.
Yuja ALWAYS wears less, and thats fine with me.
Salzburg will love her.
Her debut in Salzburg was in 2016. It’s a debut recital.
Kissin pulled out? What a missed opportunity.
She is amazing! Wish I could attend
Are there any reviews of this Salzburg recital?
She doesn’t seem shoeless to me, she seems to be playing with trainers, if you look well (not that it matters very much, anyway).
Happy to report that her performance was fabulous! 6 encores. Salzburg loved her and gave her a standing ovation. (She played the same recital the week before at the Verbier Festival. Also a fantastic performance.)
If Kissin wanted to actually cancel for protesting against Salzburg’s diffuse Russia relations, he should have said so. You either protest publicly, or you don’t.
Kissin cancelled, as in Verbier (with Mikhail Pletnëv’s poignant Chopin jumping in) because of a wounded hand.
Of course she did. And “Tea for Two” on the stage of the Grosses Festspielhaus in this self-promotion video… It’s all about HER, her, her, her career, her looks, her shoes, her body, her EGO. Whatever happened to the music being front and center?
Performers like this belong in that select group with Netrebko, Kaufmann and his tatoos, the Greek now hailing from Siberia, the misfits who directed and dressed the Bayreuth Ring, et al.