Yuja Wang plays Boulez in China
Daily Comfort ZoneThis is an unofficial snatch of some challenging repertoire that Yuja delivered on her homeland tour last month.
Next stop, the Boulez sonata?
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==Next stop, the Boulez sonata?
There are three
But surely you know which of the three to which he referred…
Once you program Boulez into a computer, it will execute flawlessly every time, and the raison d’être for playing Boulez is gone, because his compositions are intended purely to deconstruct rhythmic and dynamic structures, there is no other artistic dimension to explore, the complexity IS the aesthetic, the surface IS the art, the “notations” ARE the music, a human does not add anything more to the perfectly programmed computer.
But I digress because no one goes to a Yuja Wang concert to see what she’ll play, but to see, period.
Right about Boulez, zayin…
…and dead wrong about Wang. Period
Not very nice to say this about Yuja if the rumors are true that Chicago wants Mäkelä, zayin. But I digress because Chicago has no chance either way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCf52zt99Q8
Boulez plays Boulez
Did she screw up the end? Lol. Sounds awesome though. She should tackle sonata no 2!
Not only the end , I am afraid ….
Wang recently recorded the gigue from Schoenberg’s Suite . This piece ( in the form of a canon ) and parts of the first two Sonatas can seem like an offshoot of that piece . She’s a fabulous pianist .
I call this composer (and similar composers) “De Pussy”, as the notes a cat would press walking randomly across a piano would create the ‘composition’.
I couldn’t tell: did she play any wrong notes?
She played a wrong note at 0:18 but it could also have been written like that.
I like this stuff! I always play one pli of Pli selon Pli before I go to bed to have my mental balance restored.
Sally
Bottom line…she sells…just like Muti!
Sonatas 1-3 would be a nifty fit for a recording from Yuja. Idil Biret’s set done Radio France in the mid-’90s is one of the overlooked gems in the Naxos catalogue.