Yuja Wang’s London roadies
OrchestrasCould these be members of the LSO?
Surely not.
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I so look forward to listening to Yuja Wang next January in Philadelphia. She’ll play Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto.
I checked youtube clips on how she approaches the opening chords. Apparently she switched to the original, arpeggiated version.
Here is a video uploaded a year ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVHu5vsZ_Zs
By contrast, in a 2012 video she still plays the more familiar solid chords:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yue6Cb5OULM
I much prefer the later version. The original opening sounds way too effeminate.
How does a woman act effeminate? From what pit did you crawl out of?
To pull off this revised arpeggio opening, it requires really plush strings in support, and rounder horns, which is hard enough for most professional orchestras (much less, alas, this student orchestra), I look forward to your report from your Philadelphia experience next year.
Thanks for these links — great comparison!
Do you plan on meeting her backstage so you can pick her up and hold her along with other groupies?
My ticket is for the third balcony: limited view and good acoustics.
The guy with the beard on the left has a great sense of humor.
Or a strong foot fetish.
Por que no los dos?
Oh my lord, this looks like a photo from a company holiday party that will soon by HR’s worst nightmare.
(Or as they say at the NY Philharmonic, just another day at the office.)
The difference being that YW would have her work cut out explaining how she didn’t enjoy it.
What’s a ‘holiday party’? A brand new, values-free term invented by the Left?
Offices don’t throw parties just for Christian holy days, and Christians don’t get drunk and rapey just at Christmas parties.
Clear enough for you?
Show us on the doll where the scary left hurt you.
Of course it’s the basses of the LSO. It’s all blokes
The guy in leather jacket laughts big
It’s sad that you have to resort to stooping to this waste-of-time garbage in your forum. I guess no noted violist in Zimbabwe passed away???
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZZJ2BnUUzI
The great composers’ first thoughts were not always the best, as many musicologists would have you believe — Puccini’s orignial 1904 Milan “Butterfly”, Carmen’s original aria before the Habanera, “Rejoice greatly” for tenor in Messiah,… all bad ideas.
For all their flaws, first versions sometimes have some fascinating raw thoughts. Bruckner’s 3rd symphony instantly comes to my mind.
Personally I can’t be bothered to consider what is a final or better version. Hearing different versions can be fun, and sometimes enhances our understanding of a work or even of a composer.
I totally look forward to hearing Yuja play (probably) the early version. Will I give away my CD with Marta Argerich? Hell no. I love it and occasionally get back to it. And there is a precious recording with Vassily Sapelnikoff, who had performed under the composer, and he plays block chords.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzYFDtXF0_U
I don’t think that musicologists suggest that first versions are better. There is a lot of disinformation on musicology.
It’s the LSO double bass section! They all went out for a meal on tour, also Yuja had meals with other sections of the LSO! A three week highly successful tour of the Far East with Pappano conducting.
Did Yuja foot the bill?
These are Yuja’s handlers.
As in “man-handlers”?
I absoleutly love to watch you playing. Such a GIFTED Lady.