Move over, Clara: Yuja Wang’s coming after Schumann
mainFrom a new interview in Erica Worth’s Pianist magazine (not online):
That is one major concerto I have never played. I heard it so much when I was young. I haven’t touched it yet but I feel like it’s all back there already. But it’s another thing to actually play it. Sometimes you just fell lucky…. I’m learning like a Chinese chef.’
Wonder what she means by that?
Brahms PC 2
Already done … heard it 2 years ago in Zurich from her (she played it very well, BTW). She took it on tour with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra.
Actually, it was three years ago already:
https://bachtrack.com/review-bringuier-wang-zurich-tonhalle-june-2015
I stand corrected 🙂 Actually it was more like a guess. THX anyway.
YW is fantastic, but if there’s one thing the world doesn’t need, it’s yet another version of the Schumann. Isn’t there some other masterpiece she hasn’t performed?
Martinu’s five PCs standing by.
Yes how about Clara’s own piano concerto!
Bortkiewicz, Stanford, Ries…
News flash: Big-name A-list pianist plans to start playing one of the most ubiquitous of concertos.
Now, if she were to say she’d tackle the concertos of Lutoslawski, Furtwangler, or Hamilton Harty, you’d have a story. Or, indeed, the Martinu concertos.
Busoni concerto or Indian Fantasy.
Bliss concerto.
Or how about the concerto by Jean Cras?
How about Clara Wieck’s (later Schumann) Piano Concerto in A minor Op.7? I believe Mariam Batsashvili will play it next year!
Clara Wieck’s concerto is a weak work – not really worth the trouble.
written when she was only 14 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRFgRUrRZXU
She has also performed Tchaikovsky’s 2nd concerto in G Major and the Ravel left-hand concerto.
One really cannot accuse Yuja Wang of only performing warhorses. I think there is definitely room in the catalogue for her Schumann contribution!
She also plays Prokofiev #5, Rachmaninoff #4, Bartok #1, 2 & 3, etc.
The dress she wears has a cheap night club touch. I do not think, that is appropriate dor a classic pianist. Next time we might expect to see eve n more skin and more holes in the dresd? Disgusting
Close the eyes and enjoy the music. And cut the double moral.
Now that IS hilarious coming from the self-righteous moral outrage brigade on SD!!!
I can think of at least half a dozen classical musicians who are usually dressed quite modestly, yet whose interpretations show a “cheap night club touch”…
I much prefer the opposite!
Actually Yuja’s dress designer is Rosemarie Umetsu. [redacted] Yuja and her dress designer have been close friends for many years, during this time Umetsu was accused of frauds numerous times by the Courts. She has a long history of not paying her dress makers. Many of Yuja’s dresses may be made by unpaid workers. This is all from the CBC News article.
Then please go watch one of those that dress the way you like and make you feel sophisticated and socially elevated (yes, watch; clearly this is the most important aspect to you). There are a lot of them on the market.
“The dress she wears has a cheap night club touch. I do not think, that is appropriate dor a classic pianist. Next time we might expect to see eve n more skin and more holes in the dresd? Disgusting”
Thank god we don’t know how you are dressed. (I do hope that you ARE dressed. So many pervs out there.)
So boring. Play better than Yuja and then you might have a claim to criticize her.
Incredible repertoire. The woman must practice endlessly!! And what gifts she has!!
In an intermission interview in front of audience after a stupendous performance of Rach 3, she said that she had done with intense practice since her early 20s.