Yuja goes long at BBC Proms
mainGeoff Cox’s audience photo shows she does have full-length wear in her closet. It just rarely comes out.
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She played Rach 3 with Dresden and Myung Whun Chung.
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Once again, we read what she wore before we read what she played. By the way, did she play well?
Listen for yourself. I find it exquisite.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0008422
I suppose there is nothing new about Ms. Wang playing gorgeously, so it is not news.
It was beautiful beyond belief – incredibly moving. I hadn’t heard her play before, arrived as a skeptic and left as a total convert.
Her playing does sound very fine indeed!!
She played excellently. An amazingly inventive and restrained Rach 3, only letting fly in the third movement.
Have to say in Dublin the night before I thought her interpretation was awful. Didn’t like it at all and I do like her as an artist. Was very unhappy with my quite expensive night out!
She was fab, played Rach 3 and Tea for 2. Explosive, thrilling and fun
Who cares? Legs is what we want….isn’t it? I feel a bit sick…..
That should go without asking
The absolute state of Slipped Disc sometimes
Enquiring minds want to know. She wore too many clothes when she playing in Boston last season – a green dress. Pic here:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2019/02/15/bso-schumann-and-bruckner-make-for-odd-couple/4oDUgR4OMvVSEw7TbwdQPM/story.html
Who’s looking at her when Andris Nelsons is in the room??!!!
By that criterion, probably about 90% of men and 10% of women in the audience.
The trickier question is how many listen actively.
Too busy ogling her legs to even check the spelling of the conductor’s name.
I just assumed the “other sister” must have been conducting… 😛
Did she play superbly as usual, otherwise?…
Myung-whun Chung I assume for conductor?
I’m trying to work out what is news worthy about this post?
Haven’t you got other things to be getting on with?
Nothing.
Are you sure it was Myung-wha conducting? Maybe the dress distracted too much from the fact of recognizing the correct member of the Chung family??
Sadly I thought the headline was referring to how many encores she played. I was disappointed that it was about her dress. I heard her last season with NYP — Brahms concerto. She played 7 encores after her 40+ minute brilliant concerto performance. Those encores were gifts to us in the audience.
Seven?!. You lucky dog. We only got one in Boston – Gluck’s Melodie from “Orfeo and Euridice.”
Aw, Karl, you forgot the other four encores Yuja played at Jordan Hall on May 11, 2018 (even though she’d had to cancel the first part of her tour due to illness and was still feeling a bit sick that night!):
MENDELSSOHN
Songs Without Words, Op. 67: 2
(see clip by SiMon from recital on YouTube)
PROKOFIEV
7th Sonate: finale
RACHMANINOFF
Vocalise
SCHUBERT/LISZT
Gretchen am Spinnrade
GLUCK/SGAMBATI
Melodie
When she played the Schumann with the BSO last February, she encored the Mendelssohn again, followed by Schumann: Der Kontrabandiste. I wasn’t crazy about her approach to the concerto’s 1st movement, but the rest was stunning…couldn’t take my ears offer her!
I’ve heard that in Miss Wang concerts, audiences do not ask for encores because the soloist plays so well, but because she wants her to stumble on the podium with her high heels. It’s a thrill: Part of the audience is waiting for the fall – in the dust with Yuja.
But what did she wear??? That’s the important thing.
Wow! You lucky things☺
A Gift – Really? And what about the orchestra musicians who have to listen to the 7 more or less tastefully selected encores? Maybe they are thirsty or do not like to see a naked house anymore ..
==Myung Wha Chung
His sister is Kyung Wha
Esther, sorry to miss you. Yuja can really play the piano!
There seems to be some confusion with the Chung family. Myung Wung Chung is a conductor, male and Mung Wha Chung is a cellist, female. So I think you might have meant…. her sister is Kung Wha
Wrong, Nigel….
really wrong….
Actually, pianist/conductor Myung-Whun Chung has several siblings including his older sisters cellist Myung-Wha and violinist Kyung-Wha.
Wonderful playing thanks for the link!
And she’s hot in long or short.
We need more rock stars like her that not only attract attention but deliver the music in an authentic manner.
Please explain the relationship between hot pants, a 75% naked female body and the authenticity of a Beethoven or Rachmaninoff concert. Thanks!
A ‘full length dress’ and yet I can still see the ‘full length’ of her bare leg.
Would you prefer that she amputate it so you’re not bothered?
I would like to see equal attention paid to the sartorial choices of mail performers (long tie? bow tie? no tie? undershirt showing? trousers properly fitted, or too tight across the front? etc etc etc) OR — and here’s an idea — let’s just skip the comments on appearance and just talk about the music? The fact that NL comments only on women’s dress is … obvious. It’s very public ogling that he invites the world to experience vicariously. Reducing women performers to what they look like … and then feeling astonished that there seems to be some sexual harassment problem in the classical music world. Dim.
“MAIL performers”? Are you suggesting that we LETTER alone?
If a male classical musician performed while showing that much skin on their arms, legs, shoulders, and back, it would be newsworthy.
Congrats on an absolutely idiotic comment.
Congratulating yourself is in poor taste.
Acquiring some understanding of irony and sarcasm might help.
Sorry, it’s the wearer who invites the ogling (if any). It’s called “exhibitionism”, if you haven’t heard that word before. Pity; she just needs to concentrate on being a unique MUSICAL individual. But, as some have suggested, if her livery attracts people towards music (I’m skeptical) then I guess it works.
Myung Wha must be laughing her ass off – it’s her brother who is conducting.
M W Chung has not improved as a conductor in 25 years ….
Really good performance – pity Norman only interested in the dress!
Pleased to see my photograph! Must add that Yuja Wang gave an impressive performance as soloist in Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto. Beautiful or virtuosic playing as required by the score. You can read more about this BBC Prom at https://www.facebook.com/geoff.cox.921
I prefer Kathia Buniatishvili in this style. She plays better and is more beautiful.
How unfortunate for you to be not only very short-sighted but also tone-deaf.
Apparenthly tihs affecths teh spelling ability also….
And what about Trifonov? He too is young and has nice legs.
Well, that looks a whole like more elegant and stylish.
I have no idea why people go bonkers over Wang’s playing. A lot of pounding, directionless playing, boring musically, with a terrific technique, which serves no purpose other than drawing attention to itself. But nice outfits.
Since you have “no idea”, here is one possibility: they hear in her playing something that you don’t. So maybe you should try to concentrate more on listening to the music instead of looking at “nice outfits”.
Nice outfits? Yes, maybe if MIss Wang works in a bar in Bangkok or earns her money with table-dancing.
Yuja Wang must draw more comments, quite often snarky, than nearly any other topic on this blog. Rather pathetic, it says volumes about certain commenters.
Why is this news? How is this relevant?
Modesty is the best policy. The New Testament is your guide to heavenly fashion design found somewhere within its pages.
Why is what she wore worthy of comment when she is brilliant enough to play the Rach 3? Tell us about her performance, or were you just there to stare at the pianist’s body? What is the matter with you?
More interested in how she played!
Equal opportunity requires mention of Mitsuko uchida’s silk pyjamas, the loveliest to be seen on any concert stage today.
For”gentlemen, Andas Schiff’s high-water trousers, Thibaudet’s red socks, Ozawa’s Nehru jackets, or Chick Corea and Daniel Barenboim’s open collars.
Has anybody noticed that Ms. Wang’s provocative slits in her livery ALWAYS face the audience? They are seldom, if ever, on the orchestral side – where nobody except colleagues can see!!
You certainly have noticed – congratulations!
I’m coming rather late to this thread, which is good since I’ve read the many inevitable and easy-to-predict comments. Very clever of you, Norman! You know exactly how to get lots of action from a post, with point-counterpoint arguments from serious to snarky.
By the way, I’m listening to this performance right now, while it’s still available on BBC. It’s excellent in every way, and “tasteful,” too which is not a sure thing with Yuja Wang in such a warhorse. Unfortunately, though, I’m also tied to my computer screen, with only one shot of the dress to stare at. Pity.