The Genius of Yuja Wang

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The Genius of Yuja Wang
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3. Toccatina
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Yuja Wang
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Desiderio Reyso
Desiderio Reyso
1 year ago
She's one of the Virtuoso Musician from this Century!!!

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Carlos Eduardo Barros Rodrigues
Carlos Eduardo Barros Rodrigues
1 month ago
She's really  a genius since she was born.

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Theresa Lutostanski
Theresa Lutostanski
1 month ago
We are lucky to be witnessing an amazing talent in Yuja.  May she amaze us for many years.

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Todd Murphy
Todd Murphy
1 month ago
I have taught classical piano for over 40 years... .I just wished to have had a student like this.  How wonderful!!

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David Krist
David Krist
1 month ago (edited)
I watched one of her big concerts the other day. At one point Her fingers were moving so fast the camera was just showing a blur.
The camera lens couldn’t keep up..LOL.
If you watch toward the end of this video you will see it also if you look really carefully at her fingers. The camera cannot keep up..LOL.

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David Krist
David Krist
1 month ago
Todd Murphy
You have it backwards.
You would have been the student.

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Dave Frank
Dave Frank
6 months ago
This is the strongest evidence I've seen that there is more to life than what we know or can see.

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astrotech
astrotech
1 year ago
3:21 is where Yuja starts to play.

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walendxweg
walendxweg
10 months ago
2508  2029 them court 19:11 💋 🎈

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noja music
noja music
1 year ago
I believe the little girl at beginning of video is Tiffany Koo, not Yuja!

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Ab
Ab
1 week ago
I will never thank God enough (if there is one) for giving us this diamond in music.

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Alton Slater
Alton Slater
1 year ago
Yuja makes life worth living for me.  I hope until I'm 100+

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flaminio67
flaminio67
1 year ago
23:49: The composer ist not Rolf Liebermann, but Lowell Liebermann (* 1961)

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Claude .Crumpton
Claude .Crumpton
2 months ago
So remarkable...been a fan of hers for some years now...world wide top of the list!

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Tim Elwell
Tim Elwell
1 month ago (edited)
She's a brilliant pianist, no question. In an extremely competitive field, she shines. One observation regarding Leon Fleisher talking about getting a beautiful sound. Sure, the pianist has to have great control in terms of touch - but actually most of what gives the piano subtlety is how well the hammer felts are VOICED. If a piano is poorly voiced, such that it is either too harsh or too soft tonally, the pianist cannot compensate, any more than a formula 1 driver could compensate if their car were under-powered, or had the wrong tyres, etc. (I speak as a piano tuner and technician of 40 year's experience).

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Richard Wand
Richard Wand
1 year ago
One would only wish this video would not end.

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Sapo
Sapo
4 weeks ago (edited)
와진짜 ㅠ 유자 최고야... She's amazing !!!

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Leftbanker
Leftbanker
3 weeks ago
She looks like she spends as much time in the gym as she does playing the piano. In the pink dress at 23:38 she looks like a superhero. I suppose that she is.

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maria mori
maria mori
1 year ago
I think the girl in red who plays beethoven at the beginning is not Yuja (also because she makes a mistake :) :))

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zhicheng zhao
zhicheng zhao
1 month ago
Wow! incredible talent!

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Sandro Lee
Sandro Lee
1 year ago
Simply amazing...

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Cherie Broome
Cherie Broome
1 month ago
An incredible pianist!

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Elimar Orlopp
Elimar Orlopp
1 month ago
Very impressive, never saw such an incredible collection of Yuja Wang's performances through her "ages".

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Camillo Flaim
Camillo Flaim
2 weeks ago
Yuja Wang will be one genius when she will write one composition famous for great orchestra, that not it's little .



tiny1932
tiny1932
3 weeks ago
Kapustin at the bigining !

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Camillo Flaim
Camillo Flaim
1 day ago
I have learned on op. 299 and op.740 of Czerny (student of Beethoven).



Franco Mandirola
Franco Mandirola
1 year ago
unica nella storia...conosce migliaia e migliaia di brani con aderenza espressiva e grande tecnica...

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caroline and tigger
caroline and tigger
1 year ago
Brava!!!

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Cláudia Proença
Cláudia Proença
1 month ago
Wonderful!

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Rob Rijnders
Rob Rijnders
1 year ago
A lovely insight into a genius who in her child years was driven by her astonishing virtuosity and had no clue what she was playing,
to a goddess who is able to express anything floating on a cloud of her flawless technique.

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L F
L F
21 hours ago
is she even human?



zaknews07
zaknews07
7 months ago
No matter who plays both are wonderful and enfants prodige like Mozart

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Ralph Averill
Ralph Averill
1 month ago
I have sometimes wondered what might happen if Yuga Wang sat down in a studio with one or two of some of the best jazz musicians. I'm thinking of people like Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, or Wynton Marsalis with his classical training and experience. Maybe nothing would happen, maybe something magnificent.
I had a ticket for Yuga Wang at the New York Philharmonic in June. It was cancelled because of this damned virus. I hope to get another opportunity to witness one of her performances before my almost 70 yr old body gives up the ghost.

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Nick H
Nick H
1 week ago
what did they do to her hair at 4 mins in  ???



Silvia De la cuadra
Silvia De la cuadra
1 month ago
She is magificent!!!

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luis andres paniagua rodriguez
luis andres paniagua rodriguez
1 month ago
Me complació verla dirigir Mozart. Ya había visto hacerlo a Mitsuko Uchida



carl armstrong
carl armstrong
1 year ago
The Kaputsin is superb. Yuja plays every composer superbly, a very rare phenomenon. But that's not her playing the Beethoven however.

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Азесьм Daniels
Азесьм Daniels
3 weeks ago
Always unrealistic. How it is possible?



Euro Oscar
Euro Oscar
1 month ago
Very good edition.

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Jose P
Jose P
1 month ago
Her improvisation on Mozart's Turkish March was out of this world, genius. She essentially transformed it into something (almost) completely different. As someone who himself loved to improvise and even show off a little, Mozart would have appreciated this, in my opinion.

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Elmira Muradova
Elmira Muradova
2 weeks ago
Виртуозно уже в детстве играла. Не знала . Спасибо за ссылку.



Julie Quivoron
Julie Quivoron
2 weeks ago
Play piano is  great !



musik102
musik102
6 months ago
What is the name of the first piece?

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Oscar Castanon
Oscar Castanon
3 weeks ago
SUBLIME...ERES GRANDE QUERIDA YUJA!!!



acryingonion
acryingonion
4 days ago
The girl playing Waldstein is not Yuja.



zanshibumi
zanshibumi
6 months ago
At 18:45 she goes beyond humanity.

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zaknews07
zaknews07
7 months ago
A true joy for ears and eyes 💝💝

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Francis Gastmans
Francis Gastmans
1 month ago
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Luxio
Luxio
3 weeks ago
36 minutes Of Yuja Wang being Yuja Wang
what an absolute unit.

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Michael Schefold
Michael Schefold
1 year ago
Thank you for another fantastic compilation of Yuja's breathtaking artistry. All of her performances are absolutely on top of all pianists, but I especially liked her Beethoven 1 and 2 as pianist/conductor. It was like discovering this phenomenal but underrated pieces for the first time. I hope she will more and more conduct and play the piano and shows the world the beauty of relative unknown masterworks.

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naomikim Kim
naomikim Kim
1 month ago
She had plastic surgery!😨



Lpmgato1
Lpmgato1
1 year ago
Love and admire Yuja Wang. She's amazing!

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Ms Pea
Ms Pea
1 month ago
It's too bad that Yuja has had to endure so much criticism of the way she dresses on stage. I find it refreshing. Her style is another expression of herself, as her music is. That small minded people can't seem to accept that says more about them and the stodgy world of classical performing than it does about Yuja. If young people are ever to follow into classical music and keep it alive, then many of the old ways of tails and evening gowns and the formalities and dictates of performing have to give way. What does it matter how a performer is dressed? If you can't take it, close you eyes and just listen. The sound is all that matters, anyway.