I spoke some time ago Yuja after the recital which I attended in Paris and who had literally flabbergasted. I also want to chat about prejudice, justified or not, about the Chinese pianist.
It seems to me quite a bit to after-sales service.
She just released, recorded in November 2008 in Hamburg, a recital for Deutsche Grammophon.
The program is as follows:
Chopin: Piano Sonata no. 2 "Funeral March"
Ligeti: Etudes
no. 4 "Fanfares", no. 10 "Der Zauberlehrling"
Scriabin: Piano Sonata no. 2
Liszt: Sonata in B minor
Another incredible program difficulty. Along with a directory reserved for the construction of master pianists.
And then, for a first disk, try the Liszt Sonata in B, one of the peaks of the piano literature, feared and dreaded, he must dare!
At first listen, this disc was a bit disappointed. As the recital in December was a real shock, I expected to feel it too new. But the effect surprise does not work like that every time. Yeah, so, disappointment, why? A piano recital with an incredible technical skill, but no roughness ... A product of the studio, what it could be worse.
Then I listened again, several times. And he exudes a kind of enchantment that disk, a poem that captures the listener gradually (yes, I'm talking about me).
The Chopin sonata is not the greatest achievement of the disc. It is placed there to emphasize the kinship of Chopin and Liszt with its dramatic winding structures. Yuja it explains on the website Deutsche Grammophon, in a note of promotional intent. But his interpretation is interesting for its attention to detail, his obvious desire to show the subtleties of the score by chiseling details smoothed by some performers. It is a service game to work, not to make the bluff finger (she can do, for that matter). But I think she lost a little in this sonata, too wanting to dissect.
Ligeti Both studies are put there as playful interludes, the ear to rest between each of the three major pieces of this disc. It's interesting because it shows a contemporary workers, considered an object with which we can have fun and give a little theatricality, not as something dead and disembodied we respect without knowing why. But it's also a shame there is a side alibi Yuja Wang gives a small picture adventurous cheap, the whole Ligeti played on this disc takes about five minutes, no more. Probably difficult for a beginner to impose more interpreter of contemporary music at the very conservative, which is probably Deutsche Grammophon disc with it the conquest of a large Asian audience.
The number two Scriabin Sonata is a miracle of poetry and fluidity. The pianists Scriabin plays often want to stall their virtuosity in the pages of this composer affreusementr difficult to play and produce a result very hard and very cold, with a game hit. Here, not at all, Yuja still trying to show the harmonic beauty of this piece and does it all in natural, his game is obvious. I wonder if this is not the best version of this sonata that I heard.
Finally comes the big piece, the Sonata in B. And again, many of didacticism and an infinite respect for the text without ever being in school. The speech is developing very natural environments vary. Very successful. There are many recorded versions of this sonata, and the weak point of Yuja Wang is not taking a bias. She is still in evidence, and one could say that this version would be an ideal version for a first listening to this piece, not deepening. But still, the musical mastery that emerges from this game is amazing, with a game without ever bluff. It is simply great piano great musician who wants to show all the beauties of this score. And as in the recital I heard, the mastery of large form is incredible, the discourse takes place throughout the execution. Except not the version of the Sonata in B I'll take on a desert island, it is instead the one I'd listen if I want to hear the score played by Liszt in a clear and settled, and to rest of the pianists egos Oversize.
My intuition tells me we have not heard the last of Miss Wang, if it stays at this level of music and continues to offer interesting programs.
listened on the disc MusicMe:
(In France, it will be listenable than June 2 Mysteries of the outputs of records and their calendars.)
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