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Khatia joins the battle of the sexy gowns

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O

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May 4, 2016, 5:26:59 PM5/4/16
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I'm not a NY Times reviewer, but I know a sexy dress when I see one.

Other than the dress, not a very inspiring performance (not that the
Schumann typically brings down the house at the pianophiles):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jbHbDena_U&spfreload=10

I do admire her very rigid posture though!

-Owen

pgaron

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May 4, 2016, 5:40:53 PM5/4/16
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What do you think about the outfit she wore when she performed the Tchaikovsky PC #1 at Zubin Mehta's 80th birthday celebration?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH3OOM70cp0&index=1&list=FLDjHxVJtOq0WrNSLiH6o3-Q

O

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May 4, 2016, 6:19:53 PM5/4/16
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In article <d221c9fd-8286-4b29...@googlegroups.com>,
It was nice - but not as glamorous as the Schumann!

-Owen

P.S. I notice the first thing she does is a head flick to make her
hair bounce when she starts up.

-O

JohnGavin

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May 4, 2016, 6:33:35 PM5/4/16
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I find it hard to take her princess body language and facial expressions. She might as well wear a diamond tiarra while performing.

The 3 greatest women pianists of recent times (IMHO, of course), Alicia DeLarrocha, Martha Argerich and Yuja Wang are completely unaffected at the piano, musically and personally.

Frank Berger

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May 4, 2016, 7:04:46 PM5/4/16
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Unless you consider Yuja's outfits to be an affectation.
They certainly are a distraction.

dk

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May 4, 2016, 7:34:15 PM5/4/16
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On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 3:33:35 PM UTC-7, JohnGavin wrote:
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> The 3 greatest women pianists of recent times (IMHO, of course),
> Alicia DeLarrocha, Martha Argerich and Yuja Wang are completely
> unaffected at the piano, musically and personally.

Mentioning Yuja Wang in the same breath as MA and AdL
is beyond idiotic. It is brain fucked imbecility!
Especially the notion she is "unaffected"!

dk

dk

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May 4, 2016, 7:56:56 PM5/4/16
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This isn't really news, and I regret that KB is becoming as
obsessed with fashion as is Yuja Wang. Two years ago KB gave
a recital in SF wearing a silver fish scale dress so bright
that it caused temporary blindness in a large fraction of
the audience.

dk

Bozo

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May 4, 2016, 10:29:16 PM5/4/16
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>On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 6:34:15 PM UTC-5, dk wrote:
> Mentioning Yuja Wang in the same breath as MA and AdL
> is beyond idiotic. It is brain fucked imbecility!

While I do not share John Gavin's enthusiasm for Ms. Wang, nor yours for Ms.Lim , John Gavin has demonstrated quite often here he is neither an idiot nor an imbecile.

Frank Berger

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May 4, 2016, 10:54:39 PM5/4/16
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And that's high praise from a Bozo. :-)

HT

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May 5, 2016, 4:57:29 AM5/5/16
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> > The 3 greatest women pianists of recent times (IMHO, of course),
> > Alicia DeLarrocha, Martha Argerich and Yuja Wang are completely
> > unaffected at the piano, musically and personally.
>
> Mentioning Yuja Wang in the same breath as MA and AdL
> is beyond idiotic. It is brain fucked imbecility!
> Especially the notion she is "unaffected"!

You overlooked the IMHO. And I agree with the OP that Yuja Wang is unaffected at the piano. I see no difference with Argerich. DeLaroccha is sui generis. A truly great pianist and musician. Yuja Wang has yet to prove herself in the next decades.

Henk

Tony

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May 5, 2016, 10:14:06 AM5/5/16
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On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 1:33:35 AM UTC+3, JohnGavin wrote:
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> The 3 greatest women pianists of recent times (IMHO, of course), Alicia DeLarrocha, Martha Argerich and Yuja Wang are completely unaffected at the piano, musically and personally.

It's far too early to include YW in such a list. Beatrice Rana, for example, is 6 years younger than YW, yet already a finer and more communicative pianist.

Tony

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May 5, 2016, 10:46:31 AM5/5/16
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Like all eastern bloc gals, she was pioneered into the straight spine posture from a young age :)

Just speaking about appearances, YW seems a whole lot more charming and fun to be with than KB. If anything YW still seems shy and nervous in her fancy dresses. KB on the other hand, though smouldering, would get on my nerves with her whole posturing BS. Can't say I'm interested in hearing either one. They're both in the hipster movement of commercialising every nook and cranny of the world.

O

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May 5, 2016, 11:13:23 AM5/5/16
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In article <edca81e9-e52a-42f4...@googlegroups.com>,
They're both trying to make a living in the penurious world of a
classical pianist.

-Owen

HT

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May 5, 2016, 12:22:12 PM5/5/16
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>
> It's far too early to include YW in such a list. Beatrice Rana, for example, is 6 years younger than YW, yet already a finer and more communicative pianist.

Seconded, twice!

Henk

Bozo

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May 5, 2016, 4:56:30 PM5/5/16
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Khatia has a red dress, too :


http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/le-concert-de-l-apres-midi/2015-2016/recital-liszt-et-stravinsky-par-khatia-buniatishvili-le-07-mars-2016-la

Go to the very end and listen to hear Prokofieff encore.

Bozo

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May 5, 2016, 10:25:08 PM5/5/16
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John, a reminder of Ms.Wang's Carnegie Live May 14 , free video :

http://www.medici.tv/#!/yuja-wang-brahms-schumann-beethoven-carnegie-hall

Brahms' Ballades Op.10,Nos.1 and 2 ; Schumann's "Kreisleriana " , and the "Hammerklavier ".

Norman Schwartz

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May 7, 2016, 3:31:06 PM5/7/16
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Their agents advise on how to sell tickets, and not how to compete with BR.
The sad fact of life is that most come to see a show.

> Henk


JohnGavin

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May 7, 2016, 4:22:35 PM5/7/16
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Thank you Steve.

I'm not sure it's free - it might require a subscription to Medici TV, but it's well worth it!!
I have subscribed in the past - many wonderful concerts and recitals, including the excellent cellist Gauthier Capucon in 2 recitals with Yuja Wang, much Argerich, Hamelin, and others. I think there might even be a recital or 2 by Princess Khatia :) I am hoping that Verbier will invite Benjamin Grosvenor some time soon.

Bozo

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May 7, 2016, 5:53:39 PM5/7/16
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>On Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 3:22:35 PM UTC-5, JohnGavin wrote:
> I'm not sure it's free

John, I'm pretty sure it's free, and usually available VOD from 2 weeks to 60 days after, only then do you need a subscription to access it after 60 days.

Bozo

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May 14, 2016, 9:00:46 AM5/14/16
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Video on Medici, free , above link, or WQXR , tonight Sat.May 14 8 pm EDT ( 2 am London ) :

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/tune-yuja-wang-plays-brahms-schumann-and-beethoven/

Both will be archived I believe.

Except on WQXR , those here interested wont be able to see her dress(es), shoes,hair,etc....

dk

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May 14, 2016, 1:36:41 PM5/14/16
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Thanks for the link. I am very curious to hear her
play Kreisleriana. So far I have not seen or heard
any evidence she is crazy enough to do it justice.

dk

Bozo

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May 14, 2016, 2:54:45 PM5/14/16
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>On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 12:36:41 PM UTC-5, dk wrote:
> Thanks for the link. I am very curious to hear her
> play Kreisleriana. So far I have not seen or heard
> any evidence she is crazy enough to do it justice.


You're welcome. Kreisleriana is a work I rarely connect with , my fault I suspect , so will be interesting to hear hers.

BTW , try to hear Philipp Kopachevskiy's Kreisleriana at 2011 Tchaikovsky, one of the few with which I have connected :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNXKvyr9_is

And Kopachevskiy is a little crazy. Hear his “ La Valse “ also from 2011 Moscow :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVy5bs5XAvE

Both these must hears, IMHO.


Bozo

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May 14, 2016, 3:48:53 PM5/14/16
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>On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 1:54:45 PM UTC-5, Bozo wrote:
> Both these must hears, IMHO.

As is Kopachevskiy's Rachmaninoff 2nd Sonata at 2011 Moscow :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKWL_sgsNIk

Bozo

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May 14, 2016, 4:21:46 PM5/14/16
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>On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 8:00:46 AM UTC-5, Bozo wrote:

Per Medici TV : " The LA Times wrote of her playing: 'Yuja Wang slays Beethoven's monster piano piece—and makes it look easy.'"

Bozo

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May 15, 2016, 10:50:23 AM5/15/16
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>On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 8:00:46 AM UTC-5, Bozo wrote:
> Video on Medici, free , above link... will be archived I believe.

Yes, archived for awhile, free VOD.

HT

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May 16, 2016, 12:16:49 PM5/16/16
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Steve,

Thanks for the link to Yuja Wang's Carnegie recital. It was, as expected, very easy to listen to. Not that I haven't heard a more interesting Brahms, Schumann and Beethoven. I would have applauded her performance but not as enthusiastically as the audience did.

Henk

Mort

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May 24, 2016, 3:40:48 PM5/24/16
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dk wrote:
> Thanks for the link. I am very curious to hear her
> play Kreisleriana. So far I have not seen or heard
> any evidence she is crazy enough to do it justice.


She did not.

Mort Linder

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Mort

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May 24, 2016, 3:42:39 PM5/24/16
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Bozo wrote:
>> On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 8:00:46 AM UTC-5, Bozo wrote:
>
> Per Medici TV : " The LA Times wrote of her playing: 'Yuja Wang slays Beethoven's monster piano piece—and makes it look easy.'"
>


That's just an attention-getting headline. Read that full review, plus
several others.

Bozo

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May 24, 2016, 6:20:44 PM5/24/16
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<On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 2:42:39 PM UTC-5, Mort wrote:
>That's just an attention-getting headline. Read that full review, plus
> several others.

That's what I noted after hearing her Carnegie " Hammer " ; it sounded too easy.
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