They found that Yuja Wang has a heart!

[Skybird]

Crazy. A heartrate like a high performance athelete excercising.
The ammount of energy burnt by her brain in a concert, or in this marathon, must also be beyond description.




However, orchestra musicians can have even higher heartrates, if they happen to be of a nature that finds it heart to deal with stress and "Lampenfieber" (=stage fright?). Values of 180 and more have been reported.


Kathia Buniatishvili and Yuja Wang are my favourite classical pianists. That I also find both very sympathetic (Wang is Aquarius like me LOL ) is a coinicidnce and not what I mean. Their skills are breathtaking.



I say put Yuja Wang into a reactor core, and our energy problems all would be solved for the coming 20 years!

[ET2SN]

Using human beings as an energy source?

Where have I seen that before?

[Rockstar]

Thankfully there is that thing called the Law of Thermal Dynamics which makes the idea of a human energizer bunny pure Hollywood fantasy.

Btw never heard of Yuma Yuja Wang before just watched her play Rachmaninov Concerto No. 2. Damn she can certainly tickle those ivories, really nice.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Btw never heard of Yuma Wang before just watched her play Rachmaninov Concerto No. 2. Damn she can certainly tickle those ivories, really nice.

Yuja. She is not just another piano chick playing in short sexy dresses at youtube, like many others do to stand out. FYI, she is leading the pack on stage, and is seen as one of the world's lead pianists of the present, if not the pianist. She was not even 30 when they started to talk of her having defined a new era in classical piano play. At 30 she already had surpassed the reputation of other masters that acchieved comparing status just at the end of their careers. She is the example that a new generation of piano students orientate themselves at.

She is very extroverted, but in long interviews and docus I found her to be very sympathetic nevertheless, despite her overly sexy self-presentation. But I wonder what is going on in her brain when they unleash her and let her into the arena onto the stage. There is probably a micro singularity in her amygdala providing her with the energy she spends during play.

There is a film on her where even a special camera they used could not keep track of her fingers anymore, and just showed a foggy cloud of motion - or pure quantum events...

[sh3rules]

Both Yuja and Khatia are very talented, I wonder why they sell sex (unless they're really desperate for attention). It's one thing to occasionally do something like that for shock value (e.g. Friedrich Gulda) but still, to present yourself as a sex object like so many women in the classical world regularly do as if they were playing pop music looks a bit cringe. It's only a couple of steps away from NSFW stuff like Beyonce.


It's difficult to imagine a great pianist like Yunchan Lim dressed in skimpy clothes while playing this Liszt etude (as a side note, if you want to know how difficult this is, ask a jazz pianist to play it ).

[Moonlight]

I've been wondering why "gimme your wang" is dressed like a tart on heat, is this what's attracting Skybird?, top class pianists could be dressed in rags and smelling like a skunk and they would still fill the venue up, this woman is not my cup of tea and never will be.

As far as I'm concerned, Alice Sara Ott reigns supreme as the Queen of the ivories.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Moonlight

I've been wondering why "gimme your wang" is dressed like a tart on heat, is this what's attracting Skybird?,

No. Its not my style, too, but her comeotenbce commands utnmost respect. Probably no other pianist of the present is as influential as she is.



Ypoutube is full of solid but not outstanbding female poianists who dress like competitors at a Miss Bikini contest, yes. So I understand what you mean.



If you experience her in one of the longer documentaries and interviews avaialbe on her, you ma yunderstand that she simply is an extrenely extroiverted personality. Bigger is always better she once admitted were her motto. In evertyhing: brands, cars, concert pianos. Dont bore her with subtlety - if your iffer or gift has not the size and sensation of an exploding supernova you may simp,y get overlooked by her.



But in general I prefer Khatia Buniatishvili for her sensible style. Prtiov ately also very extroevertedk but unbelievably sensible at the key. She takes freedoms from partitions (slow speed, low volume) that go beyond what the partition allows. Some may say that is not "correct". I hear it often working wonders.



Anyway, pianists who have the full Rachmaninoff and Liszt in their Repertoire and master them both, can't be "bad" pianists.

[Sean C]

I couldn't care less about what these musicians are wearing. If they want to display their bodies along with their talents, that's fine with me ... as long as at least one or the other is noteworthy. Both is preferred, of course.



What really grinds my gears is the overacting. I mean ... we get it. You're into the piece and it's really difficult. But there's no need to look like Hillary Clinton when the balloons drop from the ceiling.


It's kinda creepy.


And it distracts from the enjoyment of the music, IMHO.