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The SF Symphony 2012-2013 season has been announced, and although J-Fi will be back (as well as her replacement at Pentatone, Arabella Steinbacher), the big news is that Yuja Wang will appear TWICE this season.
On October 31, she plays the Prokofiev Second, and on March 6/8/9, she plays the Beethoven Fourth. I'm sure this is not unprecedented, but I don't remember seeing the same soloist twice in one season on two separate series - especially as widely spaced as these dates are.
I guess we all know who's packing in the audiences these days!
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If Ayako Uehara were to tour the U.S., I'd take a trip to the nearest city (or cities) where she'd perform.......
I'd maybe see Yuja Wang if she were to visit Phoenix, but she does not quite perform to a level where I'd travel to another city to see her.
I saw her last year in a solo recital at the Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts.
She "brought the house down."
Other than Ivan Moravec she is the only one I would travel for. Actually have done so many times now.
So bummed I never got to see Moravec play live.
With Pappano conducting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5IMQsln0AE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3_SXJTL77I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgd0luXTJ7Y
This is one of the best versions I've heard. One strong quality in this performancer is her care in getting the accented rhythms. A lot of pianists just fly along trying to get in all the notes.
I saw her do this last year at Davies Hall. Quite possibly the most visceral musical experience of my life from the 4th row with a perfect line of vision to the keyboard.
I literally was shaking at the end and had to walk it off at intermission.
I saw her play Prokofiev 3 with Zinman and the Cleveland Orchestra last summer--a really fine performance with a lot of musical feeling to it and of course great technique. I like most of her recordings too, except the Rachmaninoff 2 and Paganini Rhapsody with Abbado (which were to my taste to "note-y" at the expense of any sense of long line or structure). She has a new recording out of encore pieces, most of which are available in various videos of her concerts on youtube--haven't heard the recording yet.
Haven't seen anything since 2008.
My big fear is she got "phased out" because she does not quite have the "stage presence" that seems to be commanded in recent time. I look at Wang, who does have this "stage presence", and think this trumps sheer performance in today's society.
If Uehara has another problem, I suspect it's a seeming lack of the willingness to expand the repertoire. This could be her actual downfall.
Nothing against Wang, by the way. She is a nice performer, but amongst a crowd of other performers, not the standout that Uehara is.
In the March issue of BBC Music (on which she's the cover girl), Yuja refers to "the dress" incident at Hollywood Bowl last summer. If you don't remember, here's a memory tickler:
Anyway, her take on the brouhaha that ensued is as follows: "It's Hollywood. It's LA. They're so superficial there - no offense - so the only thing they can focus on is the dress." That's right! Here she was just thinking of ONLY the music at that concert, and people have the nerve to focus on that dress! I share her outrage! ;-)
Another surprising part of the interview is that one of her idols was Evgeny Kissin. As she says, "I had so many fantasies, but meeting him in person was such as disaster. I'm like, 'Really? You're like that?'". I'd LOVE to know what that little incident was all about!
I'm pretty sure she was making jokes in both cases.
Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was a good, solid recording but I wouldn't describe it as exceptional.
. . . just based on her Pentatone recordings of the Dvorak Concerto and the Brahms Sonatas - not bad at all, but, as you say, not exceptional either.
She is appearing twice, in the same months no less in L.A. as well. I could not be happier.
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