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Six Pieces for Piano Intermezzo in A Major Op. 118: II. Andante teneramente
Lisa Spector and Joshua Leeds Lyrics

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Mario DiSarli

Great clown!!! The New York Times Review: Yuja Wang, Trying Comedy, Shows How Funny Virtuosity Can Be
The pianist Yuja Wang took a break from her typical concerts for a no-less-virtuosic comedy show at Zankel Hall on Monday.CreditMichelle V. Agins/The New York Times

By Joshua Barone

Feb. 12, 2019

In all seriousness: What can’t Yuja Wang do?

This star pianist has built her reputation on breathtaking mastery of the standard repertory, like the chamber works she played last Wednesday with the violinist Leonidas Kavakos at Carnegie Hall. Or Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, which she’ll do with the Boston Symphony Orchestra later this week.

But in between those two dates, she stopped by Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on Monday for something entirely different: a comedy show. One with music, of course. And, as always, she was radiant in Rachmaninoff and Lutoslawski.

But there was — more.

She rapped! She sang and danced through a “West Side Story” medley! She did one-legged, upside-down yoga on a piano bench! And along the way, she never lost an ounce of virtuosity.

All comments from YouTube:

Will Don.

3y↑12

As an old retired broadcast TV engineer, I'm fascinated by how this was put together - but as a music lover, of Yuja and Andreas especially, I just want to enjoy their magic... Thanks, DG.
One objection - I don't want the ending spoilt by unwanted "recommendations" plastered over the scene...

Listen Music

5y↑52

This Intermezzo has one of the most beautiful ABA structures in history. The music is probably the most sentimental thing ever.

Luke Skywalker

5y↑47

Beautiful scenery - check
Beautiful people - check
Beautiful playing - check

Renaud Moutier

3y↑5

C’est génial. Excellent arrangement. J’adore.

Levi Donato

The most beautiful sound I've ever heard from the two most beautiful talented musician....bravo.♥️👏♥️

Desiderio Reyso

3y↑4

I Love Brahms Music! And I Gladly hear every single rendition on Yuja's lovely and talented hands!!! And now... The location and the whole idea are Stunning! BRAVO YUJA! Bravo Andreas! Vielen Danke Deutsche Grammophon!

No Name

4y↑4

WOW! What a brilliant transcription, I would never have thought to couple those two instruments... they're perfectly suited for this gem!

YUMIN LEE

5y↑12

How wonderful it is...
My tears falling down at 1:27

MrGer2295

5y↑7

LOVE IT ! VERY MOVING ! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS WITH US 🎹❤❤❤

Mario DiSarli

Listen to Wagner, dear MrGer2295! Wagner's flight of the walküren (der Ritt der Walküren von Richard Wagner). Here, in this video, the whole society about which you write: Yuya, Khatia, Lola, Alice, ... and you, and your mom, and your dad! Look, listen and enjoy !!! https://player.vimeo.com/video/57468088?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=d30000&api=1&player_id=media-player

Mario DiSarli

THE NEW YORKER <Yuja Wang and the art of performance> by Janet Malcolm " What is one to think of the clothes the twenty-nine-year-old pianist Yuja Wang wears when she performs—extremely short and tight dresses that ride up as she plays, so that she has to tug at them when she has a free hand, or clinging backless gowns that give an impression of near-nakedness (accompanied in all cases by four-inch-high stiletto heels)? In 2011, Mark Swed, the music critic of the L.A. Times, referring to the short and tight orange dress Yuja wore when she played Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl, wrote that “had there been any less of it, the Bowl might have been forced to restrict admission to any music lover under 18 not accompanied by an adult.” Two years later, the New Criterion critic Jay Nordlinger characterized the “shorter-than-short red dress, barely covering her rear,” that Yuja wore for a Carnegie Hall recital as “stripper-wear.” Never has the relationship between what we see at a concert and what we hear come under such perplexing scrutiny. Is the seeing part a distraction (Glenn Gould thought it was) or is it—can it be—a heightening of the musical experience? During the intermission of a recital at Carnegie Hall in May, Yuja changed from the relatively conventional long gold sequinned gown she had worn for the first half, two Brahms Ballades and Schumann’s “Kreisleriana,” into something more characteristically outré. For the second half, Beethoven’s extremely long and difficult Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat, known as the “Hammerklavier,” she wore a dress that was neither short nor long but both: a dark-blue-green number, also sequinned, with a long train on one side—the side not facing the audience—and nothing on the other, so that her right thigh and leg were completely exposed. As she performed, the thigh, splayed by the weight of the torso and the action of the toe working the pedal, looked startlingly large, almost fat, though Yuja is a very slender woman. Her back was bare, thin straps crossing it. She looked like a dominatrix or a lion tamer’s assistant. She had come to tame the beast of a piece, this half-naked woman in sadistic high heels. Take that, and that, Beethoven! ..."

Michael Schefold

5y↑71

Finally serious classical musicians make beautiful music videos! Long overdue!

Traveller

4y↑1

It is silly to go and make a video of this divine music on a little stage in the middle of the water. A pianist who respects himself/herself would never ridiculise him or herself and draw the attention away of Brahms like this.

Steven Lin

5y↑1

I cannot agree with you more. It is truly overdue and it is a shame that I did not find this out immediately.

ziziofunda

5y↑4

@Mario DiSarli You know very well who she is. You are full time criticizing her. Go and get yourself a life. Why listen to something all the time you don't like?

Mario DiSarli

Is it the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean? No icebergs at all! Do you think this "Titanic" can go to the bottom? It will be very sad if Steinway goes to the bottom!

Mario DiSarli

Mr. Adams & Company! The best thing you can do personally for classical music is to turn off the computer (smartphone)! Or continue to enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUl0ON_fx8Y

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Yiyun_7

4y↑17

This is the most beautiful version.

Stefano Cutilli

3y↑1

Bellissimo!😄👏👏👏

Анна Горюнова-Иванова

5y↑1

Великолепно!

Mario DiSarli

Yes, Anna! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUl0ON_fx8Y

Woody P

4y↑7

Peaceful and Sentimental ♥

Laurent Dupuis

5y↑3

Amazing. Une interprétation d'une grande beauté par 2 musiciens d'une grande beauté

Cinzia Vidali

3y↑1

Un brano fantastico !

Yoonjung Yi

3y↑3

My heart is exploding from listening to this... especially at 03:19

Michaela Schneider

5y↑3

WONDERFUL 🎶😊 (More words are not needed)

shbmusic

5y↑3

I am wondering how DG got such a beautiful sound on this video - which looks terrific! The video appears to go out of sync with the music at 4:18 , (i'm guessing they used a studio recording for sound, and made the video afterwards - is that right?) It doesn't really matter... I think seeing these extraordinary musicians play on the water is very soothing. Great job all and thanks.

SagaciousScallop

4y↑1

Other way around. You film first and then record over the footage

Sica Piano Studio

4y↑5

O my heart! Such beauty!

Szeptember

4y↑1

🌜✨
Szép!

Marie-Claire TOUBLANC

4y↑4

Magnifique, ils jouent si bien, de plus ils sont beaux !

Audífonos LUGO

5y↑9

...one beautiful woman on red dress..two souls playing together...three sharps ...just perfect..!!

Mario DiSarli

@blintscav Is it the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean? No icebergs at all! Do you think this "Titanic" can go to the bottom?

blintscav

5y↑1

for the clarinet, no sharps! :)

Mario DiSarli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUl0ON_fx8Y

Barry Tsao

5y↑3

I love it!

Shining Diamond

5y↑1

just wonderful💫💎💕💖💖

Kleiro viera nuñez

5y↑1

Increiblee!!! Wowww

Camille Bouchard

5y↑4

Magnifique !

Gerry Cappuccio

4y↑2

great playing !

Johannes Ostenfeld-Rosenthal

Very beautyful and magic - mostly because of Yuja Wang though. I find it a little strange that the Album Blue hour have only Ottensamer at the front cover

SagaciousScallop

4y↑1

Because he’s hot

Peace Liebe

5y↑7

OMG ❤️ so amazing

Oscar Micheli

5y↑2

Amazing!

Mario DiSarli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQyoD3kGwA This masterpiece of American-Canadian-Chinese culture presents everything you said! But this is not European culture, it is a shame for the greatest Russian composer! His famous piano concerto is used to make money and give sexual entertainment to a bored crowd! This is the American-Canadian culture ??? I can understand the Chinese - they are exploring the world of a foreign culture! This is not classical music, this “event” can be called like this: “A Chinese sewing machine sews American dollars for the realization of the“ American Dream ”!

Franck Mousset

5y↑1

Génial !!!

Giacomo Guarnieri

5y↑1

Wonderful

James bond

wowzaaaaa🥵🥵🥵 sounding spectacular✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

Park City Chamber Music Society BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL

5y↑2

My favorite.

Vicente

Que bellinte

Bianca von Mühlendorf

5y↑1

Beautiful

Antonio Carlos Martins

4y↑2

💯 x💯x💯x💯x💯 lindo....beautiful

N B

3y↑1

WOW ✌✌✌ 👍👍👍

Enry AMADEUS

3y↑2

Bravi!

Rengarenk

Gorgeous

Bärbel Martin

Wunderschön, Ton und Bild gleichermaßen! Danke.

Axel Castillo

4y↑3

Que buen crossover de artistas xd

Christian Vennemann

5y↑4

If Squidward were good...

All joking aside, this is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for this.

livia_musik

Fresse

Mario DiSarli

Yuka Viguier

5y↑4

Trop beau...

Mario DiSarli

Is it the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean? No icebergs at all! Do you think this "Titanic" can go to the bottom?

pianissimist

As Irving Berlin once wrote, "I know a fine way / to treat a Steinway," and this isn't it. Whoever decided to put this piano on a barge came damned near to committing a Class-C felony.

Second, the playing is gorgeous and the arrangement is very much in the spirit of the Brahms clarinet sonatas, but I think Wang could have brought out the countermelody a little more in the trio (first part second time through and third part, before the return).

Pierre R

ce contre jour n'est pas genial !! heureusement la musique est là !!

Mario DiSarli

Is it the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean? No icebergs at all! Do you think this "Titanic" can go to the bottom?

Conny Piano

Oh wie cool... Brahms-Arrangements auf einem Ponton. Da muss man erstmal drauf kommen.
Goodness, that's very special.. Brahms-arrangements on a water-stage

Ray Zuniga

4y↑1

Los Amo¡¡¡¡

Sigi Kunisch

5y↑2

Brahms ist zwar nicht so ganz meine Musik, aber trotzdem: Toll gemacht von allen Beteiligten!

Mario DiSarli

@Jack A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQyoD3kGwA Who is Yuja Wang? Product PR and show industry! An absolutely ordinary pianist who is being dragged onto the stage by mafia structures for the sexual entertainment of a bored crowd! Her videos and interviews multiply at the rate of cholera spread! She filled the entire Internet with her "art" consisting of a half-naked body. We all must finally say: enough !!!

Mario DiSarli

Sigi Kunisch
Listen to Wagner, dear Mr.Kunisch!
Wagner's flight of the walküren (der Ritt der Walküren von Richard Wagner). Here, in this video, the whole society about which you write: Yuya, Khatia, Lola, Alice, ... and you, and your mom, and your dad! Look, listen and enjoy !!! https://player.vimeo.com/video/57468088?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=d30000&api=1&player_id=media-player

Jack A

Sigi Kunisch but what does “addressed” mean?

Jack A

Sigi Kunisch oops... I repeated it again...

Jack A

Sigi Kunisch I’m gonna talk a little bit about my favorite composer, Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849). Scherzos: The most important accessible sources were available for our revision of the text. Where we were able to discover dependencies between autograph, copyist’s manuscripts and first editions, we based our text on those sources that formed a contiguous and unified textual layer. A complete listing of all textual departures in the minor sources would, however, have caused the critical apparatus to become unnecessarily cumbersome.

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Mitz Ng

4y↑3

Thank you. That's all that I can say.

Ath Samaras

4y↑9

Thank You Deutsche Grammophon...

Rui Alexandre

5y↑2

❤️

Vitaliy Vyntu

Bravo

eieieiie

5y↑6

L O V E T H E M

Dr Ward

I don't see a microphone... hmm.
;-)
Lovely nonetheless.

Gerd Linden

4y↑1

I don´t think that the piano we see sounds like this.
Nice lake. Would like to know where it is.

Christopher Czaja Sager

Indeed...the visual era......music is for the ears! But the two are very pretty

Maurice Musician

As you can see there're no microphones on the barge.

Like most music videos this's the performers pantomiming to the studio recording.

Mia Margareta

❤️

seancloser

3y↑1

Clara, clarinet...

Consuelo Alicia Salazar Chaves

Just to feel in peace with oneself and dream and dream

Alan Hodge

5y↑3

a dreamlike scene

Cheong’s Studio

Wang YuJia! Gorgeous!😍😍😍

ts firu

4y↑1

Может быть еще на люстре или стоя в гамаке?

norbert lorenz

4y↑1

THE VIDEO IS NICE - BUT JUST LISTEN AND CLOSE YOUR EYES - AND IT GOES WAY BEYOND TWO PEOPLE ON A RAFTER...

Marco Speedo

5y↑3

Wearing buoyant is much more safety, at least for Ms Wang... ;)

nncat

3y↑3

She is already in swimware. :-) Sorry. This is really beatiful music.

lsbrother

There does not appear to be a microphone so presumably what we are hearing is not them playing on this platform.

SagaciousScallop

4y↑1

Duh

Nengda YU

Does anyone know where is it?

Christopher Czaja Sager

The silliest music venue ......

Flute Rhapsody

4y↑1

haha İf piano fools to sea, ı would jump and try to save it..

Bach Fiend

4y↑1

much more impressive if the playing was under water....with bubbles...

Peter Zagar

5y↑1

absolutely uncalled for... there is no need to add images to this music

Christopher Czaja Sager

Hope the grand piano was insured.?...and the sound acoustic...not from outdoors

little_lolli's weird_uncle

5y↑4

they don't get seasick while playing?

Mario DiSarli

Of course! Does this ocean liner belong to the Deutsche Gramophon? No icebergs at all! Do you think this "Titanic" can go to the bottom?

Szeptember

4y↑1

🙂

Staffan Olofsson

4y↑8

This is the most ridicculous thing I´ve ever seen. Playback on a pontoon. No microphones in sight.

SagaciousScallop

Your birth was ridiculous

thricegreatart

4y↑1

NOOOO!!! ROGUE WAVE!!!!!

litoboy5

5y↑2

COOL

Mario DiSarli

@Jack A Listen to Wagner, dear Mr. PianoLover! Wagner's flight of the walküren (der Ritt der Walküren von Richard Wagner). Here, in this video, the whole society about which you write: Yuya, Khatia, Lola, Alice, ... and you, and your mom, and your dad! Look, listen and enjoy !!! https://player.vimeo.com/video/57468088?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=d30000&api=1&player_id=media-player

Jack A

Mario DiSarli please enjoy https://youtu.be/ZZyokBXgEJY!

Jack A

Mario DiSarli how long did it take to write all of that stuff?!

Jack A

Mario DiSarli https://youtu.be/ZZyokBXgEJY it’s great!

Mario DiSarli

COOL: The New York Times Review. Yuja Wang Plays Dazed Chaos, Then 7 Encores By Zachary Woolfe May 18, 2018 The usual praise for a musician who plays a recital in a big hall is that he or she makes that big hall feel small. But on Thursday, the pianist Yuja Wang made Carnegie Hall seem even vaster than normal: big, empty, lonely. Through her concert’s uncompromisingly grim first half and its wary, stunned second, Ms. Wang charted wholly dark, private emotions. She was in no way hostile toward an adoring (if slightly disoriented) audience, but neither did she seem at all interested in seducing it. After the playbills had been printed, Ms. Wang — who will have a Perspectives series at Carnegie next season — revised her program. She subtracted two of the four Rachmaninoff preludes she’d planned to give before intermission and added an extra three of his later, even less scrutable Études-Tableaux. Ms. Wang played none of these pieces in a way that made them seem grounded or orderly; she even seemed to want to run the seven together in an unbroken, heady minor-key span, a choice that most — but not enough — of the audience respected by not clapping in between. Even divided by light applause, these pieces blurred into and stretched toward one another. Doing nothing that felt exaggerated or overwrought, Ms. Wang emphasized unsettled harmonies and de-emphasized melodic integrity. The Étude-Tableau, in E-flat Minor (Op. 33, No. 6) wasn’t the juxtaposition of one hand’s abstraction and the other’s clear etching. No, she was telling two surreal tales at once. The martial opening of the Prelude in G Minor (Op. 23, No. 5) swiftly unraveled into something woozy and bewildering. The washes of sound in the Étude-Tableau in C Minor (Op. 39, No. 1) were set alongside insectlike fingerwork — neurotic, insistent, claustrophobic. ... Her bending of the line in the Étude-Tableau in B Minor (Op. 39, No. 4) felt like the turning of a widening gyre, infusing the evocation of aristocratic nostalgia with anxiety. (Rachmaninoff composed most of the works Ms. Wang played as World War I loomed and unfolded, and the 19th century finally ended.) The stretched-out, washed-out quality of melancholy in her account of the Étude-Tableau in C Minor (Op. 33, No. 3), made that sorrow seem more like resignation: The loneliness she depicted felt familiar to her, even comfortable. The prevailing mood — dreamlike sadness; a feeling of being lost; rushing through darkness — continued in what followed. The relentless trills and tremolos of Scriabin’s Sonata No. 10 — which is sometimes played lusciously but was here diffuse and gauzy — glittered angrily. Three Ligeti etudes from the 1980s and ’90s proved that Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, as she presented them, were presentiments of the modernism of the distant future. There was the sense that more time than just 20 minutes — decades, perhaps — had elapsed during intermission, after which Ms. Wang played Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 8, composed during World War II. Here, playing with guarded poise, Ms. Wang seemed to inhabit a kind of aftermath of the dazed chaos she had depicted in the early-20th-century works on the first half. The contours were sharper now, the colors brighter and bolder. The effect was still unnerving. I considered whether Ms. Wang’s flamboyant clothes — in the first half, a floor-length purple gown with only a slash of sparkle covering her breasts; in the second, a tiny iridescent turquoise dress with vertiginous heels — were the right costume here. They did give the impression that she had arrived alone, a disconcerting combination of powerful and vulnerable, at a not particularly appealing party. In that sense they were a fitting complement to her ominous vision of this music. Likewise, it seemed at first that a few of her seven — yes, seven — encores jarred with the forlorn mood she’d built up. Vladimir Horowitz’s “Carmen” fantasia, an Art Tatum stride version of “Tea for Two,” a demented arrangement of Mozart’s “Rondo alla Turca” — all were blazingly performed but had a touch of cheerful kitsch about them. But perhaps they, too, were of a piece with the intoxication that permeated the recital. ... And by the end, as she followed the “Mélodie” from Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” with Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” Ms. Wang finally seemed to have found a measure of real, hard-earned peace.

Zhenyu W

3y↑1

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

Jenny Wages

I like.

clive parry

Mozart

Robert Rosen

4y↑2

...two of the most talented musicians in the business in an absurd video conception, a grand piano afloat? Wasteful and pointless...

Bruno

4y↑1

Yuja Wang is a fantastic pianist, that I admire also because she is an independent mind who chooses the pieces she interprets according to her artistic tastes, some in the repertoire and some completely off the beaten track. Here... Brahms' Op. 118 no 2 is certainly not a minor and fashionable choice, but - arranged into a clarinet duo? It does sound good, but a bit... how to say... watered down? Which cannot have anything to do with playing it on a raft, of course.
Sorry, but I could not appreciate it, and I find the venture too commercial. This is just my personal reaction.

S. C.

Yes Bruno I know what you meant by saying the recording felt commercial. I would said it felt packaged for me, packaged to create a certain ambiance of "beauty". I guess it's done to appeal to the mass and to increase the bottom line, I.e. the album sell (commercial). I am saying this not as a critism to Yuja and Andreas; they both are wonderful musicians. Yuja once said that she would like to share more pieces that she was curious and exploring to her audience but at the same time had to take into consideration of what the audience wanted to hear and what the venue wanted to showcase. The balance of public arts and of that which in a major way sustains it in a capitalist world is always a challenge.

8620marc

5y↑3

Bien kitsch la vidéo

Mario DiSarli

Is it the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean? No icebergs at all! Do you think this "Titanic" can go to the bottom?

Slobbo

5y↑5

A bit over the top innit?

Cap Blood

5y↑4

Oh, my, my-Mario! [etc.-still posting with your multiple YT personalities;-)]?
Still sexually confused and sexist over Yuja I see...poor man-I thought by now therapy and drugs would have helped you...

Mario DiSarli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUl0ON_fx8Y

N. B

GMO ✌🏻✌🏻👍👍🙏🙏👏🏻👏🏻

Android Walle

die machen auch jeden marketingquatsch mit
wie albrecht mayer

Mario DiSarli

@Sigi Kunisch Natürlich, lieber Sigi, kann Brahms und alle anderen Komponisten wie Gemüse im Laden verkauft werden! Dies ist unser Exportschlager, wie Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes, ...! Das Problem ist, dass diese Autohersteller die gesamte Gesellschaft mit kriminellen Techniken betrügen. Dieselbe Technik wird von Unternehmen verwendet, die CDs und DVDs herstellen. Ein auffallendes Beispiel ist dieser Video: Collaboration strip club pianistin und Klarinettist, der seinen Titel geerbt hat!

Sigi Kunisch

5y↑2

Ja, man kann auch wunderbar entspannende Musik an einer wunderbaren Location schlecht reden. Es ist möglich. Alternativ könnte man wertschätzen, dass die Deutsche Grammophon hier doch etwas tolles kreiert haben. Natürlich nicht ohne ökonomische Hintergedanken. :-)

Mario DiSarli

Torsten Schaefer Süddeutsche Zeitung @t 04. Juni 2009Aus Heft 23/2009Musik Schönheit reicht nicht In der klassischen Musik wird heute niemand mehr ein Star, der nicht mindestens aussieht wie ein Supermodel. Aber mal ehrlich - das ganze Gelärme um die Schönheit nervt. Denn unerhört sollte vor allem eines sein: das, was wir da zu hören kriegen. Von: Tobias Haberl Danielle de Niese, 28, Sopran (Foto: Decca) Jonas Kaufmann, 39, Tenor (Foto: Decca/Uli Webber) Alice Sara Ott, 20, Klavier (Foto: Felix Broede/DG) Nikolai Tokarew, 25, Klavier (Foto: Uwe Arens/Sony Classical) Lisa Batiashvili, 29, Geige (Foto: Esther Haase) Annette Dasch, 33, Sopran (Foto: Manfred Bauman Martin Stadtfeld, 28, Klavier (Foto: Adrian Schmidt) Anna Netrebko, 37, Sopran (Foto: Decca) David Garrett, 27, Geige (Foto: Constantin Köhnke/DEAG) Mojca Erdmann, 33, Sopran (Foto: Felix Broede) Elina Garanča, 32, Mezzosopran (Foto: Gabo/DG) Janine Jansen, 31, Geige (Foto: Decca) Johannes Moser, 30, Cello (Foto: Manfred Esser/Hänssler Classic) Kate Royal, 29, Sopran (Foto: EMI Classical) ....... Vor zehn Jahren kannte man die drei Tenöre, Anne-Sophie Mutter, den blinden Andrea Bocelli und vielleicht noch den Geigen-Punk Nigel Kennedy, der übrigens wirklich eine anarchische Gesinnung und deswegen bald keine Lust mehr auf diese alberne Inszenierung hatte. Der Rest fand außerhalb der Klassikzirkel nicht statt. Als wegen des Internets die CD-Verkäufe wegbrachen, setzten die Plattenfirmen auf äußere Reize: Seitdem hat Anna Netrebko allein in Deutschland eine Million CDs verkauft. Die Aufnahmen von Villazón oder Mutter erreichen regelmäßig Gold- und Platinstatus, David Garrett verkauft an einem Tag 1000 Konzertkarten und 8000 CDs. Ein System ist entstanden, von dem scheinbar alle profitieren: die Plattenfirmen, weil sie mehr CDs verkaufen, die Künstler, weil sie für entbehrungsreiche Jahre belohnt werden; die Magazine freuen sich über neue Gesichter, die Werbeindustrie auch und die Menschen da draußen, weil sie mitreden können, wenn sie Paul Potts im Open Air gehört haben, den sie für einen großartigen Tenor halten. Anna Netrebko wird von Escada ausgestattet, Jonas Kaufmann von Strenesse, der Geiger David Garrett trägt ständig ein ziemlich großes Kreuz um den Hals, weil er einen Vertrag mit einem Schmucklabel unterschrieben hat. Es geht um Unverwechselbarkeit. Der Künstler muss eine Marke werden, die sich abhebt, die wiedererkannt wird: Anneliese Rothenberger, eine der bedeutendsten Sopranistinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts und auch schon 82 Jahre alt, riet einer jungen Sängerin, dass es sicher kein Nachteil sei, wenn sie bei Liederabenden kurze Röcke statt Abendkleid trage. Dem Weltklasse-Cellisten Johannes Moser, einem der Besten seines Fachs, einem Mann, der sein halbes Leben mit Cellospielen verbrachte, wurde jüngst erklärt, er wäre noch einen Tick erfolgreicher, wenn er bei jedem Auftritt rote Strümpfe anzöge. Er hat abgelehnt: »Wenn das Publikum nur noch auf Primärreize reagiert«, sagt er, »hat die Musik ein Problem.« Und wenn zu viele Künstler auf solche Angebote eingehen, haben sie selbst ein Problem. Markenzeichen sind austauschbar. Heute rote Socken, morgen kommt einer mit grünen Schuhen daher. Johannes Moser ist überzeugt, dass die Strategien der Plattenfirmen die CD-Verkäufe nicht ankurbeln, sondern ausbremsen. Auch die Geigerin Julia Fischer hat lange versucht, sich zu wehren. Ein Playboy-Angebot für Nacktfotos konnte sie parieren; mit dem Wunsch, nicht auf den Covern ihrer CDs zu erscheinen, scheiterte sie. Inzwischen hat sie eingesehen, dass mehr CDs verkauft werden, wenn sie im Kleidchen und nicht Bach mit gepuderter Perücke auf dem Cover zu sehen ist. Der Musikkritiker Joachim Kaiser sagt: »Wir haben keine Geduld, wir wollen jeden Tag einen neuen Star, ein neues Jahrhundertgenie präsentiert bekommen. Doch so viele Genies gibt es nicht.« Trotzdem wollen uns Plattenfirmen das weismachen: »Sopranistin der Stunde«, »Vokaler Stern«, »Heldin des Abends« – jeder wird in den Himmel gehoben. »Denen gehen bald die Superlative aus«, sagt Kaiser, »jeder ist atemberaubend, jeder superb, jeder gehört zu den Besten. Ja, weiß denn keiner mehr, dass das Wesen des Superlativs darin besteht, dass er sich nur auf einen beziehen kann?« Was perfekt, immer verfügbar oder, noch schlimmer, im Überfluss vorhanden ist, verliert seinen Reiz. Das merken auch die Kulturredakteure. Früher haben sie in ihren Porträts geschrieben, der oder die mache auch abseits der Bühne bella figura. Heute schreiben sie über die Gleichen, der oder sie wolle unter keinen Umständen auf Äußerlichkeiten angesprochen werden, da reagierten sie allergisch, das hassten sie. Ergebnis: Es geht wieder ums Aussehen. Goethe hat gesagt: »Die Wirklichkeit hat gegen die Schönheit keine Chance.« Aber Schönheit allein reicht eben auch nicht. Was wir – aber auch diese Musiker – brauchen, sind Geduld und Genauigkeit. Diese jungen Stars sind keine Genies, auch keine Jahrhundertmusiker und noch lange keine Legenden. Das waren Arrau, Gulda, Gould, Horowitz. Ihre Karrieren haben Jahrzehnte überdauert, sie selbst haben ein ganzes Jahrhundert geprägt. Lang Lang, Kaufmann, Netrebko, Stadtfeld können dahin kommen, können aber auch in ein paar Jahren ausgetauscht sein. Noch fehlt ihnen die letzte Hingabe an das Werk, noch wirken sie zu wenig unvergesslich, zu oft wie Handlungsreisende mit einer Stimme, einer Geige im Gepäck. Der Markt giert nach schnellem Wechsel, neuen Namen und Gesichtern. Musik giert nach überhaupt nichts. Neulich verschickte eine PR-Agentur eine E-Mail, in der sie auf Konzerte der Pianistin Olga Scheps hinwies: »Liebe Journalisten«, stand da, »dass sie sehr hübsch ist und tatsächlich auch hervorragend Klavier spielen kann, hat Olga Scheps auf eindrucksvolle Weise bewiesen.« Ein Satz, der nur noch von dem übertroffen wurde, der danach kam: »Olga Scheps’ Credo ist es, langfristig über Können und Leistung zu punkten, statt auf Äußeres reduziert zu werden.« Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass ich ein Konzert von Olga Scheps besuchen werde, hat sich durch diese E-Mail nicht erhöht.

Nottingham Music Excellence

interesting location..lol

Mark D

So cheesy...

Olivia !

21297

John Mayer

This guy.

BARF

신승엽

5y↑2

? 그닥 저럴 필요 있나.. 오버하고

Polymath 3363

5y↑2

I bet they are couples

Lindsay Anderson

Mhiith look up living the classical life with yuja wang episode 14 she clearly says she likes girls lol

Mhiith

@Lindsay Anderson absolutely untrue

Lindsay Anderson

Jes W woww yes I agree w this so much

K SW

5y↑1

@Lindsay Anderson I think it suits her. Her mind transcends all limits I feel, male or female.

Lindsay Anderson

5y↑1

Yuja said in an interview that she only likes women.

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