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@mahgister 

I have seen Yuja Wang live several times and I will see her again soon. I met a violinist in the L.A. Phil the first time I saw her in a short, sexy dress. The violinist said that they don't talk about what piece they're playing when she performs. They talk about what dress she's wearing.He also said that the orchestra had a lot of trouble keeping up with her.

Yuja Wang is a petite woman, but she is one of the most powerful pianists I have heard. My impression of her is that her technical brilliance has been what shines when she plays. I have a few of her CDs. One of her playing Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto. I like her playing of that. She uses nuance.

For now, I like Mitsuko Uchida, Martha Argerich, and some younger pianists, Fazil Say and Igor Levitt more than Yuja Wang. Yet, I think she is young, extremely talented and as she learns to pull back on speed and power and gets more into nuance, she will be as good as the pianists I have mentioned above. 

I think you might listen to Fazil Say and Igor Levit. They are into deconstructing pieces and putting them back together in very interesting ways. I would recommend listening to Fazil Say's recordings of Mozart's piano sonatas. I compared them to Maria Joao Pires's pristine recordings and it almost had me laughing to listen to how Say has deconstructed those sonatas and plays them so differently than Pires. I also think that Igor Levit has very interesting and modern interpretations of Beethoven's piano sonatas. 

I heard a live concert of the Phil. with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting with a woman violinist whose name I've forgotten. They played Tchaikovsky's Violin Conceto, and talk about deconstructing! In the places where a violinist like Itzak Perleman would play bold sweet lines, these women played small, almost satiric passages. I came away saying that only women could forgo large sweet passages with small, internal interpretations. I love listening to the new, young performers playing these old, classic pieces. And I will go to watch Yuja Wang perform whenever I get a chance. Now that I mention it, I will stream her and hear recordings I have not heard. Hopefully later recordings.

@bernadie5317 

Apologies. The above long answer about pianists should have been to you. When I have extra time on my hands, I try to compare pianists playing the same piece. Listening to Schubert's Impromptus, especially D899, is when I realized I like Mitsuko Uchida so much. I have listened to that Impromptu by Alfred Brendel, Andras Schiff, Vladmir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and others, and her fingers seem to possess so much more subtlety on that piece.

I do not, however, think that she is best on all pieces. She specializes in Mozart and I have heard pianists I like better than her on certain piano concertos. I think I would recommend Geza Anda as my overall favorite on Mozart's piano concertos. I think that was because he was conducting the orchestra as well as playing piano. I have a recording of Mitsuko Uchida also conducting the orchestra while she plays two Mosart piano cincertos and I liked thos a lot better than when Jeffery Tate conducts while she plays. 

@audio-b-dog

thank you kindly for recommendations . i look forward to investigating .

cheers

Great pianist may appear as virtuoso but they never die as virtuoso but as great artist...

We must not feel the virtuosity...Only the music expression...

i am stunned...

 Samson Francois playing Scriabin sonata no 3 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GJ-p9GWUBg&list=RD0GJ-p9GWUBg&start_radio=1

@bernadie5317 

That's what this forum is about. People who love music posting about what they like and how they like music. No thanks necessary. 

@mahgister 

I have a record of 
Samson Francois playing something. I'll have to dig in my record collection and see what I have him playing. I have a "Mind" interface for my moon streamer. I wish I could interrogate my records as easily.