Rick talks about Yuja

[George K]

Link to video

[Renauda]

Well presented. Especially liked that he juxtaposed Wang with Cziffra. Look forward to him doing a video on the latter as indicated.

[kluurs]

Early on in her career, I posted to Yuja and got a reply from Yuja after hearing her play some Schumann. Let's hope she has the legs for a long career.

[Horace]

Interesting that he thinks piano pedagogy is more advanced than pedagogy for other instruments, and that that comes out in the technical expertise of the best players. I wonder how much truth there is to that. Would the best guitarists be significantly better, if guitar pedagogy was better?

[George K]

@Horace I'm probably wrong on this, but some instruments are "easier" to get a reasonable sound out of than others.

Piano, guitar, are in that group.

Almost any stringed instrument is not. I imagine brass and woodwinds are not either.

I studied with a guy for about a year at a studio that had violin and cello instruction in an adjacent room. The sounds that came out of there....

[Renauda]

As far as I know through experience, Classical guitar has every bit an established pedagogy as piano or bowed strings. So does brass, winds and percussion or any other instrument in the classical genre for that matter.

Good pedagogy might help facilitate virtuosity in some students but it does not turn any one student into a virtuoso.