The New York Times “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 …
“One is familiar with her agility, energy, and power, but that’s in the context of her solo playing, which is full of expressive rubato and dynamics. Yet on Friday night, she was a great rhythm player, absolutely on point with the entire group for every attack, and every sixteenth note rest—each chord and line she played fit perfectly into what was happening around her.” New York Classical Review
Laís Franklin | VOGUE Foi depois de um convite às pressas para tocar no Symphony Hall, em Boston, que a pianista chinesa Yuja Wang deu seu primeiro grande passo rumo ao reconhecimento internacional, em 2007. O repertório consistia no desafiador Concerto para Piano nº1 em Si Bemol Menor, de Tchaikovsky. Não bastassem a complexidade e a rapidez do andamento da música, acompanhada pela tradicional Orquestra Sinfônica de Boston, ela tinha o desafio …