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 …
Prospero, The Economist Against the orchestral musicians, uniformly dressed in black, Yuja Wang shines like a jewel in the Royal Albert Hall in London. She sits, straight-backed, at the piano in a glittering sleeveless dress and unfeasibly high heels. She smiles and closes her eyes as she begins to play Prokofiev’s “Piano Concerto No.3”—one moment thrusting her head in accordance with the speed and passion of the music, the next allowing her …
“That left the latest appearance by pianist Yuja Wang — charismatic, technically dazzling and artistically persuasive as ever — to address the pleasure principle pure and simple. In Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Wang’s playing was a starburst of wit and dark expressivity, from the steely strut of the parallel chords that open the jaunty central section of this one-movement work to the intricate polyphony of the cadenza …
“In the Prokofiev, Petrenko and Yuja Wang were an ideal mercurial partnership… Her chimerical crispness gave an extra buoyancy to the cornucopia of invention – “how can a single work of art display so much genius?” she asks in a programme interview with theartsdesk‘s David Kettle – and was offset by a remote magic for the mysteries at the heart of the first movement and in the central theme and variations. The …
