Category Archives: Press

BBC Music: The best recordings of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

5 years ago |
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Discover the best recordings of Rachmaninov’s variations for piano and orchestra based on Paganini’s 24 Caprices  Written in 1934 in Lucerne, Rachmaninov created these variations based on a theme from the last of Paganini’s 2 Caprices. The 24 variations can be grouped…
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Kurier – Virtuos & verführerisch: Yuja Wang in Wien

5 years ago |
Press
Kurier Ein Weltstar wie ein Wirbelwind. Im Zuge ihrer Europa-Tour kommt Klavier-Göttin Yuja Wang ins Konzerthaus und nach Schönbrunn. Sie trägt Glitzerkleider zu High Heels, geht mit dem iPad ins Bett und gibt Brahms, Prokofjew und Co deren ursprünglichen Glanz…
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Yuja Wang Discusses the Rewards and Challenges of Her Repertoire

5 years ago |
Press
Superstar pianist Yuja Wang stopped by KUSC to chat with Jim Svejda about the rewards and challenges of her repertoire and how the shallow can become sublime. (more…)
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The Classical Review: Capuçon and Wang prove a simpatico duo

5 years ago |
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“But in the hands of Capuçon and Wang, this music took on an edge and excitement often reserved for more muscular romantic works. Bold sections had full-bodied power while Chopin’s soft interjections sounded with a soft glow. The opening theme,…
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The Washington Post: Pianist Yuja Wang dazzles in pounding new John Adams concerto

5 years ago |
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"There were only two moments of true, reflective stillness during last night’s Los Angeles Philharmonic program at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. One occurred when pianist Yuja Wang held the audience spellbound with her diaphanous reading of John Adams’s “China…
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The New York Times Review: Yuja Wang, Trying Comedy, Shows How Funny Virtuosity Can Be

13 Feb, 2019

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 …

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Playbill: Pianist Yuja Wang Talks About Her Upcoming Carnegie Hall Concert Series

5 years ago |
Press
Playbill Yuja Wang is a superstar of our time. She is a phenomenal pianist of the highest order who has astounded audiences in the world’s great concert halls. Her dramatic sense of style, exuberance, and artistic flair have won her…
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Rondo Magazin: Russisches Roulette

5 years ago |
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Rondo Magazin Rachmaninow, Skrjabin, Prokofjew: Mit ihrem „Berlin Recital“ beleuchtet die Pianistin alte Bekannte nun aus einem neuen Blickwinkel. Auf die Gretchenfrage, ob man nun Live-Aufnahmen oder Studioproduktionen den Vorzug gibt, muss Yuja Wang nicht lange überlegen. „Auf jeden Fall…
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Deutsche Grammophon: Review of “The Berlin Recital”

5 years ago |
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"Tatsächlich spielt Wang mit einer atemberaubenden Brillanz, Kraft und Technik. Mit welcher muskulösen federnden Attacke sie das Feuer in Rachmaninows beinahe totgespieltem g-Moll-Prélude op. 235 neu entfacht und welchen Irrwitz sie aus dem Finale von Prokofjews 8. Sonate heraushämmert, das hat eine…
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Gramophone: Review of “The Berlin Recital”

5 years ago |
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"‘Exceptional artistry, technical perfection and boundless imagination’ it says on the back cover. Such hype normally puts my back up. But on this occasion I’ll happily endorse it. To start, as Yuja Wang does, with one of the most well-flogged…
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