This month, Yuja Wang embarks on her extensive recital tour throughout South America. She brings her renowned virtuosity and flair to audiences in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile. Her first performance on September 25, takes place at the Teatro Metropolitano in Medellín, presented by the International Season of Classical Music Medellín Cultural. The program for her recital series will include Chopin’s immensely beautiful and technical Sonata No. 3 in b minor, and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 6 in A major, the first piece from his widely known “War Sonatas.”
Ms. Wang will travel to Bogotá for her second performance at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo on September 27. Her following performances will take place on September 29 at the Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima; October 2 at the Sala São Paulo in São Paulo; October 4 at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro; October 6 at the Teatro Positivo in Curitiba; October 8 and 10 at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; October 11 at the Centro Cultural de Música in Montevideo; and her final performance on October 14 at the Municipal de Santiago in Santiago de Chile.
Ms. Wang’s interpretations of Chopin’s Sonata No. 3 and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 6 have been praised by critics saying:
“She followed it with a fully integrated account of Chopin’s big Sonata No. 3. She didn’t dawdle or even linger much, but it didn’t matter. This was a strongly narrated performance, the narration accomplished through an array of color and touch, lovely but compact phrasing and crisp, clean virtuosity. The slow movement enchanted with its otherworldly hush. The finale thrilled with its whir of notes dashed off in a smooth legato.” (The Orange County Register)
“The two brutal tone clusters pounded out with the fists (col pugno) in Prokofiev’s 1939 Piano Sonata No. 6 must have to do with Joseph Stalin in this bitingly sarcastic work. Wang really went for them and sent the whole thing flying. I’ve never heard a more sensitively integrated performance of it.” (The Georgia Straight)