Category Archives: News
Taming Prokofiev: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube
7 years ago |
Joshua Barone, The New York Times Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto is so difficult that even the composer, a virtuoso, struggled to get through its premiere in 1913. The cadenza — more than three restless minutes of runs, tone clusters and…
Berlin Philharmonic tour with Sir Simon Rattle
7 years ago |
Yuja Wang will appear on tour as a guest soloist with the Berliner Philarmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle in November 2017. This tour of Asia will be the last in the Berliner Philarmoniker’s Rattle era, and marks Ms. Wang's first…
“Yuja Wang at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, or the ease of luxury” (Bachtrack)
7 years ago |
Manuel Gaulhiac, Bachtrack A bold program that confronts Stravinsky's neoclassical aesthetics with Chopin's flamboyant romanticism, and places them in the heritage of Mozart and Beethoven ... Yuja Wang is now in the venue, in the Andante Spianato and brilliant Polonaise,…
Yuja Wang on tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
7 years ago |
Yuja Wang and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra will embark on an extensive European tour of nine cities, featuring ten individual concerts. The events in Paris will be hosted at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, followed by dates in Helsinki, Aix-en-Provence, Lyon, Rosenheim, Vaduz, Munich,…
Season-opening concerts with the New World Symphony and MTT
7 years ago |
On October 14 & 15, Yuja Wang will play two of the repertoire's most monumental works in concert with the New World Symphony, led by Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas. She performs Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4 and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto…
“L.A. Phil throws a Mozart gala with Dudamel, Wang, Thibaudet and fly chocolate balls”
7 years ago |
Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times "The sparkle carried over to Mozart, who wrote the concerto as a loving dialogue for himself and his sister. Thibaudet set a supremely suave tone. Wang’s responses were more adamant, a playful anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better. This is…
Yuja plays Rachmaninoff in Mexico City
7 years ago |
Following her performance in Los Angeles, Yuja Wang travels to Mexico City for a concert at the historic Palacio de Bellas Artes, with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional and conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto. The concert takes place on October 6 and highlights Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis…
Opening Night Gala Concert with the LAPhil and Gustavo Dudamel
7 years ago |
Yuja Wang joins a spectacular roster of artists for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2017/18 season opening night concert, hosted on September 26 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. She performs Mozart's Double Piano Concerto in E-flat major, K. 365 with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet…
Review: Yuja Wang/HKPhil – Chinese pianist dazzles in Tchaikovsky, Jaap van Zweden steers transcendent Stravinsky
7 years ago |
Dirk Newton, South China Morning Post As soon as soloist Yuja Wang stepped assuredly onstage in a body-hugging, skin-revealing azure concert gown, we knew we were in for something special at this Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra season opener, which paired…
Residency in Hong Kong
7 years ago |
Yuja Wang launches the fall season with several performances in Hong Kong, hosted at the Cultural Centre Concert Hall. On September 1 & 2 she plays Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Maestro Jaap van…