“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 

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 …

“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 …