ALBUMLucerne Festival 2009 (Mahler: Symphony No. 1 / Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3) [Live / Visual Album]Yuja Wang, Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
ALBUMSonatas & EtudesYuja Wang
ALBUMSonatas & EtudesYuja Wang
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto
Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel
Études-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 3 in C Minor (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin / 2018)
Yuja Wang
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat Major, Op. 31 No. 3 "The Hunt": IV. Presto con fuoco
Yuja Wang
Prelude in B Minor, Op. 32, No. 10 (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin / 2018)
Yuja Wang
Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5 (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin / 2018)
Yuja Wang
Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?: I. Gritty, Funky, But in strict Tempo; Twitchy, Bot-Like (Live)
Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40 (1941 3rd Version): II. Largo
Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Var. 24. A tempo un poco meno mosso
Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel
Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 1 in C Minor (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin / 2018)
Yuja Wang
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1 (1917 Final Version): III. Allegro vivace
Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel
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About Yuja Wang
Artist Biography
Yuja Wang has built her career on playing the meatiest and most challenging selections from Russian Romantic repertoire. She attacks Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto (1875) with a fiery brilliance, exhibits extraordinary grace when taking on the depth and dynamism of Rachmaninoff’s Third (1909)—and hear the ease with which she brushes aside the technical challenges of Prokofiev's Third (1921). Whatever the repertoire, her phenomenal agility shines through. Born in Beijing in 1987, to a dancer mother and percussionist father, she studied at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music before moving, in her mid teens, to the U.S. to learn with pianist Gary Graffman, then director of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Graffman was renowned for taking on only top talent—Lang Lang was among his other pupils. Wang's international breakthrough came at the age of 20, when she replaced Martha Argerich for four performances as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit, performing Tchaikovsky's First and dazzling the audience with her pianistic pyrotechnics. Two years later, she signed exclusively with Deutsche Grammophon. With Dutoit and Valery Gergiev, she has since shown her facility with Mozart—playing the Piano Concerto No. 9 (1777). Highlights in her contemporary repertoire include John Adams’ 2019 piano concerto, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?, which she premiered and recorded with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel.
Hometown
Beijing, China
Genre
Classical
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