Yuja Wang – Stravinsky, Scarlatti, Brahms, Ravel: Transformation (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:53 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Classical
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Transformation is a carefully constructed solo program featuring Brahms, Ravel, Scarlatti and Stravinsky. Yuja Wang’s title for her recording reflects the Buddhist idea that life consists of constant change, and she finds its musical rationale in Brahms transforming his theme 27 times; Ravel transforming the waltz by testing it to oblivion, and Stravinksky’s puppet Petrushka being temporarily transformed into a human being before finally reverting to puppet-hood – in Yuja’s view, a “world between creation and destruction.”
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Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel – Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:01 minutes | 2,77 GB | Genre: Classical
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As part of this year’s Rachmaninoff 150 celebrations, Yuja Wang joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel over two consecutive weekends in February to perform all four of the composer’s piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. A DG team was there to capture their sold-out and critically acclaimed performances live at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The resulting album will be released on 1 September.
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Yuja Wang, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela & Gustavo Dudamel – Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 In D Minor, Op.30 / Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.2 In G Minor, Op.16 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:54 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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Twenty-four year old Chinese pianist Yuja Wang is widely recognized for playing that combines the spontaneity and fearless imagination of youth with the discipline and precision of a mature artist. Regularly lauded for her controlled, prodigious technique, Yuja’s command of the piano has been described as “astounding” and “superhuman,” and she has been praised for her authority over the most complex technical demands of the repertoire, the depth of her musical insight, as well as her fresh interpretations and graceful, charismatic stage presence. Following her San Francisco recital debut The San Francisco Chronicle wrote “The arrival of Chinese-born pianist Yuja Wang on the musical scene is an exhilarating and unnerving development. To listen to her in action is to re-examine whatever assumptions you may have had about how well the piano can actually be played,” and The Washington Post called Yuja’s Kennedy Center recital debut “jaw-dropping.”
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Yuja Wang, Louisville Orchestra, Teddy Abrams – The American Project (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:58 minutes | 713 MB | Genre: Classical
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Yuja Wang gives a dazzling solo performance in the world premiere recording of a major new work specially written for her by her friend Teddy Abrams. Although originally conceived as a short companion composition to Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, Abrams’ ‘Piano Concerto’ blossomed to become a 35-minute standalone showpiece. Celebrating the richness of America’s musical culture and the sheer depth and breadth of Yuja Wang’s virtuosity, the work now features on Yuja Wang ‘The American Project’. Also included on the album is ‘You Come Here Often?’, created for the star pianist by another close friend, Michael Tilson Thomas. Both were recorded live with the Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Abrams, its Music Director. Abrams received his first conducting lessons from Michael Tilson Thomas in San Francisco at the age of eleven. The conductor, himself a fine pianist and distinguished composer, became his long-term mentor and friend. Tilson Thomas also encouraged Yuja Wang at the start of her career. He enlarged her stock of encores in 2016 with ‘You Come Here Often?’, which serves as the opening track of her new album.
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Gautier Capuçon & Yuja Wang – Franck & Chopin: Cello Sonatas (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:19:09 minutes | 2,81 GB | Genre: Classical
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Young and handsome, striding almost menacingly towards the camera like Bonnie & Clyde on the album cover (but decidedly less dangerous), Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang appear just as striking and audacious nonetheless. Used to playing together, they bring a spirited approach to César Franck’s Sonata in A major, with a famous transcription by the cellist Jules Delsart which was endorsed by the composer. This world-renowned masterpiece has since become a staple of the repertoires of every cellist in the world. The melancholy nature of the music allows the instrument to display its full range of vocal possibilities. The two musicians give a daring performance, infusing it with an expressive and passionate romanticism. Gautier Capuçon, not averse to using soaring vibrato in large quantities, throws himself into Franck’s universe with the complicity of the extraordinary Chinese virtuoso Yuja Wang, whose dextrous agility on the keys translates through the speaker.
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Yuja Wang – Rachmaninoff & Brahms (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:53 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Classical
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Die Pianistin Yuja Wang, der Klarinettist Andreas Ottensamer und der Cellist Gautier Capuçon sind in aller Welt aufgetreten und haben in ihrem Musizieren ein intuitives, fast telepathisches Zusammenspiel an den Tag gelegt. Dieses erste Album für Deutsche Grammophon belegt die bemerkenswerte Harmonie der drei. „Works by Sergei Rachmaninoff & Johannes Brahms“ macht die Energie und Intensität der Dortmunder Aufnahmesitzungen spürbar und legt Maßstäbe setzende Interpretationen der Meilensteine spätromantischer Musik vor: Yuja Wang und Gautier Capuçon gelingt eine ideale Interpretation von Rachmaninoffs Cellosonate op. 19; sie machen alle emotionalen Wechselfälle der Partitur deutlich, von der Dunkelheit und Verzweiflung des ersten Satzes bis hin zur freudigen Ekstase des Finales. Gespielt hat das Trio außerdem die Cellosonate Nr. 1, Op. 38 und das Trio für Klavier, Klarinette und Cello, Op. 114 von Brahms „in klanglicher, musikalischer und technischer Perfektion“ (Rheinische Post). „Es ist eine echte Herausforderung, ein Meisterwerk wie das Brahms-Trio aufzunehmen – und dies mit meinen engen Freunden Yuja und Gautier zu tun, war im Grunde die einzige Möglichkeit“, sagt Ottensamer. Capuçon fügt hinzu: „Alles bei dieser Aufnahme ergab sich mit größter Leichtigkeit“.
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Leonidas Kavakos, Yuja Wang – Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:40 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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Leonidas Kavakos, the “exceptional violinist” (Daily Mail) follows his spectacular Brahms Violin Concerto recording by teaming up with star pianist Yuja Wang – “a prodigious talent, with an astonishing technique” (The Guardian) for the great Brahms Violin Sonatas
Leonidas Kavakos’s third release for Decca makes a perfect supplement to his acclaimed Brahms Violin Concerto disc with Chailly.
‘It’s a long time since there was a new version of this concerto as good as this.’ Andrew Clements, The Guardian (October 2013).
‘There is a rapier-like cut-and-thrust about this performance that recalls the surging adrenaline-charge of Isaac Stern in full flight, with Kavakos emerging as the swashbuckling hero of the hour, taking all technical obstacles in his stride with soaring abandonment.‘ Julian Haylock, Sinfini (October 2013).
For the three sonatas Kavakos – an exclusive Decca artist – teams up with Wang, a former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year.
Their partnership at the 2013 Verbier Festival was much talked about (and broadcast on Medici) and they will be touring these works in April to major European cities.
The F-A-E Scherzo which Brahms contributed to a composite sonata (along with his friends Schumann and Dietrich) will be added as a bonus.
The three violin sonatas were written for Brahms’s muse in all matters violin, Joseph Joachim, who also gave the premiere of the Violin Concerto and contributed its cadenzas.
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Yuja Wang – The Berlin Recital (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:03 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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Yuja Wang is one of the most technically astounding pianists of our time, with a command of the keyboard matched by sheer muscular strength. Here she turns her attention to Russia and some of its leading pianist-composers. The Rachmaninoff Preludes and Études-Tableaux are rich and swirl with passion, while Scriabin’s Tenth Sonata, a work of mystical imaginings, seethes with dangerous life under her fingers. Briefly looking further afield, a group of Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s tiny Études diverts the attention magically before Prokofiev’s Eighth Piano Sonata, his masterpiece in the form, which Wang characterizes with genuine originality and imagination.
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Yuja Wang – The Berlin Recital – Encores (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 09:01 minutes | 140 MB | Genre: Classical
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Twenty-five year old Chinese pianist Yuja Wang is widely recognized for playing that combines the spontaneity and fearless imagination of youth with the discipline and precision of a mature artist. Regularly lauded for her controlled, prodigious technique, Yuja has been praised for her authority over the most complex technical demands of the repertoire, the depth of her musical insight, as well as her fresh interpretations and graceful, charismatic stage presence.
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Yuja Wang – John Adams: Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:59 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Classical
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One of the most refreshing things about John Adams is that despite all of the hosannas and honors that he has accumulated, he wears it all lightly. That’s reflected in the irreverent titles for his compositions: “Gnarly Buttons,” “Son of Chamber Symphony,” “Roll Over Beethoven” and “American Berserk” among them.
So when it was announced that Adams would be writing a new piece for star pianist Yuja Wang and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a world premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night, he was ready. Would he call his new concerto — a belated successor to “Eros Piano” and “Century Rolls” — his Piano Concerto No. 3? Not a chance. Instead, he came up with this honey of a title: “Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?”
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On Thursday, 20 June 2019, The Vienna Philharmonic performed its annual Summer Night Concert at Schönbrunn, an open air event with free admission in the unique ambience of the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace. Gustavo Dudamel conducts this open-air concert for the second time after 2012, the evening’s soloist is the Beijing-born pianist Yuja Wang.
The focus of the Summer Night Concert 2019 is the music history of the United States of America. The works that were performed this year were written in or for America.
Director: Henning Kasten
Starring: Wiener Philharmoniker, Yuja Wang
Producers: Michael Heinzl, Martin Schermann, Martin Traxl, Karin Veitl
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Wiener Philharmoniker, Gustavo Dudamel, Yuja Wang – Sommernachtskonzert 2019 / Summer Night Concert 2019 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:17 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
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The world’s biggest annual classical open-air concert, The Summer Night Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, returns to the magical setting of Schönbrunn Palace Baroque park in Vienna. After his successful debut at The Summer Night Concert in 2012, world renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Summer Night Concert for the second time. Superstar pianist, Yuja Wang is this years soloist. The concert will take place on Thursday June 20, 2019 with “Rhapsody in Blue” being this year’s theme with an all American program. The concert is broadcast on TV and radio in more than 60 countries, and thus reaches an audience of millions. The evening’s repertoire features popular classical works such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Dvorák’s Symphony No.9 “From The New World”, Barber’s Adagio for strings, Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever and Steiner’s Casablanca Suite.
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Maurice Ravel – Piano Concertos – Yuja Wang, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, Lionel Bringuier (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:13 minutes | 794 MB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded: April 2015, Tonhalle Zürich, Switzerland
Yuja Wang has established herself as an international sensation. She plays with the world’s leading orchestras—including those of New York, London, Amsterdam, and Berlin—regularly joining them on tours of the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
On her eagerly expected new orchestral album she wows with two perennial hits: Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major and The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major. Both are heavily influenced by jazz, which Ravel had encountered on a concert tour of the United States in 1928. He composed both concertos between 1929 and 1930. The latter was commissioned by the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm during World War I.
Yuja, young stellar conductor Lionel Bringuier and celebrated Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich are the perfect match to inflame Ravel’s vibrant sound. The melding of Yuja’s legendary technical skills with her interpretative intelligence transforms this album into a profound musical experience with a haunting and jazzy sound.