On this recording, Yuja Wang shows us an impassioned survey of landmark works by Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Ligeti and Prokofiev.
Yuja Wang stirs memories of legendary artists with interpretations of boundless imagination, jaw-dropping technical command and amazing power
Yuja Wang’s philosophy of music is both simple and profoundly complex. “I want to relate all life to music,” she recently told a British critic. The Beijing-born pianist’s latest album previously released on 23 November 2018, captures the white heat of solo works by Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Scriabin and Ligeti, a trio of Russians together with one of the late 20th-century’s greatest composers.
The Berlin Recital was recorded live at the Berlin Philharmonie’s Kammermusiksaal during Yuja’s extensive solo tour of North America and Europe.
Here is Ms. Wang in Rachmaninov’s Prelude Opus 23, #5:
