This film is a journey with the famous pianist Yuja Wang. With more than 120 performances a year, she lives a nomadic lifestyle. As such, the exploration of Yuja’s wanderings is a travelogue of exciting venues, amazing cities and encounters with extraordinary artists, such as Gustavo Dudamel, Gauthier Capuçon and Leonidas Kavakos and personalities of other professional horizons. But there is also a downside: fatigue, jet lag, pressure, doubts, hostilities, disorientation, and loneliness.
With a bittersweet reference to the transience of life, the film reveals the invisible that complements the visible and shows us this artist in a very personal way. ‘Pianists have to be alone all the time, and it’s hard, it’s lonely. Being a musician is almost like a very isolated life, and the only time you actually get to communicate is on stage with music. It’s not a bad thing. I think being solitary, it really allows us to think about life and to think about why people write this music. […] It makes you start to wonder about things that are beneath the surface’ Yuja Wang.
BONUS: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major.
Here is Yuja Wang in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G-Major:
