Yuja Wang Plays the Rachmaninov Concerto #3
If you are a music lover, then you likely said: Oh yes! I know the music and I know the performer. I listened to them yesterday, and I was thrilled. Here is the music with …
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Yuja Wang Plays Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade
Gretchen am Spinnrade” was Schubert’s first successful lied written in 1814 when he was just 16, which is thoroughly impressive considering how well this piece is composed and how highly it compares to his later …
Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto #2
Sergei Prokofiev composed his second piano concerto at the age of 21 while on winter break from his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He had already established himself as something of a bad boy …
Martin Frost and Yuja Wang Play the Clarinet Sonata #2 by Brahms
Early in 1891, Johannes Brahms heard the clarinetist Richard Mülhfeld perform chamber works by Mozart and Weber. Brahms was so impressed that they became fast friends. Listening to Mülhfeld play, Brahms became so enthusiastic about …
Yuja Wang Plays Brahms’ Concerto #2
Always self-critical, Johannes Brahms worked on the Second Piano Concerto for three years. He wrote to his friend Clara Schumann: “I want to tell you that I have written a very small piano concerto with …