Yuja Wang Archive

Brahms’ B-flat Piano Concerto (1881) dates from the start of the composer’s ripest maturity, the period when his fame had reached a peak throughout Europe and his physical image as we know it best was …

The smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) is a piece from Robert Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel op. 74. The transcription for piano solo was done by Carl Tausig, a Polish composer, pianist and arranger considered by some critics to …

Yuja Wang was born in Beijing in February 1987 and was encouraged at a young age to make music by her dancer mother and percussionist father. She is an internationally recognized concert pianist now… Yuja started …

Austrian composer Franz Schubert left us about 600 songs. Among these is the amazing “Gretchen am Spinnrade”, in English: Gretchen at the spinning wheel. The lyrics are as follows: Gretchen at the spinning-wheel English Translation …

I had planned for you today a wonderful program of Romantic music by Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Edvard Grieg. In particular the Grieg brings out the folk tunes of Norway as part of the composer’s …