Yuja Wang Archive

In 1909, after the successful premiere of his Piano Concerto #2, Sergei Rachmaninoff launched his first concert tour of the United States. The journey was undertaken much against his will. Three months of almost daily …

More than two hundred years ago, a 17-year-old kid from Vienna wrote a song that would change the way composers thought about songwriting. That young man was Franz Schubert, and his song “Gretchen am Spinnrade” (Gretchen …

Johannes Brahms began to make sketches for his second piano concerto in 1878. However, the composer preferred to try it out for a while before introducing it at major venues. From the start the Concerto …

“A second one will sound very different,” wrote Johannes Brahms to violinist Joseph Joachim, about the disastrous reception in Leipzig of his First Piano Concerto. More than twenty years would pass before there was a …

“Finesse and fire from a starry musical duo … A recital that showcased the very best in collaborative music-making,” was how the Toronto Star described the concert at Koerner Hall in Toronto that created the …