Yuja Wang CONDUCTING and Performing
Sketches for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 date from 1795, the year he completed the No. 2. Beethoven was in his mid-twenties when he finished both works, and with his emergent career in mind, he …
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Johannes Brahms Piano Trio Opus 8
Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 1 is a youthful work… or at least so it began. Brahms completed it in January 1854, just months after he was introduced to Robert and Clara Schumann, who were deeply …
Yuja Wang Performs Mendelsson’s Songs Without Words Opus 67, #2
In Yuja Wang’s own words: “Songs Without Words (German, Lieder ohne Worte) are a series of short lyrical piano pieces by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn, written between 1829 and 1845. His sister Fanny Mendelssohn …
Yuja Wang Plays Scarlatti’s Sonata K 455
The Scarlatti Sonata in G major K 455, is very dancelike and popular, filled with the rhythmic click and snap of Spanish castanets. Guitar idioms are heard in the repeated notes that dominate the last …
Who was Leon Fleisher?
Born in San Francisco, Leon Fleisher began playing piano at the age of four, and began studying with Artur Schnabel at age nine. His students include André Watts, Yefim Bronfman, Hélène Grimaud, Louis Lortie, Jonathan …