Tag: Yuja Wang

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Yuja Wang was born in Beijing, on February 10, 1987. She began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

By the age of 21 she was already an internationally recognized concert pianist, giving recitals around the world. She has a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. In an interview with the LA Times, she said “For me, playing music is about transporting to another way of life, another way of being. An actress does that.”

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Mendelssohn – Songs Without Words Op. 67 No. 2 – Wang, Piano

Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) is a series of short lyrical piano pieces by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn, written between 1829 and 1845. His sister Fanny Mendelssohn and other composers also wrote pieces in the same genre.

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 29 (Hammerklavier) - Wang, Piano

Beethoven – Sonata No. 29 (Hammerklavier) – Yuja Wang, Piano

Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 (known as the Hammerklavier) is a piano sonata that is widely viewed as one of the most important works of the composer’s third period and among the greatest piano sonatas of all time.

Rachmaninoff- Concerto No. 2 - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Rachmaninoff – Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18, was composed between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The second and third movements were first performed with Sergei Rachmaninoff as soloist on 2 December 1900.

Rachmaninoff - Sonata for Cello & Piano in G Minor - Capuçon Cello, Wang Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Sonata

Rachmaninoff – Sonata for Cello and Piano – Capuçon, Wang

Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19 was completed in November 1901 and published a year later. Sergei Rachmaninoff regarded the role of the piano as not just an accompaniment but equal to the cello.

JAZZ / Piano

Youmans-Tatum – Tea for Two – Wang, Piano

Tea for Two is a song composed by Vincent Youmans with lyrics by Irving Caesar and written in 1924. It was introduced by Louise Groody and John Barker in the Broadway musical No, No, Nanette.

Liszt - Piano Sonata in B Minor - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Liszt – Piano Sonata in B Minor – Yuja Wang

The Piano Sonata in B minor is a sonata for solo piano by Franz Liszt. It was completed in 1853 and published in 1854 with a dedication to Robert Schumann in return for his dedication of his Fantasie in C major, Op. 17 (published 1839) to Liszt.

Ravel - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel) – Wang, Piano

The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand was composed by Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G. It was commissioned by the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm during World War I.

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Lied / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC / Transcription

Schubert-Liszt – Liebesbotschaft (Message of Love) – Wang, Piano

Liebesbotschaft (Message of love, the singer invites a stream to convey a message to his beloved.) is the first lied from Schwanengesang, a collection of songs written by Franz Schubert at the end of his life and published posthumously.

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No 2 in G Minor - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang

Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1912 and completed it in 1913. But that version of the concerto is lost; the score was destroyed in a fire following the Russian Revolution.

Yuja Wang is playing Cziffra's transcription for piano of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee

ROMANTIC MUSIC / CONTEMPORARY MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Rimsky-Korsakov (Cziffra) – Flight of the Bumblebee – Wang, Piano

Flight of the Bumblebee is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900.