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Yuja Wang (Chinese: 王羽佳; pinyin: Wáng Yǔjiā; born 1987 [1]) [2] is a Chinese pianist. Born in Beijing , she began learning 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 .
Rachmaninoff ca. 1933. The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, (Russian: Рапсодия на тему Паганини, Rapsodiya na temu Paganini) is a concertante work written by Sergei Rachmaninoff for piano and orchestra, closely resembling a piano concerto, all in a single movement.
Yuja Wang (born February 10, 1987) is a Chinese classical pianist who records on the Deutsche Grammophon label. She has released six CDs on with Deutsche Grammophon: Sonatas & Etudes in 2009; Transformation in 2010; Rachmaninov in 2011; [1] and Fantasia, in March 2012. [2] She has also performed on the soundtrack to the film Summer in February. [3]
Gustavo Dudamel begins his Rachmaninoff festival, celebrating the composer's 150th birthday, with pianist Yuja Wang and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff [a] [b] (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor.Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.
Yuja Wang – Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Leif Ove Andsnes – Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos nos. 3 & 4; Ursula Oppens – Winging It - Piano Music of John Corigliano
Two of the splashiest stars in classical music perform in L.A. just three days apart — and to decidedly different effect.
In 1964, he recorded Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic. He also made a classic recording of Sergei Prokofiev 's Third Piano Concerto with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra in 1966; it was reissued on CD as part of Sony Classical's "Great Performances" series ...