Santander se rinde ante el genio de Yuja Wang

By Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 12 August 2024

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Reviewed at Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria: Sala Argenta, Santander on 9 August 2024

Ravel, Jeux d'eau

Scriabin, Fantasie in B minor, Op.28

Blumenfeld, Etude in A flat major for the left hand alone, Op.36

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 3: Le Vent dans la plaine

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 2 no. 5: Bruyères

Sancan, Toccata

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 4: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 7: Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 2 no. 12: Feux d'artifice

Chopin, Ballade no. 1 in G minor, Op.23

Chopin, Ballade no. 4 in F minor, Op.52

Yuja Wang, Piano

Shock, spectacle and endurance: Yuja Wang and Thomas Adès at full tilt

Laurence Vittes, 8th February

If Prokofiev’s original intention in his Second Piano Concerto was shock and awe, Yuja Wang gives exactly the right performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

***11

Thomas Adès and Yuja Wang offer contemporary works at the NY Phil

Sam Jacobson, 23rd January

Yuja Wang returns to the New York Philharmonic with Rautavaara’s dazzling First Piano Concerto in a probing program curated and conducted by Thomas Adès.

****1

Yuja Wang serves an iridescent musical feast in Cleveland

Sam Jacobson, 28th November

Yuja Wang does double duty in demanding piano concertos by Ravel and Ligeti, while conductor Petr Popelka shows his chemistry with the orchestra in Pictures at an Exhibition.

****1

Contemporary works populate Philadelphia Orchestra's opening night

Cameron Kelsall, 25th September

Audiences drawn in by Yuja Wang's performance of the Ravel Piano Concerto are also treated to Julia Wolfe and Arturo Márquez.

****1

Stormy weather: a wild ride with Berlioz and Yuja Wang at Tanglewood

Kevin Wells, 20th July

Yuja Wang’s verve and panache, combined with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra’s fearless, youthful energy, forge an incandescent, explosive performance.

****1

White Nights and historic firsts: Gražinytė-Tyla and the Vienna Phil

Chanda VanderHart, 6th May

For the first time in its 165-year subscription series, a female conductor leads a Vienna Philharmonic subscription concert.

****1

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Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro es un apasionado de toda la música clásica, pero muy especialmente de la obra y de la personalidad de Gustav Mahler. Su estudio y su disfrute han llenado y llenan su vida, hasta el punto de que una autoridad como José Luis Pérez de Arteaga lo ha calificado como "fabuloso estudioso mahleriano". Actualmente es coeditor de la principal web en castellano dedicada a dicho compositor (gustav-mahler.es). Profesionalmente, enseña e investiga neuroanatomía animal en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.

Santander se rinde ante el genio de Yuja Wang en un recital sin precedentes