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Yuja Wang joins Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic for Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto. 

All roads lead to Rome. Last night however, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia brought the Eternal City vividly to London.

Pianist Yuja Wang and violonist Leonidas Kavakos demonstrated an outstanding chemistry

  The San Francisco Symphony wound up its Asian tour in Tokyo with a program (Sheng, Shostakovich, Mahler) and soloist (pianist Yuja Wang) well calculated to generate strong audience response.

The program also included Martinů’s undeservedly neglected Parables and restrained, lyrical Brahms.

Yuja Wang’s blazing Shostakovich First Piano Concerto and MTT’s stellar Firebird blended into a cohesive narrative at Davies Hall that showed us how successful performances can coincide with successful programming. 

Esa-Pekka Salonen and Yuja Wang at the Baltic Sea Festival.

Beethoven's mighty Hammerklavier Sonata and Schumann's Kreisleriana made for a weighty Verbier recital programme which at times felt distinctly like 'work in progress'.

The combination of Esa-Pekka Salonen and the New York Philharmonic, in the first of three evenings devoted solely to Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie proved riveting and exhilarating. 

Dutoit leads the New York Phil, pianist Yuja Wang in a colorful program of Respighi's Roman Trilogy and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9.

Massive forces played with great precision and exquisite sound and balance in Messiaen's complex Turangalîla-symphonie, under the baton of Dudamel.

To celebrate another landmark season, San Diego Symphony Music Director Jahja Ling brought forth a multifaceted program featuring star Chinese pianist Yuja Wang.

Another low-energy second half let down a strong first in the San Francisans' second appearance at the Proms under Michael Tilson Thomas.

Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony in reflective and raucous Ives, virtuosic Beethoven and dramatic Tchaikovsky. 

When a back problem forced Gustavo Dudamel to cancel, the Tonhalle’s new chief conductor Lionel Bringuier picked up the programme and changed it to an all-Brahms escapade.

Yuja Wang playing cat and mouse with the Hong Kong Philharmonic in Brahms' B-flat second concerto.

Ahead of its US tour with Michael Tilson Thomas, the London Symphony Orchestra flexed its muscles in a display of orchestral strength on home turf in the Barbican. 

The LSO and soloist Yuja Wang join Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas to celebrate his 70th birthday. 

Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang play all three of Brahms' sonatas for violin and piano in one evening, without ever looking at each other. They did not seem to need to.

The Royal Concertgebouw's programme consisted of a lot of energy and exciting humour, from Rossini to Shostakovich and Prokofiev. 

Yuja Wang has the virtuosity for Rachmaninov in spades and stamina to spare, but her technically brilliant performance raised the question of whether it all wasn’t a little too easy.

Yuja Wang joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, demonstrating dramatic tempi and searing emotion throughout their program.

Yuja Wang’s latest recital at Carnegie Hall, which took place Tuesday evening, is best compared to a triple-decker sandwich with very excellent bread and questionable innards. Ms. Wang is known for her intimidating technique: powerful, playful, and superlative. Her energy is at its highest during her showy encores, and her pianism is at its most impressive with virtuosic Russian repertoire.

Other than the gigantic Salle des Combins, a semi-permanent white tent seating a couple of thousand, the major venue for the Verbier Festival is the local église, perched higher up the mountains than the main square. Marked by a tall bell-tower shaped like a cross, the hall is prowlike, dark, and claustrophobic, enlivened only by coloured slits of light coming from behind the audience.

Yuja Wang is all about rhythm. It would be easy to write about how her playing doesn’t have the profundity or architectural sense of more mature artists, but that would be to miss her considerable achievements – and with a young artist, it’s what’s achieved that should count.

Faced with ageing audiences, dwindling funding and slashed budgets, many fine orchestras feel besieged at home these days, let alone being able to embark on costly tours overseas – all the more reason why the San Francisco Symphony’s ambitious tour of six cities in Asia is a cause for celebration.

It was only a year ago when Yuja Wang last visited the Hollywood Bowl, leaving tongues wagging and gray-hairs clutching to their heart medication. The audience may not remember how she played, or even what she played (it was the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no. 3). But they sure remember what she wore—the "little orange dress.

It’s hard to ignore Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, and sometimes for the wrong reasons: the controversy about That Dress (a daringly short designer frock paired with killer heels) ruffled some feathers amongst traditional classical music critics and concertgoers, and provoked a healthy debate about concert attire.

The programme read a little like a musical version of Kim's Game: not one but two full-scale symphonies, the same number of prefatory pieces, and then a piano concerto to boot: a test for the audience as well as the orchestra. The principal connexion between the works – apart from their contemporaneity – was the celebrated conductor, Serge Koussevitsky.

À la tête de l’Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, le généreux chef italien a offert au public un rare moment de bonheur symphonique, avec l’engagement inépuisable dont on lui sait gré.

La Orquesta Simón Bolívar con Dudamel en la dirección ofrecieron una enérgica y brillante Turangalila que enganchó al público del Palau desde el primer momento.

Leonidas Kavakos und Yuja Wang scheinen auf den ersten Blick vielleicht wenig gemeinsam haben, doch schon nach der ersten Brahms-Sonate ist klar: diese beiden Musiker passen perfekt zusammen - und zu Johannes Brahms.

Das Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich beendet seine Europatournee mit einem urrussischen und farbenfrohen Programm in München.

L’Orchestre de la Tonhalle de Zurich danse Stravinski et Ravel sous la baguette de Lionel Bringuier

Leonidas Kavakos und Yuja Wang begeistern mit einer starken, wenngleich nicht ganz unumstrittenen Interpretation der Brahmsschen Violinsonaten.