Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Yuja Wang

Le City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra débarque au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées sous la baguette de sa directrice musicale. Un programme bien ficelé autour de Ravel, Brahms et Prokofiev avec la pianiste Yuja Wang.

Les mélomanes de Québec ont eu droit à la crème de la crème avec deux des plus grands musiciens de notre temps, dans un programme livré avec fougue et un contrôle instrumental absolu.

Dans la Deuxième Symphonie de Brahms, le chef américain cherche l'harmonie, la beauté sonore, l'équilibre, la clarté des textures et du dessin. L'Orchestre de Paris se couvre de gloire.

En pleine évolution, Wang a donné un récital assez extraordinaire qui est de ceux qui rendent le public heureux et le critique pas moins.

Yuja Wang et le Malher Chamber Orchestra inaugurent leur tournée européenne à la Fondation Louis Vuitton. Un programme audacieux qui confronte l’esthétique néoclassique de Stravinsky avec le romantisme à fleur de peau de Chopin, en les plaçant dans l’héritage de Mozart et de Beethoven.

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

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

A delicious programme from glamour duo Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang, reuniting in Franck and Chopin with dynamism and depth – and a killer encore.

Piano icon Yuja Wang was an often self-effacing yet effective soloist in Rachmaninov’s neglected Piano Concerto no. 4. Poulenc’s 1948 Sinfonietta received its first Cleveland Orchestra performance since its 1949 US premiere here.

The LA Phil give us plenty of excitement in Stravinsky and Sousa and an orchestral surprise packet from Ginastera; Yuja Wang's superb pianism isn't enough to lift a disappointing Adams concerto.

Yuja Wang embodies the flash, brilliance and wry, irreverent humor of Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto.

Outstanding playing from soloist and Staatskapelle Dresden makes this a Prom to remember.

One of the great performances of a concerto which gets so many performances.

Dudamel has the crowd eating out of his hand, though Adams' new piano concerto leaves doubts.

Sparks fly at the Queen's Hall, but it's the gentler arrangements that really impress. 

Daredevil piano playing and luscious Stravinsky at the 47th Istanbul Music Festival.

A sprightly MTT seemed to be in the right place among the fellows of the New World Symphony, his brainchild, in a program where youth was prevalent.

Adams has written a sprawling new tour de force that masterfully turned Walt Disney Concert Hall into an acoustic planetarium of glorious sound.

A rapt audience witnessed a very special musical event where superficial differences in musical style and personal presentation counted for nothing with musicianship of the highest order.

The Berlin Philharmonic gives a first half party before a dark Schmidt symphony. 

Bei Bringuiers Abschied von der Tonhalle herrscht mit Strauss' Don Quixote musikalisches Theater auf dem Podium, bevor Yuja Wang Prokofjews Drittes spielt.

A truly remarkable display from a musical giant as Yuja Wang wows the Barbican. 

Yuja Wang brings brilliance to Prokofiev at the Philharmonie, but Petrenko's conducting of rarities by Dukas and Schmidt also prove richly rewarding.

Das Trio begeistert im Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie mit Chopin, Strawinsky und Debussy.

An uneven concert where Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony found the NY Phil in more reassuring form. 

A long evening of very high class playing offered rich rewards in exploring modernist responses to a Debussian challenge. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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.