Outstanding chemistry: Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall

By Edward Sava-Segal, 05 November 2021

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Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City on 4 November 2021

Bach, Sonata for violin and keyboard no. 3 in E major, BWV1016

Shostakovich, Sonata for violin and piano, Op.134

Bach, Sonata for violin and keyboard no. 1 in B minor, BWV1014

Busoni, Violin Sonata no. 2 in E minor, Op.36a

Stravinsky, Duo concertant (Dithyrambe)

Leonidas Kavakos, Violin

Yuja Wang, Piano

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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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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.