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Dazzling Rachmaninov from Yuja Wang, nostalgic Smetana from the Czech Philharmonic

By Mark Pullinger, 16 March 2022
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“as well as the familiar attack and razor-sharp fingerwork, there was great introspective poetry”
Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 15 March 2022
Programme
Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto no. 1 in F sharp minor, Op.1
Smetana, Má vlast (My Fatherland)
Performers
Yuja Wang, Piano
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov, Conductor
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.