Yuja x Hockney: artistic immersion at London’s Lightroom

Yuja Wang performing in the Lightroom

By Mark Pullinger, 05 September 2024

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“it feels as if you are inside the art as it emerges into being”

Reviewed at Lightroom, London on 5 September 2024

Ravel, Jeux d'eau

Ligeti, Hungarian Rock (Chaconne)

Prokofiev, Piano Sonata no. 7 in B flat major, Op.83: Precipitato

Bach, Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (Orgel-Büchlein) in F Minor, BWV639

Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit: Ondine

Berio, Six Encores for piano: Wasserklavier

Glass, Étude no. 6

Liszt, Transcendental Études, S 139: no. 5 Feux Follets

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 2 no. 5: Bruyères

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

Barber, Piano Sonata in E flat minor, Op.26 (Fuga: Allegro con spirito)

Rachmaninov, Elégie for piano, Op.3 no.1

Sancan, Toccata

Liszt, Grandes Études de Paganini S 141: no. 3 in G sharp minor, "La Campanella"

Stravinsky, The Firebird: Infernal Dance (trans. Agosti)

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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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.