Piano recital with Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang – Destination Unknown
Yuja Wang is an artist like none other. Not only is her technique extraordinary; so too is her degree of artistic ambition and willingness to take risks – great art can only be created when habits are broken and everything is at stake. As with this concert.
No predetermined programme will be found here. Instead, Yuja Wang invites the audience to share her musical journey, destination unknown. What happens this evening at Stockholm Concert Hall will be unique, and the concert’s unfolding will be based on a moment’s creative impulse, the interplay between soloist and audience, flashes of inspiration and spontaneous musicianship.
Yuja Wang has done similar performances before, including on tour in Asia, where every evening included a different repertoire. Everyone in the auditorium will be tuned in to an exclusive concert experience, with a programme about which we will only be able to say anything after the fact – while knowing it will never be repeated.
Yuja Wang is Stockholm Concert Hall’s special Artist-in-Residence this season. She is appearing with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at two concerts: in a duo programme with violinist Leonidas Kavakos – and here, in her own unique piano recital. Her capacity as an artist and pianist has been described worldwide as amazing, sometimes superhuman. Yuja Wang is, in short, an enchanting virtuoso artist with an incredibly powerful draw.
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The music
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Frédéric Chopin 24 Preludes for piano47 min
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Franz Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade, version for piano arr Franz Liszt4 min
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Christoph Willibald von Gluck Mélodie from Orfeo ed Euridice, version for piano arr Giovanni Sgambati3 min
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Vladimir Horowitz Variations on a Theme from Bizet’s Carmen for piano4 min
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Intermission25 min
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Johannes Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel for piano28 min
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Aleksandr Skrjabin Piano Sonata No. 48 min
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Nikolaj Kapustin Etude No. 3 in e minor ’’Toccatina’’ for piano2 min
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Johann Sebastian Bach Aria from Goldberg Variations for keyboard4 min
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Frédéric Chopin Impromptu in A flat major for piano4 min
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Frédéric Chopin Ballade in g minor for piano9 min
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo à la turca from Piano Sonata in A major KV 331 arr Arcadi Volodos/Fazil Say3 min
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Frédéric Chopin Waltz in c sharp minor for piano op 64:23 min
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Participants
- Yuja Wang piano