Pianist Yuja Wang has had a major-label recording contract for 8 years, since she was 22 years old. She is known for playing virtuosic pieces by the likes of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Liszt... and yet, she still feels a bit intimidated about playing music by Mozart. On Monday's Performance Today, hear Yuja Wang perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Lionel Bringuier.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Maurice Ravel: Miroirs: Movement 1
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Beautiful Starry Night - Jean-Yves Thibaudet Plays Ravel
London/Decca 448618
David Maslanka: Recitation Book: Movement 5
Kenari Quartet: Bob Eason, Kyle Baldwin, Corey Dundee, Steven Banks, saxophones
PT Young Artist in Residence, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane
Alissa Margulis, violin; Jura Margulis, piano
Martha Argerich Project, Grand Hotel Villa Castagnola, Lugano, Switzerland
Dmitri Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35
Martin Helmchen, piano; Mark Hughes, trumpet; Houston Symphony; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Jones Hall, Houston, TX
Hour 2
Alexander Scriabin: Etude in G sharp minor, Op. 8 No. 9 Alla ballata
Yuja Wang, piano
Yuja Wang: Fantasia
DG 16606
Joseph Achron: Hebrew Melody, Op. 33
Itamar Zorman, violin; Kwan Yi, piano
Union College Concert Series, Union College - Memorial Chapel, Schenectady, NY
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9, K. 271
Yuja Wang, piano; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Lionel Bringuier, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 BWV 1009: Movement 4
Alisa Weilerstein, cello (encore from a concert with the Minnesota Orchestra)
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
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