Daily News | Superstar pianist Yuja Wang to play all Rachmaninoff works with Philadelphia Orchestra
Though her concert schedule is booked up a year or more in advance with the world’s greatest orchestras to consistently sold-out houses, she has no list of repertoire to explore, and her piano practice habits are hardly religious. Performances are where she’s most alive. Encores might be Philip Glass, Prokofiev, or the Art Tatum arrangement of “Tea for Two.” Nearing concert time, she may not have decided what she’ll wear.
It’s in that same hall that she’ll compress her Philadelphia Rachmaninoff cycle into a single afternoon on Jan. 28. She is warning backstage visitors that, by the end, she may not be able to stand up. And then she’ll repeat it all with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in February.. She’d love to do both of Brahms’ formidable piano concertos in a single concert but hasn’t yet found any takers.
The concert itself is the best teacher. It tells you what to do. You’re focused and very aware on the stage. Different things show up. You listen to different things. The music isn’t contained in patches [as in rehearsal]. When you go through the entire piece [in performance] it’s easier to understand. Your creativity is at its peak focus. When I played the Magnus Lindberg concerto [in January in New York], I then played Chopin afterwards, and everything was different.
That and Scriabin. Lots of marination happens in China. I’ve always adored Russian music. When I went to Curtis, I was off the leash. There’s an actual sound to playing Rachmaninoff, a kind of golden, gilded sound. With the musicians who play this music, like Benno Moiseiwitsch and Rachmaninoff himself, there’s a clarity and lightness in their playing. And it’s piano playing on the highest level.People always think that. I really don’t want to come across as it being easy.
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